Now that the calendar has officially flipped to 2024 and we’ve gotten (most) of our hokey, “I haven’t seen you since last year” jokes out of the way, we can more fully turn our attention to the 2024 baseball season. And for our favorite baseball team, the coming season’s expectations have become quite a bit clearer since the last time we saw them take the field in a demoralizing loss to the Rangers. In the interim, Mike Hazen and Co have been busy improving the roster as they have shored up the rotation in the form of Eduardo Rodriguez, bolstered the infield depth by trading for Eugenio Suarez, and utilized the Rodriguez signing to free up some of their young talent to work as swingmen or come out of the bullpen.