I'm looking forward to bellingers 18 WAR season. Incredible
Little more to do with a line up that no stability. The term WAR rarely translates to actual wins. Ohtani and Trout would have been on play off teams every year if that was the case
Right now:
Hoerner
Tauchman
Suzuki
Happ
Swanson
Morel
Mervis
Gomes
Madgral
That is your opening day team. That is a 62 win team and might get 5 more if the pitching and D is solid
Bellinger moves Tauchman to 4th OF or Mervis to the bench or AAA.
That adds stability. Thus creating better line up match ups
Most feel the same that Bellinger was vital to last years success.
To be honest they underperformed at the end and was most likely due to David not rotating players and burning them up
They over performed preseason projections due to Bellinger, Steele and Alzolay all 3 performing over expectations. It had little to do with David waving a magic wand.