How many games did our top 7 of Dennis, Baze, Prince, Collins, Dedmon, Ilya, and Beli. play together last year consistently BEFORE the trade deadline?
The first 41 games:
Ersan started the season with an injury then missed about 12 games, so the 1st 20 games or so Illy wasn't effective or missing. Two games after he got back Dedmon was out for 19 games.
Collins missed 6 consecutive games in the same span as Dedmon being out.
Muscala missed 27 games the first part of the season - missed games overlapped with Illy and Dedmon and Collins as well.
So the first half of the season was BRUTAL for our bigs up front. So bad that @Peoriabirdfave Tyler Cavanaugh got called up from the GL.. Plumlee was seeing tons of minute as well as Luke Babbit.
That's hard to overcome. Fans remember the results but not always the full circumstances.