After going toe-to-toe with the Sugar Bears in the '07 Series, the Mighty Men tossed in the towel on the '08 season and going into rebuilding mode. The Mighty Men held the basement for much of the season, but a strange late-season surge took them up into 12th place and almost undoing all their plans for 2009...until they lucked out with a #1 Lottery pick...What went right: Hard to say that this is one for the "right" column, but considering David Landsman's strategy to give up on the '08 season, then the results were pretty much on target. Josh Hamilton and Brandon Morrow were real finds and look to have better roles next season (though Morrow will have to have that expanded role for Sardine City - he was traded in the offseason). The Mighty Men also stacked up on pitching and that seems to have paid off for them.
What went wrong: A late season surge that saw the Mighty Men lose what seemed to be a safe cushion and fall out of last place. Statistically for the 2008 season, just about everything went wrong, but according to the Landsman plan, everything worked out just fine.
2009 Outlook: With a record pace of wheeling and dealing in the offseason, the Mighty Men are set up nicely to make another run at the World Series. Much of the roster has been turned over, so you may not even recognize the new Mighty Men.
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