Reader Mailbag, Part 2: How the 2026 season can be a success, vegetarian recipes, the bullpen, Lars Nootbaar, hitter injuries, Oli Marmol, distasteful self-promotion, and more

Readers have questions, writer has answers -- some of them possibly correct and coherent

Part 1 of this most recent mailbag dropped recently, and now here’s the concluding Part 2.

Eric writes:

Borrowing from my comment on the post about Marmol’s extension, how would define success for 2026 season? Marmol’s definition of success for 2026? Bloom’s definition of success for 2026 (I believe Bloom is on the right track myself)?

As you can probably …