As the Washington Nationals learned in painful fashion just a season ago, in the bigs, everything that can go wrong will go wrong.
While the neighboring New York Mets rose as the power in the the National League East, a flood of injuries combined with underwhelming play by just about everyone not named Bryce Harper ensured that the Nats would be left out of the October conversation.
After so much went wrong in 2015, Washington will need a lot to go right if the team is going to vault back into the postseason picture in 2016.
It all starts with the reigning MVP, but the Nats will also need a bounce-back season from another emerging star who was also an MVP factor not that long ago and some steady leadership from the new boss in town, Dusty Baker.