Yeah, maybe a cheap shot, but as someone who is largely agnostic, this is the “best” thing to happen to my team this year.
An off-the-field event that didn’t even happen on our continent.
https://www.si.com/fannation/mlb/fastball/news/chicago-white-sox-outfielder-oscar-colas-makes-painful-blunder-in-spring-training-game-vs-chicago-cubs-hit-in-head-by-fly-ball-highlights-01jmsm8ere9s
Not the top of the head, I suppose, but just this year.
https://www.rotowire.com/baseball/article/5-unlucky-players-expected-to-breakout-92467
FWIW, the batted ball metrics seem to indicate Vaughn has been unlucky so far.
Does that mean he’s worth holding onto to see if he breaks out of it? Or is it a “sell now before even his batted ball stats start to decline?”
Yeah, a season of success followed by a season of abject failure. They literally had to re-build him from the ground up.
I would argue Montgomery isn't the same, but it's the closest thing I could come up with off the top of my head.
Fair enough.
I guess my point is.... baby steps. At least acknowledging failures is the first step to fixing them. I have no faith in their ability to fix things on the scale they need to be fixed, but at least they're not just doing nothing before giving up.