@jeffMLBdraft@TribeFan40@GPotter_CLE One of my dumbest takes is my fandom never recovered after trading Yandy and I will hate jake bauers (not personally) forever.
Playing small ball is fun in the regular season but it just doesn't work in the playoffs. It's too hard to string together 3 or 4 hits in a row against the best pitching and defenses in baseball. Ask a Guardians or Brewers fan how this style of play has worked out.
We’ve reached the point where now people have forgotten that these players were valued for 100+ years before analytics took over baseball front offices.
With so many teams choosing offense over defense this was inevitably going to happen.
Glad to see the pendulum swinging back to sanity.