I decided to take a gamble and volunteer to do the very first Player Review of this offseason. To earn the ignominy of being the first player to be reviewed, poor performance generally isn’t enough. No, there has to be a little something extra. Andrew Saalfrank’s 2024 season certainly fit that bill. After a promising 2023 season that included some high leverage appearances in the playoffs, I was pretty excited about the prospect of the young lefty being a staple in the 2024 bullpen. It was not to be as he went from postseason contributor to parlay casualty.
Andrew Saalfrank came into Spring Training vying for one of two Opening Day lefty bullpen spots with Kyle Nelson and Joe Mantiply.