A reader and commenter on Camden Chat summed up Keegan Akin’s 2021 season succinctly, and accurately, after a recent outing of his.
“People were writing off Akin way too fast,” the commenter posted. “Baseball is hard.”
Baseball is hard. Few pitchers have done a better job of proving that than Akin during a season that has been equal parts trying, dismal, frustrating and demoralizing.
But the post’s other point was that, because baseball is hard, its players can still find a way to right the ship. And Akin has lately been flirting with proving that true as well.