The slugger coils, silently torquing the internal spring that drives the mechanism from which his prodigious power issues forth. In the past, the movement was broad and sweeping, like an impatient minute hand unwilling to abide by the confining strictures of time. But as much as fans would have liked to speed the Cubs’ clock, Javy Baez’s all-or-nothing approach just wasn’t getting it done.
Tick, tick…
Even a broken clock is right twice and day, but Javy — despite looking like a Rolex when things clicked — had a broken timing mechanism that undermined both his reliability and value.