Many hands were rung and teeth gnashed when Alexander Canario was called up and subsequently relegated to the end of the bench. I know as well as anyone because I was right there grousing about it while clutching my pearls. But then I realized it was almost certainly never about Canario’s ability to impact the big league club, even though a lot of us still believe he could do just that.
My reach isn’t as great as I’d like, so my realization still wasn’t shared by the masses when it was announced that Pete Crow-Armstrong was being promoted.