Big city baseball team wants to win, win early, and win often.
Big city baseball team has enough money to allow them to forget how much money they actually have.
Big city baseball team has a freak injury, and a sudden need.
Small city baseball team is rebuilding.
Small city baseball team has all five eyes on a narrow, future window.
Small city baseball team hopefully, mercifully realizes that a coveted closer doesn’t mean much to a club destined for ~70 wins.
Big city baseball team’s freak injury was to its closer.
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It’s a baseball tale as old as time, one that doesn’t even need the familial ties that bind.