What does it say about the 2021 Cleveland baseball team that their second-best player was a reliever? Honestly, it’s probably pretty accurate given the growing pains and outright struggles the offense faced and the medical ward occupied by the starting rotation. And yet, it would have been really nice if the second-best player on the team was not a reliever.
The last legitimately good team whose second-best player was a reliever was probably one of the Yankees squads that included Mariano Rivera … which is not a bad launching point to start discussing what Emmanuel Clase did this season.