Cleveland — You don’t have to explain the humbling nature of baseball to Renato Nunez. After being cut by two of the worst teams in baseball in the span of about five months, he could write a treatise on it.
In 203 games over the 2019 and 2020 seasons, Nunez produced 43 home runs and 121 RBIs with an OPS-plus of 107, and for his efforts was unceremoniously dumped by a Baltimore Orioles team that went 79-143 over those two years.
As if that’s not inglorious enough for a 27-year-old player entering the prime years of his career, the best he could get this offseason was a minor-league contract with the Tigers, a team that lost six more games than the Orioles the last two seasons.