When crafting these 2021 Season in Review posts—for me at least—I try to consider what a player’s story is within the season. Anybody can go to Fangraphs and read player stats, after all; my job is to provide context and decide which numbers are the most important for a player.
Sometimes, this takes some thinking. It absolutely did not take any thinking for Mike Minor, whose 2021 story can be told cleanly in two parts.
Part One: Minor, the Free Agent Innings Eater
Nobody throws 200 innings anymore. It used to be pretty common in the same way that dial-up internet used to be common: it is simply not done anymore.