Dodgers fans will be forever grateful for what the Oakland Athletics did to Max Muncy. Once a fifth-round pick out of Baylor University, the A’s cut Muncy just before the start of the 2017 season.
The Dodgers would then swoop in and sign him to a minor league deal. From there, he would go on to hit 70 homeruns for the next two seasons and become a constant threat with a bat in his hands. All of that because Oakland could not get his swing locked in.
And even though baseball is a business, it’s understandably difficult to not take something like that personally.