Before we get too far into this, I want to make it perfectly clear: I am a big fan of Domingo Santana and still think he is capable of putting up monster numbers in the majors. Whatever happened to him in 2018, whether it was bad mechanics or low confidence or a mix of the two, he’s still young enough — he’s younger than Aaron Judge, as I’m fond of saying — to figure it out.
He may not quite be the Mariners’ next Nelson Cruz, who the Brewers also had to give up on, but in a league where playing DH is available to him and on a team that will be willing to give him the at-bats, another 30 home run season is not out of the question.