It took a bird flying the coop to get where we are. Of course, depending on your interpretation of ‘s rise, that bird can be one of two things. The first is Brian Cashman trading for Voit in 2018 – a guy who had been sent down to AA a few a months earlier by the Cardinals organization – for Chasen Shreve and Giovanny Gallegos.
The other bird is an actual guy named Greg Bird who used to play first base. He now runs a fashion company with Jacoby Ellsbury and Yoenis Cespedes.