Baseball asks a lot of us. Players, coaches, fans, all of us have different sets of expectations thrust upon us every season. Players have to soldier through a tortuous spate of games and travel days from February into November; coaches have to balance a complete understanding of a team’s tactical strengths and weaknesses while accounting for development and growth; and we, as fans, are asked to keep all of these things in mind as often as we can, at least when we’re not irrationally blowing our top at something stupid that just happened in an inning against the Mets.
On Scott Kingery and the Demands of Patience
