I mulled over a different title for this one. ‘Should and will Andrew McCutchen come back?’, eventually I decided to have a little more shame than that. I couldn’t with a straight face call this article that when the answer to that question is so painfully obvious.
He’s coming back, and it’s the right call, but there’s still some things to be discussed.
As far as his is return is concerned, the team and McCutchen got into this with an understanding that neither side would do it without seeing it through to the end, whatever the end looked like and whenever it came.