Remember when Roansy Contreras was all the rage with followers of this particular franchise?
And I do mean all. As in, there was hardly any other.
Amid a miasma of miserable pitching in Pittsburgh upon the most recent turn of the decade, fans would fill social media forums, even more than they did for Oneil Cruz, with declarations of #RoansyDay regardless of where the young man was set to start that day, whether Greensboro or Altoona or Indianapolis. They'd marvel at his stats, from his microscopic ERA to his magical triple-digit fastball.