Last night and this morning I spent time thinking about then writing through this Camilo Doval saga of the season. Something hasn’t been right. There seems to be a disconnect. It doesn’t quite make sense.
This afternoon, shaped in no way by my post on Camilo Doval being stuck in a sliders-only mindset, the San Francisco Giants tried to make sense of a messed and optioned their closer back to Triple-A Sacramento to clear a roster spot for someone more reliable.
Andrew Baggarly boosted some whispers that had made their way into random articles and social media posts about the player being a bigger part of the problem than a simple case of wonky mechanics:
Camilo Doval: one All-Star appearances, two coaching staffs whose patience he has exhausted.