Mark Canha was picked up by the San Francisco Giants at the 11th hour of the trade deadline. The news warranted a tepid response: a quizzical look, a slight eyebrow raise—but less out of intrigue and more because we weren’t sure we heard right; or if he was the same Mark Canha we were thinking of.
Mark Canha was that Mark Canha, and his excitement over the transaction might’ve registered on the Richter Scale. Yes, he was leaving the Tigers, a non-contender, to a nominal contender in the Giants; but it was mostly because he was coming home.