Here’s a truism about every baseball team: they have roster problems. The mark of a bad baseball team is that those problems are, well ... bad problems to have, for thousands of various reasons. The mark of a good baseball team is that those problems are good, usually for one specific reason.
This is the part in the article where I would make a play on the opening line of Anna Karenina, but I fear I did that schtick at some point last year, so I have to wait until at least the 2027 season to pull it off again.