The initiative to purchase bullet-proof athletic cups can be considered a positive, but since the action preempting that purchase was still Molina’s injury, I’d consider the net effect negative.
Carson Kelly slotted in as the team’s primary catcher, but that still isn’t far enough removed from Molina to brighten my spirits. After Kelly assumed this role, he too caught the injury bug. Compounding negatives set us back even more than merely one catcher on the DL, which means I probably shouldn’t have mentioned this at all.
Digging past the major league level, however, allows for a distant positive to emerge: Andrew Knizner’s promotion to Triple-A.