One thing is to rise to the top and a whole different thing is to stay at the top. That sounds like quite a cliché, but it is a hard thing to achieve, especially for a baseball player whose name isn’t Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Justin Verlander, etc. etc.
Not to compare Joe Mantiply with those super star baseball players, of course, but Joe Mantiply had a quick and meteoric rise to the upper echelons of Diamondbacks baseball last season, being the Snakes’ sole representative at the All Star game. It was very much deserved, although Mantiply’s selection also sparked debate about the quality of the Diamondbacks team in general.