This was my theory entering tonight: Earlier this week, Adley Rutschman went 7-for-13 with two home runs in his hometown ballpark of Seattle, so by that logic, Dean Kremer, who grew up less than an hour away from Sacramento, in Stockton, CA, would look like an ace and Dylan Carlson, raised in a Sacramento suburb and having played in Sutter Health Park as a member of St. Louis’s Memphis Redbirds in ‘18-19, would be Babe Ruth.
The verdict on my theory/the hometown heroes: alas, mixed. Carlson was great. The utility outfield signing is making himself hard to bench.