An ode to Danny Salazar

I’ve been sitting on a post about Danny Salazar for months. Basically since I started writing here at Let’s Go Tribe. I was still optimistic he’d spend some time in Cleveland and the article would be timely.

Ah, to be as young and naive as I was in April again.

Needless to say, this is not the piece I wrote then. That one was about Salazar’s pitch selection and how he might improve. The last dying embers of hope refuse to die and the draft lives on in my Google Drive, but the news that Salazar went under the knife Monday for exploratory surgery was a splash of cold water.

If the time when it seemed like Salazar was nearing return seems far away (last September), the last time he threw a last…