It started out with a tweet, how did it end up like this? It was only a tweet, it was only a tweet.
On March 4th, Jeff Passan of ESPN published an article about prospects impressing in Spring Training and he had a pull-quote on Chase DeLauter of the Guardians for the ages, here captured by Twitter user I480BRIDGE:
From Jeff Passan pic.twitter.com/06jKyKAZ20
— I480BRIDGE (@I480BRIDGE) March 4, 2024
Paul Hoynes of Cleveland.com followed this up with a quote from Guardians’ manager Stephen Vogt on DeLauter:
I still have no idea what this means, it seems impossible but here's a quote from Vogt about DeLauter in a Hoynes column pic.