Perhaps it’s just some kind of Stockholm syndrome, maybe it’s a love of the underdog and love of a great redemption, maybe just because it’s all we get to talk about when being a Guardians-focused website, but the signings the team made last week were, if nothing else, intriguing to me.
For years now the Guards have made incredible hay in plucking pitchers off the scrap heap and turning them into, perhaps not gold, but at least some good hearty iron or tin that helps build the greater structure of the team and season. In this case, among the Guys and randos that got minor-league deals with Cleveland was Touki Toussaint, one of the most alliteratively pleasing and Braves fans-maddening pitchers of the last decade.