There were multiple moments during Bradley Zimmer’s tenure with the Guardians where it looked like he was going to be a piece of the team’s long-term core.
There were plenty of spectacular catches, ranging from his leaping catch against Lorenzo Cain in August 2017 to his fantastic running catch against Paul Goldschmidt in 2021.
There was his 471-foot home run against the Reds in 2021 that scraped the trees in front of Heritage Park and was rivaled only by Jim Thome.
But all of those moments ended up being blips on the radar of Zimmer’s MLB journey, as he only hit .