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2020 was the best and worst of Franmil Reyes

For years prior to his arrival the role that now Franmil Reyes fills for Cleveland was done by a guy at the tail end of his prime or a lottery card. Whether Edwin Encarancion, Mike Napoli, or even Shelly Duncan, the “huge guy who blasts dingers” was either a memory of something past or a desperate hope for something special, but never anything with a sense of continuity. With the Trevor Bauer trade a year ago, and now after his first “full” season in Northern Ohio, we have a man who is here for the long haul, built to smash baseballs.