Yesterday morning in The Athletic, Andy McCullough published “The personalities of MLB’s trade deadline: Hunters, Fishermen and the Cleveland Grind Machine.” He goes on to describe how various general managers approach the trade deadline.
When McCullough gets to his discussion of the Colorado Rockies, the caricature of Bill Schmidt shows him wearing a purple half-zip (complete with CR logo) while waiting on a tiny island, complete with a single palm tree. I’m going to quote the article at length because it’s relevant given where the Rockies are:
Cleveland is not the only team with a reputation for transactional difficulty.