Chicago – For most of the season, the public narrative around Javier Báez was some version of, “We’re stuck paying this guy $140 million for the next five years? What the heck are the Tigers going to do now?”
Now that Báez has heated up and begun to flash the dynamic, game-changing skills that attracted the Tigers to him, maybe the critics have quieted somewhat. But you should know that particular narrative never held sway inside the Tigers’ clubhouse.