Major League Baseball is expected to resume at some point in 2020 with an abbreviated schedule. Everyone who wears a uniform and owns a pair of cleats is affected in their own ways. New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz is one of those hundreds of men.
Diaz enters 2020 at an important crossroads. Last year’s debacle made him public enemy number one in Flushing. His ability to blow saves on such a regular basis damaged his personal reputation as a ballplayer and did a great amount of damage to the team’s playoff hopes.
In a shortened year, many players will either benefit from missing out on those dog days of summer when everything seems to go wrong.