Contracts go bad. It happens all the time. Rarely, though, do we see contracts go so bad that an entire fanbase wishes the player would go away. Had Didi Gregorius just been bad last year, people could have just claimed it was injury related and hoped for a bounceback year the following season.
Then Gregorius talked about why he might have gotten injured...
2021 stats
.209/.270/.370, 13 HR, 54 RBI, 67:25 K:BB, 68 wRC+, 0.0 fWAR
The good
Nothing really. A lackluster start to the season let to an unfortunate injury and everything kind of went downhill from there.