I’ll admit that Mound Visit didn’t bat 1.000 in 2021. I’m proud of the quality of analysis on the season as a whole, but it’s baseball. Of course there would be some whiffs in there.
Back in April, I acknowledged that Phillip Evans was going to eventually cool off after his torrid start, but the peripherals suggested it won’t be a “crash landing.” Starting the day after that story ran, Evans had a .220 slugging percentage in the majors and was optioned to the minors multiple times. The plane crashed into the mountains.