Each week during the ongoing apocalypse, I’ll revisit an older column that ran on this site, accompanied by a handful of current observations about it at the bottom.
This one ran July 22, 2017:
DENVER -- Andrew McCutchen is nothing less than Pittsburgh's generational baseball player. He's the best of the era, he's one of the best in franchise history, and he's now performing at a level that just might exceed any previous peak.
He was mired around the Mendoza Line for the better part of the season's first two months.