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40 in 40: Justus Sheffield

One of the most beautiful things about baseball is there are many ways to be a big-leaguer. Mike Trout and his five-tool brethren might gobble up the majority of the highlight reels, but every year during the playoffs there is seemingly a landmark moment from a lesser contributor—Brett “Maverick” Phillips’s clutch single this fall, Howie Kendrick’s go-ahead homer in Game 7 in 2019, Rajai Davis homering off Aroldis Chapman in 2016—that, for a brief and beautiful moment, crystallize and distill the essence of the less-heralded player whose contributions are still key to getting a team towards that playoff Valhalla.