Tim Beckham’s team faced off against the Rays (although Beckham wasn’t playing because he just had his wisdom teeth out), and Tampa Bay Times beat reporter Marc Topkin simply can’t let him go.
This is article is embarrassing for a bunch of reasons:
- Topkin cites Beckham’s overall performance (which has been good), and then argues against that being good by cherry-picking two different sets of arbitrary endpoints to show that Beckham, like all baseball players, has had both periods of good and bad production. That’s what baseball is like. Rule of thumb: if you need to resort alternating arbitrary endpoints to make your point, you should find a different point.