Batter's Box Interactive Magazine · Aug 4, 2019
Blue Jays at Orioles, continued
Because it's clearly needed.
Atkins said something the other day that got my attention, although it seems to have passed more or less unnoticed.
Basically, he was talking about lightning striking; about the organization benefiting from what amounts to dumb, random luck. That's not how he put it, but it's what he was talking about. The example Atkins took from his Cleveland experience was Corey Kluber, a fourth round pick who came to Cleveland in the Jake Westbrook trade. It's not something you can count on, which he seemed to realize, but it certainly happens.