I don’t think there were many people who couldn’t wait to unload Taylor, just some who understood that his combination of age, cost, remaining team control and production made him the most likely to be moved over the offseason out of Yelich, Chourio, Frelick, Mitchell, Wiemer and Perkins.
It’s great to see Tyrone carrying over his hot hitting from down the stretch last year into the start of this year (137 wRC+ | 0.4 WAR), unfortunately Houser (8.37 ERA | -0.7 rWAR) has undone all that and then some.