One thing that jumped out at me in the article: "At the time, it seemed like puffery, an attempt to build confidence in a former first-round pick who’d been sub-replacement level in his first major league season." I thought, that can't be right. I looked it up and sure enough, his 2023 fWAR was -.2 whereas his bWAR was 1.6. Quite a divide, whereas in '24 he's at 1.1 and 1.2 respectively.