And all of this is on top of the usual lack of interest from the sports-viewing public, save for Trade Deadline Day and the postseason. Throw in COVID-19 and the ensuing league player's union battle for return-to-play stipulations, and baseball was a blackjack player in Vegas just trying to recoup its losses enough to buy a plane ticket home.
Baseball needed someone who attracts eyeballs without being a clown show. It needed someone talented, fun and unapologetically full of swag.
It needed Fernando Tatis Jr. And in 2020, it got all of him.
THE COME UP
One of the things that makes Major League Baseball unique to other American sports leagues is it thrives on anticipation. Die-hards follow their team’s top prospects through the minor leagues for years. Even the league’s bottom-dwellers maintain a certain level of interest.
San Diego Padres fans – and collectors, too -- had been calling for Tatis’ ascension to The Show.
And he did not disappoint.
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