Team finished 47-70, 4th place. I guess that is the rationale.
All that weight must have dinged him pretty good. You don't see many 150+ games played seasons on his record.
And if you look at his Stolen Base #'s, you can see when he porked up.
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Thinking of cracked-out and/or tweaking whores getting their throats and asses brutalized for the next hit makes me hard. --Rear Admiral