Signed, Snelled, Delivered

Like a fool, I went and drafted wrong... At the beginning of the season, I didn't publically campaign for him (much) but I did take Blake Snell in probably a third of my 12/15 team leagues—like RazzSlam. Often I was targeting Snell, Burnes, Lynn as my SP1 from the backend draft slot. For Snell, I figured 1) the skill was still there (pitches were still decent and K rate was still good); 2) he'd won a CY in the past and was incredibly unlucky with the long ball in 2020 (29.4%); and 3) Moving out from Kevin Cash's thumb and the AL East to the NL West and the friendly pitching atmosphere (literal and metaphorical) of the Padres' and Petco Park would set him up for a very nice year much like Joe Musgrove, whom I did write about here before the season.