Essentially what you're seeing with Abreu is Crane being an obstinate business owner who spent a lot of money on an asset and now has got his head stuck in the mud that he will utilize said resource until it breaks down rather than admit he made a huge mistake and cut bait. Maybe 20 years ago, a newspaper that no longer exists in Katy accidentally bought the wrong printing press and spent like $500k on it. The owner of the paper wouldn't admit he had screwed up and made the whole staff do a totally different style of paper every Sunday to justify buying the thing instead of just trying to sell it to someone else to minimize losses. Much like at the end of Drayton's good to terrible reign, this looks like the work of someone who assumes they can treat baseball like any other business and only their opinion matters. So cheers to the 2015-2023 Houston Astros, the greatest sports dynasty of my lifetime.
