I think I would have looked at you very strangely, if you’d told me at the start of the year, that the two best plays would be made by Blaze Alexander in the outfield, and Ryne Nelson at the plate. Yet, here we are, with the results of the first SnakePit award of the season being as follows: • 9/6: Blaze Alexander’s home run robbery: 39% • 3/30: Ryne Nelson records RBI single in first career at-bat: 24% • 7/18: Alek Thomas’ sensational catch: 15% • 8/13: Ketel Marte’s go-ahead homer, down to our final out: 15% • 7/26: Eugenio Suarez’s barehanded throw: 7%

A wide spread of voting, but in the end, Alexander was a worthy winner. Not least because, as noted in the ballot thread, I think it was the first ever out in his professional career he had recorded at the position. It would ha

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