Irony 101

Here, Livian Hernandez is described as a "grunt":

This type of player succeeds off heart, desire and brimstone. He is usually a low draft choice or amateur free agent; he has subliminal talents or a physical imposition; and he most always has to force himself onto the major-league roster. Grunts are, by nature, survivors who never take their positions on a 25-man roster for granted. They are far too paranoid.

But over in the sidebar, he's talking about quitting the season to have non-necessary surgery:

"It's 99.9 percent I'm not going to pitch no more... It's not the doctors. It's me. I'm the doctor. I don't need it, but I'm going to" have an operation, he said.

Brilliant. At least we aren't the only team with problems.