No offense, but I feel like anyone who still thinks Soria is worth a shit didn't actually watch most of the games in 2016 and 2017. It was obvious he was choking in high-leverage situations. If I wasn't traveling I would literally look up every high leverage appearance of the last two years and summarize the results when Soria was brought in.
And it's not just statistical leverage - it's stuff like when we had made some miraculous comeback to take a small lead - while trying to end a losing streak or extend a winning streak where we were trying for a playoff push late in the season. Soria shit the bed in that spot. Every. Single. Time.
Here's the exact game I had in mind 9/4/16:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/b...01609040.shtml
Royals score 4 runs in the bottom of the 7th to take a 1-run lead on the Tigers in a game we absolutely had to have if we were gonna keep playoff hopes alive. Soria promptly gives up a two-out 2-run dinger to Upton. It pretty much killed our season.
I remember Dyson just slumping after Soria gave up the dinger to Upton. Only time I've ever seen Dyson show bad body language or discouragement. These guys are only human. We got incredibly lucky not to have those kinds of crushing losses for a couple of years and it led to an Amazing 2 WS run with 1 win. Soria just killed us so many times though in the absolute worst spots.