The lie falls apart when one knows that 99.9% of baseball nicknames are just the player's name with a "-y" added on the end. Baseball managers/coaches aren't particularly clever about these things
There is no way anyone could have predicted that he would be as good as he was after the trade Pre-trade: 10-8, 3.82 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 119 ERA+ Post-trade: 5-0, 1.06 ERA, 0.64 WHIP, 376 ERA+ 2018: 9-3, 1.82 ERA, 0.80 WHIP, 205 ERA+