I very much enjoyed this tweet from Jon Heyman:
Not because of the stats-don’t-show-David-Eckstein’s-huge-heart sentiment, which has been thoroughly deconstructed from the very earliest days of FJM. But because thanks to a forgotten apostrophe, you’ll notice that this actually refers to rick eckstein as “it,” and david eckstein as his (its) “criminal brother,” who is not in a camp yet. Presumably a camp for criminals.
I actually read it the same way the first time. It was very confusing.
So that's how David got all that "grittiness," he stole it.