mercyofficial:

i understand the sentiment behind posts going around that are like “teams shouldn’t sign players and then never play them”, but this is just….how sports work. teams sign players as subs for starters in case they can’t play, a player is consistently outperformed by someone else, etc, and often they just don’t end up in the starting roster ever. and while that’s sad, it’s not really the org’s fault. theres definitely been some bad handling of benched players (see: valiant sister team, players who never participate in scrims), but sometimes a player is just more helpful behind the scenes than onstage and that’s unavoidable.