Mike Elias is about a pigheaded a baseball executive as they come, and he can be pretty silly like pretending Trevor Rogers or Jack Flaherty were going to lift his team in a playoff push or pretending Eloy Jimenez was going to do anything but hit soft ground balls. He’s beholden to jerking young prospects around to multiple positions to unnecessarily stunt and complicate their development, and brainwashing his prospects into chasing launch angle above all else. And when he really wants an acquisition to work, despite empirical evidence it cannot and will not, to try to make himself look good (pretending AAA-arm Shintaro Fujinami was a pennant race high-leverage guy), he will spite the team repeatedly to continue chasing that pipedream . Anthony Nunez, a potentially useful enough middle-innings arm on a team that will need several (since most starters can’t provide length), is the latest player caught in this vortex.…