PHOENIX -- On his first day in the big leagues, Zac Curtis got some good advice from a friend: Put your phone away so you aren't tempted to check your text messages and Twitter mentions.
Hours later, after the left-hander had made his Major League debut by getting an inning-ending double play ball, he looked at his phone and found text messages from around 200 people.
"I didn't know that 200 people knew who I was," Curtis said. "I probably had 10 of those numbers saved in my phone. It was overwhelming."
It's not fair to say that Curtis was an unknown before being called up from Class A Visalia on Saturday, but it's not a stretch to say his promotion was unexpected.