Sometimes in life a revelation catches you so off guard that you feel compelled to share it with anyone you can, only to discover they knew all along. Take the FedEx logo for example, that white arrow between the E and the X still drives me to distraction. My wife is sick of hearing about it. So imagine my surprise to learn that, ever so quietly, the Seattle Mariners’ Franklin Gutierrez was not only playing baseball again, but playing baseball remarkably well.
Gutierrez, he of obscenely amazing nickname “Death to Flying Things”, is a 32 year old right-handed slugger, who missed all of 2014 and almost all of 2015 through injury.