Admittedly, I have a fascination with players whose chance of the ultimate Golden Ticket – a major league roster slot – is as likely as my running a 2:30 marathon at my age (72). There is something gritty about their willingness to continue to face a dream that is slowing evaporating, but occasional a Daniel Nava surfaces to give that precious glimmer of hope.
The transaction wire was one that I simply did not see – I have a perverse fascination with the transaction wire. If so, this would have been written back when the Boston Red Sox offered employment to Mitchell Osnowitz – a name that certainly aroused some deep rooted memories and forced me to do the inevitable of “Where and why is that name familiar?