If you’ve peaked at the Cleveland Indians 40-man roster the last two years, there’s a name which has popped up repeatedly, Dylan Baker, making you wonder, “Who is that guy?”
There aren’t many ballplayers who have had a worse string of injury luck than the former Indians 2012 fifth-round draft pick.
Baker’s 2014 debut was flawless, literally, throwing six perfect innings at High-A before discovering that he had a fractured leg from a comebacker he’d absorbed in spring training. That cost him most of the season, but he came back undeterred in 2015, throwing five no-hit innings with nine strikeouts in his first start of the season again.