On Saturday, Josh Fuentes was awoken by a phone call instructing him to drive 450 miles in order to complete his last step to the Show, his debut with the Colorado Rockies. What ensued was “chaos.”
“On the drive up here, there was a lot of daydreaming.” Fuentes said from the Colorado clubhouse on Sunday. “Like me hitting a homer, a walk-off, anything you could imagine I was doing.”
Three years ago, the only dream Fuentes had was playing baseball another day. Then 23 — almost two years older than the average player in the league — he was repeating single-A.