Like the new Coke, the Ford Edsel and X-Ray vision glasses, some products just don’t live up to the advance hype.
Such has been the case so far with Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Bruce Rondon.
Rondon grew up in Venezuela and signed with the Tigers at the age of 16.
Once he became Tiger property, Rondon toiled in obscurity–first in the Venezuelan Summer League, and then upward and onward to the States to climb the ladder within the Tiger minor league system.
But a triple digit fastball tends to get people’s attention, and as Rondon experienced success in the minors he gradually assumed a higher profile within the Tiger prospect hierarchy.