Caleb Ferguson is making a name for himself, but slowly. The rookie left-hander has established himself as a trusted arm in the Dodgers’ unsettled bullpen, but a Google search for “Caleb Ferguson” last week produced another athlete.
Caleb Ferguson also is a freshman running back at Western Carolina University. He led his team in rushing in a scrimmage last weekend. Football is big in the South.
In California, not so much. The Dodgers’ Caleb Ferguson has never met anyone with his full name, and he had no idea there was another athlete with his name.
Of course, the notion that the 22-year-old Ferguson would be making a major league name for himself this year would have seemed plenty farfetched this spring.