Baseball is a funny game. Sometimes, the path to the big league is linear and players who are good as amateurs are also good as professional minor leaguers and eventually make it to the promised land. Sometimes, the path to the big league is not linear, and there are all kinds of twists and turns. Players who seemed all but destined to be penciled onto that major league lineup card never make it and players who once seemed to have no chance in hell not only make it but thrive.
Grant Hartwig is a player who can certainly be put in that second grouping.