Two years ago, Eric Sogard was the Face of Baseball.
Well, almost; he made it all the way to the finals of Major League Baseball’s “Face of Baseball’’ competition in 2014, only to lose to the Mets’ David Wright. Sogard, with his goatee and his black-rimmed glasses and his pride in having the hashtag #nerdpower designed for him, was a huge hit, and there are those of a conspiracy-minded bent who believe Sogard actually won.
Fast forward to this year and Sogard is just another face in the crowd, another guy on the A’s bench.
Or, as he puts it, “so what’s new?