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Mailbag #14: A Paralyzing Fear of Having Nice Things

In a week, the Winter Meetings will have occurred, which will probably render everything I write here now irrelevant. Until then, you all came through with some good questions! So let's distract ourselves from how much the MLBPA screwed over both itself and its future members in CBA negotiations with some questions about those future members.

Player Spotlight: Josh Tobias

Tobias is a good case study of looking at a player as a whole and not a collection of individual tools. Tobias got stuck in Lakewood for most of the season because of Scott Kingery, despite the fact that, at age 23 with four years of SEC baseball experience, he was overqualified for the assignment.