You don’t stop playing because you know you can still do it. You make cities like Gwinnett and Norfolk and Allentown your home in pursuit of this dream. You wait 1,137 days, and it works. You are a big leaguer again. You haven’t even unpacked your suitcase. You’re in a game. But your left hamstring grabs. It is tight. You pitched 44 games in triple A this season without an ailment.
Now, you’re on the disabled list.
“It’s the worst situation possible,” Pedro Beato said. “It’s just terrible.”
Beato, 30, was a first-round pick more than a decade ago.