Life is full of sliding-door moments. What would life have been like if we settled down with so-and-so from college? How would things be for us now if, instead of taking the safe job building spreadsheets and writing emails to Bob in accounting, we accepted that offer to move across the country and tend to the garden of a wealthy eccentric who communicates solely through Snapchat?
What if, while their fifth starter with a boat anchor for a contract spent half the season on the IL, the Phillies could have had a solid depth option instead of running out minor leaguer after minor leaguer?