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First Pitch: Upgrading at First Base and the Value of Elias Diaz

My baseball "career" was pretty limited. I played in little league, and played briefly when I reached middle school, until the point where two things happened -- I started losing interest in the game of baseball briefly due to the strike, and started playing tennis tournaments year round, resulting in dropping every other sport.

There was one moment I remember from my "playing days". It came on the first game of the season, and I was playing first base. With a runner on first, a line drive was hit right over my head. I reactively threw my glove up, caught the ball, then jogged to first base to double off the runner.