Over its 158-year history, Baker University in Kansas has produced exactly two major leaguers: Zip Zabel in 1911, and Vidal Nuno. There was another Zip in baseball in 1914; so far, ours is the only Vidal.
Vidal Nuño is often the forgotten man in a bullpen full of big personalities and blazing fastballs, even though he’s the only member of the bullpen who’s been here since the beginning of the season without going on the DL. At 44 innings, Nuño has pitched the most innings of any reliever still with the team not named Steve Cishek. The departure of Mike Montgomery seemed to open a spot for Nuño as the lefty specialist, except so far in 2016, lefties are actually outhitting righties when facing Nuño: 262/.