CINCINNATI -- Fourteen months after taking in a Cardinals game from the PNC Park stands, Chad Huffman showed up at Great American Ball Park on Wednesday to watch them again. This time, he enjoyed the view offered from the dugout.
A circuitous professional path that has covered 1,014 Minor League games and another 94 in Japan brought Huffman back to the Majors this week for the first time since 2010. That season, he logged 18 at-bats for the Yankees, the only at-bats he's taken in the big leagues since being drafted in 2006.
"It's surreal," Huffman said upon joining the Cardinals.