tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post3235219508982037250..comments2024-03-28T04:28:17.379-07:00Comments on the joy of sox: The Morning Of Mookie Betts's Debutallanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-26354354269126856012020-04-29T21:40:54.294-07:002020-04-29T21:40:54.294-07:00I read Speier at weei.com and he wrote about the m...I read Speier at weei.com and he wrote about the minors a lot. In the second half of 2013 in High-A, Betts's performance went into high gear and the hashtag #FeatsofMookie was born. (His <a href="http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=l113&player_id=605141#/gamelogs/R/hitting/2014/MINORS" rel="nofollow">game log for 2014</a> is nuts!)allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-83994931387567706122020-04-29T20:15:30.853-07:002020-04-29T20:15:30.853-07:00You know when I knew Mookie was gonna be a big dea...You know when I knew Mookie was gonna be a big deal? Okay, a lot of people who follow prospects more than I do probably knew a long time before this, but this was a specific thing that I took as a sign of things to come. April 1, 2014, a few months before his debut. I'm trying to sell a Ryan Kalish game-used bat barrel on ebay. Yes, just the barrel. Guy buys it, and sends me a question along with his payment, in a notification email l still have:<br /><br />"do u have any game used items from Mookie Betts by chance"<br /><br />It's not like I was running an ebay shop with dozens of Sox items for sale and therefore maybe hundreds more not listed. I was just one man with a random item for sale, and this guy took a shot asking if I specifically had Betts stuff. And I don't remember any other time where I sold something and the buyer asked if I had any other not-that-related stuff available. So it struck me that people were going out of their way to seek out this guy's gear before he'd played a big league game.<br /><br />And look at him now... the man who made Mike Trout the second-best player in Los Angeles.<br /><br />Jerehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13448619048422750447noreply@blogger.com