Based on a line from an 1856 poem “Maud Muller” by John Greenleaf Whittier, famed 20th century writer Kurt Vonnegut has a quote regularly attributed to him from his own novel “Cat’s Cradle“: “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
Right-handed pitcher Mark Appel comes in at #4 on our TBOH Phillies Top 10 Prospects list. He is the very definition of potential. If he reaches his full potential, the Phils have an ace. If he falls a bit short, the team still has a longterm piece for their starting rotation.