“The Perfect Catch”
Those three words accompanied a 23-year-old Matt Wieters on the cover of Sports Illustrated in March 2010. The legend of Wieters was well known in Baltimore, but it was time for the world to know. Matt Wieters was going to be the best player in baseball. He would be just like 2009 MVP Joe Mauer.
But with power.
Unfortunately, that would not be the case. And it wouldn’t be the only Matt Wieters “fact” that later emerged as hyperbole.
As it turned out, the sun did not rise when Matt Wieters decided to wake up.