It was obvious, as another baseball sailed through the warm Arizona morning, that something had changed.
A pitcher who had been racked by repeated injury and surgery, and then ultimately dumped from the team’s roster the previous winter, was showing flashes of fiery brilliance on the mound. Carlos Rodón, who had been written off by fans and analysts alike, was about to embark on one of those baseball quests that hover on the edge of myth.
Thank the pitching gods that he did it with the White Sox.
Six months later, Rodón’s contributions to the team’s success are clearer than a mountain stream.