On Saturday night, a notification popped up on my phone. Nothing unusual. When I tapped it and unlocked my phone, however, I had to double- and then triple-check what I read.
What I saw was a tweet from California Baseball Academy USA. This tweet, to be exact:
There isn’t much to it. It’s relatively simple. The thing is that I knew the name Tank Espalin prior to seeing the tweet. Espalin’s a highly-touted player from Orange Lutheran (CA), one of the most significant high school baseball programs in the country. He’d been committed to the University of Southern California, just 35 miles away from Orange Lutheran, for a while and I’d assumed he’d be heading there.