Given the A’s immediate outlook, I prefer to characterize it that my writing about the A’s, and alcoholism, are on “parallel paths”. But A’s fans are resilient, ever optimistic, and forward-looking by nature, so we will latch on to anything we can to remain excited and hopeful. This week we were given the gift that is Brent Honeywell, former top prospect now 4 times removed from surgery.
The Eyeball Scout watched the 1st inning of Honeywell long awaited big league debut and was sufficiently dazzled. Honeywell hit 95MPH on the gun with his fastball and unleashed a “bugs bunny changeup” that was clearly difficult for batters to pick up.