You know the off-season has grown long and weary when you start searching for clips of Quad Cities River Bandits games, but there I was a few weeks ago attempting to track down some decent footage of new Phillies right-hander Thomas Eshelman, acquired back in December from Houston in the trade that sent closer Ken Giles to the Lone Star State.
It was grainy and blurry at best, and the camera angles weren't great in the first game I checked out. In the other contest, the camera was too far away. But it's the Midwest League, so what did I really expect, anyway?