BRADENTON, Fla. -- Josh Lindblom doesn't believe in coincidence. After the last six months and the past few years, how could he? Coincidence did not lead him here.
Lindblom has spent this week at Pirates minicamp, on the same back fields and bullpen mounds where he might have been two years ago. He's a veteran now, 29 years old in a clubhouse full of rookies and prospects.
"You come back and now you're the old guy," he said, smiling. "It's kind of funny."
He's here for the same reason they are, ostensibly. They want to get to the big leagues, and Lindblom wants to get back there after two seasons in Korea.