Editor’s note: When Ethan Novak hung up his keyboard earlier this offseason to focus on grad school, we were all the lesser for it. I made him a promise that one of our most cherished ideas would make it into an article. This week, I fulfill that promise. Sorry.
Ever since he entered the Mariners organization, Dan Vogelbach’s role has been in limbo. His limited defense and baserunning has made the organization wary of trusting him to hit his way into production at the MLB level, leaving Vogey to continue churning through AAA pitching for two straight years.