Today amid much fanfare today Freddie Freeman the 20 year old first base prospect for the Atlanta Braves got a call-up today. Congrats Freddie you earned it. I saw him play in Rome and he looks to be the real deal.
Another Braves minor league player got called up today, a 31 year old Venezuelan catcher names J.C. Boscan. I doubt you've heard of him, he's a .227 career hitter in 14 minor league seasons, 12 in the Braves organisation. He made the big club's spring training camp this year, but mostly because they needed another quality catcher around so that Brian McCann wouldn't get hurt too bad.
If you've ever seen Bull Durham this guy isn't even Crash Davis, hey at least Crash could hit. J.C. is the stellar defensive back-up to the Crash Davis's of the world, and has just kept pugging away on a minimum wage equivalent salary to live the dream.
Today he get a bone thrown his way. he likely won't get another call-up, at least not unless the Braves don't have another catcher they would rather have a look at next September. For now though he is J.C. Boscan MLB catcher. I commend him for having the courage to continue when most people would have called it a career.
Maybe we should all chase a dream.
On a lighter note today Harper made a bed out of the diaper basket on her changing table, as soon as I figure out how to put pictures on here y'all are going to be in the floor laughing.
She is probably a tree frog in a toddlers body.
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