the redemption of jordan schafer


it would make my world, MY WORLD, if jordan schafer batted .450 during the spring and forced matt diaz and stupid melky f. cabrera to the bench for opening day.

according to the linked story, it was the fourth game of the 2009 season that jordan hurt himself. game four! for two months, he was left to flail and fail by his manager that "all the players love" (yeah, i am sure schafer adores him) before finally being removed from the big leagues, demoted back into the obscurity of the minors to get himself "right". well, you can't get right if you can't get healthy, and schafer couldn't get right without surgery.

now healthy and swinging without pain, schafer will resume yet another climb back up the hill to the majors. he has more sheer talent in his rocket of a left arm than diaz and cabrera have combined.

here's hoping that schafer makes them remember why he was the "chosen one" long before julio heyward and here's hoping he never gives bobby cox any of the credit when he does.