Joba

ut should be Texas’s starting catcher before long) is four and a half months older than I am, Joba Chamberlain was born the day after I was, and Felix Hernandez is six and a half months younger than I am.  That these kids have made such a huge splash in the bigs at such a young age (they will all be 22 after King Felix’s birthday 10 days from now) is remarkable when you remember that big-name players like Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling and even Mariano Rivera were in their mid-to-late twenties before baseball fans all over knew who they were.

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