my friends and I have always affectionately called Weathers “Moonface” because we think he looks like the man in the moon.  That said, I always thought he was underrated and people in Cincinnati never full appreciated him.

I work at a bank in Tennessee, near where David’s family lives. David is on our bank’s advisory board, and is really a class act. 

Craig, I think you’re right—we oftentimes think of trades as moving chess pieces strategically around the board, and often minimize or tend to forget the very real impact it can have on people—the players, and the people close to them. 

I think the statistically-minded among us are prone to such ways of thinking, particularly (and I include myself in that number) because we’re so used to thinking of a player as their slash numbers or their WAR or something that tends to reduce them to just a number or stat line.

I’m remembering a story about a Mets pitcher, very like Weathers (if it wasn’t, in fact him), who was traded to Houston at this point in the season. The story involved a 4-year-old son crying inconsolably in the locker room, insisting that Daddy might go to Houston but he was going to remain a Met.