Drew Storen and Tyler Clippard Are Real People

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January 29, 2013

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I don’t know why I liked reading this as much as I did:

When the Washington Nationals agreed to terms with one of the top prizes of the MLB offseason, signing closer Rafael Soriano to a two-year deal, it caught nearly everyone in the baseball world by surprise.

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Storen saw the news online and immediately called his good friend and roommate, Tyler Clippard, who happens to be the other closer the team already had in the fold.

“I just saw it on Twitter and I called him and I said, ‘have you seen this?’ We were like, ‘what?’”

The conversation was short and speculative as neither player really had a lot of information about the signing, they knew as much as anyone else.
(Source)

I mean, it’s easy to forget that baseball players are real people. But stuff like this is a reminder that, sure, they are. You read some crazy news on Twitter that impacts your life, you totally pick up the phone and call a friend. I have no larger point to make, just that reading this makes me like Storen and Clippard. That is all.





 

Jeremy Blachman is the author of Anonymous Lawyer, a satirical novel that should make people who didn't go to law school feel good about their life choices. Read more at McSweeney's or elsewhere. He likes e-mail.

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Carl Mays
11 years ago

They’re good guys. I don’t know offhand if Storen reads NotGraphs, but he has been described as “cerebral” by Bob Carpenter and has looked at his PITCHf/x data on Brooks Baseball if I recall from his interview with David Laurila.

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AhAhAhhh
11 years ago
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Storen graduated from Stanford last summer summa cum laude with a sharp 3.94 GPA to which he was quoted, “My GPA may be higher than my ERA, but my wit is sharper still. For example, “The king meets his double and says, ‘Did your mother work in the palace?’ and the double says ‘No, but my father did.'”

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