Living baseball and chasing dreams

Source: www.letsgotribe.com --- Sunday, December 03, 2017
Sometimes the game hints it’s time to move on. Sometimes you have to say no. Remember LeVon Washington? Second round pick by the Indians back in 2010, ranked as high as seventh in their farm system by Baseball America in 2010, then 19th in 2011? I hadn’t thought about him in probably years, but while combing through old Indians stats, his name leapt off the page. It was like rediscovering a lost continent. How could I, or anyone forget this singular being? A friend and I reminisced about him briefly, about WASHTIME, about the promise that he held, about the fun future that he held for the Indians. He was going to be the next great center fielder, a more fun version of Tony Plush with the talent of Kenny Lofton. If not for those damn hips. Of all things in a 20-something, it’s the hip. Usually the realm of old people falling down, Washington’s went bad and robbed the Indians and their fans of what might have been a great player. Or maybe not. Heck, probably not, based on how hard it is to become a major leaguer. He was a great athlete for a while there, and did show blips and blorps of promise as a very young man. But now he’s in independent league ball, posting an .827 OPS with the Souix City Explorers in 2017. He might not play next year, or he might. Such is indy ball. I hope he keeps the fires alive though. Even now that WASHTIME has taken its leave of affiliated ball how can you not be happy for the guy? He's got a dream, he ...

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