No. 105: CHRIS ROWLEY / This he'll defend. Rowley wants minor leaguers to get a fair shake. That his path to the majors was so unlikely and tortuous might have something to do with it.
I profiled a West Point grad who set a goal of making the majors. The Gulf Coast League seemed a long way from the majors, but he'd wind up farther away than that before he'd get make it to the Show.
INTERESTING story in the New York Times last week about Chris Rowley, who became the first West Point grad to play in Major League Baseball when he took the mound for the Toronto Blue Jays and picked up a W in his first start back in 2017.
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