Wilin Rosario in Right Field: A Poem

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Wilin Rosario might play right field for the Colorado Rockies this season. The possibility first emerged when the team was pursuing Brian McCann and Carlos Ruiz. Had the team landed one of those guys, Rosario would have seen significant time at first base and, yes, in right field (or so we heard). Now that the team has re-committed to Rosario as the primary catcher with Jordan Pacheco as his back-up, we have nothing to fear, right?

Not so fast my friends.

Now that we know the Rockies have this thought in their heads, a scenario like this is still very much in play:

“Welcome everybody, and thanks for joining us on a majestic evening here in LoDo. I’m Drew Goodman, with my partner George Frazier. Well George, it’s not your usual lineup for the Rockies tonight. Injuries to Michael Cuddyer and Justin Morneau have forced the Rockies to get creative. Wilin Rosario has caught three nights in a row, but you know Walt Weiss wants his big bat in the lineup…”

With that, I present to you a poem about ‘the Bull’ playing right field for the Rockies:

Sadness

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First comes the sadness, as it is with any of us when we get our feelings hurt

or when we feel we let our friends down

Wilin had tried to so hard

Had wanted so badly to come through for his teammates and be a better catcher

Block things

Catch things

Frame things (baseballs, not pictures or people)

Hadn’t those efforts been enough?

Joy

But he is still the catcher!

Right field but a way to get him to the plate more

To swing his mighty swing and hit mighty home runs

Not so bad after all,

But Joyous!

Fear

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It sets in

The Fear

The Uncertainty

The Confusion

His nickname is Bull, after all

And even if bulls are actually quite fast…

One does not imagine that a player nicknamed as such is fleet of foot

In the way that a Major League outfield demands him to be