The latest news from Arizona in the neonatal baseball season is John Hickey’s profile piece on Adrian Beltre, the new starting third baseman for Your 2005 Seattle Mariners. I look at this article, I look at his career and 2004 statistics, and I look at his 2005 PECOTA projection and comparables (.279/.337/.486 weighted mean, and this is probably hilariously conservative), and I think to myself: Holy shit, I can’t believe we actually got this guy playing for our team.

Adrian freakin’ Beltre. It still brings a smile to my face, two and a half months later. I can’t believe this actually happened. Whoo.