I began my raise to being a closer in the minor leagues for the one and truly great Chicago White Sox yes I'm biased, but who's not when it comes to sports). As the main guy in the closer spot for the Barons, I naturally loved the position and the team because i wanted to be a white sox. However, a month or two within the Single-A team season, I was traded to the god awful Rockies who did one thing right and kept me as a closer in the Single-A league.

Things only grew worse when the team kept me in Single-A while either promoting or releasing a few talented guys around me. Gradually thought, I was promoted to Double then Triple in a matter of months. So when I made my debut with the Rockies, I was forced out of my position for setup, a move that ultimately failed the team because the closer failed more than times than he actually earned a saved (it doesn't help the team was playing like **** when I was in the setup role).

That's when I knew something was going on so I looked at my All-Star votes and I was amazed that i had the MOST votes out of the entire MLB league. I was only a 19 (now 20 in the game, 24 in life) year old popular than most stars and my numbers backed it. I never blew a save, I gave up a few runs to which my ERA never was affected, batters struck out more times than hitting, and I was hit about 5 times during the season, but never left the field).

Like I did plenty of times before, I struck out all the batters in the Al-Star game to prove my worth. As the season started to die down, the win-loss record was like a game of see saw not knowing which way it would go unless when I was pitching in the closer role. However, all my saves and strikeouts couldn't save the team to even make the wildcard and we didn't make the post season.

After the season, the team that didnt want to sign me to a long contract or offer a lot of money is the same team who don't want to sign me to a shorter contract. smh