“Just got to see what it looks like when he gets here,” said Matheny. “That’s basically where we are with everybody. How does it look? Who is going to give us the best chance? Without laying eyes on him for quite a while we just don’t know what we’re dealing with. Trying to get him back to where he was because where he was was pretty impressive.”

Counsell recalls NYC 9/11

Weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, Arizona infielder Craig Counsell and his Diamondbacks teammates checked into their midtown Manhattan hotel and prepared for a World Series against the New York Yankees. On the eve of the 15th anniversary of the attacks, Counsell, now the Brewers’ manager, searched for words to describe that time in that city.

He called it “surreal,” said the games offered a “distraction.”