Some really good pitchers just were not meant to be major league starters. Joe Nathan was clearly one of them. In fact, he didn’t view himself as a pitcher at all.
Nathan wanted to be a major league shortstop. After playing the position all through high school and getting almost no attention from colleges, he landed at little SUNY Stony Brook only becaus…
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