Karl de Vries is a reporter and web producer for The Star-Ledger of Newark, NJ. He’s a lifelong Mets fan and fantasy fanatic who operates RotoDiamond, a fantasy baseball blog. If you’ve never heard of RotoDiamond, we highly suggest adding it to your fantasy repertoire. Due to the high quality of Karl’s work, we’ve asked him to contribute posts to Baseball Professor. It took some begging and pleading (kidding!) but Karl agreed to share his wisdom with us. You can email him at karl.rotodiamond@gmail.com with questions, comments or lewd pictures, though we wouldn’t recommend the latter.
Name a MLB relief pitcher in recent memory who’s been more pop-culturally prominent than Brian Wilson.
Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman don’t count; they’ll forever be regarded as longtime titans in the game, but otherwise low-profile personalities who, so far as I can tell, were never national pitchmen for a video game.
Sure, Dennis Eckersley revolutionized the closer’s role, but who am...
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