The Starting Rotation: Fathers and Sons

by Pat LackeyGet your weekend off on the right foot with an eclectic look around the major leagues from Pat Lackey and Andrew Johnson in The Starting Rotation. The Ace: Like Father, Like Son On Wednesday night, Kyle Drabek made his major league debut. As one of the Blue Jays' best prospects, it was a solid curtain-raiser. He gave up nine hits and walked three, but held the Orioles to just one run and struck out five in his six innings. If Kyle is lucky, some day his career will match the one his dad, Doug, had in the in the 1980s and 1990s, primarily with the Pirates and Astros, in which he won the 1990 Cy Young Award and made the 1994 All-Star team. The Drabeks are just one of many multi-generation baseball families (according to this Wikipedia page, there are more than 200). That there are so many father-son combinations in baseball shouldn't be surprising. Is there anything that feels more American than a father and his young son playing catch on a warm summer night? ...