Incidentally, what would Mike Stenhouse - he of the .095 BA / .424 OBP in 1986 (12 walks in 21 games, which is, I know, a small sample size, but Stenhouse also walked a bit in his other stints in the majors) - make of Mark Bellhorn? Bill James has said that Stenhouse didn’t get enough of a shot to prove himself, and perhaps these days an on-base machine gets more chances than in the 80s.
I mention this because on a personal level, Stenhouse is a fellow alumnus of my college and one likes to maintain some school pride - but more importantly I mention this because Stenhouse was Tito Francona’s minor-league roommate. Any influence on Tito’s baseball thinking?
Things I didn’t know, but a Google search told me: Stenhouse and Francona’s third roommate was Bryan Little. Yup, Little, as in Grady’s brother. How weird is that?