To me it always felt like spring training, where it's exciting when everyone shows up, and then very quickly it's just fluff pieces and OMG WHEN WILL THE SEASON START.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ij78GOKh1rr438g.gif You know it's good news when one board weirdo is rambling cookies and the other is talking about Baez douching.
His signature had his real name and that he was a Catholic priest. A google search of his name brings up his obit from various papers: http://www.reinbeckcourier.com/page/content.detail/id/501235/Father-Neal.. It does have specific mention of him being and avid fan of the Cubs and Hawkeyes. Great detective work there; clearly we weren't pretty sure about this before.
Soler may also be "offense first," but he's also much more regarded when it comes to being an all around valuable player, whereas Vogelbach HAS to hit the hell out of the ball to actually be valuable.