The Wily 20-Year-Old

Manny Machado is the age of a college sophomore. Rich Thompson is 33, with over 1450 minor-league appearances. Well, about that.

It’s hard to capture this all in a single GIF, but at least we can capture the meat of it with a third-base coach freaking out in the background.

I was going to GIF Thompson’s walk back to the dugout before I realized how much of a career minor-leaguer he was. There’s a pretty good chance this will define his major-league career. That turns “amusing” to “aw, man.”