The Littlest Piranha

As the days till Spring Training wind down, (18 days, if you're not counting...) something sad has come to my attention…

Nick Punto is now the only remaining piranha (or ‘pirantha’ if you’d like to stay true to Ozzie Guillen’s original wording) in a once four-man school of flesh-devouring fish...or baseball players. With the loss of Luis Castillo to the Mets last season, our school numbered three. And now, with Jason Bartlett down in Tampa and Jason Tyner released to Limbo, Little Nicky swims alone.

It’s got to be tough, being the littlest fish in the sea, but being the only fish has got to be even tougher.

I mean, now that Jason Barlett is gone, who’s going to go swim in the shark tank at Underwater World with LNP? Who’s going not going to hit more than one home run in a season with him? Who’s going to be scrappy in the hot corner? I feel that these are pressing questions…

That, and who do you think would win in a fight—a stingray or a piranha?