Donovan Casey made it to the cusp of his lifelong dream. His biggest challenge has been learning to live with that.
Donovan Casey spent five days with the Nationals in April 2022. (Kannetha Brown-Ngeth/NOTUS)
Rutland, Vermont, is an hour forty-five from Burlington, almost four to Boston and very, very far from Major League Baseball. And so there are times — random times, like in the time it takes to drive from home to work in the predawn darkness — that Donovan Casey starts thinking again.
What if, he wonders to himself, the manager had had me pinch run?
What if he had put me in as a defensive sub?
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