Happy to be in Philadelphia

I saw this yesterday and for got to post it.

The Tacoma News Tribune caught up with Greg Dobbs, a Timber Rattler in 2002. It starts out with a great story.

Dobbs discovers life after M's isn't so bad

It was a story Greg Dobbs didn’t hear until midseason, when he had established himself as the left-handed-hitting half of the Philadelphia Phillies platoon at third base.

General manager Pat Gillick had burst out of his office in Philadelphia with an announcement for his staff.

“We just got Greg Dobbs on waivers!” Gillick said happily.

Only when Gillick returned to his office did the others turn to one another with the same question.

“Who the hell is Greg Dobbs?”

Dobbs laughs now.

A year ago, he was at the end of his career with the Seattle Mariners – a then-29-year-old who’d played 405 games in the minor league system, batting .307, and 100 more in the majors.

Then Mariners needed space on their 40-man roster. Dobbs had been through this before. In the fall of 2005, he’d cleared waivers and returned to Tacoma’s triple-A roster.

Seattle called Dobbs, whose wife Heidi was seven months pregnant, and told him what they were doing.

Click the link to see how things turned out with Dobbs.