A headline so obvious....

...you will think Mehring wrote it.

Health the key to Snelling's success

The old axiom about hitters, that they can fall out of bed and hit, might well apply to [Chris] Snelling, who on Saturday signed a Minor League deal with the Padres. But Colborn insisted there's a twist with Snelling, albeit a cruel one.

"He might fall out of bed, but he might break something, too. He might hit on the way down, though," Colborn said.

Colborn is kidding of course. However, the fact that Snelling's promising career has been derailed by a series of unfortunate injuries is no laughing matter to Snelling himself, though he's not exactly reticent about his past either.

"It has always been a matter of me staying healthy," Snelling said. "It's pretty simple."

Read the whole thing and maybe you'll see why I'm pulling for this member of the 2000 Rattlers to make it.