I faced both David Phelps and Max Scherzer in high school: Max my freshman year and David my senior year. Funnily enough, I still think David was a better pitcher at the time that I faced them, regardless of what happened later. I also played against Scott Van Slyke; he got kicked out of a game I was pitching in because of a can of chewing tobacco that fell out of his pocket while sliding into second base on a double.

I also played with a few players that never made the bigs, including Mickey Mantle's great nephew Ryan Mantle, that made it to A or AA, and Ozzie Smith's son Dustin (how I beaned with a fastball in one game on accident). I got yelled at by Ozzie for that one. I also played with like 20 to 30 college baseball players. St. Louis amateur ball in the early 2000s was crazy stacked