1.   And what better teacher than Koufax, who once traveled the long road from wild-armed bonus baby into arguably the greatest left-handed pitcher in baseball history?

2.   A true bonus baby.

3.   But you wonder how any bonus baby even can see home plate with dollar signs in his eyes?

4.   He knows the road to the majors is long and filled with curves, even for a bonus baby with commas in his bank account.

5.   He was a kid pitcher, a bonus baby when baseball in Houston was still new.

6.   Not quite a bonus baby, but not a boomerang boy either.

7.   No one was more surprised than the onetime bonus baby when McLane handed him the job.

8.   Will there be a backlash against this wave of fat and happy bonus babies?