It's a couple days old, but Alan Schwarz's Going Deep column at Baseball America has an illuminating first-person account of Bill Pulsipher's battle with depression and his road back to the big leagues.

I was distraught. I was only 26 but felt like an old man. I used to be so light, so bouncy. Now I felt like I was wearing a wet overcoat all the time. My career was fizzling out, and I knew it. “Be careful what you dream,” I told the press.