Last season, Patrick Murphy went 1-2 with a 3.26 earned run average. He only allowed two home runs in his 38.2 innings pitched, and those numbers are giving him a shot back in the U.S.

Photograph: Patrick Browne In a lifetime of revelations, many of them his own, another arrived unannounced for Michael Murphy recently — he might be old. The much-loved former newsreader and TV ...