The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox.It was a light schedule last night, but we still got a minor-league record (of sorts). Plus: Our Baseball Card of the Week, a dive into the vaults for Sam Blum’s story on Scott Spiezio and we found a player who had two ERAs? I’m Levi Weaver — welcome to The Windup!Big Swings: Fischer hits his 47th home runHere’s a trick question: Who holds the single-season minor-league home run record?It’s complicated.Technically, the number is 55 by Bill McNulty in 1974, but — as MLB.com’s Sam Dykstra reminds us — the A’s minor-leaguer played in a makeshift ballpark in Sacramento that year, with a left-field wall that was only 223 feet from home plate. (His teammate Gorman Thomas hit 51 that year, second-most all-time.)So maybe it’s Ron Kittle’s 50 in 1982?What we can tell you for sure is that the 21st-century record was set by Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard, who hit 46 in 2004 between Double A and Triple A (then hit two more for the Phillies after a September call-up.)Not anymore, though. Brewers prospect Andrew Fischer (No. 8 on Keith Law’s preseason Brewers prospects list) hit No. 47 last night. At just 22, the 3B/1B started the season in High A before a June promotion to Double A. Between the two levels, he has hit .272 (1.067 OPS) in 123 games.How many more of these young stars are the Brewers hiding, anyway?Middle Relief: ‘Sick and tired of being sick and tired’Before today’s game, the St. Louis Cardinals will honor the 2006 championship team on the field, including Scott Spiezio, whose journey through addiction has been well-chronicled. Back in 2022, Sam Blum met with Spiezio and helped to tell his story. Here’s an excerpt:MORRIS, Ill. — From the top of his head to the bottom of his feet, Scott Spiezio had turned yellow. His skin was discolored. He was clearly jaundiced. Yet he refused to go to the hospital.It was April 4, 2018. And Spiezio had spent the last 13 years in a self-destructive spiral. Of all the inexplicable decisions he had made in that time, this was perhaps the most mind-boggling. He was ignoring indisputable signs of an at-risk liver.…A year earlier, in 2017, Spiezio had been put on a ventilator at the hospital with a heart issue. A bad back and itchy skin accompanied his jaundice in 2018. At times he caught himself considering death to be the lesser of two evils.Spiezio was not that far removed from his prime years as a professional athlete. His body had deteriorated under the pressure of consuming, on average, a gallon of vodka a day.He drank again on April 5 — his final sip came at around 5:30 p.m., he said. It was (friend Tonia) Boyer’s threat to call his parents that finally got him to Morris Hospital on April 6.The possibility of a liver transplant was brought up. When he called to tell his close friend Dave Wohlwend about the predicament, he acknowledged that he would not be able to get one. A transplant, he said, would require six months of sobriety. And that felt impossible.