Family.

Since lunchtime yesterday, you guys nearly tripled the size of the Julie McGraw Rehabilitation Fund, which has now advanced into $20,000 territory.

Read T.R. Sullivan’s piece on Julie and Gary. I wish I’d seen it before I sent my report out — there would have been so much more I could have added.

Peter Gammons has taken interest in the story as well, sharing yesterday’s report with his national audience on the Gammons Daily website.

Gary has asked if I would pass this message along to the Newberg Report family:

I don’t know how to say thank you to all of the people that have already responded to your special message. If you don’t mind, please let our new friends know that our family is completely overwhelmed with their caring and giving actions. We are all crying and thanking God for these gifts from kind-hearted people who have no idea who we are. They are very special.

My sincerest thanks to you and all your loyal readers/friends.

I’m really proud to be part of this community of phenomenally good people. This baseball town.

Speaking of which . . . .

Tim Cowlishaw (Dallas Morning News) thinks Texas should consider trading for Josh Hamilton. Consider relieving the Los Angeles Angels of the sorely overpriced asset they have vocally and coldly abandoned and can’t wait to dispose of. Consider paying something like $10 million to Hamilton annually even though a shoulder injury and an unclear substance abuse situation make the timing (if not the concept) of his return questionable. Consider adding another injury issue to a roster full of those, and having no real idea what he’s got left as a ballplayer.

I’m on record: I’m open to the idea.

(August 2013 tweet: “I’d be tempted [to take Hamilton back if the Angels paid half of the contract].”)

(October 2014 tweet and Facebook post: “How much money would you ask LAA to subsidize on Hamilton’s 3/83 to take him back [assuming something like (Jake) Smolinski + (Jon) Edwards in return]?”)

I really wouldn’t want to trade Shin-Soo Choo for him (something Cowlishaw and others have trial-ballooned), and I don’t really see why Los Angeles would want to do that, either.

And $10 million a year might be a little steep for Texas to take on for such an unpredictable commodity — but somewhere there’s a number that makes the risk and its obvious upside worth assuming, and that makes it palatable for the Angels to play ball, since otherwise it sounds like they might be moving towards a straight release and 100 percent financial obligation.

As for the return, Smolinski and Edwards are more central to the plan here today than they were in October, but something like that? I can be persuaded.

But we’re getting way ahead of things here. This seems like an enormous longshot.

Fascinating to think about, though.

In the meantime, Keone Kela is going to take the mound in Seattle, probably tonight but maybe tomorrow. He didn’t come into pro ball with the fanfare of the first-rounder Hamilton or the second-rounder Smolinski, but his path to the big leagues has been far more linear than it was for either of the outfielders or the outfielder-turned-pitcher Edwards, and right now he’s on a short list that includes Prince Fielder, Nick Martinez, and Shawn Tolleson, a list of the Rangers players who have surged out of the gate a week and a half into the young season.

When Kela strides to the Safeco Field mound this weekend, his family will probably be in the stands. Hundreds of thousands more will be watching on TV, including Julie and Gary McGraw — the first two members of the Rangers family to believe in Kela — 200 miles away in Gaston, Oregon, plus a whole lot of their new friends back here in Texas, watching the same thing, even if through different lenses.