TAMPA — My favorite type of column to write from spring training appeared in Sunday’s Post about J.C. Escarra.

Don’t get me wrong. You can always learn more about Gerrit Cole or Aaron Judge. It is part of the job to take the familiar and find out new information or see a different or more entertaining or more timely way to present someone you already know so much about.

But to find the mostly unknown with a great back story — an underdog story at that — and keep digging and learn more and more interesting details, that is spring training gold for me. The more you report, the more rich and fascinating it becomes.

Escarra’s case — a minor league flop who became (among other things) an Uber driver and now has an opportunity to make the Yankees — is so improbable that for a moment I wondered if the Yankees might be pulling an early April Fool’s Day joke on me. That Escarra was a modern Sidd Finch and Yankees officials who were talking him up, were doing so to punk me — and perhaps cost me my job.