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February 24, 2007
Dodgers: Baseball's social network
One thing that has always fascinated me about professional baseball is the relationships that are formed. Although there are thousands of players between the majors and minors, the people who stay in it for any length of time seem to cross paths over and over again. This morning, first-year Las Vegas manager Lorenzo Bundy and Dodgers reliever Elmer Dessens had a lengthy conversation in the clubhouse, with Bundy sitting in a chair in front of Dessens' locker for about half an hour. To some, the sight of a Triple-A manager having such a long talk with a veteran major-league middle reliever would seem curious. After all, what would they have to talk about? But Bundy actually spent this past winter managing Hermosillo of the Mexican Winter League, where one of his starting pitchers was ... Elmer Dessens, a Hermosillo native and part-time resident.
Posted by Tony Jackson at February 24, 2007 05:49 AM