The first big assignment for Tony LaRussa, the newly appointed chief baseball officer for the National League Arizona Diamondbacks, was to visit South Bend, Indiana; Visalia, California; Mobile, Alabama and Reno, Nevada. These cities are the locations of the club’s minor league affiliates, and showcase the high potentials for promotion to the big leagues.
By visiting the clubs, LaRussa gets baseline knowledge without embellishment or withholding of negative news. This brutal honesty reaches him firsthand without the skewing that can ...
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