One of the pleasures of baseball
is getting to follow a player on his journey, in the majors and elsewhere. With Ted Williams or Hank Aaron, you always
knew where to look, but what about Tyler Saladino?
The ex-White Sox infielder was let
go by the Brewers last December and signed by the Samsung Lions in the Korean
Baseball Organization on Christmas Eve.
If either the release or signing made it to the Transactions section, I
must’ve missed it.
And I wouldn’t have been any of
the wiser but for a baseball clip on the local news the other day. Look, it’s baseball! Look, it’s Tyler Saladino batting! Luckily, I did look, and there he was, a
player so decent he tweeted out his thanks to Sox fans when he was sold to
Milwaukee during the 2018 season. You
judge a person by the small things as much as anything.
So, the now 30-year old Saladino
is taking his show—and Fu Manchu—on the road halfway around the world. Maybe ex-Milwaukee teammate Eric Thames
talked Tyler into going. When Thames’
own major league career had stalled, three years in Korea led to three years
(and 72 homeruns) with the Brewers. It
could happen like that for Saladino.
If not, I can only hope he enjoys
the experience, the way he seemed to last season when he hit grand slams in
back-to-back games for the Brewers. You
go, Tyler.
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