Minor League Report: Answering the Call

Including players on the injured or ineligible lists, there are somewhere around 5,000 domestic minor league players at any given time. On the one hand, it’s a tiny number; the total domestic player pool for every organization combined could fit in Chase Field over nine times. On the other, it’s a huge number. For each of those 5,000 players has a unique story, events that have made them who they are, set their lives on a path that has led them to this point. Tales of triumph and tragedy; stories of chance meetings, of being in the right place at the right time, and especially all of the work that it has taken them to reach this point, as well as the work they have yet to do. We’ll never know the majority of those stories. Telling one is an honor.

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