Ryan Powell's playing career ended three years ago, and the former minor league catcher made a transition to scouting that keeps him close to the game he's loved and lost.
Powell, an independent league scout for the Orioles, gave everything to baseball. He toiled in independent leagues for years. The battle scars are both physical — he has the marks left by eight incisions from his wrist to the top of his shoulder from surgeries on his throwing arm — and mental, like the time he lived in his car while playing for a team in West Texas in 2009.