Joe Maddon already is working through what he’ll say to his team if and when a baseball season starts this summer. More specifically, he’s thinking through his Los Angeles Angels roster for what he might need to help each player.
“You need to address how they’re feeling emotionally as a human being first, before you could ever start arriving at cutoffs and relays, bunt defenses, etcetera,” said the former Cubs manager who was a mental-skills manager long before mental skills departments popped up in organizations across the baseball map.
“Who knows what this is going to look like after guys have been sitting out this long distracted like we are, reading all the different things, worrying about [everyone] from their kids to their grandparents and everybody in between,” Maddon said during a conversation with NBC Sports Chicago during a Cubs Talk Podcast this week.