C. Trent Rosecrans had this interesting piece in the Enquirer recently. The Reds evidently sent some minor leaguers to a leadership retreat:
The exercise was part of an obstacle course in the two-and-a-half day leadership training event that 12 Reds players attended at Thayer Leader Development Group at West Point, N.Y., this past week.
“Leadership is obviously a hot topic in all of sports. The age old question is how do you develop leaders?” said Reds director of player development Jeff Graupe. “There’s a lot of methods you can try – a lot of things you do within baseball – but with the investment of putting these guys on field, we wanted to match that off the field with the nutrition program, with sports psychology, with all the sports science initiatives.