SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. – For someone who grew up in southern California, Alec Moss seems to have been at the center of a lot of baseball happenings in Cincinnati. He played four years at Xavier, winning all-conference honors as a junior. A few years after his graduation, he spent a year as a coach for the Cavaliers.
But he was also a high school teammate of former Cincinnati Reds prospect Chris Dickerson, who once spent a couple weeks living on Moss' couch in Cincinnati as Dickerson rehabbed from shoulder surgery. Moss also knew Aaron Boone through a mutual friend when Boone was with the Reds, and would watch Monday Night Football at the third baseman's house.