SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — His office inside the Rockies’ Salt River Fields complex is as immaculate and orderly as a Marine Corps honor guard.
Calendars, schedules, memos and to-do lists are perfectly aligned on a bulletin board. A silver paperweight, in the shape of a baseball, sits on the polished desk. A large photograph, showing a champagne-drenched Todd Helton celebrating the Rockies’ 2007 National League pennant, takes up one wall.
It is from here, and from his similarly spic-and-span office at Coors Field, that Paul Egins runs the whole show: organizing road trips, handling players’ ticket requests, validating meal money, booking rental cars and booking flights for players’ wives.