Kansas City, Mo. — The low point for Buck Farmer wasn’t so much getting the news that he was being designated for assignment. It was going home and telling his wife and young family that they might have to move.
“The first few days sitting there watching my family pack up our place in Detroit and go home (to Georgia) because we were uncertain where I might land or what might happen — that was tough,” Farmer said before the game Monday. “And just mentally realizing I was no longer in the big leagues.
“Something I worked so hard for and to have it taken away — not taken away, it was a self-inflicted thing — it was one of the toughest things for me to accept.