I had the chance to talk with Drew Saylor, manager of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes right after the Dodgers traded five minor league players for Manny Machado, four of those players were coached by Saylor and his staff. We talked about that and some other thoughts about what he and his coaching staff tries to do with their players.
How do you handle all the trade talk, your players are on social media, they hear the names, what can you do to manage that distraction?
“I think that my job is to be able to have consistency,” Saylor said, “I talk to all the guys every single day, a little five minute check-in, see how their doing, see how their family is, and I really just provide an atmosphere where they can share their frustrations, their excitement and sometimes, some of their trepidations of what’s going on in their lives.