SignOnSanDiego.com · Mar 16, 2016
Wallace comfortable with role, place with Padres
The Padres’ Brett Wallace led the majors with four pinch-hit home runs in 2015. — K.C. AlfredPEORIA, Ariz. — Like most first-rounders, Brett Wallace hoped for a quick climb to the majors.
He hoped his first call-up was his last.
He hoped for good health.
He hoped for a long, rosy career.
Accepting reality, then, as the Astros – the fourth organization to own Wallace’s rights between 2009 and 2011 – released him midway through camp in 2014 was a bitter pill to swallow.
Yet it was necessary.