Gregor Blanco is all about family

When you’ve been in the majors, it’s a little tough to get pumped up for games in AAA. When you’ve got 8 years of service time in the majors, and you’ve gotten used to the pressure in every at bat and tens of thousands of fans hanging on everything you do, you need something more than just the game to get yourself as mentally present as you are in the big leagues.

Gregor Blanco has a strategy, and Gregor Blanco has his family.

“I always try to say to myself, competition. Compete,” he said on Sunday. For three weeks, he had been putting all his mental energy into just when the game is going on. “You just gotta focus three hours a day actually, try to do the best and see what happens.” Three…