It isn’t just the game’s general managers who are hard at work right now. Checking in from the Winter Meetings for Ep. 005 of The Wheelhouse, Jerry Dipoto discussed—among a number of other subjects—the series of offseason works put together by star slugger Nelson Cruz.
Nellie, he’s a wonderful human. I’ve mentioned that before. This is one of the things that he brought up, in late September, with [Scott Servais], and that they talked about, and Nellie has been the driving force for. This was truly his baby. He wanted to make sure that, at about the midpoint of the offseason, he got the group together so that the players stayed in contact.