3/5 🧵 The best story is brutal and perfect: Mazzilli is literally out on the beach with Valentine when he gets the call that he’s been traded to Texas. That’s baseball in one ugly snapshot — one minute you’re living your life, the next the business side smacks you in the face. Mazzilli says that first trade is the hardest because players still carry the fantasy they’ll stay with one team forever. They usually don’t. Baseball can be sentimental in public and cold as ice in private.
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