Chip Hale defended Salt River Fields yesterday days after Troy Tulowitzki called the facility “a country club.” (Never though that to be an insult, but anyway:)
“Trust me, I’ve been some places you don’t want to go,” Hale said to the Arizona Republic yesterday. “If he wants to go to old Melbourne, Florida, where I was with the Minnesota Twins, he can have a real baseball environment.”
A.J. Pollock defended the facilities as well in the same article.
“Most guys in our locker room are very humble,” Pollock said. “I’m not saying Tulo isn’t, but there’s probably some emotion.