By Jeff Schultz - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The bottom? Las Vegas. Easter Sunday, 2014. Jeff Francoeur was looking and feeling like a career minor-leaguer, a miserable Crash Davis playing outfield for the El Paso Chihuahuas, which wasn’t on his bucket list, nor even his, “It can’t possibly get so bad that I resort to this” list.
“That first month in Triple A. That was tough,” Francoeur said. “You’re not used to the travel. The 6 a.m. flights to play a game that night. It’s like, ‘Man, do I want to be doing this?