Trey Mancini allowed his imagination to wander. Even as he told friends to tame their jokes about spending the second week of July in Cleveland, the Orioles outfielder couldn’t stop envisioning the phone calls he would get to make once he was officially a first-time All-Star.
But the calls Mancini made Sunday to his family and friends instead delivered the news that he did not make the cut for the American League team in the All-Star Game on July 9.
His parents, Tony and Beth, were on their way a baptism for a family friend’s daughter in Florida when Mancini called.