On a November morning in Glendale, Ariz., the sparkling fields at Camelback Ranch scream for baseball, but look around, and it feels like a ghost town. The hustle and bustle you see during spring training has been replaced by the sound of nothingness, just desert air breezing by, tumbleweeds rolling through the parking lot far off in the distance.
This is where you will find Micker Adolfo, the White Sox prospect working his way back to health and back to baseball.
He’s the only player at the facility.
Welcome to the life of an athlete returning from Tommy John surgery, an often lonely, isolating existence, where time stands still, and baseball dreams get put on hold.