Fishing, not baseball, was the original plan for Tyler Saladino out of high school.
A San Diego native, the new White Sox starting third baseman spent his teenage summers working on boats, which seemed like a more realistic course of work than baseball upon graduation. Saladino was a high school infielder, but he remembers his thoughts when scouts passed on his teammate, a towering left-handed pitcher whose fastball could touch 90 mph.
"I thought if he couldn't get anything there's no way I could," Saladino said. "So I could make money on the fishing boats, and that's all I thought about.