(Photo: Mark Olson, MILB)
Erie, Pa. — Casey Mize’s afternoon was going smoothly in the fashion of late-summer days on baseball’s farm.
The TV inside Erie’s clubhouse featured some raucous, 20s-something game show in which every five words were bleeped, which at moments amused Mize, and the man sitting next to him on a leather sofa, wearing a powder-blue-and-white stocking cap, SeaWolves outfielder Cam Gibson.
Five feet away was Mize’s locker. Here he would sit a few minutes later on a metal stool explaining his semi-sweet 2019 season and first full year of professional baseball.