CHICAGO
In the months after the baseball season, when he wasn’t toiling in the minors or rehabbing from another arm injury, Tommy Hottovy would return to Kansas City and work as an analyst for a local financial company.
The job was temporary, of course. There’s only so much time in the offseason when you’re a professional baseball player, but Hottovy always took the gig seriously. An honor roll student in high school and finance major in college, he always envisioned himself doing something with stats or numbers when his baseball career was over. It seemed like all the men in his family found themselves doing some type of forecasting or accounting.