ANAHEIM — It was 12:30 p.m. Saturday, nearly seven hours before the Los Angeles Angels were to play the Kansas City Royals, when Angels coach Mike Gallego stopped in his tracks as he walked through the clubhouse toward a staff meeting. He found it hard to believe that one of the players was already there, and in workout gear.
“What in the world are you doing here?” Gallego asked.
And the best player in baseball, the first man ever to be guaranteed half a billion dollars to play baseball, smiled and said, “I just like it here.