Imagine being athletic enough to make a living in professional football and baseball.
Tyler Gaffney isn’t making a big check in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ minor-league system, but he quietly shifted sports over the football offseason. Gaffney was an interesting running back coming out of Stanford, a sixth-round pick of the Carolina Panthers in 2014, and his NFL career never really took off because of injuries. Still, he owns two Super Bowl rings from his time with the New England Patriots.
Now he’s chasing a World Series ring, though he has a long way to go. Gaffney gave up football to join the Pirates’ organization as a right-handed hitting outfielder.