Editor's note: The 2019 Coaching Corps Game Changer Awards airs Sunday at 7 p.m. PT on NBC Bay Area.
Ron Washington got a call from Billy Beane in 2015, but he thought it was a mistake.
"When the phone rang and I picked it up and I answered it, it went dead," Washington said at the 2019 Coaching Corps Game Changer Awards on Wednesday. "And the first thing told my wife [was], 'Billy must've called the wrong number.
"But then he called right back, and [he said], 'There's a kid here that needs you, and you need him.