Eric Chavez whisks through the locker room less than three hours before first pitch, gives one of his relief pitchers blasting reggaeton a quick vote of confidence and suddenly takes a hard left into the office that, as of a week ago, wasn’t his.
The manager’s office inside Smith’s Ballpark looks how you’d expect. Gear and papers strewn about and a laptop open on the center of the desk. That’s his least-favorite part of this new gig. The computer. He can work a computer, but now he has to enter data into a system, and that is the one part of his job that leaves the former Gold Glove third baseman flummoxed.