“So, do you know anyone around here? Any friends, or family?”
“Yeah, no, I don’t know anyone around here. There was someone I went to high school with who lives over in Seattle, but I never really knew them.”
It was, perhaps, an overly personal question to ask Tacoma Rainiers catcher Garrett Kennedy, who had been acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers mere days before the Rainiers’ Media Day, when he and his teammates were offered a shrimp and steak-laden buffet in exchange for sitting in the Summit Club with members of the “media.”
But I was a little worried about the guy; not about his performance at the plate, or how his well-graded framing in AA will translate in AAA, but how his corporeal being was handling life in Tacoma, Washington.