Third baseman Paxton Wallace hunted doves in Arizona over Thanksgiving break – quite successfully – and also added to his baseball education.
Wallace hunted with Marco Scutaro, MVP of the 2012 National League Championship Series with the San Francisco Giants as a second baseman. In between doves, they talked baseball and everything Wallace heard sounded familiar from fall practices at Wichita State under new coach Eric Wedge, himself a former major-league manager and player.
"He told me 'For me, it was quality over quantity, and that's a big-league mentality,'" Wallace said.