And he probably would. I'd run to it. But Sanders is a long, long, long shot to make it with the Reds this season. The club is keeping fingers crossed and toes clipped in hopes it can find five solid starters from a list of eight or nine candidates. Most are placed on the Class AAA roster, although some land on Class AA and a few even end up at Class A. Yes, some of the older players who don't appear to have a future are released.
Baseball is their day jobs.
When the season opens, each team will have 25 players on its roster. After brief meetings, they take the field at 10 for stretching and calisthenics. Then the players are divided into four groups and spread out over four practice diamonds for fundamentals drills, batting practice against pitchers and batting practice against coaches, which is called dead-arm hitting. It usually ends about 1, plenty of time for golf, tennis, fishing, beach-sitting and other tropical diversions.