Clubhouse leadership is one thing he doesn't have to worry about. He starts his list with the two Alomars, Sandy and Roberto, and continues with David Justice, Travis Fryman, Mark Langston, Mike Jackson, Jim Thome. It's a group of eight to 10 guys who do that. Leadership can take place in the smallest of instances. Say, card games are supposed to be over at a certain time, or the TVs are supposed to be turned off at a certain time.
Players are wont to push the rules.
We all do that. Leaders on a ball club will walk by and say, 'Rules are rules. Players police themselves that way. On any good ball club, players police themselves on and off the field very, very well. Say someone makes a small mental mistake, like overthrowing the cutoff man.