January 24, 2007
Media Savvy
Billy Butler, hitting prospect for the Kansas City Royals, blitzes the home town media as a AA player. Butler's agent wants his future star to be comfortable with the off-field aspects of the game:
Rogalski has never heard of a Class AA prospect doing a media tour like this. He knows it looks awfully presumptuous for several reasons.
He says the motivation was to get a lot of this media stuff "out of the way," that past clients at their first big-league camps have complained of being overwhelmed by non-baseball stuff.
He wants to keep that from happening to Butler.
"He's a little bit shy the first time he gets in certain social settings with people he hasn't met before," Rogalski says. "His ability to establish a comfort level, once he does that, he becomes much more open and more himself. Just like he has to work on his defense, he has to work on his exchanges."
It also creates a buzz. Royals fans will now know Billy Butler's name, and be looking for him if the major leaguers ahead of him falter.
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