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Baseball's strengthening code of conduct

By Buster Olney

Thursday, February 26, 2009

A club official stood by a batting cage this spring, as some of his players hit, and he spoke with relief about how great it was to have a troublesome player out of his clubhouse. "We'd ask the other players to do extra work, and he'd give the other guys a look, like, 'what a waste of time,'" the official said. "It's not that he's a bad person, really. It's just that he really wasn't going along with the program." Two days earlier, an AL executive spoke of how much it meant to his club to u ...

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