And the Arizona Diamondbacks proved that Wednesday by bringing back old friend Joe Garagiola Jr. to the franchise from which his career as a top-shelf baseball executive was born. “It really does feel like going home again,” Garagiola told Boomskie on Baseball in a phone interview. He has since been an executive for Major League Baseball’s central New York office, overseeing such areas as rules application, international play, plus suspensions and fines of on-field personnel. The younger Garagiola started his career as an underling in the front office of the New York Yankees. Garagiola never really fled the Phoenix area, where MLB maintained a local office.

Source: Forbes December 19, 2018 19:30 UTC