There is one incident I’ve heard about in connection with Shank’s firing. It’s a story from this...
There is one incident I’ve heard about in connection with Shank’s firing. It’s a story from this past summer, that had Shank criticizing a player to another club. I asked Shank about this.
"That’s 100 percent true," he said. "It was after Mike Aviles got sent down. The scout was with the Boston Red Sox. We’d just played in Boston, and Mike had just got sent down…you know, at the hotel, you run into scouts at the bar and you have conversations."
Here is Shank’s recollection of the conversation…
Shank: Are you guys still interested in Aviles?
Scout: No, we’re not.
Shank: Well, that’s good. We just sent him down. He’s not doing anything right.
Scout: Really?
Shank: Yeah. Offensively and defensively, he’s just not doing anything right.
Mellinger: On the Royals and Frank White and especially Kevin Shank