For Cubs catcher Alex Avila, baseball is the family business
by By Chris Kuc, Chicago Tribune
Sep 28, 2017
3 minutes
During his tenure as Tigers general manager, Al Avila has called many players to tell them that they had been traded.
For one of them, he had a special message.
"At the end of the call he was the one guy where I said, "I love you,' " Avila said with a hearty laugh.
That's because the player he had reached on the phone soon after the Tigers had landed in New York on the eve of the July 31 trade
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