![]() ![]() To have a guy who was there at the start with all the craziness, and to be here now, even thinking about it, it gives me goosebumps.”Īlbernaz was speaking from the stairway outside the Giants clubhouse. But also how far we’ve come as an organization. ![]() To me, that tells the story of how far he’s come. I just remember the drills we did to try to get him to feel certain things, how wide-eyed he was, and being young and naïve. ![]() “You get drafted, your college season gets cut short and you get thrown into summer camp at Oracle Park - and that’s your first time in professional baseball? That was definitely eye-opening for him. “We talk about it all the time,” Albernaz said. The 2020 season also marked a strange start for manager Gabe Kapler and his coaching staff, Albernaz included, as their inaugural season in San Francisco turned into a distilled 60 game-season played out in front of cardboard cutouts instead of living, breathing fans. Bailey began his pro career in 2020 in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, which wiped out his junior season at North Carolina State and then, after getting drafted in the first round (13th overall), put him in the unique circumstance of being in a quarantine bubble as a taxi-squad player at the alternate site. And Bailey has been there from the very start for Albernaz, too. “I didn’t mess up.”Īlbernaz might not be a member of Bailey’s immediate family, but he’s been there from the start. ![]()
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