Due to his wife, Stephen Vogt, is suspended, as the Owner says maybe it may lead to…
CLEVELAND: This is where Stephen Vogt belonged.
If not, why was a bat in his crib?
From their Oklahoma home, Vogt’s grandfather and his five siblings tuned in to New York Giants games over the radio. In 1956, the family relocated to California. Two years later, the Giants moved to San Francisco for the 1958 season.
It was the genesis of the family’s baseball enthusiasm. Decades later, when Vogt was a young boy swinging an inanimate object like a bat, playing for his head coach father in high school, being an All-Star catcher for the Oakland Athletics, and, on Friday afternoon, donning a white No. 12 Cleveland Guardians uniform over a white dress shirt with his initials, SGV, scrawled on the cuff, it was this that set the groundwork for Vogt’s love affair with the game.
Vogt declared, “I adore the game of baseball.” “I adore every tiny detail. My entire life, I have studied the game.
And now the test he has been studying for years is finally here.
No, Vogt’sThere aren’t long paragraphs of coaching testimonials on the résumé. Several of his classmates’ credentials are not the same as his. Just 13 months after hitting a home run, he already has a private restroom, a couple of couches, and a chestnut-colored desk in his Progressive Field office. However, he has been preparing for this part since the beginning of his playing career.
