Luis Gonzalez on the evolution of youth baseball pipelines to the MLB

About this episode

Luis Gonzalez discusses the evolution of youth baseball pipelines and his experiences in MLB.

2001 World Series champion and Diamondbacks' special advisor Luis Gonzalez joins Extra Innings with Bill Laskey to talk about why MLB teams are giving out more long-term contracts to unproven young players, how much the college baseball experience prepared him for the big leagues, and his World-Series winning walk-off hit against Mariano Rivera. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Bill Laskey

Guest: Luis Gonzalez

Topics covered

• youth baseball
• MLB contracts
• college baseball
• World Series
• baseball pipelines

Keywords

• Luis Gonzalez
• youth baseball
• MLB contracts
• 2001 World Series
• Mariano Rivera

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Diamondbacks, MLB

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