It also helps that, Haren and the Rangers’ Brandon McCarthy aside, none of the players made bank by big-league standards, which makes them more willing to keep working. “I’m sure a lot of it is correlated to what your bank account looks like,” says former outfielder Sam Fuld, whose account was boosted by about $7 million over an eight-year MLB career that ended in 2015. Fuld joined the Phillies in 2018 as major-league player information coordinator, a nebulous label for a broad role.
