Giancarlo Stanton, once close to becoming a Dodger, has a chance to come home

Source: www.ocregister.com --- Tuesday, December 05, 2017
A special photo of the Notre Dame High Baseball team is hanging on a wall of Tom Dill’s office. This one was taken in Sept. 2016, right after Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez died in a boating accident. When news of the fatal crash reached the Sherman Oaks campus, Notre Dame’s head Baseball coach dressed every player in his program – freshmen to seniors, JV to varsity – in a Marlins shirt bearing Fernandez’s number 16. The players lined up in three rows of about 20 each. A photographer captured the moment from an elevated perch. Dill kept one copy of the photo for himself. He sent another to his star pupil, Giancarlo Stanton, who was mourning 3,000 miles away from home. Related Articles Miller: Giancarlo Stanton a Dodger? Unlikely and unnecessary “When a guy represents your school in good character, I thought, I want to do something right now,” Dill said. “That was a nice moment. And my guys wrote him letters, a box full of letters.” Giancarlo Stanton might never become a Dodger, the team he rooted for growing up. He almost did a decade ago and he seems to have a chance now. The Marlins are trying so aggressively to trade him, some teams received permission from Major League Baseball to meet Stanton personally to discuss a potential deal. The Dodgers were not among those teams. Still, Stanton’s connection to his home town remains strong. He lives in Southern California in the offseason. His immediate family lives in the area ...

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