CLEVELAND — Guardians pitching coach Carl Willis still occasionally drives by the house in North Carolina that serves as a reminder of a post-playing career life that was almost very different for him, and would have been outside of the game of baseball.
Willis, now 65, is a true baseball lifer. But that almost wasn’t the case, and it wouldn’t have been if not for a fated phone call that altered his path.
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When Willis was in his playing days, he spent several years stuck in the minor leagues. It was then he started planning ahead for what might be next, and
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