Butch Davis on Billy Rowell

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http://www.twincities.com/2016/02/19/all-eyes-on-miguel-sanos-big-move-especially-butch-davis/

Ask Butch Davis if he has ever supervised a positional reprogramming similar to what the Twins are attempting with Miguel Sano, and the longtime outfield instructor gives a soft, knowing chuckle.

?I have,? says Davis, the Twins? first-base coach. ?Kid by the name of Billy Rowell.?

[Moose Milligan]

By the fall of 2012 the Orioles had seen enough. They released Rowell.

No one in baseball seems to have heard from him since.

“God only knows where he is now,” Richie Hebner, who managed that Frederick team, says by phone from his New England home. “Your guess is as good as mine.”

Davis can’t help but think of the Rowell Project when he considers what he must achieve with Sano, but don’t think for a second history is about to repeat.

“Billy was not a real good player or a real good athlete, to be honest with you,” says Hebner, 68. “For me, it just wasn’t going to work out for Billy Rowell.”

Odd. I was just randomly searching him the other day to see where he ended up.