Digging trenches, hanging drywall and shooting coyotes: How MLB’s most anonymous team made ends meet

PJ Poulin had no idea how much he loved baseball until he had to dig a trench.It was 2020, and he was both a minor leaguer and a construction worker, an employee of the Colorado Rockies and of Bannon Custom Builders.This particular assignment took him and his truck down a narrow road by the ocean in Cape Cod, where vacationers decompress and blue-collar workers toil. While this was not the end of his journey to the majors, on this summer day, it sure felt like it.Advertisement