LA Times: Nick Francona goes from hell of war to Angels' front office

[AngelsWin.com]

Nick Francona, the Angels' coordinator of major league player information, commanded a Marine Corps scout-sniper unit in Afghanistan. He is Terry Francona's son.<br/><br/>TEMPE, Ariz. — The summer in Helmand province, an arid region of southern Afghanistan known to be a Taliban stronghold, was the worst.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/latimes/sports/baseball/mlb/angels/~4/O6hiLcQorBw" height="1" width="1"/>

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[Docwaukee]

Wow.  What a great asset to this org.  Guy is a badass and it sounds like he's way smart. 

Edited February 25, 2014 by Dochalo

[Chuck]

Awesome!!

[nikkachez]

Bad. Ass. 

[Second Base]

He shows a level-head by not elaborating upon mission specifics. You don't go around advertising operating procedure because it very well could affect those who are currently deployed. It also says a lot that the LAT had to do some homework and contact one of his NCO's to gather useful recounts of his service. He isn't there to talk about how tough he is or overplay his war stories.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Great story.

Welcome aboard Sir

[nate]

Too bad his dad isn't on the bench.  Glad to hear the Angels gave him a shot.

Edited February 25, 2014 by nate

[Bobster7587]

Love it.

[Angel Oracle]

Great hire!

 

This org is starting to do it right again with the recent hires of Servais, Baylor, DiSar, new Dominican lead, new scouts and direction, and now Nick Francona.    

 

Hopefully sooner than later, the Reagins years will be but a distant memory.

[TroutAdell]

Vernon Wells will never be a distant memory.

[Angel Oracle]

Unfortunately, Wells may be one of the few things hard to purge from memory. 

Although that fall into the LF stands did provide some humor.

Edited February 26, 2014 by Angel Oracle

[disarcina]

great story in today's Times........

 

I'm all for this guy -- Francona's kid -- must have baseball and winning in his blood........

 

good to see the organization have good people like this guy.........