... efficient pay for work. The at-will ability of the picker to pack up her machete in the middle of the day and move to a better-paying spot, or for the grower to give the ax to lower-performing workers ... have been in that race.” But they were, and it was Phillips, the GM thinks, that put them there after they got him from the Tigers for Chad Curtis. “He is the single most influential and ... for hours He would even hit to the infield in the pre-game warm-up. If you didn’t make the play the way McGraw wanted it, he’d hit you another, five more, ten more, until the play was made the...