Chad Cordero Found Hanging Out With Teenagers In Everett, WA

Don't worry. This isn't some story pulled from the files of Dateline: To Catch A Predator. There will be no arrests. No Chris Hansen. No transcripts of online chats. No inserting "your bleep" in "her bleep." Rather, this is a story of perseverance and determination. Which should fully explain why Chad Cordero, the one-time All-Star closer, is hanging out with teenagers in Everett in the first place. Recently promoted from, well, essentially nothing, Cordero has emerged in the Great Northwest as a less-heralded version of his former self. Donning the jersey of the short-season Single-A Aquasox, Cordero is slowly creeping his way back to relevance in a business that rarely grants second chances. He has yet to fully capitalize on his opportunity as he works his way back from surgery to repair a torn labrum—essentially, in layman's terms, a blown arm—but he's making baby steps as he climbs the ladder. Taken on as a reclamation project of s...