In all, Flores played five years in Minor League Baseball (MiLB), all in the Astros' farm system, from 1990 to 1994.
[1] In 1994, he spent his final season as an active player with the Double-A Jackson Generals of the Texas League, batting just .192.
[citation needed] Flores managed the 2008 Dominican Summer League Indians, and for five seasons, he worked for the Chicago Cubs as their infield coordinator.
[5][6] After he was engaged in a dugout shouting match about defensive positioning by ground-ball relief pitcher Richard Bleier, Bleier finally played in front of an infield that was not shifted for the final month of the 2019 season, and saw his results improve.
[7][8][9] In both 2019 and 2020, the team was the American League’s worst defensive infield by the Statcast metric outs above average.