Daily News | Phillies’ Trea Turner, the WBC’s brightest star, makes his high school coach flash back to the beginning
Turner, 29, has been the brightest star in this interstellar two-week tournament wedged into spring training. He’s 7-for-19 in five games; he leads all players with four home runs and 10 RBIs; he’s the second U.S. player ever with a multi-homer game in the WBC after Ken Griffey Jr. in the inaugural tournament in 2006 and the first player ever with back-to-back four-RBI games.
Not that any of this is a surprise. Turner has made two All-Star teams and won a batting title and a World Series. He signed an 11-year, $300 million free agent contract in December because the Phillies have him rated as one of the top 10 players in baseball. Bryce Harper often calls Turner his favorite player to watch.
Greenstein sees little sense in questioning anything his former player does. Turner hit a grand total of one homer in four years at Park Vista. When he arrived as a freshman, he was 5-foot-4 and bony. He was taller but still skinny when he left. Many scouts would dismiss him just by looking at him. “I start off at 90, and this is no lie, Trea looks at me and goes, ‘C’mon, coach. Ninety? This guy throws 97!’” Greenstein recalled. “So I go, ‘Can you jack this thing up?’ It goes to 92-93, and Trea is riding me. ‘Coach, come on!’ Finally we get this darned thing up as high as it goes. It was like 100. Of course, he’s the only one that could barrel up some balls. No one else could. And I’m like, ‘Oh my god, really?’ It was amazing.”Turner topped it.
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