Friends with Players

[StripNaquin]

Thought it would be cool to see who here is friends with any current or former professional ball players.

Guys I know that I actually talk to and see -

Ross Stripling - LA Dodgers
J.R. Towles - Houston Astros
Ryan McKeller - Houston Astros (Minors)



Who all do y'all know?

[Astros19]

I graduated with Steve Hellickson, Jeremy Hellickson's dad.
I'm also facebook friends with him and his grandpa Bob Hellickson.
My brother once sold a car to Jose Cruz as well.
Sorry, that's the best I got. lol

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[jstephens24]

just my brother

and a reach of McCullers. he follows me on twitter and we talked a bunch when he was in minors. don't try to bother him too much right now. he did recognize me/remember my sons name when we went to a public signing

[tscbaseball]

I played Little League with former relief pitcher Ryan Perry.

[tkraft24]

Went to middle and high school with a former relief pitcher, Adam Russell. I believe his first spring training strikeout was against Ichiro, had 2 wins against my Indians his first year, was on the same team as Ken Griffey Jr and Jim Thome for a brief period of time, and one hell of a model American (catches breathe)....

[LCM1223]

Closest I ever got to "knowing" someone was hitting against Nats 2013 draft pick (now in Rays system) Travis Ott in my senior year of high school. I grounded out twice against him so I felt accomplished lol

[Cactuspies]

delivered some food a couple weeks back to matt dominguez. does that count?

a few co-workers are close with the bellinger family

got in a heated argument with Vidal Nuno a few years ago

[88horsepower]

Royce Clayton lived with my family while he was in the minor leagues. Terrific guy, too.

[jrosales]

I'm good friends with a former White Sox/Brewers farmhand named Ed 'EZ' Smith. He went on to play a few seasons in the NFL after his baseball career, and even played in the XFL during its lone season.

He's an awesome guy and I'm fortunate to have him as a friend.

[Rndm1]

Used to train Paul Goldschmidt (strength and conditioning) as an intern at Texas State.

[smacky]

I used to bee part time bat boy for Bristol & lakeland tigers minor league back in the day,as my uncle pitched for them for 7 years I believe in the minors,some of the more cooler players were Marty Castillo,Johnny waukenfuss & Dan Petry,once I got in the military and stationed at fort ord,pete inclavilia dad owned a party store and got to meet him many times and had drinks with him.

[jrosales]

Originally Posted by Rndm1

Used to train Paul Goldschmidt (strength and conditioning) as an intern at Texas State.

That's awesome. I saw him play a few times in college

[Ryansito1]

Went to high school with Raymond Harris and Mark Demarco(football) played in nfl


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[ChicagoCubsWS]

Played Xbox with Christian Friedrich a decent amount. Became cool with Max Stassi as well.

[Big]

Served in the Marines with Cooper Brannan and also childhood friends with J.A. Happ I caught him in little league all stars for about 4 years. We still talk/text every so often.

Larry Corrigan is a family friend he’s the scout for the twins and last year got Midwest scout of the year.

[nmordowitz]

Brooks Kieschnick is in a few FB Groups I am in - he actually gets into card breaks and collect apparently
Also Chance Sisco's father is in some of those same FB groups - every time someone hits a chance sisco he typically gets first dibs

I believe we pulled a topps rollback or whatever card from Bowman of Brooks and he offered to sign it for the person and mail it back. Cool and nice.

[VintagePSA]

Jeff Randazzo - Former Twins Minor League Pitcher - Played Against Jeff during Little League years and still see him a lot since he lives close to me.

Andrew Bechtold - Current Twins Org(minors) I coach a National Level Tournament/Travel Fastpitch girls softball team. I have his younger sister on my team.

Pat Kelly - Former Yankees 2b. He was one of my hitting coaches when I was younger. I actually just saw him the other day.

[CaptainUgly]

Coached Cody Anderson (Cleveland Indians) in high school and still see him a couple times a year during the off season. He had T.J. surgery, so I'm hoping he makes it back to the league this year.

[mgsenny]

Originally Posted by VintagePSA

Jeff Randazzo - Former Twins Minor League Pitcher - Played Against Jeff during Little League years and still see him a lot since he lives close to me.

Andrew Bechtold - Current Twins Org(minors) I coach a National Level Tournament/Travel Fastpitch girls softball team. I have his younger sister on my team.

Pat Kelly - Former Yankees 2b. He was one of my hitting coaches when I was younger. I actually just saw him the other day.

Bechtold is a good kid, worked with him when he was at Maryland and I was a student manager there.

[Flkrsn5]

I played with Derek Holland one summer before he went of too college. A friend of mine who I've known forever is actually really good friends with him as they played hockey together in TX...small world. I also played with/against Eric Fryer since I was in coach pitch up until college. It's nice to see guys you know make the Bigs.

[Stech36]

Originally Posted by nmordowitz

Brooks Kieschnick is in a few FB Groups I am in - he actually gets into card breaks and collect apparently
Also Chance Sisco's father is in some of those same FB groups - every time someone hits a chance sisco he typically gets first dibs

I believe we pulled a topps rollback or whatever card from Bowman of Brooks and he offered to sign it for the person and mail it back. Cool and nice.

That’s funny, I think I sent him a card recently and was wondering if it was THAT Brooks Kieschnick

[babybull]

I know Randy Wells who used to pitch for the Cubs a few years back. Nice guy.

[Highstubbs]

My son is currently playing D2 ball, He grew up playing with and against a lot of current minor league players:
Logan Shore A's system
Alex Call White Sox's
Ryan Boldt Rays
Travis Neubeck Marlins
Roman Collins Royals
Max Murphy Twins
Nick Hanson Reds
Coached by Al Newman for many years now.....
Many others also, those are the ones i can think that have baseball cards all, are low minor league players, maybe one or two of the make the majors so he can have the I remember when story about them.....

[Aquagolf70]

Played against Zach Greinke in high school, played golf w him a few times later but he's not the friendliest person.

[LVDan]

My dad and uncle grew up next door to and played little league w/ longtime California Angel Mike Witt.