Don’t get Adrian Beltre wrong. He is certainly flattered by the tributes that will come his way this weekend as the Texas Rangers honor him for collecting his 3,000th career hit July 30.
If it were up to him, though, he’d call the whole thing off.
The spotlight usually is the last place Beltre wants to be under normal circumstances, and definitely is the last place he wants to be while on the disabled list.
With no game to play as he tries to recover from a strained left hamstring, he said that feels a bit out of place.