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ST. LOUIS — Cubs right-hander Daniel Palencia credits veteran left-hander Matthew Boyd with some of the best advice he’s received. But Boyd sees it a little differently.
“I shouldn’t take credit,” Boyd said. “He was one asking questions.”
They were talking in the visitors’ training room at Petco Park in mid-April, after Palencia had allowed a run in his second appearance of the season. And Palencia asked Boyd what advice from veterans had been the most useful for him earlier in his career.
Boyd’s message: Don’t try to be anyone else.