Detroit — There was a minute there in the early stages of the quarantine when things got a little too weird for Tigers reliever Buck Farmer.
“I mean, there I was, a big-league pitcher and I am playing catch in my backyard,” he said in a Zoom session Wednesday. “My neighbors came out and it was like, ‘What is this guy doing?’ Mentally, it was kind of strange.”
Fortunately, Joey Bart, a fast-rising catching prospect in the Giants organization, lives just a couple of miles away from his Farmer's home in Buford, Georgia.
“I could call him up and ask if he wanted to play catch and he’d say he’d be over in five minutes,” Farmer said, laughing.