Having Patrick Mahomes run around the fields at the former spring training home of the Texas Rangers in Port Charlotte, Fla. was no big deal.
He was just a cute 5-year-old kid throwing a baseball to his daddy in spring training, and hanging out with the Texas Rangers during the season.
By the time Pat Mahomes was pitching for the Texas Rangers in 2001, he already had his son, Patrick, accustomed to being around big-league parks, beginning with the New York Mets.
“I was actually one of the first guys with the Mets to bring a kid on the field; everyone was scared he’d get hurt,” Mahomes said in a phone interview on Tuesday.