When Todd Frazier spoke to reporters by the home dugout at Citi Field on Wednesday afternoon, he estimated he had about 23 ticket requests for the Mets’ Opening Day game Thursday against the Cardinals.
By the time he sat down for a press conference not even an hour later, that number had grown to 24 and it was likely to keep going for the native son of Toms River, N.J.
“I still keep getting text messages,” Frazier said. “I’ll ask [vice president of media relations Jay Horwitz] if he can help me out.”
Frazier got a taste of playing in New York last year, when he was traded to the Yankees in July, but he has never spent an Opening Day so close to home.