MESA, Ariz. -- Matt Chapman could hardly contain his excitement. Khris Davis hardly knew who the kid was. The meeting proved memorable for both.
"He told me he went to [Cal State] Fullerton, and that kind of took my breath away," recalled Davis, a fellow Titan. "It was pretty cool to have this kid come up to me, really excited to be in big league camp."
Davis and another former Titan, Oakland bench coach Mark Kotsay, treated a wide-eyed Chapman to dinner at Mastro's City Hall -- an upscale steakhouse -- shortly thereafter:
"I had never been somewhere like that before," Chapman said, smiling, "and that was just kind of normal for them, so it was a cool experience.