Having Patrick Mahomes run around the fields at the former spring training home of the Texas Rangers in Port Charlotte, Fla. was a giant nothing.
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 a Ranger in 2001, he already had his son, Patrick, accustomed to being around big-league fields, 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.