Garrett Whitlock is not one for grand displays of emotion.
When he was taken by the Red Sox in the Rule 5 Draft last December, for instance, he allowed himself to crack a smile. And then the laidback pitcher simply went to move on with his day.
“His name got called, and we all went crazy,” says Cal Tinsley, the head strength coach at the facility where Whitlock trains near his home in Alabama, and where he watched the draft last winter. “We were all pumped for him. And of course, he gives us a typical smile, and that’s about it.