Long before he became the best quarterback in the NFL, Little Patrick Mahomes was The Natural.
The boy was a precocious 4-year old, and he couldn’t wait to roam the outfield at Shea Stadium and shag fly balls off the bats of his father’s 1999 Mets teammates.
When Pat Mahomes asked the Mets equipment manager to make Little Patrick a uniform, manager Bobby Valentine asked him to stay near the boy and protect him. “Once he saw how he handled himself on the field, how he was tracking the balls and how he was catching the balls off of the big leaguers’ bat,” Pat Mahomes said, “he felt a little more comfortable.”
The father’s shining moment of an 11-year MLB career came in relief of a knocked-out Leiter in the first inning of an NLCS Game 6 defeat to the Braves. He threw four innings of one-hit ball. “Ever since I was 4 years old I always said I was gonna be a Major League Baseball player,” Pat Mahomes said, “and buy my grandmother a house, so once I got to that point, I was able to do that.”
Pat Mahomes moved to the Texas Rangers in 2001. “A-Rod would take him down after shagging balls and stuff, he’d take him down to the cages and get him on a tee and soft toss to him and then he would break it down with him, take him into the film room and show him what he was doing wrong and show him what he was doing right, and he loved that,” Pat Mahomes said.New York Mets pitcher Mike Hampton, rear, and Patrick Mahomes Jr.
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