Daily News | How Phillies shortstop Trea Turner has built a rapport with double-play partner Bryson Stott
“I was kind of riding him for a while, making sure that he made me on time for everything,” Turner said Saturday. “Because I don’t know where I’m going, and I can’t read that schedule. But he can. So, I was kind of giving him a hard time.”Don’t forget about Mick Abel, the other half of the Phillies’ best pitching prospect duo in 20 yearsIt was good-natured and part of the on-the-fly bonding process between Turner and Stott, the Phillies’ newly minted double-play combination.
Everyone concedes that Realmuto is the best golfer in the bunch. Schwarber is Schwarber, a grip-and-rip drive-crusher who keeps the mood light. Stott describes Turner as “a talker” about, well, everything, including plenty of trash. Turner made the move in 2021 after getting traded at the deadline to the Dodgers, who had Corey Seager entrenched at shortstop. Despite having played shortstop since 2017, Turner made 48 of 51 starts down the stretch at second base.
But the early weeks of spring training have been a time for Stott and Turner to get used to playing alongside one another. Neither has had an opportunity to work in a stable middle-infield combination.
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