Some players make baseball feel like a science or a craft or an art. Brett Phillips makes it feel like a game and, in turn, makes that feel like its highest and best function. emmabaccellieri tells the story of The Happiest Man in Baseball
It’s not that Phillips doesn’t take baseball seriously. Rather, it’s the opposite. He knows exactly how much the game means—to him and to his teammates and to everyone watching. He just doesn’t want to let himself lose sight of the fact that it is still, in all of that, aThat was a conscious choice he made while in the minors.
“For me personally, someone who’s kind of struggled with the mental aspects of staying excited for the game … keeping it light is huge,” says Rays reliever Andrew Kittredge. “And he just does a good job of making sure everyone’s having fun.” It’s only solidified him as her favorite player. But she didn’t have any doubts about that to begin with. Why?Phillips visited Grimes at her home, where they had a karaoke dance party in her room.Phillips’s wife, Bri, is unusually well-equipped to understand the sport as a career: Her father, Trey Hillman, is a baseball lifer—the only man ever to manage in MLB, Japan’s NPB and Korea’s KBO. That gave Bri plenty of insight into all that can make professional baseball challenging.
To date a coach’s daughter would be intimidating no matter the context—but especially given that Hillman was a major league coach while Phillips was going to start the season down in High A. He wasn’t sure if it would fly. So as he continued to talk to Bri, he settled on a plan that seemed a bit more promising:Bri said she’d like that.
That means Phillips—with his new-school embrace of fun—has a father-in-law with a more traditional handle on the game. But he’s grateful for the perspective.
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