HOUSTON -- Gary Pettis sits on a bat rack at Angel Stadium -- the same ballpark where he won two American League Gold Glove Awards while playing for the Angels in the 1980s -- and reminisces about some of the great catches he made during his career as he surveys the playing field.
Pettis, the Astros' third-base coach and outfielder instructor, won five Gold Glove Awards for three teams and was a mainstay on the nightly highlight reels in the 1980s with his athletic and acrobatic catches. These days, he has a front-row seat nightly to watch another outfielder who's emerging as one of the best in the game, George Springer.