His bats in a bag slung over his left shoulder, Andre Ethier walked down a barricaded walkway that links one of the six practice fields at the Dodgers spring training complex to the outdoor batting cages.
Fans leaned over the metal railings on both sides of the path and screamed: “Ethier! Ethier!”
There was a time when Ethier would have taken little notice of the chants. Not anymore.
Ethier is now 34 years old, a month from 35. He is entering his 12th season with the Dodgers.