TAMPA — There is a controlled fire in Brandon Drury’s eyes, a need to excel.
Speak to him for more than two minutes and you realize his commitment to work for success is off the charts.
“That’s how it’s always been, I haven’t had anything given to me in my baseball career,’’ Drury, a 13th-round draft pick of the Braves in 2010, told The Post Tuesday at George M. Steinbrenner Field. “I wasn’t a super-high pick that got pushed up each level because I was a high pick. I had to earn it. I had to hit every level to move up.