As much as he enjoyed working with Mauricio Dubon last September, it surely stung Brandon Crawford just a little a bit to hear the young shortstop so often tell stories about how he had grown up watching Crawford. Another Giant inadvertently piled on this spring.
Trevor Heineman knows all about Crawford's championships and Gold Gloves, but he also is very familiar with Brandon Crawford the UCLA Bruins star. Heineman grew up a few miles from campus and used to go watch Crawford play games in college. He was excited to point that out when they met this spring.