PHILADELPHIA -- Chris Archer embraces the title of "nerd" he was given when he was younger.
But by "younger," Archer doesn't necessarily mean as a child. That was the moniker he was labeled with up to the point when the Rays called him up to play in the Majors. Archer has always liked to read, a preference that struck many of his Minor League and early Major League teammates as atypical and bizarre. But, when speaking to a group of Philadelphia-based RBI Baseball kids Tuesday, Archer used this anecdote as his message.
"Whenever I was in the Minor Leagues and early in Major League Baseball, people would call me a nerd, not in a bad way, but just because I was doing something different," Archer said.