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- Updated: August 7, 2016
DENVER — With the news that Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, 41, will play his final game on Friday before being released and transitioning to a special instructor role with the club, former Yankees who are now with the Marlins shared their high praise of him.
Right-hander David Phelps broke into the league with the Yankees in 2012 and played with them for three years before being traded to Miami.
“He’s a guy that went out of his way to help me my first year out there,” Phelps said. “It’s a big transition from the Minor Leagues to the big leagues, let alone from Scranton, Pa., to New York City. He’s just a guy that when I would get done pitching or between starts, he’d pull me aside and talk to me about sequences and the mental part of the game. He’s a guy that gets crushed a lot for the mistakes he’s made, but nobody gets to see the kind of guy that he is in the clubhouse and with the teammates.”
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