Like last week when the 41-year-old lefty hopped a ride on the Rays’ coaches and staff bus to the stadium in Texas rather than wait for the next player bus.
There’s been no joking about how Hill has pitched.
Tom Brady, whom Hill overlapped with at Michigan, won a Super Bowl for the Bucs — as you may have heard — at age 43, the oldest player to earn a ring.
“I would love to talk to Tom and see how he’s changed with — as you get older, things change.
“You look at Phil and the way he’s changed his career and kind of righted the ship or whatever,” Hill said.
But I know that there’s a lot of guys that can contribute and not only just contribute, but in a big way.
“It’s great for all of our guys, and I’m very confident it rubs off,” said Cash, who caught Hill with the Red Sox in 2010, coached him in Cleveland in 2013 and manages him now.
“They’re getting to watch him and how he goes about in between starts.
Consider that pitcher Luis Patino, up from Triple-A earlier this season, was born in October 1999, when Hill was in college — and is 20 years younger.
“I remember facing him; Heck, I probably remember watching him on TV,” Zunino said.
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