“His slides are poetry in motion,” Elliott Avent, Trea Turner’s coach at North Carolina State, once said.
Turner’s Rookie Cards appear in several 2016 products, including this 2016 Topps Chrome #32.
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Among the oldest cliches in the
sports book is “Play the game the right way.”
But how else to describe Trea Turner? Turner has long played a kids’ game with a childlike enthusiasm. He plays all over. He plays all out. With a smile on his face, too, as if he can’t really believe this is his life.
The combination of speed, grace, grit, glove and bat is not commonly found, which is why the Philadelphia Phillies opted to hand Turner an 11-year, $300 million free-agent contract in 2022.