Daily News | Trea Turner’s path to Phillies’ $300 million man began as a baby-faced freshman at N.C. State
RALEIGH, N.C. — During Trea Turner’s three years at North Carolina State, the only opponents who could stop him were the ones manning the entrances to the local taprooms. When Turner was a freshman, his buddies on the baseball team would bar-hop on Friday and Saturday nights, many of them bearing driver’s licenses that indicated they were eligible to consume alcohol legally when, in fact, they were not. Turner wanted to go with them. Turner, at first, tried to go with them.
“Trea didn’t really give a crap,” Austin said. “Like the fear of missing out, the FOMO, he didn’t have that. We’d give him crap about going out. He was like, ‘You guys enjoy the party now. I’ll enjoy the better ones down the road.’”Avent has been the Wolfpack’s head coach since 1996, but he turned over most of his recruiting responsibilities to Hart in 2009, just as Turner was making his rise at Park Vista Community High School in Lake Worth, Fla.
There was still no guarantee that Turner would end up playing for the Wolfpack, though, not after the Pittsburgh Pirates selected him in the 20th round of the 2011 draft — three months before the first day of his freshman year. Turner had told the Pirates that he wouldn’t sign with them for less than $800,000, but Hart, through a friend in the organization’s scouting department, learned that Pittsburgh was willing to give Turner every penny of it.
Turner had told Hart that, as a high school senior, he had run the 60-yard dash — a standard evaluation tool in amateur and professional baseball — in an impressive 6.5 seconds. Hart was skeptical … until Turner ran a 6.2 that fall. The bouncers might have chased him out of those bars, but they weren’t going to catch him.
Though his high school and travel coaches had been terrific, Turner said, he received a measure of individual instruction at N.C. State that he hadn’t before. The coaches there taught him how to read a pitcher in the stretch and take a catcher’s arm strength and pop time into consideration before trying to steal a base.
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