PHILADELPHIA — Amir Garrett met Bryson Stott through Stott’s older brother, Brennan. Brennan and Garrett went to middle school together in Las Vegas, and became close friends. Long before Bryson became a first-round pick of the Phillies and one of their top prospects, he tagged along with the two middle-schoolers. Garrett, 29, got the impression back then that Bryson was a goofball, and says that over a decade later, not much has changed.
One doesn’t need to look too far to find evidence of that. Stott, 24, has been known to do things like put ranch dressing on his ice cream, and post a picture of Garrett washing his car on Instagram, with the caption: “free washes to Vegas people courtesy of Amir Garrett.” But the relentless teasing does not go one way.
“I’m always messing with Bryson,” said Garrett, a left-handed pitcher for the Reds. “Before he got big time, he was always at my house, almost every day. He didn’t really come over that much this offseason. So I’m gonna have to give him some s--- for that. But yeah, he’s like a little brother to me, man. I can’t wait for him. ... He has got a bright future ahead.”
