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What’s it like to play offensive line in the NFL? According to, not much fun. So why, then, did he agree to a recent one-year contract extension? Inquirer Eagles beat reporterListen wherever you get your podcasts or go to Jimmy Rollins started 14 consecutive opening days at shortstop for the Phillies from 2001-14; Larry Bowa started 12 in a row from 1970-81. Trea Turner has a chance to join that lineage.
Bowa and Rollins watched Turner, from afar and up close, this spring. Bowa, a spring training instructor, hit grounders to him and the other infielders every morning on the half-field at the Carpenter Complex. Rollins spent a few minutes with Turner in Miami on March 21 before the finals of the WBC.