Adam Wainwright made sure a minor-league teammate won't have to walk to camp anymore
Adam Wainwright is the early front-runner for teammate of the year in Cardinals spring training camp.
The veteran right-hander noticed that a teammate – minor-league left-hander Ryan Sherriff – was walking to and from workouts each day in Cardinals camp. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Wainwright questioned him about it and asked if he would like a bike or car. Sherriff declined on both, but Wainwright took matters into his own hands.
Wainwright hooked up Sherriff with a rental car and picked up the tab.
“Waino got me a rental car,” Sherriff said, via the Post-Dispatch. “I freaked out a little bit. I started crying. I called my mom, and she started crying. Really, I’ve never had that experience. No one has ever done something so nice for me before.”
"That's the best thank you gift I have ever had," Wainwright said, according to MLB.com. "It was funny. He wrote a very nice note to me. He wrote, 'I accidentally bought steak sauce instead of barbecue sauce.'"
