Clayton Beeter was in the passenger seat, in the middle of a drive from North Little Rock, Ark., to Springdale, Ark. — from one minor league field to another — when he noticed an odd comment on a picture in his Instagram account.
A fan had written beneath one of his pictures, “Welcome to the Yankees.”
He looked over at his friend and read the comment.
“That’s a little weird,” Beeter told his buddy as word began to spread on Twitter on Aug. 2 — the day of the trade deadline — that he had been dealt.
