Bill Batterman is the Spring Training begins in less than a month and the Brewers will have no shortage of fresh faces at their Arizona compound. To help fans get acclimated with this year’s crop of newcomers to the organization, the Daily Brew will be publishing a series of player profiles over the next several weeks. This is the sixth installment in the Newcomer Breakdown series, which will cover major leaguers as well as selected minor leaguers; the first five profiles covered Jerome Gamble, Derrick Turnbow, Justin Lehr, Julio Santana, and Jose Capellan.
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Any discussion of Sam Narron inevitably begins with his family. Named after his grandfather, the first of eight members of the Narron clan to play professional baseball, he is the latest in a long line of Narron ballplayers from the tobacco fields of North Carolina. His father, Rooster, played for the Mets and advanced as far as Triple-A. His second cousin, Jerry, played in the big leagues for eight seasons and managed the Rangers in 2001 and 2002. His uncle, Johnny, coached in the Brewers’ minor league system. And that’s just scratching the surface of his baseball-playing relatives.