Anthony Varvaro

Spring Training is generally filled with mindless fielding practice and a lot of downtime for pitchers when they are not in a game. That’s when players joke around or discuss their innermost thoughts. It was in this setting in February of this year when Anthony Varvaro and Rick Porcello were in the outfield talking about their post-baseball career plans. “It would be pretty cool to sit in front of the Holland Tunnel and collect money from people,” joked the now reigning AL Cy Young Winner. Both players shared a laugh–but little did Porcello know what his buddy was actually planning. Varvaro, who had six years of Major League experience at that point was a criminal justice major at St. John’s University and had aspirations of going into law enforcement. “...