Then, rather comically, Frazier fell victim to the hidden-ball trick last weekend in Toronto, being caught off base while infielder Ryan Goins faked throwing the ball back to a teammate.

“I don’t know what it is,” Frazier said. “The thumbs-down thing is the only good thing that happened. I don’t really sit there and ask myself why. Some stuff tends to find me, but at the same time I’m not afraid to do stuff. A lot of people don’t like being in the spotlight. I don’t mind. I’ve been doing it my whole life — ever since Little League.”

Indeed, if many players who arrive in the major leagues have grown up in the shadow of great expectations, it has been especially so for the two Fraziers.

Todd starred for the Toms River, N.J., team that won the 1998 Little League World Series. He homered to lead off the championship game, closed it out with a strikeout on the mound and then stood next to Derek Jeter during the national anthem when his team was later honored at Yankee Stadium.

Todd said that whenever he felt entitled at a young age, his two older brothers, Charlie and Jeff, each of whom played professional baseball, would intervene.

“If I got out of line, my two older brothers would kick my butt,” he said.

But while one Frazier had to learn to live with early fame, the other had to handle an early fortune. When Clint, the fourth pick in the 2013 draft and a national high school player of the year, signed with Cleveland, he was awarded a $3.5 million signing bonus — the largest, at that point, the Indians had ever agreed to.