SCOTTSDALE — Jeff Kent smiled Sunday morning and said he doesn’t have a lot of contacts saved in his cell phone. If you’re not on that small list, he isn’t inclined to answer. Kent doesn’t intend to waste much of retirement dealing with scammers, but when an unfamiliar number came up on the screen this winter, he briefly changed course. “I said, ‘You know what, I haven’t talked to a robo-caller in a while. I’ll take this call,’ ” he joked Sunday morning. Right away, Kent realized that it wasn’t someone trying to sell him something. He also realized he had gotten very lucky by choosing to answer that specific call. “Hello, Jeff?” the voice on the other end said. “Jeff, this is Johnny Bench.”That has been the reality for the former Giants second baseman since he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in December. Kent said he was floored that Bench, a 1989 inductee, would reach out, but he was far from alone. The last couple of months have been spent answering calls and texts from men who already are enshrined in Cooperstown. Soon it will be...