A lot of these dips that you go through in the season, it's about persisting through the process and trusting it.

You can only control so much.

Nobody's immune from getting beat. If you're not aware of that, you really don't have a great perspective.

When you start lifting weights in the offseason in like November, you're like, 'Ah, I'm going to get this thing up so I can get to the World Series.'

For me, it's more about having fun out there and competing and trying to make a difference in the game in every aspect that I can.

I've always just kind of prided myself on just taking the ball and just trying to give your team a chance to win, and I really don't try to make it any more complicated than that.

What I've been able to do is pretty cool, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

When you dream as a little kid, you dream about storybook endings and storybook players and scenarios like that.

The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.