I was so small, I wasn't even going to go back out for my junior year. But my mom and dad sat me down and said, 'we didn't raise a quitter - you're going back out.' I made the team and everything happened from there.

I've always had good mechanics and stuff like that.

We're in a little funk. I don't think anybody's worried about our lead.

I was so small, I wasn't even going to go back out for my junior year. But my mom and dad sat me down and said, 'we didn't raise a quitter - you're going back out.' I made the team and everything happened from there.

I'm pretty patient since I'm big into hunting.

You see him coming in with an 0-2 record and a 5 ERA and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?

Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.