GREENSBORO, NC – Bubba Chandler went home after his start on July 6th.
He didn’t pick up a baseball. He didn’t even think about the game.
Instead, he sat on a lake for ten hours a day, fishing.
The break, which also included some golf, allowed Chandler to focus himself for the remainder of the season.
“Alright, you got 10 starts left on the year,” Chandler recalled of this thought process. “Let’s make every single one of those starts something that people talk about.”
Chandler was struggling in his first full year as a pitcher, to this point.