ATLANTA - Warming up at Truist Park, Tyler Matzek is grateful to be here.
"It's been great, man, great fan base, great stadium, great team," Matzek says. "Being here on the Braves, being on an unbelievable team, a World Series caliber team, being with some of the greatest dudes in baseball, it's been so much fun."
But to get here, the 31-year-old had to push through anxiety so severe, it nearly cost him his career.
In 2015, at spring training with the Colorado Rockies, he went to throw the ball, and his muscles locked up.