Some mornings I look at my reflection straight in the eye: “if Zach Eflin debuted in the majors at age 22, then what am I doing? Am I successful? I’ll tell you one thing, today is the day you shave that quarantine beard.”
We often elevate baseball players on a pedestal to marvel at their work ethic and talent. Sometimes it’s hard to even think of qualities we have in common with ballplayers - we both own sunglasses? we eat at restaurants? we both swing at and miss pitches at an obscene rate (@Jorge Alfaro shots fired)?