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Baseball needs to examine mental health challenges in the time of COVID

Sports Illustrated ran important piece today about baseball and mental health. It highlights Ryan Sherriff’s decision to take a break from baseball, as well as his decision to come back.

Though things had not been right with him for a while, the long simmering issues boiled over as he took the mound for his first appearance of the ‘21 season.

“As soon as I toed the rubber, I felt nothing,” Sherriff says. “No emotions. No adrenaline. Nothing. I thought, Wow, what am I doing here if I don’t feel a damn thing?