Reliever Brent Suter is one of the few professional athletes who speaks regularly about trying to combat climate change. Changing minds on the subject isn't easy, but he's got some tips on how to do it.
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The first thing Brandon Woodruff noticed about Brent Suter was his water bottle.
It wasn’t the reusable bottle itself, exactly, that stood out to him. It was Suter’s commitment to it. The two pitchers met as minor leaguers at Brewers spring training in 2015, and Woodruff noticed that Suter seemed to bring the bottle with him everywhere, from clubhouse to ballfield to dugout and back—almost more like a security blanket than a drinking receptacle.