Ben Shulman

I'm doing good.

We're here right now at Tropicana Field.

You're in your second season.

I want to take you back a little bit, though, because, frankly, it wasn't that long ago you were drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays.

And that's not a draft that's maybe as widely covered as some of the other sports like the NBA or NFL.

What was that experience like when you found out that you were going to be a Toronto Blue Jay in that whole day?

Were the Blue Jays a team on your radar that you thought might pick you?

Did you go in with an idea of who might take you, or were you kind of blind going into it?

So you end up in the Blue Jays organization, and then in 2025, started Dunedin, you hit every level of the system.

Just from a life standpoint, what is that like?

I mean, you were in five different cities across two countries.

You bounced back and forth into Canada, out of Canada again, and you're a pretty young guy.

What was that like for you moving apartments and doing everything like that?

When you got to Vancouver, did that, Vancouver and Toronto are very different cities, but did that give you any sort of idea or indication of what Canada was like?

Did you have much of an idea about the country before you ended up coming there?

Kind of a West Coast feel as it goes to Toronto, a little bit more of like an East Coast kind of feel.

You do then, not too far from where we are right now at Tropicana Field, you make your Major League debut at Steinbrenner Field.

That's a unique experience for a Major League debut.

What do you remember from that day and that whole experience?

You're doing a lot of things that a lot of people, both at your age, but mostly your experience level in the pros, I would imagine it's a big undertaking.