Jeremy Guthrie

But it was a grind.

It was difficult and challenging.

I love it.

When I went to, you know, I attended BYU as a freshman and played baseball there and I wasn't very good and our team was okay.

We were a 500 team.

When I came back, I had an opportunity to transfer to Stanford and that was thanks to my late high school coach who passed away a year ago.

And my father, who really believed in me and wanted me to have more opportunity.

And so they bothered the coaches at Stanford and said, you got to take a look at this kid.

He could help your program.

And they were kind enough to do it.

And so I was accepted kind of as a planned walk-on.

They gave me $1,000 of money towards, I think it was about $40,000 of

tuition and living expenses and books at that time, which actually seems pretty cheap now compared to what it costs to go to school these days.

They gave me very little, but they said, you'll come and be on the team.

I'm like, fine, I'll take a chance.

I had no idea what I had.

Two years of not throwing, two years of no lifting weights or exercising or running.

I didn't really know what I would have, but it came back pretty quickly.

I always attributed that to the hand of God.

I can't explain it.