Lucas Giolito

It was just a very, very tough one to swallow.

I still don't like thinking about it.

You're asking me all these questions.

I appreciate that.

It's true.

I'm fully confident that next year or the year after are going to be better.

Last year, I feel like there were some very good highs.

Again, just being out there and giving the team an opportunity to win games, it was like, thank God I'm back to doing something like this.

This is what I love to do.

That's really what I...

take away from it.

Being back out there, I felt like there was a lot of times where it was like, damn, I got to remember how this shit goes again.

You know what I mean?

A lot of ups and downs for me personally and the team as a whole, but overall really, really positive.

I look forward to next year just continuing to build off of that.

Get back to

Kind of get back to my ways of pitching, get the strikeout numbers back up and all the stuff that I know I'm good at that I kind of didn't have firing at the highest level last year just coming back.

I look forward to kind of piecing all that stuff back together now that...

I'm fully healthy.

I'm not grinding through anything anymore.