Trevor Bauer

And you tell yourself, well, I got six weeks to build up in spring training.

But then you get there and everyone's expected to be ready to go, especially the young guys that come in.

They're trying to take your job.

They're firing on all cylinders.

And if you don't have a spot locked up, then you end up ratcheting up the intensity real quick.

That's when a lot of injuries happen.

Yeah.

The way it works now, I mean, young guys are coming up younger and younger.

You see players coming up at 19, 20, 22, 10, 15 years ago, like no one was really making their debut until they're 26, 27.

Interesting.

So the game's getting younger and all the younger guys, they recover quicker.

Then, you know, they got more raw skills.

They go harder.

Yeah.

I mean, these guys out of college are only in college because you have the one year rule and then they go straight to the league and they're some of the best players, you know?

Yeah, it used to be you go to college.

If you were a high school draft, you get signed at 18, you're going to spend at least five years in the minor leagues.

It puts you at 23, and the majority of guys are going to spend six or seven if you're a high school draft.

As a college player, you're going to spend three or four years at least in the minor leagues and start in A ball, double A, triple A, maybe make it up.

But now teams are realizing that a lot of times the best years of a player's career are 25 through 30.