Everything You Need To Know About Caleb Durbin
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What was Caleb Durbin's journey from wrestling to baseball?
I'm looking at you and like, you played football, right? A little bit? I actually wrestled. I was more of a wrestler. You wrestled, okay. Did your, this is going to be the weirdest question, but did your high school have programs? Did you ever do like headshots? like head shots for a program or anything? Just for a picture day. Okay. I think, yeah, I don't know. Well, you did. All I'm saying is that, like, I always say, like, high school, like, football players, every single one of them for the program, they pop the traps. Right. Like, you do not...
Well, our head shots are a wrestling stance. Oh, really? I mean, the way the wrestling stance is, is your hands are up and your shoulders are shrugged because they're yanking on your neck the whole match. But you don't need to do that. You literally don't need to do that. No, I joke around. It's an advantage for me. I can never break my neck. I don't have that. So people joke around with me. I'm like, hey, it's an advantage for me.
By the way, thank you for my next t-shirt I'm going to make. It's the second best quote after Peyton Tolley's, I feel like I'm the third monkey getting on the ark and it's starting to rain. I saw that one. Yeah, but I can't break my neck because I don't have one. By the way, the wrestling pose. So here's another question. Which is easier to pose? I guess you don't even pose for baseball cards anymore. They used to.
Like, they just take a picture of you, right? They use Game Photo now for your Tops cards or whatever brand. But they'll do some where you're in your baseball stance for our, you know,
pictured it has shots yeah yeah yeah same thing so which is so which is more awkward doing the baseball pose the wrestling pose all I can think of all I can think of is like the old school WWF guys it's similar dudes have fun with it too they do some funny stances really the wrestling ones are probably more fun to be honest with you
Really? Yeah. You just kind of mess around with your stance a little bit. You look like a T-Rex. Those are fun.
You know the ones I'm talking about, like the old school ones? Yeah. I mean, I was going to go Killer Kowalski, but you were like negative 20 when he wrestled. But that's the type of thing. All right. The wrestling questions are just coming. When's the last time you wore a wrestling singlet?
It would have been my last match, so 2018. Whoa, man. 2018, that was my senior year. Really? Uh-huh. Okay. Yeah, I wrestled from fifth grade throughout senior year. And you knew that was going to be it for you? That was going to be it, yeah. Did you win? No, I lost in the state tournament. Ooh. If I had won my last match, I would have been All-State, but I went to and out. Oh, you did? I went 0-2 at State. What weight class again? I was 160. Okay. Was it upset?
How did wrestling influence Caleb Durbin's baseball career?
Did you, like, underperform, overperform? No, no. Once you get to State, it's a lot of guys who are wrestling in college and stuff, you know?
Yeah.
And 3A in Illinois. Illinois is a good state. It's probably top five.
Really?
I'm a little biased, but it's probably top five. Yeah. um good wrestling and the the kid i wrestled first ended up winning it all and oh he did yeah he went on to wrestle at indiana okay which is big i mean big time wrestling so he was a stud and then uh the next guy i wrestled close match um ended up losing it though um And it was tough. Yeah, I loved wrestling. I didn't wrestle year-round, obviously. I did baseball year-round and wrestling during the winter. So I would do baseball as much as I could during wrestling season. It wasn't a lot, but as much as I could because it's tough when you're cutting weight for wrestling. for four months during the winter, and then I think it was the next day, a couple days after the state tournament, I was in baseball tryouts.
Really? Yeah, and I'm pretty banged up from the wrestling season trying to swing a bat. It's not as easy as it sounds.
It's weird because you don't hear a lot of the wrestler-baseball combo. Like, I don't think.
No, I've heard of... I've heard of a couple in the big leagues. JT Real Muto.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What was Caleb Durbin's journey from wrestling to baseball?
0:00–2:54
2
How did wrestling influence Caleb Durbin's baseball career?
2:54–6:00
3
What challenges did Caleb face during his transition to the major leagues?
6:00–11:07
4
What is the significance of being called a 'gamer' in baseball?
11:07–16:53
5
How did Caleb Durbin handle struggles in the big leagues?
16:53–20:57
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