Gunnar Henderson grew up with a baseball field as his literal backyard. Now he's the AL's best rookie, on one of MLB's best teams. He opened up to Ben Verlander on where he comes from and where he believes he's going.
"I went into that offseason just training with that mindset, and just really went into it, expecting to be in the big leagues by the end of the year," Henderson told me on Wednesday's episode of"And lo and behold, I was able to accomplish that and just really put my head down and went to work that year."
The path to getting there hasn't been easy, though. After a decent stint in his 2022 cameo , Henderson had a brutal start to his 2023 campaign, hitting below the Mendoza Line for much of the first two months. "I felt like the struggles I went through in high-A helped limit that because whenever you go through that certain thing you want to change, you feel like you have to change something to have success," Henderson said."Whenever I was going through it, I had a bunch of guys around me, pretty much hitting coaches and the whole team, they had my back and were just giving me great insights on what they went through and how they combated it.
As Henderson put it, he"started hitting really well after that." He's hit .280 with a .886 OPS to go along with 15 homers and 46 RBIs in 60 games since June 8.
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