Resiliency ... not giving up

So glad to see this!

Son pitched against him in college (In fact, there's a funny story from their first encounter.) and was a minor league teammate, afterwards. Big fan of his and his dad's!

As your thread's title suggests, resiliency and its "first cousin," persistence, are two of the most important qualities in the game. However, as important as they are, they're not always sufficient. Still, without them, many successful professionals would have never achieved their goal.

Thanks very much for posting this!

I absolutely love threads like this.  I know nothing about this young man, but now I'm a fan.

I saw this news recently too and it brought a big smile to my wife's and my faces.  This is good stuff - really good stuff.  Despite being a 1st round pick, Allan endured a fair amount of criticism by writers and probably the Padres brass as he navigated the minor leagues.

Allan was a teammate and occasional roommate of our older son in the minor leagues.  Together, they won a Midwest League title with Fort Wayne - a team that set all kinds of records and has had something like 15 players make it to the big leagues.

They were both traded from the Padres within about a week of each other during a Spring Training when they were rooming together.

I know our son likes Allan a lot.  Good friends. I also met Allan's dad at the Stanford camp way back when - super nice guy.  Somehow we lost touch over time.

I feel good about this.  Very happy about this.  Go Allan go!!

Not to hijack this thread but the word "resiliency" got me thinking about a book I am reading titled "Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life" by former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens. My college-baseball playing son recommended the book to me. He, in turn, got the recommendation from one of his coaches as they were killing time at an airport bookstore waiting for the flight to depart. An unusual book but my son loved it and I am enjoying it as well. 

Resilient is correct as I think people doubted he would make it to ML.  I was so thrilled to see him on TV!  He faced my son in college and in AA.
Funny how so many of our players actually have faced each other if not their teams have.
Baseball exists in a very small world!!!

No truer words ever written. Be careful what you might say about your opponent today, for there's a very good chance he'll be your teammate tomorrow.

To wit, my son dueled Oregon State's catcher in the College World Series in both 2006 and 2007. Later in the summer of 2007 as rookie professionals, they were battery mates facing off against my son's college teammate/shortstop. Today, all 3 are out of baseball as players and are close friends.

Don't burn your bridges. You never know when they might take you somewhere.

Have ordered the "Resilience" book for me and my 2 sons. Back-ordered at amazon.com. Thanks very much for the heads up!

In college David faced a player that he felt was the biggest you know what player he ever had seen.  An ACC rival, they actually took him apart that  game, a pitcher who that year became a first round pick.  

Years later they met up as teammates and became very good friends!