Mental Health

INTRODUCTION There is a moment that happens for a lot of athletes, sometimes after an injury, sometimes after a diagnosis, sometimes after hitting a wall that no amount of training could have prepared them for, where everything shifts. The focus stops being entirely about performance and starts being about something bigger. About telling the truth. About making sure the next person does not have to figure it out alone. That moment is becoming more common. And the athletes who

Baseball is a game of moments. Some moments define a career in the best way possible: a walk-off home run, a perfect game, a World Series ring. But some moments define a career for all the wrong reasons, and there is nothing a player can do to change it. For Ruben Tejada, that moment came in three seconds on an October night in 2015, and the effects lasted far longer than any box score will ever show. Game 2 of the NLDS, seventh inning. Chase Utley slides hard into second bas