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A couple years ago, Eric Lauer was trying to rediscover his identity as a pitcher.
All it took to find it: Three months … and 6,000 miles.
If you were familiar with Lauer’s namewhen the Dodgers acquired him in a trade last week, it was probably from his early years as a former first-round draft pick with the Padres.
Or his peak seasons with the Brewers in 2021 and 2022, when he won 18 games and had a 3.47 ERA.
Or his career revival last fall as a member of the Blue Jays, pitching to a 3.18 ERA as a rotation/long-relief swingman on the American League pennant-winners, before delivering 4 ⅔ scoreless innings in the marathon third game of the World Series against the Dodgers.
Amid all that, however, there was a time the now 30-year-old left-hander wondered if his MLB career was coming to an early end.
“Somebody last year was like, ‘When are you gonna write your book?’” Lauer quipped in an interview with the California Post this week, ahead of his Dodgers debut on Tuesday night against the Colorado Rockies.
“I was like, ‘About what?’ And they said, ‘Just all your adventures.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, you know, it has been pretty crazy.’”
“Just a whirlwind,” he later added.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
