You can’t get complacent, you still gotta show up every day and make your adjustments and prepare. Just seeing some of the results, it just reaffirms the work you’re doing. “It’s been a huge relief the past couple weeks. Muncy talked about the weight that has been lifted through his results this month. So having the support from them has been everything.” In a way, it makes it that much more, you want to go out there that much more and get right because you feel like you’re letting your family down a little bit. It’s been incredible this year, just seeing the support from the guys. The front office, the trainers, the strength staff, the coaches, the players, it’s a very close group, and I don’t know if you see that in too many other organizations.
“This is a very close-knit group from up top all the way down to the bottom. And now it’s been a little bit of a relief with some of the results lately, but at the end of the day, the team winning is the most important thing, and if I can get right for October, that’s what I care about.”Īndrew Friedman told reporters that the team initiated the extension conversation before Muncy’s current breakout, and Muncy confirmed that timeline and said it strengthens his feelings of the Dodgers as an organization and as a “family.” It was a rough go there, but just trying to understand where I was at, with everyone around me picking me up and reminding me of certain things, things got a little bit easier.
I think it was just not being a good baseball player that was weighing on me. “It’s definitely a relief, but I don’t know if it was weighing on me. next year, the contract situation hasn’t weighed on him nearly as much as the on-field performance issues. Muncy said that while it’s a relief to know he’s coming back to L.A. As long as I’m doing things to help the team and doing things the right way and preparing the right way, that’s the most important thing to me.” As long as I can focus on that, at the end of the year I can be happy with wherever I end up. I mean, every day I still have to show up and do the work, I still have to focus on preparing the right way and going out there and doing whatever I can do to help the team win. Muncy was asked if, considering all his struggles the first four months of the season, the contract extension gives him a feeling of peace. With where I was before coming to LA, this place has really turned into our family, so it’s nice to be able to stay here for at least another year but hopefully more.” So just to come back and know I’m going to have a chance to win, it means everything to me and my family. But just the support I’ve had from the front office and the coaches this year has been, it’s really help me through everything I’ve gone through. There’s no place I’d rather be, and hopefully next year won’t be it, there will be more after that.