Mariner Cole Wilcox’s Unexpected Strategy Could Change His Career Trajectory Forever
“The simplest cues are the ones that are going to translate the most. You don’t want to make it more complex than it is.”
Wilcox has already had a complex journey to the big leagues – starting with the cancellation of his college season in 2020, a truncated draft year, a trade, a major injury, and a role shift, all before he’s thrown more than one (1) professional inning. Thankfully, he has someone by his side who understands a complex big-league journey in Emerson Hancock, who went through the same early-career challenges of the COVID year, his own injury, and a similar transition to the bullpen. Hancock may have only been a year ahead of Wilcox at Georgia, but his admiration for his fellow pitcher is obvious.
“I know Emerson really well,” Wilcox said. “Since college, he hasn’t changed at all. Super hard worker, super good person, super good leader…for a lot of places around the league, he’s in the rotation, and he just happens to be probably in the best rotation in baseball. But he’s never, ever complained through the whole process. He’s always positive, never negative about anything he’s gone through, any adjustments that he’s made. [At Georgia] we called him The Mayor. He’s a guy you’re just drawn to, with his positive energy.”
Wilcox is once again one of Hancock’s constituents, the two sharing a big-league bullpen now rather than a collegiate dugout. Hopefully he’ll stick around long enough to earn a nickname of his own – maybe the Marshal to Hancock’s mayor, given his affinity for horse metaphors.
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