Playing professional baseball wasnāt always the plan for
@cleguardiansā Steven Kwan (
@skwanzaa): āYou gotta understand: Iām a baseball lifer. What Iām doing now, playing ball ⦠itās literally all Iāve ever wanted to do. Growing up, I didnāt like school that much. I didnāt really have any hobbies. Baseball was my entire identity....
I wasnāt destined to be a major leaguer. Not by any stretch.
I mean, yeah, of course, as a kid Iād told everyone whoād listen that Iād be playing pro ball one day. But not a lot of people believed me. And the ones who said that they did ⦠Iām pretty sure they were just humoring me.
Because theyād look at me and ⦠basically, it didnāt compute.
Iāve always been pretty short. I donāt run particularly fast. Iām not someone whoās hitting bombs. I wasnāt, as they like to say, āprojectable.ā If you see me now and think, Wait, this guy plays in the majors? This guy is an All-Star? ⦠just imagine looking at me back when I was seven, or 12, or 15.
To say I had do...