Daily News | How a black journal helped Mickey Moniak earn a spot on the Phillies opening day roster
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Tucked away at the bottom of Mickey Moniak’s backpack is a black journal. Just by looking at it, you can tell it has been well-used. It’s stuffed with stray sheets of paper and postcards. His entries aren’t even in chronological order. He jokes that if someone flipped it open, they wouldn’t even know where to start.
A few weeks ago, when Phillies manager Joe Girardi was asked if Moniak would be an option to platoon in center field, he demurred that Moniak wasn’t in the team’s plans at the position. And then on Sunday morning, while he was working out in the weight room, Girardi approached him.Moniak wiped a bead of sweat off of his forehead, took a breath, and soaked in what he’d just been told. He thought about all of the work he did this offseason with his longtime coach, John Peabody.
“It helps me get my thoughts out and not hold things in,” he said. “Maybe people aren’t comfortable talking to other people, but when you can write it down on a piece of paper, it’s essentially talking to someone and getting it out. I think that when you do that it allows you to figure out who you are as a person. And it’s been working out pretty good for me.”
This year, he hasn’t tried to do too much, and subsequently, has done more than he ever has. When he showed up to camp three weeks ago, Moniak was a relative afterthought, the depth behind the center field depth, a prospect on the periphery. Now, he is a member of the 28-man roster, by sheer force of will.And he says that his success is in large part due to journaling.
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