The veteran outfielder and “glue guy” has provided mentorship to rookies and earned the respect of his peers with his leadership and unselfishness.
“He’s such a great guy. He’s so positive. He’s always there picking everybody up. That’s what he’s best at,” Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy said of outfielder Jason Heyward, pictured celebrating after a home run earlier this season. “He’s always doing it on an everyday basis. He’s never wavered from who he was. That speaks to his character. He’s been a special guy to be around. I feel like he’s made everyone in the clubhouse better – not just better teammates but better people too.
“I just felt like for the first time all year we were all kind of deep in thought. I didn’t think that needed to be where our headspace was. If we were going to think about anything, we do it together, we do it outwardly, we have fun with it. … We just had fun with embracing the good or the bad, the tough or the easy times. I just felt that’s what we needed to do right there.”
James Outman was a 19-year-old freshman at Sacramento State when Heyward gave ‘The Speech’ and didn’t hear about the moment until he saw it recapped on a stadium scoreboard during this season. By then, he already knew about Heyward’s leadership abilities firsthand. But Heyward has been “a glue guy” as Max Muncy put it, exactly the clubhouse impact Freeman had in mind when he started lobbying Andrew Friedman to sign his friend as a free agent this winter.
“He’s such a great guy. He’s so positive. He’s always there picking everybody up. That’s what he’s best at,” Muncy said. “He’s always doing it on an everyday basis. He’s never wavered from who he was. That speaks to his character. He’s been a special guy to be around. I feel like he’s made everyone in the clubhouse better – not just better teammates but better people too.”
Heyward started against Orioles right-hander Tyler Wells and hit a three-run home run in his first at-bat. It was his only at-bat. Roberts pulled Heyward when the Orioles brought in a left-handed reliever. Not a grumble was heard from Heyward, the Dodgers manager said.
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