"I feel pretty lucky to be able to do that," Hammel said. "The thing that I've noticed the most is with these teams they've all been really young, almost to the fact where you have to think about it as the guys on the team are so young they really don't understand the magnitude of the situation that they're kind of thrown into. They're just out there playing baseball in the big leagues.
"But we have enough veteran leadership inside, and obviously [manager] Joe [Maddon] running the show, to kind of keep guys on ground and make sure that they're putting in their work and their preparation's right.