SEATTLE -- Mitch Keller had just allowed a home run a few innings prior, but was still all smiles talking to reporters after pitching his frame in the 93rd annual All-Star Game, this time at T-Mobile Park.
He deserved to be, as he had completed one of the most drastic and rapid turnarounds for a pitcher's fortune in recent Pirates history, something even he admits he wouldn't have believed just 14 months ago. It's not a happy ending, but rather a happy somewhere-in-the-middle.
So when he was asked if there was anything he would have wanted to tell himself from three years ago, he needed a moment to think.