PEORIA, Ariz. -- When you're living what is supposed to be your dream, but instead feels like a nightmare, something is wrong.
Which is why Rob Whalen walked away from baseball last year, risking his career to get a fresh start on life.
It's not easy to talk about mental health issues like depression and anxiety, but the 24-year-old Mariners pitching prospect isn't worried about easy anymore. He's worried about young athletes like Tyler Hilinski, the quarterback at Washington State who committed suicide in January.
"I didn't know the kid, but I felt so bad for his family and all that because I felt like that for a time," Whalen said.