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Once on the cusp of baseball riches, Bud Norris 'putting it all back together' in St. Louis

The season that changed everything for Bud Norris ended with two scoreless innings of relief at Dodger Stadium and a car packed for the long drive north, toward the Bay Area. The previous 12 months had taken him to Baltimore and San Diego, to a speedboat bouncing across the Andaman Sea, to an elephant sanctuary in Phuket, to the neon wonderland of Macau for a welterweight bout, and, finally, exhausted, to somewhere just as exotic: the bullpen.

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“It was like 2015 tore me in directions that I didn’t even know were possible,” Norris says.