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“For the most part, the biggest thing I took out of being in the bullpen is just being able to rise to the occasion or rise to the moment that you were called to be in,” he said. “In a starting routine, you start and you have time to work up to that moment. As a reliever, you’re thrown right into that moment. I think those big moments as a starter won’t come as such a shock to me now that I’ve had the chance to work out of the bullpen.”

Said King before Saturday’s road game against the Minnesota Wild: “We talked about it a few weeks ago, that (Hagel is) a big part of this organization and the type of character that we want and the type of player we want, so I was very shocked … when they called me upstairs to talk to me. I was like, ‘Oh, maybe it’s me getting traded or something.’ But when they said his name, I was shocked, I was very shocked.”

He also had a great sense of humor and was self-effacing about his disability. When we sat next to each other at Wrigley and something bizarre happened in the game, he’d joke, ‘Well, I’ve never see that before.’” Once Lynch asked White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen how he got to Wrigley Field that day. Guillen told him he got a ride from coach Joey Cora, whom Guillen said drove erratically.

Yaroslava Dunn, bottom row center, of St. Charles, with her mother Nataliia Sukhodulska, bottom left, father Iurii Siedov, top left, sister Natasha Stevens, of Wisconsin, top right, and family friend Olga Zachek after being reunited in Poland recently. Dunn’s parents, who lived in Kyiv, Ukraine, safely reached the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on March 7 and crossed into Poland a week later. (Yaroslava Dunn)