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“We look at this as a hitting department and a pitching department more than just a one-man show,” Hoyer said, “and as with all of these jobs, the hitting coach job, for example, has gotten so much more complicated as you add so much data. So you’re thinking about things in terms of not just swing mechanics, but also game planning and things like that. You want to make sure we’re acting as a team.

“The thing I love about them is the way they fought to the very end in that environment, keeping that going to where now you come back from this bye week and you’re energized, you’re rejuvenated,” Nagy said. “You get guys back that maybe were a little bit beat up, you get healthy, and now you go for this run here, this final stretch of the season. You put it all together.”

“I try to come in with energy, come in with positivity, come in and play hard and have fun,” Dosumu said after scoring a career-high 15 points and seven rebounds. “When you’re doing something you love and you have fun, that’s when your natural instincts come out. That’s what I try to do, just come into the game and impact the game whatever way I can.”

“Getting to hit the reset button is very big for pitchers, baseball players in general,” Keuchel said. “It’s something that I’m taking full advantage of right now. I’m in Arizona now. It’s 80 degrees, I’m playing golf, trying to put the bad second half past me but using it at the same time to motivate me to being back to where I want to be.”

Though the league has no timeline for finishing its investigation, the blowback has been swift. Prevea Health, a primary care provider in Wisconsin, ended its partnership with Rodgers the day after his interview went public. State Farm, which has employed Rodgers as a spokesperson for years, said it did not support some of the statements Rodgers made (without specifying which), but that it respects “everyone’s right to make a choice.”