Yesterday, information got here out that former MLB Pitcher and present Windy Metropolis Thunderbolts (Frontier League) supervisor, Bobby Jenks, has been battling stage 4 adenocarcinoma, which is a sort of abdomen most cancers.
We right here at Indy Ball Island ship all our therapeutic ideas and prayers to Bobby as he continues his struggle. We hope that his aim of being again within the dugout is ready to be fulfilled this season.
Though Bobby stored his diagosis quiet for awhile, he just lately did a 20 minute interview with MLB.com to “get the information out.”
Throughout a 20-minute interview with MLB.com Saturday morning from his hospital mattress in Portugal — the household moved there to be nearer to his spouse’s household — Jenks detailed these brutally powerful final 5 months. He was surprised to listen to the phrase “most cancers,” however in an sincere flip true to his nature as a participant, was not fully shocked regardless of his at all times sturdy 275-pound stature.
“You realize, the shit I used to be doing in my 20s and early 30s, no regular particular person would have survived,” stated Jenks, mincing no phrases as is his customized. “So, in a technique, I’m grateful to be alive. In one other method, I’m not shocked this occurred. It goes to point out you must maintain your self from prime to backside with diet and train and having an excellent each day plan.”
Now, he’s specializing in being as wholesome as he could be to outlive.
Jenks, now a married father of six, has his two youthful kids (11 and 5) residing with him and his spouse in Sintra, Portugal. He spoke Saturday of beforehand altering his life for the higher, slicing out alcohol and medicines, and consuming more healthy. He just lately accomplished his first season as supervisor for the Windy Metropolis Thunderbolts, an impartial skilled baseball squad situated in Crestwood, Illinois, a southern suburb situated 27 miles outdoors of Chicago.
After getting over the shock from the prognosis, Jenks rapidly modified his focus towards wellness.
“Now it’s time to do what I bought to do to get myself higher and get myself extra time, nonetheless you need to take a look at it,” Jenks stated. “I’ll let you know one factor: I’m not going to die right here in Portugal.
He additionally revealed within the interview that he misplaced every thing within the current fires in California.
Compounding issues is the current lack of every thing within the Palisades hearth, together with all of Jenks’ private baseball memorabilia. The lone merchandise remaining is his World Sequence ring, which he had with him whereas managing Windy Metropolis.
“I’ve bought one suitcase left to my title,” Jenks stated. “It’s all gone. All the pieces else I’ve ever accomplished. I’ve every thing, first to first. All these issues are irreplaceable.”
Jenks did inform MLB.com that he has set a aim to come back again and handle the Windy Metropolis Thunderbolts in 2025.
We want him nothing however the very best on his journey and sit up for seeing him handle as soon as once more.
The whole interview could be discovered HERE on mlb.com
