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 battle. We hope that his purpose of being again within the dugout is ready to be fulfilled this season.
Though Bobby stored his diagosis quiet for awhile, he not too long ago 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 robust final 5 months. He was shocked to listen to the phrase “most cancers,” however in an trustworthy flip true to his nature as a participant, was not fully shocked regardless of his at all times sturdy 275-pound stature.
“, the shit I used to be doing in my 20s and early 30s, no regular individual would have survived,” mentioned Jenks, mincing no phrases as is his customized. “So, in a method, I’m grateful to be alive. In one other approach, I’m not shocked this occurred. It goes to point out it’s a must to maintain your self from prime to backside with vitamin and train and having a great every 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 youngsters (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 not too long ago accomplished his first season as supervisor for the Windy Metropolis Thunderbolts, an unbiased skilled baseball squad positioned in Crestwood, Illinois, a southern suburb positioned 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 received to do to get myself higher and get myself extra time, nonetheless you wish to take a look at it,” Jenks mentioned. “I’ll inform you one factor: I’m not going to die right here in Portugal.
He additionally revealed within the interview that he misplaced every part within the current fires in California.
Compounding issues is the current lack of every part within the Palisades fireplace, 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 received one suitcase left to my identify,” Jenks mentioned. “It’s all gone. Every little thing else I’ve ever executed. I’ve every part, first to first. All these issues are irreplaceable.”
Jenks did inform MLB.com that he has set a purpose to return again and handle the Windy Metropolis Thunderbolts in 2025.
We want him nothing however the perfect on his journey and look ahead to seeing him handle as soon as once more.
The whole interview could be discovered HERE on mlb.com
