“Since the Cubs won the World Series [in 2016], they put a lot of money into nutrition at every level,” Myers says. “Each level has a nutritionist.… You have your protein smoothies, your weight-gaining smoothies, your hydration smoothies. You pretty much have everything you possibly need.” Myers is also a proponent of breathing exercises that he learned from the mental-skills staff. Whenever he’s under stress on or off the field, he breathes in for five seconds, holds it, and then breathes out for five seconds, which, he says, helps him “get myself locked into any situation.” He studies his
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