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 powerful final 5 months. He was shocked to listen to the phrase “most cancers,” however in an sincere flip true to his nature as a participant, was not utterly stunned regardless of his all the time sturdy 275-pound stature.
“You recognize, 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 technique, I’m grateful to be alive. In one other manner, I’m not stunned this occurred. It goes to indicate it’s important to deal with your self from prime to backside with vitamin and train and having a very good each day plan.”
Now, he’s specializing in being as wholesome as he might 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 exterior of Chicago.
After getting over the shock from the prognosis, Jenks shortly modified his focus towards wellness.
“Now it’s time to do what I obtained to do to get myself higher and get myself extra time, nonetheless you wish to have 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 all the pieces within the current fires in California.
Compounding issues is the current lack of all the pieces 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 obtained one suitcase left to my identify,” Jenks mentioned. “It’s all gone. All the things else I’ve ever finished. I’ve all the pieces, 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 stay up for seeing him handle as soon as once more.
The entire interview might be discovered HERE on mlb.com
