All Spencer Patton wants is a ball and directions to the nearest mound.
Don’t worry about the bullpen car, you can keep it in park. The bearded reliever, who Yokohama BayStars fans affectionately call “Shogun,” was never much for NPB’s in-game Uber service. His preferred mode of transportation from the bullpen to the mound has always been his own two feet.
“I like to use that run in as kind of a way to get the blood going, get my blood pumping a little bit and it just kind of helps me on that jog in,” Patton told The Japan Times.