Former MLB nearer and World Sequence champion Bobby Jenks introduced on Saturday that he’s battling abdomen most cancers.
Jenks, 43, shared his present situation from a Portugal hospital mattress throughout an interview with MLB.com Saturday morning.
“You know, the s— I was doing in my 20s and early 30s, no normal person would have survived,” Jenks advised MLB.com. “So, in one way, I’m grateful to be alive. In another way, I’m not surprised this happened. It goes to show you have to take care of yourself from top to bottom with nutrition and exercise and having a good daily plan.”
Jenks added, “I’m not saying you need to turn yourself into a Greek god, but you need to watch what you put into your body. Unfortunately, in my 20s, it was the last thing on my mind, being worried about what was going in. I’m not saying that’s 100 percent the factor of what happened here.”
The 43-year-old spent the vast majority of his seven-year MLB profession with the White Sox, the place he was a member of the 2005 World Sequence championship workforce.
The 2-time All Star completed his profession with 173 saves, the second most in White Sox historical past. He additionally retired 41 consecutive batters in 2007, tying a file for a reliever.
Jenks has taking over teaching since retiring from the MLB in 2011, and is presently the supervisor of the Windy Metropolis ThunderBolts of the Frontier League.
Jenks stated he hopes to get better properly sufficient to return for his second season of managing the ThunderBolts.
“Now it’s time to do what I got to do to get myself better and get myself more time, however you want to look at it,” Jenks advised MLB.com. “I’ll tell you one thing: I’m not going to die here in Portugal.”
Jenks and his household lately moved to Portugal to be nearer to his spouse’s household.
To additional add to his misery, the Mission Hills, CA native stated that he misplaced almost all the things within the Palisades Hearth, with only one suitcase to his particular person.
