“I never really went back and revisited those memories,” Ankiel said in 2017 of his control issues. “You push them away and keep moving forward. That was the easiest way to keep going forward (rather) than going back and opening back up that Pandora’s box and looking at some of it. … Even to me it feels like two separate lives and two separate people. Definitely when I switched over to being an outfielder, I felt like the best way to focus on being an outfielder was to only talk about being an outfielder.”