JW: “I think it’s definitely cool. I think whenever I can kind of see myself as a kid, like getting into something that I’ll be a part of now, I feel like it always seems extra cool, because I feel like that’s a big part of what makes you fall in love with baseball. Being able to be a part of the next generation and how they grow up and fall in love with the game is, I think, definitely something special to be a part of.”
JW: I feel like for me [with] cover athletes, I always think [NBA] 2K and all that. I always remember my favorite 2K games: 2K14 I always associate with LeBron [James], and Paul George, 2K17. So I feel like, from my perspective, I don’t really know how it is with cards, but I feel like that’s kind of what you associate with whatever you’re about to get into, which I think is pretty cool, especially with how popular … trading cards have gotten recently.
MLB.com: What do you think the reaction is going to be like among your teammates — like Brady [House], Drew [Millas], everyone who’s so into card collecting — now that you’re this guy?
JW: I remember Chris Johnson, our [assistant] hitting coach, and his son are big into it, too. So he was always asking me,