BEST VERSION OF HIMSELF

Daniel Moskos tends to settle in the role that stokes his passion

- KYLE BANDUJO

As a standout lefthander at Clemson, Daniel Moskos found success initially in the bullpen before he moved into the weekend rotation midway through his junior season.

Moskos continued with stellar results as a starter, but he knew that for him, nothing beat coming into a tight game out of the pen in a crucial situation.

"That's how I knew what my role was," Moskos said. "It's more of what my personality was and what I thrived on-heart definitely pounding out of the chest-but I thrived on that... The bigger the moment, the better I usually was."

The opposite tended to be true, too. Moskos often struggled in games without much on the line.

“If it was like a mop-up situation or something and I was just trying to get work in—I wasn’t very good,” said Moskos.

“It kind of took that extra little sauce for me to be the best version of myself.”