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.”
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