![]() “Not only does it affect your play but it affects your life. “There wasn’t a lot of access to mental skills or mental health professionals in baseball, and really in a lot of sports for that matter a few decades ago and it’s really taken a front seat to everything,” he said. “It’s a lot of work, it’s challenging, but I think with the right people in place we’re going to be able to be very successful in that aspect.”įrostad has also seen growth in how teams handle the mental health of their players over the years. “The collaboration between the different areas of the department, with strength and conditioning, and massage, and physical therapy, and nutrition, and mental health, just kind of bringing everything together, making sure that everybody is on the same page and just putting together a good formulated plan for every player that we need to on every single day of the season,” he said. Looking ahead to his new roles, Frostad expects cohesiveness to be key. I’m fortunate that they approached me and it was something that I couldn’t refuse.” “It’s just going to be overall a better situation for the family, but even in general, just to have the opportunity to build a department around what we want to have accomplished in Anaheim is kind of the dream right now. She was also able to attend Atlanta’s World Series home games at Truist Park but missed out on the Game 6 clincher in Houston. She’s definitely been the rock that kind of holds things together, no doubt,” said Frostad of Henson, who has been heavily involved in baseball in the Medicine Hat-area for years. “I don’t know if I would be here without her support. With Spring Training games shifting from Florida’s Grapefruit League to Arizona’s Cactus League, that commute is easier as well, inviting the potential of a road trip south. Based in the town of Redcliff with wife Candice Henson, an intensive care unit nurse and clinical nursing teacher at Medicine Hat College, Frostad is now able to chop at least an hour off of his flight time and the change in time zone is also more friendly. “Ideally, for my wife and myself being on the West Coast is going to be a lot better for our family situation,” noted Frostad.Īfter two years of pandemic living, ease of travel is more of a reason than ever to make job changes. In addition to the chance to build and oversee the club’s entire sports medicine department, there were compelling personal reasons to head west, as well. “After the dust had kind of settled a little bit, our front office came to me and said that the Angels were interested in speaking with me about a position with them and, you know, I’ve always wanted to be a head athletic trainer in the major leagues and they came in and offered me more than that.” Listen to Alberta Dugout Stories interview Mike Frostad in November 2021 here. “It was kind of a shock to me,” recalled Frostad in Episode 158 of ADS: The Podcast. And with those positions of head athletic trainer and director of sports medicine, Frostad was also given access to two of the most celebrated players in baseball in the form of Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout. Leave Atlanta for Los Angeles, and his promotion would include not one, but two new job titles. ![]() ![]() The Atlanta Braves gave him everything he could have wanted.įor Mike Frostad, the team’s assistant athletic trainer, that included a chance to keep working in Major League Baseball (MLB) and the sport’s most coveted possession, a World Series ring.īut before the parade buses got rolling to celebrate the Braves championship, the Los Angeles Angels made a Godfather move that would do Don Vito Corleone proud: they made Frostad an offer he couldn’t refuse. ![]()
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