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At about 11 p.m. on June 20, 2021, Nashville Sounds relief pitcher Jake Cousins had just finished a Triple-A game in Gwinnett County, Ga. against the Gwinnett Stripers. [Afterwards] Cousins ventured over to Sounds manager Rick Sweet’s office, where good news was in store. “[He] just said, ‘Hey man, you’re going to the big leagues,’” Cousins said. “I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ And he’s like ‘No man, I’m not kidding you.’ So it was him and Jim Henderson, and he just said, ‘Hey, you got a flight tomorrow morning. You’re going to Phoenix.’ And yeah, I mean, I was speechless.”

After graduating from Penn, Cousins was selected by the Washington Nationals in the 20th round of the 2017 MLB Draft. His time with the Nationals was fairly short-lived due to a series of arm injuries that caused him to not play as much as he needed to. Cousins was released during spring training in 2019, and at that point, he thought that that might have been the end of his professional baseball career.

“I was pretty close to hanging it up,” Cousins said, “but my family, my wife, just kept telling me, ‘Hey let’s try and play this last year out and at least end on a good note, not hurt.’” Included in that familial chorus of encouragement was someone who’s had professional sports success of his own, his cousin Kirk Cousins, who is a starting NFL quarterback.

“In 20 years, when you look back at your life,” Kirk Cousins said to his cousin at the time, “are you gonna wish that you quit baseball earlier?”

So, with the support of his family, Cousins gave it another go, playing for the Schaumburg Boomers in the Frontier League and then for Arizona and Wisconsin in the lower levels of the minor leagues. From there, Cousins got a spring training invite from the Brewers and quickly catapulted the ranks of the Brewers’ minor league system.

“This year was crazy,” Cousins said. “We were in each spot for about three weeks, and it was a lot of fun. Someone comes and taps on your shoulder and tells you to go to the manager’s office, and then you get on a plane the next day. - thedp.com

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