The truth is, Aumont has always meant well. At 6-7, 260 pounds with dense, black whiskers coating the lower half of his face, he might look like an extra from a Jean-Claude Van Damme flick, but he is soft-spoken and congenial and genuine, and you really get the sense that all he wants to do is live up to his employer's expectations, to make everybody who has ever believed in him proud. Over and over, he stresses how grateful he is for the fresh start he feels as if he has been given. He understands he did not please many folks in the organization when he vented his frustration at having been sent down after 19 appearances in which his respectable 4.19 ERA was marred by the 13 walks he issued in 19 1/3 innings. But he also understands that he wasn't the only person who was frustrated in 2013, and that everybody else has moved on. If there is one person who has been most rejuvenated by the new coaching regime, it is probably Aumont.