"But I dug myself into such a deep hole without trying to ask for help through the mental struggles of baseball and overcoming failure," Imhof, 23, said last month near his home in Fremont, Calif. "I had never dealt with failure on that wide of a scale before. It broke me to an extent. That's the thing I think about most. If I wouldn't have let it get so bad, maybe I wouldn't have been in that situation entirely. I wouldn't have been in Clearwater."