"During spring training, he hit a lot of hard line drives that ended up getting caught, and in a really short look, one starts to get discouraged. We never got discouraged," manager Gabe Kapler said. "If you really have that patience, that's why we don't look at baseball in a three-, four-, five-game stretch. You look at it over a long period of time to get a good feel for what's actually happening, and some really good things were happening for Mikey. This is not coming as a surprise to anyone in the Phillies clubhouse. We saw this coming."