“It’s just Tommy’s personality — I think if you asked him to go make paper airplanes, he’s going to do it with incredible intensity,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. “It’s just the person that he is. He walks in here every day and has that edge to him. Because that’s who he is, and that’s who he needs to be. And it helps makes him as good as he has been. Just a terrific season. And it’s hard to hold that intensity. And you cannot take that intensity and implant it on someone else — most guys can’t handle that, it takes too much, when it’s not you naturally. But that’s who Tommy naturally is, and it’s fun to just let him go. You watch him on the bases, you watch him defensively, he’s into every pitch, he lets nothing go. He’s always going to bring it.”