After the end of the 2021 season, Luke Berryhill had surgery to repair a torn labrum. The minor-league catcher had played through the injury for most of the year—he’d finished the season in the Astros’ farm system at Double-A Corpus Christi—and now faced the unpleasant realities of any recovery process. Pain. Uncertainty. Boredom. Time alone in a hotel.
So he decided to write a song.
“I literally just wrote my life,” Berryhill says. “It just flowed out.”
