{"id":8850,"date":"2011-09-14T13:05:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball---working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff.html"},"modified":"2011-09-14T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T17:05:31","slug":"hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"HR in Baseball – Working Through When You Don’t Have Your Best “Stuff”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very few pitchers go undefeated during a baseball season; many pitchers go through slumps where they don’t have their best pitch working, where they can’t throw strikes, or can’t get hitters out. The very best pitchers pitch through these woes and do the best they can given their physical, mental, and emotional abilities at that time.<\/p>\n

Similarly, in the workplace, one can’t be on 100% of the time; there will come days where you’ll need to work a longer day or a shorter day to meet your limitations head on. You may have to make decisions after a sleepless night, during a physical ailment, or after having an emotional roller coaster of a day. The important things to remember are to shut down when you need to, work through the difficult times, and rely on your support network to give you the kind of attention you need to work through the tough times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very few pitchers go undefeated during a baseball season; many pitchers go through slumps where they don’t have their best pitch working, where they can’t throw strikes, or can’t get hitters out. The very best pitchers pitch through these woes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,17,28,30,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employee-relations","category-feedback","category-hr-in-baseball","category-management","category-motivation","category-time-management"],"yoast_head":"\r\nHR in Baseball - Working Through When You Don't Have Your Best "Stuff" - Robert Braathe's HR & Albany Jobs Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HR in Baseball - Working Through When You Don't Have Your Best "Stuff" - Robert Braathe's HR & Albany Jobs Blog\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Very few pitchers go undefeated during a baseball season; many pitchers go through slumps where they don't have their best pitch working, where they can't throw strikes, or can't get hitters out. The very best pitchers pitch through these woes...\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Robert Braathe's HR & Albany Jobs Blog\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-09-14T17:05:31+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Robert Braathe\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Braathe\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/\",\"name\":\"HR in Baseball - Working Through When You Don't Have Your Best \\\"Stuff\\\" - Robert Braathe's HR & Albany Jobs Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-09-14T17:05:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/#\/schema\/person\/b8536db7857744bb23a8611995490b45\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"HR in Baseball – Working Through When You Don’t Have Your Best “Stuff”\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/\",\"name\":\"Robert Braathe's HR & Albany Jobs Blog\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/#\/schema\/person\/b8536db7857744bb23a8611995490b45\",\"name\":\"Robert Braathe\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca89b35dde089a08aaee7eb4417df1edb80a77859aff96499f292564e022279f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca89b35dde089a08aaee7eb4417df1edb80a77859aff96499f292564e022279f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Robert Braathe\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/author\/rbraathe\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"HR in Baseball - Working Through When You Don't Have Your Best \"Stuff\" - Robert Braathe's HR & Albany Jobs Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"HR in Baseball - Working Through When You Don't Have Your Best \"Stuff\" - Robert Braathe's HR & Albany Jobs Blog","og_description":"Very few pitchers go undefeated during a baseball season; many pitchers go through slumps where they don't have their best pitch working, where they can't throw strikes, or can't get hitters out. The very best pitchers pitch through these woes...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/","og_site_name":"Robert Braathe's HR & Albany Jobs Blog","article_published_time":"2011-09-14T17:05:31+00:00","author":"Robert Braathe","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Robert Braathe","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/","url":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/","name":"HR in Baseball - Working Through When You Don't Have Your Best \"Stuff\" - Robert Braathe's HR & Albany Jobs Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-09-14T17:05:31+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/#\/schema\/person\/b8536db7857744bb23a8611995490b45"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/09\/hr-in-baseball-working-through-when-you-dont-have-your-best-stuff\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"HR in Baseball – Working Through When You Don’t Have Your Best “Stuff”"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/","name":"Robert Braathe's HR & Albany Jobs Blog","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/#\/schema\/person\/b8536db7857744bb23a8611995490b45","name":"Robert Braathe","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca89b35dde089a08aaee7eb4417df1edb80a77859aff96499f292564e022279f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca89b35dde089a08aaee7eb4417df1edb80a77859aff96499f292564e022279f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Robert Braathe"},"url":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/author\/rbraathe\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}