Skylan Joyner reached down to pick up a baby goat.

“This is greatness,” he said as he petted it while in his arms.

The goat was the last of several animals Joyner got to interact with at the Jackie Robinson Training Complex in Vero Beach, Fla., on Aug. 4. His favorites included ducklings and a boxed turtle, while the biggest animal he said he carried that day was a pig.

“It wasn’t actually that bad. You just gotta be confident,” Joyner said. “They’re calm, so it’s not even as bad as you think it would be.”

Farm pet therapy was just one of the many ways Joyner -- along with all participants from each of the 24 baseball and softball teams representing the United States, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic -- were able to reset mentally ahead of the Nike RBI World Series.

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