‘”It’s a team that fills from within, they don’t go sign high-priced big-name free agents,” Fitzpatrick says. “They sign middle-range players and hope they become better. I kind of lucked out with the timing of everything, they were short men and I got a chance to play and fortunately played well. “Hopefully, the team doesn’t skip a beat when you’re in there. That’s the job, stay ready, be ready and prepared if the time comes. And it came for me.”‘