VIDEO: Hunter Pence Has Perfect Response to Missing All-Star Game After Improbable Selection

Hunter Pence isn't going to let the injury preventing him from playing in this year's All-Star Game get him down. The 36-year-old Texas Rangers outfielder instead took a positive outlook on the situation, expressing how grateful he was to even have the option to be upset about not being able to play.

#Rangers DH Hunter Pence could be disappointed that his injury will keep him out of the All-Star Game, after he was named a starter last week.

Instead, listen to him spit some wisdom... pic.twitter.com/PsEiEFnHrx
— Mike Leslie (@MikeLeslieWFAA) July 4, 2019

"To me, it's a choice," said Pence. "How amazing is it...and who could have thought that I would even have the choice to be disappointed in going to an All-Star Game when last year in the offseason I didn't even have a job, so it's all perspective."

Pence's answer is the true mark of a humble ballplayer. After an abysmal 2018 campaign in which he posted a .580 OPS, it seemed as though his career was over. Now, he's got a .962 OPS and an All-Star berth to his credit in 2019.

Instead of letting the groin injury that's keeping him on the sidelines bog him down, he's taking the time to appreciate that he was even selected to his fourth All-Star Game.

Here's 49 seconds of Hunter Pence being Hunter Pence. https://t.co/alL6OfU1yR
— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) July 4, 2019

And frankly, there's no better way for him to look at it than that. Kudos to him for standing tall and expressing gratitude for how things have gone in the face of some otherwise bad luck.