In 18 years as the Mets' team psychiatrist, Dr. Allan Lans witnessed player insecurities, depressions and griefs 'all the time.' But this recent wave of major-leaguers becoming so stressed that they have been assigned to the disabled list has moved Lans to call social anxiety disorder "the swine flu of baseball; it's crazy."

In 18 years as the Mets' team psychiatrist, Dr. Allan Lans witnessed player insecurities, depressions and griefs 'all the time.' But this recent wave of major-leaguers becoming so stressed that they have been assigned to the disabled list has moved Lans to call social anxiety disorder "the swine flu of baseball; it's crazy."

In 18 years as the Mets' team psychiatrist, Dr. Allan Lans witnessed player insecurities, depressions and griefs 'all the time.' But this recent wave of major-leaguers becoming so stressed that they have been assigned to the disabled list has moved Lans to call social anxiety disorder "the swine flu of baseball; it's crazy."

In 18 years as the Mets' team psychiatrist, Dr. Allan Lans witnessed player insecurities, depressions and griefs 'all the time.' But this recent wave of major-leaguers becoming so stressed that they have been assigned to the disabled list has moved Lans to call social anxiety disorder "the swine flu of baseball; it's crazy."

In 18 years as the Mets' team psychiatrist, Dr. Allan Lans witnessed player insecurities, depressions and griefs 'all the time.' But this recent wave of major-leaguers becoming so stressed that they have been assigned to the disabled list has moved Lans to call social anxiety disorder "the swine flu of baseball; it's crazy."

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