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Manager Blake Butera, All-Star James Wood and Pitcher Cade Cavalli join FT @Nationals camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Nationals manager Blake Buttera is with us here at spring
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  Speaker 1: training at NAT's camp. So, Blake, how is camp your
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  Speaker 1: first experience here running this team going for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a blast. Guys are awesome. West Palm
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  Speaker 2: Beach is awesome. We're just talking about food and restaurants
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  Speaker 2: around and yeah, nothing to complain about.
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  Speaker 3: The players have been outstanding.
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  Speaker 2: They've they've all shown up early and have been ready
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  Speaker 2: to work, and staff's been awesome, and.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, everything's good. What's your first meeting?
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  Speaker 3: Go first union?
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  Speaker 4: Are you a writer down on the paper or are
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  Speaker 4: you just winging off your Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I jot down like a few notes, but I'm better.
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  Speaker 2: It's just kind of talking. I feel like when I read,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it doesn't feel real. So I just kind
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  Speaker 2: of kind of get it started off the paper and
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  Speaker 2: then go from the heart.
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  Speaker 4: Get anyone's name.
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  Speaker 5: You have to introduce to everybody, and there's like four
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  Speaker 5: hundred staff. I had them all introduce themselves.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been there seeing Cashy do it every year.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not making that he forgets like the fourth team
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  Speaker 5: doctor that he's never seen. He's like and that's uh
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  Speaker 5: out there. Yeah, usually it's me that he forgets. He's like,
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  Speaker 5: who's that guy?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Do you think you're a player? What?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 4: What's your What was your message to the guys?
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  Speaker 2: I mean the big part of it is like I
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  Speaker 2: want this to be a player led clubhouse. I just
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  Speaker 2: feel like when players hold each other accountable, it means
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  Speaker 2: a lot more than when the coaches have to do it.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, like, this is their career,
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  Speaker 2: So making sure they understand like our job as a
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  Speaker 2: coaching staff is just to be here and provide whatever
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  Speaker 2: they need necessary. We'll we'll kind of basically like keep
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  Speaker 2: the train on the tracks, but it's up to them
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  Speaker 2: to control their career and anything they need. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be in their corners and support the heck out of them.
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  Speaker 7: Are you willing to be able to be the guy
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  Speaker 7: that lays the discipline down or do you feel like
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  Speaker 7: a Randy Nor one of your other coaches is going
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  Speaker 7: to be that guy?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: I think yeah, if it comes to it, I will
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  Speaker 2: be if if that's what it takes. Hopefully we get
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  Speaker 2: to a point where these guys have to hold themselves accountable.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm sure there will be things that come up
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  Speaker 2: throughout the year. Where I'm gonna have to step in
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  Speaker 2: and say something, and yeah, certainly ready and willing to
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 4: Who's more nervous the first day? Was it you or Paul.
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  Speaker 5: When you had to get when you both got up
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  Speaker 5: in front of the team for the first time, because
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  Speaker 5: this is his first time running an organization, Yeah, this
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  Speaker 5: is your first time being the guy who was Who
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  Speaker 5: do you think was more nervous?
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  Speaker 2: It's a good question, I think, Yeah, yeah, if you
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  Speaker 2: was Rock I've been there for like a month and
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  Speaker 2: a half.
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  Speaker 3: I was ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Blake, I have a question in terms of how
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  Speaker 1: you put your stamp on everything that you're going to
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  Speaker 1: do now you, Paul and the rest of the new
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  Speaker 1: staff there. How much background did you do on what
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  Speaker 1: was happening before you guys got there, say, over the
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  Speaker 1: last year or two or three, And then how do
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  Speaker 1: you take that and say, okay, cool, scratch a few
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  Speaker 1: of these things. Let's evolve a few of these things,
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  Speaker 1: like did you do almost like conversations on the phone
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  Speaker 1: with players and say, hey, let me get everything that
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  Speaker 1: you guys did and then let me see what I
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  Speaker 1: was doing at other spots and what we can bring
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  Speaker 1: over there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was definitely collaborative. So I reached out to
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  Speaker 2: the guys that have been here the longest and just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to hear about like, hey, you know, what are
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  Speaker 2: what are some things that we can improve upon anything.
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  Speaker 2: It could be the food, it could have been, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the workouts, the timing of what time things happened, and
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  Speaker 2: just kind of got some feedback on what we could
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  Speaker 2: make improvements on. And obviously we couldn't do everything, but
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  Speaker 2: I told them that, like, whatever was the most important
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  Speaker 2: and whatever is the most consistent that we're hearing from
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  Speaker 2: the guys, like, those are the things that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to fix. And then secondly, bring in our coaching staff
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  Speaker 2: from all different organizations, just kind of bending their ears
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  Speaker 2: on things that they did with other organizations that they liked,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't like, and just kind of mesh all that together,
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  Speaker 2: and which requires a lot of meetings with the staff,
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  Speaker 2: of course, but just trying to find a blend of things.
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  Speaker 4: That we like that can make adjustments to.
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  Speaker 6: What's one of the things that you made adjustments to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think early on was just Spring training as
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  Speaker 2: a whole, and a lot of organizations as I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Eric, you've been in a lot of spring
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  Speaker 2: trainings and AJAU as well, Like they're all different, But
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing is like we asked these
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  Speaker 2: guys get to the field so early, and also just
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  Speaker 2: being cognizant of the fact that, like a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these players have families, wives, kids, and during the season
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  Speaker 2: they're going to spend a lot of time away from
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  Speaker 2: them with the travel. So during spring training it's like,
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  Speaker 2: what are we trying to accomplish? And when we asked
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  Speaker 2: you to be at the field, Let's make sure we're
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  Speaker 2: efficient with our time and we're getting to work in
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  Speaker 2: we need to get in versus just like being here
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  Speaker 2: at six am and not leave until three o'clock and
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  Speaker 2: it's like you go home and you're like, what did
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  Speaker 2: I even do? I took like twelve swings and took
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  Speaker 2: a few ground balls that I was there for seven
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  Speaker 2: eight hours. So making sure that like the time we
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  Speaker 2: do ask them to be here, that they're getting a
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  Speaker 2: lot out of that.
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  Speaker 6: What is your managing style?
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  Speaker 7: If somebody would say, Okay, I see this in him
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  Speaker 7: every single day, what would you say your managing style
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  Speaker 7: is and will be in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: I think being the same person every day. Like the
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  Speaker 2: consistency is probably the biggest thing, you know. It's funny
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  Speaker 2: I tell you, like my wife and others, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times they're like, do you ever get you know, mad?
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  Speaker 2: Or do you ever get super happy? And sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: wish i'd do, but I think just part of my
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  Speaker 2: my nature is just being like very consistent and like
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  Speaker 2: just yell at.
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  Speaker 4: The guys if they make it, If they make you angry,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna break.
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  Speaker 2: I've better at a handful of times before, whether granted
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  Speaker 2: it was the minor leagues, but yeah I can. I
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  Speaker 2: can get there a lot. Yeah, yeah, you feel better
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  Speaker 2: afterwards sometimes, Yeah, it hasn't happened that frequently to know
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  Speaker 2: if I feel sometimes when you.
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  Speaker 5: Go home, do you feel bad about it and you
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  Speaker 5: tell your usually your family, like gosh, I snapped today.
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  Speaker 5: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I think, just yeah, being the same person, Like this
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  Speaker 2: is a really hard game. I was released as a
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  Speaker 2: player and I get it, Like this is it's really
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  Speaker 2: really hard what we're asking these guys to do every day.
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  Speaker 2: So just understanding, like if these guys are giving their
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  Speaker 2: best and they're running balls out and then we can
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  Speaker 2: tell they're giving a good effort. Like just bearing with
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  Speaker 2: them and making sure they know we're in their corner
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna help them along the way.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Blake, can you throw out a name or two
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  Speaker 1: that you think are showing signs of significant improvement so far?
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you know we're not going to talk a
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  Speaker 1: ton about results. It's early spring training, and even spring
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  Speaker 1: training stats in general. You got to take with a
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  Speaker 1: grain of salt, but maybe a player or two that
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  Speaker 1: you identified when you were studying this team and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I think we can unlock a thing or two here
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  Speaker 1: with some fresh voices.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think the first couple that come to mind is
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  Speaker 2: like Kie Cavali. He's been unbelievable so far, just the
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  Speaker 2: work he's put in this offseason, the mindset he has.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you have got a chance to
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  Speaker 2: talk to him yet, but he's he's so competitive and
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  Speaker 2: just as a monster from the mound, oozes confidence and
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  Speaker 2: just wants to win, wants to be great.
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  Speaker 3: He's been.
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  Speaker 2: He's been outstanding so far. And then CJ Abrams is one.
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  Speaker 2: I know everyone loves to talk about CJ. He's an
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  Speaker 2: incredible player, but you know, just the first couple of
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  Speaker 2: times we've talked with CJ. Is like he wants to
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  Speaker 2: get better defensively at shortstop. He wants to be one
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  Speaker 2: of the top ten shortstops in baseball overall, not just
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  Speaker 2: offensive shortstop, but he wants to be that total package,
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  Speaker 2: Like he wants to be a good defender, he wants
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  Speaker 2: to steal bases, he wants to hit for a.
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  Speaker 3: High average and home runs.
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  Speaker 2: And I think just kind of tapping into those those
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  Speaker 2: other parts of his games, whether it be base running, defense,
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  Speaker 2: I think we're gonna have a really good year out
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  Speaker 2: of CJ.
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  Speaker 5: Who what do you need to be successful this year
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  Speaker 5: as your first year manager? And maybe it's not a
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  Speaker 5: maybe it's a team thing. Maybe it's something for you,
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  Speaker 5: but what do you need to see? Because people are
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  Speaker 5: looking at this team saying, Okay, they're in a tough NL.
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  Speaker 5: Least it's tough National League overall, what do you want
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  Speaker 5: to see your first year as a manager.
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  Speaker 4: You can walk away from this year and say it
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  Speaker 4: was a successful year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think I want to see these players.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they've all said it right, like they they're
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  Speaker 2: not finished products like that. There's a constant theme and
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  Speaker 2: message from these guys of like Hey, like we want
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  Speaker 2: to get better, like individually, Like we're twenty three, twenty
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  Speaker 2: four to twenty five years old. We're in the big leagues, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but like there's still a long ways that we can
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  Speaker 2: go and we want to reach our ceiling. So it's
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of building out those those daily routines, those
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  Speaker 2: daily habits of whether it be offensively defensively on the
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  Speaker 2: basis and just continue to push these guys individually as
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  Speaker 2: players to come better.
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  Speaker 3: I think when you, you know, when.
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  Speaker 2: You show up at the park early and you see
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  Speaker 2: you know, CJ working on his defense before the fans
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  Speaker 2: are in the stands, when you see James out there
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  Speaker 2: running balls down in the outfield, and just the early
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  Speaker 2: work and the attention of detail, like those are the
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  Speaker 2: things to me that that stand out the most.
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  Speaker 5: And I want to see us do a really good
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  Speaker 5: job of best Boston college baseball player.
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  Speaker 2: Currently or ever ever. Oh man, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good ones. Michael King probably right now over overll sal
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  Speaker 2: and King at the close one I played with Michael King,
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  Speaker 2: so you're going in that was right after me.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. We just have Sala with Team Italy, so love
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  Speaker 3: so okay.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, that's my last point here, real quick, Blake, how
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  Speaker 1: locked in are you going to be to the WBC?
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  Speaker 8: And I mean we had Vinny P.
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  Speaker 1: Pascortino on the other day and he talked about how
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  Speaker 1: important you were to that team.
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  Speaker 8: So I think they're gonna miss you.
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  Speaker 2: Man, No, I love those guys. They're they're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: great there. They'll be just fine. There were some some
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  Speaker 2: really good dudes on that team. And just an All
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  Speaker 2: Baseball Classic in general, Like, it's such a cool, cool tournament,
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  Speaker 2: cool event. This morning we got to the gym, turned
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  Speaker 2: on the Korea and check game and just all the
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  Speaker 2: guys are locked in. It's just a lot of fun
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  Speaker 2: seeing these guys compete their countries. And I think whenever
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  Speaker 2: you can get international baseball in the grand stage, like
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's just a blast.
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  Speaker 5: Every time I see Piazza, Mike Piazza, who obviously he
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  Speaker 5: defends you. He defends this guy like you're part of
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  Speaker 5: his family. I don't know when you got higher. We
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  Speaker 5: were like, man, he's young to be a manager. In Piazza,
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  Speaker 5: lay off my guy, But terror he's my guy. He's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be great. I saw him a couple of months ago. Hey,
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  Speaker 5: how you interviewed you Terry Yet he's awesome And I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: what do you guys have with each other?
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  Speaker 4: And I forgot that you guys run? Yeah yeah, he
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  Speaker 4: was like, that's my guy. I leave him alone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yea.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been awesome.
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  Speaker 2: He reaches out, always checking on things and giving advice,
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  Speaker 2: and I know he's uh, he loves the team speeches.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he lives for.
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  Speaker 2: So he's like, Hey, if I ever need to jump
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  Speaker 2: in there and fire the boys up, let me know.
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  Speaker 8: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Blake, thank you for the time. Good to see
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of spring.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Scott, Thanks Eric, thanks to a j appreciate you guys.
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  Speaker 1: We've got James Wood from the Nationals joining us right
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  Speaker 1: now over at Camp.
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  Speaker 8: James, how's everything going?
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  Speaker 1: And I want to know how camp is with kind
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  Speaker 1: of a new regime taking over here, including front office
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  Speaker 1: and your manager, Blake Puterra.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean Camp's been good so far. I mean
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  Speaker 9: I think everyone's just been super excited. I mean it's
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  Speaker 9: it's a lot of new faces, so just getting to
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  Speaker 9: know everybody and come to with these guys, and I
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  Speaker 9: mean it's a lot of new ideas so.
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  Speaker 4: Way, what have they brought for you?
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  Speaker 9: I mean there's nothing, but nothing crazy. I mean, just
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  Speaker 9: just a lot of defensive stuff. I mean we're trying
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  Speaker 9: to hammer that. I mean I feel like that's that's
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  Speaker 9: one area that me, myself and and and a lot
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  Speaker 9: of these guys feel like we can make.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of strides.
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  Speaker 5: So what about offensively, I'm on there and hit forty
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  Speaker 5: driving a hundred, I.
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  Speaker 9: Mean yeah, that'd be nice. But I mean yeah, just
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  Speaker 9: just controlling the zone. I mean just they're just super
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  Speaker 9: big on that. I mean, I feel like once you
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  Speaker 9: do that, I feel like the results kind of come
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  Speaker 9: with that.
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  Speaker 5: Before we dig really deep in the Nationals. I want
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  Speaker 5: to know, you're from Maryland, grew up in Maryland, but
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  Speaker 5: then you moved.
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  Speaker 4: To IMG Academy. Why why? Why did you?
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  Speaker 8: Why do you?
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  Speaker 4: How does the guy from Maryland end up at Bradenton
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  Speaker 4: andt IMG.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I just felt like going there, like, well,
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  Speaker 9: in Maryland, I played basketball and baseball, so I always
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  Speaker 9: kind of knew like baseball is kind of gonna be
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  Speaker 9: my main focus. But I think once I went there,
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  Speaker 9: like that was kind of I was making a decision
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  Speaker 9: to really just lock in on baseball, and I just
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  Speaker 9: feel like that was the best place.
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  Speaker 6: To do it. Do you miss basketball?
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  Speaker 9: Uh, not a whole lot. I mean I like, I like,
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  Speaker 9: I miss like playing pick up like one, three on
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  Speaker 9: three and all that, But I feel I feel good
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  Speaker 9: where I'm at now, so I don't miss it a
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  Speaker 9: whole lot.
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  Speaker 5: I heard there's a wicked pickup game here among the coaches.
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  Speaker 5: Now you can't play it, but I heard the coaches
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  Speaker 5: in the front office of them.
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  Speaker 9: Really, I gotta ask you about that.
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  Speaker 5: You might find out, you might post, you can post play.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, find out about that.
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  Speaker 8: James question for you.
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  Speaker 1: So going back to what I was asking at the top,
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  Speaker 1: when you get a new group in, right, I know
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  Speaker 1: they try to do some homework and speak to some
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  Speaker 1: players that have been there for a minute and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what did you love and we won't change it? What
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  Speaker 1: did you not love and we'll try and change it.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get asked that, and if so, what was
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  Speaker 1: your answer?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, I didn't. I didn't really have a
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  Speaker 9: whole lot to say. I mean, I just think the
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  Speaker 9: main thing for me was just like just try and
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  Speaker 9: build a good relationship with these guys. And I feel
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  Speaker 9: like the rest will kind of take care of itself.
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  Speaker 9: I feel like once everyone's sort of comfortable around each other,
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  Speaker 9: then then I feel like we can we could, we
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  Speaker 9: could start to iron some things out. But I mean,
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  Speaker 9: this group's been super open. It's been a lot of
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  Speaker 9: good conversations, so I feel like it's we've done some
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  Speaker 9: good things so far.
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  Speaker 4: How long does it take you to learn the staff
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  Speaker 4: and what they're looking for out of you? How long
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  Speaker 4: does that take as a player?
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  Speaker 9: Honestly, not too long. I feel like a couple of
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  Speaker 9: conversations here and there and you can kind of get
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  Speaker 9: a good idea. And obviously beginning of spring there's a
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  Speaker 9: good amount of meetings, so you kind of get a
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  Speaker 9: good gist of how they want to go about things
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  Speaker 9: during that too.
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  Speaker 7: So what are what are some goals for you? Can
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  Speaker 7: you tell us what the goals for this season are
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  Speaker 7: offensively or even defensively because you kind of hit on
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  Speaker 7: it a little bit with the defense.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I just think I want to I
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  Speaker 9: want to stay healthy the whole year played. I want
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  Speaker 9: to play every game if that's possible. And I mean
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  Speaker 9: I feel like this all season I've been working with
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  Speaker 9: the training staff and I feel like, I put some
• 14:27
  Speaker 9: good work in. I feel like my buddy's in a
• 14:29
  Speaker 9: good spot to do so so well, they let you play.
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: One sixty two because we don't we don't believe in
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: load manager. This ain't the NBA now, no, no, if
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: you can play two games in a row.
• 14:37
  Speaker 9: Actually, I told him if I'm healthy and I can play,
• 14:42
  Speaker 9: I want to be in the lineup.
• 14:43
  Speaker 7: So how did you feel at the end of the
• 14:45
  Speaker 7: year last year, Because sometimes you know, this is your
• 14:48
  Speaker 7: first actual full season in the big leagues this past year,
• 14:52
  Speaker 7: how did you feel at the end of the year.
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: Were you like, oh, yeah, I was good, I'm fine,
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: or was it like coming down to stretch, we got
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: a little tired.
• 15:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah. I mean there's definitely some some games or some
• 15:04
  Speaker 9: weeks where you don't feel great, but you know, I
• 15:07
  Speaker 9: feel like everyone's kind of kind of fighting that battle
• 15:09
  Speaker 9: in the league too, So I mean I felt pretty good, honestly.
• 15:13
  Speaker 9: Like there's some spots where I was I was like,
• 15:16
  Speaker 9: who like it kind of hit me a little bit,
• 15:18
  Speaker 9: but then I feel like you get a second win
• 15:20
  Speaker 9: and at other points during the year.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: So hey, James, how do you think the league was
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: attacking you last year? And you know, how did it change?
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Like what did you study? Do you do that over
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: the offseason? You know, even for a fan like me
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: looking at the basic right, this guy has a lot
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: of opposite field pop. Maybe they're going to be a
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: little more careful on the outside. What did you see?
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: Oh? Yeah, I mean I feel like it's sort of
• 15:44
  Speaker 9: individual to each pitcher. And I mean I think once
• 15:47
  Speaker 9: you start facing teams in certain arms more and more
• 15:50
  Speaker 9: you kind of can formulate plans against each guys. But
• 15:54
  Speaker 9: I feel like it's always kind of that cat and mouse.
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: But I feel like for me, the biggest part is
• 15:59
  Speaker 9: just kind of trolling the edges of the zone and
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: just just waiting for my mistake and just being ready
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: for that.
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: Do you feel like you're a baseball junkie? Do you
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: feel like you're somebody that's like, I'm just gonna give
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: take all the information when we get them to plane
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: after a day game, I'm gonna watch a game afterwards.
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: Or are you able to step back and do other things?
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: No.
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: I think that's that's one thing I kind of had
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: to learn throughout the minor leagues. I mean, it's it's
• 16:24
  Speaker 9: it's a hard game, so you don't want to try
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: and eat yourself up over it. Like I think it's
• 16:30
  Speaker 9: just good to take a step back. You know, obviously
• 16:33
  Speaker 9: still gotta go over what happened, what you did well,
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: you what you could have done better, and kind of
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: decompress that way, and then once once you're done with that,
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: sort of just move on and just be be a
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: person after that. I mean, I feel like that's a
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: big part of balancing the ups and downs of baseball.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Hey, James, I think you're the perfect person to ask
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: this too. So you're still a very young player in
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the sport, but you're one of the big guys on
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: this team. So now we all of a sudden have
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: this new wrinkle added to the mix, the ABS challenge system.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: It is partially created for moments like ninth inning. You're
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: up right and there's dudes on and you have a
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: chance with one swing to win the game. So my
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: question to you is, as a pretty humble rising star
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: into sport, do you recognize that those challenges are getting
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: saved for you, Like they're going to want you to
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: use that in those spots, right, And sometimes they might
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: want the nine hitter on the team to not challenge
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: something in the third inning because they want James Wood
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: to be able to challenge a three to two pitch
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: that or a two to two pitch whatever that he
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: disagreed with that gets them to three to two, that
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: gets them to that home run in the eighth.
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: Uh. I mean yeah, I mean I kind of got
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: I got the chance of experimenting within TRIAA, and it
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: wasn't very good at it. Then I think the thing
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: when I got right and I challenged on accident, I
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: mean before before I get to get to that point,
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna have to practice it a little bit and
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: try and try and improve my my average.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Feel bad when you do the like for the umpire.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: You know, the umpire doing his best.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: And everyone has to watch and then he fails missering.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, we all make mistakes.
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: So I mean sometimes I gotta swing out a curveball
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: in the dirt and look at myself on the big screen.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: So do you ever ever have you seen some of
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: the games that have happened, were five six challenges in
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: the first couple of each of these umpires.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's tough.
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: I always I always feel bad too, when it's like
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: when three of them are like missing.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: By about this much of an inch.
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Like I think some of some of the guys,
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: like there was one pitch and it was it was
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: during spring and like it was either like it was
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: one of those where it was like a tenth of
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: an inch and like the dude the I'm kind of
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: just laughed it off. So, I mean, I asked him,
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: I was like, don't they don't docu that much for
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: missing that todays? So I mean, I think there's some
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: calls where it's like it's tough for them, But I
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: mean other times, I feel like.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: How the guy knows that it's that it's a tenth
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: of an inch to play?
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think sometimes I'm just hoping.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Who would you say you spend the most time with,
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: whether it's off the field or texting in the off season.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: On the current roster.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean I feel like.
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: I feel like in the locker room, I feel like
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: we all kind of chop it up a good amount.
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: Like I feel like the position player group we got,
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: I feel like we kind of mets around with each
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: other a lot of it's a whole bunch of different personalities,
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: Like I know last year, a lot of for most
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: of the Year was Jacob Young Dylan Cruise, and I
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: see him in CJ. So, I mean we we'd chop
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: it up with those. Those are most of the guys
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: that are there for most of the years. So, I mean,
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: I feel like we've got a good drink you're living with.
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: Here's a roommate training, t J.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: White.
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: He's a minor league guy. I played with him in Haya,
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: So who would give Oh, I mean we just kicking
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: watch TV gaming. Yeah, yeah, I get on the six
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: a little bit.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: I feel like that.
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: That's kind of where I'm I'm locked in out during spring.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: I'm on the game a bunch.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: You're a Rocket League craft as a Rocket.
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: Leaguer really yeah, No, I'm not that that game. That's
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: a tough game. Yeah, Like if you're good at that game,
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: like you got my respect, that's a tough game.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Who do you?
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Who do you?
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Who would you say you give the hardest time to
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: of that crew that you just said, you said you
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: guys chop it up in the clubhouse like it's a
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: rain delay. Who would you say, you guys just start
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: needling the most.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Uh, I don't know. I feel like it rotates.
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: I mean, I feel like, I feel like Jy wears
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: it a lot, but I mean it CJ might get
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: might wear it a little bit. I mean it's it's
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: like a rotating table.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: What about for you?
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: I don't catch it too much.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: But he's bigger than everybody crowds and who's gonna say anything,
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: so just grab him by their ear and carry.
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: So that's when the that's when the little chihuahuah comes
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: around and they start barking at the big dog.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: That's what happens, Like they start who's that guy?
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: Who's that guy that's always just biting at your heels
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: like and you're like, man, get away.
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: I mean no, it's definitely Chiuha's huh So he's probably
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: the guy parking.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: At That's good. Well, uh James. We appreciate the time, man,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: awesome to talk to you.
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: Good luck. The rest is spring and we'll catch it
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: during the season.
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: Appreciate you guys.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Thank you. All right.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: We're sitting down now with Kid Kobali. We're live at
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Nationals camp. Kid, great to have you on here. Thank
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you for the time. And how's camp going for you?
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: How you feeling, how's everything looking? Your name has popped
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: up multiple times I'll tell you from others that we've
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: spoken to that things look like they're coming out really
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: well out.
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: Of the hand.
• 22:00
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I appreciate you all having me on cam spin
• 22:03
  Speaker 11: great and a lot of new faces. I'm gonna feels fresh, exciting,
• 22:08
  Speaker 11: and I love the talent that we got here. I
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: love culture that's being put in place, and I'm pumped
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: to get going.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: What are we doing? Let's talk? What do we got?
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Where do we go? And the bar Raleigh fingers?
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean you just said it and you do it.
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: This is inspired by Raleigh. So we're gonna we're gonna
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: rock with it. We'll see how it goes, hopefully performs.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Well, you have the flax, see you put it? Oh yeah?
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: How long does it take?
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: Not very long?
• 22:32
  Speaker 11: I mean I've been doing it, so I really just
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: started curling before camp. But once you start curling a
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: little bit more, it gets trained. So I'm waking up
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: and it's like it's ready to be curled.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: You train your mustache.
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a whole training process.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: It's a lot.
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: I'll submit, We're committed to it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: I'll commit it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: Because baseball players fans are listening. They want to know
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: what baseball players are thinking, like, is it one start?
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: Is it one great start and you're good for like
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: three more starts? Is it one eh start?
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: We'll see. I don't know.
• 23:12
  Speaker 11: We're gonna play it by year as the season goes on.
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: My wife doesn't really like it, but I told her
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: she has to live with it for a little bit.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: So that was gonna be my next Yeah, no, no,
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: and be gone one bad story. Yeah, it can be
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: gone one bad no way. No, it'll wake up and
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: his wife will have cut it when he sleeped it.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: He won't even know.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: It'll look good. It'll look good on an All Star poster.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: How about that?
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: I would like that. That'd be nice.
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: It's got no point where I'm talking to people and
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: I could just see their eyes moving down.
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: Looks like they're looking at my lips.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Don't eyes up here? Yeah I go, I've go yeah
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: about this region right here.
• 23:50
  Speaker 10: Yeah, keep your eyes up.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: It's hard not to look at it.
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I thought you do it kind of sols.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're like trying to look at your eyes. But
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: I'm just infatuated with the curl.
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, we'll see what happens.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, you going a hundred again, what's the truth?
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Right around at on the v We're right around there
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: because you hit a hundred last year, right, Yeah, what
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: they put in your arm when they redid it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: I was up to the hundred before surgery, so it's
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: been there. We just needed to take the bronx forse
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: you know.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: So what what's what's the spring? Looking? Any new pitches?
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: We should be talking about it. Yeah, I'm like a
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: cutter splitter ball.
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: Uh No, I wish, but we went with a sweeper
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: this year, so I was a reverse split guy last year.
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: Handle left these well, brit these not as well as
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: I did lefties, and we needed something to expand the
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: zone left with my curveballs in the north and south.
• 24:44
  Speaker 11: I got a change up a sinker, so everything's going
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: into him, and we needed something horizontally that can get
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: away from a barrel and uh over the off season.
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: Pretty early on in the off season, Simon and Doolittle
• 24:56
  Speaker 11: got on a zoom call with me and just stuck
• 24:58
  Speaker 11: the ball up the screen like this as a grip
• 25:00
  Speaker 11: you're gonna throw.
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: I want you to throw it exactly like your curveball.
• 25:05
  Speaker 11: And they told me it's gonna be pretty pretty bad
• 25:07
  Speaker 11: at the beginning, because it was a seam shift pitch
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: where if you're not with good intent, it's not gonna
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: do what you want.
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: So I started throwing it this offseason like, man, I
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: just need to throw a slider, Like this is bad.
• 25:20
  Speaker 11: And then as I got going, started ripping it harder
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: and harder, we saw the numbers start to creat more.
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: And you know, it's a depthy pitch.
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: I'm throwing it just like my curveball, but we're getting
• 25:31
  Speaker 11: it's kind of a flip flop on the numbers horizontally
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: to like if it's fifteen and six for my twelve six,
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: it'll be like eight to ten with fifteen going that way.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: So no, I did what your cog.
• 25:45
  Speaker 10: Sorry, yeah, I thought you would.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've put it before. We have all that, right.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: We just actually feel like we're talking about numbers on
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: the yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: So we're just trying to get some of the turning left.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like you want to be a nastace, just turn yeah,
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: just keep turning left, baby, you know, I do a
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: little way through path. Yeah, I mean, but he's the
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: one beaching you and break the ball, and he just
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: threw heater at Yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah, he's developed.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Did you ever see him? You ever seen him pitch?
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah like this? Oh yeah?
• 26:14
  Speaker 11: We uh we rehab together whenever he was here, I
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: was here down here, reabit, so I spent a lot
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: of time.
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: Together before he was a coach.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: What does that strain feel like, because it's for what
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: you said, the sweeper is more of an intent pitch.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: Do you feel any extra strain when you started really
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: ripping on it here now that we're harsh way part
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: of the way into spring.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Not at all.
• 26:37
  Speaker 11: It's not like a strain thing because I'm throwing it
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: exactly like I do my curveball. I'm telling you, like
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: the exact same. So whenever I throw it, the exact
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: same because it is staying up a little bit higher
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: and seeing the north south, I have to think about
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: burying it, and then it stays right at the bottom
• 26:52
  Speaker 11: of the zone. So there's no difference in like manipulating
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: my hand trying to sweep around it. I'm not throwing
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: like a vert sweeper. It's still depthy. It's like we're
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: calling a turbo slurve here. And because it's been eighty
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: five eighty seven, so the strain is the same. It
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: feels good on my arm and we've gotten some whiff
• 27:14
  Speaker 11: on it from righty, so we're happy about it.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: Can you check the numbers every pitch and the wullfen
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: and then when you're on your start and do you
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: get them between innings?
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: No? No, I don't really look the numbers a whole lot.
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: I let them explain for ten minutes about a Well,
• 27:28
  Speaker 10: I understand what though coaches are explaining to me. You
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: got to understand what they're talking about. So I'm not
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: a guy that's gonna like throw a pitch.
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: Look see, I mean if you're working on something and
• 27:39
  Speaker 11: I'm not chasing certain numbers, I'm chasing a shape with
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: my eyes that.
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: I think it's gonna be effected to a hitter. So
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: and those guys know a lot more than I do,
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: and they can explain it to me.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: All right. So you seem like somebody that competes.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Did you compete in the live at bats against your
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: teammates this spring?
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: Yeah, on a per san Man trying to get to
• 28:01
  Speaker 11: get body and do you get And I got a
• 28:04
  Speaker 11: call up with that smack too. I'm not necessarily talking smack,
• 28:09
  Speaker 11: but I want them competing at the same level.
• 28:10
  Speaker 10: I am.
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: I want to bring that energy to the backfield. I
• 28:13
  Speaker 11: don't really care who's in the stands or whatever. Like,
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: once I get the ball, it could be in my backyard.
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: I'm trying to get you out.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: So James Wood, you punch him out your right, that's right,
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: that's right. I got you.
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: We hit it. Yeah, I got you. He's a hard,
• 28:26
  Speaker 10: hard guy to punch out.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: That's so hard to hard. Got to keep him in
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: the yard.
• 28:30
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's right.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: But if he gets you, though, can you talk about.
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, I don't say you got me? Why not?
• 28:38
  Speaker 11: Some people have with when you were playing with you,
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: would you let you guys know which if you got him?
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: You do know a long long you know anything about that?
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: I do know I probably, yes, exactly more than more
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: than Yeah. So what's the sweeper? I know you're talking
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: about sweeper, you're talking about change. If you're talking about
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: trying to get it to go lest how do you
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: incorporate that without overused without falling in love with sweet?
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: No, that's a hard thing to navigate because early on
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: in spring, whenever you got a new toy, you're in
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: love with like, I'm like, man, when can.
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  Speaker 10: I use this and you're trying to see spots that
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  Speaker 10: you can use it.
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  Speaker 11: And that's a conversation that we've been having because there
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  Speaker 11: are moments where I go to my pitch, the curve ball,
• 29:19
  Speaker 11: and I chosen to throw the sweeper over it, just
• 29:21
  Speaker 11: because I'm kind of falling in love with this new toy,
• 29:24
  Speaker 11: trying to see the spots that I can go pick
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  Speaker 11: with it. So just trying to find that balance, and
• 29:29
  Speaker 11: obviously these guys are dialed in on it, and we're
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  Speaker 11: just gonna try to pick our right spots with it.
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: You had forty eight innings last year. You talked about
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: conversations with the organization. Did they talk to you about
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: an innings limit? You're always hearing it with younger pitchers,
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: guys that are now coming to their first full season
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: after an injury.
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  Speaker 5: Did they talk to you about it.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 11: I got two one hundred and twenty innings last year
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  Speaker 11: over the course of the season.
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  Speaker 10: Through Triple A and the big leagues. I would like
• 30:02
  Speaker 10: to go get one to eighty.
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: Let it ride, kind of make thirty two starts go
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  Speaker 11: compete every everything year.
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  Speaker 5: Is that the natural progression? Would you say you had
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: one twenty last year and then jumped to one eight hault.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, it was originally supposed to be around one hundred,
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  Speaker 11: and I felt great. At the end of the season,
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  Speaker 11: I asked for the ball and they let me go
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  Speaker 11: five each, five innings.
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  Speaker 10: For five starts.
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  Speaker 5: You're on the Garrett crocheted for out program. Yeah, and
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: then he went out.
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  Speaker 10: Last year and throw one hundred and eighty.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Almost wanted to say young, right, so that next for you.
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: I would love that. I mean, that's that's why I work.
• 30:34
  Speaker 10: I want to go. I mean, if you're doing that,
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: you're helping your team. So okay, I agree.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Starters that take the ball everything, they are so valuable
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: in this game that you can do it and make
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: thirty two stars no One. Tip my cap to you
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: and say way to go, sir.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Hey, okay, this is great man. Thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it doing here.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: Here he goes. You know, he said he likes to
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: talk trash, so I get to talk a little trash.
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: Jo.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: So he went to bigs Be High School, Oklahoma. My
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: son last year played Bixby High School. They came onto
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: the field crowds you like this. They had this boom
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: box and they had this big bus. We were pending, right,
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: they had this whole thing, and they were out in
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: the outfield stretching, and our teams out there, you know,
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: our little tall, small team from Florida, and they were
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: barking at them the whole time, and they're like, you know,
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: we're the big dogs in this yard, We're the big guy.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: They're all barking at our team. And then TFA went
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: out whooped their ass. And then they're like, you ain't
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: barking out, bitch. So that's my tragic you can go. Yeah,
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: we were like that when I was live. Still, I
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: promise you that I can't believe that they're doing. They're barking.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: They were barking at boom boxing. Yes, they had a
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: big boom box and we got to clean that out.
• 31:42
  Speaker 10: Bixby that that's tough.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: They might go a phone call from CAID. Maybe maybe
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: if something called lean it up, clean it up. Well, okay,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: now I can thank you. Appreciate the time. Man, keep
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: doing your thing in spring. We're watching we're following black.
• 32:01
  Speaker 10: Yes, sir, I appreciate y'all. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: M