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Baseball Lifer, Andy Barkett · Sports Exchange

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Good evening everybody, and welcome to another edition of The Sports Exchange. Boy,
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I'll tell you one thing about this show. It will be a change
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of pace from what you're used to. Well, everybody is talking about football.
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Guess what we're not. We're talking baseball, and you know it won't
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be long before spring training comes, so we want to kind of get a
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little bit of a headstart on it. And you know, we're very thankful
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to be joined by I call him baseball lifer Andy Barquette because that's what you
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are. So I bring you on here. We're gonna let everybody know the
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crew here. George Iikorn joins me to George. Hi, great to be
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here and nice having you on to Andy. Thank you George. And Jacob
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Christner, Hello everybody, and I'm glad I got my best podcasting shirt on
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the end? Oh yeah, it's great work, great job, Scott,
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and you wrote the forward on it. Okay, but that's aid. Let's
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turn over to Andy of Barquette for a moment. And you want you to
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give everybody a little bit of background on yourself so the audience can get to
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know you. I appreciate that. Thanks for having me on, guys,
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and thanks for making me a part of the sports exchange. So I'm from
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Miami, Florida. Originally I went to Killian High School. Grew up in
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the Kendall area, southwest Miami area, and he seems like a whole other
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lifetime ago. Went to North Carolina State University, played four years there,
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got a chance to play on the United States national team, where I was
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the backup first baseman to Hall of Famer Todd Hilton, who recently was inducted
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the other day. So I'm super proud of Todd and I was proud to
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be his backup now, looking back on it thirty years ago, I was
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kind of chapted that I wasn't any chance to play. But you know what,
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I guess if I played behind a Hall of Fame, where that's okay.
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So from there I started a professional baseball career that I thought was just
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going to be like one year and I'd get back to den c State and
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go be a graduate assistant and try to get a degree. And it's now
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turning in. It's turned into twenty nine years of coaching professionally or in college,
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a little bit at the major league level. As a player, I
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played eleven years about twenty nine and played a little bit in the big leagu
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with Pittsburgh, and then made it back to the big leagues as a coach.
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You know, very few people non drafted ever make it to the big
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leagues once, and I got a chance to make it there twice. And
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the second time we I was remember the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen Boston Red Sox,
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and that twenty eighteen team won the World Series and was the best offensive
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team or best team in the history of the Boston Red Sox actually, so
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it was quite an honor to be a World Series champion and then just come
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from you know, a kid with a dream in Miami to end up now
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you know this career and it's just been a heck of a ride. I
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have a baseball lifer. I still am currently teaching and coaching and do not
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have a position yet in professional baseball, may or may not head back in
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that direction. I'm doing a lot of personal consulting now and it's going really
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well. So that's kind of you know, who I am and where I've
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been and what I want I'm currently kind of doing. So I'm sure we'll
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dive into a little bit of all of that. Well, I mean,
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right now, you know, you have an opportunity to relax and enjoying time
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with the family. It's not the worst thing in the planet to be able
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to go out there and enjoy time with your family at a time where you
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really spend a lot of time away from them, no doubt. Man.
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Usually I'm you know, this time of year, I'm preparing to leave normally,
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and you're gone for you know, when I was a major league coach,
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you don't see your house for eight months. You know, you leave
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in February and you may get to fly home on some off days here and
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there, but really you don't see your house again until especially winning the World
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Series. I didn't get home till November, and then you know, before
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you know it, the holidays coming and you're back. You're back to spring
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training again. So it's a grind. The professional life is a grind.
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It's been a grind for a long time now. My family's been so supportive
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and been used to kind of the grind and Dad leaving, so now being
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able to be at home and I have a son that's a baseball player at
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Stetson University. I have a daughter that's a graduate school soccer player at Kennesaus
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State and Georgia. And we were fifteen year olds still at home so playing
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volleyball. So it's good to be able to be around and be dad,
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like you said. And you know, after being to the big leagues and
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kind of you know, living the whole baseball life, I'm working with young
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people now and getting players better. And it's like, you know, you're
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either coaching baseball with a cool uniform on, you're coaching baseball helping out young
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young players that are in your community, and you know, it's it's it's
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really the same. So I'd rather be home and being able to do with
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my family and coach the game that I love and help players get better.
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So that's kind of how it's evolving right now. We'll see what the future
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lies. I mean, you know, once one more child gets out of
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the house and we're empty nesters, maybe we'll dive back into Pro Bowl.
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Maybe it'll happen again this year. I don't know. But in the meantime,
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I'm just enjoying what I'm doing and enjoying, you know, getting players
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better and spending time with my family. So it's I'm in a good spot
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right now. So when you're on the road, you know, you say
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you lay out of a suitcase more or less for eight months of the year.
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You get in an apartment, do you runt a house? I mean,
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we all know what you do when you're on the road, But what's
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it like to be on the road for eight months? Where do you stay
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and how does it all work out that way? Yeah, I mean it
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all depends. So the last three years I've been a coordinator with the Chicago
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White Sox, which actually doesn't mean I do get to to kind of make
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my own schedule and get home. You go to spring training, you live
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in a hotel for six weeks. You're in a Marriyout of some sort.
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You are Marriotte Lifetime Titanium Elite. If you work in baseball, that is
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one of the perks. So yeah, I do have the card for that
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and get pretty good Marryout rates and so forth and have tons of points.
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But so you'll live in a Marriout for six months. You go to instructional
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league at the end of the season, and you'll you'll stay in marry Out
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for six months. Basically, I live in hotels, in and out of
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hotels most of the season. When you when you go to Boston, you're
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major league coach, you know you're it's up. They give you a living
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allowance and you but it's usually doesn't cover what you know, an apartment covers
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in a big city like that, so you have to kind of make arrangements.
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I had some family in Boston and aunt aunt joe Anne. Basically he
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was my cousin's married a dude that lives in Boston area, and his aunt
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Joe Anne rented us their third floor addict that had it been refurbished in West
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Roxbury, Massachusetts, about fifteen minutes from Fenway Park, from the Fenway area.
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And thank you. She was a godsend because I could not find an
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apartment for what they were giving us money wise in Boston, and so we're
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able to rent this place and rented there for two years and it was just
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it was great. So it worked out perfectly. So, yeah, you're
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living like a vagabond. You have your suitcase, you got it. You're
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on the road, but you're then you're living away from home, and then
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you're going on the road from there too, so now you got to pack
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another suitcase to go on the road for another six days. And so yeah,
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you're constantly doing some laundry and shuffling in and out of your suitcase and
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so forth. So yeah, it's it's a quite interesting lifestyle. Well,
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I'll tell you when you're in Boston, it's expensive. I know there.
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I've been there and visited. Let's go to the chat re real quick,
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Okay, Wayne Weinstein says, and he knows jpinas come out there and help
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the people in Pompino Beach High School their baseball team. There's a local guy
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that certainly knows a lot about the Proward County, the Trike County era.
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I don't know you think it ever come down to Pompino Beach. I know
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you told me what part of Florida are you? I think Ovivido. Yeah,
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I'm in Olvido. I actually I've been working with lots of high school
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teams. I'm speaking at Stetson next Thursday, doing some mental skills training with
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their team and talking about talking to their offense about you know, championship caliber
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offense. I was able to work with the best offense in the history to
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Boston Red Sox, so just taking that experience and passing it along. So
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I do a lot of consulting with high school teams. So yes, I'd
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love to come down and speak to your team. And you know, obviously
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my social media will all be shared out here, so you guys can have
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all that. But from Miami. Originally, my grandparents lived in Homestead and
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they just recently both passed away about in the last five years, so I
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haven't gotten down there as much as I used to. I used to go
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down off into South Florida. I still some ant uncles, aunts and uncles
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I live down there, some cousins, So I'm sure. I'll get back
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down there at some point. See my mom's in Fort Laudervale, so i'll
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be I'll be down soon. I'm sure. There you go, Wayne,
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stay in touch, and I never know, you might run across Andy Marquette.
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You make it down here. I have a great restaurant in Fort Lauderdale,
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Andy. You look me up and I'll take you there and we'll have
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a good time to talk to somebody. It sounds like a plan, sounds
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like better steakhouses in the area. I don't I don't harbor any of that.
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I know a good place to take it. We're gonna be talking baseball.
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You might need you might have Collie follower ears when I get through it
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the other and then you'll survive this broadcast with flying colors. All right,
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So let's talk about your passion for being a hitting instructor. I know hitting
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is written all over your repertoire. Anyways, we saw that with the Red
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Sox. You did it with the Red Sox, you did it with the
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White Sox, and obviously the Pirates, and you also did it with the
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Marlins. It doesn't look like you did a lot of that with the Tie
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your organization, but it's all pretty much, you know, synonymous about what
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your passion is. So you know, tell me how how what are your
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thoughts about hitting itself? We all know that Michael Jordans, arguably the greatest
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athlete ever play, got humbled when it came to baseball. And it's not
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as easy as it looks. But how do you teach it? And and
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just you know, your passion for it to be doing it that long,
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it's just amazing. Well thanks man, I appreciate it's been. It's been
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a learning and process and it's really a hitting has evolved from the time I
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did it as a player to present time. Now how we teach it.
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Technology has been has been wonderful in lots of ways. It's it's given us
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some truths about movement patterns and how to really get players to move correctly and
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move efficiently. And so now and there's there's tons of drills out there that
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have been created by lots of smart people, and and then people like me
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have been able to take those drills and put them into packages and teach a
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system of movements for players that we didn't used to have, you know,
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thirty years ago when I was a young player, we just hey, you
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get the bat, you grab the bat, you tap the plate, and
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you're right, all right, bring it here we go Like that was it.
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There was no all you know, there was no launch angle and exit
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velocity and rap Soto and things like we have now. And sometimes you have
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too much technology and too much verbiage regarding that can be paralysis by analysis and
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really be detrimental players. So you have to be able to be a translator
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in this day and age in this in this game, because there's so much
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information that you're able to bring to a player about in professional baseball, especially
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opposing pitching and game planning and what to look for. So there's lots of
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components into it, but I break it down into mechanics and movements, then
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mental game and approach, and so that's kind of a way to streamline it.
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Where you got to number one, be confident in how you're moving and
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you're and making sure that you're moving efficiently and we can test that now we
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can, there's ways to quantify that. And then you have to have a
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mental game where you're thinking positive thoughts and you're structured and you're able to have
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mental resets and stay in the present moment and then you have to be able
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ultimately to execute an approach. And that means, all right, I'm looking
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for a fastball at this spot, and I'm hunting that pitch and I'm on
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time for it, and when he throws it, I don't miss it.
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And and that's that's really where you're trying to get my players too, is
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into a game to execute an approach. And in order to do that,
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you got to you have to have confidence in your movements, and then you
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have to have to have confidence in your mental game to be the aggressor in
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the battle against the pitchers. So, yeah, I know that that's a
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long winded answer to your question, but it's it can be very complicated in
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this day and age to teach hitting and talk hitting, but in the big
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leagues, that's really streamline of what they're doing. We're making sure our players
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are moving well and efficient, we're game planning against the opposing picture, and
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we're just digging in with those guys in the mental game every day and keeping
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them focused and locked in on the task at hand. Well, when we
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talk about baseball, to me, I look at it as the ultimate chess
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game of anti the games out there. You talk about chess to the highest
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level baseball it is. But you know, so let's take the question and
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break it down into another form. Okay, how tough is it to hit
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a baseball? Oh man, that's the hardest thing to do in all the
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sports. It's round ball, round bat, and the ball's moving and you
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know, they're changing speeds. And now now you know they can tell the
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weakness of a hitter based upon his history and those pictures, those pictures have
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all types of information that they're attacking hitters' weaknesses. So if they know that
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you can't hit a fastball up in the zone and the heat maps and the
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information say that, now they're just pounding the ball there. So you have
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it forces you to make adjustments. And now we're talking guys doing one hundred
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miles an hour and spinning, spinning, breaking balls with all types of spin
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rates that are just making the ball dance. And so it's it's for me,
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it's never been more tough to hit. But at the same time,
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the building blocks of a hitter really haven't changed since the days of Ted Williams
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and beyond. You know, like you have to use the ground as a
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power source, you have to stay square, you have to stay athletic,
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you have to be aggressive. So those things have been around for a long
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time and and you know, now we're just able to quantify it and make
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it look really pretty and use a lot of cool words. But at the
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end of the day, it really hasn't changed. We're trying to get the
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ball in the air over somebody's head, We're trying to have good at bats,
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and it's but it's super hard to hit, man. I mean,
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it's that those of us who can do it were able to do it,
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and still to this day. It's just a select few people that are able
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to put the time in and the work in and the amount of repetitions to
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be able to hit. You know. So it's super hard, man,
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super hard. Yeah. I alluded to Michael Jordan. But let's talk about
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somebody very interesting. How about if you're a guy like Tim Tebow, you've
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left baseball a long time and then you come back and you try to do
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it again. I mean, to me, it's tough enough to be sharp
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when you've been playing the game all the time, But then the guy takes
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a hiatus and let's just play football for a while. Yeah, we've can't
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make it in football, Let's try baseball again. And you know, luckily,
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to Tebow's credit, Okay, you know he had an opportunity to do
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it, I believe with the Mets organization. But do you respect him Tebow
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for at least making an attempt after being away with it so long, knowing
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how difficult a task is. Yeah, of course. I mean anytime anybody,
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I respect anybody that's ever put on the uniform and had to go through
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the grind of a minor league season and put the work in that you have
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to put in to compete on a daily basis. And you know he's a
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good athlete. What he did was remarkable from not playing for so long to
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then being able to go play at the professional level. That's not easy to
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do so, but at the end of the day, like to play in
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the big leagues is a different story. It really is the best of the
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best, and those guys are you lead for a reason and they're there for
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a reason, and you can't just not play this game for a while and
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all of a sudden, you know, I think you're going to go play
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in the big leagues no matter how good an athlete you are that that's why
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this is the hardest thing to do in sports. Yeah, you know,
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Wayne Weinstein brings up an interesting comment in the chat room, So I'm going
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to address this. So you use a tea to work on mechanics, You,
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as a hitting instructor use a tea sometimes to try to employ that as
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a technique to try to help the swing and the timing and all that.
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Yeah, for sure, I don't love the tea as far as you know.
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If I'm working with a player on a consistent bay just for example,
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the tea will come into play the first time I work with them, maybe
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the second, just for a little bit, and it's just to teach the
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movements. But then I really want that player to be able to execute those
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movements with a ball that's moving, so that they're able to time the pitch
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and it can be more realistic. I do like the tea and when it
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comes to teaching certain movements and getting guys to learn how to do things correctly.
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But at the same time, I like, really I like drills that
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are more centered around the ball moving and changing speeds and velocities. But you
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know what, there's when I was a hitting coach, and we had thirteen
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players that were coming in every day position players to the cage. And I
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called it the barber shop because you know, it's you and me and we're
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in this cage and it's like you're my barber's share. How do you want
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your haircut today? Well? This is what this is. This is the
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way I do it. So like brock Holt. Brock Holt like the tea
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every day. Mitch Moreland like the tea every day. Mookie Betts didn't like
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the tea. JD. Martinez doesn't like the t So it's like different.
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Some of those dudes will use it and have as a part of their routine.
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And so in that case, like I'm not going to argue with brock
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Holt and tell them I don't want to use the tea. I'm like,
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yeah, man, go ahead. I want you to feel good and do
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your routine. So that's if that works for brock Holt, then I'm okay
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with it. So I think there's a time and place for the tea for
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sure. You know, I wouldn't make it the meat potatoes, but it's
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definitely on the plate somewhere. Okay, I'm going to talk about your major
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League Baseball stops. I mean, have George and Jacob ask you a few
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questions. First of all, we'll talk about each of them individually. Just
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give me a little bit about what you got out of each experience. We'll
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start with the Detroit Tigers. Yeah, I mean the Detroit Tigers. As
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a player, I was there in two thousand and four for the Toledo mud
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Hens, and then was a manager in their system from two thousand and seven
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to twenty ten, two and six, twenty ten. Great great organization.
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You know that the English D is. I've always you know, had a
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fondness for the organization after playing there and understanding the history of the Detroit Tigers
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and what it means to wear that English D on the uniform and the guys
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that have come before you. I got a chance to be around Willie Wharton
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and al Kayline and and Larry Parish and Lance Parish and and so it's just
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it was just a wonderful experience being around some of those great Tigers and understanding
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what that organization means. So yeah, I have a lot of fond memories
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of the Tigers organization, and they gave me a chance to play in Triple
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a and then they get a chance to manage in their minor league system,
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and uh, you know, super super appreciative of the time that I had
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there. Well, I know you had an opportunity to go to Lakeland and
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one on a totally two different places on there are a couple of years ago.
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That's just outright beautiful there. It really is. Anybody's ever been is
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absolutely courteous up there. Lately. We all know about the fact that Arching
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Stadium was a spring training part so stats don't get exaggerated too much there.
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Or let's talk about the Miami Marlins. What did you get out of that
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situation? Well, the Marlins organization was, you know, I got a
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chance to really manage some great players. I mean I had Christian Yelich,
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jt Realmuto, Derek Dietrich, Marcel Zuna. I mean I could go on
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and on, Jose Fernandez for a short period of time, got the rest
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of the soul, you know, it was. We had a great run.
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We won a championship in twenty fourteen. I got a chance to watch
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you know, I got a chance to manage riv WI for two years thirteen
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and fourteen, and Washington lead our team to a double A championship and watch
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the evolution of one of the best players in baseball, especially behind the plate
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before my eyes, which is pretty cool. And then you know, being
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around Yelli for a year and getting a chance to you know, send him
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to the big leagues. And I mean we had from that twenty thirteen team
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in Jacksonville, I think to this day, of the forty players who made
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it on the team at some point throughout the season, I think twenty four
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went to the big leagues at some point, which is incredible for a minor
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league team as far as numbers go. That that many dudes played in the
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big leagues that year, so or at some point that they did. So
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it was, it was we had a lot of talent when I was there
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with the Marlins. Obviously, Jeffrey Laurier was the manager and or the owner,
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and there was you know, a new manager every year and Ozzie Gian
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all that, and the new stadium and so it was during that basically that
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era. So yeah, it was. It was a really good run.
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They had a lot of great players that I got a chance to be around
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and build relationships with it I still have today, all right now, Wayne
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Wayne Stein I know we talked about the Jacksonville Jumbo Trump, but I think
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when you told me when we spoke, weren't they the Jacksonville Sons when you
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were there? Yes, there were, Yeah, they were the Sons.
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They were the Sons for a long time to break and finally sold the team
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and then the new ownership changed the name. Okay, very good, all
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right, So as we go to Miami, we'll talk about with Pittsburgh Pirates.
23:08
Boy, when it comes to old traditional franchises, you made the rounds
23:12
pretty well, including the Pirates. The Pirates, well, the Pirates hold
23:18
a place in my heart because number one, they called me to the big
23:22
leagues as a player, and my only chance to play in the major leagues
23:25
was with the Pittsburgh Pirates the first year at PNC Park in two thousand and
23:27
one. And then I got a chance to work there again as a coach
23:30
and it was great. I thought I was ready to coach in the big
23:34
leagues before I got there, just from my experience, and they were amazing
23:41
the way that they invested in the coaching staff. They would coach the coaches
23:45
how to coach the players by just bringing in people that would just pour into
23:48
you. And so when I went to the chance to go to the big
23:52
leagues and be with Boston right after that, I was I was really prepared
23:56
to deal with players better than I thought I was going into my time with
24:00
Pittsburgh, just the way that they helped me learn how to teach the mental
24:06
game and deal with players on the mental side more than just you know,
24:11
teaching the fundamentals of the game. So it started to get into the mental
24:15
fundamentals and the connection with players and being a twenty first century coach. I
24:21
really learned that working for the Pirates. So it was Clint Hurdle and his
24:25
staff were amazing. Neil Huntington was the general manager when I was there.
24:29
He was great. They just they had a hard time winning games because they
24:33
didn't there the ownership is not really into spending money on free agents, but
24:37
they do spend tons of money in development and so like, they have tons
24:41
of resources, and it was a great place to learn and grow as a
24:45
coach. So I really relished my time there with the Pirates. I mean,
24:49
now we talk about the Boston Red Sox. I know when we were
24:52
talking on the phone, how you were cleaning at that experience we'll talk about
24:56
the Red Sox and White Sox and network. We're going to George and Jacob
25:00
a questions. So let's talk about the times. Well, yeah, I
25:03
mean I think twenty eighteen. Really, you know, I like to talk
25:07
about it as you know, describe it as baseball utopia as far as you
25:10
know, great players, all playing together, all working together, no egos,
25:18
you know, just a championship mindset of people who were coming to work
25:22
every day with a mission that we were going to be the best in the
25:25
game. And that started in spring training right before the first game of the
25:30
season. It really really gelled from there and it never stopped. And this
25:37
group from day one of spring training until we won the World Series in LA,
25:42
they never wavered as far as the routine and the process, like they
25:47
just got after it every day. We were in the World Series in LA,
25:51
and I remember I remember thinking, I know, I'm in the World
25:55
Series, but like I'm not even I'm so focused on what we're doing and
26:00
my our in our process every day and our game planning and what you know,
26:03
what we have to do with Mooki and what we have to do with
26:06
JD and and what we have to do with this, you know, like
26:08
that we weren't even thinking that we were in the World Series and people are
26:12
texting me, hey man, I see you, and it was I'm like,
26:15
yeah, yeah, but I got work to do. We were so
26:18
focused and and uh, I remember talking to Hunter Pence the year the next
26:22
year, you get to work the All Star Game after you win the World
26:26
Series. We got to I got to be in the All Star Games as
26:29
a coach, and I was flipping. I was in the cage with hunters
26:32
Pence and he said he congratulated Tim Hyers, and I Tim Is that was
26:34
the other hitting coach in Boston's currently with the Texas Rangers. They just won
26:38
the World Series again. But he said, uh, he said, I
26:42
know how much soul power it takes to win a World Series, so congratulations.
26:47
And he'd won it twice with the San Francisco and I said, hey
26:49
man, what did you say again? He said, soul power, man,
26:52
like you know, like every bit of your soul you put into it.
26:55
And it's like so true, every bit of your every bit of everything
26:59
that you can do, all of all of us, everybody was pouring into
27:02
that every game, every day. And if you were Mookie Betts the most
27:06
valuable player of the American League that year, or if you were, you
27:08
know, a pitcher that is up and down from triple A and you need
27:11
to throw five innings tonight just to save our bullpen like that, dude's just
27:15
as important as Mooky is. And that that was the feeling of that group,
27:21
and so you know, it was just you had players working together,
27:25
collective learning, people feeding off each other, learning, growing off each other.
27:29
It was. It was really a special group. And obviously they did
27:32
some amazing things and set some records and won one hundred and nineteen games,
27:37
so it was pretty special. And you got a world world champion to bring
27:41
that nobody can take away from you. That's right, that's what your final
27:45
stops, the Kygo White Sox. A'll turnover to George after that. Yeah,
27:48
well real quick. Before that, I worked a year in college baseball.
27:52
It was actually a shortened year with the University of University of Central Florida,
27:56
which is right down the street, and that was the COVID year.
28:00
I actually played in Niversity of Miami and lost in a really good baseball game
28:03
two to one, and then the next day the world shut down and so
28:10
we were all kind of just in flux obviously for a while. And then
28:14
following January, the Chicago White Sox called Tony the Russa became the manager.
28:18
Tony was with the Boston Red Sox when won the World Series, and he
28:22
and I became friends, and now he's the major manager in Chicago, and
28:27
Chris Getz, who's currently the general manager, called and offered me a position
28:32
to be an advisor to player development, hitting advisor, and so I took
28:37
the job and that started that year one. In year two, I was
28:41
promoted to the hitting coordinator, which basically means you're in charge of creating and
28:45
implementing the hitting program for all the minor league system, all one hundred players
28:48
and coaches. So I did that for two years, and then at the
28:52
end of this past season there were some changes within the organization. My contract
28:57
wasn't redewed, so that's uh, that's where I kind of left off.
29:02
But it was a great run. I felt like we made a really good
29:04
impact in the organization and changes part in baseball. The major league team did
29:08
not play well. The offense really did not play well, and you know,
29:15
players and lack of production will cost you your job in my business.
29:18
So that's what ended up happening. Okay, turn over to Georg Jaycorn.
29:22
You had a couple of couple of questions for Yeah, I sure, do
29:26
you talk about analytics, Sandy, And I mean in the situation here in
29:32
Detroit, of course, you know we had a guy like Jim Leeland,
29:34
and you know, he had his way about things, and of course Parky
29:38
Anderson very successful. The old time managers. Are they having as much difficult
29:45
time as it appears that they are as far as analytics and using those obviously
29:52
for the for the day in and day outgrind of the of the major league
29:55
season. I don't know. I mean, I feel like everybody he's kind
30:00
of having to adapt. I feel like when you're managing now, I think
30:03
that like Buck Showalter seemed to have some issues with the analytic department in New
30:07
York. Let's you know, to just a relevant example to what you're speaking
30:11
about. And I feel like, you know, I feel like those guys
30:17
are super smart and they're able to run a ball at club like Sparkan you
30:21
mentioned Sparky Anderson. Pete Rose once said that spark Andson was the best manager
30:25
he ever had, and he said it was because not because of anything else
30:30
other than that Sparky was street smart. He knew how to get along with
30:32
all different types of people. And it wasn't because he could, you know,
30:36
run a bullpen or I mean, that's not why Pete Rose respected him.
30:38
So then you have this person who have these who has to manage all
30:41
this group of these group of people from all over the world and get them
30:45
all to play together. And then yet now you have an analytics department who
30:51
who is producing information and putting it in front of managers and saying, okay,
30:56
in this situation, this is probably what the numbers say is best,
31:00
and this is what this number in this situation, and the manager really has
31:03
to find a way to work together as a group with everybody so that we
31:11
can all make the best decisions for the team and the player. You know,
31:15
I had to do this on a smaller scale just being a hitting coordinator,
31:18
it used to be a hitting coordinator was just okay, I implement the
31:22
hitting program and that's it. Well, now I meet with the director of
31:27
analytics, I with the biomechanist, with the kinesiology person, with the strength
31:33
conditioning people, and we're putting a plan together for the complete development of the
31:37
player, not just this is how you're going to swing from now on.
31:41
It's way deeper than that. So that's kind of how the game works on
31:45
the inside. And all these management managers are having to adapt to working with
31:51
analytic departments and speak the same language and bridge the gap between technology and baseball
31:57
people so that we can all find the best answer to win the game or
32:01
help the player out the team. Okay, and another question. Just the
32:07
other day, the Tigers signed a future hopeful, you know, second baseman
32:13
Colt Keith, who is the number two prospect in their organization. But and
32:17
this isn't the first time this has been done, but giving a kid who's
32:21
not even had and majorly get bad the contract worth over twenty eight million dollars
32:25
Andy, I mean, there are a lot of people even into trains shaking
32:30
their head. That's not typical for the Tigers to go out and do that.
32:34
But do you see that happening a little bit more, that they want
32:37
to have this control, especially for a young talent like that. Yeah,
32:42
I think that. I think if I think that owners and people who are
32:49
running the books of contracts of teams want to make sure and try to get
32:54
the player at the best discount they possibly can. So if their numbers are
32:58
projecting in their analytics, so projecting that that player is going to cost them
33:01
a certain amount of money and arbitration in a couple of years, that they
33:05
can design a deal that's favorable for the club. That can you know,
33:08
maybe looks like to the fan or to the casual observer, like, what
33:12
are we doing giving this guy twenty million dollars, But that might save him
33:15
another twenty eight million dollars five years from now or three years from now when
33:20
the guys has a big year in our and goes to arbitration. So I
33:22
can see both sides of the argument. I mean, it's under it was
33:27
that would be unprecedented in the day that I played for somebody in the minor
33:30
leagues to get a guaranteed contract. No shot that was happening. You're gonna
33:34
have to prove yourself two in three years, and I mean, you know
33:37
it's it's a risk. I mean, you better be you better be sure
33:39
of the makeup of the player. What type of person is he, what
33:44
type of human is he off the field? I mean, I'm sure that
33:47
you know, there's some there's some people in the Raised organization that I would
33:52
think are not so happy about the contract they gave Wander Franco. And you
33:55
know, you just never know what could happen with a player, and I'm
33:59
not sure sure they're going to be on the hook for that. But the
34:00
point is is when you're investing in somebody that's young like that, there's a
34:05
lot of unknowns. And on the other side of the coin, A J.
34:08
Hinch is a friend. I know that he's involved in money of the
34:13
decisions that are going on in Detroit, and I would think that if they
34:16
gave that young man that contract, which they did. Aj was a part
34:20
of that, and you know, confidently felt like that was the best decision
34:24
for the organization. So, you know, it's just a different The economics
34:29
of the game have changed the way that things are run now, so this
34:32
now is becoming more and more common in our game. By the way,
34:37
and by the way, you have a guy from Pittsburgh, Ralph Williams says,
34:40
hello, guys, So he's an avid Pirates fan. All right,
34:44
George, what else do you have? Well, the only other you know,
34:45
and again I'm talking about some old Detroit guys. But I'll tell you
34:50
what. Uh Well, one of the guys I always admire Dave Dombrowski,
34:54
And I know Dave had an open checkbook, you know from mister illg.
34:59
But I'll tell you what. As far as team presidents and executives goal,
35:04
his track record has been fantastic. And I'm sure you've cross pats obviously with
35:08
Dave Debrowski. Yeah, I mean Dave and I. Dave hired me Dave
35:14
as a player when I was a player. He was a general manager when
35:16
I was in Toledo with the Tigers, and then he gave me my first
35:20
chance coaching managing in the minor leagues. So and then we were together in
35:25
Boston and we won the World Series. So I've got around Dave. Worked
35:30
with Dave very close. Dave is a Hall of Famer, you know,
35:34
he's a Hall of Fame general manager. He's World Series champion. He knows
35:37
how to build a team, he knows about the makeup of the player,
35:42
about how he knows how to get along with all different types of people.
35:45
He knows how to win, he knows the formula for winning, and he
35:49
just you know, he really enjoys and loves and respects the game of baseball
35:53
and his place in it. So it was a pleasure working for him for
35:58
sure. Thank you, Thank you much. Back to you, Scott.
36:00
Okay, well now I'm going over to Jacob. Hey, Andy, you
36:05
got a couple of questions for you. You're the hitting guy. Yeah,
36:07
I want to ask you a you're the hitting guy, but I want to
36:09
ask you an organizational and pitching type of question first, just basically off of
36:15
major leagues now, Like my personal preference is, like the placement pitcher,
36:21
Jamie moyter, let's see Greg Maddox obviously, you know the most recently Khla
36:24
Hendrix. Most are my kinds. I love that we call it the professor,
36:30
you know, the genius I we can think of those guys. What
36:35
keeps an organization from getting you know, quite a few of those type,
36:39
you know, placement pitchers, knowing that after one hundred pitches, it's going
36:44
you know, they're going to leave and they have to use four people in
36:45
their bullpen at a game in one hundred and sixty two games. What keeps
36:50
organizations from using quite a few placement pitchers and to be able to pitch?
36:54
You know, maybe because sometimes you'll get a ninety pitch, a ninety pitch
36:59
complete game. You know, you get all of those. Maybe you'd get
37:01
a few of those a year. You might get seven or eight of them
37:02
if you did it right. So what keeps them from getting so many of
37:07
those? Is it a business deal of weighing a power pitcher and somebody getting
37:10
the stands or is it just are they afraid? Are they afraid to be
37:15
able to give up runs to take the risk? I think I think number
37:20
one stuff. If you ask people within baseball stuff rules, they're gonna they're
37:25
gonna say that they want stuff over pitchability ninety nine out of one hundred times.
37:30
Because pitchability, if there's mistakes made, there's not enough stuff to get
37:36
hit big leagu geitters out. If you have stuff, you have room for
37:38
air to get big league hitters out. And the other other part of the
37:43
coin is the Tom Glavins, the Greg Maddox, the Kyle Hendricks of the
37:46
world. There's not lots of them, you know what I mean. There's
37:50
not lots of dudes walking around that can freaking pitch like that like that is
37:53
those dudes are gifted to be able to you know, throw the ball,
37:58
you know in a NAT basically where Nat lands in his glove, like they
38:02
can hit that spot every time, Like that's not easy. So I feel
38:07
like, number one, there's just a shortage of people who can do that.
38:09
And then secondly, you know, you ask major league managers or general
38:15
managers, like, they're not going to get beat with a guy and throwing
38:17
eighty nine to ninety unless he can just he does not miss his spot.
38:22
There's too much money on the line for those guys. They want to If
38:24
you're gonna get beat, then you're gonna get beat thrown ninety nine and with
38:30
somebody who's got power stuff. So I would say that that's probably the thought
38:35
process of most teams. Okay, good, and this is a one This
38:40
is a one B question before I get to my final one. Did you
38:44
ever have your Crush Davis moment? Like, yeah, I had twenty one
38:47
days. There was you know, we're into hotels. They were nice,
38:50
next sort of deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had, I
38:52
had thirty days. Yeah, I mean, yeah, of course I don't
38:55
talk about my big league playing career very often because it was only thirty days
39:00
long. And but yeah, it was pretty cool. You go from you
39:05
know. I was in Oklahoma City and it was a day game and I
39:10
was a visiting player for Nashville, and I was mad I didn't start.
39:15
I for some reason wasn't in the lineup. And then the manager came up
39:19
to me and he said, hey, you're going to pinch hit in the
39:22
ninth inning if so and So gets on base. Well, So and So
39:24
got on base. So I get ready to go pinch hit. And as
39:28
I'm walking, I had like ten fifteen people at the game. We were
39:30
living in Oklahoma City at the time. My wife is from there, and
39:32
she was pregnant with our first child. We're getting ready to go to actually
39:36
find out the sex of the baby the next day and at our doctor's appointment.
39:39
So it was like a multiple reason that we were in Oklahoma City and
39:44
he's put so I got these people, and he's pushing me back in the
39:46
dugout and I'm like, man, I'm on deck, like and you just
39:49
embarrassed me. And there's only one guy left on the bench and it's our
39:52
start it's our starting catcher who's got a day off, and I think he's
39:57
still drunk and asleep from the night before. So wait, a minute.
40:01
You just pinch hit me. You pinch hit the guy who's been sleeping for
40:06
four innings over me, So, you know, to humburgo Coda's credit.
40:12
He got up, he woke up, he put on some bad anglows,
40:15
throwing some water in his face, and he swung with the first pitch and
40:17
hit it about fifteen feet in the air right back to the picture to end
40:21
the game. So I'm totally pissed. I'm pissed, I'm mad, I
40:23
got like tears of minds. I'm so angry, and I'm grabbing my stuff.
40:27
I just got embarrassed. I'm walking into the clubhouse and the manager,
40:30
Marty Brown, stops and says, hey, you know, you know why
40:32
I didn't hit for you there, And I'm like, no, why.
40:35
I remember being kind of like a smart alec, you know, like this
40:37
dude better have a really good freaking reason why. He just embarrassed. He
40:39
goes, you're going to the big leagues tomorrow, and I was like,
40:43
oh what, No way, don't mess with me, Marty. He's like,
40:46
no, you're going the big leagus tomorrow. So I flew from Oklahoma
40:51
City the next day to I missed the appointment and didn't find out till later
40:55
that we were having a girl. But flew to Pittsburgh and was on national
41:01
television the next night against the Marlins and hit the first pitch I saw for
41:05
a double off the wall and got a chance to play in about forty games,
41:09
have like forty eight bats, playing like I think twenty games or so
41:14
eighteen games I remember exactly, hit three hundred in the big leagues, hit
41:16
a big league home run in the Metro Dome, which doesn't even exist anymore,
41:20
so I can't even say that's where I hit my home run. It's
41:22
a parking lot now, I think, so. Yeah, it was a
41:25
good run. It was, it was it was it was too fast.
41:30
Obviously. The general manager of the team is bad luck. Cam Bonifey got
41:34
fired while I was in the big leagues, just in the team not playing
41:37
well, and new general manager came in and the next thing you know,
41:39
you're we're going a different direction and you're you know, a lot of this
41:44
is luck of the draw, and that's just how the game is. So
41:45
I found myself on the on the wrong side of that at that point.
41:49
But I'm a career three to zero four hitter, in the big leagues and
41:52
forty something at that, so that's awesome. And the one board thing,
41:57
it's like you playing between high school, college, minor leagues. In that
42:01
little major league, do you played a lot of years? You have a
42:05
lot of years in that. What you have about twelve years or something total
42:07
professionally eleven and then college four, so fifteen, you know with college and
42:13
professionals. So for all of those, I wanted to ask you as a
42:16
player, because you're gonna be a you're doing consulting right now, but you're
42:20
gonna probably be doing some coaching eventually, doing all that kind of stuff there
42:24
from having all the coaches that you had, all the mentors you had,
42:28
all this And I've been a mentor before. I've been like a volunteer basketball
42:31
coach. I've been the things I kind of got mentor people. What makes
42:37
as a player, as a young man and as a player, what makes
42:39
a good manager to you, good coach to you, good mentor to you,
42:45
And what makes you look at somebody and say, I'm not even taking
42:47
him seriously. I think that's that's pretty That's a great question. But I
42:52
think it's an easy one to answer. Is you want somebody who believes in
42:59
you. I think there's nothing more powerful than somebody in that believes in you
43:04
and talks greatness into you. And I think the opposite would be that somebody
43:10
who has their own agenda and just uses you as a stepping stone to get
43:14
to where they want to go and don't really care about your well being,
43:17
and then they just really care about themselves. And you can kind of see
43:21
that, you know, in life, and as well in sports, it
43:23
doesn't it's no different. So I feel like, you know, players,
43:29
I could look back on my career as a player and think about the managers
43:31
that I really looked up to and really like appreciated, and it was the
43:35
ones who believed in my game, the ones who said, you know what,
43:38
you can play in the big leagues, because most people, you know,
43:40
told me that I couldn't. So the ones that did, I was
43:44
like, oh man, I'll go through a wall for this guy. He
43:45
believes in me, you know. And I don't really think there's any greater
43:50
gift that we can give a young person more than just believing in them and
43:54
say yeah, you can do this, you know. And so that's kind
43:58
of how I try to We try as as parents to to really encourage our
44:02
kids and their and their walk and their life. Is just like trying to
44:07
speak greatness and no matter what's going on, is to say, hey,
44:10
you can do this, you can you can really achieve. So I would
44:14
say that would be the answer. Oh, that's a very good one.
44:16
And and I've learned. There's things I've learned quite a bit as I've been
44:20
a mentor myself, and I always want to learn every day. And I
44:22
wanted to ask you, Scott, do you have any more questions, because
44:24
I have got some good ones to it. I've got plenty of questions.
44:29
I just want to make sure that we're able to get yours in. So
44:32
we hit it around about it at the top of the show, Andy that
44:37
you know you look like Tony LaRussa. Do you get that comparison? Initially
44:42
we hit it around with Steve Gary but yeah, I've never heard of Steve
44:46
Garvey. But actually, the older I get, maybe I can kind of
44:50
I can. I can say that I can see what you're talking about.
44:52
But when I was younger, somebody there was a young picture of Tolin Russo
44:58
when he was a player in a baseball car. Somebody had it. Oh,
45:00
and this is when I was in high school college and when he was
45:05
young and I was young, we kind of looked similar. So but yeah,
45:07
that's really that's that's it. That's the only comparisons I have, not
45:12
the worst comparison I have. When you talk about a Hall of Fame,
45:14
I kind of like, yeah, sure, yeah, sure. So the
45:19
Miami Marlins made a very interesting hire recently, appointing Rachel Balkovic as their director
45:25
of Minor Leagues, and I know that she managed the last two seasons with
45:30
the Tampa the Tarbins of the Yankee organization. Were your thoughts about Rachel Balkovich
45:37
taking on such a role to lead that. I know that everybody's trying to
45:42
go out there and have pioneers with women in the league and all that.
45:45
And I know Rachel is a right young lady, a right baseball mind.
45:49
But you think that was a good hire, that she's ideally suited for that
45:52
role. Yeah, I don't really know her. Well, Actually I'm waiting
45:58
for a call actually from her, so she's listening. Rachel, make sure
46:01
don't forget me and give me a call because I know there's some openings in
46:04
the Marvels organization that Gabe Kapler and I have been texting about and so forth.
46:08
So hopefully I get a chance to meet her and talk to her soon.
46:12
But I think that the game has really evolved and changed in the last
46:15
ten years or so, and whereas ten years ago, not necessarily even the
46:22
fact that she's a female, but it's more that to be a farm director
46:28
ten years ago, you had to be in the game for a while,
46:31
and you had to have worked in lots of different roles for a while.
46:36
And no disrespect to Rachel or her journey, but she's you know, was
46:40
a strength coach for a few years and then I'm hitting coach for a couple
46:44
of years, and then a manager for a couple of years. Normally that
46:45
wouldn't be the resume of a farm director, male or female. You know.
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It's just like that person had to be in the game and coaching the
46:53
big leagues and like put in a substantial amount of time to even think about
47:00
getting a job like that. And now there's many farm directors in the game
47:04
now that share that type of limited experience as far as how it used to
47:09
be. So to answer your question, I just think the game has changed.
47:14
I think, like ten years ago that you'd be saying what you know.
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For you to tell me that people are becoming farm directors, working in
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the game just just for a few years and never managing higher than a ball.
47:23
That never would have been a thing, but now that's a thing,
47:28
and lots of different organizations where people are getting jobs and positions with not much
47:36
experience at all. In professional baseball, the landscape has just really changed.
47:39
The industry has really changed, where ownership now is having to pay a lot
47:45
more money for minor league players and their living expenses, and things have changed
47:51
throughout the years, and so I feel like the staffing and experience to pay
47:57
salaries in the minor leagues has changed, and I think organizations are really steering
48:01
towards cheaper or less expensive options, hiring more college coaches to work in professional
48:09
baseball. That never used to be a thing. You know, very rarely
48:14
with a college coach working professional baseball ten fifteen years ago. Now I would
48:17
say half of the industry is college coaches and people who have never played professionally.
48:24
And it used to be you could not work in professional baseball unless you
48:28
played professionally at a high level or at least for a while. And that's
48:30
completely the script's completely flipped so to you know, I heard Rachel is,
48:37
you know, has a lot of feel and knows how to deal with people.
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And I know some friends over there that says she's been great so far.
48:45
I'm sure she's going to do a great job. I'm sure she has
48:46
an excellent skill set. We would just answer your question. It's just the
48:51
kind of the way that baseball is now that people who who don't have to
48:58
put in the time that they did before to get certain jobs where that used
49:01
to just never happen. So I'm sure she's going to do a great job.
49:06
She's obviously, once you've managed in the minor leagues one hundred and forty
49:08
games or she's done twice, your your skin gets a little bit thicker and
49:12
you learn how to deal with all tips in all different types of situations.
49:15
So I'm sure she's kind of seen it all and able to handle it all,
49:19
and I'm sure she's gonna do a great job. Have you ever been
49:22
to Wake Forests Stadium where they have all that scientific technology. I remember for
49:29
the National Sports Media Association I had an opportunity to look at that and that
49:32
was just one of the most unbelievable sources of technology that I've ever seen when
49:37
in terms of analytics or whatever they've got there. I toured it it.
49:40
It was just phenomenal. Yeah, I haven't been in that one, but
49:45
I mean we every professional club has a lab similar to those that the one
49:50
in Waite. When I was working with the White Sox in camel Back Branch
49:53
in Arizona, we have a lab where you can you know, you have
49:58
the pitching mound, the and the four plates and all the different cameras and
50:01
lights and different things to make sure that we can get all the types of
50:05
images and data. So yeah, it's incredible what they can measure now and
50:10
what we can find out from from all this information and all this this technology.
50:15
It's really cool how we can really dig deep and find the core of
50:22
things that need to be improved with players, both on the mound and at
50:24
the player. Okay, and one other question I want to ask you before
50:29
we wrap up Sports Exchange for everybody, for those tuning in, this is
50:32
a Sports Exchange. My name is Scott Morganrooth. Along with George Ichor and
50:36
Jacob Chrisner, our special guest and I is Andy Barquette. Very nice of
50:39
him to join us tonight. But let's talk about I know there's a guy
50:44
named there's a guy named Adam Pluto, who obviously you know, is pitching
50:47
the major leagues, but he's taken this pitching overseas. Have you ever thought
50:52
about playing in Japan or Korea if you wanted to play additional professional baseball to
50:57
try to earn a little bit more money and be able to see it was
51:00
like on the other side of the world. Yeah, I mean, I
51:04
think everybody that was I played seven years in Triple A, So when you're
51:07
in Triple A for that lot long, you're always looking for, you know,
51:10
a payday of some sort of career. Japan And I remember one year
51:15
I was getting scouted by the Cebu Lions and thought I was gonna have a
51:19
chance to go and to go to Japan and play, and it just never
51:22
ever worked out yet. It was definitely not something that I would have entertained,
51:27
our family would have entertained, but it just never got the opportunity.
51:30
Yeah, it's unbelievable. We talked about some of the players that went overseas
51:34
came back a better player and as a result, their careers took off after
51:37
more reps. And you know, the quality of the playoverseason is just unbelievable,
51:40
especially in Japan and Korea always seen the emergence of the Korean Baseball Organization
51:45
I think KBL. Right. So yeah, well that said, that concludes
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I leave everybody with a lasting impression of our guess who was kind enough to
53:31
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53:35
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54:06
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54:08
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the Air. So great being on again tonight, Scott. Great to have
54:20
you, George. All right, Jacob Christner, Jake the Pundit, Jake
54:23
Pundit one on TikTok, Jake the Pundit on Twitter, and the Pundit's Pundit
54:30
on Thursdays with these two and one other plus some other shows and everything like
54:37
that. I had a lot of fun tonight, Amy and that other happens
54:39
to be Denzel Snipe, so we're glad to have him as part of the
54:42
team as well. And all right, Andy, the floor is yours.
54:45
Everybody know how they get hold of you? Yeah, So the Twitter is
54:50
a Barquette seventeen. A Barkette seventeen will be the Twitter feed. And then
54:54
I started an Instagram hitting page on Instagram at the beginning of the year.
55:00
It's called Holistic Hitting, so it's at Holistic Underscore Hitting on Instagram. And
55:06
then TikTok I do have a TikTok at Holistic Hitting as well with the underscore.
55:12
And then you can have a website Baseballprosacademy dot com. That's all one
55:17
word. And so between the Twitter and Instagram and the website you can find
55:22
me and get a hold of me and Baseballproscamp at gmail dot com if anybody
55:28
wants an email or contact me directly for any type of consulting work, whether
55:32
it be teams or individual players doing mental skills or hitting work with players in
55:38
college baseball and professional baseball, and then in the amateur game as well on
55:44
the high school level. So I really appreciate you guys having me on the
55:45
nine and give me a chance to talk and share some information with you.
55:51
All. It was really, it was really a lot of fun. Well,
55:52
you know, Andy, I have to tell you you have an open
55:54
invitation to come on anytime you want, whether it's what the Sports have Change
55:59
or hundred and eight such as Baseball Talk, which we do on Monday nights
56:02
at eight o'clock, but whatever you want, it's okay. You know,
56:05
if I've found out about you on LinkedIn, it's been great. I've met
56:09
a lot of good people on LinkedIn, so that's a great way to connect
56:13
with professionals. So Andy, you have an open invitation anytime you want.
56:17
You let me know when you get to the Greater for Laterdale area. We
56:20
will go out to eat on my dime and we'll have a good time.
56:23
We'll talk baseball, anything you want to do. You've been an absolute pleasure
56:27
to be on. We are so delighted that you've joined us here tonight on
56:30
the Sports Exchange. It's been a lot of fun, and we're doing it
56:34
during the height of the NFL playoffs. Who cares baseball's coming up, so
56:37
we just I just want to get ahead of it. That's all. So
56:42
what that said I'd be after George Korn, Jacob Christler, Andy Barquette.
56:46
My name is Scott Morgan, ra tom Over, City, man Mouth.
56:49
Thank you for joining us on this edition of the Sports Exchange, and we
56:52
will catch you on the next episode. Pundit's funded tomorrow at eight o'clock Eastern
56:57
time. Good night, everybody,