Latest / Foul Territory / Jo Adell on the BIG swing reps misconception, AS snub, Pilates FTW
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Hey, We've got Joe at Dalla and the Angels joining
- 0:05Speaker 1: us on the show. Big smile, Joe.
- 0:07Speaker 2: This is Kevin Zars style territory hosting debut. Great to
- 0:11Speaker 2: have you on.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Do you feel honored that KP, of all people said
- 0:14Speaker 1: I've got the guests I want to bring on and
- 0:16Speaker 1: it's you.
- 0:17Speaker 3: Hey, I'll tell you what, man, We love KP. Man
- 0:20Speaker 3: loved him as a teammate. I'm glad to be on
- 0:21Speaker 3: here with you, guys.
- 0:22Speaker 2: This is great love that.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Hey, KP, you want to intro Joe and how you
- 0:25Speaker 1: know him and anything for us?
- 0:27Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we were We were teammates last year.
- 0:30Speaker 4: Got to know him, you know, really well, spent a
- 0:32Speaker 4: lot of time with him in the outfield. Obviously super talented,
- 0:39Speaker 4: huge All Star snub in my opinion this year, but
- 0:42Speaker 4: just an awesome teammate, human being and wanted to learn
- 0:46Speaker 4: so much and just made me feel so welcome, you know,
- 0:49Speaker 4: coming in mid season last year, and you know, we
- 0:52Speaker 4: had a lot of great conversations and I'd love to
- 0:55Speaker 4: say I'm part of the reason he's having more success
- 0:57Speaker 4: this year, but that's we're going to get into some
- 0:59Speaker 4: of the hard work he's done in the offseason and
- 1:02Speaker 4: this year to you know why he's starting to, you know,
- 1:05Speaker 4: be the player we all thought he could be.
- 1:10Speaker 2: Joe, let's actually start. I got my tier runningdumb eyes, right,
- 1:13Speaker 2: I know, I like that a lot.
- 1:15Speaker 1: I'm going to try to level this out just to
- 1:17Speaker 1: get to some tough guy beef here before we then
- 1:20Speaker 1: get into yeah, the changes and how the season has
- 1:22Speaker 1: been great for you and also even for the team
- 1:24Speaker 1: to be in contention for a playoff spot right now.
- 1:27Speaker 1: But first you saw Aj nodding his head. I did
- 1:29Speaker 1: the same thing a couple of weeks ago.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Just real talk.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Were you bummed that you didn't get into the All
- 1:34Speaker 1: Star Game because you definitely had the numbers to back
- 1:36Speaker 1: it up. There's some politics involved, fan voting, player voting,
- 1:40Speaker 1: stuff like that.
- 1:41Speaker 2: I'm sure you were, you know, kind.
- 1:42Speaker 1: Of checking things to see if there was a replacement option.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Did you get a phone call anything like that?
- 1:49Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 1:49Speaker 2: I think, yeah.
- 1:50Speaker 3: I think one of the things for me was, you know,
- 1:52Speaker 3: I knew that I had a pretty good chance of
- 1:54Speaker 3: the reserve kind of going into it, obviously knowing how
- 1:57Speaker 3: the All Star Game is and the voting of you know,
- 2:00Speaker 3: fans are going to pick the players that they want
- 2:01Speaker 3: to start the game, and we always we know how
- 2:04Speaker 3: that is. I know from Louis of Kentucky. I was
- 2:07Speaker 3: a Joey Vado fan growing up, so every All Star
- 2:10Speaker 3: Game I wanted to see Joey Vado in the All
- 2:12Speaker 3: Star Game.
- 2:12Speaker 2: So I totally understand that. The one thing for me.
- 2:15Speaker 3: That I was a little kind of questionable about was
- 2:20Speaker 3: just the process of the reserve part of the the
- 2:24Speaker 3: All Star Game kind of selection. I was kind of confused.
- 2:27Speaker 3: I didn't really understand. There's kind of felt like there
- 2:29Speaker 3: was three different ways to get in it, and I
- 2:32Speaker 3: didn't really totally grasp, you know, how that selection process
- 2:38Speaker 3: went down. But for my name, I knew I was
- 2:40Speaker 3: in consideration, and for me, you know, being a guy
- 2:43Speaker 3: that you know, I know how far I've come and
- 2:46Speaker 3: just really grateful to even being consideration for it. So yeah,
- 2:50Speaker 3: a little bond that I didn't get in it, and
- 2:52Speaker 3: you know, it's just something to continue to work for
- 2:54Speaker 3: and the chip on my shoulder to continue to grind
- 2:56Speaker 3: and figure this thing out and hopefully be in it
- 2:59Speaker 3: next year.
- 3:00Speaker 1: Jar A Plus Tech team asked if we can try
- 3:03Speaker 1: to flip the phone whatever other direction it is. So
- 3:07Speaker 1: if it's vertical horizontal, or if it's horizontal vertical, let's
- 3:10Speaker 1: at least try.
- 3:10Speaker 2: It and see. Oh yeah, there we go.
- 3:12Speaker 1: That does that's a little bit better. I've been told, yes,
- 3:16Speaker 1: that is good. Yeah, just get your standard.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
- 3:21Speaker 1: And while you're doing that, yeah, aj you want to
- 3:23Speaker 1: be all right.
- 3:24Speaker 5: I got a couple quick questions before we dig into
- 3:25Speaker 5: the angels.
- 3:26Speaker 2: And you're.
- 3:26Speaker 5: First of all, nice, nice to meet you. I've heard
- 3:28Speaker 5: great things about you from a lot of people. But
- 3:30Speaker 5: first of all, if you're a Joey auto fan, you
- 3:32Speaker 5: swing way too much. You gotta go up there and
- 3:34Speaker 5: just never swing, and then you'd be more like Joe
- 3:36Speaker 5: because he never swung unless he had to. You just
- 3:39Speaker 5: go up there and stand and be like, please walk me,
- 3:41Speaker 5: Please walk me.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Okay, you are and go to first You were Joey fan.
- 3:45Speaker 3: You didn't get that from him, No, no, no, no, no,
- 3:48Speaker 3: I didn't get that from him.
- 3:49Speaker 2: But it was funny.
- 3:50Speaker 3: I got the first base in my first spring training
- 3:52Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, and I was kind of starstruck.
- 3:56Speaker 3: You know, I was a young kid, just got to
- 3:58Speaker 3: invite the spring training, and I tapped him on the
- 4:00Speaker 3: leg and I was like, Hey, I just want to
- 4:01Speaker 3: let you know you're one of my favorite players growing up.
- 4:03Speaker 3: I'm from Louisville, and he goes me yeah, So it's
- 4:09Speaker 3: kind of kind of a cool moment. But yeah, right
- 4:11Speaker 3: up the road and Sincy I would go to games
- 4:13Speaker 3: as much as I could.
- 4:14Speaker 2: So all right, I love it.
- 4:16Speaker 6: I love it.
- 4:16Speaker 5: Now let me ask you this. No, Tory Hunter is
- 4:18Speaker 5: a good friend of mine. Okay, he's a special assistant
- 4:20Speaker 5: with the Angels. So who has done more for you
- 4:23Speaker 5: in your career? Tory Hunter or Kevin Palar Who was
- 4:26Speaker 5: more influential in your career so far? And it's okay
- 4:29Speaker 5: not to say Kevin. I know he's gonna ask the
- 4:31Speaker 5: next question, so it's okay to say four.
- 4:34Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest with you. I mean, both of
- 4:36Speaker 3: these guys have been great. The cool part about Tory
- 4:38Speaker 3: coming in is, you know, just having somebody of you know,
- 4:41Speaker 3: his stature coming in and kind of overseeing, you know,
- 4:44Speaker 3: how we're doing things, and just having that trust and
- 4:46Speaker 3: that belief, you know, in my game. And you know,
- 4:50Speaker 3: I think it's big, you know, having a minority player
- 4:53Speaker 3: of his caliber around the team, and that's big for me.
- 4:58Speaker 3: That was a big comfort thing for me when when
- 5:00Speaker 3: he came in and was a part of this. And
- 5:01Speaker 3: obviously I played with his son coming through the minor league,
- 5:04Speaker 3: so me and him already kind of had that relationship
- 5:08Speaker 3: before he joined us. But to be totally honest with you,
- 5:12Speaker 3: I mean, KP, I know how this organization was, you know,
- 5:16Speaker 3: years before you know, KP got in here last year
- 5:20Speaker 3: and me and him would sit and talk about the
- 5:22Speaker 3: game and talk about certain situations and talk about what
- 5:25Speaker 3: we're feeling.
- 5:26Speaker 2: And I never had that from a veteran player.
- 5:28Speaker 3: That was just something that you know, I didn't get
- 5:31Speaker 3: here until you know, I met KP and he kind
- 5:34Speaker 3: of was really able to talk about the game and
- 5:36Speaker 3: talked about his approach to different things. He wanted to
- 5:39Speaker 3: help and he wanted to make us better. And so
- 5:43Speaker 3: you know, had tip to both of these guys, and Kevin,
- 5:47Speaker 3: you deserve that fluff for sure, So I appreciate it.
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- 6:53Speaker 6: Hey.
- 6:53Speaker 4: I had a couple questions for you. One on the
- 6:56Speaker 4: physical site because obviously being with you last year, I
- 6:59Speaker 4: saw you go down a couple of times with the
- 7:00Speaker 4: ob league. Just gonna want to touch on you know
- 7:03Speaker 4: what you had sort of changed this offseason. You know,
- 7:06Speaker 4: I follow you on Instagram and stuff. I've seen what
- 7:08Speaker 4: you've done, but kind of share with us with how
- 7:11Speaker 4: you kind of change your off season routine in order to,
- 7:14Speaker 4: you know, try to avoid some of those injuries. And
- 7:16Speaker 4: then the second part is what sort of swing changes
- 7:19Speaker 4: that you made with you know, Washing Lake, because you know,
- 7:22Speaker 4: I obviously was in the cage with you a lot,
- 7:24Speaker 4: and there was a lot of trial and air and
- 7:26Speaker 4: obviously the talents out of this world and I've been
- 7:29Speaker 4: intended different organizations I played over ten years. No one
- 7:33Speaker 4: hit the ball like you and VP your your your
- 7:36Speaker 4: top three four hitter I've ever seen in VP. So
- 7:38Speaker 4: it was only a matter of time and you know,
- 7:41Speaker 4: the amount of work you put in for you to
- 7:43Speaker 4: kind of become the player you always thought you were.
- 7:45Speaker 3: Going to be. Nonsuthing first and foremost, I had to
- 7:50Speaker 3: limit the swings. That was kind of the big thing
- 7:54Speaker 3: I was going into hitting sessions in the offseason even
- 7:56Speaker 3: during the season. Are just taking too many swings, And
- 8:00Speaker 3: that's just again, at some point, if it's a good
- 8:03Speaker 3: day in the cage or a bad day, you gotta
- 8:05Speaker 3: draw the line. And so I think for me, just
- 8:07Speaker 3: really cutting those swings down overall was probably the number
- 8:11Speaker 3: one thing. But also I would just kind of go into,
- 8:16Speaker 3: you know, the off season routine of I lifted a
- 8:19Speaker 3: little less and off seasons prior I've had those oblique injuries,
- 8:25Speaker 3: and I approached this off season to just, hey, I'm
- 8:27Speaker 3: gonna back down on the lifting a little bit.
- 8:28Speaker 2: I'm already built.
- 8:30Speaker 3: Pretty well, so I'm just, you know, me adding muscle
- 8:33Speaker 3: was kind of doing me more harm than good. And
- 8:36Speaker 3: I got into pilates. I got into it one of
- 8:41Speaker 3: my good buddies, Hunter Green. I've been close with him
- 8:44Speaker 3: for years. It's been part of his off season routine
- 8:47Speaker 3: for as long as I can remember. And I jumped
- 8:49Speaker 3: into it and really kind of got that flexibility to
- 8:54Speaker 3: a point where I felt like I could do more.
- 8:58Speaker 2: I felt like I was looser.
- 9:00Speaker 3: I felt like my movement patterns when I was swinging
- 9:03Speaker 3: weren't as rigid and tight, and so I really kind
- 9:07Speaker 3: of implemented that two three times a week to just
- 9:10Speaker 3: really strengthen my core and kind of continue to try
- 9:14Speaker 3: to be a better athlete. And to this point, I
- 9:17Speaker 3: feel great at this point in the season. Years prior
- 9:20Speaker 3: to the bleaks, and you know that core was starting
- 9:23Speaker 3: to become an issue. But I feel pretty good as
- 9:27Speaker 3: of right now. But those will be the two would
- 9:28Speaker 3: be cutting down the cutting down the amount of swings
- 9:31Speaker 3: and and really just getting in into pilates and and
- 9:35Speaker 3: and getting and getting rolling. But as far as you know,
- 9:39Speaker 3: you just talked about VP the top three of the
- 9:43Speaker 3: of the best vps you've seen. My VP's changed, man,
- 9:47Speaker 3: Like you know, I go in, I don't hit VP
- 9:49Speaker 3: every day on the field now. I used to hit
- 9:51Speaker 3: it every single day. You remember last year I would
- 9:54Speaker 3: go and swing, swing, swing on the field. I really
- 9:56Speaker 3: just hit VP once or twice a week maybe on
- 9:59Speaker 3: the field, but just the cage work and the discipline
- 10:02Speaker 3: of like just preparing for the game, feeling what I
- 10:05Speaker 3: need to feel, and just getting out.
- 10:09Speaker 4: Joe, only if someone told you that last year.
- 10:12Speaker 5: Yes, you know, I love what you just said. By
- 10:15Speaker 5: the way, I love that less swings because I used
- 10:17Speaker 5: to take minimal swings. I never hit in the offseason.
- 10:20Speaker 5: So I know you were doing some changes, but I
- 10:22Speaker 5: love what you just said. And I also do pilates.
- 10:24Speaker 5: I've done plots for a long time, and I was
- 10:26Speaker 5: doing it while I was still playing so everything you
- 10:29Speaker 5: just said, I wish more people would listen to.
- 10:31Speaker 2: You don't have to take a.
- 10:32Speaker 5: Billion swings every single day. I was a big hid
- 10:35Speaker 5: on the field guy, but I didn't take a lot
- 10:36Speaker 5: of swings in the cage. So I love to hit
- 10:39Speaker 5: on the field just to get outside. But what you
- 10:40Speaker 5: just said that was pure gold. So thank you, thank you.
- 10:43Speaker 5: It's so nice to hear another player saying, oh, I
- 10:44Speaker 5: don't have to take seven because these guys take seven
- 10:46Speaker 5: billion swings a day and they're tired.
- 10:50Speaker 2: Well, also figured it out.
- 10:52Speaker 4: There's also a point you're not going to necessarily figure
- 10:54Speaker 4: everything out in.
- 10:55Speaker 2: One cage session.
- 10:56Speaker 4: It's like at some point you just need to and
- 10:59Speaker 4: the baseball season and so long, at some point you
- 11:01Speaker 4: just need to get in, get your body acclimated, you know,
- 11:04Speaker 4: maybe try to feel good, and even if you don't
- 11:06Speaker 4: feel good. Like I was always in the mindset and
- 11:09Speaker 4: my swing wasn't always going to be great, I wasn't
- 11:11Speaker 4: going to fix it in the cage. But I got
- 11:13Speaker 4: to go into the game with what I got that day.
- 11:15Speaker 4: So I just got to like change my perspective and
- 11:18Speaker 4: just say, today's going to be a compete. Dame, my
- 11:20Speaker 4: swing sucks. The picture of the mountains really good. I
- 11:23Speaker 4: just got to compete, and then there's gonna be some
- 11:24Speaker 4: days where I'm like, wow, my swing is dialed in.
- 11:27Speaker 4: It didn't matter who was pitching. I felt like I
- 11:29Speaker 4: was going to be.
- 11:29Speaker 3: Successful now, sir. So, I mean I have those days
- 11:33Speaker 3: where like, I mean, you know this, but you know,
- 11:36Speaker 3: you go into a day game and some of my
- 11:38Speaker 3: day games are like my best games, and it's it's
- 11:42Speaker 3: partly because you know, get to the field. There's not
- 11:44Speaker 3: gonna be a whole lot of stuff going on on
- 11:46Speaker 3: the field, and it's going to be he get loose,
- 11:48Speaker 3: get out here and get this thing going. And sometimes
- 11:51Speaker 3: that's what you need. And I found this year that
- 11:54Speaker 3: me doing that more often has kind of helped me
- 11:57Speaker 3: just not overthink it and just get in there and
- 11:59Speaker 3: go to work. I mean, we know what we're looking for,
- 12:01Speaker 3: we know what we're trying to do. Get a good pitch.
- 12:04Speaker 3: We say, you know, now, you're only as good as
- 12:07Speaker 3: a hitter as the pitches that you swing at, and
- 12:09Speaker 3: so you know, I think that's something for me. We
- 12:13Speaker 3: talk about hitting changes and adjustments. I mean, I've just
- 12:17Speaker 3: focused on finding a good pitch. And you know, physically,
- 12:20Speaker 3: whatever happens is going to happen. But let that kind
- 12:23Speaker 3: of be where my head's at.
- 12:29Speaker 2: KP. You got yeah, I got one more.
- 12:31Speaker 4: Hey, Joe, how's the how's the adjustment to center field been?
- 12:37Speaker 2: You know what, it's been interesting. You know.
- 12:40Speaker 3: I remember so I got drafted as a center fielder,
- 12:43Speaker 3: and that was also thirty or forty pounds ago, you know,
- 12:48Speaker 3: so me as a bigger guy now it is a
- 12:50Speaker 3: little bit different. I think the bigger thing I'm learning
- 12:53Speaker 3: about center field in comparison to right field is just
- 12:56Speaker 3: understanding where everybody is. I think that's the bigger thing.
- 13:00Speaker 3: In spring training, it was an adjustment. I was trying to,
- 13:02Speaker 3: you know, when we had Mike and he was out
- 13:04Speaker 3: and right I was trying to, you know, make sure
- 13:08Speaker 3: I was, you know, very aware of where he was
- 13:11Speaker 3: and trying to not you know, overstep in his area.
- 13:15Speaker 3: I'm sorry, housekeeping just came in trying not to get
- 13:19Speaker 3: in his area. You know, same thing with Warden left,
- 13:22Speaker 3: trying to you know, not overstep where he was. But
- 13:25Speaker 3: the thing that I found out is just be aggressive.
- 13:28Speaker 3: You know, in every play, I'm trying to be aggressive.
- 13:30Speaker 3: And I found that the more aggressive I am left
- 13:33Speaker 3: to right going to get the ball, the less times that,
- 13:36Speaker 3: you know, we end up standing there looking at each other,
- 13:39Speaker 3: you know, at a player under a fly ball.
- 13:41Speaker 2: So but definitely more room. For sure.
- 13:45Speaker 6: You're the alpha out there.
- 13:46Speaker 4: You're the alpha.
- 13:49Speaker 5: I wouldn't want to run into you.
- 13:50Speaker 6: I don't care who big.
- 13:52Speaker 5: So all right, before you go, I got to know
- 13:54Speaker 5: that I played in salt Lake for three years. I
- 13:56Speaker 5: played a long time. You were right in ninety eight,
- 13:58Speaker 5: ninety nine, two thousand, for parts of all three years.
- 14:01Speaker 6: Okay.
- 14:01Speaker 5: People ask me all the time, and I know this
- 14:03Speaker 5: triple A the best city you ever played in? And
- 14:05Speaker 5: I say salt Lake. Salt Lake was unbelievable. And yes,
- 14:08Speaker 5: I played for the Buzz before they were the Salt
- 14:10Speaker 5: Lake City Bees. Okay, so yeah, a long time ago, right,
- 14:13Speaker 5: can you explain how awesome of a place Salt Lake City,
- 14:17Speaker 5: at least for me? I don't know, mind have been years,
- 14:19Speaker 5: but talk about Salt Lake because I loved playing in
- 14:21Speaker 5: salt Lake City.
- 14:23Speaker 3: Honest say, it was a great experience. They loved the game,
- 14:26Speaker 3: The fans were there early mostly most of the games
- 14:29Speaker 3: were sold out. I know the park just moved though,
- 14:33Speaker 3: so I don't know how. I don't know how the
- 14:35Speaker 3: new stadium is now, but the one in the city
- 14:38Speaker 3: when you know, when I was there, my experience was great.
- 14:42Speaker 2: And you know how it is like in Triple A.
- 14:43Speaker 3: You're trying to be in the big leagues and so
- 14:46Speaker 3: it's easy for them a row to get down. But
- 14:48Speaker 3: you know, for me, I respected the fact that, you know,
- 14:51Speaker 3: you go out on a Saturday night and the place
- 14:53Speaker 3: was filled and people enjoyed the game. They were cheering
- 14:56Speaker 3: for it. It wasn't like you were getting you know,
- 15:00Speaker 3: I call it like minor league hazing, where you have
- 15:02Speaker 3: like two guys sitting on the berm just like burning
- 15:04Speaker 3: you up, you know what I mean. It was like
- 15:06Speaker 3: they these these people enjoyed the game. They brought families
- 15:09Speaker 3: out to the game, and I really enjoyed my time
- 15:13Speaker 3: there and definitely appreciated the elevation.
- 15:15Speaker 2: For sure. Don't never go back. Don't say that.
- 15:19Speaker 6: Don't never go back.
- 15:20Speaker 5: But no, I don't know the old the news dude,
- 15:22Speaker 5: the old Staum had one of the best views in
- 15:23Speaker 5: the world. You're catching and you had the mountains out there,
- 15:26Speaker 5: and you're.
- 15:26Speaker 2: Just like, it's fantastic. Oh it was unbelievable. It's fantastic.
- 15:32Speaker 1: Well, Joe, this was awesome man, Thanks for catching up
- 15:35Speaker 1: with us. How did KP do in his hosting as
- 15:38Speaker 1: the guy asking questions instead of fielding them?
- 15:41Speaker 3: And he's fantastic. He's fantastic. He just works out great,
- 15:45Speaker 3: So I appreciate you guys having me on you