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Angels SP Grayson Rodriguez joins FT + Pablo López on Twins Cities · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Grayson Rodriguez of the Angels joining us round now on
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Speaker 1: foul territory. Grayson, great to have you on here, man,
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Speaker 1: good to catch up. How's life. Does it feel good
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Speaker 1: to just be back? You're in the bigs, You're throwing
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Speaker 1: pitches there, what's going on?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, man, it feels great to finally be back on
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Speaker 3: the active roster. I know it felt like five ten
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Speaker 3: years that I was on the aisle.
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Speaker 2: It was tough, but.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, finally just to be just happy to be back
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Speaker 3: out there and pitching every five and six days.
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Speaker 4: What did you miss? What did you miss the most?
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Speaker 2: No, you're good.
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Speaker 3: I would say, just like the everyday thing of like
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Speaker 3: you know, waking up and not worrying about how to
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Speaker 3: get to the field early for rehab or just being
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Speaker 3: able to watch the game and like I said, feel
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Speaker 3: like you're a part of the team because on the il,
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Speaker 3: you know, sometimes you show up to the ballpark and
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Speaker 3: you feel like you're obviously not going to contribute that day.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, just being back on the active roster I
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Speaker 3: think is probably what I missed the most, Just being
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Speaker 3: able to show up to the ballpark and you know,
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Speaker 3: look at a scouting report and get ready for the
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Speaker 3: next start.
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Speaker 5: Was there something that you had to do as far
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Speaker 5: as like a routine that you were like, even though
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Speaker 5: I'm on the il, I'm still getting my pregame shower,
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Speaker 5: my uniform on, or my uniform on walking out with
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Speaker 5: the other starting pitchers. Was there something that like kind
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Speaker 5: of got you back in that, hey, I'm on the
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Speaker 5: active roster routine besides pitching.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean i'd say obviously, like you said, like
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Speaker 3: walking down with the bullpen or yeah, getting the uniform on,
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Speaker 3: the jersey on, or whatever it might be. I think
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Speaker 3: for me with throwing throwing bullpens in jerseys, was something
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Speaker 3: that kind of kept me feeling like I was active
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Speaker 3: or you know, not rehabbing, but making sure you're doing
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Speaker 3: something like that, I guess. And then you know, just
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Speaker 3: kind of preparing for when you are active and you're
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Speaker 3: back in the season kind of things you know, kind
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Speaker 3: of done the exact same way.
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Speaker 2: So that's what we've been trying to do, Grayson.
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Speaker 4: Most most guys get four or five rehab starts. You
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Speaker 4: only had two. Was that the plan the whole time
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Speaker 4: or was this just you saying, Man, I haven't pitched
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Speaker 4: so long, I need to get back.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it was a little bit of that
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Speaker 3: as well as just feeling ready. I mean I had
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Speaker 3: you know, there was obviously like two rehab starts in
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Speaker 3: the minor leagues, but then you know, I also threw
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Speaker 3: a couple of times in extended spring training down in Arizona,
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Speaker 3: so I was able to kind of have some of
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Speaker 3: those outings as well. I think I threw two or
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Speaker 3: three times down there, So yeah, I mean it was
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Speaker 3: a little bit more.
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Speaker 2: Than two outings. But yeah, I mean I just felt
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Speaker 2: like I was ready.
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously the velocity was there, was able to
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Speaker 3: spend the breaking balls well, and so yeah, I mean
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Speaker 3: just wanted to let it rip against the Dodgers, you know,
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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, and just to see where
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Speaker 3: I was at, and uh really just missed it so
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Speaker 3: much that you know, that was kind of the I
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Speaker 3: don't know, I felt I felt hurried up a little
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Speaker 3: bit just because I wanted to get back out there.
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Speaker 5: You can only do so much in triple A.
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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's for sure. Yeah, I mean, facing minor league.
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Speaker 3: Hitters incomparable to to the big league hitters, that's for sure.
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Speaker 5: What's the difference what's the difference, because it's I said
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Speaker 5: all the time, triple A. It's just not as good
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Speaker 5: for you as a pitcher. Is it your exertion? Is
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Speaker 5: it your like need to make pitches which makes you
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Speaker 5: feel like you have to desert exert yourself more.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think you I think well, I
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Speaker 3: think you get away with a lot more in the
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Speaker 3: minor leagues in what you do in the big leagues.
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Speaker 3: You know, like you know, if you're and I'm saying,
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Speaker 3: like pitches over the plate, so like you know, maybe
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Speaker 3: you get to two strikes and you throw a curveball
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Speaker 3: that's not in a great spot, and you know it's
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Speaker 3: a bad pitch. A minor league guy could fail it
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Speaker 3: off or miss it. As your big league guy probably
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Speaker 3: maybe you know, hit it over the fence or hit
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Speaker 3: it hard somewhere. I think it's probably the big differences
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Speaker 3: and the swing decisions are another thing. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 3: there are a couple of different factors of just not
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Speaker 3: being able to get away with some misses that you
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Speaker 3: do in the minor leagues in the big leagues.
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Speaker 4: Grayston, did you make any adjustments after missing that much time?
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Speaker 4: Do you make any adjustments to your arsenal. Do you
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Speaker 4: make any adjustments to your mechanics, Do you make any
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Speaker 4: adjustments to your workouts, to your nutrition? Is there anything
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Speaker 4: that you change after missing such a long time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 3: I think obviously nutrition was one, like looking back on it,
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Speaker 3: like probably wouldn't getting enough protein and some things on
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Speaker 3: start days, so the body was kind of lacking that nutrition.
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Speaker 3: And then the day after you know, to heal and recover.
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Speaker 3: And then as far as mechanics goes, I mean, just
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Speaker 3: working on short in the arm path a little bit.
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Speaker 3: I think at times I was getting a little long.
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Speaker 2: Obviously that adds.
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Speaker 3: A little bit more stress on the shoulder, and so
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Speaker 3: just trying to take that stress down. Obviously worked with Maddox,
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Speaker 3: our pitching coach with a mad dog, just trying to
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Speaker 3: shorten that arm path up a little bit to feel
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Speaker 3: a little bit stronger, and it's made my shoulder feel
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Speaker 3: so much better. As far as arsenal goes, nothing really different.
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Speaker 3: I mean, still just the same four pitch mix, you know,
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Speaker 3: going out there and kind of seeing what I have
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Speaker 3: to work with that night, attack the hitters with that
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Speaker 3: kind of stuff. But yeah, I mean I'd say there
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Speaker 3: was a couple of minor changes, nothing major, but the biggest.
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Speaker 2: One I'd probably say was probably nutrition food.
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Speaker 5: Has Mike Maddocks been a big change for you when
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Speaker 5: since you've come over, because you were kind of excited
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Speaker 5: to For everybody who's not listening, I'm holding my mustache
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Speaker 5: just like Mad Dog Mike Maddox does when he comes
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Speaker 5: out to the mound and holds his hand on there.
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Speaker 5: He's not covering his mouth, He's just holding his mustache
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Speaker 5: so it doesn't fall off. Has he been a big
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Speaker 5: change in the sense where you said when you came
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Speaker 5: on and you got moved over to the Angels, you
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Speaker 5: were like kind of kind of interested to work with
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Speaker 5: a guy like this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, he's been awesome.
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, his baseball knowledge is amazing. All the
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Speaker 3: meetings we had with him at spring training just talking
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Speaker 3: about you know, baseball situation stuff was great. And then
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Speaker 3: having him during the season. You know, it's been It's
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Speaker 3: been good so far. Like I said, I've only made
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Speaker 3: four starts, but yeah, I mean you can definitely tell,
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Speaker 3: like the experience is there. He's been awesome to work with.
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Speaker 2: It's not like I don't know a lot of like
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Speaker 2: word soup.
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Speaker 3: It's just right to the point, and this is what
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Speaker 3: you need to do. This is what I think you
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Speaker 3: can do to get better. And you know, that's how
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Speaker 3: it's been, and I've enjoyed it so far. Obviously kind
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Speaker 3: of gotten off to a rocky start, but yeah, I
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Speaker 3: mean he's right there with me, and you know, we're
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Speaker 3: working on some things right now and getting ready for
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Speaker 3: the next start.
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Speaker 5: Did you see Bailey over filed a formal complaint about
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Speaker 5: the balls that he threw a few weeks ago, right
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Speaker 5: before he got hurt.
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Speaker 2: Did you see that? No, I did not.
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Speaker 5: He was complaining about they were the worst baseballs that
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Speaker 5: he's thrown in his six year career. Have you noticed
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Speaker 5: inconsistencies with the baseballs I'm not saying just now, but
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Speaker 5: throughout your career.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a little bit. I think you can.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's definitely times where maybe the baseball feels
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Speaker 3: harder or softer. The scenes are smaller, scenes are bigger.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I don't think it's too drastic, but
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Speaker 3: I think, you know, guys that really have.
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Speaker 2: Done in a long time, like he's obviously pitching the
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Speaker 2: big leagues a lot longer than I have.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean I think there are some kind
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Speaker 3: of Yeah, I think the ball does change a little bit,
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Speaker 3: you know, and it could be, you know, in the
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Speaker 3: same game. I mean, you know, the baseballs are handmade,
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Speaker 3: you know, their hands stitched or whatever. So yeah, I
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Speaker 3: mean sometimes they do feel a little bit different. You know,
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Speaker 3: there's better balls out there that you know, maybe you
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Speaker 3: can throw a better forceinger with, or you know, maybe
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Speaker 3: there's a ball out there that you want to throw
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Speaker 3: a change up or a breaking ball with. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean i'd say, yeah, not every baseball is the same,
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Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean in terms of over my career, no,
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Speaker 3: I mean I haven't really seen any kind of huge change.
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Speaker 3: But I've also, like I said, been in the big
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Speaker 3: leagues about half the time he has.
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Speaker 1: So, Hey, Grayson, some questions about your teammates. I want
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Speaker 1: to start with Joe Adele, who's been on the show
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Speaker 1: quite a few times. I mean, he had maybe the
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Speaker 1: best defensive outfield game of all time earlier this season,
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Speaker 1: and then he had the blooper the other day where
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Speaker 1: it knocked off him and went over the wall. How
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Speaker 1: did he react to all of that? Like, did you
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Speaker 1: guys have fun with it? Ajo always says, Hey, nothing sacred.
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Speaker 1: You know, everything in the clubhouse can get made fun of,
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Speaker 1: besides like families or whatever. But anything on the field,
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Speaker 1: for sure, you can have a good laugh with. There's
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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two of them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean absolutely, Like baseball is a game where
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Speaker 3: you don't know what the heck's going to happen. Obviously, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: going back to the game where he robs three homers,
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Speaker 3: like single handedly the best OUTFA performance you know, I've
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Speaker 3: ever seen, and I know a lot of people have
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Speaker 3: ever seen. Robin three homers is absolutely insane. And then yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean you know, like you have like what happened
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Speaker 3: the other night, Like I mean, you know he's not
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Speaker 3: doing that on purpose. I mean, you know, the ball's head,
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Speaker 3: he's going back, he's trying to find the wall, and
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Speaker 3: obviously you got like Mike coming in. I don't know,
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of stuff going on there. But I
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Speaker 3: mean it's just baseball. I mean things like that happen,
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Speaker 3: and I know it's I mean, I know it's kind
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Speaker 3: of crazy, but I mean you just have to move
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Speaker 3: on and you know it happens, it's in the past,
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Speaker 3: and you know, obviously, yeah, I mean, you know he's
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Speaker 3: sorry about it. You know, he, like I said, he
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Speaker 3: didn't do it on purpose. So I mean it's all good.
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Speaker 3: You know, you just move on and you know, you
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Speaker 3: keep going about the season. There's so many more games left,
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Speaker 3: and you know he's going to make a lot, He's
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Speaker 3: going to make so.
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Speaker 2: Many more great plays this year.
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Speaker 3: And you know, like I said, I mean, yeah, we
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Speaker 3: can laugh and joke about it, and you know he
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Speaker 3: takes it well. And but like I said, the most
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Speaker 3: important thing as you just move on. And you know
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Speaker 3: that happened what three or four days ago, And yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean it's not even gonna get talked about today
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Speaker 3: in the club.
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Speaker 5: Should that have been an air.
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Speaker 2: For sure?
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Speaker 5: Starting pictures standpoint, that's your own run. It hit his
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Speaker 5: glove and then his head.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't know. I'm not really sure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not the best scoring person to ask, but
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Speaker 3: I mean I don't know. Yeah, I mean, first off,
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Speaker 3: it's my fault for you know, giving up that hard
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Speaker 3: hit ball. I think obviously there's a curveball that just
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Speaker 3: kind of nestled middle down. But yeah, I mean, I
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Speaker 3: you know, I think we're only four starts in, you know,
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Speaker 3: if I'm starting to really worry about earned runs and everything. Like,
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Speaker 3: right now, I'm just focused on one being able to
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Speaker 3: go out there, and then two obviously like trying to
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Speaker 3: attack the lineup and make sure that I'm giving my
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Speaker 3: team the best chance to win.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, you know.
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Speaker 3: Gave up a few runs the other night, But like
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Speaker 3: I said, I've already started focusing on facing or the
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Speaker 3: next team that's coming up. And yeah, so, like I said,
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Speaker 3: I can't make the call.
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Speaker 2: On whether or not that was an error.
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Speaker 1: Hey, you mentioned Trout too, So have you had some
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Speaker 1: good combos with him yet? I mean, do you look
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Speaker 1: at him and say, hey, it's one of the best
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Speaker 1: players we've ever seen. It's pretty cool that I'm going
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Speaker 1: to get to spend some time with this guy now.
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Speaker 1: And we know, I mean, he's one of the nicest guys.
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Speaker 1: He's very open to hanging out and having conversations. Right,
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Speaker 1: He's not showing up with an entourade, He's none of that.
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Speaker 1: But can you explain what it's been like so far?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's been awesome.
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Speaker 3: Obviously, haven't played with a guy like that of his
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Speaker 3: caliber before, So I mean, honestly, I've explained it to
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Speaker 3: people that are like, you know, what's Mike Trout like?
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Speaker 3: And I'm like, it's like, I mean, it's like a
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Speaker 3: twelve year old kid that shows up to the ballpark
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Speaker 3: that just cannot wait to play every night.
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Speaker 2: I mean that's kind of like what it is. You know, he's.
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Speaker 3: Always the first guy at the ballpark. The energy is
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Speaker 3: the exact same every day. He's excited to play. You know,
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Speaker 3: he's never down. It's it's always he's just looking forward
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Speaker 3: to it. And it's pretty cool to see because like
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Speaker 3: it kind of I don't know, you that that energy
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Speaker 3: kind of spreads throughout the clubhouse. You know, guys see
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Speaker 3: that and then they're like, hey, we get to play
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Speaker 3: a baseball game tonight, and so like that's how Mike is.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, he shows up like I said,
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Speaker 3: you know, he's extremely excited to play every night. Super
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Speaker 3: cool to see and uh man, to be able to
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Speaker 3: see somebody that's you know, had the career he has
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Speaker 3: play on put on the same jersey as you has
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Speaker 3: been awesome, you know. I mean it's you're almost like
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Speaker 3: a little kid in a dugout whenever you see him
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Speaker 3: walk up to bat.
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Speaker 2: And obviously you're expecting.
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Speaker 3: The home run or something big, and a lot of
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Speaker 3: the times, you know, he performs, and he's had a
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Speaker 3: great season so far.
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Speaker 5: You guys are gonna you're gonna start against the Astros,
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Speaker 5: and a lot of time, you know, I say, Jordan
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Speaker 5: Alvarez is one of the best five hitters in the
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Speaker 5: game right now, if not maybe top three hitters. Can
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Speaker 5: starting pitchers admit who the best five hitters are in
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Speaker 5: the game or is it something that like you don't
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Speaker 5: ever talk about because you're like, I don't want to
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Speaker 5: give him enough credit, or is that something that you're
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Speaker 5: like that guys don't really talk about or are just
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Speaker 5: afraid to talk about.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think like, I mean, I think
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Speaker 3: it's fine to admit it or whatever. I think it
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Speaker 3: differs though for some guys just based off like you know,
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Speaker 3: past that bats and in games like obviously I face
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Speaker 3: the order on a couple of times we were in
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Speaker 3: Baltimore and I threw threw a pretty good change up
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Speaker 3: to him.
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Speaker 2: He was down, fooled him.
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Speaker 3: It's kind of like a you know, he kind of
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Speaker 3: lunged at it through the bat out there and just
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Speaker 3: kind of flicked it and uh, I was like, oh,
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Speaker 3: that's that's a flyball.
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Speaker 2: It's an out and uh ball was in the gap.
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Speaker 3: Santander ends up catching it, jumps up, catches it against
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Speaker 3: the wall, burnt out, and I'm.
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Speaker 2: Like, holy cal how did that ball go so far?
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Speaker 3: And uh, yeah, I mean somebody like that.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, he's so big and powerful. You know, even even
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Speaker 2: when he takes a bad swing, the ball can still
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Speaker 2: leave the park.
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Speaker 3: And you, obviously, the starting pitcher, you prepare to face
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Speaker 3: that guy three times for sure, or at least that's
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Speaker 3: the goal.
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Speaker 2: And so yeah, like I said, you just got a
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Speaker 2: game plan for it, you know.
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Speaker 3: And then again, you know, you take these guys that
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Speaker 3: are really good hitters, and then you try not to
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Speaker 3: give them too much credit because if you start giving
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Speaker 3: them too much credit, then you know, you start kind
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Speaker 3: of being you know, you start pitching away from the zone.
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Speaker 3: And that's obviously what you don't want to do because
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Speaker 3: obviously there's nine hitters in a lineup.
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Speaker 2: Those guys are big leaders too, and any one of
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Speaker 2: their bats can hit a ball and leave the yard.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, like I said, you know, those
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Speaker 3: hitters are great, and so is he. I mean, he's
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Speaker 3: definitely one of the top five hitters in the league
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Speaker 3: right now. But yeah, I mean as a starter, I
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Speaker 3: mean you got to one, you just got to admit it,
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Speaker 3: but two, you got to go right after him.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Grayson, last one for you. Because it's the next
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Speaker 1: segment on our show. We like to take an article
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Speaker 1: and then get the player perspective of current and of
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Speaker 1: course form.
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Speaker 2: Or we're about to do.
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Speaker 6: So.
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Speaker 1: There's an article in the Athletics that some MLB orgs
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Speaker 1: are more injury prone than others.
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Speaker 7: Is it bad luck or a system issue?
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Speaker 1: And they did a study from since twenty four, since
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Speaker 1: twenty two and even back to twenty twelve. The three
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Speaker 1: orgs that have the most injuries or the Yankees, the Mets,
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Speaker 1: and the Orioles. They counted minor league and major league.
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Speaker 1: So I feel like it's something I got to ask you.
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Speaker 1: It's just, you know, do you think there's anything to it?
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Speaker 1: The story was really good. It was it wasn't like
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Speaker 1: focusing on the Oriols org. It was more looking big picture, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: are these organizations looking more for velocity? Some of those
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Speaker 1: organizations have the best plus stuff plus guys. Some of
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Speaker 1: them are promoting swing speed a lot, So are there
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Speaker 1: any correlations there, So just curious to get your thoughts,
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Speaker 1: you know, if if you're giving feedback on, hey, this
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Speaker 1: is what I saw that maybe could be leading to
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Speaker 1: more of these younger guys getting hurt.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say like being able to obviously come
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Speaker 3: up through the Orioles organization and kind of see like,
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Speaker 3: you know, everything that I was taught to focus on
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Speaker 3: or what worked on like in bullpens or you know,
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Speaker 3: not necessarily during the starts, because you know, like during games,
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Speaker 3: you're going out there and you're competing.
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Speaker 2: Obviously in the minor leagues.
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Speaker 3: There's ending limits and pitch limits and all kinds of
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Speaker 3: stuff like that. But I'd say one thing like a
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Speaker 3: big difference that I've seen from like the Angels and
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Speaker 3: the Orioles organizations was I came over here in spring
16:23
Speaker 3: and uh, well, while I was rehabing in Baltimore last year,
16:27
Speaker 3: I mean there was there was there was a ton
16:28
Speaker 3: of guys that I was rehabing with minor league, minor
16:32
Speaker 3: league guys, and it's like, wow, you know, lots of
16:35
Speaker 3: lots of guys are getting hurt these days, and you
16:38
Speaker 3: just know that, like guys are throwing harder. Obviously the
16:40
Speaker 3: risk for injuries higher, So it's kind of normal, or
16:43
Speaker 3: at least what I thought at the time. And then
16:46
Speaker 3: coming over to like this organization, like seeing I guess
16:52
Speaker 3: a lot less guys that were rehabing, and then kind
16:55
Speaker 3: of hearing their philosophy on like minor league pitchers and
16:58
Speaker 3: like kind of like how their bullpen are, and like
17:01
Speaker 3: one thing that I noticed was like the bullpens for
17:06
Speaker 3: I guess this organization's minor leaguers are a heck of
17:09
Speaker 3: a lot different than when I was coming up. And yeah,
17:14
Speaker 3: I'd say, like that's kind of been the differences they
17:17
Speaker 3: kind of look at. I guess maybe a player's long
17:21
Speaker 3: term health. I don't know, there's it's kind of hard
17:26
Speaker 3: to put into words, but like I don't know that
17:31
Speaker 3: it's not about, hey, this is how hard you're gonna
17:34
Speaker 3: throw in your bullpen, or you know, we want you
17:37
Speaker 3: to chase spin rate or some kind of you know, metric.
17:41
Speaker 3: It's more along the lines of, you know, we're gonna
17:44
Speaker 3: get in here, you're gonna throw strikes, You're gonna throw
17:46
Speaker 3: fifteen to twenty pitches at seventy five percent effort and
17:49
Speaker 3: get out of there and yeah, I mean that definitely
17:53
Speaker 3: leads to a lot less injuries, I think, But yeah,
17:56
Speaker 3: I mean it's definitely been different. But yeah, I mean
17:58
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't Yeah, I can't really put
18:02
Speaker 3: it into words, I guess.
18:04
Speaker 1: No, I think the answer made a lot of sense,
18:07
Speaker 1: you know, where, Yeah, where you're trying to weigh the
18:09
Speaker 1: balance of Hey, you know, I want to use these
18:12
Speaker 1: new tools and I want to try and whatever improve
18:14
Speaker 1: a certain pitch quality or something like that, but also
18:17
Speaker 1: you want to keep the guy on the field. How
18:19
Speaker 1: do you do that long term? Because that's the most
18:22
Speaker 1: important thing, right, Oh, can I improve him zero point
18:24
Speaker 1: one percent on these pitches?
18:26
Speaker 2: You know?
18:27
Speaker 1: And I'm just generalizing here, but the real name of
18:29
Speaker 1: the game is who's on the field, right, I mean,
18:32
Speaker 1: that's part of it. Whenever we talk about teams, most
18:35
Speaker 1: of the time we talk about how many injuries they
18:37
Speaker 1: have and then how they didn't make the playoffs that year.
18:39
Speaker 1: That's usually the first thing that we go to on
18:41
Speaker 1: our show, right, Like we'll be like, oh, well, you know, Baltimore,
18:44
Speaker 1: they were missing fifteen guys. It's like, okay, well some
18:47
Speaker 1: of those guys probably would have getten hurt. No, matter what,
18:49
Speaker 1: but maybe some of them would have had a different plan.
18:50
Speaker 1: So it's not just Baltimore. There's many other orgs, but
18:53
Speaker 1: just was curious so I thought it was really interesting answer.
18:56
Speaker 1: Appreciate the time, dude, great to catch up.
18:58
Speaker 2: We'll be watching.
18:59
Speaker 1: Keep doing you dude, It's awesome to see you back.
19:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks Fellows. I appreciate you'll having me on.
19:05
Speaker 1: Thank you talk sing Yeah yep. Grayson Rodriguez with us
19:09
Speaker 1: from the Angels. We got an Angel show too. By
19:11
Speaker 1: the way, Helo Territory is the name. Mike Dgivon has
19:14
Speaker 1: been covering the team for a long time. Mark trump
19:16
Speaker 1: is a big deal out there, big boy Mark Trumpo
19:18
Speaker 1: has had some big seasons. Mike Stosha was one of
19:21
Speaker 1: the guests. There's been many others connected to the org.
19:24
Speaker 1: So check it out if you get a chance. Subscribe
19:26
Speaker 1: to it on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
19:29
Speaker 8: Think of like going through rehab. I think of like
19:31
Speaker 8: getting better, getting back to pitching. But I also think
19:33
Speaker 8: of like growth. I want to evolve. I want to
19:36
Speaker 8: get better in a lot of different things. Because we
19:38
Speaker 8: all know it's like a year long rehab and twelve
19:41
Speaker 8: months are going to go by whether I do it
19:44
Speaker 8: right or do it wrong. Twelve months are going to
19:45
Speaker 8: go by whether my only focus is rehabbing and pitching
19:49
Speaker 8: or whether like I still try to grow in a
19:50
Speaker 8: lot of things. So might as well take advantage of
19:53
Speaker 8: the time saying yeah, like getting back to pitching is
19:55
Speaker 8: my my north star, Like, oh, that's a priority. I
19:57
Speaker 8: want to get back to pitching. I want to come
19:59
Speaker 8: back better than ever, But I also don't want twelve
20:01
Speaker 8: months to go by where like board time go or
20:03
Speaker 8: like what else did I do with my time?
20:05
Speaker 7: What else did I do with my twelve months?
20:07
Speaker 9: So that was the voice of Pablo Lopez, and this
20:12
Speaker 9: is Twins Cities Territory or Minnesota Twins podcast on the
20:16
Speaker 9: Foul Territory Network. Lopez, of course the Twins opening day
20:20
Speaker 9: starter each of the past three seasons, and probably would
20:23
Speaker 9: have been again this year if not for a torn
20:26
Speaker 9: ucl and his throwing elbow suffered very early on in
20:29
Speaker 9: spring training. Lopez is now out for the season rehabbing
20:33
Speaker 9: that injury, and he joined Dan Hayes, the Athletics Minnesota
20:36
Speaker 9: Twins beat writer and me Zach Pierce, also of the
20:39
Speaker 9: Athletic this week to talk about his rehab, talk a
20:42
Speaker 9: little bit about as many side quests as he calls
20:45
Speaker 9: them with the team this year, including serving as an
20:47
Speaker 9: interpreter for some of the Spanish speaking players. Also gave
20:50
Speaker 9: us a little preview of some broadcasting work he has
20:53
Speaker 9: coming up. We also discussed his mindset over this twelve
20:56
Speaker 9: month recovery process, and also how it feels sitting on
21:01
Speaker 9: the sidelines as the Twins starting rotation navigates a tricky
21:04
Speaker 9: year full of injuries across the board, but still being
21:08
Speaker 9: one of the team's strengths this year. So we'll get
21:10
Speaker 9: to that interview in just a second. After that, we'll
21:13
Speaker 9: talk about the Twins series opening lost to the Royals
21:16
Speaker 9: on Thursday, dropped pop ups and all. We'll talk about
21:19
Speaker 9: Mick Able's latest sign of progress coming back from his injury,
21:22
Speaker 9: and also why Bailey ober is mad at a wet baseball.
21:25
Speaker 9: All that coming up, but first our great interview with
21:28
Speaker 9: Pablo Lopez. Enjoy all right, welcome back to the show.
21:33
Speaker 9: Pablo Lopez is here. Twins starting pitcher joins us. Where
21:38
Speaker 9: are you right now? Pablo? Are you in Minnesota?
21:41
Speaker 7: This is Target Pheel right now, You're at Target Field. Yeah,
21:44
Speaker 7: just got done working out, just got done in the
21:46
Speaker 7: training room.
21:46
Speaker 8: I'm probably still sweating after my work out, but wanted
21:50
Speaker 8: to fit this in.
21:50
Speaker 7: So thank you guys for having me.
21:52
Speaker 9: Well, thank you for thank you for being here. Yeah
21:55
Speaker 9: for sure. First of all, how are things going, how's rehab?
21:58
Speaker 9: How's everything looking.
22:00
Speaker 8: Everything's looking great. I've been hitting all of my marks
22:03
Speaker 8: right now. Yesterday it was Wednesday, so it was fourteen weeks.
22:09
Speaker 8: We're fast approaching to the seventeen week mark, which after surgery,
22:14
Speaker 8: it's a pretty symbolic mark because then I'm going to
22:17
Speaker 8: start doing two handed like bliometrics, so like with med balls,
22:20
Speaker 8: doing two handed throws, soccer throws, all kinds of things.
22:23
Speaker 7: So it's the first step. We we're introducing a.
22:26
Speaker 8: Little bit of laid back to the elbow, to the ligament,
22:28
Speaker 8: couple throws, like a little bit of those motions.
22:31
Speaker 7: So everything's been feeling really well.
22:34
Speaker 8: Everything leading up to that point is just strengthening, building
22:38
Speaker 8: capacity in the conditioning aspect of it, the mobility, you know,
22:43
Speaker 8: reshaping my whole body. So like you know, once you
22:45
Speaker 8: hit your lowest point, you just open to the biggest change.
22:48
Speaker 8: So like you know, let me just break myself down
22:50
Speaker 8: to pieces and then just put it together even better
22:52
Speaker 8: than it was before. So just taking advantage of the time,
22:56
Speaker 8: you know, like obviously I was giving all this time
22:58
Speaker 8: to work out and work on myself without thinking that
23:02
Speaker 8: I'm going to be tired to pitch, so might as
23:03
Speaker 8: well just do the beds that I can.
23:06
Speaker 6: And that's where the truly fascinating part of this is
23:09
Speaker 6: is last week, Zach, we're in Chicago, had a rate field.
23:13
Speaker 6: Twins are playing the White Sox and it's about, I
23:15
Speaker 6: don't know, the second inning and right before the game,
23:19
Speaker 6: and you see Pablo heading to the bullpen, and this
23:22
Speaker 6: is you know usually that happens about forty minutes before
23:25
Speaker 6: a game and going out and getting the start, and
23:27
Speaker 6: this was an entirely different thing. Pablo was shadowing Anderson
23:30
Speaker 6: dala Rosa, the Twins bullpen catcher. You have also acted
23:35
Speaker 6: as the interpreter for the team at times, because it's
23:39
Speaker 6: funny the Twins started the season and they had no
23:42
Speaker 6: players that actually needed Spanish interpretation at the time. Since
23:47
Speaker 6: Kendry Rojas and Joandros Gomez have joined the club and
23:52
Speaker 6: they need interpreters. But you've done those two roles so far.
23:57
Speaker 6: But what else have you been doing like sort of
23:58
Speaker 6: unique stuff that you'd ever done before, and why like
24:02
Speaker 6: why did you want to shadow the bullpen catcher for
24:04
Speaker 6: a day?
24:05
Speaker 8: Well, I mean a lot of it is just to
24:07
Speaker 8: occupy my time. But also like you know, like I
24:10
Speaker 8: told all Job because she asked me the same thing,
24:12
Speaker 8: I'm calling this like side quest.
24:14
Speaker 7: So like I'm finding.
24:15
Speaker 8: These little activities that otherwise I probably wouldn't do if
24:18
Speaker 8: I'm active.
24:19
Speaker 7: When I'm active on the roster, so I might as
24:21
Speaker 7: well just.
24:23
Speaker 8: Branch out, learn a few things or just to keep
24:26
Speaker 8: myself like busy, or engage in different areas, you know,
24:30
Speaker 8: like the world of rehab, especially a long one becomes
24:33
Speaker 8: very like routine oriented and you do the same thing
24:36
Speaker 8: over and over. So this is just like it gives
24:38
Speaker 8: me like a little bit opportunity to take a step
24:41
Speaker 8: back and then like enjoy or like be grateful for
24:45
Speaker 8: a lot of things. But also like it takes it
24:46
Speaker 8: puts into perspective all of the work that a lot
24:48
Speaker 8: of people do. You know, I shadow Pete Mackie, and
24:51
Speaker 8: I got to see firsthand how he goes about his reports,
24:55
Speaker 8: the preparation, how much you know, how much time before
24:58
Speaker 8: the game before the series, He's spends giving us the
25:01
Speaker 8: best information with Anderson de la ross are booping catch
25:05
Speaker 8: and one of my really good friends. I just wanted
25:07
Speaker 8: to see the dynamic of the bullpens, which I thought
25:09
Speaker 8: it was super cool. I got to be in the
25:12
Speaker 8: bullpen a few times in the minor leagues or my
25:14
Speaker 8: first Big Leaks spring training, and the bullpen is just
25:17
Speaker 8: a different it's a different vibe, it's a different dynamics.
25:19
Speaker 7: At least in the minor leagues.
25:21
Speaker 8: It was a lawless place because there's not even a
25:23
Speaker 8: bullpend coach in the minor leagues. It was just like
25:25
Speaker 8: the oldest guy in the bullpen was like the bullpen coach.
25:27
Speaker 8: But it was just a lawless kind of place. Uh,
25:30
Speaker 8: And it's a lot of fun. The vibes are different,
25:32
Speaker 8: so that was really cool to see. Whenever like the
25:34
Speaker 8: phone rang, how everyone just shifted their focus to the
25:38
Speaker 8: phone and like Troy Hawkins are booking coach and then
25:41
Speaker 8: whoever name they the team wanted to get hot, you know,
25:45
Speaker 8: like the demeanor, the attitude, the face completely changed because
25:49
Speaker 8: it's go time. It's game time for them. But you know,
25:52
Speaker 8: like I also started doing like the the moment segment
25:55
Speaker 8: for twin CV and that I did it with Andrew
25:58
Speaker 8: Morris and Connor Prilly.
25:59
Speaker 7: So a little bit of that too, a little bit
26:02
Speaker 7: of TV.
26:02
Speaker 8: Time, you know, learn from the best from all during
26:05
Speaker 8: how she goes about her business. So I was all
26:07
Speaker 8: for giving that a shot and translating. It's been fun.
26:10
Speaker 8: I love it, or interpreting, sorry you tell me it's interpreting.
26:15
Speaker 8: Interpreting has been fun. And I mean it's hard. It's
26:19
Speaker 8: hard to talk to the media. It's hard to say
26:21
Speaker 8: things on live TV. So if I'm if I'm able
26:25
Speaker 8: to provide some help for the guys that are, you know,
26:27
Speaker 8: wanting to wanted to like say, say a few things
26:30
Speaker 8: here and there, you know, like by all means.
26:32
Speaker 7: And again it's another side QUESZ that I get to.
26:34
Speaker 8: Do and next month and I joined Corey up in
26:38
Speaker 8: the booth. So we gave down on a shot last
26:41
Speaker 8: year for only one game, and I think it's gonna
26:43
Speaker 8: be way more than one game this year, which I'm
26:46
Speaker 8: all foreign and just I've been in the I've been
26:51
Speaker 8: able to be in a couple of the heaters meetings
26:53
Speaker 8: before they prepare for the game. So I've been in
26:55
Speaker 8: the room for a few of those and see how
26:58
Speaker 8: you know, same thing, how many numbers the hitting which
27:00
Speaker 8: is pull up to provide the hitters with the most
27:03
Speaker 8: precise concise information tendencies, patterns of the guys.
27:08
Speaker 7: They'll be facing.
27:09
Speaker 8: So sitting in a few of those just brought me
27:11
Speaker 8: a lot of perspective of like, oh, like this is
27:14
Speaker 8: this could be how other teams prepare when I'm about
27:16
Speaker 8: to pitch, you know, like the numbers the day that
27:18
Speaker 8: they throw out there.
27:19
Speaker 7: So that was also pretty eye opening for.
27:20
Speaker 6: Me with with interpreting, like how old were you when
27:24
Speaker 6: you felt comfortable giving your own first English interview? Like
27:29
Speaker 6: was was that something that was natural to you? Or
27:31
Speaker 6: was that something did you use interpreters early in your
27:33
Speaker 6: career too?
27:34
Speaker 8: No, I never used an interpreter, And okay, I just
27:39
Speaker 8: I enjoyed public speaking. It doesn't really find finds me
27:43
Speaker 8: or anything like I'm able to. I mean, in school,
27:46
Speaker 8: I used to give a ton tons of presentations or
27:49
Speaker 8: projects and all of that, and my dad used to
27:51
Speaker 8: tell me, you know, it's all about projecting yourself with confident,
27:55
Speaker 8: you know, like, and the cool thing about confidence no
27:58
Speaker 8: one knows if it's real or fake. So just be eloquent,
28:02
Speaker 8: say things in a low manner, you know, sound confidence,
28:06
Speaker 8: pronounce your words, enunciate your words. So my first English interview,
28:11
Speaker 8: I think it was in twenty sixteen. I was going
28:13
Speaker 8: through a really good strength in low Way, the Clinton
28:15
Speaker 8: lumber Kings and then one of the local newspapers wanted
28:19
Speaker 8: me for like an interview, so that was my first one,
28:22
Speaker 8: and then getting called up to the big leagues in
28:24
Speaker 8: twenty eighteen.
28:25
Speaker 7: The same day I got called up.
28:26
Speaker 8: That was the first time that I had like a
28:27
Speaker 8: camera in front of me and like another couple of
28:29
Speaker 8: bit writers going on.
28:30
Speaker 7: But I was able to.
28:33
Speaker 8: You know, I was able to say the things I
28:35
Speaker 8: wanted to say and give the message I was trying
28:38
Speaker 8: to give.
28:39
Speaker 7: So, you know, thankfully. I don't want to say it's easy,
28:43
Speaker 7: because nothing really is easy. But I was able to.
28:47
Speaker 8: Find a good grounding when it came to you know,
28:49
Speaker 8: talking to the media or live TV or things like that.
28:52
Speaker 6: Did you did you the first had you interpreted before this?
28:56
Speaker 6: For anybody? Besides you know, these guys.
28:59
Speaker 7: In the leaks.
29:00
Speaker 8: I would alone, like when I was in the low levels,
29:02
Speaker 8: probably like rookie ball low Way a little bit.
29:05
Speaker 7: If no one in our.
29:07
Speaker 8: Coaching staff was Spanish speaking, and they wanted to like
29:10
Speaker 8: give a message big group or someone specific, I would
29:13
Speaker 8: like interpret like you know, the coaching directions or like
29:16
Speaker 8: if it was just to a specific group, I would
29:19
Speaker 8: do that. During extended spring training back in twenty fifteen,
29:22
Speaker 8: I did it a couple of times, but it was
29:23
Speaker 8: just because I knew I spoke the language and I
29:26
Speaker 8: did it. So yeah, I did some interpreting when like
29:29
Speaker 8: no one else in the room could do it. You know,
29:32
Speaker 8: obviously if this year is the first time that I'm
29:33
Speaker 8: doing it for like, okay, something that's going to be
29:36
Speaker 8: printed on paper or where someone's going to actually like
29:39
Speaker 8: use like that for like an article or something.
29:41
Speaker 7: But I've been enjoying it so far.
29:42
Speaker 6: Okay. Anyways, aside from that, so look, this is something
29:46
Speaker 6: clearly that you were doing. This would not be something
29:49
Speaker 6: that you would be doing unless you wanted to. What
29:52
Speaker 6: is this what what are all these side quests doing
29:55
Speaker 6: for you during this period because obviously, you know, obviously
29:58
Speaker 6: the rehab side of things is very there's a lot
30:03
Speaker 6: of work going on there, but like, what is this
30:05
Speaker 6: giving you during this kind of down period where you're
30:07
Speaker 6: not because you are traveling with the team and you
30:10
Speaker 6: are around the guys, So like, what's that kind of
30:12
Speaker 6: providing to you while you're going through this.
30:15
Speaker 7: It's just it's bringing me a lot of perspective.
30:18
Speaker 8: It's bringing me a lot of appreciation for what everyone
30:20
Speaker 8: does around me. It brings me a lot of like
30:22
Speaker 8: admiration because you know, like it's a big leaks whoever
30:25
Speaker 8: it's at this level, it's the best or the aleite.
30:28
Speaker 7: Of what we do. So it just brings a lot
30:30
Speaker 7: of appreciation for that. It brings me a lot of perspective.
30:33
Speaker 8: And it's also like when I think of like going
30:36
Speaker 8: through rehab, I think of like getting better getting back
30:38
Speaker 8: to pitching, But I also think of like growth. I
30:41
Speaker 8: want to evolve, I want to get better in a
30:43
Speaker 8: lot of different things. Because we all know it's like
30:45
Speaker 8: a year long rehab and twelve months are going to
30:48
Speaker 8: go by whether I do it right or do it wrong.
30:51
Speaker 8: Twelve months are going to go by whether my only
30:53
Speaker 8: focus is rehabbing and pitching, or whether like I still
30:56
Speaker 8: try to grow and a lot of things. So might
30:58
Speaker 8: as well take advantage of the time, say, yeah, like
31:00
Speaker 8: getting back to pitching is my my north star, Like oh,
31:03
Speaker 8: that's a priority. I want to get back to pitching.
31:04
Speaker 8: I want to come back better than ever. But I
31:06
Speaker 8: also don't want twelve months to go by where like
31:08
Speaker 8: where time go or like what else did I do
31:11
Speaker 8: with my time? What else did I do with my
31:13
Speaker 8: twelve months? So this is just like a way of
31:15
Speaker 8: like staying engaged with you know, things that I want
31:20
Speaker 8: to learn, things that I may want to do in
31:22
Speaker 8: the future, or just like different ways to support like
31:25
Speaker 8: the team, not just the players, but everyone else around us.
31:27
Speaker 8: And being with the team also provides me with a
31:30
Speaker 8: lot of like saying in the present moment, in the
31:32
Speaker 8: present moment, not getting too ahead of myself, not getting
31:35
Speaker 8: two down if I'm feeling you know, like you know,
31:37
Speaker 8: like through rehab you have those really down days where
31:40
Speaker 8: like the routines like catching up to you or like
31:44
Speaker 8: you have a realization moment where like okay, like I'm
31:46
Speaker 8: three months out of surgery, it's still nine more months.
31:49
Speaker 8: So like staying with the group, saying in these environments
31:52
Speaker 8: like okay, but like it keeps me looking forward. This
31:54
Speaker 8: is the environment I want to get back to. This
31:56
Speaker 8: is where I belong, This where I'm going. I'm going
31:58
Speaker 8: to be next year. And if I'm gonna be next year,
32:00
Speaker 8: let me do it with being a better version of myself.
32:04
Speaker 6: Oh that's cool, that's really cool, Pablo.
32:06
Speaker 9: Your injury was a brutal blow, obviously for a team
32:10
Speaker 9: that was expecting starting pitching to be a strength. It
32:14
Speaker 9: still has been a strength, even though most of the
32:16
Speaker 9: staff has endured some kind of injuries. But I'm sure
32:19
Speaker 9: it's hard to sit there and watch it. But has
32:21
Speaker 9: it been inspiring in some ways to watch the starting
32:24
Speaker 9: rotation still fight through it and be one of the
32:26
Speaker 9: positives of the team this year.
32:27
Speaker 7: Yeah, one hundred percent.
32:28
Speaker 8: It's always inspiring to see the starting pitcher, the starting
32:32
Speaker 8: pitchers like picking up where they left up, where there's
32:37
Speaker 8: like with what they're working on. You know a lot
32:38
Speaker 8: of these young guys in spring training, they were working
32:41
Speaker 8: in some things, and you know, when you're young, you're like, okay,
32:44
Speaker 8: like I have time to work on this because I'm
32:46
Speaker 8: probably not gonna make the team right away. And then
32:48
Speaker 8: like things happen, injuries are ever present. They're always gonna
32:52
Speaker 8: show well, but unexpected times. And then like to see
32:54
Speaker 8: these guys coming up and then still pick up where
32:58
Speaker 8: they lift over, like they're forming, they're having good results
33:02
Speaker 8: while working or doing the things that we're supposed to
33:04
Speaker 8: get better.
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Speaker 7: And you know, like Connor p with a curveball.
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Speaker 8: It's a new pitch and he's getting a lot of
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Speaker 8: like swing and miss with it attached with the splitter
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Speaker 8: throwing it more. And so it's like really cool to
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Speaker 8: see these guys feel inspired and confident enough to show
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Speaker 8: up and then fill up whatever shoes they have to
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Speaker 8: feel or like help out in any way they can.
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Speaker 7: And just do their things.
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Speaker 8: So it's really inspired from a starting pictures picture perspective,
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Speaker 8: because you know, like I get to un fortunate enough
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Speaker 8: that I get to be in the dog out to
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Speaker 8: watch them perform, and then I watch them throw their
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Speaker 8: boopins when my when my time works out and I'm
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Speaker 8: able to go out there and like I like to
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Speaker 8: like watch a few of those here and there with
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Speaker 8: the home on the road. But start, you can never
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Speaker 8: have enough starting pitching pitching in We've been challenged, we've
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Speaker 8: been tested by having to you know, call someone up
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Speaker 8: that it's is happy to get that opportunity and he's
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Speaker 8: happy to like bring us like a.
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Speaker 7: Lot of good quality inning. So it's been really fun
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Speaker 7: to see that from from the dog out.
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Speaker 6: Well, hey, look, I know you've got another meeting coming
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Speaker 6: up here, so we'll let you go, but I want
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Speaker 6: to ask before you go, you have any other interesting
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Speaker 6: side quests planned coming up here, anything you want to
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Speaker 6: dive into, maybe like check out the beer sales during
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Speaker 6: the game, or you know, do something around the stadium.
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Speaker 8: Well, one day I want to I want to shadow
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Speaker 8: Mitch hest which was kind enough to borrow me his
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Speaker 8: desk right now to for this interview, So he's gonna
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Speaker 8: be the next one.
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Speaker 7: Even though last year when he had me in the press.
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Speaker 8: Books he told me good and cheer, which was shocking
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Speaker 8: for me. But maybe one day I'll be seeing next
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Speaker 8: to him during the game.
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Speaker 6: That's that's awesome. I know fans loved when you were
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Speaker 6: in the booth last year, so I'm sure that'll be
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Speaker 6: something they look forward to here in the next couple
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Speaker 6: of months. But thank you so much for the time,
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Speaker 6: and we really thank you appreciate. Yeah, you're first guest
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Speaker 6: on Twin Citas territory, so thank you.
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Speaker 9: Take your choice