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Red Sox OF Wilyer Abreu + Pirates SP Braxton Ashcraft on FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Ashcraft strikes him out.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, struck him out?
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  Speaker 1: Looking Ashcraft just dispatches the Twins.
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  Speaker 3: Another quality start.
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  Speaker 4: Just a masterpiece on how to pitch.
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  Speaker 5: Great name, great Arsenal, brax and Ashcraft joining us right now,
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  Speaker 5: perhaps taking us on a little tour. Braxing, great to
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  Speaker 5: have you on the show. Dude, Where are we going
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  Speaker 5: right now? Where are you taking us?
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  Speaker 6: I'm on the way to the field right now, this early,
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  Speaker 6: this afternoon, so i'd to get a little bit earlier.
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  Speaker 7: Now, do you park in the players parking?
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  Speaker 8: Because uh, hey J Burnett, Hey, J Burnett parked in
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  Speaker 8: Bob Nutting spot back in the day, so I didn't
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  Speaker 8: know if you were there yet.
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  Speaker 3: No, we're in.
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  Speaker 6: We're in Houston now, so just a little afternoon stroll
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  Speaker 6: with little rain and on the forecast, No big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you throw a bullpen?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Wait, wait, throwing a bullpen? Don't you throw enough?
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  Speaker 3: That's what they say, you know, just checking boxes?
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  Speaker 7: Jack. Is it useful though? Is it useful?
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  Speaker 8: Because some teams are going to the I think it's
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  Speaker 8: the Marlins are going to the pitch shaping schematic for
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  Speaker 8: their bullpen where they throw on the mound and they're
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  Speaker 8: doing stuff. Actually the hitters on the mound, in the
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  Speaker 8: in the stadium and not just in the bullpen, they're
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  Speaker 8: underneath what they got in Houston.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I find a lot of value in it.
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  Speaker 6: It's a it's an opportunity for us to you know,
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  Speaker 6: take time to recognize the things that we did really
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  Speaker 6: well versus the things that it did not so well
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  Speaker 6: in the previous otting. And sometimes like we'll have some
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  Speaker 6: guys stand in like if I'm trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 6: work on the inside part of the plate, per se,
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  Speaker 6: or spend the ball on the zone strike one and
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  Speaker 6: then spend the ball arizon strike three. Just certain things
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  Speaker 6: to kind of get the It's more of a confidence
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  Speaker 6: thing for me. Like at this point in the season,
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  Speaker 6: the arsenal is what it is. It's pretty good. I
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  Speaker 6: think that everybody in the league can say that about
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  Speaker 6: you know, whether as a pitcher. We're not developing new
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  Speaker 6: pitches for the most part, I'm just trying to refine
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  Speaker 6: the stuff that we have. So for me, it's just
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  Speaker 6: a really good opportunity to do that in between weeks
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  Speaker 6: and when you have an extra day with an off
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  Speaker 6: day like we had Monday, just a different opportunity to
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  Speaker 6: maybe get on stuff a little bit more and work
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  Speaker 6: on stuff a little bit better.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I find a lot of value in it.
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  Speaker 8: What at the intent of a bullpen because your your
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  Speaker 8: intent level. Because when I when I finished playing, is
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  Speaker 8: when they started bringing all the track men out for
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  Speaker 8: the bullpen and they had the iPad, and I'm like, oh.
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  Speaker 7: Man, like, relax, we don't need to see ninety eight
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  Speaker 7: in your pen.
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  Speaker 8: We don't need to see Or is your is your
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  Speaker 8: intent full tilt twenty to twenty five pitches? Or do
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  Speaker 8: you get up there? Are you an overthrower? And do
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  Speaker 8: you throw fifty pitches in your pen?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I think that Again, it's completely contingent on how I
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  Speaker 6: feel that turn, right, So like if it's a you know,
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  Speaker 6: the last trusch we have at thirteen or fourteen games straight,
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  Speaker 6: three five days in a row, you might take some
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  Speaker 6: off of the bullpen. So a few less pitches was
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  Speaker 6: a little bit different. Intent, not necessarily intent, but intensity.
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  Speaker 6: I think that those two words are very strong just
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  Speaker 6: in terms of how you go about your work. If
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  Speaker 6: your intent is always good, it doesn't really matter what
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  Speaker 6: the intensity is. So I think, you know, you listen
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  Speaker 6: to your body unless your body tell you kind of
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  Speaker 6: what you're going to be at for that good of day.
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  Speaker 1: Are you done walking out because I'm I was starting
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  Speaker 1: to get seasick there for a second. Sorry.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, since you're you know, it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: But since you're in Houston, I'm gonna change the subject.
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  Speaker 1: I just got asked this, Are you going to get
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  Speaker 1: one of the paintings made of you? That the guy
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  Speaker 1: comes in in Houston and asks everybody to get a painting?
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  Speaker 1: You make a painting? Will you get a paint I forget,
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  Speaker 1: I think it seems alie, but he'll come in there
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  Speaker 1: and make a painting. Is he asked you yet to
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  Speaker 1: get a painting?
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  Speaker 6: No, I haven't heard of that. But I'm not really
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  Speaker 6: a sentimental guy. I don't really I don't have many keepsakes.
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  Speaker 6: But I know that my wife and my mom would
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  Speaker 6: probably really enjoy that. So if he does come in,
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  Speaker 6: I might I might take him up on that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, he's there like every day. I'm sure Krats
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  Speaker 1: knows who he is. I'm sure Crats pry Kratspray has
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  Speaker 1: a couple of pictures of him, so one over his bed.
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  Speaker 1: I think of himself like with hair back in the.
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  Speaker 3: Day, so does on the ceiling or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. Instead of a mirror, he has a picture
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  Speaker 1: of himself. So he's look, it's fine. I'm jealous of
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  Speaker 1: that actually, if you can do that. But here, here,
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  Speaker 1: here's my question for you. The pirates have developed pictures
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  Speaker 1: as well as anybody. When you when you look at
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  Speaker 1: Schemes and yourself and Jared Jones and Bubba Chandler and
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  Speaker 1: the list goes on and on. What do they do
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  Speaker 1: that makes it so special for pictures, especially in their development.
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  Speaker 6: You asked me this question two years ago, my answer
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  Speaker 6: would probably be different. But looking at it now, being
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  Speaker 6: in the big leagues, having success in the big league,
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  Speaker 6: seeing guys around and have success in the big leagues,
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  Speaker 6: I think that the biggest thing that you know, we
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  Speaker 6: do well as an organization is just kind of give
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  Speaker 6: guys autonomy to explore and explore within reason, but explore
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  Speaker 6: most amongst each other through conversation, you know, pitch shape,
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  Speaker 6: pitch design, pitch the tent. What are we trying to
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  Speaker 6: get out of this pitch? What are we trying to
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  Speaker 6: get out of these counts?
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  Speaker 3: Just oh oh.
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  Speaker 6: One one to to even counts disadvantage accounts advantage accounts
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  Speaker 6: like what is our thought process going through that? And
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  Speaker 6: I think the conversation not necessarily strictly amongst player to coach,
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  Speaker 6: but player to coach the other player. I think that
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  Speaker 6: we do a really good job of that because we
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  Speaker 6: are all kind of homegroun guys and have built long
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  Speaker 6: standing relationships with each other over the last few years,
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  Speaker 6: some of us longer than other than others. But the
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  Speaker 6: relationship amongst each other is really strong, and the trust
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  Speaker 6: any each other is really strong, and being able to
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  Speaker 6: have those conversations and not have one or two pitching coaches,
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  Speaker 6: but have you know a whole group of you know,
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  Speaker 6: thirteen guys that lean on each other's experiences, leaning on
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  Speaker 6: what we all do well and try and bridge the
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  Speaker 6: gap between what we might not do not do so
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  Speaker 6: well and identify that and other other guys and try
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  Speaker 6: and lean on that hard right.
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  Speaker 8: I want to you said if you had asked me
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  Speaker 8: this two years ago. I want to hear what your
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  Speaker 8: answer would be. But I also want to preface it
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  Speaker 8: by saying, Paul Skeens was a unit before he came
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  Speaker 8: to the Pirates. Rex to Nashgraft was a unit before
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  Speaker 8: he came to the Pirates. Bubba Chandler was throwing a
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  Speaker 8: billion before he came to the Pirates. Mitch Keller, do
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  Speaker 8: you feel like sometimes, like when you're lumped into an organization,
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  Speaker 8: like you can like it, is it unfair to say
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  Speaker 8: I was really good before I got to the Pirates.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe the Pirates just got lucky to get me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. If you've seen the
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  Speaker 3: minor league numbers, I wouldn't. Uh, I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 6: I mean until that, Tommy John, I wasn't. Like I
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  Speaker 6: can't confidently say that I could look myself from the
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  Speaker 6: mirror and be a big leaguer. You know, we we
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  Speaker 6: have a really strong group of guys down in Florida
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  Speaker 6: that are very informative, very encouraging, create a good environment
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  Speaker 6: through the rehab process, and a lot of guys that
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  Speaker 6: have experienced that I think would confidently say the same
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  Speaker 6: what I mean by like that two years ago. I
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  Speaker 6: think that again through the conversation with guys that have
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  Speaker 6: been here, done it, been around the game. It it
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  Speaker 6: allows for a lot of fast maturity.
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  Speaker 3: In the game.
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  Speaker 6: And what I mean by that is, like, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I think you, like some people look across the league
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  Speaker 6: that might not have as much i mean knowledge of
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  Speaker 6: baseball and to say, oh, this guy is the best
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  Speaker 6: stuff in the world.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to be successful. And that's always the case.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's the process that we have, the competition in
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  Speaker 6: the process, Like nobody wants to be out work by
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  Speaker 6: anybody here. And uh so we come in, you know, early,
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  Speaker 6: we come in, stay late, and we're moving around all
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  Speaker 6: day long, just so that we can look at each
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  Speaker 6: other and say, I worked harder and need today. I
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  Speaker 6: think that's a testament to the group of guys we
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  Speaker 6: have here in the in the environment that Murphys set,
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  Speaker 6: DK set. You know, Mitch has been here probably the
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  Speaker 6: longest in terms of we're definitely the longest in terms
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  Speaker 6: of guys on the staff, and and he sets that
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  Speaker 6: precedent for us and starting rotation and and and Paul
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  Speaker 6: came in and you know, he.
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  Speaker 3: Is who he is, and there's no secret about that.
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  Speaker 6: And so I think that I mean, I can't necessarious
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  Speaker 6: speak for the reliever group as much as I probably
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  Speaker 6: could last year, but the people that we surround ourselves
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  Speaker 6: with here, it's such a strong group. And and two
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  Speaker 6: years ago, I didn't know what hard work within the
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  Speaker 6: game quality work within the game net. And so you know,
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  Speaker 6: we have a group here that allows us to do that,
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  Speaker 6: and it's a it's a We're pretty fortunate to be
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  Speaker 6: a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Praxon. I want to know about your usage because you
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  Speaker 1: go on your usage page on like Savant and you're
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  Speaker 1: basically fifty to fifty fastball, curveball, slider, fastball, breaking ball. Really,
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  Speaker 1: how do you get to that point? Do you just
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  Speaker 1: trust your breaking balls that much and it's kind of
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: a new thing in Major league baseball? Or do the
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: pirates come to you and say, hey, we really love
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  Speaker 1: your breaking pitches. If you threw those more, it would
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  Speaker 1: help your success.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think the easy answer there is whatever's working,
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  Speaker 3: throw it.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, whenever I first started, whenever I first
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  Speaker 6: got drafted, there's a big emphasis on pitching with your fastball.
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  Speaker 3: And on the whole idea.
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  Speaker 6: If you can't be a major league pitcher unless you
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  Speaker 6: are confident in pitching with your five small first and you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, this year, a lot of the a lot of.
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  Speaker 6: The focus has been on throwing the offspiece stuff. To
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  Speaker 6: get back to the for scene, get back to the scener,
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  Speaker 6: get back to the hard stuff to create space. And
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  Speaker 6: you know, I have two breaking balls that had performed
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  Speaker 6: pretty well this year and last year as well. Just
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  Speaker 6: making sure that nothing bleeds them to the other pitch,
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  Speaker 6: nothing takes away from other pitches, and going back to
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  Speaker 6: you know, why do we throw bullpens.
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  Speaker 3: That's a big reason for it.
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  Speaker 6: You know, like making sure that you can bounce from
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  Speaker 6: pitch to pitch, be able to be in the zone,
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  Speaker 6: strike to strike, strike the ball at will, and eliminating
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  Speaker 6: just non competitive pitches in general. You know, there's there's
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  Speaker 6: a difference in like going inside on somebody and off
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  Speaker 6: moving feet, moving hands, moving eyes and then just yanking
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  Speaker 6: one across the across the plate and throwing more or
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  Speaker 6: less a wild pitch and side. Those pitches inside like
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  Speaker 6: that are not competitive. The pitches that you drive on
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  Speaker 6: mow feet, moved hands, without moved eyes, those are super competitive.
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  Speaker 3: It's set up the next pitch. So it's just.
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  Speaker 6: The usage is not necessarily we go into a game
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  Speaker 6: and say, hey, we're gonna rely heavy on per ball, sliders,
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  Speaker 6: what have you is it's what is the game tell
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  Speaker 6: us that we can do in that moment from the
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  Speaker 6: first pitch of the pregame pen, what's feeling good, what's
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  Speaker 6: repeatable to you know, the first pitch of the fifth inning?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Henry Joey and they they all do a
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  Speaker 3: really good job of recognizing that.
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  Speaker 6: They spend a lot of time having conversations with us
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  Speaker 6: playing catch this, you know, watching video and understanding how
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  Speaker 6: arsenal works and when one thing might be deficient, what
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  Speaker 6: picks up the slack.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, it's just if
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  Speaker 3: it's if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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  Speaker 6: And that changes, like the arsenal changes throughout games based
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  Speaker 6: on game situations, based on game plans that other teams
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  Speaker 6: might put together for me, not just me, but everybody.
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  Speaker 3: And then how do we attack guys based off of that?
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  Speaker 6: And I think that those guys do a really good
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  Speaker 6: job of identifying that early and putting us in good
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  Speaker 6: positions to put together really competitive at bats.
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  Speaker 8: I got a two part question that's both on schemes.
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  Speaker 8: Last year, you made eight starts. I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 8: they were openers or what it was, but you were
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  Speaker 8: in a pen or how they were using you. Did
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  Speaker 8: Paul Skins treat you differently because you were kind of
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  Speaker 8: a bullpen starter kind of guy. And if he didn't,
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  Speaker 8: what is the one thing that he's not good at?
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  Speaker 8: Because everybody looks at Paul Skins and they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 8: he's the best, He's unbelievable. But us teammates and rotation
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  Speaker 8: mates know what is true like kryptonite or what he's
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  Speaker 8: not good at.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, we lived together last year, so we've
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  Speaker 6: maintaining since he got drafted was a twenty three. You know,
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  Speaker 6: he came out to Double A and and that's where
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  Speaker 6: I was finishing up and I was getting to the
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  Speaker 6: end of the road and what they wanted to throw
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  Speaker 6: that year, so we were both shut down at the
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  Speaker 6: same time. Spend a lot of time together and kind
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  Speaker 6: of initiated that of a pretty good relationship. And then
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  Speaker 6: you know, last year spring training spent some time together,
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  Speaker 6: and then our two years ago spring training spent some
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  Speaker 6: time together.
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 6: You know, and last year when I came up, he
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  Speaker 6: had an open bedroom and offer it to me, and
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  Speaker 6: so okay, so we spent we spent a lot of
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  Speaker 6: time together the last couple of years and have developed
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  Speaker 6: a pretty good relationship. But you know, but I mean,
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  Speaker 6: in terms of things that does bad. It's hard to
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  Speaker 6: it's hard to put a finger on it. Right, Like
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  Speaker 6: Cyon last year, Rookie of the Year the year before,
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  Speaker 6: started both All Star games, just unbelievable talent and goes
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  Speaker 6: about his work and in a super professional way. But
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  Speaker 6: you know, I was tell him if there's one thing, like, dude,
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  Speaker 6: just take a day.
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  Speaker 3: It's just take a day.
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  Speaker 6: These all days are valuable and uh and and it's
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  Speaker 6: nice to be able to separate from the game a
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  Speaker 6: little bit. But you know, each player is different, right,
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  Speaker 6: Like I if there's a day that I can take off,
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  Speaker 6: but I'm taking it off, I'd have my a few
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  Speaker 6: cold ones, might might go play some golf, you know,
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  Speaker 6: might spend some time with my wife. I am I. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I love my off days. But Paul loves
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  Speaker 6: the game more than he loves an office. And whether
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  Speaker 6: or not that's bad, I don't know. I know if
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  Speaker 6: I did it, it would be pretty exhausting. But you know,
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  Speaker 6: you look at him and it's hard not to say
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  Speaker 6: he's the best pitch in the world. He proved it
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  Speaker 6: last year and he's on his way again to proved
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  Speaker 6: it this year. But you know, I try and tell
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  Speaker 6: him all the time that he's got to we have
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  Speaker 6: a little thing and the UH and the pretty starters.
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  Speaker 6: It's like an outline of Pittsburgh and they have vill
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  Speaker 6: pro with all five of us and uh's kind of
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  Speaker 6: one up at each other. And each time one of
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  Speaker 6: us is at the top, whether it's Mitch myself, you know,
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  Speaker 6: Carla and Mount Jared, Bubba, whoever's at the top. Paul, like,
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  Speaker 6: it's just don't get used to it. So you know
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  Speaker 6: with him, it's it's even amongst all this, it's just
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  Speaker 6: a we're all trying to one up each other. We're
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  Speaker 6: all trying to be the best one in rotation, but
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  Speaker 6: at the same time, you know, hoping to have to
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  Speaker 6: outdo somebody.
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  Speaker 1: There's got to be something. He snores, he's a bad cook,
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  Speaker 1: there's got it. Come on, there's got to be something
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  Speaker 1: more than he works too hard.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: There's got it.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: I don't think he drinks enough beer.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: I don't think you know, you know, it's just like, man,
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: it's it's so hard to it's so hard to place
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: that on somebody, Like, I mean, there's there's you.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Know, you have the you have the idea right where.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: You go into a job interview and you say my
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: worst my my worst strength, or my the worst thing
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: about me is that I worked too hard. The worst
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: thing about me is that I play too much value
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: on work. And really and truly, when when you look
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: at the way Paul goes about his work and does everything,
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: everything is tailored towards being the best picture in the world,
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: from the way that he eats, from the way that
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: he spends his off time. Like during baseball season, I
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: don't have much contact really anybody. In the off season.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: I like to shut shut the whole world off and
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: and kind of slide into a cave with my wife
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: and family and now my daughter on the way. Like
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: so I can't really speak to the off season very much.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: But during the season, yeah, it's it's one single goal,
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: and that's being the best player in the world. And
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: I think it's it's it's wearing off on me a
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: little bit, wearing off on everybody and this on this team,
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: and you see the property play off the field.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's that's that's awesome. It's awesome to hear
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: that every you guys work hard together and you guys
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: are rubbing, rubbing off on each other. Now let's go
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: to the other you know, young stud on the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: What is Cole? What is Connor Griffin's big miss in
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: his life? How much time have you spent with him?
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: And what's his big miss? Does he not drinking up
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: beer because he's not old enough?
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Hey?
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: You know we uh we uh, I don't know what
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: you'll feel about cursing on this show, but okay, good, Yeah,
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: there's so like you know, ground balls and then filled
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: everybody else shuter, you know, and and you know he
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: doesn't he has standards that he has in his life
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: and in a way that he wants to carry himself.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: And he doesn't swear, and you know, so we were
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: I think we might change our change our little verbige
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: in here to pooper just to protect him, you know.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: But yeah, like sweep of series new shots, he's doing
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: cherry Juice. But yeah, I think that, you know, the
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: biggest thing is like learning how to be a big leaguer,
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: learning learning the value and watching the game versus you know, selling.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Out to.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: You know, like right, like we're all we're all so
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: committed to our process, right like you guys have been
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: big leaguers. Uh, you know how important a processes and
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: like selling out to the process versus you know, watching
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: the game and letting the game dictate how you go
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: about your process in some ways. And you know, it's
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: it's there's so much access to so much information, whether
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: you're in the dugout, post game, you know, pre game,
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: there's slow Moo videos everywhere. And I think that not
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: just for him, but for a lot of guys myself included,
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: like sometimes just putting the iPad down and letting their
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: eyes tell you what you need to do. I think
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: that's that's one of the that's one of the biggest
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: things I've learned from Fall, honestly, is you know, we
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: have all this we have all this access to technology,
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: but sometimes the best technology is your own eyes and
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: the eyes of the people you trust and see you
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: throw every day. And you know, it worked for work
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: for a lot of a lot of people way back
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: in the day that have records that nobody will ever touch.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: Right the everybody went away from ice for a little bit.
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: Now we're kind of all back on the ice in
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: the arm and and.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: And doing stuff like that.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: Like so, you know, there's there's a lot of things
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: that the game and medicine has told us to go
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: away from but it's hard to It's hard to.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: It's hard to deny the.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Fact that, yeah, guys like Nolan Ryan going out and
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: going turn twenty two and fifty innings a year, he
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: just hades his arm and during a couple of coldman's
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: after a game.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Like that. I think there's a lot to that.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Granted, like if you can merge those two there's two
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: lines that thinking into one and kind of take the
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: best of both of them, it offers a lot of
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: opportunity to put yourself in a better position to be successful.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: So I'd say just with Connor, putting the foot of
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: the iPads down sometimes and watching the game and seeing
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: how guys are, guys are, like right handed hitters are
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: being pitched and just kind of talking through situations rather
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: than kind of staring at an iPad and tell your
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: eyes bleed, you know. He it's kind of a joke
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: amongst us, like it's hard to say that whenever he's
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: been one of the best hitters in the baseball for
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: the past month, month and a half until he got injured.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: But you know, that's the other thing too, is just
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: taking professional reps during the day, like the workload in
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: the big league is a lot different than the workload
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: in the minor leagues, and being able to kind of
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: throttle yourself and probably your output throughout throughout the week
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: is super important. Just when you look at Longevity, because
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: he is an everyday player, I think that he has
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: the opportunity to to be one of the best players
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: this game has ever seen. The Pirates obviously think that
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: in the commitment they made to him, and I know
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: that we all think that unanimously, unanimously across the clubhouse.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: So there's a lot of belief on him. And it's just,
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: you know, learning how to be a big leaguer, learning
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: how to.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Be the best leaguer that he can be. And I
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: don't think anybody can tell him that.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: I think experience will tell him that he'll be able
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: to final works for him and you know he'll he'll
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: turn into the player everybody knows that he's going to be,
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: if he hasn't already, Ali Braxton.
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: Last one here real quick from you. Picture of the
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: month Christopher Sanchez or Jacob Mizzerowski. I'm sure you saw
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: the numbers and how dominant both of them were. Sanchez
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: didn't give up a run, MS gave up one. Who
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: is player who is picture of the month in your
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: mind as a big league pitcher.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: And it's hard not to say Sanchez that street that
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: he's on is was pretty unbelievable. I don't know when
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: the last time anybody came close to that. I think
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: he's at forty four forty one innings or something like
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: that score this ball. I didn't get to see miss
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: throw whenever we went to went to Milwaukee, I was
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: on the bereavement list. But but yeah, like watching Sanchez throw,
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: I think he went to CG on us. You know,
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: the way that he uses arsenal. He doesn't have the
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: higher and three. You know, he doesn't have the ninety
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: seven on our slider. The raw stuff is a lot,
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: you know on paper, it's it's not what Miss Rosy has,
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: but the way that he uses it, the way that
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: again going back to the to the to the first
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: part of this conversation, just about how how do you
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: go about certain counts, certain about certain hitters, The way
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: that he uses his arsenal to keep guys off balanced,
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: get guy's landing and push them in and just never
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: let anybody commit to a certain part of the zone.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: It's it was really impressive to watch and it's something
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: I've been trying to implement my game as well. I mean,
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: miss Rowski is unbelievable talent, but I'd have to go
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: with with Sanchez.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, my new favorite picture.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Practicing good ball talk man. Really appreciate the time.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: If it's great getting to know you a little bit more,
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: good luck the rest of the way.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: We'll catch you down the road.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, sounds good to be able to go on.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Hey, tell my boy Steve Perry, I said, what's up?
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: I will.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you, appreciate you. That's a that's a good combo
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: right there.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: That's really good ball talk, you know, for people, especially
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: pictures that want to hear a little bit from a
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: big league picture. Really knows how to articulate everything that's
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: going on in the sport. Braxtonn Ashcraft and if you
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: want more, in the Pirates Bucco Territory part of the
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Ft network includes former Pirates great Josh Harrison.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: It is at it here again, Will you're afraid?
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: He has been the bright lights for the Red Sox. Offensively,
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: he's on a second.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: You want to play by a Braion right field. Luchisimas
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: boy does the Red Sox.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Dad, it's fun to watch, and now let's talk to him.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Will you're bray you're joining us right now from the
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Red Sox. Will You're great to have you on the show.
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: How are you doing today?
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Pretty good? Guys? What about you? Thanks for the invitation.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Of course, anytime. No, we're happy to have you on.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: And Kratz go for it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: What a brassos. Wowdy you are strong. Huh you have
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: no sleeves. You don't have any sleeves for the show.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: No, oh no, no, no, right.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: Now, you're you're ready to work. You're ready to work.
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: But I'm gonna get Did you see the video right
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: before there, before we get into anything, did you see
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: the video your highlight video?
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: Okay, when you put the Wali mask on, does the
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: Wally mask smell bad?
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: Like? I always wonder that because I just think.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: It would, I mean, yell their be.
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: You know, there's a lot of guys that put that
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: Wally and you know, everybody a little be. You know,
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: if they set it right now, that will start the summer.
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: You know, at the end of the season is gonna
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: be kind of bad.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Okay, that's fair. I like that. I like that, all right,
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: So what is it?
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: So?
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: What is it? Are you? Are you okay? Are you okay?
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: After the ven do you go on.
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: Parades in every city you go on to, like Little
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: Venezuela and they like have a parade for you, and
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: in Houston a parade for you.
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: In Philadelphia prayed for you in New York.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: Are you a Venezuelan celebrity now that you won the WBC?
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah, of course I think that was very crazy. That
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: was crazy after the w u C. How famous I
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: became in Venezuela.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: All right, So I want to hear more on that too.
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I want to hear I want to hear more
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: about I want to hear more about that. But I
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: also want to hear like, like, what is what is
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: your famous in Venezuela?
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: Me?
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: I mean, it's crazy since the WBC, since we want
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: the w UC the I always been, you know, uh
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: mentioning in is in Instagram like since uh the WC.
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: To hear every time I there's somebody mentioned me in
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: Instagram about the video that I homer that I that
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: I hate against Japan and that was crazy.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: I think when I came.
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: Back to Venezuela, it's gonna be something very special for
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: me because there's a lot of people that they don't
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: know me, and now they know me after the WUVC
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: you know.
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: Okay, So I played with a guy in two thousand
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: and four and he burst on the scene in the
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: big leagues, Gustavo Chasine, and he became famous and they
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: had a line of perfume or or cologne after him,
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: and his commercial was ooh Chasine. When they would spell,
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: when they would spray it. Are you gonna get something
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: like that?
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know yet.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Yo, We'll see when when I go
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: back to Venezuela.
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: Okay, is there somebody? Is there a player?
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: I mean, honestly, you've been WBC so a lot of
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: the famous Venezuelan players. Besides besides Jose Yepez, he's not famous,
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: he's just he's just Yeppie.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: We played together.
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: But but is there a famous Venezuelan player that you
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: haven't met yet that you're like, I would love to
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: meet that guy.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Uh uh? The one that I want to know.
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: It was Migol Carrera and he was my hitting coach
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: in the w UC So that was pretty cool. But
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: the other player that I haven't met yet is Carlos Gonzalez,
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: and you know, he's he was a really good player.
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: I watching him as a kid growing up, and he's
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: the only one that I miss.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: I'm missing right now.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: You know, Well, you're I got to call that japan game. Uh,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: when you hit the home run, has the bat landed
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: yet from your bat?
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Flip?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: We call flip because that thing hit the roof in Miami.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that was That was crazy.
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: I mean, that was something that I I didn't even
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: think about it.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: It just hoppens.
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: Because you know, all the emotion, all the you know,
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: the uh, the game was you know, just crazy.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: So he just hopping.
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: Andrew Monasterio, we just had him on and he came
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: and he drove down to the game to watch. He
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: wanted to watch Venezuela play. Okay, can you believe how
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: many Venezuelans were in that crowd for you guys in
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: the final game, Because I mean when you think Miami,
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: I don't necessarily always think Venezuelans. But can you believe
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: how much they took over that stadium.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: No, No, that was crazy. I think I don't know.
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: I think the ninety percent of the people was Venezuelan
• 29:45
  Speaker 9: h and that was crazy. You know, with all the support,
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: all the people cheering for us, that was just amazing.
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: So was it boring when you went back to the
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: regular season? Was it boring?
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: Because then you the first week, the first week you
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: hit three home runs, so I think your your swing
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: was ready. But was it boring to go back to
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: spring training and the regular season?
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: I mean it was boring went back to spring training
• 30:15
  Speaker 9: for the last week, but after the season starts, so
• 30:21
  Speaker 9: just you know, try to stay the same, try to
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: you know, kid, that momentum that I had on the
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: w UC.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on in Boston right now? Well, you guys,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: for some reason, you guys cannot win in Fenway? What
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the heck is happening? Fenway was always a place the
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Red Sox always dominated. Well, is there one thing you
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: can it's a bit bad weather? Has it been too cold?
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: What's happening in Fenway? Red Sox always owned the Fenway Park?
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think I think that that's something that we
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: had to try to figure out how to in here
• 31:00
  Speaker 9: because you know where we're being kind of bad. Here
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: we play good in the role, but when we get
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: here and in our home, we you know, we're bottling
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: too much to win the games. But I think we're
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: we had to figure out how to do it. I
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: think we had a good path right now to do it.
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: You know, the boys will start to we start to
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: getting really good at bats, Our games are better are abouts, pitching,
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: the the defense, all the stuff. I think it's just, uh,
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: we just try to figure out how to do it,
• 31:45
  Speaker 9: and I think right now we're in a good spot
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: to start to do it.
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: I want to talk about you're at bats. You're at
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: bats versus lefties. I know sometimes you get platooned, but
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: you're killing it versus lefties. Are those conversations that you
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: and Chad Tracy, or you and the maybe not hitting
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: coach but the front office talk about, like, hey, I
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: don't need to be platooned like I'm killing lefties. Is
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: that a conversation that you have with with Chad Tracy?
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: Not really, I think that was. You know, that's something
• 32:18
  Speaker 9: that I that I know that I had to improve
• 32:21
  Speaker 9: on my gain size because you know, I haven't played
• 32:26
  Speaker 9: too much with the lefty the last couple of years.
• 32:29
  Speaker 9: So this year they start to give me the opportunity
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: to play against against lefty. And you know, that's something
• 32:38
  Speaker 9: that I work out a lot this off season, try
• 32:41
  Speaker 9: to be better with the lefty, uh know, my my body,
• 32:45
  Speaker 9: myself as a hitter. How to how can create power
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: against lestic leftists too? That the saying that I have
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: against rights. So that's something that I work work.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: A lot this offseason.
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: And I mean there are social there, you know, you
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: just try to I just need to get more abouts,
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: feel more constable to play with the lefties. I work
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: on it, and you know right now there are there there,
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: and I feel pretty good. Every time I see I
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: see a lefty, I get happy, you know, I say, oh,
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: they bring me the lefty to get me right, you know,
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: because I'm hitting really good against the LEFTI right now.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Hey, well here, let's go to defense.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: I know Krat's going to ask you about range and
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: playing right and all that, but I want to start
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: with the arm.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Right, you've got a bazook arm. How did you get it?
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: You?
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Did you always have that?
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: When did you start playing outfield? Did you always have
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  Speaker 5: a cannon for an arm. And if you had like
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  Speaker 5: one tip for an outfielder, a young outfielder out there
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  Speaker 5: on how they can improve their arm strength, what was
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  Speaker 5: the best way that you were able to do that
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  Speaker 5: over the years.
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  Speaker 9: I think I always been through a little hard but
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  Speaker 9: I always take care of my arm too. I literally
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  Speaker 9: have like a you know, like a picture program of
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  Speaker 9: my take care of my arm. I always do you know,
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  Speaker 9: med balls, Uh, you know bands and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 9: I think if you can improve or strong with your scaps,
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  Speaker 9: so you're gonna be you're gonna have a really good
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  Speaker 9: arm and a healthy arm too.
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  Speaker 8: I love to hear that that you actually work at
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  Speaker 8: it and you want to keep it up because the
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  Speaker 8: any DNA don't wante, don't auto wanted. You have two
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  Speaker 8: gold gloves, Kate, the Visio right field and Grande League.
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  Speaker 8: What's the most difficult right field to play and in
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  Speaker 8: the big leagues is a fanway?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course it's too big.
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  Speaker 9: I mean the dimensions are different and they rightfield is
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  Speaker 9: too big.
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  Speaker 4: We got I mean we got three eighty on the bullpens.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, you know, we got that calf after the basketball
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  Speaker 9: we got the basketball. You know, you know it's it's sure,
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  Speaker 9: but at the same time it's very very long and uh,
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  Speaker 9: you know, and big, and I think it's the most
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  Speaker 9: difficult right field play, you know.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, if I see what's the easiest, Uh.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: I think, uh, I say, because because there, I mean
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  Speaker 9: there's uh, rightfield is a difficult position and any any stadium.
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  Speaker 4: But I think, you know, Frank wish even harder.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, well you're tell me about were you in the
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: abs practice the other day? And and I'm genuinely curious
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: how teams are improving that over time. So we have
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: some video here and some of the guys were looking
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  Speaker 5: like what have you guys talked about to try and say, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: here's what we learned in the first third of the
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  Speaker 5: season and what should we be challenging and when.
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  Speaker 9: Actually I had that practice today. So after after this interview,
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  Speaker 9: I go on going there. So but there's something that
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  Speaker 9: I want. I've been learning about the avias, so we
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: don't have to be afraid to get, you know, ask
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  Speaker 9: for the challenge, because there are sometimes there's all our pitches.
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  Speaker 4: That we know it's a ball, but if we gots
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. Oh, come and we
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: know it's a ball.
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  Speaker 9: We normally we don't challenge that, but there's I think
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: we're being so passive doing the challenge.
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  Speaker 4: So I think if we go a.
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  Speaker 9: Little more aggressive aggressive with the challenge, where you know,
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  Speaker 9: can turn around the ad bots can get in a
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  Speaker 9: better position.
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  Speaker 7: To hit Tegusta Sweet Caroline. You like the song Sweet Caroline?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, of course, I think it's pretty cool. That's you know,
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  Speaker 9: that's the magic here, famew.
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  Speaker 8: You sing along with it? When what is it the
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: eighth inning or the seventh thing? I'm not even sure.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not I'm not a fan.
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: Wayman, Yes he's in the eighth inning, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 9: always singing singing it?
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  Speaker 7: Can we hear it? Now? Can you give us a
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  Speaker 7: little bit?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? I don't know. Maybe a j can hold me
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  Speaker 4: with this.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, not me, not me? Yeah you were you played
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  Speaker 8: for the Red Sox. I only had a Red Sox uniform.
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: Give him like a bump something.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Touching me, touching you.
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: See up up? They very nice, very nice?
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: All right, So let's end with this bill you're what
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: do you like to do for fun? You know, we
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: hadn't talked to you before, Like you get an off day,
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: what's your plan?
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Uh, you know, I got through kids home, So.
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: That's you know, pretty much my my day being on
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  Speaker 9: that and you know maybe at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 9: maybe I do some barbecue and play with the kids
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  Speaker 9: in the backyard. That's pretty much my my day office that.
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  Speaker 8: Kay Carney and the barbecue. Let meet you put on
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  Speaker 8: by Solo. Yeah no, no.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, fat Steak. I like it, Yes, leaveless fat steak.
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  Speaker 5: Will Yeah, this is great.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 5: Really enjoyed getting to know you. You got a lot
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: of good energy. Thanks for the time, man, keep doing
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: your thing. Great talking to you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Guy. I
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: see you later.
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Yes, see you soon. Thank It's William Brady
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