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Jameson Taillon joins North Side Territory · North Side Territory: A Chicago Cubs Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It's not like, you know, we were one hundred win
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  Speaker 1: team and you're seeing names thrown out there. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: look like we ran a pretty similar team out there
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  Speaker 1: back to back years and we didn't make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into Northside Territory. Foul Territory Networks Cubs Podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Sahadev Sharma with my partner Patrick Mooney. Patrick and I
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  Speaker 2: cover the Cubs for the Athletic and Patrick, we have
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  Speaker 2: an exciting week coming up. I say that because it
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  Speaker 2: does feel like the Winter Meetings this year will will
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  Speaker 2: be a little bit more exciting. I mean just in
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  Speaker 2: general in terms of rumors, in terms of action as well.
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  Speaker 2: We've had some past but this year seems like we
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  Speaker 2: may actually see some movement with the Cubs involved.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think exciting is relative because a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the Winter Meetings and us just standing around a hotel lobby.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right that there is, you know, this Juan
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  Speaker 3: Soto and the domino effect that he will have which
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  Speaker 3: will include the Cubs, and we'll get into that of
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  Speaker 3: maybe where Cody Bellinger lands as a Plan B for someone.
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  Speaker 3: But the Cubs have already started making moves, which is
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  Speaker 3: a good sign. They do have a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: money to spend. They have trade ships at the major
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  Speaker 3: and minor league levels, and oh, it seems like teams
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  Speaker 3: have an appetite to spend this winter, just generally across
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  Speaker 3: the baseball industry, when you'll get some of these starting
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  Speaker 3: pitching deals, which we will obviously get into in more
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  Speaker 3: depth here shortly, But those are good signs for an
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  Speaker 3: interesting winter meetings in Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always I just remember one of my first
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  Speaker 2: winter meetings. It was just really hectic, and it continued
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  Speaker 2: to be hectic that for a few years after that.
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  Speaker 2: But then suddenly it was like no action during the
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  Speaker 2: winter meetings and and that's like, that's bad for the fans.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's bad for the games. Uh, well, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get we'll get back to that in a moment. We
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  Speaker 2: got we have a guest today. Uh, let's let's bring
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  Speaker 2: in our guest. It's a Jamison Tywn from the Chicago Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously one of the better interviews in the game, one
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  Speaker 2: of the more fun guys that I've covered.
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  Speaker 4: Very honest, let's bring him in.
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  Speaker 2: Jamison, thanks so much for joining us, man, Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: coming on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning, gotta do the off season in the
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  Speaker 1: car interview.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that whatever does important stuff? You nailed it by man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm at the Cubs complex. I could walk inside, but
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  Speaker 1: I gotta look important in the cars.
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  Speaker 2: So all right, Jamison, let's get right to it.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Cubs more active than last winter, at least to this point.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: One of the bigger signing so far, Matthew Boyd. But
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  Speaker 2: what's your reaction to that? What do you know about Boyd?
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  Speaker 2: And like, do you like, what do you recall of
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  Speaker 2: his season this year?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So I actually reached out to him when we signed him,
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  Speaker 1: and he told me that we played together at like
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  Speaker 1: a USA trial back in like two thousand and nine.
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  Speaker 1: So I do I remember that he was like I
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  Speaker 1: think a college guy already or something.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember what, but I remember he was a stud.
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  Speaker 4: But I remember him.
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  Speaker 1: Thrown against US in Cleveland last year, and I've seen
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  Speaker 1: him over the years. I've always thought he had a
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  Speaker 1: really sneaky fastball and he just mixes the off speed
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  Speaker 1: like you know, before the whole throw your best pitch
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  Speaker 1: more movement. I've always thought he was a guy that
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  Speaker 1: like just constantly was mixing, rarely gets beat on the fastball,
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  Speaker 1: and when he does throw it, I feel like he
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  Speaker 1: just sneaks it by guys. So yeah, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I see what we're what we're going for.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's.
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  Speaker 1: Upside there, and if he's healthy, he's worth way more
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  Speaker 1: than you know, what he got. Obviously, any signing as
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  Speaker 1: a risk on.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of you know, any pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he's you know, a safe bet to
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  Speaker 1: be worth that and be a really nice addition.
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  Speaker 3: Jameson, you pay attention to the market and the industry
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  Speaker 3: at large. What do you think is driving this push
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  Speaker 3: for starting pitching, not just Boyd but Kakuuchi, Sevarino to
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  Speaker 3: the A's. There's been a lot of these deals well
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  Speaker 3: in advance of the winter meetings.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting because when I was a free agent,
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  Speaker 1: I remember, you know, and I didn't sign later or anything,
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  Speaker 1: but I remember it was kind of like sit around
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  Speaker 1: and wait for the top guys to go, and then
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  Speaker 1: like even teams would kind of just tell us like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're kind of waiting to see what de Gram does,
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  Speaker 1: or we're kind of trying to feel out road on
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  Speaker 1: in my year, and then we'll shift our focus.
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  Speaker 4: I think this year, I think you know, there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Really good, just like quality starters available, and I think
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  Speaker 1: teams don't want to risk missing out on those guys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, while they're waiting for, like the Corbyn Burns
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  Speaker 1: or Max Freeze.
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  Speaker 4: You know they're worth waiting for.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I just think a guy like Kakuchi
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  Speaker 1: or you know, Severino and stuff, you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: miss out on that guy.
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  Speaker 4: If you're playing in that middle tier.
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  Speaker 2: You've always had your pulse on on free agency. I
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  Speaker 2: know you communicate with a lot of other guys around the.
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  Speaker 4: League, and when you.
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  Speaker 2: Were recruited by the Cubs, I think Craig Breslo was
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  Speaker 2: a big part of that pitch. So I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: how much it's evolved since Breslow left organization. But what's
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  Speaker 2: your understanding about what was your experience about being recruited
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  Speaker 2: by the Cubs and and kind of what's your understanding
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  Speaker 2: of how they go about recruiting pitchers in particular.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So a big thing for me in free agency
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  Speaker 1: was like, and I still feel this way, like maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's just something I have mentally wrong with me, but
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  Speaker 1: I always think there's another gear that I can reach.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm constantly chasing like more and I am very curious.
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  Speaker 4: And when I met with the US, it's just.
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  Speaker 1: A line where like Breslo sat down and was like, look,
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  Speaker 1: we know you're a good pitcher, that's why we're here,
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  Speaker 1: but like we think you can reach these levels, and
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  Speaker 1: he presented like some biomechanics stuff, some pitch usage stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously I didn't have a great first year, but I
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  Speaker 1: just thought that was super interesting that he wasn't afraid
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  Speaker 1: to like sit down and challenge me a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of attracted me to be completely honest. And
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  Speaker 1: then you know, like obviously money talks in those situations,
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  Speaker 1: and what city you're going to play for, like everything
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  Speaker 1: plays into it. I honestly didn't talk to too many players,
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  Speaker 1: and as you guys know, like teams nowadays like keep
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  Speaker 1: everything pretty quiet.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like there's.
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  Speaker 1: Not a ton of leaks unless they want leaks sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing. So yeah, I didn't like go out of
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  Speaker 1: my way to to talk to a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 1: around the league and ask questions and stuff. I did
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  Speaker 1: talk to Rizzo a little bit, and I messaged with
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  Speaker 1: Scotti f Ross a little bit about his experience with
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs.
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  Speaker 4: And Tommy and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Something I thought the Cubs did pretty well and that
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  Speaker 1: I thought was interesting was that free agent video they
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  Speaker 1: send out, Like it's very common for teams to reach
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  Speaker 1: out on the first day and be like, hey, we've
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  Speaker 1: got interest.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the Cubs were like, hey, we've got interest, and.
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  Speaker 1: Here's some videos to see what you're you know, a
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  Speaker 1: day in the life of being a Cub would look like,
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  Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I think Boyd got one of those videos. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: they must have refreshed it and put an updated spin
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  Speaker 3: on it. But you mentioned Tommy Hatavey as a pitching coach.
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  Speaker 3: The Cubs recently hired Tyler Zombro. When we talk about
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  Speaker 3: like a pitching infrastructure, could you explain it to fans
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  Speaker 3: of like what that is, because I think it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: come up if they get another starting pitcher. I think
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  Speaker 3: Rogi Sazaki is a long shot, but like they'll want
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  Speaker 3: to make their pitch and say how we can help
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  Speaker 3: get you better, Like what is the pitching infrastructure for
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs and what is unique about it compared to
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the league.
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  Speaker 1: So Tommy, to me has just got like that perfect
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  Speaker 1: mix will start with Tommy, he played. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: he always knew he was going to be a coach,
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  Speaker 1: but he played and kind of played through that lens almost.
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  Speaker 4: So if you just need someone to.
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  Speaker 1: Sit with and literally just have a therapist, Tommy's the best.
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  Speaker 4: Tommy also like speaks.
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  Speaker 1: The language of being, you know, an analytics guy and
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  Speaker 1: someone who's helped build up IVY. He knows how to
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  Speaker 1: prepare scouting information, like you know, this year I went
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  Speaker 1: to Tommy and I was like, look, dude, like IVY
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  Speaker 1: can be overwhelming, here's the information I like to see.
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  Speaker 4: Can you help me?
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  Speaker 1: And like, you know, before every start, I had a
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  Speaker 1: whole print out of all the information I like, Tommy
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  Speaker 1: would go through it write some of his notes, so like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, perfect mix of therapists, advanced scout people, manager
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  Speaker 1: like just being able to communicate with so many different personalities,
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  Speaker 1: which I think Tommy does better than anyone. Is like
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  Speaker 1: just meeting you where you are, not making you meet
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  Speaker 1: him where he is, if that makes sense, Like he's
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  Speaker 1: willing to adjust his style for me versus Hendrix versus
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  Speaker 1: Showda versus, like really good at knowing what you need.
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  Speaker 1: And then Zambro like from what I've heard and I
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  Speaker 1: know people that I've worked with him directly at tread
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  Speaker 1: like just super super sharp guy and another guy that's
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  Speaker 1: played And then I'm pretty excited about Casey Jacobson too,
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  Speaker 1: like just adding another another dude who's familiar with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of our young guys, Like it's no secret we
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  Speaker 1: have a good farm system. Like, I think he's going
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  Speaker 1: to help kind of that transition for guys to the
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  Speaker 1: big leagues. And you know, you don't win unless you
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  Speaker 1: have a bunch of good young guys too, So I
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  Speaker 1: think he's going to be just an awesome addition.
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  Speaker 2: So much of the talk during the season about Wrigley
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  Speaker 2: Field was the wind blowing in and the offense being impacted.
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  Speaker 2: We brought it up to JED this winter, but obviously
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  Speaker 2: it helped the pitching too.
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  Speaker 4: Right of both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Right, This isn't This isn't excuse making or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the reality of the situation. What were your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts on You had big home road splits, but I've
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  Speaker 2: noticed that's kind of been your career pattern. There were
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  Speaker 2: some others that had big home road splits. Of the starters,
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  Speaker 2: what were your thoughts on that? Was it a topic
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  Speaker 2: of discussion among the pitchers and is it something that
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  Speaker 2: you guys try to avoid letting get in your head
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  Speaker 2: or is it just the reality of pitching a Wrigley
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  Speaker 2: feel sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: So it's funny because I didn't even really notice that
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  Speaker 1: offense was being like suppressed at Wriggly that much until
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  Speaker 1: kind of later in the year, and then it was like, oh, maybe.
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  Speaker 4: We should pitch to this, like you see the flags
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  Speaker 4: blown in.
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  Speaker 1: But I also have a running joke with some of
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  Speaker 1: the pictures, like it feels like almost every one of
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  Speaker 1: my start days the wind blows out. So it's like
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  Speaker 1: I'm one flyball guy on the staff, like me and Schota,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like the wind blows out for me, but
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  Speaker 1: blows in for sinker ball guys and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, I understand it and there's no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Like I remember a flyball O'Neal Cruise hit off me
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  Speaker 1: into the warning track at like one twelve at thirty six,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like that's a homer every you know, everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: Like the wind one hundred percent added that down. Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm aware of it, but you know, it also depends
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  Speaker 1: on the day at Wrigley, Like you can't just say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it was down this season up last year. It's like
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  Speaker 1: it depends on the day, it depends on the home stand.
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  Speaker 1: So you'd have to go like way more in depth.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like to really read into it too much.
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  Speaker 1: But I remember, like my last start of the year
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  Speaker 1: against the Reds, that hour forty five minute game or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: like that was the day where I was like, my
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  Speaker 1: body's tired, I don't really feel great. The wind's howling in,
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  Speaker 1: Like I am gonna throw a ton of strikes today
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  Speaker 1: and just see what happens. That was probably the one
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  Speaker 1: day where I was like truly not afraid to throw
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  Speaker 1: it over the plate and like just go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Cody Bellinger certainly noticed the wind and the weather at
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  Speaker 3: Wrigley Field this past season. You were both part of
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  Speaker 3: the same like free agent class coming to Chicago at
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  Speaker 3: kind of this particular moment in time. What was your
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  Speaker 3: actually to see like his name back out there in
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  Speaker 3: trade rumors. It seems like it's been this entire saga
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  Speaker 3: with Cody of like will they trade him or not
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  Speaker 3: at the deadline, will we opt in or not? What
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  Speaker 3: does he meant to this team? And what were you
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  Speaker 3: surprised to like see his name resurface again after opting hit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, first, I mean, first off, from the offense standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: I can remember so many fly balls that Patrick Wisdom
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  Speaker 1: hit too that I was like, oh, off the bat,
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  Speaker 1: that's gone, and then it's like warning tracks.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, and I remember Belly hitting some of those two.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, like I understand why names get
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  Speaker 1: thrown out there, engaging interest and stuff. Like my thing
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  Speaker 1: with Cody is that he's such a good all around player,
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  Speaker 1: Like he does a lot of things really well and
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  Speaker 1: obviously plays a lot of positions and in today's game,
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  Speaker 1: like that's so valuable to play a good defense kind
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  Speaker 1: of all over the field. And it's crazy to talk
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  Speaker 1: about like a former MVP and stuff like this, but
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  Speaker 1: like he's the ultimate insurance policy because he can play.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, in the off season might
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  Speaker 1: sound kind of like a good idea or whatever, salary wise,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, you have a guy that can just
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  Speaker 1: play all over the field. So you know, you just
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  Speaker 1: hope you don't have an unfortunate situation in season where
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  Speaker 1: you're like, man, we wish we had you know, Cody
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  Speaker 1: out here being able to play all these positions. So
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Cody's an awesome dude, awesome teammate.
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  Speaker 1: He's a lot of fun to be around. I think
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  Speaker 1: I said it last year, but he's way like, way
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  Speaker 1: sharper and way more of like a baseball rat than
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  Speaker 1: I would have imagined from the outside. Like this dude
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  Speaker 1: is studious, like he's prepared, he's locked in, he is
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  Speaker 1: not stoned on the bench like he is an ultimate pro,
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  Speaker 1: like in the weight room every day. Great for young guys,
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  Speaker 1: like truly just one of the most awesome dudes I've
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  Speaker 1: ever played with.
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  Speaker 2: Jamison one more before we let you go get a
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  Speaker 2: workout in there. Obviously, Craig Council was very open and
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  Speaker 2: honest with us. This organization needs to build ninety one
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  Speaker 2: in teams. You were honest with us. UH needs to
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  Speaker 2: be a better product on the field, more wins. We're
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  Speaker 2: hearing a ton of rumors, right like we said, Bellinger,
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  Speaker 2: Niko Horner's name has come up a lot. The Cubs are,
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  Speaker 2: you know, rumors are swirling about Gary crochet I. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: they're looking to improve. What are your expectations coming into
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  Speaker 2: when you come to spring training? Pitchers and catchers report
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  Speaker 2: what do you think this team will look.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I have no idea. I have no idea. Honestly,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know who to believe on the internet anymore.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know, but only Yeah, that's another thing, like
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  Speaker 7: you know when my name was thrown out there at
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  Speaker 7: the deadline, or like when you see Cody's name out
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  Speaker 7: there now, And I think I may have said this
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  Speaker 7: around the deadline, but like we kind of in a
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  Speaker 7: way did this to ourselves too.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like, you know, we were a hundred win
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  Speaker 1: team and you're seeing names thrown out there. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: look like we ran a pretty similar team out there
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  Speaker 1: back to back years and we didn't make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Like so you can't really sit here and be upset
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  Speaker 1: when you see things because like, we need to get better,
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  Speaker 1: and everything I see is like, you know, the front
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  Speaker 1: office probably trying to be creative to make us the
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  Speaker 1: best team possible, no matter what that looks like. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's like the player side of me, who's
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  Speaker 1: attached to everybody on the team, you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: see anyone go.
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  Speaker 4: And I know we're better than what we were last year.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: But you also can't sit here and like pound the
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: table and not expect moves to be made, you know,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: and just run it back. So yeah, I mean, I know,
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: our whole group said it all year last year, Like
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I really do believe we are better than what we
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: showed and we were still you know, a fine major
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: league baseball team.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: But like there's a lot of talent in the room.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: We already have a pretty good core in place, like
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: always happy to you know, supplement it and add to it.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: But it's going to be interesting, you know, I don't
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: know anything, so I'm excited to follow it and just
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: see what see what happens.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: All right, James, So what do you what's the plan? Like,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: where are you at and you're throwing progression? What are
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: you working on right now? Just curious?
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm down in Arizona.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I was in Chicago thrown into the net in the
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: cage for a while, but it's time to.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Get outside down here.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: So gonna come in and throw at the facility with
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Casey a few days a week, and then I'm lifting
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: at one of Kevin Poppy's facilities down here, who's now
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: our head strength coach. But I had organized that kind
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: of before that ever even happened. So just working out,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: trying to get stronger throwing wise, Like there's some delivery
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: things that you know, my velocity dropped a little bit,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: especially towards the end of the year. Like there's some
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: things that we flagged, some drills we're putting in with
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: like plyioballs, and just some things that got a little
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: out of whack. And lucky enough, I'm I've got a
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: big enough pitch mix and like, you know, I'm creative
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: enough with the different pitch micks and good control to
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: like get through it. But there were a lot of
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: games last year where I had really good games and
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I was like, I still just don't quite feel you.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Know, like myself.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: That's not like when I look back and see ninety ones.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: It's like I've never thrown ninety one in my whole life.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Like I can get by with it. But so we're
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: trying to get creative and find ways to put me
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: in some athletic positions and get the arm move in
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: a little bit.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, looking forward to digging into that, whether
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: it's a Cubs convention or spring training. We will see
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: you soon enough. Thanks so much for joining us. We
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: know you're busy, but always appreciate your time.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Jameson, Yeah, thanks for having me. Thank you.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much for listening. That's Northside Territory.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I'm Sadiv Sharma. That's Patrick Mooney. Appreciate Jameson Tyn joining us.
• 18:32
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• 18:36
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• 18:43
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