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Masyn Winn Is Key To The Cardinals 2024 Success · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Yeah, I mean you know I think it's it's not a secret.
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  I definitely struggled out to play last year.
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  So you know that's that's been my main focus that and trying to
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  gain some weight. You know being around the guys
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  last year in the clubhouse, you know, I saw kind of a difference
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  you know, you know you got Goldie 230 lbs, solid muscle.
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  Not also you know I feel felt like I needed to catch up a
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  little bit. But yeah for sure been working
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  on the mechanics of hitting trying to trying to get my swing
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  right, trying to get better. I'm trying to get stronger.
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  You know, I want, I want some power.
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  Memphis, you know, it worked out, got some, got some juice
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  there. And then when I got called up,
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  kind of just lacked it, you know, lacked contact like the
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  like the power. So those those are the big
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  biggest things I'm working on. Jason, we talked to MO yesterday
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  and he was pretty candid in saying that he's going to
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  present you with every opportunity to be the Opening
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  Day shortstop for you this spring.
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  What do you feel like you need to execute and be successful and
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  to give yourself the best chance that happening?
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  Yeah, I mean I just, I'm just going to go out there and
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  compete, you know, you know, I don't want to go into spring
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  training. You know, I'm going to go into
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  it with the same mindset as last year.
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  You know, I got some opportunities last year and I
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  made the most of them. So I'm going to go in there and
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  you know, not thinking it's my spot.
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  I'm going to go up there thinking, you know, I need to
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  earn, earn a spot. And you know, that's my mindset.
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  The whole, whole spring, whole year, you know, the whole year I
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  want to work and I want to work to be there and belong there.
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  If you kind of go through the system, when you hear guys talk
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  about the jump from a moment to the next to get to the big
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  leagues, what's the difference between hearing about it and
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  preparing for it and then living it?
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  And what do you learn about that experience of living that gap
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  between AAA and the majors and adjusting?
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  To it, Yeah. I mean, so you always hear about
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  it, you know, every level. There's differences for sure.
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  You know, I thought the biggest jump was from high to AA, AA to
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  AAA was wasn't too bad. But you know going from going
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  from trips to majors was a complete shift because you go
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  from you know playing some younger guys in the lower levels
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  with a few years of experience. AAA, you got you know guys with
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  maybe a couple years and you go up there and you know I'm
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  playing next to Goldie and Nado, those guys both have 10 plus
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  years. So it's like it completely
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  changes the maturity of the game, the pace of play.
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  But I mean the difference, I think everybody just told me
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  that the game would speed up and I think it did a little bit at
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  first. But I mean with the with the
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  preparation that our org has given me throughout the system,
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  I think, I I think I handed it pretty well as far as the
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  pressure and everything and obviously didn't perform the way
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  I wanted to. But no, I wasn't too bad, I
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  didn't think. You learned things about
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  yourself and that and how you react to it and how you respond
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  to it. Like what?
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  What do you learn from yourself? About of course.
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  I mean you know I'm a I'm no stranger to struggle.
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  I've struggled pretty much every level I've gone to whenever you
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  know I've first gotten up there struggled for a little bit and
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  then you know worked it out. So definitely learned.
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  You know, I can, I can take a little bit of failure you know,
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  I definitely don't want to. I'd much rather, you know, hit
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  350 like everybody else. But you know, it's a game of
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  failure. So you know, I'm starting to
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  learn how to, you know, mentally accept that, you know, still
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  still a young kid, it feels like, but you know, I'm trying
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  to trying to mature myself a little bit quicker to be around
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  these guys. How valuable?
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  For your How valuable for your development was it to get the
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  get your feet wet a little bit at the end of the season so that
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  now you you come into spring and you you've had that behind you
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  already to to be able to move forward with?
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  Oh, it's amazing. I mean, the thought of me
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  showing up this year and you know, having to maybe go through
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  that this first month and you know it, it's a shame that we
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  had a kind of a bad season last year.
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  But you know, I'm glad I got my opportunity towards the end of
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  it. You know, whenever, you know,
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  wins didn't matter as much. But no, I'm, I'm super glad I
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  got to go through that, you know, got to be around some of
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  the guys want to play with this year.
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  So super excited. You know, I think it's going to
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  really help me, having that experience at the end of last
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  year when you described the offensive struggles at the end
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  of last season, was it you getting away from the swing that
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  works for you in the majors or was it the approach in the
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  major? League pitchers is going to
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  force you to change I. Think it's a little bit of both.
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  I mean, I definitely got pitched a lot different than I was in
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  Memphis. You know, going back and looking
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  at video or some film, I think I can.
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  I definitely see my swing changed a couple times, I think.
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  But I think that's just me, you know, being young and wanting
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  to, you know, maybe go on over 10 or so and thinking that's the
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  end of the world, trying to change something up right away.
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  So I think the biggest thing for me was just trying to rush it,
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  you know, trying to change too much too quick.
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  I think a big change was was going to happen like like this
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  offseason. I think that's that's a good
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  time for a change. Maybe little tweaks during the
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  season, but I was trying to change too much I think.
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  Nice with the and strength, are you seeing better bat speed?
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  Are you seeing balls go further or are you and looking at your
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  swing what it looks like with more more strength?
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  Definitely, definitely. Balls feels like it's it's
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  coming off a little harder. We def.
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  We don't have, you know, the technology that we have here, so
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  it's a little, little difficult to look at numbers.
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  But you know, weight's gone up, swing's feeling nice, ball's
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  coming off nice, so just everything feels good.
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  Bad Bats feel a little bit lighter.
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  So yeah, watching is there. A certain element of your game
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  when you're I think about what you did in the offseason, that
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  you're excited to show off in spring and that you feel like
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  you've made strides in. I mean really just hitting.
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  I mean I think defensively I performed pretty well up until,
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  you know, I had a one pretty bad game last year.
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  But I think defensively I'm just going to try to, you know,
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  obviously trying to get better every day.
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  But my main focus has been really just hitting.
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  I want to, I want to show up and and show the guys I can compete.
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  Maybe one change. Did you make like?
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  What are some of? The specific things that you
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  went to work, Yeah, I mean really just hip hinge and stuff.
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  I mean last year I was, I was jumping out of my jumping out of
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  my legs real quick, jumping out the ball, really just trying to
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  take the same swing path every, every single time.
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  I feel like last year you know I might not have set my plant foot
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  in the same spot every time or might have been leaning over my
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  front hip. So really just trying to be
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  consistent with the swing, every single swing.
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  You see guys like Goldie and and their intent to their work in
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  the cages and whether it be T work front toss, whatever it may
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  be. They do the same thing every
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  single time, set up the exact same way.
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  So for me it's been that, just trying to be consistent.
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  Like I said, the hip hinge stuff.
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  For me, trying to get into my legs more, I feel like that, you
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  know, might cause a little bit more power.
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  I had a pretty big scissor kick last year.
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  I have the past couple years and that's really unintentional, but
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  I've been trying to cut back on that.
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  I feel like that might Get Me Out of position sometimes and I
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  think it helps me sometimes, but I think for the most part, you
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  know, just having a more standard swim would be would be
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  better. I remember last year sitting
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  here not kind of knowing what happened during the season.
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  How are you different today than you were?
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  A year ago what you've gone through shoot, man.
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  I mean, last year was great for me.
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  Being around being around the AAA guys for, you know, 3-4
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  months, five months and then getting caught up with the older
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  guys. I think there's some maturity
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  level. It's a lot different.
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  I think, you know, only being a AA last year, being around those
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  guys, we got great guys at every level.
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  But just like I said, the maturity level at each level
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  gets bigger and better. You know, I had a great talks
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  last year, great, great conversations with a lot of
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  people, you know, in fact, Goldie, we sat down for about
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  two hours and Milwaukee had brunch and just talked.
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  So that was good. But yeah, I'm just ready, Mason.
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  Do you feel like those last couple of weeks in the majors,
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  did that really direct the changes that you're trying to
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  make this offseason because you had good numbers, but at least,
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  you know, it seemed like you performed on AAA the time the
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  majors really sort of set the path for what you're doing so.
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  100%, I mean, you know, I showed up, did not hit very well, but I
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  think the last 2-3 weeks or so, I mean worked with Turner Ward
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  and then ran Allen and we just got to work on what I wanted to
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  work on this offseason. You know, got some, got some
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  advice from them as far as you know what I what tweaks I needed
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  to make and what what changes they think needed to be made.
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  We started working on that at the end of the year and then,
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  you know, I just took it into my offseason trying to trying to
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  get to where I'm at right now as you.
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  Said last year that over the course of the long season, you
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  lose weight. You wanted to start at a better
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  weight. How much weight have you put on?
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  How much have you eaten the 4000 calories a day or anything?
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  Like that? No, definitely.
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  Definitely no diet plan for me. I'm just, I'm just trying to eat
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  as much as I can. I I think I got down in the
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  160's last year so I want to I want to if I drop this year I
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  want to drop to 180. You know I usually drop 10 to 15
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  lbs. I don't really know what what
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  that may be. I usually don't lose muscle it's
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  usually a lot of fat. But I think me showing up this
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  year I'm, I want to be around 195 if I can, you know I need to
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  put on few more pounds but I think that would be really good
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  for me if, you know, if I lose weight and I drop to 18185, I'll
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  still have that strength and I think I'll it'll help me carry
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  through 162 games season. The the footwork and load stuff
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  you were talking about, Can you do that dry or like in a mirror,
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  do you have to feel that through the ball?
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  Like, are you a guy who needs to get all the way through your
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  swing to feel that kind of launching the way you wanted to?
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  Or can you like just repeat it and over and over and then kind
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  of train that once you get the more wide swing?
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  Stuff. I mean, obviously I'd much
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  rather have, you know, live action and and be swinging, you
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  know, bats a ball. But I mean, I can look in the
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  mirror and and tell myself whether or not, you know,
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  whether I might be leaning forward, leaning back, you know
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  all my tippy toes. So not for sure.
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  I can just look at a mirror and and pretty much get it.
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  Is that a thing where like on video you can watch?
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  Like can you watch yourself load on video and know this was a
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  good swing versus a bad swing before you guys see yourself go
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  through? I don't know like where do you
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  where? I guess where in your swing path
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  do you see it not being where you'd want to be?
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  Pretty much immediately last year whenever I would lift my my
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  left leg, you know, for my leg kick, I would really just jump
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  out. So immediately you can kind of
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  see a shift going this way rather than a hinge going
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  twisting this way while this leg's moving forward.
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  So I think if you have a, the best angle would be a front
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  camera seeing me from, you know, this way.
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  But yeah, I think pretty much immediately I can tell if it's
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  going to be a good or bad swing. How much of that was this?
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  Trend Maybe force the. Production or or thinking they
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  had to be that far ahead or jumping out of sometimes.
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  An anxious moment. I think it was a fear of
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  striking out. You know, me not being the
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  biggest guy in the world, you know, I want to get on base, you
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  know, as much as Tommy Edmund or Lars Newmar new bar might.
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  So for me, I think it was just, you know, I don't want to strike
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  out. I want to show these guys I can
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  compete. And I think that was causing me
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  to swing at some some pitches I shouldn't have been swinging at,
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  trying to battle early, you know, not to strike count,
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  swinging at, swinging at pitches I didn't need to swing at.
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  So much did you and Jordan kind of reflect on you kind of both
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  kind of went through this experience together, and how
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  much have you tried to motivate each other this offseason?
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  I know the way you guys text each other and trash talk to
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  each other. How much have you?
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  Oh, every day. I mean, we go back and forth
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  whether, you know, it might be video games or, you know, weight
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  gain. You know, he told me he gained a
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  whole bunch of weight. So that that pushed me, you
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  know, to gain even more. So I was excited about myself
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  and then he let me down a little bit.
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  You know, I gained. I'm 260 now, come on, bro.
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  But Nah, I mean, we, we talk a lot.
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  I mean that's my guy. You know obviously he had a
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  great year last year, especially rookie season.
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  But I mean, yeah, he's working every day.
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  You know, he's working defensively, obviously I said
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  he's gained some weight, so I'm sure he'll come back hitting
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  bombs. But yeah, I mean we're just,
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  we're super excited definitely talking about last year.
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  I mean he obviously knows how bad I struggled and you know
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  what we went through. But it's.
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  I think it'll be a lot of fun this year where have.
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  You been working out, are you in Texas or are you down in
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  Florida? Where have you been spending
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  your? Offseason.
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  I'm down where it's warm. I'm in Houston, for sure.
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  Go to Texans, by the way. Jason, how much do you see that
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  you're you're stolen base ability being a a vital part of
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  your game at the big league level.
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  Obviously the miners, you've done that and how much do you
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  believe that that can still be a a factor for you in the bigs?
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  Oh, for sure. I mean, I didn't run too much
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  last year. I didn't, you know, I didn't get
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  on base a lot, so I didn't get too many opportunities.
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  But now, I mean, you see guys like Tommy taking, you know, a
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  bag and then Goldie hits a broken bat single and he ends up
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  scoring on it. I mean, that's that's a big
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  deal. You know, each run counts.
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  So no, I think it'll be huge for me.
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  I mean, being a speed guy, I need to, I need to get, you
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  know, at least 20-30 bags a year.
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  So I think for me that'll be just every year thing.
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  I mean, not, not too worried about it.
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  Speed for me is the least of my concerns.
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  I think So, yeah. I mean that's that'll just come.
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  Does that mindset kind of coincide with you saying I want
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  to be a guy that gets on base and he gets a second base with
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  the stolen base, that that's another way to kind of produce
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  power in a way or or get yourself in the sporting
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  position? 100% I mean it also helps the
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  guys around me, helps the team. You know it's it's exciting.
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  You know I feel like when Ricky Henderson was running around
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  everywhere, everybody was having a good time watching him run and
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  you know whether he was out or safe he was putting his team you
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  know for the most part in a in a in a great spot.
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  So for me, you know, whether it be you know eight spot, nine
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  spot, if I get on base and get to 2nd with Tommy Edmond or Lars
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  Newbar coming up, you know, I like our chances.
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  So I think it does help the team a lot.
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  You know turning a single into a double is is a big deal.
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  You know if if Jordan hits a single he might not get to, you
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  know, he might not get that steal.
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  But for me it's it's a little different.
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  So when? It comes to the defensive side.
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  What do you feel like you made some strides?
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  In last year, I think just the consistency, I mean, every year
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  I've gotten a little bit more consistent.
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  You know working with Cheo at the beginning of the year every
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  year has always gotten me right. I think throughout the years
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  it's just gotten better. Then when I got up stubby clap,
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  I worked with him and he's a lefty and I don't know if y'all
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  have ever taken fungo, but taking fungo from stubby,
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  hitting lefty backspin, hitting sliders at you, I mean taking
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  grounder from him really prepares you for the game.
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  It feels. I mean it's probably harder than
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  the game actually is. So I think just working with
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  with those two guys has has got me ready.
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  I mean every year I've I've I feel like I've gotten better and
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  you know I want to get better every year.
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  I I mean shoot I I expect to see Jordan Walker thanks.
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  I mean I've I've seen him play for 3-4 years now.
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  I mean he's only gotten only gotten bigger and better every
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  year. You know obviously went out last
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  year, 2021 years old and competed almost a full year, you
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  know got called down a little bit which is very difficult I
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  feel like on a on a 20 year old and gets called back up and then
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  just competes the rest of the year.
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  So I think he's going to show up this year and you know handle
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  business. He doesn't hear a lot of outside
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  noise. So you know the media doesn't
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  really affect him or you know comments don't really affect
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  him. He's really just going to go out
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  there and, you know, play for his family, play for his
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  brothers and yeah, I think he'll have a great year again if.
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  His confidence, Kind of. Rubs off on oh, I mean if he's
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  going, I feel like I'm going a little bit.
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  You know whenever he hits a double, I feel like part of me
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  hit a double. So and I know he feels the same
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  way. So yeah, I mean when we're, when
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  we're rolling together it's it's a lot of fun.
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  Speaking of your confidence, this is a critical start of the
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  year 2024 coming off of. A disappointing 2020.
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  Three season, the team is going to rely on you as the starting
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  shortstop. How much confidence is that
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  instilling you, knowing that the team under all this pressure has
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  this confidence in you? Yeah, I mean, you know,
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  throughout the whole minor league system, they've always,
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  you know, always trusted in me, always believed in me, you know,
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  gave me the most support I could ever imagine.
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  But yeah, I mean, it feels great.
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  I mean last year getting that, getting the call up and then
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  obviously struggling and then them still putting me in every
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  day and and getting that work and getting that experience, it
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  feels great, you know, I mean it makes me really want to be here
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  for a long time, you know when a when championships here for a
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  long time. Mason obviously respect a lot of
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  your teammates from growing up in the in the system, but is
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  there a certain player you're looking forward to seeing make
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  that jump this year, whether it's AAA and the Pigs or single
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  A and AAA? Whatever it is.
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  I got two guys. I'll say.
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  One of ours just got added to the 40 man.
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  Pedro Paias, he's a catcher. I don't know how he gets up this
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  year, but I mean, he just great. Got to be around everybody that
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  I've ever met. Loves him, but yeah, just a
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  great person. And then tin cans, he's one of
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  my Emma Jordan, probably my best friends in the world.
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  Tink called me last night talking about how how much fun
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  he's having. You can't wait for the season.
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  So for me, it'd probably be Tink.
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  I mean, I know how unbelievably he is.
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  And I I can't wait for a lot of, a lot of other people to see
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  that in person. And, you know, I get to see that
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  at Bush. Wait, so.
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  With the Tink, I mean, how much have you been able to just keep
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  up with what his stuff looks like and how he developed, how
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  he's developed? Has he gotten more innings?
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  I'm not going to be pretty limited in the first couple of.
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  Years, Yeah. I mean so last year when he
• 16:24
  started at High A, that was obviously we had been together
• 16:28
  all spring training and you know you started there.
• 16:30
  We were both pretty disappointed and we thought I personally, I
• 16:32
  thought he was going to start a little bit higher.
• 16:34
  But Nah, I mean seeing checking in with him every every week,
• 16:38
  you know, seeing how he starts going, seeing how he's throwing,
• 16:41
  how he's feeling. He had a little bit of a an
• 16:43
  injury last year with like I think a chest injury, but you
• 16:46
  know, came back doing his thing and I think the biggest thing
• 16:50
  for him is just staying healthy. I mean he's everybody knows how
• 16:53
  good he is. So I think for the him it's just
• 16:56
  being consistent, staying healthy.
• 16:57
  You see guys like Garrett Cole throwing 250 innings.
• 16:59
  So it's, you know, if Tink can do that, you know and and really
• 17:03
  that'd be, it'd be really big for us, Victor.
• 17:06
  How well do you know Victor Scott?
• 17:07
  He's talked about he wants to model himself after what you and
• 17:10
  Jordan did. You know he he's watched you
• 17:12
  guys and and looked up to you kind of have you been able to
• 17:15
  talk to him or do you know him well little?
• 17:17
  Yeah, for sure. Last year we got, we got pretty
• 17:19
  close in spring training, you know, he out there in the
• 17:22
  outfield, so I didn't get to see him too much.
• 17:24
  But you know, talking to him during BP or whatnot, he's a
• 17:28
  very interesting cat. I mean he's he's, he's different
• 17:31
  for sure, but super exciting. I mean watching that dude run,
• 17:34
  watching that dude make plays, I mean it's for me, watching the
• 17:37
  highlights is one of the best parts.
• 17:38
  You know, it's seeing him rob a rob a home run, jumping 13 feet
• 17:42
  in the air, it's like it's different.
• 17:44
  So seeing, I'd like to see that for sure in person, I haven't
• 17:47
  got to see it too much. But yeah, I can't wait to play
• 17:49
  with that guy. When you say a different cat, is
• 17:51
  there something in particular that comes to mind When you
• 17:53
  think about just going, you know what you interaction you've had
• 17:56
  with him and looks a little different.
• 17:57
  It seems a little different. I would say, I would say pretty
• 18:00
  much all baseball players are different cats.
• 18:02
  But I mean you know you got guys like NATO man.
• 18:05
  NATO's different. NATO's going to he's an animal
• 18:08
  he's going to go out there and he's going to compete.
• 18:10
  He's going to he's not going to smile he's going to go out there
• 18:12
  and and he's a killer and I think I think big Scott's
• 18:15
  probably the same way. You know, the the few
• 18:17
  conversations I've had with him, he and what I've heard about him
• 18:20
  is he seems just like a dog to me.
• 18:22
  He seems like he wants to go out there and you know, he wants to
• 18:24
  beat everybody. Amazing.
• 18:26
  There was a lot of. Talk last year or maybe before.
• 18:29
  About your arm speed and being able to grow, really.
• 18:31
  Quickly over the first base, how much of that?
• 18:33
  Is still within the. Work that you're.
• 18:34
  Doing this offseason. Or comparing the first rate with
• 18:38
  that, I mean the arm to be honest.
• 18:39
  That's that might be the one thing I don't, I don't worry
• 18:41
  about For me, I used to try to throw as hard as I could every
• 18:47
  single time. Now I'm just trying to hit
• 18:49
  Goldie in the chest. So I think it's it's a big part
• 18:52
  of my game for sure one of the biggest if if not the biggest.
• 18:55
  But I think I think that's just you know it's something that's
• 18:59
  always in the back pocket rather than you know what's what's on
• 19:02
  the what's on the surface. Jason.
• 19:04
  Did they? Did they express to you?
• 19:06
  Their wishes to have you be starting shortstop or was it the
• 19:09
  actions that they had keeping you in the line and kind of
• 19:15
  well, I mean to be quite frank I have no idea what what's going
• 19:18
  to happen going into this season.
• 19:19
  But the confidence level I have, I know, I know they they
• 19:22
  believed in me last year. I know you know they still
• 19:24
  believe in me every day. So for me, I just want to go out
• 19:28
  there and compete compete for a spot.
• 19:29
  You know, I I've never been the type to be, you know I've I've
• 19:33
  never felt entitled for anything.
• 19:34
  So you know I don't I don't want to be given a spot.
• 19:36
  I want to. I want to go out there and earn
• 19:37
  it. Thoughts.
• 19:39
  On thoughts on CJ Strata? That's the guy, man.
• 19:42
  That's he used to a man, a saving.
• 19:45
  The Texans organization right there have.
• 19:47
  You ever gotten to? Meet him.
• 19:48
  No, I have not. I wish he was.
• 19:50
  I know he went to Ohio State so you know I'm not it's that's
• 19:53
  that's N brother that's cold up there.
• 19:57
  No, I mean he's been a lot of fun.
• 19:58
  Great for the city. I mean obviously very humble
• 20:01
  kid. I mean young guy.
• 20:02
  So yeah, future's looking bright for sure.
• 20:08
  Major League club that drives you.
• 20:10
  Something that you think back to that that makes you want to push
• 20:13
  even harder than. All season I mean Buenos 200 was
• 20:16
  was by far my favorite game of the year.
• 20:18
  I mean I'm I'm putting that over my debut.
• 20:19
  I would say just the atmosphere. I mean every pitch the fans were
• 20:25
  going crazy. It felt like a playoff
• 20:26
  atmosphere and you know, obviously I've never been to the
• 20:28
  playoffs so getting the feel of that was was pretty special to
• 20:32
  me and it's it makes me want to, you know, it makes me want to
• 20:34
  get there and and compete for a real series to see how this, how
• 20:37
  this stadium would get. What'd you do with the ball that
• 20:39
  ended up in the curl with your first hit?
• 20:41
  What'd you do end up doing? With it, put it in the case and
• 20:44
  then gave it to Mama for sure. I got the Homer.
• 20:46
  She got the first hit, though. Hey.
• 20:48
  Mason, when you saw the Otani contracts, did you did?
• 20:51
  Was there a flicker in your mind about man, maybe.
• 20:53
  Yeah, I should still try to pitch.
• 20:56
  Man that was it's funny that was that was kind of what what was
• 20:59
  the talk out of the draft was just kind of watching show hey
• 21:02
  and you know maybe comparing myself to him.
• 21:04
  Comparing yourself to show hey Otani is not very smart.
• 21:07
  I mean that dude one of the best pitchers and one of the best
• 21:10
  hitters in the league that's he's one of one man.
• 21:13
  That's yeah, that contract was was insane for sure you think.
• 21:16
  It's going to lead to more guys trying to do both.
• 21:18
  I mean, you can speak to how hard it is.
• 21:21
  To try to do both. Yeah, I was.
• 21:22
  I think guys are going to try. I don't.
• 21:24
  I don't know if guys are going to be able to.
• 21:26
  I mean, you'd have to. You look at his bill, He's, you
• 21:28
  know, 65. He's a big dude hitting bombs at
• 21:30
  the DH spot. You know, for a guy like me, I
• 21:34
  think one of my biggest assets is the defense.
• 21:36
  So, you know, I can't. I'm not about to be.
• 21:38
  ADHI could go to the outfield, but probably a little tough on
• 21:42
  the arm. Not a first baseman.
• 21:44
  So you know, it would have to be a special mix.
• 21:46
  I think it'd have to be another just big donkey, maybe a Luke
• 21:49
  and Baker type guy who can play first and and throw 97.
• 21:53
  So are you. Leaning on Ollie to be the guy
• 21:55
  who gets to come in and pitch if they have to go position player
• 21:57
  in the game. Me.
• 22:00
  No, I'll never pitch. They'll never let me, Yeah.
• 22:03
  No, I've had that conversation multiple times.
• 22:06
  My leagues, majors. But it would have to be, it
• 22:09
  would have to be something crazy and I would have to probably
• 22:12
  throw with my left hand.