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Cal Raleigh and Mitch Garver join FT @Mariners Camp + Seattle Mariners 2026 Season Preview · Foul Territory

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, here we are. We got him, We
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  Speaker 1: got cal Rawley.
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  Speaker 2: Here he is the big dumper. Do you get tired
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  Speaker 2: of that nickname? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's good.
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  Speaker 2: It's good. You're okay with it.
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  Speaker 3: Take whatever you can get, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean you know you, you know, family and
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  Speaker 1: mom and dad and everyone.
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  Speaker 3: We've we've learned to embrace it. It's all good.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take you. Listen, the year you had.
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  Speaker 1: They if I had a year like you had last year,
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  Speaker 1: they could call me anything.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't care a right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's keep doing it until this one.
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  Speaker 1: I I just gotta say I I pined for you
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  Speaker 1: for MVP from starting about June until the whole year,
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  Speaker 1: even when I did your playoff series against the Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: The home runs you hit, the way you handle the staff.
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  Speaker 1: To me, listen, if you can't win the MVP with
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: the year you had, then how is Aaron Judge ever
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  Speaker 1: gonna lose the MVP? Because you had one of the
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  Speaker 1: all time greatest years for a catcher, sixty home runs,
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  Speaker 1: the way you led your team to the postseason, won
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  Speaker 1: the division. Sorry, you should have been a Gold Glover.
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  Speaker 2: Again. I know who won it, but I.
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  Speaker 1: For me, you went platinum last year, and this year
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  Speaker 1: you don't even make the finals, So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what else you could possibly do to not win the
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  Speaker 1: m v P.
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  Speaker 3: Win a world series. So I mean it's all good,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know how all that stuff goes down,
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  Speaker 4: it's out of out of uh out of our control.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, just looking to to be as consistent
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  Speaker 4: as possible, you know, focus on the little things, try
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  Speaker 4: to take it one pitch at a time, win as
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  Speaker 4: many games as possible, and and uh, you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the year, you know, went in
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  Speaker 4: that ring well will uh suthe a lot of a
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  Speaker 4: lot of.
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  Speaker 2: The pains, So especially in Seattle, right, Oh yeah, we.
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  Speaker 4: The fans are dying for for for a winner there,
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  Speaker 4: so that you know, we're happy with.
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  Speaker 3: You know, obviously what happened last year.
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  Speaker 4: We were very excited and very disappointed at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: but a huge step in the in the right direction
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  Speaker 4: and looking to to build off of that.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I was also on that m VP trained
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  Speaker 5: for you as well too, and I potentially got buried
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  Speaker 5: because you know, Aaron Judge is Aaron Judge. But the
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  Speaker 5: year you had like the catcher position, I mean, there's
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  Speaker 5: never been a better one. So I was tuned that
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  Speaker 5: horn as well. But my question to you is, what
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  Speaker 5: do you remember about that home run in Game five
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  Speaker 5: of the ALCS. I was fortunate enough to be there
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  Speaker 5: covering for the Blue Jays. It was one of the
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  Speaker 5: best atmospheres I had ever seen. And I know players,
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  Speaker 5: when they're in that moment, they kind of black out.
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  Speaker 5: Do you kind of even remember that moment of how
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  Speaker 5: loud it was and how electric it was in that stadium?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I kind of kind of blacked out
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  Speaker 4: round the bases. But I mean, to me, I just
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  Speaker 4: more so remember Gino's home run. I mean, I mean
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  Speaker 4: that place was absolutely shaking. I mean the roof closed,
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  Speaker 4: you know, kind of you know, we weren't giving them
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  Speaker 4: a whole lot to cheer about those first two games there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the Blue Jays kind of dominated us there
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  Speaker 4: in game three and gave four and they were just
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  Speaker 4: waiting to kind of verse like that, and when it happened,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that whole inning was was very special.
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  Speaker 3: And you know that's ah, Like.
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  Speaker 4: I said, it's a lot of people compliment you know Seattle.
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  Speaker 4: You know when they come there, you know how loud,
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  Speaker 4: it is the fans and how great of a place
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  Speaker 4: it is to play. So it was, it was, it
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  Speaker 4: was very fun.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have expectations now, yeah, especially with the team
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  Speaker 1: across the street from you guys in Seattle having just
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  Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. All right, Yeah, so now there,
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of a new place for the Mariners.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you guys, I just picked you
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  Speaker 1: guys to win the American League. I just think you
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  Speaker 1: guys have a great team Seattle, everything that's going for it.
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  Speaker 1: What do you have to do to help them? And
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  Speaker 1: not individually maybe, but what what is your stance after
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  Speaker 1: the way things ended last year? Did you go into
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  Speaker 1: the offseason and say, if I only could do X
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  Speaker 1: y Z better?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's I think, to me, kind of what
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  Speaker 4: I mentioned earlier, just the little things, you know, I think,
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  Speaker 4: to me, the game is so it's so driven by
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  Speaker 4: you know, stats and analytics and and things like that,
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  Speaker 4: and it's those are obviously all important, and those are
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  Speaker 4: big chunk of it, but it's the little things that
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  Speaker 4: went baseball games, you know. You know, I hate to
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  Speaker 4: say it, but looking and looking at the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 4: like they did the little things just a little better
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  Speaker 4: us last year.
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  Speaker 3: And and uh, you know you could say, you know
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  Speaker 3: that game.
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  Speaker 4: Could have gone either way Game seven, but you know
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  Speaker 4: it went their way and they were able to you know,
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  Speaker 4: get some two strikes here, hits here and there, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, extend innings, put the ball in play when necessary,
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  Speaker 4: moved the runner.
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  Speaker 3: Not that we didn't do a good job of next.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we did, especially down the stretch.
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  Speaker 4: But it's little things like that, you know, making pitches
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  Speaker 4: when you have to executing in certain areas, you know,
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  Speaker 4: knowing knowing who to who to go after, who to
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  Speaker 4: you know, go around. So it's just little things like
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  Speaker 4: that that I think they are going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 4: unquantifiable in a way that are That's usually where at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, the teams in.
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  Speaker 3: October, those are the guys doing the right thing.
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  Speaker 5: So two questions, oh sorry, two questions for you kind
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  Speaker 5: of on that topic. Obviously you were at a front
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  Speaker 5: row seat to what the Blue Jays were able to do.
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  Speaker 5: Is that a conversation that you guys have had from
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  Speaker 5: like a hitting standpoint of you saw how difficult it
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  Speaker 5: was to just strike them out, and the value putting
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  Speaker 5: the ball in plays. That's something and you think as
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  Speaker 5: a team, you guys are going to implement moving forward.
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  Speaker 5: And on that same note, you did bring in two
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  Speaker 5: new hitting coaches last year. Was there any adjustments that
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  Speaker 5: they brought to you or was it just a matter
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  Speaker 5: of time for you to have their breakout year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, uh, you know, to that first point,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's it's very important hitting with two strikes
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  Speaker 4: in this game, especially with with the way pitchers are now,
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  Speaker 4: they're just you know, they have great stuff and stuff
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  Speaker 4: is at all time time high. You know, not saying
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  Speaker 4: pitching itself is, but uh, you know, the stuff out
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  Speaker 4: there that's that's being thrown is really really good. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just being able to put the ball in play,
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  Speaker 4: being able to do those little things, not not not
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  Speaker 4: giving the other team easy out. So you want to
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  Speaker 4: make you know, all twenty seven outs. You want to
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  Speaker 4: make them work for it, make them field the ball,
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  Speaker 4: make them make the plays, do things like that. So
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  Speaker 4: I think we took it definitely a huge step in
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  Speaker 4: the right direction last year, adding you know, obviously those
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  Speaker 4: two hitting coaches and and Edgar taking over at the Helm.
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  Speaker 4: So obviously adding Naylor and Donovan, guys that are you know,
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  Speaker 4: that grind that bats out that you know, find a
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  Speaker 4: way to get those broken bat singles to use the
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  Speaker 4: whole field. It helps extend our lineup. And I think
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  Speaker 4: that's that's kind of what we were missing in a way.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we had a lot of had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of thump, we had a lot of you know, power,
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  Speaker 4: and but we also had you know a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of swing and miss in the game. And and to
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  Speaker 4: kind of compliment that out, adding those guys definitely help.
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  Speaker 9: Cal Logan. Gilbert was on just a little bit ago,
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  Speaker 9: and he says that sometimes he likes when you come
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  Speaker 9: up to him on the mound and give him a
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  Speaker 9: little bit of attitude. And he also said that you
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  Speaker 9: said sometimes you know you should joke with him. How
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  Speaker 9: do you get the most out of your staff and
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  Speaker 9: you're kind of a steward of their career as well,
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  Speaker 9: a lot of different personalities to manage. How do you
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  Speaker 9: find you get the most out of each guy?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean these guys different.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure AJ could probably attest to that
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  Speaker 4: you as a catcher, you're more so, you know, playing
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  Speaker 4: I guess they're kind of Yeah, you're playing psychiatrists in
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  Speaker 4: a way. You're you know, you're helping them, You're you're
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  Speaker 4: talking to them, and you know it's uh. I always
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  Speaker 4: kind of like to explain that you know each guy's difference. It's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, some guys you pat on the butt, some
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  Speaker 4: guys you know you have to kick him in the butt,
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  Speaker 4: and some guys you just leave them alone.
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  Speaker 3: And and uh.
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  Speaker 4: Those are kind of the three categories that people fall into.
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  Speaker 4: And and just knowing you know each guy, you know,
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  Speaker 4: hopefully we're getting thirty starts out of our five, and
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  Speaker 4: you know there's gonna be ten starts, so they're really good.
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  Speaker 4: They don't need anything. There's gonna be ten starts. They're
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  Speaker 4: just okay, And there's gonna be ten starts with they're bad.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be more so in those twenty okay and
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  Speaker 4: and bad starts. What can we get out of them?
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  Speaker 4: And how can we get them through those innings? And
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of how I look at it.
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  Speaker 2: I asked, I asked Logan, exactly what you said? I said,
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  Speaker 2: Is he a joker? Like you come out? Do you
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  Speaker 2: have Cal come out to you a joke? Do you
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  Speaker 2: have col come out and yell at you, or do
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  Speaker 2: you have Col come out and coddle you and say
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  Speaker 2: it's okay, buddy, You'll get through this. And he actually
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: said that he wants you to yell at them. So
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  Speaker 2: next time you go to the mound, just let him
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  Speaker 2: have it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if whatever he wants pictures, it's always whatever
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  Speaker 3: they want.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly whatever they want to do. And I then I
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  Speaker 2: asked him.
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  Speaker 1: I said, one of the most incredible stats I've ever
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  Speaker 1: seen is that you went the entire year was zero
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  Speaker 1: pass balls, which is is mind boggling to me. Is
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  Speaker 1: as much as you play, and the guys with the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that they have, and as good as you.
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  Speaker 2: Are framing and moving the ball.
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  Speaker 1: And so I asked Logan, I said, can you take
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: credit for the one you had in the playoffs on
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  Speaker 1: the split that was like and He's like, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Cow's got to be better.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 4: I know what one one mistake and get I get
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  Speaker 4: crucified for it. So yeah, I mean I want to
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  Speaker 4: go on record too. I want to, you know, get
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  Speaker 4: the let the world know that Logan Gilbert is not
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  Speaker 4: those splitter it's a fork ball, okay, and that thing
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  Speaker 4: is a complete like yes, it's a beast of a pitch,
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  Speaker 4: you know. I mean it's a it's a massive weapon,
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  Speaker 4: and there's a really tough pitch. You know, you probably
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  Speaker 4: had guys like that you're pushing one that was like
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  Speaker 4: this exactly. Yeah, it's a knuckleball, yeah exactly, And you
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  Speaker 4: know it does some different at times. You're really just
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  Speaker 4: trying to tackle it more so than like, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: trying to keep it a strike.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to move it. I'm trying to just
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  Speaker 3: catch the ball.
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  Speaker 2: So he said he enjoys getting throwing him in the
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  Speaker 2: dirt to you too and watching.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's basically throwing long darts out there for much
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  Speaker 3: half the time.
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  Speaker 5: So he Yeah, so eachro behind you a couple of
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  Speaker 5: minutes ago. You know, having him around, is there anything
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  Speaker 5: you've been able to kind of take from him? Just
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  Speaker 5: seeing him out there every day, the conversations you have
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  Speaker 5: with him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's great. You know, he's uh, he's an absolute
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  Speaker 4: work workhorse. I got to actually, I was up in
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  Speaker 4: Seattle a little bit of this off season. I was
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  Speaker 4: training at the field and and the guy's going in
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  Speaker 4: every day, so I got to you know, we were
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  Speaker 4: long tossing, working out hitting together. So it was it
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  Speaker 4: was a lot of fun. We uh New Year's we
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  Speaker 4: were out there throwing and and uh. It definitely helps
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  Speaker 4: that you know, he's in such great shape, you know,
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  Speaker 4: having somebody there to to work out with and uh
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  Speaker 4: do all that stuff. And he's just a great, great
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  Speaker 4: guy to have around. You can ask him questions. He's
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  Speaker 4: an open book. He's obviously one of the best hitters
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  Speaker 4: of all time. So you know, some things maybe uh
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  Speaker 4: you know, only he can do. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: always great talking to Ichy cal.
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  Speaker 9: Do you try to save a pitch for your guys
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  Speaker 9: until the second time through the order or you are
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  Speaker 9: attacking with whatever they have in their arsenal from the
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  Speaker 9: first batter of the game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's a fine it's a fine line, right,
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's actually a good question. I mean it's
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  Speaker 4: a it's a fine line. You know, you want to
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  Speaker 4: you want to use their bread and butter, but you
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  Speaker 4: also understand. I think it's understanding hitters, right, you know,
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  Speaker 4: understanding Uh, you know what kind of hitter you have.
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  Speaker 10: In the boxes?
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  Speaker 4: That hitter a smart smart guy in the sense of
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  Speaker 4: is you know, if you get him out one way,
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  Speaker 4: you gotta get him out another way next time, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, obviously not trying to not do the same
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  Speaker 4: patterns over and over and trying to keep them on
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  Speaker 4: their toes because you don't want to fall into fall
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  Speaker 4: into rhythms and uh, you know, the same kind of
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  Speaker 4: sequences as well. So it's it's a fine line. You know,
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  Speaker 4: also understanding what the guy's got that day. If he's
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  Speaker 4: got something working and it's going good early, you know,
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  Speaker 4: let's let's hammer that whole uh until uh, until somebody
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  Speaker 4: proves that they can hit it. So also just it's
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  Speaker 4: pitched dependent, you know, a lot of sometimes we got
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  Speaker 4: some East West guys, we got some North South guys,
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  Speaker 4: and uh sometimes it's uh, just just a constant mix
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  Speaker 4: and just continuing to talk to them throughout the game
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  Speaker 4: and you know, what are that what are we seeing?
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the big thing is you know, you
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  Speaker 4: just gotta use to use your eyes. You got to
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  Speaker 4: watch the game. I think you can't just be so
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  Speaker 4: stuck to a to a plan or a scouting report.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta you gotta make sure you're what you're what
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  Speaker 4: you're seeing is adding up and that you guys talk
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  Speaker 4: and communicate throughout the game because ultimately, you know, that's
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  Speaker 4: the biggest test is the eye test.
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  Speaker 1: So you know all that, and then you still have
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  Speaker 1: to go out there and hit you hit sixty homers.
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  Speaker 1: So people don't understand how hard it is to be
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  Speaker 1: a catcher because it's not just about what they see.
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  Speaker 1: It's all the little conversations like you're talking about scouting reports,
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  Speaker 1: doing this, doing that. Before we let you go, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta ask you about WBC. Yeah, you're on the WBC
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  Speaker 1: or the USA team USA, which obviously we're all rooting
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  Speaker 1: for you, like to win the USA. What's it gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like for you to have to leave camp here
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  Speaker 1: for a few weeks and and go away.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm I'm super excited obviously.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know all the you know, getting to
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  Speaker 4: wear the USA across your chest and represent your country.
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  Speaker 4: You get to do this, get to be in that
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  Speaker 4: locker room with so many great players. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be crazy just looking around the corner and seeing
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  Speaker 4: the best players in.
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  Speaker 3: The world and just in the same locker room as
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: I never got a chance to do this, Like I
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  Speaker 4: never got invited to temsa stuff growing up high school nothing,
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  Speaker 4: So this is a great opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: And and you know, I mean it's I.
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  Speaker 4: Think camp can kind of get along sometimes, and you
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  Speaker 4: guys can probably attest to that as well. I can
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  Speaker 4: kind of get monotonous and Madane, and uh, it's I'm
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  Speaker 4: excited to to get outside and learn some things and
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  Speaker 4: talk to some guys and and just step away and
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be fun playing fun real baseball.
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: And then last thing, is it true that because you
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: caught Matthew Boyd's bullpens that you got him invited to
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Team USA.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: I can't take credit. I can't he.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: The fact that you catch bullpens in the off season.
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: It also is mind boggling to me.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: No, not many, but Matthew Matthew boy came on here
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: and said that you catch his bullpens.
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well he's a Seattle guy and he was with
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: us for a short stent there in twenty two, so
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: you know, he's, uh, he's a very good pitcher, very smart.
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: You know, he knows what he's doing. He knows how
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: to pitch.
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: You know, he can locate, he can move the ball around,
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: he can he can attack you different ways.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: So yeah, but here's the thing. I don't care if
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: there who was pitching in Orlando, if they pitched me
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: or not. If they call me and say, hey, we
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: in the off season, will you come catch my I'm like, no, man,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: I'll pay someone to do.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: It, but I'm not doing that.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: I'll sit on the bucket for you.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: There you go, exactly.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he he's he's a good guys. He got another
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: good guys.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, he's a really good guy. I appreciate it. Well, Cal,
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: thank you very much. We appreciate it.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Thanks.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: I hope you guys win the World Baseball Classic and
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: now your might pick to win the American League, so
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of pressure now, thank you appreciate it.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on.
• 15:03
  Speaker 9: Guys, if you are just joining us, we are at
• 15:12
  Speaker 9: Marrier's camp and it is time to talk about the
• 15:14
  Speaker 9: season preview for Seattle. Here on foul Territory, Alana Rizzo,
• 15:19
  Speaker 9: n Plar and AJ Pierzinski. Let's look at the key
• 15:22
  Speaker 9: additions and subtractions. We've already talked to a lot of
• 15:26
  Speaker 9: these guys today, but this is a good club.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Guys.
• 15:28
  Speaker 9: Additions Brendan Donovan, Josh Naylor. I love that because of Tucker,
• 15:31
  Speaker 9: the Pup, Jose Ferrer, Andrew Kinzer and the losses. These
• 15:36
  Speaker 9: are some significant ones. Apenno Suarez of course, who went
• 15:39
  Speaker 9: back to the Reds, Belonco, Harry Ford, Caleb Ferguson, Gregory
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: Santos and Jerangelo. How do you say that? I don't know, Kevin,
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: you want to try to say that for me?
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Nope?
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, since since he's a switch pitcher, he
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: does with both hands alona hands. Yeah, he does like
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: ninety eight right handed, ninety two lefty. The Mariner is
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: only going to make him a righty. So we'll see
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: what the Nats do with them.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 16:11
  Speaker 9: Before the season actually begins. So this is a very
• 16:14
  Speaker 9: good team you guys in the in the AL West.
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: I'll ask for your prediction, KP. Where did the Mariners
• 16:19
  Speaker 9: finish in the division first?
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: Without a doubt? I mean, I think we can make
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: an argument that this might be the best team in
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: the American League. I think you know, they took you know,
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: the AL least and American League champion Toronto Blue Jays
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: to Game seven. And you know we talked about the
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: Blue Jays losing in the World Series being four outs away.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, the Mariners were right there. They were a
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: couple outs away, a couple of strikes away from getting
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: a chance to go to the World Series, and they
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: didn't even have a fully healthy rotation in that playoff series.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: If you keep these five guys healthy, and you know,
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: they have a sixth and seventh guy that unfortunately may
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: have to be pushed in the bullpen or start in
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: triple A. But I love what they did this offseason.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: We see some of the guys that they lost, and
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: I think they did a great job of going out
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: and filling those holes at certain positions that where they
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: lost guys. Bringing Josh Naylor back was huge for this team.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: He was incredible for them after the trade deadline. Not
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: only his ability to play first base and the clutch
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: hitting and you know his newfound ability to steal bases,
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: but he just brings such an edge to that team
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: and I think you ask anyone in that clubhouse, they
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: were so happy to have him back. Josh Naylor is
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: just a unique guy that every team needs one of
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: those guys because he just holds everyone to a different
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: standard in terms of his intensity and you know what
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: he brings every day. And bringing a guy in like
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: Brandon Donovan, who I still think his best baseball still
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: yet to come, and him to be able to kind
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: of slide over play third base, potentially fill a hole
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: in second base, play some corner outfield, and then they
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: got a young kid that they truly believe in that
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: could play second base. So you know, I think they
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: have the team to be able to run it back.
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: You're not the only one that thinks that. Fan grafts
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: according to them. As far as division standings, they have
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: the Mariners at eighty eight point one, and the Rangers
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: and the Shrows, Athletics and the Angels. If you look
• 18:08
  Speaker 9: aj at the playoff projections for the Seattle Mariners, they
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: have a sixty one point three percent chance of winning
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: the division. They clinch it bye by forty four point
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: eight percent, they clinch a wild card by just under
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: nineteen percent, and they make the playoffs. It's a pretty
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: good percentage in terms of going back to the postseason
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: at eighty point one percent. Do you are you in
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: accordance with KP that they win this division.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I think they win the division by the way, and
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I think they win it easily, and I think they
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to I'm going to make a bold prediction
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: right now. I think they go to their first World
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Series ever for the Seattle Mariners.
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: Is that right? Is that because Calson right next to you, we.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Can you can't.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I don't e think'll can hear me right now, But
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that. I think they go to the
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: World Series for the first time. I think they have
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the team. I think the ownership will make the Ray moves.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I think they have the pitching, and they were they
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: were close last year, and I think this is the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: year where they finally get it done.
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: What pushes them over the edge.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I think that I think that the Donovan move I
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: really like. I think they're starting pitching, will stay healthy
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: their bullpen, and you know what the biggest thing for
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: me is they've been there and they've done it now
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and they've tasted that success, and I think this year
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: is the year they finally get to the World Series.
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: You said that they're winning the division. Uh, what do
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: you like about this team or what are some challenges
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: do you think that they that they need to shore
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: up to get to where they want to be?
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Well, there's obviously something that happens to hitters, you know,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: when they go to Seattle. It's a difficult place to hit,
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: so can Brandon Donovan be the kind of same quality
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: hitter he had been somewhere else. But really, for me,
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: it's just health, you know, the health that they're starting pitching,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: because for as difficult that it as it is to
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: potentially hit, and for whatever reason, Cal was able to
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: make that stadium look small. They don't have to score
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: that many runs. They just got to play good defense
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: and trust. And we haven't even gotten to their bullpen.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Their bull is disgusting and they only got better by
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: bringing over Ferreira from the Nationals. He is a nightmare
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: to face. Gabe Spier now has a running mate with
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: another left handed guy in the bullpen, you know, arguably
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: the best closer in baseball. They have all the ingredients there.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: And to AJ's point, they've now been there, they've experienced it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: They were so close, and these guys got a chip
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: on the shoulder, they're hungry, they've experienced it. I just
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: know from firsthand experience being so close, what those conversations
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: were like with my teammates in the offseason and just
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: trying to get a little bit better and motivating each
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: other and potentially even getting down to spring training a
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: little bit earlier because you're just so excited to be
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: with that group of guys again. And I think the
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Mariners have all the ingredients to get back there and
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: potentially over the hump.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Mitch Garver lead addition here to Mariners camp rocking the
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: seventy seven on the jersey, are you going to be
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: a new pulling guard for the Mariners?
• 20:57
  Speaker 11: It's actually a testament to Luke Jackson. Oh there you go,
• 21:00
  Speaker 11: good teammate ours we had last year. We had a
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: blast with him. U seventy No, I was last guy
• 21:04
  Speaker 11: in camp. Honestly, the club has told me when I
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: came in, there's either zero or seventy seven.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Dude, go zero.
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: No.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I didn't want the you don't want to be a zero.
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: I didn't want the zero zero jokes coming with that,
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: So I picked seventy seven.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: If you make the team, are you gonna switch yes
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: back to eighteen?
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: Yes? Yeah. You and I just talked about this.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but the people don't This is what people
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: don't know that we've play.
• 21:25
  Speaker 11: I said, listen, I'm gonna talk to Cooper Chriswell, I'm
• 21:29
  Speaker 11: gonna say listen, it's not my choice.
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: It's my wife's choice.
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: I need Humber eighteen back because she has all the
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: stuff with the eighteen on the sleeve and the jackets
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: and the all the playoff stuff.
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: She's got it all.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: So I said, what's going to costume?
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: I don't know yet.
• 21:43
  Speaker 11: We haven't we haven't even talked about that, and I
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: haven't really thought about it. Just trying to get in
• 21:48
  Speaker 11: here and get ready for the season.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Were you you're such It surprised me that you were
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: such a late signing. Was that Were you thinking about retiring?
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Was there no offers out there?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Why was it? Why did it take you? I mean something,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: You're an established major league player at an important position
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: that can hit bombs.
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: There was you know, there was never any conversation about retirement.
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: I was.
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: I feel more prepared now to play than I have
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: in years. Physically, mentally, I'm ready to go. It was
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: just a strange off season.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: It was quiet.
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: There's still players out there that.
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: Are really, really good major league players, and there's no offers,
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: there's no talk about signing, you know, any kind of deal.
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: So I was fortunate to have Cal reach out to me.
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: He said, hey, just give them Mariners call to see
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: what happens. So we did that and within twenty four
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: hours we had it worked out.
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: So here I am.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like someone who's been in that situation
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: many times over the last you know, four years of
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: my career. It's kind of crazy how when you just
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: have a relationship with a team or a front office,
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: you can just pick up the phone and call. And
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: I feel like there's just kind of an issue with
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: transparency sometimes between agents in front offices. So good for
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: you for picking up the phone. I feel like that's
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: how I got my last job in baseball too. I
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: just picked up the phone and they're like, oh, you'd
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: come out to camp, and I'm like, yeah, you know
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: you you could have called me all You could have
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: called me all off season. So good for you for
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: doing that. My question to you is being with cal
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: the last two years, you know, what have you seen
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: from him in terms of how he's he's changed and
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: turned himself into this superstar player.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: You know, I would say not much has changed.
• 23:26
  Speaker 11: And that's the special thing about him is he's he's
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: been probably the most consistent guy I've I've been around
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: talents there. Obviously, he's a great person, great great human
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: just his ability to make a game adjustments and he
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: adjusts really quickly. You know, when he feels something's off,
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: he's he's able to adjust.
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: More so.
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: Impressed with his durability behind the plate, uh, super durable player.
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: He gets back there. He catches every day, which you know,
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: you know, it's it's hard to do. Yeah, and you
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: did it for many years, but it's it's something that
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: takes a lot of time to learn how to do
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: and be able to just game plans, adust strategy, go
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: from series to series, whether you're having success or not,
• 24:06
  Speaker 11: and continue to get back there and give your best.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: What you caught.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: You came up as a catcher and then you kind
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: of went away from catching and just became a DH
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Was that hard?
• 24:14
  Speaker 10: It was very hard. It was very hard.
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: And the reason it started was in twenty three when
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: I was with Texas. We couldn't find anybody that really
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: had success in that DH spot, so I slotted in there.
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: I had a knee injury earlier in the year I
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: slotted into the DH spot, had won a ring by
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: the way, I want a ring, that part of it.
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: Bank had a little success on the second half of
• 24:32
  Speaker 11: that year and and just you know, from that point on,
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: I was dhent, but I really missed it. In twenty four,
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: I really missed it. Came back to catching, and you know,
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: catching this staff here in Seattle has been awesome. I
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: love working with these guys. They're super talented, We're deep
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: and pitching. It really is a lab and we continue
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: to pump out quality starters, quality arms every year.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I wanted to follow up on that too, you know,
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: talking about you went in a World Series in Texas
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: and then being so close and getting the World Series
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: last you talk about the kind of similarities between that
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: team and you know, two thousand and twenty three and
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: the team you were on last year, and probably a
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: big reason you wanted to come back.
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's it starts in the clubhouse. It's it's a
• 25:13
  Speaker 11: tight group of players. Everybody's so talented, and there's talent
• 25:17
  Speaker 11: all the way across the league. But it all kind
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: of determines, you know, what the clubhouse is like, what
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: are the vibes in the clubhouse. Can guys show up
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: to work every day and be excited, and that's that's
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: a big thing. Sometimes it's hard to go to the
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: park every day you're like, man, I don't want to
• 25:31
  Speaker 11: do it. But when you have a group that's this tight,
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: you show up every day. Everybody wants to pull for
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: each other, and everybody wants to play, whether you're in
• 25:37
  Speaker 11: the lineup or not.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: When you went back to catching, was it twenty four
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you went back. I remember, yeah, Service was still the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: manager here and I had a conversation when I had
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: a Mariners game and Cal was Cal had caught like
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many games a run.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: They didn't really have anyone. You were the only catcher,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: and he said, we're gonna let Mitch get back there again.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Was that awesome for you to get back?
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: And they like phased you in like it was spring training, right, Oh,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: you can only catch five innings, Hey, you can only
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: catch five innings before you and then it was like
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: six innings and then seven innings.
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it was uh yeah, it was in early part
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: of the year. I went back there.
• 26:15
  Speaker 11: In my first game, I caught George against Houston at home,
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: and George had a great game.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: He pitched really well.
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: But I came out when George came out, so he
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: I think he went six innings and I came out
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: with him and uh. You know, in the next game,
• 26:27
  Speaker 11: I was supposed to go like seven or eight something
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: like that, and we ended up playing extra innings in
• 26:31
  Speaker 11: Kansas City.
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: So I caught like eleven.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Oh nice.
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: Yeah, so I just got thrown right back in there,
• 26:35
  Speaker 10: no problem.
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: And uh, well, you know, cal catch was five six
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: days a week, so I had enough time to run.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: It was the first foul ball, like I hadn't had
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: it for a while.
• 26:43
  Speaker 10: You know, I don't remember. I don't remember.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Did your teammates give you like a standing ovation when
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: you came out with George?
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: No, No, it's uh, it was business as usual, okay.
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: You know I think I was. I was super proud
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: that I was able to get back there and catch them.
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: And it was hard because I'm working with a new staf.
• 27:00
  Speaker 11: It was brand new to me. I didn't really catch
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: anybody like that, so it was nice.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Though they gave you George, they didn't give you Logan
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: throwing splitters or fifty two foot splitters. You know.
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: They all got to do is put up my glove
• 27:12
  Speaker 11: like this, Georgia, you any knuckleballs, he always throws one
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: in the bullpen, but.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: He didn't throw any any gain, not that night. That's awesome.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm looking on paper right now. If all five
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: of those guys are healthy, I mean, is this It's
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: obviously the best pitching staff in baseball. I've never seen
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: anything like it, you know, being in that division in
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: twenty three. Luckily I was right handed, so I didn't
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: have to face these guys. But what a nightmare for
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: for hitters. When all the five of those guys are healthy.
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: It's it's a lot of different looks. You know.
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: We we in Seattle have prided ourselves on being able
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: to throw strikes, get ahead of guys, attack the zone
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: with all of our best stuff, and they all do
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: it really well.
• 27:56
  Speaker 10: And it's not just all five of them. I mean,
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: there's more behind him.
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: We got Emerson Hancock, who was big for us last year,
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: stepped up when we had a bunch of injuries. They
• 28:04
  Speaker 11: got a couple of young kids coming up that are
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: have some really really big stuff. You know, we're talking
• 28:09
  Speaker 11: about Kate Anderson and Sloan We're talking about guys that
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: have upper nineties fastballs and not just one fastball, but
• 28:15
  Speaker 11: two or three, which is so unique and it's very
• 28:19
  Speaker 11: hard to replicate.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: But there's a lot of talent in this organization. Do
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: you think they're gonna bounce back? Because everyone talks about
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: long playoff run hangover, especially your bullpen Munos and in
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Brabrash and Spire and all those guys. I mean, they
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: threw a lot of innings and a lot of innings
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: deep into the year for longer than they ever had.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Do you think they're gonna be fine right coming back?
• 28:39
  Speaker 10: Yeah, they're gonna be fine.
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: And they have the WBC, So I look at it
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: as kind of a way to kickstart the season, not
• 28:44
  Speaker 11: as much as a as a negative, more so as
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: a positive. They get to play in that competitive environment
• 28:49
  Speaker 11: earlier earlier in the season, got a few additions as well.
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: Obviously got fer air over from Nationals and that track.
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: He's he's nasty. He's got the upper nineties sinker, big
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: leftended arms, so that'll help Gabe out a little bit,
• 29:03
  Speaker 11: take take a little bit of leverage off them.
• 29:06
  Speaker 10: And there's just more arms. There's more arms.
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: I haven't got to catch everybody in spring yet, but
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: there's always going to be more.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: You love WBC, though, You're going to get a lot
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: of a batch with cal going right. Yeah, I mean
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: as much as sometimes as you're like, oh, the picture's
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: got to go pitch for you trying to win a job.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Him going to the WBC is an opportunity for you
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: to get back there, learn the new guys, and get
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: a beast to show yourself up.
• 29:27
  Speaker 11: Absolutely, I'll get a lot of playing time. And not
• 29:30
  Speaker 11: only that, I mean I love watching WBC as a fan.
• 29:32
  Speaker 11: I think it's a great event. I'm excited to watch
• 29:35
  Speaker 11: my teammates compete, go out there and play meaningful games
• 29:38
  Speaker 11: and February and March and it'll be fun to watch.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: When you when you decide to come back to Seattle,
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: is there a conversation with the front office if Mitch
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Garver does X in spring training, he's going to make
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: the team, or you just kind of know what you
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: have to do to make the team.
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: I know what I have to do, and you know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: nothing's going to be given to me. I got to
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: go out and win the job. And I think I
• 30:00
  Speaker 11: have the advantage in a good way because I know
• 30:03
  Speaker 11: this staff so well. I know the organization and how
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: they like to play, and that gives me a little
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: bit of an edge. But I still have to go
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: out there and perform. You know, you can't walk out
• 30:11
  Speaker 11: there and just be a body. You have to go
• 30:12
  Speaker 11: out there and hit, and you got to play well,
• 30:14
  Speaker 11: and you got to be positive, and you have to
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: lead the staff and show that you can do all the.
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: Things that you need to do.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm excited, KP. He's got me excited. Vibes here
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: high in Mariner's camp and Mitch wish you the best
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: of luck. Hopefully you get that eighteen back.
• 30:27
  Speaker 10: That's right, let's go get it. Thank you, AJ, Thanks KP.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: Good seeing you.
• 30:39
  Speaker 9: And today, guys, we are checking out the American League
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: Pennant odds. You can see it there. The favorite are
• 30:45
  Speaker 9: the Yankees at plus four twenty five, the highest ticket
• 30:48
  Speaker 9: percentage the range or excuse me, the Tigers at twenty
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: point one percent, the highest handle percentage Blue Jays at
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: twenty eight and a half. Essentially, and the biggest liability
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: is the White Suck so AJ break this down for us, obviously,
• 31:00
  Speaker 9: I know what the favorite meets? What what? What?
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: What can we show that traffick again the biggest biggest
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: That means if the White Sox win the al penant,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: that the bet MGM is going to lose the most money.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Right, That's how we take.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: That's what I would Damn, someone's got a lot of
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: confidence in the White Sox. I ain't gonna lie people
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that many people bet on the White Sox to win
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the penant Oh, let's go White Sox.
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: What's highest handle percentage mean?
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I mean two has the most.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: That means the most people have probably bet on the
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: Blue Jays. Is That's what I'm assuming in the highest ticket.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: I don't really know.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: I don't know the betting lingo. Maybe I should have.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're scott, I know how to bet, I just
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: don't know the lingo, right, So I know with that.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: Though, do you believe that the Yankees should be the
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: odd thing over the Blue Jays after what we saw
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: last year? And I could even make an argument that
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: the Tigers potentially would be the next team, next team
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: I would put maybe below the New.
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: J's About the Mariners?
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what about this team right here? What about these guys?
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: They've they made some nice moves. They brought back Nailer,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: they they are starting rotations intact. Their bullpen is nasty
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: and by the way, they added one of the nastiest
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: lefties from the Nationals for Forerrero.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it wrong.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: So Ferrero, the lefty from the Nationals, who's just absolutely disgusting.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: They brought in Brendon Donovan. I mean, listen to Mariners.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: They don't forget the Mariners were one pitch away from
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: going to the World Series and beating the Blue Jays,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: and beating and being the Blue Jays last year. So
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: it's hard for me not to look behind me and
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: look at these stud pitchers they have in this lineup
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: they have and say, how can you bet against the Mariners?
• 32:47
  Speaker 9: Now, Luis Castillo is behind you, go talk to him.
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: It's a pretty good arm.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that might be there. That might be their
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: fifth starter. That might be their fifth starter now, which
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: is pretty scary thought to have least catch you as
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: your number five.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Oh he doesn't take the ball. Oh he doesn't take
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the ball every fifth day and pitch every fifth day.
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: Handle is the amount of money bet on a team,
• 33:11
  Speaker 9: So handle you like, Okay, So there you have it. Okay,
• 33:14
  Speaker 9: well good. I think the Mariners have a much better
• 33:17
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