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Blue Jays outfielder Daulton Varsho on BIG offensive pivot, Return timetable, Scherzer convos · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: It's just like there was no ball that was hit
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Speaker 1: that like we couldn't get to. So that also helped
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Speaker 1: because I mean the pitty were able to. Then here
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Speaker 1: here's my page, go hit it.
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Speaker 2: We've got Dalton bar Show from the Blue Jays joining
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Speaker 2: us right now. Dond, great to have you on and
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Speaker 2: welcome to the debut host day for Wit Merryfield.
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Speaker 3: Perfect timing. How you doing, man doing awesome? I was
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Speaker 3: just down here in Florida soaking up the sun right now.
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Speaker 3: There you go.
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Speaker 2: Did you like my intro of you?
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Speaker 3: Or WIT's better of you?
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Speaker 4: Uh?
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Speaker 1: What is probably just a little bit more mean, but uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean that's just Wit. I mean, if
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Speaker 1: you play with him, you know exactly, it's just you
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Speaker 1: got to give it right back to him.
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Speaker 2: What was your scatting report of Wit as a teammate?
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Speaker 2: And actually he was just telling us some crazy story
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Speaker 2: about how he took a bite of all of Zach
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Speaker 2: Wheeler's chicken fingers, So did he do any of that
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Speaker 2: crap with you guys?
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Speaker 1: He was definitely like the big brother there that wanted
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Speaker 1: to be the big brother, but definitely was like the
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Speaker 1: little brother that did all the pranks. So you just
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Speaker 1: put him in a headlock and you put him back
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Speaker 1: in his place, and you're good.
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Speaker 5: Me and Dalton used to we used to wrestle, and
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Speaker 5: Dalton was so mad that he he was a wrestler
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Speaker 5: in high school. And he's lower to the ground and
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Speaker 5: he's more sturdy, and I would still take him down.
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Speaker 5: And now that now, congratulations, Dalton. Dalton's a new father.
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Speaker 5: He's got a daughter, so now he's even softer than
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Speaker 5: he was before. So Dalton, you got when I come
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Speaker 5: back to Toronto, you got no shot?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the girl that definitely is a definitely a big
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Speaker 1: thing of where he kind of take a little bit
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Speaker 1: on the softer side. But you know, if Wit comes
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Speaker 1: in the clubhoufs, I think another wrestling match is probably good.
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Speaker 1: But you know, if he stays away from the left
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Speaker 1: hand string, were good.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 5: There you go.
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Speaker 6: So how long, Dalton? How long have have you been sideline?
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Speaker 5: Now?
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Speaker 3: Uh? Since June first?
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Speaker 5: Do you think if you'd had a boy, you'd be
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Speaker 5: back by now? Probably because you had a girl.
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Speaker 1: You just now, well the girl, I mean she just
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Speaker 1: laid lays in the arms and falls asleep. Boy, you
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Speaker 1: actually have to probably follow around and have to pick
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Speaker 1: him up, put him back down.
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Speaker 3: So but she is a big girl, so I'll give
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Speaker 3: her that she is.
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Speaker 1: She is the full weight in full length of But
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Speaker 1: I don't know where she gets that from, not from me,
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Speaker 1: but hopefully that's on my wife's side.
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Speaker 2: So probably have good hops. That's in the genetics. So
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Speaker 2: what's the timetable? What do you got for us?
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Speaker 1: Obviously we're kind of ramping up here with a leg.
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Speaker 1: I think running bases this next week. Again, tweaked it
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Speaker 1: a little bit on Monday, so just kind of shut
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Speaker 1: it down, got amri. Everything looks fine going up uphill,
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Speaker 1: a little bit inflammation still in there, but still doing
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Speaker 1: lives defense. Just waiting to kind of be able to
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Speaker 1: get up to one hundred percent running feed and when
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Speaker 1: that's able to go, I'm good to go in the
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Speaker 1: rehab seven.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm assuming you've been able to watch every game, right?
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Speaker 2: Do you rehab your all your work and then you're
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Speaker 2: watching most of the Blue Jays games?
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Speaker 3: Actually a night? What do you think? I mean?
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Speaker 2: You know we're at June what twenty six? So the
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Speaker 2: last few weeks they look pretty strong. They vaulted themselves
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Speaker 2: into a really good race for either a wild card
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Speaker 2: or for a division spot, as the Yankees had taken
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Speaker 2: a step back too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean just watching the games.
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Speaker 1: I think early on for us, the problem was that
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Speaker 1: we kind of kind of let the media kind of
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Speaker 1: bleed in a little bit of like we needed all
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Speaker 1: this power, And if you watched our games early on,
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Speaker 1: we played a lot of small ball.
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Speaker 3: And we were able to move runners, do all little
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Speaker 3: things right.
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Speaker 1: And when that was able to happen, it was just
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Speaker 1: so fun to watch because that's what we were doing in spring.
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Speaker 1: And so the way that we've been playing now, like
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Speaker 1: we yeah, we're hitting a little bit more homers, but
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Speaker 1: that's coming on mistakes on the pitching side of just
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Speaker 1: being able to kind of take advantage of that. And
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Speaker 1: we ran through a good chunk of time where we
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Speaker 1: were facing really good teams and their pitchers are on
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Speaker 1: and sometimes that happens. And just honestly now just watching
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Speaker 1: the games, we're doing everything right. Pitching's great, defense has
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Speaker 1: been awesome, and we're just obviously hitting a little bit
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Speaker 1: more homers and it's it's working out for our team
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Speaker 1: and it's been really fun to watch even though that
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Speaker 1: I'm here, but when I was back there. It was
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Speaker 1: so fun to be with that team because we were
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Speaker 1: doing a lot of little things right.
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Speaker 5: Darn Let me let me piggyback on that, because when
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Speaker 5: I was there, starting in twenty two, before the year
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Speaker 5: before you got there, I felt like probably the biggest
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Speaker 5: crutch that Trot was holding Toronto back at the time
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Speaker 5: was there full lean on soul analytics and just doing
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Speaker 5: things by the analytical book. Based on the way you
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Speaker 5: were just talking about the small wall and stuffs, has
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Speaker 5: that feel.
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Speaker 6: Softened a little bit?
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Speaker 3: I would say so. I think.
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Speaker 1: I mean we've been the last couple of years I've
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Speaker 1: been here, a lot of the kind of emphasis has
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Speaker 1: been on.
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Speaker 3: Base running and defense.
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Speaker 1: And honestly, when Kevin Kiermer I was here, he was
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Speaker 1: out in center housing left Georgia's and you spent a
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Speaker 1: little time and left.
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Speaker 3: When I was in center, it's just.
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Speaker 1: Like there was no ball that was hit that like
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Speaker 1: we couldn't get to. So that also helped, because I
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Speaker 1: mean the pitchers were able to then here here's my.
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Speaker 3: Pitch, go hit it.
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Speaker 1: And so obviously adding a guy like Max Scherzer where
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Speaker 1: like he's able to move me now, and we've had
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Speaker 1: these conversations when I was kind of hurt and coming
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Speaker 1: in through spring where I wasn't able to play defense,
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Speaker 1: but he's like, Hey, I'm gonna throw a pitch here,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna move you for one pitch, and then you
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Speaker 1: go back to where the card kind of tells you.
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Speaker 1: So it's honestly great to have guys like that because
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Speaker 1: then you're able to play defense in a total different
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Speaker 1: way and just more aggressively to what the pitcher's doing.
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Speaker 1: And so I think that's where our kind of kind
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Speaker 1: of gotten better, especially with.
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Speaker 3: Our infield play this year.
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Speaker 1: And you've got guys like Ernie Barger who's kind of
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Speaker 1: gone into third base and have excelled a lot really there,
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Speaker 1: and now you have a Platinum Glover and a Menez
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Speaker 1: at second helping Boett short, and then you got a
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Speaker 1: goog Glover of Vladie at first. So I think the
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Speaker 1: defense and the base running part is what has made
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Speaker 1: our team a ton better.
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Speaker 6: How much did you love me playing left beside you, Dalton?
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Speaker 1: I really want to find that play where you threw
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Speaker 1: your glove up when I called you out on that ball,
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Speaker 1: Like me and George haven't found that play yet. But
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Speaker 1: I'm waiting to find it so that I can just
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Speaker 1: create it into a meme so that you guys can
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Speaker 1: use it.
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Speaker 6: All the time, I hated I hated the outfield.
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Speaker 5: I hated it, and they kept running me out there,
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Speaker 5: and I just, you know, I wanted to to make
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Speaker 5: it fun, and so I just wanted to mess with
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Speaker 5: you when I was out there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're at least a little bit good at that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you could play a little bit, and they
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Speaker 1: needed you.
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Speaker 3: To play on.
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Speaker 4: You Dalton, Dalton, when when when Witt was out there,
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Speaker 4: did you know I have to cover the whole outfield
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Speaker 4: like I could? You couldn't just cover center field? What
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Speaker 4: was it the catch you made like this behind your
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Speaker 4: back right? You also knew you had to cover the
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Speaker 4: whole left field, and you're like, all right, George can
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Speaker 4: cover right, But I've just left the center and I
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Speaker 4: got the whole thing.
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Speaker 3: For the most part.
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Speaker 1: You just had to make sure it was paying attention
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Speaker 1: with the picture of the ball, because he was always
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Speaker 1: looking in the stands trying to see who was out there,
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Speaker 1: and so all the.
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Speaker 3: Time was like, Wit, you got to move over.
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Speaker 1: And so like I was the one that was moving
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Speaker 1: and He's like, what and so, But now it was fun.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we always had a fun time when there's
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Speaker 1: always pitching changes. We always full around with each other
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Speaker 1: out there and made fun and waved.
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Speaker 3: Out the crowd and stuff like that. And they always
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Speaker 3: made fun of me.
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Speaker 1: I was the little brother to both of them, so
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Speaker 1: it was always fun for me and being out there
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Speaker 1: with both of them because they just they made me
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Speaker 1: feel just so welcome and it was just always fun
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Speaker 1: out there.
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Speaker 3: It was just one of those things where.
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Speaker 1: You just like guys because they treat you a certain way.
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Speaker 3: Hey, so.
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Speaker 2: You've got a real old man on the team right now,
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Speaker 2: just made his return. I know he did the start
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Speaker 2: early on this year and then he got himself right here.
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Speaker 2: Has it to have Max Schurzer back on the mound
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Speaker 2: for the boys.
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Speaker 3: And it looked pretty good. Velo looked pretty good.
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Speaker 2: I think he topped out at ninety five and then
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Speaker 2: heard that he felt okay after the start. So that's
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Speaker 2: a nice boost for the rotation, right huge boost.
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Speaker 1: I mean just having another consistent arm, being able to
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Speaker 1: go out there and throwing five plus innings.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he looked great. I remember, I.
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Speaker 1: Mean I was facing him here when I originally got hurt,
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Speaker 1: and he looked really good and everything felt good. So
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Speaker 1: that was kind of the biggest thing is having him
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Speaker 1: after his start feeling good.
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Speaker 3: So it will be a huge boost for us.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's just another guy that can help all
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Speaker 1: of our younger guys.
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Speaker 3: To be able to develop and understand things.
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Speaker 1: And he's just different, like he just there's a reason
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Speaker 1: why he's pitching until he's forty is just that he's
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Speaker 1: so successful being able to make pitches look very similar
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Speaker 1: and being able to be successful with that just being
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Speaker 1: able to pitch. And that's what's so fun to see,
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Speaker 1: is like a guy who doesn't always have like ninety seven,
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Speaker 1: but he's able to pitch off of it.
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Speaker 3: And so I mean we were talking about you guys
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Speaker 3: were talking about before the mis kid.
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Speaker 1: He's actually pitching at one hundred miles an hour, which
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Speaker 1: is unbelievable because it's just like now, you see a
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Speaker 1: lot of throwers in this game, and you don't see
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Speaker 1: as many pitchers.
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Speaker 2: So Max comes on this show every once in a
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Speaker 2: while and it's usually like an hour. I mean most
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Speaker 2: of the time we do our player in and it's
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Speaker 2: like ten fifteen minutes. But Max, we got to block
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Speaker 2: out like an hour. And I know that makes sense
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Speaker 2: to you. We had we had Schneids on the other
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Speaker 2: day too, and he's like, yeah, once once a game,
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Speaker 2: like if he's in town, you know, and he's not rehabbing.
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Speaker 3: I got thirty to sixty with him. He pops into
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Speaker 3: the office.
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Speaker 2: So any Max combos that you had that you can
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Speaker 2: take us inside because I know he likes talking ball too, Like, hey,
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Speaker 2: he's almost like a if I were commissioner kind of guy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's so he is the definition of like an
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Speaker 1: analytical person that can talk baseball. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: what's so cool about him is that he knows exactly
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Speaker 1: what the hitter wants to do, so he's able to
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Speaker 1: move guys in certain places to be able to do it.
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Speaker 1: So we talked every day when I was up there
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Speaker 1: because he was there still rehabbing, but he was moving
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Speaker 1: me in the outfield just because like our cars are
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Speaker 1: placed in certain spots. But he knew kind of like
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Speaker 1: how Bassett wanted to throw, so he kind of knew, okay,
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Speaker 1: let's let's push you over here. So like there was
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Speaker 1: a big one with like Riley Green or like a
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Speaker 1: certain count, He's like, hey, get over to that gap
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Speaker 1: because that's where he hits this That's where he.
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Speaker 3: Hits a lot of balls into this count.
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Speaker 1: And so it's kind of cool to see like having
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Speaker 1: any adjustments from pitch one to pitch two. And obviously
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Speaker 1: you see that in the center field of what guys
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Speaker 1: want to do.
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Speaker 3: But obviously to kind of.
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Speaker 1: Go through all the information and the analytical part and
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Speaker 1: being able to make the adjustment so fast.
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Speaker 4: That's what veterans are good for. That's what veterans are
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Speaker 4: good for.
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Speaker 3: Dalton.
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Speaker 4: So you got you got a couple, I guess veteran
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Speaker 4: guys Bow and Vladdie. You've kind of gotten going here
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Speaker 4: a little bit once the season. How good can they be?
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Speaker 4: How good can this duo be for the Blue Jays?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean think, I think for the three
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Speaker 1: years I've been here, when they're both going really well,
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Speaker 1: I mean, Lady brings the power and.
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Speaker 3: Bo just gets on.
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Speaker 1: And so now you see Bo kind of tapping in
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Speaker 1: a little bit of that power where it's just.
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Speaker 3: Like it's just happening.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we all know his hitters, like we don't
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Speaker 1: try to hit homers. When you do try to hit homers,
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Speaker 1: that's when we kind of go into the spiral spin
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Speaker 1: of like, all right, what am I doing again?
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Speaker 3: And so when Bo hitting these.
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Speaker 1: Homers are all an accident and it's just like, all right,
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Speaker 1: now you got to deal with Bo at the top
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Speaker 1: and Vlaty at third. And honestly, the move of Barger
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Speaker 1: hitting second was huge. I mean, to be able to
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Speaker 1: put a left in between those guys, I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: just now it's tough because now you've got three guys
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Speaker 1: in a row where it's like Barger's gonna take us hacks,
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Speaker 1: Laddie's gonna take his hats, and Bow's gonna get on.
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Speaker 3: So it's really cool to kind.
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Speaker 1: Of see and see it's kind of the momentum that
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Speaker 1: we've kind of created as a group and being able
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Speaker 1: to win a lot of ball games and doing really work.
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Speaker 2: Hey, what did you think of Laddie's extension? And you know,
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Speaker 2: obviously you guys are gonna be teammates for a while.
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Speaker 2: Now do you try and like ho came to take
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Speaker 2: you out to dinner or do something a little more often.
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Speaker 2: I mean maybe off season, a little boat hangout, something
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Speaker 2: like that. He certainly got the cash flow to be
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Speaker 2: able to take care of you these days.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's just a normal like he is the
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Speaker 1: definition of a kid that's stuck in an adult's body.
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Speaker 1: He is the ultimate kind of prankster. He's a good
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Speaker 1: he's just one of the best teammates. I mean, he's
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Speaker 1: always happy, go lucky. He's just one of those guys
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Speaker 1: where he deserves it because he's played really well and
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Speaker 1: he's done and showed everything that he could. And he
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Speaker 1: doesn't take the money for granted because he's still gonna
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Speaker 1: play hard every day. I think you see kind of
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Speaker 1: that trap a little bit where guys get the money
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Speaker 1: and he stops working. I think that's a total opposite
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Speaker 1: for him to where he's trying to get better and
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Speaker 1: trying to be the best version of himself. And you're
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Speaker 1: seeing it now. I mean, it's not all power anymore.
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Speaker 1: And now he's like taking his walks, he's moving runners,
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Speaker 1: he's just doing everything right that you want your five
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollar player to do. And so It's really
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Speaker 1: cool to see and I try to get out of
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Speaker 1: him every once in a while, just like with the
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Speaker 1: base running parks, I.
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Speaker 3: Feel like I can help him with that. But other that,
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's just an alimate teammate.
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Speaker 6: Dalton.
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Speaker 5: I don't know if many people know. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 5: sure most people do that know you or followed the
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Speaker 5: Blue Jays, but used to be a catcher, and I
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Speaker 5: know that you loved it when. So when you were catching,
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Speaker 5: that takes up all your time when and now you're
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Speaker 5: such a good defensive centerfield, they're probably the best in
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Speaker 5: the league. How hard was that transition? Were you able
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Speaker 5: to do some centerfield stuff when you were catching? And
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Speaker 5: how long have you been doing both of those things?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: So I started playing a little outfield in twenty nineteen
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Speaker 1: when I was in Jackson, Tennessee in Double A, and
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Speaker 1: that was kind of the time when we had Carson
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Speaker 1: Kelly and Stephen Vote in Arizona. So the way kind
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Speaker 1: of for me to get to the big leagues was
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Speaker 1: to be able to play another position and kind of
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Speaker 1: give the depth of kind of being available to be
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Speaker 1: able to catch and also play all three outfield positions.
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Speaker 1: So obviously when I got to the big leagues, it
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Speaker 1: was kind of playing a little bit more left and center,
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Speaker 1: not really right. And then alk Thomas got caught up
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Speaker 1: and I got moved to right, and so I was
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Speaker 1: starting to play all three positions. I figured out my
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Speaker 1: footwork and all that stuff to be able to kind
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Speaker 1: of do really well out there. But the hardest part
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Speaker 1: was when I had to catch to start the game
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Speaker 1: and then go play outfield, because you're so exhausted from
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Speaker 1: catching for like seven innings and it's like, hey, go
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Speaker 1: run out for the outfield for the rest of the innings.
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Speaker 1: And so that was always the tough part of just
15:27
Speaker 1: the body wise of adjusting to that period because it's
15:31
Speaker 1: more up down and it's not really side to side
15:34
Speaker 1: as much for like sprinting wise, that's kind of what
15:38
Speaker 1: was hard, just because it kind of took a toll
15:40
Speaker 1: on your body.
15:41
Speaker 3: A little bit.
15:41
Speaker 1: But other than that, I mean, there was a time
15:44
Speaker 1: where I caught thirty games and then all of a sudden,
15:48
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, go play out field the rest
15:49
Speaker 1: of the year. So obviously there was times where like
15:52
Speaker 1: I could do outfield stuff, but when I was catching,
15:54
Speaker 1: I was kind of basically catching at that point, and
15:57
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, go play outfield and go be
15:58
Speaker 1: an athlete.
16:01
Speaker 4: How bored do you get? How bored do you get
16:03
Speaker 4: being an outfitter? Because I know this is a catcher
16:04
Speaker 4: only caught. If I had to go stand out in
16:07
Speaker 4: the outfit, I would have been like home, I would
16:09
Speaker 4: have been like w out there, I'd be like looking in,
16:11
Speaker 4: look at the butterfly. I'm gonna pick the flower. How
16:14
Speaker 4: bored do you get when you when you go from
16:17
Speaker 4: catching to the outfield.
16:19
Speaker 1: I actually don't get as bored. I think it's a
16:21
Speaker 1: less uh stressful position. But I still obviously still follow
16:27
Speaker 1: kind of how our pitchers are pitching, and I still
16:30
Speaker 1: kind of have that part of my brain moving of like,
16:33
Speaker 1: all right, when I see Bassett throw inside too, seem's
16:37
Speaker 1: going to back it up and double up or is
16:38
Speaker 1: he gonna throw a cutter or something off of that.
16:40
Speaker 1: So I'm always still kind of playing kind of catcher
16:43
Speaker 1: out there of kind of like what the pitcher's pitching
16:46
Speaker 1: and how I'm gonna be able to kind of move
16:47
Speaker 1: and kind of cheat a little bit. So I think
16:50
Speaker 1: that's one of the coolest things, is like that part
16:53
Speaker 1: of my brain hasn't shut off, and I hope it doesn't,
16:56
Speaker 1: but just kind of trusting that I can be able
16:58
Speaker 1: to kind of stay out there and obviously try to
17:01
Speaker 1: get the best jumps I can, and so I'm trying
17:02
Speaker 1: to cheat as much as I can.
17:05
Speaker 2: Do You ever wish that you could still do it
17:07
Speaker 2: like that, you could still do both, you know now
17:10
Speaker 2: with the Jays, and you're like, yeah, I'm happy I
17:12
Speaker 2: just got one gig, especially as you get older, And yeah,
17:15
Speaker 2: it probably makes.
17:16
Speaker 3: It a little easier to focus on the bad at
17:17
Speaker 3: times too.
17:18
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I think I had enough file tips and
17:21
Speaker 1: back swings to the head that I'm good of not
17:24
Speaker 1: going back there. But obviously I'm still the emergency guy.
17:27
Speaker 1: So there was a couple of times the last two
17:29
Speaker 1: years when the next thing was going to be Romano
17:33
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh gosh, I have to catch him,
17:36
Speaker 1: all right, how am I going to do this? And
17:38
Speaker 1: so like I'm asking Kirky and Danny Jansen, I'm like,
17:41
Speaker 1: all right, what do I need to call here?
17:43
Speaker 3: What do I need to do? Trying to figure out
17:44
Speaker 3: the Skytyport skyder.
17:46
Speaker 1: Report all in like two minutes, And so I'm kind
17:50
Speaker 1: of good on that part. Of where I don't have
17:51
Speaker 1: to coddle pitchers anymore. I can just go be a
17:54
Speaker 1: defensive player and go and enjoy the outfit with the boys.
18:00
Speaker 3: All right, I got one.
18:00
Speaker 2: More for you, Uh, George Springer, another man who's been
18:04
Speaker 2: around the game for a minute. Actually bring Witt in
18:06
Speaker 2: for a second. Do you remember, because the connection with
18:08
Speaker 2: you and me obviously is the Cape League and chat
18:11
Speaker 2: out to John Shiffney, your manager. There's bench coach at
18:14
Speaker 2: Whereham now or sorry, at Brewster now Whereham is where
18:17
Speaker 2: George Springer was though, So wait, you and you and
18:19
Speaker 2: George go way back.
18:21
Speaker 6: No, we do go way back. Yeah, we go so
18:24
Speaker 6: far back.
18:25
Speaker 5: You probably had hair when when when we were playing
18:27
Speaker 5: against each other in the Cape. That guys, that guy's
18:32
Speaker 5: two haircuts, two haircuts away from being full on ball
18:34
Speaker 5: and I saw him the other day. It's not good, Dalton.
18:38
Speaker 6: Tell him.
18:39
Speaker 1: I told him it's time I get to actually buzz
18:42
Speaker 1: this hair when it's time.
18:43
Speaker 3: He's agreed to it.
18:45
Speaker 6: Good.
18:45
Speaker 4: Wow.
18:46
Speaker 2: Okay, So, so where's the fountain of youth for him
18:49
Speaker 2: coming from this year?
18:51
Speaker 3: Obviously he's he's had a big year. Yeah. Our new
18:55
Speaker 3: hitting coach is David Popkins.
18:56
Speaker 1: And Loui and Otie, they really kind of unlocked some
19:00
Speaker 1: things for him of just telling them just get your
19:02
Speaker 1: a swing off. That's all we need you to do.
19:04
Speaker 1: Get your a swing off, and whatever happens happens. And
19:07
Speaker 1: so you'll see a couple of times where he lands
19:09
Speaker 1: on his knee, but you know that he's getting his
19:12
Speaker 1: a swing off and he's trusting everything that he's he's
19:15
Speaker 1: going into it.
19:15
Speaker 3: And you saw the.
19:16
Speaker 1: Grand Slam the other night, I mean it was awesome,
19:18
Speaker 1: like just to be able to see him kind of
19:20
Speaker 1: back to who he was because when I was catching,
19:22
Speaker 1: I mean I was having to face him in the
19:24
Speaker 1: Astros lineup, and I was like, man, how do you
19:27
Speaker 1: get any of these guys out? Because they're one either
19:30
Speaker 1: taking hacks or two they are backing that ball up
19:33
Speaker 1: and they are crushing an opposite field and it's like,
19:35
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to do.
19:36
Speaker 3: I don't even know what to call. So obviously seeing
19:38
Speaker 3: kind of that side of.
19:39
Speaker 1: Him when he was younger and being able to do
19:41
Speaker 1: that stuff and now seeing it again, it's so cool,
19:44
Speaker 1: and it's I get a front row seat to it
19:46
Speaker 1: and I get to ask him a ton of questions
19:47
Speaker 1: of kind of just picking his brain and being able
19:51
Speaker 1: to kind of better myself.
19:53
Speaker 3: All right, here's the big finish. You got something show
19:56
Speaker 3: and tell what? Well?
19:58
Speaker 6: I just we were talking about and catch.
20:00
Speaker 5: And it was funny because his first spring training, it
20:03
Speaker 5: was like we had this Jay'scare presentation and it was
20:05
Speaker 5: like they knew that or they were trying to show
20:08
Speaker 5: Dalton as a catcher and try to foreshadow, you know, hey, Dalt,
20:12
Speaker 5: we might need you as a catcher. And they put
20:14
Speaker 5: this picture up and it was just cute little Dalton
20:17
Speaker 5: catching in his in his cute little mask. Mean, look
20:21
Speaker 5: at that, Look at that that is that is that
20:24
Speaker 5: is cute little Dalton VARs show right there in his mask.
20:29
Speaker 6: This was This was like a couple of weeks into No.
20:31
Speaker 5: One Dalton, and we're already we're already giving him a
20:34
Speaker 5: hard time about just being this cute little guy.
20:37
Speaker 6: He does he does look like it looks just like Dalton,
20:41
Speaker 6: doesn't it.
20:45
Speaker 3: Hey know, the funny thing is about me catching.
20:47
Speaker 1: MLB posted uh something about Fanna tattoo sitting three homers
20:51
Speaker 1: in a game, and I was a catcher, and I'm like, man,
20:53
Speaker 1: that was I feel like that was so long ago.
20:55
Speaker 1: And I was like, I gave him three Homer pitches. Man,
20:58
Speaker 1: that is not good on me.
21:00
Speaker 6: Bad fingers, well bad buttons Now not fingers anymore.
21:04
Speaker 2: Now was buttons, and you don't have to worry about
21:07
Speaker 2: it anymore. All right, we got one more, one more
21:10
Speaker 2: piece of video to show you on the way out
21:12
Speaker 2: here all the show and tell's coming in hot that
21:14
Speaker 2: we got to catch.
21:16
Speaker 3: Here we go, all right, walk us through this one.
21:18
Speaker 3: How do you do this?
21:19
Speaker 1: Tell the kids, Oh, you get really embarrassed, you trip
21:23
Speaker 1: over your feet, and you still how to figure out
21:26
Speaker 1: some way how to catch it. So obviously not not
21:30
Speaker 1: really something you want to practice or want to do,
21:32
Speaker 1: but all those times of probably just falling over and
21:36
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to be successful.
21:39
Speaker 3: Kind of helped some way.
21:42
Speaker 1: I saw the ball coming down this kind of guess
21:44
Speaker 1: where it was coming, and stuck my glove out and
21:46
Speaker 1: went in.
21:47
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, thank the Lord.
21:49
Speaker 6: All those times I throw you on the ground out
21:51
Speaker 6: and they paid off.
21:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, just making sure that I can put
21:55
Speaker 1: you in a headlock still when one of these days
21:58
Speaker 1: you're going to be back on that ground and throwing
22:00
Speaker 1: a clall us, I'm.
22:02
Speaker 5: Gonna spend all my free time taking up wrestling in
22:06
Speaker 5: jiu jitsu. Put you in a pretzel.
22:09
Speaker 7: When it's gonna get jacked, you can do whatever now
22:12
Speaker 7: you could do being' gonna get jacked. He's got too
22:18
Speaker 7: much time with his little girl.
22:20
Speaker 3: That's true.
22:21
Speaker 2: And golf, which is not gonna make you jack. But
22:24
Speaker 2: dal and this was great, man. Thanks for joining us
22:26
Speaker 2: here for the first time.
22:27
Speaker 3: Awesome to have you.
22:27
Speaker 2: I'll have you back at some point, and I had
22:30
Speaker 2: you think.
22:30
Speaker 3: With it on a questioning I'll give him like a
22:33
Speaker 3: C plus a little better questions out of it.
22:37
Speaker 6: But get healthy. Get healthy. You got too much time.
22:43
Speaker 3: Incredible, incredible.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Dom, Appreciate you, Man, appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Thank you guys.