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Twins slugger Kody Clemens + Braves reliever Tyler Kinley join FT · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Twins Master. Cody Clements is here with us on FT. Cody,
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Speaker 1: it's great to have you on the show. How's life man,
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Speaker 1: You're really settling in nicely with the Twins. It's been
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Speaker 1: fun to watch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me on. Guys, it's been great.
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Speaker 3: I mean, just getting obviously a ton of playing time
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Speaker 3: and kind of collectively as of a group, we've.
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Speaker 2: Been hitting the ball well.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, like you said, just getting it, getting some
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Speaker 3: good playing time.
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Speaker 2: I feel good at play right now.
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Speaker 4: Cody, what what what has led to this? I mean,
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Speaker 4: you know, you've kind of been a utility guy. You've
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Speaker 4: kind of been in and out of the lineup.
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Speaker 5: Guys.
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Speaker 4: It just Derek Shelton saying, Cody, you're gonna get a
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Speaker 4: shot to play every day, and you just ran with it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean the original plan was for me to just
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Speaker 3: start versus right hand and pitching. And then I've had
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Speaker 3: some at bats off lefties late in the game or
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Speaker 3: you know, late in some games where there wasn't a
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Speaker 3: pinch hit needed or anything like that, and I've had
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Speaker 3: some solid at bats and so I think that just led.
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Speaker 2: Into his decision making of letting me play versus the lefties.
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Speaker 6: But when they when they have that conversation with you,
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Speaker 6: do you kick back, do you say wait, wait wait
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Speaker 6: wait what like let me let me see some lefties.
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Speaker 7: I'm not that bad.
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Speaker 6: I've never met a hitters like I would never want
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Speaker 6: to go left on left. Here you can take the bat.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's tough to kind of like they
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Speaker 3: always have their opinions and decisions on what they're going
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Speaker 3: to do. Right, but kind of like what you're saying,
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Speaker 3: it's weird, right, So, like I've been around the league,
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Speaker 3: bounce around.
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Speaker 2: I think this is like my fifth season being in
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Speaker 2: the big league.
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Speaker 3: So obviously been up and down the first few years
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Speaker 3: with Detroit and then with Philly, but like it's so weird.
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Speaker 3: You're coming up, like as a prospect or any guys
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Speaker 3: that are trying to build their way up to the
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Speaker 3: big leagues. You're playing every single day versyety's lefties. It
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Speaker 3: doesn't matter, it's all about the development. And then you
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Speaker 3: kind of get to the big leagues if you're not
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Speaker 3: like a young prospect guy that needs to play every
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Speaker 3: single day, you kind of fall into this pattern of
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Speaker 3: becoming a platoon bat and they're like, oh, you can't
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Speaker 3: hit lefties now like it's the weirdest thing, but that
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Speaker 3: was just like my career path, and I mean, I
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Speaker 3: wouldn't change anything, you know, I've made it to this
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Speaker 3: point and I'm grinding and just still trying to have
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Speaker 3: quality of batch for this team. And you know, luckily,
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Speaker 3: you know, Sheltons let me, you know, kind of take
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Speaker 3: take some rope here, and I've been having some good
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Speaker 3: at Pats Cody.
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Speaker 4: I know you're in Detroit. I can tell by the
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Speaker 4: paint scheme behind you and the lockers. I mean, you're
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Speaker 4: clearly in Detroit. You don't don't even have tell me.
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Speaker 4: I knew where you guys were. But also I can
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Speaker 4: tell by the paint scheme. What's your favorite position to play?
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Speaker 4: As a kind of you know, it says on the
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Speaker 4: screen utility guy. And the other day you got to
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Speaker 4: play center and Buxton didn't play. After you play center
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Speaker 4: for a little bit, do you run around and give
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Speaker 4: him the buck truck?
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Speaker 5: Okay?
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Speaker 8: Man?
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Speaker 5: I think that hard?
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Speaker 3: No, I I I mean I love playing second base.
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Speaker 3: I think that that was that's the most like natural
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Speaker 3: position for me, which I haven't really played that much
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Speaker 3: this year, but over the course of my career, I have,
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I got out in center field, and I'll
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Speaker 3: tell you what, it's a lot of running. I told Buck,
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Speaker 3: you know, I respect the hell out of center fielders,
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Speaker 3: but that level of respect is gone up here after
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Speaker 3: playing there, you know, for six games or whatever a
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Speaker 3: while he was kind of banged up.
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Speaker 7: You probably feel more athletic than when you play first.
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Speaker 2: Base though, right absolutely, yeah.
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Speaker 7: You talk.
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Speaker 6: I want to hit one more on this whole utility thing.
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Speaker 6: You see so many prospects, even to the point where
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Speaker 6: Connor Griffin, they started letting him take fly balls in
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Speaker 6: center field. Supposedly now he's going to be the it's
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Speaker 6: like elite shortstop. Do you feel like in the minor
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Speaker 6: leagues too many times what you were saying, people are
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Speaker 6: pigeonholed as like, hey, I need you to play short
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Speaker 6: then you don't have one day we're gonna play second.
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Speaker 7: And do you think that stunts.
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Speaker 6: Players development in the minor leagues or do you think
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Speaker 6: that enhances it because they become more versatile and athletic
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Speaker 6: at other positions.
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Speaker 3: I guess it just depends on like the route of
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Speaker 3: the prospector and what the organization wants to do with
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Speaker 3: that guy. You know, like if it's a you know,
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Speaker 3: first round or second round or shortstop and that's where
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Speaker 3: they project him to be, just keep him at shortstop
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Speaker 3: the whole time, you know, But if they see some
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Speaker 3: sort of route of like another prospect that is coming
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Speaker 3: up with that shortstop and he also plays shortstop, and
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Speaker 3: so they're trying to work in, you know, the kind
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Speaker 3: of route for both of these guys to come up.
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, this guy could probably play third base,
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Speaker 3: or this guy could probably play second base, or I
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Speaker 3: think that's kind of when the utility term starts to
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Speaker 3: develop for players just based off what the ORG has
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Speaker 3: to work with. Does that make sense, Like, you know,
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Speaker 3: they're trying to find spots for all these guys and
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Speaker 3: if this is the next core group coming up for
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Speaker 3: whatever ORG, they got to find a way to get
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Speaker 3: them both in the lineup all the time.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: So that's where the utilities spot, I feel like, becomes
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Speaker 3: more valuable for teams, like for example, myself, like Chelte,
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Speaker 3: if somebody needs a day off in right field, like
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Speaker 3: he can just throw me out there or left field
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Speaker 3: or center field or second base, first base and depending
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Speaker 3: on you know, say these other left handed hitters in
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Speaker 3: the lineup are hitting lefties as well. You know, Okay,
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Speaker 3: let's put this guy here and put this guy here,
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Speaker 3: and then you have the I guess, the right lineup
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Speaker 3: that you want out that day.
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Speaker 6: Is there one position that's tough though, because have you
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Speaker 6: ever seen the movie Moneyball where the character that plays
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Speaker 6: Ron Washington, he says, not anybody can just play first base?
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Speaker 7: Is this true?
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Speaker 6: Because you just said, hey, you know what, they can
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Speaker 6: just throw me out and right that's a big league
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Speaker 6: position with dudes hitting big league base you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, it's definitely hard to do, right.
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Speaker 2: I mean I try.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, It's not the easiest thing in the world. I
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Speaker 3: mean I go out there and whichever spot I'm plugged
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Speaker 3: in the lineup, position wise, I go out and take
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Speaker 3: reads and right field, or reads and left field, or
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Speaker 3: take ground balls a first base or whatnot. But I
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Speaker 3: guess it's you have to find the right player that
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Speaker 3: feels comfortable doing that.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know if that's like a decent.
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Speaker 3: Amount of players that are comfortable doing that, because you know,
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Speaker 3: some people have egos and some people don't, and some
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Speaker 3: people don't want to leave shortstop, and some people, you know, whatever.
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Speaker 3: But I think like, if you come like I, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I'm not saying I'm the best athlete in the world
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Speaker 3: by any means, but like I came. When I was
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Speaker 3: in high school, I feel like everybody played shortstop for
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Speaker 3: the most part, and then you kind of develop the
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Speaker 3: way you develop.
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Speaker 2: So like I was a middle endfielder.
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Speaker 3: And then actually, when I was with Detroit, AJ Hinch
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Speaker 3: was like, do you play any other positions? And I
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Speaker 3: was like, yeah, I mean I played third base in
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Speaker 3: college and short and second. He's like, all right, we're
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Speaker 3: gonna put you at third, first in corner outfield. And
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Speaker 3: I was like, okay, great, Like this is my route
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Speaker 3: to the big leagues back in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: And so that's how I made it. And then.
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Speaker 3: It kind of just I guess over the course of
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Speaker 3: three or four years, I got comfortable doing it and
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Speaker 3: it is a challenge, but I mean I enjoy it.
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Speaker 5: Cod do you mention it you played for the Tigers?
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Speaker 5: Is this the revenge series for you? Do you go
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Speaker 5: in there and.
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Speaker 4: Say, man, I played for you guys. Now I'm gonna
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Speaker 4: show you what you're missing. Look at me, Hinch.
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Speaker 3: I can hit lefties, No, I mean, I got to
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Speaker 3: play against them when I was with the Phillies, so
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Speaker 3: I guess you get your revenge.
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Speaker 2: Series the first time. After that, it's like, all right, whatever, Yeavin.
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Speaker 4: Now you're an everyday guy. Now you're an everyday guy.
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Speaker 4: Though it's different.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess.
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Speaker 8: So.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's funny we have, you know, a bunch
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Speaker 3: of guys on this team that have been with different teams,
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Speaker 3: like Josh Bell. He's been I don't even know seven
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Speaker 3: eight teams, So it's hilarious. Taylor Rodgers will get on
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Speaker 3: the mic and say, all right, Josh Bell, JB, here
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Speaker 3: we go revenge series. It's like, seems like every road trip.
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Speaker 6: Yes, he's definitely been on all the teams. It's easier
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Speaker 6: to just pick the ones that he hasn't been on.
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Speaker 6: Talking about one of the other teammates you mentioned earlier
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Speaker 6: Byron Buxton, Obviously, trade deadline comes up. Obviously last year
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Speaker 6: he said he doesn't want to play anywhere else but Minnesota.
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Speaker 6: Can you talk about how he speaks about staying in
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Speaker 6: Minnesota or just like when you come to a new
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Speaker 6: team like this and like he's clearly the leader of
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Speaker 6: the team, how he talks about the City of Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Buck is a man of few words.
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Speaker 3: He really doesn't talk that much unless you talk to him,
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Speaker 3: but he leads by example and does his work every day.
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Speaker 3: To be honest with you, I've never heard him talk
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Speaker 3: about any type of like preference on the trade deadline,
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Speaker 3: or like how much he loves Minnesota and stuff like that,
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Speaker 3: other than the clips from the All Star Game and
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Speaker 3: the stuff I see on social media of when he
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Speaker 3: talks about her when he gets asked about it.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I see, he seems like he's an extremely
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Speaker 3: loyal person and he always from what I've heard is
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Speaker 3: you know, Minnesota had his back, his back when he
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Speaker 3: had his injuries, and you know he really appreciated that
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Speaker 3: through his career whatnot. So I don't know, it seems like,
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Speaker 4: Cody with Buckston, and you can you imagine being on
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Speaker 4: a team for one time in your career, now that
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Speaker 4: you've been on different teams and different organizations like Byron,
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Speaker 4: to have the power to say, you know what, guys,
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Speaker 4: you're talking about me being traded, but I'm just going
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Speaker 4: to stay here because I really like it. Can you
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Speaker 4: imagine even your father played a bunch of teams, right,
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Speaker 4: I played for a bunch of teams. I was never
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Speaker 4: given that opportunity. How cool is that that Buckston has
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Speaker 4: that power to see, no, I'm staying no matter.
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Speaker 5: What y else be.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's amazing. I mean he pretty much.
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Speaker 3: I mean he bleeds Minnesota Twins. I swear like he
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Speaker 3: his family's comfortable here. I think that's a big part
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Speaker 3: of it as well. And I think it's pretty special
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Speaker 3: for a guy to be with one single team for
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Speaker 3: ten plus years. You don't ever really see that anymore.
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Speaker 3: But I don't know to my dad, Like you mentioned,
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Speaker 3: my dad, like his whole plan when he got to
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Speaker 3: the big leagues and everything. He was wanting to put
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Speaker 3: his family in a good spot. And for the first
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Speaker 3: few years it was about making money and all that,
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Speaker 3: and then as soon as he started building his career,
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Speaker 3: he was like, I want to win, and so that
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Speaker 3: was kind of his mentality over the course of his career.
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Speaker 3: But I mean, I think buck has you know, I
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Speaker 3: think he believes in the Minnesota Twins organization. He talks
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Speaker 3: about it, and I mean, I don't know. We've had
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Speaker 3: some crazy games this year. We're hitting the ball well,
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Speaker 3: I mean, the pitching's coming around, and you know, we're
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Speaker 3: just trying to keep continuing, trying to win win series.
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Speaker 5: Cody, you have one daughter, right, just one one daughter?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I have it. It's one daughter. She's four months old.
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Speaker 4: Okay, So that was my question. Do you bring her
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Speaker 4: on the family trip? I know it's the family trip
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Speaker 4: for the twins. This trip it's where you guys go
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Speaker 4: Detroit and Colorado.
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Speaker 2: Am I am?
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Speaker 5: I right on that.
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Speaker 3: No, No, it's just three three games here in Detroit.
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Speaker 3: Family trip. Yeah is here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, that's it.
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Speaker 4: Herman, Herman only allowed you guys to go to one
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Speaker 4: city this year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I know, we got to get on him a
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Speaker 2: little bit.
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Speaker 8: Man.
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Speaker 2: That's that's tough. It's one that's cheap, cheap. He needs
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Speaker 2: to open.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Dustin, Dustin to Dustin. Probably don't even come on
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Speaker 5: this trip.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thing, he's here. Herman is here though, so I'll get.
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Speaker 4: Herman has to be there, Yeah, because Herman's not missing
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Speaker 4: a chance to bring his kids. But my question is,
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Speaker 4: is when you're on the flights. You bring your you
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Speaker 4: bring your wife and your daughter on the on the
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Speaker 4: family flights. Yes, okay, good, No, because I would have
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Speaker 4: been scared to death. My foremotherle when I was my
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Speaker 4: kids were that young. I was with the White Sox
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Speaker 4: and we had zero family anything. So I think that
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Speaker 4: would be cool because it's much easier for your wife
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Speaker 4: and for you, But man, I would have been scared
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Speaker 4: to death. Like, man, if my kids starts crying on
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Speaker 4: the flight home, so I'm gonna look at me and be.
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Speaker 2: Like, oh stop, yeah, trust me.
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Speaker 3: I'm the same way before I had, uh my daughter,
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Speaker 3: I was the guy when you're on the plane and
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Speaker 3: you hear a baby, You're like, oh, of course there's
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Speaker 3: a baby in my ro you know, Like that's the worst.
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Speaker 3: So like every time I have my baby now and
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Speaker 3: she starts to whine or cry, I just know how
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Speaker 3: I felt, and so I'm trying to keep her calm
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Speaker 3: and whatnot. And but it was pretty it was pretty easy.
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Speaker 3: We were pinched between the Bell family and Joe Ryan's family,
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Speaker 3: so we had some babies around us for that flight.
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Speaker 3: It was and it's fairly short, it's about an hour flight,
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Speaker 3: so the baby was good though.
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Speaker 6: Can you get fans an idea of what a family flight,
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Speaker 6: our family trip looks like as far as like what
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Speaker 6: do they do? And as a player, are you a
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Speaker 6: little distracted?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I mean there was what four buses to pick us
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Speaker 3: up from the airport, and you know, there's a ton
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Speaker 3: of people staff, family, players, family, but I mean it
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Speaker 3: just it's pretty much chaos. You have kids everywhere, babies everywhere,
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Speaker 3: strollers being put under the bus. I'm sure if you're
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Speaker 3: a single player, it's probably pretty annoying to get on
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Speaker 3: the plane with all these families.
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Speaker 2: But it's been nice. I mean, we had they.
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Speaker 3: Have a break they had a breakfast for us this morning.
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Speaker 3: All the kids are run around getting on the station, pancakes,
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Speaker 3: stuff like that. So I mean it's cool. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you make memories and stuf u for families, and as
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Speaker 3: a player, distracting wise, it's kind of just like you're
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Speaker 3: kind of on edge on the plane, you know, like
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Speaker 3: we were talking about it all my baby be screaming
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Speaker 3: stuff like that. But honestly, i mean everyone basically took
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Speaker 3: the first bus today to get to the field, so
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Speaker 3: just to get here, so.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I'm surprised. I'm surprised you guys being in
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Speaker 6: the central they didn't make that trip to Chicago. I'm
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Speaker 6: not sure any wives were like, oh we're going to Detroit. Awesome,
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Speaker 6: love to go to Chicago. All the wives show up
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Speaker 6: in Chicago just saying.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not wrong. I mean this was a tough pull.
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Speaker 2: We'll get on herman again.
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Speaker 7: Okay, okay, that's fair.
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Speaker 6: My last question, you just had your You said she's
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Speaker 6: four months old, Ava Lynn.
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Speaker 2: Correct, Yep, that is correct.
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Speaker 6: Have you experienced the dad strength or is it? Are
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Speaker 6: you did you like the first day in spring training,
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Speaker 6: were we're like, there it is. Everybody talks about Dad
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Speaker 6: strength and get a little extra juice, or are you like,
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Speaker 6: wait a minute, this is bull.
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Speaker 7: You guys didn't know, Like when's.
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Speaker 2: I think it's developing right now.
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Speaker 3: I think I didn't feel it at first and spring,
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Speaker 3: but like maybe it's gradually developing because the heavier she gets,
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Speaker 3: the more my bicep cramps. So maybe I'm getting some
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Speaker 3: more bicep strength. So I'm excited to see see how
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Speaker 3: it unfolds.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, how.
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Speaker 8: Does that work?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah go ahead, aj no, go, I was just
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Speaker 1: gonna say, how does that work? You know, do some
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Speaker 1: guys just come back there and all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: they feel like, Hey, my baby doesn't care what I
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Speaker 1: do when I come home.
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Speaker 2: Yes, what what was the question?
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Speaker 1: The dad strength thing? When you see guys you know
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Speaker 1: that start to hit homers. Yeah, like, I mean, obviously
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Speaker 1: you've got teammates with with kids.
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Speaker 8: What's it like?
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's you. I'm home and it's NonStop. I mean,
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Speaker 3: for me, like, the biggest change of having a baby
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Speaker 3: is like, I come home and even if I go,
17:08
Speaker 3: oh for four four k's or have a terrible day
17:11
Speaker 3: at the field or whatever, that little baby, when she
17:14
Speaker 3: smiles back at me, just completely cleans the air.
17:16
Speaker 2: And I don't even know what baseball is. It's the
17:18
Speaker 2: most insane feeling in the world.
17:20
Speaker 3: The dad's strength probably comes from just carrying her around
17:24
Speaker 3: all the time. You know, she wants to be held NonStop, responsibility,
17:28
Speaker 3: five minutes, needs something every five minutes, you know, carrying
17:32
Speaker 3: her around, and my biceps are just cramping all the
17:34
Speaker 3: time from carrying her.
17:35
Speaker 2: I hold her like a football every time. It's it's
17:39
Speaker 2: it's wild.
17:40
Speaker 4: Honestly, Hey, Cody, by the way, I hopefully you're fortunate
17:46
Speaker 4: enough to be able to play so that your daughter
17:48
Speaker 4: remembers you being a baseball player like I was.
17:51
Speaker 5: But there'll come a point in time, Ozzie.
17:53
Speaker 4: When I played with the White Sox used to love
17:55
Speaker 4: kids in the clubhouse, and there got a point with
17:57
Speaker 4: my daughter I.
17:57
Speaker 5: Was like, you're a little bit too old to be
17:59
Speaker 5: in the clubhouse with people.
18:02
Speaker 4: Running around, you know. So hopefully you get to that point.
18:05
Speaker 4: But they'll become a day when you come home and
18:06
Speaker 4: you look at your wife and you say, I love
18:09
Speaker 4: our daughter. I love my daughter's also named Ava. I
18:11
Speaker 4: love you Ava, but you are a little bit too
18:13
Speaker 4: old to be running around in the clubhouse. I'm sorry.
18:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean absolutely. I hope I play that long.
18:20
Speaker 3: I turned thirty this year, so I'm getting up there.
18:22
Speaker 3: But hey, it's I heard it's your prime years, and yeah,
18:26
Speaker 3: hopefully I can play for the next eight years.
18:29
Speaker 2: Who knows, we'll see.
18:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly when I had my daughter came home one
18:33
Speaker 4: time and made a comment about something, and I was like, yeah,
18:36
Speaker 4: that's it.
18:37
Speaker 5: No more, she's not allowed to go in there anymore.
18:39
Speaker 2: She's done not allowed.
18:41
Speaker 7: That's it.
18:41
Speaker 5: That's right, no more.
18:42
Speaker 4: You can go in, but you can only go into
18:43
Speaker 4: the theater and get candy. No more walk hanging out
18:46
Speaker 4: in my locker.
18:46
Speaker 8: That's it.
18:47
Speaker 5: Sorry, Yeah, so hopefully you play long that point.
18:51
Speaker 2: There's a cutoff line, you know.
18:53
Speaker 5: Yes, exactly exactly.
18:55
Speaker 4: By the way, tell Herman that he needs to change
18:58
Speaker 4: the poster in his office or the picture in his office.
19:02
Speaker 4: Have you seen the picture? Yeah, we all know that
19:05
Speaker 4: wasn't his favorite catcher in the Twins. So you can
19:07
Speaker 4: tell me he needs to go ahead and change that out.
19:10
Speaker 2: All right, I got you. We got a few things
19:12
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19:13
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, wants fun.
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19:18
Speaker 2: Oh god, he's that's tough.
19:26
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19:29
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19:31
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Speaker 6: All right, Cody, I kind of refuse to do it
20:25
Speaker 6: because I feel like you get crushed with oh rogers
20:28
Speaker 6: or dad questions and all this stuff. But our chat
20:30
Speaker 6: is just blowing us up. What kind of grandpa is he?
20:33
Speaker 6: Is he a good grandpa? Or is he like, Hey, Ava,
20:36
Speaker 6: here you go. I put a baseball in your hand
20:38
Speaker 6: and I'm gonna get you to throw that. I'm gonna
20:40
Speaker 6: get you throw the splitter. All her fingers aren't big
20:42
Speaker 6: enough to throw the splitter yet, So what kind of
20:44
Speaker 6: grandpa is he?
20:46
Speaker 3: No, he's amazing. You know they call you know. His
20:49
Speaker 3: name is Poppy Rocket.
20:51
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, that's it.
20:53
Speaker 3: But Poppy rocket, yep. I mean I have two I
20:56
Speaker 3: have three nephews. My oldest brother has two boys. They're
21:00
Speaker 3: nine years old, and then in case, he has a
21:02
Speaker 3: baby who's about to turn one this month.
21:07
Speaker 2: But no, he's amazing. He wants to be around all
21:09
Speaker 2: the time. I mean, other than baseball.
21:11
Speaker 3: He tells me that we're getting getting a golf club
21:13
Speaker 3: and ave his hand as soon as possible. So that's
21:16
Speaker 3: what she that's what he's putting on her, which I'm
21:18
Speaker 3: actually all for.
21:19
Speaker 2: She's gonna be playing golf. But no, he's great.
21:24
Speaker 3: He's you know, he practices, you know, still throws VP
21:27
Speaker 3: to my to my nephew's, my oldest brother's kids, and
21:32
Speaker 3: he's out there hitting ground balls and doing all the
21:34
Speaker 3: stuff that he did with us.
21:35
Speaker 2: So it's it's awesome to watch.
21:37
Speaker 3: He just basically are reliving the memories that we had
21:41
Speaker 3: with him.
21:43
Speaker 1: So he's basically like the best youth sports coach ever ever.
21:47
Speaker 2: Yeah.
21:48
Speaker 3: Ever, Yeah, it's insane.
21:53
Speaker 2: We were we were in Boston.
21:55
Speaker 3: We were in Boston, and when we traveled on the road,
21:59
Speaker 3: my dad would bring whiffle balls in his bag and
22:03
Speaker 3: like I forgot what bat that was. There was like
22:05
Speaker 3: a bat trainer that was like shaped like an angle
22:07
Speaker 3: and it had like a flat I don't even know
22:11
Speaker 3: what it was called, but he had that thing and
22:13
Speaker 3: we would hit the whiffle balls into the hotel curtain
22:18
Speaker 3: like every night, and he'd flip to us and we'd
22:20
Speaker 3: hit it into the curtain like you know, take I
22:22
Speaker 3: don't know, forty swings into the curtain. And so we
22:25
Speaker 3: were in Boston and my nephews we had that whole
22:27
Speaker 3: deal with the first pitch and all that with my
22:31
Speaker 3: dad celebrating his twenty strikeout game, and.
22:35
Speaker 2: So my whole family was there.
22:36
Speaker 3: My nephews were there, and they were tossing there he
22:38
Speaker 3: is tossing whiffleballs and they're hitting it into the curtain
22:41
Speaker 3: at the hotel. I'm like, this is just, you know,
22:43
Speaker 3: I'm just reliving my childhood.
22:47
Speaker 5: That's awesome. That's awesome.
22:48
Speaker 4: Speaking of your childhood, you played, you played college baseball Texas.
22:52
Speaker 4: Your dad played college baseball in Texas. I don't know
22:54
Speaker 4: if you've seen that new thirty for thirty or I
22:56
Speaker 4: think it's sec story about the summer of eighty three
23:00
Speaker 4: where your dad gets to brag about how they won
23:02
Speaker 4: the national championship.
23:04
Speaker 5: And all that. Have you seen that?
23:06
Speaker 4: Does he talk about his college days, because that was
23:08
Speaker 4: like my first memory of as being a kid. I
23:11
Speaker 4: would turn on ESPN and it would be the College
23:13
Speaker 4: World Series and it was always Texas. It was always
23:16
Speaker 4: Oklahoma State. And for some reason, there was a guy
23:18
Speaker 4: named brad Bean Blossom. I think he played at Texas
23:21
Speaker 4: that I just remember his name forever, right, And so
23:24
Speaker 4: now they run that And I had dad, Dave Maganten
23:26
Speaker 4: as a hitting coach who was on Alabama. I obviously
23:29
Speaker 4: know your dad because I played against them and I
23:31
Speaker 4: played golf of them a bunch of times. But like
23:33
Speaker 4: to me, do you guys share stories of Texas and
23:36
Speaker 4: how much it changed in like those almost forty years.
23:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he talks about majority of the time,
23:44
Speaker 3: talks about how like Gustafson will just make them run
23:48
Speaker 3: all day.
23:48
Speaker 2: That's all he talked.
23:49
Speaker 3: About is how much how much they had to run
23:51
Speaker 3: in college and how you know, everything in the city
23:55
Speaker 3: is completely different now and the stadium obviously was completely different.
24:00
Speaker 3: And in the College World Series they played at the
24:02
Speaker 3: other stadium.
24:04
Speaker 2: Do you know what's called it for? I was called
24:08
Speaker 2: but Anyways, it was more so.
24:11
Speaker 3: The staff that they had at Texas when he was there.
24:14
Speaker 3: And then obviously they had like Spike going trying to
24:18
Speaker 3: think who else was on that team, but they had
24:20
Speaker 3: Mike Caple and who was the third one was? They
24:24
Speaker 3: had an unbelievable pitching staff. And anyways, Calvin no, I
24:32
Speaker 3: think he was right after.
24:34
Speaker 4: They had Mike Bromley, who just died not long ago,
24:36
Speaker 4: passed away leagues.
24:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, they had a they had a pretty sick team.
24:42
Speaker 2: He yeah, he said.
24:43
Speaker 3: I think it was in eighty two they lost in
24:47
Speaker 3: the World College World Series maybe, and Spike Oing got
24:50
Speaker 3: drafted in the first round, and he said, everyone was,
24:53
Speaker 3: you know, crying and saying they're not gonna they lost
24:55
Speaker 3: their best player and they're gonna be terrible next year.
24:58
Speaker 3: And then they came back and won the World Yours.
25:00
Speaker 3: I was like, all right, that's what he talks about. Really,
25:04
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know any in depth stories
25:07
Speaker 3: of like the real stories.
25:09
Speaker 2: I want to know, right like, what what were they
25:11
Speaker 2: doing on Sixth Street? Was there a sixth Street? You
25:13
Speaker 2: know back then? You know what was going on? You know,
25:16
Speaker 2: I need to hear about all that stuff.
25:17
Speaker 3: I think and then Mike Cable had some good times
25:20
Speaker 3: there at some pool halls and stuff like that.
25:22
Speaker 2: You know people.
25:26
Speaker 3: We're gonna get tell me, we're gonna we're gonna get Yeah,
25:28
Speaker 3: we're gonna get into those pretty soon.
25:31
Speaker 1: Need them, Yeah, need him exactly on or off of
25:35
Speaker 1: a show.
25:35
Speaker 2: We need him.
25:36
Speaker 8: I'm with you.
25:37
Speaker 1: Well, well, we we enjoyed this. Cody really really appreciate
25:41
Speaker 1: the time. You're a great interview. Thank you so much
25:43
Speaker 1: for joining us. Keep doing your thing out there.
25:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, appreciate it. Thanks, guys.
25:59
Speaker 1: Works to talk ball and life with Tyler Kinley up
26:03
Speaker 1: the Braves on FT right now. Tyler, great to have
26:05
Speaker 1: you on the show. Thank you so much for joining us.
26:08
Speaker 1: How you doing and I know you're coming back from
26:10
Speaker 1: things right now, but how.
26:11
Speaker 8: You feeling good? Good to be here with you, guys.
26:14
Speaker 8: Good elbows good.
26:16
Speaker 9: Had a little hiccup recently, and we're kind of short
26:19
Speaker 9: staffed in the bullpen, so kind of thought.
26:21
Speaker 8: Long term, you know, hopefully we're able to make a
26:23
Speaker 8: deep r on this year.
26:24
Speaker 9: The plan was let's let's get some rest now and
26:26
Speaker 9: get things right and be ready for the second half.
26:28
Speaker 8: So good, just a little breather right now, but all.
26:31
Speaker 5: Good, Tyler. Yeah, what's it like being on that not
26:37
Speaker 5: being able to help?
26:38
Speaker 8: Right?
26:38
Speaker 4: Like, this is one of the big questions we have
26:40
Speaker 4: when you're injured and you're coming back from stuff and
26:41
Speaker 4: you're clearly not in Chicago. So because those trees, they
26:44
Speaker 4: don't have those in Chicago. So what's it like. Do
26:47
Speaker 4: you get bored? Do you go to the field every day?
26:49
Speaker 4: How do you keep your mind from wandering?
26:52
Speaker 8: Yeah, well it's new.
26:53
Speaker 9: I mean I just got I was in Chicago yesterday,
26:55
Speaker 9: you know, so we got a memri and whatnot. Yesterday
26:57
Speaker 9: it flew back so I can be with our RPT
26:59
Speaker 9: here in Atlanta and EF for a couple of days.
27:01
Speaker 9: No reason to travel on the rest of the road trip.
27:05
Speaker 9: But yeah, you stay active.
27:06
Speaker 8: You know, you still text with the guys, You still
27:08
Speaker 8: watch the games that night. You know, you get a
27:11
Speaker 8: little bit more free time than you're used to.
27:12
Speaker 9: So maybe you dive into whether it's some some numbers, whether.
27:15
Speaker 8: It's some video.
27:17
Speaker 9: You just try to find some alternate avenues to stay sharp.
27:20
Speaker 9: And you know, even though you're away and technically separated,
27:24
Speaker 9: you still try to feel as engaged as you can.
27:27
Speaker 6: There's so much to unpack when somebody has an injury.
27:30
Speaker 6: But when it's a picture with an elbow injury, can
27:33
Speaker 6: you give Braves fans a little bit more of like, relax,
27:37
Speaker 6: this is totally fine and not the elbow.
27:41
Speaker 7: We heard, elbow crap. Here we go again.
27:44
Speaker 8: Yeah for sure, Yeah, I had an MRI image, came
27:48
Speaker 8: back great.
27:48
Speaker 9: Saw the White Sox doctor in Chicago, saw our doctor
27:51
Speaker 9: today in Atlanta.
27:52
Speaker 8: Structurally, everything looks good.
27:54
Speaker 9: We're not concerned about it, you know, basically, just had
27:57
Speaker 9: some information that that kind of popped up, and we
28:01
Speaker 9: thought it was best Rather than short ending the bullpen
28:03
Speaker 9: for a couple of days and giving me a couple
28:05
Speaker 9: of days off, we thought it was best to, hey,
28:07
Speaker 9: let's just be be you know, a little bit more
28:11
Speaker 9: precise about this. Give us a couple more days and
28:14
Speaker 9: knock it out completely and then give the bullpen a
28:16
Speaker 9: fresh arm. That way, that or not you know, taxed,
28:18
Speaker 9: even though you know they kind of are at times anyways,
28:22
Speaker 9: So we're not we're not too concerned long term, just
28:24
Speaker 9: a little short term breather, you.
28:25
Speaker 8: Know, a couple of weeks might be and then get
28:27
Speaker 8: back in there.
28:29
Speaker 7: Is this the.
28:29
Speaker 6: Beauty of being the hottest team early in the season.
28:32
Speaker 6: Is this because we always we always hear about it
28:34
Speaker 6: from the Dodgers. Well, the Dodgers they put guys on
28:37
Speaker 6: IL just because it's like, well it's gonna be a
28:39
Speaker 6: little sunny out there, so we'll let them sit in
28:41
Speaker 6: the shade for a little while.
28:43
Speaker 7: Now the Braves, like, the Braves are doing the same
28:45
Speaker 7: kind of thing. Because you guys.
28:46
Speaker 6: Are so hot early, it's affording you this opportunity. If
28:50
Speaker 6: it was a one run, a one game lead in
28:52
Speaker 6: the division, maybe Tyler Kenley has to stay on the
28:57
Speaker 6: active roster.
29:00
Speaker 9: It's a luxury to be in the position we're in
29:02
Speaker 9: right now. It's a luxury for us to be able
29:04
Speaker 9: to zoom out and kind of look long term at
29:06
Speaker 9: the rest of the season, look at the upcoming series
29:09
Speaker 9: and whatnot. You know, we had discussions if we're in
29:12
Speaker 9: September in a playoff question like, there's no way you're
29:14
Speaker 9: putting me on the IL. You know, I'm going every day.
29:17
Speaker 9: So yeah, the position that we put ourselves in allows
29:20
Speaker 9: us to kind of, you know, manipulate the schedule and
29:23
Speaker 9: roster a little bit. We've been able to give starters
29:26
Speaker 9: an extra day off, We've been able to kind of
29:29
Speaker 9: move around the rotation.
29:31
Speaker 8: Obviously, you know, the.
29:36
Speaker 9: Position we've put ourselves allows this, you know, like you said,
29:40
Speaker 9: so we're just trying to navigate it and trying to.
29:42
Speaker 8: Be smart because the goal is to have a deep
29:44
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29:48
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30:05
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30:48
Speaker 6: Wait, do you guys look at the division and the
30:50
Speaker 6: lead and everything, because a lot of players say, ah,
30:53
Speaker 6: we never even look at the scoreboard until August fifteenth,
30:57
Speaker 6: and I think that's kind of a lie.
31:01
Speaker 9: Yeah, some guys do. I'm sure some guys check it
31:03
Speaker 9: daily nightly, you know. I think what happens.
31:06
Speaker 8: You guys know the.
31:06
Speaker 9: Clubhouse atmosphere, the TVs are always on, and you guys
31:09
Speaker 9: are on TV, MLB Networks on TV, you know, so
31:12
Speaker 9: you can't really hide from it.
31:14
Speaker 8: It pops up.
31:14
Speaker 9: I wouldn't say our clubhouse is actively searching for it
31:17
Speaker 9: to look and check, but yeah, it's on the TV.
31:21
Speaker 8: Guys see it.
31:21
Speaker 9: Guys know that we've got a you know, a decent
31:23
Speaker 9: lead in the division. We know the Phillies have been
31:25
Speaker 9: playing great.
31:26
Speaker 8: You know. Fortunately, we've been playing.
31:27
Speaker 9: Great as well, so that kind of negates their their
31:30
Speaker 9: little run that they went on.
31:32
Speaker 8: But yeah, we're aware of it, you know.
31:34
Speaker 9: But it doesn't deter from our you know, our day
31:36
Speaker 9: to day practice and our day to day goals, you know,
31:38
Speaker 9: because at the end of the day, we still got
31:39
Speaker 9: to take care of business.
31:43
Speaker 5: Tyler, your bullpen's been great this year.
31:45
Speaker 4: What is it about this collective group, whether it's Lee, Iglesias, Suarez, Dodd,
31:50
Speaker 4: whoever it is, has been out there.
31:52
Speaker 5: What has made this bullpend so special?
31:55
Speaker 9: Honestly, I think there's no egos out there, and I
31:58
Speaker 9: think that starts in the season when you bring a
32:00
Speaker 9: guy in like Robert Suarez, who led the National League
32:03
Speaker 9: and saves last year, who's, you know, arguably one of
32:06
Speaker 9: the best closers in baseball, and he comes in and says, yeah,
32:09
Speaker 9: I'll come through the eighth inning there, I'll come set
32:11
Speaker 9: up for you know, Iglesias, and that immediately sets the
32:14
Speaker 9: tone for the rest of us that, Hey, you know,
32:16
Speaker 9: as much as you always want to increase your role
32:18
Speaker 9: in the bullpen, like, it really doesn't matter because every
32:21
Speaker 9: out is important on a winning team, you know, So
32:24
Speaker 9: are our mindset out there is taking.
32:27
Speaker 8: The ball every day, it's being available, being durable.
32:29
Speaker 9: And then our mindset is finishing our innings and getting
32:32
Speaker 9: the outs that we need. To get because then it
32:34
Speaker 9: allows the other guys to get the rest they need,
32:36
Speaker 9: It allows the other guys to stay sharp. You know,
32:39
Speaker 9: there's gonna be times where guys got to come in
32:41
Speaker 9: for us, or we got to pick up somebody else,
32:42
Speaker 9: and I think that's just kind of what we've embraced
32:45
Speaker 9: out there, and you know, fortunately we've had momentum behind
32:48
Speaker 9: us early.
32:49
Speaker 2: All right.
32:49
Speaker 6: Well, then the token question is are the outs and
32:52
Speaker 6: different innings a different feeling for a pitcher? Are the
32:55
Speaker 6: ninth inning outs a save situation different than the seventh thinning?
33:03
Speaker 9: I mean, it's hard to say, because technically the answer
33:07
Speaker 9: is yes, right, the last three outs are the most
33:08
Speaker 9: important outs. Obviously a different energy, a different aura, everything
33:12
Speaker 9: in the stadium is different at that time. But I
33:15
Speaker 9: think whenever you're not throwing the ninth inning and you're
33:18
Speaker 9: throwing the eighth, the seventh, and the sixth, you know
33:20
Speaker 9: your opportunity is your leverage, and so you create your
33:22
Speaker 9: own leverage mentally, whether we're up a couple, whether we're
33:25
Speaker 9: down a couple. I think the biggest thing is it's
33:28
Speaker 9: the mental state that you're in that can allow you
33:29
Speaker 9: to put those binders on when you're.
33:31
Speaker 8: Up a ton or when you're down a ton, and
33:33
Speaker 8: make it as important as it is, because you.
33:35
Speaker 9: Know, getting that twenty first and twenty second out, you know,
33:39
Speaker 9: gives you the opportunity to get those final three outs,
33:42
Speaker 9: you know, and if we don't stop the game there
33:44
Speaker 9: in the sixth or stop the bleeding in the seventh,
33:45
Speaker 9: it doesn't give our potent line up a chance to
33:48
Speaker 9: come back, you know. So we're really dissecting the outs
33:51
Speaker 9: and you know, given each one, it's important it deserves.
33:56
Speaker 5: Tyler, you were traded last year from the Rockies.
33:59
Speaker 4: Can you describe the differentfer in the Rockies versus the
34:02
Speaker 4: Braves and now the Rockies obviously on a traditional pitching
34:05
Speaker 4: type organization. The Braves for years have kind of been
34:07
Speaker 4: known for their pitching. Is there any difference in philosophy
34:10
Speaker 4: or anything they did to you when you came over
34:12
Speaker 4: to Atlanta from Colorado.
34:14
Speaker 9: Yeah, we looked at some numbers, We looked at you know,
34:17
Speaker 9: some some pitch usage, some shapes and whatnot that were
34:21
Speaker 9: really working well for me in my time in Colorado,
34:24
Speaker 9: and we just wanted to enhance that in Atlanta and
34:26
Speaker 9: we you know, leaned on the side there a little
34:28
Speaker 9: bit more leaned on the curve ball a little bit more,
34:31
Speaker 9: you know, got a little bit more specific with the fastball,
34:33
Speaker 9: win to use it, Where for righties, where the lefties
34:36
Speaker 9: and whatnot. You know, so we definitely got a little
34:40
Speaker 9: more specific with how to use my stuff. And then
34:44
Speaker 9: obviously being away from altitude just allowed my repertoire to
34:47
Speaker 9: be that much more consistent. I didn't have to worry
34:50
Speaker 9: about Okay, at home, I'm throwing to these sites and
34:52
Speaker 9: this is what's going on. Then we get on the road,
34:54
Speaker 9: Now I've got to harness a whiffle ball and I've
34:56
Speaker 9: got to find these sites. So it just allowed me
34:58
Speaker 9: to be more consistent. And then when you attach that
35:01
Speaker 9: to a game plan that you know, an organization, you
35:05
Speaker 9: know with the logo like the Atlanta Braves says hey,
35:07
Speaker 9: we think this is going to make you successful, you know,
35:09
Speaker 9: you buy right in and you go, all right, well.
35:13
Speaker 7: Actually we just came up earlier in the show.
35:14
Speaker 6: I will see if you know it, because you play
35:17
Speaker 6: what is the third highest elevation in professional baseball right.
35:22
Speaker 9: Now, Drewis Park, behind the Diamondbacks and behind the Rockies.
35:27
Speaker 6: Okay, so so they let you know so that in
35:29
Speaker 6: case in case the ball doesn't move quite the same.
35:31
Speaker 6: Then you're like, oh, well that's why it was. It
35:33
Speaker 6: wasn't because I didn't make my pitch right.
35:35
Speaker 8: Yeah?
35:36
Speaker 9: Yeah, Well, I mean you get pitching in Colorado, you
35:39
Speaker 9: learn how to pitch on the moon, so anywhere else
35:41
Speaker 9: feels much better.
35:42
Speaker 6: It makes it, It makes it that much easier. Okay,
35:45
Speaker 6: So last year when you came over, your manager was Snit.
35:49
Speaker 6: Now you have Walt Weiss. Can you give us like
35:52
Speaker 6: the most glaring difference between the two of them?
35:59
Speaker 8: Ah, the most glaring difference.
36:05
Speaker 9: It's hard to say, because every individual has different qualities
36:09
Speaker 9: that make them who they are, right, you know, Snit
36:11
Speaker 9: was a little bit more calm, a little bit more reserved.
36:15
Speaker 7: You know.
36:16
Speaker 9: Walt is maybe a little bit more intense, a little
36:19
Speaker 9: bit more you know, anytime this comes up, you feel
36:24
Speaker 9: like you're comparing Walt versus Snit and goods and bads,
36:27
Speaker 9: and that's really not the case.
36:28
Speaker 8: You just have two different individuals who are wired differently.
36:31
Speaker 9: Walt, you know, seems a little more fiery, seems a
36:34
Speaker 9: little bit like he's intentional with what he does and
36:38
Speaker 9: when he says it and when he grabs guys and
36:40
Speaker 9: when he doesn't. You know, he's a second time through
36:44
Speaker 9: as a manager now, right. The first time he felt
36:46
Speaker 9: like he wasn't quite as prepared as he would have
36:49
Speaker 9: liked to have been. And now this time he got
36:51
Speaker 9: to be bench coach for the past eight years, he
36:53
Speaker 9: got to lean on Snit, learn on Snit, you know,
36:56
Speaker 9: and now he's got his chance to, you know, operate
36:59
Speaker 9: the way he wants to. And I think he's been
37:01
Speaker 9: ready for that. And I think that the biggest thing
37:04
Speaker 9: that we all feel is we feel the energy with Walt,
37:06
Speaker 9: and you know, collectively it's been a great start for us.
37:10
Speaker 6: Yeah, nothing you said, I feel like was against Snid
37:13
Speaker 6: or anything like that, just comparing the two of them.
37:15
Speaker 7: So has you guys have forty five wins? Has has
37:18
Speaker 7: Walt yelled at you guys?
37:21
Speaker 8: No?
37:21
Speaker 9: No, you know, Yeah, he's not.
37:26
Speaker 8: Blowing up anybody, throwing any chairs or anything, you know.
37:29
Speaker 9: But one thing he did early on that I think
37:30
Speaker 9: a lot of the guys loved is we were playing
37:33
Speaker 9: well and he had held a meeting with us and
37:36
Speaker 9: just said, guys, a lot of times in the locker rooms,
37:38
Speaker 9: you hold meetings when things are going wrong, when you
37:39
Speaker 9: need to write the ship when you need to correct stuff.
37:42
Speaker 9: He's like, I want to have one right now to
37:44
Speaker 9: let you guys know how well you have been playing,
37:46
Speaker 9: and we need to celebrate.
37:47
Speaker 8: That, embrace that, and we need to keep that going.
37:50
Speaker 9: And I think that was just refreshing for the guys
37:51
Speaker 9: because you know, it just showed how much he's paying
37:54
Speaker 9: attention and how locked in he is, and how he
37:56
Speaker 9: just wanted to, you.
37:57
Speaker 8: Know, set his tone with this team.
38:02
Speaker 1: Hey, Tyler, can you talk us through real quick your
38:06
Speaker 1: off season? So the Braves clearly liked you, and the
38:09
Speaker 1: option was declined, but then you ended up linking back
38:11
Speaker 1: for essentially this same money. So did you get to
38:15
Speaker 1: just make a few phone calls and then be like, cool,
38:17
Speaker 1: we both like each other, let's do this again.
38:21
Speaker 9: Yeah.
38:22
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, the off season's crazy, right.
38:24
Speaker 9: You know, everybody in the beginning the off season has
38:26
Speaker 9: their eyes set on all the you know, the prettiest
38:28
Speaker 9: girls at the bar and whatnot.
38:29
Speaker 8: And thinking that they can land them.
38:32
Speaker 9: You know, So in the beginning, we thought there was
38:34
Speaker 9: a good chance the option might get picked up, and
38:36
Speaker 9: then you know, speaking with the Braves, you know they
38:38
Speaker 9: had some bigger ticket items that they needed to go
38:41
Speaker 9: after first, you know, and they communicated with us throughout like, hey, look,
38:45
Speaker 9: we still want you. We just can't commit to it
38:47
Speaker 9: right now, but we're going to be in touch throughout
38:49
Speaker 9: the off season. We're going to let you know how
38:50
Speaker 9: things go. You know, you're gonna be the first reliever
38:53
Speaker 9: we call when we talk about the bullpen and whatnot.
38:55
Speaker 9: So the conversation stayed fluid the whole time. I think
38:58
Speaker 9: there was a mutual desire for the both of us
39:00
Speaker 9: to you know, link back up together, you know. And
39:04
Speaker 9: then we just did our diligence on the other side
39:06
Speaker 9: of it and talked with other teams, got some offers
39:08
Speaker 9: in to see where my my market was, and uh,
39:11
Speaker 9: you know, selfishly for us, we wanted to go back
39:13
Speaker 9: to Atlanta, and then we were able to accomplish that.
39:18
Speaker 5: That's great, that's great. Atlanta's a great place to have
39:20
Speaker 5: great people there. They're they're awesome. I have to I
39:23
Speaker 5: have to ask you this. We're going to show you
39:25
Speaker 5: a picture. Have you seen these? Have you seen these
39:27
Speaker 5: in the Braves Clubhouse? Have you seen that?
39:30
Speaker 2: Oh?
39:30
Speaker 8: Yeah, well your catcher's in the.
39:31
Speaker 4: Sport round Oh yeah, okay, have you Then we're going
39:34
Speaker 4: to show you the next picture. What I want to
39:39
Speaker 4: know is when you see Eddie Perez next time, you
39:42
Speaker 4: tell him that my picture is bigger than his picture
39:44
Speaker 4: on the bag, so he can hah, go away.
39:48
Speaker 8: No, no coincidence there, right, yeah, exactly, So just makes
39:52
Speaker 8: it that's intentional. Yesdi'll love that.
39:56
Speaker 7: Yeah.
39:57
Speaker 4: And on his belt, I know it says ninety nine
39:59
Speaker 4: NLCS MVP. I know, I know he still lives off that.
40:03
Speaker 4: But that bag is seriously one of the coolest bags
40:05
Speaker 4: I've ever seen. I've never seen one. I got a
40:07
Speaker 4: picture center of it to me yesterday from the people
40:10
Speaker 4: in Chicago, and I just want to say to the
40:12
Speaker 4: Braves Clubhouse crew whoever came up with that, I'm just
40:15
Speaker 4: proud I was a little part of it.
40:16
Speaker 5: And make sure you rub it in Eddy's face. Thank you.
40:19
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's awesome. I'd never seen a bag like that before.
40:22
Speaker 9: And then the first time I saw at some of
40:23
Speaker 9: our bullpenk catchers when they were bringing their gear out
40:25
Speaker 9: and whatnot, I stopped and looked at the bag, and
40:27
Speaker 9: you know, started to look at all you guys, the
40:29
Speaker 9: previous catchers.
40:29
Speaker 8: I was like, man, that's pretty cool.
40:32
Speaker 6: All right, So you've been on Minnesota, Miami, Colorado and Atlanta.
40:37
Speaker 6: Can you explain the level and you kind of hit
40:40
Speaker 6: it a little bit when you're talking about Colorado and Atlanta,
40:42
Speaker 6: but pitching, can you explain the level of professionalism and
40:47
Speaker 6: not not bagging other organizations?
40:49
Speaker 7: Just what the.
40:51
Speaker 6: Braves do compared to you know, what you had seen
40:55
Speaker 6: in the big leagues so far.
40:57
Speaker 9: Yeah, just speaking on the Braves alone, I mean in
41:00
Speaker 9: first class from the get go. You know, you kind
41:02
Speaker 9: of see it across the field. You hear guys, you
41:04
Speaker 9: have former teammates that go over there and they rave
41:06
Speaker 9: about it, and you you know, like what is it?
41:07
Speaker 7: What?
41:07
Speaker 9: You know, what are they speaking about? But then you
41:10
Speaker 9: get here and you live in and you be a
41:11
Speaker 9: part of it.
41:12
Speaker 3: Uh.
41:12
Speaker 9: You know, the way that the front office communicates with
41:15
Speaker 9: the players is extremely transparent. There's a lot of fluid
41:20
Speaker 9: conversations that and the players respect that. Everybody wants to
41:23
Speaker 9: know where they're where they stand. Uh, there's not a
41:26
Speaker 9: lot of gray area. And I don't know what he
41:28
Speaker 9: meant by that. You know, sometimes we talk maybe too much,
41:30
Speaker 9: and which is great for transparency. And then the way
41:33
Speaker 9: that the coaching staff, the training staff, the clubhouse staff,
41:37
Speaker 9: you know, I got here last year and Atlanta's had
41:40
Speaker 9: their worst year and you know seven or eight years
41:42
Speaker 9: that they're not going to be in the postseason.
41:44
Speaker 8: And it was such a.
41:45
Speaker 9: Weird position because everybody was like so excited that I
41:48
Speaker 9: was here, but then there, I mean even from clubhouse assistance,
41:51
Speaker 9: the very next conversation was like, sorry, we're not, like,
41:55
Speaker 9: you know, going to the postseason. And everybody was so disappointed.
41:58
Speaker 9: And you could tell that everybody involved is invested. From
42:03
Speaker 9: the people that greet you in the parking lot when
42:05
Speaker 9: you pull in, from the security people, from you know,
42:07
Speaker 9: security guard in our bullpen that's with us, you know,
42:10
Speaker 9: the people in the dugout, the staff, everybody is bought in.
42:13
Speaker 9: Everybody believes you know, Braves Country, and you just feel it.
42:17
Speaker 8: And then the way that the players are just treated.
42:20
Speaker 9: It's just like, hey, you focus on being successful and
42:23
Speaker 9: you playing the game, and we're going to take care
42:24
Speaker 9: of everything else. We're going to take care of your families,
42:26
Speaker 9: We're going to take care of your your friends when
42:28
Speaker 9: they're in town. You know, anything you need treatment wise,
42:31
Speaker 9: let's get you checked out, Let's get everything you need,
42:34
Speaker 9: you know.
42:34
Speaker 8: So it's a good, fully.
42:37
Speaker 9: Operational system that's been obviously going for a long time.
42:40
Speaker 9: It's no success for the Braves. History that they've had,
42:44
Speaker 9: and you know, to be a part of it now
42:45
Speaker 9: is awesome. And I just I rave about it to
42:47
Speaker 9: my buddies on other teams because.
42:49
Speaker 8: I'm like, hey, man, like if Atlanta call is like,
42:51
Speaker 8: don't pass that up, come on over here.
42:54
Speaker 1: That's really cool and that's good insight and I think
42:57
Speaker 1: underrated insight too for people and players, many players listening
43:01
Speaker 1: to this show to understand. You know, it's right, it's
43:04
Speaker 1: not necessarily what the others aren't doing, it's what some
43:06
Speaker 1: of the ones are doing that stands out and make
43:09
Speaker 1: sure that you guys just go on the field and
43:11
Speaker 1: focus on winning. And that's why they've had so much
43:13
Speaker 1: of it. They're they're spoiled out there. The fans too
43:16
Speaker 1: with how successful the team is and how great it
43:18
Speaker 1: is out there. I mean, we've been there plenty of times,
43:20
Speaker 1: so I'm glad. Yeah, you were able to put it
43:22
Speaker 1: towards in a good way. Great interview, man, great conversation.
43:25
Speaker 1: Really enjoyed it, Tyler. I hope you did too. Get
43:28
Speaker 1: well really quick, which I'm sure you are. You're almost
43:30
Speaker 1: coming back and then good luck.
43:33
Speaker 8: Awesome, thanks guys. Yeah I'll run you. Yeah yeah.
43:36
Speaker 1: Let's do it again soon