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Ohtani reliever rules? + Logan O’Hoppe talks Pitch Tips, Sweeping LA · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: October's edge.
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  Speaker 2: Could it be sho, Hey Otani, I like the pumpkins
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  Speaker 2: number too early for pumpkins, pumpkins spice latte anyway?
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  Speaker 3: Could a Giants or Orioles fan?
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  Speaker 1: True, neither of which will be in October.
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  Speaker 2: But this article in The Athletic refers to a conversation
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  Speaker 2: yesterday on The Dan Patrick Show with Mark Pryor, the
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  Speaker 2: pitching coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The headliner is,
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  Speaker 2: could show Hey Otani pitch in relief in October and
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  Speaker 2: here's what it would take good article. Fabi and Ardaia
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  Speaker 2: writes about it, and prior told the Dan Patrick Show
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  Speaker 2: absolutely about the possibility of him being a relief pitcher
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. He did clarify after that the discussions
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  Speaker 2: the organization has had about him in a relief role
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  Speaker 2: are limited solely to clarifying the language of the rule
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  Speaker 2: book and Otani's ability to rem ain't in the game
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  Speaker 2: as a hitter in such a scenario. AJ, we just
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  Speaker 2: did the Otani rule for eligibility the other day. Do
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  Speaker 2: we need another Otani rule for everything to work out?
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  Speaker 2: From a reliever point of view, Well.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be different because you can't just bring a
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  Speaker 4: guy in and then pitch him and then put him
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  Speaker 4: right back at DH. So I don't know how it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna work. Someone's gonna have to clarify this. We're gonna
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  Speaker 4: need a rules official, an umpire, Rob Manfred, somebody to
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  Speaker 4: come out because this is an interesting point. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think you can do this, but we'll see. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if anyone's ever tried this. So does you have
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  Speaker 4: to go in the outfield after he pitches to stay
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  Speaker 4: in the game or something?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I want to know the rule. I want to know
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  Speaker 4: the answer to the rule, because nobody seems to know
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  Speaker 4: the answer, including Mark Bryor and the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: So wait real quick, KP. I'll just read this.
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  Speaker 2: So MLB's Otani rule, and this isn't for the eligibility,
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  Speaker 2: which we covered the other day. This is for game
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  Speaker 2: by game. It was written in twenty twenty two. It
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  Speaker 2: specifies that a starting pitcher can remain in the game
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  Speaker 2: as a DH even after being removed from the game
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  Speaker 2: as a pitcher. That's what Otani does now when he's starting.
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  Speaker 2: That does not apply the same way if the pitcher
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  Speaker 2: entered in relief if Otani starts a game as DH
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  Speaker 2: then enters the game to pitch, removing him would mean
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  Speaker 2: taking him out of the game entirely, and you lose
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  Speaker 2: your DH. And the Dodgers don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 2: So do we need to quickly create a rule?
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise? How are you using Otani as a reliever in
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  Speaker 1: this postseason?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, maybe maybe they need to you know, have a
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  Speaker 6: sacrificial land, maybe just rake in relief and maybe lose
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  Speaker 6: him for the rest of the game, and then they'll
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  Speaker 6: have a complaint and you know, more than likely they'll
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  Speaker 6: probably you know, cater to him and change the rule.
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  Speaker 6: But in addition to the rule, I was thinking, logistically,
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  Speaker 6: how does that work? You know, it's already complicated enough
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  Speaker 6: for him to you know, have to go into the
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  Speaker 6: bullpen warm up. You know, he has his time to
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  Speaker 6: walk across the field, sit in the dugout. You know,
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  Speaker 6: we've seen the videos of him when he's starting at home.
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  Speaker 6: You know, bat boy brings him out of stuff. He
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  Speaker 6: never even goes and sit down. But what is he
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  Speaker 6: going to do if he's at you know, say he
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  Speaker 6: hits a leadoff double and they need him to go
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  Speaker 6: get three big outs. You know, what do they do?
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  Speaker 6: Can he are we gonna have a ghost runner? Like
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  Speaker 6: where does the rule kind of stop to kind of
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  Speaker 6: cater towards him and the Dodgers. But you know a
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  Speaker 6: lot of these bullpens are out in the outfield. A
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  Speaker 6: lot of these bullpen or a lot of the batting
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  Speaker 6: cages don't have mountds in them underneath, So that's another
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  Speaker 6: thing they would have to try to figure out logistically.
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  Speaker 5: It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. It's not
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  Speaker 5: gonna happen.
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  Speaker 4: It can't happen with the rule the way it is,
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  Speaker 4: and it can't happen with what KP just said. Let's
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  Speaker 4: say he hits a leadoff single and he's on first,
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  Speaker 4: and like, hey, we really want you to pitch the eighth.
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  Speaker 4: You're oh go steal second, score the go ahead run,
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  Speaker 4: and pitch the eighth. They won't happen because he won't
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  Speaker 4: have time to warm up and his routine is too long.
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  Speaker 4: So he's gonna have to be a starter or nothing,
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  Speaker 4: or they're gonna have to put him in the They're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to figure this out in the regular season
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  Speaker 4: because you can't go into the postseason and be like, oh, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 4: we're changing the rules for one guy can do this.
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  Speaker 3: No, the rule's not gonna change. He's not gonna be able. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's cool they said that.
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  Speaker 4: But if they're willing to let him go out there
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  Speaker 4: and maybe close a game in the ninth and if
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  Speaker 4: he gives it up, they lose him in the lineup,
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  Speaker 4: and that's gonna be what they're gonna have to do.
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  Speaker 5: But it's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I like that point too, is even if
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  Speaker 6: they don't change the rule. I mean, you can roll
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  Speaker 6: the dice and gamble a little bit too, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: if the opportunity presents itself where you know, maybe he
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  Speaker 6: had hit in the inning before and he has the
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  Speaker 6: proper amount of time to go warm up, he could
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  Speaker 6: pitch in the eighth or ninth inning at the risk
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  Speaker 6: if the game is tied or they give up the lead,
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  Speaker 6: you may have to lose him. Or like you said,
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  Speaker 6: maybe he learns to you know, maybe go stand and
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  Speaker 6: left or right field and you'd probably be really good
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  Speaker 6: at it if he got a chance to play the outfield.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're running out of arms like the Dodgers were,
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  Speaker 2: last year in the World Series, and they're like, I
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  Speaker 2: know he told Walker Buehler, no way, but now, okay,
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  Speaker 2: that could be Hero Tani moment in a scenario like that.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm with you this year, AJ, if the league
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  Speaker 2: tried to change a rule now, it would be a
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  Speaker 2: difficult luck. Now, AJ, do you think that they should
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  Speaker 2: change this rule going forward, not just for Otani, but
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  Speaker 2: should they try and figure out a way to promote
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  Speaker 2: that we could have more two A players as relievers
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  Speaker 2: and not just starters or kp What do you think?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's a bad thing.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I think there's a you know, a couple
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  Speaker 6: guys that may have the ability to maybe pitch one inning,
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  Speaker 6: but since there's not really a rule in place, they
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  Speaker 6: haven't really kind of figured out a way to use
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  Speaker 6: those guys. I know. You know, there's been a couple
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  Speaker 6: players recently that were drafted as two way players, and
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  Speaker 6: you know, ultimately you get into the minor leagues and
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  Speaker 6: you realize, one it's incredibly difficult to be successful as
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  Speaker 6: a hitter or pitcher. It's almost impossibly to be successful
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  Speaker 6: at both. But maybe a change in rule does allow
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  Speaker 6: some of these organizations to at least flirt with the
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  Speaker 6: idea of, like, man, this guy's got a really good arm.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe he could pitch like, you know, a seventh or
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  Speaker 6: eighth inning, you know, every once in a while, and
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  Speaker 6: maybe it can lead to more guys, you know, kind
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  Speaker 6: of finding their path as a two way player.
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  Speaker 4: What you mentioned it yesterday though Scott didn't. We didn't
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  Speaker 4: we talk yesterday about the rule?
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  Speaker 5: Was it yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: We talked about the rules?
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  Speaker 5: How it limits two way guys.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, limits even more because you can't use them as
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  Speaker 4: You can't really use them as a starter at the
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  Speaker 4: big league level because you basically have to eat it
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  Speaker 4: for a year of playing a player short and if
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  Speaker 4: you want to use them as a bullpen guy or
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  Speaker 4: in a position player, you lose them as soon as
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  Speaker 4: they come in. So yeah, I think some rules need
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  Speaker 4: to change. I don't know when, and won't. It's not
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  Speaker 4: gonna happen during the year. If it had, let me
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  Speaker 4: say this, if it happens during the year, you will
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  Speaker 4: have every fan base except the Dodgers clamoring that the
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  Speaker 4: league is trying to help the Dodgers win another World Series.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you just got to if you're the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 6: You just got to go out and do it, like
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  Speaker 6: I said, sacrifice him missing, you know, and at bat,
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  Speaker 6: maybe in the eighth or ninth inning of a single game,
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  Speaker 6: and then you can kind of just bring attention to it,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, maybe the league has a you know,
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  Speaker 6: a discussion about it in the offseason. But to your
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  Speaker 6: point too, I wouldn't want to be a rules committee
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  Speaker 6: part of MLB Major League Baseball right now, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: kind of bend the rules to a team that was
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  Speaker 6: already considered a super team and a team that's supposed
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  Speaker 6: to win the World Series, and a team that won
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  Speaker 6: the World Series last year that are already kind of
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  Speaker 6: playing with a unique set of rules because they have
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  Speaker 6: the one and only guy who does both.
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  Speaker 1: Logan O Hoppy Angels Catcher joining us right now. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing, man?
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  Speaker 7: Doing well? Thank you doing well. Good to see you guys.
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  Speaker 7: Appreciate you. Yeah, yeah, it's been good.
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  Speaker 1: Good to see you two.
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  Speaker 2: First off, I just want to carry a combo we
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  Speaker 2: were having from the previous segment. Where are we at
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  Speaker 2: with fundamentals and how they're taught both at the minor
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  Speaker 2: league level, and let's even go further back right. As
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  Speaker 2: soon as you become a prospect, you're on the prospect map.
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  Speaker 2: How are fundamentals and development taught to players right? How
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  Speaker 2: do they develop players versus balancing a player having to
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  Speaker 2: actually get to MLB right and prove that he's got
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  Speaker 2: the tools, the numbers that are people are looking at
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  Speaker 2: the metrics. This discussion is related to how you know
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers are playing a different brand of baseball for
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  Speaker 2: many other teams.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts, I.
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  Speaker 8: Think I would have a different answer than the kids
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  Speaker 8: that have gotten drafted in the past couple of years.
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  Speaker 8: I came up with the Phillies and I was in
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  Speaker 8: twenty eighteen. I was a late round pick out of high.
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  Speaker 7: School, and.
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  Speaker 8: I was taught then, if you're gonna play in the
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  Speaker 8: big leagues, then you're gonna be out at the lower
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  Speaker 8: part of the order, and you got to learn to
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  Speaker 8: do these things, you know. So it was something that
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  Speaker 8: I was taught, not even in professional baseball, back in
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  Speaker 8: high school. My two high school coaches were and still
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  Speaker 8: are really I consider them family and some of the
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  Speaker 8: best baseball people still that I've ever been around. So
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  Speaker 8: they were implemented at a pretty young age. Bunted yesterday
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  Speaker 8: for the first time in my big league career. So
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  Speaker 8: this qussion comes at a perfect time. I think it's
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  Speaker 8: really important. Part of me misses that brand of baseball,
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  Speaker 8: you know, and I'm always trying to find ways to
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  Speaker 8: be better at it. And but the game is changing, obviously,
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  Speaker 8: is as we all know, So it's definitely a tricky
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  Speaker 8: thing to balance. But I know, coming up in the
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  Speaker 8: minor leagues with the Phillies then it was harped on
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  Speaker 8: quite a bit.
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  Speaker 9: Do guys talk about you're in the big leagues now,
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  Speaker 9: not in the minor leagues They're saying the conversation was, Oh,
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  Speaker 9: you got to learn all this stuff in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 9: Do you feel like when you were asked to bunt
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  Speaker 9: or you bunted, that your value is now going down
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  Speaker 9: arbitration value? Is that kind of stuff discussed in the
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  Speaker 9: clubhouse or is that like a hush hush thing that
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  Speaker 9: a team that wants to win gets this done.
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  Speaker 8: No, we don't talk about that at all ever in
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  Speaker 8: the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 7: It's it's been.
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  Speaker 8: A lot of football lately and everything in between or
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  Speaker 8: laughing the netto whatever it's been. So no, we don't
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  Speaker 8: really talk about that. A lot in the clubhouse. But selfishly,
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  Speaker 8: I think that fundamentals are what makes the game great.
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  Speaker 8: And I know that I'm probably pretty outdated with that take,
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  Speaker 8: but I think so it makes the game awesome.
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  Speaker 5: Logain.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, your hair is on point, but that's
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  Speaker 3: when you can get into that later.
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  Speaker 4: Their hairs fresh, thank you, thank you, very nice, very nice,
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  Speaker 4: fresh cut. But my whole thing when we were discussing
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  Speaker 4: this is is teams and agents. It's not in amongst
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  Speaker 4: the players, but teams and agents will go to you
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  Speaker 4: and say maybe more agents and teams because teams don't
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  Speaker 4: want to give away their secret. But your agent says, man,
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  Speaker 4: you got to hit more home runs. I remember when
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  Speaker 4: I was going through arbitration and they were like, you
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  Speaker 4: got to hit twenty homers if you want to get paid.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like what the team told me that,
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  Speaker 4: And I was like wait what And I'm like, but
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  Speaker 4: I only you know, I hit ten or eleven or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: and they're like, nope, you got to get to twenty
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  Speaker 4: if you want to really get paid.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So that's kind of where it's gone now is guys
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  Speaker 4: look at it and they started it at such a
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  Speaker 4: young age with their agents or advisors as they call them. Now,
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  Speaker 4: you got to hit for more power, you gotta walk more, right,
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  Speaker 4: you got to throw harder as a pitcher. And that's
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  Speaker 4: why some of the people are saying that the bunting
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  Speaker 4: and the stealing of bases and some of the other
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  Speaker 4: stuff isn't pushed as much because they're totally young. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: you want to get to the big leagues, you got
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  Speaker 4: to hit homers. You gotta walk, and it's okay to
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  Speaker 4: strike out.
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  Speaker 8: M I I would say that I don't think arbitration
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  Speaker 8: has a lot to do with it.
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  Speaker 7: I think that no matter I mean, you guys know
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  Speaker 7: when you played.
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  Speaker 8: Like I think, no matter what, you're gonna want to
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  Speaker 8: walk more, strikeout less, and hit more homers. Like I
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  Speaker 8: think anyone that's playing the game will tell you that
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  Speaker 8: they want to do more of that, you know, And
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  Speaker 8: that's that's money arbitration for you to see whatever aside
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  Speaker 8: from all of it, just because it makes sleeping a
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  Speaker 8: lot easier when you do those things more often, you know.
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  Speaker 8: So I don't think that money is a driving factor
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  Speaker 8: for a lot of guys. I think that they just
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  Speaker 8: want to impact the game as much as they can
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  Speaker 8: and be the best player they can be, And I
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  Speaker 8: I can truthfully say, like, I really don't think that
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  Speaker 8: if you ask guys around the league that there's there's
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  Speaker 8: an agenda like that because they want to get paid more,
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  Speaker 8: because they want to maximize arbitration or whatever that is.
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  Speaker 7: So I think it's just guys want to be the best.
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  Speaker 5: All right. So you're saying players want to be competitive, right.
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  Speaker 7: M hmm. Absolutely, they want to win.
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  Speaker 5: They want to win.
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  Speaker 9: Anybody ever questions that you know guys on the field
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  Speaker 9: don't want to win or don't care, they're just trying
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  Speaker 9: to get their numbers. I think is a lie. Probably
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  Speaker 9: ninety nine percent of the time. I think ninety nine
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  Speaker 9: percent of guys want to win. Who's the most competitive
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  Speaker 9: person on your Angels team right now?
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  Speaker 8: We got a bunch of guys. I would say Tyler
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  Speaker 8: Anderson is the most competitive, and not so much off
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  Speaker 8: the field. We were really we don't we don't do
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  Speaker 8: too much competition off the field with one another. But
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  Speaker 8: Tyler Anderson that guy. I mean, that guy's a bulldog
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  Speaker 8: and he wants at every pitch and I always like
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  Speaker 8: catching t I know he's going to give everything.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, what's it like in angels Land right now? What's
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  Speaker 4: it like in in I'm Anaheim. It's not Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I bet game is still I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: But what's it like in Anaheim?
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  Speaker 5: Right now?
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  Speaker 3: You guys are kind of.
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  Speaker 4: In that you're still in it, right so you're fighting
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  Speaker 4: to win every every day. You guys play great against
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  Speaker 4: the dog I mean, you guys swept the Dodgers year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, then you'll have like a lower you loose
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  Speaker 3: two out of three.
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  Speaker 4: What's it like because you guys, it's like, you guys
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  Speaker 4: played great against the really good teams and then all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden it's like, oh no, what happened against
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  Speaker 4: the other teams?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean the vibes are good. We still love
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  Speaker 8: playing with each other. We know, we know what's in
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  Speaker 8: front of us. It's been the focus every day and
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  Speaker 8: obviously last week was a huge step for us and
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  Speaker 8: just awesome for for everybody and everything to know that
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  Speaker 8: we're capable of doing that. And like you said, tough weekend,
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  Speaker 8: but we've overcome obstacles before. You know, it's nothing we
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  Speaker 8: haven't been through, So looking forward to a good week
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  Speaker 8: this week.
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  Speaker 2: someone who cares. Hey, tell me about that Dodgers series
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: and really the season series against them, what's the recipe
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: to beat the Dodgers, because a lot of teams would
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: like to know it. I know they haven't played as
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: well the last couple months up until this weekend where
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: they swept the Padres, but this is the defending champs,
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: and I think this was the first time ever we
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: had this occur where the Angels swept the season series.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: So what happened?
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: Mm hmmm. We played our game. That was it.
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: We didn't get outside of doing what we knew we
• 15:16
  Speaker 8: were capable of doing. Back in a little bit to
• 15:19
  Speaker 8: our first question about worrying about different numbers and stuff,
• 15:23
  Speaker 8: I forgot to mention, like those games against the Dodgers
• 15:26
  Speaker 8: are really any big of a game, even if it's
• 15:28
  Speaker 8: a Monday Tuesday night game with only a couple thousand
• 15:31
  Speaker 8: people there. Like, the environment's too hostile to think like that.
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: Like if you think like that environments like we just
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: played in, then you're gonna get eaten alive, Like you
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: don't have time to think about the outside stuff. So
• 15:44
  Speaker 8: those games were fun. They were really fun. Obviously the
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: result plays a huge part of that, but I think
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: I could speak for a lot of guys in the clubhouse,
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: like it took me a while to go to sleep
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: after those games each one, and it was it was
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: a pretty cool atmosphere for sure.
• 15:59
  Speaker 9: Some of the they're talked about with the Angels are, Oh,
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: it's all these guys that get drafted and they come
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: right up to the big leagues and you have a
• 16:06
  Speaker 9: lot of dudes. I mean they're they're everywhere. You got netto,
• 16:10
  Speaker 9: You've got Christian Moore was playing a lot recently, Shana, Well,
• 16:14
  Speaker 9: some of your pitchers. You know, obviously Joyce's out, but
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: you know, you sit there and you go, all these
• 16:19
  Speaker 9: guys are getting called up. Is there any way to
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: simulate or get them ready for a Dodger series when
• 16:27
  Speaker 9: they're in the bushes? Because the best, to me, the
• 16:29
  Speaker 9: best way to learn is in the big leagues, But
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: the hardest place to learn lessons is in the big leagues.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: M h.
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you're spot on with that.
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: There's no way you can replicate that like nowhere in
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: the minor leagues. In my opinion, I always said I
• 16:43
  Speaker 8: heard that there were big jumps in the minor leagues,
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: whether it was from high to double A or whatever,
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: it was low way to triple A, whatever was I
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: think the biggest jump is to the big leagues. I
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: don't think you could replicate anything like it, and environments
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: like that. It's good for all this young guys to
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: be in those environments as early as we can, you know,
• 16:59
  Speaker 8: because I was picking Travis's brain about how that compares
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: to a playoff atmosphere.
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: So all those experiences.
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: Are great for us, And kudos to to all those
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: young guys and all of us that that did it
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: and we're able to compete and keep her composure that week.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: What about what about tipping pitches?
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: You guys got the you got the little you know,
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: the little now, so there's no more signs unless you're
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: kershaw Kershall was given signs against you, guys.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: How much of your not how.
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: Much of your day, but how much does that consume
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: you in the sense of like looking at the first
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: base coach, third base coach, are they move and how
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: much are you in your Is that in your constant
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: thought when you're playing certain teams or is it just
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: always and you always think somebody's trying to trying to
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: pick signs or pick a tip from a pitcher live
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: in game.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you're you're always anticipating it just because you know
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: the information that's out there. You know, you know that
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: guys are studying you see it. So it's it's been
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: something I've been learning with behind the plate, especially of
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: not going too early or whatever it may be. But yeah,
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: I mean it's it's I wouldn't say it's in the
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: forefront of my mind, but it's always a thought in
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: the back of your head on are we keeping everything secure?
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: And are we are we keeping anything neat and tidy
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: how we need.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: It to be.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: So I would say it's a thought throughout the game
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: for sure, but it's definitely not a main focus at all.
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: I don't know, maybe you won't answer this, but I
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: had a tip as a catcher one time in September.
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: Every for like two weeks, every breaking ball that I
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: called with a runner on second, I would touch my
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: chest protector. And one of the guys on our on
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: one of the guys on our team are one of
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: the coaches, one of the video guys, was like, Hey,
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: you're doing this every single time on a breaking ball,
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: never on a fastball. Is there a tip that you
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: had when you first came up early that you were
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: that you were told about that you were doing.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: I haven't gotten one like that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: I know that this is a frequent thought of mine,
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: Like if if we get hit on a pitch, especially
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: if it's executed, I'm thinking, like I'm looking back at
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: like what what did I do? Like I had to
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: be given something, I had to have been doing something
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: at some point, So I look at it as much
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: as I can, And I mean, I'll be transparent with
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: you guys. I'm sure there have been times where I've
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: had something that another team's had.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: You know, But I do what I can to stay
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: on top of it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: And that doesn't help me sleep a night by any means,
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: but I know that that's a part of the girling process.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Do you guys self scout? Do you self scout yourself?
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Do you guys have someone to watch the video you look?
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, So then did it look different this weekend
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: when you had that awesome catching gear with all the
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: signatures and stuff on it?
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Did it look any different when you checked it out?
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Because that was awesome?
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: So no, that was that was a cool one.
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: It came out way better than last year's And uh yeah,
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: that's always a pretty a pretty special day and a
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: pretty cool thing to do. So grateful that those kids
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: who were not only eager to help, but but had
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: smiles on their faces doing it, and they were helping
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: me as much as hopefully we're helping them a little bit.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Should you be able to do more of this? Should?
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: Should Major League Baseball allow more of this? Like not
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: just one weekend? Because I mean, look at this pictures.
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: If you put those pictures up of the kids smiles
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: and then you put them next to your smile that
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: you just had, like you know, that puts a smile
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: on their face. And yet it feels like sometimes it's
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: like pulling teeth to be able to have something special
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: like this that's in a game that that makes that
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: changes lives for these kids.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: Mm hmm. It's a it's a tougher question for me
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: to answer. To be honest with you, the only thing
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: I don't like.
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: About moments like this are the cameras and the notoriety gets.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: I want to make it clear to those kids that
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: I'm there to see them when I'm in the in
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: those hospitals, and a lot of times I tell them
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: to leave the cameras out, Like I don't.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: I don't like that part of it, you know.
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: I want to be a human before I'm the baseball
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: player that's going to visit a hospital, you know, because
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: I saw it firsthand with whether it's friends or family. Like,
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: the last thing you want when you're going through that
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: stuff is cameras in your face, you know. So you
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: just want people to talk to and sometimes you just
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: don't want to be a patient in the hospital, you know.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: So, I it's a tough thing. I don't know. I mean,
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: I'm grateful that the league gave us the outlet to
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: do it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: Don't get me wrong, I don't want to don't come
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: off ungrateful about it, but I mean, if they if
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: they did more about it, great. But I think that
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: as players we can all I'll do a little more.
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: I wish our schedules gave us more time to do
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: more things like that, you know. But I know there
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: are plenty of guys around the league that doing as
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: much as they can that no one sees, And I
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: think that that's that's the sauce for sure.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Hey, hey Logan, we had the Cardinals game and Pozo
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: had a bat that he did the same thing. He
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: went around and he had a bunch of children that
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: were in the hospital and going through stuff and put
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: their hands on the bat and he used in the
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: games and all that stuff.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: It's amazing what you guys are able to do.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Now, how much.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Do you think it means to the kids, right like you,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: but also like the kids when they turn on the
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: TV they say, hey, that's my blue handprint or look
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: at Logan's chest protector.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Like, to me, that's what it's about. It's not about
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: the cameras. But it's a cool moment.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: You know, the kids are in there and they get
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: their picture taken and then they get to tell their friends, Oh,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Logan o'hoppe came to see me.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: But then they turn on the.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: TV and you're catching and your chest protector has Sammy
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: or David or whoever signed Liz or whoever it was,
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: it signed your chest protector. They can see that and
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: they call mom and dad and it puts that to
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: me is what it's about. It's not and I wish
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: we could do more of this, obviously, but I mean,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: that's what it's all about. The smile that the smile
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: on your face, the smile on their face. How emotional
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: you get, How emotional Poso was, and we talked to
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: him about it, like, those are the moments that make
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: this game special, forget.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: The other stuff.
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, no, absolutely, Ultimately that's the that's the whole reason
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: why you do it, you know. So Yeah, I mean
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: you hit the nail on the head with that. It
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: is a pretty cool moment. Like I said, they were
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: helping me more than then they even thought. You know, so,
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: just trying to bring smiles to their faces as much
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: as we can because I know that they're going through
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: some pretty tough days.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: So I hope we accomplish that.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, So last thing, I think we got
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: to let you go. Fantasy football is a huge deal
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: in the baseball community. Okay, don't let anybody you know.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: That's why that smile came out. Have you guys done
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: your draft yet?
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: How did you pick the order?
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Well, how are you going to pick the order?
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Because you saw the Blue Jays that their little guy
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: thing falling down, that whole.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: Deal I did.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: We got to talk to the commissioner about that because
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: we got it in a couple weeks too early in
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: preseason right now to draft.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: So okay, who's the commissioner?
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: Uh trouty?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Oh oh boy.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: It's a big buy in is what you're saying, all right,
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: and then split a team with Joe Adele.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Yes, okay, there.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: You go, There you go, makes sense, Tommy Fan's not
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: on the Angels.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: But then the last thing is is if you get
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: the first pick, who are you taking Chase.
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna have to talk to Joe about that. It's
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: a team effort, so we're gonna have to have a
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: couple of meetings about it and sit on the plane flight.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: So are you a book Are you a book guy?
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Are you like a magazine guy? Or you a print
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: out guy? Because some guys had books, some guys had
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: printouts that they would, you know, go through and keep
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: track of everything.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Do you just do it on your iPad? How do
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: you keep track of you know?
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Then god forbid you draft somebody who already got drafted,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: because then everybody just wears you out.
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: Yeah. I actually like, I'm I'm not a huge like.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: I don't get too into it. I'm not a huge
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: fantasy football guy. But one thing I do know from
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: listening to friends or whoever was in the years past
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: is that usually the people that do the most homework
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: don't end up too well. So I'm gonna prepare a
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: little bit, not over prepare, and hopefully bother a few
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: guys on the team. You have my lack of preparation
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: and the record that will come out at the end
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: of the year, so we'll see how it shakes out there.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: You go over prepping is a detriment if you go
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: too crazy.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Draft at draft at drill a lot.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: Of draft, but that would be a good idea for sure.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Well, Logan, awesome to catch up with you, man. We
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: always appreciate having you on. Fans love it too.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: A lot of Angels fans always check it in. Thanks
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: for the time, dude. We'll catch you soon.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: Okay, thank you guys, appreciate it.