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New Angels pitcher Drew Pomeranz: Rejuvenation w/Cubs, ABS system lurking, and why he signed with LAA · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: He is the newest member of the Angels. Drew Pomeranch
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  Speaker 1: joining us right now. Drew, great to have you on
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  Speaker 1: the show. Thank you for the time. Congrats on the
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  Speaker 1: deal with the Angels. Tell us how it all went down,
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  Speaker 1: and how you doing.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, guys, Thanks for having me. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean this time last year, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know what was going to happen. Obviously, I had
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good year that allowed me to continue playing,
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  Speaker 2: because I don't think I would have signed another minor
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  Speaker 2: league deal and kept this going. But I you know,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to stay close to Sokow, where we live
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  Speaker 2: and where my family is, and they connected with us early,
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  Speaker 2: and we talked to some other teams too, kind of
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  Speaker 2: stayed in the loop with everybody. Then we obviously got
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  Speaker 2: a deal done. I wanted to. I was hoping to
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  Speaker 2: get it done before the holidays, just because you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't get it done before then sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 2: it slows down and then you start to get pushed
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  Speaker 2: towards spring training, and you know, then you gotta worry
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  Speaker 2: about all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wait, that's not a real thing. Before we before,
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  Speaker 3: before we dig into this troup, what is that picture
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  Speaker 3: behind you? Is that you surfing?
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  Speaker 2: No, I wish it was. I just doubt that. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in my son's bedroom. I wish that was. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I could say that was surf in a giant wave
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  Speaker 2: right there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you could have just said because it's so blurred out,
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't really tell, So you could have just say, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: i've been carving. Are from Tennessee, though you just said
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  Speaker 3: your family is in California, so your whole.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm from Tennessee, but we're living in sokol right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm living We're in Laguna Beach. That's why this there's
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  Speaker 2: a surfer behind me right here. I mean we're probably
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  Speaker 2: like thirty minutes from Angel Stadium. It's uh, you know
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  Speaker 2: this is extremely convenient.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that makes sense for the Angels, right, I
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  Speaker 3: mean totally totally makes sense. By the way, what you
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  Speaker 3: just said is what I want to hit on about.
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  Speaker 3: Oh if I don't sign before the holidays, we talk
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  Speaker 3: about this all the time.
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  Speaker 4: I do.
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  Speaker 3: Your parents start calling right Your wife is like, where
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  Speaker 3: are we going for spring training? Your kids are saying,
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  Speaker 3: oh daddy, are we going? Are you still playing? What's
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  Speaker 3: happening right, So yes, it's awesome that you've got to
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  Speaker 3: place one that's close to your house too. You know
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  Speaker 3: you're going to spring training in Arizona, and three you
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  Speaker 3: can live at home and make that commute. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I congratulations, congratulations, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a Christmas miracle. And to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: it's the best time to sign my before Christmas. So
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  Speaker 2: as I drove over to the Team store and bought
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff to get everybody for Christmas. So
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  Speaker 2: it was it was good in many ways.
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  Speaker 4: Last minute shopping. I love that.
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  Speaker 5: And first of all, I got to say, you're cooked.
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  Speaker 5: You're never playing anywhere else again. I tell everybody who
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  Speaker 5: signs close to home, you are never going to sign
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  Speaker 5: anywhere else. There's no way your wife is going to
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  Speaker 5: say or anybody in your family is going to say, yeah, no.
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  Speaker 4: Problem, I would.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be fine, like I'll fly out to I'll fly
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  Speaker 5: out to Chicago and you can you know we'll do
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  Speaker 5: that again.
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  Speaker 3: It's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, nope, no, you're exactly right. Yeah, you're exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of I kind of had to sign close
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  Speaker 2: to home. That's you know, this time around, so I
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  Speaker 2: think you're exactly right. I think I'm I'm restricted regionally
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  Speaker 2: majorly now.
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  Speaker 5: So all right, take us through last year, Take us
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  Speaker 5: through pitching in Tacoma. Take us through the fact that
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  Speaker 5: your injuries and then you were pitching in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 5: Like some people don't know, you weren't in the big
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  Speaker 5: leagues for full three years or is it full two years?
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  Speaker 5: And then you made it back last year.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't pitch. I mean, I was still under
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  Speaker 2: contract for a couple of years, but I the last
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  Speaker 2: game I pitched him was August of twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 2: in the big leagues. I mean, I'll give you the
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  Speaker 2: whole spiel. It's like last year, you know, coming back
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  Speaker 2: after my Padres contract ran out. I guess that was
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three was last year, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: got hurt at the end of the year, and I
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  Speaker 2: just kept getting hurt. So then coming into spring training
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  Speaker 2: the next year, I didn't know if anyone was gonna
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  Speaker 2: give me a chance again. I was trying to sign
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  Speaker 2: close to you know, close to Soka. I actually sign
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  Speaker 2: with the Angels for spring training in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: and you know I came in I signed literally the
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  Speaker 2: day before camp started. I came in and I had
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  Speaker 2: a you know, I kind of surprised myself, had a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good spring didn't make the team. And then I,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that was my first time dealing with the
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  Speaker 2: minor league signing and trying to manage how do you know,
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  Speaker 2: should I opt out? Should I go somewhere else? Should
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  Speaker 2: I you know, I think now I've settled on I
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  Speaker 2: think it's sometimes better to stay with the team if
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  Speaker 2: you're going to go to the minor leagues, unless you
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  Speaker 2: have like a clear opportunity, just because then you you
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  Speaker 2: have this like period of time sometimes to they get
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  Speaker 2: to know you. Then they want to watch you, but
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  Speaker 2: you already have all this relationship built up during spring training.
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  Speaker 2: But that's a whole other thing. So I went signed
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  Speaker 2: with the Daughters. I played in Oklahoma City for a
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  Speaker 2: month and a half. You know, we had some dialogue
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  Speaker 2: there with them, but I kind of missed my window
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  Speaker 2: of of getting called up there and I opted out
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  Speaker 2: a few times, you know, And I then I opted
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  Speaker 2: out one of the times the last time, and the
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  Speaker 2: Giants needed someone for like four days, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I'll go there. It's fine. And I
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  Speaker 2: went there for four days. But then you get caught
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  Speaker 2: in this loop as a as a veteran guy on
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  Speaker 2: or just a just a player and a minor league
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  Speaker 2: deal in general, because you signed these advanced consents and
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  Speaker 2: you basically feel like you're fighting for like two days
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  Speaker 2: at a time, one day at a time, a week
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  Speaker 2: at a time, or you know, just you're filling these
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  Speaker 2: little gaps for these teams, which then I you know,
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  Speaker 2: by I was home, I stopped after those four days.
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  Speaker 2: I just kind of stayed home because I was getting
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of like you know, two week opt outs,
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  Speaker 2: one month opt outs again, looking at these like advanced consents,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm just chipping around for a day here, a
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  Speaker 2: day there, and I just was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna stop this. And I didn't feel super great anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So then fast forward, I was basically kind of done.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I don't want to play anymore. And
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  Speaker 2: then as time went on, I took a few months
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  Speaker 2: off or I didn't do anything, and then I was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I should probably like start working out
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  Speaker 2: because I need to do something, because I was just
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  Speaker 2: enjoying having nothing on the schedule, which you guys know
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  Speaker 2: is pos post playing days. And then you know, the
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners had kind of reached out the previous summer
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  Speaker 2: about one of those like, you know, come play for
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  Speaker 2: a month and then opt out whatever. So they reached out.
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  Speaker 2: They gave me what I wanted. I was like, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, if I feel good, I go to spring training.
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  Speaker 2: If I don't, I won't.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I went there, had another good spring and like I
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  Speaker 2: said before, I opted out and kind of like to
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  Speaker 2: see what was out there. You know, hurt a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but no one really wanted to take a chance. So
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  Speaker 2: then the mistake I made last year, I didn't do.
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  Speaker 2: So I stayed with the same team and I went
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  Speaker 2: to Tacoma for three weeks. You know, was was doing
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  Speaker 2: that whole thing there. I pitched twelve. I mean I
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  Speaker 2: had a couple saves, like my I felt better, My
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  Speaker 2: velocity was better, everything was better. I thought I had
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  Speaker 2: a good chance there because they had at the time,
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  Speaker 2: they had one left in the big leagues. I think
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  Speaker 2: Spire was the only guy up. And then had that
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  Speaker 2: upper mobility claus on April twentieth come up, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: got scooped up to the Cubs.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, that's a crazy story. But you know
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  Speaker 3: what happened. You started a playoff game. You started a
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  Speaker 3: playoff game Game five, so all that stuff that you're
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  Speaker 3: talking about. You started a winner go Home playoff game.
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  Speaker 3: Explain what happened when you went to the Cubs, because
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  Speaker 3: you had a really nice year for the Cubs. So
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  Speaker 3: what did they do? What did they change? How did
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  Speaker 3: they make you into their Game five starter?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that they didn't really change much.
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  Speaker 2: I I so I knew that clause was coming up
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  Speaker 2: in my contract that week, and I was kind of
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  Speaker 2: getting at the point where I'm like, am I just
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  Speaker 2: gonna keep doing this? Or like, where's the where's the
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  Speaker 2: like what am I going to press the jet button with?
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  Speaker 2: With triple A? And I had that clause and we
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  Speaker 2: went to Oklahoma City for a week and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I'm just gonna do everything, give it everything.
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  Speaker 2: I got through as hard as I can this week,
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  Speaker 2: and sure enough, like Villo jumped a little bit and
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  Speaker 2: I think I struck out the side in the first appearance,
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  Speaker 2: and then I got to save that week, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I you know, it timed up perfectly because then I
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  Speaker 2: got brought into you know, I got scooped up by
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  Speaker 2: the Cubs and I was feeling in a good place.
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  Speaker 2: I went out there and you know, with I told
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  Speaker 2: people this, with the ABS system, it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: interesting to see with with you know, with guys this
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  Speaker 2: year anyway. But for me then I was like, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, it feels like I'm thrown into like the
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  Speaker 2: tiniest little box, so I might as well just try
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  Speaker 2: and throw everything down the middle and see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: So the first like month or two with the Cubs,
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  Speaker 2: when you know, when I went up, I was just
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  Speaker 2: trying to fill up the zone. This is what I
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  Speaker 2: had been doing in Triple A, and I was having success.
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  Speaker 2: So like, you know what, I'm just going to keep
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  Speaker 2: doing this, and you know, I have a very simple
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  Speaker 2: approach to pitching. I'm gonna throw fastball and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: throw a curveball off of that, and it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's not really much thought going on in my head,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, and you know, it was just it
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  Speaker 2: was just a perfect timing of things. I had success again,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, after a couple of months, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I had to obviously making it as as
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  Speaker 2: they adjusted, I had to adjust, and you know, I
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit of an adjustment period, but then
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  Speaker 2: I kind of realized, you know, I was in a
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  Speaker 2: better place with my you know, pitch selections, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, then that runs into you know, you start
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  Speaker 2: to get into these ends of the year and you
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  Speaker 2: get these big games, and so I would always ramp
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  Speaker 2: it up a little bit in the big games just
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  Speaker 2: because you know, it's more excitement, it's more you know, adrenaline,
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  Speaker 2: all of those things. And then you know, going in
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  Speaker 2: so I was feeling really good going into the to
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  Speaker 2: the you know, towards the end of the year, into
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, and I had I have a great relationship
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  Speaker 2: with all this. I have a great relationship with counsels
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  Speaker 2: from playing with them in Milwaukee too. You know I
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  Speaker 2: had all those games. You know, I opened games for him.
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  Speaker 2: I did everything. I mean, I but that's always my
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  Speaker 2: thing with counsel. I mean this is back when I
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  Speaker 2: played Milwaukee. When I got here, he called me when
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  Speaker 2: I got to when I got Chicago, he called me
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  Speaker 2: the day I was coming and I was like, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, well, I do whatever you need me to do.
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  Speaker 2: You need me to get out the middle in beginning whatever, like,
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  Speaker 2: just just tell me what you need me to do,
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  Speaker 2: and and that's pretty much what I did.
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  Speaker 5: You're playing like a rookie in the big leagues at
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  Speaker 5: age in the upper thirties because you were just like, whatever,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just gonna go out and let strikes. That'll be cool. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: first round? Is the game so easy for you guys? Well,
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  Speaker 5: my question is it's gonna veer off of last year
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  Speaker 5: a little bit. But you said about the ABS. I've
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  Speaker 5: always said, when when they started talking about the ABS
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  Speaker 5: and they started talking about the strike zone and everything,
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  Speaker 5: I caught you in spring training in sixteen with the
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  Speaker 5: Padres and then we played together in the big leagues
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  Speaker 5: in San Francisco. I said, there's no curveball that I've
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  Speaker 5: caught in games that I think would benefit in the ABS,
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  Speaker 5: and people will be so shocked at where your curveball lands.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think that's going to be a slight advantage
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  Speaker 5: for you this year because of how your curveball is
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  Speaker 5: not called at the bottom of the zone and how
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  Speaker 5: big of a brand and it's just a unique break.
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  Speaker 4: Do you feel like.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be an advantage for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it could be. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: a bigger advantage when they I think initially had didn't
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  Speaker 2: they They think they had the zone at the front
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  Speaker 2: of the plate right, and then guys bouncing the balls.
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  Speaker 2: Guys are bouncing balls. They were calling strikes, and then
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  Speaker 2: they drifted towards the medal. If there's that correct, just
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  Speaker 2: back a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Guys weren't bouncing the balls. You were bouncing the balls.
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  Speaker 5: Telling you there's nobody. There's nobody that was able to
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  Speaker 5: do it. Because I used to watch when I would
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  Speaker 5: when I would catch you, I'd look at what the
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  Speaker 5: machine says, and now the machine is what everybody's using.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, this is a strike. You lost that pitch.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm glad I caught it.
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  Speaker 2: Like yeah, especially in twenty sixteen when you were catching
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  Speaker 2: me because I threw like forty five per curve balls.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I could just nick a you know,
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  Speaker 2: nick the bottom bar there so we'll see I mean
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  Speaker 2: I again, like it's I don't know, I just I
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  Speaker 2: just felt like you with with the abs box. It
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  Speaker 2: feels so small, it feels like you're like, it feels
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  Speaker 2: like it's not the plate's not as wide. And the
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  Speaker 2: plate's not. I think it felt high. I think the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the zone felt higher for some reason to me,
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know. We'll see. Uh. I'm hoping it
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  Speaker 2: benefits me pretty good on the curveball this next year.
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  Speaker 2: But it was pretty heavy fastball last year, so.
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  Speaker 4: That's fair.
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  Speaker 1: So so, Drew, I wanted to ask you about the
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  Speaker 1: Angels more and the off season pickups. So what do
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  Speaker 1: you think of the rest of their offseason so far?
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  Speaker 1: It's not like I'm asking you to like give analysis
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  Speaker 1: on you know, the team and each pick, but more
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  Speaker 1: like they trade for Grayson Rodriguez, they pick up Alec Manoa,
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  Speaker 1: like these are names at most both baseball fans know
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  Speaker 1: and have either had big success or have big stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Even actually they just signed Kirby Yates as well. So
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to get your thoughts on some of these pitchers,
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  Speaker 1: whether you've watched them pitch or you've I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you cross paths with Yates at all, but and
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  Speaker 1: with the young guys, like what you what you would
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  Speaker 1: tell them, They're probably gonna come up to you, Like, well,
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  Speaker 1: even pitched the Bigs for three years, I've gone through
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  Speaker 1: some adversity pull up a chair, grab a beer.
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  Speaker 6: What you got for me?
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  Speaker 2: Drew? Yeah, I mean I've I've seen over the years,
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  Speaker 2: like guys they cycled back through guys. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was like some of the guys they did signed over
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  Speaker 2: the years. I've seen some of these other guys pitch.
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  Speaker 2: You know, again, we have there's a lot everyone's talented.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of talented guys. I played with Kirby
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  Speaker 2: in San Diego. We played together. You know, we have
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  Speaker 2: guys who've been around and done things, and Kirby's close games.
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  Speaker 2: Kirby's done a lot of back end stuff and he's
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  Speaker 2: a great pitcher. You know, I've I after one of
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  Speaker 2: the last interviews I called, Kurt called me. I told
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  Speaker 2: them the same thing I told a counsel before. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: you use me. I have no ego about this, Like
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  Speaker 2: I'm enjoying the game baseball, Like use me. However you
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  Speaker 2: need to use me, and if you need anything from me,
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  Speaker 2: just let me know. But you know that's that's my role.
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  Speaker 2: So whatever they need to do with me, And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've I was again being kind of familiar with I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't again. I was in spring training with the Angels
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. So there's a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: same guys that are still there, and there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of talent. There's a lot of talented guys there. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I know that you read stuff about them taking flyers
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  Speaker 2: on guys you know all the time. But again, these
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  Speaker 2: are talented baseball players. It's not like you know these people.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like we aren't good baseball players.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Every it's a it's a really talented team. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited to get in there, just bring training and meet
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  Speaker 2: some of the guys I don't know, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: get reconnected with some of the guys that do.
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  Speaker 3: How well, what what big? What? How big of a
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  Speaker 3: help was it? You have a relationship right with Mike Maddocks?
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  Speaker 3: Do you not the pitching coach that's there, And you
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: don't know Mike Maddocks. I thought you knew him him before.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: But was there familiarity somewhere with the staff other staff.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Members, I mean there was some before. I'm trying to
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: think I do know, uh what that that's the problem
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: is like I was with this team last year and
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: all the coaches changed.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: It happens happened by Bussy's still there, so I mean
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: you still have bus.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: And Bussy still there. You're right, I know Bussy, Darryl Scott,
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: I saw on the staff who I know from Colorado
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: when I was there back in the day. I'm sure
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: there's going to be more people. I mean, you know
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: guy Brady, Brady Anderson was around when I was with
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: in camp with them last year too, So there's a
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: lot of guys that are coming back through that I've
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: met at some point or another.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: Okay, so that's good. So you have a little bit
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: of familiar because I always thought that was one of
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: the strangest things as a free agent when you sign
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: with the team and you go in and you're.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: Like, I know nobody.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Maybe you might know a player or two right or
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: you know, and if you're lucky enough, you've had a
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: coach or somewhere else that you know. But if you
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: just go in there blind, you're like, I know nobody here.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Who do I talk to or do I hang out with?
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: What's where do I go?
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: And you've been with enough.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Teams now you've done it. But it's always strange when
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: you walk into a new clubhouse.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: No for sure, yeah, for sure, But again, we're all
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: in the same boat in a different place. But again, Ei,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: there's guys in the bullpen. I did all. I met
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Jordan Mono already, I did all my like physical stuff
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: with them. We did the same day. And I know Kirby.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: I know some of the other guys in the bullpen.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Stevenson I played catch with in twenty twenty four and
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: spring training every day, and you know, there's a hope
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: he was there. I know Darnauld. I met him this offseason,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: but I've obviously met him before, so I know a
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: lot of these guys. It's not you know, it's going
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: to be pretty easy walking in there. I think this time.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Go through last year with the Cubs.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: I'm always interested to know a team like that where
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: it's like, ah, you know, they made the move Tucker
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: Justin Steele goes down, Kate Horton comes comes in and
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: really solidifies himself. What was the feeling for you guys
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: going into the playoffs with a lot of things uncertainty
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: about Tucker, a guy that was your best hitter in
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: your lineup. Kate Horton obviously wasn't able to pitch and
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: that was a big detriment. What was the feeling in
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: the club casket? Was he talked to we talked to
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: Boyd earlier and you know, he's he's always he's positive, Matt,
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: So that's that's just that's just him. But what was
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: the true feeling when you guys were like, we're going
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: in we got to play a divisional opponent, like we
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: got this, and were you guys like we're going to
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: the World Series.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we were feeling great. I mean, you know, the
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Padres was I think they played They played before I
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: got there, so must have been earlier the season. So
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: going into that, you know, we were just going right
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: at it. And obviously the next round against Milwaukee we
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: played a good We played good against him all year
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: and had hit some back and forth in the second
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: half when they were on that hot streak. But we
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: felt really really confident going into that. I think the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: biggest thing obviously the Cad Horton stuff. The timing of that,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: you know, could have could have changed. But again, like
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: you know, Kate is, Kid's a gamer, and kid's a
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: great pitcher and he's gonna have a really good career.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: So obviously the timing of losing him was a big
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: piece of something we were kind of missing in the
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: playoffs last year, and that would have you know, I
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: think it could have helped push us over the top
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: in a much better place. But you know, you you
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: work with what you have, and we were confident going
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: in and we had a we had a great group
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: of guys. We were all really close. We all did
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: stuff together, hung out together, and we were just having
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: a good time. You know, we're you know, no matter
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: where we were, we go to you know, you go
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: to any road trip, we're always together. So we had
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of confidence rolling into the playoffs this year
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and we were just trying to keep that, keep that going.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I mean all the way into that Game five could
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: have gone either way. Obviously it didn't go in our favor,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: but it was it was pretty awesome.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, So now I want to ask you about moving
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: to the Angels here, Drew. This team hasn't been to
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the postseason in a minute. And before I ask my
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: question too, you have a ring, right? Did you win
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: a ring with Boston eight twenty eighteen.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, so you've got that checked off right. Great career.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Like you said, hey, you're focusing on where you're going
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: to be these days too, so you're near the fam.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: And all of that.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: The Angels bar is probably lower than some of the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: teams you've been a part of, just because Dan, they'd
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: be so happy to make the postseason. So I'm trying
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: to get kind of an answer out of you to
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: to see how you look at like the team goal
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: mindset with a club that hasn't even been to the postseason. Sure,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: every player wants to win the World Series heading to
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the year, but like when you look at how long
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: it's been and one of your upcoming teammates might trout
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: not being part of the postseason for a long time,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: is that part of what drives you with a team
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: like this, aside from individually trying to be the best
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: that you can out of the bullpen?
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I I think that obviously everyone's goal
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: is to make to the postseason. I think that there's
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: different different ways teams are put together and different ways
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: you're able to put teams together. And I think that
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes you know, you never know it could
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: happen year to year. You know, there's, like I said,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: there's enough talent on this team to do to do
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: what or we need to do. Everyone obviously, you know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: depends on the health of everybody can really dictate which
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: way the season goes. I think that you know, you know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: the coaching staff, you know, guys are being brought in.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I think that can help help you get everyone moving
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: in the right direction. But again, it's the goal of
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: everybody to be in the playoffs. So you know, I
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: think that we'll you know, we'll see when we get
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: there and get everyone together. But you know, I think
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: everyone's going to be working towards that same same goal
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: because you know, even if you're if you haven't individual
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: goals to be good, it still should collectively be to
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: win games together. And if everyone can just stay on
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: the field and stay healthy and just grind games out,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I think I think any team could make the postseason.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: To be honest, Yeah, we need we need my try
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs. Let's let's let's before we need him
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: back and so Drew help him get.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Back to the playoffs.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Please ask my question, please we need him great Drew,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: before we let you go, do you know what tomorrow is?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Do you know what happens tomorrow?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I do know what happens tomorrow night, because I'll be there.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're going. That was gonna be my next explain
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: to everybody what's happening tomorrow night for you.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: There is a very large football game happening in Phoenix, Arizona,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Ole Miss versus Miami. I should have done this from live.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I should have done this interview live from there. I
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: mean that would have been much.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Scott went to Miami. Can we get a little wager.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: On the game?
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we need something's got to happen here.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: What do you want?
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know. You tell me, you guys are the
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: team spot and my team sucks, so I can't say no.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I think, I think, I don't know. I don't know
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: what you're gonna make me do. But I feel like
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: you should have to wear an old Miss jersey if
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: if all Miss wins on a show.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: Okay, and then we need him to wear Miami.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Wear one the spring training one.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's that's the way to do it, right,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: that's a fair trade off.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: If you guys come through, I'll wear it that day
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's absolutely.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: We'll be in Arizona, so okay, absolutely, virtual handshake on
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that virtual there you go.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: I'll have my old Miss jersey. That a j will
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: be happy to buy for me.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: And can I get you a Lane Kiff in Jersey.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: You can get.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Whatever whatever you want and then I'll get a Miami
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Jersey sent to you.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Can about the Yeah, that might not fit him. He's
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: that's a real side one.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Can make.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: A j can make bussy get me a jersey?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: The Devin Hester one is like a uh, the Midrid.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Don know, it's the crap little thing.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: We need to see that.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: We'll get you that chewed up shoot up bubble gum,
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: that chewed up bubble gum, pitch your body. We need
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: to see that in a in a in a cut
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: off Miami Jersey.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: No, nobody needs to see that.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: That's for sure.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: The well the game. That's awesome. Thanks for joining us.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck to your squad, and yes, we will,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: hopefully for my case, see.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: You in spring training with the Hurricanes Jersey.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, appreciate you.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Thanks Drew.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: So, Drew is part of the Angels and the Halo
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Territory Show is part of the Ft Network.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: They mentioned Drew the other day in the debut episode.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Mike Di Giovanna and former Angels basher Mark Trumbo talking
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: about what the new look Bullpen is going to bring
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to the table Angels. Bullpen, by the way, was ranked
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: towards the bottom last year, and they made some nice
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: pickups here Drew, I just talked about Kirby Yates, so
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: we can get into but anyway, they'll cover all of that.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: So check out Halo Territory part of the ft net.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: We're trying.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: They're trying.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Yes, it feels like I'd like to see one big
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: position player move too. But again, they talked about Bellinger
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: on there, you talked about Boba Schett.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I'd like to see one big star picture slash bullpen
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: guy in these two.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I think they could be in play for Gino Suarez
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: as well. There's another third baseman that could be added
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to the mix. I mean some my gosh, there was
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: one Angels fan on online who was talking about bringing
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Yon Mancatta back, who actually was fine when he was playing,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: but he can't stay on the field. But someone was like,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: bear with me, like if he's healthy, like he was
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: pretty good.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: I'm like, but he's.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Never Who was Jerry? This was Jerry on the chat.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, had two hundred and eighty
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: nine played appearances this year.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: So since he's been in the minor leagues since he
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: got traded from the rest.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: He had he had one good year.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I'm a pass on Yon Mancatta back for the Angels.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: If I'm the Angels and you want to and I
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: know this sounds kind of silly, but you just got
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: rid of Brendone. Put someone in there that's going to
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: like play every day and just be the It's.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: That's like the high end.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: But I'm saying, but I'm like, you need you need
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: a Dirk Dog ballbuster. Yes, guy that can go in
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: there and show netto Christian Moore, Shana Well, Joe Adell,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: those still younger guys like this is how a big
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: league veteran is supposed to go about it. I know
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: they have Trout, the Trout's been banged up a little bit.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: He's not really a guy that's gonna They need a
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: guy that.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Will stir it up, right, I mean, Bregmant is that.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: But I'm saying, unlikely they're going to be playing ball
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: for bred.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I know, but he would an ideal world, he'd be
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: a really good.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: They're probably here's what's probably going to happen. They're probably going.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: To trade for Arnado and make the Cardinals eat ninety
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: eight percent of the contract or something.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: But if I because shows.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: Up every day, yeah, like he will, Yeah, he'll say
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: shows Yeah.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: He's a hustler. He will set a tone over at
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: third base. And I think Geno Suarez would do that too,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: though plays every day. He's really like always race high
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: as a clubhouse guy, or he's playing with him, either
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: of those guys. I just I want to see something
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: like that over at third base, to be like, hey,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the stain of what that was with the Rendon mess
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: is over.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: You need, yes, you need somebody to not only let
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: the fans and the people, but the players like kind
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: of turn the page, as someone said, turn the page.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: M h.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: I love I love some of their young core.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: And I think if you're a veteran guy on a
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: one year deal or even like an Aeronado, like go
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: to California, you get to play with Trout, like Trout
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: is still as much as people are like, oh, he's
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: injured all this stuff, like he's still like he's an anomaly.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: You you you want to. I feel like some guys
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: still want to play with him. They want to see
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: what he's about Joe Adele had a great year. Obviously
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: defensively he needs some help. Netto supposedly has that. Aura
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: ran Hifo had a down year, but the year before
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: he was awesome. Shane Well's like Mark Grace, like, I.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: Just agent all right?
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Hefo is gone, Yeah, I think do your research. Scott,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: you're gonna have blown up in the chat.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: No, no, my bad, my bad. I hit two o
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: nine in the big leagues. What am I talking about?
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: I'm an idiot.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: Why'd you say do my research?
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Because there's a guy in the chat that you just
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: keep saying, Oh, do your research. We're trying to cover
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: seven hundred thousand players at the same time. Sorry if
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: we get.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: Some stuff confused, what what did we mess up?
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Nothing? Don't worry about. It's not worth your time.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I heard you've been getting like this is a day.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Some days I'm really in the chat, some days I'm
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: really not.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Today's my day in the chat.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm free agent right here.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: It's a free agent.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. It's trying to keep up with seven hundred
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I mean literally a thousand players and everyone that's a
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: free agent, especially on teams that we don't listen, no
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: offense to the Angels, but we don't talk about them
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: as much because they haven't been good.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: No.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I mean it's a national show. We cover all thirty teams,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: but we don't cover them all equally. We cover them
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: based on the news that breaks and the big games.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: So you're going to cover the playoff teams more. Yes,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I think that's all.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: That's all fair.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Baseball is definitely one of the more difficult sports to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: keep up with. It's actually why it prevents some casual
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: fans from really being involved if you're not watching every
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: day and the transactions. Yeah right, Like most people, you
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: have a casual combo. You want to talk about Lebron,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: you want to talk about some quarterbacks in the NFL,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: like you can bs without knowing a lot baseball.
• 29:17
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• 29:20
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• 29:24
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• 29:27
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