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Carlos Narváez and Payton Tolle join FT at Red Sox camp · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Wow, welcome to foul Territory, a player's only addition.
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Speaker 2: Today we kicked all the nerds out, Eric Kraftz, Todd Frazier,
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Speaker 2: We said, Scott beat it, Alana beat it, Tricia beat it.
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Speaker 2: Any other guest host we had beat it. It's players only.
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Speaker 2: Players get to run the show today. So welcome to
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Speaker 2: foul Territory. And we figured we might as well start
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Speaker 2: with the player in Carlos Narvaias from the Boston Red
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Speaker 2: So so, Carlos, welcome to the players of the only addition.
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Speaker 1: You can say whatever you want.
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Speaker 3: I thank you, guys, love love this opportunity to talk
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Speaker 3: with players, like, uh for my guys, I watch you play.
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Speaker 3: I watched Eric play. Eric probably don't remember I was
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Speaker 3: with him in when he was with the Yankees. I
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Speaker 3: was so young I was. I always remember you, bro,
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Speaker 3: when you throw a ball like this, like like like
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Speaker 3: ninety fifts, just it's trying to thrown problem. It was
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Speaker 3: like this A wo you got, I mean they got
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Speaker 3: has a kind of.
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Speaker 4: Uh. No, he was nice.
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Speaker 5: He was nice to you because I went down No
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Speaker 5: it's not you don't look in the mirror, looking the screen,
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Speaker 5: but I went down to the minor league side with
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Speaker 5: with the catching coordinator. We were we were doing workouts
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Speaker 5: with all you guys. I remember all you Chiquitos. They
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Speaker 5: were all there, just the babies.
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Speaker 4: That's nice, that'n' nice. That's good.
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Speaker 1: Did you buy your dinner? Did you buy your sandwich?
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Speaker 3: No, you stuck to me, but that you want to Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
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Speaker 4: How are you feeling feeling good? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Back back spasms?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was, But I was like a couple of
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Speaker 3: days ago. That was only for like one day, two days.
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Speaker 3: That's it. It was just I was doing my lifting.
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Speaker 3: I felt something, But no, I think graceport.
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Speaker 1: Right now, like you're doing.
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Speaker 4: I was dumping. Actually I know I was doing. Don't
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Speaker 4: jump by the way, Yeah, but we had to.
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Speaker 3: I was doing squads and then jump, trying to trying
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Speaker 3: to gain more more high So I don't know. I
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Speaker 3: just I just felt when I went down. I was
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Speaker 3: of that day. So that was before the Puerto Rico game,
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Speaker 3: so I just felt that. Didn't went off for the
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Speaker 3: next day and then I was find the day after.
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Speaker 5: Making your debut later than say other starting catchers make
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Speaker 5: their debuts, being older, do you look at it as
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Speaker 5: I'm still young in the game, or do you look
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Speaker 5: at it as I'm a veterano, like I'm older than
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Speaker 5: most of these guys, no matter how many years of
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Speaker 5: service you have.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't since last year I started a
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Speaker 3: lot of things. This guy is a rookie. I never
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Speaker 3: seen myself as a rookie, even though I mean, of course,
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Speaker 3: with all their respect to everybody, But as soon as
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Speaker 3: the game started, like I'm saying, as everybody, that's my mindset.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I think that held me a lot, especially early on
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Speaker 3: the season last year when I started playing every day,
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Speaker 3: I know I had to do it.
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Speaker 4: I got to lead away from my pitcher.
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Speaker 3: So I never never see myself like as a rookie,
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Speaker 3: don't matter how how time I was in the game,
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Speaker 3: It's just okay. As soon as the game started, everybody
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Speaker 3: is the same. That's my mindset.
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Speaker 1: I love that.
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Speaker 6: I think that's a perfect way of going about it.
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Speaker 6: Just calm your mindset down. Less is more. I want
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Speaker 6: to talk a little about your pitching staff here. You
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Speaker 6: got a couple of new guys, Sonny Gray, Rangers, Suarez,
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Speaker 6: the name a few. Talk a little about have you
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Speaker 6: been acclimated with them? Have you caught them and and
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Speaker 6: what do you see from those guys moving forward?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, super exciting for those additions. I think the picture
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Speaker 3: stuff last last year was amazing. You see the numbers
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Speaker 3: throughout all those three guys. You guys is gonna it's
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Speaker 3: gonna help us big time. Sonny rander Ov. We just
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Speaker 3: he just came by a couple of seconds ago. I
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Speaker 3: think they're they're gonna be great. Uh like the stuff
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Speaker 3: that they have. Everyone everyone is different, uh, I mean
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Speaker 3: round your he he got a pitch. You know, he's
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Speaker 3: changed up there. Everything involved you got, you got song
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Speaker 3: is kind of kind of the same way. But righty,
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Speaker 3: you know, like they're being they're being in the lead
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Speaker 3: for a while and you you see their their leadership too,
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Speaker 3: you know, so we we open to everything. You know,
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Speaker 3: like he's both of them is being amazing obvious. It's
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Speaker 3: a different guy. It's a big dude. He he got
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Speaker 3: he got a lead fast. Weall he go after hitters.
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Speaker 4: You know. So everyone's different.
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Speaker 3: But like the pictures start being amazing, the coaching styt
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Speaker 3: being amazing since last year. I mean I just got
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Speaker 3: here last year. So but like those three guys is
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Speaker 3: gonna it's gonna help us big time. The pictures the
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Speaker 3: starting pitchers leading by bye bye by Garrett and the
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Speaker 3: relievers guy leading by by by Chappie, two of the
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Speaker 3: best guys in the lead right now. And I just,
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Speaker 3: I mean myself just being behind the play for them.
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Speaker 3: I just, I just I just feel proud to be.
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Speaker 1: Honest, Carlos is your favorite guy to catch?
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Speaker 5: I cannot say that, yes, no, no, you have to
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Speaker 5: the answer is whoever's starting.
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Speaker 4: That day exactly, whoever is on them.
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Speaker 2: Like you also got to have a little bit towards
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Speaker 2: Crochet because he is the guy with the big money
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Speaker 2: and the number one No.
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Speaker 3: No, not even for that, just just just the season
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Speaker 3: he put last year. I mean just being behind the
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Speaker 3: diach for him after a season he was, I mean
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Speaker 3: running up in the side young Ward, Like, I just
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Speaker 3: feel proud, I know all the coraage for him.
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Speaker 1: Anything.
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Speaker 4: Yes, but Chappy did what Chappy get you?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Choppy did arolics for you, for him, for me, for
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Speaker 3: for for a corner that.
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Speaker 1: Was what color?
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Speaker 4: It's like a rose bowl?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, my first one.
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Speaker 5: That's that's that's gonna be my question. Two absolute monsters
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Speaker 5: Gigante's Giants, Garret croset Eradus Chapman who wins in a fight?
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Speaker 3: Oh man, I think I think bro because Chappy had
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Speaker 3: a skinny legs, so he goes with the legs and
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Speaker 3: he got.
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Speaker 8: Bigger than all.
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Speaker 3: Yeah it is, but I mean you just your kick
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Speaker 3: your legs and he probably don't.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you're not gonna you're not gonna let chap you here,
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Speaker 1: that Chappy.
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Speaker 7: The boxer.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we always yog about that.
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Speaker 2: It's cool, that's funny, that's funny. What today, Ovieto you
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Speaker 2: mentioned starting Sonny's here? Have you caught Sonny yet?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Sonny and when we were working together last two houris
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Speaker 3: and now is.
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Speaker 2: He he's a crazy routine right, Yeah, he's he got
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Speaker 2: he got crazier thing.
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Speaker 3: He's a guy you gotta be on the on the
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Speaker 3: on the same page with you gotta you gotta be
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Speaker 3: with him.
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Speaker 4: You gotta be in his mind.
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Speaker 3: You know, he always followed the game, always need thinking
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Speaker 3: on the next pitch, So you've got to be on
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Speaker 3: the same page with him. Like he got multiple pitches,
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Speaker 3: you know, so he got it now with the pitch
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Speaker 3: con So you gotta you.
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Speaker 4: Gotta click early. You know what I mean, as soon as.
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Speaker 3: I catch a ball at try back, I'm calling the
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Speaker 3: next you miss?
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Speaker 1: Do you miss mistake?
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Speaker 3: You make mistakes the first one, the first one a
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Speaker 3: little bit because he's the guy you need to set
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Speaker 3: up for you, I mean, you know about it, like,
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Speaker 3: so you gotta be you gotta be a little more
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Speaker 3: focused on pitch by pitch with him. So that's the
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Speaker 3: only difference. But he's great, bro. His pitch, his his
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Speaker 3: breaking ball stuff is his money, you know. So he's different.
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Speaker 3: Like I say, every guy, every guy in the and
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Speaker 3: the starting in the center rotation has a different pictures,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 4: So he's definitely different one.
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Speaker 3: But like I said, he's he's great and like I said,
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Speaker 3: he's gonna be He's gonna be really good for us.
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Speaker 7: You mentioned Gary Crochet before.
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Speaker 5: Is he working on anything new this spring, because when
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Speaker 5: you were this run around for the cy Young you're like, Okay,
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Speaker 5: maybe I can just stick with what I got Or
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Speaker 5: is he working on something that you're like, oh, I
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Speaker 5: can't wait till we break this out During the season.
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Speaker 3: He's working on on the on the splitter. He wants
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Speaker 3: to add that one a little more this year. But
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Speaker 3: like I said, like if you see that season last year.
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Speaker 3: I don't think that's much you can change, you know.
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Speaker 3: So he's going to continue to to do what what
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Speaker 3: what he does, uh with his trends, but he adding
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Speaker 3: a little more just split hopefully he's he's working on it,
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Sometimes it's really good. Sometimes
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Speaker 3: still there's still a lot of work to do. But
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Speaker 3: like I said, he's he's definitely one involve that pitch
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Speaker 3: a little more this year.
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Speaker 2: But he's gonna be one of those guys that says, oh,
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Speaker 2: splitter look good, and then the season comes, he throws
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Speaker 2: it and he beats you.
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Speaker 1: You and Wong are up back there in bullpens.
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Speaker 2: He's bouncing it, and then the season comes, he's no,
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go back to what I was doing.
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Speaker 1: Fastball, cutter, slider.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I mean probably, but that's why Springs whin
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Speaker 3: Springs training. You know, he's working on it. We got time.
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Speaker 3: He's been working on that pitch last four weeks. So,
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Speaker 3: like I said, he's in is in a better shape.
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Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a volleyball pitch. Like
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Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm thinking like paying ten percent again
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Speaker 3: probably like that, you know, what I mean means a
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Speaker 3: little bit because of course, like everybody knows guy right,
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Speaker 3: you know, everybody knows how he how he's gonna attack here.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know, we may gonna adjust a little
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Speaker 3: bit with that pitch. But like I said, strange is
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Speaker 3: gonna be. It's gonna be the same.
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Speaker 6: World Baseball Classic. I'm sure you've been watching a little bit.
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Speaker 6: I'm sure maybe one day you would love to play
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Speaker 6: for a team Venezuela. I think that'd be awesome. What
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Speaker 6: do you think about it? How do you how do
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Speaker 6: you see Team Venezuela? Their chance is moving forward?
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Speaker 7: Here?
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Speaker 4: I mean actually I was.
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Speaker 3: I was Wednesday and the game that I mean the
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Speaker 3: atmost for it was went to the game I went
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Speaker 3: to again because we had off the here, so I went, uh,
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Speaker 3: I see that game in live, you know. So of course,
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Speaker 3: like I wanted to at some point, and that's that's
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Speaker 3: one of my my check book dreams. But I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I think I think the time will come. This year
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Speaker 3: I wasn't enabled because the insurance, so but I think
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Speaker 3: in the future, hopefully in the next one will be there.
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean, The I mean putting putting
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Speaker 3: putting Venezuela yees for me is one of my dreams,
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Speaker 3: so hopefully that will come in the future.
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Speaker 4: I mean, the team right now looks bazing.
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Speaker 3: Of course that game Dominican was ahead, got a big
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Speaker 3: big names in that lineup, Like I say, they got
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Speaker 3: they got. They got Japan tomorrow probably one of the best,
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Speaker 3: the best.
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Speaker 4: Team out there. So it's gonna be interesting.
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Speaker 3: But I think the next game is gonna be huge
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Speaker 3: if they win Japan, he got got a lot of
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Speaker 3: chance to win that, to win that team.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so I have to call the game tomorrow night,
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Speaker 2: Japan Venezuela game on Fox and the Fox won half.
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Speaker 2: Start your free seven day trial. Who am I watching
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Speaker 2: it for Venezuela. Who's pitching tomorrow for Venezuela.
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Speaker 4: You're doing it?
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Speaker 1: Can you give them? Can he give them five against Japan?
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Speaker 1: And then who can come down?
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: They got a really good relievers, young guys. They got
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Speaker 3: a little relievers strowing guys. Bro everybody's throwing guys. That's
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Speaker 3: that's one of the most impressive things to me watching
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Speaker 3: the game from both sides. Venezuela got every every liver
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Speaker 3: throwing ninety seven plus I'm from Dominican, you know, you
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Speaker 3: know ninety eight plus, So that's that's fun to watch.
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Speaker 3: But I think, hopefully, hopefully Ranger got the change up
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Speaker 3: going and it's going to be a lead.
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Speaker 2: So if if I'm at the game, which I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: be at the game tomorrow night, you're gonna come to
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Speaker 2: the game to our night.
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Speaker 4: Probably now we go. I got you Sunday, you seeing
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Speaker 4: you know late day. That was good. I just wanted
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Speaker 4: to I just wanted to see that game. Man. That's
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Speaker 4: good enough. Hopefully in the Nest one I will playing.
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Speaker 1: So Okay, look, it's one of the greatest atmospheres. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: In twenty three I was at the US Venezuela let
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Speaker 2: be final. Sorry to bring it up, but it was
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Speaker 2: an atmosphere.
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Speaker 3: Tell everybody might be it's amazing. Even even you can
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Speaker 3: fill that energy in the city. I was around earlier
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Speaker 3: in the day and everybody was okay about the game,
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Speaker 3: And of course we got into a game. I like
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Speaker 3: traffic everywhere, like, I mean, the city got crazy.
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Speaker 4: That's awesome.
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Speaker 2: That's awesome, Carlos, thank you for joining us here. Thank you,
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Speaker 2: Sox Camp today. Let's check out the calendar. You see,
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Speaker 2: we've already done Arizona Crush that one. Then we did
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Speaker 2: Southeast Florida, Jupiter Port, Saint Lucy Palm Beach.
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Speaker 1: Now we're doing the Southwest side.
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Speaker 2: We're here in Red Sox Camp and then next week Lakeland,
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Speaker 2: which is beautiful this time of the year, I hear.
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Speaker 2: And then we're going to the Tampa area Bradenton on
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Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's Stak crafts Wear you're a green hat, and
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Speaker 2: then the Blue Jays and we end up in the Phillies.
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Speaker 2: But we're back here at Red Sox Camp now with
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Speaker 2: the young lefty Hayton totally watch you throw a bullpen.
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Speaker 7: Does the little uh?
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Speaker 1: Does the little thing that they have there distract you?
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Speaker 9: Thing for the catcher, I try try not to be
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Speaker 9: distracted by it. I think it's good whenever we're heading
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Speaker 9: into shake, so that's.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean you're hitting the corners.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think a good pitch. I think so.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a good little tool to use.
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Speaker 9: You know, we use it today just to try to
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Speaker 9: be in zone and well about fifty fifty on that today.
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Speaker 1: But shouldn't you be better than that? Absolutely?
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Speaker 8: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, definitely should be better kind of it
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Speaker 8: wasn't my best work.
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Speaker 1: Do you think it distracts a catcher though? Too? Is
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Speaker 1: with with Kratz and me on here two catchers touch?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I thought I didn't care. Was like me swung and everything,
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Speaker 2: but you know the connects back there. They got these
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Speaker 2: little strings and they're bouncing all around crowds.
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Speaker 8: Like, yeah, is it you did They didn't do that?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it's it's innovating innovation that excites.
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Speaker 7: They did it. They did it.
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Speaker 5: We did it back in two thousand and nine and
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Speaker 5: twenty ten Joe Kerrigan set except he didn't do Like
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Speaker 5: I was watching behind behind where our setup is.
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Speaker 7: You guys have like a square.
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Speaker 5: We had just a string that they ran across the
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Speaker 5: entire bullpen. So it was like two or three guys
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Speaker 5: that were doing it. Yeah, it's distracting. It hits it
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Speaker 5: and you're like I never saw one hit it, and
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Speaker 5: like go anywhere the string's too thin.
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Speaker 7: But yeah, it's distracted, but I got add Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The other thing is that they had the the plastic
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Speaker 2: guy that stands there, you know, they hate that, the
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Speaker 2: fake dude that stands there, and someone.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't you that threw one.
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Speaker 2: It was there was another lefty throwing, uh Sikama, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that always say his name Sycamo throwing. And the poor
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Speaker 2: catcher he threw one in in the right handed fake
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Speaker 2: batter and it hit it and he could catcher like
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Speaker 2: jumped out of the way because he was afraid it
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Speaker 2: was gonna smoke him in the ribs.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Those things don't dodge. They don't dodge out of the way.
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Speaker 1: But I DK today.
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Speaker 7: So does it help you? Does it help you though?
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Speaker 5: Because I hated it as a catcher, not the one
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Speaker 5: that hit the plastic dummy, the one that ticks off
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Speaker 5: it and you go to catch it and then it
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Speaker 5: catches me in the neck.
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Speaker 7: But does it help you as a picture?
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Speaker 4: Uh?
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Speaker 8: I think sometimes it can.
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Speaker 9: It just gives another like visual aid, so you're not
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Speaker 9: just it's not running blind into games with it. A
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Speaker 9: little bit of a you can kind of maybe like
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Speaker 9: break a curveball off of the guy's elbow or something
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Speaker 9: like that. So it's it can help guys. I like,
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Speaker 9: I like sitting the lefty in there to try to
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Speaker 9: have some like staying closed into it.
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Speaker 8: But it does help. It's good visual aid.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think all this talk about what to do,
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Speaker 6: how we're doing it, all these different techniques, I want
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Speaker 6: to ask you personally, what in spring training coming into
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Speaker 6: this year right now? I know you have your off
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Speaker 6: scene and planning, but what is your main goal and
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Speaker 6: focus on, not only you know, throwing wise, but for
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Speaker 6: yourself too as well coming into this season.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I think it's per on the pitching side thing.
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Speaker 8: It's been a lot of off speed.
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Speaker 9: We saw last year that we can get by with fastballs,
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Speaker 9: but as everybody on this call knows, big league hitters
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Speaker 9: can hit fastballs, so we need some way to protect that.
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Speaker 9: And so for me, it's been a lot of curveballs,
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Speaker 9: a lot of change ups, just trying to add wrinkles
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Speaker 9: to guys. But yeah, I mean it's trying to not
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Speaker 9: have any expectations for this year, just trying to take
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Speaker 9: it in the day at a time, because it can
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Speaker 9: be really easy to get caught up in where we
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Speaker 9: think we should land where everything should line up for us,
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Speaker 9: But just trying to take it one day at a time.
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Speaker 9: And it's been a trying to do my best at
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Speaker 9: staying where my feet are, although it can be tough sometimes,
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Speaker 9: but yeah, it's just trying to block out the noise
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Speaker 9: and focus on what I can that day.
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Speaker 5: All Right, you said big lead hitters can hit fastballs,
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Speaker 5: and yet every single place that we look at it's
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Speaker 5: like you got to.
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Speaker 7: Throw your fastball harder, gotta throw it harder.
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Speaker 5: And now you're sitting here as a guy who went
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Speaker 5: from being on our show last year in Higa too
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Speaker 5: being in the big leagues, do you feel like too
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Speaker 5: much ownership or too much time is spent on how
16:32
Speaker 5: hard can I throw this fastball? Because now you're like,
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Speaker 5: I want to stick in the big leagues, I gotta
16:36
Speaker 5: be spin this breaking ball a different way.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I think that Villo is king right now,
16:43
Speaker 9: but I think it's a lot of guys are different.
16:46
Speaker 9: For me, the Villo is a thing that I want
16:48
Speaker 9: to continue to work on, continue to build on. But
16:52
Speaker 9: like you're saying, like you need to have spin in
16:54
Speaker 9: order to pitch well, you can't be one dimensional out there,
16:58
Speaker 9: So I think it's good, especially like coming up through
17:03
Speaker 9: the organization of trying to throw harder each and every outing.
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Speaker 9: It was a good mindset change for me of like
17:09
Speaker 9: going out there and like you said, pr on every
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Speaker 9: pitch and so it's gonna help the villa, will help
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Speaker 9: the off speeds get better. But now it's like, okay,
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Speaker 9: maintained velocity and also uh, be.
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Speaker 8: Able to spin it and get into the zone.
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Speaker 1: I mean, did you learn all this in those like
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Speaker 1: four hard months?
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Speaker 2: You grind it through the minor leagues and crafts. I
17:31
Speaker 2: mean this guy here, he's a grinder. I mean he
17:34
Speaker 2: was in the motogrinder grind. You got all this wisdom?
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Speaker 1: And what was that like?
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Speaker 2: Drafted in twenty four? Did you play? You played at all?
17:44
Speaker 2: In twenty four?
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Speaker 8: I had one fcl inning, So you do one.
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Speaker 2: Inning, So one inning technically has parts of two years
17:51
Speaker 2: in the minor league grind. And the next thing you know,
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Speaker 2: it was August. Right, You're in the big lea pitching
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Speaker 2: for the Red Sox at then.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it was an absolute whirlwind of a year or
18:00
Speaker 9: sixteen months whatever it was, but.
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Speaker 8: It was it was a lot of fun. It was
18:05
Speaker 8: to meet a lot of new people.
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Speaker 2: So that's that was you know, everyone from a ball
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Speaker 2: double A all the way up to the big leagues.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, this spring training has been great.
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Speaker 9: I haven't really introduced myself to a whole lot of
18:15
Speaker 9: new people. So it's you know, the minor league gys,
18:18
Speaker 9: so I got I got boys everywhere, so I'm it's
18:20
Speaker 9: it's helped me out a lot of feel pretty comfortable
18:23
Speaker 9: with everybody, so it's all, you know everyone's name, we're close.
18:26
Speaker 9: So there's a couple of like new draft guys that
18:28
Speaker 9: I think I've introduced myself three times too, and it's like,
18:32
Speaker 9: well now that.
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Speaker 8: Just makes me look like a complete tool of But
18:37
Speaker 8: they're looking at you.
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Speaker 2: Look at this veteran Peyton totally walked up to me.
18:40
Speaker 2: Guys introduced himself to me. Look at this, he's a
18:43
Speaker 2: big league start.
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Speaker 8: It was the third time introducing himself to me.
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Speaker 1: You at least you introduced yourself to Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it's iron of course last year being
18:53
Speaker 9: in their shoes, it can be uh, it can be intimidating,
18:56
Speaker 9: but trying to I don't.
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Speaker 8: I try to spread the love too.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: Todd and I spend a lot of time in the
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Speaker 2: minor league is not as much as Kratz right, Todd,
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Speaker 2: We grinded through the minor league, but we're not quite
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Speaker 2: on Peyton's level.
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Speaker 1: Is how quick we could get there.
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Speaker 6: No no doubt and sorry Kratzy you were You went
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Speaker 6: up there as quick as possible. Absolutely incredible, all joke,
19:16
Speaker 6: all joking aside.
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Speaker 8: I want, I want, I.
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Speaker 6: Want the people to get to know you a little
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Speaker 6: bit here. I know you look like a fun loving guy.
19:22
Speaker 6: Tell me your likes, your dislikes, Like, what do you
19:25
Speaker 6: do off season stuff? Talk a little bitout about you
19:28
Speaker 6: as a person non baseball life.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I like people a lot.
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Speaker 9: I like whenever I'm in the off season, I get
19:35
Speaker 9: my workouts done in the morning and then it's it's
19:37
Speaker 9: off to go hang out with dad, girlfriend, you know,
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Speaker 9: just high school buddies, whatever it is, like just I
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Speaker 9: like hanging out with people, but I like food a lot.
19:47
Speaker 9: My greatest accomplishment of all time was conquering a seventy
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Speaker 9: two out steak out there in Ambrillo, Texas.
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Speaker 8: Uh, I'll brag about it. It was pretty cool.
19:56
Speaker 1: Like John Canny, he wasn't born then the big.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I forgot, what did you want a free T shirt?
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Speaker 8: A T shirt and the name on the wall. That's
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Speaker 8: all I got.
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Speaker 1: Did they at least get a picture? I got a
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Speaker 1: picture of You have to have a bone in it?
20:10
Speaker 1: Or is it just the whole?
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Speaker 8: That's the whole thing.
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Speaker 9: It's just the No, I'm not a factor. I probably
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Speaker 9: roasted for that, but not a big fact. You don't
20:19
Speaker 9: need to eat all the fat. There's not a lot
20:21
Speaker 9: on it, but you don't need to eat all of it.
20:23
Speaker 9: So thick sauce tried to stay away from it. But
20:26
Speaker 9: it gets to a point where you're eating. You get
20:29
Speaker 9: to about the third pound of.
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Speaker 1: The steak, and it's like, yeah, you got Is there
20:31
Speaker 1: a time limit?
20:32
Speaker 8: An hour?
20:33
Speaker 1: Holy crap?
20:34
Speaker 8: How long?
20:35
Speaker 7: How would it.
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Speaker 4: Takes you to do it?
20:37
Speaker 8: Fifty minutes and fifty one seconds?
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Speaker 7: He knows it was this your first try?
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Speaker 8: No, I actually my sophomore year of high school. I
20:50
Speaker 8: did it.
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Speaker 9: I only got sixty five ounces of it down. But
20:52
Speaker 9: the roll in the big potato they get in the way.
20:54
Speaker 9: You got to do that too, roll salad, it's the
20:58
Speaker 9: whole nine yards.
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Speaker 7: Oh man, how did you feel after you were done?
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Speaker 4: Not?
21:05
Speaker 8: Great?
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Speaker 9: It took about twenty minutes and uh, pull over to
21:08
Speaker 9: the side of the road.
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Speaker 8: But after that I felt great.
21:12
Speaker 7: Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: Anyways, we had Alex cor earlier on here. He's rocking
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Speaker 2: his Puerto Rico sweatir with the blonde hair. Do you
21:20
Speaker 2: still have USA shaved in your chest?
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Speaker 1: Sadly?
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Speaker 9: No, it got a little bit itchy and like gave
21:25
Speaker 9: the whole thing I did. Yeah, we started fresh, and
21:29
Speaker 9: yeah that I'm not going to blame that Italy game
21:34
Speaker 9: on me, but it might be my fall just for
21:36
Speaker 9: not just staying patriotic. But yeah, every time I looked
21:40
Speaker 9: in the mirror, I was liked, which is a little
21:44
Speaker 9: She loved it. I'm pretty sure she said she did.
21:48
Speaker 9: It was partly her idea, so but it was, uh yeah,
21:51
Speaker 9: it was one of those look in the miroric. You know,
21:54
Speaker 9: maybe this is getting a little weird.
21:57
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
21:57
Speaker 2: Well, we're all rooting for USA on this show, and
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Speaker 2: I know you're clearly rooting for that Pyton totally.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, appreciate it. Here a Red Sox
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Speaker 1: camp and we'll be right back on foul Territory