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FT at Twins camp: Manager Rocco Baldelli, Ty France · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: You know, I knew knew a group of guys here.
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  Speaker 2: I knew they were a good team, winning environment, and
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  Speaker 2: saw a lot of opportunity for me to come and
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  Speaker 2: help this team.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go, Rocoball Dalley joining us right now live
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  Speaker 3: from Twins Camp. Rocco, good morning, great to see you.
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  Speaker 3: How's the last week and a half year going of
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  Speaker 3: camp before you get the real games going? And are
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  Speaker 3: you excited when you see the games in Tokyo this
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  Speaker 3: morning because that'll be your team, not in Japan but
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  Speaker 3: in a week and a half.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good morning, guys. The camp's gone really well. Got
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  Speaker 4: a great energy and mix of guys in our camp
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  Speaker 4: that many of them have been through these spring trainings before.
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  Speaker 4: They know what they're all about. They know they're about
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  Speaker 4: getting to the season in the best possible form with
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  Speaker 4: the right feel of the club. But our clubs come
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  Speaker 4: together really well. One thing we did was we got
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  Speaker 4: our guys out there on the field to play in
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  Speaker 4: more games, get more at bats, beyond their feet, more
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  Speaker 4: to try to get them, you know, mentally and physically
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  Speaker 4: as ready to go as possible as opposed to the
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  Speaker 4: slight you know, sometimes it almost feels like a slow
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  Speaker 4: play almost at the beginning of camp these days. But
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  Speaker 4: we we set that aside and got ready to work,
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  Speaker 4: and all the players have they've taken to it, especially
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  Speaker 4: the veteran players, which was great to see they were
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  Speaker 4: ready to go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to That's actually a great place to start.
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  Speaker 6: That was actually my first question, you know, just coming
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  Speaker 6: through as a young guy coming up.
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  Speaker 5: It was all about you know, I watched Pooh Hoosts.
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  Speaker 6: I watch so many veteran guys seventy five at bats
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  Speaker 6: nearing screen training and really try to get their feet
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  Speaker 6: up under him because there's no way to really simulate
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  Speaker 6: screen training, right, all the off season workouts you do,
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  Speaker 6: it's nothing like being on your feet. How did they
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  Speaker 6: take that message when you say, hey, this is the plan,
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  Speaker 6: I think playing more, not only playing more, but playing
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  Speaker 6: together is bow so well for you going into the season.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think one of the main points.
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  Speaker 4: I think they took it on a personal level in
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  Speaker 4: a way where they're like, this is to help me,
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  Speaker 4: this is this will help me get better. And the
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  Speaker 4: more at bats, the more pitches, the more I'm on
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  Speaker 4: my feet, the better I will be. But also as
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  Speaker 4: a team, we're preparing more as a as a as
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  Speaker 4: a team, we're out there as a unit. You know,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the guys that play together in the
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  Speaker 4: infield are getting just more action together. And I think
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  Speaker 4: they're finding that they're getting that communication and relationship on
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  Speaker 4: the field sooner than.
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  Speaker 7: They normally would.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it allows us to get on the
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  Speaker 4: field even for like batting practice, you know, being out
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  Speaker 4: there as a team, team base running every day at second,
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  Speaker 4: at third, the outfielder is out there shagging because we've
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  Speaker 4: got fifteen guys out there hitting BP.
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  Speaker 7: It just it felt like.
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  Speaker 4: A more kind of seamless, you know, kind of circular
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  Speaker 4: camp where it just kind of all worked together.
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  Speaker 8: Do you feel like this is a gamble? Do you
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  Speaker 8: feel like because we live in a we live in
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  Speaker 8: an age of just like, okay, everybody, rest, everybody, everybody
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  Speaker 8: bubble wrap all this stuff. Do you feel like it's
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  Speaker 8: a gamble? Because essentially you're you're a in winning team
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  Speaker 8: and everybody says as long as they stay healthy, which
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  Speaker 8: can be said about any team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, I think the longer you're in
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  Speaker 4: the game, the more you realize everything's a gamble. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you could consider any any direction you want to go in,
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  Speaker 4: uh some sort of gamble in some ways. And so
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  Speaker 4: what really, I think you kind of flip it in
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  Speaker 4: your mind and think, like, what, what's what has a
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  Speaker 4: chance to really help us here legitimately, what has a
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  Speaker 4: chance to put us in a better spot going forward?
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  Speaker 4: You learn from the past, you learn from from history,
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  Speaker 4: and and you you try to do it better each
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  Speaker 4: and every year. And you see kind of these these
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  Speaker 4: these waves in the game and cycles where you know,
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  Speaker 4: you see it on the pitching side sometimes, you see
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  Speaker 4: it on the offensive side sometimes, but you think you
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  Speaker 4: also see it in the way that guys prepare sometimes
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  Speaker 4: and I think, uh, there's nothing ever gonna nothing's ever
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  Speaker 4: gonna come out wrong. If guys are on the field,
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  Speaker 4: working hard, working together and getting their work in. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's the cage is a good place to get a
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  Speaker 4: lot done. And the guys can still get a lot
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  Speaker 4: done in the cage. But I think being out there
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  Speaker 4: under the sun and on the grass will always be
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  Speaker 4: beneficial no matter what age we're living in.
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  Speaker 6: Four hundred and fifty seven wins six most all the time.
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  Speaker 6: For me, when I think about that, and then going
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  Speaker 6: into your clubhouse, I think it says a lot about
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  Speaker 6: you guys, you know, look excited to come and show
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  Speaker 6: up to play for that skipper now. And I've always said,
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  Speaker 6: in my opinion, I think your leader is your skipper.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's who makes the train go.
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  Speaker 6: Talking to Byron Bucks and talking to typ France is
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  Speaker 6: extremely excited to be here.
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  Speaker 5: What is your main focus to get the best after
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  Speaker 5: a new year?
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  Speaker 6: Right, last year's in the past, Rock Obaldilli as a manager,
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  Speaker 6: what are you doing better to continue to add to
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  Speaker 6: that win total and kind of get these guys to
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  Speaker 6: believe that, hey, we can't continue to do what we've
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  Speaker 6: done at a high level.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think anyone you know in my shoes really
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  Speaker 4: looks outward. You look to your players and your staff.
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  Speaker 4: They trust me. Those guys keep me going, honestly, and
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  Speaker 4: you look to the leaders in the clubhouse to set
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  Speaker 4: a great tone, and you realize, you know, let's give
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  Speaker 4: the players the framework to let them go out and
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  Speaker 4: play and let this is about them and their skills
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  Speaker 4: and their ability. And you set you set kind of
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  Speaker 4: you set it up so they can knock it down
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  Speaker 4: and that that's that's really the goal of everything going
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  Speaker 4: on here. So you know, I would never look at
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  Speaker 4: it in a way where you know I'm doing anything.
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  Speaker 7: Do you set a tone? Yes, you do.
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  Speaker 4: You know you have to get up there day one
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  Speaker 4: and let everyone know what the expectations are, and you
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  Speaker 4: be clear and you ask them for certain things. And
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  Speaker 4: trust me, when you ask guys for specific things and
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  Speaker 4: things they believe in, they want to give it to you.
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  Speaker 7: And that's all that you can really do with Can
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  Speaker 7: you give.
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  Speaker 8: Us an update on Royce. He's gonna start the year
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  Speaker 8: on the I l with the hamstring more so of
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  Speaker 8: how is he handling it, because it feels like it's
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  Speaker 8: another another fallback. It's like, you know, to me, I
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  Speaker 8: think he's an MVP candidate every year, But can you
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  Speaker 8: tell us how he's handling this latest setback.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's always going to be emotional dealing with stuff
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  Speaker 4: like this, So I don't want to say that that
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  Speaker 4: it's not he's he has a moderate hamstring strain.
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  Speaker 7: He is going to start the year in the il.
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  Speaker 4: But that that we know, and we have to let
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  Speaker 4: that kind of get by us and get over the
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  Speaker 4: initial pain of going through it and then get back
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  Speaker 4: to work. I mean, that's really what we have to do.
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  Speaker 4: And we're gonna be there, We're gonna suppor him, We're
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  Speaker 4: gonna give him everything he needs, of course physically and
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  Speaker 4: conversationally and in all of that. But he's an immensely
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  Speaker 4: talented player.
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  Speaker 7: We all know it. We see it on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 4: The rest of the league gets to see it whenever,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they catch us on TV or they see
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  Speaker 4: the highlights. But he's capable of so much. He you know,
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  Speaker 4: you don't want him to feel all of that, any
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  Speaker 4: of any of that pressure. All he has to do
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  Speaker 4: is get healthy, play play his game. When he's out there,
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  Speaker 4: be himself, not try to do everything, just do what
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  Speaker 4: he does really well.
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  Speaker 7: And no, he is capable of a lot.
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  Speaker 4: No one that's dealt with injuries and has dealt with them,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the way that he has is going to
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  Speaker 4: just say it's no big deal. No, of course it's
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  Speaker 4: a big deal, but that you just have to put
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  Speaker 4: your head down and keep working. And he knows that
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  Speaker 4: he's come back for more difficult things than this, and
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  Speaker 4: I have no doubt he'll be back. He's a pretty
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  Speaker 8: off season because you can't just lean on Okay, this
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  Speaker 8: be at your best when you're in the playoffs to
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  Speaker 8: win a World Series.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I feel confident that we have a roster that's capable
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  Speaker 4: of a lot of different things. Because one thing we
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  Speaker 4: take a lot of pride in here and we try
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  Speaker 4: to make sure we're prepared for is having guys that
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  Speaker 4: can move to different spots in the field and not
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  Speaker 4: just do it, but do it very well. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: you you look up in several of the players that
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  Speaker 4: were that are having great camps right now, guys that
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  Speaker 4: are very versatile players like Willie Castro. He's going to
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  Speaker 4: move around now a little bit more. He's gonna play
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  Speaker 4: a lot of second base, but he's going to move around.
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  Speaker 4: And you have Jose Miranda that's going to move back
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  Speaker 4: and forth on the field, and we have several other
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  Speaker 4: guys that are very talented that can do the same
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  Speaker 4: and that is a real thing.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's one thing to say, oh, the guy's versatile, and
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  Speaker 4: that's so that's you know, it's one thing to say it.
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  Speaker 4: It's another thing to see it in action when you're
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  Speaker 4: actually out there in the dugout watching a guy move
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  Speaker 4: to several different positions in a game, or when you're
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  Speaker 4: sitting a lineup three days in a row, having a
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  Speaker 4: guy that can move around and play three different spots.
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  Speaker 4: So we use this camp to move guys around. We
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  Speaker 4: put Eddie Julian over at first base. We got him
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  Speaker 4: some work over there. Brooksley plays all around the field,
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  Speaker 4: Austin Martin plays outfield and in field. We have guys
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  Speaker 4: that can do a lot of this. So we do
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  Speaker 4: it for a reason. We do it in case situations
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  Speaker 4: like this come up. And I do think our roster
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  Speaker 4: has a ton of depth and quality depth to take
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  Speaker 4: care of to take care of business. In some of
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  Speaker 4: the times where we've been successful over a period of
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  Speaker 4: time and played good baseball in one games, we've done
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  Speaker 4: it with guys missing some time. And that's part of
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  Speaker 4: the reality of this game and something that we have
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  Speaker 4: to do well, and we've done well in the past.
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  Speaker 4: So it's not certainly not an impossible task. It's something
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  Speaker 4: I think we're very capable of.
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  Speaker 8: Oh okay, I thought Cam was going to go my bad,
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  Speaker 8: Uh I got, I got. I got a question from
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  Speaker 8: last year. You guys, you go on feel, but you
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  Speaker 8: also go on the numbers. Okay, this is our guy
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  Speaker 8: coming off the bench, Manuel Margo. At what point last
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  Speaker 8: year did you think this is the time Manuel Margo
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  Speaker 8: is going to get a hit? Because he ended at
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  Speaker 8: oh for thirty pinch hitting and it's a record. So
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  Speaker 8: as an org as a manager, do you sit there
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  Speaker 8: and you go, he's about to get hot?
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  Speaker 1: This is the one.
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  Speaker 4: Well, when when you have guys that have done things
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  Speaker 4: very successfully their whole career, you're gonna bet on those
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  Speaker 4: players to be able to still do it. I think
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  Speaker 4: we've all we can come up with a million examples
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  Speaker 4: of this, and you know that track record generally is
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  Speaker 4: the best way to assess, you know, players, or a
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  Speaker 4: good way to to you know, know what you're going
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  Speaker 4: to expect. Did I expect that from Manny in the
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  Speaker 4: pinch hitting role? Absolutely not. Of course I expect and
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  Speaker 4: you know at some point for him to string you know, three,
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  Speaker 4: you know, three hits together in a row and do something,
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  Speaker 4: because he makes such consistent content, not just because he's
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  Speaker 4: hit lefties his whole career, which he has, but he's
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  Speaker 4: a guy that he's not a high strikeout guy. He's
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  Speaker 4: a guy that's going to keep putting the ball in play,
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  Speaker 4: spreading it around the field and giving himself a chance.
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  Speaker 4: He also was excellent against lefties when he wasn't pinch hitting,
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  Speaker 4: he was good, and you know every other time we
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  Speaker 4: saw him play. So those sorts of things you just
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  Speaker 4: have to you deal with. And yes, there are times
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  Speaker 4: where we let our lefties just hit for themselves. As
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  Speaker 4: the year went on and you make adjustments and you
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  Speaker 4: continue to make adjustments.
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  Speaker 7: Did that one work out ideally? Of course not.
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  Speaker 4: But you have to have a plan and something that
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  Speaker 4: you believe in going into things. And it works the
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  Speaker 4: year before we probably pinch hit as much or more
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  Speaker 4: of as any team in the game, and it carried
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  Speaker 4: us to the playoffs and to success in the playoffs. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, trying to kind of argue those things year
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  Speaker 4: to year, you know, was it was it right or
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  Speaker 4: was it wrong? You know, if we were wrong about
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  Speaker 4: it last year, we were wrong about it the year before,
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  Speaker 4: but it worked out pretty well the year before. So
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  Speaker 4: who knows. What I do know is you know, when
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  Speaker 4: I feel good about something, I go with it. It's
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  Speaker 4: not gonna work out every time. I know that, but
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  Speaker 4: I can I can look in the mirror and feel
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  Speaker 4: good about it. And I think we have players who
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  Speaker 4: fill roles well and have the right track records to
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  Speaker 4: pull off these these spots on our team.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so before I let you guys, do want to
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  Speaker 6: ask two questions. I know you got busy schedule. Talk
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  Speaker 6: about guys stepping up? Who are guys that we may
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  Speaker 6: not be looking at or thinking about that You say, Hey,
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  Speaker 6: this guy really could come up big friends, and you
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  Speaker 6: mentioned a Brooks lead.
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  Speaker 5: Is he Gower? Is anybody else that you're going? Man?
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  Speaker 5: This guy? I don't think people know how he really
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  Speaker 5: is well.
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  Speaker 7: We have a lot of good young players.
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  Speaker 4: So we were talking earlier, and we have a we
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  Speaker 4: have veteran we have really good veteran players and guys
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  Speaker 4: that have long careers of success with good success. We
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  Speaker 4: also have a ton of young players. We don't just
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  Speaker 4: have one or too, you know. So you know, Simeon
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  Speaker 4: Woods Richardson is coming off of a good year. He's
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  Speaker 4: had a really good camp. You know, he'll be pitching
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  Speaker 4: in our rotation. He's important. Cole Sand's in our bullpen
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  Speaker 4: probably doesn't get talked about that often because we have Duran,
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  Speaker 4: we have jacks who are two of the best at
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  Speaker 4: what they do. But he had a spectacular year last
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  Speaker 4: year converting from starting into the bullpen, and he's got
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  Speaker 4: you know, four or five pitches. He's got excellent stuff.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't walk people. He's he can attack both lefties
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  Speaker 4: and right He was awesome and did a great job.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I think we're gonna.
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  Speaker 4: See more of Miranda now, who has hit for you know,
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  Speaker 4: a couple of years now for us, and we're going
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  Speaker 4: to get a chance to give him a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of runway and see what he can do. And brooks Lee,
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  Speaker 4: Eddie Julian. These are guys that we have high expectations for.
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  Speaker 4: It's nice to have good young players that have real
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  Speaker 4: ability that you can send out there. A guy that's
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  Speaker 4: had a nice camp for us that we brought over
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  Speaker 4: in a trade with Boston this offseason was Mickey Gasper.
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  Speaker 7: He's had a tremendous camp for us, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And a guy that can be a real third catcher,
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  Speaker 4: who can, you know, allow you to make some moves
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  Speaker 4: during the game and you have that covered in addition
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  Speaker 4: of playing first and second. So we have guys that
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  Speaker 4: we expect to challenge, and we know when we sit
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  Speaker 4: here and we're building a roster, we have to challenge
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  Speaker 4: our young players to produce and go out there for us.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: And we know it's a hard league for a young player.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: It always has been and it always will be. But
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: we are not afraid to put them out there and
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: see what they can do.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: Okay, let's have some fun with this. I want to
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: ask you a question.
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: Back when I was probably fourteen to fifteen, A lot
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: of people don't know this about me. I was able
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: to go to the Sally League Astral Tourist game.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: Right it's my job. I was a bat boy there.
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: I watched this young guy.
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: I want you to tell me if you remember this guy,
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: This is a guy who inspired me right here, and
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: I tell the best story. It was the first time,
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: and I'm just saying this, it was the first time
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: I saw white guy six foot four, fast as can be,
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: pat light pole to light pole pop. The biggest thing
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: is you were so good to me as a bad boy.
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: You probably don't remember. You were so good. Good tipper too,
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: by the way, nobody tipped a couple of hot dogs
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: from the concessions stand. You tip me good. I just
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: want to do you remember that? Do you remember that mighty.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: Change that I have a recollection of it, but I
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: don't remember the details.
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: I'm glad, I mean, thanks for bringing it on.
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: You inspired me, and I watched you carry yourself as
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: a professional.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: I watched you as a teammate.
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: So I just want to say I appreciate you, know,
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: the inspiration that you were being a young guy just
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: getting drafted and kind of showing me how to be
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: a professional at a young age.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: It was fun to watch that.
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: Thank you, Cam.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: You know what, at that point in our lives, honestly,
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: like I was figuring things out. You were younger than
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: me obviously at the time, but I didn't know what
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: was going on. I'm trying to figure it out every day,
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: and you know what you do. You try to work
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: hard and treat people good, and that's really what what
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: everything comes down to.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: But I remember that league. I remember how tough that
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: league was.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: As a young player for me, like, you know, right
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: out of high school to go play there in the
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: in the first full season.
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: Ashville's I mean, what a great place to to be.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: But you know, now it comes full circle now.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: I love it, man.
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: I appreciate absolutely, Thank you so much. That's really cool.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: That's really cool to bring that back, Rocco.
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: Guys, sitting back then, a dollar two went a long
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: way for a high school kid.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: That was big.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: That was big.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Hey.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, especially hey, I don't know the bonuses, but the
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: minor league salary was not great.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: It's still not great. It definitely wasn't great back then.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: So I appreciate that. Uh, Rocco.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Good to see you man, Thank you for the time,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: have fun the rest of spring, and then good luck
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: this season. We'll see you during the year.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: Good to be here with you. Guys.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Good to see it too, even if it's only on
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: only on the video.
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: Come come visit us sometime.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Let's let's introduce Ty France, New Minnesota twin joining us
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: right now. We spoke to maybe several months ago, and
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: good to see you.
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: Ty.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Look at actually super jacked and having a great spring training.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: So how was the off season for you and how
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: you feel in including the heel?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Really good? The off season was great. It was definitely needed.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Last year was just such a whirlwind. They ups the
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: downs are good and bad, but to get that break
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: is definitely needed. Really got after it this offseason, kind
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: of fine tunes some things and overall healthy, feeling great,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: So excited to get things going well.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: I think when you look at it, the proof is
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: in the pudding. The back of your baseball card doesn't lie. Guys,
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: who's been extremely productive in the big leagues, what type
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: of mental reset did you have to, you know, take
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: to kind of remember a I'm still Tai friends, I'm
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: still a really good big leaguer who's had a lot
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: of success at this level. What did you have to
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: you know, kind of redo and you're you know mentally
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: to kind of go, you know, what I still got.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: It, you know, I think the biggest thing.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: You know, unfortunately had to go through it, but you know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: getting df a non tendered, going through all that stuff
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: really puts things in perspective. Definitely, the game. The game
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: finds a way to humble you when you get too comfortable.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: And you know, I felt like I was at a
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: point in my career where you know, I had earned
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: the everyday job and kind of got complacent and then
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: it was ripped out from under me. So this offseason
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: was just a kind of getting that chip on my
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: shoulder again and coming back to show that I still
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: have something to prove.
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: Do you have to change the type of like teammate
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: you are when you talk about like get that chip
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: on your shoulder, like complacency, you feel comfortable where you're at.
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: Do you have to change who you are? Like it's
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: almost like when game time comes, I gotta like be
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: somebody different.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: No, I think I've been the same person my whole
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: whole career, the same teammate. You know, if you if
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: you give me your best effort, I'm gonna give you mine.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: And you know, just come to work every day and
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: give it a hundred percent. So as far as the
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: teammate stuff now, like I treat the guys the same
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: no matter what, whether it's.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: A good day or bad day.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: And I also, now at this point of my career,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: understand how hard this game is and sometimes you know,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: you need to be that light in the clubhouse, So
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: try and be that as much as I can.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: I want to talk about that, not to make any
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: excuses for you. Accountability clearly is something that you're all about,
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: but we all know the game starts from the ground up.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: How much did that heal injury actually affects you when
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: you're talking about standing the box, being in your legs,
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: being connected. Can you talk did it have a little
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: bit to do with kind of the I think I
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: guess backslides on the me.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I would say a little bit. You know,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: it happened.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I only took I think it was the ten days
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: and then got right back in there and the competitor
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: and you just want to be out there and you
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: want to be out there for your team and be
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: able to compete with them. And I think I probably
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: rushed back sooner than I should have, but that's I've
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: done that with multiple injuries now and I need to
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: learn that. You know, it's not always the best to
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: rush back, and because it could, it could hurt you personally.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: So I think I did rush back a little too soon,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: created some bad habits, and like you said, when you
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: don't have your legs under you, this game is very difficult.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: So it probably contributed little bit, But like.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I said, I don't want to put all the blame
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: on that. At the end of the day and even
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: go out and compete, what.
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: Are the chances one hundred and five hip by pitches
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: and you get hit in the heel and it breaks
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: you here? Like, what are the chances? And did you
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: have any other really close calls on all of those
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: one hundred and five other one hundred and four hip
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: By pitches that you're like, I thought that was the
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: one that got me, not like not the heel though.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I took a few hundred milin hour fastballs
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: off the forearm that I thought would have, you know,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: done a little bit more damage. But it's kind of
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I don't want to call it funny, but just a
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: coincidence that that backfoot slider that fractured my heel was
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the hip Bye pitch that broke the Mariners record, the
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: hippie pitch record.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: So the one that broke the record broke me.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: So I want to talk about this.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: You you come here to Minnesota, south of Twins, How
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: did that conversation go, How did that process go? What
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: did they tell you that they saw on you? And
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: then talk about kind of a unique deal so to
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: speak as well.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think going more off the talking about the
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: deal is just they wanted to see me come in
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: and prove that I was my old self just before,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: you know, fully fully committing. And so that was a
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: lot of the teams this offseason was just they still.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Believed I could do it, but I needed to go
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: out and prove it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: So for me, it was just trying to find the
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: best fit where you know, I knew a k new
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: a group of guys here. I knew they were a
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: good team, winning environment, and saw a lot of opportunity
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: for me to come and help this team.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: So it was the best fit and very grateful for
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the opportunity.
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: Is that fair that all the teams were asking the
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: same thing, like, ah, you got to prove it, like
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: you're like I was an All star, Like it hasn't
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: even really been, Like I got shirts that are older
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: than my All Star shirts. Like, it's not do you
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: feel like that's fair?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: How?
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: Maybe not so just you, but like the league in
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: general is viewing guys who can still do it and
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: now they're like, oh, you know what, let's have a
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: tryout day for a month.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, nothing about this game is fair. But you know,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: it's just one of those things where it's out of
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: your control. And yeah, they just kind of the middle
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: to lower free agents probably don't get the love that
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: they should. You know, you see guys like Mark Canna,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: you know, James McCann, these guys signing minor league deals
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: when they still have a lot to offer. So it's
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: just part of the business. It is what it is.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: But yeah, like I said, not much about this game
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: is fair.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: I love it all right?
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: You were you were an All Star in Seattle? Correct, Yeah,
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: so you got a hit in Seattle to be an
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: All Star. So much has been made about the batter's
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: eye being at an angle or tough to see. Did
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: you see that or do you hear that in the
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: dugout through the guys?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I know the batter's eye situation.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: That really wasn't much of a conversation that we would
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: have never known that unless someone came out and said
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: it so, And this day, I don't even know if
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: someone's gone out there and measured it. So like it's
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: that one's hard to put blame on that. Is it
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: hard hitting there?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I mean just the ball doesn't carry well. You got
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: to kind of change your approach a little bit there.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: The power numbers are going to go down. But at
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: the end of the day, like I personally didn't have
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: a problem with it because I'm not the kind of guy,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: right handed poll of power hitter that needs to go
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: out and hit forty. I think those guys are the
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: ones that are more affected by it. I'm more of
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: a gap to gap drive the ball all over the field,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: and those guys can have success.
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: There is there something we talk about teams that build
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: around their field, Kaufman, the Royals, they build speed in
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: the outfield to go track balls down so they gazelle's
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: out there. Is there something that the Mariners could take
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: advantage of that stadium because you're here, you know, oh man,
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: forty Homer guys are going to go to die in Seattle,
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: which I think there's value somewhere, especially right handed hitters.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if you're a lefty power guy, I
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: think the ball carries well to right field, So I
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: don't think that part's an issue. But you know, just
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: building off off of kind of the gap to gap
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: approach and you know, taking your hits more so than
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: than trying to drive the ball. And this game it's
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: it's gone so one sided to the power aspect that you.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Know, averages average is dying. Like people don't care.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: They'd rather have a guy hit two ten with thirty
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: to thirty five instead of you know too eighty with fifteen.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: So like you know that that average aspects dying. But
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I think there you have to take your hits. You
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: have to have to have a good average there because
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the power power numbers as are righty are tough to get.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: I want to stay there, right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: We talk about we're in the era now where you
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: get rewarded for homer Homer nothing right, But you talk
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: about it, and you've always been a guy who's shown
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: it takes a lot of pride in being a quality
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: at bad right, a tough out even as a power guy.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: How difficult as it being for you to stay in
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: your approach. Did you at some point even get away
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: from your approach? But as you say it, like you said,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: watching how the game is kind of transitioned.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely do. Think the last year or two,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I've tried to become more of a power hitter. And
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: if if you go look pull side power, my pul
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: side fly ball rate has gone down and my pulside
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: ground ball rate has gone up because I'm trying to
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: hit the ball in the air pulside instead of just
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: letting it happen. So yeah, it's a weird probably, especially
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: going through like the arbitration process and stuff like that.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: The home run is very valued in arbitration, so guys
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: kind of lean try to lean more on that. And
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the pitching's pretty good now, so you know, to be
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: able to be a guy who hits forty homers, it's
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: not too common now.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: So okay, so let me ask that what that said.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: A lot of talk has been about Minnesota not making
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: this move of that move. Well, going to the clubouse,
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: I see a guy in yourself. I see a guy
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: Harrison Mader who you guys bring value to any clubhouse
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: that you're in. What are Minnesota fans going to get
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: from you that they might not be aware of.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: What do you bring into this this organization?
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like one thing the last few
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: years I've kind of gotten knocked pretty hard on for
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: some reason was my defense. And those that actually sit
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: there and watch the game, I'm a pretty good first base.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you know, they don't value.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: At least on the computer, you know, picking a ball,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: save saving your short stuff from an air, and you know,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: just the little things that we do on the field
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: defensive wise, we don't get we don't get loved for
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: us first baseman. And if you go and look, there
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: were only two last year on I'm just going to
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: go based off of fangrass, but there are only two
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: positive first basemen in their defensive war category and that
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: was Christian Walker Carlos Santana. And when you go and
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: ask for answers, they don't really have. Like if first
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: baseman just get knocked for some reason, I don't.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: Know where it is.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: Even Pete saved a ton of round Yeah, I talked
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: about that exactly.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: So it's it's those things that you know, I think
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: personally I bring I play a pretty good defense and
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: you know, I try to I try to be I
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: know we have Buck Correa, a handful of veteran guys
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: in this locker room. But just trying to be as
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: good of a leader and lead by example as much
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: as I can, and you know, lastly, just come out
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: and be myself and you know, hopefully the smile.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, absolutely, you got stuck in misery for a little
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: a long time. I told you good baseballs and tags
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: just like bad baseball and tager. So I think you're
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: in a good spot. Your managers spoke highly of your
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: spring training, so we're rooting for you.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: You're right for that call. You're ready for that cold
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: up there. I mean, you're you're got a nice little
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: bronze on.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I was in Seattle four years.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: No, no, no, no, no, Seattle is cool. We're talking cold.
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: You're gonna be hitting rocks. It's gonna be snowing in
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: May up there. Are you ready for that? Did they
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: prepare you for that?
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think there's really a way to
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: train for that. But you know, we opened up too.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: I think it was two or three years ago. We
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: opened up in Minnesota, and our first game got snowed out,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: so I kind of know what to expect going in there.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: You go, well, Ty, best of luck, keep doing your
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: thing here in spring training. It's been fun to watch
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: rooting for you this season, and thanks for joining us man,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: And yes, am I right.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Ty's been hitting the gym. That pop's gonna come naturally
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: this year. You're just gonna get that natural swing and
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: the pulside pop.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: Is going to be like, whoo, there we go.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Even in Minnesota where it's probably what that park's probably
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: a little neutral. For a while, it was looked at
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: as a pitcher's park, but is it.
• 29:48
  Speaker 8: I love it to left there. I love it to
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: left there, and that high wall and right gives you
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: confidence that they're not going to run balls down. But
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: something he said was so awesome that I think everybody
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: needs to try to hit home runs. I get that.
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: But if you're seeing your results are your fly balls
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  Speaker 8: to left field, which are home runs, is going down
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  Speaker 8: and your ground balls to the left side are going up,
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  Speaker 8: that means you're not doing it right. You're not choosing
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: the area of the field to hit home runs. To me,
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: Ty Frantz is such a short arm, short swing guy
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  Speaker 8: that he's going to hit home runs when he catches
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  Speaker 8: it out in front. He drives the ball on a
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: line like on a rope to right field so well
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  Speaker 8: that to me, his swing can't dictate his swing decision,
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: can't dictate if he's going to hit a home run
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  Speaker 8: or not. It's more of the swing location when he
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: makes contact. I know that's getting into the weeds of
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: like mechanically how it works. But that is such a
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: great thing that he said that people need to be
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: aware ground balls don't ever turn into home runs never.
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: That's a bad swing.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing that stood out to me was the
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: fangrafts pop for defensive war. It's like, how come only
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: two first basemen are positive? Now, that's not outs above average,
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: it's defensive war and war I think naturally knocks the
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: first baseman down right totally.
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  Speaker 8: But also think about think about it. If you told
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: a third baseman or a shortstop they don't ever range
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: to one side. That's how you get negative war. Christian
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  Speaker 8: Walker does an amazing job of ranging to the second
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  Speaker 8: base side. You have to have pitchers that cover the base,
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: you have to have trust. Most first basemen only go
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: to their left so they play a little bit wider
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: and they only go to their left, so any ball
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: by them they're getting they're getting dinged on those. And
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: that's why, that's why the when guys are like, oh,
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: Pete Alonzo's war is so low, or is defensive war
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: so low, it's like, show me the first baseman that
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: have a positive. Oh, Christian Walker, gold glove, gold glove,
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: gold glove,