Latest / Foul Territory / Starting pitchers Chris Bassitt and Trevor Rogers join @Orioles camp
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Joined now by Chris Bassett, the barefooted Chris Bassett. By
- 0:07Speaker 1: the way, he is brave crats because there is an
- 0:09Speaker 1: oak tree right behind me. Luckily for him, there's no
- 0:12Speaker 1: acorns on the ground because I don't know if you ever.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Stepped on like a lego piece.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it would feel like if you were
- 0:18Speaker 1: barefooted and step on an acorn.
- 0:19Speaker 3: I got two kids, so I know all about that.
- 0:21Speaker 3: So yeah, barefoot definitely is. Ah, it comes with a
- 0:26Speaker 3: lot of risk.
- 0:27Speaker 4: But I don't do it for grounding. I do it
- 0:29Speaker 4: for laziness.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Oh ok, we you know, have you ever seen Bull Durham?
- 0:34Speaker 1: No, of course, of course Bull dir Quinn Peat tells
- 0:36Speaker 1: Nuke you got to you gotta have clean shower shoes.
- 0:39Speaker 2: We can't get shower shoes.
- 0:40Speaker 3: You know.
- 0:41Speaker 5: I just.
- 0:43Speaker 3: It's just packing up an extra thing, and my mind
- 0:47Speaker 3: is like, you know, what one left thing I gotta
- 0:49Speaker 3: worry about.
- 0:49Speaker 4: I'm good.
- 0:50Speaker 1: So but the equipment guy has to give you a
- 0:53Speaker 1: pair of lesson I get it tired. You know, twenty
- 0:56Speaker 1: dollars Nike, Adidas, whatever, New Balance, whatever, whatever you want
- 1:00Speaker 1: to wear, they'll give them to you.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't even have to pay for him. It's
- 1:04Speaker 2: a big league. They'll give them to you for free.
- 1:06Speaker 3: Honna say, Shureser tried to get this out of me
- 1:09Speaker 3: and it didn't work.
- 1:10Speaker 1: And barefooted, yeahur barefooted. Yeah, his his new shower barefoot.
- 1:14Speaker 3: His extremes to get me to wear shower shoes were
- 1:17Speaker 3: a little out of control, but they still didn't work. So, yeah,
- 1:20Speaker 3: you don't wear shower shoes to show It was just laziness.
- 1:23Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fantastic. Hey, I washed my feet.
- 1:28Speaker 3: We're good.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Hey, we're good. You know what happens in the crauch.
- 1:31Speaker 1: You tell him what happens in the shower.
- 1:33Speaker 4: I know, I know, trust me, I know what happens.
- 1:35Speaker 3: We're good.
- 1:36Speaker 6: I feel like I feel like you've been told this
- 1:38Speaker 6: plenty of times. I feel like I feel like, just
- 1:41Speaker 6: one thing. What's one other thing that you're you're you're
- 1:45Speaker 6: lazy about? If you're not going to put on sandals
- 1:48Speaker 6: to walk around, what's another thing that you're like? I
- 1:50Speaker 6: get it, I should do this, but I don't.
- 1:53Speaker 3: How how pg you were supposed to go here? I mean,
- 1:55Speaker 3: let's not go like I'm saying, like underwear, that's fine.
- 1:59Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't wear underwear.
- 2:01Speaker 2: See, that's t M.
- 2:01Speaker 3: I that's not un but that's like ever like you pitch, oh, pitch,
- 2:06Speaker 3: you gotta wear sliders and all that stuff.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Different. Yeah overall, I say, because especially in the Orioles
- 2:11Speaker 2: all white.
- 2:11Speaker 4: Yeah, that could be.
- 2:12Speaker 2: That could give me a problem.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Not we're not there, okay, but so no, you just
- 2:18Speaker 1: don't like undergarments.
- 2:20Speaker 2: You don't like I don't like.
- 2:21Speaker 3: Clothes I don't wear. Now you're just saying I'm a
- 2:25Speaker 3: nudist by any means. But at the same time, I mean,
- 2:28Speaker 3: I'm sitting there and I'm like, just one last thing
- 2:30Speaker 3: I gotta worry about.
- 2:31Speaker 1: Do you introduce yourself to your teammates is Hi, I'm
- 2:33Speaker 1: Chris Bassetting, I'm a nudist and I don't wear shower shoes.
- 2:36Speaker 4: I think it's very evident really quickly.
- 2:39Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're good.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Does anyone question you on it?
- 2:42Speaker 6: Uh?
- 2:44Speaker 3: I would say a lot of people did in the past,
- 2:46Speaker 3: but luckily this team is a little too young to question.
- 2:49Speaker 3: So there's like, this guy's just weird. He knows because
- 2:52Speaker 3: of New York. This has been going on for a while.
- 2:55Speaker 3: So yeah, it's just yeah, okay, how are the Orioles
- 3:00Speaker 3: eight unbelievable? I mean, obviously the WBC is happening, so
- 3:06Speaker 3: root for Team USA, but get Gunner back and things
- 3:09Speaker 3: like that. So the only negative thing about the WC
- 3:11Speaker 3: is just you don't have your full team here. But yeah,
- 3:16Speaker 3: it's just an unbelievable group of guys that I feel like,
- 3:20Speaker 3: really care for each other. Reminds me a lot of
- 3:23Speaker 3: like the other teams that I was on, and so
- 3:27Speaker 3: I'm really really excited about this year.
- 3:28Speaker 1: How do you go about learning a new catcher because
- 3:30Speaker 1: you have ad Lie and Basaio, but you don't really
- 3:33Speaker 1: use a catcher because you use the PitchCom and then
- 3:36Speaker 1: you take yourself off on the PitchCom you hit the
- 3:39Speaker 1: button and you're like no, no, no, okay, let's go
- 3:42Speaker 1: back to that one.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have to learn a new catcher?
- 3:45Speaker 4: I definitely.
- 3:46Speaker 3: I really want to get to a point where I'm
- 3:49Speaker 3: not calling many pitches. I mean, say I'm calling like,
- 3:51Speaker 3: say one hundred pitches, say I'm calling thirty percent of
- 3:54Speaker 3: the pitches.
- 3:54Speaker 4: I would really like to get to that point.
- 3:57Speaker 3: But overall, I would say, it's it's it's it's not
- 4:02Speaker 3: that difficult. It's more so kind of what's their what's
- 4:05Speaker 3: their strengths, what's their weaknesses? And then kind of how
- 4:08Speaker 3: come we can I exploit hitters with their strengths and
- 4:10Speaker 3: weakness so to speak.
- 4:12Speaker 6: Is it hard for the catcher to get used to you?
- 4:15Speaker 6: Because before, before the pitch com you would shake, and
- 4:19Speaker 6: I watched interviews about your feel Sometimes you're just like no,
- 4:22Speaker 6: and then you get back to it and you're like, yes,
- 4:25Speaker 6: is it hard for a catcher? Have you heard catchers
- 4:27Speaker 6: say it's hard to get used to catching you?
- 4:33Speaker 3: I would say when I when I was back in
- 4:34Speaker 3: the day, when I had to shake, it was hard
- 4:36Speaker 3: to understand me just because I felt like, for the
- 4:39Speaker 3: most part back in the day, it was it was
- 4:42Speaker 3: so obvious what what I should have thrown, whether it
- 4:45Speaker 3: be say a fastball in this spot spot or curveball,
- 4:48Speaker 3: whatever it may be. So I shook it right away,
- 4:51Speaker 3: even though that was the pitch that I wanted, just
- 4:53Speaker 3: because I was like, I kind of want to throw
- 4:55Speaker 3: the hitter down a rabbit hole, so to speak. And
- 4:57Speaker 3: I knew it pissed a lot of those guys off,
- 4:59Speaker 3: like I I knew, especially the older veteran guys, they
- 5:03Speaker 3: were like, bro, come on, like, hurry this game up.
- 5:05Speaker 3: Why are you shaking so much? I'm stepping out now.
- 5:07Speaker 3: Now you're gonna shake six more times?
- 5:11Speaker 4: I know.
- 5:11Speaker 3: Me and Sean Murphy back in the day with Oakland
- 5:13Speaker 3: had a lot of laughs about it because he was like,
- 5:15Speaker 3: I just called twelve different pitches, so to speak, in locations,
- 5:20Speaker 3: and you went back to the very first one. I called, like,
- 5:22Speaker 3: what are you doing? And I was like, I just
- 5:24Speaker 3: felt it was too obvious that it was the right pitch.
- 5:26Speaker 3: But it was too obvious at the time, so I
- 5:27Speaker 3: kind of wanted to stir the pot, so to.
- 5:30Speaker 4: Speak, in their head and then just get back to it.
- 5:33Speaker 3: So I would say, with the pitch calm, it's a
- 5:35Speaker 3: lot easier just because I don't really need this disguise much.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Could you survive with the pitch calm and the pitch
- 5:42Speaker 1: clock if the pitch sorry, if you had the pitch
- 5:44Speaker 1: clock but no pitch calm, you couldn't do that.
- 5:47Speaker 3: It'd be really tough.
- 5:49Speaker 2: We would have to you have to do like the
- 5:52Speaker 2: Greg Maddox.
- 5:53Speaker 3: That or we'd I mean, we'd have to do we
- 5:56Speaker 3: y'all are already do an insane amount of homework when
- 5:59Speaker 3: it comes to all the analyst stuff. But we'd have
- 6:02Speaker 3: to be really really on the same page, which I
- 6:05Speaker 3: just I have all the time in the world, so
- 6:08Speaker 3: I like doing it. I like diving into the numbers,
- 6:10Speaker 3: and I like diving into all the nuances of pitching.
- 6:15Speaker 3: But catcher's got to do every single day, so it's
- 6:19Speaker 3: just tough. I to me, I always think that I
- 6:22Speaker 3: know the hitter better than the catcher. I'm not saying
- 6:26Speaker 3: that negatively to the catcher. I just have a lot
- 6:27Speaker 3: more time. I have five days.
- 6:29Speaker 2: You know you have two catchers on the show, right.
- 6:31Speaker 3: Oh, I know, But I'm saying the reality is, I
- 6:35Speaker 3: know the way I feel going into the game. I understand.
- 6:38Speaker 3: I don't I'm not that confident in my fastball. I'm
- 6:40Speaker 3: not that confident landing a curveball, or I'm not I don't.
- 6:43Speaker 3: I don't like how my cutter was that week. So
- 6:46Speaker 3: I know all those things going into it. You're gonna
- 6:49Speaker 3: have to learn those as the game goes on. Now
- 6:50Speaker 3: I can obviously go and talk to you about it,
- 6:54Speaker 3: but I just feel like I have a better feel
- 6:56Speaker 3: for what I'm feeling than you because I'm throwing the ball.
- 7:01Speaker 3: But overall, I'm I'm super excited about Adley and Sammy,
- 7:05Speaker 3: just because I feel like they're they're younger, but they're
- 7:09Speaker 3: they're really advanced of how they think. They're really advanced
- 7:12Speaker 3: of kind of game preparation things like that, So I'm
- 7:14Speaker 3: excited about it.
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- 8:18Speaker 6: What superpower or skill would be better being able to
- 8:21Speaker 6: throw one hundred miles an hour like everybody wants to,
- 8:24Speaker 6: or being able to do exactly what you just said,
- 8:28Speaker 6: prepare outthink these guys, which one has more success for
- 8:32Speaker 6: the entirety of your thirty two starts?
- 8:36Speaker 3: Yeah? I just I just think it's a lot easier
- 8:39Speaker 3: to be me than it is to be say scoobl
- 8:41Speaker 3: or schemes. So many guys, so many guys train and
- 8:47Speaker 3: try to be a Ferrari when they're not a Ferrari.
- 8:51Speaker 3: Like so many guys are chasing ninety seven ninety eight,
- 8:54Speaker 3: Like ninety seven matters anymore.
- 8:57Speaker 4: They're not hitting any spots.
- 8:58Speaker 3: Congratulations, you're throwing two to fast balls at ninety eight
- 9:01Speaker 3: miles an hour and you're two to Oh that is nothing.
- 9:04Speaker 3: You're missing spots. Guys really good at hitting fast balls
- 9:08Speaker 3: in and you can't throw a fast I mean you can't.
- 9:10Speaker 3: You can't throw a fastball away and you're just giving
- 9:13Speaker 3: up a bunch of damage because you can't hit spots.
- 9:15Speaker 4: But your stuff's really nasty.
- 9:17Speaker 3: So to me, I would always I always want the pitcher,
- 9:20Speaker 3: like the unicorns, like the Schoobls, the Skins and all
- 9:23Speaker 3: those guys. They have nasty, nasty stuff, but they are
- 9:26Speaker 3: one like I've seen I've seen them live, I've seen
- 9:28Speaker 3: their work behind the scenes. They're just they're just insane
- 9:32Speaker 3: pittures with nasty stuff, and that's what makes them cy
- 9:35Speaker 3: young guys. You see that with Saale, you see that
- 9:38Speaker 3: with like Wheeler. They're nasty, but they're pitching. The guys
- 9:43Speaker 3: that are throwers, ninety percent of them end up on
- 9:46Speaker 3: the eel and then everyone's wondering why the bullpen falls
- 9:49Speaker 3: apart and things like that. So I'm chasing the pitcher
- 9:52Speaker 3: all day long. So I would love to be like.
- 9:58Speaker 3: The reality is, I would love to be the Ferraris,
- 10:00Speaker 3: so to speak, but I'm not like. And the reality is,
- 10:03Speaker 3: also there's so many few guys in this game that are.
- 10:07Speaker 1: And so you're you, You're comfortable in your own skin,
- 10:10Speaker 1: for sure. You are and that's like ninety five percent
- 10:13Speaker 1: of the battle for sure, especially at the big league level.
- 10:15Speaker 3: Yeah, you will.
- 10:16Speaker 1: You've got to be really comfortable and you know this
- 10:18Speaker 1: and being what you are, like whatever you are, be
- 10:21Speaker 1: awesome at it, and that you can survive with that.
- 10:25Speaker 3: And I said, the biggest reality to me is that, like, Okay,
- 10:29Speaker 3: this guy's average VELO is ninety four, we want to
- 10:31Speaker 3: get to ninety six. What is the difference? Like? And
- 10:35Speaker 3: I understand you can go with the nerd nerd side,
- 10:37Speaker 3: analytics side and say ninety six plays a lot better
- 10:39Speaker 3: than ninety four, but at what cost? Like are we
- 10:43Speaker 3: gonna go to ninety six and have better pitching? Are
- 10:45Speaker 3: we gonna go to ninety six and have say better
- 10:48Speaker 3: strike one percent percentages? Can they hit the spots? Odds
- 10:52Speaker 3: are when they're trying to increase below odds are odds
- 10:56Speaker 3: are not good? And the app not to make this
- 10:59Speaker 3: a long story, but like the biggest reality within our
- 11:03Speaker 3: industry is that these kids are already.
- 11:05Speaker 4: Coming in almost maxed out.
- 11:06Speaker 3: Like you see how they prepare in college, high school.
- 11:10Speaker 3: These kids are not coming in raw anymore. These kids
- 11:13Speaker 3: are coming in built like Olympians, and they're freaking sitting there,
- 11:17Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, you're twenty years old, Like you
- 11:19Speaker 3: look like you're twenty seven. So I just think you
- 11:23Speaker 3: have to refine the picture side not chary to get
- 11:26Speaker 3: more velo.
- 11:28Speaker 6: Did you hear this in free agency? Because to me,
- 11:30Speaker 6: you should have been a guy that came off the
- 11:32Speaker 6: board a lot sooner. To me, I thought it should
- 11:34Speaker 6: have been two years at least because of the durability,
- 11:38Speaker 6: because of what you've done in the past few years.
- 11:41Speaker 6: But did you hear all this stuff in free agency?
- 11:44Speaker 6: Like you know what your peripherals, you know, some of
- 11:47Speaker 6: these numbers don't necessarily fall into our equation.
- 11:52Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there's definitely like I would say, I
- 11:56Speaker 3: wouldn't say animosity is the right word, but I would
- 11:58Speaker 3: definitely say there's like some resentment when it comes to
- 12:01Speaker 3: like the industry, when it comes to me, because.
- 12:03Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, I get I'm thirty seven.
- 12:05Speaker 3: I understand that, but the innings on my body are
- 12:10Speaker 3: not for a thirty seven year old. And then from
- 12:13Speaker 3: a durability standpoint, I'm more durable than most. And then
- 12:19Speaker 3: I win a lot of games. So it was like,
- 12:22Speaker 3: all right, this is pretty easy. But again, I'm thirty seven.
- 12:25Speaker 4: I get it. So it's the industry, it's.
- 12:29Speaker 3: Part of it. I'm not going to fight it. I'm
- 12:34Speaker 3: I've realized in the past, the more and more I
- 12:35Speaker 3: fight it, the more and more I get mad and
- 12:37Speaker 3: nothing happens from it. So I just was like, if
- 12:39Speaker 3: this is what it is, this is what it is.
- 12:40Speaker 1: So, yeah, you keep signing one year twenty ish million
- 12:44Speaker 1: dollar contracts, You're going to be just fine.
- 12:46Speaker 4: I'll be fine.
- 12:46Speaker 2: Yeah. Have you gotten over Game seven yet? No?
- 12:49Speaker 3: Hell no, I'm sorry. No, No, I'm sorry, Uh, definitely not.
- 12:55Speaker 3: It's I don't I said this. I think when I
- 12:58Speaker 3: show up to first to camp, I don't think. I
- 13:02Speaker 3: don't think that's something I'll ever get over.
- 13:04Speaker 2: I mean it was like, honestly this, I mean it
- 13:06Speaker 2: was like this far we had.
- 13:07Speaker 3: I mean, if you just can take everyone can sit
- 13:09Speaker 3: there and say this, but you just take away one
- 13:11Speaker 3: pitch or one person just gets a sack fly or
- 13:14Speaker 3: one person gets to hit, we win the world.
- 13:17Speaker 2: You're blaming the hitters.
- 13:19Speaker 4: No, I said one take one to like.
- 13:23Speaker 3: Hit. Well, I'm saying, like as dumb as it is,
- 13:26Speaker 3: Like I I look at myself like and I sit
- 13:28Speaker 3: there and I'm like you, You're always like what could
- 13:31Speaker 3: I done? More like I could have not walked Mookie,
- 13:34Speaker 3: Like I gave a run because I walked the lead
- 13:37Speaker 3: off hitter. And that's like one of like the golden
- 13:40Speaker 3: rules of pitching, so to speak, is like, don't walk
- 13:41Speaker 3: the lead off hitter. The odds of them scoring are very,
- 13:44Speaker 3: very high. So I have a ton of like personal
- 13:48Speaker 3: like I wish I could have that back. I wish
- 13:52Speaker 3: I could just throw him a middle middle fastball and
- 13:54Speaker 3: if he hits a home run, he hits a home run.
- 13:56Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just I'll never get over it.
- 14:00Speaker 2: I never lost the World Series.
- 14:01Speaker 3: No, yeah, I'm no, it's I'm sure it sucks, no,
- 14:05Speaker 3: but I mean it's I get no, you got it
- 14:08Speaker 3: was one of the best series I've ever seen.
- 14:09Speaker 1: And then it leads to my next question. The Dodgers
- 14:11Speaker 1: bad for baseball, no, like, but there's every fan out there.
- 14:16Speaker 1: They're so terrible for the game.
- 14:18Speaker 3: But they're all there. There's always gonna be great teams, Like,
- 14:22Speaker 3: no matter no matter what we do, there's always gonna
- 14:25Speaker 3: be great teams.
- 14:26Speaker 4: And I'm not gonna sit.
- 14:28Speaker 3: Here like I feel like everybody, how do I even
- 14:33Speaker 3: say this. I feel like everybody behind the scenes, like
- 14:36Speaker 3: as a casual fan, they they look at oh Tani
- 14:40Speaker 3: being great, Mookie being great, Freddie being great. They look
- 14:44Speaker 3: at all the guys they got, like Will Smiths, Max
- 14:46Speaker 3: Muntzi's why would we penalize the Dodgers for being good
- 14:51Speaker 3: at what they do? Like they just haven't missed, Like
- 14:54Speaker 3: there's so many teams that have went down this path
- 14:57Speaker 3: and they just have missed, Like they have missed on guys,
- 15:00Speaker 3: They have missed on paying guys, they missed on scouting
- 15:03Speaker 3: these types of hitters or pitchers. They come in and
- 15:06Speaker 3: are not who they think they were. The Dodgers for
- 15:08Speaker 3: what five six years, haven't missed like every single guy
- 15:12Speaker 3: they bring in. It's like, yeah, that makes sense. Like
- 15:15Speaker 3: they're really really good people and they're really good players.
- 15:18Speaker 3: So I mean everyone that I know over there, I've
- 15:21Speaker 3: fortunately unfortunately have a lot of friends over there. I
- 15:23Speaker 3: lost too. And they're like this is the best of
- 15:29Speaker 3: the best, like family set up, Like all the families
- 15:31Speaker 3: are treated like gold there, Like this is the best
- 15:34Speaker 3: of the best, Like clubhouse. When it comes to like
- 15:36Speaker 3: people in the clubhouse, how they mesh, how they love
- 15:40Speaker 3: each other, it's the best of the best. Like it's
- 15:43Speaker 3: not just like the talent in the room, it is
- 15:46Speaker 3: everything that surrounds the talent, Like they have everything, they
- 15:50Speaker 3: have every duck in a row. So, like, how am
- 15:54Speaker 3: I gonna be mad at an organization for being really,
- 15:57Speaker 3: really good? Now, obviously it's money. It's like there's a
- 15:59Speaker 3: lot of money that goes it's involved in it. But
- 16:02Speaker 3: at the end of the day, like, we got to
- 16:05Speaker 3: beat them, Like I'm not gonna sit here and try
- 16:06Speaker 3: to make excuses and say like, well we just can't win,
- 16:09Speaker 3: Like Noah, Like so I'm not, I'm not, I'm not
- 16:12Speaker 3: in that, Like we have to beat them. Like they're great.
- 16:17Speaker 3: They're a well oiled machine. They're great at what they do.
- 16:20Speaker 6: Do you hear other players say that? Because we constantly
- 16:22Speaker 6: this is a player driven show. We love hearing players
- 16:26Speaker 6: back or players objective thinking about all this. But like,
- 16:31Speaker 6: do you ever hear players say, man, we got no
- 16:34Speaker 6: shot against the Dodgers we're playing them in a series.
- 16:37Speaker 6: Have you ever heard an actual big lead player say that.
- 16:41Speaker 3: I think I've heard people say that, But it comes
- 16:43Speaker 3: from like an organizational standpoint in the aspect of like
- 16:47Speaker 3: our organization is not ran correctly. The Dodgers are ran
- 16:54Speaker 3: almost falllessly, so we don't have much of a shot.
- 17:00Speaker 3: But when it comes down to like actual baseball, like anybody.
- 17:05Speaker 4: Can win it any time, like it don't matter.
- 17:08Speaker 3: Like Milwaukee is the smallest market I think in in
- 17:13Speaker 3: the country and they won the most games. So like
- 17:17Speaker 3: the reality the reality is is like I mean, we
- 17:19Speaker 3: just we just saw it literally last night, like Italy
- 17:22Speaker 3: beat Team USA. To talk about that, yeah, I know,
- 17:25Speaker 3: but any any team can win. It's just a matter
- 17:27Speaker 3: of just like are you doing the right right things
- 17:31Speaker 3: off the field? Are you do the right things on
- 17:32Speaker 3: the field, are you taking care of families? Are you
- 17:34Speaker 3: running the base the right way? Are you pitching the
- 17:35Speaker 3: right way? And the Dodgers do almost all that good
- 17:39Speaker 3: like so like I'm not I'm not gonna sit here
- 17:43Speaker 3: and say we have no chance because they're the Dodgers.
- 17:46Speaker 1: Okay, before I ask your last quares, you're ever seen
- 17:48Speaker 1: a bug like that?
- 17:49Speaker 2: A bug on my phone like things? Think that thing
- 17:51Speaker 2: can bite me if I flick it off.
- 17:53Speaker 4: I don't know that.
- 17:54Speaker 3: Go fishing in that pond back? Had a boat back there.
- 17:57Speaker 1: Probably, I mean a little boat back probably but one
- 18:00Speaker 1: day we caught him and he had a hat and
- 18:02Speaker 1: his whole thing, and he was I stopped him. I'm like, Craig,
- 18:04Speaker 1: I need to talk to you for a second. So
- 18:06Speaker 1: luckily he stopped. We interrupted.
- 18:08Speaker 4: There's a lot of fish in there's not that great.
- 18:10Speaker 2: I want to eat him. No, heck no, heck no.
- 18:13Speaker 1: All right, you're you're heavily involved with the union. Correct,
- 18:16Speaker 1: and just quick answer, how can we not have a
- 18:20Speaker 1: labor stoppage.
- 18:23Speaker 3: Let's let's start negotiating for real, right now? Why why
- 18:26Speaker 3: don't they I don't know.
- 18:28Speaker 2: Like, like is that well side though?
- 18:31Speaker 1: Because I get so like I get I get angry
- 18:34Speaker 1: about this, right because I get it. You get it
- 18:36Speaker 1: from fans. I get it from people.
- 18:38Speaker 2: I know. Oh you know we need a salary cap.
- 18:40Speaker 2: We need it, right.
- 18:41Speaker 1: And I always say, this is my line. I say,
- 18:43Speaker 1: it's not a player versus owner fight. For me, it's
- 18:46Speaker 1: an owner verus owner fight. They fight within themselves because
- 18:49Speaker 1: the Yankees and the Dodgers are giving the Pirates and
- 18:52Speaker 1: the Marlins all this money and they don't see the
- 18:53Speaker 1: money going back into the players. So then everyone gets
- 18:57Speaker 1: mad at the Yankees and the Dodgers because they're spending
- 18:59Speaker 1: their that they've earned on the players, and then the
- 19:02Speaker 1: other teams that are getting the money.
- 19:03Speaker 2: Just seem to put in their pocket.
- 19:04Speaker 5: Now.
- 19:05Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true, but why can't we
- 19:07Speaker 1: start negotiating now? Why can't we get this done? It
- 19:09Speaker 1: seems like it should be Baseball's on fire right now.
- 19:12Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing I mean, that's literally that I've
- 19:15Speaker 3: talked to people behind the scenes. That's the thing that
- 19:18Speaker 3: I would say that pisses me off the absolute most
- 19:22Speaker 3: is like, for years we have fought to get growth
- 19:28Speaker 3: in our game, and for years we fought to have
- 19:32Speaker 3: the fans love this sport, do everything we possibly can,
- 19:36Speaker 3: and then for this to possibly get in the way
- 19:39Speaker 3: of it.
- 19:40Speaker 4: Would be insane, it would be criminal.
- 19:43Speaker 3: So, like I look at arbitration and how arbitration they
- 19:48Speaker 3: wait till last twenty four hours to give you an
- 19:51Speaker 3: actual offer. I wait till free agency, and they push
- 19:55Speaker 3: it as long as they possibly can, and unfortunately, CBAS
- 20:01Speaker 3: we don't see a real deal until.
- 20:04Speaker 4: Until it's almost too late.
- 20:06Speaker 3: Like I think if you pulled every single player, I
- 20:10Speaker 3: think every single player would be like, we would love
- 20:13Speaker 3: to have a deal done before the season's over, Like
- 20:16Speaker 3: I would love to have a deal done before the
- 20:17Speaker 3: season's over, not just because I don't want to not
- 20:20Speaker 3: have an offseason kind of thing with the Union, but
- 20:23Speaker 3: like the reality is is like the game is in
- 20:27Speaker 3: such a great spot, Like the growth of the game
- 20:30Speaker 3: is in such a great spot. Viewership is viewership's way up,
- 20:34Speaker 3: a tendance is up, like how is it not working?
- 20:38Speaker 3: Like how are we how are we gonna sit there
- 20:40Speaker 3: and like say we need to change this. So yeah,
- 20:46Speaker 3: just to me from a fan standpoint, I would hate
- 20:51Speaker 3: it if we had a lockout where we were missing
- 20:53Speaker 3: games and things like that. It would be it would
- 20:56Speaker 3: be awful for me.
- 20:57Speaker 1: Agreed, Well, Chris, good luck here Baltimore, thank you for
- 21:01Speaker 1: joining us. Let's hope all these things get worked out.
- 21:04Speaker 2: We can just have baseball.
- 21:05Speaker 4: Amend to that.
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- 22:09Speaker 1: Joining us now is Trevor Rodgers Orioles left handed starting pitcher,
- 22:14Speaker 1: who had one of the greatest second halfs I think
- 22:19Speaker 1: I've ever seen last year. What happened in the second half?
- 22:22Speaker 1: What what maybe not what happened, but what changed for you?
- 22:25Speaker 1: What did you figure.
- 22:26Speaker 8: Out Yeah, that's a a good question. I think it's
- 22:30Speaker 8: kind of a a lot of different things. We kind
- 22:33Speaker 8: of make a long story short as they could try
- 22:35Speaker 8: to get all these bugs out of my face. I
- 22:38Speaker 8: think just a mental aspect of the game. I think
- 22:40Speaker 8: this game is really good at humbling us. And I
- 22:43Speaker 8: think I was so result oriented. I think I needed
- 22:47Speaker 8: to kind of change my outlook on baseball and how
- 22:51Speaker 8: I went about the game. And I started getting with
- 22:54Speaker 8: the mental skills guy and really become process oriented, really
- 22:59Speaker 8: built like a solid foundation, and I got to the
- 23:02Speaker 8: point where you know, I didn't wasn't focused on the
- 23:05Speaker 8: results at all, and and those those things kind.
- 23:08Speaker 5: Of took care of itself. And obviously I got stronger
- 23:10Speaker 5: with all.
- 23:10Speaker 8: The injuries that I had, and it all just came
- 23:13Speaker 8: together for a really good second half.
- 23:15Speaker 2: What is what is?
- 23:17Speaker 1: For people out there? It's people that don't know what?
- 23:21Speaker 1: How does it start? With a mental skills coach? Do
- 23:24Speaker 1: you start? I mean, I remember we used to have
- 23:26Speaker 1: their guy named Harvey Dorfman who booked the Red Light
- 23:29Speaker 1: Yell like used to hand it to us in the
- 23:31Speaker 1: minor leagues and say, hey, read this, and you read
- 23:33Speaker 1: and you're like Okay, when I get mad, it's a
- 23:35Speaker 1: red light. I'm going good. It's a green line. When
- 23:37Speaker 1: I get to yellow, I gotta take a step back.
- 23:39Speaker 1: So what is a mental mental skills coaching today's game?
- 23:42Speaker 1: Where do they start?
- 23:44Speaker 5: Yeah, it starts with the red light and in the
- 23:47Speaker 5: yellow light.
- 23:47Speaker 8: And it's more of just giving you a bunch of
- 23:50Speaker 8: different tools that you need and kind of throwing them
- 23:53Speaker 8: against the wall to see which one sticks. And for
- 23:56Speaker 8: me personally, it's you know, how I talk to myself
- 23:59Speaker 8: on the mound, And I remember when I was rookie
- 24:03Speaker 8: year and then in twenty twenty two, any little thing
- 24:07Speaker 8: bad that happened, it was immediate negative self talk, just
- 24:10Speaker 8: beat myself up for no reason. So the biggest thing
- 24:15Speaker 8: for me was positive self talk and really just building
- 24:19Speaker 8: that solid foundation each and every day.
- 24:22Speaker 5: As soon as I walk.
- 24:22Speaker 8: In the door, I know what I'm gonna do and
- 24:24Speaker 8: I know what I want to accomplish each day.
- 24:27Speaker 2: What does that sound like?
- 24:28Speaker 6: What does yourself talk sound like?
- 24:32Speaker 8: It's more of just you know, like I have a
- 24:34Speaker 8: couple of mantras that I'm always telling myself, you know,
- 24:38Speaker 8: a tax strike zone, one pitch at a time, and
- 24:42Speaker 8: even when they get a hit, like, hey, you execute
- 24:45Speaker 8: that pitch, you got a ground ball. That's all you
- 24:47Speaker 8: can control. So just you know, think when things don't
- 24:49Speaker 8: go my way. So those kind of positive affirmations that
- 24:54Speaker 8: I tell myself to keep me on the right track.
- 24:56Speaker 1: When you were on the bad side, you weren't like
- 24:57Speaker 1: Tyler Phillips or you're like smacking this.
- 25:00Speaker 5: Oh it was that.
- 25:01Speaker 8: Never that battles, Never Ken Giles and punched myself in
- 25:04Speaker 8: the face.
- 25:05Speaker 5: So if I never.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Did that, by the way, I can't say I haven't
- 25:07Speaker 1: done it, because I have done that. Before you get
- 25:10Speaker 1: about zero for fifteen, there's been a punch on my
- 25:12Speaker 1: own way of the port, so I can't.
- 25:14Speaker 2: I'm not making fun of them. I've been there.
- 25:15Speaker 6: Yeah, Pitchers don't have bats that they can snap. We
- 25:19Speaker 6: have bats that you can snap, and it makes it
- 25:21Speaker 6: makes you feel a little bit better. Now you got me, now, Trevor,
- 25:26Speaker 6: I got you know. Sorry, No, no, you're good, you're good.
- 25:29Speaker 6: We got technical stuff. But I said, we have we
- 25:32Speaker 6: had bats. We have hitters have bats. Pictures don't have bats.
- 25:36Speaker 6: They can't really break their glove. It just it just
- 25:38Speaker 6: bounces back. But you talked about last time you were
- 25:41Speaker 6: on you talked about how you change you I'm not
- 25:44Speaker 6: sure if you went to drive line tread or you
- 25:46Speaker 6: went to one of those places and you you figured
- 25:50Speaker 6: out different deficiencies that you have. After a really good
- 25:54Speaker 6: season like you had last year, do you try to add,
- 25:58Speaker 6: you know, well, if that that was good, what else
- 26:01Speaker 6: can I do? What what's the next step? Or not
- 26:04Speaker 6: saying it's complacent, but you're like, man, I did pretty
- 26:07Speaker 6: freaking good. Like I'm just sticking just with that and
- 26:10Speaker 6: we're good being right there.
- 26:13Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a good question. I'd say it's a little
- 26:15Speaker 8: bit of both. I think that's a mistake I made
- 26:19Speaker 8: after my rookie year. I think you're like, hey, I
- 26:22Speaker 8: had a great year. I don't really need to change anything.
- 26:25Speaker 8: Let's continue to you know, build on what I did.
- 26:28Speaker 8: I think that's something that I learned from, you know,
- 26:31Speaker 8: last year going into this year, you know, I had
- 26:34Speaker 8: a good second half, but looking at it from a
- 26:37Speaker 8: full picture, it was only half a year. So the
- 26:41Speaker 8: first half I was mainly in triple A. So that's
- 26:45Speaker 8: really a big thing coming in to this year. Is
- 26:48Speaker 8: you know, being consistent for a full season, Is you
- 26:50Speaker 8: know something that I haven't been able to do for
- 26:53Speaker 8: quite a few years. So something that's kind of you know,
- 26:57Speaker 8: trying to check the box on that, and that you know,
- 27:00Speaker 8: goes back to my routine, how I'm going about each day,
- 27:02Speaker 8: and you know, as far as like mechanics, you know,
- 27:07Speaker 8: clean up a couple of mechanical tweaks, sharpen up some
- 27:10Speaker 8: you know, some of my pitches, some of my breaking balls,
- 27:13Speaker 8: and kind of and go from there.
- 27:15Speaker 1: How do you carry it over? How do you carry
- 27:17Speaker 1: over what last year to an offseason because you're probably
- 27:20Speaker 1: at the end of the year, like, man, I don't
- 27:21Speaker 1: want this year to end. I just keep Can I
- 27:23Speaker 1: just keep pitching everything? Can I go to winter Ball?
- 27:26Speaker 1: Can I go wherever? And just keep pitching every fifth day?
- 27:28Speaker 5: Right?
- 27:28Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 27:29Speaker 1: So how do you carry that over? Because again you
- 27:31Speaker 1: just talked about tweaks and things like that. Is there
- 27:33Speaker 1: a way to carry momentum over to the next year?
- 27:36Speaker 5: I really think there is.
- 27:39Speaker 8: And going back to my mental skills, guy, we've we've
- 27:41Speaker 8: talked about, Hey, well.
- 27:42Speaker 2: To give a ship, can you?
- 27:43Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 27:43Speaker 8: Zach Zach Swartz and he was with the Reds last
- 27:46Speaker 8: year and he's kind of doing his own thing now.
- 27:48Speaker 5: He's been great.
- 27:49Speaker 8: Uh, he's helped me a lot, so he's probably one
- 27:51Speaker 8: of the best of the game. So shout out to Zach.
- 27:54Speaker 8: But we've we've been talking quite a bit in spring.
- 27:58Speaker 8: It was like, Hey, what do we want this season
- 28:00Speaker 8: look like? And I think we've both been on the
- 28:02Speaker 8: same page as like, chasing numbers is poison. I don't
- 28:07Speaker 8: I don't want to chase numbers, And to be honest,
- 28:10Speaker 8: I don't even really want to chase what I did
- 28:11Speaker 8: last year. The only thing I want to chase is
- 28:13Speaker 8: the consistency of last year. I think every single baseball player,
- 28:18Speaker 8: like y'all two included, like everything that we want in
- 28:21Speaker 8: a career is just have consistency and know that what
- 28:25Speaker 8: we're going to get and we can give our teammates
- 28:27Speaker 8: every time we're out there we take the field. So
- 28:30Speaker 8: that's the biggest thing for me this year is carry
- 28:32Speaker 8: that momentum or that consistency into the into this year.
- 28:37Speaker 6: How do you react or even the rest of your
- 28:39Speaker 6: starting starting rotation mates react when you read something or
- 28:44Speaker 6: hear that. The pitching, you know, they don't have quite
- 28:48Speaker 6: enough pitching. They didn't do quite enough in the offseason.
- 28:51Speaker 8: The Orioles, Yeah, I would probably disagree with that. I
- 28:57Speaker 8: think we probably have the most underrated rotation in baseball.
- 29:01Speaker 8: I mean, just look at those names right there. Bradish
- 29:05Speaker 8: probably got some of the best stuff in all of baseball.
- 29:07Speaker 8: Baskett with the run that he went on in the
- 29:10Speaker 8: postseason last year, Baz is unbelievable. Fling can eat innings
- 29:15Speaker 8: left and right. And Kramer he's you know, he's our bulldog.
- 29:18Speaker 8: He can eat innings too. So we got one of
- 29:21Speaker 8: the most underrated rotations in baseball, and just overall stuff
- 29:26Speaker 8: and just overall commands. So the fact that I get to,
- 29:29Speaker 8: you know, share a clubhouse with those five of the guys,
- 29:32Speaker 8: it's it's gonna be special.
- 29:34Speaker 1: That graphic Does that mean you're the opening day start?
- 29:36Speaker 1: Is that the graphic we just ran with you at
- 29:38Speaker 1: the top?
- 29:38Speaker 2: Does that mean they're opening?
- 29:42Speaker 5: That would be pretty cool. Huh.
- 29:43Speaker 8: But yeah, it's uh, it's gonna be pretty fun to,
- 29:46Speaker 8: you know, compete with all those guys, and you know,
- 29:48Speaker 8: we'll Yeah, when he when I talked to him, should
- 29:52Speaker 8: I you've probably poked the bear a little bit?
- 29:54Speaker 5: Okay?
- 29:55Speaker 2: Would that be something you'd be into?
- 29:56Speaker 8: It's definitely something that I want to, you know, what's
- 29:59Speaker 8: my career's have one at least one opening day start
- 30:02Speaker 8: you guys, you.
- 30:03Speaker 2: Guys open with the Twins. They have a lot of
- 30:06Speaker 2: lefties in their lineup. I don't know. It doesn't matter
- 30:08Speaker 2: what neutral.
- 30:10Speaker 5: Don't matter, don't matter, it don't matter. That's actually.
- 30:15Speaker 2: What's the new guys?
- 30:15Speaker 3: Like?
- 30:16Speaker 1: Some of the new guys you brought Pete? Uh, some
- 30:19Speaker 1: of the other guys that you've brought in? What is
- 30:22Speaker 1: p And I'm sorry, I'm half asleep, but uh?
- 30:26Speaker 2: Who else they bring?
- 30:27Speaker 1: A cross? Jackie Bat that's smart. I can't talk about him.
- 30:33Speaker 1: He thinks way too much. Peach Peach more on my level?
- 30:38Speaker 1: What's that?
- 30:40Speaker 3: Oh?
- 30:40Speaker 6: Same bos too more?
- 30:44Speaker 2: That was the one. Yeah, what are those guys like?
- 30:48Speaker 8: They're just all great additions to our team, all like
- 30:52Speaker 8: just great human beings. Peets you know, I think really
- 30:56Speaker 8: adds that veteran presence to to our lineup. And he's
- 31:02Speaker 8: great for us as a leader, even though he's been
- 31:04Speaker 8: with us, you know, two months. He's just that veteran
- 31:07Speaker 8: leader that this clubhouse needed. And Ward he's top not
- 31:12Speaker 8: human being, puts his head down, goes about.
- 31:15Speaker 2: His work the right way.
- 31:16Speaker 5: And and Bassett he's he's one of the kind. He's
- 31:19Speaker 5: he's a character through and through.
- 31:20Speaker 8: But his knowledge of the game and how long he's
- 31:22Speaker 8: been around, he's been huge for me personally and just
- 31:26Speaker 8: the whole pitching staff and bass.
- 31:28Speaker 3: Like.
- 31:28Speaker 8: I've played in the PG All American Game back in
- 31:32Speaker 8: sixteen with him, so it's cool to be around that
- 31:35Speaker 8: guy again. And he probably has the most effortless ninety
- 31:38Speaker 8: eight I've ever seen in my life. So he's top
- 31:42Speaker 8: not human being, great teammate and I'm gonna just love
- 31:45Speaker 8: watching him pitch every five six days.
- 31:47Speaker 1: Just don't talk about because he shakes himself off sometimes, right.
- 31:53Speaker 2: He's over there, He's like, no, no, no, I don't
- 31:56Speaker 2: want that.
- 31:57Speaker 5: No, I changed my mind exactly.
- 31:58Speaker 8: It's a little bit tiring watching him do his thing
- 32:01Speaker 8: out there sometimes, but it's it's also fun, all Right.
- 32:05Speaker 6: What's more impressive Tyler O'Neil with his shirt off or
- 32:10Speaker 6: Shane Bazz throwing a fastball at effortless ninety eight?
- 32:14Speaker 8: Man, I would say Shane, but I'd say I'm a
- 32:18Speaker 8: little bit more jealous of Tyler when he has his
- 32:20Speaker 8: shirt off because I wish I had those types of guns.
- 32:22Speaker 8: But yeah, it's it's seeing both of them. To be honest,
- 32:26Speaker 8: it's pretty special.
- 32:27Speaker 5: That's for sure.
- 32:29Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're a picture. You can't look like.
- 32:31Speaker 8: That is Yeah, I mean, Michael Lorenzen is probably the
- 32:34Speaker 8: closest thing to looking like.
- 32:36Speaker 5: It was was pretty good. It was really good.
- 32:39Speaker 8: I didn't like the result, but it was it was
- 32:41Speaker 8: pretty good to watch room for him, right of course.
- 32:43Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, that's fair.
- 32:45Speaker 8: What about Hellsley, oh Man, you talk about effortless, it's
- 32:51Speaker 8: an effortless.
- 32:53Speaker 5: Ninety nine to one hundred.
- 32:54Speaker 8: And he's also a guy that, you know, great clubhouse guy.
- 32:58Speaker 8: I think he's going to be another they're a really
- 33:00Speaker 8: good leader, you know, for the bullpen. In fact, just
- 33:05Speaker 8: with Batista unfortunately going down and being out majority of
- 33:08Speaker 8: this year, I think he's going to be a great
- 33:11Speaker 8: addition to the closer role and he'll really be able to,
- 33:15Speaker 8: you know, close some games out for us.
- 33:18Speaker 6: What are the conversations that are different from last year
- 33:21Speaker 6: because I know last year, you know, you weren't here,
- 33:24Speaker 6: you weren't in Baltimore the entire season, But what are
- 33:28Speaker 6: the how are the conversations different in spring where it
- 33:30Speaker 6: was like, guys, last year, we wanted to make the playoffs,
- 33:33Speaker 6: We wanted to win the World Series, and you guys
- 33:36Speaker 6: got punched in the mouth because of injuries, because of
- 33:38Speaker 6: all those things. How have those conversations changed even just
- 33:42Speaker 6: like a little bit, not expectations, but just the conversations
- 33:45Speaker 6: in spring.
- 33:47Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a good question. I think I think we
- 33:50Speaker 8: learned a lot last year. I think the saying goes,
- 33:54Speaker 8: you can't win a division in March and April, but
- 33:57Speaker 8: you can lose it. I think we learned that last year.
- 34:02Speaker 8: I think, to be honest, I think it was probably
- 34:04Speaker 8: the best thing that could have happened to us, because,
- 34:08Speaker 8: you know, the expectations have changed. I think we know
- 34:10Speaker 8: what it feels like to get punched in the mouth,
- 34:13Speaker 8: and we don't like that feeling. We don't want to
- 34:15Speaker 8: have that feeling again. And Albi has really set the
- 34:19Speaker 8: standard out of the gate. So I treat every day
- 34:21Speaker 8: like day one, especially, you know, as we're getting towards
- 34:24Speaker 8: kind of the dog days of spring training right now,
- 34:28Speaker 8: treating every day like day one, shown up to the
- 34:32Speaker 8: park with the same level intensity, same level energy and
- 34:35Speaker 8: work ethic. So it's all started with Albi. He's been
- 34:38Speaker 8: he's been unbelievable since day one.
- 34:41Speaker 1: The new spring training complex is incredible, right when they've
- 34:43Speaker 1: done here with the new the new complex.
- 34:46Speaker 2: But before we let you go, I have to do
- 34:47Speaker 2: you drive a truck in the offseason?
- 34:50Speaker 1: I did, because I'm looking at the parking lot over
- 34:52Speaker 1: here and it's a lot of like jacked up trucks.
- 34:54Speaker 1: I don't know if they notice about baseball players crafts,
- 34:56Speaker 1: but they all drive these really big trucks, and every
- 34:59Speaker 1: parking is out is built for a compact car. So
- 35:02Speaker 1: watching these guys try to park and then get out
- 35:04Speaker 1: in their door that only opens like this far is
- 35:07Speaker 1: making me laugh because if you look, I can't see it,
- 35:09Speaker 1: but there's like seven trucks lined up in a row
- 35:11Speaker 1: and they're all about this far apart from each other.
- 35:17Speaker 1: Here amazing except for the parking lot, which they forgot.
- 35:20Speaker 2: Everyone drives a giant truck.
- 35:23Speaker 8: Yeah, I haven't seen any I haven't seen any scratch paint.
- 35:27Speaker 8: So guys are doing a pretty good job. I mean
- 35:28Speaker 8: those through over there that the ford in the ram
- 35:31Speaker 8: or I don't know how the guy in the rams
- 35:33Speaker 8: they might have to get into the passenger side and
- 35:35Speaker 8: then crawl over exactly.
- 35:39Speaker 2: Well, Trevor, thank you very much. We really appreciate it.
- 35:41Speaker 5: Absolutely do it again. I appreciate you guys,