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MLB contender concerns + D’backs rookie Taylor Rashi’s inspiring rise · Foul Territory

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: In the Weeds.
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  Speaker 2: We played this game recently, we're going to play it again.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Biggest concern facing a contender. There's another article out in
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  Speaker 2: The Athletic and it brings up different questions. This time
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: it's more specific. Last time we went over this was
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  Speaker 2: more of a theme with a team. This time it's like,
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  Speaker 2: for example, Phillies, who's starting Game two of the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 1: Detroit?
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  Speaker 2: What's you're pitching after Trek Skoogle, which we've gone over
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  Speaker 2: on this show actually earlier this week. There's some questions
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  Speaker 2: about offenses.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's questions about every single team. So which
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  Speaker 1: one do you like? Though? Which one do you want.
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  Speaker 2: Us to do? This is Friday where you get to
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  Speaker 2: just look at the board and you get the sound
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  Speaker 2: off pop off. If you're an OGFT fan and you
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  Speaker 2: remember that segment from twenty twenty three, cook.
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  Speaker 1: Candy pop.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, no free and I'm I'm with I'm with you,
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  Speaker 3: what I I like it?
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  Speaker 4: Todd answer the question.
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  Speaker 1: Throw.
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  Speaker 2: Candy popcorn into your mouth?
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  Speaker 4: No free advertising, No free advertising. I mean, what's the
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  Speaker 4: biggest concern of any team because everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Has concerned, Well, it's pitching, but.
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  Speaker 4: Any individual team one well.
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  Speaker 3: I I I wanted to say the Mariners, but I
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  Speaker 3: feel like they're still set. Their pitching is is really good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I go with Boston Crochet has been really good,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, these other guys just haven't been a
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  Speaker 3: part of it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're saying lately they're great, but you don't
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  Speaker 2: know if you trust it in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I trusted in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Outside of or you're saying Crochet has recently done you
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  Speaker 4: feel like he's.
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  Speaker 3: Well, No, I feel like he'll be fine. Okay, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: don't do that. The guard he's really good.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, he's probably number two hit or miss God.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Are there some pictures where you watch them and you're like,
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  Speaker 2: that's more of a regular season play, Like, not that
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  Speaker 2: they can't perform in the playoffs, but are there some
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  Speaker 2: guys that you'd face and you're like, man, when this
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  Speaker 2: guy faces the top competition on the planet, the top
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  Speaker 2: team this year or whatever, he's gonna get roasted.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's guys that, Yeah, I don't think his
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  Speaker 4: stuff plays in the pressure pressure of the postseason. Not
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  Speaker 4: that he, like a certain picture will fold, but just
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  Speaker 4: more like, sorry, his stuff's not elite. Everybody's everybody's amped up,
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  Speaker 4: everybody's juice. The bats are a little bit quicker. I
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  Speaker 4: think whatever your whatever your strength is, it's it's magnified
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs. If you can hit a fastball, you
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  Speaker 4: could hit a bullet in the playoffs. And I think
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  Speaker 4: some pitchers you look at and you're like, he just
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  Speaker 4: empties the tank, empties the tank, every single pitch. I
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  Speaker 4: was talking about it last night on Pinch Striped Terriforatory.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's what Carlos Rodin used to be. He
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  Speaker 4: was just first pitch out, empty the tank, best slider,
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  Speaker 4: best slider. Last night, what I saw from him was
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  Speaker 4: he was able to locate some pitches that then later
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  Speaker 4: on if he needed a strikeout, if he got in
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  Speaker 4: a jam, bang he went to it and he never
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  Speaker 4: needed it. So it's like there's two levels to pitchers,
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  Speaker 4: and if a pitcher doesn't have that second level, those
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  Speaker 4: are the dudes in the playoffs I don't think are
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  Speaker 4: going to give you what you what you're looking for.
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  Speaker 4: It might go three innings, they might go four innings,
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  Speaker 4: but their managers just waiting to hit the bullpen button.
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  Speaker 4: Just go to the bullpen and they know it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: the team will let you know. No, you're good.
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  Speaker 3: The team that I know we have up here that
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  Speaker 3: I'm not worried about is it is the Tigers. Really
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  Speaker 3: Aj Hinch, Wow, it was one of the most Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this guy is playing chess.
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  Speaker 1: When everybody's playing checkers. Dude.
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  Speaker 3: He will start the guy for one inning, next guy
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  Speaker 3: comes in for two. Like he has boom, he has
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  Speaker 3: his sheets. Oh oh, day two, Day three, He's got
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  Speaker 3: eight hundred different things about exactly what he wants to do.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see if they can move up a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more after what they did last year.
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  Speaker 1: It would be fun to see the Tigers make a
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  Speaker 1: big push.
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  Speaker 4: But you don't have you don't have as many question
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  Speaker 4: marks with him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there is, but I just in AJ, we trust,
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  Speaker 3: That's all. I was so blown away when I did
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  Speaker 3: those games last year. This guy was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: In fairness, I see what you're saying, because last year
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  Speaker 2: they truly had school ball and then chaos. This year
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  Speaker 2: there's concern after schoolbl But can Jack Flaherty give you
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  Speaker 2: some good innings in the playoffs or absolutely can Casey
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  Speaker 2: Mice get through in order once or twice and make
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  Speaker 2: you feel good. Absolutely. I actually agree with you that
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  Speaker 2: from a depth perspective, there is more to it. I
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  Speaker 2: think they'll have an easier time getting through the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of a game and be a little bit less Schoogle reliant.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about this the other day, Kratz. They were
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  Speaker 2: completely Scoogle reliant. They're like, if Schoogle wins every game
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  Speaker 2: for us, we can go the distance. If he has
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  Speaker 2: one blip, we're done this year. If he has one
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  Speaker 2: blip or one okay, not bang or start, I think
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  Speaker 2: they can still win a series. Because Jack Flaherty last
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  Speaker 2: year was like, oh, he's amazing in the playoffs and
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  Speaker 2: he gets rocked. So if you get that version of Flaherty, great,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and he gets swing and miss. Jack Flaherty's
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  Speaker 2: stuff can play in the playoffs if he's feeling it.
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  Speaker 2: So I agree with him on that front. Did I
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  Speaker 2: want the Tigers to do more at the deadline, Sure,
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  Speaker 2: But I mean they've transformed Kyle Finigan as long as
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  Speaker 2: he's okay from the other day.
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  Speaker 5: He's a strikeout machine.
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  Speaker 2: Now Kyle Finigan just got paid like triple what he
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  Speaker 2: was going to get in the offseason, right, he made
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  Speaker 2: like six mil last offseason. He's probably gonna sign a
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  Speaker 2: two or three year deal for like six to eight
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  Speaker 2: mil a year, Like he might sign three years twenty
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  Speaker 2: one because they said, hey, you use your splitter thirty
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  Speaker 2: percent of the time, let's go fifty boom strikeouts. I
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  Speaker 2: mean it was I don't want to be I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to sound dumb because it's I'm not inside there,
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  Speaker 2: but like it did look that simple on paper, like
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  Speaker 2: strikeouts are up a ton. What's he doing pitch mix?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he's using his slider twenty percent more.
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  Speaker 4: It's so it's so crazy splitter, Yes, I know what
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  Speaker 4: you meant. It's so cringey. That the that the Nats
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  Speaker 4: just have never seen this, and they they had him.
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  Speaker 4: He was successful, He works hard, he was in big
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  Speaker 4: spots and they just never unlock that. That's tough to see.
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  Speaker 4: But for me, the one that facing the contending teams,
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  Speaker 4: because we're talking contending teams, that's the only reason they're
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  Speaker 4: on this list is the Cubs. Are the Cubs gonna be? Okay?
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  Speaker 4: How is how is Kyle Tucker gonna come back from
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  Speaker 4: this injury? Is he been playing with it for a while.
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  Speaker 4: Is this time off that he's gonna have going to
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  Speaker 4: get him completely healthy? Because if he's not completely healthy,
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  Speaker 4: see you, it's gonna be it's gonna be quick. And
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  Speaker 4: that's why I hesitated even talking about the Cubs because
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  Speaker 4: I think they're They're two and Q I mean a
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  Speaker 4: three game series. I just don't see how unless this
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  Speaker 4: offense changes what they're doing. PCA gets back on a heater,
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  Speaker 4: stops swinging at so many pitches.
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  Speaker 2: Sa Zuki too, Zuki.
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  Speaker 4: He was so pissed that he didn't make the All
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  Speaker 4: Star Game, which he should have, and then he forgot
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  Speaker 4: to come back for the second half. And now he's
• 7:42
  Speaker 4: got to play right field. And I'm afraid that if
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  Speaker 4: he's in right field, is that gonna wear him down?
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  Speaker 4: Is he already worn down? Is he dealing with something?
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  Speaker 4: It's a big month. You can change things in September.
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  Speaker 4: You can make those adjustments. Fortunately, they have a big
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  Speaker 4: enough lead that they're gonna be in the playoffs. They
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  Speaker 4: need to figure it out.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: Thank good questions, good talk Diamondbacks Rookie Taylor Rashie joining
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  Speaker 2: us right now on FT Taylor, great to have you on.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the time and since it's only been
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: what a couple of weeks. Congratulations on making the show man.
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  Speaker 2: How's life in the show?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, Thanks for having me. It's a
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  Speaker 5: pleasure to be here. It's great. It's it's a world
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  Speaker 5: win of emotions right now.
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  Speaker 6: It feels like this last week and a half has
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  Speaker 6: been a month long, but it's been like a week
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  Speaker 6: and it's it's a lot, but it's a good time.
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  Speaker 1: You're a big leaguer now, bro, Nobody can take that
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  Speaker 1: away from you.
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  Speaker 3: My question to you, is there anything in these couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks that you've been a part of that you've
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: done something wrong that you didn't know about? Like when
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  Speaker 3: you come to the big leagues. I remember my first time.
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  Speaker 3: I walked out with shorts and a T shirt on,
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  Speaker 3: and Arthur Road.
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  Speaker 1: Said, Yo, what you doing, man? Get your you know what?
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  Speaker 1: Back up to and get changed.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, I had no clue, Like,
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  Speaker 3: did you do anything wrong that you got called out for?
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  Speaker 1: Yet? Not yet.
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  Speaker 6: I think I've had some guys on the team. One
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  Speaker 6: of my teammates, Kyle Backus, he got called up earlier
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  Speaker 6: this year and he did some of those things. So
• 9:14
  Speaker 6: like the first when he first heard about it, he
• 9:16
  Speaker 6: sent me like a couple of paragraph long text message saying, hey,
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  Speaker 6: do this, don't do that, make sure you do this,
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  Speaker 6: show up early, like just the rookie things. But yeah,
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  Speaker 6: he he gave me a good briefing on what not
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  Speaker 6: to do because I know that he went through some
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  Speaker 6: of those things.
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  Speaker 1: What a great rookie. That's a good friend.
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  Speaker 4: That's a great friend, that's that's big by him, that
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  Speaker 4: you don't have to make his mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I had a couple of guys in Triple A, guys
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  Speaker 6: like Casey Kelly and other guys that have you know,
• 9:45
  Speaker 6: they've been big leaders a long time. They would have,
• 9:48
  Speaker 6: Like Casey went over to Korea, so he was able.
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  Speaker 6: Like before I went up, he's like, hey, like here's
• 9:52
  Speaker 6: the kind of the ground rules. Make sure you're in early,
• 9:55
  Speaker 6: out late, don't wear this, make sure you you know,
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  Speaker 6: stay out away in the training.
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  Speaker 5: Room like things like that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you're older than most of these dudes, so
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: it's got to be it's gotta be different. I broke
• 10:06
  Speaker 4: into the big leagues I was I was thirty years
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  Speaker 4: already my first time, so I was a rookie for
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  Speaker 4: the Pirates, and man, I think like ten or twelve
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: days into it was the trade deadline, they got rid
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  Speaker 4: of everybody. I went from one of the like middle
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: tier older guys to the oldest guy on the team
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  Speaker 4: with the least amount of service time. So when some
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: of these dudes start giving you a hard time, you
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: still have to sing on the bus. So I bet
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: I hope you have a song that you're ready to
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  Speaker 4: sing or play or dance one of the two or
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  Speaker 4: one of the three. But I do you gotta make
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: you do? Can you give us like a preview of
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: what that song is gonna be?
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  Speaker 6: The song I had to do this in college, so
• 10:47
  Speaker 6: I have I have like a little preparation. It's Party
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  Speaker 6: in the USA by Miley Cyrus. It's a pretty easy song.
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  Speaker 6: So that's what I kind of stick with.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So what's your big what's your first big league moment?
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  Speaker 4: You haven't been up there very long. What's your first
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  Speaker 4: big league moment that's something big league that you're like, dang,
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  Speaker 4: this is the show, not not. I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 4: like you're you know, you're out it, where you got
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  Speaker 4: your you got your first save, or like you're in
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  Speaker 4: like you're sitting in a bullpen and like, wow, the
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: stadium is big. But like something that's like like ca
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  Speaker 4: tell Marte's jewelry or something like something big league.
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  Speaker 6: There's there's a lot of that. I think my first
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  Speaker 6: big league moment was probably my first night. Even though
• 11:29
  Speaker 6: I got option after my game in the walkdown, I
• 11:31
  Speaker 6: flew back with the team to LA and so one
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  Speaker 6: of one of my relievers, Bryce Jarvis, took me out
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  Speaker 6: to a nice like rooftop sushi dinner in l A.
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  Speaker 6: And I was like, okay, like this is this is
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  Speaker 6: pretty show.
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  Speaker 5: This is cool.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So then for on the field moment, Taylor, you've made
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  Speaker 2: two appearances and you've been great. You've wracked up two
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  Speaker 2: saves already your first two appearances. That alone is pretty rare.
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: Your story is rare and cool, and obviously Kratz has
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  Speaker 2: gone through something somewhat similar. Right where you wait you
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  Speaker 2: get your time now to strike? But did you expect
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  Speaker 2: that in your first two appearances you would be thrust
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  Speaker 2: into this kind of spot. I have to admit I
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  Speaker 2: didn't catch the first one live. I caught the second
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  Speaker 2: one live. I watched and I'm like, damn, this is
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  Speaker 2: a moment. I mean, it was the Brewers the first
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: time around, that's best record in baseball. Second time around,
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: it's Texas. They're fighting for their playoff lives, and I'm like,
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: here's Taylor playing spoilers.
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  Speaker 1: So how cool was that?
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  Speaker 2: Because there's many relievers that go their whole career and
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  Speaker 2: they don't get to touch a save up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's cool.
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  Speaker 6: I think the first time in Milwaukee, I was kind
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  Speaker 6: of just thrown into it, kind of by luck.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't have we didn't have a lot of available
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  Speaker 5: arms with a bullpen.
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  Speaker 6: You know, our guys have been grinding down in the bullpen,
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  Speaker 6: and I knew that I was kind of called up
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  Speaker 6: to Phils innings, and those innings just happened to be seven,
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  Speaker 6: eight nine.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't really expecting that by any means. It was.
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  Speaker 5: It was crazy.
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  Speaker 6: I thought maybe I was gonna go out for the
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  Speaker 6: seventh and the eighth and then somebody had come in
• 13:04
  Speaker 6: for the ninth. But you know, after I walked in
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  Speaker 6: and the after the eighth inning was over and thenn't
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  Speaker 6: shake my hand, I was like, well, here we go.
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  Speaker 4: What is what is that? What is that like? For
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  Speaker 4: you in your situation. You've been in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 4: You've seen guys get optioned down, You've seen guys get dfayed.
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  Speaker 4: When you're out there that long. Do you ever think, oh, man,
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  Speaker 4: this is so many innings, I'm gonna be down tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: I guess. I guess I'm don't cancer your tickets, mom, dad, uncle, cousin,
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  Speaker 4: cancer your tickets. I won't be in I won't be
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  Speaker 4: in LA because they're gonna definitely option me. I just
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  Speaker 4: threw three innings. Do you think about that? Do guys
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  Speaker 4: say anything to you.
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  Speaker 5: I knew it was coming. I knew just the position
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  Speaker 5: I was in.
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  Speaker 6: I knew once I went out there for that third inning,
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  Speaker 6: I kind of sat in the dug out and I
• 13:56
  Speaker 6: was like, well, I need to make the best of
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  Speaker 6: my opportunity right now, because I know I'm gonna be
• 14:00
  Speaker 6: for two days at least, and they're gonna need guys
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  Speaker 6: to fill in. So I was like, you know, like,
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  Speaker 6: this is my opportunity. I gotta go make the most
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  Speaker 6: of it. And yeah, I did have to send out
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  Speaker 6: those text messages after the game, like hey, like, I'm
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  Speaker 6: not gonna be on the team in LA. So don't
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  Speaker 6: bother coming.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 4: You saved some money. You didn't have to get a
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: bunch of people tickets because you would have played for
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  Speaker 4: free if you went out to LA and you had
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: to get everybody tickets. But my yeah, my question is
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  Speaker 4: probably one that's been asked a million times, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: asking it because it got asked of me a million
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  Speaker 4: times as a thirty year old for myself going up
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  Speaker 4: to the big leagues? How many times did you think
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  Speaker 4: about quitting? And my answer was always a freaking ton
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  Speaker 4: But I was fortunate I never had any injuries. What
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  Speaker 4: is that for you? What is that? What is that is?
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  Speaker 4: What is the main time that you were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: this is probably when I should quit.
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  Speaker 6: It was probably when I tore my lat. At the
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  Speaker 6: end of the twenty two two seasons, I was in
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  Speaker 6: Double A. I was having the season of my life.
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  Speaker 6: I think I had like a sub two five era.
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  Speaker 6: I was, you know, I was cruising. I was having
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  Speaker 6: a great time. And then you know, we went up
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  Speaker 6: to Portland Main and I tore my.
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  Speaker 1: Lat and.
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  Speaker 6: I was just sitting there in the hotel after the game,
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  Speaker 6: and I was just like, man, like this, there's a
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: very good possibility and this is it. Like I'm getting
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: up there in age, I don't throw very hard, like
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  Speaker 6: this could be it. And and all throughout rehab, you know,
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: your rehab for a year, and I spent the entire
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: year living in hotels. And there's days where I would
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: just wake up and I'm like, man, what if I
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: just don't go to the field today, Like I there's
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  Speaker 6: nothing like I don't know if there's an end of
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  Speaker 6: the tunnel.
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  Speaker 5: With the light in it.
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  Speaker 6: I I just I was there was times where I
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: was like struggling to just motivate myself to get to
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: the field to do my lat rehab, and you know,
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: I just kind of felt like sometimes I was like,
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: you know, I don't know if this is all worth it.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: So there's countless times that you thought about quit, and
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: it's all it's hard. It's hard to even like conceptualize
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: or like put it on paper. Was there somebody? Was
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: there somebody that kept you going? Was there somebody that's
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: like pissed you off that you're like, oh screw that,
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna show that person. You know what motivates you
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: to keep going?
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a kind of a decent amount of people
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: I have a little list of my phone of people
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: like throughout my career, starting in like high school, that
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: have like told me like, hey, like you're too slow,
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: you don't throw hard enough, you're not good enough. You know,
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: you're out of shape. Like just people throughout my entire
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: career that have told me like, hey, you're not like
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: you don't have a chance. Like there's less than one
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: percent of you know, people that play baseball that make
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: it like why are you that person?
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: So like, yeah, there's.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: A pretty solid list of people where I'm just like,
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: you know, like I have to prove these people wrong.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: I like proving people wrong. It kind of is my motive.
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: And so yeah, there's a list of people and a
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: couple of them got text messages.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, hey receipts.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe I love every sec receipts.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: He's catching them receipts in.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Chang here's one. Ching love every second of that. That
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: he might be have a little jersey in him.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: No, I like that.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he definitely does a little swag piece. My question
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: here is I want to talk about minor leagues a
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: little bit about the pitchers. I know you guys understand,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: but you talk a lot is there a main focus
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: on velocity, Like do you guys always talk about velocity
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: and how much you know in the big leagues and
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: where you're at now, it's about speed and movement on
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: the baseball.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, there's always less from the staff, less
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: from like pitching coaches and all that stuff, because like,
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: you have what you have, and like, gaining velocity in
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: the season is it's hard. It's almost impossible, especially after
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: a long season. But like throughout the pitching staff the bullpen,
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: like everyone's trying to find something that you know it's
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: going to give them an extra mile or two an hour.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: And that's something I struggled with a lot last year.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: You know, I got suck into those conversations and I
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: tried all year. I was throwing away the balls, I
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: was doing everything, doing the extra stuff in the gym,
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: going out on the mound and like trying to throw harder.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: I was really focusing on, like, hey, how can I,
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: you know, get my average fastball velo up a mile
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: an hour or two? And that really led to me
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: being less efficient, throwing less strikes, not hitting my spots.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: And you know, this year I kind of just accepted.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: I was like you know what, I'm going to be
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: that guy that throws eighty eight to ninety one, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: I just have to accept that. And I know it
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: will probably take longer to get some recognition just because
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: I don't throw very hard. But eventually my thought was,
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: you know, results are going to end up outweighing the
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: what if he threw ninety three? What if he threw
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: ninety four type talk that I know people have.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're always going to talk about that, But you
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: got two saves in the show, So piss on that
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: heavy ball and running and gunning and throwing it as
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: hard as you can, and you know ball four never
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: gets an out. But my question to you is you're
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: with the Diamondbacks. When I watched your video when I
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: watched the game the other day, we brought it up
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: here and I said to Scott, I said, who do
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: you think that guy looks like? Who does he pitch like?
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Is there a direct comparison of a probably twenty twelve
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Diamondback pitcher. You probably don't even know him, but his
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: name probably has come up because he came up through
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: the Diamondbacks system. Is there ye are you compared? Are
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: you comparing to that person?
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we talked about cale mentor.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Yes, and is that is that unfair? Because he was
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: shorter than you were, so that's not cool. But the
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: pitching do they do they mention that as Diamondbacks, you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: staff and stuff.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: I mean, I've heard that for the last like three
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: or four years. I remember, you know, briefly watching him
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: when I was younger, and I never really put it together.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: And then my my coach at Ucar Van ben Orloff
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: called me in the office one day in the offseason.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: He goes, hey, like, you know, you don't throw very hard,
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: but you throw exactly like this guy. And I was like, who, Like,
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: who throws like me? Like, I know, I'm unique, I know,
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: I'm weird, like and He's pulled up a video and
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: I was like, yeah, that's yeah, I throw exactly like him.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: So and he's like, just keep doing that.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: One day, it'll work out, and thankfully it did.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Definitely did that measureable we got measure I Yeah, I'm wrong.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: I thought Cole Mener was more like a six foot guy,
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: six foot like two ten to twenty. He's six three
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: two forty. You're six four two twenty. I thought you
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: were much taller.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: But and then you use the extension too, right.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, can you can you dive in can you dive
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: into that at all in a sense of like the
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: extension that you get and what that I'm not going
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: into the numbers of analytics because I think will bore
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: some people, But there's no way you haven't been able
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: to successfully increase your velocity from what you said, have
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: you been able to successfully increase your extension, your angle
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: of attack, your spin rate in ways that has helped
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: you way more than two or three miles an hour
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: when your velocity would.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've always been a guy that's had pretty good extension.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: I get around seven feet of extension on any given fastball,
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: and so I kind of was just lucky that I've
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: always had that and I didn't really know I had
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: it until I got into professional baseball because that's when
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: I all like the analytics and they start telling me
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: all this stuff. But yeah, that kind of stuff has
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: really helped me because I know it makes my eighty
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: eight look a little bit faster. And just I've heard
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: from like our first baseman's, our shortstops or second basement,
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: like when they talk to hitters that are hitting off me,
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: they're like it says eighty eight on the board, but
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: it gets on you a lot faster than any other
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: eighty eight like that they seen. So I know that
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: the the extension helps me a lot.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Do you know how?
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: First of all, do you remember who?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Do you remember who.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Told you that? Was it just some like dude who
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: was like, excuse me, Taylor, you have incredible extension or
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: was it like do you remember the coach?
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: No, I don't remember the coach per se. I just
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: know that.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: It would come up in meetings, just like with you know, pitching,
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: development staff and stuff like that, that it's like I
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: have good extension. And to be honest, I never really
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: was one since I'm a little bit older that was
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: heavy into analytics or even like trying to understand them
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: because they're all just so arbitrary to me, Like I
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: don't still to this day, I don't get a lot
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: of understand a lot of the numbers. But they're just like, hey,
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: don't change that, And I was like, well, I don't
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: plan on changing how I pitched. I don't think that's
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: going to change.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I don't don't.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't know how to change it if I could,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: so there's do you know, because everybody compares veloci, everybody's
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: gonna say Ben Joyce throws this. When you're a team,
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Justin Martinez throws triple digits. Extension is a real thing.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Do you know how you compare your extension compared to
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: other guys that have elite extension? I know, or might
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: be nerding out, but like guys need to know where
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: you compare and why you, in my opinion, could have
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: a really good career.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I kind of know where I stand as far extension.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: I know there's there's a lot of guys with more
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: extension than me. I mean, you got Miserwski nowadays is
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: I think he's like seven to five seven six extension
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: or something like that, still throwing a hundred.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: So I can't imagine what that looks like.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: But I know just from what I've been told and
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: like numbers I've seen that, you know, I'm pretty high
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: up there on the extension list, or at least above average,
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: And so I think I think that helps me a lot,
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: and it helps me have confidence the fact that okay,
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: yeah I throw eighty eight, but it moves a little
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: bit and it gets on you a little bit. Faster
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: than what the board says.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: It should it should. I'm only saying this because I
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: want to encourage kids who are pitching that don't have
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: ninety five at sixteen years old, that this is the
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: beauty of baseball. You have a superpower. Go out there
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: and know that you've got a freaking superpower, and you
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: can get everybody out because when they get out, they're
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: gonna look at the board and go, how did this
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: guy get me out? And then every two weeks you're
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: gonna get a big league check in your pocket. And
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: that is the beauty of baseball, coming from a guy
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: who did, like I said, didn't make the big leagues
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: until I was thirty. And you have to find your way,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: and it's your way because when you get optioned down
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: or dfad, nobody cares, but you do, so do every
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: you have a superpower. It's okay, thank you, thank you.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's uh, it's a crazy it's a crazy thing.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Because even when I was fifteen sixteen, like I threw
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: a lot slower than I do now, and it took
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: a long time to realize that, like I was still
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: able to get people out, not throwing hard, And then
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: it took me a little bit longer to have confidence
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: in that, and then once I just had screw it,
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: like that's what I got and that's what you're gonna get.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: That really kind of helped me a lot.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Well, it's an awesome story. We appreciate the time. These
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: are great ones for us. Yes, we've got the man
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: with experience on the desk here. So yeah, not many
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: shows where you're like, yep, I'm gott an interviewed guy,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: A guy who took just as long, yeah, longer.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Longer, he got their way before, so he's he's he
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: must be a prospect compared to me. But now now
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Scott said, we were we were questioning how to say
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: your name? What's the worst? What's the worst pa announcing
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: of your name, your last name that anybody's done.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: I think the worst one is probably Russhi. That's they
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: say it like with a you in there, like uh
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: like Rashi Rice, like the football player. I think that's
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: probably the worst one.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: But that's the worst one, not like not Rashy, like
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: oh here comes Rashie again, he's real Rashy.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Well that's that's actually how you pronounce it, so that
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: would be.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I thought it was more it was a mix of
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: A and I because that's how I kind of heard it,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: like Tayler rashi, which a little broadcaster trick if you
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: don't know, that's how you do it, right, Like you
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: just mix. Yeah, you hear the mix on a lot
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: of names. That's what you do. But it's rat not raw.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: So everyone teammates, coaches, everyone always calls me rashi, which
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: I'm totally used to. But the right way is rash.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: There you go beat more, you know, that's what where
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: That's what you used to say about Todd too, he's
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: very rashy.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Hey, well this was great Taylor. Thanks for joining us.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Now the world knows the name. And keep doing your thing. Man,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: it's a great story.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Awesome. Thank you guys for having me on. I appreciate it.