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Justin Verlander, Riley Greene & Dillon Dingler join FT @Tigers camp · Foul Territory

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: We're here at Old Timer's Day in Lakeland with Justin
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Berlander man forty three years old. Did you get all
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: the feels when you came back to Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I actually did, man, and a lot of nostalgia here,
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: you know, really more just like driving around the city.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: I spent so much time here. I lived here in
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: the off season for a long time when I was younger.
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  Speaker 2: So pretty cool to be back.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you got that call from Scott Harris and
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: from the Tigers and then and then you thought, man,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna happen. What went through your mind?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man, There's a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of thoughts, you know, a lot of emotion, honestly, Like
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  Speaker 2: I think it happened so quickly, didn't really have time
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  Speaker 2: to process it. And then once it got announced, just
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  Speaker 2: like the outpouring of people that messaged me was really
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: what what made it seem so real and hit home
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 3: Was there a little part of you that said, maybe
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: maybe not, let's see what else is out there, just
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  Speaker 3: because of everything that goes with it, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, No, I think like I I I really enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco last year, that the organization was really classy,
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  Speaker 2: and the guys were awesome, but being West Coast for
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: the first time, and you know, it kind of felt like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: this year, when I really sat down at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the season and thought about what I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: do next, I thought I wanted to be somewhere that
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  Speaker 2: had some meaning for me, you know, so, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: having the opportunity to come back here obviously checked that
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  Speaker 2: box for me.
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  Speaker 4: I had so much history here with the organization, so
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  Speaker 4: I reached.
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  Speaker 2: Out really early on and thankfully by the end, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it seemed like there was a fit there. And with that,
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  Speaker 2: with that kind of thought in the back of my mind,
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  Speaker 2: I really kind of really kind of chased it.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any chance that you ever signed with the
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: team that doesn't have orange? Because the time is running out,
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  Speaker 3: like we need something without a little bit of orange?
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  Speaker 5: Just a question?
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  Speaker 2: Uh No, I think at this point I just got
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  Speaker 2: to stick with the orange theme. Yeah, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: the Giants with the cream and the black kind of
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  Speaker 2: threw me. It had been an orange and blue all
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  Speaker 2: before that. So but yeah, it's lately when one team left, So.
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  Speaker 1: You must you must love Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: I have all the guard Yes, I go as myself
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  Speaker 2: what would you What if someone.
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  Speaker 1: Saw you all in all seriousness, So if you walked
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  Speaker 1: around at Halloween and you had a full Tiger's Astros
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  Speaker 1: jersey and it said Verlander on the back, do you
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  Speaker 1: think anybody would stop you and say, are you really think.
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  Speaker 4: It's too on the nose? Yeah? I think they would, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you think people would say there's no way
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  Speaker 1: that Justin Verlander would walk around in a verlind.
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  Speaker 4: Or the Ultimate Trick? Yeah? Yeah, no, I think people would.
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  Speaker 2: It depends on where I would if I did it
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  Speaker 2: in like, you know, Detroit or somewhere you know, somewhere
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  Speaker 2: I'm more recognizable as a baseball player.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you didn't, and where you lived and
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  Speaker 1: in home beach Shooper. Are you don't think anyone would know?
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  Speaker 4: Probably? I think so. I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what if Kate did it?
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  Speaker 4: If she were my jersey?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I think that also would attract some attaent.
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  Speaker 3: Now, all right, so obviously you don't have your BlackBerry anymore,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have your trans jam anymore from when you
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  Speaker 3: first got called up to the big leagues. But how
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: much are you like thinking of nostalgic things going back
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  Speaker 3: to Detroit? You haven't been up there for a home
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  Speaker 3: game yet, not even just fans, but just everything that
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  Speaker 3: goes around, like being a Detroit Tiger in the city
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  Speaker 3: of Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I on one hand, I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: not to think about it too much and just prepare
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  Speaker 2: myself for baseball. But on the other hand, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I take the game mound here for the first time
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  Speaker 2: in Lakeland a week or two ago, and and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the fan ovation was pretty amazing, the outpouring of friends
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  Speaker 2: and family when I signed with Detroit, Like I know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a big deal. A lot lot of old friends
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  Speaker 2: reached out and told me how excited the city was.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm I'm it means a lot to me.
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  Speaker 2: And I think one of the things I'm doing as
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  Speaker 2: I get older is trying to embrace these things a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more and not be so much like a
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  Speaker 2: horse with blinders on and just focus on just just
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  Speaker 2: pitching and being able to take in some of these
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  Speaker 2: moments and be a little more present and and and
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  Speaker 2: so that's something I'm I'm looking forward to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you when you take the map, when you
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  Speaker 1: take the mouth for the first time in co America,
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming you guys have six games on the road,
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  Speaker 1: so you're gonna start get your first start back in
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  Speaker 1: Detroit where they're San Diego or Arizona. Fine, but that
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  Speaker 1: first time when you walk out to k America. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I remember when I went back to like Chicago
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. In the ovation you get now
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  Speaker 1: you're you're a way bigger deal. So you're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: a way bigger ovation, which is I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: you're pretty big deal in. But it's all, it's all,
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  Speaker 1: it's all, it's all gonna be love and it's all.
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  Speaker 1: And you walk out there, I mean like I kind
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  Speaker 1: of got tier tier eye. You think that that will happen?
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  Speaker 1: Are you just gonna soak it in? I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: definitely got to go pat tip. I love you guys,
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  Speaker 1: but then you gotta kind of reel it back in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah after the first bitch, Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I I don't know, these things aren't scripted,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, it's just kind of like, uh, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what's gonna happen for me personally. I I uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's one of the things that once you
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  Speaker 2: get more comfortable with your route as a veteran and
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  Speaker 2: know what you need to do to be prepared and
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  Speaker 2: lock it in that that that's why you're able to
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  Speaker 2: take these moments and appreciate them a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: and kind of come out of your shell for for
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  Speaker 2: a period of time and then kind of lock it
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  Speaker 2: back in. So, you know, one of my goals this
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  Speaker 2: year is to just appreciate things and the surroundings a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more than I have.
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  Speaker 5: One of your goals too, is to win.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just the reality of why people why people
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  Speaker 3: get on the field. How does your body feel? How
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  Speaker 3: does the arm field compared to you last year when
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  Speaker 3: you got off to a little bit of a slower start.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you know, I think last year, coming
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  Speaker 2: off the year before, I think one of the biggest
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  Speaker 2: things for me is to check check the box that
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  Speaker 2: for myself that I could go every five six days
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  Speaker 2: and and kind of reel off a bunch of starts
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  Speaker 2: and just kind of get back into the routina things.
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  Speaker 2: So it took me a little while to kind of
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  Speaker 2: get back into that into that cycle, but once I did,
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  Speaker 2: I felt I felt pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like I'm kind of picking up where
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  Speaker 4: I left off.
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  Speaker 2: Things are, you know, it's not as easy to add
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  Speaker 2: forty three to work out the kinks, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: as it was when I was twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, they work themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Out, and as long as you're kind of able to
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  Speaker 2: go out there and kind of rinse and repeat every
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  Speaker 2: five six days, I think, Uh, you wake up in
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  Speaker 2: you know, the middle of April and towards the end
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  Speaker 2: of April, and you start feeling fresh and good and
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  Speaker 2: your body's getting used to the routine and and so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's where we're at right now, just building up.
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  Speaker 4: And like I.
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  Speaker 2: Said, some kinks there for sure, but but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: nothing too bad.
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  Speaker 1: What wou'd you figure out in the second half? Because
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  Speaker 1: your second half.
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  Speaker 4: Some mechanics stuff, you know, I uh.
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  Speaker 1: You've always had really clean mechanics.
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  Speaker 4: But they've changed a lot over the years.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it kind of is always kind of ebbed
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  Speaker 2: and flowing different direct Did I.
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  Speaker 1: Know that was one of the worst things. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: thought you did which made a bad corse.
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  Speaker 5: I did.
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  Speaker 4: I'm always paying attention to that. But but uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's just the hitters will tell you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you work all off season and you can
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  Speaker 2: work on whatever you want. And then you come into
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  Speaker 2: spring training and it's like I've always said this, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's just you need you need hitters in the box,
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  Speaker 2: and you need that instinctual recognition from the hitter, like
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  Speaker 2: when they're trying to recognize what which it is, where
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  Speaker 2: it's at in the zone. And you know, you can't
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  Speaker 2: hide those instincts that you've you've you guys have accrued
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  Speaker 2: over over so much time. So really, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: try to do everything I can to make sure my
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  Speaker 2: mechanics around my spot. But then as soon as you
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  Speaker 2: step on the mound and see hitters and how they're
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  Speaker 2: reacting to your pitches is the first time that you
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  Speaker 2: need to start making adjustments.
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  Speaker 4: So last year was a constant adjustment.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, it wasn't good in their first half, and I
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  Speaker 2: was trying to find what could make it click and
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  Speaker 2: then finally found this thought process that there's something to
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  Speaker 2: do with kind of like getting on top of the
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  Speaker 2: ball a little bit more, and that seemed to clean
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  Speaker 3: When you decide to not play anymore, what will you
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  Speaker 3: miss the least? Not miss the most? What will you
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  Speaker 3: miss the least?
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  Speaker 4: Being away from my family?
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  Speaker 1: Wait?
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  Speaker 7: Wait?
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  Speaker 4: Is that right? Is those a double negative?
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  Speaker 1: Wait the other way?
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  Speaker 4: The other way?
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  Speaker 1: You'll miss that the most.
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  Speaker 4: I'll miss that the most? Wait?
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  Speaker 1: No, but you won't you miss Yeah, that kind of
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: what he said did make sense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's the other way around then, I mean I think,
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  Speaker 2: uh so, wait, I'm not answering what's the best.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: To like, you know, the least the least what's your
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: least favorite thing?
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: That your least favorite?
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: You can say no, no, no, because one day when
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: you're in the media, just remember.
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  Speaker 4: That I'm doing this, you know. I think.
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  Speaker 2: All the prep that goes into it, you know, now, like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot, you know, I think, uh, it's the
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  Speaker 2: routine is something you just kind of get in the
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  Speaker 2: grind of. But but as you guys know, once you
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: get older, I mean, all that prep and all the
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: time of the training room and all that stuff, I
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: won't I won't miss that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And then that's the right way.
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  Speaker 4: Did I answer that?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 4: I'm still as.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: Exactly right because people ask me the same thing, like,
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: what do you do you miss playing?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 1: I don't actually miss playing, but I missed the competition
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  Speaker 1: of staying.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's the goal, right, Like I think you
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: when you when you check out and you retire and
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: you hang them up, I think the goal is to
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: like not miss playing, Like, Okay, I did everything I
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: wanted to do. You're from what I hear, you miss
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  Speaker 2: all the camaraderie and all the Yeah, but that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the fun stuff.
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  Speaker 4: But but you.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: Don't miss the travel. You don't miss the media, you
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: don't miss the getting ready to prep right, that stuff
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  Speaker 1: is all you're like, yeah, gosh, I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: get ready for a game.
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  Speaker 2: Today, right, That's the goal is to feel like complete,
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: you know, like all right on to the next chapter.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, Terrek's here obviously he's well he's not here today,
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: but he's back with USA. Did you have conversations with
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: because I thought what he went through was not fair.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: He went to pitch one time, which is more than
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: you guys can say.
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  Speaker 2: With the freeze, I mean, I mean, it's it's so
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: easy to sit here and like uh uh uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks.
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  Speaker 4: As as as as a casual.
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  Speaker 2: Fan, but like, what this guy's risking to go and
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  Speaker 2: do that, Like we like we know that it's a
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: lot of stress on the body.
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  Speaker 4: Like we know it's not easy to go and do that.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody that doesn't play the game, I don't think they
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  Speaker 2: really understand that that, like the level of competition, your
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: body is just not quite ready for it. And you
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: get used to this build up routine, you get used to, okay,
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: spring training, game or you know, like a LIVP before
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: you step on a game mound.
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  Speaker 4: There's a reason that we.
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: Do a LIVP before we go and step on the
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  Speaker 2: game mound because there's a tick up of intensity. Naturally,
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: it just happens, and you know, you need to kind
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: of like ease that process up. So for him to
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: step in pretty quickly into that intense of an atmosphere.
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  Speaker 4: It's a big ask.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think it was very admirable for him
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  Speaker 2: to go and do it. And and and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think anybody in the world can understand what's staring
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  Speaker 2: him right in the face is the best picture on
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  Speaker 2: the planet right now, and and and coming into free agency.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it showed how much he cares that
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: he was willing to do it. I haven't done in
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  Speaker 2: the past.
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  Speaker 1: Would you have done it, though, if you were going
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  Speaker 1: to be a say your last year originally before you
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  Speaker 1: were a free agent, would you have done that?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I I I can't put myself. It's it's
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  Speaker 4: a I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's a different World Baseball Classic now than it
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  Speaker 2: was when I first started.
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  Speaker 4: I can't. I can't answer that, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: Like and I told Trek, I was like, dude, it's
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: it's uh, you know, this is your decision. You you
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: have a lot more information than I ever would at
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: this point because you've gone and pitched in one of
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: those games and now you understand like what that feels
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  Speaker 2: like and whether you you know, and and I you know.
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  Speaker 2: I think another thing is a lot of guys did
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: the same thing. A lot of guys went and pitched
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: the game there and then went back to their kid.
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: He's got a spotlight on him. You know, he's that
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  Speaker 2: he's good exactly because he's the best game and like
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: people are gonna talk about him and and you know.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, to answer your question, I thought I thought
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  Speaker 2: some of the criticism was at it was it was unfair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, last thing before we let you go, your brother.
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  Speaker 1: I saw your brother in Miami. He was covering the
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  Speaker 1: WBC but Japan had just lost and he was in
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  Speaker 1: tears underneath, right because of his love for show. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so this year, if you face show, hey, and show, Hey,
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: hits a homer off you. Will your brother be cheering
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: for showing, or he'd be cheering for you?
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  Speaker 2: Come on, no, no, no, no, he's cheering for me one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent all the way. There might be an inkling
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  Speaker 2: back there somewhere deep, but he'll shut it down with patents.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. And now are you sick of the
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: video he shows of him going deep off you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, okay, good. One of my favorite guys of all
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: time to compete against. We had some absolute battles words
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: going back and forth. Not then you can imagine that crowds,
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: but also I think the guy who I have the
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: most career at bats off of in my career, he
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: got me a lot more than I got him. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think I think I have more career
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  Speaker 1: at bats of you than anybody.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we face a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was like seventy almost one hundred bats,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, it was a lot, a lot. I think
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  Speaker 1: I think I have one hundred plate appearances. He hit
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: me twenty times, I walked once and then like seventy
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: five career bats. So but no, justin Berlin Ard, thank you,
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: one of my favorites and I can't wait to see
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: you back in the old.
• 13:11
  Speaker 4: D appreciate.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: Here with Riley Green, Crafts is gonna hate it, but
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: another another Central Florida guy and Orlando guy. So we
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: are back here and we're just gonna talk to Central
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: Florida guys the whole day, Crafts because there's not a
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: lot of Pennsylvanians and Transylvanian. There's not a lot of
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: vampires around here, whatever you guys are called. So we're
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: gonna talk to Florida guys and we have all star
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: stud slugger and got by the way, I found out
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: something about you today. You could have played for Team
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico and the WBC and you did not do it.
• 13:51
  Speaker 7: No, I did not.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 13:54
  Speaker 8: I mean I just wanted to, you know, kind of
• 13:56
  Speaker 8: go through spring, you know, kind of ramp up the way,
• 14:00
  Speaker 8: you know, slow and take my time.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: So what does what does your how does Riley Green
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: translate to Puerto Rico team?
• 14:08
  Speaker 7: So my mother is Puerto Rican?
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, she.
• 14:13
  Speaker 8: Does not speak any Spanish. We don't really know much
• 14:18
  Speaker 8: about a Puerto Rican side of the family.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh so, But Joey Cora recruited.
• 14:24
  Speaker 7: You Joey Cora.
• 14:27
  Speaker 8: Was, you know, calling me, texting me, showing up to
• 14:31
  Speaker 8: my locker every day.
• 14:33
  Speaker 7: Just hey man, you're gonna play.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: You're gonna play.
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: No, Joey, I'm.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Not If you would have played, would you have dyed
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: your hair and your beard yellow white, whatever colored colored?
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: I would have had to.
• 14:47
  Speaker 8: I definitely wouldn't have liked it, but I would have
• 14:49
  Speaker 8: had to for.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: How long would it take for you to die? Because
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: this thing is thick?
• 14:52
  Speaker 9: It is?
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 14:55
  Speaker 8: I don't know, to be honest, I'd probably have to
• 14:56
  Speaker 8: shave it all off after I died it because I
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: I don't think I'm gonna look.
• 15:01
  Speaker 7: Good with a blonde beard, so maybe nah, I don't think.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: So what when's the last time you shave fully?
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: Fully?
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen my chin since like twenty fifteen. I
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: don't need It's still there only because I can feel it,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: but I've actually never seen what it looks like underneath.
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: It's also been like it's probably been like six years.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe you're young.
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: I had a mustache during the season.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: When was this? This is this year? Yeah, well you
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: had a mustache. You only mustache.
• 15:32
  Speaker 8: I mean I had to I had to switch something
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: up I had to you made the All Star Team.
• 15:39
  Speaker 7: Thank god for the mustache. I mean it was great.
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: It helped me get through whatever the heck I was
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: going through, so that's true. I needed it back.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: Do you feel like.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five was a successful season? Anybody can run
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: the stats. Everybody's gonna hate on certain things, everybody's gonna
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: love on the All Star Game. Does Riley Green think
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: that Riley I had a successful twenty twenty five personally,
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: not team wise?
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I think it was. I think it was great.
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: There's obviously some things need to work on, you know,
• 16:11
  Speaker 8: strikeout wise and things like that, but overall, I thought
• 16:16
  Speaker 8: it was really really good.
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: But there's definitely a lot more left in the tank.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: How do we cut down on the strikeouts? Because that's
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: the one thing I think all the people that I
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: get to cover, the one thing they say, man, Riley
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Green incredible hitter power, RBIs can play defense, but dick strikeouts.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: How do you cut down on strikers? Because we'll talk
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: to AJ Hinch and he'll tell us, well, guys aren't
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: going up there to swing and miss. You're not going
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: up there saying I'm just gonna strike out this minut
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: and I'm done. The only guy I've ever heard say
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go up there and strike out. He didn't
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: mean it, but his line was, if I there's a
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: run around first done, why I'd just strike out? Well,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I thought I might hit into a double play, so
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I figured i'd strike out only make one at bet right.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: So but you're not going up there saying, man, I'm
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: gonna go up there and swing and miss three times.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: So how do you cut that down without losing everything
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: else that you have with it?
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: I think I got into kind of a phase where
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: I thought I could hit everything over the fence. It
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: was just like, you know, a body felt good, swing
• 17:10
  Speaker 8: felt good.
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: I was swinging at everything, and obviously the strikeouts showed.
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: And even in like situations, you know, a runnerund second
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: less than two outs, I'm still trying to take a
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: big swing. So me knowing the situation, knowing the game, hey,
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: we don't need to take a ginormous swing here. You know,
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: there's times where I'm going to take my shot, and
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: there's times where you know, other guys take their shots too,
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: But it's also times where, hey, you know, a double
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: is just as good as a homer and things like that.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: So just really trying to read the game. Don't let
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: the game speed up, and you know, just in certain
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: moments take my shot, but in other moments, back down
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: and hey, let's hit a double instead of a homer.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Is that a preparation thing or is that like you've
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: talked about speeding up and fans think, oh, well, what
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: the pitch clock? It's hard to make those decisions. Is
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: that a predetermined thing when you're walking up to the plate.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Can it be a decision that you make in the moment,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: because nobody walks up to the plate and goes if
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I get to two strikes, No, you're thinking, I'm gonna
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: see this ball middle middle, I'm hitting a dinger.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: But is it is? How do you slow the game down?
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: I mean I think it. I think it starts on deck.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: I mean whatever happens with the guy in front of
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: you kind of dictates what you're gonna do, right, So
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: I mean, if you know, if someone it's a double
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: or a triple with less than two outs, hey i'm
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: gonna you know, I'm gonna choke and poke and you know,
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: score that run. But you know, if there's a situation
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: where you want to take a shot. You know you
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: feel good and you know you like the matchup. Hey,
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: maybe take a shot.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: When's the last time you did that? Though legitimate, because
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: you were a stud in high school, you cruise through
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the minor leagues, you've been great in the big league club.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: When's the last time you went up to the plate
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: and said, man, I'm just really going to try and
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: roll over and hit a ground ball a second to
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: move together a third.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: Actually, I mean I'm not trying to roll over, but
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: you know my sights are, Hey, I need to I
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: need to get this guy over. Let's you know, let's
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: get something close to me and I hit a pull
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: side either you know, ball in the gap, and if
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: if I happen to roll over, it's still a win.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Okay. So when yeah, during the season, last year, times playoffs,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: times you when you go so when Riley Green walks
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: up to the plate with a run around second lesson
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Noel's right, say, whoever sit in front of you hits
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: a double, lead off double and you're up, and you
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: walk up to the plate and you say, all right,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I'm really going to focus on getting this guy over.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Because a lot of times when you talk to coaches,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: they say, we don't want Riley Green to be forced
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to pull the ball right because you have power to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: left center too. So to me, I love hearing that
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: because to me, that's like a lost art. Someone can
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: go up there and hit do that, but I just
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: don't hear that from a lot of coaches. So I
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: love that you said that.
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I'm not like, I'm not like trying
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: to go up and roll over the first base and
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: like I'm just all I'm doing is changing my sights
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: from let's say left center to right center.
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: And you know, if I get a heater, I'm going
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: to hit the right center.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: If I get you know, some off speed, I'm probably
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: going to hit a ground ball, but it's going to
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: move the runner and it's going to do a job.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: And then for you, your key is the site to
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: left center right, Yeah.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Center to left center.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Just can you explain what that means because a lot
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: of people don't understand when when people say, oh, I
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: move my site, meaning, can you explain what that means
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to someone sitting at home.
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, So it's where it's where I want to hit
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: the ball. And it's just like the direction I want
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: my body to kind of feel like it's going, so,
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: you know, trying to hit the heater to center field,
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: left center sometimes if I'm not, if I'm late, I'll
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: just move with the right center. It's just so I
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: can try to be on time. And it's just kind
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: of like a mental thing, like a mental queue too.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: You know, make sure your body's in the right position
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: and you know, make sure you're on certain pitches and
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: you're hitting the ball where you want to.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Defensively, where do you feel you're at defensively playing in
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: the outfield coming into this season?
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: I feel great.
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: I feel really good, you know, still in left field.
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: I mean, you know, just ready to go and yeah,
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: feel good.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Is there anything that you're working on for that to
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: improve that part of your game? Because when you talk
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: about perennial All Stars, to me, when you take that
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: next step, it's the constant. It's like your best seasons
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: on both sides of the ball every single year. So
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: is there something that you did, like a concerted effort
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: to continue to improve that from this offseason?
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: Working on my prep step because when I I get
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: into trouble sometimes I'll you know, I'll walk into it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: I'll do a little hot, but then for some reason
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: in my brain, I'll hop to the right or to
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: the left, and.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: It kind of sounds weird.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: But when I hop to either side, you know, I'm
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: kinda I'm losing. I'm losing one of the sides if
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: the balls hit there. So I'm trying to, you know,
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: make sure I'm centered. I'm not hopping super high. I'm
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: on time when i'm when the ball's passing through the zone.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: So that's kind of the big thing I've been focusing on.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Do you do you know what's coming? Do you have
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: a pitchclm in your hat not in left field, on
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: left field so you don't know, or do you watch
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: where the catcher sets up? Do you try to guess
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: what pitch is coming.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: I just try to read the swing.
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: There's a it's just kind of like an instinct thing,
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: like you see you see the pitch, if you see
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: a hump, if you see just a small hump. You know,
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: just kind of things like that. I don't really know
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: how to explain it, just kind of like an instinct thing.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: No, I get it. It just sometimes I know some guys
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: were want to pitch com they know what's coming. I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: remember Tory Hunter when I was catching, he would try
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: to see my signs from centerfield, which seemed like impossible,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: but he would tell me that he could see my
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: signs from centerfield, so he would try to cheat one
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: way or the other. So I get it. It's hard
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: to teach that though. The instinctual side of it, right, Yeah,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: you justind of is that from working on it or
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: is it just something you were born with.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: I mean, I think it's I think it has to
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: do with first of all, knowing the hitter.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: I mean, I'm kind.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: Of gonna want to know what every hitters, you know,
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: what their strength is, what they want to do, and
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: that just comes from watching the game. And I just
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: think also, MVP, I take it's like live reads every
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: single day and I'm you know, trying to read it.
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: I'm trying to take off even before the balls hit,
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: just to you know, try to challenge myself.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: And then Max Clark was here, obviously a big prospect.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: What did you think about the heat he took for
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: you know, the change and he dropped the fly ball
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and listen, I've been in a lot of spring strings
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: guys dropped fly balls, big league established veteran guys Arizona.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I've seen guys go ah and they can't see it right,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I've seen guys do it here. What did you think
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and what did you talk to him about all the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: stuff that he took after all that.
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: I'm not sure if we had any conversations about it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: You know, that's that's who he is, That's that's his personality,
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: and you know that's who he wants to be, and
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: you know that's okay. It's I feel like I feel
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: like it kind of gets blown out of proportion sometimes,
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: but you know, that's who he is, and he's a
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: dang good player. You know, he's he's gonna have a
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: really really good career.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: And yeah, the Pop five it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Was in the sun like it happened. Happens since you
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: know we're all so please don't say it's because he
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: had change on no. Yeah, yeah, well I appreciate you
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the veteran guys standing up for him, so that I mean,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I agree with you, like you have to let guys
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: be who they are. So if he likes to once,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: that's what he is. He's always been like, he's not
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: going to change now.
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: It's his confidence that's how he shows his confidence, and yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: that's what makes him a better player.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Agree, before we let you go spring training here in
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Florida where you're from. Obviously, who's caught more fish? You work?
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Tor this spring training?
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I hate to say a torque.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Oh Tor?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Did we? Uh?
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: We went on a on a charter in Tampa with
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: our board Trajan and.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: Caught more fish than me. It was sad by the time.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: It's embarrassing. You might lose your floor to card I
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: know after that. And then also the last time we
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: had you on, I believe you said you wanted to
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: meet Riley Green, the singer. As that happened.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: That has happened. Yes, happened in Baltimore.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: Okay, he just happened to be there playing a show
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: or something and bring you on stage. No, he was, Uh,
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: he was hitting VP with the Orioles and I had
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: to go over there.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Did you walk out and say Hi, I'm Riley Green.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I think so what he said.
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: I mean, I'm sure he said I'm Riley too, so
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: it's not a little different. But yeah, I mean it
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: was awesome, awesome.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, good, I'm glad that happened because I was supposed
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: to make that happen, and we just haven't had you on.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: So I can't make something happen if we don't have
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you on. So now that you're back, thank you, Riley.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I hope you have a great year. From one Floridian
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Crabs to another. Let's have a great year.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: It's always special craftsy and we get to welcome catchers
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: on the foul territory. We are joined now by gold Glove.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: By the way Catcher crafts. You and I don't have
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: one of those Dylan nigglers here, gold Glove, is it?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Have you got used to? Do you sign every autograph
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: with g now?
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: No, No, A couple of the jerseys, A couple of
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: the jerseys, but.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: That's about you charge exter for that. No, Like eight
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: year old kid comes up and he goes ding Dylan, Dylan,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: please sign you're.
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: Like five for the gg No, I've seen a couple
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: of the baseball is that some of the people have
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: han't around, So signed a couple of those.
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: But for the most part.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Now, okay, now you you haven't gotten your you haven't
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: gotten your award yet?
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: Correct?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: No, I have not.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I have not.
• 26:42
  Speaker 10: Obviously we had the ceremony in New York. But I
• 26:44
  Speaker 10: have not received the award yet.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Before you saw the award, did you know that it
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: was an actual glove that was painted gold or did
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: you think it was like a like solid like metal glove.
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: So I did hear from somebody else that I knew
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: going in going into it that it wasn't solid goal
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: because I've seen I've seen trophies in past, you know,
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: have that or like, you know, the fake plastic. But
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: I did not realize it was the spray painting goals
• 27:13
  Speaker 10: that was that was new.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: It's been a long time though, since the Tiger had
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: won one. Yeah, Ian Kinsler twenty sixteen. Yeah, and for
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a catcher, it's been almost twenty years, two thousand and seven.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: So what does that mean to you?
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: It's cool being in that group. It was really cool.
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: It was just some special player. So being part of
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: that's really cool.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Who'd you think? Everybody? Mom?
• 27:33
  Speaker 10: Dad, Yeah, uncles, cousins, mom, dad always great great staff here,
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: great catching staff here.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Hinch and say, hinch, I'm better than you know. Oh
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: come on, come on?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Did you know you had it in you like some
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: people are, Like I worked out all off season. I
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: knew my this was getting better. My that was getting better.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: But we usually talk about hitting. Did you know you
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: had a gold Glove in you preseason?
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: I think I think it all came from the opportunity
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: that I was given, to be honest, you know, I
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: always I always prided myself and my defensive ability. But
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: the biggest thing is the biggest thing is getting the
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: getting the opportunity. And obviously Jake went down last year
• 28:14
  Speaker 10: and I started catching majority of the innings, and uh,
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: you know, things started to stack up, started to do
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: a little bit, do some things the right way.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: So it was good.
• 28:24
  Speaker 10: I'm not gonna say I knew I had it in me,
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: but I always knew that. I I pride myself for
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: my defensive work.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: It's pretty awesome. And you can throw too. I mean,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: you let all catchers with thirty one you know, minimum
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: attempts for whatever you led the league, right, So pat
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: yourself on the back. How's the elbow?
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: It's doing better, doing better pretty much out of rehab now,
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: and uh all all you're worrying about is kind of
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: getting the game reps because seasons kind of sneaking up
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: on you.
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: You know, we only have what they.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Do just of scope.
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: Yeah, out of scope.
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: They took They took a couple of loose bodies out,
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: a couple of loose bodies out. No, No, the thing
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: did a little marbles. It looked like a little marbles.
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: So they were how big would you say they weren't?
• 29:06
  Speaker 10: They weren't all that big. I think it just kind
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: of got into a little bit of the wrong area
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: because I think I had it for like, did.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Your elbow lock up? You like woke up one day
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and you're like, uh, there's something wrong here.
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: It was almost like a strain of the top form.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: It was on the top.
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think I think, I think it. I forget what.
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: Side of the elbow it kind of locked in on,
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: but I felt it. I felt it one day.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: The little dots are Yeah, do you like connect the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: dots with your.
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: Child trying to trying to get the scars out of here?
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Did it hurt last year when you're playing because some
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: people don't understand how much guys go through when they're
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: or playing through during the length of an entire season.
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: No, it was it was ultimately fine.
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: My elbow felt great last year, So it was kind
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: of just one of those things we're ramping up in
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: the off season. I felt it a little bit and
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: then it finally kind of got into the wrong spot
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: and then we had to kind of take care of it.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Or was it a month monthish?
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: Yeah, So I got the surgery on the twenty eighth
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: of January.
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: So I'm about I don't know what the math is there,
• 30:08
  Speaker 9: but seven close to seven weeks.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Out, Yeah, and you're ready to get your full go.
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Obviously we're still building.
• 30:13
  Speaker 10: We're still building the legs, still building the the reps
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: in game, Like, I went six in the past couple
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: of days.
• 30:18
  Speaker 9: But that's kind of normal progression for a catcher.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I asked if you had caught nine yet.
• 30:22
  Speaker 10: No, I don't think I did last year either. Hitch
• 30:25
  Speaker 10: takes it too easy. He's taking care of us, I guess.
• 30:28
  Speaker 10: But but you know, obviously these next few games are
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: gonna have to turn it up a little bit.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, nice. What's it like having this staff, by.
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: The way, it's awesome. It's awesome.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Has Verlander done any like rookie ranks to everybody on
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: this team yet?
• 30:40
  Speaker 10: No, no, no, I haven't seen any of that yet.
• 30:42
  Speaker 10: But ultimately, you know, with the exhibitions we got in
• 30:45
  Speaker 10: the off season, We had a really good staff last year,
• 30:48
  Speaker 10: and we got better. It's gonna be really fun to
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: work with for really fun to work with Framber ken
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: Lee in the bullpen too.
• 30:55
  Speaker 9: We got a really good staff. It's gonna be a
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: lot of fun catching those guys this year.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna go to Kenley and say, look, Kenley,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I know it's not your thing, but I loved the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: league and throwing guys out helped me out a little bit. Here,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: ken your next catcher, you gotta you gotta help me out.
• 31:06
  Speaker 9: No, he was actually pretty funny.
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: He picked somebody off is not loudly because he pitched yesterday,
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: but last time he pitched on Homie picked somebody off
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: at first, pointed straight at pointed straight at skip.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah did he Yeah, that's awesome.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Look at that old dolls candle and learn new tricks.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: When you when you saw that whole the whole like Scooba?
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: When is when is arbitration case? Framberg gets announced, Verlander
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: gets announced, all happening within the same amount of time.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Who was your first call to or what was your
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: reaction when you saw all of those moves?
• 31:42
  Speaker 10: I remember, so, for instance, when we signed ver he
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: was I was in the training room. I pull out
• 31:48
  Speaker 10: my phone and all of a sudden, it says ten
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: minutes ago on Tiger's Instagram we signed him.
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: I was like, oh my god, you know.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: You followed the Tigers on Instagram? Yeah, okay, yeah, well
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: well know if you don't, then something happened exactly exactly
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the way. That's the new breaking news exactly.
• 32:01
  Speaker 9: But I found that out. That was awesome. That was
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: awesome news.
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: And then I met him, what thirty minutes later when
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: he walked into the walked into the locker room, the
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: frambur The Framber news was great, and obviously Scoob was
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: going through his process.
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: But you know, getting all those guys here is really special.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Which when are you looking most forward to catching? To
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: catching for?
• 32:20
  Speaker 9: I can't pick favorites. I can't pick we.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: All have favorite but that is such bs.
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: You know, I'm new guy, just the new guys, new guy.
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: I got to catch Framber a couple of times. I've
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: caught JV one time. I'm looking forward to the end
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: season JV scouting report. See it's kind of going through
• 32:37
  Speaker 10: that prep work with him, and then obviously Framber's Framber's
• 32:42
  Speaker 10: gonna go out there and do what he does, spend
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: the you know, spin the ball.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Pretty pretty well, Mayers catcher, he like scooms with with Rogers.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, you just you said, Jake,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I got this this year. I don't know, you see,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: he's kind of yah, he's kind of been around the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: block a little. But uh, did Scoob will get you
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: anything for a SI?
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you got me a watch?
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Same one? Did you get a different watch? Then he
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: got for Jake?
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: No different, different watch? You got Jake another one too.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: So Jake has to watch jaks to watches man some bskrats.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: That's well, I mean that was that was What do
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: you want him to do?
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Give give Dylan another watch for not being there the
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: year before when only j watched.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: For give me watch for broadcast up.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: AJ want so many free things. Don't be like AJ.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Just because your season last year should have been an
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: All Star season, did you feel like did you feel
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: like when the All Star voting came out, you were like,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm good with having missing the day, but
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: it would have been nice to been there.
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah, obviously that's something you always strive for. You always
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: try to make that team, and uh, you know, it
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: tells you how good of a first AF you have.
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: But you know, just to be considered in that group
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: was special for me, especially where we started at in
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: the beginning of the season. But it's always something to
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: work towards, you know, we're working towards it this year
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: now looking forward to.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: That zero pass by the way a whole year. You know,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: cal cal Rawley also did that, but then against you
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: guys in the playoffs he had one. So you're ahead
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: of him in the race for the longest non pass
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: ball street, so get him out of the way. And
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: spring training.
• 34:17
  Speaker 10: Exactly exactly, obviously something there might have been a couple
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: of generous wild pitches there for a little bit.
• 34:22
  Speaker 9: And during the season.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: You ever heard of the score because we used to
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: call the scorer dangel one so it's a non RN run.
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think you have to go through your agent
• 34:31
  Speaker 10: with that. Now, I'm not I'm not entirely sure, but.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: You've never called the change hit to an error to
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: a hit.
• 34:36
  Speaker 10: Now because they tend to be generous. To be honest,
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: I've always seen him be more so generous than that.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, it's a different process now, agent. You can't strong
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: arm the scorekeeper.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: From the dugout. I remember guys would call from the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: dugout Crotzy during the game and say change that or
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I'm coming up there.
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: I could see that, especially the air hit.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is bad. That's not that's not good. But
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: I got to go to the ABS system. You've obviously had.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: You've seen it in spring training. Have you used it
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: and do you think you're going to be really good
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: during the season with it?
• 35:12
  Speaker 10: Obviously it's a big it's a big difference in last year.
• 35:15
  Speaker 10: We're gonna try to keep it as normal as possible.
• 35:18
  Speaker 10: We're gonna still catch everything, like you know, there is
• 35:21
  Speaker 10: no abas like we did last year, like we did
• 35:23
  Speaker 10: the past few years. But I think it's just gonna
• 35:26
  Speaker 10: it's gonna bring those those misses down.
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: You know, I've used it a few times.
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: I've used it a few times in spring I've only
• 35:35
  Speaker 10: I think I caught three games so far.
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: I think I've.
• 35:38
  Speaker 10: Challenged three times, right times, right all three times. Although
• 35:42
  Speaker 10: I used I don't know if you saw the other
• 35:44
  Speaker 10: day on Scoobs uh Scoobs outing, he did it himself.
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he pulled a.
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: For seam, pulled a forceeing down and in I wasn't
• 35:50
  Speaker 10: ready for it, and he went to go challenge it,
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: and I have no way, no way. I thought it
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: was a strike. And of course he challenges and gets
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: it right and goes mm hmm.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Sou for you this year?
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: No?
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Probably not No.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: No.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Part of your value as a player is determined by
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: the stupid stat of war. But when it's good, that's awesome.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Like we're getting extra paid one of the things catchers get,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: and you killed it last year. Part of the reason
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: you got your gold Glove was receiving Do you feel
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: like with the a BS there could be a little
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: bit of value taken away as far as in your
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: pocket as a player with the ABS.
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: Yes, and no.
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: I think I think the far ends of the spectrum
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: are gonna gonna shrink down a little bit because obviously,
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: the way we're graded on framing is the balls that
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: are way out of the zone that are called strikes.
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: And then if you if you dunk a ball that's
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: in the zone, but you know, it gives us the
• 36:47
  Speaker 10: opportunity to challenge those balls that are in zone that
• 36:50
  Speaker 10: we that we mess up sometimes, and it allows the
• 36:52
  Speaker 10: hitters to challenge the balls that are egregious balls that
• 36:54
  Speaker 10: are called strikes.
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: So it's gonna be interesting.
• 36:57
  Speaker 10: Obviously, I don't know how they're I don't know how
• 36:59
  Speaker 10: the score he's gonna go this year with uh you know,
• 37:02
  Speaker 10: the metric of framing and what goes into that. So
• 37:05
  Speaker 10: we're kind of gonna have to learn on the fly
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: and see how that goes.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: You're gonna have to learn how to early in the game.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I've talked on pays with us, take balls or strikes
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: and box them. Hitters challenge him, and then they get
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: they lose the challenges early. Now, I wonder if anybody
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: would do it, You'd be the f You're the gold glover.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: You tell me I'm box him because I was missing him.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: You boxing the picture, the pitcher gets pissed off, you know.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: If the empire still calls him a strike and then
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: they're out of challenges, then then the zone goes exactly
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: all right. Before I let you go, I have to
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: ask you this one question for those who don't know.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Dylan went to Ohio State. They used to be good
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: at football, okay, but now Indiana is the power of
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten. How does it feel for Ohio State
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: not to be any good in football anymore.
• 37:47
  Speaker 10: I wouldn't go that far. I wouldn't go that far. Obviously,
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: Indiana got the best of us this year. It was
• 37:51
  Speaker 10: a really good team. Some are saying it's the best
• 37:53
  Speaker 10: football team ever. Obviously, you know.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Obviously there's the schollege football team ever.
• 37:58
  Speaker 10: That's also a point. That's also point. But yeah, the
• 38:01
  Speaker 10: Buck guys, now, the Buck guys were good this year.
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: Obviously didn't make it as far as we wanted to.
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: But it's always a pleasure.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: How much if you donated to the football nil zero?
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: What the second years good for you?
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: Wait?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: He gets that one hundred millie paycheck, then they're gonna there.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: His phone's gonna constantly be ringing. You might you'll even
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: get hey, Dylan, we'll have you got the I if
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: you give us money.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: Dylan, don't don't take any pressure from him.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: AJ asked for all the free stuff, acts like he
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: donates to a college he never went to. And then
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: he he shames other people who don't do what he
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: doesn't do.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: That's true, which part I like free stuff? So yeah,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I do give money to a school I didn't go to,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: although my kid, my daughter goes there. Also gave a
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: lot of money to my kids high school, so that's
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: also true. What was the third party said, try to
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: shame people know it's just more of a way to
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: get under crats of skin because of his college. I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: like that. Well, Dylan, thank you help please stay healthy.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I love watching you catch, I love watching you throw,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: watching you to swing the back. You have a great year.