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Kyle Stowers & Steven Matz join FT · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Keegan ach and grab one of my bats, my bats,
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Speaker 1: and he forged my signature and put it in his locker.
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Speaker 2: After that Live at Bats.
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Speaker 3: Session, Here we go, Kyle Stowers joining us right now
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Speaker 3: on FT. I could see that smile. You got a
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Speaker 3: good care here today, Brazinski krats Trevor May with you, Kyle.
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Speaker 4: How you doing?
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Speaker 3: You having a fun year?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been been a good time.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 1: I feel like we're close against some more wins, so
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Speaker 1: hopefully we start rolling off some of those and having
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Speaker 1: some more fun.
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Speaker 3: What's the identity of the team, Because there's guys like
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Speaker 3: you who I've actually talked about for a few years
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Speaker 3: now that I was like, hey, is he gonna get
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Speaker 3: an opportunity in the bigs. I mean, he's crushing it
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Speaker 3: in the minors. I know Norby was like that for
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Speaker 3: a few years as well, among others. So do you
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Speaker 3: feel like the Marlins have that kind of identity flowing?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I think kind of like the when we like is
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Speaker 1: s fighting fish, you know, I feel like, you know,
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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of times lay in games, even
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Speaker 1: when we're down games a little out of hand and
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Speaker 1: where we you know, will put up you know, three
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Speaker 1: or four runs, you know, make make the leverage relievers
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Speaker 1: get in. And I think it's just kind of like
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Speaker 1: that mentality of the matter of the score, that we're
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Speaker 1: going to keep fighting. You know, we got a bunch
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Speaker 1: of guys who are you know, young and trying to
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Speaker 1: establish and improve themselves in this game. And and you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's like every man for themselves type
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Speaker 1: of thing. I think we're all trying to push each
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Speaker 1: other together and start trying to bring winning baseball here
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Speaker 1: in Miami.
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Speaker 6: Kyle, before I asked the question, I need you to
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Speaker 6: do me a favor when you walk back into the
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Speaker 6: clubhouse and let tell Jonah Bride to get off his phone.
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Speaker 1: And uh.
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Speaker 6: Second question, have you ever in your career, in professional
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Speaker 6: or even amateur, had you ever gone deep on a
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Speaker 6: fastball over one hundred miles an hour before the Grand
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Speaker 6: Slam the other night?
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Speaker 2: I have never gotten.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I put a ball in play on
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Speaker 1: a pitch that was a true one hundred. So I
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Speaker 1: when I look back at the video and I saw
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Speaker 1: that it was one on one point seven, I was, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was definitely a first for me. It is pretty cool.
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Speaker 7: What was what was the best part the celebration at
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Speaker 7: the end, or celebrating it with your family.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, the best part is that
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Speaker 1: we won. I mean we were kind of I think
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Speaker 1: we're on like a five or six game losing skits.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I've always truly felt that, like, you know,
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Speaker 1: when the teams win, things are the most fun. You know,
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Speaker 1: obviously you guys know like the energy in the clubhouse
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Speaker 1: is just at its best when the team is winning.
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Speaker 1: And so to me, you know, you just have everyone
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Speaker 1: being that winning mindset after the game was was probably
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Speaker 1: the best part. And then having some family there, my
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Speaker 1: wife and her parents. It's just it's so special. You know,
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Speaker 1: nearly get emotional every time like something like that happens
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Speaker 1: when they're there, because you know, it truly takes a village.
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Speaker 1: They play such a big role in my family. It's
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Speaker 1: so supportive, you know, don't don't lack support from back home.
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Speaker 1: So it's it's you know, just feel so very fortunate
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Speaker 1: to do something that people are so invested in and
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Speaker 1: care so much about.
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Speaker 7: The Marlins do anything for you winning player of the week,
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Speaker 7: Like do you get like a watch, do you get
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Speaker 7: like something sick?
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Speaker 2: Not not that I've seen quite yet. We'll see hopefully
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Speaker 2: maybe maybe this will get him to do something.
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Speaker 1: No, No, it's just you know, it's been a lot
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Speaker 1: of love and support from the whole organization, which has
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Speaker 1: been really cool. You know. Yeah, it's been a big blessing.
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Speaker 4: Kyle.
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Speaker 3: Take me back to when you were traded last year.
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Speaker 3: I mean the Orioles involve you in the Trevor Rodgers deal.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you get to go along with the guy
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Speaker 3: that you knew i'm sure pretty well from your minor
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Speaker 3: league time, and you probably look at an opportunity to
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Speaker 3: be able to get consistent playing time because you know,
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Speaker 3: Baltimore a good farm system and you know they would
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Speaker 3: also sign players on top of that. So I'm sure
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Speaker 3: it was maybe frustrating at times to not be able
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Speaker 3: to get the everyday vis in the big leagues.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like, you know, twofold.
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Speaker 1: Like, on the one hand, I always felt like, you know,
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Speaker 1: if I took care of myself and did what I
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Speaker 1: was capable of.
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Speaker 2: Doing, that you know I would end up all right.
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Speaker 1: And obviously you know, and with that kind of happened
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Speaker 1: in regards to the trade, but it was definitely also
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Speaker 1: The other thing was when I was with the Orioles,
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Speaker 1: like there's so many good players, you know, we had,
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Speaker 1: you know, ahead of me was Santander, Cedric Hayes. You know,
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Speaker 1: all three of those guys are just incredible players. And
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Speaker 1: then you know, behind me, and then eventually who kind
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Speaker 1: of kind of leap frogging me on the totem pol
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Speaker 1: was a cowser and kurs dad and and also both
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Speaker 1: of those guys are great players. All three of us
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Speaker 1: were young outfielders, left handed hitting, and you know, although
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Speaker 1: we were a little bit different players, we were you
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Speaker 1: know all you know, capable in our own right. So
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Speaker 1: you know, for me last year, when I was in
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Speaker 1: Baltimore in May and June, I was playing some pretty
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Speaker 1: good baseball coming off the bench, and I ended up
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Speaker 1: getting optioned kind of just because we needed an extra
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Speaker 1: infielder and I was kind of the collateral on that
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Speaker 1: part of it. And I was playing really well, and
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Speaker 1: that was for me when I was like, oh, maybe,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe my opportunity won't be here. So when
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Speaker 1: I got traded, I was very excited for the opportunity,
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Speaker 1: very happy that I got to come over with Connor,
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Speaker 1: someone that's one of my really good friends, and I'm
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Speaker 1: glad to be able to go through this experience with them.
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Speaker 6: Uh, expand on the opportunity thing a little bit, because
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Speaker 6: I think this is always an interesting conversation, especially when
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Speaker 6: guys are traded and they see they go from you know,
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Speaker 6: wondering if they're going to get playing time that day
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Speaker 6: or even you know, being on the the option train
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Speaker 6: to knowing that they're going to be in the lineup
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Speaker 6: every day, which is seems seems to be what's what's
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Speaker 6: happening in Miami? So how does your preparation change knowing
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Speaker 6: that you're gonna you're going to be in the lineup,
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Speaker 6: you know, after the game, you know you're gonna be
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Speaker 6: in the lineup the next day. How did how does
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Speaker 6: that different for when you were in the big leagues
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Speaker 6: with the Orioles to now when you're with the Marrows.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many layers with the Orioles that I
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Speaker 1: think you said it you hit on the head.
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Speaker 2: Like I felt like I was just like, hey.
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Speaker 1: Like, am I going to be here next week? Like,
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Speaker 1: you know, trying to planned visits and stuff with family
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Speaker 1: was really complicated obviously because it's like, hey, like you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how long I'm gonna be here, you know,
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Speaker 1: especially you kind of see the riding on the wall
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Speaker 1: when you're not really playing a ton and you're still
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Speaker 1: you know, regarded as a prospect in the organization and
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Speaker 1: they want you to get at bats and whatnot. So
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Speaker 1: coming over here it's you know, it's actually, you know,
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Speaker 1: been a new challenge learning how to be an everyday
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Speaker 1: major league player. I think I got that last year
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Speaker 1: while I was here, like just kind of figuring out
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Speaker 1: how to mentally be in a state that it's ready
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Speaker 1: to play every single day at the big league level.
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Speaker 1: You know, I've done at the minor league level, but
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Speaker 1: definitely a new challenge and in the major leagues. And
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Speaker 1: you know, for me, you know, it's just kind of
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Speaker 1: about finding a way to get a clean slate mentally
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Speaker 1: each day. Obviously, you know, physically you're gonna have good
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Speaker 1: days and bad days, and some days your body's not
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Speaker 1: gonna be feeling as good and whatnot. But for me,
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Speaker 1: it's just how can I be fresh and clear mentally
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Speaker 1: each game? And you know that I've spent a lot
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Speaker 1: of time on my mental routine this year, and well
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Speaker 1: that's you know, mindfulness, meditation, prayer, you know, write in
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Speaker 1: a journal, you know, just coming up with different things
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Speaker 1: that spend a lot of time in the cold tub
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Speaker 1: before I get my day started, and so things like
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Speaker 1: that just to kind of give me back to the
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Speaker 1: present moment. And you know, you know, God promises that
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Speaker 1: he'll give us enough for today, and so I just
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Speaker 1: try to, you know, take it one day at a time.
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Speaker 3: talking about them all season long. But I do want
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Speaker 7: I mean, as a kid, you wanted to rip open
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Speaker 3: you want it. But if you look at it and
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Speaker 7: I love to hear that you have that you have
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Speaker 7: that effervescent, like happy smile always going on too. You're
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Speaker 7: you just you look like you're enjoying yourself. Obviously you're
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Speaker 7: hitting well, but you look like you're enjoying yourself. So
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Speaker 7: it permeates your daily routine, permeates out of your out
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Speaker 7: of your your face right now.
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Speaker 5: But I gotta ask you. I gotta ask you.
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Speaker 7: When I asked a bunch of Orioles guys, let me
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Speaker 7: tell me something about Kyle Stowers, the only thing that
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Speaker 7: they wanted to talk about was how you owned Friend
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Speaker 7: of the Show in spring training, Grayson Rodriguez. They said,
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Speaker 7: if there was a live at bat to be had
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Speaker 7: on the backfield, you were going to hit a dinger.
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Speaker 7: It was like death taxes and Kyle Stowers taking Grayson
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Speaker 7: Rodriguez deep.
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Speaker 5: Now he's on the.
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Speaker 7: Show quite often, so we're gonna play this back to him.
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Speaker 7: Is this true or is this not true? And how
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Speaker 7: much do you own him?
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Speaker 2: There's a little bit of truth to it. So Grayson
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Speaker 2: is one of the.
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Speaker 1: All time smack talkers that I've been around. And when
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Speaker 1: I first was around him, he was type of guy
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Speaker 1: when we'd go into a live at bat, he'd say,
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Speaker 1: hope you guys brought enough bats, and.
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Speaker 2: And so he'd be chirping. And one day we had
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Speaker 2: an inner squad.
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Speaker 1: And I got to a two oh count and I
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Speaker 1: ended up pinning a homer off of him. And ever
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Speaker 1: since then, the way he talked to me during these
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Speaker 1: live at bat sessions completely changed, and definitely he had
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Speaker 1: a lot more respect, I guess if you will, So
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Speaker 1: now it's just funny.
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Speaker 2: There's one other time where I.
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Speaker 1: Got him in a live at bat, but he had
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Speaker 1: punched me out twice right before that, so he's he's
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Speaker 1: had his share of success off of me, but I've
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Speaker 1: I've gotten him a couple of times.
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Speaker 3: I am very much looking forward to you two facing
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Speaker 3: each other in a big League match up Pupefully soon
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Speaker 3: we'll get him back on the field and then we
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Speaker 3: can see that. Do you guys have the Oriols by
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Speaker 3: the way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we go to them right before the All Star break.
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Speaker 1: One other funny story about the line at bads. Actually,
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Speaker 1: the second time I hit a homer off, I'm Keegan
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Speaker 1: Ake and grabbed one of my bats, my bats, and
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Speaker 1: he forged my signature and put it in his locker
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Speaker 1: after that live at bat session. A lot of a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun antics over there with those guys. I
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Speaker 1: always say, there's not not really a bad apple over there.
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Speaker 1: You know, so many good people, and uh yeah, we
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Speaker 1: go to them in then in July or right before
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Speaker 1: the All Star break, and that's gonna be, you know,
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Speaker 1: one of those really surreal moments because it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: somewhat familiar because I've played that ballpark so much and
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Speaker 1: then also have spent so many time and live at
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Speaker 1: bats inder squads throughout the years, you know, like having
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Speaker 1: you know, Rutch Calm pitches against me. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: mean Maverick Hanley who was my college teammate at Stanford,
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Speaker 1: and uh he's over there catching. So there's so much familiarity.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be one of those really unique and fun experiences.
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Speaker 7: I want to ask you about the journaling and how
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Speaker 7: you just like you write your thoughts down at the
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Speaker 7: end of the day. I tried to do journaling for
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Speaker 7: a little bit. My issue was I went back and
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Speaker 7: I read my journaling and I was like, man, I
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Speaker 7: was just I was, I was in a bad place.
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Speaker 7: Do you ever go back and go do do you
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Speaker 7: get inspiration from your own journaling?
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Speaker 5: Do you never read it? How does that? How does
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Speaker 5: that work for you?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? I haven't looked back at it yet, but I
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Speaker 1: think one day I will. We're going through some old
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Speaker 1: stuff in my room a couple of years ago, me
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Speaker 1: and my wife, and we found my brother's kindergarten one
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Speaker 1: of his, like I guess journals if you will that
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Speaker 1: you know, kindergarten or second grade or something. To read
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Speaker 1: some of those stuff was so cool and obviously, you know,
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Speaker 1: not not in kindergarten, and I can, you know, write
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Speaker 1: complete sentences. But I think down the road there will
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Speaker 1: be a time where I really appreciate looking back at that.
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Speaker 1: For me now, it's just a way to avoid ruminating,
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Speaker 1: you know, just trying to put my thoughts into complete
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Speaker 1: sentences so that in my mind's not going in circles,
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Speaker 1: and that way I can wind down and get some
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Speaker 1: good rest before the next day.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Kyle, I got one for you from a number standpoint.
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Speaker 3: I know you know the Marlins are run by a
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Speaker 3: former Raised guy of course front office wise and Peter Bendix.
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Speaker 3: Do you feel that, like, do you feel any effects
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Speaker 3: of you know, advanced analytics stuff like that? What kind
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Speaker 3: of guy are you? Obviously, because I mean you're in
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Speaker 3: your mid twenties. We've got a lot of data available.
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Speaker 3: What do you look at? What do you care about?
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Speaker 3: What is helpful for you from a team perspective? Or
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Speaker 3: is that not really your game?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I think you're taken both right, There's definitely room for
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Speaker 1: both in my opinion from us part analytics wise, Like,
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Speaker 1: I think a big one for me is chase percentage,
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Speaker 1: Like can I can I mitigate that? Can I swing
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Speaker 1: up you know, pitches in the zone and then you know,
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Speaker 1: making sure that like you know, I'm swinging at those
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Speaker 1: pitches with good bad speed and then putting h hint
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Speaker 1: them heart so exit velocity for me, and I would
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Speaker 1: say chase percentage are probably the two things that I
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Speaker 1: would say are key for me in my game. You know,
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Speaker 1: pretty cool story about Peter. Last year, I got off
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Speaker 1: to an incredibly slow start, and I really the whole
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Speaker 1: time here, I didn't quite play my best baseball in
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Speaker 1: the second half last year, and it was just really
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Speaker 1: cool to have, you know, Peter come out to me like, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know, just want to let you know, like we
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Speaker 1: believe in you and just to keep going and then
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Speaker 1: we believe that this is going to turn around. And
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Speaker 1: you know, last year there wasn't a ton of stretches
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Speaker 1: where I turn around, but it was just you know,
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Speaker 1: really I felt that type of support from the entirety
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Speaker 1: of the staff and the front office. You know, I
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Speaker 1: feel like I you know, from coaching staff, players, yeah,
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Speaker 1: the front office. I just don't feel like I've ever
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Speaker 1: had so much support around me. And I think it
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Speaker 1: says a lot about what the more Marlins organization is becoming.
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Speaker 1: And you know, and and yes, it's there's data driven,
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Speaker 1: but you know, there's you know, I think we're well
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Speaker 1: aware that there's the person behind the player, and and
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Speaker 1: how can we you know, support the person. And I
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Speaker 1: think they've done a great job of that.
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Speaker 3: That's really cool. Last one, really quick. Did did you
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Speaker 3: have that? Because is that common? Like in Baltimore? Did
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Speaker 3: you talk to the front officer It's more like the
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Speaker 3: minor league coaching development staff and then the coaches and
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Speaker 3: the biggs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I had I had good relationships with
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Speaker 1: the staff in Baltimore, really gonna, and I just was,
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Speaker 1: I think, at probably a different level of priority at
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Speaker 1: that time. And and then I understand it. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's you know, I wasn't the everyday player there, and
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Speaker 1: you know, I was kind of the four A guy
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Speaker 1: going up and down, and so I wouldn't say that
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Speaker 1: it wasn't that I didn't have support there, but that's
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Speaker 1: not kind of what I'm trying to get at, is
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Speaker 1: just you know, more that like it was just a
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Speaker 1: different position that I was in there, and and and
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Speaker 1: so I totally understood it.
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Speaker 3: Well, you're looking good in the Marlins TiAl. Man, it's
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Speaker 3: been fun to watch. Thank you for joining us.
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Speaker 4: Hope you enjoyed it.
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Speaker 3: I know you you got stuff to get to you
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Speaker 3: so appreciate the time.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 3: Great to have you on and we'll.
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Speaker 1: Have you back all right, guys, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate it all.
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Speaker 3: Right, Stephen match joining us right now in foul territory. Stephen,
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Speaker 3: You've got a full crew here today, Prasidski, Kratz, Trevor
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Speaker 3: May as well.
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Speaker 4: Great to have you on. How you doing, I'm doing great, guys.
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Speaker 4: How you doing good? Good?
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Speaker 3: How's life with the Saint Louis Cardinals. I know, for
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Speaker 3: me personally, I interviewed you a few times when you're
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Speaker 3: with the Mets. What's it like to be with Saint
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Speaker 3: Louis now.
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Speaker 4: For a few years, It's been great. Saint Louis is
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Speaker 4: a great town.
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Speaker 8: You know, when you come as a visitor, you don't
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Speaker 8: really get to enjoy what all Saint Louis has for you.
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Speaker 8: But h man, it's a great place to be, a
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Speaker 8: great place to live, very very nice place to play.
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Speaker 7: Is it as nice as you thought it was gonna
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Speaker 7: be when you signed? I mean the whole free agent process,
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Speaker 7: everyone's like, ah, you know, I gotta bring, got to
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Speaker 7: bring the wife, got to bring the family. Is there
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Speaker 7: gonna be a nice, you know, spot for us to
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Speaker 7: live and like get out in the parks and everything.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, well it was unique when I was
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Speaker 4: a free agent.
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Speaker 8: It was the whole lockout situation, So it was like
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Speaker 8: this deadline time period whereas like, you know, we wanted
16:09
Speaker 8: to try to do that before the lockout was going
16:11
Speaker 8: on November first or whatever, or December first or whatever
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Speaker 8: it was. So it was spurred the moment everything. You know,
16:17
Speaker 8: we didn't really have a ton of time to ponder anything.
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Speaker 8: It was like, let's just let's just sign and get
16:22
Speaker 8: this out of the way so we know where we're going.
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Speaker 6: Matsy, I want to ask you a little bit about
16:28
Speaker 6: pitching roles because it has been announced that you're going
16:31
Speaker 6: to be doing some more work out of the bullpen,
16:33
Speaker 6: but also staying stretched out to start, which is something
16:36
Speaker 6: that is, in my opinion, one of the hardest things
16:38
Speaker 6: to do as a pitcher and one of the hardest
16:40
Speaker 6: things do in baseball. So what is the what is
16:44
Speaker 6: the biggest difficulty about mentally getting ready to go do
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Speaker 6: your job as a as a reliever, but also preparing
16:51
Speaker 6: to be stretched out if that call comes both at
16:54
Speaker 6: the same time.
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Speaker 4: You have to you have to both do the do the.
16:56
Speaker 6: Work between the games as a starter, but be ready
16:58
Speaker 6: to pitch his reliever.
16:59
Speaker 4: What's star as part? Yeah, you know, it's just the
17:02
Speaker 4: routine in between is everything. You know, you like to
17:05
Speaker 4: stay on your.
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Speaker 8: Workout routine, your conditioning routine, you know, throwing a bullpen.
17:10
Speaker 8: But you know, my first outing of the season really
17:13
Speaker 8: kind of helped me with all that because it was
17:16
Speaker 8: like I was building up in spring training as a starter.
17:18
Speaker 8: I got to six innings my last start, and then
17:21
Speaker 8: I had like ten days off, and I was kind
17:24
Speaker 8: of like, okay, what do I do with all this time?
17:26
Speaker 8: You know, starting pitchers, that's way too much time. So
17:29
Speaker 8: I threw four innings out of the bullpen, and everything
17:32
Speaker 8: was just as sharp as it was in spring training.
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Speaker 4: So I'm like, all right, I don't need to panic.
17:35
Speaker 8: Here pretty much when right when I pitch next day,
17:38
Speaker 8: I'll get in there and do my workout, and you know,
17:41
Speaker 8: depending on how many days, like yesterday, I got hot
17:44
Speaker 8: in the ninth inning and it's been it was that
17:46
Speaker 8: would have been my fifth day since throwing.
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Speaker 4: So I was like, all right, I'm just going to
17:49
Speaker 4: treat this as as my.
17:50
Speaker 8: Bullpen day and you know, nice easy, and if I
17:54
Speaker 8: was going to come in if we scored, if we
17:55
Speaker 8: scored another run, so I was like, if we score,
17:57
Speaker 8: I'll start to ramp up quicker.
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Speaker 4: So it's just it's been.
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Speaker 8: A little bit of a limbo, but I've been feel
18:02
Speaker 8: like I've been doing well with it.
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Speaker 7: Is this something because I've watched McGreevy do what he
18:39
Speaker 7: did out of the bullpen for you guys in that
18:41
Speaker 7: doubleheader like a young guy. Is this harder to do
18:44
Speaker 7: as a older established player or as a.
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Speaker 5: Do that's in his first full season in the big leagues?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 8: My thought, My first thought is it's easier to do
18:56
Speaker 8: it at my age. But mcgreevy's making it look pretty
18:59
Speaker 8: easy and he's in his first year, it's like, Wow,
19:03
Speaker 8: this guy's just you know, coming in bases, loaded one
19:05
Speaker 8: out in the in the fourth and then finishes the
19:07
Speaker 8: game with giving up only one hit, no runs. I mean,
19:10
Speaker 8: but if I had to do this earlier in my career,
19:12
Speaker 8: I would have really struggled with it. Just just the
19:15
Speaker 8: confidence and you know, every in between, every start, you're
19:18
Speaker 8: trying to tweak something. Now there's just more of a
19:21
Speaker 8: trust in my ability and what I can go out
19:23
Speaker 8: there and do.
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Speaker 7: All right, as you're going to be a free agent
19:27
Speaker 7: after this year, how many times do you get called
19:30
Speaker 7: into the office after starting or spot starting and being told, hey, I'm.
19:34
Speaker 5: Going to the bull You're going to the bullpen again?
19:36
Speaker 7: Like, there comes a point when your value as a
19:40
Speaker 7: player is your value, not necessarily the team's value. Do
19:45
Speaker 7: you ever envision or have you had the conversation of
19:47
Speaker 7: where you're like, all right, at some point here, like
19:50
Speaker 7: we got to be a bullpen guy, or we got
19:52
Speaker 7: to be a starter.
19:53
Speaker 5: I'm valuable as a starter because it's also your career.
19:58
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you know, there's still lot of baseball
20:00
Speaker 8: left and it's it's gone really well so far with
20:04
Speaker 8: the role I'm in. But Ultimately, in my mind, I
20:06
Speaker 8: like starting. That's what I want to do. I feel
20:09
Speaker 8: like I'm in a place in my career and where
20:12
Speaker 8: my stuff's at now that can have success as a starter.
20:14
Speaker 8: So I think in my mind that's my goal to
20:17
Speaker 8: move forward, is to be a good starter in the
20:20
Speaker 8: major leagues. I still feel like I have I have
20:22
Speaker 8: some good years ahead of me, So that's what I
20:24
Speaker 8: like to be.
20:27
Speaker 6: Smart man, do it as long as you can. You
20:29
Speaker 6: don't want one of those failed starter T shirts. Those
20:32
Speaker 6: are not well. I mean they are kind of cool,
20:34
Speaker 6: but you don't want one. So recently Friday, actually there
20:38
Speaker 6: was an article came out talked about how the strike
20:40
Speaker 6: zone may have changed. Have you noticed a difference in
20:42
Speaker 6: the strikes own or has anyone on the team noticed
20:45
Speaker 6: any of the catcher's been like, I think it's a
20:46
Speaker 6: little tighter. Do you guys hear anything about this work
20:49
Speaker 6: came out?
20:50
Speaker 3: No?
20:51
Speaker 8: There, You know how it is in the season, everybody's
20:53
Speaker 8: always complained about the strike zone one way or the other,
20:55
Speaker 8: but I haven't noticed a ton about it. Honestly, you know,
20:58
Speaker 8: it makes me wonder if it's you know, the umpires
21:01
Speaker 8: in spring training have that ABS system so it was,
21:04
Speaker 8: you know, maybe getting them tuned up a little bit.
21:06
Speaker 8: I'm not sure, but we haven't had a ton of
21:08
Speaker 8: conversation about that.
21:10
Speaker 5: What else do dudes complain about? Does?
21:13
Speaker 7: I can list off different things, but what is twenty
21:16
Speaker 7: twenty five pitchers complaining about when they're sitting in the
21:19
Speaker 7: bullpen or they're shagging in the outfield for their nineteenth
21:23
Speaker 7: straight day in Saint Louis heat.
21:26
Speaker 8: Well, it's funny in the bullpen. It's it's a little
21:30
Speaker 8: bit different out there. It's been a fun camaraderie out there,
21:32
Speaker 8: but yeah, there's definitely some fun conversations hat, you know,
21:35
Speaker 8: especially when I come out of the bullpen and then
21:38
Speaker 8: go to the start and I'm down for you know,
21:40
Speaker 8: three days before, three days after. You know that those
21:43
Speaker 8: guys are grinding over there. So when that phone rings sometimes,
21:46
Speaker 8: you know, sometimes it's nice when McGreevy comes in and
21:49
Speaker 8: goes six innings out of the bullpen. So I would
21:52
Speaker 8: say that's the biggest thing is just.
21:54
Speaker 4: Guys are tired. We had a long run of games.
21:56
Speaker 8: Here, so it's gonna be we got an off day
21:57
Speaker 8: staring us in the face, So that'll be nice.
22:01
Speaker 3: Steven I wanted to ask you about, you know, your
22:04
Speaker 3: time with the Mets. Looking back at obviously the World
22:08
Speaker 3: Series run they had in twenty fifteen, you were a
22:10
Speaker 3: part of that. There were some really talented arms, of course,
22:13
Speaker 3: some of which are still pitching the bigs, like at
22:15
Speaker 3: de Gram, who I knew you were close with thor
22:18
Speaker 3: part of the mix back then. I asked this question
22:20
Speaker 3: to the Cubs guys because they had their run around
22:22
Speaker 3: that time period too. Do you look back and think
22:26
Speaker 3: about how crazy it is to see what kind of
22:29
Speaker 3: talent was there and where it is now and just
22:31
Speaker 3: how quickly that whole run went when there were so
22:34
Speaker 3: many talented arms in that rotation.
22:38
Speaker 8: Yeah, I do look back and guys bringing up a
22:41
Speaker 8: lot like you know Nolan had to face come into
22:44
Speaker 8: a series and faced Gram, Harvey and Cindergard or de
22:48
Speaker 8: Graam Wheeler, and you know, those guys are all pumping
22:51
Speaker 8: a hundred every time, and I'm just a soft toss
22:53
Speaker 8: at lefty coming in the back end of the rotation.
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Speaker 4: But no, it really was crazy what we had going there.
22:59
Speaker 4: And it's funny.
22:59
Speaker 8: I was a Hellsley yesterday and he's like, how many
23:01
Speaker 8: times you've been to the playoffs because he felt like
23:04
Speaker 8: with that team. He's like, oh, I thought you went
23:06
Speaker 8: like every year when you were with the Mets, and uh,
23:08
Speaker 8: you know, it is crazy with what we have there.
23:10
Speaker 8: You know, we only got one wild card game and
23:13
Speaker 8: and that big playoff, that World Series run that we had,
23:17
Speaker 8: so yeah, that was pretty will id I do reflect
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Speaker 8: on that a lot. You know, we had something special there.
23:22
Speaker 8: It's just unfortunately we couldn't capitalize on it.
23:25
Speaker 9: Steven, you brought up Arnatto. Nolan, what's the what's the
23:30
Speaker 9: feeling on him staying or going? Also Sonny? Sonny said
23:32
Speaker 9: he wants to stay too. His name has been mentioned.
23:34
Speaker 9: Did they talk about that in the clubhouse or is
23:36
Speaker 9: it just kind of like we're here now and we're
23:39
Speaker 9: sticking with what we what we got.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think Sonny doesn't talk about it too much.
23:44
Speaker 8: You know, he's really you know, dialed into what he's doing.
23:48
Speaker 8: But you know, obviously Nolan, it was a big talking
23:52
Speaker 8: point this whole off season coming into spring training. We're
23:54
Speaker 8: all kind of like, what's gonna happen, especially as a
23:56
Speaker 8: pitcher when you got that guy locking down the corner
23:59
Speaker 8: every day? Forget like, man, we don't we don't want
24:02
Speaker 8: this guy to go anywhere, But no, I think you know,
24:06
Speaker 8: obviously there is some conversation there. But now Nolan, he's
24:09
Speaker 8: he's locked into what he's doing. He's just trying to
24:11
Speaker 8: get out there and play good every day. You know,
24:13
Speaker 8: he's he's in the cage for four hours a day,
24:16
Speaker 8: and you know, I think he's he's ready to just
24:18
Speaker 8: go out and play every day. So that after spring training,
24:21
Speaker 8: those those conversations kind of subsided.
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Speaker 7: Your family talk about the fact that you've gotten off
24:27
Speaker 7: to a hot start, the fact that the Cardinals are
24:29
Speaker 7: trading anything with value. Do you talk about that? And
24:33
Speaker 7: is it like every scoreless outing, you know, you start
24:37
Speaker 7: packing a few more things up even you know, you
24:39
Speaker 7: know it's your last year in Saint Louis, but it
24:42
Speaker 7: could be July. Who knows, it could even be June.
24:47
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, it's definitely in the back of my mind,
24:49
Speaker 8: you know, at times.
24:50
Speaker 4: But we are playing really good baseball.
24:53
Speaker 8: Our hitters have had a great first month and a
24:56
Speaker 8: half here, you know, where We've won a couple of series.
24:59
Speaker 8: Now now I think we've only lost one series at home,
25:02
Speaker 8: So you never know what could happen.
25:04
Speaker 4: There's a lot of baseball left.
25:05
Speaker 8: But that is definitely you know, you know, you understand
25:08
Speaker 8: how the game works, and you know, a free agent year,
25:11
Speaker 8: if you're throwing well, teams are going to try to
25:13
Speaker 8: gobble you up if your team's out of the mix.
25:15
Speaker 8: But right now, there's still so much baseball to really
25:18
Speaker 8: put my mind there.
25:22
Speaker 9: Steven Stephen, You're from Long Island, right, Yes, yeah, me too.
25:27
Speaker 9: How come you don't have an accent you have like
25:30
Speaker 9: the South, You have like an accent from the South.
25:32
Speaker 9: So I appreciate that, you know, someone also from Long Island.
25:36
Speaker 9: I don't have the Long Island accent either, so I'm
25:38
Speaker 9: proud of you that you got rid of it.
25:41
Speaker 8: Well, you know, it is a little embarrassing at times.
25:44
Speaker 8: Well actually, that's the one word that comes out when
25:46
Speaker 8: I say embarrassing.
25:46
Speaker 4: So that's yeah, that was it.
25:48
Speaker 5: That was the first time. Yes, that was it.
25:51
Speaker 4: That's funny. Yeah, that's the one word I haven't dropped.
25:54
Speaker 8: But you know, Alabama, and I'm the type of person
25:58
Speaker 8: it's it's not for whatever, isn't when like when we're
26:01
Speaker 8: in London, I'll start having a London accent.
26:02
Speaker 4: I'm like, what is going on right now?
26:04
Speaker 8: So I guess you know. I've been out of Long
26:06
Speaker 8: Island since pretty much. I'm eighteen, and I guess I
26:10
Speaker 8: just too much of a chameleon.
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Speaker 4: Not a great thing, but I've lost it a little bit.
26:13
Speaker 4: I did not realize you were from Long Islands, Stephen.
26:16
Speaker 3: This was great, dude. Thank you so much for stopping by.
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Speaker 2: I hope you had a good time.
26:20
Speaker 1: Good luck the rest of the way.
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Speaker 4: Thanks guys,