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FT at Twins camp: Pablo Lopez, Harrison Bader, Willi Castro · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I don't really look at the numbers. I don't look
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  Speaker 1: at anything. I just try to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and yes, do my job, do my job
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  Speaker 1: whatever it takes to how MUTI win.
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  Speaker 2: Pablo Lopez joining us right now, Twins Pitcher joining us
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  Speaker 2: again on FT Pablo, great to have you have spring
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  Speaker 2: training going for you, and I can tell from the
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  Speaker 2: outfit maybe a little bit of a hot day in
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  Speaker 2: Fort Myers today right.
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  Speaker 3: Spring training is going great. Man. It's we've been blessed
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  Speaker 3: with zero rain, but the sun is always out and
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  Speaker 3: it's always hot. I swear that I pitch. A couple
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  Speaker 3: of days ago, I went through three jerseys, two different sweatshirts,
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  Speaker 3: and we had this thing called like a cool move,
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  Speaker 3: like I sit on the dog. There's like a cool
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  Speaker 3: thing that's supposed to keep me from sweating. I can
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  Speaker 3: tell you it doesn't worry I. I'm still changing jersey's nonstuff.
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  Speaker 3: But sprints being great, the body fields. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: Bud recovering well. Eighty seven pitches last Star, so I
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  Speaker 3: mean I feil them because I haven't pitched that much
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  Speaker 3: since September. But everything tonight with Bud.
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  Speaker 4: With one more week to YO before we get to
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  Speaker 4: the pitcher, and this was probably gonna throw you guys
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  Speaker 4: off a little bit. I want to ask, do you
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  Speaker 4: miss hitting it all? And I'm saying that because you guys,
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  Speaker 4: this is my teammate a lot of different teams. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's bad cratzy when you're on the bench and they go, hey, Pablo,
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  Speaker 4: grab a bat.
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  Speaker 5: First, I'm going there.
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  Speaker 6: You know what it might be.
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  Speaker 5: I'm coming to the end.
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  Speaker 4: They got Pablo pinch hitting over me or anybody else
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  Speaker 4: on the bench.
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  Speaker 5: Do you miss swing the bat a little bit?
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I'm a two fifty hitter as a
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  Speaker 3: pinch hitter, feel like I have four pinchhit appearances. And
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  Speaker 3: I love him. Man. I missed it so much, and
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  Speaker 3: he was like a fun little distraction. And you asked
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  Speaker 3: any pitcher that used to hitting. We all know exactly
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  Speaker 3: how many hits we had in the league. I have
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  Speaker 3: eleven hits, one hundred and thirty one bat and Avenue.
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  Speaker 5: I'm telling Lordobles.
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  Speaker 3: And I struck out fifty five percent of the time,
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  Speaker 3: but I focused on the hits. I got eleven of them.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you he was good enough for them to
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  Speaker 4: actually think about maybe we should just have Pablo go
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  Speaker 4: up there hit. But I want to talk about the
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  Speaker 4: arsenal we played together then we had the chance to
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  Speaker 4: face each other. I remember early on in your career,
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  Speaker 4: heavy SYNK, heavy change up. I want you to talk
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  Speaker 4: about what you just talked about, as you've had success
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  Speaker 4: that way, but over the course of your career the
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  Speaker 4: repetize kind of changed a little bit. Talk about the
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  Speaker 4: success you've been able to have that way but now
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  Speaker 4: and the reason why you had to.
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  Speaker 5: Make a change. I thought that was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I it's a never ending process. Earlier in my career,
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  Speaker 3: like my twenty two year old self and my twenty
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  Speaker 3: nine year old self completely different people. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: used to have hair. I don't have any. I don't
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  Speaker 3: have hair anymore. I'm sure cratic can relate to that,
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  Speaker 3: but no, man, comply, it's never ending. The legal always adjust.
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  Speaker 3: And I used to be heavy scene, heavy change up,
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  Speaker 3: and you know I had success with that all the
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  Speaker 3: way through the second the first half of twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 3: and I told you briefly before they started. I got
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  Speaker 3: hit by a line drive I think in like May
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  Speaker 3: of twenty twenty two, and suddenly my mechanics changed a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. I started throwing everything from a higher slan,
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  Speaker 3: which gave me a little less movement on the changeup,
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  Speaker 3: but it put my hand like in a weird position
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  Speaker 3: to create more movement to my gloves. The Twins traded
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  Speaker 3: for me in January twenty twenty three, and they like
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  Speaker 3: my hands, super nation pronation something, and it was in
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  Speaker 3: a much better spot to develop pitches and moved to
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  Speaker 3: my glove side. They unlocked that ability on me, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, that same angle allowed me to throw at
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  Speaker 3: the I kicked up the cutter. I told the cutter
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  Speaker 3: to beat it. She was too short. No more cutter.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted something to which more more movement. And up
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  Speaker 3: until then I knew, like I've always been missing a
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  Speaker 3: consistent breaking ball. And you know, the Twins gave me
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  Speaker 3: that new pitch, the sweeper, and you know the league
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  Speaker 3: had a hard time adjusting because it wasn't on report.
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  Speaker 3: Then the challenge was last year. Okay, now they've seen
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  Speaker 3: it and they adjusted to it, and then like it
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  Speaker 3: just it's a never ending game, you know. Having changed
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  Speaker 3: my repertoire lately, it's just making sure that every movement
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  Speaker 3: is consistent. And now It's that never ending cat and
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  Speaker 3: mouse game of trying to step one step ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Those Calbol personas two bald guys on the same street.
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  Speaker 3: He took the cat up. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 7: I did it for you so that you feel you
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  Speaker 7: feel comfortable bau.
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  Speaker 3: Delli was talking about.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, bau Delli was talking about needing you to go
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  Speaker 7: deeper into games, like by giving you those eighty seven
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  Speaker 7: pitches in spring training and something that he wants you
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  Speaker 7: to do in the league. But I look at your
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  Speaker 7: stats and you're one of the best at going deep
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  Speaker 7: into games. Is that something that he's tasked with you?
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  Speaker 7: Did you not know that until Paul Delli said something
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  Speaker 7: about that? Or is this a conversation you guys have had.
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  Speaker 3: Now This conversation will happen a while ago. He happened
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  Speaker 3: the moment I got traded, I'm like, hey, like I
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  Speaker 3: like to go I like to pitch deep into the games.
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  Speaker 3: And first things first, I have to earn it. Like
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, one thing is to tell you I like
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  Speaker 3: pitching DP but then if I'm throwing ninety pitches in
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  Speaker 3: five innings, I'm never gonna get there. So I have
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  Speaker 3: to earn that trills. I had to show to him that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm willing to attack his own I'm willing
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  Speaker 3: to like challenge challenge heaters to square like square me
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  Speaker 3: up if you if you can or if you want.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, he's being very like trusting. He felt
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  Speaker 3: comfortable with me saying those things, and then he challenged
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  Speaker 3: me like, okay, like you think you can do that,
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  Speaker 3: and let's let's go and do it. And I take
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  Speaker 3: a lot of pride on that. You know, I work really,
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  Speaker 3: really hard. I became very very diligent, very thorough with
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  Speaker 3: my routine. I mean that routine I tell you, like
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  Speaker 3: if it wears me out sometimes and it's one of
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  Speaker 3: those things He's like, it's so extensive that there are
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  Speaker 3: some days where I'm like, do I want to go
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  Speaker 3: through like a two hour prep? But then I think
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  Speaker 3: to myself, but this is what gets me ready. This
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  Speaker 3: is what allows me to go ninety five pitches one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and ten pitches and if I need to get
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  Speaker 3: ninety six in the seventeen and I know it will
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  Speaker 3: be there. So it's a never ending like you know,
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  Speaker 3: like like I asked Rocco to give me that trust
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  Speaker 3: and then I have to perform, and so last year
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  Speaker 3: was we had a lot of good moments in the
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  Speaker 3: second half where it was deep into the game. He
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  Speaker 3: gave me the trust to like get out of a
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  Speaker 3: jam or he like he pushed me to one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and twelve pitches a few times, and I love that.
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  Speaker 3: I prepared myself for that, And I mean my early
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  Speaker 3: career years, I was preparing my so far, I'm twenty
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  Speaker 3: nine years sold. I took care of my body really
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  Speaker 3: good young. So when I'm this all, I'm ready, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing this for my thirty five year olds, so
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  Speaker 3: of my thirty six year old self. So that's always
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  Speaker 3: my mentality. Like when I'm in the wareroom sweating squatting,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, I'm not doing it for March eighteenth,
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing this for September twenty ninth. I'm doing this
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  Speaker 3: for the American League Championship Series. That's when I know
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  Speaker 3: those squads thought those Goblet squads are pull ups really matter.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I had you as a young guy, and even
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  Speaker 5: at a young age, you were.
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  Speaker 6: One of the guys.
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  Speaker 5: Even though I was a position player.
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  Speaker 4: It seemed like we were always having little conversations about
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  Speaker 4: what you need to do or what you might need
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  Speaker 4: to do to get better. You've accomplished so much, you know,
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  Speaker 4: at this point in your career, when you look at
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  Speaker 4: the deal that you sign, you look at a team
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  Speaker 4: that has had a history of winning. Did you find
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  Speaker 4: yourself hearing about any of those conversations about you possibly
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  Speaker 4: been on a trade block?
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  Speaker 5: And if you did, did the.
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  Speaker 4: Twins have any conversation with you or you know, where
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  Speaker 4: were you on that were you just kind of focus
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  Speaker 4: on this is where I am, this is where my
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  Speaker 4: feet are, and this is what I'm going to focus on.
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  Speaker 3: I was. I was in that spot. I was in
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  Speaker 3: that mentality like, this is where my feet are. But
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  Speaker 3: I do have I had a lot of family members
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  Speaker 3: that are that are always up today with news, updates, rumors.
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  Speaker 3: So my aunt was really really good about sending me rumors,
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  Speaker 3: but then she would get upset if I didn't elaborate
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  Speaker 3: on those roomors. I'm like, guy, sorry, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if those are two or not. But my whole mentality
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  Speaker 3: was like I'm going to be where I'm supposed to be,
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  Speaker 3: like as of today, I mean, I'm talking about the
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  Speaker 3: off season, and so today I I'm Minnesota twin. I'm
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  Speaker 3: working out with my twins gear. I'm staying in touch
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  Speaker 3: with my Twins people, making sure that when we show
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  Speaker 3: up to four Myers and it's going to be hot
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  Speaker 3: and human and muggy, we're all ready to go. I'm
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  Speaker 3: ready to grind. And I mean I've had a really
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  Speaker 3: really good time in Minnesota, like baseball wise, career wise,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's been a blessing and the Twins have to
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  Speaker 3: have just provided me with so much to get better
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  Speaker 3: as a pitcher, but also as a person, taking advantage
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  Speaker 3: of a platform that we have with the Twins community.
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  Speaker 7: Your fellow country and Martin Perez was on the other day.
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  Speaker 7: He runs an academy down in Venezuela. Can you hit
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  Speaker 7: on a little bit? I mentioned it, and I feel
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  Speaker 7: like anytime we have somebody from a Latin country that's
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  Speaker 7: had success here, made some money here, needs to speak
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  Speaker 7: on how Major League Baseball needs to make sure they
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  Speaker 7: protect young Latin players who don't make it. Pablo Lopez,
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  Speaker 7: Martin Perez made millions of dollars. You guys are fine.
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  Speaker 7: How can major League Baseball protect and watch out for
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  Speaker 7: those guys because there's a lot of them that don't
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  Speaker 7: make it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a load of question, man. And you know, when
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  Speaker 3: I hear scenarios like that, the first thing I think
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  Speaker 3: of is education. You know, I was fourteen that and
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  Speaker 3: blessed enough that I was able to graduate high school
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  Speaker 3: before I got into professional baseball. But nowadays, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like everything has changed so much where you see twelve
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  Speaker 3: thirteen year old kids like, Okay, I'm not even playing
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  Speaker 3: baseball for fun. I'm practicing baseball to become a product
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  Speaker 3: so I can hopefully sign for some money when sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: seventeen or eighteen. But then you have the group that
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  Speaker 3: you know they're not a blessed enough to sign, and
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  Speaker 3: that's when you get into like, Okay, this kid lost
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  Speaker 3: his entire teenage years, didn't even go to high school
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  Speaker 3: because of this. So it's just you know, and I
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  Speaker 3: really preached the Minnesota Twins for implementing educational programs, education
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  Speaker 3: like and when I signed back, we seeatt on twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 3: we didn't have We had English courses, english classes, but
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  Speaker 3: we didn't have education. And I went to the Dominican
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  Speaker 3: Republic in January to the academy and I was there
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  Speaker 3: for the high school graduation of the kids. And it
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  Speaker 3: was really touching for me because education has always been
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  Speaker 3: very important in my family and in my life. So
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  Speaker 3: seeing the young kids being willing to, like I sign
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  Speaker 3: for baseball. Would I even get an education? But they
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  Speaker 3: know it's important because at some point their Basebok career
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  Speaker 3: might be over without getting to where they wanted to get.
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  Speaker 3: And now they learned the language, they learned social skills,
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  Speaker 3: they learned how to, you know, be good enough with
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  Speaker 3: their eyes to be a scout, to be a front
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  Speaker 3: office member. And every time I go back home, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to try to go back once a year. I
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  Speaker 3: always go to the stadium where I grew up playing,
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  Speaker 3: and I do like a little equipmen distribution. I just
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  Speaker 3: make sure that you know, the kids are in a
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  Speaker 3: situation where like, if I can see it, I can
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  Speaker 3: become and they if they choose to pursue a baseball
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  Speaker 3: baseball aspirations and it's really fun. And I go with
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  Speaker 3: my grandma and she loves. Everyone says hi to my
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  Speaker 3: grandma for they say hi to me. She feels like
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  Speaker 3: she's like at the miss She's a real super So there's.
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  Speaker 6: A mirral on me.
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  Speaker 3: No one cares about that they want a picture with
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  Speaker 3: my grandma. But I always take the opportunity when I
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  Speaker 3: go back home to just let the kids know and
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  Speaker 3: just everyone that there is so much more to life
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  Speaker 3: beyond baseball. Like yes, like you know you see me
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  Speaker 3: on TV as a baseball player, but you just know
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  Speaker 3: everything that went on to get to this point, and
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  Speaker 3: how much I do of other things to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that I am involved in a community, that I'm here
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  Speaker 3: for Twins Territory. They they come to the study to
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  Speaker 3: support me. I want to support them. I want to
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  Speaker 3: indulge myself in the in their community. And there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot more to lifetime, you know what happens on the field,
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  Speaker 3: So I try to take advantage of all of that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and lastly, before I let you go, you're pitying
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  Speaker 4: me of what I love to say. There's no stat
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  Speaker 4: for character, right, We've got numbers for everything. But I
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  Speaker 4: watched these guys as I come into the clubhouse. I
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  Speaker 4: watch how they follow you how they interact with you.
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  Speaker 4: What has made you become such a good leader and
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  Speaker 4: made you care about being such a good leader other
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  Speaker 4: than just the performance aspect of it.
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  Speaker 3: Guys like you, man, Guys like you. I told you
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  Speaker 3: that earlier when I walked in here and I and
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  Speaker 3: I told it, like the example I get if it's true.
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  Speaker 3: Like I remember in twenty eighteen, everyone that made the
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  Speaker 3: opening day, you gave us like a portable PlayStation four
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  Speaker 3: at the time case with our photos in it. And
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  Speaker 3: last year I was like, you know what, I remember that.
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  Speaker 3: That's stay with me. That's stuck with me, Like I
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  Speaker 3: want to do something like that. So I made sure
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  Speaker 3: that the equipment manager told me everyone that was making
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  Speaker 3: their first opening day, and I contacted someone through my
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  Speaker 3: agency and I got them I customized like Scotch whiskey
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  Speaker 3: bottles with their names congratulations on opening day. It's just
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  Speaker 3: about legacy. You want to do right for those that
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  Speaker 3: did it before you. You want to do it right
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  Speaker 3: for those that come after you. So like guys like
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  Speaker 3: you that was in the Marlins Clubhouse in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 3: It's just an inspiration and motivation and something I carry
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  Speaker 3: with me. I'm still much better at showing leadership with
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  Speaker 3: actions rather than words. But the twins have pushed me
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  Speaker 3: to be a little more vocal, like yeah, like take
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  Speaker 3: up on that role. And again, guys like you is
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  Speaker 3: what like just gave me that sense of like, this
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  Speaker 3: is what real professionals look like. This is how you
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  Speaker 3: make young guys feel comfortable, feel them be like to
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  Speaker 3: be themselves because if they're themselves, are going to be
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  Speaker 3: the best version. And that's when I help us win
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  Speaker 3: ball games.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an awesome story. Yeah, obviously you're the man,
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  Speaker 2: Cam and you too.
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  Speaker 5: I forgot about this, really forgot about thetations. It was sick.
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  Speaker 3: Marra Marlin trailer was cool. Yeah, it was really cool.
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  Speaker 6: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Papla, we always enjoy these. Yeah, keep being yourself.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to have you on your great ambassador for
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  Speaker 2: the game. So thanks for joining us. Good luck to
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  Speaker 2: see you during the year.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you, guys. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We have Harrison Bader joining us right now in foul Territory. Harrison,
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  Speaker 2: great to see you, man, and obviously you had a
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  Speaker 2: fun year last season with the Mets, So now take
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  Speaker 2: us through your off season and how you end up
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  Speaker 2: with that hat on.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's good to see you guys too. Yeah, Listen,
• 14:18
  Speaker 9: last year was awesome. I think every year that you know,
• 14:21
  Speaker 9: we get an opportunity to put the jersey on, you
• 14:23
  Speaker 9: just stack experiences, you stack you know, time of players
• 14:27
  Speaker 9: you haven't played before, and you learn a lot about yourself.
• 14:29
  Speaker 9: And I think last year is no different. We had
• 14:30
  Speaker 9: a great run and carrying it into the off season
• 14:33
  Speaker 9: I think was great because the previous off season I
• 14:35
  Speaker 9: was coming off with surgery. So having a full off
• 14:37
  Speaker 9: season and just you know, stick to my work and
• 14:40
  Speaker 9: prepare for this year, it's been great. And you know
• 14:43
  Speaker 9: obviously mentioned the hat that I'm wearing. I'm just really
• 14:45
  Speaker 9: happy to be here because the biggest thing going into
• 14:48
  Speaker 9: the off season was just again to set myself up
• 14:50
  Speaker 9: to be on a team that's competing to win. It's
• 14:53
  Speaker 9: all there is to it. You know, winning is extremely contagious.
• 14:56
  Speaker 9: If you have an organization that preaches it from the
• 14:58
  Speaker 9: top all the way down, you know, that's just a
• 15:00
  Speaker 9: contagious mentality that will carry you through a lot of
• 15:02
  Speaker 9: the ups.
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: And downs this season.
• 15:04
  Speaker 9: So the most consistent organization and with regards to that,
• 15:07
  Speaker 9: was the Minnesota Twins. I'm happy that we came to
• 15:10
  Speaker 9: a deal and I couldn't be more grateful to be here.
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: That's all there is to it.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to stay there, man, because when I
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: look at this fit, we talk about the lack there
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: of moves, but I think this is a big fit
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: when you talk about the Twins, what they need when
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: you talk about elite defender and center field, a guy
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: that can take some pressure off buyer and get him
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: off his feet a little bit more. But I also
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: believe that you're a guy that you're at a point
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: of your career where I think you need to be
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: in there every day. I don't think it should be
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: a platoon situation, or I think you deserve a chance
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: to go fight for a position a spot. Where are
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: you with that, because I know I told you come
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: in here. I think you haven't even scratched the service
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: yet offensively where you sit today.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: As far as the opportunity being here as a twin.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah absolutely.
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: I mean I think the biggest thing is just setting
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: yourself up for, you know, to get at bats. And
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: the way you do that is just by continuing to
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: prove day in and day after you belonging that lineup,
• 15:59
  Speaker 9: and really that's up to me.
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: I think kind of goes back to what I learned
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: way back in the day at the University of Florida
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: from our coach Brad Whitzel, who would always preach you know,
• 16:08
  Speaker 9: you players don't understand that you guys make the lineup. Yeah,
• 16:11
  Speaker 9: where the coaches we write it in, but you guys,
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: based on your work, your process, everything that's going on,
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: you guys decide the lineup. And that's always stuck with
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: me because I still believe that to this day. So
• 16:19
  Speaker 9: if I go out there, I do what I'm supposed
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: to do on all sides of baseball, which I know
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: I'm capable of. I'm gonna play a lot and uh,
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: like I said, I think, you know, this organization is
• 16:27
  Speaker 9: going to allow me to do that. I have the
• 16:29
  Speaker 9: ability to play multiple positions in the outfield, which I'm
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: gonna unlock this year, which I haven't done a long time.
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: That's super exciting.
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: I've always said that defense is about repetition, you know
• 16:37
  Speaker 9: what I'm saying. There's there's a lot of controllable factors.
• 16:40
  Speaker 9: So being able to just you know, get those reps
• 16:43
  Speaker 9: before the game, understand the angles. It's all it is
• 16:46
  Speaker 9: to it and go out there and play ball. So
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: I'm excited for it. I'm excited for the for the
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: new challenge of playing those opportunities of those positions, and yeah,
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: whatever I gotta do to have the team win, I'll
• 16:54
  Speaker 9: be there for it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: Is it kind of a knock to your ego a
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: little bit when you go to right field. Are you're
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: starting taking balls and right or left when you're like, dude,
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: I've got golden center, Like, you don't move shortstops that
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: have gold off a shortstop without it being like a
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: tougher transition.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: You know, I don't know if I'll accumulate the endings,
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: but in my head, I just go, all right, let
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: me win a gold glove in right field then, or
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: let me let me win a gol glove and left field.
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: That's always a mentality. And at the end of the day,
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: if I'm in the right field, I just unlock the choop,
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, maybe just let it eat,
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: But no, I think listen, I was a center fielder,
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: and I was a centerfielder in college, and I got
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: moved to the left field, and I told my coach
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: the same exact thing to his face. I said, I'm
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: going to be the best left fielder in the SEC.
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: And I was in my opinion. So I think that's
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: just a just a mindset, honestly, you know, something I'm
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: not used to. But through repetition, through a good mindset,
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: through understanding my angles and make it physical, you know,
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: I'll be right where I need to be. And again,
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: it really comes down to I'm in the lineup for
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: a reason, so I got to be the best version
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: of myself and anything that's not working positively towards that
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: end goal of winning and helping his team win. In
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: whatever position i'm in the in the outfield, you know,
• 18:04
  Speaker 9: it's meaningless to me. So I'm going to go out there,
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: whether I'm in right, whether I'm in center, when I'm
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: in left, I'm gonna be the best version of myself
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: defensively and make the right decisions put the ball, and
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna help this team win on that side of
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: the base. So when when the game calls for it, yeah,
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: there's no ego involved. Long story short, there's no ego
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: involved here.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: We got to win. Can't win with too many egos
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: love it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: There's there's a difference between ego and confidence, and you
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: you exuded you exuded the confidence there, So I like that.
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: Speaking of confidence. One of your Florida teammates, we talk
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: about the sec Pete all the all the stuff he
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: went through with free agency, and you played with him
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: like in the pros, not just college. Like, can you
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: talk about, you know, some of the stuff he was
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: going through.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: Did you talk to him.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: During that time and how that transit or not transition
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: because he went back to the Mets. How the whole
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: thing played out for him in free agency.
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, listen, I don't have to talk on his behalf.
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: You know, everybody's free agency journey, whether it's for one year,
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: for its long term deal. You know, that's just so
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: subjective and it's so individualized to the player. I can
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: speak to the fact that regardless of the number of
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: his contract, regardless of what he may or may not
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: have turned down, all I know is that it does
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: not change anything about the type of person he is,
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: the type of man he is off that field, type
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: a baseball player he's always been in his entire career,
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: and many times it might be harder and a lot
• 19:21
  Speaker 9: easier to say and might be hard to do at times.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: But you know, that number does not define who we are.
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: That number does not define the type of person we
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: are on and off that field. And with regards to that,
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: I've never met a better, better human being than Peter A.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Lonzo.
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: And he's always been there for me whenever I needed him,
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: whether it's a swing thing, whether it was a conversation
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: about whatever, He's always been there. So he's just going
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: to keep doing what he does. He has a fantastic
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: family who I've known for a long time, and whatever
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: is going to be in his future is up to
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: him and it will come, and just because it didn't
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: come this year doesn't necessarily mean anything. I'm happy for him.
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: I'm happy that he's back in New York. That's right
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: belongs and to the fans absolutely love him, and that's
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: the type of things that just propel you through a
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: long season because there will be ups and down. So
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: I'm happy that he's where he is and I'm just
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: looking forward to a great year from him.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: What's the biggest difference between New York versus New York.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: You're a Bronx guy, Bronxville guy, not just Bronx guy,
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: but you got to play for the Yankees. You got
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: to have probably your greatest stretch of your entire career
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: in the playoffs for the Yankees. Then you went over
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: to the Mets. I mean, all the stuff that was
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: going on with with Grimace, with the Pumpkin, with OMG. Everything.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: Can you give us the biggest difference in playing for
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: both of those teams positive ornat.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think just the biggest.
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: The biggest difference is, obviously is New York is divided
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: when it comes to their baseball teams. There's no doubt
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: about it. You know, there's no gray area. You know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: if you're playing for the Yankees, you know exactly who's
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: rooting for you. If you're playing for the Mets, you
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: know exactly who's rooting for you. Even down to like
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: you walk into a restaurant, you know, everybody's the first
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: thing they tell you is whether they're Yankees are a
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: Mets fan.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: And I think that that was just.
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: Really cool to kind of feel the stark difference, you know,
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: just and everyone's living so close to each other, so
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: you kind of never know what to expect.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: But every day in.
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: New York, whether it's the off season and whether even
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: playing in season, it always is going to present just
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: high energy at all times. And with regards to the organizations,
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: they're both incredible organizations and get the opportunity as a
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: New York kid to play for both it was just
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: an absolute gift. I really don't know how else to
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: say it that there's no other words for it. I
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: just tried to make the absolute most of it every time,
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: and I think when I look back on it, you know,
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: I just I'm just really proud of being able to
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: put those uniforms on in front of the you know
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: a lot of my friends and family who ever since
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: day once is I was like in sixth grade, you know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: I told him. I was like, I'm gonna play for
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: the Yankees. I'mnna play for the Mets' play freshly in
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: this city, I'm telling y'all. And you know, for me
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: and just for the people who really like know me
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: and love me, they you know, we were right. So
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: you know, it came to an end after a couple
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: of years, which is which is fine. We keep it moving.
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: Of course, it's always about the ball. It's always about.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: Taking care of the ball.
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: But having that small you know that two and a
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: half years so, opportunity to do that in my hometown
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: was certainly special.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: So yeah, man, doesn't get better than that.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Okay, before we let you go break out, you're offensively
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: for coming.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: I see it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, health and you look good. The energy
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: is right offensively. I think where I struggle was trying
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: to figure out who I was as a hitter.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: Power got a hass power.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: It has to be what are you working on the
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: how do you balance that trying to be the best
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: of both?
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Right? Yeah, absolutely.
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: You know, the best players I've learned from they always
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: talk about just remaining present in the game situation, and truly,
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: whether it's the first up out of the season, the
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: very last step bat in the playoffs, you know, they
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: are just so present constantly and always adjusting to the
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: game situation.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: And that takes repetition, you know.
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: So something I've just been probing NonStop the spring training
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: from start to finish, has been just remaining present in
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: the game situation, you know, and trying to work with
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: the pitcher, think with the picture, because I'd rather be
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: one hundred percent on my plan and be wrong than
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: kind of eighty percent on maybe two pitches and I'm
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: kind of in between, and as we contact in there,
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: I've also really been focused on just hammering, you know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: the big part of the plate where wherever I'm looking.
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: You know, sometimes it's different. It might be middle in,
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: it might be middle away, it might be middle up.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: Whatever it is.
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: But just really honing that in and just training that
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: swing because you know, listen, these guys are human as
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: good as they are, but they do miss. And I
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: do think this game, as much as is about what
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: you swing at, it's also about what you don't swing at,
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: and sometimes being smart in the game situation to not
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: chase certain pitches, even if they're called strikes. You know,
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: a good picture quality strike is different than a good
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: hitter quality strike. And I think if I just stay
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: consistent with that, you know, I've done it for a
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: month at a time, two weeks at a time, two
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: months at a time, but I haven't fully fully done
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: that for a full season yet, and that's just something
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: that's certainly a challenge for all of us, but something
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: I just want to do. And I think that if
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: I own the zone that I did my research on
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: in preparation on I think I have success.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: That was real quick for I let you go because
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: that's huge. When I was with the Yankees, not the
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: heart one that that was the first team that I
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: was with. After each month they came to me and said, hey,
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: the chase rate was up a little high, or your
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: swing decision was a little bit better.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Did you get any of that or does those those Do.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Those things help you right kind of stay locked in
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: so you can have that two three four month period
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: of consistency. Is that something we're looking at to kind
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: of reiterate where we are each month or each two weeks.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Is that something you're going to add in it is
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: kind of okay, this.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: Is where I'm at.
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, So this is obviously my fourth organization, so
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: I uh, you know, you realize very quickly. And Willim
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: McGee told me it's the Saint Louis and they like,
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: you got to be your own your own like business,
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: your own company, your own factory essentially when he met
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: by that was like as an outfeeler, you know, you
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: got to be so honed in on your craft that
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: if you go to a different organization in the middle
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: of the season and they got a different system in there,
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: you can all of a sudden switch back and.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: Forth, you know, so you gotta you gotta do what
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: you gotta do.
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: And the reason why I bring that is because you know,
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: I have my own people. I know a lot of
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: guys have their own guys that they work with in
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: the off season, that they work with obviously in season
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: that give them data, reports, feedback, and honestly, it's a
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: daily thing. And I think that if we're so dependent upon,
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: you know, our organization to provide us with those that information,
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: you know, sometimes it could be more catered to what
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: we like or what we thrive on in terms of information.
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: So it's really important again to build your team behind
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: you because you want to be a whole force going
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: into an organization and uh, you know, the organization is
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: going to provide fantastic information, but sometimes what we need
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: needs to be more catered to us. I mean a
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: lot of times that information is is for the general lineup,
• 25:43
  Speaker 9: which is fine, but when we run the heat of
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: bat on that to two count, you know what I'm saying, Like,
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: sometimes a small piece of information that we got maybe
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: from our personal guys might not be in the bigger
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: overall report. So that might get us to that bad
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: I don't know, but I love that.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's really you had to ask day to day process.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: I like that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, Harrison, that was really good insight.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you man. Good to see you. Good luck this season,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Twins. We'll catch it during the year.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: Okay, absolutely sounds good. Good to see you.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: We've got twenty twenty four All Star and twenty twenty
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: four team MVP Willie Castro joining us right now on
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: ft RELLI. I know it's a new year, but how
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: does that sound. I mean, when you think back to
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: what you did last year, you were one of the
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: most underrated players in the sport.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know when I got on Tender Detroit,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: obviously I was feeling bad.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: I never expected that.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I know, I was trying to do my best to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: not to to help my team win.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: And you know I got on tender.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: You know, I never get my head down, and I
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: got the putendity to sign here Minnesota. I know, this
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: is the first day I heard about them, that they
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: wanted me to sign here, and you know, I just
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: think it was a really good up for me to
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: come and obviously, I just I know I had more
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: than me. I know I had to come and show
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: my skills, and that's what I did. I came and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: won the spot. And yeah, here we are again.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Hey, I want to talk about that we were together
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty and you were playing a lot of infield.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Detroit had just started to kind of mess around with
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: bouncing you around. Now we look up two years later,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: super utility maybe the best super utility player in the game.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: How much pride have you taken and realizing that, hey,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: this is the way that I can stay on the field.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Also switching, you know what does that do for you?
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Understanding if I can play more positions. It's hard to
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: get me off out of the lineup. I mean, I
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: know I came up since fooguyball to the BA leagues.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: That was a short stop and my whole career, and yeah,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: I just you know, when I was in Detroit, I know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: my second third year, that's when aj Hinch decided me
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: to see if I can play outfield. He told me,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: if I could play outfield, of course a slugg as
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: I'm in the field, you know, I just get the
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: job done. And man, I got the hang of it
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: really quick. They told me, like, I look natural in
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: the outfield, and man, I just went out there, you know,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: just streuss myself, trust my abilities, and man, right now,
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: I feel natural in all the positions that I play,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: and I feel good a slug as I'm in the field.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: I just want to get the job done so I
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: could get my team to win the games. So I'm
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: real quick. I want to talk about that. Not that
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: easy to make that transition. I was out for my
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: whole life, went from center to left, and it was difficult.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: How much extra work has it taken?
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: How much time can you kind of touch on that, like,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: it's not that easy, just go out there and do it.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: How much work have.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: You put in defensively to make sure you're comfortab when
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: you get out there because you look so natural.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, it was something natural.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I was there when they first told me that I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: was gonna get some time in the outfield. I just
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: went out there, you know, just get a couple of reps,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: a couple of fly balls, a couple you know, just
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: going through the corners, get the balls, and I mean
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I got the hang of it real quick. So I
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: think it was just trusting my abilities. You know, I
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: think my abilities what got me to that point to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: be the utility guy that I am today. So I
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: just focus, you know, just focus on a lot of
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: things that can make a big difference at the game. So,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: like I said, my talent is what it got me
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: to this point.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Everybody says when they're on a team, I just want
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: to do whatever it takes for the team to win.
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: You're getting to a point in your career at twenty
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: eight years old, you're going to be a free agent
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: next year. Are you more valuable at one singular position
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: in free agency?
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: To be honest, I don't know. To be honest, I
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: just I don't really look at the numbers. I don't
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: look at anything. I just try to go out there
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and you know, and just do my job. Do my
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: job whatever it takes to how my team win. That's
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: my number one thing that I have on my mind
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: every day. Just go out there, have fun with the guys,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and you know, everything that's go mount natural.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Okay, so you guys didn't get a chance. I just
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: had a chance to hopping and going to the clubhouse.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: One thing this dude has always had with some of
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: the most swag in the clubhouse. So the custom cliques
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: are sick. First off, who does your spikes and what
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: like kind of inspires you on the custom that you
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: go with or what you decide to go, you know,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: go to, Like how do you pick that out?
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I mean I started doing that maybe three years ago
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: when I really when I signed here, uh do something
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: twenty three and yeah, I got a guy in Dominican
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: that he does that for me. You know, I just
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: tell him give me some options. You know, he does
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: that three D first and then you send it to
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: you to see everyone something change. And yeah, I like
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: to do like the cartoon characters and stuff and crazy. Yeah,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I just try to, you know, just mix it up
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: a little bit. And yeah, I think this past three
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: years I've been doing that, you know, consistently obviously. And yeah,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: that guy over there in Dominican's he's.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: Looks good, feel good?
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: What's the deal with the Flintstones? So why are the Flintstones?
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: You're a big Flintstones fans or just a cartoon.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: Fan in general.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a really cartoon I'm a cartoon guy.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: You know, it's little I always watch a cartoon, so
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I saw a couple of cleats a couple of years
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: ago that I saw some cartoon characters, and man, I said,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I gotta do that, you know, I got to do that.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I think that's something from my childhood, just
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: just watching those cartoons. You know, it's something that I'm
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: never I still actually watch it. I still actually watch it.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I know, I'm twenty seven, so I still watch it.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I know it's something that I don't going to stop watching.
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: So hit my pitchers. You broke the franchise record last
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: year twenty one twenty one times. If you can't just
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: get out the way one time.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I mean I take them as long as you're not
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: going to take that base, you know. Yeah, my game
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: right now is just you know, just be on base,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: you know, I know, uh, just being out there and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: you know, just trying to get some stills. I know,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I run a little bit, so I just try to
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: be on base every time. Just get some walks, whatever
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: it take to be on base. You know. I take
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: those hits and obviously probably is uh their report probably
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: throw me in so that that's probably why I get
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: hit so much. And yeah, I just go out there.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm never expecting that they're gonna hate me,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: but I take them. I take long as I'm gonna
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: take that base. You know's got my job done.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: He was better than me, Crassy.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: I was trying to move away and everything before we
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: let you go, a lot of people sat at home
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: last year kind of watch you guys, kind of fall
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: off at the end. A lot of people at home
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: playing GM as a team. What do you want to
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: see from these guys other than hell? What is your
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: expectations for the Twins this year?
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Expectation? Well, I know we signed a couple more guys
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: beater and type friends. Man, this is gonna be It's
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: gonna be great. It's gonna be great. I see him
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: coming into camp and many they're great, great, great players, Uh,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: great teammates.
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: I got a couple.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Of talks with them and then they they they're really
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: fit in the spot. They're gonna help us win a
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: lot of games. So yeah, I think there's victations is
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you know, to win it all, to win the division
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: and you know, just go out there, you know, trust yourself.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: I know I feel like.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Everybody where, everybody is healthy, and yeah, you expecting more
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the last year. I know last year it went so well.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: The last month. We were losing a lot of games,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: but that's part of baseball.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: We were doing whatever it takes to win the games.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: But like I said, this is a sport of ups
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: and downs, so you never got to keep your head down.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a new year. We forget what happened
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: last year. It's a new year. We're gonna go out
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: there and compete, and like I said, this is a
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: winning team, so we're gonna just just go out there
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: and trust ourselves.
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Well, Willie, good luck this season, and don't be a stranger.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: First time on the show. You're really good interview. So
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: we'll get to during the year.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: Okay, thank you, appreciate it.