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Best of Chuck & Buck at Spring Training Day 5 2-20 · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Your home for Spring training presents Chucking Bucks Daily Recap podcast,
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by Tuleva Presort Casino and by Delta Airlines. Well,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, and welcome in to day number five of
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  Speaker 1: our spring training coverage, five out of five Chucking Buck
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  Speaker 1: in the Morning Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM.
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  Speaker 1: We've been live from Peoria, Arizona, all week long, making
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  Speaker 1: the jump from a Seahawks Super Bowl to the start
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  Speaker 1: of the baseball season, and it has been a beautiful transition.
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  Speaker 1: Former Mariner Bucky Jacobson is here. My name is Chuck Powell,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't think of a better way to start
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  Speaker 1: our final show here from spring training than talking to
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  Speaker 1: mister Mariner himself, the great Alvin Davis.
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  Speaker 2: So goodness, see are you talking about me?
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about you.
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  Speaker 1: I am talking about you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, though, we got to know Andre's
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  Speaker 1: Munnos a little bit during the course of our week,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got some competition for nicest person in the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners organization, So I don't know, we might have to
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  Speaker 1: have a nice off or maybe Alvin, You're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to become even nicer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure a nice off. I've never heard that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know whether are you gonna design.
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  Speaker 3: That like an optacle course, but it's it's how cordial
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  Speaker 3: you are to stranger.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like humility, right, do you think you got it?
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  Speaker 2: You don't. Yeah, yeah, So I'm gonna be nice.
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  Speaker 4: But I appreciate that. And uh, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 4: Uh man. You know, I love seeing all of our
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  Speaker 4: players and staff when they come in. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: Mooney just has a glow about him. And I think
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  Speaker 4: that's that's what you're noticing, right, and just uh you know,
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  Speaker 4: coming over and saying hello. And you know, yesterday I
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  Speaker 4: just noticed rick Or has had some friends here and
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  Speaker 4: they were standing to the side because guys are getting
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  Speaker 4: their work in over here on the turf and things
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  Speaker 4: and and I don't know if it was set up,
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  Speaker 4: and but you know, Mooney just kind of cut right
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  Speaker 4: through that, went over, stuck his hand out, said hello.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it looks people in the eyes, so and
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  Speaker 4: we have a building full of people like that. And
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  Speaker 4: that's that's one of the things that I love about
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  Speaker 4: being a Mariner.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's that's that's a good point. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: know for sure how much be Nice accounts for wins necessarily,
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  Speaker 3: but there's definitely something to chemistry, right, And then we
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  Speaker 3: saw last year. I mean the team most certainly is
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  Speaker 3: rolling in the same direction. I mean, they cheer for
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  Speaker 3: each other, they're they're there for each other. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: how big of a deal do you think that is?
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  Speaker 3: Because it does feel like this team is more together
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  Speaker 3: than any team I've been been able to cover.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and I think, buck Man, when you
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  Speaker 4: want to start building a group or start building a team,
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  Speaker 4: I think having people that are just naturally selfless versus
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  Speaker 4: naturally selfish. And of course you know there's there's gradations, right,
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  Speaker 4: I guess as a word that comes to mind of
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  Speaker 4: each But you know, when you're in a clubhouse or
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  Speaker 4: in a locker room with a bunch of extremely selfish
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  Speaker 4: or self centered people and you know, hey, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: get mine first. It's about my brand and or my
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  Speaker 4: next contract or whatever, that's kind of tough to reel in,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And you know you mentioned the Seahawks earlier
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  Speaker 4: today and just catching some of their postgame interviews throughout
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  Speaker 4: the season, especially in the NFC and the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: and just seeing how they came together and they got
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  Speaker 4: it done together. And I think, you know, building with humble,
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  Speaker 4: selfless people starting with that. But then to your point, Buck,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you got to add that compete factor because
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day or at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the season, the last game is played, there's only
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  Speaker 4: going to be one team at the top of the mountain.
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  Speaker 4: So it you know, blending those things together. But my
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  Speaker 4: point is, I think it's a it's a better starting
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  Speaker 4: place when you've got people that are just selfish, humble,
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  Speaker 4: but they know how to compete.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are very similar, two very likable and at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, I mean, we're not gonna we're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: wax poetic about it if they're you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks are four and thirteen, you know, or the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners you know, were projected to win sixty two games
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  Speaker 1: this year. But when you can combine the two, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're your coach, advisor on the staff, you're
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  Speaker 1: around these guys all the time, but you were also
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  Speaker 1: a fierce competitor yourself and a very good player yourself.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, do you find yourself sometimes like this
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  Speaker 1: is the type of team I wish I'd have played on.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, most definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, not to say against your teammates, but
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  Speaker 1: they you know, they might have been the nicest guys
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  Speaker 1: in the world, but obviously you didn't have the success
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  Speaker 1: that these guys seem to be on the verge of Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Fair point, Yeah, no, fair point, Chuck. You know, just
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  Speaker 4: reflecting back in the eighties, there was just so many
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  Speaker 4: things that we were trying to figure out, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, again, I don't want to disparage anyone.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we had our time, we had our shot
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  Speaker 4: at it, but you know, we just didn't ever really
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  Speaker 4: figure it out. Ninety one, I feel like we the
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  Speaker 4: start of figuring it out and how to be competitive
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  Speaker 4: throughout a whole hundred and sixty two game season. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think now, especially with our core group here,
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  Speaker 4: you know JP's and Julio's and Cows and you know,
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  Speaker 4: all of our pitching staff, the guys that have been
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  Speaker 4: here for a few years, and they've been through some
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  Speaker 4: ups and downs, they've been through some near misses, you know,
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  Speaker 4: either making the playoffs or winning the division or now
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  Speaker 4: advancing to the World Series. For the first time and
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  Speaker 4: having the opportunity to make history. You know, I could
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  Speaker 4: get go on that trail forever, right, you know, because
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's so much history in our game. To
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  Speaker 4: to be able to have the opportunity to do something
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  Speaker 4: for the first time ever, it's just unique in the
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  Speaker 4: game of baseball. And I feel like our group here
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  Speaker 4: since is that we're closer than we've ever been. The
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  Speaker 4: opportunity is more realistic than it's ever been, and I
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  Speaker 4: see the work that's going with it. So you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I kind of went off on a ramble there, But
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  Speaker 4: if I compare where we were in the eighties to
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  Speaker 4: where we are today, you know, on twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 4: I think that's that's a huge difference. And of course
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  Speaker 4: the talent makes a huge difference. Yeah, when you when
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  Speaker 4: you're running players out there that you know are the
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  Speaker 4: best at they're positioned in all of baseball, are in
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  Speaker 4: that discussion, you know that that's a great place to start.
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  Speaker 3: Well, comparing this team to the teams we've been cheering
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  Speaker 3: for and that has been competitive and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: fighting for either division titles and making the playoffs the
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  Speaker 3: last four years or so, I mean, it's been predominantly
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  Speaker 3: based on the starting rotation, the pitching staff, and you
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  Speaker 3: had you had some dudes out there in your everyday
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  Speaker 3: lineup as far as position players go. This year you
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  Speaker 3: get a full season of Josh Naylor. We saw what
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  Speaker 3: he brings to the table gamer ballplayer, all the compliments
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  Speaker 3: that you want to get as a as a player.
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  Speaker 3: Now adding Brendan Davis or Donovan excuse me, to Cal
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  Speaker 3: and Julio and JP and the rest of the gang,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it feels more complete right now at the
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  Speaker 3: start of spring training. It feels more complete as far
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  Speaker 3: as the entire team than it ever has before. Is that?
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  Speaker 3: Are you feeling that same thing?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I am, Yeah, definitely feeling that. And uh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, now we enter into face two right with
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  Speaker 4: games starting today and and a little bit of a
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  Speaker 4: different year. It's going to take a while, I think
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  Speaker 4: for things to kind of settle in. It's on the
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  Speaker 4: major league level. You know, I'm in player development, so
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  Speaker 4: I'm really happy for our younger kids. They're going to
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  Speaker 4: get some opportunities that maybe they wouldn't get in a
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  Speaker 4: normal year because guys are going to be leaving to
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  Speaker 4: go participate in the WBC but you know to your point,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the roster that has been built, Man, what
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  Speaker 4: a great place to start and and you know, with
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  Speaker 4: the flexibility that we need and different things like that,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, it's it's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 4: unique challenge. I think. You know, you mentioned the difference
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  Speaker 4: between our ability to develop pitching versus you know, hitting
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  Speaker 4: or just scoring runs. You know, at the major league
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  Speaker 4: level can be can be tough. You know, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Team Mobile has been talked about. Everybody knows what a
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  Speaker 4: factor that is, and so you know, you know, getting
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  Speaker 4: guys used to that and just like, hey, this is
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  Speaker 4: just the part of our challenge. This this is where
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  Speaker 4: we play, you know, in the stadium. We're not moving
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  Speaker 4: the stadium. So just let's just figure out how to
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  Speaker 4: score runs on a consistent basis and and you know,
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  Speaker 4: play great defense and you know, run the basis all
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  Speaker 4: the little things that can add up to big things.
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  Speaker 4: When you get to the end of one sixty.
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  Speaker 1: Two, Alvin Davis is with us a mister Mariner right
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  Speaker 1: here on our Friday show. It's Chucking Buck in the
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  Speaker 1: Morning's live from Pure Spring Training here, and man, you've
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  Speaker 1: kept the mister Mariner title you will keep it forever.
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  Speaker 1: I've all, I've told you every year. I think right
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  Speaker 1: now you've earned doctor Mariner. I think you've been mister
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  Speaker 1: Mariner long enough that you should be doctor Mariner at
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  Speaker 1: this point.
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  Speaker 3: You've earned it.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, Ken Grivey Junior was in this organization
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  Speaker 1: and you remain mister Mariner. And that's pretty good player
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  Speaker 1: right there. So I'm assuming you're going to hold onto
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  Speaker 1: that title forever. But when you see a player and
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  Speaker 1: a leader like cal Raley, do you think to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: am I gonna hold onto this title?
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  Speaker 3: You know through the cal Rally career? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know you know it's a it's a
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  Speaker 4: humbling title to have, you know, the house.
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  Speaker 1: For you hear that, Moon, This is how nice you
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  Speaker 1: got to be forever?
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  Speaker 3: You hear that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: To your point, it probably needs to become an order
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  Speaker 4: because you know, you start talking about men like mister
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  Speaker 4: Griffy and mister Martinez and mister Suzuki and mister Johnson,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, all those guys that are up on that
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  Speaker 4: big poster behind you, Chuck. You know, it should be
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  Speaker 4: it should be like a knighthood, right like in order.
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  Speaker 4: I'd vote for that in the heartbeat.
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  Speaker 1: But Cal Raley, I mean, just talk to him and
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  Speaker 1: how special he is and as a player, a leader
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  Speaker 1: and somebody that we've watched grow from you know, this chubby,
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  Speaker 1: pink faced kid when I first saw him to now
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  Speaker 1: as big a name in the sport that there is,
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  Speaker 1: so uh, you've got to watch this development too.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you know, got to see it a little bit
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  Speaker 4: with Junior, but to your point with Cal, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: Kyle even going back to last year went in the
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  Speaker 4: Platinum Glove Award and knowing the work and you guys
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  Speaker 4: are here so you and you're here early, so you
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  Speaker 4: see Cal's work ethic, right, you see, he's one of
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  Speaker 4: the first guys here. You know, he's he's one of
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  Speaker 4: the first guys in the cage, gets his work in,
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  Speaker 4: heads over to the bullpens, gets his work in. And
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  Speaker 4: so you know, there's always going to be an element
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  Speaker 4: in professional sports of leading by example. Yes, you know,
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  Speaker 4: being able to open your mouth at the right time
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  Speaker 4: or or quietly you know, you know, coach up a
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  Speaker 4: guy or confront a guy. You know, that's all a
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  Speaker 4: part of leadership at this level. And but you know,
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  Speaker 4: also guys are watching how you go about your work.
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  Speaker 4: And when you have an elite work ethic, guys are like, whoa, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: that's the standard around here. You know, Oh that's how
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  Speaker 4: you get to be Cal Rawleigh, right.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: You know, going back to last year, you remember the
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  Speaker 4: talking points last year coming into spring training, was you know,
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  Speaker 4: is Cal going to be able to develop from the
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  Speaker 4: right side? You know, is you know, he's obviously elite
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  Speaker 4: from the left hand side, but is he going to
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  Speaker 4: be able to develop from the right hand side if
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  Speaker 4: he If he can't, you know, maybe you got to
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  Speaker 4: go out and get somebody that you know, faces those
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  Speaker 4: tough lefties or whatever. You know, Cal comes out, puts
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  Speaker 4: the work in and you know he put the work
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  Speaker 4: in way before he got down in Peoria last year.
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  Speaker 4: But he continues putting the work in here. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he works with sites and Bobby, Bobby Magianis and of
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  Speaker 4: course Senior Leanior mister Edgar Martinez, and then you know
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  Speaker 4: he becomes an elite right hand hitter, right, you know,
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  Speaker 4: And and now he's you know, he's your everyday guy
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  Speaker 4: and you try to figure, okay, when when do we
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  Speaker 4: give him a day off? You know, because you know
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  Speaker 4: he's a great matchup for everybody in the league, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and and you know that we talked about grit before,
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  Speaker 4: you know, playing the toughest position physically to play on
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  Speaker 4: the field, wanting to be there and posting. We use
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  Speaker 4: that term around here. You know, you got to post, right,
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  Speaker 4: we tell our kids on a PD side, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you got to post man. When you get to the
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  Speaker 4: big league level and you're a guy, you got to
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  Speaker 4: be in the lineup. You've got to be available, you
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  Speaker 4: got to you gotta be one of those guys where
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  Speaker 4: it's like, hey man, we need to give you a
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  Speaker 4: day off, and you're like, I don't agree.
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  Speaker 2: With you, but it's same time, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: go to blows over it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Cal has become that kind of guy, and
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  Speaker 4: I get you know, I guess another uh, you know
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  Speaker 4: vantage point on it working in player development and seeing
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  Speaker 4: Cal come into the organization and seeing him develop, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, one of the things we talk about is
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know, helping our players get there and
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  Speaker 4: then helping them stay there and doing everything that we
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  Speaker 4: can as an organization, as a staff, the people that
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  Speaker 4: have hands on the players to make the gap between
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  Speaker 4: being a prospect and a major league performer as narrow
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  Speaker 4: as we possibly can. But we talk about it all
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  Speaker 4: the time. Once their opportunity comes. There's no minor league
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  Speaker 4: stadiums that have four decks, uh there, there's no minor
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  Speaker 4: league stadiums where you know, you got you're playing the
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  Speaker 4: Yankees on a Friday night game and the place is
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  Speaker 4: just rocking, and you got Aaron Judd standing in the box, like,
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  Speaker 4: there's some things you just got to figure out on
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  Speaker 4: your own. But but anything else that we can do
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  Speaker 4: to help you get there, that's our responsibility. And and I,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I've loved just tracking with Cal, having conversations
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  Speaker 4: with Cal as he was making that transition. Hey Cal,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know what, what's the difference. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you're here now, you've been in the big leagues for
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  Speaker 4: a year. What's the difference. What could we do a
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  Speaker 4: little bit better? You know, And you know, we had
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  Speaker 4: that conversation and Cal helped me out, you know, so
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate that about him. And then now you know,
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  Speaker 4: kind of going from prospect to performer to you know,
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  Speaker 4: like superstar superstar. Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, and uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I see the see the same thing again,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he's a household name. There's there their t
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  Speaker 4: shirts and jerseys in New Jersey. You know, not that
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to be smart here, but you know they're
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  Speaker 4: they're cal Raley fans all over this country and all
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  Speaker 4: over the world, and it's just been amazing to see
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  Speaker 4: it happen. Trace it all the way back to work ethic, character, leadership, capabilities, everything.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, well, I think a big signing this offseason
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  Speaker 3: was not Lett Naylor leave the building for a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the reasons you just pointed out with Cal that grinder,
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  Speaker 3: that the mentality, the rings he's gonna post, he's going
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  Speaker 3: to make sure that he's a tough out for four
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  Speaker 3: times and he makes it tough whatever ball is hitting
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  Speaker 3: his direction as well. I mean, when you start to
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  Speaker 3: assess that side of this squad, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 3: Brendan Donovan, We've got to know him just a little
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  Speaker 3: bit and having an interview with him, he seems that
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  Speaker 3: same type disciplined character that he's going to go about
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  Speaker 3: his business the right way and then if you do that,
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  Speaker 3: you let the outcomes fall where they may. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: speak to just Josh Naylor, I guess with that in mind,
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  Speaker 3: the idea of continuing to make it to where your
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  Speaker 3: leaders in general have the work ethic and that grit
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  Speaker 3: that you speak of, because then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: everyone else just kind of you know, falls in line
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  Speaker 3: with that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, And even at the major league level, these
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  Speaker 4: guys are learning from their peers, right and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: so when you bring somebody like Josh into your organization
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  Speaker 4: who just is such a student of the game, and
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  Speaker 4: I know that's been well talked about, but it's almost
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  Speaker 4: like you can't talk about it enough. You know, a
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  Speaker 4: guy that really pays attention to the little things in
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  Speaker 4: the game, is constantly learning the game and and and
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  Speaker 4: willing to share that with his teammates, like having those
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  Speaker 4: types of conversations you know, hey, this is what I'm seeing,
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  Speaker 4: or you know, this is what you need to be
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  Speaker 4: thinking about in this situation. You know, you know there's
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  Speaker 4: times where you know you just got to take your
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: base hit, right, take take your ninety feet, or take
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: your walk, or you know there's there's times you got
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: to go for it a little bit, you know, anticipate
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: what might what happened, and then you know, I think
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: about last year. You know, I can't remember which game
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: it was, but you know the ball that he laces,
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: you know that that's at his eyes, right, you guys
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: probably remember that at that, you know, because he knows
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: that that's where that guy is going. And and he
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: gets the barrel there, and you know we're all like,
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: you know, does how does that happen? Well, you know,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: there's obviously talent there, right, you know, going back and
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: you're thinking about Josh's pedigree. He's a first round draft pick.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: There's a reason he's a first round traffic, right, But
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: then you know, just to see the development again and
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: got a little bit of a unique perspective, I think
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: for us because he was in San Diego for so
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: many years and so you know we got to see him,
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: you know, right across the lot here you know at
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: pure is sports complex, so kind of watching him develop
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: and you know, first you look at it and you're like, oh, wow,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: that's that's a little different. You know, physicality is a
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: little bit different. But then when you watch it a
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: little bit closer, you know, it's like whoa, it's really athletic,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: it moves really well, you know, and and yeah, playing outfield,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: I think when he was younger and playing first base,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: and you know, you see the arm.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: We're all scouts, right right, you know you see the arm.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: You sit there and you go, whoa, Okay, that's got
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: a little bit of zip on it. You know, I
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: think he could play multiple positions, you know, And then
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: you know, he just he's just continued to row and
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: add elements to his game that are just like wow,
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: that that just he developed, like he sees the game
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: differently than other people sees the game. You see the game, right,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: even even elite Major League baseball players.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the point that distinguishes him from others.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, bags, Yeah, that's right.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: That's that's a lot of basses for a fast guy,
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: yea to steal, right, a really fast guy.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: That and his shoe game. When you see all of
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: his different shoes, do you think to yourself, man, I
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: wish they would have allowed me to wear that many
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: different shoes when I played. Or are you in the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: camp of stick to the uniform there, Bud?
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if I was ever going to
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: be that guy right to wear the.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Glowing Parkley belt? Was you award this Parklely belt?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: But mister had awarded this Parkley Belt.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you know, going back to the eighties,
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: you know, and you guys know so well, Junior was
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: the first one to wear his hat backwards and everybody
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: just said, hey, you know what, that's fine. You know
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: he plays Yeah, he plays the game right, he plays
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: the game hard, and he plays the game well. And
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, isn't that what you
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: really want? And then you add a little flare to it,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: you know, you guys remember back in the ages with
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: the T shirts and all that kind of stuff. The
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: fans are loving it. It's like, that's what we do.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: We're here for the best, We're here to win baseball
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: games because fans want us to win baseball games. But
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: if a guy wants to wear his hat backwards and
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: put an earring in and he goes out there and
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: rakes and he's a great teammate, what is the problem.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: And I think that.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Kind of summarizes, if you will, you know what Josh is.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: And of course things have changed, it's more acceptable now.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: But yeah, Josh is just being himself.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: And you guys have.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Been here, you've seen him. You saw him last year
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: when he was with us. How he goes about his
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: business and how he interacts with people, and just the
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: joy that he brings and the selfless person that he is,
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: just on a huge scale, like wear whatever you want
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: to wear, you know, and then you know he's paying
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: tribute the other day's eye, he's wearing Cooper Cubs jerseys
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: for our work and stuff like that. Just a shout
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: out to Seattle, like that's awesome.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: You would have shown up with bright pink shoes, Nolan,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Ryan would have hit you right in the ribs.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I would have made I don't think I would have
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: made it past my moms. She'd be like, what are
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: you trying to do? Trying to razy to.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Be worried about Nolan? About Mom?
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Nolan, how about that? You hit hit me in
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: the ribs four times? Like is it the shoes?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Mister Alvin's like, take these shoes off. So great to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: see you, Thank you so much. Always a pleasure. Thank you,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: mister Mariner himself, Alvin Davis joining us here at our set.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: All right, let's quickly find out what's on tap for
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the rest of the show.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: What's on tap?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: What's on tap? All right? Yeah? I could sit here
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: and talk with Alvin all day long, but We've got
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: other things to handle now. Yeah, get the tip of
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: the iceberg.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, you know, sponsors and whatnot. Gosh, can't we
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: just talk to Alvin for four hours?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Please?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Mariners spring training? Of course it's our last day. We've
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: got Emerson Hancock on the show coming up at six thirty.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: We got Justin Hollander today at seven o'clock. We have
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Rob Reschneider coming off the on the show today. And
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: of course the mission is to get the guy that
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: we were just discussing, Josh Naylor, to pop on our
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: show at some point. That that is a mission today,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and you never know who else might be joining us
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: on the program today. They're calling it opening Day. I
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: never really thought of spring training you could use the
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: phrase opening day for spring training, but I saw a
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: box of doughnuts in there and it said Happy Opening
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Day on it, and so for spring training, this is
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: opening day. First game is today at one o'clock against
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the San Diego Padres. I do have the lineup for
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you don't have time to go through it now, but
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: maybe we will do that before the end of the hour. Also,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: would let you know ty Frantz is gonna be playing
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: for the Padres. He signed a minor league deal with
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the Padres in the off season, and Mitch Garver signed
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a minor league deal with the Mariners, of course this week,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and we just saw him enter the building for the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: first time. He's got a press conference in about an hour,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: but he came strolling in with cal Raley here today
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: before we jumped on the air. So Mitch Garver is here.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Seahawks introduced Brian Floury yesterday. He made quite the impression
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: on the fan base. We'll hear from him later on
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: in the program The Olympics. Oh my gosh, you should
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: have seen the scene here at the cafeteria players watching
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the US women win hockey gold over Canada in overtime yesterday.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: The place erupted here in Peoria, and I would imagine
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: they'll be watching again today. The men's side meeches at semifinals.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: The US will take on Slovakia today and Canada we'll
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: take on Finland. Hopefully was some time to talk about
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: this stuff a little bit later on in the show
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: College basketball Udub versus Maryland tomorrow. But the big story
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: on Montlake was the mic drop, the sudden retirement of
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Jason Hamilton jayham yesterday. Tremendous career. Tremendous dude, and so
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: he's going to be sorely missed.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: The outpouring from all of the Husky people just lauding
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the career of Jason Hamilton yesterday was pretty cool to see.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: NBA Adam Silver announced yesterday that they are going to
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: make major changes to tanking. Everything is on the table.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: They're going to get tough on the concept that third
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: of the league is tanking games for better draft position.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I am going to find some time to talk about
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that and believe it or not, with all this going on.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Did you know the Sounders open on Sunday? Yeah, Sounders,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: their season starts on Sunday. How about okay? Oh wow?
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: All right, so there you go. Those are your headlines.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: We're just getting started. The sun just popped up over
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the horizon and I think that means.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: We are underway here.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: On our fifth and final show from spring training coverage,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock joins us next Chuck u' buck Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: ninety three point three kJ A r f M.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: It's Chuck a.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Buck with your Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: A r FM, and we always like to check in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: with this guy. He's the Nate Bargatzia baseball out of
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the University of Georgia, former first round pick, and the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: love of our hearts.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Joining us now is Emerson Ancock here on Chucking Buck.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: How are you, sir?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: GOODA compliment?
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, there's a big poster review on our on
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: my wall at home. I love it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: That's a good post. I really like you. I don't
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: have a post.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: You gotta get one, though, Okay, you gotta get.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: One, all right, coming right up.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: But I've only known you as a pitcher, Emerson Hancock,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: not daddy. Emmerson Hancock. What on earth?
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: It is like it's turned into a nursery.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: You've had a baby. How is that going in your life?
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: It's been awesome. Yeah, it is a It really is
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: a blessing. It was a great off season. We had
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: about a week or two to kind of settle in,
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: and then he came like early November. So since then
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: it's felt like it's flown by. But like you said,
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: I mean to have all the kids here with the
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: wives and everyone hanging out, it's special. It's so cool
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: to just pop in and out see him and then
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: obviously everyone get interact with him is great.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Well, we've heard about Henry Gilbert. We don't know the
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: name of young Hancock.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Is it Herbie?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Tell her herbi?
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Okay, master Bony?
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: No, John Miles, Christian Hancock name with the why, the Miles.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: With the why? Okay? That a family name.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: No, it was just something a name that we both
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: liked and as soon as we found out we were
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: having a boy. I just think that was the first
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: one where we like it and it sounded good.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: And here we are. Well, I don't want to be
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: there choice.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I don't want to start any controversy. But he's bald.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: He has trouble walking any short. Are you sure it's
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: not Perry Hills. You'll have to y'all have to tell
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: him that one.
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: You're not.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable. Yeah, oh, poor Miles. You'll you'll learn how to
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: walk better Perry Hill right now for sure. So off
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: season wise, I mean a different off season I would
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: imagine for you considering how last year was, right end
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: up going to the bullpen to some degree? Did that
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: change your preparation this year or did you did they
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: tell you know you're going back to the rotation?
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: Not really much change. You know, I wanted to be
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: as normal as an off season as possible, and you know,
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: you just kind of start building up and I just
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: wanted to build a really good, you know, volume and
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: intensity foundation and build up as a starter and then
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: get here and then just you know, see what happens.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: I mean, that's the plan, is to be a starter,
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: and then if we have to make any changes, we'll
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: go from there. We know that I can make the
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: shift if we have to, but I also feel like
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: I can contribute some some really good innings as a starter.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: So off season was great. Again, just working on you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: command consistency. Those are the two big things I really
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: wanted to focus on.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Emerson Hancock with us proud father right here on Chuck
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: and Buck in the morning Sports Radio ninety three point
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: three KJRFM.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: What about that armslot. You toyed with some things at
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: the tail end.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Of last year and it really looked like it was working,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and so did you carry that into the off season
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and into spring.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Or are we going to see something more of that?
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I just think that was kind of a result
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: of just going and doing what filt natural, and I
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: think it held a ton with just you know, pitching
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: east and west with the sinker and the sweeper. It
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: made things a lot easier for me. And then this
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: offseason wasn't like a focus of like, oh, let's do this,
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: like let's go out, let's do it feels really really good,
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: and let's build a strong foundation and just see how
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: how far we can take this thing.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: With that, just getting to be a part of the team.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Last year was a special team. I mean, you guys
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: did some really impressive stuff as a whole, and yet
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: obviously still didn't achieve the ultimate goal. What did a
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: fuel your fire a little bit more? We'd get a
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: couple extra reps in when you were working out getting
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: ready for this year.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean yeah, absolutely. I mean, as a competitor,
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: you want to win it all and for us to
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: be you know, as close as we are, I mean
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: you're right there. And I think what we all take
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: away is, you know, we know what it takes now,
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: you know what it takes to get there, to get
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: the work, and you know we can go and do
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: it now. It's just about taking the next step, putting
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: in the work, putting in the time, coming together as
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: a team and go out and competing for one hundred
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: and sixty two and then when you get to the
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: end and you just you turn it on and see
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: what happens and have fun with it.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: It's very cool to see you interact, you pitchers together.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I remember when Julio was asked about the pitching staff
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: last year in the postseason, and the first thing out
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: of his mind was not about you guys's stuff.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Or how glad he is not to face you.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: He just said they get along so well, like like that,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: like he wishes that he had a group of friends
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: like you guys are. I mean, you might end up
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: on different teams. I mean, who knows, this might be
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the last year that you're all together. It can happen.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: It's a business first and foremost. But I just want
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: to hear your reaction to just what kind of friends
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: you guys have become with this goal of winning a
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: world Series.
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: It's just it's special, Like it's so hard to describe. Again,
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: like you said, just we we care for each other,
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: we love each other. But the best part of the
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: day is like just coming to work and cutting up
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: and having a good time and laughing and just watching
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: guys bullpens like we we love it, we enjoy it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: You know, we want to try to spend as much
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: time as we can together because you know, like you said,
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: things may happen.
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: But this is a special group.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: It's it's hard to describe it, but it's just composed
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: of you know, really good people that are really talented
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: and you know, we love you know, competing with each other.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Which ones on the rotation, because I'm sure it's only
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the rotation. Guys are allowed to be uncles to Miles.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Is a Uncle Bryce, Uncle Brian? Or has somebody not
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: quite cut the mustard yet? You know, maybe it's just
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Uncle Logan. He seems to spend a lot of time.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, your kids are babies together, they're gonna probably
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: grow up and be best friends. Says you're just uncle Logan.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Or they all been given that type.
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: They're all given that Okay, yeah, they're all there.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: They have to take it away, yeah.
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: Exactly exactly.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: They can lose it if they do something, you know,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: steer them the wrong way.
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: We might have to take that title away. But already,
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: and he's got a bunch of uncles, he's got a
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: bunch of really good people that are looking out for him.
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: So Miles has a pretty good head start right now.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I have this babysitter who hit sixty
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: home runs when I.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Was a kid in one year are any of the hitters? Yeah,
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: coming up and trying to, you know, fit him with
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: some batting gloves, be like, hey, yeah, here's a here's
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: a bat, because I guarantee you've already put a baseball
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: in his hand. If you put a bat in his hand.
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: Into no bat, what has been crossed my mind? Golf
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: club just yet, We'll see, you know, we'll see it's
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: either it's now it's a little mini golf club where
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: it's a little little ball. But uh no, I took
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: him in the cage the other day and just had
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: them watching guys hit and.
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: Like it's just cool.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's so cool to be able to do that.
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: And he's got no clue what's going on.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's you never.
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: Think, you know, when you're a kid, that's like you'll
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: be bringing your own kids here to work, just showing
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: like loving what you do.
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: So this special.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Why have you not heard or how have you not
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: heard of Nate Bargatzi yet?
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: I have heard, but like I just don't I don't
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: know a lot about them.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know a lot about them.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think there's one called my Big Dumb Eyes
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: or something. There's a Tennessee kid. He's he's a it's
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: a clean humor. You will love him.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: You need to go watch check it out Family friendly.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: He's an SEC guy.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: He went to Vanderbilt, So you know you probably beat
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the hell out of them a few times.
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: Just means more.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: I want you.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I'm giving you homework and for the next time that.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: We see you.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: All right, So what are you trying to get out
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: of spring here? What's what's Emerson Hancock's goal between now
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and opening day?
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: Just consistency, consistency, take the ball, go out there. You
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: know know what we do as an orgas is dominate
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: the strike zone. You want a limit free basis. You
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: want to punch a lot of guys out and that's
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: that's kind of the name of the game. That's the
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: secret is to go out there, fill up the strike zone,
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: do it with multiple pitches, and you know, use these
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: next couple of weeks.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: So just behin into that and commit to it. Well obviously, man,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: I mean you you got what it takes to pitch
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: in the big leagues, and I just want to let
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: you know you're an easy dude to cheer for.
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: We appreciate it.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, yeah, And I love seet
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: seeing you get the extended the looks last year. Uh
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and and I you know, obviously want to see more
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: of Emerson Hancock here in twenty twenty six. So your
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Georgia Bulldogs came close, but it didn't quite win the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: national National championship this.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Year, not yet.
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: But again it should have a lot of guys return
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: next year and then you go from there. You know,
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: you win pretty sure back to back SEC champs. So
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: still really really good. It's a great conference to win
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: every year. And then even had a chance in the
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: Old Miss game. You know you're talking about kind of
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: one of those back and forth games you have a
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: chance to win it at the end, and just it
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: was a really good team. Sometimes you got to tip
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: the capitol.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it, have a
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: great year, and we will talk to you later. We'll
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: talk to you about a year from now. We'll laugh
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: about Bargatzi comedy.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: We will.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys, and joy, I appreciate you Everson Hancock Sports
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three kJ r f M seven
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: o'clock hour, Chuck Powerbunkey Jacobson here live from Peoria all
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: week long. And yes it is Friday, which means this
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: is our final day here in the beautiful sunshine of Peoria, Arizona.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Going to make the most of it. Buy gum our
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: coverage brought to you by Delta Airlines, and of course
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: our friends at Talala Prasort Casino, and we are going
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: to start our second hour of day number five talking
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to one of the three wise men. The general manager
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: himself is here. Justin Hollander joins us here on Chuck
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: and Buck.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: Good morning, sir, you're leaving right when it's getting good.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: It's been good.
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: It's been really good, very good.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah. True, though it is game time now. Yeah, that's true.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: That's true. I'm sticking around. Family's coming down. I'm sticking
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: around for a week.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Games today, sunshine. True, the weather's warming up a little bit. Well,
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: stay another week, you know?
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Can I stay at the Hollander's house.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll put it on the Barner's account.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: All right, Well now we're talking now, we got something
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: going here. Yeah, because I don't think you're staying at
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the Comfort Suites.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: It's an okay place.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: That's fine.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Family's leaving tomorrow. We got a sure room now perfect.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Just me and holland a hanging out, a lot of
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: curling on the TV will be great. Well, you know what,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: let's dive into the lineup today because I haven't given
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: it out today and there's some things to discuss. Just
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: from the lineup itself, it's Raley, Raleigh, Rodriguez, Naylor, a
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Rose Arena, Crawford, can Zone, Arroyo and Emerson. That's the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: starting lineup for game number one today. Let's start from
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: the back of that cold Emerson and how you are
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: treating his spring training. Does he have a shot to
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: break camp as an opening day player? Are you going
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: to give him that courtesy here this year?
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: Absolutely?
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: I don't think there's any reason to put limits on players,
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: especially players is talented.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: His cult is.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: I think he's got the emotional maturity to play in
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: the big leagues. He probably had the emotional maturity to
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: play in the big leagues like the day he graduated
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: high school. He's just wired differently than than most players.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: His level of competitiveness, the way he handles failure the
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: way he handles success all lead us to believe that
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: when he's fish ready ready from a skills standpoint, that
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: we're not concerned about his transition.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: To the big leagues.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: I don't know if he'll be we'll deem him to
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: be physically ready and sort of ready to go attack
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: the big leagues from day one, but we're gonna give
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: m a chance.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: What would he I mean, would that typically be at
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: second base? At third base? I mean JP, I would
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: imagine is kind of sitting there at short got his
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: flag in the ground as of now, so it would
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: it be then? Then that's the reason for the versatility
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: of Brendan Donovan, if you were needing to put him
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: at second.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Or third, correct, I think that cult will see reps
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: at second, short, and third this spring. I think if
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: if he were to break with the club, most likely
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: his reps would would primarily be at third base.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, So how then does Donovan approach spring? Is he
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: just going to get third base reps right now?
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: I think you'll see a lot of third base, You'll
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: see some second base, and you'll see some outfield. I
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: think it's important for us to maximize his value and
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: make sure that he continues to stay in touch with
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: all the positions that he's played in the past. I
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: do think you're going to see more reps from third
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: base from him. You know, in Saint Louis they had
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: no one Aronto, you know, a platinum glover. It's not
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: really necessary for him to go get a ton of
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: reps there for us. He's gonna play a lot of third,
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: but you'll see him take some reps at second on
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: the day. You'll see him playing the outfield a little
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: later in the spring as well.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Justin Hollander is with us here on Chugging Black. I
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: want to stay on Donovan here. I mean, I've made
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: this comparison before, but I mean I've like fantasy football.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: I will sit there and like, why isn't this guy
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: responding to my trade. It's been forty eight hours just
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: yes or no. So I get worked up over fantasy
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: football when you're doing it for real and you're sitting
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: there waiting for the Saint Louis Cardinals to get you back.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, you made it very clear that you want Donovan.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: You've circled Donovan, You're in on Donovan. The Cardinals are
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: trying to trade Donovan, and yet it stretched out for
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: a long period of time. How excruciating is it when
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the bullets are real. I think you ride the highs
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and the lows. Some days you feel like, oh, we're
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: making progress. Some days you feel like, why aren't we
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: getting a call back? You know, my kids started asking
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: me every day, did we get Donovan today? No, guys,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: so into here.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, I use your kid as an insider.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: That's what I need to do.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: I should tap into it.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: You know, it could probably be bought with some video
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: games and what have you.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: Head to the third grade and the fifth grade in
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: Chu and at the Evergreen School, they got all the dope.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: No, it's uh.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: You know, I think you try and focus on what
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: you can control, and all we can control is, you know,
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: making sure that they're aware of our interest and what
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: we're willing to do and what we aren't willing to do.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: And you know, it's not our decision. They had every
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: right to take as long as they wanted to take
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: to sort of root out and make sure they were
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: digging in on every lead. They had to make the
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: best possible deal they could for them. You know, sometimes
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: that takes less time. Sometimes it takes more time. Sometimes
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: a team just decides to hold the player. It's up
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: to them how they want to handle that. Thrilled that
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: it resulted in a deal. At the end of the day,
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: we didn't need to have a trade consummated in December.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: We don't play games in December, right, so getting it
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: done the week before spring training was perfectly good for us.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: What is it? I mean, he seems like a gritty
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: ballplayer just from the little bit we've got to know him.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: What was the main thing that you were wanting hims
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: so badly for.
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: I think the combination of the bats of ball, the
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: sort of the lead off top of the lineup type skills,
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: and the versatility you reference Colt a second ago. Obviously
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: we have Cole Young, we have Michael Royo. We have
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: a lot of young position players, particularly infielders, that are
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: coming through our system over the next year. Making sure
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: that we have a team that has a foundation good
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: enough to incorporate those guys so that you're not counting
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: on all of them to be good the moment they
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: walk into the big leagues. And Donovan having the ability
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: to float from position to position to position gives those
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: guys room to breathe and let us figure things and
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: figure things out, will not sort of jeopardizing the current
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: quality of our big league team. So that's a rare combination.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: You don't often have players with his kind of sort
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: of batter's box skill set also be versatile enough to
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: play three or four spots capably to better than capably.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Is with us general manager of the Seattle Mariners. What
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: an offseason that they had. They got Brenda Donoman, and
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: they got Jose Ferrer, who will ask him about here
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: in a moment, but I'll stay on a few of
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the names before we get off of it. You brought
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: up a royal who's hitting eighth in the lineup today.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: We haven't discussed him much this week, but a very
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: interesting prospect you mentioned Cole Young. Ryan Bliss is here,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Leo Reeboss is here. Colt Emerson we've already discussed. I mean,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have one starting second basement, maybe two at
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: the max if you end up doing some sort of
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: platoon there.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: So is this is just a as pure a camp
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: battle as you can have for the second base position,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Meaning you may not have in your head somebody that
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: you've already said is the front runner. Is just whoever
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: plays the best is gonna be starting second basement on
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: opening day.
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: That's probably a little bit of a stretch. I would
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: say as we walk in the door today, Cole Young's
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: the favorite. I love how Cole's off season one. If
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: you've seen him walking around, he looks fantastic, right. He
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: was chiseled, He really put the time in, the work in.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: You know, Cole was got.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Rid of that silly mustache.
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: The mustache is hard for anybody to pull off. I
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: don't want to judge Cole's. Mine would be really bad too. No,
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: it's a Cole was the youngest or second youngest regular
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: in the PCL last year, and then we brought in
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: the big leagues and he was one of the five
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: youngest players in the big leagues last year, and for
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: a good five six week stretch, he was awesome.
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: Last year.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: He was really good, and then he ran out of gas,
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: And that happens to young players. Sometimes. The big league
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: environment is a tough one to the sane energy. And
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: it was pretty clear as we got in September that
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: Cole was just dragging a little bit. And I think
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: he took a lot of steps this offseason to make
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: sure that doesn't happen again. He's going to be a
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: really good player. I would say he's going to get
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: the first crack at, you know, the starting second basement.
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: That doesn't mean he's going to play every day, and
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: it doesn't mean it's his forever. And I think he
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: approached the winner like he's got to earn it. I
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: think Michael probably needs some more time still. Leo is
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: a perfect player as sort of a move around the field,
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: you know, utility player in the big leagues. He can
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: do a lot of things well. It takes great at
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: bats and can play all the infield spots. I think
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: you'll see him standing the outfield a little bit this
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: spring too. So as a player who helps the team function,
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: Leo is is probably as you know, a good a
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: fit as you can have on the roster to help
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: augment what we have with the rest of the major
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: league team.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: Justin Hollander with us, I mean talking about the outfield,
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously Julio gonna be playing. You're gonna have
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: a Rosena in there pretty much every day. When you
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: have can zone robust coming back from the injury and
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: then now you've added res Schneider into the whole mix,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: how are you planning on? Is that going to be
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: a platoon possibly and then the others maybe de agent.
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's right. I think that we have
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: the advantage of, like we talked about earlier, having a
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: lot of versatile players and having a lot of players
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: who hit same side pitching pretty well, maybe less the
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: case and right field in DH spot and that's okay.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: You can platoon in a couple spots and make it
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: sort of a functional roster for Dan to walk work through.
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: And I think that's what we'd anticipate, at least to start,
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: if everybody's the best version of themselves. I think Railey
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: and can zone right, playing right field and dhing against
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: right handed pitching is probably how we'll go at least
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: to start. Victor and ref Snyder, you know, playing right
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: field and dhing against left handed pitching, with the idea
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: that if one player is playing particularly well, they'll probably
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: get a little more reps. We're not going to lock
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: it in and you know, just say, no matter what happens,
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: it's one hundred and five games for this player and
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: sixty games for that player. That's not how baseball season works,
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: but I think is a you know, as a standard,
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: a foundation how you want to set your lineup is
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: provide as many platoon advantages as you can over time.
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: You know, calbing a switch hitter and killing it from
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: both sides of the plate helps a ton, you know.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: We we have players that have specialties like Rob Refsnider
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: killing left handed pitching, you know, can zone right hand
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: and pitching. That gives us a big advantage every night,
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: and we plan to take full advantage of it.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of the DH position and a lot of
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Mariner fans, are you know who's going to be the
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Dho's going to be DH? And based off of your conversation,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I would imagine that's going to be a rotating type
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: of thing, at least theoretically to start the season. But
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: you've got this prospect, another guy. We haven't talked about
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: a lot this week, but every day he's so nice.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: He walks in and out the doorway and he waves
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: to us every day, and Bucky and he exchanged Spanish,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: you know, pleasantries. And he's about six foot nine, two
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: and eighty nine. Looks like Carl Malone, so is Las
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Montes in this DH picture at some point this year
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: or will he be starting power forward for you before
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: the end of the year.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Tell us about Monte.
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: One of the Sonics coming back now. I think Laz
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: could push his way into the mix at the end
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: of the season. I don't anticipate that where Laz is
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: at in his development, that he'd be a possibility to
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: break camp early in the season. But he's a really
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: unique talent. Obviously, power that you know is at the
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: uppro echelon of what big league players have, and he's
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: twenty years old. We anticipate a really long break future
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: for Laz as a corner outfielder, mixing in at the
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: h as well. He's got some some hurdles to climb
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: over still in the minor leagues, but it's a really
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: unique talent. I think he's won the MVP at every
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: full season league he's ever played in, which is pretty unique. Wow,
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: you know that, and you know what he does, He
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: does really well and he keeps getting better at the
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: areas where maybe he has some growth ahead of him.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: So really excited to see how this camp goes. I
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: think Las will play a lot in this camp and
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: then you know, he'll start in the minor leagues and
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: we'll see where we go.
• 44:26
  Speaker 9: We.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: Like I said when we started with Colt, I just
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: don't think it's a good idea to put limits on players.
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: I think you send them the wrong message, and I
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: think you send the organization the wrong message if you
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: decide in February what laz is ceiling or what cold
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: ceiling is for that year. I don't know that anybody's
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: that good that they can make those decisions and do
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: it smartly.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: I love that because it's a little bit of change
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: where it used to be.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: No, you're gonna prove it, son.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: But I love that that's where we are in the
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: modern day, and I love that that's where you.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: And your staff are. Just so you know where Las's
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: head is at. Yeah, we just had a conversation. I said,
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: what do you think this year forty forty dingers and
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: he's like, I'm fifty fifty. I said, all right, thirty
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: in the minor league's twenty in the big leagues. I'll
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: sign up for that, he said, He nodded, and basically
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: he agreed that that'd be okay.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: So I'm confident that if he hits fifty, they won't
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: all be in the minor leagues, right.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead and do that. I'm with you on
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: that one hundred percent. I mean moving to some degree
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: towards pitching a little bit. I mean I don't want
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: to you might have some other hitting stuff, but I
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: did want to go towards pitching because the idea of
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: adding the pharreer to the bullpen, I think is a
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: huge one. The dude has kind of a locomotive of
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: a fastball. It looks like adding him to the mix
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: with Gabe Spider to where he's not the only guy
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: that has to get loose every time a tough left
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: he comes up to the dish. What was your feelings
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: on him really important for us?
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: One just I think most good teams have a second lefty,
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: and we weren't just looking to add any second lefty.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: We were looking to add impact for us, particularly important
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: five right handed starters. You get a lot of line
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: ups that are stacked with lefties. The idea that Gabe
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: has to get up in the fifth and then the
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: sixth and then the seventh every night, whenever there's a
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: possibility of a leverage moment coming, that's really hard on him.
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: He was unbelievable last year. We want to make sure
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: we're doing the right thing for the team, and having
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: sort of two real impact left handed arms and the
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: bullpen every night will be great for our pitching group
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: to work through. Obviously, Farrer has very unique qualities. It's,
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: you know, a sinker that is sort of unlike any
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: other It's a sinker at ninety seven ninety nine. We
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: really really like to change up in the slider as well.
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: I think you'll see more of that as he gets
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: through his outings with us and mixing it in, maybe
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: helping miss a few more bats. But we really think
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: he's got a chance to be one of the elite
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: left handed relievers in baseball, and giving us two of
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: those guys is a really big advantage as we get
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: into you know, October baseball hopefully.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: And I'll stay on pitching. But just a little aside
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: from the Ferrera, I mean, you draft a Harry Ford,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: you develop a Harry Ford. He did everything you wanted
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: him to do at the minor league level, and yet
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: you've got cal Rawly blocking him from the future. So
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: even though I always viewed him as a tradeable piece,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: a logical tradeable piece, It's gotta be tough to give
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: up a guy that you know you sort of nurtured
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: through this process.
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: You're always emotionally invested in the guys that you draft
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: and develop. We wouldn't have traded Harry just to trade Harry.
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: That doesn't make any sense. There's a place on a
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: big league club for a good second catcher. I think
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: that the path is a little more narrow for us
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: just because cow is gonna catch one hundred and twenty
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: games a year. It's not a true fifty to fifty
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: time share. But Harry's a good enough player. We believed
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: in Harry. We thought he could help our big league team.
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: We just believed the impact of Ferrer was gonna be
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: greater for us. So willing to trade and trading no
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: matter what are two different things. We were willing to
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: make a trade to help our team get better. We
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: weren't gonna trade just to trade.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: Are Hollander?
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, Hollander. Are we're talking to Hollander? Are Anderson
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: and Sloan like viable moves? Obviously, we want five starting
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: pitchers to stay healthy all season long, But I'm wondering
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: about the starting pitching depth. I would assume Hancocks the
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: next guy, the sixth man off the bench. But are
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Anderson and Slum like seventh and eighth men based on
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: the buzz that I'm hearing around here, that's.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: A little quick.
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: Obviously, Kate's never thrown a pitch in a professional game.
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: He's just thrown out here and live VP the other
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: day for the first time. Could they be at the
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: end of the season again, I'll stick with my no
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: limits policy. Sure they could be right now. They're not
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: going to be on the depth chart to start the season.
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: Where we start and where we end are its usually
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: two different places. They're certainly talented enough to be. What
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: we saw from both those guys and their live vps
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: was special, really unique. Their composure, their stuff, the strike throwing,
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: the diversity of the repertoires. Those guys are going to
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: be really good, really soon. Whether that happens in July
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: or September or next May, I couldn't tell you. We
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: gotta keep them healthy, We got to keep their progression
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: going through the low miners of the upper miners. Once
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: you get to Arkansas. You know, we've seen it with
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: Bryce and Brian and George and Logan. Once you get
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: to Arkansas and start playing in Little Rock, you're on
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: the radar, So like that's a conversation. I think we'll
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: revisit once they get to that point.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: How happy are you about the health and whatnot of
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: the starting rotation? I mean, four years this team's been
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: a viable contender out there, and it's been in large
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: part because of that starting rotation. Dealt with some injuries
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: beginning even all the way down to the end of
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: the season. Everybody healthy right now.
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: Everybody's healthy, thank god.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Right now.
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: This is the one area where I will always probably
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: lose sleep is waking up in the middle of the
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: night fearing that somebody's gonna get hurt. You know, you're
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: gonna have to tap into your depth. You can never
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: have too much depth for that reason. I think last
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: year was was a tough one. You know, there were
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: times when we're missing two and then three of our
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: five starters at various points in the season. We hadn't
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: had that in previous years. We sort of lived in
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: the life that everybody else had lived in last year,
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: which is, you know, having to tapp into your depth
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: for not a week or two at a time, but
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: from month to the time. You know, Bryce Miller throughout
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: here yesterday and looked awesome. He was, you know, ninety
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: seven ninety eight with all the secondary pitches working in
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: the strike zone. Really impressive. How he's come out of
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: the gate so far the spring. Brian looks great. George,
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: same thing. Louis will get off the mound, I believe
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: today or tomorrow. He was a little bit delayed just
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: because he had a baby, and a little beautiful baby girl,
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: so they will. He was in camp about five days late,
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: so he'll get off the mountain, I believe tomorrow and
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: then and Logan looks like Logan, so knock on wood.
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: Everybody's healthy today, Please let's keep him that way for
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: the next seven months. Everybody's having a baby around here,
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: and I am not having any more baby.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, I can tell you.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: That I think I'm three months pregnant just being around all.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: Don't drink the water.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Nothing going on. Justin Hollander is with us, general manager
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: of the Mariner's a lot of things I'd like to
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: ask you about, but I believe, but we do have
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: to ask you about Josh Naylor because as long and ardulous,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: that process was to sign off on the Cardinals deal
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: for Donovan Naylor happened to no time flat. When did
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: did you know after having seen him in a Mariner
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: for the uniform for the first time, like, we can't
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: let this guy go, Jerry.
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: It was a couple weeks in. I think that there
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: was just an ease of the way handle things in
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: the clubhouse. I think it was about a week after
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: the dead line, so about two weeks into Josh to
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: stay where We're like, wow, this is a great fit.
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: And obviously, if you have a player who fits in
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: your clubhouse, who's the right age, who does all the
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: small things well on top of the doing the big
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: things well, and loves to hit an our ballpark, it's
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: kind of a no brainer. Why would you go look
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: elsewhere if you have an option that's staring right in
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: front of you. Thrilled that Josh was willing and ready
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: to go get a deal done early this offseason, I
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: think it made our offseason picture a lot clearer. You know,
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: he told us this is what I'm willing to do.
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: I'm not willing to do less than that. I'm you know,
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: I think this is fair when a player is that
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: direct with you and says I want to be here.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: It's incumbent upon us to try and make it work
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: if it fits as well as Josha this year, I'm
• 51:55
  Speaker 5: really really appreciative of ownership of Jerry, of everyone for
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: sort of recognizing where we were, what we could get
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: done right now, and our our overall Mariners organization, willingness
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: to move fast.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: All right, I got I'm gonna test on one more thing,
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: cal Rawley bottom line, and first of all, MVP got
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: screwed on that one. But whatever, We'll turn the page
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: and you go back to and do it. You're don't
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: set limitations, don't set ceilings. Eighty five to ninety homers
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: this year. That's what I'm thinking for him, what do
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: you think? Yeah, let's do it.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Let's do let's do it. He doesn't put limitations on anything.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: That's what I I was just gonna test it.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let's do it, and and just the overall
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: picture before we let you go. I I mean, I've
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: covered this spring training for a year after year after year,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: with the COVID exceptions, it always feels like the message
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: is we're not quite done. Like the off season sometimes
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: creeps into you know, well into March because of Scott
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Boris mainly, but there's there's always like something. It seems
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: a little bit not quite complete. Don't judge us yet
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: on what we've done this offseason when we're here, but
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: this feels complete. It feels like you guys are settled.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: It feels like you guys believe this is the roster.
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: And we can't not wait to go to battle with
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: it all. That's definitely true. I am certain we're gonna
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: keep looking around for ways to get better. I'm certain
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: we'll get into mid season and we'll want to do
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: more things, and at the deadline we'll want to add
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: another bullpen guy. Maybe we'll need a starter, maybe we'll
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: need another bat. You never know what's gonna come. I
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: wouldn't anticipate any like, you know, sort of like headline
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: additions for the rest of the spring. I think they're
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: getting Donovan done really did change the tenor of the
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: off season and really did make it feel like a
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: complete off season for us. Obviously, they're waiting and sort
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: of hinging our off season on that. It's sort of
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: made it a little nerve wracking as we went through it.
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: But I do feel like this is as complete a
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: group as we've had going into the spring, It'll change.
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: Somebody's gonna be better than we think, and somebody's gonna
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: be worse, and somebody's gonna be hurt. And I think
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: building depth over the course of the spring and the
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: early part of the season is really important, making sure
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: that we have our prospects ready to go. So if
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: we need to contribute early, like it was in twenty
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: three with with Bryce and Brian, where we thought they
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: were going to spend most of their season a Double
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: A and May Bryce came to the big leagues and
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: the first week at June, Brian's here and it's like,
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: oh so much for all that depth we had, because
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: now it's in the big league, so we will need
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: to do more things. For now, We're really thrilled with
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: the team. We're running out there on the first day
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: of spring training.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, just to bring it to full circle,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you do Do I need to
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: mark my groceries in the house like those these initial them?
• 54:40
  Speaker 9: Or sure?
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Am I in charge of cooking?
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: I mean we eat out a lot when the family's
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: not here, So here ready to go to zips for
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: some wings. We don't need healthy We eat out a lot.
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: Just make sure you throw the garbage out.
• 54:53
  Speaker 9: I don't like a lot.
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: I like to put the go food containers off the counter.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: You make the rules. I mean, you've been just so generous.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: We'll fold the launchery together. Oh wow to a Hermit song.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: Exactly nice. Hey, great to see you. Thank you for
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: hosting us. We really appreciate it.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: I'm I mean, obviously, we're very excited about this upcoming season,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: and I know you guys are as well.
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: You guys are floating around here.
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: We're all really excited. I can't wait to get going today.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: All right, justin Hollander right here on our spring training coverage.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: We'll be back with more on Sports Radio ninety three
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: point three kh a r f M. It is chuck
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: It back in the morning. Sports Radio ninety three point
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: three kJ r FM joining us now and it set
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: one of the newcomers for your Seattle Mariners this year.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Acquired this offseason, be a free agency. Rob Refsneider is
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: with us on the program.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: How are you man?
• 55:54
  Speaker 9: Thanks for having me, appreciate it, for being with it.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: You got the witness history.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Bucky jogged over here to interview.
• 56:00
  Speaker 9: That's a it's a good job.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: It's history. I jogged at one point in my life,
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: just not in a long time.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, former Mariner, he jogged around the bases at one point.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: But that's the first time I've jogged seen him ten years, Rob,
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: It's been a while.
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: The only reason I would like to jog is doing
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: what you get to do so bomb, so otherwise I
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: can just I'll get there when I get there. Yeah.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Well, how are you liking being a Seattle Mariner in
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: your very short time here?
• 56:27
  Speaker 9: It's been great so far. It's a new experience obviously,
• 56:30
  Speaker 9: but just trying to learn as many names as possible
• 56:32
  Speaker 9: and and you know, just learn as much as possible.
• 56:36
  Speaker 9: Just finished up batting practice. Edgar came in a couple
• 56:39
  Speaker 9: of days ago, so just be able to pick Edgar's
• 56:42
  Speaker 9: mind and just be around and it has been a
• 56:44
  Speaker 9: real treat. And then shoot, we got e Tro Cameron
• 56:47
  Speaker 9: in the outfield helping us out. So it's uh, just
• 56:50
  Speaker 9: to have that that wealth and knowledge has been incredible
• 56:53
  Speaker 9: and I feel really fortunate just to be kind of
• 56:55
  Speaker 9: be around those guys and a little bit of a
• 56:57
  Speaker 9: low more low pressure kind of situation, just to be
• 57:00
  Speaker 9: able to pick their minds. And get to work a
• 57:02
  Speaker 9: little bit.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I mean you've been around the league, You're
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: not you know, you're not young coming over here by
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: any stretch. But have you had have you ever had
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: anybody like Edgar Martinez to pick their brain? Yeah?
• 57:13
  Speaker 9: I think a lot of organizations do a great job
• 57:17
  Speaker 9: of just bringing bringing some of the you know, the
• 57:21
  Speaker 9: Hall of famers and some incredible talent and knowledge in
• 57:24
  Speaker 9: spring training. It's but to have someone on Edgar on
• 57:27
  Speaker 9: staff be able to help you out throughout the season,
• 57:31
  Speaker 9: and the guys will send e Ros in Seattle, a
• 57:33
  Speaker 9: bunch always kind of there in president and able to help.
• 57:37
  Speaker 9: It's just incredible. So not as much during the year,
• 57:40
  Speaker 9: but yeah, just to be able to have those guys
• 57:44
  Speaker 9: in the year, it's going to be incredible.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: Are you amazed? Like this long in the league and
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: there's just always so much more to learn. There's a
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: new trick to learn about hitting.
• 57:52
  Speaker 9: Definitely, I mean trying to say it the right way,
• 57:56
  Speaker 9: it's just there's so much more information ways to get better.
• 58:01
  Speaker 9: Off seasons are a lot shorter. You know, when I
• 58:05
  Speaker 9: was younger, off seasons were a little bit it felt
• 58:07
  Speaker 9: a little bit longer. You took a little bit more
• 58:09
  Speaker 9: time off now. I mean, if you take that much
• 58:11
  Speaker 9: time off, you just kind of get blown away by
• 58:14
  Speaker 9: by your competition. So you take shoot. Sometimes it's only
• 58:18
  Speaker 9: like a week or a week or so off and
• 58:19
  Speaker 9: then you get to work and I think you guys,
• 58:22
  Speaker 9: I'm sure you guys have talked to I mean, such
• 58:24
  Speaker 9: incredible pitching staff and you know you're they're doing pitch
• 58:27
  Speaker 9: design stuff. A couple of weeks into the off season.
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: They're really getting after it, and the hitters have to too,
• 58:33
  Speaker 9: So it's it's just it's so different.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: You don't face them anymore. One last thing to worry about.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Of course you probably we don't have a left hand
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: in our rotations.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 58:41
  Speaker 9: I didn't face you guys very often.
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 58:43
  Speaker 9: I got a spot start against Brian Woo last year.
• 58:45
  Speaker 9: It didn't go well.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: Well, joined the club and can go very well for
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: very many people. Being a utility guy that kind of
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: bounces around, do you take pride in the fact that
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: you get multiple gloves and you can play everywhere or
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: is it just I don't care where I played, write
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: my name in the lineup.
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: I haven't played the infield since twenty so just it's uh, yeah,
• 59:08
  Speaker 9: I did that in twenty and then it's been almost
• 59:11
  Speaker 9: all outfield, so it's more more as like an emergency thing.
• 59:15
  Speaker 9: But I think you look at our lineup and there's just, uh,
• 59:20
  Speaker 9: there's so many different, you know, kind of moves that
• 59:22
  Speaker 9: Dan can make. So just being able to be ready
• 59:24
  Speaker 9: and you know, who knows what's going to happen. But
• 59:28
  Speaker 9: there's a we have a we have a really deep
• 59:30
  Speaker 9: bench and a really really you know, a wealth of
• 59:33
  Speaker 9: really talented players kind of across the board of the lineup.
• 59:36
  Speaker 9: So it's a you know, maybe a lot of pinchionting,
• 59:39
  Speaker 9: maybe not, but you know, I think we're all going
• 59:41
  Speaker 9: to be ready to come in and just have a
• 59:43
  Speaker 9: good at bat hopefully, you know.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think there's anybody that is ever
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: in a platoon situation that wouldn't tell you I can
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: hit rities if I just see more rities. But you
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: have just owned this batting against lefties kind of platoon
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: thing at this in the last five years of your career.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: What did you learn over time in facing lefties that
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: allowed you to thrive the way you have.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's kind of a good way that you put it.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 9: It's I think all everybody on the lineup spires to
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 9: play as much as possible, but at the end of
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 9: the day, you're part of a team and you know
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 9: this team wants to win, and you look across our
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 9: lineup and there's so much talent, I mean, Dom and
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 9: Luke and things like that, So yeah, it just it
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 9: makes sense, and yeah, just trying to have a good
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 9: at bat, and you know, I think the fans should
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 9: know how many people are behind the scenes trying to
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 9: help you prepare for that day and get as much
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 9: knowledge and information for your bats against the left handed picture.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 9: For me, so there's a lot of people behind the
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 9: scenes that I'm getting to know in spring training and
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 9: hopefully build a you know, a relationship with and a
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 9: friendship with that that can help me throughout the year,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 9: because I definitely rely on a lot of those people
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 9: to help me prepare and and just try to have
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 9: it as good as bad as possible.
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  Speaker 3: Ref I'm wondering what just your approach in general is
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: when you get to the dish, right, I mean not
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: like a superpower guy. You're not going up there and
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: all or nothing type of thing, are you. What's your
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: overarching approach as to what you would say. People would say,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: is the mo of you when you step up to
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: the blake.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm a big fan of baseball. I grew up
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 9: in Orange County and you know, I watched a lot
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 9: of the Angels teams and things like that, and you know,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 9: I just enjoy watching baseball. So for my approach, it's
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 9: it's just it's so based off the pitcher that day.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 9: You're the situation that I'm coming into, you know, you know,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 9: I think early in the count and if there's not
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 9: a lot of guys on base and things like that,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 9: and I'm looking to do damage. So it's doing your
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 9: homework of what pitches I can handle on off that
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 9: left hander. You know, there are some left handers that
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 9: for me in the way my swing is, it's just
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 9: not indicative to you know, damage. So it's more like
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 9: seeing the ball the working counts, maybe hitting the ball
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 9: the other way. But you got to have a lot
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 9: of people behind the scenes, like I just alluded to,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 9: to help you figure out those things out and doing
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 9: homework on your own. So I would say it varies.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 9: There are times one up there and I'm trying to,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 9: you know, see a ball close to me and hit
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 9: it over the shortstop, and there's other times where I'm
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 9: anticipating a sinker a changeable way and just trying to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 9: shoot the four hole or hit over the second basement's head.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 9: So you got to be I mean, if you're one
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 9: really kind of set approach nowadays, you're you're gonna hit
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 9: under two hundred and you're gonna be at home and
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 9: not helping the team out.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Rob Repschneiders.
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  Speaker 3: So with us right around Chuck and Buck one of
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: the newcomers to the teams this season. It's interesting because
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Remember you as a young player. I think you started
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: with the Twins. Maybe I missed a team there in there.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 9: Maybe summary eight.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: Oh is that right? Yeah?
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I know I think of you as the as
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: a young player with the Twins, and then there was
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: are you were sort of labeled an infielder, and then
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here you are in your thirties
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: and I see like two Sports Center highlight dives in
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: the outfield and you've turned into the masher like you
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: will crush base balls on occasion. So I'm a little
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: surprised where the Rob Refschneider story ended. Is Rob Refschneider
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: surprised at how the journey has gone and where it
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: has come.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: My debut was in twenty fifteen with the Yankees, and
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 9: I was playing second base at the time. Yeah, and
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 9: it was a lot more contact oriented, you know, try
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 9: to get on base, not as much power, extra base
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 9: hits kind of thing. I kind of proud of myself.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 9: I'm putting the ball and playing that striking out and
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 9: that kind of led me to the DFA train. And
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 9: because I'm not the I'm not the fastest guy, so
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 9: I'm not going to steal a lot of basses and
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 9: things like that. So you know, I bounced around a
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 9: lot of organizations, which helped me learn a lot from
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 9: a bunch of great hitting coaches. And I never have
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 9: had a real big ego about my game. I've never
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 9: been like this is the way kind of thing. It's uh,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 9: you know. I feel like I try to take as
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 9: much information as possible and just kind of be as
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 9: honest as possible. And I wasn't very good early in
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 9: my career. I wasn't doing many things as well on
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 9: the on the major league side. What I could do
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 9: was work some counts and make some contacts. So I
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 9: try to leverage that into learning as much from hitting coaches,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 9: and then you know, trying to you know not, I
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 9: guess change my game a little bit. And yeah, just
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 9: picking spots. You know, I can pull the ball well
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 9: at times, so just picking the spots where you know,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 9: I think I can do that and other times, you know,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 9: you know, try trying to get on base. So my goal,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 9: honestly is to get on base for I mean, look
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 9: at our lineup. You got some incredible talent and and
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 9: things like that. So it's it's been a long journey,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 9: but I've learned so much from so many great people
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 9: along the way. And without those people, I'd be who
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 9: knows what I'd be doing. But not not here talking
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 9: to you guys.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you learn more from your failure and goals.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: You've achieved, well, you've achieved the congratulations, you've arrived. Congrats,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: But I mean, really you do learn a lot more
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: from going through the downs and figuring out how to
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: pull yourself up by your bootstraps. And and I mean
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: I think that creates some sort of grid. I'm a
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: big guy on just kind of the game or mentality.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: Guys that go out and ball and you know, it's
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: that you've been called a ballplayer is what you want
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: more than anything? Was that something you would say that
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: you you've modeled your game after it. Just being kind
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: of that gritty type of guy that goes out and
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: you know, wants to get dirty and play do whatever
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: he has to do for his team.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 9: Yeah, not super flashy. Yeah, that's never really been my personality.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: I guess.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 9: I went to University of Arizona under coach Lopez, and yeah,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 9: I just not very flashy. It's just kind of a
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 9: boring guy, like doing about my business prepared and just
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 9: playing as hard as possible.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 9: I think what we were talking about that I've been
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 9: defeated a couple of times. I've been bounced around a
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 9: couple of different teams early in my career. So I
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 9: definitely realized how fortunate I am to be able to
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 9: play baseball every day, and I'm very thankful for that.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 9: So do my best not to take it for granted
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 9: and and just get kind of good after it and
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 9: play hard. You know, I think I would be doing
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 9: a disservice to my parents. They would they wouldn't be
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 9: very happy about jogging everywhere and showing a lot of
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 9: motion and things like that. I think that's just, you know,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 9: not really part of my personality. And yeah, so I've
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 9: always just tried to prepare as much as possible. And
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 9: I know I'm not the biggest, fastest, strongest guy. My
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 9: Dad's always reminded me about that and then but he said,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 9: that's okay, you know, that's you know, but you got
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 9: to prepare and work and work hard, and you know
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 9: the shoot, sometimes I look back and I can't believe
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 9: that I've been doing it for this long.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Rob Raschnyder with us.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: I'll let you go on this.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: As Mariner fans, they're excited. They're excited to have Rob
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: Refsneider on this team. And they're not always excited about
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: our additions. Trust me, they can be pretty critical, but
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: they're excited about having you on this team, it seems
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: to me, and I know that Red Sox fans are
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: really bruised by seeing you go. So why did you
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: leave a place where you're loved and come here to Seattle?
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: What is it that motivated the move?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of different things that
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 9: go into a decision. Yeah, the last four years I
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 9: was with Boston, and but I mean, Jerry was his
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 9: communication Jerry and Justin from the very beginning of season
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 9: was pretty crystal clear. And I really appreciated that they
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 9: were working on a couple of different things, but they
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 9: help myself and my family and the loop. And you know,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 9: just as a baseball fan watching from Afar and then
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 9: watching the postseason, it was a it was a great
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 9: run and just a I am very thankful to be
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 9: a part of it, and that Justin and Jerry wanted
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 9: me to be a part of it, and I feel
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 9: a lot of gratitude towards them. And met Justin's son Elliott,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 9: on the field, so I said, I just want to
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 9: say thanks to your dad for bringing me along. So
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 9: it's a it's a special group. You can feel it.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 9: The older I get. You can't really fake, uh, the chemistry,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 9: I guess. And generally it's just the guys are so
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 9: so uber focused sometimes spring training unfortunately, you know you're
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 9: on some teams or you're been around some teams where
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 9: you know it's going to be a development year and
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 9: and you know where we're going to develop some of
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 9: these young guys and we're gonna, you know, do our
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 9: best to compete and and kind of do that, and
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 9: you can't really fake it or hide from that. So
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 9: you know, you come to a group like this and
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 9: you know there's only one goal here and it's pretty
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 9: crystal clear. So it's a you know, it's a it's
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 9: a special group, and you know, I'm excited to be
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 9: a part of it and just kind of, you know,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 9: do my part.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: Whatever that is.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: Well, I hope it ends in a world championship. Very
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: nice to meet you. Welcome to the Mariners into Seattle.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: All right, final hour of our Mariners spring training coverage,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Chuck and Box Sports Radio ninety three point three KJR FM. Yes,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: we'll take you all the way to our one last
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: thing of the week. Bucky Jacobson is here. My name
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: is Chuck Powell. Ashley Ryan with you as well as
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: we enter the nine o'clock hour here on our program,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: and certainly we've got a lot more to do before we.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: Close things out.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: But I do want to start with headlines because we
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: didn't use them at seven o'clock today we had justin
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: Hollander on.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: So our headlines segment brought to.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: You by Frostbrewed Poors Light, Choose Chill, and I do
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: think there are some things that we can point out,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: and let's start with Justin Hollander. This is sort of
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's breaking news, but it's certainly
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: a definitive update that he gave us a little bit earlier.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: In the show.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: Second base camp battle is one that man, that's about
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: as clear cut a camp battle as you can put
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: together in this format, and yet he made it pretty
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: clear that there's a clear front runner in this camp battle.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: Surely the job isn't going to be handed to Cole Young.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: But I was surprised with how definitive he was about
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: Cole Young being the guy that they believe is the
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: clear cut front runner for this job.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean maybe a little bit surprised. I mean
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: I figured pole position front runners maybe stronger than I
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: would have thought. But I mean, the guy's proven that
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: he is capable of playing this game and playing this
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: game at a high level. It's a matter of being consistent.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: That's what makes you stick in the big leagues and
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: turn from a prospect to a guy that you just
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: kind of feel confident that he can go out there
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: and do it. I think the kid's going to grow
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: a lot, You learn a lot in your first little
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: bit in the big leagues. I can tell you that
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: for sure. And yet to do it at the age
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: that he was. I mean, what was he twenty years
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: old when he was up there last year, twenty twenty one.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's young to be able to get your
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: first taste and to be going through all the stuff
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: that they were going in a pennant race and all
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: the stuff down the stretch. He got a little bit
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: heavy for him, maybe a little bit tired, all of
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: the stuff, the circus that kind of surrounds going through
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: the minor leagues, getting called up, all of that stuff
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: in the midst of trying to chase down that division
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: title and do what they did in the playoffs. That's
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: a lot, but I can understand why they're envisioning him
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: as the guy that should get the first opportunity to
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: win that job.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: If you want to hear the entire conversation with Justin Hollander,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: and I urge you to do so. There was a
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: lot of great information in that seven o'clock hour, ninety
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: three to three KHR dot com. You can check out
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: our podcast. Today's the first game they're calling it opening
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: Day down here. That seems a little sacrilegious to me
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: to call spring training's opening game opening day, but I
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: guess for the Cactus League it is opening day. So
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Luke Rayley will be leading off for the team, cal
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: Rawley hitting second, Julio Rodriguez third, Josh Naylor fourth, Randy A.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: Rose Arena fifth, so they've got the heart of the
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: order intact there. JP Crawford will hit sixth, dom Canzone
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: gets the start in right field, he'll bat seventh, and
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: then two of the top prospects, Michael o'royo will be
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: starting at second base today, hitting eighth, and Colt Emerson,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: who's created a lot of buzz around here, will hit ninth,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: and he will be playing third base today, even though
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: Justin told us he'll be playing second base, third base,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: and shortstop throughout spring training, so they're gonna get him
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: work at all three of those positions. The starting pitcher
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: will be Dane Dunning, former Texas ranger, former Chicago White
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Sox who the Mariners picked up in the offseason. None
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: of the familiar names will be pitching today. Cooper Criswell
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: was an acquisition from the Red Sox. He'll be throwing
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: today as well. But the first pitch will be at
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: ten this time, so that's twelve o'clock.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: Twelve o'clock back home then for the Padres.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: Ty Frantz gonna be in the lineup for the Padres.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: And of course Rick Riz starts his final year on
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: the call, his first game that he'll.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: Be calling today.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 6: Ah.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be great to hear the Riz, and it'll
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: be great to hear him this entire season. I am
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: excited about this spring training getting to watch some of
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: the guys. I mean, the World Baseball Classic throws a
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: little wrinkle in the mix, and yet to some degree,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: while your superstars are going to be playing for Team
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: USA and other countries, while they're gonna be getting their
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: work in, you're gonna get to, as a Mariner fan,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: be able to see some of these young guys that
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: are on the horizon that are the next wave of
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: guys coming up to the big leagues. They're going to
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: be getting a lot more looks because of the fact
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: that the Mariners are sending more people to the WBC
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: than anybody else.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: Well, there was an explosion that came out of the
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: facility here at Peoria yesterday and it was when the
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: US women's hockey team tied the game with two minutes
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: left in regulation, and then a second one when they
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: won it in overtime. And so congratulations to the US
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: women's hockey team with their two to one overtime win
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: over Canada for the gold medal at the Olympics. And
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: of course the men's semifinals being played today. Canada and
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: Finland are underway. Man, it's too bright. I can't even
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: see my scoreboard. They started.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: It might be over? Is it over? That might be
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: over where I have it here somewheres. Might have to
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: get an update on that or peach one.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 4: In the second period, Finland leads Canada.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, look at that.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: Well, everybody's oping for the US Canada gold medal match,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: but they barely survived both teams the last round. And
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: here's Finland got Canada against the ropes here this morning.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: US will take on Slovakia today at noon, so the
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: US will try to win its path and to earn
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: its path into the gold medal round and then college basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations to Jason Hamilton, afectionately referred to as Jay ham
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: and the Pacific Northwest. He has decided to end his
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: career as color analysts for Huskies basketball and nothing but
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: praise for a job well done throughout his tenure. So
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: congratulations to him. You dub versus Maryland tomorrow. And then finally,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: Sounders do open their season on Sunday against the Colorado
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: Rapids at Loomenfield and they'll start that game at six
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: point fifteen. All right, So those are your headlines. But
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: we have a service to provide here because we have
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: been the eyes and ears to all Mariner fans throughout
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: the course of this week. We are the first people
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: to put our eyeballs in the entire Seattle media market
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: on your baseball team for this upcoming season. We haven't
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: even had the television coverage people, I mean, Egan's up
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: and out in Milan and you know, coming off the
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: Seahawks Super Bowl run, we haven't even had the really
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: many of the TV crews out here that we're.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: Used to seeing.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: There's been some TV coverage say that they haven't been here,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: but just not the familiar faces that we're used to
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: seeing out here. And so wear your eyes and ears
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: and we need to run through this. What have we
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: learned since we've been here about this roster. I'll go
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: ahead and say what we've learned, and then you just
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: react to that because I'm gonna go pretty rapid fire. Okay,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: let's start with the catcher position. What we have learned
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: is that Kyle Raley has not changed one bit. Certainly,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: he's not counting on hitting sixty or more home runs
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: this year, but he is in no mindset to think
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: that he has to expect less than sixty.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you that much.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: No.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: I mean Cayle's col and that's some beautiful things. He
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: doesn't seem to change. Regardless of how big his star
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: becomes and how bright it is, he's still I think
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: winning the offseason like unfinished business. Yeah, I had a
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: great year. Great, Okay, let's move it on. It's time
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: to get to the World Series. And I think winning's
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: more important than personal achievements for that guy, and that's
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: why he's such a leader. I don't see a whole
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: heck of a lot of downturn to this guy. Now,
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 3: sixty home runs is historic, so to get back there
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: maybe not so much. But I wouldn't be so terribly
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: surprised if he's close to it.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: As far as his backup news on that front, it
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: happened earlier this week. Mitch Garver is, in fact back.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: We've seen him in a Mariner uniform. He was signed
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: to a minor league deal earlier this week and read
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: into this what you want, but he showed up for
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: his first day of actual practice here at spring training
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: with Cal Rawley, so Andrew Kissner's here. He was signed
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: in the off season to possibly be a purer backup
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: catcher than what Garver was last year, who spent a
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: lot of time dhing and at times they were both
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: in the lineup together at times. Well, Mitch Garver did
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: not find a major league job out there, and so
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: it sounds like the Mariners have talked him into coming
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: in here on a minor league deal to try to
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: win a job. And look, Cal and the pitchers already
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: know him. It might get him a leg up to
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: be back on this roster this year.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised one bit. As a matter of fact,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: we were talking about pole position earlier with Cole Young
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: at second base. At this point, I think Mitch Garver
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: is probably the pole position for your backup catcher.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: It's it's going to be another demotion third year in
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 3: a row. To some degree, he's not going to come
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: in as your DH also as a backup catcher like
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 3: he was his first year here. Last year, it was okay,
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: you're the backup catcher. You're going to DH some. I
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 3: think as of right now, the fact that they have
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: kind of a platoon set up with multiple guys left
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: handed and right handed hitters that are going to play
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: outfield and DH, I think you're a legitimate You're a
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: backup catcher unless you all of a sudden hit the
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: way that you did a couple of years in Texas.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: Maybe get some more AB's there.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: First base Josh Naylor, I mean he's made headlines all
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: week long for non baseball things. His level of embracing
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: being a full time Seattle athlete. I mean, he's worn
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: a different jersey out there every day. He's represented the Storm,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: he's represented the Sounders. He had a Cooper Cup jersey
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: on at one point during the course of this week.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, he is all in about being a Seattle
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: athlete and embracing our city, and he is all in
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: on being Tucker the Dog's best friend. Those have been
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: the Josh Naylor headlines this week.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I don't care as long as he plays
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: the way he played when he came over here with
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: us last year. You can wear whatever jersey you want,
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: you can feed Tucker as many treats as you want.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 3: The dude just seems to be kind of on his
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: own program. But I mean that within the constructs of
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: he's still doing it for the team, and he's going
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 3: out there and getting his job done. I'm excited to
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: see what the season looks like for him. I'm glad
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 3: we get to see him for a full year.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: I think maybe the most interesting thing I heard about
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor all week long is that Kevin Sitzer, the
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: hitting instructor, told us when we talked to him, that
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor has the best court awareness of any player
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: he's ever been around. And Kevin Sitzer has been in
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: baseball for what forty years, thirty five years, something like that,
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: and yet he made that.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 3: Bold statement of Josh Naylor. Earlier in the week when
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 3: we chatted with.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: The hitting instructor second base, we just discussed it. Cole
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: Young is the clear front runner to win the second
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: base position, that from Justin Hollander himself, but there still
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: is a camp battle going on here. Ryan Bliss is
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: in that conversation, Leo Revas is probably going to be
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: used as a utility player. That is from Leo Revas's
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: mouth himself to us here throughout the course of this week,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: and Colt Emerson is in and Justin Hollander also told
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: us today that they will not keep Colt Emerson from
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: the opening day roster if he proves here at spring
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: that he is one of the best nine players in
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: this organization positionally, player position, player wise.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: I love the fact that you know they're they're ready
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 3: to not restrain guys. If a guy proves that he's
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: ready to contribute at the big league level, they're not
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 3: going to be like, well, he's only had seven games
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 3: at Triple A, so we're just no way could he
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: come in now. I don't think he has come in
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: to hit a thousand in spring training, but there's a
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 3: chance that this kid is mature enough that he could
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: break with the big league club. And I mean, just
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: have a young stud like that. If he proves it
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: in spring training, I'm all about rooting for him.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: Third base Brendan Donovan is planning to be the everyday
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: third baseman this year. He admitted to us that it's
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: been a bit of a transition. He had always had
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: to back up Nolan Aronado there in Saint Louis, so
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: there never really was an avenue for him to play
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: every day at third base. So there's been an adjustment
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: that he's feel like he is undergoing. But he also
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: in our interview with him earlier this week, praised Perry
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: hill Bone himself as the best infield instructor in the world,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: probably about five times in our fifteen minute conversation with
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan. So he is expecting by opening day to
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: feel very confident defensively at third base. And then the
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: other thing about Brendan Donovan is he has completely won
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: every one over in the organization with just this genuine
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: personality that seems to care and be interested in every
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: human being and whether or not they're having a good day.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: It just seems like a selfless individual. And I mean,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 3: this is a team sport made up of a bunch
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: of individual performances, so it's really hard at times, I
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: think for some people to not get caught up in
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: their own success or their own failure. I don't think
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: that's gonna be an issue for this guy one bit.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 3: I think this guy goes out basically with everybody should
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: go out with the purpose of I'm gonna prepare the
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 3: right way, then I'm gonna give it all my effort
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: that I possibly can, and then let the chips fall
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 3: where they may. You are going to fail, regardless of
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: how good you how hard you try, or how much
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: you prepared. You're going to fail at times. But those
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: that kind of stick to the process, they're gonna have
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 3: more success. That's how you become a big league player.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: That's how you become a guy that can stick in
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 3: the big leagues. I'm looking for big things out of
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 3: that dude, because I think between the years he's got it.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: Dial Yeah, and I would say it was one other
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: thing because to me he looked pudgy in a Cardinal uniform,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: and I suggested as such in our Stove podcast Andrews
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: and I throughout the offseason.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 3: He's not. He's chiseled, he's like thick. He got big
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: hands and big four arms, and he looks.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: The part shortstop. JP Crawford really not any ripples on
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: the water with JP Crawford, veteran in his last year
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: on the job, He's going to be the starting shortstop
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. We didn't get in
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: as far as if he struggles at all, could cold
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: Emerson take his job, But I think that's a possibility
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: late in the season, however, slight that that might be.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: But it does feel like JP Crawford's got this one
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: last chance with this group, with him being on the
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: last year of his contract, to win a World Series
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: here in a Seattle Mariners uniform.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's I mean, the fact that it is
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 3: a contract year for him, I would imagine his off
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: season was spent getting ready to show up and show out.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, so you go out and win this, but
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 3: there's a business that's going on underlying, and that is
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 3: always going on. So he knows there's some youngsters chomping
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 3: at the bit that they play his position. He's gonna
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 3: have to go out there and prove that they should
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 3: re up him. But ultimately, I'm not one hundred percent
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 3: sure that that's the way it's going to go down.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 3: So it's boiled down to go out there, win a
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 3: World Series and see where you wind up after that.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: Left field Randy a Rose Arena, Well, I've sort of
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: floated it out there to numerous people. Is there a
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: chance he might DH this year? Is he the DH?
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 3: And maybe you take better defenders.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: And put them on the corners than what Randy is
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: because sometimes he can be an adventure out there.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: I haven't had anybody bite on that.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: It kind of looks like Randy a Rose Arena who
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: looks terrific by the way, and is probably more advanced
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: than any other hitter.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 3: In the cage right now.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: He was hitting bombs yesterday and all of them to
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: like right center field, like he was just like just
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: hitting missiles out of the ballpark to right center field,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: one after the other. He looks great, and it kind
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: of looks like he's penned in at left field for
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: this team.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, you're gonna have that bat in
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 3: the land up no matter what. He'll probably get some
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 3: days where they want to get somebody else out there
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 3: in the outfield for just to get them some AB's.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: He'll get some days at DH. I wouldn't be surprised.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: But the dude is capable of playing left field as
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: well as a lot of people out there. I mean,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: he can catch the balls there to him. It's just
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 3: at times it just doesn't look like he's really zoned
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: in like he's dialed in. There's some mental mistakes here
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: and there, so hopefully he's dialed in more than he's not.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: Well, obviously, Julio Rodriguez is as locked into an everyday
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: center field position as anyone here, more so than anyone here,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: even cal because he's not gonna catch every single game.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: Julio might play every single game in center field one
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two, hopefully so. And really it's a
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: matter of him getting off to a hot start for
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: the first time in his young major league baseball career.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: Could this be the year that Julio Rodriguez puts together
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: a full six months of Julio ball and just kind
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: of takes his start to a whole new level.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 3: I feel it.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: But then again, I've said that three years in a row.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, he just needs to not get off
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: to a bad start. I mean he gets off to
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 3: low starts, I mean exceptionally slow starts, and then still
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: somehow digs himself out and has a sixth war season.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's done some amazing things in his time,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: and yet it's always on the heels of a horrible start.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 3: If he just gets off to just a decent start.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think we're talking about a guy that
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 3: might be in the mix for the MVP race.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: Right field in d H. Pretty much at this point,
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: it's a rotation of four guys, Victor Roeblaze and rob
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: Reth Schneider the newcomer from the right side, Luke Rayley
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: dominant Canzone from the left side. I think that Raleigh
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: and Roeblaze is your best defensive combination there. But don't
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: sleep on ref Snyder's defensive abilities. So does that mean
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: Canzone spends a lot more time dhing. I have no idea,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: but they don't sound like they're going to leave camp
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: without five outfielders on the roster. I don't know if
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: any of them, Like Canzone did not make the roster
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: out of spring last year. It's kind of feeling to
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: me like all five of those guys are gonna make
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: the roster.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 3: I think so. I think that's the way that you
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: play it, and then depending on health and depending on productivity,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: you start making other situations. I mean, when we talk
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 3: to Justin Hollander, he's saying, it's not gonna be some
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: all right. You get forty games, you get forty games,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 3: you get forty games. No, it's gonna be we have
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 3: a situation. We're gonna be able to put these guys
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 3: in positions to be successful more often than not by
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 3: hitting against the pitchers that they're more successful against, and
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 3: then we're gonna ride the hot hand. So I mean,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: it really comes down to those guys. All know, Okay,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 3: good chance, I'm gonna make the roster. When I get
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: my opportunity, I gotta take it and run with it.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: Relief pitching, I think it's the best relief core that
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: this organization has put on paper in the entire Jerry
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: Depoto era. And you are talking about a relief a
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: bullpen that's been pretty successful the last four years, ranked
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: eighth and tm ERA four years ago, than third, then second,
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: thirteenth last year, but it was still a pretty good group.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: I think this is the best the bullpen on paper
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: that they've had. And of course they have a very
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: unique skill in being able to find some hidden talent
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: out there turning other people's trash into treasure. And so
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: I have a really high hopes for the bullpen.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so do I I mean, obviously the back end
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: brash and munnos, that's just something. You just hope that
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: they can come back, be healthy this entire season and
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: just keep doing what they're doing. You're not asking for
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 3: a whole ton of improvement there. You have a couple
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: of guys that maybe came out of the woodworks. Bizarto
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: be on top of that list that if he can repeat, repeat,
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: Gabe Spier, if he can repeat what he did last year,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 3: and then for Rare adding that extra left he takes
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 3: a little pressure off Gabe and just gives you two
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: bullets to throw at good lefties when you're getting down
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: there in those high leverage situations late in the game.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 3: I'm with you. I feel really confident in the bullpen
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: And finally starting pitching. Yeah, the constant here in the
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: Depoto era, five guys that you know are going to
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: break camp in the starting rotation as long as they
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: stay healthy, did not happen a year ago. George did
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: not leave camp healthy. I don't think Bryce Miller left
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: camp healthy right now, by all accounts, one hundred percent healthy.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 3: Everybody's feeling really.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: Good, really encouraged about how they look, how their conditioning
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: went in the off season, how they overcame some of
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: those injuries, in the off season, so certainly they are
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: your five. Emerson Hancock is your sixth man off the
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  Speaker 1: bench at this point, but might have to start the
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  Speaker 1: season in Tacoma. And then, of course the talk of
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  Speaker 1: camp were the two young guys Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan,
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  Speaker 1: who could be ready at some point in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six if needed. But certainly they are not a threat
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  Speaker 1: like Emerson and others to crack Camp in the starting rotation.
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  Speaker 1: That's not going to happen. But this organization has been
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  Speaker 1: built on starting pitching and it will again be a
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  Speaker 1: primary strength this year, if not the strength.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty nice to have Luis Castillo as your veteran
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  Speaker 3: who you know through what thirty two made thirty two starts,
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  Speaker 3: made every start last year. That's your veteran guy. And
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  Speaker 3: then you have four guys in Wu and Gilbert and
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  Speaker 3: Kirby and Bryce Miller below if all those guys are healthy,
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  Speaker 3: and then you have an Emerson Hancock that's had some
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 3: time waiting in the wings. He could be starting in
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  Speaker 3: about you know, twenty five other markets as far as
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  Speaker 3: the rotation goes. And then you got some youngsters that
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  Speaker 3: are gonna be you know, chomping at the bit probably
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  Speaker 3: towards the end of the season to possibly make an impact.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully we don't have to use a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 3: depth because everybody stays healthy. But this team has unbelievable
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 3: rotation and they got depth waiting in the wings.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Anderson and Sloan not knocked. We're not knocked
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  Speaker 1: off the top of the heap. As the buzz of camp,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: we've been here a week. If you want that question answered,
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  Speaker 1: they created the most buzz here at spring training this week.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that changes as they're start to play games here
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  Speaker 1: today cold Emerson goes three for four today with two
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  Speaker 1: doubles and a triple.
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  Speaker 3: Then maybe that changes.
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  Speaker 1: But right now i'd have to say as we conclude
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: the week, that the buzz of camp was most created
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  Speaker 1: by those two young pitching prospects, Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan,
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  Speaker 1: and with a consolation.
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  Speaker 3: Prize to Adam Jude for catching Andre's Munio's bullpen. All Rightum,
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  Speaker 3: so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: We were your eyes and ears.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we learned.
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  Speaker 1: That's our analysis as we get ready to wrap things up,
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  Speaker 1: But we still have more to go here of our
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  Speaker 1: spring training coverage week. We'll continue it next on Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. All right, final segment
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  Speaker 1: here from Spring training twenty twenty six. Boy time does fly,
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  Speaker 1: Bucky Jacob said, Chuck Powell, with you, Bucky standing here
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  Speaker 1: with your family.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for a week or so. Good. Yeah, I'll get
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  Speaker 3: some great wolf lodge in. But we're coming back. We're
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  Speaker 3: come watch some baseball. Kate was actually last night She's like,
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  Speaker 3: I want to see that baby faced kid, the Ryan
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  Speaker 3: Sloane kid. I want to see him. I don't know
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 3: if she cares to watch him, Hitch necessary. She's just
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  Speaker 3: intrigued us to the cyboord body with the baby face.
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  Speaker 3: He might be a perfect Brazilian jiu jitsu wrestler. Oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: she might think that. Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well it's been great here all week long.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for listening. I'm heading back to Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll be back on the airwaves with you Monday morning.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But you know how we close out the Fridays. Normally
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: it is with Booze News, but when it comes to
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: spring training coverage, we always close out the week with
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: Ashley Ryan's famous montage. Jerry Depoto is with us here
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: from spring training the challenge system this year? What's the
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: organizational philosophy on who gets the challenge? When you get
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: to challenge? How are you going to manage that as
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: the organization?
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  Speaker 3: Everybody but Randy? Oh yeah, I say that.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 6: I say that to someone said to me man the
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 6: off season Flew.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: I said, yeah, unless you were sitting waiting for the
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: Cardinals to train us Brendon Donovan for our audience his purpose,
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: Because I think even you and Justin and others are
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: struggling with this. How excited should they be about Kate
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: Anderson and Ryan Sloan And how much do we need
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: to limit our excitement for these two players?
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: It's hard to limit the excitement.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: Bryce Miller and Logan Gilbert with us here at our
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: set at spring training.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 3: Is Raleigh going to pull his own weight this year?
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 9: You think, I don't know, he's he's getting big time
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 9: on us.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 3: So yeah, oh that's terrible news.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 9: He acts like he's done something.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 3: It's crazy that he didn't get their sixty sixty club.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: I know, right's sixty ten barely. How is it going
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: to work the ABS challenge system this year? Does Kal
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: get to do everything logan or.
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  Speaker 9: I feel like he's going to challenge every pitch.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: I attempted one last year in spring training. I was like,
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 10: let me try this through a fastball way. I was like,
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 10: I had to be a strike challenge it. I turned around,
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 10: it was like six inches.
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  Speaker 3: Off the plate.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, warmer, mariner, center fielder, amateur losuer.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: It is Mike Cameron.
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  Speaker 11: I've just embraced it, man, because I'm still not really
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 11: comfortable with that, because when you think of statues, you
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 11: think about the iconic guys that like Griffy and Ichiro
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 11: and Edgar and those guys like that. But to be
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 11: a part of this community downtown in that area, man,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 11: and have someone come by when they're drunk and take
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 11: a piss on it.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody trying to hook you up with, Hey, here's a
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: gift card, I don't know, Applebee's or something so that
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 3: you give.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm more of a Chilies guy.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 3: Chili. Okay, you want your baby back, Baby back, baby.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 6: I love a good two for twenty.
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  Speaker 2: The old you jog.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first time I've ever seen him jog.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 3: It's the first time I've jogged, And like, oh, I
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 3: don't know ten years. Yeah, you're a jogger. Now look
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 3: at you. That's how I get carried away. Okay, Andre's
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 3: Munjos is with us right here on the show. Have
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 3: you been talking to me trash to cow because you
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 3: guys are in the same pool.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 6: Right No? No, oh, yes, we're in the same pool.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 6: But I don't. I don't talk to him. You know
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 6: about that? Ohis he I would like to avoid facing?
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 6: Actually, any old my pullpins, he hasn't catch you any
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 6: of them. Hopefully you forget about my stuff.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: And you really do love your cat, don't you.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yeah, yes, he's somethings we feel like she
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 6: hate es.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan with us, the newest Mariner and obviously on
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: the hitting side.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 12: We were talking about number thirty three sights. He he
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 12: gave me the number, so I mean, sure, I hooked
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 12: him up with some wine. He's a red wine drinker,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 12: so I had to get that number back. And I'm
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 12: gonna live up to your expectations.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: Hitting slocked Ben in a row boat, you gotta keep
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: your ore in the water otherwise you'll get off balance.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: That's a little sights are for you there, Yeah, little
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: Kevin Sitzer.
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  Speaker 9: For you right there, Just morphinom for a second.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: Justin Hollander is whether it's general manager of the Seattle Mariners.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 3: Tell us about Montet.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 5: I think Laz could push his way into the mix.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 5: At the end of the season. We anticipated a really long,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 5: bright future for Las.
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  Speaker 3: Just so you know where Laz's head is at. Yeah,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 3: we just had a conversation. I said, what do you
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 3: think this year of forty forty Dingers? And He's like,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 3: I'm fifty. So I'm confident that if he hits fifty,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 3: they won't all be in the minor leagues, right.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: Pete Woodworth Award winning pitching coach of your Seattle Mariners.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: Will Adam Jude of the Seattle Times survived catching Andres
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: Munoz this week.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 8: We are already looking for a new writer because you're
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 8: not with us next week.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 3: This guy of all guys.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Gilbert's one thing, but Munya's it's it's a different
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 8: gear that's not gonna be fun for him. We definitely
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 8: need the paramedics here.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: Kevin Sitzer's Wather's a hitting instructor for the mayor. Can't
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: let you get out of here without asking about Julio
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: last year, as good a job as you did, you
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: didn't have an answer for how you keep a guy
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: hot for six straight months? Yeah, so did you solve
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: that in the off season? Do you now know how
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: to get him started in April so that he can
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: have six months of All Star play?
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say yes, and I'll let you know for
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: sure in June. Rob Refsneider is with us on the program.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 9: It's such incredible pitching staff, and you know, you're they're
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 9: doing pitch design stuff a couple of weeks into the
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 9: offseason and they're really getting after it, and the hitters
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 9: have to too, So it's it's just it's so different.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 3: You don't face them anymore.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 9: I got a spot started against Brian Woo last year
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 9: didn't go well.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: Just explain it from John Stanton's point of view, the
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor experience thus far here in Seattle.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 13: I think it starts with the role he played on
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 13: the field. You know that when he showed up, we
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 13: were dragging just a little bit and he came in
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 13: and really lit a fire. Remember those stolen bases. You know,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 13: you look at the guy, all due respect, I love
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 13: the guy, but you look at the guy, and you know,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 13: it's kind of like thinking Bucky's going to steal a base.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 3: Whoa, whoa, whoa, It's not going to happen. It was
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 3: a fun week, good laughs. Yeah, a lot of laughing there. Yeah,
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 3: good stuff. Good job guys.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, whoa, whoa, Well done everybody. All right, Well that'll
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: do it for us. Thank you very much for joining
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: us throughout the week, and certainly I will be talking
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: to you on Monday from back in Seattle. Thanks to Ashley,
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: thanks to Jesseman who helped us a lot during the
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: course of the week and recording a few interviews, and
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: all the fellas back there in Seattle for having us
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: on the show and promoting our coverage. So have a
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: great weekend, Mark James, Christopher Kidder coming your way next
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