Latest / Foul Territory / Padres pitcher Jason Adam: LA/SD rivalry, Rays trade, Profar's PEDs
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- 0:00Speaker 1: We're hungry for it. We believe, we believe in this team.
- 0:03Speaker 1: I'd take this team to battle with them and anybody
- 0:06Speaker 1: any day of the week.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Hey, we've got Padres reliever Jason Adam back on the show.
- 0:17Speaker 3: I think it's been probably about a year, Jason.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Good to see you and obviously here on a new
- 0:20Speaker 2: team since we last spoke. So how's life with the
- 0:23Speaker 2: San Diego Padres? Best record in baseball right now?
- 0:27Speaker 1: Good to see you all. Yeah, I mean it's it's
- 0:29Speaker 1: a good life all around. Baseball's good life in San
- 0:32Speaker 1: Diego's good. Family's good. I got, I got no complaints. Nice.
- 0:36Speaker 3: I like it.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Hey, we didn't get to talk to you when that
- 0:38Speaker 2: all went down. So how did it go when you
- 0:40Speaker 2: got traded over to San Diego? Were you surprised you
- 0:44Speaker 2: got traded? And then were you excited to join a
- 0:46Speaker 2: club that was going to be in postseason contention because
- 0:49Speaker 2: the Rays had a down year?
- 0:52Speaker 1: Yeah? No, I was definitely not surprised. I knew and
- 0:58Speaker 1: there was enough rumors that I knew there was a chance.
- 1:00Speaker 1: And honestly, the front office with Tampa was great. They
- 1:04Speaker 1: called me like a week before They're like, hey, I
- 1:06Speaker 1: don't know if you'll get traded, I don't know what
- 1:09Speaker 1: will happen, but just to be honest, we're listening, so
- 1:12Speaker 1: we'll keep you updated. So definitely wasn't surprised, but it's
- 1:16Speaker 1: it's always jarring obviously just because it's uh, couldn't have
- 1:20Speaker 1: gone much further across the country, so the move, the
- 1:24Speaker 1: logistics were a hassle, but I was pumped, man, And
- 1:27Speaker 1: right when I got to San Diego, everybody, the whole
- 1:31Speaker 1: team just brought me in right away, and and I think,
- 1:35Speaker 1: I mean, we could not that those first few weeks
- 1:38Speaker 1: I was there. We could not lose a game. It was.
- 1:40Speaker 1: It was some of the most fun baseball. I mean,
- 1:42Speaker 1: we'd be down late, come back home, Jackson, Merril Homer,
- 1:46Speaker 1: Jackson Meryrol Homer, it was. It was an insane team
- 1:48Speaker 1: to be a part of. And still it's really Hi.
- 1:51Speaker 4: Jay, First of all, before I get to the team
- 1:53Speaker 4: you got traded to, your hair is kind of matching
- 1:56Speaker 4: the bed behind you. Like it's not like the super
- 1:59Speaker 4: messed up, but it's like kind of just who it is. Okay,
- 2:04Speaker 4: So it's nice. It's nice. It matches, it matches your look.
- 2:07Speaker 4: You're you're a handsome man.
- 2:10Speaker 1: It's it's refined BedHead.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Is that what it is?
- 2:14Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about that, you know, I don't
- 2:16Speaker 3: know about that.
- 2:17Speaker 4: I got nothing going on there. I got no bad head.
- 2:21Speaker 4: But this is your second time. This is your second
- 2:24Speaker 4: time back with the Padres. The first time you were there.
- 2:28Speaker 4: Can you give yourself because you've established yourself as an
- 2:31Speaker 4: elite bullpen arm closer when you were at the Raise,
- 2:34Speaker 4: like you come in and you strike fear in the
- 2:37Speaker 4: hitter when you were there last time, can you did
- 2:41Speaker 4: going back and putting these colors back along. Was it
- 2:44Speaker 4: seventeen you were there or was it eighteen? I forget
- 2:46Speaker 4: it was seventeen. Yeah, so seventeen I was there. I
- 2:49Speaker 4: mean I was rehabbing almost the whole time. Yeah, So
- 2:53Speaker 4: they signed I became a minor league free agent with
- 2:55Speaker 4: the Twins and I signed there and still was essentially
- 2:59Speaker 4: still was her and so I think I was. All
- 3:02Speaker 4: I was striking fear in.
- 3:04Speaker 1: Them at the time was pocketbooks because they're like, we
- 3:06Speaker 1: cannot keep paying for surgeries for this guy that's never
- 3:09Speaker 1: gonna make It. Was the minor leagues, so yeah, I
- 3:12Speaker 1: mean it was I was a Navy blue pod in seventeen,
- 3:15Speaker 1: So new colors, new team. But yeah, I've always been
- 3:19Speaker 1: always enjoyed Probaber. I always thought he does a great job.
- 3:22Speaker 1: Way back in high school, I thought he was going
- 3:24Speaker 1: to draft me with the Rangers. So we've had a
- 3:26Speaker 1: long standing relationship, so I was excited to get back.
- 3:30Speaker 4: Can you can you put in your mind though, because
- 3:32Speaker 4: when I think about going to a team, I was
- 3:34Speaker 4: drafted by the Jays and I never made the big
- 3:37Speaker 4: leagues until I got traded back and made the big leagues.
- 3:40Speaker 4: When I put that uniform back on, it looked different,
- 3:42Speaker 4: the colors were different. Did it bring back the flood
- 3:45Speaker 4: of memories in the sense that you put this Padres
- 3:48Speaker 4: uniform on? Did it bring back the flood of memories
- 3:50Speaker 4: of what you went through during that time, because that's
- 3:52Speaker 4: when I've got to know you was in the sixteen
- 3:55Speaker 4: seventeen time period.
- 3:56Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it was very, very much a full circle moment.
- 4:01Speaker 1: And I think my wife and I talked about it
- 4:03Speaker 1: because we were convinced, Like when I signed with the Padres,
- 4:06Speaker 1: we felt great about it. We're like, this is where
- 4:08Speaker 1: you're gonna play, this is where I'm gonna play. I'm
- 4:10Speaker 1: gonna be here, like I feel like I'm going to
- 4:12Speaker 1: really have some success in San Diego. And at the
- 4:16Speaker 1: time and it's uh, it was it was a no
- 4:18Speaker 1: at the time, but apparently it was just a denial,
- 4:21Speaker 1: like or not a denial, it was a delay and
- 4:24Speaker 1: so we got we made it back. But yeah, go
- 4:27Speaker 1: thinking back on that time where I couldn't have felt
- 4:29Speaker 1: further from the big leagues and now here we are.
- 4:34Speaker 5: That's pretty incredible. I Mean, my question to you is,
- 4:37Speaker 5: I mean, the team's playing so well, is there one
- 4:39Speaker 5: person in that clubhouse who who just is the leader
- 4:42Speaker 5: and everybody just follows. Is there is there a guy
- 4:44Speaker 5: in there that's taken you know, this Padre team by
- 4:47Speaker 5: storm and saying hey, you know, let's just go out
- 4:49Speaker 5: there and be who we are. Like, who's that leader
- 4:51Speaker 5: in the clubhouse?
- 4:52Speaker 1: Yeah? I think part of what it makes his team
- 4:54Speaker 1: special is there's not one guy, but there are several.
- 4:57Speaker 1: So you got Manny obviously, Manny he's he's he's the
- 5:01Speaker 1: hefe and and what he says goes in a lot
- 5:04Speaker 1: of ways, but he and he takes he takes that
- 5:07Speaker 1: job seriously. He leads us really well. He's any and
- 5:10Speaker 1: he shows up every day. He's there for us. But
- 5:12Speaker 1: we've also it's like many Joe, even though Joe's hurt,
- 5:16Speaker 1: he's taken the lead and he's he's in our pitchers meetings,
- 5:19Speaker 1: he's given feedback. And so we got Joe, we got Bogie,
- 5:24Speaker 1: I mean, and the list goes on. But really it's
- 5:27Speaker 1: like we got We've got those big the big guys,
- 5:30Speaker 1: and they all take an issue. They're not just there
- 5:32Speaker 1: collecting a check. They're not just there trying to take
- 5:35Speaker 1: care of themselves. They're they're trying to trying to make
- 5:38Speaker 1: us win. And if they go oh for four, but
- 5:40Speaker 1: we win, they're leading the postgame celebration. So it's it's
- 5:43Speaker 1: pretty special.
- 5:45Speaker 4: I've been told on the show to not make players
- 5:47Speaker 4: compare or choose, but you have had some what I
- 5:52Speaker 4: consider some of the best pitching coaches. Pete Walker, oh yeah,
- 5:56Speaker 4: Kyle Snyder to now Reuben Diebola. But you're the Padres
- 6:00Speaker 4: right now, So I'm just gonna ask, what does Ruben
- 6:04Speaker 4: be able to bring to this staff. He's the pitching
- 6:07Speaker 4: coach for the Padres, who everybody who doesn't know.
- 6:09Speaker 1: He's Ruben's fantastic. Yeah, yeah, I can't compare it but
- 6:16Speaker 1: I have, like you said, I've bounced from the best
- 6:19Speaker 1: in the league to the best in the league to
- 6:21Speaker 1: the best in the league. It's I've been spoiled. But Ruben,
- 6:26Speaker 1: he's just he's so detail oriented. So he knows every detail.
- 6:31Speaker 1: He knows. He essentially like I feel like he knows
- 6:34Speaker 1: what I'm going to ask before I ask it. But
- 6:37Speaker 1: he's not got But he's also really has an incredible
- 6:39Speaker 1: feel for when to just give you some space and
- 6:42Speaker 1: just let you go. You know, I think some of
- 6:45Speaker 1: the best coaches know when to just keep their mouth shut,
- 6:49Speaker 1: and he so he's selective with what he shares because
- 6:52Speaker 1: a lot of pitching is mental and you just have
- 6:54Speaker 1: to have the confidence that you're going to roll out
- 6:55Speaker 1: there and it's going to be there and you're going
- 6:57Speaker 1: to dominate. But as soon as really before, as soon
- 7:01Speaker 1: as as soon as you're willing to listen, as soon
- 7:03Speaker 1: as you need it, he's he's ready, and it's always
- 7:06Speaker 1: a productive tip and it's always digestible, you know, broken down.
- 7:10Speaker 1: He knows the ins and outs of it, but he
- 7:12Speaker 1: also knows, do you give me every little detail that's
- 7:16Speaker 1: going to be paralyzing on the mound. So He just
- 7:17Speaker 1: gives you what you need. And there are guys you
- 7:20Speaker 1: know that want more details, want less details. And he
- 7:22Speaker 1: knows his guys like he knows us, like we're his kids. AJ.
- 7:28Speaker 2: It is time for people to get some new clubs,
- 7:30Speaker 2: and to do that, they need to go to their
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- 7:35Speaker 6: I was there today, I've been there before. Last time
- 7:37Speaker 6: I was there, they gave me this killer gap. I
- 7:39Speaker 6: just look at that sweet spot, Scott. It is worn out.
- 7:41Speaker 6: That is right in the sweet spot right there. So
- 7:43Speaker 6: I went and got new clubs today, new irons. But
- 7:46Speaker 6: more importantly, I got this bad boy. I got me
- 7:48Speaker 6: a new putter. This is my old putter. It's on order. Yes,
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- 7:53Speaker 6: to the Allen putter. They talked me into it because
- 7:55Speaker 6: I was draining some putts today. Bob, the guy who
- 7:58Speaker 6: helped me out. He helped me with my irons. You
- 8:00Speaker 6: got them ted up perfectly. But then we went to
- 8:02Speaker 6: the putt and green. I was draining them putts because
- 8:04Speaker 6: that's the most important part of golf.
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- 8:28Speaker 2: All right, so I promised our fans we get one
- 8:31Speaker 2: or two questions in I'll do one now. One of
- 8:33Speaker 2: our big padres fans I need money is the username?
- 8:37Speaker 2: Can you ask who the bullpen BFF is for? Jason Adam?
- 8:41Speaker 2: He watches every game. He's like it looks like Adam
- 8:44Speaker 2: and Jeremiah Strata are best of But is this true?
- 8:49Speaker 1: I won't. I won't pick one guy. I can't pick
- 8:50Speaker 1: one guy. No, I love our bullpen man. Jeremiah is
- 8:56Speaker 1: great these uh ever, everybody on that in that bullpen,
- 8:59Speaker 1: it's a group. It's yeah. I mean, you have no
- 9:04Speaker 1: choice but to get close to each other because you're
- 9:06Speaker 1: literally sitting down there every night for two to three
- 9:11Speaker 1: hours and I can't possibly focus that much all night.
- 9:16Speaker 1: So you're talking about everything but baseball for the first
- 9:19Speaker 1: few innings. So yeah, you get close.
- 9:22Speaker 4: Are there any dudes in your in your career so far,
- 9:25Speaker 4: or even you that absolutely get after it in a
- 9:28Speaker 4: bullpen in the sense of like you see dudes that
- 9:30Speaker 4: need to rip a red bull like two seconds before
- 9:33Speaker 4: they go in the game, which I don't get because
- 9:35Speaker 4: it takes like twenty.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Thirty minutes for you.
- 9:38Speaker 4: But is there is there a routine that you see
- 9:41Speaker 4: on your padres team that you're like, WHOA, I haven't
- 9:44Speaker 4: seen that before, but it worked.
- 9:47Speaker 1: We've got pretty mellow routine on my routine might be
- 9:50Speaker 1: among the weirder ones.
- 9:52Speaker 4: I don't.
- 9:53Speaker 1: I just drink coffee because I'm an old man, so
- 9:54Speaker 1: that's all. That's all I can handle. But I mean
- 10:00Speaker 1: routines are pretty I do like summersaults out there and
- 10:02Speaker 1: stuff to keep the spine moving but outside. So that's
- 10:07Speaker 1: as weird as it gets.
- 10:10Speaker 4: Wait what wait wait wait wait wait, you do summersaults
- 10:13Speaker 4: like you really like like you do like we used
- 10:16Speaker 4: to do in like second grade gym, like tumbling Matt.
- 10:18Speaker 1: Summer SATs pretty much. So I'll do a little of that,
- 10:21Speaker 1: and I do like so I'll roll back and forth
- 10:24Speaker 1: and then the one that people I get the most,
- 10:28Speaker 1: I'll call it love for is uh? I do like
- 10:31Speaker 1: I grab legs crisscrossed and roll in circles. But it
- 10:37Speaker 1: makes the spine feel good. Buddy, I don't know what
- 10:39Speaker 1: to tell you.
- 10:40Speaker 4: I mean, if the spine is good, I mean that
- 10:42Speaker 4: that that I like that. But you said you get
- 10:45Speaker 4: love for the boys give you a hard time? Like
- 10:49Speaker 4: who makes fun of you the most for your like
- 10:51Speaker 4: gimmicky things that you're doing that they.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Think you're doing. I mean, honestly, probably Fritz, our bullpen coach.
- 10:58Speaker 1: But no, I knew I did say. I told then
- 11:02Speaker 1: this because I got traded over here last year and
- 11:04Speaker 1: this was part of my routines. I just kept doing
- 11:06Speaker 1: it and it was like a week and a half
- 11:09Speaker 1: before anyone said anything. I said, there, Now I know
- 11:11Speaker 1: I'm in. I'm like for the first week when everyone's
- 11:13Speaker 1: just kind of like they're like side eyed me and
- 11:15Speaker 1: like it you don't like me yet you're not saying
- 11:18Speaker 1: anything that's fair.
- 11:20Speaker 4: That's fair. You know, if people don't like you, if
- 11:22Speaker 4: they don't talk to you, if they're talking to you,
- 11:24Speaker 4: if they're making fun of you, that means they like you. Sorry,
- 11:26Speaker 4: that's a weird, weird communication thing, all right. Well, then
- 11:30Speaker 4: I'll hit you with the toughest question I got for
- 11:32Speaker 4: you today. One of your teammates from last year tested
- 11:36Speaker 4: positive for steroids this year. When something like that happens,
- 11:40Speaker 4: do you feel like as a game we're doing enough
- 11:45Speaker 4: to keep steroids out or do you feel like you
- 11:48Speaker 4: go back and go, hmm, wait a minute, now, I
- 11:51Speaker 4: know you weren't there the whole year, Or do you
- 11:53Speaker 4: think we're doing enough or we need to do more
- 11:56Speaker 4: as players or the game.
- 11:58Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a hard question because I don't know.
- 12:01Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we're doing something right if the guys
- 12:04Speaker 1: that are taking them are getting caught, and I don't know,
- 12:09Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I I honestly don't know. I think
- 12:15Speaker 1: I'm scared to death to take like you know, because
- 12:17Speaker 1: like we have the meeting every spring, like only take
- 12:19Speaker 1: supplements that have this sticker on it. They're certified, and
- 12:23Speaker 1: so they have us like convinced that if I just
- 12:26Speaker 1: if I drink a protein shake from Lifetime Fitness, it
- 12:30Speaker 1: might be tainted and I might get popped. So, like,
- 12:32Speaker 1: you know, like you're just you're scared to take everything,
- 12:35Speaker 1: And so I'm sure there's cases where that's that's what
- 12:37Speaker 1: happens where a guy just makes one bad choice and
- 12:40Speaker 1: gets caught, or is or are there people being malicious
- 12:44Speaker 1: skirting around and they are getting around the rules for
- 12:46Speaker 1: a certain amount of time before they finally get caught.
- 12:49Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm I'm a fan of as much
- 12:52Speaker 1: testing as we need. It's a hassle obviously when you
- 12:54Speaker 1: gotta wait around and be in a cup after a game.
- 12:57Speaker 1: But I think to have to have just consistency and
- 13:04Speaker 1: like no unfair advantages. I guess I'm all for that.
- 13:07Speaker 1: I'm for whatever needs to happen for that.
- 13:11Speaker 4: Guys had a great series last year with the Dodgers.
- 13:14Speaker 4: Then they gave the Padres the ultimate compliment when they
- 13:17Speaker 4: were a little bit inebriated talking after winning the World Series,
- 13:22Speaker 4: saying the Padres were really our world Series. Can you
- 13:27Speaker 4: guys beat them? That's the name of the game.
- 13:30Speaker 1: Yes.
- 13:30Speaker 4: Can the San Diego Padres beat them and go on
- 13:33Speaker 4: and win the World Series?
- 13:36Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. In my mind, I think that that
- 13:39Speaker 1: series obviously, that that left us so our taste in
- 13:42Speaker 1: our mouth because we felt like we had that series
- 13:45Speaker 1: one and in a lot of ways, but we didn't
- 13:47Speaker 1: get the job done. So no we're hungry for it.
- 13:51Speaker 1: We believe, we believe in this team. I'd take I'd
- 13:54Speaker 1: take this team to battle with them and anybody any
- 13:57Speaker 1: day of the week. So yeah, that's our intent. There's
- 14:00Speaker 1: a lot of season left. We got to take care
- 14:01Speaker 1: of business today and the next day leading up to that.
- 14:05Speaker 1: But no, I'd battle with this team over anyone.
- 14:10Speaker 2: When you saw them making a lot of moves this offseason,
- 14:13Speaker 2: were you like, oh, this is cool. This is going
- 14:16Speaker 2: to make it maybe a bit more challenging, including my
- 14:18Speaker 2: friend Tanner Scott. But you know, I feel like some
- 14:21Speaker 2: people react to it like ah, but some people react
- 14:24Speaker 2: to it like great, do everything you want.
- 14:27Speaker 3: It'll make it even more fun.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes it. It makes it more fun. Absolutely,
- 14:32Speaker 1: I'm all for obviously as a as a player, I'm all,
- 14:35Speaker 1: four guys, you don't go go get your contracts whatever whatever,
- 14:40Speaker 1: but and doctors, go ahead and assemble whoever you want.
- 14:45Speaker 1: We got our team and we're ready, We're ready to battle.
- 14:48Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it's nobody wants. You don't want
- 14:51Speaker 1: to win the World Series because every other team was back.
- 14:53Speaker 1: You want to win the World Series because you beat everybody.
- 14:55Speaker 4: So in fact, that is that is a that is
- 14:58Speaker 4: a mindset of a current player. So everybody who complains
- 15:02Speaker 4: about the Dodgers spending and all this stuff, that's the
- 15:05Speaker 4: mindset of a player. So if you have a different
- 15:07Speaker 4: mindset as a fan, whatever, that's what players that have
- 15:10Speaker 4: to face. These dudes are thinking. When you look around
- 15:13Speaker 4: your feelt, when you look around the field, when you're
- 15:16Speaker 4: sitting in the bullpen for ninety eight percent of your
- 15:19Speaker 4: life and you're watching your team play, do you ever
- 15:22Speaker 4: lose the fact that every single one of your players
- 15:26Speaker 4: was a short stop at some point in either the
- 15:28Speaker 4: big leagues as it all starts, or in the minor leagues,
- 15:33Speaker 4: is an All star every one of those dudes, like,
- 15:35Speaker 4: do you lose? Do you lose that over one hundred
- 15:37Speaker 4: and sixty games.
- 15:39Speaker 1: No, we talk about it all the time, and it's
- 15:42Speaker 1: it's so nice. Every single it's like we have the best,
- 15:46Speaker 1: Like we have the best athletes in the game running
- 15:50Speaker 1: around our field and it's save us who knows how
- 15:52Speaker 1: many runs, just I mean, like you get creative those
- 15:56Speaker 1: from the outfield, you get. It's it's the best. I
- 15:59Speaker 1: think it's I think it's probably the future. I think
- 16:02Speaker 1: a lot of teams are going to start doing that
- 16:04Speaker 1: because if you can play shortstop, you can play anywhere.
- 16:08Speaker 1: So if you're versatile, it makes a roster flexible. And
- 16:12Speaker 1: it says a lot about the guys too, that obviously,
- 16:15Speaker 1: because every kid, I'm sure they all grew up dreaming
- 16:18Speaker 1: of playing shortstop, you know, when the World Series as
- 16:20Speaker 1: a shortstop, and then hey, once you go play right field. Okay, great,
- 16:24Speaker 1: you know, and now we got Doddie hitting four thousand
- 16:28Speaker 1: with a bunch of pumps from right field. So yeah,
- 16:32Speaker 1: it's pretty special.
- 16:34Speaker 3: There's another one coming, not yet, probably another year or two.
- 16:37Speaker 2: But Leo Devrez, yeah, relax, Scott good, I mean, that's
- 16:44Speaker 2: like a long way away.
- 16:45Speaker 4: This team has got like sixty eight players that all
- 16:48Speaker 4: play shortstop. They don't need another one.
- 16:51Speaker 3: Well, you can play other positions. Yeah, Leo's a big boy.
- 16:54Speaker 3: You probably saw him in spring training, right.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Yeah, stud, stud, And don't forget to mention, I did
- 17:00Speaker 1: play a little shortstop in high school. So there's another
- 17:02Speaker 1: one stop.
- 17:03Speaker 5: There you go, There you go.
- 17:09Speaker 4: You and I both played shortstop. Todd played shortstop. Tod
- 17:13Speaker 4: want a little world serious if there's anybody playing shortstop out.
- 17:16Speaker 3: Of the flour of us up here.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be todd you. My Eagles are far
- 17:23Speaker 1: too fragile.
- 17:26Speaker 3: That big.
- 17:27Speaker 2: Well, Jason, this was great, really awesome to catch up
- 17:30Speaker 2: with you again. Thanks for swinging by. Don't be a stranger.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Keep doing your thing out there and we'll chat with
- 17:34Speaker 2: you soon.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. I appreciate you having me on. Always
- 17:37Speaker 1: good to see you guys.