Latest / Foul Territory / David Peterson on workhorse secrets, Mets org changes w/new ownership
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- 0:02Speaker 1: We're back, and oh, we're going to get ready for
- 0:04Speaker 1: our next guest segment, so we're not going to get
- 0:06Speaker 1: into the next topic. Yeah, so in three seconds, we're
- 0:08Speaker 1: ready to bring in our next guest. KP, are you
- 0:10Speaker 1: good on your hosting? Chops?
- 0:12Speaker 2: Like?
- 0:12Speaker 1: Are you going to do the proper intro for your
- 0:14Speaker 1: former teammate here who's been on the show? I believe
- 0:16Speaker 1: during spring training for a brief time, but now we
- 0:18Speaker 1: get like a a nice tab.
- 0:19Speaker 2: But I kind of feel like it's a new man,
- 0:22Speaker 2: and I'm going to introduce him as kind of the
- 0:24Speaker 2: new man and go right into the first question.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Go for it. We'll bring him in as you say it.
- 0:30Speaker 3: Is he here? Is he here? He's here?
- 0:33Speaker 4: Well, first of.
- 0:34Speaker 2: All, huge honor to have you on. Good friend of mine,
- 0:37Speaker 2: we've played together in New York and he was just
- 0:40Speaker 2: a young kid trying to figure out his way. But
- 0:42Speaker 2: the stuff was always there, the work ethic was always there.
- 0:46Speaker 2: But this is also going to lead into my first question.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Welcome one time All Star David Peterson? Does that get
- 0:53Speaker 2: old hearing that? What is that feeling like when someone
- 0:57Speaker 2: refers to as an All Star? Because I never got
- 0:59Speaker 2: that opportun unity and that's never going to be taken
- 1:02Speaker 2: away from you. And the second part is, you know,
- 1:04Speaker 2: you're a father of a three year old and a
- 1:06Speaker 2: one year old. What's that experience like taking your kids
- 1:08Speaker 2: do an All Star Game?
- 1:10Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, thank you guys for having me KP obviously, Yeah,
- 1:13Speaker 5: thanks for bringing me on.
- 1:15Speaker 3: And no, it doesn't get old, you know.
- 1:17Speaker 5: I think you know, as kids, we watched the All
- 1:21Speaker 5: Star Game growing up, and you watch all the festivities,
- 1:24Speaker 5: and so to be able to be a part of that,
- 1:29Speaker 5: be around some of the other guys, obviously, go with
- 1:30Speaker 5: a couple of my teammates was very special. And yeah,
- 1:34Speaker 5: I mean I think, you know, being able to take
- 1:35Speaker 5: the whole family was awesome for them to experience that.
- 1:40Speaker 5: A lot of moving parts, kind of getting in late,
- 1:43Speaker 5: but really enjoyable. And yeah, I mean, going back to
- 1:47Speaker 5: you know, watching it growing up and stuff. I think
- 1:49Speaker 5: one of the best memories I have from that weekend
- 1:51Speaker 5: is having my son on the field for the home
- 1:53Speaker 5: run derby and sharing that with him.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Hey J showing you're showing tell Yeah.
- 2:00Speaker 4: Look, so, since I knew that your father was big
- 2:02Speaker 4: into horses, I requested a hotel room that had a
- 2:05Speaker 4: gigantic horse head behind me.
- 2:06Speaker 3: You see that.
- 2:07Speaker 4: That's why.
- 2:08Speaker 3: Then that's Seattle Slough.
- 2:11Speaker 4: No, that's Seattle Slough.
- 2:12Speaker 3: Yeah, that's beautiful.
- 2:15Speaker 4: That David's dad used to work with back in the day.
- 2:18Speaker 4: So I had him, I had him mounted on my
- 2:20Speaker 4: wall here before I requested this room, just because you
- 2:23Speaker 4: were coming on. And by the way, yes, it's also
- 2:25Speaker 4: also because your innings that you've been pitching, because we've
- 2:29Speaker 4: had Carlos mendoz On here a lot of times. And
- 2:31Speaker 4: let me say this, if it wasn't for you, if
- 2:33Speaker 4: your bullpen wasn't tired, they are thinking when you pitch
- 2:36Speaker 4: every fifth day, because they're like six in six in
- 2:39Speaker 4: six innes Oh we get a seven spot, an eh spot. Yes,
- 2:41Speaker 4: he's Peterson's pitch today. We might get a break today.
- 2:44Speaker 4: So your team is also thanking you too, well.
- 2:47Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
- 2:49Speaker 4: Hey, big deal.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Yeah, David so on that there are few pitchers that
- 2:54Speaker 1: are going super deep into games these days. It's no secret.
- 2:58Speaker 1: What have you learned out how to get there? Right
- 3:01Speaker 1: from uh, you know, keeping your stuff up to uh
- 3:04Speaker 1: keeping hitters soft balance perspective.
- 3:08Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think there's a lot that goes into it.
- 3:11Speaker 5: The health being the first thing, and then you know,
- 3:13Speaker 5: if you're healthy and everything, you know, you're gonna be
- 3:17Speaker 5: able to have, uh, the opportunity to go through the
- 3:20Speaker 5: lineup a few times. And so being able to navigate
- 3:23Speaker 5: that and continue to get better in my career has
- 3:26Speaker 5: been great.
- 3:27Speaker 1: You know.
- 3:28Speaker 3: I think it's something that we always want to do.
- 3:29Speaker 5: And being able to learn from some of the guys
- 3:31Speaker 5: that I did, I bet he blessed, you know, to have.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Phone call.
- 3:42Speaker 2: Maybe they just turned the lights off, they brought the
- 3:45Speaker 2: no we got to get.
- 3:48Speaker 4: Disturb on their phones.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a good idea. All right, he's back,
- 3:53Speaker 1: keep going. We got you.
- 3:55Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 3:56Speaker 5: So, you know, I think I had a lot of
- 3:57Speaker 5: guys that I was able to learn from, Guys that
- 4:00Speaker 5: throughout their career have gone deep into games, have thrown
- 4:03Speaker 5: a lot of innings and had a lot of success,
- 4:05Speaker 5: and a lot of guys that are in that Hall
- 4:09Speaker 5: of Fame talk and in my opinion should be in there.
- 4:11Speaker 5: So you know, I think just trying to take everything
- 4:14Speaker 5: that I can from them and you know, be able
- 4:17Speaker 5: to learn as much as I can and learn off
- 4:20Speaker 5: of previous mistakes, previous experience and not make those again
- 4:24Speaker 5: and be able to give your team a chance to
- 4:26Speaker 5: win going deeper into the games.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's great to hear because I mean
- 4:31Speaker 2: we've played together. But then I got a chance to
- 4:33Speaker 2: face you the next couple of years before my career
- 4:36Speaker 2: is over, and you were always one of those guys
- 4:38Speaker 2: we would go into a hitters meeting and talk about
- 4:41Speaker 2: it and be like, you'd see the numbers, you know, you'd
- 4:43Speaker 2: have a five ear A or upper four zer A,
- 4:45Speaker 2: and you'd be like, the stuff does not match the
- 4:48Speaker 2: e RA, And I'm just so happy that the stuff
- 4:51Speaker 2: is finally matching the era. You're you're finally getting the
- 4:54Speaker 2: recognition you deserve. In my opinion, I don't think you're
- 4:57Speaker 2: getting enough recognition that you deserve. But my question to
- 5:01Speaker 2: you is, you guys are obviously struggling a little bit
- 5:03Speaker 2: as a team right now. I was in that clubhouse
- 5:05Speaker 2: three four years ago. I know what Lindor's like behind
- 5:09Speaker 2: the scenes. Is there someone else that has recently kind
- 5:11Speaker 2: of stepped up in addition to Lindor that kind of
- 5:14Speaker 2: keeps things on the track, that's, you know, a leader,
- 5:17Speaker 2: you know, because Lindor is one of the best leaders
- 5:19Speaker 2: that I've been a part of and maybe touch on
- 5:21Speaker 2: that a little bit too.
- 5:25Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
- 5:27Speaker 5: Lindor's he's an outstanding leader, you know, And I think
- 5:31Speaker 5: you have a guy that you bring over here and
- 5:32Speaker 5: you signed to a huge deal to play shortstop for
- 5:35Speaker 5: the New York Mets. You expect him to take that
- 5:37Speaker 5: leadership role and he dove right in and he's built
- 5:40Speaker 5: for it. You know, he has all the characteristics you
- 5:43Speaker 5: want to see in a leader. He does everything on
- 5:45Speaker 5: the field, his routine is impeccable. But you know, he
- 5:50Speaker 5: also he cares for the guys and he has a
- 5:53Speaker 5: way and has been able to over the years throughout
- 5:56Speaker 5: his career and learning from guys, you know, relate to
- 6:00Speaker 5: everybody in the clubhouse, be able to check in. And
- 6:03Speaker 5: I think there's plenty of guys that have have a
- 6:07Speaker 5: certain role in terms of that aspect of the leadership.
- 6:09Speaker 3: And you know, it's nice KP.
- 6:12Speaker 5: I think there's there's quite a few guys from the
- 6:14Speaker 5: core that when you were here that are still here.
- 6:17Speaker 5: You know, the keet's back, uh Nemos locked up for
- 6:20Speaker 5: a while, Marte. You know, we've got we've got a
- 6:24Speaker 5: handful of guys kind of all over the field that
- 6:27Speaker 5: you know, can can be able to take on part
- 6:29Speaker 5: of that role and teach the young guys and and
- 6:33Speaker 5: just be a resource. And so I think, you know,
- 6:36Speaker 5: we have a good clubhouse in terms of the diversity
- 6:40Speaker 5: of perspective. And yeah, I think it's you know, then
- 6:45Speaker 5: having Wand come in and putting his own touch on
- 6:48Speaker 5: the thing. You know, it's it's different when you get
- 6:50Speaker 5: a guy in and another big contract and all that.
- 6:53Speaker 5: But he's been great as well. You know, Quiet goes
- 6:57Speaker 5: about his work, does things the right way, and we
- 7:01Speaker 5: obviously know what kind of player he is on the
- 7:03Speaker 5: field and why we brought him in. And so it
- 7:06Speaker 5: always helps when you have those bats in the lineup
- 7:09Speaker 5: and those guys in the clubhouse to be able to.
- 7:13Speaker 3: Be able to lead.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Okay, Kratz, I opened up Arena club, put my own
- 7:19Speaker 1: money in there, and I wasn't gonna go big. I know.
- 7:22Speaker 1: We went over the Ruby pack a week ago. This
- 7:24Speaker 1: time I just went for the low level pack where
- 7:27Speaker 1: it's an easy entry point twenty five bucks. You can
- 7:29Speaker 1: get yourself a big boy card. The Grail has many
- 7:32Speaker 1: good options. I slice open the pack. We're looking at it.
- 7:35Speaker 1: If you're watching us right now and I pull a
- 7:37Speaker 1: card from the nineteen fifties, super cool. I enjoyed the
- 7:41Speaker 1: experience looking at it. It's Jim Gilliam, it's the top
- 7:44Speaker 1: set from the mid fifties. But I got an offer
- 7:47Speaker 1: for more than what the slap pack costs, and I
- 7:50Speaker 1: sold it back. Tough times for the Dodgers right now,
- 7:53Speaker 1: don't at me, but I got twenty eight bucks instantly,
- 7:55Speaker 1: so I can buy another one of those packs and
- 7:57Speaker 1: try and get what I want.
- 8:00Speaker 6: Absolutely the excitement I heard Kip say before. The excitement's
- 8:04Speaker 6: in the chase. You sold it back. Now you get
- 8:06Speaker 6: to open another one. I enjoy when you slide it
- 8:08Speaker 6: across the screen there and the pack opens.
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- 8:15Speaker 4: Get after it, David. We all know the position players
- 8:19Speaker 4: are the leaders in the clubhouse. Okay, we all know that.
- 8:21Speaker 4: We know the pitchers can't do it. But who's the
- 8:23Speaker 4: leader of the pitching staff. Who is the leader that
- 8:25Speaker 4: on the pitching staff that everyone looks at and says,
- 8:28Speaker 4: this is the guy we're going to follow, whether it's
- 8:30Speaker 4: a starter or a reliever.
- 8:33Speaker 3: You know, I think.
- 8:36Speaker 5: It is interesting in terms of the balance position players.
- 8:39Speaker 5: Those guys are in there every single day, pitchers, whether
- 8:43Speaker 5: it's a starter, it's every five or six days, Relievers,
- 8:46Speaker 5: you know, their role is is kind of up in
- 8:48Speaker 5: the air. But I think, you know, having a guy
- 8:50Speaker 5: like Sugar who's been here before me and obviously you
- 8:57Speaker 5: know the role that he plays on our team in
- 8:59Speaker 5: the back end to shut the game down, you know,
- 9:02Speaker 5: But I think you bring in guys like Clay who's
- 9:05Speaker 5: had a lot of experience in bolts, starting and relieving,
- 9:08Speaker 5: and so.
- 9:09Speaker 3: I think, you know, you have a guy like that who.
- 9:12Speaker 5: He's kind of trying to find his way again starting
- 9:14Speaker 5: it's been a while, but he's also got a lot
- 9:17Speaker 5: of experience as an All Star closer, and so he
- 9:20Speaker 5: can relate to a lot of different guys in the clubhouse. Manaiah,
- 9:25Speaker 5: huge personality, huge vibes guy. So he has his own
- 9:29Speaker 5: little space, and you know, I think I'm trying to
- 9:34Speaker 5: put myself somewhere in there. You know, however, I can
- 9:37Speaker 5: being a guy that's been here, drafted by the organization
- 9:41Speaker 5: and behind Sugar the longest tenured pitchers, So you know,
- 9:45Speaker 5: I think you kind of there's guys who are brought
- 9:48Speaker 5: in that have those qualities, and there's guys that kind
- 9:50Speaker 5: of grow into those roles.
- 9:51Speaker 3: And so.
- 9:53Speaker 5: Whether it's vocally or whether it's just for performance, you're
- 9:56Speaker 5: gonna have different types of leaders.
- 9:58Speaker 3: You guys know that.
- 10:01Speaker 1: This actually plays perfectly into my question. You are a
- 10:04Speaker 1: long tenured member of this team and of this organization.
- 10:09Speaker 1: I'm curious from when you first got into this organ
- 10:12Speaker 1: even your rookie year, which obviously was a weird year anyway,
- 10:14Speaker 1: because I believe it was twenty twenty. The team then
- 10:17Speaker 1: gets sold to Steve Cohen, how much has the team
- 10:20Speaker 1: changed from like what you've seen around it. I'm saying, like, resources, whatever,
- 10:25Speaker 1: anything that you've noticed over that time period, because we're
- 10:27Speaker 1: one of the few people I can ask this too,
- 10:29Speaker 1: and it usually takes several years for an ownership group
- 10:31Speaker 1: to say, hey we want to do that differently, we
- 10:33Speaker 1: want a pitching lab, we want this food instead of that. So, like,
- 10:36Speaker 1: give me some examples of what you've seen change over
- 10:39Speaker 1: this time period with this new group.
- 10:43Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think it's you know, it's taken
- 10:48Speaker 5: a complete one to eighty from where it was. And
- 10:51Speaker 5: like you said, I had twenty twenty, which was obviously
- 10:56Speaker 5: a weird year in the big leagues, and then Steve
- 11:00Speaker 5: and Alex Con takeover, and you know, they made it
- 11:03Speaker 5: a priority that we want to make this organization one
- 11:08Speaker 5: of the best in baseball and uh, if not the best.
- 11:11Speaker 5: And so, you know, I think one thing is is
- 11:15Speaker 5: Steve's leadership, you know, being able to find the people
- 11:20Speaker 5: that he thinks are right for the job and put
- 11:22Speaker 5: them in place. And like you said, it's going to
- 11:24Speaker 5: take a couple of years, but I think we're starting
- 11:26Speaker 5: to really see the full effect of them taking over
- 11:30Speaker 5: the ownership.
- 11:33Speaker 3: And and asking players, hey, what do you guys need? What?
- 11:35Speaker 3: What else can we do?
- 11:36Speaker 5: You know, and feeling like your opinion has heard sometimes
- 11:40Speaker 5: you know, I think people ask those questions and kind
- 11:43Speaker 5: of falls on deaf years, But in my experience, whenever
- 11:46Speaker 5: they've asked anything, whether.
- 11:48Speaker 3: It's what do you guys need? How are you doing?
- 11:50Speaker 5: You know, there's there's genuine thought behind the question, and
- 11:56Speaker 5: we've seen it.
- 11:57Speaker 3: And being able to work with the staff that's here, Hey,
- 12:00Speaker 3: what have we done well? Where do we need to
- 12:01Speaker 3: get better?
- 12:02Speaker 5: And really attacking those areas, And so I think it
- 12:05Speaker 5: starts from the top and and it's trickled down in
- 12:07Speaker 5: terms of who they brought in. David Sturtz has been
- 12:11Speaker 5: amazing and he's uh, he's always been had an open
- 12:14Speaker 5: line of communication, and so I think you know that it.
- 12:17Speaker 3: Really starts there.
- 12:18Speaker 5: I mean, the resources are great, being able to have
- 12:21Speaker 5: the money is great to facilitate, you know, but to
- 12:26Speaker 5: have an open line of communication, whether it's playing time, rotation,
- 12:33Speaker 5: everything day to day long term stuff.
- 12:37Speaker 3: Steve and Alex have done an amazing job. Alex. I
- 12:40Speaker 3: mean I can't.
- 12:41Speaker 5: Speak enough on what she's done for the families, for
- 12:43Speaker 5: the wives, because they understand how much they play into
- 12:48Speaker 5: the role and and how much easier they make our
- 12:53Speaker 5: lives by doing all the things and taking care of
- 12:56Speaker 5: everything they do on the home front.
- 12:58Speaker 4: All right, So I can't believe you can you have
- 13:00Speaker 4: an open line of communication with Mendy. He's just so
- 13:02Speaker 4: hard to talk to. Every time we have him on,
- 13:04Speaker 4: it's just so hard to talk to Mendy. It's just
- 13:06Speaker 4: like Jesus, guy's impossible to talk to.
- 13:09Speaker 3: But I want to know.
- 13:09Speaker 4: What you asked for. What's the one thing. David Peterson
- 13:12Speaker 4: went to the Cohens or went to David Stearns and said,
- 13:15Speaker 4: I need this.
- 13:20Speaker 3: I didn't really do that, you know, I was still.
- 13:22Speaker 4: Come if you have like I want I want my
- 13:25Speaker 4: own hot tub on the plane, or I want my
- 13:27Speaker 4: own masseuse on the plane, something like you got to
- 13:30Speaker 4: ask for something.
- 13:32Speaker 5: No, I mean, I think, you know, a lot of
- 13:34Speaker 5: a lot of the things that were brought up. A
- 13:37Speaker 5: lot of the guys had the same idea, you know,
- 13:40Speaker 5: and just being more efficient running things better, you know,
- 13:46Speaker 5: and and cleaning things up where we needed to clean
- 13:48Speaker 5: it up. And uh so, No, I mean I think, yeah,
- 13:54Speaker 5: there was nothing that I was like, I need this
- 13:56Speaker 5: and it's.
- 13:57Speaker 3: Got to happen and blah blah blah.
- 14:00Speaker 5: But I think, you know, talking to some of the
- 14:02Speaker 5: other guys and having some of the other guys you
- 14:06Speaker 5: know that we're that were directly involved in in getting
- 14:09Speaker 5: some of that stuff done, they took they took the
- 14:12Speaker 5: pulse of the clubhouse and saw what was most important.
- 14:17Speaker 2: Yeah, I got I got one more question. I love
- 14:19Speaker 2: fluffing up my teammates, and I have a scale. You
- 14:22Speaker 2: can always be a good teammate, but the definition of
- 14:24Speaker 2: a great teammate is a guy when you make a
- 14:27Speaker 2: tea time with him earlier in the week, and you
- 14:29Speaker 2: get into a city late and that person doesn't bail
- 14:32Speaker 2: and that's you, my friend. You never bailed on a
- 14:34Speaker 2: tea time. I know you got young kids now. Just
- 14:36Speaker 2: want to know if you're still getting a chance to
- 14:38Speaker 2: go out and golf and how the golf game is.
- 14:42Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you said I'm in. You know, we
- 14:45Speaker 5: make a tea time there, we're going. Uh, it doesn't
- 14:48Speaker 5: matter if if we get held up in the previous
- 14:50Speaker 5: city or whatever it is. If we got it, we're
- 14:54Speaker 5: gonna make that tea time. We're gonna go play. Yeah,
- 14:57Speaker 5: I mean, you know, kids obviously throw a rench into
- 14:59Speaker 5: the golf game. Wouldn't trade it for the world. But yeah,
- 15:04Speaker 5: you know, I try and play as much as I
- 15:05Speaker 5: can if we're on the road. Clubs always come on
- 15:08Speaker 5: the road, and you know, if we can sneak out
- 15:11Speaker 5: or if we have an off day where we can
- 15:12Speaker 5: set something up, we'll get out. So I think it's
- 15:15Speaker 5: been nice, you know, over the past couple of years
- 15:17Speaker 5: watching the group of golfers grow a little bit. It
- 15:20Speaker 5: was a little thin at the beginning, but it seems
- 15:24Speaker 5: like now we have at least one group, maybe two
- 15:26Speaker 5: that'll go out.
- 15:27Speaker 3: And so yeah, try and get out as much as
- 15:29Speaker 3: I can.
- 15:30Speaker 1: You got every day draft McNeil. He'll never say no, right, I.
- 15:34Speaker 5: Know, he'll never say no, but then he does sometimes
- 15:37Speaker 5: like I'm gonna play tomorrow. But then we go out
- 15:41Speaker 5: and play and he has a home the next day
- 15:43Speaker 5: and he's like, we're playing again tomorrow. You know, hit
- 15:46Speaker 5: that horror yesterday and I was like, hey, tea times
- 15:48Speaker 5: at seven thirty and he's like, all right, I'm in
- 15:50Speaker 5: we're going you know. So he says he plays his
- 15:53Speaker 5: best after golf, but then sometimes he doesn't want a
- 15:55Speaker 5: golf because he has to play.
- 15:56Speaker 2: So, by the way, you need to get him out
- 15:58Speaker 2: there more.
- 16:00Speaker 4: I'd love to see that. I'd love to see like a.
- 16:02Speaker 4: It'd be like Soto, Alonzo, Lindor McNeil versus Manayah, Sanga,
- 16:08Speaker 4: Peterson and Sugar.
- 16:13Speaker 5: That would be something I've never played with Singa. I
- 16:16Speaker 5: know he plays a little bit. Yeah, we might have
- 16:21Speaker 5: the upper.
- 16:21Speaker 3: Hand on that. I don't know.
- 16:23Speaker 5: They've got the best player on the team. I will
- 16:26Speaker 5: give that to Jeff, but the other three, I don't know.
- 16:30Speaker 5: I could see Sodo being sneaky. I could see him
- 16:33Speaker 5: somehow being just a ringer but talking to Pete and Lindor,
- 16:38Speaker 5: I feel like we could we could take care of
- 16:40Speaker 5: them pretty easy.
- 16:41Speaker 1: There you go. Well, David, this was awesome man. Thanks
- 16:45Speaker 1: for stopping by. Appreciate the time. Obviously, KP was very
- 16:48Speaker 1: excited to have you on so enjoyed the combo. Keep
- 16:51Speaker 1: doing your thing, man, we'll talk see it.
- 16:53Speaker 3: Thank you, guys, I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you,