Latest / Foul Territory / Rays closer Pete Fairbanks: Facing Roman Anthony, Team chemistry fix
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The partifects are real and it's definitely something that you know,
- 0:03Speaker 1: it is what it is, and you just kind of
- 0:04Speaker 1: got to get used to it.
- 0:05Speaker 2: As you're going.
- 0:10Speaker 3: Raise closer. Pete Fairbanks is here with an absolute A
- 0:13Speaker 3: plus hair game going on right now, hanging out of Fenway.
- 0:16Speaker 3: Pete has everything going. Man, how's the weekend really the
- 0:19Speaker 3: month for you? With a team that is on fire?
- 0:24Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's been pretty fun. Anytime you get
- 0:27Speaker 1: to watch them guys figure out such different ways to
- 0:30Speaker 1: win at any given time, is you know, great for
- 0:33Speaker 1: clubhouse vibes and when everyone's feeling good typically it's a
- 0:36Speaker 1: lot more enjoyable show up to the ballpark.
- 0:39Speaker 4: For everybody who's listening. You need to check out Yuli
- 0:41Speaker 4: Guriel's hair, I mean, Pete Fairbanks hair. Why do pictures
- 0:46Speaker 4: why do pictures never get like like when a hitter's
- 0:49Speaker 4: got hair like that, man, it is like they're all
- 0:52Speaker 4: over it. The closest pictures ever get is like a
- 0:55Speaker 4: you know, like a match strom or like a or
- 0:58Speaker 4: like a Josh hater. But do you guys get swag
- 1:02Speaker 4: from haircuts? Because hitters happy haircut two for four?
- 1:06Speaker 1: You know it?
- 1:06Speaker 4: Next day for.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Sure, yeah. I mean I think that's like a universal
- 1:11Speaker 1: everybody feels good. Oh my goodness, you're just going right
- 1:14Speaker 1: through my shot. It's unbelievable. I mean, everybody feels right.
- 1:20Speaker 1: You know, I had no idea that was he had
- 1:22Speaker 1: immediate fornential on. But you know, I think it's because
- 1:27Speaker 1: nobody ever wants to think about pictures, especially relievers. You know,
- 1:31Speaker 1: I think everybody's happy to think about, you know, your
- 1:33Speaker 1: five frontline starters that you can talk about being you know, great,
- 1:37Speaker 1: and then everybody just kind of marginalizes us and throws
- 1:40Speaker 1: us to the wayside.
- 1:43Speaker 2: Well, hey, Pete, Roman Anthony got called up. I know
- 1:46Speaker 2: you're on the rais, but Roman Anthony got called up
- 1:48Speaker 2: and you got to face him his first game. Did
- 1:51Speaker 2: you want to give up his first hit? I know
- 1:52Speaker 2: you did it, but like, what is it? What is
- 1:54Speaker 2: the pride like for a picture? I don't want to
- 1:56Speaker 2: be the dude that gives up this guy's first hit. Right,
- 1:59Speaker 2: you make it to the ninth, you hit it off
- 2:01Speaker 2: your glove, you got you got his RBI. But right,
- 2:03Speaker 2: is there pride in the picture? It says I don't
- 2:05Speaker 2: want to be give up this dude's first hit.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that might be universal. I mean, I
- 2:10Speaker 1: definitely didn't want to give up his first hit because
- 2:11Speaker 1: if I had given up his hit, we would have
- 2:13Speaker 1: lost true true. So you know, so if me maybe
- 2:17Speaker 1: a little bit more than everybody else, because it would
- 2:19Speaker 1: have put a nice l in addition to the to
- 2:21Speaker 1: the bs and my my counting stat column. But yeah,
- 2:24Speaker 1: I don't think, you know, I don't think anybody wants
- 2:26Speaker 1: to be the guy. But you know, kids got a
- 2:29Speaker 1: good swing, made a really good uh really good two
- 2:32Speaker 1: strike at judgment on the the PEP change up last night,
- 2:34Speaker 1: and you know, it is what it is. I don't
- 2:36Speaker 1: think you could. I don't think you could hold the
- 2:39Speaker 1: number one guy that everybody's been been talking about hitless
- 2:41Speaker 1: for you know, a career. So somebody was bound to
- 2:45Speaker 1: give it up. Do you do you talk.
- 2:48Speaker 4: About how what are the what are the meetings like?
- 2:50Speaker 4: Because I've sat in the rays advanced meetings for the
- 2:53Speaker 4: starters and for the and for the relievers, and they're
- 2:56Speaker 4: pretty extensive. They're really good at getting you guys locked
- 2:59Speaker 4: in where you got to go. A prospect like that
- 3:02Speaker 4: gets called up. It's not like you're going over you know,
- 3:07Speaker 4: Brandon Law or Yondi Diaz, who you've who you've faced
- 3:11Speaker 4: in the division all the time, or like for you guys,
- 3:13Speaker 4: you're not going over Raffi Devers the same way. Do
- 3:16Speaker 4: they give you general information or because of all the
- 3:19Speaker 4: stats that we have now, do they go, We've seen
- 3:22Speaker 4: this dude for four hundred at bats in Triple A.
- 3:24Speaker 4: We got this information. How does that? How has that
- 3:27Speaker 4: talked about?
- 3:28Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a little bit different, just because
- 3:32Speaker 1: in the past couple of years, we're starting to get
- 3:34Speaker 1: more and more data out of out of Triple A
- 3:36Speaker 1: in terms of you know, stack tast et cetera. You're
- 3:38Speaker 1: able to see kind of some bad at ball effects,
- 3:41Speaker 1: You're able to, uh, you know, get a little bit
- 3:43Speaker 1: more swing tendencies out of them. So it was a
- 3:46Speaker 1: little bit more extensive than I was expecting for a
- 3:48Speaker 1: guy making his debut. But you know that just speech
- 3:51Speaker 1: to you know, how much data and decision making and
- 3:57Speaker 1: damage first contact, et cetera. How much of that information
- 4:00Speaker 1: is now becoming more and more available, you know, throughout
- 4:03Speaker 1: the minor league levels.
- 4:05Speaker 2: But way, Pete, if you catch that ball, the inning's over,
- 4:08Speaker 2: you get a double player out. There is no BS
- 4:09Speaker 2: next to your name. I mean, if you just catch it.
- 4:12Speaker 1: I thought about that. I tried to catch it. Unfortunately,
- 4:16Speaker 1: I was the reason we instituted a rule of pictures,
- 4:19Speaker 1: don't try to field anything unless it's going to hit you.
- 4:24Speaker 1: So take that for what it was. And then unfortunately
- 4:27Speaker 1: I don't did you ever hit a ball off the
- 4:29Speaker 1: plate in your career?
- 4:31Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a chance.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Did you beat it out?
- 4:35Speaker 2: If so, I mean not earlier in my career. I
- 4:38Speaker 2: was had a much better chance than later. Okay, I
- 4:44Speaker 2: saw that. I was watching that game.
- 4:45Speaker 4: I saw I watch.
- 4:48Speaker 2: Honestly all that inning that was over like sixty miles
- 4:52Speaker 2: an hour. I think it was it romegan Zalz that
- 4:55Speaker 2: got the hit between first and third and it literally
- 4:58Speaker 2: barely got to the outfield, and I I think you
- 5:00Speaker 2: just looked at your you looked over and we're just like, well,
- 5:02Speaker 2: I don't know, I just I don't know what to
- 5:05Speaker 2: do here.
- 5:07Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we told we were. I was talking to
- 5:09Speaker 1: somebody about it, and you know, for it to end
- 5:11Speaker 1: up in and Ian Seymour getting a hometown debut and
- 5:14Speaker 1: a win, I can't complain about any of it. You know.
- 5:16Speaker 1: It was a great moment for him, and something that
- 5:20Speaker 1: you know, he and his family being from up here,
- 5:22Speaker 1: are going to be able to cherish true true.
- 5:25Speaker 2: All right, So in the ninth enning yesterday, there's a
- 5:27Speaker 2: lot of people talking about this your eyes, your eyes
- 5:30Speaker 2: did Have you seen all this stuff about your eyes?
- 5:32Speaker 2: Is that a normal reaction or is it just just
- 5:34Speaker 2: the blood?
- 5:36Speaker 1: Look? I don't know if it's uh, if it's recurring
- 5:39Speaker 1: it uh? Is your hat seem like it hit its
- 5:44Speaker 1: I definitely do need to get a new hass because
- 5:46Speaker 1: I got all this going on. I haven't had a
- 5:47Speaker 1: haircut in a while. It definitely made its its rounds
- 5:53Speaker 1: in the World Series in twenty just kind of my
- 5:57Speaker 1: first exposure to baseball. Twitter and people like this guy
- 6:01Speaker 1: is off his rocker, I think, But yeah, it's been around,
- 6:07Speaker 1: It's been like that forever. There's a picture in my
- 6:09Speaker 1: house of me shooting the basketball in high school and
- 6:12Speaker 1: it's the same face, just different sports. So maybe it's
- 6:16Speaker 1: the hat, Maybe it's genetics. Maybe it's because I'm a
- 6:20Speaker 1: little bit off our rocker.
- 6:22Speaker 4: That's what that was my That was gonna be my question.
- 6:24Speaker 4: Let's put it the rest right now. Are you a
- 6:27Speaker 4: little off your rocker? Uh?
- 6:31Speaker 1: And then there's things that I think I am a
- 6:33Speaker 1: little more off about, but like, aren't anytime that you
- 6:37Speaker 1: get stuck with eight other people, that's where you typically
- 6:40Speaker 1: put the weird guys. And I've said that forever, So
- 6:43Speaker 1: I think we're all. We all got our torks down there,
- 6:45Speaker 1: that's for sure.
- 6:47Speaker 3: Hey, Pete tell me.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Usually they're left handed. Most super weird guys are left handed.
- 6:55Speaker 1: I shoot a basketball left handed, so I got it
- 6:57Speaker 1: like I got like part of an inn. And if
- 7:00Speaker 1: I threw it anymore over the top, I might be
- 7:03Speaker 1: throwing it from the lefty side, So.
- 7:06Speaker 2: Like Greg Holland, remember Greg Holland used to throw like
- 7:08Speaker 2: a slider for it over here.
- 7:10Speaker 1: I think the one Oliver Drake splitter that went viral
- 7:15Speaker 1: like three or four years ago, now that he threw
- 7:18Speaker 1: he legitimately threw it from the first base side of
- 7:21Speaker 1: the mound and it ended up in the right handed
- 7:24Speaker 1: batter's box.
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- 8:30Speaker 3: you shoot left handed? I have not heard that.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Have you?
- 8:34Speaker 2: I didn't know that? So wait? Do you wear your
- 8:36Speaker 2: watch on your left to your right wrist?
- 8:37Speaker 1: No? Right left hands? Oh yeah, there's only one other
- 8:41Speaker 1: person I found that does it, and he also went
- 8:44Speaker 1: to my high school. We both threw right handed shot
- 8:47Speaker 1: a basketball left handed.
- 8:49Speaker 4: I've never heard that you're like Ball and both Kimball
- 8:54Speaker 4: did it?
- 8:54Speaker 1: Yeah for Hank Gathers, Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
- 8:59Speaker 3: All right, I want to ask you about the weirdos
- 9:02Speaker 3: that you were talking about hanging out with. So you've
- 9:05Speaker 3: been in the league for a minute. Now, you've got
- 9:07Speaker 3: dirt and your spikes. Can you introduce us to some
- 9:10Speaker 3: of the other Rays that maybe don't have as much
- 9:12Speaker 3: attention And I would say if you want to, just
- 9:14Speaker 3: give us a line or two about but some of
- 9:16Speaker 3: the guys that have standout performances so far this year.
- 9:19Speaker 3: I mean, Clevenger's been around for a minute, but Emanuel Rodriguez,
- 9:23Speaker 3: Eric Orzy and I don't even know if I'm saying
- 9:25Speaker 3: his name right.
- 9:28Speaker 1: Let's see Clev. Clev is up there with some of
- 9:33Speaker 1: the best left handed stuff I've ever seen. And I
- 9:36Speaker 1: encourage people to go look up Derrek Clevenger's Baseball savot
- 9:40Speaker 1: page if you want to see a lot of red
- 9:43Speaker 1: and be entertained when you can go click on the
- 9:45Speaker 1: individual pitches many same stuff. I mean, these guys were
- 9:51Speaker 1: you know, they're part of the they're in the same
- 9:54Speaker 1: boat that you know, a lot of us were in
- 9:56Speaker 1: first coming up with Tambor right, nobody's really heard of you,
- 9:59Speaker 1: and he got an outlier pitch that's really good. Speaking
- 10:03Speaker 1: of outlier pitches, Eric Orsey, you guys haven't seen the splitter.
- 10:06Speaker 1: It makes me think of my favorite splitter, which is
- 10:09Speaker 1: Oliver Drake. Who else? I mean he said, I got
- 10:14Speaker 1: kind of got run out there a little bit after
- 10:15Speaker 1: the success he had last year, kind of got his
- 10:18Speaker 1: his name out there. Who else we got down there?
- 10:21Speaker 1: Right now? Now I'm drawing a blank kind of bad
- 10:31Speaker 1: that I can't name more people down there. You know
- 10:32Speaker 1: that's a no, But I mean, I mean, that's sorry.
- 10:36Speaker 1: Let me get on the last one. Mason Montgomery. I
- 10:39Speaker 1: need people to go look up Mason Montgomery and what
- 10:43Speaker 1: he can make a baseball do because from the pure
- 10:46Speaker 1: from the pure stuff, the kid might be number one
- 10:50Speaker 1: in baseball. It's unbelievable.
- 10:53Speaker 4: How did the race? How do the race keep doing this?
- 10:56Speaker 4: Is it because they're not afraid of just moving guys
- 10:59Speaker 4: and they never really to get hyped up in the
- 11:01Speaker 4: minor leagues where they just keep finding these guys that
- 11:05Speaker 4: have these I mean, what how you're talking about your
- 11:08Speaker 4: teammates like these outlier pitches and stuff, and then you
- 11:11Speaker 4: have all these other teams with prospects and it's like, well,
- 11:15Speaker 4: three weeks and he could be coming up. He could
- 11:17Speaker 4: be coming up in July, where the rays are like,
- 11:19Speaker 4: all right, dude's coming up right now.
- 11:22Speaker 1: Yeah. I think honestly, it's finding, you know, you find
- 11:26Speaker 1: the guys with the plus stuff, and then you do
- 11:29Speaker 1: your best to instill as much confidence in attacking the
- 11:32Speaker 1: zone as you possibly can. And then you know, from
- 11:36Speaker 1: there and you're throwing the ball over the plate and
- 11:38Speaker 1: you're building confidence and not all just kind of compounds
- 11:42Speaker 1: and it leads to people like Derrick Clevenger or Mason
- 11:45Speaker 1: Montgomery and new Seta and Manny and I mean, you
- 11:48Speaker 1: don't even have to get onto our starters in the
- 11:50Speaker 1: run that they've been on. But you know, it's instilling
- 11:53Speaker 1: that confidence in doing what you're best at and then
- 11:56Speaker 1: running it out there to see what you got.
- 12:00Speaker 3: Pete House Clubhouse chemistry this year, I remember that being
- 12:04Speaker 3: a little bit of a topic in spring training. I
- 12:06Speaker 3: don't even remember who brought it up. Maybe it was YONDI,
- 12:08Speaker 3: but I don't even remember, if you can remind me,
- 12:10Speaker 3: but I'm curious. And we had Eric Neander on the
- 12:12Speaker 3: show for a while and asked him about it in
- 12:14Speaker 3: spring training. But I mean, I'm sure you can tell
- 12:17Speaker 3: us it's a real thing, and even if it's one
- 12:19Speaker 3: particular incident that caused the problem, it could ruffle feathers
- 12:23Speaker 3: for some time. So do you feel like the Rays
- 12:26Speaker 3: are in a different spot from that perspective this year?
- 12:30Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 12:30Speaker 1: We are significantly more cohesive as a unit than we
- 12:35Speaker 1: were last year. And you know, anytime that you have
- 12:38Speaker 1: that and you have people pulling on the same rope,
- 12:40Speaker 1: it lends itself to success. And when, obviously, when you
- 12:44Speaker 1: like the people and we're on good terms with everybody
- 12:47Speaker 1: that you're showing up to the ballpark with, you know
- 12:49Speaker 1: that already sets you up ahead of where you would
- 12:53Speaker 1: be if you dread going to the field every day.
- 12:56Speaker 3: Yep, I got one more for you. Did did you
- 13:00Speaker 3: see the comments from Joe Ryan about the mound being
- 13:04Speaker 3: hard in Sacramento? I mean, obviously you guys have had
- 13:06Speaker 3: to move to a different park for now, and Sacramento
- 13:08Speaker 3: is getting a lot of attention for some of the
- 13:10Speaker 3: playing conditions. Carlos Korea sat out the last couple of games,
- 13:13Speaker 3: said it was the worst batter's box he's ever experienced
- 13:16Speaker 3: in his life. Just sounds like everything's causing an issue. Specifically,
- 13:20Speaker 3: the twins decided to speak out about it. Ryan said
- 13:23Speaker 3: he thinks Pablo Lopez's shoulder injury could have come from
- 13:25Speaker 3: that because it's all arms when he's pitching there. I
- 13:27Speaker 3: know you haven't pitched there yet, but curious to get
- 13:29Speaker 3: your take on how much that can affect things. Wheeler
- 13:31Speaker 3: said the same thing. When he pitched there, he was like,
- 13:33Speaker 3: I had to be all armed. I couldn't get any grip.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that definitely is something that's you got
- 13:41Speaker 1: to take into account. And I know that that Sacramento
- 13:43Speaker 1: summer is coming and it's not going to be it's
- 13:46Speaker 1: not going to get any any You're gonna get any
- 13:49Speaker 1: more moisture in there out there and once it starts
- 13:51Speaker 1: getting real hot. So yeah, I mean it's the same
- 13:54Speaker 1: stuff that we've kind of had to adapt to a
- 13:55Speaker 1: little bit with Steinberner. Obviously, Florida is a different case
- 13:58Speaker 1: than than Northern California in terms of in terms of that,
- 14:02Speaker 1: but yeah, the part efects are real, and it's definitely
- 14:05Speaker 1: something that you know when you're going to a spot
- 14:08Speaker 1: that you have no experience in different weather than you're
- 14:12Speaker 1: used to, et cetera. You know, it is what it is,
- 14:14Speaker 1: and you just kind of got to get used to
- 14:16Speaker 1: it as you're going.
- 14:19Speaker 2: All right, speaking of experiences, two things before I let
- 14:22Speaker 2: you go. Fenway the worst bullpen to deal with the
- 14:24Speaker 2: fans because they are right on top of There are
- 14:25Speaker 2: times I feel like you'd reach your arm back and
- 14:27Speaker 2: guy could grab you.
- 14:30Speaker 1: Yeah, I I don't know. I traded a ball for
- 14:32Speaker 1: a hotdrog last night, so I'm having had a pretty
- 14:36Speaker 1: decent experience with people out by the Fenway bullpen. They're
- 14:42Speaker 1: definitely the closest I think probably there. And then now
- 14:46Speaker 1: in Seattle when you're in the Visitor penn and you're
- 14:49Speaker 1: on the park side and you have people on the
- 14:51Speaker 1: concourse that just decide to hang over while you're throwing,
- 14:54Speaker 1: which is maybe it should be a little frowned upon,
- 14:57Speaker 1: but they do it anyway.
- 14:59Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, that was expensive. That was expensive ball,
- 15:02Speaker 2: like I got, because it's like a twenty dollars Fenway Frank.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he definitely. He definitely actually twenty five
- 15:07Speaker 1: if you want to buy it like a ditch or something.
- 15:09Speaker 1: So it might have been a fair.
- 15:10Speaker 2: Trade true strikeouts for Ellis, talk about it, talk about
- 15:14Speaker 2: I know it's for your daughter and your alarity that
- 15:17Speaker 2: you and your wife do for your daughter. So if
- 15:18Speaker 2: you want to give a minute or two tour towards it,
- 15:21Speaker 2: we're here.
- 15:21Speaker 1: For Yeah, yep, we uh so it's our second We
- 15:25Speaker 1: did our second Turner Syndrome awareness kind of day at
- 15:28Speaker 1: the ballpark had the found there are actually a lot
- 15:31Speaker 1: of people from the foundation are local to Tampa, so
- 15:33Speaker 1: that worked out well. But we're just trying to raise
- 15:35Speaker 1: some money, raise some awareness for Turner syndrome and kind
- 15:39Speaker 1: of the impact it has on both miscarriages and then
- 15:42Speaker 1: you know the healthy babies that do make it. So yeah,
- 15:45Speaker 1: we're trying to raise money right now. We got an
- 15:46Speaker 1: auction running. It's on the Raised website. The link is
- 15:50Speaker 1: at my bio. It's got some good experiences to bid on,
- 15:54Speaker 1: some fun stuff to do. If you're into legos and
- 15:57Speaker 1: local and Tampa, start bid, come build a djangle fete
- 16:01Speaker 1: helmet with me. But yeah, it's something that's near dear
- 16:05Speaker 1: to our hearts and we're doing our best to you know,
- 16:07Speaker 1: continue to get the word out and do what we
- 16:09Speaker 1: can for him.
- 16:10Speaker 3: That's awesome, man. We'll blast that out on all our
- 16:12Speaker 3: socials too later on tonight. So thanks for sharing, dude,
- 16:16Speaker 3: and always enjoy having you on. So hope you had fun.
- 16:19Speaker 3: Keep doing your thing. We'll catch in a few weeks.
- 16:22Speaker 1: All right, sounds good. Appreciate it, guys,