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Speedster Xavier Edwards and SP Chris Paddack join FT @Marlins camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: More from Marlin's camp.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk to Xavier Edwards right now, Second Basement for Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Xavier, great to have you on the show. We appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the time.
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  Speaker 2: How's camp going for you and how are some of
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  Speaker 2: the new faces looking there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: It Kemp's going great, you know, excited to be here.
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  Speaker 5: I think all of us are kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 5: right at the midway point, we're kind of ready to
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  Speaker 5: get going with the season, kind of get on our way.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, it's been good so far, and a lot
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  Speaker 5: of new guys look really good.
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  Speaker 4: It's some of the new staff that we got. We're
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  Speaker 4: get to know them and they've been really good this far,
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  Speaker 4: so they're really excited.
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  Speaker 6: Do they come to you for answers? You're kind of
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  Speaker 6: like one of the veterans on this team now today?
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  Speaker 6: Does the new people come to you and say, Zaber
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  Speaker 6: what you got on Miami for us?
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  Speaker 7: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 5: I mean I think that's kind of a advantage I
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  Speaker 5: guess that I have that all of us are so
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  Speaker 5: young that you know, sure, I'm I've been in the
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  Speaker 5: league a little bit longer than them, but I haven't
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  Speaker 5: been league that long. You know, I'm not in arbitration
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  Speaker 5: yet you know, either Stours, So I think we're all
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  Speaker 5: kind of in the same with the same boat or
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  Speaker 5: litle bolt. You know, we're young guys just trying to,
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  Speaker 5: you know, make a name for ourselves, and I hope
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  Speaker 5: our team win. So I think it's kind of an
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  Speaker 5: advanced where as we don't have any uh you know,
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  Speaker 5: quote unquote salty vets or anything like that. So we
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  Speaker 5: kind of just be ourselves and you know, feed off
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  Speaker 5: each other and learn from each other.
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  Speaker 6: So it's good group the salty vets to make the
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  Speaker 6: world go around. Okay, just remember that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, some clubhouses they might, but in Ours, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: If I do.
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  Speaker 6: Before we get too deep into the marlins, I have
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  Speaker 6: a question for You're born in New York Long Island.
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  Speaker 6: You guys know that's right, right, But you moved to Florida.
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  Speaker 6: When did you move to Florida?
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  Speaker 4: When I was five?
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  Speaker 7: So which one do you claim?
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  Speaker 4: Florida? Yeah, Florida, Florida.
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  Speaker 6: I was born on Long Island. I moved here when
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  Speaker 6: I was too but I use Long Island when I
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  Speaker 6: need it. Yeah, this is one of those.
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  Speaker 5: Grand New York you need it, But that's right. Other
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  Speaker 5: than that, it's like a Florida boy through and through.
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  Speaker 6: So you're you're born from You're from North Broward, which
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  Speaker 6: is close to Miami.
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  Speaker 4: It's in between. So like I'm from Palm Beach County.
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  Speaker 5: I'm from Wellington, like thirty five minutes from here, and
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  Speaker 5: then now I live in boy and Beach. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: my wife's from actually Miami, born and raised Miami, so
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  Speaker 5: kind of spent a lot of time between Miami and
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  Speaker 5: Palm Beach.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of my parents are in Palm Beach, so kid, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: something like that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I've got a little bit a little bit
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  Speaker 5: of both, you know, an hour away but not too far,
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  Speaker 5: so as close as you can get without being from
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  Speaker 5: Miami for sure.
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  Speaker 8: Hex Can you be a leader because when we played together,
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  Speaker 8: you were like twelve years old and you were quiet,
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  Speaker 8: and how much have you had to not adapt? But
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  Speaker 8: like how much have you had to change based on
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  Speaker 8: your success in the big leagues and then like ooh,
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  Speaker 8: other guys coming to you and being like, hey, I
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  Speaker 8: need to know how this goes or I need to
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  Speaker 8: know how that goes, because now that you're in the
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  Speaker 8: ripe old age of twenty five.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it's not really I don't I think I
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  Speaker 5: can be a leader without you know, standing in front
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  Speaker 5: of the whole clubhouse and speaking. You know, that's not
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  Speaker 5: really my thing, but really just kind of lead by example,
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  Speaker 5: you know, try to be you know, at the right
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  Speaker 5: place at the right time, do the right things, kind
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  Speaker 5: of show the younger guys just you know, where to
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  Speaker 5: be what to do. But besides that, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 5: I'm just like them. You know, I'm not gonna you know,
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  Speaker 5: go trip them or you know, try to play my
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  Speaker 5: seniority over them. I think, you know, we're teammates. We need,
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  Speaker 5: you know, everyone on our forty men, even some guys
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  Speaker 5: that aren't on it, you know, win you know, meaningful
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  Speaker 5: games at the end of the year, and you know
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  Speaker 5: it starts with everybody. So making everyone feel comfortable, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we know want anyone to feel like they can't come
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  Speaker 5: up to you know, myself or anybody else on our team.
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  Speaker 5: You know that we want to be you know, as
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  Speaker 5: open of a book as we can be. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: I like to be approachable, you know. I know it
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  Speaker 5: was like to get an older clubouts as a younger
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  Speaker 5: player and not feel comfortable asking people things or not,
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  Speaker 5: you know, not knowing where to be. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: I never want people to feel like that around me.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, my parents raise me that way to
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  Speaker 5: kind of treat people the way you want to be treated.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what I'm trying to do. When you played
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  Speaker 5: with them, so I played with them one USA, So
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  Speaker 5: I don't think, Yeah, I don't think anyone's really you know,
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  Speaker 5: crust the USA, right, we were there for like, I
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  Speaker 5: mean it was kind of one. It was like almost
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  Speaker 5: like four weeks. Yeah, you know, he's happy to be there.
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  Speaker 5: I think it was on the tail end of his career.
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  Speaker 5: A great teammate, great leader. He is someone who's vocal.
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  Speaker 5: So he could get in front of the clubhouse and
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  Speaker 5: give us a good.
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  Speaker 7: Speech or give me, give me your best speech.
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  Speaker 4: Tell us young guys, you want me to give it?
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  Speaker 3: You want to give it? Gave me?
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  Speaker 7: What did he say to you guys? Should he get
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  Speaker 7: up there and give like the miracle speech? No, he's
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  Speaker 7: our moments.
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  Speaker 5: He's a professional. You know what you need to do.
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  Speaker 5: You get yourself fad for the game, you know, take
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  Speaker 5: pride and we're in USA. Cross your chest, you know
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  Speaker 5: some of the of the sorts.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, just checking I did I did cry, right, X.
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  Speaker 8: I cried when I when I talked at the end
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  Speaker 8: after we got after we got beat by Mexico.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you did cry. That was a meaningful moment
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  Speaker 5: for you on the back end of your career. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it was great to be a teammate with him.
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  Speaker 8: That was the apex of my career. X. That was
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  Speaker 8: the apex. Like my career was just going all the
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  Speaker 8: way till that point and then I just quit and
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  Speaker 8: then it went out nice.
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  Speaker 4: All right, X.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get back to the team for a moment here.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So, heading into this season, can you give us
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  Speaker 2: a name or two that you think is going to
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  Speaker 2: take the next step, one of your teammates that you
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  Speaker 2: saw maybe start to really show things at the end
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  Speaker 2: of last year, or even somebody that in camp has
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  Speaker 2: been very impressive that hasn't even cracked the bigs yet.
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  Speaker 5: Think Liam Hicks has looked really really good behind the dish. No,
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  Speaker 5: usually the first two weeks he's got Oh no, he's
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  Speaker 5: got now. But yeah, when I saw him playing a
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  Speaker 5: few days ago, he looked really really good, you know,
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  Speaker 5: throwing the ball well, playing good defense in the ball
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  Speaker 5: really well. So off the really good start the spring
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  Speaker 5: only two man, I'll go, I'll go Graham Polly. I
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  Speaker 5: know he hasn't been throwing that much, but I think
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  Speaker 5: he looks really good as well. I mean also Norby.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I guess they're kind of bowing out a
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  Speaker 5: third base. But I think they're both gonna be a
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  Speaker 5: big part of our team, and they both look really
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  Speaker 5: good to spring. You know, working on different things, but
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  Speaker 5: definitely both gonna be a big parts work team.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I've got a little trivia question for our guys.
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  Speaker 2: Uh Kratz and AJ Xavier led the league against a
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  Speaker 2: certain pitch this year or last year? I should say,
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  Speaker 2: do you guys know what pitch it is? And X
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  Speaker 2: do you know what pitch it is? If you do
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  Speaker 2: hold back on it for a moment.
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  Speaker 4: I got a guess.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, crats be like a knuckleball or something like like
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  Speaker 6: a fastball either.
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  Speaker 1: X, do you know what it is?
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  Speaker 4: My guess is a cutter.
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  Speaker 2: No, I have you down as eleven for twenty six
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  Speaker 2: last year against sweepers. That's for twenty three best in
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  Speaker 2: baseball minimum of whatever thirty plate appearances. Do you remember
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  Speaker 2: hitting sweepers good last year? I mean, I guess not
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  Speaker 2: as much as cutters.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I couldn't remember hitting a single sweeper, you know,
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  Speaker 5: so hard, right handed, so hard. Sweepers, sliders, curveballs, you know,
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  Speaker 5: they're all this more or less the same thing. Some
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  Speaker 5: guys actually sweep some of them back up. Who knows
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  Speaker 5: what a sweeper is anymore? For that sweeper slide, backup slider.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't talked about that in a while.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, right where AJ was on his front saying, we're
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  Speaker 2: not going to give this pitch a new name, but
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  Speaker 2: it kind of went out. The pitch name won out.
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  Speaker 2: So what what would be your key to hitting off speed?
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  Speaker 2: You know, how do you get yourself hitting off speed
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  Speaker 2: the way that you do? And really being one of
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  Speaker 2: the few guys in the league X that still has
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  Speaker 2: a batting average at a spot where twenty years ago
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  Speaker 2: we'd be like, oh, this guy, this guy can hit. Nowadays,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the league average has plummeted, and yet you're
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  Speaker 2: one of those guys who, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I think has a chance to hit three hundred
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  Speaker 1: plus this year.
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  Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, you're not probaly myself on on average, and
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  Speaker 5: that's that's really important to me. Just kind of hitter
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  Speaker 5: I've been my whole life. You know, my dad kind
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  Speaker 5: of agree that in me at an early age. You know,
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  Speaker 5: getting on base obviously on base percentage, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: having a high batting average.
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  Speaker 3: He goes with that.
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  Speaker 4: If you can walk a bit, so that's been important
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  Speaker 4: for me.
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  Speaker 5: And then hitting on the off speed front, you know,
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  Speaker 5: keeping your way back, you know, try not to lunch,
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  Speaker 5: you know, doing your best to stay to the big
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  Speaker 5: part of the field.
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  Speaker 4: I would say, is how you.
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  Speaker 5: Stay on more pitches than not, you know, not selling
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  Speaker 5: out to one in particular.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if you, in theory hit a.
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  Speaker 5: Fast ball the other way, you should be able to
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  Speaker 5: stay on an off street pitch a little bit better.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, there's some give and take the hitting,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the nuance of it. But let's see, for
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  Speaker 5: have you.
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  Speaker 7: A little fast guy, dude, Yes, for you don't have to.
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  Speaker 6: You can get those field I can come back, hit
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  Speaker 6: the six hopper in the hold of the short sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. The shortstops got good arms.
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  Speaker 7: Now they have good arms back in the day, Yeah
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  Speaker 7: it did.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know if they're as big,
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  Speaker 5: but they had some good arms. Shifting now yeah, different
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  Speaker 5: game a little bit, Yeah, not that different. It's not
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  Speaker 5: that different, but it's a little.
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  Speaker 7: Different because like you can stay back and.
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  Speaker 4: I can shoot him and through the six sols.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes sometimes it's goodliner at the middle if they're not
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  Speaker 5: standing there, they're kind of standing there last time. Now
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  Speaker 5: you should be hit all the time when you're younger, right,
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  Speaker 5: not anymore? Got the guy starting behind second base?
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  Speaker 8: The last one from me. You mentioned you're not arbitration Olsen,
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  Speaker 8: yet everybody as a player knows you start making money
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  Speaker 8: and arbitration, free agency, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You don't.
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  Speaker 8: You lack what the game calls.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, just he.
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  Speaker 8: Doesn't have a ton of power. I've seen you hit
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  Speaker 8: some dingers. I've seen you hit the ball in the
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  Speaker 8: gaps and run. You see Luis or Eyes go through
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  Speaker 8: his free agency a guy who is a batting title champion.
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  Speaker 8: To me, I think you have chance to be a
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  Speaker 8: batting title champion. Like to me, do you look at
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  Speaker 8: that and go day like the game doesn't really like
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  Speaker 8: my style or you're like it's okay, I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 8: go out and be me. Or do you try to
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  Speaker 8: maybe incorporate something that would enable you to have more
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  Speaker 8: power so you don't get into a spot like Luis
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  Speaker 8: Rais had this offseason.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, it's a great question. I think me and Loui
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  Speaker 5: are just so different players. I love Lee, I love
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  Speaker 5: playing with them. I mean his back to ball skills
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  Speaker 5: speak for themselves. On his ability to put the ball
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  Speaker 5: where the defenders not also speak for itself. But I
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  Speaker 5: think we're different hitters. We're different players, you know, different defenders.
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  Speaker 5: So I think I'd like to think that plays into
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  Speaker 5: the equation to some extent. You know, your overall war
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  Speaker 5: and you know what position you're going to play and
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  Speaker 5: that kind of thing. You're versatility and I switch hit.
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  Speaker 5: He just hits lefties, So I'd like to think that
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  Speaker 5: plays into the fact. So not really compare our games
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  Speaker 5: to each other or kind of what his freuency situation
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  Speaker 5: was like to what mine will potentially be like. But no,
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  Speaker 5: I I think that there's a blend. You know, there's
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  Speaker 5: a mix of you know, taking your shot two oh's
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  Speaker 5: and three ones, you know, when your leverage counts, and
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  Speaker 5: and then also knowing with two strikes that what kind
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  Speaker 5: of hitter I've been in my career and what the
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  Speaker 5: hitter I want to continue to be, you know, shorten
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  Speaker 5: up use a two strike approach, you know, put the
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  Speaker 5: ball in play, because that's better than a strikeout. You know,
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  Speaker 5: baseball hasn't changed that much, regardless of the computers and
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  Speaker 5: the technology behind the game.
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  Speaker 4: Like, putting the ball in play is.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe not always, but a lot of the time is
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  Speaker 5: going to be better than not putting the ball in play.
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  Speaker 5: And it gives our team a chance. It gives me
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  Speaker 5: a chance to get on base and do something for
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  Speaker 5: the team, versus walking back to du Gut gives me
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  Speaker 5: no chance.
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  Speaker 4: So I understand that.
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  Speaker 5: But I understand also where the game is and what
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  Speaker 5: is valued, and I think there's room for both so
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  Speaker 5: to take my chances, but also not forget who I
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  Speaker 5: am as a hitter.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, so what you just said is awesome
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  Speaker 6: about everything. You understand all that, But how do you
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  Speaker 6: explain that to teams though, Because what's valued is is
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  Speaker 6: strike it out. Its power, right, But your your strengths
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  Speaker 6: are speed on base and play right, taking the extra base,
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  Speaker 6: putting pressure on the team. How do you how do
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  Speaker 6: you explain to a team that that's that's good? Because
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  Speaker 6: I think it's great. I remember, as a catcher, I'd
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  Speaker 6: much rather face a dude he might hit forty and
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  Speaker 6: strike out two hundred times. And a guy like you
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  Speaker 6: that we used to call you fleas, Like if you're
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  Speaker 6: a flee, I hate those little fleas.
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  Speaker 4: Right long at bats get.
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  Speaker 6: Off first, I'm like, he's gonna steal now, I can't
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  Speaker 6: throw it away. My pitcher's gonna get in his head.
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  Speaker 6: He's gonna try to speed up. Then the next guy's
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  Speaker 6: gonna hang a slider too, because he's trying to be quick.
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  Speaker 7: Like, there's so much value in what you do, but
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  Speaker 7: how do how do you get teams to understand that?
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  Speaker 5: The short answer is war, Really the short answers war.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that's kind of the end all be all
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  Speaker 5: right now in baseball, And luckily, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 5: ways to increase your war, you know, taking the extra
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  Speaker 5: base you get war points for that, you know, making
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  Speaker 5: defensive plays and getting on base, scoring runs, all things
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  Speaker 5: that help win games. Now it's quantified, you know, like
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't before, but now it is. So that's a
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  Speaker 5: short answer, long answer. I think if you just watch
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  Speaker 5: winning plays winning baseball, Like, yes, every team has guys
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  Speaker 5: who can hit the ball of the ballpark, but they
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  Speaker 5: all they don't have nine guys in the lineup that
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  Speaker 5: can just all slug slug slug, and there's no move
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  Speaker 5: the runner over, there's no small wall, there's no taking
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  Speaker 5: extra base, no ringing the bases right way. I think the
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  Speaker 5: best teams have a blend of that, and I think
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  Speaker 5: it's important. Like, you know, the Blue Jays were you know,
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  Speaker 5: an inch or a couple of inches away from winning
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  Speaker 5: a World Series, and I feel like they had a
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  Speaker 5: lot of that. They were different than the Dodgers, but
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  Speaker 5: they had power, you know, power of Valadi and and
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  Speaker 5: some of the other bats that they have. But they
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  Speaker 5: also guys have put the ball in play and put
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  Speaker 5: pressure on the defense. You know it almost one more series.
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  Speaker 5: So if it can get them there, every other team
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  Speaker 5: in the league. It's the proof is in the putting.
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  Speaker 5: You know that the successes. It leaves clues. And I
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  Speaker 5: think that winning shows up winning teams. And there's things
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  Speaker 5: that I think you can't teach.
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  Speaker 3: You real quick. Do you have your phone in your back? Bug?
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  Speaker 6: Like I got a single, so my war just went
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  Speaker 6: up point one?
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  Speaker 4: Think about it. You don't look at it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, every once in a while you might check get
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  Speaker 5: out or whatever, but not too off a I try
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  Speaker 5: to just play. I think baseball goes better when you
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  Speaker 5: just play it. It's a game at the end of
• 13:06
  Speaker 5: the day.
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: Agreed.
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, great call there, and yeah, er any Clement a
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: good example of what he did in the playoffs for
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: the Blue Jays. I mean, they wouldn't be where they
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: were without him last year in October, X, thanks for
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: joining us.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: Great insight, man, and good luck this season.
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me, appreciate it.
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: Next up on the guest list, it's Chris Paddock joining us,
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: freshly signed with them Marlins a couple of weeks ago. Chris,
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: great to have you on man, It's good to see you,
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: and congrats on the deal. It was pretty recent. So
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: how is the off season leading up to this?
• 13:41
  Speaker 9: Yeah, first and foremost, thanks for having me man. I
• 13:44
  Speaker 9: love watching y'all show. But this is you know, can't
• 13:48
  Speaker 9: get much better. Seventy five eighty degrees in Jupiter, Florida.
• 13:52
  Speaker 9: You know, kind of a surreal moment for me this offseason.
• 13:55
  Speaker 9: This is a full circle opportunity for me. The team
• 14:00
  Speaker 9: that gave me the first first chance out of high
• 14:02
  Speaker 9: school back in twenty fifteen, the Miami Marlins, And what
• 14:06
  Speaker 9: an honor to be able to come back for the
• 14:08
  Speaker 9: twenty twenty sixth season to represent them in a big
• 14:11
  Speaker 9: league uniform.
• 14:12
  Speaker 6: What does that mean to you? I mean it means
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: you must have done something right and that you were
• 14:15
  Speaker 6: only here your time.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: It means I'm getting old man, Well.
• 14:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but still, what does it mean to be able
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: to come back to a team. I know it's different
• 14:22
  Speaker 6: people here and everything, but at one time when you
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: were drafted because you were a high pick, you were like,
• 14:27
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna be a Marlin for life.
• 14:28
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna be there forever.
• 14:30
  Speaker 9: And now it's us later, you're back, you know, on
• 14:34
  Speaker 9: my way, you know, this offseason obviously free agent. You know,
• 14:38
  Speaker 9: whenever I made that decision to sign with the Marlins,
• 14:41
  Speaker 9: I drove from Texas. You know, it's roughly about twenty
• 14:44
  Speaker 9: hour drive. You have a lot of time to yourself
• 14:49
  Speaker 9: to think. And I really took in this moment of
• 14:53
  Speaker 9: hey man, the last time you were headed to the
• 14:55
  Speaker 9: East side of Florida, were you were a nineteen year
• 15:00
  Speaker 9: old kid out of high school chasing his dreams. You know,
• 15:03
  Speaker 9: just just really telling myself, don't forget that moment. You
• 15:06
  Speaker 9: know how much I enjoyed the game, how much you know,
• 15:09
  Speaker 9: how hard I work to get to that moment and
• 15:12
  Speaker 9: to kind of make this a full circle opportunity for
• 15:16
  Speaker 9: me of showing this organization why they draft me in
• 15:19
  Speaker 9: the first place, because you know, like you said, I
• 15:22
  Speaker 9: wasn't here very very fall in that first go around
• 15:24
  Speaker 9: with with the Marlins. Got traded in twenty sixteen to
• 15:27
  Speaker 9: the Padres for Fernando Rodney and being a young kid,
• 15:31
  Speaker 9: and I had no idea. I didn't know if that
• 15:33
  Speaker 9: was a good thing a bad thing at the time.
• 15:36
  Speaker 9: But here we are twenty twenty six, eleven years later
• 15:39
  Speaker 9: and really excited to be in Miami this year.
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: You mentioned the weather here in Jubiter. Now you know
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: when you go to Miami, it's gonna be about June July,
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: and you come in and your you know, your big
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: leather coat and your cowboy boots. It's gonna be hot.
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: R You might have to make a judge cowboy boy
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: boots is short.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: I might. I'm gonna have to have like a seb too,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: if I if I bring out the George, because it's
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: gonna be hot.
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: When you start walking, you're gonna get a little bit
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: sweat going just walking it from the parking.
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: Lot I'll sacrifice to look good. Okay, I can make
• 16:08
  Speaker 9: that sacrifice.
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: I'm just warning you now, you've got a long time
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: to go.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, what if you.
• 16:13
  Speaker 8: Told if some people always ask like, would you rather
• 16:16
  Speaker 8: know what was ahead? Or would you rather have the
• 16:20
  Speaker 8: journey and not understand, not know what's going to happen?
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: If you talk to that nineteen year old kid and
• 16:25
  Speaker 8: told them all the things you'd go through, do you
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: think that nineteen year old kid would still have done
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: exactly what you've done?
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: Man, I would say, you know, I've loved my journey
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: so far in my baseball career. You know, it hasn't
• 16:43
  Speaker 9: been the prettiest journey, you know, from injuries to kind
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: of be in the spotlight my rookie season, to kind
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: of being on rock bottom with performance stuff and all
• 16:54
  Speaker 9: the things in between. But I've learned a lot about
• 16:57
  Speaker 9: myself as a as a grown man, not just on
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: the baseball field, but outside the baseball field as well.
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: And I think that that's the beauty of this game, right.
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: We're human beings at the end of the day. And
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: I think that nineteen year old kid, you know, I
• 17:15
  Speaker 9: would say, hey, go enjoy the journey, you know, everybody
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: has their own path. Right at a nineteen year old kid,
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: you work hard, you try, and you know, separate yourself
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: from the group in front of you all these things.
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: But when you get to this level, man, everybody is
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: just as good, if not better, and their path was
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: a little different of how they got there. So that
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: for me, man, it's it is a special moment for
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: me this year. I'm considered one of the veterans in
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: the clubhouse, one of the leaders in the clubhouse already,
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: and you know, I'm excited for that opportunity to share
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: my knowledge and help some of these younger guys that
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: we have in the rotation all the way through the
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: position player side as well, because coming up, man, I
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: had I had some awesome mentors and teammates uh as
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: A as a twenty three year old kid making my
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: major league debut debut over there in San Diego with
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: haw As Manny, you know Craig Stammon, which is a
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: surreal moment that he's he's a manager and was a
• 18:14
  Speaker 9: teammate of mine, uh Ian Kinsler, guys that I looked
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: up to at a young age and was able to
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: sit in the same locker room as those guys. They
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: were a leader for me at one point, and now
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: I get to pass the baton off and be a
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: leader in a clubhouse, and and I'm super excited for
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: that opportunity.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: Have they talked to you starting relieving because you've kind
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: of done both. You obviously were a starter for a
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: long time. You kind of relieved last year at the end.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Have they talked to you about which side they're leaning
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: towards with you? We'll be a starter, were a starter?
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Is that what you prefer? Obviously I've done that pretty
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: much your whole life, right, Yeah, it's you.
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: Know the when I got traded over Detroit last season
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: towards the end, you know that performance just wasn't backing
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: it up. You look at their rotation, you know I
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: had I had a gap to fill there and and
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: you know Aj over there called it pitching chaos when
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: it when it comes September, man, y'all know how important
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: those games are. It comes down to half a game,
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: one game, whatever it is. And there they thought that
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: the best fit for me was going to be coming
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: out of the bullpen, and I was, I was. I
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: accepted that, right, I couldn't. I didn't have something to
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: back it up. You know, I had a five and
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: a half era. My biggest goal last year was to
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: stay healthy, to show thirty teams that you know, the
• 19:27
  Speaker 9: injuries are behind me. I'm ready to get the ball
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: and I'm ready to pitch. And then in twenty three,
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: coming back from Tommy John, I came out of the
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: bullpen with the Twins, so I was I was already
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: familiar with it. You know, I wasn't just getting thrown
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: to the wolves. And mentally that was important for me
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: of knowing that I can do that already. H and I,
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: you know, shook AJ's hand and I said, hey, man,
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: you know, if you need me out of the bullpen,
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: I'll be ready to go. But you know, talking to
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: the coaches here, talking with the front office early offseason,
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: I will be a starter and excited to be behind
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: Sandy and Uri and learn from those guys.
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: Which do you like better? Obviously he came up as
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: a starter, But which do you like better? Starting or relieving?
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: Like there, we just talked to Tyler Phillips. That dude's like, man,
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: he's he's high on relieving. He loves it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: Yeah, uh, you know, I don't slap myself in the
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: face by any means, maybe try. Uh you know, I
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: don't wear the cool glasses. You know, I feel like
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: I'm not I'm I'm too I'm not weird enough to
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: be a bullpen guy yet. Maybe maybe on the back
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: end of my career, but me personally, I really do
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: enjoy starting, you know. That's That's what I've done most
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: of my career. Uh, you know, I've had I've had
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: a couple bullpen outings, you know, in twenty three, like
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: I said earlier, with the Twins coming to out of
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: playoffs and then last year with Detroit of just you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: having that role of going into September with the pitching
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: chaos that they called it over there. But uh, you know,
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: I think I was born to be a starter and
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: I have a lot to show for this this upcoming season.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Hey, Chris, question for you.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Can you go over some of the changes you made,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I know last year some pitch mixed changes and then
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: curious if Detroy tried to change you again once you
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: got there, because I'm always curious about the balance, right you.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: You want to adapt and evolve in play your strengths
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: and take tips from teams, but it's also your career.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: So what was that journey like over the past year
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: or so.
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: Uh, you know, it's it's been. It's been a lot
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: of a lot of things for me. You know, most
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: of my career, I've I've been a north South guy.
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: I feel like I still am a North South guy.
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: Fastballs at the top, change up underneath. But I'm starting
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: to learn that these hitters, man, they're so good and
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: they get paid the big bucks to swing the bat right. Well,
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: this if a hitter's comfortable knowing that Chris Baddick's throwing
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: strikes and that he can eliminate pitches, whether it's my
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: breaking ball, whether it's a slider, curveball, and only focused
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: north South. Now they're fifty to fifty right. If they
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: guess right and I make a mistake, you know, it's
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: usually gonna cost me. So not necessarily performance base that
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: we're changing anything. When I went over to Detroit, it
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: was them, you know, saying that they love my arsenal,
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: they love kind of what I bring to the table.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: Unfortunately I just didn't click over there with not being
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: able to put together some good starts for them. That's
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: why I got moved out to the bullpen. That's why
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: I was off the playoff rosters, you know, so that
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: hurt and I went into the off season, you know,
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: excited to see what teams wanted me for the new
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: opportunity of being my you know, this my first free
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: agent year and coming over here.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: You know, some of the media asked me a couple
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: of days ago when I got done pitching, what's one
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: thing that you've enjoyed being a Marlin? And it's not
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: necessarily for me. It's the small things and this this
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: coaching staff man, they believe in me. They've told me
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: that from day one, and I feel like as athletes,
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: sometimes we need that reassurance sometimes, you know, sometimes this
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: is a game of failure. We take home our thoughts,
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: we're away from our families. You know, sometimes it's just us.
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: So it's important to have some coaches, some teammates that
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: believe in you to remind you who you are and
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: what you're capable of.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: And that's exactly what this group has done. You know.
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: The guys in the locker room have have welcomed me
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: with open arms. They're excited for me to be a
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: part of this group. And we're hungry, man. We do
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: have a young staff from top to bottom, and I'm
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: here to contribute anyway I can. You know, like I
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: said earlier, I don't have all the answers, but I
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: knew I do know a thing or two and I'm
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: excited to learn from them. And we hop on the
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: horse and we all ride together. Are you okay with
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: them calling pitches from the dugout? Have they talk to
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: you about that? Because we had We had Clayton and
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: I asked him about that. Yeah, so can you still
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: shake them off?
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Are you okay?
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Hey?
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: You know, I don't really think so.
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: So, you know what, I had my zoom call with
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: the Marlins early off season. You know, these are these
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: are the conversations, right I had my agent on the
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: phone call with me of just answering these questions or
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: asking these questions that we needed answers to, especially at
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: this level. And one of those things was that got
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: brought up was the pitch design bullpens, which is basically
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: you're throwing a bullpen on the game mound, hitters are swinging.
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: You got all the electronics that you need as far
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: as track man data all that.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: That was a.
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: Conversation that I would love to bring up to you
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: in a little bit. But to answer your question, uh,
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: you know, Rob calls the pictures from the dugout and uh,
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: I tell him he gets to play MLB the show
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: every day, you know, the live the live version.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: There's one him. What's that It ain't a video game
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: that it go. It doesn't go where you want it.
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: And it's it's not his runs, it's mine, you know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: That's what I tell uh. But he gets to play
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: THEMLB the Show every day. Make it fun.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: But on a serious note, we do have the ability
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: to shake off. My last outing I shook off on
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: a three to two is to get to the pitch
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: that I wanted we execute it got to swing a miss.
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: But for me personally, right, there's there's a lot of
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: stuff that I've taken in the last couple of years
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: out to the mountain, whether it's good or bad, and
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: my head does never. You know, when you're on that
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: island alone, man, you can work on the mental toughness,
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: all the you know, your breath work, all the things.
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: When you're on that island alone, man, you blackout.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: And sometimes we overthink, we overprocess things, we forget, you know,
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: runners on second and third two outs. We forget the
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: situation because the game speeds up. If if rob calling
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: pictures from the dugout on looking at the cheat sheet
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: that they have, trusting his eyes, trusting our catchers, trust
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: you know, just the games in front of him. And
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: if that takes a little bit of stress off my
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: shoulders and I can just execute whatever's been called, I
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: think we're going to be in a really good spot,
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: becaus just not shake the catcher call every bit, you know,
• 26:15
  Speaker 9: you look at or the or the pitching coach to
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: the coach and the dugout now right, I mean, Mark Burley, Criselle,
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: don't shake. They don't have to think then, And I
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: think for me, you know, we do our homework during
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: the week. You at the end of the day, you're
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: trying to compete with whoever's in the box. But sometimes
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: we catch ourselves giving them too much credit and then
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: you're not really competing. You already lost that battle. Right
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: So at the end of the day, if I hear fastball,
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: if I hear a change of if I hear curveball,
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: sweep or slider, whatever, Okay, it's like, okay, let me
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: execute right here. I know who's on base. I know
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: the situation, I know who I'm facing, I know what
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: count it is. I'm able to slow it down because
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: I've already that that that's already handled for me from
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: the dugout. And then the second thing, and this is
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: this is talking for me, not talking for the team.
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: You know, everybody has their own mixture reviews on it,
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: but the pitches on bullpens man are gonna It's gonna
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: change my career. It's going to change my season this year.
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: I know that's a bold statement because we haven't even
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: started the season yet, but I truly am excited to
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: see what that can do for me as an individual,
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: because sometimes four or five days in between starts is
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: too much time. You know, you come off a bad outing.
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: What do we want to do. We want to get
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: back out there, right we come off of good outing.
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: We want to we want to keep those tools sharpened.
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: And that's exactly what that is for. You get to
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: sharpen your tools, you get to compete against your teammates,
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: you get live reads, you get live feedback. The only
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: con that I have with that is you have to
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: manage the volume. At the end of the day, I
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: got to be ready to pitch day five or day six,
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: because that that truly doesn't that doesn't go in the
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: back of a baseball card. You know that day five
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: or day six, whenever Skip gives me the ball said,
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: it's your day, that's what matters. So if I can
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: manage the volume all season, that right there is going
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: to be able to sharpen my tools. I'm able to
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: get those live reads, live feedback, reading swings, and being
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: able to work those stressful situations that happen in game
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: to strike execution, runners on base get out of it.
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: You know whatever that looks like, right me and Rob
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: Colin pitches, Hey man, we're not on the same page.
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: Let's use that to work on some things. And I
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: think it's a full circle opportunity for me as an individual.
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: Like I said, I know, different starters, different bullpen guys
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: have their own reviews on it, but I truly am
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: excited to take that into the twenty twenty sixth season.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Well we look forward to it, right.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris, great stuff man, always great to catch up
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: with your good.
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: Luck this season.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: We'll catch at some point during this season. Yeah, exactly,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: A j that's what you did buying the plate right
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: just all right here. It comes exactly where I want. Chris,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: good stuff, man, really appreciate it. We'll talk to you
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: during the season, okay.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks you guys for having me. I appreciate
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Fe