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O's outfielder Dylan Beavers joins the show · Birdland Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hey, welcome in latest edition of Birdland Territory with Steve
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  Speaker 1: tim Brad and today, oriol outfielder Dylan Biavers joins us
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  Speaker 1: on the show. We're excited to talk to Dylan, who's
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  Speaker 1: in his second year on the Orioles. He got his
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  Speaker 1: major league call up in August of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: a draft pick by the Birds in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: number thirty three overall pick, worked his way up through
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  Speaker 1: the levels on the farm and then made the big
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  Speaker 1: debut last year and been on the ball club this year.
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  Speaker 1: And Dylan, thanks for joining us today. Man, great to
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  Speaker 1: have you on Birdland Territory.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for having me. Excited to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me about the season for the team. First, what
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  Speaker 1: a wild ride. We have detailed it on this show.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the crazy ups and downs, the chase to get
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  Speaker 1: to five hundred, many times it felt like maybe media
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  Speaker 1: and fans were ready to throw in the towel, like
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  Speaker 1: the team has never obviously done that. Greatest example maybe
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit, an incredible win. I mean, what's this ride
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  Speaker 1: been like for you guys in that clubhouse?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's definitely been a lot of
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  Speaker 2: ups and downs. I feel like, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of teams in the big leagues right now are probably
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  Speaker 2: you know, going through a similar thing. But yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we I think we have a really resilient group,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, obviously if if if it doesn't go
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  Speaker 2: our way, we're not really gonna waiver where We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: stick to who we are and you know, try and
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  Speaker 2: compete every every pitch, you know, So I think that
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of kept us in it, even even when
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  Speaker 2: we're not playing our best baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Jelan, you're thinking back to your debut last year,
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  Speaker 3: Well was that experience like for you then? And then
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  Speaker 3: can you kind of talk about the difference of getting
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  Speaker 3: your first call up as opposed to making your first
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  Speaker 3: opening day and kind of having like the full season
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  Speaker 3: experience in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's definitely it's been a lot different. I
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  Speaker 2: felt like, you know, last year, whenever whenever I got
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  Speaker 2: called up, you can kind of argue we were maybe
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  Speaker 2: maybe not really in contention at that point. So this year,
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  Speaker 2: you know, making the making the roster out of camp
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  Speaker 2: and trying to be a part of a team that
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  Speaker 2: makes a playoff pushes It's it's been a lot different.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, uh, definitely more challenging. You know, they're
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  Speaker 2: I think I feel like it's it's it's just there's
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  Speaker 2: been a little more competitive aspect to it. I felt
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  Speaker 2: like last year, you know, they were just giving me
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  Speaker 2: opportunity and whether or not I was playing well, and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, now it's like, if you're
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  Speaker 2: not helping the team win, it's you're not going to
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  Speaker 2: get in there. So, you know, I feel like this
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  Speaker 2: year it's been a little more challenging. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, I feel like maybe the league
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  Speaker 2: is kind of adjusted to me as a hitter, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're they're going to attack your weak points,
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  Speaker 2: especially when they have a bigger sample on you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, and take us back to that game yesterday. Man,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it couldn't be a great feeling when you're
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  Speaker 4: trailing seven and nothing with Trek Scuball on the mound,
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  Speaker 4: but then just an avalanche offensively for you guys. It
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  Speaker 4: was a remarkable comeback, biggest comeback in Orioles history since
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  Speaker 4: two thousand and nine. But that's been a calling card
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  Speaker 4: of your guys this season. Twenty five come from behind wins,
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  Speaker 4: that's eleventh most in base Well, so what was it
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  Speaker 4: like yesterday all of the emotions and also just talk
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  Speaker 4: about your guys never say die attitude this season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's been pretty consistent. I can't
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  Speaker 2: pinpoint when you know, we we made our first come
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  Speaker 2: back win or like come from behind win. But I
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  Speaker 2: feel like early in the year, you know, we we
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  Speaker 2: erased a deficit at some point, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like after that it was like to us,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's no lead that that and another team
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  Speaker 2: can have on us where where we feel like we're
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  Speaker 2: out of it, and uh, you know, no matter what
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  Speaker 2: what inning it is, and and and what the score is,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we're we're gonna, you know, try and
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  Speaker 2: win the ball game.
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  Speaker 1: And uh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just feel like we've been very resilent and
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  Speaker 2: even even when things aren't looking so good. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when SCOO Ball came out of the game, there was
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of traffic. I think we we'd had
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  Speaker 2: scored one run at the very end there and and
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  Speaker 2: two outs, I'm pretty sure, and and you know, Albi
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  Speaker 2: and Donnie were telling me, you know, be be ready
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  Speaker 2: to hit, you know it. I feel like that. That's
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  Speaker 2: kind of where it starts. You know, our our coaching
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  Speaker 2: staff is you know, they're they were looking like five
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  Speaker 2: batters ahead in a two out inning. You know, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: be ready. You know, the next four guys are gonna
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  Speaker 2: get on base and do their job. And I think
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  Speaker 2: when when the coaching staff has that confidence in every
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  Speaker 2: guy on the on the team, it gives the players
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  Speaker 2: confidence as well. So, you know, I was ready to
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  Speaker 2: hit long before we had put up any runs. And
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  Speaker 2: so we're you know, other guys off the bench as well.
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  Speaker 1: We talk with those outfitter Dylan Beavers today on Birdland
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  Speaker 1: Territory Glad to visit with Dylan Orioles. Draft pick from
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two s Dylan on Saturday Night, about a
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  Speaker 1: week ago against Atlanta, bottom of the ninth, you get
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  Speaker 1: a walk off hit. There's probably almost no better feeling
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  Speaker 1: in baseball than to be mobbed by your teammates, the crowds,
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  Speaker 1: big crowds going crazy. After that game, I thought, Craig
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  Speaker 1: Albert has a very praiseworthy comment of you. He said
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  Speaker 1: something to the effect of he's got a slow heartbeat.
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  Speaker 1: And when I hear managers say that about a player,
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  Speaker 1: it seems to say they're calm and relaxed when all
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  Speaker 1: heck is breaking loose. They keep their composure and it
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  Speaker 1: helps them have success on the field. Did you hear
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  Speaker 1: about that comment? Do you agree? And if that's you
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  Speaker 1: have that, what helps you have that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I feel like, you know, I've had I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it hasn't been I've had a very long major league
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  Speaker 2: career to this point, but I've I've had some success
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  Speaker 2: from what I can remember, and uh, you know, late
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  Speaker 2: in the game, and I feel like for me, I
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  Speaker 2: just try and treat those at bats the same as
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  Speaker 2: any any at that I feel like it those late
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  Speaker 2: inning scenarios. You know, it can be challenging for people
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  Speaker 2: if if they put too much stock into the importance
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  Speaker 2: of the at bat. You know, at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, I think you just need to take it
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  Speaker 2: like any other at bat. Obviously, everyone wants to come through,
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  Speaker 2: but if if you want it too bad, that's when
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  Speaker 2: you you start getting yourself out or or making bad decisions.
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  Speaker 2: So typically, no matter when I come up, I try
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  Speaker 2: and treat it like, you know, the same situation as
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  Speaker 2: as any at bat.
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  Speaker 1: Mhm, he don't.
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  Speaker 3: I always love when I was playing. I love talking
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  Speaker 3: to hitters about their approach and just kind of different
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  Speaker 3: things they're doing as a player. Forget about whatever what
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  Speaker 3: you know stats might say or what this might say
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  Speaker 3: for you yourself as a player, How would you say?
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  Speaker 3: What would be the skying report on yourself? And what
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  Speaker 3: do you think do you do better than you know? Like, uh,
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  Speaker 3: then what might be showing so far? What basically makes
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  Speaker 3: you the type of player that you are, what makes
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  Speaker 3: you your best whenever you're going your best?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when I'm when I'm going good, I I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I'm controlling the zone, you know, not not chasing anything,
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  Speaker 2: not not swinging at pitchers pitches, even even if they
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  Speaker 2: are strikes. And and I I feel like I give
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  Speaker 2: pretty quality at bats consistently when I when I'm going good,
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  Speaker 2: which I kind of take pride in. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: that helps out the other guys on the team. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when I watch a guy take a ten pitch at bat,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Sam on deck, I'm pretty confident going up
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  Speaker 2: after that guy, just you know, after seeing that the
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  Speaker 2: pitcher kind of go to everything they have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as well as maybe they're they're a little tired after
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  Speaker 2: a long battle like that. I feel like just giving
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  Speaker 2: good at bat kind of instills confidence in the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the lineup. So yeah, I think, you know, controlling
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  Speaker 2: the strike zone, giving quality at bats, and then uh,
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  Speaker 2: putting the ball in play and in making the defense
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  Speaker 2: make a play. You know, that's I feel like when
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  Speaker 2: I'm at my best. But you know, it's baseball, so
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  Speaker 2: it's it's hard. It's it's hard to do that every
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  Speaker 2: single time.
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  Speaker 4: And doing all of those reasons, I would assume factor
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  Speaker 4: into the equation for why Craig Albernaz, especially recently is bad.
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  Speaker 2: Did you lead off?
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  Speaker 4: What's it been like in the leadoff spot pretty often recently?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's been awesome. I I I try to
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  Speaker 2: treat every spot in the lineup the same, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I know I need to get a job done wherever
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  Speaker 2: I am in the lineup, but you know, leading off,
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  Speaker 2: you you you get the first step out of the game,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, I feel like that's a pretty important at
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  Speaker 2: bat for the whole team. So I've you know, I
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  Speaker 2: try to see a couple of pitches if I can,
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  Speaker 2: and work a good at bat and try and get
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  Speaker 2: on for the guys after me. But yes, I've enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: I hit lead off quite a bit and college and
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  Speaker 2: the minors, so I'm fairly comfortable in that in that spot.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's not two different than hitting you know, third, fourth, fifth,
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  Speaker 2: or sixth.
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  Speaker 1: To me, Dylan Beaver's our guest today on Birdland Territory.
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  Speaker 1: That walk off hit was part of a rundown where
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  Speaker 1: Jealan's batting about three hundred the last eleven games. The
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  Speaker 1: bad is trending up and as you guys just discussed,
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  Speaker 1: patting in the leadoff spot a lot for the Birds.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk much more with Dylan in a
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  Speaker 1: happy to visit today with those out there or Dylan Beavers,
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  Speaker 1: young guy had several chats with over the years in
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  Speaker 1: Booie Man. We had some great interviews Dylan, and we
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  Speaker 1: had a great one in the Oil Clubhouse not long
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  Speaker 1: after you came up last year. And I want to
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  Speaker 1: remind you what you told me then and get you
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  Speaker 1: to tell that story again. Your first two years in
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  Speaker 1: the minors twenty two and twenty three, you had great numbers,
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  Speaker 1: well over eight hundred ops twenty four Double A fell
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  Speaker 1: off a little bit seven fifty ish, which was good,
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  Speaker 1: but not what the numbers you'd put up at lower levels.
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  Speaker 1: As that year was ending, you met were asked to
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  Speaker 1: meet with Anthony Bilda, the head of player development, and
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  Speaker 1: Sherman Johnson, who was then the upper level hitting coordinator
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  Speaker 1: who's now with the White Sox, and they had some
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  Speaker 1: tweaks and changes and they just kind of reviewed your
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  Speaker 1: year and wanted to discuss things that would help you
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  Speaker 1: get better. As you explained to me, so by the way,
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  Speaker 1: you went from a seven to fifty ops at Double
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  Speaker 1: A to a nine thirty five in Triple A the
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  Speaker 1: next year and found your way to the big leagues,
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  Speaker 1: So that meeting seems pretty important in the scope of
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  Speaker 1: your career, would you agree? And what was that? What
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  Speaker 1: happened there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that that year was a struggle for sure. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like seven point fifty is like not even that
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  Speaker 2: bad compared to how it felt. It felt like I
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  Speaker 2: played a whole lot worse in twenty four in double A,
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  Speaker 2: and it was kind of eye opening, like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: need to make some adjustments. You know, it's it's not
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  Speaker 2: really what I'm doing now isn't cutting it. So I
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  Speaker 2: I went I can't remember if I went to them,
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  Speaker 2: but I had been talking to Sherman and kind of
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  Speaker 2: expressing that I wasn't super happy with how it was going,
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  Speaker 2: and I knew I was better than what I did
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  Speaker 2: in twenty four, And so then Villa and Sherm kind
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  Speaker 2: of after the season, we kind of discussed that we
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  Speaker 2: were going to meet up in Florida and talk about
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  Speaker 2: what what I did and kind of where I should
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  Speaker 2: go moving forward to improve for next year, because I
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  Speaker 2: basically told him I don't want to have another year
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  Speaker 2: like that next year, and I'll do whatever I need
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  Speaker 2: to do to not play bad like that again for
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  Speaker 2: a consecutive years. So we went to Florida and we
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  Speaker 2: just kind of compared my swing and what I was
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  Speaker 2: doing to what some of the best hitters in the
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  Speaker 2: big leagues do, and you know that we I'd say
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  Speaker 2: we did probably like like two two hours worth of
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  Speaker 2: looking at video and breaking down the swing and kind
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  Speaker 2: of game planning where we wanted to go from there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that that include it's like what I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to swing to look like, where I wanted my
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  Speaker 2: range of motion and mobility, you know, and whether it's
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  Speaker 2: my hips or my shoulders or you know, whatever it
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  Speaker 2: may be. We kind of discussed what I needed to
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  Speaker 2: do to get into the spots that we wanted my
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  Speaker 2: swing to be in. And they, you know, they helped
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  Speaker 2: me quite a bit. They game planned it for me
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  Speaker 2: basically and told me what they wanted to see and
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  Speaker 2: how I needed to accomplish it and kind of set
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  Speaker 2: me on my way that off season. And it took
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  Speaker 2: the entirety of the off season to make those adjustments
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  Speaker 2: and even a little bit in the spring and early
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  Speaker 2: in the year in twenty five to see any results.
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  Speaker 2: So but then you know, I started to figure it
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  Speaker 2: out and it helped me quite a bit and improve
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  Speaker 2: my consistency at the plate. So I'm really grateful to
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  Speaker 2: those guys and the Orioles organization for helping me out
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  Speaker 2: and pushing me in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Cool, let me jump in a quick quick file before
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  Speaker 1: I get to Brad here. And one thing Villa would
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  Speaker 1: tell me later is he said, when we met with Dylan,
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  Speaker 1: we reminded him, you're a major league player. That's how
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  Speaker 1: we see you. Your stats may say what they say
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  Speaker 1: for this year, that's a bump in the road. And
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  Speaker 1: so when Villa was telling me that, it felt like
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  Speaker 1: this is more than words. He truly did believe in this,
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  Speaker 1: this young hitter. Was that important that you saw their confidence?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean, and honestly, I can't say that
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  Speaker 2: there's been anyone in this organization that hasn't had confidence
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  Speaker 2: to me at least, you know, whenever I speak with
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  Speaker 2: staff or work with any of our staff, from the
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  Speaker 2: time I was drafted to you know, at the field yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's been they're they're super reassuring and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they instill a lot of confidence into into me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I can't speak for everybody else, but for me,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like this. The staff from the Orioles has
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  Speaker 2: has always instilled confidence and uh, you know, any baseball
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  Speaker 2: player knows that's uh, you know, of a lot of value.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm very grateful for that.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome and honestly dealing like a lot of credit
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  Speaker 3: to you to be young in your career, be a
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  Speaker 3: high round draft pick and still seek advice. I think
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people think it's just like you're a
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  Speaker 3: high round pick, you just your cruise.
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  Speaker 2: To the big leagues.
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  Speaker 3: But to be able to you know, ask for help,
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  Speaker 3: get help and apply it is impressive. I also have
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  Speaker 3: uh kind of talked about the clubhouse culture. Every single
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  Speaker 3: interview we've seen with everybody has talked about how this
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  Speaker 3: group is so close and how it's such a tightening group.
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  Speaker 3: And this is from April, through any of the struggles
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  Speaker 3: you guys have had, it still feels like it's the
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  Speaker 3: same thing what allows the clubhouse to be so confident
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  Speaker 3: regardless of how the season has been going to this point.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's definitely easy just because we I
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  Speaker 2: feel like we have a lot of similar personalities in
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  Speaker 2: the clubhouse. There's there's a lot of guys who are
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  Speaker 2: kind of on the same page, and we we definitely
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  Speaker 2: have fun, you know, even even when it's not going
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  Speaker 2: our way. Obviously it's it's not fun losing, but you know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: we're not gonna let one bad game ruin the rest
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: of our week and uh, you know, ruin the vibes
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: and in the clubhouse. You know, we we know that
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: we need to show up the next day and uh
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: do it all over again, you knowigure it out and
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: find a way to win. But yeah, I feel like
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: it's just easy because we're we're kind of we're all
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: on the same page, and uh, we've got I I
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: believe we have some great leaders on the team who,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: you know, when when we need to be put in check,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: they'll they'll they'll be there to do that and uh
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: kind of get us back back on track. But yeah,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: it's just been it's been great. And I think that's
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: kind of a you know, it's Mike and and his
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: team have put together a good clubhouse with with really
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: good guys. So I think that's, uh, that's very important.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: You know, it's just as important as having a really
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: talented group, sure who.
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  Speaker 4: Have been those leaders that you know, you guys will
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: lean on during those tough times.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely, definitely Pete. He's he's been amazing, you know, from
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: from the when I met him at the caravan in
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I think January January February, he's been like an amazing teammate,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: you know, super super positive and uh, you know, I
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: think also Bassett obviously is he went down for a second,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: so we're hoping to get him back soon. But same
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: thing with Bassett. You know, those those guys who have
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: been around the game and uh seen it all kind
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: of you know, those are those are the guys who
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: who when they're when they're talking to everyone's kind of listening.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: And uh it's been really nice too to have them,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: you know, step into that role and kind of hold
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: everyone accountable, you know, because they've they've been on teams
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: that that have had success and they've been on teams
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: that haven't, and uh so it's nice. You know, when
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: you hear them talk, you know that they're they're coming
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: from a place of experience and you can really trust
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: what they have to say.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Dylan Biaver's with us on Birdland Territory. Having a great
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: conversation with Dylan. We got to shoot a few more
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: questions his way here in a second. On Birdland Territory.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: There is one place to be on trade deadline day
• 22:24
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• 22:26
  Speaker 2: A J.
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: Perdinski, Aeric Kratz, and Scott Brown will be live all
• 22:29
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• 22:33
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• 22:37
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• 22:40
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• 22:44
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• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Dylan Bieber's with us today on Birdland Territory. Dylan in
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: our final minutes, One thing I would like to ask
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you about. I've had some fascinating interviews and conversations with
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: players about social media criticism that comes for an individual
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: or the team. We're both. We're in a social media
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: age where everybody has a hot take and everybody's going
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: to express it. And I know my inbox is loaded
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: every day, and so if a player is on social media,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: it's probably tenfold, maybe more than that. How do you
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: handle that as outside noise as maybe team you know,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I've heard ballplayers call it. How do you deal with that?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I typically try not to read too much you know
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: about what everyone has to say. You know, we we
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: know when we're not playing good, and we're just as
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: frustrated as anybody, any of our fans or anyone on
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: social media. So I don't think it's super productive to
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: go read a bunch of negative comments, you know, I
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: it's it's yeah, it's just tough, you know. I think
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: it's it's easier just to not worry about that, just
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: because I don't think any it's it's not going to
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: help you perform to go see what everyone has to say.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: But you know, at the same time, you I'm a
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: sports fan as well, and you know, I can see
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: where a frustrated fan may be coming from. But yeah,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I think it's it's best just to focus on your
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: your team and and the performance, not go read everything
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: that everyone has to say on the internet.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can completely agree with that.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: If if you can stay off but as much as possible,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: do that. But how about just for yourself moving forward
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: the rest of the season, what are your goals, what
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: are your aspirations? What do you what do you envision
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: happening for yourself individually?
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: The rest of the season in here, Uh, first of all,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I want to stay healthy. I learned this season that
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: it's it's hard to come back from an injury, and
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: in professional baseball, and in the big leagues for that matter,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: it makes it even more difficult. So, you know, I
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: want to make sure I'm healthy, and uh, I want
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: to make sure I do everything I can to help
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: the team win, and uh, you know, see us, see
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: us in October. I'd like to play better than I
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: than I have this season to this point. But uh,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: I feel like at the end of the day, you know,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: if I played the you know, put up the same
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: numbers I'm putting up right now and we're winning it,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: it won't really matters as long as I can kind
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: of help the team win, you know.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: In this sort of picks up from Steve's last question, Uh,
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: this is your first experience on the big league team
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: around the trade deadline, and there's so many rumors swirling
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: and the American League is such a jumbled mess. No
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: one knows what to make of what team is going
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: to do. But how do you try to block out
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: that noise? Is that even brought up in the clubhouse
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: at all? What has it been like in this lead
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: up to the deadline.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that obviously, there's it's it's an interesting experience.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: There's a there's a lot going on. A lot of
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: people have their guesses or ideas of what's going to
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: happen in the future, but you know, until anything happens,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: it's it's not like anything's changed. So it's for for me,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: I just show up to the field every day and
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: you know, get my work in, do all my prep
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: and and try and help help us win a game
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: if if I'm in there that day, and I feel
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: like that's probably the most efficient way to do it,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: just because you're kind of just controlling what you can
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: and taking a day to day. But yeah, I mean
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: it's it's not like I'm completely we ignore what what
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: could happen if we don't play well. But yeah, it's
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: it's it's an interesting spot to be and I've never
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: experienced anything like it, But you know, to this point,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: just take it day by day and try and win
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: the day, because if we win a bunch of games,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: you know, I think it puts us in a good spot.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Jill, let me shoot one more question your way. We'll
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: wrap it up and thank you so much for your
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: time today. And one of The cool thing for me
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: is meeting kids out of the draft like I met
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you in twenty twenty two, and seeing them progress throughout
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: and saying, well, that kid, one day come into the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Oil clubhouse and make it, because so few do you
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: beat a lot of odds going from the draft to
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a major league clubhouse. And Brad Brock did the same thing.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: And so if I were the Orioles, I'd bring you
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: with the current group of draft picks and I talk
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: about what they're about to face over the next three years.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: The ups and downs, the pressures, the anguish when you
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: go two for twenty, the high when you're tearing it
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: up for a week at Booie and feeling like I
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: can do this. What advice would you give them? And
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: tell them, man, the next two or three years are
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: going to feature this, and here are some ways you
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: can handle that.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's like cliche, but never get too
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: high or too low. You know you hear it all
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the time if you are, because I've done it in
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the past, you know you. I think a lot of
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: people are guilty of it. If if you ride the
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: highs and uh, you know you you feel like the
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: man when you're when you're playing well and then you
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: know two weeks later you're going to get punched in
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: the mouth, and uh, you know it's going to hurt
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: more if if you know, you were riding the high.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: I feel like, so if you can be as neutral
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: as possible no matter what the results are on the field,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: that's where I've found I have the most success.
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: And uh.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Keep my sanity that way, you know, if if you're
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: trying to remain as neutral as possible, but uh, you
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: know was on top of that, I think just showing
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: up every day and uh you know, executing your preparation
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, trying to get better no matter
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: how the how the results are on the field. You
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: know there's gonna be ups and downs, but just keep
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: showing up. Never never, you know, sit there and feel
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: bad for yourself. You know, you gotta keep your foot
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: on the pedal and continue to get your work even
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: when it's not going your way.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I think Birdland could hear how much thought and
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: work and process you put into that. And I am
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: excited to see you del Marvack, Frederick Aberdeen and all
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: these steps and coming to Baltimore and have success. Man,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: that's really cool. You earned it, and hopefully you and
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the Orioles keep riding the high up Detroit through the
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: final two months and we have some fun the rest
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: of the season. Dylan, thanks so much for being on
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Birdland Territory today. We really enjoyed talking with you.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you guys all for having me. It's been fun.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Birdland. Hope you enjoyed that one. I know we did,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and we really appreciate Dylan Beaver's taking time. And we'll
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: see him and the birds at the ballpark this week,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and Tim and Brad I'll see you guys in a
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: few days when we reconvene with another edition of Birdland Territory.