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Chuck & Buck 2-16 Hour 2: Jerry Dipoto, gearing up for the new challenge system and more! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: I heard radio stiction, Garanteed, human Love, sad Alone and
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Speaker 1: any Marsh totally my love springious.
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Speaker 2: She totally confused.
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Speaker 1: She's hey, good morning. We are live from Peoria, Arizona
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Speaker 1: Mariner's spring training coverage. It is underway here on this
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Speaker 1: President's Day. So who do you interview on President's Day?
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Speaker 1: A president? A president joining us now, Jerry Depoto is
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Speaker 1: with us live here at spring training. Great to see you.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 4: It's a joy. It's a joy, beautiful weather. We've been
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Speaker 4: down here a week now and the guys showed out.
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Speaker 4: It's it's spring training is a fun time.
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Speaker 1: It is here, It is here, and it just seems
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Speaker 1: to me I started the show with us today. Maybe
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Speaker 1: I'm reading into it because of the close of last
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Speaker 1: year and the excitement of the offseason and everything else,
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Speaker 1: but it feels like there's a little different air. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like, hey, we got to trace down those astros.
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Speaker 1: It feels like we're the team to beat. Kind of
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Speaker 1: confidence around here. Would you would you agree with that?
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Speaker 4: I would agree with that, you know, without trying to
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Speaker 4: get a little over the top. Yeah, you know, our
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Speaker 4: guys are confident. We we know we have a good team,
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Speaker 4: and we experienced a lot of things last year. We
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Speaker 4: came up a couple out shorts of going to the
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Speaker 4: World Series, and and and that gave our guys that
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Speaker 4: that the confidence necessary to believe that we can go
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Speaker 4: out there and really run it. It's we have we
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Speaker 4: have stars, we have personalities, we have depth, we have pitching.
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Speaker 4: It's a there's a lot of things that we're doing
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Speaker 4: right now, and I think the league around us is noticing.
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Speaker 4: I think generally speaking, we we go in with a
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Speaker 4: pretty favorable outlook on twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 3: Every single player.
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Speaker 2: And I'm sure you carry this even up to being
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Speaker 2: you know, general manager and now print you know president.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the the idea of you have to always
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Speaker 2: be improving. You getting as good as you guys got
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Speaker 2: last year, not good enough. You want it. You have
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Speaker 2: somewhere you need to go. So overarching thoughts on what
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Speaker 2: it was you were wanting to do to improve the squad.
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Speaker 4: You know, we had three big things we wanted to address,
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Speaker 4: and we hit him while we were going into the
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Speaker 4: off season. The number one was bringing back Josh Naylor.
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Speaker 4: You know, uh he cooperated and that happened, you know,
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Speaker 4: early in the off season, which really, you know, made
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Speaker 4: our off season possible because it's a if we were
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Speaker 4: waiting all off season long to see how that turned out,
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Speaker 4: you know, a lot of doors could potentially close, But
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Speaker 4: you know it worked out to our advantage. And and
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Speaker 4: Nails is here for the next five years at least,
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Speaker 4: and and and really has been from the day we
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Speaker 4: acquired him through the start of this camp just a
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Speaker 4: it's a I hate to use something as simple as
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Speaker 4: just a shot in the arm. He just lifts everybody up.
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Speaker 4: He's he's smart, he's he's thoughtful, he's a great teammate,
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Speaker 4: an excellent player. So that was number one. Number two
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Speaker 4: was adding impact at the back end of our bullpen.
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Speaker 4: And we feel like we did that with the acquisition
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Speaker 4: of Jose Ferrer from Washington and obviously cost us a
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Speaker 4: prospect that we held in pretty high regard, but he's
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Speaker 4: was sink and slide and he's got an above average
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Speaker 4: change up and and I feel like with Gabe Spy
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Speaker 4: or Matt Brash, Andre's Munoz Edward Bizardo really gives us
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Speaker 4: that type of back end that you see in championship teams,
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Speaker 4: which was a goal. And then we wanted to add
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Speaker 4: that one more back to lengthen the lineup. And that
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Speaker 4: one took a while.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: It was someone said to me, man the offseason flew.
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Speaker 4: I said, yeah, unless you were sitting waiting for the
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Speaker 4: Cardinals to trade us Brendon Donovan.
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Speaker 1: But that was stretched out a little while.
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Speaker 4: It took a while, but you know, ultimately we landed
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Speaker 4: the guy that we had our eyes set on the
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Speaker 4: whole time. And and here in the early going in
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Speaker 4: spring training, it's it's been worth the wait. He's he's
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Speaker 4: everything we thought he would be from a makeup emotional
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Speaker 4: you know, it's an energy, just a quality player who's
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Speaker 4: a pro and goes about his business the right way.
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Speaker 1: So what do you envision for him and where he
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Speaker 1: plays on the field that.
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Speaker 4: You know in Brendan's case, and I talked to him
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Speaker 4: about this the day we acquired him. You know, we
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Speaker 4: want his focus when he's coming into spring training to
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Speaker 4: be third base. It's a position he has played a
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Speaker 4: fair bit in his career, but not in recent years
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Speaker 4: because he was playing with Nolan Arnauto And I guess
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Speaker 4: when you're playing with a Hall of famer, you don't
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Speaker 4: get the reps. Yeah, but you know, Brendan is. He
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Speaker 4: is like the super Swiss army knife defender who can
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Speaker 4: do just about anything defensively on a field. He's played everywhere.
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Speaker 4: You know, we're not going to ask him to pitch
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Speaker 4: catch or play center, but it's right now we're viewing
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Speaker 4: him as the likely opening day third baseman. And one
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Speaker 4: of the reasons why Brendan was such an appealing target
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Speaker 4: for us in the off season is because of his versatility,
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Speaker 4: it allowed our young players to continue to grow and
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Speaker 4: their growth their assent to the big leagues isn't hindered
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Speaker 4: but by someone blocking them. It's Brendan could just go
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Speaker 4: be a good player and move around the diamond in ways,
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Speaker 4: even if it's playing a different position every day, So
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Speaker 4: that leaves the door open for us to take the
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Speaker 4: big step forward. Brendan makes us a better, more stable
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Speaker 4: team the day he shows up, but our real growth
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Speaker 4: comes from the young players taking steps forward, and that's
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Speaker 4: not hindered by adding Donovan. So then how does that
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Speaker 4: handicap I guess if I were betting in Vegas, Cole
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Speaker 4: Young did good things for us. In middle of the
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Speaker 4: summer last year. There was a four or five week
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Speaker 4: stretch where He played about as good an offensive you know,
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Speaker 4: second base as you can play. He was among the
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Speaker 4: four or five best hitters at his position in the league.
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Speaker 4: And toward the end he took on a little water.
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Speaker 4: He got tired. Obviously, we left him off the postseason
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Speaker 4: roster in favor of Polanco, who was swinging a hot bat.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, it's Cole Young is a good young player.
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Speaker 4: He's twenty two years old. You can tell he took
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Speaker 4: his offseason very seriously. He comes in as the favorite
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Speaker 4: if I were betting man. But there are a lot
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Speaker 4: of good players in this camp, and you know, all
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Speaker 4: age twenty two or younger. Cole Young. I mentioned Michael Arroyo,
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Speaker 4: and obviously Colt Emerson. We're getting Michael some reps at
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Speaker 4: third base. Colt Emerson is taking some reps at third base.
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Speaker 4: He's played both shortstop and second base. Again, versatility is
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Speaker 4: the key.
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Speaker 2: You're talking about Cole Young and how he obviously took
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Speaker 2: the offseason seriously. How about Colt Emerson. Donovan could be
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Speaker 2: a guy that could play second if he plays third base.
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Speaker 2: So how's he looking into the beginning.
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Speaker 4: To camp Like he always looks. He takes everything seriously.
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Speaker 4: You know, Colt works hard. He is He's an incredibly
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Speaker 4: mature player. You'd never know if sitting down that he
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Speaker 4: is twenty years old and has you know, played sparingly
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Speaker 4: above double A. And I think the quality of what
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Speaker 4: he brings in every fast of the game. He hits
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Speaker 4: all the boxes, he runs a little bit, he throws,
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Speaker 4: he plays defense, he's versatile, he hits, he gets on base,
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Speaker 4: he's got some power's and he's young and he picks
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Speaker 4: it up pretty quickly. So you know, we've generally been
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Speaker 4: of the mindset, and this has been a number of
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Speaker 4: years now when guys come in and they're ready to
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Speaker 4: do their thing, and we think they have a chance
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Speaker 4: to be difference making players. We just don't get in
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Speaker 4: their way. Give them, give them the opportunity to go
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Speaker 4: do what they do. You know, and I say that
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Speaker 4: there's some depth on this team that hasn't existed in
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Speaker 4: years past. And we go in as the defending AOS champs.
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Speaker 4: We do have World Series aspirations, and you know, you're
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Speaker 4: gonna have to get it done in order to make
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Speaker 4: your way onto the team, and Colt has both the
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Speaker 4: skill and the focus to make that happen.
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Speaker 1: For our audience's purpose because I think even you and
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Speaker 1: Justin and others are struggling with this. How excited should
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Speaker 1: they be about Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan And how
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Speaker 1: much do we need to limit our excitement for these
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Speaker 1: two players.
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Speaker 4: It's hard to limit the excitement. You know, I'm not
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Speaker 4: one to limit excitement. And you know, as these these
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Speaker 4: last couple of days, as they've thrown their lives, first
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Speaker 4: time throwing live two hitters in a major league camp.
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Speaker 4: Both of them have thrown lives in shoved camp in
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Speaker 4: January headed into early February, but this was the first
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Speaker 4: time to see them throw against major league hitters. They
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Speaker 4: didn't throw against invites or minor league free agents. They
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Speaker 4: threw against guys who played in All Star Games last
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Speaker 4: year and they stood out, which is hard to do
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Speaker 4: in a camp that has this kind of talent. But
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Speaker 4: you know, I'll start with Kate Anderson because he threw first. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: the thing I'll hit with Cad. We just got incredibly
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Speaker 4: lucky that they picked our ping pong ball, lucky that
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Speaker 4: somebody picked the ball. The best pitcher in the country
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Speaker 4: at LSU as an amateur coming out, it was as
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Speaker 4: polished as you're going to see not just what he
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Speaker 4: does on the mound, but who he is as a person,
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Speaker 4: his war habits, his focus. Seemed like a guy that
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Speaker 4: probably wasn't going to stay in the minor leagues for
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Speaker 4: very long. And that's the feel you get when you
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Speaker 4: watch him pitch. There's it's certainly not a guy that's
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Speaker 4: likely to spend much time at the low levels of
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Speaker 4: the minor leagues. And you know, it's it's so sharp.
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Speaker 4: It's all the pitches. It's the precision as fastball gets
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Speaker 4: up to ninety six ninety seven, sits around ninety three
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Speaker 4: ninety four and has a finish to it that you
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Speaker 4: just don't normally see. And the special part about Kaide
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Speaker 4: is the command that he has of his secondary pitches.
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Speaker 4: He's got them all. And you know, he looks like
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Speaker 4: he could pitch in the Atlanta Braves rotation in the
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Speaker 4: nineties and you wouldn't blink. Ryan Sloan three yesterday. Ryan
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Speaker 4: is he's young. He looks like he's twelve, and he
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Speaker 4: throws like he's been in the big leagues for ten years.
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Speaker 4: You know it's it's he's big, he's physical. His first lives,
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Speaker 4: he was ninety seven and ninety nine with explosive fastball.
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Speaker 4: He threw a two seamer that we hadn't really seen
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Speaker 4: before that that again, explosive is the only word I
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Speaker 4: can use. A slider that makes you buckle. It's uh.
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Speaker 4: Both of these guys have the all of the ingredients
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Speaker 4: to pitch at the front of major league rotations. And
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Speaker 4: you know they're they're twenty and twenty one years old.
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Speaker 4: It shouldn't take very long for them to come. But
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Speaker 4: they got. Like we talked about with Colt and the
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Speaker 4: depth that we have around the field, we got five
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Speaker 4: pretty good starters in the big leagues too, which is
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Speaker 4: a good problem to have.
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Speaker 1: Do you ever see Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome? Remember that movie?
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Speaker 1: I remember that there was highlight, there was Master Blaster,
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Speaker 1: and there was this And that's what Ryan Sloane reminds
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Speaker 1: me of because from across the field, Master Blaster, Blaster,
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Speaker 1: well Master was the mind behind it. And then Blaster
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Speaker 1: was this like the Mountain kind of Hulk figure and
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Speaker 1: you sew him from it and everybody was afraid of him.
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Speaker 1: And then he took off his mask and he was
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Speaker 1: just a child. He had this baby face and like
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Speaker 1: he's just a child. Don't hurt him. And when Sloan
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Speaker 1: walked up, I'm like, you look like you're ten years
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Speaker 1: old with a bock U. Yeah, well, and you look
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Speaker 1: like the mountain from the neck down together.
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Speaker 3: He does have that.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: It's when you I'm not the greatest scout in the
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Speaker 4: history of the world, but I've done it for long
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Speaker 4: enough to know that. You know, the easiest thing to
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Speaker 4: identify his physicality. And Ryan Sloan from eighteen years old
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Speaker 4: when we first scouted him had all the physical attributes
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Speaker 4: of a front end major league starter. What we didn't
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Speaker 4: really expect until we got to know him a little
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Speaker 4: bit was how well put together he is, you know, mentally,
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Speaker 4: emotionally he's he's resilient. I think he has the right
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Speaker 4: balance of ready to learn and I've got this, which
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Speaker 4: is a really nice combo.
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Speaker 2: By the way, in case you were wondering, it's pretty
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Speaker 2: obvious to see the pride and the happiness like exude
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Speaker 2: out of you, ooze out of you almost when it
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Speaker 2: comes to you talking about young pictures, that's pretty obvious
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Speaker 2: you were a pitcher at one point in time. When
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Speaker 2: it comes to makeup, I mean I don't know for
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Speaker 2: sure if these young guys that you have have more
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Speaker 2: of a guy to look up to than Cal Rawly.
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Speaker 2: I mean we were talking earlier on our show today
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Speaker 2: just about Cal Rowly and what expectations would be. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you hit sixty homers. You know, he was asking, what
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Speaker 2: do we think an eighty one hundred? I mean, while
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Speaker 2: I don't want to put any limitations on the guy,
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Speaker 2: the makeup of this guy, I mean, it almost feels
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Speaker 2: like he's one that could repeat spectacular historic season.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it would be hard for me to expect any
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Speaker 4: more than sixty one. You know, but I say this
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Speaker 4: about Cal like there's I don't know that you can
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Speaker 4: really put a put a bar on what he can achieve.
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Speaker 4: We saw that last year. What he accomplished last year
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Speaker 4: is so much more than we could have expected the
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Speaker 4: day we drafted him. As he's come through our system.
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Speaker 4: You know, I've said this jokingly over the course of
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Speaker 4: this offseason. You know, Cal went from an awesome secret
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Speaker 4: in the Pacific Northwest, you know, the thirty five homer,
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Speaker 4: platinum glove catcher with great leadership skill who really appeals
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Speaker 4: to every man, to being like an international superstar goes
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Speaker 4: by one name, and you know, it's it's pretty awesome
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Speaker 4: to watch that development. And I'll say this about the
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Speaker 4: effect or the impact that it has on our young kids.
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Speaker 4: It has an effect on the other twenty five players,
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Speaker 4: regardless of their age. You know, he takes it so seriously.
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Speaker 4: His focus, his intensity, his work, it's all just come
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Speaker 4: so far. And he went from being you know, a
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Speaker 4: really good you know, I guess, burgeoning star in our
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Speaker 4: league to becoming a superstar player in a season. And
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Speaker 4: and I don't think that it was a one time thing.
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Speaker 4: This is just his skill set. You know, you've got
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Speaker 4: a switch hitter with power. He really closed up the
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Speaker 4: platoon hole that he had before. You know, he was
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Speaker 4: a much better lefty than than righty hitter, and that
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Speaker 4: is no longer true. He's equally as good from both sides.
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Speaker 4: He controls a run game, he controls a staff, he's prepared.
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Speaker 4: I could say as many good things as you want
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Speaker 4: to say. And the quality of the I guess the
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Speaker 4: example he sets for the young players is really mirrored
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Speaker 4: by our other major league players. You know, those young
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Speaker 4: pitchers we talked about. It's a or Colt Emerson or
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Speaker 4: Cole young. They have cal they have Brian Wu, they
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Speaker 4: have Logan Gilbert, they have a group of players around them,
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Speaker 4: you know that. I think that they all take pride
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Speaker 4: in passing it on paying it forward with those young
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Speaker 4: guys because they lived through it, They grew up in
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Speaker 4: this organization, and I think they take pride in making
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Speaker 4: sure that the next, you know, iteration of the Mariners
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Speaker 4: of the next stage of young player has that same
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Speaker 4: quality when they get their opportunity.
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Speaker 1: What's a scouting grade in terms of intangibles?
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Speaker 3: Eighty?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, eighty, and I say that is true of a
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Speaker 4: couple of our guys, but call it's a no brainer eighty, right,
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Speaker 4: And that was true before before he hit sixty, he
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Speaker 4: was he had eighty intangibles. Then now he's got eighty
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Speaker 4: intangibles and ninety power on an eightiesc Wow.
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Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto is with us here from spring training. I
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Speaker 1: do want to get into a couple of other topics.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully we have time to flush these out the challenge
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Speaker 1: system this year. What's the organizational philosophy on who gets
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Speaker 1: the challenge? When you get the challenge, is it just
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Speaker 1: a couple of players that you're going to give that
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Speaker 1: to at the plate. How are you going to manage
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Speaker 1: that as the organization?
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Speaker 4: Everybody but Randy, Oh yeah, I say that. I say
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Speaker 4: that jokingly. Randy's been you know, Randy's been prone to
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Speaker 4: in the early morning sessions that you may have seen
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Speaker 4: with Kate Anderson or Ryan Sloan, you know, and Randy's
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Speaker 4: been quick to challenge and and he's not always been.
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Speaker 4: But uh, you know, everybody, you know, just like we
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Speaker 4: do with with everything, it's a you know, everybody's going
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Speaker 4: to have the opportunity to to feel it out, to
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Speaker 4: get a sense for it. My guess is that the
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Speaker 4: older players will be more likely to tap it than
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Speaker 4: than than most. But I would say that the young
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Speaker 4: players are the ones who actually have the experience doing it, so,
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Speaker 4: you know, we would encourage those young guys to to
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Speaker 4: kind of show us the way. And it's last spring
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Speaker 4: we had the first taste of this at the major
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Speaker 4: league level and unsurprisingly are eight and Tangible's guy who
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Speaker 4: we just talked about, was believing or not one hundred
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Speaker 4: percent on his challenges. He was always right.
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Speaker 1: I was wondering, you're ever gonna let a pitcher do it?
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Speaker 1: Or he's just gonna let Cal.
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Speaker 4: You know, I don't know why you would let the
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Speaker 4: pitcher do it because the picture and I say this
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Speaker 4: with the mind or the heart of a pitcher. I
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Speaker 4: think every pitch I throw right, especially you know with
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Speaker 4: catchers who framed today, and you know Cal's catching it,
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Speaker 4: and yeah, he has a pretty good sense. I'm sure
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Speaker 4: that we're gonna have a picture that feels strongly enough
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Speaker 4: about it. Then in the moment decides they're going to challenge.
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Speaker 4: But I think Cal has enough control of the game
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Speaker 4: that he's more likely to be the one.
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Speaker 1: WBC this has been a I know, not everybody loves it,
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Speaker 1: especially executives.
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Speaker 4: I think we have more players going to the WBC
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Speaker 4: than any other organization in baseball, which again I think
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Speaker 4: is a pretty awesome thing. It's just it expresses that
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Speaker 4: we have talent, that we're diverse. It's going to leave
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Speaker 4: a big hole in our camp. You know Rob Repschneider,
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Speaker 4: who we signed in the off season. I'm really thrilled
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Speaker 4: to have both in the clubhouse and on the field.
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Speaker 4: Rep said, you know, it's really hard to walk into
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Speaker 4: a new campany has seventy five guys. You got to
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Speaker 4: get to know. I said, yeah, In a couple of days,
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Speaker 4: it's gonna be like fifty, but we are. We're gonna
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Speaker 4: get hit as hard as anybody generally speaking. You just
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Speaker 4: cross your fingers on health. You know, guys are gonna go.
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Speaker 4: And I think right now in the Olympics, if you're
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Speaker 4: watching Olympic hockey, you see Kevin Fiala, you know, went
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Speaker 4: down with a leg injury and he's out for the
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Speaker 4: year for the Kings. That's your biggest fear. Now, I
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Speaker 4: say that, and I flashed back to last Springs, four
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Speaker 4: Nations in hockey, this year's you know, Olympics, the WBC,
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Speaker 4: which comes up every couple of years. There is nothing
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Speaker 4: you can do in preparing for a major league season
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Speaker 4: that that gives you this kind of rush, this kind
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Speaker 4: of competition. It's like playoff and everything that happens is
17:53
Speaker 4: happening at Defcon one, and you can't replicate that in
17:58
Speaker 4: spring training. So you just hope that you can get
18:01
Speaker 4: your guys physically prepared to go do it so that
18:04
Speaker 4: you know injury is less a concern because what's happening
18:07
Speaker 4: on the field is so much better in preparing them
18:09
Speaker 4: for what happens in October than anything we can do here.
18:13
Speaker 1: What is your response to the statement the Dodgers are
18:15
Speaker 1: ruining baseball.
18:17
Speaker 4: I just think they're awesome, you know, and where they're deep,
18:21
Speaker 4: they have stars everywhere. They've done it generally speaking. They're
18:25
Speaker 4: good at scouting, they're good at player development, they're good
18:28
Speaker 4: at roster building. And you know, I get it. You know,
18:31
Speaker 4: it's a their payroll is considerably higher than just about
18:35
Speaker 4: anybody else in the league, and you know, and and
18:37
Speaker 4: very much higher than the teams that are outside the
18:40
Speaker 4: top three or four. I say that, and it's it's
18:44
Speaker 4: hard to be to take shots at what they've built.
18:47
Speaker 4: And you know, and and the people I think they're smart.
18:50
Speaker 4: They've done a good job. They take advantage of the
18:52
Speaker 4: resources they have and the market they work in, and
18:55
Speaker 4: and and they do what they do. You know, I
18:57
Speaker 4: say that There's always been teams like that, you know,
19:00
Speaker 4: in our baseball lives. There's been dominant teams. Sometimes they're
19:03
Speaker 4: big market teams, sometimes they're they're not, But they don't
19:06
Speaker 4: always win the World Series. And you know, it's a
19:09
Speaker 4: it's part of being consistent over time and showing up
19:12
Speaker 4: and just banging down the door. We feel like we
19:15
Speaker 4: have the ability with the roster. We have to go
19:18
Speaker 4: toe to toe with anybody, regardless of the size of
19:20
Speaker 4: their payroll or how many stars they signed.
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Speaker 2: What's the what is the benefit? The deferred money part
19:26
Speaker 2: of it is one thing that I think a lot
19:27
Speaker 2: of fans and myself, I'll just say, well, makes sense,
19:30
Speaker 2: you know, when they have to spend two bucks now and.
19:32
Speaker 4: We don't, you know, lean into deferred payments. I guess
19:36
Speaker 4: deferred payments are payments. You know at some point you're
19:40
Speaker 4: gonna have to pay that bill. And you know, the
19:42
Speaker 4: Dodgers are one of the very few teams in Major
19:45
Speaker 4: League Baseball who have revenue systems where they can reasonably
19:49
Speaker 4: look forward ten, twenty or thirty years and and and believe,
19:54
Speaker 4: all right, we can manage that. You know, if if
19:57
Speaker 4: these deferred payments come due a certain point, they're all
20:01
Speaker 4: hitting and you're ten years out and you are the
20:04
Speaker 4: average major league payroll, you can't manage you know, that
20:08
Speaker 4: part of it. And when you look at what's happening
20:11
Speaker 4: with deferred payments around the league, they have you know,
20:14
Speaker 4: they were trending in the early two thousands. They went
20:18
Speaker 4: away for a reason because they're very hard to manage.
20:20
Speaker 4: But you know, there are a number of teams in
20:22
Speaker 4: the league that I think believe that they can manage
20:25
Speaker 4: that over the long term. They know their finances better
20:27
Speaker 4: than I do, so I'm not one to throw stones.
20:30
Speaker 4: I know that's not something that we feel as realistic
20:32
Speaker 4: an our market. So we'll just try to sign good
20:35
Speaker 4: contracts with players we like and do it in a
20:38
Speaker 4: more traditional way.
20:39
Speaker 1: Well, I got a million other questions for I'm sure
20:41
Speaker 1: Bucky does as well, but we do appreciate the time.
20:45
Speaker 1: We don't have time to get into all of them.
20:47
Speaker 1: I think I just closed with this, what's your man
20:49
Speaker 1: bun policy? For Brendan Donovan? Are you saying is are
20:53
Speaker 1: the Mariners pro man bun anti man bun? What are
20:55
Speaker 1: we going to do with that air of is?
20:58
Speaker 4: You know, we got a couple of man buns, and
21:00
Speaker 4: I'm generally there's I'm open love them all.
21:02
Speaker 3: You know.
21:03
Speaker 4: We get Teddy McGraw, who's an in house, former draft
21:06
Speaker 4: pick of ours, who's in his first major league camp.
21:08
Speaker 4: You know, if he lets it down, it's a glorious flow,
21:11
Speaker 4: you know, and we've we've dubbed him breaking ball Jesus.
21:14
Speaker 4: But you know, when they when they pile the man
21:17
Speaker 4: ball up, man bun up. I I do think it's
21:20
Speaker 4: it works for me, okay, because me it gives me
21:23
Speaker 4: the vibe that we are who we are. And you know,
21:26
Speaker 4: I think if I had to pin Brendan Donovan, and
21:29
Speaker 4: I've known him for all of a couple of weeks
21:31
Speaker 4: in my life, but if I had to thin slice
21:34
Speaker 4: his first week as a Mariner, it's a it is
21:36
Speaker 4: a shocking ability just to come in and be yourself.
21:39
Speaker 4: And and we've always embraced that, We've expressed it in
21:42
Speaker 4: our culture. And and if that means you're gonna wear
21:44
Speaker 4: a man bun, fire away.
21:45
Speaker 1: All right, I got it. I'm glad we cleared that
21:48
Speaker 1: up today. Thank you very much. We appreciate you. Have
21:50
Speaker 1: a great year. Mary de Poto, Executive of the Year
21:53
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22:11
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23:02
Speaker 1: former Mariner Bucky Jacobson Chuck Powell with you. We just
23:04
Speaker 1: chatted with Jerry Depoto. Certainly a lot to react to.
23:09
Speaker 1: I want to start with the challenge system, though I
23:11
Speaker 1: can't wait to discuss this topic throughout the course of
23:14
Speaker 1: the week. That was our first voyage into that topic
23:19
Speaker 1: so far during our coverage, and I love the Everybody
23:23
Speaker 1: Can challenge.
23:24
Speaker 3: But Randy A.
23:25
Speaker 1: Rosary just hilarious. I mean, I think there is going
23:30
Speaker 1: to be a strategy. I think there is going to
23:32
Speaker 1: be all right, We're going to start the season with
23:36
Speaker 1: anybody can challenge except Randy at any time, and I
23:40
Speaker 1: think they're going to start the season it sounds like
23:42
Speaker 1: with only cow can challenge. Why would we go away
23:46
Speaker 1: from somebody with such a command of the strike zone
23:49
Speaker 1: if he's grading out at one hundred percent right when
23:52
Speaker 1: he does practice the challenge system, And so I think
23:56
Speaker 1: that's the way it's going to be. But I do
23:57
Speaker 1: believe it's going to be an evolutionary process for all
24:01
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball teams, and I'm not sure they'll have
24:04
Speaker 1: the same strategy a month into the season as they
24:06
Speaker 1: do right now at the beginning of spring training. And
24:10
Speaker 1: before you respond to that, I probably should just explain
24:13
Speaker 1: they are going to have a ball strike challenging system
24:17
Speaker 1: this year in Major League Baseball. They have adopted it.
24:20
Speaker 1: They're not doing the automatic strike zone to replace the
24:24
Speaker 1: home played umpire, but they are like they've done in
24:27
Speaker 1: the minor leagues in the past, that you do have
24:29
Speaker 1: an opportunity as a hitter, a catcher, or a pitcher.
24:33
Speaker 1: Nobody else can challenge it. Nobody from the bench, no manager,
24:36
Speaker 1: those are the only three people that can challenge a
24:38
Speaker 1: ball or strike call just made by the official that
24:43
Speaker 1: is going to be a part of the twenty twenty
24:45
Speaker 1: six Major League Baseball season, and it could be wild.
24:49
Speaker 2: It's going to be crazy, and yet I'm here for it.
24:52
Speaker 2: I mean, usually a lot of times I don't like
24:54
Speaker 2: changes to the game that I love. This is one
24:56
Speaker 2: where there's a bunch of key moments in games where
25:01
Speaker 2: the difference between a two to one pitch turning your
25:03
Speaker 2: count to three to one versus two to two bases
25:06
Speaker 2: loaded bottom of the ninth inning a couple guys on
25:09
Speaker 2: is crazy, and yet it's understandable. There's humans back there.
25:12
Speaker 2: We don't go full robot, and so this is this
25:15
Speaker 2: is kind of a middle ground of saying, Okay, we're
25:17
Speaker 2: gonna give you. I think it's three strikes, and the
25:19
Speaker 2: minor leagues I know it was you basically had three
25:21
Speaker 2: times that you could get it out, you could get
25:23
Speaker 2: it wrong, and then you're out of challenges as a team,
25:25
Speaker 2: not you individually, not pert bat, not inning the whole game.
25:29
Speaker 2: It was three different times that you get it wrong
25:31
Speaker 2: and then you're out of challenges, is what it was.
25:33
Speaker 2: In the minor leagues. Now if they have that same
25:35
Speaker 2: where it's just three. I think it goes into the
25:37
Speaker 2: season is if you think the umpire screwed you, right
25:41
Speaker 2: as you're a hitter, you think he screwed you, or
25:42
Speaker 2: you're a pitcher, or you're the catcher, you can tap
25:44
Speaker 2: your helmet and then we're going to kind of play
25:48
Speaker 2: this out as how many times how good you are
25:51
Speaker 2: at it?
25:51
Speaker 3: You know he's joking.
25:52
Speaker 2: Jerry Depoto's joking a little bit with Randy rose Reena
25:55
Speaker 2: because he thinks everything that is called a strike is
25:57
Speaker 2: a ball and he's not correct. He's not great at it,
26:01
Speaker 2: and so I think they're still going to to let
26:03
Speaker 2: Randy rose Renaz start the season with Hey, if you
26:06
Speaker 2: if you think they got it wrong, then you can
26:09
Speaker 2: go ahead and challenge it. But you're right a month
26:11
Speaker 2: end of the season, if you start proving that you're
26:13
Speaker 2: wasting our challenges, then you're not gonna get to do
26:16
Speaker 2: it anymore. You're just flat out sorry. You got to
26:19
Speaker 2: kind of wear it a little bit. When it comes
26:20
Speaker 2: to the pictures, I think Jerry's right on with that too.
26:23
Speaker 2: Every picture when a guy frames it and it's pretty
26:25
Speaker 2: darn close and we're talking a half inch off the plate.
26:27
Speaker 2: That's of course that's a strike. Cow's just going to
26:30
Speaker 2: know if it's a strike or not. He's gonna know,
26:32
Speaker 2: and then he's going to play it the way where Okay,
26:35
Speaker 2: first inning, nobody on, two outs and you paint one
26:39
Speaker 2: and I think it's on, but it might be a
26:40
Speaker 2: half inch off.
26:41
Speaker 3: I'm not.
26:41
Speaker 2: I'm not challenging that one. Throw another one, throw another one,
26:44
Speaker 2: and I don't think guy's gonna hit it now. So
26:46
Speaker 2: you're not wasting your challenges until you get later on
26:48
Speaker 2: in the game and there's more meaningful, more impactful times
26:51
Speaker 2: when you most certainly want to use it.
26:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do wonder if we will get to the
26:56
Speaker 1: point where it will be fine. I mean, I mean
26:59
Speaker 1: what I'll hires, miss balls and strike calls per game?
27:02
Speaker 1: I mean a dozen, yeah, you know, a dozen out
27:06
Speaker 1: of all the calls that they make in the in
27:09
Speaker 1: the National Football League. You don't have that many calls
27:13
Speaker 1: that you're going to challenge in the National Football League
27:16
Speaker 1: per game. And I do wonder if they'll get to
27:18
Speaker 1: the point where not only do have you forfeited your
27:25
Speaker 1: right to challenge because we don't trust you know, the
27:28
Speaker 1: strike zone as well as you think you do. I
27:31
Speaker 1: wonder if it will get to the point where like, nope,
27:33
Speaker 1: nobody but Cal or Julio get to challenge because we're
27:37
Speaker 1: going to save opportunities for them. You know, with runners
27:40
Speaker 1: in scoring position, you know, if you'll get so, Cal's
27:44
Speaker 1: the only person that can challenge. No pitchers can challenge.
27:46
Speaker 3: Uh.
27:47
Speaker 1: And then offensively through at least through the first three
27:50
Speaker 1: or four innings. We you know, you better not be
27:53
Speaker 1: challenging with the bases empty and you're already in the hole.
27:57
Speaker 1: Oh two, you better not be challenging at that stage.
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Speaker 1: We need to save those four run scoring opportunities. I
28:05
Speaker 1: do wonder if it will evolve into that. I don't
28:08
Speaker 1: know if it will, but I do wonder if it
28:10
Speaker 1: will evolve it.
28:10
Speaker 2: Well, there's gonna be a strategy, You're right, I think
28:14
Speaker 2: initially though, it has to be like you have to
28:15
Speaker 2: earn you have to basically earn the distrust of your
28:19
Speaker 2: your team and you not using them wisely. I don't
28:22
Speaker 2: care if it's oh, I mean a first pitch, the
28:25
Speaker 2: guy dots it at your knees, but it's an inch
28:27
Speaker 2: off the plate and the guy calls a strike because
28:29
Speaker 2: it was framed up. Okay, well that's one oh is
28:32
Speaker 2: different than O one, And so if you want to
28:34
Speaker 2: use a challenge, they're fine. I think it actually is two.
28:37
Speaker 2: I think in the big leagues it's gonna be two
28:39
Speaker 2: allotted misses, right, So yeah, you you basically have one
28:42
Speaker 2: screw up before the next screw up been you're out
28:44
Speaker 2: of challenges. So yeah, they're going to most certainly if
28:47
Speaker 2: you're if you do it and then you abuse it
28:49
Speaker 2: and you're wrong, and you all of a sudden you're
28:52
Speaker 2: selfishly putting your your own at bats or your own
28:55
Speaker 2: innings pitched out there above what the team is needing,
28:59
Speaker 2: then yeah, they're gonna ain't it in Hey, Yeah, you know,
29:01
Speaker 2: if a pitcher just keeps going to his helmet every
29:03
Speaker 2: single time he thinks it's a strike and it's like
29:06
Speaker 2: your's hat, and he keeps costing the team those challenges,
29:10
Speaker 2: then they're gonna be like, you don't do it anymore.
29:12
Speaker 3: Cow's got you.
29:13
Speaker 2: That almost seems automatic to me, where they'll just trust
29:16
Speaker 2: that col will do it when he needs to do it,
29:18
Speaker 2: and nobody's gonna get mad when he's not one hundred
29:20
Speaker 2: percent when he gets one wrong, and he has had
29:22
Speaker 2: twenty right before that. The hitting side of it is
29:25
Speaker 2: one that is going to be tougher because it's not
29:27
Speaker 2: as easy to be the umpire well you're actually trying
29:29
Speaker 2: to hit. And yet as a pitcher, you can execute
29:32
Speaker 2: your pitch and you're in the middle of finishing that
29:35
Speaker 2: and the guy that's catching it that has the best view,
29:38
Speaker 2: even better than the umpire's view.
29:40
Speaker 3: That guy gets the challenge.
29:41
Speaker 2: As a hitter, it's different because you got to really
29:44
Speaker 2: really know the strike zone. So I think some guys
29:46
Speaker 2: are going to be better at it, and those that
29:48
Speaker 2: aren't are gonna get their leash tightened up a little
29:50
Speaker 2: bit when they start screwing him.
29:51
Speaker 1: As a former player, do you like it? Do you
29:53
Speaker 1: not like it? Too far? Not far enough?
29:55
Speaker 2: I like it, and I think it's a perfect bridge
29:58
Speaker 2: to where they're going to a vent. I think that,
30:01
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe this will be enough, Maybe this will
30:04
Speaker 2: be enough when we don't have to go to the
30:05
Speaker 2: full blown robot strike zone. But I most certainly like it.
30:09
Speaker 2: There's there's, like I said far too many times, I mean,
30:12
Speaker 2: it's it's difficult for an umpire to call a game
30:14
Speaker 2: and be perfect. Very rarely does it happen and understandably.
30:17
Speaker 2: So the ball is moving and you literally have a
30:19
Speaker 2: guy sitting right in front of you that's kind of
30:21
Speaker 2: blocking you a little bit from where it is. They're
30:23
Speaker 2: all every catch is trying to frame it and make
30:25
Speaker 2: it look like a strike every single time. It's kind
30:27
Speaker 2: of one hundred miles an hour. It's not easy to
30:29
Speaker 2: do that job and be perfect at it. And so
30:31
Speaker 2: while I want to grant them some grace, I also
30:34
Speaker 2: don't want them taken and changing my bat in the
30:37
Speaker 2: most key crucial moment of a game by calling a
30:40
Speaker 2: ball a strike, and so and vice versa. If I
30:42
Speaker 2: was a pitcher, I'm on defense and my guy makes
30:45
Speaker 2: a pitch and it's two to one and you call it.
30:48
Speaker 3: A ball and that was a strike.
30:49
Speaker 2: I want I want cal to be able to challenge
30:51
Speaker 2: that thing and get that count where it's supposed to
30:53
Speaker 2: be in that situation. So it's I think it's moving
30:55
Speaker 2: in the direction. Not expecting them to be perfect, But
30:58
Speaker 2: all right, well, I can challenge you now, and I
31:00
Speaker 2: can basically I can correct one of your mistakes if needed.
31:03
Speaker 1: It's Chuck Powell, it's Bucky Jacobson. We are live from
31:05
Speaker 1: Mariner Spring Training. We're gonna be here all week long.
31:08
Speaker 1: We've gotten an underway here on this Monday. We've got
31:11
Speaker 1: so much more from Peoria coming your way, including the
31:14
Speaker 1: talks of camp, the buzz creators. We're gonna have them
31:17
Speaker 1: both on at the same time. Coming up at eight
31:19
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31:29
Speaker 1: Bucky Jacobson live from Peoria, Arizona Spring training coverage continues.
31:34
Speaker 1: So whatever little technical issue we had, we do believe
31:37
Speaker 1: fingers crossed that we might have solved that sucker. And so, yeah,
31:41
Speaker 1: we've been on the air with you, but it should
31:43
Speaker 1: be one hundred percent crystal clear from this point forward.
31:45
Speaker 1: We shall see. We've got Kate Anderson and Ryan Sloan,
31:49
Speaker 1: the buzz at camp being created by these two prospects,
31:52
Speaker 1: pitching prospects. They're gonna come your way today at eight
31:55
Speaker 1: o'clock this morning. And I do believe we're gonna chat
31:58
Speaker 1: with the Rizzer as well. Rick riz Uh. He's gonna
32:01
Speaker 1: be a major storyline this baseball season in Seattle, so
32:06
Speaker 1: I think he's coming on with us in the nine
32:07
Speaker 1: o'clock hour, and you never know what other surprises that
32:10
Speaker 1: we're gonna launch at you. We're gonna come at you
32:12
Speaker 1: like a spider monkey on Mountain Dew.
32:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you never know.
32:20
Speaker 1: You never know what's gonna happen. But yes, we're settling
32:24
Speaker 1: in here to our spring training coverage here on a Monday,
32:28
Speaker 1: very excited about it. And uh, certainly as you walk
32:32
Speaker 1: around the grounds, uh you you see the different players
32:36
Speaker 1: and who took it seriously this offseason. We really are
32:40
Speaker 1: because we haven't really discussed this aspect of it yet
32:43
Speaker 1: on our show this morning. The body changes and I
32:46
Speaker 1: know people always look forward to this part. We got
32:49
Speaker 1: to be their eyes and ears out here, and you know,
32:54
Speaker 1: we are kind of long past the day where guys
32:56
Speaker 1: come in looking worse. I asked Pete Woodwork off the air, like,
33:01
Speaker 1: who do you think has changed the body the most
33:04
Speaker 1: in the off season? Did the most? And he goes,
33:06
Speaker 1: they all do.
33:06
Speaker 3: Now.
33:07
Speaker 1: They all add muscle, like every off season, they do
33:10
Speaker 1: something different to get stronger and you know, or maybe
33:13
Speaker 1: correct something. So it's not really an issue like it
33:16
Speaker 1: used to be when guys used to you know, smack
33:19
Speaker 1: a smoke a pack of Marlborough's a day and work
33:22
Speaker 1: at the factory in the off season, and they had
33:24
Speaker 1: to come in here and get in shape. You never
33:25
Speaker 1: know what kind of body you're gonna get back in
33:27
Speaker 1: the day. But with these guys, I mean, they're all
33:31
Speaker 1: pretty fit. But I have noticed a couple that have
33:33
Speaker 1: changed certainly.
33:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, they definitely put the work in. I mean, you're right,
33:38
Speaker 2: we're long ways past. I mean, we just have more information.
33:41
Speaker 2: Even back from when I played. I mean when I
33:44
Speaker 2: met my wife, I was talking to her about how
33:47
Speaker 2: we worked out right, and she was a you know,
33:50
Speaker 2: Olympic caliber thrower at University of Wyoming. When she's talking about, so,
33:55
Speaker 2: you guys, you lift heavy, right, everyone's on you max
33:58
Speaker 2: kind of stress your body. My Nope, nope. They told us,
34:01
Speaker 2: don't ever lift heavy. Don't want to get bulky. It's
34:03
Speaker 2: a it's a marathon, not a sprint. So you don't
34:06
Speaker 2: do you don't lift like that. You lift for endurance.
34:08
Speaker 2: And she's like, well that doesn't make you sense, like
34:10
Speaker 2: you're just you're just not getting stronger. And I'm like,
34:12
Speaker 2: these are like billion dollar organizations, Okay, I think they
34:15
Speaker 2: know what they're doing with their athletes. It's like, but
34:17
Speaker 2: they don't, and so we know I argued with her.
34:21
Speaker 2: Now I have just admitted you were right, because now
34:23
Speaker 2: they do that.
34:24
Speaker 1: Now they show them the hamster wheels she made, the
34:27
Speaker 1: tread hamster treadmill. I can't believe they don't have one,
34:30
Speaker 1: like three of them because people will stand in line.
34:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, get blocked down. Yeah, it would get way too packed.
34:36
Speaker 2: You got to make more than one of those, Kate.
34:38
Speaker 2: But I think the the idea of how much science
34:42
Speaker 2: goes into your body and then now all the supplements
34:45
Speaker 2: and the things that you can take to kind of
34:47
Speaker 2: improve your health and and improve your overall performance. But
34:50
Speaker 2: it's legal, it's under the you know, it's it's under
34:53
Speaker 2: the line of things that are available and allowable. I
34:58
Speaker 2: think that, yeah, everybody pretty much takes it in to consideration. Alley,
35:01
Speaker 2: this is my this is the vehicle that's gonna make
35:04
Speaker 2: me millions of dollars. I'm gonna go ahead and make
35:06
Speaker 2: sure that I have this thing running on super fuel.
35:08
Speaker 2: And I think that everybody comes in in shape compared
35:11
Speaker 2: to back in the day. Back in the day, like
35:14
Speaker 2: you said, a lot of people worked at a factory
35:15
Speaker 2: in yeah season, even my day that wasn't the case,
35:18
Speaker 2: but you still you didn't necessarily know as much. There
35:21
Speaker 2: wasn't as much information out there, and some of the
35:23
Speaker 2: information wasn't even correct. And so nowadays, I think I
35:25
Speaker 2: got the right information for the most part, and they're
35:27
Speaker 2: coming in ready to rock and roll.
35:29
Speaker 1: I think the person that kind of stood out with
35:31
Speaker 1: me the most in terms of change from last year
35:34
Speaker 1: Bryce Miller. I mean, as soon as he walked up
35:36
Speaker 1: to us yesterday, I'm like, you've put on some muscle.
35:39
Speaker 1: He goes, yes, I have.
35:41
Speaker 3: A little bit, I really.
35:42
Speaker 1: Have, you know, you know, usually Clint Eastwood, we never
35:47
Speaker 1: worried about Clint Eastwood's pecks. You know, he was just
35:50
Speaker 1: such a cool, smooth mother blanker, you know what I mean.
35:54
Speaker 1: And that's Bryce Miller. That's my nickname for Bryce Miller,
35:57
Speaker 1: Clint Eastwood. But he decided it looked like Clint Eastood
36:00
Speaker 1: got him a bowflex this offseason. It was noticeable to me.
36:05
Speaker 1: I mean, not like he wasn't bulky. I don't think
36:08
Speaker 1: Bryce could get bulky, but you could tell that they're
36:11
Speaker 1: a little vantage going down the arms, and he just
36:15
Speaker 1: kind of filled out his shirt a little bit more so.
36:17
Speaker 1: I think strength was a priority for him, and to me,
36:20
Speaker 1: of the guys I've seen thus far, he might be
36:22
Speaker 1: the one that popped to me yesterday.
36:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, he definitely there was a part of it that
36:28
Speaker 2: stood out for sure. I mean, I think that typically
36:31
Speaker 2: if you see somebody coming off a year that one
36:34
Speaker 2: you went through injury or you just have a down year, right,
36:37
Speaker 2: and he was. He had an injury and it kind
36:39
Speaker 2: of played He pitched through it a little bit, I
36:41
Speaker 2: think when there were other guys heard at the beginning
36:43
Speaker 2: of the season and and it affected his performance, his outcome.
36:46
Speaker 2: I don't think that he was one hundred percent, and
36:48
Speaker 2: yet I think he was. He was closer to being
36:51
Speaker 2: capable to take the ball than a lot of other
36:54
Speaker 2: guys were, and so he kind of wore it for
36:55
Speaker 2: the team a little bit. But you have an off
36:58
Speaker 2: season with that lingering it, it most certainly fuels you
37:01
Speaker 2: going into the offseason. You most certainly are like, I'm
37:03
Speaker 2: not going through that again, and so I'm gonna get
37:05
Speaker 2: my body one hundred percent ready and make sure that
37:09
Speaker 2: it's going to hold up. And then you also gain
37:11
Speaker 2: the confidence of when you're standing on the bumper or
37:13
Speaker 2: digging in the box where you know, you did the
37:15
Speaker 2: work you needed to do to get yourself ready to
37:17
Speaker 2: go out there and compete at the highest level.
37:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I thought Andre's munnos looked a little
37:23
Speaker 1: more fit. I asked him, like, day, did you put it?
37:24
Speaker 1: And He's like, no, not really so, but I don't know.
37:28
Speaker 1: We shall see with him going forward. Didn't get too
37:32
Speaker 1: much exposure to Andre's say, yesterday, but we'll certainly try
37:36
Speaker 1: to get him on the radio program here before the
37:39
Speaker 1: end of the week. But yes, all of those sorts
37:42
Speaker 1: of things that go into the first couple of days
37:44
Speaker 1: at spring training, We're going to be your eyes and
37:46
Speaker 1: ears out here for all of this. Mainly, the main
37:50
Speaker 1: story with the pictures is like every single one of
37:53
Speaker 1: them either proposed or had a baby this offseason, Like
37:57
Speaker 1: what on earth? So I think before, especially on pictures day,
38:00
Speaker 1: gonna you know what, We're gonna get to the bottom
38:01
Speaker 1: of who's the most romantic picture? And the Mariners starting rotation. Yeah,
38:06
Speaker 1: I'm gonna grade their proposals. Oh yeah, yeah for them
38:10
Speaker 1: right in front of their faces.
38:11
Speaker 2: That's how Bryce's was in like a canyon, yeah, like
38:14
Speaker 2: with a river flowing uh huh.
38:16
Speaker 1: That's what would take his woman right there, just ride
38:20
Speaker 1: his horse out into the canyon.
38:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I bet Woo's was Did we get engaged?
38:25
Speaker 1: No, I think Woo's just having way too much fun
38:27
Speaker 1: being Woo being Woo Woo Woo. Gilbert had a baby,
38:32
Speaker 1: Logan had a baby.
38:34
Speaker 2: Just Emerson Hancock had a baby too, busting with pride in.
38:37
Speaker 3: Niles named him Miles whatever that's after master Bony.
38:41
Speaker 1: Uh oh, I don't know, maybe yeah, but uh really
38:45
Speaker 1: disappointed going on around here? Oh disappointed? I mean I
38:48
Speaker 1: thought we were close with Emerson. I think that uh
38:51
Speaker 1: Bucky Bucky Charles Hancock's got a nice ring to it,
38:54
Speaker 1: and I think he let us down.
38:56
Speaker 3: Yeah I didn't.
38:57
Speaker 2: I didn't bring that up, but the next time I
38:59
Speaker 2: see him, I didn't think about that.
39:01
Speaker 3: How we got screwed in the.
39:02
Speaker 1: Deal, just when I thought I knew Emerson.
39:04
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you name him after Miles Master Bony. You
39:06
Speaker 2: played with that guy for like one season. We've interviewed
39:09
Speaker 2: you six times. Yeah, yeah, all right.
39:10
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39:14
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