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New White Sox P Anthony Kay: Back from Japan, Hyping Murakami · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: New member of the Chicago White Sox, Anthony K joining
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  Speaker 1: us right now on Foul Territory. Anthony, Great to have
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  Speaker 1: you on the show. Congratulations on the off season contract.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing.
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  Speaker 1: Has the off season going for you now that you're
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  Speaker 1: joining up with the White Sox?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how's it going, guys? Thanks for having me. Everything's
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  Speaker 3: going good over here. Starting to ramp up a little
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  Speaker 3: bit and get going, and yeah, everything's been pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let you lay out your story first, Anthony. Can
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  Speaker 1: you explain to the fans what you've gone through in
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  Speaker 1: your journey through Major League Baseball and then overseas and back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I pretty much have gone through it all.
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  Speaker 3: You know, traded DFAD a bunch of times, released, and
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  Speaker 3: then went overseas for two years, so you know, I've
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  Speaker 3: pretty much seen it all at this point.
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  Speaker 2: What happened out there, I mean it.
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  Speaker 3: Was just a great experience. You know, the bass stars
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  Speaker 3: really true. Ge me great. They let me, you know,
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  Speaker 3: become a starter again and I kind of just you know,
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  Speaker 3: worked some things out. Uh, you know, kind of was
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  Speaker 3: able to stretch out again as a starter and you know,
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  Speaker 3: just kind of figured it out a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: We talk about we talk about guys. Oh, you go
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  Speaker 4: over there, you make a change, you get some new
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  Speaker 4: Mizuno cleats, you have a pause or all that stuff, hitters, pitchers,
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  Speaker 4: whatever it is. Before you were going over there, What
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  Speaker 4: did it look like, because we rarely talk about we
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  Speaker 4: to talk about the success. What did it look like
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  Speaker 4: for you at the end of twenty three? Like, are
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  Speaker 4: you like, you know, I want to be a starter?
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  Speaker 4: They see me as a reliever. What were teams telling
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  Speaker 4: you to ultimately make you say, I'm going over to
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  Speaker 4: Japan because that option is now open.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So twenty three I was that was like my
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  Speaker 3: first full year as being a reliever. But at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the year, I got dfaid and was a
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  Speaker 3: free agent, and I had a couple of minor league deals.
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  Speaker 3: There were a couple of teams that were gonna let me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of work it out as a starter
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  Speaker 3: in Triple A. But you know, obviously I chose to
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  Speaker 3: go to Japan for you know, just a better opportunity
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  Speaker 3: compared to, you know, playing in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 5: Anthony, let me be the first to welcome to the
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  Speaker 5: White Sox okay as a proud White Sox man. Welcome
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  Speaker 5: to the White Sox. What they do in Japan?
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  Speaker 2: What? What?
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  Speaker 5: What was the difference in Japan that you think unlocked
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  Speaker 5: your potential that people obviously thought was there. You were
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  Speaker 5: in the big leagues, you were up and down and
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  Speaker 5: teams kept giving you an opportunity. So what did they
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  Speaker 5: do in Japan then unlocked your potential?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? For me, I kind of struggled a little bit
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  Speaker 3: when I first got over there. You know a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those guys were you know, they foul a lot
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  Speaker 3: of pitches off they're they're over there, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: trying to get pitch counts up a bunch, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was still kind of trying to pitch how I
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  Speaker 3: was in America, chasing strikeouts and you know, I like
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  Speaker 3: to a little bit more walks and and about halfway
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  Speaker 3: through my first year there, you know, I kind of
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  Speaker 3: did a little This was just checking everyone else out
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  Speaker 3: around the league and seeing how they were having success.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, those guys, you know, were throwing as
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  Speaker 3: hard as me. You know, I feel like some of
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  Speaker 3: them didn't have you know, as good as stuff as me.
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  Speaker 3: And I was just kind of wondering, you know, what
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  Speaker 3: the difference was, and I mean I just kind of
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  Speaker 3: came to the conclusion that, you know, I needed another pitch.
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  Speaker 3: So I had developed you know, the two seam sinker
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  Speaker 3: thing that I throw now, and I think that kind of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, changed everything. It helped me, you know, be
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  Speaker 3: more aggressive in the zone and you know, get a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more contact and go deeper into games.
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  Speaker 4: Did you have to do that on your own or
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  Speaker 4: was there or was there a coach, pitching coach somebody
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  Speaker 4: that helped you develop that over there?
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  Speaker 3: I think the the idea of it was kind of
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  Speaker 3: on my own, but they, you know, they have all
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  Speaker 3: the analytics and stuff over there also to kind of
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  Speaker 3: helped me, you know, work on it and get the
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  Speaker 3: shapes that I wanted.
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  Speaker 4: What are you going to miss the most about Japan?
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  Speaker 4: What are you because players always come over it's look,
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  Speaker 4: obviously you got to your big league deal. That's cool.
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  Speaker 4: You're back in the States, it's cooler. But what are
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  Speaker 4: you going to miss the most about your time there
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  Speaker 4: that if you had gone back you're like, ah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is nice.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. Probably the fans. I mean every single game over
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  Speaker 3: there is packed out. You know, they're doing all their
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  Speaker 3: chant their team chants and you know they're playing their
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  Speaker 3: instruments out in the outfield. I think you know that
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  Speaker 3: experience of the fans was just incredible.
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  Speaker 4: Then you signed with the White Sox. There's no fans
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  Speaker 4: with the White Sox. So sorry, sorry to be the
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  Speaker 4: first one. He hey J invited you or was the
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  Speaker 4: first one to welcome you, but there ain't no fans.
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  Speaker 4: So maybe you need to find a fan section. What
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  Speaker 4: would be your fans section called in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think they got to come up with something. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like you can't create your own, right. I feel like,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: Some guys do.
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  Speaker 5: Hold like a club our director, hold him, hold special, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: hold up, hold what listen Anthony as as Strong Island
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  Speaker 5: Natives and White Sox players, tell crats the fuck right off. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: because listen, we got us strong Island people. We got
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  Speaker 5: to stick together, right, us White Sox people, we got
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  Speaker 5: to stick together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: When Crafts played in Philly, there was no people cheering
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  Speaker 5: for him either. Okay, so he can fuck right off.
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  Speaker 5: Now what the stadium was, what I was there at
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  Speaker 5: twenty fifteen, There wasn't a fucking person in the stands,
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  Speaker 5: in Philly. I was they weren't there to watch Mickel
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  Speaker 5: Franco get hit act like he got hit in the
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  Speaker 5: head when he didn't. Okay, let's be on now. Stop. Okay, So, Anthony,
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  Speaker 5: you have a new teammate, mar Commy. Did you face
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  Speaker 5: him in Japan? Give us White Sox fans a scouting
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  Speaker 5: report on what we can expect, because there's gonna be
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  Speaker 5: fans there now because you have Anthony k pitching every
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  Speaker 5: fifth day and you have more comedy coming up there
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  Speaker 5: to hit a bombs at first base.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's got probably the most power I've
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  Speaker 3: ever seen. I faced him a bunch my first year.
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  Speaker 3: I only got to face him one time this year
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  Speaker 3: because you know, he had an injury. But I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's got so much power. Thankfully for me, I kept
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  Speaker 3: him in the yard a bunch. But you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: still I think, hit like four hundred off of me
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  Speaker 3: with a bunch of walks. So, I mean, I don't see.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of people obviously were skeptical about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what he can do and in the big leagues,
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  Speaker 3: But I don't see why, you know, his game won't
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  Speaker 3: translate to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, who had who hadn't the second one? You said
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  Speaker 4: he had the most power you've ever seen, So for
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  Speaker 4: people to like equate it to guys here in the
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  Speaker 4: big leagues who had the second most power.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't get to see any of Murakami's VP,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm assuming it's probably something similar. It could be
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  Speaker 3: something similar to like Vladdie. I mean, his power in
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  Speaker 3: Toronto was ridiculous to watch.
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  Speaker 2: That's Anthony.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think teams weren't as interested in him
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  Speaker 1: as anticipated? Like, were you surprised when you saw the
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  Speaker 1: contract that he signed? I mean many of the public
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  Speaker 1: guesses were one hundred plus mil. And he's young, so
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna play on a two year contract. Hopefully for
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  Speaker 1: White Sox fans, they keep him and extend him. But
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  Speaker 1: otherwise he hits free agency again and you might see
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  Speaker 1: the dude hit thirty forty fifty home runs. But I
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  Speaker 1: get it they're swinging misconcerns. What do you think held
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  Speaker 1: teams back? And how do you think he's going to
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  Speaker 1: counter that? Like what is he going to have to
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  Speaker 1: do to not just prove himself, but to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that he can handle big league pitching, which is different
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  Speaker 1: from pitching in the MPB.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, there were some concerns about
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  Speaker 3: him catching up the VLO. I mean, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: he had any problems against me with that, so I
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  Speaker 3: don't I don't see why it was a concern. But
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  Speaker 3: I mean I also thought em I was going to
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  Speaker 3: get a little bit more money too, So I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, maybe there just weren't as many teams interested
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  Speaker 3: as they would have thought. But I mean, Yamamoto was
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  Speaker 3: special coming out. I think teams kind of are you know,
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  Speaker 3: people are kind of just overvalued how much they were
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  Speaker 3: going to get just because they were, you know, kind
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  Speaker 3: of assuming something like Yamamoto would happen.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, what about the other guys it came over?
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  Speaker 5: Did you face them? Am I? You mentioned to my
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  Speaker 5: Hakamoto for the Blue Jays? Did you face him? Did
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  Speaker 5: you see my pitch? Give us a sketch? Because we
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  Speaker 5: don't know much about him, so you can watch tape,
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  Speaker 5: but you actually had been on the field in the
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  Speaker 5: stadium with a talking about these other guys come over.
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  Speaker 3: Imai was on the other side of the league, so
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  Speaker 3: we only get to face those guys once. He pitched
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  Speaker 3: against us one time, and I think he struck out
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  Speaker 3: like sixteen, so I mean obviously was super impressed with
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  Speaker 3: what he had. I mean, he's like anywhere from like
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  Speaker 3: ninety four to ninety six can run it up to
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  Speaker 3: like one hundred when he wants to. Uh, he's got
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  Speaker 3: like that backwards slider thing that some guys are starting
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  Speaker 3: to throw now. It's like a super unique pitch for him,
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  Speaker 3: and he had a lot of success with it in Japan,
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  Speaker 3: So I think, uh, I think he's gonna he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be really good over here. Also, and then Okamoto too,
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's I feel like he's just like a
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  Speaker 3: more you know, polished Murrakami, Like he's got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of power. He's just you know, I feel like an
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  Speaker 3: older version of of what you're gonna get from Murakami.
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  Speaker 4: You're turning into a Japanese scout here, all right. All
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  Speaker 4: those guys, Kimoto, they came over, Emi came over, and
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  Speaker 4: your new teammate came over, more Commy came over. Who's
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  Speaker 4: the guy that impressed you the most? Over there? That
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  Speaker 4: people are like because as soon as these guys are
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  Speaker 4: done signing, they're signing periods over Ah, we.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of stop.
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  Speaker 4: But you played the entire season over there, and you're like,
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  Speaker 4: this guy's dangerous, that could bust onto the scene here.
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  Speaker 3: I mean mur Commy he had. I think he played
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  Speaker 3: like only like fifty games this year and hit like
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  Speaker 3: twenty five home runs. So I mean that stretch that
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  Speaker 3: he had this year was so impressive to watch. And
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's not hitting any cheap ones either. We
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  Speaker 3: had kind of like a little bit of a dead
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  Speaker 3: ball over there, so he wasn't getting cheated on any
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  Speaker 3: of those home runs.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make sure our audience also knows how
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  Speaker 1: successful your run was.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: I have you as second best RA among starting pitchers
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  Speaker 1: one seven forty RA, one hundred and fifty five innings,
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  Speaker 1: twenty two k rate. I mean, you dominated out there,
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  Speaker 1: and there were multiple reports that teams in Japan did
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  Speaker 1: not want to see you leave. So how difficult was
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  Speaker 1: that part of it? I mean there were reports that
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  Speaker 1: you had better money offers, but you wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: back to Major League Baseball. Can you take us through
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  Speaker 1: that decision process and how difficult it was to potentially
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  Speaker 1: turn down more money to return to the US.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean after the end of the day.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Japan's great. You know, my two years there
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  Speaker 3: were incredible, but at the end of the day, it's
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  Speaker 3: so far away, you know, just being away from my
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  Speaker 3: family for you know, a couple more years. I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, me and my wife had to have like
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  Speaker 3: a legit heart to heart and you know, kind of
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  Speaker 3: figure out like what we truly wanted. And I think
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  Speaker 3: you know, we wanted to, you know, come back to
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  Speaker 3: the big leagues.
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  Speaker 5: Why not? I mean, let's it's got to be hard.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I know people that have gone to Japan
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  Speaker 5: and there, some people love it, some people hate it,
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  Speaker 5: the food, the culture, But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 5: everybody seems to want to come back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're from here.
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  Speaker 5: From from here especially right, I mean, yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: But I want to ask you mentioned the balls. You
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  Speaker 5: say they're dead, but they're also sticky, right, how come
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  Speaker 5: MLB hasn't figured out a way to make a little
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  Speaker 5: bit of a tackier ball and dead or more dead
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  Speaker 5: or more alive, whatever you want to look at it.
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  Speaker 5: But how come MLB, you think, hasn't figured out a
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  Speaker 5: way to make a little bit of a sticky ball
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  Speaker 5: like these in Japan.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I mean they they don't like
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  Speaker 3: rub up the balls or anything. Over there. They just
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  Speaker 3: take them out of the box and they're good to go.
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  Speaker 3: I think the balls are more consistent too. Over there.
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  Speaker 3: You know some of these balls that you get over here,
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  Speaker 3: like you just throw out immediately because they're just different.
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  Speaker 3: I think over there, you know, you just get a
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  Speaker 3: rid out of a box and it's good to go.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So then when you go to Chicago, I don't know
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  Speaker 5: if you've met Rob Warren, the clubhouse guy, the home
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  Speaker 5: clubhouse guy yet, just tell him to tell Joey Mack,
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  Speaker 5: who's the umpire guy. Just when you're pitching, just.
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  Speaker 3: Do a little some some for me here a little.
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  Speaker 5: Bit, you know, like ye help me out here a
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  Speaker 5: little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you don't need any stick over there.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't hate a little extra help over here, for sure.
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  Speaker 5: I like it. I like it.
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  Speaker 4: They took they took away the spider tack. Since you've
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  Speaker 4: been gone, but no, actually you were still You're still
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  Speaker 4: able to use it. My thing is when you look
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  Speaker 4: at a guy like Cody Punks who came over from Korea.
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  Speaker 4: Korea is a worst league than Japan. When you see
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  Speaker 4: his contract and compared to yours? Is that tough? Is
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  Speaker 4: that something that you sit there and you go, how
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  Speaker 4: did he get that? How did I not? Should they
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  Speaker 4: be looking at results? Should they be looking at the metrics?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean I was. I was just a
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  Speaker 3: little little disappointed with seeing what he got compared to
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  Speaker 3: what I got. But I mean, I guess you know
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  Speaker 3: a lot of it over is looking at the metrics
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  Speaker 3: and stuff. And you know, I think he you know,
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  Speaker 3: added like a mile an hour to his fastball or
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  Speaker 3: something and added a splitter, So I mean they obviously
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  Speaker 3: were there was something that they liked, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: super happy for him because you know, he also played
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  Speaker 3: in Japan, so I got to meet him a little
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  Speaker 3: bit when we played him, and you know, good for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it seems like things are changing with how
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  Speaker 1: teams are judging players and their performances overseas. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're of course looking at stats, but I think
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  Speaker 1: Amaya is probably the example here. Just going back to
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  Speaker 1: him for a moment, based on his success and even
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  Speaker 1: what his repertoire looks like from the eye test, we
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  Speaker 1: thought he was going to get among almost everyone else
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  Speaker 1: one hundred mili plus and yet teams, you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: kind of judging certain pitches and trying to put him
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  Speaker 1: through what they think will convert to the major leagues.
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  Speaker 2: Is that.
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  Speaker 1: I know you don't necessarily know a ton of about
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  Speaker 1: that's not your job, but I'm sure that comes up
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  Speaker 1: in conversation right when you're talking to teams. Hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is how we see this particular pitch playing back in
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  Speaker 1: MLB again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like it was just super inconsistent with
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  Speaker 3: what you know, the teams were offering. Like it was
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  Speaker 3: just different for every guy. I feel like there's no
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  Speaker 3: way to like compare each guy to you know, what
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  Speaker 3: their deals are for whatever reason, I guess just different.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: My last one for you, I mean, you did spend
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  Speaker 1: some time or a decent amount of time in the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays organization. I believe you're in the Stroman deal
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  Speaker 1: back in the day with the Mets. What was it
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  Speaker 1: like back then? And did you follow their run at all?
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  Speaker 1: I know the time change usually makes it kind of difficult,
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  Speaker 1: but did you follow their run at all? Being a
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  Speaker 1: part of that organization, you probably had some teammates from
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  Speaker 1: the miners that are on that team.
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  Speaker 2: Now that you were able to follow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean in Japan they play pretty much every
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  Speaker 3: dog games, so you know, I was able to. I
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  Speaker 3: was able to watch all those games.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It was obviously there aren't too many guys that I
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  Speaker 3: overlapped with in the Blue Jays organization now, but obviously
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  Speaker 3: super happy for those guys to you know, get to
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  Speaker 3: where where they went, but unfortunately came up a little short.
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  Speaker 3: But it was it was fun to watch, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was really happy for all the guys that I knew.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Well, Anthony, we're excited to see you back in Major
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: League Baseball. And this guy will be watching every single
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: pitch that you throw. I mean, he is obviously a
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: pretty big deal out there, but he also doesn't really
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: miss a pitch of white tax bawd.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: I think you're more excited for this season than you've
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: been the.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: Long time, right, Oh, well for the last three obviously, yeah.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Good, last five. You've got this guy will be watching.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: So you know, Long Island we stick together. Yeah, you
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: don't know anything about was born.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: In many of us.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Five minutes. It's step Steven Mattz Right, Matts is a Long.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Island Matt Brown mm hmm.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Was a famous one.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Just so you know, Anthony, because I mean, unless you're
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: watching the show every day, A J was born in
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Long Island in the Hampton's actually he's a baby.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then when did you officially move out of island?
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: We don't talk about the I'm not here to talk
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: about the past. Not here to talk about the past. Okay,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: were you even one?
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Did you?
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: I was like, when it does on my birth certificate,
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: and well when I would go up to bad it
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: would say where we're you know, from, it would say Bridgehampton,
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: New York. Did you say Orlando, Florida? You're right, So there's.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Not many of the story, so we got to accept you.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: That's right. I'm just I mean, I'm the second best
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: person born in Bridgehampton player who's Carl?
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's probably spent more than two years there. Well, Anthony,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: it is fun talking to you. Welcome back to MLB
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: and we'll see you in spring training.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Thanks you, I see it.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: M