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Merrill Kelly, Paul Sewald & Ryan Waldschmidt join FT @D'backs camp · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: There we go.
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  Speaker 2: We got a former Arizona State Sun devil here baby
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  Speaker 2: with us, one of my good buddies Meryl Kelly joining us,
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  Speaker 2: and one of the head of the rotations. That's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a big focal point. I'm gonna start just because
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  Speaker 2: we had one of your new former teammates already, Zach
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  Speaker 2: galling with us.
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  Speaker 3: How big is it to have him back?
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  Speaker 1: Huge?
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  Speaker 4: You know, obviously his resume the last couple of years
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  Speaker 4: kind of speak for itself. But I think he's a guy,
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  Speaker 4: you know, on and off the field that the guys
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  Speaker 4: in the clubhouse rely on. Then they they go to
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  Speaker 4: when there's a big time situation, and just to have
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  Speaker 4: another anchor in the rotation another piece of depth, is
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  Speaker 4: obviously huge.
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  Speaker 3: He's I think, Yeah, sorry, Scott.
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  Speaker 5: You I just wanted to ask while we're on that topic,
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  Speaker 5: you know, for you, I mean, you guys actually had
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  Speaker 5: very different off seasons. You signed pretty early, Zach had
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  Speaker 5: to wait for a long time, and we spoke to
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  Speaker 5: z Act like forty minutes ago about the qualifying offer.
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  Speaker 5: He had, you know, kind of an up and down season,
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  Speaker 5: the second half much better than the first. So for you,
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  Speaker 5: what was the free agent process, like it seems pretty smooth.
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  Speaker 4: Uh yeah, mine was, like you said, probably a lot
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  Speaker 4: more fun than his was. I'm just watching his from afar,
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  Speaker 4: you know, being so close. We played golf, you know,
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  Speaker 4: probably once a week in the offseason, and every time
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  Speaker 4: I'd see him, I'd ask him what we got, and
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  Speaker 4: and every time he told me nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was shocking.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think anybody, like you said, the
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  Speaker 4: down season, but I don't think anybody could have imagined
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  Speaker 4: the offseason that he had.
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  Speaker 1: But for me, it was cool.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously the fact that these guys were first
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  Speaker 4: in the first on the table. You know, they made
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  Speaker 4: it very clear early, even going back to the trade
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  Speaker 4: last year, that that was their goal, and the.
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  Speaker 1: Fact that they showed up.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's not a lot of times I feel
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  Speaker 4: like that you leave a team and then are able
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  Speaker 4: and lucky enough to come back to the place that
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  Speaker 4: you want. I'll be forever grateful for these guys, you know,
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  Speaker 4: sitting here going into my eighth year coming back from Korea.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't think I ever could have imagined
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  Speaker 4: and still be in here, not only in the big leagues,
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  Speaker 4: but also being a diamondback so it's pretty cool to
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  Speaker 4: see the fact that they you know, they what their
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  Speaker 4: words were towards the end, you know, were actually real,
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  Speaker 4: and they made it very apparent that they wanted me back.
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  Speaker 6: You're one of the few guys that gets traded and
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  Speaker 6: comes back, right, So that had to make you feel special,
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  Speaker 6: because most guys get traded and they never get to
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  Speaker 6: come back to their original organization. So that, I mean
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  Speaker 6: that right there tells me they must have wanted you bad, bad,
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  Speaker 6: because it's pretty awesome as a player to have that feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like I said, I'm lucky.
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  Speaker 4: Like you said, I don't think too many guys get
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to go back to a team that they
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  Speaker 4: were traded from. Usually for at least from what I've seen,
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  Speaker 4: Usually when you get traded, it's kind of like, all right,
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  Speaker 4: thanks for your service, but we're gonna move on. But
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  Speaker 4: like I said, even the conversations the day of the
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  Speaker 4: trading deadline with Hayes and Amiel and all the front office,
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  Speaker 4: it was kind of a conversation of like, hey, we
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  Speaker 4: got to do this at the time. You know, your
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  Speaker 4: values high and we got to get some pieces for you.
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  Speaker 4: But I feel like I left it off with Hayes
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  Speaker 4: saying that he'll be we'll be talking in a couple
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  Speaker 4: of months, and they were definitely first in the ring.
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  Speaker 5: What was it like for you in Texas?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Texas was cool. It actually worked out because my
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  Speaker 4: mom and my brother live out there now. They live
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  Speaker 4: in Allen, Texas, about fifteen minutes outside the city. So
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  Speaker 4: it was nice being able to be coming from one
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  Speaker 4: place that has family to the other place my other
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  Speaker 4: half of the family is.
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  Speaker 1: So it was actually pretty comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Did you learn any of Mike Maddox when you're out there? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: a short time.
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  Speaker 1: Not too much.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, those times are limited, and I feel like when
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  Speaker 4: you get traded to an ORG, it's kind of like, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: we brought you here for a reason.
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  Speaker 1: And we want you to Yeah, we want you to
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  Speaker 1: do you and do what you do to get over here.
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  Speaker 4: So the sample size was pretty small, and I feel
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  Speaker 4: like at that point it was just kind of let's
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  Speaker 4: bear down and try to get to the playoffs as
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  Speaker 4: much as we can.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Meryl, you know Ken Rosenthal part of the the
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  Speaker 5: ft network here. I saw that he said there might
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  Speaker 5: have been a little bigger offer in terms of guaranteed
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  Speaker 5: money from a from another tea T can you can
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  Speaker 5: you speak to that at all? If there was another team,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, hey, you're now locked in for two years.
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  Speaker 5: Were you considering another ball club potentially in California and decided, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: I've got my setup really nicely here. I've been with Arizona.
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  Speaker 5: I've got the home in Arizona. Take us through that
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  Speaker 5: part of the process.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think, first and foremost, going into the
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  Speaker 4: off season, it was pretty clear, you know, I made
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  Speaker 4: it pretty clear I wanted to be a diamondback my
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  Speaker 4: whole big league career. Coming back here was always first
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  Speaker 4: and foremost. It was always the priority. But yeah, there
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  Speaker 4: was a team out in California. I think everybody can
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  Speaker 4: pretty much figure out who that was. There was a
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  Speaker 4: three year offer guaranteed on the table, but the numbers,
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  Speaker 4: and like you said, the home situation with the family
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  Speaker 4: and my kids getting older and school coming into play,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I don't think any it's any secret
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  Speaker 4: on how much money you get taken out of your
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  Speaker 4: pocket when you go to California. There was a lot
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  Speaker 4: of factors that went into the three year deal. It
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  Speaker 4: was definitely entice and it definitely made the decision a
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  Speaker 4: lot harder to come back here. But once Arizona, once
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  Speaker 4: these guys got to kind of the number that they did,
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  Speaker 4: it just made a lot more sense to come back here.
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  Speaker 6: Was that team. Does that team wear blue? That's all
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna ask.
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  Speaker 4: That team doesn't that team does not wear blue red orange.
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  Speaker 4: They're a little further south than the team. They're a
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  Speaker 4: little further south than the team that wears blue. They're
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  Speaker 4: a little closer to home. That's another reason why it
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  Speaker 4: made it so such a challenging decision because living on uh,
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  Speaker 4: living on Cornado, I feel here as a is a
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  Speaker 4: pretty good question.
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  Speaker 7: Sales Vagina, and.
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  Speaker 4: That was like it worked out best for us because
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  Speaker 4: that was honestly our second choice. It was between here
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  Speaker 4: and San Diego going into the off season, though the
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  Speaker 4: San Diego was like really the only place that if
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  Speaker 4: we did go somewhere that was probably you know, high
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  Speaker 4: on our list. If we weren't in Arizona, It's like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, let's just hop over and take a short
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  Speaker 4: six hour drive to San Diego. But yeah, the desert
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  Speaker 4: is the desert is home. We're not I guess we're not
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  Speaker 4: ocean people. We're more Desert Rats.
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  Speaker 6: Meryl, you're the first person ever that's been offered a
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  Speaker 6: bunch of money to go live in San Diego and said, no,
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  Speaker 6: I think so. That's just let's just now, when you
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  Speaker 6: pitch against them, they're gonna be like, oooh, you hate
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  Speaker 6: San Diego.
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  Speaker 7: He's such a bad guy san Diego.
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  Speaker 4: No, I love San Diego. It's just like I said,
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  Speaker 4: they take too much money out of my pocket.
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  Speaker 8: Man.
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  Speaker 4: The taxes over there are are a different level. We
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  Speaker 4: had some numbers, guys run the number. No, we had
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  Speaker 4: the we had my numbers, got to run the numbers,
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  Speaker 4: and it just made more sense to come home, which
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  Speaker 4: is crazy on a two year compared to a three year, right.
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  Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, a three year if if it's lower AAV
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  Speaker 5: and then you've got the huge tax difference.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 5: We've actually explained that quite frequently on this show, just
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  Speaker 5: to give some perspective to people.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and La Joya and La Joya ain't cheap, you know.
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  Speaker 7: No, Yeah, you know you can live Inland, Hey, maryl.
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  Speaker 4: To San Diego and live away from the beach. That's
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  Speaker 4: what's the point of that. I might as well live
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  Speaker 4: by with the scorpions.
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  Speaker 3: It's a fair rebuttal.
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  Speaker 7: He's the scorpion King.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, you know what, So we spoke to Drake Jamison
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  Speaker 5: earlier and he called you the change up Wizard. What
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  Speaker 5: would be your number one tip to youngsters out there
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  Speaker 5: trying to learn how to effectively use a change up
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  Speaker 5: in their repertoire in you know, college or wherever. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: we get a lot of young fans that listen and
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  Speaker 5: love hearing these conversations. And I'm young players I should
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  Speaker 5: say that are aspiring to be you.
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  Speaker 4: That's high praise from from Dre because his heater is
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  Speaker 4: on a different level.
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  Speaker 1: I would say the biggest thing for me and the
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  Speaker 1: change up is the arm speed.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think anytime you try to detract and
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  Speaker 4: I've never been good at physically changing speeds, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like mentally trying to subtract an ad speed, Like my
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  Speaker 4: throw is just kind of my throw, It's just kind
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  Speaker 4: of the way it comes out. Like That's why I
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  Speaker 4: think if you look at my velocities, everything is very compact.
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  Speaker 4: But I think I get away with that because everything
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  Speaker 4: I try to make everything look the same. And I
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  Speaker 4: think that would probably be the biggest tip for youngsters
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  Speaker 4: is don't necessarily worry about the movement too much. I
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  Speaker 4: think gravity in the mound and the grip.
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  Speaker 1: Will do most of that.
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  Speaker 4: But if I had to give one tip, it would
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  Speaker 4: probably just be try to throw it the same as
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  Speaker 4: your fastball. I feel like hitters. You know, you guys
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  Speaker 4: can probably attest to this. If you saw a guy
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  Speaker 4: with good arm speed and it looks the same as
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  Speaker 4: a heater, even if it's not moving as much, your
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  Speaker 4: timing is still going to be off because the way
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  Speaker 4: it presents, the way it comes out of my hand,
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  Speaker 4: and the way I let it go is going to
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  Speaker 4: make it look more like a heater than anything else.
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  Speaker 1: And I think when.
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  Speaker 4: Guys try to slow up and are worried about the
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  Speaker 4: speed differential, you know, some guys just got it. I
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  Speaker 4: don't understand how guys throw ninety five mile an hour
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  Speaker 4: fastballs and eighty four mile an hour changeups.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense in my brain. Look at me,
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  Speaker 1: But that's probably be My.
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  Speaker 4: One tip is try to throw everything the same because
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  Speaker 4: I think for the change up, the biggest thing is
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  Speaker 4: the eye test. And when you try to start manipulating
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  Speaker 4: the ball and try to start making it slower because
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  Speaker 4: you're worried about seeing it move I think is when
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  Speaker 4: a the hitters can pick up on it a lot
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  Speaker 4: quicker and be the movement starts a lot earlier out
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  Speaker 4: of the hand, which makes it easier to pick up
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 2: See when you said you're not good at just creating
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  Speaker 2: the velocity change with your arm, that just means all
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  Speaker 2: I heard is I can repeat my arm slot. That's
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  Speaker 2: my throw every single time. First, staying on the change
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  Speaker 2: of topic, what would you say is more important for
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  Speaker 2: a young guy throwing worrying about the velocity change from
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  Speaker 2: the fastball or the movement on the pitch.
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  Speaker 3: How would you rank the two of importance.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, movement is huge.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody wants everybody's chasing the track man numbers on the separation.
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  Speaker 4: For me, I would go a different direction and almost
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  Speaker 4: say location great love for me. That's kind of how
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  Speaker 4: I've always gotten by, you know. I think that's the
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  Speaker 4: reason why I'm still able to do what I do
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  Speaker 4: at thirty seven.
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  Speaker 1: I think execution over everything love.
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  Speaker 4: If this change isn't there, let's say, and the movement
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  Speaker 4: isn't there, but I can put it exactly where I
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  Speaker 4: want it to. Usually the outcome's gonna be all right.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes and by that it's like we can pick up
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  Speaker 2: the pitch maybe and it's like, oh, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a change up. But if you put it right where,
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  Speaker 2: it's like do I want to swing?
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  Speaker 1: Do I not?
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  Speaker 2: Do I have to reach out for it. That's where
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  Speaker 2: location comes in for everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes you. I try to force you to
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  Speaker 1: make a decision.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we hate that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Hey, Meryl, how's your back?
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  Speaker 7: Your schedule more than likely to be Opening day? Starter?
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  Speaker 9: Right?
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  Speaker 7: Are you still on track for that? Or where where
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  Speaker 7: were we at?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so, you know, just with how many
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  Speaker 4: days I've been down, you know, I just think I've
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  Speaker 4: I've pushed things back too far. We've had a couple
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  Speaker 4: of conversations, but I would guess that that's probably off
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  Speaker 4: the table at this point. You know, even if I
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  Speaker 4: woke up tomorrow and miraculously felt one hundred percent and
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  Speaker 4: just could start ripping balls off the mound. I think
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  Speaker 4: the fact that I've missed my second live bullpen and
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  Speaker 4: I'm supposed to my first game was slotted for tomorrow, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 4: I think Opening Day.
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  Speaker 1: Is off the table.
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  Speaker 4: But we at least a direction now I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 4: some treatment today and see if that works. I've been told,
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  Speaker 4: we've we've talked to a couple of guys. We've talked
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  Speaker 4: to Meister, you know, doctor Meister out in Dallas. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's kind of the go to guy for things right now,
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  Speaker 4: and we seem to have a pretty good direction. So
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna try something today and hopefully that works. But
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  Speaker 4: I think unfortunately, you know, off the as far as
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  Speaker 4: opening day, I think I think we're kind of pushed
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  Speaker 4: too far back at this point.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well, let me ask you something about this team,
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  Speaker 5: because you know them quite well. I think many fans
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  Speaker 5: forget that just a few short years ago the Diamondbacks
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  Speaker 5: were in the World Series.
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  Speaker 7: What do you think when you.
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  Speaker 5: See, you know, or hear about so many people complaining
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  Speaker 5: that only the big market teams have a shot. And
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to say that Arizona and Phoenix specifically
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  Speaker 5: is a small market. But you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: times we're looking at TV money. The Diamondbacks aren't pouring
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  Speaker 5: in TV money right now. They're under the league's contract.
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  Speaker 5: We don't have to get into the nitty gritty there.
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  Speaker 5: The point is their revenue stream is not off the
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  Speaker 5: charts yet, this team a few years ago made the
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  Speaker 5: World Series. So when you hear fans say like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: it's unfair, like only the same few teams can win,
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  Speaker 5: did they forget how good you guys were a few
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  Speaker 5: years ago?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think it's easy to forget with
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  Speaker 4: what the Dodgers have done the last couple of years, right,
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  Speaker 4: and they continue to go out and spend money and
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  Speaker 4: bring good players in.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously they brought Kyle Tucker in this offseason.
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  Speaker 4: You know, as a player, like, we love to see that, right,
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  Speaker 4: Like we wish more teams would do what they're doing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think that only breeds good things for
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  Speaker 4: the game. But somebody said the other day, there's fifteen
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  Speaker 4: guys on this roster right now that we're in that
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  Speaker 4: World Series, run on that team. And I think every
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  Speaker 4: team has a chance to win, right if they really
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  Speaker 4: want to. And I think that comes along with if
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  Speaker 4: you don't, if you're not going to spend the huge
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  Speaker 4: amount of money. And you know, I got to hand
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  Speaker 4: it to our guys. You know, they went out and
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  Speaker 4: resigned me, They went and resigned Gallon obviously, not for
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  Speaker 4: you know what I think he thought he was gonna
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  Speaker 4: get But if you look at our payroll, it's definitely
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  Speaker 4: not small compared to the rest of the league. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: nobody can really compete with the Dodger money that's going
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  Speaker 4: on right now. But I think if you look at
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  Speaker 4: our roster overall and the team that we were in
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  Speaker 4: the World Series, I think, on paper were we're definitely
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  Speaker 4: a better squad top to bottom than we were that year.
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  Speaker 4: And I think with the additions as far as people
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  Speaker 4: coming off the il sporadically throughout the year, right we'll
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  Speaker 4: get Corbyn back, We'll get aj Puck back at some point,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll get Justin Martinez some pretty heavy arms coming
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  Speaker 4: out of the bullpen. I think we're in a really
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  Speaker 4: good spot, and I think that a lot of teams
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  Speaker 4: are a lot of I guess fans around the league
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  Speaker 4: look at the Dodgers as the gold standard because you know,
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  Speaker 4: obviously they've won two years in a row and they
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  Speaker 4: continue to get better. But I think that's the beauty
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  Speaker 4: of baseball. Anybody can beat anybody on any given day.
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  Speaker 4: And I think when you know you hear stuff about
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, you know here you hear throughout the course
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  Speaker 4: of the history of the league, it's like, oh, this
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  Speaker 4: team got hot at the right at the right time.
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  Speaker 4: And I think some teams or some fans look at
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  Speaker 4: that as you weren't really that good of a team,
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  Speaker 4: you just got hot. But I think that's the beauty
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  Speaker 4: of baseball, is being able to play your best baseball
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  Speaker 4: when it actually matters.
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  Speaker 10: You know.
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  Speaker 4: The Dodgers have been fortunate where they can do that
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  Speaker 4: kind of throughout the year. But I think at this point,
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  Speaker 4: when you get into the playoffs, especially with where the
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: way the playoffs are structured now, I think it's anybody's game.
• 14:23
  Speaker 7: Agreed, agreed, that's the whole team. That's most teams mantra.
• 14:26
  Speaker 7: Even though I hated to just get in. You never
• 14:28
  Speaker 7: know what can happen. So yeah, I don't know.
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: So you played in the WBC in twenty three, right,
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: obviously you're injured this year. You couldn't do it this year.
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: You want a championship with the in the KBO, if
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: technically could you play for Korea because you have a
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: ring from Korea, would they elect you play for Team Korea.
• 14:47
  Speaker 8: I doubt it. I would if I asked, but I
• 14:49
  Speaker 8: doubt it.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: I think you got to have something.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: I think you gotta have some sort of lineage, and
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: just looking at me, I'm pretty sure I don't have
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: any agent in me.
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: But I will ask me.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: I think it'd be a I think it'd be a blast,
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: eat some kimchi and and go over to Korea and
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: have some fun. I would do it, but I don't
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: think I'm in the I don't think I'm in the
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: running for that.
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: Okay, I don't know.
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: If you could just flash your ring from the KBO
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: series and say, look, guys, I got this ring.
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: You know I have won championships for you before, so
• 15:16
  Speaker 7: let me be on the team. I don't know. Get
• 15:18
  Speaker 7: citizenship quick, Yeah.
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: It gets quick? Citizenship, Yeah, I don't know. All right,
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: last one before we let you go, and we need
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: I need the four box here because I need Kip
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: on for this. So I didn't realize this. No, we
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: got it the two box right here, so I can
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: see all of you and Kip sitting next to you.
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: Do you are you going to rub it into Kip
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: that you graduated, you left Arizona State a year after him,
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: and you're still playing on a two year deal and
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: Kip's been retired for like seven years now, so you're
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: just gonna rub it in his face that you're just
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: the better Arizona State alumni.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Oh that's tough.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: And you said graduated. I definitely didn't graduate. Uh well,
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: you know what heat graduate.
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: He's been to retire for six years now, So.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I'm I'm lucky man. I'm also a
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: pitcher too, and I you know, like I said, I locate.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: So if I didn't locate, I'd probably be out of
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: the game by now, throwing ninety miles an hour as alrighty, but.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Don't let me take don't let AJ divide us right now.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Watching this guy, yeah, this is what he does. No,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: watching this guy go over to Korea and then come
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: back and put together a career for this long and
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: this solid has actually been one of just for me,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: one of the more fun guys that I get to watch.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: That.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: I was like, I know him, I know where he's
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: come from, I know where he started, what he's been through.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I love that he's easy to root for. So no, AJ,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: you are not gonna split up the Sun Devil. Yeah,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: no chance, but we root for each other.
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: You have like a special handshake with your little thing.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: You little whatever.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: See see get him all out right now, just get
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: him all out of you.
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: I don't know, do you guys like? Do you guys like.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I got something for you?
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: He didn't.
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: He also played at Yabapai.
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: He didn't just do.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say I.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Was only at ASU for a year. I think people
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: get it twisted away bit that I that I like
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: was I had two years? Yeah, he at least had
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: two years. I was only there for one, even though
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: we did make it to the World Series when I
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: was there about true, we also got it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: We also got smacked.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: So we went open to wait, did Murph coach both
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: of y'all?
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: So Murph recruited me?
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: That was the year that Murph resigned how much?
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: Not paying you?
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: How much?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: This is what he does?
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just got every time, hey, listen, every time
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: I see Murph, Murph says, you know I didn't recruit you, right,
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, I know, Murphy, You've told me every
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: time I see that you did not recruit me.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: Okay, I get it, and like.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: But I got I got nothing. I got nothing for
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: love for Murph agreed.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: He's a rich man managing a good team.
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: These days that I.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Always knew he was going to be. I always knew
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: he was going to be a manager.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: But to see what he's done over there and and
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: in Milwaukee, it's pretty cool.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got something good going there. Well, Marilyn, this
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: was awesome and really appreciate it, enjoyed it. Congrats on
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: the contract in the off season. Then good luck this year.
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Excited to see the Diamondbacks make some noise.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate you.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Guys.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: We got the handsome devil Paul Seawalt here coming in
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: just through a bullpen, and it's nice enough to join
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: us right now.
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: Hey, what's up, Paul?
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: How was the bullpen?
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: It was good? It was good.
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: We're out here just already got the Arizona sunshine going.
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: It's already hot, but it's good.
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: It's good. Camps for good. It's uh.
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: I got to skip a couple of the days that
• 18:33
  Speaker 11: you know, we shouldn't be here anyway, so that worked.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: Out just fine.
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: There you go.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: What was it eighty eight cutters? Were were we working
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: on to eighty eight high cutters? The low armslot. The
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: high cutter.
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: Plays like it's cutting. Look they think it's supposed to
• 18:46
  Speaker 11: be sinking. I don't even know what it does. I
• 18:48
  Speaker 11: just try to get out. I just try to confuse
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: him enough until they look back and can't figure out
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: what happened.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: They can't know what it does if I don't exactly
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: that's exactly.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Hey, Paul, I want to ask you a question that
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: I just relayed over to Merrill Kelly. Do you feel
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: like people forgot the Diamondbacks made the World Series in
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: twenty twenty three. There are a lot of the same
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: names from that team back then. I mean, of course
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: you were a part of that run. And there's so
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: much talk about how it's unfair for the rest of
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: the league. You know, only the big market teams have
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: a chance, and I am putting the Diamondbacks more in
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: the mid to even maybe a little bit behind that range,
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: because a lot of it's looking at TV money, not
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: TV market, and they don't make a lot TV money wise.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: It's a fact.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: So your thoughts when people say it's so unfair and
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: your team smacked the Dodgers a couple of years ago.
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: Three years in baseball feels like an eternity, right, It's
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: like twenty twenty three year almost like I forgot that.
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: I forgot about that World Series and we're talking about
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: literally just two seasons ago. But you know, they were
• 19:48
  Speaker 11: one strike away from the Blue Jays winning last year,
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: and I thought, I mean, I thought the Padres were
• 19:53
  Speaker 11: better than them in twenty four when we played them,
• 19:55
  Speaker 11: you know, back to back at the at the end
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: of the year and they were on the rope. So
• 19:59
  Speaker 11: just you know, they made the pitches and made the
• 20:00
  Speaker 11: place when they had to at the end and kind
• 20:02
  Speaker 11: of wanted back to back World Series. But I mean
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: that margin for air is razor thin, so for people
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: to think that like this a foregone conclusion. Andrew Freeman
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: obviously thought that they needed to improve. That's why he
• 20:12
  Speaker 11: signed Kyle Tucker. That's why he signed Edwin Diez. I
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: mean he he felt like, I gotta make sure that
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: I improved the team or the rest of the league's
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: catching up to us. So people just like to complain
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: about things on the internet. And that's more. That's more
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: what it is than anything.
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: Have you ever heard of control, You ever had an
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: inter control?
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: I mean, people just like to complain about things, and
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: you know they're in our division, so certainly they're gonna
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: be a challenge for us. And and but twenty three
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: showed more than anything, they were maybe the best team
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: in the league. And you know, in a small sample
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: size like a like a postseason series, you just never
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: know what's gonna happen.
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: So that's why we're gonna play the games this year.
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: We're not gonna just uh, We're not gonna use Pakoda
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: standings to uh to decide the World Series champion. We're
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: gonna go out there and we're gonna play one six
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: to two and then hopefully we get a couple of
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: playoff games.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: I like that. Now.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Now, obviously you're being familiar with them from playing with
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: them in twenty twenty three. How much of that factor
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: into you with them? And did they discuss it all
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: roles yet, because we know they have some injuries going
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: into it.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: What have they talked to you about so far?
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean we moved here, so this is home now,
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: so it obviously had an impact. You know, we had
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: some offers that were all very similar. And when you
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: start talking about you know a little bit here and there,
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: staying at home is really important. And for me, the
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: most important thing is I have to go out there,
• 21:19
  Speaker 11: and I have to be healthy, and I have to
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: pitch healthy, right. I got to go out there and
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: I got to pitch fifty times this year. So for me,
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: it was like, what's the best opportunity for me to
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: do that. I think my own bed is is a
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: pretty high factor. So and I had amazing memories. My
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: favorite baseball memory I've ever had was winning the National
• 21:35
  Speaker 11: League Championship and that was in a Diamondbacks uniform. So
• 21:38
  Speaker 11: that's that's going to stick with me the rest of
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: my life. And so that that obviously had a little
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: bit of bias in this decision.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: But I'm super excited to be back here.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Roles.
• 21:46
  Speaker 11: You know, I'm here to pitch whenever they tell me
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: to pitch. Yeah, you know, is that going to be late?
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: Maybe? Is it going to be early? It could be.
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: It's depending on how I throw the ball and how
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: other guys throw the ball. And you know, Aj and
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: Justin are not going to be back at the beginning
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: of the year. Who would be our best two best relievers,
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: So everyone's gonna have to step up and outperform themselves
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: a little bit until we get those guys back.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Either way, that's always the best mentality, and You've always
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: been that throughout your career that the best ability is availability.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I want to be available and I'm here with whatever
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: you guys need me, So I'm not demanding a role.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I think that type of guys like you are needed
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: on every single roster, not only because how good you are,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: but just the way that you approach the game and
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: the way that you're willing to do whatever.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: It takes, I think is a huge part.
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: And it you know, it could be a maybe I'm
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: a better matchup in the seventh inning versus the guys
• 22:29
  Speaker 11: they throw, then I would be in the eighth or
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: ninth where Thompson or Gink would be like, we're here
• 22:34
  Speaker 11: to win games, so I mean, we're gonna do whatever
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: we can to win those games. And and Torri and
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: Mike have kind of explained that to me that they're
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: you know, you don't have a role right now. It's
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: you're gonna go out there and you're gonna pitch. You
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: know you're gonna pitch, and we hope you get out
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: to when we get out there, so they need, we
• 22:49
  Speaker 11: know they need. We'll have aj justin back soon enough,
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: and that'll that'll be nice.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Hey, Paul, I haven't gone anywhere so quick. Saying I'm
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: gonna be back. Okay, I haven't gone anywhere. I'll be
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: ready for the opening season, all right. So let's just
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: you have to clarify on this show, Paul, because there's
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: too many AJ's in baseball and now, so you have
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: to call him puck, okay, not not agent, because then
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: I get all confused. I get all ramped up for
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: opening Day, like I'm gonna be out there, but I'm not.
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: I heard you had different nicknames when you were playing.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: Yes, exactly, but that's fine. We all have to be
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: called something by our family.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: It's okay.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: When I told this story the other day on here,
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: and I hate to go back to this, but when
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: I saw you, you were in Detroit at the end
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: of last year, and I saw you in Seattle for
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: the for the postseason run, and you big lead me
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: and you walk past me, and I tried to say
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: hi to you. But guys, then you came back like
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: ten minutes later and apologized and you said, hey, I
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: just found out I wasn't gonna be on the roster.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: I just wanted to say that I'm not bigger than you.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: So I told that story, and I just want to
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: say thank you.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: That was it.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: I want to say thank you. You didn't have to do that.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: I totally understood. I've been there, but I just want
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: to say to me, that was big league of you
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: to come up to me and say hey, I'm sorry
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: I didn't say hi, and listen, I got it. I understood,
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: or for you to come back man, thumbs up for me.
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: This guy I have my meeting with AJ's like, you
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: don't really look healthy. You know, we're not going to
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: go with you. You know I wasn't one hundred percent healthy.
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: I totally understand the whole perspective. I get the news
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: I walked past him. That's tough news to get right away,
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: right and he's like, oh, you're not going to say hi.
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: I apologize, ag. You were not at the top of
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: my mind at that moment. But I did make sure
• 24:32
  Speaker 11: to come back and say hello, and I did make
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: sure you knew the situation. You are correct, But foul
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: Territory guys, I wouldn't leave you hanging. It was just
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: a difficult three minutes of my time.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Fal Territory is actually just a front for AJ to
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: confront everybody that's big tim before we just talk other
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: things until we get to the guests that he can confront.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Dude, I told you, I told you two thumbs up
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: man for you coming back. I didn't know at the time,
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: and so then when you came back and explained it, listen,
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: you didn't have to say anything to me. I'll never
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: be mad at you for it. It's just more to
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: be able to talk a little shit. I mean, you
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: know you know it is.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: I mean, trust me. I was in that Tigers clubhouse.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was in that Tiger's clubhouse for three three
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: games obviously for five days, but in Seattle, and I
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: heard Tommy Kinley get worn out because college football was on.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: They wore him out for like the whole time. I
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: was standing in there about Notre Dame and about this
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: and about it was like, poor Tommy Kinley, I can
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: take it.
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: I mean, had your.
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: Irish jersey, you know, Irish shorts, and your Irish socks
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: and your Irish under armour shoots and they go, oh
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: in two in the first two games.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: You deserve everything that comes.
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: Your way, thank you.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: And he had his Eagles. The Eagles and the Irish
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: lost like the same weekend. So these guys were just
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: where I'm sorry yeah, it's.
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Great cry babies during football season this year we can
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: That's one topic I can go all day on as
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: mister Miami. Okay, I want to get your thoughts on
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: a couple of league uh issues, or I would say
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: rule changes coming up here. So here's two the coaches
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: in the box rule and then we'll go to ABS
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: challenge system. So first off, coaches in the box rule
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: and the tipping paranoia that is taking over baseball with
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: AI incorporated. So your thoughts on that, I thought. I mean,
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: some guys are like, it's whatever, it's been going on forever.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Then Vinnie Pasporentino was on with us when we were
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: at Royals camp and he's like, hey, you ever see
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: some of the base coaches just not doing anything during
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: the game, like no signs, not talking to anybody on
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: the basis they're busy.
• 26:27
  Speaker 11: Yes, nobody, nobody comes to the field and doesn't do anything.
• 26:30
  Speaker 11: I think it's low key. If you're doing nothing, then
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: you're doing something you shouldn't be doing. You know, the
• 26:34
  Speaker 11: coaches boxes are there for a reason, and you know
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: the pitch tipping thing is the most important thing as
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: a pitcher you can worry about. I can do all
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: this stuff on track man, bullpens, I can do all
• 26:44
  Speaker 11: this work if the hitter knows what's coming. It doesn't
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: really do me any good to make my stuff extra nasty. So,
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: you know, if they can pick something up in the game,
• 26:52
  Speaker 11: I feel like that's pretty fair. You're talking about AI,
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: you know, doing one thousand models a second to try
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: to figure out if I did something different. I'm not
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: sure that that's totally appropriate, but you know, it's just
• 27:03
  Speaker 11: kind of the world we live in, and you just
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: have to make sure that you are indistinguishable at any
• 27:07
  Speaker 11: moment while you're out there. And I try to think
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: that I do everything off and not consistent. Anyway, if
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: I'm inconsistently consistent, then I think it can help my
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: chances that they can't pick something up. But you know,
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: the coaches boxes are there for a reason. I don't
• 27:21
  Speaker 11: really want them down the right field line trying to
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: look in my hand or down the left field line.
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: So we're just trying to keep things fair and make
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: sure that you know, if I'm tipping then they can
• 27:29
  Speaker 11: find it from there.
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: That's fine, but.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Let's try to say within the rules of that sort
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: of situation. Then for the other rule change, we've got
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the ABS system. Thoughts on that, do you think that's
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: gonna go? Well, what problems do you see kind of
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: arising from that? Maybe early on in the league that
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: might get settled on as a season progresses.
• 27:44
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you and age earned a different strike zone at
• 27:47
  Speaker 11: the end of your career then you had at the
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: beginning of your career. It's a little devastating for me
• 27:51
  Speaker 11: to have earned that new strike zone and then have
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: it taken away at the very end. The strike zone
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: is a strike zone. It's supposed to be consistent. I
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: think our umpires today are better than they've ever been,
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: especially the guys that are coming up. They've worked really
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: hard to get to that point. I saw one the
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: other day less than a tenth of an inch. Yeah,
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: that seems a little bit fine to me to call
• 28:15
  Speaker 11: out an umpire. I think the most important thing for
• 28:17
  Speaker 11: me the whole time was somebody sitting on their couch
• 28:20
  Speaker 11: watching a game and having the screen or having the
• 28:23
  Speaker 11: box up there, and if they're able to say umpire,
• 28:26
  Speaker 11: A that's a terrible call. When it's like, look at
• 28:30
  Speaker 11: ninety five min our pitch that's moving and you're missing
• 28:32
  Speaker 11: by a tenth of an inch. I kind of want
• 28:35
  Speaker 11: to give some umpires some grace on that situation. But
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: when it's literally black or white, filled in or clear,
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: you know that guy at home shouldn't know whether the
• 28:43
  Speaker 11: umpire missed that car or not. If they can tell
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: without the box agregious call, that's what that's really what
• 28:49
  Speaker 11: we're looking for. It'll be interesting to see the challenge system.
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: We have as an organization, our plan for the challenge
• 28:55
  Speaker 11: system in in spring training to kind of give it
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: a ride. But six seven weeks is tough. I think
• 28:59
  Speaker 11: we're need a couple months to try to figure out
• 29:01
  Speaker 11: how that's gonna work.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Sure, and I do like the fact that you just
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: said umpires are about as good as they've ever been
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: in this game. They're always trying to get better. I
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: think it's gonna be twofold. I like hearing that. I
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: like you got to give the umpire's credit when they
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: do have good games, and you gotta let them know
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: that they are. Hey, you might have missed that one,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: or I understand why you missed that one that was closed.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I'd go either way. I think there is gonna be
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: some good adjustment period for them as well. I think
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: they're gonna there is gonna be not a shame factor
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: to it or something. But if you keep getting second
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: guest or overruled, and you keep finding out that you're
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: getting it wrong, I think there comes this in game
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: adjustment now where it's like, hey, maybe I need to
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: fix my zone. And that's kind of we're all we're
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: all just trying to get it right, and it's not
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: the easiest thing to do by any means. But at
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: the end of the day, as long as long as
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: that's the focus of the hitter, catcher and the umpire,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: that we're just trying to get it right, you should
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: be able to find some kind of middle ground between
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: all three, which is a good point.
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: I hadn't thought about the in game adjustment for a numpire.
• 29:52
  Speaker 11: Everyone knows the first couple of innings, you're like, look, man,
• 29:54
  Speaker 11: I went back and checked. Those are balls, let's go like,
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: or those are strikes. Come on, let's get it together.
• 30:00
  Speaker 11: Kind of having that feedback maybe in the first readings
• 30:02
  Speaker 11: to try to, you know, get correct for the last
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: the last six is going to be important.
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: I hadn't thought about that.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: That's that's good now, you guys probably just covered both
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: of these in the players meeting that you guys had
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: this morning. When you have a important meeting like such
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: where I'm sure you covered a big ground of topics,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: especially with stuff that's going on, but you cover these
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: new rules. How much do you look at some of
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: the younger players and younger pitchers on the staff, if
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: they're engaged in the meeting. Do they understand what's going on?
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Do they understand the changes that are being made.
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: I think it's really intimidating for a younger guy to
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: participate in those meetings. And I can't blame them. I
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: you know, I wasn't one to participate in those meetings
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: at that age. I think for me, it's more asking
• 30:37
  Speaker 11: these triple A guys what the challenge system looks like,
• 30:40
  Speaker 11: what that ABS looks like.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: They might know more than you.
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: They have a lot more, They have a lot more
• 30:44
  Speaker 11: understanding of what that looks like than me. I have
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: thrown in our four or five games in rehab games
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: with that ABS. I don't know what that looks like.
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: For me, it's like, you guys know what that is
• 30:54
  Speaker 11: supposed to look like? Like, let's talk about you know
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: what kind of what kind of pitches. Are you seeing
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: that maybe cross that they call strikes or that that
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: we miss and we can kind of try to figure
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: that out. That's not going to change how I throw pitches,
• 31:06
  Speaker 11: but just kind of having a general understanding of how
• 31:08
  Speaker 11: that's maybe gonna work, or the catchers talking to other
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: catchers of like, hey, this is what I've really succeeded
• 31:13
  Speaker 11: in my challenges versus you know, stuff that I've missed.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Thanks fair Paul.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: Before we let you go, I just go, I want
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: to know, how's the golf game? You're in Arizona, a spring.
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: You know, you throw a hard bullpen today. You know
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: it's noon there, where's the teeth time? And how's the
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: golf game?
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: Well, you know you just had Merril Kelly on he's
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: having a little side tightness thing. That's my golfing partner.
• 31:37
  Speaker 11: So the golfing game has been a little limited at
• 31:38
  Speaker 11: this point. But you know, we're just trying to get
• 31:41
  Speaker 11: back in there, make sure we can throw in games.
• 31:42
  Speaker 11: But uh, it's a long season. You got a little
• 31:44
  Speaker 11: bit of time to play. We got a little bit.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: You know, it's nice here.
• 31:47
  Speaker 11: We probably have to make the most of the next
• 31:49
  Speaker 11: two months because it won't be so great towards the
• 31:50
  Speaker 11: middle of the year. But uh, you know, I moved here,
• 31:53
  Speaker 11: so now it's not really an issue. It's kind of
• 31:54
  Speaker 11: one of those things where I've gotten plenty of Arizona golf.
• 31:56
  Speaker 11: But we'll we got some road t toops, We've got
• 31:58
  Speaker 11: some off days.
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: We'll be just fine.
• 31:59
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: Well, you know, I'll find a place to play. You know,
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: I don't. I don't have a problem with that.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: That blood will fin out, You'll get used a little
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: bit more and be able to play into bows more conditions.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Well, he's got daddy duty too, right for the FAM's there, right.
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: That's true.
• 32:13
  Speaker 11: I mean you got two of them at this point,
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: got to get the second one into into school pre
• 32:18
  Speaker 11: k and then it's really just gonna just take off,
• 32:20
  Speaker 11: just drop them off and head right up, uh to
• 32:23
  Speaker 11: play in the morning, pick them up on the way back.
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: Mama's free. Like it's totally good.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's the good stuff, Paul. We always really enjoy this.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: Good to see you, and good luck. The rest of
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: camp here will catch you during the season, of course.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: All right, thanks for me on guys, we've got Ryan
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: wald Schmitt joining us.
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: Ryan.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Great to have you on the show. Really appreciate the time,
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: want to get into your story and some Florida roots.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: So you're gonna make the guy sitting next to me
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: very happy. But before all that, house camp and tell
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: us about your chances of cutting it with the big
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: league team here.
• 32:53
  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, you know, camp's been great so far, really
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: getting to know the guys, getting a lot more comfortable
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: around everyone. You know, early on you're you're the new
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: guy around the clubhouse and get to know everyone. You're
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: a little nervous at first, but you know, we're a
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: weekend now and I feel like I'm getting along with
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: everyone very well, and.
• 33:11
  Speaker 10: Everything's getting more comfortable.
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: The games are getting more comfortable, getting more comfortable at
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: to play in the field, and you know, I try
• 33:18
  Speaker 9: to think about too much about the chances of making
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: the team. You know, I kind of just go out
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: there every day and and play hard and play aggressive
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: and just see what happens. And that's something out of
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: my control, so I just try and keep my mind
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: off of it and just do what it takes to
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: help the team win and see what happens at the
• 33:34
  Speaker 9: end of the day.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: Ryan as as a young guy in camp, has anyone
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: been mean to you, Has anyone been just so.
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: Mean to you and treated you poorly?
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: Because we can fly aj in if you need not
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: yet not yet, I have not had any any altercations
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: here at camp so far. Everyone's been very friendly and
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: taking me in with open arms, So I'm very grateful
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: for that.
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: Do you know everyone's name? Do you know everybody?
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: To do? Eat in the clubhouse?
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: Guys, the trainers, the travelings, the director of team Travey
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: can't call him the traveling secretary anymore.
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: Of course, I make that emphasis of trying to make
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: sure I know everyone's name, and and in the mornings
• 34:16
  Speaker 9: when I walk in, I try and greet everyone that
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: I walk past. It's just something little that that can
• 34:21
  Speaker 9: make everyone's day, and and it means a lot at
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: the end of the day if you know someone's name
• 34:25
  Speaker 9: and you're able to hold a conversation with them daily.
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: And I think that just means a lot to me
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: as a person, not even as a player or just
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: in general being around the facility, just as a person.
• 34:34
  Speaker 10: I take pride in just.
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: Kind of getting to know everyone around me and just
• 34:38
  Speaker 9: being able to have conversations with them.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Okay, do me a favorite turnaround and just wave to
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: Corbin for me. He's behind you running, so just wave
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: to say hi Corban.
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: When he runs. Exactly. But you want to know what
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: that is.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: You want to know why you're so nice and you
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: say hi to everybody because you were born in Florida.
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: You were raised in Florida. So that's that's why.
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: So when Kip gives you crap, when Scott gives you
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: crop dos, why because those Florida people were from the
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: south and were nice.
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: Right, yeah, exactly.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Yep, that's debatable, highly debatable.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: But we got you got a great minor league season
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: under your belt, smashing the baseball. But you you even
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: mentioned a quote where you started to make the game
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: a little bit bigger than it had to be. Did
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: you find I mean, as you went up through the ladders,
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: you think single A is the next show for you.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: But you get there, the game solows down.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: You're like, oh, I can do this, I can be
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I can play with these guys double A the same
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: way get up to triple A. What are you going
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: to take then from that? Going into this year? How
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: are you going to approach the game? Are you going
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: to try to make it the same from game one
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: to game one sixty two if it gets there or
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: or are you gonna because sometimes it's good. Sometimes they
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: have that energy and to ride that kind of the
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: adrenaline for each match. But what are you taking from
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: last year and what are you using for this year?
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I think last year that I'm going
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: to bring into this year is just kind of just
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: being where your feet are.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 36:00
  Speaker 9: There's a lot of times where you can look to
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: the future and say, like the what ifs If I
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: do this, I can get to this place. I think
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: that just takes you out of yourself. I think I've
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: done that a couple of times. I mean, right when
• 36:11
  Speaker 9: I got to Double A, I struggled for a couple
• 36:13
  Speaker 9: of weeks early, and I think it was really because
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: I went out of myself.
• 36:17
  Speaker 10: I tried to do too much. I tried to prove
• 36:19
  Speaker 10: that I belonged.
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: And at the end of the day, you're there for
• 36:22
  Speaker 9: a reason, and you're at that level because you're supposed
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: to be there.
• 36:25
  Speaker 10: And I think I.
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: Realized that pretty quickly and just kind of tap back
• 36:28
  Speaker 9: into what I do best and just being myself and
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: just simplifying the game.
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: Again.
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: I think a lot of my strengths come with simplicity.
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: I think controlling the zone is something that I'm very
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: good at, and I think that's something that I have
• 36:40
  Speaker 9: a lot of control over. Swing decisions, something that you control.
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: It's not the umpire calling balls and strikes. It's something
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: that you control. And I think a lot of that
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: comes into play when when the game does get to
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: be sped up a little bit on you, it's it's
• 36:53
  Speaker 9: going back to just the simple things and doing what
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: you can control. And I think a lot of that
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: comes down to just your effort and your attitude. And
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: I think I'm gonna bring that into the season as well,
• 37:04
  Speaker 9: just that positive attitude of just being where my feet
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: are and doing what it takes to win where I'm
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: at and just wherever that may be, whether it's in
• 37:10
  Speaker 9: the big leagues, whether it's Triple AAA, whatever that might be.
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: Just kind of being where your feet are and just
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: working to get better each day. And I have a
• 37:18
  Speaker 9: quote from my college coach that I always bring with
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: me every day. It's it's everything expires at midnight. So
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: whether it's a good game, whether it's a bad game,
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: it is minjion. You get a couple hours after the game.
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: Game might end at ten o'clock. You have it's from
• 37:33
  Speaker 9: ten to midnight to reflect on whatever you did that day,
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: whether you want to celebrate your successes or whether you
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: want to dwell on some of the failures you might
• 37:41
  Speaker 9: have had that day or the losses that you took.
• 37:44
  Speaker 9: But as soon as twelve o'cock hits, it's a new day.
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: So then you move on and it's it's to start
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: another day and just get back to work again.
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: Ryan, hold up, before we go on. The guy sitting
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: next to you, did you know he went to Kentucky
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: for one year and then transfer out, so you transferred in.
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: So that's why you didn't know that quote, because the
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: coach to Kentucky didn't give him that quote because he
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: left ye brought and then versus you who actually went
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: there to play.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that quote because he was like minjio
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: on was the bottom assistant and wasn't allowed to talk
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: yet No, because.
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: You aren't too good, was too good to talk to
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: the third assistance if you were first off.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: I red shirted, I read shirt.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: It's like clearly wasn't too good, and then I got
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: kicked off then made it back on and then got
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: kicked off again. But yeah, me and you could even
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: if you talked to me, and Minjio never saw eyed
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: eye as the nicest way to put it, I guess
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: that way. But it is a fantastic quote. And I
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: will say, I want to hit back on what you
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: said earlier. It's not you're still consumed trying to prove
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: yourself that you belong that you forget that you already do,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: or that you forget that you're there for a reason,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: that your organization's behind you. They've moved you up for
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: a reason, whether you believe it or not. They think
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: you're ready. So I think I really like that you're
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: already kind of recognizing that they're like. It's not whether
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: i'm if I don't need to prove myself that I
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: belong here by getting there.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: You've already proven yourself that you belong there.
• 39:09
  Speaker 10: For sure, all right, So I've got one.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: I think you're the perfect person to ask this too,
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: because you had a banger of a season last year
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: and you've continued to develop at the plate right and
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: on the cusp of the big leagues. We often point
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: to organizations that do a really good job of developing
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: pitching talent. You know, we've talked to it's a national show, right,
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: So we've talked about the Rays and the Guardians and
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: the Brewers and some of these teams that will take
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: a guy or they'll develop guys and they just become
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: great pitching talents. I actually think we need to focus
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: on what Arizona is doing on the hitting side of things,
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: and would love to get your thoughts on where you
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: think the secret sauces. They've done a really good job
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: of developing prospects and turning them into big leaguers and
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: then also bringing guys over and making them even better.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: So and that's why they've had one of the better
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: offenses in baseball over the last few years. So what
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: do you have for us, Like, what have you personally
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: seen from them that's helped you and that's helped the
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: organization pump out many players to be big league regulars
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: or even stars on the lineup.
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I think they do an amazing job
• 40:13
  Speaker 9: on just kind of the communication aspect of it. You know,
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: I came in with a good feel of what I
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: do at the plate and why I do those things,
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: and we have conversations about it. There's never a time
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: where the coach is like, I want you to do this,
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: and you're going to do this and we're not going
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: to talk about it. You're going to figure out how
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: to do the way I'm telling you to do this.
• 40:30
  Speaker 10: Here. It's a lot of ask questions.
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: I think a lot of guys ask questions on why
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: we do things, and it really allows you to just
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: fully understand what they're trying to get you to do
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  Speaker 9: and you can grasp the reasoning behind it. And I
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: think when you have that, it allows you to really
• 40:45
  Speaker 9: understand what your plan is at the plate and what
• 40:47
  Speaker 9: you're trying to do and what you're trying to accomplish,
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: so your drill work, VP, game swings, whatever it might be.
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: And I think that's huge because there's no cookie cutter
• 40:55
  Speaker 9: way that they're trying to make us. Each of us,
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: every single one of us have different swings, every single
• 41:00
  Speaker 9: one of us have different setups, and we talk through
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: everything that we're doing, and I think that's huge when
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: it comes down to it, because nobody's body's moved the same,
• 41:08
  Speaker 9: nobody's strengths are the same as each other. Everyone has
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: different weaknesses, everyone has different strengths. Our plans might be
• 41:13
  Speaker 9: different at the plate. I think Arizona does a great
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: job at recognizing that that we're not all going to
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: be going up to the plate with the same approach,
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: We're not all going to be swinging at the same pitches.
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: But as long as us as players understand what our
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: plan is and how to execute that plan, I think
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  Speaker 9: that really allows each and every one of us to
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: do our jobs and allows each and every one of
• 41:30
  Speaker 9: us to excel.
• 41:31
  Speaker 10: Like to the level that we're trying to reach every day.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: Hey, last one for you on the big league club?
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: Who do you talk to right now? Like, who's a
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: go to guy for you? Is there anyone kind of
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: offering more time, gracious with their time. You've got some
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: pretty veteran names there.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: You know, obviously Corbyn's not around as much right now
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: just because he's getting that rehabit and just trying to
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: get ready back for opening day. But you know, At
• 42:01
  Speaker 9: and Jordan and even Borsa to all three of us,
• 42:04
  Speaker 9: all three of them have been really influential to me
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  Speaker 9: so far.
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  Speaker 10: Early in camp. You know, they had time.
• 42:09
  Speaker 9: Maybe if it's not a ton of time in the
• 42:10
  Speaker 9: big leagues, they're really just show me the ropes and
• 42:14
  Speaker 9: just how to just navigate what's going on. And and
• 42:17
  Speaker 9: you know, even Jordan too, fresh in the outfield, he's
• 42:19
  Speaker 9: asked questions to me, and it's very cool to see
• 42:22
  Speaker 9: someone that's in the big leagues and I haven't made
• 42:25
  Speaker 9: a debut or anything yet, but he's asking questions to
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: me on how he can get better in the outfield.
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: And you know, I'm asking Alex questions about how I
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: can get better jumps.
• 42:33
  Speaker 10: And and what to do on defense stuff like that.
• 42:35
  Speaker 9: And you know, those at least for Outfitters, have been
• 42:38
  Speaker 9: really good so far for me to talk to. And
• 42:40
  Speaker 9: even Gurriel too, he's starting to make his way back
• 42:42
  Speaker 9: out there after his ACL surgery and and you know,
• 42:45
  Speaker 9: he's just he's a great energy guy to have around,
• 42:47
  Speaker 9: and it really allows you to play, relax and be
• 42:50
  Speaker 9: loose out there when we're doing our work because you know,
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: he's a veteran and he can do what he wants,
• 42:54
  Speaker 9: you know, whenever, and he he doesn't have to take
• 42:57
  Speaker 9: the time to necessarily talk to me and each me things.
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: But he's been really cool out there to have and
• 43:02
  Speaker 9: you know, it really just allows me to think again,
• 43:05
  Speaker 9: and you know, it's just the game and it's you're
• 43:07
  Speaker 9: supposed to have fun with it, and it's really cool
• 43:09
  Speaker 9: to see a guy like Guryell got there and just
• 43:11
  Speaker 9: kind of have the happy medium of knowing when he
• 43:14
  Speaker 9: needs to be locked in and get his work in,
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: but then also the time where you can relax and
• 43:18
  Speaker 9: kind of talk to each other and have a good
• 43:20
  Speaker 9: time out there.
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: I love that.
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: By the way, the fact that you just said Alec
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: Thomas is like a veteran. He was like the little
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: shit kid running around the clubhouse, right, I mean, now
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: he's like, oh, look at this a veteran. I'm like,
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: oh my gosh, how.
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: Old were five years in the things now?
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 43:38
  Speaker 10: The other day we actually were joking around.
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: We were out there and Guriel wasn't out there and
• 43:42
  Speaker 9: we were talking and h I think the oldest guy
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: we had in the outfield through like the nine of
• 43:47
  Speaker 9: us was like twenty six years old. So we really
• 43:50
  Speaker 9: had nobody out there that necessarily even considered a veteran.
• 43:54
  Speaker 10: At this point.
• 43:55
  Speaker 9: Everyone's pretty young, so it's a pretty cool, uh core
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: of young guys that we got out there.
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's young man's game.
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: Ryan.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: Great to chat with you, appreciate the time, good luck
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: the rest of spring.
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  Speaker 10: All right, Yeah, thank you guys so much. I appreciate it.