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FT at D’Backs camp: GM Mike Hazen, Trey Mancini · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want to leave any stone on turn.
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  Speaker 1: You want to play until to kind of rip the
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  Speaker 1: bat out of your hands.
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  Speaker 2: We've got the leader of the front office for the Diamondbacks,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Hayson, joining the show. Mike, great to have you.
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  Speaker 2: Happy spring training to you, and happy off season to you.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have fun, Yeah, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't know if I described the off
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  Speaker 4: season as fun. I mean, I think we were fairly productive,
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  Speaker 4: but it's fairly stressful, you know, as you're trying to
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  Speaker 4: do what you can when you have a good team,
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  Speaker 4: to add to the team as much as possible, to
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  Speaker 4: give these guys every chance to win. That's on us,
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  Speaker 4: like we need to give them the resources and the
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  Speaker 4: teammates and the tools to be able to go out
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  Speaker 4: there and compete. So that's stressful for us because we
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  Speaker 4: need to deliver. We need to do our job so
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  Speaker 4: they can do theirs.
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  Speaker 5: Eighty four wins two years ago to go to the
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  Speaker 5: World Series, eighty nine wins last year. You don't make
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  Speaker 5: the playoffs, then you go get Corbyn Burns, you go
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  Speaker 5: get Josh Naylor. You make some you have some other losses,
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  Speaker 5: but you make some smaller additions here and there. What's
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  Speaker 5: the off season like when you look at it and
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  Speaker 5: you say, we went to the World Series and by
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  Speaker 5: the way we had the we had the ring here
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  Speaker 5: that it's a fake one, but oh sick, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: national Championship ring. And then you go eighty nine, you
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  Speaker 5: don't make the playoffs? Is in your mind just burning
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  Speaker 5: yes to make additions to get your back?
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  Speaker 6: It was.
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  Speaker 4: It was a tough offseason. It was a tough last
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  Speaker 4: day of the year. I had never been through something
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  Speaker 4: like that before. I know that this format hadn't come
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  Speaker 4: down to tie breakers. And you know, back in the day,
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  Speaker 4: you played in if you tied right, whether you were
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  Speaker 4: in or out. If it was seeding you you could
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  Speaker 4: have tie breakers, but you used to play in or out.
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  Speaker 3: I remember that.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was in thirteen where there were those
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  Speaker 4: multiple time brings.
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  Speaker 7: I just love breaking my heart about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But but so that was really disappointing and left a
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  Speaker 4: very bitter taste in all of our miles. And knowing
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  Speaker 4: the team that we had and the way we played
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  Speaker 4: and leading the league in runs which we did not.
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  Speaker 3: Anticipate, we left a lot on the table last year.
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  Speaker 4: There were so many games that we look back on
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  Speaker 4: that we should have done a better job in We
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  Speaker 4: just didn't and it's the way it broke. But yes,
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  Speaker 4: it gave us a lot of fuel going into this offseason,
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  Speaker 4: knowing the team that we have on the field, the
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  Speaker 4: talent we have in the rotation and in the lineup,
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  Speaker 4: that we had to go and push this thing forward.
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  Speaker 4: And I felt like we did that in a few
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  Speaker 4: different ways. And this is a good team. It's good players,
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  Speaker 4: they're competitive, they're young, they're hungry, and we'll see where
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  Speaker 4: it takes us. We know we're playing in a tough
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  Speaker 4: national league all across the National League, not just the West,
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  Speaker 4: and we respect that and we're gonna have to play
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  Speaker 4: our best to get get into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 8: Listening to you talk, it sounds like you're decently competitive.
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  Speaker 8: Is that tough to make the right choices when you're
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  Speaker 8: so close and you know that once you're in the
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  Speaker 8: playoffs with your rotation everything to push. Is it hard
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  Speaker 8: to make the right choices for the organization when your
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  Speaker 8: competitiveness says, let's.
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  Speaker 6: Just go for it.
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  Speaker 3: Are you trying to ask me if I do dumb stuff?
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  Speaker 3: That is the nice way of what I was trying
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  Speaker 3: to say, Okay, I try not to do that.
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  Speaker 4: We try very hard to not overreact and be emotional
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  Speaker 4: in our decision making. However, I do know that the
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  Speaker 4: players in that clubhouse are looking at us to deliver,
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  Speaker 4: and there is a responsibility that we have if we're
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  Speaker 4: going to ask them to go out there and compete
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  Speaker 4: in the landscape that they have to compete in. That
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  Speaker 4: we have to do our job to the best of
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  Speaker 4: our ability, which means not taking a season for granted.
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  Speaker 4: Working in Boston for so long, we used to say
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  Speaker 4: that all the time. You can never take a major
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  Speaker 4: league season for granted, Like what's on paper doesn't mean anything.
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  Speaker 4: You have to constantly add to your rotation. You have
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  Speaker 4: to constantly add to your depth, your lineup, and we
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  Speaker 4: feel that pressure. We feel the pressure in order for
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  Speaker 4: us to ask the players to do what they need
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  Speaker 4: to do, So I try, we try to walk that line.
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  Speaker 4: We know the long term is also part of our
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  Speaker 4: job to take care of the organization. But yeah, pushing
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  Speaker 4: in to go for it. This team on paper where
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  Speaker 4: we left last season, it wasn't really.
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  Speaker 3: A hard choice, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 4: We have a number of guys that are maybe expiring
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the year, and who knows what
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  Speaker 4: that ultimately means, whether we keep them or not. But
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to take that for granted either, and
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  Speaker 4: we want to make sure that a talented team has
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  Speaker 4: every ability to go out and compete.
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  Speaker 5: You brought in a guy, Corvin Burns, who he's one
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  Speaker 5: of the best pitchers in baseball. What was that pursuit like?
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  Speaker 5: Because we've talked to him and he said, Scott Morris
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  Speaker 5: kind of went to Ken Kendrick, your owner, and they
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  Speaker 5: got a deal done. What's that pursuit like from your end?
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  Speaker 5: And I was surprised when I saw I told Corvin.
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  Speaker 5: When I saw Corvin Burns to the Diamondbacks, I was like,
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  Speaker 5: whoa wait, wait, I didn't have that one on my
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  Speaker 5: bingo card. So how surprised were you able that you
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  Speaker 5: were able to get that done? And how happy read
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  Speaker 5: that ownership gave you the money and the funds to
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  Speaker 5: go say, hey, go get this guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie to you.
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  Speaker 4: I was surprised too, you know, not that we didn't
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  Speaker 4: have interest in him, or I didn't know that we
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  Speaker 4: were gonna be his interest was going to be reciprocated.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're out here. I think we have a
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  Speaker 4: good setup structure. We do hear a lot from players
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  Speaker 4: that they want to play here, A lot of guys
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  Speaker 4: live here. We want to create a competitive advantage for
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  Speaker 4: us that this place can become the hub of a
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  Speaker 4: lot of guys wanting to marry, winning and competing, and
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  Speaker 4: also their family and and and and the ease easier
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  Speaker 4: as hard as being a major League baseball player can
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  Speaker 4: be travel being away, can we create something that's a
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  Speaker 4: little easier And does that make a fifty to fifty
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  Speaker 4: ball a deciding factor?
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we're very appreciative.
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  Speaker 4: I'm appreciative that our owners and and Ken and Derek
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  Speaker 4: stepped up and Gava also feel the way they do
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  Speaker 4: about our team. I I feel like it's our job
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  Speaker 4: to prove to our owners that they they should invest
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  Speaker 4: in the team, that that that this team deserves to
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  Speaker 4: be invested in. And there were years where we weren't
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  Speaker 4: very good, and I didn't feel that way, and and
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  Speaker 4: they may not have seen it that way either. We
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  Speaker 4: tried to do the best we could to put our
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  Speaker 4: team on the field. But to go and do something
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  Speaker 4: like that, I think you have to prove to them
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  Speaker 4: that if they're going to make that investment, that that
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  Speaker 4: you can return on that investment. And we're so fortunate
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  Speaker 4: to have a player like Corven Burns on our team.
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  Speaker 4: We have other really good players. He's a number one
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  Speaker 4: starting pitcher. It's the single, probably most valuable commodity for
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  Speaker 4: any team to have a true number one starting pitchers
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  Speaker 4: on your team, and we have multiple. And I think
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  Speaker 4: that's good for a team going into a hundred sixty
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  Speaker 4: two game season. And then if you get fortunate enough
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  Speaker 4: to get to the playoffs, we know what that means
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  Speaker 4: in the playoffs too.
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  Speaker 8: Can you believe that Christian Walker is no longer a
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  Speaker 8: Diamondback because all that he did, he got his opportunity
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  Speaker 8: with the Diamondbacks watching him play in the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 8: playing against him. He was a dude, right handed hitter
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  Speaker 8: that struck out a lot in the minor leagues. They
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  Speaker 8: go to Japan, they stay in the minor league, stay
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  Speaker 8: in Triple A. You guys gave him the shot in Arizona.
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  Speaker 8: Is it tough to see him walk out the door?
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  Speaker 3: Of course it is. It's always tough to watch somebody
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  Speaker 3: like that walk out the door.
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  Speaker 4: But can I tell you something else, You know how
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  Speaker 4: happy I am for Christian Walker and all the things
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  Speaker 4: that you described in all the areas when he got
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  Speaker 4: to the big leagues late as a player where we
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  Speaker 4: were playing him in left field in Triple A because
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  Speaker 4: we were having trouble finding him at defense of home.
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  Speaker 4: He made himself everything he's become and the amount of
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  Speaker 4: money he went on and earned that is his right
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  Speaker 4: in the free agent market to earn.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy for him. I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sad the human being isn't here, but to
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  Speaker 4: be happy for what he's accomplished in his career. And
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  Speaker 4: he's the example that we talk about today in our
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  Speaker 4: one on one meetings in spring training about to players
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  Speaker 4: that haven't found that home yet of what you can
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  Speaker 4: become if you do what Christian Walker did. So look,
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  Speaker 4: it's a little bit of mixed feelings, like for every
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  Speaker 4: selfish reason I want him here. I'm ecstatic that he
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  Speaker 4: went out and earned what he did in where he
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  Speaker 4: was in his career at twenty seven, twenty eight years old.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm happy for him, as screwy as that can sound.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes, Man, your Boston accent is still thick. I must he.
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  Speaker 3: Comes out sometimes it does.
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  Speaker 5: Is It just makes me because we were together in Boston.
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  Speaker 5: But I want to know this, and we've had a
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  Speaker 5: lot of GMS President of Baseball ops on in our
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  Speaker 5: spring training tour. How much time is of yours is
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  Speaker 5: split between the big league team because obviously we ask
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  Speaker 5: all the questions about the major league team, But how
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  Speaker 5: much of your time is spent on the minor leagues?
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  Speaker 5: Because we have the minor leaguers walking around, we have
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  Speaker 5: the minor league fields here, So how much is that split?
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  Speaker 5: And how much do you have to trust your minor
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  Speaker 5: league people to come to you and say, hey, we
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  Speaker 5: got this guy that's going to be this and this
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  Speaker 5: and this, or you want to go put your eyes
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  Speaker 5: on them.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I'm probably the worst evaluator in this organization, so I
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  Speaker 4: try not to. I try not to do that too much.
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  Speaker 4: I do go and watch. The trust that we have
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  Speaker 4: and the people that are making recommendations is one hundred
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  Speaker 4: to zero.
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  Speaker 3: But I do like to be able.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's become a little harder when you're a farm director,
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  Speaker 4: when your assistant GM. It's it was easier to go
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  Speaker 4: for five days at a time during the season to
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  Speaker 4: the minor league cities and go spend time and watch
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  Speaker 4: those guys play. It's become harder for me to be
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  Speaker 4: able to do that during the course of the year.
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  Speaker 4: So I do value spring training tremendously to be able
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  Speaker 4: to spend a lot of time on the backfield. There's
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  Speaker 4: not a ton to watch all the time over on
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  Speaker 4: the major league side. Those guys are getting ready. What
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  Speaker 4: your evaluating isn't real. In a lot of cases, they're
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  Speaker 4: just you know, they're working on pitches and they're just
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  Speaker 4: trying to get ramp. So there are times I do
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  Speaker 4: want to go watch some players play, but for the
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  Speaker 4: most part, the time I get to spend back here
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  Speaker 4: watching these guys play, I feel like it's almost even
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  Speaker 4: more valuable to be able to lay our eyes on
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  Speaker 4: those guys, and when those names do come up during
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  Speaker 4: the year, I have a better feeling for who exactly
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  Speaker 4: they're talking about it. And it's less so the guys
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  Speaker 4: in Triple A in the big leagues. It's more so
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  Speaker 4: the A ball guys. When we're moving A ball guys
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  Speaker 4: up from low AY to High A or Hya to
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  Speaker 4: double a, I have a better sense for what they're
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  Speaker 4: talking about.
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  Speaker 8: Could you believe that Josh Nayler was available when you
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  Speaker 8: called Cleveland?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, in some ways, yes, we were actually talking
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  Speaker 3: about that this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Look, teams have to operate in different situations, in different structures,
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  Speaker 4: So I get it, like, in some ways he made
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  Speaker 4: all the sense in the world for us. In other
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  Speaker 4: ways he may not have, and if we were in
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  Speaker 4: a different spot. But having that player, the energy, the
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  Speaker 4: passion on our team, wondering what was going to happen
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  Speaker 4: with Walk at that time, because that situation hadn't gotten
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  Speaker 4: settled yet, And I can never take free agency for
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  Speaker 4: granted that you're going to be able to resign your players. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we were very fortunate he was available. He's a tremendous player.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna have a tremendous year for us. I think
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  Speaker 4: what he adds into our clubhouse is gonna be significant,
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  Speaker 4: you know. I think we have a roster that's hard working, determined, motivated,
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  Speaker 4: and very serious about what they.
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  Speaker 6: Do today to day.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's a little bit of a wild wild
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  Speaker 4: card in the dugout in the clubhouse in terms of
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  Speaker 4: the energy is awesome, don't look lost.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I love that.
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  Speaker 4: It's actually one of the driving factors for why we
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  Speaker 4: acquired him. We had long ago and Tommy fam a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years ago, and I felt like those two
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  Speaker 4: guys in the clubhouse when we were making that run
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  Speaker 4: were so critically important that that not just an energy,
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  Speaker 4: but just the way they approached the game and their
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  Speaker 4: life for our younger kids was so important, and that
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  Speaker 4: was something we were looking to make sure we had
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  Speaker 4: in our clubhouse.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Mike, what did you think of your division rival
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers this offseason?
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  Speaker 3: Too?
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  Speaker 6: Years ago?
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  Speaker 2: You guys took them out in the playoffs on your
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  Speaker 2: way to the World Series. Of course, last year was
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  Speaker 2: their year and they end up winning, and of course
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  Speaker 2: drew a lot of attention this offseason. So what do
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  Speaker 2: you think about what they're doing and how much does
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  Speaker 2: that motivate you to of course slay the dragon. For
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  Speaker 2: lack of a friendlier term, I.
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  Speaker 3: Try not to think about what they're doing too much.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what do you want me to say?
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  Speaker 7: You know, look, they you guys beat them.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, That's what I'm saying, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Yep.
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  Speaker 4: That was a good reminder. I look, they're one of
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  Speaker 4: the best run organizations in sport. That's probably the biggest
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  Speaker 4: problem we have is it's not just that they have
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  Speaker 4: the resources to do what they do. Go look at
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  Speaker 4: how they draft and develop, Go look at the young
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  Speaker 4: kids that are on their roster to give them the
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to make trades or you know, withstand the pitching
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  Speaker 4: injuries they had, let's say last year, it's all because
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  Speaker 4: of the guys under the hood over there. And so
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  Speaker 4: that's the biggest issue we have, is that it's not
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  Speaker 4: just they have the resources. They're one of the best
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  Speaker 4: run organizations, and we have a tremendous amount of respect.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna have to deal with them. It is what
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  Speaker 4: it is. Everybody has to deal with them. But we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to deal with them. And but I try
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  Speaker 4: not to focus too much on that. We we we
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  Speaker 4: consciously try to focus on the race that we're gonna run,
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  Speaker 4: that we have to run over one sixty two. And
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  Speaker 4: I think with the talent that we have on this roster,
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  Speaker 4: if we do our job, we're gonna at least be
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  Speaker 4: able to go out there and go toe to toe
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  Speaker 4: with them at some point.
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  Speaker 6: And we're excited.
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  Speaker 2: Man, we're excited to watch this.
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  Speaker 3: I think you guys are gonna be great. Appreciate that,
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  Speaker 3: I really do.
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  Speaker 5: I love your lineup, I love your pitching, I love
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  Speaker 5: your bullpen and Tory. You know, even though he caned me,
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  Speaker 5: you guys can me together one time, I still think
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  Speaker 5: you guys are awesome.
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  Speaker 3: That wasn't my choice, did that?
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  Speaker 7: It was all Tory. That's right, that was right all Tory.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Mike was like no, no, like, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Don't do this is a bad idea. I know we're
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  Speaker 3: doing this. It's gonna talk about us.
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  Speaker 2: All good Mike, this is awesome. Thanks for stopping by,
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  Speaker 2: and have a good rest of the camp. All right,
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  Speaker 2: enjoy things.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it, guys, Thank you, thank you.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: Hey, we've got Trey Mancini Diamondbacks Camp. Trey, great to
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: see you as always, and you've had a super interesting
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: journey throughout your career. What's it like for you to
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: be in this camp in Can I call it an
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: audition role?
• 14:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: I think that's safe to say. It's it's been great.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: It's been a great fit.
• 14:17
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Spent most of the last year thinking I was honestly
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: going to retire from baseball, and then as year went on,
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: something just wasn't sitting right with me and decided to
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: pick up the bat hit and was just hoping for
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to come to spring training with somebody, and
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: luckily it happened. So I'm so happy to be here
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: and and I've really been enjoying myself.
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: What changed?
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Let me fix your mike here. Oh yeah, yeah, people,
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: it's cool. What changed?
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: I mean you, because you know, you went, you were
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: home for a year and you're sitting around and he
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: told me you were on the pickleball court and all
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: of a sudden, you're in big Ley camp, So what
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: what was there? A fire that was still lit in
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: there and you just happened to pick up a bat randomly.
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: No one was like, hey, just pick a couple of
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: swings for us.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: It took a while, Like I thought, I was at
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: peace with it for months, you know, I felt great,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: didn't really think about baseball that much. And about the
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: end of July, I got a text from Brady Anderson. Actually,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: he worked with me a lot when I was in
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Baltimore back in twenty fifteen. He changed my swing and
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: that really helped my career take off, and he basically
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: said that he thought that I still had something left
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: in the tank, and he thought that I should give
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: it one more chance. And the time for piece is
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: later on, whenever you've kind of extinguished every outlet that
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: you can.
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: So I thought about.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: That and it really hit home, and I ended up
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: going out to California and hitting with him in October
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: and felt like old times again and decided to, you know,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: ramp it up and get it going again.
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: When you were off, Like at some point during that
• 15:54
  Speaker 8: time when you were off for last year, did you
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: sit there and go, Man, hitting is so east.
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: You know, I never forgot how hard it is to hit.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: But there are times when you watch on TV when
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I didn't he swing at that pitch
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: and all this, and I'm like, you know what I
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: sound like all these people that just burate me after
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: bad games, and you do forget how hard it is,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: and going back into games now, you know, it's funny
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: how much different it looks on TV and then how
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: much different it is in real life. It is the
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: hardest thing to do in sports. So that's something you
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: don't really ever forget, even when you sometimes think it's
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: a little easier than it is.
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well we got to make sure everybody knows at
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: this point you're eight for eighteen in spring training, Am
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: I not incorrect? So maybe it was easier and you
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: just needed a break.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe you know, I got a nice fresh perspective kind
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: of enoughing to lose perspective this year, and I think
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: that's where I need to be to be successful. So yeah,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: I've been having a lot of fun out there and
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: it's been refreshing.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: Sorry, your new ace is just walking by stud Your
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: new ace is walking by Corbynburn. Sorry, so I was no, yeah, no,
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: he's our old age, He's Corbyn was walking by and
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: I'm like, you're coming on.
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: So sorry. The new perspective.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: I love what you're saying about the new perspective because
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: you sit out for a year and you say, like
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: you said, there was all of a sudden you get
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: excited again.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: So when you come into camp, you're an older guy.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Now you're thirty two, you're an older guy and you
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: see some young kids, are you like do they come
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: to you and say, hey, Trey, what was it like
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: not playing for you? What was it like back doing this?
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: And now what do you see and do you help
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: these guys out, because Diambacks are still relatively young.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, it's a mix of like some veteran guys,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: but it's actually a pretty young team overall, I would say, so. Yeah,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the young guys have been great and they've asked a
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: lot of questions. They definitely surround themselves with the older
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: guys on the team, and there's a lot of guys
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: that have been here for a long time too, So
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I feel like this team's got such a good cultureablished
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: and whenever you come in here, it's pretty infectious. So
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: guys like like Jordan Lawler is want of the young
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: guys on this team. He's a stud, you know, soaks
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: up everything that you tell him, and he's always learning
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: and always wanting to know about other people. So I
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: think that's a really good quality for your younger guy
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: to have, and I've seen that from a lot of
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: the guys here, especially Jordan.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: Thirty two and that old you're good to go first,
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: I mean I think I got I got called up
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: to the big leagues when I was thirty, so so
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: you're totally fine.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: It's impressive, is there intrigue?
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: Dave McKay over there at first base. Has he said,
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: We're gonna get you more than your career two bags?
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: I need it.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I was actually somebody brought that up the other day.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've had a stolen base since maybe
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen.
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: I had you do it this year.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: I can do it this year, especially with him over there.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's and sometimes, like in drills during spring, he's
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: been out there and he's diving back into first base.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: He's like starting and stopping really quickly. He's in better
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: shape than i'd say most mob players. It's impressive.
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: What does he tell you?
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Because I didn't steal a lot of bases, I wish
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: I'd never really had a coach that was because they
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: just were like, don't don't go anywhere because you might
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: get hurt, so stay here. But what does he say
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: when you get what's he whisper in your ear? What's
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: the guru say?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: This is the first time I've ever been instructed on
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: base running in my career. I'd say it's just a
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: part of my game that, unfortunately, for better or worse,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: has been kind of obsolete. And every year that I've
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: been playing baseball, I feel like base running has gotten
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: more important. It's become a bigger part of the game,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: and even guys that you know aren't very fast can
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: impact the game on the bases. And he references Paul
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Goldschmid a lot, just the way that he kind of
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: cuts corners around the bags. You know, he doesn't have
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: to take these big wide turns like you can run
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the bases much more efficiently, especially if you're not that fast.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of things that can be done
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to improve, you know, getting that extra bay that ends
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: up being huge in the long run.
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: What does this team? What intrigues you about this team?
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: Obviously it's a shot, But what do you have to one,
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: what do you have to do to make this team?
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: What do they tell you have to do? But what
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: also intrigued you? Like, I'm sure they weren't the only
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: team that called me off season.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: They were basically the only team.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: There is maybe one or two other Like there was
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: a little bit of interest, but you know, it was
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a place that believed in me and gave me the opportunity. So,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: like I said, I'm so thrilled and happy to be here.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: It's a stacked roster in there for sure, it's a
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: really great team, and especially not playing last year, I
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: know it's an uphill battle to make the team out
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: of camp, but when you're here, you have the perspective
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: that you're here to make the team so and you
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: can't ever lose that. But if it does come to
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: me starting in Triple A, I'm willing to do that
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: or my way back up, you know, whatever they em
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: me to do, I'm ready to, like I said, or
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: my way back up to the big leagues.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: That was gonna be my question. Would you go to
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: Triple A?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I would?
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Would you would you have to would.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: You go, say for the whole year or would you
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: would you just have to play that out, like say
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: they came to you and said, hey, we want you
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: to go to Triple A. You're there, first guy up.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: You know they tell you. Event usually veteran guy, your
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: first guy up. Something happens, something doesn't go right, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: then it gets to like, June, would you still because
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: I don't know, because I've never been in your position.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know, and I've never been in this position before,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: so I'd like to say yes, And especially not playing
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: last year, and like I said, you get a different
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: perspective of the game and and yeah, you don't want
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: to leave any stone unturned, So I think I would
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you know, you want to play until they kind of
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: rip the bat out of your hands.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, take the glove.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: But see though you took a year off, right, you
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: were like, oh, I'm at peace, and then all of
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: a sudden.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: But now you realize that once you're done.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: And I think I needed that to realize, especially now
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: with a level or two less of minor league baseball,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: it's really tough to get a job in affiliated baseball.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: There's some really really good players playing independent ball, playing
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: in the Mexican League, playing internationally. It's it's tough to
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: get a job here in the States now. And I
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: think I really realized that last year. And don't take
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that for granted.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: What what is the family situation in the sense of
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: is everybody in your family from most important people to
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: the people that support you. Are they in support of this?
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: Are they okay with Let's see where are they Reno now?
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: Is it Reno or Albuquerque's Triple As.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: You know, there's a sign right there at six hundred
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: and three miles by the way to Reno. Yeah, Well,
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: that's that's how far you'll hit the homers when you're
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: in reno, so you might you might end up with
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: ten and April and then hit easy easy. But is
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: everybody in complete support of this?
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Definitely.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: My family's always been so supportive in whatever I choose
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to do. But I do think there's a part of
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: them that missed me playing last year. So everybody's excited
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I'm back and kids, no kids yet, yeah, hopefully shortly,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: yeah no, no, yeah, no kids yet.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: So as long as your wife, yeah, yeah, she's in.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Full support and and yeah, we're We're so excited to
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: be back.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Trey. You've had a lot of great memories right now,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: what's the best memory in your career?
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Winning the World Series with the Astros? Definitely.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I mean that's why we all play the game since
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: we were kids, and and it's what we all aspire
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to do whenever we started playing baseball, and that's the dream.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So unequivocally winning winning the World Series with the.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Astros as it should be.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, I think anything else yeah, just falls
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: a little short of that, you know, especially on a
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: personal level. So you know, that's the pinnacle of the sport.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Is winning the World Series.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: So, Trey, is your greatest individual moment. The defensive play
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: you made in was a Game five of the World Series.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Obviously you've had a lot of great moments as a bat,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: but is that your greatest moment because obviously that contributes
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: to that World Series title?
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Definitely, especially I was struggling at the play to you know,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the last month of the regular season and into the playoffs,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I was slumping, so I wasn't quite expecting my glove
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to be, you know, the side of the ball that
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: had an impact on the World Series. But making the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: play basically falling on the ball that Schwarber hit, I
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: still don't even know if I saw it, but I'm
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: really glad I made that play and was able to
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: help Houston win the World Series that year.
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: Fundamentals half fun, half mental, and yeah, it was just
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: a fundamental play.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: You got it, Just hug the line and fall on
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: top of it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah, one hundred percent tackle it. What does what does this?
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: Does this team have the same feel? I know you
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: only went to Houston part way through the season and
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: you weren't in spring training, and spring training can be misleading,
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: but does this team have that feel? Of a team
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: that can compete for a World Series title.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: It does.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: There's a quiet confidence here that reminds me a lot
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: of what I saw in Houston and miss team was
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: in the World Series two years ago. And they've got,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: like I said, such a good mix of really great
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: young players, young stars, and a lot of guys that
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: have been around for a while, have a lot of
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: playoff experience. And you know, for the most part, most
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of the guys in there have experienced playing in a
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: World Series and I think that helps a lot. And
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: it's a really really good team and definitely has a
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: feel of a strong contender.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: All Right, before you let you go, I love to
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: talk about things that aren't baseball related. So I know
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: you went to Notre Dame. Did you really think they
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: were gonna make the championship game? After they lost to
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Northern Illinois?
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: This yay?
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Northern Illinois day was one of the worst days, uh,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: than I've ever experienced. I laid on my kitchen floor
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: for like two hours staring at the ceiling. I was
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: so excited for this football season, you know, And typically
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I'm like more of a realistic Notre Dame fan than
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of other.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: Take Notre Dame fans, I've never been to a game
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: and all that stuff.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, Like I was a junior when we lost Talabama
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: in the National Championship. I knew we were probably gonna
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: get steamrolled in the game, and we did. This year
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: felt different. So after that game, I was dejected. But man,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: that team and and Freeman were incredible this year, the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: way they bounced back and made it to the National Championship.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: I went to the game.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: It was awesome. Yeah, so much fun except for the game,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: except for the score. For the score. But ohiose Date
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: was a better team, but still an unbelievable season.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, come on, they had the easiest run, like
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: of all time to get there.
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: They played Indiana. Did they play Indiana?
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: Free? Yeah? I went to that game too. It was
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: freezing little, it was so cold. Yeah.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: We we did some tailgating that day to help out
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: slightly with that. But but yeah, I went to the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: IU game and then uh, the Penn State game. I
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: wasn't able to go to because my sister got married
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: that weekend.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: But we had.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: To watch party at her at her welcome party, so
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: it was you know, it was fun. A lot of
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: my friends were there too, So it was a fun
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: run throughout the playoffs. And they do it again, I
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: think so.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: I mean the they. I'm sure they have another tough
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: schedule where they played the Army. The air for.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: Supposed to be pretty good.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: Seek.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this year was a little lighter than expected. But yeah,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: it should be time.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: By the way, it's time for them the quarterback, it's
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: time for.
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: Them to join a conference.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Let's be.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see, come on, I wouldn't hate it,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I got to respect the tradition to I agree.
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: It was a great run for them, but it was
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: a great run.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Ye.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: I'm glad you got to go too. I've been to
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: a few of them. They're they're fun better when your
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: team wins. But oh yeah, yeah, I haven't experienced that yet. Okay,
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: maybe maybe one day, hopefully one day.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Hey, you might feel old in baseball, but you're very young.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: You got plenty of time. You'll get there. You'll get there.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: But we're rooting for you, Trey. Great to see it,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Thanks for spending some time with us, and we'll keep
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: watching you here in spring training and hope to seeing
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: the bigs again soon.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: All right, sounds good. Thanks guys,