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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the Budweiser Reds Hot Stove League, presented

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Speaker 1: by you DF, and we are coming to you from

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Speaker 1: Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona, where the Reds just beat

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Speaker 1: the White Sox three to two this afternoon, and in

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Speaker 1: doing so, the Reds have now even their Cactus League slate.

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Speaker 1: Jim Day will help me chat with Emilio Pegan a

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Speaker 1: little bit later on in the show, but right now

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Speaker 1: we welcome into Cowboy, Jeff Brantley, Cowboy. Great to have

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Speaker 1: you out here at Camp. I know you've been to

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Speaker 1: the last couple of games we've called them together. You've

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Speaker 1: seen most of the games that have been played so far.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting at this point in camp because it's easy

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Speaker 1: to overreact to certain things. But let's start with some

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Speaker 1: of the bad, because there's been plenty of good to

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Speaker 2: The ugly was Sunday, and.

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Speaker 1: There were some relievers that the Reds were and still

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Speaker 1: are hoping we'll make a push for some bullpen spots

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Speaker 1: that really struggled to throw strikes.

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Speaker 2: We talked to Tito a little bit about it.

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Speaker 1: But when you have an outing like some of those

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Speaker 1: guys had, Zach Maxwell, Luis Mayo, though May threw the

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Speaker 1: ball well today, guys like that. Connor Phillips struggled in

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Speaker 1: that game as well. It just leaves a bad taste

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Speaker 1: in your mouth when you're observing, even though you kind

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Speaker 1: of try to write off the guys first out in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that you do, and I think that

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Speaker 3: that is going to happen in this camp. Luis may

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Speaker 3: had a rough outing his first time out. Today in

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: There's some leeway there, especially for any pitcher making their

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Speaker 3: first two or three appearances in camp. The problem that

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Speaker 3: you look at, if you're Terry Francona, any manager for

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Speaker 3: that matter.

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Speaker 1: Is.

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Speaker 3: Are the discrepancies are the failures on the mound? Are

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Speaker 3: they caused by mechanics or wildness, by pitch selection or overthrowing,

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Speaker 3: maybe arm not ready, or are they caused by nerves

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Speaker 3: and anxiety. Now, all of these guys, all these kids

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Speaker 3: that are trying to make this club, now they've already

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Speaker 3: been in the big leagues, They've already gone through that process.

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Speaker 2: They understand what it takes.

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Speaker 3: If you continue to make mistakes and you continue to

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Speaker 3: not be able to perform because of nerves and anxiety.

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Speaker 3: You're not making it. You're out of here. You figure

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Speaker 3: that out somewhere else with some other team. You've got

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Speaker 3: to be able to overcome that. You only get one

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Speaker 3: then it's kind of a let's go to the next guy.

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Speaker 1: Well, today was kind of indicative of what we've seen

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Speaker 1: from red starters and the guys that are going to

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Speaker 1: be battling for rotation spots.

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Speaker 2: Today we saw Nick Lodolo. He threw the ball really well.

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Speaker 1: But that's just kind of right in line with what

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Speaker 1: we've seen the guys that we expect to be in

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Speaker 1: the mix for the rotation do so far in the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought Lodolo looked good. I thought Abbott looked good.

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Speaker 3: That those are the two guys I've seen here in

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Speaker 3: the two days we've been here. I did see Louder

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Speaker 3: watching those games on TV at home, and all of

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Speaker 3: them looked like they were comfortable, polished. I don't have

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Speaker 3: tightness that dead arm period, and there might be a

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Speaker 3: little wobble at that point. But when the bell rings,

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Speaker 3: those are your guys that you know that you can

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Speaker 3: count on. I don't know that that's gonna be an

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Speaker 1: A lot of times you sit here and you think,

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Speaker 1: all right, well, how is this all going to fit together?

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Speaker 1: Because you have some guys that are viable options for

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Speaker 1: doubt about that, all right, So who's going to be

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the names that you listed out are

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Speaker 3: all fine and good, and we're going to hear that

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Speaker 3: political message all the way to the end of spring training.

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Speaker 3: The reality of that message is only concerning Rehet Louder.

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Speaker 3: Is Ret Louder ready to pitch up here? If he's

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Speaker 2: You know for a fact that you could put Chase.

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Speaker 3: Burns in the bullpen and he would make your bullpen

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Speaker 3: an absolute rock star bullpen, because in April and really

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Speaker 3: great teams have relievers that could come in and piggyback

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Speaker 3: that happens all the time, and regardless of how great

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Speaker 3: those guys may only throw three, four innings, maybe five,

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Speaker 3: and not very few times are you gonna have a

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Speaker 3: My opinion is, if Louder is ready to go, why

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Speaker 3: gonna get one hundred plus innings out of him. You're

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Speaker 3: trying to put your focus on August in September. You

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Speaker 3: can use Chase Burns in the bullpen and extend him,

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Speaker 3: the game six, seven, eight nine. He's getting four innings there.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's the kind of guy he is. He

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Speaker 3: But my question is is if he's really ready to pitch,

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Speaker 3: are you gonna waste those innings and triple A valuable innings?

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Speaker 3: Right like I talked about. I mean, he's not gonna

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Speaker 3: two hundred innings this year anyway, neither one of them.

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Speaker 1: No, absolutely not. So it's kind of a good way

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Speaker 1: to conserve both of them. And the other part about

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Speaker 1: going the Reds need Chase Burns to be a starter.

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Speaker 1: If you move him to the bullpen, all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden he becomes a reliever. That's not believe in that.

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Speaker 3: I agree, Tommy, it's not that he's going to be

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Speaker 3: a reliever in the future. What you're trying to do

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Speaker 3: right now, and this is the message that Francona is

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Speaker 2: It is time to win. So what is the best

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Speaker 3: Is it to have roster management and you kind of

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Speaker 3: twelve pitchers north to Cincinnati and say, all right, this

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Speaker 2: Get them boys.

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Speaker 1: South Stewart talking about the offense now switching gears a

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Speaker 1: little bit. South Stewart drove the ball out of here

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Speaker 1: Are there some guys that that you look at and

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Speaker 1: you're keeping a close eye on this spring? And I

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Speaker 1: got to imagine that south Stewart would certainly be one

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Speaker 3: Think when you when you start looking around, I mean,

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Speaker 3: the the jury is still out on JJ Bludet. I

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Speaker 3: at I think you look at Nate Low in the

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Speaker 3: same way. The The issue is where can we use

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Speaker 3: on the middle endfield. I hear that middle infield thing

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Speaker 3: I'm not interested in that. You know what I want.

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Speaker 3: I want a guy that can step up there in

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Speaker 3: the eighth inning when I'm down by one run and

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Speaker 3: would imagine that's what Frank con wants. It's not about

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Speaker 3: I mean, if if something happens to Ellie or McLain, well,

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Speaker 3: then that then you go to triple A and you

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Speaker 3: bring him up the next day. I don't want to

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Speaker 3: carry somebody on my bench all year long that that

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Speaker 3: having Nate Lowe on your bench, and now a lot

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Speaker 2: But Bleday, same thing. You got guys.

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Speaker 3: You want to have guys on the bench that the

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel low in the early going has had some really

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Speaker 1: good swings in camp. JJ Bleday, another name you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: has been awfully intriguing. Nothing is guaranteed over there at

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Speaker 1: One guy that's looked awfully good so far in camp,

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Speaker 1: McLain has already piled up several hits in camp. In

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Speaker 1: addition to that, he's shown the ability to go the

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Speaker 1: Welcome back into the Budweiser reds Hot Stove League presented

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Speaker 1: by UDF with the Cowboy Jeff Brantley. I'm Tommy Thraw,

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Speaker 1: we are coming to you from Camel Back Ranch in Glendale, Arizona.

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Speaker 1: Cowboy mentioned that Matt McLain has already shown some bright

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the biggest thing for me is where

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Speaker 3: What a playmaker's up the middle with day La Cruz

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Speaker 1: If that happens, not only that, but hitting back to

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Speaker 1: moves along. We've seen Reese Hines play extremely well at

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Speaker 1: The question is can he sustain it. He made some

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Speaker 1: with Reese Hines. Reese, you've had to taste of the big leagues.

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Speaker 1: You've had success in the big leagues, but you've still

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Speaker 2: What have you done.

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Speaker 16: I think it's just tapping into myself, figure out what

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Speaker 1: One of the things that stands out, and I've heard

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Speaker 1: What allowed you to do that?

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Speaker 16: I think, uh, just like the the word power is

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Speaker 16: earlier in my career let that let that get to

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Speaker 16: And I think I'm more than just a power hitter.

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Speaker 16: And I think last year I just kind of tapped

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Speaker 2: I gotta believe seeing your power. Uh.

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Speaker 1: That probably didn't diminish any with the strikeouts, I would

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Speaker 16: Actually, it actually hit the most one ones I've ever

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Speaker 1: What does that do for your confidence as a hitter?

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Speaker 1: I mean this, that's got to make you feel really

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Speaker 2: Move for sure.

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Speaker 16: Sure it gives me a lot of confidence, especially finishing

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Speaker 16: off how I finished off last year and come into

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Speaker 16: and stay with that consistency and keep keep putting.

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Speaker 2: The bearl on the balls as much as I can.

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Speaker 1: A mindset is one thing, but was there a physical

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Speaker 2: I mean, did you do you do you.

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Speaker 1: Try to shrink the strike zone to some extent? Do

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Speaker 1: you try to get a little more selective on what

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I think my biggest thing was more just like

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Speaker 16: more pitches that I looked down that I let go

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Speaker 16: down there, the more they're going to be balls, because

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Speaker 16: I'm going to get a lot of sliders, a lot

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Speaker 2: Since I've I do damage when they when they put

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Speaker 1: I don't want to call it a new approach, but

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Speaker 16: I wouldn't say too eager. I just I'm ready to

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Speaker 16: and and help them win, and just come out here

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Speaker 1: Your mindset coming into this spring, Be a dog. That's

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Speaker 1: really all I can say is be a dog. You know,

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Speaker 1: this approach kind of help you try not to do

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I've actually we had a I had a conversation

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Speaker 16: I know, it's hard to come into this new position

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Speaker 16: Do you be yourself And it's the same as you're

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Speaker 16: I think mentally it's more of a more mental preparation

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Speaker 16: It's more just a mental approach of being able to

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Speaker 2: Reese, good luck, Thank you, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Great to chat with Reese Hines, and we will continue

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Speaker 1: But he's got a show that he doesn't chase as

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought that he made a great adjustment along

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Speaker 3: The key for either of those guys, and really for

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in the Budweiser Red Hot Stove League presented

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Speaker 1: by UDF. We're visiting now with Red's closer, Emilio Pegan.

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Speaker 1: I see a little smile on your face. You like

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Speaker 1: hearing that, don't you.

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Speaker 2: A little? It's cool? You know.

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Speaker 25: I try not to focus on it too much because

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Speaker 25: obviously things change. I think this time last year nobody

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Speaker 25: would have said that. So, uh, you know, we got

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Speaker 25: a lot of good arms down there. Uh, I'm gonna

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Speaker 25: try and do my best, but things change, and so

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Speaker 25: you know, we'll see.

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Speaker 1: How do you avoid putting a little extra pressure on

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Speaker 2: I think just embrace it.

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Speaker 25: To be honest, you know, I've always been pretty confident

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Speaker 25: myself to be able to handle that role, and uh,

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Speaker 25: you know, last year kind of proven it to myself

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Speaker 25: that I can do it at the at the major

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Speaker 25: league level over the course of a full season. You know,

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Speaker 25: I understand kind of what is going to be expected

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Speaker 25: of me moving forward, and uh, like you said, I

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Speaker 25: got a smile on my face about it. I'm looking

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Speaker 25: forward to it and just know that, you know, there

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Speaker 25: is there is a little bit more weight on my shoulders,

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Speaker 25: but that's a good thing.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 25: I've worked my whole life to get to this point,

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Speaker 25: and so, uh, to me, just embrace it, embrace the nerves,

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Speaker 25: and try and have fun and deliver as much as

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Speaker 25: I can.

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Speaker 8: Does it change for you that going in you know

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Speaker 8: that you're the closer one. They're going to ease you

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Speaker 8: into spring training. I don't think you're gonna pitch for

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Speaker 8: a minute and and games. How much of a difference

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Speaker 8: does that make?

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Speaker 25: I think the biggest thing is just kind of mentally, right,

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Speaker 25: cowboy grabbed me at Reds Fast and was like, who yeah, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 25: hey he grabbed me, and he goes, hey, you're gonna

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Speaker 25: feel some stuff this year that you've never felt before,

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Speaker 25: And uh, he's right. You know, walking in the clubhouse,

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Speaker 25: interactions with guys, especially the younger guys, you know, you

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Speaker 25: can kind of see that they're looking up to you, right,

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Speaker 25: and that's a cool feeling, you know. I'm it's still

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Speaker 25: weird to think that I'm one of the older guys

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Speaker 25: in the room. You know, the game got young really fast,

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Speaker 25: and so I'm just trying to do my job to

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Speaker 25: I'm gonna make mistakes and just kind of own up

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Speaker 25: do that, you know, if you want to play in

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Speaker 25: this game for a long time. But yeah, mentally, I

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Speaker 25: think the biggest thing is just understanding that, you know,

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Speaker 25: what's expected of me and embracing that and trying to

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Speaker 25: do my best job as often as I can.

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Speaker 1: With the workload you had last year, did that change

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Speaker 1: your off season at all? I mean, you shouldered are

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Speaker 1: pretty heavy load last season, So did that did that

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Speaker 1: change kind of how you went into the off season

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Speaker 1: approached it?

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Speaker 25: No, No, I've I've always kind of thrown a lot.

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Speaker 25: I know, my first year in Cincinnati, I didn't throw

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Speaker 25: as much as I normally do historically. But you know,

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Speaker 25: my my off season program has gotten pretty dialed in

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Speaker 25: over the last handful of years, and so obviously the

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Speaker 25: I wanted to try and be out there as much

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Speaker 2: And so.

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Speaker 25: The nice thing was, you know, last year being able

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Speaker 25: possible so that when I got to spring, I could

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Speaker 25: hit the ground running and right now physically, I feel fantastic.

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Speaker 8: And speaking of off season, we had you on earlier

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Me and Pierce.

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Speaker 25: You know, we got really close in San Diego those

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Speaker 25: two very unique Major League seasons in twenty twenty and

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Speaker 25: twenty twenty one. You guys know this being on the

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Speaker 25: He had just had his first son, My wife was

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Speaker 25: my catch partner, he's my locker mat next to me

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Speaker 25: so we're getting back to the hotel room and playing

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Speaker 25: video games till two o'clock in the morning because there's

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Speaker 2: I'm happy to have him.

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Speaker 25: But the caliber picture he is, and he's a little

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Speaker 25: His was more of like a sweeper type, where Kurt

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Speaker 25: another added weapon that Tito can go to. And you know,

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Speaker 1: Reds Closer Media. Pegan, you were talking about Peer Johnson

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Speaker 1: and the personal side of that, but also what he

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Speaker 1: adds to the bullpen. A lot of additions have been

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Speaker 1: made to the bullpen this year, kind of rounding it

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Speaker 1: into a form, and obviously the starting pitching has been

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Speaker 1: a strength of this team. Now do you guys kind

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Speaker 1: of look around the room and think our bullpen's got

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Speaker 1: a chance to be just as strong as our starting pitching,

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Speaker 1: which makes this team awfully dangerous.

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Speaker 25: Yeah, I mean, you know the way Major League Baseball

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Speaker 25: has gone to such a bullpen heavy game. You know,

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Speaker 25: there's not a ton of complete games thrown anymore, so

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Speaker 25: the need to have a deep, well rounded bullpen has grown.

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Speaker 25: But if I'm being honest, no, our starting pitching is

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Speaker 25: still going to be the strength of this time. Those guys, man,

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Speaker 25: they're incredibly talented, and I really do think they're just

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Speaker 25: scratching the surface of how good they can be. And

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Speaker 25: I think they're starting to understand that too. You know,

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Speaker 25: Dolo was healthy for the most part last year, and

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Speaker 25: he saw what he was able to do. Abbott his

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Speaker 25: first All Star game, HG his All Star game before that,

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Speaker 25: Singer is I mean, as steady eddy as they come.

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Speaker 2: And then oh, by the way, there's like three or four.

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Speaker 25: More guys behind them that are really really good and

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Speaker 25: have all had a taste of success in the big leagues.

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Speaker 25: And so yeah, those guys are still going to be

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Speaker 25: the strength of our team. You know, Tito's not afraid

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Speaker 25: of giving those guys the ball and running them out

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Speaker 25: there for seven eight innings, and that in turn makes

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Speaker 25: our bullpen better, right because not having to cover four

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Speaker 25: or five innings a night, And we are extremely grateful

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Speaker 25: for that down there in the bullpen. But yeah, man,

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Speaker 25: we take pride in being good and helping those guys

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Speaker 25: finish out you know, wins. Anytime the team can get

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Speaker 25: a win, great, but you want to reward those guys

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Speaker 25: for giving us a good start. You know, they don't

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Speaker 25: get to go out there every day. You know, they're

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Speaker 25: only out there one every five days. But when they

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Speaker 25: do give us a good one, it feels good to

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Speaker 25: go ahead and you know, put the stamp down and

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Speaker 25: get them a win.

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Speaker 8: A year ago at this time, like you said, we

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Speaker 8: were not calling you closer, Emilio Pagan. We weren't saying looy.

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Speaker 8: Tony sanchion boy, he's one of the best setup men

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Speaker 8: in baseball. He's the fireman. He puts out fires. Correct

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Speaker 8: me if I'm wrong, But you guys have kind of

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Speaker 8: morphed into the that those roles. And at the same

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Speaker 8: time you seemed a little tight you and Tony, Do

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Speaker 8: I have that right? And when you re signed with

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Speaker 8: the Reds, wasn't he one of the first that you contacted?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 25: Yeah, me and Big Tone got real tight. He's my

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Speaker 25: catch partner. You know, we do pretty much everything to

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Speaker 25: get that. We're on the same schedule here in spring training,

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Speaker 25: and he's really fun to watch man. He's obviously he's

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Speaker 25: had a little bit of a bumpy road to get

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Speaker 25: to where he is now, but he's definitely solidified himself

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Speaker 25: as one of the best relievers in the game. What

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Speaker 25: he did last year throwing in eighty games was incredible,

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Speaker 25: and knowing his personality his attitude, he wants to double

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Speaker 25: down and do even more this year. And you know

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Speaker 25: that's a testament to the person he is, the player

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Speaker 25: he is, and the Reds organization super lucky to have him,

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Speaker 25: and you know, obviously I'm lucky and grateful to have

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Speaker 25: him in the booking with me.

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Speaker 1: Is that a special bond set up, guy Closer or

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Speaker 1: does it just kind of work out that way?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 25: Again, you know, I appreciate it, but I don't look

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Speaker 25: at it as set up guy Closer, you know, I

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Speaker 25: truthfully don't.

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Speaker 19: You know.

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Speaker 25: We could be doing this again next year and the

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Speaker 25: roles are flipped. You know, that's how good Tony is

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Speaker 25: and and that's fine with me. You know, as long

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Speaker 25: as the Reds are getting a win, I really don't care.

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Speaker 25: You know, My job is to go out and do

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Speaker 25: a good enough job. But the roles I don't flip,

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Speaker 25: and uh, and That's what I'm gonna try and do.

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Speaker 25: But you know, things come up and maybe I'm a

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Speaker 25: better matchup for a certain guy in the seventh or

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Speaker 25: the eighth. It's good to know that we've got a

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Speaker 25: guy like Tony that can you know, come in and

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Speaker 25: throw the ninth and handle it just fine.

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Speaker 27: And so.

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Speaker 25: You know, we're very confident down there. We believe in

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Speaker 25: each other, and uh, it's gonna be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: You said something right there that I think is part

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Speaker 1: of what makes you special and incredibly valuable in the bullpen.

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Speaker 1: There are so many closers in this game that if

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Speaker 1: they don't pitch the ninth inning, they're not going to

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Speaker 1: be the same guy. They're not as effective. It probably

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Speaker 1: comes down to some sort of mental aspect there. You

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Speaker 1: you don't just say it, you legitimately, if Tito feels

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Speaker 1: like he needs you in the seventh inning, that's not

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Speaker 1: gonna impact how you pitch, is it?

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Speaker 2: And what's the key to that for you? I wasn't

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Speaker 2: very good for a few years. You know.

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Speaker 25: I had a couple of years in a row where,

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Speaker 25: like you know, six of the seven months I was

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Speaker 25: was a month in there where I couldn't get anybody out,

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Speaker 25: and so you know, I've been through the really hard times.

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Speaker 25: I understand how hard it is to be successful over

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Speaker 25: the course of seven months. And for a reliever, if

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Speaker 25: you have two bad ones in a season, your season

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Speaker 25: numbers look really different, like drastically different. And so it's

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Speaker 25: easy to buy into those numbers at the end of

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Speaker 25: the year and say, ah, I didn't have a good year.

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Speaker 25: But if you look up, you know you threw call

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Speaker 25: it sixty times, big round number, right, You threw fifty

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Speaker 25: two zeros, you know, and you had eight where you

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Speaker 25: gave up a run or two or six, we go

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Speaker 25: a run two and then two where you gave up

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Speaker 25: four or five. You end the season with over a

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Speaker 25: four yra. You know, the guys, the fans, and the

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Speaker 25: guys that aren't watching you throw every night, it's easy

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Speaker 25: to look up and say, ah, he had a decent year. Well,

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Speaker 25: in reality, fifty two times I was really really good.

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Speaker 25: And so I've gotten to the point now where I've

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Speaker 25: been in the league long enough where I'm I'm okay

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Speaker 25: to it when I pitch good and when I pitched bad,

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Speaker 25: regardless of the result. And so to me that's helped

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Speaker 25: me a lot, not necessarily chasing a zero, but chasing

873
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 25: how often did I execute a pitch? And so that's

874
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 25: what I try to focus on. And if that happens

875
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 25: to be in the ninth inning, awesome. I mean I loved,

876
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,760
Speaker 25: I truly loved throwing the ninth inning. But it doesn't

877
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 25: have to be for me to feel like I did

878
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 25: my job. I help the team win a game.

879
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 8: We're always looking for angles to analyze things, and we've

880
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 8: made a big deal of well they got to pop

881
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 8: the champagne and then they had a quick exit. Yeah,

882
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 8: is there something to that? The experience of these guys

883
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 8: going through that it even you yourself.

884
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Speaker 2: Is there something to that? Yeah?

885
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Speaker 25: Absolutely, you don't. You don't know what you don't know

886
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 25: right in life and work, business, whatever it is. And

887
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 25: so for our young guys, you know, when I got

888
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 25: here in twenty four, there was a lot of talk about, Wow,

889
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 25: these guys had a great run in twenty three, can

890
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 25: they make that next jump in twenty four? And it

891
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 25: felt like there was times in the year where we're

892
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 25: right there. You know, we're a game and a half

893
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Speaker 25: out of the wildcard. Yeah, we're not playing our best ball,

894
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 25: but we're close. And I don't know if it was

895
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 25: truly believed by everybody in the clubhouse. And that's not

896
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 25: a knock on anybody, but you don't Again, you don't

897
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 25: know what you don't know. And so then there was

898
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 25: times last year where we were counted out right by

899
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Speaker 25: a lot of people. Yeah, and for whatever reason, maybe

900
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Speaker 25: maybe it was going through twenty four the way we did.

901
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Speaker 25: We just continued to show up and continue to believe

902
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Speaker 25: and continue to put ourselves with a chance to have

903
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Speaker 25: a run at the end. And a lot of credit

904
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Speaker 25: of that goes to Tito. He stayed, you know, very

905
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Speaker 25: even keel all season long, didn't get too worried about,

906
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Speaker 25: you know, what happened the day before, what might happen

907
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,800
Speaker 25: the next day based on you know, our pitching usage

908
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 25: and who's thrown how many pitches going into whatever day.

909
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 25: He just simply stayed focused on we got to win today.

910
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Speaker 25: We'll figure out tomorrow, tomorrow, yesterday doesn't matter. And so

911
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 25: now that our guys have been through a full season

912
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Speaker 25: with ups and downs, got to the playoffs, felt what

913
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Speaker 25: it was like to celebrate. And then, really, I know

914
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Speaker 25: that at the finishing score of those two games in

915
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Speaker 25: La was a little lopsided, but a knocker two and

916
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Speaker 25: the fourth a knocker two in the fifth. Uh, those

917
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 25: games could have looked really different, really fast. And we

918
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Speaker 25: went toe to toe right there with the World Series champs.

919
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Speaker 25: And you know, that's what Tito preached yesterday. It was like, Hey,

920
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Speaker 25: it's time to go toe to toe with anybody. We

921
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922
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Speaker 25: We're gonna win now.

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Speaker 2: And and let's go.

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Speaker 1: Is it a surprise that Tito has had all the

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926
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927
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928
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Speaker 2: Not one bit?

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Speaker 25: And there's not not one thing surprises me anymore with Tito,

930
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Speaker 25: and I've only been around for a year. His belief

931
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Speaker 25: in his players, and I think the biggest thing that

932
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Speaker 25: I've noticed is just how even KILLI is. He doesn't

933
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Speaker 25: ever get He doesn't make any decisions based on emotion.

934
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Speaker 25: You know, it's basically, how are we gonna win today's game?

935
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Speaker 25: And he keeps it very simple, and he truly believes

936
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Speaker 25: that everybody in the clubhouse can help us win. On

937
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Speaker 25: any given day. Your superstars are gonna be your superstars.

938
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Speaker 25: Your best players always gonna be your best players. But

939
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Speaker 25: there's something that somebody can do, whether on the field

940
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941
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Speaker 25: help us win that day's game. Whether it's noticing something

942
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 25: that somebody else is doing, if it's tipping pitches, if

943
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 25: they're doing something on the opponent's doing something that we

944
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Speaker 25: can notice that we can exploit, or if it's something

945
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Speaker 25: physical on the field that we can do, whether it's

946
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Speaker 25: running the bases, make a big play, make a big pitch,

947
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Speaker 25: take a walk at the dish. Like, there's always something

948
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Speaker 25: you can do to help the team win, and that's

949
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Speaker 25: all he's focused on. And because of that, he gets

950
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Speaker 25: the best out of his players. And you know, I'm

951
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 25: very grateful to play for him. Emelio, thanks so much

952
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 25: for the time. Always great toe with you, fired up

953
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Speaker 25: if you fire me up.

954
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Speaker 2: Man. Thanks guys, Ready to go, let's go have a

955
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 2: good camp. And yeah, we'll see you soon. All right,

956
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Speaker 2: thank you guys. That is Emilio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Botherwise The Red Scots League presented by UDF,

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Speaker 1: coming to you from Camelback Ranch and Glendale, Arizona Cowboy.

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Speaker 1: Before we wrap things up, always good to hear from

1039
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Speaker 1: Emilio Pagun That really stabilizes this bullpen. That's one of

1040
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Speaker 1: the Reds made some good offseason moves. That one early

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Speaker 1: on might have been one of the best. I agree,

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Speaker 1: it's it's comfortable for the manager.

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Speaker 3: It's comfortable for the players that are on the ball

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Speaker 3: Last year, I thought he threw the ball awfully well,

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Speaker 3: and he's the guy that just kind of lifts everybody

1048
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Speaker 3: else up in that bullpen.

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Speaker 1: The Reds beat the White Sox today three to two

1050
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Speaker 1: here Campbelback Ranch and Glendale to even their Cactus League

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Speaker 1: and Goodyear battling the Podres. It's a three to zero

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Speaker 1: five start Cincinnati time, airtime two fifty across the Reds

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati against the Padres, Nick Poveda, we're out of time

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Speaker 1: for today.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again next week on the Budweiser

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Speaker 1: So the Cowboy Jeff Brantley also are thanks to Jim Day,

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Speaker 1: Emilio Pagan, and Reese Hines for our producer engineer, Davity

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