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Speaker 16: He is Mark Sheldon.
Speaker 6: Mark. How's the offseason treating you?
Speaker 17: The off season's going fast. It's already hard to believe.
Speaker 17: We're well past a halfway point and spring training is
Speaker 17: right around the corner. But all was well.
Speaker 6: Happy holidays, absolutely all right.
Speaker 16: Without further ado, let's bringing man, I'm assuming we're going
Speaker 16: to South Florida because that's where he resides. He is
Speaker 16: sou Stuart Sow. How's the off season treating you?
Speaker 18: Everything's going good.
Speaker 19: I'm super happy to be around my family and friends,
Speaker 19: and Christ's is around the corner now, so I'm super
Speaker 19: super excited, and uh, yeah, everything's going great.
Speaker 6: That is awesome. You had you got a taste.
Speaker 16: You came up and got a big taste, even the
Speaker 16: taste of the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Broad question to start for you? What did you learn?
Speaker 19: Honestly, I just learned kind of like the everyday life
Speaker 19: in regards to uh in the big leagues.
Speaker 18: Obviously the minor league.
Speaker 19: The big leagues is different, not only from a playing aspect,
Speaker 19: but also just the kind of weekly basis. I mean,
Speaker 19: kind of when you're in the minor league, you play
Speaker 19: Tuesday through Sunday, you're in one area for a lot
Speaker 19: a more extended period of time, and then when you
Speaker 19: get to the big leagues, now you're kind of in
Speaker 19: three three three days in three out, three days and
Speaker 19: three outs. So I kind of just learned like the
Speaker 19: everyday life of a big leaguer and experienced it for myself. Obviously,
Speaker 19: I have great mentors that have guided me but you
Speaker 19: never really known to you experience it yourself. So it
Speaker 19: was a great learning lesson for me. And obviously playing
Speaker 19: in the playoffs that's what we all want. We all
Speaker 19: want to be in the playoffs, and not only be
Speaker 19: in the playoffs, but we want to go win it all.
Speaker 19: So it was it was a great experience for sure,
Speaker 19: and definitely learning lessons and another tool I can put
Speaker 19: in my tool bag.
Speaker 18: So I was super excited and learned a lot.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 17: So one of the lessons you did learn in the
Speaker 17: big leagues, and you learned it on the fly, was
Speaker 17: was playing first base. I understand that that's obviously the
Speaker 17: focus of your off season work and and Freddie Benavitez
Speaker 17: was scheduled to pay you a visit recently. How how
Speaker 17: was working at first base and how did you take
Speaker 17: to the position learning it as you did in in
Speaker 17: live games in the big leagues.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it was definitely a new a new experience for me.
Speaker 19: Like like you said, in the minor leagues, I never
Speaker 19: I never played for I think I played like one
Speaker 19: game maybe, or one or two games. I don't really
Speaker 19: remember exactly, but it's like I told him, when you
Speaker 19: get to the big leagues. I mean, I was there
Speaker 19: to help the team, so they asked me to go
Speaker 19: play first, and obviously it's kind of tough learning on
Speaker 19: the fly.
Speaker 18: I mean, it's just a whole different angle from third.
Speaker 19: But I did sprinkle in a little bit of second
Speaker 19: so that angle wasn't too difficult.
Speaker 18: But at the end of the day, we.
Speaker 19: Got paid a lot of money to figure it out
Speaker 19: and that was my job. And honestly, like the last
Speaker 19: game where I kind of made I made that mistake,
Speaker 19: it just let the bad taste in my mouth. So
Speaker 19: I really wanted to get after this offseason and make
Speaker 19: sure I could up my game and get it to
Speaker 19: the part that it needs to be. So obviously it
Speaker 19: was tough, but that's no excuse, and that's why I
Speaker 19: came into the off season ready to work.
Speaker 18: And I'm grateful, super grateful for Freddie.
Speaker 19: Freddy came down to help with me and Yander, one
Speaker 19: of my he's like an uncle to me. Uh he's
Speaker 19: been We've been working almost every day together, So I
Speaker 19: have a lot of good people surrounding me helping me,
Speaker 19: and I'm super excited for this next year to show
Speaker 19: show all my hard work paying off.
Speaker 16: Sure you're referring to former red Yonder Alonso. You can
Speaker 16: now catch on email, but you network on know big
Speaker 16: mentor for you, As you said, you've posted some videos
Speaker 16: of you working out. Looks like you're pretty intense and
Speaker 16: perhaps maybe even changing the body a little bit. Everyone
Speaker 16: has an exit interview with the team in which they
Speaker 16: try to tell you what they're expecting from you in
Speaker 16: the offseason and going forward. Did any of that meeting
Speaker 16: have to do with perhaps your conditioning and what are
Speaker 16: you working on right now in that regard?
Speaker 19: Yeah, Honestly, in the in the exit meetings, it was
Speaker 19: kind of all super abrupt. We kind of like took
Speaker 19: off right like right after, like everyone kind of dispersed.
Speaker 19: The season just ends fast. You got people going all
Speaker 19: over the place. So we ended up sit back. I
Speaker 19: had a I called Tito. We had a super long
Speaker 19: talk together. He just what he expects out of me,
Speaker 19: and we're gonna be in this together. I mean, he knows,
Speaker 19: he knows, and he expects a lot of good things
Speaker 19: from me. So we talked about it. But honestly, it
Speaker 19: came for me. It came for myself. Like I'm sure
Speaker 19: the team expected things, but I'm someone that. I mean, like,
Speaker 19: this is my job, this one I want to I
Speaker 19: want to do this for for forever and ever. I
Speaker 19: want people to remember my name for for years to come.
Speaker 19: So I had to. I had to look myself in
Speaker 19: the mirror. I had to, I had to say what
Speaker 19: I needed to get better in and I felt like
Speaker 19: losing some weight could not only help me, but allowed
Speaker 19: me to go play first and even second. So to Actually,
Speaker 19: today i weighed in, I'm down twenty six pounds from
Speaker 19: when I left off.
Speaker 6: Season, breaking news. So yeah, yeah, that's great already.
Speaker 17: Yeah, but we can skip the spring training best shape
Speaker 17: of your life question because you were Yeah.
Speaker 19: So I really needed to make adjustments in my life,
Speaker 19: which I did, and I feel like it's going to
Speaker 19: better myself. Uh So, what my goal was to really
Speaker 19: get down, really really low.
Speaker 18: Kind of it was? Yeah, I'll say it's as someone
Speaker 18: in the ballpark of twenty five obvious bounces up and down.
Speaker 19: But I'm right around there. I feel really, really really good.
Speaker 19: I feel lighter, I feel more agile. So I'm super
Speaker 19: proud of where I've gotten so far. But the job's
Speaker 19: not done. I want to continue to get better, bettering
Speaker 19: my body and like I said, I want to be
Speaker 19: a superstar in this game, and you don't have to
Speaker 19: talk about it, you have to be about it. So
Speaker 19: I'm super happy right now with where I'm at, and
Speaker 19: I'm looking forward to get into spring training.
Speaker 17: You know, as you're waiting for spring training and doing
Speaker 17: your workouts, certainly the team is still working on its
Speaker 17: roster and making choices, and you know they haven't signed
Speaker 17: another offensive hit or does it affect you at all
Speaker 17: if they sign a guy that might play the position
Speaker 17: you're playing? Is that something that is in your head?
Speaker 17: And how do you prepare yourself not necessarily knowing exactly
Speaker 17: where you might fit on the roster.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean, honestly, I leave that up to Nick
Speaker 19: and everyone who makes those decisions.
Speaker 18: That's that's not my job.
Speaker 19: My job's to prepare my body the best way I
Speaker 19: can and give myself the best chance to go out
Speaker 19: there and perform like I know I can.
Speaker 18: So obviously I know what I'm capable of.
Speaker 19: I know that there's been like there's awesome, great bads,
Speaker 19: great players out there, But at the end of the day,
Speaker 19: I know what I can do, and I want the
Speaker 19: chance to go out there and do it. So whether
Speaker 19: they do, go get somebody or they don't. Honestly, like
Speaker 19: like the same thing, we keep Brian. A lot of
Speaker 19: people kept asking me all this a bunch of questions,
Speaker 19: like keep Brian's one of my favorite teammates. That doesn't
Speaker 19: change anything. All I have to do is show show
Speaker 19: the team I'm available whenever in any capacity they need me.
Speaker 19: So that doesn't change a single thing. I'm just gonna
Speaker 19: go out there, keep playing hard and giving.
Speaker 18: Myself the best chance to go out there and play
Speaker 18: the best of my ability.
Speaker 16: You're known as a pure hitter. What was the jump
Speaker 16: from the minor leagues, particularly trip away to the big
Speaker 16: leagues like and the taste that you got, particularly specifically
Speaker 16: in the bad box, What did you learn that you're
Speaker 16: going to take it the next season?
Speaker 19: Honestly, I just learned, like I need to stick to
Speaker 19: who I am as a hitter.
Speaker 18: It showed that when I got up there.
Speaker 19: Obviously it was a small sample size, and I've done
Speaker 19: nothing in this game. I've done absolutely nothing. But I
Speaker 19: think it showed myself that whatever I do and whatever
Speaker 19: I'm capable of doing is enough. I don't need to
Speaker 19: go look for more. I don't need to try to
Speaker 19: do more what I who I am as a player
Speaker 19: is enough. And that was a big thing for me, honestly,
Speaker 19: because every time you get you go up to the
Speaker 19: biggest you want to prove like, hey, I am who
Speaker 19: they say I am, or I am who I think
Speaker 19: I am.
Speaker 18: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 19: So it kind of just taught me like, hey, you're
Speaker 19: like who you are as a players enough, go out
Speaker 19: there and be who you are.
Speaker 18: And that's a big thing for me. So it was great.
Speaker 18: It was a great little learning experience for me, and
Speaker 18: it was a.
Speaker 19: Great kind of a great push into the offseason to
Speaker 19: now go get ready and come back ready to go.
Speaker 18: So it was a great It was really really great.
Speaker 19: But it just showed me that who I am as
Speaker 19: a player enough at the big league level.
Speaker 18: Now just need to go do it for an extended
Speaker 18: period of time.
Speaker 17: I'll ask you one kind of quick, silly question before
Speaker 17: going to the break. You obviously when you debuted you
Speaker 17: were number forty three. Have you decided on a new
Speaker 17: number or are you gonna stick with that number in
Speaker 17: your in your next full big league season?
Speaker 18: No, I ended up switching my number. I'm number twenty seven.
Speaker 17: What made you come up with that number? Was that
Speaker 17: your choice or is that what they gave you?
Speaker 18: Well, my my regular number is number thirteen.
Speaker 19: I mean, obviously, you guys know, it holds a lot
Speaker 19: of weight in my life and it's someone I looked
Speaker 19: up to in the game of baseball. Obviously thirteen tired,
Speaker 19: but a really really good player, So I didn't really
Speaker 19: I had to choose from what I from the options
Speaker 19: I had, and I mean, I just like twenty seven,
Speaker 19: twenty seven.
Speaker 18: There's a lot of good players for number twenty seven.
Speaker 19: Scott Rowland another great player, So I just felt like
Speaker 19: it was a great number.
Speaker 18: And yeah, not really too much I went into it.
Speaker 16: Hey, for those that don't know, we know. But for
Speaker 16: those that don't know, why is thirteen so specialty?
Speaker 19: All because of my relationship with Manny. I mean, I've
Speaker 19: we we're like best friends. We talk every single day,
Speaker 19: and to see what he's done in his career, I've
Speaker 19: always I always wanted to work thirteen to on the
Speaker 19: baseball field.
Speaker 18: So yeah, I obviously that's the number I wanted.
Speaker 19: But a great player hasn't retired, so had to make
Speaker 19: an audible.
Speaker 16: Yes you did, all right, Sam, We've got more to
Speaker 16: talk to you about, including I think you took a
Speaker 16: trip to Spain to take in some soccer. You went
Speaker 16: into enemy Terry Torri with the you and we'll talk
Speaker 16: about that more when we come back with Sal Stewart.
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Speaker 16: You've went, I guess went overseas during the off season.
Speaker 16: Here you went to Spain. How was it? And I
Speaker 16: think I saw you a post of you were at
Speaker 16: a soccer match.
Speaker 6: Tell us about it.
Speaker 19: Yeah, honestly, like when I get to the off season,
Speaker 19: it's kind of funny, like it's hard, it's hard to
Speaker 19: contact me because I just like.
Speaker 18: To be with my family and friends.
Speaker 19: So we took a trip out there to Spain, and
Speaker 19: I mean, honestly, it was great, just a nice getaway
Speaker 19: with my family. I mean, like, obviously I'm an athlete,
Speaker 19: but I'm a I'm a person.
Speaker 18: Tell my son, I'm a brother.
Speaker 19: So it was great to go out there with my
Speaker 19: family and just go experience like a different culture.
Speaker 18: And it was.
Speaker 19: Honestly, it was amazing. The soccer game was awesome. It
Speaker 19: turned me into a huge soccer fan now. So honestly,
Speaker 19: it was a great, great trip and it was awesome
Speaker 19: just to spend time with my family.
Speaker 17: Then close to home, I saw you were on the
Speaker 17: field for a Dolphins home game as well. I'm sure
Speaker 17: that's your favorite team. Was that your first time on
Speaker 17: the field.
Speaker 19: Yes, that was my first time on the field and
Speaker 19: it was It was pretty awesome. Honestly, it was a
Speaker 19: good time. So yeah, I was able to go with
Speaker 19: my dad and experience that.
Speaker 18: With him, so it was a great time for sure.
Speaker 16: Were you at Texas A and M for the U
Speaker 16: In Texas A and M, I thought I saw a
Speaker 16: post that said I'm in enemy territory.
Speaker 18: Yeah, it was kind of spare of the moment.
Speaker 19: I trained Monday through Friday, so I was I wasn't
Speaker 19: sure if I was gonna be able to make it
Speaker 19: out and spare of the moment. I texted my dad like, hey,
Speaker 19: let's go, and he's like, all right, let's go. So
Speaker 19: we left Saturday morning and flew back Saturday night.
Speaker 6: So how was it? It was good?
Speaker 19: Oh, it was honestly, like the people in the atmosphere
Speaker 19: in College Station, like, even though we were cheering for Miami,
Speaker 19: was something I've never seen before. That people were great
Speaker 19: and that atmosphere was like none other. So honestly, it
Speaker 19: was a great, great, great time.
Speaker 17: Will you be getting back to Texas again in a
Speaker 17: short speriod about a week from now for against the
Speaker 17: Ohio State University at the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 18: No, I think I think this. I'm just gonna stay
Speaker 18: back home and watch some and watch it on TV.
Speaker 18: I don't think I'm going to make that trip again.
Speaker 16: Full disclosure, I am drinking from an Ohio state YETI
Speaker 16: right now?
Speaker 19: Oh so, so where we're rivals, so, I mean I'm
Speaker 19: an enemy territory as we speak.
Speaker 6: I think we're in Yeah, you know, I was.
Speaker 16: I was born I was born in Columbus, So don't
Speaker 16: hold it against me, just like you're you know, you're
Speaker 16: a Miami guy, So don't hold it against me.
Speaker 17: But uh fair, and don't hold it against Caleb Ferguson.
Speaker 17: Our next guest is from Columbus. Yeah, yeah, careful in
Speaker 17: the clubhouse.
Speaker 18: Yeah, well, well you you let him know wehe're coming.
Speaker 6: Uh, it should be a good one looking forward to it.
Speaker 16: Hey, when you look forward to uh this season, this
Speaker 16: nucleus that's together. What was the clubhouse like and what
Speaker 16: are your I know you guys talk.
Speaker 6: Amongst yourselves and in et cetera.
Speaker 16: What are the expectations for you guys coming up within
Speaker 16: the clubhouse?
Speaker 19: Yeah, like I said before, like just the guys that
Speaker 19: we have in the clubhouse are great. I mean, I'm
Speaker 19: sure you guys have heard about it already, but we're
Speaker 19: super close, like we stay in contact. And honestly coming
Speaker 19: from like a young guy and I was young, but
Speaker 19: they accepted me. They were they really they put their
Speaker 19: arm around me and tried to guide me in every
Speaker 19: way they could.
Speaker 18: So we know what we can do. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 18: like we felt like the two games over there.
Speaker 19: In l A, we kind of like like we lost too,
Speaker 19: but we were we were in both games. We appayed
Speaker 19: pressure to the World champions. We were, we were in
Speaker 19: both games. So we feel like like we just got
Speaker 19: to connect. We gotta we gotta stay together, and honestly,
Speaker 19: we have we have high expectations for ourselves. We know
Speaker 19: what we can do, and we're super excited to go
Speaker 19: prove that. So we've added some great additions. I'm super
Speaker 19: happy for Gon's back. He's he's the man, He's awesome,
Speaker 19: So I'm super excited. I mean, I think I think
Speaker 19: people like people think last year was a fluke, and
Speaker 19: there was no flud, Like, we know what we can
Speaker 19: do and now we just have to go out there
Speaker 19: and prove it.
Speaker 17: Whether it was Pegan or Jose Travino. You know, we
Speaker 17: as writers and Jim as well, probably on television talk
Speaker 17: a lot about clubhouse leadership. Can you, as a young
Speaker 17: player kind of articulate what it was like to hear
Speaker 17: the voices in the clubhouse, whether it was Pegan or
Speaker 17: Brent Suter, Trevino, et cetera, and how they kind of
Speaker 17: help you and help other players be the best they
Speaker 17: can be.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean, I don't even want to start naming
Speaker 19: names because then I'm gonna miss people that have been great,
Speaker 19: because it literally was full roster was great. The way
Speaker 19: they carried themselves, the way showing up to the locker
Speaker 19: room was awesome.
Speaker 18: It was a fun time. It was exciting going to
Speaker 18: the locker room.
Speaker 19: So but honestly, man Suitor Martinez like Pegan literally I
Speaker 19: can go on Treviy Steve O like I can literally
Speaker 19: go on and on and on. So we had a
Speaker 19: we have a great group, and I'm super happy and
Speaker 19: especially for me, like they really took care of me.
Speaker 18: And that's something that sounds like a.
Speaker 19: Little weird, but like when you're a young guy going
Speaker 19: into clubs, it's tough, you know, and they opened me,
Speaker 19: they welcome me with open arms, and it was an easy,
Speaker 19: easy transition.
Speaker 18: So I'm super super happy about that.
Speaker 16: Along those lines, your managers is Terry Francona, and I know, uh,
Speaker 16: you know, it's not always roses with him. He can
Speaker 16: be tough on guys and tough on young guys trying
Speaker 16: to teach them the right way. What was it like
Speaker 16: initially and what are you your thoughts of your skipper
Speaker 16: going forward?
Speaker 19: Well, I mean he's he's a Hall of Fame skipper
Speaker 19: for a reason. So like you said, like he's he's
Speaker 19: he's a hard. He's a hard in regards to play
Speaker 19: style and how to carry like how to carry yourself.
Speaker 19: He's hard on you. But that's that's what I expect
Speaker 19: and that's what I want. We we built a relationship,
Speaker 19: and he's gone out of his way to build that
Speaker 19: relationship with me, and I feel like our relationship just
Speaker 19: continues to grow. So I really wouldn't want it any
Speaker 19: other way. He expects greatness, and I expect greatness out
Speaker 19: of myself. So if you're if you're getting sad or
Speaker 19: mad that that your Skip's are on you, then you
Speaker 19: kind of have to look yourself in the mirror because
Speaker 19: he's doing it because he wants to doing it, because
Speaker 19: he cares for us as players, and that's something that
Speaker 19: you can't say for Gannon. So I'm super happy he's
Speaker 19: my skipper and I'm going to do my best to
Speaker 19: make sure I reciprocate the same kick to him.
Speaker 18: And I'm playing hard.
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Speaker 17: I'm Jim Day.
Speaker 16: It's our pleasure to bring in Caleb Ferguson, a signee
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Speaker 16: big left hander is gonna work out of the bullpen. Caleb,
Speaker 16: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 6: How you doing.
Speaker 24: I'm great, guys, I'm great. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 24: How are you guys?
Speaker 6: We're doing well doing.
Speaker 24: Thank you.
Speaker 16: Happy holidays to you, Merry Christmas and all. Now that
Speaker 16: it's kind of settled in, how you feeling that you're
Speaker 16: gonna put on a Red's uniform.
Speaker 24: It's cool, you know, it's cool.
Speaker 29: I think I think when everything happens, everything happens so fast,
Speaker 29: so I don't really think you have a ton of
Speaker 29: time to kind.
Speaker 24: Of process everything in the moment.
Speaker 29: And then I think once you know, like you said,
Speaker 29: once it all sets in and the dust kind of settles,
Speaker 29: your phone stops ringing, and just kind of everyday life
Speaker 29: goes on it, it kind of comes full circle to
Speaker 29: realize kind of what I'm getting to do this year.
Speaker 24: So very excited to be a part of it.
Speaker 29: Very excited to get the season started and play some
Speaker 29: winning baseball in Cincinnati.
Speaker 17: Caleb, congratulations, first of all, belated, but also with the
Speaker 17: team like this that you probably grew up with in
Speaker 17: your backyard. What did the Red Cell you want as
Speaker 17: a as a as a reason or what made you
Speaker 17: want to come to Cincinnati and pitch here?
Speaker 29: Yeah, I mean, I think you know, quality of life
Speaker 29: is always something like I think athletes look for to
Speaker 29: right So being close to the home, playing for your
Speaker 29: childhood team is always a dream of every athletes, right Like, I.
Speaker 17: Mean, well, and they have to I mean, as of now,
Speaker 17: they haven't signed the hitter, the big hitter they wanted,
Speaker 17: and and south Stewart could be one of their more
Speaker 17: important guys in the lineup if you pencil them in
Speaker 17: at first base, and maybe Spencer Steer moves to the
Speaker 17: left field, or maybe south Stewart does some dhing and
Speaker 17: things like that. But they they need a middle of
Speaker 17: the order guy to put behind Eli data Cruz and
Speaker 17: in some fashion and they'll see what happens. And they
Speaker 17: also need him to be better defensively. That one of
Speaker 17: the Reds goals of this offseason was to be a
Speaker 17: better defensive team. And as as Sal referenced, you know
Speaker 17: his error in Game two, he can't make those.
Speaker 24: Areas and just do my job every night.
Speaker 16: Club has split down the middle as far as Guardians
Speaker 16: fans and Reds fans. But it's my understanding you were
Speaker 16: Reds fan.
Speaker 6: Correct.
Speaker 24: Oh yeah, oh yeah. Where I'm at, there's not many
Speaker 24: many Guardian fans.
Speaker 29: I'm a little further south, I guess, if you will,
Speaker 29: so I can a lot of Cincinnati fans. We're a
Speaker 29: lot closer to Cincinnati, so definitely more more Reds fans
Speaker 29: than Guardians, Indians, whatever you might want.
Speaker 16: To call them, and you went to games, right, and
Speaker 16: is my understanding that Brandon Phillips was your favorite player?
Speaker 24: Oh yeah, yeah, I did good games. I went to
Speaker 24: a lot of games.
Speaker 29: I'd go down watch Brandon Phillips, J Brew, Scott Roland, Kozart,
Speaker 29: Homer Bailey, Bronson, Royo, you know all those guys like
Speaker 29: the two thousand and eight to like two thousand, I'd
Speaker 29: say twenty fourteen. Once I got to baseball, that was
Speaker 29: kind of my my time of following the Reds. That's
Speaker 29: about when I got into baseball myself. So that was
Speaker 29: a good time. It was a good time, good that
Speaker 29: was a right time. That was a great time to
Speaker 29: fall at Cincinnati Reds. So a lot of memories.
Speaker 17: Now when when you when you came here that the past,
Speaker 17: the Reds had some guys with playoff experience, but not
Speaker 17: a ton. How much is your playoff experience with the Dodgers,
Speaker 17: Astros and I most recently Seattle. Can I kind of
Speaker 17: help a clubhouse with with still a lot of young
Speaker 17: guys that just got their taste of it this past year?
Speaker 24: Yeah for sure, you know.
Speaker 29: I mean, you've got guys like Trevan there be Gone Lucks,
Speaker 29: those guys that have that have done some stuff too,
Speaker 29: So you know, having just just kind of having some
Speaker 29: older guys that bounce things off of, you know, having
Speaker 29: older guys to to to lean on and understand that
Speaker 29: it's okay to be playing behind one O or it's
Speaker 29: okay to to scuffle a little bit in certain moments.
Speaker 29: But you know, also keeping the mood loose and and
Speaker 29: keeping the guys having fun. You know, the game's really
Speaker 29: hard and uh, you know, you just you have to
Speaker 29: remember that. So having older guys that you can see
Speaker 29: how they handle big moments or big spots and whether
Speaker 29: they come through.
Speaker 24: Whether they don't.
Speaker 29: You you can always learn a lot by how player
Speaker 29: handles themselves. So having those guys in your room when
Speaker 29: you have a young, talented core like that is very important.
Speaker 16: You were able to keep the ball in the ballpark.
Speaker 16: You gave up just two home runs last year Seattle
Speaker 16: pitch your friendly Pittsburgh. You know, lefties can hit it
Speaker 16: down over that twenty one foot wall, but it's it's
Speaker 16: pretty big park. Great American, Ye, a little different. What's
Speaker 16: going to be that challenge for you?
Speaker 29: I don't know, hopefully looks on my side. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 29: I don't know, just you know, just just executing what
Speaker 29: I can execute and controlling what I can control, and
Speaker 29: you know, the rest of it should take care of itself.
Speaker 29: And I think at the end of the year, if
Speaker 29: you just go out and execute what you can do
Speaker 29: and control the controllables, you're kind of like where you're at.
Speaker 24: At the end of one sixty two.
Speaker 17: You know, you have basically three different versions of a
Speaker 17: fastball and an off speed pitch. How do you mix
Speaker 17: those pitches up to get the most success? Especially this
Speaker 17: past year, And did that variety of the four scene,
Speaker 17: the sinker and the cutter kind of helped you keep
Speaker 17: the ball in the ballpark?
Speaker 29: Yeah, you know, I just I just kind of let
Speaker 29: the game just tell me, you know, kind of what
Speaker 29: to do.
Speaker 24: You know.
Speaker 29: I I enjoy watching the game every night, the game
Speaker 29: that I'm in. I don't ever come down and like
Speaker 29: sit down and watch baseball, but I watch every game
Speaker 29: that we play, so you know, I try to take
Speaker 29: the information I see, you know, that night or whatever
Speaker 29: is on the scattering report. But but I mean, ultimately, man,
Speaker 29: it's just uh, it's conviction and just kind of get
Speaker 29: into my spots and I feel like, you know, I'm
Speaker 29: gonna get beat guys are gonna get hits.
Speaker 24: Those things are going to happen. That's just the nature
Speaker 24: of the game.
Speaker 29: But you know, I feel like, out of a hundred times,
Speaker 29: if I get to my spot and I execute kind
Speaker 29: of what I'm trying to do, there was results going
Speaker 29: to be in my favorite.
Speaker 17: You get weak content, I'm sorry, Jim, and you get
Speaker 17: a lot of weak contact. It seems like that was
Speaker 17: something you really excelled at this past year.
Speaker 24: Yeah, for sure. You know, I don't really know, like
Speaker 24: this strikeout number or whatever, like you know, it seems
Speaker 24: a little low. I don't really know why. I think.
Speaker 29: I pride myself on just coming in and throwing as
Speaker 29: many strikes as I can and trying to get guys
Speaker 29: out as efficiently as I can.
Speaker 24: Because, as most people know, the most.
Speaker 29: Important part of most important part of a reliever's jobs availability.
Speaker 29: So if I'm a fishing every night, I get my
Speaker 29: team a chance to win the next day. So I
Speaker 29: don't really care how else come. I just want to
Speaker 29: get him and get him efficiently.
Speaker 6: Your signing was certainly one of need.
Speaker 16: The Reds desperately needed a lefty out of the bullpen,
Speaker 16: particularly in high leverage situations and Terry Francona, he's probably
Speaker 16: maybe he told the other guys when I was there,
Speaker 16: when he met Emilio Pigan, he said, Hey, you're going
Speaker 16: to be tired. I'm just warning. I imagine you've talked
Speaker 16: to him. What was that conversation like I have?
Speaker 29: And you know, it was very brief, and you know,
Speaker 29: around the holidays and we'll touch base after the holidays
Speaker 29: so everybody can enjoy that time of their family. But
Speaker 29: he was very excited and he was sure to let
Speaker 29: me know it is an area of need for him
Speaker 29: and his.
Speaker 17: Team, obviously being home in the Columbus area. You got uh,
Speaker 17: you got Ohio State coming up in the Cotton Bowl
Speaker 17: next week.
Speaker 29: Are you going to be watching that? Are you excited
Speaker 29: for it? Of course? What a question. You can't be
Speaker 29: from Colamuth and I'll be a Buckeye fan.
Speaker 6: Can I get you?
Speaker 17: Sure?
Speaker 6: Can I give you an oh?
Speaker 24: And ioh?
Speaker 17: There it is.
Speaker 16: I love it a Caleb much appreciated. Go Bucks, certainly,
Speaker 16: Go Reds. We're looking forward to meeting you and see
Speaker 16: seeing what you can bring to the table, and we
Speaker 16: certainly appreciate your time. Happy holidays to you and yours
Speaker 16: all right.
Speaker 24: Likewise, thanks suiter Man, thanks for having me on here
Speaker 24: all right.
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Speaker 16: He is Mark Sheldon. Hope you enjoyed the interviews with
Speaker 16: South Stuart and Caleb Ferguson and uh Mark, I gotta
Speaker 16: tell you like I said going to the break at
Speaker 16: the bottom of the hour. When you listen to South Stuart,
Speaker 16: he kind of fires you up a little bit your
Speaker 16: oppressions of.
Speaker 6: The interview, And man, I was I knew that he
Speaker 6: was out.
Speaker 16: It was his mission to become more agile, but losing
Speaker 16: twenty plus pounds already, Man, the kids getting after it
Speaker 16: right now?
Speaker 17: Yeah, he really is. He sounds like he's ready to
Speaker 17: run through a wall. And it's only December twenty fourth,
Speaker 17: So it's encouraging if you're the Reds and if you're
Speaker 17: a Reds fan. One thing I will be curious about
Speaker 17: is the weight loss how it might affect his potential power.
Speaker 17: I mean, he's not a home run hitter per se,
Speaker 17: but he did leave the team in home runs in
Speaker 17: September with five, and he does hit the ball on
Speaker 17: the line pretty hard, and you want to see a
Speaker 17: few of those balls get over the fence. So he
Speaker 17: doesn't want to lose too much weight. But I think
Speaker 17: the keyword you mentioned was agile. He was also in
Speaker 17: addition to weight loss, he was directed to become more athletic,
Speaker 17: more agile. He's learning a new position at first base.
Speaker 17: He spent time with Freddie Benavitez all, that's important, and
Speaker 17: I'm sure agility and athleticism helps when you've lost weight.
Speaker 16: Yeah, And you had a story this week about Sal
Speaker 16: Stewart and what Terry Francona had to say about I
Speaker 16: think the Reds are expecting a lot from this kid
Speaker 16: coming up.
Speaker 17: They will and they have to. I mean, as of now,
Speaker 17: they haven't signed the hitter, the big hitter they wanted,
Speaker 17: and south Stewart could be one of their more important
Speaker 17: guys in the lineup if you pencil them in at
Speaker 17: first base and maybe Spencer Steer moves to the left
Speaker 17: field or maybe Salad Stewart does some dhing and things
Speaker 17: like that. But they they need a middle of the
Speaker 17: order guy to put behind Elie Da La Cruz and
Speaker 17: in some fashion and they'll see what happens. And they
Speaker 17: also need him to be better defensively. That one of
Speaker 17: the Reds goals of this offseason was to be a
Speaker 17: better defensive team. And as as Sal referenced his error
Speaker 17: in Game two, he can't make those errors too many
Speaker 17: times in the regular season. He has to get better
Speaker 17: and knowing him as he said, that was a big
Speaker 17: motivation for him to work on that this offseason.
Speaker 16: Yeah, and if he does become better defensively, it will
Speaker 16: also keep him in the game because if the Reds
Speaker 16: are winning the game this past year, I mean we
Speaker 16: saw it. He was in the later innings. They were
Speaker 16: replacing him, right they And they'll do the same thing.
Speaker 16: They'll move Steer into first base in the eighth or
Speaker 16: ninth inning. And sometimes that comes back to bite you
Speaker 16: if the other team ties it up, whatever, you're gonna
Speaker 16: have it a bat where you would normally want south
Speaker 16: Stewart up there. So that's really gonna help. If he
Speaker 16: can stay in the ball game defensively.
Speaker 17: There will I mean, Stuart was a or excuse me,
Speaker 17: spear this, excuse me Spencer Steer. It's an alliteration. He
Speaker 17: was goldmost gold Glove level last year. He was a
Speaker 17: finalist and he played really well. And if south Stewart
Speaker 17: wants to stay in the lineup in the late innings
Speaker 17: and be the guy that contributes those those memorable moments
Speaker 17: and that sort of speaking the ninth inning, he has
Speaker 17: to play well on defense the whole game.
Speaker 16: Your impressions of Caleb Ferguson, that was a need sign
Speaker 16: right there. The Reds last year most of the time,
Speaker 16: Graham Ashcraft, a right handed pitcher, was their best best
Speaker 16: option in high leverage situations against left handed batters. He's
Speaker 16: gonna seemingly help, is he not?
Speaker 17: He should help. He's a guy with really really weak
Speaker 17: contact guy. He's not a strikeout guy. Like we mentioned
Speaker 17: in the interview. He does get the ball put in play,
Speaker 17: he does limit the long ball. In Great American Ballpark,
Speaker 17: that might be a little tougher, but he's a guy
Speaker 17: they needed to have. It's been good to see from
Speaker 17: the Red's point of view. They the bullpen was their
Speaker 17: other big need besides the offense, and they they picked
Speaker 17: off two big needs right in a row, with Pegan
Speaker 17: coming back to be the closer. Now they have their
Speaker 17: middle to late inning lefty in Ferguson. They also obviously
Speaker 17: have Tony Santion and Ashcraft for those late innings, So
Speaker 17: now they might need to add another bullpen piece or two.
Speaker 17: But they also have of course Connor Phillips and Zach
Speaker 17: Maxwell and May and a few others in the mix.
Speaker 17: So the bullpen's starting to look a little bit better.
Speaker 24: Now.
Speaker 17: They have to work on the offense.
Speaker 16: Yeah, you had mentioned that, you know, the hitters that
Speaker 16: are kind of left out there in free agency, some
Speaker 16: of which you can probably just cross off the list.
Speaker 16: Others might be out of the price range. Would you
Speaker 16: think if something was going to happen in that regard
Speaker 16: is going to have to be via trade.
Speaker 17: I'm starting to feel like more and more. Yeah. Certainly,
Speaker 17: Cody Bellinger's on the market, and a few other guys
Speaker 17: Miguel Anduhar are still in the market, a guy who
Speaker 17: did very well against left handed pitching for the Reds
Speaker 17: the last two months of the season. But I don't
Speaker 17: know if any of those people move the needle to
Speaker 17: what they really need consistently over a whole season, and
Speaker 17: that might be a trade, and a lot of the
Speaker 17: teams that have been looking to add big starting pitching
Speaker 17: and have whifted could come looking at the Reds again
Speaker 17: and maybe make them an offer they can't refuse.
Speaker 16: I'm looking forward to. I mean, you can pencil in
Speaker 16: some guys into the rotation as we speak right now,
Speaker 16: if they don't make any trades and trade anyone out
Speaker 16: of that starting pitching nucleus. But there's going to be
Speaker 16: some competition for that number five spot, if not more.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean, if if there's no injuries and everyone
Speaker 17: is back. It's going to be really interesting when you
Speaker 17: have Rhet Louder, Chase Burns, h Randon Williamson, Aggie Are.
Speaker 17: There's gonna be a whole lot of guys that are hungry,
Speaker 17: especially the three guys that missed all of last year.
Speaker 17: And Louder, Williamson and Aggie Are. They they missed a
Speaker 17: whole year, they're going to be itching to get back.
Speaker 24: Uh.
Speaker 17: Then you throw in, of course, you got the guys
Speaker 17: that are you have two All Stars and Hunter Green
Speaker 17: and Andrew Rabbott, you have the guy that led basically
Speaker 17: the team in strikeouts and innings, and and and Brady Singer.
Speaker 17: So it's a it's a solid, solid rotation. A lot
Speaker 17: of teams would love this rotation. And Nicola, how did
Speaker 17: I forget?
Speaker 24: Nick?
Speaker 17: Excuse me? I'm sorry.
Speaker 16: All good, there's so many that's a good problem to
Speaker 16: have that we're forgetting guys.
Speaker 6: That's good.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm sorry, Nick Colodola. If you're listening. Uh, but
Speaker 17: it's a it's a he's honestly when he was humming
Speaker 17: along and he's and he's injury free. He's some of
Speaker 17: the best work he's done as a big leaguer last season.
Speaker 17: So there's a lot to like about what Nick Lodola
Speaker 17: is doing and if he can stay healthy and avoid
Speaker 17: the blister issue, especially, that's a rotation that no one's
Speaker 17: going to want to face, especially if they get to
Speaker 17: the playoffs again.
Speaker 6: One last question.
Speaker 16: You know, last year, at this time, Terry Francona's head
Speaker 16: was swimming a little bit. He was just trying to
Speaker 16: learn the organization, learn players. How much of an asset
Speaker 16: do you think it's going to be that he's back
Speaker 16: for the second year and now really knows all the above.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think it's gonna be huge.
Speaker 24: Certainly.
Speaker 17: Like you said, he was getting the know guys. A
Speaker 17: lot of the guys he got to know during spring training,
Speaker 17: and he saw as the season went on some players
Speaker 17: got weeded out, or some players that had a lot
Speaker 17: of playing time maybe in previous seasons got less playing
Speaker 17: time this past season. I think you're going to see
Speaker 17: his thumbprint really on the team even more in twenty
Speaker 17: twenty six.
Speaker 3: Can't wait.
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Speaker 22: They crashed the day before Christmas, but the seven o'clock
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Speaker 34: A cars speeding on Montgomery Road clipped another vehicle left
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Speaker 34: Both were visiting from South Carolina for the holidays. Montgomery
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Speaker 22: And Hamilton County Sheriff's Office has put out a update
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Speaker 22: A woman shot and kill that a senior living facility
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Speaker 22: Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow named the AFC Offensive Player of
Speaker 22: the Week for Week sixteen after a forty five twenty
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Speaker 22: coming up on Christmas Day and that could be heard
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