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Speaker 2: Hey, very delightful, good evening to you, and welcome in

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Speaker 2: by U d F And it is finally starting to

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Speaker 2: feel a little spring like in the Queens City outside.

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Speaker 2: It is outstanding. If I didn't know any better. When

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Speaker 2: I walked out my front door today, I would have

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Speaker 2: thought I was in Arizona, which is not the case.

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Speaker 2: I'm here in Cincinnati. However, Jim Day is in fact

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Speaker 2: in Arizona. Jimmy, uh, thanks for sending some of this

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Speaker 2: weather back once you got down there. It's very nice

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Speaker 2: of you. How is it out there right now in

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Speaker 3: It's seventy something, Tommy, Okay.

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Speaker 2: That sounds nice. It's not quite that, but we were

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Speaker 2: in the sixties today, so it's almost the same.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's yeah. I mean the way as cold as

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Speaker 2: Right, it does, and it did. Well, It's it's that

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Speaker 2: time of year now. Pictures and Catchers have reported the

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Speaker 2: first full squad workout isn't until the sixteenth, so a

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Speaker 2: few days away from that. But what have you what

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Speaker 2: have you been able to gather while you've been out

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Speaker 2: there so far? Conversations that you've had with folks, what's

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Speaker 3: Well, the pictures and Catchers everyone reported on time you'll

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Speaker 3: hear from Tito Francona coming up, but they had individual

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Speaker 3: meetings today. They had the physicals today, which you know

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Speaker 3: is a big day. It's a lot of fun going

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Speaker 3: through that. The first official workout for pictures and Catchers

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Speaker 3: We'll hear from a couple of them coming up. Tyler Stevenson,

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Speaker 3: we'll hear from Suarez was here and met with the

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Speaker 3: media today. You will hear that session coming up. So

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Speaker 3: the vibe is good. I mean, the vibe is always good,

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Speaker 3: and you just have kind of a different feeling. As in,

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Speaker 3: they got a kind of a double dose and they

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Speaker 2: I gotta believe that when you have a guy like

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Speaker 2: Now all of a sudden you get a bat like that.

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Speaker 3: Well, you're gonna hear Tito talking about meeting Lessuarez today,

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Speaker 3: Do you do as you sit here right now and

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Speaker 4: we win as many as we wanted to last year? No,

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Speaker 4: It can be a little different with everybody. The reason

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Speaker 4: to fool them, you know. But there are some different

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Speaker 4: And I think it's time these.

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Speaker 3: Players, most of the nucleus is back. They got to

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Speaker 3: How much can both of those things help.

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Speaker 4: It's our responsibility to take whatever happened, and you're right both,

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Speaker 3: That there are certain guys that are energy guys. If

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Speaker 4: Him today, I was one of those guys that let up.

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Speaker 4: I think I hugged him seven times. He's just that guy.

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Speaker 3: What was your reaction when you found out? I knew,

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Speaker 4: I was leaving Tucson coming up here, and I knew

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Speaker 4: Like I was so excited. And then as word was

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Speaker 3: Now, speaking of Eli, we've talked so much about boy

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Speaker 3: Can we assume that Suarez is that protection?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's probably you know again, you know,

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Speaker 3: I know you're not going to give out your lineup

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Speaker 3: And I'm assuming you're talking about a right handed hitter

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Speaker 3: Who else would be? Would Steer be in that category

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Speaker 4: As you remember, I mean, you sat and talked to

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Speaker 4: and every time we move somebody to the two hole

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Speaker 4: or the four hole, they seem to struggle. Well, okay, Suarez,

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Speaker 4: if he struggles, he's not gonna put his tail between

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Speaker 4: two hitter. I think we got a few guys I

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Speaker 4: Marte's probably the perfect guy. He just up to this

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Speaker 2: Jim Day. They caught up earlier today out in Arizona.

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Speaker 3: And finally, there were a couple of guys that were

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Speaker 4: Yeah you know what, And I'm probably if I look

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Speaker 2: this edition. Jim just reporting to spring training today, but

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Speaker 2: everybody in that lineup better and it just allows everybody

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Speaker 2: to relax a little bit more you talk to him.

436
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 2: We've talked to guys throughout the offseason here on this show,

437
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,240
Speaker 2: and they've talked about how much guys would try to

438
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 2: do too much to play because they felt like they

439
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:37,880
Speaker 2: had to get it done.

440
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, And he's got the and Tito talked

441
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 3: about him, barring anything unforeseen, he's gonna hit behind Ellie,

442
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 3: and Ellie is One is a perfect type player to

443
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Speaker 3: hit in front of him, because when he gets on base,

444
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:56,199
Speaker 3: what's the pitcher doing. He's driving the picture crazy. The

445
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 3: picture's worried about Ellie Steele, and the picture's worried about

446
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 3: Ellie One. First to home and you sometimes will take

447
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 3: your mind off of Hoo's at the plate and they

448
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 3: serve up a cookie Bye bye. Did forty nine times

449
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 3: last year.

450
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,199
Speaker 2: Well more more often than not, when you have a

451
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,879
Speaker 2: guy like Ellie on base, the pitcher is going to

452
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,399
Speaker 2: be less inclined to go with their off speed stuff

453
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 2: because they need to give their catcher the best chance

454
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 2: to throw them out. Gino should see a lot of fastballs. Yep. Well,

455
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 2: you had a chance to visit with the media today

456
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Speaker 2: and let's hear now what what Gino had to say

457
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 2: on his first media session in spring training.

458
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Speaker 3: Did it become real today when you walked back into

459
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:38,000
Speaker 3: a very familiar place.

460
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's Kevin real. I'm very excited, very happy to

461
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 6: see you know, a new phase, but same facility.

462
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 2: Hoppy.

463
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Speaker 6: It'd be back here and say hello to everybody, and

464
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 6: yeah it's free all right now. If I feel great,

465
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 6: it'd be back and talk to.

466
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Speaker 2: Tetel.

467
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Speaker 6: Got a good conversation with him with a with some

468
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 6: stuff and uh, you know, put everything together. Can't wait

469
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 6: to uh to see all the group together and and

470
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 6: and have a good spring.

471
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Speaker 4: Seemed like everyone was excited to see you and you

472
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 4: walked in the guys that maybe you've met before, but

473
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 4: even guys that you've never met before.

474
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Speaker 2: What did it kind of feel like just to be

475
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 2: welcome the way you were welcomed?

476
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Speaker 6: I mean, they welcome me really good, you know they.

477
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 6: I mean it seemed like they know who I am.

478
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 6: So it's great that they see a new face and

479
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,680
Speaker 6: say hello to everybody and see a see the happy phase.

480
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 6: You know, I feel like I feel great, I feel great.

481
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 6: They see everybody. They welcome me really well, and that

482
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 6: means a lout to me, you know, uh, for me

483
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 6: more important here and a couple in the first couple

484
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 6: of days to make a familiar and see and see

485
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Speaker 6: a new phase and try to know everybody.

486
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Speaker 3: But last time you were here, a lot of the

487
00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 3: guys who were in big roles in the team, they

488
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 3: were there with prospects.

489
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 2: Did you know them from that? Did they remember you

490
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 2: talking talking to them?

491
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 6: Coming back? Yeah, I mean I know when I know

492
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 6: Lodolo was a big prospect back then there, Honder was

493
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,640
Speaker 6: a big prospect. I think that year when I get trade,

494
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 6: I was the they first spring big Bigley spring training

495
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:23,400
Speaker 6: and uh, and yeah, Tyler was there too, TJ Friedel,

496
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,120
Speaker 6: those those those are the phase that I know when

497
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 6: when I was here, they was very young, there was

498
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:34,199
Speaker 6: very prospect and now now they they are big you

499
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 6: know here in the team. They've been for they've been

500
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 6: on the team for five years, I think four years,

501
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 6: and I'm happy to see them and uh, and see

502
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 6: all the young guys as well too. I met a

503
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 6: couple of guys that I never met before and they

504
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 6: seem really good.

505
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Speaker 2: Playing in the w b C.

506
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Speaker 3: How does that affect you getting ready for a season.

507
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Speaker 3: How do you manage that?

508
00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't think they're going to affect that.

509
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 6: I think that because I will play every day there,

510
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 6: so I will keep my my my body in chay.

511
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 2: I want to.

512
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 6: I want to take my bass and treat that the

513
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 6: w b C as a not a preparation because it's

514
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 6: more intensive. You see, it's like a real game. It

515
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 6: is a real game. Obviously, it's more than a spring

516
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 6: training game for me, and I would take it very serious.

517
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 6: I would do my best for Team Venezuela. But the

518
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 6: same thing at the same time, think about my season,

519
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 6: you know, I would tell I would take those games

520
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 6: very serious and and try to putting myself in the

521
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 6: good position to be when when I came back to

522
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 6: finish the sprint training here with the team. Thank you,

523
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 6: Jen Day. How do we go.

524
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Speaker 2: The first gym day of the GEN day of spring training?

525
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Speaker 2: How many of those were there today? Few?

526
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Speaker 3: There were a lot. There were a few. Yeah, I

527
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 3: would imagine and then walk out and have a good night.

528
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 3: GEN Day.

529
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 2: Perfect. We've got more to Tyler Stevenson won his arbitration

530
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 2: case against the Reds. We'll discuss that and here from

531
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: Tyler Stevenson. When the Reds Hot Stove League presented by

532
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 2: DF continues next on the Reds Radio Network. Looks Back.

533
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 2: It's the Mudwiser Red Dot Stove League, presented by UDF Live.

534
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 2: It's Tom's watch bar side the bet MGM Sportsbook downtown

535
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 2: Cincinnati at the Pinks. Jim Day is out in Goodyear, Arizona, sunny, Goodyear,

536
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 2: where the temperatures in the mid seventies. It was in

537
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 2: the eighties, by the way, Jim, right before you got

538
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 2: out there. So you've cooled things off just by your

539
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:48,719
Speaker 2: presence being out.

540
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,679
Speaker 3: I cooled things off here in warm things up there.

541
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 3: So they don't like me either place.

542
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, how about that. You get out of town at

543
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 2: Worm's up here, you get to Arizona, cools down there,

544
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 2: there's one common dominator.

545
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 3: But hey, by the way, your bag made it. It's

546
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 3: in the media tent.

547
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 2: Oh is it good?

548
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 3: But don't worry. We wouldn't do anything to your luggage.

549
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 2: No, why would you do that?

550
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 3: No, we won't mess with it or put anything inappropriate

551
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 3: in there.

552
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 2: You're sure, okay? Yeah? I trust that. That sounded very convincing.

553
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 2: And I don't know why I would ever worry about

554
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 2: anything like that, because nobody around there would do anything

555
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 2: of that sort. No, huh, news around baseball today, and

556
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 2: it is that you talk about news that is hot

557
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 2: off the press. Tyler Stevenson won his arbitration case. In fact,

558
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 2: you caught up with Tyler earlier today, but this news

559
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 2: came out after you had already talked to him. So,

560
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 2: Tyler Stevenson, as it turns out, winning that case will

561
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 2: end up making a few hundred thousand dollars more than

562
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 2: what the Reds were trying to offer him. I guess

563
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 2: the best way to go about it.

564
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't really lose an arbitration, I mean, and

565
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 3: you're still getting a raise, right. So he was sitting waiting,

566
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm going to find out probing an hour

567
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 3: or so. And it's not like I was going to

568
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 3: ask him during the interview about it anyways. But he

569
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 3: ended up winning it. He was very confident, which he

570
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 3: should have been. The players have been doing very well, Yes.

571
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 2: Yes they have. So congratulations to Tyler Stevenson on winning

572
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 2: his arbitration case. What was his mood like as you

573
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 2: chatted with him?

574
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 3: It was good, there was you know, it's a the

575
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 3: arbitration is a tough process because you go in there

576
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 3: and you know you're trying to win a case, so

577
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 3: they kind of beat you down a little bit and

578
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, your buddy buddy again afterwards.

579
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 3: So it's a it's a weird process, but he seemed

580
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 3: to be handling it very very well. And I got

581
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 3: to tell you, this is going to be a contract

582
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 3: year for Tyler, and usually guys in that situation, we're

583
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 3: trying to get a big contract where there be an

584
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 3: extension with the Reds or elsewhere they seem to produce,

585
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 3: they seem to turn up the wicks. So this could

586
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 3: be a big year for him.

587
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would keep a close eye on him. I

588
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 2: think there's a great chance that he has a big

589
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 2: year this year and that would be another big boost

590
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 2: in this Red's lineup. Well, let's go now to that

591
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 2: conversation that Jim had with Tyler Stevenson earlier today.

592
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 3: As you sit here right now, and I know you

593
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 3: guys are just getting going, but what's the general feeling

594
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 3: in this clubhouse right now?

595
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's always a lot of excitement this time of

596
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 5: the year, getting everybody back and yeah, I mean it's

597
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 5: where the season starts and the foundation is late. So yeah,

598
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 5: it's always a lot of excitement and yeah, I mean

599
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 5: it's just good seeing everybody again and don't see guys

600
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 5: for a long time in the offseason, so catching up

601
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 5: and families and whatnot. And yeah, it's been a special

602
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 5: time of the.

603
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 3: Year as a catcher. How nice is it to show

604
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Speaker 3: up and even just looking at the chart on the

605
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 3: on the wall of the pitchers that are in this

606
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 3: arsenal right.

607
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 5: Now, yeah, it's it's deep. And I mean, as long

608
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 5: as knock on wood and health is always going to

609
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 5: be the biggest thing. But excuse me, Yeah, I mean,

610
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 5: look at last year with the success we had. Obviously,

611
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 5: if there's our starters and our bullpen, and I mean

612
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 5: I feel like the starters are the exact same, but

613
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 5: adding somebody like Peer, somebody like Caleb and some of

614
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 5: these other guys in the bullpen that have experienced and

615
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 5: really good stuff. So it's just it's exciting. We've got

616
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 5: a lot of guys and a lot of different guys

617
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 5: that can go out there and get the job done.

618
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 5: So it's a good problem to have.

619
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Speaker 3: When Red's went into the off season, there's a big

620
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 3: question mark around the bullpen. I don't need to tell

621
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 3: you how important bullpen is in today's game. What you're

622
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 3: coming into camp with now pretty exciting.

623
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Speaker 5: You're huge, Yeah, I mean obviously Meli being a big,

624
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 5: a big piece of that, and the career that the

625
00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 5: career that he had last year. Talking with him some

626
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 5: I didn't I didn't know. I don't, I don't know.

627
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 5: I didn't think it was gonna it was gonna happen.

628
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 5: I didn't think it was he would be back, and

629
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden was was shocked in a

630
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 5: good way and super excited that that he was back.

631
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 5: So I feel like that was kind of the first

632
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 5: like statement thing of the offseason. And then obviously signing

633
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 5: a guy like Pierce and Caleb and it was a

634
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 5: brock Brock. I need to get his name right, brock Burke,

635
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 5: brock Burke. It's it's the double B. And then obviously

636
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 5: capping it off with with bringing Geno back home.

637
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was.

638
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 5: It was a lot of good moves and great moves,

639
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 5: and there's depth, which is something that I feel like

640
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 5: we had last year, but we'd added more depth, and

641
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 5: then obviously bringing somebody like Geno, me and you probably

642
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 5: no more better than anybody. So I mean, I think

643
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 5: it's going to be an an immediate hit in a

644
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 5: good way.

645
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 3: Like you said, you and I are both very familiar

646
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 3: and Red's country very familiar. I mean when they announced

647
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 3: his free agent signing, boy, did it put some electricity

648
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 3: into the fan base. What did it do for this team?

649
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 3: And what was the reaction were There are a lot

650
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 3: of texts going around.

651
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm in a text with a couple other people.

652
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 5: It was funny. A guy that actually work out with

653
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 5: the Red Sox. He was the one that broke the

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Speaker 5: news of me first, because I feel like we would

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Speaker 5: always text each other anytime there was like big moves

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00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 5: and stuff. We work out together in the offseason. And

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00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 5: he said Gino. I thought he meant Gino as signing

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00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 5: with the Red Sox. So then I go scrambling around

659
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 5: and like like where did Gino sign? And the next

660
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 5: thing I know is see the Reds. I'm like, holy smokes.

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Speaker 2: And then.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I talked to Threido a whole bunch and some

663
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 5: other guys and yeah, I mean the player is obviously

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00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 5: going to be a huge upgrade, but the clubhouse, the

665
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 5: impact that he's going to have on all of us,

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Speaker 5: it's probably going to be even bigger than what people

667
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 5: see what his performance is, and somebody like Eli and

668
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 5: these young guys, it's he's probably the best mentor that

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00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 5: you could have for these young guys. So yeah, I

670
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 5: mean forty nine Homers would love if you did that again.

671
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 5: This game's hard, you never know, but it's a guy

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00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 5: that's going to have an impact on and off the field,

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00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:16,439
Speaker 5: for sure.

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Speaker 3: On this team a year ago, there's always a feeling

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00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 3: out process with a new manager. I don't care what

676
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 3: level you're playing on. How big is it that he's back.

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00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 3: He knows you, guys, you know what to expect from him.

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00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 3: He knows what to expect from you. Can that go

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Speaker 3: a long.

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Speaker 2: Way for sure? Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean we all have a year of experience under

682
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 5: our belts, and I feel like we know what to

683
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 5: expect and the expectations and what's what's thrown on us

684
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 5: this year. And yeah, and I think everybody's actually in

685
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 5: there talking with them and like I've been here long

686
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:53,919
Speaker 5: enough and kind of seeing it all the way through

687
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 5: that everybody always kind of talked about this window with

688
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 5: the Reds and it's like, oh, which we're so close,

689
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:03,240
Speaker 5: but that windows now and there's no waiting around anymore.

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00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 5: So the momentum from last year and we gotta we

691
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 5: got a taste of what it's like and being able

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00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 5: to celebrate at the end of the year then make

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00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 5: make playoffs. And obviously it didn't didn't end how we

694
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 5: wanted did it too, But we got a taste and

695
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 5: that's all it takes. So we got to run with

696
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 5: that and we gotta get it starts, like I said,

697
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 5: getting here day one, and it's like the season starts now.

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00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 5: So it's it's it's a fun process and it's gonna

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00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 5: be fun.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be fun you On a personal level, everyone

701
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 3: wants to grow in the game and make improvements. The

702
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 3: off season is a big time to do that. What

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00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 3: particularly did you have in mind did you work on

704
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 3: that you would like to carry into this season?

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00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 5: Man, I mean health was the big thing. Obviously starting

706
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 5: the year with though bleak and then the thumb was

707
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 5: still broken broken at the end of the year. So

708
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 5: like the first month of the off season, I pretty

709
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 5: much just kind of let it heel and kind of

710
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 5: do nothing. So, yeah, I just get my body right

711
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 5: in mind right, and I spend a lot of time

712
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 5: with my family, with my daughter and kind of like

713
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 5: stepped away from everything, and I don't know, just going

714
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 5: into this year like I'm just I don't know, I'm

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00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 5: just gonna enjoy it all and whatever happens happens, and

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00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 5: I don't know, it's it's this is a fun group

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00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 5: of guys, and you want to continue to build off

718
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 5: of that. So I don't know, there's nothing like really particular,

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00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 5: just continuing to grow and develop and be the best

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Speaker 5: version myself and help.

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Speaker 2: You seem win. Good to see you, Good luck, twise.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: That is Jim Day's conversation earlier today with Tyler Stevenson

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Speaker 2: out in Goodyear, Arizona. We wrap up the Butdweiser Red's

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Speaker 2: edition of the Budwiser Red's Hot Stove League presented by

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Speaker 2: again next week from good Year, Arizona. For Jim Day,

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Speaker 2: our studio producer, Drew Wester Heidi, and for Dave ENnie Armbuster,

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