Speaker 1: It's around the park with Dave Fleming, Giants and the
Speaker 1: Rangers here in Texas and our guests today OS Slaves.
Speaker 1: But Saves made a great first impression on the Giants.
Speaker 1: We're going to get to know O Slaves right after this.
Speaker 1: It's around the park with Dave Fleming and our guests
Speaker 1: today here in Texas is Giants infielder O Slaves, Basab
Speaker 1: who's done a great job coming up to this team
Speaker 1: the last few days, or when a girls is with
Speaker 1: us here just to help us out do the interview.
Speaker 1: First of all, you must be feeling confident and good.
Speaker 1: You you look very confident at the play right now.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Well, First of all, I want to thank you for
Speaker 3: the interview, and what I want to say is that
Speaker 3: I was getting myself mentally ready, physically ready. I was
Speaker 3: getting prepared the minor league so that whenever my opportunity came,
Speaker 3: I was ready to do it. And you know, it's
Speaker 3: just happy with seeing that the actual work is being
Speaker 3: shown in the field.
Speaker 1: What's the way that you stay ready, stay prepared when
Speaker 1: you're playing down there hoping for this opportunity.
Speaker 3: No, it, Amilia, both, I'm my mom and Papa Mihauelo.
Speaker 3: I think what I want to say is that I
Speaker 3: had the family support, a great wife, parents, grandparents, you know,
Speaker 3: my family that was always there supporting me, cheuring me on,
Speaker 3: just giving me words of encouragement to never give up.
Speaker 3: And I want to say that that was the main
Speaker 3: reason that those were the main things that helped me.
Speaker 1: And speaking of family, your extended family, you have a
Speaker 1: lot of baseball family, right, Am I right about that?
Speaker 2: Yes, you're right.
Speaker 3: I come from a family of a lot of baseball players,
Speaker 3: and that's another thing that keeps motivating.
Speaker 2: Me, which you know I was.
Speaker 3: He was talking to me about it, how a lot
Speaker 3: of his cousins played baseball, some of them gave up,
Speaker 3: but my family was there to support me. I mean,
Speaker 3: my dad, my grandpa, my uncles, my cousins, they all
Speaker 3: play baseball. So you know, that's another motivation that helps
Speaker 3: me not giving up on my dream. And this is
Speaker 3: exactly what my family told me. That's the only thing
Speaker 3: I know how to do. I only know how to play.
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Speaker 2: How old were you when you knew, Hey, I'm good
Speaker 2: at this? You Hey, yeah, that's pretty young.
Speaker 1: I've let me ask you about how you describe yourself
Speaker 1: as a player.
Speaker 2: What style of baseball do you like to play?
Speaker 3: Then that I like to be aggressive, I like to
Speaker 3: feel calm. I like the type of baseball that Luisa
Speaker 3: Race plays. I like Jose Reyes, which was which is
Speaker 3: my was my favorite player. And I like Sandra Bolgert's
Speaker 3: type of baseball. So I tried to grab.
Speaker 2: A little bit.
Speaker 3: I like to be excited, have fun, but at the
Speaker 3: same time, just keep it cool.
Speaker 2: Yea. And I got to ask you about Mason Miller.
Speaker 4: Here's the set, basically loaded the pitch, swave lide, ride
Speaker 4: down on a field line. That's a base hit. What
Speaker 4: hops a long one run in? What damas is in?
Speaker 4: HiT's tied up the throat a second too? What double
Speaker 4: for Oswavies the seven who's having the night of his life?
Speaker 1: The bat you had the other night against the Padres
Speaker 1: closer who might have the best stuff in baseball. Can
Speaker 1: you tell me about that at bat and how you
Speaker 1: were feeling.
Speaker 3: Well, it's just competing, right, I mean, I don't think
Speaker 3: about his Mason Miller, he has a baseball I have
Speaker 3: a back. The whole approach for me was just make contact,
Speaker 3: hit a line drive, and I don't know what they're thinking,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm facing Mason Miller or anything like that.
Speaker 3: He's just another baseball player, just like I am.
Speaker 1: The pitch you hit was one hundred and three miles
Speaker 1: an hour. You might I know you have fast hands.
Speaker 1: It looks to me like you have very fast hands.
Speaker 3: I think I do have fast hands. I mean to
Speaker 3: to this date, my dad works with me. He gives
Speaker 3: me a broomstick and just makes me swing away single way,
Speaker 3: So I think that helps.
Speaker 2: All right. Last question for Os Levees Giants.
Speaker 1: Has been a good fit for you being with the
Speaker 1: with the Giants?
Speaker 3: I di, I mean it's it's a good fit. I
Speaker 3: mean the Giants sign me last year. Then I got
Speaker 3: hurt that and get the opportunity that the Giants offered
Speaker 3: me to go uh as a free agent.
Speaker 2: I said no.
Speaker 3: I signed my contract, a minor league contract because this
Speaker 3: is where I wanted to play. I kind of figured
Speaker 3: that this was going to be my opportunity to play
Speaker 3: with the Giants.
Speaker 1: Muchas gracias, thanks for the time and keep it up.
Speaker 3: It's fun to watch you play. Thank you, and I
Speaker 3: have faith that this team is going to get up well,
Speaker 3: that's also Ladies with Giants.
Speaker 1: Pregame show continues here from Texas right after this