1
00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,080
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Sports Phone and K and BR on

2
00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:04,440
Speaker 1: a Tuesday Night with Bill Laski. I'm honored to have

3
00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:08,360
Speaker 1: my guest on a left handed pitcher from valenciaa Venezuela,

4
00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,640
Speaker 1: the young lefty. Let's bring in Juan Sanchez one. How

5
00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:12,240
Speaker 1: were you today?

6
00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:14,159
Speaker 2: Pretty good? How aut you?

7
00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I appreciate your time this morning. How's

8
00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,639
Speaker 1: spring training going? How are you throwing so far?

9
00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,200
Speaker 3: I mean it's been really goes so far. I feel great. Well,

10
00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,800
Speaker 3: I have yours onue outing so far, so it's been good.

11
00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,840
Speaker 1: Let's go back in time. Valencia, Venezuela is where you

12
00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,159
Speaker 1: grew up. Forty two major league players were signed out

13
00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,200
Speaker 1: of Valencia. What were you thinking as a young pitcher

14
00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:42,920
Speaker 1: because you signed at seventeen years old with San Francisco Giants.

15
00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,520
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I sound like nine years ago. I

16
00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,280
Speaker 3: was from actually from wie Way.

17
00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:49,640
Speaker 1: It's my or you.

18
00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,760
Speaker 3: Plays when I'm born is close to Alansi, but yeah,

19
00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,440
Speaker 3: that's that's my city. I mean, it's been a really

20
00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,120
Speaker 3: hard process, but it's nice to was still here.

21
00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,040
Speaker 1: You know. Well, one a few pitchers and players were

22
00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:10,360
Speaker 1: right around Valencia. Felix Hernandez, Salvador Perez de Peralta, of course,

23
00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:14,240
Speaker 1: Wilmor Flores. Was there anybody that influenced you a little

24
00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:15,240
Speaker 1: bit as a young pitcher?

25
00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,399
Speaker 3: Actually, when I was like ten year old, I used

26
00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:24,000
Speaker 3: to play it in a league when where Felix or

27
00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,800
Speaker 3: Nanda was like a kind of a president there, and

28
00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,560
Speaker 3: I used to be like so close to heal, it'll

29
00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,960
Speaker 3: be so so one.

30
00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,600
Speaker 1: Did you play other positions? Were your first baseman and outfielder?

31
00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:38,400
Speaker 1: Were you a good hitter when you were younger?

32
00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,680
Speaker 3: I mean I was outfielder. I mean I left it

33
00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,440
Speaker 3: so but I was good as a hitter.

34
00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:52,360
Speaker 1: Signed and now you're you're just a picture now right. Yeah, Well,

35
00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,880
Speaker 1: like I said, you signed at seventeen years old with

36
00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,960
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Giants. You ended up doing very well

37
00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,680
Speaker 1: in the first few years, but in twenty twenty COVID hit.

38
00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,320
Speaker 1: What did you do for that year?

39
00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:10,639
Speaker 3: I mean it was like a very hard year for everyone.

40
00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,080
Speaker 3: I have some family hearing well, well, I got some

41
00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:14,960
Speaker 3: family in New Yer.

42
00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:15,200
Speaker 2: See.

43
00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,840
Speaker 3: So when when MLB just buying the spring drinning, they

44
00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:22,960
Speaker 3: just called me out, you can come here, and I

45
00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,160
Speaker 3: just went there for half a year.

46
00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,240
Speaker 1: And then you came back in twenty twenty one year,

47
00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,400
Speaker 1: twenty years old, you went to San Jose, had a

48
00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,079
Speaker 1: great season there. He ended up going to Eugene and

49
00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,359
Speaker 1: twenty two and Richmond and twenty three and just really

50
00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,400
Speaker 1: sparkled in Richmond seventy four and a third innings, eighty

51
00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,400
Speaker 1: strikeouts under a three point earned run average. What was

52
00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,200
Speaker 1: the level that you start thinking, Hey, I can do this,

53
00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:50,880
Speaker 1: I got major league ability.

54
00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:53,200
Speaker 2: Well, I was like.

55
00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,240
Speaker 3: At the beginn twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, I

56
00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,680
Speaker 3: have like I don't have like a confident what I

57
00:02:58,720 --> 00:02:59,360
Speaker 3: have right now.

58
00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,359
Speaker 2: I was a little be young, you know, so just.

59
00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:07,560
Speaker 3: Getting more confident, getting stronger, moving better on dangs below.

60
00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,840
Speaker 3: And when I started like getting all die, I was

61
00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:12,760
Speaker 3: more like, Okay, I can't be better.

62
00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,440
Speaker 2: I can't compete in in higher level levels.

63
00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,040
Speaker 1: So it kind of just made you work a little harder.

64
00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,040
Speaker 1: One Sanchez is the person that we're talking to, A

65
00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,919
Speaker 1: left handed young pitcher. You ended up coming to big

66
00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,600
Speaker 1: league camp. What a fabulous year you had in twenty

67
00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,880
Speaker 1: twenty four, coming to spring training somewhere where you got

68
00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:34,920
Speaker 1: the eyes to look at you, and you had a

69
00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,240
Speaker 1: pretty good spring. A little nervous? Were you anxious when

70
00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,360
Speaker 1: you first came into that big league locker room.

71
00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,760
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, it was it was like it was

72
00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,480
Speaker 3: a lot of nervous. It was my first dyeing an

73
00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:48,760
Speaker 3: invidenment like this one.

74
00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,680
Speaker 2: Well, it was great. Actually was a great experience.

75
00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:53,480
Speaker 1: It is.

76
00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:55,200
Speaker 2: Time.

77
00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:57,960
Speaker 1: Well, what happened in twenty twenty four. You pitched in

78
00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:03,760
Speaker 1: eighteen games, ten innings, pitch thirteen strikeouts, great numbers out

79
00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:05,840
Speaker 1: of spring training. You end up going to Triple A,

80
00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,920
Speaker 1: and of course the injury happens, the forearm gets stiff,

81
00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,560
Speaker 1: and you end up going into Tommy John. How demoralizing

82
00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,720
Speaker 1: was that for you? How hard was that when they

83
00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,160
Speaker 1: told you you have to have surgery?

84
00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,159
Speaker 3: Well, it was like a what's what was a really

85
00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,560
Speaker 3: harmony for me? I mean when I feel when I

86
00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,840
Speaker 3: feel dying my elbow was like okay, m hm cool

87
00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,800
Speaker 3: with this or or what what is happening? So yeah,

88
00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,400
Speaker 3: when they told me that, I was like I was

89
00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:40,040
Speaker 3: upset that we was like super like bad. My mind

90
00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,719
Speaker 3: was like bad. I talked with my family, with my

91
00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:48,800
Speaker 3: tringers everyone and just support me to keep look like

92
00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:53,880
Speaker 3: keep my mind I up. Well, it was a tough.

93
00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,120
Speaker 1: Time and no question about it, and it was your future.

94
00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,920
Speaker 1: It's what you work for so hard, and you had

95
00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,039
Speaker 1: such a good spring and people had eyes on you,

96
00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,120
Speaker 1: and the injury happened. So you have surgery and now

97
00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,640
Speaker 1: the rehab starts. It's not just the physical part, but

98
00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:11,960
Speaker 1: it's a mental side. Can I pitch again? Am I

99
00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,520
Speaker 1: gonna have that vlo I had? How did you get

100
00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:14,919
Speaker 1: over that?

101
00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:16,320
Speaker 2: Well?

102
00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,920
Speaker 3: I have like a really like a back dullness because

103
00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,040
Speaker 3: like I have a moment when I was like, oh,

104
00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:25,680
Speaker 3: maybe I'm never going to get back. I mean, it's

105
00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,240
Speaker 3: taking so long, you know. I was like those thinking,

106
00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,680
Speaker 3: But I mean I a.

107
00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,160
Speaker 2: Lot of people just support me.

108
00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,599
Speaker 3: My family every time was there like hey, come on,

109
00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,000
Speaker 3: you can do this, you can you can hold this.

110
00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,440
Speaker 3: Just keep working, keep doing it. I mean, I'm so

111
00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,560
Speaker 3: happy that a lot of people just was helping me

112
00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:51,039
Speaker 3: with this process. Now I'm here, I'm ready again.

113
00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're strong throwing the ball. Well, you ended

114
00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,840
Speaker 1: up coming back In twenty twenty five, you played a

115
00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,760
Speaker 1: little fall ball two and one. You were in seven

116
00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,360
Speaker 1: game games two point seven or in run average, good

117
00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,600
Speaker 1: numbers for fallball. How tough was it when you first

118
00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,960
Speaker 1: went out there to hit the throw against those top

119
00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000
Speaker 1: line hitters. Was it difficult? Was it? Were you ready

120
00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,200
Speaker 1: to get back on the horse and ride it? Well?

121
00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:14,560
Speaker 1: I did.

122
00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,000
Speaker 2: The hardest part was like throw the ball.

123
00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,240
Speaker 3: I mean the first game was like I was like

124
00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,520
Speaker 3: super nervous because I mean I was out for like,

125
00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,680
Speaker 3: I don't know, sixteen seventeen months. My first game, I

126
00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,960
Speaker 3: was like excited. I was anxious but nervous at the

127
00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:31,880
Speaker 3: same time, you know.

128
00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,120
Speaker 1: And it worked out. It worked out real well, Juan

129
00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,760
Speaker 1: Sanchez for a few more minutes. So you leave fall ball,

130
00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,560
Speaker 1: you go back home. Was there something that you were

131
00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,560
Speaker 1: doing from that time to spring training? Did they have

132
00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:47,240
Speaker 1: you on some exercise program, a throwing exercise or some

133
00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,160
Speaker 1: kind of kind of a momentum for you to get

134
00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,159
Speaker 1: into spring training. What were some of the things you

135
00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:53,000
Speaker 1: did over the winner.

136
00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,640
Speaker 3: Well, I went back to Venezuela and make November until February.

137
00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:03,599
Speaker 3: So I told all moment two, keep getting stronger, moving

138
00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:08,840
Speaker 3: faster together, more more flexibility to day and try to

139
00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:14,040
Speaker 3: like more power. You know, they're more healthy and the

140
00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,800
Speaker 3: idea all what I'm supposed to do there. So those

141
00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:19,560
Speaker 3: are nice off season for me.

142
00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,440
Speaker 1: Well, one, let's get some fun questions. What are some

143
00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,840
Speaker 1: of the things you like to do away from baseball?

144
00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,240
Speaker 1: Is a TV? Is a video games? What do you

145
00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:28,280
Speaker 1: like to do to relax?

146
00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,800
Speaker 2: Well, actually, I really like to play a lot of bitters.

147
00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:34,520
Speaker 2: I love to play with events.

148
00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,840
Speaker 1: So what about music? What kind of favorite music do

149
00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:39,720
Speaker 1: you like? Do you like the Latin music? Do you

150
00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,800
Speaker 1: like American music? What are some of the things you

151
00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:42,280
Speaker 1: listen to.

152
00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:48,080
Speaker 3: Well, I can listen to everything music in English, even

153
00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,040
Speaker 3: country music.

154
00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,280
Speaker 2: I like all type of music. So there's a band

155
00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:52,840
Speaker 2: of the day.

156
00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,600
Speaker 1: What about food? What's your favorite food? Let me let

157
00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,040
Speaker 1: me ask you this one a Latin food that you

158
00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,480
Speaker 1: like and an American food that you like. Let's go

159
00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:01,960
Speaker 1: to two questions on that one.

160
00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:07,000
Speaker 3: Well, Latin food, I mean I love being swelling food,

161
00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,640
Speaker 3: so I was gonna be my favorite always. I got

162
00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,360
Speaker 3: to that's gonna be all my favorite food. But if

163
00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,560
Speaker 3: I canna say American food, barbecue?

164
00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,320
Speaker 1: Barbecue? Okay? Do you like the steak? Do you what

165
00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:21,880
Speaker 1: do you like in the barbecue?

166
00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:27,440
Speaker 2: Now? Like brisk like uh, the ribbed? I love that.

167
00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:29,960
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you, when you get away and

168
00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,480
Speaker 1: you're just by yourself, do you reflect on some of

169
00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:35,520
Speaker 1: the things that you have gone through, some of the

170
00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,880
Speaker 1: struggles that you have and you're in big league camp.

171
00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,680
Speaker 1: I mean you have to somehow say, hey, I work

172
00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,400
Speaker 1: through this. Now it's all about me and getting back

173
00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,080
Speaker 1: into this game and throwing the ball.

174
00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,839
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I always think about it, like do

175
00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,600
Speaker 3: what I can do? You know, I control, I can control.

176
00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,240
Speaker 3: I'm always like talking with myself about like what can

177
00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,560
Speaker 3: I do better? I was missing du some moment, So

178
00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,520
Speaker 3: how can I be better in that par so?

179
00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:04,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always do that.

180
00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,520
Speaker 1: Well, one of the things you said is when I

181
00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:09,760
Speaker 1: get out there, I want to do my best. I

182
00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,560
Speaker 1: do my everything that I can do to be one

183
00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,800
Speaker 1: hundred percent. And this is something that you're probably getting

184
00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,000
Speaker 1: through in your brain now that you're at big league

185
00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,000
Speaker 1: camp and something you have to overcome. Still, You've got

186
00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,560
Speaker 1: some big league hitters coming at you, and I'm sure

187
00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,720
Speaker 1: you're thinking the same thing. I got to get these

188
00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:29,880
Speaker 1: guys out if I want to make the big league roster.

189
00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I never think like about a heater.

190
00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,480
Speaker 3: I don't feel like it's like a really little kid

191
00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,959
Speaker 3: of heating. I just think about like my stuff and

192
00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:44,240
Speaker 3: kick my body on my mind in calm, I'll say this.

193
00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:48,520
Speaker 3: I mean, no matter if it's a double A guy

194
00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,560
Speaker 3: or a major league guy, I'm going to.

195
00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,000
Speaker 2: Have the same stuff, so I have to compete with

196
00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:53,920
Speaker 2: what I have.

197
00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,839
Speaker 1: Well, one, it was a pleasure to meet you. I

198
00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,200
Speaker 1: was glad to get your name and your voice out

199
00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,760
Speaker 1: the Giants face and all the best to you and

200
00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,360
Speaker 1: good luck the rest of the spring training.

201
00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:05,560
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that. Thank you.

202
00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,320
Speaker 1: That was Juan Sanchez. We're coming up right here on

203
00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,040
Speaker 1: K and br D Sports Leader