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Speaker 1: More from Marlin's camp.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk to Xavier Edwards right now, Second Basement for Miami.

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Speaker 1: Xavier, great to have you on the show. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: the time.

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Speaker 2: How's camp going for you and how are some of

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Speaker 2: the new faces looking there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: It Kemp's going great, you know, excited to be here.

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Speaker 5: I think all of us are kind of, you know,

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Speaker 5: right at the midway point, we're kind of ready to

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Speaker 5: get going with the season, kind of get on our way.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, it's been good so far, and a lot

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Speaker 5: of new guys look really good.

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Speaker 4: It's some of the new staff that we got. We're

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Speaker 4: get to know them and they've been really good this far,

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Speaker 4: so they're really excited.

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Speaker 6: Do they come to you for answers? You're kind of

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Speaker 6: like one of the veterans on this team now today?

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Speaker 6: Does the new people come to you and say, Zaber

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Speaker 6: what you got on Miami for us?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 5: I mean I think that's kind of a advantage I

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Speaker 5: guess that I have that all of us are so

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Speaker 5: young that you know, sure, I'm I've been in the

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Speaker 5: league a little bit longer than them, but I haven't

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Speaker 5: been league that long. You know, I'm not in arbitration

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Speaker 5: yet you know, either Stours, So I think we're all

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Speaker 5: kind of in the same with the same boat or

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Speaker 5: litle bolt. You know, we're young guys just trying to,

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Speaker 5: you know, make a name for ourselves, and I hope

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Speaker 5: our team win. So I think it's kind of an

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Speaker 5: advanced where as we don't have any uh you know,

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Speaker 5: quote unquote salty vets or anything like that. So we

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Speaker 5: kind of just be ourselves and you know, feed off

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Speaker 5: each other and learn from each other.

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Speaker 6: So it's good group the salty vets to make the

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Speaker 6: world go around. Okay, just remember that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, some clubhouses they might, but in Ours, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: If I do.

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Speaker 6: Before we get too deep into the marlins, I have

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Speaker 6: a question for You're born in New York Long Island.

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Speaker 6: You guys know that's right, right, But you moved to Florida.

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Speaker 6: When did you move to Florida?

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Speaker 4: When I was five?

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Speaker 7: So which one do you claim?

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Speaker 4: Florida? Yeah, Florida, Florida.

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Speaker 6: I was born on Long Island. I moved here when

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Speaker 6: I was too but I use Long Island when I

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Speaker 6: need it. Yeah, this is one of those.

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Speaker 5: Grand New York you need it, But that's right. Other

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Speaker 5: than that, it's like a Florida boy through and through.

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Speaker 6: So you're you're born from You're from North Broward, which

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Speaker 6: is close to Miami.

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Speaker 4: It's in between. So like I'm from Palm Beach County.

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Speaker 5: I'm from Wellington, like thirty five minutes from here, and

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Speaker 5: then now I live in boy and Beach. But yeah,

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Speaker 5: my wife's from actually Miami, born and raised Miami, so

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Speaker 5: kind of spent a lot of time between Miami and

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Speaker 4: Kind of my parents are in Palm Beach, so kid, yeah,

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Speaker 5: You know, I've got a little bit a little bit

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Speaker 5: of both, you know, an hour away but not too far,

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Speaker 5: so as close as you can get without being from

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Speaker 5: Miami for sure.

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Speaker 8: Hex Can you be a leader because when we played together,

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Speaker 8: you were like twelve years old and you were quiet,

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Speaker 8: and how much have you had to not adapt? But

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Speaker 8: like how much have you had to change based on

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Speaker 8: your success in the big leagues and then like ooh,

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Speaker 8: other guys coming to you and being like, hey, I

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Speaker 8: need to know how this goes or I need to

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Speaker 8: know how that goes, because now that you're in the

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Speaker 5: I mean it's not really I don't I think I

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Speaker 5: can be a leader without you know, standing in front

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Speaker 5: of the whole clubhouse and speaking. You know, that's not

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Speaker 5: really my thing, but really just kind of lead by example,

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Speaker 5: I'm just like them. You know, I'm not gonna you know,

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Speaker 5: seniority over them. I think, you know, we're teammates. We need,

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Speaker 5: you know, everyone on our forty men, even some guys

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Speaker 5: that aren't on it, you know, win you know, meaningful

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Speaker 5: games at the end of the year, and you know

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Speaker 5: it starts with everybody. So making everyone feel comfortable, you know,

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Speaker 5: we know want anyone to feel like they can't come

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Speaker 5: up to you know, myself or anybody else on our team.

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Speaker 5: You know that we want to be you know, as

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Speaker 5: I like to be approachable, you know. I know it

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Speaker 5: was like to get an older clubouts as a younger

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Speaker 5: player and not feel comfortable asking people things or not,

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Speaker 5: you know, not knowing where to be. So you know,

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Speaker 5: I never want people to feel like that around me.

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Speaker 5: And you know, my parents raise me that way to

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Speaker 5: kind of treat people the way you want to be treated.

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Speaker 5: So that's what I'm trying to do. When you played

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Speaker 5: I don't think, Yeah, I don't think anyone's really you know,

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Speaker 5: mean it was kind of one. It was like almost

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Speaker 5: like four weeks. Yeah, you know, he's happy to be there.

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Speaker 5: I think it was on the tail end of his career.

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Speaker 5: A great teammate, great leader. He is someone who's vocal.

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Speaker 5: So he could get in front of the clubhouse and

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Speaker 5: give us a good.

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Speaker 7: Speech or give me, give me your best speech.

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Speaker 4: Tell us young guys, you want me to give it?

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Speaker 3: You want to give it? Gave me?

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Speaker 7: What did he say to you guys? Should he get

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Speaker 7: up there and give like the miracle speech? No, he's

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Speaker 7: our moments.

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Speaker 5: He's a professional. You know what you need to do.

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Speaker 5: You get yourself fad for the game, you know, take

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Speaker 5: pride and we're in USA. Cross your chest, you know

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Speaker 5: some of the of the sorts.

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Speaker 3: Okay, just checking I did I did cry, right, X.

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Speaker 8: I cried when I when I talked at the end

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Speaker 8: after we got after we got beat by Mexico.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you did cry. That was a meaningful moment

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Speaker 5: for you on the back end of your career. But yeah,

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Speaker 5: it was great to be a teammate with him.

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Speaker 8: That was the apex of my career. X. That was

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Speaker 8: the apex. Like my career was just going all the

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Speaker 8: way till that point and then I just quit and

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Speaker 4: All right, X.

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Speaker 2: Let's get back to the team for a moment here.

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Speaker 2: Uh So, heading into this season, can you give us

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Speaker 2: a name or two that you think is going to

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Speaker 2: take the next step, one of your teammates that you

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Speaker 2: saw maybe start to really show things at the end

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Speaker 2: been very impressive that hasn't even cracked the bigs yet.

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Speaker 5: Think Liam Hicks has looked really really good behind the dish. No,

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Speaker 5: usually the first two weeks he's got Oh no, he's

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Speaker 5: got now. But yeah, when I saw him playing a

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Speaker 5: few days ago, he looked really really good, you know,

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Speaker 5: throwing the ball well, playing good defense in the ball

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Speaker 5: really well. So off the really good start the spring

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Speaker 5: only two man, I'll go, I'll go Graham Polly. I

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Speaker 5: know he hasn't been throwing that much, but I think

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Speaker 5: he looks really good as well. I mean also Norby.

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Speaker 5: You know, I guess they're kind of bowing out a

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Speaker 5: big part of our team, and they both look really

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Speaker 5: good to spring. You know, working on different things, but

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Speaker 5: definitely both gonna be a big parts work team.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I've got a little trivia question for our guys.

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Speaker 2: Uh Kratz and AJ Xavier led the league against a

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Speaker 2: certain pitch this year or last year? I should say,

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Speaker 2: do you guys know what pitch it is? And X

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Speaker 4: I got a guess.

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Speaker 6: Okay, crats be like a knuckleball or something like like

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Speaker 1: X, do you know what it is?

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Speaker 4: My guess is a cutter.

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Speaker 2: No, I have you down as eleven for twenty six

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Speaker 2: last year against sweepers. That's for twenty three best in

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Speaker 2: baseball minimum of whatever thirty plate appearances. Do you remember

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Speaker 2: hitting sweepers good last year? I mean, I guess not

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Speaker 5: Maybe I couldn't remember hitting a single sweeper, you know,

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Speaker 5: so hard, right handed, so hard. Sweepers, sliders, curveballs, you know,

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Speaker 5: they're all this more or less the same thing. Some

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Speaker 5: guys actually sweep some of them back up. Who knows

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Speaker 1: We haven't talked about that in a while.

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Speaker 2: Actually, right where AJ was on his front saying, we're

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Speaker 2: So what what would be your key to hitting off speed?

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Speaker 2: You know, how do you get yourself hitting off speed

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Speaker 2: we'd be like, oh, this guy, this guy can hit. Nowadays,

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Speaker 2: you know, the league average has plummeted, and yet you're

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Speaker 1: Know, I think has a chance to hit three hundred

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Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, you're not probaly myself on on average, and

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Speaker 5: that's that's really important to me. Just kind of hitter

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Speaker 5: I've been my whole life. You know, my dad kind

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Speaker 5: of agree that in me at an early age. You know,

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Speaker 5: getting on base obviously on base percentage, but you know,

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Speaker 3: He goes with that.

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Speaker 4: If you can walk a bit, so that's been important

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Speaker 5: And then hitting on the off speed front, you know,

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Speaker 5: keeping your way back, you know, try not to lunch,

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Speaker 5: you know, doing your best to stay to the big

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Speaker 4: I would say, is how you.

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Speaker 5: Stay on more pitches than not, you know, not selling

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Speaker 4: You know, if you, in theory hit a.

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Speaker 5: Fast ball the other way, you should be able to

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Speaker 5: stay on an off street pitch a little bit better.

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Speaker 5: So you know, there's some give and take the hitting,

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Speaker 5: you know, the nuance of it. But let's see, for

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Speaker 5: have you.

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Speaker 7: A little fast guy, dude, Yes, for you don't have to.

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Speaker 6: You can get those field I can come back, hit

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Speaker 6: the six hopper in the hold of the short sometimes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. The shortstops got good arms.

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Speaker 7: Now they have good arms back in the day, Yeah

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Speaker 7: it did.

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Speaker 5: but they had some good arms. Shifting now yeah, different

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Speaker 5: game a little bit, Yeah, not that different. It's not

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Speaker 8: Doesn't have a ton of power. I've seen you hit

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Speaker 5: And it gives our team a chance. It gives me

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Speaker 6: By the way, so what you just said is awesome

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Speaker 4: Right long at bats get.

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Speaker 5: The short answer is war, Really the short answers war.

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Speaker 5: You know that the successes. It leaves clues. And I

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Speaker 3: You real quick. Do you have your phone in your back? Bug?

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Speaker 6: Like I got a single, so my war just went

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Speaker 4: Think about it. You don't look at it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, every once in a while you might check get

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Speaker 2: Yeah, great call there, and yeah, er any Clement a

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Speaker 1: Great insight, man, and good luck this season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me, appreciate it.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, first and foremost, thanks for having me man. I

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Speaker 9: You know, kind of a surreal moment for me this offseason.

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Speaker 9: This is a full circle opportunity for me. The team

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Speaker 6: What does that mean to you? I mean it means

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Speaker 3: It means I'm getting old man, Well.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna be there forever.

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Speaker 9: And now it's us later, you're back, you know, on

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Speaker 6: You mentioned the weather here in Jubiter. Now you know

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, what if you.

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Speaker 8: Told if some people always ask like, would you rather

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Speaker 8: If you talk to that nineteen year old kid and

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Speaker 9: Man, I would say, you know, I've loved my journey

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Speaker 9: we have in the rotation all the way through the

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Speaker 9: position player side as well, because coming up, man, I

441
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Speaker 9: had I had some awesome mentors and teammates uh as

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Speaker 9: A as a twenty three year old kid making my

443
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Speaker 9: major league debut debut over there in San Diego with

444
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Speaker 9: haw As Manny, you know Craig Stammon, which is a

445
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Speaker 9: surreal moment that he's he's a manager and was a

446
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Speaker 9: teammate of mine, uh Ian Kinsler, guys that I looked

447
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Speaker 9: up to at a young age and was able to

448
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Speaker 9: sit in the same locker room as those guys. They

449
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Speaker 9: were a leader for me at one point, and now

450
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Speaker 9: I get to pass the baton off and be a

451
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Speaker 9: leader in a clubhouse, and and I'm super excited for

452
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Speaker 9: that opportunity.

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Speaker 6: Have they talked to you starting relieving because you've kind

454
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Speaker 6: of done both. You obviously were a starter for a

455
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Speaker 6: long time. You kind of relieved last year at the end.

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Speaker 6: Have they talked to you about which side they're leaning

457
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Speaker 6: towards with you? We'll be a starter, were a starter?

458
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Speaker 6: Is that what you prefer? Obviously I've done that pretty

459
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Speaker 6: much your whole life, right, Yeah, it's you.

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Speaker 9: Know the when I got traded over Detroit last season

461
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Speaker 9: towards the end, you know that performance just wasn't backing

462
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Speaker 9: it up. You look at their rotation, you know I

463
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Speaker 9: had I had a gap to fill there and and

464
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Speaker 9: you know Aj over there called it pitching chaos when

465
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Speaker 9: it when it comes September, man, y'all know how important

466
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Speaker 9: those games are. It comes down to half a game,

467
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Speaker 9: one game, whatever it is. And there they thought that

468
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Speaker 9: the best fit for me was going to be coming

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Speaker 9: out of the bullpen, and I was, I was. I

470
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Speaker 9: accepted that, right, I couldn't. I didn't have something to

471
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Speaker 9: back it up. You know, I had a five and

472
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Speaker 9: a half era. My biggest goal last year was to

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Speaker 9: stay healthy, to show thirty teams that you know, the

474
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Speaker 9: injuries are behind me. I'm ready to get the ball

475
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Speaker 9: and I'm ready to pitch. And then in twenty three,

476
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Speaker 9: coming back from Tommy John, I came out of the

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Speaker 9: bullpen with the Twins, so I was I was already

478
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Speaker 9: familiar with it. You know, I wasn't just getting thrown

479
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Speaker 9: to the wolves. And mentally that was important for me

480
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Speaker 9: of knowing that I can do that already. H and I,

481
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Speaker 9: you know, shook AJ's hand and I said, hey, man,

482
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Speaker 9: you know, if you need me out of the bullpen,

483
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Speaker 9: I'll be ready to go. But you know, talking to

484
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Speaker 9: the coaches here, talking with the front office early offseason,

485
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Speaker 9: I will be a starter and excited to be behind

486
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Speaker 9: Sandy and Uri and learn from those guys.

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Speaker 8: Which do you like better? Obviously he came up as

488
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Speaker 8: a starter, But which do you like better? Starting or relieving?

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Speaker 8: Like there, we just talked to Tyler Phillips. That dude's like, man,

490
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Speaker 8: he's he's high on relieving. He loves it.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, uh, you know, I don't slap myself in the

492
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Speaker 9: face by any means, maybe try. Uh you know, I

493
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Speaker 9: don't wear the cool glasses. You know, I feel like

494
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Speaker 9: I'm not I'm I'm too I'm not weird enough to

495
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Speaker 9: be a bullpen guy yet. Maybe maybe on the back

496
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Speaker 9: end of my career, but me personally, I really do

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Speaker 9: enjoy starting, you know. That's That's what I've done most

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Speaker 9: of my career. Uh, you know, I've had I've had

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Speaker 9: a couple bullpen outings, you know, in twenty three, like

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Speaker 9: I said earlier, with the Twins coming to out of

501
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Speaker 9: playoffs and then last year with Detroit of just you know,

502
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Speaker 9: having that role of going into September with the pitching

503
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Speaker 9: chaos that they called it over there. But uh, you know,

504
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Speaker 9: I think I was born to be a starter and

505
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Speaker 9: I have a lot to show for this this upcoming season.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Chris, question for you.

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Speaker 2: Can you go over some of the changes you made,

508
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Speaker 2: I know last year some pitch mixed changes and then

509
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Speaker 2: curious if Detroy tried to change you again once you

510
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Speaker 2: got there, because I'm always curious about the balance, right you.

511
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Speaker 2: You want to adapt and evolve in play your strengths

512
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Speaker 2: and take tips from teams, but it's also your career.

513
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Speaker 2: So what was that journey like over the past year

514
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Speaker 2: or so.

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Speaker 9: Uh, you know, it's it's been. It's been a lot

516
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Speaker 9: of a lot of things for me. You know, most

517
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Speaker 9: of my career, I've I've been a north South guy.

518
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Speaker 9: I feel like I still am a North South guy.

519
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Speaker 9: Fastballs at the top, change up underneath. But I'm starting

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Speaker 9: to learn that these hitters, man, they're so good and

521
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Speaker 9: they get paid the big bucks to swing the bat right. Well,

522
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Speaker 9: this if a hitter's comfortable knowing that Chris Baddick's throwing

523
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Speaker 9: strikes and that he can eliminate pitches, whether it's my

524
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Speaker 9: breaking ball, whether it's a slider, curveball, and only focused

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Speaker 9: north South. Now they're fifty to fifty right. If they

526
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Speaker 9: guess right and I make a mistake, you know, it's

527
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Speaker 9: usually gonna cost me. So not necessarily performance base that

528
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Speaker 9: we're changing anything. When I went over to Detroit, it

529
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Speaker 9: was them, you know, saying that they love my arsenal,

530
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Speaker 9: they love kind of what I bring to the table.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 9: Unfortunately I just didn't click over there with not being

533
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Speaker 9: able to put together some good starts for them. That's

534
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Speaker 9: why I got moved out to the bullpen. That's why

535
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Speaker 9: I was off the playoff rosters, you know, so that

536
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Speaker 9: hurt and I went into the off season, you know,

537
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Speaker 9: excited to see what teams wanted me for the new

538
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Speaker 9: opportunity of being my you know, this my first free

539
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Speaker 9: agent year and coming over here.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 9: You know, some of the media asked me a couple

542
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Speaker 9: of days ago when I got done pitching, what's one

543
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Speaker 9: thing that you've enjoyed being a Marlin? And it's not

544
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Speaker 9: necessarily for me. It's the small things and this this

545
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Speaker 9: coaching staff man, they believe in me. They've told me

546
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Speaker 9: that from day one, and I feel like as athletes,

547
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Speaker 9: sometimes we need that reassurance sometimes, you know, sometimes this

548
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 9: is a game of failure. We take home our thoughts,

549
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 9: we're away from our families. You know, sometimes it's just us.

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Speaker 9: So it's important to have some coaches, some teammates that

551
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Speaker 9: believe in you to remind you who you are and

552
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Speaker 9: what you're capable of.

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Speaker 3: And that's exactly what this group has done. You know.

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Speaker 9: The guys in the locker room have have welcomed me

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Speaker 9: with open arms. They're excited for me to be a

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Speaker 9: part of this group. And we're hungry, man. We do

557
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Speaker 9: have a young staff from top to bottom, and I'm

558
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Speaker 9: here to contribute anyway I can. You know, like I

559
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Speaker 9: said earlier, I don't have all the answers, but I

560
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Speaker 9: knew I do know a thing or two and I'm

561
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Speaker 9: excited to learn from them. And we hop on the

562
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Speaker 9: horse and we all ride together. Are you okay with

563
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Speaker 9: them calling pitches from the dugout? Have they talk to

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Speaker 9: you about that? Because we had We had Clayton and

565
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Speaker 9: I asked him about that. Yeah, so can you still

566
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Speaker 9: shake them off?

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Speaker 3: Are you okay?

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Speaker 5: Hey?

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Speaker 7: You know, I don't really think so.

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Speaker 9: So, you know what, I had my zoom call with

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Speaker 9: the Marlins early off season. You know, these are these

572
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Speaker 9: are the conversations, right I had my agent on the

573
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Speaker 9: phone call with me of just answering these questions or

574
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Speaker 9: asking these questions that we needed answers to, especially at

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Speaker 9: this level. And one of those things was that got

576
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Speaker 9: brought up was the pitch design bullpens, which is basically

577
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Speaker 9: you're throwing a bullpen on the game mound, hitters are swinging.

578
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Speaker 9: You got all the electronics that you need as far

579
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Speaker 9: as track man data all that.

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Speaker 3: That was a.

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Speaker 9: Conversation that I would love to bring up to you

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Speaker 9: in a little bit. But to answer your question, uh,

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Speaker 9: you know, Rob calls the pictures from the dugout and uh,

584
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Speaker 9: I tell him he gets to play MLB the show

585
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Speaker 9: every day, you know, the live the live version.

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Speaker 6: There's one him. What's that It ain't a video game

587
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Speaker 6: that it go. It doesn't go where you want it.

588
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Speaker 9: And it's it's not his runs, it's mine, you know,

589
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Speaker 9: That's what I tell uh. But he gets to play

590
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 9: THEMLB the Show every day. Make it fun.

591
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Speaker 3: Right.

592
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Speaker 9: But on a serious note, we do have the ability

593
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Speaker 9: to shake off. My last outing I shook off on

594
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Speaker 9: a three to two is to get to the pitch

595
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Speaker 9: that I wanted we execute it got to swing a miss.

596
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Speaker 9: But for me personally, right, there's there's a lot of

597
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Speaker 9: stuff that I've taken in the last couple of years

598
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Speaker 9: out to the mountain, whether it's good or bad, and

599
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Speaker 9: my head does never. You know, when you're on that

600
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Speaker 9: island alone, man, you can work on the mental toughness,

601
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Speaker 9: all the you know, your breath work, all the things.

602
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 9: When you're on that island alone, man, you blackout.

603
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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 9: And sometimes we overthink, we overprocess things, we forget, you know,

605
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Speaker 9: runners on second and third two outs. We forget the

606
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Speaker 9: situation because the game speeds up. If if rob calling

607
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Speaker 9: pictures from the dugout on looking at the cheat sheet

608
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Speaker 9: that they have, trusting his eyes, trusting our catchers, trust

609
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Speaker 9: you know, just the games in front of him. And

610
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Speaker 9: if that takes a little bit of stress off my

611
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Speaker 9: shoulders and I can just execute whatever's been called, I

612
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Speaker 9: think we're going to be in a really good spot,

613
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Speaker 9: becaus just not shake the catcher call every bit, you know,

614
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Speaker 9: you look at or the or the pitching coach to

615
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Speaker 9: the coach and the dugout now right, I mean, Mark Burley, Criselle,

616
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Speaker 9: don't shake. They don't have to think then, And I

617
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Speaker 9: think for me, you know, we do our homework during

618
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Speaker 9: the week. You at the end of the day, you're

619
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Speaker 9: trying to compete with whoever's in the box. But sometimes

620
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Speaker 9: we catch ourselves giving them too much credit and then

621
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Speaker 9: you're not really competing. You already lost that battle. Right

622
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Speaker 9: So at the end of the day, if I hear fastball,

623
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Speaker 9: if I hear a change of if I hear curveball,

624
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Speaker 9: sweep or slider, whatever, Okay, it's like, okay, let me

625
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Speaker 9: execute right here. I know who's on base. I know

626
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Speaker 9: the situation, I know who I'm facing, I know what

627
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Speaker 9: count it is. I'm able to slow it down because

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Speaker 9: I've already that that that's already handled for me from

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Speaker 9: the dugout. And then the second thing, and this is

630
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Speaker 9: this is talking for me, not talking for the team.

631
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 9: You know, everybody has their own mixture reviews on it,

632
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 9: but the pitches on bullpens man are gonna It's gonna

633
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 9: change my career. It's going to change my season this year.

634
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 9: I know that's a bold statement because we haven't even

635
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 9: started the season yet, but I truly am excited to

636
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 9: see what that can do for me as an individual,

637
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 9: because sometimes four or five days in between starts is

638
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 9: too much time. You know, you come off a bad outing.

639
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 9: What do we want to do. We want to get

640
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 9: back out there, right we come off of good outing.

641
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 9: We want to we want to keep those tools sharpened.

642
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 9: And that's exactly what that is for. You get to

643
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 9: sharpen your tools, you get to compete against your teammates,

644
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 9: you get live reads, you get live feedback. The only

645
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:46,919
Speaker 9: con that I have with that is you have to

646
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 9: manage the volume. At the end of the day, I

647
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 9: got to be ready to pitch day five or day six,

648
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 9: because that that truly doesn't that doesn't go in the

649
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 9: back of a baseball card. You know that day five

650
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 9: or day six, whenever Skip gives me the ball said,

651
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,400
Speaker 9: it's your day, that's what matters. So if I can

652
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 9: manage the volume all season, that right there is going

653
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 9: to be able to sharpen my tools. I'm able to

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Speaker 9: get those live reads, live feedback, reading swings, and being

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Speaker 9: able to work those stressful situations that happen in game

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Speaker 9: to strike execution, runners on base get out of it.

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Speaker 9: You know whatever that looks like, right me and Rob

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Speaker 9: Colin pitches, Hey man, we're not on the same page.

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Speaker 9: Let's use that to work on some things. And I

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Speaker 9: think it's a full circle opportunity for me as an individual.

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Speaker 9: Like I said, I know, different starters, different bullpen guys

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Speaker 9: have their own reviews on it, but I truly am

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Speaker 9: excited to take that into the twenty twenty sixth season.

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Speaker 3: Well we look forward to it, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris, great stuff man, always great to catch up

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Speaker 2: with your good.

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Speaker 7: Luck this season.

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Speaker 2: We'll catch at some point during this season. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 2: A j that's what you did buying the plate right

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Speaker 2: just all right here. It comes exactly where I want. Chris,

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Speaker 2: good stuff, man, really appreciate it. We'll talk to you

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Speaker 2: during the season, okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks you guys for having me. I appreciate

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Speaker 4: Fe