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Speaker 1: Everybody.

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Speaker 2: Hello, welcome to another episode of Monster Territory, brought to

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Speaker 2: you by the Foul Territory Network. We have a very

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Speaker 2: special guest. We have Hunter Dobbin's Red Sox prospect.

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Speaker 3: Hunter.

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Speaker 2: How you doing, my friend?

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Speaker 1: Hello, doing pretty good? Happy to be on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for coming on, man, really appreciate it. I

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Speaker 2: mean I got to ask this right off the bag.

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Speaker 2: Did you get in that bat here today? What do

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Speaker 2: they got like twenty five hits or something like that

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Speaker 2: going on today? Eighteen runs or whatever it is you

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Speaker 2: catching that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they put on a show.

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Speaker 3: I think when a few of us headed inside, we

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Speaker 3: had already had like four home runs, and I think

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Speaker 3: we're up like twelve to one or somebody the twelve

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Speaker 3: to two man. But yeah, the offense is having a

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Speaker 3: field day. It reminds me, I know, it's just spring training.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting any moreselves, but it brings me back to

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Speaker 3: two thousand and three when the Red Sox put up

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Speaker 3: like twenty five runs on the Marlins. It's always the

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Speaker 3: Marlins that get the drubbin of all those runs. But yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: springs training. We're off to a pretty fun start this year.

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Speaker 3: It seems like there's just good vibes going on in

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Speaker 3: camp right now. You know, what would you say to that?

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Speaker 3: You know, how are the vibes feeling on your end?

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Speaker 1: They're great.

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Speaker 3: I mean the the guys like Crochet, Vieler, Gildo, all

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Speaker 3: the way down to you know, guys who were in

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Speaker 3: their first camp like me, We've all mixed really well.

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Speaker 3: We're all having a really good time learning from each other.

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Speaker 3: Definitely tell like the end season, the team feel or

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Speaker 3: the team bond is going to be really strong, and

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Speaker 3: I think that's gonna carry it all the way from

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Speaker 3: Boston down to the guys in Worcester. Like, we're gonna

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Speaker 3: be pretty much one big, close group, which should make

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Speaker 3: for a fun year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of that's the sense that I'm getting.

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Speaker 2: You know. You know, all the media they love to

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Speaker 2: talk about like, oh who's playing, where the position battles

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Speaker 2: and whatnot. But I don't know, man, the sense that

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Speaker 2: I'm getting it's just a good group of guys that

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Speaker 2: want to go out there, work hard and win. That's

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Speaker 2: really the sense that I'm getting. But you know, with

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Speaker 2: you personally, I just want to kind of start things off,

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Speaker 2: go back, you know a few years Texas Tech. You

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Speaker 2: know you're pitching great over there. You know, ended up

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Speaker 2: getting Tommy John unfortunately. But you know, how have the

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Speaker 2: last few years been for you? You know, looking back

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Speaker 2: on that injury, that surgery, how are you feeling you

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Speaker 2: know today? You know, how has everything been going over

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Speaker 2: the last few years.

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Speaker 1: With you feeling well?

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Speaker 3: I mean, like you said, I had TJ right for

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Speaker 3: I was drafted twenty one. I think when I was drafted,

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Speaker 3: I was like four to five months into my rehab. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: the Red Sox medical staff is top notch. Man's the

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Speaker 3: best of the best, so we got to rehab with them,

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Speaker 3: get bigger, stronger, mature a little bit. Went to Salem

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Speaker 3: more of those more of a test run. I don't

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Speaker 3: really feel like I pitched there competed. It was more

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Speaker 3: of a you know what, it's healthy, it's holding together,

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Speaker 3: let's roll in next year. Twenty three handful of starts

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Speaker 1: Had a really solid year.

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Speaker 3: Felt like I was starting to be kind of form

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Speaker 3: into myself. It was one of those that's still I

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Speaker 3: was learning how to handle a long professional season. I

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Speaker 3: feel like last year was really the first year where

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Speaker 3: I just kind.

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Speaker 1: Of dove full end.

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Speaker 3: I'm competing, I'm strong, I'm healthy, I know who I am.

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Speaker 3: Was blessed with a really strong, healthy year, put up

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Speaker 3: some good numbers.

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Speaker 1: And this year, you know, rolling.

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Speaker 3: Into it, we've we've tweaked a couple of things. The

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Speaker 3: last year. Those pitches have taken a massive step forward.

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Speaker 3: Uh this spring training throwing harder, gotten bigger, and uh

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Speaker 3: looking forward to seeing what the season brings.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: And last year, you know, you added some pitches in there,

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Speaker 3: So have the sweeper, No, which is my big obviously

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Speaker 3: That is becoming big with pitch for me. I also

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Speaker 3: And then fastball. Last outing average was like ninety seven.

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Speaker 3: from me this year, just kind of working on Landt.

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Speaker 2: I love all these these new names that I've been

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Speaker 2: watching baseball now for as long as I can remember.

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Speaker 2: You know, you got you got the sweeper, now, you

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Speaker 2: got the splinker. Now it's like, what's what's gonna be

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Speaker 2: But I wanted to ask, you know, what was the

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Speaker 2: the thought process with that? Was that something that you

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Speaker 2: wanted to do? Was that something the Red Sox approached

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Speaker 2: you with or was that like a collaborative kind of a.

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Speaker 1: Thought it was I think I initiated it.

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Speaker 3: The splinker story is actually kind of funny because I

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Speaker 3: I say, hey, I'm gonna throw sinkers today.

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Speaker 1: And I threw one and it was absolutely terrible.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be a weapon. Let's go with it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, was that something over the off season like you

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Speaker 3: Say, so, it's a pretty natural pitch actually, like one,

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Speaker 3: And so it's been more of just finding my main point,

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Speaker 3: I mean this offseason was spent a lot on that.

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Speaker 1: And the my harder slider.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's definitely something that you started to

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Speaker 2: I've only given up two home runs this year, more

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Speaker 3: If you start focusing on something like that, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: naturally end up giving up more. My whole pitching philosophy is,

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Speaker 3: I know, I'm never gonna be the big strikeout guy.

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Speaker 1: It's like Croche, Dat's a big strikeout guy.

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Speaker 3: That guy gets more whiffs than somebody or anybody I've

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Speaker 3: trying to I'm not trying to miss bats. I'm trying

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Speaker 3: i might not have the most strikeouts, but I'm still

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Speaker 2: No I was I was just gonna add there. You know,

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Speaker 2: just the art of pitching. You know, yes, stuff velo,

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Speaker 2: that's a big thing. But would you say pitchers are

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Speaker 1: I'd say so.

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Speaker 3: is how can I end this at bat? And three

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Speaker 2: Yeah, one, But especially like you know, over the last

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Speaker 2: when it comes to you know, elbow problems, Tommy John's

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Speaker 3: Michaels is obviously, I mean the big one being Boston

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Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, man, I mean you look great last year.

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Speaker 1: That would be kind of cool. Yeah. I love that.

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Speaker 1: I think we're in a great spot to win for

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Speaker 3: Uh you know, all the way going back to Heim

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Speaker 1: I think we got a lot of young guys.

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Speaker 3: I think we're gonna be We're gonna win this year,

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Speaker 1: And I have no uh down in my mind.

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Speaker 3: That Brussel will keep it going and we're gonna the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you man. You know, I've been

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Speaker 2: You can see there's a bit of a shift going

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Speaker 2: It's it's always it's always a pleasure anytime I could

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Speaker 2: the spring, and have yourself.

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Speaker 1: A good season, all right. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you, man. I'll talk to you later.