WEBVTT - Brandon Woodruff’s EPIC comeback 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.880 I don't know if this is it here or not, 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.360 but like I know, I needed to throw again for 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:05.280 sure in this uniform. 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.080 So that was a big driver. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:14.080 There. 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:18.599 He is Brandon Woodrif Big Woo from the Milwaukee Brewers, 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:21.319 back on FT and really most importantly, back on a 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.440 big league mounds, big Wu. Awesome to see you, man, 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.400 Congratulations on making it back in great first start. How 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:28.400 you doing man, it's been a. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.560 Minute, Man's I'm doing good. 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:37.560 I've blown off Cratzy quite a few times. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.520 Not intentionally, but just yeah, I was laying low. Man. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.520 You've tried to have me on there in the past, 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.800 just like come back on the show, and I'm just like, 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:46.879 I really just don't want to, just want to lay 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:47.720 low for a little bit. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.680 But you know what, I'm back man. Good to see you, Big. 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.080 I would never have texted you broken to come on 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.800 the show. I would never have been like, big Woo, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.920 your shoulder is not working, come on the show. I 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.840 would never never, once or seven times texted you that. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:10.160 But right, right, that's funny. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.520 Hey, the show's made moves since we last talked to Man, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:14.960 it's it's. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.240 You got now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.360 You've upgradd a little bit since we last were making 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.320 a little dough a little few more fans. So so 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.240 since we last had John tell me how life has 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.120 been up to this point and and how you're feeling, Like, 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.560 do you feel like a different person once you've actually 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.840 gotten through the rehab process and now you're like a 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:36.600 normal big leigure again on a mound? 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:37.800 You know. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.679 Well, I've got our son just had his first birthday yesterday, 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:48.920 So that's that's new, and that's been fun. And yeah, 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.600 just just rehab. Man, it's been it's been a long journey. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.960 It's it's it's weirdly been a long journey, but it's 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:59.280 been a strangely kind of quick. Once you get caught 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.000 up in this, just like a season, it's like you 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.400 look up and it's like, man, six months is going by, 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.680 you know, years going by, just like that. But I 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.720 mean it's been, uh, it's we can we can get 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.840 into a lot here, but it's it's been a long journey. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.720 It's been. Uh, it's definitely had its ups and downs. 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.520 But I've definitely got a lot of a lot of 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.120 family time, which which you don't get during the season. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.919 Yeah, and that's probably the best part. Now I want 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.240 to go through a little bit of the down as 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.880 you were rehabbing you had an ankle injury and you 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:33.000 got hit with a comeback or like, yeah, tell me 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.840 about your mind, like your process, like what goes through 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.359 your mind. You're rehabbing, You're almost there, and then boom, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.160 these two things happened and you're like, dude, what is 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:42.920 going on? I got to start all over again, a 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.920 different injury. It must have really, it must have hurt. 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:47.880 Honestly at the end of the day, you know, physically 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.960 and mentally, Yeah, no doubt. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.960 I mean the ankle thing honestly came out of nowhere. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.520 I was getting ready for my last start, and you 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.800 know what, I progressed. 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:00.240 Very well. 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.239 I mean up and up until that point, I'd progressed 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:07.840 very well. And yeah, it came out of nowhere. Couldn't 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.800 walk for two days basically, and then but I mean 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.560 it was it was a very minor thing. You just 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:17.200 had to get through the first week of getting inflammation 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.120 calm down in the ankle. And once I did that, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.200 it was I mean I kept throwing. I just wasn't 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.040 able to push off and uh so that was that 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.480 was that was good. And then you know that that 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.880 ankle thing probably bled a little bit into Once I 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.960 got back going, the velocity had kind of gone back down, 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.200 and it's like, you know, I'm trying everything I can 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.000 to to to. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:39.720 See some VLO. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.560 You know, not not only personally, but because I was 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.680 in a great spot before the ankle thing happened, and 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.440 you know, I'm sure the team was wanting to see 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.040 a little bit more out of me. And you know, 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.800 I get to the end of the the ankle rehab 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.160 and I mean, twelve pitches in I get smoked with 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.000 I think it was one of eight off the elbow, 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.680 and that was one of those moments where you know, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.320 the initial shock of getting hit, I mean it it's 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:11.200 stung pretty good. But then walking back to the dugout, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.960 it was like, uh, the thought of if there's something 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.000 broken here, like you know, I'm potentially done for the season. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.600 So I had that running through my mind going up 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.480 to before I got got it checked out, and thankfully 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:24.360 everything checked out. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:24.719 Okay. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.880 Then it was just getting swelling out and trying to 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.120 you know, just proceed again. But I mean it was 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:33.920 it was you get to the finish line twice and 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.919 then some unforeseen stuff kind of pops up. But you 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.520 know what, that's that's live man. That's uh, and that's 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.040 that's kind of it's kind of the the rehab process 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.760 and blessing in the skies. Honestly, just give gave me 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.359 a little bit more time to work on my body, 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.440 work on my delivery a little bit and just try 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.440 to get everything as in sync as I could. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.400 And you know, hey, I was able to do that 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:57.920 for for at least one start here. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.560 Yeah, I love that you said it was it was 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.880 a blessing in disguise, like it was something that like 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.840 I think sometimes guys come back too early from injuries. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.120 But I want you to comment on that a little bit. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.560 But I also wanted to, like, come on a line, 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.960 drive back at you. The Paul's got a rubber center, 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.000 big will Like it's like it's leather string and a 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.240 rubber center. Like one time, one time, feel the ball, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:21.200 they give you a glove. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:27.360 You talk about hey, like that was just reacting pure reaction. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:28.120 I tried to catch it. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:29.920 I should have kept spinning and I would have took 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.120 it right off the butt and I would have been 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.560 good to go. But man, there was there was no 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.640 getting out of way of that dude, it was. It 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.560 was smoked. And then I get back to Milwaukee and 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.080 I'm seeing, you know, I think we're playing the Padres 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.200 and I think Manny Machado and you know, Fernando and 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.920 these guys were hitting balls like one o six, one eight, 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:51.640 one oh nine, and I'm looking at them come off 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.240 the bat and I'm like, good lord. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:54.640 Man like that. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.160 You don't realize how hard that ball is hit until 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.000 you sit on the side and see it come off 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.679 the bat like that. But yeah, there was no escape 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:03.599 in that one for sure. 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.839 Okay, So talk about the blessing in disguise. I talk 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.000 about I talk about all the time. People are like, well, 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.640 four weeks, he's going to be back in four weeks. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.760 How much do you think, because now you've thrown one 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.000 game in the big leagues, how much do you think 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.680 if you can go back to ray before your ankle 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.160 was hurt, you could have done the same thing at 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.839 that moment that you did. Now I think it was 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.280 it a month and a half later. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:35.200 Yeah, it's it's crazy. Now I know exactly what you're saying. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.360 And I think the tough thing for me this year 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.400 was going to be how am I going to manage 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.400 innings to a certain extent, you know what I mean. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.960 Like if I'm feeling good, that that's great. But anytime 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:51.520 you have a shoulder injury, any injury, elbow, whatever it 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.960 is for a picture, the reality is, man, you've got 0:06:56.000 --> 0:07:02.200 to You've got to somehow manage a little bit. And 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.640 heck I was, I was on the way back in 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:11.400 middle of May, and you know, I don't know how 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.400 I would have been at this point or what would 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.720 have happened. And you know, I think back to, you know, 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.560 before my debut in seventeen, or you know, I was 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.360 in Saint Louis and I pulled my hamstring before I 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.400 even picked up a baseball, And I looked. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:31.440 Back on that moment, and I honestly believe, like leading. 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.440 Up to the official debut in Tampa, like I knew 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.440 what it felt like all the way up until I 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.360 threw a pitch, you know what I mean. So I 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.000 slept a little bit better. I was able to prepare 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:47.040 for it a little bit better. And sometimes as a competitor, 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.400 you get caught up in the moment and you just 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.920 can't see ahead, you know what I mean, Like you're 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.440 just you're caught up in that, But honestly, you know, 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.520 who knows. I really don't have an answer for you. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:07:59.040 How would have win? 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.560 How would have felt? All I know is everything let 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:09.280 up until last Sunday, And you know, I've I've tried 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.240 to put myself in the best position and put my 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.520 body in the best position, and and no doubt, like 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.200 having that extra time allows you to just keep working 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.840 on things. And you know the biggest thing I've learned 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.560 with this injury is time is your best friend. And 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.160 you know, I'm not obviously not getting any younger, but 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.400 my body feels great, and. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.640 It just takes time. And there's no other way to 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:33.920 put it. It just takes time. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.520 And there's no magical day where it's like ahh, like 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:38.600 I feel great. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.000 You know, like you have to work. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.360 On your body every day, and as you know, as 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.760 you get older, it just takes a little bit more 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.679 time getting ready. And that's okay, and that's kind of 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.439 where I'm at. But I think everything kind of led 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.439 up to that day to put me in a good 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.080 position to be able to perform. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.000 Hey, let's do a little player spotlight thanks to Arena 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.680 club A. Jake, give me a player season that you 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.719 think is underrated and you might want to try and 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:03.400 grab his card. 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:04.280 James would. 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.760 I don't know that he's underrated, but Washington National's superstar 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.559 in the making, and the first slab pack I ever 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.360 opened had him innut his rookie card, and the value. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:13.480 Is only going to go up and up and up. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.319 And I'm not gonna sell it Kwi yet, Scott. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.880 I'm gonna hold on to it because after he continues 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.160 to hit big homers and put up the stats make 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.760 All Star teams, it's going to get more expensive for 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:23.480 someone to buy. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:23.720 For me. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.680 This is his first full season in the majors. Keep 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.559 that in mind. I think he's underrated. He's on a 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.640 Nationals team that's may adding enough attention. 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.120 He might underrated. When he makes the All Star team 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.040 this year, They're not going to be underrated. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:36.560 That helps. 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.120 He's been intentionally walked four times in a game. Anyway, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.440 If you want to try and find a Wood rookie card, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.200 go check out slab packs on Arena Club and right 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.319 now you can get twenty percent off your first lab pack, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.079 Or if you just want to go with a card purchase, 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.160 go to Arena club dot com slash f oul use 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:51.880 code foul. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.439 If you I sell, trade collect, go for it all right. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.440 One comment, two questions. First of all, that body is 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.480 not it is not okay, It's just as nasty. Nobody 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.440 needs to see it. One thing that I want to 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.960 know is how have you recovered? How have you recovered? 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.640 But also how good is your stuff? 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:12.320 Because I heard you. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.040 Talking about your change up. You're like, man, it's been 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.079 like a year and a half of my change up 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.280 has been I know what you wanted to say, but 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:20.920 you said, dug crap. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.920 Yeah, change up has been terrible. How is your stuff? 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:25.080 Like? 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:29.880 Do you stand over the rubber and go, I got this? 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.079 Like, let me tell you. I'll let you in on it. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.520 Like I've been recovering great. The shoulder has been consistently 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:42.280 recovering good now for I mean pretty much the whole year. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.439 Each each step I would take, you know, the first 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.200 outing in Nashville, I was a little beat up after 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.360 that one, which to be expected. And then it's just 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:56.040 continue to make adjustments with recovery in between. And the 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.120 more the more you do this and let your body 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.160 know that this is what it's supposed to do, that's 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.280 what it's used to doing. He kind of just fall 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:08.480 into a better groove with recovery. So, uh, that's that's 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.640 been pretty stable. And you know, I know what to 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.719 kind of make adjustments on. If I'm feeling something here, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.880 feeling something there, I can able, you know, to attack 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.520 it a little bit better. And so that's been great. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.440 And I'll tell you what. I walked into the meeting 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:28.360 in Miami, and you know, we I talked to Hassi 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.000 a little bit the day before on the bench and 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.880 and I was like, look, man, I don't know. I 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.240 was like, I honestly, I don't know what I've got 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.520 for you tomorrow. Like, you know, I got too fastballs 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.439 to change up, curveball and uh and uh and a slider. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.760 I was like, the change ups working, we'll throw it 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.000 if the If the slider's working, we'll throw it. I said, 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.800 but we're gonna have to identify that in the bullpen 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.280 pretty early. And then once we get into the game. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.040 And then I get into the you know, picture catcher 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:01.480 meeting with Hooky and the coaches, and I'm like, all right, 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.800 I said, you know, we'll just figure it out once 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.679 we get out there. And uh, you know, it's kind 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.560 of lined up exactly how the whole rehab is going. 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:12.720 I pop in for a rehab for a day. I 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.960 don't know a soul in the lineup. I show up 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.800 and I try to pitch. And you know, that's what 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.040 I've always prided myself on. You know, I've had the stuff, 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.360 but I always wanted to be a pitcher. And because 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.400 as as you get later in this game, that's that's 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.440 one day it's going to help you out. So I 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.439 have no doubt that approaching it that way, and rehab 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.800 helped me the other day. And uh, and I mean 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.760 I did video work, I did all the stuff. But 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.600 I mean, you know, once you get to the big leagues, 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.480 stuff ticks up a little bit. And then I get 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.600 I start warming up, start getting in the pen and 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.280 pre game and the body's moving a little bit different. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.880 But yeah, I mean as far as metrically and stuff like, 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.720 I pay attention a little bit to that stuff, and uh, 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.640 you know, slight differences, nothing crazy. But I did not 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.520 have a change up pretty much the whole rehab process. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.160 It was very, very, very hit or miss. And but 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.880 once I got out there, man on that mound and 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.040 and it's kind of like a weird place. It's I'm 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.480 very comfortable out on that mound, and the body starts 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.120 moving a little bit different. You get a big league 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:23.360 hitters in the box and things change. So I had 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:27.160 no expectations, none, And I said that, look, I've got 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.800 no expectations, you know. Quite frankly, I didn't care if 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.319 I gave up six seven runs whatever. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:32.840 It was. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.360 Just going through what you go through for almost two 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.560 years just to get back on a big league mound 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.439 is is pretty cool in itself. So yeah, I really 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.520 didn't care how it went. But you know, it's just 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.400 icing on the cake of kind of how it did go. 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.520 So I definitely enjoyed that day and the day after, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.560 and you know, but it's back to work. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.360 You got to get ready for a note ball club, 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:00.520 all right. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.720 Well it's not all about you. How did Jonie handle this? 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:04.360 Your wife? 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:05.400 Right? 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:09.000 How did she handle this? Because I'd be remiss to 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:13.600 not ask how he she handled all this? Because I 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.480 saw when you guys were dating, Now you're married, you've gone, 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.040 She's gone through your entire process, going through rehab. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:22.560 We suck like we suck. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.800 As players human beings when things aren't going well. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:27.320 How did she handle it? 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:28.320 Oh? Man? 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.320 Uh, I gave a lot of folks, some some gray 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:39.800 hairs in this process. And honestly, it's tough being you know, 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.240 just being at home and seeing when the team's on 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.000 the road and you're rehabbing at home, and you see 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.200 what those families go through and those wives go through 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.200 with those kids when when you're not around, and then 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.800 when you're there full time, you know, sometimes it wears 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.680 on you more more than it does at the field, 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.960 you know what i mean, just being around the field. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.120 Then she's had to listen to all my crap, you 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.760 know what i mean, coming to the house thinking my 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.120 shoulder was done, thinking, you know, having the bad days 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.520 and uh and just sitting there listening and then some 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.800 days just telling me to shut up and suck. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:16.520 It up, you know what I mean. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:21.560 And and that's real too, Like it's it's it's not 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.560 easy on on your significant others for sure. And and 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.120 then honestly, you get to that point and like the 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.680 day before Miami, like it was it was one of 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.520 those you know, you have those thoughts like I don't 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:32.440 know what it's going to be, Like. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:35.720 I know, I know when I'm. 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.200 Right and I'm and I'm good, like I'm I'm good 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.120 but it's like it's been almost two years, man, I 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:42.920 you know, and then you that stuff sets in and 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.800 it's like, look enjoy the moment. And she gave me 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.880 the best advice. Uh, we were sitting at dinner the 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.480 night before. Just just go enjoy it, have fun. You've worked, 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.480 you know, too hard to be so hard on yourself, 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.400 and you know, sometimes you need to sit back and 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.560 you need that and sometimes you need that tough love. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.280 And she was able to provide that for me. And 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:04.440 you know, it was funny. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.560 I could hear I didn't know exactly where she was sitting, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.760 and you know, her and my daughter Kyler, she hadn't 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.960 seen me throwing, you know, two years, so she barely 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.600 even remembers it. Last time that I threw in twenty 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.840 three and of course our son bo who just turned one. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.600 But I could hear her screaming, you know, over the 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.640 dugout after that first strikeout, and so I mean there 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.040 was a lot of emotion for her and just to 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.480 kind of see I mean, she's she's seen everything behind 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.560 the scenes, she's seen the worst of the worst, she's 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.480 seen the good day, she's seen everything. So it was 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.240 it was a big day for her and my family 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.160 as well. So it was, yeah, pretty cool. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.640 All I'm looking I asked you, I got to ask 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.840 you about the contract that you signed with the Brewers. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.520 You got hurt. One other teams were one of our 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:54.960 teams were. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.880 In the mix, and what is that like, it's kind 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.320 of a unique mutual option two that's coming up, and 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:02.040 I get it. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.480 All that stuff's for later. It's the end of the season. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:05.520 You got to keep going. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.040 But one of their teams were in the mix to 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.679 sign you to basically they had to sign you to 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.160 rehab you and hope you made it back for where 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:15.960 you're at right now. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:22.200 Yeah, as soon as I was non tendered, I probably 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:26.600 over half the league reached out to my agent, you know, 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.520 and it was it kind of happened like all real fast, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.440 and a lot of teams were hot on me from 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:37.520 the beginning, and then kind of free agency, you kind 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.000 of hear this and then then it kind of slowed down. Uh, 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.320 didn't hear much. But I knew from the beginning. After 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.240 after I was non tendered, I wasn't gonna sign until February. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:49.479 I knew that, you know, from the beginning, So I 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:54.280 was very patient with with everything and you know, I 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.280 don't want to get in too much of the specifics 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.879 with with certain teams and stuff, but I mean there 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.440 was definitely a few teams there at the end, and 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.439 obviously the Brewers and you know, and it and it 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.120 happened pretty quick with the Brewers there at the end. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:14.880 But you know, some teams approached it in a different way. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.520 You know, they didn't want to sign me for two 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.600 years and then essentially rehab me and if you know, 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.399 things go well and then and then lose me. So 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.480 there was different teams approached it different ways with the 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.679 with the rehab. But as far as with Milwaukee, like 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:33.840 I knew for me, I knew I needed to throw 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.639 again in this uniform, and I knew that that was 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.760 important to me, and and and a big driver for 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.640 me in that whole process was I gotta balance. One, 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.280 you got to balance the money and one you gotta 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.720 balance putting yourself in the best position, uh medical wise, 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.000 to be able to continue to continue my career, uh 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:58.800 later down the road. So our pt here, Brent Hester 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.080 has had three of these injuries that I've had, So 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:06.600 that was a big factor for me. He understood, you know, 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.400 kind of what that took to rehab this and you know, honestly, 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.840 a lot of the teams great medical staffs, like you know, 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.520 it's it's It was good to see the other side 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:20.520 of it, you know, I know it was non tendered 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.800