WEBVTT - Mark Trumbo, the 2016 MLB homer leader, joins the show 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:11.360 Aos fans welcome in another edition of Birdland Territory with Steve, Brad, 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:15.880 Tim and a special guest today, former Oriole, Mark Trumbo. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:18.319 And you know, I don't like saying former Oriole. I 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.959 think when you have guys like Brad Brock and Mark around, 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.640 they're Orioles. If they played here, they're always Orioles. That's 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.840 the way we feel about these guys in Baltimore. They 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.960 don't have to be on the current team. So we 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.000 got Orioles with us today, Brad and Mark and Marcus 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.919 with one of the shows in our family of networks, 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.560 if you will. Of course, Stout Territory is the national show, 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.120 Birdland Territory is the Oriel Show, and Halo Territory covers 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.519 the Angels and Mark's been doing that. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:48.360 So Mark, how you enjoying media life. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.159 It's been a lot of fun, a lot of learning involved, 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:56.560 made some mistakes as you would expect, but tried not 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.880 to make them twice and it's a whole different world, 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.520 a lot more respect for this side of things. Trying 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:08.880 to cover stories accurately. Sometimes they're not the most pleasant stories. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.319 Following the action. I mean, you have to pivot quite 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:18.840 quickly at times. It could, at least for us planning episodes, 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.119 and you know, we kind of have this and then 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.200 the team comes back out of nowhere and you know, 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.560 recovers from a seven run deficit and you have to 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.959 go to a different storyline. So a lot more appreciation 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.800 for how hard some of this stuff is. But we 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.640 just try and cover things as we see it. Don't 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.760 pull on any punches, but you know, not unfair either, 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:41.400 and it's been fun so far. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:43.160 Yeah, we're thrilled to have you. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.240 I want these other guys that jump in with questions 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.240 from Mark Trumbo of course, was traded to the Orioles 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:49.960 December of twenty fifteen. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:52.520 And what a first year you had. Mark. 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.560 Not only did you leave the Oriols in homers, you 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.080 led major League Baseball in homers with forty seven if 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.360 I remember correctly. I remember interviewing you early in the 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.320 year and you gave me some great insights on your 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.160 winter work. And you were telling me at that time, 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.000 remember we're going back ten years about things like launch 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.160 angle and exit velocity and things you were seeking which 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.920 were new to me. Maybe not the baseball players then 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.160 now they're really obviously everybody hears it all. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:19.080 The time in baseball. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.200 But do I remember that correctly that you had kind 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.840 of worked on some things that winter, and then man, 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:26.440 when the season started. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.080 They worked. You are correct. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:33.000 I don't know how much I expanded upon them, but 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.920 there were some goals in mind. I knew that this 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.760 is I mean, it was a primitive time as far 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.080 as the stuff goes. So I think over that winner. 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.280 I come off a season, an interesting season. I had 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.519 got traded from the Diamondbacks to the Mariners. I got 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.440 some really good advice from Edgar Martinez in Seattle, and 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.959 it helped me become a better hitter, at least on 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.200 pitches on the inside part of the plate, which had 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:03.600 always been fairly big weakness of mine. But I knew 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.840 I didn't hit the ball in the air quite enough. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:11.200 I cringe now because long angle, exit velocity, they're just everywhere. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.600 I think most at least me in particular a little 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.959 bit fatigue hearing them. But at that time I kind 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.040 of thought that that was something I could improve upon. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:26.840 Fortunately it did work out in twenty sixteen, especially to 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.359 my advantage, to the Oriels advantage as well. So that 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.080 was a great memory and it gave me a background 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.360 piece here so my loan, well, I guess I got 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.760 two ones off camera, but yeah, it was my best 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.840 season statistically and a great experience. 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.000 Hey, Mark, just kind of going on twenty sixteen. I know, 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.480 for me, one of my favorite memories was getting to 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.080 go to San Diego with you, Zach wieders Man. He 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.520 just got to have that All Star experience with guys 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.160 on our team. But most particular was the home run derby. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.480 If just any memories you have from and that, to me, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.920 that was one of my favorite memories of the whole experience, 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:04.440 was getting to watch you go out there. It's just 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.520 I mean, it's a action packed a couple of minutes. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.640 I'm sure you were tired as you're going through that. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.640 It's a very unusual type thing. But just any experience 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.000 you have from the home Run Derby, in particular during 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.919 that All Star experience, So. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.719 I think I'm still tired from it, to be honest 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:25.240 with you. That was the time format I had done 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.799 the other one as well, the previous one with the outs. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.640 I much preferred that the time one was grueling, and 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.400 towards the end of it, I felt like something was 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.320 going to blow a bleak or otherwise. I mean, it's 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.159 just a lot of swings, a lot of maps, efforts swings, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.240 so it's not really something. I mean, you can try 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.840 and prepare a little bit, but you can't nail it 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.480 and if you do well in it, and you I 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.800 think I had to work quite hard in the first 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.880 round to take Corey Seeger out and that was a 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.400 lot more work than I want to do. Some guys 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.040 are able to breeze through, and then Stanton I I 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:05.240 think sent me packing and maybe soon after. So I 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.880 think it was a fun experience. It was something. It's 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.560 way more for the fans. There is some prize money 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:12.680 and stuff on the line. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:12.840 Now, but. 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:16.320 It is nerve wracking too. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:17.279 I think. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.520 You kind of do realize once you're up there and 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.040 there's no turtle. I think that's the weirdest thing. As 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:24.960 you're hitting out in practice in the game, you know 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.400 you're used to it, but in that situation and it 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.159 kind of dawns on you how many people might be 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.880 watching at home, and you just you try and I mean, 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.280 you don't want to be embarrassed at the end of 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:35.600 the day, so you just try and put on a 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.560 good show. And that one I think I did do 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.560 that didn't win it, but especially down in San Diego too, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.000 that was a rock and environment. I think you'd agree, Brad, 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.320 really fun place to host something like that. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:52.280 Mark. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.080 It's always a topic of conversation every single year following 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:57.560 the home run derby, like, oh. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:58.880 My gosh, don't do it. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.960 It's gonna mess up your swinging the lasting effects from it. 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.440 Is that overblown to you, Mark? Or is there maybe 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:05.200 something to that. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.000 As far as guys changing their swings or affecting them 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:15.320 as they move forward. Yeah, yeah, there's probably evidence on 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.840 both sides of it. I think some guys do it, 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.960 and you know, we're having great seasons and continue to 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.480 have great seasons. I think sometimes things do go the 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:30.320 other way. The advice I would give is my Drought, 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.680 for example, has expressed a little bit of open willingness 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:38.839 at least to do it this year in Philadelphia. He 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.720 has never done it before. I think he probably wants 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.320 to possibly explore doing it once in his career. He's 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.479 from that area. This would make a lot of sense. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.440 He is also injured right now, so that's something to 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.440 look at. I think that, like Pete Alonzo, I mean, 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.000 it just doesn't that's him all day long. I've never 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.960 seen anyone better at it than him, and it doesn't 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.359 seem to affect his in game. But if and it 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.479 does affect it, it it's in a positive way. I think 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.520 that if there's anyone that could probably give advice on 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.120 the subject, it's Pete A. Lonzo. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.920 Mark Trumbo's with us, Mark and Brad Orioles as I 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:22.440 called him, not former Orioles. And of course we were 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.640 talking about that twenty sixteen All Star Game, and Mark 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.600 has been an All Star twice, twenty twelve and twenty sixteen. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:30.680 Twenty sixteen. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.520 Mark and Brad two of the Orioles five All Star 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:38.120 reps that year. Silver Slugger winner in twenty sixteen. And 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.520 so Mark, let's talk about Taylor Ward, a little bit 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.480 guy you've seen play a lot for the Angels the 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.560 last few years, had that incredible season last year, comes 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.840 to Baltimore. I think the media would say, Man, we 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:51.880 love this guy. He's been great to deal with. I 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.480 think he won the good Guy Award from the Angels media. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.840 I can see why. And so the power has been 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.920 slow to come. There might be some reasons for that. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.480 At what kind of player was he with the Angels? 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:11.400 The last few years, Taylor was very consistent. Numbers were, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.280 at least on the power side, always very impressive. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:21.400 The batting average was respectable in today's really actually maybe 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.400 a little above average, depending on how the game keeps trending. 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.480 But but really he was counted on to hit, clean up, 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.800 provide some protection, drove in a ton of runs. But 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:38.320 in the outfield defense was at times a little perplexing it. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.280 I would say I would have rated him as probably 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:47.559 an average defender. The arm maybe a little below at times, 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.560 but I think the metrics always looked more favorably than that. 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.920 I think he did play a nice left field. He 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.480 was always in the right spot, so I think he 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.440 did his homework and that in that regard. And he 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.800 was patient at the plate, sometimes too much. So there 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.840 are a lot of strike three lookings that at least 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:10.839 the Angel fans at times would implore him to take 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.200 the bat off the shoulder. But that's part of the deal. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:15.559 It's part of the trade off of being a guy 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.599 that walks upon you. I think the new mindset is 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.199 to let the umpire decide with the pitch challenging. That's 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.000 been interesting too. I don't know how it's gone for 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.480 the Orioles exactly. But the Angels have done well, not 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.920 that great a job at least from the hitters that 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:37.120 are challenging. So as far as Taylor this season, it 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.120 appears the walks are through the roof and the home 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.720 runs are a little bit down. Do you guys have 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.240 any thoughts on why that might be? Brad? 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:46.960 Do you see anything? 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.199 Yeah, we don't know. If he got hurt. He got 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.760 hit with a pitch in April and he started wearing 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:55.720 a heavy pad on his left hand, and from there 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.840 it was his plate discipline was through the roof. He 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.280 just wasn't swinging and he was walking. I mean, it 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.400 felt like he was walking at least once every single game. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.920 To me, lately, he's been seeming to be lee a 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.400 little bit more aggressive, so I think he's starting to 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:09.800 get the power back a little bit. He had a 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.920 home run the other day at Dodger Stadium, so we're 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.800 hoping to see a little bit more from that from 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.760 him in that regard. But to me, it just kind 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.720 of seemed like early on it was just it's hurt 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.120 is the only way I can kind of see that 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.400 something was bothering with his hand. He just wasn't able 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:25.720 to get to the inside pitch and drive it, especially 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.920 came the yards, you know, how the ball flies there. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.640 So it's it just hasn't seemed to be quite as aggressive. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.240 But it's starting to change here a little bit the 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.480 last couple of weeks, so hopefully the power will be 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.520 come from there. But you probably know more than anybody, 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.079 a hand injury that you play through, you're able to 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.240 play through. He's probably got to be one of the 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.400 most difficult things as a hitter. If you know you're 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.160 not going to go on the il, but you're feeling 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.480 it every swing you take. It's you know, certain pitches 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.319 that you're just not going to go after anymore because 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.480 you can't drive it. So that's just kind of what 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.480 we've seen a little bit, and what I've seen from 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.080 watching him throughout these games. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.199 I think that makes a lot of sense. He's a 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:03.040 guy that really too. He will go on these streaks 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.520 where you get the end of the year total thirty 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.080 plus home runs and sometimes you know, it seems like 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.280 there's patches where there weren't that many, but he'll bunch 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.160 them up, you know, hit seven, eight, nine, in a 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.400 matter of you know, fourteen days, fifteen days or something, 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.480 or a months total or whatever, and that's kind of 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.240 how he gets it done. So I have a little 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.800 surprise looking at it so far, though it doesn't seem 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.040 like the same version of Taylor that I saw last 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:31.240 year with the Angels. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:33.880 Tim, I'm gonna let you jump in in a minute, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.439 but we got to keep this show moving on time. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.400 Your little business, we'll do that, and we'll continue with 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:44.160 Mark Trumbo here in a moment on Birdland Territory. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.679 This episode is brought to you by FanDuel Baseball Fans. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.600 The MLB season is in full swing, and FanDuel is 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.520 giving you a chance to call your shot with Daily Dingers. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.120 Joining the action is easy. 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Restrictions apply, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.400 including any token expiration and max wager amount see terms. 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.000 Mark Trumbo with us on Birdland Territory today. Check out 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.520 Mark on his show Halo Territory as they cover the 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.280 Angels with the multiple shows each. 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:54.160 Week as part of the Foul Territory Network. Tim you're up, Mark. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.120 I think a lot of people in Baltimore definitely bummed 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.240 the Trey Mancini not going to be a part of 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.400 this series after getting DFA. But I just wanted to 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.920 get your thoughts on his comeback story. Obviously, you and 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.920 Brad played with him when he was first coming up, 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:14.080 and for a guy to go three years in between 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:18.520 MLB games and his first game back multi hits, driving 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.559 in runs at how cool was it seeing Trey make 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:22.320 that comeback? 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.560 Incredible to take that much time off. He was all 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:31.240 but retired. I mean in his mind he was retired. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.760 He wasn't training, He was playing tennis at a local 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:39.360 country club and being a dad. I mean, baseball was 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.000 not at the forefront of his mind. I think that 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:47.439 there was probably mentally that some unfinished business that when 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.680 guys retire, very few get to do the heroes exit 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:57.000 with teams, you know, gifting you this parade and whatnot. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:58.960 A lot of times it is what it is, and 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:03.720 maybe it's injury, maybe its performance and your time comes 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.040 to an end. And I think for Trey he was 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:12.480 never after the cancer diagnosis and treatment, he wasn't able 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.840 to quite produce the results that he had previously, and 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.800 I think that that kind of was something that wore 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.400 on him a little bit. But it's also completely understandable. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.600 I mean, that's that's huge life changing stuff, and he 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.880 was still able to be a very good ballplayer, just 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.640 maybe the power side wasn't quite there. I do know 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.240 that Brady Anderson, who everyone you know Oriel Territory and 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.400 you know, fans of the Orioles knows well, was very 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.880 pivotal in getting Trey to give it another shot, getting 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:43.920 in his ear saying that he still had a lot 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.680 more to offer. And Brady is now the hitting coach 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.800 for the Angels, so he had kind of an insider 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.880 perspective there and said that at least with the depth 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:58.120 that they have. You don't come into camp non roster 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.440 invitee type thing. And to Trey's credit, he stuck it 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.040 out for quite a while in tripa A. Even when 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.520 initially Nolan Shaanawell got injured, Trey didn't get the call, 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.840 but I kind of thought if there was a time 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.560 to pull the plug and maybe. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:14.720 Take it to the house, it would have been there. 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.120 But he stayed around a little bit longer, and fortunately 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.520 another injury and Von Grissom and Trey did get promoted 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.760 and performed quite well in the limited stint. He got 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.760 shorter than he would have liked, and I would have liked, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.400 and everyone would have liked. But being I think he's 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.280 thirty four years old now and the Angels going with 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.960 a younger group, that's the nature of the game. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:43.240 Unfortunately, well over the years in Oriole playing the Angels 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:44.880 in Camden Yards, so it hit the ball to the 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.360 center field, better hitted ten feet over the fence or 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.440 Mike Trout was going to catch it. We've seen that 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.200 time and time again. Kind of bums me out that 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:53.960 he's on the il We're not going to see him 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:58.000 in this series. I just so much appreciate the greatness 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.720 of Mike Trout over the years, Millville, New Jersey would 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.760 empty out and come to Camden. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.920 Yards for those series. What's it like watching him? 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.960 Maybe getting to know him a little bit, I mean, 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.160 give us a little insight inside. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.880 What makes this guy great for so long? 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.520 I think he's I mean, look at the numbers. First 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:23.040 of all, this is a player that's Mike is also 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.160 about the same age as Tray thirty five years old, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:29.240 I think thirty four to thirty five and having a 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.760 big research in year this year. Now, the last handful 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.160 of years have been very injury prone and he's missed 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.680 quite a bit of time. A lot of people have 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.480 thought that not even close to the player he once was. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.320 But this year he came in. Last year the experimenter 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.680 was playing in the right field, thought it would be easier 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.040 on the body. Tried to get him some more days 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.000 at d H just to keep him on the field, 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.600 and over the winter they hired a new manager in 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:59.840 Kurt Suzuki, and that's been interesting. But the news came 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:01.640 out that Mike was going to be the everyday center 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.640 fielder again. He said he thought it would be better 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:08.600 for him, better for him availability wise, health, wise, and 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.159 he's played almost every day up until these last few games. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.280 Very productive as well. The average is lower than it 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.639 once was, but he's taken a ton of walks, maybe 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.600 a byproduct of not having as much protection. Taylor Ward 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.159 was a guy that actually did a nice job of that, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.680 and it's been a mix and match this year with 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.720 who they've chosen. But I've talked to him in the 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.119 last few days. The hamstring injury, said is very you know, 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.879 it's a Grade one. It's not going to be a 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:43.000 big deal. Probably going to be ten to fourteen days 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.959 best case, and he'll be back out there. Unfortunately, it's 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.440 not going to be against the Orioles, but I don't 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:49.359 think the Oriols mind that. 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.440 They don't I wish. I'd love to see him. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:54.320 Yeah, well. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:56.680 Go ahead. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.000 So yeah. So Mark's one of the most prepaired hitters 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.520 I think I ever played with, just guys constantly went 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.639 to him. Last night, he's texting me about some of 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.720 the oil stuff. He looked up and he happened to 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:10.119 see the quotes about Samuel Bissio and I just wanted 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.040 to kind of get his thoughts on. It's the guy's 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.240 twenty one years old. And he hasn't played a ton 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.280 of games period across his career. Just what is that 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.840 like for a young hitter? If you remember when you 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.439 first came up, what you had to deal with, just 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:25.680 all the stuff getting thrown at you throw the catching 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.400 stuff on top of it. Just how difficult is it 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.880 to adjust to major league life? And he's only twenty 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.280 one years old, So just any insights that you have 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.600 on what he might be going through right now, and 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.200 just maybe some of your insights on what you thought 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.119 on some of the we kind of called the bizarre 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.600 comments that came out about everything, and just a kind 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.520 of a bizarre scenario that happened a couple of weeks ago. 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.040 Twenty one years old, I was floundering in the Midwest League, 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.120 my second tour of duty there. 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:52.679 So I. 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.760 It's just a different world, I think. In that same article, 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:00.880 Ken Rosenthal and Britain Gearari, I believe it was Ken 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:06.760 that that wrote that a lot of stuff to unpack there. 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:12.960 As far as Bazollo goes, it appears that Craig Albertus 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.600 was trying to send a message to some degree playing 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.879 through injury and what it takes at the big league level. 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.760 And I think that there's a point there. I think 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:27.560 that that's an old school approach unless I'm, you know, 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.960 not not getting it correct. But the story seemed pretty definitive, 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.680 and and that's what happened, U benching one of your 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.200 most productive bats. That's a tough thing to do if 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.080 if the offense as a whole, looking at the numbers 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.399 kind of to prepare to come on today, it looked 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:48.600 like the offense is a fair amount of strikeouts, a 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.160 lot of walks, and then the very middle of the pack, 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:56.679 and in most other regards, the ops didn't really There 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:58.720 were a couple of guys north of eight hundred. Pat 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:03.200 Alonzo seems to have really heat it up. And there 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.120 was another player. You're gonna have to remind me, Brad, 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.800 but Alexander Okay, he came from the Diamondbacks, I think 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:16.320 at one point. Okay, yeah, he's looked really promising. But 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:20.280 beyond that, I guess Rutchman has suffered an injury too. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.280 Yep, yeah, cushion, I L can cussion, I L I 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.480 got hit. Yeah. 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.360 So there were a few guys like Mayo whose numbers 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.160 quite honestly didn't look that impressive, and he's getting quite 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.720 a few at bats, and I wonder if they're you know, 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.439 it's tough to piece together it is to stay in 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:42.240 success if if you have really realistically in any lineup, 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.160 you're probably gonna have two guys that are really going well, 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.560 which seems to kind of be the case. But you 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.119 can't have three or four guys going really poorly. And 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.199 I'm not sure if that is what's going on, but 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:55.679 you've got to have some anchors that are, you know, 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.080