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Speaker 1: Welcome into another episode of Friar Territory Here on the

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Speaker 1: Foul Territory Network. I'm Kyle Glazer. We have a very

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Speaker 1: very special show for you today. Dylan Ceiz will be

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Speaker 1: joining us for an exclusive interview talk about the Potters

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Speaker 1: early season success, what's been working for the rotation as

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Speaker 1: a whole, and the adjustment coming over from Chicago to

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Speaker 1: San Diego, and what have been the biggest difference is

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Speaker 1: coming over to the Potters organization. We're certainly looking forward

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Speaker 1: to having Dylan join us. The Potters are currently on

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Speaker 1: a fantastic run. They have won ten of their last fourteen.

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Speaker 1: They have won four of their last five series. As

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Speaker 1: they head into the Vetter Cup tonight, opening a three

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Speaker 1: game series against the Mariners at home, Potters are twenty

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Speaker 1: seven and fifteen, a little bit past the quarter pole

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Speaker 1: of the season. Once again, as we've talked about all year,

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Speaker 1: this is a team that is having a fantastic start

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Speaker 1: in every facet. There have been a little hiccups from

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Speaker 1: time to time. We saw the starting rotation go through

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Speaker 1: a little hiccup early in the season. Of course, we

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Speaker 1: saw the offense had that thirty innings scoreless streak when

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Speaker 1: a few key guys were hurt, and more recently the

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Speaker 1: bullpen went through a little bit of a tough stretch

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Speaker 1: where they blew leads in four seven games. But on

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Speaker 1: the whole, this Potters team has been excellent. Talk about

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Speaker 1: that seven to zero start, expanding that to fifteen and four.

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Speaker 1: Of course, they had that little stretch where all those

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Speaker 1: injuries hit their lineup where they did struggle, but they've

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Speaker 1: bounced right back. And now that Luis Rise is back,

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Speaker 1: now that Jackson Merril was back, now that Jake Cronerworth

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Speaker 1: is back, this is a team that's firing on all cylinders.

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Speaker 1: And of course you Darvish should be back soon. He

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Speaker 1: made his first rehab start for Triple A l Passo

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, looked like the same old U Darvish sat

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Speaker 1: ninety four, touched ninety seven, went four innings. Talking to

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Speaker 1: Mike Schulp before the game, the goal was for him

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Speaker 1: to get up to about four innings and or sixty

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Speaker 1: five pitches came in well under sixty five pitches. So

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Speaker 1: the velocity was there, the efficiency was there, the strike

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Speaker 1: and that's going to make this starting rotation that much stronger.

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Speaker 1: Entering today, the Potters have the second lowest ERA starters

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Speaker 1: in the National League. And again, that's been with you

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Speaker 1: darvishmissing the whole season. That's been with Joe muskro Of

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Speaker 1: It's been Michael King, It's been Nick Pavetta. Dylan Cees's

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Speaker 1: last two starts has been excellent. Randy Vasquez has stepped up,

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Speaker 1: Stephen Kolok has yet to allow a run since coming

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Speaker 1: up and making his first start for the Padres a

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Speaker 1: few weeks ago, and of course, though in a complete

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Speaker 1: This rotation in many ways has been the bedrock of

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Speaker 1: the team. Again, the bullpen's been great, the offense has

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Speaker 1: certainly had some really really great moments as well, But

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Speaker 1: when you look at start to finish, what has been

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Speaker 1: the unit that has really been the strongest so far

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Speaker 1: this year. It is the starting rotation, And of course

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Speaker 1: Dylan Cees is a huge, huge, huge part of that.

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Speaker 1: We're very happy to have him join us today. Here

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Speaker 1: he is all right, where please be joined now by

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Speaker 1: Dylan Cees. Dylan thank you so much for joining us. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the starting rotation as a whole has been fantastic this year.

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Speaker 1: What's been the key to your guys success as a unit?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me, man. I mean, I think

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Speaker 2: I think Pavetta and king Off is such a crazy

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Speaker 2: hot start. They've they've really done a lot of that

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Speaker 2: heavy listings. I mean, Randy's been great. He's filling up

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Speaker 2: the strike zone. He's getting five or six every time

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Speaker 2: he pitches. You know, I've been I've been pretty good

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Speaker 2: of late. So you know, I think honestly, just attacking

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Speaker 2: Rubin in the entire staff preps us very well, so

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Speaker 2: you know, we know, we know how we want to

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Speaker 2: attack everybody, and when we're executing, we're tough to handle.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I know you, Nick Pavetta and Michael Kane. Your lockers

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Speaker 1: and compete with each other in kind of a friendly way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean those guys are are very competitive.

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Speaker 2: Whether it's like you know, gambling, golf, baseball, whatever, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think it's a healthy healthy mix of you know,

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Speaker 2: And if you're in a good way, you know, humble

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it. You mentioned Ruby Dieblo earlier.

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Speaker 1: He's renowned as one of the best pitching coaches in baseball.

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Speaker 1: This is your second year now with him. What makes

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Speaker 1: them unique or different from other pitching coaches.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, Yeah, it's funny. We actually talked about

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Speaker 2: I think he's got a good knowledge of a lot

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Speaker 2: really is, you know, problem solving, whether it's your body's

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Speaker 2: It's like, you know, there's there's twenty different areas you

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Speaker 2: just being able to kind of the general idea of

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Speaker 2: And then he's not afraid to admit like, hey, I

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Speaker 3: Let's do this. So he's yeah, he's he's definitely one

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Speaker 1: Yeah. What was his message to you specifically when you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think, uh, you know, teaching the

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Speaker 2: Just always trying to get better in that sense of

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Speaker 3: But for the most part, you know.

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Speaker 2: Helping with consistency and helping it because you know, there's

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Speaker 2: we need to be told like hey, your your slider

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned pitching coaches. Sometimes they need to be a mechanics.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they also need to be a psychologist. How much

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Speaker 1: of his conversations with you revolves more around the green

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Speaker 2: It seems like it just seems like in the game

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Speaker 2: There's it's hard to kind of, you know, take the

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Speaker 3: But you know, I mean, we definitely talked about it all.

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Speaker 2: We talked about the psychologue, talk about you know, hey,

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Speaker 2: And then you got to go like, hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. You know, coming over from Chicago, you'd been

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Speaker 1: Sometimes again, it can be different. You know, one way

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Speaker 1: things can be completely different. What have been some of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, you know, honestly, I don't really want

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Speaker 2: just talk about how great the Padres are. I mean,

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Speaker 2: and excellence. There's you know, basically a lot of resources

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Speaker 2: I think the Padres do an amazing job at that.

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Speaker 2: it really is a world class organization. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm very grateful for my time with the White Sox.

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Speaker 2: I was, you know, along a big period in my life,

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Speaker 2: But I really do love it, love it here in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in terms of off the fields, off I mean

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, that was that was difficult, you know,

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Speaker 3: It took me a minute get used to it.

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Speaker 2: But uh, it's it's you can't beat San Diego, man,

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Speaker 2: It's it's amazing here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: You know, you were traded last year right in the

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Speaker 1: middle of spring training and for the Padres they were

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Speaker 1: literally boarding the plane to Korea when the trade went through.

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Speaker 1: So normally whenever it trade happens, it's hectic. You have

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Speaker 1: You had the added wrinkle of having to get to

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Speaker 1: Korea and find your passport. How hectic were those first

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's uh, it's a whirlwind of everything.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: The logistical side of it is is crazy, you know,

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Speaker 3: Thankfully, because if I had to do.

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Speaker 2: That on my own, i probably went ended up in

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Speaker 3: But there's a lot of people that really do the

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Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, Dylan, Well, I know you guys have

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Speaker 1: than they have been. But good teams take care of

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Speaker 1: business against the bad teams. That's exactly what the Patters

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Speaker 1: have done. This has been another episode of Friar Territory

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Speaker 1: from you are watchers and listeners. Special thanks to Dylanc's

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Speaker 1: for joining us. I'm Kyle Glazer, see you later this week.

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