Speaker 1: Dylan c is the newest Toronto Blue Day.
Speaker 2: In fact, he is here at the Winter meetings and
Speaker 2: just did his intro pressor uh to get the hat
Speaker 2: the whole deal, Dylan. Great to have you here, Congratulations
Speaker 2: on the big deal and welcome to right now Orlando,
Speaker 2: but welcome to Toronto.
Speaker 3: Man. How did they all go down? Yeah? It was, honestly,
Speaker 3: it was. It was a pretty simple process. It didn't
Speaker 3: it didn't take long. They were aggressive from the start,
Speaker 3: and uh, yeah, it just happened. I trusted Scott, He
Speaker 3: gave me great information and it was just a very
Speaker 3: very seamless process.
Speaker 4: What made it so easy? Seven years and millions they
Speaker 4: helped away?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that helped a little bit.
Speaker 4: Got it around.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that helped. I mean you know that was uh,
Speaker 3: that was one part of it. You know, were in
Speaker 3: the World Series last year. Yeah, exactly. It came down to,
Speaker 3: you know, is a team going to be competitive? Yes,
Speaker 3: they were able to prove that last year.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Do I think they can help me maximize my abilities
Speaker 3: and and help me be more consistent? And I was.
Speaker 3: I was impressed with with their staff and what they
Speaker 3: had to say on that on that level, and then
Speaker 3: obviously the business side of it's important. So it was
Speaker 3: it was a really good match from the start.
Speaker 5: What did they say on those levels? What did Pete Walker?
Speaker 5: What did John Schneider? What did what did the front
Speaker 5: the gurus who were who were there selling you on
Speaker 5: what you can improve on? What did they say, because
Speaker 5: they've seen we've seen ace type of stuff from you,
Speaker 5: we've seen number one type of stuff from you. What
Speaker 5: did they say that you can tell us that they
Speaker 5: can unlock?
Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, they I mean they had you know, they
Speaker 3: they've obviously got a full staff that's working on different
Speaker 3: elements of the game, whether it's like biomechanical or pitch design,
Speaker 3: game planning, all those different elements, and uh, all those
Speaker 3: different elements and uh you know, I mean they they
Speaker 3: basically just broke down and said, hey, this is where
Speaker 3: we think you can improve, this is how we think
Speaker 3: you can be more consistent these certain areas, and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean it was, it was. It was
Speaker 3: very believable.
Speaker 5: Okay, are you more are you more willing to try
Speaker 5: something new now that you're a locked in free agent?
Speaker 5: Is that tougher like if they had come to you now.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying the blue Jays would have come to
Speaker 5: a picture from the Padres or a picture from the
Speaker 5: other organization. But if the if Ruben Diebler, who's a
Speaker 5: great pitching coach in this game, had come to you
Speaker 5: and be like, hey, you need to change these things
Speaker 5: in my platform here, rubin no shot, bro, Like, I'm
Speaker 5: going out. I'm doing what Dylan Cees does so that
Speaker 5: I can go and be a free agent and my
Speaker 5: best you know, have my best year.
Speaker 3: I mean, for me, honestly, it comes down to are
Speaker 3: you getting the results or not? You know, and if
Speaker 3: if I'm going through a stretch where I'm not having
Speaker 3: the results that I want, then I'm willing to make
Speaker 3: whatever change, you know. Uh So it's really as simple
Speaker 3: as that. You know, the game kind of dictates, you
Speaker 3: know what needs to be done and are you doing it?
Speaker 3: And then from there it's my responsibility to figure out
Speaker 3: how to actually go out and do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't have a dog in the fight obviously in
Speaker 2: terms of who I'm rooting for in this case, but
Speaker 2: it did bother me when so you signed with Toronto
Speaker 2: and you do see Padres fans like, oh, the Blue
Speaker 2: Jays aren't going to change anything with him. Rubin diable
Speaker 2: and I get it, like he's a great pitching coach,
Speaker 2: But can you just play to how you in spot
Speaker 2: like you're talking about here and you feel like you
Speaker 2: can get talked into something else? There's something someone else
Speaker 2: picture wise to talk to, like the evolution essentially of
Speaker 2: a picture and how if it does ever stop, you're
Speaker 2: doing it wrong, right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Yeah. First off, Ruben is a great pitching coach,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean it, Uh, I can't deny that
Speaker 3: I'm excited to work with the Blue Jays, you know.
Speaker 3: And it's uh, you know, I don't know how much
Speaker 3: I can share, how much they want me sharing about
Speaker 3: what their actual specific you know, development processes are. But uh,
Speaker 3: you know, I feel confident there gonna be able to
Speaker 3: teach me things and be able to show me things
Speaker 3: that will help me be more consistent, you know, because
Speaker 3: I mean I've I've always had the talent, you know,
Speaker 3: I've I've shown it at different times and and spurts
Speaker 3: of of you know, some greatness, but uh, inconsistency and
Speaker 3: and and uh not always the most consistent command has
Speaker 3: been what's holding me back? So uh, you know, I
Speaker 3: want to develop. I want to whether it's learning a
Speaker 3: change up or learning a new pitch, or or sequencing
Speaker 3: or whatever it is. You know, I'm very open minded
Speaker 3: to to to learning and uh yeah, ultimately, I mean
Speaker 3: I really want to give them at the end of
Speaker 3: the seven years, I want the Blue Jays to feel
Speaker 3: like they got a steal. So I'm going to be
Speaker 3: very open minded to what they have for me.
Speaker 5: What were the other teams or team that was in
Speaker 5: the mix.
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, there were a couple of other teams. I
Speaker 3: gotta talk to Scott and see if he wants me
Speaker 3: divulge in that, I think, but.
Speaker 4: There were the teams.
Speaker 3: There are other teams. Yeah, the other teams for sure,
Speaker 3: But I mean the Blue Jays were the most aggressive,
Speaker 3: and it was it was a pretty there was a
Speaker 3: pretty simple process.
Speaker 4: Did they flight to Toronto?
Speaker 3: No, No, it was it was zoom. But you know,
Speaker 3: I did just recently go to Toronto and do the physicals
Speaker 3: and do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 6: So because Crat said, if they're doing a zoom, they're
Speaker 6: not serious. So Crats, but I got Toronto. I mean,
Speaker 6: you know, they flew show Hey and he didn't even
Speaker 6: they flew show Hey to Toronto. Remember on that flight
Speaker 6: and he signed with the Dodgers, but he just did
Speaker 6: a zoom, So.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm low maintenance if if you just you know,
Speaker 3: there's other ways, So there's other ways to show seriousness.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I haven't seen it. I've heard it's amazing.
Speaker 3: I mean I've seen it on video, but I mean
Speaker 3: their facilities and yeah, I mean it's it's uh, it
Speaker 3: really is. It's Honestly, I consider myself relatively low maintenance.
Speaker 3: It is it is, uh, extremely adequate for my needs.
Speaker 3: And say that extremely adequate.
Speaker 4: Okay, what do you need?
Speaker 3: What do I need?
Speaker 4: What do you said your low maintenance?
Speaker 3: You need? Okay, I need good information. I need accountability
Speaker 3: in the sense of like hey, if I need to
Speaker 3: be doing something different, or if I need to be
Speaker 3: you know, whatever it is, I need someone to say, hey, man,
Speaker 3: this is how you should do it. And then uh,
Speaker 3: from there, you know, a hot tub's nice, a float
Speaker 3: tank's nice, A sana is nice. Good food's nice coffee.
Speaker 3: Coffee I need coffee. Yeah, No, I mean at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, I really just want to be
Speaker 3: competent and help my team. And and uh, whether I'm
Speaker 3: in a very and I'm a minor league facility, the
Speaker 3: best facility in the world, or in between. I'm really
Speaker 3: just focused on doing that.
Speaker 6: So, okay, you said accountability, So will you take accountability
Speaker 6: for when you were at the White Sox not walking,
Speaker 6: Luisa Rise, when you had two outs of the ninth
Speaker 6: inning and I was calling the game and I.
Speaker 4: Said, just walk them doing because you will get the
Speaker 4: no hitter.
Speaker 3: I got one later.
Speaker 4: But no, you take accountability for not walking because I
Speaker 4: would have got I would have got an Emmy, all
Speaker 4: these things you would have to no hitters. It would
Speaker 4: have been the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 3: Bad decision. Uh. In the moment, we got to understand,
Speaker 3: I'm following the process, and I got him out earlier
Speaker 3: in the game a couple of times, and in the moment,
Speaker 3: instead of thinking logically, I was thinking, I'm gonna pitch
Speaker 3: with you know what's yeah, and just hang it out there,
Speaker 3: and uh. And it's kind of coward leads and not
Speaker 3: go after somebody. You know, it's not in the sense
Speaker 3: of in the sense of, uh, you know, I guess
Speaker 3: personal accomplishment, yes, but process wise, it's a little bit
Speaker 3: coward lead to not go after somebody. So I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there like, all right, I'm gonna get this guy out.
Speaker 3: Was it a good decision? You got your know it
Speaker 3: was happy? Yeah, it was a yeah. I do now
Speaker 3: I do wish that I had yanked a slider right
Speaker 3: into his foot and not hurt him.
Speaker 4: Seriously talk trash teammates.
Speaker 3: So did he say, no, he's too he's a very
Speaker 3: nice guy. He didn't, He didn't talk trash. But uh,
Speaker 3: I let him know. I said, you know what, you're
Speaker 3: gonna keep me out of the Hall of Fame when
Speaker 3: i'm when I'm that one no hitter, shy and I've
Speaker 3: got quantity and now I've got all the things. But
Speaker 3: I didn't make tall of fame. It's it's your fault.
Speaker 6: How do you stay so durable because one of the
Speaker 6: big things about you is thirty starts, thirty starts, thirty starts,
Speaker 6: thirty starts.
Speaker 4: How do you do it? Because nowadays, guys will you know, we.
Speaker 6: Got we got to give him an extra day, and
Speaker 6: we got to do this and we gotta Yeah, but
Speaker 6: you're no, I want the ball every fifth day and
Speaker 6: I'm gonna take it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna. I mean, there's probably genetic factors, there's definitely
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, I I take reasonably good care
Speaker 3: of myself with working out and and all that stuff. So, uh,
Speaker 3: hold the sea in my phone, you know. Sorry, your
Speaker 3: hair is just glorious. Yeah, where's the where's the piece?
Speaker 5: There we go?
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh no, Yeah, the flow is Joe is strong.
Speaker 3: There. There we go. H Okay, if anyone I'm not
Speaker 3: going to hear what he's saying. But what were we talking about? Oh, durability.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the ability and what you do to stay so durable,
Speaker 4: because it's incredible.
Speaker 3: Like like I was saying, there's probably a genetic factor,
Speaker 3: there's you know, I put in the work in the
Speaker 3: off season, I lift my weights and all that, and
Speaker 3: then a little bit, I think it's just like, no
Speaker 3: matter what, no matter what, I take the ball and
Speaker 3: I pitch. If my body hurts, if I'm sick, if
Speaker 3: I didn't get sleep, if if whatever, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know, I just take the ball. So obviously
Speaker 3: I think everyone would probably do that, and people's bodies
Speaker 3: fail them and they don't. So I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 3: you know, I'm mentally doing anything different. But I'm just
Speaker 3: saying I go out and I make it a priority
Speaker 3: to pitch, no matter however, I feel because I feel
Speaker 3: like it's kind of part of being a man.
Speaker 2: You know, what did you think of the Blue Jays
Speaker 2: World Series run? Were you watching all of that and
Speaker 2: then hearing about you know, of course most clubhasses, we
Speaker 2: love each other all that. It just sounded like there
Speaker 2: was a lot going on there to.
Speaker 3: Like, Yeah, I watched Game seven. I didn't. I don't
Speaker 3: watch most of the postseason after my team gets knocked
Speaker 3: out because I'm a little you know, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't want to watch it. Man, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's it's going to be in it, right, Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's a little uh you know, but uh no, I watched.
Speaker 3: I watch Game seven, and yeah, you know, with the Clubhouse,
Speaker 3: I've heard nothing but great things about it, and and
Speaker 3: in general, I mean, I have not heard a bad
Speaker 3: thing about Toronto as a city. Apparently you're supposed to
Speaker 3: pronounce it without the T, so Toronto as a city
Speaker 3: and then uh, you know, the organization, the clubhouse anything.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited for it.
Speaker 6: So when I played and you get knocked out, I
Speaker 6: would still watch because I was like, what team do
Speaker 6: I want to win? Because I hate the least amount
Speaker 6: of players on the other teams. Right, So if you,
Speaker 6: like you guys lost with the Cubs. So if I
Speaker 6: would have lost the Cubs, I'm like, man, guess yeah.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 6: So now that you're on Toronto and they were one game,
Speaker 6: I mean, they were this far from winning the World Series,
Speaker 6: how do you help them get back there? And how
Speaker 6: do you help.
Speaker 4: Them get this much farther to get the ring on
Speaker 4: your finger?
Speaker 6: Because if you if you watched that series, the crowds
Speaker 6: are the whole playoffs.
Speaker 3: The crowds are incredible, honestly, I mean the simplest answer
Speaker 3: is to perform. You know, I'll take the ball every
Speaker 3: five days into to perform. You know. I don't know
Speaker 3: what to say other than that.
Speaker 6: Okay, and that's fair, by the way. In Toronto, I
Speaker 6: don't know people at home that don't know much about you.
Speaker 6: You're you're you're kind of like a renaissance man because
Speaker 6: you have a lot of interest away from baseball.
Speaker 4: Disc golf is your thing, right, You're kind of your.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of things, yeah, but disc golf.
Speaker 4: Is one of you. You bought a disc golf.
Speaker 3: I own a couple of courses. I'm trying to make
Speaker 3: moves in some different areas. It hasn't, it hasn't.
Speaker 4: But does Toronto have disc golf?
Speaker 3: I've heard they do. I heard they do. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to play for the next seven years. I want
Speaker 3: to be more on like the uh entrepreneurial side of it.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll see, but no, I'm not. Uh yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: I'm I'm saving my body for for the squad.
Speaker 2: Who will you miss the most teammate wise from the padres?
Speaker 3: Just now, that's a tough one. That's a tough one
Speaker 3: that more than one name? Can I name more than
Speaker 3: a couple of Yeah, you can throw a few out there.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like I'll miss this guy's jokes or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeahah, it's I mean, realistically, I really liked everyone on
Speaker 3: the team, so I'm gonna miss everybody. I mean, Jason
Speaker 3: Adams is a great guy, you know. Joe Musgrove, He's good,
Speaker 3: he's always in high spirits, he's always making dad jokes.
Speaker 3: He's a good man. He's just a really good man.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna miss Joe. I mean, that guy is a
Speaker 3: natural born leader and a bulldog and just another good man.
Speaker 3: You know. Uh, you know, I'm gonna miss a lot
Speaker 3: of the staff and miss Michael King to Toronto. I'd
Speaker 3: be nice, be nice. Mike's Uh, Mike's a sharp guy.
Speaker 3: He's really sharp. Have you talked to him on here before? Yes?
Speaker 4: Before Michael King?
Speaker 3: Uh no, no, did he really?
Speaker 4: I mean, what does that tell you?
Speaker 2: I mean, there are not many that haven't been on
Speaker 2: at this point. So maybe we'll get him. After he signed,
Speaker 2: he'll be really happy. He's a free agent. He's worth
Speaker 2: having process, He's worth having on here. What about darbage man?
Speaker 3: You? You is one of the most humble, modest guys
Speaker 3: I've ever met.
Speaker 4: Does he have more pitches than you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Does he have a better slider?
Speaker 3: Not only does he have more pitches than me, He'll
Speaker 3: go ahead and throw a side arm with all his
Speaker 3: pitches and that makes fifteen new pitches. So yeah, he's
Speaker 3: got I mean the way that guy can manipulate a ball.
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, I mean he's another one. I
Speaker 3: mean he he he is just modest and doesn't stop
Speaker 3: trying new things.
Speaker 4: Does he have a better slider than you?
Speaker 6: Because I listen, I caught him in twenty thirteen he
Speaker 6: had he had the best.
Speaker 4: It's also asked goes Hey who's the best picture. And
Speaker 4: I said, we got to quantify that because pitcher stuff,
Speaker 4: all that stuff. I said, the best stuff.
Speaker 6: I've ever seen was prime you darbage, garbage. Yeah, it
Speaker 6: was his slider literally got halfway there and just went like.
Speaker 3: I mean he struck out what two hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: guys or something like that. Yeah, I mean crazy, Yeah
Speaker 3: that it's cool that he really and he probably was
Speaker 3: still a pitch ability guy then obviously he was a
Speaker 3: big stuff guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And uh, and now he's you know, if he wants
Speaker 3: to throw ninety two, he throws. If you wants to
Speaker 3: throw ninety six, if you wants to throw sinkers, if
Speaker 3: you wants to throw splitters, change ups. I mean, there
Speaker 3: is not a pitch that you dovers can't throw. And
Speaker 3: I don't know how he does it, you know, I
Speaker 3: don't know how he does it.
Speaker 1: I've got one more for you.
Speaker 2: A while you mentioned the slider, can you explain, I
Speaker 2: mean kind of nerd to your baseball question, but like
Speaker 2: how you go through your process of like your slider shape, right,
Speaker 2: and what that goes through. I know sometimes you got
Speaker 2: a tinker and it's been obviously a money pitch for you,
Speaker 2: but it's not like it's coming out the same way
Speaker 2: at all times either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Baseball's kind of funny in the sense
Speaker 3: of sometimes your pitches analytically can say one thing. But
Speaker 3: if I don't throw it in the proper way, if
Speaker 3: I don't put my full force behind it, if I
Speaker 3: don't use my legs properly, maybe I open up early
Speaker 3: and they see it better. It doesn't always, it doesn't
Speaker 3: always correlate analytically, which is kind of you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: I know that makes sense. It's until you experience it
Speaker 3: as a pitcher, you wouldn't really understand it though. And
Speaker 3: for me, I mean, you know, obviously, anytime my slider
Speaker 3: shape gets off, it's concerning because it is my best pitch.
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm always trying to keep the right
Speaker 3: amount of depth on it and obviously locating it's always
Speaker 3: going to take the president. But you know, if if,
Speaker 3: what I've realized in baseball is if you're if you're on,
Speaker 3: you can miss down the middle. You can you can
Speaker 3: you know, you can get away with things and and
Speaker 3: when you're a little bit off or when something's not happening,
Speaker 3: then it's you don't have as big of a room
Speaker 3: of error. So you know that's I'm I'm trying to
Speaker 3: improve my my areas, my margins. I'm trying to maximize
Speaker 3: and be more consistent with with the stuff.
Speaker 2: This is a good point though, because stuff plus those
Speaker 2: kind right or internal metrics. Some teams have that, but
Speaker 2: it doesn't have deception built into that model.
Speaker 1: They could be like, this pitch is sick.
Speaker 3: Why is it getting hit?
Speaker 1: And it's like because they're seeing it.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you from my experience, there's times where I'm
Speaker 3: clicking mechanically and my ninety six blows guys away. And
Speaker 3: there's times where I'm not out in my mechanics, I'm
Speaker 3: throwing ninety nine and they can see it out of
Speaker 3: my hand. I don't know how to explain it other that,
Speaker 3: so I guess, well, you know, I'll get with the
Speaker 3: guys here in Toronto and and uh, we'll see what
Speaker 3: they got quickly though.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know a game, if you're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 6: that really came out good, but the guy whacked it.
Speaker 3: I mean I'd like to say yes, but you know,
Speaker 3: if you look at my track record, I've had inconsistencies.
Speaker 3: So sometimes yes, sometimes I go weeks and whatever where
Speaker 3: where I don't, But I'd like to think as I'm
Speaker 3: getting older and more mature and more repetitions and more experience,
Speaker 3: I will be able to adjust that even quicker. Plus
Speaker 3: a staff behind me that's going to be helping my
Speaker 3: boom mechanics and all that. You know, they take a
Speaker 3: lot of the thinking out of it. I can just
Speaker 3: go out and perform. So short answer, yes, Tracord history.
Speaker 6: That's okay, all right, before we let you go. Last thing,
Speaker 6: you have your Toronto they had they had? Can you
Speaker 6: get you to put it on so everyone can see
Speaker 6: what it looks like?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Had her jersey?
Speaker 4: I mean what jersey? For sure? They have a mess
Speaker 4: of your hair. Everyone people want to see him in
Speaker 4: his new jersey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no joke, Dylan. We have a huge Canadian fans.
Speaker 4: For the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2: They crushed. That's not true. What my team growing up,
Speaker 2: Matt Matt's. But I'm pretty neutral. I had to call games.
Speaker 2: But we have a big Blue Jays. They've got We've
Speaker 2: got a big We.
Speaker 6: Don't want to mess up the flow, So let's not
Speaker 6: put the hat on jersey with eighty four?
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course I love it.
Speaker 1: He needs help.
Speaker 4: I got him. If he breaks the mic, mark has
Speaker 4: to buy it.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 1: That's a good way to to finish the.
Speaker 4: Streets the great way. Yeah sorry, but I know we
Speaker 4: love it.
Speaker 2: I tell him our our Canadian audiences is strong and great.
Speaker 1: That is krats nose.
Speaker 6: That makes crowds, crowds. What's your hat? You have a
Speaker 6: you have to you have a blue you have a
Speaker 6: Dodger's hat on.
Speaker 5: It's supposed to be Doc. Doc was showing up so
Speaker 5: igs hack. So we'll just be we'll say anything, give.
Speaker 4: You that, all right? Yeah, oh hell yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean this is the day to celebrate.
Speaker 4: You don't need this anymore, all right, where we at nothing,
Speaker 4: You're perfect.
Speaker 6: I just I'm trying to get out of the shot
Speaker 6: and we can see that just so other world is glorious.
Speaker 6: By the way, Yeah, that looks so good on you.
Speaker 4: You know you kind of you get a little bob
Speaker 4: of ship with the hair going right. I mean, start recruiting.
Speaker 4: You gotta recruit.
Speaker 6: If I tell man Tony V tell on you earlier,
Speaker 6: you need to get on the recruiting.
Speaker 3: The good thing is, since I don't know the city,
Speaker 3: he already.
Speaker 2: Knows, I'm not to sell anything that's true, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: pitching staft's getting stronger.
Speaker 1: That's that's the main thing. Good to see you. Thanks
Speaker 1: for stopping.
Speaker 2: I appreciate its congratulations.
Speaker 1: That's don't cease