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Speaker 1: Having a little PTSD here. Guys.

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Speaker 2: I am honored, obviously to have Hall of Famer Jeff

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Speaker 2: Bagwell sitting next to me. This is probably the nicest

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Speaker 2: he's been to me, because when we played against each other,

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Speaker 2: it was it was hell. He did hit number three

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Speaker 2: ninety nine and four hundred off me in the same

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Speaker 2: game of his four hundred and forty nine career homers.

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Speaker 1: But Jeff, great to see you man, Great to have

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to see you too, Danny.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I did do that.

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Speaker 3: But there's a lot of times where you did jim

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Speaker 3: the heck out of with two seamer. That one go

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Speaker 3: to you just kind of left over the middle of

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Speaker 2: Guys, I'm telling you, I've looked up stats that he

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Speaker 2: had against me, and I didn't give up more homers

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Speaker 1: Baggy hit the most homers off me, the most hits.

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Speaker 5: Everything.

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Speaker 1: This guy was was tough to pitch too.

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Speaker 2: But let's just talk about why you're here at Astros

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Speaker 3: I do. I do the big league guys too. This

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Speaker 3: got some positions in the outfield that are open and

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Speaker 3: so those are younger guys, so I kind of want

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Speaker 3: to see them, how they react during games, how they

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Speaker 4: The young guys.

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Speaker 3: I spend the whole year here so that when I

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Speaker 3: you know, so that they can feel like I'm part of.

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Speaker 4: Them and part of their development.

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Speaker 3: So we can have good conversations trying to get them

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Speaker 3: Hitting is one way, Just how about how you do

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Speaker 3: it personally to get there. So I just try to

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Speaker 3: help those guys out a lot, and it's been a

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Speaker 3: lot of fun. You know, it's nothing better than watching

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to dive into that a little bit.

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Speaker 6: I was going to talk about your hitting approach and

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Speaker 6: how you teach these kids. I know it seems like

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Speaker 6: from hearing what you're talking about, you still have that

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Speaker 6: you know, there's all these different types of ways of

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Speaker 4: Do you do you look into that a lot?

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Speaker 6: Or are you just saying, hey, man, back the ball,

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Speaker 6: try and level the ball up and see what you

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Speaker 4: The first thing I want them to do is become

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Speaker 3: You know, power comes, you know if you if you're

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Speaker 3: good enough to hit twenty home runs, what do you

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Speaker 3: do with the other five hundred that bats? You punch out?

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Speaker 3: Grounded and third, rounded and short pulling off the ball? Guys,

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Speaker 3: get this guy second and third with less than two outs.

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Speaker 3: If you're trying your launch angle and dropping your barrel,

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Speaker 3: you're not going to be very successful. So I want

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Speaker 3: them to become good hitters first, and so I understand

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Speaker 3: what is out there and what it's taught, but I

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Speaker 4: Everybody's different.

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Speaker 3: If there was one way to do it, we'd all

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Speaker 3: the same way. But everybody's got a different stance. Todd,

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Speaker 3: you had a different stance than I did. But we're

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Speaker 3: all being successful in our own right. But how do

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Speaker 3: we get to that position of hitting the line drives.

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Speaker 3: You know the phrase I hate is hit the ball

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Speaker 3: those are outs. Generally, the only guy that can hit

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Speaker 4: Other than that, we need to be good hitters.

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Speaker 3: Hit line drives, line drives turning into doubles, doubles turning

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Speaker 3: where's the greenest grass. It's in between both outfielders, the

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Speaker 4: That's where all the green grassings. That's where you be

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Speaker 5: Gaming how much has development changed in the time that

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Speaker 5: you've been with the Astros. You've seen it. Everyone says, well,

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Speaker 5: they were the best in development. Now they suck like that.

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Speaker 5: To me, I think that's sometimes unfair because they had

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Speaker 3: I think we're changing a lot when trying to get

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Speaker 3: I think we have changed like that very difficult. You

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Speaker 4: You got to be more.

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Speaker 3: Square and stay through the middle of the baseball. So

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Speaker 3: you've got to try it with some of these kids.

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Speaker 3: We just got to get them more upright a little

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Speaker 4: Let the fastball come to you, and you need to

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Speaker 3: Everybody's worried about the breaking balls and all that, but

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Speaker 4: Baggs.

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Speaker 2: Has any of the young kids asked you about your stance,

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Speaker 2: you know, what made you go that route, or if

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, they don't ask me to teach it. I

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Speaker 4: I said, Okay, what does Tony Gwinn do?

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Speaker 4: I said, okay.

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Speaker 3: So I started doing that and then it morphed into

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to see it bad.

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Speaker 7: Why didn't you tell us that before? Well, I don't know,

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Speaker 7: but it was. It was a chore, but you know

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Speaker 3: So we just try and make it as simple and

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Speaker 5: Actually I have a true story that I tried to

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Speaker 5: coach goes, and I was, I was smashing, I was crushing.

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Speaker 5: My hitting coach goes, you can't catch. You can't catch

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Speaker 5: So I go, right, okay, I'll stop. But either way,

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Speaker 5: we're not trying to polish or turn here like it wasn't.

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Speaker 5: I wasn't going to hit that well anyway. But do

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Speaker 4: And it's funny you said that I was.

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Speaker 3: They asked me today when I was over there, go backs,

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Speaker 3: I said, that's a lose lose situations. The night say,

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Speaker 8: So first off, I mean, how impressed are you with

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Speaker 3: Well, for one, he's you know, arguably one of the

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Speaker 3: for four or four for four, it makes our team better.

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Speaker 4: Everybody around him is better.

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Speaker 3: Posing managers, you can't even bring lefties into facing because

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Speaker 3: he's going to kill them too. So we can get

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Speaker 3: him healthy for one hundred and fifty five games. They'll

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Speaker 3: be in good shape now. Playing in the outfield, Jordon's

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Speaker 5: Good Christian Walker, a guy that came in last year

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're seeing a lot better at Christian

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Speaker 3: Walker this year. I think it is tough sometimes to

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Speaker 3: any of us ever think about our contract when we

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Speaker 3: I think he's learned that some of the moves that

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Speaker 4: You know, you see this thing up in the thing.

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Speaker 3: But you know, when we played, you know, we had

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Speaker 4: So it's a little bit different.

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Speaker 5: We had a lot of comments about the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 3: I don't know the answer to that. That's not my job, thankfully.

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Speaker 4: Yes? I do you do?

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Speaker 9: Yes, guys.

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Speaker 2: He signed that said thank you for giving up three

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Speaker 4: I did to me.

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Speaker 3: To get it was great. Danny and I've been been

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Speaker 4: It just happened.

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Speaker 3: I had actually had some balance that day that I

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Speaker 4: Guys.

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Speaker 1: He makes me feel so much better about myself now.

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Speaker 3: Good.

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate you stopping behind me. This was an

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Speaker 9: It's good to see you.

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Speaker 8: You seem really happy and having fun out there. So

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Speaker 8: what's it been like this little camp run for you

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Speaker 9: It's been good, you know, coming into camp and just

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Speaker 8: Are you sick of people asking you like, hey, how

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Speaker 9: Happy, It just it just is, you know, it's part

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Speaker 9: not so not so flat and die, I'm not running

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Speaker 9: into those barrels. So I think I'll have enough separation

440
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Speaker 9: with my regular change up to kind of rock rock

441
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Speaker 9: and roll with it.

442
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Speaker 2: So Lance, now that you you are feeling healthy and

443
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Speaker 2: this is like a normal spring training for you.

444
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Speaker 1: You're one of the old guys left.

445
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Speaker 2: So is it is it more easy for you now

446
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Speaker 2: to be that leader that you you wanted to be

447
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Speaker 2: when when you weren't as healthy.

448
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Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying, well, as a pitcher, and

449
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Speaker 9: I think Todd and you know everyone can speak to it.

450
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Speaker 9: It's hard to be a pure leader as a as

451
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Speaker 9: a starting pitcher. That's my opinion. You know that's maybe

452
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Speaker 9: not accurate to everyone, but that's my opinion. It's hard

453
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Speaker 9: to really be a leader of the team not out

454
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Speaker 9: there every day, and I kind of in the grind,

455
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Speaker 9: in the struggle understanding what guys are dealing with on

456
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Speaker 9: a daily basis. You know, as a starter you're once

457
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Speaker 9: every four or five days with resting between of course.

458
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Speaker 9: So I think that, you know, when we've had really

459
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Speaker 9: great leaders here, like I think back with you know,

460
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Speaker 9: on Kykol when he was really emerging, Vertland or Cole

461
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Speaker 9: you know, Hunter and myself for a period of time

462
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Speaker 9: when I was healthy. I think it's easier when you're

463
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Speaker 9: healthy and you're out there and you with the guys

464
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Speaker 9: every day, you're on the road trips, uh, You're you're

465
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Speaker 9: at the team dinners, you know, you're you're, you know,

466
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Speaker 9: one of the veterans. So I think there's a when

467
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Speaker 9: you're a veteran, there's an automatic type of maybe a

468
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Speaker 9: responsibility to you know kind of guy and and and

469
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Speaker 9: help with the young guys, you know, kind of through

470
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Speaker 9: especially when you're pitching, and you're pitching, well, I think

471
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Speaker 9: you can, you know, be more, be a little bit

472
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Speaker 9: more vocal. You're more of a presence. So I think we'll,

473
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Speaker 9: you know, we'll see how it goes, but I hope

474
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Speaker 9: I can kind of step into that full roll again.

475
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Speaker 5: A right, Lance, there's a guy on the there's a

476
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Speaker 5: rookie that's gonna make his debut this year that wants

477
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Speaker 5: to wear Batman cleats and they're gonna call him Wago.

478
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Speaker 5: What would you talk? What would you say to that rookie?

479
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Speaker 5: I'm obviously for people don't know, I'm referring to Lance

480
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Speaker 5: when he was a rookie. I was there when you

481
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Speaker 5: were still young, and the scott Ems and the Luke Gregorsons,

482
00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,280
Speaker 5: those guys gave you a hard time. They called you

483
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Speaker 5: wag goo. You've had an incredible career of successes in

484
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Speaker 5: different stages, but what would you right now as your

485
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Speaker 5: Lance McCullers tell that Lance mccollors.

486
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Speaker 9: Oh, man, I would say, if I honestly, I would

487
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Speaker 9: say to trust a little bit more, you know, in

488
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Speaker 9: your stuff. I think I look back on my early

489
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Speaker 9: career and I watch video and I think, man, I

490
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Speaker 9: wish I still had that same stuff. So I would say,

491
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Speaker 9: you know, just to you know, trusting this stuff a

492
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Speaker 9: little bit more than I did. I think back in

493
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Speaker 9: the day, not tinker so much. I'm a tinker by nature.

494
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Speaker 9: Even in this spring balls me coming out. Well, I'm

495
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Speaker 9: trying new stuff and our pitching coast. Josh Miller's like,

496
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Speaker 9: I think, I think maybe we just stick with what

497
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Speaker 9: we got. You look good right now. So I would

498
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Speaker 9: look back and say to, you know, truly enjoy the ride.

499
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Speaker 9: You know, don't always be thinking so far into the future.

500
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Speaker 9: I think that's natural when you're young. I think you

501
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Speaker 9: always want the next step, or you always want to

502
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Speaker 9: get to the next thing, and you kind of, you know,

503
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Speaker 9: you look at your career and you look back you say,

504
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Speaker 9: you know, I've enjoyed I've loved it. But man, I'd

505
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Speaker 9: love to go back, you know. As a twenty one,

506
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Speaker 9: twenty two year old in the big leagues and you know,

507
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Speaker 9: be able to kind of experience it all over again.

508
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Speaker 9: So I'm grateful for the for the veterans I had.

509
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Speaker 9: They were hard on me at times, but I think

510
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Speaker 9: it was all in hopes for you know, me to

511
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Speaker 9: be in the future and be able to lead other guys.

512
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Speaker 2: Yeah, following up on that lance, you mentioned that you

513
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Speaker 2: wanted to have that more belief in your ability to

514
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Speaker 2: belief in your stuff. You mentioned a minute ago about

515
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Speaker 2: your splitter. Are we really going to see it? You

516
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Speaker 2: said you don't have confidence in it yet, but I

517
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Speaker 2: feel like mentally you're there. You're gonna be able to

518
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Speaker 2: figure it out if you want to.

519
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Speaker 9: The pitch is good. The pitch is good, but you know,

520
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:41,000
Speaker 9: you kind of got to pick you know. Am I

521
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Speaker 9: going to hold a pitch that I throw ten percent

522
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Speaker 9: of the time all the time to move off it

523
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Speaker 9: for the tipping type of stuff? And then when I

524
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Speaker 9: pre grip it, I get the grip solid. And then

525
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Speaker 9: if I'm going to be moving off it for the

526
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Speaker 9: other pitches and I got I got a wiggle in

527
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Speaker 9: there with the splitters, then I'm losing the grip when

528
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Speaker 9: I'm actually going to go throw it. So the splitter

529
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Speaker 9: for me was more of a my two seam didn't

530
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Speaker 9: get back to some rise and run. If I couldn't

531
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Speaker 9: get in on those rid e's, I couldn't stay away

532
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Speaker 9: from the barrel path and the lefties, you know what

533
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Speaker 9: kind of and the villa didn't come back, which the

534
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Speaker 9: villa has been good this spring. My first game, I

535
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Speaker 9: got up to ninety four point six, as I was

536
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Speaker 9: told ninety five on the board, but ninety four point six,

537
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Speaker 9: so the villos, the Villa's climbing a little bit. I

538
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Speaker 9: think there's enough separation with the two in the change

539
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Speaker 9: up now. The splitter was a pitch that I'm going

540
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Speaker 9: to the off season, like Todd was saying, I was like, man,

541
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Speaker 9: I need something to separate from like that lazy dying too,

542
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,639
Speaker 9: and something that's a little bit gives gives me a

543
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Speaker 9: little bit more bite. So we'll see how it goes.

544
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Speaker 9: I mean, it's it's there, I still throw it, but

545
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Speaker 9: but again it's it's about being able to execute and

546
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Speaker 9: feeling confident in the game.

547
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Speaker 5: Are you ever jealous of Are you? And al Tuove

548
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 5: ever jealous of Korea? Because he got to leave and

549
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 5: like got to see the world and now he's back

550
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 5: the place that you guys feel comfortable and have been

551
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Speaker 5: in your entire career.

552
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Speaker 9: Yeah, part of me is always like, man, I would

553
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Speaker 9: I would love to you know, meet, you know, meet

554
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Speaker 9: more guys in the game, you know, kind of experience

555
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Speaker 9: you know, other other clubhouse cultures, you know, meet you know,

556
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 9: be able to develop their relationship with with other teammates.

557
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Speaker 9: I think it's a pitcher, especially you never want to

558
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 9: be too friendly. I'm a naturally friendly person, but you

559
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,439
Speaker 9: never want to be too friendly with like opposing hitters

560
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 9: and all that stuff, because I feel like it gives

561
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Speaker 9: him a little bit of an edge. So you know,

562
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Speaker 9: all my teammates that have been here that I've been

563
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Speaker 9: really close with, when I face them, it's always a

564
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 9: little bit awkward. When I face George or Tucker, place

565
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 9: took me deep. That wasn't cool. So you know, you

566
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Speaker 9: just you just you just try to you just you

567
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 9: just try to find that balance of being able to

568
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Speaker 9: meet people and you know, meet guys around the game

569
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Speaker 9: and experience the game you know as a whole. But yeah,

570
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Speaker 9: you know, Carlos, I think he enjoyed his time in Minnesota.

571
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Speaker 9: But I definitely think he's happy to happy to be home.

572
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Speaker 5: Lance.

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Speaker 8: While you mentioned Tucker, what did you think of his

574
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Speaker 8: free agency expedition? And you know how he landed the

575
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Speaker 8: big high a V deal and ends up with the

576
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Speaker 8: Dodgers and you know they're coming off the World Series

577
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 8: and then they get the best hitter in free agency,

578
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Speaker 8: that whole saga.

579
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's I think it's great. I'm super

580
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 9: happy for Tuck. Honestly, it just really am all the guys,

581
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Speaker 9: whether it was BREGGI or George or all these guys

582
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Speaker 9: going to free agency. I always text them how to say, Man,

583
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Speaker 9: I just want what's you know best for you and

584
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Speaker 9: the family, uh, wherever that may be. And I know

585
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Speaker 9: Tucker is a East Coast boy like myself, so uh yeah, yeah,

586
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Speaker 9: I knew. I played with his brother, actually with the Astros,

587
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Speaker 9: play play with Kyle, but being able to kind of

588
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Speaker 9: watch his development, his growth from from a young from

589
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Speaker 9: a young rookie and kind of coming out of the

590
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Speaker 9: show a little bit and you know, really feeling confident

591
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Speaker 9: in himself. He's a premier player in our game.

592
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Speaker 4: Man.

593
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Speaker 9: I think I think he's I think he gets overlooked

594
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Speaker 9: a lot. Not you know, we were to we had

595
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Speaker 9: such great players on our team for a long time,

596
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Speaker 9: and obviously goes to the Cubs a lot of star

597
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 9: power there. But I think I think Tucker Man, he

598
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 9: could have a big, big season over there in l A.

599
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Speaker 9: And you know, the Dodgers are a great team, you know,

600
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Speaker 9: but we we still got to go out there, we

601
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Speaker 9: got to compete, and I'm happy for him and the

602
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 9: Dodgers got a great a great kid, great man.

603
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Speaker 6: Talk about another picture, Tsuya and I have you seen

604
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 6: in him a little bit? And what do you what

605
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Speaker 6: can you tell us about him and his progression?

606
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Speaker 4: Uh? In America? Here getting going.

607
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Speaker 9: He seems very comfortable. He's locker mats with with me.

608
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Speaker 9: Is his interpreter.

609
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 4: Rio.

610
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Speaker 9: We we kind of talked, well, obviously we talked through him.

611
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Speaker 9: But he's he's got first he's got the fastest pickoff

612
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,199
Speaker 9: move I've ever seen the first base. It's it's it's

613
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 9: pretty incredible. But he's got he's got big stuff. He's

614
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Speaker 9: got big stuff and it's quick and it's it's fast

615
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Speaker 9: and it gets on hitters. I watched him yesterday against

616
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Speaker 9: the Mets.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the.

618
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Speaker 9: Fastball really really gets on guys. And he seems like

619
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Speaker 9: a great, great dude. Obviously there's a there's a big

620
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Speaker 9: language barrier there. But you know, during the season, you know,

621
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Speaker 9: we're obviously have the field more hours and you you

622
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Speaker 9: travel with guys, and he's already asking like, Hey, what

623
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Speaker 9: are we gonna you know, what do we playing the plane?

624
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Speaker 9: What card games do we play? And so I see

625
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Speaker 9: him on his phone kind of watching him, trying to

626
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Speaker 9: trying to trying to pick him up so he can

627
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Speaker 9: play with the boys. So he's a it's been a

628
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 9: joy to have in the camp. He works super hard. Guy,

629
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Speaker 9: lifts the house. He lifts the house. Yeah, I see

630
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Speaker 9: him in there, and you know, by his stature you

631
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Speaker 9: would you wouldn't think so. But he can move some

632
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 9: weight and I think he's going to be a great,

633
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 9: great addition. He seems like a super big competitor.

634
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 2: So humility aside Lance who's got better hair? I saw

635
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 2: him walk out and he's got like streaks or something

636
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 2: in it, right, Like who's got the better flow?

637
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Speaker 9: You or him? I don't know. I guess to each

638
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 9: their own, it's their own. He's got Yeah, he's got

639
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,360
Speaker 9: the highlights, got the highlights. Look, he's got a lot

640
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 9: he's got a lot of quiet swag. Yeah, I would say,

641
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Speaker 9: am I does? Yeah?

642
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 5: All right, Hunter Brown, we talk about it all the

643
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 5: time on the show Aces and Number Ones. Is he

644
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Speaker 5: an ace yet? If he's not, I would say he's

645
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Speaker 5: a number one and I would say he's not an

646
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Speaker 5: ACE yet? Where does he need to take that next

647
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Speaker 5: step to be an ace in this league?

648
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 9: Disconsistency. Hunter's got it all, Hunters the full package. He's big,

649
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 9: his stuff's explosive, it's electric. He's he's been here for

650
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 9: you know. I mean it's been the big leagues for

651
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 9: three or four years now, but with the organization for

652
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Speaker 9: six I think six or seven years. Extremely healthy, extremely durable.

653
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Speaker 9: And for me, when I'm when I'm looking at an ace,

654
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Speaker 9: I'm looking at the guys who just can get out

655
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Speaker 9: there every every fifth, sixth day. You know, guys that

656
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 9: are just the team counts on them. They're the horse

657
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 9: and then they got the stuff behind it. So I

658
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 9: talk to a lot of guys, you know, in camp,

659
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 9: We'll could be going over video and I kind of

660
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 9: separate your stuff, guy, or you're a command guy and

661
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 9: you got to lean into that right Like I'm obviously

662
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 9: I wish I had better command and more of a

663
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Speaker 9: stuff guy, so I just got to lean into the

664
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Speaker 9: stuff other guys, and I hate leaning that leaning, lean

665
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Speaker 9: into that command. You know, don't worry so much about

666
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,719
Speaker 9: a track man. Don't worry so much about all these

667
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 9: different you know, pitch shapes. You're you have a lead command,

668
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 9: lean into it. But when you get both, you get

669
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 9: a hundred round, you get Scoobale. I mean, those are

670
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 9: those are the those type of guys you get Hunter Man.

671
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 9: He's probably one more full season away from doing what

672
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 9: he's done the last two years, from from from being

673
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 9: absolute premier ace in this game. He's an unbelievable person.

674
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 9: He prepares fantastic. You know, I think he should be

675
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 9: the face of this rotation for for years and years

676
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 9: to come. Uh can't, for I know he loves I

677
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 9: know he loves playing for for the Astros. And I think,

678
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 9: you know, it's only it's only March sixth I think,

679
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 9: you know, I think the Astro has got a couple

680
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 9: more weeks to see if they if they liked it,

681
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 9: to make a run at them. But that that's a

682
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 9: guy you built that you build your your starting rotation

683
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Speaker 9: around for you know, five six seven years to come.

684
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 5: What does your future look like after this year? There's

685
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 5: your last year with the Astros under contract. Yeah, what

686
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,640
Speaker 5: does it look like? Because I know you've had these

687
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 5: just I mean a little bit that we've texted back

688
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 5: and forth. You've you've mentioned like you know what's next,

689
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 5: what's next for Lance mccullors, And I know you are

690
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 5: where your feet are, but what what are the things

691
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 5: that you thought about next for you?

692
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 9: I did an interview leading into camp, and I think

693
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 9: some people took it the right way. I think some

694
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 9: people took it the wrong way. And what I meant

695
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 9: by it was I just, like Todd mentioned, I just

696
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Speaker 9: I have no uh reservations as far as you know

697
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Speaker 9: what what life bring in the future, you know. I'm

698
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 9: just I'm very free right now. I think it's a

699
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 9: great place to be as an athlete. I love this team.

700
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 9: I'm a I love this organization. I've been with this

701
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 9: organization that I was eighteen years old, thirty two. Now

702
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 9: I've going on thirty three, and so my life has

703
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 9: been here, my career has been here, having unbelievable relationships

704
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 9: with not only the players, but the staff at the

705
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 9: at the stadium. So this, you know, this is my home.

706
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 9: This is this is where we live full time. My

707
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 9: daughters are in school in Houston. Whenever, We're never going

708
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 9: to leave Houston. And we'll see what the game brings me. Honestly,

709
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 9: if if the game, if the game. You know, a

710
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 9: lot of times you get you get told by the game,

711
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 9: you know, and you got to you gotta go do

712
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 9: something else, or sometimes you have the ability to kind

713
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 9: of stretch that. I love to be able to be

714
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 9: healthy and to have, you know, have a few more

715
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 9: years than me. Like I look at a guy like,

716
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 9: you know, Nathan Valdi as like big inspiration, someone who

717
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 9: has been through, you know, a lot of injuries, kind

718
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 9: of had to work his way back and then really

719
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 9: had a you know, late late season, late career resurgence,

720
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 9: Charlie Morin, those type of guys, I don't think I'll

721
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,719
Speaker 9: be pitching. So I'm forty, but I love to keep

722
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 9: playing this game. It's been my whole life. But in

723
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 9: the interview, you know, I said, I'm a dad first,

724
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 9: you know, two beautiful daughter, is a great wife, and

725
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,959
Speaker 9: so if that's what's on the other side of baseball

726
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 9: for me, I'm not gonna be upset about that either.

727
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 9: So I'm free. I'm open. I'd love to remain an ASTRO.

728
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,479
Speaker 9: I think if I can prove that I am healthy,

729
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 9: my stuff is there. I think there could be, you know,

730
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 9: more years to come, or maybe I go off and

731
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 9: play for the organization get to experience that, or I

732
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Speaker 9: get to go home to my daughters.

733
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Speaker 1: It's not a bad thing to go home to family.

734
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 2: Being that first Lance, we really appreciate you stopping by

735
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 2: and we're happy for you.

736
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: Man.

737
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Speaker 4: Thank you. Feeling good?

738
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 9: Yeah good, so far, so good.

739
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 8: Spencer Araghetti joining us from Astro's camp. Danny, want to

740
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 8: take it away for a moment.

741
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, Spencer, thank you for joining us. Talk to us

742
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 2: a little bit about how you're feeling coming in just

743
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 2: bring training this year.

744
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 11: I'm feeling extra grateful to be back on the mound.

745
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 11: To be real honest with you, last year was absolutely

746
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 11: not what I wanted to be.

747
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 10: Obviously, nobody wants to spend most of the year on

748
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 10: the IL.

749
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 11: But I did the work I needed to do this

750
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 11: offseason to feel again, and I'm feeling ready to go.

751
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you came back early last year?

752
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 9: See?

753
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 10: I mean in the moment, I would have said no.

754
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 11: But looking back at it, I think probably I think

755
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 11: I could have been a little bit more aware of

756
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 11: like where stuff was at, where my range of motion

757
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 11: and strength in some certain areas was at. And yeah,

758
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 11: I think if I could go back and do it again,

759
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 11: I'd probably get myself another week or so, take another

760
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 11: start and triple age to get things figured out and

761
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 11: make sure everything was good. But yeah, you know, I

762
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 11: mean in the moment, I just I saw a team

763
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 11: that was in a hunt for a playoff spot and

764
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 11: I wanted to get back and help, you know.

765
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Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean that's the mindset everybody. I love that.

766
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 6: My question is for you, you're right thumb. It was

767
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 6: fractured in twenty twenty five. Is there anything that you

768
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 6: need to change now grip wise or you know, maybe

769
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,239
Speaker 6: throwing something differently a different arm angle, or is that

770
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 6: thing back to where it really needs to be in

771
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 6: You're fine?

772
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 11: So I got really lucky. It was a super clean break.

773
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 11: It was a really straightforward rehab process with it, and

774
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 11: everything feels completely the same as before. So I think

775
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 11: that for me, I'm just trying to be exactly who

776
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 11: I was before the injury, try to make everything feel

777
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 11: the same as it was before, and I've been fortunate

778
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 11: enough to not really have to dig too deep to

779
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 11: find something.

780
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 5: New, Spencer, is it mandatory that you have legit hair

781
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 5: to throw in this rotation? Is that mandatory? I mean

782
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 5: I have to be the one to ask about the hair,

783
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 5: because you know, I like, I'm jelly, I'm super jelly.

784
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 10: I wouldn't say it's mandatory. It's just it's an attribute,

785
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 10: that's for sure. That's what we'll call it.

786
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 5: Jim Craan does come through, because when I played for

787
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 5: the Astros, Jim kran came through. It was it was

788
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 5: you know, Dallas Kikeel was there. He had his beard

789
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 5: and he goes, we're in the weight room and he says,

790
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 5: and my other businesses, we wouldn't allow this, We wouldn't

791
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 5: allow what Dallas has on his face. And Dallas was like,

792
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 5: but I keep it nice. So this Jim has Jim

793
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 5: said anything to you. I'm sure he said something to

794
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 5: Lance over the years.

795
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 11: No, not really. He's like, he's pretty hands off with

796
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 11: that stuff. I think, whatever you want to look like,

797
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 11: he's okay with it. And like you said, other businesses

798
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 11: maybe not so much.

799
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 10: But for baseball. I think it's all good.

800
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 2: Okay to follow up on that with not just the hair,

801
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 2: but is it a prerequisite to be giants to pitch

802
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 2: with this pitching staff? And I know I'm just a

803
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 2: little guy sitting here, but everybody that's come up here, you,

804
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 2: Lance and Hunter so far are ginormous.

805
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 11: Man, you haven't even seen the really big guys. You

806
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 11: look at You look at Ryan Weiss, you look at

807
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 11: Brian A.

808
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 10: Brady.

809
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 11: Those guys are absolutely units. I feel like one of

810
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 11: the smaller guys in the locker room for the most part.

811
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 10: And Lance too.

812
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 11: Lance has always telling me, yeah, like I'm the short guy,

813
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 11: I'm the small guy, and it's like, dude, you're not

814
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 11: small like you're You're a big dude. But no, it's

815
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 11: a I wouldn't say it's a it's a prerequisite, but yeah,

816
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 11: they definitely like a big over here.

817
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 8: Hey, Spencer, you obviously you know we're going through your

818
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 8: own thing last year. But what did you see from

819
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 8: Hunter Brown in his progression? And how cool was that

820
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 8: to see a teammate not just to rise and figure

821
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 8: it all out for a full season, but finishing third

822
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 8: for Cy Young Crazy.

823
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 11: I couldn't be more happy for that guy. So when

824
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 11: I got called up in twenty four, he was kind

825
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 11: of in the midst of like the biggest trouble he'd

826
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 11: ever based in baseball.

827
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 10: I mean, he was kind of searching for something.

828
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 11: Obviously found the answer in a big way in the

829
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 11: two seam and then being one of the best pitchers

830
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,760
Speaker 11: in baseball for a whole year and a half after

831
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 11: the back now is just incredible. I mean, it's it's

832
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 11: a real testament to the way that he works, the

833
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 11: way that he believes in himself, the way he believes

834
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 11: in his stuff, And I mean that's what you get

835
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 11: every time he takes the mound, is just your belief

836
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 11: in what he's going to go out there and do.

837
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 10: He knows he's going to dominate at this point, and it's.

838
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 11: Just, I mean, it feels out of place for me

839
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 11: to say proud, because I mean he's like big brother

840
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 11: to me at this point. But I just, I mean,

841
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 11: it's it's been the coolest thing to watch, and I

842
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 11: feel like it's an inspiration to a lot of guys

843
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 11: that might be in the dark place kind of whether

844
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 11: the storm a little bit on the mound and you're

845
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 11: always that close to being being the best version of yourself.

846
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 11: And I think that watching him do it has been

847
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:56,280
Speaker 11: really really awesome.

848
00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 5: What is this rotation as a group like, because you

849
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 5: got new pieces put into it, you had a different

850
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,959
Speaker 5: looking rotation before, before you even came up, it looked

851
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 5: different than that. How do you feel like this group

852
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 5: is melding? And will there be this like, you know,

853
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 5: always behind each other, always fighting for each other, or

854
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 5: is it more of like individuals on each every each

855
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 5: and every day that they're out there.

856
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 11: I'd say it's like a like you said, a little

857
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 11: bit of melding at this point. Obviously we've only been

858
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 11: around each other for about three weeks now, but I

859
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 11: mean I've gotten to know Ami a little bit, I've

860
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 11: gotten to know Weiss pretty well, I've gotten to know

861
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 11: Burrows really well.

862
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 10: And I'm just really excited. I think we got a

863
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 10: bunch of dogs.

864
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 11: I think we got a bunch of guys that want

865
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 11: to go out there and compete, and they want to

866
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,919
Speaker 11: cover their innings. They want to, you know, just give

867
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 11: the team what they need every night, which is a

868
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 11: chance to win. And I think that we have exactly

869
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 11: that in the rotation right now. Is a bunch of

870
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 11: guys who are going to go out there and take

871
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,439
Speaker 11: the ball and compete until the till the manager comes

872
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:52,399
Speaker 11: takes it away from them.

873
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 5: Will you learn some Japanese so that you can you

874
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 5: can talk to him I a little bit more.

875
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 11: I'm trying. We got to We got a word of

876
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 11: the day thing going right now. Every day we walk in,

877
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 11: there's a new Japanese word. There's a new Mandarin word

878
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 11: Kaiwait Tank speaks Mandarin as well, So we got a

879
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 11: lot of it going on right now. I'm gonna be

880
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 11: completely honest. None of it is stuck yet, but I'm

881
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 11: working on it. I got I got good morning down

882
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 11: because I say it every day to him he's ad

883
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 11: the locker right next to me. But past that, I mean,

884
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 11: I'm kind of hopeless at this point, but I'll try.

885
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: Can you give us the good morning real quick?

886
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 10: Ohio?

887
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 9: Oh?

888
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 4: That's it?

889
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 10: Ohio? Okay, I'm probably saying it wrong.

890
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 2: But are there any other words or phrases that shouldn't

891
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 2: be said out in public that you guys have asked for?

892
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 10: Certainly, it's like it's like learning Spanish for the first time.

893
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 10: You learn all the bad words first.

894
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 11: Once you get in the clubhouse full of Spanish speaking guys,

895
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,959
Speaker 11: and yeah, I've learned a couple of bad Japanese words.

896
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 11: I definitely won't say those ones on air, but yeah,

897
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 11: that's it. I feel like that's naturally how you learn

898
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 11: the new language first, as you learned the ones you

899
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 11: shouldn't say.

900
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,959
Speaker 5: All right, So one of the things that's talked about

901
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 5: outside of your team is is this guy gonna get traded?

902
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 5: Is that guy you know? Where's how's this gonna work out?

903
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 5: And everyone's like they have to figure this out or

904
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 5: it's a distraction. Do you feel like as a player

905
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 5: on the team that kind of stuff is a distraction.

906
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,919
Speaker 10: I wouldn't call it a distraction. I think it's part

907
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 10: of the business.

908
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 11: And I know that guys tend to steer away from

909
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 11: putting too much stock into any of that because at

910
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 11: this point we're all still here and we had one

911
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 11: goal right now, and that's getting ready to go win

912
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 11: baseball games.

913
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 10: So I think in from a to keep it short.

914
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 11: Yet, it is a distraction in a way, but if

915
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 11: you don't let it get to you, it never can be.

916
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 11: So I think that we got a bunch of guys

917
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 11: that are committed to being here, nobody's one foot in,

918
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 11: one foot out. Everybody's bought in on what we're trying

919
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 11: to do this year, So I don't really think anybody's

920
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 11: thinking too much of it.

921
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 5: Hey go ahead, what if you look back at last year?

922
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 5: You were hurt, but how the season ended, the Astros

923
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 5: ended their run of not making the playoffs. Has that

924
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 5: been brought up in spring training? Was that a sour

925
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,399
Speaker 5: taste in your mouth? Or was it? You know what?

926
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 5: I was hurt while I couldn't help the team. I

927
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 5: also didn't have the same feeling as the guys that

928
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 5: were out there on the field grinding it out.

929
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 11: I mean, I I'm from Houston, so I definitely leaves

930
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 11: a sour taste in my mouth. I've been very lucky,

931
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 11: very fortunate to be able to watch this team be

932
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 11: in the playoffs for, like you said, the last nine

933
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 11: ten years before that, So I think it goes without

934
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 11: saying in the clubhouse. I think we all know what

935
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 11: the goal is, and it's not just a goal, it's

936
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 11: an expectation at this point, and that's the culture that

937
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 11: we've had here forever. That's all I've ever known with

938
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 11: the Astros. So I would like to say that. It's

939
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 11: probably the same feeling for everybody else. It doesn't need

940
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 11: to be said. It's just what we're going to set

941
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 11: out to do as soon as we play that opening game.

942
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 11: And yeah, I don't really think there's much else to

943
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 11: say about it. Obviously, I would have liked to have

944
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 11: been a bigger part of it, like to have been

945
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 11: a bigger part of maybe making that last push that

946
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 11: we needed to make, But it just it didn't. Chips

947
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 11: didn't fall that way last year. And I'll do everything

948
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 11: I can this year to make sure I'm around for it.

949
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 5: Go into the being from Houston and play for the Astros.

950
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 5: But the history of the Astros now have had and

951
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 5: then you joined the program. But also do you play

952
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 5: for free? Like do you have to give away that

953
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 5: many tickets?

954
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 11: So when I was a rookie, I didn't quite understand

955
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 11: exactly how fast you can rack up that tab on tickets.

956
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 11: And if I were to say the tab on air

957
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 11: would make me want to throw up. Like it was

958
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 11: it was a disgusting amount of money that I spent

959
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 11: on tickets. And I kind of had to tell the

960
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 11: family year two, like, hey, you know, guys, you might

961
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 11: be getting your own tickets a little more often this year,

962
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 11: and that's not ever a conversation I wanted to have.

963
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 11: But yeah, I was playing for free probably thirty percent

964
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 11: of my starts my rookie year, but it was because

965
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,479
Speaker 11: I wanted them all there. They're all twenty minutes thirty

966
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 11: minutes from the stadium, so it's easy for them to

967
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 11: get there. And I don't ever want to be the

968
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 11: one to say no, don't come watch me play, but

969
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 11: at this point they know it's like, hey, get your

970
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 11: own tickets, get your own parking pass.

971
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 10: Like I'm kind of off that at this point.

972
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: Do you ever I'll go go ahead, cratzy, No.

973
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 5: No, can we get a ball Can we get a ballpark?

974
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 5: Of how much? Like are we talking like? Or is

975
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 5: it that much of a number. Because fans don't understand this.

976
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 5: You do have to pay for your tickets. Are the

977
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 5: face value of the ticket? You have to pay the

978
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 5: taxes on that ticket. And people are gonna say, oh,

979
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 5: it makes millions of dollars. You don't make millions of

980
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:25,240
Speaker 5: dollars until you have a contract or you are arbitration eligible.

981
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 5: So I'm saying that to preface what you're going to say.

982
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 10: I spent just south of twenty grand on tickets.

983
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 1: You know how much other cool stuff you could have

984
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 1: bought for twenty grand.

985
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 10: I'm just thinking it could be in a savings account.

986
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,399
Speaker 10: At this point, I would rather be there.

987
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 11: But again, I'm very grateful for all the people that

988
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,399
Speaker 11: made their way down to Dacon Park to come watch

989
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 11: me pitch. But yeah, just you look back on it,

990
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 11: it's like, man, that is a disgusting number and I'll

991
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:51,439
Speaker 11: never do it again.

992
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:57,919
Speaker 1: Tell them to watch on TV. So do you ever

993
00:40:58,719 --> 00:40:59,399
Speaker 1: obviously not.

994
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 2: While you're actually pitching, but do you ever sit in

995
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 2: the dugout and look out at left field the Crawford

996
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 2: boxes and say, gosh, I wish pictures could hit again?

997
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:07,760
Speaker 9: Oh?

998
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 11: Man, I have no business hitting against the arts that

999
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 11: we got in the big leagues today. But I think

1000
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 11: there was part of me in high school that thought

1001
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 11: I could do it, thought I could be a hitter.

1002
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 11: But yeah, you look out there, it's like, man, I

1003
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 11: can hit a fly ball.

1004
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 5: Eighty nine to left field.

1005
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 10: It's not that far away.

1006
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 11: But yeah, the funny thing about Mini made is if

1007
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 11: you hit it the center field, it's not going over

1008
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 11: the fence. If you hit it to left field, it's

1009
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 11: almost a coin flip, like it's just it's a I

1010
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 11: said minute made on air again. Sorry Dacon Park, but yeah, no,

1011
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 11: I got no business. We got too many nasty guys

1012
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 11: to throw way too hard. Now, I'd punch out every

1013
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 11: single at that.

1014
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: Spoken like a true pitcher.

1015
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 5: Hitting is hard.

1016
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 2: Guys, we all know that Spencer really appreciate you stopping by.

1017
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 2: Good luck to you this season, a full season of

1018
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 2: good health for you.

1019
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 10: Thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you for having me on. Guys,