1 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to episode number six of A 2 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: Ball with Eric Ohs. This is Eric Ohs and it's 3 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: good to have you with us. We have a special 4 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: guest with us today. They're always special, but this tibe 5 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: we'll be chatting with the first round pick for the 6 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: Miami Marlins, one of the Marlins chop prospects as well, 7 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: Connor Scott, who is kind enough to take some time 8 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:39,279 Speaker 1: with us and chat with us about a week ago 9 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,279 Speaker 1: out in Clinton on what was a rainy day. We 10 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: were putting that one in the can because this broadcaster, 11 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: he was on assignment over the weekend. So we record 12 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: this part of the podcast from Dayton, Ohio, the lumber 13 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 1: Kings and their longest road trip of the season currently, 14 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: So we record this on May sixth, and that is 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: both the longest in time on the road nine games 16 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: in total, and also in mileage. We're going to be 17 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: going out to Bowling Green, Kentucky as well. That series 18 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: will be May ninth through the eleventh, a swing through 19 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 1: the Eastern Division, though that had started back on May 20 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: or rather April thirtieth, against West Michigan. The white Caps 21 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: and the Single a affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. And 22 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: the Lumberkings playing some really good baseball behind some phenomenal 23 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: pitching and really all eyes focusing on a Chris Valamont 24 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: start that had happened against the South Bend Cubs. Series 25 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: that early on was dominated by pitching. Vallamont in Game two, 26 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,639 Speaker 1: which was on Saturday, May the fourth, a professional career 27 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: high for strikeouts, and we had him on the podcast 28 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: last week, so a good guy to pick up right 29 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: where we had kind of left off. But twelve strikeouts 30 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: against the South Bend Cubs, that professional career high was 31 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: good enough to give Valamont his first win of the season, 32 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: and it is well deserved because Vaalamont, as we have 33 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: well noted, he's just been bit by very little run support, 34 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: sometimes none of it at all. Remember Vallamont had to 35 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: wait three starts until he got one run of support, 36 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: and that had come on a solo home run by 37 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: Bubba Hollins in Peoria, and the lumber Kinks still lost 38 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: that game two to one. So finally some run support 39 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: for Vallamont, lots of strikeouts with a twelve of those, 40 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: a power pitcher that we had touched on last week 41 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: when he had joined us I mean, a guy that 42 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: can throw ninety seven miles per hour, so it's pretty 43 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: easy to see how these strikeouts can pile up. And 44 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: it came over six innings of work. So that was 45 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: a quality start for the lumber Kings, which had come 46 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: after a quality start on Friday, May the third, and 47 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: the opener of that series against South Bend from humberto Mehea. 48 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: So the lumber Kings, who have had some very strong 49 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,959 Speaker 1: pitching and that is evidenced in fact by their overall 50 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: team ERA of two point ninety five and a starting 51 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: ERA of three point four eight, but the first time 52 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: all season long that they had consecutive quality starts and 53 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: just weird to think about given how strong they have been, 54 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: But really that is just speaking to the early nature 55 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: of the season. Just trying to get the arms stretched out, 56 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: as you hear at this time of the year, and 57 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: the lumber King's certainly having those arms stretched out. Even 58 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: in their own only loss against the South Bend Cubs, 59 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: which was on May the fifth, on a Sunday, that 60 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: was another very well pitched game. Alberto Guarrera, who has 61 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: hit pretty hard, I could say early on in the season, 62 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 1: he's starting to settle down and he's got a pretty 63 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: nice breaking ball, as we're finding out, especially when he 64 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: spots it on the outside corner, kind of that go 65 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: to strikeout pitch for him against right handed batters. And 66 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: he turned in another sixth inning start, so Guarrero very sharp. 67 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: He got a no decision though for that timeout, so 68 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,959 Speaker 1: lumber Kings would lose that very late in the game 69 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: on a home run by g dj Artists on the 70 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: South Bend Cubs, a kind of anomaly for the Cubs 71 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: because they only had eight home runs after that series 72 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: had come to an end. On the flip side of 73 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: that coin, how about the Lumberkings twenty five home runs 74 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: now on this season. That is the second most in 75 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: the Midwest League. As again we record this on May 76 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: the sixth here in Dayton, Ohio. And that is very 77 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: odd to say, because remember if you followed the team 78 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: for the first week of the season, they had none 79 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: as in zero home runs, and then Michael Dinadio hit one, 80 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: and ever since then the floodgates have really been opened. 81 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: Have five home runs by Gerraring Karnacione, five home runs 82 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: by Sean Reynolds. He may be a new guest that 83 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: we might have to wrangle up here, because Sean Reynolds 84 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: right now is on fire at one point three consecutive 85 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: home runs and it occurred in doubleheaders. On maybe first 86 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: that was a double dip with the West Michigan White Caps. 87 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: He homeward in both of those games. And we'll give 88 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: you some of the advanced metrics on how hard the 89 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: balls are hit by Sean Renolds. And you would imagine so, 90 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: I mean, the guy six foot seven, he led the 91 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: New York Penn League in home runs and RBIs a 92 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: season ago. And his first home run in that string 93 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 1: of three stray days of home runs for Sean Reynolds 94 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty six feet. It was straightaway center field, 95 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: and it was a no doubter. And if you ever 96 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: go to the old Ballpark in Clinton, you do not 97 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: hit too many no doubters in straightaway center field. But 98 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: Sean Reynolds certainly had it because as soon as he 99 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: hit it, the walk had begun, and it was well deserved. 100 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: Four hundred and fifty six feet. I think at the 101 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: time that was even longer than any home run hit 102 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: by a Mariami Marlin at the major league level. Then 103 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: the next day Reynolds comes back, he hits another home 104 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: run and the exit velocity off the bat one hundred 105 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 1: and thirteen miles per hour. So it's safe to say 106 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: that Reynolds is very hot right now. He's cooled off 107 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: a little bit against the South Bend Cubs, but still 108 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: the average has been risen by over one hundred points. 109 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: Because remember Reynolds had begun this season going two for 110 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,919 Speaker 1: forty and the average was point zero five zero, and 111 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: you would start scratching your head like, oh, this could 112 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: be some worries, but really not to worry, because when 113 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 1: the hit started to come for Reynolds, at one point 114 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: he had an on base straight for the lumber Kings, 115 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: really everyday first baseman of fifteen games, and that had 116 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: run from April to seventeenth through May the third. Also 117 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: speaking to the patients of Sean Reynolds with the amount 118 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: of walks that he can draw. So he comes into 119 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: this contest, which is we should say again recording this 120 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: on May the sixth, the opener with the Dayton Dragons, 121 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: and so for the lumber Kings game number twenty nine 122 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 1: of their one hundred and thirty nine game schedule, and 123 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 1: Reynolds has got nineteen walks and is tied with Christopher Torres, 124 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: who is currently on the injured list with nineteen walks, 125 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: which is among the league leaders in the Midwest League 126 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 1: and kind of compliments the power that Reynolds does have, 127 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: not just the five home runs and the fifteen RBIs, 128 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: but you look at the average of one ninety eight, well, 129 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: the on base percentage very impressive at three point thirty. 130 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: Kind of the full package and compliment that Sean Reynolds 131 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: is had. He's really been not only the everyday first baseman, 132 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: but the every day cleanup bitter for the lumber Kings. 133 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 1: So it's been very interesting to see. We knew the 134 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: power was gonna come because well, that's just Sean Reynolds, 135 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: and now he plays a game, but wow, it's we 136 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: see it in batty practice, it's translated now into the 137 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: games and it has factored into several of the lumber 138 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 1: Kings wins. What it did mean kind of oddly, though, 139 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: the lumber Kings have not been a streaky team, and 140 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: that is quite putting it mildly. This is just kind 141 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: of a record anomaly. So it's neither here nor there, 142 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 1: but lumber Kings won four straight games from April to 143 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: seventeenth through April the twentieth, and then did not win 144 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: consecutive games until they beat the South Bend Cumps and 145 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: the first two contests of a three game set on 146 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: May the third and May the fourth. So that's two 147 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 1: weeks of baseball right there. And the only other consecutive 148 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: streak they had had were a pair of losses which 149 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: were interrupted by a rain out on April the twenty seven. 150 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: So the lumber Kings have really it's been a win here, 151 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 1: a loss the next night, a win this night, a 152 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: loss the next night. And so the record right now 153 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: is it again? We record this on May the sixth, 154 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: fifteen and thirteen, and that is fourth place in the 155 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: Western Division, three games back on the quant City's Riverbands, 156 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 1: who just simply have not lost. In fact, the last 157 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: time the Quantity's River Band has had lost a game 158 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: was against the lumber Kings. How did modern Woodman Park? 159 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: It was a pretty flooded outfield. I think we had 160 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: talked about that. Hopefully those floodwaters will be receding. But 161 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: if you watch the local nightly or if you watch 162 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: the National nightly, lose, I should say you can see 163 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: that it's not looking too good right now for our 164 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: friends down in Davenport, so our best wishes to them 165 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: as well as it has made for a bit of 166 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: an odter schedule for the lumber Kings, but things have 167 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: kind of returned to normalcy now with the road trip 168 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: here against the East. The Dayton Dragons are the single 169 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: a affiliate on the Cincinnati Reds and the lumber Kings 170 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: will be taken on some of the top prospects a 171 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: team that is very talented, although as we record this 172 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: in last place at ten to nineteen, that's seven games 173 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: back of the Great Lakes Loans. But just an example 174 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: of the talent that will be seen in this series 175 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: and a test for these Marlins prospects will be the 176 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: arm they face here. Now when you hear this on Wednesday, 177 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,119 Speaker 1: this start will have already occurred. But Lyon Richardson taking 178 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: the ball for the Dragons, and that is a second 179 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: round pick for the Cincinnati Reds from a season ago. 180 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: He's been roughed up the times, but a very young 181 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: arm and a live one too. Ninety seven miles per 182 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 1: hour has been the top out on the fastball for 183 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: the right hander. It have a sore elbow which had 184 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: shut him down last year as a precaution after being 185 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: drafted out of high school, and that'll be some of 186 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: the talented arms the lumber Kings will be seen through 187 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: this Eastern Division tour, and then of course we'll see 188 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: maybe Wander Franco out in Bowling Green, one of the 189 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:57,839 Speaker 1: top prospects in all of baseball in the Tampa Bay 190 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: Rays organization, which of course is the single A affiliate. 191 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: They Blowing Green Hot Rides and the defending Midwest League champions, 192 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: So it'll be a very fun trip for the lumber 193 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: Kings as they come through this part of the country 194 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: and the league for the first time in three years. 195 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 1: Last couple of seasons, the Dragons and both the Hot 196 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: Rides had come out to Clinton to visit them. So 197 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: it has been a mix up of sorts on the 198 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: schedule wise, and beautiful ballparks out here in the East 199 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: and nothing really better here than in Dayton Downtown Dayton 200 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,199 Speaker 1: Bricks at a fifth third field if you ever get 201 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: a chance. They've got the Dragon that I think snorts 202 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: smoke after Dragon's home runs, but we're hoping that that 203 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 1: will not be on display too much here in this 204 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 1: series when we come back, though, we're gonna be talking 205 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: with Connor Scott. As we mentioned, one of the top 206 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,319 Speaker 1: prospects in first round pick by the Miami Marlins from 207 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 1: a season ago, Scott taking some time to talk with 208 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 1: us on a rainy day, I believe it was on 209 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: the rain out for the lumber Kings on April the 210 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: thirtieth in West Michigan. And the first thing that people 211 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: will notice if you just follow box scores for the 212 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: lumber Kings, you may think, oh, no, Connor Scott a 213 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,559 Speaker 1: one ninety one average, and that's been under the two 214 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: hundred mark for much of this season. But it's one 215 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: of the hardest one to ninety one averages you will see. 216 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:05,199 Speaker 1: In fact, we got to find the hard hit rate 217 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: for Connor Scott. It's something we'll be talking with him 218 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: about because for the longest time, Scott's average which was 219 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 1: even lower than that, it was around the one thirty. 220 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 1: So he's kind of picked it up a bit. Well, 221 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: he didn't have any home runs, but he is hitting 222 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: the ball so hard, and we asked him, you know, 223 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: is there some frustration there? Well, of course, you know, 224 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: you're hitting them right at him and he's got lots 225 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: of extra base hits, the six doubles, a triple, and 226 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,839 Speaker 1: then his first home run of the season. It ended 227 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: up winning the game for the lumber Kings against their 228 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: better rivals, the River Bendits. But Scott will be talking 229 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: also about all the other interests he has. I mean, 230 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: this is one of the big hunters on the team, 231 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 1: and there are quite a few of them, so we'll 232 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: be talking about that with Connor Scott as well. Just 233 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,199 Speaker 1: trying to get to know one of the big hopes 234 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: for the Miami Marlins rebuild, and that is Connor Scott. 235 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: He'll be talking with us next when we come back 236 00:10:46,960 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: here on a ball with Eric Ohs. Come back here 237 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: on a ball with Eric Ohes. We're now joined by 238 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: one of the top prospects, really the top prospect here, 239 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: first round pick for the Miami Marlins in twenty eighteen. 240 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,719 Speaker 1: Connor Scott. Thanks for taking the time here to talk 241 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:28,319 Speaker 1: with us. 242 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me. 243 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: I'm talking to you on we should say, on April 244 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,839 Speaker 1: the thirtieth. This is a Tuesday here in Clinton, a 245 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: very rainy day off, a league wide off day. How 246 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,319 Speaker 1: was that off day for you? Was it magical as 247 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: it was expected to be? 248 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was definitely a good day to get some 249 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 2: rest and hang out with the boys. 250 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you feel it just your first impressions 251 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: here of the beginning of the season, because the schedule, right, 252 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: it's one hundred and forty games, which is a lot, right, 253 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: even if you have played the travel ball and the 254 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: high levels of baseball at the amateur ranks and through 255 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: that first month, how much were you looking forward to 256 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: that first off day just a week ago, right on Sunday, 257 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: I guess at Eastern. 258 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it was great. A lot of us 259 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 2: wouldn't hung out. You know, I got to be able 260 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 2: to talk to my family a lot during that day 261 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 2: just because you know, we weren't at the field and 262 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 2: all that. You know, it was a good day just 263 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 2: you know, call back home and you know, FaceTime your 264 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 2: family when they're all together, and uh, you know, it's 265 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 2: just a good time to relax. 266 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: And so no issue so far with the just the 267 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,319 Speaker 1: grind of everyday baseball here in the A level. That's 268 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: good to hear being the dream. 269 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 2: Yeah. 270 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: Absolutely, So we're talking here with Connor Scott and as 271 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: we mentioned with the Clinton lumber Kings, what was that 272 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 1: moment like when you got assigned to full season a 273 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: ball because when we talked with you on the pregame show, 274 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: you mentioned that is a big moment, right for everyone 275 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: here getting in April for an opening day assignment right 276 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: out of spring training into a full season affiliate, that 277 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: the lumber Kings are here in the Midwest League. 278 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awesome. I think we were all super excited. 279 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 2: You know, it is it is honor to be here 280 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 2: and being a full season team and be out of 281 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 2: extended spring training, which you know, which I think I 282 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 2: think is a lot of the guys that are here 283 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 2: now we're in it last year and went over to Batavia, 284 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 2: So I think they're all super excited, and I think 285 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 2: we're super excited. The coach is super excited, so it 286 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 2: should be fun. 287 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: And it seems like it's a good group too. They've 288 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:15,559 Speaker 1: been playing pretty well. We should say this two games 289 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: over five hundred on the season as we record this 290 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: again on April the thirtieth first win two I'm not 291 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: sure if you knew this, but the first win at 292 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: modern Woodman Park that you just had in two years 293 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: for the lumber Kings, So that was pretty cool. And 294 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 1: that was an island too, so We've talked about weather 295 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: a lot here in the Midwest League because that is 296 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: really the theme, I guess, of the first two months 297 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 1: of this season. So you've got whether it's snow or 298 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: rain or cold weather. It's raining today too as we 299 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: record this. The lumber Kings postponed against the West Michigan 300 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 1: white Caps, and it just seems like it changes all 301 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: the time. Does that affect your preparation at all? And 302 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: just the mindset of going in with maybe the elements 303 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: that you don't talk a lot about baseball because it's 304 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: more of a football thing, but there have been elements here, right. 305 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 1: Is that affecting the game at all or just something 306 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: to contend with? Not really. 307 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 2: I think it's you know, if you just keep it 308 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 2: a game, you'll be okay. You know, I thought I 309 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 2: was getting away from the rain and I'll have Florida, 310 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 2: But I guess I didn't. I wasn't expecting it to 311 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 2: rain so much, maybe a little snow. I was expecting 312 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 2: a little snow. So we've had some snow. So you know, 313 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 2: I've been around rain delays my whole life, so you 314 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 2: know it doesn't bother me. You just got to stay. 315 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: Loose, Yeah, I'd say so because the rains, which as 316 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: we said, have followed us, they have led to some 317 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: postponements here, but they have you haven't gotten away from 318 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: them at all from your days out in Tampa. But 319 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: we're wondering if we could just pick your brain on 320 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: what the road was like to becoming a first round pick. 321 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: Imagine followed very closely in the high school ranks where 322 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: there are coaches and family members too, that maybe you 323 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: could highlight along what I'm sure was a long journey 324 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: even here to Clinton, right and getting that first round selection. 325 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: So what all went into that that that journey from 326 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: the amateur levels now into the professional ranks. 327 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 2: You know, it just started. You know, I was in 328 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 2: a good area. Tampa is a really good baseball competitive area. 329 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 2: You know, We've had a lot of first round theres 330 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 2: and top prospect guys come out of there in Big leaguers. 331 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 2: And you know, my parents, you know, did everything for 332 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 2: me that I asked everything I needed for summer ball, 333 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 2: travel ball, whatever it was. I think the biggest part 334 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 2: of it was was going going through middle school. I 335 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 2: went through a small private school, you know, so I 336 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 2: played every sport. I played soccer, basketball, baseball. I think 337 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 2: that's all we had. And uh, you know, I think 338 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 2: just just growing up and like I lived in a 339 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 2: good neighborhood with everyone that was all the kids were 340 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 2: my age. So we'd always play backyard football, basketball, football, 341 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 2: anything you could think of we played. And I think 342 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 2: that was a really big part of me, you know, 343 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 2: growing up just say it could be athletic, you know. 344 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 2: I think it's a lot different nowadays when you got 345 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 2: all the Xbox games and all that stuff. So I 346 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 2: think the biggest part was growing up and you know, 347 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 2: being outside all the time playing and uh, then I 348 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 2: went into play in high school, which really good, really 349 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 2: good baseball high school. I had best coach I've ever had, 350 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 2: you know, he helped me through everything this four years. 351 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 2: It was really awesome. We had two first rounders when 352 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 2: I was a senior or when I was a freshman, 353 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 2: they were seniors, so you know, just being with them 354 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 2: really helped me. And then when I got drafted this 355 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 2: past year. This offseason worked out with a lot of 356 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 2: a lot of older, older, top prospect guys that are 357 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 2: you know, big leaguers, are about to be big leaguers 358 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 2: or you know, stuff like that. 359 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: So well that that's it's remarkable too that you have 360 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 1: that that group, because you heard a lot that other 361 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: other sports brilliant important role for players is kind of maybe, 362 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: you know, getting exposed into different areas and then maybe 363 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: drawing upon that on a baseball diamond when they don't know. So, 364 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: was it always baseball as far as the most important 365 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: or the most interested sport that you had? Or did 366 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: that change maybe growing up? Because I think as a kid, 367 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: my favorite sport changed depending on the seasons, right, just 368 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: what was being played at the time. 369 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 2: So I did. I played football for one season when 370 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 2: I was in eighth grade, and. 371 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: Uh so it went that well huh one season. 372 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 2: Well, I actually loved it a lot. Oh really, I 373 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 2: liked it a lot. 374 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 1: But my mom my mom ca fan makes sense, Yeah. 375 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,439 Speaker 2: I played I played quarterback, and I played safety and 376 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 2: a little bit wide receiver. So my mom wasn't a 377 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 2: huge fan of me running around hitting people. 378 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: So yeah, that's what moms are afford to tell you this, 379 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 1: this is not a good idea. 380 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, so, uh so she pulled me out of that. 381 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 2: But I think baseball has always been the main thing 382 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 2: for me. I played basketball competitively a little bit, but 383 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 2: when I got to high school, it was all baseball. 384 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,880 Speaker 1: What positions were you're playing in basketball? If they if 385 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: it was a type of level where positions were actually 386 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 1: assigned it. I didn't play in that little those numbers, okay. 387 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 2: Numbers, I was number five or number four. 388 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe maybe a big man, Yeah yeah, okay, 389 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: let's have to work in the paint. 390 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, well you're. 391 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: Listed as a five tool player. Of course, we when 392 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: we get the rosters, we start knowing a little bit 393 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 1: more about the guys because we know who all has 394 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: coming here, and of course Connor Scott's going to be 395 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: the big name that jumps out as a first round pick. 396 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: Set a five tool player, Where do you do you 397 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 1: see your game that you're working on, maybe the most 398 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: and focusing on here in twenty nineteen, because five tools, 399 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: of course are supposed to cover all the facets of baseball. 400 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,120 Speaker 1: But here you are, and you're of course very young, 401 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: right nineteen years old. We can say that one of 402 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 1: the younger guys on the lumber Kings team. But what 403 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: are you trying to focus on here in twenty nineteen 404 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 1: and maybe refining one of those tools or a couple 405 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: of them here. 406 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 2: I think honestly all of them. You know, for me 407 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 2: being such a young player in professional baseball, I think, 408 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 2: you know, you got to you gotta work and get 409 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 2: better every single day with everything you do. So you know, 410 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 2: you got to get your speed better, you gotta get stronger, 411 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 2: you gotta get more weight, gotta hit better. You know, 412 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 2: I think everything you know, you just got to you 413 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,640 Speaker 2: gotta kind of grind everything away and you know, kind 414 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 2: of polish it up every day. And I think if 415 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 2: you keep doing that, that's how you make your straws. 416 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,360 Speaker 1: Towards And is that where the again to go back 417 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 1: to the schedule where that can kind of help, right, 418 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: It's just repetition because it's every day. As we said 419 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: that first off day, it took three weeks to get 420 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: here for that to happen, So you really have no 421 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: hiding from it because it's every day to focus on that, 422 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: and that you can kind of feels that grind that 423 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: so many players talk about that It almost becomes like 424 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: a cliche, but it perhaps is one of the truest 425 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 1: things that is in baseball because it's always hanging over 426 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: your head, right, and you can already feel that is 427 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 1: we get towards the final day here in April while 428 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: the clint lumber Kings. As we mentioned with talking with 429 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: Connor Scott as a first round pick for the Miami 430 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: Marlins last season, you mentioned that it was an exciting 431 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 1: moment for your entire family and probably for those backyard 432 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: friends that you had playing football and baseball. Who was 433 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: the most excited of them all when you got that 434 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: call very early on in the draft process, we should say, ooh. 435 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 2: I would have to say my mom or my dad. Obviously, 436 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 2: you know, they were super ecstatic. We had all of 437 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,400 Speaker 2: our family over and after got drafted, all of our 438 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 2: close friends came over. So I mean, I think everyone 439 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 2: was super excited. Obviously I was excited. I was lost 440 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 2: for words. But you know, i'd probably say my close families. 441 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,119 Speaker 1: And that's got to be really neat too, because, as 442 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: we mentioned, you're a Florida guy. Now, of course you 443 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 1: know Tampa Moore and the raised territorial zones if we're 444 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 1: getting into that, into the weeds of it, but you 445 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 1: know the Florida Marlins or now the Miami Marlins. So 446 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: you mentioned a connection that we were talking about with 447 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 1: you out in Peoria's just a guy who feels really 448 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: a part of this team, you know, from just being 449 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 1: in the native state of Florida and wanting to bring 450 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: a championship home to them. So that must have also 451 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 1: added to just the cool factor, right that you're not 452 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: going too far away to the major league club here 453 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,399 Speaker 1: with the Marlins. And you mentioned when we had a 454 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 1: questionnaire for you, a player that you really liked growing up, 455 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,639 Speaker 1: Christian Yelich. Maybe Marlins fans don't want to hear that 456 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: right now because he's having a lot of success with 457 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: the Brewers, but if you could talk a little bit 458 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 1: about just the importance and maybe some similarities and you know, 459 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: being somewhat of a fan of the Marlins growing up 460 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: in that area. 461 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. You know, growing up, you got you know, 462 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 2: the couple of baseball channels, and you know, whatever area 463 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 2: you're in is kind of the game that plays, you know, 464 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 2: so it's either the Raids were playing or the Marlins 465 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 2: were playing. So you either watch one of those two games. 466 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 2: So I grew up watching both. I grew up a 467 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,680 Speaker 2: fan of both. You know, the Marlins won those World 468 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 2: Series when I was pretty young. Oh yeah, pretty young. 469 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,439 Speaker 1: But you don't have to say that, because, yeah, making 470 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: me feel very old. 471 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's just just watching them, you know, 472 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 2: growing up, and you know, I just liked watching baseball, 473 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 2: and those are the two teams I could watch, so 474 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 2: you know, I got to go to games whenever I could. 475 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 2: And you know, being picked by one of them is 476 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,239 Speaker 2: was really awesome. And I'm really glad where we're at, 477 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 2: and I think the Marlins is gonna be a great team. 478 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, and they welcomed you right in. It seemed like 479 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:46,120 Speaker 1: because I mean, your first round pick, so of course 480 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 1: you're gonna be getting the phone calls right from the guys. 481 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: And that's Derek Jeter, of course, a pretty well known 482 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 1: name throughout the baseball channels and now on the business 483 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 1: side of things. But they bring out there to Miami. 484 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 1: What was that like to see the Marlins of course, 485 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: embrace you right away, bring you into the four so 486 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: to speak, and maybe feel like you're part of that 487 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: that rebuild that the Marlins are trying to put together 488 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 1: right now that you see all the talent now, especially 489 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: here in Clinton. 490 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awesome. You know, it was one of 491 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 2: the best experiences I've ever had, you know, kind of 492 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 2: getting a feel for, you know, what you got to 493 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 2: work for, you know, get to that big league spot. 494 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 2: And I was there for I was there for two days. 495 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 2: I did my signing one day and then next day 496 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 2: I worked out with the team, sat there and watched 497 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 2: the game. So you know, I had a great time. 498 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 2: My family was with me, which is even better, so 499 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 2: we got to experience that all together, which which I 500 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 2: think was awesome, and you know, we had a great time. 501 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: Well, let's go over the twenty nineteen season, because we've 502 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: had some games now in the books. You had a 503 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,399 Speaker 1: bit of a scare for us, at least when we 504 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: saw you come up to the second base bag on 505 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: a double down the line out in Peoria and then 506 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: we didn't see Connor Scott for four days. So everything 507 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: going on right now, because it seems like you've been 508 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: atop the lineup for several days. So that's all good 509 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 1: and taking care of I guess now, Yeah, we. 510 00:22:58,560 --> 00:22:58,959 Speaker 2: Were all good. 511 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: It's kind of precautionary, of course, right, So that's always 512 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: good to hear. We always say whenever the player's still 513 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: with the team, it's always a good sign, and that 514 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: was the case for the lumber Kings. And as we 515 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: mentioned you at top the lineup. We also saw in 516 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: left field for the first time this season out in 517 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: quad Cities was at interesting, at least a different look. 518 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,360 Speaker 1: I'm sure you've been out there before. I think Mike 519 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: was telling us just to give you some extra flyballs 520 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: and you should be fine. 521 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, I haven't played left field actually since freshman 522 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 2: year of high school. 523 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: Oh wow, so it had been a while that it's 524 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: been a while. You look like a natural out there. 525 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, take some extra flyballs and BP and you know, 526 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 2: it takes some stuff, a little extra stuff from fungos 527 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,919 Speaker 2: and stuff like that, so you know, one, but it's 528 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 2: still baseball. 529 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Well, I guess the it was good that 530 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: it was hearing the day. I guess for the lumber Kings, 531 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: you didn't have to contend with the lights of the 532 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: ferris wheel down at modern Woodman Park, which sometimes can 533 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: be a factor, as we found out a couple of 534 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: years ago. Well, again, we're talking here with Connor Scott, 535 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: first round pick for the Miami Marlins in twenty eighteen, 536 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: current Clinton lumber King. We've been a talking to you 537 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: about the twenty nineteen season here for you, how do 538 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,399 Speaker 1: you feel that it's been shaping up? It seemed like 539 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: a bit of a rough start early on on the 540 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 1: offensive side of things. But we've been saying about it 541 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: on the broadcast that you've really run into some bad 542 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 1: luck because every time we're about ready to make a 543 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: call for a ball in the gap or a hard 544 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: hit ball, it seems like it's an atom ball or 545 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,439 Speaker 1: someone right there and it just turns into an out. 546 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: So how is how do you feel the season shaped 547 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 1: up early on? 548 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a rough kind of early. You know. Recently, 549 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 2: I've I've been feeling good at the play, you know, 550 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 2: like you said, just hitting them out, which stinks, but 551 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 2: you know what happens, you know, it's it's baseball. We 552 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 2: got one hundred and twenty more games ago, so I'm 553 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 2: not worried about it at all. 554 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: Well, if we could pick your brain on one game 555 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,199 Speaker 1: in particular, and that was I think against the Beloite Snappers. 556 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 1: Connor Scott was coming up every game hard hit balls 557 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 1: and they were turning into outs and there was comebacker here, 558 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: come backer there, or a ligned drive to the outfield 559 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: and there was a guy right there. Well then he 560 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: HiT's the essentially the game winning home run out into 561 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 1: a right center field. So was that just your frustrat. Fine, 562 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 1: I'll just hit it over every one of them, and 563 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 1: it turns out, of course, to be the game winner. 564 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: So it seemed like, you know, from our viewpoint in 565 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 1: the press box, that was kind of a well deserved 566 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: home run, right to finally have something to show for 567 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,479 Speaker 1: what was at that point. If you just look at 568 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: the box score, well Scott's really struggling again, he's zero 569 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 1: for three again. Well, it doesn't only tell us about 570 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: half the story. So that that game in particular, did 571 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: you feel like that might have been a significant one 572 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: for you out of the multitudes of them early on here? 573 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, So the first standing I had a line out 574 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 2: to the I think it was the shortstop he was 575 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 2: playing bond second base, which I thought was for sure. 576 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 1: Hit the ever shifting defenses. 577 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 2: And then the next next at bat we had a 578 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 2: hit and run on and I lined out to the 579 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 2: second baseman. And then the next at bat, I'm not 580 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 2: sure what I did the next that bat, but they 581 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 2: beat it. Hit the home run. We had a man 582 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 2: on second base, we had one out, and you know, 583 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 2: as a left handed hitter or you got to do 584 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 2: your job and to get him over. So I was 585 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 2: looking to pull something, you know, hit to the right 586 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 2: side of the field, get the guy over and luckily, 587 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 2: you know, I clipped one and I hit one good. 588 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 2: And you know, so if you just do your job, 589 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 2: you know, the baseball karm is gonna follow you around. 590 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: So yeah, it seemed like the baseball gods had finally 591 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 1: delivered the scales of justice for for a little while. Again, 592 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: we're talking here with Connor Scott, the Clinton lumber Kings 593 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: center fielder we can save even though he had the 594 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,360 Speaker 1: day in the sun out and left field down at 595 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: Modern Woodman Park, I want to do also talk to 596 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,679 Speaker 1: you about that because that has to be a weird experience. Right, 597 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: Let's just go over that series. We kind of touched 598 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 1: on it because the lumber Kings, they start as the 599 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: road team. At home, you hit the home run, wins 600 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 1: essentially Game one of that series, as lumber Kings would 601 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 1: go on to defeat the River Band at seven to two. 602 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,880 Speaker 1: Then the series shifts down to Modern Woodman Park, which 603 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: for the lumber Kings a commuter and it looked like 604 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,159 Speaker 1: an island because the Mississippi River, as we joked on 605 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 1: the broadcast, is looking more like the Mississippi ocean right now, 606 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: and it is everywhere, and so I know that, you know, 607 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: you just try to focus on the baseball of it, 608 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: but it becomes hard after a little while, right for 609 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: it not to at least entered some part of the mind, 610 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: as it were, and play I guess the first couple 611 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 1: of home games of the season for the River Bandits, 612 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,199 Speaker 1: and I guess you guys were part of it, but 613 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 1: it was that experience, an odd one for you if 614 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: you can call it a road trip at that Yeah, it. 615 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 2: Was, uh, you know, it's just all part of it. 616 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 2: You know, you gotta you gotta serve your dues and 617 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 2: and you know, it's just part of pro baseball, as 618 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,680 Speaker 2: you know, having some weird travel things. And I think 619 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 2: what we were supposed to do was have like three 620 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 2: or four games and forty hours or some something crazy. 621 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 2: We're gonna have a night game and then two early ones, 622 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 2: and then the next day we're going to have a 623 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 2: have an early one again. So we were supposed to 624 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 2: have a funky line up. We got rained out and 625 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,119 Speaker 2: we ended up just not playing one of the games, 626 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 2: which which was I guess. 627 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, good, I guess, I know, right, Yeah, we didn't 628 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 1: realize that we had run into some good luck, even 629 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: though it didn't feel like it, because we I'd have 630 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: argued you if you told us that, Okay, they're lucky. 631 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a tough schedule for that weekend. I 632 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,239 Speaker 2: think we're all pretty happy with taking it to two 633 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 2: and two with them. They're a pretty good ball club, 634 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 2: I think so. Yeah, I think we played good. I 635 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 2: think if we keep playing like we're playing, I think 636 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,120 Speaker 2: we'll be able to win a lot more ball games. 637 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 1: And do you have any thoughts on the shifts that 638 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: you've seen against Quad Cities? Because Quad City is the 639 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 1: single affiliated of the Houston Astros. They're like their parent club. 640 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 1: They move around all over the place, They're never in 641 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: one place. Was that anything different for you or anything 642 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: that changed at all for you? In the approach at 643 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:35,640 Speaker 1: the plate, you. 644 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,880 Speaker 2: Can't really worry about it. You just kind of, oh, 645 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 2: you got to do is at the ball hard. You 646 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 2: can't really worry about where it goes. 647 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: So, well, we'll let you go with this because we're 648 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 1: running out of time here. We're again we're talking with 649 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: Connor Scott. But we had the off day and now 650 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: I guess kind of an off day because we're rained out, 651 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: if you can call it that. But you mentioned when 652 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 1: we had talked with you on the pregame show Big Hunter, right, 653 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: So yeah, when we said what would you be doing 654 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: if you weren't in the professional R to baseball Professional Hunters? 655 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: So that means it's pretty serious for you. How long 656 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: have you been doing it and what is I guess 657 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: you're the number one thing that you enjoy hunting? 658 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 2: Okay, so I think so when I started out, since 659 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 2: I'm from Tampa, you know, we're surrounded by surrounded by 660 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,479 Speaker 2: water pretty much everywhere. So I started fishing when I 661 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 2: was like three years old. Me and my dad would 662 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 2: go and when we were at home, I would sit 663 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 2: there with a bottle cap on the end of my 664 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 2: my rod and throw it in the in the pool. 665 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 2: You know, yeah, just mess around. But I started hunting. 666 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 2: My dad took me hunting when I was first time, 667 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 2: I think I was eight years old. We hunt in 668 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 2: South Georgia. So I've been hunting since I was eight 669 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 2: years old. Is my favorite thing to do other than baseball. 670 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 2: You know, the whole off season, I'll be in the woods. 671 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 2: You know, you can't find me. I'll go off. Wow, 672 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,480 Speaker 2: but deer hunting is probably my favorite, and then duck 673 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 2: hunting my second favorite. 674 00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: Okay, well, you gotta find some spots here then, right. 675 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: I know that it's still yet to be determined for you, 676 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,160 Speaker 1: but I'm sure it's something that you're actively trying to 677 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: remedy right now. Is that a fair thing to say? 678 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 2: Yeah yet? 679 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: Okay, well, but we'll put out the call right now. 680 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: We need recommendations asap. Connor Scott, thanks so much for 681 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: taking the time and talking with us. 682 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 2: Man. 683 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: We appreciate it. 684 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it. That's probably. 685 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: And welcome back here on a ball with Perik Yos. 686 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: You just heard from one of the lumber King's top prospects, 687 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: really everyday center fielder, Connor Scott, and I think you 688 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 1: can hear it in that interview. Pretty mature. He's only 689 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: nineteen years old, and it's kind of hard to believe. 690 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: You have to check the roster sheet just to confirm it. 691 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: Because Scotty carries himself very well, very personable, and he's 692 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 1: fun to watch folks. He runs well. In fact, I 693 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: think on episode one we had Mike Jacobs talk about 694 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: the running pattern Connor Scott. He's very fast, but it's 695 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 1: kind of an awkward running and he called it hunter pensis, 696 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: if that is any comparison that helps describe what he 697 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: can see from Connor Scott. But it's been listed by 698 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 1: Baseball America one of the five tool players nineteen years 699 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: of age, so still developing those tools, and we've seen 700 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: flashes of them all great, great arm and center field. 701 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: He covers a lot of ground. And the average, as 702 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: we said, one ninety one, so you think, wow, really 703 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: rough start for the nineteen year old, but this is 704 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: a level that at nineteen is very tough. Full season 705 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 1: a ball and Scott, as we said that one ninety 706 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 1: average is you can think a lot higher than that, 707 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: just given kind of the bad luck that has found them. 708 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: But the lumber Kings as a whole, they have been 709 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 1: picking it up. We talked about the pitching staff with 710 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: the likes of Chris Valamont, Alberto Guerrero and Humberto Mehea, 711 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 1: and how about the lumber Kings with some newer arms 712 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: that have been here as well. There's kind of been 713 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: a flood of roster moves right before this broadcaster had 714 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 1: gone on assignment. See injury bug has bit the team 715 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,240 Speaker 1: a little bit here. Peyton Colbertson had been placed down 716 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: the injured list. He's now no longer with the team, 717 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: which means his rehab will begin down in Jupiter, the 718 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,239 Speaker 1: complex for the Miami Marlins. But in addition to that, 719 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: lumber Kings also saw Bubba Hollins placed down the injured list. 720 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 1: Remember we've been highlighting Baba because while he was at 721 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: one point the number two hitter in all of the 722 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 1: Midwest League a three point fifty eight average. In fact, 723 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 1: when he had pulled up on an injury, what had 724 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: happened was Hollins he had ran to second base and 725 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: then the ball gotten away, so he went down to 726 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 1: third and as he did so, he had a noticeable limp, 727 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 1: and then he had a head first slide into the 728 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,719 Speaker 1: bag at third and he was in safe, but then 729 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 1: had to be taken out of the game the very 730 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: next day, placed on the injured list. Happy to report though, 731 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: that Hollins is still with the team here with the 732 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 1: lumber Kings in fact had made the journey out east, 733 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: which tells us that hopeful that he could be back 734 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: shortly has meant that Tanner Andrews has been assigned here 735 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 1: to Clinton and we're likely to see him in the 736 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: starting rotation, so another starting pitcher for the lumber Kings. 737 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: Andrews had made his season debut not too long ago. 738 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: When can we record this on made this next as 739 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 1: Andrews had appeared in his first contest as a lumber 740 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 1: King and the opener against the South Ben comes on 741 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: May the third to pick up his first save with 742 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: four innings of work. Andrews is likely to get the 743 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: start on Thursday and the series finale against the Dragons 744 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 1: on Wednesday, May eighth, So he's one of the newer 745 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 1: ones added into the rotation and innings eater lumber Kings 746 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: pitching staff, which is now starting to have that compliment 747 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: of offense and maybe stringing some wins together. It's always 748 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: been tight baseball games this season, so it's just a 749 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 1: question of having the ball bounce a little bit more 750 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: in their favorite times. The other person that had come 751 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: out to Clinton and we kind of foreshadowed this when 752 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: we had Dick Scott on a couple of weeks back. Well, 753 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: it's his son, Zach Scott. If you have followed the 754 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: lumber Kings last season, Zack Scott. He was a Seattle 755 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 1: Mariters prospect and was in Clinton. He was with the 756 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 1: lumber Kings and then was cut at the end of 757 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: the season. The Miami Marlins came calling. He was an 758 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: extended spring training assigned to Clinton on May second. Didn't 759 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: get here though until May the third. Effect Zack Scott 760 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 1: and day Inside Baseball type of information to tell you 761 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 1: it's kind of a rough travel day. They think he 762 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: had a flight coming out to Quad Cities, which is 763 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,399 Speaker 1: the nearest airport in Clinton, and they didn't put any 764 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,879 Speaker 1: of the bags on the plane, and so that meant 765 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 1: that for Zax Scott a very long night. But Scott, 766 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: of course he's a great guy, so he made a 767 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,239 Speaker 1: joke that he just can't get away from Clinton. It 768 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 1: doesn't matter what organization he is with, so all roads 769 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: leading to Clinton for Zack Scott. Good to see him 770 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: back here as lumber Kings will be again on their 771 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 1: Eastern Division tour here the Dayton Dragons, which is a 772 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: series that starts again as we record this on May 773 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 1: the sixth, on a Monday, and then we'll be coming 774 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: to an end two days later, all night games here 775 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: in Dayton on Wednesday, May the eighth. That series will 776 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,760 Speaker 1: then continue Thursday, May ninth, or rather a series against 777 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,759 Speaker 1: the Boying Green Hot Rods Thursday May ninth through Saturday 778 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: May eleventh, and a league wide off day for Mom's 779 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,319 Speaker 1: Day and the lumber Kings will the end be back 780 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 1: out on the road to continue the nine game road 781 00:34:55,640 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: trip against the Burlington Bees Monday May thirteenth through Wednesday 782 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 1: May fifteenth. So a time to plug the broadcast, and 783 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,280 Speaker 1: we do it shamelessly here on a Ball with eric Os. 784 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:07,839 Speaker 1: Of course we want to see you out to as 785 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,399 Speaker 1: many games as possible, but of course you can listen 786 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 1: to all the action of lumber Kings Baseball in the 787 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,799 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season with yours truly on the call. Eric 788 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,319 Speaker 1: Os can find those at one hundred point three FMWCCI 789 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 1: for those of you within the broadcast range. For those 790 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 1: of you who are connecting via the intrawebs, you can 791 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: find us at Lumberkings dot com via the tune in 792 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,200 Speaker 1: radio app. It's gonna do it here for our episode 793 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,160 Speaker 1: of A Ball. A big thanks to our guest Connor 794 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 1: Scott for talking with us and taking the time, and 795 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:36,719 Speaker 1: a big thanks to all of you for listening. We'll 796 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: be back next week and we don't want to give 797 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 1: away who the interview might be, but we might have 798 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: to wrangle Sean Reynolds and get him on the air. 799 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,839 Speaker 1: I mean, we've got a lot to talk about, exit velocities, 800 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: launch angles. We can get into all of that, and 801 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,279 Speaker 1: just home runs in general. Chicks dig the long ball, 802 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 1: Broadcasters dig the long ball. Everybody digs the long ball. 803 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,239 Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for our episode everyone. Hopefully we'll 804 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 1: have you back next week and maybe on a broadcast 805 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 1: as well. That will do it for us. Here on 806 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: episode number six of A Ball with eric O's