Speaker 1: Welcome to episode number two sixteen of the Marine Layer Podcast.
Speaker 1: We welcome on our guy and Mariner's pitching prospect, Logan Evans,
Speaker 1: to discuss his ever changing sports fandom. Talk to him
Speaker 1: about bouncing between being a starter and a reliever, some
Speaker 1: of the dynamics with his friends down in the Mariners
Speaker 1: minor league system, and we chirped him a little bit
Speaker 1: so we had to keep him on his toes. We'll
Speaker 1: also discuss the George Kirby injury and a couple other
Speaker 1: tidbits around Mariners spring training. Your guys, reminder, make sure
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Speaker 1: Let's get it rolling, and we welcome you to this
Speaker 1: episode of the Marine Layer Podcast, part of the Just
Speaker 1: Baseball podcast Network, Recording on Monday evening, March tenth. It's
Speaker 1: been a bit of a slow news week for the
Speaker 1: Mariners over this past weekend. So uh wow, let's talk
Speaker 1: to some Seahawks. What was your reaction going to be
Speaker 1: if Aaron Rodgers signed?
Speaker 2: Who? Can I put all my Seahawks things in a
Speaker 2: box and chuck them out a window or something like that?
Speaker 1: Or sorry, right after all your Mariner stuff?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh though, sorry that I'll be gas light by
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers once he comes here. For all the people
Speaker 2: that are mad, I've got five simple letters R E,
Speaker 2: L A X. No, I'm not gonna relax.
Speaker 1: Look, I don't even like Aaron Rodgers, but I thought
Speaker 1: it would have been objectively hilarious if they signed him.
Speaker 2: Oh, if you want it from a content perspective, oh,
Speaker 2: off the charts. I'll tell you what. The two teams
Speaker 2: that share stadiums next to each other, if Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: was here, there would be god, no, no, shortage of content.
Speaker 1: Dude, we just need a Jerry to Poto presser on
Speaker 1: a Saturday and an Aaron Rodgers pressure on a Sunday. Man,
Speaker 1: you can't, doesn't even matter who's listening to this.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 1: You can't tell me with the straight face that wouldn't
Speaker 1: be entertaining.
Speaker 2: And then and then a player, another former player, calls
Speaker 2: him out during the midweek, and.
Speaker 1: Look, you'd only have to deal with it for one
Speaker 1: year because he'd probably just did. The Seahawks would say,
Speaker 1: get the hell out of here.
Speaker 2: Uh huh oh I even met Mariners because you know
Speaker 2: that just happened with Justin Turner.
Speaker 3: But yeah, what.
Speaker 1: What would the Mariners comp have been for signing Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers if the Seahawks signed him.
Speaker 2: I don't even know. I guess if you want to
Speaker 2: think about legendary at his position, future Hall of Famer,
Speaker 2: but pretty much washed. Nobody's got the takes and thoughts
Speaker 2: that Aaron Rodgers has in baseball, at least not that
Speaker 2: we know of publicly. I guess it would be similar
Speaker 2: to if they signed Justin Verlander. But Justin Verlander one
Speaker 2: day just went off the rails and had just unhinged
Speaker 2: thoughts every day something like that.
Speaker 1: I think this tells us we need more baseball players
Speaker 1: on McAfee. Then we'll find one.
Speaker 2: That will never the day Rogers just let it all
Speaker 2: go on McAfee's show. I mean, just the scrolling of
Speaker 2: Twitter that day was insanity.
Speaker 1: Once we get baseball players to talk more, Agan, that's
Speaker 1: our mission here, dog right, we want baseball players talking more.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: One of the I would say downsides of that is
Speaker 1: that people sometimes get a little too transparent.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, Well can be known to happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't think there is a Mariner's comp or a
Speaker 2: baseball comp for a team signing Aaron Rodgers. Again, I
Speaker 2: think that Justin Verlander thinks the closest thing I've got,
Speaker 2: But it would have to involve Justin Verlander going off
Speaker 2: the rails.
Speaker 1: It would be like, so Gino's not Logan Gilbert. I
Speaker 1: think Logan's too good for that. But let's say, can
Speaker 1: I trade Brian Woo for Justin Verland?
Speaker 4: Or is it?
Speaker 1: Would that be a good one? Or am I stepping
Speaker 1: over a line here?
Speaker 2: That's stepping over a line. No, that's a terrible trade. Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean, how about this, What if the Mariners just
Speaker 2: asked Aubrey Huff to come out of retirement.
Speaker 1: So who are you trading off the roster? Is this
Speaker 1: trading Let's see, it's like, let's say, getting rid of
Speaker 1: Randy and putting Aubrey Huff back in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be something like that.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I don't think they'll be received very well.
Speaker 2: I mean, is Aubrey Huffs still online or did they
Speaker 2: finally like kick him off again because he was kicked
Speaker 2: off for a while just for being too unhinged.
Speaker 1: It's a good question. I feel like, based on the
Speaker 1: current climate, he's probably back.
Speaker 2: Probably. Yeah, there's no comp for this. There's no baseball
Speaker 2: comp for the Aaron Rodgers thing. Thank goodness, it's not
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. But hey, there's five minutes of Seahawks talk
Speaker 2: for you, slash well, Seahawks slash baseball comparisons. Because there's
Speaker 2: not a whole lot of There's not a whole lot
Speaker 2: going on in Mariner's world right now.
Speaker 1: The only real thing going on in Mariner's world is
Speaker 1: who's not going to be going on for the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks while it gets better in George Kirby.
Speaker 1: So George got shut down with shoulder inflammation last week.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound serious. He'll miss a couple starts. At the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, he wanted to keep throwing. They
Speaker 1: had to rip the ball out of his hand. So typical, George.
Speaker 1: It sounds like, Uh, is there any level of worry with.
Speaker 2: This for you? Not after justin Hollander gave his press
Speaker 2: conference about it, and you heard him and saw him
Speaker 2: on video describing it. No, it sounds like to me
Speaker 2: that this is very precautionary now to say that George
Speaker 2: doesn't have the injury and the inflammation. Obviously he does,
Speaker 2: that's what was diagnosed. But the fact George, you know,
Speaker 2: was so adamant that like, you're not taking the ball
Speaker 2: out of my hands. I'm gonna work through it. I
Speaker 2: don't want to I don't want to miss any time.
Speaker 2: Paired with what Hollander said that this is not serious.
Speaker 2: There's no structural damage now, I'm not really concerned at all.
Speaker 2: To be honest, this sounds to me like, especially with
Speaker 2: the time that he's now expected to miss. They say,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess this is two to three starts that
Speaker 2: Kirby misses, and then I'll be right back in there
Speaker 2: before April's even over, So that's essentially only like, it's
Speaker 2: not like a position player missing time, right with a
Speaker 2: position with a starting pitcher only going once every five days.
Speaker 2: That is, essentially, if the timeline I'm estimating is right,
Speaker 2: two to three games where you do not get George
Speaker 2: Kirby's impact, aka, you have to make up for twelve
Speaker 2: to eighteen innings, and I think Emerson Hancock is perfectly
Speaker 2: capable of doing that. So no, I'm not really concerned.
Speaker 1: Just catch a kind of off guard though, to see
Speaker 1: a Mariner's pitcher on the injured list for a non
Speaker 1: fluke reason. A lot of Brian Wo's injuries last year
Speaker 1: were fluky, especially once the season was actually underway and
Speaker 1: he was pitching and whatever. I forget the injuries he had,
Speaker 1: but they were not It seemed very random at that point.
Speaker 1: And then you had Castillo at the end of the
Speaker 1: year who almost just like kind of landed funny on
Speaker 1: his hamstring and caused him to miss his final two
Speaker 1: starts of the season. But in terms of just like
Speaker 1: a shoulder flaring up, not something we're quite used to
Speaker 1: seeing for the last i'd say two years, and I
Speaker 1: just want to i'd say invite our listeners back in.
Speaker 3: Is that.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, stuff like this almost certainly will be more of
Speaker 1: a reality. It's just bound to happen as this season
Speaker 1: goes on. They the Mariners pitchers last year missed a
Speaker 1: combined Did they even miss a combined twenty starts? I
Speaker 1: don't think so, right, maybe less than that.
Speaker 2: So Wu missed about the first five to six weeks
Speaker 2: of the year last year. That was more of a
Speaker 2: real injury what he had because he had looking it
Speaker 2: up here, they called it medial elbow inflammation is what
Speaker 2: the wording was. So the elbow inflammation thing last year,
Speaker 2: for that was a real injury. So he missed some
Speaker 2: time with that. But you're right, once he got back
Speaker 2: he had I want to say he had a also
Speaker 2: a hamstring thing, or maybe it was a quad thing.
Speaker 2: I remember something that took him out of a game
Speaker 2: again and by the ball, didn't he what's that? Didn't
Speaker 2: he get hit by a ball? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Remember he had something where he was sitting for a
Speaker 2: long time between innings and he got tight and he
Speaker 2: had to come out of that game. So I thought
Speaker 2: that was something in his legs. Yeah, So anyway, point being,
Speaker 2: you're right that a lot of Woo's injuries last year
Speaker 2: were very kind of unique, and we're not you know,
Speaker 2: could be a little fluky. But yeah, the Mariner's starting
Speaker 2: pitchers didn't combine to miss twenty starts last year, No way.
Speaker 2: Logan made every start, Kirby made, No Kirby missed one
Speaker 2: last year. Remember he had a little something last year. Anyway, whatever,
Speaker 2: let's I'm gonna stop trying to sit here and crunch
Speaker 2: all the numbers. But yeah, there is no way the
Speaker 2: Mariner's pitching combined to miss less than twenty starts last year.
Speaker 2: They were incredibly healthy, which is pretty rare.
Speaker 1: And it's unlikely that number they missed less than twenty
Speaker 1: starts again this year. So they're already off. They're already
Speaker 1: getting started on that number before the season even starts
Speaker 1: at this point, so just be cautious. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of workload with a lot of these guys going into
Speaker 1: this upcoming season. The Mariners need him all to be healthy.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately Kirby is not gonna be healthy to start
Speaker 1: this year. I'm very happy for a guy. Emerson gets
Speaker 1: opening day rotation spot. That's awesome. Gets to debut those
Speaker 1: new pitches.
Speaker 2: Second year in a row two because he was in
Speaker 2: the rotation for a while last year until we got back.
Speaker 2: So again, I know so many people out there already
Speaker 2: have their opinions about Emerson, and I'm not saying he
Speaker 2: has the same stuff that got him drafted sixth overall
Speaker 2: out of Georgia. We know he's dealt with some injuries
Speaker 2: in his career, but like, he's still twenty five years
Speaker 2: old and he's still working on some things. He's still
Speaker 2: trying to debut a few new pitches and find his
Speaker 2: own rhythm in the big leagues. And by the way,
Speaker 2: he's made fifteen career starts. It's not like he's thrown
Speaker 2: for five seasons a big league ball Like I don't
Speaker 2: I'm not writing them off. Let's see what he's got.
Speaker 1: It's exciting. Let's see the vial. I hope that for him,
Speaker 1: the Villa is there on opening day. Villa was working
Speaker 1: for him, has been working for him quite a bit
Speaker 1: this spring, so we'll see if that holds up when
Speaker 1: the regular season gets there. I'd say one last note
Speaker 1: for me dog about this weekend, Man, old man Colt
Speaker 1: Emerson keeps looking better I mean, this dude wants in perspective.
Speaker 1: So he hit his first spring training home run this
Speaker 1: past weekend, one hundred and twelve off the bat at
Speaker 1: Sloan Park against the Cubs. I was curious. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I forget the total number of the amount
Speaker 1: of professional games he's played total as a Mariner, the
Speaker 1: total amount, and I'm counting the year he was drafted.
Speaker 1: I'm counting the Fall league as well. He realize Colt
Speaker 1: Emerson has played one hundred and seven total professional games,
Speaker 1: one hundred and seven, and I'm watching him in these
Speaker 1: at bats against big leaguers at nineteen, and he looks
Speaker 1: totally comfortable. That is rare stuff. I don't remember Jared
Speaker 1: or Julio or any of these other top prospects one
Speaker 1: hundred and seven games into their professional career in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues looking this comfortable. It's not guaranteeing big league
Speaker 1: success at all, but I gotta say here in spring
Speaker 1: he looks good.
Speaker 2: He looks great. And by the way, that home run
Speaker 2: came off of Kate Horton, who's a top pitching prospect
Speaker 2: in baseball. Most outlets have him somewhere in the top
Speaker 2: thirty to fifty. It's not like he hit it off
Speaker 2: some scrub. It's not like he hit it off some
Speaker 2: aging vet that's just trying to hang on in a
Speaker 2: big league camp. No, he hit it off a real dude,
Speaker 2: and at one hundred and twelve miles an hour. I
Speaker 2: don't know where Colt's going to start the year. I
Speaker 2: would still assume Everett because he did struggle by the
Speaker 2: numbers with the Aqua Sox last year once he got up,
Speaker 2: and he hasn't spent that much time in High A yet.
Speaker 2: But regardless, if he continues to hit like this, he
Speaker 2: may not be an effort for long. And I'm really
Speaker 2: interested to see what the end of his twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five looks like because the start of it, Oh, the
Speaker 2: start of it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 1: And then around the American League, Uh, wow, it's wide open.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's what I was going to say about the pitching, Yeah,
Speaker 2: which is, Look, nobody's happy that George Kirby's missing time.
Speaker 2: Obviously you want everybody healthy, but you could be in
Speaker 2: a worse spot. Not only have the Yankees already lost
Speaker 2: the reigning Rookie of the Year and Luise Heel for
Speaker 2: a significant amount of time. Garrett Cole just got announced
Speaker 2: he's having Tommy John surgery. So the Yankees' ace isn't
Speaker 2: gonna pitch all year, and the team that just made
Speaker 2: the World Series last year looks extremely vulnerable all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, No onon Soto, No Garrett Cole, Luise Heels
Speaker 2: on the shelf. I'm looking past Aaron Judge on this
Speaker 2: team who has not exactly had a clean bill of
Speaker 2: health his whole career. They don't look all that imposing
Speaker 2: all of a sudden.
Speaker 3: They're not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not unless you're a big believer in Jazz
Speaker 1: Chisholm or Carlos Rodon living up to his twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one season. Yeah, we're twenty two.
Speaker 2: You need Max Free to stay healthy, you need Cochy
Speaker 2: Bellinger to stay healthy. There's a ton of question mark.
Speaker 2: There's a world of the Yankee could win I don't know,
Speaker 2: eighty three eighty four games if things shake out and
Speaker 2: if things don't go well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that should give you some optimism if you're
Speaker 1: out there and you're looking for a reason to believe
Speaker 1: in this Mariners season, Well, I'm telling you what. You
Speaker 1: look around the American League and it's there's not that
Speaker 1: much of a gap between all of the teams at
Speaker 1: the top. It's pretty tightly packed together. I think it's
Speaker 1: just as likely the Mariners emerge towards the front of
Speaker 1: that pack as they miss the playoffs, because the margin
Speaker 1: for error is probably ninety the margin of these teams.
Speaker 1: The ceiling feels like it's like ninety two.
Speaker 2: Right, let's just go through the contenders. We just talked,
Speaker 2: you know, we just talked about the Yankees. But Yankees
Speaker 2: Los Juan Soto missing a ton of pitching, missing their ace,
Speaker 2: Orioles needed more done this offseason, didn't really do it.
Speaker 2: They brought in Tyler O'Neil, they brought in Toma Yuki Sagano,
Speaker 2: they brought in Charlie Morton. It's not like they lift
Speaker 2: the world on fire with their offseason. Royals probably about
Speaker 2: the same range that the Mariners will be in. Those
Speaker 2: two teams are pretty similar last year. Guardians will still
Speaker 2: be good. We know that Rangers people are starting to
Speaker 2: pick them as a sleeper to win the Al West.
Speaker 2: But that's a team that finished under five hundred last year.
Speaker 2: You got the Astros who lost Kyle Tucker, they lost
Speaker 2: Alex Bregman. They might have added some back, but then
Speaker 2: you lost Erlander. Two. It's wide open, wide open. It
Speaker 2: is a weak league this year.
Speaker 1: Now, man, oh, go ahead, I was gonna say, And
Speaker 1: then the Tigers are pretty fluky. And then the rest
Speaker 1: of the Al East was not good last year as
Speaker 1: talented as they are, like not that good or under
Speaker 1: resourced if you're the Tampa Bay race. So you look
Speaker 1: at that, the gap is not very large. There could
Speaker 1: probably be ten teams within seven games of each other
Speaker 1: seven games talent wise, maybe not results wise because they
Speaker 1: actually have to play the games, but talent wise, it's
Speaker 1: really not that much much difference. And that leaves the
Speaker 1: window wide open for the Mariners. And if you want
Speaker 1: to even bring it back to the off season for
Speaker 1: thirty seconds, you can look at this to two different ways.
Speaker 1: You look at this as, wow, this was a major
Speaker 1: missed opportunity to put yourselves head and shoulders above everyone
Speaker 1: else in the league, which, by the way, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: have taken that much to go above everyone else. Right now,
Speaker 1: say like Christian Walker, you could argue would have put
Speaker 1: you over the rest of the American League at this point,
Speaker 1: or you could say, well, because now that the Yankees
Speaker 1: are worse, it doesn't matter that we didn't invest as
Speaker 1: much in the roster this offseason because everyone else has
Speaker 1: clumped in a group together and we're right there with
Speaker 1: everybody else. Well, that's two different ways to look at it.
Speaker 1: I would have rather had Christian Walker, but you know
Speaker 1: there are two There are ways to look at this.
Speaker 2: Now, what if you just signed Christian Walker and Hasan
Speaker 2: Kim'd be pretty good? How are people talking about you
Speaker 2: right now?
Speaker 1: Very positively?
Speaker 2: Not gonna do it, not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: You gotta smile on your face because you know it's
Speaker 1: positive time.
Speaker 2: The shaking of the fists and clenching of the teeth.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yes it's positive time, but I don't
Speaker 2: know if you know. I felt the red coming through there.
Speaker 2: It didn't come out, but I can feel it in me.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about this. By the way, I'll just
Speaker 2: I haven't told you this yet. I'll just bring it
Speaker 2: to everybody here on the podcast. Okay, So obviously I've
Speaker 2: made it a little goal as of late to not
Speaker 2: just blow up about every single thing and always be
Speaker 2: going on rants and scale that stuff back a little bit.
Speaker 2: If there's ever a time where I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: really going to go on a ramp, but don't want
Speaker 2: to bother the people and do them a disservice of
Speaker 2: just hearing a bunch of screaming. What if I just
Speaker 2: make a statement instead where if something really goes down
Speaker 2: that I can't stand, I just opt out of a podcast,
Speaker 2: Like I'll still do all the editing, and I'll still
Speaker 2: post all the video stuff, but for the actual recording,
Speaker 2: you just have to record thirty minutes on your own.
Speaker 2: It's likely i'll uh opt it out of this podcast.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna do that, I think we need a
Speaker 1: notesap post every time you do that.
Speaker 2: Or how about it that's fine, or how about just
Speaker 2: the video I'm opting out of this podcast story to
Speaker 2: come okay?
Speaker 1: All right, well yeah, sure if you feel like that
Speaker 1: best suits you.
Speaker 2: And yeah, me and the people sometime blasting people's ear
Speaker 2: drums on fire.
Speaker 1: Come on, Lyle, it's still April.
Speaker 2: Well it's not even April. It's March tenth when we're
Speaker 2: recording this.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: Just the thought, maybe maybe put into action and do time.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe by August first, when the ifbms don't trade
Speaker 1: for Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: I might have to opt out of that one. Stand
Speaker 2: it that may actually happen, but we'll see it might.
Speaker 1: Odds has gone up as we were saying.
Speaker 2: Should we get people that are interview with Logan Evans
Speaker 2: here in a minute? Yeah, let's do it. Before that,
Speaker 2: Let's take a quick pause. We'll talk to you, guys
Speaker 2: about our friends over at Pagatcha's Pub eight five. We
Speaker 2: talk to you about it all the time for very
Speaker 2: good reason. It's an awesome spot to go hang out.
Speaker 2: You want to watch these spring training games now a
Speaker 2: bunch of them are on TV. March Madness is right
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Speaker 2: sporting events of the year. You need a place with
Speaker 2: a bunch of TVs to watch all the games with
Speaker 2: your friends. Head over there. There's more than twenty in
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Speaker 2: tell me they're not awesome deals.
Speaker 4: They are.
Speaker 2: So if you want a fun time out with your friends,
Speaker 2: place to watch sports, good place to hang out, have
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Speaker 2: Pub eight five in Kirkland.
Speaker 1: I think it's only fitting that while we got to
Speaker 1: sit down with Logan Evans down at spring training, because
Speaker 1: as soon as we made our connection with him for
Speaker 1: the first time last year about this a little bit
Speaker 1: later from this time last year, I'd say about ten
Speaker 1: months ago, roughly, we could tell he'd be a good guy,
Speaker 1: a good candidate to have in a setting like this,
Speaker 1: and I think this sit down definitely shows some of
Speaker 1: Logan's personality. It's also a will you know, talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about baseball. He had a really interesting year
Speaker 1: last year when he's bouncing between the bullpen and the
Speaker 1: starting rotation, what's next for him this year? He's able to,
Speaker 1: you know, break down and describe a lot of what
Speaker 1: makes him unique, what makes all the pictures in this
Speaker 1: org unique, So of the dynamics he has with guys
Speaker 1: like Mikey Morales and Brandon Garcia and Danny Wurchanski and
Speaker 1: all these other guys. A really good conversation. I will
Speaker 1: note Low and I had some audio issues with our microphone.
Speaker 1: We might sound a little echier than Echo, err than
Speaker 1: Logan does. What's important is you can hear Logan Evans.
Speaker 1: You can listen to Lou and I yap all day,
Speaker 1: So that's that's the important part. But overall, a great
Speaker 1: conversation with Logan Evans.
Speaker 2: Logan's audio is perfect, by the way, There's no issues
Speaker 2: here in Logan, And that's the important part, because, like
Speaker 2: t I said, do you really need to sit there
Speaker 2: and listen to us say a bunch of stupid shit?
Speaker 2: We do that twice a week, and actually more times
Speaker 2: than that because we put it on social media too.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's an awesome conversation. You can still hear
Speaker 2: us perfectly fine, you can still hear the whole conversation.
Speaker 2: Just wanted to give you a heads up. But Logan
Speaker 2: is Logan's our guy. And to what you alluded to
Speaker 2: earlier in the episode about mariners needing more arms this year,
Speaker 2: not only did Logan have an interesting year in DOUBLEA
Speaker 2: last year, he had a really really good year to
Speaker 2: the point where he is probably seventh in line in
Speaker 2: the organization right now to make a start. In other words,
Speaker 2: there's probably a pretty decent likelihood that we're going to
Speaker 2: see him in Seattle in twenty twenty five. And he's
Speaker 2: a guy with real upside, big stuff, a big arsenal,
Speaker 2: and a chance to be a really good big league
Speaker 2: starting pitcher. So you want to get to learn about
Speaker 2: a guy who may play a real role on this
Speaker 2: Mariner team in twenty twenty five and moving forward to
Speaker 2: some extent, Go listen to this one because it's a
Speaker 2: really fun one and he's just awesome to listen to.
Speaker 1: Well, not keep you guys any longer. Let's get you
Speaker 1: to the interview with Logan Evans.
Speaker 2: All right, another sit down interview. We're joined by our
Speaker 2: friend Logan Evans, Aernord's pitching prospect. Had an awesome year
Speaker 2: last year. I've been waiting to say this to you,
Speaker 2: honestly for a few months now, so I'm ready to
Speaker 2: get it off my chest. You're a sellout. Do you
Speaker 2: know where I'm going with this?
Speaker 3: No? I do not. Oh yeah, I know here.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be about my football team, isn't that. There's
Speaker 5: gonna be about how I light the Titans because of
Speaker 5: Derrick Henry's gone.
Speaker 3: Now I'm big Lions fan, jumping on the wagon.
Speaker 4: All right, So maybe your parents spoiled it a little bit.
Speaker 4: They spoiled a little bit, a little bit the other day. Yeah,
Speaker 4: first time you're on with us.
Speaker 2: You're talking about I'm this Detroit sports fan.
Speaker 4: I grew up loving Tigers.
Speaker 2: I grew up loving the Pistons, but the football, Oh,
Speaker 2: I couldn't root for the Lions anymore, so I became
Speaker 2: a Titans fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Fast forward of this offseason, I'm seeing you with Lions
Speaker 2: games with hashtag go on with your family.
Speaker 3: So you yeah, I guess you could say that I
Speaker 3: jumped on the wagon. I would. I will say that.
Speaker 5: I did support the Lions for most of my life,
Speaker 5: and then it was like the sixteen years is when
Speaker 5: I was like, you know, I gotta get off. My
Speaker 5: favorite player is Derrick Henry, So realistically, I'm just like
Speaker 5: a fan of the players, and he happened to be
Speaker 5: on the Titans. I also loved aj Brown. But yeah,
Speaker 5: you could label me as that I don't take any offense.
Speaker 6: That shouldn't you be a Ravens fan then isn't that
Speaker 6: more Wouldn't that be more enjoyable than being a Ravens
Speaker 6: fan being a Lions fan.
Speaker 3: I think I think I bought myself a well.
Speaker 5: I got gifted to Derrick Henry Ravens Jersey, so I
Speaker 5: I I rep that, but I just have no ties
Speaker 5: to Baltimore. Obviously being from Michigan, I can I can
Speaker 5: say that I grew up like liking the Lions, especially
Speaker 5: when we had like Stafford and Calvin Johnson. So I
Speaker 5: just yeah, I didn't didn't feel any like real connection
Speaker 5: to the Ravens. So that's kind of I hop back
Speaker 5: on the wagon. And Gibbs is just like an electric player,
Speaker 5: so I enjoy watching him. I got those tickets to
Speaker 5: the Thanksgiving game, so things are adding up.
Speaker 2: Are you more of a Sonic or Knuckles guy?
Speaker 5: I'm a big Gibbs guy. I like the flashy. My
Speaker 5: dad is big Knuckles. He loves he loves Montgomery, the
Speaker 5: physicals stuff that he brings to the table. I don't
Speaker 5: mind Montgomery, but I want the home run hitters. I
Speaker 5: mean it's like it's like baseball, like you love the
Speaker 5: guys who are contact guys get on base, but everybody
Speaker 5: want to see the home run.
Speaker 6: Well, since he mentioned a Derick Henry Ravens Jersey at
Speaker 6: you might know where my train of thought is leading here.
Speaker 6: Doesn't that feel like and let's run this idea by
Speaker 6: you too, since it almost feels like more of a
Speaker 6: rarity jersey.
Speaker 4: Would you wear?
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I went to Lallapalooza back in the
Speaker 5: day and I and I was repping the Kevin Garnett
Speaker 5: te Wolves jersey.
Speaker 3: So I think I would rip that a Coachella. It's
Speaker 3: it's a nice jersey.
Speaker 6: If you heard our theory on Coachella jerseys, so it's
Speaker 6: you pick like either a good player or an irrelevant
Speaker 6: player but somewhere and this is them playing on a
Speaker 6: team that they're not known for. Yeah, I wouldn't say
Speaker 6: Derek Henry is known as a raven. He's a raven neat,
Speaker 6: but I won't say he's known as a raven. So
Speaker 6: you see a Raven's Derrick Henry jersey at Coachella.
Speaker 5: You're like, oh yeah, yeah, no, yeah, I definitely feel
Speaker 5: like that that passes the test of being a Coachella
Speaker 5: jersey for sure. I mean years later, obviously he's playing
Speaker 5: for them now, but years later, if I were to
Speaker 5: go to that and I was wearing that, I'm sure
Speaker 5: I would get comments on it. I think everybody'd be like, damn,
Speaker 5: that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Jersey.
Speaker 6: Do you have any other ideas for for jerseys. We're
Speaker 6: spitting out some some m's ideas.
Speaker 4: Have any that you might.
Speaker 2: Think doesn't have to be Barron as it could be anybody,
Speaker 2: like yeah, this is an example. Have you ever seen
Speaker 2: that video that circulates on Twitter and it's that remixed
Speaker 2: version of Viva LaVita playing Cold Play, And it's like
Speaker 2: all these just highlight reels of like Sammy Sosa with
Speaker 2: the oriol Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are essentially Coachella Jersey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that are exactly Thaker.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think a cool Titans one would be like the
Speaker 5: Randy Moss he played there for a year or two,
Speaker 5: maybe just like touchdown. I feel like that would be
Speaker 5: a great Coachella Jersey exactly. So you're you're looking, you
Speaker 5: probably see that in the crowd. You're like, I didn't
Speaker 5: know he played for them.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of a Lions player that would
Speaker 5: be like a like a crazy Jersey poll. Uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: that would that would get a lot of reaction.
Speaker 3: That's a good one.
Speaker 2: Were you still a Lions fan when he ran out
Speaker 2: of the end zone for safety?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, no, I that that was one of those
Speaker 5: ones on sports and you're like, this is my team,
Speaker 5: Like I'm cheering for that guy that's brutal.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, I was definitely a fan of them. Then.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you this.
Speaker 2: We start off hot, we tell you're a sellout with
Speaker 2: on a scale of one to ten, how close were
Speaker 2: we on the Michael Morales care scale of chirping?
Speaker 5: That's like a that's probably a six or seven. Yeah, Mike,
Speaker 5: Mike can uh, he can take some shots and we're
Speaker 5: running it back and forth, but it's not her personal
Speaker 5: you know, it's always funny games.
Speaker 6: Can you describe going to battle with Mikey Morales? You
Speaker 6: show up to the port? Actually, no, he picked you
Speaker 6: pick him up or he picks you up.
Speaker 3: I forget the I pick him up. Yeah, he's low bro.
Speaker 6: You pull you pull up to low Brough's house. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you unlock the door. What's going through your mind when
Speaker 6: you're getting ready to chirp up?
Speaker 5: So our infamous uh argument that we had for weeks
Speaker 5: on end last year was he had a great performance
Speaker 5: against Tulsa, went five or six innings twelve K's I
Speaker 5: just give him a little paths like, dude, do sweet,
Speaker 5: good job. Next day, I went like six perfect innings
Speaker 5: and I was like, that's how you get it done.
Speaker 3: Just hit him with it. Uh.
Speaker 5: So we had this argument back and forth on what
Speaker 5: was more, what was better, what was more valuable. But yeah,
Speaker 5: a lot of that derives from, like on field play,
Speaker 5: we always are joking around.
Speaker 3: Obviously it's easy to do when we're having success.
Speaker 5: I don't really think we're going back and forth if
Speaker 5: we were to have like a big hiccup in the road,
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's kind of where it derives from.
Speaker 6: I gotta give Mikey credit. Out of all the people
Speaker 6: we've talked to Amerner's camp and a lot of amazing
Speaker 6: people out of here, I don't think there's a single one.
Speaker 4: Who has a personality bigger than a Hans.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The ability to literally say anything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, he he doesn't hold back. He says what's
Speaker 5: on his mind. But yeah, it's what makes him awesome.
Speaker 5: He's got such an authentic personality and you feel like
Speaker 5: you can have a conversation with him any day.
Speaker 3: And uh yeah, he's a great kid. I love him.
Speaker 2: When Morales was on with us over the off season,
Speaker 2: he was talking about a video where somebody had a
Speaker 2: big hit down in Arkansas.
Speaker 4: But your parents couldn't focus on that.
Speaker 2: When the video was tweeted out, they noticed you and
Speaker 2: Morales were just sure, like eye something if you can
Speaker 2: even share what it was.
Speaker 5: That what it was that I believe I could be incorrect,
Speaker 5: but it was in Wichita and that was exactly what
Speaker 5: I was telling you as well. It was like a
Speaker 5: few weeks after he had the twelve punches, I went perfect,
Speaker 5: and we're talking like this and that, we're asking everybody's
Speaker 5: opinion in the dog out what do you think is better?
Speaker 5: This is and that and uh, and I to mention
Speaker 5: obviously he did win Picture of the Year, but I
Speaker 5: got Picture of the Week and that that that week
Speaker 5: in the Texas League. So I was like, they kind
Speaker 5: of know exactly what what we're arguing about.
Speaker 2: So I say this all out of lot because all
Speaker 2: three of you and really your full double a rotation
Speaker 2: who we all had the chance to talk to it
Speaker 2: all five, but you were awesome. You Readigi Morales or
Speaker 2: chance Kiy and Morales get Picture of the year.
Speaker 4: Awesome, awesome year.
Speaker 2: But it was that, Yeah, did Morales come up to
Speaker 2: you after winning that and saying that's how it got.
Speaker 5: Uh sort of you beat her on the bush. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's some times where he's like, yeah, I'm Picture of
Speaker 5: the Year, So I'm like, I can't fault you for that.
Speaker 5: You had a great season. But yeah, we are always
Speaker 5: like going back and forth. We're always chirping. Hopefully we
Speaker 5: get up to the league and we're having these battles
Speaker 5: and and doing well there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but it's good. He definitely drops it sometimes.
Speaker 6: So you and Mike you're going at it. What are
Speaker 6: Danny and Brandon doing.
Speaker 5: Danny's super genuine kid like always nice, you know Danny.
Speaker 5: I mean, he never really gets on the action big
Speaker 5: kind of just like talks to any of the players
Speaker 5: who are around us when we're arguing and be like,
Speaker 5: these guys are just idiots. They don't he doesn't really
Speaker 5: jump in on it, but yeah, they're they're usually on
Speaker 5: the on the chill side for sure. Uh, Scoot Scoot
Speaker 5: jumps in there. Sometimes. He's funny, he's got quick comments.
Speaker 5: He's he's a funny kid. Him and Alfred are like quick, witty,
Speaker 5: but they they don't really jump in like me and
Speaker 5: Mikey do.
Speaker 3: When me and Mikey.
Speaker 5: Step in a room, it's always competition about anything. I mean,
Speaker 5: we could be playing pool back at our airbnb, video games,
Speaker 5: whatever it is, We're gonna be super competitive. We're both trash.
Speaker 5: But it's honestly like it's back and forth every game.
Speaker 5: No one really dominates the pool table. So yeah, it's
Speaker 5: back and forth.
Speaker 4: You had a pretty wild ride last year. You start
Speaker 4: as a starter.
Speaker 6: Yep, then you go to a reliever for a little bit,
Speaker 6: and then you come back to being a starter. I
Speaker 6: want to go to the first transition when they call
Speaker 6: you to be a reliever, like what are you thinking about?
Speaker 4: Like what how do you feel like it's going to
Speaker 4: go at this?
Speaker 5: At that point, I was sitting there thinking like, dude,
Speaker 5: I have this figured out.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: I had come off a like picture of the month.
Speaker 5: I mean, Jerry called me, so I'm just like, dude.
Speaker 5: Present Based Operations called me telling me I'm going into
Speaker 5: the bullpen and hopefully I can help out the team.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking, like everything's perfect. So I get into the
Speaker 5: bullpen and honestly, I felt like I transitioned pretty well.
Speaker 5: I'm such a creature of routine, so that was definitely
Speaker 5: a bump in the road learning new things as a reliever,
Speaker 5: but I.
Speaker 3: Felt like I took to it well.
Speaker 5: Obviously, Santos came back earlier than they had anticipated, so
Speaker 5: that kind of factored in on why I never ended
Speaker 5: up going up. And then my last outing I kind
Speaker 5: of just like had a hiccup in the road. That
Speaker 5: was my first one really in pro ball. So I
Speaker 5: learned a lot about myself, Like do I take to
Speaker 5: results too much? Was I worrying about how I was
Speaker 5: like processing or was I just focus on the results.
Speaker 5: And in that moment of time, I was like so worried, like, oh,
Speaker 5: I let up four runs and this is nine and
Speaker 5: done that, like I said previously, in pro ball. So
Speaker 5: it took a little time for me to like really
Speaker 5: get downpacked on what I should be evaluating myself on.
Speaker 5: But towards the end of the year, I learned like
Speaker 5: I need to focus on what I can do. I
Speaker 5: can't control the results. And sometimes and you guys have
Speaker 5: watched me, and I'm sure people out here viewing have
Speaker 5: watched me, like I'm a pretty chill guy on the mound,
Speaker 5: But sometimes you need to tap into like the reliever,
Speaker 5: like just go and blow it past them and go
Speaker 5: a little lunar tick. So I use that and then
Speaker 5: kind of put what I learned and throughout the whole
Speaker 5: year into the playoffs and it succeeded.
Speaker 3: So it was good two part follow up to that.
Speaker 6: So if you need to go a little bit lunatic,
Speaker 6: are you a caffeine guy before you starts?
Speaker 5: No, I uh, I've been taking out of all my
Speaker 5: entire life, so I don't. I don't like to get
Speaker 5: like all that in me and get jittery. I need
Speaker 5: that for focus. So trying to have heart health when
Speaker 5: I'm older.
Speaker 6: That's smart, very smart. Yeah, very smart of you looking
Speaker 6: ahead like that. I will say some of the relievers
Speaker 6: do try and go sid We're talking to our buddy
Speaker 6: keep Spire and he's like like third or fourth inning
Speaker 6: pre workout yep, And I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: A lot of the guys will stroll in on game
Speaker 5: days with their bangs or their rain or anything of
Speaker 5: that nature, and they just they get going. But yeah,
Speaker 5: like I said, I for just for health reasons. I
Speaker 5: don't like to do all that reason.
Speaker 1: I have a healthy thing for you.
Speaker 5: Smelling salts, Oh yeah, I've done that.
Speaker 3: That'll get you going, Yeah, that will get you going.
Speaker 3: For sure some of your back pocket.
Speaker 6: You're up as the dude's walking into the batter's box,
Speaker 6: You're going, all right, the batter is going to be
Speaker 6: looking at you with white eyes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, what's wrong with this guy channeling you're inner?
Speaker 4: Ricky?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Have you guys? I know this a little off. Nobody.
Speaker 5: Have you seen the prank videos of people saying like
Speaker 5: they got this new fragrance and they go around with
Speaker 5: smelling salts like in the middle of the mall. Oh,
Speaker 5: I'll make sure to show you us. But it'll it'll
Speaker 5: you'll crack up. It's hilarious. I mean, it's a little
Speaker 5: messed up. You want to have to random people like you
Speaker 5: want to smell this? They go and then they do
Speaker 5: this huge thing like.
Speaker 3: What the hell is that?
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's pretty funny. But yeah, I don't I
Speaker 5: don't use any of the smelling salts or or pre
Speaker 5: workout in game getting ready for that. I just kind
Speaker 5: of just flip it in the mode.
Speaker 2: Sounds like you're a lot healthier person than some of
Speaker 2: our friends we went to school with. You talk about
Speaker 2: players showing up with bangs. I'll just use our own
Speaker 2: comparison here, which is totally relatable. We would have friends
Speaker 2: when we would go out on Fridays and Saturday nights
Speaker 2: who would legitimately make themselves fought ka bangs.
Speaker 4: And I good health. You're done.
Speaker 3: That's like a four loco.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does sound like a four logo. Okay, might
Speaker 4: be a little more extreme.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Four. It might just be illegal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gotta be banned.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, that's not your thing. You're a little more
Speaker 4: chill when you get into games.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, your buddies are probably having a great night, but
Speaker 5: the next day it was probably miserable for them.
Speaker 4: They probably want to get out of bed.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, actually the friends I'm thinking of, I don't know
Speaker 2: if yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So eventually you go back to a starter's role.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a part of you when you're in
Speaker 2: that relief outing or in that relief role thinking to
Speaker 2: yourself this way, then how could you not be enamored
Speaker 2: by that and obviously paired with doing what the team
Speaker 2: ass here to do and giving it you're all when
Speaker 2: you went back to the starter's role, though, is there
Speaker 2: any part of you, especially talking about being so routine
Speaker 2: oriented that you're like, all right, I can get back
Speaker 2: to a little bit more of what I know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely relied on the foundation that I had
Speaker 5: created at the start of the year, so I was
Speaker 5: kind of just getting back into those routines. I just remember,
Speaker 5: like during that build up, because I had to build
Speaker 5: back up in innings and I would just learn something
Speaker 5: each time. I talked about this in the last time
Speaker 5: when I was here. But like my baseball car, I
Speaker 5: look at it like a ten thousand piece puzzle. So
Speaker 5: I'm just still adding little pieces every single day and
Speaker 5: I still do it today. But at that time, yeah,
Speaker 5: I was just trying to get back in the flow
Speaker 5: of everything, building back up, obviously getting my work, but
Speaker 5: getting back down on those routines. And I just felt
Speaker 5: like every single outing I was learning something good or bad.
Speaker 5: But I was just trying to take something that I
Speaker 5: can use the rest of my career.
Speaker 6: Does it feel better going into this spring knowing your
Speaker 6: I'm gonna guess only going to be a starter. Yeah,
Speaker 6: one area of your game you.
Speaker 4: Need to focus on.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, it definitely feels great.
Speaker 5: And uh, I mean it doesn't hurt to be surrounded
Speaker 5: by the best starting staff and in all the baseball
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's it's great to know that I'll be
Speaker 5: in like a pretty secure role as a starter. Do
Speaker 5: I know like what they have in the future for me,
Speaker 5: if they want me to go back to ten, No,
Speaker 5: But if I if they do choose that again this year,
Speaker 5: like I'll kind of have like some knowledge obviously doing
Speaker 5: that last year, so I don't feel like it will
Speaker 5: be as much of a curveball. But yeah, I think
Speaker 5: being a starter for me is where I'm most comfortable,
Speaker 5: where I have the most success. So it is a
Speaker 5: pretty relaxing feeling.
Speaker 6: What is it like being around I would also imagine
Speaker 6: you're around them a lot more this year. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I didn't really get to talk to them a lot
Speaker 5: last year, obviously coming in spring training just being on
Speaker 5: the minor league side and making my first impressions. But
Speaker 5: it is it's special, It really is. You you learn
Speaker 5: how authentic each one of them are. Bryce is like
Speaker 5: a really good guy. Uh loves to talk to everybody
Speaker 5: in the club house, just kind of doing his little walk.
Speaker 3: He's got his little strat. George is just super calculated.
Speaker 3: No he is not.
Speaker 5: No, we're not like the closest. But I've definitely gotten
Speaker 5: to speak to him. I just got to talk to
Speaker 5: George at lunch and us sitting there with Emerson, and
Speaker 5: both of them are just so calculated into their work.
Speaker 5: They really know what makes them them and they don't
Speaker 5: try to replicate anything else.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: Castillo is just big dog like he walks in the
Speaker 5: room and you know, like he's been there, he knows
Speaker 5: his stuff. He's gonna do his work and get out
Speaker 5: of here. And then Wu has been in a tremendous
Speaker 5: help as well. Another like you just know, like he's
Speaker 5: kind of a California kid, but in a good way,
Speaker 5: Like he just buys into who he is. He's authentic.
Speaker 5: He also is just super calculated in his work. Everything
Speaker 5: he does is just like down to a science. And
Speaker 5: I pick up on those things. Maybe it's not communication
Speaker 5: like vocally, but I communicy by just watching them and
Speaker 5: seeing what they do. So yeah, I've picked up a
Speaker 5: lot of things. And I think it's just great to
Speaker 5: be surrounded by greatness.
Speaker 4: I hate to make you pick.
Speaker 2: One, but if there's one of those guys of the
Speaker 2: five where you feel like you've watched them just a
Speaker 2: little bit more intently than the others.
Speaker 5: And yeah, you know, I I think that The two
Speaker 5: that stick out to me in the way that we've
Speaker 5: just like they kind of taken me under their wing
Speaker 5: for this camp is Emerson and Brian Wu. I think,
Speaker 5: out of like the six guys, those are the two
Speaker 5: that have kind of taken me under their wing, and
Speaker 5: they've helped me a lot. I learned a lot of
Speaker 5: things from them from just a pure watching standpoint.
Speaker 3: I watched George.
Speaker 5: I've gotten like comparisons to just how calculated we are
Speaker 5: in our work. And I've seen him like he even
Speaker 5: like looks at the ball every time he throws it.
Speaker 5: It's not just on the mound, it's in his pregame bullpen,
Speaker 5: it's out there on the field in the backfield, is
Speaker 5: playing catch every day. He is so specific on everything
Speaker 5: he does. And I've taken that to be like you
Speaker 5: don't want to waste reps ever, like if you're playing
Speaker 5: catch on a late day like I had today, like
Speaker 5: I'm still gonna get my work in. So I've learned
Speaker 5: a lot from him. So those are three guys that
Speaker 5: I've taken a lot from this.
Speaker 4: M seven pitches.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't tinker a lot. I'd try to be
Speaker 5: who I am, like I'm a stuff guy like my
Speaker 5: I have a lot of movement on my pitches, obviously,
Speaker 5: trying to get command to be where it's like George
Speaker 5: hopefully one day. There are things that I like mess
Speaker 5: with a little bit, but that's just like some off
Speaker 5: season stuff I don't. I don't like to tinker a
Speaker 5: lot during season, so I wouldn't say much.
Speaker 2: What did you take away from last year that you
Speaker 2: either really liked about what you did or that you
Speaker 2: feel like you want to work on and you come
Speaker 2: into this year saying that, like, let's get.
Speaker 4: Better at that.
Speaker 5: There's a few things, So one I thought I was
Speaker 5: I've been pretty harsh on myself. Everybody says your biggest
Speaker 5: critic obviously, but I looked at sometimes last year I
Speaker 5: looked at it like I was like failing because I
Speaker 5: didn't go to the majors or I didn't succeed in
Speaker 5: the bullpen. And then I kind of took a step
Speaker 5: back and just realize, like where I'm at, Like I'm
Speaker 5: playing professional baseball. I'm on the cusp of making the
Speaker 5: major leagues. I was a twelfth rounder out of Pittsburgh,
Speaker 5: just happy to be here get a shot because out
Speaker 5: of Pittsburgh I really.
Speaker 3: Had no clue.
Speaker 5: Like my junior year out of Pittsburgh, I didn't get drafted,
Speaker 5: and I was like, this is kind of a harsh reality.
Speaker 5: So I always stuck stuck onto that feeling. So last
Speaker 5: year I learned to just be grateful and realize that
Speaker 5: I am doing pretty well. Another thing is like don't
Speaker 5: look into the future so much, like just let things
Speaker 5: come to me. I can't live in the future, I
Speaker 5: can't live in the past. I can control what I'm
Speaker 5: doing right now, and I think I'm gonna take that
Speaker 5: into this year and just realize, like if it's in
Speaker 5: double H the majors, like take it one day at
Speaker 5: a time. Don't worry about stuff that I can't control.
Speaker 5: And then the third one really is just like set
Speaker 5: goals I think are attainable, and obviously shoot for the stars,
Speaker 5: but I don't have to like be a guy who
Speaker 5: comes in and into the league and be the starter,
Speaker 5: like who has a zero era through five starts, Like
Speaker 5: there's gonna be bumps in the road, Just like take
Speaker 5: it one day at a time.
Speaker 2: Like I said, well, let me say this to follow
Speaker 2: up on what you just answered. You set the bar
Speaker 2: pretty ridiculously high. For yourself to start. So one, I
Speaker 2: get it, everybody's their own harshest critic. That's just true
Speaker 2: in life. But your first two months of the year,
Speaker 2: I mean, you could not pay yourself to have a
Speaker 2: bad start. You'd be sitting up here in Sea Island.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, Logan's on the Mounaday's probably going six shutout.
Speaker 2: I don't even remember what exactly it was at, but
Speaker 2: your ERA must have gotten down to one five at
Speaker 2: one point. Yeah, you were a twelfth rounder out of
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh who probably had or you've talked about it, were
Speaker 2: you left a lot on the table. Yeah, you're out
Speaker 2: here looking like the best arm in the entire system.
Speaker 2: I think it's I mean, baseball could be a game
Speaker 2: of failure, right, and everybody has their ups and down.
Speaker 2: So your point about perspective, is it easier to look
Speaker 2: back on that now? And so yeah, like there's a
Speaker 2: lot of things I really.
Speaker 4: Did well last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when you're in like the heat of the moment,
Speaker 5: you don't really realize like success as much as you
Speaker 5: realize failure. Like, like you said, like my first two months,
Speaker 5: like I was pitching very well, had like a one
Speaker 5: to one ERA, and I'm throwing every six days or whatever,
Speaker 5: like feel like I'm just like going out there effortlessly.
Speaker 5: I got put on like Baseball America's top one hundred,
Speaker 5: Like these are things that I wasn't even like I
Speaker 5: didn't know that could you could do that as a
Speaker 5: twelfth rounder. But at the at that time, like I
Speaker 5: wasn't realizing like the things I was doing good at.
Speaker 5: And I remember, uh, Michael Peeples and Matt Pierrepont, who
Speaker 5: are unfortunately gone now, but they kind of sat down
Speaker 5: and it was like, dude, like celebrated a little like.
Speaker 3: I was down in corpus.
Speaker 5: I threw six shutout innings and I kind of came
Speaker 5: off and it was like, oh, I could have worked
Speaker 5: on this, Dude, you just threw six shutout innings in
Speaker 5: Double A in your first year. Like smile a little,
Speaker 5: you know. So yeah, I think that's something I'll definitely
Speaker 5: work on. And going off that point, I think I'm
Speaker 5: gonna try to be less internal and just worry about
Speaker 5: like what's going on mine instead of just being like
Speaker 5: they call it fastball, throw a fastball. Whatever happens happens.
Speaker 4: So you know what, I'm getting a sense out of
Speaker 4: you from that answer.
Speaker 2: I know for the most part you say I'm pretty
Speaker 2: chill even on start days, I don't. I don't get
Speaker 2: too high or too low. And I believe that for
Speaker 2: the most part. But it sounds like somewhere deep down
Speaker 2: in there there's a little bit of Kirby and Logan
Speaker 2: in the sense of on their start days, those guys
Speaker 2: you better not bother them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, zero to one hundred real quick.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying you're quite that, but somewhere in
Speaker 2: there there's a little part of you that's a little.
Speaker 3: Bit like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think. I think the only time that I'm
Speaker 5: like just kind of staying in my way, let me
Speaker 5: do my thing, is like pregame bullpen, like catch play.
Speaker 5: Like if I'm in catch play, like I don't want
Speaker 5: anybody ask me anything. If I'm going to the bullpen
Speaker 5: to go start warming up, Like I don't really want
Speaker 5: people like approaching me asking something, and like it's kind
Speaker 5: of an unwritten rule. People always understand that. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 5: I think there's a little bit of me in there
Speaker 5: for sure, Like you said, but for the most part
Speaker 5: of the start day, like I come in, I'm pretty
Speaker 5: chill talking with the guys, you know.
Speaker 4: That, all right.
Speaker 6: Last thing for me logan not wanting to look ahead
Speaker 6: too far, and I get that when I do that,
Speaker 6: it stresses me out.
Speaker 4: But if you thought ahead of the PCL.
Speaker 6: If you if that's where you end up, Yeah, Arkansas
Speaker 6: great pictures from the exact opposite.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I said, like you learned so much through
Speaker 5: success but also failure. I think I'd go into the
Speaker 5: PCL like expecting nothing and just learn from what comes
Speaker 5: to me. Obviously, I'm gonna go out there and try
Speaker 5: to do my best, try to throw seven shutty every time,
Speaker 5: but if that doesn't happen, learn how to pitch on those.
Speaker 5: Because expect the MLB, like you're traveling everywhere, different climates,
Speaker 5: different elevation, all these different factors, and I think the
Speaker 5: PCL simulates that much more than the Texas League clearly,
Speaker 5: So I think there would be a lot of valuable
Speaker 5: lessons in that. I've definitely thought about it, and I'm
Speaker 5: I'm excited if I get the opportunity, but obviously I
Speaker 5: don't know what's going to happen. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to the plane rides. I heard you
Speaker 5: actually don't have to go on ten hour bus rides
Speaker 5: to Vegas around Roun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Okay with that, do you ever look at advanced metrics all?
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you guys do internal if you
Speaker 2: look at things like x CR at all that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have a system in place. Uh we call
Speaker 5: fx c r A. It's like you are expected R
Speaker 5: plus whatever they use on baseball savant. We definitely look
Speaker 5: at that. They actually broke that down to me, uh
Speaker 5: after the year, and I was like one hundreds, like
Speaker 5: major league. I think I was sitting around like one
Speaker 5: o one, one oh two. So like they're like, dude,
Speaker 5: you're already a major league pitcher, Like you're an average
Speaker 5: major league pitcher right now at twenty two year old.
Speaker 5: Like you can build on stuff for sure and and
Speaker 5: be great. But like they said, just realize what you've done.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: And the reason I asked that is because you know
Speaker 2: where your biggest fans, We're gonna kill it no matter
Speaker 2: where you go. Yeah, if there's some start when you're
Speaker 2: playing in Albuquerque or someplace with super high elevation where
Speaker 2: the ball is just flying unlike Arkansas, just start looking
Speaker 2: at that stuff.
Speaker 4: Just XCRA and say, you know what, here's what I'm
Speaker 4: actually doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody's the r gets balloon there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well what am I actual? Yeah like that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I always I love to look at those numbers
Speaker 5: as well, because obviously as fans, like we love to
Speaker 5: look at the win loss, we love to look at
Speaker 5: the era, but like, what what do you do that's
Speaker 5: like actually creating success for you? Like the FIP is
Speaker 5: a great example of the expected era is a great example.
Speaker 5: There's so many different stats now in baseball, which is awesome.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 5: I know some people don't, but I like to look
Speaker 5: at those things because it's like, oh, I am having success.
Speaker 5: I just was pitching in a ballpark that was three
Speaker 5: ten down the line and we're at three thousand feet
Speaker 5: of elevation and they just hit a home er at
Speaker 5: eighty five off the bat. Uh So yeah, there's there's
Speaker 5: definitely value in that.
Speaker 4: I got a couple more equipment questions. Yeah, anything fun
Speaker 4: you did this offseason? Like away from the.
Speaker 5: Baseball, dude, I was. I was big into this board
Speaker 5: game called Katan. Yes, oh dude, I I yeah, I
Speaker 5: rip it on my phone still. So I played a
Speaker 5: lot of that with my my cousin, my best friends,
Speaker 5: my brother, girlfriend, anybody who wanted to play. We were playing.
Speaker 5: I obviously you guys saw went to the Lions Thanksgiving games.
Speaker 5: That was cool, but those were those were definitely the highlights.
Speaker 5: I like to just hang out with family a lot,
Speaker 5: my friends a lot, so those were definitely my highlights.
Speaker 4: Lion's win projection for twenty five.
Speaker 5: I mean, the thing is, I think they're under half
Speaker 5: for loss. I don't think they lose. I know everybody's like,
Speaker 5: I don't think that exactly. Everybody's like, oh, Ben Johnson
Speaker 5: is leaving this and that. Like the skill group that
Speaker 5: we have is just so incredible, And I really think
Speaker 5: that the NFC North is great and we kind of
Speaker 5: dominated last year. So like I'm ready to get in
Speaker 5: there and go. I think when our defense is healthy,
Speaker 5: like I don't really know how, Like I feel like
Speaker 5: everybody was on trained that the lines are gonna win
Speaker 5: the Super Bowl with a healthy roster this year across
Speaker 5: the NFL, So if we can keep everybody healthy, I really.
Speaker 3: Don't see a loss.
Speaker 5: Sure as sports, I'm sure there's gonna be but I
Speaker 5: want to be optimistic and say that they're gonna go perfect.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you have almost a full year with Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: now polar opposite, you're type of the record literal polar opposite.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna do under half a win seriously, seriously, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I would love that Penn State guy. I mean I'm
Speaker 5: big on him. I think he could be my Parsons.
Speaker 5: I think you would be so interesting. The Titans somehow
Speaker 5: pulled off drafting abdual Carter and then trading for Stafford
Speaker 5: and just seeing what they could play with that that
Speaker 5: would be the win win for me. I was obviously
Speaker 5: a huge Staffer fan, and Penn State guy abdul Carter
Speaker 5: was impressive. So I think that their win total would
Speaker 5: be set at seven and a half. I think that
Speaker 5: they could get over I think they could get an
Speaker 5: eight or nine. Yeah yeah, yeah, Will Levis, I mean
Speaker 5: I'm hoping for maybe three wins.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Now that's disgusting. That is that is foul work.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that dude's doing right there, but
Speaker 3: I mean it works for him. He's ripped, so I
Speaker 3: can't really chirp that.
Speaker 2: It works for him. Logan, you're the man. We always
Speaker 2: love talking to you. You know, we're rooting for you.
Speaker 2: I know Mari's fans are going to be rooting for you,
Speaker 2: and we'll stay up in here for you. You don't have
Speaker 2: to say it, but we'll say it. We'll see you
Speaker 2: in the big leagues at some point in five. We're
Speaker 2: gonna stay it.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you guys always, Thank you so much for
Speaker 5: the support, and thank you for having me on.
Speaker 2: We really always do have a blast talk and a
Speaker 2: Logan he's so much fun. Hope you guys enjoyed that interview.
Speaker 2: And I've got a semi bold but not really bold
Speaker 2: prediction here. Next time we have him on the podcast,
Speaker 2: he's probably gonna be a big leaguer. So we're speaking
Speaker 2: that into existence for everybody here. Yeah, shout out to what's.
Speaker 1: That I said?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are, Yes, shout out to Logan. Shout out
Speaker 2: to him for sitting down with us. Hopefully you guys
Speaker 2: have become fans of Logan Evans at this point. He's
Speaker 2: certainly got our Marine Layer Pod stamp of approval and
Speaker 2: then some. So if you guys need any more reason
Speaker 2: to root for him, take it from us and take
Speaker 2: it from the interview because you heard it firsthand. All right.
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