WEBVTT - Inside pitcher prep w/Mason Miller 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.480 I mean, I'll play into it. I say, I used 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.160 to rake when I was a little kid, but I 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.720 was a po. 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:09.040 I was a PO come high school, So I don't 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:10.639 know if that really counts for a whole lot. 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:18.480 But as closed with Mason Miller with us right now, Mason, 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.240 great to have you back on foul territory. How's life 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.560 right now with the A's, I mean, just to put 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.120 it simply to start the conversation, hello to you and 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.480 thanks for swinging by. You know, this team in the 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.320 last couple of years hasn't been great, and now I 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.440 mean you're in at least wildcard contention, if not division contention. 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:36.600 I know it's early in the season. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.080 Is it fun to be involved, you know, on the 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.159 now positive side of the rebuild? 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.839 Yeah? Yeah, good morning guys. Appreciate you having me as always. 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.839 Yeah, but getting to some competitive baseball is obviously a 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:52.919 nice change of events for us. I think we were 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.520 kind of there last year, but after the first half 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.560 you don't really get to look at the schedule or 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.360 look at this the standings and kind of see see 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.360 your team up there kind of in a couple of 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.600 games out. You know, it's early, so we're not necessarily 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.520 focused on that. We're just focused on competitive baseball, bringing 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.720 our best and trying to be consistent in each game 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:12.400 each series. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:14.240 Does it feel different? 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.880 Are the conversations different than it was when you know, 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:19.840 you guys are already kind of dug a hole for 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.080 yourself last year and then you started to improve, and 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.480 it's like, you know, we see it coming. But now 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.520 you start the season out you were hovering above five hundred. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.200 Now you're bouncing right in there. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.440 Are the conversations different in the clubhouse with you guys 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:36.160 or in the bullpens that you spend a lot of 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:36.759 time out there. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.040 Yeah, I think the expectations are certainly different. You know, 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.640 you have high expectations of yourself and of your teammates always, 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.560 but you know there's there's a ceiling uncertain times, and 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.320 you know we're not blind to that. But I think 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.160 just the goals shift a little bit, and the goals 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.960 in the previous couple of seasons are a little different 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.840 than this year. You know, after the end of last year, 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.480 the second half that we played, that was kind of 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.440 our coming out to everybody that that were a competitive 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:15.560 team with some good players. And I think we knew 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.480 that before everybody else did. So you know, now that 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.120 we're at this point, we kind of knew that we 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.000 had this talent, and I think that we can, you know, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.440 play even higher above that. And we have a tough 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.200 schedule this month, but I think it'll be be a 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.440 good test for us and kind of put up, shut 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.040 up type type times. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.280 I love that, and I think you know, here, guys say, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.480 especially earlier in the year, you know, these games don't matter. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.240 They matter, every single game matters, and I think that 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.520 put up or shut up time. I absolutely love that. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.200 So for me, my question, you talk about competing, you're 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.680 talking about a different team. Who's who's the leader right now? 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.000 Who's that guy in the clubhouse that everybody looks for? 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:53.480 Is it you? 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.079 Is there a guy that you know everybody kind of 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.720 leans on, or is the team just know what they're doing. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.040 They come to the ballpark and sad, everybody's accountable. You know, 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.000 let's get after it and. 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.120 We have an awesome mix of guys. Signing Sevy this 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.040 year has been been huge for us. He's a phenomenal leader, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.880 phenomenal person, and he's been really a big difference maker 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:15.600 for the locker room. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:15.959 I think. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.040 But we got a young group with you know, a 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.000 couple veteran guys in there too, but just a bunch 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.120 of guys that you know, come to the field excited 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.360 to see each other, excited to hang out, excited to work. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.920 So you know, having guys like Rooke and Log at 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.200 extensions is awesome. Guys kind of look to them obviously, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.400 but I think I think Rooke Sevy are probably two 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.880 of our biggest guys, and you know, they're doing a 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.560 phenomenal job. We're kind of regardless of how you know, 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.600 their games go, and just being the kind of calming 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.600 presence for the team. And sometimes it's reminding you the 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.840 guys that we got another one tomorrow. You know, like 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.680 after last night, it's easy to easy to let them 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.120 sit with you a little bit, but you know we're 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.080 going to turn the page and you know, come play. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.480 A competitive series and try to take the series here 0:03:58.480 --> 0:03:59.200 in San Francisco. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:01.960 Yeah, you got a good point too. I'm looking the 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:02.720 last three series. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.360 I mean Mariners, who at that time were playing really 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.760 really well. They were kind of right in the midst 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.680 of their hot streak, and the Yankees and then I know, 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.720 you just finish up the series in La and yet 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.720 the team's still twenty two and twenty two two games 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.279 away from first place in the AL West. So I 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.159 just want to dial in on the Dodgers series for 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.919 a moment. How was that to experience, because you know, 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.599 they've kind of got this international vibe to them with 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.120 the way that they've been able to pick up some 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.839 of the top Japanese talent in the sport. Ya Momoto, 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.080 i know, pitched in that game a couple of days ago. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.200 Otani put on a show in this series too, So 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.120 how was that for you to witness? Obviously you want 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.000 to win the series, you guys picked up one game 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.599 in it, but was it cool to actually experience what's 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.240 going on there? Because I do feel like we're going 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.640 to look back at this time at some point and 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.240 forget the wins and losses, but just how much talent 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.960 we've been seeing from Japan come over to the United 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.520 States and a lot of those players happen to be 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:53.920 on the Dodgers. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:55.880 Yeah, man, I mean you have a lot of respect 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.320 for good players, you know, no matter who they're playing for, 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.200 and to see that many good players is kind of 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.880 established on one team, and they obviously have a lot 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.440 of injuries that's going on there too, But see the 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.479 lineup that they run out every night is you know, 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.880 they're one of the one of the team's perennial teams 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:11.960 and will be for a while. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.400 But just seeing seeing a young guy like. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.440 Kim taking the at bats he's taken, he got his 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:21.719 first home run, I mean, he's a solid player, and 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.000 Rushing made his debut too. But just just the group 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:26.840 that they have, it seems like they have a lot 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.160 of fun playing and they have an awesome atmosphere, awesome 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:30.840 stadium and fan base to play in front of them. 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.560 But that's that's kind of what makes you know, being 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:34.800 on the road and going to a place like that 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.400 fun is you know, kind of they're the measuring stick 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.520 of the league right now. So you know we didn't 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.520 We got the first game eleven to one and then 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.200 kind of rolled over the next two. But you know, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.240 we know we can beat teams like that, and it's 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:47.760 just a matter of being consistent. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.360 Who's the best team you've seen this year? You just 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.680 left l A. I'm not saying it's a Dodgers and 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.800 say who is the best team? And you're not. You're 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.080 not saying all they're better than the age. It's just 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.719 who had Who have you been the most impressed with. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.719 I think the Cubs was probably, I mean it was early, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.880 but their lineup was firing, and their pitching has been 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.040 been pretty solid too, So I think I think as 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.960 far as overall impression, I think that made the biggest one. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:14.279 Man. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.200 My question to you, Mason. I mean you've talked about, 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.280 you know, your teammates. I want to talk a little 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:21.880 bit about you as well. You know you got the 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.280 electric arm. Talk about your process. Have you always had 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.320 that electric arm? Is it something you've had to work 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.200 on over the years. I mean, talk a little bit 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.080 about maybe you were a good hitter, I mean did 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.560 you hit back in the day. Talk about how you 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.200 were as a hitter, and then how you absolutely developed 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:39.440 this cannon of an arm. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.640 I mean, I'll play into it. I say, I used 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.320 to rake when I was a little kid, but I 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.720 was a po I was a po come high school. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.360 So I don't know if that really counts for a 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:51.120 whole lot, but. 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.960 No, it does on this show. It does for sure. 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:55.160 Yeah I think, yeah, yeah. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:56.919 I mean I was playing I was playing short and 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.760 bat and third when I was twelve, so Yep, I'll 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.280 hang that out there. But I think I think I've 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:08.720 always had a smooth, smooth arm and thrown harder than 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:13.800 most guys from my age. But getting past college and 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.440 into the pros and being able to sustain this elite 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.360 level of velocity, I think is a god given gift 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.960 that's coupled with work ethic and you know, the things 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.600 I do to take care of my arm, my shoulder 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.640 and my body, and you know, putting myself in a 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.600 position that I'm able to go out there and compete 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.760 on a day to day basis. 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So, Mason, I 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.719 want to ask you about the mental side, and I've 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.040 got you a specific way to approach this because yesterday 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.280 we just got into a really good, in depth conversation 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.920 with Max Monty on the show about hitters meetings and 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.160 how everybody has to come prepared with actual homework on 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.680 what their approach is that night against the pitcher, then 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.280 they talk it out, et cetera. So he gave us, 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.559 you know, fifteen really good minutes on how that all 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.400 goes down some of the language that's used, which many 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.120 people if they're just listening in, would not understand, right, 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.120 like the baseball terminology that they're using. So how does 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.400 it work on the pitching side, Like what do you do? 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.440 Are you looking to see what pocket you're going against, 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.800 you know, or are you much more relying on your 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.280 catcher and obviously you know, looking at locations and pitches 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.760 and stuff like that, or are you kind of dialing 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:33.160 into a player by player basis of your preparation against teams? 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.800 Yeah, I think I have honestly a pretty unique outlook 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.640 on it since I used to start and that preparation 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.680 is a lot different being a dot. You'll have to 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:47.200 get a guy three times maybe during an outing. But 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.800 you know, now speaking as a reliever, you know, we 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.760 have a reliever's meeting before to start every series, kind 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.400 of go through the lineup, go through you know, who's 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:00.440 a runner, tendencies, things like that, and the kind of 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.760 just talk about where guys missus, whether it's you know, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.480 heaters up, heaters away, what lanes you know in or 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.720 out is better up and down? Kind of just giving 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.000 guys an idea of you know, the safe zones to 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:17.040 go or the you know, more optimal places to be. Obviously, 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.160 there's certain hitters like Otani where it's like, hey, the 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.240 whole box is red, don't you know, you don't don't 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:24.839 want to give them anything too good, But at the 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.360 same time, you don't want to just put them on 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.520 base every time. So it's just kind of about giving 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:34.880 guys the keys to, you know, their stuff. Everybody's stuff's different. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.920 You know, my my holes or my zones that I'm 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:39.640 going to are going to be a lot different than 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.280 you know, a guy that can you know, has a 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.560 good change up or cutter, curveball, things like that I 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.320 don't do. So it's kind of just the same way 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.920 that you know, you teach a sixth grade class and 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.319 you got kids that are very smart and kids that 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:59.440 very you know, from lower levels to middle levels everything 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.520 in between. Like everybody's in a different spot. But it's like, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.000 how do you get it to a point where you're 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:08.760 meeting everybody's needs. So I think for us eight relievers, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.559 you've got a couple guys that they're cutters, a couple 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.480 guys that throw good changeups, sinkers, et cetera. So just 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.240 kind of hit each one of those throughout the meeting. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.440 And then I honestly think that it's a little bit 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.600 on the player too, that you know, you know yourself best, 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.280 and the way that you're going to be able to 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:24.680 get the guy out, you kind of have to be 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:28.160 able to go and look at the numbers and figure 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:29.840 that stuff out for yourself. So I kind of just 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.760 look at where guy's damages, you know, since I'll be 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.840 pitching and the most important part of the game most 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.920 of the time, you know, I want to know where 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.319 the guy historically has done his damage and where I 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.280 can go to get swing and miss, you know, if 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.640 I need it. So that's kind of how I approach it. 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:47.640 And you know, I think you're always learning to You 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.560 got different resources available to you, you know, heat maps, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.719 weighted averages, all this different stuff where it can get 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.200 kind of consuming at times. But I think the sooner 0:11:58.240 --> 0:11:59.840 you find something that works for you and just have 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:01.400 a process, I think that's the best. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.400 Way to do it. Mason. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:05.000 I want you to look at me. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.280 I want you to look at me in the eyes, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.439 and next time you guys have a scatting report meeting, 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.400 I want you to be like cut or Slider, probably 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.760 throw one hundred and three. I'm a blow some cheese 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.319 by these nerds. That's what you need to say in 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.920 your meeting, because I know that's what's going on in 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.520 your head. You're like, I am this good. But you're right. 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.000 If you take everything that they're talking about and you 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.000 can start executing it, it takes you to the next level. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.560 Yeah, exactly, I mean I do. I do approach that 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.480 that way. You know, some guys it's you know, give 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.000 me a heater until they put a good swing on that. 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.880 But I kind of the last couple of weeks struggled 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.560 a little bit with my slider command and saw that 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.320 in Miami and that ultimately led to the Grand Slam 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.760 from Stours. But it's kind of like when I do 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.360 guys a favor and don't throw anything else competitively close 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:55.800 to the zone and they can just gear up for 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.160 the heater and you know, I gotta throw it. I 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.120 gotta throw it in the zone at some points. So 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.920 just giving them a chance in that sense, you know, 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.160 if I'm able to mix my stuff, be in the 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.040 zone and expand the zone and then really start throwing 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.240 those those fastballs where it's like I'm coming and throwing 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:13.120 this fastball by you. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:14.600 That's that's what I'm at my best. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.120 It's called a speedball. You throw a speedball, so I'm 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.719 gonna throw fastball as you throw a speedball. Is there 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.560 somebody you watch, Like, let's say you're facing the Dodgers 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.439 and your lane is you know, it's not just a 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.360 ninth inning or whatever, it's it's one, two three in 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.560 that lineup? Do you do you queue up on the 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.079 true media on your scattering report page? 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.040 Do you queue up a certain picture? 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.360 Because I know hitters would do that, Like I would 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.559 never look at a you know, how somebody faces Prince 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.320 Field or I'm not a left handed, power hitting you 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.040 know monster. I would look up other backup catchers that 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.760 don't play much that hit right handed. How a pitcher 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.600 attacks them. Do you look up a certain pitcher and 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.400 you go, if this guy attacks them this way? 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:58.960 I think I can too. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.719 Yeah, I think that's that's an awesome way to do it. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.040 You know, it's a lot of great pitchers in the league. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.520 And for me, if I'm going to look at fastball 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.080 swing and miss and if it's you know, I could 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.400 be sinkers. Obviously, you can filter it to just four seams. 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.800 But that there's a huge variance between a ninety two 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.360 mount Our fastball and one hundred mount Our fastball, So 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.440 I usually filter it to like ninety seven and above, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.080 and guys that I'll see a lot of, or you know, 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:30.840 Surez for the Padres Hellslie for the Cardinals, Chapman obviously too, 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.080 and kind of you know you'll watch it, but I 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:34.640 you know, I don't. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.040 I don't think I'm as fastball heavy, or my fastball isn't. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.240 Necessarily quite as dominant as a guy like Sworez, where 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.160 he's able to throw it eighty eighty five percent of 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.320 the time and still generate the swinging mess that he has. 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.720 I think ultimately at the end of the day. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.800 You watch it like if I execute my fastball, you 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.480 know I can get this guy out and no problem. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.680 You know, it's watching guys like that that just their 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.560 execution is so good, you know, at the top, top 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.320 of the rail, in and out, that's just that's the roadmap, 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.280 you know, just get to the top and work it 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:07.760 in and out. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.680 Hey, last one Mason, whatever the scouting report was for 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.240 Johnny Pareda against Shoheo Tani. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.280 I mean, I don't know if anyone. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.360 Can replicate the pitch, then getting the ball authenticated the 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.840 whole deal. So what was that like to witness and 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.800 what did the guys say to him afterward? 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.840 Yeah, I mean quite quiet clubhouse after a nineteen to 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.120 two loss, for sure, But you know, you kind of 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.120 I walked past Johnny and I gave him a little uh. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.240 You know, if I knew that, all I had to 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.400 do was throw sixty four miles an hour and then 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.160 go hard up at the end. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.760 You know, the whole league should have been doing this 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:44.840 for a while, right. 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.160 It's not that hard as a Johnny and he just laughed. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:50.600 It's his third strikeout. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:50.880 Now. 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.320 It's unfortunate that he's had to be in as many 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.640 games as he has, but he said he wants to 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.800 get up to above ninety, above ninety miles an hour. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.160 I mean, I think his pitching career this will be 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.560 the highlight. I don't really care what else he does, 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:06.800 but he'll have that. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.400 Yeah, I don't think you could top that what he 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:10.880 just did. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.320 You know in yesterday's game, And trust me, show Tan 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.080 he's not taking in a bat off. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.080 So he got him. He got it. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.360 I've not seen that before. That is the approach, right, 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:26.000 Krats sixty something down and then what was that like eighty. 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:26.880 Five eighty nine? 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.880 I think eighty nine he hit. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.480 I thought he hit eighty eight or eighty nine. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.920 Yeah, he's been pretty he's been pretty close. He's been 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:36.760 pretty close to ninety. I think I think it was 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:37.760 a TV eighty nine. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:43.360 Yeah, I love it. Well, dude, great to catch up. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.400 Good luck against the Giants here coming up, and then 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.200 we'll get you again in a few weeks. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.960 All right, awesome, guys, Good to talk to you as always. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:56.440 Good stuff there. I mean, I'm enjoying these interviews Kratz. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.440 I think this week we took a turn here where 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.680 we got a little baseball y. But you know, I'm 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.320 a nerd, so I like to hear this stuff, and 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.680 I know from the fan perspective, maybe for you guys, 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.359 you dealt with it for a long time and it 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.720 just seems like, oh whatever, we're sitting in a meeting. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.480 Like for me in my baseball career covering the game, 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:19.119 the coolest parts are, say, the manager's office conversations that 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.280 I have before I call a game, right and just 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.399 hearing what they're talking about right before the game begins. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:27.040 So having this with Mason and hearing how he's watching 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.720 other flamethrowers and how they attack people versus also hearing 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.640 what months he does yesterday with his hitters is pretty cool. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.879 It's how you get it's how you get to the 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.440 next level of your ability. Not necessarily that Mason Miller 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.800 is going to be any better than an All Star 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.240 or anything like that. He's trying to figure out the 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.000 little things that it's going to get him to be 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.119 the best he can be. I guess era is a 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.560 little high, but he's a closer who cares about his era. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.080 But just the language. If you're picking up things, he 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:02.000 said top rail. Max Munsey was talking about how pitches 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:06.159 are planing out. He was talking about how stop throwing 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.479 the cutter yesterday because show hey hit the dinger. Like 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.040 this is all conversations that happened throughout the game. It's 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:17.240 not just oh baseball, bat, go hit that John, No, 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.239