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Speaker 1: What is Up?

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Speaker 2: Mets fans, Welcome back to another episode of the Mets

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Speaker 2: Up Podcast. If you're watching this on YouTube over on

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Speaker 2: the mess of podcast YouTube channel, you will notice we

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Speaker 2: have a special guest with us. Jet Williams, Mets top prospect.

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Speaker 2: We spoke to Jet actually, I believe the day that

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Speaker 2: he signed. We met him on the field at City Field,

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Speaker 2: got to hang out. There was a rain delay, ended

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Speaker 2: up being a crazy day, but Jet out in the

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Speaker 2: Arizona Fall League. Thank you for joining us. How are

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Speaker 2: things going. It's been a minute since we spoke.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you all for having me. It's been going good,

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Speaker 3: you know, just geting be able to play again for

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Speaker 3: these last I guess a couple of weeks has been

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Speaker 3: pretty awesome. Everything's out here is pretty cool, I guess,

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Speaker 3: and just this I guess aspect of just being able

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Speaker 3: to come out here and playing great weather and just

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Speaker 3: basically it's kind of time to just have fun. Really

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Speaker 3: nothing I guess really mad, per se like not really

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Speaker 3: like worried about winning or losing. It's just kind of

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Speaker 3: going out there, have fun, try some new things, see

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Speaker 3: what works and whatnot.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like the weather in Arizona right now

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Speaker 4: is probably a little bit better than bingham to in April.

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Speaker 3: Right, Oh yeah, sure.

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Speaker 4: But in April you caught that wrist injury and that

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Speaker 4: took out a big chugger year. What was rehab for that, like,

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Speaker 4: especially as a hit there with power like you, And

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Speaker 4: how were you able to just stay focused going through

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Speaker 4: that rehab every day?

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Speaker 3: Right? So I had surgery or I guess I'll just

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Speaker 3: start you from the beginning. So I had I slid

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Speaker 3: into second feet first and kind of put my hand

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Speaker 3: really think much of it as I go, maybe it's

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Speaker 3: just like a little jam whatnot. Kind of played the

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Speaker 3: rest of the game. Played two weeks, and then I

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Speaker 3: went into a series against New Hampshire. I think it

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Speaker 3: it was like my last game. So it was like,

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Speaker 3: I think that next week going into that series against

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Speaker 3: New hamp I'm sure started swinging in the cage and

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Speaker 3: I was doing my top hand drows and I just

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Speaker 3: could not hold onto the bat. It's like weird and

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Speaker 3: I couldn't grip and I was like, and what was

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Speaker 3: funny is the Mets are training staff. I was like, hey,

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Speaker 3: you have a grip test today, and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 3: oh Lord, like, let's see if I can get away

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Speaker 3: with this. I gripped my left hand and it was

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Speaker 3: And they're like no, like that wasn't your right hand.

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Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, that was my right handling, all right.

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Speaker 3: And then so I ended up just like yeah, my

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Speaker 3: I did two quarter zone shots. I did one here

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Speaker 3: in Scott Steele with doctor Sheridan, which he's the one

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Speaker 3: rehabbed for a couple of weeks, and then I ended

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Speaker 3: Then he figured out a at so like my TFCC

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Speaker 3: it was supposed to be flat and it was like

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Speaker 3: Then they once I got back to Florida, the rehab

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Speaker 2: When you miss that much time. What's the hardest thing

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Speaker 3: I think just kind of being in that groove of

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Speaker 3: know that I'm playing every day. Like I think playing

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Speaker 3: and and I think in the game and playing one

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Speaker 3: Like I think when you show up every day and

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Speaker 4: So yeah, dude, you did one week in a ball

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Speaker 4: triple A. What was that jump from double A to

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Speaker 3: Uh? You know. I think the biggest jump was knowing

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Speaker 3: I think I saw that like the first two games,

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Speaker 3: I think for me, it was like knowing that they're

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Speaker 3: I can throw a first pitch strike and he's not

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Speaker 3: or if it was just hey, get more at bats.

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Speaker 3: It's fine. I know that I didn't play much in

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Speaker 3: kind of put pressure on them and just honestly, go

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Speaker 2: We've seen the organization's been playing you at shortstop and

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Speaker 2: playing you in center field. What has been the biggest

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I mean I think just no, and then I

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Speaker 3: got drafted a shortstop. Obviously we have Lindor, great player,

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Speaker 3: most likely never going to play shortstop for the Mets

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Speaker 3: unless something like miraculously happens. But I mean, you know,

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Speaker 3: like I mean, he deserves like he should have been

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Speaker 3: like I'm most likely not going to play there, but

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Speaker 3: it's like, I guess the best value for me is like, hey,

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Speaker 3: hey we're going to move you to second right now,

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Speaker 3: get your reps at second, or because I've played a

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Speaker 3: field is. I mean, I tell everybody like, hey, what's

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Speaker 3: it's just I don't know. I just got to go

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Speaker 3: that's about it. Don't miss your cutoff is really the

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Speaker 4: Did you ever play any outfield like high school, coming

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Speaker 4: up in the prep circuits before you got to the.

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Speaker 3: Professionals, Yeah, so, I actually, I mean, growing up as

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Speaker 3: I mean, it counts, but it doesn't just because it's like,

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Speaker 3: all right, you're trying to figure out a position. Heck,

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Speaker 3: I caught once I started playing baseball. I was like fourteen.

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Speaker 3: I was a catcher for like, and.

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Speaker 4: That's player in the field.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, but no, so I think. I mean, at

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Speaker 3: my freshman year of high school, I played second base,

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Speaker 3: That was awesome. I think just knowing that was my

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Speaker 2: You also got to go to major league spring training

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Speaker 3: Right, I think that was awesome. No, Like I think

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Speaker 3: But I think just the way they welcomed us, and

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Speaker 3: But they're all really cool and they all make you

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Speaker 2: Who's got the better jump shot?

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Speaker 3: You were all indoor, I would say, at first me,

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Speaker 4: I feel like you and him could be like a

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Speaker 3: Anything I played, I mean middle school and I played

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Speaker 2: From Texas, Texas has been loaded with baseball talent, especially

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Speaker 2: Jordan Lawler a top prospect. Do you have any relationship

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Speaker 3: So I've kind of grown up playing against him and

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Speaker 3: against him. I went to Aria Code with him, and

435
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Speaker 3: he's probably one of the nicest guys ever. Really liked him,

436
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Speaker 3: and I mean I think he was hurt a little

437
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Speaker 3: bit this year too and last year, so it's kind

438
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Speaker 3: of and he made it's the big leagues last year

439
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Speaker 3: and we were kind of like on the same track.

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Speaker 3: Of Hey, he after his first or his first full season,

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Speaker 3: he made it to double A and then he started

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Speaker 3: to double A his second year and made it to

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Speaker 3: the big league. So it's like, you know, like, hey,

444
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Speaker 3: like we were on the same track and then he

445
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Speaker 3: got hurt and I got hurt. It's like kind of

446
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Speaker 3: picking his brain and but no, he's all to me,

447
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Speaker 3: like I really like him and probably one of the

448
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Speaker 3: most humble guys ever out there, but just overall a

449
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Speaker 3: great guy. And Bobby I've never had a really a

450
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Speaker 3: relationship with Bobby. I've never talked to him before, but

451
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Speaker 3: now I think just the way he plays too, I

452
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Speaker 3: look up to him too, and kind of all aspects

453
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Speaker 3: of his game and knowing that he's also a really

454
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Speaker 3: humble guy, and knowing people that know him and one

455
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Speaker 3: of my good friends and was in his agency too,

456
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Speaker 3: so it's like he knows all about them, and you know,

457
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Speaker 3: just kind of seeing the way he works and plays,

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Speaker 3: like obviously like that's somebody you would like to really

459
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Speaker 3: resemble your game after.

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Speaker 4: Have you had any other like big league players or

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Speaker 4: any other kind of mentors along the way, like coming

462
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Speaker 4: up as you were high school in minor leagues, now anything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean growing up, I had my summer coach,

464
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Speaker 3: Sean Lowe. He played in the Big leagues for eight

465
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Speaker 3: years with the White Sox and Cardinals. He was a pitcher,

466
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Speaker 3: but just kind of having him as I grew up,

467
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Speaker 3: just kind of knowing like, hey, like this is what

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Speaker 3: I guess. I mean, we were young, so it's kind

469
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Speaker 3: of like you really don't know like what I mean.

470
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Speaker 3: I obviously people say they can tell, but it's like,

471
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Speaker 3: let's see, like how can I tell, or like let's

472
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Speaker 3: work as hard as we can to make it like that.

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Speaker 3: And I think he helps me a lot with a

474
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Speaker 3: lot of things with just even outside of baseball too,

475
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Speaker 3: Like I think just having him like kind of lead

476
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Speaker 3: the way too. And then once I got into high school,

477
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Speaker 3: I was kind of my hitting coach. I've been hitting

478
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Speaker 3: with him since I was eight years old. His name

479
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Speaker 3: is Aldraven Konez kind of growing up. He's from Venezuela

480
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Speaker 3: and he actually is best friends with Robinson Trina's that

481
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Speaker 3: played for the Mets too, So I've I've worked out

482
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Speaker 3: with Trina since I was in eighth grade, him, Odoor,

483
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Speaker 3: Elvis and Mazara just all those guys since I've been

484
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Speaker 3: kind of going into high school and then all of

485
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Speaker 3: high school and then now I would say kind of

486
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Speaker 3: all my hitting coach and Robinson are kind of like

487
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Speaker 3: the mentors of leading me the way of hey, this

488
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Speaker 3: is how it needs to be done and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: That's how cool was that, as like a middle school

490
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Speaker 2: high school kid to be around those Texas Rangers because

491
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Speaker 2: they were they were making some runs during that time,

492
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Speaker 2: and I mean obviously Odor was in the news for

493
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Speaker 2: you know, a bunch of the Rose Bautista like those

494
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Speaker 2: were some of the biggest names in baseball at the time.

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Speaker 3: Right, No, I think it was awesome. I mean just

496
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Speaker 3: picking their brain, like seeing what they do, like working

497
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Speaker 3: out with them, like hitting with them, like what is

498
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Speaker 3: their cage routine like, or what do they do to

499
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Speaker 3: mean like they've done it for a while, And I

500
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Speaker 3: think just a lot of it is just knowing like

501
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Speaker 3: like how humble they are with all the stuff that

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Speaker 3: they do. It's like they could easily be jerks or whatnot,

503
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Speaker 3: like hey, we don't want you to work out, but

504
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Speaker 3: it's like I think, like I said again, like being

505
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Speaker 3: able to work out with those guys and pick their brain.

506
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Speaker 3: I think it was huge for me, especially growing up

507
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Speaker 3: and going into high school and like, especially in my

508
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Speaker 3: last two years of high school, like, hey, there's there

509
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Speaker 3: could be a chance for you getting drafted, and like

510
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Speaker 3: this is what we need to do, and like they

511
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Speaker 3: helped me a lot with everything and kind of just

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Speaker 3: the way they go about their business.

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Speaker 2: I do like that you said there's a chance to

514
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Speaker 2: get drafted. It was ended up being a first round pick.

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Speaker 4: I think it was a little more than the chance

516
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Speaker 4: when the top players drafted the whole thing. When we

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Speaker 4: saw you last, it was the day you siged your

518
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Speaker 4: contract twenty twenty two with the Mets. Again, Mark just said,

519
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Speaker 4: first round pick, got a nice little signing bonus. Do

520
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Speaker 4: you do anything fune with that signing boats when you

521
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Speaker 4: got it? Anything and he gets to the family and

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Speaker 4: you picticke a purchases anything.

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Speaker 3: Fun, I'd say the one thing that I've always wanted

524
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Speaker 3: was a diamond necklace. So I just got a diamond necklace.

525
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Speaker 3: And then I mean I just leased the car. My

526
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Speaker 3: fan financial advisors said hey, Lisa, car and I need

527
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Speaker 3: to buy it. You're not gonna be driving that man

528
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Speaker 3: least the car. But now that's pretty much the only

529
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Speaker 3: thing probably big gifts once I make it to the

530
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Speaker 3: big leagues for everybody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I definitely. We're excited to see you make

532
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Speaker 2: it there one day. Jet, thank you so much for

533
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Speaker 2: joining us. Appreciate it. Before we let you go here,

534
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Speaker 2: just tell anybody where they can follow you. Whatever you

535
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Speaker 2: want to plug, go for it.

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Speaker 3: It's Instagram, Twitter or whatever. I mean, I don't really matter.

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Speaker 3: I'm not that big of a social media guy, but

538
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Speaker 3: I like it.

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Speaker 2: Humble, focused on ball.

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Speaker 1: Jet.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, man, appreciate it. Good luck the

542
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Speaker 2: rest of the Arizona Fall League, and hopefully we'll talk

543
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Speaker 2: to you again during the twenty twenty five season.

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Speaker 3: Yep, sounds good. Thank you for having.

545
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Speaker 1: Me and then and then and then and then and

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Speaker 1: then and then.

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Speaker 5: After love, don't let that last, don't love, don't then,

548
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Speaker 5: don't let that love, don't then the

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Speaker 1: Love that then the last