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Speaker 1: The bullpen doesn't give you a choice, Like you show

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Speaker 1: up every day and you're going to be in there,

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Speaker 1: whether you want to be or not, whether your body

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Speaker 1: good place mentally, whatever it is, you gotta go get out.

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Speaker 2: Eric Neander joining us right now. Eric, we appreciate the time.

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Speaker 2: Great to have you and you tell us how impressive

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Speaker 2: the arms look right now? And can't love the hat too,

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Speaker 2: by the.

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Speaker 3: Way, function over aesthetics here or ball.

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Speaker 4: Hooty and fluffy hat with the old school raised logo

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Speaker 4: on top. I mean we talked about Dana Brown styling.

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Speaker 4: He might be taking it for the Florida old Florida vibe.

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Speaker 5: He's got it right there.

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Speaker 4: This is my salesman, looking for jobs, looking for jobs,

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Speaker 4: especially close to the home.

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Speaker 6: How's the staff?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, before we got to the awesome bucket hat,

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Speaker 2: which I'm sure you can get online somewhere, how is

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Speaker 7: Because you know, we asked to cast about this as well.

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Speaker 2: I mean, guys that you know had some longer term

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're so far, so good, and we've we've had

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Speaker 3: three that we were really excited about, and we never

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Speaker 3: saw the five take one turn together. So we're being

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Speaker 3: cautious here. Love our numbers, love what we seeen Adam McClanahan. Yesterday,

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Speaker 3: Rass was going back to the rotation, you know, like

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Speaker 3: zacly Tells, like the forgotten man in this you know

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Speaker 3: who's the strike thrower. Has proven to be a really

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Speaker 3: don't think we're gonna go six man. I think just

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Speaker 3: with Cashy going through with Kyle Snyder, I think just

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Speaker 8: What about offense, Yeah?

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Speaker 5: What about offensively?

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Speaker 3: Twenty three we saw. I think, what could happen if

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Speaker 3: Last year we lived. I think the other extreme of that.

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Speaker 3: I think realistically, our expectations are that probably our pitching

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Speaker 3: we felt like our path to getting better offensively was

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Speaker 8: I think he's in a really good spot.

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Speaker 3: We're counting on some of those guys taking a step

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Speaker 3: Last year, our offensive premium defensive positions was pretty well underwater,

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Speaker 3: Want to get back to where we were the five

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Speaker 8: Clue, but they've been there. Actually they're wonderful.

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Speaker 3: Everything's been good, and you know, the players returning last

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Speaker 5: When is Kim back.

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Speaker 3: Working through it, going through the shoulder progression now hittings

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Speaker 8: He's twenty one.

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Speaker 3: He has all the expectations in the world on him.

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Speaker 8: It's now right and it's building those habits. He did

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Speaker 8: We've seen him camp. You know, there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: He's getting in the weight room early, doing all the

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Speaker 8: Match seen that.

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Speaker 3: We've seen that maturity and you want to temper expectations

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Speaker 5: We're going to get him on.

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Speaker 4: Right after his home run, he wanted to know why

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Speaker 4: There you go exactly right, exactly, Yandi, Diaz's kind of

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Speaker 8: One. We've been fortunate to win a lot of.

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Speaker 8: There, that's there, right.

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Speaker 3: And then and then with that it's like, all right, well,

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Speaker 2: Okay, Eric, I want to ask about this because you know,

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Speaker 7: How do you do it? What's the advice?

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Speaker 2: Because it's it's easier for you to tell the story

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Speaker 5: Perhaps you know it.

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Speaker 8: Is, but look I don't know. I yeah, I got

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Speaker 8: Then I just I chased it. You know, when I

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Speaker 8: How can I make someone.

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Speaker 8: More than that, But you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: You gotta be yourself. I did it my own way,

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Speaker 3: Okay with a science and nutrition food. I can't even

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Speaker 3: I've had one organization that's seen that, and I suppose

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Speaker 9: Interesting, very very nice, well said. Now my last question

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Speaker 3: You kind of handicap where you have a chance for overlap. Right,

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Speaker 8: And we keep knocking on the door, maybe we can

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Speaker 3: I think anytime we're transacting, anytime we're bringing players, you

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Speaker 8: You got to know players top to bottom. You got

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Speaker 3: And before you know this particular deal makes sense, you

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Speaker 4: But no, I don't know this but Freeman, a judge

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Speaker 8: And that's how we got to do our job right.

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Speaker 3: You just got to keep going and going and going,

442
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Speaker 3: and over time good things happen.

443
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Speaker 8: So that's that's our approach.

444
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Speaker 10: And yeah, I.

445
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Speaker 8: Don't I don't mind being told me a thousand times.

446
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Speaker 3: We can eventually get a yes in there at some

447
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Speaker 3: point and we'll keep going before.

448
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Speaker 5: We let you go.

449
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Speaker 4: Last one here, all your guys left, Freedman, I mean

450
00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,280
Speaker 4: everyone wants to do it. Yeah, how Tampa, Every every

451
00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,360
Speaker 4: team is like, we want to do it. So are

452
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Speaker 4: you going to be a right for life?

453
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Speaker 8: I'm trying.

454
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Speaker 3: I've been here a long time, two thousand and seven.

455
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Speaker 3: They've been They've been good to me, you know, I

456
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Speaker 3: talked about it earlier. To me, I love the game.

457
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Speaker 4: It's the jealous, know what, like Andrew Friedman has because

458
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Speaker 4: he's unlimited payroll. I just think if you had an

459
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Speaker 4: unlimited payroll in Tampa and you're like, oh, we want show,

460
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Speaker 4: oh Freddy Moki.

461
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Speaker 5: Sazaki just for fun.

462
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a different world. It's a different world. I

463
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Speaker 3: remind him of how much he's changed, you know. But

464
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Speaker 3: look the way I see it, Like I said, like,

465
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Speaker 3: love love the game. Couldn't be more grateful for the

466
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Speaker 3: way I've been treated here. I couldn't be more grateful for,

467
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Speaker 3: you know, the a ton of we have to go

468
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Speaker 3: out there and run this thing the way that we

469
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Speaker 3: think we need to run it to have a chance

470
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Speaker 3: to compete succeed, And sometimes you get a little weird

471
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Speaker 3: to do that. But somehow, some way, you got to

472
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Speaker 3: take some shots to figure out how to get ground.

473
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Speaker 3: That Kevin Cash, you know, his year was eleven. I

474
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Speaker 3: think he's been on this like couldn't have a better

475
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Speaker 3: partner from a manager standpoint, Like, the most important thing

476
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Speaker 3: is I believe we can win here, right Like, and

477
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Speaker 3: there is a stubborn belief. The payroll, you get it,

478
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Speaker 3: talked about it like, yeah, it is what it is,

479
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Speaker 3: and they got us in the World Series and twenty

480
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Speaker 3: But I believe we can win here. And as long

481
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Speaker 3: as that stubborn belief is there, then yeah, what might

482
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Speaker 3: not be there in terms of the payroll and some

483
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Speaker 3: of the revenues and how that stuff goes, That is

484
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Speaker 3: what it is.

485
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Speaker 8: But I think there's a lot of other strengths to

486
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Speaker 8: work in here, and a lot.

487
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Speaker 3: Of it's the people, right, And we talk about people

488
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Speaker 3: that have come and gone from this organization. This if

489
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Speaker 3: I walked out this door and disappeared from this organization,

490
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Speaker 3: they'd still be good because there's so many great people

491
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Speaker 3: that are here and it's a blast to work with them.

492
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Speaker 3: And look, it's I don't know, I not all wins

493
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Speaker 3: are created equal in the sense, right.

494
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Speaker 5: Called Freeman and is like listen, I made for the

495
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Speaker 5: World Series with.

496
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Speaker 3: This and we almost like I said, he's changed, you know, yeah,

497
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Speaker 3: he's he's a very good friend of mine. But I

498
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Speaker 3: you know, it's winning here and finding a way and

499
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Speaker 3: I you.

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Speaker 8: Know, we've won a lot of regular season games. I

501
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Speaker 8: get it. We got to figure out a way to,

502
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Speaker 8: you know, to win that last game.

503
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Speaker 3: And as long as that beliefs here that we can

504
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Speaker 3: do that and the talent we have, the talent underneath,

505
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Speaker 3: both now and later, it feels very good about our chances.

506
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Speaker 8: To continue to be competitive.

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Speaker 3: I love nothing more than this is my family's home,

508
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Speaker 3: is our community, and I would love nothing more than

509
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Speaker 3: to find.

510
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Speaker 8: A way to to win that last game here.

511
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Speaker 3: And you know, each win the amount you told you

512
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Speaker 3: can't win here you can't do it, or it's over

513
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Speaker 3: this or that, each win along the way you'd ever

514
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Speaker 3: taken for granted, they're probably a little bit more satisfying. Andrew,

515
00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 3: he's expected to win one hundred every year now, you know,

516
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Speaker 3: and he's he's raised the bar, and good for him.

517
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Speaker 3: He's unbelievable at what he does, you know. But winning

518
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Speaker 3: it here, you.

519
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Speaker 8: Know, would mean more than winning it every anywhere else,

520
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Speaker 8: you know.

521
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Speaker 3: Because of the people I work for, people I work with,

522
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Speaker 3: and just the stubborn desire to try to see that

523
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Speaker 3: through as long as we can.

524
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Speaker 7: Eric This was awesome.

525
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Speaker 2: Thank you for the insight and obviously just for fans

526
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Speaker 2: to be able to hear someone like you. I mean,

527
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Speaker 2: you guys do it right there, just talking like a person.

528
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Speaker 2: That's what people want to hear, you know, especially on

529
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Speaker 2: the show like this. So thanks for joining us, and

530
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Speaker 2: again compliments on the bucket hat.

531
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Speaker 7: People are going to check it out. It's going to

532
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Speaker 7: get some attention that we've.

533
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Speaker 2: Got one of the best interviews in baseball bag with

534
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Speaker 2: his live on foul Territory. Obviously the audience gets to

535
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Speaker 2: see him a lot too. The TV audience gets the

536
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Speaker 2: show all over the state.

537
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Speaker 7: What's wrong? What's wrong? Why?

538
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Speaker 5: Balls?

539
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Speaker 6: All over the place?

540
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Speaker 10: They were? They were closer than that. There was only one.

541
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Speaker 11: There was only one and it was above the plate.

542
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Speaker 10: It was just very above the play.

543
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Speaker 2: Your breakdowns after outings in general are always just spot on,

544
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Speaker 2: and as you know, Pete, super appreciated because people just

545
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Speaker 2: want to hear real human beings speaking after a game.

546
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Speaker 7: So what do you got for us?

547
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Speaker 11: Somebody told me I was terrible yesterday, so I gave

548
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Speaker 11: him a thumbs up up as I was walking off

549
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Speaker 11: the mound. I'd like to see him get out there

550
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Speaker 11: and walk for that might be within his capabilities, because

551
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Speaker 11: it was.

552
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Speaker 10: Certainly with my mind.

553
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Speaker 5: It was chilly yesterday.

554
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Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, my hands in my hand were my

555
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Speaker 11: hand was good the strike zone, and I just.

556
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Speaker 5: Did you challenge it?

557
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Speaker 10: We challenged. We were one for one, and then I

558
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 10: went in and I asked, was I hate? Could I

559
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Speaker 10: have challenge anymore?

560
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Speaker 11: He was like, yeah, right, so probably probably should have

561
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Speaker 11: been tapping the head a little bit more than I was.

562
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Speaker 4: Closer again for the Rais this year, everyone, every player

563
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Speaker 4: that gets to your status and your service time, the

564
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Speaker 4: first question is are you going to finish the year

565
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Speaker 4: with the Rais?

566
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Speaker 10: I sure, hope. So I think based on uh, based

567
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Speaker 10: on what I'm hearing.

568
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Speaker 11: You know, let's win some ball games, and I think

569
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Speaker 11: everything will work out the way it's the way it's

570
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Speaker 11: meant to work out.

571
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Speaker 10: You know, whether that's me here or me elsewhere. You know.

572
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Speaker 11: I uh was trying to trying to go put some

573
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Speaker 11: put some counting stats into column and let the chips

574
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Speaker 11: fall where they do.

575
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Speaker 2: Pete, did you have any concerns about that last year

576
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Speaker 2: when the Raids were making moves that you might have

577
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Speaker 2: to be moving.

578
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Speaker 10: To Eric is?

579
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Speaker 11: Uh, He's fantastic. He is very, very transparent, so I wasn't.

580
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Speaker 10: I wasn't too worried.

581
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Speaker 11: There was a day that I came in from stretch

582
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Speaker 11: and my phone was kind of blowing up. I'm like, interesting,

583
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Speaker 11: I've got a test from Aaron, my agent. He's like,

584
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Speaker 11: you are not getting traded. I'm like why and he's like, yeah,

585
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 11: somebody from some New Jersey paper is rolling with it

586
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Speaker 11: on Twitter. And I was like, great. Talk to Eric

587
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 11: when I saw him the clubs. He's like, hey, you're

588
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 11: not going anywhere. I will be sure to let you

589
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Speaker 11: know it will not be some beat guy from whatever

590
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Speaker 11: paper this is that does And I was like, perfect,

591
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,199
Speaker 11: how nice that though it's the best, right, yeah, I

592
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 11: mean it makes it makes it so easy on us

593
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Speaker 11: to just go do what we're supposed to do, right,

594
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Speaker 11: go out there.

595
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Speaker 4: So if you I want to know, is what if

596
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Speaker 4: you what if he came to you said hey, in

597
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Speaker 4: the next week, you can be traded at any moment.

598
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Speaker 5: Do you go home and like pack up your stuff?

599
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 11: Now I necessarily probably wouldn't be the one packing, but

600
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Speaker 11: my wife probably would start packing immediately.

601
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Speaker 4: Stress level through the room, stress level through the room

602
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Speaker 4: that you're doing something wrong, Yeah, telling me I have

603
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,719
Speaker 4: too much stuff, et cetera, exactly.

604
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Speaker 11: You know, I think, honestly, I don't think that would

605
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Speaker 11: be my first I don't think our first thing would

606
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Speaker 11: be the pack. I think it would be to start

607
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 11: calling schools in Saint Louis and be like, hey, we

608
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Speaker 11: got to get a spot for two kids coming up,

609
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 11: since that'll probably be where we end up when it's

610
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 11: all said and done. But yeah, you know, there'll be

611
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Speaker 11: there'll be some calls. But when you you know, I

612
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 11: think signing the extension with them and kind of understanding

613
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Speaker 11: how you know, Eric and Company has to operate and

614
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Speaker 11: given you know, everything that that goes on here, that's

615
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Speaker 11: something that I was very okay with, something that I had,

616
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Speaker 11: you know, accepted and knew as part of you know,

617
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Speaker 11: signing the extension.

618
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Speaker 10: And so then it becomes something that I don't necessarily

619
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:06,479
Speaker 10: have to worry about in my day to day. It

620
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 10: becomes hey, I'm.

621
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Speaker 11: Gonna go pitch. I'm gonna work on what I need

622
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 11: to work on. They'll be transparent, they'll let me know

623
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Speaker 11: if and when it happens, and we just go from there.

624
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Speaker 11: It's not something that's you know, it's like what they

625
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 11: call it an economics like a sunk cost. It is

626
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Speaker 11: what it is, right, we don't have to go continue

627
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 11: to worry about it, you know, more so than just

628
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Speaker 11: accepting that it, you know, can happen.

629
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Speaker 5: As a veteran, now you're a raised veteran.

630
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Speaker 10: I'm very old in our clubhouse, yes, and I'm only

631
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Speaker 10: thirty one.

632
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Speaker 4: That is like ancient race. But you saw, you saw

633
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 4: Yandi's comments right about. You've seen a lot of turnover here. Yes,

634
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 4: in the rays, Yanni made some comments about some guys

635
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Speaker 4: your thoughts on I mean what he said, in the

636
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Speaker 4: fact that Yandi is speaking out and saying, hey, we're

637
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Speaker 4: going to try and do some stuff a little bit

638
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Speaker 4: different here.

639
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 11: Yeah, well good, I know the close there, because I

640
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 11: don't know if I've ever heard a good Yandi quote.

641
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Speaker 10: Besides those, Look, I think that there's there's an aspect to.

642
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 11: Allowing the freedom to be yourself but also operating within

643
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,439
Speaker 11: a greater hierarchy of structure. And I think you know,

644
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 11: when that pendulum swings right, you know, science says it

645
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 11: can't get past this certain point of whatever level of freedom,

646
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 11: but you know, somehow somebody gave it an extra boost

647
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 11: in the middle.

648
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 10: We might have sworn too far in either way.

649
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,199
Speaker 11: And you know, I think that there's something to be

650
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 11: said for cohesion, you know, and feeling like you're part

651
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 11: of of the front as well as the back.

652
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Speaker 12: Okay, that was that was an interesting way to say

653
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Speaker 12: what I think we got out of what you said. Yeah,

654
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 12: I mean certain people need to kind of control I think, well,

655
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Speaker 12: which is fine. It's everybody, right, It's not. It's not

656
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 12: certain people right. It's not like you can point fingers

657
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:51,199
Speaker 12: and be.

658
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Speaker 11: Like, oh, well, you know you've done this, that and

659
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Speaker 11: the other without being like, oh well, you know, I

660
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 11: do some pretty individual ship too.

661
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Speaker 10: Like it's not you know, it's just kind of the

662
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 10: nature of the game face walked for. You know. If

663
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Speaker 10: I could blame cash for it, I would, but I can't.

664
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Speaker 7: All right, Pete, I got one for it.

665
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Speaker 2: You're on the executive sub committee now right with the

666
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Speaker 2: Players Association.

667
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 8: I was.

668
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Speaker 11: I ran a wonderful campaign and I am now a

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Speaker 11: subcommittee member.

670
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Speaker 7: Congratulations to you, mister, thank you.

671
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, then give me something good.

672
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 10: We did have a meeting today and.

673
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Speaker 11: To quote an iconic Matthew McConaughey line in which he

674
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 11: shows up for like six minutes and steals the movie.

675
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 11: It was very you know, above the years, acidic mustard

676
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 11: gas type ship.

677
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Speaker 5: You know, I don't know what you're talking about, but

678
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 5: just hear you say.

679
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 8: That was.

680
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 10: Before he starts thumping his chest. Oh yeah, he goes

681
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 10: up for five minutes and he steals it. He does

682
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 10: still right, you know, talked about the state of the Union.

683
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Speaker 6: It was.

684
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Speaker 11: For some it happens every four years, well every year,

685
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 11: but you only think about every four years. For us,

686
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 11: it's like spring training.

687
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 10: You know, President comes in, gives you the address, and

688
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 10: you know where you stand and what you gotta you know,

689
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 10: be mindful of coming up.

690
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Speaker 2: So Pete, just give me one thing that you want

691
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Speaker 2: to see change or one thing that you're you know

692
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Speaker 2: you're working on being on that committee, Like why you're there?

693
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Speaker 7: Give me something?

694
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Speaker 10: None?

695
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 7: What is important?

696
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Speaker 10: I'm there because I think.

697
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Speaker 11: You know that we the people that you know, we're

698
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Speaker 11: fortunate enough to to be able to serve on player

699
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Speaker 11: leadership and attempt to you know, continue to better the

700
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Speaker 11: game and move it in the right direction. I think

701
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Speaker 11: that that, you know, is something that had kind of,

702
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Speaker 11: you know, been on my mind, and I think that

703
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Speaker 11: if we can it in whatever way, shape or form better.

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Speaker 10: Than we found it. I think that that's something that

705
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Speaker 10: you know, we we should do. And you know there's

706
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Speaker 10: been some some.

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Speaker 11: I won't call it in cyndiary, but it could be

708
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Speaker 11: in cndiary, you know, rhetoric surrounding twenty six and we

709
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Speaker 11: just started twenty five. So you know, I think that

710
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 11: you know where it's going to be a very interesting spot,

711
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 11: you know, in the coming years on both sides, and

712
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Speaker 11: hopefully you know, we can.

713
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Speaker 10: Move the game then the direction that needs to be moved.

714
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Speaker 9: What is one change that you personally like or has

715
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Speaker 9: always been on your mind, or something that you're like, Man,

716
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 9: you know this would make the game better. Oh, I

717
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Speaker 9: see you smiling already, So go ahead. I'll let you talk.

718
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Speaker 11: Yeah, if I, if I, I think we should just

719
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Speaker 11: accept a very very lax pitch clock, much like they

720
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Speaker 11: do in the NCAA, where it's like it's ticking in

721
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Speaker 11: the back but nobody ever pays attention to it. That's

722
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Speaker 11: would be if I could just there's a pitchlock, but

723
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Speaker 11: it's not a real pitchlock.

724
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Speaker 4: You know, he pictures, I tell you what pictures. Listen,

725
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 4: they get what you know? You're a closer, so you

726
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 4: have to pitch more. But starters and Zach and here

727
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Speaker 4: as I can tell, and he's like, oh man, I

728
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 4: got to pitch every fifth day.

729
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 10: It's real.

730
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Speaker 5: You guys are tired. Yeah, he's tired.

731
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 11: Well, if you're playing seventy two holes in between your.

732
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Speaker 5: Pitch nineteen, maybe once every third.

733
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Speaker 10: Day, well hopefully more than that.

734
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 5: True, but sometimes you go a couple of days you

735
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Speaker 5: don't have to pitch.

736
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Speaker 11: Yeah, there was nineteen where I'm not complaining about the

737
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Speaker 11: cover first.

738
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Speaker 5: No, it's an important thing to do. I'm just saying, Yeah, complaining.

739
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Speaker 7: Doesn't always happen, but that's important.

740
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Speaker 4: Think about the poor catcher when you throw it off

741
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 4: the back stuff, I gotta go chase.

742
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 11: Hey, I'm not going to diminish the hard work and

743
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 11: effort that you guys are subjected to, especially when I'm

744
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 11: bouncing heaters.

745
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you spiking heater, that's your fault. You can't

746
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 5: help you with that one.

747
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 6: That's your ful.

748
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Speaker 7: Well, I'll say is this. We always love having you on.

749
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 2: Just keep being you because you know baseball needs more

750
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 2: attention and we want to hear about the good the

751
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 2: bad betweens. So thanks, Pete always for being one of

752
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 2: the best interviews in the game. So you've got Zach

753
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 2: lttel over at Race Camp Race Pitcher joining us right now.

754
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 7: Zach, you having fun of camp.

755
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been good. It's been good.

756
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 10: It's fine.

757
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 2: By Yeah, thanks for churning pict bro, I don't do

758
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Speaker 2: anything that picture.

759
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Speaker 5: You picture every.

760
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 4: You're like, oh, I gotta play golf today, I get fishing.

761
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Speaker 4: Oh it's ten thirty, man. You know, Tom, you remember

762
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 4: those days time as a position player, You're like, oh,

763
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 4: it's ten o'clock.

764
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Speaker 5: I'm so I'm gonna go play golf at eleven.

765
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I'm just kidding. But no, I mean,

766
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Speaker 6: like I don't know.

767
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Speaker 1: For a picture, it's like, once I get to three innings,

768
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Speaker 1: I kind of feel like it's good to go, you

769
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, what's the differen between three and.

770
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Speaker 10: Six and I don't know.

771
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Speaker 5: Tell me.

772
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Speaker 6: No, I think, uh, you know, the build up, all

773
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 6: normal stuff.

774
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: I think early in campus, like getting your body back

775
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: into it, you know how it is the routine.

776
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Speaker 10: Of it all.

777
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think once you get to that three inning,

778
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Speaker 1: four inning threshold for me, which I got, I have

779
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Speaker 1: four innings tomorrow. Sody four already kind of fine by

780
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: but yeah, after that, it's just you know, getting in

781
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: the routine of a five day and being ready to go.

782
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Speaker 4: Your first time, first time you started in spring.

783
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Speaker 5: Yeah, the next day of how sore are you?

784
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: I think, like the first bullpen is the worst one,

785
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: but you throw you throw like ten or twelve bullpens

786
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: before you get here, right, But then it's like the

787
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: intensity picks up.

788
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 6: You know, you got people.

789
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 5: Around, what though your legs your arm sore?

790
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Speaker 1: I think it's my arm, you know, like you you

791
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: spend all season getting your body right, and then like

792
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Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I'm in a good place and you

793
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: get here and you want to.

794
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Speaker 6: Like put on a little show.

795
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Speaker 1: I think that first one and you come out of it,

796
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know.

797
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 6: I don't think I'm supposed to be storing these spots,

798
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 6: you know, But.

799
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: No, that first one, I think the first bullpen, first

800
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: live live VP is kind of like you're pretty sore.

801
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Speaker 6: And then after that it's like the normal stuff.

802
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 7: Zach.

803
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 2: Last year was your first full season as a starter

804
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 2: right in the bigs.

805
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, so what did you learn.

806
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 2: I know you had a few issues late in the

807
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 2: year obviously, I think it was the shoulder, right, So

808
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 2: what did you learn from it? And how do you

809
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 2: feel like in year two you can thrive that way?

810
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you learn just about Like the routino

811
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: that like what those four days in between looks like,

812
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: you know, going out there and pitchings? Going out there

813
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: and pitching whether you're in the bullpen or or starting,

814
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: but being would like talk to the guys's been doing it.

815
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,919
Speaker 1: We had Jack Efflyn, even Aaron Sovali like those guys

816
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: like what what are those four days in between your

817
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: starts look like?

818
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 6: What are your eating? What are you looking at?

819
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: Looking like you're doing in the training room, in the

820
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: weight room, those types of things, because you know at

821
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: the bullpen you're just kind of ready every night. So

822
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 1: that was a big adjustment, like knowing you're going to

823
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: get four days and what are you going to do

824
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: to put yourself in the best spot on that fifth day?

825
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: And now, like I think one thing that came out

826
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: of last year, especially after that late August early September

827
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: three weeks stretches, you know, saving some.

828
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 6: Bullets early on as far as what.

829
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: Are we doing in the weight room or are we

830
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: getting crushed in the training room where it's going to

831
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: have that effect in September. What are we putting in

832
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: our body early in the year. So this year I'm

833
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: just looking forward to kind of building on that stuff.

834
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 5: Okay, how much more prepared are you this year after

835
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:18,919
Speaker 5: doing it for a full year?

836
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 6: Yeah?

837
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 4: I made twenty nine starts Yeah last year, So how

838
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 4: much more prepared after doing it for twenty nine starts

839
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 4: for your second basically full year as a starter?

840
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 7: Yeah?

841
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 6: I think just like no one, what to expect more

842
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 6: than anything.

843
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 1: Last year, I came into it like I starred in

844
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: the minor leagues, but I was twenty and twenty one

845
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: years old and everything felt good every day, you know,

846
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: So knowing what to expect coming out of stars, knowing

847
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: what to expect, and the confidence that goes with it

848
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: of like all my days when I don't feel great,

849
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: like no one, you can still go out there and

850
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 1: get out.

851
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 6: So having a.

852
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,280
Speaker 1: Good plan of what I want to do and really

853
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: knowing you know what to expect, It's just the biggest thing.

854
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: I keep saying it.

855
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 5: But are you a lifter?

856
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 6: I am a Yeah. I like to lift two days.

857
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 4: Explain the people out there that don't know what a

858
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 4: starter does on their five day routine. Some guys throw

859
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 4: one bullpen, some guys so two bullpens. Some guys run

860
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 4: the day after they start. Some guys like to lift

861
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 4: for multiple days after they start. What's your routine between,

862
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 4: say you start Monday and then you're starting Saturday or Sunday.

863
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many ways to do it too, and

864
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: so many guys, And that's kind of what I had

865
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: to nail down. But I'm a day three bullpen guy,

866
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: so like you get four days in between starts, you

867
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: build everything out around that bullpen day. Kind of you

868
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: obviously want to feel pretty good, especially if you're trying

869
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: to get a good amount of work in. You're in

870
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: a good place, you might throw ten pitches. If you're

871
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: not in a great place, you might throw thirty five.

872
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: But I build my workouts around that, so day after

873
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: I use my long running day, my big lift.

874
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 6: Day, quote unquote flush day.

875
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,919
Speaker 1: There's a lot of treatment that goes on in that day,

876
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: So you come out of that one feeling pretty bad.

877
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: I would say that day is probably the worst of

878
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: the five days, really, and how you feel and the

879
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 1: amount of the work that goes into it aside from

880
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: start day, I guess. But and then day two is

881
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: like a lighter lift day, kind of like a true flush,

882
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 1: a movement day I like to call it, where you're

883
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: you're not necessarily moving heavyweights, but you're in there, you're

884
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: moving your body around, range, emotion stuff. And then ready

885
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: for that third day bullpen where it's pretty light too.

886
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: You just come in and get prepped for that, throw

887
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: your bullpen, work on whatever you want to work on,

888
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: and then that day for is really just a full reset,

889
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: be ready to go for that fifth one.

890
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:28,280
Speaker 5: Lay on the table, yeah exactly. Yeah, that's ice cream.

891
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know about that.

892
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 5: Rough rough life is a picture.

893
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 6: My wife. Yeah, my wife wears me out.

894
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: She's like, you just give massages all day, Like they're

895
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: not the good kind of massages you get.

896
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 9: Hey, talk a little bit about your new ballpark.

897
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 8: Now.

898
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 9: I heard a lot of different amenities going in there.

899
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 9: How excited are you or not excited? Talk a little

900
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 9: about the good and the bed there. It's gonna be

901
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 9: a little more of a hitter friendly park as well.

902
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 9: Do you think about that a lot or you just

903
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 9: go about your daily business and knowing, Hey, I'm gonna

904
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 9: know who I'm gonna face today. I just got to

905
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 9: you know, business as usual.

906
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I'm not.

907
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: As excited as our position players are, but you know,

908
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 1: there it'll be good. I mean, I've heard great things

909
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: about Steinbrenner. They just get a bigger innovation, so should

910
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: be really nice from a facility standpoint.

911
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,760
Speaker 6: But as far as like going out there, the games

912
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 6: are same.

913
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: You know, like you we've all played in so many

914
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: stadiums at this point that it's just another stadium and.

915
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 6: It'll be a new normal once we get to it.

916
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're gonna be adjustments with the weather, with

917
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: the rain, the heat, But two weeks in the season,

918
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: I think it's going to feel very normal.

919
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 10: I don't know what.

920
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 4: Two months in the season when it's June and it's

921
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 4: one hundred and forty and it's one hundred percent ninety

922
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 4: nine point nine humidity and it's not raining, but it

923
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 4: looks like it's going to rain, and you're out there

924
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 4: in the third inning, you're going.

925
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 6: Where they arrange our schedule though you saw that.

926
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys are like the whole heavy Yeah, it'd

927
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 5: be crazy, But.

928
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,800
Speaker 4: Because I think you guys have fifty two home games

929
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,240
Speaker 4: in the first half and twenty nine in the back.

930
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 6: Half or something like July and August. We only have

931
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 6: like seven at home.

932
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 4: You guys also have a todd think about this and

933
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 4: Scott they have a four city West Coast swing. They

934
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 4: go to the West Coast for four cities. I think

935
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 4: they're there for fourteen days, two off days.

936
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's bad.

937
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 1: It's like l A, Seattle, Oak or Sacramento and San Francisco.

938
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 6: So it'll be yeah, that'll be hot too.

939
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: But you think, I mean, like we're talking about you

940
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: think Tampa is hotter than Atlanta though Atlanta's been here

941
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: in the summer.

942
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 6: I've been here in the summer.

943
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's the reason why the Rays and the Marlins

944
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 5: moved inside.

945
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 10: That's right.

946
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 6: What about the old globelife?

947
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,879
Speaker 5: It was hot played for the Rangers for a four years.

948
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,919
Speaker 6: We take the field, that was a different field.

949
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 5: Did you take the.

950
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 4: Field at seven o'clock and they have the thermometer out

951
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 4: there and left center it would say like one hundred

952
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 4: and nineteen degrees.

953
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 6: You're like, wait, what I got Sunday that day game

954
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 6: out in the bullpen?

955
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 3: Just roast?

956
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 4: What are you gonna do about the range lays as

957
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 4: a starter that messes up your routine because there's gonna

958
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 4: be Raine lays in Tampa.

959
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 6: I don't know, I man, I think Tampa.

960
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: One thing about like picking out of the bullpen, which

961
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: I did for a few years, is like, I'm pretty

962
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,959
Speaker 1: flexible overall. It doesn't take me much to get going,

963
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: and I think for me personally, it'll be fine. But like,

964
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: we definitely have some guys that like are really kind

965
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: of stick on their routine. So for me adjustment, Like,

966
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't think anybody really knows what

967
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: to expect, you know, Like well, like you said, it

968
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 1: might rain at three thirty some days, it might rain

969
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: at seven some days. It's just gonna be one of

970
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: those things where like we're just going to.

971
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 6: Figure it out.

972
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 2: Zach, you mentioned obviously your bullpen time in the past.

973
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 2: How has that helped you shape your career as a

974
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 2: starter now? And on that topic, what do you think

975
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,919
Speaker 2: of the trend of some of these relievers saying all right,

976
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 2: I got several pitches in the arsenal that are you know,

977
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 2: above average or elite in the big leagues. Let me

978
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 2: try this out. Clay Holmes obviously is given that a go.

979
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 2: Now with the Mets, we saw raynald at Lopez last

980
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 2: year really really excel in a starting role after going

981
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 2: to the bullpen when originally being a starter, which I

982
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,720
Speaker 2: guess you kind of took us similar path there too.

983
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,919
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I mean I came up as a starter

984
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: made to the big leagues. I guess tannically at the

985
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: starter not a very good one, but yeah, moved to

986
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: the bullpen. I think, like, honestly, the bullpen was a

987
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: really good thing for me, just kind of not letting

988
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: me be.

989
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 6: Too married to a routine.

990
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: You know, it's really important to have a routine obviously,

991
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: but no one can go out there and pitch if

992
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,959
Speaker 1: your routine isn't perfect or if you don't feel great

993
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: that day. Like the bullpen doesn't give you a choice,

994
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: Like you show up every day and you're going to

995
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: be in there, whether you want to be or not,

996
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: whether your body wants to be, whether you feel like

997
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: you're in a good place mentally, whatever it is, you

998
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: got to go get out so and realizing that at

999
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: the big league level was hard for me specifically, So

1000
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: I think the bullpen was really really good for my development.

1001
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: And then to get the opportunity to move back into

1002
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: the rotation. Obviously, I think there's not many pictures that

1003
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 1: you would find in the game that don't want to start,

1004
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 1: so to get the opportunity to do it, for like,

1005
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: at the time in twenty three a major league a

1006
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 1: major League team that was contending, one of the best

1007
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: teams in the league at the time, was pretty cool.

1008
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: And the trend you're seeing, Like I said, I think

1009
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: everybody kind of came up as a starter at some point,

1010
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: whether it was in college or the minor league. So

1011
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: everyone can do it. It's just a matter of the

1012
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: opportunity in the big leagues. You know, you guys know

1013
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 1: a lot of the time there's a lot of really

1014
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: good players that don't ever get a shot because the

1015
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 1: opportunity just wasn't there.

1016
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:22,439
Speaker 6: It was no fault of their own.

1017
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: It might have been the guy in front of them

1018
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: was on a ten year contract, whatever the case may be.

1019
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 1: So the opportunity has a lot to do with it,

1020
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: and teams just can't afford to run you out there

1021
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: for thirty starts and hope for the best, especially if

1022
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 1: you're contending. So you see it every year and you're

1023
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: you're kind of starting to see now that there have

1024
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:43,879
Speaker 1: been some successful transitions back into the rotation. Teams are like, hey,

1025
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: we've got some guys that we think might be able

1026
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: to do this and it's been really cool to watch.

1027
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 4: So you were drafted by the Mariners. This is like,

1028
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 4: this is like an aircraft. Yeah, this is an aircraft name.

1029
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 4: You're catching them. You go, Mariners, Yankees, Twins as rangerst Man.

1030
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 4: This is like my career Twins, Giants, Rangers, Red Sox, right,

1031
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 4: and then now Tampa.

1032
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 5: So all those organizations that you've played for, Yeah, what

1033
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 5: does Tampa do different that they say, Zach, we see this.

1034
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 4: Where every other was it six other organizations where they're like, well,

1035
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 4: we don't really see you as a start of Tampa's like,

1036
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 4: we see you as a starter.

1037
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 5: If you do this, it can work out.

1038
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a little bit was out of the necessity, right,

1039
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:26,879
Speaker 1: Like we had Drew Asmussen was like on the edge

1040
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 1: of doesn't k need surgery? Does he not need surgery?

1041
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: And I think at this follow up they found out

1042
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 1: he needed surgery. So it was like, oh, now we're

1043
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: kind of scrambling. The deadline was coming up, and I

1044
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: think honestly they were just kind of looking for a

1045
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: stop gap to the deadline, like.

1046
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 6: Try and go out and get somebody.

1047
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: It was twenty three, and it just kind of like,

1048
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: you know, you throw a lot of strikes, you've got

1049
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: three pitches that we think can play, especially if you

1050
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: fill it up. And I've added two pitches since too,

1051
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: but those three primary attack pictures are what they kind

1052
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: of built the foundation on. I think Tampa really not

1053
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: that every organization doesn't find it important, but Tampa really

1054
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: harps on that pound the zone, like get to O

1055
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: two as quick as you can get the guys out

1056
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: of the box. Every guy on this staff has at

1057
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: least one, if not multiple, well above major league average pictures.

1058
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: So their belief is your stuff's going to play over

1059
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: the plate. And then when we get to two strikes,

1060
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: we can expand you know, we talked about it a

1061
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 1: lot hitter. Hitters are bad because they swing too much, right,

1062
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: So if we can get them an account where they're

1063
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: forced to swing and make them swing of what we

1064
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 1: want to swing that, then we're in a good spot.

1065
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: And I think Tampa does a really good job and

1066
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:32,720
Speaker 1: like instilling that belief.

1067
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm going to give the you know, dumber

1068
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 2: fan follow up question here. That sounds so simple, right.

1069
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 2: You hear about things with Tampa pound this zone catchers

1070
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:47,280
Speaker 2: setting up middle of the plate. Why don't other organizations

1071
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 2: do that? And should they be doing that?

1072
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 6: I don't think it's like they don't do it.

1073
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:55,919
Speaker 1: I just think that they Tampa has found a way

1074
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,760
Speaker 1: to like truly instill that confidence in you and your stuff.

1075
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: I don't think it comes down to just the philosophy.

1076
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: I think the people that you have implementing that philosophy matter.

1077
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: Philosophy matter. I think the Kyle Snyders, the even down

1078
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 1: to our analyst Winston Doom, and they're so good at

1079
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: coming to you and saying, hey, this is why your

1080
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: stuff is good, and when you throw at these locations,

1081
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 1: good things happen.

1082
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 6: Other teams are going to do that.

1083
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: They're going to say, hey, if you can throw this

1084
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: pich here, you're going to have success. And everybody here

1085
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: knows that hitters know that if they get a fastball

1086
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: in a certain location, they're going to be good.

1087
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 6: But it's a matter of executing that.

1088
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: And I just think that the ability of the organization

1089
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: to communicate and to truly make you believe it as well,

1090
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: because all of it's a moot point unless you believe it.

1091
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 7: Okay, so this is interesting to me.

1092
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 2: You pointed out someone on the analytics side that I

1093
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 2: think is worth mentioning here because we don't get a

1094
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 2: ton behind the scenes. I think you said Winston Dune, right,

1095
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 2: that's someone on the analytics team. Okay, So tell me

1096
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 2: how someone like that has found a really good way

1097
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 2: to communicate and make it click with a big league

1098
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 2: or what's the personality, Like, what's the approach? Is he

1099
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 2: bringing you paper? Is he just starting with a conversation.

1100
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 2: We are hearing this more often from pictures around the

1101
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 2: league where they'll be like, hey, I got a stat

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00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 2: Nurder came up to me and said, if you use

1103
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 2: your sinker at discount against these types of hitters more often,

1104
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 2: it is going to work.

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00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 7: I did it.

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00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 2: It worked, But take me behind the scenes on how

1107
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,280
Speaker 2: you get the buying because it's your arm, your career.

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00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 6: Sure, yeah, I think.

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00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: I mean the biggest thing is, like the analyst is

1110
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed working with and the guys that kind of

1111
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: resonate with you with the most are like the guys

1112
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: that kind of stay in their lane, right, they're not

1113
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: telling me how I need to throw the picks. They're

1114
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: not telling me like, oh, feel this with your body.

1115
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: They're saying, hey, strictly from a number standpoint, if you

1116
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: throw this sinker in this talent to this type of hitter,

1117
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: you're going.

1118
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:48,320
Speaker 6: To have success.

1119
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 1: So I think Winston's really good at It's very black

1120
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: and white for Winston, which is a good thing and

1121
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 1: a bad thing. As you guys know, with analysts a

1122
00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: lot of time, it's the game is sometimes easy in

1123
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: their eyes. But I think when it comes down to it,

1124
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 1: Winston truly just wants you to be good, obviously because

1125
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 1: he wants to raise to be good. But he's given

1126
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: you this information because it works and he's seen it

1127
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: years and years now.

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00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 6: He watches more baseball than probably any of us.

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00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:20,319
Speaker 1: And if he's coming to me with a data point

1130
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: or a statistic and he's saying, hey, if you can

1131
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 1: execute in discount with this pitch in this location consistently,

1132
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:28,839
Speaker 1: you're going to be pretty good.

1133
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 6: So I think that the.

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00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: Communication with us is also nice because you have Kyle

1135
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 1: Snyder as that bridge as well, who can do both.

1136
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 1: He can talk to you about the analytics, he can

1137
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: talk to you about pitching. Obviously he was pretty good.

1138
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: So having like a team of guys not necessarily like

1139
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: an analyst, separated from the actual pitching department, where they're

1140
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: coming at you from two different directions, that matters.

1141
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 4: Agree all right, Before we let you go, I have

1142
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 4: to ask this because you guys got some dudes, especially starters.

1143
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 5: Who's the best stuff?

1144
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,959
Speaker 6: That's a loaded question. Have It's incredible, It's gotta be one.

1145
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 8: Is it?

1146
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 5: Shane is it? I mean, like Shane, Shane is it?

1147
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,760
Speaker 6: Who's it's? I I'll scream from the rooftop.

1148
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: Tag Bradley has like top to bottom Cy Young colder stuff,

1149
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: but I mean Shane contends for.

1150
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:16,240
Speaker 6: Young's every time he pitches.

1151
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: Shane Boss. We haven't got to see him much just

1152
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: because his workload has been so small, but.

1153
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 5: He'll be there.

1154
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's he's insane.

1155
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: Hit one hundred the other day in his first spring

1156
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: Star I mean Ryan Pepio, Like he's intense on the mound,

1157
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: like his stuff is just here, it is, come get it,

1158
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,399
Speaker 1: and all of it's hard, all of it's breaking hard.

1159
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 6: So they're all so good, and then the bullpens just

1160
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 6: equally as good.

1161
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: I don't think that's one of the things, like no

1162
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,879
Speaker 1: one every season it goes into it happened, You'll see

1163
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 1: it every year.

1164
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 6: Is Tampa. No one talks about Tampa staff. It's because

1165
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 6: it's like the not.

1166
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: As Yeah, yeah, it's it's unbelievable. The guys they bring

1167
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,919
Speaker 1: in and the I mean Edwin you said it kind.

1168
00:48:58,800 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 6: Of came out of nowhere.

1169
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: He's just incredible, and they all show up to free

1170
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: training to just getting miss a beat.

1171
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:05,439
Speaker 6: So it should be really fun.

1172
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: I mean the staff, top to bottom, all thirteen, all twelve,

1173
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,399
Speaker 1: whatever we'd end up doing, are unbelievable.

1174
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 7: Zactly.

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Speaker 2: This was awesome. Really enjoyed the conversation. Thanks for stopping by.

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00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 2: Good luck the rest of the spring. Will catch you

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Speaker 2: during the season.