1 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome to A Ball with eric Os. 2 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: I am eric Os, and it is good to have 3 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: you with us on what is episode number eighteen of 4 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: A Ball We'll be talking this week with the second 5 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: overall pick for the Miami Marlins in the twenty fourteen draft, 6 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: Tyler Kollik, in a road to recovery that he has 7 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: had to suffer through back with the lumber Kings, hard 8 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: throwing right hander, and we'll get into the nitty gritty 9 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: of all the things that Tyler had to go through 10 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: just to come back here to the lumber Kings, way 11 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: former top prospect in the Miami Marlins organization. A team 12 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: though that is playing some good baseball again after they 13 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: had a hiccup. We had been building that big series 14 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: out in Clinton against the King County Cougars. Well, it 15 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: turned out to be a dud. Lumber Kings dropped all 16 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: three games against the Cougars. So when we had last 17 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: spoken with you, the team was in first place by 18 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: a comfortable two game margin. That is not the case anymore. 19 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: Lumber Kings now in second place, but have begun to 20 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: rebound a bit since following it that three game sweep 21 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: against the King County Cougars. They had also lost Game 22 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,199 Speaker 1: one against the Cedar Rapids Kernels, and so the losing 23 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: streak did swell to four games, their longest of the 24 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: second half. But things have rebounded. We record this after 25 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: a Monday afternoon win at Perfect Game Field, the home 26 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 1: of the Cedar Rapids Kernels, on July twenty ninth. It 27 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: was an impressive win because the lumber Kings all the 28 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 1: offense really erupted. They had nine runs, fourteen hits, a 29 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: home run from Zach Scott, just the second of his 30 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: professional career. Christopher Torres had another great game in which 31 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: he had three hits. His hitting streak is now shot 32 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: up to seventeen games, the longest by a lumber King 33 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: in over four years of baseball. He is now approaching 34 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: a franchise record that was set back in nineteen fifty 35 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: six by Robert Skuller when he had a twenty four 36 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: game hitting streak, so well within the realm of possibility 37 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: now for Chris it is part of an offense that 38 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: did go dormant during that four game losing streak, but 39 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: it did not mean the pitching had faltered at all. 40 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 1: The pitching has been incredibly sharp for the lumber Kings, 41 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: not just in the second half, but really all season long, 42 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: and they had continued to do so, most impressively in 43 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: a win against the Seed Rapids Kernels on Saturday, or 44 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: rather Sunday afternoon, a five to nothing shut out win 45 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: which had gone for just their four shutout win of 46 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: the season. But impressive work from Remy Reid the name 47 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: that Marlins fans should beginning to get familiar with, because Reid, 48 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: at least in his time here in Clinton, he just 49 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 1: has been one of the best options for the pitching 50 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,119 Speaker 1: coach Mark de Felice, and also for the manager Mike 51 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: Jacobs and the six man rotation. Reid setting a professional 52 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: career high his last time out on Monday after Sunday 53 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: afternoon with a win. It was as second as lumber 54 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: King seven and two thirds in needs of work. He 55 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: allowed no runs on five hits. They were all scattered, 56 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: they came in different innings. He did not walk anyone 57 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: and also struck out eight, which was a season high 58 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: for let me read, so he has been incredibly sharp. 59 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: Then Jake Walters, who we talked about also throwing the 60 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: ball very well, came back out the next day on 61 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: Monday afternoon and he picked up his third straight win. 62 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: Six innings of work for Walters, who we had on 63 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: the podcast just a little while ago. He also had 64 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: given up just one run on four hits, walked a 65 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: batteran struck out five. A strong performance from the University 66 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 1: of Alabama product that has been part of the first 67 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: series win for the lumber Kings this season against the 68 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: Cedar Rapids Colonels. The single a affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. 69 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: So as it stands right now, the lumber Kings a 70 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: game and a half back in second place in the 71 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: Western Division. They are still in the wild card standing 72 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: in that second half race. Also, you got to throw 73 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: in the Wisconsin tim Bratlers into that discussion. They had 74 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: entered the action just two games back of the lumber Kings, 75 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: and that is where they will be headed next for 76 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: a four game series. Very important. It starts on a Tuesday, 77 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: July thirtieth. That will then come to an end on Friday, 78 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: August second, And of course this podcast will be out 79 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: on Wednesdays. It'll be right in the middle of that 80 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: four game set. A House of Horzo is where the 81 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: lumber Kings are headed. Neuroscience Group Field We've talked about it. 82 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: They are just five and one there to begin the season, 83 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: having won their last contest against Wisconsin up at Grants yout, 84 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: Wisconsin in the suburbs of Appleton. They will look to 85 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: try and right that wrong as the lumber Kings will 86 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: be turning the ball over to Tanner Andrews, Alberto Guerrero, 87 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: George Soriano, and then Josh Roberson in that order. We 88 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: did want to touch on Josh just a bit. We 89 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: mentioned it briefly when we had spoken with you last week. 90 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: The fastball getting up to ninety nine miles per hour. 91 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,239 Speaker 1: He has met an impressive option for the lumber Kings. 92 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: Got the toughlock loss for the lumber Kings here on 93 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: Saturday night in Cedar Rapids, but a rotation that has 94 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: continued to hum In addition to the hitting streaks now, 95 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 1: when we had last spoken with you, Connor Scott had 96 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: the longest stretch for a lumber King to hit consecutively 97 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: in games. He had run his streak to sixteen straight 98 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: for Connor Scott. It did come to an end on 99 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: Saturday night with an zero for four performance, but an 100 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: on base streak also for Connor that had reached a 101 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: very high in respect twenty four games, the longest by 102 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: a lumber King. He was betting around four hundred at 103 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: the time of his hitting streak had come to an end. 104 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: But picking right up after Connor was Christopher Torres. He 105 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: had started the rally yesterday with the first pitch of 106 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: the game being doubled over the head of the left 107 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,239 Speaker 1: fielder Albi Weiss. That's an opposite field double for Torrez, 108 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: a switch hitter who was batting from the left hand side, 109 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: and so his hitting streak has also swollen to sixteen games. 110 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: He's hitting around four hundred and two. During his stretch, 111 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 1: he has been on base now in eighteen straight games. 112 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 1: Christopher Torres, who remember, was really struggling for the better 113 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: part of this season. He had an average that was 114 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: on the interstate, so to speak, in the one hundreds. 115 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: Now he was drawing a lot of walks. In fact, 116 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: still leads the team in free passes drawn with fifty 117 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 1: seven of them on the season, the second most in 118 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: the Midwest League, but the average was down in the 119 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: one hundreds. So at one point, during a skit at 120 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: the plate, Christopher Torres he had gone all for twenty 121 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: eight and then the hitting streak started. Since then, all 122 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: Christopher Torres has done is hit and the bridge has 123 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: gone from one seventy five on the year to two fourteen. 124 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 1: It has been an impressive turnaround for Chris Torres, to 125 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: say the least. Manager Mike Jacobs has been slotting him 126 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: either in the first spot or the second spot in 127 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: the lineup and has been a big part of this 128 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: playoff push, As will likely be the lumber Kings bullpen 129 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: option that will be joining us next, Tyler Kullich. He 130 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: is going to talk to us about his twenty nineteen 131 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 1: season adjusting goals. Coming from a small town out in Shepherd, Texas. 132 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: We joked with him being the big man on campus, 133 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: but he said everyone's the big man on campus because 134 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: they all know each other. It's such a small town. 135 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: And of course, the long road to recovery for the 136 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: Miami Marlins second overall pick in the two thousand and 137 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: fourteen draft. Tyler Collick joins us next on a Ball 138 00:06:41,440 --> 00:07:08,799 Speaker 1: with Eric Ohs. Welcome back on a Ball with Eric Ghost. 139 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: We're now joined by one of the lumber Kings bullpen 140 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: options and Tyler Koleich. Thanks for taking the time to 141 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: talk with us on the podcast side. 142 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 2: Of things, not a problem all. 143 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: A hard thrower is what we're usually told as we 144 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: look at Baseball America too. And by the way, you 145 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: were in that book Tyler, and they were telling us 146 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: about an electric arm. You were the second overall pick 147 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: for the Miami Marlins in they and fourteen draft. So 148 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: I was wondering if you could just tell us sort 149 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: of the origin story of your baseball career and then 150 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: kind of the trials and tribulations that bring you to 151 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: Clinton here in twenty nineteen. 152 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 3: Well, I, you know, obviously grew up playing baseball since 153 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 3: you know t baw and all that kind of stuff, 154 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 3: and just was your pretty typical, big, right handed high 155 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 3: school guy from Texas. 156 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 2: And then. 157 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 3: Closer to my junior year or endo my sophomore year, 158 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 3: I got committed to TCU. Then the end of my 159 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 3: junior year, I went to an Area Code tryout through 160 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 3: one hundred and then the rest of that summer did 161 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 3: all the showcases and all that nonsense, and then senior 162 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 3: year came, got drafted, finished the rest of that year 163 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 3: in the GCL, went to spring training. The next year, 164 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 3: went to Greensboro, which is our low Way affility at 165 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 3: the time, and then was there the entire year. Next 166 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 3: spring training came to spring training, and right about a 167 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 3: week left of that spring training blew out with Tommy 168 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 3: John and then spent all of which was twenty sixteen, 169 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 3: all of sixteen and pretty much seventeen doing TJ. And 170 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 3: then I'd finished it with about maybe like a month 171 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,719 Speaker 3: left of the season and just didn't quite like feel right. 172 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 3: So I pretty much just stayed there and threw pins 173 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 3: and just pretty much to get like ready for the 174 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 3: next year, twenty eighteen. And then twenty eighteen came, started 175 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 3: out doing pretty well and then just had some shoulder stuff, 176 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 3: didn't feel right, and then ended up having TOS surgery 177 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 3: at the end of last year, which is where they 178 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:04,559 Speaker 3: remove your first rib, and came back from that, went 179 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 3: to Batavia this year for a little bit, started feeling 180 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 3: a little better, And now I'm here. 181 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: Is that such an interesting story too, right, just going 182 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: up and down the surgeries that continually plague you. But 183 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:15,839 Speaker 1: I mean, let's go back to the very beginning. You're 184 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 1: in high school, you're making your commitment to TCU. We 185 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: touched down it'll, I guess, very briefly. So we were 186 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: heading down from the clubhouse. But then you hit one 187 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: hundred miles per hour at the Area Code Games. That 188 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: just opened up the entire world of baseball to you 189 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: there where you know, invitations could be had wherever you wanted, 190 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,839 Speaker 1: and tournament games, showcases, whatever it be. And then I 191 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: imagine just where you thought the baseball career was going 192 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 1: to change, right from a college commitment to maybe looking 193 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: at the professional ranks right out of high school. 194 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it definitely changed. Like I mean, within an hour, 195 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 3: it was like I threw and then on the drive 196 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 3: home was just like on the phone the entire time, 197 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 3: and it was like, I mean, it was crazy. 198 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 1: So it just scouts and I guess a major league 199 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: interest too that was coming your way right after that. 200 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: You said it the Area Code games too, Where were 201 00:09:58,760 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: those peop played? 202 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 3: It was actually like like an Area Code tryout? Okay, 203 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 3: so you have to try out before Like each team, 204 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 3: I don't I don't want to say it's each state 205 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 3: has its their own team, but it's like each area 206 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 3: of the country has like a certain team, and for 207 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 3: Texas it was the Rangers I think, or that's who 208 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 3: like sponsored it, and so that's the team that I 209 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 3: ended up making and then went to the area games 210 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 3: later on. 211 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 1: And so we were touching on this, I think out 212 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: in Great Lakes when we were talking with you on 213 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: the pregame show that that fastball that you mentioned it 214 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: was something that you maybe had been aware of that 215 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: it was coming out that hard, but you didn't have 216 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: a radar gun. And then when you finally get onto 217 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: the equipment side of things with the radar gun, it 218 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: was able to say, Wow, I am throwing one hundred 219 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: miles per hour. So what was that feeling like out 220 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: of your arm? That just it had to feel different 221 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: right when you're hitting triple digits. 222 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 3: I mean it kind of did, but it just like 223 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:49,559 Speaker 3: it went from man, I think I'm throwing pretty hard 224 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 3: to like, I knew it was like a lot harder. 225 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 3: Just you know, I didn't really feel like, oh that 226 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 3: I threw this miles per hour or whatever. 227 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 2: It just I just knew it was harder. 228 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's kind of interesting because we were out 229 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: in Great Lakes when we were talking with you, and 230 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: that was where your brother is playing right now in 231 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. So is this a baseball 232 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: family that you know comes from a mom and dad 233 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: or maybe even further back or there. 234 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 3: Definitely definitely didn't come from my mom's side. I don't 235 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 3: think she could throw a ball through web paper sack. 236 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 2: But but no. 237 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 3: I mean both sides of the family were you know, 238 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 3: I don't want to say bigger people, but definitely weren't small. 239 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 3: So I think that helped out. And then they were 240 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 3: both just super you know, they pushed both of us 241 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 3: to just work our ass off and everything we did 242 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:37,439 Speaker 3: and so. 243 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: And so you I mean, you throw one hundred miles 244 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: per hour and you know, you get all that attention 245 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: right away out of high school. Were there other sports 246 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 1: that you would played, because imagine once you get that attention, 247 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to focus on anything else other 248 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: than baseball. 249 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 3: Right So, in uh, I always played football, basketball, baseball. 250 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 3: I mean ever since middle school, I would play football 251 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 3: and basketball, and then baseball wasn't really a sport in 252 00:11:57,520 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 3: middle school, but I mean I'll do that in the summer, 253 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 3: and then once you get tohigh school, it was all three, 254 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 3: you know, straight in high school. And then once high 255 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 3: school baseball was over, then I did all summer and 256 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 3: then as soon as summer ball was over, I went 257 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 3: straight into two days in football and did that my freshman, sophomore, 258 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 3: junior year, and then obviously after I started throwing harder, 259 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 3: it was like, well, that's probably not going to end 260 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 3: up working. 261 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 1: So and it culminates with you winning the Texas Gatorade 262 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: Player of the Year I believe in your senior season 263 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: out at Sheppard High School. And then of course you 264 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: know that you're going to be drafted. So when was 265 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: the moment when you realized that, you know, TCU wasn't 266 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: going to be happening, that it was the professional ranks 267 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: that you were destined to be in. 268 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 3: It was still always kind of in the back of 269 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 3: my mind. I didn't really want to like think, oh, I'm, 270 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 3: you know, definitely doing this or that, because you know, 271 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 3: anything can happen. 272 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 2: You never really know. 273 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 3: But it was probably within about a week or two 274 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 3: of the draft where it was like, yeah, this is 275 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 3: like probably actually going to happen, and you know, it's 276 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 3: kind of what I started like, well, I don't know. 277 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: So who was uh? I mean, you're drafted second overall, 278 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: you must have been the big man on campus, right 279 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: when you get this attention from the MLB scouts and 280 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: then you know your career begins immediately in the first round. 281 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,559 Speaker 3: Right, I wouldn't say much of a campus though, are okay. 282 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 3: Our hometown is twenty three hundred people and graduate with 283 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 3: one hundred people, so it's not like you can be 284 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 3: too big. 285 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: So you already had the name recognition. I guess at 286 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: that moment, right. 287 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, you wouldn't have to really do much for people 288 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 3: to know your name. 289 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: Well, that has to be a cool moment though. That 290 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,679 Speaker 1: small community must have really rallied behind one of their 291 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: own being, you know, one of the top amateur prospects 292 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: in all baseball at that moment, right of course. And 293 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 1: was there a lot of community sport that you still 294 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: feel in your career because you've mentioned too the injuries 295 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: that you've had to go through. Is it something that 296 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: you can kind of lean on a bit when those 297 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: times get a little bit tougher. 298 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 3: Oh, for sure, especially during the off season. It's nice 299 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 3: to you know, go back home and it's like people 300 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 3: will just be like, you know, hey, it's better when 301 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,559 Speaker 3: I'm doing you know, which isn't that good of a reason. 302 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 3: But no, they're always there for you. You know, it's 303 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 3: no place like home. 304 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: Well, I was talking about this with Josh Robertson when 305 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: we had him on the podcast, because he too had 306 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: gone through Tommy John and he was originally thought of 307 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: as a top prospect as far as the first round selection, 308 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: and of course injuries occur and he gets taken in 309 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: the twelfth round. And the question we were asking him 310 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: was about the rehab that goes into Tommy John because 311 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: as a baseball fan, I think that's usually how anyone 312 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: in baseball first gets, you know, acquainted with the sport. 313 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: Is just from a fan's perspective. You hear Tommy John 314 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: and you think, well, that's a year and then he'll 315 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: be back. But there's a lot of work that goes 316 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: into getting back to that position. So what was the 317 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: workload like for you to get back into the into 318 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: games that counted. 319 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I kind of thought the same thing too. Originally. 320 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 3: I was like, oh, well, you just kind of get 321 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 3: it fixed and then you're just you know, once it's healed, 322 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 3: you just kind of go right back at it. But 323 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 3: it's more of a it's more of like a like 324 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 3: a shoulder strengthening process than like the elbow. You know, 325 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 3: once you have the surgery, I mean, theoretically you could 326 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 3: throw right after and you would be fine. You know, 327 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 3: they've fixed your ligament, like it's it's fixed. The other 328 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 3: the hard part is they fix it and then you 329 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 3: sit for two or three months and then you have 330 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 3: to start all over and you know, build up strength 331 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 3: and areas that you never had to think about just 332 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 3: because they've always been there. And so you go from 333 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 3: being in shape you have the surgery. Now you're not 334 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 3: in shape, and you have to start from the scratch 335 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 3: and just cover everything because if you miss something, it's 336 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 3: like it's a month or two process just to build 337 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 3: that one specific thing up to where it needs to be. 338 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 3: And so that's like ninety nine percent of the process. 339 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 3: I felt like that involves TJ. 340 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: So when you first get your surgery, is it mainly 341 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: just to focus on like cardio type of stuff just 342 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: to keep you active because you can't do a whole 343 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: lot with your arm. And then when is that that 344 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: moment maybe a milestone, when you can finally start to, 345 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: as you say, build the strength in certain areas of 346 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: a surgically repaired ligament. 347 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 3: Well, each each doctor is a little different. Like my 348 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 3: surgeon I had, I had surgery with David Alchek, and 349 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 3: like His protocol was, I didn't do foearms like any 350 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 3: forum workout for an entire year, whereas like guys that 351 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 3: have had Andrews and Elatroge and some other guys they 352 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 3: do forms within like you know, a month or two, 353 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 3: and like I didn't do it for a single year, 354 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 3: and it would you know, that's just two completely different 355 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 3: you know ways to do it, just therapy stuff. But uh, 356 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 3: you know, it was like for a month or two 357 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 3: you pretty much were on a bike. You couldn't run 358 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 3: because if you're running and you fell and you landed 359 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 3: on your arm, that would hurt it because it wasn't 360 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 3: strong enough to support you if you fell. So you 361 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 3: couldn't run for two months. And then you know, by 362 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 3: the third month, you start you know, conditioning a little bit, 363 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 3: and then you start you know, there is kind of 364 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 3: a lot of cardio, and then once you've started to 365 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 3: run for a bit, then you can start lifting because 366 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 3: you know, I don't think you really throw until it's 367 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 3: like five or six months, So it's like there's no 368 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 3: point in just crushing workouts for two or three months 369 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 3: straight and then trying to pick up a baseball and 370 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 3: throw because you're probably gonna be sore. You're gonna be 371 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 3: sore from lifting plus not having thrown a baseball for 372 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 3: four months or five months or whatever, and then you're 373 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 3: gonna be sore from throwing the baseball too. So it's 374 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 3: like all that stuff on top of you. You know, 375 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 3: just everything is. It's a lot. 376 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: It also speaks to some patience too, because I'm sure 377 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: you I mean, you're in the professional in professional baseball, 378 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: so you're pretty competitive. Then once you get an injury 379 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: like that, I'm sure you might want to say, well, 380 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: I want to run, I want to do something right, 381 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: I want to get back into something. So is the 382 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: patience just you know, sitting around has to be one 383 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: of the toughest parts of Tommy John especially considering it 384 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: takes you the better part of a year to recover from. 385 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 2: Right. 386 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 3: No, it's it's hard to wait to It's like, you know, 387 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 3: it's like each little step, it's like, oh, I get 388 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 3: to I get to go up by ten pounds a 389 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 3: day and whatever you know I'm doing, and then it's like, okay, 390 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 3: you do that, and now it's like, well, now I 391 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 3: want to go up another fifty pounds or whatever it is. 392 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 3: And then it's like Okay, I get to throw in 393 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 3: a month, and then so you're sitting there just thinking 394 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 3: about throwing for a month, and then it's like, okay, 395 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 3: today's my first day of throwing thirty feet. Ten throws, 396 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 3: two set, like twenty throws at thirty feet. That's it. 397 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 3: I could do that. You know, I've probably been doing that. 398 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 3: I could do you know, throw nothing and get the 399 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 3: same you know, workout from it. But it's like it's 400 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 3: just so slow. It's like thirty feet. Then you go 401 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 3: to forty five and then sixty and seventy five, ninety, one, hundred, one, twenty, 402 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 3: and then you have sets on top of all of those. 403 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 3: Each each interval's like two weeks. And then you get 404 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 3: to bullpens and it's like your first bullpen's like ten 405 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 3: or fifteen pitches with the catcher up front, and then 406 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 3: it's like, you know, another set of that the next 407 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 3: time you get on the mound. Then they finally move 408 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 3: the catcher back, but then you go back to fifteen pitches, 409 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 3: and then you have to it's like fifteen pitches, then twenty, 410 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,199 Speaker 3: then two sets of ten, and then it's just it 411 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 3: takes forever, and it seems like every interval is like 412 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,919 Speaker 3: a week or two long. So it's like it on paper, 413 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 3: it looks like you're, you know, you're really going pretty fast, 414 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 3: but in reality, it's like you haven't done anything right 415 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,199 Speaker 3: because you still haven't gotten even like it feels like 416 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 3: you're a year or two away from an actual competitive game. 417 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 3: It's like I just I checked off the twenty pitch mark, 418 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 3: and I feel like I could be in a game 419 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 3: in like a month. 420 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 1: So when you do go through all that and then 421 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: you finally, as you say, you know, you get through 422 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: check off all those lists and then you finally do 423 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 1: get into a game, is it a new appreciation type 424 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: of thing because of that road that's it's taken just 425 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: to get onto the mound in a game. At that moment, Oh. 426 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 2: For sure, it's. 427 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 3: I mean, you literally have been dealing with yourself and 428 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 3: your body and nothing else has really mattered because you 429 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 3: haven't been on a team, and you know, everyone else 430 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 3: is either getting sent up or down, or you know, 431 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 3: they retire or you know, whatever the case may be, 432 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 3: and you're just sitting there, like doing some workout in 433 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 3: some cardio and like getting rubbed out because your arm's 434 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 3: a little sore from throwing sixty feet and it's like 435 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 3: it's just boring and it just all like fine. Once 436 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 3: you get into a game, it's like it all kind 437 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 3: of just like starts to come back, and it's just 438 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 3: kind of brings you back to like being an athlete, 439 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 3: like you're competing again. So yeah, it's definitely one of 440 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 3: the coolest things. 441 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: One of the reasons why you do it right is 442 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: for the competition. It's not for the thirty feet intervals, 443 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,679 Speaker 1: and I'm taken a couple of months to get to Unfortunately, 444 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: we'll go continue. I guess with the bad luck, I 445 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: suppose on the injury side of thing, because as you mentioned, 446 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: you go through all that work, you come back and 447 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 1: then you find out that you need to have a 448 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 1: rib taken out. So what is the injury that had 449 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 1: sidelined you there? When the surgery? I guess if you 450 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 1: could remind us, because we've heard of ribs being removed, 451 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: But I guess are a meta cool knowledge is a 452 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: little bit lacking in some regards, and what was it 453 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: that maybe noticed that there was something wrong and it 454 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: needed some surgery to repair it. 455 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 3: So I obviously went through all the TJ and through 456 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 3: all the TJ stuff, and being that I had finished 457 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 3: like a month left of the season, I never really 458 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 3: threw more than an inning or two, and I didn't 459 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 3: really think much of it at the time, but you know, 460 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 3: I went through an inning or two. So take the 461 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 3: off season, come back last year in spring training. I'm 462 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 3: throwing inning or two and I feel great, no problem. 463 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,199 Speaker 3: And then I got to three innings and it was 464 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 3: like the first inning would be good, and the second 465 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 3: would be okay, and then the third inning I would 466 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 3: just feel super gassed. And I was like, well, that's weird, 467 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 3: you know, but I haven't thrown three innings in years, 468 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 3: so no big deal. So it went to the next 469 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 3: outing and I was supposed to throw four innings and 470 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 3: it was the same deal. It's like first was fine, 471 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 3: second was okay, third, and fourth I was just gassed. 472 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 2: And it was like this. 473 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 3: At this about twenty five to thirty pitches, I would 474 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,719 Speaker 3: just lose it, like I had no feel, you know, nothing, 475 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 3: and I just couldn't figure it out. I was like, obviously, 476 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 3: I just went through basically two years of shoulder strengthening. 477 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 3: There's no way that it's like my arm like I'm 478 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,679 Speaker 3: not in shape. It's you know, something's off. And so 479 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 3: it took I mean trying different stuff throughout the rest 480 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 3: of the whole year, just like, oh, well, you know. 481 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 3: I went back to rehab and I restrengthened some stuff 482 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 3: and tried it again, and same thing. 483 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 2: And I went to rehab. I felt good. 484 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 3: I worked myself back up to throwing an inning through 485 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 3: an inning, felt good, went to two, felt good. As 486 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 3: soon as I got to three again, same thing, same 487 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 3: spots everything. And then so then I was like, okay, 488 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 3: well now there's something, like now it has to be 489 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 3: something in my body. So then went and talked to 490 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 3: my agent, and he called some people and stuff and 491 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 3: ended up getting a guy in Dallas, doctor Pearl. Went 492 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 3: to him and did some different like pulse testing and stuff, 493 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 3: and I had like no pulse in my arm, like 494 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 3: once my once my hand got above my shoulder, I 495 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 3: had no pulse. And so basically, your your first rib. 496 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 3: It wasn't so much my first rib, but you have 497 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 3: three scalings on each side of your neck, and one 498 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 3: of them was just way bigger than it should have been. 499 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 3: And so basically they cut it out and that muscle 500 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 3: is attached to your first rib and there's like a 501 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 3: slight chance that in the future your rib could be 502 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 3: in the way, so they just take it out anyway, 503 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 3: So they take out both of them, just get them 504 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 3: out of the way, and then it's supposed to just 505 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 3: free up you know, blood flow and then help you 506 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 3: recover and so on and so forth. 507 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: How long of a recovery is it for that? 508 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 2: Honestly, the it's kind of hard. 509 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 3: So like when I asked them about it, they were like, 510 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 3: once you get over the pain and like slash trauma 511 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,440 Speaker 3: of the actual surgery of being cut, and like healed up, 512 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 3: you're good to go. So I literally within like a 513 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,919 Speaker 3: week of the surgery, My arm felt stronger after a 514 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 3: week after a surgery than it did before I had 515 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 3: the surgery. 516 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 2: That's like it was. It was super fast. I was 517 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:54,360 Speaker 2: just like, oh, this is good. 518 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: So that was that was exactly it then right there 519 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: and where you noticed it right away, where you could 520 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: maybe feel and pitched right away, is did it you 521 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 1: go right back into the pitching side of things, because 522 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: that sounds rather aggressive after we had heard the minutity 523 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: of the Tommy John procedures they had put you through. 524 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, No, it definitely wasn't it wasn't as much of 525 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 3: a toomic John thing. It was more just like a 526 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 3: straight build up, you know. So, like how if if 527 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 3: if a player took off for like a couple months 528 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 3: for some you know, weird reason, the process they would 529 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 3: take to get back to being, you know, ready to 530 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 3: play in a game. That's pretty much what I did. 531 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 3: And so I just had like a month off of 532 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 3: doing nothing and then went straight back into just building 533 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 3: up again. 534 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: And now we've seen you move from what was a 535 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 1: starter originally right in your professional career now with the 536 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: Clint lumber Kings, where we've seen you come out from 537 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: the bullpen. Is that part of the injury history that 538 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: goes into it maybe using you in that relief role 539 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: or is there a possibility of maybe seeing you stretched 540 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 1: out because as you talked about, you're running into that 541 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: wall and then you get the surgery to kind of 542 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 1: alleviate that. Is that something that obviously might still be 543 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: on the table for you later on further down the road. 544 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 2: I think so. 545 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 3: I think the majority of it right now is I 546 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 3: haven't had that many outings in the last let's say 547 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 3: three years, So I think the bigger part is just 548 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 3: to get out as many times as possible, and uh, 549 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 3: just the more time I can compete against somebody, the better. 550 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,919 Speaker 1: Yeah. And it was, as we said, pretty cool to 551 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:20,719 Speaker 1: see you and your brother too in the way that 552 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: that would have worked out because we only play the 553 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,199 Speaker 1: East once a season. You know, you weren't here for 554 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: opening Day, so very fortunate I suppose to get to 555 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 1: see your brother. Was at a pretty cool moment too 556 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: in your professional career. Just having some family connections on 557 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: the other side of the field. Yeah. 558 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 3: No, I mean that's never happened for me. But it 559 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 3: was funny because I was in Batavia and I was 560 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 3: talking to my mom and she was like, you know, 561 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 3: y'all's y'all's lewing team plays plays us in like I 562 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 3: don't know, like a month. And I was like, oh, 563 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 3: that's cool, like whatever, you know, didn't think any of it. 564 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 3: And then I got called up and she was like 565 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 3: the first one of the first things she said was like, y'all, 566 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 3: y'all play them in like a week. 567 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 2: And I was like, Oh, that's cool, definitely cool. 568 00:24:58,440 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: You guys want to to dinner? 569 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,480 Speaker 2: Right? Oh? Yeah, okay, that. 570 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,919 Speaker 1: Would have been a very big brother move. Sorry, just 571 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: really busy. Got a lot of stuff stuff. You can't 572 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: make it well. As we mentioned, you weren't here for 573 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: the beginning of the season with the Clinton lumber Kings. 574 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: You started the year out in Batavia before earning the 575 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 1: promotion up here to the Miami Marlins, a full A affiliate, 576 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 1: so we wanted to have some fun. We usually, you know, 577 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: had the guys fill out a questionnaire. It's really for 578 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: personal reasons for me on the broadcast side of things, 579 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 1: as to get through my three hour tap dance as 580 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 1: we call it from time to time. But we touched 581 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 1: on it very briefly when you're on the pregame show, 582 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: just the hobbies and other interests that you have and 583 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: you're able to indulge. And you're very quickly corrected us 584 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: at not during the season, because you know there aren't 585 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: too many off days. A few there are is reserved 586 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 1: for sleep, no exceptions allowed. But when you're in the 587 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: off season. You mentioned an outdoors guy, so hunting and 588 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: fishing and things like that. Do you have any particular 589 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: animals and favorite spots back home that you like to 590 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: visit during the off season? 591 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 3: Definitely hunting. I grew up on a ten thousand acre 592 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 3: ranch cattle ranch, and so grew up, you know, being 593 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 3: able to pretty much do what I wanted to do, 594 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 3: and uh just always been outside, you know, didn't didn't 595 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 3: play video games much, Uh never really watched TV. I 596 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 3: mean I literally had whatever I wanted to do outside 597 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 3: to do. So I still pretty much do that still 598 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 3: in the same place. And like, we have a bunch 599 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,959 Speaker 3: of hogs which are wild and technically feral, even though 600 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 3: I hate saying that words, I don't know, but uh no, 601 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 3: that's I do a lot of that kind of stuff. 602 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 3: Shoot pigs, trap them. However, I can get rid of them. 603 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: And that's mainly the off season for you, right, That's 604 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,120 Speaker 1: pretty much it. Yeah, that's funny because you know, we've 605 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: got a lot of hunters down there. Connor Scott, he's 606 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: a he's a big hunter too. So oh he claims. Okay, 607 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 1: a rivalry has developed and that is why we'd rob 608 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: them out of here the eight ball side of things. Well, 609 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: maybe during the off season we can settle such a 610 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: grudg match. Well, thanks again, Tyler Kollik for taking the 611 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: time to talk with us here on. 612 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 2: A ball not a problem. 613 00:26:51,040 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, and welcome back to a ball 614 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,159 Speaker 1: with Eric Gos she had just heard from one of 615 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: the lumber Kings bullpen options, Tyler Kolik, maybe somewhere down 616 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: the road could move back into the starting role. And 617 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: that fastball that we have been keeping close tabs on, 618 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: he's got that electric arm. It's led it to get 619 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: the fastball up to one hundred and two miles per hour. 620 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: But battling back from injuries, we've seen the fastball from 621 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: Colick topping out around ninety four to ninety five miles 622 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: per hour, as you just heard from him. Though, it 623 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: has been a long road to recovery, lots of surgeries 624 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 1: and downtime and reconstruction and all that and the rehab 625 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 1: of course that goes into it. So we do appreciate 626 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: Tyler taking some time to talk with us and the 627 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 1: lumber Kings too, as we were touching on a team 628 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,439 Speaker 1: that is beginning to rebound following their longest losing streak 629 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: of the second half, in which they had fallen in 630 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: four straight games. Fortunately, three of those games had been 631 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,679 Speaker 1: a series sweep against the Kang County Cougars. So when 632 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,719 Speaker 1: we had last spoken with you the lumber Kings they 633 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: were in first place and have since been dropped into second, 634 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: but they do win their series against the Cedar Rapids Colonels, 635 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: a team that had really given the lumber Kings fits 636 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: on the year. We record this following a Monday afternoon win. 637 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: The lumber Kings came into the action just three and 638 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: nine against the Colonels this season. They are now four 639 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 1: and nine, so still not that impressive, but a turnaround 640 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 1: that has at least led to their first win against 641 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: Cedar Rapids this season. Now, the series sweep against kank 642 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 1: County after it had happened, we began thumbing through the 643 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: media guy just to see where that had fallen in 644 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: the franchise history, and unfortunately it was ugly to find 645 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: out because it was the first time in franchise history 646 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: the lumber Kings had been swept in three games by 647 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: the Cougars in Clinton. Ever, in franchise history they've been 648 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 1: playing the Kang County Cougars now since nineteen ninety one, 649 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: so it's been a while. Unfortunately, that stretches come to 650 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: an end as lumber Kings in those three games being 651 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: swept by the Cougars, dropping into second place. But as 652 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: we said, beginning to rebound the pitching it has been there. 653 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: The offense just kind of went away for four games, 654 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,680 Speaker 1: but it has returned in a rather large way. We 655 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: mentioned Zach Scott hitting his second home run of the season, 656 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: but he was really just part of one offensive key 657 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: for the lumber Kings and their consecutive wins against the 658 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: Seed of Rapids Colonels. You had a three hit performance 659 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: from Christopher Torres, Peyton Burdick had another two hit performance, 660 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: two RBIs. Berdick now has twenty seven RBIs on this season. 661 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive when you think that Peyton has only 662 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: been here for thirty three games. It's been about an 663 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: RBI a game for Peyton. He has really had the 664 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: nose for the RBIs. And also you had jd Osborne. 665 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: He had a two RBI performance on a single in 666 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: that Monday win. Also two hit performances from the likes 667 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: of Bubble Hollins and Davis Bradshaw and Zack Scott a 668 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: fourteen hit performance in all Now that day before that, 669 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: Before we let you go, we want to talk about 670 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: what was one of the longer home runs we have 671 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: seen in Cedar Rapids. Now been with the team for 672 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 1: three years, we've seen several home runs in Cedar Rapids. 673 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: It's kind of a funky ballpark where they have a 674 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 1: short porch and left like you'd imagine the Crawford boxes 675 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: out at Minute Made Park of the home the Houston 676 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: Astros well Thomas Jones in a home run yesterday part 677 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: on Sunday, I should say, as part of a five 678 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 1: to nothing win for the lumber Kings, hit a home 679 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: run over that short porch, So nothing to write home 680 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: about there. It then continued to soar. It went over 681 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: the party deck, it went over the fence, it went 682 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: over the street outside of a ballpark and landed in 683 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: someone's backyard. Thomas Jones when we had him on the podcast, 684 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: he was telling us he's not a power guy. I 685 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 1: think he lied to us, folks, because that was his 686 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: ninth of this excuse yeah, the ninth of the season, 687 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: and it was the definition of a no doubter. Now, Thomas, 688 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 1: when we asked him what kind of player he envisioned himself, 689 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: he said, a speed guy, someone who uses that speed 690 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,239 Speaker 1: of his the former football prospect, and he does have 691 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 1: sixteen stolen bases on this season. He said, he just 692 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 1: has the power. Maybe later and just right now when 693 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 1: he has a good swing on one well, that certainly 694 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: was a good swing, maybe the best swing we've seen 695 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 1: from Jones all season. If we're just going by distance traveled, 696 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: it's not too often when you hit them out of stadiums, 697 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 1: and Thomas Jones certainly had done that. It was a 698 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 1: consensus by a rather large contingent of lumber Kings faithful 699 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 1: that it made their way out to see the Rapids, 700 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: a team that is now being followed pretty closely by 701 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: those backcombing Clinton, and we hope you as well. And 702 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: this is where we'll shamelessly plug the broadcast side of things, 703 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: because you can listen to all lumber Kings games on 704 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: one hundred point three FMWCCI for those of you that 705 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: are in the broadcast range. Of course, for those of 706 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: you that are outside, you can listen to all lumber 707 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: Kings games as well, but online at Lumberkings dot com 708 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 1: via the tune in radio app. We want to give 709 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: a big thanks to our guest, Tyler Kollek, for taking 710 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: some time to talk with us out in Clinton, and 711 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 1: of course all of you for joining us here on 712 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: episode number eighteen of A Ball. We're going to be 713 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 1: back next week and we're thinking we just might have 714 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: to grab Remy Reid considering how sharp he has been 715 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: with the lumber Kings this season. He's really forcing our heads, 716 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: so perhaps Remy read for episode number nineteen. We'll talk 717 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,239 Speaker 1: to you next week. We'll hope to see you at 718 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: the ballpark some point this summer, and of course on 719 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: the radio as well. Thanks again for listening to To 720 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: a Ball with Eric Ohs.