WEBVTT - Episode 212: Reporting Live From Mariners Spring Training 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.640 Welcome to episode number two twelve of the Marine Layer Podcast. 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:08.400 We are live in Peoria. It's Mariner's spring training season. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.360 We'll talk about everything we have seen so far. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.480 Here's your guys reminder before we start this podcast, as always, 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.040 make sure you're downloading these episodes. If you're listening, make 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.240 sure rate review, leave it five stars. If you're on YouTube, 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.239 go like, comment and subscribe everywhere. Go check out our 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.040 Patreon which is brand new. We love the support over 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.080 on that side. And then if you're on social media, 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.760 we know most of you are follow us everywhere at 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:32.720 Marine Layer Pod. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:47.960 Let's get it rolling and we welcome you to this 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:48.839 episode of the. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.440 Marine Layer Podcast, part of the Just Baseball podcast network, 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:59.440 recording on Monday evening, February twenty fourth, from spring training. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.160 We are live here in Puria today. 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.000 What is the biggest storyline so far do we think, Lyle, 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.080 Is it that we got to see the kick change up? 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.600 Is it that it's mid eighties the entire week here? 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.360 Is it that we have this makeshift podcast studio in 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.679 a hotel room or is it the fact we walked 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.120 into the complex yesterday and you didn't have sunscreen? 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.160 Who which storyline? Do I want to go with. How 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.119 about the fact that if people are watching on YouTube, 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.120 they can see one of us made their bed and 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.600 one of us didn't. Now, who do we think that was? 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.360 Now, this is a hotel. Who's what you're making? A 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:35.320 hotel bed? 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.080 I like this people who get paid to do that. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.080 I like to sit on a nice bed personally. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.240 Well as the people. Yeah, if you watch on YouTube, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.880 it's like, it's fine. Like there are a few ruffles here, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.520 there's a few imperfections, but for the most part, it's fine. 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:51.360 Whatever. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.800 Cuncture was a good napbed. We had Leo's Island today. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.320 By the way, if you guys are coming down to 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.840 Peoria and you need somewhere to eat, we. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.800 Talked about it last year. We'll just talk about it again. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.240 If you need the ultimate plate of carbs and chicken 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.640 after a spring training game, Leo's Island Barbecue. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:07.680 You'll sit down, you'll. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.600 Eat the entire thing, if you have a good appetite, 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.800 and then you'll go back to wherever you are and 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.519 then you'll probably knock out for three hours. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.240 That's exactly what we did today. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.600 I would say this very much mirrored what happens just 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.560 about every day when I get up for Brockensack in 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.320 the sense of by the end of the show, you know, 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.920 the juices are going and you're in the middle of 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.440 live radio and you're enjoying it, and you're thinking to yourself, Yeah, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.520 I'm up now. I might have gotten three hours of 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.480 sleep last night, but I'll be fine. But then you 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.760 get home and you start to relax, and you realize 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.480 you've had some food in you, and then you think 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:43.120 to yourself, wow, I'm really tired, and then you fall asleep. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.000 Even though every day I say I'm not going to 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.520 do that, that is exactly what happened here on Monday. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:49.640 You scoffed Hi my nap idea. 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.760 I did for that exact reason. I think to myself, well, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.640 I'm not doing the rate. I'm not. I've done a 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.440 little bit of brocken Sock stuff this week, and I'll 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.160 continue to do that, but it's not like the full 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.960 four hours get up at four thirty, et cetera. Anyway, 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:04.600 I thought to myself, I'll be fine. Let's figure out 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.680 something to do in the afternoon. And boy was I wrong. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.040 Between still getting up early, being out in the sun 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.200 all day, probably not drinking enough water, had this huge 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.400 play to Leo's Island and then get back to rest. 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:15.400 Oh yeah, we fell asleep. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.840 Not only did Lyle scoff at my nap idea, he 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.680 fell asleep before I did that. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:24.560 That's a tough look. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.160 That's tough look for Big Al. 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.480 But that's good because tomorrow and Tuesday, when we go 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.560 to spring training, he's gonna be You're gonna be nice 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.640 and arrested. You're gonna be nice arrested. How many short 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.480 short jokes do we get today? 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.560 You know? Funny enough? Didn't hear one from Divish? I 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.360 thought that was gonna be the second we walked in 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.560 the door, and shockingly, he didn't do it. We got 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.920 plenty from Brockensall, but from Diviish none, So I would 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.520 say that'll last another day. Max. I'm sure by the 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.680 time this podcast comes out there will be a short 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:56.720 shorts joke. There always is. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.280 Did anyone else have shorter shorts than we did today? 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:05.720 I'm trying to think, do we see any No, I'm 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.440 actually dead serious. That's a dead serious question. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.920 Well, people should get with the times. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:13.760 People should get with the times. I was thinking of 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:14.600 any of the players. 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.039 I feel like a lot of guys were actually in 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.360 baseball pants today, so not really they were. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.440 They did have a game to play today in Milwaukee. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.760 That speaking of which, we're there at the facility. This 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.520 is your probably call. If you're trying to go see 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:32.360 Mariners spring training, you should probably get there early because, 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:36.240 for you know, ninety five percent of these spring training games, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.560 these guys are playing a one o'clock game local time, 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:43.880 and the facility is, especially if they're a road game, 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.160 desolate by I would say eleven o'clock. It was, like 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.240 I described it today, like a like a half day 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.760 at school. It got to eleven o'clock today and the 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.880 facility was empty. You know, when I say empty, I 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.599 mean literally the only people left at the Mariners facility 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.000 by eleven am support staff. There was not a single 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.120 player seen around there. So that's your call. If you 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.960 want to go see these guys, gotta get here early. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.559 I'd say two things, Yes, get out to the facility early. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.440 But this Monday felt like a little bit of a 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.560 rarity because there's usually still stuff going on in the 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.440 backfield with minor leaguers. I mean, it was a ghost 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.599 town today. Usually even when the big leaguers go off. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.120 I feel like there's still stuff going on at the 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.240 backfields oftentimes, but not today felt like a little bit 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:31.760 of a light day. Anyway, Baseball storylines, I think there's 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:36.520 only one thing. Well, do we want to start with 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.359 the big story or do we want to let people 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:39.400 wait for the big story. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.680 Let's do the small ones first, all right. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.840 So there is one big overarching story that I would 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.440 say is the story of Camp over the last few days. Yeah, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.240 let's start with a couple other things. First, Ryan Bliss 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.080 getting some work at third base today, which is interesting. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.640 I guess it shouldn't be surprising because if you're somebody 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.920 like him and his role that either is going to 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.640 be a second basement or utility infielder, you want him 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.200 to play multiple positions, try to have some versatility. So 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.320 obviously second base is his main spot. But to see 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.000 him working over at third base, yeah, I guess it 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.280 shouldn't be too shocking because you want to see him 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:14.520 move around the infield a little bit. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.240 There's a positive and a negative from this. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.479 I'm gonna say the positive for Ryan Bliss's part is 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.200 that when you look at him, he looks like a 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.040 second baseman. He's not the most physically imposing dude. He 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.159 doesn't have the strongest arm when it comes to playing 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.800 defense on the infield, so that's gonna most of the 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.760 time lead to playing second base. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:31.239 If he can manage third. 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.920 We've there have been Mariner's third baseman, hence Kyle Sieger 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.080 one of the best third basements of the Mariners have 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.839 ever had. Didn't have the strongest start in himself over there, 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.160 but he made it work. He was very good at 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.520 you know, right angles and stuff and accurate throws. That's, 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.520 you know, that's the worry with someone like Ryan Bliss 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:48.599 playing over there at third base. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:49.360 Can he manage it? 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:50.359 Do we know? 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.320 Like he's gonna need to play some real games at 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.760 at third. I'm not talking spring training games. I'm I'm 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.839 saying real big league games at third. It's honestly, maybe 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:02.159 a better fit for his bat at the like probably 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.680 the peak of his bat, because Mariner second basement notoriously 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.960 don't hit third baseman. You know, Ryan Bliss has got 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.280 the tools to hit. He showed it off over the weekend. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.520 He crushed the ball. Was it Saturday one hopped off 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.280 the centerfield fence against the Angels. I believe that game 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.880 was it's great. So he's got a lot of thunder 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:22.400 in that bat, which is great. So they can find 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.160 a way to get his bat in the lineup a 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.080 little bit more. That's great, and playing third base will 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.720 certainly help him. The reason he's playing third is that 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.920 the bad news is not bad news, but maybe something 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.360 that you will keep an eye on. Raise your eyebrow 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.560 at when you think about the two guys that. Let's 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.200 paint the picture here. So Low and I are sitting 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.880 there in the back part where the media and the 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.400 players are and Field one is the one right next 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.840 to us, and we're watching infield, and if you look 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.120 at it, we're standing there on the dirt watching the infield. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.040 There's the two third basemen. Jorge Blanco was not participating 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.120 in this. It was Miles Master, Bony and Ryan Bliss. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.040 Those are the two third basemen available. Jorge Polanco was 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.640 sitting inside the dugget at this point. He's still getting 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.280 his knee back into good shape, so he's not out 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.120 there on the infield dirt. It does sort of put 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.360 in perspective where the Mariner's third base spot is. The 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.080 potential production of what Jorge Polanco can bring is fantastic, 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:21.800 it's great, but seeing what happens if a plus thirty 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.920 year old Jorge Polanco off of major knee surgery, something. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:30.880 Happens to him, it is thin, to say the least, 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:32.240 then a good describer. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.000 Do you have a different word, No, that's probably right, 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.079 because again, if he goes down, who's really behind him 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.560 at third base? You could list off Austin Shenton, but 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.360 he's not really a third baseman at this point. He's 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.240 just he's not a great defender. So yeah, that's why 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.160 you saw Bliss and you saw Master Boni out there, 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.440 which if that's what you're resorting to, it's not a 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.440 ton of depth. It's just how it is. So they 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.520 kind of neat Polanco out there and playing third base. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.120 I don't I'm not get overly concerned yet, considering it's 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:06.080 been a week not even since position players have reported officially, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.800 and they're just getting into the flow of things, so 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.120 I'm not gonna freak out yet. Hopefully in the next 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:13.920 few days you start to see him out there and 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.600 taking ground balls and starting to get acclimated and everything. 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.440 But yeah, exactly, they need some backup options if he 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.880 were to be injured or if he spends any time 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:24.840 during the year on the IL no matter what. So 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.040 to see Bliss getting work over there. The big question 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.200 with him is could he make that throw? But you 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.280 want him to have some versatility. You don't want him 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.760 just as a second basement only, so I get it. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.200 The big question is just about those long throws for him. 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.760 We've also, though, talked about the depth a little bit. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.640 We said, yeah, there are points on this team that 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.319 are thin, and the infield well, the infield, as unproven 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.280 as it is, the group is also incredibly thin across 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.520 the board when you look at returning production and guys 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.400 backing up other positions, it's just not really there. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:09:58.720 At this point. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.640 I don't think anything in compasses that more than if 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.360 you take a look at that third base option, and 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.360 that's if Dylan Moore is penciled in at the everyday 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.360 second basement, which takes his backup option him being a 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.760 backup option, excuse me, away from any of these other positions. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.400 So it's like almost like the snowball effect when it 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.880 comes to when it comes to how we look at 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:21.480 this infield. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.040 Well, the other option here is if Polo does start 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:25.800 the year on the IL or if just at any 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.920 point during the year he misses some time, I feel 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.960 like the more likely route they go is Demo just 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.240 plays third and Bliss play second. So it's not great depth. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.080 I get it they don't have a ton, but that's 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.679 probably how they would operate the infield if I had 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.120 to guess. I think also, okay, let me call back 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.840 something you said. Do you feel like Bliss's bat really 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.200 is better for third base. I know he's got the 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.800 potential to hit, but I don't really think of his 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.839 bat profiling as a third basement. I think if a 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:53.440 Moore is a second base profile. 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:58.520 Bat, are we basing it off of the MLB average, which, 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.679 by the way, third basement recently have not been the 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.800 best hitting group in Major League Baseball. So maybe that 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.000 saves my argument a little bit instead of me talking 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.920 out of my ass. Or are we judging it off 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.880 of based off of what the Mariners did last year 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:13.760 at those positions? 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.480 Well, second base and third base. If you're judging off 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.360 last year, pick your poison. I mean, Ryan Bliss is. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:22.800 A perfect fit at third base. 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.959 Well, now you're being mean to Ryan Bliss. That's that's 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:26.720 not I'm not. 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.880 I'm saying he's more, probably more talented when they what 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.720 they got out of the out of the production at 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.280 those positions last year, which you and I both said 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:35.880 have stunk. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:40.440 I see that, all right, all right, that's that's fair. Yeah. Look, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.120 if Bliss can move around, that's great. And if he 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:43.920 can play third, and he can play second, you know 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:45.880 he can play some shortstop too, because he also played 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:47.679 shortstop at Auburn and he did a little bit in 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.000 the minors, so that he can move around the infield. 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:52.719 And to see him moving around the infield's probably a 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:57.240 good sign. I would say. Storyline number two is Matt 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.480 Brash just continues to progress in his bullpens, which awesome sign. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.679 He's up to ninety ninety one. He's mixing stuff in. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.040 No setbacks yet and hopefully there are none, but all 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:08.959 good signs so far. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.760 We watched him in cor throw today. They were throwing 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.800 their bullpens simultaneously, and they're both rehabbing from Tommy John 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.840 and each is at a different stage. COR's gonna be 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.040 ready a little bit later, I think around mid season. Brashes, 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:26.000 as we've talked about, gonna be ready earlier. So Brash 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.880 was up into the nineties core was in the mid eighties. 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.679 Here brash sequence is it this way? I did learn 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.280 this from Ryan Divish and this why is the best 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.440 because he knows everything Brash. When he's rehabbing, he will go. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.600 If you see this online, just remember this from perspective. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.200 As he ramps this back up, he will go. Every 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.520 other bullpen where he throws his slider, he doesn't spin 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.559 it every single bullpen. It sounds like, so today was 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.720 one of those odd bullpens where he's throwing his slider. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.920 His next bullpen that he throws, he's gonna do only 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.319 fastballs and he'll probably keep it right around the same 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.079 velocity of ninety ninety one miles an hour. I'll say 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:05.000 it looks a lot faster standing behind it, but that's 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.240 only how much it was. Jackson Carr was about eighty 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.400 eight to eighty five today, even though he's big, and 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.640 again when the mit pops, it makes it look like 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.839 he's throwing a lot harder. But he was only sitting 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.480 in the mid eighties today. He's still got a little 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.520 bit to go in his rehab. Can I just note 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.120 shout out to the Mariners for some of these renovations 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:28.320 that they're spring training complex as media, it is. 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:28.839 So much better. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.080 It's a great So think about it on the patio 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:33.880 because you could see this if you come to the 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.160 Peoria Sports Complex, you show you as a fan can 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.199 show up there. First of all, they've taken away the 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:44.439 chain link fence that essentially separated the bullpens from the 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.920 from the fans and the general viewing public in that 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.079 little grass area where you can watch field one and 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:50.840 you can watch field two or all the major leaguers 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.200 are usually on. And they instead put some turf down 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.280 right on the fans side of that, and then they 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.880 pushed essentially the fence down and lowered it to a 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.559 out waist high where it's you know, it's metal, you 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.080 can lean on it, you could put a drink on 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.920 their water bottle, et cetera. So the fans don't have 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.800 like an obstructed chain link view of watching these guys 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.199 throw their bullpen. They're just a little bit farther back 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.000 and there is all there's that now turf area right 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:16.800 in front of them where guys can get turf work in, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.960 and it I think it feels like as a fan 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.280 that you're a little bit closer to it. But also 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.320 they've carved out a little bit more space for the 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.040 media members and the players to stand behind the bullpens 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.400 and watch these guys throw, which is which is really nice, 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.880 I would say objectively for us. And they threw in 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.520 some more chairs on the patio for us, which was 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.960 very nice. We can sit down on the patio in 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.840 these like these lawn chairs and it's it's fantastic. 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:42.320 So shout out the Mariners like that was great. I 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:42.880 love the turf. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.800 Oh, all the renovations look awesome. The bullpens were fun 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.120 to watch last year, even just watching it from behind 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.960 the pitcher, but being behind the catcher one eighty different perspective, 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.360 like if you were back there watching Andre's Munio throws bullpens. Jeez. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.560 And we'll get to him in a minute. So color 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.680 and brawn sure on a little bit of different timelines. 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:06.560 One because Brash is one Brash is just doing phenomenally 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.520 in his recovery, it sounds like. But also another thing 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.320 that look, I'm not a doctor, but I'll try to 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.760 explain this as best as I can. I think cor 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.240 had the full Tommy John with the full brace, with 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.080 the longer recovery, so he is taking closer to the 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:26.040 full fourteen to eighteen months to work back. Brash didn't 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.600 have that full thing. His timeline is about more of 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.880 a twelve twelve month timeline that he sounds like he's 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.920 on track to beat right now because his surgery was 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.320 a little bit different. So Brash is progressing well. Car 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.520 seems to be progressing well. That was certainly another takeaway 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.760 from today. I would say, what else want? 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.240 What else I want to touch on here? 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.560 Cole Emerson hit the dick out of a ball this weekend, 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.120 one hundred and eleven point six miles an hour. 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:50.480 Man. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.840 I can't wait to when we get to finally go 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.400 to our first game at spring training here on Wednesday. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.760 I hope he plays because this dude. 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:02.560 I mean, talk about buzzk anybody about cult Emerson and 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.960 the impersonation of him as a baseball player. I mean, man, 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:12.160 oh man like dude status. I don't think there's there's 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.000 not a lot of minor leaguers now in the Maritor system, 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:20.040 not in most systems, that you can comp cult Emerson too, 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.360 because there's just that extra level. Shout out to laz 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.040 here on Monday hit a home run to dead center 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:26.040 field in the big league game. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.120 Against the Brewers. That was pretty cool. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.120 Michael Arroyo had a ground world double down the left 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.640 field line that was also pretty cool. What do we 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.400 think of if we want to take a leaf out of. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.600 Brockywarts book, what do we think of the physiques today? 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.520 I gotta tell you, speaking of cult Emerson, we talked 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.640 to him last year around this time in spring training, 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.160 and he looked like more of a typical minor leaguer. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.040 He'd just been drafted six or seven months prior and 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.600 was just getting his feet wet in his first spring 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.840 training period. He was over in minor league spring training, 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.160 and he got a handful of games throughout that spring 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:01.960 to get a few at bats in the big league games, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.040 but he was not in big league camp. He's in 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.600 big league camp this spring. He's starting to really look 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:09.280 like a big leaguer. If you want to go the 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:13.280 physique route here, he's starting to look pretty built. That 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:14.960 was one of my big takeaways from today. 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.280 I thought, Yeah, who's someone else? Brian Wu? 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:22.560 I thought looked really good, dude. Enormous legs on Brian Wu, 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.480 which is really good for him. Who else stood out? 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.640 Julio obviously looks like Salk's words were chiseled out of granite. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.160 I think today for Julio, that was good. I thought 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.600 everyone looked good. I thought Munio looked slim. I thought 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.080 he looked really good. Andre's Muniz when he's out there 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.320 on the on the bump. So that was good. 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:46.959 What No? Yeah? Uh, Darius Valdez. I don't know if 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.080 he's gonna be on the team. But that dude, that 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:54.560 dude's a tank. He's six' eight. Crazy let me make 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.560 one more. Note, now this was not while we were. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.159 Here this is the last, NOTE i think before we 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.520 get to our big. Story this is not why we were. 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.879 Here this Was sunday while we were traveling. In it 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.080 got reported That Cole young's been limited a little bit 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:08.880 over the last few. Days it sounds like he's got 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.600 a little bit of a sore throwing, arm so he 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.240 hasn't been in the field. Much he pinch hitting the 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.760 game On, sunday but that's been A he just hasn't 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.119 gotten crazy extended, work at least for. Now and it 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.399 doesn't sound like it's too. Serious but it being this 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:23.280 early in the, year it being spring, TRAINING i think 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.200 The mariners are operating cautiously which is obviously. Smart that being, 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.920 said if, POSSIBLE i would love to see a bunch 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.080 Of Cole young this week because, it if you ask, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.840 me this is the most intriguing dude in this entire. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.840 Camp AND i say that because he has such a 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.520 wide range of opportunity in terms of where he could 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.160 be by the end of the. SPRING i don't think 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.760 he's gonna make the roster out a big league, camp 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.159