Speaker 1: An. He swings high. Don't understand that deep to center
Speaker 1: field and that's gone.
Speaker 2: Wow, his first big league swing is gonna be a
Speaker 2: grand slam home line swing.
Speaker 1: Good time to do them, soup. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Call Up, your go to podcast on the future stars
Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball. You got arm Light in here
Speaker 1: today and we have our second batch of interviews from
Speaker 1: the Futures Game, including some of the best prospects in baseball.
Speaker 1: Ethan Salas to lead things off, which is so much
Speaker 1: fun because I think that was our longest conversation with
Speaker 1: any prospects at that Futures Game. You can easily see
Speaker 1: why Sallas is so ahead of his years on the
Speaker 1: baseball field, because when you talk to him, he so
Speaker 1: ahead of his years in general. You could just tell
Speaker 1: that he's grown up around baseball. And it was very
Speaker 1: fun talking to him. And that was the longest conversation
Speaker 1: for good reason, because I just wanted to keep Pepper
Speaker 1: and him with questions. I think I was making people
Speaker 1: wait behind me a little too long. I kind of
Speaker 1: feel bad about it in hindsight, but hopefully it's worth
Speaker 1: it with what you guys think about the conversation. So
Speaker 1: that one was awesome. We talked to Eli Willits, We
Speaker 1: talked to Cash Mayfield. That was Elijah. He did a
Speaker 1: great job there. Also Dakota Jordan. It was fun, you know,
Speaker 1: hearing him talk about how much juice he thinks he
Speaker 1: has in the tank. So many fun conversations in this
Speaker 1: episode as well. Of course, if you missed the last one,
Speaker 1: the first batch of interviews, we had a few extras
Speaker 1: in part one of the Futures Game Conversation, so check
Speaker 1: that out. That includes several other of the top prospects
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball, from Theo Gillen all the way
Speaker 1: to Caden Scarborough, Nathan fill Welling, ralphie Velaskez goes on
Speaker 1: and on with that group. Ryan Sloan, how could I forget?
Speaker 1: So a bunch of really fun interviews with some of
Speaker 1: the best names in the minor leagues. So I'm very
Speaker 1: pumped about that. I have a few programming notes for you,
Speaker 1: some really fun things happening throughout just baseball right now,
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Speaker 1: doing a minor league whip around basically like MLB beginning.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna be able to do every single game,
Speaker 1: but we've got a handful of games. It'll be myself,
Speaker 1: Jack McMullen, Elijah Evans, and Bally's going to help us
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Speaker 1: have a minor league whip around going from I made
Speaker 1: sure the Tulsa Drillers are on there, but we had
Speaker 1: Biloxi Shuckers as well, and a handful of other games
Speaker 1: that we're gonna be bouncing around from talking prospects, live,
Speaker 1: watching the games, breaking it down, and just hanging out
Speaker 1: with you for three hours. So keep an eye out
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Speaker 1: could talk prospects all day long. So I think doing
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Speaker 1: on this same day. So I'm just gonna put them
Speaker 1: both out because I said, like I said before, we
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Speaker 1: we have all the signing bonuses locked in, all that
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Speaker 1: toss up to be signed did they get signed did
Speaker 1: they not. I think we can really assess the draft
Speaker 1: classes properly now, and being able to have Tyler on
Speaker 1: to do that, I think is going to be awesome.
Speaker 1: So keep an eye out for that episode. And then
Speaker 1: Jack and I are also going to do an episode
Speaker 1: this week catching you up on promotions and players who
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Speaker 1: soon we think your top prospect or one of your
Speaker 1: upper level minor league prospects can get up to that
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Speaker 1: here with Ethan Salas catcher and the Padres organization. It's
Speaker 1: been so much fun to watch you just first and
Speaker 1: foremost be healthy and then have this is the year
Speaker 1: that you've had. It's been so much fun on the
Speaker 1: defensive side always, but the offensive side as well. What's
Speaker 1: really clicked for you offensively this year to make that
Speaker 1: leap at double A is still one of the youngest
Speaker 1: players at the.
Speaker 3: Level, and I mean, thanks for having me again. Just
Speaker 3: happy to be back out there on the field after
Speaker 3: the year ahead last year I missed a lot of time.
Speaker 3: Catching has always been something that kind of comes natural
Speaker 3: to me, and failure it kind of comes to me. So,
Speaker 3: I mean I've worked on it since since I was
Speaker 3: really little. I always caught my whole life, and I
Speaker 3: think on the offensive side this year, I mean everything's clear.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm a lot stronger, I'm healthy, the mind's clear.
Speaker 3: So I'm just trying to go out there and be
Speaker 3: the grettiest computer or competitor I can be every day.
Speaker 1: So if the quality of contacts when there, of course
Speaker 1: the surface level status to see the homers, but just
Speaker 1: the top end eggs of velocities just reaching levels that
Speaker 1: you haven't had in the past. How much of that
Speaker 1: is getting stronger versus also just getting healthy combination of
Speaker 1: the two, But also is it the swing mechanics You've
Speaker 1: made some adjustments as well. It's it's like a culmination
Speaker 1: of three things that have allowed you to just see
Speaker 1: such a big uptick in the raw power department and
Speaker 1: translate into the game power.
Speaker 3: I think I think exactly that a combination of me
Speaker 3: being healthy, int stronger, and having that time off to
Speaker 3: kind of kind of sort some things out on the
Speaker 3: mechanical side. But I wouldn't say I've made any any
Speaker 3: huge mechanical changes from anything I've been done in the past,
Speaker 3: just reverting to to what I've always done my whole life.
Speaker 3: And I've kind of always had that toad tap. I'm
Speaker 3: sure that's what you're talking about. Yea, Yeah, I've kind
Speaker 3: of always had that toad tape growing up, kind of
Speaker 3: got away from it for a year a year and so,
Speaker 3: and uh, I'm just back to it. So it's everything's
Speaker 3: you know, do.
Speaker 1: You feel like the toe tap has kind of helped
Speaker 1: you keep your weight back and say more balance that
Speaker 1: way and just doing what you do kind of naturally.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I mean with the time off that I had
Speaker 3: last year, was in the mirror God, just looking myself
Speaker 3: in the mirror lodge, just doing a bunch of like
Speaker 3: shadows swings a lot in the mirror every single day,
Speaker 3: and I kind of just understanding what will kind of hitter.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to be I mean, getting the more, getting
Speaker 3: more bats under my belt every single day, and how
Speaker 3: the however long it's like throughout the seasons, you go
Speaker 3: through your ups and downs and you kind of figure
Speaker 3: out what kind of player you are. So I am
Speaker 3: starting to figure that out. I'm definitely not a finished product,
Speaker 3: and I still have a lot more It's a lot
Speaker 3: more to doing a lot better, a lot more consistency
Speaker 3: to come out of me. But I mean, I think
Speaker 3: just that keeping it simple, just going out there, being
Speaker 3: clear headed, and just being ready to compete. I think
Speaker 3: it's confused.
Speaker 1: This year you seem to have just been so comfortable
Speaker 1: as one of the youngest players at every single stop,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned this defensive side of things. How much
Speaker 1: has that just been kind of part of your identity,
Speaker 1: is just being like the youngest guy on every field
Speaker 1: that you're on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's been. It's been a part of
Speaker 3: my identity my whole life. Every single time of Steff
Speaker 3: on a baseball field, I'm usually youngest one on it.
Speaker 3: I don't really pay minew I mean we're going out there,
Speaker 3: we're competitors where it's not by age in this game,
Speaker 3: it's by whoever gets the job done best. So I
Speaker 3: always say I'm just happy to be out there and
Speaker 3: just trying to kick some massive.
Speaker 1: The defensive side of things, I mean, just growing up
Speaker 1: on a baseball field, the baseball family that you have,
Speaker 1: and just all the different people that you've probably been around, professionals,
Speaker 1: major leaguers, all the different things in between. What would
Speaker 1: you attribute aside from I imagine, just more reps than
Speaker 1: almost anybody that's your age on the defensive side of things,
Speaker 1: what else you would you attribute to just why you
Speaker 1: are so special defensively behind the dish.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it started when I first started
Speaker 3: taking those seriously, when I was like twelve thirteen years old.
Speaker 3: It was a lot of class, a lot of studying
Speaker 3: the game, a lot of sitting down on the whiteboard
Speaker 3: going over sequences, going over this, why we do this
Speaker 3: my routines from a young age. I think if like
Speaker 3: a lot of the versatile things, weird thrills do like
Speaker 3: I had to do growing up, Just like just a
Speaker 3: combination of being being being athletic and just being able
Speaker 3: to do everything on the baseball fit I think has
Speaker 3: helped me a lot. And putting that into the catching position.
Speaker 3: Like I'm a huge fan of the game. I watched
Speaker 3: the game a ton, I watch Realmuto, I watch the
Speaker 3: best guys in the game, you know what I mean. So,
Speaker 3: and I try to pick their brains and if I
Speaker 3: see something that I can do from that Romuto is
Speaker 3: doing or Salvi's doing, or or the best in the
Speaker 3: games doing, and I can imitate that, I think it's
Speaker 3: just another tool I can add to my toolbox. So
Speaker 3: I think that's something that I'm always open minded, like
Speaker 3: on the catching side, to be able to do everything,
Speaker 3: Like I can catch in every stance and every every style,
Speaker 3: every receiving way I've tried. I'm tried Tom Maul and
Speaker 3: kind of figured out which one's worked for me and
Speaker 3: then just put them in the box. From there in
Speaker 3: the toolbox.
Speaker 1: That was gonna be my next question, just just defensively,
Speaker 1: where there's certain guys that you kind of idolize growing
Speaker 1: up or just even now in professional baseball, like to
Speaker 1: watch it sounds like they kind of take something from
Speaker 1: maybe each of the.
Speaker 3: Guys for sure, Like I've watched a ton of Sean Murphy,
Speaker 3: Romuto Dangler, She's like Patrick Bailey, like the best in
Speaker 3: the game, like the game's evolving now for sure, the
Speaker 3: catching positions are evolving, and there's there's there's always there's
Speaker 3: always things to adjust to. So I think just watching
Speaker 3: the game a ton and being able to imitate is huge.
Speaker 1: What are focuses the rest of the year, you know,
Speaker 1: goals can defensively already so refined and so ahead of everybody.
Speaker 1: Your agent, honestly, just one of the best defensive catchers
Speaker 1: I've seen in the minor leagues. And I already look like,
Speaker 1: you know, some big league veteran on that side. But
Speaker 1: I'm sure knowing just already quickly, the way that you're wired.
Speaker 1: It's probably a lot of things that you're always trying
Speaker 1: to find tune on the defensive side. What is that
Speaker 1: maybe small thing that you're hoping to find, turn and
Speaker 1: improve upon it an oscar At the offensive side, for sure, there's.
Speaker 3: Definitely some things, you know, I mean, it's good on
Speaker 3: the on the defensive side, but there's definitely some things
Speaker 3: c up, like like blocking. You're gonna be a little
Speaker 3: bit better blocking play. I've thrown the ball pretty decently,
Speaker 3: I mean not great. I feel throw the ball a
Speaker 3: lot better than what I have this year, but just
Speaker 3: little This is little things every single day, like staying
Speaker 3: on top of the little stuff like my transfers, my block,
Speaker 3: so not paddling the ball stuff like that. It's the
Speaker 3: game calling and make sure every didn't stay sharve every
Speaker 3: single day. I mean, you can't let the thing slip.
Speaker 3: So you got to stay on top of your routines
Speaker 3: and and there's always things I can get better at.
Speaker 3: So I'm just trying to stand tick.
Speaker 1: Of in the offensive side, same thing, Just trying to
Speaker 1: build more consistency. Yeah, I'm still growing.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna need a lot stronger, I'm gonna be a
Speaker 3: lot fast.
Speaker 1: Like, there's still a lot of work to be.
Speaker 3: Done, and uh nothing's trying to keep an evil even
Speaker 3: keel and and use this and put these at bats
Speaker 3: under my belt and learn from every single at bat,
Speaker 3: like every single game is. There's a lot of learning
Speaker 3: points that you get in the game, and from four
Speaker 3: at bats you can learn, you know, learn a lot
Speaker 3: a lot about yourself. So trying to be be in
Speaker 3: control for those four at bats every single day is
Speaker 3: one of my goals.
Speaker 1: If you were to go to Jordan outfield prospect in
Speaker 1: the Giant system, it's gotta be so fun to come
Speaker 1: to the futures game regardless, but riding a three homer
Speaker 1: game going right into this absolutely heater into the break too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what clicked for you just over the last few weeks
Speaker 1: to just ride this hide it's been the power almost
Speaker 1: no whiff and then you go into this futures game.
Speaker 1: It's got to feel great.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Uh, it's all mostly the mindset, just just
Speaker 4: knowing that I'm I'm belonging to be here, and uh,
Speaker 4: just knowing that my teammates had my back, and uh,
Speaker 4: it was a lot of just a mindset really, No
Speaker 4: no major tweaked, It's just a mind So that was
Speaker 4: able to.
Speaker 1: Just kind of just is it approach wise or just
Speaker 1: confidence in the box. It's just it seems like the
Speaker 1: power and the power has always been there, right, but
Speaker 1: the balance of the way you've been controlling your at
Speaker 1: bats of late and being able to get into the
Speaker 1: power but also draw the walks again, put the ball
Speaker 1: and play consistently. What other than the mindset was you said? Nothing?
Speaker 1: Really mechanically, is there anything approach wise? And how much
Speaker 1: confidence is it giving you now just going into the
Speaker 1: second half?
Speaker 4: Yeah, just just basically standing on the fastball times you know,
Speaker 4: can't cover the whole plate, just trying to stay on
Speaker 4: one pitch and react to everything else. And that's gave
Speaker 4: me a lot of confidence and I'm gonna keep rolling
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously you played football. Your athleticism is a huge
Speaker 1: part of your game. And seeing the way you've just
Speaker 1: developed as a defender in center field has been really
Speaker 1: fun to watch. What's that process been like for you
Speaker 1: and just kind of getting more comfortable with the reads
Speaker 1: and routes and what's been the biggest focus in terms
Speaker 1: of what you've been able to just build on as
Speaker 1: a defender out there?
Speaker 4: Just just trying to be myself out there and not
Speaker 4: trying to not trying to overdo anything, just trying to
Speaker 4: keep my athletic abilities and just trying to get great
Speaker 4: first jumps off the bat.
Speaker 1: And is that just through reps in practice or there
Speaker 1: any little things that you honed in on to be
Speaker 1: able to get those jumps And yeah, and just have
Speaker 1: the most direct routes for sure.
Speaker 4: I would say to the many things, just taking a
Speaker 4: lot of rips and ben practice. I mean, as a outfielder,
Speaker 4: I feel like that's really the only time you can
Speaker 4: get real reez is ben practice, So just honing in
Speaker 4: on that.
Speaker 1: Bo David's another really good athlete, another guy that's developed
Speaker 1: a lot in center field and the year that he's having.
Speaker 1: He also is a guy that just absolutely hit his stride,
Speaker 1: maybe like a month before you or two months before you,
Speaker 1: and just home run Barrage as well. He's been so
Speaker 1: much fun to watch too. What kind of relationship do
Speaker 1: you guys have but you're playing the same position, having
Speaker 1: the tools and the athleticism in that part of your game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my that's my guy. We talk every day, me
Speaker 1: and Bo.
Speaker 4: We're excited to be around each other a lot. And uh,
Speaker 4: that's my guys. I don't have many worries about him,
Speaker 4: but hey, that's my brother.
Speaker 1: Is there anything about his game that you think people
Speaker 1: like maybe sweep on or that's underrated? Just because again,
Speaker 1: and I think you see him impact the baseball and
Speaker 1: that's usually the thing that stands out the most of
Speaker 1: the batspeed for a guy like him, I will say
Speaker 1: his speed. I feel like people don't really see his speed.
Speaker 4: I feel like they think he jogs a lot, but
Speaker 4: he just makes everything looks He make everything look easy.
Speaker 1: Your speed's become a bigger part of your game as
Speaker 1: well to stolen bases. You're really efficient, but just higher
Speaker 1: volume as well. What's that process been like for you
Speaker 1: and what was that a specific focus for you going
Speaker 1: into this year? Yeah?
Speaker 4: For sure, I would just say confidence, not being able
Speaker 4: to get thrown or not being scared to be thrown out,
Speaker 4: just going out there and trying to get a good read.
Speaker 1: Off the pitcher and just go. You know, what's the
Speaker 1: biggest focus for you the rest of the year. Obviously
Speaker 1: again having this crazy stretch going into the break and
Speaker 1: then you know, I'm sure you almost did you not
Speaker 1: want the break to happen, almost because you're in such
Speaker 1: a rhythm there, you know, a couple of days off,
Speaker 1: you almost you want to just keep getting abs right now,
Speaker 1: I imagine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean when you get high, you never want
Speaker 4: to stop. But I would just say just continue to
Speaker 4: be a great teammate and just just just try to
Speaker 4: keep swinging it, trying to keep saying on the fastball
Speaker 4: time and then just keep going.
Speaker 1: One to seventeen. I think you hit a ball one
Speaker 1: seventeen this year. Obviously with me it's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: You can you can pop those, but with wood, I mean,
Speaker 1: is that something that you've really felt before where you're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I could put it up to one seventeen plus, like
Speaker 1: not to be that gobbly. Yeah, it's good. That is good.
Speaker 1: And I mean, NVP, Are you think you got a
Speaker 1: little bit more in you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you think you got you got one one nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty in you. I love it. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see it. Man, we'll best of about the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. Thanks so much for the time here. With
Speaker 1: Cash Mayfield of the San Diego Padres. Cash, how's the
Speaker 1: season been for you?
Speaker 2: You know last year first pro season, missed a couple
Speaker 2: of games, had some time out, but a successful year
Speaker 2: building off that.
Speaker 6: How's this year been so far? It's been going good
Speaker 6: so far. I feel like I've learned a lot from
Speaker 6: last year. Uh yeah, I kind of have like a
Speaker 6: setback last year going into this year.
Speaker 1: I've felt a lot.
Speaker 6: Better, kind of picked up on stuff with like some
Speaker 6: different hitters, and uh, I mean, yeah, it's been really
Speaker 6: good so far.
Speaker 2: What was that process like settling, you know, the off season,
Speaker 2: having a little bit of a wonky one, just trying
Speaker 2: to get yourself fully ready for this year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, it was very interesting, but yeah, I had
Speaker 6: had a big off season of trying to kind of
Speaker 6: bring my val back up as I had in high school,
Speaker 6: doing some like delivery stuff. But yeah, I mean yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean overall, it was a good off season going
Speaker 6: to the spring training feeling.
Speaker 1: Really good, and that Villo has jumped this year.
Speaker 2: Obviously where you were in ninety five, Ringe and your
Speaker 2: money recent start lately more some of the training things
Speaker 2: do you do and you're doing waiting balls, like what
Speaker 2: are some of the keys for you when you're trying
Speaker 2: to really you know, refine that velo again.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So, I mean back in high school, going into my
Speaker 6: senior year, me and my trainer kind of sat down.
Speaker 6: We kind of worked on a hip coil into my
Speaker 6: leg kick, and I was doing that through high school.
Speaker 6: That's when that Villa was jumping up there, kind of
Speaker 6: went in the low way, started to kind of get
Speaker 6: away from it, and he kind of watched some video
Speaker 6: and was like, you're not really getting in your hips anymore.
Speaker 6: Went in the off season kind of brought that back.
Speaker 6: So Ever, since I brought that hip foil back, that
Speaker 6: that Villa's calm.
Speaker 2: Back up so it's just it's a prolonged like you're
Speaker 2: just getting into the hip low for.
Speaker 1: A longer period of time before you go Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: What about the rest of the arsenal? Have you expanded
Speaker 2: some of you know, what you're throwing this season? Is
Speaker 2: it's similar mix from it from an osopy standpoint to
Speaker 2: what you're doing last year?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's the same mix. Uh.
Speaker 6: I've been kind of talking them about adding a new pitch,
Speaker 6: but I mean they were telling me you have three
Speaker 6: really good pitches, and I mean, you feel like my
Speaker 6: fastball plays really well, have a good change up, good
Speaker 6: slider to mix off with it, and I mean I'm
Speaker 6: able to get guys out of it.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna keep throwing what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: From the Padres standpoint, Is there anything that the organization
Speaker 2: has has preached to you a little bit of like
Speaker 2: we want you to, you know, use things differently, or
Speaker 2: just kind of organizational philosophies in terms of the way
Speaker 2: they approach their pitching.
Speaker 6: I mean, they don't like really tell me a whole lot,
Speaker 6: but I mean just the main thing they're kind of
Speaker 6: telling me was like, hey, I would like we sho
Speaker 6: to attack the zone as much as possible. So, I
Speaker 6: mean that was always my go to because I've never
Speaker 6: really been afraid of contact and I've always had a
Speaker 6: really good command. So the sim kind of like reminded
Speaker 6: me of doing that and just always thinking, like, I
Speaker 6: need to attack the zone as much as possible, have
Speaker 6: my off speeds in zone, and then just kind of
Speaker 6: kind of let plays.
Speaker 2: But what's the biggest difference you've seen from the single
Speaker 2: A level last year? Now you've been in high all
Speaker 2: so far this year. How is it a different trying
Speaker 2: to attack it airs at the next level.
Speaker 6: Thinking low way there are sometimes I would kind of
Speaker 6: get away with some things, kind of getting some chases,
Speaker 6: had a lot of swinging missis in my fastball, and
Speaker 6: I think just kind of coming up here, I've had
Speaker 6: to learn kind of like how to pitch a little
Speaker 6: more because they're a little more patient now and you
Speaker 6: can't just try and work around them because now it's
Speaker 6: like now I'm going to attack them a little more.
Speaker 6: And I was actually talking to Jessi Harshort over here
Speaker 6: with South Bend the Cubs, and I pitched against them
Speaker 6: one day and I looked at him, I was like
Speaker 6: y'all are the toughest lineup I faced so far, just
Speaker 6: because they don't swing, so.
Speaker 1: They're always patient.
Speaker 2: Is there any of bats you remember throughout the season
Speaker 2: where you've been like, Wow, that guy's like I had
Speaker 2: to really work against.
Speaker 6: This or this. Yeah, I mean Harshort took me deep
Speaker 6: one time. Yeah, threw him a change up end zone
Speaker 6: went out. But I would say one guy, another two
Speaker 6: is Edward de Cantaro with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: He's a tough out, good with national shortstop prospect. To you,
Speaker 1: I will it to you, it's been a ridiculous year
Speaker 1: for you and just seeing the success that you've had
Speaker 1: from what you were able to build at the startup
Speaker 1: last year and then this year so far, what have
Speaker 1: you really felt likes clicked for you and how much
Speaker 1: confidence have you just seen yourself probably build through the season.
Speaker 1: It's a great opportunity.
Speaker 5: I'm just excited for everything that's happened this year and
Speaker 5: just thankful for all the success and being able to
Speaker 5: cherish this with my family. It's just I'm thankful for
Speaker 5: the opportunity for it for sure, and I'm excited for
Speaker 5: the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Being one of the younger guys at each stop. It's
Speaker 1: been pretty clear that you just born around baseball, have
Speaker 1: a feel for the game, and just on every aspect,
Speaker 1: like the defensive side of things as well as the
Speaker 1: gloves just always been there for you. And that's probably
Speaker 1: been from day one, just seeing the way that you
Speaker 1: can impact the game defensively. Has that been something that's
Speaker 1: just been always such a big part of your game
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 5: I mean since I was a little kid, me and
Speaker 5: my brother grinded at ground balls and our defensive work,
Speaker 5: and I feel like, at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: if your bat's not going to work out, you can
Speaker 5: always be a good defender. So trying to pack to
Speaker 5: the game defensively, because there's guys in the big leagues
Speaker 5: that their their job is to uh be a good
Speaker 5: defender and they get paid to do that. So just
Speaker 5: continue to do what I do on the field and
Speaker 5: to get continue to develop as a player.
Speaker 1: Well, what's amazing is you've been doing it with the
Speaker 1: bat too, And I think the biggest part is in
Speaker 1: fact the bats ball. Everyone knew that you were gonna
Speaker 1: be one of the best, you know, pure hitters out
Speaker 1: of the draft, and the power that has been available
Speaker 1: and just just so evident right away. Has that been
Speaker 1: an exciting development for you? And like, I think everyone
Speaker 1: kind of knew that you'd grow into it, but how
Speaker 1: quickly you've been able to get into this power? Has
Speaker 1: that even maybe surprise you at points?
Speaker 5: No, I I knew it was in there, and I
Speaker 5: knew it was just an another another stepping block in
Speaker 5: my development. And Uh, at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: it's just continue to develop into the player I am
Speaker 5: and continue to do what I do every day I should.
Speaker 5: I want to show up to the field every day
Speaker 5: and be the best version myself. And I feel like
Speaker 5: I've been in such a great organization to have that
Speaker 5: opportunity to go out there and be the best version
Speaker 5: of myself. So I'm just grateful for the people that
Speaker 5: I have surrounded me.
Speaker 1: Is there anything specifically this offseason that you focus on
Speaker 1: to be able to tap into that additional power. It's
Speaker 1: just kind of just maturn and growing into your body
Speaker 1: even more, just getting more comfortable professional baseball. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: I mean this offseason, I want to be as strong
Speaker 5: as possible, So to go go with this offseason and
Speaker 5: work my butt off to be to get as strong
Speaker 5: as possible because one day I got to play one
Speaker 5: hundred and sixty two with a postseason. So I'm just
Speaker 5: excited for where my career is going and just continue
Speaker 5: to work it hard every day to make sure I'm
Speaker 5: developing my game.
Speaker 1: The other aspect is the base running and just being
Speaker 1: so effective and efficient on the base paths. Has that
Speaker 1: always been a comfortable part of your game? And is
Speaker 1: there any key to you being able to get the
Speaker 1: jumps that you're able to get pretty consistently, you know
Speaker 1: on stolen bases.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean my dad was a base running coach
Speaker 5: growing up, so I mean I listened to him for
Speaker 5: hours talking about base running. So just continue to do
Speaker 5: what he's always taught me and continue to just not
Speaker 5: be scared and be aggressive on the base pass if
Speaker 5: you get thrown out, So just continue to do that
Speaker 5: and set a standard and figure out what your limitations
Speaker 5: are on the base path.
Speaker 1: Last one for you switch hitter with the the balance
Speaker 1: of both swings look very similar on the outside, but
Speaker 1: other different ques that you have from you know, from
Speaker 1: each side of the plate, and you know what's it
Speaker 1: been like, you know, just being able to balance the
Speaker 1: two swings as you jump into professional baseball. It's the
Speaker 1: same as when I was in high school.
Speaker 5: It's just got to make sure my swing's right and
Speaker 5: make sure I'm ready and prepared every day to go
Speaker 5: out there and be successful on the field.
Speaker 1: Do you have different cues and different fields from each
Speaker 1: side or is pretty much the same copy paste both ways.
Speaker 1: It's a very.
Speaker 5: Similar swing, but I have to think think different things mentally,
Speaker 5: So just just continuing to grow every day and develop
Speaker 5: each side.
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