1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: All right, we are happy to welcome Max Anderson to 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:09,639 Speaker 1: the podcast. Max Rising Tigers prospect. He's out in the 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: Arizona Fall League right now. He's been tearing it up 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: out there. Max, Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, happy to be here. 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 3: So Max, you know, Arizona Fall League. Let's just kind 7 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 3: of go right there. It is very current, Like how 8 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 3: does that happen? 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 4: Like how are you approached? 10 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 3: Like you know, like how far in advance do you 11 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 3: kind of know this is gonna you know, your season's 12 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 3: going to extend a little bit, and then just sort 13 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 3: of like the day to day of participating in this. 14 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 3: In this you know, you're concentrating your game, but also 15 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 3: like you're in a random house right now. It's not 16 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 3: your home, Like, how how does that happen from a 17 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 3: player's perspective? 18 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 4: And what's it? What's the experience been like for you 19 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 4: this year? 20 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,559 Speaker 5: Yeah, so we we kind of find out about a 21 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 5: month month left of the season and then kind of 22 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 5: it's nothing glamorous or anything. 23 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 2: It's just kind of a fun call with. 24 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 5: So, I mean, some guys in the in the front 25 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 5: office with the Tigers and they'll call you and say, hey, 26 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 5: we'd like you to represent you represent us in the 27 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 5: Fall League, and you know, it's kind of something that 28 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 5: you can't really turn down, so everybody usually says yes, but. 29 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 2: No. So that that was. 30 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 5: Pretty cool to get that call and be able to 31 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 5: just talk and kind of see that the Tigers like 32 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 5: they kind of thank you pretty highly if they're wanting 33 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 5: to send you here. And I mean, as far as 34 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 5: being down here, it's it's awesome. I mean, I was 35 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 5: just got off the phone with my my with my 36 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 5: parents and they're in forty degree weather and it's freezing rain, 37 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 5: and so it makes it a little easier. 38 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 2: To be out here in ninety degree weather. 39 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 5: But kind of the day to day here, I mean 40 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 5: we just i mean night games pretty relaxed, just kind 41 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 5: of like the season, like get a sleep in a 42 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 5: little bit and you know, trying not to stay in 43 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 5: bed too long, and then we'll go to the field 44 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 5: work out every day. For me, that's kind of a 45 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 5: big part is trying to get my body in the 46 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 5: best shape for you know, next year, because in a sense, 47 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 5: this is kind of still like the start of your 48 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 5: off season. Uh so kind of making that balance so 49 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 5: you're still able to play, uh play good, but also 50 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 5: getting your body ready for the next season is kind 51 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 5: of a tricky thing that the Tigers have helped helped 52 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:29,119 Speaker 5: me with. 53 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:31,839 Speaker 2: But I'm having a blast out here. 54 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 5: I mean the guys that we're playing with, I mean 55 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 5: the guys that I'm living with, they're they're awesome, a 56 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 5: great time to be around. And uh, you know friends 57 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 5: that have came in with came to the in to 58 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 5: the pro baseball uh, that I have had for the 59 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 5: two and a half years i've been been here. 60 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: So so what wait, what's your what's your compound? Like, 61 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: we know you're you're with Kevin mcgonag, Well who else 62 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: is there? And what what do you guys do in 63 00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 1: the downtime? 64 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 5: Yes, so Carlos like Erika, he's a pitcher. He's also here. Uh, 65 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 5: we all came came in the same draft class, so 66 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 5: we were pretty close and it was nice that we 67 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 5: got to live together. It's just us three and uh, 68 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 5: kind of a pretty pretty normal Arizona house. It's got 69 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 5: to pool out back, so we do a lot of 70 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 5: just kind of hanging out in the pool. 71 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,239 Speaker 2: All three of us like the golf. 72 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 5: So, uh, it's kind of kind of worked out nice that, 73 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 5: I mean, no complaints. They put us in a great 74 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 5: spot in Arizona. There's I mean countless things to do 75 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 5: that in your free time. So we've been busy. 76 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 3: Well, you know you mentioned a couple of guys there 77 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 3: and your class, very highly regarded class. I'm curious, like 78 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 3: you being a second round pick. You know McGonagall mentioned 79 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 3: Max Clark at the top there. Like when you're in 80 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 3: the day to day in the miners, you know, grinding, grueling. 81 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 4: Do you and even in the games against your opponents. 82 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 3: Do you like look at hey, do you look at 83 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 3: yourself as like I'm a second round pick. I should 84 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 3: be doing this. This is my timeline. I carry myself 85 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 3: a certain way. And b do you look at your 86 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 3: teammates slash your opponents like, oh, that guy was a 87 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 3: top five pick, that guy was a first round pick. 88 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 3: You know this player got this bonus? Like, does does 89 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 3: the ore exist for the guys that like, you know, 90 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 3: people like us talk about but you're seeing them with 91 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 3: them day to day? 92 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 2: Yeah? 93 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 5: Uh for me, this is definitely gonna sound like a 94 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 5: stock answer. But I I like, personally like I don't 95 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 5: I don't see myself like as any like anything special, And. 96 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 2: I feel like I've kind of been like that my 97 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 2: whole way. Like when I was a. 98 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 5: High schooler and I went to like a camp somewhere 99 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 5: and talked to the coach and I was going home, 100 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 5: and I was like, gosh, I guess I'm getting recruited now, 101 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 5: Like I never thought this would happen. Like I just 102 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 5: kind of don't see things in a sense, like don't 103 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 5: take them more than what they are, If that's the 104 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 5: right wording. I think it's it's tough, like when you like, 105 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 5: for me, like I'm a huge baseball fan, so like 106 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 5: I've followed like prospects and drafts my whole life. So 107 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 5: like when I see guys that like we're drafted high, 108 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 5: like I definitely recognize it. And when you're playing them, 109 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 5: Uh but I think that's also a key to succeeding 110 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 5: in baseball, is like trying to take the name off 111 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 5: their back and just take the person for who they 112 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 5: are and being able to play like cause like you 113 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 5: go up and face like a Paul Skins or Chase Burns, 114 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 5: like those guys are good pitchers alone, Like if you 115 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 5: let their name do they're talking for them, Like it's 116 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 5: gonna make it even harder to. 117 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 2: Get a hit off them. 118 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 5: Uh, so you got to just be able to play 119 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 5: baseball and kind of see everybody as the same, even 120 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 5: though that I mean, in the grand scheme of things, 121 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 5: I mean, people are a lot better. 122 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 2: They got drafted for a reason that high and kind 123 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 2: of all that. 124 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up that high school story because 125 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: I wanted to get into your story a little bit. 126 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: You grew up in Omaha, actually spent a little bit 127 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: of time there. Nice town, great zoo, right, oh yeah, 128 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 1: and then you went to the University of Nebraska's right 129 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: down the road. I guess what type of player were 130 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: you in high school? And why were you surprised when 131 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: you started getting recruited. 132 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 2: Yeah. 133 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 5: So in high school, I mean I had an older 134 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 5: brother and he was he loved baseball. He wasn't very good, 135 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 5: so I kind of always I always watched him play 136 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 5: baseball and watched everything that he did, and he, I mean, 137 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 5: he loved it, and so in my mind, I was 138 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 5: just playing. 139 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 2: And just kind of whatever happens happens. 140 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 5: I never I mean, all everybody goes to like showcases 141 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 5: and plays travel ball nowadays, didn't. I didn't do any 142 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 5: of that really ever until my junior fall so I 143 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 5: played I don't know if you guys know, legion baseball 144 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 5: like high school. Yeah, so I played that in the summers, 145 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 5: and I didn't do any travel ball, so I didn't 146 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 5: really know what was out there, like if any college 147 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 5: coaches like liked, how if I was good or not, 148 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 5: like realistically didn't really get a see like uh kind 149 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 5: of weigh myself against like other top ranked prospects. 150 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 2: Uh. 151 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 5: So to say in high school, how I got recruit 152 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 5: I went to just a bunch of camps in the fall, 153 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 5: like college baseball camps, and they were great. 154 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 2: To me. 155 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 5: It was pretty cool to be able to just see 156 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 5: a bunch of different colleges and almost take it as 157 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 5: like a visit to the college town. Even though that 158 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 5: I mean probably fifty percent of them didn't like, didn't 159 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 5: think I was good enough to go there, so but 160 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 5: it was it was pretty cool. I mean, I I 161 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 5: had kind of a weird recruiting story. So I was 162 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 5: going to committed to text A and M when I 163 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 5: was a sophomore and went to a camp and I 164 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 5: was a sophomore called them and then then kind of 165 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:58,239 Speaker 5: just committed like within it all within like a month 166 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 5: and then like so that COVID draft, that five round 167 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 5: draft that happened, and just kind of they had a 168 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 5: lot of guys that were supposed to get drafted a 169 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 5: normal draft and didn't get drafted, which naturally happens. So 170 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 5: then kind of just didn't work out there, and it 171 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 5: just happened that the Texas A and M staff got 172 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 5: hired at the hitting coach got hired as the head 173 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 5: coach at Nebraska, Will Bolt, and within like twenty four hours, 174 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 5: I was going to Nebraska and it was the best 175 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 5: best decision in my life. 176 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 2: It was awesome. 177 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, so funny how things work out sometimes exactly exactly. 178 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: Which were you a multi sport guy in high school? 179 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I played basketball as well. I was not very good, though. 180 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 5: I came off the bench and with average about the 181 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 5: same amount of fouls as points. 182 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: Hey, hey, everyone, you gotta have one of those guys 183 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: on your team. 184 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 2: I liked it exactly. 185 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 3: Well, well, then you you spend three years at Nebraska, 186 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 3: then you know, you get drafted by the Tigers. So 187 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 3: that's a to me from the outside, that feels like 188 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 3: a pretty accelerated timeline for someone you know, surprise, you 189 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 3: get recruited, and then you know you end up at Nebraska, 190 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 3: like you said, and all of a sudden you're a 191 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 3: second round pick. So like the draft process, I'm also 192 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 3: curious about Max, Like how was that for you? Did 193 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 3: you have any idea like where you were going to go? 194 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 3: Did you kind of have your mind made up like 195 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 3: at that time or like yeah, what was that Like? 196 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, I I mean you kind of get a grasp 197 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 5: of where you could go. I mean with the with 198 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 5: the MLB draft, I mean everything's so crazy with like 199 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 5: there can be like deals made beforehand and kind of 200 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 5: all that crazy stuff that can happen. So you don't 201 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 5: really know until like you get drafted that things are 202 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 5: going to happen. And I I didn't. There's probably a 203 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 5: mixu of like four or five teams that I felt 204 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 5: like were pretty interested in me, and then it just 205 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 5: kind of so happened that the Tigers were the ones 206 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 5: that took me and my I was more personally, I 207 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 5: was more nervous, uh, for my buddy getting drafted, Bryce Matthews, 208 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 5: like because he he was. 209 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 2: Like first rounder. 210 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 5: I was like, this kind of crazy and it's kind 211 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 5: of surreal moment for me to watch him and then 212 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 5: like he gets drafted and it turns over to me 213 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 5: and I'm like, oh my gosh, like I might get 214 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:24,079 Speaker 5: drafted tonight. 215 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 2: Too, Like it's pretty cool. Uh So it was. 216 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,080 Speaker 5: It was an all around just surreal moment and ended 217 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 5: up three. I mean, two of my pretty close friends 218 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 5: Mike Bovee got drafted too, to the Brewers right after. 219 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 5: Uh So being able to see i mean, two of 220 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 5: your buddies that you've played baseball with kind of your 221 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 5: whole life get drafted is also a pretty cool moment, 222 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 5: uh in a night for just you as a person. 223 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 1: That's awesome. 224 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 3: So the Tigers, So the Tigers were not one of 225 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 3: those four or five teams that you were thinking. 226 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 2: Is that? 227 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 4: Am I reading that correctly? 228 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: Yeah? 229 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 5: I meant at the beginning of the day, I didn't 230 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 5: didn't really have the Tigers on my horizon and then 231 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 5: worked out for the best. 232 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 4: About that. 233 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do one more question then we'll get to 234 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: a break here. But but before we move on, you know, 235 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: you said going to Nebraska was one of the best 236 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: decisions of your life. What was it that made that 237 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 1: such a formative time for you as a player as 238 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,119 Speaker 1: a person When you look back when your time in Nebraska, 239 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: what are the things that really come to mind. 240 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, first off, just having I mean my 241 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 5: friends from from growing up or there. They weren't playing baseball, 242 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 5: but they were going to college there, so having them 243 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 5: there was it was a definitely big time plus people 244 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 5: to see them and family was really close so they 245 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,079 Speaker 5: could come and watch every game, so that was a 246 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 5: huge part, just the friends and family aspects of things. 247 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 2: And then going there, I felt like I grew as 248 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 2: a player a lot. 249 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 5: I felt like I was kind of just kind of 250 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 5: like a didn't know much, like just kind of a 251 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 5: baseball player coming out of high school, didn't really play 252 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 5: high level, like the highest of level baseball, didn't really 253 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 5: know how good I was. And I felt like Nebraska 254 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 5: kind of just fine tuned some things for me, helped 255 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 5: me a bunch defensively, and helped me a bunch just 256 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 5: mentally getting to the right spot, and kind of turned 257 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 5: me into the player I am today. 258 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: So for any listeners who don't know, Max hit four 259 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: fourteen with twenty one homers his final year at Nebraska, 260 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 1: not a shabby stat line. 261 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 2: Treated me good. 262 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 3: Well, let's let's get to some some professional ballplayer timeline 263 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 3: stuff with you. Everybody, asked, like, you know, major league players, 264 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 3: Like what was your you know, welcome to the major 265 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 3: league's moment? And that hasn't happened for you yet, So 266 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 3: when that does happen, we'll get you back on we'll ask, 267 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 3: but like, what about the welcome to the Miners moment? 268 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 3: Is there like a like you know, like either on 269 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,559 Speaker 3: the field, off the field all this stuff. Because I 270 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,319 Speaker 3: we have Austin Jackson as a part of our podcast 271 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 3: and he goes, you know, how much do you really 272 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 3: love baseball? You know, going through that grind, So like, 273 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 3: is there a welcome to the Miners moment for you? 274 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: Max? 275 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 5: I I kind of was going in the same spot, 276 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 5: like I think the biggest welcome to the Miners moment 277 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 5: is playing one hundred and thirty whatever games you play, 278 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 5: and just I mean for me, that was a big 279 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 5: difference from college. But I can't imagine like a high 280 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 5: school guy going to straight to full season, like that's 281 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 5: a lot a lot of baseball to be played, and 282 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 5: you're getting drafted high like they're expecting you to play 283 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 5: five six days a week. So I think just the 284 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 5: sheer like length of the season I think is to 285 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 5: welcome to the minor leagues for me and probably a 286 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 5: lot of guys just trying to keep your body together 287 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 5: so you can, i mean take six hundred a bats 288 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 5: and you know, not stay healthy. 289 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: So you mentioned early or you know, working with the 290 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 1: Tigers to develop off season plans things like that. You know, 291 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: I've heard you had really an important formative off season 292 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: before this past year. What have you learned so far 293 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: about what it takes to get your body ready and 294 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: this past off season in particular, kind of what did 295 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 1: that look like for you? 296 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 5: Yeah, kinda kind of just taken serious what you do 297 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 5: and just kind of how you go about it. 298 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 2: Like I think. 299 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 5: Training like you can you can take it a few 300 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 5: different ways, like you can just do it and you know, 301 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 5: check the box and say that it's been done. 302 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 2: Where you can do it for a reason. 303 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 5: And I'm a big believer in just doing stuff for 304 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 5: a reason and not like just doing a bunch of 305 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 5: eyewashed for no reason. 306 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 2: That's not going to get you anywhere. So just having 307 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 2: a reason behind everything we do. 308 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 5: Back in Omaha and then here as well, Like there's 309 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 5: like I like to be able to figure out like 310 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 5: what's just going to help me do Like in the 311 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 5: next season, and I feel like that's helped me put 312 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 5: other a plan to be able to stay healthy and 313 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 5: just be able to handle a minor league season and 314 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 5: kind of show up to spring training in the best 315 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 5: shape that I Can's. 316 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: What's that look like you're talking more like functional strength 317 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: type stuff or what's an example of going from some 318 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: eyewash thing to something that's really making a tangible impact 319 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: in what you do. 320 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, I think a lot of stuff with like jumping 321 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 5: an agility I think is huge for minor leaguers because 322 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 5: you're I mean for infielders, you're doing a pre pitch 323 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 5: for I mean probably like ten thousand times or more 324 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 5: throughout the year. So doing your jumps and making sure 325 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 5: your quads and hammies are they're ready to go when 326 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 5: you get started in the spring. So a lot of 327 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 5: quick agility stuff and a lot of jumps I think 328 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 5: for me was very important. And then being able to 329 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 5: maybe shave off a few pounds and be kind of 330 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 5: lighter on your feet so you can feel good and 331 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 5: feel light playing in the infield. You know, every step matters, Uh, 332 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 5: when getting getting the few extra getting a few extra 333 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 5: outscrumballs for your pitcher, Uh, so those things kind of 334 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 5: go hand in hand, uh you know, being a little 335 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 5: lighter and then having a little more agility under your belt. 336 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 2: I think it was those were the huge things for me. 337 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,239 Speaker 3: Where where's your comfort level that you know, the various 338 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 3: positions that the that the Tigers have had you, you know, 339 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 3: perform at in the infield, and and and honestly, I'm 340 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 3: actually curious about this, like more generically too, because we 341 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 3: see at the major league level what Colt Keith has 342 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 3: gone through, you know, you know, you know, being you know, 343 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 3: third base, second base, third base again and in the 344 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 3: even first base too. Uh so, So, so what has 345 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 3: that experience been like for you? And then just kind 346 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 3: of if you can just kind of illustrate like how 347 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 3: those things are different and what the challenges are at 348 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 3: you know, at each position. 349 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, uh so I came in, played in second base, 350 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 5: played my last year of college at second base, and 351 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:06,879 Speaker 5: played i mean the full season. 352 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 2: I'm fairly comfortable there. 353 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 5: I feel like second base for me at least, is 354 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 5: just more like you can sit back a little more 355 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 5: more of like a thinking position rather than third base 356 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 5: to where you i mean, you're basically playing hockey goalie 357 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 5: over there. 358 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 2: Especially now. 359 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 5: I mean, these guys are hitting the ball one hundred 360 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,679 Speaker 5: and twenty over there at you, and you kind of 361 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 5: just a kind of just a punching bag for him. 362 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 5: So you's got to you got to find a way 363 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 5: to lock in there for I mean a short amount 364 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 5: of second seconds and it's not a lot of thinking, 365 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:41,640 Speaker 5: and sometimes that's good for a lot of people, and 366 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 5: sometimes it's not. In second base, sometimes you think too much, 367 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 5: and sometimes that's good for people, and sometimes it's not. 368 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 5: It's just kind of taking the mindset into the game knowing. 369 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 2: Kind of what you're gonna do. You're still fielding ground 370 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 2: balls that you've done your whole life. 371 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 5: I'm not gonna say it's easy anything, but it's it's 372 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 5: still hard to be able to switch positions and being 373 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 5: able to kind of take two different mindsets into a game. 374 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 5: But it's been good to me. I feel feel pretty 375 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 5: comfortable at either position right now. So just kind of 376 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 5: more taking more ground balls. I feel like infield is 377 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 5: a thing where you can kind of take a lot 378 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 5: of reps and improve, and there's some things maybe in 379 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 5: life that that's not the case, but you can just 380 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 5: take a lot of reps there and try and just 381 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 5: you know, get more use to everything. 382 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 2: It's all really you can. 383 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: Do, all right, Maxim, I'm just gonna keep it real 384 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 1: with this question. You've not yet played a major league game. 385 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess you've already gotten a little bit of 386 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: taste of like the business realities of baseball. Like the 387 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: summer Tigers are in first place, there are trade rumors 388 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: everywhere people like me or like Max Anderson could be 389 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: someone who makes did any of that? Did you catch 390 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: wind of that? Did that impact you at all? This summer? 391 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 5: I honestly think the Tigers do a pretty good job 392 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 5: of it of keeping it like. 393 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 2: Kind of off of like. 394 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 5: Our minds almost, And it definitely will catch I mean 395 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 5: catch everybody by surprise when you do get traded, because 396 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 5: you just kind of are going about your day, and 397 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 5: I mean, we still have to play our week of 398 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 5: baseball games the week of the trade deadline, so it's 399 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 5: kind of crazy. 400 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 2: We had a few experiences this year. 401 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,679 Speaker 5: One of my good buddies, Jim Jarvis, got traded to 402 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 5: the Braves, and that was like we were finishing our game. 403 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 5: He walks out of the clubhouse like to take a call, 404 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 5: and we're like, oh, he's calling his mom or something 405 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 5: and he comes back and he's like, oh, getting traded, 406 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 5: like and then everybody's like what, Like I was just 407 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 5: out of nowhere, Like yeah, And that's that's for the 408 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,360 Speaker 5: most part, how it goes. And I think that's definitely 409 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 5: kind of like give and take, like pros and cons. 410 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 5: But I think gets better that it's not like they're 411 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 5: not like constantly saying like, hey, we could do this, 412 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 5: this and this, and then you got to go out 413 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 5: and face ninety eight and it's just like I'm thinking 414 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 5: about everything right now. It's it's a tough thing to balance, 415 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 5: but it's a realistic thing and that's why it is 416 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 5: a business. And you kind of know what you're getting into, 417 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 5: uh when you when you when you get into it, 418 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,120 Speaker 5: and then when you finally see it becomes real. 419 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 2: Uh. But yeah, it's it's uh, it's. 420 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 5: Everything you make it and you just kind of got 421 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 5: to keep on thinking about baseball and not the stuff 422 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:37,160 Speaker 5: outside and whatever happens happens. 423 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 4: Yeah. 424 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 3: I guess it's one of those things that it's like 425 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 3: partially a compliment because like again it's like people like 426 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:46,959 Speaker 3: us where we're just like making fake trays that are 427 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 3: completely meaningless. But it's like, well, if you want to 428 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 3: get a good player, you have to give up something 429 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 3: good in return. So it's like, you know, these people 430 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 3: are like, well, you know Max is doing you know, 431 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,119 Speaker 3: pretty well here, maybe he could help be part of 432 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 3: a package you get this asset. By the same time, 433 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 3: it's also saying, well, I guess we don't like them 434 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 3: that much. We're willing to part with him. So it's 435 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 3: like it's like a good way compliment. It's kind of 436 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 3: you know, I can only imagine what that's like to 437 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 3: go through, but for sure you've paid several compliments to 438 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 3: the Tigers organization today, Max, and so like they're well 439 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 3: regarded with the farm system and the organizational structure and 440 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 3: all that stuff. And from the outside and mainly from 441 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 3: the outside, it's all just like, oh, these are good 442 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 3: players and they might become good major league players. From 443 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 3: the inside, why why are the Tigers a well run organization? 444 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 3: Why is the farm system highly regarded and successful and 445 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 3: like all these things? 446 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 5: From your perspective, yeah, I think I think genuinely, as 447 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 5: easy as it is, I think it's because they just 448 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 5: care about like the guys that they drafted. 449 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 2: They they They've always kind of preached that. 450 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 5: Like they want to draft the right guys, and I 451 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 5: think that kind of that same mentality goes with like 452 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,919 Speaker 5: having the right coaches in place, and that makes a 453 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,719 Speaker 5: big difference in a player's career, is having you know, 454 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:12,880 Speaker 5: you have guys that want you to succeed. And I've 455 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 5: heard stories not like now, but like in the past 456 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 5: of like other organizations, like there's some some coaches just 457 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 5: kind of want to get their name connected to a 458 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 5: player and then move up. I don't get that sense 459 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 5: in the Tigers organization, Like these guys like really want 460 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 5: their players to succeed and just like want to do 461 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 5: anything to help you. So I think that's a pretty 462 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 5: awesome thing to be able to. I mean, I had 463 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 5: no choice of where I was going. It was I 464 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 5: like just got put here and they drafted me and 465 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 5: it just turned out to be great for me. And 466 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 5: that these guys like you can talk to them whenever, 467 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 5: Like we have hitting coaches that will pick up the 468 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 5: phone and just kind of talk shop with you whenever. 469 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 5: And infield guys that no more than anything I could 470 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 5: ever imagine in about infield that I have never. 471 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,360 Speaker 2: Even thought of. That I'm doing now. 472 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 5: Uh, so they've they've expanded, uh expanded my knowledge of 473 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 5: the game and helped me out a bunch. 474 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: What is an infield tip that you had never even 475 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 1: thought of that now you're thinking about. 476 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 2: All the time. 477 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 5: Oh man, Uh, A lot of stuff with pre pitches 478 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 5: to take off like time and agility, I mean to 479 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 5: take to add to add like agility and help you 480 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 5: cover a lot of it, a lot of ground, like 481 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 5: just like there's always the normal like pre pitch of 482 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 5: what you're doing. And then they come up to you with, uh, 483 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 5: you know, this new thing to try and you're like. 484 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 2: Whoa, that feels good? Like where'd you think of that? 485 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 5: And like, I don't know, it's just it looked faster 486 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 5: when we saw someone else do it, and we thought 487 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 5: we should try it. And you know, it's baseball. You're 488 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 5: looking at what other other other people are doing and 489 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 5: you know you gotta to copy that game. You're just 490 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 5: trying to be the best player you can. But yeah, 491 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 5: it's it's crazy how much they look at the game 492 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 5: and care for their players. 493 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: Actually, growing up in Omaha, what team were you a 494 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 1: fan of? Who's your favorite player? 495 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 5: So growing up I was always a fan of the Royals. 496 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 5: It's just kind of the closest team. And then my 497 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,440 Speaker 5: favorite player was Alex Gordon because he's from Nebraska and 498 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 5: then went to the Royals, so kind of the Nebraska 499 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 5: career path, almost as close as you can to Nebraska. 500 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 2: So we were always fans of. 501 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 5: Him and he was an awesome, awesome baseball player for 502 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 5: a long time. 503 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:44,120 Speaker 1: Nice. 504 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, he certainly was all right, A little bit of 505 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 3: like an off the wall question here, Max. Not a 506 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 3: lot of baseball players wear glasses, so so I'm curious. 507 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 3: I'm curious, like, you know why you kind of chose 508 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 3: was into to go that route, Like on the field, 509 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 3: there is there anything an interesting behind that. 510 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 2: Nothing too interesting there. 511 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 5: I mean when I was in high school, I so 512 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 5: I first got in glasses and they're like, why don't 513 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 5: you try contacts like you play baseball. And the first 514 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,479 Speaker 5: day I started wearing my glasses was my senior year 515 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 5: at high school and we had a game that night 516 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 5: and so I and so I put them on. I 517 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 5: was good, and then I tried to put in my 518 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 5: contacts for the game. They're like, you probably shouldn't wear 519 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 5: your glasses might break and stuff couldn't get my contacts 520 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 5: in and I got so mad and like just was 521 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 5: so pissed off, and so I put my glasses on 522 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 5: and I went out there and had a great game. 523 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,119 Speaker 2: I think I hit two home runs with my glasses on. 524 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,439 Speaker 5: So from that moment on, I never even thought about contacts. 525 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 2: But I just rolled with glasses. 526 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 5: And that was back when I just wore glasses like 527 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 5: these for my game. 528 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 2: Like I didn't have any I didn't have any specs. 529 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 5: I was just wearing my Harry Potter glasses out there 530 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 5: to play baseball and it worked out. 531 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 2: And then got to Nebraska and they finally hooked me up. 532 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 2: I said, you can't wear these for the game, like 533 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,120 Speaker 2: you need some actual oak Ley's. 534 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: So it was there, you go, that's an upgrade. Did 535 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: they tell you to try to go contacts at any point? 536 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: And you were like, no, there was. 537 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 2: There was never that much of a push. 538 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 5: I was always I mean, I think they knew the answer, 539 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 5: so that probably helped him to try and push me. 540 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 5: But uh, nobody's really ever tried to make the change. 541 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 5: I guess the thing about it probably is if he's 542 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 5: doing good, why change anything? I guess maybe, but uh, yeah, 543 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 5: I just I'm a fan of him, and I've gotten 544 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 5: so used to him. 545 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 2: I don't know if I could play without him now. 546 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, you ever get you ever get. 547 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 3: Rizzed on the field for glasses, like, you know, opponents, 548 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 3: I mean, you know Big ten baseball, college baseball. 549 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, fans can be ruthless. 550 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 3: Uh you know you ever you ever hear from the 551 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,719 Speaker 3: crowd or even the opponents, even in the minors anything? 552 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 5: Uh more in college, when I was a freshman and 553 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 5: we went to Arkansas, I was getting a lot of 554 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 5: I was playing third base then too, so not a 555 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,159 Speaker 5: not very far away from the home home fans and 556 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 5: the home dugout there, so they were letting me have 557 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 5: it there. 558 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: Hey, well that's all good, Max. If you keep on 559 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 1: this trajectory, maybe we'll have a bunch of fans in 560 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 1: the stands at Camerica wearing some some Max Anderson glasses. 561 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 2: One day for sure. Yeah, that'd be awesome. 562 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,959 Speaker 1: All right. Well, I think that's all I've got, Kierany, 563 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: got anything else from Max? 564 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 4: Well, just on that. 565 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 3: I think this is a good way to wrap it up. 566 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 3: Like we've talked about off seasons and all this stuff, 567 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 3: Like what is your expectations for twenty twenty six. I 568 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 3: can tell you what the fans expectations are and what 569 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 3: ours are for twenty twenty six. But like when you 570 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 3: look at like this, you know it's all the same 571 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,399 Speaker 3: and you know, blah blah blah and all the cliche stuff, 572 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 3: but yeah, the cuff of something that is a childhood dream. 573 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 3: So like, what is your expectation for twenty twenty six 574 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 3: and how are you kind of preparing to meet that moment? 575 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,120 Speaker 2: Yeah? 576 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 5: For me, I mean, had a great offseason last year, 577 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,719 Speaker 5: so trying to do a lot of the same stuff 578 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 5: that I did that past offseason. And then I mean 579 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 5: show up to spring training and you know that's that's 580 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 5: really where I mean, they they got a lot of 581 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 5: their decisions already made, and there's probably a few few 582 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,479 Speaker 5: maybe you know, swing spots that they're going to make 583 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 5: decisions on. But all you really can do, like I guess, 584 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 5: like with the trade deadline, like things are out of 585 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 5: your hands. Like all you can do is play as 586 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 5: good as possible. And you know, at the end of 587 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 5: the day, like the old saying from a baseball guy, 588 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 5: like if if you hit, like, they're going to find 589 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 5: a spot for you. 590 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 2: So I think just got to play as good as 591 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 2: you can and you know, hope for the best. 592 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 5: As as easy as that sounds and boring as it 593 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 5: sounds like, they're there's no magic stone or any secret 594 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 5: affront in baseball, Like it's still the still. 595 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 2: The same game. 596 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 5: So yeah, just gotta just gotta keep going and keep 597 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 5: hitting and you know, hopefully things turn out good. 598 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good mindset to have. 599 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 3: And it's easy to get caught up in all this 600 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 3: other stuff, especially in this era social media, all that stuff, 601 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 3: but you know, it's what happens between the white lines 602 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 3: is ultimately gonna They're gonna determine everything, and everybody's timeline 603 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 3: is different and it will happen when it's supposed to happen, 604 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 3: right exactly. 605 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 4: All right, Well, I. 606 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 3: Want to thank Max for coming on with us. 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