WEBVTT - Max Anderson Joins Tiger Territory 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:06.120 All right, we are happy to welcome Max Anderson to 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.639 the podcast. Max Rising Tigers prospect. He's out in the 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:12.200 Arizona Fall League right now. He's been tearing it up 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.360 out there. Max, Thanks for joining us. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:16.040 Yeah, happy to be here. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.320 So Max, you know, Arizona Fall League. Let's just kind 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.920 of go right there. It is very current, Like how 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:24.600 does that happen? 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:25.800 Like how are you approached? 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.360 Like you know, like how far in advance do you 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.200 kind of know this is gonna you know, your season's 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.960 going to extend a little bit, and then just sort 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.760 of like the day to day of participating in this. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:38.720 In this you know, you're concentrating your game, but also 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.199 like you're in a random house right now. It's not 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.559 your home, Like, how how does that happen from a 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:45.520 player's perspective? 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.080 And what's it? What's the experience been like for you 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:47.480 this year? 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.559 Yeah, so we we kind of find out about a 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:56.640 month month left of the season and then kind of 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.000 it's nothing glamorous or anything. 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:00.680 It's just kind of a fun call with. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.600 So, I mean, some guys in the in the front 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.720 office with the Tigers and they'll call you and say, hey, 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.440 we'd like you to represent you represent us in the 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.200 Fall League, and you know, it's kind of something that 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:18.520 you can't really turn down, so everybody usually says yes, but. 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:21.200 No. So that that was. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:22.880 Pretty cool to get that call and be able to 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.319 just talk and kind of see that the Tigers like 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.759 they kind of thank you pretty highly if they're wanting 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.800 to send you here. And I mean, as far as 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.800 being down here, it's it's awesome. I mean, I was 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:38.880 just got off the phone with my my with my 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.959 parents and they're in forty degree weather and it's freezing rain, 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.880 and so it makes it a little easier. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.400 To be out here in ninety degree weather. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.280 But kind of the day to day here, I mean 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:56.160 we just i mean night games pretty relaxed, just kind 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.200 of like the season, like get a sleep in a 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.240 little bit and you know, trying not to stay in 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:05.000 bed too long, and then we'll go to the field 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.080 work out every day. For me, that's kind of a 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:09.800 big part is trying to get my body in the 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:13.840 best shape for you know, next year, because in a sense, 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:15.680 this is kind of still like the start of your 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:20.120 off season. Uh so kind of making that balance so 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.919 you're still able to play, uh play good, but also 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.560 getting your body ready for the next season is kind 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.720 of a tricky thing that the Tigers have helped helped 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:29.119 me with. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:31.839 But I'm having a blast out here. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.280 I mean the guys that we're playing with, I mean 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.320 the guys that I'm living with, they're they're awesome, a 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.720 great time to be around. And uh, you know friends 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.040 that have came in with came to the in to 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.960 the pro baseball uh, that I have had for the 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:49.880 two and a half years i've been been here. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:54.360 So so what wait, what's your what's your compound? Like, 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.440 we know you're you're with Kevin mcgonag, Well who else 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.200 is there? And what what do you guys do in 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:58.799 the downtime? 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:04.200 Yes, so Carlos like Erika, he's a pitcher. He's also here. Uh, 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.840 we all came came in the same draft class, so 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.920 we were pretty close and it was nice that we 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.560 got to live together. It's just us three and uh, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:18.560 kind of a pretty pretty normal Arizona house. It's got 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.480 to pool out back, so we do a lot of 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.200 just kind of hanging out in the pool. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:24.239 All three of us like the golf. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.760 So, uh, it's kind of kind of worked out nice that, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.040 I mean, no complaints. They put us in a great 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:35.040 spot in Arizona. There's I mean countless things to do 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.640 that in your free time. So we've been busy. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.440 Well, you know you mentioned a couple of guys there 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:48.440 and your class, very highly regarded class. I'm curious, like 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.480 you being a second round pick. You know McGonagall mentioned 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.920 Max Clark at the top there. Like when you're in 0:03:56.000 --> 0:04:00.240 the day to day in the miners, you know, grinding, grueling. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.360 Do you and even in the games against your opponents. 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.840 Do you like look at hey, do you look at 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.400 yourself as like I'm a second round pick. I should 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.720 be doing this. This is my timeline. I carry myself 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.920 a certain way. And b do you look at your 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.520 teammates slash your opponents like, oh, that guy was a 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.719 top five pick, that guy was a first round pick. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.599 You know this player got this bonus? Like, does does 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.920 the ore exist for the guys that like, you know, 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.840 people like us talk about but you're seeing them with 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:27.719 them day to day? 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:28.720 Yeah? 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.040 Uh for me, this is definitely gonna sound like a 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.400 stock answer. But I I like, personally like I don't 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:40.120 I don't see myself like as any like anything special, And. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:41.680 I feel like I've kind of been like that my 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.840 whole way. Like when I was a. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.800 High schooler and I went to like a camp somewhere 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.760 and talked to the coach and I was going home, 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.040 and I was like, gosh, I guess I'm getting recruited now, 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.520 Like I never thought this would happen. Like I just 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.880 kind of don't see things in a sense, like don't 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.000 take them more than what they are, If that's the 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:05.440 right wording. I think it's it's tough, like when you like, 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.039 for me, like I'm a huge baseball fan, so like 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.360 I've followed like prospects and drafts my whole life. So 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.680 like when I see guys that like we're drafted high, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.320 like I definitely recognize it. And when you're playing them, 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:21.520 Uh but I think that's also a key to succeeding 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.680 in baseball, is like trying to take the name off 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.000 their back and just take the person for who they 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:31.320 are and being able to play like cause like you 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.600 go up and face like a Paul Skins or Chase Burns, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.920 like those guys are good pitchers alone, Like if you 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.600 let their name do they're talking for them, Like it's 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:41.720 gonna make it even harder to. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:42.520 Get a hit off them. 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.360 Uh, so you got to just be able to play 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.800 baseball and kind of see everybody as the same, even 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.160 though that I mean, in the grand scheme of things, 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.240 I mean, people are a lot better. 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.680 They got drafted for a reason that high and kind 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:55.080 of all that. 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:58.880 I'm glad you brought up that high school story because 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.560 I wanted to get into your story a little bit. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.400 You grew up in Omaha, actually spent a little bit 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:09.560 of time there. Nice town, great zoo, right, oh yeah, 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.720 and then you went to the University of Nebraska's right 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.440 down the road. I guess what type of player were 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.280 you in high school? And why were you surprised when 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:18.480 you started getting recruited. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:19.880 Yeah. 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.000 So in high school, I mean I had an older 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.880 brother and he was he loved baseball. He wasn't very good, 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.400 so I kind of always I always watched him play 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.640 baseball and watched everything that he did, and he, I mean, 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.599 he loved it, and so in my mind, I was 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:36.520 just playing. 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.560 And just kind of whatever happens happens. 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.960 I never I mean, all everybody goes to like showcases 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.480 and plays travel ball nowadays, didn't. I didn't do any 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.800 of that really ever until my junior fall so I 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.720 played I don't know if you guys know, legion baseball 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:58.279 like high school. Yeah, so I played that in the summers, 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.920 and I didn't do any travel ball, so I didn't 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.320 really know what was out there, like if any college 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.760 coaches like liked, how if I was good or not, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:11.360 like realistically didn't really get a see like uh kind 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.000 of weigh myself against like other top ranked prospects. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:15.360 Uh. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.360 So to say in high school, how I got recruit 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.240 I went to just a bunch of camps in the fall, 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.120 like college baseball camps, and they were great. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:25.320 To me. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:26.880 It was pretty cool to be able to just see 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.960 a bunch of different colleges and almost take it as 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.600 like a visit to the college town. Even though that 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.080 I mean probably fifty percent of them didn't like, didn't 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.520 think I was good enough to go there, so but 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.840 it was it was pretty cool. I mean, I I 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.040 had kind of a weird recruiting story. So I was 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.440 going to committed to text A and M when I 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.680 was a sophomore and went to a camp and I 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:56.040 was a sophomore called them and then then kind of 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.239 just committed like within it all within like a month 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.200 and then like so that COVID draft, that five round 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.520 draft that happened, and just kind of they had a 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.280 lot of guys that were supposed to get drafted a 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:14.000 normal draft and didn't get drafted, which naturally happens. So 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.200 then kind of just didn't work out there, and it 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.160 just happened that the Texas A and M staff got 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.440 hired at the hitting coach got hired as the head 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.080 coach at Nebraska, Will Bolt, and within like twenty four hours, 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.520 I was going to Nebraska and it was the best 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.800 best decision in my life. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:35.680 It was awesome. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.560 Yeah, so funny how things work out sometimes exactly exactly. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.200 Which were you a multi sport guy in high school? 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.520 Yeah, I played basketball as well. I was not very good, though. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.160 I came off the bench and with average about the 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:53.760 same amount of fouls as points. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.480 Hey, hey, everyone, you gotta have one of those guys 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:57.000 on your team. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:57.880 I liked it exactly. 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.880 Well, well, then you you spend three years at Nebraska, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.040 then you know, you get drafted by the Tigers. So 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.760 that's a to me from the outside, that feels like 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:12.160 a pretty accelerated timeline for someone you know, surprise, you 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.800 get recruited, and then you know you end up at Nebraska, 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.760 like you said, and all of a sudden you're a 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.600 second round pick. So like the draft process, I'm also 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.560 curious about Max, Like how was that for you? Did 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.280 you have any idea like where you were going to go? 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.040 Did you kind of have your mind made up like 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.280 at that time or like yeah, what was that Like? 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.120 Yeah, I I mean you kind of get a grasp 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.920 of where you could go. I mean with the with 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.800 the MLB draft, I mean everything's so crazy with like 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.400 there can be like deals made beforehand and kind of 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.440 all that crazy stuff that can happen. So you don't 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.240 really know until like you get drafted that things are 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.360 going to happen. And I I didn't. There's probably a 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:58.320 mixu of like four or five teams that I felt 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:02.400 like were pretty interested in me, and then it just 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.600 kind of so happened that the Tigers were the ones 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.000 that took me and my I was more personally, I 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.760 was more nervous, uh, for my buddy getting drafted, Bryce Matthews, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.800 like because he he was. 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:15.600 Like first rounder. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.040 I was like, this kind of crazy and it's kind 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.360 of surreal moment for me to watch him and then 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.480 like he gets drafted and it turns over to me 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.120 and I'm like, oh my gosh, like I might get 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:24.079 drafted tonight. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.600 Too, Like it's pretty cool. Uh So it was. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.080 It was an all around just surreal moment and ended 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.080 up three. I mean, two of my pretty close friends 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.440 Mike Bovee got drafted too, to the Brewers right after. 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.280 Uh So being able to see i mean, two of 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.040 your buddies that you've played baseball with kind of your 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.760 whole life get drafted is also a pretty cool moment, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.960 uh in a night for just you as a person. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:49.680 That's awesome. 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.640 So the Tigers, So the Tigers were not one of 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.760 those four or five teams that you were thinking. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:55.280 Is that? 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:56.440 Am I reading that correctly? 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:57.040 Yeah? 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:58.960 I meant at the beginning of the day, I didn't 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.640 didn't really have the Tigers on my horizon and then 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:03.640 worked out for the best. 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:05.319 About that. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.960 Yeah, we'll do one more question then we'll get to 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.840 a break here. But but before we move on, you know, 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.720 you said going to Nebraska was one of the best 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.040 decisions of your life. What was it that made that 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.840 such a formative time for you as a player as 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.119 a person When you look back when your time in Nebraska, 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:24.800 what are the things that really come to mind. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.440 Yeah, I mean, first off, just having I mean my 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:33.600 friends from from growing up or there. They weren't playing baseball, 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.480 but they were going to college there, so having them 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.400 there was it was a definitely big time plus people 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.880 to see them and family was really close so they 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.079 could come and watch every game, so that was a 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:50.400 huge part, just the friends and family aspects of things. 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.880 And then going there, I felt like I grew as 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:53.680 a player a lot. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.520 I felt like I was kind of just kind of 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.200 like a didn't know much, like just kind of a 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.800 baseball player coming out of high school, didn't really play 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.040 high level, like the highest of level baseball, didn't really 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.480 know how good I was. And I felt like Nebraska 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.600 kind of just fine tuned some things for me, helped 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.920 me a bunch defensively, and helped me a bunch just 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:21.040 mentally getting to the right spot, and kind of turned 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:22.280 me into the player I am today. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.960 So for any listeners who don't know, Max hit four 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.480 fourteen with twenty one homers his final year at Nebraska, 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.079 not a shabby stat line. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:33.320 Treated me good. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:40.840 Well, let's let's get to some some professional ballplayer timeline 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.760 stuff with you. Everybody, asked, like, you know, major league players, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.439 Like what was your you know, welcome to the major 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.280 league's moment? And that hasn't happened for you yet, So 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.760 when that does happen, we'll get you back on we'll ask, 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:56.120 but like, what about the welcome to the Miners moment? 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.200 Is there like a like you know, like either on 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.559 the field, off the field all this stuff. Because I 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.319 we have Austin Jackson as a part of our podcast 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.200 and he goes, you know, how much do you really 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.720 love baseball? You know, going through that grind, So like, 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.600 is there a welcome to the Miners moment for you? 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:12.040 Max? 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.880 I I kind of was going in the same spot, 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.760 like I think the biggest welcome to the Miners moment 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.000 is playing one hundred and thirty whatever games you play, 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.640 and just I mean for me, that was a big 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.120 difference from college. But I can't imagine like a high 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.720 school guy going to straight to full season, like that's 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.480 a lot a lot of baseball to be played, and 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.160 you're getting drafted high like they're expecting you to play 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.080 five six days a week. So I think just the 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:46.120 sheer like length of the season I think is to 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.960 welcome to the minor leagues for me and probably a 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.040 lot of guys just trying to keep your body together 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.640 so you can, i mean take six hundred a bats 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.040 and you know, not stay healthy. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:01.240 So you mentioned early or you know, working with the 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.559 Tigers to develop off season plans things like that. You know, 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.280 I've heard you had really an important formative off season 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.280 before this past year. What have you learned so far 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.640 about what it takes to get your body ready and 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.160 this past off season in particular, kind of what did 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:16.960 that look like for you? 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:22.520 Yeah, kinda kind of just taken serious what you do 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:24.720 and just kind of how you go about it. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.800 Like I think. 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.480 Training like you can you can take it a few 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.560 different ways, like you can just do it and you know, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.960 check the box and say that it's been done. 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:36.440 Where you can do it for a reason. 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.000 And I'm a big believer in just doing stuff for 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.600 a reason and not like just doing a bunch of 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:43.880 eyewashed for no reason. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.960 That's not going to get you anywhere. So just having 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.560 a reason behind everything we do. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.120 Back in Omaha and then here as well, Like there's 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.920 like I like to be able to figure out like 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.520 what's just going to help me do Like in the 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.880 next season, and I feel like that's helped me put 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.520 other a plan to be able to stay healthy and 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.200 just be able to handle a minor league season and 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.160 kind of show up to spring training in the best 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:16.440 shape that I Can's. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.160 What's that look like you're talking more like functional strength 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.440 type stuff or what's an example of going from some 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.840 eyewash thing to something that's really making a tangible impact 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:24.760 in what you do. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.840 Yeah, I think a lot of stuff with like jumping 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.960 an agility I think is huge for minor leaguers because 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.360 you're I mean for infielders, you're doing a pre pitch 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.680 for I mean probably like ten thousand times or more 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.680 throughout the year. So doing your jumps and making sure 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.160 your quads and hammies are they're ready to go when 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.560 you get started in the spring. So a lot of 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.720 quick agility stuff and a lot of jumps I think 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.520 for me was very important. And then being able to 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.280 maybe shave off a few pounds and be kind of 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.160 lighter on your feet so you can feel good and 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.920 feel light playing in the infield. You know, every step matters, Uh, 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.320 when getting getting the few extra getting a few extra 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.520 outscrumballs for your pitcher, Uh, so those things kind of 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.040 go hand in hand, uh you know, being a little 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.640 lighter and then having a little more agility under your belt. 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.240 I think it was those were the huge things for me. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.239 Where where's your comfort level that you know, the various 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.360 positions that the that the Tigers have had you, you know, 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.760 perform at in the infield, and and and honestly, I'm 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:39.000 actually curious about this, like more generically too, because we 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.320 see at the major league level what Colt Keith has 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.200 gone through, you know, you know, you know, being you know, 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.520 third base, second base, third base again and in the 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.280 even first base too. Uh so, So, so what has 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.360 that experience been like for you? And then just kind 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.400 of if you can just kind of illustrate like how 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.080 those things are different and what the challenges are at 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:58.160 you know, at each position. 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.080 Yeah, uh so I came in, played in second base, 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.199 played my last year of college at second base, and 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:06.879 played i mean the full season. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.600 I'm fairly comfortable there. 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.119 I feel like second base for me at least, is 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.960 just more like you can sit back a little more 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:19.359 more of like a thinking position rather than third base 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.320 to where you i mean, you're basically playing hockey goalie 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:22.760 over there. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:24.480 Especially now. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.399 I mean, these guys are hitting the ball one hundred 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.679 and twenty over there at you, and you kind of 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.760 just a kind of just a punching bag for him. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.880 So you's got to you got to find a way 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.119 to lock in there for I mean a short amount 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.480 of second seconds and it's not a lot of thinking, 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.640 and sometimes that's good for a lot of people, and 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.040 sometimes it's not. In second base, sometimes you think too much, 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.280 and sometimes that's good for people, and sometimes it's not. 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.520 It's just kind of taking the mindset into the game knowing. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.119 Kind of what you're gonna do. You're still fielding ground 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:57.480 balls that you've done your whole life. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.520 I'm not gonna say it's easy anything, but it's it's 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:07.040 still hard to be able to switch positions and being 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.800 able to kind of take two different mindsets into a game. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.800 But it's been good to me. I feel feel pretty 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:18.480 comfortable at either position right now. So just kind of 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.159 more taking more ground balls. I feel like infield is 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.880 a thing where you can kind of take a lot 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.040 of reps and improve, and there's some things maybe in 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:32.080 life that that's not the case, but you can just 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.280 take a lot of reps there and try and just 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.320 you know, get more use to everything. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:37.720 It's all really you can. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.560 Do, all right, Maxim, I'm just gonna keep it real 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.680 with this question. You've not yet played a major league game. 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:46.879 I'm gonna guess you've already gotten a little bit of 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:52.800 taste of like the business realities of baseball. Like the 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:56.040 summer Tigers are in first place, there are trade rumors 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.320 everywhere people like me or like Max Anderson could be 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:02.320 someone who makes did any of that? Did you catch 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.080 wind of that? Did that impact you at all? This summer? 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.000 I honestly think the Tigers do a pretty good job 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:11.680 of it of keeping it like. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.520 Kind of off of like. 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.440 Our minds almost, And it definitely will catch I mean 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.600 catch everybody by surprise when you do get traded, because 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.120 you just kind of are going about your day, and 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.000 I mean, we still have to play our week of 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.960 baseball games the week of the trade deadline, so it's 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:29.680 kind of crazy. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.680 We had a few experiences this year. 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.679