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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here with new manager of the Atlanta Braves,

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Speaker 1: wolt Weiss. Before we get into the tough questions, is

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Speaker 1: there a manager in baseball that you think can outlift you?

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Speaker 2: I ain't going there, man. Yeah, you see the back

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Speaker 2: of my card. Man looked at the date of birth.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 2: But hey, father times undefeated, but trying to keep him

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Speaker 4: Serious serious questions, Whose though, KP Like, who else can

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Speaker 4: can keep up with Walt?

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Speaker 3: You think manager wise?

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't think there is a

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's a manager in the game that

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Speaker 1: can keep up with the one because he's in there

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Speaker 1: every single day. He cares about it, he cares about

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Speaker 1: the way he looks and the way he feels. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's a manager in baseball that could

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Speaker 1: out bench press you. But gave he's as a general manager.

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Speaker 1: Next topic, how how second time around managing? How difficult

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Speaker 1: is it hasn't been for you to have been here

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Speaker 1: and be part of a team that's been very successful

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Speaker 1: in organization that's been very successful. But wanting to kind

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Speaker 1: of deliver your own message, what has that message kind

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Speaker 1: of been?

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Speaker 2: I think there's been benefits to haven't been here for

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Speaker 2: the last eight years. You know, they of course they

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Speaker 2: had never seen me in a leadership role, but the

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Speaker 2: relationships are already established. I know these guys really well,

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Speaker 2: you know, get along with them very well. Now once

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Speaker 2: you get in that manager seat, obviously it's a little different,

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Speaker 2: but I still do believe that connecting on a personal

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Speaker 2: level is really important. These guys need to trust you,

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Speaker 2: they need to believe what you say, and there obviously

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Speaker 2: has to be respect up and down the chaining commands,

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Speaker 2: so that stuff I feel like is already intact. So

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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of benefits to having been here,

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Speaker 2: even though I'm in a different seat now and no

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Speaker 2: relative to the first time I did this, the circumstances

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Speaker 2: are the world's apart. I was coaching high school football

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Speaker 2: for four years when I took that job in Colorado

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Speaker 2: and walked in blind. Really didn't know anything about the team,

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Speaker 2: didn't know anything about the league. I had been out

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Speaker 2: on the fly. And look, this job is never easy,

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Speaker 2: but I've set up better this time around, having bench

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Speaker 2: coached for eight years and knowing the club like I

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Speaker 2: do walking in this time?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, well so this is a talk show. We

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Speaker 4: stayed our opinions. And every team that doesn't make the

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Speaker 4: playoffs will say, oh, injuries all that. For me, usually,

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Speaker 4: I think there's like a few that can actually really

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Speaker 4: big part of that where the rote was gutted. So

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Speaker 4: then pushing it forward here you experienced that. Of course

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Speaker 4: last year, what's going on. We got some some fluke injuries,

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Speaker 3: Whole deal popping up again.

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Speaker 4: And how do you navigate that and not just with

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Speaker 4: if you guys can do anything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, we I mean it's well documented what we

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Speaker 2: dealt with last year, but every team deals with that

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Speaker 2: too to some degree. Last year was tougher for us

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Speaker 2: to overcome it because it was our starting pitching. We

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Speaker 2: the camp has been really focused. I know there's a

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Speaker 2: But the vibe has been great. These guys have been pros.

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Speaker 2: They've dealt with the things we've had to deal with

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Speaker 2: But uh, I feel good about our club.

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Speaker 5: I do.

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Speaker 2: And I think I think our offense is going to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of the offensive side, I know for you know,

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Speaker 1: as long as you could remember, the Braves have had

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Speaker 1: a certain way of going about things and having guys

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Speaker 1: go out there and play every single day. Throw Olsen

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Speaker 1: you know, Riley, have you had conversations about maybe getting

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, KP. I mean, and that's been the

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Speaker 2: that's been the culture here, and that's a good thing.

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Speaker 2: And these guys love to play. They want to play.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna pick spots to get these

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Speaker 6: Hey, well, you guys had a DH former teammate of mine.

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Speaker 6: I've never been more disappointed in someone. I mean, how

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Speaker 6: and just I mean, I don't even I hate even

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Speaker 5: And it sucks that somebody would make a decision like that.

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Speaker 2: No, I hear you, AJ And look, man, I get it.

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Speaker 2: People people got asked those questions and I signed up

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Speaker 2: nobody saw that coming. Obviously, he very disappointed and stunned

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Speaker 2: stand by that. I mean he was. He was a

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Speaker 7: I mean he was.

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Speaker 2: He was a great teammate, He was a leader in

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Speaker 2: But you know, my message to the group was this

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: I'm expecting guys to step up. I'm expecting guys to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, well obviously you Oh sorry, go ahead,

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Speaker 5: No, sorry.

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Speaker 6: I was just gonna ask him since I played for

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Speaker 6: SNIT when SNIT first. I was there when Freddy got

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Speaker 5: Are you Bobby Cox the same? Like? No hats backwards?

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Speaker 6: You have to show the A, you have to put

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Speaker 6: VP top. I mean there was no some of these.

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Speaker 6: I mean, listen, however you want to do it. Some

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Speaker 6: the braves are always full uniform. Are you still the

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Speaker 6: same as the way it was with SNIT?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 2: I mean I played here under Bobby and those are

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Speaker 2: some time honor traditions here and I'm gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: for the for the Bobby Coxes and the John Scherholtz

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Speaker 2: this brand mean something special. So it's all about respecting

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Speaker 2: the brand aj and and and and I'm going to

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Speaker 2: continue that now.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: As far as my leadership style, I'm sure that's going

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Speaker 2: I take I take things away from all the managers

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Speaker 6: Hey, well, can you just hold up your left arm

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Speaker 5: Okay, do you know the song about the ninety eight Braves?

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes, I have heard that.

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Speaker 5: Yes, how come you didn't make the song? If you

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Speaker 6: They got Chipper Andrew the Big three pitchers, But there's

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Speaker 2: For good reason. For good reason, man, I snuck into that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I leave that up for you, guys.

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Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough for being here. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: I was good to see you man, aj Ronnie, Appreciate

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Speaker 4: Okay, let's talk more about the Atlanta Braves in this

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Speaker 4: season preview. Okay, KP recently played for this team, AJ

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Speaker 3: I forgot good call.

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Speaker 4: And then Azuna is gone, who they really liked in

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Speaker 1: kind of fill in for some of the injuries in

441
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Speaker 1: the starting pitching. But it's never a matter of question

442
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Speaker 1: of the talent that this team puts together. When you

443
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Speaker 1: look at this team on paper, they have to be

444
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Speaker 1: one of the favorites in the division. This team is

445
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Speaker 1: built to win. They've been built to win over the

446
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Speaker 1: last couple of years. It's just a matter if they

447
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Speaker 1: could stay healthy. I mean, just out of the shoot,

448
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,360
Speaker 1: You're missing two of your starting pitchers. Murphy's on the shelf,

449
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,720
Speaker 1: Hassan Kim gets injured slipping on ice. You know. But

450
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 1: what they did do is they brought in some depth.

451
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Speaker 1: They brought in guys like Jorge Matteo and Maricio Debont

452
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Speaker 1: that are able to kind of fill in that shortstop position.

453
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Speaker 1: I love the addition of mike Yastremsky. I think he's

454
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Speaker 1: a tremendous player. I think he's gonna add some power

455
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:48,960
Speaker 1: from the left side to that lineup. He plays a

456
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Speaker 1: really good left field. But when you look at that,

457
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,720
Speaker 1: you know, first four names in that lineup with Ronald o'cunya,

458
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Speaker 1: Drake Baldwin coming off the Rookie of the Year season,

459
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Speaker 1: he had Matt Olsen, Austin Riley. When these guys are healthy,

460
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Speaker 1: how could you not love this team?

461
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just surprised when you look at those numbers,

462
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 6: the ops plus Alby's and Michael Harrison in the eighties.

463
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Speaker 6: I mean, I know Michael got off to a bad

464
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Speaker 6: start last year, but man, I thought he caught up

465
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Speaker 6: in Aussie Alby's eighty eight or eighty nine.

466
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a rough year. I know both of them

467
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Speaker 3: picked it up as the season.

468
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Speaker 5: But still like that's not for long.

469
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Speaker 3: They went prolonged.

470
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Speaker 6: Just not something that you would expect if you look

471
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Speaker 6: at when you think of this Braves team. Right, and

472
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Speaker 6: Drake Baldwin had an unbelievable year as Rookie of the

473
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Speaker 6: Year last year. The key for me is the pitching

474
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Speaker 6: bullpen is fine Iglacis. They brought in Swarez, some of

475
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Speaker 6: the other guys that are bringing back the starters, Chris

476
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Speaker 6: Sale and then Strider. What are they getting out of Strider?

477
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Speaker 6: Ornaldo Lopez? What are they getting out of Hi? Bryce

478
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Speaker 6: Elder Grant Holmes or are they getting out of there.

479
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Speaker 6: I know they have Martine Perez, like KP said, and

480
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 6: they Carlos Carrasco, but those aren't really guys you're counting

481
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Speaker 6: on to win you a division, are you, especially in

482
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Speaker 6: a division with the Phillies and the Mets.

483
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Speaker 5: And the Marlins, who have the best pitching in the world.

484
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Speaker 6: I've been told many times my people in the chest,

485
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Speaker 6: so I don't want to forget about the Marlins, who

486
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 6: have forty nine pitchers in their organization.

487
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Speaker 3: Is never going to forget unless they finish number one

488
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Speaker 3: and starting pitching er.

489
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Speaker 5: But no pitching.

490
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 6: They just have to they have to have like the

491
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Speaker 6: Marlins have to have like never give up a run. Ever,

492
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Speaker 6: because according to people in the chat KP. When we

493
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Speaker 6: talked about the Marlins one day, they're like, the Marlins

494
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,120
Speaker 6: have so much starting depth pitching and they're they're never

495
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Speaker 6: going to run out.

496
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Speaker 5: I'm like, Okay, we'll see.

497
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 3: I'm worried that the Braves are going to run out.

498
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Speaker 4: We haven't started the season yet and there is significant

499
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 4: trouble for this rotation.

500
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're definitely relying on a guy like

501
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Speaker 1: Chris Sale who's obviously not getting any younger, but he's

502
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: still elite at what he does. But at some point

503
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: father time is going to catch up. It might not

504
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Speaker 1: be this year or next year, but at some point

505
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Speaker 1: it is. And there's still a little bit of, you know,

506
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Speaker 1: concern about Spencer Strider. Is he able to pitch without

507
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Speaker 1: the velocity? Is the velocity to come back? Rinaldo Lopez

508
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 1: pretty much missed the entire year last here. They say

509
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: he's healthy around here. I was out there talking to

510
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: some guys and he looks like he's in great shape

511
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: and he's healthy. But he did miss an entire year.

512
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Speaker 1: So how many innings is he going to be able

513
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Speaker 1: to give you? I mean, up until recently he was

514
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:13,879
Speaker 1: a guy who was pitching out of the bullpen. So

515
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: the starter workload is still something we still have to

516
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Speaker 1: figure out if he can handle year in and year out.

517
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Speaker 1: And then you look at the two guys at the

518
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Speaker 1: bottom of that list, and you know, like you said,

519
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Speaker 1: you're trying to win a division here, you know, is

520
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 1: it enough starting pitching? At some point they are going

521
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Speaker 1: to get those other two guys back. You know, do

522
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Speaker 1: the Braves go out and try to acquire another starting pitcher.

523
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 1: You know, they save some money with Profar, you know,

524
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Speaker 1: missing the entire season to the suspension. Do they go

525
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: out and try to acquire someone out. Grant Holmes has

526
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: been great for them too, but he's also coming off

527
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Speaker 1: an injury at the end of last year. How healthy

528
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Speaker 1: is he? Is he durable? Is he going to be

529
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Speaker 1: able to hold up? And Bryce Elder one of my

530
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 1: good friends, you know, and teammate from you know, twenty three,

531
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Speaker 1: who was an All Star has you know, he's had

532
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Speaker 1: his ups and downs. You know, he's he's he's shown

533
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Speaker 1: signs of being a really good fifth starter in the

534
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Speaker 1: major leagues and he even pitched to an All star level.

535
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Speaker 1: But you're talking about an NL East that's a juggernaut

536
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,439
Speaker 1: with a lot of talent and really good arms and

537
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: really good offenses. Do they have enough? I think offensively

538
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 1: they do. I think defensively they do. The question is

539
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: going to be do they have enough starting pitching? And

540
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: the beauty the beautiful thing is they have a really

541
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Speaker 1: good bullpen. They have a lot of depth in that bullpen,

542
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Speaker 1: so maybe it takes the workload off of some of

543
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Speaker 1: these guys. Can they get him through you know, five six, innings,

544
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Speaker 1: maybe even four and a third, you know, with some

545
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Speaker 1: of these guys, because you look at that bullpen and

546
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Speaker 1: there's some some power arms and even a guy like

547
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Speaker 1: Joey Wentz went down, So they're already going into the

548
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Speaker 1: depth of their organization. At some point it may be

549
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Speaker 1: too much to overcome. But you know, from everything I

550
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: heard talking to guys out there, I think you know,

551
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,679
Speaker 1: Joey Wentz avoided serious injury. I don't know what his

552
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 1: status is, if he's gonna be ready for opening Day,

553
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 1: but it's just been kind of a tough couple of

554
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Speaker 1: years for the Atlanta Braves with the injury bug.

555
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Speaker 4: I don't use this word very often on our show

556
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 4: because I think it gets overplayed and every player and

557
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 4: team deals with it, especially early on in the season,

558
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 4: and I hate when reporters ask it over and over again.

559
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 4: But I do feel like the pressure meter for the

560
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 4: Braves is high. They have all of this core locked up,

561
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 4: right They should all be in their primes right now.

562
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 4: Most fans have experienced a lot of winning over the

563
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Speaker 4: past decade. There right a lot of success, a lot

564
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 4: of playoff appearances, there's a World Series mixed in there.

565
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 4: The team profits a lot that's public, that's known. They've

566
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 4: got an awesome surrounding with the battery gets talked about

567
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 4: all the time. To add all that up, and fans

568
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 4: are expecting a winner. Like last year, they were all

569
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Speaker 4: over the team.

570
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 3: And I was one.

571
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Speaker 4: I remember I went on a one of the local

572
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Speaker 4: radio shows for a spot and I'm like, fans are

573
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 4: kind of jaded, like it sucks they've had a bad year,

574
00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,679
Speaker 4: but they've had many other good ones, and I was

575
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 4: like feeling it. On socials, people are like, how dare

576
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 4: you blah blah. I'm like, relax. There are many other

577
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 4: fan bases that would trade places with this fan base

578
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 4: in a heartbeat a couple.

579
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Speaker 5: Years ago too. I forget twenty one.

580
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty one. It's not like it's been that long.

581
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 4: But fans are hungry and they see what they have

582
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 4: right now and feel like they're in their winning window.

583
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 3: And I don't know how they feel about the off season.

584
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 3: Roberts Wire is awesome.

585
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 4: I love the move, but most fans felt like they

586
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 4: deserved one more starter. The team kind of hinted at that,

587
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 4: then they shied away from that, and now I think

588
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 4: they probably wish they could go back to the start

589
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 4: of the off season and grab another starting pitcher.

590
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they need their starter shore maybe two

591
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 6: starter shot depending on how the health hangs out helds

592
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 6: up with the rest of the starter.

593
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Speaker 5: So I love the lineup if the lineup's right. That's

594
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 5: the thing.

595
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 6: Their lineups have been so up and down, because remember

596
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 6: they signed all these guys. Everyone's like, oh, they have

597
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 6: the greatest lineup of all time, and then they've just

598
00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 6: kind of gone flat a little bit. And it's weird

599
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 6: to say that because of all the people they have

600
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Speaker 6: on this team. So and then you look at Listen,

601
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 6: Ratio Dubon is a nice utility kind of player, but

602
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 6: is he an everyday shortstop.

603
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 5: I mean that's you know why I get.

604
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 3: Over exposed little too. He hasn't really played every day.

605
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 5: Yeah. And then Tom Smith, I mean that one fourteen.

606
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Speaker 6: But I mean again, that's small sample size, and that's

607
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 6: a that's a picking the right matchup for the guy

608
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 6: to play. It's not an everyday player. So his lineup

609
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 6: is very top heavy. For me, the bullpen is going

610
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Speaker 6: to be good. I feel like with Suarez, Iglaciers and

611
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 6: the rest of the crew down there, I just worry

612
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 6: after sale was. I mean, Stryder's still only throwing like

613
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 6: ninety three like he was ninety nine to one hundred before.

614
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 6: Don't forget so worry about that a little bit. Where's Lopez?

615
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Speaker 6: I don't know, Listen. I'm a Braves fan. I grew

616
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 6: up a Braves fan, so I always want the Braves

617
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 6: to do wells my last team I played for, and

618
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 6: I still know a lot of people there, so I

619
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 6: still like a lot of people there.

620
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Speaker 5: I want him to do well. I just think that

621
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Speaker 5: nationally East is.

622
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Speaker 4: Tough, really tough, and if someone told you, hey, Braves

623
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Speaker 4: don't make it again, you wouldn't be surprised.

624
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Speaker 6: I could see this team winning ninety games if every

625
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 6: thing goes perfect, and I could see winning seventy five

626
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 6: games that it all doesn't go right.

627
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 4: See, that would be a tornado in Atlanta. Fans would

628
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 4: lose their minds if they put together another season like

629
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Speaker 4: that this coming season.

630
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Speaker 1: I mean, I couldn't agree with you more age. I

631
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: think this team has the makings of winning the division,

632
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Speaker 1: but I also wouldn't be surprised if they finished third

633
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Speaker 1: in this division. Two and a lot of it is

634
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: so predicated on the health of this team. You know,

635
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: I was with them in twenty twenty three, and the

636
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: entire team stayed healthy and historically it was one of

637
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: the best offenses that you know, up until that time.

638
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: I think we were the first team to hit over

639
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: three hundred home runs. And it was just like everything

640
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: they the lineup just worked. You know, everyone had great years.

641
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: Everyone fed off each other, you know, everyone knew their role.

642
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: Things were rolling. I think we won like one hundred

643
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: and you know, four or five games that year. Everyone

644
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: in the starting rotation for the most part, stayed healthy.

645
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: You know, there was a little bit of a you know,

646
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: part of the bullpen that that wasn't as strong, and

647
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: I think it got exposed a little bit in the postseason.

648
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: But it's such a mystery right now because they've just

649
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: you know, they're coming off a bad year. They're they're

650
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: obviously motivated and hungry. But going into going into spring training,

651
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: you know, with the additions of Hassan Kim playing shortstop,

652
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: to you know, some of the young starting pitching that

653
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: they developed, on paper, it looked like this was the

654
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Speaker 1: team to beat in the division. And already you're down

655
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Speaker 1: four or five players. You know, we're only a couple

656
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 1: of weeks in the camp, so I think the offense

657
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: is going to have to carry this team, and hopefully

658
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: you get guys like we talked about on that bottom

659
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: half of that order of the Azzi Alb's of the

660
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,239
Speaker 1: world to kind of bounce back and just be the

661
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: normal Azzi Alb's. I don't think he has to be

662
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: anything better than you know, what he had been in

663
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: the past. I just don't think this team could afford

664
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: him being, you know, a guy you know with in

665
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: the eighties and his WRC plus. But yeah, I mean

666
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: it's a tough one to predict, you know. And I

667
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: think last year, you know, you talk about how you

668
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: can't win or lose a division in April, and in

669
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, this team had no life

670
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: after you know, those first seven games of the year.

671
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: It was a hard thing for them to overcome. So

672
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: hopefully they learned a lot from that. And definitely a

673
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: tough trip they had last year going to the West Coast,

674
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: playing the Padres, the Dodgers, and I think they even

675
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: came home and started with the Phillies. So hopefully they

676
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: have a little bit of an easier schedule to start

677
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: they get off on the right foot, but a lot's

678
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: going to be relied on, you know, that left arm

679
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,239
Speaker 1: of Chris sale To, you know, pick this team up

680
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: in a big way.

681
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 3: They do.

682
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 4: By the way, we can finish with this. Their first

683
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 4: series is at home against the Royals, and I'm there,

684
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 4: You're there for.

685
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 5: That time for the Saturday game.

686
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, then they stay home for the A's and then

687
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not going to go through everything, but

688
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 4: there's some angels mixed in there early on.

689
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 5: It's a little different than a little different than last year.

690
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 3: Last year, like they Dodgers.

691
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 6: Madres on the West coast to start from coming from Florida.

692
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, right.

693
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 4: On the road coming from Florida against the Dodgers and

694
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 4: Padres now home against the Royals and the A's. Not

695
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 4: that they're bad teams, it's just that's a big difference.

696
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 4: They're not going to start OZ and six.

697
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 6: Are they gonna The biggest question for me is and

698
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 6: they are they better than the Mets and the Phillies

699
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 6: with the injuries that are constructed Right now, I say no.

700
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: I'm here with one of the newest braves, Mikeystremsky. How's

701
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: it going? First? This is kind of like your first

702
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: spring training with the new team. I know, you know

703
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: early on your career with Baltimore, but this is really

704
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: your first big league spring training with the new team.

705
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: How's it going.

706
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 5: It's good.

707
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 7: I think the number one thing is obviously like getting

708
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 7: acclimated to new people, new training staff, and it's about

709
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 7: diving in headfirst and just being willing to you know,

710
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 7: maybe you had routines somewhere else you got to change them.

711
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 7: Maybe you had a certain time you showed up, You

712
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 7: come in a little earlier, get to know the guys.

713
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 7: You breakfast with three or four different groups, you know,

714
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 7: as you know, I love to hang out in the kitchen.

715
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 7: So it's just about it's about being around the guys

716
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 7: and making that adjustment. And it's been great so far.

717
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 5: Hey.

718
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you signed with the team, how much of

719
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 4: the conversation was about, you know, the fit with playing

720
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 4: time and how things would go versus the organization itself.

721
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 7: Uh, it was for me, it was more about being

722
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 7: part of a good organization about winning. At this point

723
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 7: in my career, I wanted that second year with the

724
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 7: third option just for for comfort, right, so I could

725
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 7: buy into being a part of the organization so that

726
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 7: I could not have to worry about playing time. I

727
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 7: wanted to worry about winning. I wanted to focus on

728
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 7: you know, how do I come into an organization with

729
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 7: a great group that's already established and hopefully be a

730
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 7: part of something a little bit more than what happened

731
00:33:58,760 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 7: last year?

732
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 5: Hey, how long did it take you to know everyone's name?

733
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 5: Do you do?

734
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 6: You ask them to where a name like trainers, assistant,

735
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 6: clubhouse guys.

736
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 7: You know, I actually had I had one of our

737
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 7: guys send me a directory. So, so, like the main

738
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 7: thing is, like, you know all the players, right, You've

739
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 7: been playing against them for you know, however long you've

740
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 7: been around, maybe you've crossed paths with some of them

741
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,280
Speaker 7: playing together. But it's like the training staff, the hitting coaches.

742
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 7: You know, obviously it's a little easier to know Walt's name, right,

743
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 7: Like if you don't know the manager's name coming in,

744
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 7: that's a little tough, but it's it's just one of

745
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 7: those things where you got to work a little harder.

746
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 7: And those are the types of things that matter, you know,

747
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 7: just knowing people's names and learning you know about their families,

748
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 7: where they're from. All these sorts of things. So it's

749
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 7: been fun.

750
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, good for you for doing that. I mean I

751
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: had a hard time kind of towards the later part

752
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: of my career. I played on ten teams, so I

753
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: would be in the training room and I, yeah, I

754
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: wanted to get to know everyone, but I you know,

755
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: I had so many different trainers and take me like

756
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks into the season and I would

757
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: like go to the same trainer and I'd listen in

758
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: the training room. They'd be like, look, Alex, and I

759
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: would like leave. It be like tlex OUs. I'd remember.

760
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: But in terms of kind of fitting in here, you know,

761
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: I was here a couple of years ago, didn't know

762
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: any of the guys, really never played with them, and

763
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: it was honestly one of the best times I had

764
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: in baseball. There's so many great people here, fun people

765
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: to be around. And I reached out to you and

766
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: I said, you know, Riley and Olsen, they're gonna take

767
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: care of you. There's some of the best people I've

768
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: been around.

769
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 3: Yeah.

770
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's exactly how it is. And you know,

771
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 7: when you when you start those relationships, right, it's always

772
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 7: kind of like the same monotonous, like you know, you know,

773
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 7: tell me where you're from, your whole path, your story,

774
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 7: blah blah blah. But it's about getting out on the

775
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 7: golf course, right, like getting out with the boys, you know,

776
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 7: have a couple of beers, you know, let normal conversations

777
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 7: start happening. So that way, when you show up the

778
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 7: next week, it's not like, hey, what's your routine going

779
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 7: to be today? You know, do you do you have

780
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 7: to take round balls for the four hundredth time? Oh

781
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 7: you do? Okay, great, It's like, hey, remember when you

782
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 7: almost blew your wrist out trying to head out of

783
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 7: a bush because you were playing for twenty bucks? You know,

784
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,439
Speaker 7: like Megan, just like just being normal people. And that's

785
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 7: that's the fun stuff where it's like you have something

786
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 7: else to laugh about. You have you don't feel like

787
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 7: you show up and it's like, you know, Groundhog Day

788
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 7: over and over again. So just like diving into those

789
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 7: things and you know, not being afraid to be like, hey,

790
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 7: like let's take all the kids at the park, you know,

791
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 7: let's take the kids to dinner. Let's let's just kind

792
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 7: of dive into this. So that way, it's not evolving

793
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 7: in June or July and be like, oh, man, I

794
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 7: wish we had been, you know, doing this stuff a

795
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,240
Speaker 7: little earlier. It's like, let's just start right away.

796
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 4: Hey, we've had you on, so we've talked about your

797
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 4: story of course, you know, being a late bloomer and

798
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 4: then just being a really consistent great player in this league.

799
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 4: For a minute, I want to take a different turn,

800
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 4: because now you're signed up. You feel like it's kind

801
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 4: of unfair that you finally hit free agency in your

802
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 4: mid thirties, turning thirty six this year. You've had a

803
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 4: great ride so far and more to go. But I'm like, damn,

804
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 4: you can't hit free agency until your mid thirties. And

805
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 4: you look at some of the other leagues and how

806
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 4: guys can get there so much quicker. I don't think

807
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 4: that the general public understands that sometimes that the clock

808
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 4: still runs even if you're approaching thirty and you can't

809
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 4: get to free agency for sodamn long.

810
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, for a little bit, I looked at

811
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 7: it like that, but I also looked at it as

812
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 7: kind of like a pride thing, right, Like I made

813
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 7: it to free agency. You know, at one point it

814
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 7: was looking at it like Hey, you know, maybe you

815
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 7: don't even make it through our maybe you don't make

816
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,399
Speaker 7: it through your first year, and so I'm just taking

817
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,399
Speaker 7: it one day at a time. Every day past that

818
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 7: first day that I got called up is bonus to me.

819
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 7: So I feel like I'm playing with house money still,

820
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 7: and I think that's what keeps my spirits up free easy.

821
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 7: You know, there's guys who get to free agency and

822
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 7: make four hundred million. There's guys that don't get the

823
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 7: free agency. So I'm just really excited to be in

824
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 7: the position at I'm in and thankful every day that

825
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 7: it's worked out the way it has, because you know,

826
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 7: there was some rocky roads. But I think that shapes

827
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 7: who you are. And I think that's part of why

828
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 7: I play hard and play the way I do is

829
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 7: because of the path that I've been down.

830
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of that journey, I had a front row

831
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,760
Speaker 1: seat to that journey. In twenty nineteen, this young twenty

832
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: eight year old walks into the clubhouse in San Francisco to,

833
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 1: you know, make his major league debut. It's it's crazy

834
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: for me to sit here and think about, you know,

835
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: where you started, where you've gone. But you mentioned being

836
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: a free agent at you know, thirty five, thirty six

837
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: years old. I was leaving the game at that age, like,

838
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: how what have you done in order to allow teams

839
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: to view you younger than you actually are? Because when

840
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: I got thirty five thirty six, I was kind of

841
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,919
Speaker 1: viewed as old. You know, my speed wasn't quite the same.

842
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 1: I wasn't moving as well. You obviously have kind of

843
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: figured something out in order to you know, allow these gms,

844
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: you know, confidence to sign you for two years at

845
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: your current age.

846
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 3: Yeah.

847
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 7: I mean when you when you have the same body

848
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 7: structure as the bat boy, sometimes it helps, you know.

849
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 7: It's like they're like, oh, the bat Boys got a

850
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 7: little pop in there, you know, so maybe we'll let

851
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 7: them stick around a little bit longer. But no, seriously,

852
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 7: it's been it's been about health, right, So the best

853
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 7: ability is availability, and you know you did that throughout

854
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 7: your whole career. And I think that as I've gone

855
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 7: through injuries and I've gone through playing through injuries, I've

856
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 7: learned when to step back when to not. I think

857
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 7: you were the first person to even mention it to me.

858
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 3: I was.

859
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 7: I think it was like mid August and Boach gave

860
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 7: me an off day after he'd played me probably forty

861
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 7: two games in a row, and I'm hitting and he goes,

862
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 7: didn't I give you an off day. I'm like yeah,

863
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 7: He's like get off the field. I'm like okay, And

864
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 7: we had a conversation in there, and I'll never forget

865
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 7: this where you go, hey, do you think you can

866
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 7: go out there and hit a homer to left today?

867
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 7: It's like, yeah, could you hit one to center? Yeah?

868
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 7: Could you hit one to right? Yeah? And you're like, so,

869
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 7: what are you proving yourself? And I was like, oh, man,

870
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 7: you know that makes a lot of sense. Like I'd

871
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 7: go out there and I'd waste energy for something that

872
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 7: I didn't need. And so it's just about adapting and

873
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 7: you know, putting your best foot forward into your body

874
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 7: and your health, and you know, whether it be changing

875
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 7: a diet, whether it be changing the way you lift

876
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 7: in the offseason. That's been one of the big things

877
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 7: for me. I changed my lifting two years ago and

878
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 7: stayed off the aisle last year for the first time

879
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 7: in a while knock on woods. So it's adaptation.

880
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: I know you're a Northeast guy, you were born in

881
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: the Northeast, but you're a Tennessee guy now Vandy guy

882
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 1: live in Tennessee. How cool is it to kind of

883
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: play for, you know, the hometown team. I know, brave country.

884
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: Tennessee is brave country. And obviously, you know, having a

885
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: wife and a young family, how nice is it for

886
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: them to be a lot closer to home?

887
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:45,879
Speaker 5: Man?

888
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,839
Speaker 7: That is I think my wife was more excited than

889
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 7: I was when I signed. That was like one of

890
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 7: the crazy things was it goes from a five hour

891
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 7: flight for a home game to a four hour drive.

892
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 7: And that's huge because you know, now on off days,

893
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 7: I could sneak home if I wanted to see the kids,

894
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 7: if I hadn't seen him in a couple of days.

895
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,479
Speaker 7: It's just about quality of life, you know. And that's

896
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 7: it's a little bit easier to get down to Florida

897
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 7: for spring training. All these things kind of add up

898
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 7: to the stresses of a season. And when you can

899
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 7: minimize stress and you can minimize anxiety, then you're gonna

900
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 7: be able to stay in the moment more, you're gonna

901
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 7: enjoy it more.

902
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 5: So.

903
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 7: I think that was also a big part of you know,

904
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 7: coming here.

905
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 4: Question for you so last year, or maybe it was

906
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 4: the year before, you worked with Burrow?

907
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 7: Right?

908
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 3: Did you work with him a lot?

909
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 5: I did?

910
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 3: Was that last year?

911
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 7: Yeah? Last year and even into the year before he

912
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 7: was he was still with us then.

913
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 4: Okay, So talking about Paparoll by the way, for the fans, yeah,

914
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 4: two parter here one.

915
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 3: What did he work with you on? That was super helpful?

916
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 4: And too did you try and get any stories out

917
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 4: of him? Because he was the old guard of baseball player?

918
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 4: As I justcribe, I was at a conference this weekend

919
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 4: and people were asking about baseball players these days, and

920
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 4: I was like, twenty years ago they were shutting down

921
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 4: the bars and clubs. Nowadays they're playing video games. Pat

922
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 4: Burrow was one of the front runners there.

923
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

924
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 7: So one of his mentality on hitting was really helpful,

925
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 7: you know, because he was he's one one, He had

926
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 7: all this weight on his shoulders. He felt like he

927
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,760
Speaker 7: had so much to live up to, and he knew

928
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,839
Speaker 7: how to deal with the emotional side of baseball, where

929
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 7: that's really tough to do. There are some guys that

930
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 7: try to avoid it and not even approach talking about,

931
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 7: you know, the emotions that go along with the game.

932
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 7: You you know, you're trying so hard, you care so much.

933
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 7: The game is so much failure, and he'd been through

934
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 7: a lot, and so to hear his perspective was always

935
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 7: really really helpful, especially in terms of keeping everything like

936
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 7: realistic and understanding that we're not as human being supposed

937
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 7: to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect in

938
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 7: the box. So it's okay when you don't get the

939
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 7: big hit. It's okay when you don't get you know,

940
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 7: you don't make the big play, and your things are

941
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 7: going to be okay and you're gonna be able to

942
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,240
Speaker 7: move forward. So we kept it simple in that sense.

943
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,919
Speaker 7: And I've got a lot of stories. I think most

944
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 7: of them kind of fall under the category of, you know,

945
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 7: not suitable for a work environment. But he's uh, he

946
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 7: is a absolute character, Always kept things loose, always kept

947
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 7: things fun, and that was that was a fun time

948
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 7: in my career to have a guy like that around.

949
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: I know it's only been a couple of weeks here

950
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: in camp, but is there someone that you've met here

951
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: in camp that kind of reminds you of yourself and

952
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: have you been able to kind of take him under

953
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: your wing. Maybe it's a Eli White who kind of

954
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: has figured it out a little bit later, maybe you

955
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,280
Speaker 1: know Luke Williams, or maybe it's someone else in camp

956
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: that you know you share your story with, Like, hey,

957
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: I didn't really get my first taste of twenty eight

958
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: look at me, you know, six seven years later.

959
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 7: Yeah, as you know, I'm a huge look at me guy,

960
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 7: you know. So that's why, you know, I love telling

961
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 7: the story and making people understand what I'm about. But no,

962
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 7: it's actually I've been talking a lot with Drake. You know,

963
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 7: our lockers are right next to each other. I'm right

964
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 7: between him and Eli, so talking to both of those

965
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:18,439
Speaker 7: guys a lot. But Drake's really curious, and so it's

966
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 7: really cool to see a guy who had so much

967
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 7: success in his first year. Obviously, winning Rookie of the

968
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 7: Year is incredible, but he's constantly wanting to get better,

969
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:32,359
Speaker 7: and he's trying to learn how, you know, how to

970
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,399
Speaker 7: add adjustments, how to start thinking a little bit more

971
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 7: intelligently in terms of you know, learning himself, which is,

972
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 7: you know, hard to do. It's probably the hardest thing

973
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 7: to do in the game is to learn who you

974
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 7: are as a player. And so just asking me questions about,

975
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 7: you know, stories from twenty fourteen to a surgery I

976
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 7: had in sixteen to you know, getting called up and

977
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 7: then getting kind of potentially sent down and go and

978
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 7: go for five that day and how to handle that

979
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 7: and all these different things. So it's been it's been

980
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 7: really cool to talk to those guys.

981
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 4: Hey, last one for me, did Lee call you Jungjo

982
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 4: Lee to give you any tips? For you to give

983
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 4: him any tips He had mentioned you in one of

984
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 4: the interviews, like I'm gonna have to call Yas and

985
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 4: get some help here.

986
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 3: I'm moving from senator a corner.

987
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 7: Yeah. We actually we talk a lot. Junkie is one

988
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 7: of my favorite teammates of all time. Talk about a

989
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 7: guy who was willing to just like dive in in

990
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 7: a new country, a new environment. Our lockers were next

991
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 7: to each other, so we had a blast and he

992
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 7: we've talked a couple of times. We haven't dove into

993
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 7: it too much, but I told him I'd give him

994
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 7: a little bit of a breather while he was playing

995
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 7: for Korea, and once he comes back, I'm sure we'll

996
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 7: have an hour long FaceTime and you know, I'll give

997
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 7: him the whole rundown, because you know, it's what you

998
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 7: gotta do. You gotta spread the love. You got to

999
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,800
Speaker 7: spread the knowledge, and when you find good people in

1000
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 7: the you try and keep him around as long as possible.

1001
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: Yeah. So for Braves fans, this guy's been high on

1002
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: the West Coast in San Francisco most of his career.

1003
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: You guys are gonna love him. I'm excited for you

1004
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 1: to be in Atlanta, Brave. Yes, can't thank you enough

1005
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: to stay healthy and go put on a show.

1006
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 3: We'll do