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Speaker 1: Dataway.

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Speaker 2: Matt Quatraro is the manager of the Kansas City Royals

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Speaker 2: back on foul Territory and Matt, it's great to talk

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Speaker 2: to you. Happy offseason to you for a little bit

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Speaker 2: more time, I'll say now future longtime manager of the

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Speaker 2: Kansas City Royals after your extension, congratulations on that, and

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Speaker 2: of course we want to start there. Tell us how

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Speaker 2: it all went down and how excited you are to

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Speaker 2: lead the next great Royals teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me first of all,

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Speaker 3: you know, and happy new year to everybody. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if I could be more excited,

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Speaker 3: you know. I mean, you get you get an opportunity

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Speaker 3: when you when it's your first job, you're not exactly

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Speaker 3: sure that's going to go. And our first year went

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Speaker 3: pretty badly, I would say, And but you know, just

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Speaker 3: the relationships especially, you know that I've been able to

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Speaker 3: and obviously with the players, and it's just a great

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Speaker 3: place to be. I love living here. My family, we

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Speaker 3: I feel very fortunate for the opportunity to get to

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Speaker 4: Everybody loves Kansas City. There's just no Overland Park. Wherever

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Speaker 4: won't talk about that. You are so like even keel.

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Speaker 4: You're You've always been a very even keel person, even

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Speaker 4: when you know you were you were the raise when

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Speaker 4: this extension, and obviously it's not just like you pick

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Speaker 4: an extension, you go, whoa. But when it finally gets

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Speaker 4: pen to paper, when it finally happens, how do you celebrate?

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Speaker 4: What is your reaction? Who is more excited or who

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Speaker 4: I've seen you laugh, so that's cool. Like, but you're

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Speaker 4: very stoic and just you know, everything's fine. We lost

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Speaker 4: in the same queue. What how did you guys celebrate?

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Speaker 3: You know, I'll be honest with you. I mean, the

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Speaker 3: first thing that goes through my mind is my parents.

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Speaker 3: You know, obviously my wife and I are going through

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Speaker 3: this process talking with JJ and stuff. But you know,

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Speaker 3: my parents are are gone now. But when I think

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Speaker 3: all these hours. And you know, I always had a

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Speaker 3: but you know, to hear my dad's voice and about

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Speaker 2: We did.

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Speaker 3: We high five. My kids were excited. They they've told

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Speaker 5: Let me ask you this. I mean, at a lot

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Speaker 5: and there's certain philosophies. Is there something that you really

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Speaker 3: I don't know if there's anything that different than the

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Speaker 3: I've learned from some good managers. I was around Joe

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Speaker 3: and I've taken a lot from them. And but beyond

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Speaker 3: anything else, it's all about you guys as the players, right.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't have this job, I don't have

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Speaker 3: without the players. So the thing I try to do

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Speaker 1: And I think those are the things.

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Speaker 3: That we're trying to improve on here because I think

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Speaker 3: So no, I don't have some philosophy that if we,

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Speaker 3: because you see game teams every year that they win

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Speaker 4: All right, So the best to get the most out

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Speaker 4: of players, how can we give vinp to think April

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Speaker 4: if I can figure out this whole April thing, I

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Speaker 4: You're coming to see him in Nashville. Is that because

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Speaker 4: you want to go to Nashville because Nashville's fun? Or

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Speaker 4: is that because you want to lift weights with vinnip

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm a little smarter than that, Cratzy. I challenge

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Speaker 3: him to a race. That's the one thing I'm not lifting,

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Speaker 3: not swinging, none of the things that I can't do.

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Speaker 3: So no, I that's one of the ways that we're

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Speaker 3: And I'm you know, I've been around Vinnie a few

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, you said it yourself, you're not going

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Speaker 4: to visit Arikrats in the offseason. How do you deal

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Speaker 4: How do you deal with those hurt feelings when all

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Speaker 4: of your players are watching and you see that you're

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Speaker 4: going to visit Vinnie p. But you're not going to

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Speaker 4: see you know, you're not going down to see mikel

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Speaker 4: Garcia who just got some extra cash. Like, how do

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Speaker 4: you deal with that? Because I love what you're doing.

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Speaker 4: I think the connection part is what you dominate with

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Speaker 4: and that's the best way to be the best manager,

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Speaker 4: mess man, best you know brother out there on the field.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think some of it is logistics,

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Speaker 3: right Mike Kel. I don't think any of us are

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Speaker 3: But you know, we also talk to the guys like, hey,

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Speaker 3: doesn't It's not something that moves the needle for him

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Speaker 4: Talk about Mikeel talk about Michael Garcia. I brought him

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Speaker 4: an extension? And then people start looking at his stats

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Speaker 3: he's you know, he's I think two years now, playing

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Speaker 3: with the physicality that he's dedicated himself in the in

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Speaker 5: Another pickup you had Matt Strom left hand or with

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Speaker 5: the Phillies, Can you talk a little bit about why

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Speaker 5: he's a good fit for your organization and what you

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Speaker 5: guys thought and saw there as his career most forward.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's an original draft from the Royals,

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Speaker 3: so that they knew him well here. Obviously we've seen

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Speaker 3: what he's done the last few years in Philly. You know,

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Speaker 3: you got to have a deep bullpen. You got to

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Speaker 3: how that goes. Right, He's gonna come in games in

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Speaker 1: Well, you worked with Cash.

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Speaker 2: Right, you can do it right. I know you're gonna

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Speaker 4: All right, again, my third to fourth last question, that's

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Speaker 3: You man, it's I gotta go with Q thirty nine.

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Speaker 3: I've really started to like that one.

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Speaker 1: Boom there you go, and.

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Speaker 4: For you free, free for you now for the rest

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Speaker 3: I should have gone with that jersey number when I came.

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Speaker 2: On thirty nine Q thirty nine.

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Speaker 2: That is really the last question there from Kratz, and

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Speaker 4: All right, I was here, I didn't play. I was there, I.

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Speaker 2: Didn't play either way. Thank you so much for joining us, Matt,

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Speaker 2: great to have you on the show. Thanks for the time, Man,

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Speaker 2: congrats on the deal. Tell us how it went down.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate you having me.

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Speaker 6: It was it was definitely a different process for me

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Speaker 4: Well, you said all the teams, I love to hear

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Speaker 2: So hey, what did the teams tell you? Hunter? Sorry,

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Speaker 4: I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Well, it was I don't know when exactly, maybe later November.

436
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Speaker 6: My agent told me he'd had, you know, quite a

437
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Speaker 6: few teams reach out, and I was like, oh, hey,

438
00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,680
Speaker 6: I'm surprised, because, you know, once again, once it ended,

439
00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,479
Speaker 6: I was like, well, we're going to to just you know,

440
00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,920
Speaker 6: get what we can get here and try to come

441
00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,639
Speaker 6: back this year and be healthy. And then obviously, you know,

442
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,400
Speaker 6: we had a lot of interest shown. I mean, I

443
00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,640
Speaker 6: was completely surprised, to be honestly, I didn't think we're

444
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Speaker 6: gonna have that much. But uh, yeah, it was probably

445
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Speaker 6: late in November my agent started saying they had a

446
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Speaker 6: lot of calls so it was, and then after the

447
00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,359
Speaker 6: winter meetings it really started heating up.

448
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Speaker 5: Let me ask you this. You were throwing ninety six

449
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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty two, and then eventually you're hitting ninety

450
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Speaker 5: eight the year after. We see these stories all the

451
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Speaker 5: time where guys all of a sudden developed faster fastballs

452
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Speaker 5: and velocity, and I'm just curious, is like, what were

453
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Speaker 5: the steps to make that faster? Was there anything you

454
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Speaker 5: did or just you going out there and all of

455
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Speaker 5: a sudden, I'm throwing ninety eight. Now, watch out, average watch.

456
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Speaker 6: I used to start and I didn't throw as hard

457
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Speaker 6: as a starter. I remember well the first time I

458
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Speaker 6: threw hard, I was in double A and a guy

459
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Speaker 6: named Zach muckinhearn. He told me, because I was trying

460
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Speaker 6: to figure ot what to do down there, I've never

461
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 6: been in the bullpen, he said, you grab that little

462
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Speaker 6: white ball and he said, you throw it as hard

463
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Speaker 6: as you can. And I said, all right, well, I

464
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,280
Speaker 6: can give that a whirl and see what happens. And

465
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Speaker 6: I eventually tried that and I just all of a

466
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,359
Speaker 6: sudden started throwing hard. I said, I had this the

467
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Speaker 6: whole time as a starter, and I'm out here throwing

468
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Speaker 6: ninety two.

469
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Speaker 1: I said, this is crazy.

470
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Speaker 6: So yeah, it was just I didn't do anything different.

471
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 6: I just tried to throw hard and threw harder, So

472
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Speaker 6: it was kind of crazy.

473
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Speaker 2: Are you into pitch metrics? And I mean, hey, you

474
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Speaker 2: should be into it even if you're not paying too

475
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Speaker 2: close of attention to it, because it's part of why

476
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Speaker 2: you get a lot of phone calls like this. I mean,

477
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Speaker 2: it's no secret. We also could just talk in normal terms.

478
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 2: You've got stuff, right, You've got big stuff.

479
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Speaker 1: You know that.

480
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Speaker 2: I mean, you were a top pick while back. So

481
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Speaker 2: how much does that come up in a conversation when

482
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Speaker 2: you're talking to teams during free agency or even just

483
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 2: now right like with KC, Hey, we love what you have.

484
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,359
Speaker 2: Of course you got to work on making sure that

485
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Speaker 2: you're on the field to be able to do it.

486
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Speaker 2: But how much does that come up? Because the modern

487
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Speaker 2: stats really help your case, like we look and go, Okay,

488
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 2: a full season of Hunter Harvey in a bullpen could

489
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Speaker 2: mean basically a high leverage reliever closer type.

490
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we I don't.

491
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Speaker 6: I don't think many of the meetings I had we

492
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 6: talked about stuff as much as I think. Obviously the

493
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 6: battle is, you know, keep me on the field. So

494
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 6: I think everybody it's, you know, trying to give me

495
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,720
Speaker 6: ways to keep me healthy. And you know, the Cubs

496
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 6: kind of stood out for me when I had my

497
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Speaker 6: meeting with them, because I wanna be honest, I never

498
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Speaker 6: I didn't think I was ever gonna end up in Chicago.

499
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Speaker 6: I'm not big on living in the city, and they

500
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Speaker 6: kind of won me over, so it was nice.

501
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Speaker 4: How are they going to keep you on the field.

502
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 4: I want to hear this stuff because that's that's what

503
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 4: we just talked about it earlier.

504
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:45,880
Speaker 1: Hey, I don't know yet.

505
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Speaker 6: I know I've been talking a lot with Tyler's Ombro

506
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Speaker 6: and he's, uh, I mean, he's a really good mind.

507
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,239
Speaker 6: I mean he's He's already thrown a lot of good

508
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Speaker 6: stuff at me just from a pregame routine.

509
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Speaker 1: Any all my routine.

510
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Speaker 6: He wants to add some stuff, and then I told him,

511
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 6: anything you got, hey, I'll give it a whirl at least.

512
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 6: I mean, the worst case is we don't like it,

513
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 6: so I mean, we'll try whatever we can do to

514
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Speaker 6: stay healthy. So we'll see. I'm not sure what all

515
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,160
Speaker 6: they got they got lined up for me, but I'm excited.

516
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 4: That was gonna be my next question, how far will

517
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Speaker 4: you go to stay healthy? Because honestly, all that stuff,

518
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,639
Speaker 4: all that stuff, if you believe it, it will work.

519
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 4: If you don't, you know, people were like, oh, you know,

520
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,320
Speaker 4: I played with a guy Chris bout Check. He would

521
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 4: ice his arm before the game and he was our

522
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Speaker 4: closer and by the ninth inning he was like, my

523
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Speaker 4: arm felt great, he said, So I iced my arm

524
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Speaker 4: before every game. I'm like, dude, that's crazy. Obviously I'm

525
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Speaker 4: not You're not gonna do anything like that. But do

526
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Speaker 4: you believe this stuff that Zambro was telling you? Because

527
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Speaker 4: if you do, to me, I think that's where you

528
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 4: take the next step and you're out there for sixty appearances. Yeah.

529
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Speaker 1: Hey, I told him.

530
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Speaker 6: He actually came up and watched me throw a bullpen

531
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Speaker 6: yesterday and I told him, I said, after a meeting

532
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Speaker 6: with you, I said, I. I said, y'all jump well

533
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 6: up my list. I said, I wanted to work with you.

534
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 6: I wanted to work with everybody y'all have in Chicago

535
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 6: because I just felt like it was gonna be a

536
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Speaker 6: really good opportunity for me to just maximize everything and

537
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 6: stay healthy. So I mean just I don't know, you know,

538
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 6: maybe it's just a way he said things. I don't know,

539
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 6: but he he won me over pretty quick.

540
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Speaker 4: All right, talk about living in the city, because honestly,

541
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Speaker 4: nobody's everybody can listen on the This is podcast and video,

542
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,439
Speaker 4: but for everybody's own podcasts. We got a real no

543
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Speaker 4: real tree. We gotta we got a hunting hat, we

544
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 4: got some catal on like there, the accent, they can

545
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 4: hear you're not from Chicago. I'm just I'm not going

546
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Speaker 4: to go from there. Everyone else can make their own

547
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 4: judgments based on you know, everything. But what is that?

548
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Speaker 4: How are you going to navigate that? Because you played

549
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Speaker 4: you played in Kansas City, correct, Baltimore?

550
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Speaker 1: Yep, Yeah, well both Baltimore and Casey.

551
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Speaker 6: I was able to get outside of the city a

552
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,199
Speaker 6: little bit, so it's not a lot of people, but

553
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Speaker 6: it's a little bit different.

554
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:05,919
Speaker 1: Obviously in d C.

555
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Speaker 6: We didn't get out of We stayed outside the stadium,

556
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Speaker 6: so we we just had to grind through it for

557
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Speaker 6: a couple of years.

558
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Speaker 1: But it's the same thing here, you know, it's part

559
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,679
Speaker 1: of it. It's part of the job. You gotta just

560
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 1: gotta just gotta.

561
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 6: Grind through living around all them big buildings and all

562
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Speaker 6: the people.

563
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Speaker 1: So we'll make it work. It'll be fun.

564
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Speaker 6: So I've heard nothing but good things about playing for

565
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 6: the Cubs, So I'm I'm pretty excited, to be honest

566
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 6: with you.

567
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Speaker 4: But like, but there's there's always a place. I mean,

568
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 4: you know in d C. I I used to live

569
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Speaker 4: in Virginia. You get outside to northern Virginia a little bit,

570
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 4: you can get into some hunting, you can you know,

571
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 4: you could have called in Baltimore. You could have called

572
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 4: Josh Hater up. He's got some landing in Maryland. It's

573
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 4: got some of the biggest, biggest buck you'll ever see

574
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 4: stricken outdoors. But like, so in Chicago, what does that

575
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 4: look like for you? Do you say I don't want

576
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Speaker 4: an apartment near the field, Like, I'm fine dry thirty

577
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 4: minutes in if I can live in a place that

578
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 4: has a yard. What does that look like for you

579
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 4: as a player?

580
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 6: I'm fine driving in now my wife and the two kids.

581
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Speaker 6: I don't know if she wants to drive in every day,

582
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 6: So more likely we're gonna end up being right beside

583
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Speaker 6: the stadium, just like we were in DC. So she

584
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 6: likes men in the country as well, but she ain't

585
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 6: too big on traffic, so we're gonna stay close where

586
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 6: she can get to the field easy.

587
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 2: Probably they have a ton of nice apartments, like walking

588
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 2: distance to Wrigley and if you're gonna be there for

589
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 2: a season, and then of course you'll hit free agency

590
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 2: again after that. That's what I recommend, right That DC

591
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 2: actually built that up a ton. I mean I remember

592
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,719
Speaker 2: going there ten fifteen years ago and there was like nothing,

593
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 2: and now I mean there's probably twenty apartment buildings all

594
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 2: around that area, and you see most of the players

595
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 2: just walking to the park. I mean, that's the dream

596
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,120
Speaker 2: for during the season, because you maximize the time at home.

597
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, it made it real easy there, especially.

598
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Speaker 6: I think our airport in DC was like an hour away,

599
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 6: so if we were coming back from the West Coast,

600
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 6: we're getting in at freaking four and five in the morning.

601
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 6: Like you, I don't really want to drive anywhere. It's

602
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 6: when I walked two minutes and I was in bed,

603
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 6: so that made it easy.

604
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: I like it. Hey, can you give us more of

605
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: a glimpse of your story. I mean, you know, we

606
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 2: got a little time, but I think it's important. There's

607
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 2: so many young pitchers that listen to our show. We

608
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 2: got a lot of college kids and even before that,

609
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 2: who will listen and say, Okay, Hunter Harvey, good story.

610
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 2: We have a lot of the guys on who will say, hey,

611
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 2: I came out of nowhere. You're twenty thirteen first round pick.

612
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 2: But it's not like everything came easy for you. So

613
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 2: can you kind of describe some of the highs and

614
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 2: lows of what's gotten you to this point.

615
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been a it's been a it's been a journey.

616
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 6: That's a that's a fact. Obviously, coming up with Baltimore,

617
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 6: I had a lot of injuries there. It felt like

618
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 6: everything I did I heard something. So that was a

619
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 6: that was a grind. The crazy thing is I think

620
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 6: it was I popped my shoulder out of place in

621
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Speaker 6: twenty eighteen. I just in the dugout line driving there,

622
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 6: I jumped out of the way, popped my shoulder out.

623
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 6: Pretty much ended my season. And then I remember telling

624
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 6: my dad that Austin I was like, I think, I'm

625
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 6: I think I'm just gonna be done. Like I don't

626
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 6: even want to I'm.

627
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: Tired of it, you know, I don't I don't really

628
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: want to do this anymore.

629
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 6: I'm hurt every two months, like I think I'm just done.

630
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 6: And he told me that Offting's like, hey, just give it,

631
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 6: you know, give it another year or two, just see

632
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 6: what happens. He's like, he's like, we're close. He's like,

633
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 6: just keep trying. I was like, all right, I'll give

634
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 6: it a whirl. And then obviously the next year I

635
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,479
Speaker 6: ended up getting moved to the bullpen. I got moved

636
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 6: to the bullpen, and it, you know, just changed my career.

637
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 6: I went from my velo jumps. I was in the

638
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 6: big leagues a month and a half after going to

639
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 6: the bullpen, like it just and obviously just from there,

640
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 6: I hadn't really looked back.

641
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: I've battled injury still, but.

642
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 6: I've been able when I'm healthy to pitch decent enough

643
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 6: to stay in the big leagues. And that's just kind

644
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 6: of it's been a that's probably been the highlight is

645
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 6: you know, just going to the bullpen just completely turned

646
00:28:59,120 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 6: my career around for me.

647
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 5: Really, let me ask you this, all of a sudden,

648
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 5: your dad doesn't tell you that, and you're like, boom,

649
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 5: I'm done with baseball. What would be your next step?

650
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 5: I mean, do you have anything in mind or was.

651
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: It just I got no clue.

652
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 6: We would have we would have figured something out. I'd

653
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 6: have started a land cleaning business. We'd have done something

654
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 6: here in a figured out. We've been working outside for sure,

655
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 6: But uh, I got no.

656
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: I don't know about truck driving. Just point out.

657
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 5: I know, but he could stop wherever he once and

658
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 5: then you know that looks like right there, you know.

659
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it worked out.

660
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 6: I'm just glad he told me to try another year

661
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 6: or two because it ended up working out real good

662
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 6: and we didn't have to get another job.

663
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: So it worked out.

664
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 5: Give him a big hug every time you see him.

665
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, Well he doesn't let me live it down.

666
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 4: So what about a playoff team? All right? You had

667
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 4: all these teams calling the fact that the Cubs were

668
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 4: in the playoffs last year, You saw the Royals in

669
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 4: the playoffs in twenty four. How much does that go

670
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 4: into it, especially since you know you were with the

671
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 4: O's then you were the Nats, Like, how much does

672
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 4: that go into it? Or is that something that you're

673
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 4: kind of like, well, I'll experience it when I experience it.

674
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 6: I mean that was for me one of the I

675
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 6: mean it was pretty high up on my list and

676
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 6: stuff I was looking for.

677
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: Obviously, you know, I needed to be somewhere.

678
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 6: It was a good opportunity, but you know, I didn't

679
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 6: want to go somewhere where I knew for a fact

680
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 6: I was going to get traded in you know, four months.

681
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 6: I wanted to be somewhere that we were winning, cause,

682
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 6: I mean we had we made the best of each

683
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 6: season in Baltimore and inn you know, DC. We had

684
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 6: a good group of guys, so we just you know,

685
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 6: tried to enjoy it as much as we could.

686
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: But obviously, when I got traded to KC and they.

687
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 6: Were winning and then we got to go to the

688
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 6: playoffs and experience it, there's nothing. There's nothing like it,

689
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 6: Like that was a blast. And then even last year,

690
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 6: you know, we were around five hundred, but it was

691
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 6: just exciting all year.

692
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: We were in the push the whole time. It was

693
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: just it's fun.

694
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 6: It's way more fun to go to the field knowing

695
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 6: you got a chance to keep on going. So I

696
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 6: mean one of the Cubs, I mean, my couple of

697
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 6: teams I was looking at. That was one of the

698
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 6: main things, Like I wanted to be on a good

699
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 6: team I luckily had enough teams that reached out.

700
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: I was able to choose between a few.

701
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,959
Speaker 6: Good ones, and I just felt like opportunity wise, just

702
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 6: all the people there, and then obviously they're good.

703
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: The Cubs was just an easy choice.

704
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna have fun there, and they had a

705
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 2: really fun bullpen last year and some talented guys that

706
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 2: ended up actually going elsewhere. They got paid in free agency.

707
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 2: But then they've put another I think it's thirty some

708
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 2: odd million into five or so relievers this offseason. So

709
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 2: you got some big boys joining it. You'll have some help,

710
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 2: but they're not gonna call you every day, which also

711
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 2: helps the costs. Right, That probably part of the combo. Hey,

712
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 2: we invested in our bullpen, so we are not going

713
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 2: to overuse the arm.

714
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's part of it.

715
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 6: I done told him if he as long as I'm

716
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 6: out there, you can call as much as you need to.

717
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: I'll be ready. I like that. I like that. All right.

718
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 2: Question for you, I think I have this right from

719
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 2: your Baltimore days. Mountcastle was one of your buddies there, right,

720
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 2: you were in his wedding. Yeah, yeah, did you see

721
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 2: see his news today? Do you send a guy a

722
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 2: text when I mean he settled in arbitration too, so

723
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 2: he got himself I think, like a cool seven million

724
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 2: bucks today.

725
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll text him later.

726
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 6: Maybe we're uh, we're that's why, you know, that's you know,

727
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 6: another reason I decided just to stay in the National League.

728
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 6: I only got to play him once. That's a I

729
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 6: think it's more luck than anything. But yeah, he's he's

730
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 6: gotten a few times so.

731
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: And he'll let you go. Last year.

732
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 6: I finally got him last year and I let how

733
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 6: war him out about it. So yeah, the first couple

734
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 6: of times he got me pretty good.

735
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 4: That's good. That's good. Is there? Do you try to

736
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 4: find a way to mimic the adrenaline rush You've talked

737
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 4: about the bullpen ringing, and I'm like, I have to

738
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 4: ask this. The adrenaline rush of that phone going.

739
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: I'm fine until my name's called.

740
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 6: Once they call my name, it's a it's like you

741
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 6: just you turn into a whole different animal. You see,

742
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 6: You're ready to run through the wall once it's your time.

743
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 6: So that for me, that's when I went to the

744
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 6: bullpen and started hearing that in the big leagues, that's

745
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 6: probably like one of the most fun things for me

746
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 6: is just getting caught, especially obviously late in the game,

747
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 6: games on the line, something like that, any kind of

748
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 6: situation where you got to stop the other team from

749
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 6: pretty much beating you, because I mean it's the end

750
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 6: of the game. That for me, that's the there's just

751
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 6: nothing more fun than that.

752
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 2: On our way out here, Hunter, can you give us

753
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 2: a twenty to eighty grade on Kratz's bullpen phone noise

754
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 2: because he loves to throw that out there?

755
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: Hey, that's that is that's top tier right there. That's

756
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,479
Speaker 1: pretty good. Sure, right like, yeah, that's up there. It's

757
00:33:59,520 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: pretty good.

758
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 2: Best weapon exactly as a broadcaster like Kratzy is very

759
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 2: good at mimicking things.

760
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, he's pretty solid.

761
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 2: That one day we can do the South well he

762
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 2: played for k C the Salvey do you want to

763
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 2: say by and Salve.

764
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 4: Kratz or I could have a whole conversation of Hunter

765
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 4: Harvey talking to Salvage on Paris at the Mound and

766
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:27,359
Speaker 4: goes fla baseball luga because you know Harvey Harvey Oh

767
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 4: is good. Hey man, Salve, I don't understand any words

768
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 4: that you're saying ever coming out of you. Why are

769
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 4: you even coming to the mound. Man, I'm just gonna

770
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 4: throw the absolute snot out of the ball. My dad

771
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 4: told me a million dollar arm one time. God, million dollars,

772
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,240
Speaker 4: but it's okay.

773
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. One funny thing about k C.

774
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 6: When I first signed over there, our PitchCom was Salvey's

775
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 6: calling the pitches in the PitchCom like his voice and yeah,

776
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 6: and it threw me off. The first time. I had

777
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,919
Speaker 6: no clue. I thought I was gonna throw the long pitch.

778
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 6: The first down was there, so it was. It was funny,

779
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 6: but we figured out.

780
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: It's like, you don't want to be that guy, right

781
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 2: because you're not the only one and you just got there.

782
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 2: But you're like, I don't know which she's saying.

783
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: First out it come off. It came over and his

784
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: in his accent, and I was like, oh man, this art.

785
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: This is gonna get interesting here. But we made it

786
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: through it and it was all uphill from there. Yeah,

787
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 1: it was good. After that fastballall what.

788
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 6: You're like, Yeah, yeah, we got through it. We might

789
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 6: we might work ended up being good.

790
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 1: So that's good. That's good story.

791
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 2: Hunter. Thanks for joining us. Congrats on the deal. We'll

792
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 2: see you in spring training to appreciate the time.

793
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate y'all have