Josh Grosz interview transcript with YankeesFarm With brand new BP footage

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Hey guys, what's going on everybody. This is Dayne from NYYU. We'd like to welcome you to the Yankees Farm Report with special guest, Josh Grosz Josh, how are you doing today?

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I'm doing good. How are you guys doing? Outstanding. We got an interview.

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So Los, you want to get us started? Sure. Josh Grosz. I got him at 6'4",

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200 pounds, 11th round pick from last season at Virginia Beach. He went to ECU, East Carolina.

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Um, baseball America has had him as the number three prospect in the AAC. Um, Josh, how you doing?

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I'm doing really good. Uh, I'm looking forward to heading back down to Tampa and,

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and go to my first spring training. So, uh, just preparing for that.

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Okay. Um, let's just start from the beginning. So growing up, I, uh, these are questions that like a lot of people ask us, uh, did you play any little league, high school ball, any other leagues? Uh, were you always a pitcher?

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Yeah. So when I was a pitcher, I was always a pitcher.

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I was, when I was a kid, my dad was, my dad was a Marine. So he just retired this past summer. So I grew up bouncing around, uh, from the West coast, the East coast, pretty much my whole life. Um,

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so I, I started playing baseball at a really young age, but I have an older brother that,

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that played baseball and I kind of wanted to follow in his footsteps.

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So, um, I think my first, like my first time on a baseball field was probably being his, his team's bat boy at like four. Um, but yeah, I played little league all growing up.

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I played little league from the time you can start until the time you can end. So, um, I played that.

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I didn't really get into travel until like serious travel baseball until my freshman, sophomore years of high school. Um, whenever I was done with little league, I played on like some local travel teams up in Northern Virginia where I was at at the time. Um, but, but growing up, I always played more sports too. I played baseball and football and basketball. Um, so I played about six, seven, eight, nine, ten games a year.

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years of football, flag football, and the PB popcorn or football, uh, played one year,

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played one year of varsity football, my freshman year. Um, and then from my first full season of basketball was sixth grade through my senior year of high school. Um, but yeah, I mean, I grew up just playing, you know, backyard pickup games and then competitive games and

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anything from, from spike ball to pickle ball to whatever I could get my hands on.

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Um, and so I was always a pitcher. My brothers and I, my, and our friends would always be out, you know, trying to do something. So I kind of, I just grew up always, always competing.

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Now, were you always a pitcher or did you play other positions as well?

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I was never a PO until college. So I played, I was, uh, my freshman year of high school. We were,

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we had a rough through, we, we struggled a lot. So I was our shortstop for my first two years.

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I always consider myself a really good outfielder. So I, I, uh, I can travel and,

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and all throughout little league and high school.

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I was outfielder slash pitcher. Um, and then I didn't start, I mean, I knew my route to college was to be a PO. I wasn't ever a great high school hitter, but, uh, I would consider myself a good outfielder. So I was happy that I wasn't a PO, you know, in high school. And, but I, I always did pitch. I started pitching when I was, I think I started taking pitching lessons when I was

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maybe in like second or third grade. Um, just like from, from like, not from anything unbelievable, just like from the, you know, a high school kid or.

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like a private lesson at a, at a warehouse or something like that. But, um,

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yeah, I've always, I've always been a pitcher.

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Um, and you went to ECU, was that, uh, your first choice? Were you recruited by any other schools?

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Uh, it was my first choice. Um, I was recruited by Campbell and UNC Wilmington and, uh, and, and East Carolina. Uh, it was honestly a dead time between all three before I finally committed. Um,

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ECU started recruiting me my junior fall. I went to one of those, you know, sign up online camps,

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at, during the fall of, I think it was 20, junior year, 2019. So the fall, the fall of 2018,

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that's when that would've been. Went to this camp at ECU, I pitched, pitched well.

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The pitching coach at the time was Dan Roseau, he's now in Kentucky. He, uh, he called me once a week.

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trying to make a relationship and recruit me that way and they came to see me a couple times my junior spring but they were the last school to offer me so the first offer i got was was unc wilmington and i really wanted to go there i mean they're a great location great school good

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good baseball program great coaches uh the very next week campbell offered me and they were like you got seven days and they're gonna say i was like wow i guess that's pretty timing they gave he gave me a great offer. I was, it was kind of hard to say no, but, and I was, I was very, you know, heavily considering it. And those seven days came up and the head coach called me. He was like, so like, what do you got? And I was like, well, this is a major decision. I mean, I'm, I'm very interested. I just would like a little more time to make a decision. And he pretty much was like, well, if you don't want to be here, like, you're not going to be here. And that was the end of that conversation.

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So, yeah, so I guess that, that offer was kind of off the table after that phone hung up. So at the time it was really just UNC Wilmington and who I actually had an offer from an ECU who kept kind of, you know, baiting the hook a little bit and got to the point where UNCW knew that ECU was, was on me.

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And so they upped the offer a little bit to try and, you know, get a decision. And I was like, I was just still trying to hold out hope that ECU would just, just give me an offer because they'd been recruiting me the longest just to give them their due diligence to see what they would give me.

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And it ended up being, they ended up offering me after my season was over. Like after, right after my junior season ended and financially it wasn't, wasn't better than the Wilmington offer, but it was good enough.

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And it was where I felt like I wanted to be.

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You know, from that, the whole time, at the time my brother was going to school here, they just came off of a, well, they were in the middle of a super regional run, had a great team.

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And, and I just felt like that's where I wanted to, I feel like if I thought to myself, if I was going to win a national championship, if I had a shot to win a national championship, this is the place to do it.

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So.

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Cool.

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So in your first two seasons there, you mostly pitched in relief, right? It wasn't until your junior year that you became a starter?

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Yeah, my freshman year, I saw.

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I think I had 14 appearances, 12 innings total, all out of, all meaningless, out of the bullpen innings, kind of up 10, down 10, you know, pretty much normal freshman numbers.

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And then I had a, I wanted to be a starter.

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So over summer ball, that freshman summer ball, I was a starter and started that next fall at ECU.

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And then the springtime came around and I kind of, I kind of like literally 50-50 to both.

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I'd start, I'd start a game and then I'd relieve a game and then I'd start.

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So I, I think I, I think I had like 26 appearances and maybe 13 starts, maybe, maybe seven or eight starts.

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I could be wrong on that number, but it was, it was pretty much split time.

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Well, I wasn't, I was kind of just a swing guy.

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And then, yeah, it wasn't until last year where I was a full-time starter.

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Okay.

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Um, before we move on to the draft part, um, I want to focus on two games that I noticed in your box score was, uh, the game you pitched versus Georgetown.

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Do you remember that one?

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You do five, no hit innings.

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Yeah.

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11 Ks.

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Wow.

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Can you talk about that game a little bit?

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That game's kind of a blur, to be honest with you.

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I feel like I remember, I feel like I remember the games I got shelled in more than the games I pitched and did in.

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But yeah, I mean, At that time in the season, um, I was starting to stack on like, you know, consistent quality starts and just, I think that was just one of those that fell.

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That was the beginning of that run.

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That was the beginning of that run.

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That was the start of it.

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Yeah.

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Cause, cause I guess, so I guess after that, I, I, I put together a good, you know, five to six weeks.

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So good starts and, um, yeah, I don't know.

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I just, I, I, uh, whenever I'm in the zone and I'm throwing strikes and I got my off speed working and I got a good tempo, I feel like I'm usually in a good spot for success.

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So that was just one of those games where everything was working.

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Yeah.

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So when you got to the draft, did you have any idea what team you were looking at?

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Did you have a place you wanted to go?

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Uh, initially?

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No.

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I mean, I was, I was going to be.

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I was really fortunate either way, no matter where I went, it'd be real excited about where I went, no matter what, but, um, I'm thrilled to be a part of this organization.

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Uh, now that I've been in this organization for a little over like six months, five, six months, um, and, and talking to buddies that are in other organizations, I feel super lucky, but I feel like, um, the player development and the, the investments from the coaching staff and the support staff is, is unlike any other organization that I've talked to so far.

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So that's pretty, uh, just a staple to the Yankees organization, but I didn't have, I, since I grew up all over the map, I never really had like a, like a dream team.

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I never really had like a favorite team.

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It was kind of wherever I was at.

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Like I cheer for that local region team.

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So I grew up, I grew up cheering for the angels when I was in California.

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I grew up cheering for the nationals when I was in DC and, uh, when I moved to North Carolina, I was kind of just like a baseball fan.

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I didn't really have a specific team.

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So, um, but yeah, you know, after being drafted by the Yankees, I thought.

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I feel like the ceiling's pretty, that's kind of the top of the ceiling is like Yankees organization.

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So, yeah.

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Did, did you know that the Yankees were interested or any other, were any other teams interested?

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Did you speak to anybody?

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Yeah, I knew, I knew they were interested.

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Um, in the fall of my junior year, like in the winter meetings, I met with 15 teams, Yankees were one of them.

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And then throughout the weeks leading up to the draft, I talked to majority.

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I thought I talked to almost every team, I believe.

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Um, just like, I mean, nothing.

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I, well, obviously I'm not like a first round pick.

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So like, it's not like they were chomping at the bit, but you know, most of the area scouts for every team call, just check in and, and make sure, you know, I was healthy.

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Things are good.

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I'm ready to go.

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Um, but the Yankees definitely, the area scout for the Yankees definitely made it kind of like a consistent effort to, uh, to develop a relationship and, and, um, and, and get me.

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I'm going to ask because we, we, we've been hearing crazy stories, but before you move on, sorry, Dane.

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Um.

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Did you know that you got drafted or did they give you a phone call?

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How did that happen?

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So I, I got drafted on day three, which I was the first, like in the first round of day three.

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So, but right before day three started, I think it, let's say it started at 12 o'clock at 1130.

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Um, my agent called me and said, Hey, like the Yankees are going to take you for this, like, yes or no.

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Do you want it or not?

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If you want it, they're going to use it for their 11th round pick.

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I was like, yes.

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So I, I knew, I didn't know ahead of time.

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It wasn't like, I just, Oh, they called my name, but at the same time, like the same time, the draft is so crazy that like, you know, they could say, Hey, we're going to take you.

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Then it's like, Oh wait, it took someone else.

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So you never really know until you know, but yeah.

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Messenger had a couple of funny stories about that.

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You found out when he was on a golf course.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's funny.

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I've heard stories of guys like that used to, you know, former guys that played golf.

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They played ECU where this is back when the draft was, you know, earlier back in May or was it, yeah, I think it was in May where they would find out like they were on an airplane flying to play somebody and they landed and they finally had cell service and they're like, you've been taken to the draft.

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They're like, Oh God.

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Okay.

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I guess I'll go.

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So moving into the Yankees organization, did you think you were going to pitch last year?

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Did you know that you were going to go to the development program?

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You mean after the draft was over?

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Right.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah, they told all of us, all the pitchers that got drafted this past draft, they were like, there's no rush for any of you guys to go and play, you know, in Tampa or go any into affiliate baseball.

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So I don't believe anyone, any pitchers went to go play, which was, I mean, so yeah, we knew the whole time that like this, you know, this, we're going to take these next month and a half, the next two months to kind of nail whatever individual things you need.

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If it's pitch design, if it's weight, if it's strength, if it's whatever.

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So we had a good idea that we weren't going to go play anywhere.

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So it was nice to just kind of have that month and a half to start building the foundation to get ready for spring.

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What were some of the things that they had you work on when you first came in?

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Uh, the slider was the, was the biggest focus for them.

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Um, this has happened for me the last two seasons where, you know, as, as the season goes on and I'm a little more fatigued.

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It seems like my slider for whatever reason had, I just, you know, it kind of falls off the table.

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It starts off the season, the first three quarters of the year for me, my junior year was my best pitch.

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The last quarter of the year, it just kind of just nothing, nothing to get, you know, miss a barrel.

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So they really wanted to hammer that, that slider and get it perfect and, and, uh, make it a weapon again.

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So my, the slider was a big deal.

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And then they kind of, there were some stuff in my delivery and, and in my, you know, in my mechanics that they wanted to clean up.

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And be more efficient.

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So, um, I felt like it wasn't too, it wasn't over-complicating.

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I mean, they did a good job explaining, like, this is what you need to do.

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Here's how you're going to do it.

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Like send us videos when you're not here.

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And, and so, uh, I would just say, yeah, slider, slider focus and my delivery were the two biggest things we worked on.

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And that was geared specifically towards you, right?

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It's not like they didn't just give you like a generic training saying, Hey, this is for everybody.

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This was geared for you specifically.

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Correct.

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Yeah.

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Like we, I mean, I.

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I think we went through maybe seven different slider grips, the first two and a half weeks, three weeks, I was, you know, we started throwing and it was all like, Hey, like, you know, this is how your arm works.

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This is how your fingers are moving.

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Like maybe try this out.

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Maybe you can get more movement this way.

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And then same thing with the delivery.

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Like we have these, uh, we had these things called motion capture bullpens where like I put those white balls on you and they see how your, how your body's moving.

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And so that's tailored made to be so like, Hey, like, you know, you don't do this.

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You don't do.

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This efficiently.

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So let's just knock it out of the way, or like, you do this really well.

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Let's keep that movement pattern.

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So everything was, everything's very personalized.

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Now the slider, is it a sweeper or a true slider?

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Um, I want to say, I really don't know.

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I mean, I, I've never been, I've never been a super analytical guy, so I don't feel like I have the right answer for that, but I think it looks like it, I think it looks like a sweeper, but I feel like it's hard.

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It's harder than most sweepers.

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So I say it's kind of in between those two, uh, it's like 84, 85.

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I mean, it's, it's not like, it's not low eighties.

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It's not a big hard cutter.

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So it's kind of in between.

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Nice.

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Yeah.

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Um, what's your current pitch package?

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Like pitch package is forcing fastball, um, slider change up purple.

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So kind of four pitch mix.

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Um, the change ups more of a.

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It's kind of hard.

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It's not like a true eight to 10 mile an hour difference, but it's got a lot of, um, you know, sink to it and a little bit of run.

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So my change up usually is like anywhere from 86, 88 miles an hour.

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And if my fastball is on, it's like anywhere from 94, 95.

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So it's not a huge difference, but it's enough to get them off the barrel, I think.

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So, um, it's kind of a hybrid between a change up and a sinker.

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And then 10 days, same thing with the curve ball.

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My curve ball is not a true 12, six curve ball.

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It's kind of like a, like a one to seven looking, you know, break like that is that so, but yeah, just, you know, just a different, different arsenal than a true change up and true curve ball.

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Cool.

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Fastball sits 94, 95.

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Fastball is probably like, it'd probably sit 93, 95, probably I'd say my average fastball is 93, 94 miles an hour.

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Are you working to add some strength this winter?

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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I heard when you introduced me is at six, four, 200 pounds.

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I've already put on 10 pounds this off season.

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So.

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Oh, wow.

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So strength, power, eating, um, obviously you can never throw too hard.

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So fastball, you know, velocity is always, always the big focus.

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Um, we did a, I did a V a big velocity program this fall with the Yankees coaches, which was huge.

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I mean, I saw over a seven week period.

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I saw, you know, pretty drastic, but like very noticeable differences.

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Um, which is nice.

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Um, so yeah, obviously this off season was meant just to maintain, maintain that VLO over the course of the season.

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Cause like I was saying earlier, um, when I, when I'm, you know, now that I have a little more weight and I can maintain that, hopefully the VLO will stay because when the, in the, at the end of every season, the last two years, it seems like for me, once my weight starts to go down, then that's when everything kind of starts to crumble a little bit.

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Right.

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So as long as I can maintain that, you know, I should be able to maintain my weight.

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I should be able to maintain my velocity throughout the rest of the season.

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So cool.

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Sounds like by the middle of the season, you're talking about like an extra three, four ticks on the fastball.

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That's right.

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So are you looking to add any other pitches to your package as you continue developing or do you think you're going to stay with the four?

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I'm going to stay with the four for now.

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I mean, uh, you know, everyone always wants to add the next best pitch and, and, uh, you know, see, you know, what can we do?

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What can we do to make sure that we can move the most in their eyes?

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But I'd like to perfect four before I can add a fifth.

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And if I need to double one and add one, I'll do that.

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But as of right now, I'm, I'm, I'm happy where, where I'm at and I would just like to really perfect those four before I try to add a fifth, um, and vice versa.

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So.

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Gotcha.

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Good answer.

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That makes sense.

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That makes a lot of sense.

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Um, do you know where you're going to be reporting or not yet?

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I, I don't know yet.

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Um, I'm heading down.

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I'm heading down there, uh, to report early, um, next Saturday.

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And I don't know.

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I mean, there's guys there right now that you can, my official report dates March 1st.

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Um, and they said, if you want to voluntarily come early, you can, you just got to find a place to stay.

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Um, so I'm going to do that and I just kind of, I'm just itching to get down there.

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I'm really excited.

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So I'm gonna head down there a little early.

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I have no idea.

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I mean, I would assume I'd start out low way.

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Just because none of the other pitchers, you know, we didn't go anywhere to begin with.

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So there's not really like a baseline yet.

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But, um, personally, I, I couldn't tell you.

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I'm just going to assume, assume low way.

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Sounds good.

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Yeah.

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I always hear that, that the Yankees send notifications and things like that pretty late in the game.

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So, I mean, that, that doesn't surprise me.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Kind of, I'm not walking in blind, but I'm just, I mean, just my first spring training.

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So I'm trying to navigate, you know, expectations.

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Mm-hmm.

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Now we have some questions from the fans, but you already, what's the RPMs?

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Yeah.

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The RPMs on your slider, curveball, that kind of thing.

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I, I, like I said, I.

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Not analytical.

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I couldn't tell you.

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Yeah.

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That's true.

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I'm sorry.

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I wish, I wish I could, not that I can't, but I, I really don't pay a whole lot of attention to.

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I'm focused on that.

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Those kind of metrics.

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Just because I don't, you know, I just think it's kind of complicated at times.

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I'd rather just.

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Right.

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If it's a good pitch and the guys want to get missed that I don't care if it has one RPM, you know?

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So I.

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Right.

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I wish I had an answer, but I honestly, I couldn't tell you.

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No, that's the right answer.

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You just want to simplify things and that for a pitcher, that's the mindset you want to hear.

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He's already got a lot of other things going on.

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You know?

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Yeah.

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He's not too focused on that.

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Yeah.

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He just wants to know, can he, can he, can he, can he put it where he wants to put it?

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Can he put it in the black?

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That's right.

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Right.

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Is he going to stay, is he going to stay in the park or no?

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So I was like.

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There you go.

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There you go.

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Now, do you, what's your go-to pitch to get a strikeout?

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It kind of depends, like righty or lefty.

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To a righty, I love like a slider down in the zone or a fastball up in the zone.

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You know, kind of just working this way instead of off the plate.

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And then same thing with the lefty.

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Lefties, I love to get a strikeout with a changeup on a lefty, you know, below the barrel.

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And I also love back-footing a slider to a lefty, so, or a curveball, so either way,

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I think the fastball sets up, sets up everything.

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So my favorite, you know, pitch is to get guys out on would be probably a lefty changeup and then, or a changeup on a lefty and then a, you know, a slider below the barrel on a righty.

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He sounds like exactly how I pitch in MLB the show.

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That's right.

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So growing up, is there anybody that you emulated?

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Anybody that you like to, to, you know, to model, model your game after?

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I love watching Max Scherzer when I was in, when I was in Northern Virginia, I went to a couple, went to a bunch of Nats games, watched almost every Nats game on TV if I wasn't there.

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I love watching him throw.

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Obviously you got like the DeGroms and the Striders.

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Yeah.

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And all the top guys now, but as a little kid, I would love, I just love watching Scherzer and Strasburg too.

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Those guys are two guys that stick out in my mind.

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It's just like how they, how they carry themselves on the mound and the dugout, um, how they go after guys.

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We're not afraid, you know, throw certain pitches and certain counts are kind of just like bulldogs on the mound, which I admire.

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Is that what you try to do is be a bulldog on the mound?

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Uh, I'm, I'm kind of in between, I mean, I'll get fired up in a big moment, you know, after a big punch out, maybe late in the game.

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But for the most part, I like to just stay even keel because, you know, as you guys know, baseball is always going to punch you in the face.

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And so if you're too high or too low, like you're just gonna, you're in a bad spot.

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So I like to be fired up like mentally and internally and, and have a game plan and you're ready to roll.

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But externally, I like to just kind of keep it here until the moment presents itself where you can show a little emotion.

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Um, but like I would, I would never celebrate.

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Okay.

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I'm not saying that I would not celebrate.

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I would say that I would be happy to go back out for the second inning.

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Cause that's just like, right?

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The game.

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Hold on.

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But what, but what if you started out with like basis loaded in no outs, then you're going to be happy to go back out for the second inning.

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I'm just going to be fired up that I can go pitch again.

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Nice.

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So yeah.

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Let's go ahead.

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No, that was that was my last question for him.

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Do you have anything else?

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No, I'm good.

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Okay.

00:23:23:00 --> 00:23:31:19
Josh, it was an absolute pleasure having you on. Sorry that ending kind of got weird, but we'll get some footage of you, and we'll get that wrapped up and get this out.

00:23:32:16 --> 00:23:34:18
Yeah, yeah. Thanks for having me on here. It's good talking to you guys.

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We'd love to have you again after you get moving a little bit, maybe around the All-Star break.

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Sure, yeah. I mean, I'm open, so just let me know.

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We got you as a big breakout candidate.

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What's that?

00:23:46:20 --> 00:23:57:08
I said we got you as a big breakout candidate. I think you are going to be like a Will Warren, Chase Hampton, later round pick that breaks out. Heard some pretty special things about you.

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That means a lot. I appreciate it. I hope so.

00:24:01:10 --> 00:24:02:10
Yeah.

00:24:03:07 --> 00:24:03:23
All right, guys.

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We'll be checking you out, keeping an eye on you.

00:24:05:17 --> 00:24:06:17
Yeah, thank you guys.

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Again, thank you for taking the time.