David Peterson on workhorse secrets, Mets org changes w/new ownership

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Speaker 1: We're back, and oh, we're going to get ready for our next guest segment, so we're not going to get into the next topic. Yeah, so in three seconds, we're ready to bring in our next guest. KP, are you good on your hosting? Chops?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: Are you going to do the proper intro for your former teammate here who's been on the show? I believe during spring training for a brief time, but now we get like a a nice tab.

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Speaker 2: But I kind of feel like it's a new man, and I'm going to introduce him as kind of the new man and go right into the first question.

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Speaker 1: Go for it. We'll bring him in as you say it.

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Speaker 3: Is he here? Is he here? He's here?

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Speaker 4: Well, first of.

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Speaker 2: All, huge honor to have you on. Good friend of mine, we've played together in New York and he was just a young kid trying to figure out his way. But the stuff was always there, the work ethic was always there. But this is also going to lead into my first question. Welcome one time All Star David Peterson? Does that get old hearing that? What is that feeling like when someone refers to as an All Star? Because I never got that opportun unity and that's never going to be taken away from you. And the second part is, you know, you're a father of a three year old and a one year old. What's that experience like taking your kids do an All Star Game?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, thank you guys for having me KP obviously, Yeah, thanks for bringing me on.

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Speaker 3: And no, it doesn't get old, you know.

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Speaker 5: I think you know, as kids, we watched the All Star Game growing up, and you watch all the festivities, and so to be able to be a part of that, be around some of the other guys, obviously, go with a couple of my teammates was very special. And yeah, I mean I think, you know, being able to take the whole family was awesome for them to experience that. A lot of moving parts, kind of getting in late, but really enjoyable. And yeah, I mean, going back to you know, watching it growing up and stuff. I think one of the best memories I have from that weekend is having my son on the field for the home run derby and sharing that with him.

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Speaker 1: Hey J showing you're showing tell Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Look, so, since I knew that your father was big into horses, I requested a hotel room that had a gigantic horse head behind me.

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Speaker 3: You see that.

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Speaker 4: That's why.

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Speaker 3: Then that's Seattle Slough.

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Speaker 4: No, that's Seattle Slough.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's beautiful.

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Speaker 4: That David's dad used to work with back in the day. So I had him, I had him mounted on my wall here before I requested this room, just because you were coming on. And by the way, yes, it's also also because your innings that you've been pitching, because we've had Carlos mendoz On here a lot of times. And let me say this, if it wasn't for you, if your bullpen wasn't tired, they are thinking when you pitch every fifth day, because they're like six in six in six innes Oh we get a seven spot, an eh spot. Yes, he's Peterson's pitch today. We might get a break today. So your team is also thanking you too, well.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: Hey, big deal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, David so on that there are few pitchers that are going super deep into games these days. It's no secret. What have you learned out how to get there? Right from uh, you know, keeping your stuff up to uh keeping hitters soft balance perspective.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think there's a lot that goes into it. The health being the first thing, and then you know, if you're healthy and everything, you know, you're gonna be able to have, uh, the opportunity to go through the lineup a few times. And so being able to navigate that and continue to get better in my career has been great.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I think it's something that we always want to do.

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Speaker 5: And being able to learn from some of the guys that I did, I bet he blessed, you know, to have.

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Speaker 1: Phone call.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they just turned the lights off, they brought the no we got to get.

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Speaker 4: Disturb on their phones.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a good idea. All right, he's back, keep going. We got you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So, you know, I think I had a lot of guys that I was able to learn from, Guys that throughout their career have gone deep into games, have thrown a lot of innings and had a lot of success, and a lot of guys that are in that Hall of Fame talk and in my opinion should be in there. So you know, I think just trying to take everything that I can from them and you know, be able to learn as much as I can and learn off of previous mistakes, previous experience and not make those again and be able to give your team a chance to win going deeper into the games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's great to hear because I mean we've played together. But then I got a chance to face you the next couple of years before my career is over, and you were always one of those guys we would go into a hitters meeting and talk about it and be like, you'd see the numbers, you know, you'd have a five ear A or upper four zer A, and you'd be like, the stuff does not match the e RA, And I'm just so happy that the stuff is finally matching the era. You're you're finally getting the recognition you deserve. In my opinion, I don't think you're getting enough recognition that you deserve. But my question to you is, you guys are obviously struggling a little bit as a team right now. I was in that clubhouse three four years ago. I know what Lindor's like behind the scenes. Is there someone else that has recently kind of stepped up in addition to Lindor that kind of keeps things on the track, that's, you know, a leader, you know, because Lindor is one of the best leaders that I've been a part of and maybe touch on that a little bit too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 5: Lindor's he's an outstanding leader, you know, And I think you have a guy that you bring over here and you signed to a huge deal to play shortstop for the New York Mets. You expect him to take that leadership role and he dove right in and he's built for it. You know, he has all the characteristics you want to see in a leader. He does everything on the field, his routine is impeccable. But you know, he also he cares for the guys and he has a way and has been able to over the years throughout his career and learning from guys, you know, relate to everybody in the clubhouse, be able to check in. And I think there's plenty of guys that have have a certain role in terms of that aspect of the leadership.

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Speaker 3: And you know, it's nice KP.

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Speaker 5: I think there's there's quite a few guys from the core that when you were here that are still here. You know, the keet's back, uh Nemos locked up for a while, Marte. You know, we've got we've got a handful of guys kind of all over the field that you know, can can be able to take on part of that role and teach the young guys and and just be a resource. And so I think, you know, we have a good clubhouse in terms of the diversity of perspective. And yeah, I think it's you know, then having Wand come in and putting his own touch on the thing. You know, it's it's different when you get a guy in and another big contract and all that. But he's been great as well. You know, Quiet goes about his work, does things the right way, and we obviously know what kind of player he is on the field and why we brought him in. And so it always helps when you have those bats in the lineup and those guys in the clubhouse to be able to.

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Speaker 3: Be able to lead.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Kratz, I opened up Arena club, put my own money in there, and I wasn't gonna go big. I know. We went over the Ruby pack a week ago. This time I just went for the low level pack where it's an easy entry point twenty five bucks. You can get yourself a big boy card. The Grail has many good options. I slice open the pack. We're looking at it. If you're watching us right now and I pull a card from the nineteen fifties, super cool. I enjoyed the experience looking at it. It's Jim Gilliam, it's the top set from the mid fifties. But I got an offer for more than what the slap pack costs, and I sold it back. Tough times for the Dodgers right now, don't at me, but I got twenty eight bucks instantly, so I can buy another one of those packs and try and get what I want.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely the excitement I heard Kip say before. The excitement's in the chase. You sold it back. Now you get to open another one. I enjoy when you slide it across the screen there and the pack opens.

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Speaker 4: Get after it, David. We all know the position players are the leaders in the clubhouse. Okay, we all know that. We know the pitchers can't do it. But who's the leader of the pitching staff. Who is the leader that on the pitching staff that everyone looks at and says, this is the guy we're going to follow, whether it's a starter or a reliever.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think.

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Speaker 5: It is interesting in terms of the balance position players. Those guys are in there every single day, pitchers, whether it's a starter, it's every five or six days, Relievers, you know, their role is is kind of up in the air. But I think, you know, having a guy like Sugar who's been here before me and obviously you know the role that he plays on our team in the back end to shut the game down, you know, But I think you bring in guys like Clay who's had a lot of experience in bolts, starting and relieving, and so.

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, you have a guy like that who.

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Speaker 5: He's kind of trying to find his way again starting it's been a while, but he's also got a lot of experience as an All Star closer, and so he can relate to a lot of different guys in the clubhouse. Manaiah, huge personality, huge vibes guy. So he has his own little space, and you know, I think I'm trying to put myself somewhere in there. You know, however, I can being a guy that's been here, drafted by the organization and behind Sugar the longest tenured pitchers, So you know, I think you kind of there's guys who are brought in that have those qualities, and there's guys that kind of grow into those roles.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 5: Whether it's vocally or whether it's just for performance, you're gonna have different types of leaders.

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Speaker 3: You guys know that.

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Speaker 1: This actually plays perfectly into my question. You are a long tenured member of this team and of this organization. I'm curious from when you first got into this organ even your rookie year, which obviously was a weird year anyway, because I believe it was twenty twenty. The team then gets sold to Steve Cohen, how much has the team changed from like what you've seen around it. I'm saying, like, resources, whatever, anything that you've noticed over that time period, because we're one of the few people I can ask this too, and it usually takes several years for an ownership group to say, hey we want to do that differently, we want a pitching lab, we want this food instead of that. So, like, give me some examples of what you've seen change over this time period with this new group.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think it's you know, it's taken a complete one to eighty from where it was. And like you said, I had twenty twenty, which was obviously a weird year in the big leagues, and then Steve and Alex Con takeover, and you know, they made it a priority that we want to make this organization one of the best in baseball and uh, if not the best. And so, you know, I think one thing is is Steve's leadership, you know, being able to find the people that he thinks are right for the job and put them in place. And like you said, it's going to take a couple of years, but I think we're starting to really see the full effect of them taking over the ownership.

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Speaker 3: And and asking players, hey, what do you guys need? What? What else can we do?

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Speaker 5: You know, and feeling like your opinion has heard sometimes you know, I think people ask those questions and kind of falls on deaf years, But in my experience, whenever they've asked anything, whether.

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Speaker 3: It's what do you guys need? How are you doing?

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Speaker 5: You know, there's there's genuine thought behind the question, and we've seen it.

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Speaker 3: And being able to work with the staff that's here, Hey, what have we done well? Where do we need to get better?

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Speaker 5: And really attacking those areas, And so I think it starts from the top and and it's trickled down in terms of who they brought in. David Sturtz has been amazing and he's uh, he's always been had an open line of communication, and so I think you know that it.

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Speaker 3: Really starts there.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the resources are great, being able to have the money is great to facilitate, you know, but to have an open line of communication, whether it's playing time, rotation, everything day to day long term stuff.

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Speaker 3: Steve and Alex have done an amazing job. Alex. I mean I can't.

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Speaker 5: Speak enough on what she's done for the families, for the wives, because they understand how much they play into the role and and how much easier they make our lives by doing all the things and taking care of everything they do on the home front.

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Speaker 4: All right, So I can't believe you can you have an open line of communication with Mendy. He's just so hard to talk to. Every time we have him on, it's just so hard to talk to Mendy. It's just like Jesus, guy's impossible to talk to.

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Speaker 3: But I want to know.

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Speaker 4: What you asked for. What's the one thing. David Peterson went to the Cohens or went to David Stearns and said, I need this.

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Speaker 3: I didn't really do that, you know, I was still.

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Speaker 4: Come if you have like I want I want my own hot tub on the plane, or I want my own masseuse on the plane, something like you got to ask for something.

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Speaker 5: No, I mean, I think, you know, a lot of a lot of the things that were brought up. A lot of the guys had the same idea, you know, and just being more efficient running things better, you know, and and cleaning things up where we needed to clean it up. And uh so, No, I mean I think, yeah, there was nothing that I was like, I need this and it's.

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Speaker 3: Got to happen and blah blah blah.

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Speaker 5: But I think, you know, talking to some of the other guys and having some of the other guys you know that we're that were directly involved in in getting some of that stuff done, they took they took the pulse of the clubhouse and saw what was most important.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got I got one more question. I love fluffing up my teammates, and I have a scale. You can always be a good teammate, but the definition of a great teammate is a guy when you make a tea time with him earlier in the week, and you get into a city late and that person doesn't bail and that's you, my friend. You never bailed on a tea time. I know you got young kids now. Just want to know if you're still getting a chance to go out and golf and how the golf game is.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you said I'm in. You know, we make a tea time there, we're going. Uh, it doesn't matter if if we get held up in the previous city or whatever it is. If we got it, we're gonna make that tea time. We're gonna go play. Yeah, I mean, you know, kids obviously throw a rench into the golf game. Wouldn't trade it for the world. But yeah, you know, I try and play as much as I can if we're on the road. Clubs always come on the road, and you know, if we can sneak out or if we have an off day where we can set something up, we'll get out. So I think it's been nice, you know, over the past couple of years watching the group of golfers grow a little bit. It was a little thin at the beginning, but it seems like now we have at least one group, maybe two that'll go out.

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, try and get out as much as I can.

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Speaker 1: You got every day draft McNeil. He'll never say no, right, I.

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Speaker 5: Know, he'll never say no, but then he does sometimes like I'm gonna play tomorrow. But then we go out and play and he has a home the next day and he's like, we're playing again tomorrow. You know, hit that horror yesterday and I was like, hey, tea times at seven thirty and he's like, all right, I'm in we're going you know. So he says he plays his best after golf, but then sometimes he doesn't want a golf because he has to play.

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Speaker 2: So, by the way, you need to get him out there more.

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Speaker 4: I'd love to see that. I'd love to see like a. It'd be like Soto, Alonzo, Lindor McNeil versus Manayah, Sanga, Peterson and Sugar.

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Speaker 5: That would be something I've never played with Singa. I know he plays a little bit. Yeah, we might have the upper.

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Speaker 3: Hand on that. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: They've got the best player on the team. I will give that to Jeff, but the other three, I don't know. I could see Sodo being sneaky. I could see him somehow being just a ringer but talking to Pete and Lindor, I feel like we could we could take care of them pretty easy.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Well, David, this was awesome man. Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate the time. Obviously, KP was very excited to have you on so enjoyed the combo. Keep doing your thing, man, we'll talk see it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, guys, I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you,