Polar Bear Pete Alonso and Jackson Holliday join FT @Orioles camp

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Speaker 1: Sitting here with Pete Alonzo, ex Florida Gator Kratz. You know how much I love the Florida Gators. So I asked him if he watched the game last night and he said no, I have a five month old and I said, not the USA game. I said the Gator Florida State game, and he also said no. So I'm disappointing you beat.

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Speaker 2: I know I'm a bad alumni or a bat alumni.

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Speaker 3: Can you be considered did you graduate? No?

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Speaker 2: I have a degree in baseball, so I think that counts.

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Speaker 3: I was going to say, can you consider yourself an alumnus?

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Speaker 2: So if you don't graduate, I graduated from the University of Florida baseball program.

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Speaker 3: Perfect. That pays a little bit better than what were you majoring in?

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Speaker 2: History?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Definitely better than a history teacher. I think Sumo kum loud.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, No, I think. I mean we had a couple of first rounders that year, so I think I was. I think I was not Summa cum laud or. Yeah, who else was? What what was your h SO sixteen? So a championship? You missed the championship?

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Speaker 3: A J.

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Speaker 2: Puk was first rounder? Uh, you had Dane Dunning, Sean Sean Anderson was third rounder, Kirby sneed, uh Logan Shore second rounder, Buddy Reid second rounder.

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Speaker 3: Oh I saw him the other day.

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Speaker 2: Who which one, Buddy? Yeah, yeah, ridiculous. Probably one of the best athletes I've ever played with. Yeah, wow, you touch with those guys? Yeah, good amount. A lot of those guys like are are still playing, So I see him. I see him a lot, So it's it's it's good.

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Speaker 3: That's nice.

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Speaker 2: Just do you keep in touch with the other teammates, Yeah, I mean good amount, Like when I see him, you know, like.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean the Mads teammates.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, uh yeah absolutely. Uh. Actually Sean and I and I are are our neighbors. So uh, that's that's really good. David Peterson's a good buddy in my I went to, uh went to a wedding this past offseason, the aj Mintor wedding. Congrats to him and him and Anna saw a ton of the guys there, so yeah, it was really good. Can you cry when you when you saw them? No, I're happy. No, they're they're happy for sure. Yeah. No, it's it's yeah, a lot of if you spend time somewhere. Obviously you create create relationships, and there's a lot of good a lot of good people that that I consider like, uh, not just not teammates, but you know, friends, but friends for life, and and I think like for here, like I hope hopefully like the more time I spend here, like like more more of those relationships will we'll have.

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Speaker 4: Do you talk do you talk smack on the guys at your best friend like, like Salmonie, he's your neighbor, whether your best friends or not. Like I had like three home runs in the big leagues, and if I ever hit a home run off with somebody that I know, I still text them to this day. You have a million home runs in the big leagues. It feels like like it's kind of inevitable. Do you talk smack on those guys?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 2: Is there fun banter from a it's fun banter, but it's not it's not trashing guys. You know, I don't know which camera is it?

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Speaker 3: This camera? Oh?

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Speaker 2: That camera? Yeah, there you go, Jesus clean it up. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So to be honest, like it's good banter, but it's not.

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Speaker 3: Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, it's good. It's good banter. Back and forth. But I mean the people that the people that I get, they know it, and the people that get me like I know it. So there's no reason to drive it home unless someone's unless someone's getting out of line.

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Speaker 3: You know what would be getting out of line, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, just being over egregious, you know, just being just perpetual, perpetual, like just rubbing it in, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, like if they punch your ticket.

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Speaker 2: Yeah no, well not just not just the line.

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Speaker 1: If someone punches your ticket and you hit a homer, you don't really pin bomers.

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Speaker 2: So no, it's like it's more like like the in the in the dialogue, you know, like if you run into somebody, it's like, oh yeah, it's like for me, it's like I'll be the first one and be like, hey, you got me, Like like Kyle Gibson, like that dude, he's got me in the basement. Like I think I got six punches, and every single other ball I put in play is a double play ball. So I think I have more outs than a bat's off of that guy. So like so yeah, that's yeah, he owns me. But like I'll be the first to a minute. But if he texts you and said that but no, it's fine. But if but if he texts me like every day for like a month's yeah.

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Speaker 1: Get a little tired after a while.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, give me, give me like the nicest guy on earth. So he would probably never do that. But let's talk about your other team that you've played for. We've hit all your other teams Team USA. I get it, you didn't watch the game. What do you feel like it's in that environment when you're talking about WBC environment where there's a chance they're eliminated today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if I remember correctly, I think in twenty three, losing that Mexico game stunk and it's like there was like a run differential thing and we had to beat Columbia and then like again, like there's a lot of number numbers things in pool play. So it's not a good spot. Uh, it's not a good spot. I mean, obviously, winning the game is best case, So I mean, I hope, I hope the Boys can can pull it off. But also too, uh felligator Jack cavanone hit a pump, tasty pump, a.

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Speaker 1: Great bat throw. That's not even a bat flip, that was a full throw.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so kudos to him, Kudos to team Italy because I mean, again, say, is a great team.

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Speaker 1: You root for Jack because you guys went to the same high school.

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Speaker 2: Personally, Yes, yes, absolutely, also have hit with him a couple of times, like in the off season, like he's he's good. People so stoked for him and his performance. Probably MVP. Probably probably him, you know, like I mean.

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Speaker 1: He's bigger than you. You can't say that about a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: No, yeah, he's yeah, bigger, stronger, Yeah, the whole bit, younger, younger, better looking, better looking.

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Speaker 3: I mean there's a whole list of things.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, this is that's right, this is this is.

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Speaker 3: Where this is.

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Speaker 4: He said, like, once it gets past the line, then he's going to tell you to get back in line. So aj, you may have crossed the line with the better looking. No, it's hey, fact, Pete's richer. Pete is richer, and everybody it's richer is always better looking. Did they ask you to play? Did they ask you to play for T say this year?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: No, they did not, And that's and that's fine for me. Like I probably would have said probably would have said no because my wife and I were first time parents, you know, new team, and I think for for us, like just from like just from like a personal like personal standpoint. Yeah, the the attorney, the WBC is sick, but uh, this wasn't the year to do it. Also is asked by Team Italy, which was which was great, but again, like the personal circumstance just didn't it.

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Speaker 1: Would you now if you would have played for Italy, would you have kicked Vinnie out? Jack?

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Speaker 3: Who do you?

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Speaker 2: That's not my that's not my problem because I'm not the manager.

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Speaker 1: So because Vinnie's kind of like team he's like the godfather of that team. Yeah, yeah, he's passing out, you know, he's doing the double kiss wrest.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's it's great, it's great. But for me, like again like from a family thing, like just us trying to figure out baseball and parenthood. Like we're yeah, we're just yeah, new team, I get a lot of a lot of new a lot of new for for the Alonso household. So we're just like, hey, let's let's just settle in, let's let's figure out, let's figure this whole thing out and then just get ready for the season.

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Speaker 2: How are all the new things fantastic new team, new team, I mean honestly, like I can't wait for all the guys to get back. I mean obviously, like for me, like just walking in here, it's like this is a really tight knit group and I'm just really happy that they've been super receptive to having me, and I'm really looking forward to help contribute, not just playing, but add to the clubhouse. Huge additions from talent, and then also personality wise Chris Bassett, big personality but also absolute dog. We have a lot of guys added from trades, like Shane Boz probably the most effortless ninety nine miles an hour ever, but again we got talent, and then also like the clubhouse is, I feel like he's in a really excellent spot.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like the old guy now? As you look around and you see Holiday and Gunner and col and Besio and even Adle, do you feel like, Man, I am just an old guy now?

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Speaker 2: No, I mean thirty one, I feel like I'm still like a part like you know, like a part of it, you know, still still younger. If I was like in my mid thirties, then I would definitely feel that way, but like I mean, I'm still I'm still young, so I feel like I can really connect with those guys, which which is a which is a great thing. I feel like I'm I'm a I feel like I'm a bridge guy. Like I'm a bridge between like being teammates with like guys like Robbie Cano and like a bunch of super veterans like in the in the past that I've played with, like a Max Scherzer justin Verlander, but then also to like I feel like I'm the bridge between that type of like super ultra vet and then to like the super young studs that that are in the game now. So it's like I feel like I am really lucky I get to be that bridge and kind of like have the best of both worlds.

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Speaker 3: If you if you will.

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Speaker 4: Brought is there one stick that you've brought over? Is there one like gimmick? I mean, we had the playoff Pumpkin, we had something or something because it's a new team and you're like, man, this is always fun when we were with the Mets. I want to bring it over with the Orioles now.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean honestly, like the like the playoff Pumpkin was like a spur of the moment thing. I mean it was just like, hey, this is a good look. But again, like that's there's there's definitely there's definitely a time and place for that. But right now I'm just trying to like get get used to the fellas they're trying to get used to me. But I'm excited to fight the fight with these guys. You know, like this is a talented group. But I love the day to day grind in the season. I love the I love the like just the whole the whole journey of the season where it's like this whole endurance thing, like the whole endurance about like the war of attritions, like the day to day stuff. So I'm excited to get into that with these guys.

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Speaker 1: Before you signed her to you say you have to move the fences in and you have to put up a giant scoreboard to block the wind because Cannon was always a great.

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Speaker 3: Place to hit. Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: And then like we're gonna we're gonna make it impossible to hit a homer to left field.

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Speaker 2: Well, Mike, Mike made it, made a joke. He's like, hey, we we tracked it out. You're gonna be a free agent and stuff like that. So we made sure that we moved the fences in for you beforehand, so we didn't have to uh be behind the eight ball when you when you came here. So he did. He didn't make a joke early on.

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Speaker 1: How how how much conversation did you did you actually have with like Mike Olias before you came here? Is it all Boris?

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Speaker 2: Just no, no, no, no is is. Yeah. Well I think it was really good dialogue, especially like that started in November, uh with with him and Scott. But then eventually like we had a obviously an incredible, incredible meeting with him and him and out.

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Speaker 3: I drove.

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Speaker 2: I drove, No, it was easy. He drove to Baltimore, No, Orlando. Oh oh, I thought you were like yeah, no, no.

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Speaker 3: No, what do you call me?

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Speaker 1: I could have sat in. I just would have been like, hey, what's up guys.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, I was being selfish. I didn't want to give you a cut. I was being selfish.

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Speaker 1: You're known as a selfish guy, so yeah, save it, save it. So okay, so you drove this is during winter meeting. Yeah, yeah, So this came together kind of fast for you on your end, well maybe not I'm Scott and Mike, but on your end.

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Speaker 2: Man, No, not really because I was prepared to do it because that's something I told Scott. I'm like, hey, I'm only an hour away, like like team's already there, like I know, like they have other like other things because it's the Winter meetings. But again, like I like, again, if people are, if teams are apt to me and willing to meet, I don't want to do the whole zoom thing because I don't think that's it's it's not as sincere and like them wanting to like meet in person. I'm like, hell, like willing to shake someone's hand, looking in the eye. It's like this is I think that's it's different. It brings a whole it's a whole new sentiment, you know, where it's it's more meaningful that way.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we were at Winter Meetings and it happened quick because we were sitting there and I think you went first, and then Edwin went right after, and everyone was like, holy crap, what just happened In a span of it seemed like it was like ten minutes. I know it was a little bit longer than that. Yeah, and we were all sitting there and I forget it. We had a crass uh the the Duqutt. We had Duquett on right and he was freaking out, Jim du Kay. He was like, oh wait, what's happening.

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Speaker 3: I I gotta go.

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Speaker 2: So, I mean this has happened fast for at least for hours from the outside. Yeah, I'm sure, but like I mean, there's there's plenty of dialogue. There's plenty of dialogue, Like like.

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Speaker 1: You could have just come on and done your first you could have done your first interview on foul charactory right after signing or agreeing sorry, agreeing to terms.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well they but again right after after you agree, like they're like, yeah, we need to get you up to Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: When you walked into the Winter Meeting, did you have like a hoodie on and like a COVID mask?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I just wore like a I just wore mustache and like funky glass.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No one, yeah, no one, No one in the Winter Meetings, no one saw you. No, no one saw me as a ghost.

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Speaker 1: That's impossible because there's seven billion people in the lobby and.

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Speaker 2: Quarters.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so he so he looked like he just looked like a regular GM with tube socks and a quarter zip.

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Speaker 2: I get tube socks on clouds and quarter zip and some and some khaki pay your dad now the dad outfits and all. I don't say that, I'm not saying. I'm just not saying it's a bad thing.

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Speaker 4: Did you did you have a chance to sit with other teams, because I could hear how important that is to you to that that like face to face honesty and interaction. Did you have a chance to say, yeah, I'll talk to you guys if you want to sit down with me, because that means they're serious.

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Speaker 2: No, for sure, But I it's just like after after the Baltimore meeting, it was just like like this, this is it. This is it so I And obviously like we had some incredible dialogue leading up to that point. But again, like for me, like after after Craig and Mike left the room, I honestly like after they pretty much walked me through showed me the whole blueprint of everything, like the stadium plans, not just the renovations this year, but the like kind of like some outlining some certain things that they're going to be doing and the like we'll be getting a new clubhouse next year in Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's big news because that those lockers, those lockers have been there since like before Brady got there.

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Speaker 2: Well that and then also too they want they were very very proud of, like the new spring training facility that we got, Yeah, and hitting it and using it every day. It's been I think has been really useful for me in my prep for the season. So again, like it's is I think this is the like we have new ownership, new everything, new facilities. Like I think it's like the perfect storm of like building momentum and pretty much like changing the direction of the of the franchise, which is which is exciting to be a part of.

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Speaker 3: Are you ready for the Al East?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you came from the NLS to the small market, so now you're jumping up to the ALIS.

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Speaker 2: Of course. I mean this is this is big time baseball, you know, I mean obviously tough division, but it's the big leagues. Everyone's tough. Like the margin of the margin of talent between the best and the worst team, Like you can look at it like objectively, it's like, yeah, this is these are the best in the world. Like people talk about the Al East, But okay, how about not dropping games against non divisional opponents. That's how you close the gap. I mean it's the big leagues can take a day or night off. So it's like people talk about all like division and division. It's like even with my previous club, everyone was focused on division. But okay, well why do we drop the series? If we didn't drop last series, then we wouldn't have to be so overly focused and and and too tight right now, like towards the end of the year. Take care of business on the daily. You don't have to oversteer and and and and hold on too tight, you know. So that's that's my thing. It's like, if you win the day to day, you don't have to over exaggerate the division stuff.

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Speaker 1: You got me fired up? Can you get some oriial gear? Yeah, if you want even have the quarters of on right now, that's right dull because then you can make all the people at home too excited.

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Speaker 2: So it's not sure, yes, it's early in the morning. Don't want people to get too excited.

00:18:41
Speaker 1: Well, Pete Alonso newest Oriol going to hit a probably fifty in canviin yards this year.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having why not. Thank you. I appreciate you. Cratzy, appreciate you. Hey, J, thank you, buddy, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Hey.

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Speaker 3: We love.

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Speaker 5: What they bring to the table, including the vending machines. Hey, we're at Oils Camp today, Twins Camp tomorrow, Red Sox Camp on Friday, and then Tiger's Pirates, Blue Jays, Phillies and we're done with the five week tour. We're continuing live right now at Oriols Camp in Sarasota. Hey, J, your boy Jackson holidays here. What's up Jackson?

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Speaker 1: How you doing?

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Speaker 3: We're hand a bros. We're handmade bros. Oh, handmade bros. How you feeling, dude? Hey, feeling good? Feeling good.

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Speaker 6: Started hitting some darts and some phone balls today. So training in the right direction, full go on defense and throwing.

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Speaker 3: So lots of positives. Well what does that mean?

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Speaker 6: Darts so like not flips. They just on the knee throwing OVERHND. Oh that's a big thing.

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Speaker 3: That's different than flip. Yeah, because like the attacking.

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Speaker 1: Hit a real baseball did a softball and then you said you hit phone.

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Speaker 3: Balls phone balls out of the machine. You're not ready for the vida. No, no, I guess not.

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Speaker 1: But by the way, I must say this before I we just ran the Pete Alonzo interview and I did not have this on. So thank you Pete for the sweet hoodie orioles. That's why in the interview I did not have this on. He brought it out to me.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 3: It's nice. I had to rip, So thanks Pete. To name one that's wondering that. But what's rehab like?

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Speaker 1: I've lived the Handmaid, but luckily mine was in the off season, So what's the what's the rehab explained to people?

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Speaker 3: What it's like? Yeah, it's pretty straightforward from what I understand.

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Speaker 6: I mean, the morning's kind of start off with me getting tortured to take a little scalp pool and scrape it, try to break up the scar tissue, and then lots of armcare so hopefully I.

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Speaker 3: Come back throw in like one hundred miles an hour and.

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Speaker 6: Playing catch and and I did a lot of one hand swings early and now I'm progressing into te flips, darts and hopefully.

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Speaker 1: Your left elbow gets sore from just a little hand, yeah, just a little surprisingly, Yeah, but I'm a nice strong top hand.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna h on a swing limit like pictures when they come back from injuries were on a pitch count, limb.

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Speaker 6: There's a swing limit right now, but it's like thirty swings off the tee, which I don't think i'd ever do, but just trying to build up volume, and I'm not one hundred percent sure. Hopefully I'm not swinging too much in the games and working counts, but uh, I don't think there'll be a swing a minute.

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Speaker 3: Say, so I start get rolling. Did you know it immediately when you did it? Did you know it immediately?

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Speaker 4: Because some people have different different feels of what happens when it happens.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I was a little sore. I mean I just started ramping up in spring. I got down here the first of February and had nothing that I hadn't experienced before. And then I took one swing and live at bats and it did not feel good. And I went to pick up my bats to potentially go up and hit again, and I was like, yeah, that's that's really not good. Then we went ran and I went to open a water bottle and I couldn't open a water bottle, and I was like, I think I might have done something, and went on went on chat GPT and typed in one of the sentence of a hammate, and I checked all the boxes and went to the training room and yep, sure enough, so I definitely knew on one swing Chad GPT was Yeah, it was water, water bottles, paint on the back of your hand, just pretty much all of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, who was the pitcher? Be why Brandon Young? Was he? Now?

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Speaker 1: Was he talked trashing? And be like I broke your hand?

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Speaker 6: I don't know, I don't I think he probably want that pitch back. It was like a high change up the game.

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Speaker 3: You swung at it, yeah and missed or hit it. Yeah, strikeouts, broken hands, strike out. Oh so he definitely could talk trash. Yeah. Yeah, he's so nice, though he probably won't. That's so great.

00:22:41
Speaker 1: You said you can do everything defensively because it's right. Yeah, you can take grounders, you can keep your legs. I saw you out there running and keep your legs in shape.

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Speaker 3: Yep. So that's a goal throw yep.

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Speaker 6: Limit limit as much time when I'm coming back, so I'll be ready to play defense and able to take grounders with the team. And so that's been good work with Iro, which is our new intol guy, and it's been great.

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Speaker 4: Being injured and being young. Do you feel like you get more of the brunt of guys making jokes or like ribbing you because they're like, you're like nineteen years old? How on earth did you get hurt? Like nobody gets hurt until they're like twenty eight. Do you get more ribbing from your teammates because you're on the il right now?

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Speaker 6: I don't think right now, because it's a real broken bone. Maybe if it was like a strain in my like calf or hamstring, probably would get some from guys. But I guess since I had surgery, I think there's a little bit of a leeway for that.

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Speaker 3: But no one. No one's really giving me a hard time about that. But uh, I know we're golf of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I can't go. I don't think he was talking some serious after about you or Yeah, Ruch likes to give me a little bit of a he says, you never given anything back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I was.

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Speaker 6: I was telling somebody in there that I think it's like an older brother thing. Like the younger brothers, like my little brother Reed will give us like some serious cut deep jabs, and I think it's it's the job of the older brother to kind of be the peacemaker. So I'm working on it. Me and Heston Kursa. I go back and forth a little bit in ping pong and we we we live together right now in spring and we play Mario Kart, and so I definitely give it to him a little bit more, but I'm holding back for ruts whenever I can go out and smash him in golf. So I'm just saving it for the right time to really get in there when I need it.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're watching WBC your dad as a coach. I just saw him in Houston. We'll try to sell me your house, by the way, which is amazing. I'm like, yeah, I'm good on still Water. Yeah, but how much are you watching? I'm watching you stayed up, Well, you're not playing, so I guess, yeah, that is easier.

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Speaker 6: I still get pretty tired because even though I'm on the I l I guess I feel like I still do and extremely am out of a lot of stuff in the sun so I am a little tired. I do run a lot. Yeah, I spent a lot of time running, So I watch usually like the first half of the game, especially last night starting at nine o'clock.

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Speaker 3: But I've been watching. I love to watch.

00:25:03
Speaker 6: Baseball, especially meaningful games in the environment, so I've been watching pretty much all of them.

00:25:09
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's a lot of fun.

00:25:10
Speaker 6: I mean, I know a lot of those guys, and Roman's one of my good buddies, and obviously Gunner and I've had a lot of fun watching.

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00:26:19
Speaker 4: What was your reaction to the game last night though, when you're watching it, were you like dang or were you like I thought this could happen?

00:26:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it at least got a really a really good lineup. Sorry, this is off. I think we're good. Now that's good, can get three.

00:26:36
Speaker 6: I mean they have a good lineup, and they came out early. I actually spent a lot of time with Nolan and and.

00:26:41
Speaker 3: We're pretty good buddies. So after the first thing, I thought he was.

00:26:43
Speaker 6: Gonna strike every single person out, but it was also really cool to see him out there. But they took some really good swings. I mean, it's he's a really good picture, but they took some really good swings and it's tough to battle back against good pictures. So I got a little nervous, I'm not gonna lie when I started watching it, and then I went to bed hoping maybe they'll give him some good luck. And when I woke up, they tried, They tried, they battled back.

00:27:09
Speaker 3: But uh, that should be interesting.

00:27:12
Speaker 4: You wanna you want to try to play it in WBC, Like is international Baseball? Is that something you want to be a part of, because I think the next one is possibly the Olympics.

00:27:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh man, absolutely.

00:27:24
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, the year I made the USA team in high school was right after COVID, so we played Canada in seven games actually here at ed Smith, So, uh, I would love to experience that. Me and he actually got invited to play for Team Italy. You and me and my brother, You think, I yeah, Italy, my grandpa and his side of the family.

00:27:44
Speaker 3: Oh they doesn't sound very Italian. Yeah no, no, it didn't really feel right. You know.

00:27:48
Speaker 6: It's it's a great honor to to potentially do that.

00:27:51
Speaker 3: But I'd love to play for the USA team.

00:27:53
Speaker 1: One day Italy trying to poach everybody. They asked Pete to play team Yeah. Yeah, hey, I mean they're looking to win.

00:27:58
Speaker 3: I mean it last night.

00:28:00
Speaker 6: Yeah it worked so but yeah, I would love to do that one day. That would be uh, that'd be part honor.

00:28:06
Speaker 1: What did you tell your brother about playing Pro Bowl? I mean he got to play a little bit last year after getting drafted. My son played against Ethan forever and like the perfect game circuit. So what do you tell him once he signs and he goes away to spring training? Is there any advice? You're like, Hey, listen a little bro, It's so easy.

00:28:21
Speaker 3: You're there.

00:28:21
Speaker 1: I'm there when I was nineteen. Yeah, you're not there next year you're a disappointment.

00:28:24
Speaker 6: No, No, it's uh, it's been fun to talk to him.

00:28:29
Speaker 3: He would he would call me.

00:28:30
Speaker 6: We would watch the game towards the end of the year when he got to to go and play, and we'd be playing cards on the plane.

00:28:35
Speaker 3: I'd be watching him, and I mean it's tough.

00:28:39
Speaker 6: I mean, you go from high school, especially in Oklahoma, you have good competition, but not every day you're facing guys. Theron ninety two, one hundred miles an hour and he struggled a little bit. He'd called me, He's like, I struck out four times again, and I'm like sitting here with Kwser and Gunner and Adlie, and I'm like, dude.

00:28:57
Speaker 3: We all strike out a lot. It's just part of it, especially coming from high school. And but he's doing good.

00:29:03
Speaker 6: He was freaking out a little bit early in spring. He said he struck out four times and Live at Bats and I'm like, he's in big league camp. No, No, he's Minley camp. And then two days ago I get a text He's like, I hit two homers and two doubles in Live at Bats and I'm like, just part of it.

00:29:20
Speaker 3: Just gotta just spend entire off season up facing a lot of pictures. So it's been fun to kind of help him.

00:29:26
Speaker 6: Navigate that, and obviously as my dad in Arizona, and but it's been fun.

00:29:30
Speaker 4: To knowing your family as close as I know your family. You know, I play with Matt and you know we've been part of PAO together for years. You guys are a close knit family. AJ mentioned it. The fact that you guys are that they're selling the house that's kind of like a place to come back to in the off season. Is that tough being a young player in the big leagues, It's like, Okay, the season's over, it's time to come back together. Is it tough to not to be able to go home to the last house or if they sell it, to the last place that you know, you guys lived, And how important is that to have that family time in the off season.

00:30:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great.

00:30:09
Speaker 6: My family is very close, but I think we we always have that place just wherever.

00:30:15
Speaker 3: The family is. That's kind of home.

00:30:17
Speaker 6: I know growing up in baseball, that's kind of how I grew up in my family. Kind of motto is we we always traveled with my dad, and we lived in New York, we lived in Saint Louis, we lived everywhere that he played. So as much family as we do have in Oklahoma, it doesn't really matter where that is. Me and my wife bought a place down here, so we'll spend some time in Sarasota and and and go out to Arizona as well. And so I think it's just always homes where the family is right and so uh, that's kind of how our family roles. We've had a lot of experience moving as I'm sure they could tell you so, uh that that won't be much.

00:30:55
Speaker 3: Of a problem.

00:30:56
Speaker 6: Obviously, the house in Oklahoma has been has been incredible and in my family has had a had a big impact on on that community. As far as hos some Bible studies, uh every Sunday night for all the athletes at the college, and so we'll miss that aspect, but uh, as far as as family, it'll be just fine.

00:31:15
Speaker 4: Your dad's a hitting coach for Team USA. Like we mentioned before, what do you think of him as a hitting coach? And you can and you can be honest like you're the oldest son. The oldest son doesn't always have to be you know, the right file the rules like it's okay if you want to be honest and really give it to us.

00:31:31
Speaker 3: How he is as a hitting.

00:31:32
Speaker 6: Coach, I think he's a great hitting coach. I'm not sure how much he has to do on the USA team with with all of those guys. I think he just kind of puts the ball on the tee what we were talking about.

00:31:43
Speaker 3: He just just sets the ball right there and he flips.

00:31:45
Speaker 1: He said, he's he said, his arm is his folders foor from flipping.

00:31:49
Speaker 6: So yeah, he's he doesn't have to do much with those guys, so uh, but I do think he's a good hitting coach, and he's had a lot of experience with with some great teammates and and I think he has a has a really good understanding of of the swing and approach and and that's that's kind of my unbiased opinion.

00:32:06
Speaker 3: But he's also still bigger than you.

00:32:09
Speaker 6: Yeah, I can't really say anything mean or also just you know, it's still still a little bit bigger and stronger. So uh, maybe one day I'll grow into it.

00:32:16
Speaker 3: I'm still waiting. But uh, yeah, I do think he's good hit catch.

00:32:21
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got too pretty high picks as kids, So I think he did something you tellt you guys something.

00:32:25
Speaker 3: Along the way.

00:32:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, every now and every now last thing for me, Are you going to be ready for opening Day? Are you not going to be ready for Opening Day? I'm not one hundred percent sure. It's it's coming up quick, and it's about two weeks. Yeah, I think it'll be most likely.

00:32:38
Speaker 2: No.

00:32:39
Speaker 6: Obviously, my goal is to try to be ready and and and be in a position to to be ready. But the most important part is being healthy and when I do roll back out there. It's it's uh, it's one hundred percent ready to to go out there and be the best second.

00:32:53
Speaker 3: Basement I can be.

00:32:54
Speaker 6: And so that's kind of the the outlook that I have. Obviously be ready as fast as possible, but making sure that I'm ready to.

00:33:02
Speaker 3: Go back down to Norfolk. Hit some dangers. Yeah, yeah, I think the first weeks in Memphis, so uh, I'll be playing the against the Cardinals. Yeah. Yeah, so your dad's going to the Cardinals Hall of Fame. I think he's been in it for he went in on that.

00:33:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, someone was going in I saw this year and they were like, oh, I'm not sure. Someone I know, but yeah, I'm not higher sure, but.

00:33:24
Speaker 6: I would guess not just because of kind of a slower progression because of my throne.

00:33:28
Speaker 3: Him.

00:33:29
Speaker 1: Okay, well take your time, like I've told everyone, take your time before you come back from it. Thank you for joining us, and I hope you get to beat Adley's ash. Yeah to say that, because I'm a catcher, So I hope Adley get a kicker golf.

00:33:39
Speaker 2: He's good.

00:33:39
Speaker 6: So he switched, does he switch golf too? No, he's righty, he's ready. But I play righty and putt lefty, so actually I put both. I just am bad at both.

00:33:50
Speaker 1: So I just do you have one of the flat putters, Sorr, I know we got to go with. You have like one of the flat putters you can put There are people that certain if it breaks left or right and put lefty, and if it break the other way, they put right.

00:34:01
Speaker 6: I use my per diem to buy like toys, so I have like two lab hutters that I bought with my prettyum and that's like half a week of ye per Diem.

00:34:08
Speaker 3: They're very expensive, but I love it. I could play every day in all season if I could. They got a good golf here, Yes, welcome to the Dodge Country. Yes, full time. Thanks Jack, you got it. Thank you guys,