Anthony Banda and Ryan Jeffers join FT @Twins camp

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Speaker 1: Here we are. We know Alana's happy. An ex Dodger is on here with us Anthony Bonda. She's so happy right now. Did you know Alana has a crush on you also?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no no.

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Speaker 3: We I believe we met and we had a great conversation.

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Speaker 2: Oh sorry, I said, I will tell him what I said earlier. I said, the ladies of Los Angeles are super bummed that Anthony Bonda is no longer in LA. He was a fan favorite. I said, they love the tats. He's a good looking guy. I could be his mother, So I don't have a crush on him. I think he's a good player, and I think that the Minnesota Twins just got a hell of an arm. That was my point. AJ thank you as I take the bus tracks off of me for this interview. Hi, Anthony.

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Speaker 1: M you liked that you made him smile, He made him blush a little bit. Alanna, you should be proud of that.

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Speaker 2: He's a good guy. He's a good guy, and Minnesota just got better. Their bullpen just got a lot better.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's let's jump in here. You were with the Dodgers last year back to back World series. Then you get to call your traded. What was that phone call?

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Speaker 4: Oh? H yeah, that that you know one. Don't get me wrong. I love that organization. Everybody involved in it. They've done right by me, loved me. Everything about it was great.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 4: I when I got the phone call, it was more of like, uh, you know, shock one, and it's just like I hadn't I couldn't get any words out.

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Speaker 3: It was so shocked.

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Speaker 4: Uh, you know, I wasn't shocked in the sense of maybe a potential trade at some point.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm not oblivious. There's a lot of lefties and they're really.

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Speaker 4: Talented and stuff, and just the whole DFA process was like a shocker to me. But that just comes with like, you know, the roster, flexibit lily and stuff like that, as guys know.

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Speaker 3: But you could tell.

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Speaker 4: I could tell that Gomes was not happy in the sense of like wanting to be on that.

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Speaker 3: End of the phone call.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, we uh you know, he just kind of you know, let me know, and then that was kind of it, and he told me he'll reach back in a couple of days and kind of go from there. But yeah, there wasn't very much exchange. It was just more of an utterly shocked and that was it was a business.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, business, you know. And and the thing is is like.

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Speaker 5: You've been on a lot of teams, so this isn't the first time you switched in.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I just think where it's like, you know, you can't take that very personally, right, because at the end of the day, those are great people over there. They're amazing. They take care of the families. Uh, you know, they care. So he can't he can't take the business aspect of them making moves or doing it the way they want to run the ship, because they were doing it way well before.

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Speaker 3: I even got there.

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Speaker 4: So the way I look at it is like I was just extremely grateful that they, you know, won giving me the opportunity to, you know, have those special moments that we had. And two it was you know, you're not owed anything in this game, so it's like, hey, like take what you can get and keep moving forward.

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Speaker 6: So so fans know you were dfaid, that's what you were talking about. You were dfaid and then traded during that time of being designated for assignment, taking off the roster. That's the part that you were like really surprised about did they talk to you at all? Because the different times that I was dfaid, they called me and they were like, hey, there's a chance of two teams that possibly would would like to claim you, but we have an opportunity to pull you back and trade you. Do you do you have an option between those teams? And did they give that to you?

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Speaker 4: That was something more along the lines of the conversations that between them and the agent, and you know, it wasn't more they didn't give me any type of information, you know, it was just more of like, hey, this is what's what we're doing, this is what we're going with, and uh, you know, we'll touch base in a couple of days.

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 4: Uh, the you know, the feel was like, hey, you're probably gonna get traded at some point, you know, and then kind of gotten that notice through the agency, uh saying that hey, there there's a lot of potential with trades and different teams and and whatnot. So it was kind of a weird process in the sense of just sitting around kind of waiting to see where I was gonna end up at. But like I said, like we've been through it before, so it's kind of one of those things where it's like I know what to expect as far as the waiting time period and whatnot. But you know, I just glad to have another uniform and get another opportunity.

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Speaker 6: All right, I got one more Dodgers question. I'm sure Alana has like a hundred, but how many times how many times were you you crushed asking show hay questions or how many people were like anything you get me show show hayes autograph? Or was there somebody else on the team that you got crushed about? Like Hey, what what kind of shoes does Mookie wear?

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Speaker 4: It was more about like, hey, how how do they run things? How are the guys? And most like that. That's kind of what I got a lot. And you know, as everybody knows it's been in that locker room or gone through that locker room.

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Speaker 3: There are a bunch of great guys.

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Speaker 4: The culture there is unbelievable in the sense of like they have each other's backs, they respect each other's work, they care for each other. So there's a lot of great things that they're doing over there. The culture that they built there. Uh, you know, I was just fortunate enough to be part of it and kind of learned from them. But yeah, I've gotten some show hay uh request for autographs and and uh some stuff as far as asking like how is he what is he like off the field?

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Speaker 3: And I just like, look, he works really hard.

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Speaker 4: You hardly see him because he's always in the cage or you know, doing something. He's very particular about his work, and I mean that speaks of arts with why he's so great.

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Speaker 3: But also it's like you know watching.

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Speaker 4: Him like through the travels and stuff like that, you know, just noticing that he just he loves reading you know, comics or or you know, books on his iPad, you know, just to you know, keep his mind away from you know, baseball. And so I think that was really cool to kind of get a little inside of that.

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Speaker 7: So but he's actually a really funny guy too. He's got a selfie though, I got a selfie with him. Did you know those and sell that thing? Bring down the value though?

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Speaker 3: You Kershaw actually signed some cleats for me, so nice. I was like, yeah, that was cool.

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Speaker 5: But he's still playing. He doesn't he's he's retired, but he's still playing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think the value goes up.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, did he right?

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Speaker 1: Did he write to Anthony yeah, were you like, did you like get a tower Oka, Hey, he's not looking scratching.

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Speaker 4: Off he uh no, they're they're in clothes in a case at my house, sitting between the trophy and the masks and all that other good stuff that I got there. So yeah, it was it was cool for him to do that. I was really really shocked, but then also like really excited, but.

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Speaker 3: The inner child was like, oh my god, yeah, so it was cool.

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Speaker 8: All right, let's turn the pages.

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Speaker 2: So you are entering a new season with the with the new club, and I talked to Derek Shelton about you specifically, and he says he loves your swing and miss. What are you most excited about with with this new team and this group of guys in the bullpen for the Twins.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's just the opportunity to want to get to know the guys, get to learn them, but then also like you know, understanding, like hey, like you know what I learned from the Dodgers, the blueprint that they've given me, and just applying it, you know that, not really changing too much, you know, having each other's backs, trying to establish what I've learned from from La to to hear you know, and it's not like a copy and paste type of thing, right, You got different personalities, you got guys that do different different things certain ways, and it's just like you know, just understanding, like, hey, like I'm always open to a conversation because you know the ups and downs of baseball, right, you get those, right, But then you also have the idea ideology of like having each other's backs, and how do you do that? Well, yeah, of course you did it on the field, but then also in the locker room, off the field type things, you know, getting guys to you know, break that eyes, get them comfortable and and uh, you know, at least that's like work for me, you know from my experience and stuff like that. So it's more of like those long like just showing to be a good teammate, but then also like just taking care of work, right, and then like looking at the big pictures like what are we wanting to accomplish this season? What are the goals for guys, and just kind of staying on that path then get away from writing that what they call the roller.

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Speaker 3: Coaster ups and downs of the season.

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Speaker 4: So it's like, you know, if we can try and stay there, I think we're gonna be pretty good.

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Speaker 5: Are you like the veteran guy in this bullpen?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: No, do they come to you do your boat when you're sitting down in the bullpen. Do guys come up to you and say you want serious ones that like pitching in the playoffs?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Do they ask questions like that?

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Speaker 1: Because this is a relatively youngish team for the Twins, Right, So.

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Speaker 5: You're kind of I mean, you're now you are an older state.

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Speaker 1: Even though you're kind of giving me the you're crazy, You've just been through a lot compared to a lot of these other guys that are here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, I just try to relate through my experiences, right, And that's the best way I.

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Speaker 3: Could potentially do that.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I get a lot of questions, you know, how was it?

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Speaker 3: What was the atmosphere?

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Speaker 4: Like, you know, and you know so forth, like you know, all the generic questions that come with it.

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Speaker 1: And what's the worst question It's the worst question I could ask? Uh, I don't know, or maybe the question you like the least.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I invite all questions, really, you know, I don't I don't really.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna I try to be very understanding.

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Speaker 4: Okay, people are different, you know, they got their own cues and stuff.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, so I'm sure you have one.

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Speaker 5: Right now, No, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I just I want to know because I know I've never heard anyone ask what because people ask me.

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Speaker 5: What's your favorite field you played at? Who was the toughest picture you had to face?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 5: This and that? What's it like winning a world series? Right, You're like, okay, ask me something different.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well I haven't gotten those different questions yet, so it's very generic.

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Speaker 5: That's why you're here. We're asking you different questions.

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Speaker 3: But what was the question again?

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, No, you're good.

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Speaker 2: I'll be about a Pokemon store in Japan. Why what is your what is your fascination with Pokemon?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but you're a Pokemon guy.

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Speaker 3: I'm a Pokemon guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we we. I once did. I once pulled Arena Club and I went on Pokemon. I was like, ah, I spend some money on this and I got some car and I don't even know what it was, and on there they'll they'll buy it back from you instantly.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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Speaker 5: It was like some gold something. I don't know what.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Well, so right away, yeah, but you would have been you would have loved that, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I like, it's a childhood thing of mine.

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Speaker 4: You know, It's something that me and my brothers grew up on and it's something that we really enjoyed, right, And so it just I kind of never really got away from me, right, and it was more of like what kind of kept me in It was like the game book, color games and you know, stuff like that, you know, just passing the time and whatnot. And when I went to it was always one of my bucket It was on my bucket list to go to Japan, right and then go, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, see that side of the world and experience it.

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Speaker 4: And then I had, you know, obviously the opportunity to go and do that, so I wanted to take full advatage of it. And I knew that they had a really you know, there was a Pinnacle Pokemon there, so as far as like the whole uh you know, HQ or headquarters what.

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Speaker 3: Everyone call it.

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Speaker 4: But so we ended up setting it up and that was like I felt like a little kid in there, and I was like, you know, and I enjoyed the heck out of it. My son did too, and we had a great time and it was great, and I think the coolest thing was, I know, the Pokemon Cafe. I heard there was like a rumor or something where it's like there's a waiting list. It's like almost like three to six month waiting lists, and like they were like, no, no, you go in and get it, you know, experience it and you know, so that was pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, the whole experience of it all.

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Speaker 4: Was really really nice and inviting and it was everything that I would think it would be and so it was really fulfilled for me.

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Speaker 5: So real quick, favorite tattoo, My favorite tattoo, I mean you have you have a lot to choose from. Uh yeah, there's a lot of them.

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Speaker 4: I you know, the one on my back is pretty cool, but then this one means the most. It's like, you know, watching my son. It's a nightball with the little guy in there, Okay, so it's like watching him grow up and stuff like that. And then also the five five five was the time he was born. So I mean, those are really cool little tattoos that I like, But like, yeah, I would say the favorite one would probably be between this one and the five five five awesome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Anthony, We appreciate it very much. Thanks for taking the time. Best of luck in Minnesota. We always appreciate it when players come on and I know you're busy, so thanks so much, my friend.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 7: It's good seeing you guys again here with Ryan Jeffers, who now Twins Catcher, who's now like the oldest eldest statesman in.

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Speaker 10: The Twins locker room at this point, are you.

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Speaker 5: Bucks on here?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's kind of crazy. I mean after the trade out, I'm actually we're getting rid of guys left and right, and it's Pablo, bask Buck.

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Speaker 1: And and me, and then they're they're gone, and then it's me and Buck.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's wild.

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Speaker 10: So that means you have to buy everyone dinner every.

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Speaker 9: Night, right, the team dinners will be on me.

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Speaker 8: So buckets back gets back his face.

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Speaker 9: He's like, maybe just breakfast part.

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Speaker 8: Of those yet, I mean the Catcher's dinners. You know, me and Vick we did something cool there, but you know, the team dinner is always you know, when Carlos is around, he's he usually picks us up.

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Speaker 10: Okay, well, when you said you and Vic gets something cool for the Catchers, catchers on here.

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Speaker 8: So tell us, yeah, no, we went out to uh I went online found a nice Korean barbecue spot and then rolled up and it was in a strip mall next to an office depot. I was really worried. I was really worried about I was really worried to where we were going into. Ended up being a really good dinner.

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Speaker 11: It's great when you go to the Korean barbecue people that don't know you have to cook your Yeah, yeah, so you make the rookies cook your food.

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Speaker 5: On the thing.

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Speaker 9: We were fully planning on it, fully planning on it.

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Speaker 8: They ended up the server or whatever, the waitress and cooking all of this for us. He tipped her action right, yeah, oh yeah, yes, oh yeah, oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: Grian, good to be with you. Alana Rizzo here. Wanted to ask you the last three seasons, you guys have kind of been sharing the load behind the plate. This year, Derek Sheldon said, you're ce one. How do you go into the season with that mindset, know when you're getting the bulk of the time behind the dish.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it's something I've always I've always wanted, you know, I've I've felt like I at times I've I've worked myself and deserved the right to catch more. I'm excited to finally get that opportunity. You know, it's every off season I prepare myself to catch one hundred and twenty whatever whatever my name is called. But at the same time, you know, I'm not in control of the lineup. So the last couple of years I was, I was sharing the load and in every other day. But I'm excited to take that opportunity and you know, help the pitching staff on a daily basis and try and help us win some games.

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Speaker 5: When you say helped the pitching staff with Pablo going down obviously for the year.

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Speaker 3: Which sucks.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, for get pitching wise, He's just a good dude to be around and have around. And then you see Joe Joe with his back and he has to miss up starts. You and to get to your team, say, like you plan, how do.

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Speaker 1: You get to know most of the young guys, because after those two if you look at the names in your rotation.

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Speaker 5: And even in your bullpen and you're like, whoa wait.

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Speaker 11: A second, these aren't standard names for most people outside of this clubhouse.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, as you know, it's like our job Number one is to build the relationships with the pictures as quickly as we can and as and as deep as you can. You know, you're trying and get to know them off the field. You're trying to get to know them as people know their families. So that way when you have conversations and you know, the trust level is there, you know, I think that's what it comes down to, is them trusting me that I have their best interests in mind. And we've got some really talented arms behind the the names, you know, the Pablo, the Joe, the Bailey. We have some really talented arts and Mick and Taj and guys that can have really exciting futures, and I think we're really excited to see what they'll do for us.

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Speaker 6: What are the pitching coaches tell you that you have to do for those guys? Is there something individually like not not the stars, not not not the best pitchers, but the guys that are really trying to get their feet under them, or even like a guy like Tosh who's like, Wow, what an amazing potential, but we just haven't quite tapped it on the rag.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, for the young guys, you know, I think it's it's how quickly can I make them comfortable? How quickly can I get them accilated not only to the big league life, but but our clubhouse. You know, how we talk pitching, how we talk scouting reports and get them to go out there and focus on executing their pitch. You know, I'll take the brunt of the game plan, I'll take the brunt of the calling the game.

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Speaker 11: You know.

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Speaker 8: That is, I'll take as much off of their shoulders as I can. But they have to go out there and execute, and there's only so much I can do to help them there. The TAJ, you know, Taj, you pump that guy up every day because he is one of the best, just pure stuff guys in the game. And he's gone out there and you know, I think he punched you six or seven yesterday in five innings and just throw a touch in ninety nine.

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Speaker 9: You know, just unbelievable stuff.

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Speaker 8: And he can be one of the best pitchers in baseball, no doubt in my mind, you know, And I feel like he's on a good track to putting it all together this year. So what that?

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Speaker 10: Sorry, Sorry, Alana.

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Speaker 6: I wanted to follow with that because when Aj was that guy, when AJ, there's he's he said tons of stories where where you handle rookies and you're like, dude, just listen to what I have to say. Is that changed because you're now what we just talked about it the veteran and if you have younger, less experience, not necessarily rookies, but less experienced guys. Are you that jerk catcher that's like, bro, just don't shake me off. If you give up a hit, you know it's showing you or are you Is it more like kid gloves now?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, No, I would say it's more of the latter, not necessarily because you have.

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Speaker 9: To treat them differently.

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Speaker 8: It's just because when you have to rely on them to make a start every five days, you know you want to bring the best out of them as you can.

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Speaker 9: So if there's some guys forget that so well.

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Speaker 8: I think it comes into like, hey, if there if I'm getting shaken off a lot, or or we're getting pitches in situations that I don't want to have those, uh those thrown.

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Speaker 9: You know, that's conversations that we have in the dugout after the inning. You know, something goes south like hey, this is what what I was thinking?

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Speaker 8: This is where I think your thought process was flawed in in the hopes that those young guys will learn. And then the more the trust that I can build, Like I keep going back to trust, you know, the more that they can trust me that I am there for them, the more hopefully they will just turn over the reins to me and let me do thing behind the plate.

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Speaker 2: Ryan, when you walked into the clubhouse last trade season the cherry deadline, you kind of walk around, You're like, where the heck is everybody? But thankfully Joe Ryan is still there with you guys. I know he had been in so many different trade talks. I mean, how key is it for you guys to have success with that guy kind of leading the charge.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, he's been a staple in this organization since I think twenty one when we traded him.

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Speaker 9: Traded for him. He really he commands a different presence on the mound. You know, he's such a unique individual.

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Speaker 8: He's you know, they coined the Joe Ryan experience, and that's a real thing.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 8: You he's a spectacle when he's on the mountain, not just what he's doing with the baseball, but you know, everything he does from his swimmer stuff to the emotions he communicates with the umpires in a different way. I think he's starting to, kind of, like me, step into a bigger role of leadership. And some of the young guys are looking at him for how he works, how he talks pitching, how he communicates, and we're gonna need him to step up a little bit more this year with Pablo being out.

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Speaker 5: He was a great stranger things.

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Speaker 8: So yeah, no, they did one of those like celebrity lookalike things one year one day and it was him and Bill Billy is his name, Billy Billy the mall when you know he gets yeah, oh yeah, yeah, it was really special.

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Speaker 11: We had a yesterday and we were joking about the pitch cop how often do you hit the wrong button? Because he said he hits the wrong button two to three times a game.

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Speaker 8: Pretty pretty rare. Yeah, you know it's I've got mine now, I do say. I think mine is very simple, very easy to use. Uh Vic brought one in that I guess he's used in the past that is just as confusing to me as it gets.

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Speaker 9: So I don't know, maybe mine's a little more simple than others.

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Speaker 11: At least did like sometimes he'll hit throw over and there's no one on base or like back pick.

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Speaker 8: Some guys sometimes you have to some guys, you there's different ways you can organiz is it. Sometimes you have to press like two buttons every time you press a button, like to call something. Mine is just like simple like one presses, I can do more, I can hold.

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Speaker 10: Be careful because people are gonna be watching your.

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Speaker 9: They don't know how, they don't know how it's organized down there on my knee.

00:22:12
Speaker 10: You know, watching with pain flexes in your fore.

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Speaker 8: It wouldn't surprise me if there's some camera on our on our pitch comet sometime. Yeah, but no, you know there's always a little messoups. But there's always a cancel button on there, or there's just an old.

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Speaker 9: Yeah yeah wait wait wait, I know.

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Speaker 8: Usually it's usually it's not the wrong pitch, it's usually what what what at least says like you'll you're searching for a slide step or something in your you end up picking pressing up a back pick button or something something fortunate that.

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Speaker 10: Does you have like no, no, I'm stupid, don't don't don't do.

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Speaker 9: That, that's the old wave your hands.

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Speaker 8: No, no, no, wait, wait, wait, and press press the other one about six times, trying to no, no, no, this one, this one, this one, this thing, yeah, yeah, this one.

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Speaker 6: How about the new role, Well, it's a new role. But they said they're going to enforce the fact that third and first base coaches have to stay in their box during at bats. Does that alleviate some you know, some looking around for you, making sure they're not moving as you call pitch.

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Speaker 8: You know, I'm almost almost torn and meaning the other way of like they when they would leave their box, they're almost always looking at the pitcher. You know, maybe now they not able to do that as much, and they're focusing on me a little bit more, whether that's trying to pick my setups versus picking the pitcher's grips or whatnot. So I'm not sure how it's gonna affect them yet, I don't. I'm not sure how tightly it's really going to enforce. I mean, two years ago they said they were going to enforce the obstruction rule quite crazy, and then no one ever calls it, so who knows.

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Speaker 2: Rian, How do you feel about the ABS system being implemented this year? Have you had to do much of that in spring and kind of what's your take on automated balls and strikes?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I like it a lot. So far, I've been a big fan of it. I've been pretty good at it. There's a pretty good they've got some stats. I've been so far. I've been pretty solid at challenging the right calls. You know, I think there's a lot that you know, it takes away a framing stat from US catchers, but it also I think it can add in a value that we're not really sure of. You know that the challenge and challenging the right pitches the right times, winning those challenges with with whether it's runners on base, you know, that can add run value to what I do behind the plate, just as much as framing some pitches can.

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Speaker 9: So I'm excited for it.

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Speaker 8: I think it'll eliminate the big misses from the umpires and we'll see how it goes.

00:24:34
Speaker 5: Hey, you run out of challenges and then they just start calling.

00:24:36
Speaker 9: So the hitters just use all the challenges and then I don't have any left.

00:24:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, then they just can call anything. So it's fine.

00:24:42
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that's something that we're like talked about. Hey, we're going to follow like, Hey, how does how do umpires react once teams are out of challenges?

00:24:49
Speaker 9: Do they strength his own? Like? How are they going to Are they going to change at all? You know?

00:24:53
Speaker 8: I think in the minors they didn't see a lot of that, but you never know what the big leg umpires that. Yeah, some of the old guys that do they revert back to where they were the years past.

00:25:03
Speaker 5: I don't know.

00:25:04
Speaker 11: Last question before you let you go, La, Troy Hawkins is on your coaching step.

00:25:08
Speaker 5: Does he do anything? Because I can't believe that he does any.

00:25:13
Speaker 9: I think it's a really good voice for us to have.

00:25:15
Speaker 5: You know.

00:25:17
Speaker 9: What, I don't talk to the bullpen coach that much.

00:25:19
Speaker 10: The best thing you've ever said, don't talk to him all year. Tell them that I said, you don't.

00:25:23
Speaker 2: Talk to them.

00:25:24
Speaker 8: We'll probably have a lot more conversations in season than we do right now. I know from talking to the bullpen guys, they're really excited about having him down there. You know, it's not often you can have a twenty plus year vet in your bullpen. Talking to those guys. It's not even the it's not the scouting reports, it's not the how do you it's just how do you handle yourself. How do you approach the game in general? You know, it's the big picture stuff that he brings that you just can't get from anywhere else.

00:25:50
Speaker 1: Really, Ryan, thank you for joining us from one Florida State League All Star here and for Myers to another.

00:25:57
Speaker 5: Thanks for joining.

00:25:58
Speaker 9: Absolutely, thank you.