Sal Frelick, Jacob Misiorowski and Brice Turang @Brewers camp

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Speaker 1: Salth Freelick is here, sal How was the off season for you?

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Speaker 2: Good off season? Super cold, A lot of snow. But why a ton of snow in Boston?

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Speaker 3: But why do you live there?

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Speaker 2: I was, That's where I was born, So that's that's like always home for me. I love it too much to go somewhere warm in the off season. And but look at this, Yeah, that's why you come here for spring. And it's great when I get to I would say, I come here and it's like the first time I take batting practice on the field or catch a flat ball outside is in spring. So I feel like I have like a nicer appreciation for Arizona. But that's good.

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Speaker 1: Do you like seasons? You know some people are like, no, I just want eighty everything.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I like seasons.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like like I love I love fall. I love winter during the holidays. I will say, like after the New Year, when it's still really cold and we're not getting any snow, I'm like, alright, I gotta I gotta get to easy. But I love the snow and the cold for Thanksgiving and Christmas for sure.

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Speaker 3: I was in New York and they had that and they're about that. You guys are about to get hit with another another nor easter. Yeah right, So I was in New York. We were in New York for the Baseball Awards, and uh, I had to get out of town otherwise would have been stuck there for like a month because of the snow. I just don't know why you guys enjoyed What what's the upside to the snow? And you can't go outside because if you do, you might go outside your skin is exposed.

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Speaker 4: You.

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Speaker 2: I mean, even when we were in college and growing up, like as soon as it snowed, it was all right, this is great because there were no cars on the street, so the plows were out. They'd plow a little bit and you'd go out. You'd throw your snowsuit on, you'd bring sleds, whatever, and you just go out. Everybody would be outside, and yeah, that's just we did that growing up. We did that in college. And I just love the snow.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So make sure AJ knows that he's soft, because, like I mean, I'm a northern guy. We just the Northeastern just passed through here. I'm in Pa, so I'm not quite where you're at in Boston. But do you think you would have been a better player with your skills. People always ask the Northeast guys they take longer to develop, and like, your career has kind of gone that direction. If you'd have been one of those people from the armpit of America like Florida or Texas, do you think you would have been a better player, like maybe higher draft pick or like made the acclamations of a big league sooner?

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Speaker 3: For sure?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean I think I'm still learning. Like I look at my swing sometimes and I'm like, oh, that's what I look like.

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Speaker 4: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: Like, I feel like I still have a lot of room for that improvement. But at the same time, I think there's areas of the game that I might feel like I'm more developed out or have an edge on because I'm from you know, the Northeast, and I love carrying that chip on my shoulder. I'm super proud to be from from New England, and it's one of the first things I usually tell people is, Hey, I'm from Boston, you know, even if they don't ask where I'm from, Like, I'm super proud of it. So yeah, you know, you can just carry a lot a lot of pride all right.

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Speaker 3: Did you see murphs joke when we were in New York at the BBWAA Awards where he got his second Manager of the Year award.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's a walking he's You didn't hear what he said though, No I did.

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Speaker 3: And he said that they have to have you guys, that they have to lower the soap dispensers in American family field because you only have short kings on your team.

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Speaker 2: It's true, it's true.

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Speaker 3: But do you have a different because we just had Miz Right and Kyle Rison, and they're tall, they are, right, but every position players five nine or five eight and under.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the pictures are I feel like, more, you know, normal vertically, but the position players is pretty much like there's a guy over six foot, he's kind of like getting looked at, like, what's this guy doing here?

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Speaker 3: Is that why you and Adam Amin when every time Adam Aman does a game, because he's also like five seven, is that why you always go.

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Speaker 2: Off everything five eight? I feel like we're the same about Adam. Yeah, I'm talking about yeah no, but yeah, you got to stick together. The short guy's got to stick together. I love playing for this team. I think you know, Murph does a good job getting all the short guys together and in one in one clubhouse, especially uh, you know, the offensive players.

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Speaker 3: So it's fun you Does he have to do different Do you guys have to do different stretches and stuff?

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Speaker 2: I mean we do different stretches in general from the positional difference, but I think we might have to stretch less than they do just because they have more length to them. It's kind of we stroll it out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't even think about that.

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Speaker 5: And you guys are closer to the ground, so your low ball hitters all the jokes that Murph probably has. Do you have do you have one joke that you were like, Man, I totally got Murph, and can you tell us?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I have infinite I've told this one. I've told this one a few times. I wasn't telling it at first because I was like, I don't want people to hear this, but Murph as this joke like, I'm a big crossword guy, right come in to the clubhouse, I'll do a crossword, have a coffee, whatnot. And Murpha will always come in and be like, it's really good you're doing crosswords, because you know you're not good enough to play in this league, you'll be out of it in the next year or two. So it's good that you keep your brain sharp for when you're applying to grad school. And I think he just chose a random school because he's from New York obviously knows some of the schools up in the Northeast. And he goes, you know, you should start applying to schools, maybe Brandis, which is a it's a small school out out in Massachusetts. And I'm like, what that's That's so stupid.

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Speaker 4: Come to it.

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Speaker 2: Like two weeks later, I'm I'm just at my locker and you get mail whatever, and I get this envelope that says Brandeis University and I'm like, it's just super weird.

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Speaker 4: I didn't even really open.

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Speaker 2: I think I brought it home and my girlfriend ended up opening and she's like, hey, you might want to look at this and I and I read it. It was from the president of Brandeis Business.

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Speaker 4: School, and I looked up who it was.

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Speaker 2: It was the actual guy, and it's a full letter, probably like six or seven paragraphs of how brand Ice had seen some interviews with Murph and how he said that I was interested in Brandeis, and I wasn't going to be in the game long and I'm like, I couldn't. It was written way too well for it to be Murph. Like there was super big words in it, and I knew Murph didn't write them. But at the same time, I'm like this, he has to be a part of this. So I went into his office next day. I threw it on his desk. I was like, I know this was you. And he played off for a little bit, but I eventually found out he reached out to the guy and had him write a letter from Brandeis. And I'm like, oh my gosh, are.

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Speaker 3: They gonna give you like a free doctorate? Like can I get like a free doctorate or something, you know, an honorary doctorate?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandise, Yeah, So I guess I'm if you know it does come to that, which Murphy continues to reminds me that it is going to I guess I have some connections to Brandeis.

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Speaker 3: Now that's good.

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Speaker 5: That's good, And you can be like a j You can never have gone to school and just give a lot of money and claim that at the school. But we're we're talking about the height, we're talking about the height. You guys did your abs height check and everything. Did you come in.

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Speaker 2: No, we haven't done it yet right after this. We we haven't at ten to ten. So I'm gonna be doing it right after that. Yeah, I'm gonna have my feet super wide, really bad posture. I think I'm gonna try to sync down a little bit.

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Speaker 4: No, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna just stand the regular I'm gonna swing at the pitches that are balls anyway, So it's for guys who take balls. I'm not in that category.

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Speaker 5: There's but there's been some discussion about it, right, There's been some like cause there's there's a good like you can you can stick your butt out because you're not but if you do this.

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Speaker 3: I was.

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Speaker 5: I was part of the very first measuring when they tried to, Yeah, tried to figure it out back in like I mean, I think it was nineteen or twenty in spring training when they were like trying it out for the first time and they said, if you like slouch, you can't. But like, have guys talked about, Okay, I'm gonna be a slow I'm on a slouch, I don't care what my height is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've I mean we've again.

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Speaker 2: We I had it in the miners in Tripa that one year and they measured us and I remember guys trying to slouch and they were pretty strict with like making sure guys weren't slouching and stuff. But at the same time, I think we're under the impression right now that wherever you get measured at doesn't come into play. If you then crouch in your batting stance, if you're a guy who like gets really low in his batting stands, they still take the frame from when you were just standing upright. So guys are right, So and again this is just what I'm hearing. We're talking about it. So guys are like, if guys are like really crouched down on their batting stands, they're like, I don't want to get measured standing straight up because my zone is gonna be higher. So, yeah, guys are talking about it. We'll see how it goes. Again, I'm kind of on the side of I don't think it's gonna impact the game.

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Speaker 3: You know this, because if Rose and You're all, you know, squatted over and then he'd have to swing in pitches like over his head, right, it doesn't seem like so we'll see. I'm playing straight up, so you know, then I would have maybe had a hard time with the low ones. And by the way, Aaron Judge lost like two inches on his abs, so maybe he's allowed to.

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Speaker 2: Right, So we'll see. I'm I'm it's been fine so far in the games with the guys challenging. I feel like the zone has been pretty pretty fine.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, so you don't think it's that big of a deal that like, oh, you know, we got to have more open dialogue about this, or just not that big of a deal for you.

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Speaker 2: No, I think the open dialogue is fine. I think you know, it's good for baseball. It's kind of exciting when you see the ball come in on the on the jumbo tron, you know, similar like tennis challenge and whatnot. But I think it eventually is going to iron itself out and it's gonna be pretty normal.

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Speaker 6: Again.

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Speaker 2: You have two challenges. I don't think teams are super eager to use those challenges in non leverage situations, so I don't think it's gonna come out as much. I think they were saying even in the minors it was either three or four challenges per game, which I don't think is a ton for the amount of times that a hitter a pitcher might think they, you know, get screwed. So I really think it's not gonna be this crazy difference where you see guys challenging every single at bat. It's gonna be cool when it happens, you know, the two or three times a game in these high leverage counts, and other than that, I don't think it's gonna be this like crazy change to the game.

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Speaker 3: Does Murph allow anyone but himself to challenge?

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 3: Does he have a signal from the like does he yell liked tell someone to challenge so that he lets him know or is he just gonna let you guys free flow it?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think one you has to be you have to challenge so quick.

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Speaker 3: I know, but Murph still could be like he could.

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Speaker 4: I already know.

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Speaker 2: I'm one of those guys that can't challenge, and if I do, it has to be correct. I think most of those guys know that. I think there's a few guys.

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Speaker 3: Is you're wrong? What does he do? I don't know, or we were even.

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Speaker 2: Talking about that. We were like, should we get like a you know, kangaroo court type thing going where if you get it wrong, I mean you're put you're getting fined by the team into this pool at least, like you know, if you challenge, like you know, a three to zero pitch or whatnot. Like we were like, maybe we should have some standards held here, but I'm sure murphill came up with some stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well also, I mean early in games, it's gonna have to be egregious or where like you said, you look and you're like this is way off. I'm pad a bad pitch here, let's do it. So my thing is you're going to see this at some point because everybody has a bad day, and you know, we'll go over on show. We'll credit the guys when they have like a perfect performance based on the grading but also every once in a while you have an ump and misses like fifteen eighteen calls in a game. There's gonna be a game this year where a team's gonna get on a challenge sheeter early and they're gonna be like, I just think his zone is off, and it's going to be like boom, got it because you keep it if you get it right, that's the key. Right, So if you get one and you're like, I just think he's off today, you're going to see one where there's like, I don't know, twelve fourteen challenges in a game.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent, I mean, and you would hope that too, and even talking with some of the umpires and they seem pretty excited about it too, because it might help them, you know, adjust their zone quicker where early in the game, you know they're giving that ball off. If guys are challenging that and they're continuously getting proven like okay, that's a ball, they might tighten it up quicker. And you know, at first was asking some of the guys this so farther spring, like hey, is this annoying to you? Because you know sometimes that's we know, like all right, he's given that pitch. We're gonna go attack it like we don't mind, they don't mind, and they're like, no, this is they think so far from I'm hearing, have been very positive about it and been saying like, that's great. We'd love that quick feedback and kind of change it, change it quicker.

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Speaker 3: So, so are you a Patriots fan?

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Speaker 2: So I'm actually a Steelers fan? Okay, but even worse, but not not too bandwagon, but I do. I do claim the Patriots as as my second team when the Steelers are not in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, my second team is the Seahawks. So I was going to give you a little shit about that ass open that the Patriots took in the Super Bowl, But you know, the Steelers will. They finished nine and seven and they lose in the first round. They have a new coach, so it's fine. What was harder for you then? Was it watching the Super Bowl and the domination of the Seahawks defense or the way the NLCS ended for you guys last year?

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Speaker 2: I mean I would have to say that, I'll see, okay, I I don't know if anything is worse than that. You know, it was obviously a great stepping stone. I think for us last two years before this past when we lost in the wild cards. So one to to play good enough during the regular season to skip the wild card, then to beat the Cubs.

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Speaker 3: It's always a good day when you beat the Cubs. What happens and.

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Speaker 2: Kind of in a little dramatic fashion too. Obviously we went up two games and then went to Chicago, lost to They forced a game five, brought it back to Milwaukee in one, which was awesome. Awesome to win a series. And then yeah, I mean, first of first off, you know, tip tip in the cap to the Dodgers. There haven't seen a starting pitcher performance like that in a while. And you know, I'd like to say that they can throw any starter out there and pitch as good as they want. Our lap, we'll give them a battle. And you know, we really did want into sort of a buz saw there and those guys, you know, through the crap of the ball. But yeah, a little disappointing end there, for sure.

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Speaker 5: You said the last two years were stepping stones. How tough is it to see Isaac Collins get traded, Caleb Durban get traded, Freddie p get traded, and then say, well, yeah, we're on a stepping stone, and then you're looking for the next stone and you're like, crap, it looks farther away than it did last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and again I think to that point, like, we know we're not going to go out and sign these big guys every offseason, right, we know we're not gonna enter that free agency pool and start offering these guys money. But we also really take pride in drafting guys are homegrown guys. You know, you look at Freddie, a guy who came up their organization, you know, didn't miss a start for us, I think for the past five six years. And then you go and get guys like Caleb Durban, get guys like Isaac Collins who just fit our mold super well, and that kind of that Murph Baseball sq type play. And you know, you grow close to these guys, right, and I understand business guys are going to get traded. And you know, I think this was my first real time though where the guys that did I had really close relationships with, so you know, wish nothing but the best for them. But but again I see the get the business side of it and understand that, you know, guys get traded and that's that's part of it.

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Speaker 3: So uh, no extension talks. We can just give me a yes or no.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let's go. Let's go mad Art. Well, we're gonna talk to Matt soon, so we'll make sure we bring that up to them. Uh WBC starts soon. You run Team Italy last time? No Team Italy for you this year? Is it because you were too short? Because they have like Vinnie Jack Kaglion, they have some monsters now. So were they like, hey, listen, we need to go with the full grown lineup here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think I was just I was getting phased out. They there are too many monsters to your point, point out and no again, I was playing up until the end of the season. I committed to them. I love doing it. When I did it three years ago, unbelievable run with those guys when we were started in Taiwan and finished in Japan, like it was such a cool experience and was excited to do it again. They did kind of switch things up a little bit. I was there when Piazza was the man.

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Speaker 3: I talked to Piazza and he said, you were the reason why I didn't come back.

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Speaker 2: That's that's crazy. Again, that honored but Uta too, who's now with the nationalar assistant coach. He's a Boston College guy as well. That's where he went, and so I'd known Blake for a long time. But again, even though those guys weren't doing it, I know, I talked to Vinnie and Caglian and I was like, yeah, I'm all in, and just had the end of the year meeting with the team and got the MRI's back and had the end of the year of meetings with the doctor and they were kind of just like, hey, I think we need a full off season, in a full spring training kind of under our control.

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, that's interesting. Wow, it's a shame because I love the WBC and I want every team to have all their players and be as good as they can. So to Shane that Italy, we'll be rooting for him though either way. Oh yeah, you're going to be rooting hard for him for sure. But then okay, so then all, did you watch the hockey game yesterday? Oh yeah, So were you rooting for USA? Oh yeah, obviously, so you can root for USA and hockey, but not in baseball.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'll be rooting for usay in baseball for sure.

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Speaker 3: When Italy plays USA and in Houston in the first round.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, if I was playing for Italy, I would want to beat USA. But I listen, I love this country. I don't think anything Trump's the United States. So you know, I'll be rooting for a good game. You know, whoever wins, it'll be a good one. But outside of those two teams playing playing against each other, I'll be rooting for US.

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Speaker 3: If you had to take a ball to the face to win the gold medal, would you do it?

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Speaker 2: I take I take four balls to the face.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Well, sad, we love catching up. But yeah, this was great. Have fun in spring training and we'll talk to you during the season.

00:19:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always fun, guys. Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 4: We'll see soon.

00:20:00
Speaker 1: We've got the All Star from twenty twenty five and a sophomore the miz joining us right now on FT. Is it crazy to hear all of that? What a run it was, and then that even included the postseason performance. Did you do some reflecting in the off season.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's yeah, it's wild.

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Speaker 7: I mean I never thought, you know, our first year in the league, I'd be in that talk of an all star like with it, and it's just I don't know, it's insane.

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Speaker 3: Have you woken up from the dream yet?

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Speaker 6: No, No, we're closed. I think I'm still just like floating along.

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Speaker 7: We're kind of you know, maybe maybe like second weekend, we'll finally like wake up and it'll feel real.

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Speaker 3: Are you a veteran now on this team?

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Speaker 6: Oh? No?

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Speaker 3: When you walk in, does Murph treat you differently?

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Speaker 6: No, he still treats me the same because he still gives me shit about everything.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, but if Murph didn't give you shit, then he wouldn't know he liked you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. That's his love language though. You know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Murph walks by you and doesn't speak and you know you're in trouble.

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Speaker 6: Yes, is very true.

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Speaker 3: What's his nickname for you?

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Speaker 7: Forst come? That's a good one. He's also like Daddy long legs. He's been calling me that for a while.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 7: It's just anything to do with like long legged, you know, creatures. He just calls me that.

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Speaker 5: All right, So your manager kind of chirp you. I feel like when I watched some of your games, it felt like, you know, I could hear the other team chirping you. Did you ever hear any good chirps from the other team since your manager is already the one that's like giving it to you. But it seemed like when you would have a big strikeout, it was like you almost like turn to look at them like, yeah, I got this, Like they were on you up until that point.

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Speaker 7: No, I never I never heard anything coming from the other side. So, I mean, all I was hearing was my team just giving me ship for dumb, dumb things.

00:21:47
Speaker 6: I was doing well.

00:21:51
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, oh, there were a few.

00:21:53
Speaker 6: There were a few.

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Speaker 3: Yelly was yelly, Yelly get in your ear.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Yelly would give in my ear a few times.

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Speaker 7: And then big Wu was big he uh yeah, let me hear it a few times, you know, the veterans letting me let me know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And those are some good names too. So I want to dial in on the postseason again for a moment. What was it like at that point trying to figure out what your role would be, How much communication was there about it, How did you evaluate your performance because the other thing going on I remember from the second half was they were trying to make sure that you're going to be good to go in the postseason from an innings perspective, you know, regardless of how you felt. I think it was close to one hundred inns the year before, so teams are going to monitor that, and then we're we're all wondering, like how much of a factors is going to be And you know, you made some pretty big pitches in the postseason for Milwaukee.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean they were pretty vocal with everything, let me know, and uh, you know, I was happy with whatever they were to give me. I was just gonna be happy to go out there and pitch in a postseason game. So you know, if that was a one in appearance or you know, like they did giving me a ball a few times, I'm just gonna run with whatever they hand me.

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Speaker 3: Were you excited about owning the Dodgers in your career? It's done well against the Dodgers.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I mean, yeah, that's always a positive. It's always a positive to play well against the team like of that caliber.

00:23:15
Speaker 6: So it's it's really cool.

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Speaker 3: To I mean, five innings in the postseason one run. That was nice.

00:23:19
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was really nice.

00:23:20
Speaker 3: And you're what was your second stars again, was it against Kershaw. Yeah it was, and you outdueled them. Yeah yeah, you can bit retired now yeah, patch yourself on the back a little bit now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: No, it's really cool.

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Speaker 7: I mean I grew up watching Kershaw forever and ever, so it's a it's really cool to, you know, have that experience against him.

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Speaker 5: When when you have those innings limits and you're in a game that okay, they talked to you about X amount of innings and you're approaching that is it hard to be like looking over and you come to the dugout because I always here pitchers say when they come to the dugout and they looked down the manager to see if they're coming out, it's like it might as well take me out because it's hard to lock back in.

00:24:05
Speaker 7: I mean, I mean, I understand what you're saying, but like, no, I mean like I was in those postseason games, I was so locked in and just like I didn't want to give up the ball, So I never really was looking down there. Murph always had to come up and like be like you're done, like go go to the locker room, go get changed.

00:24:22
Speaker 6: Like go do your work afterwards. But no, it was good.

00:24:27
Speaker 3: Did they give you a role for this year. You started, you relieved, you long died, You kind of did everything for him. We were like a utility weapon.

00:24:34
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:24:34
Speaker 7: I mean I haven't heard anything set in stone of what I'm gonna be this year, but you know, you always hope that you're gonna be in that starting role. I mean that's what every picture dreams of doing. So you know that's the that's the hope.

00:24:49
Speaker 1: Hey, man's more for me, specifically the workload. So how do you manage that communication with the team and then how did you prepare yourself or that in the off season. You know, I always want to know with the pitcher, who's I mean, you are still a pop You're early on in your big league career, you know, do you guys talk about a certain number that's a goal for the season in terms of how many innings, whether you share it or not. Just hey, this is what I want you to be prepared for. If you're full go, you're feeling good, you're starting, this is what we see for you. So let's also make sure that we get you from here to October and then in October you feel like you're at your best.

00:25:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I don't think there was a I think there was a number they gave, but it was like a rough estimate of where they want me. It's not really a set and stone thing. So you know if I go under that, and I mean, that's always a positive if you can get there. But no, there, I don't remember exactly what number, but yeah, it was somewhere like plus of what I did last year, So it'll it'll be good of whatever they whatever they come up with. And uh, you know with the off season stuff like just more like conditioning, doing all that stuff, and you know, ramping up a little bit later, trying to save bullets for you know, the start of the year and you know, coming into camp being ready but not too ready saving bullets.

00:26:17
Speaker 5: When anybody watches you pitch, they don't want to see you save bullets. So what does that mean? What does that mean for you? Because obviously, you know, you don't get any likes, you don't get any Instagram followers because you throw a pitch ninety seven miles an hour, But when you're throwing sliders at ninety seven ninety eight, like, is there a give and take in that? Like when you talk about saving bullets, I watch so many guys it's one hundred percent from pitch one to pitch. However many they leave them out there. So what's that approach for you?

00:26:47
Speaker 7: I mean, I think it's the same way. I think it's just you know, I think it's more limiting innings instead of each pitch. I think when I go out in the field, I'm not saving bullets. I'm letting it all the and then I'm giving you the one hundred percent that I got. And I think I need the you know, the coaches and other people around me to slow me down and be like, hey, look, let's get you out of this game. Let's save you for you know, tomorrow, next week, whatever it could be.

00:27:14
Speaker 3: What does the off season look like for you? What did you do this off season anything different than you have done in the past.

00:27:21
Speaker 7: No, I mean it was pretty much the same as what I've done in the past.

00:27:24
Speaker 3: And which is what does the miz do for fun? You come across as a video game guy?

00:27:29
Speaker 7: No, really, I haven't played video games since college, so mostly hunting, fishing, doing all that sort of stuff. But you know, going into the facility, working out, playing catch, doing normal normal baseball activities, you know, getting ready for the season, but no outside of there, like we're going, you know, maybe to card shop, maybe maybe to go hunt and fish with some friends.

00:27:51
Speaker 6: Good stories, nothing we could share live on.

00:27:56
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, what about what about card shopping?

00:27:58
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I mean, uh, with card shopping, it's it's fun. It's it's always fun to run into fans and people that are into the hobby with me, and uh, you know, it's really cool to run into a little kid that just is amazed that you know, they ran into a big league player.

00:28:16
Speaker 6: It's really cool.

00:28:16
Speaker 3: Do you have a card? We asked Bobby with this the other day, is there a card of yours that you don't have that you want? I have all your cards, I don't I don't have all of my Bobby's trying to get all of his. And there's like some one of one's refractor gold refractor auto sticker, one on one jersey something something that he doesn't have.

00:28:36
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think there's two that I really want.

00:28:39
Speaker 7: There's a there's my first Bowman Auto, which is like the first ever card I had, and that's the one of one, and then the debut patch would also be really cool.

00:28:48
Speaker 3: Make that offer right here, exactly. Make that offer to somebody. Whoever has them will give you something. Now you have to come up with what that's.

00:28:56
Speaker 6: I don't know what something would be.

00:28:57
Speaker 7: I mean, i'd have to talk to a Oh yeah, that's that would definitely be a part of it, you know, Jersey meet and greet tickets.

00:29:04
Speaker 6: You know, we'd work something out. It'd be fun.

00:29:06
Speaker 3: Don't tell the people I don't have it.

00:29:11
Speaker 6: We'll post about it.

00:29:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, definitely put so here. Talk to the people and say, Niko Mizerowski wants his one of one debut patch and he wants his bowman.

00:29:22
Speaker 7: Yeah, bowman auto. Yeah, let's make a trade. Let's make something happen, you know, take it to a Brewers game, meet and greet, you know, jerseys cleats.

00:29:32
Speaker 6: What what you name it. Let's let's make it work.

00:29:36
Speaker 5: I mean, as your has your has your card shopping changed since you made the big leagues, Like, let's not forget you got a little bump in in your salary. So have you gone from a different rack to a different like the sealed boxes to just the sealed cases.

00:29:52
Speaker 6: Uh no, not yet.

00:29:54
Speaker 7: I know there's some guys in the clubhouse that have been doing you know the cases, and I'm still going box to box, so I haven't been going too crazy with it.

00:30:03
Speaker 3: Who else is who else into the cards?

00:30:06
Speaker 7: You got Jared, you got McGill, you got uh, you know, Craig Yoho. You know training is also into cards. You know, it's really cool to have the guys like that twitch them. We should, we should, we should live stream it.

00:30:22
Speaker 3: But no, it's because then you think about this. If you do it live right, and you pull out a card and you're like, show hey, I would want to show hey one of one car garbage blow up on Twitter?

00:30:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, yeah we should. You're let's go.

00:30:39
Speaker 5: Let's go to your first love. Some people from our Crack research team said your first love was catching. Now you have a big league catcher right next to you, and you have a minor league catcher talking to you. What what would it be like for you to say, you know what, I caught a game in the big leagues, or I caught this guy bullpen just to like scratch that itch.

00:31:04
Speaker 7: I think that itch is long gone. I think I think that left me in high school so you could catch it. Yeah, It's exactly what I'm thinking. So I'm good. You know, the flat grounds that guys throw me on the field is plenty enough for me. I'm good with sticking on the mound.

00:31:20
Speaker 3: Do you squat for the flat grounds? Oh yeah, yeah, to you do the one knee and put the glove down, try to frame it.

00:31:25
Speaker 7: No, no, no, we're just putting the glove up. Hit me in the glove. Like, what if you ever miss one? Oh, you just jump out of the way. You just get out of there. I'm not blocking that up.

00:31:33
Speaker 3: But what if I don't know who would be if someone's like throwing splits or something, they just yank one.

00:31:37
Speaker 7: You just full ejected, full ejected. You know, you're diving out of the way, trying to get a glove on it, trying to just then you have to make something exactly. I mean, I either rather chase it than take a ball off the chest.

00:31:47
Speaker 1: So okay, smart, Hey Jacob, I got one more for you. So you're tall, you can't miss you when you're in the grocery store at the airport. Whatever it is, right, and you had a successful first year in the big leagues. Are you getting recognized quite often these days, especially in Milwaukee? And I'm sure you've had it in the past, but now you really have it? Is it weird? How does it feel to walk around in a place and know someone's probably gonna come up to you Because there are some smaller players, like, hey, we just had Bryce to rang on. I bet you he can get away with walking through a place and not necessarily being recognized where it's like everyone looks up and says, oh, that might that might be an athlete and they're looking like, wait, I think that's the miss.

00:32:28
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a it's crazy.

00:32:31
Speaker 7: I remember, you know, first week we were in Milwaukee and we were me and my fiance were walking through Target, just you know, getting groceries, normal stuff, and there's a little kid and his mom ran up to me. It was like, are you the miss? And I'm like yeah, and he's like, I really thought it was you. No one else is that tall. Like it was just like, I mean, it's it's crazy. It's a it's really cool experience have people recognize you like that. But no, I'm not used to it at all.

00:32:57
Speaker 3: Can you dunk?

00:32:59
Speaker 6: Yes? I could?

00:33:00
Speaker 3: I hope. So you're like six a you better be able to.

00:33:02
Speaker 7: That's also one of the most common questions I get is people coming up to me.

00:33:06
Speaker 6: Can you still dunk like all that stuff. So it's funny.

00:33:08
Speaker 3: Can you like three sixty dunk?

00:33:10
Speaker 6: Oh?

00:33:10
Speaker 7: No, straight dunk, just straight dunk. I mean maybe like maybe like a flat foot jump up get it, but like, no, no, three sixty, no tricks with it.

00:33:21
Speaker 6: I'm not that crazy.

00:33:22
Speaker 3: Like being called the Miz.

00:33:23
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's fun I mean I think you have.

00:33:25
Speaker 3: To call the Miz to get the miz nickname. I haven't guys connected.

00:33:30
Speaker 6: Yet, we have not. I would love to. I would love game. Yeah, it would be so cool. Yeah. I haven't met the guy yet.

00:33:39
Speaker 3: Okay, because you kind of you kind of stole you, kind of ripped on gimmick.

00:33:43
Speaker 6: Yeah, I did it, kind of just got handed to me.

00:33:46
Speaker 3: So it was like, that's because they can't say you're Polish.

00:33:49
Speaker 6: Last name exactly, yeah, short, yeah, exactly.

00:33:51
Speaker 3: That's why I go agent. Yeah, my last name is impossible, all right, So on the Polish thing, no WBC for you, right, So whenever the next one is when we get team Poland and I can't count.

00:34:03
Speaker 6: On you, right, I'd be down.

00:34:05
Speaker 3: What about twenty twenty eight in the Olympics. If we can get Polland in the Olympics.

00:34:08
Speaker 6: That too, I would be down if yeah, if it all works.

00:34:10
Speaker 3: Out, Pollock's got to stick together.

00:34:12
Speaker 6: We do, we do, we do?

00:34:14
Speaker 3: Okay, I love it.

00:34:17
Speaker 1: Well, miss thank you so much for the time. And actually a good card. Didn't realize you two hadn't met, so we can put that out there. He's usually pretty responsive on social media, so we can work a little magic and see if we can get him out here for a first pitch in Milwaukee. I'm sure Mike Vassalo pr extraordinaire would love that.

00:34:34
Speaker 6: Oh my, Michael, figure something out.

00:34:35
Speaker 3: So Sello showed me a video of the Honkey talk Man. Do you even know who the Honkey.

00:34:39
Speaker 6: Talk Man is?

00:34:40
Speaker 3: I'm okay, So he was like a wrestler forever. He was a ww like Hall of Fame rast okay, and apparently Vasselo is super proud because he was a spring training the other day. So if he can get the Honkey talk Man, it definitely can get the.

00:34:52
Speaker 6: Missed Okay, Okay, all right, we'll see. Let's see who Mike poll is.

00:34:55
Speaker 3: Perfect.

00:34:56
Speaker 1: We're gonna help make it happen. Great to see you. Enjoy the rest of camp and we'll see you during the season.

00:35:01
Speaker 6: Yep, awesome.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: Thank you guys, we're in Maryville with Bryce Range, platinum glove, second basement for the Milwaukee Brewers in a career year. Offensively, you change your stance a little bit and wam, the power came, the numbers came. Isn't that easy?

00:35:20
Speaker 4: I mean it depends. Sometimes it just takes one thing to click and you just got it.

00:35:23
Speaker 3: Would you change? Can you talk about it? Yeah?

00:35:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just kind of went back to just doing what I always have done. I've always been a hitter who has had a lay kick, like through younger age in high school, and I came up to the big leagues with the lay kick, and then I kind of started dumping a little bit, collapsing and I couldn't hit the fastball. And then the next year I went to like a wider bass, more of like a short step, and I had some success, but it wasn't it was almost like robotic. And so in twenty twenty four offseason, I was just like, hey, like, I'm going to go back to what I do best, like what I've done my whole life, and which was the lay kick. And so I started going back to having a lay kick, being more up tall and then just being super relaxed and then trying to work on staying behind the ball, and I think that kind of helped it helped, it helped it click again for me. And yeah, it was It was a fun season, And yeah, is it all right?

00:36:33
Speaker 5: Did it take three months to make that click? Because people are like, oh, one thing and it's like the next day it clicks because we really saw the power in August. I think you had ten homers of your eighteen or was it always coming the whole time? Whole time and then the power just happened to get there in August.

00:36:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've I've had power. It was just trying to tap into it in the game was one of the things that was always not I wouldn't say like a struggle for me, but it was just always I was more of like just a basic guy, take the ball the other way, and I did that all throughout the minor leagues as well, So like trying to then start to pull the ball in the air was a little difficult for me, and I think I was I was kind of attacking it at the wrong way instead of maybe going more towards the middle of the field and hope I just catch the ball out or not hope, but try to catch the ball more out in front. I was just kind of ripping off everything and then I was laid or I was dragging. So but the month I had in August, I made a little adjustment that wasn't too crazy because I was trying to get the barrel to turn more deeper in the zone and so I would like really tighten up my grip and it just wasn't working. And I was still having success, but I wasn't able to really like even the balls I got out in front, I was hitting it to center, and so I would try to tighten it up to get the barrel to turn when I got it out in front, and it just I still wasn't getting it. And so I actually did the complete opposite of what I thought, and I loosened up my grip very much so and I actually like started hanging my pinky off of the bat my top hand. I started hanging like my pinky on my knuckle, and then I just started creating like massive whip and then it just clicked for me where I was able to actually get the barrel to turn out in front. And then that's when I had the August and I knew I always had the power, it was just trying to tap into it in the game.

00:38:45
Speaker 5: I saw you when you were a baby spring training, you were at the end of the dugout coming in seventh, eighth, ninth, and for as small and a young as a guy as you were, you had power. I watched the VP, I remember like, hey, how on earth does he do that? I went like twice as much as he does. So you've always been like that. Do you regret changing from how you were or do you feel like that's part of your journey as a player, because you're like, I could have just stayed how I was before and I would have figured it out.

00:39:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's definitely. I don't. I don't really regret it because maybe that's why I'm here today having success that I had in twenty five was just off of that learning curve. And you know, nobody wants to fail in this game, and everybody knows it, but sometimes it takes you to fail to learn to get your to be the best version of yourself.

00:39:40
Speaker 6: And so.

00:39:43
Speaker 4: I mean it could have been a blessing in disguise, And you're right, like, I don't know, do I did? I want to fail in those time periods. No, I didn't. But that's that's like the learning curve that you have that you have and so and that that could be why I'm here today and I had the year I had is because I did have those failures and I learned from it.

00:40:07
Speaker 3: What's it like being the worst athlete in your family? Yeah, because your dad played in the big leagues, your mom played in the College World Series, your sisters all played high level college sports, and then there's you. So yeah, when you go home, do they say Bryce Man, like, what are you doing?

00:40:25
Speaker 6: Yeah?

00:40:26
Speaker 4: When I was younger, for sure, they would. They would pick on me. They'd they would uh, they would always be more. They would win at everything when I was younger. And then now that I'm older, I actually have ten nieces and nephews now, so they're running around and they're starting to be competitive and play against each other, and so it's fun to watch them do that. In our family, like my sisters, we still play games and stuff, but not at the level we did when I was a little younger. But yeah, it's it's so much fun now being able to see my nieces and nephews go out there and compete and play like wolf ball or play tag or whatever. It's really cool. And then obviously my sisters are stud athletes themselves and they can they can we could go play something they never played and they pick it up really quick, So it's always a good time.

00:41:22
Speaker 3: Do you think it helped you or maybe or hurt you? Sometimes? Your dad was a big league baseball player, and does do you still call him for advice? Like you mentioned your struggles and what you went through to get to where you are now, could you pick up the phone and call him and say, Dad, I know you've been here, you've done this. What he got for me?

00:41:40
Speaker 4: Every day? I call him every day. It's definitely a blessing. There's no there's nothing about it that I'm like, dang, that sucks. No, Like I I took everything he said, I learned from it, and how can I How can I not?

00:41:56
Speaker 3: Like I don't know because I have you know, like, oh, yeah, for sure listen. I have a son who's in college and Crawds does too, and there was times where they didn't listen very well. Yeah, but now after every game you call and you go basically go through the game. Yeah, because fortunately I can watch him on you know, the apps and all that stuff.

00:42:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, you that with you?

00:42:13
Speaker 3: Does he watch every game and call you after and say Bryce, like that, oh two slider you swung at? Man, Like what are we doing.

00:42:19
Speaker 4: He's he's more of like the the mental approach guy for me. He's like that the guy I lean on when maybe I need someone to just tell me like, hey, dude, you're fine, Like you're not as far as you think you are. Like hey, dude, like I liked your swings or or maybe the opposite of like, hey, you're falling behind an account way too much. And then you're swinging at pitches that the picture wants you to swing at. It's like stuff like that. And then obviously he could go into my mechanics and my swing, but during the season he doesn't want to get too deep into it because then he's like, I don't want you to overthink everything when you go into the game. But yeah, I mean, it's it's for sure a blessing. And we've obviously had our scuffles here and there, just hitting in the cage late nights and he says something I disagree with it, and then we have a little scuffle, not actually physical scuffle, but we're talking back and forth and then we work it out and we ended up we end up working it out. And now, I mean now at my age, I mean I don't I don't ever we don't ever see it. We kind of just agree and keep working at.

00:43:27
Speaker 3: Your old age.

00:43:31
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're vet, your veteran age. Will he make it to any of the w WBC games.

00:43:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe so. I think he's gonna come out to Houston.

00:43:42
Speaker 5: Is that is that something that you're like, Wow, I get to represent the country.

00:43:46
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:43:46
Speaker 5: I get to do it other times, but now I get to do it like on a different stage. Has that has that set in? Are you taking like are you taking these at bats right now? Or you think about it every once in a while, Like my spring training is almost over. I get to go play real games.

00:44:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's it's very exciting. I'm really excited to go. And I was telling somebody the other day, I said, it's set in as much as it possibly can right now, and I think when I get there then they'll hit me even more. To to be around those guys, around those players, is like, it's definitely something that you don't take for granted, and you're I'm very blessed to be in this situation and have this opportunity to go play. But yeah, definitely thought when I'm out here taking live at bats and just getting ready to, uh to go play, and I'm really excited for.

00:44:43
Speaker 3: Murph's rich Now has he changed? Has he changed in the last couple of days since he signed his extension? Does he like walk in with Caviar and t and say I can't talk to you guys anymore?

00:44:54
Speaker 4: No, No, Murph's not that type of guy. He's he's uh. I mean, you guys probably have your experiences with Murphy's He's he's unbelievable. What he does for this team and this organization is so big. He deserves every bit of it.

00:45:09
Speaker 3: That's awesome. Then, you guys lost some people this offseason. You guys won the most games in baseball ninety seven? How do you how do you continue that? No, Freddy, no Durbin, I know, big woos coming back. How do you guys continue what the Brewers have built, which has been a really special place with a ton of wins.

00:45:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, just kind of controlling what you can. I mean, that's out of our control. We we can't really control what those moves are made. You just control what you can and this is what we have and this is who we are. So let's go win games. You know, those guys are Freddie being a r one last year, you know, going to the Mets, and that's that's part of the game. And so you gotta you gotta kind of just move on and go in, go in the next game and kind of play with the cards you're dealt with and control what you can, because that's that's that stuff's out of our control.

00:46:06
Speaker 6: We can't.

00:46:07
Speaker 4: We can't really say.

00:46:08
Speaker 3: If you go deep, are you gonna talk to him when you run around the bases.

00:46:12
Speaker 4: No, absolutely not.

00:46:13
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna look at him. No, if just smile at you, probably.

00:46:16
Speaker 4: Won't he No, I don't know. I'm I don't. I don't like doing that stuff. I think that's that that might not even do that. No, No, I like Freddy.

00:46:26
Speaker 6: I know.

00:46:26
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. That's why it makes it more fun though, to talk a little trash run around.

00:46:29
Speaker 4: The bases after I mean maybe maybe afterwards, after the game, after the game, but not not not during the game.

00:46:37
Speaker 3: Thanks for coming out.

00:46:38
Speaker 4: No, thank you guys for having me. I appreciate it. I've seen you guys