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everyone, and welcome to Guardians Weekly. Today we join you live on
location from the Huntington Convention Center in downtown Cleveland. It's guards Fest twenty twenty
four. Great to have you with us for our show this week, and
we are pleased we have great guests lined up. Tanner Biby, who had
such a great season a year ago on the mound for the Guardians. He'll
join us much later on in our show. Dan Cohen from Guardians Youth Baseball.
We'll talk about some of the great camps coming your way this summer for
your kids. And we will also be joined by manager Steven Vote in just
a little bit, but we want to get right to it as we are
joined by the new bench coach for the Cleveland Guardians on a coaching staff that
has some new names to it, including Craig Albernaz who has joined us here
and Craig. Nice for coming by, appreciate it, thanks for having me.
It's been a great event and it's been fun seeing everybody, I was
gonna say, how's your day going? I know they had you running around
a little bit. Absolutely, it's been long, but it's been It's been
great for me. It's a sign that baseball seasons right around the corner,
so it's everyone's excited to get outside. And being new to the organization.
I would imagine an event like this is probably twofold and allowing you to get
comfortable in a new location. You've been with the Giants for four years,
and how much of a transition can that be when you change organizations. Oh,
it's a big transition. I mean you have to learn all the players
and also just everyone in the front office and the coaching staff and the support
staff. Like it's a lot that goes into it. So being able to
get face to face with everyone, especially the coaching staff, you know,
a lot of we've been doing a lot of zoom calls, a lot of
phone conversations, a lot of text exchanges. To actually get some face to
face time with people that you've just been grinding in the off season with it
just kind of energizes you and get you ready for spring training. Fans who
may not be familiar with your story and maybe saying, oh, bench coach,
what's the connection there with with Cleveland if you had been with San Francisco
with your most recent job, and how about that connection? How did this
develop? This opportunity? Yeah, this has developed kind of an interesting story.
I actually was asked an interview for the for the manasion job, and
they went, you know, with the vote higher and in different direction,
which was which was awesome. Inn they decided that, you know, they
want to have an opportunity to bring me on staff. So originally I was
the field coordinator, you know, because we had you know, Demial Hale
was still here. So I mean I was excited to work with Hale and
and just to pick his brain and such a great baseball mind. And you
know, it's great for him that he got a great opportunity with Toronto,
and you know, it happened to fill a head a void with our staff
and Vote had to fill it, and it just so happened that I got
elevated to the bench coach. And you're bringing someone as dynamic and as talented
as kai career as well to fill that field coordinator role. So it's it's
exciting and and I'm just very fortunate how everything happened unfolded, and it always
helps to have a relationship with your manager, and it's the case with most
most bench coaches. You and Steven Volk go back a long way, don't
you. Yeah, it goes back a long way. That's why it's kind
of how everything transpired is crazy, you know, with Voti being the manager
and you know, me being really close and good friends with him, and
just it's it's been a great experience so far. And for him to be
a first year manager and to me to be a first year bench coach and
do this togetther the it's exciting, but also, you know, going through
this, it's we have that relationship where we can be extremely honest with each
other and tell us exactly, tell each other exactly how it is. And
because we're in it for the right reasons. We're here to win, to
get players better, and we realize that we are gonna mess up, and
we all that's part of the game, and we have the ability to learn
from each other and push each other. Craig Albern has joining us. He's
the new bench coach for the Cleveland Guardians. You were saying earlier, is
this one of the first interviews you've done today without a translator. Yeah,
yeah, absolutely, Yeah, obviously with my accent. I'm from Massachusetts,
so you know, it's definitely comes on a little thicker sometimes. And you
know, I my wife, you know, she's richie from Philly, so
I have to repeat myself a lot at home. So I'm used to repeating
myself. So that's my usual stick, is like I need a translator so
people can understand me outside of Massachusetts. Does she have a good South Philly
accent? It's something it depends when she's around her friends that she grew up
with. Oh, it comes out absolutely. And I make fun of her
a little bit that like she's playing up to it, you know, and
try to lay it down a little thicker. But yeah, no, she
has a little bit in it. So are our kids are gonna be messed
up? You know, they're gonna they hear my accent and they got the
Philly accent for my wife, So it's gonna be interested. Two good accents
though, so they have that going for them. Yeah, they had that
going for him absolutely. And then also my oldest son who's seven, he
was one at the time. We actually live in Australia for a winter,
so he had to deal with the Australian accent as well. So if our
kid is messed up, sorryj that's on me. How you tried the best
you could. It's all we can do is parents, just try the best
you can and figure it out. Greg Galvernez is joining us. He's the
bench coach for The Guardian's new bench coaching and several new names on the staff.
You mentioned Kai Krrea and new bullpen coach and Brad Goldberg And how's that.
How does that mesh come into play and how important is it that that
everybody blends together by the time the season rolls around to really help the players
as best you can. Yeah, because you want to have that continuity going
here into the spring training because at the end of the day, it's all
about the players, and you want to make sure that all the work behind
the scenes is done and we have that relationship that we can problem solve together,
bounce ideas off each other and build that trust because in any work environment,
you want to have trust with your co workers where you can kind of
speak freely, challenge ideas, bounce off off each other. So we want
to make sure that we have that relationship already, and that's what despite this
makes this place, you know, in my opinion, really special in Cleveland
with what Chris and Churney have built. And you know, coming from Tito
as well, is you know this to how much they value people investing people.
So stepping right in with this job, you can kind of see that
as well and seeing Val and Espo and you know, Brad Goldberg who's been
here from the area, Like they've woken us with open arms. So it's
just us kind of feeling each other out. So that's why I've bent like
this. Being in person with each other has been really immenseful. How much
were you aware of that culture, if at all, when you were working
for a West Coast team National League and not a whole lot of interleague play
between the two teams, Any awareness at all of what was going on here?
I have, yeah, you know, being around Kevin Cash with the
Rais. You know, I came up with in you know, in the
Raised organization, both as a player and as a staff member. So when
I actually first started coaching was when Cash got hired as to be the manager.
So I was actually in Tropic Canada field signed my minor league contract as
a coach, and cash You was there, so we got to talk and
cash he built a very similar culture in Tampa was already there, but he
just took it to the next level and integrated a lot of the minor league
side with the big league side. And cash You always said he got that
from Cleveland and being here and right away going through the interview process, it
just stood out right away to jumped out at you. And and that's something
where I told my wife, like, that's the place where I want to
work, Like that's the place I want to be your own. You mentioned
your time with Tampa Bay with Steven Vote. I'm helpful. I mean,
obviously you don't want to be in the minor leagues is for a long time.
He'd love to move quickly. Not everyone can, but can that be
helpful some time in this role, especially with a young team where some players
may be going back and forth between here in the minor leagues, knowing what
they're going through because you've lived some of that. Yeah, absolutely, I
played. I mean I grinded. I played nine years in the minor leagues
and never made it to the big leagues. And you know it always reminds
myself like how hard this game is. This game is so tough. It
doesn't matter if you're the best player in the world. You know you're you're
still gonna fail and you're gonna have your bad days and bad stretches and the
great ones and the really good ones can navigate those ups and downs. And
you know, for us as coaching staff is you want to set your players
up to be successful and the best chance to succeed. But it's also educating
them knowing that, yeah, you're gonna fail, but do we get better?
Is our process right? You know are down the road? Can we
learn from this and can you do other things to help us win? Can
you do the small things and be a good teammate? And that's something that
body has been preaching. So that's something we're in my role and a bunch
of other guys on staff as well. That's what we're championed for us.
So we're all aligned on that. We're all for the players, and we're
never gonna forget how odd this game is. Have you had enough of the
zoom calls and meetings and stuff. Ready to get on the field and ready
on ready to get on the field. You get so much more done when
you're in person and having conversations in the zoom call. The zoom calls would
be great. You know, everyone's been welcoming in a lot of great debates
and you know, and challenging like how we want to do things and how
we want to like stuff. The look going into spring training, But when
you're with you know, people in especially in the baseball world, with the
camaraderie, it's just great to kind of you just want to get down there
and just stop get you know, once you see the lines and you smell
the grass in particular, you know it's baseball time. Craig, thanks so
much for coming by. Everything you've done today. I know you've had a
busy day, but we appreciate you ending it right here. Yeah, thank
you to hear my voice going I'm sorry. Yeah. If you've made it
to this Pentagram trying, yeah, thank you. It's been awesome. It's
Craig albern As, the new bench coach for the Guardians. Stay tuned,
Steven Both, the new Manager's coming your way next time the Cleveland Clinic Guardians
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of situations. Welcome back to the Huntington Convention Center in downtown Cleveland. It
is Guardians Weekly. Jim rosan Els along with you live on location this week,
which is awesome. It's been a fun guards Fest twenty twenty four,
all kinds of activities here, good turnout from the fans, and we are
happy to be joined by the new manager for the Cleveland Guardians, Steven Voge.
Steve Wa'm been able to say that for a long time for good reason.
And you have a chance to be the forty fifth manager in franchise history.
And I imagine that doesn't get old anytime soon. No, it doesn't.
This has been such a fun day being here, seeing all the fans
here at Guardfest and seeing the players, the coaches, everybody getting together.
It's just been a blast and I hope that never gets old here in that
does it make the whole situation seem a little more real now that you're actually
seeing people in person. Yeah, I think yesterday was the first day I
actually felt like a manager, just kind of getting to see the players,
getting to be in the clubhouse and being in that environment. Great story and
that you retired two years ago, where a coach with the Mariners a season
ago, and here you are in a manager's chair. And when you look
back on it, what what do you think helped you and maybe set you
apart in that interview process here that's allowed you to be in this position now.
I think it was just the advice I got from Scott's Service and Jerry
Depoto coming into this, it's be yourself, show them who you are.
If you're not, that's okay. It doesn't mean you're not a good candidate,
just means you're not what they're looking for. So just going into the
interview, I was very open and honest about who I am, and that's
I don't have a ton of experience. You're right, but I have paid
attention and I'm willing to learn, and I think just being open and honest
about that that yeah, you're right. I've never sat in the seat,
I've never done this job before, but I'm willing to learn and I'm open
to any ideas you guys have to share. I thought you gave a great
answer. I don't remember if it was the opening press conference, but someone
may have asked you how you would the decisions you have to make in a
game, how many there are, and maybe how it factors into handling a
pitching staff, And you had a great answer about being a catcher and how
many decisions you had to make in a game. Yeah, I mean being
a catcher, you're making one hundred and seventy five to two hundred in game
decisions every single night, and any one of them can be the winning or
losing pitch. So when it comes to making decisions in game, the catching
experience is huge because every single pitch matters. So now in this sea,
it's making those in game decisions. Yeah, they're a little bit bigger.
When do you pinch hit? Who do you bring in from the bullpen?
But again feeling the game, knowing our personnel, and having Carl Willis standing
to my left, I feel very confident in my abilities. Steven Vote joining
us. He's the new manager for the Cleveland Guardians. Just before going on
to your let's talk some baseball the team you have. Let's start with Jose
Ramirez from the other side. You've seen him play for many years. What
do you see in him that has you excited that that's your top player.
First of all, he's a pain in the backside when you're playing against him.
So knowing that I'm on the same side as him now, it gives
me a lot of hope and a lot of happiness. But the thing with
Hosey, not only is he a tireless worker, not only is he one
of the best players in our game, but he plays the game hard,
and he plays the game the right way every single day. And when your
best player, when you're superstar, when he's doing that, when he's getting
hustle doubles, when he's running hard out of the box, every single other
player, that's going to be the expectation. So as a manager, you
don't even have to set that expectation because your best players doing that every single
day. So when he's the gold standard for how we're gonna play baseball,
that just hews everybody else fall in line. And that's his leadership. You're
one year coaching with the Mariners. A pretty good pitching in Seattle, Yeah,
really good. Yes, and you come to an organization that's known for
pitching as a manager, now that has to be awfully comforting. What you'll
get out of your starting rotation and bullpen. Yeah, the the arms that
we have here, I couldn't be more excited about every single person that's in
that rotation, every single person that bullpen. Oh and by the way,
we're gonna have some great arms on the way as well. You need depth,
and we have it. And you need guys that can come in and
get outs and we have it. Guys have nasty stuff, and it's there's
so many similar parallels to the pitching here as there is in Seattle, and
I couldn't be more excited about the group we have and knowing that our starters
are going to give us quality starts more often than not, and then we
can shorten the game with how good our bullpen is. Youth is something that
has been a key watch where here for the past couple of seasons youngest roster
in baseball. Why can that be good? I think it's good because we
can help these players figure out who they are and who they want to be.
They have the talent, they have the ability, and now they're gonna
they're gonna turn into major leaguers and turn into perennial All Stars and great players,
and we get to have a hand in that. We get to push
them to be their best every single day. And when when you're young,
you have energy, and we're gonna feed into that energy every single day,
and we're gonna take a lot of games, and we're gonna come in and
people are gonna like, man, that was a tough series because we've got
these young, exciting players that are figuring out who they are and it's gonna
be really fun to watch. It seems like the game is changing a little
bit too, where where youth is good and what that can bring athlete wise.
Yeah, I mean, the talent level of players getting to the major
leagues now is better than it's ever been. I mean, we've got we've
got guys hitting the ball harder, throwing the ball harder, running faster,
stronger arms than we've ever seen. And now it's having them understand how to
play the game. And that's our job, is to teach them how to
play the game and get better every single day. But the talent that these
young guys have is so much far advanced than people were when I was coming
up. Stephen Vote joining us. He's the new manager for the Cleveland Guardians
where at guards Vest in downtown Cleveland. I know, a big thing that
you've been doing over the first couple of months is putting together a staff that
you're comfortable with. It seems like you've hit on some really good stuff in
terms of the new and those who are staying on and how difficult it was
that to try and get that good balance and people in here that you can
be working with on a daily basis. I'm glad we're done with that process
because that was stressful. But I really feel like we have a good mix
of experienced coaches, younger coaches, new ideas, old school thoughts. We
have a really cool kind of mesh. And when you're talking about the people
coming back, when you have Carl Willis and Sandy Alomar Junior right out of
the get go, and our pitching team with Joe Torres and Chris Palaika coming
back, who I love Val. I think he does a great job and
the way he speaks to our hitters, the way that he conceptualizes hitting.
I think we have a great team in place, and we've brought in complimentary
pieces to challenge our ideals, to challenge what we might think. And I
think that's what you need. You need a group of people that's willing to
challenge each other and in a productive way. And now we get all on
the same page to push our players in that direction real quick. Staying on
the baseball thing, do you even look at the rest of the division right
now? Are you just so locked in on what's going on here and how
to make this team as good as possible. All that matters is us.
It doesn't matter who we're playing, It doesn't matter what players are on the
other side. If we go out and we play our game, we take
care of our stuff, we're gonna win a lot of games. As soon
as you start talking about other teams, as soon as we start focusing on
the other side, now you lose sight of what we're trying to accomplish.
And we know in our room what we believe, and that's that we're going
to be the best team in the Central and we believe that wholeheartedly, and
that we're going to preach nothing different. So, yes, we see what's
going on. We understand that there's things that new piece is coming into the
division. That doesn't matter. All that matters is us and what our group
believes. Steven Vote, thanks for everything today and thanks for coming back for
a little bit. It was awesome. It was a great day. So
I'm so fun to see all the fans out here. It's time for baseball
springs right around the corner. It couldn't be more excited. There. He
is the forty fifth manager of the Cleveland Baseball franchise, Stephen Vote, and
we will have more guardians weekly after this. These are the kind of summer
nights you're thinking about in January, when the wind chills about ten below and
snow's blowing all over northeast Ohio. The pit swung on. That's a gamper
toward the right center on the run of strong east sides and made the catch.
He's done it again, oh say ramires a three hit game. The
pitch he swings and rips another basin to the gap and the right center cut
off by Caine. He'll go for two, throwing a second head first slide,
double Naylor with the drive today, bright center, holly back, god
h no doubt about it. Bomb to the bullpen and right center. Now
the one too a slang in the nurse ball game and class over matches the
Yankees in the night. Boy, this has got a chance to be another
fun summer off the shores of Lake Gary. I mean, how did Hammy
know it would be minus ten with blowing snow in January Cleveland. I don't
understand that he knows everything. We are joined now by as we welcome you
back into guards Fest. We're at the Hunting and Convention Center in downtown Cleveland.
Jim Rosenow's along with you for Guardians Weekly. This weekend, we welcome
in Dan Cohen, who is the field manager for Cleveland Guardians youth camps.
And that says summer right there. Is won't be long now before moms and
dads throughout Northeast Ohio will be signing their kids up for summer camps. And
Dan, I know it's got to be a fun part of your job.
Knowing that you're getting kids involved in our great game and teaching them from the
pros. Absolutely. Yeah. We start the first week, first week at
June, and we run all the way through June, all the way through
July. We have I think ten full summer full five day camps, and
then we have three partial week camps all around the city, as far east
as Perry, as far west as Oberland, as far south as Boulevard,
so all around the city. And that seems like more camps than you've had
in the past. Yes, we last year we had seven, so that
we're about doubling this year. Awesome. And you had a camp here today,
Yeah, we had a Dego. Yeah, we had three great clinics.
We invited kids who attended our camps last year to participate in a hitting
clinic, a fielding and pitching clinic, and a fielding clinic with our co
And then they were about a dozen for each each clinic. A dozen players
out there just mixing in and helping, just interacting with the kids and kind
of spreading there, sharing some advice. It's gonna say in the summer,
with the season going, it's probably hard to get one or two players to
really be a part of it. This must have been just an absolute treat
knowing there's thirty guys here that you can pull from. Oh absolutely yeah.
During during the summer, one a guy shows up for about an hour or
two every ever once a week, and they did do Q and A,
take some pictures and really just tell them what it's like to be a big
league talking about their their path to the big leagues, and kind of really
sharing with them that it's all you got to every Big league players aren't so
much different than kids. They just they're just kids who just kept showing up.
When you look at what you do on a daily basis, I know
it's somewhat new for you, but you're not new to the organization. And
and how has that helped just your your past association with the guard is at
the major league level at times? Sure, Yeah, so I grew up
in Cleveland. You were playing all those highlights of Hammy just took me back
to when I was a kid listening to them. So I also, I
worked on the baseball operations side and video and scouting for over ten years.
So I've been I've been the kids at camp. I've been the players that
I've been around the players at camp. And my whole thing is trying to
take what I learned with my time around the players on the major league team
and telling it to what a ten year old and you would have wanted to
hear and would have could have could have gotten better from, you could have
learned from, And just again trying to take everything that these players know,
the collective knowledge that's more than I would ever forget, like more than and
to share it with those kids. And when you look at at setting up
a program for the summer, obviously you want to make sure the best staff
possible is there. But how difficult is it to find locations that can accommodate
a week long camp. It's it's actually kind of fun to go around and
look at kind of meet people around the community, coaches at directors learn different
facilities. There's some great facilities around the area that I had no idea existed.
Like andrews Osborne, I grew up in Shaker Heights. Will it be's
twenty minutes for me that facility is it's like a college facility. I had
no idea it was there. Kids this year will get to be at the
Crusher Stateum in Avon Lake. The Cleveland State Softball Field, Division one softball
field, Oberlin College, Tricity College. Are a lot of great college fields,
high school fields in the area, and just communities that are excited to
bring Guardians baseball to their kids. Has the program grown much over the last
couple of seasons. Yeah, So last year, I think we had five
or six hundred kids, and this year, with double amount of camps,
we're hoping to get double amount of kids. So yeah, it's just an
upward trajectory room, all right. Someone listening to this saying, hey,
that sounds like fun. How do they get more information and sign up?
So you can sign up on our website Cleveland Guardians dot com, slash Youth
camps more and yeah, and so we take kids travel kids. If your
travel all star, if you're like the best player, your team will take
you. If you've never picked up a bat before, you're gonna learn something.
Everybody gets better at our camps. It's almost harder to not get better
than to get better, if that makes sense. You were saying earlier a
big Cleveland fan back in the nineties, and in fact you came to when
this event was at the Wollstein Center, do you wish there were these camps
when when you were a kid that you could go to. Of course,
yeah, I just to be in the full uniform, being around the players
and getting to ask them questions and getting to kind of visualize what it would
be like to be a big leader like Dan Colin. Thanks so much for
coming by. Always good to see you, miss you around the club on
a regular basis, but good to see your back in it on on the
youth baseball side, thanks a lot for coming by, Thanks for having them
excited to be there. And again it's see All League Guardians Slash Youth Camps.
To find out about the great summer camps week long and a lot of
cases and a lot of different locations this year for your youngster to participate in
a baseball camp this summer. Go online, check it out and you can
sign up right there and get more information. Stay with us. We'll have
more as we get closer to the end here at Guard's Best. But it's
been a great day downtown at the Huntingdon Convention Center in downtown Cleveland. We'll
have more to come after this son the Cleveland Clinic. Guardians Radio Network at
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we're joined by Sam Henches who We're gonna reverse roles here. You're gonna be
the opener for Tanner Biby, he's the bull guy in this one this segment,
and there's a rumor going around that Trevor Stephen might try and sneak on
too. Usually, you know this time of the day, it's hard to
get guessed. But I don't know. This is good. The bullpen guys
are showing up. Yeah, it seems like everybody's excited to get this thing
going and close it out. Hey, you're coming off to two real solid
seasons in the bullpen. It seems like you do you consider yourself now I'm
a relief pitcher after spending a lot of your career as a starting pitcher.
I do. I do, I really do. I think it's it's a
lot of fun kind of making that transition. It was difficult for me at
first, but the past two years coming in as a full time reliever and
now doing it again, it's I feel a little bit more comfortable doing so
different offseason prepped for you than you used to have or the same. It's
different because you don't have to build up to fifty five pitches like mister Biby
down there. But that makes it a little bit better because you can rest
a little bit more and spend a little little bit more time, like I
said, just kind of getting ready or or ironing some kinks out and the
mechanics and to eat. It's a quicker build up, and you're part of
a boldpen that's had some pretty good success here the last couple of years.
You look at there'll be some different names this year, but you excited to
see what's out there and then what you guys can accomplish again. For sure,
we've I think we've done a pretty good job the past few years,
and it's been for the most part, the same guys down there, especially
at the back end with Stephen class A. But yeah, I mean there's
a lot of very very exciting names coming up that we're all excited to see
in Cleveland this year. You make your off season home in Arizona, but
grew up in Minnesota. So when you come back to a situation like this
year, this weekend in Cleveland with nice weather bring back some good memories of
childhood. Definitely, Definitely I enjoy the snow when I know I'm going back
to Phoenix in a couple of days. But it's always nice to I can
appreciate the snow and the cold weather. Well, Sam, we appreciate you
being the opener for this segment. And now we're gonna descend it down the
line and let's go with Trevor Stephan. Will stay in the bullpen. Trevor
Stephan, stop by. Were you working the ConA ice How was it?
I was good. I took a little learning her, but I figured it
out when you showed up to guards Fess this year. Did you have any
idea you'd be working the ice cream machine? I didn't. I didn't even
know that was I don't even think that was an option last year. What's
the key to getting a good icy out there in the hands of a customer?
They said, you gotta spray some ice water or just water on top
of the ice, or it gives you hard. But she was doing it
all. I just took me about three to get the hang of it,
and I started making good counts. It wasn't too bad. I saw some
other pictures out there work in the ice machine. Does this mean that there's
gonna be a ConA ice machine out in the bullpen this season? I feel
like every year, I feel like every year we show up and we get
some new gadget down there. You don't know what it is. I feel
like we got to espresso machine thank to Brian Shaw, and then it upgraded
the TV. So I don't know, every year we get something new,
maybe it has to be ice icy machine. So if Tanner Biby's rolling along
with a no hitter into the seventh but it starts to run into some difficulties
and they call down to the Bullpen's Trevor Stephan you need to get hot and
you're right in the middle of getting yourself in icy. What do you do?
You gotta throw it out. I don't throw it out. And then
I feel like I'm come into the game and have red lips and a different
We are solving some stuff here late in the day at guards Fast. Hey,
Sam Hench is just saying that you and he were at Nick Salin's wedding
another part of the Bullpen. How did that go? There's a great time.
I feel like there's just a picture perfect wedding. I feel like the
people you get to share the weddings with make make the weddings more fun.
And that was a great wedding. And uh, you know, I've got
another make for three years now and to be invited and special and to share
that homing. Yeah, all parts of a bullpen that's tight, a tight
knit unit throughout the season and then the offseason as well. Crep, thanks
for coming by for a little bit. Good job on the ice machine,
Thank you. And is Trevor Stefan so two thirds of the bullpen stopping by.
And now Tanner Biby who has joined us here. You're the clean up
pitter closing things out for the afternoon here on Guardians Weekly. And Tanner,
are you coming off a great season? When you look back on it,
so many good things happened for you and when you had a chance to kind
of just sit back and relax a little bit, what were your impressions of
the season that you had. I think the start was obviously had some bumps
in the road kind of getting comfortable, trying to get routine down, whatever.
But I think I think when I finally settled in, I think it
was really nice. I mean, all the guys around me were awesome trying
to get me comfortable and just getting to know those guys I think definitely really
helped. But overall it is a good season, but I'm ready to move
to twenty four at this point. So, even though your numbers were good
right out of the shoot, just the way you felt about it, not
not quite where you'd like to be Initially, Yeah, I didn't think so.
I mean, you had some starts that were I mean, I think
everyone's gonna have start like bat starts their entire career. But I think I
think stuff that I was usually pretty good at wasn't as good as it could
have been, which I think anyone could say that I'm probably being too nitpicky,
but that's just kind of the goals that I'm setting, kind of maybe
not trying to be too perfect, but just trying to improve on the next
year. So when you get to the off season, normal off season for
you this year or anything going on that that would take you away from how
you like to prepare, No, pretty pretty normal off season. Had a
holiday at home, had had like a trip or two when the season ended,
and then I was, honestly, other than that, pretty good,
have my wisdom teeth out. That kind of sucked. But there's an understatement.
Yeah, when you look at that preparation for a season, does it
go back to to how you prepared when when you were at college level and
putting together a really good career there. Uh, I mean, I think
the preparation here is a lot more specified, a lot more minute and kind
of like detailed. I think in college it was more of like a have
to win mindset, like as a team, which is good. But I
think if you're trying to last in the majors in my long, illustrious career
that I've had, you got to figure out what you need to do for
yourself to contribute to the team to make them win instead of like a if
that makes sense? So yeah, so you know, it's interesting. Maybe
this is a you know, more of a global question, but the days
of the two hundred innings starting pitcher it seems more few and far between.
But can that be okay for from a team standpoint in terms of what you're
trying to get to and stay healthy and be there at the end. Yeah,
I mean one hundred percent. I mean I think if you're that's one
of my goals to throw, like, is to throw to an I'm sure
you asked Beeves, Tristan, Gavin Logan, all those starters, what's like
one goal I'm sure I would say, like, throw close to two hundred
innings. I think, I mean, Beeves has done it in his career.
I'm pretty sure. So I think it's definitely untainable. Just because it's
not a lot and all of people aren't doing it anymore. I think that
makes it that much more valuable if you can do it. So I think
you prepare and you pitch like you're like you want to throw two hundred innings,
and I think at that point you just kind of get what's given to
you. At that point, once you release the ball, you don't know
what's gonna happen. Kind of same idea. Tanner Bibby's joining us coming off
of really fine season, second in the American League Rookie of the Year voting.
You rolled off the names of pictures in the starting rotation here and gosh,
he could go back years and it's similar in that you're rolling off some
of the best pictures in the game. What is it like to be in
that type of rotation, especially as a young picture in terms of how it
can help you. Yeah, I think it's awesome. I mean, I
think we have it, like we have three young guys, we have Tristan,
who's been electric and he's been on the field. I mean, Chane's
kind of the quote unquote old guy, even though he's been a league for
like five years. But I think, I mean, we had the makings
to be extremely special, and I think it's awesome that we all could possibly
be so good because I think it helps us feed off of each other.
I think it really helps us kind of like breed some healthy competition of like
you watch a guy throw the night before and you're like, ooh, I
want to be better than that, or like oh, like I want to
like be just as good as him, just because like not in like an
unhealthy way, like I want to be better than him, but like it's
like a all right, like he set the standard, like let's go meet
it. Like let's go win this game, let's go like win a series,
let's go try to sweep a serious kind of thing. So I think
that's I think the healthy breeding competition, I think is the most important thing
for pitching staff real quick. At the end our last question, you're going
to your first major league spring training? Yeah? Yeah. How funny is
that after the season they had I feel like I gotta be the first person
ever of like a full year of service time and not have a year of
spring training under my belt. I think it's hilarious. It must be a
record. Looking forward to that, I think it's gonna be fun. Yeah,
Tanner Bibby going to his first major league spring training but coming off a
great year, and thanks so much for coming by today. Yeah, absolutely,
thank you. That is Tanner Bibby, a ten game winner a season
ago. Second in the American League Rookie of the Year voting. Thanks to
Tanner, Trevor Stephen sam Hanches, also Dan Cohen, new manager, Steven
Vote, and also Craig albern As the new bench coach as well. Mike
Pika here at the commands and Brian Matse back at command center working the controls.
There. This is Jim Rosenhouse. Thanks so much for tuning in.
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