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Welcome to Guardians Weekly on the Cleveland
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everyone, welcome to Guardians Weekly.
Jim Rose and House along with you from

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Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland where the
Guardians are taking on the Minnesota Twins this

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weekend. Coming up a little bit
later on in our show, we'll have

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a full farm report with Rob Sorfolio, the director of player Development. We

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will also hear from closer Emmanuel Clause, assistant hitting coach Dan Quente, and

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also starting pitcher Logan Allen. But
first, our week in review, and

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we begin on Monday night in Texas
against the defending world champion Texas Rangers.

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It was all Cleveland on this night. Tanner Bibby was on the mound for

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the Guardians and his strong stretch of
good pitching continued in this one. Tanner

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Bibby with a one two count on
Odalis Garcia, the right hander with the

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long set. Here's the pitch,
swung on foul tip, hung on to

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by nailor. That strike three in
Garcia is retired, so are the Rangers.

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We are headed to the fifth,
Cleveland nothing, Texas nothing. On

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the other side, Michael Lorenzen was
pitching well for Texas. In fact,

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he didn't give up a base hit
until Tyler Freeman came to the plate in

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the sixth inning the next delivery,
and it swung on, grounded in the

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hole and in the left base hit
Tyler Freeman. There will not be a

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no hitter tonight. Texas has two
hits. Tyler Freeman has Cleveland's first look

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like you got a hanging slider in
the middle of the plate and pounded it

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through that left side. The game
remained scoreless until the Guardians finally broke through

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in the eighth Estevan Florio got it
started with a double and then Brian Rochio

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delivered scoreless in the eighth and it
swung on a little looper into shallow center

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base hit hitting third being wave,
Thomas Florio thro out of the plate,

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hits the mound, kicks to the
left into scores Florio and rochiout of second

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on the throw. Oh my,
they would have had a play at the

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plate on the throw by Tavers.
But that throw, when it took its

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one bounce, it hit the side
of the mound. And squirted to the

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left. You didn't get that true
hop. You wanted back to home plate,

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and that gives Cleveland the opportunity to
score. Give Rokio on RBI bloop

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single, it's his seventh ARBI.
He went to second on the throat of

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the plate. Tyler Freeman followed with
a walk, then a single for Andre

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Semenez brought Jose Ramirez to the plate. The next delivery swing and a smash

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up the middle base it into center
field. That is going to score Rochio.

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Freeman right behind him, front of
the plate, way off mark.

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Everybody else moves up a base.
Guardians laid at three to nothing and runners

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at second and third with one out
as Jose Ramirez comes through with a two

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run single to center and the Guardians, who until yesterday had had such a

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quiet road trip and that included tonight
being no hitt it until the sixth inning,

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have broken through here in the eighth
and Cleveland's late inning offensive magic continues

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and they now ladd three to nothing, give Jose Ramirez a league leading thirty

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five RBIs. A wild pitch brought
in another run to make it four to

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nothing after eight, and in the
ninth, the Guardians looking for more,

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had two men aboard and andre Cemenez
stepping in swinging a line drive toward the

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gap left center. It's going to
get down for a base hit, cut

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off nicely by Duran but Rocchio in
the score stopping at third is Freeman and

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in the second with the double is
andre Cemenez. Boys. He swung it

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tonight. Two line drive outs for
andre Cimenez. Dennis single in the four

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run eighth and now an RBI doubled
a left center here in the ninth and

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Cleveland is removing all doubt. They
laid five to nothing. Then Jose Ramirez

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continue to add his league leader RBI
total. Now the two to zero.

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Pitch a swing and a smash up
the middle base it into center field.

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That'll score Freeman. Here comes he
Menez. They pitched a Jose Ramirez with

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a pair of two run singles in
the last two innings, giving him four

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RBIs tonight thirty seven on the year, and there is no longer any doubt

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about this baby. Seven nothing Cleveland
and the bullpen of Texas has been torched

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for seven more runs. And in
the ninth a Manuel Classe, in a

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non safe situation was trying to complete
the shutout bid one and two. The

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count Texas down to its last strike
Classe A. He is just machine like

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right now. He fires a swing
and a roller to second. Hemenez gloves

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it, throws it bulgy and the
Guardians have another shutout. Back to back

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shutout for Cleveland. They got one
yesterday in the Windy City, and tonight

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with the roof closed here in Arlington, Texas, they beat up the Rangers

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by the same scores they won yesterday
seven to nothing. So a nice win

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for the Guardians and the series opener
in Arlington, and they backed it up

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with another strong effort on Tuesday night. The Guardians got the scoring started in

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the second inning, after the first
two batters had reached bow Naylor came through

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with a big hit. The bitch
a swinging a long drive to deep right

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center field and this ball is off
the base of the wall. Naylor on

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his way to second, Manzardo coming
home, Flori all right behind him.

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It's a two run double off the
base of the wall and right center by

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bow Naylor and the Guardians take a
two nothing lead and Bowe Naylors, who

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hit two rocket line drive outs last
night, finally gets rewarded and he smoked

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one off the base of the wall
and right center for his seventh double,

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giving him thirteen RBIs. And this
time the Guardians make Lighter pay for they

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hit batter and then the walk.
Later in the inning, once again two

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men on for Andre Semenez. Now
the pitch swung on line shot base hit

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left center field. Bo Naylor is
going to score hitting second big turn,

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but stopping there is Freeman and it's
three nothing Cleveland and another clutch RBI hit

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from Andre Semenez as he rifles an
RBI single to left center. And in

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this inning, Cleveland has really made
Lighter pay for every mistake. And two

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batters later, Josh Naylor capped off
the biginning in a big way. Well

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they just put Josh Naylor on.
You would think they would, But then

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again, what I know about managing, wouldn't fill a thimble. Second and

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third, two down, second inning. Now the pitch to him, he

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drives one deep to right. This
ball's got a chance gone on an O

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two pitch. Josh Naylor with a
towering three run homer to write, and

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this Bowl Game may be over and
fans are booing as Bruce Bochie with a

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slow walk to the mound six nothing
Cleveland Naylor on an O two pitch hit

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his twelfth home run, giving him
thirty three RBIs and for the young man

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tonight, Jack Lder just couldn't put
hitters away. When he got to two

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strikes. The Rangers crept back into
it three solo home runs and a run

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scoring base hit that made it six
to four Guardians after eight innings. But

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in the ninth, another clutch at
bat from Andre Semenez gave Cleveland a little

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more breathing room. Now the one
two delivery swung on hit in the air,

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medium deep center. This will get
a run home. Tavares makes the

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catch. Both runners are tagging into
scores. Rochio to third is Freeman and

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the Guardians have a seven to four
lead on another clutch at bat by one

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of the best clutch hitters in the
game, Andre Simenez, and then,

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working back to back days, Emmanuel
Classe was on to try and close it

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out. Now, the one two
pitch swing in a week chapter to second,

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Jimena's gloves throws to first ballgame.
The Guardians have won another series,

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and they have now won three in
a row as they beat the Texas Rangers

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tonight seven to four, so the
Guardians had won the series. Looking for

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the sweep Wednesday night, but it
was all Texas in a four nothing Rangers

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win off day Thursday in a new
home stand started on Friday night for the

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Guardians against the Minnesota Twins. The
Twins jumped on top with a solo home

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run from Alex kirol Off in the
third inning, but otherwise Tristan McKenzie continued

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his recent stretch. If strong starts
for Cleveland, the one to zero pitch,

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a swing and a towering flyball to
left, not deep, Brennan toward

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the line, and for Tristan McKenzie, this was a seven pitch sixth inning,

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so it stays one nothing. Twins
have the lead on Cleveland middle of

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the sixth. Then at the bottom
of the sixth the Guardians broke through with

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a runner on and David Fry at
the plate. Now the O two pitch

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swung and hit high, hit deep
to left. HiT's got a chance.

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Go Hey hung a slider and David
Fry sent one to the porch and left,

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and the Guardians have a two to
one laid here in inning number six,

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David Fry continues to be one of
the most important hitters on this ball

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club. Home run number four for
David Frye. On an o to two

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pitch, he hits a two run
home run to the porch and left and

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the Guardians just like that have a
two to one lead. But the Twins

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tied the game at two with a
run in the top half of the eighth

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inning. It wouldn't stay that way
for long thanks to some two out magic

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in the bottom of the eighth from
Jose Ramirez. Here's the wind up in

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the two to one pitch, swing
on hit, high hit, deep hallway,

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back to right, and Jose Ramirez
with a joyous junt around the bases

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as put Cleveland back on top three
to two. Here in the eighth inning,

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a solo home run to right field
by Jose. It's number ten for

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truly one of the faces of the
game of baseball, Jose Ramirez being serenaded

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by thirty thousand and then once again, Classe was on to try and nail

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down another c Cleveland clinging to a
three to two lead ninth inning, two

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outs. Nobody on, boy,
this game sure doesn't feel like it's May

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seventeenth. The pitch swung on a
Tampa to short charged by Arius Gloves throws

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pulgame, what a way to start
the homestand Jose Ramirez a game winning home

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run in the eighth inning, Tristan
McKenzie a tremendous effort going into the seventh,

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and then Emanual Classe about his auti
manic as it gets, and the

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Guardians take Game one of this weekend
series, beating Minnesota three to two when

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it was and the series opener for
the Guardians on Friday night with the Twins

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in town for the remainder of the
weekend Saturday night at six ten Sunday afternoon

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at one, stay tuned when we
come back. We'll hear from starting pitcher

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favorite teams. Terrible and frankly embarrassing
performances now forever and the pit swung im

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banged on the ground to third arius
bobbled goes to second one. He meant

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us turned a double play inning over. How about this weekend for starting pitching

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on both sides and Cleveland has gotten
six shut out from Logan Allen. Today,

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Jimmers announced back with you from Progressive
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Guardians Weekly Guardians in the midst of
another homestand three with the Twins and then

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three with the Mets starting on Monday
night. Logan Allen, He's on the

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mound on Saturday night for the Guardians. His last start was Sunday when he

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threw six scoreless innings against the White
Sox in Chicago. A seven nothing went

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for the Guardians and when we caught
up with him earlier this week. He

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talked about how he was able to
rebound after a tough start prior to that

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game in Chicago on Sunday. Yeah, I think you know, if you

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have a battle one late, like
I said, you just want to get

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out back out there and you know, go out there and can be a

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chance to compete again. And I
think you know, yesterday we kind of

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wanted to just get a little bit
back to just competing, not worrying so

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much about the Scott report, worrying
so much about the other team, and

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get back to you know what we
thought I do well and just try to

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go out there and next to you
my own plan and you thought me and

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David had a good plan going into
the game, and you know, we

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just were able to stick to that. And nextecue you mentioned that balance between

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scattering report and doing what you do
well. How difficult can that be sometimes

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to find that happy medium that allows
you to really have good success. I

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mean, it's definitely easy to get
caught up in the data. You know,

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there's just so much information now that
it's it's easy to get caught up

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in it. But uh, you
know that's why it's good to have the

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staff that we do. Carl,
Joe and BG. We're kind of big

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on just hey, you just get
back to being you and you know,

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went in doubt kind of go riverbat
that side instead of reverting so much and

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trying to trust the reports and just
go out there, trust your eyes,

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trust your stuff, and just roll. The first battery of the game that

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you face, you get hit with
a line driving in the lower back.

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Not the first time that's happened to
you this year, but if I remember

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correctly, the last time you pitched
really well too, that that something happened

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where you were hit by a line
drive. What goes through your mind when

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that happens in terms of trying to
stay in the game. I guess the

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biggest thing I was thinkful for,
you know a couple of times have gotten

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hit is that it has been too
serious where it's like got immediately come out

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of the game. So thankful for
that, but uh yeah, I feel

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like, honestly, if anything,
it kind of just like lights of fire.

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I was definitely really really frustrated after
I got hit out there, just

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you know, giving it being like
the third time this season. But yeah,

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I think like I said, just
lights the fire a little big at

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the adrill and going and just getting
back out there, just trying to get

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those outs. And you're progressing through
your your second season in the major leagues.

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What are you learning this year that
that maybe it didn't last year about

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the trials and tribulations of trying to
have success on a consistent basis at this

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level. I think I'm just learning
that in the course of the season,

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like you're gonna have those good days, You're gonna have those bad days.

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It's just being able to just manage
those bad days and just trying to you

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know, raise the floor of those
bad days in a sense, not too

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caught up in one out in good
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the process, sticking sticking to the
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the work that we put in,
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to the start, to let the
work take care of itself when the game

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goes. And an indication of how
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yesterday that the team going in on
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ridiculous at this point in the season, that that's the first time that's happened.

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Do you approach it any differently when
when obviously the team would love to

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get back in the win column.
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that, we're just you know,
getaway day. It's been a couple of

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tough ones. I think for me
as a star, of the job is

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to go out there and try to
be efficient, trying to get the guys

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back in here swinging the bat.
I think that's the biggest way to kind

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of get your confidence back as a
as a team is to you know,

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have the bass in your hand,
put a few good at bats together.

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So any opportunity we can to get
off defense, get back with the bats

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in their hand, get back on
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especially in those type of games,
to kind of get some momentum back.

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And you know, we were able
to do that to strink some good at

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bats together, you know, David
Fry, hittings, homer, and I

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think put up seven. So definitely
good. You know, good to take

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in to this game today. Excellent
finish to the Chicago series and it's in

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Texas tonight. Logan, thanks Lopper
Comb, I appreciate it. Yeah,

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thank you appreciate it. At starting
pitcher Logan Allen, stay with us while

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we come back. We'll hear from
closer Emmanuel Classe and assistant hitting coach Dan

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Puente that says, we continue on
the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network one and

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two. The count Texas down to
its last strike. Class A. He

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is just machine like right now.
He fires a swinging a roller to second.

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Hemanus gloves it, throws it.
Paulgate and the Guardians have another shutout.

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Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim
Rosenhause back with you at Progressive Field.

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Well, the top closer in all
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last two years has been a manual
Class A and he's at it again.

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What a start to the season for
Class A. Who picked up save number

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thirteen on Friday night. And although
he pitched really well last year, he

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seems to have taken it to a
new level this year. And he talked

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about some of the keys that have
led to that great start over the first

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month and a half or so of
the season with some translation help from Augi

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Rivero, and I believe I mean
the keys. I was able to have

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a better preparation for this year to
being ready for the get go compared to

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last year. So I think this
year wherever it's in some other fruits of

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having such a different off season for
me, and when you look back at

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a season ago, you lead the
major leagues and saves again, but how

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did you view last season in terms
of things that you'd like to work on

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in the offseason and even at the
start of this year and simple, I

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think the main focus was to start
this year on the best way possible.

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Normally I have like a slow star
of my season. This year, the

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focus was to start, you know, first game, have my best my

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best performance from the day one.
When you look at your stuff, gosh,

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it seems that the same all the
time, and hitters are always trying

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to stay one step ahead. I'm
sure, what are you doing to try

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and stay ahead of them with the
stuff that you have? And another yeah,

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I feel like you know, they
know what I throw. But obviously

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for me is able to execute the
same pitches and jestady for a temple,

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I was able to use more of
my quick pitch and a couple of situations,

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I was getting them off balance with
my quick pitch and I was able

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to get two strikeouts and I feel
the three one even though he went to

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he missed over to the second base. I was really closest strike came out.

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So I think the focus was to
keep it impredictable and try to get

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as many strikeouts as possible. And
when you look at the mentality of a

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closer, obviously you got that that
short memory. Uh you've been at it

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a while now, and it seems
like you're relaxed all the time. I'm

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sure that's not the case. But
do you feel comfortable in the role now,

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maybe more so than when you first
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Melussi and Melussi. Fianza really allows
me to have a better preparation, to

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be a little more calm, to
know when I'm going to pitch and what's

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the fish are going to pitch.
I know my numbers in those instances,

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So he allows me to be a
little more calm and prepare better for those

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innings, and I think allows me
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the team's winning a lot. You
having fun a lot. It's really fun.

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Emanuel, thanks for coming. I
appreciate it. Thank you. That's

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Guardian's closer, Emmanuel Clause. What
a year he has going with thirteen saves

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after his save on Friday night.
Now, the Guardians are scoring runs at

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a much better clip this season,
and under hitting coach Chris Valaka, he

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has some new help, as it
were, with a new assistant hitting coach,

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Dan Puente. And we caught up
with Dan last week in Chicago and

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he talked about joining the Guardians and
what his role entails part of the hitting

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group. Yeah, the roles really
really changed. A lot of orgs have

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gone to more of the team approach. You know, it's just hard to

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find that one hitting coach that is
really good at mechanics and game planning and

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has you know experience, you know, performing at the highest level. So

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we really tackle it in a lot
of different phases. You know, my

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role, you know, I have
a certain group of hitters that I work

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with. We all pick apart,
you know, the opposition's bullpen their starters.

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We look for trends, we look
at biomechanical data. So we really

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just kind of split up the work, divvy up the work, and then

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that's everything we do on the front
end. And then you know when we

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get when we get to the field, you know, guys go through their

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cage routines and we take BP and
and then a lot of guys you know,

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will go and then hit some vlo
in the cage before the game to

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get their eyes going. So it's
a long day, but you know,

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it doesn't feel like work. It's
a lot of fun. And nothing's better

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than seeing like a good game plan
executed and having a good work day and

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see and everything, you know,
develop into a win. Dann Puente joining

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us. He's the assistant hitting coach
for the Guardians. And Dan, you

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have that Chicago background coaching wise too, with both the Cubs and the White

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Sox. And it's okay if you
want top cups because I know you were

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with them, or at least very
much interested in the twenty sixteen World Series.

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Explain where you were then and why
it meant so much to you.

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Yeah, So in twenty sixteen,
I was working at a facility at Elite

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Baseball Training, and you know,
I grew up probably about two miles away

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from Wrigley. I went to high
school, you know, very close to

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Wrigley. And I know I might
not endearing myself to many Guardians fans with

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it, but you know, it
was it was cool to see them win.

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But you know, that's what we're
trying to do here, is we're

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trying to get back to the World
Series and bring a winner to Cleveland.

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Did you have to be deep briefed
when you when you got the job here,

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You know, definitely, definitely,
you know a little bit. You

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know, it's just interesting, you
know, being on the other side of

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it, and you know, just
you know how difficult that is. But

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you know, well, I'm confident
with this young core and you know,

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with what we have in our minor
league system. You know, Cleveland's always

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been a competitive team every single year, and I'm confident that we'll be back

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there and hopefully bring a ring.
And you work with Chris Fialaka, who

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I know you had a prior relationship
with with the Cubs. How does that

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work between the two of you making
a click so that you can be the

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best for the team here. Yeah, it's been it's been outstanding. You

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know, you feel like, you
know, me being new to the Org,

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we were able to hit the ground
running right away. Vowel was the

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hitting coordinator when I started in Chicago, so you know, he knows how

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I work. I know how he
works. You know, we pair well

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together. You know, I just
think it's you know, really good dynamic

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that we have going right now,
and we're just hoping to carry that out

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the rest of the season. It's
been going great so far, for sure,

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some real improvements from a run scoring
perspective. And Dan, thanks toft

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for coming b I appreciate it.
Thank you. That's new assistant hitting coach

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Dan Quente talking hitting with us as
the Guardians certainly have some good pieces in

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place for success, as they have
been swinging the bats at a much better

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clip than they were a year ago. Stay with us while we get back.

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back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse
back with you from Progressive Field in downtown

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Cleveland. Now we wrap up our
show this week with our weekly check in

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with Rob Sir Folio, the director
of player development for the Guardians. We're

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talking double a Akron this week,
and we begin with reliever Andrew Walters,

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who's been just tremendous. His stat
lines across the board outstanding. Now,

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we asked Rob how they determine when's
the right time for a player of Walters

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caliber to make that jump to the
next level of the farm system. Yeah,

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the age old question of when's the
right time? You know, these

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are really difficult ones to wrestle with, and I think at least in Walt's

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case. First off, to your
point in the spring Breakout series, anyone

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that saw him for the first time
throw probably came out of there with a

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pretty high opinion of just some of
the things he can do, and he's

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essentially kind of mimicked that out in
Times eight or nine at this point,

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which is, you know, for
a guy that's coming straight. Obviously he

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played in a difficult conference in college
in the ACC being a Miami guy,

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but it's rare to see you guy
go right to double A and just do

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some of the things that he's done. And I think the reason why,

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you know, we're starting to think
about, like what's the right challenge for

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this guy is because of what he
does when he's not pitching in game,

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of how he takes care of himself, his routines, like how quickly he's

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adjusted to pitching two three times a
week, which he had never done in

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his career before. You know,
those are we're kind of have a little

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bit of like a checklist for these
relievers that tend to move fast. You

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know, some guys like Nick Sandlin
and Walt probably falling in that category of

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what are they going to be asked
to do in the major leagues and how

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do we work backwards from that?
And so finding ways to pitch these guys

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when you know they threw thirty five
pitches a night ago and they have to

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come back out and find a way
to answer the bell that night. And

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pitching him, you know, three
plus times in a week is is another

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one of those things that you know, we've really exposed him to for the

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first time over the last couple of
weeks. So as he starts to check

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some of these boxes, you know, we're we're looking at ways to try

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and answer that question of just where's
the proper developmental challenge for this guy?

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And you know, think Triple A
offers some unique elements of adjusting to the

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Major League baseball or really having to
like pitch end zone with abs. You

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know, the umpire's zone doesn't change
Tuesday through Thursday and Triple A and so

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like a lot of good comes out
of that when relievers that have really high

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quality stuff benefit from you know,
a lot of chase and strikes out of

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the zone. We've seen that be
a little bit of a learning curve and

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you know, I suspect Walt we'll
have an opportunity to adjust to that.

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And you know, here in the
short term, you've been doing this for

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a little while now, are there
certain players or pitchers that that may get

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difficult to check the boxes and do
the proper steps before they get here.

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Sure, you know the way they're
used in college, and you know some

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of that too is just like the
circumstances of what's happening in Triple A,

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Like what can we accomplish realistically in
Triple A given that you know, you're

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managing so many things at the Triple
A level. And you know, I

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always tell Andy Tracy he probably is
the hardest job in baseball because you're protecting,

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like you're not pitching certain guys on
on certain day, you're staying away

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from them intentionally just in case something
happens at the major league level. You

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need guys ready to go. And
so you know, that's why we try

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and do a lot of this work
with guys in Double A and and really,

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you know, make sure that we're
delivered about our process to prepare guys

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effectively. Let's move to the rotation
down there, and you have two young

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kids who are making good progress.
Let's start with Ryan Webb. What are

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you seeing from Ryan Webb so far
this season that as you excited that he

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can keep moving. Yeah, it's
the guy that you know had Tommy Jones.

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He acquired him in the draft,
so kind of got off to a

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little bit of a slower start,
missed about a month last year due to

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you know, a minor oblique item, and we were able to pitch him

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in the Fall League and felt like
that would be a, you know,

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a really good developmental challenge for him. And you know, off season had

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a lot of velocity focus. You
know, lefty really good four pitch mix.

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His secondary or especially his change up
in curveball or are really you know,

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pretty impressive weapons and can throw a
pretty good slider to lefties as well.

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So just been fun to watch him
continue to develop against upper level hitters.

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And he's a he's a great competitor
and you know, really has been

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able to maximize his stuff so far
and just continue to learn and and make

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that adaptation to facing upper level hitters
each each time he toes the rubber.

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And how about Tommy Mace seems like
he's progressing nicely. Yeah, you know,

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this is this this is one of
those fun development stories because Tommy's just

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like you know, Clubhouse, a
great makeup guy, just as awesome work

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ethic, just like a lot of
these guys and Acron and they really kind

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of push each other from a players
standpoint, which is awesome. It's a

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it's a fun clubhouse to be around. And you know, Tommy's another guy

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that like didn't have the year he
wanted when he got moved to double A

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last year. He did some really
good things in Lake County at the front

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half of the year and got challenged
at the upper levels and so was really

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using his off season to try and
you know, take that next step to

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be able to perform effectively against upper
level hitters. And and he's done just

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that. You know, another guy
that has a deep mix, throws a

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lot of strikes, great competitor,
and it's been awesome to see him really

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out of the gates. Have have
a lot of success for the Rubber Ducks

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so far. And a young guy
who got off to a good start minor

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injury as back doesn't look like Doug
mccasey has missed a beat. What's going

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on there? Yeah, you know
that was unfortunate because you know, we

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talked about this last time a couple
of weeks ago of just all that work

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he did in the off season of
you know, tinkering with his slot a

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little bit to you know, try
and find a way to get some of

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his better velocity to show up more
consistently. And we've seen that when Doug's

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been healthy, had that couple of
weeks shut down, but was up to

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sixty pitches his last outing and has
been feeling good. And when he's been

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healthy, even going back all the
way to spring training, was one of

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the most impressive arms that we had
out in Arizona. And he's you know,

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when he's got out there and been
able to pitch, you know,

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we've seen some impressive stuff. I
think he's gone. I don't think he's

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given up a run all year,
So that's that's not easy to do when

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you're bitching in Double A. And
again another guy that didn't have the year

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he wanted last year, an incredibly
hard worker and fiery competitor and and just

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used his offseason to his advantage.
And it's fun when you know you see

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some of that fruits of the of
those guys labor show through Rob sir Folio

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joining us. He's the director of
player development for the Guardians. We're talking

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double A acron Chase still Ouder obviously
the talk of spring training position player wise,

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and sustain an injury early on in
the Double A season. It sounded

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extremely serious, like we might not
see him till much much later in the

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season. But it sounds like maybe
some promising news. What are you hearing?

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Yeah, so, you know,
obviously unfortunate with Chase to your point,

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having a pretty loud, bad pun
intended spring training and and I think

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the nature of the injury we were
obviously like all intent is up of not

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a secret. He's had some issues
with his foot, He's had it surgically

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repaired in the past. You know, he's going to you know, we're

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utilizing the best specialists in America to
help us work through this. And I

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know Chase has been frustrated to seeing
him this week of not being able to

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be out there, but we did
get some you know, I'll use the

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word encouraging. It's it's never a
good thing when somebody gets hurt, but

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it could have been a lot worse. And you know, he's at least

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on a path to potentially be back
in game action at the back end of

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this month and early into June.
So you know, I think we were

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pretty excited about that outcome. And
some of the you know, the items

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with you know, some orthotics and
some some other things that you know,

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we're trying out and you know,
knock on wood approach to the return to

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play, but we're hoping to see
him back out there in a couple of

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weeks. Right, guys playing on
the position player front, Khalil Watson and

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intriguing young man because draft status with
the Marlins and acquired last summer. How's

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he doing? Is he moves around
a little bit position wise? Yeah,

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this this has been a fun one. You know, you get a really

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talented, great athlete from a different
organization and he's a young kid, so

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you know, he didn't he didn't
have the experiences of playing college baseball,

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and he's probably been the best athlete
on any sports field he's ever walked on.

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He's a big football player. And
it's just been really fun to get

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to know Khalil and learn a lot
about you know, what he was doing

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with Miami and you know their approach, you know, maybe a little bit

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different than ours in a couple of
different areas, but just being able to

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kind of work with Khalil and really
spend the time sitting down with him,

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like, you know, who do
you want to be? Like, who

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do you see yourself as and like
how can we best coach you? And

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and kind of like, you know, expose him to some of the standards

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and and things that like Voter and
Albion, our whole major league staff like

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this is what we view being a
winning baseball players about. And it's been

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really fun because you don't get many
guys as talented as Khalil, But anytime

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you bring someone over from a new
org like you kind of have that almost

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like you're onboarding for a new job. And that's kind of what the back

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half of last year was when we
had him at the end of the summer

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and then just being able to spend
a full off season in spring training with

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him is has been great and that's
kind of why we thought he was ready

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for that challenge in Double A.
And we've continued to expose him with center

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field, left field, second base, and you know, our manager there,

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Greg Descenzo, has done a great
job of, you know, kind

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of building that relationship that's required with
any player, but Khalil, being a

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new player in our organization, find
in a way to you know, what

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makes this guy tick? How can
we, you know, push him to

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be the best version of himself?
In practice, in game and and Khalil's

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responded well to that and it's the
uh, it's been awesome to have them

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in our org so far, so
really talented young player. Let's finish with

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us. You mentioned manager Steven Vote
and several members of his coaching staff.

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You're just finishing up a meeting with
them that you have on a regular basis,

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whether it's via phone or in person. Why is that so important from

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your perspective and theirs? Oh,
it's huge. I mean, you know,

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first off, just being able to
keep those connections and you know,

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I'll share some of the things that
we're wrestling with on on the minor league

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side, and getting a chance to
you know, talk with with Voter once

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a week or you know, whether
it's chaling with Albi today or Kay Kra

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or you know, Jason Esposito,
guys that have been in our minor league

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system as coaches. One, it's
great to catch up and and just see

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how the guys are doing up here, but also like hear their thoughts on

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things that that we're wrestling with and
it just kind of allows the whole org

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to you know, kind of read
off the same sheet of music and you

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know, be aware of things that
are going on, whether it's players in

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Triple A or you know, things
were trying to do with a guy in

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low A and you know, like
what ideas you guys have on that,

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how would you tackle that problem?
Or you know, whatever it is.

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It's it's just fun to to be
able to stay in touch with those guys.

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And I think you know, from
the second voters come in, just

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his his interest in in like,
you know, learning our minor league staff

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and players. And because you know
that's that's not a secret that developing players

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from within is going to have to
be something you know, we hopefully do

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better than the average team. As
you know, a lot of the guys

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you know playing out here at seven
o'clock or guys that played in Lake County

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and Akron or wherever. So it's
just it's really fun to you know,

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be on the same page with those
guys and and then have a chance to

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come in here and see them and
then some of the players as well.

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That's Director of Player Development rops orfolio
and that will do it for this week's

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edition of Guardians Weekly. Thanks as
always to Brian Matze for all of his

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help and putting together our show each
week until next week when we join you

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from Anaheim, California. The Guardians
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