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Welcome to Guardian's Weekly. Jim Rosen
House along with you from the Guardian

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Spring Training Complex in Goodyear, Arizona, where we head deeper into spring training.

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A week's worth of games in the
books, and then now we're starting

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to get into that pocket of spring
training where your regulars in the starting rotation

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are getting their first appearances out of
the way. We saw Gavin Williams throw

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on Thursday against the Angels over in
timp and Williams with two impressive innings.

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Shane Bieber will take them mound today. If you're listening to this. On

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Saturday when it airs on the Guardians
Radio Network, Bieber will face the Royals

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in a radio game at three zero
five from right here in Goodyear. And

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then tomorrow Sunday, Tanner Biby makes
his spring debut on the mound. In

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game action, all of these guys, they've been throwing a live bullpen,

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some sim games, things like that
to get ready, but no need for

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game action just yet. But they
get into that here as we head into

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the second week of games here in
the Cactus League. Coming up a little

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bit later on in our show today, we will hear from Guardians hitting coach

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Chris Vleeka as he tries to help
hitters unlock a little bit more power in

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some of the things that they're doing
to facilitate that. We will also visit

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with utility man David Frye, who
really came on and provided some value a

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year ago at so many different positions, including on the mound, with some

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impressive pitching performances. We will check
in with one of the younger players on

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the roster, at least in spring
training, trying to make this club as

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a potential power source in the outfield. That's Estevan Floril, who was acquired

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in an offseason deal with the New
York Yankees. But first up on our

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show this week, it is Tristan
McKenzie. McKenzie, coming off a year

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where he spent most of the season
on the injured list. He was progressing

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nicely in spring training, tracking as
he normally would toward a spot in the

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starting rotation, but in his last
start of the spring felt some soreness in

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his shoulder, so he was taken
off the roster and spent the early portions

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of the season on the injured list, and then when he came back,

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just a couple of appearances and he
had some elbow issues after that. So

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in total a year ago, Mackenzie
only four appearances for the Guardians, and

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that was after a real breakthrough season
in twenty twenty two when he won eleven

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games as era was under three,
pitched one hundred and ninety one innings.

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I mean, he was a big
key to the Guardian's success back in twenty

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twenty two when they made the postseason. When we caught up with them earlier

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this spring, we asked him how
things are going so far this spring and

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where he is in terms of his
build up toward the season. I mean,

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it's it's I guess it's a little
slower, but I think the goal

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is to make it out of spring
training and make it two season. It's

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not necessarily a case of me making
the team or me trying to come out

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here to prove something. It's more
about making sure that I'm healthy throughout the

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spring training process and being able to
contribute to the team during the games that

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mean something. You had a chance
to get back on the big league mound

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at the end of last season.
How did that help you with your off

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season programs, everything you're trying to
do to get ready and be ready.

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Yeah, I mean, I think
being able to throw at the end of

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the year gave me a lot of
clarity going into the off season. It

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just eased my mind one knowing that
I wasn't hurt or I could go into

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a rehab style of off season without
feeling that I was doing a full rehab

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and coming back from an injury.
I was able to go out there and

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pitching games and feel healthy and then
go into the off season really just work

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on some strength things, work on
some mechanical things, just to be ready

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for right now and to be ready
for season. Anything different from what you

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normally do in the winter time or
was it pretty much the same that you're

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used to Yeah, I mean the
off season itself was pretty similar to what

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I normally do. I mean,
there was a little bit more like back

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and forth in terms of contact with
the team about how I was feeling and

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just what the off season program look
like. But outside of that, it

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was very status quo. You mentioned
some mechanical adjustments, things that you might

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look at. What is it that
you do look at in that situation?

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Yeah, I mean, so,
I think a big thing is in terms

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of arm health is being able to
use your legs. So just kind of

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looking at my delivery and figuring out
ways to maybe lessen the load on my

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shoulder and my elbow a little bit
and driving some of that down the chain

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and maybe being able to pick that
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And I think my delivery is in
a really good spot. I think it

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was good before, but you're always
tweaking, You're always tinkering, trying to

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make it a little bit better,
and it feels probably the best step of

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help right now. Hard to do
that when you're used to maybe doing it

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a different way. Maybe not a
completely different way, but just some subtle

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adjustments. Yeah, I mean,
I think it's hard to make adjustments in

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your delivery when you're competing middle of
the season. Adjustments are hard because you're

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looking for results as well as trying
to get your work in. I think

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being able to kind of sit out
and then head into an offseason, we're

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able to kind of break down the
mechanics a little bit and really get into

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the nitty gritty of what we're doing
on the mound. Definitely helped me as

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opposed to trying to make mechanical adjustments
in season you get sore. There's different

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things. Tristan McKenzie joining us as
The Guardian's open spring training and how different

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is it around here first time in
your career where there's a new manager in

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Steven Voting, And how has camp
been? What have you noticed? Yeah,

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I mean, I think the energy
has been great since since day one.

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For me, A lot of guys
showed up early, which you don't

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necessarily see. I think you see
a lot of guys. You may see

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half the guys show up early and
then the other guys show up on report

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date. I think every player was
out here before the official report date,

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the eighteenth, so that was really
good to see. I think Voter has

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been doing sorry, I think Vote's
been doing a really good job of just

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keeping the guys engaged, being able
to interact with not just the veteran players,

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but interact with some of the younger
guys and make them feel involved.

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It feels like a very team effort. Sounds kind of cliche to say,

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but we're definitely a family now.
It sounds like a common theme that for

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the players who were here last year, disappointment and kind of just the season

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didn't go the way everyone wanted.
And what's that feeling coming in here when

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you have a year like that.
I mean, I think a lot of

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the guys are coming in thinking the
only way is up. I think a

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lot of guys were disappointed in how
the season ended for us more just because

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they knew that we weren't playing our
best baseball. And I think coming into

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the offseason and then coming in the
spring training, guys are looking to put

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their best foot forward and really change
that narrative from last year and really come

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out with some new energy and really
do well this year. You've been in

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the game a while, you like
this time of year spring training? Yeah,

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I mean there's a different kind of
energy around this time of year as

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well as like the beginning of the
season. I think everybody's kind of happy

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to go home at a certain point
in the off season. But I think

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once January hits and you can smell
baseball around the corner, there's no there's

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nothing like it. By what a
key it would be if Tristan McKenzie is

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full on, ready to go and
throwing well when the season begins for the

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starting rotation and the Guardians as a
whole, stay with us. When we

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come back. We'll hear from young
outfielder Estevan Florial, new to the organization

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this year, and we'll talk to
him about that when we return after this

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on the Cleveland plant Guardians Radio Network, Tristan McKenzie has blank Tampa on one

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hip, has struck out seven and
has walked one. The pitch a swang

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an a mess fastball in ninety three
miles an hour, and McKenzie has really

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held his velo today. And we
always talk so much about Tristan McKenzie working

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up at the top of the zone
with a fastball. That time he buried

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that fastball that had that running action
in on the right handed hitter, almost

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like a two seamer down the set. Now the O two delivery curveball Adam

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swinging, so Margo strikes out and
McKenzie strikes out the side. Tom Severt

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holds them Mange League record. He
struck out ten Padres in a row in

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nineteen seventy. Now the payoff pitch
straight three call curveball and a new club

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record eight consecutive strikeouts for Tristan McKenzie. A curveball got Jake Lamb looking and

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Corey Klueber has been pushed out of
the record books by the twenty three year

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old right hander Tristan McKenzie, who
has struck out ten today, including the

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Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim
Rosenhaus back with you from Goodyear, Arizona

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and the Guardians Spring Training Complex.
Guardians getting ready to take down the Can's

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City Royals on Saturday afternoon, a
radio game that begins with a first pitch

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of three to five. Shane Bieber
making his debut on Saturday against Kansas City

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Taner. Biby will face the Giants
tomorrow, also here in Goodyear, and

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another game that we'll have on the
radio for you again with a three to

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five first pitch. A lot of
battles in the outfield, trying to make

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this ball club. Several young potential
power bats, including Estevan Florial, new

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to the organization, acquired from the
Yankees just before the New year in exchange

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for young pitcher Cody Morris. Floriel
has been in the Yankees organization since twenty

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fifteen, but he is still only
twenty six years of age. He's shown

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some power, especially in recent seasons, with more than one hundred minor league

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home runs during his pro career in
the Yankees system. He also has seen

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some sporadic time in the major leagues, but nothing to the extent where he

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could really get going at the major
league level. Last year, did damage

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at Triple A Scranton and Wilkesbury with
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driven in. We had a chance
to visit with Floriel earlier this spring,

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and he talked about how it's going
with a new and at times unfamiliar organization.

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To him, it's fun on I
would say challenging because I mean you

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come here like with a little expectation
on new people you have to meet,

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but so far it's challenging. By
then overall, I mean the team have

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made it easy for me because this
runciation had been like Roy mood On,

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I really love here so far.
You had a couple of opportunities the last

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several years at the big league level
with the Yankees. When you heard of

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the trade, were you surprised and
if so, how come and what was

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your reaction. I wasn't surprised because
I mean back then there was been a

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lot of trade, I mean in
the off season. And I said,

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I mean, something is gonna happen
because so many I feel that there's not

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a lot of opportunity like to be
I mean just three can play or winning

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the bench. There was like a
bunch of them, and I said,

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I mean something was gonna happen.
But when they called me like they said,

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like get trade, I mean I
look forward to into like new opportunity

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to the new chapter. We are
big power numbers a year ago. What

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are you working on to try and
make that last step and make it consistent

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to stay up here? Well,
you know, I'm trying to stick with

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the something I did last year,
So try to I mean, have the

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same routine I had last year,
or just took a lot of a couple

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of things to get better at it. But for me, it's gonna just

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to stick with the thing I did
last year. I know there's a lot

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of things like I have to et
better at yet, but mainly stayed to

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it. Did something click in for
you that that was really successful, that

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maybe it was different from years past? I would say yes, I would

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say like for me, I was
trying to be like earlier and I usually

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like when I start hitting, I
just wanted to be earlier and try to

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do less. So I try to
just put the bone play on on.

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When we do that, a lot
of things can happen. How about defensively,

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I know the manager Stephen Vote has
already mentioned a really good arm andy

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outfield, and uh, is there
a spot you prefer be at a corner

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or in center? Honestly, I
mean I have to play more set of

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field than anything. If I had
to choose one of them, I would

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rather stay because I mean I like
to be like in the set of field,

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but overall, like I have played
like right field on I field,

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I focal through with those positions.
Two d end, He's kind of like

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tried to help the team. Try
to it doesn't matter where that put your

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right, left or sort of field, Like I tried to do your job

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on try to give the team the
best chance you can. Analgain born and

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raised in the Dominican Republic, and
yet you're English. As our listeners can

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clearly understand it, it's tremendous.
Tell us about that path. How did

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you learn it so well? And
how long did it take you to really

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feel comfortable with it? I mean, I keep having challenged with it yet

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because there's a lot of things I
den'ty yet. But like I said,

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like I studied before I signed,
when I came here to United States,

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I get better at it, but
every day, like I keep learning and

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I can improve it. Do you
try and talk with a lot of the

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English speaking players or doesn't matter if
you're around the Latin speaking players more or

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less. I would say, like
absolutely. I mean at the end,

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I mean most of the culture speak
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able to even talk with the coaches, so with the media too, because

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I mean I'm not I mean if
you even if you spend in English,

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but I you're in the United States. At the end, you you have

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to learn the language, and he's
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been helping me a lot. So
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on these teams speak that? I
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I actually it's the second one,
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the second one because Carol on the
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would say c rel Yeah. Al, I don't know if anyone here Nobo,

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Hey, before we let you go, new team for you? Uh,

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what have you seen so far that
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this club it could be a contending
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obviously it's like, yeah, my
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talent is huge here, I mean, the the hungry to to a a

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ball game, on to a championship
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win here, so everybody, everybody
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the end, he's kind of like
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home playing team two other Ton Obogam. I feel like we have a lot

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of young talent here on kind of
like I have a good potention to a

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U Entrepreneur Championship and test von Floriel
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long a look Floriel gets along with
Jonathan Rodriguez and John Kenzie no well,

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all outfielders and also working out there
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Diamondbacks. Twenty year old Davison deal
Santos. He's also in that mix,

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and again they all have that similar
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home run numbers in the minor leagues, but also some strikeouts. So I

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will see what the balance is and
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come opening day, well we'll take
a time out and when we come back,

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we'll hear from hitting coach Chris.
That's next. As we continue with

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Bika is starting his third season as
the Guardians hitting coach. The last two

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seasons, the Guardians have been one
of the best contact hitting teams in all

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of baseball. As last year they
struck out fewer times than any team in

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baseball, But the flip side was
power wise, they hit the fewest Hollm

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runs of any team in baseball.
So they're trying to find that balance,

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that happy medium. And when we
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he talked about what they're trying to
do to see if they can't unlock a

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little bit more power from some current
members of the roster. Yeah, you

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know, I think over the last
couple of years, kind of the hallmark

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of our offense has been you know
we're tough to strike out. We have

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a contact focus, contact first type
offense. I think going into the last

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two years, seeing the success that
we had in twenty two and then going

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to twenty three with a very similar
profile when we finished the year, I

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think it just exposed some of our
margins that, you know, there is

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a need for us to IMpower the
ball a little bit more frequently. You

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know, a pretty big difference when
in ninety two games to seventy seventy six

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seventy eight games that we won.
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big emphasis this year for us going
into camp is looking to impact the ball,

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take more chances. We're going to
challenge their timing a little bit more.

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We know we can always default back
to contact that we have to ramp

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up some of that intent and if
there is some concession and some some swing

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and miss, we're okay living with
that because we know we're not going to

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fall from the top to the bottom
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that just the nature of this game. Even if you have similar talent,

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you got to somehow figure out a
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you know, I think that's the
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You know. You see, these
guys have have long time careers. They

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might not have been the same player
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they were a rookie, so when
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but they found a way to evolve, They found a way to get better,

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they found a way to survive.
So, you know, I wouldn't

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say we're changing, you know,
too much. I think we're just trying

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to use the engines that we have. You know, I think our guys

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all belong in the big leagu Now. It's not the happy to be here,

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it's not the survival of last year. It's these guys know what to

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do. They know what the big
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a little bit more of the potential
that we know. These guys have two

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examples just players I've talked to,
and there's many others, but Stephen Kwan,

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Will Brennan not necessarily home run hitters, but could hit more home runs

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if their approach is adjusted a little
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with them that helps them launch the
ball a little bit more? Yeah,

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you know, both of those guys
went into the winner with some bat speed,

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programs, you know, not that
they didn't have enough, but we

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felt like that was an area that
both of them could improve in. You

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know, so I think also being
realistic with those guys, It's not like

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we're going to see it Stephen Kwan
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ten home run to forty home runs. I think that's unrealistic and unfair to

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them. But I do think that
those guys can hit you know, ten

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to fifteen, and you know,
we add those to the rest of our

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lineup hitting in front of Hosey with
that the ability that Hosey has Nails,

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has Loreano hitting behind them that,
you know, I think that just stretches

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out our lineup makes us a little
bit you know, potent when it comes

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to we turn the lineup over.
That Straw can hurt you, Brendan can

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hurt you. There's always somebody that
can change a game throughout the lineup,

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not just waiting for some of the
smaller pockets in our lineup. Hitting coach

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Chris Philaka joining us your job's year
around now. I know you like to

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have a break, I'm sure,
but with Miles Straw, explain that that

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personal touch that you had with him
in the off season and how deep that

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goes to try and get him on
a good path. Yeah. Yeah,

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so so Miles obviously, you know, having him the last two years.

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This year he came to Columbus.
I live in Columbus, Ohio now,

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and his wife, his little girl. They came to stay with us in

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Columbus. We spent a couple of
days together, you know, not just

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hitting, but just you know,
being together, which I thought was really

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impactful, just to hear him here
where his head's at, you know,

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and seeing him kind of run with
the adjustments we've made. You know,

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he really took to heart when he
went back to Florida, got himself a

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personal trainer, came in ten pounds
heavier, just looks physical. I think

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he's hitting the ball a lot harder, so you know, you see the

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confidence he has, and you know, I think we're going to get the

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best version of Miles Straw than we've
seen, you know, the last couple

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of years. And he's young.
Guys, you have some big men in

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camp who are trying to make that
last step. John Kenzie know well,

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Jonathan Rodriguez, some others too,
Davison Delo Santos, over from Arizona.

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How do you work with guys who
have the higher strikeout rates put a ton

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of power. Yeah, you know, it's a balance, you know.

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I think everybody's going to have a
different profile, and we wouldn't be a

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very good team if we all had
just contact or we all just had home

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runs and swing and miss. I
think you get you can get pitched to

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pretty easily like that. So,
you know, it's just talking to them.

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It's being realistic with expectations. It's
knowing their profiles and embracing it that

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there might be some swing and miss, but there's some change the game power

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in those bats as well. So
you know, I think as we get

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into it, it's really leaning in
with them, seeing which guys make us

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better when we leave here with the
best twenty six guys that we can bring

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to Cleveland, you know, and
hopefully a couple of those guys are on

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it with us. Always nice to
have one of the best hitters in the

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game. And Jose Ramirez, having
been around him closely now for a couple

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of seasons, what is it that
makes him as good as he is?

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I mean, he's just the ultimate
professional. It's not about how you know,

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we see him hitting his thirty home
runs every year, driving in one

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hundred runs. It's how he runs
the bases, it's how he plays defense,

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it's his presence in the clubhouse.
You know, he's a guy for

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us that you know we use as
a as a player coach. You know,

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he can get a message across to
these guys that you know we might

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not be able to say. He
can say it in two words because it

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comes from one of the best players
players in the league. You know,

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for Josey, it's funny. You
know, you bring up guys evolving,

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We're seeing Hosey hit more machines.
He's challenging himself just as much as we're

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challenging these younger guys. So seeing
him lean into the training, you know,

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I think he knows where he's at, and you know he wants us

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to win. He wants us to
be great. If he can lead by

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example and now some of his words, you know, I think we're going

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to be in a really special spot
starting this season. There's almost ninety players

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in camp. I know they're not
all hitters. How do you keep them

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straight? There's a lot of guys, you know, that's part of the

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gig though. You know, you
got to know, you got to have

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some background on these guys, especially
when the minor league guys come over from

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camp and play in the games too. You know, you gotta have some

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background. Not it's unfair to them
for for you not to know them,

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but you know, coach them,
coach them hard. That's been a thing

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that that we've talked about this winner. We got to coach them hard.

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It's it's it's something that you know, where we're at organizationally, we got

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to see who we have. We
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of young guys on the roster.
We got to see who's going to come

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and impact us. So you know, we'll we'll see where we're at when

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we when we leave here at the
end of March. But you know,

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I'm really excited to see, you
know, what these guys can do.

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Chris enjoy the spraying. Thanks you
got it, Rosie, My pleasure.

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That's Chris Palka Guardian's hitting coach,
talking about some of the keys this season

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to producing some more runs. That's
the bottom line, right Well, no

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matter how you do it, you
want to score as many runs as possible,

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and that's what Cleveland's trying to get
done here in spring training. See

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if those adjustments take hold and they
can carry that through into the regular season.

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And we're starting to wind down on
our show this week. Stay with

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us. We'll hear from David Prye
when we come back. Utility man for

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the Guardians. That's coming your way
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She's coming off the bench hot,
looking for a quick knockdown. But

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wait, she's driving to the hoop. Co tell goes the champ. That's

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left, Rosario going back toward the
line. He can't make the catch,

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basehead game winner in the stores.
Rosario. David Fry being mobbed at second

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base. Hey walk off two out
rmy I single the left by David Fry.

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The pitch swinging a little blooper in
the center field, charging hardest Straw,

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He'll make the catch, tagging coming
home. Hilliard thrownt of the plate

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on the fly. Tag is made
by a diving Fry. They did it.

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What a great throw by Straw on
the fly to the plate and a

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diving tag by catcher David Fry.
It doesn't get any better than that.

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Wow. Middle infielders back double played
depth, cornerman playing even with the bags.

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The bitch swung on hit pretty well
deep left center on the run of

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Smullins is off the wall. Time
run scores and he met us hitting third

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running He's coming home. He'll score
the game winner. I'll walk off too.

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Run double off the base of the
wall and left center by David Fry.

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Incredible. Welcome back to Goodyear,
Arizona. Jim Rosen house along with

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you from Guardian spring training at the
Goodyear Complex and we had a chance to

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visit with David Fry earlier this spring. Fry made a nice breakthrough first time

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in the major leagues a season ago, appearing in fifty eight games for Cleveland,

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had four homers fifteen runs driven in
playing a variety of positions including first

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base, third base, the outfield, catcher, and he also saw two

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games on the mount. In fact, he had a four inning relief outing

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in early September against the Twins that
was the longest by a Cleveland position player

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since nineteen thirty six and the longest
appearance by a position player in the Major

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leagues since nineteen eighty eight, when
Jose Alcendo for the Cardinals pitched four innings

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against the Braves. And that was
quite a night for Fry. But at

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least this spring they're starting him working
behind the plate exclusively, trying to get

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him up to speed and become the
best possible defensive catcher he can be.

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David Fry a hard nosed player who
really embraces that utility role. And last

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year he was in major league camp
for the first time, didn't make the

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club out of spring training, went
to Columbus, swung the bat well,

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and then got that call up fairly
early on. But he said, in

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terms of spring training, what a
difference a year makes. Yeah, last

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year being first big league camp,
kind of first time around big league coaches

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and some of the guys on the
big league roster, just kind of trying

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to stay out of people's way.
And then this year getting to play with

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those guys and being around the big
league staff a little more, a little

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more comfortable and definitely more relaxed.
Feel this year and the time in the

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major leagues last year. What did
that say to you about your ability and

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your status as someone who can play
up here and have success up here.

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Yeah, obviously, big leagues is
something you kind of think about your entire

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life, and you make it this
big, huge deal and you get there

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and you're like, it's just baseball
and a bigger stadium. And obviously guys

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are very very good at that level. But I feel like as I got

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more comfortable and just you know,
like, hey, I'm gonna have fun

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playing baseball, I was like,
I can stick around here. Hopefully you

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had a lot of good things happened
to you too at the major league level

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a year ago. Is there any
one of them that stands out of that

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most unique or most satisfying to you? I don't know. I wouldn't say

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there's one that was like way more
satisfying the other. I was just really

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lucky enough to I mean that was
kind of my role. I was coming

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in a late situation, so I
got to like be in some really big

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spots like plays at the plate and
big at bats and stuff. So there's

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a whole lot of fun stuff.
David Price joining u Sam. We usually

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like to tag a position on there
when we talk about players, but for

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you, that's hard to do,
but in a good way. And as

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you head into camp this year versatility
wise, what are you going to focus

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on first and foremost as you get
deeper into the spring. Yeah, focusing

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on the catching stuff the spring training
and kind of doing most of my work

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back there and then still continue to
try to get reps everywhere. I've already

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had conversations with Hedgy. He's talked
to me about his era being better than

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mine, so maybe I need to
work better. I'm a pitching but hopefully

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I want to do that much.
Yeah. And you look at that and

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he's as good as it gets in
terms of a defensive catcher. And I

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know, by some and you're still
very young to the catching game. And

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what can you pick up from someone
like that, maybe even more so than

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from a coach, because they're in
there and living it right now, right,

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I mean so much. I mean
because he pretty much is a coach.

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I mean, he's so invested in
the catching position that like every rep

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that every other catcher is getting in
camp, he's staring at you and he's

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not critiquing you, but he's wanting
to make you the best player you can

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be. And so already the conversations
that we've had about catching and calling a

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game and all that, it's been
so helpful. And obviously the way he

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does it, and he does it
at a very high level. All right.

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Off season preparation, obviously, everyone's
trying to be in the best shape

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they can be coming into camp.
But you had as unique an off season

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as you will ever have being a
dad for the first time for fans who

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who may remember it came at the
end of last season, a daughter.

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How is it going and how has
that changed your life perspective wise and everything

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else. Yeah, it's it's been
going great. She's the best. She

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sleeps well and knock on wood at
least, and she's just been a really

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good baby. And I'll say off
season training, you know, you're trying

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to get your workouts in best workout
you can do is just hold a baby

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for a couple hours in a row
and your arms are shaken, that's for

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sure. Michael Brandtley used to call
it daddy strength, and there was something

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to that for sure. You're in
a unique situation where you live down in

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Texas, in the Dallas area.
It sounds like it's a great spot to

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be in the winter time for a
lot of reasons. Explain that. Yeah,

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So obviously at least beginning of the
off season warmer weather so you can

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get to do stuff outside, and
just kind of where we live, it's

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just a huge hub for baseball players. That's where a lot of guys live

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and got to hit with Will Brennan
the off season, a bunch of other

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players, and there's so many guys
who can throw down there pretty much full

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full of year round, and have
so many buddies around the league now that

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just text and say hey, you
need me to catch a bullpen can go

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just pretty much whenever. And as
you get here to camp, you look

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around that clubhouse and certainly this team
is looking to improve on a year ago.

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What are you seeing early on that
has you excited about the season to

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come. Yeah, obviously it still
super early. Guys. Now we have

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everybody officially in here, but just
the energy and the atmosphere that we have

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in the clubhouse, I mean,
it's just such a fun group to be

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around. And then just obviously from
the catching side getting to catch his bullpen.

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I mean, it's amazing the depth
and how good we are as a

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pitching staff. I mean, there's
a reason where we have so many one

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run games. It's because our pitching
staff keeps us in every single game.

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But I mean it just never stops
our organization. They just do an amazing

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job of acquiring good pitching and then
developing like crazy. And you just see

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some no name guy that you've never
heard of and he comes over to the

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field and you're like, this guy
throws ninety seven to ninety eight. What

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a shocker? Like they got something
figured out over here with the pitching side.

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So everyone knows about Bieber, McKenzie, Gavin Williams, Tanner Bibe,

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all these guys. I know I'm
forgetting somebody, but uh, anybody,

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maybe a name to keep an eye
on that that we're not even thinking about,

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that that you caught early on in
the spring. Yeah, there's a

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bunch. We just added Kate Smith
to the forty man roster. He's been

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he's come out here and looked really
really good. He's throwing really hard.

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He's got really good stuff. Gaddis
who's who's been up and down last couple

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of years. He's come out and
me and Heggie were talking about him the

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other day during his bookpin. I
mean, it's it's been lights out so

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far in the spring. He looks
really good. We got a bunch of

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guys who signed Beattie who just came
over. I think he was in Korea

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and he looks really good. He
made me look really bad bad about a

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week ago. But yeah, but
no, we got a bunch of guys

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who will be really good. So
last question, how many gloves in your

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locker? Different gloves for the based
on the positions you play. If you

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include the backup gloves that I have
at positions, it would be seven.

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Seven gloves. Yeah, play,
and they let you know before the day

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begins which one you might want to
use that day. Yeah, They're like,

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hey, maybe we'll give you a
heads up today. All right,

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David, thank you, Yeah,
appreciate it. And is David Frye Utility

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man for the Guardians, coming off
a real strong season a year ago,

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and again there'll be a battle for
him to see where he fits on this

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year's club, depending on what other
things happen. But he's one of those

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players that I think every manager likes
to have on his team because of the

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variety of positions that he can play, and he usually puts together a really

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good at bat when he has a
chance to play, and even pinch hit

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in different scenarios. So great to
visit with David, and thanks so much

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for the time from Tristan McKenzie.
Askedevon Florie All and Chris Bleaka This week

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pitch against the Royal Shane Bieber making
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here a good year to take on
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first pitch and again we'll have it
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Network with Tanner Biby on the mound
making his first start of the spring as

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well in exhibition play for the Guardians. So until next week. For Brian

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