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Welcome to Guardians Weekly on the Cleveland
Guardians Radio Network. Guardians Weekly is front

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save hundreds on car insurance. Hi everyone,

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Well, I'll come to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhaus along with you from

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Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland, where
the Guardians are taking on the Baltimore Orioles

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this weekend in a four game series. Said has gone quite well for Cleveland

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so far, with a pair of
rousing late inning victories for the Guardians,

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including on Friday night the walk off
winner from David Fry in the bottom half

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of the ninth and in capping a
seesaw nine to eight battle that went the

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Guardians way in the end and set
the stage for what could be a fun

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weekend too, as they'll take on
the Orioles on Saturday night at six ten

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and then Sunday afternoon to wrap up
the series at one forty. Coming up

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a little bit later on in our
show, we will visit with pitching coach

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Carl Willison talk to him about the
season that was for the Guardians pitching staff.

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With a lot of injuries to deal
with, they still have come through

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with a solid effort throughout the season, and we'll also talk to Carl about

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his future with the ball club.
We'll hear from Cal Quantrell and Sam hand

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Justis both a part of that pitching
staff. And we'll also visit with Luke

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Carlin, who is The Guardian's minor
league catching coordinator, who has some great

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thoughts on the progress and the major
league abilities of bow Naylor as the young

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catcher has performed quite well down the
stretch for Cleveland. But first, as

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we begin our show, we hear
from closer Emanuel Class as always, with

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some good help from Aggie Rivero,
the team interpreter. Class eclipse the forty

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save mark. Recently last night a
blown save in the end, but ended

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up getting the win in that comeback
victory. And it's been that kind of

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year for Emmanuel Class, the first
Cleveland closer with a pair of forty save

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seasons in franchise history. How about
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views this season in terms of his
progress and the goals that he had hoped

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to accomplish. And I am blago
and thank God for the opportunity for this

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season, but you know, I
feel this is a season with a lot

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of challenges and a lot of things
and open down like you mentioned. But

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most importantly, I was able to
improve my personal goal which I have every

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year, which is get more saved
on the previous year. So I'm still

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confiding with a few games that we
have left that we're able. I wouldn't

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be able to surpass the number of
saved that I had last year. And

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when you look at at the year
you've had, you've had to bounce back

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on a lot of nights. And
we talk all the time about closers have

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to have no memory whatsoever, good
or bad. And have you managed to

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kind of work along those lines to
get better at that part of it?

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And again momento, Yeah, the
way how I do what I try to

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Like when after the game back in
the hotel, I try to chap the

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video and see what actually happened,
you know, sometimes it's bad locked sometimes

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it's my bad performance, and obviously
seeing what happens to make sure it doesn't

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happen the next day. And then
after that I just take the positive and

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the next day I just focus on
executing the good thing and just forget the

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bad things. But Manual class A
joining Guardians Closer with translation help from Agi

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Ribero. You are the first and
only player in Cleveland franchise history to have

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two forty safe seasons. What does
that mean to you? Even though you're

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still very young in your career and
alan, but really pretty proud of myself

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and the word that I'll be able
to put in, but also, you

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know, very thankful for the organization
gave me the opportunity because it's an important

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achievement for my career, for my
personal career, but most importantly also for

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the organization. So it's something that
I take a lot of pride on and

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I'm really happy I've been giving me
the opportunity to do that here and there's

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been some really good closers here down
through the years. Are you surprised you're

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the first to go back to back
forty plus safe seasons and and build Build

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It's weird because in reality, the
way how I see it, like,

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if I've been able to achieve it
in the past, I know I'm going

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to put my effort to do it
again, and I know I will do

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it, so I know it's a
difficult thing to do, but I'm I'm

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pretty happy that I was able to
improve the number of saved that I did

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last year, and you let all
the major League baseball a year ago and

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saves could happen again. How important
is that to you? As we get

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into the last couple of weeks of
the season here, oh Claudis will eat

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I mean, these are very important
games and regardless of the situation. I

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love the QUOTEO Pedro Martiniz this is
the time in the season that I praised

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the kids from the grown up man
and and for me, that's what it

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is like. Kind of give the
best out of the best for the end

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of the season and hopefully we get
the good results and along those lines,

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the team wise, obviously it's been
a step back this year compared to a

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year ago, but a lot of
the same talent is here. What has

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you excited for next season just based
on what you've seen the last two years

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here, when you've been such a
big part out of it, A good

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bowesome. I believe this is a
you know, this is part of baseball.

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Sometimes you may have these expectations it's
not going to happen. But I

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have a lot of trusty in these
guys for next year because I believe we've

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improved. We've improving a lower areas. I gave you the confidence that we're

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going to be clearly contending for the
playoff spot next year and hopefully for our

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title as well. And one of
your teammates an All Star teammate two years

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in a row. I know you
didn't have a chance to go this year,

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but Jose Ramirez and you are in
the record books for Cleveland, and

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he's every day. It seems like
we're looking up something new for him in

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terms of all time franchise leaders.
What has it been like to and meant

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to you to be able to play
on the same team as him the last

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two seasons. El Bami on leader
and we'll on leader. It's really great

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to have him here. You know, he's clearly a leader in this clubhouse.

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I mean not only for the way
how he plays the game, but

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how he talked to all of us, to the players to keep the positive

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vive and also keep our head up. So I feel it's important way he

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contributes on the field, but also
where he contributes to the organization, to

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defense and to us as players.
It's really important to have us in our

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team. I'm annual. Thanks for
the time, appreciate it. Thank you.

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I'll get thank you, Thank you, guys. That's closer, Emmanuel

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Claus say. And when we come
back, we'll hear from another of the

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relievers, Sam Henchus, as well
as starting pitcher Cal Quantrill. But first

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we take a time out. Now
we'll have more after this. Those are

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Potential savings will vary. The three
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Ramirez up with it, fires to
first end time for the out and a

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third straight three up, three down
inning recorded by Cal Quantrill. Here's the

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payoff. Pitch swung and banged up
the middle off the glove of Quantrill,

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knocked the glove off. He picks
it up, bear hands it bat Candid

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flipped to first for the out.
The club is still laying on the pitcher's

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mount. Quatrall had to retrieve that
ball. On the grass area behind the

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Mount and showed his athleticism. There's
the old one swung on groundball to the

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second baseman, amens to the back
for one. Arius fires to first end

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time for the out and the double
play ends the inning and another low pitch

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inning for cal Quantrill. Jim Rosenhouse
back with you from Progressive Field in downtown

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Cleveland. It's Guardians Weekly. Great
to have you along this weekend as the

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Guardians are playing the Orioles here and
what has been an entertaining four game series

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so far two games in, with
Game three of the series on Saturday night

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at Well. Cal Quantrell will be
on the Mount on Saturday night and he

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has made four starts since returning from
his second stint on the injured list and

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has pitched extremely well since returning from
that injury list. We caught up with

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him over in Kansas City after his
most recent appearance and he talked about why

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it's been so important for him to
get back on track before the off season.

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You know, I feel like I
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to myself again and to my teammates, and you know, I'm I still

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got it. I just I was
going through some stuff earlier in the year,

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and you know, I think I've
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I'm back to my regular whist.
And you were saying earlier, first time

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in your pro career, even dating
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you've had to battle some things injury
wise, how top was that mentally,

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especially coming back once and then having
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Yes, it sucked. I feel
like big part of my identity as a

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baseball player is, you know,
I take the rock every fifth day and

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I think, you know what you're
gonna get out of me, And when

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that gets taken away for a little
while, it kind of sinks stuff sitting

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there watching your team compete without you. So, uh yeah, it was

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tough, But you know, I
think it's something most athletes go through at

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some point in their career. Part
of it and now we're back. I'm

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not sure if they're related at all, but I know in your game on

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Monday in Kansas City, there were
maybe a different repertoire than than we usually

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see from you. And is that
a result of coming back differently after the

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injury or is it just something that
that happened to fall into place that day.

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No, I think I've always had
the ability to throw five, six,

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seven different pitches. I just haven't
had to or haven't really wanted to

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in the past. And I feel
like, you know, where I'm at

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right now and the way my arm's
working, I feel like my office speed

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pitches are as good as they've been. And it was a good, you

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know, good team to showcase it
against and and you know, show that

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I have multiple ways of getting people
out. Cal you look at at the

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year, it's been obviously frustrating for
you, and I'm for the team as

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well. And when you look at
it a year like this and then look

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to the future at some positives you
can take out of it for where this

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team stands going into next season.
Yeah, I mean, obviously we had

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we had high hopes coming into the
season. You always should think. Injuries

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got us pretty good, and you
know, and we didn't play our best

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baseball. But I still think the
core of this team's intact, and I

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still think that we're talented and we
know how to win. We just you

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know, we thought it a little
bit this year. So you know,

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we're going to finish strong, and
you know, some guys are going to

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prove that they belong here next year
and and you know we'll be right back

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at it, ready to compete and
go for a title next year. I

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know, talking to occasionally, you
talk about the talent here, especially the

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young talent, and what has you
excited. What do you see and the

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young players that says, hey,
this could be something. Yeah, I

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mean I think that pretty much every
player on the roster is showing flashes of

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what they're capable of. I think, you know, the goal is towards

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the end of the season is to
prove that you can be consistent, you

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know, day in day out.
Can we need to be able to rely

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on people for one hundred and sixty
two games and you know, some guys

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are getting some shots to play more
more important, you know, game games

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than they were earlier in the season. You know, just look to go

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out there and show that they belong
and that we can count on them next

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year. And personally, obviously you've
come back, you've gotten your starts in.

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What do you need to do you
think in the off season and how

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much are you looking forward to attacking
the off season in a certain way to

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make sure you're ready to go next
spring? Yeah, I feel good.

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I feel good about my offseason routine, and I think it's shown throughout my

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career. I'll be ready to roll
next year just like I was this year.

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And you know, obviously, well
we'll keep some things we've learned this

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year in mind to make sure we
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But it'll be a good off season. Be ready to go. Cal

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always great to be on Thank you
all right. That's Cal Quantrill, a

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fifteen game winner a season ago,
and obviously this season did not go like

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that, but very encouraging down the
stretch for him. Now in the bullpen,

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you talk about a picture on a
roll after starting this season on the

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injured that's left hand or Sam Henches, who was a dominant factor in the

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bullpen a year ago down the stretch
and on into the postseason, and we

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are seeing that again. How about
this. The last time Henches allowed an

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earned run was late July, and
heading into play on Saturday night, he

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had a twenty five appearance streak without
allowing an earned run. The only run

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he had allowed was in extra innings. When runs that come in with that

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runner at second base to start an
ending, they don't count as an earned

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run. So that's been it for
Henches. He's been just tremendous, and

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he explained some of the keys to
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second half. I mean, I
think just kind of putting my head down

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and keeping on putting in the work
every day and just understanding that the results

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will come, and results. He
can't always control the results of what you

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do, but you've got to control
everything that you can control and go out

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and stay aggressive in the zone and
just just keep yourself available every day.

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And nights like last night where you
probably know that it's going to take a

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lot of arms from that bullpen to
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was kind of fun to know that
all you guys together are going to have

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to contribute, definitely, especially when
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making a spot start on short rest. We were all kind of ready to

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go down there, and Eli did
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the fourth and fifth in and they
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of that game, and then the
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just slammed the door from there.
But no, it was definitely good and

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cool to see Eli go out there
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at at the bullpen as a whole
this season, obviously you concentrate on your

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own pitching and success. Well,
when you look at things this season and

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how it has turned out for the
bullpen, how have you looked at it

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and seen it as the season has
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we've been playing a ton of really
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the season that can get very difficult, and then the statistics I think of

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our bullpen as a whole can be
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games. But I think everybody's been
doing a doing a pretty good job of

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working hard every day and I think
as a bullpen guy, making yourself available

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to pitch every night is everybody in
the bullpens main objective and that the results

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will come. And we've put together
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we've taken our lumps as well,
and that's just the part of one hundred

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and sixty two game season. But
just continuing to putting the work and finishing

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strong, I think is is very
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some momentum going into the next year. And you mentioned next season and every

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player would like to have a season
like a year ago when it was,

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you know, preparing for the playoffs. At this point, how do you

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look at this season? What do
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there's some disappointment and not making the
postseason. I mean, you got to

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take away the positives that you got
to learn from the negatives, and over

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the course of the season you kind
of make adjustments. And it's a constant

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game of adjustments, especially as a
pitcher's coming in to throw fifteen pitches and

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we'll face guys multiple times in a
series. So just making adjustments, continuing

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to learn from the negatives and take
the positives and think about them as much

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as you can and roll with that
into the offseason. Sam Hench is joining

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US Guardian's relief pitcher and Sam we
talked baseball before the break. Now the

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important stuff. It's team photo Day
and this is something that every team goes

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through every year. What's the key
to good success on team photo Day?

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What's most important to you? I
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lot of bodies out there. You've
got a lot of people moving around,

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so kind of having a leader.
I don't know who that's going to be

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today, but just kind of having
that communication to get everybody in the right

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spot for the right time, to
make it go as swiftly as possible.

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I'm not sure if you're that guy, but is there a player in that

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room who maybe takes personal appearance and
how they look in the team photo a

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little more seriously than others? Definitely
don't. I don't know why you would

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because it's from about five hundred feet
away, but definitely there's some guys in

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there that will get nice and loot
up with gel or whatever they got to

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put on and make themselves look good. Want to name names, No,

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I do not. And you are
one of the taller players on this team,

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which means you're in the back row
every time. Is that something you'd

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like to see change at some point
in time? I mean, maybe at

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some point, Yeah, that would
be fun to be towards the front,

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or maybe sitting on a bench or
something upfront would be cool. But I've

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been standing in the back of photos
of my whole life. I'm pretty used

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to it, and I think I'm
pretty good at at this point. If

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there's things to be good at.
That's a good thing to be good at.

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Sam, thanks a lot, nice
season this year again, and I

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appreciate you coming by at. Sam
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and certainly having a tremendously strong finish
to his season. Stay with us when

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we came back. We'll hear from
pitching coach Carl Willis. That's next on

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the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network.
Probably the one thing we talked about more

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than everything is we, you know, togetherness. It's not that we're not

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going to struggle, but when we
do, we're gonna do it together.

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We're gonna learn together, we're gonna
we're gonna win together, we're gonna compete

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together. We're never gonna back down
from a challenge together. And that's the

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idea. It's it sounds. You
know, everybody's going to talk about it.

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We have to find a way to
do it better than all other twenty

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nine teams. That's hard to do
because, as we've noticed, there's only

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one team that can be left standing
at the end of the year. We

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haven't been fortunate enough yet to be
that team. We keep knocking on the

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door. We'll figure it out.
Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse

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along with you from Progressive Field this
weekend, and it's great to have you

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with us as the Guardians are winding
down their home schedule that concludes on Wednesday

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night, the second of a two
game series against the Cincinnati Reds, and

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don't forget that's a night where the
Guardians will honor their manager, Terry Francona

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with thank you t shirts. Thank
You Tito t shirts being handed out to

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the first twenty thousand fans on hand, all tickets in the upper deck during

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this last homestand are eleven dollars.
You can go to CLI Guardians dot com

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and pick'em up right there.
But there'll be a tribute video for Tito,

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as he has said many many times
now over the last couple of months

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that this will be his last season
as a manager for Cleveland, and his

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pitching coach for a good portion of
that time has been Carl Willis, and

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he has overseen a pitching staff,
especially a starting rotation that has undergone tremendous

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change since spring training, as all
five projected starters coming out of spring training

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have either spent time on the injured
list, been traded or spent time in

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the minor leagues. It has been
that kind of year. And we asked

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Carl if he's been surprised at how
well the staff came together this season,

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even with all the challenges. Not
that there wasn't confidence in the guys who've

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stepped up, but you know,
just knowing where they're at in their careers,

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you know how young they are,
their experience at upper levels. You

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know, I think it's it's a
big ask, but I am so so

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proud of those guys. I mean, they have done a tremendous job,

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as you said, given us a
chance to win most nights out and and

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quite frankly, a lot of credits
go to the bullpen as well, because

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you know, I know they're you
know, saying their nights. You know

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that things can fall upon art and
that that happens, you know, with

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any club, the best of the
best clubs. But if you look at

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our bullpen, they've been very resilient. I mean, the guys that made

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our club out of camp have certainly
pitched the bulk of the bullpen innings.

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I think if you look at it, probably more so than maybe any other

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club, you know, in the
Major League so so those guys, you

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know, have gotten a lot of
work in and and just the staff as

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a whole really really proud of what
they've accomplished. And I think they experienced

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that they've all gamed, but certainly
the young starters just speaks a lot for

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a bright future. Here is there
a common thread among the three that's allowed

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them to navigate that rookie season and
pitch so well so often, you know,

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I do think they compete with each
other, but I also think they

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really like each other, and you
know that that makes things kind of seamless

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from from day to day because they
support each other. There's never any you

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know, animosity. But I think
on the mound, you know, I've

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I've said this, you know for
a long long time. You know,

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our player development system does a really
good job of you know, preaching strike

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throwing, and and then once we
have strike throwing, it's commanding the strike

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zone. Our guys have stuff and
and all of them seemingly have a secondary

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pitch that you know is plus and
so they're just they get here with a

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lot of confidence, and that goes
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you're asking young guys to do what
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Personally, as the season winds down, there's some uncertainty for the first time

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in a while with with Terry Francona
indicating that that he will stop managing this

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ball club at the end of the
season. How about for you, How

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does that impact you and what are
your thoughts as the season starts to wind

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down here? Well, you know, first, I can't you know,

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voice enough how much I have enjoyed
working with Tito and how honored I have

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been to work, you know,
alongside him. I think he's a Hall

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of Fame manager. You know,
he lets his coaches coach. The players

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love him, the coaches love him. I'm sure the fans do as well.

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I'm just very apprecitive of that.
In terms of the future, I'm

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certain that you know, a new
manager and rightfully so, it's gonna come

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in and he's gonna want some of
his people on the staff. You know,

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maybe there's you know, some some
rumor consideration to keep some Listen,

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I've done this for a long time. I'm I'm thankful, I'm blessed,

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I'm appreciative of my time, and
hopefully I've been able to make a possive

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impact here and there on on some
young pictures and older pictures. So you

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know, we'll see, I have
a contract. We're gonna keep it open

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minded, and we'll see what happens. And when you look back at you

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were get pitched in the major leagues, but not everybody can then go and

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and be a good coach. But
you've been doing this long enough to where

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certainly it's acknowledged that that you've done
great work with so many pictures. What's

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the enjoyment level for you? What
what keeps you coming back year after year?

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And has it something that you enjoy
doing well? I think you know,

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there's a couple of things. I
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game. I've always loved the game
since I was a little boy. It's

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kind of instilled in me from my
dad who loved it. But I love

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the competition. You know, the
competition just it keeps you motivated. It

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it keeps you energetic even as you
get older. You know, maybe maybe

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you crash harder after games than you're
used to, but during the game and

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in the preparations for the game,
you know that that really motivates me.

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And and and the other thing is
just just seeing the probably the smiles and

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the you know, sense of accomplishment
from the players and in my case,

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particularly the pitchers when they do go
out and perform, you know, at

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a really high level and do a
really good job and you know, make

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a great pitch or get out of
a tough jam, or just go out

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and dominate. I mean, to
see them, you know, I didn't

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have many of those nights as a
player. I had a few, not

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many, but but just to see
them and know how that feels and what

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that means, it's really a blessing
to be a small part of that.

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And I enjoy that so much.
And you've been a part of Young Award

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winners with three different teams, And
do you get as much enjoyment out of

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out of that overseeing that process as
you do say a young kid trying to

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hang on it and just stay in
the major leagues as long as they can.

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I honestly, they're all equal,
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in terms of the SIA youngs,
that's that's you know, in some case,

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I feel like it's being in the
right place at the right time.

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I you know, I don't know, but I know that I'm extremely happy

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for those guys who have have won
that award, it's a great, great

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honor for them and a great accomplishment. But as you mentioned, you know

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guys who you know, maybe are
struggling and they've been in the league eight

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nine years and trying to, you
know, refine themselves, and sometimes they

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do. And guys that do kind
of come out of nowhere and make a

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place for themselves and go on and
have a lengthy career. Yeah, there's

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there's pride and joy in all of
those situations. Everybody has their own story

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and when that story can be a
happy one, We're all excited. Carl,

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Towy's fun visiting with you. Thanks
so much for your help this season,

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all right, Rosie enjoyed it,
and uh see the fans again soon.

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I have some good stuff there from
Carl Willis and that remains to be

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seen what his role will be next
season, but as you can tell us,

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still very much enthusiastic about being in
this game and spreading some of that

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great knowledge that he brings to the
table. Stay with us when we come

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back. We'll visit with a young
coach in the Guardians minor league system.

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He oversees the catchers that's Luke Carland, stay with US Sporting come after this

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and Progressive. We love sports and
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together. The final horse now in
the gate and they're off first, shutting

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off of a double turloop jump,
leaving a difficult seven time split as there's

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moving on the inside rail. Only
nine pinsent for them. Now it's the

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head of the final quarter of misle. Their neck and neck. It's down

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to the last frame. Here comes
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at Auto Insurance with Progressive. It
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Company affiliates another insurance discount not available
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set, Hernandez the pitch, and
Nailer with a high drive, deep right

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field, back goes Velasquez, backtrack
ball gone Bone Nailer, a solo home

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run to write. That's home run
number nine for Nailer, four of them

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off Kansas City pitching this year.
And a towering blast to write for Bone

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Nailer and I mentioned earlier tonight.
Nailer with an ops of over a thousand

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the last twenty two games. Welcome
back to Guardian's weekly. Jim Rosenhouse back

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with you for our final segment,
and we've had a chance to visit recently

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with Luke Carlin, who spent a
short period of his major league career with

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the Cleveland Indians back in the twenty
twelve season, the last time he played

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with Cleveland. He has been a
part of the coaching staff in the minor

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leagues for quite some time, and
this season the third for him as the

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organizational catching instructor and coordinator. He
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minor leagues before Bowl got the call
up earlier this season, and Luke fills

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us in on that progress that Naylor
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minors, but also as his major
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mean, there's so many of us
that are excited for Bow and just you

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know, him finding a little bit
of you know, his step and a

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little bit more comfort here. And
you know, you can see he's been

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trending up recently too in a lot
of areas, so you know, from

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hitting to catching to you know,
mental skills, life skills, the physical

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aspect of it. I think from
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we really tried to put our best
foot forward with him, as with every

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player, but he did the work
and that's really a credit to him and

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his family and his parents and stuff
like that, because his maturity and his

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work ethic and his perspective really helped, you know, him move as quickly

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as he did. And you know, the cool story about Bow and I

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talked to him about this, is
you know, he struggled his first year

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in double A quite a bit,
but the organization believed that he could handle

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it mentally and that he had to
go through that and come out the other

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side so that he could see himself, you know, have that success because

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that's when you earn that confidence as
a player. It helps you at this

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level because at this level, everybody's
really good and if you can't handle failure,

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you kind of sink or swim.
And so Bow has been really good

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with that. I think that's one
of his biggest strengths. What has he

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done defensively in terms of progress that's
really impressed you as someone who caught in

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the big leagues for a while and
certainly was good defensively too. Yeah,

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the first thing that stands out for
Bows his athleticism. I think what the

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average fan wouldn't see. Is just
the preparation and communication that goes into the

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game calling and the picture catcher communication
and talking with Carl, Rigo and Joe

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and everybody getting on the same page. I mean, you know, that's

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a difficult learning curve for a lot
of catchers. There's just so much and

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there's so much information and they have
to be able to see it in the

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moment, you know, get all
of that info and apply it or at

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least know how that works with the
picture. And it is really tricky and

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it's makes a huge impact on the
game. And just watching him go through

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the plan of attack meetings, you
know, with Geo a few days ago,

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and just how he's communicating with Carl
and how he's preparing in his notes,

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and then what it looks like when
he's on the bench between innings and

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he's not you know, he's not
worried about his at bat. He's you

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know, he's got the iPad out
and he's looking at his notes and he's

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watching previous at bats. I mean, it's a level of maturity and preparation.

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And you know, Gallagher has been
really in fluential here for him too.

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Gallagher has got a great process for
that, and he's very open and

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he's been very helpful. So and
that just goes back to, you know,

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the culture here and you know Sandy
carl and the rest of the pitching

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group, obviously Tito at the top, but you know, they've been able

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to embrace their kind of roles and
help each other. So I think that's

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the Obviously, there's the receiving.
The throwing still it's coming like bow can

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throw. So you know, his
pop times look good. His caught stealings

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numbers aren't quite where we'd like them
right now, but receiving, blocking,

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game calling, they're all trending in
the right direction. And obviously it's nice

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that he's been hitting a little bit
more as well. So Luke Carlin's joining

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us. He oversees the catching instruction
and the minor league system for the Guardians.

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And Luke, your last played here
in twenty twelve. Your last major

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league experience was was with Cleveland.
What's it been like to be back in

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the organization as an instructor and really
having an impact. Yeah, you know,

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playing for eight different organizations throughout my
career, you could really feel the

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difference here and a lot has changed
since you know, my first year in

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twenty ten here at the same time, I felt like it's grown. And

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one thing that's always been consistent has
been just the care and concern for our

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people, and we do that differently
and it shows up. So, you

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know, being able to come back
as a coach as a privilege something as

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a catcher, as a coach that
you know you're trying to help and you

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want to make an impact and you
want to help other players succeed, and

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so the Guardians have been a really
good place to give us the autonomy and

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freedom to explore and grow and make
an impact and just as long as we're

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communicating and all pulling in the same
direction. So it's been very fulfilling since

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I stopped playing to come back and
do the coaching side. And when you

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look at obviously, I'm sure you'd
like to name every catcher in the system

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as someone who you know, keep
an eye on that type of thing,

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but just a couple. Bryan Lavestito, we saw him last year. He

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made the club out of spring training
and then took a step back, but

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it looks like he's made some progress
this year. What are you saying from

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him? Yeah, the work that
he's put in and it's difficult to go

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through. You know, he got
here and admit he will admit he's like,

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oh wow, I am not prepared
for this level. And you know

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that's nobody's fault. It's really hard
to play here. But then you've got

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a choice. You can kind of
like spiral down into this, you know,

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self pity or despair, or you
can get to work. And and

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Lavestita got to work and he's done
a great job with just maturing his daily

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routines, life skills, preparation.
He's been the first one of the field,

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kind of the last one to leave, staying on top and really taking

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a professional approach and perspective to his
game. And that's really what it takes

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at this level, is that sort
of ownership and preparedness. Those habits have

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helped him grow over the season and
he's seen some fruit because of it.

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Then we'll go all the way down
to the bottom for a kid who was

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drafted this June, the first round
draft pick for the Cleveland Guardians is a

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catcher. Tell us about him and
and where it might lead maybe maybe or

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maybe not. Yeah, So Ralphie
was our first rounder this year. And

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he didn't have a lot of catching
experience, and so our scouting group,

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you know, really dug in and
talk to him and figured out what he

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wanted to do. You know,
for the fans that don't know, I

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mean, he can hit, and
we think that he's going to continue to

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hit. Obviously he's not major league
ready right now, but all signs point

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to it could be really exciting bat. And this is Ralphi Vlaska, this

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is Ralphi Vlaska's yep. And you
know, without a lot of catching experience,

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catching the rookie ball level is probably
one of the most difficult things to

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do from a skill standpoint, because
we have a lot of young talented pitchers

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who are still learning how to command
their pitches, and even just the consistency

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of the pitches. Their sliders might
break three different ways right now, So

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it is very difficult to catch at
that level. And so Ralph he's got

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his work, as all catchers and
rookie ball have their work cut out for

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us. But because he doesn't have
a lot of playing time back there,

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he's gonna have to learn fast and
hopefully it stays up to speed with his

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bat. So he you know,
in the two weeks that I've spent time

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with him, there's a lot to
like. He's a good kid, comes

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from a good family, and he
wants to do it. He wants to

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learn. So yeah, we're gonna
we're gonna put our he's gonna put his

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work in and we're gonna see where
it goes. But it's very exciting.

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Yeah, Luke, great to see
you, good stuff. Thanks for coming

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by. Always great to see Rosie. Thanks for having me. It's Luke

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Carlin, the minorly catching coordinator for
the Guardians and a lot of good stuff

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there from Luke as he oversees all
the catchers in the system. That's going

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to do it for our show.
This week is always thanks to Brian Matsay

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for helping to put it together each
and every week. We'll catch up in

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the next weekend from Detroit, the
final weekend of the regular season, and

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that's where Guardians Weekly will come to
you next. Until then, this is

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