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Gimros in house along with you from Goodyear

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Ball Dark and Goodyear Arizona. Our
final show from spring training. Our next

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show comes to you from the Open
Coliseum, and the regular season will have

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begun. So things flying along here
in spring training and a lot of news

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made on Friday in terms of players
who had been notified that they had made

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the ball club, and also some
who have been reassigned to minor league camp

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and others whose future is up in
the air at this point. We'll get

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to some of that shortly with President
of Baseball Operations Chris Antonetti and Steven Vote,

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who met with the media yesterday to
talk about those player moves. Coming

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up a little bit later on in
the show, we will visit with relief

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pitchers Hunter Gaddis and Eli Morgan.
We'll also check in with outfielder Ramon Lareano

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and utility man Tyler Freeman, who
got the good news on Friday that he

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had made the ball club and will
see significant playing time in center field.

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We'll also hear from Josh Naylor,
the potential All Star first basement for the

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Guardians. But first, the big
news out of camp on Friday were several

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decisions for players. Not not anything
official yet because they don't have to,

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but these players were informed that they
were making the opening day roster non roster

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invites to spring training on the pitching
staff and really a popular decision for sure,

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and certainly well earned based on his
spring But Carlos Carrasco, who signed

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that minor league deal with the Guardians
to return to the team, now late

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in his career and he pitched very
well in spring training and he could be

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in the starting rotation when it's all
said and done, But he definitely will

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be on the ball club as part
of the pitching staff, as will be

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Tyler Beattie, the veteran right hander
who's had some good seasons in his career

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with the San Francisco Giants and now
returns from a stint in Japan. And

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again he's another arm who could be
an option to start early in the season

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as well as help in the bullpen. Also being notified they'd made the ball

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club, both contenders for the starting
shortstop job. Brian Rochio will be the

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primary shortstop. Gabriel Arius will be
on the club more in a utility role,

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but will also see some time at
short and also being informed that he

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had made the club. Tyler Freeman
in a utility role, but he'll see

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a lot of playing time in center
field, it looks like, and David

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Frye also filling that utility role as
well and reassigned a minor league camp.

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Left Hander Anthony Goes, despite a
good spring man, we'll probably see him

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at some point during the season,
and infielder Daniel Schneman, who had a

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tremendous spring and is also on that
radar certainly as the season progresses. And

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to talk about those moves and more, President of Baseball Operations Chris Antonetti and

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manager Steven Vote, So we'll start
maybe with the reassignments Anthony Goes. It's

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been awesome to see the progress that
he's made and the way he's attacked his

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rehab and he's positioned himself to help
us this year, and we just made

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the determination that it won't be for
the opening day roster. But Anthony deserves

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a ton of credit for all of
the work he's put in to get himself

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to this point, and as I
said, we continue to believe he's going

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to impact our team. And Daniel
Sneman was also one of the highlights of

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camp. No, Okay, not
only did he have a great spring training,

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but this is a guy that's attacked
every day and every day he's been

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in the organization, he's tried to
help make himself a better player and be

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the best teammate he possibly can be, and that's what earned him an invite

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to Major league spring training. And
he continued to bolster that reputation in his

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time in camp, and not only
did he do all of those things,

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but he impacted a lot of games. And it's another guy we think will

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help us at some point this year, just not Opening Day, I think

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on those dudes, I mean,
just to echo Chris said, I can't

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say enough about Anthony and Daniel and
the impact that they made on our camp.

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Anthony's obviously somebody I've been familiar with
for a number of years, and

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just the work ethic, the teammate
that he is. I'm really excited for

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the future for Anthony and Daniel made
a huge, huge impression on this camp

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as well, and really excited about
the opportunity of those two could have this

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year to impact the roster. Are
you closer to making a decision I'm the

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fifth starter now, Well, we
are, but we've informed both Carlos Carrasco

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and Tyler Beattie that they will be
on the team. We're really excited about

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both of them. We have not
come to a full conclusion yet as to

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what we're going to do with the
fifth starter, but we've informed both of

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them that they will be on the
roster, and it's likely one of those

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two will be the fifth starter.
Chris, what have you seen out of

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Tyler in this camp that that's you
know, made you confident that he can

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step in and contribute to thee.
Yeah, I mean we've seen it from

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Tyler all spring. You know,
the stuff itself plays, you know,

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he isn't you know, four or
five pitches that he can used in his

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arsenal at any time. We've seen
him be very efficient, you know,

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five innings the other day in or
Kansas City on sixty pitches, so we've

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seen him attack the zone. We've
seen him finish hitters. So really excited

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about the repertoire that Tyler has worked
on and he's just shown us a lot,

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a lot of good things this spring. Yeah, you guys decided on

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a start first staff between areas of
Rochio or is that still to be Deterney.

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So we informed both Gabby and Brian
today that they will both be on

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the opening day roster as we start
the season. Brian Rokio will get the

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bulk of reps at shortstop, with
Gabby being kind of our utility player with

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getting a lot of playing time in
multiple positions, and Brian could move around

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as well. You know, I
think the beauty of having both of them

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on the team is they both bring
defensive versatility. But our goal at the

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end, at the beginning of the
season is that Brian take the bulk of

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reps at shortstop. Did areas of
his ability to maybe play in the outfield

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twelve sort of factor into him making
the roster absolutely? I mean, I

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think when you talk about Gabby,
you're talking about one of the one of

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the more talented players young players in
the game, and his ability to move

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all over the diamond is definitely going
to be an asset for us and being

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able to use him at all the
positions I think is going to be a

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huge benefit for the team and for
Gabby as well. What did what did

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Roko show you that basically you decided
to go with with him first? But

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short, I think for me,
the consistency at which Brian works, the

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consistency at with which he approaches each
day is kind of what led us there.

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But I think equally the ability for
Gabby to move around the Diamond,

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I think is is what led to
it. And you know, to be

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able to use both of them,
I think is what we're more focused on.

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But you know, Brian has really
really ramped up, not only this

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spring, but in years, in
years prior. We've seen just talking with

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every here, We've seen the way
he's trended, in the way that he

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has worked to get himself to this
point. And but I think just it's

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just a factor of all of those
things that we've seen that has led us

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to that. Where does that leave
Freeman? Because I just started pumping up

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in fields there in my head.
Yeah, I mean, I mean we've

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been getting reps for Freeman as well
all over the Diamond. So I think,

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you know, having both Free and
Gabby to be able to roam around

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the outfield, infield and all of
that I think is going to be be

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a benefit for us, you know, maybe building on that. I think

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Tyler's done, you know, our
view extraordinary job and transitioning and as a

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very capable center fielder and outfielder in
general. So that's been one of the

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highlights in camp for us as his
progress out there. So we view him

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as a as a very very good
and real option for us in the outfield

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as well as the infield. So
Tyler made the team as well. Yeah,

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yeah, he has. And the
last David Frye, we also informed

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David Frye that he will be on
the roster. How are you going to

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find at Batson Innings for fry Is
it going to be as a third catcher

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or will he move around as well? I think yes to answer your question.

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You know, David, you know
he so he focused solely on catching

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coming into spring training and really put
in a lot of work over the last

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few months, starting in late December, just putting an emphasis on being a

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catcher and the strides that he has
made defensively. We feel like he could

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start games behind the plate. We
feel like he can come into games and

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catch, as well as impact the
roster at first base, corner, outfield,

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and possibly even some third base.
So again, versatility seems to be

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the theme of what we're talking about
with this roster, and and David definitely

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adds to that. Well, Gras
going to go to Canvas and minor league

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invite and made the roster. What
does that say about this work ethic,

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Well, I think there's a lot
with With Carlos. I think, first

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and foremost, he was clear from
the beginning of the offseason that this is

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the place where he wanted to try
to continue pitching, and he felt so

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strongly about that that he was willing
to come into camp on a minor league

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contract and try to earn a spot
on this team. And I don't think

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anyone surprise Carlos came out and did
exactly that. He did it with the

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work that he puts in every day
to make the make himself the best pitcher

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he can be, and he's also
continues to be an extraordinary teammate and leader

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in the clubhouse. And we feel
overall we're a better team both on the

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field in the clubhouse with Carlos carrasco
as part of it. Where there are

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you guys in the evaluation process with
Davis Dale Santos and what's the next step

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there now. We're still working through
it. Obviously we shared the news today

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on the decisions we've made, but
obviously there's still remain some uncertainty with specifically

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with actually in both the position the
remainder of the position player roster and some

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spots in the bullpen, and so
we'll take the next couple of days to

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work to finalize those decisions. Chris, what have you what have you been

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pleasantly? What are the some of
the high points of spring training? The

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weather has been awesome compared to last
year. There's so much there, Paul,

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I mean, I'm not sure exactly
if there's a particular area you want

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me to touch on, or is
it player focused, organization focus, can't

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focus. I think what continues to
be reinforced for me and for us,

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I think is both not only the
caliber and quality of the young players on

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our major league roster, but the
number of alternatives that we feel we have

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both on the mound and you know, on the diamond and even some guys

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that won't make the roster. We
feel that we have a group of players

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that are in a position to contribute
and impact our team at some point this

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year, even if it won't be
opening Day. And we've had a number

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of injuries obviously that we've had to
navigate in camp, including some illnesses,

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and you know, hopefully we can
get past those and you know, get

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those reinforcements also as options for us
as we transition into the season. That's

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President of the Baseball Operations Chris Santinetti, along with manager Steven Vote, explaining

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some of the moves made yesterday Friday
at camp here in goodyear, stay with

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us when we come back. We'll
visit with Josh Naylor. That's next the

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Seven on the Spring Jim rosenhow's back with

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you from Goodyear Arizona and Guardian's Weekly. Thanks so much for tuning in as

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always and earlier this spring, we
had a chance to catch up with first

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baseman Josh Naylor coming off a career
best ninety seven RBI season a year ago,

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and that also included missing a month
of the season. So imagine if

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he can stay healthy the entire year
the damage he can do at the plate.

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And he's had a really solid spring. He's healthy, ready to go

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for the regular season, and he
says the offseason work he put in will

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continue to pay off as the season
progresses. Oh yeah, I just tried

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to prepare my best kind of get
all the bad play out of the way.

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I guess early it's just it's nice
to be out on the field again

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and compete and be with the guys
again and kind of go through the failures

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early in the preseason and figure things
out again and just sham moving forward.

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And it seemed like you were in
a really good place in the off season

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preparing for spring training, whether it
be with your brothers here or maybe even

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going back home. And did it
go about it as well as you like

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it to go? Oh? Yeah, it was a productive off season with

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a lot of hard work involved,
but most importantly, we got each other

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better, which is what we're looking
forward to doing. But we talked earlier

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to spring about leadership, and you're
in that position where you it sounds like

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you'd like to be a little bit
more prominent in that regard on this team.

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And how do you go about that? What do you do to be

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that leader that can help this team
be there for everyone, for anyone who

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needs someone there at the moment,
take care of the guys, and just

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I believe in preaching leadership and everyone
as an individual. If we all can

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lead each other, then we'll be
a great team. You don't really have

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to look for that one guy in
the locker room you can go to and

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you can look for someone else,
or you can just look at yourself in

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the mirror and you're you know,
you're a leader in your own way.

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And again, I feel like if
we all lead individually and we do our

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best to just to get better,
grow every day, and just be a

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good teammate, I think we'll be
a very successful team. Is there a

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byproduct of thinking about others sometimes that
can help your game, just from the

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standpoint of maybe taking some of the
focus off of you, but thinking about

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your teammates and trying to help them
get better. Yeah, I mean,

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it's all about helping others get better, especially helping your teammates. If you

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can be there for your guys and
they'll be there for you at the end,

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you see someone's success, you want
to be able to just appreciate their

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success and really make them feel super
special when they do something cool, and

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then in turn, they'll make you
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So it's about taking care of each
other and figting off each other's success.

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You want to see the guy beside
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it kind of takes little pssure off
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so much. I know that there's
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spots on the ball club, but
there's a good core group of players here

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that have been through some good times. How do you view it as you

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get closer to the season in terms
of what this team could do? Now?

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Do you been here in camp and
see who's here? Yeah, I

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think we've got a special club.
I think a lot of the players are

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performing extremely well. It's going to
be some tough decisions that it's going to

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be made, but that's I guess
it's the part of it. I've been

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through a bunch in my career,
but I mean, whatever opportunity to get,

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just run with it. When you
look at how camp's going, it's

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under a new manager and you've had
a chance to be around him for a

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while. Now, how's that going
on that transition? Is it difficult or

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has it been really easy? It's
been good? You know, it's awesome.

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He's a gamer, he loves to
play, he loves to lead us

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here, and then you know he
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He's been around a ton of locker
rooms, a ton of veteran players and

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he was a veter player himself at
one point in his career and now he

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gets a coach us and kind of
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us. And it's great to see. It's great to be around, and

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I think everyone's really appreciating. And
when you look at your career, your

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age wise, you're not that old, but but you're kind of that established

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veteran in this clubhouse. Do you
ever think about it in those terms that

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it's gone by quickly and and you've
reached that point in your career where you

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can offer advice and be a real
part of the team. From that standpoint,

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I try not to think about it
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to think of myself and that's a
high regard. I mean, I'm honored

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and blessed to be able to be
in the position I'm in and be able

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to share the knowledge that I have
and experiences I have with some of the

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younger guys. But no, I'm
just I'm blessed to be here and you

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know, look forward to, you
know, helping the young players grow here

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and become the players that you know
they wanted to become, And in turn,

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that helps me become a player I
want to become. That's first basement.

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Josh Naylored stay with us when we
come back. We'll hear from Ramone

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Loreano and Tyler Freeman as we continue
with Guardians Weekly on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians

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Radio Network. Welcome back to Guardians
Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse back with you from

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Goodyear, Arizona and Guardian spring training. And two players who will be a

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part of the outfield picture for the
Guardians this season are Ramone Loreano and surprisingly

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Tyler Freeman. We'll start with Loriano, a veteran outfielder now no questions about

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his d defences. He should be
a major key in the Guardian's outfield this

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season. But he's worked hard this
offseason on the offensive part of his game

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and it is taken hold here in
spring training, and when we had a

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chance to visit with him, he
talked about how it's gone to this point

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as camp winds down, just kind
of open up my front foot just to

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have more ability to kind of see
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which helped me be more on playing. And I did those two adjustments and

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I've been feeling pretty good about it. And pretty conceisous. So let's see

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how it goes. And you've been
in the game a while and had good

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success, maybe with some other stances
or other adjustments. How did you arrive

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at what you decided to do this
offseason and thought that it would be important.

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I think, well, hitting Writings, and I did it. At

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the end, I hit like like
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Writings or two eighty. Don't quote
me on that, but uh yeah,

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I feel tremendous when it comes to
I was implementing like a drill, like

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an angle drill coming out of the
short stops kind of view, so it

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will be on top of me.
So he would throw like kind of sideways

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like that, and that helped me
in the game a lot. And but

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now I put my body to be
ready for that, and uh yeah,

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right now it feels great, and
uh yeah, I just gotta continue it.

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You changed the organizations midway through last
year, and I'm sure that's never

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easy for anybody. How different does
it feel coming back here now and starting

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this season with Cleveland instead of trying
to pick it up midway through. I

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think it's it's great, really,
I mean, but at the end.

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I'm coming from a situation that even
when I was if I leave that place

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anywhere I was going, I was
happy anyways, So I know it's,

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uh, that's where I'm mind in
this situation here, and this has been

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a blessing to me and being a
blessing to my career for sure. Yeah,

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a unique situation. You're you're playing
for a manager that you played with

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as as a teammate. What has
that been like playing for Steven Vote now

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as as he is your manager?
Yeah, that's unbelievable. Not shocked by

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him being a manager here, and
I mean hearing these things at Chuck,

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But like, I'm not surprised by
him being a manager. I think he

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has a he has a long career
for for being a manager, like,

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and I think he's gonna do a
tremendous job. Was it odd though,

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to know that this is the guy
who puts your name in that lineup after

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you were teammates on the field.
I haven't thought about it too much,

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you know. I think when you're
in the clubhouse and kind of playing the

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process, you really don't think anything
other than, you know what, preparing

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for the day and having fun with
the guys. But yeah, when you

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put it like that in that perspective, it's kind kind of a little wise.

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Yeah, he was saying earlier this
spring, just after watching it play

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for some of the early games,
that your enthusiasm and everything going with your

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game is really really good. He's
been really pleased to see. Is that

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just the nature of changing organizations kind
of what you alluded to before, that

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it's given me a little extra jump
in your game one hundred percent. There's

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no doubt about I'll be lying if
I didn't say that. I also think

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I'm taking more ownership of my career
when it comes to already. You know,

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success doesn't come by, you know, being suc successful, you got

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to fail a little bit. And
I think that's where I'm at right now

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and kind of putting all that knowledge
that I have learned throughout the year and

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being my own being my own teacher
and my own hating coach and all that,

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and so, Yeah, You've been
a part of some good teams,

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some teams that have struggled. When
you look around this clubhouse here this spring,

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but what are you seeing that that
gives you hope that this could a

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really good season for this ball club. Well, for me, I hope

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is ah. I won't be a
home in October, I'll tell you that.

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So so yeah, I'm pretty happy
about that. And um and you

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know, whenever you're in October,
anything can happen. So we have the

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tools to continue to move forward on
that and continue to go to the get

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to the goal that we have I
used to win the World Series. So

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that's outfielder Ramon Loriano. And another
player in that outfield picture who figures to

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see a lot of time in center
field is Tyler Freeman. And if you

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had said that a year or two
ago, it wouldn't have been on the

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radar. He was a middle infielder
coming up through the minor league system,

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had always been a good offensive player, hitting over three hundred in the minor

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leagues. But that work in the
outfield this spring has certainly paid off,

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as the Guardians view him now as
a potential reg in center field, and

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maybe not every day, but certainly
someone who plays out there a lot in

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addition to his work on the infield. And when we visited with Tyler earlier

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this spring, he talked about some
of the challenges of learning a new position

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at this stage of his career.
Yeah, it's a work in progress.

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I haven't I haven't ever really stepped
foot in the outfield. So working out

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of the spring was a top of
my list, and you know, early

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on it was working at it about
four times a week and just drilling work

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with jt Our outfield coach. And
it's been fun so far. And I

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guess players could look at it differently
in terms of moving off your normal position.

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But how do you view this when
they ask you, hey, go

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play some outfield and increase your versatility. I look at as an honor.

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You know, if they want me
to keep expanding wherever position, I'll do

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whatever I can to help this team
win. So I viewed as an honor.

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I don't view it as like,
hey, we got to move you

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away from your normal position. I
viewed it as adding another tool in my

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backyoor. So spring training game,
you play out there and then you've done

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that already and you had some action, which isn't always you know, you

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can't predict that. But as you're
out there, are you hoping for balls

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to be hit? Two years so
you can show what you can do more

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than anything, because you know,
the first game out there was nervous.

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I was nervous, but once the
first one happened in the first inning,

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once that was out of the way, it was kind of more comfortable.

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I was like, Okay, I
can do this. I can handle the

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spot, and so now I'm just
hoping to get more innings out there more

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than anything. Who helps you the
most as you're trying to go through this

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process. For as a player,
it was Ernie Clement. You saw him

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here. He was bouncing around everywhere, and that was a guy was setting

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messages, Hey, what what can
I do to get better? To expand

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my game? And he just kept
he kept saying, just keep moving positions.

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Whenever the team may need you in
a spot, they can throw you

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out wherever if need be. So
as a player was him, and then

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I would say as a coach,
would definitely be JT. He's our outfield

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coach. He's you know, I've
talked to him on and off the field

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and he's just like, hey,
I'll help you get to whoever you want

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to be. So and those two
guys definitely for sure regular outfielders on this

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team. I've talked about the work
that j T McGuire does. What has

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he done for you. That's helpful
everything. He's taken extra time just to

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just to help me work out there. You know, he's he's taking his

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time to answer answer my calls,
my messages and just to kind of improve

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my game in any way possible.
And he's just he's looking out for me

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more than anything. So I definitely
value him more more than more than a

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lock of guys off season. I
know last year you tried to add a

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little bit of muscle and and maybe
adjust your swing a little bit to hit

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the ball harder. Similar path this
offseason, Yeah, absolutely, And you

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know spring is the time to make
mistakes. And I'm like, as our

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identity as headers, we're trying to
do damage this year and I might not

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show up in spring, but during
the season it will show up. And

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so it's it is the same thing, trying to do more damage to the

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ball and just being patient with the
results anything in particular last year. The

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first real extent is retching the big
leagues. That that you learn that's been

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helpful, Just keeping keeping your your
your mind in one spot. Don't don't

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have a good or bad game,
like, can't let it affect you.

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You gotta stay even keel and I
think once I figured that out as earlier

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as possible, the results started showing. So I just got to stay even

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keel and just try to have fun
more than anything. Ant utility man Tyler

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Freeman who figures to see a lot
of time in center field once the year

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begins. Stay with us our final
segments coming your way shortly as we continue

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too swing in a fly ball in
the medium deep center Loriana will make the

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cats. What a job by Gattis
as he was able to get out of

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it and keep the vases loaded.
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in another great curveball. Hunter Gaddis
six up, six down, four punch

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outs, the one two curveball and
a knee buckler for straight three. Oh

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what an inning for a Hunter Gaddis
Stretch time in the desert. Jim Rosenow's

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back with you. It's Guardians Weekly
from Goodyear, Arizona, and we finish

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our show talking pitching. We'll start
with Hunter Gaddis, who has had a

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tremendous spring, mainly out of the
bullpen and the former starting pitcher. It

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looks like that bullpen roll will really
suit him well. And we caught up

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with him recently and he talked about
what's led to the good success that he's

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had this spring being consistent as of
right now, it's just I'm trying to

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keep it the same. It's rolling
well, so I'm just trying to stay

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right there in that mindset. And
you're from Atlanta, but you came out

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here and you've done it for a
while. But how much of the off

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season did you spend here and why
is it so beneficial to be out here.

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I spent almost the whole off season
out here, except for the holidays.

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I was obviously wanting to be with
my family, but I mean it's

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just so easy out here. These
guys work really well with me, and

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I work well with them. So
it's been really And is it primarily pitching

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things that you're doing or is it
more fitness, flexibility, all that kind

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of good stuff. I'd say it's
fifty to fifty. I mean there's importance

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in both of them, you know, definitely, you know, get my

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body filling right always in the off
season is a big importance. And then

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I wouldn't say it was really pitching, you know, bias in the off

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season. It's more armstring arm path, you know, just getting the body

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moving good. And when you talk
about I don't know if fitness is the

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right word, but flexibility you mentioned
how important has that been And what have

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you noticed here this spring after going
through an off season really focusing on that.

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I mean it's it's really like I
said, it's like making your body

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feel good, and I mean flexibility
is a big part of that. And

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I know last spring training it was
like kind of tough to touch my toes,

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like I could do it, but
now it's like much easier and it

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just feels better. Are you bending
your knees when you touch your toes?

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Are you doing it? Legit?
It's legit. Nown I can say that

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velocity everyone's chasing it and trying to
get the most they can. How did

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you get to a better spot velocity
wise? And how does that impact your

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other pitches too? You know,
I don't I don't really know the key

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to velocity. I think i've you
know, I think three years ago it

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was like the first time I hit
like ninety seven. So it's not like

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it's really increased from then. It's
maybe been more consistent. My you know,

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average has been higher. So I
think it's just getting the reps in,

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make sure you're moving well and not
trying to do too much. And

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then always, you know, villa
makes every other pitch better. So if

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you got the villa, it definitely
you know, makes your sighter that much

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better. That's that change up that
much better. We talk about mechanics a

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lot. Obviously you have to focus
on those, but you mentioned earlier,

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is it okay not to think about
mechanics when you're on the mound maybe to

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your benefit. Oh yeah, if
I'm on the mound, you know,

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I don't I don't like to think
about mechanics. I just try and you

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know, throw the ball pretty much
as hard as I can, as long

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as I can throw it where I
want. So, you know, I've

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thought about mechanics on move before and
it's never ended well for me, So

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I definitely try and go out there
with no mechanical thoughts. Role wise,

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you've done a little bit of everything
in the Major League, starting releading.

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How do you see it right now
and how are you building up this spring

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in terms of your role as of
right now. You know, we had

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a meeting before spring chartered started,
and you know they're building me up for

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now and we'll see what happens after
a couple appearances. You know what it's

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looking like for the seed that is
Hunter Gaddis, who has thrown the ball

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extremely well in spring training, and
with some of the injuries to the relief

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cores for the Cleveland Guardians, he
figures to play a key role, especially

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early in this season. Joining him
in that bullpen. Veteran right hander Eli

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Morgan, entering his fourth full season
with the Guardians, he's still young at

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twenty seven. I asked him if
he's starting to feel like one of the

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veterans on this young Guardians ball club. Yes, and no. I mean

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from a comfort standpoint, no,
But from a familiarity standpoint, yeah,

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I've seen all these guys for you
know, my seventh year with the team

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now, a lot of familiar flaces, a lot of new ones. Though

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maybe from an advice standpoint, yet, we do have so many young pitchers

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that have guys coming up asking questions. Certainly not a veteran from like a

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comfort standpoint. Just yet. When
you say comfort standpoint, what do you

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mean by that? I mean,
you know you you watch Hosey and Bieber

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like that's that's a comfort standpoint.
They walk in here, they know exactly

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what they're gonna do. They're not
fighting to do anything. There's no there's

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no make or break in a spring
for them. So it's a little different

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situation. As a bullpen guy,
you've had some good usage the last couple

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of years, how do you manage
that in the off season to make sure

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you're ready to go for the following
year. I'd say a lot of that's

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actually in season, you know,
off season is good time to give the

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arm a chance to rest. You
can switch up things from a biomechanical standpoint

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a lot easier than once you get
into competition mode. But I think for

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me, my arms started to feel
really good once I locked in my routine

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last year, and taking that through
an off seasons putting me in a good

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spot. Now. Has it been
different as a relief pitcher compared to when

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you were a starter, say in
the minor leagues. Definitely for me.

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I mean, as a guy in
the miners at good control, good stuff,

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not a whole lot of v low, So that allowed me the opportunity

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to just play catch as much as
I wanted. I mean, I'd throw

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the ball for an hour a day
and not get too much arm soreness.

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Now that I'm throwing a little harder, that's something I have to be more

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congressant off so I get my work
in still, but it's not as much

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of a volume more so than a
focus on the throws that I do have.

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We're talking earlier, that change up
is such a bread and butter pitch

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for you, and when we see
it early in spring training, it's kind

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of fun. It brings you back
to what makes you such a good pitcher,

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And is that something that's always been
there for you or has it just

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kind of developed where now it's that
pitch that really helps you since college it's

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been there. Yeah, I mean, but once I was Once I was

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there, that was a big,
big thing. They told me. It

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was like, if you're going to
pitch the D one level, you should

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have a really good you. So
that that's when I switched over from a

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split finger to a change up.
And then you know, it's been about

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ten years throwing that, so it's
you know, it's definitely very comfortable.

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I know what I'm supposed to do
with it now. It's just a matter

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of location. You know, when
I get it below the zone, it's

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in a good spot. When it
hangs in the zone, you know,

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it gives them a chance to get
on it sometimes. So when I put

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in a good spot, it usually
has good results. And obviously in this

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league people know about it now and
that type of thing. Is it good

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enough where they can know it's coming
and if it's in the right spot doesn't

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matter. Not quite. No,
I do still have to mix it up,

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you know that. I think the
slider is going to be a good

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pitch to get them off that.
Certainly, if it's knees and below,

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then then I'll be in an okay
spot, you know where if they know

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it's come and there's still not too
much slug to be done down there.

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But yeah, it's probably the number
one thing on most of their scouting reports,

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and I can see it in some
of their approaches, like when they

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might be looking for it, when
they might be you know, trying to

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ambush it fastball early and that's something
we'll take in a season and you know,

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try to find some good pitch seq
once it's for it. Eli Morgan

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joining US Guardians reliever camp much different
this year because of the new staff,

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or is spring training spring training?
No matter who's running it. I mean,

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the day to day stuff's all the
same. You know, we play

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our catch, we run a little
bit, we do pfps, there's a

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lot of downtime to you know,
hang around with teammates, get to know

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new faces. Certainly all the new
coaching staff like that. That adds a

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little bit different than a wrinkle,
But we're still playing the same game.

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It's a lot of the same stuff. And what do you see here early

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in camp in terms of a team
looking to bounce back and have a good

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season, really good energy. I
mean, it's it doesn't look like a

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team that was, you know,
ten games below last year. You know,

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last year is disappointing, but no
one's hanging their heads on it,

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like we're all just excited to have
another year together and to our best.

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How long does it take to get
used to there's gonna be some new faces

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in the bullpen? Does it take
a little while to for everybody to gel

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down there? And can that only
happen once you get into that regular season

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and you guys are out in the
pen game after game. Well, so

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we have a thing where you know, you got to come for three inings.

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So a lot of the bullpen guys
are down there. We're starting to

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get into those you know, camaraderie
routines. Barlow's fitting right in, and

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you know, some of the new
guys are getting a taste of, you

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know, the weirdness that goes down
in the bullpen. But will be just

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fine. AT's Eli Morgan who figures
to play a key role in that Guardian's

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bullpen along with Hunter Gaddison and several
others, but with some injuries and illness.

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That bullpen will take on a different
look, especially early in the campaign,

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and that season starts in less than
a week now Thursday night from the

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Open Coliseum. Tom Hamilton will have
the first pitch shortly after ten o'clock Eastern

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time. Should be a lot of
fun as the season begins with a long

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road trip of ten games, four
in Oakland, three in Seattle, and

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three in Minnesota. And we'll be
there every step of the way each week

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with Guardians Weekly, and next week
that means from Oakland Coliseum. So for

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Brian Matsee who does great work each
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