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We're alive at Dodgers Stadium, the
Dodgers welcoming in another American League team,

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and we're joined by a man that
I'm not sure how many teams he pitched

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for in the American League, but
he's been around the block a few times.

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And that is the one and only
Daniel Hudson. Thanks a lot for

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the time. Yeah, no problem, and I think it was two only

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two? Only two? You're a
National League guy, White Sox and Blue

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Jays. Nice. Yeah, you
are a National League guy. I have

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been most of my career. Yes, when you were a starting pitcher,

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I've never asked you this. Were
you a good hitter? I help my

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own for sure. I have a
silver bat in my in my house,

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Yes, I do. Nice,
I did not know that. That seems

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like a lifetime ago. Actually it
was a lot time ago. Yeah.

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Are you a big fan of the
way the rules have gone where pitchers don't

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hit anymore? Yeah? I think
it's better for the game. Honestly,

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the pitching is just too good.
Some of the pitchers that we're hitting now,

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it's just it wasn't even a Honestly, it wasn't even a competitive at

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beat. It was really bad.
So I think you know, a lot

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of the especially you know some of
the younger guys that came up and they

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got spies into pitching early and just
didn't hit growing up. It just it

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was really, really ugly. So
I think it's better for the game that

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we have DHM both in both leagues. You're a great guy to ask this,

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because pitchers always asked to sacrifice bunt
more than any other player on the

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field. How difficult is it to
bunt when the ball is moving that fast?

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It's very difficult back in the day. I can say that because it

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was back in the day. A
lot of times you usually got a lot

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of heaters. You know, if
they knew you were going to go up

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there and bunty, they kind of
wanted the out. So so you got

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a lot more heaters back in the
day to uh to swing into uh to

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bunt at. So I think I
think that's another way that's changed. If

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you to me up there against you
know, some of these guys breaking balls,

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I have, I'd have no shot
even putting one down, no shout,

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Okay, we'll leave it right there. Then as far as the hitting

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goes, as far as the Dodger
bullpen, goes Dan. It feels like

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you guys have really hit your stride
as a group, not just individually.

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Yeah, you know, everybody's everybody's
in a good groove down there right now.

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I don't want to jinx it too
bad. I think can be so

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volatile down there at night to night, week to week. So, uh,

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you know, everybody's been been throwing
the ball really well for the most

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part. I've been pretty healthy,
except for you know, early on in

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the year, we lost a couple
of guys to some injuries. But uh,

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you know, everybody that has kind
of been filtered through since then has

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stayed relatively healthy and thrown the ball
really well. It's been a lot of

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fun to watch. Speaking of being
healthy again, Blake trining, this is

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not normal for a guy to miss
two years and to be as nasty as

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he is, right, Yeah,
no, it's not. You're you're watching

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something special out therey single time he
takes the bump. I know is his

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velo is not quite what it was, you know, before his injury.

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But it was a pretty pretty major
shoulder injury he went through, and to

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make it back after two years and
be as sharp as he's been since he's

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gotten back has been really impressive when
you look at his body of work and

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the way that you guys have both
come back from different injuries the last two

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years. Do you feel like you
connect in that way that you both continue

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to pursue your careers even though you
know many other guys maybe would not have.

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Yeah, you know, I've got
to know Blake really well. Last

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couple of years. We spent a
lot of time together at CBR in Arizona

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rehabing our various surgeries and injuries.
You know, I don't know if that's

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a good thing or a bad thing. Obviously, getting a no Blake as

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a person and as a father,
as a husband has been a lot of

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fun. And like I said,
just to see him have the success he's

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had, Uh, since he's been
back has been impressive to watch. You

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mean a lot to Walker Buehler as
well. He's been frustrated with the way

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things have gone recently. Has he
leaned on you at all? Yeah,

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Yeah, we've had a few talks
on I actually went in there after his

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game the other night. You know, I went in there and you know,

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pat him on the back and I
told him he's probably sick of me

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saying it, but it's gonna come. You know, his stuff's gonna start

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clicking again. He's gonna start feeling
like himself soon. You know, he

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missed pretty much two years as well. You got everybody's got to remember that.

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And you know, after you know, I can speak from an experience

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after second elbow surgery, just it
takes a little while to feel like yourself

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again. And you know it's gonna
come and it's gonna click, and we're

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gonna be better off for it.
When you say everybody has to remember that,

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maybe he's the one that needs to
remember it the most. Definitely.

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I know he held himself to a
high standard and he should because he's one

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of the best pitchers in the game
when he's healthy, and uh, you

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know, it's it's it's a lot
of fun to see him out there and

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competing. And I'm telling him,
you know, good job grinding through those

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five innings. You know, he
could have come out and earlier on,

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but he wanted to get through five
and you know, helped the bullpen out

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going into a bullpen game last night. So yeah, it's been Uh,

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like I said, it's gonna come. It's gonna click and you know,

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we're gonna be better off for it. Your locker is pretty close to Gavin

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Stone's locker. He seems to be
quietly confident. What have you noticed about

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him coming into his own? Yeah, I was just about to say he's

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definitely coming into his own. You
know. I think last year was a

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pretty good learning experience for him.
You know, he's pretty much been a

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fastball change up throughout his career,
especially coming up through the minor and he's

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just really all he needed. And
then he kind of kind of kind of

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got up, got up here and
got his teeth kicked in a little bit

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and realize he's got to get something
that moves left and h you know,

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he went really worked this offseason to
try to put some weight on, get

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stronger so he could go deeper into
games. And you know, he really

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worked on that break and bone.
It's been really good for him. He's

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one of those pitchers that you hear
has developed this two seam fastball again.

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Why is that pitch in vogue again? I just think it's coming back,

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just because you have to keep guys
as honest on that part of the plate,

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especially right Henders. I think it's
coming, you know, right on

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right, left on left is coming
back because guys are leaning out so hard

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to go get those breaking balls and
try to launch them. I think the

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two seemers coming back because it just
gives you a little more run. It's

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gives you a little more room for
air. You don't I don't feel like

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you don't really quite have to be
as as a perfect with it every single

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time. You can kind of just
let it eat on that part of the

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plate and let it run and take
the take the movement, let the movement

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do its work, and you know, get guys off that outside part of

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the plate. And if you have
a good four seamer, hitters are telling

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me now there's just too much to
cover. When you have a good two

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seemer and a good four seamer,
Yeah, it's just a different look,

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especially if you can get guys in
and hitters counts to two to one two

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oh that are traditionally four seam counts, and you can run a two seamer

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off the barrel either into a ridy
or way to a lefty when they're you

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know, it's still the same velocity
typically as your four seamer, but it's

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running a little bit more and it
just gets off the barrel. It's get

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some we contact in a Hitters count
all right, Daniel Hudson. Thanks a

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lot for the time. Before I
let you go, by the way,

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would you be against me finding a
way to get a snapshot of you at

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City Field coming off the field with
your fingers quieting the crowd. I want

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to know if that's in bounced,
because I do not want to cross Daniel

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Hudson. I don't know about that. I mean, you can get whatever

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you want. I'm sure it's on
the internet somewhere you can print off.

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But no, that'll be cool to
see if you get it, all right,

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I want to know if I have
the green light. Like I said,

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I am as frightened of you as
intimidated of you as I was of

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Chase Suttley, So I tread very
carefully. I don't know how true that

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statement is for you, but it's
definitely a compliment if you put me in

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the same sentence as Chase. So
I'll take it. You're not the silver

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Fox yet. It's getting there.
Thanks a lot for the time, Daniel.

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