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The Dodgers are back for three games, but it's always good to come home

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and see my guy, Bobby Miller. Bobby, thanks a lot for the

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time. You look fresh and well
rested. I feel great. Thanks for

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having me. Everybody's wondering how the
rehab is going. I know the way

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you've expressed it to me that you're
itching to get back. I'm definitely itching

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to get back, but you know, I'm just trusting the process at the

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same time. But I feel ready
to go. I feel ready to get

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back in major league games with where
my stuff is at right now and health

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wise, I feel one hundred percent
right now. But you know, I'm

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just here trusting the process. During
your rehab outing, can you gauge anything

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from those or is it more about
how you feel the next day. It's

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a little bit of a mix of
both. You know, I felt great

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that day and the day after.
I've been bouncing back really good, especially

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after a live BP here at Dodger
Stadium. It seemed like right after that,

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like I just started bouncing back really
good health wise, and everything just

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seem to go away. And I'm
feeling nothing at this point, like no

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pinch or anything in the shoulder even
warming up. It's not taking me a

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long time to get loose anymore.
It's just like coming out good right away.

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But like the takeaways from the game, I mean, it's hard,

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like really to know what to expect. You know, you don't know if

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there's gonna be guys like really really
excited to face a major leaguer and start

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swinging a lot. But you know, some of a couple of them put

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together some good at bats. It's
really just an execution standpoint for me,

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like showing them something good or not. But I my takeaways were really good,

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you know, I through a decent
amount of strikes. Fastball was really

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good, changed up was great,
cider was great. Curveball still needs a

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little bit of work, but I
learned that everything's going good. The curveball

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that's a field pitch, right,
I mean, yeah, last year that

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was a big field pitch for me. I could throw whenever I wanted,

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whatever count. I still feel that
way. It's just not as sharp as

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it should be right now. But
I'm sure once I get back into game

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action, it'll be right where it
needs to be. Have you heard about

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the sinker coming back into vogue?
Have you dabbled with the sinker at all,

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the two seamer. I've always thrown
a two SEAMERU college, I was

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like a sinker guy. But then
I came here and developed a really good

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four seamer. It's don't really have
a sinker anymore, but I still use

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a two seamer to get guys off
of the four seamer, just to give

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him a different look. That's something
I really wanted to mix into. But

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you know, the four has been
really good for me. And just mixing

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the two seam into guys that I
need to mix it into and we'll see

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from there. I remember the first
time Bobby Miller pitched at Dodger Stadium.

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It was during the Futures Game of
All Star Weekend here at Dodger Stadium,

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and your manager was Mike Zosha for
that game, and he had so many

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great things to say about you.
But the one thing that's refreshing is how

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you prioritized throwing the fastball down in
a way to hitters. That seems to

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be a lost art. Yeah,
especially like a guy like me too,

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like a little bit of a taller
guy being six or five. I'm not

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releasing low, so you know when
you release high, that fastball down in

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a way is really good. It
almost looks like it's especially if you have

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good carry on the baseball, which
I've had like this year and a little

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bit most of the time last year. You know, and you stick that

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down away heater. Being a tall
and high release guy, it could look

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like it's gonna be a ball out
of the hand, like it's coming straight

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down, looks like it's going into
the ground. But you stick that pitch

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and you'll get a lot of swings
out other stuff, and then it's kind

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of the opposite like a shorter guy
or a low release guy, like throwing

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the ball up, it's like the
same effect. So but a lot of

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people take that for granted. They
think a lot of guys think like,

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oh, I have really good vertical
break up my fastball, I can just

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throw it up at all times.
But it's just gonna make your off speed

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pitches worse. So that's something I
had to learn coming into this organization is

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learning out to stick it down on
the way heater. I really started throwing

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that more when I got to major
leagues. I wasn't thrown that enough coming

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up up through the system, and
that's I'm prior helped me out with a

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lot, and he's telling me like, hey, this is this is a

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really good throw for you. And
I started working on that. And I

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still do every single bullpen and make
sure I can establish that glove side heater

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before I start throwing anything else.
That's a really important pitch. Bobby Miller

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is our guest. Walker Buehler's on
the mountain tonight for the Dodgers. How

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impressive has it been to watch him
put in the work and obviously be able

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to come back and pitch at this
level the way he has? Yeah,

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I mean, I know, knowing
Walker, I know, I know he

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expects a lot out of himself and
he's a huge competitor. So I'm excited

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to watch him tonight. You know, it's always a tree being able to

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watch Walker pitch. He's always been
one of my favorite guys to watch in

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baseball, and it's a blessing being
teammates with him, and and I'm pretty

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good friends with him now at this
point. And but yeah, I love

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watching Walker pitch, and he's getting
better every outing and and he knows what

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he needs to do. How about
your roommate, Gavin Stone, He's really

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starting to put his name amongst some
of the better rookies in the National League.

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It's been a work in progress,
but like you, he put in

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a lot of work during the offseason. Yeah, he put in a ton

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of work and it's obviously showing.
The steps that he made from last year

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to this year is crazy. You
know, he's he's became. I mean,

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he's he's one of the better arms
and like all starters right now,

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he's going deep into games every single
start, which is which is really good

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for our bullpen, and he's given
it. I haven't seen him not give

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the team a chance to win when
he's out there, and that's something we

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really prioritize as a starter as is
just like the main thing is giving the

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team a chance to win, and
he does that every time he's out there.

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Did you let him sleep in?
I know your roommates long flight for

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the Dodgers on the way back from
New York. Were you quiet or were

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you a little rowdy of a roommate? I'm not a rowdy roommate. But

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it's funny because when he when he
got back to the apartment, that's when

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I was getting ready to leave to
come to the stadium. To start my

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day, which is that's good.
I felt I felt horrible for the team

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that day to go through that really
long flight and landing at around eight am

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the next day, But you know, everybody's bouncing back right and everyone's ready

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to go today. Yin and Yang, that was good that you were leaving

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while he was coming. Yeah,
you know, he'll be He'll be fine,

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he always is. Yeah, I'm
a pretty good roommate, all right.

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Bobby, thanks a lot for the
time. Glad things are going well

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for you and we look forward to
seeing you on the mound soon. Thank you.