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

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save hundreds on car insurance. Hi everyone,

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welcome to Guardians' Weekly. Gimrosen House
along with you from Goodyear Arizona and

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the Guardian Spring Training Company, as
we bring you coverage from Goodyear in spring

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training now for the next month and
a half. As spring training is in

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full swing. The full squad officially
started earlier this week, but being around

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camp this week, you find out
that really the full squad has been here

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for a couple of weeks. Nobody
waited until the official reporting date to show

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up, and that has been a
big theme throughout camp this year so far,

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just how eager both pitchers and position
players have been to get started with

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spring training and preparing for the twenty
twenty four season. Good show lined up

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for you today, and this will
be the case throughout the spring. We're

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going to try and talk to as
many players as possible, and coming up

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in this week's show just a little
bit, we'll visit with Austin Hedges,

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the veteran catcher back in the fold, and he is excited to be back.

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We will also visit with Tanner Biby, who finished second in the American

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League Rookie of the Year balloting a
year ago season for him, and we'll

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talk to him about his plans for
twenty twenty four. Also, a couple

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of relief pitchers will stop by,
including newly acquired Scott Barlow, who figures

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to work the back end of the
bullpen and one of the top lefty relievers

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in the game looking to take that
next step, Sam Henches. He'll join

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us as well, so a good
show lined up for you and as promised.

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Austin Hedges joined us earlier this week, and he was gone for a

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year with a couple of other clubs
a season ago, but still one of

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the funniest people that you'll ever meet
and is expected to play a key role

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in the clubhouse as he did back
in the twenty twenty two season when the

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Guardians reached the postseason. A year
ago. He started with Pittsburgh, was

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picked up by Texas at the trade
deadline, and for the first time in

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his career he was part of a
World Series champion as he was on the

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playoff roster for the Texas Rangers.
Now that he's back in the fold.

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He says, it was a lot
of fun coming to spring training and seeing

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familiar faces, just so many faces
that that I care about, that I

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missed so much, and now like
I don't know, after being here for

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a handful of days in a row, it's like, it feels like I

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might as well played here last year. It's just it, it feels like

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home. You signed a contract back
here? Who player wise, who were

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some of the first guys who reached
out to say hi and maybe give you

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the business? I mean I was
the one to reach out. Was like

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that. I had to text Kwan
and Naylor and Miles and b were It

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was some quantrills still here in Tristan, like a lot of the guys that

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I was with that I was just
texting like, hey, we're back.

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We're back. And when you look
back at at twenty twenty two, what

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made that team special? And I
don't know if you can recreate that,

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but maybe some of the things that
work then could could come back. What

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made that team so good? I
definitely think it will come back. I

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think it was, uh, it
was just guys buying into into something bigger

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than them that they looked forward to
doing on a daily basis, and it

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was just about there was about each
other. It was about winning with and

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for each other. And we just
didn't have anybody that was about themselves.

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And when guys start, a lot
of guys will start panicking when things aren't

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going real well. But we just
had a team that didn't panic about their

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own individual seasons because we were trying
to do something different. So you go

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out and win ninety plus games and
win a division, when a playoff round,

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and you know, there's no reason
why this team right now isn't way

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better than that team I think it
is. So whatever the world thinks we're

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gonna be, we're just gonna once
again let them think that, and one

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day at a time, we're gonna
go start winning ball games. What makes

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you say that that this team is
better than that team in twenty two the

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guys that there's enough young guys that
were still proving themselves, I think,

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not to the league, but to
themselves that they belonged to the big leagues.

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And now all those guys know in
their hearts that they belong and that

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this is where they're going to be
for a long time. And now when

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you kind of get that you can
start truly focusing on the one thing that

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matters, and that's winning a championship. And so I think now we have

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a lot of guys that have gotten
past that threshold of like, Ooh,

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I don't want to get sent down, you know, I want to stay

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in the big leagues where it's like, no, you're a big league You're

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gonna be a big leaguer. Now, now that we don't have to worry

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about that, we can go focus
on winning and doing something special. Austin

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Hatches joining us. So you're back
now. Last year two different teams,

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really opposite ends of the spectrum almost, But what a year when you look

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back on it as interesting and turned
out to be as fun a year in

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baseball as you've had. Yeah,
the second half was a blast. There's

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nothing I've never experienced anything in my
life better than winning a World Series or

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just a whole the whole playoff run
was just as I mean, you can't

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recreate those feelings. It's really special. But the beginning there was tough.

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It was a grinded. Things didn't
go as well for me in Pittsburgh as

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I'd like them to. It just
probably it didn't end up being the perfect

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fit, uh to at least finish
the season, but I felt like I

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made a nice impact there and I
developed some good relationships and I felt like

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I helped that pitching stuff out all. I feel like I helped them out

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a lot. So, but you
know, once I got traded, there

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was kind of the the beginning of
the role that I have now where it's

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like teams seem to value me for
some things I'm able to do off the

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field, and that's some of the
things that I take the most pride in.

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And it's nice to have that now, to have earned enough teams respect

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to to essentially pay me to do
some things that that are that there isn't

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just a statistic for and and I
love that. And I'm just so grateful

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that you know, a team like
like like the Guardians like values that enough

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to allow me to be here,
and because this is where I want to

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be. So what do you see
your role as at least at this point

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time, it's not even seasoned long
away from starting yet, but how do

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you see yourself fitting in here and
making as big an impact as you can.

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I'm just we got a lot of
young guys. And I've been lucky

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enough to be in this league for
a while and I've learned a lot,

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and I've failed a lot and succeeded
a lot too, And through all of

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that time and experience, I just
I have a lot to I do a

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nice job of I can realize when
guys are when it's starting to get to

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them. I now know what the
look in the eyes looks like, and

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I know how to communicate with them
and give them some things that I know

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I needed back when when I was
a young guy coming up and I had

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some some veteran guys pick me up
and you know, you know, just

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basically make remind me of everything's going
to be all right, Like I don't

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need to feel this way. And
so that's that's one of the biggest parts

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of my role is to is to
get the best out of everybody on a

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daily basis, uh, and to
and to give everybody that kind of time.

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And it's something I care about a
lot. So you know, obviously,

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like worked really hard this offseason so
I can be a great baseball player.

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I want to go out and be, you know, have the best

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season of my life. But at
the same time, there's a lot of

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things I'm gonna be doing in the
clubhouse and in our prep work, in

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our in our meetings to just make
sure everybody's on the same page and thinking

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about the things that actually matter and
not getting confused by things that we can't

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control. You'll work with bow Naylor, who is starting to come on as

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one of the best young catchers in
the game. And you saw him when

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he first came to the major leagues, was up for a little bit that

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back in twenty two. What did
you see then and what do you think

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you're going to see now based on
what he did last year? Well,

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I mean it's it's a more polished
product for sure. You know, your

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first year or even half or whatever
it was of being the guy, being

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being out there, starting every day
and every day at bats like it's it's

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a lot. It wears on you. It's a it's not an easy job.

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But everything that you got to learn
last year now coming in knowing,

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okay, hey, but you're breaking
camp, you're the starter, you're the

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guy. He hasn't broken camp yet, that's a it's a big step for

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him. And so I and I
was there once upon a time. So

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now part of my role is to
help that transition so he remembers I'm the

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guy. I can freaking I can
do this. I can lead this team.

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And that's what we need. We
need him to do that, and

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we need him do it in his
way, like, not not my way,

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not Luke Mayley's way, his way, and that's the best way that

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we're going to go win ball games. And so I'm going to do my

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best to just help him be him
and nobody else. Just to finish up.

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It's a deep pitching staff, but
you had some success on the mound

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a year ago. Could could that
as deep as the pitching staff is,

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could there be a situation where you
might have to come into a game and

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do you work on that in the
offseason the pitching end of things. Well,

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I didn't work on it before,
and I went out there and got

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a bunch of outs, so I
said, nope, not working on it.

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My pitching ability has God given fifty
two mile an hour fastballs under the

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hitting speed voter told me if we're
up by twelve runs, I might be

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able to get in there. Ideally, I'm not pitching this year because that

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usually means we're losing by a lot
of runs, So I hope it's all

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games, that we're up by about
twenty runs and then I can come in

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and save the bull. Then Austin
Hedges is back in town. Folks,

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Thank you, thank you. That
is Austin Hedges. He is a beauty

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and he will provide a real positive
influence in that clubhouse. And as you

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can tell by his interview, he
is embracing that role. As camp begins

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here in Goodyear, stay with us
when we come back. We will hear

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from Scott Barlow, one of the
new relief pitchers for the Guardians. He

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comes over from the San Diego Padres, but a long time Kansas City royal,

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and we'll talk to him about that
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Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim rosen

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House back with you from Goodyear,
Arizona, where the weather has been terrific

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and the Guardians are going through their
paces. They'll play their first spring game

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today a little bit later on if
you're tuned to this on the radio network,

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the Guardians and Cincinnati Reds playing it
five Eastern time. We'll have it

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for you on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians
Radio Network, so I hope you can

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join us for that. Hammy will
have the first pitch right around three to

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five. Should be a lot of
fun on what is shaping up to be

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another beautiful day in the desert.
Part of the roster heading into spring training

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and figures to be a big key
in the back end of the bullpen is

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Scott Barlow, the hard throwing right
hander, longtime Kansas City Royal who has

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been a closer for much of his
major league career. In fact, a

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career best twenty four saves for Barlow
back in the twenty twenty two season.

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Last year had the trade deadline picked
up by San Diego and was a key

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for the Padres down the stretch,
and he was picked up in a trade

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with San Diego in exchange for Angel
de Los Santos as the Guardians and Padres

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pulled off that deal in late November, and Barlow says that he's happy to

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be on this side of things after
facing Cleveland so often as a member of

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Kansas City, and it wasn't always
easy. Every time I looked at this

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gud and saw Cleveland, it was
you knew you were going to be in

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for a fight. You know,
the way that they control the strike zone,

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and then just being able to do
you know, the little things right,

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whether it's you know, hitting the
ball the other way or you know,

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drawing walks, and then you know, then the stolen bases and then

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you just you just had to have
like your a game every time you came

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into Cleveland. So when you're traded
to a new team, and I know

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it hasn't happened very often in your
career, but now a couple of times

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here in the last calendar year,
what's most important to you? What are

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you looking at when you arrive here
in Cleveland to help you be the best

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you can be. Yeah, I
mean just getting to meet the guys.

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You know, I got to go
guards Fest early and you kind of get

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you know, intro to the guys
and everybody's just super welcoming and you know,

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just wanting to introduce themselves and then
coming here and then kind of you

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know, building those you know,
team relationships and you know, being able

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to you know, try to help
any way I can with it, whether

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it be from my own personal experiences. You know, guys have questions,

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you know, just being as open
as I can be. But yeah,

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just you know, just coming in
working hard and you know, just improving

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on my game. And when you
talk about improvements, a new set of

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eyes now gets to look at you. How does that work? Are you

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seeking feedback from them or do they
offer that? And and how does that

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work? Oh? I mean I'm
a person that is so open minded of

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you know feedback, especially like if
you know, I'm trying to you know,

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ask questions as much as I can, whether it be with fellow players

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or you know, coaching staff.
And just from experience of seeing the guys

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at Cleveland has developed over the years
and a lot of homegrown guys that have

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a lot of success, you know, trying to ask as many questions as

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I can, you know, just
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you never a finished product, and
you know, if there's one little key

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thing that someone says that just really
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the difference of you know, a
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know, just trying to be open
minded as I can and ask and watch

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and observe, and when you look
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or things that you'd like to work
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here during the spring to get yourself
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think towards the end of last year, I threw a lot more two seams

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and that's something I kind of want
to continue to to work on. You

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know, I want to be able
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you know, right e's and lefties, whether it's in or out or up.

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in on. And then same as
the slider, kind of changed the slider

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grip a little bit and you know, just trying to dial that in as

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much as possible. Spring training means
different things to different players. For sure,

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you have a unique setup that you've
had working well for you for several

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years. Tell us about your living
situation in the spring. Yeah, so

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for spring training the past couple of
years and even in earlier in my career

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during season, and we had a
fifth reeel camper and just with you know,

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trying to find a new apartment or
or a house every year, it's

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it's usually pretty hectic. And you
know, when you know there's a waste

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management or sometimes a Super Bowl going
on out here, you know, housing

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is almost impossible to find. But
we found the camper works perfectly for us.

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We know we're out kind of a
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there's no there's no traffic. You're
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an awesome drive every morning, get

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to see the sunset and the hot
air balloons and you know, it's just

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a super peaceful during spring and uh, yeah, it's it's been awesome.

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And as you make that drive to
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team that has had success recently,
coming off a year that that was disappointing

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for sure, But how do you
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in terms of potential for this ball
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I mean from what I've seen,
the energy has been awesome, you

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know, with the new manager and
and you know some of the new coaches

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and everything. You know, I
think, you know, you can almost

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you know, feel the energy that
they kind of they want to have,

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like the the ore that that they
want, and it seems like guys are

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picking up on that really quick and
even in practice. I mean usually it's

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you know, the first couple of
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taking it slow, and you know
you're seeing in guys that you haven't seen,

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you know, over winter and everything. So you know, but you

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know, as soon as we get
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pretty locked in on you know,
whether it's pfps or bullpens. You know,

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it's good to see everybody in the
locker room. But I've been loving

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the energy of seeing of guys and
the focus on you know, even simple

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pfps. It's relief pitcher Scott Barlow
figures to be a big key in that

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bullpen as they try and build some
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Stay with us when we come back. We will visit with one of

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the top rookies at all of baseball
a year ago. He is Tanner Biby,

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a key part of the start rotation, and will visit with him next

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on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network, shimro Is announced back with you from

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Goodyear, Arizona and Guardians spring training. As the Guardians get deeper into the

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spring, they begin the exhibition slate
Cactus League play starting today and it will

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wrap up in late March before the
season opener in late March at Oakland as

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the Guardians begin with four in Oakland, then three in Seattle, and then

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three more in Minnesota before they open
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eighth, and what should be quite
a day in northeast Ohio, as they

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will somehow fit that game in in
and around all the activities associated with the

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solar eclipse, so that will be
a five to ten start if you miss

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that. The Guardian's front office spending
a lot of time trying to figure out

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the best possible start time what should
be a busy, busy day in downtown

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Cleveland. Tanner Biby stop by earlier
this week and talk to us about his

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twenty twenty four plans after an outstanding
rookie season, he ended up finishing second

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in the Rookie of the Year balloting
after a ten win campaign. How about

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these numbers over twenty five starts biby
ten and four with an ERA of two

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point nine to eight almost to strikeout
an inning, and really established himself as

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a bulldog on the mound. He'll
be going into his age twenty five season

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this year, second major league season, figures to be a big key in

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that starting rotation, and when we
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he is enjoying his first major league
camp. He was not in big league

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camp a year ago, and he
said, it's been fun to be on

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the major league side. So far, it's been going good. It's been

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going good. I mean definitely not
being on like the minor league side and

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kind of figuring out the little nuances
here and there has been not tough,

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but it's just been fun. It's
been interesting and it's a good time.

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Because of the success you had up
here a year ago, I'm sure a

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lot of people didn't even realize that
or maybe had forgotten. Did you get

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some funny looks if you even mentioned
that this is your first time over here.

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I think a couple of people they
knew, but they didn't realize and

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when I told them, it kind
of clicked and they were like, oh

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my gosh, that's nuts. But
yeah, it was funny coming out of

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last year when you had a chance
to think back on it and maybe review

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it. What were some of your
impressions after at least statistically a really good

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year and certainly very impressive. I
think after reflecting on it, I think,

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I mean, obviously I can't knock
the year obviously, but I just

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think being able to kind of hone
in on some stuff this offseason, like

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delivery wise, kind of hone that
in just because it wasn't as good throughout

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the year as I wanted it to
be. I think just looking back on

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it and being able to see that, say, like, my delivery wasn't

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where I wanted it to be,
and I still pitch that well. I

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mean, it makes you feel good, it makes you feel confident, but

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it doesn't mean that you have to
stay the same person. You can improve,

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you can get better, and I
think that's what I'm trying to do.

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So how do you find those things
in your delivery that you didn't like?

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How do you fix them in an
off season? I mean just kind

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of figuring out what Carl and Joe
and all of our coordinators see and seeing

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their opinion. Because I can't watch
myself unless it's video. There's a lot

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of guys that are a lot smarter
than me that can help me behind the

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scenes. So I think with their
help and with me being able to execute

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it as well as I can,
I think it's a pretty good combination.

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When you look at the situation you
were put in yourself, Gavin Williams and

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Logan Allen too, not that it
was sink or swim, but what you

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guys had to perform in a spot
where there were injury issues and you did.

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Did you look back on that and
say, hey, you know what,

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that was not easy, but but
you got the job done. Yeah.

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I think at the time, I
mean, you don't really realize that

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it is. It's like a sinker
swim because when you get called up,

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I feel like he usually is sink
or swim. But I mean at that

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point, I think we're just trying
to pitch well, We're trying to help

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the guys out, help the pen
out, try to go as deep as

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possible. So I think when you
look back on it, I mean,

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it could be, but I think
that we all handled it really well.

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I think we're all looking to build
off of it. Were there things in

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the major leagues that that you didn't
expect that came up from time to time?

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I mean, the whole the whole
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to major league is a completely different
world. So people always say that,

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but you don't really know, and
you can't really confirm it until you live

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it. Is that something you get
to the end of the season and you

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to take a deep breath and say, whoa, that was something? Yeah,

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yeah, definitely. I mean,
just like the whole travel, like

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the whole weekly thing. I mean, thousands of people are coming to watch

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you, tens of thousands every day. It's pretty it's a pretty insane feeling.

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I know you had mentioned a couple
of times along the way to the

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foundation you had in your college program, even with time spent in the minor

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leagues here served you. Well,
what was it about where you went to

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school, in the program there that
set you up for success? You think

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it eventually in the Major League.
I mean, I think Fullerton just kind

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of breeds like like a mental strength, being able to like push through adversity.

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I think they really hammer that home. I mean, they they're not

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this crazy SEC school. They're just
a mien major in California. They're a

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commuter school that's known really well for
baseball. So I think I think when

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they're they're not going to get the
top recruit every time. So I think

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they get these guys and they're able
to kind of mold them mentally to be

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able to compete with these high profile
guys because some of these guys might not

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have gone through through talent but forts
and I think really gets your mind in

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the right spot. It's interesting to
hear you talk that way because it almost

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sounds similar to where Shane Bieber went
to school not too far from there.

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Do you guys talk about that at
all? The college experience for both of

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you, Yeah, definitely. I
mean we went to I mean, Chen

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went to a rival high school,
went to a rival college from me.

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So I mean, I'm sure when
the Titans by the Gauchos here in a

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month or two, they'll probably be
a bet place down for us between each

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other, so that'll be pretty fun. But yeah, we talked about it

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a good bit. I mean we've
kind of went through not the same path,

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but pretty similar path, I would
say, Tanner Bibby joining us off

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season for you, everybody has different
throwing programs and what they do to get

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ready for spring training. You have
a unique experience where some of you are

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throwing, not all of it,
but some of it is with your dad.

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And now special is that to you
at this stage of your career that

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you're still able to do that.
Yeah, it's really cool. I mean,

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even though he stopped playing baseball a
little bit ago, he still can

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catch a little bit. I'll never
tell him that, but if he hears

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this, this is the compliment.
And if you're long tossing, he can

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get it back to you. Oh
no, he can't do that. He

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can catch it though, he can
catch it pretty good. In twenty twenty

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he wasn't as good. But honestly, every year he's gotten a little bit

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better. You think he's working out
behind your back. That would be surprising.

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Hey, you come back in here
and team wise, the team fell

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short of what it wanted year ago. It's so early in camp, But

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uh, what's the vibe in the
clubhouse as you get back to work here

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and start spring training. I think
everyone's excited. I think everyone. I

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mean, obviously, like we talked
about before, that's our first camp,

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But I think everyone's excited to be
here. I mean, I feel like

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there's a lot of energy in the
building with Vote and Hedgi and all these

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kind of new slash familiar faces that
are here or back. But I just

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think there's a good feel in the
clubhouse right now. I feel like there's

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a good culture brewing, and I
think the longer we stay with each other,

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I think it's going to be that
culture is just gonna grow stronger.

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So I think I think at this
point, I think it's going really well.

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And when you look at the starting
rotation, looks like Shane Bieber and

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Tristan McKenzie are healthy and they'll be
back. And then the three that we

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mentioned yourself included had such good years
a year ago competition wise. When when

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you look at the rotation, how
much does each pitcher push each other not

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only here but during the course of
the season. Yeah, I think that's

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the one thing that we all do
really well. It's like a healthy competition.

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I think we all know how good
we are, and we all know

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how much we want to be the
best, and that doesn't that doesn't mean

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it's a toxic thing, but that
means that we all have the same goal

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and we all want to do well, and we all want each other to

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do well. But at this point, like we all want to be the

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best, and I think it's a
very healthy thing to be able to say.

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Tristan goes seven and seven in Shout
Out with twelve punches and it's like,

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oh, hell yeah, Tristan,
Like good job. But then then

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in my head, I'm like,
I want to do better than that,

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which is like I think everyone has
that same thing. I think it's a

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really good thing. I think that
we have a lot of potential this year,

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especially with those two guys at the
top and then the rest of us.

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I think it's gonna be pretty awesome. That's Tanner Biby, and it

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just seems like the sky's the limit
for that young man. The talent is

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there, and also he's a real
student of the game as well, and

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then that combination can lead to some
great things. I've seen it before with

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some really good pictures here with the
Cleveland franchise, including recently retired Corey Klueber

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and of course Shane Bieber who's a
part of this year's team as well,

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and Tanner Bibby trying to follow in
those big footsteps and he is certainly off

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to a good start in his major
league career. When we come back,

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well, VIZI with the big lefty
Sam Henches who figures to be a big

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key in that bullpen. He'll join
us next as we conclude Guardians Weekly after

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states. Welcome back to Guardian's Weekly
Jim rosen House along with you from Goodyear,

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Arizona and Guardian Spring Training. Great
to have you with us for Baseball

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Talk on the radio. We're here
each Saturday on the Guardians Radio network,

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usually in that five o'clock hour,
but we'll keep you posted. That may

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change for the live show on the
radio, and if it does, we'll

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certainly fill you in, but it
still will be Saturday, might just be

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a little bit earlier in the day, and of course you can always listen

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to it whenever you like in podcast
form wherever you download your favorite podcasts.

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Sam Hensches has established himself as one
of the top lefty relievers in all of

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baseball. He's been durable the last
couple of seasons. Last year did have

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a later start due to some shoulder
issues in spring training, but ended up

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appearing in fifty six games for Cleveland
once he was healthy three and two with

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an ERA of three point six y
one, and he was right on the

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brink of some really good things that
we saw back in twenty twenty two and

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this year. The prep has gone
well in the off season, and we

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talked to him about off seasons now
for any player in baseball, it seems

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is there really one Sam fills us
in. It's pretty much a year round

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thing. Everybody's different in how they
attack their off season, But yeah,

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I think most guys take a couple
weeks off at the beginning of the off

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season and then they slowly start building
up to get ready for spring training.

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And you've established yourself as a real
solid major league relief pitcher at this point,

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what do you work on in the
off season? Is it more strength

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and conditioning or are you working on
mechanics and how your pitches are moving and

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things like that. It's definitely more
of a mechanical thing to do in the

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off season. As far as strength, I feel like at this point,

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I don't know how if I can
get much stronger. Obviously you can,

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but I don't know if there's as
much of a point to focus on that

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as much as it is like health
and mechanics and just consistency with the pitches

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and sharpness of them and location.
I think that's a big thing as well,

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is just working on command and control
of all the pitches. So when

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you get to the end of last
season and headed into your off season,

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who helps you with that? Who
helps you work on things that you feel

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you need to work on and how
successful can that be when you head into

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the next spring training. It's a
lot of people that go into it.

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I mean the pitching coaches, the
medical team, the strength and conditioning team,

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and then myself and we kind of
all as the season winds down,

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we have our meetings and things we
need to work on, and then are

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in constant communication over the off season
to kind of check in and see how

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things are going, see if meeting
your goals, and if you're feeling good,

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if you're healthy, and basically just
how things are going. So it's

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constant communication during the off season to
make sure everything's trending in the right direction.

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And when you look back on last
year specifically, would you like to

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see maybe sharper or different pitch mix, anything in particular that you were working

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on this off season that you can
share. I think the biggest thing for

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me that I didn't have as much
last year was throwing the sinker. It

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was a pitch I was kind of
developed towards the end of twenty twenty one

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and was really heavily utilized in twenty
two, especially to lefties, and I

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kind of went away from it last
year because it wasn't wasn't moving the same

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as it had been in twenty one, but just kind of getting that pitch

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back and being able to use it
against lefties because it was a really really

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good weapon for me. How do
you find that if it gets away a

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little bit, how do you get
it back? I think it comes down

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to mechanics and how the body works
and lining it up for me in the

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way I throw my sinker. If
I have my four seam fastball, I

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know that the two seam fastball is
going to be there as well. In

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last year, both the fastballs weren't
profiling how they have been in previous years.

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I don't know if that was a
health thing or a mechanical thing,

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or combination of both, but just
kind of figuring out and getting back to

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making sure that they're not blending together
and that they are two different pitches,

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and that's usually when they're most effective, is when they're moving differently. Guardianswered

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Liever sam Hanches joining us Samuel look
at that bullpen and a solid bullpen a

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year ago, but it seems like
some more depth this year, maybe at

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least a heading into spring training.
What are you saying out and down there

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in terms of new arms that could
be really helpful. We're really excited.

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I think think there's a couple of
new arms. I think the biggest one

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to hit on would be Scott Barlow. I think we're really excited to have

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him in the mix. He's pitching
some some super high leverage situations in his

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career and has has good experience to
kind of be that veteran presence a little

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bit out there for us or excited. We're all a year, another year

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older, another year of experience under
our belts as far as kind of the

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core of the bullpen down there.
So we're just excited to get back to

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it and kind of continue what we
have done over the past few years.

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And you mentioned that experience and for
you, it doesn't seem like that long

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ago where you were still trying to
find your niche, whether it was a

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starter or reliever, trying to get
healthy, all that kind of stuff.

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And does it seem like a long
time ago that was or not that long

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ago? It does. I mean
showing up this morning to the to the

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yard felt kind of like a long
time ago. But but yeah, yeah,

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I mean you get a lot of
audience and a lot of experience in

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different situations over the course of a
one hundred and sixty two game season as

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a reliever, and you learn a
lot, and you get to see a

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lot, and there's a lot of
different situations in situations that you've never pitched

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in before, so you kind of
have to learn on the fly. But

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then you can kind of over the
offseason look at those situations and see how

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you handled yourself, and that's kind
of ultimately how you grow as a pitcher,

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and that's where you can use those
experiences to better yourself. Spring training

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this time of year for a lot
of players who might make their off season

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home up north. It's great to
come down into the warm weather, all

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that kind of stuff. You're now
here in the Phoenix area year round.

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Still a big deal though, when
spring training starts, just from a player's

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standpoint, kind of that clock that
gets going, Yeah, we get excited.

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We get excited to see everybody,
to see the coaching staff, the

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front office of trainers and strength coaches, and especially the teammates. New guys

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coming in. It's nice to meet
them, kind of see how they are

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and get to check them out as
well, but just mostly to see everybody

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and have everybody in the same spot
again. It is always exciting to see

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what people have done in the offseason
to get better and what they've been working

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on and just kind of have those
conversations. And obviously this year is a

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little bit different with a lot of
changes as far as staff members and coaches

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and stuff, so it's nice to
kind of start building those relationships as well.

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That is Sam Henches filling us in
on some of his plans for the

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season, and he'll be a big
key for manager Steven Vote from the left

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side and that Cleveland bullpen. Well, it's going to do it for our

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show this week. Thanks so much
as always for tuning in. Brian Matse

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helps to put together our show each
week. We could not do it without

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him. Don't forget baseball on the
radio the Cactus League opener and we will

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have it for you on the Cleveland
Clinic Guardians Radio Network with a three to

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zero five EAS Eastern time. First
pitch is a Hammy starts his thirty fifth

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season behind the mic for Cleveland and
that is great news and it'll be great

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to see him in the booth in
just a little while. So until next

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week when we join you again with
another edition of Guardians Weekly. This is

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Jim Rosenhouse reminding you that you've been
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