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Speaker 1: the Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse along with you from PNC
Speaker 1: Park in Pittsburgh this weekend where the Guardians are taking
Speaker 1: on the Pirates in an interleague matchup. Cleveland winning the
Speaker 1: opener on Friday night ten to seven, and we'll have
Speaker 1: more on that shortly, but just to let you know,
Speaker 1: coming up on our show this week, we will hear
Speaker 1: from Gabriel Arius and on Helm Martinez, two of the
Speaker 1: hottest titters for the Guardians over the last week or so.
Speaker 1: Will also be joined by Paul Sewald, Guardian's reliever, and
Speaker 1: Joe Torres, the assistant pitching coach for the Guardians, and
Speaker 1: will take a look at Single A Lynchburg what their
Speaker 1: roster has in store for this season with the vice
Speaker 1: president of player Development, Stephen Osterer. That's coming up in
Speaker 1: just a little while, but first our look back at
Speaker 1: the week that was the week in review and for
Speaker 1: the Guardians, it started with the opener of the road
Speaker 1: trip in Baltimore. This current road trip started in Baltimore
Speaker 1: with a three game series on Tuesday night and the
Speaker 1: game scoreless until the third. That's when the Guardians loaded
Speaker 1: the bases for Jose Ramirez. The seven pitch swung on,
Speaker 1: hid in the air deep enough to get a run
Speaker 1: home left center. It'll be caught by Mullins, the center fielder,
Speaker 1: and he'll throw the third, tagging and scoring his nailer.
Speaker 1: Everybody else stays put in Cleveland with a one nothing lead,
Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez the sacond fly to medium deep left center,
Speaker 1: his ah RBI. The Guardians had that one nothing lead.
Speaker 1: It was still one nothing in the fifth, when on hell,
Speaker 1: Martinez got something started. His next pitch is swung on
Speaker 1: and lifted high in the air to right. Will the
Speaker 1: wind take it? O'Neill's back and you'll have to play
Speaker 1: this one off the high wall and right on his
Speaker 1: way to third? Now is Martinez The crow is offline
Speaker 1: and sliding under the tag attempt. Is Martinez in safely
Speaker 1: at third? That was a towering blast, and if the
Speaker 1: wind is not blowing toward right, it's probably caught and
Speaker 1: maybe even shy of the warning track by O'Neill. But
Speaker 1: it was hit so high and deep enough that it
Speaker 1: just kept carrying, and O'Neill played it off the wall.
Speaker 1: He made a strong throw in and an accurate throw
Speaker 1: might have caught Martinez at third trying to get in
Speaker 1: there with a triple, and he did. Bo Naylor brought
Speaker 1: Martinez home with a sack fly to make it to nothing,
Speaker 1: and then with a runner on, Stephen Kuan stepped in.
Speaker 1: Here's the pitch, swung on and launched high and deep
Speaker 1: to right. If it's fair, it's gone, and it is
Speaker 1: a fair ball. Home run. Stephen Kuan with a two
Speaker 1: run shot, and the Guardians open up a four nothing lead.
Speaker 1: H Kwan hited a ton and it stayed fair down
Speaker 1: that right field line. Home run number three on the
Speaker 1: season for Kwan and the Guardians with the big now
Speaker 1: able to open things up looking for more. In the
Speaker 1: sixth inning, runners at the corners, the two to two
Speaker 1: swung on hit in the air, medium deep left center
Speaker 1: third sack fly of the night, Loreano with a catch,
Speaker 1: Arius with a tag score staying put is Martinez at second,
Speaker 1: and Cleveland continues to be the best in baseball when
Speaker 1: it comes to the sack fly, and the Guardians with
Speaker 1: three of them, tonight, now leading it by a score
Speaker 1: five to nothing, and then Stephen Kuan delivered to bring
Speaker 1: home one more the pitch, Kuan with a broken bat
Speaker 1: chopper in the hole in the right field off the
Speaker 1: glove of Matteo in the right a base hit in
Speaker 1: the score from second Martinez and the Guardians now lead
Speaker 1: at six to nothing, give Stephen Kuan his second hit,
Speaker 1: third RBI of the game. He banged win in the
Speaker 1: hole on the right side. Mateo, the second baseman going
Speaker 1: toward four first, tried to make the big play but
Speaker 1: just had a glance off his glove in the right field,
Speaker 1: and Kwan with a three RBI night, giving him eleven
Speaker 1: on the year. Meanwhile, on the mound, Logan Allen was
Speaker 1: turning in his best outing of the young season. Now
Speaker 1: the payoff and strike three called, and O'Neill knew it.
Speaker 1: Logan Allen has racked up six strikeouts in this one
Speaker 1: hit shutout. The only Orioles hit e Cedric Mullens single
Speaker 1: in the fifth inning. That's been it. The oriol struck
Speaker 1: for a run in the seventh, two more in the
Speaker 1: eighth that made it a six to three ball game,
Speaker 1: and it would be up to Emmanuel class A to
Speaker 1: nail down the save in the ninth. Now the one
Speaker 1: two swung out another fly ball fairly deep left, Kwan
Speaker 1: Back reaches up big six catch ball game and the
Speaker 1: Guardians start the road trip beating the Oreo'll six to
Speaker 1: three here in Baltimore. So a nice start to the
Speaker 1: series in Baltimore, but the Orioles bounce back with a
Speaker 1: nine to one win over the Guardians on Wednesday night,
Speaker 1: and they backed it up with a six to two
Speaker 1: victory over Cleveland on Thursday night to take the series.
Speaker 1: So the Guardians came to Pittsburgh having dropped two out
Speaker 1: of three in Baltimore, and what a wild night it
Speaker 1: was on Friday night here at P and C Park.
Speaker 1: The Pirates jumped on top as their slugger O'Neil Cruz
Speaker 1: led off the bottom of the first inning with a
Speaker 1: solo home run. But the Guardians got their scoring started
Speaker 1: in the third with Bo Naylor leading things off the
Speaker 1: bitch swing in a drive deep center field cruise, going
Speaker 1: back track walk on bau Nailer the dead center and
Speaker 1: the Guardians have tied the game at one, but and
Speaker 1: he get into that one later in the third a
Speaker 1: couple of two out singles, one from Lane Thomas, another
Speaker 1: from Jose Ramirez and then Kyle Mannzardo stepped in and
Speaker 1: the two pitch swung online drive. This will get down
Speaker 1: a one hop base it up against the wall and
Speaker 1: right in the scores Thomas Mansardo on his wait a
Speaker 1: second Ramirez coming home throw slide.
Speaker 2: Tag he is out.
Speaker 1: At the plate. Josey went in with a head first slide.
Speaker 1: Try to get in the backside of home plate. Strong
Speaker 1: throw in gets Jose Ramirez head home plate. Does Cleveland
Speaker 1: challenge the call? They do not. It'll go as a
Speaker 1: two out RBI double. Ramirez thrown out of the plate
Speaker 1: to in the inning, but Cleveland's got a two to
Speaker 1: one lead. Pittsburgh tied it at two with a run
Speaker 1: in the bottom half of the third inning, but in
Speaker 1: the fourth, with two men on, bo Naylor delivered again.
Speaker 1: Next pitch to him has swung on drilled toward the
Speaker 1: alley right center. It gets down for a base hit
Speaker 1: and it gets past Cruise up against the wall. One
Speaker 1: run is in that Santana right behind him. Arius Hey
Speaker 1: scores standing up on a double off the bat of
Speaker 1: Bowe Nailer, and the Guardians take a four to two lead.
Speaker 1: The Guardians added a run in the fifth on a
Speaker 1: Pirate's error, making it five to two, and on the mound,
Speaker 1: Luis Ortiz turned in a solid outing against his former club.
Speaker 1: Here's the old one, swung on and drilled high in
Speaker 1: the air to deep center. Back on it. Thomas, he's there,
Speaker 1: makes the catch and it's another three up pre down
Speaker 1: inning for Luis Ortez. We head to the sixth Guardians five,
Speaker 1: Pirates two. Then in the seventh the Guardians pulled away
Speaker 1: two walks and Elaine Thomas single loaded the bases for
Speaker 1: John Kenzie Noel. Now the one one swung on line
Speaker 1: drive deep left field, Sowinski back mover's head, one hops
Speaker 1: the wall, battle score Thomas Premier's behind him, Santana to
Speaker 1: third and John Ten's see no Weel rips a two
Speaker 1: run double the left and Cleveland's got a seven to
Speaker 1: two lead, and the big Man gets his biggest hit
Speaker 1: of the young campaign, a pitch that was up and
Speaker 1: in and somehow he pulled the hands in and still
Speaker 1: drove it to deep left over the head of Sewinsky
Speaker 1: and Cleveland as tonight, at least for twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: erased a lot of frustrations that built up in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: and then Gabriel Arrius made it back to back two baggers.
Speaker 1: The pitch swung on line, drive to left field near
Speaker 1: the line, Swinsky on the run and gets down the
Speaker 1: ase hit. He'll cut it off near the line, but
Speaker 1: two more runs score, throw out a second and a
Speaker 1: stand up double for Arius as Santana and Noel score.
Speaker 1: It's four more here in the seventh and Cleveland has
Speaker 1: blown it open, leading nine to two. Arius is second.
Speaker 1: You can hit tonight, second double of the year, ten
Speaker 1: rbies on the year, and that'll be all for the
Speaker 1: massil and product. Kyle Nicholas Brian Rochio added a sack
Speaker 1: fly in the seventh inning to make it a five
Speaker 1: run inning and a ten to two Guardians lead. But
Speaker 1: in the seventh Pittsburgh belt at a couple of home runs,
Speaker 1: cutting the lead to ten to five. Two more in
Speaker 1: the ninth made it ten to seven. But Emmanuel Classe
Speaker 1: came on in the ninth and he was trying to
Speaker 1: nail down another c clause one strake away. Here it
Speaker 1: comes sing NMS ballgame the Guardians when what becomes a
Speaker 1: white nutler. They led ten to two. They finish off
Speaker 1: The Pirates ten to seven, So it's start to the
Speaker 1: series here in Pittsburgh and the series continues on Saturday
Speaker 1: afternoon with a four h five first pitch, and the
Speaker 1: series continues on Sunday rap Up Sunday Easter Sunday with
Speaker 1: a one p thirty five start. Stay with us, We'll
Speaker 1: have more to come after this.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Guardians Weekly, Jim ros at House along
Speaker 1: with you from B and C Park in Pittsburgh where
Speaker 1: the Guardians are taking on the Pirates this weekend. And
Speaker 1: two of the keys offensively for Cleveland may be a
Speaker 1: surprise to some as it's been Gabrielarius and on Hell
Speaker 1: Martinez who have been red hot the last week or so,
Speaker 1: and we had a chance to catch up with both. First,
Speaker 1: Gabriel Arius that great start going both offensively and defensively,
Speaker 1: and we had a chance to visit with him along
Speaker 1: with translator Agi Rivera. Arius talked about what he believes
Speaker 1: has led to the strong start, and.
Speaker 4: The key has come down to matouk maturity and growing
Speaker 4: up a little bit and understanding more of the game
Speaker 4: and the preparation that I'm able to put before every
Speaker 4: single game.
Speaker 1: You mentioned preparation, and I know for you the off
Speaker 1: season is important. Explain what you did this offseason that
Speaker 1: may have been helpful before if spring training even began,
Speaker 1: and no.
Speaker 5: One of your Comnezuela Juano.
Speaker 4: Was a combination of different factors. The fact that you
Speaker 4: know what I was working in Triple A and then
Speaker 4: being able to execure it in Venezuela and winter ball
Speaker 4: because there's a really good lead to work on those stuffs.
Speaker 4: You know, I work, particularly in my pitch selection and
Speaker 4: having a good approach after every av So I feel
Speaker 4: it was really important for me to combine those and
Speaker 4: put it in practice, both in Venezuela and Triple A.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned Triple A. There's good hitting coaches here,
Speaker 1: but at Triple A there's one that always gets a
Speaker 1: lot of positive feedback and junior bit chances. What does
Speaker 1: he mean to you and how did he help you
Speaker 1: last summer when you needed it at.
Speaker 6: That level you comes in Miami.
Speaker 4: The key was for him how he was on top
Speaker 4: of me in terms of the whole follow up of
Speaker 4: every day. You know, there are a little moments where
Speaker 4: I feel uncomfortable. I wasn't enjoying what I was doing
Speaker 4: in terms of the adjustments and mechanical adjustments, and I
Speaker 4: wasn't feeling myself on the plate. But he was consistent
Speaker 4: enough to be staying with me to the whole process
Speaker 4: and I allowed me to be where I am now.
Speaker 4: So I feel the key how much involved he was
Speaker 4: with us in the process and how much he helped
Speaker 4: us to create the new version of a heater that
Speaker 4: I am today.
Speaker 1: All Right, not to bury the lead, but you're replacing
Speaker 1: one of the best second basement in baseball defensively, and
Speaker 1: on opening day here the home opener here, a couple
Speaker 1: of great plays. He made some really good plays so far,
Speaker 1: which we kind of knew that you were a good
Speaker 1: defender at short What is has his mindset been trying
Speaker 1: to take over that spot and maybe not be overwhelmed
Speaker 1: by by some of the things that the Vandre Jimenez
Speaker 1: had done over the years.
Speaker 5: But I'm your that's how you're not.
Speaker 4: It would be really hard to put the table estra
Speaker 4: pressure on my mind in terms of trying to replace
Speaker 4: with somebody. We knew that the quality of player that
Speaker 4: he meant as was and you know Platini in golgolog
Speaker 4: and all this accolades that he got. But for me
Speaker 4: is important. It's just the emphasis that I put on
Speaker 4: my preparation, how important it is to be focusing and
Speaker 4: preparing and what I know I can do in the field.
Speaker 4: And I think that's what I've been focusing on, basically
Speaker 4: understanding that I can be a good defensive player, and
Speaker 4: how can I prepare to be that player every day?
Speaker 1: And certainly a big plus. You one of the best
Speaker 1: throwing arms in baseball, and how long have you been
Speaker 1: able to just wing it with the best of them,
Speaker 1: And any advice for kids who are trying to build
Speaker 1: up their arm and be good infielders.
Speaker 4: So I feel as a kid, I used my arm
Speaker 4: as a weapon and many other environments other than baseball.
Speaker 4: You know, when I was playing as kids with my cousins,
Speaker 4: if they did something to me, I wanted to retaliate.
Speaker 4: Instead of trying trying to punch or something, I will
Speaker 4: just throw stones at them. So that's funny. Allows me
Speaker 4: to develop that strength in the early age. And and
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's been always natural to me. It's
Speaker 4: been always like that. But big part of what I've
Speaker 4: been mentioning in terms of preparation this year, I included
Speaker 4: some of that preparation to my arm, you know, doing
Speaker 4: specific drills and arm care. So I felt like it's
Speaker 4: even better now where what is to mean in the past,
Speaker 4: But what I can tell to kids is just you know,
Speaker 4: the importance of prepare prepared every aspart of your game.
Speaker 4: In this case, the arm is very important to do
Speaker 4: all the preparation and strengthening that you need, regardless of
Speaker 4: the conditions of the arm that you have. Like like
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 1: Gabby, thank you for the time. Appreciate it. Ogi, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's Gabrielarius with translation help from Augi Rovero and at Hell.
Speaker 1: Martinez also off to a great start since coming up
Speaker 1: about a week ago from the minor leagues a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks in Columbus to get his swing going, and
Speaker 1: when we caught up with him earlier this week, he
Speaker 1: talked about the keys to his quick start.
Speaker 5: Since I started the season in Columbus is like my
Speaker 5: off season, it was really good. I put a lot
Speaker 5: of work in the off season and just like take
Speaker 5: over to the season.
Speaker 1: And when you look back at spring training, I know,
Speaker 1: obviously you want to win a job and be on
Speaker 1: the club at the beginning, but what are some of
Speaker 1: the challenges that you had in the spring that caused
Speaker 1: you to start the year at Columbus.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just like nobody want to have about a
Speaker 5: string training, you know, But like he's so early in
Speaker 5: the year. I know, like the last year, I have
Speaker 5: like a great year in a great mountain of spring training,
Speaker 5: like I was doing great, but like the spring training
Speaker 5: don't usually goes well for me. So when they sent
Speaker 5: it back to Colombus. All that I was to do
Speaker 5: his say positive mentally, and I know at some point
Speaker 5: I was going to be back.
Speaker 1: And I know you mentioned Junior Bretantas in the past.
Speaker 1: What did he find that allowed you to turn things
Speaker 1: around at the play?
Speaker 5: No, he just helped me out to find my rhythm back.
Speaker 5: You know, like this is a really hardest wore, especially
Speaker 5: like hitting, you gotta try to just say as most
Speaker 5: consistems you can with your rhythm and screen trending. It
Speaker 5: was like it was not there. So he just helped
Speaker 5: me out to find my rhythm, my right approach and
Speaker 5: like get back to the to the big league. I
Speaker 5: really want to thank him because he's a guy.
Speaker 1: Defensively, you're still very young as an outfielder, but center field,
Speaker 1: you made some great plays over the weekend back home.
Speaker 1: What's been the key out there that's allowed you to
Speaker 1: have good success and seemingly be able to play the
Speaker 1: position without missing a beat?
Speaker 5: How fun now? It is like a lot of a
Speaker 5: lot of work in the off season. Two, Like I
Speaker 5: got a great coaches in the off season that helped
Speaker 5: me out, like prepared to play in the outfield and
Speaker 5: back when I came to the spring training. It like
Speaker 5: a lot of work here with a coach of at
Speaker 5: that's the key.
Speaker 1: Hell, thanks for coming, bye, appreciate it. Thank you. That's
Speaker 1: on Hell Martinez, who really has swung the bat well
Speaker 1: and played good defense too. For the Guardian, stay with
Speaker 1: us when we come back. We'll visit with veteran reliever
Speaker 1: Paul Seawald. That's next the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network.
Speaker 1: Seawalt's ready. The bitch swang and a miss. He struck
Speaker 1: him out with a ninety mile an hour fastball. And
Speaker 1: when you ask Paul Seawald, why do you get more
Speaker 1: than a strikeout an enemy throwing in the low nineties,
Speaker 1: it's because of his arm angle. He's got kind of
Speaker 1: that low three quarter slot. And he said, my fastball right,
Speaker 1: and it's almost an optical allusion to the hitter. Here's
Speaker 1: his pitch swaying and a miss. Strike three got him
Speaker 1: with the high fastball and on three pitches, Seawald makes
Speaker 1: quick work of Vargas. The one too swung on popped
Speaker 1: him up. Third baseman Jose Ramirez right near the bag
Speaker 1: makes the catch. Paul Seawald cruises through the seven. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to p and C Park in Pittsburgh, where the
Speaker 1: Guardians have taken the first game of this three game
Speaker 1: weekend series against the Pirates. That was on Friday night,
Speaker 1: and a big one today I'll face Paul Skeens, one
Speaker 1: of the best pitchers in the game today and last
Speaker 1: year's Rookie of the Year. He's going for Pittsburgh with
Speaker 1: a four h five start on Saturday. Paul Seawald has
Speaker 1: been a nice addition to the Guardian's bullpen as the
Speaker 1: veteran who has closed games on a regular basis for
Speaker 1: both Seattle and Arizona adds that experience, and when we
Speaker 1: caught up with them earlier this week, he said, you
Speaker 1: never really know what to expect when joining a new club,
Speaker 1: but he couldn't imagine a better fit than what he's
Speaker 1: had here in Cleveland so far.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's hard not to fit in with
Speaker 6: this group. They have a great bunch of guys, great
Speaker 6: bunch of coaches. Front off, everyone in the staff has
Speaker 6: been fantastic since I got here, so that made that
Speaker 6: made that transition very easy. And you know, the best
Speaker 6: bullpen in baseball. That's why I kind of wanted to
Speaker 6: come here this offseason and and you know, I just
Speaker 6: wanted to see if you know, they would rub off
Speaker 6: on me.
Speaker 1: And it's it's been. It's been good so far in
Speaker 1: the first three weeks. You mentioned that best bullpen in
Speaker 1: baseball year ago. Bullpens can be volatile. It's hard to
Speaker 1: back that up, but it almost seems like it's better
Speaker 1: so far this year. And what are you seeing out
Speaker 1: there that that maybe a thought it was and and
Speaker 1: now that you're around.
Speaker 6: It, Yeah, inconsistent bullpens can be volatile. If you have
Speaker 6: a chunk of your bullpen that just are really good pitchers,
Speaker 6: they tend not to be quite as volatile. We're talking
Speaker 6: about guys that really just could be just dominant relievers. Right,
Speaker 6: Claus has done this for five years now. You know,
Speaker 6: I've been in this league a long time. If you
Speaker 6: get enough guys who've done it, then it's not necessarily
Speaker 6: as volatile as people think it can be. So it
Speaker 6: just really just you just want to go out there
Speaker 6: and continue to do what they did really well last year,
Speaker 6: which just throw really quality strikes with really quality stuff
Speaker 6: and that's gonna work.
Speaker 1: That's not a volatile thing. And your quality stuff looks
Speaker 1: a little bit different than than maybe some of the others.
Speaker 1: And how important can that be for a bullpen to
Speaker 1: have some different looks out there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it gives I think it just gives
Speaker 6: voter a lot of options. You know, you can't pitch
Speaker 6: the same three guys in every game. We would love
Speaker 6: to Kate to have Kate Smith throw every inning of
Speaker 6: every game, but it's not realistic. So you have to
Speaker 6: figure out, well, where does Pulse will match up, where
Speaker 6: does Tim Herron match up, and kind of you know,
Speaker 6: maybe give Kate a knight off every once in a
Speaker 6: while to make sure that you can get you can
Speaker 6: still get outs based off of whatever you know angles
Speaker 6: we have coming out of the bullpen.
Speaker 1: Have you been in the league long enough and have
Speaker 1: enough of a track record where if a pitcher's going
Speaker 1: well or maybe not going well, that you feel it
Speaker 1: that you can help someone along or be that sounding
Speaker 1: board for them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that was part of part of what
Speaker 6: they brought me in to do. We have a lot
Speaker 6: of young guys that you know, are looking at their
Speaker 6: first season after a long postseason. I think that's something
Speaker 6: that everyone needs to learn and and you know, I
Speaker 6: think I'm just they've been pitching so well, they haven't
Speaker 6: really needed any you know, mental guidance. But I'm just
Speaker 6: here to be, you know, a little bit of a
Speaker 6: sounding board and kind of understand. You know, I've been
Speaker 6: in every role in the bullpen. I've been, you know,
Speaker 6: the guy who gets optioned twenty five times in a season.
Speaker 6: I've been the guy who's a long reliever. I've been
Speaker 6: the guy who sets up. I've been the closer. I
Speaker 6: kind of know, you know, all the goods and all
Speaker 6: the bads through through these nine seasons. So I just
Speaker 6: want to help, you know, give some people some guidance
Speaker 6: just on how to make sure that they're ready, how
Speaker 6: to bounce back, that.
Speaker 1: Sort of think policy. While joining US Guardians Reliever, you
Speaker 1: mentioned health and how important that is, and you went
Speaker 1: through it last year where you had some hiccups. What
Speaker 1: did anything different this year that that you're trying to
Speaker 1: focus on that can keep you good to go from
Speaker 1: start to finish.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the oblique and the neck were really
Speaker 6: just it was just unfortunate luck more than anything. From
Speaker 6: everything I've talked to doctors, I've talked to trainers, it
Speaker 6: wasn't necessarily my routine, I you know, I'm as dedicated
Speaker 6: as anybody to making sure that I'm here early and
Speaker 6: doing a ton of body work to make sure that
Speaker 6: I'm ready for the game. And you know, this game,
Speaker 6: you just move your body as fast as you can
Speaker 6: trying to swing a bat, throw a pitch. Sometimes you're
Speaker 6: gonna hurt yourself. So that was the first time I've
Speaker 6: ever been injured. It killed me to just not be
Speaker 6: available that just it just didn't feel right. So just
Speaker 6: doing everything I can, I think, maybe more body conscious,
Speaker 6: just being aware of everything and kind of making sure
Speaker 6: that I'm on top of everything. If I feel anything,
Speaker 6: let's just you know, attack it for the next week
Speaker 6: and make sure that we get rid of it. So
Speaker 6: just I just want to go out there and pitch
Speaker 6: as many games as I can and be as healthy
Speaker 6: as I can for one to sixty two, and that's
Speaker 6: my best way to help the team.
Speaker 1: You've been to Cleveland with the opposition. You just spent
Speaker 1: a home stand there as a member of the Cleveland Guardians.
Speaker 1: What do you learn about the city and maybe about
Speaker 1: the fans through that first home stand, especially opening day
Speaker 1: on the home opener.
Speaker 6: Now, the home opener is great, I've had nothing but
Speaker 6: great interactions. When I come to Progressive Field, I've you know,
Speaker 6: I've come early, I've come in the middle, I've come
Speaker 6: in the late, and uh, you know, the fans seem
Speaker 6: to seem to be very very into the team, very
Speaker 6: you know, anti opponent, which I enjoy, and and just
Speaker 6: trying to make sure that they are. They're cheering on
Speaker 6: the Guardian. So I've had nothing but good experience as
Speaker 6: a visitor as well, and and I appreciate not being
Speaker 6: in the top open, just getting uh, just getting talked
Speaker 6: through the whole game. I feel a lot better down
Speaker 6: down there in the dungeon that we have, so can't
Speaker 6: wait for it to warm up. That'll make Cleaveland a
Speaker 6: lot better once it starts to warm up. But we're
Speaker 6: good so far.
Speaker 1: And let's talk about that. Some some cold days in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: some cold days in Baltimore. How are the bullpens? And
Speaker 1: what do you guys do to to make sure that
Speaker 1: you can stay warm and still be able to perform
Speaker 1: when you get that call?
Speaker 6: Well at home, you know they have a great room
Speaker 6: for us. You know that we have a heater, and
Speaker 6: we you know, you're kind of no one's more than
Speaker 6: three feet away from the heater at home, So it
Speaker 6: really helps in that in that that you know, staying warm,
Speaker 6: you kind of do your exercise, you throw your weight
Speaker 6: of balls, you kind of stay warm, you get your jackets.
Speaker 1: It's not a big deal.
Speaker 6: I'll kind of you know, you go up there to
Speaker 6: warm up and you don't. You're not necessarily feeling that cold.
Speaker 6: So it was a pretty good situation at home, which
Speaker 6: is nice. The road is not nearly as generous. So,
Speaker 6: like I said, I'm not sure that heaters worked yesterday
Speaker 6: in the bullpen and in Baltimore, so we'll we'll just
Speaker 6: have to try and get a little warmer weather, especially
Speaker 6: in Pittsburgh and the team starting to get a crank in.
Speaker 1: And it's so early yet, but what are you seeing
Speaker 1: good signs outside of even the bullpen that has you
Speaker 1: excited about what could be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't want to put anything, put too much
Speaker 6: emphasis on anything in a small sample size like a
Speaker 6: nine game road trip or even a six game homestand
Speaker 6: but you just want to see guys take you know,
Speaker 6: quality of bats, try and walk, try and drive pitch
Speaker 6: counts up, just trying to make sure that they get
Speaker 6: their timing, like you know, Jose is one of the
Speaker 6: best players in the world, and he hasn't even really
Speaker 6: you know, done his thing other than that one special
Speaker 6: game in Anaheim. And we have a pretty good record.
Speaker 6: That's pretty good. You know, that's a pretty good thing
Speaker 6: to hang our hat on that. You know, he's a
Speaker 6: guy who can carry a team for a month, two months, like,
Speaker 6: just by himself.
Speaker 1: So that gives us a lot of confidence. Oh, it'll
Speaker 1: happen at some point that he's done his draft record. Paul,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot for coming. I appreciate it absolutely, thanks
Speaker 1: for having me. Had to relief pitcher Paul Seewald, who's
Speaker 1: done some nice work out of that Guardian's bullpen so
Speaker 1: far this season. One of the pitching coaches that he
Speaker 1: works with is assistant pitching coach Joe Torres. Joe has
Speaker 1: been added for a couple of seasons now helping out
Speaker 1: on the pitching front, and he explains what his role
Speaker 1: looks like as part of Carl Willis's expanded staff this season.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean a lot of it. I mean, like
Speaker 2: you said, support the best way I can support all
Speaker 2: of our coaches and our players. So whether that's you know,
Speaker 2: a delivery, you know, aspect if that's a something in
Speaker 2: the data, anything with their pitch profiles. I mean, it
Speaker 2: could be really anything. It's vast and it's general and vague,
Speaker 2: I guess. But I'm trying to support any way I
Speaker 2: can to the players. And during the games it's just
Speaker 2: a little checkpoints if we see something off right, and
Speaker 2: you know, keeping them focused back to get back in
Speaker 2: the zone.
Speaker 1: Is more of your heavy lifting pre game and throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the week, working with different pitchers and
Speaker 1: the various scouting meetings thing like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean it's important for me to know
Speaker 2: our guys inside and out right and and and so
Speaker 2: the work that we do between starts is huge, right,
Speaker 2: and being able to identify what we need to do
Speaker 2: for themselves to be at their strengths, but then also
Speaker 2: for them to go and compete in their next start.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there's a lot of heavy lifting in between
Speaker 2: starts and the practice pregame, and then during game it's
Speaker 2: just more little touch ups and then supporting Carl and
Speaker 2: the staff with any bits of information that might be
Speaker 2: you know, you know, falling through the cracks. I guess.
Speaker 1: Joe Torres joining us, he's the Guardian's assistant pitching coach,
Speaker 1: coaching and teaching. Uh, no matter whether you're a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame player or someone who maybe hasn't even played
Speaker 1: pro ball, was at the college level something like that.
Speaker 1: It seems like teaching and getting points across in a
Speaker 1: in a great way as an art form almost And
Speaker 1: how have you developed that during your time in this organization,
Speaker 1: both in the minor leagues and now at the major
Speaker 1: league level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, man, I think they're one of the same,
Speaker 2: coaching and teaching and now you see at the major
Speaker 2: league level, and I think across the league that the
Speaker 2: players are getting younger and younger, right, So there's still
Speaker 2: a lot of development happening at that major league level.
Speaker 2: And it's something that we kind of prode ourselves on
Speaker 2: here and it's something that the organization provides us great
Speaker 2: resources to us where it's not just we're looking at deliveries,
Speaker 2: we're looking at bout mechanics. Where mean, we're working at
Speaker 2: our craft as coaches, as teachers. So we have a
Speaker 2: lot of great support systems within the organization and resources
Speaker 2: that we use. But it's just a constant learning, right,
Speaker 2: It's just constantly always asking questions and being open and
Speaker 2: trying to find ways to get better, in ways to
Speaker 2: connect with players, because that's really what it is, being
Speaker 2: able to connect with them and listen to them first
Speaker 2: and foremost.
Speaker 1: And for a perspective as a player, my goodness, you
Speaker 1: went through it all as a professional player after being
Speaker 1: drafted very high by the Angels. How has that come
Speaker 1: into play for you in terms of knowing or at
Speaker 1: least having an idea of what some of these guys
Speaker 1: are going through just to get here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to think it helps. I mean I
Speaker 2: think for me it was like the career didn't go
Speaker 2: and the path that I would you know, would have
Speaker 2: hoped for. But I think that career is what really
Speaker 2: set me up to to help these players out now
Speaker 2: and to be a coach. And again, like I said earlier,
Speaker 2: is just is being there to listen because it's the
Speaker 2: first thing that guys. Guys will tell you what's on
Speaker 2: their mind. They'll tell you what direction we need to
Speaker 2: take them and help them with if we just listen
Speaker 2: to them. And you know, I feel like that's something
Speaker 2: that you know, I kind of think back in my
Speaker 2: career's like man, if maybe maybe if I spoke up
Speaker 2: more maybe somebody heard me. It's a different way there,
Speaker 2: would you know, be something I could do to have
Speaker 2: helped me. But you know, that's why I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to be here and be a sounding board and listen
Speaker 2: to these guys and do whatever I can and kind
Speaker 2: of help them out.
Speaker 1: And the group that you're in personality wise, it seems
Speaker 1: like yourself, Carl Willis and Brad Goldberg couldn't be more
Speaker 1: different from the outside. But but is that what makes
Speaker 1: it work and and those different personalities coming together to
Speaker 1: really help the staff as a whole.
Speaker 2: I think so, right, we all need balance in our lives, right,
Speaker 2: Like I mean, so, I think we work really well together.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, Carl is the best of what he does,
Speaker 2: and we are so grateful to have him around every
Speaker 2: single day. His experience and just but it's the human
Speaker 2: being that he is the first and foremost, so you know,
Speaker 2: we're so grateful to have him. And you know, Beg
Speaker 2: and I work really well together in tandem, have great conversations,
Speaker 2: bouncing things off each other and trying to again how
Speaker 2: can we impact players and you know, do the best
Speaker 2: we can for this team and this organization.
Speaker 1: It's really rolling well on this home stand, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: But for a long time it's been going well. Joe,
Speaker 1: thanks after the time, appreciate.
Speaker 2: It all right, Thank you, Rosie.
Speaker 1: That's Joe Torres, a Guardian's assistant pitching coach, doing some
Speaker 1: real nice work along with Brad Goldberg and pitching coach
Speaker 1: Carl Willis as well. Stay with us when we come back.
Speaker 1: It's a farm report with Steven Oster, the vice president
Speaker 1: of player Development. We'll talk single a Lynchburg next.
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Speaker 1: He delivers pit swung un banged in the center, another
Speaker 1: base hit Garcia, Big Tourney's hustling to third, Martinez throwing
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Speaker 1: Oh what a throw. Bye on Hell Martinez, a perfect
Speaker 1: strike on the fly and Mike cal Garcia, maybe trying
Speaker 1: to get the Royals going, maybe being a little bit
Speaker 1: too aggressive, but trying to make things happen, is gunned
Speaker 1: down trying to go first to third on a single
Speaker 1: to center by Bobby Witt Junior. And you can't make
Speaker 1: a better throw than on Hell Martine's just made. Now
Speaker 1: the one too, swung and banged in the whole right field.
Speaker 1: A third hit for on Hell Martinez. He may tell
Speaker 1: the folks in the apartment complex he was living in
Speaker 1: in Columbus, you can rent that baby out somebody else.
Speaker 1: No way, he's going back anytime soon. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: Guardians Weekly. It's our final segment from Pittsburgh this week,
Speaker 1: and we check in on single eight Lynchburg is part
Speaker 1: of our Farm Report with Vice President Development Stephen Osterer,
Speaker 1: and there's a couple of eighteen year olds in Lynchburg
Speaker 1: this year and Luis morejo and well being Francisca and
Speaker 1: Osty talks about some of the challenges facing players at
Speaker 1: that young of an age in a full season league.
Speaker 8: I mean, they're tremendous players, first and foremost. They both
Speaker 8: had a little bit of a taste of it last year,
Speaker 8: and you know, we'd never want to send a guy
Speaker 8: out where they're going to fail. We want them to
Speaker 8: face adversity and be challenged. These guys will be challenged
Speaker 8: a little bit that level over the course of the year,
Speaker 8: but they're incredibly talented players. So you know, as any
Speaker 8: young players they get exposure to a full season out
Speaker 8: in affiliate, there's gonna be a lot of learning and
Speaker 8: self awareness that you know, they'll try to understand a
Speaker 8: little bit more about what it takes to be a professional.
Speaker 8: But skill sets are off the charts pitching wise. Braylen
Speaker 8: Dody intriguing sounds like another young guy, but maybe.
Speaker 1: Advanced, very advanced.
Speaker 8: So he was a thirty sixth overall pick last year
Speaker 8: for US high school kid wright who can sit comfortably
Speaker 8: in the mid nineties. I think the thing that stick
Speaker 8: out the most to us was his feel for his delivery,
Speaker 8: feel for his body, feel for the pitches out of hand,
Speaker 8: and his ability to create really big shapes. So he
Speaker 8: came to us way advanced for a nineteen year old
Speaker 8: relative to a lot of guys that we've had have
Speaker 8: had a lot of success long term. Really excited to
Speaker 8: continue to refine things and build out the routines and
Speaker 8: continue to build out the vision of what he could become.
Speaker 8: But he's starting from a really high level of control
Speaker 8: and self awareness.
Speaker 1: When you look at Jacob Zibn, a twenty two drafted
Speaker 1: sometimes it takes a little while for guys to get
Speaker 1: going what have been some of his challenges, But why
Speaker 1: is he ready now to tackle a full season club.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so twenty two pick who was really young when
Speaker 8: we drafted him and unfortunately suffered some elp er injuries
Speaker 8: over the last few years that limited him his ability
Speaker 8: to get out and pitch. So he's come in in
Speaker 8: a really good spot physically and from a health standpoint
Speaker 8: and mentally, and getting him out to an affiliate will
Speaker 8: be really exciting for us. Obviously, when you're a young
Speaker 8: player and you haven't had the opportunity, that can be
Speaker 8: really challenging to stay focused and motivated, and it's a
Speaker 8: struggle when you're eighteen or nineteen years old. So getting
Speaker 8: Jacob back out there and seeing him compete will be
Speaker 8: a lot of fun for a lot of people in
Speaker 8: this organization. But when he's healthy, he's a mid nineties
Speaker 8: arm with you have some good execution and ability to
Speaker 8: kind of move the ball around. So we're thrilled that
Speaker 8: he can get back out there.
Speaker 1: And you have a couple of kids who are drafted
Speaker 1: last year who may eventually get to Lynchburg maybe soon,
Speaker 1: who knows, but they're going to start out in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Chase Mopley and Joey Oki. How are you handling them
Speaker 1: and why are you handling him in this way based
Speaker 1: on their skill set?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean these two guys nineteen year olds, very
Speaker 8: talented and throw exceptionally hard. When you have that combination,
Speaker 8: and you're trying to just progress them at an appropriate
Speaker 8: level for their own development of the things that they
Speaker 8: need to do to stay healthy and consistent over time.
Speaker 8: In both of these guys cases, I mean, they came
Speaker 8: in ready to go, but we want to make sure
Speaker 8: that we progress them slowly in an environment that we
Speaker 8: can control. A little bit to ensure that not only
Speaker 8: are they making progress, but they're healthy. So in both
Speaker 8: of these guys's cases, starting in the ACL and continue
Speaker 8: to build out some of the volume and the workloads
Speaker 8: so that when they are capable and ready to go
Speaker 8: out to an affiliate, they're able to thrive and not
Speaker 8: just try to survive week to week. Incredibly excited both
Speaker 8: those guys, the two draft picks from last year. You know,
Speaker 8: on top of Doughty, they've got a really bright futures
Speaker 8: and when you throw really hard. We're going to take
Speaker 8: a little bit of a little bit of time with.
Speaker 1: Them and when you look at if they do get
Speaker 1: to Lynchburg and some of the other guys we talked
Speaker 1: about there. Jordan Smith is the manager, and you alluded
Speaker 1: to some of the challenges full season first time I'm
Speaker 1: for a young player, why is he the ideal manager
Speaker 1: to be there and lead them through that.
Speaker 8: He's been there and he's been around it. He understands
Speaker 8: what that means to be that player. And Jordan's done
Speaker 8: a really good job over the last few years managing
Speaker 8: the relationships and gaining the trust and guiding those players
Speaker 8: to the things that they need to do. To be successful,
Speaker 8: not in the moment, but over the long term. So
Speaker 8: Jordan again, similar to all of our managers, we're really
Speaker 8: lucky that we have these guys, and we're really lucky
Speaker 8: that they are able to share from and learn have
Speaker 8: the players learn from their experiences.
Speaker 1: That is Stephen Osterer, the vice president of Player Development,
Speaker 1: bringing us up to date on single A Lynchberg. And
Speaker 1: as we move forward, now that takes care of our
Speaker 1: season previews for all of the minor league clubs, will
Speaker 1: start to get some updates on the seasons that are
Speaker 1: happening as we speak, and there are some good ones
Speaker 1: going at all levels of the Guardiance Minor League system.
Speaker 1: That's going to do it for our show this week.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much as always to Brian Motse for all
Speaker 1: of his help. Until next week when we join you
Speaker 1: from back home in downtown Cleveland. This is Jim rosen
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