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Speaker 2: Hi everyone, Welcome to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rose and Auce
Speaker 2: along with you from downtown Cleveland and Progressive Field. Great
Speaker 2: to be home for a show for the first time
Speaker 2: in a little while. Good show lined up for you today.
Speaker 2: As coming up a little bit later on in the program,
Speaker 2: Stephen Osterer, the vice president of Player Development, will have
Speaker 2: a full farm report focusing in on TRIPAA Columbus. This week.
Speaker 2: We'll also hear from Dodgers manager and former Cleveland Indian
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts with some good memories of his time here
Speaker 2: in Cleveland. We'll visit with NASCAR driver Ty Dillan who
Speaker 2: has a Cleveland connection, and also here from Jose Ramirez
Speaker 2: and the inspirational story of pitcher nick Enright. But first,
Speaker 2: our weekend review, and it begins well with a series
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers that was not going well the first
Speaker 2: two nights, the Dodgers heavy winners seven to two and
Speaker 2: nine to five. The final scores Dodger victories, Otani hitting
Speaker 2: home runs in each game and just too much for
Speaker 2: the Guardians to handle until Wednesday. That's when Cleveland jumped
Speaker 2: on top of the first inning a double from on
Speaker 2: Hell Martinez brought Jose Ramirez to the plate, sitting on
Speaker 2: a twenty game hit streak and looking to extend it.
Speaker 1: Michael Brantley had a twenty two game hitting streak in
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, and nobody has had a twenty game hit
Speaker 1: streak since that time until Jose here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: He drives one the left down the line, fair ball,
Speaker 1: base it into the corner. He's on his way a
Speaker 1: second in the score. Martina's feet first slide tag not
Speaker 1: in time. Rojas thought he got the tag on him.
Speaker 1: Won nothing Cleveland. Jose Ramirez now with a twenty one
Speaker 1: game hitting streak.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, on the mound for the Guardians, who was kolbe
Speaker 2: Allard getting the spots start and he answered the call down.
Speaker 1: The wind in the O two swung broken bad roller
Speaker 1: up the middle to his right, Banken Sneenan throws across
Speaker 1: the body got him. Bat went as far as the
Speaker 1: baseball and Kobe Aller dazzling through three, but that high
Speaker 1: power Dodgers offense got it going with two runs in
Speaker 1: the fourth, another in the sixth, and one more in
Speaker 1: the seventh and made it a four to one LA
Speaker 1: lead the Guardians, though we'll get one of those runs back.
Speaker 1: In the bottom half of the seventh, Jose Ramirez, with
Speaker 1: a two out double, brought Carlos Santana to the plate.
Speaker 1: The high hold by Trevino and the delivery swung on
Speaker 1: a rocket to right base it near the line. A
Speaker 1: sliding cutoff by Hernandez in front of the warning track
Speaker 1: holds Santana to a single, but Ramirez will score and
Speaker 1: the Guardians won. Two punch of Ramirez and Santana combining
Speaker 1: for six hits, Santana with his twenty eighth RBI and
Speaker 1: Cleveland now trailing at four to two.
Speaker 2: It was still four to two in the eighth thenning
Speaker 2: when the Guardian's got something going. A pair of singles
Speaker 2: from John Kenzie, Noel and Will Wilson followed by a
Speaker 2: walk to Daniel Steamen that loaded the bases for Nolan Jones.
Speaker 1: Now the one two swung on grumble in the whole
Speaker 1: basin in the left, Noel scores, Wilson coming around third,
Speaker 1: he will score.
Speaker 3: We are tied at four.
Speaker 1: Nolan Jones a three hit game. He just punched it
Speaker 1: through the left side of the infield and the fifth
Speaker 1: blown saved for Tanner Scott and his day is done.
Speaker 2: And then after a pitching change for the Dodgers, on
Speaker 2: Hell Martinez stepped in with two men on banning right
Speaker 2: handed on Neil Martinez pants three forty six, left handed
Speaker 2: two forty five. He's batting right handed.
Speaker 3: The pitch swung on trill deep what field A way back, go,
Speaker 3: on Helm Martinez.
Speaker 1: They will take a joyous stroll around the basis. A
Speaker 1: three run bullet to the bleachers and left, and the
Speaker 1: Guardians leaded seven to four on a five run.
Speaker 2: Eighth inning, and in the ninth the annual Classe was
Speaker 2: on for the save on field a bit toward right
Speaker 2: for Hernandez. Class as ready, here it.
Speaker 1: Comes, swinging in the best ball game, A wicked slider
Speaker 1: away Class A wipees on Hernandez and one of the
Speaker 1: bigger wins of the season for Cleveland five in the
Speaker 1: eighth and they stun the Dodger seven to four.
Speaker 2: Off Day Thursday for the Guardians, and then Friday, No,
Speaker 2: the Angels were too much to handle in a four
Speaker 2: to one Los Angeles win at your weekend review. Stay
Speaker 2: with us when we come back. We'll visit with Pose Ramirez.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Guardians Weekly, Jim Rosenhouse along with you
Speaker 2: from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland, where the Guardians are
Speaker 2: taking on the Angels this weekend. One of the hot
Speaker 2: hitters for Cleveland is it any surprise that Jose Ramirez
Speaker 2: he has had a tremendously hot stretch and we had
Speaker 2: a chance to catch up with him about a week
Speaker 2: ago with translator Augi Rivero, and he talked about some
Speaker 2: of the keys to getting on a roll like he
Speaker 2: is right now.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, my hon.
Speaker 6: I mean that those are things that you don't have
Speaker 6: control over. I feel like you always have to have
Speaker 6: the same control this in preparation over you routines and
Speaker 6: your preparation, and then the results sometimes come with you.
Speaker 6: So this time we're lucky that we're getting the results
Speaker 6: that we want. But that's something you cannot control.
Speaker 2: And as the years go by, obviously other teams they
Speaker 2: focus on you and they don't pitch you the same.
Speaker 2: How do you manage to still get good pitches to
Speaker 2: hit and do damage?
Speaker 6: It was the same Also the adjustment that they make.
Speaker 6: I try to make the same adjustment as well, And
Speaker 6: it comes down to the focus, the focus that I
Speaker 6: see the warehold they're attacking for me, also being able
Speaker 6: to put a good trend in that different type of
Speaker 6: way they attack me.
Speaker 2: Is it hard to stay patient in spots like that?
Speaker 6: YEFF think it's difficult. That's a real difficulty. Always you're
Speaker 6: trying to find the way the pitches are again to
Speaker 6: do damage. You know they're not going to come with
Speaker 6: the fast fall middle and that I.
Speaker 3: Like to hit.
Speaker 6: But that's that's part of the challeng Just get to
Speaker 6: find a good pitch and be able to execute it.
Speaker 6: And that's part of the again because they don't want
Speaker 6: to find ways, but also I have to find ways
Speaker 6: how to create some damage.
Speaker 2: Jose Ramirez joining us and OSEI, we wanted to have
Speaker 2: you on to talk about a milestone that you reached,
Speaker 2: and there's so many that have been coming in recent years,
Speaker 2: but the two hundred and fifty stolen bases, two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty home runs. You stole your two hundred and
Speaker 2: fiftieth base a little while back. Did you know what
Speaker 2: was coming in and what did it mean to you
Speaker 2: when when you started to hear how rare that is
Speaker 2: in this game.
Speaker 6: So in Bore, you always keep trackling with things, even
Speaker 6: though you don't put the most important it, but it's
Speaker 6: really important. You know, it's a difficult thing to achieve
Speaker 6: and a very happy we're able to do it, and
Speaker 6: most importantly thanking God for keeping me healthy. For being
Speaker 6: able to achieve thus, because for me, the most important
Speaker 6: part is being able to play and help the team win.
Speaker 6: And even though we achieved that in significant, the most
Speaker 6: important part for me continues to try to win games.
Speaker 2: And you do it with one team and only three
Speaker 2: others Robin Ye, Craig Bihio, Derek Jeter the only others
Speaker 2: who now Jose Ramirez who did it with the one team.
Speaker 2: How important is it that you've done it with Cleveland
Speaker 2: and only Cleveland?
Speaker 7: Impul, Dante Impul.
Speaker 6: That's want to be the dream of mine. Try to
Speaker 6: do it with our organization and you know, you never
Speaker 6: know when, and you want to accomplish it, and to
Speaker 6: tell the truth, doing I's going to do it? I
Speaker 6: don't know, but that's a goal that I had and
Speaker 6: luckily we did it. And and the big fortune for
Speaker 6: me is that it's we one team. So thanking God
Speaker 6: that allowed me to be here and hoping and hoping
Speaker 6: as well that I can continue to finish those those
Speaker 6: careers and those goals here.
Speaker 2: And you did it in a win and poor part
Speaker 2: of the game winning rally. The reaction of your teammates,
Speaker 2: what did that mean to you? Just seeing some of
Speaker 2: the looks on their faces and reactions after the game.
Speaker 7: Impul down then pull done.
Speaker 6: It was very important, berry rewarding to get there. There
Speaker 6: the feedback and how they were happy for me and
Speaker 6: for me that was the most important to seeing them
Speaker 6: happy and seeing the team happy. And I break when
Speaker 6: I have one of the best teammates in the league,
Speaker 6: and for me, he's very exciting too. And from for
Speaker 6: now on, just keep going forward and trying to continue
Speaker 6: winning games.
Speaker 2: It was a great day in the season, full of them. Hosey,
Speaker 2: thanks for coming by. I appreciate it. Thank you, I'll
Speaker 2: get thank you.
Speaker 7: Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: That's Jose Ramirez, who eventually extended his hitting streak to
Speaker 2: twenty one games before it ended in Friday night's game
Speaker 2: against Los Angeles. Well. Nick Enright is a young pitcher
Speaker 2: who has called up to the Major league so over
Speaker 2: the weekend in Detroit and for en Right making his
Speaker 2: debut that's special for any young pitcher, and he did
Speaker 2: so Sunday in Detroit. But for en Right, he has
Speaker 2: battled cancer since twenty twenty two. It has caused him
Speaker 2: to put his career on hold for certain time periods,
Speaker 2: but he has still managed to work his way up
Speaker 2: through the Guardian's pharmacistem and finally had that chance to
Speaker 2: pitch in the big leagues last Sunday in Detroit, and
Speaker 2: wouldn't you know it, he got through two scoreless innings
Speaker 2: and then after another inning against the Dodgers. He was
Speaker 2: optioned back to TRIPAA earlier this week, but we caught
Speaker 2: up with him after that debut game on Sunday in Detroit,
Speaker 2: and he talked about how much it meant to be
Speaker 2: able to pitch in the major leagues after going through
Speaker 2: such a major health battle.
Speaker 7: It was incredible, you know, especially right when I was diagnosed.
Speaker 7: There was a lot of doubts that a daylight today
Speaker 7: would have ever come. And there was a lot of
Speaker 7: time in the beginning in the middle where we're wondering
Speaker 7: is all this worth it? Am I doing the right thing?
Speaker 7: And so being able to be out there on that mound,
Speaker 7: and especially when I got that third out in the
Speaker 7: second inning, being able to walk off the mountain and
Speaker 7: see my wife, see my family in the stands, that
Speaker 7: moment is you know, I can't even put into words
Speaker 7: how special that was. It made all of the grueling
Speaker 7: hours that I've gone through these last couple of years
Speaker 7: all the more worth it.
Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting you come up and to
Speaker 2: pitch the bottom of the seventh and on a Sunday,
Speaker 2: a lot of ballparks play God Bless America, so there's
Speaker 2: a delay for that picture. Who comes in at that time,
Speaker 2: and that was you making your major league debut. Was
Speaker 2: that helpful in any way for you? And can you
Speaker 2: describe what it was like coming in from the pen
Speaker 2: at that point?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, it was really helpful. So I got there, the
Speaker 7: umpire did the hand check, and then we both stood
Speaker 7: there and looked at the American flag while the God
Speaker 7: Bless America was playing. And for me, it gave me
Speaker 7: some time to reflect on my journey, everything that's happened
Speaker 7: these last couple of years, to be thankful that I
Speaker 7: am where my feed are, everything that's happened, and it
Speaker 7: was just it gave me some time to just reflect.
Speaker 7: And then when the song finished, it was like, Okay,
Speaker 7: now it's time to just go play baseball. Everything that's
Speaker 7: happened these last couple of years, everything I've gone through,
Speaker 7: it made being there just all the more worth it.
Speaker 2: And you were rattling off some names that you've come
Speaker 2: up in this organization with who are here now with
Speaker 2: the Guardians, tell us who's been close with you way
Speaker 2: back when before you even got here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean me and Kate Smith are very close.
Speaker 7: Tim Herron, Joey Cantillo. I've thrown to bow for what
Speaker 7: feels like my whole career here, you know, Will Brennan,
Speaker 7: Logan Allen. I mean everywhere I look at guys that
Speaker 7: I've played with, and again that made it feel all
Speaker 7: the more special because at the same time, those are
Speaker 7: all guys who reached out to me when I was
Speaker 7: getting diagnosed and going through that, and those are guys
Speaker 7: I leaned on, and those are guys who were around
Speaker 7: me in the twenty twenty three season when I was
Speaker 7: in Columbus and I really wasn't myself. I was backpedaling
Speaker 7: away from everything that had happened those couple of months,
Speaker 7: and all those guys were there and supportive of me
Speaker 7: and not just being there for me as a player,
Speaker 7: but being there for me as a person. And so
Speaker 7: seeing all those guys knowing that they have my back
Speaker 7: then and have my back now was it was really special.
Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting you said you still have
Speaker 2: four treatments left and you scheduled those for November. How
Speaker 2: come I would want.
Speaker 7: Like nothing more than to be a part of a great,
Speaker 7: deep Guardians postseason run, that's for sure. And so so yeah,
Speaker 7: so I'd love more than anything to be a part
Speaker 7: of this club. You know. I was actually able to
Speaker 7: be in Cleveland during the playoff ern last year, and
Speaker 7: so my wife and I were in the stands for
Speaker 7: some of those games, which was awesome to experience. But
Speaker 7: I'd love more than anything to have those truments be
Speaker 7: very deep into November.
Speaker 2: Good planning on your part. You wear number fifty nine,
Speaker 2: and it sounds like that's not a coincidence. And for
Speaker 2: fans who follow this team for a long time, that's
Speaker 2: a special number. Tell us the significance to you.
Speaker 7: So yeah, So Carlos Carrasco was the last person to
Speaker 7: wear that number. And right when I was diagnosed the
Speaker 7: trainer for the Marlin tests of connections with the New
Speaker 7: York Mets, and I had a text message from a
Speaker 7: Florida number was I was coming back from one of
Speaker 7: the hospitals from one of my many different tests where
Speaker 7: I'm getting poked and prodded, and it was Carlos Carrasco
Speaker 7: and he was reaching out to me to support me.
Speaker 7: We talked on the phone for a minute, and you know,
Speaker 7: he told me. You know, one of the things that
Speaker 7: he bout with was it was a very fork in
Speaker 7: the row moment for him where he decided, even though
Speaker 7: he had cancer, he wasn't going to let cancer have
Speaker 7: him and control him. And that's something where he reached
Speaker 7: out to me at a very crucial time because I
Speaker 7: was very I felt alone and in the dark and spiraling.
Speaker 7: And from that conversation on, I was able to be
Speaker 7: a lot more. You know, Okay, like you know, this
Speaker 7: is happening, but I'm not going to let it control
Speaker 7: who I am and I'm not going to let it
Speaker 7: dictate my life. And so being able to wear the number,
Speaker 7: you know, that's really cool.
Speaker 2: Fast forward to yesterday. You look great on them out.
Speaker 2: Let's just talk pitching. How do you feel? I know
Speaker 2: you missed some time in spring training with an injury,
Speaker 2: but it sounds like it's been going well and it
Speaker 2: seems like your stuff is where you like it to
Speaker 2: be or are you still working on some things?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, I felt fantastic. You know, Hedges called fantastic game
Speaker 7: back there. I've always been a guy who, even though
Speaker 7: I might not light up the radar gun necessarily, my
Speaker 7: fastball has some good kind of under the hood metrics,
Speaker 7: and so I was fortunately I was able to get
Speaker 7: ahead to a bunch of guys. I was able to
Speaker 7: execute at the top of the zone in the outer half,
Speaker 7: and yeah, I felt really good. You know, it was
Speaker 7: the same pitch and catch, the same sixty feet six
Speaker 7: inches that it always has been, and so I feel
Speaker 7: really good. You know, for me, it's always been kind
Speaker 7: of the breaking ball command helped set up the fastball,
Speaker 7: and being able to throw some sliders early accounts get
Speaker 7: ahead with those kind of helped make them have to respect, Okay,
Speaker 7: it's not just going to be a fastball, and so
Speaker 7: that was really helpful.
Speaker 2: It was nice because you pitch for a major league
Speaker 2: baseball team, you can have a platform for people who
Speaker 2: are going through what you have have gone through. How
Speaker 2: much does that come into play for what you're all
Speaker 2: about now moving forward?
Speaker 7: Absolutely?
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 7: One of the reasons that I wanted to kind of
Speaker 7: share my story with Zach over these last couple of
Speaker 7: years and share my story with everyone here has been
Speaker 7: you know, when I was diagnosed, one of the first
Speaker 7: things I did was look up other professional athletes to
Speaker 7: see how other professional athletes who been going through something
Speaker 7: similar to me, because it's that's what we do as people.
Speaker 7: We want to see and relate to what's going on
Speaker 7: and how other people have come through it. And so
Speaker 7: for me now being in this position, I want to
Speaker 7: be able other people to look to my story as
Speaker 7: a source of you know, inspiration, pull them up on
Speaker 7: a bad day knowing, you know, hey, because there are
Speaker 7: there were a plethora of bad, dark days going through this,
Speaker 7: but that's when it was I was leaning on family,
Speaker 7: leaning on friends, reading stories of other people who've gone
Speaker 7: through similar things, knowing that there is a light at
Speaker 7: the end of the tunnel. And so that's what I'd
Speaker 7: like to do with this, is, you know, to show
Speaker 7: people that you know, yes, I have cancer, I've gone
Speaker 7: through all these treatments, but I haven't let it, you know,
Speaker 7: derail what my life plans were.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on so many fronts. Great to have you here,
Speaker 2: Thanks for the time, Thank you so much. Inspirational story
Speaker 2: that he wants to share and he certainly should, and
Speaker 2: I am imagine we'll see and write again before the
Speaker 2: season concludes. But Nick enright an inspiration to many or
Speaker 2: his battle with cancer that he has beaten and now
Speaker 2: a major league pitcher. Even though he is back in
Speaker 2: the minor leagues now, he can always say he at
Speaker 2: least pitched a couple of games in the big leagues.
Speaker 2: And again, I think we'll see him again before it's
Speaker 2: all said. Stay tuned when we come back, we'll hear
Speaker 2: from Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. That's next on the Cleveland
Speaker 2: Clinic Guardians Radio Network.
Speaker 1: William says, the sign into the wine and tonight's first
Speaker 1: pitch swung on whack to right, one nothing, Dodgers deep
Speaker 1: into the lower deck. Show hey o'toni and that ball
Speaker 1: left the yard in the blink of an eye. And
Speaker 1: show hey o'toni as his nineteenth home run on the
Speaker 1: first pitch of the game. He's leading the National League
Speaker 1: in the home runs. And that didn't take long. Won nothing,
Speaker 1: LA And we're underway at the corner of Carnagian, Ontario,
Speaker 1: with a game time temperature of sixty three degrees.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenow's back with you
Speaker 2: from downtown Cleveland. A progressive field. The Dodgers were in
Speaker 2: town earlier this week, and we had a chance to
Speaker 2: sit down with their manager, Dave Roberts, a former Cleveland Indian,
Speaker 2: and talk about his early days in Cleveland. But first,
Speaker 2: as everyone around baseball wants to know what's the latest
Speaker 2: about the possible return of Show Hey Otani to the mound,
Speaker 2: and we asked if there's a little more stress added
Speaker 2: to the job when Otani does become that two way
Speaker 2: player once again.
Speaker 5: I think the fun part of it is seeing potentially
Speaker 5: seeing one of the greatest players of all time now
Speaker 5: take the mound as a Dodger, so that's always exciting.
Speaker 5: I think the the scary part of is how you
Speaker 5: kind of plug him in and how to manage him to,
Speaker 5: you know, not push him too much to make sure
Speaker 5: that you don't compromise the bat. But as a fan,
Speaker 5: I'm all in. Can't wait to see it and show
Speaker 5: he has been great and off to another MVP type season.
Speaker 2: Dodgers manager Dave Roberts joining us, You're back in Cleveland,
Speaker 2: where your playing career began as a major leaguer. How
Speaker 2: much do you remember about that that first time being
Speaker 2: called up and playing in the big leagues with a
Speaker 2: really good Cleveland team.
Speaker 5: It was really special for me to make that drive.
Speaker 5: I think it was from Rochester to Cleveland to then
Speaker 5: take a plane down to Tampa. And that was the
Speaker 5: day that Wave Boggs got three thousand hits. Kenny had
Speaker 5: a hamstring injury, and I remember throwing out three hits
Speaker 5: and Bobby Witt was my first hit. And it's funny
Speaker 5: now that I'm the guy that goes to the Sun
Speaker 5: and says, hey, my first major League it was against
Speaker 5: your father, and so it's just amazing and my time
Speaker 5: here in Cleveland, I couldn't be more grateful, And just
Speaker 5: a real quick shout out to the Buchanans who hosted
Speaker 5: me when I was an Akron in Double A and
Speaker 5: they hosted me an Akron and they were always just
Speaker 5: great people for me.
Speaker 2: And when you come back here the series here this year,
Speaker 2: I think I saw you down on the field with
Speaker 2: Chris Antonetti yesterday. A chance to catch up with some
Speaker 2: old friends as a few that might still be around
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 5: I talked to Chris and we've got you've been we
Speaker 5: going to go way back, and there's still a handful
Speaker 5: of people that are still in the organization. You yourself,
Speaker 5: and you know, I talked to Bob Debass and yesterday
Speaker 5: I saw him And it's just crazy coming back here
Speaker 5: when I was a young kid essentially, and certainly my
Speaker 5: life has changed and kind of seeing where I'm at now,
Speaker 5: but this always has been a special place for me.
Speaker 2: Oh, Dave, I appreciate the time. Always good to see.
Speaker 5: Thank you all right, Rosie, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Fun stuff from Dave Roberts. One of the good guys
Speaker 2: in the game, and he has been at it for
Speaker 2: a long time now as the manager for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: with two World Series titles under his belt. Also on
Speaker 2: this home stand, we had a chance to visit with
Speaker 2: a NASCAR driver. Ty Dillon was here as part of
Speaker 2: the Colleague Racing team right here in Northeast Ohio, which
Speaker 2: is pretty cool. Most of NASCAR, the teams and crews
Speaker 2: are down in the North Carolina area, the Charlotte area specifically,
Speaker 2: but not so for Colleague Racing. Yes, their shop is
Speaker 2: in Charlotte or on the outskirts of it, but the
Speaker 2: team is based right here in Northeast Ohio, And we
Speaker 2: had a chance to visit with tyd Dillon and talk
Speaker 2: to him about his role on that team and what
Speaker 2: brought him to Cleveland. In between races.
Speaker 8: We're visiting the great today to Cleveland, Ohio, and as
Speaker 8: my first time here, I've always followed the Guardians, but
Speaker 8: to be sitting here on the field watching bat and
Speaker 8: practice this is pretty awesome. But we're hanging out. My
Speaker 8: team owner, Matt call is so involved here in the
Speaker 8: state of Ohio and especially Cleveland, giving back to the community.
Speaker 8: So we're here promoting that. He has got a big
Speaker 8: golf tournament coming up, the Calle Companies Championship, and so
Speaker 8: we're promoting that and also just make sure that people
Speaker 8: in the Ohio area know that they have a race
Speaker 8: team in North Carolina that counts this as a home
Speaker 8: team to a home state for us as well, and
Speaker 8: hoping to build that fan base of college racing here
Speaker 8: in Ohio.
Speaker 2: And what Matt Collins trying to do with his race
Speaker 2: team at the Cup level, maybe if you can put
Speaker 2: in perspective for the fans how difficult it is to
Speaker 2: succeed at that Cup level. Because he's had success at
Speaker 2: the Expinity level. I know that, but where you're at now,
Speaker 2: how difficult is it to break through?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 8: Is difficult to break through, and I think Matt goes
Speaker 8: about it the best way. I think his consistent approach
Speaker 8: of wanting to get better, Like the focus of our
Speaker 8: race team is how can we make our race cars
Speaker 8: faster each week? And there's a lot that goes into it,
Speaker 8: the business side of which he is. You know, his
Speaker 8: career speaks for itself on the business side, and he
Speaker 8: has brought that in to our race team as well.
Speaker 8: And I think this year we're having as a team,
Speaker 8: probably one of the strongest years of college racing's ten
Speaker 8: year already and we're only looking forward to building on that.
Speaker 8: My teammate and I are having great years and we
Speaker 8: had a long way to go in the season to
Speaker 8: finish it out strong, but I think the future is
Speaker 8: really bright for us.
Speaker 2: And you mentioning earlier. Obviously speed is what it comes
Speaker 2: down to in one sense, but what else goes into
Speaker 2: it aside from speed that you really have to have
Speaker 2: to finish up front.
Speaker 8: I think everything comes together. You know, as a driver,
Speaker 8: you're the one who gets all the attention, but as
Speaker 8: a team you have to execute together. We have pit
Speaker 8: crew members. Our pit stops are very important, so not
Speaker 8: making mistakes on pit road, staying out of trouble, not
Speaker 8: getting penalized, to take that speed and capitalize the most
Speaker 8: out of your days. It's like playing a baseball game.
Speaker 8: You might have a day where you have a bunch
Speaker 8: of hits, but if you don't execute the easy routine
Speaker 8: ground balls, you're still going to lose if you have
Speaker 8: a lot of error. So if we've got to clean
Speaker 8: that up on our team, I think we're gonna hit
Speaker 8: ourselves in the right direction.
Speaker 2: We're joined by NASCAR driver Tie Dylan. Tie up racing
Speaker 2: history for you. You have a great racing family. Explain
Speaker 2: how long you've been involved in this and how far
Speaker 2: back it goes back in your family.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I started racing I was thirteen, but my
Speaker 8: grandfather should your childrens who owned Dillarnheart's race team. So
Speaker 8: for the time I was born, I was around race cars.
Speaker 8: I was around NASCAR. As a kid, I've tried to
Speaker 8: play every other sport, baseball, football, I wrestled in school
Speaker 8: and tried to do everything else, and then when everybody
Speaker 8: out grew me, I got in the race car and
Speaker 8: whatever clicked from my family's blood I think clicked in
Speaker 8: because I've loved it and have attacked it ever since
Speaker 8: I was thirteen years old. And yeah, so I have
Speaker 8: a long lineage of it. I raced against my brother
Speaker 8: in the Cup Series and we ran over two hundred
Speaker 8: and fifty races against each other in that series. So
Speaker 8: it's a family thing for us for sure, and it's
Speaker 8: a great sport to be a part of.
Speaker 2: We see it here with Guardians. Players so often where
Speaker 2: it's their first time in the major leagues or they've
Speaker 2: been in the major leagues, have to go back to
Speaker 2: the minor leagues, come back and then make something of
Speaker 2: that major league opportunity. And I know you've been in
Speaker 2: the Cup Series before, you had to take a step back.
Speaker 2: Now you're back. How tough is it to get back
Speaker 2: to a Cup Series ride when you've had to take
Speaker 2: that step back.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think for all of us, we all have different
Speaker 8: journeys of where you make it to kind of the
Speaker 8: pinnacle of your sport, and sometimes that journey is what
Speaker 8: makes you the best. And for me, coming in and
Speaker 8: out of the Cup Series, racing a different series, different
Speaker 8: teams and grinding through my careers made me a resilient
Speaker 8: person on and off the track. Maybe probably the best
Speaker 8: person I could be by having to go through a
Speaker 8: little bit of struggle, and I feel like I'm the
Speaker 8: strongest mentally and physically I've ever been in the race car.
Speaker 8: I'm in the best opportunity I've ever been, So for me,
Speaker 8: it's taught me so many life lessons that I hope
Speaker 8: to pass on to my kids. And just never giving
Speaker 8: up on your dreams. I think that's one thing about me,
Speaker 8: is like I'll never quit. And I've been through the
Speaker 8: ups and downs and you couldn't get me to quit then,
Speaker 8: So I'm not gonna quit now. And I take that
Speaker 8: into every single race with me. We're gonna battle to
Speaker 8: the last lap and they throw the checker and pull
Speaker 8: us off.
Speaker 6: Tight.
Speaker 2: Great to meet to you, good luck, appreciate it, looking
Speaker 2: forward to That's NASCAR driver Ty Dylan. Thanks for his
Speaker 2: time talking about racing baseball and the correlation between the
Speaker 2: two if there is one. And it's fun to visit
Speaker 2: with him and hear about his race team, Colleague racing.
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Speaker 2: a Progressive field. Jim rows and now so along with
Speaker 2: you this weekend, and we had a chance as always
Speaker 2: to catch up with Steven Osterer, the vice president of
Speaker 2: player development for the Guardians, and we talked Columbus this week,
Speaker 2: beginning with Chase Delatter, who is now healthy and active
Speaker 2: with the Clippers, and Austy talked about how the latter
Speaker 2: has progressed so far since joining Columbus.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks, Rosie.
Speaker 10: Happy to be back chatting with you, you know, exciting
Speaker 10: obviously to get chased back out in the field. Yeah,
Speaker 10: he's incredibly talented as a players. Yeah, he's a true outfielder.
Speaker 10: He can really hammer the paul. So getting him back
Speaker 10: out is exciting. I think the key here is just ensuring,
Speaker 10: you know that we're doing what we can to progress
Speaker 10: them back to a normal workload of games in a week. Yeah,
Speaker 10: while supporting you know, that jumping intensity that you'd expect,
Speaker 10: you can you can imagine that as much as you
Speaker 10: want the ACL games to be as stressful as Triple
Speaker 10: A ones, they just aren't. So yeah, right now, the
Speaker 10: focus for Chases is really just about building up exposed
Speaker 10: your distress and controlling what he can to support long
Speaker 10: term development and hopefully major league impact soon. So you know,
Speaker 10: really again exciting to have Chase back out in the
Speaker 10: field and the lineup seeing hitting the ball and running
Speaker 10: around the basis.
Speaker 2: In addition to the the health equation, which is a
Speaker 2: huge part of this, what do you need to see
Speaker 2: performance wise you think as he gets rolling into this thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I think it's just you know, a
Speaker 10: lot of what he's done and shown in his samples
Speaker 10: so far in the minor leagues, where you know, he
Speaker 10: has a really good eye. You know, he walks a ton,
Speaker 10: doesn't strike out a ton, and you know, consistently, you know,
Speaker 10: damages the baseball. I mean, he's a really good hitter
Speaker 10: all around and does a lot of things well. So
Speaker 10: you know, it's continuing to just get the back back
Speaker 10: to normally. You know, again, it's been a ton of
Speaker 10: times since he's played a huge chunk games.
Speaker 9: But you know, there's some work in the outfield that
Speaker 9: we're doing, and.
Speaker 10: He's put a dent into over the last year in
Speaker 10: a bit in terms of his throwing and maybe raising
Speaker 10: the slot a little bit to make him, you know,
Speaker 10: take more effective out there with the arm.
Speaker 9: But again, there's a lot to like here.
Speaker 10: It's still a lot of things to work on, but
Speaker 10: getting them back into the groove of playing consistent games
Speaker 10: is a huge focus.
Speaker 2: And a player who has been playing a lot of
Speaker 2: games and playing them very well is c J. Kafus,
Speaker 2: how's that adjustment going to triple A pitching? Because the
Speaker 2: numbers look great.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right, Rosie, it's carried over.
Speaker 10: I mean, he continues to hit, he continues to have
Speaker 10: you know, really good at bats out there, and you know,
Speaker 10: hasn't been phased at all by the jump and level
Speaker 10: and the jump and pitching. So you know, it's it's
Speaker 10: been exciting to see him continue to go out there
Speaker 10: and perform and you know, do a lot of the
Speaker 10: things that he was doing in Double A, but seeing
Speaker 10: them against a stronger competition.
Speaker 9: I think as he continues.
Speaker 10: To to get exposure to you know, the higher level pitching,
Speaker 10: it's you know, preparing and adjusting and being as focused
Speaker 10: as he can to ensure that he continues to have
Speaker 10: quality at bats. So, you know, seeing him do that
Speaker 10: at the Triple A level has been really fun.
Speaker 2: Johnathan Rodriguez as a power hitter who we've seen up
Speaker 2: here a couple of different times, has torn up Triple
Speaker 2: A when he's been there, And at this point in time,
Speaker 2: what do you need to see from him that would
Speaker 2: indicate maybe more success if he gets that chance in
Speaker 2: the big leagues again.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 10: I mean, he had a very short stint with the
Speaker 10: major league team in April this year.
Speaker 9: And honestly just didn't get a ton of the bats.
Speaker 10: I think the focus right now is just tuning in
Speaker 10: his swing and be a bit tighter, maybe smaller and
Speaker 10: more controlled movements and hopefully that gives him a little
Speaker 10: bit more adjustability to play, to reduce chase and just
Speaker 10: to add to his already plus power. So we're seeing
Speaker 10: some positive trends in the training environments, and I think
Speaker 10: it's just a matter of getting those to transfer and
Speaker 10: stick in game and for it to be a little
Speaker 10: bit more consistent.
Speaker 9: So he's putting in.
Speaker 10: The work and we're excited to see how that kind
Speaker 10: of transfers as we continue to move forward.
Speaker 2: Pete Halpin as a young author that we've seen in
Speaker 2: Major league camp in spring and it looks like he's
Speaker 2: off to a nice start this season. And what have
Speaker 2: you seen from him so far that looks good?
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we talked about him at the end of spring
Speaker 10: training and some of the leading indicators maybe that we
Speaker 10: were seeing for him having a good year offensively, you know,
Speaker 10: he's a really good defender, you know in the outfield
Speaker 10: that he's got plus top speed and can really run
Speaker 10: the ball down in center field, and that bat was
Speaker 10: was something that you needed to come along. I think
Speaker 10: there is you know, obviously some pieces of last year
Speaker 10: where maybe the risks was bothering him and there are
Speaker 10: some issues there, and you know, he's fully healthy put
Speaker 10: in a lot of good work.
Speaker 9: His preparation has been excellent.
Speaker 10: He's learned a lot from some of the more veteran
Speaker 10: players around him, who've you know, what it's like to
Speaker 10: prepare at the major league level and to get ready.
Speaker 9: To face really good hittings.
Speaker 10: So you know, he's taken all of that and you've
Speaker 10: seen some really positive strides for PD at the plate,
Speaker 10: and he continues to get better as the season goes
Speaker 10: on and almost accelerating a little bit with the performance
Speaker 10: of the plate. So it's been fun to see that
Speaker 10: development since in spring training, and you know, we're hoping
Speaker 10: that that continues to grow and develop for him as
Speaker 10: we move forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a shortstop at Columbus. It's very familiar
Speaker 2: to Guardians fans, and Brian Rochio started the season regular
Speaker 2: shortstop for Cleveland and has since been sent to the
Speaker 2: minor leagues, I know, with a mission to work on
Speaker 2: some things. And what have you seen from him in
Speaker 2: terms of that work ethic and also progress as he
Speaker 2: gets deeper into it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, obviously it's it's never easy being sent down, especially
Speaker 10: when you've been up.
Speaker 9: For a while.
Speaker 10: The credit to Brian is he's shown up with a
Speaker 10: really good attitude and wants to work.
Speaker 9: So a lot of that work there is is meant
Speaker 9: to get him every.
Speaker 10: Day reps and get the confidence up and you know,
Speaker 10: work on improving some of the swing decisions, pitch recognition,
Speaker 10: pieces to his plate appearances and hopefully lower his chase rates.
Speaker 10: And so far he's hitting the ball lot better. You
Speaker 10: shown again a really good attitude in the training environments,
Speaker 10: the practice and the work day to day and doing
Speaker 10: the things that he to do to get back to
Speaker 10: where I think we think he can go up and
Speaker 10: help the major league team. So you have some good
Speaker 10: development and a great attitude from Brian so far as
Speaker 10: kind of move the needle a little bit on his
Speaker 10: performance at the plate, and you know, you can see
Speaker 10: there's growing confidence with every game.
Speaker 2: We're joined by Steven ostro Or, the vice president of
Speaker 2: player development for the Guardians, talking Triple A Columbus this week,
Speaker 2: and we switched to the mound. You have a big
Speaker 2: guy who's put up some really solid numbers as a
Speaker 2: regular starter in the rotation down there at Columbus and
Speaker 2: Parker Messik and I know we talked about him back
Speaker 2: in spring training. It looks like the start of his
Speaker 2: season has gone really well. And what have you liked
Speaker 2: so far?
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's he's been really good in Triple A and
Speaker 10: has made a great adjustment from that jump from Double
Speaker 10: A to Triple A that you know sometimes takes a
Speaker 10: period of time for people to settle in, but that
Speaker 10: didn't seem to be the case for Parker. So you know,
Speaker 10: the change up continues to be his bread and butter
Speaker 10: and has played very well. You know, he's incredibly tough
Speaker 10: on the right handed hitters. With that, he's striking guys
Speaker 10: out at a pretty good clip. And he's been getting
Speaker 10: more more efficient in his pitch counts over time, so
Speaker 10: getting you know a little bit more deeper into games
Speaker 10: to relative to how many pitches you know, he's gotten
Speaker 10: as he's progressed his workload. You know, there's there's still
Speaker 10: things to work on though, you know, he's got to
Speaker 10: cut down some of the walks and you get ahead
Speaker 10: and control counts a little bit better, which he's been
Speaker 10: working on. You know, he's added a sinker to mix
Speaker 10: in and give a different look off the fastball. Yeah,
Speaker 10: so there's there's just continue to be an emphasis to
Speaker 10: make him, you know, a more efficient pitcher, a more
Speaker 10: complete pitcher is you know, he continues again to face
Speaker 10: better and better competition and yeah, knowing Park and his
Speaker 10: work habits, Yeah, he's just going to continue to make
Speaker 10: strides on everything that's thrown at him and get better
Speaker 10: over time and as the season goes along. It's that's
Speaker 10: been a calling card for him in his career. And
Speaker 10: you know, he's he's such a good kid, works really
Speaker 10: hard and there's a pretty high standard of excellence that
Speaker 10: he sets for himself and I think he'll reach that.
Speaker 2: And one more picture, this one out of the bullpen.
Speaker 2: We've seen him a little bit in major league camp
Speaker 2: and injuries have held him back somewhat, Franco Alamann And
Speaker 2: when he's been healthy, looks like he can really dominate
Speaker 2: at times. And how's his health first, and then how
Speaker 2: is he progressing when he is able to pitch.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's healthy and he's back out there, which is awesome.
Speaker 10: You know, as he noted, the forty man had in
Speaker 10: the off season started a little bit behind him. He
Speaker 10: was recovering from an Inguinolarnia, and you know, is totally
Speaker 10: back to normal health and feeling good.
Speaker 9: You know, he's been there for a couple of weeks
Speaker 9: and has.
Speaker 10: Been showing, you know, flashes of what put him on
Speaker 10: the forty roster in the off season. His carrying trade
Speaker 10: is still that fastball. Yeah, he's hitting ninety six right now.
Speaker 10: He's up to ninety nine most doubtings. He's got plus
Speaker 10: extension in his release, so that pitches, you know, has
Speaker 10: caused fits for his his entire career. And you know,
Speaker 10: he's continuing to show those elite with rates that we've seen.
Speaker 10: So yeah, he's also been throwing a slider harder, which
Speaker 10: has been a focus in emphasis for the last couple
Speaker 10: of years. He's starting to mix in a splitter to
Speaker 10: give him a third look to hitters. And I know
Speaker 10: it's only been about eight innings at this point, but
Speaker 10: he's striking out forty five percent of the batters he's facing,
Speaker 10: which is truly elite.
Speaker 9: At any level.
Speaker 10: So yeah, a lot of work left there, Rosie on
Speaker 10: controlling counts and controlling the running game, and you know,
Speaker 10: being prepared and able to handle the type of workload
Speaker 10: that we see our.
Speaker 9: Relievers get at the major league level.
Speaker 10: But you know, it's exciting again to have him back
Speaker 10: back healthy and be able to work towards those things
Speaker 10: and just see you know, Franco dominate out there.
Speaker 2: Something to look forward to for sure, Osty, always a
Speaker 2: pleasure having you on. Thanks for the update on Triple
Speaker 2: A Columbus and we'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 9: Thanks, Rosie Ticker.
Speaker 2: That is Vice President of Player Development Stephen Ostro talking
Speaker 2: Triple A Columbus, and that's going to do it for
Speaker 2: our show this week. As always, want to thank Brian
Speaker 2: Matze for helping to put together our show each and
Speaker 2: every week. We will join you next weekend right back
Speaker 2: here at Progressive. You'll just a short road trip for
Speaker 2: the Guardians midweek in New York against the Yankees, and
Speaker 2: then they're back home next weekend to take on the
Speaker 2: Houston Astros. So until then, this is Jim rosen House
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