Speaker 1: We have to ask to be more important questions.
Speaker 2: Oh that's true. Oh there's a lot of things is important. Yeah, yeah,
very important question.
Speaker 3: The only important thing is my kids are being born
soon like soon, like in the next month. It's twins, twins, triplets,
just too.
Speaker 1: Did you have a reveal party?
Speaker 3: Not really, just did like a little private thing with
my wife and uh it was nice. So the room
is already done, Yes, the room is done. Did you
paint no white? That's blank blank slate for when they
get to like a very very smart the tabula Ross
eyes that were.
Speaker 4: Boy girl, two girls, two boys, two boys boys?
Speaker 1: You got names picked out yet? I sure do? And
you're not Gonn tell Us, are you actually? I think right? Yeah?
We actually we did consider that. Yeah, Matt Ross, I
mean it sounds great.
Speaker 3: They do what it's you know, it's not matching, but
they work together, you know, for years, sixteen years now.
Speaker 1: All right, So you've been busy this off season, Yeah, clearly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, getting ready last year in a nutshell, my friend,
how do you want to describe it? Chock it up
to bad luck, yeah, Spencer Getty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want you ever in the outfield. No,
I will never play catch when they're hitting on the field.
Speaker 4: Like in the All Star Game. You know they had
the home run contest. I'm not even letting you out there, no,
no lord willing.
Speaker 3: If I do make one of those, I will not
be shagging fly balls during the other Star game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, elbowing the kids out of the way. I'll let
them have fun. Yeah, yeah, that'll be good.
Speaker 4: Uh so you are one hundred percent healed, no issues
to speak of, none at all. Okay, so what the
throwing program? Everything was about the same or did you
intense five things? And it's always the easy, low hanging
fruit question today.
Speaker 1: How was your up season? But yeah, I have to
ask because you we didn't see much of you last year. No,
it was good.
Speaker 3: My off season was good. I took more rest, so
I got three opinions when I had the elbow thing
pop up, just to make sure that you know, everybody
was on the same page, and it was. It was
meister's cremchak. It was our our team doctor at home,
and everybody's recommendation was just give it a break, it
let it scar up a little bit. There was some inflammation,
just like a little bit of like no tears anywhere
but like a little spacing that shouldn't really be there,
you know. It just seemed like there was some wear
and tear happening from the way that I was throwing
the ball that wasn't supposed to So shut it down.
Start at square one, eight weeks later, played catch for
eight weeks low intensity, then the next eight weeks after
that ramped it up, and that was the whole off
season right there. So for me it felt normal. I
don't really try to throw hard when it's not time to,
but I also never take eight weeks down from throwing.
Speaker 1: In the past.
Speaker 3: I'll give myself three to five days and then, you know,
just light toss three times a week. So that was
the hardest part for me. It was just showing up
to the gym every day. No and I can't play catch,
and I just got to do my rehab stuff. But
it was the best thing for me. Shoulders feel healthy,
almost feel really healthy, so that's really what I care
about at this point. And things are starting to feel
really smooth on the mound again, which is what I'm
used to, and I feel like I'm writing stride. I
got a live tomorrow for the first time, or actually
second live offseason. I threw on a dyke in before
we came down here, and I'll throw one tomorrow, another
twenty pitch live, so just kind of slowly building back
into it. I think I'll have live bullpen, live bullpen game,
so I won't throw the first week of games, but
I'll be right back in there in the second week
of games, and I'm really excited for it.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of competition.
Speaker 4: Man, we want you back to where you were a
couple of years ago, but there are guys chasing after
you right now, and that's healthy and cool, but you
still want to be a part of that opening six,
five or six rotation.
Speaker 3: I love competition, though. I mean, I feel like that's
been my whole career and my whole life up to
this point. Is proving that I'm one of those guys
that should be taking the ball when when we're starting games,
and that is exactly what I'm here to do. This
this spring training is proved that nothing's changed. I prove
that I'm the same guy that I was in really
the second half of twenty four is what I'm the
most proud of in the big leagues, and that's exactly
what I'm chasing is just be that guy again.
Speaker 1: How do you get back to that guy? What is
that like?
Speaker 2: It feels like it's kind of very unique journey for you,
as you said here in the second half of the
twenty four Then, of course, what happened last year. Where
are you right now as opposed to where you were
around that time, both mentally and physically.
Speaker 3: That's a tough question to answer. I mean, obviously, over
the course of the season you gain some and lose
some certain places, and during the off season you're trying
to sharpen everything. So right now, I feel like everything
is sharp. I feel like my velocity is very normal,
definitely a little bit higher than it was last year
coming into spring training, So I'm excited by that. I
was not excited about how hard I was throwing when
I did come back from injury last year. But again,
it's tough to shut down for eight weeks during the
year and then get back up to where you were
before that. So the thumb thing was again my chocolate
to bad luck. But it was tough to overcome that
and the fact that I was able to get back
quickly and pitch for the team again with something I
was really proud of granted. Now I look back at
it and I realized I wasn't fully prepared to be
doing that, neither mentally or physically. So this off season,
I feel like I did a lot of, you know,
more things than I would normally do in an off
season to make sure that my body was going to
be ready and going to be fully prepared. And I
think it's been good for me. I got a much
more regimented arm care program this year and in the past,
like before I got called up, like I it's it's
it sounds crazy to admit this on air, but I
wasn't doing arm care, Like I was never one of
the guys doing forearm exercises.
Speaker 1: This part of the conversation. No, honestly don't because it's
it's part of the growth.
Speaker 3: Like I'm proud of it now, like I've got the
I've got the wherewithal to know, like I can't pitch
thirty times in a season in the big leagues if
I don't do this stuff. So it's really it's really
good for me. I have a fantastic team of people
at DST in Houston that helped me find exactly what
it was I needed to do day in and day
out to feel good and to be ready to take
the ball. So yeah, I'm just excited to get down
here and compete.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've talked about growth and one of the things
we've had you now on just about every year the
last couple of years, and we talked about being more
into numbers and spin rates. And then after your first
lengthy year and twenty four, kind of backing off that
a little bit, what's your relationship with with the of
the finding the harmony between using both the numbers and
just the field.
Speaker 3: So I think during rehab and during the post rehab throwing,
it was really important for me to like dive back
into the technology again and make sure that the release
window was the same as it was and the extension
and the shape on all the pitches like that was
that was good for me to like check off those
things post rehab or post shutdown, I guess. And now
that I'm back competing again, I'm trying to kind of
ignore the computer programs a little bit, you know. Obviously,
I'm I'm taking what our analytics team says and trying
to apply it to what I like to do. And
I think that that's the happy balance is I got
to go out there and play my game and pitch
my game, but I also need to listen to the
guys that know a little bit more about the hitters,
and they get paid to sit there and do research
about the hitters. So anytime any I don't know if
you guys are familiar with Holden, but he's the guy
that we work with on the pitching side for the
most part in the analytics team, And anytime I have
a question about like, hey, like is this pitch better,
is this pitch better to this hitter? Like, I'll go
to him because I can't just watch the video and
know that. I mean, I can go in there and
I can look at all his numbers and stuff, but
we have so many things that go into what our
game plan is that I got to give and take,
you know, Like, if I feel strongly convicted about something,
that's what I'm gonna do in the big moment. But
when there's there's opportunity for me to like learn something
about this hitter or that hitter, I need to take
the chance to do that too. So I think it's
just I'm somewhere right in the middle now, just kind
of the same as the last time we talked about it.
Speaker 4: Spencer Getty with us here on the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross from West Palm Beach.
Speaker 1: Has the skip told you guys don't even bother challenging
on abs or what mess.
Speaker 3: It goes without saying, dude, I think everything's a strike.
That's the real problem is my my eyes move a
lot and the ball stays in the same spot. So
I don't think I could ever possibly tell you with
one hundred percent certainty, like on borderline pitches, whether it
was in or out. So in my head, I will
never once put the hand on my hat, you know.
I'll leave that to the because they're really really good
at knowing the strike zone, and obviously the hitters are
as well. So I really think that's what it's more
for is is for the guys that are confident in
whether it was over the plate or not. I think
up and down is going to be It's gonna be
a learning curve like the I don't know if you
guys have watched Triple A games in the last few
years with the ABS, but it gets a little inconsistent
at times, just a little bit, I mean, and I
think that some of that was intentional, like tinkering to
try to find the strike zone. But it now seems
like they've got a pretty good algorithm where it's like
relative to your stance, height, relative to your load. Yeah,
like I think it's in a good spot. I think
it's probably. I don't think they would put it in
the big leagues if it wasn't ready for us to
use it. So I think you're glad we'll see. Yeah, No,
I am really glad about that. I'm really glad that
raised a lot of guys on our He's one of them.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, who have you? Is there anybody
here in camp you faced?
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think, so Jack's biggers, who's in camp
with us? I faced him in round Rock a little
bit in twenty three, and I think also in rehab. No,
I actually didn't. I didn't have round rock and rehab.
But twenty four first game of the season, actually, yeah,
before I got called up. So I've seen him a
few times. I think he might be it. Actually, do
you like it?
Speaker 4: When how many teammates? How many friends do you have
outside of other teams?
Speaker 1: A handful bunch went full definitely talk to each other
when I got you or hey, I took you d
how's your neck feel? Kind of?
Speaker 3: You know, Honestly, I'm friends with more pitchers than hitters,
so we don't never get around to that. But I
would say the guys that I trained with at my
gym in Houston, Chain bos Logan Henderson, those guys we
just like to talk shop, you know, not necessarily the
other s, but shop.
Speaker 1: We like pitching. But no, uh, the O the rest.
Speaker 3: H Yeah, in camp it's it gets fun. You know,
when you get live at bats against guys that you'll
never face in games, it is easy to kind of
let it fly a little bit more. And I don't
think I've been got by many people in camp on wood,
but Caesar Salazar likes to tell everybody that he caught him.
In reality is as he didn't get anybody.
Speaker 4: So okay, a couple of final questions. How cranky were
you middle of the year when the thing went down?
I mean, were you like get away from me? Because
we don't go in the clubus locause our show is
on during your time. But were you a pleasant person
or were you like get away from me? I don't
want to. I mean, how did how did you, how
did your wife feel about it? I mean, obviously you
guys did.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, we did find she never got sick of me.
Speaker 1: That's but she's also a superhero.
Speaker 3: I mean, she'll she'll listen to me, be it be
and moan over whatever might have been that day, and
it's good for me to just kind of get it
out and let it go. But I think for the
most part, like during the rehab part, I'm sure you
could ask other people and they'd have different opinions. I
did have a conversation with a couple of guys one
day it was like, hey, man, like, you're you're kind
of a downer lately and it sucks. And then I
feel like I tried to make an effort to be
a little bit less that way. But it is hard sometimes, man,
Like you get into the you get into the routine
of showing up before everybody else, finish your work before
everybody else, and then sit around to watch the game,
and you know you're not pitching that week, you know
you're not pitching that month.
Speaker 1: It might be a couple months.
Speaker 3: You don't really have a date on the calendar yet,
and it's hard to see the light at the end
of the tunnel. So I don't necessarily fault myself or
anyone else for kind of falling victim to that when
you're in rehab. But I also like when it was
brought to my attention, I feel like I made a
big effort to not be that way and just be
a cheerleader for the guys instead.
Speaker 4: If I was telling a teenage Spencer Arraghetty as he's
throwing two no hitters against ma Alma Monter Main Creek,
the chance of you getting hurt among everybody else in
pitching is significant.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many guys get to live a clean life.
It's very few. What would I have told you? What
would your reaction to be to be saying, Hey, I
thought I was invincible back then. Yeah, what I'm saying,
I think everybody thinks that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely thought I was invincible. I shirt certainly
didn't think it was going to be a fly ball
during batting practice that would do me in for the
first time. But yeah, I think I probably would have
laughed at you, probably would have told you not, I'm
just gonna go throw another no hitter against made Creek
here in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Kind of feels personal. Okay, fantasy football, we almost invited you.
Last year, I finished second.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, how'd you do? I won again? No, I
didn't win last time. I thought you were in a
bunch of leaks.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: This year, I kept it to one. Okay, and I won,
So maybe I'll just play in one for the rest
of the time.
Speaker 2: You know why, because when you're in one and you
don't make the playoffs, you hate it.
Speaker 1: So that's why I was. I liked you. Like five.
Speaker 3: We play with the score Median matchup and Hayden wes
Nesky and I were fourteen to thirteen and one. We
tied a game down to the hundredth of a point
because Dak Prescott took a knee four times to end
a game. So Hayden missed the playoffs because I had
more points scored than him. So I was the last
team into the playoffs and ended up winning the whole thing.
Speaker 4: So it's the name of your team. I can't say
I can't love it. Yeah, I thought, you know it's
a good one.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, all right, can you throw a no
hitter this year? Will you tell us privately what the
name is? Or sure?
Speaker 4: Matter of fact, why don't you just throw six innings
at three hit balling out and you tell us then too.
Speaker 3: If I go more than seven, less than two hits,
more than ten strikeouts, you'll get it out of me.
Speaker 1: Okay. So here it is seven innings. Wow, how many
two runs? Not two hits? Okay? Yeah, two runs? You
have a good strikeout number. Your walks a little high.
I'm a little worried about that, but pitch count could
be in the factor. Ten k's two runs.
Speaker 4: Or less seven innings. You are going to tell us
the team name off air off air, Yes, and we
will not publicize it. It will stay in our little
circle of trust of course. Yes, our friend Spencer Arraghetty
with us here. It is so happy to have him
back and healthy, ready to go.
Speaker 3: We wish you nothing. Have been the very best, and
we'll talk to you during the course of the year.
Thank you for the time. Thank you guys, always loved
being on.
Speaker 4: Spencer Ragedy with us here at twelve fifty May eleven
fifty four. Here from West Palm Beach, this is Sports
Talk seven ninety