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Speaker 2: Hi, everyone, welcome to Guardian's Weekly. Jim Rosen House along
Speaker 2: with you north of the border this weekend. We're in
Speaker 2: Toronto at the Rogers Center where the Guardians are taking
Speaker 2: on the Blue Jays this weekend. They have a game
Speaker 2: on Saturday afternoon at three to seven, another one on
Speaker 2: Sunday at one thirty seven, and then it's on to Washington,
Speaker 2: d C. For a three game series to conclude the
Speaker 2: road trip against the Nationals. Good show lined up for
Speaker 2: you today, as we will hear a little bit later
Speaker 2: on from former Cleveland Indian and two times Cy Young
Speaker 2: Award winner Corey Klueber. We'll also visit with Hall of
Speaker 2: Famer Paul Monitor and be joined by catcher Bo Naylor
Speaker 2: and relieve pitcher Kolby Allard, all of them coming your
Speaker 2: way shortly, along with Kyle man Zardo, who continues to
Speaker 2: be off to a great start and this is his
Speaker 2: first full major league season. But first, our look back
Speaker 2: at the week that was. The weekend review begins on Monday,
Speaker 2: back home with the opener of a four game series
Speaker 2: against the Twins. Less said about this one the better
Speaker 2: eleven to one. The Twins won it on just an
Speaker 2: ugly night for the Guardians, but they would bounce back
Speaker 2: and play great baseball the rest of the series against
Speaker 2: the Twins, and it was a four gamer that continued
Speaker 2: on Tuesday night. The Guardians, after a three hour weather delay,
Speaker 2: finally got things going. The game was scoreless in the
Speaker 2: bottom half of the third with bow Naylor leading things off.
Speaker 3: Panic is ready here it comes, swung out a.
Speaker 1: Drill to deep bright forget about it, oh one and
Speaker 1: a bow Naylor hit two home runs foul and then
Speaker 1: hammered one fair deep into the lower deck.
Speaker 2: Getting right and it's one nothing Cleveland and the third.
Speaker 2: Minnesota tied the game at one with a solo home
Speaker 2: run from Ty France in the fifth inning, but that
Speaker 2: would be all tanner Biby allowed as he was terrific
Speaker 2: once again. So tanner bibe is last time out handcuffed
Speaker 2: New York in six innings, gave up two runs into
Speaker 2: the sixth inning. Tonight, he's allowed one run eighty four
Speaker 2: pitches made. He fires and the pitch drill the third
Speaker 2: cut by Ramirez. So at eighty five pitches through six innings,
Speaker 2: Tanner Biby will come out for the seventh and manned
Speaker 2: at Cleveland need this kind of not only length, but
Speaker 2: a really good start from Tanner Biby. In the seventh,
Speaker 2: the Guardian's defense was on full display. Biby, He's ready,
Speaker 2: here it comes, and it swung on drill to left.
Speaker 2: This a base hit near the line over to cut
Speaker 2: it off as Kwan France's thinking too, puts the brakes on.
Speaker 3: Throw back to first slide, take it up.
Speaker 1: What a play again by Gabriel Larius.
Speaker 2: Still a one to one game in the eighth inning,
Speaker 2: with Kate Smith first up out of the Guardian's bullpen
Speaker 2: and now Korea and the hitters counted two to zero
Speaker 2: in Correa nine hits in his last eighteen advance. The
Speaker 2: two to zero pitch swung on him high in the
Speaker 2: air to right. That's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: John Kinzie. Noel jogs in cage. Smith gets it done again.
Speaker 1: Middle of the eighth Cleveland Minnesota still in a one
Speaker 1: to one game, and that's set the stage for the
Speaker 1: bottom half of the ninth inning. Games still tied at
Speaker 1: one and Cole Manzardo leading things off Farland into the motion.
Speaker 1: Here it comes and it swung and hit a ton.
Speaker 3: Deep bright field, bugging.
Speaker 1: A walk off solo blast all right Berkyle man Soto
Speaker 1: and the Guardians walk off the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 3: Two to one.
Speaker 2: Man once again, we'll hear from Manzarto in our next
Speaker 2: segment about that big walk off home run against the Twins.
Speaker 2: On to Wednesday, a four to two victory for the Guardians.
Speaker 2: Luis Ortiz he got the start in this one, and
Speaker 2: he followed the lead of Tanner Bibby the previous night.
Speaker 3: Scoreless.
Speaker 1: In the sixth, runner at third, two down, payoff pitch
Speaker 1: to the Twins short stop bullseye strike three call, took
Speaker 1: a ninety five mile an hour sinker five strikeouts four
Speaker 1: or tis still scoreless off the lake front.
Speaker 2: But the Twins had their ace Pablo Lopez going and
Speaker 2: he matched Ortiz pitch for pitch, keeping the Guardians off
Speaker 2: the board, and the game was still scoreless through six innings.
Speaker 2: But in the seventh the Guardians got something started with
Speaker 2: their igniter, Jose Ramirez.
Speaker 1: Now the one one swung on line drive base hit
Speaker 1: right field, Ramirez two for three Cleveland as its third hit.
Speaker 1: The thing about Hosey he doesn't steal a base unless
Speaker 1: it's important. He has two hundred forty eight career steals,
Speaker 1: five this year. He's got a good lead the pitch
Speaker 1: there he goes, pitch is taking a strike, no throw.
Speaker 1: Jeffers could not get a grip on the base ball.
Speaker 1: There's number two forty nine for Jose Ramirez, and now
Speaker 1: you've got the go ahead run in scoring position with
Speaker 1: nobody out. The smartest player in the game, Jose Ramirez
Speaker 1: once again steals a mase when it matters.
Speaker 2: Then with one away, Carlos Santana got the job done.
Speaker 2: Lopez maybe near the end, he's about to make his
Speaker 2: ninetieth pitch. He fires a swinging a Q shot off
Speaker 2: the third bay side of the mound, grabbed throw by.
Speaker 1: Lopez, skips down the right field line. Here comes Hosey
Speaker 1: throw the plavy slides in.
Speaker 3: With a go ahead run.
Speaker 1: Lopez tried to make the sensational playing a Q shut
Speaker 1: off the end of the mat of santana third base
Speaker 1: side of the mound. He bare handed it fired with
Speaker 1: no chance to get Samtana and a short hot friends
Speaker 1: at first ball then skipped down the right field line
Speaker 1: and foul ground. By the time Clemens retrieved and threw
Speaker 1: to the plate, Jose Ramirez had scored and the Guardians
Speaker 1: have a one nothing laid and out to the mound
Speaker 1: is the manager.
Speaker 3: Rocco ball Deli.
Speaker 2: Gabriel Larius followed with a walk, putting two men on
Speaker 2: for the hot hitting bow Nailor.
Speaker 3: Here's the two two swung out in blasted.
Speaker 1: Hidep to right hallway back a gon.
Speaker 3: Oh, what a couple of nights for bow Nailer.
Speaker 1: A majestic two out, three run homer to right and
Speaker 1: Cleveland has a four nothing laid.
Speaker 3: Here in the seventh.
Speaker 2: The Twins got on the board with a run in
Speaker 2: the eighth inning and another in the ninth, but the
Speaker 2: four to two lead was plenty as Emmanuel class A
Speaker 2: was on to finish things up. So runner third, two
Speaker 2: down and the two two to Clemens.
Speaker 1: Swinging a miss ball game. Class A strikes out the
Speaker 1: side save number five and Cleveland, with another white knuckler
Speaker 1: win beats Minnesota four to two.
Speaker 2: So the Guardians were looking for a series win heading
Speaker 2: into the finale on Thursday afternoon, and they got the
Speaker 2: scoring started early as Kyle Manzardo came to the plate
Speaker 2: in the first inning with a runner in scoring position.
Speaker 1: Now the one pitch swung on line back up the
Speaker 1: middle base it to center around third, coming to score
Speaker 1: Zarius and Kyle Manzardo, with a team high twenty RBIs,
Speaker 1: lines a two out single to center to give Cleveland
Speaker 1: the early lead one to nothing, and Kyle Manzardo just
Speaker 1: keeps on delivering. It was still a one nothing lead
Speaker 1: in the fourth when John Kenzie Noel stepped in. Here's
Speaker 1: the one one swung on and hammered hoy and deep
Speaker 1: left field, bleacher bound home run.
Speaker 3: Noell, oh Man.
Speaker 1: Did he lay into that one? And it's been coming
Speaker 1: for John Kinzie no Weel. There's his second home run
Speaker 1: on the homestand and the Guardians take cut to nothing lead,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it at least and maybe more than
Speaker 1: halfway up the bleachers there and left for Noell four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty feet the distance on that home run.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile on the mound, it was a third consecutive strong
Speaker 1: start for the Guardians, this time from Ben Lively into
Speaker 1: the wind. His pitch swung on popped him up shallow
Speaker 1: right out goes Arius on comes Noel, who calls and
Speaker 1: makes the catch and when the big man says, I
Speaker 1: got it, Marius failed out quickly, three up, three down,
Speaker 1: a low pitch inning for live and we head to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the fifth.
Speaker 2: It's two nothing Cleveland over the Twins. But in the seventh,
Speaker 2: Minnesota battled back, scoring twice to tie the game at two.
Speaker 2: And then the rains came to Progressive Field and continued
Speaker 2: and continued some more, and after about a two hour delay,
Speaker 2: neither team was able to score in the eighth or
Speaker 2: the ninth, so we went to extra innings. The Twins
Speaker 2: were able to get the runner at second base home
Speaker 2: with a sack fly in the top half of the
Speaker 2: tenth that gave them a three to two lead, and
Speaker 2: in the bottom of the tenth it was Stephen Kwan
Speaker 2: the runner starting at second base, and with one out,
Speaker 2: Jose Ramirez got the job done in the clutch. Kwan
Speaker 2: the tying run at third, three to two, Minnesota one down.
Speaker 2: Bottom of the tenth, Twins, with the infield in outfield
Speaker 2: medium deep straight away, the next offering swung and ripped
Speaker 2: in the.
Speaker 1: Right center that sabasin tie ball game. They pitched to
Speaker 1: Ramirez and he lashes an rb I single the right center.
Speaker 3: And we are back to even at three. He's the
Speaker 3: winning run.
Speaker 1: At first it's RBI number fifteen for Jose Ramirez.
Speaker 2: And then with Ramirez at first base, another milestone moment
Speaker 2: would follow.
Speaker 1: Ramirez is one steal away from becoming the first player
Speaker 1: in franchise history with two hundred and fifty steals, two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty home runs.
Speaker 3: He's got a good lead.
Speaker 1: Topa's ready the pitch there he goes, pitches high and wide,
Speaker 1: throw the second head first slide. He got it history
Speaker 1: for Jose Ramirez, the first Enfranchise history, the first major
Speaker 1: league third baseman ever with two hundred and fifty steals,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty home runs. And of course Jose
Speaker 1: Ramirez gets it at a critical juncture in the ballgame.
Speaker 2: So at first base open the Twins in tentionally walked
Speaker 2: Kyle Manzardo, bringing on hell Martinez to the plate.
Speaker 1: Two on one out, The two strength pitch from Topa.
Speaker 1: Runner goes pitch swung on, crowded in the hole. He's
Speaker 1: hitting the right Ramirez around third.
Speaker 3: He will score the game winner, and for the twelfth time.
Speaker 1: Since twenty twenty two, Cleveland is going to walk off
Speaker 1: the Twins in a one run game. Unbelievable on Hell
Speaker 1: Martinez with a pinch hit Army I single in the
Speaker 1: hold a right field, Ramirez running to third on the play,
Speaker 1: scored with ease. And twice in this series Cleveland walks
Speaker 1: off Minnesota. They do it today in ten innings, four
Speaker 1: to three. On What a win it was for the
Speaker 1: Guardian's keyed by the usual from Jose Mirrez. Hustle, plays
Speaker 1: clutch hits, and he scores the game winning run. All
Speaker 1: the while it's becoming an exclusive member in Cleveland baseball
Speaker 1: history of the two fifty two fifty career club for
Speaker 1: stolen bases and home runs. What a career he's having.
Speaker 1: And boy, it sure seems like it's going to end
Speaker 1: with a trip to Cooper's Town at some point in
Speaker 1: time for Jose Ramirez.
Speaker 2: So that wrapped up the homestand on Thursday. The road
Speaker 2: trip started. On Friday night right here in Toronto, and
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays, on a two run single in the
Speaker 2: bottom half of the eighth inning, won the series opener
Speaker 2: by a final score of five to three. Stay with
Speaker 2: us when we come back. We'll hear from Hard hitting
Speaker 2: first basement DH Kyle Manzardo. That's next on the Cleveland
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse along with you
Speaker 2: from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Rogers Center, where the Guardians
Speaker 2: and Blue Jays are meeting this weekend. Earlier this week,
Speaker 2: on the home Stand, Cole Mansardo hit his first walk
Speaker 2: off home run in the Big Leagues to give the
Speaker 2: Guardians a two to one victory over the Twins on
Speaker 2: Tuesday night. It was not only his first walk off
Speaker 2: home run in the major leagues, but as best he
Speaker 2: can remember, it's his first home run that ended a
Speaker 2: game since his days in Little league, and he says
Speaker 2: it was quite a trip around the bases.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, I was completely out of breath, just trying
Speaker 6: to enjoy the moment, taking the moment, but it was sweet.
Speaker 2: Does your approach change at all when you're in that
Speaker 2: situation in the ninth inning, trying to maybe win it
Speaker 2: with one swing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, not necessarily trying to win it with one swing,
Speaker 6: trying to I would say, hit a double, get us
Speaker 6: a runner and scoring position to lead off an inning,
Speaker 6: kind of first and foremost, but looking to drive the ball.
Speaker 2: And as the bad developed, what did you see and
Speaker 2: did you feel like it would get out when you
Speaker 2: hit it?
Speaker 4: No, I didn't.
Speaker 6: I didn't think it was going to get out. I
Speaker 6: thought I hit it a little bit too low, so
Speaker 6: I was running, running hard out of the box, but
Speaker 6: definitely happy it's knuck out.
Speaker 2: Can you describe the feeling for fans when when you
Speaker 2: get back to home plate and all your teammates are there.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Man, it's it's a rush.
Speaker 6: Just trying to take in the moment and make sure
Speaker 6: it doesn't slip past me without you know, enjoying it.
Speaker 2: The game was delayed quite some time, more than three hours,
Speaker 2: and I understand there's a lot of chess going on
Speaker 2: and here were you partaking in that? And if so,
Speaker 2: how did you do?
Speaker 6: I beat Nolan three times in a row. I'm not
Speaker 6: very good. I've never beat Bo or Kwan or any
Speaker 6: of those guys that are pretty good, but trying to
Speaker 6: learn it a little bit.
Speaker 2: So you say you beat Nolan three times? Does he
Speaker 2: know that you beat him three times in a row?
Speaker 2: Or are you guys kind of still trying to figure
Speaker 2: out the rules.
Speaker 9: He should know.
Speaker 6: I let him know. If he didn't know, he wasn't
Speaker 6: listening to me, but I let him know.
Speaker 2: Kyle, you look at it, how things are going and
Speaker 2: the season continues to develop. Well, we taught you shortly
Speaker 2: after it began and you were on a hot streak
Speaker 2: right out of the shoot. What have you learned over
Speaker 2: this first month that's helped you as you've gone through
Speaker 2: some of those ups and downs.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you just got to trust yourself and stick with it.
Speaker 6: You know, this is baseball, this is what you know
Speaker 6: it's going to be, So just enjoying the highs and
Speaker 6: trying not to too much into the lows.
Speaker 2: And over at first base, you have made some good
Speaker 2: plays when you've had that opportunity, and how much satisfaction
Speaker 2: do you get out of that, and how have you
Speaker 2: become a really very much a serviceable first baseman.
Speaker 6: Just staying ready, being really intentional with my work before
Speaker 6: the games, and then whenever I get a chance over there,
Speaker 6: making sure I'm trying to make the most of it.
Speaker 2: When you look at last night, it's hard to say
Speaker 2: there's a big win in April, but based on how
Speaker 2: things had gone the last couple of days, was there
Speaker 2: that feeling afterward that hey, that was a nice one
Speaker 2: to get.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, just get back in the win column after
Speaker 6: a couple of rough games, and especially to make sure
Speaker 6: that we picked Bibby up. Bibby gave us the start
Speaker 6: that we really really needed. So to be able to
Speaker 6: capitalize on that with a win is excellent.
Speaker 2: And obviously you're a big part of that. At the end, Kyle,
Speaker 2: thanks for coming b I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 2: That's Kyle Manzardo, who for a while now has led
Speaker 2: the team in both home runs and runs driven. In
Speaker 2: What a year it has been for Manzardo. Already, stay
Speaker 2: with us when we come back. We'll visit with catcher
Speaker 2: Bow Naylor and relief pitcher Colby Allard. That's coming up
Speaker 2: next on the Cleveland Clinic. Guardians Radio Network. Welcome back
Speaker 2: to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse along with you from the
Speaker 2: Rogers Center in Toronto. Guardians and Blue Jays meeting on
Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon at three oh seven. I'll ramp up the
Speaker 2: weekend on Sunday afternoon with a one thirty seven first pitch.
Speaker 2: Bow Naylor hit a home run in the series opener
Speaker 2: on Friday night, his third home run this week, and
Speaker 2: he does it in the shadow of his hometown, Mississauga,
Speaker 2: just up the road. And he played some games here
Speaker 2: at the Rogers Center in youth baseball and high school baseball.
Speaker 2: So Love's coming back here. This is the third year
Speaker 2: he has done so. And with Naylor, he talked a
Speaker 2: lot about some of the keys to his recent success
Speaker 2: at the plate.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it really just comes down to, you
Speaker 10: know something that I talk about often, which is controlling
Speaker 10: the things you can control. Ultimately, that's you know, trying
Speaker 10: to swing at good pitches and you know, doing damage
Speaker 10: on the ones that are kind of in the heart
Speaker 10: of the plate, which you know, we got one in
Speaker 10: that game, which is you know we always love to see.
Speaker 8: But yeah, you know, also trying.
Speaker 10: To control the the tempo of the bat, you know,
Speaker 10: making sure that you're not rushed and going out there
Speaker 10: with the plan and trying your best to execute you know,
Speaker 10: everything else. You know, if you know you put a
Speaker 10: good bat on the ball and you know it counts
Speaker 10: as an out, you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 10: you go back to dugout knowing you did everything you could.
Speaker 10: So it's taking all those things that you can control
Speaker 10: and you know, allowing that to keep your mind a
Speaker 10: good spot for the at bats that are to follow.
Speaker 2: And I know you worked hard on some things in
Speaker 2: the offseason. Are those coming into play in a good
Speaker 2: way for you so far?
Speaker 8: Yeah? One hundred percent. Uh, you know, everything's coming together
Speaker 8: pretty well.
Speaker 10: You know, still a long season ago, so little by little,
Speaker 10: just trying to continue to take steps in the right direction,
Speaker 10: keep an open dialogue with the coaches, especially the hitting
Speaker 10: coaches just to make sure that things are flowing as
Speaker 10: we'd like, and all the hard work that we put
Speaker 10: in the off season is continue to show out there.
Speaker 10: So yeah, you know, and just got to continue to
Speaker 10: you know, go out there and try to do our best,
Speaker 10: try to make an impact, and you know, take take
Speaker 10: all the good things that you can to keep your mind.
Speaker 8: On the right spot.
Speaker 2: Defensively, throwing is obviously a big part of it, and
Speaker 2: a huge cat stealing late they roll a pinch runner
Speaker 2: in there, so I'm sure you had a hunch and
Speaker 2: it seemed like everyone else did too, but sometimes that
Speaker 2: can be a difficult situation to throw someone out in.
Speaker 2: How much have you come along defensively in that area
Speaker 2: of the game controlling the running game?
Speaker 10: I think I'm always trying to better myself in every
Speaker 10: aspect of the game, that being one of them as
Speaker 10: of recent And yeah, I mean I can't say it's
Speaker 10: all it was all me in that play. You know,
Speaker 10: shout out class A, you know, doing his best to
Speaker 10: control the running game because he made my job a
Speaker 10: lot easier. So yeah, it's all those factors coming together.
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, a lot of the emphasis for
Speaker 10: me personally just being on the throwing program, making sure
Speaker 10: that I'm sequencing and everything's patterning out correctly so that
Speaker 10: you know, we get results like that out there in
Speaker 10: the game. But yeah, I mean I try my best
Speaker 10: to do everything I can to put myself in a
Speaker 10: good position.
Speaker 8: And yeah, you know, again shout out to class A
Speaker 8: for for helping me along with that.
Speaker 2: And your manager Stephen Bow did mention that he feels
Speaker 2: you're throwing better and how can you improve at this
Speaker 2: stage of your career just in a simple thing like throwing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think for there's been a lot of emphasis
Speaker 10: I mean just in the whole kind of like preparation
Speaker 10: process to throwing, so like weighted balls, making sure that
Speaker 10: they're putting your arm and your body in a good
Speaker 10: position to be able to sink itself correctly, so that
Speaker 10: everything is working.
Speaker 8: The right way, you know, getting the right stretch, making sure.
Speaker 10: That everything is on time between your feet and your
Speaker 10: upper half and also staying into the ground. All those things,
Speaker 10: all those factors come together to ultimately.
Speaker 8: Create a good throw.
Speaker 10: So yeah, it's all the preparation that we do beforehand,
Speaker 10: and also you know the maintenance of the arm, the shoulder,
Speaker 10: all the things that come with that, make sure that
Speaker 10: we're staying on top of it with the trainers and
Speaker 10: the stuff behind the scenes so that we go out there.
Speaker 8: We could just go out there and kind of let
Speaker 8: the game flow.
Speaker 2: You've been there a couple of times in your major
Speaker 2: league career, but this weekend, the Toronto trip, I'm sure
Speaker 2: you circle it still a big deal, even though you've
Speaker 2: been there a couple of times.
Speaker 10: And if so, why, I like to think so being
Speaker 10: able to go out there, see some families, see friends,
Speaker 10: be able to play in a park that I'm very
Speaker 10: familiar with, you know, from growing up going games, even
Speaker 10: being able to plan it a few times growing.
Speaker 8: Up in my later high school years.
Speaker 10: All that stuff comes together just to create an amazing feeling.
Speaker 10: And yeah, you know, the biggest par is just being
Speaker 10: able to see fam play in front of them, share
Speaker 10: those moments with them, all those great experiences had.
Speaker 3: Is Bo Naylor.
Speaker 2: I'm always a fun weekend up here for Naylor when
Speaker 2: the Guardians hit down and take on the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2: Not far from Naylor's hometown of Mississauga, Colby Alert. He
Speaker 2: just joined the ball club last weekend and has provided
Speaker 2: a nice spark out of the bullpen when the Guardians
Speaker 2: need some innings, and man that he provides some innings
Speaker 2: last weekend against the Red Sox in a double header game,
Speaker 2: six innings out of the pen, and they needed every
Speaker 2: one of them to save some other arms for further use.
Speaker 2: And he said it was great to be back in
Speaker 2: the big leagues and back on a major league mound
Speaker 2: contributing to a major league team.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, it's obviously good to kind of quote
Speaker 9: unquote get the monkey off the back, you know, for
Speaker 9: your first one there. So it's definitely good to you know,
Speaker 9: get out there and you know, got to got to
Speaker 9: throw quite a few innings. So yeah, no, it's definitely
Speaker 9: good to get back out there in a big league
Speaker 9: game and kind of hit the ground running for the guys.
Speaker 2: You were impressive in spring training but did not make
Speaker 2: the club right away. At the end of the spring,
Speaker 2: you had a choice of whether to stay or maybe
Speaker 2: look around a little bit. What kept you here and
Speaker 2: why was that a good decision for you?
Speaker 9: You know, I think kind of the same reason I
Speaker 9: signed here in the off season. You know, I think
Speaker 9: they're the pitching department around here has you know, done
Speaker 9: a really good job identifying you know, some things with
Speaker 9: other people that I've seen from Afar and you know myself,
Speaker 9: and I think, you know, just you know, it's a
Speaker 9: very good group of people in here.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of a lot.
Speaker 9: Of you know, good people and a lot of good,
Speaker 9: you know, good winning baseball that.
Speaker 4: We're trying to play in here.
Speaker 9: So it's a great environment, you know, And I'm just
Speaker 9: very very excited to be here and you know, help
Speaker 9: help the team in any way I can.
Speaker 2: And those pluses Earlier in your career might might it
Speaker 2: have been different or you experienced enough now to know
Speaker 2: a good spot when you see it, and and just
Speaker 2: a field type thing for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 9: You know, I think the longer you're the longer you're
Speaker 9: around this game, the more I guess you just the
Speaker 9: more you see, the more you kind of understand. And
Speaker 9: I think, just you know, Cleveland can hopefully be a
Speaker 9: place that I can kind of, you know, bounce around
Speaker 9: a lot of places the last few years, you know,
Speaker 9: and hopefully Cleveland's a place that I can kind of
Speaker 9: find a little bit of a home.
Speaker 2: You know, Colby, I remember we talked in spring training
Speaker 2: and you said you had to really believe in your
Speaker 2: stuff and maybe not change things and explain what that means,
Speaker 2: especially maybe in the past where you tried to be
Speaker 2: a little bit different but now have settled on a
Speaker 2: good spot.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 9: I think a lot of it for me is just
Speaker 9: attacking the zone, you know, and I think as being
Speaker 9: ahead of hitters. And there's been times in my career,
Speaker 9: you know, I don't necessarily throw the hardest or necessarily
Speaker 9: have the quote unquote nastiest of pitches, you know, per se.
Speaker 9: But I think when you go out there and you're ahead,
Speaker 9: and you could put a good mix in there and
Speaker 9: you stay ahead of guys, you know, I think that's
Speaker 9: something that I've done a fairly good job of this
Speaker 9: year in a Guardian's uniform. And I think that's just
Speaker 9: something that the coaching staff and have kind of instilled
Speaker 9: back into me. Is that confidence, you know that we
Speaker 9: can our stuff plays in zone and just get it
Speaker 9: out there and get it in the zone as much
Speaker 9: as we can change speeds, you know, move it in
Speaker 9: and out, up and down, and we can have success
Speaker 9: at the major league level doing that. So I think
Speaker 9: it's just kind of continuing to put one foot in
Speaker 9: front of the other, keep getting better and kind of
Speaker 9: keep hacking away with those things.
Speaker 2: Is that part of the game where sometimes there's that
Speaker 2: tendency you want your stuff to be better when maybe
Speaker 2: your stuff is just good the way it.
Speaker 4: Is one hundred percent.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, obviously as players, you know, we're always
Speaker 9: trying to be better and get better, you know, I think,
Speaker 9: but also just knowing who you are as a pitcher,
Speaker 9: I think is something that's very important. And you know,
Speaker 9: I think there was you know, everybody, everybody's career path
Speaker 9: is different, you know, I think, but I think the
Speaker 9: Guardians have done a really good job of kind of
Speaker 9: instilling that confidence in who I am as a pitcher
Speaker 9: and kind of just running with that rather than there's
Speaker 9: been the times in my career in the past where
Speaker 9: I've tried to be you know, trying to do too much,
Speaker 9: trying to be somebody else rather than just you know,
Speaker 9: being Colby. And so I think that's kind of just
Speaker 9: the mentality we're going to kind of continue to take
Speaker 9: forward moving forward.
Speaker 2: You're a southern California kids. San Clemente a good surfing area,
Speaker 2: and there's teammates in here who know where you're from,
Speaker 2: are from there as well? Explain surfing. How how long
Speaker 2: have you been doing it and how big a part
Speaker 2: of your life is.
Speaker 9: My dad's had me in the water since I could walk, probably,
Speaker 9: so it's definitely a it's definitely a top hobby for
Speaker 9: my for myself, and you know, it's definitely cool to
Speaker 9: have a lot of guys, a lot of other socow
Speaker 9: guys in the clubhouse so you can kind of connect
Speaker 9: on some good surf spots and you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 8: So it's definitely it's definitely a cool thing.
Speaker 2: Ben Laveley said it's actually good for him because of
Speaker 2: the paddling and things like that, good for your arms
Speaker 2: and shoulders, you look at it that way at all, one.
Speaker 9: Hundred percent, No, I think it's awesome. It's definitely good
Speaker 9: for the scaffs, good for the back, and good for honestly,
Speaker 9: good for everything.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 9: It's a it's good for you know, that side of things.
Speaker 9: And I think it's good for the mental just break,
Speaker 9: you know, getting you know, getting kind of away from things.
Speaker 9: So that's a that's a good cool thing. Love surfing,
Speaker 9: love getting back out there.
Speaker 2: Can I try some some surfing slang?
Speaker 1: On you.
Speaker 3: Oh, hit me with it?
Speaker 2: Did they still say gnarly?
Speaker 9: Definitely in my vocabulary?
Speaker 2: What does it mean?
Speaker 4: That's gnarley?
Speaker 2: Man? It's crazy. Do you still shoot the curl?
Speaker 4: Shoot the curl, hit the barrel?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can have a few of them, you know,
Speaker 2: that's funny.
Speaker 4: Let's shoot the curl.
Speaker 9: Huh. Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: Hang ten? Is that like nineteen fifties? No more?
Speaker 9: Oh no, My dad will tell you he could probably
Speaker 9: try to hang ten for you.
Speaker 2: All Right, we covered a lot here today. Colby, thanks
Speaker 2: a lot for coming back, of course, man, thanks for
Speaker 2: having long winding road for Colby Allard, a former number
Speaker 2: one draft pick of the Atlanta Braves and now trying
Speaker 2: to help out the Guardians in their bullpen as a
Speaker 2: lefty out of the pen. Stay with us when we
Speaker 2: came back. We will visit with one of the best
Speaker 2: ever to suit up for Cleveland on the mound. And
Speaker 2: that says a lot, because there's been some great ones.
Speaker 2: But Corey Klueber will be our guest when we return
Speaker 2: after this.
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Speaker 1: Kloeber gets his seventh strikeout and shuts out the Detroit
Speaker 1: Tigers for nothing, the second major league complete game shutout
Speaker 1: for Corey Klueber.
Speaker 3: He did it in just one hundred and eleven pitches.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Guardians Weekly, our final segment, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna te to a couple of greats of the game.
Speaker 2: First off, Corey Klueber was in town earlier this week
Speaker 2: when the Guardians were at home. He's kind of dipping
Speaker 2: his toe into water to see whether he would like
Speaker 2: to be an assistant and help out on an occasional basis,
Speaker 2: either at the major league level, maybe in the minor leagues,
Speaker 2: but certainly helping out the pitching end of things for
Speaker 2: the Guardians and why not. He's a two time cy
Speaker 2: Young Award winner during his time in Cleveland, and when
Speaker 2: we caught up with him earlier this week, he explained
Speaker 2: what the role of a special pitching assistant could entail
Speaker 2: and has entailed so far.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think spring training was more so just an
Speaker 11: initial visit to kind of both sides feel out where
Speaker 11: they're at, kind of see if it was something that
Speaker 11: I thought I might enjoy, something that the.
Speaker 8: Team thought might be beneficial for them.
Speaker 11: And now I think it's more so we're just trying
Speaker 11: to figure out the best way that I can kind
Speaker 11: of be impactful and use my experiences that I encountered
Speaker 11: throughout my career to kind of be an extra resource
Speaker 11: for guys if if needed.
Speaker 2: So you're in here during a regular season series, what
Speaker 2: are some of the things that you're doing, and how
Speaker 2: can you impact guys in a short period of time.
Speaker 2: I mean, really, right now, a lot of it is
Speaker 2: still that kind of initial getting to know a lot
Speaker 2: of the guys, you know. I mean, it's funny because
Speaker 2: it wasn't that long ago I was here. But I
Speaker 2: think Jose and Carlos are the only ones on the
Speaker 2: field that I have any relationship with. So I've still
Speaker 2: got to, you know, build that relationship with guys in
Speaker 2: order to kind of have that level of trust and
Speaker 2: confidence to where if I were to say something or
Speaker 2: deliver a message, you know, it's not just coming from
Speaker 2: somebody with no background, so to speak, in that relationship.
Speaker 2: So I think that, you know, that's kind of where
Speaker 2: I'm focused right now, is just getting to you know,
Speaker 2: know the guys on a base level and kind of
Speaker 2: throughout that process and learn learn about them, how they
Speaker 2: go about their business, what makes them tick, all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, obviously, but pitching at the high level
Speaker 2: that you did, you you were helped by various coaches
Speaker 2: and were any especially helpful to you and how they
Speaker 2: went about it and maybe give you some guidance now
Speaker 2: as far as how you might want to go about it.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 11: I mean, I've I've talked with with Rubin a little
Speaker 11: bit right after I retire, just about not about doing anything,
Speaker 11: but just kind of about what maybe next steps might be.
Speaker 11: And you know, I think more than anything, it's really
Speaker 11: about what every coach says is it's about the relationship
Speaker 11: side of it. You know, first and foremost, that's what's
Speaker 11: going to make everything more impactful, as if you have
Speaker 11: a real relationship with the players, if you have an
Speaker 11: understanding of how they operate, if you you know, you
Speaker 11: kind of know what makes them, what makes them go,
Speaker 11: then the messaging or whatever it might be, becomes that
Speaker 11: much more impactful.
Speaker 2: Fun to be background a major league clubhouse again, even
Speaker 2: if it's just for a little bit it is.
Speaker 11: It's a much different clubhouse, but it's still fun for sure.
Speaker 2: Corey, great to see you, Thanks for coming by. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Fun chat with Corey Klueber.
Speaker 2: And here's hoping that they can work something out where
Speaker 2: he can contribute at a time and a place that
Speaker 2: works well for him, because certainly a lot of good
Speaker 2: things to pass along as a player when he was
Speaker 2: here to other pitchers, and you got to figure that
Speaker 2: that would translate to the coaching end of things as
Speaker 2: well well. The twins were in Cleveland earlier this week,
Speaker 2: and that means a visit from Paul Mollader, the Hall
Speaker 2: of famer who spent some time here in Toronto also
Speaker 2: the bulk of his career with the Brewers, but finished
Speaker 2: it up with the Twins, then became a Twins manager
Speaker 2: and now working in the broadcast booth for Minnesota. So
Speaker 2: we had a couple of Hall of Famers on Radio
Speaker 2: Row in the press box in Cleveland as as soon
Speaker 2: to be official Hall of Famer will be Tom Hamilton
Speaker 2: our broadcast partner here, and he talked about some of
Speaker 2: the memories that stick out from his induction Molitors back
Speaker 2: in two thousand and four.
Speaker 12: Well, first of all, I'm so happy for Tom. I mean,
Speaker 12: just so deserving and he's not a guy really to
Speaker 12: presume anything, and so I'm not sure what it felt
Speaker 12: like when he got that call, but I'm certainly excited
Speaker 12: to see him go in. For me, it's hard to
Speaker 12: imagine that it's been twenty one years. I still remember
Speaker 12: the waiting period after post playing days.
Speaker 4: And a little bit uncertain. People tell you that you
Speaker 4: have a really.
Speaker 12: Good chance, but you know, I spent a lot of
Speaker 12: time with it as a designated hitter, so I wasn't
Speaker 12: sure if that was going to maybe jeopardize the potential induction,
Speaker 12: but it came and I was very grateful. It's still
Speaker 12: special to go back every year, you know, we get
Speaker 12: a fairly large contingent each and every year, usually at
Speaker 12: least fifty guys, if not.
Speaker 4: A little bit more than that. And it's just a
Speaker 4: great group.
Speaker 12: And we were talking yesterday about you know, the speech,
Speaker 12: and you get nervous and how do you go about
Speaker 12: thanking people and all that stuff. But if anybody is
Speaker 12: going to have not too much of an iss she's
Speaker 12: saying the right thing, it's going to be Tom Hamilton.
Speaker 2: And I know when when he was found out the
Speaker 2: news in December, he said, no one gets into this.
Speaker 2: You're just hoping to get that first job in the
Speaker 2: major leagues. You don't get into it thinking about Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame. How about is a player the same.
Speaker 4: I think it's a fair question. I don't. I know
Speaker 4: that I never dreamt about becoming a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 12: The dreams are about playing as long as you can
Speaker 12: and maybe get a chance to play professional baseball. There
Speaker 12: might be a few guys that, either because of lineage
Speaker 12: from having great athletes as fathers, that maybe they had
Speaker 12: an expectation of reaching that point at their career once
Speaker 12: they finished. But no, it just was kind of those
Speaker 12: things you know, when you finally get there, it's a
Speaker 12: dream come true. And then you try to figure out
Speaker 12: a way to stay there and then you realize you're
Speaker 12: there to win. And you know, before I could really blink,
Speaker 12: you know, I was twenty one years into it, and
Speaker 12: you know, to play till you're forty two is.
Speaker 4: Just a total gift. So yeah, it's it's like I said,
Speaker 4: it's just it's a fantastic group to be a part of.
Speaker 12: The irony now is when I went in, you know,
Speaker 12: all my boy who had heroes were the guys that
Speaker 12: I would see when it was Hank Aaron and Willie
Speaker 12: Mays and l Kline and Harmer, Killerbrew and.
Speaker 4: The Guards kind of changed.
Speaker 12: Now now I'm kind of part of that older group
Speaker 12: and so YWNT and Brett and Me and Alsie Smith
Speaker 12: and you know, we're kind of the veterans there now.
Speaker 12: So it's fun to see all these young guys coming
Speaker 12: in as far as the players that get it get inducted.
Speaker 4: But yeah, just a magical weekend and I can't wait
Speaker 4: for this summer.
Speaker 3: Paul.
Speaker 2: For you, you mentioned twenty one years and the last
Speaker 2: three were with the Twins. What did that mean to
Speaker 2: you based on your background to be able to play
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 12: Well, we talked about the longevity of playing and not
Speaker 12: really having that expectation, I thought I had missed my
Speaker 12: chance to play for my hometown team growing up in
Speaker 12: Saint Paul, Minnesota. I had fifteen wonderful years in Milwaukee
Speaker 12: and really never expected to leave there. But when I
Speaker 12: ventured north of the border up to Toronto, it worked out.
Speaker 12: I had my only opportunity to win a World Series
Speaker 12: and then lo and behold, the Twins had an interest
Speaker 12: in the year that I was a turn forty years old,
Speaker 12: so to come back playing my hometown. My family, who
Speaker 12: had been very supportive of traveling to see me play,
Speaker 12: could now get in the car and drive down to
Speaker 12: the Metrodome. I got to play for Tom Kelly and
Speaker 12: Man I had a lot of respect for. Probably the
Speaker 12: biggest disappointment was that my first spring training was with
Speaker 12: the Twins when Kirby Puckett went down with the glaucoma issue,
Speaker 12: and so I was really looking forward to him as
Speaker 12: a teammate and that never came into fruition. But yeah,
Speaker 12: to play for the team that really created those dreams,
Speaker 12: you know, for me, it was Killer Brew and Tony
Speaker 12: o'liva and Jim Cott and Bob Allison and maybe not
Speaker 12: names overly familiar to the Guardians fans, but you know,
Speaker 12: to go back and wear that uniform in my last
Speaker 12: three years was very special.
Speaker 2: Holly, thanks so much for the visit. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4: My pleasure.
Speaker 2: Good to see you and his Hall of Famer Paul
Speaker 2: Mollader and a lot of fun stories there and he
Speaker 2: will be on hand this summer when Hammy's going into
Speaker 2: Cooperstown in late July. Well, it's going to do it
Speaker 2: for our show. This week is always thanks to Brian
Speaker 2: Matse for helping out and putting together a solid show
Speaker 2: each and every week. We'll join you next week when
Speaker 2: the team is back home taking on the Phillies next
Speaker 2: weekend should be a fun weekend series against Philadelphia. Until then,
Speaker 2: this is Jim rosen House reminding you that you've been
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