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Speaker 1: First of all, congratulations the engagement. It's going to be

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off season for you. What made you decide ultimately this

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was the time to do it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's something that I've been wanting to do

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for a long time, and you know, I was in season,

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she was in season. I feel like the off season

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was only the only appropriate time. You know, I didn't

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want to do it when she was still playing, you know,

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I wanted her to focus on her season and then

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once her season was over is green light?

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Speaker 1: So who's handling all the marriage plans?

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Speaker 3: Is that going to be after the season? Are you

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guys going to try to talk it out during the year.

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Speaker 2: I will talk it out during the year. We'll definitely

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plan it during the year. And uh, we're kind of

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both going back and forth. Both give an imposts. But

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she's doing most of the work.

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Speaker 1: I haven't married a long time to let her do

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all the popular things wherever Man had worked out for

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you this camp, I mean, you're now one of the

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older guys in the team. Is that kind of crazy

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to think?

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Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like that, you know, I still feel

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like like I'm that young kid, you know, with you

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coming into my first spring training, you know, I have

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all the energy in the world, I have all the

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ambitions in the world, and you know, we have a

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great team, and I'm excited to be around these guys.

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Speaker 3: And I still I get excited to be around some

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of the guys, you know, learn from that pick their brain.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, it had to have been. I think

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it was thrill for everybody, especially you guys. It's like Tobra,

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you're not playing games. I mean, did debts how long

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did that take? The sink in and was there a

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level of frustration disappointment And I got to get back

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on the field as soon as possible.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like our goal is always to

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get into the postseason and make a run in the postseason.

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You know, we didn't achieve that last year, which was

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tough for us as a whole as an organization. But

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at the same time, you know it's time to turn

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the page, you know, roberin spring training and you know

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we have a new season upon us and it's time

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to bounce back. You know, it's time to get back

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into the playoffs and make a run.

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Speaker 1: How is it it looked like to me watching you

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guys that your re lationship with Carlos at their base

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or was amazing. I mean, it took no time for

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you guys to transition together.

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Speaker 3: Right right.

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Speaker 2: You know, Carlos has been great to me since the

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first day I got to the organization, you know, spring

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training twenty nineteen, and I got to hang out with

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the team quite a bit.

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Speaker 3: You know, Joe A.

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Speaker 2: Spota kind of took it upon himself to get me

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playing time with the mob games in string training, so

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I would come from the minor league side and hang

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out with the big leaguers.

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Speaker 3: And you know, it was pretty cool, Pretty cool. Does

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that happened a lot?

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a pretty special situation for you to

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be able to be with those guys early in your career.

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Speaker 2: I mean, guys usually get the opportunity to come up

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and play back up some games, but I feel like

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Joe was make me back up almost every single game.

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You know, I feel like I was barely in minor

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league spring training, and I feel like I was over

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and I didn't play much. You know, I would come

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into the eighth inning, get one that bat. I would

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come in to ninth and just play defense. But just

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being around those guys, man, it was special because you

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get to pick their brains, you know how the big leaguers.

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Speaker 3: Think, you know, and it's exciting for me.

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Speaker 1: So do you look back at that and go, man,

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I made some mistakes when I was younger, or I

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just kind of just soaked everything in.

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Speaker 3: I mean I try to soak everything in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, if you look back at the team

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we had twenty nineteen, like it was unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I had guys like Michael Brandley around me. You know,

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I had guys like Josel Tuve around me.

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Speaker 3: It was it was special, special for sure.

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Speaker 1: Do you find younger guys coming to you asking those

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same kind of questions that you were asking four or

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five years ago.

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Speaker 3: I feel like they asked better questions than I did.

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I was just quiet.

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Speaker 2: I feel like these guys are very confident, you know,

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they know what their game is. You know, they love

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picking people's brains. But I was more shy, you know.

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I was kind of just they're looking trying to learn

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by seeing.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I was never want to just approach someone and ask

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them a question, you know, but if they open that

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door for me, then I felt the confidence, you know.

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Speaker 3: Keep talking about it.

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Speaker 1: Gouple more questions here with Jeremy Pina, Jose's back at

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second base primarily. And look, I think what he did

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last year in volunteering himself with the left field, everybody's

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going to do that, and maybe ten years down the

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road they may ask you to go to third base

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something like that. What is that like watching a guy

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like that go to a new position for the good

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of the team. But you know, in his heart he

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wants to be a second base I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, it says a lot about the type of person

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he is and the type of player he is. You know,

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he's a player that's always going to do what's you know,

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best for the team. Like he wants to see the

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team do good. You know, he wants to see the

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team win. You know, he's been here through the ups

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and the downs off this team, you know, from when

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he first got to the big leagues to winning the

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world's multiple World series.

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Speaker 3: You know. So I feel like A two is very

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is very inclined to help in the team win.

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Speaker 2: And two is a player that you know, he tries

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to make everyone better and if that meant last year

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trying to move to left field and makes a team

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better than you know, he's a guy who's just put

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in the lineup and he's going to find a way

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to help the team.

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Speaker 1: What do you want to getccomplish here? I know that

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Joe mentioned a few weeks ago that maybe some of

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the older guys won't have to play as much as

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spring training. Have you kind of mapped up a schedule

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what you'd like to see done for yourself in terms

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of playing time.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm going to have to play quite a bit.

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Speaker 2: I'll be playing pretty early spring training because of the

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World Baseball Classes, right so you know I'm preparing a

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little earlier than I usually do. But yeah, I'll be

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playing right away, join my Dominican Republic team and go

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from there.

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Speaker 3: How amped for you for that?

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Speaker 1: Because here's the thing we argue about this on my

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Radar show, about the importance of it. I can't be

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in your skin because so many of your guys, like

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yourself and other countries have said this is such an

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important event. So to wrap this up, what makes this WBC,

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even though it's every three years, so important for guys

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like yourself.

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Speaker 3: It's special. It's special.

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Speaker 2: I feel like you grow up admiring these guys that

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represent our country. You know you admire the Vapoutholes, you know,

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the Miguel Tahadas, you know, and they never had a

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problem with putting on that uniform and represent our country,

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you know. And you know what they did in two

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thousand and thirteen, I believe when we won the w BAMA. Yeah,

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two thousy thirteen, when we were in the WBC, the

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whole country, it was like a big celebration, you know.

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Speaker 3: And I remember I was in I was in high school,

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and that's a memory, vivid moment for me, you know,

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core memory.

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Speaker 2: You know, Robinson Canal, like, I admired all those guys,

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you know, and they brought the trophy home and it

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was special for us, and I hope to you know,

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kind of give the country that same glory. You know,

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we have a great team to do it, and they

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were going to go enjoy ourselves and compete