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<v Speaker 1>We are in the city of brotherly love, and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>joined right now by a man that considers me a

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<v Speaker 1>little brother, maybe a big brother, and that is Dodger

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<v Speaker 1>reliever Blake Trining. Great to see you, brother.

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<v Speaker 2>Good to see it's it's moderately good to see you today.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, I saw you just come back from this new

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<v Speaker 1>revamped bullpen in Philadelphia. They got the slunting glass doors.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you think about that situation?

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<v Speaker 2>It's great, but don't don't fool yourself. The only reason

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<v Speaker 2>we got it is because I think there's some type

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<v Speaker 2>of rule where if you upgrade one, there has to

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<v Speaker 2>be competitive balance. Yeah, we can't be sitting in the

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<v Speaker 2>elements as they But thank you Philadelphia for taking care

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<v Speaker 2>of that. So it's nice. They did a good job.

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<v Speaker 1>I heard, with the reputation of a city that booeds

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<v Speaker 1>Santa Claus, it was a little distracting to have the

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<v Speaker 1>fans here that close to the visiting bullpen.

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<v Speaker 2>Fans are fans. I mean, there's places just as bad,

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<v Speaker 2>if not worse at times, you know, like for the

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<v Speaker 2>percentages and population that filled the entitlement to say whatever

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<v Speaker 2>they want because they bought it, you know, like that's fine.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean we're professionals. We get paid to make sure

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<v Speaker 2>we can block it out. So you know, that was

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<v Speaker 2>only the handful of people across the league that want

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<v Speaker 2>to be ignorant and do stupid stuff that weren't being ejected.

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<v Speaker 2>So tread lightly, you know, like if you come to

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<v Speaker 2>the bullpen, We've got guys that have a quick trigger.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not me. I'm not going to tell you who

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<v Speaker 2>it is, so, but there are quick triggers down there.

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<v Speaker 1>Blake Trening is our guest as the Dodgers and Phillies

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<v Speaker 1>are getting set for first pitch. Blake, here's something I've

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<v Speaker 1>never asked you before. How do you continue to get

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<v Speaker 1>better with age? Because it feels like you're not only maintaining,

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<v Speaker 1>but you're getting better every year.

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<v Speaker 2>Was that a mild backhanded compliment? Blake? With as old

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<v Speaker 2>as you are, can you teach an old dog new tricks?

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<v Speaker 2>You know? The reason I'm even in this game still

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<v Speaker 2>is by the grace of God, and I've been very

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<v Speaker 2>blessed with good people around me to try to, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>learn me some new stuff. And uh, you know, for

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<v Speaker 2>what it's worth, Trevor Bauer helped me with my sweeper

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<v Speaker 2>back in twenty one and spring training Connor mc guinnis

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<v Speaker 2>and Mark and Bard. They all helped me stay locked

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<v Speaker 2>in on certain cues with my pitches. So my success

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<v Speaker 2>is a culmination of plenty of good people around me

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<v Speaker 2>keeping me dialed in. We are about as good as

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<v Speaker 2>those who are around us. You know, if I was

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<v Speaker 2>on my own, you know, you always think, like, man,

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<v Speaker 2>if I was somewhere else, could I repeat what I'm doing? Maybe,

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<v Speaker 2>if that's what God wants me to do. But I

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<v Speaker 2>like to think that the people here have really helped

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<v Speaker 2>bless my career, and hopefully I've been able to bless

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<v Speaker 2>you know, the organization on the backside of it too.

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<v Speaker 2>But you know, learning new pitches certainly helps lengthen your career,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, I like to think that I'm doing

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<v Speaker 2>something right, and maybe the Lord has favor over my

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<v Speaker 2>career too. It's to me, it's evident, and it's it's no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>more obvious than the fact that I'm here for another

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<v Speaker 2>two years of the Dodgers.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, that news was broken by a TV reporter in

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<v Speaker 1>Houston somewhere. Blake Uh as far as that sweeper goes,

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<v Speaker 1>you're a great person to ask this, can you define

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<v Speaker 1>what a sweeper is because us mere mortals hear these

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<v Speaker 1>different terms of pitches and don't really understand. Is it

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<v Speaker 1>just another name for a slider or is it a

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<v Speaker 1>unique shape of a pitch.

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<v Speaker 2>I think it's more or less. You're you're clipping it

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<v Speaker 2>higher rate with lateral spin to get it to turn.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you were to put it more north and south,

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<v Speaker 2>it'd be a curveball. But since it's east and west,

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<v Speaker 2>the idea is that you're you're catching the teams just

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<v Speaker 2>right to get a lateral curveball. And that's why you

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<v Speaker 2>don't really see him higher than truthfully, like a big sweeper,

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<v Speaker 2>you don't really see bigger than like, you know, sixteen

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<v Speaker 2>to twenty and then uh lateral uh, and then you

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<v Speaker 2>know the vlo I. There might be a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>guys and there's a lot of talented arms out there,

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<v Speaker 2>but most most sweepers are you know, no harder than

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<v Speaker 2>eighty eight, and that's pretty that's pretty elite to get.

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<v Speaker 2>Usually when it's that hard, you get you're flirting around

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<v Speaker 2>like ten to fourteen lateral. When it's a little bit slower,

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<v Speaker 2>you have time for it to catch more and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>you can get more more lateral with it. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's just it's just a lateral curveball.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, good to know. See I was confused. We're all

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<v Speaker 1>confused about the sweeper.

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<v Speaker 2>And I would have never known to describe it as that,

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<v Speaker 2>and unless I had talked with Connor mcguinnis and he

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<v Speaker 2>kind of worked it that way, because I you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not a big fan of reinventing different terms. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>people have thrown lateral sliders for a long time. The

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<v Speaker 2>idea now that it's a new pitch is just that

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<v Speaker 2>we've got more information. We've got ken of tracks, we've

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<v Speaker 2>got mocap, we've got all these things that can teach

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<v Speaker 2>guys how to throw these pitches at a quicker turnaround

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<v Speaker 2>instead of learning it for years. That now the whole

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<v Speaker 2>league can learn to throw them. And so you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the next pitch, who knows what it is. Maybe it's

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<v Speaker 2>the kick change, maybe it's something else like I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>which is another weird term to me. We've got a

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<v Speaker 2>ghost fork or kick change, a splinker, which is just

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<v Speaker 2>a split fastball that sinks, and I you know, we

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<v Speaker 2>can call it and have fun with it and it's

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<v Speaker 2>it's good for fans, but at the end of the

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<v Speaker 2>day that a lot of the pitches are still the same,

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<v Speaker 2>but old timers never really called them new pitches. There's

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<v Speaker 2>I asked my slider, ask my curveball. It's my singcrols,

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<v Speaker 2>my splitter. So yeah, there's a we'll see with the

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<v Speaker 2>next new pitches in baseball.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, Thank you Blake Trenon, who's been very kind

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<v Speaker 1>with his time, and he seems to be a big

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<v Speaker 1>brother to some of these younger relievers. Your catch partner today,

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<v Speaker 1>Ben casparis, how much are you mentoring him?

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<v Speaker 2>I will only mentor as much as they allow me

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<v Speaker 2>or want me to. I'm not going to force any

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<v Speaker 2>of my stuff on anyone. I think it's hard to

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<v Speaker 2>try to press who you are on someone else. Leading

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<v Speaker 2>by examples, the biggest thing, he might get something from me,

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<v Speaker 2>he might get something from Tanner or Kirby or Vesia Banda, whoever.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, it's just you.

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<v Speaker 1>You.

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<v Speaker 2>You're gonna have to pick and choose what version of

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<v Speaker 2>yourself you want to be out there as a competitor,

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<v Speaker 2>as a as a guy who prepares, as a guy

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<v Speaker 2>who executes, and how to stay healthy there's so many

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<v Speaker 2>factors in being successful in this game. And you know

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<v Speaker 2>the guys who stay around for a while or fortunate

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<v Speaker 2>enough to have the right information and hold on to

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<v Speaker 2>the right information throughout the course of their career to

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<v Speaker 2>linking out. You know, the innings they pitch and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>is this is this where he's supposed to be long term?

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<v Speaker 2>I like to think so is this? Uh? Is his

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<v Speaker 2>body going to stay healthy? Is his preparation gonna get

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<v Speaker 2>dialed in? And you know, like every he's doing a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of great things right now. And for being a

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<v Speaker 2>young guy, he's one of the more polished arms I've

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<v Speaker 2>seen come up as a rookie, with the amount of

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<v Speaker 2>pitches he has that are plus probably that I can

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<v Speaker 2>think of, maybe only Luke Trevino is about the only

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<v Speaker 2>guy that I could think of that came up with

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<v Speaker 2>three plus polished pitches as a rookie, and then he's

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<v Speaker 2>one of them.

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<v Speaker 1>He's very lucky to have Blake Trenton in his life

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<v Speaker 1>and as his catch partner. Blake always loved catching up

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<v Speaker 1>with you. It's always fun and let's do it again soon.

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<v Speaker 2>And and one last note is Dave's my favorite interview

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<v Speaker 2>to doing baseball,