Speaker 1: It's the Dodgers in white Sox getting said for first
Speaker 1: pitch here at camel Back Ranch, and we're joining right
Speaker 1: now by a man that made his major league debut
Speaker 1: last year for the Dodgers, and he's getting a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities early in spring, and that is Dodger catcher Hunter.
Speaker 1: Fiducca Hunter. Thanks a lot for the time, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Let's get one thing out of the way. When I
Speaker 1: see you in the morning and I say, fiduc is
Speaker 1: that inbounds or out of bounds?
Speaker 2: It's in bounds. You know, I've heard every variation of
Speaker 2: my last name and a lot worse than that, So no,
Speaker 2: it's it's all fair game.
Speaker 1: Hey, I love this wall that you guys have here,
Speaker 1: all the young guys, the guys that are trying to
Speaker 1: make their name in Major League baseball. What's it like
Speaker 1: for you to have a locker mate like Dalton rushing
Speaker 1: to your left and a couple of lockers down another
Speaker 1: catcher in Chris.
Speaker 2: Ok, it's awesome. Two great guys, some of my favorite
Speaker 2: teammates I've had. And yeah, it's good. You know, at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, we all have the same goal,
Speaker 2: and you know, helping each other out, and you know,
Speaker 2: helping each other get better every single day is the
Speaker 2: ultimate goal. So it's it's been good so far.
Speaker 1: Is Oki like the grown up in the room between
Speaker 1: you three? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we all? I mean yeah, I guess
Speaker 2: you could say that. You know, both Dalton and Rush
Speaker 2: are great teammates, and you know we hold each other
Speaker 2: accountable and you know, help each other each day get
Speaker 2: better and you know, always bouncing ideas off each other
Speaker 2: and you know, trying to you know, make it to
Speaker 2: the end.
Speaker 1: What's the spring felt like for you? You're in big
Speaker 1: league camp again, you major major league debut, you got
Speaker 1: your first major league hit, you played for the world
Speaker 1: champion Dodgers. How does Hunter Fiducca feel this spring? I
Speaker 1: feel good?
Speaker 2: You know every spring I come in, you know there's
Speaker 2: one goal and is you know, get better each day,
Speaker 2: no matter what the scenario is. You know, it's awesome
Speaker 2: that I'm getting these opportunities and you know, getting my
Speaker 2: name out there and you know, getting able to catch
Speaker 2: some of the new pitchers and getting familiar with their
Speaker 2: game and pitches. And that's always good because you know,
Speaker 2: you know, you never know what's gonna happen during the year,
Speaker 2: and you know, you get caught up and you don't
Speaker 2: want to be blindsided by all the new guys and
Speaker 2: you know, not be too comfortable with all their pitches
Speaker 2: and what they do and you know what makes them ticks.
Speaker 2: So it's awesome opportunity getting able to catch these guys
Speaker 2: and get them to know them.
Speaker 1: Have you caught Roki Sazaki?
Speaker 2: I have, Yeah, I called him. I think it was
Speaker 2: like his second or third bullpen. You know, he only
Speaker 2: threw you know, fifteen pitches or so. But you know,
Speaker 2: I got to catch Otani yesterday. That was my first song,
Speaker 2: geting to catch him. So I checked everyone off the
Speaker 2: list so far. So it's it's been good so far.
Speaker 1: I was watching that bullpen session the other day and
Speaker 1: he was directing traffic, telling you where to set up.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, so I don't. Everyone kind of has their
Speaker 2: own like hand signals and you know, a way to
Speaker 2: tell you what pitch is coming, and it's a little
Speaker 2: different with uh, you know, Roki Otani and Yamamoto. So
Speaker 2: that's another part of getting to learn the pictures and
Speaker 2: their hand signals, and it's yeah.
Speaker 1: What a great experience in a bullpen session to catch Otani.
Speaker 1: What was it like? Was it better than what you
Speaker 1: even heard about?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Uh, you know, at first he was kind of
Speaker 2: easing into it and you know, getting to fill for everything,
Speaker 2: and then later on in the bullpen he was kind
Speaker 2: of letting it loose and it kind of caught me
Speaker 2: by surprise. So yeah, it was an awesome experience, you know,
Speaker 2: getting to see his different pitches, and yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: It seems like you're you're really getting to with Will
Speaker 1: Smith's injury, You're getting an opportunity now to do things
Speaker 1: that you may not have had an opportunity a year
Speaker 1: ago at this time.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it was kind of the same scenario as
Speaker 2: a two years ago in the World Baseball Classic with
Speaker 2: Barnes and Will being out. You know, I got opportunity
Speaker 2: to get in there, and you know, all you could
Speaker 2: ask for is just make the best out of it
Speaker 2: and do your thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're doing it. You got the you got the beard,
Speaker 1: the grizzly beard to compliment that great looking stash of yours.
Speaker 1: Hunter Fraducca, thanks a lot for the time and continued
Speaker 1: success the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: Thank you. So much,