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"Okay. Which would you care to begin with? Let's go with Jason delay. We can take them into alphabetical order. Keep things from getting chaotic here. So he's an interesting guy because he was one of these people. A lot of the stories are based on these guys just wouldn't quit and wouldn't give up. And he came really, really close to giving up last year. He was essentially told after a couple of months into the season that he wasn't in the team's plans and at triple-A he was demoted to bullpen catcher. He didn't get into a game for a couple of weeks, and this was in June. And he was giving a lot of thought to just packing up and heading home. And then the pirates, bullpen catcher, at the major league level, got COVID. And so they called Jason delay up to serve on the taxi squad in Pittsburgh, which is kind of funny for a guy who wasn't featuring it all in triple-A. And then Dwayne Underwood junior relief pitcher on the pirates tested positive. And so they had an opening on the active roster, and they gave toy that spot, and he started one game in a double header on June 14th against the Cardinals. He went zero for two, but he got sent back down after that game, but that kind of gave him enough to keep him going. And so he wasn't unpacked his suitcase. And stuck around. And then a short time later, Tyler heinemann, who was on the pirates roster, went on paternity leave, and they called Jason delay back up. And so he got to play somewhat regularly. He impressed them so much with his pitch handling. And his work with the young pitching staff that they kept him around. And he ended up playing in 57 games for them. He played more for the pirates in the second half of last season than he had played for any teams since 2019 in the miners. So he's like, he's not good enough for double layer triple-A, but you know, you bring him up to the big leagues. He finally found his level, but he's a guy who he never really was much of an offensive player, even in college. Most of the way. He hit, you know, okay in high school, I guess he came up, he grew up in the Atlanta area. He played on one of the more famous, I guess you could say, travel teams, the east Cobb Yankees. He was a teammate with Nathaniel Lowe, who's now on the rangers. And they won the Connie Mack World Series and then Jason went to Vanderbilt where he got to play in an even bigger World Series. The college World Series is a freshman, although he didn't feature much because, again, he was kind of a backup catcher type. But for a guy who didn't really hit much, he got invited to play in the Cape Cod league three straight summers. And that was just because he was so well respected for the way he handled the pitching staff. He got drafted as a junior by the Giants in 2016 as an 11th round pick and chose to go back to school. And then he actually kind of hit a little bit his senior year. And the pirates drafted him in the fourth round. And he's one of those guys where I think his draft status is a little bit of they have their bonus pool limitations and I think a lot of teams will strategically take a college senior in the tenth round because after that, I think the bonus pool doesn't factor in. So they'll take these guys so they can sign them a little bit on the cheap below slot. And so they signed Jason delay for a $100,000, which for a fourth round pick was well under slot. And then they can use that money to apply to some of their other picks. So he signed and he worked his way up, but he always worked his way up as kind of a role player backup sharing and catching job. When the 2020 season came along, he wasn't invited to the alternate site. He ended up spending a good part of his summer working in a supplement packing plant to make some extra money. He didn't play much in 2021 because I think for a while he literally wasn't assigned to a roster and then he got hurt. He only played 30 games in 2021. So then you set the stage for 2022 when he doesn't play much at the beginning of the year and that has basically told we don't need you. And then all of a sudden he's in the big leagues. I think he's going to be in a tough spot this year because they've got Austin hedges in there and it's kind of hard to have two catchers who are both a defense first pitcher handling kind of guys. You'll usually you like to balance those guys out with someone who can hit a bit and I think hedge is going to take the job and it's going to make it difficult for him to fit in. Well in two of their better prospects are catchers, right? They have Andy Rodriguez and Henry Davis kind of getting ready to knock on the door. So he might find himself pinched from below too. Yeah, they definitely profile much higher ceiling players than he is. Meg, you were giving me grief for talking about tongues earlier and now you're talking about people being pinched from below. You know, no one would have noticed if you hadn't said anything Ben. I noticed someone else was to notice out there. Sorry, you had to walk into that. Anyway. But yeah, some good hallmarks of the great obscure major league debut player in their almost quitting is a standard one. And a great one. Although it does make me think, well, how many players were there to actually did quit, right? And we talk about this player who was so close to quitting and then miraculously made it, well, there were probably a bunch of players like him who did quit, perhaps they quit just before their break came. Maybe not, maybe they quit and save themselves some heartache and went on to something else, but they're certainly are some players who must have made a different decision and had a different outcome. So that's one thing I think about. And then also, I think we definitely valid at least sort of sentimentalize. Is that a word? I don't know. But the practice of having non baseball jobs, which can be a good one. We definitely did some guys like that. Guys who were bankers or Uber drivers or whatever, just doing something, right? And sometimes that can be kind of like a lesser version of the heartwarming stories you hear about so and so needed medical treatment and then their teacher did a GoFundMe or something and it's like, well that's good, but also it would be nice if there were some other recourse right and it's sort of similar with baseball where teams had paid fighter weekers better than perhaps they wouldn't have needed to get that job. Obviously things were more complicated during the pandemic. But it does make the story more extraordinary and yet there are times when I read that and I think, well, maybe if that person had been better supported in some way than they wouldn't have been in that position that they then had to make the improbable pivot from. Yeah, it seems to me, I can't remember who exactly was involved, but there was maybe a Twitter exchange over the winner or something where that was pointed out by a minor leaguer. Hey, these Uber driving stories are great and all, but why are we in a position where we think that's something to be celebrated? Why are we paid so little in the first place? Hence the minor league union. So who's next? Let's go with Ben de luzio next. Here's a guy who was a highly regarded
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"It matter, of course, but it does make the pirates innovators at a certain sense. So what immediately responded by linking to the Vince Velasquez hype video, but I read the press release, it's true, it's all about Austin hedges, defensive run saved and his framing and his ERA and we're so happy to have one of the best defensive catchers in baseball. Just you would not know that hitting is part of his job description from this. It's just. He's a catcher. What else do we need to mention this? I mean, we're talking about his catching, right? Just no indication that he has ever batted in the big leagues. That is part of his job. Just leave it out, you know? Like, hey, maybe they won't notice that he can't hit at all. Look, I like a good catcher who can't hit it all and mix up the values by framing and other harder to quantify contributions. So I'm in favor. I'm glad we still have some Jeff Mathis sir Jeff Mathis type catchers out there and we will at least until robo ups take over. But this is a strategy, you know? I mean, like maybe there's no way to catch it that doesn't sound like you were just dumping on the player you signed because his hitting was so bad. I'm sure they're not thinking that they'll fool anyone. Like, hey, we'll get everyone hyped about this Austin hedges unless some fans maybe who are not familiar with Austin hedges work. They might see this and think, wow. Look at this guy we got. And not look up his baseball reference page or do the research necessary to evaluate the other aspects of his job performance. Anyway, just points for creativity to the pirates here. It's more than a $100 million of just projected payroll difference between the mets and the next highest. I know we said it like a couple different ways, but I just want to say it this way. More than a hundred. Yeah. I think just purely the tax money that they will pay. Yes. That alone is higher. Than the projected payroll of ten teams, at least. Yes. Which again, like I'm not saying that's an indictment of the mets. I'm saying it's an indictment of not spending, but still, wow, that puts things into perspective. I hate to keep using them as a benchmark, but I'm going to keep using them as a benchmark. The projected tax bill is only $20 million less than the Mariners payroll. Ben. Yeah, and the Mariners are a pretty good team. Yeah, that is true. They could be a better team but they are a pretty good team. You know, I think the only thing that would have been close to as funny about the Austin had just thing is if they had used like if they were like, he had a 90 WRC plus in 2018, like if they were like, what is the best option we got here? From May 3rd to May. 18th, he had a 93 OPS plus. Yes. Yes. Just the most extreme arbitrary endpoints and cherry pick stats to make him look good. Yeah. Anyway, and the very last thing, so this had implications that Carlos Correa, new deal, I guess, made your free agent contracts over under draft a little worse. Because you had the over terrible. Yeah, you had the over on crea, and that was a huge windfall for you and now it's less of a windfall for you. I think it was over. By that point anyway. But okay, wow, that was unnecessarily rude. Excuse me. I'm just saying that his medical whatever the judge said. They didn't cost you the win necessarily. They just, they made your total look a little less respectable. But still good. Did I, what did I have as the over? I don't remember that. I mean, I know I took the over, but what was his original projection from trade rumors? Do you have it handy? Yeah, it was 9 years, two 88. Okay, so I, okay, so yeah, at least I was directionally correct, but you're right. A less compelling directional, better than once was. And what I wanted to mention is that I turned out to be directionally wrong on Brandon drury. But also signed and was slightly overshadowed in short order by his career. But he was predicted to make 18 million over two years and he got 17 billion instead. So I barely missed. It doesn't have implications really when it comes to the draft. But I bring that up purely to say, I kind of like what the angels are. I know. I'm curious about it. Yeah. Do you want to I don't want to. We need to talk about it though. We really need to talk about the ALS next time. And we need to do it this time. I think we need to we maybe need to have an AOS combo. I think it's time. Yeah, okay. Next time we'll lead with the angels unless something else extraordinary happens in the interim. Oh
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"Best and yes, I read about this Travis sacri wrote about how Austin hedges of the guardians had hacked the in a legal way to have customized voice prompts so that it was his voice actually recorded calling the pitches in English and Spanish. I think he's bilingual to some extent. And he also recorded just little exhortation basically where someone would make a good pitch and he recorded himself saying like, fuck yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Really? Yeah, to like psych up his pictures and like other pitchers on the staff said this gets me hyped, you know? Like Trisha Mackenzie or a manual class a, like they were like, I want to hear the fuck yeah, like I want to feel good about myself. And it varied, so like he doesn't do the fuck yet for Shane Bieber so much. So maybe more restrained. And so he kind of had to know when to trigger that button and went to provide the positive reinforcement or should you have some sort of negative reinforcement like you have to know your personality of your pitcher and what works best, but apparently you can kind of customize it. I think there's like a one second limit maybe on any individual clip, but he made it so that he could use his voice and he could only use one button instead of two buttons. I don't know how that worked exactly, but to indicate the pitch type in the location he wanted to streamline it and make it even faster. So yeah, you can kind of customize it. So in theory, you could get Jon hammer, whoever did do your voice. So I guess the question is like, who would be the most motivational pitch convoys? I don't know. As an aside, you're like, how does a guy with a 42 WRC plus? Possibly get rostered on a big league team. And this is how it happens. Now we know. Yep, yep. Wow. I have so many questions. So I mean, some basic ones. I've never thought about this, but how many buttons are there on the system? There are not a lot of I've seen it. It's like a quadrant kind of thing, I think, to set the location and then just like pitch type buttons that correspond to it. So I don't even know how he worked it so that it's just one button pressed to indicate type N location, but apparently he did. And now I'm wondering, is it like really hackable? Can you do things like combinations or you press these? Yeah, exactly. Can you have 50 different messages? They get triggered by different input combinations. I don't know. I don't know. He had help from the guardian's IT department according to Travis article. I assume I would hope it's not that hackable because the whole point of the thing is that it's not a couple of tricks. It's been part of the concern, right? Yeah. Right. This must have been the most fun IT project they worked on all of these. Probably. Oh, yeah. I'm locked out of my computer. What's the Wi-Fi password? Can you record me saying fuck yeah, so that our pitchers could hear that. Yeah, probably a more fun project. But I don't know. You could have, if you had like Tom Hanks or someone who's like, didn't he Tom Hanks did like the guardians team name change announcement, right? So you could have Tom Hanks and you could be the inspirational Tom Hanks or you could be like calming Tom Hanks who's like centering you on the mound because hedges his whole idea was that mound visits are limited now like maybe this can take the place of a mound visit in a sense. I can psych someone up. I can be motivational without actually having to go out there. So I don't know, you could have some famous voice coach or motivational speaker who's doing this or The Rock or something. I don't know. See, this is why Austin hedges is a professional athlete and I am not because the first thing I thought about was if I was in his position, what voices could I record in what combination and what messages could I record to try and make the pitcher crack up in the middle of the game? Yeah, right. Well, and that could be itself again official tactic. It's a high stress moment and you say something silly and maybe it deflates the pressure a little bit. Oh gosh, I mean, it seems like everyone's ideal voices is probably going to be different. They're going to be, I would be surprised if people want their significant others voice. Yeah. That doesn't seem as likely to me, not that they don't like their significant others, but just, you know, that's a weird crossing of the streets. It's a weird context, yeah. Yeah. But I don't know. It would be good if you could have a variety of them because I'm sure the people, you know, we all respond to we haven't gotten many of these emails lately, but as anyone who has a podcast know, people respond to different voices differently, and sometimes the feedback is not good. So you might have, you might have all kinds of folks that you find inspirational or grading. Yep. Yeah. I mean, you could get like the bane voice or something like James Earl Jones voice. I don't know. Hold on. Did I miss the question? Helen Mirren. Oh, that'd be good. That'd be good. Right, I guess you wouldn't want scary intimidating villain probably. That's probably the opposite of what you would want. I don't know. Maybe. Did I mishear this in the question that it comes preset with different voice options like a GPS system? It comes with different language options, but I think they're default voices. Got it. And I don't know if they're even human voices or we're kind of computerized voices by default, but if you can just swap in anyone yeah. Tony Robbins, I don't know. Some kind of just like someone who's supposed to pump you up. I don't know. Jack lalaine. Yeah. Maybe just your catcher is actually the best way to do it. I don't know if it's not very much. You just elbow. I want Idris Elba as my pitcher count voice. Oh, that'd be good. Yeah. That'd be a good one. Give us a lot of Brits percolating to the top for me. All right, well, we welcome suggestions, but yeah, probably like for any one person it would be some trusted mentor type. Yes. It might be your pitching coach, it might be your catcher. Yeah. I don't know. Makes sense. The president from Independence Day. Whitmore, is that his name? Yeah. Can we get him to do it? It could be Bill Pullman. Bill Pullman, not Bill passion. Rest in peace. Yes. All right, here's a similar question from Tyler. About overcoming velocity and movement with psychological warfare. I like many and concerned about the growing dominance of pitching in baseball as bullpens increasingly become the domicile of no name 24 year olds who throw a 100 mph with sink, batters simply can not keep up, many proposals have been made to address this. Most of which involve altering rules or the field, limiting rastered pitchers moving back the mound, perhaps turning the mound into a sinking platform, but I would like to propose a strategic solution that requires no rule changes, a change that leverages every picture's inherent humanity and capacity for empathy. What if batters cried after striking out? Wood pitchers try less hard because they feel bad. Granted, I acknowledge that this would not work against every pitcher, namely the mean pitchers would likely try even harder. But if advanced scouting of opposing pitchers
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"Rumble still skin want a baby? Gonna do with a baby. Your reasons. You know? Like, what's up with that? I don't remember rebels still getting some motivations. I don't know if the story ever really got into his motivations, but that might be an interesting interesting novel for somebody to write. Yeah. All right, question from Nate who describes himself as a dislocated Cincinnati reds fan living in dusseldorf, Germany. And Nate says, I was just watching the MLB network high heat show. This was back in the summer also, and the scroll across the bottom with its random assortment of facts caught my eye as it is want to do. One note popped up saying that Stephen Quan has a three 54 batting average in his last 22 games, and it got me thinking about something I thought might interest you where you might know more about, I often see these sorts of arbitrary numbers and cutoffs and wonder how they are determined. Why that average and why 22 games who makes the decision that this is more impressive than a three 40 average in 23 games or a 360 average in 21 games. I often see random numbers like this about how to cold streaks and write it off as a product of just the arbitrary nature of baseball statistic cutoffs, but wonder if there is a bit of science to determining these sorts of things. So we've probably all at one point or another had some arbitrary endpoints and had to come up with some sort of fun fact about so and so being cold or hot and I guess often you just try to frame it in the most impressive way. So if you're being open about it and not disingenuous like you might just try to pick some round number or something or starting with a given date or the beginning of a month or something, something that appeals to our brains in that way or you might just try to maximize the funness of the fact or try to maximize how impressive it sounds or how unimpressive it sounds. And so you just cut it off like whatever the day after the guy had a four for 5 and you start with the over four that started the protracted slump and that way you can make it look even worse or on the other side you know you do away with the over four and you draft that out of the sample and you start on the day that he was four or 5. So I guess that's what it is and often there's some decision about do I want to start here or do I want to start there? I mean I try to avoid cherry picking it or what gerrymandering it in a very obvious way so that it's totally transparent that I'm just crafting it and the most impressive way possible or I will be open about the fact that that is what I'm doing. I will transparently say I'm crafting this stat in such a way that it makes this player sound as impressive or as unimpressive as possible. But that's it, you know, basically like someone has to look at the game logs and decide where to set the cutoff, right? I guess that's as simple as it is. Didn't you have a guest on, I want to say within the last year or so who does this job for TV broadcasts, who's kind of like a stats consultant? Yeah, we've talked to people like that. Yeah, and yeah, you just have to, you know, you're trying to make the point for the broadcaster or you're trying to catch the person's eye on the bottom line as they're watching and three 54 sounds pretty good. Maybe three 40 doesn't sound as good. My guess is it's much more art than science probably just like, oh, that looks like a nice round number, or a nice big number. If I recall and this was over a year ago, so who knows what I even said, but I remember when I was talking with Sarah langs about this for an episode she did well, you were on Trinity leave, but that's the one I was thinking of. You know, she wanted it to be meaningful. There are definitely fun facts where there sort of acknowledged to be silly, right? Or you're looking at, you have so many qualifiers on it that you know that it doesn't really say anything. But I think that the good ones, when they're doing that stretch, there is some, something you can really discern about the player and the player's quality that stands up to some amount of scrutiny. And I think that that tends to be when we go, oh yeah, that's a good fun factor. When it doesn't really, that doesn't. Say anything at all. It says no things. So I think that trying to have it actually really inform, even if it's a small thing, really inform our understanding of the player in a way that's meaningful, potentially beyond some tiny sample of games, I think, makes for good ones. Yeah, my bar for the bottom line for the ticker for the scroll is pretty low. Like I'm barely paying attention to that at all. And if I just want to signal that so and so has been hot or cold lately, then there's only so many ways you can do that. But I wouldn't even bother tweeting that if I were still someone who really tweeted, you know, it would have to be more fun than just this guy's played well lately, but yeah, you want it to be something significant, but if you're just trying to portray that someone has been good lately, then you just sort of set the cut off at that place that makes them look best, I guess, that's about it. All right, here's a question from Tim in new market Canada. Apparently one can alter the voice and even the language spoken by the sign transmitter. So the question is, who would provide the voice that would generate the most optimal performance for a pitcher? His preferred catcher, his pitching coach, a significant other, a famous voice actor. If we had only one uniform voice for all MLB pitch con devices, like an MLB Alexa, whose voice would be best and yes, I read about this Travis sacri wrote about how Austin hedges of the guardians had hacked the in a legal way
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" AP sports I'm Tom Miriam. Aaron judge did not make history Wednesday, but his Yankee teammates hit three home runs as The Bronx bombers blasted the pirates. AP's Christian Arnold has more. Oswaldo Cabrera hit his first career Grand Slam in glaber tours hit a pair of home runs in the 8th as the Yankees routed the pirates 14 to two. Luis severino through 5 innings in his first start since July 13th and slugger Aaron judge remained one Homer shy of hitting his 61st home run of the year and tying Roger Maris 1961 home run record. These past couple days and this is just how it is. So I just try to treat it just like any other any other series, any other game. The match still lead the braves by a game in the national league east race as both teams lost on Wednesday. The brute group beat the bruise group. Milwaukee's 6th nothing victory over the mets included three more New York banners hit by pitches, giving buck show Walter's team of painful major league single season record of 106. I've got some personal feelings about why it happens so much, but I'm sure he'll beat anyone. Hear about it in this format. The brace wage by the nationals three to two, the only loss in a 6 game home stand for Austin Riley and his teammates. Go home stand. You know, I think we took care of business. You know, it's just a matter of continue to win games. The Guardian slice their magic number to clinch the Yale central to 7 by clobbering the second place wine Sox 8 to two, making it 7 of 8 for Austin hedges and his teammates. We've been doing it for 6 months. You know, nothing changes. We're just saying baseball. The Cardinals were shut out for the third straight game by the Padres. The Phillies beat the Blue Jays in ten innings as not really went fine for 5 to snap a 5 game losing streak. Definitely needed it. Give us a little momentum. Going to this next stretch of games. I think we really needed that one and we grind it all night. Win number 99 for the Astros. Tennis, when Roger Federer plays his last match on Friday, he will do it most likely with not against his top rival Federer will probably play doubles in the labor cup alongside Rafael Nadal. Tom AP sports.
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Kwan, McKenzie pace Guardians to 8-2 victory over White Sox
"The guardians have reduced their magic number for clinching the AL central to 7 by winning for the 7th time in 8 games 8 two verses the second place White Sox Tristan McKenzie struck out 13 over 8 innings allowing two runs in 6 hits Guardians catcher Austin hedges says he had a pretty easy night behind the plate I didn't even call a game I just clicked buttons and he just dominated Rookie Steven Quan smacked a solo Homer among his three hits and scored twice to help Cleveland improve to 82 and 67 Kwan leads all major league rookies with 40 multi hit games Josh naylor hit his 19th home run a two run shot in the 7th I'm Dave ferry
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Guardians beat Twins 7-6 in 15 innings, sweep doubleheader
"The guardians took a pair from the twins 5 one and 7 6 That gives Cleveland an 8 game winning streak against Minnesota and a four and a half game lead over the White Sox in the AL central In the opener Shane Bieber allowed a run in four hits over 8 innings I found myself kind of in cruise control in the middle innings there and made a mistake to walnut but all in all it was a good start to a double header He was backed by a José Ramírez home run The guardians made it a sweep when Austin hedges scored on an error by shortstop Jermaine palacios in the 15th inning I met Rosario had 6 RBIs in the twin Bill collecting four hits in each game I'm Dave ferry
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Hedges drives in 2 to break tie, put Guardians over Rays 5-3
"Austin hedges supplied the tie breaking hit and Cleveland won a series against the rays for the first time since 2017 taking the rubber game 5 to three Hedges hit a two run double in the 5th inning to help the guardians finish 6 and 5 on their road trip The double came after Cleveland wasted a three zero lead Miles straw hit a two run single and José Ramírez picked up his 84th RBI with a base hit Reliever Kirk McCarthy picked up the win allowing one run over three and a third innings Shane mcclanahan tied a season low with four and a third innings Surrendering 5 runs 7 hits and three walks I'm Dave fairy
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"Okay, so here are a few questions of the stat head kind. Here's a question from Sam Patreon supporter who says this was from a few weeks ago. I just noticed, Mike Clevenger is facing the guardians. This was Clevenger's first start in his Padres debut he was facing his former team the guardians who are likely going to run out a lineup with three players he was traded for. Austin hedges, Owen Miller, and Josh naylor. Is this historic? What's the record for a pitcher facing a lineup, including players they were traded for? What's the record for lineups with players from every trade in a pitcher's career combined? And I got an answer to this question or both questions. The answer to both is four, according to frequent step blast consultant Ryan Nelson, who is on Twitter at RS Nelson 23. We have to go back a bit to beat Clevenger facing three players. He was traded for, but it has happened. So if we go back all the way to December 12th, 1913, I remember it like it was yesterday, Cardinals pitcher, bob Harmon, he was traded with third baseman Mike Maury and first baseman at kanchi to the pirates for a short stop art butler infielder dots Miller, outfielder cozy Dolan, right Fielder Owen Wilson, and pitcher Hank Robinson, 6 times between 1914 and 1915, Harmon faced the Cardinals with butler, Miller, Dolan, and Wilson in the lineup. And then this happened again, August 11th, 1954, Harry bird of the Yankees faced off against the Philadelphia a's just 8 months prior, bird, along with four other players, was traded from the athletics to the Yankees for 6 players Don bowed, Johnny gray Jim Robertson Jim finnegan Vic power and Bill renna. So on August 11th, 1954, bird faced his former ace with bulwick finnegan and power in the lineup as well as his pitching opponent that day, Johnny gray. So 46 unique pictures have started a game against the lineup with three players for whom they were traded. That's a total of a 111 starts entering this season. But before this Clevenger game against the guardians, it had happened only once this century, and that was Matt latos start against the Padres on July 5th, 2012 when he pitched against Edinson volks, yasmani grandal, and yonder Alonso, all of whom were traded in a one for four deal on December 17th, 2011. So there you go. Four. I haven't thought about Matt latos in an age. Isn't he still pitching, I think he's still pitching professionally somewhere. He's been like bouncing around indie ball for a while. Do we know of cat latos is okay? I don't know. Yeah. That is in the Atlantic league. Who knew? Southern Maryland blue crabs. He is pitching and seemingly pitching pretty well the last couple of years. So good for him hanging on, I guess. Because there haven't been a lot of these occurrences lately, I did ask Ryan to look at the rate of multiplayer trades as a fraction of all trades by decade, and there's no really clear increase or decline over time, but the 1950s and then also the 1910s and 20s, which are the decades that these two record setting trades came from. They had the highest number of players per side per trade on average, so the all time high for that stat, 1.57 players per side portrayed in the 50s. Now it's about 1.35. And the same trends are seen when you look at the percent of all trades with three or more players on one team or more in the 50s, 14.7% of all trades were like that. Now it's just about 6 or 7%, which is more typical. Then was the outlier not now. I guess in those earlier areas you had more fire sales, maybe more teams that were not really trying to be competitive, just dumping players, franchises acting as farm teams for other franchises, et cetera. And I guess you had fewer teams in general back then than you do now. Maybe you had to buy in bulk. Do all you're dealing in one trade instead of spreading it out. But yeah, it's got to be a strange experience. I suppose to be a pitcher's facing a bunch of players you were traded for. Maybe there's kind of like a show me element to it, like prove yourself. I was traded for these players, so I have to best them in single combat or triple or quadruple combat four on one in some cases. I don't know that there would be any advantage there. I have found in the past that there is a slight advantage when catchers face their former battery mates when catchers face pictures whom they've caught in the past. It's not huge, but it seems to exist. I doubt that that would exist for just any former teammate, but it must be a little weird, I guess, to be facing players you were traded for? I wonder how many of the people know that they're facing players that they were traded for? Because I imagine a lot of them were prospects at the time and you probably just lose track unless you slap dick prospect. They do nothing about it. You have to keep tabs on the people you're traded for. Also remind me, was this traded for in a single transaction or traded forever? Both with the same cases. Got it. Okay. Because yeah, that's the other thing, right? You'd have to be traded either a number of times or for a lot of people, which probably just doesn't happen all that often. And I feel like a one for one type trade, you might actually hype yourself up more, maybe like a one for two, but a one for many prospects. I don't think this probably I feel like the players wouldn't even know. Yeah, that's a good point. That comes up with a lot of staff lasts where we look up something strange and then I wonder, did they notice that? We're noticing that decades later, but did it even occur to the players at the time and actually this one is very much in that genre because I'm curious about whether this was noticed, but we got a question from Josh Patreon supporter..
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"austin hedges" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"On like in the 40 man roster space. So I tend to like catchers they bust out at a high rate, especially the very, very young ones for the longest time. We had no high school catching prospects. Drafted early on who panned out at all. Like Devon Meza Rocco, who dealt with many injuries after he was an all star Austin hedges who has strikeout issues that ultimately peaked in an average range and has been like shy of an average range most of the time. Over like a ten or 15 year span, those are the only two Tucker barnhart I think maybe he's the third one. Like high school catchers who became any kind of regular big leaguer at all and then Tyler Stevenson has come along and there's Ivan Herrera and Wilson Contreras is great and here comes Ruiz and rachman and Francisco Alvarez and Dalton varsha was fun and unique and so I think that we have a bit of a catcher renaissance that has been occurring over the last three or so years that most of the guys who were in this group are going to establish big leaders at this point guys like Sean Murphy or will be pretty soon. There's going to be some attrition, some guys are going to have weird mics and eno trajectories where they're terrible initially and then break out later because that's just sort of what catchers do, Tyler flowers, Travis star no, et cetera but I do think that there's a really exciting group of guys playing this position. And I touched on this when we talked about Richmond just like the ways you can create value and think about a guy who's pretty low on this list was still on the list like Cory Lee at the Astros. And just the way we value catchers and think about what a good catcher is. There's not a soul in the world as a 50 bat on Corey Lee. Nobody. But if Corey Lee hits two 30 with 22 bombs plus defense in the 7 arm, he's gonna put up three four win seasons. And so, you know, I think you have to kind of adjust for the position. It is the most important position on the field. It's difficult to play, and to get a guy who can hold up and play a 130 games and deliver just some walks and power and really play the position well is incredibly valuable. I want to ask about a couple of guys who have injury concerns are coming back from injury or have recently succumbed to injury that we have learned is more serious. Always fun when one of your top ten has to get has to get surgery the day that you release the top 100. Now, but let's talk about Josh young and then for guys who are kind of on their way back at various points Corbin Carol and also Royce Lewis, I think it's always interesting for people to hear about how you think about injury when you're ranking these guys and the role that it plays, I think we're of the opinion that this would not have meaningfully altered young's future value, but might have moved him down on this list. So let's talk about the recently injured guys. So yeah, it is hard, especially with the pitching piece of it, often, as I mentioned before, like Brent honey, you just stay on these guys too long. Right. Hitters, it does feel a little bit different because it is not such a consistent occupational hazard. The fact that Corbin Carroll injured his shoulder in a season ending way on a swing with which he hit a home run is like bizarre, it's in that three minute Tati's area where while this guy's like two explosive for his own body's own good. And so yeah, it does make it hard, especially coming off of a lost season for all these guys already. Corbyn Carroll, who is a hit tool driven prospect, like traditional leadoff hitter, type of prospect, one of the only guys who's not like an overt power hitting prospect in the top 20 of our list. He needs to perform consistently. Now he had done nothing but that for his entire life leading up to his injury. And there are just things specific to me and my experiences being around Corbyn Carroll that give me a certain degree of confidence in his desire. This is just a guy I see out at baseball games in Arizona because he wants to go there. So there are subjective things that factor into this in Carol's case, I just thought that he was coming to the big leagues real, real fast entering 2020 and he just didn't have the opportunity to climb the minor league ladder quite as quickly as I hoped because he got injured. It's a complex thing to try to weigh all of these injuries because they do have varying degrees of severity and there's a lot of stuff about it that we don't know. But ultimately we're trying to bet on the talent when these guys have the injury and then be sensitive to that we might need to adjust quickly when they come back if something doesn't look right anymore. You haven't published the farm rankings the organizational rankings yet and I know that you're still working through some of the individual team lists, but who stands out as having a lot of representatives on this list or not having a lot and what does that say about the state of those teams, I know it could say different things for different teams like the White Sox don't have a prospect on this list, right? But the white sex have a lot of good players that they've graduated and they're a great team right now. Whereas some teams that might not have a lot of players on this list are not in such enviable position at the major league level. So what were the trends if you've done any of that math to figure out which teams have the most or fewest players on this list? No, I mean, I think it's really hard to be a really good team and have a really good system. It's really hard. Dodgers are exceptionally good at it and one of the reasons the Dodgers are always good. But a very smart person was told to me if you try to have the best system in baseball and try to have a really good major league team, you're going to do a middling job at both. Or you can be the race. Or you can be the raise and that's its own. It looks like that. The White Sox, they don't have a good system, and part of that is because some players haven't worked out and part of that's because they've traded guys away to improve the big league club. So sometimes your system is down for all the wrong reasons. Anytime you kind of say, this is how the systems line up. It's kind of a snapshot in time. And some of those teams are down. It's not an indictment of their scouting or player development. It is an indictment of the way they are currently operating at the major league level. And so I don't think we should necessarily, it's fine to line up the talent, but I don't think it necessarily tells you a lot about how that system does all that. It's not always a 100% informative and a system does in terms of scouting and player development. I think that's a really important distinction to make. And the other thing is just that no one wins an award for having the best system in baseball. Nobody. You know, it just doesn't work that way and it's good to have a great.
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"austin hedges" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Just continue to give these young guys wraps what we have in these recent prospect arms really. Let's try to get to wreak scruple to work a little more efficiently etcetera etcetera. I think that's that group is is pretty obvious. I think that cleveland the one that is very complex that they're catching situation for next year is interesting. Austin hedges is really good at some stuff and not at hitting. Roberto perez has an option that they. I don't think you're gonna pick up because. Brian lava sta. Who's like a junior college catching prospect from a couple drafts ago. He's forty man or rule. Five eligible this december and he's hitting Like well over three hundred this year. He's got an ob p well over four hundred. He's slugging but not hitting home runs. He's got like fifteen bags and this guy who converted the catching fairly late and now he's blown up offensively this year like he seems like a lock forty man ad. So would you rather have hedges or res- non tender hedges. I think that when forty crunch piece that was the question. I asked myself too because hedges an arab four guy but peres has a seven million dollars club option said save like two and a half or three million bucks probably figure. Get small razors. Because you never don't get a raise our yeah. I think i'd rather have hedges. Just because for cleveland i feel that three and a half million means an extra player of some kind. Then look at their roster. Actually try to compete next year. I think missing stream bieber. This year was a huge huge deal that they the way they turn out pitching means that they will have legit contender. Big-league starting pitcher depth between bieber and police. Ac and the group of young is like morgan and mackenzie continuing to develop jack and closing the bullpen. Like i do think they have a contending pitching staff or shore. How many hitters of those do you like like one ass. Well this is. The problem is that it's like jose ramirez is a lock. He's one and a half of my one. You can start poking holes in the rest of it though right like like from meal ella and right he's a piece. I think it naylor. I think is a piece as well but i do think that the i feel that they have kind of tried. The platoon have not really worked out at all. I think that you can expect the group of middle dealers that they have almond. Rosario owen miller andres jimenez gabriel arias guys who got basically in in some of the trades that they made in the offseason like some of them will be good enough to be perfectly suitable plug and play like i guess. I like rosario k. He's actually yeah. Yeah i just. I guess they need to do with the rest of this year's figure out which of these guys they're gonna use next year because they have there is really no reason not to give a bunch of these random guys reps and see who they actually want play because you know take your choice between mile straw herald. Ramirez mercado bradley zimmer. You can't put all these guys on the team and if you have a forty minute crunch none of them are that good. But i guess what they should be doing. The rest of the year is figuring out which of these players they wanna keep. You mentioned the forty man crunch and it's true like you could make an argument here. That the bottom of the cleveland. Bigly rosser has a lot of guys who were like hanging on by a thread. In terms of dewey. Keep them or is it. Time to move. On from zimmer and mercado and daniel johnson like i said these platoon type outfielder. Who just haven't really done anything. And then on the way you have. I mentioned lavas dida ritchie plazas hitting us early have position cody morris. Robert broom brian. Rokos top hundred prospect tyler. Freemen's the top one hundred prospects. All these guys are december of twenty twenty. One rosser ads. And so do you say all right. Let's keep these guys and move on from that group of outfielders in their mid to late. Twenty two i just mentioned or do we consolidate these prospects into like bigly pieces right now basically so i think that i don't know what the market's going to be like. Maybe that's the way you answer. That question is okay. Can we move the group of prospects. I just mentioned for like a controllable young outfielder that we think can contribute to the big league team in a significant way next year right because those those are just you know fallen off three right. That's the thing is like who were really want part with somebody like that. I mean this brand reynolds but right. Yeah you're looking at all right. Who are teams whose rebuilds are going to take quite a while who have players who are going to become expensive or free agency during the course of that long rebuilt. So that's like you know baltimore needs to start to show some results soon. I think but maybe there's still in that bucket. Balmer isn't in that bucket. But i mean there's a lot of what you could trade for antedates antenna airman's great player that you don't have to do with right. Then then the optics of that for cleveland would be. Hey we just traded a bunch of prospects for a guy who we let go in the rule. Five at one point you know. I'm not sure that castle. That much better right. He's he's a tenuous approach guy. Who has no defense value so okay. So that's that's what they're gonna do is trying to figure you're gonna keep Rid of i guess for the mariners. If i were them i just trying to figure out if abraham could play second base. It's interesting. He's always been a bizarre prospect. He's performed on paper from a visual standpoint. He does have like power arm strength when he really steps into a throw but he can't make all the throws middle infield defense. Seems like it's hard to see him be able to do that but i do think yeah why. Why not give that a shot for the rest of the year even situationally. They tried shed long sheds. Basically the same type of defender. Where you're like. Let's just try to hide this guy today. Yeah i mean. I think there's really nothing wrong with putting him at third if you're actually that's a little less clear but it would definitely be nice for the team. If they could play him. At second legitimately. I don't think the early results are so great from both watching him. Play looking at the metrics say like out of of average thinks. He's not good. But i think finding out it doesn't matter if he put some balls doesn't get some just vacant find out. That's worthwhile use of this wrestler season. And they've had injury stuff. It's made it tough like you know with kyle. Lewis send evan white and shed loans been hurt. Watt james paxton tommy. John oh yeah i mean. I think they've awfully had an admirable season. They've really been better than expected. And i don't hate the agreement trade as much high vodka's bad like kind of sequencing. Actually i think one pretty decently on getting kathy out of that and not giving up that much to get the network of trade was pretty good. Set them up for the next year. Just certainly didn't feel good the trader closer to the team. You're currently playing in your division. I think they need to be in depth accumulation mode. When you look at the group of guys that they have with nick and julio encounter rally in novi martinez coming pretty fast and the college pitching the drafted that has developed pretty quickly with gilbert. And george kirby like all of these guys are on the way. But you've seen san diego and the yankees struggle when injuries take a toll on your ability to sustain a apex level of performance in a competitive division. Which is what you need to make the playoffs in some of these divisions and maybe the. Al wests not that. But i think you know you just need to have better options than what the mariners have had to bring up. Casey sadler type dudes. And when you when you're dealing with the injuries that we just mentioned you just need better alternatives than what the mariners poised to have next year to be able to sustain that type of thing..
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"austin hedges" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Were you feel confident in changing your backstop sort of wholesale. It's like are you prioritizing just raw pitch framing because use expect that they'll be able to adapt to whatever the staff is throwing. Do you say okay. These guys are particularly adept. Framing pitches in particular parts of zone. And so we're going to prioritize that even if there was good other places like i would be very curious to know what sort of the granular analysis is because it does seem like it has to be more than just. These guys are good in. Those guys are bad. You know like it has to go beyond that although it's not as if pitchers who have come up through the minor leagues and have interacted with a bunch of different teammates and have been subject to you know trades before aren't used to trying to you know figure something out. I imagine that the learning curve on that is perhaps actually not steepest were expecting because it isn't as if the padres through like a pitch that no other team throws right like the exact shape of the arsenal might vary and the degree to which you have a staff that throws you know who's doing high fastballs or or what have you might vary team two team. But they aren't going from not catching to then catching right. They're catching other stuff. And now they're they're adapting to this new stuff and that might not be quite as dramatic shift as were maybe anticipating but i feel like You know. I wonder what it says about teams confidence or understanding in game calling as something that is measurable that they do have a seeming willingness to move on from guys midseason when they need an upgrade which might just say the guys moving from her bad game calling i suppose but it does make me wonder sort of where the team understanding of that as a a measurable skill sets and maybe they they have a super sophisticated approach to it and they're using that in their trade analysis for but it does make you wonder kind of where that fits in because i would find i just find trade so disruptive even if i weren't traded you know it's like what if what if that is your work friend. And then they leave. You know it's like we sit here and we try to quantify clubhouse chemistry and we talk about how hard it is to do that. And i think that winning solves a lot of stuff in that guys who moved to two teams that have postseason. Aspirations are often really excited about that. Even if they miss some of their old co workers but i just. I don't like change and really upsetting. Yeah and then that specific case with the padres they're catchers hadn't hit at all prior to the trade deadline. I think they were like. Oh yeah this. Looking at the leaderboards. I think they had like twenty fourth best. Wac plus from their catchers prior to the trade deadline last year and so even if they thought well maybe will lose a little bit from a pitch calling perspective working with pitchers if they hit better which you would expect us nolan. Jayson castro do compared to austin hedges or whoever was catching before they got there. Then maybe that were than makes up for that defensive anyway and as it happens and this is small saint paul on both sides of last year's deadline because the whole season was a small sample but prior to the deadline padres staff had a four point three one era with a four point one four fifth and after the deadline basically september. They had a three point. One five era and a three point four four fifth so if there is any cost on the catching end than they more than made up on the pitching incas. The pitching was perfectly effective. So i wasn't a big deal but you know it would enter into my thinking. If i were a gm right now who is thinking of making a lateral move for a catcher. It would have to be a significant offensive upgrade or in in other ways for me to to want to do it. I think well and you know not to say that there are guys who are good framers and bad framers still but i do think that the general you know. It's all tightened up in terms of what the spread on. That talent is so. I might be reacting to this from a place that is would be better suited to like catching from five years ago or ten years ago than it is right now because the the difference there i think is is quite small which is why the spread on the offensive side can be so great because the defense has has really tightened and there is sort of an acceptable level which you are a big league catcher or you're not or you're catching for the white sox so you know. There are exceptions to the rule. But generally you guys pretty tightly clustered which is why so many of them are so god awful at the plate and the guys who are good are are really good and and they're all the way. Yeah let's a perfect segue into the second catcher question. So this comes from another patriots supporter. Peter who says i heard you talking about the electric sign system to be tested on episode. Seventeen twenty four. Now as i understand it. The pitcher is ultimately the decision maker with respect to which pitch and location is agreed on which is achieved by shaking off other suggestions by the catcher. Wouldn't this new system be an opportunity to switch sender and receiver and allow for the pitcher to send his pitch selection electronically to the catcher instead of vice versa. So for those who were not with us on episode seventeen twenty four and it'll be is going to be testing the system very soon in april that is basically based on a wristband that at least for now it sounds like the catcher will wear in. That will be instructions via the sort of headset. thingy to pitchers who will love via bone conduction. Justino feel which sounds worse than it is. It's like you know bone conducting headphones. Right where you can just it's transferred through your skull essentially which sounds weird but it's it's fine and That way the catcher can select the pitch silently in where he wants it and that will just get beamed in theory securely and silently to the pitcher and there won't be any flashing up signals and so this will be hard or impossible to steal signs in the system and perhaps it will improve pace of play at least after some initial adjustment to this but as peter points out well maybe the respond could be on the other risks and maybe.
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"austin hedges" Discussed on OC Talk Radio
"It's definitely helped me. Focus on the right thing. That's great good. One and a half or two more questions i'm thinking about. What is your observation. We are inundated with an just so immersed in popular personalities the kardashians and and we have views of them in the and the public views of them. What is your impression of public persona and a private persona. Do you think people are very different publicly than they are privately. You think what we're seeing when we see these people publicly we're not seeing who they are personally or do you think they're rather revealing at a certain level pop to be super revealing so everyone knows everything about you. I think i mean everyone's different. But i think they're definitely a lot of people that have to put a facade on just to just though they can survive. I think that's okay. Because your privacy your privacy and how you want to be perceived i mean. I can't imagine what what some people have to go through. But but for me i try and stay true to myself as as much as i can. But there's definitely a point where you of got to put the game face on and kind of have that tunnel vision and not. let not. Let any any distractions you. What exercises are what do you do to understand when you said the true self. The true you. What's the who you are. How do you go about determining what that is in spite of all of this outside of this outside influences. They're trying to tell you who you are. I've been blessed or read. A lot of really really good books and led by the bible and i have conversations with myself all day every day and those conversations are basically as i've realized With god inside me like so. I've just kind of learned how to trust my gut and listened to my gut. And i just kind of to do. The right thing in every single given moment is something that i think. We're all aware of incapable of it's just about doing it. And so i try to have is paying conversation with with myself. Basically as possible and i tend to surprise myself and how many answers. I have to just how to be twenty four seven. We all have a choice to how. How are we going to be right now. And it's just. I don't get upset. I don't get rattled about things. It's it's very hard to throw me off. I'm always asking. Like how. Should i be right now and i definitely don't try and like i'm not in denial about feelings and emotions. Either i try. And how should i take emotion. I need do like. I haven't okay. I'm angry right now. okay. Why am i angry in that and i have walked through the process that i feel like everybody knows how to do but i just allow myself to walk through that process constantly and when i do that on a daily basis at right now it's almost like it's autopilot like and also it's easy to feel like i'm quicker to understand when i when i do fail because i feel i do fail all the time but when i do i know what to do differently i can make. It seems like this experience who've had is insights a level of maturity that is unusual for younger age people because of all the pressure the opinions the outside influence you have to deal with it at a level that most people never have to deal with their entire life and they're learning to deal with it too much of their life in your first to it at a very young age it does help in growing into a more mature individual..
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"austin hedges" Discussed on OC Talk Radio
"Is there a different austin during the season and during offseason. Is there a different austin When i'm not being my best self yes when i'm being my best self now. It's very easy to have two different parts just because there's significantly more stress just because it's the most stressful thing and then it offseason. There's just zero stress. I have to do anything. You set your own schedule so basically three months out of the year. I'm on someone's schedule. And i think that's stressful in general just being on being on the clock always on someone else's time and then during the offseason you're on no one's time i think one of the things that's helped is my kind of. I'm always on the clock in once. I've kind of tried to learn this whole husband thing. I realize offseason and even during the season i gotta be on the clock from my wife and your husband first and foremost and When i do that. I think it helps me be more consistent during the offseason and during the season during the season. Do you find yourself being you know holding your emotions close to your vest are do you are. Do you try to express your emotions to your wife or did you do keep themselves to yourself and so she's kind of wondering you like i mean i'm not necessarily talking about you personally because everybody's different. What he what do you think would be typical with players. Do you think they keep a lot of things internally closed. I think there's a little bit of everything i have met families at. Tell each other. Absolutely everything i've met some that are like they know it's baseball season. They know they're kind of getting shut. Offers a guy but that's a personal thing. Everyone's relationship different but for me. I don't know i think you try. Not to let the emotions of the the rollercoaster of the season and of life impact. You need to be in that moment in for that day. You know one of the things..
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"austin hedges" Discussed on OC Talk Radio
"To you too. Isn't it talking to somebody. They were talking about competition on a baseball team. And how you were in competition with another catcher at san diego for the starting position and you told me he's probably one of your very best friends on the team and people would think guys and competition are not friends but somebody told me that game understands game and that if you got game you understand somebody else with game and and you just take delight in watching them work and and you had a great friendship with a guy that was supposed to be in competition with you did you not. Yeah i think. I i was kinda taught that from from the get-go my first couple of years in in big league spring training when i first got invited to big league spring training. A couple of guys nick. Hundley and as mani granddaughter. Both took me under their wing. And i'm the guy just drafted. I'm gonna trying to take their job in. They're showing me the ropes. They're out of work how to prepare. How you know what. It's like to be a big league catcher. So once they did that they kind of set. The tone for me to be like this is this is the way to do. This is the human aspect of a sport that tries to dehumanize us being a. It's just another human going through the exact same thing as you and you might as well help each and look out for each other because that's gonna write a whole lot more enjoyable and it's not easy. It's definitely not easy at times. But it's definitely the right way to go and i think if anything it's good karma you know what you put out into the world like. I think you get that back eventually. At some point wasn't it. He is bonnie grondahl. The taught you in spring training to be the first man in the in the clubhouse no matter what our was and you were there. Dickey's our like five forty five or whatever it was he was He was a very good influence on me to show me how to work and how to prepare as very kind..
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"austin hedges" Discussed on OC Talk Radio
"This is charlie hedges in. You're listening to the next chapter with charlie today. I'm talking to my all time favorite guest austin hedges. Who's a catcher for the cleveland indians. And we are talking. I'm titling it. I may title it differently once it's once it's published but i'm thinking the unknown or secret life of a professional athlete sort of information that the public doesn't get the media or via any kind of media whether it's written or microphone so i want to get a bit into your personal life at nineteen years old. You were drafted right out of high school by the san diego padres so as a nineteen year old. You move from california with your family to indianapolis and moved for the first time. Living on your own you left. Continual support parental support team support. And you moved into a very competitive environment where everybody you think. Everybody's a great teammate. And having great fun but everybody's fighting for a job everybody wants to make the big league exists was what's called single-a tell me about that. Experience of moving from a very supportive environment to a very competitive environment was there. Was there a change in mental attitude in that not really. I was competing for so long and competing I feel like in really challenging environments my whole life so i was onto the next competition. I was onto the next challenge. It was definitely the hardest one. I've ever done because i had to grow up while i was doing it on my own. I'm in the middle of the country. Where weather is now a factor. I never had to deal with the cold or severe heap before. And now i'm thrown over there and.
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"austin hedges" Discussed on OC Talk Radio
"Like just like remember. Remember what the goal is at all times. No matter what i was doing. There was only one goal. You know when you said you are one goal in and it started at such an early age. What do you think drove you to just be so singularly minded about a goal was that we watched baseball so much did that have an influence or was it something else that going on. I think it challenged my brain. There was a whole lot going on. I think to a much deeper level than than other sports. The main thing that attracted me was the complexity and the competition ultimately. I just wanted to compete. I wanted to once. We started getting like like winning and losing was with everything it was. I had to win. I wanna do everything i did. I despised losing and baseball offer. That on every game has a winner. You lose and there was nothing you know. There's nothing better than going out and winning a baseball game. There's nothing worse than going at losing it. And the beauty of those of them is the the winning makes you want some more and the losing makes you never want to experience that again. So you gotta make sure you lose anymore. It's interesting you would say that. I remembered quite a few years ago. I was listening to an interview. Joe montana and joe montana says your highest level athletes are not driven by the desire to win. They're driven by the hatred of losing. Does that resonate with you at all. Yeah it's for sure both no doubt. I don't think it's much earth the healthiest way to go about it. Maybe four before. I used to probably hate to lose more than i. Love a women and think apple to make sure that we're sticking with the positive things it's definitely a healthier way to live. Do not hate to lose that. That extreme level there's got to be negative on you emotionally doesn't it. Yeah just when you when you play so many games in so many days. You can't let something like that phase your for for a second because you gotta show up and be ready to go the next day. That is the truth of baseball. That many people understand but if they're not avid sports they really don't understand it. You know you play a one hundred sixty two game season and then how many games and in spring training another twenty five to thirty games.
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"austin hedges" Discussed on OC Talk Radio
"Hedges as he explores turning the page on his life and yours. Hey charlie hey well today we are reaching back to a guest that we had on the show about one year ago and that is my son. Austin hedges austin is a professional baseball catcher for the cleveland indians and after nearly a decade of plane since graduating high school for the san diego. Padres he was traded was a july or august. Austin that you are traded to cleveland august september. Oh really was it. That late okay. Yeah basic we only two months this year. Yeah that's right. That's right. What i hope to chat to about a chat about today has to do with both the inner emotional roller coaster ride of ups and downs family life professional life in the place of dreams in the most competitive of environments which is professional sports and entertainment This show will be sort of The way i'm imagining sort of behind the scene view of what is like to be both hero. And underappreciated are fickle and they frequently feel the right to express their opinion. Many of them are very positive and sometimes not so positive and in addition i want to get into a look at what is life during the season which is close to half a year. Maybe a little bit more than half a year and life during the off season so i would like baseball fans to understand what life is like for a baseball player in real life Yup to that sun. Okay so Let me be official and say austin hedges. Welcome to the next chapter with your dad. Think for having me. Well it's a pleasure to have you. You're so articulate. So you know what i thought i might do us. Then start at the beginning as a kid. Your mom and i just delighted that you always excelled in every sport basketball football soccer lacrosse. Who knows what all but you decided. The baseball was the one you wanted to pursue and only ten years old. You declared rather. I wanna say almost not quite defiantly but rather strongly that when you were going to grow up you're going to be a professional baseball player without understanding. Would all that took what. What was austin then made you feel that strongly about getting a baseball player. For some reason. I guess it caught my attention as super early. I think i think that decision was probably made earlier than that without even knowing what what a professional baseball player was i think something about watching the game on tv or live just captured me where it was so early that it's not even i wanna do that like i want to do what they're doing. I just wanna. I wanna be where they are almost in so i think over the over the next handful of years when i started understanding i mean just going up a little bit probably three or four years old and three or four years old has he. S what you say yourself doing. I mean yeah. But i didn't know it was going to be like i didn't know that was like a big deal or anything. It was just that. Like i. I just wanted to be. I just wanted to do what they were doing. I'm even know if i understood the concept of baseball completely like it was. Just i just like i. I enjoyed that. And i want to do what they were doing. And so i feel like that just stuck in my brain so anytime no matter what i was doing it was just always in my brain..
WTVN
"austin hedges" Discussed on WTVN
"Major League teams combined to score 25 runs and blow out wins. Try blasting Detroit, 13 to 5. Cleveland pounded 19. It's Jose Ramirez, three for five with a homer and five RBS Austin Hedges went deep as well. The Reds trailed 42 in the seventh when Nick Cast Seattle's hit a Grand slam since he poured it on from there. Scoring six more times in the eighth. They end up thumping Philadelphia's well forecast. Yannos three, It's and a career high seven RBS Clippers had the night off. They opened a series in Toledo tonight. Meanwhile, tribe slugger Fran will raise on a rehab assignment with Eclipse will stay with the team for the rest of the week. If all goes well, the Indians may call him up this weekend. More interesting scheduling news for the basketball Buckeyes. Ohio State to host Duke on November 30th. It's just Dukes second visit to Columbus under legendary head coach Mike Chefs. He who is retiring after this season. NBA PLAYOFFS The L. A Clippers takedown. Phoenix closing to win three games to two in the NBA Western finals HOCKEY Tampa Bay trying to repeat as champs off to a good start in the Stanley Cup finals. They beat Montreal 5 to 1 and the countdown to the grand opening of New Cruise Stadium continues. Ribbon cutting ceremonies are scheduled today. First game in lower dot com Field Saturday against New England from the central Ohio Honda Dealer Sports Radio 6 10 W T. V s still have time to sit in every seat before the game On Saturday. I part of crew Week Why not 7 49 traffic and weather together? From 10 star heating or Excuse me before we do traffic, Let's get into the newsroom. Scott Scott, What are you working on for eight o'clock a Brandon, with the search continuing for survivors of Thursday's building collapse in Florida Senator Rick Scott's explaining what actions can be taken at the federal and state level to prevent another collapse. Every building everybody's got to take this seriously.
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"austin hedges" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Man? Chicago man? Yes. Rock and roll in first place Teams era, man. I mean, Ryan to remember Ryan to Pere Mark pointed this out less and you got an M V P vote from someone last year. Went to Pera has a whip. That was that was not because of the way he pitched. Was it a joke that it was? It was? Yeah, I was trying to vote for someone else and by accident trying to pair up Do you have a bad year last year, but it wasn't like he earned an M V. P vote Me completely. How you what He's doing now? Accidental model And that guy's got a Whippet like 0.701. Yeah, I mean, it's parents. I got these numbers real quick here for you, and we're gonna talk. White Sox baseball. Chuck are fine in just a few minutes. We'll do that. Just after 11. Are you ready for this? Yeah, I'm not. Cubs starters. This is MLB ranks. Okay. 30 teams, Cubs starters, hugs starters 30th in Fangraphs War 38.8. Even the Pirates have more wins from their starters than the cubs. Okay? 30th and strike rate 19.3. It's the lowest in baseball, right 29th and fielding independent pitching. That's 5th 7th highest, which would be bad here. Hard contact percentage, seven highest hard contact percentage. That's bad and their 19th and er a at 4.41. That's the starters. You guys ready for the relievers. Yes. Give me the relievers tied for first in Fangraphs War 2.8. Wow! Hi. First instruct percentage 29.4% highest in baseball, Second and fielding, independent, pissed, pitching, Lowest hard contact. They go from one of the highest and the lowest amongst their relievers. That's amazing Second, er A. That's the Cubs pen. That's the one thing I've noticed about that pen. They've been dominant. How dominant pen I told you started. Gives me five depending gives me four scoreless. It's pretty damn right about that kid. There's I want to get into more of the sticky stuff with pictures, too, like Kimbrel was told to clean up his hat. And then we've got sound from last night's game. Karen Shack is there's video all over from numerous star stuff. He only Steve Stones that something's not right. We'll talk about it with Chuck will play the sound for just after 11 to let's go to Michael on the South side. What I'm like. Yeah, I know that, Uh, break uhm Jose a brave one player of the week, right? I believe he did for last week. I understand He's good. You should get out of bed and he drives in a lot of runs. He's leading the majors. Amar mistaking. I don't know what he's lead the majors, but okay? All right now, I don't think is suing old count. Yes. Last night to an old campaign loaded. The guy was Probably the guy has lost, He lost it. Yeah, Even the radio. Darrin Jackson did maybe hopefully takes the pitch. Take a pic because the guy get in Torino get that run and drive in that run through an account. Usually the ball. It was born three Many a grounds out. No, I know you want to dive in a lot of runs. Don't get me wrong because he's a great player. My pain. He's a great player, but I think in that incident Maybe she took another one for the team. Arcane. Another pitch to hose money. Good, but batters count it is and your look, I think they're you're looking for a fastball and you want to jump on it. I mean, what you don't want is something to happen where you're not, you know, sitting on the fastball, getting one and not swinging. And then all the sudden you're opening up another breaking prime brave leaders. Today you guys who leads with 46 was discipline. I'm with the caller, though I was disappointed with being ahead to on that and Karen check struggling to find the strike zone. And then that's the pitch that you're in the game. I don't want to disappoint. I also don't think that that was a ball. I think that was gonna have his own. I think that was a strike. The question is, Is that the best pitch should you if you don't get the exact pitch you want wouldn't Wouldn't most professionals like like I don't want to pretend like I'm the and they know it all here, but Wouldn't most professional hitters too. Oh, if they get a fastball, aren't they going to swing at it? Like in that situation? You know you're probably right. It was. Yeah, It's a good pitch fastball. It was gonna be a strike. I mean, so you know the problem or lies in like You could say to you know, there's two outs, right? Yeah. And you're ahead in the count to all on so you can be selective on that particular pitch. Fair enough. You know, you know what? My big fish a guy who's never had a major, right exactly talking a lot. You know what my bigger problem is again. I've never thrown a big league pitcher. My bigger problem is The single by Harold Ramirez that tied the game of three the go ahead to run home run from Austin Hedges that made it 53. No one sees has got to strike counts on him. I think Ramirez was in a note to come. Maybe 12. He was full on Edges and what happens York He's kind of throws to spin and sliders up there. That they hadn't hit a ton of balls hard, but they hit those too hard. You know, like my bigger problem is Dylan. Like. Ah, lot is expected of you. You're showing the glimpses Maura than ever, like, Well, you know, that's an outing with our signs. There's that's an outing where when you give up six and three in the third, I'm not happy. Like I'm more upset about that than Jose swinging at that to open. It wasn't like I think last Wednesday when he started he had 29 swings and misses. Okay. What did you have last night? I don't know what it was and say, Well, that's the thing is The potential is clearly there. What changed? I mean, you know, upset from the opponent. But what really changed from you where you can't put people away Exactly. I'm with Mel. All of a sudden the sliders kind of spinning there a little bit, and it's got a lot of the zone coming from the guy that's never thrown a big league pitcher like that's what I'm more upset about. Maybe you needed the other team, the other team's glove. Yeah, Maybe he was having sex glow of any current checks club with all the junk in the juice in there or guy goes his hat or Kimbrel's at, um, maybe you need a little more spin rate car will play the sound from last night. We'll talk about it with Chuck. Our final talk more White Sox when we return in two minutes, you're listening to Carmen in your co on ESPN 1000. Chicago's home for sports. Artist.
Mike McConnell
Hedges, Padres beat Reds 4-3 to end 6-game losing streak
"Here's a reds eight. Austin hedges homered, and we'll go ahead. Two run. Double in a four run third. Inning. Padres went on to knock off the red yesterday. Four three San Diego snap their six game losing streak. The reds had their three game winning streak snapped Cincinnati goes four and five on the road trip. Tyler Molly takes the loss for Cincinnati four run. Third inning another beginning for Tyler Molly gets them. Here. He talks about it on Fox Sports, Ohio dealing thing. Could take away about today is you know, I had that that and then kind of came back and settled in, but but still it's two to starts. A row with you know, but another team have a big inning. So and I know what I have to do to fix that day off today. They kick off a three game series against the Atlanta Braves. The great American ballpark starting
America's Truckin' Network
Hedges, Padres beat Reds 4-3 to end 6-game losing streak
"Sports cigarettes update. Austin hedges homered and will Myers hit a go ahead. Two run. Double in a four run third inning for San Diego. They went on to hold off the red yesterday. Four to three Padre snap a six game losing streak. The reds three game winning streak snapped Cincinnati goes four and five on their road. Trip. The reds have the day off today. They opened up a three game series against the Atlanta Braves at great American
Racing Report
Hedges, Padres beat Reds 4-3 to end 6-game losing streak
"Here's a reds update. Austin hedges homered and well Myers had to go ahead. Two run. Double in a four run third inning for the Padres. They went on to hold off the reds today. Four to three San Diego. Snapped a six game losing streak the reds three game winning streak. Is snapped. Cincinnati went four and five on the road trip. The reds have the day off tomorrow they opened up a three-game series against the Braves GAB