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Yeah, I'd say during the off season, I usually don't pick up a bat from October till, I try to get as close as I can to January because like when my mind, when I start picking it back up, I can't stop thinking about it. Yeah. So usually about two months, I'd say.

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I've been a part of benches clearing. I can't remember who was with me. I think it was the Blue Jays when I first got called up. And I was in the cage because when you're coming off the bench, you're kind of getting ready to pinch it potentially. And, you know, the inning ends, we see it on like the live feed.

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and i see everyone's on the field and i like run on you kind of see me running on late and i was getting texts from people going oh like you're the last one out of the dugout for just clearing yeah so i think my goal is just to get out there early yeah get out there early try to find work look busy yeah as you're out there like find one guy that you can just kind of grab his shirt yeah hold one guy a little bit yeah maybe maybe say a couple like obscenities and that's that's you know i wouldn't mind i wouldn't mind getting in a big old fight

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yeah i've never been out there earlier because the bullpen is late just before the pitch is even thrown to start running at the pitcher yeah like i can feel it's about to go down john boy had a breakdown of the the orioles and the um yankees one recently and you see the bullpen like the yankees waiting for the orioles guys to get down the stairs and then like they're all like running right next to each other it's like hey we could just square up right here yeah

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Usually I kind of like throw my stuff like a little bit of like pissed off that I don't get to hit. That's kind of like, you know, kind of like the vibe I try to get off. I'm going to take that into account. Put my bat down and just sprint and I'll take off my stuff.

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Yeah, I think the vibes are still good. I mean, I feel like we're in a lot of these games, you know, and close to winning more of them. Obviously, you know, you want to win them. But, you know, I think we're pretty close. Yeah, I mean, I can't complain.

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I was with family friends at dinner yesterday, and they were reading some article where I was talking about last year's trade deadline, and they thought I got traded again.

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okay that was yeah what about my stuff yeah right right but yeah it was definitely definitely a weird scenario for me yeah and you Kyle you knew you were gonna get traded or you basically you know but you had a good feeling in Baltimore that you were gonna get traded yeah I had a pretty good stretch of baseball with the Orioles last year kind of around this time of year and and still kind of got sent back down and after that I was like okay well maybe this won't be the place where where I'd be for a while and I was actually in the tubs when I found out um I just got out of the tubs and uh

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They said, hey, Connor Norby and one other player got traded to the Marlins. And I went and checked my phone and I had a missed FaceTime call from our GM, Mike Elias. And I was like, yeah, I think I'm the other player.

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You go first. Yeah, mine was unique. I was a COVID replacement player. Wait, what does that mean? Yeah, so when the team traveled to Toronto, if the guys weren't vaccinated, they couldn't go.

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So yeah. So I was getting texts from like our travel guy like the week before. He was like, hey, do you have your passport on you? And so I was like looking at the schedule and I saw that Toronto was coming up and I was like, oh shoot, like this could be happening. And so yeah, that's how I initially debuted.

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now the rules of or the like just the roster rules of baseball is unbelievable to me I've never heard of the upper mobility clause that's you know people always ask how much longer are you gonna be with this team and I go I don't know they have control over me for forever yeah it's just it's so weird nothing comes from them too like a lot of guys told me these never work

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Yeah, that was 23 for me. I had a pretty good spring, made the team, and just wasn't playing. And I had a pretty good 22 and thought maybe I was going to get the chance to play more frequently. But obviously with the Orioles, there was a ton of good players.

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And definitely some mind games happens with that when you feel like you're doing everything in your control and then still not kind of cracking the roster consistently.

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Yeah. I mean, I think of it as kind of like iron sharpens iron. You know what I mean? Like you're all trying to, you know, kind of lift each other up by pushing each other. And, you know, I've always kind of felt like for me that if I take care of my stuff, then like I'll end up where I'm supposed to be.

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I feel like happens semi-frequently, you know, a couple of different times, you know, whether it's performance or injuries, you know, I had a lot of injuries in the end of 23. Um, and I'm getting like hitting the face at the end of the year and like felt very, very far, uh, by, by the pitch. Yeah. Like how fast? Yeah. 93 fastball.

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And then I actually wanted to show my toughness, so I just stayed in there a little bit longer. Yeah. Kept my eye on the ball.

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Yeah. So I missed like two weeks and the rest of the year when I was facing lefties, I was like stepping out of the box. Like I was scared of the ball for, you know, for the rest of the season, which was only a couple more weeks, but it took me a little bit to get comfortable in there again.

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Yeah. I did a ton of stuff with, uh, we had a bunch of like performance psychologists, like with the Orioles or, or performance coaches and a couple of them worked with the Navy, uh,

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And so, you know, it was also really humbling to talk to them about like something I was like scared of from a performance standpoint because they're, you know, like it's also like, oh, like you guys deal with people who actually deal with life and death. And so it put me in a little bit of my place. I love that.

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Yeah, I would say probably more those guys, the baseball guys. Some people care about sports, some people don't. You'd be surprised by how many people are not out on a Friday night. Did you meet any of those future billionaires? I feel like I did not do a good enough job of networking there.

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You always knew the athletes on campus because of the red backpack. If they had the red Nike backpack or like the Gatorade like water bottle, that's how you knew who the athletes were. Yeah.

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yeah like pre-pitch yeah like yeah for me it's uh deep breath and i look at the name on my bat i used to look at the logo um when we had metal bats because it looked like a field but now i look at the name my bat i just remind myself that i'm the same guy playing the same game and that you know nothing nothing's changed and i try to just get in the present moment just lock in like tunnel vision yeah yeah so what about you on the mound

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Like a summer ball of like in between college season during the summer you play with a random team. And I did one then. Never in the big leagues that I hit a walk-off home run.

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Yeah. I mean, I mean, to your point, like, it's just like, you know, I feel like I probably didn't soak it in enough. I hit it and I kind of knew it was getting over his head. I just was kind of watching to see if it was going to get over the fence or not.

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And kind of seeing this video, I kind of do like this weird point where I'm kind of going up and down and I can't really tell if it went over the fence or not. But it was, it was awesome.

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Yeah, I feel like the machine, we try to dial it up to over 100, but when you do it off the machine and you know it's a fastball coming, you can kind of predict a little bit more. I don't think I've ever hit a ball over 100 in a real game before, so that was cool.

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Yeah. Do you even feel it when you hit it? No, you don't feel it off the bat. It's the best. It just goes with it? Oh, it's just... You're caught barrel, man. Yeah. There's no feeling like it other than going down the middle of the fairway. Yeah. That's the closest thing I think that is like that.

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Yeah. Yeah, I couldn't pimp that one. I didn't know for sure that I got it. Miami's a little bit bigger of a park. That would have been the only thing that could have made it better is if I knew it right off the bat and got to kind of look at it for a little bit.

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I think so. I think that's fair. I mean, have you seen the position players when they come in? It's the weirdest thing. Usually when you bring in a position player, your team's giving up a ton of runs, and the position player will come in and get three outs super quick, and everyone's just like...

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Right. It's like the weirdest thing because like when you face a position player as a hitter, it turns into like this like fear-based thing. If I don't want to strike out, what if I get out versus like, you know, when you're facing a real pitcher, you're like, you don't think about it. You're locked in, yeah.

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I know, but then there's some of those guys that grow early, and then they stop growing after that 13, 14 years old, and then they kind of plateau. Hank was a great Little Leaguer, and he –

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Did you guys play other sports? Played basketball in high school. Were you good? Yeah, I was pretty good. I mean, I played a small high school, but I was decent. Yeah.

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yeah 100% yeah I actually have I remember when I was like in not t-ball but it was like when you know started being like player pitch not coach pitch and I remember crying one time because there's one guy who hit a person and I was like kind of coming up next and I remember like crying because I didn't want to get in the box that's funny

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Yeah, no, I mean, it would be a huge honor to get drafted in that Dingers-only league. I'll just put my name in the hat there.

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Yeah, I mean, seven home runs. I think it's a decent start. It's not necessarily a league leader, but I think it's a good number. I've always considered myself to get better as the year goes on.

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Yeah. Spread is definitely huge. Spread. Flying commercial, like you're usually flying out like 6 a.m. on Mondays. Oh, dude. The bus rides were brutal too. Yeah, longer bus rides. Locker rooms aren't as nice. Hotels aren't as nice. Food's not as good.

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I'd say for visitor, Yankees or Rangers. I've heard the Yankees. The Rangers are brand new. The Yankees just have their food. The visiting food there is unbelievable.

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What was the spread? It's always some form of steak, fish, and chicken. And then sometimes there's a pasta bar, and then there's a carving station. It's crazy.

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i've been pretty lucky with my experiences but it is it is different it's just weird going into it you know and you're kind of just like you have your bag and you walk in you're like well nice to meet you and and those guys do those families get paid do they get a stipend i think so they get like they get something some sort of compensation yeah i think they're just they're big fans too yeah i did it in in the minor leagues short season

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Yeah, I think generally speaking in baseball for hitters, it's just getting as many at-bats as you possibly can. You see guys, if they get injured and miss a lot of the season, they'll go play winter ball now in the DR or something like that. I think it's just always about getting as many at-bats as you possibly can because pitchers need more rest time for their arms, and hitters, you can just...