Welcome to Guardians Weekly on the Cleveland Guardians Radio Network. Guardians Weekly is brought to you by Progressive helping Guardians fans save hundreds on car insurance. Hi, every one, Welcome to Guardians' Weekly. Jim Rosanouce along with you from Progressive Field downtown Cleveland. As we get a little bit closer to the start of
spring training. Next week will be our final show in Northeast Ohio before we leave for spring training, and then from then on throughout the spring, we'll bring you the show from Goodyear and the Guardians spring training complex there, so certainly looking forward to that as excitement builds for a new season ahead. And coming up on our show today in just a little bit, we will hear
from one of the bright young catchers in the game today. The Guardians very fortunate to have Bo Naylor behind the plate as their primary catcher heading into the season, and we'll talk to Bo about some of his ideas and plans for the season, expectations, and also a look back at last year when he really made a name for himself at the major league level. We will continue our look around the American League Central visiting with Chris Addabury the new lead radio
voice for the Minnesota Twins, the defending Division champs. Chris will bring us up to data on what's been happening with the Twins in the off season, and he may have seen that the Guardians released their promotional schedule for the twenty twenty four season. Annie mad Zellen a longtime member of the Guardian's front office.
She will fill us in on some of the great giveaways, promotions, dollar dogs, all that good stuff that's coming up in twenty twenty four, and also a big postgame concert appearance by the one and only Shaquille O'Neill. But first, we had a chance to visit with Bow Naylor at Guardsfest just a couple of weeks back, and Bow looks great. He really it looks like he'll be coming into camp a little bit heavier than a year ago,
but muscle heavy. I mean, he looks really really built up and strong and trying to sustain that wear and tear the major league catchers go through over the course of a long season. That breakthrough year last year, over all hit two thirty seven in sixty seven games after he was called up about midway through the season, eleven home runs, thirty two runs driven in. Here's
the good stuff. You may remember when he was first called up, he struggled a bit at the plate as he was really trying to focus on handling a pitching staff and his defense. And he hit just one seventy nine with four home runs in his first thirty nine games. But you flip the switch and the last month plus of the season over twenty eight games, bo Naylor hit three twenty one with seven home runs and eighteen runs driven in. And
here's the big number is OPS. That number that measures on base plus slugging that so many front offices they look at that as a really good barometer of some of the top hitters in the game. Anything over eight hundred is tremendous. Bo Naylor that last month plus of the season had an OPS over a thousand, the best in the American League's second best in all of baseball.
So a real confidence boost for him heading down the stretch. And when we caught up with him at guards Fest, we talked to him about dialing it down and getting away from the game a little bit during the off season before he really built things up and got going with his preparation for this year. What does Bo do during the off season to take that time away. For me personally, I would probably say just a lot of video games, you
know. Yeah, there's a lot of time spent with my brothers. Really taking that time to just kind of chill, sit down, even if I'm on the couch all day, but yeah, you know, just kind of really put your mind in a place where you don't have to worry about being somewhere at a certain time and really just kind of sit down and you know, let everything kind of settle. So it was it was a good time.
But you know, shortly after I had to get back to business and get back in the gym, and I know you have a good setup in Arizona. Well why is it important for you to get back to the Toronto area every once in a while and the winter, Oh it's huge. It's like a it's like a mental and physical reset for me. You know, that's my homeless where I grew up. Seeing the people that I love that
are still back there. You know, I got to do it and it's one of the many things that I look forward to doing every off season. So yeah, you know, I got back there a few times, got to see some of my family, and really really take advantage of some great times with them. You finished really strong a year ago. On what clicked in for you if anything, or was it just the natural progression of getting more comfortable in the major leagues It allowed you to have a lot of success
later in the year. I definitely think it was the natural progression. I think I was really trying to take care of the things behind the scenes, you know, preparation wise, to put myself in a good position in the game, and I think over time it really fell into place, which I'm super pleased you mentioned, Adam, and when we talk about improving it, it's easy to see the offense. How do you feel though about your work behind the did you feel like you came along just as much and maybe it's
not something that can be measured as well. Yeah, for sure, I think that I worked really hard to be able to command a staff like that, and there were a lot of different situations that I was thrown in. However, I think that I if I failed at them, I'd learn from them, and if I did well, I took it with me and continue to try to better myself. And that's just something that I'm looking to try
to build on for the year to come. And when you look at the managerial change, you'll have a manager who was a former major league catcher for a long long time. And have you talked to Stephen Vote about that and
how he can be a help for you this year. I think that we still need to dive into that a little bit more, But you know, in the conversations that I've had with him, it's been a lot more personal really just trying to get to know one another and you know what we're about, and you know how we've kind of gotten to this point in our lives. So I think it's been a really good start to building a great relationship in a great bond with him. As I've always said, he's someone who's
super knowledgeable and knows so much about this game. So moving forward, I'm super excited to be able to pick his brand and a lot of this stuff. And is it okay still to have your brother on the team. Yeah, as Josh walked by, But Austin Hedges is back and I know you
just a very brief time a couple of years ago he was here. What can that mean to have a veteran catcher who has been through all those things we talked about with Steven Vote a little bit, but someone who's out there with you, what benefit can that be for you based on what you know of him? It's huge. He's a special human being and I know everyone
on this team would agree with that statement. I'm very excited, you know, in that little short span of time, I got to kind of sit back and see the work that he does to prepare for the game, to prepare for the pitching stat to command a game and lead a team, and I think having him along on this journey is it's amazing. I'm super happy he's back, and I think that he's very excited as well. This time of year, how excited are you to get it going and see what this
team could be, especially after a season last year. I don't think anyone
was pleased with how it ended. I think there's a lot of talent in this team, and you know, kind of referencing last year, I think that, you know, it left the taste in our mouths that we weren't too pleased with, and honestly, I think that with the right mindset that this team has, I think that it'll only add fuel to the fire and be able to help us really go through this season and start it with the right mindset and kind of help us really bear it down and have that set
mind or have that set goal in our mind of what we want to achieve how we're going to get there. So I'm excited this group. Like I said, they have so much talent, so much ability, and I'm excited
to really sit back and be able to see what they do. That's bow nail Or, a bright young man who, as you may know, has been working on his Spanish so that he can overcome any type of communication gaps with the Latin pitchers that are a part of the pitching staff and just generally trying to help himself out as a teammate to everybody on the ball club. So a lot of good things going on for Bone Nailor heading into twenty twenty
four. Also a lot of good things off the field. If you're coming to games this summer, there are not many nights where there won't be some sort of promotion, whether it be a giveaway item, fireworks, dollar dogs, all the good stuff. And when we come back, Anni mad Zellen will join us and talk about the promotions coming up this season. She's the
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or situations. Bouche shell one Christ Welcome back to Guardian's Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse back with you from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland, and we are joined now by Annie mad Zellen, who's the senior manager for advertising and Promotion, and earlier this week the twenty twenty four promotional calendar was unveiled. Annie, I know this is something that planning wise goes back to as early as last season.
You have to start looking ahead to the next year. And why don't we we start with some of the giveaways that will be happening this year at Progressive Field. What are some of the highlights in your mind as as we head into the new year. Yeah, thanks, Rosie. I'm really excited
about our bobbleheads for this year. We have Jose Ramirez, Josh Naylor, Christy McKenzie and our future Guardians Hall of Fame inductee, and I think they're just really unique and have some really cool details that all of our fans will really appreciate. So great stuff there, bobbleheads and also some other stuff too that some of them are repeats. It sounds like from years ago because of popularity in years past. Yeah, definitely. We did our first Hawaian shirt
giveaway last year in twenty twenty three and it was a huge hit. We love seeing everyone wear it back to the ballpark, so decided to bring that back this year, but with a little twist on the design. We went with a red shirt and it's got the Sugardale hot Dogs integrated into the pattern. So really excited for fans to see that and grab at the ballpark. On July third, you mentioned the Sugardale hot Dogs, Dollar Dogs back and
fireworks. Yeah, we have nine Dollar Dogs nights and fifteen fireworks nights. That includes two Rock and Blast shows in late August. You mentioned Rock and Blast and you might not be able to disclose the theme as yet, but how has that evolved from when it first burst on the scene to where it is now? Just something that's certainly appointment viewing for so many fans late in
the season. Yeah, it's really amazing to see how it's evolved. You know, it started as just kind of an expanded show with some scoreboard elements, and you know, now you look at it, it's a really involved fireworks show, completely sync music and scoreboard video with you know, additional pyro effects and lighting effects. You know, my favorite thing is to see the
fireworks coming off of the sun guard at the top of the ballpark. So it's really really evolved in Our team is always looking at ways we can make it even cooler for the following year. Andy Matt Zellen joining us. He's the senior manager for advertising and promotions. Andy, You've been at this a long time, and I've held off a little bit here in our interview to talk about this one. My favorite is the postgame concert. You have a
big man coming in to put together a DJ show. Tell us about Shaquille O'Neil's appearance at the ballpark this summer. Yes, Diesel aka Shaquille O'Neil will be performing a post game set on June twenty second, So come down on that game. You get your Josh Nailer bobblehead courtesy of Medical Mutual at the gates, and then fans can all fans no separate ticket required after the game
and enjoy Shaq's said. I have not seen him live, but I've been scouring the internet for videos and it looks like it's going to be an amazing show. Awesome stuff Shaquille O'Neil Diesel with the DJ postgame concert, and that is definitely an appointment. You you mentioned free uh I think you said free T shirt Fridays. Those are back and how many are there for that? Yeah, we have eight free shirt Fridays running from mid May to the end
of August. So really excited to partner with some local artists to bring those to life this year. You know some of our other fan favorites that we're bringing back. You mentioned dollar Dogs. We're going to have two dollars pregame in the district presented by Miller Lyton Course Light on select Fridays and Saturdays,
and we're also bringing back our Lightweight hoodie giveaway in September. This has become a staple of our promo calendar for the last few years, so look to come up with a really great design that fans can enjoy this year as well. How far out do you do some of this stuff in terms of planning and having to order to make sure all the merchandise is here in time.
We actually start usually in June or July for planning for the following year, but it's kind of a constant process where we're always looking for different ideas and making notes of different you know, moments on the field or things that we reflect back on our players that fans will really kind of get a kick out
of and really kind of kick off the planning and artest. I would say, you know, June, July, and August, and so definitely working really hardhead or really far ahead, which can be tricky, but you know, we definitely want to make sure we have enough time to really develop these great products for our fans. Well, it's amazing just looking at the calendar.
There are very few games where there is not either a giveaway some sort of promotion be it the dollar dogs or two dollars pre game in the district nights, something that's in addition to baseball. And it's a great credit to your team for sure, Annie, and thanks so much for coming by and filling us in on some of the great things coming up in twenty twenty four.
Great thanks, Rosie, I appreciate you having me on. If you want more information, go to cl guardians dot com slash tickets and don't forget tickets going on sale before our next show next weekend two one six day next Friday the sixteenth at ten am and you can get first dips on all those great nights that Annie just talked about for the coming season. Again cl guardians dot com slash tickets. Stay tuned more to come after this on the Cleveland
Planet Guardians Radio network. Boy, this has got a chance to be a fun summer game. Welcome back to Guardians Weekly as we continue our look around the American League Central Division, and it's time now to catch up on the division champs, the defending division champs, the Minnesota Twins with their fine broadcaster Chris Addabury, who goes full time now as the radio voice of the Twins.
This will be his initial season and Chris, first off, congratulations, what an off season for you and I'm sure a dream come true to be the lead radio voice for a major league team. I mean, we all kind of want that role, and I think I've been very fortunate. I came to the Twins the same year you joined Cleveland two thousand and seven. So I've been around a minute in a variety of roles, you know, pre and posed, and i'd always call, you know, anywhere twenty to
fifty games a year. But to be the league guy with Corey going to TV is super exciting and honestly we joke about it all the time. But I owe it mostly to Cleveland because I think I've done like ninety percent of my big league games have been in Cleveland because Danny's never in Cleveland. So without my yearly three trips to Cleveland to be on the air, maybe I wouldn't be in this spot. So now I get to spread my wings into
every ballpark and not just your beautiful ballpark. Well, and you had an opportunity late last season to be on the mic for the division clincher and then also obviously working through the postseason. But for the Twins, you know, a year ago division tie obviously a big deal, but maybe a bigger deal they won a postseason series, and you know, obviously that was a tough stretch of years where they would make the postseason and not only not win a
series, but not win a game. A gigantic sigh of relief or was it more than that when when they got past the Blue Jays and then really played well against the Astros too. Yeah, I think it was a little of both. Like it was definitely relief, Like you can only hear that narrative so long, and yet you can't argue with it. You know, every single year I heard a new group of players or front offices or coaches,
well, we're not It wasn't our streak. We weren't around for that, And I'm like, yeah, y are now you know, you just you just lost a couple more. It was almost an incomprehensible streak until you started digging into it and realized that, you know, for ninety eight percent of those games, the other team was better, and most of the time that other team was the Yankees, and they were better. If you're starting ccs of Athy and we're starting Brian Gunny in Yankee Stadium, like, you're
probably gonna win in the peak of CC's career. So we had our chances to win some games in there. They didn't go our way. So to finally this guild of a hump was nice. I think there's still some disappointment though, because you know, after stealing one in Houston, you know it was all there for the taking force. I think that we match up really well with Texas. They didn't want anything to do with us. We saw them late in the season and really dominated them in every fast of the game.
Houston was always a tougher matchup for US. We had Sonny Gray at home in front of crazy crowds, and we just we couldn't get it done. And so I think while there's a level of satisfaction for winning a division and winning a series, I don't feel like this team came anywhere close to living up to its potential last year. So hopefully we can do that this year and not just kind of muddle around for five months and then play well
for a few weeks. Like I think it's a team that has the talent to really dominate in the division, and yet, as you've seen up close and personal, rarely does that happen, right. We always just kind of kind of linger around and hope for a late push, And I think that's the hupe we have to get old. Well. Well, we'll talk about the team heading into twenty twenty four shortly, but first, Chris, I imagine just a super special day recently when Joe Mauer was announced as a Hall
of Famer. He'll go into Cooperstown this summer. What a great story. I'm not sure how many Hall of Famers are that hometown kid who made good. And what was the reaction among Twins fans and just in general in the Twin Cities to the announcement that Mauer had made the Hall. Well, I think it's fantastic. And you know, now Saint Paul has four Hall of
Famers, which is more than any town or city of any size. You look at Winfield and Mallitor and Morris and now Joe Oh, which is crazy, you know, and they all literally grew up within like a two mile radius of one another. So it's pretty spectacular. And I think for me it's cool because you know, I got here an O seven, fresh off Joe's batting title, first batting title, and Joe could do no wrong in
the Twin Cities. Is the perfect hometown euro And then he got hurt, and then there was the inevitable backlash, Well, why doesn't he hit more home runs? He's not touching anymore, Joe's overrated. And then now I think we finally get to just settle all that garbage yeah, Joe's awesome and he's a Hall of Famer. It was always, well, he's good, but he could have been, you know, as inevitably happens when someone doesn't
make any missteps, when they're just consistently a good person. There's no drama, you know, there's no redemption story after getting in trouble off the field. He was just consistently really good at being a husband and a father and a son and a baseball player. And then now instead of is he or isn't he, you know what, he's a first ballot Hall of Famer.
Well three catchers. Ever, that conversation is in the dustbin forever, and we can just appreciate it because, as you well know, anymore, the Hall of Fame process, I feel like it's more like picking at what people didn't do as opposed to celebrating just how phenomenal all of these players who are even considered for the Hall of Fame are. And so I think Joe is well deserved. I don't think there was ever a catcher like him. We
may never see a catcher like him again. And I feel very blessed to have been in the front row to watch most of that career and my favorite antidote about Joe Mauer, could you please describe the establishment across the street from his high school baseball field that features some of the best burgers you'll ever have and a bowling alley in the basement. Yeah, the Nook. Yeah, the Nook is home of one of the one of the birth spots of the
Juicy Lucy. There's a bit of an argument on each side of the river here, Matt's Barr in Minneapolis, the Nook and Saint Paul. I'm a Nook guy myself, and it's right over fittingly the left center field wall. And the deal was if you hit the Nook with a home run, you got like a free burger. The funny thing is they have burgers in there, and Juicy Lucy is the molten lava cheese inside the burger, and so like you take a bite and in like this, there's a lot of oozers
out the sides. And you know, he and Glenn Perkins they rented out that whole bowling alley innovation for they al Suday in twenty fourteen. It was a pretty cool deal. But they named the burgers after famous ALUMSA Cretan so there's a Paul Mahllerderberger, and there's a Chris wank Berger and a Steve walsh Berger and all these different guys, and then there's the Mala And they named
it all the things you could name it for a hometown hero. They named it the Mallard double play Burger. And Joe who hit into his fair share of you know, four six threes and got much relied for it. He never understood that. He's like, they named it that because it was Jake and Joe older brother and Joe, and he's like, I get it, man, but like, Jake's not playing anymore, But you have to call it a double play Burger for real. That's all you can come up with.
And so hopefully now they'll change it to the Hall of Famberger or something, because the double Playburger was a all time low key slight of Jojo from his buddies a nook. Hopefully he shed some light on that and provides some clarity in his Hall of Fame speech. Coming up in Cooperstown this summer.
Chris Adabury joining us. He's the new full time radio voice, lead radio voice, we should say, the Minnesota Twins coming up this season, and let's take a look at at twenty twenty four for the Twins, So they win the division title in twenty three, have a playoff run and not a whole lot happening. I think fans here in Cleveland can identify there's a TV situation in terms of income coming in that is kind of Trim's budgets and they're
kind of waiting to see what happens there. But what's going on for the Twins to try and get better in the twenty twenty four season and stay ahead of the competition in the division, Well, that's a big question, right. I think undoubtedly we had the best team last year. It wasn't easy, but eventually they won the division. I think we have the best team on paper again this year. But I think it's gonna be another absolute dogfight.
I think it's gonna be Cleveland no matter what. They're gonna be in the mix. What if we've played in the last five years, maybe three games that we're just out of my two runs or less between these two teams, and then I think Detroit tell me come too. I think they're gonna be a lot better. But for the Twins, the TV things a real deal. I mean, I know Cleveland's in the middle of it, but the Twins even more so. They literally their contract ran out with the old
Ballet slash Diamond slash Sinclair slash whatever, fake company. They're going to come up with the Hyder money and push the deadlines, and so we were ready to move on to a league package or whatever else was out there. And then now with all of this bankruptcy court and all this stuff that's outside of your control, they're probably gonna be left with very few options and maybe get sucked back in at a low ball number by the same snakes that put you
in this spot in the first place. That's a bad business model, right like that puts you behind the eight ball big time. Where you're a team like the Twins or the Guardians who really rely on that money to balance out your budget, to not know if it's coming or how much it's gonna be is really difficult. So they made their one move. They traded Hori Polanco. I know Cleveland won't be sad to see him go because he's had some games against you guys through the years. He's out best at that you need
to switch hitter. He's a pros pro and we're really gonna miss it. He was our longest tenured guy. But I'm not surprised. You know, d Sclafani gives you at a starter. He's not sunny gray, but he's a legit guy. Topa the reliever. You know, only has one year in the big leagues. He's thirty two. He had one year in the big leagues. He was a good year, but you know, it remains to be seen. He's an ex arm in the fen, a tough at bat, you know, sinker ball die and then a couple of prospects.
So I think they did well in terms of the mass of the trade, but it's certainly not a needle moving trade. I think what the Twins are banking on is not only having a solid foundation to their rotation. When you start with Pablo Lopez, who I think is a legit cy young type candidate, Joe Lyons still has room to get better. Bailey Ober, I think legitimized himself as a major league starter, will get Chris Paddock back, who
look great in the postseason. You got the Spliffani and then Louis Varlin floating around and a really strong bullpen that will be better. I think from the beginning than a year ago. But really you're banking on your highest paid players currently playing more and playing better, and as all starts at Byron Bucks, if Byron can play geez even eighty games in center field only got a lot
better. And if Carlos Korea can, for the first time in a Twins uniform, actually perform offensively like the All Star that he has been in the past. I mean, he carries himself like then suddenly our offense gets a lot better, and then we give Royce Lewis for a full year. So I think that's where we're banking on the improvement full year of Royce Lewis, who's a legit star type human being, a healthy and hopefully at long last
productive year from Carlos Korea. You know, Carlos came in talking I want to be in the Hall of Fame as a Twin and this, and that he hadn't hit like one at all. He's played amazing defense and was great in the postseason, But aside from you know, a pretty good September two years ago and he was playing for a contract, he has not performed offensively in any way, shape or form the way he did in those good years in Houston, and obviously some things risk you. And then Byron just wasn't
healthy. So you're talking about three potential superstars and and two of them didn't either play enough for play like superstars a year ago, and the other guy did but he only got half a season. So I think that's where you're looking to get an improvement of the Twins baseball team is already existing players playing
more and playing better. Yeah, it's interesting we do this interview in early February, and I feel like the Twins are kind of in the same boat as the Guardians for the reasons you mentioned TV contract wise and the uncertainty there. We can have a lot different teams or or at least some moves or maybe not. But you get the feeling the off seasons not over yet and it might not even be when the season begins, if that makes sense.
Well, and that's kind of always been Derek salve'sm right. We traded our closer on opening day a couple of years ago in the Taylor Rogers Chris Paddock deal. We added Donovan Solano after camp had already started. You know, Korea was a late edition, so we've always made the arise Lopez. We've always made late moves. I don't think the Polanco deals the last year we made before we report, I feel that there's a move out there, and
we'll have to give up talent to do it. But I think there's a move out there that will involve bringing back a starting pitcher who's a bit higher ceiling and more controllable, younger guy than a Discofani. I really believe that that's kind of the guys we've targeted. We built a rotation by trading for good pictures from other teams, whether it was a number one pick in Chase Petty to get Sonny Gray, and we traded for Pablo Lopez. You know,
we traded for Joe Ryan, We traded for Chris Paddock. We traded even for the ones that didn't work out, guys like Lancelin and Tyler Malley. We traded for those guys. We have kind of said, okay, you know, we've got some developmental issues in our pipeline where we're creating good relievers. Bailey overs made the jump, but we struggled to find top notch
starters. Developmental wise, we're not Cleveland yet right where you're spinning new starters off your assembly line every year, and so we've had to find an alternative means almost like they comes used to do it. Okay, we grow in some bats, let's go trade those bats for pitching. So even getting this like Gabriel Gonzalez is the prospect as part of the Polanco deal. You know, see a guy, then you can flip in a bigger deal to get
another arm back. But I do think we'll make another deal that. The one thing that you guys can't do is you can't replace a guy who has maybe the greatest manager whoever set a dugout right like, so you can. You could change all the faces you want, and I love Stephen got as you will know. But to me, man, that's the biggest loss in the whole division is when Terry Frank Coote is no longer then the big X factor heading into twenty twenty four absolutely for Cleveland, no question about it.
We won't know until the season develops and you see how things go, especially when you go through those tough patches. But we'll see Chris. Look, it's always exciting when your team's the defending division champs and you've been to the postseason, so certainly Minnesota has that going for them heading the spring training. Enjoy your time down in Florida and we'll look forward to seeing you when the teams meet during the regular season. Yeah, you avoid the cactie out there
in uh in Arizona. You're in charge of keeping. Tell me on schedule throughout the spring uh, and then we will see you guys all too soon. I'll tell you. My biggest bummer about the balance schedule is if we only see you guys, you know, a couple of times in your place and a couple of times at ours, and as opposed to three every year, I would have preferred. I would have preferred to keep it the old way so we could spend one more time together. We will for John Wards
somehow. But hey, thanks, thanks for the time today, and and go go Montana State. How's that? Ah? I like that you almost said Montana I wanted to. I would have had to not talk to you for the uh you know for a while. That's like me saying, go Lea. You know you want that. If I came in here saying go LEI, what would you say? All right, hang up on you? That'd be enough. Chris. Thanks for the time. Pal, all right, you always pleasure. That's Chris Adderbury, the play by play voice on
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