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 him every one, Welcome to Guardian's Weekly. Jim Rosen House along with you from the Guardian Spring Training Complex in Goodyear, Arizona, where we head deeper into spring training.
A week's worth of games in the books, and then now we're starting to get into that pocket of spring training where your regulars in the starting rotation are getting their first appearances out of the way. We saw Gavin Williams throw on Thursday against the Angels over in timp and Williams with two impressive innings. Shane Bieber will take them mound today. If you're listening to this. On Saturday when it airs on the Guardians Radio Network, Bieber will face the Royals
in a radio game at three zero five from right here in Goodyear. And then tomorrow Sunday, Tanner Biby makes his spring debut on the mound. In game action, all of these guys, they've been throwing a live bullpen, some sim games, things like that to get ready, but no need for game action just yet. But they get into that here as we head into
the second week of games here in the Cactus League. Coming up a little bit later on in our show today, we will hear from Guardians hitting coach Chris Vleeka as he tries to help hitters unlock a little bit more power in some of the things that they're doing to facilitate that. We will also visit with utility man David Frye, who really came on and provided some value a year ago at so many different positions, including on the mound, with some
impressive pitching performances. We will check in with one of the younger players on the roster, at least in spring training, trying to make this club as a potential power source in the outfield. That's Estevan Floril, who was acquired in an offseason deal with the New York Yankees. But first up on our show this week, it is Tristan McKenzie. McKenzie, coming off a year
where he spent most of the season on the injured list. He was progressing nicely in spring training, tracking as he normally would toward a spot in the starting rotation, but in his last start of the spring felt some soreness in his shoulder, so he was taken off the roster and spent the early portions of the season on the injured list, and then when he came back,
just a couple of appearances and he had some elbow issues after that. So in total a year ago, Mackenzie only four appearances for the Guardians, and that was after a real breakthrough season in twenty twenty two when he won eleven games as era was under three, pitched one hundred and ninety one innings. I mean, he was a big key to the Guardian's success back in twenty
twenty two when they made the postseason. When we caught up with them earlier this spring, we asked him how things are going so far this spring and where he is in terms of his build up toward the season. I mean, it's it's I guess it's a little slower, but I think the goal is to make it out of spring training and make it two season. It's not necessarily a case of me making the team or me trying to come out
here to prove something. It's more about making sure that I'm healthy throughout the spring training process and being able to contribute to the team during the games that mean something. You had a chance to get back on the big league mound at the end of last season. How did that help you with your off season programs, everything you're trying to do to get ready and be ready. Yeah, I mean, I think being able to throw at the end of
the year gave me a lot of clarity going into the off season. It just eased my mind one knowing that I wasn't hurt or I could go into a rehab style of off season without feeling that I was doing a full rehab and coming back from an injury. I was able to go out there and pitching games and feel healthy and then go into the off season really just work on some strength things, work on some mechanical things, just to be ready
for right now and to be ready for season. Anything different from what you normally do in the winter time or was it pretty much the same that you're used to Yeah, I mean the off season itself was pretty similar to what I normally do. I mean, there was a little bit more like back and forth in terms of contact with the team about how I was feeling and just what the off season program look like. But outside of that, it
was very status quo. You mentioned some mechanical adjustments, things that you might look at. What is it that you do look at in that situation? Yeah, I mean, so, I think a big thing is in terms of arm health is being able to use your legs. So just kind of looking at my delivery and figuring out ways to maybe lessen the load on my shoulder and my elbow a little bit and driving some of that down the chain and maybe being able to pick that up with my legs a little bit.
And I think my delivery is in a really good spot. I think it was good before, but you're always tweaking, You're always tinkering, trying to make it a little bit better, and it feels probably the best step of help right now. Hard to do that when you're used to maybe doing it a different way. Maybe not a completely different way, but just some subtle adjustments. Yeah, I mean, I think it's hard to make adjustments in
your delivery when you're competing middle of the season. Adjustments are hard because you're looking for results as well as trying to get your work in. I think being able to kind of sit out and then head into an offseason, we're able to kind of break down the mechanics a little bit and really get into the nitty gritty of what we're doing on the mound. Definitely helped me as opposed to trying to make mechanical adjustments in season you get sore. There's different
things. Tristan McKenzie joining us as The Guardian's open spring training and how different is it around here first time in your career where there's a new manager in Steven Voting, And how has camp been? What have you noticed? Yeah, I mean, I think the energy has been great since since day one. For me, A lot of guys showed up early, which you don't necessarily see. I think you see a lot of guys. You may see half the guys show up early and then the other guys show up on report
date. I think every player was out here before the official report date, the eighteenth, so that was really good to see. I think Voter has been doing sorry, I think Vote's been doing a really good job of just keeping the guys engaged, being able to interact with not just the veteran players, but interact with some of the younger guys and make them feel involved. It feels like a very team effort. Sounds kind of cliche to say,
but we're definitely a family now. It sounds like a common theme that for the players who were here last year, disappointment and kind of just the season didn't go the way everyone wanted. And what's that feeling coming in here when you have a year like that. I mean, I think a lot of the guys are coming in thinking the only way is up. I think a lot of guys were disappointed in how the season ended for us more just because
they knew that we weren't playing our best baseball. And I think coming into the offseason and then coming in the spring training, guys are looking to put their best foot forward and really change that narrative from last year and really come out with some new energy and really do well this year. You've been in the game a while, you like this time of year spring training? Yeah, I mean there's a different kind of energy around this time of year as
well as like the beginning of the season. I think everybody's kind of happy to go home at a certain point in the off season. But I think once January hits and you can smell baseball around the corner, there's no there's nothing like it. By what a key it would be if Tristan McKenzie is full on, ready to go and throwing well when the season begins for the starting rotation and the Guardians as a whole, stay with us. When we
come back. We'll hear from young outfielder Estevan Florial, new to the organization this year, and we'll talk to him about that when we return after this on the Cleveland plant Guardians Radio Network, Tristan McKenzie has blank Tampa on one hip, has struck out seven and has walked one. The pitch a swang an a mess fastball in ninety three miles an hour, and McKenzie has really held his velo today. And we always talk so much about Tristan McKenzie working
up at the top of the zone with a fastball. That time he buried that fastball that had that running action in on the right handed hitter, almost like a two seamer down the set. Now the O two delivery curveball Adam swinging, so Margo strikes out and McKenzie strikes out the side. Tom Severt holds them Mange League record. He struck out ten Padres in a row in nineteen seventy. Now the payoff pitch straight three call curveball and a new club
record eight consecutive strikeouts for Tristan McKenzie. A curveball got Jake Lamb looking and Corey Klueber has been pushed out of the record books by the twenty three year old right hander Tristan McKenzie, who has struck out ten today, including the last eight. White Sox have progressive. We love sports and saving your money, so we bundled them together. Two seconds left on the clock, third field goal range, and it looks like he's going to go with a five
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Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhaus back with you from Goodyear, Arizona and the Guardians Spring Training Complex. Guardians getting ready to take down the Can's City Royals on Saturday afternoon, a radio game that begins with a first pitch of three to five. Shane Bieber making his debut on Saturday against Kansas City Taner. Biby will face the Giants tomorrow, also here in Goodyear, and another game that we'll have on the radio for you again with a three to
five first pitch. A lot of battles in the outfield, trying to make this ball club. Several young potential power bats, including Estevan Florial, new to the organization, acquired from the Yankees just before the New year in exchange for young pitcher Cody Morris. Floriel has been in the Yankees organization since twenty fifteen, but he is still only twenty six years of age. He's shown some power, especially in recent seasons, with more than one hundred minor league
home runs during his pro career in the Yankees system. He also has seen some sporadic time in the major leagues, but nothing to the extent where he could really get going at the major league level. Last year, did damage at Triple A Scranton and Wilkesbury with twenty eight home runs and seventy nine runs driven in. We had a chance to visit with Floriel earlier this spring, and he talked about how it's going with a new and at times unfamiliar organization.
To him, it's fun on I would say challenging because I mean you come here like with a little expectation on new people you have to meet, but so far it's challenging. By then overall, I mean the team have made it easy for me because this runciation had been like Roy mood On, I really love here so far. You had a couple of opportunities the last several years at the big league level with the Yankees. When you heard of the trade, were you surprised and if so, how come and what was
your reaction. I wasn't surprised because I mean back then there was been a lot of trade, I mean in the off season. And I said, I mean, something is gonna happen because so many I feel that there's not a lot of opportunity like to be I mean just three can play or winning the bench. There was like a bunch of them, and I said, I mean something was gonna happen. But when they called me like they said, like get trade, I mean I look forward to into like new opportunity
to the new chapter. We are big power numbers a year ago. What are you working on to try and make that last step and make it consistent to stay up here? Well, you know, I'm trying to stick with the something I did last year, So try to I mean, have the same routine I had last year, or just took a lot of a couple of things to get better at it. But for me, it's gonna just to stick with the thing I did last year. I know there's a lot of things like I have to et better at yet, but mainly stayed to
it. Did something click in for you that that was really successful, that maybe it was different from years past? I would say yes, I would say like for me, I was trying to be like earlier and I usually like when I start hitting, I just wanted to be earlier and try to do less. So I try to just put the bone play on on.
When we do that, a lot of things can happen. How about defensively, I know the manager Stephen Vote has already mentioned a really good arm andy outfield, and uh, is there a spot you prefer be at a corner or in center? Honestly, I mean I have to play more set of field than anything. If I had to choose one of them, I would rather stay because I mean I like to be like in the set of field, but overall, like I have played like right field on I field,
I focal through with those positions. Two d end, He's kind of like tried to help the team. Try to it doesn't matter where that put your right, left or sort of field, Like I tried to do your job on try to give the team the best chance you can. Analgain born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and yet you're English. As our listeners can clearly understand it, it's tremendous. Tell us about that path. How did you learn it so well? And how long did it take you to really
feel comfortable with it? I mean, I keep having challenged with it yet because there's a lot of things I den'ty yet. But like I said, like I studied before I signed, when I came here to United States, I get better at it, but every day, like I keep learning and I can improve it. Do you try and talk with a lot of the English speaking players or doesn't matter if you're around the Latin speaking players more or
less. I would say, like absolutely. I mean at the end, I mean most of the culture speak English, show and you want to be able to even talk with the coaches, so with the media too, because I mean I'm not I mean if you even if you spend in English, but I you're in the United States. At the end, you you have to learn the language, and he's gonna help you a lot. I have been helping me a lot. So and your third language is Creole. Anybody
on these teams speak that? I don't know yet, I haven't find out. I actually it's the second one, because I mean I would have said the second one because Carol on the Spanish I learned them at the same time. I would say, but if I would say the second one, I would say c rel Yeah. Al, I don't know if anyone here Nobo, Hey, before we let you go, new team for you? Uh, what have you seen so far that has you excited that if you make this club it could be a contending ball club in the division. I mean
obviously it's like, yeah, my own ball club. I mean, the talent is huge here, I mean, the the hungry to to a a ball game, on to a championship too. I don't like they want to win here, so everybody, everybody that rings like for a purpose. On the end, he's kind of like they want us to to we complain ballpark
home playing team two other Ton Obogam. I feel like we have a lot of young talent here on kind of like I have a good potention to a U Entrepreneur Championship and test von Floriel and it would be interesting to see how long a look Floriel gets along with Jonathan Rodriguez and John Kenzie no well, all outfielders and also working out there is the Rule five draft selection from the
Diamondbacks. Twenty year old Davison deal Santos. He's also in that mix, and again they all have that similar profile, a lot of power, some home run numbers in the minor leagues, but also some strikeouts. So I will see what the balance is and if any of them can crack the roster come opening day, well we'll take a time out and when we come back,
we'll hear from hitting coach Chris. That's next. As we continue with Guardians Weekly on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network, Jim Rose announced back with you from Goodyear Arizona Guardians spring training as we welcome you back into Guardians Weekly prior to the Guardians game against the Kansas City Royals on this Saturday afternoon. If you're tuned in on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio network, that's just one of the ways you can hear our show each week. You can also pick
it up in podcast form. It usually hits later in the day on Saturday or Sunday, and that's wherever you download your favorite podcast. Well. Chris Bika is starting his third season as the Guardians hitting coach. The last two seasons, the Guardians have been one of the best contact hitting teams in all of baseball. As last year they struck out fewer times than any team in baseball, But the flip side was power wise, they hit the fewest Hollm
runs of any team in baseball. So they're trying to find that balance, that happy medium. And when we caught up with Chris earlier this week, he talked about what they're trying to do to see if they can't unlock a little bit more power from some current members of the roster. Yeah, you know, I think over the last couple of years, kind of the hallmark of our offense has been you know we're tough to strike out. We have
a contact focus, contact first type offense. I think going into the last two years, seeing the success that we had in twenty two and then going to twenty three with a very similar profile when we finished the year, I think it just exposed some of our margins that, you know, there is a need for us to IMpower the ball a little bit more frequently. You know, a pretty big difference when in ninety two games to seventy seventy six
seventy eight games that we won. So I think, you know, the big emphasis this year for us going into camp is looking to impact the ball, take more chances. We're going to challenge their timing a little bit more. We know we can always default back to contact that we have to ramp up some of that intent and if there is some concession and some some swing and miss, we're okay living with that because we know we're not going to fall from the top to the bottom when it comes to making contact. Is
that just the nature of this game. Even if you have similar talent, you got to somehow figure out a way to stay ahead of it. Yeah, you know, I think that's the hallmark of being a big leaguer. You know. You see, these guys have have long time careers. They might not have been the same player that they were, you know, when they were a rookie, so when they finished their career as a veteran, but they found a way to evolve, They found a way to get better,
they found a way to survive. So, you know, I wouldn't say we're changing, you know, too much. I think we're just trying to use the engines that we have. You know, I think our guys all belong in the big leagu Now. It's not the happy to be here, it's not the survival of last year. It's these guys know what to do. They know what the big leagues look like. So trying to unlock
a little bit more of the potential that we know. These guys have two examples just players I've talked to, and there's many others, but Stephen Kwan, Will Brennan not necessarily home run hitters, but could hit more home runs if their approach is adjusted a little bit. What do you try and do with them that helps them launch the ball a little bit more? Yeah, you know, both of those guys went into the winner with some bat speed, programs, you know, not that they didn't have enough, but we
felt like that was an area that both of them could improve in. You know, so I think also being realistic with those guys, It's not like we're going to see it Stephen Kwan or Will Brennan go from you know, ten home run to forty home runs. I think that's unrealistic and unfair to
them. But I do think that those guys can hit you know, ten to fifteen, and you know, we add those to the rest of our lineup hitting in front of Hosey with that the ability that Hosey has Nails, has Loreano hitting behind them that, you know, I think that just stretches out our lineup makes us a little bit you know, potent when it comes to we turn the lineup over. That Straw can hurt you, Brendan can hurt you. There's always somebody that can change a game throughout the lineup,
not just waiting for some of the smaller pockets in our lineup. Hitting coach Chris Philaka joining us your job's year around now. I know you like to have a break, I'm sure, but with Miles Straw, explain that that personal touch that you had with him in the off season and how deep that goes to try and get him on a good path. Yeah. Yeah, so so Miles obviously, you know, having him the last two years. This year he came to Columbus. I live in Columbus, Ohio now,
and his wife, his little girl. They came to stay with us in Columbus. We spent a couple of days together, you know, not just hitting, but just you know, being together, which I thought was really impactful, just to hear him here where his head's at, you know, and seeing him kind of run with the adjustments we've made. You know, he really took to heart when he went back to Florida, got himself a
personal trainer, came in ten pounds heavier, just looks physical. I think he's hitting the ball a lot harder, so you know, you see the confidence he has, and you know, I think we're going to get the best version of Miles Straw than we've seen, you know, the last couple of years. And he's young. Guys, you have some big men in camp who are trying to make that last step. John Kenzie know well, Jonathan Rodriguez, some others too, Davison Delo Santos, over from Arizona.
How do you work with guys who have the higher strikeout rates put a ton of power. Yeah, you know, it's a balance, you know. I think everybody's going to have a different profile, and we wouldn't be a very good team if we all had just contact or we all just had home runs and swing and miss. I think you get you can get pitched to pretty easily like that. So, you know, it's just talking to them.
It's being realistic with expectations. It's knowing their profiles and embracing it that there might be some swing and miss, but there's some change the game power in those bats as well. So you know, I think as we get into it, it's really leaning in with them, seeing which guys make us better when we leave here with the best twenty six guys that we can bring to Cleveland, you know, and hopefully a couple of those guys are on it with us. Always nice to have one of the best hitters in the
game. And Jose Ramirez, having been around him closely now for a couple of seasons, what is it that makes him as good as he is? I mean, he's just the ultimate professional. It's not about how you know, we see him hitting his thirty home runs every year, driving in one hundred runs. It's how he runs the bases, it's how he plays defense, it's his presence in the clubhouse. You know, he's a guy for
us that you know we use as a as a player coach. You know, he can get a message across to these guys that you know we might not be able to say. He can say it in two words because it comes from one of the best players players in the league. You know, for Josey, it's funny. You know, you bring up guys evolving, We're seeing Hosey hit more machines. He's challenging himself just as much as we're
challenging these younger guys. So seeing him lean into the training, you know, I think he knows where he's at, and you know he wants us to win. He wants us to be great. If he can lead by example and now some of his words, you know, I think we're going to be in a really special spot starting this season. There's almost ninety players in camp. I know they're not all hitters. How do you keep them straight? There's a lot of guys, you know, that's part of the
gig though. You know, you got to know, you got to have some background on these guys, especially when the minor league guys come over from camp and play in the games too. You know, you gotta have some background. Not it's unfair to them for for you not to know them, but you know, coach them, coach them hard. That's been a thing that that we've talked about this winner. We got to coach them hard. It's it's it's something that you know, where we're at organizationally, we got
to see who we have. We got a lot of we got a lot of young guys on the roster. We got to see who's going to come and impact us. So you know, we'll we'll see where we're at when we when we leave here at the end of March. But you know, I'm really excited to see, you know, what these guys can do. Chris enjoy the spraying. Thanks you got it, Rosie, My pleasure. That's Chris Palka Guardian's hitting coach, talking about some of the keys this season
to producing some more runs. That's the bottom line, right Well, no matter how you do it, you want to score as many runs as possible, and that's what Cleveland's trying to get done here in spring training. See if those adjustments take hold and they can carry that through into the regular season. And we're starting to wind down on our show this week. Stay with us. We'll hear from David Prye when we come back. Utility man for
the Guardians. That's coming your way next down the Cleveland Clanetic Guardians Radio Network, Progressive. We love sports and saving you money, so we bundled them together. It's forty love here in the third set, and there's the bell. She's coming off the bench hot, looking for a quick knockdown. But wait, she's driving to the hoop. Co tell goes the champ. That's another double fault. She'll be shooting too to serve us up. And here
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The pitch swinging a little blooper in the center field, charging hardest Straw, He'll make the catch, tagging coming home. Hilliard thrownt of the plate on the fly. Tag is made by a diving Fry. They did it. What a great throw by Straw on the fly to the plate and a diving tag by catcher David Fry. It doesn't get any better than that. Wow. Middle infielders back double played depth, cornerman playing even with the bags. The bitch swung on hit pretty well deep left center on the run of
Smullins is off the wall. Time run scores and he met us hitting third running He's coming home. He'll score the game winner. I'll walk off too. Run double off the base of the wall and left center by David Fry. Incredible. Welcome back to Goodyear, Arizona. Jim Rosen house along with you from Guardian spring training at the Goodyear Complex and we had a chance to
visit with David Fry earlier this spring. Fry made a nice breakthrough first time in the major leagues a season ago, appearing in fifty eight games for Cleveland, had four homers fifteen runs driven in playing a variety of positions including first base, third base, the outfield, catcher, and he also saw two
games on the mount. In fact, he had a four inning relief outing in early September against the Twins that was the longest by a Cleveland position player since nineteen thirty six and the longest appearance by a position player in the Major leagues since nineteen eighty eight, when Jose Alcendo for the Cardinals pitched four innings
against the Braves. And that was quite a night for Fry. But at least this spring they're starting him working behind the plate exclusively, trying to get him up to speed and become the best possible defensive catcher he can be. David Fry a hard nosed player who really embraces that utility role. And last year he was in major league camp for the first time, didn't make the club out of spring training, went to Columbus, swung the bat well, and then got that call up fairly early on. But he said, in
terms of spring training, what a difference a year makes. Yeah, last year being first big league camp, kind of first time around big league coaches and some of the guys on the big league roster, just kind of trying to stay out of people's way. And then this year getting to play with those guys and being around the big league staff a little more, a little more comfortable and definitely more relaxed. Feel this year and the time in the
major leagues last year. What did that say to you about your ability and your status as someone who can play up here and have success up here. Yeah, obviously, big leagues is something you kind of think about your entire life, and you make it this big, huge deal and you get there and you're like, it's just baseball and a bigger stadium. And obviously guys are very very good at that level. But I feel like as I got more comfortable and just you know, like, hey, I'm gonna have fun
playing baseball, I was like, I can stick around here. Hopefully you had a lot of good things happened to you too at the major league level a year ago. Is there any one of them that stands out of that most unique or most satisfying to you? I don't know. I wouldn't say there's one that was like way more satisfying the other. I was just really lucky enough to I mean that was kind of my role. I was coming in a late situation, so I got to like be in some really big
spots like plays at the plate and big at bats and stuff. So there's a whole lot of fun stuff. David Price joining u Sam. We usually like to tag a position on there when we talk about players, but for you, that's hard to do, but in a good way. And as you head into camp this year versatility wise, what are you going to focus on first and foremost as you get deeper into the spring. Yeah, focusing on the catching stuff the spring training and kind of doing most of my work
back there and then still continue to try to get reps everywhere. I've already had conversations with Hedgy. He's talked to me about his era being better than mine, so maybe I need to work better. I'm a pitching but hopefully I want to do that much. Yeah. And you look at that and he's as good as it gets in terms of a defensive catcher. And I
know, by some and you're still very young to the catching game. And what can you pick up from someone like that, maybe even more so than from a coach, because they're in there and living it right now, right, I mean so much. I mean because he pretty much is a coach. I mean, he's so invested in the catching position that like every rep that every other catcher is getting in camp, he's staring at you and he's not critiquing you, but he's wanting to make you the best player you can
be. And so already the conversations that we've had about catching and calling a game and all that, it's been so helpful. And obviously the way he does it, and he does it at a very high level. All right. Off season preparation, obviously, everyone's trying to be in the best shape they can be coming into camp. But you had as unique an off season as you will ever have being a dad for the first time for fans who who may remember it came at the end of last season, a daughter.
How is it going and how has that changed your life perspective wise and everything else. Yeah, it's it's been going great. She's the best. She sleeps well and knock on wood at least, and she's just been a really good baby. And I'll say off season training, you know, you're trying to get your workouts in best workout you can do is just hold a baby for a couple hours in a row and your arms are shaken, that's for sure. Michael Brandtley used to call it daddy strength, and there was something
to that for sure. You're in a unique situation where you live down in Texas, in the Dallas area. It sounds like it's a great spot to be in the winter time for a lot of reasons. Explain that. Yeah, So obviously at least beginning of the off season warmer weather so you can get to do stuff outside, and just kind of where we live, it's
just a huge hub for baseball players. That's where a lot of guys live and got to hit with Will Brennan the off season, a bunch of other players, and there's so many guys who can throw down there pretty much full full of year round, and have so many buddies around the league now that just text and say hey, you need me to catch a bullpen can go just pretty much whenever. And as you get here to camp, you look around that clubhouse and certainly this team is looking to improve on a year ago.
What are you seeing early on that has you excited about the season to come. Yeah, obviously it still super early. Guys. Now we have everybody officially in here, but just the energy and the atmosphere that we have in the clubhouse, I mean, it's just such a fun group to be around. And then just obviously from the catching side getting to catch his bullpen. I mean, it's amazing the depth and how good we are as a pitching staff. I mean, there's a reason where we have so many one
run games. It's because our pitching staff keeps us in every single game. But I mean it just never stops our organization. They just do an amazing job of acquiring good pitching and then developing like crazy. And you just see some no name guy that you've never heard of and he comes over to the field and you're like, this guy throws ninety seven to ninety eight. What a shocker? Like they got something figured out over here with the pitching side.
So everyone knows about Bieber, McKenzie, Gavin Williams, Tanner Bibe, all these guys. I know I'm forgetting somebody, but uh, anybody, maybe a name to keep an eye on that that we're not even thinking about, that that you caught early on in the spring. Yeah, there's a bunch. We just added Kate Smith to the forty man roster. He's been he's come out here and looked really really good. He's throwing really hard. He's got really good stuff. Gaddis who's who's been up and down last couple
of years. He's come out and me and Heggie were talking about him the other day during his bookpin. I mean, it's it's been lights out so far in the spring. He looks really good. We got a bunch of guys who signed Beattie who just came over. I think he was in Korea and he looks really good. He made me look really bad bad about a week ago. But yeah, but no, we got a bunch of guys who will be really good. So last question, how many gloves in your
locker? Different gloves for the based on the positions you play. If you include the backup gloves that I have at positions, it would be seven. Seven gloves. Yeah, play, and they let you know before the day begins which one you might want to use that day. Yeah, They're like, hey, maybe we'll give you a heads up today. All right,
David, thank you, Yeah, appreciate it. And is David Frye Utility man for the Guardians, coming off a real strong season a year ago, and again there'll be a battle for him to see where he fits on this year's club, depending on what other things happen. But he's one of those players that I think every manager likes to have on his team because of the variety of positions that he can play, and he usually puts together a really good at bat when he has a chance to play, and even pinch hit
in different scenarios. So great to visit with David, and thanks so much for the time from Tristan McKenzie. Askedevon Florie All and Chris Bleaka This week again baseball on the Radio on Saturday afternoon, a three to zero five first pitch against the Royal Shane Bieber making his first start of the spring, and more baseball on the radio as well on Sunday afternoon with the Giants coming over
here a good year to take on the Guardians. Another three to zero five first pitch and again we'll have it for you on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network with Tanner Biby on the mound making his first start of the spring as well in exhibition play for the Guardians. So until next week. For Brian
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