Jimmy Serrano - Former MLB Pitcher, Kansas City Royals

Episode description

• 2:34 - What August 7, 2004 mean to Jimmy.
• 3:07 - How much effort he put into getting to the Major Leagues and how rewarding it was getting the call to go.
• 3:58 - How many times he felt like giving up on his dream of reaching MLB
• 4:41 - Growing up in Grand Junction, CO
• 5:20 - How Jimmy and I know each other.
• 5:51 - How he ended up in Arizona to play baseball.
• 7:07 - Jimmy didn’t have any offers to play college baseball.
• 7:46 - He didn’t play the position he played in high school and how he got selected to play for Mesa Community College, a junior college elite program.
• 9:04 - When he thought he might be able to play baseball professional & how he got into professional baseball.
• 11:24 - What was the call like when he was drafted.
• 12:31 - Where his first professional assignment was and that experience
• 16:09 - How realistic it is for AAA to play in the Major Leagues.
• 17:28 - How he feels about MLB’s proposal to eliminate 42 minor league teams in 2020.
• 19:10 - How Jimmy feels most players feel about the journey to get to the Major Leagues in regards to pay.
• 20:41 - How he felt as a minor league player that it’s understood that he would have to sacrifice.
• 21:54 - What the difference in pay is between levels and do different clubs pay differently.
• 23:05 - How player representation with agents happens.
• 24:12 - Do players have a voice in the business aspect of baseball?
• 25:02 - What kind of instruction the players get at each level of baseball
• 26:30 - What it was like being at AAA, then getting demoted and then promoted to MLB.
• 29:38 - What the situation was like when he got the call up to MLB and the process on getting there.
• 31:42 - What happened when he got to Kansas City for his debut.
• 33:09 - What his mentality was when he made his MLB debut as a pitcher.
• 35:23 - He pitched 10 games in MLB - which game is most memorable.
• 37:55 - What the best part of being in the Major Leagues.
• 39:09 - How difficult it is to stay in MLB.
• 39:41 - How his MLB career ended and what happens to a player after that.
• 41:11 - How playing foreign baseball is different from the U.S.
• 41:48 - What was most surprising about the different cultures around the world.
• 42:46 - What players have to do to guard their signs during the game.
• 43:30 - What “tipping pitches” is.
• 44:48 - What is acceptable sign stealing in baseball and how technology has affected the game.
• 46:03 - How does a pitcher recognize that sign stealing is happening.
• 48:03 - How he feels the environment is for sign stealing in MLB
• 49:02 - How will MLB know that sign stealing is going to happen.
• 49:51 - How he feels technology can benefit baseball in the future.
• 50:42 - What he’s been doing since he left baseball.
• 51:27 - What some of the most valuable lessons he’s learned in his career.