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A little bit of a shift in a clubhouse, like I said earlier, but usually this time of year,
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when it's spring training, it's typically it's more relaxed, like, especially early in spring
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training, they're still kind of getting themselves back into the routine, back into the rhythm.
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And so a lot of times when you talk to guys this time of year, there's just not the same
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tenor to their responses or to their attitudes as you're going to see in July,
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August, September or something like that. So a lot of times in in Mesa, it's just sort of,
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I don't know, relaxed is the best word I can think of. And there, but there, there's a little bit
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of a tinge of a difference there. Now I'll say this, like, you know, I walked in there today,
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and so, you know, I'll be back in tomorrow and in the next few days after that and get a chance
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to talk to even more guys, but I am getting sort of a almost palpable sense that there's a difference
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of that clubhouse. Yeah, I mean, I, I asked, you know, I, I can maybe like, willing it to be,
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but I, it isn't interesting, especially as you bring up, like, you know, last year and ramping
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up for the WBC, there are like, feels like there's a few like, um, converging things that, you know,
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are going to contribute to that. Like, you have guys preparing for the WBC that we know can be a very
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like charged environment guys, very prideful representing their country. And we've seen those
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gains, like the, the energy and the enthusiasm in the few tournaments we've seen pretty,
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pretty high when you see that you have some guys coming into contract years. And then, you know,
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we even talked about it when the offseason was getting going, like, it's hard to measure how
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you would see this, but you would think that getting falling behind in the division and they're
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getting knocked out by your division rival would, you know, ramp up the sort of like, all right,
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you know, we're having fun and we feel like we're going to be a good team, but there is serious
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business to be taken care of here. And so like, it does feel like just from an outside fans perspective,
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all of that coming together, especially when you throw in another baseball rat, as Brendan
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always likes to say, in Alex Breggman, I'm not surprised to hear that answer from you. I guess
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his, it's a long-winded way of saying like it, it tracks with kind of just what's going on in
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their schedule, their careers, and where this team is at. It feels like a perfect storm for some
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of that stuff for this to kind of be a season where, you know, they're celebrating 150 years,
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they're celebrating the 2016 team, but a good portion of this group is possibly unsure where
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they're playing next year and they've got some unfinished business. So I'm glad to hear it and
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I'm not surprised to hear it as well. And I think, you know, to your point about Breggman, I think
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there is a, there's a significant difference in the intangibles as far as what a guy like Breggman
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brings to your clubhouse compared to a guy like Kyle Tucker last year. Kyle Tucker loaded with talent,
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very much carried the team in the first half, injuries hampered him in the second half. I think
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there's also be a lot different if he was healthy, but the way that the other guys have responded
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to Breggman is something that I did not see with Kyle Tucker a year ago. There is a, there is a,
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a, they're almost tangible difference. And so Breggman, I think there's a, not that these guys need it,
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but like a level of veteran leadership that, you know, Kyle Tucker, just because of his personality,
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the way he's wired, he just isn't that guy. But Breggman very much is. And so I think you're going
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to see a difference in like, maybe there are offensive production is, is more or less the same
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between the two of them. But I think the big difference you're going to see is what in what Breggman
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does for that clubhouse. And again, a clubhouse that's already absolutely stacked with veterans,
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absolutely stacked with guys that are baseball rats. And you throw with somebody like Breggman into
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that mix. I think it's just, I, that's something to watch this season for sure. Yeah, I was listening,
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I mean, P Chrome, Strong's been doing a media blitz. I feel like for the past week and a half. So
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he's been on podcasts, been on basketball. Is he said anything? No, where are they? I know, right?
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He's been, I haven't seen this. I haven't seen anything either. He's a big, he's a big, he's a big
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LA guy, as we know. But he has been just unpromptu talking about the effect of Alex Breggman,
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discussing swing decisions as the main driver of what he's noticing for wanting to improve for
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himself. He's talking about how Alex Breggman discusses certain scenarios. Like, hey, if you're
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looking for a first pitch breaking ball, are you still swinging at it even if it looks good? Like
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stuff like that. And so peace describing the process as shifting because of bringing in a
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different player outside the organization. You gave John Malley his kudos, he gave Dustin Kelly,
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his kudos and their process. But he does discuss the addition of the hitting philosophy that Breggman
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brings in that wasn't in the organization last year. So when I talk about clubhouse leadership,
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I'm more so in my mind, thinking about the effect of other guys changing and adapting in their
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actual value output. So I'm very fast and to see what Pete looks like in the first few weeks,
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if we see any different swing decisions, I'm also interested in seeing how that manifests in older
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guys who have been around the corner like Danzby Swanson, he was talking about the effect of Alex
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Breggman and MLB network. It's very fun to see someone have such a large impact. And it's not
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to pounce on Kyle Tucker. And I know some folks may interpret your words as a dig and they're,
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it's not it. It's not a dig. It's just the uniqueness of Alex Breggman. There's not many players
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in the league that demands their respect that Breggman gets because of the clubhouse culture. The
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guy started his own baseball facility in Arizona that other guys go and work out him. Like he's a
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unique guy because he has that type of respect. Well, and before you jump in on that year,
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I do just want to say you mentioned the the foul territory interviews that the guys were doing.
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I love that Breggman said that Danzby is routinely reminding him that he was drafted
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number one ahead of him and that they won the national championship. I just love that. It's one
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of those things that they wondered when they were in the same clubhouse. And he was like, oh yeah,
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he's he's reminding me all the time that I went number one and you did that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.