Fresh start and it, it feels good, you
know, it feels good and I just wanna,
I wanna go to this organization and I just wanna
work hard and I wanna prove maybe a lot of
these, you know, he said, she said
things wrong. I'm excited for, you know,
this new fresh start and I wanna win the World
Series, man. I'm excited to kind of be
out there with Judge, be out there. So
, um they obviously handle the power side of it
, you know what I mean? And I wanna
handle the getting on base for them, the,
you know, saving runs and, and helping any
way I can out there. So for me,
it's just gonna be a lot of kind of just
picking their brains, man. I wanna, I
wanna talk to these guys that, that, you
know, have, have proven that they're, you
know, superstars and, and just consistently, they
go out there and do it every day. So
I wanna talk to them. I think the older
I get, it's like I said, the pieces
of the puzzle are all coming together. Having some
more stability is something that I needed and you know
, having a couple year deal where, you know
, you're solidified is gonna help that. It just
feels like I'm in a much better space, mentally
, physically. And, uh, you know,
I'm very excited. It's part of that rivalry,
right? You know what I mean? So we
kind of like you feed into it, um,
as I was with the Red Sox, like,
you know, I just felt into it. You
really, you really take that to heart and I
feel like it's a little bit of a switch up
, but I'm very excited to bring that same energy
towards Red Sox. The mindset in New York,
how people talk, they're a little bit more aggressive
and, and, you know, they're kind of
straight to the point. It's like I like them
and II, I enjoy it. And, you
know, I think when they see me play every
day and they see me bust my butt and,
and work hard and, you know, I think
they'll, they'll like what they see significant trade made
yesterday between the Milwaukee Brewers and the New York Mets
. David Stearns striking a deal with his former team
adding right handed starter Adrian Houser and right handed hitting
outfielder Tyrone Taylor in exchange for prospect Coleman Crow,
whom the Mets had acquired in the Eduardo Escobar deal
from the Angels Houser, giving the Mets some consistency
with their payroll taking on two players who are arm
eligible from the Brewers who we know are actively listening
on a lot of players right now including Corbin Burns
and Willie Adamus. We know, of course,
the Mets are still looking to add, you know
, Shinobu Yamamoto if they can in the coming days
and, and Taylor, I always love what he
brings as a platoon bat, someone who I think
gives a, a strong right-handed element. Does he
help as a platoon with Jeff mcneil, depending on
where mcneil is going to play? Either second base
or left field. Taylor had to go through a
long grind in the minor leagues. A very easy
guy to root for who brings a lot of power
. What happened? The rule changes this year?
Well, there's even more changes. Now, major
league baseball is, the competition committee comprises six owners
, four players, one umpire, first off the
runners lane, it will be wide to include the
dirt area between the foul line and the infield grass
. The distance between the foul line and the infield
grass between 18 and 24 inches in all parks.
Now, the timing between pitches, let's reduce the
from 20 to 18 seconds with runners on base again
, remember 15 seconds when no one's on and the
pitching changes. If a new pitcher steps on the
warning track with less than two minutes remaining on the
inning break clock, the clock will reset to two
minutes rather than 215. As was the case in
2023 I think we've seen over the years a lot
of players having gripes. We've seen managers losing their
temper getting thrown out of game. I even have
experienced it myself in Kansas City. But you know
, your natural, you know, you know,
movement out of the box is taking you into that
baseline towards the infield grass. So it's only natural
, especially as a right handed hitter. But here's
that play right here is a push button. I
was struggling all of a sudden, I think I
would have beat it out anyway, but they get
me for running out of that baseline bow. So
I love this move. I think it promotes more
offense on that game and we needed it. The
Seattle Mariners a very quiet off season. Indeed.
They have lost a couple uh at least a couple
of free agents temporarily. The likes of Tiaa Hernandez
, a couple trade possibilities. I'm looking at right
now for the Seattle Mariners, Max Kepler of the
twins, Josh Naylor of the Cleveland Guardians. Both
of them would bring some left handed power. Kepler
is someone who we've talked about before on the show
. There's a lot of trade interest in him.
We believe Jorge Palacos name is out there too.
But when you look at Jared Kel Nick moving on
, utilizing the trade capital they've got with their young
rotation. The likes of Brian woo Bryce Miller again
, names like Kepler and Naylor high on the Mariners
potential list of acquisitions this off season for more on
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