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to me, the white sox have been like my

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family, um I think the biggest thing that hurt

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me last year was not being able to come back

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with the white sox. Um but um I knew

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I was itching closer to becoming a coach and you

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know, after my body just couldn't take it anymore

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, I think it was just at times, so

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I reached out to gets and um you know,

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I told him I was really serious about becoming a

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coach and um I got lucky enough to go to

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instructs and help out our instructional league and kind of

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do a little bit of everything and um going into

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this offseason, um I was fortunate enough to lend

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this position and um just to be back with this

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organization. Um it feels like I'm coming home,

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I'm not really sure, I'm going to try to

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learn as much as I can and um I feel

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like I was doing it not that long ago um

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and I'm going to be able to relate to a

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lot of hitters and um it's a league that,

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you know, I played in when I was in

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the minor league, so I'm just gonna try to

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do everything I can to prepare these, you know

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, young hitters and um you know, do everything

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I can to help him. Yeah, I think

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just understanding these young hitters, um you know,

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coming into spring training, you have to create this

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foundation and this routine and you know, just re

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emphasis every single day making them buy into the routine

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, so when they do hit that struggle um during

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this season they have something to go back to.

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I think that's the biggest thing for young hitters is

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coming into spring training, finding out who you are

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as a hitter and your routine and just building on

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it. Um And that's something that I wish I

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I learned early on, early on in my career

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, and I think Andy Barkett does a great job

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of establishing all these um drills and routines for these

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young players. And um to me that's the biggest

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thing.