I'm extremely excited to be back. Uh, you
know, obviously the first time I was a rookie
, so I, I stayed in my locker and
, and tried to stay out of the way as
much as possible. But, uh, but I
played with some great people, you know, I
remember Bruce Chen was the first guy that kind of
got his hands on me and took me in his
wing and Alex Gordon, you know, just kind
of showed me the, the way to be a
professional and, and how to do it every day
. Uh So I was very thankful for that.
Um I used that for, you know, when
I left and, and moved on with my career
. I know some of the players to me as
Salvi obviously came up with minor leagues together. I
know Kyle Wright is gonna be out for the season
, but the first thing I asked him was,
are you gonna be able to be around the team
or are you gonna be in Arizona? He says
I get to be around the team, which I
think is awesome. Kyle is a great person.
He can help bring that culture that winning culture into
a clubhouse. Cole ra I played with Cole last
year before the trade for uh for Chappy. So
, uh you know, I know Cole is a
great dude too. So, uh I'm excited,
you know, it's always nice to walk into a
clubhouse and have at least one familiar face, you
know, so the fact that I know three,
you know, I'm pretty excited about it. The
feeling of the ninth inning when you, you leave
the bullpen, you either have a one run lead
, two run lead or three run lead and it's
so black and white, like I know, hey
, I've got to get this, this many outs
before they score this many runs and we win.
Don't let the game speed up on you and just
slow it down and you're gonna be ok, like
at the end of the day, you just have
to get three outs and you win. Um,
and like I told Scott, I like to be
the guy in the high five line at the other
game. Like that's so much fun. He'd been
in three consecutive World Series. What do you take
and learn from each of those experiences? Those three
teams, they were all kind of different in their
own way. But the one thing they, they
did have in common is I call it the hit
factor. Um It goes back to, you know
, guys getting along, um, playing for each
other, you know, listen, it's a long
season, you go through ups and downs, you
know, we're all gonna struggle at some point and
it's just having those other 25 guys that can kind
of pull you aside or like, hey, man
, you know, you're all right, we're gonna
get through this, just, you know, keep
showing up, keep getting your work in every day
and, uh, you know, eventually it's gotta
turn around, you know, it can't rain forever
. So, uh, so, yeah, just
kind of keep the, keep your head down,
keep going mentality is, uh, you know,
kind of what I try to preach.