Well, the conversation is always about, are black
kids getting the opportunity? Are we changing? The
numbers? Is the narrative changing. And when,
when you have access to events like this, these
kids are getting the top end instruction and to develop
relationships with major league. We're in Tempe Arizona on
Martin Luther King weekend and I'll tell you what I'm
here with my man. See why? Happy to
be here. Harold Reynolds here. Hey, like
I said, we're in Tempe Arizona for the Dream
series, Ron Washington. Harold Reynolds back to the
managing ranks. Thank you so much. Thank you
so much. You know, it's so fitting.
It's Martin Luther King weekend. We're down here at
the Dream Series. We're celebrating black greatness and here
you are back in the manager seat again. I
just wanna say congratulations and I will accept that.
Congratulations. I'm I'm just so thrilled to, to
be back to be a leader because opportunity has been
scarce. They gotta be a little patient, they
gotta be patient and, and then when you get
them, you gotta help them to get through the
culture shock because there's a lot of things that's going
on where people are demanding things of you and they
haven't been used to people demanding things of them because
they've always been the one doing the demand. So
, um it just ha it's a culture shock and
it, they certainly need some um experience uh around
them to help them get through those type of things
. When you take that little bit of growing up
, how many players you were around, you try
to bring that back to let these kids know what
it was like. Well, I mean, that's
an interesting question here, but I, I think
it, it kind of happens naturally when you are
a player that is not received, that type of
thing when you're on another team and you're the only
one. Now you come into this environment, you
look around and say, man, I've never seen
so many brothers with gloves. You know, all
these brothers got gloves, they usually got basketballs or
something else in their hand, but they got gloves
and uh it, it inspires, oh no doubt
, no doubt when they see someone like, like
themselves and they, they have that relationship, speak
the same language. Their culture comes back out of
them a little bit. It improves the young man
tremendously guys like Marcus Stroman, Chris Archer, you
know, Marcus Stroman, similar stories to a guys
New York guys and similar, you know, the
smaller stature guys, you know, Marvin talks about
the bigger guys, but I always looked at the
smaller guys and then Chris Archer in growing up a
Yankee fan, they played the Rays forever. So
I would always see him dicing it up and really
enjoyed, you know, watching those two guys.
And then, yeah, I feel like guys are
looking up to me to say, hey, I
wanna be Josiah Gray or, or Hunter Greene or
any of the young black starters because I think we're
leaving a good example and a good impression that they
can do this. They can be the next generation
that's gonna have, you know, their name and
kids for all of them, for years growing up
. Um, it, it was kind of scarce
to see, you know, brothers that look like
me in the league doing it. So I know
growing up, I wanted to make it clear and
obvious like, hey, you can beat me,
you can, you can make it to the big
leagues, you know what I mean? And like
it's, it's possible, bro. And, and
as I live, I'm living proof for you to
know that it's possible. And I'm glad that,
you know, we got Dom and Jazz other people
in the league and JP to understand the importance of
that because it goes a long way, you know
, it's maybe like four or five of us now
, but then that just multiplies as we continue to
go on and get back to you. What can
you tell us about this young infielder that the Padres
have signed. Well, you got to give credit
to the Padres and all their international folks and their
commitment that they have to the international market. So
, Debre, he's considered our top international prospect.
He's a 6 ft 2ÂŁ175 switch hitter from the
Dominican Republic. I think he models his game a
little bit after Jose Ramirez. He's a switch hitter
. Project brain, good bat speed. All the
things you want from a teenager and tons of project
. Uh an interesting notable uh to pass along was
Gladdy Miguel Guerrero. Uh the Mets signed Glady's little
brother. There's their father, the Hall of Famer
standing next to him. I mean, yeah,
that's I'm sorry, any Guerrero sign him up.
I want him on my team if it says Guerrero
and he's glad son, I'll take him. What
was the sign him on? I think a million
. That's a little light. No, I think
it was like 100 grand. 100 117. That's
crazy. That's crazy. Snell and Montgomery available still
. You know, Snell probably wants a contract that
starts with a two as in 200 million. I
wonder if the industry is ready to go there for
obviously 12 side young. There's probably questions about the
four years between the two side young Jan Montgomery has
been a metronome the last three years. He's very
durable and very above average. And then he added
to that that he was very good in the postseason
last year. I think there's a lot of expectation
if the Rangers local TV situation gets cleared up,
will they then be willing to spend some money because
they're looking at a situation to begin the season to
try to defend their championship with the Grazer Tyler Molly
with three starting pitchers who won't pitch for the first
couple of months of the coming season. So they
need some more arms there probably for more on these
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