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00:24So you know that music, you know it means Bradfolk.
00:25Sure does.
00:26What you may not know out there is it also means Rich Hill joining us here in studio with Bradfoe as well.
00:31How about that?
00:32Hey guys, thanks for having me on.
00:33Wow.
00:34Excellent.
00:34Yeah, I mean, if you read the New York Post, you just retired on the Baseballs and Boring podcast.
00:40I mean.
00:41How about that?
00:41It's up for interpretation, I think.
00:43Is Bradfoe a soft retirement?
00:45What happened?
00:46Go ahead.
00:47Planning not to play.
00:48Yeah, yeah.
00:50That's what I am.
00:51I am the master of getting people to admit they aren't going to play.
00:54Not necessarily retire, but saying, I'm not playing next year.
00:58But, you know, listen.
00:59Never say never, right?
01:01Correct?
01:01That's right.
01:01Just keep the arm away.
01:02Oldest, because oldest professional active athlete in the four major sports sitting right
01:08here in studio.
01:09Yeah.
01:09Older than Rivers.
01:11Oh, that's right.
01:12Phillip Rivers came back.
01:13All right.
01:13All right.
01:13How about that?
01:14Tried to knock you off the mountain.
01:15You look great.
01:15Were you pulling for him?
01:16I was pulling for him, yeah.
01:18Yeah.
01:18Yeah, he had him and his, you know, he has a football team up in the booth there with
01:23him, his whole family.
01:24That was great.
01:25Well, listen, you came off the fields in Cooperstown, and like a week later, you were pitching for
01:31the Red Sox, like, last year.
01:33Yeah, it was the best of both worlds.
01:35Yeah, you were the Phil Rivers before Phil Rivers.
01:38Speaking of Cooperstown.
01:39Oh, you're welcome.
01:42Rich is already laughing.
01:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:44Oh, he was berating me in the hallway.
01:47Good.
01:47Good job, Rich.
01:48You should.
01:48All right, so correct me if I'm wrong, Rob.
01:50You voted for seven?
01:53Yeah, I think so.
01:53Did I miss somebody in there?
01:54So I was watching the video.
01:55Let's see.
01:55Batting stance guy, unveil.
01:56I just gave the list of batting stance guy.
01:58Okay.
01:59So he might have added or subtracted for all we know.
02:01Yeah, let's hear him.
02:02I'm looking at Andrew Jones.
02:03Not a Hall of Famer.
02:04Andy Pettit.
02:05Not a Hall of Famer.
02:06Felix Hernandez.
02:07Not a Hall of Famer.
02:08Alex Rodriguez.
02:09Hall of Famer.
02:09Manny Ramirez.
02:10Hall of Famer.
02:11Chase Utley.
02:13Pedroia.
02:14Not.
02:14You missed one.
02:15Apologies.
02:15Who's the other one?
02:16Did you also vote for Beltran?
02:17Oh, sorry.
02:18I was watching the video.
02:19I must have missed that.
02:19So you did vote for Beltran.
02:20So both guys that got in, you voted for.
02:23Jones and I are small Hall guys.
02:25And I don't want to disrespect anybody on that list.
02:27I mean, clearly Jones also doesn't mind the drama, the controversy.
02:32Which I don't either.
02:33I voted for, as you said, I voted for the Manny and I voted for A-Rod.
02:37Yeah, that's good.
02:38Those were good votes.
02:38I don't have a problem.
02:39You know, my problem is some of these other ballots that come out about, you know, these
02:45random, you know, two people, one people.
02:49And I'm not a guy also if I'm, like, I would vote for Rich, obviously.
02:55Well, yeah.
02:55Yeah.
02:56But he'll never retire.
02:57It's like 10 years from now, maybe you can vote for him.
02:59I'll be dead.
03:00I'll be dead.
03:00But I, like, for instance, I did a book with Mike Lowell.
03:05I didn't vote for him.
03:06Okay.
03:06So I'm not that.
03:08But I don't.
03:09I'm up for the.
03:10Joe Kelly going to get a vote?
03:11Joe Kelly.
03:11There's a very good chance.
03:13You're voting for Joe Kelly.
03:13I know you are.
03:14Yeah.
03:14In fairness, I'm contractually obvious.
03:16When you have an LLC with a guy, you have to vote for him.
03:19That makes sense.
03:20But I'm up.
03:21Hey.
03:21I'm up for the debate.
03:22Bring it on.
03:23Is that how Shinsu Chu got a vote?
03:24He's got an LLC somewhere?
03:25He has a podcast or a book with somebody.
03:28But bring it on.
03:29Because, as I said, Rich was in the hallway.
03:32And the only way that Rich Hill would berate someone, he was just rolling his eyes at me.
03:36Okay.
03:36Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:36So what were you?
03:37What are you mad at Rob about?
03:38Because there are way too many guys on that ballot.
03:41I don't like.
03:42No offense to Beltran or Andre Jones.
03:44Great players.
03:45Great players.
03:46But not Hall of Famers to me.
03:47So what was your issue?
03:48Yeah, but where is the line?
03:49That's the thing.
03:50Like, where does it end?
03:51Everybody has the debate on, well, you've been able to have a great, you know,
03:5410-year span where you dominated your decade.
03:57And I understand that.
03:58But also, there has to be something for longevity as well in the game.
04:01And I think being able to consistently put up numbers over the course of your career
04:04speaks for, you know, opening up guys that haven't gotten in at this point
04:09that should be revisited if we're going to continue to keep moving that line down and down
04:13further, lowering the standards in a sense.
04:16Well, yeah, they have lowered the standards.
04:17I agree.
04:18Yeah, but the GD's out of the bottle.
04:20I mean, this is the problem.
04:21And I was telling Rich as he was berating me in the hallway.
04:26I said, I get it.
04:27Yeah, everybody.
04:29I mean, all the riches.
04:29All I was trying to do was get some pasta for the first time in like 10 years.
04:33Yeah, get it in there.
04:33I haven't had a carb in 10 years.
04:35But Scott Rowland is a perfect example of this.
04:39And Scott Rowland was a guy when I said, well, 10 years ago, I would never vote for Scott Rowland.
04:46But Scott Rowland has a 70 war.
04:48No one really did 10 years ago.
04:49He then magically got him.
04:50Well, here's the reason why.
04:54Because his war didn't increase over these 10 years.
04:56It's because he has a 70 war and nobody who has that level of war isn't in the Hall of Fame.
05:02Well, he should have been the first.
05:03Well, okay.
05:05So, well, I mean, Dwight Evans, if he was on the ballot right now, he'd be in like that.
05:09Yeah.
05:10Like, he would be in like that.
05:11But I don't know if you know that he's not in the Hall of Fame.
05:13Yeah, I know.
05:14I've heard.
05:14No, he's not.
05:15Louis Tion.
05:16Oh, Louis Tion should be in.
05:18Yeah.
05:18So how does that get revisited?
05:19It doesn't.
05:20I mean, he's a veteran committee.
05:20That was last year, I think, and he didn't get in.
05:25And I can't speak to them because I'm young.
05:28I'm not a veteran.
05:28Jimmy Key.
05:30What?
05:31Jimmy Key was nice.
05:32Jimmy Key was really nice.
05:33I know, I know.
05:33He's not a random ball player, a random baseball player.
05:35You guys are giving me crap for my Hall of Fame ballot.
05:38And he mentions Jimmy Key.
05:39You're like, oh, Jimmy Key.
05:40Jimmy Key is really good.
05:41Toronto Blue Jays.
05:42He's got over, like, what, 250 wins.
05:44I just said he was a random ball player.
05:46I didn't say he should be a Hall of Fame.
05:47No, he did win random player.
05:48Which, by the way, is a random baseball player of the day.
05:50Can we see it later?
05:51Yeah, we could.
05:51We could.
05:52We could have Rich revealed.
05:55Jimmy Key was a two-time World Series winner, five-time All-Star,
05:58and had the lowest ERA one year.
06:00Two runners up in the Cy Young and a fourth-place finish.
06:03Oh, nice.
06:03Better than some of the guys you voted for.
06:07I stand by every single person I voted for.
06:10Well, Rich, you have a unique perspective.
06:12We just watched the game.
06:14Going up against somebody like Carlos Beltran or I don't know if you pitched
06:17against Andrew Jones.
06:18You probably must have.
06:19Yes.
06:19Yeah, I did.
06:20Obviously, they're very good hitters.
06:21He literally pitched against everybody.
06:23No, no, he did.
06:23He struck out Kyle Tucker this calendar or last calendar year.
06:27That's correct.
06:28That is correct.
06:28Played with Sabres.
06:29$60 million for this guy?
06:30He struck him out.
06:32That's good.
06:32Yep.
06:33Rode the trains with Wilbur Wood.
06:36But when you were pitching against Beltran, and maybe you don't think about this
06:39during the game, but you're like, that's a Hall of Famer, or that's a future
06:43Hall of Famer.
06:43You're like, oh, that's just a really good hitter.
06:45Yeah, that's a really good hitter.
06:46Yeah, yeah.
06:47No, that's a great point.
06:47But I mean, there are guys that you have suited up with and played against now as you age
06:53and get in the game or whatever it is.
06:55Yeah, he's probably going to be in the Hall of Fame.
06:57All right.
06:57Buster Posey next year.
06:58Who is he?
07:00Posey's in.
07:01I would vote 100%.
07:01But the other guy next year is going to be Jon Lester.
07:06No.
07:07So, yeah, my knee-jerk reaction would be no, but then when you factored all the postseason
07:11stuff, and that's why I think Kurt Schilling should have been in, never got in, but I think
07:16the postseason really pushes the scales on that.
07:19I would put Schilling in.
07:20I wouldn't put Lester in.
07:21So Lester is, what is he?
07:23Let's see.
07:24200 wins.
07:26200 wins.
07:27A lot of postseason stuff.
07:28He has the, as I said, he has, what was it, what did I say?
07:31ERA plus or something?
07:32He was better than CeCe Sabathia.
07:35But that's like the Pettit case.
07:36Five All-Stars, three World Series.
07:39He has a fourth of fourth, a runner-up, and a ninth in the Cy Young.
07:43You know what I use?
07:44Right.
07:44My initial, for position players anyway, when we're looking at steroid error and everything
07:50else, I would say, okay, look at the top 10 or top 15 in MVP voting.
07:55Yeah, that's what I do.
07:55But then, because it shows a dominance in the air.
07:57And that's where Jim Rice, like, oh my goodness, unbelievably dominant.
08:02And honestly, for Felix Hernandez, that was a big, I didn't vote for him last year.
08:06And I'm just like, I can't ignore how dominant he was.
08:09I like Felix.
08:10Who would you vote for?
08:12Well, Posey.
08:13Okay.
08:14But of this year.
08:15So let's go, so of the people this year, would you vote for Peltran?
08:19Yeah.
08:19Would you vote for Andrew Jones?
08:21Yes.
08:22That's a no.
08:23No, it was a yes.
08:24It was a yes.
08:25Well, we're both noses.
08:26Yeah, we're no.
08:27Felix Hernandez?
08:28No.
08:29Can I just ask why?
08:30Because I think I agree with you on this.
08:32He was very dominant.
08:33To me, it wasn't quite a long enough shelf life of dominance.
08:36It's the longevity part.
08:37He fell off a cliff.
08:38I get caught up personally as a player just, like, looking at the longevity of what guys
08:43have been able to do.
08:43All right.
08:43Chase Utley?
08:44Hmm.
08:47Former teammate.
08:48Great guy.
08:48Yeah, see?
08:49Dustin Bedroia?
08:50Dustin Bedroia?
08:50No, I don't think the numbers are there.
08:54Save that tape.
08:54Let's see if you don't text him.
08:55No, I mean, I don't think that's the thing.
08:58And you look at, you know, what John has been able to do.
09:01They've all had unbelievably great careers.
09:03But the Hall of Fame is, you know, and no offense.
09:05I don't know.
09:06We talk about other Hall of Fames and other sports.
09:08It seems like it's pretty generous.
09:09How come, or how much do you think not allowing, like, a wave of generational players in has
09:16changed how people vote, where they're like, well, we need somebody in there.
09:19So, like, Bonds, Clemens, A-Rod, Manny, like, those guys just watching them.
09:23You're like, Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer.
09:24Sosa.
09:25Everybody's kept them out.
09:26And then now it's like, well, we have to have, like, a celebration.
09:29We have to have somebody, like, get honored every year.
09:32So then you vote for people that you wouldn't have voted for.
09:34I think there's definitely been an acceptance.
09:36I think I saw something with the new voters of how guys like Chase Utley.
09:40Like, Chase Utley was a new voter guy.
09:42Like, he got this huge bump.
09:44And there has been a lot of new voters because they've turned this over.
09:47For instance, MLB, this was one of the most fraudulent things of all time, where they
09:50wouldn't let MLB.com writers vote for the Hall of Fame.
09:54I mean, Ian Brown, who's been covering the team for over 20, 25 years, they wouldn't let
09:59him because, oh, you're MLB.
10:01Well, here's the newsflash.
10:02Everyone who goes on the MLB network gets a paycheck from MLB.
10:06And they're all voting for the Hall of Fame.
10:08But anyway, they finally did.
10:10This was the first year they let these people vote.
10:12Wait, this year is the first year?
10:13First year.
10:14Oh, wow.
10:14I didn't know that.
10:15I mean, so there was, like, 20 or 30 guys and women who basically were allowed to do
10:21this.
10:21And so that's where the mindset changes, I do think.
10:25But it's still, but I said this, but Manny Ramirez still only got maxed out.
10:30He's off the ballot now.
10:31Maxed out at 37%.
10:32Wild.
10:33It's crazy.
10:34Yeah.
10:34I mean, it's like, this is a guy, like, you watch him and I get it.
10:38Like, he was popped for this stuff.
10:40And I think maybe that's the tipping point.
10:42So here's something we brought up, too, yesterday.
10:44So Manny and A-Rod.
10:46So some guys were just suspected of it.
10:47Other guys got caught and got suspended.
10:49But Manny Ramirez's first suspension was, what, 50 games.
10:53I think that's right.
10:53Right?
10:53He got popped for Roid's 50-game suspension.
10:56Carlos Beltran got caught up in the Alex Cora, A.J. Hinch, Houston Astros thing, lost
11:02his job with the Mets.
11:03And they're like, oh, he's a Hall of Famer.
11:05So that cheating scandal doesn't matter?
11:08What about Pete Rose?
11:09Yeah.
11:10Well, he's now going to get in because.
11:11Well, he's.
11:12Like, what about guys like Ron Santo?
11:13I mean, you know, being around a guy like that, third baseman for the Chicago Cubs for
11:17a long time and gets into the Hall of Fame, would have loved to have given that speech.
11:21He lived and breathed in everything about baseball.
11:24And then he passes away.
11:25And it's like, oh, we'll put him in now.
11:26Yeah.
11:26Well, Louis Tiont's a perfect.
11:27As soon as Louis Tiont passed away, everyone looked up his stuff.
11:30It's like, how is he not in the Hall of Fame?
11:31You're like, well, yeah.
11:32Could have looked it up sooner.
11:35Well, it was available.
11:36I know.
11:37He also was on the ballot for a long time and didn't get in.
11:39I mean, I would just say, like, to me, the Andrew Jones stuff is in.
11:43He started at 7% on the ballot.
11:45Padroia is a little like this, too.
11:46You voted Padroia?
11:47Yeah.
11:47Padroia was at 10% his first go.
11:49Now he's up to 20.
11:50Yeah.
11:50Now he's up to 20.
11:51I mean, Billy Wagner.
11:52I mean, you can still.
11:53Oh, right.
11:53But so do you think Padroia, I know you voted for him, so you think he should be in.
11:57Do you think that jump tells you he could be a Hall of Famer?
12:00I still don't think he probably will get in.
12:03It's a good jump, though.
12:04But it is a good jump, and Utley helps him.
12:07Utley helps him a lot, I think.
12:09And we've seen these jumps.
12:11I mean, really, it's kind of crazy.
12:13And I always said this.
12:15Burt Blylevin was the guy.
12:16If I woke up this morning and said I was going to utter Burt Blylevin at 11.35.
12:20There was always a fight for Burt Blylevin.
12:21Burt Blylevin, Jack Morris, Tim Raines.
12:24There must be a sick brag, bro, somewhere in there.
12:26Oh.
12:27Yeah.
12:27We already have a bunch.
12:28But he was the guy, every year, every single year he didn't get in, he would go on 15 radio
12:36shows and say, I don't want to, I don't care.
12:38It's like, but, like, I did this, I did this, I did this, I did this.
12:43He stayed in the public eye just long enough to finally get in.
12:47Yeah.
12:47So, yeah.
12:48You got any more Hall of Fame stuff?
12:49No.
12:49Okay, Rich, what do you think of the offseason the Red Sox have had and kind of loading up
12:54on pitching where they just introduced Suarez, obviously Crochet had an unbelievable year,
12:59Sonny Gray, and it looks like the strength of the team is clearly with the rotation.
13:03Yeah, it's going to be great.
13:04I mean, I think in that sense, they need to go ahead and grab another bat.
13:08I think that would be huge.
13:10You know, missing out on Alonso probably hurt.
13:13I think Bregman, you know, in a sense, I know that was a popular vote around here,
13:16but, you know, something where you have a chronic hamstring that continues to keep coming
13:20up, where you're trying to get a guy that's going to play as close to 162 as you want.
13:25I think you're kind of shaving in more 130 for him.
13:29And there's no doubt he was a great presence in the clubhouse.
13:31He was another coach.
13:32You know, everybody spoke the praises of him.
13:34But, again, I think that was probably a good mess for the Red Sox as opposed to maybe
13:38Pete.
13:39You wanted Alonso, right?
13:40I love Alonso.
13:41I think Pete's great.
13:41I mean, he played with them in New York and just the presence that he brings in the
13:46locker room and also how he carries himself in the, you know, public and what he gives
13:52you on the field is incredible.
13:53So, you know, as far as run prevention and where they're going in that direction, that
13:58seems like it's, you know.
14:00See my Texas Rangers stat?
14:01I did.
14:02We read this earlier.
14:03We sure did.
14:04I don't know the numbers off the top of my head.
14:05I got the point from Red Sox.
14:06They led the bigs in ERA last year.
14:09And, by the way, I didn't even mention his defensive run saved as well.
14:12As well.
14:13Oh.
14:13They were horrible.
14:14The ultimate run prevention team.
14:15Out conversions.
14:16Yeah.
14:16That's what I was going to say.
14:18They were horrible in games where they scored three or fewer runs and they didn't make
14:21the playoffs.
14:21So, I think the Red Sox are potentially built to win games in October, but you've got to
14:26get there and the Rangers are a cautionary tale.
14:28So, when we had the much-publicized Ranger Suarez press conference yesterday.
14:32We're going with Ranger, by the way.
14:34Ron Hamer?
14:34I can't even do it.
14:35Okay.
14:35You can't do what?
14:36I can't speak.
14:37I can't even say his real name.
14:39Ranger?
14:40No, no.
14:40Ron Hare.
14:41Yeah.
14:41Is it Ron Hare?
14:42Ron Hare.
14:43Okay.
14:43Ron Hare.
14:44That sounds like a separate player.
14:45Yeah.
14:45Oh, they find Ron Hare.
14:46Yeah.
14:46Yeah.
14:47Exactly.
14:48Random player of the day.
14:51But, when Brezzo was talking about when we met with him after and he was talking about
14:55this stuff about, like, hey, don't discount how important it is, how you can basically
15:00ride the wave of having really, really good pitching, how that makes you feel like you're in every
15:05single game.
15:06I kind of understand, like, he has to say that until he gets another bat.
15:10But, as I said, like, that's not really a reality.
15:14And the Texas Rangers are an example of this.
15:17And Rich can speak better than I can, but I feel it puts pressure on everybody when you
15:22build a team that way.
15:23It puts pressure on a guy like Roman Anthony.
15:25You've got to be really, really good.
15:26And all the other hitters.
15:28And also, it puts pressure on the pitchers because if you're in every one of those games
15:34and you're living the life of a 3-2 game, like, Rich, you know, like, that takes a lot
15:40out of you.
15:40Yeah, it's very stressful during the season.
15:42And the teams that I've been on that have been highly successful can score from innings
15:47seven through nine.
15:48Yeah.
15:48So, that's where you win a lot of ball games as a really good team.
15:52But they're also going to need somebody to compliment Garrett Whitlock in the back end
15:55of the bullpen.
15:56I mean, you know, you've got the Cuban Missile back there who's going to be doing great throughout
16:00the whole season.
16:01Had a great season last year.
16:02But, you know, looking at what Garrett's going to bring and, obviously, his proficiency
16:07in the setup man role.
16:09But you're going to need another guy in there to ease some of those innings.
16:12Because 80 innings, you're looking at 80 to 70, 70 to 80 innings for him next year.
16:17I mean, that's a big workload.
16:18Yeah, so, I mean, I just came away from, and I agree.
16:21I mean, there's just work to be done.
16:23And I understand Breslow has to sit there and say that.
16:26But they can't possibly go into the season without this, without another bat.
16:32Because let's just add it up.
16:34You went in, you said your stated goal was to get that bat.
16:38And that was the assumption, whether they'll admit it or not, that Bregman was coming back.
16:42It wasn't like, the bat that we're going to get is Alex Bregman.
16:44No, you already had Alex Bregman.
16:46I mean, the whole idea is, with that team with Alex Bregman, you need another bat.
16:50Yep.
16:50But you have to get the bat that wants to play in Boston, too.
16:52Yeah.
16:54That is a real...
16:54People on those wife is from Massachusetts.
16:57It still didn't work.
16:58Braintree, Mass.
16:59Oh, really?
16:59I don't know.
17:00You guys don't want to play here?
17:02Um, I think that, yeah, I think that's a little bit of a theme where guys don't, you know,
17:07they, let me put it this way.
17:08They don't, they, they hear things.
17:10And then when you get here, it's, it's, it's a different story, right?
17:13So you get perceived coming into Boston differently than what you actually see when you get here.
17:18What do they hear?
17:19Like about ownership or about the city or the media or what?
17:22I think, I think it's the immediate feedback that you get when you're here in Boston, which
17:25is great.
17:25And you got to love it.
17:26And that's something that is genuine and it's genuine from the fact that the fans want
17:30you to do well.
17:30They don't want you to suck.
17:32They want you to play well and they want to see your best effort.
17:34And then going out there and playing in a place like Fenway Park is, you know, it's
17:38a dream.
17:39Um, but also to have that immediate feedback where you're playing in front of 40,000 fans
17:43every single night, uh, is completely different than, you know, being in Milwaukee where you're
17:49leading the division and the stadium's half full on a Wednesday, right?
17:52So being able to understand where it's coming from and all it has to boil down to is your
17:57effort.
17:58And that's all anybody wants to see here in Boston.
18:00That is something that, you know, guys see and they start to understand that.
18:04And then they gravitate towards becoming a Red Sox.
18:07Yeah.
18:07That's what I think was so bad about losing Bregman and Schwarber is like, those are two
18:12guys that were great here.
18:13The fans liked it.
18:14They wanted to be here.
18:14They were perfect for the team and whatever else.
18:16And they were, they were gone.
18:18Um, circling back to your career.
18:19And we were sort of talking about this from some of the hall of fame stuff.
18:21Is there one hitter that you face that stands out as the best hitter that you face in your
18:26whole career?
18:27Well, Buster Posey apparently owns me.
18:29So I didn't really, I mean, that was, that was one thing that I didn't really pick up
18:32on.
18:32And, and again, back to your point about like when you're facing hitters, you're just
18:36looking at him as like, oh, wow, this guy owns me or he's a great hitter or whatever.
18:40Or is he going to be a hall of famer?
18:41It's more so, okay, I have to get this guy out.
18:43How do I get him out?
18:44Yeah.
18:44And, and then when you look back on it, you know, um, I've done very well against guys who
18:49are in the hall of fame.
18:50So I think that should bode well in six, six, six years for my vote.
18:53Oh, oh, oh, oh, all right.
18:55Here we go.
18:55Let's start politicking.
18:56I mean, politicking.
18:58Is there anything over the course of your career?
19:00Like one thing that came up with Suarez is that he seems like an outlier for Breslow and
19:04like the guys that Breslow's targeted, uh, high velocity, big extension, like those guys,
19:10Suarez is a different kind of pitcher.
19:11Um, is there anything you've seen scouting pitchers or the way that the priority organizations
19:17put on pitching that you disagree with, or you've seen that, uh, over time you think
19:22maybe baseball has wrong.
19:24Yeah.
19:24I, well, I love the Suarez signing because it shows another side of pitching, right?
19:28And it is pitching.
19:29It's not throwing.
19:30And this year coming into the 2026 season, we're going to have the ABS automated balls
19:35and strikes, which I think everybody's going to love in the first month.
19:38And then going after that, they're going to see, okay, this is starting to drain away from
19:42the time where we were trying to increase the time of games and kind of keep everybody's
19:46attention span with the pitch clock.
19:49Um, but I, you know, again, back to your question about the ideas of pitching and what direction
19:55teams go in.
19:55And yeah, I see some teams kind of get, you know, pigeonholed into, into one way of thinking
20:00and not, you know, kind of seeing the whole spectrum of what can be desired as a pitcher
20:06and the creativity side of pitching and also the different aspects to it, which is, you
20:12know, the, the multiple quadrants of the strike zone, how do guys actually make that
20:15work for them as opposed to just, you know, here's my, my best fastball and here's my best
20:20breaking ball every single time.
20:22Um, you know, it's, it's more than the hammer and the nail approach.
20:25Sometimes, and then the creativity side, but a blend of both of those is, is what works
20:30best at the end of the day.
20:31And on the inside of that is kind of, you know, not kind of, but getting a group of pitchers
20:37who can pull for themselves as much as they'd be pulling, you know, pull for each other
20:41as much as they'd be pulling for themselves in the situation when they're out there on
20:44the mound, that's a team.
20:45And that's what you're really actually trying to acquire and, and, and pull together.
20:50Bradford trivia question.
20:51Who has hit the most career home runs off of Rich Hill?
20:56Buster Posey.
20:58No, no, not Buster Posey.
20:59Give me a team.
20:59No, he owns Buster Posey.
21:00Give me a team.
21:01Oh yeah, I had that, I had that backwards.
21:02Sorry.
21:03Do you know the answer?
21:04No, I don't.
21:05Okay.
21:05So he played for a bunch of teams, played for the Mariners, played for the Mets.
21:09Oh, it's like random baseball players.
21:10It is like random baseball players.
21:11Okay.
21:11Mariners, Mets.
21:12Yeah.
21:13Anyone else?
21:14Do you know?
21:14Definitely more teams.
21:16Let's see.
21:16Definitely more teams.
21:17Well, no, he played for a few teams.
21:19I remember.
21:19Till Bradley.
21:19What position?
21:21Outfielder.
21:21Also played for the Red Sox, played for the Padres, Brewers, Reds, Marlins.
21:26Benny Ogbayotti.
21:27So who knows where he got you.
21:29Wow.
21:30Outfielder.
21:30Good defensive outfielder.
21:31One-time all-star.
21:32Three-time gold glove.
21:33Oh.
21:33Done.
21:34The only guy with four home runs.
21:35Right-handed batter.
21:37Four home runs against him.
21:38Four home runs against Rich Hill.
21:40That's the most.
21:40That's nobody.
21:41According to this number, nobody hit more than that.
21:43What's the reason?
21:44I don't know who.
21:45Cast your votes off.
21:46Mike Cameron.
21:47Oh.
21:48Mike Cameron's the answer.
21:49Oh, funny story about Mike.
21:51Is it all coming back?
21:52Yeah, it is.
21:53So 2011, Bruins win the Stanley Cup.
21:56They bring the cup into the locker room.
21:58And I had just had UCL's Tommy John surgery.
22:01And they bring the cup in, and Mike grabs the cup, and he holds it over his head.
22:04And the guys that came in.
22:06Oh, yeah, because you're only allowed to do it if you win the cup.
22:09And then I was like, oh, I'm next.
22:11They're like, no, no, no.
22:12Go back to your locker.
22:14My Cameron story was that when he played for the Red Sox, I barely knew him.
22:19Yeah.
22:19He came in with two pairs of Cole Haan shoes and gave them to me because he felt so bad
22:23that I looked so slopped.
22:24Really?
22:25Yeah.
22:25Nice guy.
22:26Yeah.
22:27He's like.
22:27Yeah.
22:27Nice guy.
22:28He dressed like a bomb.
22:29He didn't do anything for him today.
22:29His home run's a nice guy.
22:31We're going to lunch.
22:31Yeah.
22:32Yeah.
22:32Yeah.
22:33Nice.
22:34Also, I want to know real quick.
22:35So you've played for 14 teams in your career.
22:37Do you have a room with 14 framed jerseys?
22:40Because that's exactly what I would do.
22:41Yeah.
22:41They're not framed.
22:42I just have them all out.
22:43You have them all out?
22:44Yeah.
22:44I have them all out with like on a coat hanger.
22:46So, you know, the chance that somebody comes by and is like, oh, hey, you always see it
22:50behind a frame and you can't touch it.
22:52Yeah.
22:52You can't wear them.
22:53Yeah.
22:53Yeah.
22:53That's awesome.
22:54But we were, the ideas are popping for the real retirement announcement.
22:58We're talking about like cornfield.
23:00We're talking about taking off.
23:02The ideas are, there's a lot of ideas popping.
23:06Yeah.
23:06Yeah.
23:06Yeah.
23:07Yeah.
23:07Call the New York post.
23:08Yeah.
23:09All right.
23:09Well, good stuff.
23:10Yeah.
23:11That's right.
23:11Brad foe, Rich Hill.
23:13Good stuff here today.
23:14Thanks for joining us.
23:15Good luck.
23:16What are you guys up to for the rest of the day?
23:17You said Brad baseball is boring.
23:19We're going to go to the parking lot for the ball around.
23:21I've got all my jerseys in the back of the car.
23:24Go have a catch.
23:25All right.
23:26Well, good stuff.
23:26Thanks for coming by, guys.
23:27We'll get to your phone calls coming up next.
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