00:00all right so uh this is this has been a very uh eventful off season for you you have the same
00:05routine the last few years reporting to jupiter going to spring training playing with the marlins
00:10and then you find out a couple of months ago you're traded to the cincinnati reds so this
00:15this i'm sure may have caught you a little bit by surprise i know that you were in some trade rumors
00:19even at the deadline last year but what did you make of the deal when you heard about it
00:23yeah uh it was a little surprising um obviously it's the business of baseball and each team's
00:31trying to get better so um i can't fault miami for trying to uh make a move that they felt helps the
00:37organization but um leaving leaving a bunch of my guys and uh leaving the organization that that i
00:45made my mlb debut in and uh leaving it leaving a good group of fans uh leaving all those things
00:51behind is tough but um i'm looking forward to the opportunity i got in cincinnati for sure
00:56yeah and i think that's really the key is is opportunity in the big leagues and and dane i
01:01think for some people who may not know your backstory i mean definitely not a clear path
01:06to the big leagues to say the least changing positions and doing things differently in order to
01:11get to make your major league baseball debut uh for those unfamiliar uh catch them up on the path
01:17that you made to get to the big leagues because certainly very unusual
01:20yeah uh coming in or in college i was a two-way guy so um that's kind of why i chose rice because
01:30they were going to give me the opportunity to to do both as long as i wanted to and um i was drafted
01:36by the tigers in 17 and um they felt my path to the big leagues was going to be as a pitcher on the
01:42mound so uh i i believe that as well um i think deep down in my heart though i knew i was a position
01:49player knew i wanted to play every day um so i think that kind of that kind of poured over into
01:57my pitching performance a couple years in and um didn't really go how i wanted to on the mound and
02:03uh found myself thinking about hitting again a couple years into it and uh for fortunately the tigers
02:11thought the same thing and um for them to give me the chance just to um kind of change positions and
02:18go back to hitting after three uh two or three years and uh not really having too much um success
02:25right off the bat in our inner squad games and practices and um this them still giving me a shot
02:31and eventually making it to the big leagues was uh pretty special um something i'll always appreciate
02:36um but yeah hasn't been an easy journey um i know being the old guy in low a and in extended spring
02:45training wasn't easy for me uh uh kind of expecting to be um in the upper level of the minors or the big
02:52leagues at that point in my career and um kind of restarting was tough but uh put my head down uh got
03:00to work and uh it worked out
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