00:00I've been saying that it's all about the location and usually guys who have had Tommy John surgery
00:04it's a step-by-step situation your velocity will come back things will look great and then all of
00:10a sudden you start to wonder okay is he ever going to be able to throw the ball where he
00:14wants it
00:15again I think that's what you should be looking for in spring training is his location he's able
00:21to elevate the baseball he was down the zone when he needed to be through on the corners and
00:25ironically the one pitch that wasn't great was his slider that he left out over the middle of the
00:31plate but it was off speed enough and you have to sit back on a fastball from him he ends
00:36up getting
00:36a strikeout on it this is a guy that you know what you just got to let him go out
00:42there and pitch
00:42and I know it's only two innings but it's a positive start for him and that's one thing that he
00:47could
00:47take out of it is that he's walking out of there feeling good about himself and you know from the
00:53comments of JT Real Muto I would say everything went very well not just well but very well
00:59he's one of those guys that's just going to be in the rotation I don't think the one the one
01:05unfair
01:05thing against a guy like him right now coming off of Tommy John it's been what three years since he
01:10pitched in a spring training game he was supposed to be up when he was 19 he's now 22 years
01:15old he's
01:16going to make the opening day roster as long as he stays healthy and the biggest thing that you want
01:21from him go out there and don't try to overdo things you don't have to go out and strike out
01:2718 guys in a game what you need to do is be yourself make sure you make your pitches make
01:32sure you're on task make sure everything's working there's going to be games where he's probably going
01:36to be dominant there's also going to be games where he's going to fight himself and he's going to have
01:40to find himself out of that but as for right now you got to be happy with the progress and
01:45what he has
01:46done so to me I think going in there having two strong innings in spring training to start
01:52that's that's a good way to good way to uh kick things off
01:56you
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