Ben Schulman

It's been fun to watch you with the Blue Jays.

Thank you so much for the time.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Yeah, I appreciate it.

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I'm Ben Schulman alongside Blue Jays left-handed pitcher Joe Mantipli.

Joe, thank you so much for joining me.

So I want to take a look back at your career as you now join the Blue Jays here this season.

you were drafted by the Detroit tigers spent a good portion of your career trying to get to the big leagues or up and down at one point with the Yankees as well.

What was that like?

What is it like to be one of those guys grinding your way up to the big leagues?

You find yourself then in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization, and that's when you really break through to the big league level consistently.

What changed or what do you think developed for you that allowed you to really get a hold there in Arizona?

A lot of big experiences over there, one of them being that you got to pitch in the All-Star game.

I checked the box score, scoreless inning for you in the All-Star game.

What was that like to be in that weekend, the clubhouse environment with all those top players in the game and then to get to pitch in the game too?

And you proved it on the field, getting all three guys you faced.

Speaking with Joe Mantiply, Blue Jays left-hander.

Blue Jays are just coming off what was somewhat surprising of a World Series run when you think about the expectations at the start of the year.