Erik Kratz

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1,975 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 15 Sep

Erik Kratz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Blue Jays Talk · JTP: Jon Morosi, Erik Kratz, and Sound the Alarm? · 14 Oct 2025 podcast

I want to play out the rest of spring training.

He said, okay.

So we went to the Rays minor league complex.

And I mean, it's just an awfulness of just nothing baseball on four Cloverleaf fields.

And he was on the AAA field and I was on the AA field.

And I remember he was, I forget where he was hitting in the lineup, but whack.

I still remember he used a C271 was his bat model.

And whack, hits a dinger.

Goes over the fence.

He's trotting around the field.

He comes in, gets a high five, sits down on the bench, takes his cleats off.

He goes, I'm never taking another at bat again.

So John Schneider ended his career as a player with a homer, and he started coaching as soon as they let him because we all went to the seasons, and he stayed back to help coach at the complex.

Never.

I mean, history would tell you no.

And there's so many things to unwrap.

I don't even know if we're leading off with that today because it's like we want to look forward to the next game so that we can get people going on.

But you could do an entire two-hour show on that play alone.

All the different intricacies of it.

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