John Axford
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 21 Sep
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when all the confusion happened he even put up his finger at one point like like one oh there was one so a lot of people didn't realize what was going on and i think the other confusion was i'm not sure who who mentioned this whether it was schneider or scherzer that the home plate umpire himself also ruled like run does not count
when were the pitcher and catcher gone, all that kind of stuff. Zaparuder film at that point. Exactly. Okay, so what is the, like, do you remember, not this situation exactly, but, like, a weird one like this where you guys are, like, sitting in the dugout trying to figure out what the heck's going on as a player? Honestly, I can't. I can't think of something that lasted as long as that, specifically, honestly. So...
Yeah, I mean, there's been strange things where an injury happens and there's a long delay or something else. Umpire issues have happened where there's long delays, but I've never seen a play, especially up for review, because review is... It's not that new, but it's new enough where that wasn't available when I was playing earlier on, so...
those things were not reviewable, and then you wouldn't be sitting around waiting for New York to make a call on a timing play that the umpire was confusing himself on while he's out on the field. So, yeah, sitting as a fan, not listening to what was going on from the TV and hearing Joe talk about it and hearing Dan talk about it, all of us were confused. As fans sitting in the stands, it was too weird to –
really process, I think. So as a player, I would have been doing the same. I would have been sitting in the bullpen wondering what is going on, what's happening right now until I think you watched a TV and could see what was happening. Maybe someone would call the bullpen and tell you what was going on. That would basically be it. Someone would call the dugout. What is happening right now?
I haven't done it in so long, and kids' games are now done via parents on an app on a phone. So it's something that needs to come back. I think for anybody that is 15 years old and is playing for me next year, prepare to possibly score games while on the bench. I had to do that in gym class.
the Barry Bonds of clutch, but only in clutch moments. There are definitely players that are like that, and I played with guys that were like that. You just know there's a particular season that a guy is just on one, and he's feeling it every single time that something is going well. I think it was Bowe last year, right? Wasn't he hitting like 400 runners in scoring position on one? And the same happens for pitchers. Same happens out of the pen. You can just rely and trust on certain guys. You just know they're going to come up in some of those big moments when guys are on base and they can get that big out.
Yeah, it could honestly range all the way through. It would be really interesting when a younger player was doing it, knowing that this is a moment that's big for them in their career and that they're coming up big in clutch moments. And you just want that thing to kind of extend and continue as their career goes on.
Gamer. Yeah. Yeah. I think it comes down to that focus, the mentality, what you're preparing for when you get up there. And I know it is pretty cliche to say you're taking every pitch, you're focused on every pitch, you're focused every at bat, all those sorts of things.
but it is hard to do over 162. And some guys do up that a little bit more when the game is on the line or a clutch situation is coming up. If something needs to be done, some guys do step to that moment and they focus in a little bit more.
Tougher situations, I just pitched better for whatever reason. Put me in when we're down in the eighth or the ninth because you got to get an inning. The ERA seemed to spike for whatever reason. And some guys just lock it down a little bit more than others. And I don't know what that says about me. Obviously, my mentality wasn't right.
every single game when i was out there either but um i'm sure like you would know from from your perspective as well like you can't you suck as an opener but when you're you can't lock it in every single night but you you try to do whatever you can to sometimes it's just like i'm just going through the motions whatever it is that i'm feeling but i'm still getting it done but if you're also just going through the motions there's other professionals on the other side that are gonna
make you pay for just going through the motions, at least on the baseball side. Yeah. They drive nice cars too, as a, to flip the old pitchers drive nice cars too. Um, Steve, uh,
I think so. I think also that it wasn't a full wholesale sell. They didn't get rid of everybody. They made sure they got pieces that they still needed and had control over for a little bit here too. It shows to the clubhouse, hey, we're not just giving up, but we are trying to get pieces still to focus on the future and we're not giving up on this season. We need the future to still be a part
of what we want to do here with Blue Jays organization, but we are also getting the pieces that we need to keep fighting for this year. So I think it does loosen things up a little bit because I'm sure that tension was building. Who are we selling? Who are we getting rid of? Who are we keeping? And I think we even talked about, when I was here last, about the veteran leadership, making sure you want to keep that in the clubhouse. So they kept the right guys, a certain portion of them that they wanted to keep here, getting rid of Springer, getting rid of Scherzer, that just...
That just decimates the clubhouse. So keeping the right guys. Not to say Gosman wasn't the right guy to keep in the clubhouse as well. But just keeping some of them. Yeah, keeping some of them. And what can you get back? And who can you maybe sign if you're maybe able to sign Gosman again next year sort of a thing. So I think that really helps that mentality. Steve, the other side of the trade deadline, I know you have a group chat with some Chicago friends. How did they take to the Gosman addition? They liked it. Yeah. I think...
I think we talked about it pretty early at one point, just about how nasty his stuff was. And he was still working through that side of it, though, the pitch efficiency side. He was nibbling a little bit is what it was. Yeah, so he's just – he's certainly found that as narrow of a space as it is on that plate that you have to work off of, especially when his ball moves the way it does and how hard he throws and the kind of pitcher that he is. So, yeah, working through that early on, figuring it out the way it is, and now, you know, scoreless streak and one hitters and –
Yeah, I don't think you change much at all. I think there's moments and maybe at-bats and scenarios that might need to change just based on how you're going to go about the game and what you're going to discuss before. And I think we've talked about this before as well. They're doing their work on Cease as much as Cease is doing his work with Pete Walker on
the Red Sox. So they are going to be discussing what went well and the Red Sox are gonna be discussing what didn't go well and adjusting to that. So I, you know, it's that cat and mouse game of like, you know, you think that, you know, that we know that, you know, sort of a thing. Are we really going to throw the same pitch sequence this time that we did last time?
four straight seasons of not getting hurt and playing great baseball to get into your 40s. Yeah, to get 200 innings. And like there's a, it's an average of 184 innings. Yeah.
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