John Smoltz
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546 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
John Smoltz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I said 10 years ago what was coming, and it's here.
And nobody cares because the guys that are running the game have never played.
And so they only care about the bottom dollar and the opportunity to maximize run prevention.
So from their side, if I had to jump on their side, here's what I would say.
It works temporarily, but then you've got to find the next guy.
And until that runs out, which there is no sign that that's going to run out, guys' careers are cut in thirds, eighths, tenths.
It's insane.
So
But if I had to jump on that side, I would absolutely use guys and abuse guys, which is what they're doing, and get them to buy in, you know, to the narrative that this is how you get drafted.
This is how you get paid.
Oh, by the way, you're never going to have a 10- and 15-year career.
So that's the byproduct, or I should say the downside, of what's going on.
Yeah.
Here's the myths behind Tommy John that nobody is paying attention to.
The theory is...
this is you're going to be better stronger and you're just going to it's like a band-aid you just got to wait 16 months 16 to 18 months which is way too long but everyone's okay with waiting 18 months to think that they're going to get the guy that can actually throw harder that's a myth you don't throw harder you don't get to a place where you just
Imagine everybody like for me, I had about 2400 innings as I was wearing down and all those postseason things and pitching through pain and discomfort.
I knew what was coming.
I was pitching with a torn ligament for a year and a half and I was going to retire.
But Tommy John himself called me.
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