Justin Willard
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And when this opportunity just came up, I just had to jump at it and really excited to get to know the Mets and get to know their system and get to know the players and start a new kind of journey and adventure.
Yeah.
Start connecting the players and where's their head at?
Like, who are they as a person?
What do they value?
Right.
Are they something that loves baseball or baseball is just a job?
And that's the way you approach those guys just as human beings, first of all, is super important and get to know them and really what drives them.
We've got a couple that I've crossed paths with with both Minnesota and the Red Sox, but really beyond that, it's a lot of just new faces, new names, new people.
Yeah, a lot of relationship building.
No, Zach Kelly might be the only one from college.
Yeah.
So I was his coach at Concord University.
See, I did not know that.
How did I not know this?
Yeah, all the way in Princeton, West Virginia, me and Zach go back.
Oh, exponentially.
It's the same as a player.
It's like, yeah, how much you've grown over 10 plus years and you have different resources and knowledge and information and even just ability to communicate.
Right.