Mark Budzinski

But I got to give a shout out to Vic Carapazza.

Vic's a chatter and loves baseball, loves the game, and loves talking about the game.

So he's a very personable guy who I enjoy getting to know over the years, getting to talk to.

Chatty is first baseman.

It's not quite what it used to be.

You know, Sean Casey's a good buddy of Kevin's mind.

He used to chat it up quite a bit.

It's not quite to that level anymore.

Freddie Freeman's also always very, very open, kind, likes to catch up and things like that.

So he's the first one that pops in my mind.

But it's not quite like it used to be, I think, on the chat.

It's just because, again, of us having to be in the box.

Yeah, I think it was an adjustment for both of us, and we spent a lot of time in spree training talking about it.

I can give you one example.

We were playing the Tigers at home, and we got backpicked twice.

and a game with Thomas Naito behind the plate.

And I had to basically change the way I stood so I could see the first baseman breaking early on back hits from the catcher.

So there's definitely adjustments there that we've made, and a lot of it is kind of where you look at the positioning.

You're kind of waiting later to turn your head to see contact at the plate as a result just because you don't have the same vision that you once had when you could be kind of further down the line.

I do.