Mike Vasil

help me out in my in my rookie season you know but for me to say you know i'm sweating something or this that or the other thing you know it would kind of just be untrue because i think now in in today's day and age of pitching is there's so many great pitching minds and i've had a number of different pitching coaches in my career and you know there's there's so many different ways to approach pitching and philosophy and mechanics and everything that um

For me, going into next year and whoever fulfills that role, I'm looking forward to it because I just love pitching in general.

I love the game of baseball.

So I think for me, the more knowledge I can have and talk to people and see the game in a different way, the better.

But overall, a pitching coach is very important for staff, for guys.

They're the person that kind of keeps you

in the middle.

They don't let you get too high of high or too low of low, and they're there for you when you need them.

And that's the exact relationship I had with Cats and every former pitching coach I've had.

So they're kind of like your best buddy when it comes to you being out there on the mound and helping you out and caring about you a lot in season.

They're almost like your in-season father figure out there.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

And I think,

Another thing I've learned too is, especially once you get to the big league level, I feel every guy, every player or pitcher I play with, they all know their plan.

They all have their individual plan.

And with the way pitching is developing,

you know, I can say this, that there's been so many different trends that have come out about like the new pitching wave.

Um, and I'm sure there'll, there'll, there'll be more stuff, but I think for each guy individually, um, especially on our team as well, like every guy knows what they do really well.

Um,