Nick Martinez

It must be hard.

Yeah, no, I kind of separate that and...

yeah i was i was getting in the you know i was starting to get into the mindset like okay if i don't sign if i sign after pictures and catches report i have to start um lining up uh live vps uh trying to get establish that spring training schedule even though i'm home so that um when i do sign i can roll right into whatever progression i would have been in if i was in canada where were you were you arizona miami miami yeah yeah yeah and so

yeah so I mean even still I came into camp you know ready to go I threw a live BP yesterday three innings you know so I've followed my progression as if you know I was going to

have a regular spring training and thankfully I came in just in time.

I don't know how you felt going through it.

I felt fine.

Yeah, I mean, last year was exciting, I think, obviously.

I mean, you had a good year with a good club.

Yeah, it was an okay year, you know, not my best, not up to my standards, but again, I felt like, you know, again, just jumping back and forth in different roles, helping the Reds, you know, helping that young team get into the playoffs, and yeah.

A lot of it was, you know, showing that these guys, they have the ability to compete at the highest level in the playoffs.

And so I think it was, you know, a good step in the right direction for a young player.

super excited to work with with this this pitching staff and the coaching staff obviously they have a really good reputation and getting the best out of their guys and able to communicate you know what they do really well and give them direction and and so that you know they can achieve that and so working with snide playing for cash I've heard nothing but great things so I'm very excited what is this thing okay so now we get to the secret sauce and the obvious answer is throw your best pitch for strike one yeah

You know, funny enough, I have that meeting today.

Oh, you do?

Oh, do you really?

Do you have any idea what they're going to say?

No, no.

So we're going to just go over.

uh kind of more in depth you know we have meetings and stuff yeah yeah about you know more more personalized meetings and so um you know uh going into it i think obviously my you know the biggest separator um you know from last year to previous years was uh getting ahead i could throw strikes but my you know my first best strike yeah percentage was a little bit lower than than it was in the past and so uh just for different reasons maybe that that's why it fell but um