Rich Hill
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Podcast Appearances
I mean, Soto's tremendous.
I played with all these guys.
Get them in a room.
Let's go have dinner.
Let's go to a – and it's not like kumbaya, like, you know, whatever.
But at some point, we all have something that is – we can relate to.
And it is a huge – we – baseball teams, clubs invest all this money into R&D, into strength and conditioning, into, you know –
more whatever, technology.
Invest into team camaraderie and go ahead and say, hey guys, we have this plan, we have this plan, whatever.
Sometimes you have to force it, but you've got to become creative to get 26 guys to come together and enjoy being around each other because 162 days is a long time to play.
It's the only sport that plays twice as many games as the NBA, twice as many games as the NHL.
Um, so, you know, to be able to have that and put, invest into that and become create whatever that looks like.
I don't know what it looks like for most teams, but I can tell you this, the Dodgers know how to do it.
Uh, probably the years in LA.
I mean, just as far as, you know, the guys pulling for each other, whether it's whatever the turnover was, whatever the issues were that came up.
Things, you know, not that they squash stuff or whatever, but, you know, and in Boston in 22.
I haven't been in too many bad clubhouses.
I can't, you know, I know it's a very political answer, but it is true.
I try to find the best in, you know, all the guys that I've been able to play with.
But, you know, at the same time, when you have guys like, you know, Nate Evaldi,