Tyler Phillips
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659 appearances
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2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Oct
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Um, and it was like, they were offering me like the max, like for the prorated amount, I think somewhere around there. Um, that's just really far. And I was stressing out. Like, I just remember it. Um, I was like sitting outside my hotel. Uh, my family wasn't with me. And I'm just like pulling my hair out, sitting on the steps like I don't know what to do. Like they wanted a decision.
I got a call like a Tuesday morning. They wanted the decision the Tuesday night. I was like, I need you guys to buy me more time. I think like Wednesday, I ultimately turned it down. Pitched Thursday, did really well. And then the first of the month was coming up July 1st. My agent said like, hey, dude, like you turned Korea down. We're taking your upper mobility, like your opt out.
So basically the team, the Phillies had to put me on the table for all the other teams to possibly take. And if anyone wanted me, then the Phillies had to decide if they wanted to protect me or not. So kind of putting the pressure on.
Yeah, you have to be on the 26th. Oh, so you forced their hand. Kind of forced their hand. That's kind of baller. It felt weird.
because like I told my age like whatever man I trust you guys and I knew I think like the first day that teams were interested and now it was up to the Phillies so the second day I was getting some calls like hey this might happen right um there was like some weird scenarios where it was like if you pitch this day then you're going up with this team if you pitch two innings this day then you're going to be in the bullpen this day and if you don't pitch at all you're being traded
I'm like, okay. So I'm just, again, still stressing out. Don't know what's going on. And my manager called me on a double header day when I was supposed to pitch the night game. And he said, where are you? I was like, I'm at home. It's 930. Why would I be at the field? Like I'm pitching at seven. He goes, well, what if we needed you? And I was like, why would you need me pitching at seven?
He's like, well, what would the roster change? She's like, just get in here now. I'm like my pitching coach just texted me like, Hey, like, uh, like where the fuck are you, man? Like you gotta be here. I'm like, dude. So I'm thinking they're canceling my start and I'm being traded, showed up to the field.
And, uh, they hit me with kind of like a, like kind of like a prank that you were talking about. They hit me with, um, like why weren't you here like you're late i was like no i'm not they said well you think you do whatever you want i said no i don't well what do you think you're a big leaguer or something yeah i do they're like okay well good because you are
like i already knew like i knew like two days before so it wasn't like this magical thing and then they didn't know what move they were making for me yet so uh i just sat at this i sat in triple a for like another two days not doing anything until the team was able to make a roster move was everyone judging you being like oh you're oh you're a big leaguer i just thought i was lying he said what the fuck are you still doing here man what do you just like want to watch this series like i don't
Yeah, pretty much. Now your team knows. Yeah. They're like, yeah, fuck this guy.
Yeah, I agree with that. I don't think that anything good really comes from like trying to compete with a guy like, oh, like I'm going to beat you out.
If you.
at least in my experience like i just try to help everyone like just being a good teammate you're gonna learn something from the next guy and you don't know who you want people in your corner right you don't want to like get people like oh like this guy don't be he's not a good teammate right yeah i'm sure there are some guys in the minors you can feel it yeah and they get frustrated probably do you guys ever have a moment where you're like it's not gonna work out like i'm i'm done with baseball
pitchers i feel like that's such a mental game it's pretty big yeah um i was fortunate like with when i was with the rangers when i got drafted uh had a really good peak performance coach over there um just pushing like routines pushing all like the the mental stuff um staying confident you know it's weird like a lot of stuff goes hand in hand like confidence and success
like confidence leads to success. Success leads to confidence. It's weird. Um, but yeah, just staying on top of stuff. Um, like I've been, I took up reading a little bit, like, uh, once I had, once I had, uh, my Tommy John should, you know, just finding a way to just get better.
A little bit. What do you read? A lot of self-help books. Stuff that just helps the mind, I guess. Did you go straight from high school to AA? No. It was different. It's different now. That's what everyone does. I went high school to rookie ball, AZL. Okay. And Surprise, Arizona.
I don't think I could have. Oh, really? I did not take up reading at that time in my life.
I mean that, that breath is important. Um, I don't necessarily like love the pitch clock. Um, but you know, you get used to it. Uh, I think in the beginning I was, like, really sped up where, you know, especially out of the bullpen. Like, I was a starter before, so, like, it's not that far of a run or I usually walk out of the bullpen or out of the dugout.
But, yeah, I get on the mound, and now you feel the heart rate going. You feel the adrenaline. So you have to take, like, make sure the breath isn't fake, if that makes sense. I just try to make sure that I'm doing it so the dugout – can see it, even if they can't, like it feels right. Um, and then at that point, you know, you're in the game, like it's, it's, you're going to war.
So my thing, I took it from, uh, Mike Tyson. Um, he's always stared his opponent down in the eyes. And when he, when they broke eye contact, he knew he won. So that's kind of something that I do. Um, I'm not as scary as Mike Tyson, but, but I, it's makes me feel, makes me feel like, Hey, like it's on now.
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