Tyler Phillips

Uh, and a lot of them have been in the same boat as me.

So I said, you know what, like here's an opportunity with clean slate where I can come in and, you know, first week I'm going to like assess what's going on and see like, see what it's like.

But, uh, out in the bullpen, you're so far out there too.

Like you could kind of just act how you want to act.

And, uh,

those guys didn't seem to tell me like, Hey, like chill out.

Like they, they honestly seemed to like it.

So I started being myself and I carried that throughout the whole year.

Spring training was, I was trying to get, go out a little bit more and like, and speak off to more guys.

Um,

But, no, I mean, I loved it there, man.

Like, I used to go to Clearwater for spring training.

The thing is that I knew I was out of options, and I knew that they had gone out and signed a bunch of guys, and, like, you're really fighting for a position.

So I think every day, as much as I was having fun, I think at the same time, like, on that scale, there was a little bit of, like, nerves in the back.

It's like, dude, you have to go out, like, you have to throw good, like, in

throwing program.

You have to throw well on your live VPs and your bullpens.

You have to be like Cy Young.

You've got to make this team.

That's because that's what I wanted so bad.