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Chapter 1: What motivated Garrett Crochet to switch to New Balance?
Yeah, there should be some passion. This doesn't have to be boring.
You don't get bored by baseball. Okay, one thing the game needs is more people like you.
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There's no human being on the planet. I'd rather be talking about cleats with than Garrett Crochet. Things that you didn't think that someone would say to you when you woke up this morning. Yeah, definitely. Okay. So you're with New Balance. And I'm really interested in terms of like when players sign with footwear companies because it's not happening a lot anymore.
But also particularly with New Balance because, you know, obviously Shohei Itani, they've leaned into players who are like the face of the game. And so for you to lock onto them, I think it's awesome. Number one, I think it's you and PCA this year. Yeah, PCA too. Yeah, yeah. But that's pretty cool. There's not a lot of guys. Take me through how that process worked.
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Chapter 2: How did Garrett Crochet's experience with previous brands influence his decision?
Yeah, so since the draft, I just became a free agent. Obviously, it was Nike for the past five years. And when I was going through it the first time, it was COVID. In terms of contracts, it was very murky because no one was really sure what they could do at the time.
In 2020, right after I was drafted, I don't think anybody was even giving out contracts because they weren't sure what the future looked like. And then New Balance, I've... I've kind of seen from afar, obviously, because I wasn't wearing their models, but a lot of pitchers have been wearing New Balance for a number of years, a lot of the pitchers that I've played with.
And even guys who aren't contracted with them.
Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. And, like, you know, when it's Mother's Day, Father's Day, Veterans Day, those sort of things, and you get the special edition cleats. I always thought the New Bounce did a pretty cool job of, like, keeping it, like, a little bit more of my style. Like, paying homage to the holiday, homage, homage, not really sure how you say it. That's good.
But it was, like, kind of a little bit more...
like modern yeah i just thought that looked cool and then they're in boston so it really helps out a lot yeah there you go you could go down and get free exactly yeah on the way to my house i i passed the uh or on the way from my house to the park i passed there like hq every day oh really yeah it's like it looks like a cruise ship it's awesome yeah so they did some good branding there for me yeah perfect um but you know like so the inland doors i should mention yeah yep but otani is
Like, you see Otani, I think if anyone had to identify, sort of, this is a footwear company taking things to another level, it's because the Otani ads. Would you agree with that? Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, I don't really know if you could get much bigger than that. It's pretty good.
Yeah. But now you're part of the family. And so what I wanted to ask you about is along the lines of what you said, the personality of it, where you were drawn to it. Yeah. Because this is one of the things I get on my soapbox about how baseball was so behind. Finally, they said, okay, you can put other things in cleats besides two colors.
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Chapter 3: What unique features does New Balance offer for baseball footwear?
is this, do players talk about like, oh, those are sick. Like I know that custom, we've had on custom cleats guys. But do you like, oh, those are sick or that's, you know, I like that or I like this.
Every now and then, a lot of times I feel like it's,
you know the guys that'll put some spikes on like a sneaker um like obviously nailer i feel like brought a big um like audience to it when he was like wearing 162 different pairs of cleats over the course of the year yeah yeah um you're not doing that no no not this year maybe in the future probably not but uh so and with that being said though too like this would be the first year that like i will be customizing a cleat to have like colors on it so um
Like, pretty basic. Like, I don't like anything, like, too flashy. But, like, as far as, like, options of customization go, like, I was really happy with the process. Like I said, I've never really done it before.
That's cool. So how does that work? Like, have you started doing it at all?
Yeah, yeah. It'll take a little while for them to get made, but just, like... picking the midsole, picking the spike plate color and the laces and stuff like that. So I thought it was cool.
Yeah, that is cool. So again, if you want, you can put baseballs and boring on your cleats. If you want, we can partner up with New Balance. All right, well, thank you, man. Appreciate it.
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