Chapter 1: What insights does Rich Hill share about leadership in MLB clubhouses?
Yeah, there should be some passion. This doesn't have to be boring. You don't get bored by baseball.
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You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. Welcome to Baseball Isn't Boring. Here's your host, Rob Radford. The point of if you take Devers or whatever player X that you take, there is a foundational type of, you know, especially for a guy that has come up through the organization. And sometimes and everybody has a shelf life.
That is what I have seen throughout this baseball game and what I have learned.
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Chapter 2: How does player accountability affect team dynamics?
It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter how much of a name you are in that city. Everybody has a shelf life, whether that is, you know, kindly shown the door or, you know, hey, don't let it hit you on the ass on the way out.
um and that's something you know where i think in in raffi's case you know the shelf life kind of uh expired um you know because of the i don't know if you want to say just that that lack of accountability and also just understanding what their role is and you continue to
grow up in an organization and you continue to get older because you can't view yourself as a 17 year old in a 26 year old whatever 24 year old body 25 year old body you grow up twice as fast in baseball in professional sports you're asked a lot out of uh you know young kids to be able to handle themselves in a in a you know dignified manner to understand what they're what they're
taking on and I I just think you know in some cases we can do a better job yeah and and I think that you know I don't want to get any talk about Devers anymore but the reality of Devers too was that was that that the the leader the the the the guy who was going to set the foundation was ended up being one and done.
And he couldn't deal with the Debra stuff because he was in the middle of it, and that was Bregman.
Yeah, well, that's what I was going to say. But you're also taking a guy like Bregman who has the pedigree of winning, who understands what it looks like, what it walks like, what it talks like. And, you know, to me, those guys are very difficult to find. To be able to, in a good way, that emanates off of a player. And like a Dustin Pedroia, like a Clayton Kershaw, and guys follow.
Like a Corey Seager. You know, we've said it before. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can drink the water and show how beneficial it is to the horse. Then the horse, in turn, does what? Works. So that's where you get those players that freaking work. and put in every single day, no matter what the day before was, and everybody starts to see it.
And then it starts to be beneficial for everybody.
And there's plenty of examples, plenty of teams we can talk about who should be starved for that, the Mets being one of them. I mean, the Mets are an example of, sure, you felt like the clubhouse had gone off the rails a little bit, but – And you took an enemy to the roster. That's your prerogative talent-wise.
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Chapter 3: What examples illustrate the importance of strong leadership in baseball?
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.
What's the best clubhouse that you've been in?
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, Kevin Ploiecki, just Chris Sale, just these guys that are enjoying the game but also understanding the team camaraderie part of it.
How can we get everybody to come together and actually pull for each other on the field as hard as you'd be pulling for yourself?
I wasn't planning on asking this, but you made me think of it. One of my favorite...
topics or most frustrating topics is having captains in baseball so putting the C on the chest and here's my take on it Rich is that my take is that it's such like I think in baseball you have so many groups in a clubhouse like you need more than just one guy with a C on a chest that said was there any team that you were on where you said okay if there was ever such a thing as a captain
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Chapter 4: How do teams invest in camaraderie and team spirit?
Yeah.