Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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. You. You. You. You. You. You. You.
You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You.
There's no human being I'd rather be talking to on the planet right now more than Mickey. Well, thank you, man. Nice to be talking with you. Hey, so this is so this obviously this is the first time that you've lived life in a different spring training organization. And I know it's one thing to be traded, but it's another thing to sort of be landing.
OK, you know, we've landed with the Minnesota Twins. and I have a new existence. What's that new existence? I know it's day one, but what's that new existence feel like right now?
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Chapter 2: What does Mick Abel say about his new experience with the Minnesota Twins?
It feels good. I mean, I was talking to somebody yesterday, it might have been my girlfriend, about, like, coming to spring training and, like, you know, I've got a sense of, you know, I know a lot of the guys in here, don't quite know a lot of the staff yet, but, you know, there's a...
there's a confidence you kind of develop over the years and it was something that i never really had in my first camp and to come in here and see a lot of fresh new faces and you know just be around a lot of new people it's it's refreshing in a way and it's it's fun i mean it you raise a good point it's like you're it's a different totally different clubhouse i mean the fact is when you're dropped in as a young player that you're i don't know if you're gonna find a more veteran clubhouse than what you came from and now this is completely different not
worse or better, whatever it is, but completely different, right?
Yeah, 100%. You know, every clubhouse is going to have different people that you can learn from, especially, like, you know, I'm 24. I haven't really been up for a long time, like, but I know I've got a lot of guys here that I can talk to and take advice from, so...
What is the thing, here's a cliche question, but so be it, what is the thing that when you get dropped into this organization, they say, we like this, so let's work on this. Again, cliche question, maybe there's nothing, maybe there's something, I don't know.
Yeah, a lot of it last year was, like when I first got here, it was my sweeper, we were like, hey, we love your stuff. But, you know, have you ever thought about adding a sweeper? And I'm like, yeah, I mean, I threw it in 2023, 2022 or 2023, and I scrapped it because it was blending with my curveball. And then last year with the Phillies, I'd started working on it again.
And I was about to deploy the pitch like a week before I got traded or a week after I got traded. I ended up doing it with the twins, and, you know, it's taken some work because it's a funky grip, a funky feel, but, yeah, sweeper's been, sweeper was, like, one of the first things that we did.
And that's what you did, like, as we sit here right now, you're like, okay, I can do this, like, I get this pitch. Yeah, exactly, yeah, that's 100%. Yeah. So, if there was only a video of someone who threw a 30-inch sweeper somewhere in this clubhouse, right?
Sure, I mean, I remember, I know, I've seen one of Joe throwing around. It was like the Sun on Pitching Ninja. Oh, yeah. No, dude, we...
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Chapter 3: How is Mick Abel evolving his pitch repertoire?
I mean, I don't know. But what was that like? It was wild.
I mean, I had cracked a tooth earlier in the day during a game, like just watching, eating popcorn in the clubhouse, went in for a snack and hit it down wrong and went to the dentist, got my tooth fixed, straight from the field, got to the team hotel, realized I hadn't showered, hopped in the shower, cleaned up.
Two minutes later, like two minutes after I got on the show, I go back to my phone and I had tons of texts like, hey, is this real? And I'm like, oh, it came out. I'm like, oh, that's crazy. Like, what the heck?
And like. Hey, this is Richard Deitch, the host of the Sports Media Podcast. If you're interested in what's happening with all the places where you consume sports, the Sports Media Podcast has you covered.
I've been turning down interviews all week. Hoda Kotb reached out, Oprah, George Stephanopoulos. So I said, no, I was booked on the Deitch podcast before the Taylor Swift phenomenon. I must live up to my responsibility.
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I knew that nobody could talk to me about it because there were other things that had to go on. I knew that Duran had to get a physical when they planned it or something like that. So, yeah, I mean, I found out through Twitter, but it's, like, I feel like a lot of guys find out through Twitter. It's, like, there's other things that have to happen, like, before the team can call you, I feel like.
And maybe it's not with Twitter trade, but, like, yeah, I mean, I got to talk to the Phillies about it and talk to Preston Mattingly. Yeah, yeah.
It was nothing but... How did it hit? Because it's another thing that I talk to guys about. It's cool that a team wants you, but it's also like these are your boys that you're leaving behind, right? So I don't know if one outweighs the other or if it's just chaos and like, okay, I'm just going to figure out how to get up to wherever I'm going.
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