Mike Hazen Is Back (And Better Than Ever)
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What makes Mike Hazen's return to the podcast significant?
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.
How does Mike Hazen feel about the upcoming spring training?
You. You. You. You. You. You.
Welcome to Baseball Isn't Boring. Here's your host, Rob Ratner. There's nobody I'd rather talk to after doing an interview session with a bunch of media than Mike Hazen. Right?
Yeah.
Hi, Rob. You were workshopping this podcast.
I wasn't workshopping the podcast. I'm just wondering how we could have just had the five-minute conversation that you didn't record and now just launch right in.
What challenges did the Diamondbacks face during the offseason?
It's like you're an actor. It's like you could just flip the switch, you know? I can do the Cliff Notes version of that if you want.
That's fine. It's up to you. It's your show. All right. All right. Well, while we were talking about what actor you looked like, and you said that a lot of people say you look like Jon Bertholdt, Who is the guy that I said that you look like? Who is that? Do we have a name? The Lincoln lawyer. I don't know. I don't know. I don't watch TV.
I don't watch as much TV as you do.
All you do is build baseball teams. What's the guy's name? Hold on. Oh, Manuel Garcia Rufo.
I'd have to Google that. I'd have to Google that. Yeah. Yeah. Can you put up a picture here for the audience? Yeah, I will. You're not that technically savvy. Baseball is a boring kid. Pull that off.
How does Mike Hazen view the importance of team dynamics?
I promise.
I know that you secretly follow it. Your cohort doesn't secretly follow it. I see him all the time.
Who's my cohort?
Got me out.
Oh, okay. Yeah, everybody has their own Instagram likes. I know.
It's all good. It's a friend of the family. We appreciate it. But I'm here. My overall point is that that guy's a good-looking guy. You're a good-looking guy.
I'm here to build you up. This is getting weird. All right. Yeah, I appreciate that. You're like Shallow Hal. No. No. Yeah, let's just agree to disagree on this. And then we can journey into baseball.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
On that note. Well, again, I want to make you feel good about yourself. And there's nobody I know maybe in the planet that, like, it's harder to crack that nut. But I'm telling you, you should feel good about yourself.
What role do veteran players play in team development?
You look like the guy on Lincoln Lawyer, and you've done a good job of building your baseball team. You've never looked better. Your brand has never been hotter.
Huh, huh. You looking for a job, full-time gig over here? Maybe. I might be in the market. I could use a hype guy. I could use a hype guy. Right. That's what I'm talking about. I don't even still have a free T-shirt. And I've done this podcast like seven times. More. Okay, maybe more, and I still don't even have a free T-shirt. You don't? I have a sticker. We need to be bigger than the sticker, okay?
I think 50 stickers equal one T-shirt. Okay. I'd appreciate a T-shirt. I'll wear it.
I'll wear it.
Which one? You want the Spanish one or you want the American one? Whatever you decide. The hat?
Yeah. Okay. Let's get into baseball.
How does Mike Hazen handle player injuries and recovery?
Yeah, no, I'm here. Okay. So when you go in, so as I said, you had your meeting with the media, sort of like the beginning of spring training meeting. Am I wrong? Like you had that, right? Yeah, I did that.
Yeah.
Uh, when you go into that, like, what do you, how do you feel about that? Like, do you dislike, I just want to get this over with, or I know that this question is going to be asked. I know that that question is going to be asked, like, can, you know, compared to whenever you started this thing, I'm always interested in the team meetings and the first interviews.
Yeah. I actually look forward to it because I feel like it's the first time you get, you know, you're talking to your fans and I feel like it's the first time that I get to do that. That's not on the scale of an individual transaction. You know, like we will do media stuff through the off season as we do transactions and, and, and by and large, you know, there's some, there's some broader questions that get asked in terms of team building or things like that. But yeah, The majority of that is fixated on that one particular transaction, which any one move that any of us make in a vacuum, barring some type of blockbuster, it's not overly interesting in the grand scheme of things, right?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What makes Mike Hazen's return to the podcast significant?
0:00–0:16
2
How does Mike Hazen feel about the upcoming spring training?
0:16–0:43
3
What challenges did the Diamondbacks face during the offseason?
0:43–1:38
4
How does Mike Hazen view the importance of team dynamics?
1:38–2:38
5
What role do veteran players play in team development?
2:38–3:26
6
How does Mike Hazen handle player injuries and recovery?
3:26–5:57
7
What strategies does Hazen use for trading during the offseason?
5:57–8:40
8
What insights does Mike Hazen share about player performance expectations?
8:40–25:30
Speakers
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