Pitch And Moan: Catching Up With The Giants
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You. Reporting live from Scottsdale, Arizona at San Francisco Giants spring training camp. I got a chance to interview some of the players and new manager Tony Vitello today. The vibe at the camp is, you know, they think anything can happen. They really believe that they have a shot at competing in the NL West, which obviously is a very, very competitive division with the Dodgers leading the way, certainly. But The vibe is good. The energy is positive. They're a mix of a young team plus a lot of veteran presence and certainly with first-year manager Tony Vitello as well. Got a chance to talk to him. He had some good things to say about Bryce Harper and Garrett Cochet. Talked to Harrison Bader. He was really thoughtful on where he sees this team headed, where he sees himself headed.
And, of course, we'll round it all out by talking to old friend Adrian Hauser, who officially... has a Puke and Rally t-shirt that was born on Baseball Isn't Boring in our interview last year. Vibe is good, energy is good, and of course the weather in Scottsdale is tremendous. But enjoy the interviews. Thank you. Tony, I appreciate your time. How are you?
I'm doing well, enjoying spring training. The weather, obviously, you can tell from whatever vantage point you got. It's pretty good.
So you are a first-year manager with the San Francisco Giants, first year in Major League Baseball. An article came out recently, you talking about Bryce Harper and his influence with you and what you've learned from him. Can you expound on that a little bit more about what he's taught you and what he's given you advice on?
Yeah, I think in general, baseball is a great sport to just have conversations and, you know, dive into different topics and you voice your opinion and debate and things like that. And so fortunately, I've known him prior to this experience and had great conversations that way. But the more recent ones with him or other guys that are in the big leagues, they've helped me. give me a vision of what this thing looks like because I have never experienced it before. So it gives you a level of comfort that you have if you studied for a test. You know, maybe you've got a little bit of a study guide that you can lean on. So, you know, there's never been one thing that's like specific where that's my new number one rule as a coach or anything like that.
I think it's been general and definitely been beneficial.
So Garrett Crochet was, you obviously coached him at Tennessee. Pretty big, pretty big, pretty big pitcher these days, huh?
He's a big person.
He's a big person and a big pitcher. I mean, how proud are you to see Garrett Crochet be what he is in the big leagues?
incredibly proud and so much so that uh during my free time which is kind of rare in the summer when you're doing recruiting um took some family members we went watched him pitch in yankee stadium and i just felt like for a guy that's about to win a cy young or potentially um would like to be a part of history but more importantly just get to see him i hadn't yet seen him in uniform and that's the way it is for a lot of guys that i've coached but He's a special one to us because he chose Tennessee and believed in the people as opposed to the brand name, because at the time, you know, we had just got the job. And then he developed in a short amount of time. I don't know that I've seen more growth out of one guy just in a bunch of different areas.
including his talents which led to him going you know as high as he did and that draft is a personal to me too because it was during COVID and a lot of scouts took a lot of time from our coaching staff to figure out who is this guy what can he be and you know Mike Shirley put in as much time as anybody and it's no coincidence he's the one that drafted him.
Well, that is a wonderful story.
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