Jake Peavy reflects on his 'glorious' days with the White Sox
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Who is Jake Peavy and what are his career highlights?
Yeah, Jake Peavy had a few of those. The Cy Young Award winner, three-time All-Star, two-time World Series champion, and White Sox from 2009 to 2013. Kind enough to join us on our hotline. He's now doing work for MLB Network. Jake, thanks for joining us here on Rahimi Harrison Grody.
You know, I'm happy to be here. What an intro. Very kind of you guys. I'm happy to be on its opening day there, and I'm in Boston for opening day here versus the Padres.
Jake, you're talking to an Alabama guy, fellow Alabamian. north alabama i know you're an la guy lower alabama and we've got a north alabama guy on the mound today and grant taylor who went to florence high school i'm curious to your thoughts about him being a bullpen guy versus being a starter and now he's an opener in this game so we're what how would you handle a guy with as much potential as grant taylor well i i think they're just trying to figure out how they're going to deploy him i you know i think that's just um
The key there in Chicago all year is to find out what you got and what they're the best at. It's interesting that these guys today, I think, are having an easier time than maybe so 10 years ago and certainly way beyond that of transitioning in between what a starter actually is doing and what a reliever does. They're not very different in today's world. A lot of them are ripping it and gripping it. go as hard as you can for as long as you can. You're not really doing the mixing and matching and saving some like you were taught to do, say, 15 years ago. So I think the transition in between the starter and reliever is easier than it ever can be, and they're just going to find out where they like him best.
It's huge stuff. I can't wait to watch alongside all of you.
Jake, that's so funny you bring that up. It was one of the things that I jotted down in my notes to ask you about. Because you were a bulldog, man, your entire career. You were, give me the ball, let me stay out there as long as I possibly can. And nowadays, you're right, guy goes five innings, that's a successful outing for a starting pitcher. Does that insult your sensibilities a little bit, or do you think it's a smarter way to use pitchers?
You know, I'm torn between that. It certainly insults me when you hear you can't go through a lineup three times. You know, I don't know how many starts I made in my major league career, but if I didn't pitch three times, complete times through that lineup into the sixth, seventh, eighth inning, I didn't do my job. And your rights is trying to be a number one starter in the big leagues. Mark Burley, how many times, Mark Burley, you seem to go five innings? No, sir. Seven to nine. And Freddie Garcia and Johnny Garland, Contreras, that's what delivered a championship to you guys. You know, some clutch hitting, but that starting pitching and their depth was basically giving it to Dottel and Jinx. Nowadays, you get these playoffs, you're trying to win five, six relievers because the starter is...
is being pulled because they're saying other guys are better than him. Where it gets interesting for me, I understand the numbers, and I'm in the front office for the Padres. I know your front office very well with playing with Chris Goetz and Josh Barfield, Will Venable, all former teammates that I still talk to to this day. So, It's just an interesting strategy when you start to see the numbers. But what I do say is your number one, you know, and I know that we haven't seen our all-star Smith pitch like the way he should have. But your front-line starters, they should be better than your middle-inning relievers, in my opinion, to go after that lineup a third and fourth time, especially over the length of the season.
You've got to ask a couple starters first. not throw four or five relievers every night over the course of the season.
We're talking to Jake Peavy here on Rahimi Harrison Grody on this home opener day on the south side. And Jake, it's funny that you bring up the Padres. You are a former Padre. You are with them now.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Jake Peavy and what are his career highlights?
0:01–4:13
2
What was Jake Peavy's experience like during his time with the White Sox?
4:13–8:01
3
How has the role of starting pitchers changed in modern baseball?
8:01–12:13
4
What are Jake Peavy's thoughts on the current state of pitching strategies?
12:13–14:12
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