Episode #25 Paul Bonzagni

Jeff and John recap the last week of Rangers baseball. They also have on Rangers prospect Paul Bonzagni to discuss his season and his path to professional baseball.  

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twenty five and today Texas Rangers prospect Paul Bonzani is
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, we love those guys. So they're, you know, twenty
fifth anniversary season. They're on their opening home stand right
now against Oklahoma City, which they picked up a name,
Oklahoma City. They're now the comments.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah, yeah, they I've always been the Dodgers, but now
they're the comments. Okay, Well they were the Oklahoma City
eighty nine ers back in the old days, and then
they were the Redbirds red Hawks, not the Redbirds.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah. Thanks to Chris and Tim and Laura and all
the group down there, and yeah, you know, they're back
for another season and we can't thank him enough and
there's a lot of good stuff to talk out with them.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
But we'll head down there at some point probably and
try to do it.

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We'll get we'll plan it in advance.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Over we.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Have a cocktail after the game with them again.

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Speaker 2 (02:21):
Off today, yeah, I don't. We're probably going to be
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on the road. Now that's not setting stone yet, but yeah,
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who we cover. And so we're gonna look, they're going
into the weekend, they're heading they're in Seattle. Uh it's
Jacob de Grom day.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, it's a it's a great, great opportunity here if
you like starting pitching and de Gram rocker A Valdi,
and then you know the other team, the Mariners shoot
their their rotation is great Miller wu and Logan Gilbert
who always shoves it up. The Rangers butts at Park.
So Sunday Sunday, not a lot of runs are going

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to be scored by either team. So yeah, anyway, but
you know, John, we're thirteen games in nine and four,
first place, nine and four.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, they finally they got that last game for the Cubs.
I'm gonna tell you, I don't know if it's cold
weather or what. That just looked miserable.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Though, Yeah, Monday, Monday, his game, it just seemed like
nobody wanted to be there. Yeah, and and I really
thought that the elements affected A Valdi, like he's blowing
on his hand after every pitch and trying to rub
the ball and get a feel for I mean, he
hit two guys, which he doesn't do. He walked to
the guys. He hadn't walked to anybody else.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
He hit two strikes on whoever he hit the one
and with a splitter. Yeah, and you could tell. I mean,
if they'd had a close up, there were probably expleve
expletives that came out of his mouth. He did not
like that he hit hit him. I forget who it
was at the point, but yeah, he was not. Yeah
that that's not the name of Baldy, we know. And
I think weatherheads. You've got to be able to grip

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the ball and they you know, and do what you
can to make that ball do what you want. And
I can't imagine it because it was it was in
the thirties. Wasn't it a right around.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Like it was in the twenties. I mean, it was
just miserable. I gotta be the you know, the game
the game Tuesday was cold, and they gave that one
away kind of some errors and some plays that didn't
get made. Really, that was their first sloppy, sloppy game.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Of the Yeah, the the second game, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
But you know, you look at the rotation. Rotation has
been pretty good and then Mali good lord, that's too good.
After his bad start. He came back with two good
ones and then even Patrick Corbyn was okay the other.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
You know what for that situation because he hadn't he
hadn't he didn't throw a spring training game right through,
so he was supposed to go to trip. He accepted
an assignment to Triple A to get ready and he's like, yeah,
I'll take it because he knew he need to get
some innings in and do that. I'm sorry, hats off.
That was not bad at all for coming in in that.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Situation, simulating games basically exactly anyone was in Arizona on
a Well, it.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Shows you why he's a big leaguer. He goes in,
he works around what he can do and I think
you can't do nothing but take you He kept them
in the game, for sure. Absolutely, you've got to take
your hat off. And luckily the Rangers have some depth
and they did that. Hey, there's a couple of guys
throwing at Triple A that are not Buchanan has had
a couple of good stars down there. Who's the other
one that, uh.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, Howser pitched well, he's pitched twell twice. And then
you know Bosly, who was with the big league team. Yeah,
it's been pretty good.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah they got moved up. But yeah, absolutely, But Bosly,
I said, bousch Lely, I said.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
That everybody, it's like, you know Bonzani and Zhanie.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, if you it's.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Pronounced several different ways by a lot of people. He's
he said to us. So anyway, they're going to get
better too. You know, John Gray is going to come back.
Cody Bradford is going to come.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Back in the offense series to come back.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
The offenses looks like with six runs in consecutive games
is going to be it's going to be a little bit.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Of course. Seers broke out kind of yesterday a couple
of home runs and one of them was yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm sorry, Yeah Wednesday, one of them was kind of
win date. I think one of them they said would
be a home running one ballpark and Chicago, I think.
But but he's he's hitting the ball hard again. He's
raised his average going and and look, I know the

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Marcus Simeon yelling that you're seeing on Twitter and everything else.
This is that guy puts together great at bats. Every
time he's nailed some balls right on the money, right
at people. Yes, but look at the back of the
baseball card. He had it down here last year. I
understand that. I'm sorry, he's in this lineup one way
or the other. Maybe do you look at leading off

(07:21):
somebody else? He's not going to do it now, not
while they're winning. He's not going to change it.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Do you think, Well, I mean, it's thirteen games, so
you figure they're I don't know, sixty at bats max. Yeah,
probably not even that many. So you know you need
one hundred at bats. That's that's the Ron Washington rule.
I live by it. One hundred at bats to know
who you are right, what you got. So he's more
than halfway there. But you know who's going to lead off? Well,

(07:48):
Josh Smith? Well, do you want to go lefty lefty
so that when the rotation flips late in the game
you can just bring in a left hander? Yeah, that
one too, And it just you know, there are a
lot of ways to look at this, and I think
that you know, the Rangers are open to movie Marcus Simina.
They did it a little bit last year, and Bruce
Bochi talked about it in the off season. But I

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think the guy that they want to be in the
leadoff hitter is currently hitting like one hundred at triple A.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah. Is he got it up to one hundred.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
He was pointed at a home run last night.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, pinch at home run.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
So yeah, I still have faith in Evan Carter. I
think Evan Carter will figure this out.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Well, of course he will, but it's just not going
to happen overnight.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
I think when we talk to him and don't bring
him up till he's ready.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, when we talked to him after he had been
optioned that Tuesday, he was like, well, you know, I'm
gonna go down there and and you know, make it.
You know, as soon as as soon as the first
say you can bring back a player and make sure
it's gonna be me. I don't know that that's the
right approach he needed to, and maybe he has sense

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kind of embraced that. You know, it's okay being here,
there's nothing wrong with it. It's for the betterment of
my career. And if it takes time, it takes time.
It doesn't need to be a rush job, because he
wanted to be a sustained thing.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
You know, you don't want to cram it sound like
cramming for a test, you know, and then forgetting everything.
You want to be able to hang on to it.
And and you know, the pitching is gonna get better
when he does gets in the major leagues, that's the thing.
It's going to get harder again. He needs to have
the foundation in place. And and you know, and the ultimate,
the ultimate foundation is in place. He's so good at
at at strike zone judgment and he is getting his

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walks down.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
There every game.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, and so that's a that's a great starting point.
It's just now the body's got to get synced up
and the swing's got to work. And maybe the home
run I didn't see it. Maybe that's a maybe that's
a sign for him. Maybe maybe uh, there's a change up.
Maybe the three walk game the other day. And of
course he got hit in the hand on Tuesday, that
didn't turn out to be much Wednesday, didn't play yesterday,

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but was able to hit and hit the home run. So,
but the process is the race. Yeah, it doesn't need
to be a RaSE. A major league season is a marathon.
There's still plenty of time for him to get up
in the team, but there's no need to bring him
up till he's ready till he's ready.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Absolutely, and that you know what, Evan, You got to
force the issue, just get you get where you're supposed
to be. This team knows what you can do. I,
Jeff and I haven't lost faith, and you we know
what you can do. You get in there and do
your stuff, and then you force the issue and then
they need to get him up here because hey, they
can't ignore it any longer. That kind of the way.
Blaine Krim, have you seen Crim's done and Hatcher at

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double I of course you know they're both. These are
guys that aren't top thirty prospects there. These are guys
that have just been in there. They hit at every level.
Krim is killing the ball.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, it's pretty exciting for all of us Blaine Krim
fans out there to see what he's doing. And you know,
he's the Rangers keep saying, have said, for go, he's
a major league hitter. What they don't necessarily to say
is it just may not be with the Rangers. You know,
they have Jig Burger at first base and that's their
long term solution there. And he's off to a slow start,

(11:08):
but again it's not it's too early to start making
changes to the lineup. And this isn't a sixty game
season like you might see in the Dominican summer in
a winter league where these guys, if you don't hit,
you're gone, right, this is a one hundred and sixty
two games. And these are guys that the Rangers have

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scouted or developed or signed two big deals, and they're
going to get their opportunities. And again, if the Rangers
thought that they had better answers in the minor leagues,
they wouldn't have acquired these guys or signed these guys.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
So exactly stick with them.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
I know it's hard, it's it's not gonna you know,
this weekend, there's not gonna be a lot of runs
just because of where they're playing and who they're playing against.
So we said that, also recognize that, I mean, look
at the schedule the Rangers have played, Yeah, Red Sox
good Reds supposed to be I mean, you know, they
face Hunter Green, who's just phenomenal. Yes, uh, and then

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the Rays who always are always a good team, always
Cubs who are in first place. So you know, it's
a tough schedule. The Mariners are taking in the chin
right now. They have some big injuries and everything, and
a couple of their pitchers haven't quite found their strides yet,
but they're they're going to pitch. Well, then you come
home to the Angels, who are all of a sudden
eight and four of the little Washington's, and then you

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play the Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, the Dodgers come in next weekends.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
And then you go on the road to Oakland, which
seems to be a bit of adventure and the.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Oakland Oakland could be the worst team in all of baseball,
and they'll take two or three from the rest. And
that's just seems like it's always that way.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
That in that ballpark seems Yeah, it was people who
were saying it was a hitter's park, and are not
a hitter's park a pitchers park, And it's definitely not
playing out that way. And I don't I don't know.
I mean, I remember scores seeing seeing the Triple A
team scores like ten to six. Yeah, that's a very.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Sacramento, right, that's where they're not in Sacramento.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well, what will get hot? And I just I think
it's a hitter's part in it.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Well, you know, one of the things that you've got
to be excited about as a Ranger fan is. For
the first time in a long time, you see the
potential of what this rotation is. We've seen Jack Lyder,
who's obviously with the finger. He's probably coming back. He'll
probably be ready to come back soon as the fifteen
days are up. You know, Kumar, who struggled as first outing,

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comes back, shows you what he can do. Malley what
he's doing. Then you look at Evaldi, who's obviously Evaldi
that take out the one cold game where it's coming there.
De Gram's de Grom. He didn't have the greatest game
the other night, but he still goes out there and
gets into the going into the seventh before he ended
up getting out of there. I mean, you know, and

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and the heart, who is he hardest on He's hardest
on himself. The Grom's gonna get himself, give himself more
crap than anything. I'm anxious. I bet tonight he's good.
I mean, he he makes adjustments on the fly and
he always corrects what his mistakes are. But you've got
to be that's that is a playoff rotation. And you're
not even talking about John Gray or Cody Bradford on

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the il and then look who's gonna be out of
the line of Langford. Now, this obviously isn't a big deal.
It seems like it's not. He just got I think
the cold had something to do with it. He felt
something got tight. They just didn't want to screw with it.
And so just you know what, sit it out. Ten days.
You can do that, and if there is an injury,
he can come back early. Right, if there's an injury
to somebody else, I'm sorry, Langford for ten days, so

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he can't come back if there's another injury. No, okay,
all right, I thought, okay, they're the different rules. I
guess if you're optioned, you can come back. Okay, yeah,
so he'll be Do you think he'll probably won't even
do a rehab, probably just do some.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, I'm probably not. He said that he he could
come back for the the nineteenth, which is the second
game against the Dodgers, but he said he's aiming for
the start of the next road trip, the twenty second
at Oakland, you know, And there's nothing wrong with taking
a little time. It doesn't have to be ten days, sure,

(15:19):
you know, And as the story goes, he had felt
something last week when he woke up and it went away,
and then I think the cold probably.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Had only cold weather. It wasn't an oblique. He obviously
said he didn't feel anything like he did with the
oblique during spring training. He just felt it felt a
little tad over there.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
All that. Technically it's an oblique strain on the other side, right,
this is the right spring training was left. But just
just why mess with it. You know, if you expect
this guy to to hit thirty home runs, he can
still do that in one hundred and forty games as
opposed to one hundred and forty seven. Whatever it is,

(15:57):
I'm not I'm not too worried about that one. And really,
you know, I'm looking forward hopefully Dustin Harris get a couple.
It's all these right handers will get get some chances.
Kevin Pollar a veteran guy who may end up being
there today. And now you do have a place for
Josh Smith's back, to get Josh Smith in the lineup regularly.

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So there are ways to go about this and and
conquer it and keep your best hitters, and you know,
I mean, Josh Smith is probably one of the Rangers'
best hitters. Keep keep him going, So I like the
I'm not too worried about this one. I'm really not.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
The Langford injury now I know, and it's in this
early in the season too. It's every precaution just not
there's not even a point in it. And and doing that,
I tell you what it's been. They've been. If the
offense ever gets clicking, which they will, we all know
they will, and all of that. Actually, I think the

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offense getting clicking opens up everybody. You look at Simeon
at the top of that order. Eventually, if the others
in the lineup start hitting, then you have to pitch
to the guy that you you know. Eventually you have
to come over the plate to the guy who's struggling,
and that's when it gets things going. Burger's another one.
Burger's had some bad luck too. He's hit some balls
hard right at people you know over there at first base.

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I still think that's going to come back. But the
offense to be sitting here at nine and four with
the offense because the offense was number thirty in the
league I think or something.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
They were thirty, so you don't want to be.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
You can't be more than thirty. They weren't thirty two
or anything.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
They don't want to be thirty there and they might
have been thirty two. I mean to be honest, it
was pretty bad. But you know that's not gonna that's
not going to stay. That's that's going to change. And
you can't collectively have nine guys in a slump at
the same time. It's just it's just so rare. And
you know, just like you don't have nine guys that

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are on a heater the hole, you know, at exactly
the same time, exactly there's another depth in the lineup.
And and you know the bottom of the order has
been productive, yes with Tim and Ashoka and Embarrass who's
gotten some big hits, Smith Laar and Smith down there
at the bottom of the order. So that long comes

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back and you expect that these guys at the top
of the lineup have you know, the more extensive track
records of success or these guys at the bottom that
you got to wonder about and if they're good, if
this if this lineup bottom of the lineup hits like
it did in twenty three and flips the lineup for

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Simeon Seeger Langford. What is the doulest matting fourth, right,
so and maybe that changes, I don't know, but Peterson
struggled to Peterson. Peterson's matting fourth. Yeah, that's that's been
that's been the worst one of all. Yeah, that's been brutal.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
And that's another guy too, you think. I mean, look
what he did in the spring, and of course I
guess he was they the pitchers were still catching up
in spring and doing that. But I have faith in Peterson.
He'll you know, he's always a threat in that lineup.
He's another one that's gonna benefit off other guys getting
hot because eventually, you know, when the lineup's that deep,
you have to come over. You can't afford to walk anybody,
and he'll take a walk and you just eventually gonna

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come over the plate and eventually you start barreling stuff
and that gets you out of whatever the funk you're
in and doing that. But you know, I've heard this said,
you can't win a division at the start of the year,
but you can lose it. And when you start out
and don't win, you know, what is it the braves
that have struggled coming out of the bag. I think, Yeah,

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I mean, you can certainly you can certainly when you
have to play catch up all of a sudden, starting
at the beginning. But you know that the Rangers hanging
in there and and staying ahead their first place, not
playing at their best pitcheons with carrying them bullpen. The
bullpen's been good, very good. I mean, let's be honest.
I mean, yeah, it gets sometimes when Luke gets in there,

(19:59):
it gets a little looks at it, but he finishes
it off every time and does his job. Chris Martin's
been fantastic. Yeh uh. You know, Mark Church has done well.
He's he's he gets a little bit in front of himself.
I think it's just being young, being a big leaguer
and the adrenaline. Yeah, that guy's got the stuff. And
then the rest of the guy. I mean, you can't

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say enough about Jacob Webb. Uh Hoby Milner's been been amazing.
I mean the whole bullpen. You can't really look down
there and go, well, this guy, oh god, here it comes.
Armstrong's been good. I mean good.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Lord Gary Bido is no longer in the majors.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
But yes, he did him a service.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Though the one time he pitched in a lever situation,
he pitched great. Yeah, and then the other times it
was like, all right, go out there and go take
the punishment for us and be over. Yeah. So you know,
and that's fine, and he'll be back probably. You know,
he's an option if he's been on the forty man
roster of this long, I think.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
It's I think that's they're not giving up.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
August mysteries and basic balls. How Garibido stayed on the
forty man roster the entire offseason and.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
They see it now, they see something, they see it.
I don't know that Josh Bores did.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
That, Okay, I think that I think that the Rangers
could get Garabudo through waivers. I really don't know that
there's a lot of teams out there saying, God that
we got to have this guy.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Right.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
So anyway, that's just me. But now Bosley Bosley is up,
and now that it's the eleventh you can start recalling
pitchers who are on assignment. So now guys on the
you know who are on the forty man coming to
play Cole when Teoto comes into play. Yeah, Daniel Robert,

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I'm probably forgetting a couple of guys.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
But now now there might be some plots back and forth.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Now that they're there, there's an opportunity to really start
going and getting arms and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Back and forth. Yeah, yeah, and doing and and so
they they have to wait for ten What is it
when the season starts, you take your assignment to tripa A.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
You gotta wait fifteen days.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
You gotta wait fifteen days. And now they can okay
unless unless an injury. Okay, less an injury. I learned
this as we go, guys. I'm learning with you sometimes.
All right, guys, So what do you think we want
to do from here? Are we ready to get Paul
on here?

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Let's go get Paul?

Speaker 3 (22:22):
All right, guys, right after this Texas Ranger prospect Paul Bonzani.
All right, guys, in joining us right now is Texas
Rangers prospect Paul Bonzani. He's in Wilmington where the Hub
City Spartan Burgers are playing. Actually, Paul, you pitched last night,

(22:43):
had a pretty good outing. How you doing, sir?

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Doing good? Happy to be here, Happy to have the
opportunity to speak with you all. Just cool opportunities out here.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah. You know, I have a Hub City hat and
I didn't wear it today because the masters is going
on just just I don't know, a couple hours away
from where you are, probably right now, and there's nothing
better than the Masters and actually going to the Masters.
I went to a practice around a couple of years ago,
and it's a life changing event. All right. I know

(23:15):
you're busy with baseball right now, but when you get
the chance to go to the Masters, you have to
do it. Okay. I don't care if you like golf
or not. You've got to go.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
Hey, I've always wanted to. I'm a big golf.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Man, So all right, do you play it all? I'm
kind of taking John's thunder from him, but you play occasionally.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
I try to go play. I played with a couple
of the guys over spring training. I can't say I'm
any good, but yeah, I have my moments. I'll hit
the ball good and it makes me want to come back, you.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Know, just like all of us, Just like all of us. Yeah, okay,
so you pitched last night. You pitched well. You guys
ended up going to extra innings and losing. But what
you what You've thrown eight and two thirds innings? Pretty
good ball. How are you feeling so far? To start
this feeling good?

Speaker 4 (24:02):
I mean a couple of uncontrollables throughout the first two outings,
just a couple of soft contact hits. But I'm getting
my strikeouts, which I'm that was the goal this year,
trying to prove that I can get the punch out
now instead of just constantly getting the ground ball over
and over again. Which I won't complain about the ground ball.
But we're feeling good, happy with where we're at, sliders

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getting back to what it needs to be. So good
with where we're at, so well.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Okay, So how did that become a focus in the
off season? How have you improved getting punch outs because
it look like, I mean, looking at your numbers, it
didn't seem like an issue last year necessarily, but what
was the impetus for making it better and how did
you make it better?

Speaker 4 (24:46):
So last year, at the beginning of the season, it
was like I came in, I was getting like one
punch out of game. So my thought in the offseason
was like, I got to come in, I have to
have my stuff. I have to be I got to
know my identity to where I'm gonna throw my sincre
at the bottom of the zone, and then I have
to land my slider before I start throwing it outside

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of the zone to get swing and miss and generate
that the bad swing. So the adjustment was I was
landing it, throwing it middle middle, throwing the slider middle middle,
making sure I execute, and then expanding afterwards.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
So yeah, who helps Who helps with that? Who helps
you identify that in the organization and gets you.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
To It's all the pitching coaches pretty much. That's been
a the from the higher ups. They've told me it's like, oh,
you need to land it here, and then it goes
down to the pitching coaches, and the pitching coaches are
telling me, oh, if you change your sits here, work
on this and then land it on the outer half,
you're gonna be good to go. It's it's just the

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same thing from every single person. It just kind of
falls down the waterfall.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, I got you, So all right, So secret slider,
Are you working on anything else?

Speaker 4 (26:00):
I got? I've been working on a change up the
It's getting there. It's yeah, v lo change is good.
But I've downed it a couple of times this season.
I've had good results with it, just mainly same results
as the sinker. It's just the ground out. But uh,
and then the four seam ups still there but used
few and far between, so.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Just keep them honest. Right, Have you experimented with the
split finger, because it seems like everybody in the range
of organization at one time or another now has at
least tried it.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
I actually tried it last year, so I have experiments.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Okay, and it didn't go well. It seems like.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
It was it went well, like the shape was there.
It's just every single time I think I hit the
plate with it, so it was I could not though
for a strike. We kind of had to bang it well.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
You know, it's crazy because you know, and maybe maybe
it's more prevalent across baseball now too. But Avaldi joined
the team in twenty three, and you know, everybody's trying
trying it, and of course this is one of the
best in the game. And uh, he has giant hands.
You know, he's he's he's kind of a normal sized guy.

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And then like he has these like yeah, arms long,
giant arms long, and is like not put together right almost,
and he has these the hands. It's like you shake
his hand and it just swallows your hand up. So
it makes sense that he can throw it. But like
Mark Church is trying one now, there are a lot
of guys who are trying it. Well, you know, at

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least it's at least you know it's there. Maybe maybe you.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Know maybe one day, maybe one day, all.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Right to it eventually. Yeah, it seems like this is
kind of fallowing the pattern though, what what you're talking about.
It seems like the Rangers kind of like, right out
of the bat, say do what you do best, and
then and then maybe sprinkle something in. Like Rosario last
year when we talked to him, he was like, yeah, fastball,

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fastball and split, there's another split right, and then and
then he started mixing in the slider. It seems like
you had a good foundation laid last year. Even you
weren't getting the results you wanted, you at least had
something to build from.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
M They do a good job of making sure it's
they hammered it into our heads. You'd like beginning the
spring train and it's right off the rip, Oh, you
do this best, You're gonna throw this, and then, like
you said, we're gonna build off of it afterwards.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
So yeah, hey, it's working right. It's not just you.
There are a lot of guys in the organization who
who are kicking button taking names, So tut, I mean,
you know a lot of these guys are your teammates
most of last year. How much does that helped being
able to like say, hey, you know me, I know you.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
It's I mean, my my one guy that I go
to all the time is DJ McCarty. Yeah, very similar
pitch mix to me, and it's very similar sinkers who
are like, oh that one was really bad, and it's like, oh,
what did you do see from the side of Like like,
we'll watch each other's bullpens, so I'll throw a bad

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sinker goes like, oh you got on the side of that,
instead of actually getting out with it, and then it's
kind of like a back and forth. I'll go watch
his bullpen and he's the one guy because I'll trust
some other guys. But DJ is just same mixed, same
exact shapes. It's it's pretty pretty easy to talk to
him with it.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, what you know, we got you got Dava Leo
And I was thinking Zales and some some guys that
you were with last year. It seems like last year
might have been I don't know, want to say frustrating,
but it seemed like you all deserved to be promoted
a lot earlier than you were. But what what what's

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it like does it to pitch in a group like that,
the guys that, guys that just seem to have a
ton of promise.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
It's it's honestly motivates to you even more. I mean
seeing guys like especially Dave Leo, where he goes out
and it's you know, he's gonna go out there and
get about four or five innings. He's not gonna let
up many hits same thing Gonzo. Gonzo is gonna get
his ground outs and it's I mean, it's just electric
to watch and it's fun to watch. It makes the
game more exciting and then obviously motivates to you, like

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I said before, and makes you want to do it
for the team.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, you know, it's it's it's pretty I've covered the
team for eighteen years, so you know, trying to go
back to the first time Mike Maddox was around, and
now we all know who his brother is. But Mike
had a hell of a career too. But like it's
it's changing speeds and he loves sinkers, he likes strike throwers,

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and he really used to be a big sinker guy.
And then it seemed like the sinker kind of went
out of fashion with the analytics, and you know, I
remember you darvished. The sinker guys just were taking it
deep there for a while, but it seems like it's
back again. Well how did you settle on that over
the four seamer?

Speaker 4 (31:06):
So it was actually after my Tommy John and high school.
I went into my junior college and we realized that
my four team was literally just sinking, uh huh. So
we took the route. We tried to find like a
two seamed grip, and it ended up just sinking more.
So I just found that it was the most effective

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pitch for me. Granted, it took a while to get
in tune and fine tune in and get it to
where it is now, but it was just kind of
arm path and it just happened to work that way.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Okay, who did your Tommy John meister? Okay, well, hey he's.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
A local kid.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, what gosh, how old were you when you had it?

Speaker 4 (31:53):
It was yeah, eighteen, I was eighteen.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Okay, So what happened your senior year of high school there? Flake?
What'd you, Carol.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
I mean I threw one out in and then.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Watch the rest of it.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, well COVID hit and there was just I couldn't
do anything.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
So you threw the one outing and so what was
that when you were injured? When did when did so?

Speaker 4 (32:20):
I was I want to say I was ramping up
because the summer ball kind of circuit open back up.
If I'm not wrong, I can't remember, but.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Yeah, I think it was starting to try to get there.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah, so we were getting closed like two or three
weeks out and that was long tossing. I never had
a pop or anything, and I just kind of threw it.
Was like, dang, it's a little sore. Didn't go for
two weeks. I got told from another person who was like, oh,
you have inflammation in your arm. And I didn't throw.
I was like, okay, I'll be fine. Two weeks throw again,
still hurts. Go to the guy again. He goes, oh,

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you need to sit for another two weeks. And I
kind of sat on it for three, four or five weeks.
Almost finally went to meister and he goes, oh, yeah,
you gotta got a little tear that we're going to
go take care of that. Luckily the voluntary surgeries were
we're back in play at that time.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
So yeah, yeah, no doubt. Well, and he's like the
best in the world now, I mean it's the Dodgers
guy Ela troci Ela Troc Neil, and I'll just call
him Neil, kind of kind of have to ask him out.
I say his last name, like we did you?

Speaker 4 (33:23):
But uh.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
So, then from from there and maybe maybe I'm kind
of cutting on John's turf here.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Did you have it? Did you have? Had you already
like signed with Weatherford Junior College at that point?

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Yes? I was before that. It was I de committed
right before it happened and then committed and then I
tore it like three days later.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Okay, yeah, okay, all right. Yeah, we're trying to put
the path together here, but that's John's job. I just
talked about the hard balls.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Oh no, no, you just kill it. Just go where
you need to get.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
What a We're only two starts in here or two outings,
and I guess you guys are taking terms of leaving
and starting if you know, what, is it too early
to have goals? Do you do you want? I mean,
you know where the double a team is right, I
mean right up the street from where you grew up? Yeah?

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Or do you just are you just a guy who
wants to be where his feet are and not look
too far ahead.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
I like to mix both. I like to have my goals.
I mean, I mean, obviously everybody's goal is to make
the big leagues, which I'm not gonna put that out
of the picture. I'd like to throw well enough to
where I deserve, show that I deserve the oportunity to
be up there and earn the opportunity. But this year,
I'm just kind of fee where my feet are. Five
the opportunity to go up It's blessing and I'm gonna

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take advantage of it and just keep shoving.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
All right. Okay, So now the long awaited John Moore
portion of the show, when we get to know you
and uh and and a little bit more about your store.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
So John, okay, let me see what else I've got here. Now, Paulsy,
you grew up here in the Metroplex. Were you a
Ranger fan growing up?

Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yes, I was thrown out into the bleachers in the
one hundred degree heat. I know it too well.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, absolutely, So you go to South Lake, Carol Now,
you played baseball, obviously. Did you play any other sports
when you were growing up around here?

Speaker 4 (35:24):
I played basketball into my freshman year of high school.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
That was it. No football at South Lake. That's a
big thing there.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
I was too small, too small.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Wow, you're six three too? Did you not grow to
a certain.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
I was like freshman year five to three. I didn't
grow to six foot until the end of my senior year.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (35:47):
Yeah, it was out of nowhere.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Of course I didn't reach six foot. I was five
foot going into high school, but then I spurred it
up there in the first couple of years. Okay, so
you go to Weatherford College. Now that's where you would commit,
and obviously you come the injury coming into your senior year.
Were you being recruited by anybody else? Did you have
any four year schools looking at.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
You by after like the end of the fall. I
had a couple I had, like Texas tech OU and
TCU reach out at one point because I was playing
on that Blue Jay scout team in the summer, well
in the fall like leading up to that, and I
pitched pretty well and they started giving me calls. But
I didn't really know what to do with it at

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that point?

Speaker 3 (36:29):
What was your velo in high school?

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Going into my senior year, I was eighty eight and
then like third week of the fall, I hit ninety
three out of nowhere and sat around eighty nine to
ninety one.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Okay, that's great in high school. I mean, good lord,
you're still developing all of that. So let me ask
you this. You go to Weatherford. How many years did
you stay at Weatherford? Were you just there a year?

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Two years?

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Two years? Okay? Wellford known big for baseball out there
at Weatherford College. So coming out of Weatherford, you go
to Southern Illinois, that's where you end up getting drafted
anybody there after Weatherford? Did you have any other schools
coming at you?

Speaker 4 (37:07):
Uh No, I did not. I really only had like
SYU was the biggest one, and then like here they
are a couple other mid majors not really giving me
as much interest like SYU was.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Okay, Okay, So anyway, Weatherford College, Jake Areata Song Award winner.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Oh yeah, Wellford Colleges is.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
I've known Jake a long time. I covered TCU before
he covered the Rangers. I've known Jake since he was
a sophomore at TCU, And.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Uh, there's a lot of Metroplex kids too that are
really good that maybe don't quite they go to Wetherford's
college is good.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Pretty It's pretty crazy how Jake changed over the years.
He was He's always been a big guy, but he
really got into the fitness and I like, I like
saw him as a like a junior, and then I
had started covering the Rangers. Then he got drafted and uh, anyway,
I saw him in Baltimore when he was with the
Orioles and it was Jake Arietta, but like his body

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had transformed completely. He was like a machine all of
a sudden. He was kind of this big, thick guy
at Weatherford and now he was this lean guy. And
even in the worlds, those weren't his best years, you know.
I mean obviously you know he went to the Cubs
and want to say young, but it's pretty crazy. Anyway,
that's my Weatherford college story.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yeah, but okay, so you go to Southern Illinois. Now,
at what point at Southern Illinois did you start to think,
you know what, I've got some scouts looking at me.
I think I had a chance to get drafted.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
It was the fall, I had all those zoom meetings
that were that they do with like the area of scouts.
I was like, man, I got a you know, like
seventeen of them in the fall, and I'm sitting there
every single morning like, oh, I don't really know what
to do. I mean, I had my agent at that time.
I was talking to him. He was like, yeah, you
got a shot, but don't really think about it too much.

(38:57):
But once after the fall and then we go to
the spring, springtime is whenever. It kind of just picked
up even more. And it was mainly just called my agent.
I don't really hear much about it, but he would
just tell me. I was like, yeah, you got a
good chance. Just don't worry about it. You'll be good.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
Okay. So you're taking in the twelfth round by the
Rangers coming in twenty twenty three. So you know, there
are a lot of those guys that end up going
wherever the draft is. They're usually the top of the draft.
You weren't one of those guys. So tell me where
were you at? How do you find out that you've
been drafted?

Speaker 4 (39:29):
I was at my house with my family. I was
watching a little bit. Yeah, right in Grapevine. Yeah, and
I was watching TV and I was sitting with my
older sister on the couch and she could back me
up on this. I sat there. I was like, man,
I don't want to watch this. It was like it's

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making me nervous just looking at it. I turn it off.
And then two minutes later, I get a call from
my agent and he goes, hey, listen to this, and
then they said my name. It was like so surreal.
Once he was like, oh it was the Rangers, Like, whoa,
this is weird. I did not expect this to happen.
And then after that, means my phone blew up from

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all my my buddies from back home. They're like, man,
you're gonna be like, you're gonna be right here. This
is gonna be sick.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Hey, who was the first person in the Rangers organization
that gave you a call?

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Mike Medici. I can't. I can't say it's last night.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Yeah, yeah, okay, that I mean, I mean, there's there's
thirty teams, all right, so the chances of you're getting
selected by the team you grew up watching and yeah,
sweating for literally uh like you say weird, but I
mean we were like, good night. I couldn't imagine that.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah, that would be that would be cool. I'll tell
you what. That would be pretty cool to do. All right,
So let's get into some other stuff here. So you
played baseball, honestly, what what are some things you do
outside of baseball? Are you a video game? You said
you played a little bit of golf, do you hunt fish?
What do you do outside of baseball?

Speaker 4 (41:05):
I mean, I play video games. It's the best thing
to take her mind off of it, to be honest
with you, because I mean, I try not to get
mad at baseball, so I take it out on all
the video games and golf as well. I'm gonna add
that in, but I mean it's mainly just those tu
two things. I occasionally go fish, but kind of just
keep to myself, relaxed as much as I can.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
What video games, I've got a twelve year old, and so.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
I've got an eighteen year old that plays them.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
I might have an idea.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
I played, I mean MLB the show, Yeah, that's the
go to. And then I've been playing NBA two.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
K okay, okay, so you play, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
Mean I occasionally play like the Call of Duty and
all that stuff, but I stick to the sports ones
just because it's more relatable to me.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
I tried the Call of Duty, and boy, I get
killed quick trying to figure out buttons and how to
do it. I just don't play that. I mean, I'm
so old. I'm probably your parents' age, or probably older
than your parents, but I can't figure it out. They
look so fun and I just can't figure it out.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
I got a MLB the show last night. It was bedtime,
and my son was like three thousand XP away from
a certain level. He wanted me to play a game
for him so that he could get to the packs.
So I sure enough did and I was you know,
he had Christian Yelich on his team. He's got a
really good team. Three homer game for Christian Yelich. I

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hadn't I hadn't played a game a year, and I
just went up there and knocked out three homers. Robin
Young also went deep for the team.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's a you're going to old school there.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
You get these packs. Yeah, Paul knows these packs and
you just put together these like super teams. Kind of
get ted Williams on his team. I don't think he
appreciates Ted Williams.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
I think it's a good game. It teaches the game real. Well,
let's let's the young kids know all the old old
guy so it's like it's big time.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
And they have prospect cards too, so oh yeah, yeah,
I'm looking forward to seeing your card on there here
coming up.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
That'd be pretty cool. I'd like you too.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
I'm assuming you would draft yourself and put it on you.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
But I'd never throw them because the minute someone might
make some sort of good contact on me, i'd have
to take him out because I can't see him.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Yeah, but you're going to the pen.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Henry had to grom on his team, so I started
to grom. I struck out twenty three. Oh crap, Yeah, yeah,
yeah it was. It was pretty crazy.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Yeah, that's I would get. I've played it. I've played
him be the show. But I got killed on it.
I got killed. I couldn't hit anything and do that.
All right, So let's talk about some food. Now, you're
a local kid here. Well, I got to ask this
because you've done this too. Have you had any what
is it the one out of in and out? Have
you had in and out?

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Are you a water burger? Guy over in and out.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
I'm waterbergre over in it and out. Yeah for sure.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Okay, yeah, I mean if you weren't, we'd probably have
to just.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Well he's from Texas, kick you off the.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Show and like this never happened.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
Yeah, he knows, he knows, even if he likes in
and out and it's not a bad Burger. But man,
when you grow up here in the Metroplex, you got
to be a water Burger kid.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Okay, So you were in uh down East and Hickory
last year. So what like, what's the North Carolina? Is
it boat Jangles I guess, but like a burger place?
What's the cookout?

Speaker 4 (44:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:32):
I don't know, because there's like Chubbies or check Checkers.
I think they're the same thing. Depending on where you
are in the country.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
I mean Downey's really didn't have a crazy amount of
stuff to go.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
But you get to go some great cities in that
little those Yeah, you get to go to some fun cities. Charleston,
I'll tell you that. It's amazing. I mean it's Charleston.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
I've been to Charleston. Yeah, yah, yeah, I have.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
It's great. We went to well Civil War, so I
had to go to Fort Sumter first, just dining on
the town and okay, drink a little bit.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Yeah, I mean I love those little southern It's both.
All the Carolinas are great. It's beautiful in the Carolinas. Okay,
so we talked about your burger, but now we got
to go to when it's fast food time. Look, you guys,
you have dietitians. You try to eat the right food.
You do what you are. But when you're in a
pinch and you've got to go fast food, what's your
go to?

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Man, that's it sounds like there's lots of choose from.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
There is a lot to choose from, because it just
it all just floats into my head there. I mean,
is does Chipotle count?

Speaker 3 (45:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (45:40):
Yeah, I mean if I'm going like, it's guaranteed to
be there in most areas. So I'm going Chipotle. I'm
gonna go rip that.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
Now are you getting a bowl or are you getting
the burrito? What are you normally getting?

Speaker 4 (45:52):
It? Honestly depends on the day. If I'm going to
play golf, it's gonna be one of the case IDAs
oh yeah, or two of them. I'll get two servants
of it. Just so I'm like front nine, back nine.
I'm good to go, and then I mean it really
like it all depends on how I'm feeling that day.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
His idea is only available. Yeah, okay, yeah yeah. Now
all right, so you're you're you live in Grapevine, so
you know where the freebirds is. I love, Yes, I
would take freebirds over any of them. I fully agree
with that. I've said that.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Okay, okay, So home cooked meal? Okay, what's your favorite
type of food? What is your favorite type of food?

Speaker 4 (46:33):
I'm either Italian or just regular American food if that's
the food.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Yeah, well yeah, steaks.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Burners, barbecue, barbecue as well.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
Okay, I guess your last name.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Make that kind of gives it away a little bit.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
Okay. So when when it comes to your home cooked meal,
who cooks it? And what's the meal? Is it your grandma,
your mom, your girlfriend? You have a girlfriend. I don't
know what is your home meal and who cooks it?

Speaker 4 (47:01):
Okay? We have two, there's like two go to. So
my dad cooks his pasta with meat sauce. It's all wholen,
like minus the pasta. He doesn't really do that, but
the meat sauces. You can't beat it. It can't beat
it at all. It's unbelievable. I don't even know how
to describe it. It just hits the spot perfectly every

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single time. And then my mom, My mom's from to
the Czech Republic. So we have dumplings and pork. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
That's what.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
That's my Those are my top two.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Okay, So so, uh, this is this is important. Your
mom is born in the Czech Republic or born really?

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Okay, So how does she get it? How did how
did your parents meet? I guess?

Speaker 4 (47:51):
So my dad moved out there for I want to
say nine years okay, lived out there, met her, and
then they got married in nineteen ninety nine out there,
lived there for about year year and a half afterwards,
had my older sister out there, and then booked it

(48:11):
back to tech.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Him.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
Well, he's from Massachusetts, but he chose Texas instead of
going back there.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Wow, So I'm gonna guess mom has an accent.

Speaker 4 (48:20):
Yes I don't notice it anymore, but yes you can
definitely tell if it's if you just meet her.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Do you know any can you speak?

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Check? Is a check? Is that what it is?

Speaker 4 (48:31):
It's check? I mean I'm not not that great at
it anymore because it's I was really good when I
was young. Sorry, have you been Yes, I got.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Oh you went my season. So I guess your grandparents
are there.

Speaker 4 (48:46):
Yeah, my grandma and my uncle are out there.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
That's pretty cool. All right, all right, listen, we're gonna
get you out of here. And by the way, this
will be out later today. So do you have let
me write this down? Are you on social media or.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
X whatever I'm on? Yeah, I'm on social media. I'm
on x end Instagram.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Okay, what's your what's your handle?

Speaker 4 (49:09):
I believe the Instagram is Paul Underscore.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Bonzani Underscore Bonzani.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Okay, and then X is the Paul I think, so the.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Or the the like okay, the Paul Bonani. Okay, I'll
follow you. I'll just follow them back, all right, I'll
follow you, get a follow back, and then when I
get this out, I'll certainly tag in at Paul.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
So you've got six posts, so I don't know how
active he is on it, that's all right.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
And then if we obviously, if you if you get
you know, everything goes the way you're supposed to go.
You'll be up here in Frisco. We'll run into you
out there. We go out spring training every year. Well
we we were out there with you, and so I
missed you out there that I'm sure I'll probably watch
you throw a bullpen, but I'm usually running all over
the place out in front of the video. But we'll
certainly look for you. Now that we've had him on there,

(50:03):
we got to get him last question and the last
question though, this is the way we always ended. So
it's the question is what is something that nobody knows
about Paul Bonzani? Now there's different questions. Let me ask
you some answers that are pretty cool. Your your general
manager VP and general manager Chris Young. His answer to

(50:23):
this was that he is a true crime buff. He
likes to watch all the true crime documentary buffs. We
had some other players that had who had some good ones.
Blaine Krim had his. Was it Krim that had the finger? No,
he took batting practice naked as a five year old. Yeah,
that's what it was, Blaine Krim. What is something that
nobody knows about Paul Bonzani?

Speaker 4 (50:46):
Man, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to go
with the I'm a big fan of war, like the
World War movies, anything World War related because my dad,
my dad put me onto it when I was young, So, okay,
involved in the World War, I end up watching it.
I end up knowing.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
A band of brothers. Did you watch that?

Speaker 4 (51:07):
I watched that. Yes, I have seen that. That is
my favorite one.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
All right, So now now we're now we're onto something.
What's your favorite war movie?

Speaker 4 (51:16):
I mean, Saving Private Rids my top one. That's hard
to beat.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Yeah, the opening scene, I'll.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
Never forget that.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
It's a tough one.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Yeah, seeing it in the theater. I don't even know
if you were born yet, Paul, but seeing it in
the theater was pretty unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Yeah, that's a it's eighteen minutes, I think or something.
And they said, there's a lot of World War Two
vets that were of course, a lot of them were
alive back then when it came out, and they were like,
that's as close as it came to being accurate of
how it was storming those beaches.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Okay, you know, A Bridge too Far. If you haven't
seen a Bridge too Far, you should watch A Bridge
Too Far.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
That's an older one, but that's older.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
The cast is unbelievable. Yeah, and so that's I'm going
to recommend that one to you. It's a pretty good one,
but you need about three hours, all right, and just
letting you.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
Know, I got plenty of bus rides to deal with
that I'll get I'll get it on the list.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
All right.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Well, guys, that's Paul Bonzani that join us Texas Rangers
right hand pitcher and the number twenty three prospect I
believe right now in the top thirty. Paul. We appreciate
you so much. We're gonna get out of here now.
For Jeff Wilson, Paul Bonzani, I'm John Moore. Till next time, guys,
we'll see at the yard.

Speaker 4 (52:27):
Thank you for having me.

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