January 25, 2025 • 8 mins
Nick Hernandez talks the latest with the Houston Astros from 2025 Astros Fan Fest at Daikin Park.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You. Welcome back to Sports Talk seven ninety here at
dyke In Park for Astros fan Fest. Brian Lolma, Sean
Salisbury here on seven ninety. Now we're going to have
join us picture for the Houston Astros. Nick Hernandez him
in Salisbury are uh shooting the breeze right now?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Let's get you on these headsets.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Sorry, we're just having our own personal private conversation about it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Man, guys being duding.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We're mapping out of twenty twenty five playing.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Maw what have we got to going on man plenty? Yeah? Nick,
we appreciate the time. Man, how's everything? Absolutely thanks for
having me. Yeah, everything's great.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
You know, just ramping up, getting ready for spring, feeling good,
excited for this year.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah, yeah, speaking about that, the body getting ready for
this What was your ramp up this year? What does
your workout change regularly or just kind of adjustments or
do you have a routine you like every off season?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yeah, workout four times a week, go to a place
and then you know, and we get deeper in the
off season, you know, star bullpens which think we started,
uh like three weeks ago, started throwing bullpens here, Yeah,
and then not this week, but the next one we'll
start doing live vps and then head off to Florida.
We're ready to go.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Where do you do your off season stuff here in
the city because you're a local kid. Yeah, I go
to a Dynamic Sports Training DSc as I went up
in a premiere up a top ball or we.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Got three locations, Yeah, one premiere and one at Houston
Christian High School and one in uh clearly okay?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah and you so you being obviously from Dallas High School,
were talking before we came on air.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You go to the one, which one.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'm not trying to dox you or anything, but I
did go to the Houston Christian one, then started going
to the the clear Lake one is a little closer, gotcha, Okay,
A little bit of throwing set up, and so you
see again before we went on live live on air,
you were talking about throwing some live vps that's coming
up for you.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh yeah, excited about that, Excited to start working on
a new pitch maybe yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Do we get to know what it is nobody's buildings listening,
just us three.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah, I've been working on a splitter have yeah, okay, Yeah,
I love that pitch because I can get aggressive with
the range speed and just let the grip through the work.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You know, it's crazy on social media, not that it matters.
Old Roger Clemens was showing, how did you see last.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Weeks his grip on the splitter.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I remember when he first started throwing that, you know,
pumping one hundred and all of a sudden, he thought.
It was like as I told you the story John
Kruck told me about getting ready to face Clemens and
Walter Walt Renniac was just hitting him Struck or right
when he was with the White Sox, and you know,
Crucks got all kinds of great personality and again he's
a man.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
He came in the.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Dugout one day batting practice and there Red Sox and
White Sox getting ready to play. And Cruck said, hey, Walter,
and Walter is a Boston guy. Hey, Walter, what do
we got today? He goes, ah, we got Clemens. He goes,
we got a shot. He goes, we got no FN
shot today. He goes He's gonna come in and throw
that split it.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
We got no shot.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And so I asked Cruck, I said, well, what happened
at the end of the game, he said, we had
no shots, so yeah, good pitch control it So is it?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Is it getting the grip, pressure on the grip.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
What's the hardest part about putting on a new pitches
at the dedication to like hitting out of the bunker
a hundred times and stead of going to the driving range.
What's the number one thing when you're working on a
new pitch to get done other than repetition.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I think trusting it in the game and committing to it.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
That you've done enough that you can throw it.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, because you I mean, you can do it so
much in a controlled environment from once you have in
the game.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That's when it matters the most. You know.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So you were with you were with the Padres at
one point, correct, Yeah, and then came here to Houston.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I was with them in twenty twenty three and a
little bit of twenty twenty four, then got traded over.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
What's been the difference between the two organizations?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
They're both great orgs.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, Uh, definitely like the ash of ORG because in
hometown all that good stuff. We got drafted by them,
so I knew everybody already, so that was easy, easy comeback.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
You know, has there been Okay, let me, I'll go
to the park. Does any Yeah, Peckwell Park's beautiful man,
whether there's yeah, you know, yeah, he's from he's from
He's the San Diego guy, so he gets it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
What about like the there's there's a big thing in
Major League Baseball that we discuss all the time in
the media is what the pitching staff is able.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
To do for pitchers.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Here in Houston, Josh Miller has done a great job
obviously when Brent Strom was here. Did you see a
difference and in pitching strategy, pitching mechanics, the way that
they teach it here compared to being in Sanity with
the Padres.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, Yeah, they're definitely astros. The just from the bottom
all the way to the top. They the system they
got just creates an environment that just everyone has to
get better.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I think that's the biggest thing, is the environment that
they create. It kind of just forces guys to adapt
and get better, and from the results from that, you
get a bunch of big leaders, homegrown big leaguers, Because
I mean you look at the stats, like there's so
many guys who make it with the ashers who got
drafted by them, while they signed international and they made
it with the Astros. Yeah, and they're developed by the Astros,
(04:55):
so they do a great job.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Let's from a pictures standpoint. You know, we all spec
when they put the pitch clock in. I know it's
been a couple of years. Is it was it that
big of an adjustment of those couples?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Those extras say?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Is it that big or is it just a matter
of committing to it? What was the biggest change for you?
And was it a good one?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I kind of like the pitch clock. It wasn't a
huge difference to me.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
It kind of made me work a little faster.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And I like it because it's kind of like a
shot clock and I don't think about mechanics as much
and I kind of just flowed through it.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Let me remove clutter from your mind.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Right, yeah, you kind of? Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
You give yourself less time and your body kind of
knows whether due to organize.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yourself and you just be an athlete out there.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
In the routine. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You got a couple more minutes here with Astro's pitcher
Nick Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What's it like throwing a yiner? Uh? Legit, He's legit. Yeah,
he's legit. I mean, yeah, he's he's the man. He's
he's I got.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I got to throw with him in Triple A two
uh before he made it the show, and you could
tell like he's like, this guy's gonna be good. Man.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You guys had a really really good group down there
in a sure Oh my gosh, man, you look at
some of the guys that have been able to JP France, Hunter, Brown, Yiner, Diaz,
low Perfido when he was here, obviously he got traded,
but when he was here and he.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Made his debut, got a solid corps down there.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Man.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah, I remember throwing against lower Fiedo a lot thrown
against him when I was over there with the Padres.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That was he's not easy out.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
The competition, I mean, you know, we talk about it
on our show all the time about it's a great
thing because they do such a great job here at
developing players, right, you've mentioned it from top to bottom
and competition in house. I mean because when everybody's healthy, Yeah,
this staft's pretty damn good.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
So it's a blessing because the ass is like we're
building this especially, got all these great assets ready, to.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Come in and do their thing. But it's also that
inner competition.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Now people are battling for a three spot of four
spoti five spot to come and stay. So the inner
competition just isn't against opposing hitters. It's every day getting
too It isn't a tremendous competition here.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, it's healthy.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Competition makes you better just having h great talent around you,
you know, it forces you to adapt and only get better.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Outside your family remote remove your family. If I said
you've got one lifeline to call about baseball and you
needed insight for fifteen minutes, who would it be?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Uh man, just like about pitching?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, just yeah, pitching, or you face somebody the one
person outside your family that you would lean on.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
But I don't care if it's your junior high little
league guy that you lean.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
On, that you pick it up at any time and
you trust what he tells you and you will apply that.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
And my family, my dad, but outside my family would
probably be I'll give you a wild card, would be
Mike Marshall.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh yeah, Mike Marshall. You go.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
You talking about Mike Mike Marshall, Yeah, uh doctor Mike Marshall.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh, okay, Oh the side of the seventy four side.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You're talking about the guy who had Mike marsh who
had one hundred and twelve appearances for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yea, every time you woke up, he was up.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Parent Yeah, best rest in peace, but he was. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I got one of my best friends was Mike marsh Baseman,
Mike Marshall Dodgers instead that group.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah, I was in l A at those times, right.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And I played against his son and Mike Marshall's son
in college. And then he's got a buddy that's a
coach that I coach against. It's a whole small.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Agigator, like one hundred and twenty games out of one
hundred and sixty two.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
That was who.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Mike Marshall was so crazy, he would have been the
name you lean on h Nicole when he was like
really why I got the train.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
With him a little bit and it was just, uh,
it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
He just like the little tricks he would show me
with pitches and how to spin the ball.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
And you were so young, but dude, he was trigging still.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, I got to work with him in college. Yeah
that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, Well, Nick, we appreciate the time, good luck when
you go into uh spring training, and let's hope we
see you up here on the base, yeah man, and
appreciate a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Astros pitcher Nick Nick Hernandez join us. We're gonna stay
right here.
You. Welcome back to Sports Talk seven ninety here at
dyke In Park for Astros fan Fest. Brian Lolma, Sean
Salisbury here on seven ninety. Now we're going to have
join us picture for the Houston Astros. Nick Hernandez him
in Salisbury are uh shooting the breeze right now?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Let's get you on these headsets.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Sorry, we're just having our own personal private conversation about it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Man, guys being duding.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We're mapping out of twenty twenty five playing.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Maw what have we got to going on man plenty? Yeah? Nick,
we appreciate the time. Man, how's everything? Absolutely thanks for
having me. Yeah, everything's great.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
You know, just ramping up, getting ready for spring, feeling good,
excited for this year.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah, yeah, speaking about that, the body getting ready for
this What was your ramp up this year? What does
your workout change regularly or just kind of adjustments or
do you have a routine you like every off season?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yeah, workout four times a week, go to a place
and then you know, and we get deeper in the
off season, you know, star bullpens which think we started,
uh like three weeks ago, started throwing bullpens here, Yeah,
and then not this week, but the next one we'll
start doing live vps and then head off to Florida.
We're ready to go.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Where do you do your off season stuff here in
the city because you're a local kid. Yeah, I go
to a Dynamic Sports Training DSc as I went up
in a premiere up a top ball or we.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Got three locations, Yeah, one premiere and one at Houston
Christian High School and one in uh clearly okay?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah and you so you being obviously from Dallas High School,
were talking before we came on air.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You go to the one, which one.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'm not trying to dox you or anything, but I
did go to the Houston Christian one, then started going
to the the clear Lake one is a little closer, gotcha, Okay,
A little bit of throwing set up, and so you
see again before we went on live live on air,
you were talking about throwing some live vps that's coming
up for you.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh yeah, excited about that, Excited to start working on
a new pitch maybe yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Do we get to know what it is nobody's buildings listening,
just us three.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah, I've been working on a splitter have yeah, okay, Yeah,
I love that pitch because I can get aggressive with
the range speed and just let the grip through the work.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You know, it's crazy on social media, not that it matters.
Old Roger Clemens was showing, how did you see last.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Weeks his grip on the splitter.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, I remember when he first started throwing that, you know,
pumping one hundred and all of a sudden, he thought.
It was like as I told you the story John
Kruck told me about getting ready to face Clemens and
Walter Walt Renniac was just hitting him Struck or right
when he was with the White Sox, and you know,
Crucks got all kinds of great personality and again he's
a man.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
He came in the.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Dugout one day batting practice and there Red Sox and
White Sox getting ready to play. And Cruck said, hey, Walter,
and Walter is a Boston guy. Hey, Walter, what do
we got today? He goes, ah, we got Clemens. He goes,
we got a shot. He goes, we got no FN
shot today. He goes He's gonna come in and throw
that split it.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
We got no shot.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And so I asked Cruck, I said, well, what happened
at the end of the game, he said, we had
no shots, so yeah, good pitch control it So is it?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Is it getting the grip, pressure on the grip.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
What's the hardest part about putting on a new pitches
at the dedication to like hitting out of the bunker
a hundred times and stead of going to the driving range.
What's the number one thing when you're working on a
new pitch to get done other than repetition.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I think trusting it in the game and committing to it.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
That you've done enough that you can throw it.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, because you I mean, you can do it so
much in a controlled environment from once you have in
the game.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That's when it matters the most. You know.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So you were with you were with the Padres at
one point, correct, Yeah, and then came here to Houston.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I was with them in twenty twenty three and a
little bit of twenty twenty four, then got traded over.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
What's been the difference between the two organizations?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
They're both great orgs.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, Uh, definitely like the ash of ORG because in
hometown all that good stuff. We got drafted by them,
so I knew everybody already, so that was easy, easy comeback.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
You know, has there been Okay, let me, I'll go
to the park. Does any Yeah, Peckwell Park's beautiful man,
whether there's yeah, you know, yeah, he's from he's from
He's the San Diego guy, so he gets it.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
What about like the there's there's a big thing in
Major League Baseball that we discuss all the time in
the media is what the pitching staff is able.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
To do for pitchers.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Here in Houston, Josh Miller has done a great job
obviously when Brent Strom was here. Did you see a
difference and in pitching strategy, pitching mechanics, the way that
they teach it here compared to being in Sanity with
the Padres.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, Yeah, they're definitely astros. The just from the bottom
all the way to the top. They the system they
got just creates an environment that just everyone has to
get better.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You know.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I think that's the biggest thing, is the environment that
they create. It kind of just forces guys to adapt
and get better, and from the results from that, you
get a bunch of big leaders, homegrown big leaguers, Because
I mean you look at the stats, like there's so
many guys who make it with the ashers who got
drafted by them, while they signed international and they made
it with the Astros. Yeah, and they're developed by the Astros,
(04:55):
so they do a great job.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Let's from a pictures standpoint. You know, we all spec
when they put the pitch clock in. I know it's
been a couple of years. Is it was it that
big of an adjustment of those couples?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Those extras say?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Is it that big or is it just a matter
of committing to it? What was the biggest change for you?
And was it a good one?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I kind of like the pitch clock. It wasn't a
huge difference to me.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
It kind of made me work a little faster.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And I like it because it's kind of like a
shot clock and I don't think about mechanics as much
and I kind of just flowed through it.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Let me remove clutter from your mind.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Right, yeah, you kind of? Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
You give yourself less time and your body kind of
knows whether due to organize.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yourself and you just be an athlete out there.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
In the routine. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
You got a couple more minutes here with Astro's pitcher
Nick Hernandez.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What's it like throwing a yiner? Uh? Legit, He's legit. Yeah,
he's legit. I mean, yeah, he's he's the man. He's
he's I got.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I got to throw with him in Triple A two
uh before he made it the show, and you could
tell like he's like, this guy's gonna be good. Man.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You guys had a really really good group down there
in a sure Oh my gosh, man, you look at
some of the guys that have been able to JP France, Hunter, Brown, Yiner, Diaz,
low Perfido when he was here, obviously he got traded,
but when he was here and he.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Made his debut, got a solid corps down there.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Man.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah, I remember throwing against lower Fiedo a lot thrown
against him when I was over there with the Padres.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
That was he's not easy out.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
The competition, I mean, you know, we talk about it
on our show all the time about it's a great
thing because they do such a great job here at
developing players, right, you've mentioned it from top to bottom
and competition in house. I mean because when everybody's healthy, Yeah,
this staft's pretty damn good.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
So it's a blessing because the ass is like we're
building this especially, got all these great assets ready, to.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Come in and do their thing. But it's also that
inner competition.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Now people are battling for a three spot of four
spoti five spot to come and stay. So the inner
competition just isn't against opposing hitters. It's every day getting
too It isn't a tremendous competition here.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, it's healthy.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Competition makes you better just having h great talent around you,
you know, it forces you to adapt and only get better.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Outside your family remote remove your family. If I said
you've got one lifeline to call about baseball and you
needed insight for fifteen minutes, who would it be?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Uh man, just like about pitching?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, just yeah, pitching, or you face somebody the one
person outside your family that you would lean on.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
But I don't care if it's your junior high little
league guy that you lean.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
On, that you pick it up at any time and
you trust what he tells you and you will apply that.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
And my family, my dad, but outside my family would
probably be I'll give you a wild card, would be
Mike Marshall.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh yeah, Mike Marshall. You go.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
You talking about Mike Mike Marshall, Yeah, uh doctor Mike Marshall.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh, okay, Oh the side of the seventy four side.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You're talking about the guy who had Mike marsh who
had one hundred and twelve appearances for the Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yea, every time you woke up, he was up.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Parent Yeah, best rest in peace, but he was. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I got one of my best friends was Mike marsh Baseman,
Mike Marshall Dodgers instead that group.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Yeah, I was in l A at those times, right.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And I played against his son and Mike Marshall's son
in college. And then he's got a buddy that's a
coach that I coach against. It's a whole small.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Agigator, like one hundred and twenty games out of one
hundred and sixty two.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
That was who.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Mike Marshall was so crazy, he would have been the
name you lean on h Nicole when he was like
really why I got the train.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
With him a little bit and it was just, uh,
it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
He just like the little tricks he would show me
with pitches and how to spin the ball.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
And you were so young, but dude, he was trigging still.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, I got to work with him in college. Yeah
that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, Well, Nick, we appreciate the time, good luck when
you go into uh spring training, and let's hope we
see you up here on the base, yeah man, and
appreciate a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Astros pitcher Nick Nick Hernandez join us. We're gonna stay
right here.
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