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January 25, 2025 • 11 mins
Jeremy Pena talks the latest with the Houston Astros from 2025 Astros Fan Fest at Daikin Park.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And uh we got astros shortstop, gold glove shortstop. Jeremy Paeney,
he's walking up.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
What's going on, Jeremy?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (00:08):
Sean Man.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Nice to make you.

Speaker 4 (00:10):
It's a pleasure, finally, pleasure low.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Down, get you hooked up right there? Hey, Jeremy Payinte
is here. How we feel in fans? Oh my shortstop,
Jeremy Paeney, love Jama.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Yeah that just ladies, root before your brother.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
That's dude too.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Yeah for you man, how we doing man, I'm doing good. No,
y'all are doing good good, it's good man. We always
love being here for Ashle's fan fast to get a
visit with guys like yourself. So I saw you were
out with what the caravan a couple of nights ago
with the Ashles caravan thing. I saw you did some
traveling this offseason. First time, is that right?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
First time?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (00:47):
And uh before I had only been to the US
and the Dominican So this was the first time that
I've been somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, how was it?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
It was a great time. And went to Spain.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
No one told me that I was gonna be tired
the first four days and then falling asleeve at three pm.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
But it's all good. We had a great time.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, Okay, So has this offseason for you, obviously you
travel a little bit in your personal life. Has this
offseason been a little bit different or you approaching it
like what's the what's the regiment when it comes to
like working out.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
So as soon as the season ended, I took some time.
I took some time to kind of let the body rest,
let the mind rest a little bit, and then we
kind of went back into it and I went out
to Dominica Republic, and Yeah, worked with some coaches out there,
taking care of my body, doing some hitting.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
So yeah, I'm excited.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Was there anything other than the rest early before you
got grinded again, because that's been who you've been. Was
there anything different about your off season training? I mean,
as far as get bigger, not get as big? Was
there anything approach? So when the grind of one hundred
and sixty two games for anything different this year?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
So it's not really about getting bigger.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
You just kind of learned what worked for you in
the past and what didn't work for you in the past.
And I feel like there were some routines that I
implemented this season. That really did help me stay healthy
on the field and feeling good every single day. So
I just kind of kept building off that into the
off seat.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
You're in the entency of your career still, You've had
a world postseason MVPs, You've you've been phenomenal and replacing
a guy who was a legend here and done it
quite well. What's the toughest part about being a major
league a star? Not just the grind of having to
do it every day, but the expectations you put on
yourself and fans have. But it's the toughest part of

(02:26):
that in the off season.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
I say, the toughest part is with yourself, you know,
especially me. I'm a person that you know, I grew
up in a baseball family and my father played in
the Big League.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Some of my cousins played professional league.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
So the expectations that I have for myself are what
you know, keeps.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Me waking up, constant self evaluation.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
Keep wake me up in the morning, you know, to
get to work, you know. So I know I have
expectations for myself, and I'm not really trying to prove
it for everyone else. I just know I got to
prove it for myself and my family. So that's what Yeah,
what's it?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
What's it like in the Dominican Republic? Baseball is different
down there? Can you kind of walk me through what
it is. I've had some college teammates that were from
the Dominican Republic Puerto Rico, and every time they talked
about it, it's a different world down there. You eat, breathe,
and sleep it.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
So think about it like this.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
In the US you have hockey, boxing, you have football, basketball,
and the Dominica you have baseball.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
So all the energy that the fans put into all
these different types of sports, and the Dominican they channel
all their energy into just baseball. So growing up, all
we see on TV are guys like Pedro Martinez, Sammy Sosa,
David Rotiz, Many Ramirez, and you. The list goes on
and on. So you grew up wanted to be like them.

(03:48):
You know that baseball is a way to kind of
make it out and do good.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
For you and your family.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
So when you when you go down there in the offseason,
does it help your perspective seeing like what those kids
are going through and trying to make it to where
you are today to come back to the States and
keep you humble a little bit or is its hey man,
the coaches down there know me a little bit better,
or you know what's what is that mindset when you
go down there?

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Of course, I feel like I always go back home
and I always check out the local literal league that
I played in before I moved to the US, and uh.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
You know, it's a full circle moment.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Yeah, you know, the kids are grinding every single day
and waking up and telling you how they want to
play in the big leagues one day when and then
you look back and see yourself in those kids. So
it's it's special for sure. That's why I love going back.
And I feel like every player will tell you the same.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Hey, Jeremy, take me into the mental side of playing
every day and being in this type of lineup with
this group of guys expectations of winning. But you know,
we all see at home and we're watching the physical side,
then get to the ground ball in the hole or
the bat the home run, rounding the bases, but the
mental side as far as not just the grind, but
the studying of your opponent. We hear that all the

(05:00):
time in football, right game planning. This is deeper than
just stepping into the batter's box, work up box, working
on your own mechanics. How much have you learned over
the studying pictures and how they pitch you and the
tendencies and analytics that they put when they face Jeremy
Pania from year one as a rookie to what you
expect this year coming in.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
Correct, Like you said, it's not a show up at
seven and play at seven.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
You know it's a But.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
We're all saying, come on, right, you know what I mean,
three homers.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Let's go.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
It's a full day, right, you know, you wake up
in the morning, you're already prepared for the game, even
the night before, you already prepared for your match up
the next day.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
So as soon as the game ends, you.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
Are already preparing your body with recovery and doing your
reports for the next picture and uh, things that you
liked about the game, things that you did not like
that you would like to change. So I think that's
the grind of it, you know, and then you add
travel on.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Top of that. But we love it. We're blessed. You know.
We cannot complain everyone in the club.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
I will tell you that we will not trade what
we do for anything in the world.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Can you get dealing with success and failure? Both have
their their their moments in baseball all three hundred and
you're a hell of a player, right, I mean, so
you have to deal with failure and success. I'm just curious,
is what's been the toughest part of playing Major league baseball?
The hardest part every day, the hardest part and being

(06:23):
good at it, you know what I mean, the hardest
part of doing this.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
I think there's just a lot of sacrifices.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
The hardest part in the sport, not just in the
big leagues, just in the sport in general, the.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Minor league's college.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
If you want to play at an elite level, there's
a lot of sacrifices that you have to do. You know,
you have to miss weddings, you know, you don't have summers,
you don't have uh you can't hang out with friends.
You know, you just gotta Those teammates are yours in
the clubhouse, that's your family. You spend more time with
them than you do your own family.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
So, uh, yeah, that's what I say.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
The biggest things is dealing with tough times in your
DNA or in any player's DNA and yours in particular,
or is it can you compartmentalize get over it quick?

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Let mean, how quick do you get over a good
night and a bad night going into the next day.
I guess playing quickly again gets over it? But how
quickly and can you get out of letting it fester
when you've had one of those days?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
I think that is something I've picked up on the way.
I was never like this.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
I feel like in high school I used to sit
on a game for a whole week.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Then I got to.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
College, drove me, drove me nuts, and then I got
to college and I'll sit on the game for the
rest of the week. You know, you're playing a weekend.
Then I'll sit on at the rest of the week.
But as you mature in this sport, you realize that that's.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Not helping you. It's not helping you.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
So you know, you turn the page and learn what
you have to learn from what you went through, and
turn the page.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
You know, show up again and go perform. It's always
a hard thing to do.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Volors s opposed to Sean won't tell you this, but
he played in the NFL for ten years as a quarterback,
so they didn't get the luxury of being able to
turn right around after a bad night. For Sean worry
throws a couple we.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Throw it to the other teams.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
You gotta wait till the next.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Week and everybody tell you how crappy you are. Yeah,
been there.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
So so for you, Jeremy gold Glove season, your rookie year,
this past year, we saw, I wouldn't say you came
down to earth a little bit, a couple of errors
here and there. We spoke with Dana Brown on our
show every every Wednesday, and he felt like it was
a timing issue for you in the field. Do you
think that's a fair assessment or do you think it
was something different.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
I think it was just getting back to my routines.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
I felt like, like I said, this, this stuff is
all part of the game.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, you know, you know that we go through stuff,
you know, hitting, fielding.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Whatever it may be, you know, and it's game of
failure and it's just something you.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Have to kind of learn how to turn the page
and bounce back.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah. So it goes back right into what we were saying,
you have to play the next player right.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Absolutely, when this season ends and we haven't even started.
That's a great thing about being a medi We could
what if till the cows come up?

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Right?

Speaker 4 (08:57):
When it ends, and we're saying, Jeremy Paanya did this
better than he's done it in his career so far,
what will you fill in the sentence? What will it be?

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Say?

Speaker 5 (09:07):
He was more consistent, consistent with his overall game, whether
it was on defense, whether it was with his preparation
for the game, whether it was with you know, his
approach at the play. I feel like, as I'm maturing
in this sport, the key is to be consistent.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
If you had a message for Bregman, what would it
be if you sing round of here?

Speaker 1 (09:27):
I knew you're gonna get that in there somehow come
back their.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Space, didn't you?

Speaker 1 (09:32):
I want to say, you told us the story last
year at fan Fest where he's like facetiming you at
like two o'clock in the morning. You want to talk
about hitting?

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Oh yeah, that was during the postseason twenty twenty two.
He would FaceTime at two am and tell him about
reports of the picture, how they're going to attack me
the next day, and he's but it tells you about
the character of a play caliber player. He is because
he's not just worried about himself. You know, he's worried
about his other teammates as well. Because you could go home,

(10:00):
gonna do your.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Own report, right, you know, you could prepare.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
For yourself, but he was prepared for everybody, like do this,
do that, and I'm like, bro, call me in the morning.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
But you know, I appreciate bregn.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
He took me in since the first day, and you know,
we sit down and we break down at bats, we
break down pictures, and you know, he's a guy that
brings a lot to the ball club, not just on
the field, but to all his teams around him.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
So the message to break out there is, can't catch
me at seven in the morning, dude, not at too
I gotta sleep, I gotta play tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, probably be too.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Tired to do the things you told me to do. Yeah,
so you're gonna be You're gonna be heading down to
West Palm anytime soon. You're gonna go down a little
bit earlier, just kind of normal normal routine for you guys.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
I'll be down there a little early, Okay, beat down
there February fifth, and then yeah, do some training out there,
and yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
What's your one hobby before we let you go? Hobby
outside of baseball and fair one thing that you do
that we may not know about. Are you an avid reader?

Speaker 2 (10:56):
You a hunter?

Speaker 3 (10:57):
What is the one thing you do that we don't know?
Maybe I should start reading because.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
But I love fishing. Oh, I love fishing, and I
love playing dominos.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
The king in the carhouse, I just kicked back. You
got to ask them about me.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
I don't got to say.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, that's an Astros shortstop, Jeremy Paine.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Let's give it up for pleasure. Yeah, good luck, Jammy.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
We appreciate you spending time with us. Good luck and
safe travels on the West Coast.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Let's take a quick break and we'll get back with
more coverage here on four Stock seven ninety
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