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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Our next guest is the pride of a Taska sea
to high school, which is hard for me to say
because Bryce Matthews, my daughter is about to graduate from
Kingwood and she never says anything nice about a Taska
seat to accept you, Bryce, how are you, my friend?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm great? How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm fine? I'm fine? Hey?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Uh you are? Who was your favorite center fielder growing
up as you were a kid. Do you even have one?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I had a couple.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It was.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Michael Bourne, George Springer, and Andrew mccutchey, and then Adam Jones,
and then you're my yeah, my favorite outfielders.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And then you're the number five all time greatest center
fielder in history. Forgetting about ses Ar Sadonia, I'm not
gonna now forget that. Hey, uh, hell of a hell
of a weekend for you in Boston. What's it like
playing in that stadium? First and foremost, and secondly, how
much time are you still spending learning the nuances of
every baseball field you go to when you're playing in
the outfield?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, first of all, thank you. It was fun. That's
a historic place, the place I always wanted to like
play growing up. You see it on TV. All the
history of who's all, who's all played there and everything,
but it's it's just every day you try to learn
something new, see the angles of the field, how the
(01:20):
wall's playing, and it just goes back to just trying
to be an athlete and just go make plays whenever
the ball is in the air.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So, how do you feel about Dyke and Park after
a handful of tries. It's like a hold home for
you now, correct.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, it's it's nice. I like it. I kind of
understand where the ball is gonna like travel a lot
more in center field, like straight back it's not gonna
go as far, and then left center and right center
the ball is gonna travel a little bit more. So
it's just uh, making the making the right read, getting
a good jump, and just go and try to get
(01:54):
the ball.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hey, Bryce, you are trying to work your way into
a major league rosser for the full time and grinding
it out.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I know how important it is for you.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Take me through your conversations about the infield play initially
and then Joe saying, look, we need you, we we
we've got an open spot in the outfield, and and
what steps you took once you knew that your play
would be primarily as a defender on the outfield at
this point.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Honestly, it just it just goes back to the peperation
being ready for anything. I told him, whenever the team needed,
I was there to help, there to there to be available.
So I'm just going out there preparing myself each and
every day, whether that's on the infield or the outfield,
just getting my rep saying if I was in left
(02:41):
or our center, same thing, Just making sure I was
mentally and physically prepared every day.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
How much did you play in high school and when
you were when you were playing google back the Little
league days, were you bouncing around all parts of the
infield and outfield or was this something that you thought
would be something going to be more of a of
a process.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
For you when you got to professional baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, I mean when I was younger, my dad made
it a good point for me to know how to
play every position, and the best of best ability is availability,
and that's a really big thing for him, and so
I played at pretty much every position growing up, and
that kept going out. It was more like shortstop, second
(03:25):
base in middle school and then in high school when
I was like my sophomore year, I played a little
bit of outfield in third base, and then my junior
year I was the utility guy, so I played right, center, left, third, short,
and second. Well, my senior year I was a shortstop.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, that's that's smart that he was able to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Bryce Matthews, our guest with us on Sports Talk seven
ninety The bat. How do you feel about the bat
at this point? What are the nuances you're getting a
steady diet of major league pitching every day as compared
to going back and forth between here in Sugarland. Where
do you see your bat progressing and what do you
still want to see done here as you get the
most of your opportunities to play.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I feel like I've been having good at bats
all season, just missing some pitches where I feel like
I should have missed, But that's baseball. We just steady
competing in the box, trying to make more contact. And
I feel like if I if I put the barrel
on the ball, good things are going to have. So
not trying to swing too hard, just just put the
barrel on the ball and I think that things will
(04:27):
happen for me.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Got a few new different eyes and ears looking at
you in the batting cage and in the video room.
What's that been like to get a different set of
folks looking at the way that you swing and you
perform offensively.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's cool. I mean, just to have great coaching around.
We had great coaches last year with Snit and think
I'm blinking on his name.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
That's fine, guys, with our our.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Hitting coaches, and then with Big Dan and Posey, it's
it's a lot with uh, with the mental side of
the game and just trying to trying to be a
complete hitter, complete player, and just understanding who I'm facing
it during the day, What what is my plan going
(05:18):
into that bats and just trying to have good at
bats and compete and just pass the back to the
next guy.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well how about this, Uh, you're gonna see show heyo, Tonny,
have you ever facing.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Before now it's gonna be a first time.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What advice have you been given of any at all?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Uh? None so far. I mean, it's gonna try to
do like you was saying with Yamamoto yesterday, show up,
just compete, like, be ready to go. I'm gonna have
our plan of attack and try to stick with it. Yeah,
just have have a good plan and stick to my
approach and try to get them all right for.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I let you go.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You did get your retired number over in the off
season a task asta. Who else has been retired beside you?
Anybody you know? Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So my my right tackle, Kenyon Green, my literally coaches son,
which is like a family friend. Patrick Taylor who he's
on the uh he's on the forty nine ers, Samuel Cosmy,
Patrick's sister Nadia, who is someone I hit with during
(06:21):
the off season.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
A lot nice.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And then Carson Edwards he's uh he is playing basketball
in Germany right overseas.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
That's right, Yeah, all right, well, I uh, I wish
you nothing but the very best.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Again.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
We are so happy that you're these grabs you're making
in center field. I mean, are you building a YouTube
page off of these great grabs or.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Is that somebody else's responsibility.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I just kind of like watching him at the end
of the day, have them send me, send me the
catches and see, uh how hard the play was. I
think that's the that's the best thing in the end.
Just try to make the pitchers happy, you know, make
good plays for them. They work so hard and it's
a team like we're just trying to trying to win
ball games and try to play together.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But anything I could do to to save a to
take away a hit, take away the runs, I'm there.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Well I like that attitude. Bryce.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Thank you for the time, Congratulations on the opportunity or
being given right now, keep it, keep it going, stay
and most importantly, stay healthy. That that infirmary list continues
to grow up by the day is unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, thanks crazy man, Thanks Bryce for joining us. We
really appreciate it.
Our next guest is the pride of a Taska sea
to high school, which is hard for me to say
because Bryce Matthews, my daughter is about to graduate from
Kingwood and she never says anything nice about a Taska
seat to accept you, Bryce, how are you, my friend?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm great? How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm fine? I'm fine? Hey?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Uh you are? Who was your favorite center fielder growing
up as you were a kid. Do you even have one?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I had a couple.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
It was.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Michael Bourne, George Springer, and Andrew mccutchey, and then Adam Jones,
and then you're my yeah, my favorite outfielders.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And then you're the number five all time greatest center
fielder in history. Forgetting about ses Ar Sadonia, I'm not
gonna now forget that. Hey, uh, hell of a hell
of a weekend for you in Boston. What's it like
playing in that stadium? First and foremost, and secondly, how
much time are you still spending learning the nuances of
every baseball field you go to when you're playing in
the outfield?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, first of all, thank you. It was fun. That's
a historic place, the place I always wanted to like
play growing up. You see it on TV. All the
history of who's all, who's all played there and everything,
but it's it's just every day you try to learn
something new, see the angles of the field, how the
(01:20):
wall's playing, and it just goes back to just trying
to be an athlete and just go make plays whenever
the ball is in the air.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So, how do you feel about Dyke and Park after
a handful of tries. It's like a hold home for
you now, correct.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, it's it's nice. I like it. I kind of
understand where the ball is gonna like travel a lot
more in center field, like straight back it's not gonna
go as far, and then left center and right center
the ball is gonna travel a little bit more. So
it's just uh, making the making the right read, getting
a good jump, and just go and try to get
(01:54):
the ball.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Hey, Bryce, you are trying to work your way into
a major league rosser for the full time and grinding
it out.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I know how important it is for you.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Take me through your conversations about the infield play initially
and then Joe saying, look, we need you, we we
we've got an open spot in the outfield, and and
what steps you took once you knew that your play
would be primarily as a defender on the outfield at
this point.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Honestly, it just it just goes back to the peperation
being ready for anything. I told him, whenever the team needed,
I was there to help, there to there to be available.
So I'm just going out there preparing myself each and
every day, whether that's on the infield or the outfield,
just getting my rep saying if I was in left
(02:41):
or our center, same thing, Just making sure I was
mentally and physically prepared every day.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
How much did you play in high school and when
you were when you were playing google back the Little
league days, were you bouncing around all parts of the
infield and outfield or was this something that you thought
would be something going to be more of a of
a process.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
For you when you got to professional baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, I mean when I was younger, my dad made
it a good point for me to know how to
play every position, and the best of best ability is availability,
and that's a really big thing for him, and so
I played at pretty much every position growing up, and
that kept going out. It was more like shortstop, second
(03:25):
base in middle school and then in high school when
I was like my sophomore year, I played a little
bit of outfield in third base, and then my junior
year I was the utility guy, so I played right, center, left, third, short,
and second. Well, my senior year I was a shortstop.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, that's that's smart that he was able to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Bryce Matthews, our guest with us on Sports Talk seven
ninety The bat. How do you feel about the bat
at this point? What are the nuances you're getting a
steady diet of major league pitching every day as compared
to going back and forth between here in Sugarland. Where
do you see your bat progressing and what do you
still want to see done here as you get the
most of your opportunities to play.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, I feel like I've been having good at bats
all season, just missing some pitches where I feel like
I should have missed, But that's baseball. We just steady
competing in the box, trying to make more contact. And
I feel like if I if I put the barrel
on the ball, good things are going to have. So
not trying to swing too hard, just just put the
barrel on the ball and I think that things will
(04:27):
happen for me.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Got a few new different eyes and ears looking at
you in the batting cage and in the video room.
What's that been like to get a different set of
folks looking at the way that you swing and you
perform offensively.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's cool. I mean, just to have great coaching around.
We had great coaches last year with Snit and think
I'm blinking on his name.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
That's fine, guys, with our our.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Hitting coaches, and then with Big Dan and Posey, it's
it's a lot with uh, with the mental side of
the game and just trying to trying to be a
complete hitter, complete player, and just understanding who I'm facing
it during the day, What what is my plan going
(05:18):
into that bats and just trying to have good at
bats and compete and just pass the back to the
next guy.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well how about this, Uh, you're gonna see show heyo, Tonny,
have you ever facing.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Before now it's gonna be a first time.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
What advice have you been given of any at all?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Uh? None so far. I mean, it's gonna try to
do like you was saying with Yamamoto yesterday, show up,
just compete, like, be ready to go. I'm gonna have
our plan of attack and try to stick with it. Yeah,
just have have a good plan and stick to my
approach and try to get them all right for.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I let you go.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
You did get your retired number over in the off
season a task asta. Who else has been retired beside you?
Anybody you know? Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So my my right tackle, Kenyon Green, my literally coaches son,
which is like a family friend. Patrick Taylor who he's
on the uh he's on the forty nine ers, Samuel Cosmy,
Patrick's sister Nadia, who is someone I hit with during
(06:21):
the off season.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
A lot nice.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And then Carson Edwards he's uh he is playing basketball
in Germany right overseas.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
That's right, Yeah, all right, well, I uh, I wish
you nothing but the very best.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Again.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
We are so happy that you're these grabs you're making
in center field. I mean, are you building a YouTube
page off of these great grabs or.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Is that somebody else's responsibility.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I just kind of like watching him at the end
of the day, have them send me, send me the
catches and see, uh how hard the play was. I
think that's the that's the best thing in the end.
Just try to make the pitchers happy, you know, make
good plays for them. They work so hard and it's
a team like we're just trying to trying to win
ball games and try to play together.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But anything I could do to to save a to
take away a hit, take away the runs, I'm there.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Well I like that attitude. Bryce.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Thank you for the time, Congratulations on the opportunity or
being given right now, keep it, keep it going, stay
and most importantly, stay healthy. That that infirmary list continues
to grow up by the day is unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, thanks crazy man, Thanks Bryce for joining us. We
really appreciate it.
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