August 24, 2026 • 18 mins
Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Logan Gilbert discusses what it's like to pitch on Opening Day, how to create the right mindset for success, and how to balance family life with being a pro athlete.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Greetings and welcome to the Eric Korman Show. I am
on a journey to learn from superhumans, people who have
done remarkable things or have remarkable ideas to share so
that I can be the best dad I can for
my son, AJ. Logan Gilbert is a professional baseball starting
pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. He was selected 14th overall
(00:23):
by Seattle in the first round of the 2018 MLB Draft.
out of Stetson University, making his MLB debut in 2021
and was.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Named an American League All-Star in 2024.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Follow Logan on Instagram at LoganGilbert22.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Coming up, we'll talk about what it's.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Like to pitch on opening day, how to create the
right mindset for success, and how to balance family life
with being a pro athlete.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It's helped me a ton and shaped me in ways
I definitely needed, but like couldn't have happened without Henry.
And he's just taught me so much about like something
bigger than yourself, caring about other people. Like I'm not
the most important person in my life. My wife, my kid,
I have responsibilities to like treat them well and care
for them more than myself. And I think it's been
(01:10):
in a way like the most free thing.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
But first, Logan, what do you like most about your
baseball career?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh man, I go a lot of different ways. I
think you have a big impact on a lot of
young people that, you know, I was once that young
person looking up to star baseball players or whatever it
may be. You kind of want to emulate them on
the field, off the field. So I feel like we
have a big impact on the fans, but especially young
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people watching. Also in general, everybody that comes to the game,
like a lot of times people have very serious stuff
going on in their life and they just need a break.
They need fun. They need to go out to the
park and just forget about their worries for a little bit.
And I think we have the opportunity to give them that.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know that people think that being a baseball player
is a certain thing, but what are some of the
biggest misconceptions that people have, especially about being a starting pitcher?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So one of the biggest things is there's really not
much free time at all. Like people probably think, Pro
athletes are going out all the time or partying or whatever.
Like most of the time, especially with how much we
travel from Seattle, we are on the airplane or we're
sleeping in the hotel or at the home at our
house or we're at the ball field. Like there's not
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much in between. So there's really not much time. It's
not as glamorous as people probably think all the time.
Don't get me wrong. When we're out here, like I
have the best job in the world. It's amazing. And
as a starting pitcher, I play once every five days
and then I watch the 130 baseball games. I play
in 32 baseball games. So I practice for about 99%
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of the time I play baseball and I'm actually playing
baseball for about 1%. So there's probably a big gap
from what people think it usually is.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, that is huge. And I was wondering, like, what
is a typical week like for you?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
In season?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So kind of like I said, so I play once
a week, once every five days. So basically 32 times
a year, 33. I do the same five day schedule.
over and over and over. So you can kind of
feel insane after a little bit that it's like day
one or day three or whatever. Like I know where
I'm supposed to be at that time doing the same
thing every day. It's a lot of monotonous work. It's
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a lot of stuff. Like I said, that isn't glamorous,
the work you do behind the scenes, the boring stuff,
but it's so true. You hear people talk about the
cliches of just like the simple, boring practice of, a
basketball player practicing a bounce pass or, you know, a
star player that you're like, is this guy really just
doing the basics every single day? And I think that's
(03:45):
true for a lot of us in baseball as well.
That's kind of what our normal week is, is just
doing the really boring basic practice and then a lot
of recovery work to make sure your body's in a
good spot, your mind, your spirit, all that kind of stuff.
It's kind of tearing it down once a week when
I go on start day and it's a marathon and
then it's just recovering and building it back up after that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
How much does it hurt after you start a game?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
If you do it right, it should. Well, at least
hopefully in good parts, like, you know, you don't want
elbow pain or shoulder pain or anything, but actually when
I'm going pretty well, like I should be pretty sore
the next day on my legs, especially my back, my core.
That's kind of the price you pay, but all of
us are a little twisted in some ways that Like
you get that soreness the next day and you're like,
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oh man, I earned this. This is nice. So it's
kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
AJ, did you want to ask something?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
You've been a part of an opening day starter twice.
What part of an opening day completely feels normal now?
And what part of it also feels kind of special?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oh, good question. Wow. Especially starting on opening day is
such a big honor, and I used to be the
kid looking on, it was like a holiday, and you're
watching some of the best pitchers. So I don't ever
want to take that for granted. You definitely get nervous,
more nervous than usual, and again, I think that's a
good thing. I don't ever want to run away from
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everything that comes with this job. The anxiety, the nervousness.
I get to pitch on opening day, I've done it twice,
and a lot of people don't ever get to do it,
much less me. people that do it eight or nine times,
it'll be gone in the blink of an eye. I
want to remember every part. I want to be like
extremely present and just know that I enjoyed it and
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not just wished it away and just hope it goes
well and try to get past it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That makes me wonder about just being present and kind
of your headspace while you're out there pitching.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
What is your routine to like get in the right zone?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Oh man, it's changed a lot over the, so if
you would ask me on any different year, it would
change a lot, but I think I'm in a pretty
good space right now. And you just learn, you fail
your way into success, I think. So the routine I
have now, especially on the mound. So my faith is
a big part. I try to pray before games, in
between innings. I feel like Jesus is with me on
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the mound, like my strength. That's been a big thing
this year. In the past, I've tried to, I think everybody...
puts on a show a little bit, tries to be
stronger than we think we are. I think there's a
lot of power and humility and almost weakness in a
way of my dependency on God and thinking that he's
my strength. I'm not the one that's capable of making
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everything happen. I think a lot of times as humans,
we think we are, we're just capable of whatever I
want to happen, I'm going to make it happen. I
think that's a very dangerous place to be. So with that,
a big thing for me is just letting go, letting
things happen and and that's been the last couple years
and has held me on the mound so that kind
of what I said about my fate kind of ties
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into that yeah that when I'm out there I want
everything I do to be motivated by love so the
way I like interact with other people as well as
the way I play baseball I don't want it to
be like I'm just gonna white knuckle this and hopefully
it goes well like I love playing baseball. I love
being on the mound. It's a very small portion of
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my life that I get to stand on that mound
and throw to major league hitters. I want to love
that moment filled with gratitude. So all these positive emotions
that are helping me, like you said, it's about the presence.
It's about I want to be on the mound. Whether
I'm doing great or the bases are loaded, that's where
I want to be. Not like I can't wait until
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I get the third out and I get to walk
off the mound and everything's fine. No, the moment is...
out there the moment isn't after the game I'm like
oh I put up seven or eight zeros today I
did amazing that part of the game's over so the
moment's out there on the mound that's how I think.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Of it yeah it sounds to me like you're wanting
to be part of something that's bigger than yourself you
know kind of like you're just a vessel you know in.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
A way definitely definitely and I think the cool part
especially with baseball a lot of other sports but the
team aspect of it like you're saying a part of
something bigger than yourself. And then you can get into
the fans, the city, all that. It's not me just
trying to have a good game for myself out there.
It's like all the things I just said, the team
sacrificing the fans, all that stuff, but also just people
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in your life. My wife, I have a kid now,
my parents, since I was young, so many people have
made sacrifices so that in a way I get to
be selfish and do what I want to do, like
follow my dreams. A lot of people have sacrificed for me.
So like we're talking about I think you're just always
a part of something bigger than yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And you talk about the major league hitters you know
and everybody watching you and all that how do you
deal with the batters psychologically how do you get inside
their heads so that they don't know what you're going
to do or how do you keep them off balance.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah it's a good question We do a lot of
scouting report work and then a lot of it is
trying not to fall into tendencies. They want to box
you in. You're trying not to get boxed in. So
if they know I throw a certain pitch only in
a certain count, that's very predictable. If I can give
them something they're not expecting, then we have a better chance.
Then there's other things like, you know, sometimes we do
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like fake shakes on the mound where if I have
a tendency to shake twice and it's usually an off-speed pitch,
sometimes he won't call a sign. He'll tell me to
shake twice. They think it's an off-speed pitch. Maybe I
throw a fastball then. So I don't know if it works.
And sometimes we think we're smarter than we are. I
don't know if it works, but there's little games like
that that you can play out there. AJ, did you
want to ask the question about Cal? Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
You and Cal have worked together for a very long time.
What's something you two can communicate together without saying anything?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh, man. These are good questions. I could go a
lot of different ways. So ever since the minor leagues...
He's done different like hand signals behind the plate where
I can tell. He knows kind of when I'm off
a little bit and when I'm off, how to get
me back on. So if he's telling me like his
hands are going up and down, or towards himself I
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know he's telling me the lane to stay in or
my direction through the catcher instead of falling off the
mound he can show me that in kind of different
ways too with his body then there's stuff between innings
if he knows I need to like get it in
gear a little bit he can kind of you know
give me a look and He has a high standard
for his pitchers, which I think is good. So there's
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different ways to kind of keep us in check or
throttle us up or down or whatever it may be.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, because you and Calarelli, you're the same age, right?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So you were in the minors together?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Same draft year, yep. Came out basically the whole way, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Man, that is amazing. So it's almost like you kind
of have a mind mill going on.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
It's been a long time going now since 2018. So yeah,
he's caught me the majority of my starts and we've
been Friends and roommates and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That is so awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So when you were growing up, a lot of kids
want to be baseball players or pro athletes. How did
you know or how did your parents and family and
supportive network know that you actually had what it takes
to get to the level that you're at?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Oh, man, they would probably think they're better than me.
I think it's a combination of a lot of stuff again.
I think there's a plan much bigger than anything I comprehend. Yeah.
Where everybody is supposed to be and interact and all
very complicated stuff that I don't understand from a spiritual perspective.
But I'll say like, as a kid, I was always,
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I'm just going to do something until I figure it out.
I always thought that was a great thing. There's negatives too.
I can be stubborn. I can like, I, there's definitely trade-offs,
but the good thing is like, it can lead, I
think to this kind of stuff. So, My parents would
tell you when I was three or four, like, I
was going to tie my shoes. They were going to
help me. And I was like, no, I'm going to
sit here. You're not tying my shoes. Like, I'm going
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to sit here until I tie my shoes. Like, I'm
going to figure it out. Again, not always the best,
but little things like that. My dad would tell people
he thinks a big difference. A lot of people growing
up liked playing baseball. I loved playing baseball. Like, there
was kind of a distinction there about that's all I
wanted to do. I think people would say, too, like, Again,
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you can be a little crazy, but I think there's
an element of mastering your craft of trying to perfect
something just over and over and being so like meticulous
about little details. I've always been that way.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Trade also that, but I think it helped me get here. So,
you know, I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Do you have any advice that you'd like to give
to young people who might be listening to this and
might have dreams of their own, whether it's being a
professional athlete or whatever their dream is?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah. First of all, like you're saying, I think dream big.
Don't be reasonable. Go do something crazy. You can be
the best in the world at something if you want
to be. You don't have to. I think there's some
pressure there too in our world that like sometimes being
a normal person, living a quiet life and just loving
other people is like what we're supposed to do. But
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I'm not going to lie. I am wired to want
to be the best at everything I do. So I
think that's awesome. Probably the main thing that I've kind
of hit on here is find something that you love
doing and just try to be the best. If you
love playing video games, whatever your passion is, follow that
and a lot of other things will kind of sort
itself out. Gratitude, I think, is almost like a superpower.
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Live with gratitude. Be relentless about choosing gratitude. Not just
hoping it happens to you, but just love other people,
be grateful, be kind, treat others well. I think caring
about others is just as important as being great at something,
so I don't know. There's a lot of stuff there,
but that's kind of just where I've been at lately.
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I think it's all helpful stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And now you're a dad. And then you've got a
young son. And how's that been?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Like, how do you balance being a dad and having
a family with your career?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's so cool. It's the best thing ever. Yeah, it's
changed a lot. It's a hard lifestyle. Shout out to
my wife, because a lot of these... Moms out here
are kind of doing a lot of it by themselves
while we're at the field or traveling or whatever. But
it's helped me a ton and shaped me in ways
I definitely needed but couldn't have happened without Henry. And
he's just taught me so much about something bigger than yourself,
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caring about other people. I'm not the most important person
in my life. My wife, my kid, I have responsibilities
to treat them well and care for them more than myself.
And I think it's been, in a way, the most
freeing thing because all of us are kind of wired
selfishly towards being really great at this very niche job
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that not many people get to do. So I think
Henry's just helped me have, all of that's probably just perspective,
I would say. Just gain a ton of perspective on life,
on baseball, on everything that I was probably long overdue for.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It has a way of doing that,
I can tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So after you're done doing this, being a starting pitcher
for the Mariners, which is one of the coolest things ever,
how do you see your life going?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
That's a good question. I really don't know yet. The
coolest thing right now is being a husband and being
a dad, and hopefully that lasts your whole life, you know?
So I'm really looking forward to that. I want to
have a lot of kids. I want to, like, watch
them grow up. I want to maybe be a coach
for them or just take them to practice or, like,
just little things like that. But I do always want
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to have, like, a large impact on people. I think
it's going to be hard getting away from baseball completely.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I could see it happening after baseball, but I could
also see myself being a coach or who knows what
that looks like. But I think from a bigger perspective,
I want to get involved in charity work or like
missions work. There's a lot of serious stuff out there
in the world and like people less fortunate than me
for sure that everybody needs help. So I don't know
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what that looks like. I don't know what part of
the world that is, but I want to help people.
I want to be a part of that charity mission world.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Adrian, do you have any other questions you'd like to ask?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
What is the question that you always wish someone would
ask you in an interview but no one has ever done?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Oh my gosh. These are probably like the best three
questions that I've never heard or thought of. So a
question that I've never had that I wish somebody had
asked me.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I don't even know how to phrase it, but some
form of like, what would you tell your younger self?
It's not that necessarily. It's kind of just like something
you had to remember or teach yourself along the way.
in baseball. I think that's important just because a big
thing that I had to realize along the way, and
it's so simple, is like the fun of baseball is
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a huge thing that can get lost once you start
getting paid to play or just do something every day.
A huge part of my learning and growing in this
game was getting back to that four-year-old self that I
loved playing baseball and I didn't know anything about it.
I was four years old and I grabbed a bat
and I wanted to play and I've been doing it
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ever since. Taking that kid with me in a way
or the fun that I've always had and remembering that
that's why I play. So I don't even know what
the question is for that, but like that's kind of
the answer that's I think been a big part of
my career.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That is amazing. And I think that's great for all
of us just to find the why. You know, why
are we doing what we're doing?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
What's our mission statement to keep us going for the
rest of our life?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, definitely. That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Logan Gilbert is a starting pitcher for the Seattle Mariners.
Follow Logan on Instagram at LoganGilbert22. Logan, thank you so
much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Thanks for having me on. It was really fun. It
was good stuff. Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
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Speaker 2 (17:51):
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Speaker 1 (17:53):
We'll talk with writer Eli Bernstein, whose new book is
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Above all, those we commonly misunderstand. That's coming up next
on The Eric Korman Show. Until then, may you and
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your family be well, and I'll talk to you soon.
Greetings and welcome to the Eric Korman Show. I am
on a journey to learn from superhumans, people who have
done remarkable things or have remarkable ideas to share so
that I can be the best dad I can for
my son, AJ. Logan Gilbert is a professional baseball starting
pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. He was selected 14th overall
(00:23):
by Seattle in the first round of the 2018 MLB Draft.
out of Stetson University, making his MLB debut in 2021
and was.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Named an American League All-Star in 2024.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Follow Logan on Instagram at LoganGilbert22.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Coming up, we'll talk about what it's.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Like to pitch on opening day, how to create the
right mindset for success, and how to balance family life
with being a pro athlete.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
It's helped me a ton and shaped me in ways
I definitely needed, but like couldn't have happened without Henry.
And he's just taught me so much about like something
bigger than yourself, caring about other people. Like I'm not
the most important person in my life. My wife, my kid,
I have responsibilities to like treat them well and care
for them more than myself. And I think it's been
(01:10):
in a way like the most free thing.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
But first, Logan, what do you like most about your
baseball career?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh man, I go a lot of different ways. I
think you have a big impact on a lot of
young people that, you know, I was once that young
person looking up to star baseball players or whatever it
may be. You kind of want to emulate them on
the field, off the field. So I feel like we
have a big impact on the fans, but especially young
(01:38):
people watching. Also in general, everybody that comes to the game,
like a lot of times people have very serious stuff
going on in their life and they just need a break.
They need fun. They need to go out to the
park and just forget about their worries for a little bit.
And I think we have the opportunity to give them that.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know that people think that being a baseball player
is a certain thing, but what are some of the
biggest misconceptions that people have, especially about being a starting pitcher?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So one of the biggest things is there's really not
much free time at all. Like people probably think, Pro
athletes are going out all the time or partying or whatever.
Like most of the time, especially with how much we
travel from Seattle, we are on the airplane or we're
sleeping in the hotel or at the home at our
house or we're at the ball field. Like there's not
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much in between. So there's really not much time. It's
not as glamorous as people probably think all the time.
Don't get me wrong. When we're out here, like I
have the best job in the world. It's amazing. And
as a starting pitcher, I play once every five days
and then I watch the 130 baseball games. I play
in 32 baseball games. So I practice for about 99%
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of the time I play baseball and I'm actually playing
baseball for about 1%. So there's probably a big gap
from what people think it usually is.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, that is huge. And I was wondering, like, what
is a typical week like for you?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
In season?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
So kind of like I said, so I play once
a week, once every five days. So basically 32 times
a year, 33. I do the same five day schedule.
over and over and over. So you can kind of
feel insane after a little bit that it's like day
one or day three or whatever. Like I know where
I'm supposed to be at that time doing the same
thing every day. It's a lot of monotonous work. It's
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a lot of stuff. Like I said, that isn't glamorous,
the work you do behind the scenes, the boring stuff,
but it's so true. You hear people talk about the
cliches of just like the simple, boring practice of, a
basketball player practicing a bounce pass or, you know, a
star player that you're like, is this guy really just
doing the basics every single day? And I think that's
(03:45):
true for a lot of us in baseball as well.
That's kind of what our normal week is, is just
doing the really boring basic practice and then a lot
of recovery work to make sure your body's in a
good spot, your mind, your spirit, all that kind of stuff.
It's kind of tearing it down once a week when
I go on start day and it's a marathon and
then it's just recovering and building it back up after that.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
How much does it hurt after you start a game?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
If you do it right, it should. Well, at least
hopefully in good parts, like, you know, you don't want
elbow pain or shoulder pain or anything, but actually when
I'm going pretty well, like I should be pretty sore
the next day on my legs, especially my back, my core.
That's kind of the price you pay, but all of
us are a little twisted in some ways that Like
you get that soreness the next day and you're like,
(04:33):
oh man, I earned this. This is nice. So it's
kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
AJ, did you want to ask something?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
You've been a part of an opening day starter twice.
What part of an opening day completely feels normal now?
And what part of it also feels kind of special?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oh, good question. Wow. Especially starting on opening day is
such a big honor, and I used to be the
kid looking on, it was like a holiday, and you're
watching some of the best pitchers. So I don't ever
want to take that for granted. You definitely get nervous,
more nervous than usual, and again, I think that's a
good thing. I don't ever want to run away from
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everything that comes with this job. The anxiety, the nervousness.
I get to pitch on opening day, I've done it twice,
and a lot of people don't ever get to do it,
much less me. people that do it eight or nine times,
it'll be gone in the blink of an eye. I
want to remember every part. I want to be like
extremely present and just know that I enjoyed it and
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not just wished it away and just hope it goes
well and try to get past it.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That makes me wonder about just being present and kind
of your headspace while you're out there pitching.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
What is your routine to like get in the right zone?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Oh man, it's changed a lot over the, so if
you would ask me on any different year, it would
change a lot, but I think I'm in a pretty
good space right now. And you just learn, you fail
your way into success, I think. So the routine I
have now, especially on the mound. So my faith is
a big part. I try to pray before games, in
between innings. I feel like Jesus is with me on
(06:08):
the mound, like my strength. That's been a big thing
this year. In the past, I've tried to, I think everybody...
puts on a show a little bit, tries to be
stronger than we think we are. I think there's a
lot of power and humility and almost weakness in a
way of my dependency on God and thinking that he's
my strength. I'm not the one that's capable of making
(06:29):
everything happen. I think a lot of times as humans,
we think we are, we're just capable of whatever I
want to happen, I'm going to make it happen. I
think that's a very dangerous place to be. So with that,
a big thing for me is just letting go, letting
things happen and and that's been the last couple years
and has held me on the mound so that kind
of what I said about my fate kind of ties
(06:50):
into that yeah that when I'm out there I want
everything I do to be motivated by love so the
way I like interact with other people as well as
the way I play baseball I don't want it to
be like I'm just gonna white knuckle this and hopefully
it goes well like I love playing baseball. I love
being on the mound. It's a very small portion of
(07:11):
my life that I get to stand on that mound
and throw to major league hitters. I want to love
that moment filled with gratitude. So all these positive emotions
that are helping me, like you said, it's about the presence.
It's about I want to be on the mound. Whether
I'm doing great or the bases are loaded, that's where
I want to be. Not like I can't wait until
(07:32):
I get the third out and I get to walk
off the mound and everything's fine. No, the moment is...
out there the moment isn't after the game I'm like
oh I put up seven or eight zeros today I
did amazing that part of the game's over so the
moment's out there on the mound that's how I think.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Of it yeah it sounds to me like you're wanting
to be part of something that's bigger than yourself you
know kind of like you're just a vessel you know in.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
A way definitely definitely and I think the cool part
especially with baseball a lot of other sports but the
team aspect of it like you're saying a part of
something bigger than yourself. And then you can get into
the fans, the city, all that. It's not me just
trying to have a good game for myself out there.
It's like all the things I just said, the team
sacrificing the fans, all that stuff, but also just people
(08:15):
in your life. My wife, I have a kid now,
my parents, since I was young, so many people have
made sacrifices so that in a way I get to
be selfish and do what I want to do, like
follow my dreams. A lot of people have sacrificed for me.
So like we're talking about I think you're just always
a part of something bigger than yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
And you talk about the major league hitters you know
and everybody watching you and all that how do you
deal with the batters psychologically how do you get inside
their heads so that they don't know what you're going
to do or how do you keep them off balance.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah it's a good question We do a lot of
scouting report work and then a lot of it is
trying not to fall into tendencies. They want to box
you in. You're trying not to get boxed in. So
if they know I throw a certain pitch only in
a certain count, that's very predictable. If I can give
them something they're not expecting, then we have a better chance.
Then there's other things like, you know, sometimes we do
(09:12):
like fake shakes on the mound where if I have
a tendency to shake twice and it's usually an off-speed pitch,
sometimes he won't call a sign. He'll tell me to
shake twice. They think it's an off-speed pitch. Maybe I
throw a fastball then. So I don't know if it works.
And sometimes we think we're smarter than we are. I
don't know if it works, but there's little games like
that that you can play out there. AJ, did you
want to ask the question about Cal? Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
You and Cal have worked together for a very long time.
What's something you two can communicate together without saying anything?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh, man. These are good questions. I could go a
lot of different ways. So ever since the minor leagues...
He's done different like hand signals behind the plate where
I can tell. He knows kind of when I'm off
a little bit and when I'm off, how to get
me back on. So if he's telling me like his
hands are going up and down, or towards himself I
(10:01):
know he's telling me the lane to stay in or
my direction through the catcher instead of falling off the
mound he can show me that in kind of different
ways too with his body then there's stuff between innings
if he knows I need to like get it in
gear a little bit he can kind of you know
give me a look and He has a high standard
for his pitchers, which I think is good. So there's
(10:22):
different ways to kind of keep us in check or
throttle us up or down or whatever it may be.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, because you and Calarelli, you're the same age, right?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So you were in the minors together?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Same draft year, yep. Came out basically the whole way, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Man, that is amazing. So it's almost like you kind
of have a mind mill going on.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
It's been a long time going now since 2018. So yeah,
he's caught me the majority of my starts and we've
been Friends and roommates and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That is so awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So when you were growing up, a lot of kids
want to be baseball players or pro athletes. How did
you know or how did your parents and family and
supportive network know that you actually had what it takes
to get to the level that you're at?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Oh, man, they would probably think they're better than me.
I think it's a combination of a lot of stuff again.
I think there's a plan much bigger than anything I comprehend. Yeah.
Where everybody is supposed to be and interact and all
very complicated stuff that I don't understand from a spiritual perspective.
But I'll say like, as a kid, I was always,
(11:26):
I'm just going to do something until I figure it out.
I always thought that was a great thing. There's negatives too.
I can be stubborn. I can like, I, there's definitely trade-offs,
but the good thing is like, it can lead, I
think to this kind of stuff. So, My parents would
tell you when I was three or four, like, I
was going to tie my shoes. They were going to
help me. And I was like, no, I'm going to
sit here. You're not tying my shoes. Like, I'm going
(11:48):
to sit here until I tie my shoes. Like, I'm
going to figure it out. Again, not always the best,
but little things like that. My dad would tell people
he thinks a big difference. A lot of people growing
up liked playing baseball. I loved playing baseball. Like, there
was kind of a distinction there about that's all I
wanted to do. I think people would say, too, like, Again,
(12:10):
you can be a little crazy, but I think there's
an element of mastering your craft of trying to perfect
something just over and over and being so like meticulous
about little details. I've always been that way.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Trade also that, but I think it helped me get here. So,
you know, I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Do you have any advice that you'd like to give
to young people who might be listening to this and
might have dreams of their own, whether it's being a
professional athlete or whatever their dream is?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah. First of all, like you're saying, I think dream big.
Don't be reasonable. Go do something crazy. You can be
the best in the world at something if you want
to be. You don't have to. I think there's some
pressure there too in our world that like sometimes being
a normal person, living a quiet life and just loving
other people is like what we're supposed to do. But
(12:57):
I'm not going to lie. I am wired to want
to be the best at everything I do. So I
think that's awesome. Probably the main thing that I've kind
of hit on here is find something that you love
doing and just try to be the best. If you
love playing video games, whatever your passion is, follow that
and a lot of other things will kind of sort
itself out. Gratitude, I think, is almost like a superpower.
(13:21):
Live with gratitude. Be relentless about choosing gratitude. Not just
hoping it happens to you, but just love other people,
be grateful, be kind, treat others well. I think caring
about others is just as important as being great at something,
so I don't know. There's a lot of stuff there,
but that's kind of just where I've been at lately.
(13:41):
I think it's all helpful stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
And now you're a dad. And then you've got a
young son. And how's that been?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Like, how do you balance being a dad and having
a family with your career?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
It's so cool. It's the best thing ever. Yeah, it's
changed a lot. It's a hard lifestyle. Shout out to
my wife, because a lot of these... Moms out here
are kind of doing a lot of it by themselves
while we're at the field or traveling or whatever. But
it's helped me a ton and shaped me in ways
I definitely needed but couldn't have happened without Henry. And
he's just taught me so much about something bigger than yourself,
(14:20):
caring about other people. I'm not the most important person
in my life. My wife, my kid, I have responsibilities
to treat them well and care for them more than myself.
And I think it's been, in a way, the most
freeing thing because all of us are kind of wired
selfishly towards being really great at this very niche job
(14:40):
that not many people get to do. So I think
Henry's just helped me have, all of that's probably just perspective,
I would say. Just gain a ton of perspective on life,
on baseball, on everything that I was probably long overdue for.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It has a way of doing that,
I can tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So after you're done doing this, being a starting pitcher
for the Mariners, which is one of the coolest things ever,
how do you see your life going?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
That's a good question. I really don't know yet. The
coolest thing right now is being a husband and being
a dad, and hopefully that lasts your whole life, you know?
So I'm really looking forward to that. I want to
have a lot of kids. I want to, like, watch
them grow up. I want to maybe be a coach
for them or just take them to practice or, like,
just little things like that. But I do always want
(15:26):
to have, like, a large impact on people. I think
it's going to be hard getting away from baseball completely.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I could see it happening after baseball, but I could
also see myself being a coach or who knows what
that looks like. But I think from a bigger perspective,
I want to get involved in charity work or like
missions work. There's a lot of serious stuff out there
in the world and like people less fortunate than me
for sure that everybody needs help. So I don't know
(15:54):
what that looks like. I don't know what part of
the world that is, but I want to help people.
I want to be a part of that charity mission world.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Adrian, do you have any other questions you'd like to ask?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
What is the question that you always wish someone would
ask you in an interview but no one has ever done?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Oh my gosh. These are probably like the best three
questions that I've never heard or thought of. So a
question that I've never had that I wish somebody had
asked me.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
I don't even know how to phrase it, but some
form of like, what would you tell your younger self?
It's not that necessarily. It's kind of just like something
you had to remember or teach yourself along the way.
in baseball. I think that's important just because a big
thing that I had to realize along the way, and
it's so simple, is like the fun of baseball is
(16:43):
a huge thing that can get lost once you start
getting paid to play or just do something every day.
A huge part of my learning and growing in this
game was getting back to that four-year-old self that I
loved playing baseball and I didn't know anything about it.
I was four years old and I grabbed a bat
and I wanted to play and I've been doing it
(17:04):
ever since. Taking that kid with me in a way
or the fun that I've always had and remembering that
that's why I play. So I don't even know what
the question is for that, but like that's kind of
the answer that's I think been a big part of
my career.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That is amazing. And I think that's great for all
of us just to find the why. You know, why
are we doing what we're doing?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
What's our mission statement to keep us going for the
rest of our life?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, definitely. That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Logan Gilbert is a starting pitcher for the Seattle Mariners.
Follow Logan on Instagram at LoganGilbert22. Logan, thank you so
much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Thanks for having me on. It was really fun. It
was good stuff. Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
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Speaker 2 (17:51):
Up next on the Eric Korman Show..
Speaker 1 (17:53):
We'll talk with writer Eli Bernstein, whose new book is
Phrased and Confused, The Curious Meanings of Timeless Quotations, which
explores the fascinating stories behind the world's most famous quotes.
Above all, those we commonly misunderstand. That's coming up next
on The Eric Korman Show. Until then, may you and
(18:13):
your family be well, and I'll talk to you soon.
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