 What's up everybody welcome back to sequence this episode is brought to you by Jeff Kings I am your host Trevor Ploof and today. We have a very very special guest All-Star World Series champ My man Philip Hughes. How are you? What's up, bro? Thanks for having me. I'm very excited to have you on Obviously we go way back You have had an incredible career You hung them up you started getting into the card collecting Industry, what's it? What's the real term for that? Yeah, I mean card. Yeah card game card collecting industry card industry. Yeah, a booming industry. I might add dude. You blown up You're not necessarily just from that standpoint, but yeah, I mean cards are coming back in a big way And I mean this is a topic for a whole different discussion But with sports kind of you know not being around these last few months people are itching to gamble as you know and Cards are just a legal way of gambling. So It's been a lot of fun. Yeah, your YouTube channel is blown up. It's Phil's pools. We'll drop those balls. Yeah Go check it out. You open a ton of Higher end stuff, which is really cool to see it really does give you that rush a little bit of that gambling vibe In fact, I'm sure I'm joining you in a box war Yeah, yeah, keep an eye out for that Yeah, we got a 12 man box war current former players trevors in it Mike trout sisi sabatia a rod. It's should be a lot of fun. It's insane. You've got Incredible talent in there and then me so I appreciate you Extending the invite. Yeah, you and me just along for the right me and Dan here and are going head-to-head first round So I'm excited about that Yeah, it should be it should be a lot of fun. But like I said, we've gone. We go back. We go way back same same draft class 2004 we came up same agent Same agent. Yep. Yeah, and then wait together for a few years You're the star in the Yankees or coming up You make it to the big leagues at 20 years old then you're part of a world series Title run in 09 we end up playing together you're well traveled and We the one season that I'll always remember is 2014 and You were absolutely the lights out that year and it was you were one of the guys I love to play behind because of the way you approached it like you just through strikes And you kept that around your toes and as a defender Any defender out there knows like that that's those are the guys you want to play behind so I appreciate that Yeah, well, especially in a year like that where we were absolutely miserable You wanted those games to go by as quickly as possible I think it was not do we lose 90 games a year, but you set yeah Maybe maybe not 90, but you said that year you set the the strikeout to walk ratio For all of MLB or just for the AL A single season all the time incredible and it felt like that like it felt like you turbo charge through the line-ups every game So let's get into the video before we do Here's the ad read Grab your peanuts and popcorn baseball is back. 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All right, Phil. We got the video Keyed up we see your stats right there five and three with a three three three and I think towards the end of this year you're like You're like going like you're hot. So these numbers are on their way down. Do you remember feeling locked in? Yeah, this was kind of like in the middle of my bullpen run a Big chunk that era was was out of the was starting. Mm-hmm, and I think for I Figured how long it was but there was a six week to two month period where I think I had like a sub one And then this was kind of this was kind of right in the middle of that So this is I was feeling I was feeling really good. I was already pitching the eighth inning where when I went down there I was the long guy So I was like a one. I was like a one inning four out guy at this point Yeah, the Yankees were we were rolling at this point We were winning a bunch of games and close games and this is yeah, this is one of them This is a Cooler bat because it's another guy that we both played with Jim. Tell me who's alleged and yeah I always tell people like this guy He was like a superhuman like big person like just he looked different than other people And I think you can kind of see it when you look at him. Yeah, so no for sure. He's yeah, he's one of the best ever And this was this was a big inning for me just because You know, I'm facing I had the meat in this inning You know a lot of times you want your closer to face You know the best parts of the lineup, but in the eighth here. I had told me can her go Jermaine died So yeah, there it is right there. Tell me it's having a rough day Maybe Jim went out for a little Some adult beverages. Yeah, I don't know who started this game for us, but they they fish pretty well I think it's a thing was what a to-toe game I think it was a tie game. So Gordon Beckham. I think he's looking fresh off winning rookie of the year or something like that Yeah, he was he was the guy Carlos Quentin Alterios. Yeah, pretty good lineup. Yeah, but we got big Jim coming up here Intimidating in the box First pitch is So I try to go heater in miss up. It's a good place. It's a good place for To go with him and it always was I mean just that You know hard in under his hands. Don't let him get those big hairy forearms extended, you know, I Gotta say you could have got a strike there, but this is Jim. Tell me at the plate That's one of those. Yeah, that's one of those pictures. I don't want probably not what I'm gonna get either Yeah, but all right, and I look at your sign up away So just trying to steal a strike get back in the count Little fastball down in a way Kind of a weird swing there for you know, 1-0 County's probably hot in the heater And it's actually it looks like he was almost a little out in front of that It took a fastball kind of you know mid away and banged it into a shin He doesn't look like he's seeing the ball very well. Look right there. He's in between Well, judging by the 0 for three or three punches He's probably not feeling that great at the plate at this particular moment So I did maybe a little get a little fortunate there. Yeah, and that was dotted though That was down in the way. Get your spot. Yeah, it was a good pitch. I go one one so here we're going back in and I just miss with a cutter that just spun So that mixer cutter that just ran right down the middle and he probably was like What on earth was that? Man, we talked about that as hitters like sometimes the backup sliders the hardest pitch you expected to break It doesn't and then you sit in there. Yeah, wow I should have killed that pitch, but I did right and he could probably I mean I don't know how much these guys peak and stuff like that, but you can feel when a guy's coming in to you I bet and you know, he was probably looking for something in and just got a cement mixer right down the middle and Unfortunately for Jim. He needed to take advantage of that because Yeah, he wasn't getting another mistake like that on two strikes Well, it's interesting because so you started out heater away He saw like he saw he saw your fastball and then came back with another one and he was kind of in between little late and then You go ahead and throw him the cement mixer away And he swings through it. So now if I'm Jim, I'm like, I don't know what's coming right like, you know, and what's funny is You know two of the three pitches were misses and the intent was off on all of them. So I finally execute a pitch and Yeah, it's well, let's see what happens. So yeah, I mean you're you've been trying to go in this entire Kind of been missing arm side and here's your here's your correction. And what's funny about this too is so Posada caught, you know, 90% of the games, but here it's Jose Molina. Okay, and Posada was more had a tendency to like Wanting to just go with what was working Whereas Molina kind of did this this thing where he wanted you to execute the pitch that you were struggling with And he wanted you to like find that so like normally in this situation I would just I would just try to blow heaters But he but because I had missed With that cutter so badly he wanted me to come back to it Interesting. Yeah, he was he was interesting in that way. Yeah, and now I'm wondering like if Jim probably it kind of looks Like Jim was up there maybe looking to pull the ball Right and got with that short course right there. You know what lefty isn't, you know and now You're showing him away on accident and you've opened up the inside part of the plate. Sure Molina can steal strikes too, by the way Oh, yeah, especially downs his hand. Yeah, his hands were unreal All right, so we go back in execute a heater in 94. So that was probably the pitch that's set up Everything in the setback because he saw the cement mixer out over the plate and then I finally got in on him To speed him up a little bit and even though he fouls it off like I kind of it kind of Did everything I needed it to do, you know, I mean like I would have loved if he swung through it like yeah, I'll take that but Now I could go back down away. I could probably bury a curve ball I could just open so many other things up for me Yeah, and whether I was located even if he puts the barrel on it. He's pulling it fell Yeah, there's not much you can do with that pitch. That's your pitch, you know, unless you're Joey Bono or some And there he is. That's just how I remember you like facing you like there All right, I'm shocked that we're not going over and I bet I had against you, but This is successes only baby All right. Well, like you said, you opened up every part of the plate. There's job job. I could basically Java Java That's like I was all right. I like Jobba. He may he may have started this game to be honest with you There let's go back and watch that again. Yeah, and that's just this is what I called my cutter basically the exact same pitch that ran out over the plate the first time and Yeah, it has like depth, you know, it wasn't it wasn't like the cutter that That I threw later in my career, but 88 he kind of just you know looked like a fastball coming in just, you know, kind of bit a little bit down and I mean, you're looking yeah, that looks like a fastball and and Jim was Jim with the What do you call that golden subara the golden is a great. Yeah, he just you tied him up, man Yeah, well, he's he's looking for that same fastball in and then by the time he realized that it was You know breaking it's too late, you know It was one more time. Yeah, we love Jim. We love Jim's. Jim's the best. Yeah, tough. I almost feel bad picking on him. Like I wish we were we could have picked somebody better, but this is That was that was a good example of an at bat where not everything goes right the entire way And if you miss one mistake, it can Be your you're done, you know You unintentionally opened up that part of the plate by missing arm side a few times Right, right and then you which is which is funny because you know pitchers will say Oh, you know, I only made two mistakes tonight and it cost me bullshit Any given night pitchers are making 40% mistakes. It's just all about how many are capitalized on so And velo helps and that's why you know, those velo those mistakes are They can be missed still Yeah, and that's a velo helps everything, you know, if you're a low velo guy you have to make less mistakes and You know a guy that throws a hundred and I mean there's all sorts of different aspects to it whether it's you know life on the fastball and oh this guy's 93 looks like 96 and you know all that other stuff that's involved But if you have a fastball that gets on guys It uh, it makes life a lot easier All right, man. Well, I appreciate you coming on sharing your insight Uh follow Phil's polls subscribe like all that good stuff Okay, we're gonna have him back for a bat number two. So Check it out. Sweet. Thanks, man