 today presented by Audi before his first place scranton rail riders take on the Rochester Red Wings the triple A affiliate of the Nats rail riders manager Doug Davis was gracious enough to spend some time with us talk about his players making an impact at the big league level I'm going to go out on a very sturdy limb here and and say Doug you're not at all surprised at the impact your players are making with the Yankees right now. No I'm not. You know what that's kind of been our goal and our priority ever since those guys showed up for the most part at the alternate site. I mean our focus has been on making sure on a daily basis that everybody's ready and prepared whenever those calls come. You know you know how the game is the industry is but you never know and so you know again our main focus has been to make sure everybody's well prepared when that call comes and one of our guys needs to go up to to New York or in this case several of our guys need to go to New York and help out. You have such a great job because you get to bring the guys in and tell them they're on their way to the Bronx or on the road with the Yankees somewhere. How cool is that for you to be the bearer of that tremendous news. I think honestly that's one of the most exciting parts about this job because you know I was through it a little bit as a player experienced that and and I've been through it a lot over the course of years in different capacities being able to be involved with telling somebody that he's he's going to the big leagues and especially for the first timers it's really special and it's a great honor to be able to call somebody in who's able to you know finally you know reach kind of one of their goals one of their dreams and go go to the major leagues as a baseball player. Doug Greg Allen was with the Indians in the majors. How hungry has he been all season with you down there in Scranton to get this opportunity. Well Greg you know the first time I met Greg I could tell that the type of professional he was. Greg's been very committed to what what his role has been. I think he knew that you know he was going to ultimately have an opportunity at some point to get up there and be able to make an impact. He's been there before he's very comfortable with that. He was very comfortable here as a role role model and as an experienced player and sharing information with the rest of the younger guys. So yeah Greg Greg was hot when he went up. He stayed hot. You know very proud of the effort that he's put forth up there and I'm glad you know I'm glad he's getting an opportunity to showcase what he's able to do as a professional baseball player for the Yankees. Yeah he's starting tonight. Ryan Lamar is also starting tonight. What are some of the intangibles you've seen from Ryan. Well Ryan's a competitive guy. I mean he went when he shows up to the ballpark. He's a man on a mission. He knows exactly what he wants to do. He prepares himself very well. Again he's been another guy that's experienced. He's been up there. So he's not really experiencing anything he hasn't been through before. And he knew that you know every day he came to the ballpark here that it was about the preparation and making sure that he was the best he could possibly be on a daily basis. And that's showing up when he's gone up there. Again he's a confident guy and not surprised at all the success he's had. You've seen Estevan Florial for about 200 plus at bats in Scranton. What have you liked most about Estevan. Well Estevan's a he's an athlete. You know he's a five-tool player. You know he's still developing. He's still working on an awful lot of things and he's committed to that. You know he's out here working every day on specific areas of the game because he knows that he can make an impact in different ways during the course of a baseball game whether it be on defense on the bases or offensively. And so his commitment to that to stand on course and picking the brains of some of the other older guys on this team has been very valuable for Estevan. Davey Garcia Doug he had one of the biggest starts and biggest wins for the Yankees last season. Can you just kind of take us through some of the ups and downs he's had this season for you all. Well I think Davey you know experienced something that just about every I think pitcher that's gone to the big leagues is will experience or has experienced in the past. You know he just did a little bump in the road and for whatever reason his command suffered a little bit and but Davey you know Davey has battled his way through this. I think it's been a really good experience for him because the next time you know these things happen he's going to be very well prepared to know how to handle it and work his way through it. Hopefully he'll be doing that you know in a New York Yankee uniform but his last four or five starts to be honest with you have been extremely good. They've progressively gotten better. The man of his fastball has been terrific and I know he is very confident right now and he's looking forward to the next opportunity. Doug his success is kind of going hand in hand with the overall success of your club. You're in first place in your division. What are some of the things that your team has been doing this season specifically to have you in this position. Well in my opinion they're playing good baseball. You know all all around. We're we're aggressive. That shows up on the bases. We have probably more stolen bases now than we we've had in the other years that I've been here you know with the other teams. I think we focused on that. I think that that has transferred into other areas of the game for us. We've been a very good offensive club but when you have you know we've had Luke Voight a couple of times and a few other guys and we had a terrific you know offensive club with with all of the guys that are now in the big leagues. So we score a bunch of runs. The pitching has been consistent and consistently getting better and better as the years gone on. But again I just kind of attribute it to the fact that these guys are committed to working and to playing a good baseball game every night. They get a chance to go out and perform. Thanks for sending some of those steals to the Bronx. Doug we do appreciate it and thank you for the time. We know you have a game tonight. So best of luck in the game tonight against Rochester. We'll see you down the line. Thank you. My pleasure. To learn more about the rail riders and the rest of the Yankees farm system tune in all summer long to Yes's Emmy nominated docu series homegrown the path to pinch stripes. Our next episode will premiere this coming Wednesday following our Yankees coverage at approximately 11 o'clock and it's going to focus on the Yanks new double a affiliate the Somerset Patriots. You can also watch homegrown on the S app as Gary Sanchez a homegrown Yankee takes some cuts in the cage.