 you've played every position besides shortstop and catcher you pitched for an inning do you have a love do you have like your heart at one spot or it's a great question do you like being all around uh i think there's a balance i think when you first come up just getting on the field and being able to play anywhere it's huge especially when you're playing for joe madden he will literally put you anywhere i had come up as a second baseman so i've you know played at some outfield in college but i came up as a second baseman basically i'm saying like hey we want you to play second and hoppy wasn't established yet and paddison was the shortstop and it was kind of like you know there's going to be a spot on the field somewhere so then i get up i'm playing right field in game one because tayward's heard and then i'm playing center field and i hadn't played center field since college and i just got thrown into the fire so for me kind of the cool experience of being in triple a everything else was not great but playing center field for 99 games and i played like maybe a couple games a second but for the most part i played just a ton of center so getting to play there every day and learn the position i felt really confident and it was something i hadn't gotten to do in my professional career yet because i was really confident second base when i called big leagues and then became an outfield so i think that that that part of it because you get labeled so quickly as like either bad at everything defensively or like really good at one thing i don't think anyone's ever like this guy's utility guy and he's awesome at all the positions it's like he should win a gold glove at nine so i think even you know being good athlete and really i played really a good second base my first year in the week like i played a lot of games i made two errors and one of them was like on a diving play like i was like i'm a good second base like i can do this and you get labeled as a bad defender and so for me to be able to lock down one position and like be able to do it consistently and kind of prove that i can play defensively somewhere that would be great do you so sometimes analysts, fundants or whatever like i think jake and i've done it for some yankees players before do you tie your batting statistics to the position you're playing that day at all like you know sometimes people are like well for you your your best numbers actually come when you're a pinch hitter which is bullshit like how the fuck are you so good at pinch hitting labor had massive splits when labor played shortstop his numbers were better than when he was playing second base so people said that he's more comfortable does that even is that real at all uh i'll touch on one thing about my pinch hitting might be the best pinch hitter of all time look at your pinch hitting numbers are nasty pinch hitter i'm a nasty pinch hitter trev you see these trick 296 sucked at pinch hitter 296 batting average 409 ops 1.057 ops as a pinch hitter like that's bullshit man no one's supposed to be that good at pinch hit yeah but you gotta go you gotta get some more bats and triple a you're not ready yet um i think i think the most difficult part i don't have one position i i think i like rake at but i do i do think that not knowing where you're gonna play and the preparation that goes into not knowing where you're gonna play can affect hitting and not knowing if you're gonna be able to play one position for the entire game or you know i think that it's all part of it and i had a great teacher in benz overs was able to tell me like the way that you prepared and the way that he thought about it and he was back and forth all over the place and one of his mantras was to just be as vanilla and as safe as possible you just you play the ball off the wall you hit the cut off me on the chest like just whatever because if you're playing more than one position you just don't try to do too much because that's when you get yourself in trouble and that was something that i really learned a lot from him and watching him was just the consistency that he was able to go out there and and play the game if uh if the cubs are up you know the division's locked up you got 10 extra games are you going to go tap rossy on the shoulder and be like hey man i never caught or played short only two i haven't i don't need to catch i don't think uh i would love to play short stop just for like just give me an ending it's short i think if i get an ending it's short then maybe at some point i'll be like hey man uh if there's a position player throwing just let me sit behind the dish i like catching is terrifying i don't really want to do it but i think that playing short stop like tab eight of the nine would like how shortstop the one that i don't have you know well only the creme de la creme of athletes make it as a big shortstop so it's like you know that's your last one how quickly were you kicked from short what how quickly were you kicked from short i'm just saying like to be a bigly shortstop it's you have to be really super athletic and like pretty much the best athlete out there so that's why i just want one ending i don't claim to be the most athletic i just want the one push one three out i like what you're saying is we're thinking i don't know i like what you're saying about uh a non catcher catching when a position player pitches just make the whole battery yeah first timers that's the only way i would do it i would never catch an actual pitcher you couldn't pay me enough money to like sit back there and be like hey man you know call the game and then and then catch it i was like i'm just gonna get in the face mask ten times like i'm not doing i just had a really good guys though now trev i had a real good hypothetical on twitter i just tweeted out and it was would you rather catch an aroldis Chapman fastball full catcher's equipment but you have two cleats on your hands or no catcher's equipment but a catcher's glove catcher's glove but then you don't have a face mask so what's or a cup or a cup yeah what if he spikes it you're gonna go like this with the well you got a mask on at least do you have to you know i mean you don't have to catch it can you get out of the way like you can't possibly catch it with spikes on your hands can you just like dive out of the way do you think it's gonna feel good to get hit with an aroldis Chapman fastball because you have a face mask on no but it's not gonna kill me could be better than death i don't know i think i don't know