 Welles is among the top prospects in the Yankees organization and as a stellar season going in summer set with the Patriots thus far he's been a force at the plate and leads his team and runs batted in after his grand slam last night and he joins us now on BPTV. Austin thank you so much for spending some time with us and we heard Anthony Volpe side of the whole chicken parm dinner that his aunt cooked up for both of you and a couple other of your teammates as well we just want to get it from your side your perspective it's been kind of a lightning rod since you and Anthony have taken off since then so how did it all come about yeah we finally had a day where we were able to you know meet up on an off day we both had it off so we met over at his house after some golf and you know we just started sitting down and we're going over you know past highlights and remembering when we we used to play together in 21 and 22 down in low and high and you know you know it just kind of started from there and you know whatever it was that we talked about you know it's certainly working and you know he's doing he's doing amazing yeah he also said that you both took something out of what you saw in his swing now we saw the difference a little bit in his stance and he's taken off and over last 11 games you're hitting over 300 you have seven extra base hits 15 RBI including that grand slam we just mentioned so what were you able to take from that to order to jumpstart you as well yeah I think a lot of it was pretty similar for the both of us you know it was just more so mentally than anything and you know being back together and you know just feeding off each other's confidence I think gave us just a runway to continue to have success and you know you know be the players that we are and your relationship Austin as you said you played together in 21 and 22 there's a lot of long bus rides you're on the road a lot so your relationship really got tight then can you just give us a little bit of the background of why you guys are so close yeah I think that we're two peas in a pod really when it comes to life and playing baseball so you know we enjoy the same things we're both very competitive and you know we're both out there doing everything we can to be the best so I think it's a just came easy for us to get close and you know try to win together his family lives close by is there any way you can get that chicken parm like from his aunt delivered to Somerset to the stadium are you working on that do you have kind of an in with that or what's going on yeah it's just a hop skip and a jump over there I'm sure I could just go over there for dinner whenever you know being as that I live there all last season so you know and they've been amazing to me so you know it's awesome all right now how about yourself adjusting to double a let's let's start with behind the plate we talked to you last year about your journey how has it been you're almost at your year anniversary at Somerset so can you just describe going from single a to double a and what you've done adjustment wise behind the plate yeah I think at every level you know it's pretty much the same trying to make your pictures look as good as they can out there give them confidence and you know just have them have fun out there you know when when we're having fun we're usually winning baseball games so you know when everyone's doing that we're winning it's hard not to have fun and do well and what about at the plate Austin because we've seen you you're hitting over 250 you're doing very well at the plate as well as behind the plate at the catching position so what adjustments have you had to make as a hitter at the double a level yeah I think at the double a level and continuing on I think you know you just have to really stick to your approach and you know really start to game plan for the teams that what they're gonna try and do against you and you know it's gonna you know it's been obvious this month there was a there was a couple weeks stretch where we faced some teams that I've faced since low and you know they pitched me the same way they have been the whole time and I was able to you know jump on some pitches just by you know looking in the past couple years and seeing how they how they've pitched me and you know sticking to that approach we mentioned that you're coming up on that one-year anniversary at double a so what are some of your goals personally for you do you want to be a triple a by the end of the season where do you see yourself yeah I think that's hard to you know predict as a player you know I'm just trying to do the best I can every day and then whatever is needed for me you know that's what I want to do and that's how I want to help the Yankees win you know I mean I think it'd be crazy to say that I don't want to be in the big league so I want to you know do everything I can to be there and get to play with Anthony again Austin we look forward to that day and we appreciate the time today thank you so much thank you appreciate it for more on Wells catching all new episode of homegrown the path to pinstripes tonight on yes and get a close-up look at top prospects including Jason Dominguez watch homegrown presented by 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