 by a guy who's entering his second year with the Yankees his first year he did such a great job out of the bullpen and that is Adam Aduvino Adam how you doing I'm great I'm great thanks for having me I know shortly you'll head down the Tampa to start pitchers and catchers in spring training your thoughts about your team as you go down I mean you got to feel good about it right I mean pretty much same team as last year plus Garrett so you know feeling great optimistic and it's gonna take a lot of hard work nothing's a given but I'm feel good about it for sure you know we just had Gary here and you know we talked about the last pitch of the season I'm sure you've read everything you're not just a baseball player you're a fan as well do you believe that he knew what pitch was coming I really don't know I've watched all the videos all the spy gate stuff you know I'm trying to look at it it looks a little fishy but I just don't know how did I I can't say one way or another does it how much does the idea of it anger you that that's one thing we've heard a lot is you guys all make a living have to work so hard to play in the big leagues does it offend you personally that there are people taking shortcuts yeah for sure I just think if it's like a buzzer system it's just like a grievous obviously so what about the trash cans though yeah I mean that's bold I mean obviously very very just bold I mean I mean they broke it down it sounds so obvious so for me when they trash can't stop it makes me think that they just got smarter with the cheating not that they stopped so that lends itself to a possible buzzer system I don't know but yeah it's just it's tough it's a crazy rabbit hole to go down for sure so if it ends up being ill-gotten gain what would you describe disappointed angry like how would you feel about missing that opportunity to play in the World Series yeah disappointed I mean I'm not an angry type of person like that because I still think we could have done things to win the series I mean I'm always trying to look at what we could have done but I think yeah I'd be disappointed we were we were right there we're making that comeback in that game we felt like we're gonna win that game and then win the next game so you know it ends it's kind of like shocking that it's over but um you know that's how it went you know Don just ask Gary this I want to ask you so Lemay who hits that homerun you guys are done and he hits that homerun and all of a sudden there's life again and then now to the hits the homerun to win it would you rather let me not hit the homerun it would have been less painful if you just lost in the top of the ninth inning maybe maybe but I don't know I was a great moment when you hit the we were so alive in the dugout I know me personally like I was dying to get back in a game kept it scoreless and then we made the comeback so I was like dreaming like okay I'm gonna turn it around the team's gonna turn around we're gonna win this thing so it was a great feeling in the moment and it was just kind of like disbelief when hit the homerun now we're also joined by Gio Rochella the Yankee third baseman and what a year he had a last year out of nowhere with all the Yankee injuries he got his opportunity sees the opportunity and had an unbelievable season so Gio I'll ask you and I just asked Adam before he sat down do you think that I'll do they knew what pitch was coming the last pitch of the year probably it feels like so confident in that a bad against the best closer in the game and probably he knew it was coming now does that make you angry a little bit but we're trying to do the best we got a really good team they got a good player too but we're trying to do the best and play the baseball clean the Yankee fans are so surprised by your year last year were you surprised at all on how it came together I mean not really I always I always been working for for wait a season like this and trying to do my best and I was waiting for this opportunity and thanks God I'll come last year it's gotta be a great feeling you know and do horse healthy again and Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone is said well you know this Gio or shell his job did you worry that you gonna have to battle Miguel for that position but now you're going into spring training and it's your job to win or lose I mean it's right to to be me to be myself keep working with we are a family we work together we're gonna for the season we're gonna be together and try to do the best we can and wherever they need me I'll be there try to help the team Adam a tances has now gone does your role or their more emphasis on your role how does that change now that he's gone I mean you didn't really play last year you know through two batters so I think it'll be the same you know things always change every year so God be ready for anything but you know ultimately we didn't end up having them so that was disappointing you know for him and for us you know a lot of players that I spoke to a lot of people in baseball say that what the Astros are gonna have to deal with this year is that players are angry and there might be people that throw at them they might be getting into fights as players say oh yeah you took money out of my pocket do you see that happening could that be a problem with the Astros I have no idea I mean there are people that'll talk a big game you know about all that stuff I don't know what will happen in actuality I know me I don't like to let guys on base like for any reason so it's hard for me to just start firing balls of people and let free guys get on base you know especially in a one-run game or something like that but I could see a couple people in particular that feel like they were wronged you know going for it and maybe they don't want to dig in so comfortably Geo you're from Columbia and there is a history of Colombian ball players but not necessarily is as much as there are from other countries in Latin America how big is baseball in Columbia culturally growing up it's growing a lot like I feel like it's the last couple years since we get we went to the World Bables Classic it's been growing and I feel really happy for all the players that is growing by showing the they all the teams that we got a really good players in Colombia you know I'm interested Adam you know you spent your your career with the the Rockies before last year with the Yankees so you had seen Garrett Cole when he was a pirate and then you saw him last year with the Astros how much different was he with the Astros and which picture do you expect to see with the Yankees I think he'll be a lot closer to what he was with the Astros and he'll probably continue to evolve a little more how has he evolved well I mean with the Pirates he was throwing a lot of sinking fastballs pitching more with like a contact pitch a contact philosophy pitching in a lot that's the way the Pirates kind of go about it and once he got with the Astros he was just throwing four seamers high really leaning into his strengths a lot more breaking balls just change up his mix but same same arms same talent just different strategy and you can see how he's really smart and you can see how over time he like kind of figures out what's the next thing he has to get a little better at and prioritize I'm wondering because Yankee fans when when the Yankee signed Garrett Cole nine years you know three trillion dollars everybody's excited wow that's great your player on the team what was your first reaction when you hear why we just signed the best pitcher in baseball or the one or two Garrett on Jacob DeGron would argue yeah no I was excited about it I knew that there was a chance but I didn't know if he would actually come I knew that we wanted him badly you know everything that I had heard from the people I know and you know I was just kind of not nervous about it I know we had a great team either way but you know it was exciting I mean you see the number and it's kind of eye-popping but overall just you know another great guy to add to the to the room and we're excited. Gio how much are you gonna miss Titi? A lot. Titi is fun. I love to have Titi always like next to me in the locker room always talking he's a good guy trying to always smile try to keep the group together and it is fun to play with Titi. Do you believe that Gleiber could take over defensively at short we know how well he plays at second can he do the job at short? Yeah for sure 100% he grew up at a stair stop and I think he's gonna do a really good job. Adam thought as rumors swirling around Nolan Aronado we see him from afar you got a chance to play with him just just describe what kind of player he's like. I mean you know he's one of the best players in the game top five easy he's unbelievable defender like you know Hall of Fame defender and he's a great hitter too he gets better with guys in scoring position he gives tougher at bats he's like a baseball rat like his personality is just obsessive really hard-working and that's kind of like how he is he's maybe not the best athlete by of like those guys are in the top five but probably the hardest working and just most like though his willpower is really strong. Now we had heard so much after you signed with the Yankees last year that you had that laboratory pitching laboratory but that laboratories no longer there was there a laboratory somewhere else this winter where you worked on stuff? Yankee Stadium. Okay it's a bigger lab. Yeah they'd set it up nice for me and you know I was able to do some stuff there that I wasn't able to do at my own place like you know shower. It was nice they took good care of me. So you were there a lot during the winter? Yeah yeah quite a bit. Gio how did you handle New York with all the stardom all the fame that you got rushed to you in the biggest city in North America how did you handle becoming a star? I mean it's fun to play for New York. I love the city I love the fan the way they care the game and that's made me like going to the game like really really excited and playful for win. Adam is this team so good that it's World Series or Bust? I think that's always the goal with the Yankees you know I know even I've only been for one year but I know even prior to that team went deep into the playoffs so that's the next step gotta get to the World Series in our minds I mean there's a lot to take care of before that but ultimately yeah I think World Series or Bust. Now you grew up a Yankee fan career in Colorado was it different playing for the Yankees was there a different feeling? I think I did a good job of not paying attention to the external stuff that I was all about when I was younger you know I mean I know that there's a lot more coverage I know what the Yankee fans expect I was one of them so I get it but I did a good job of like kind of insulating myself from all of that but I think organizationally like we know that what the goal is and I think it's a little different than in Colorado I think maybe in Colorado we were trying to develop but also like hope for a miracle maybe whereas with the Yankees it's kind of like we're expected to play well and to win every night. Growing up a Yankee fan the first time you put on those pinstripes was it surreal did you sit there and take a look and go wow this really happened? Yeah yeah I went in after I signed to the stadium to like take a new head shot and they put on the jersey and it felt like heavy to me you know and I commented that and some of the clubhouse guys said that you know it gets lighter don't worry like but it definitely felt heavy at first I mean I won't lie. Well it's interesting because it's not the same story as someone who gets drafted to the team they grew up grew up dreaming of BM so you had the experience in Colorado but still are their nerves the first time you walk out of the bullpen and like I'm pitching now Yankee Stadium? Yeah I was nervous anxious all that but they got me in there right away I think it was the first guy to come in the game out of the pen in the season last year so I was grateful for that just like rip the band-aid off get in and also like I felt like you know I've pitched a long time now and I know I'm actually good so before it would have been a lot more nerve-wracking when I didn't know my own ability but I knew last year I was gonna do fine. I noticed you know you were out in the dugout during old-timers day was there anybody that you met that you had wanted to meet and was it kind of a cool feeling? All the guys I mean I try to talk to them as much as possible pretty much everybody but like Bernie was my guy he's a guy that like I'm kind of star struck by when I see him yeah even more than Mariano or or anybody but for some reason Bernie so you know I try to be kind of I'm kind of coy around him you know I try to talk to him a little bit but that type of thing. How about you Gio I mean you didn't dream of being a Yankee but you're Yankee what was it like well those pinstripes heavy? I mean that's mean a lot for every every player who played for the Yankees like even the fans in Colombia I don't even know that like we got a lot of fans a lot of Yankee fans in Colombia and signs I got to the Yankees and that's made me feel like I gotta play good we gotta win and we gotta win that we're serious. Who was your growing up who was your favorite ballplayer? Abrac? Yeah. Perfect. Have you gotten to spend some time with him now that you yeah I spoke with him sometimes last year. Do they get the yes network in Venezuela? Colombia. Colombia I'm sorry. Do they get they don't? No. We got to get it for you. For sure. The whole town. I'm curious to see if they get it in Venezuela now. So are people are people in Colombia able to watch you? Yeah. People can watch online and things like that. They watch a lot of Yankee games. And do you think that here because there's a huge Colombian community in New York and Queens in particular do you think that the Colombians who live in New York know that you're a Yankee and are coming out to support you? For sure I spent a couple of time in Queens last year and they know it's a Colombian player in the Yankees. Adam you wrote it for the Yankees. What other teams in New York did you root for? Nick's. That's sorry. Yeah. God bless. Giants although I'm not really into football much and then Islanders. Okay. Yeah. My dad's family's from Long Island. So obviously you wrote it for the Islanders during a very very tough time. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. I'll just say you're a young guy. You missed the good times. Yeah I did. Well the good times are coming again. Yeah. Well I'll see you guys later at the dinner. I thank you for dropping by and I'll see you both in Tampa. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. Jim Maravino and Gio Urchella. So good stuff for those guys and it's a lot expected from both of them. The Michael K show on 98.7 ESPN as much about