 Welcome to Yankees summer camp, Meredith Morakovitz, alongside Yankees first round drop pit, Austin Wells, Austin, how are you doing? I'm great, how are you? I'm great, thank you. Now that things are official and the ink is dry, how does it feel to know that you are a New York Yankee? It's amazing, I mean it's the best feeling I've definitely felt since being born, so being Yankees definitely a dream come true. Now that you've had a little bit of time to think about it, to process it, take me back to draft day, what was that whole experience like? Yeah it was just, the emotion was running high all day and then when that moment came it just kind of all just exploded and everything just went crazy. For now the last three weeks it's been about the same feeling, so it's been a crazy ride so far. Did you expect to be picked by the Yankees? At what point in time did you realize that they had a legitimate interest and that could be a destination for you? I think a couple picks before, I had a pretty good feeling that I was going to go in that spot so when it finally happened it was like a huge relief and just pure excitement. Austin you were surrounded by a lot of family and friends, who was more excited when your name was announced, you or the people around you? I think after watching the video about a hundred times it seemed like they were a little more excited than I was. Now you were a Red Sox fan growing up, how quickly did everyone in the family dispose of the Red Sox gear? Within seconds of hearing my name get drafted, everything was thrown away and everything Yankees came out for sure. What's going through your mind when you officially sign, you get that nice signing bonus, you know that this is all happening for real now? Yeah, I mean it's kind of, now it's time to put in the work to make it to the big leagues. It's just the beginning of a process to get to where I want to be so this is just another stepping stone in my career. You mentioned putting in the work. If you had to give a scouting report on yourself, what would you say right now? I mean I'm a hitter who can hit for average on power. I hit the ball over the field and I think that my defense is improving every day and I'm excited to continue to work on that and continue to make progress, especially getting into the Yankee system and making progress with their coaches and coordinators. You had mentioned a couple weeks ago when we first talked to you that you wanted to remain a catcher. How aware are you of the tradition when it comes to Yankees catchers? Yeah, I mean I know it's a very long line of Yankees catchers who are unbelievable players and I'm just looking forward to following in their footsteps. That aspect of your game, where do you feel like you need to grow the most in the defensive aspect? Yeah, defensively I think the most improvement that I need to make is just being consistent, receiving the ball from the bottom up and I think just when I get that dialed in I'll be in a very good spot to succeed. Now have you talked to anyone within the Yankees organization, any players, any coaches at the minor league level? Yeah, yesterday we had a big player development zoom call with all the new draftees and signing people and then as well as met with all the catching coaches throughout the whole Yankee system and a separate different zoom call yesterday as well. What happens next? Because this is not a typical season, there is no minor league season because of COVID-19, what have they told you? They don't know anything, I don't know anything it's just kind of up in the air right now with everything going on and I think they're trying to get things going, especially at the major league level I think they want to get that solidified before they move forward with anything else. Where are you working out right now? What are you doing right now? I'm just trying to stay ready to play at any time. I've just kind of been between Las Vegas and down in Tucson at the University of Arizona so just trying to stay in shape and get stronger and keep improving. What are you most looking forward to? Playing Yankee stadium. That's a good thing, putting the pinstripes on too I imagine will be a special moment for you at some point in time. Absolutely, putting on the uniform playing Yankee stadium with the pack crowd, I mean I can't think of anything better than that. Now I have to ask you before we get going, any big purchases with the signing bonus, did you splurge on anything? No nothing yet, just kind of taking it in slowly and trying to be smart with everything in that aspect. That's probably the way to go. Austin, thank you so much for joining us and I want to wish you a happy early 21st birthday. Thank you Meredith.