 What's up everybody? Welcome back to sequence. I'm your host Trevor Ploof and today we have another very special guest on with us today Fresh off a dazzling debut Looking like another ace coming from that Cleveland system. My man Tristan McKenzie Tristan. What's up, dude? Nothing much. Nothing much. Just happy to be here. I appreciate you coming on This is kind of new for us. Usually we go over You know a bats from like a previous year or something. We're going over in a bet from just five days ago your amazing debut against Detroit a guy that you grew up idolizing but before we get into that I kind of have a few questions I love to ask everybody You're born in Brooklyn you move down to Florida who are like your influences growing up in the game of baseball. I mean definitely my father my dad put me in the game and Definitely taught me almost everything. I know about it Kind of mold me into the player today, but I'd say player wise. It's more, you know, baseball greats Derek Jeter I watch a lot of Pedro highlights. I watch a lot of good highlights Just pay attention to the guys are the best. I like that Pedro and duck goodin to two of the greats right there and what about like in in Today's game. Do you have guys that you like just love to watch? Any but honestly, I'm just a fan of good baseball in general. I Just I like I like watching everybody Honestly, the fact that like I got to play with Francisco in the door behind me was really cool to me I was like, that's a he's one of the six times are so six times are Yeah, that's cool He's a he's an absolute stud, I think I was there on his debut day Or at least close to it and he was special from like the get-go Yeah, yeah, and that whole Cleveland team was great Obviously playing in the central I got to see a ton of them, but you guys are still doing I didn't give you guys a lot of credit this year and that's on me And in fact, I even didn't even give the pitching staff enough credit Which seems like absolutely so stupid now But how how how is that going? How's how's the how's the year going? I know you made one start, but you guys are riding the thick of it. I mean, I'm always very confident in this team I think that I think we get slept on a lot in terms of like we're not a big market team So guys kind of overlook us, but I feel like we have all the tools here to win Especially the winter World Series. We have the bats. We have the arms And I think that shows especially with our ace Shane Bieber and then we have club come back yesterday And kind of come out and give us this all start. We have Savalli. We have cookie There's there's so many guys here. We have with the patch. We have Jose Ramirez Francisco and Doris There's just so many factors that going to us being a good team. I'm just kind of glad I get to be a part of it For sure for sure and this is like the It's not the million-dollar question. This is like the hundred million-dollar question What is what does Cleveland do differently to develop pitching because every organization? Wants to do what Cleveland does and there's a few that can kind of do the Dodgers develop really well But it seems like Cleveland just knows how to develop pitching. What do you what do you think? You guys do differently. I Think it's I think it's just the culture here in terms of just When guys get there, they feel comfortable they feel ready to go out there and perform and they feel like they can go Be themselves. I feel like a lot of times that moment can get bigger than a lot of people But going out there and feeling comfortable that I I've pitched in rotations with Savalli and Bieber And I can go out there and be around guys that I've been around in this much as they're doing really well And they're great right now. I don't have to feel out of place And I think it allows guys to just come in and be themselves and we just train the guys that way That's great. What about pitch mix for you? So you say you come into the organization? You're allowed to be yourself. Have you changed a lot since you got drafted? Have you developed, you know, something new change something in your delivery or your pitch mix? Or have you kind of been this guy all along? I'd say competitive wise. I've always been this person I'm always gonna go out there and get the team the best I have but there's a lot of little things that go Into to who I am now and the player I was when I got drafted and the guy that made his debut a couple days ago And I think it's just more just being more into my body and learning like what worked for me in terms of like my lower half Or sinking up my arm with my lower half and making sure everything feels good And I'm consistently going out there and every pitch feels the same regardless of it It's a fast pull of change up a curveball or a newly developed slider Have you felt like you've benefited from some of the new technology being used in player development some of the slow-mo cameras? Anything like that. Do you feel like you've benefited from something in particular? I Wouldn't even I wouldn't even say it's one thing in particular I think it's kind of just a combination of everything just being able to step off the field and be like Hey, my bullpen felt pretty good But my curveball I felt like I was getting around it and being able to go back and look at video Or you can talk to your coaches or talking to your teammates and asking guys like Shane like hey, you throw a good curveball Like what do you do? Kind of like getting bouncing stuff off bounce stuff off him or bounce stuff off the guys around you and getting feedback And you're constantly learning you're constantly working kind of like sharpening you nice Dude like that is so valuable and it sounds like you're taking advantage of it. I always think of Speaking of the Tigers I think of the Tigers guys that were in that organization around the time that I was still playing specifically Nick Castellanos Another Florida guy if he grow he's coming up. He's around Maggie. He's around Victor Martinez He's around. I don't know if he's around Magli Ordonias, but you're surrounded by these people That who are You know the best at what they do and being able to pick their brain. I mean that's got to be The best I got to do it with Joe. Joe Maurer, Justin Morneau, Josh Willingham stuff like that But that is like That's the ticket man Yeah, I mean anytime you get any information that's going to help me I'm going to try and I'm going to try and use it and hopefully it's going to help me when I go out there pitch Oh, it seems like it did and speaking of that. 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We got it queued up There's already two outs in the first inning and in walks a guy that you know a lot about One of the most intimidating hitters of our generation Miguel Cabrera, what do you what are you thinking when you see him walk in the box? My honestly my first thought was to like All right, miggy's up like reset like this is a new game like you have to get the focus for this event So I I got the out ended up. I got a ground ball myself I got the ball back and instead of like just stepping right back on the mound Like I had to turn around and face at a field and like Get away from miggy before like I got back from miggy I love that. Is he like, you know, you you grew up in south florida. He's obviously Former florida marlin. I don't know if he has a house down there or not, but he's he's large in that area. He's he I mean Even people that don't really know baseball know miggy Especially down south florida. So that just goes attest them into like who he is the player Oh, man, he could do it. We talked earlier about, you know, I saw him do his triple crown and there was Yeah, I said he's one of the best Hitters of our generation. So here he is he steps into the box Like you said, I think let's start it up here. Let me get it I think you just got a ground ball And there he is Big bad two four I don't know. I don't know if they zoom in on me here, but I'm I'm not looking at him at all I'm turned around like all right. We're good. And now I step in In the first pitch trying to go up and in Now He took a hack right there so Not to not to taste myself too much but usually like I can that that fastball was probably like 90% that wasn't like a hundred percent go get him fastball And he he wasn't on it. So I was like, I'm going to come back with another heater Like that was my thought process in that moment. So almost like you said 90% It's at 94 and you saw that he was a tad bit late on that and so you're like, okay You saw 94 Yeah, I was like, I got him here like if I can if I can get a good fastball if I can elevate it or even You know hit my spot He's I don't think he's gonna touch it. He's gonna he's gonna foul it off again. It at most at best Okay, hopefully miggy's not watching this Oh, yeah, but I agree. He's a little late now. So here you come step off But you want to go heater again and just buy him So at least so now I'm like, okay, this is Miguel Cabrera I got my first two outs and I'm thinking I just need something that's off the plate So I'm not punchy I was I'm always thinking punchy, but I'm always thinking punchy But I gotta try and pick it pick and choose my spots when I got up over to I was like Just trust babe. But whatever he throws down, you throw a conviction and then we'll kind of work from there This is a guy you got that sign. Let's see if I can get back to it You get this sign and you're very confident in this pitch. I can see it in your face And you know right here What yeah, it was it was literally just O2 whatever he puts down. I'm gonna throw the conviction. I'm gonna get it Where he puts the glove. I don't want to miss. I don't want to I don't want to make any mistakes Especially in this at back There's no one who miggy is so Make the pitch and I and I get the swing out of it I mean I can put myself in miggy's shoes right here and You're late on the first one. You're late on the second one So in your mind, you're like, hey I gotta speed it. I gotta speed it up a little bit if I'm trying to put the ball in play I gotta speed it up a little bit And I'm sure if we slow it down right here, we'll have kyle do it in post I'm sure you're gonna see his front hit fly open a little bit And then you start that pitch on the black And then just disappears I was really happy with it If you watch that that little glove slap right there. It was like, oh, wow, that was miggy We're in here That was like a breath of fresh air and like trying to like calm myself down. That was really cool I'm here slow mo That's just nasty, bro Thank you And so, yeah, I mean first inning goes smoothly. You come back in the fourth You do it again that time you get him on a high heater, but an impressive debut and I saw you get in the start and I was very I was anxious to see you because I just know how cleveland develops pitching and I think I was and everybody that was watching is Was just like, whoa another one Another one and you earned another start in the rotation and I believe you're going to be there the rest of the way And this is a playoff team, man So Thank you Appreciate you coming on You're welcome anytime. I love to go over at bats with you because that was nasty, dude If they all look like that, I'll gladly come on here All right, man. Well, I appreciate the time and uh, good luck second starts tomorrow And we're looking forward to it, dude. All right, man