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So, it was always kind of school first.
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Um, I was good at baseball when I was
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younger. I was not elite. Um, I only had
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like a couple of small looks from D1
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programs, a lot of Jo and D2, D3 looks
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and so, you know, no schools that were
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really interested in me that were worth
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giving up an MIT degree. So, that's why
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I ended up going going with MIT. But it
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it was definitely definitely a juggle.
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Focusing on school, focus on baseball. I
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just had to make sure I kept my
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priorities straight. Probably freshman
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fall. My first outing there, I topped 95
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and that's kind of like I guess what my
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mental threshold for what it would take
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to to get pro looks, especially out of a
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D3. So probably probably my freshman
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fall. There's definitely there's
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definitely some some um intellectual
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aspects of the game. um data driven
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stuff has has been very big because it's
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been very successful. Uh guys that rely
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on it do better. Uh you can track
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metrically like what's going to play and
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what's not and that's very valuable when
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you're recruiting guys and also whenever
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you're you're moving guys up. Um it's
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also like helpful like seeing why guys
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struggling. I definitely think it's a
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big part of the game now and I think
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it's a good thing especially for
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pitchers, but um like it it's it's it's
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definitely it's definitely prevalent and
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it's definitely justified that it
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doesn't really matter where I'm coming
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from that that you know I'm good enough
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and and hopefully I'll I'll get a chance
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to go play pro ball next year. I guess
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kind of mentally a little bit of Max
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Scherzer. Um he's kind of you know go
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out and get the hitter. Don't really
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care who's in the box. But uh I guess
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kind of metrically a little bit after
