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MLB Draft Prospect Slater de Brun Talks About Singing Career, Mentorship and MORE!
Jul 5, 2025
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I try to keep it separate as far as like
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two different identities, but I think at
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the same time as far as the nickname
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goes and that like making music and
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singing is pretty vulnerable. So, I
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would say that that's helped people
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connect with me. They call me Lil Slay,
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whatever, they know that I'm doing
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something that's unique, so they're able
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to connect with me on a more personal
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level. So, that's helped me with my
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friendships and with getting like that
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team chemistry, which is also like
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really important to me. Yeah,
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absolutely. And I like the first time I
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ever played it over like the in like the
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school speakers and stuff like I was
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nervous. I didn't I didn't like my
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hearing my own voice like that. But it
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just took experience. And it's the same
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thing with failure in baseball. The more
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you fail, the easier it gets. And then
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suddenly you start to not care in a good
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way. You you kind of get over the
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failure faster. And I think after I
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heard my voice enough times and I got
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enough positive reviews honestly, I
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started to get very comfortable and I
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could anybody could play and I wouldn't
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get embarrassed or anything like that.
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Yeah. I think one of the phrases I've
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learned lately um or recently is short
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but not small. Like my height I'm 5'9
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without shoes and like that is short
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compared to the guys in this draft class
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and the guys in the league. Like there's
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some it's like baseball's like
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basketball now. and I would like look
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around, I'm like, "Dang, man. These a
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lot of tall guys, but I'm not small."
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And as far as body weight goes, I'm
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right there with those guys. And like,
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so I just my and honestly, I try to
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think of my shortness as as a as
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something that can help me because I got
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short levers. My swing's going to be
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shorter. Uh my strike zone's smaller.
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So, I try to just focus on that part
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more. Yeah, absolutely. Obviously,
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Northwest played Rainy baseball, played
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a short high school season, and then
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what I like about him is he got hurt,
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but he still took three years to get to
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the big leagues, which is short for a
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high school guy. And uh that's something
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that I want to do. I want to affect the
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game in the big leagues as soon as
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possible. And maybe it's not going to be
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three years for me, but that's something
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that I like that he did. And then
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obviously, like I alluded to, the speed
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power combo is elite and something that
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I want to start to play into as well. I
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mean, it bothers me, but at the end of
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the day, I don't play this game to get
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drafted high, play to win a World Series
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and get to the big leagues. So, whatever
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pick if that drops me in the draft,
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that's fine cuz I'm trying to get to the
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big leagues anyways. And I know that's
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not going to affect how I get to the big
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leagues. So, yeah, Richie's been like a
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mentor towards to me. Uh whether it be
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like literal hitting mechanics, um or
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lifestyle in the big leagues and
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lifestyle in professional baseball, he's
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given me an idea on both. And I think
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that could potentially help me a lot as
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I get into like this next chapter of
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baseball. And I know obviously he speaks
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to the failure and he speaks to the
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constant adjustments, but he also speaks
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of the friendships that he made. And I
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know those are some of his strongest
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friendships to this day. And I know that
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it was some of the funnest times of his
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life. And he always says, "I should have
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enjoyed it more when I was in it. I was
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always stressed." And he should have
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enjoyed it more when he was in it
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because he still loves to talk about
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baseball. Not in like a weird way, but I
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know that that passion is there. And I
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we just like feed off that passion and
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we bounce it back off each other. He
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lives in Bend obviously, but his son is
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my best friend, Preston. Preston's dad
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is Richie. So whenever I'm at Preston's
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house hanging with Preston, I'll go out
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to the cage at at 11 or so and Richie
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will be out there painting or doing his
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thing, whatever hobby he's doing, and
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we'll start talking hitting. Yeah. 68,
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man.
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He's a big big dude. Yeah. You know,
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there's a common thread between big
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leaguers. And yeah, he's like literally
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the polar opposite player, but there's
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like I said, there's a common thread and
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he knew how to fail at a high level and
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his big league production is not going
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to be what mine is if I get to the big
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leagues. But um that other stuff matters
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and and so and it that mental stuff, you
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know, theoretically matters more than
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the physical stuff. And that's what all
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big leaguers have. So I try to take
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that. Oh, find me a bar.
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Oh, find me a bar. Bar. Bar. Find me a
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bar. Except I don't drink and I don't go
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to bars.
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