It's another edition of dugout discussions with Chris Rose.

We're hanging out in Anaheim and the Cincinnati Reds hanging in that playoff race.

One reason why, they figured things out in the bullpen.

One guy that's been a dependable arm around the big leagues for the last 10 years.

Yeah, I can't believe it myself.

Brent Suter, smart dude, Ivy Liger, funny as hell. Time to check him out.

You don't really go to Harvard if you want to play Major League Baseball. Is that accurate?

I would say that is accurate to a certain extent, but it doesn't eliminate the possibility.

Obviously. It doesn't completely limit. We got another guy Hunter Biggie who's rehabbing right now with the race. So we got a couple guys representing, but it is certainly not a baseball powerhouse, not a big league factory maker. But it's D1 ball. We still play a good competition. Yes, you do. And I told people like the top of the Ivy League,, four hitters, and the one and two starters could probably play anywhere in terms of conferences in the country, but just the depth isn't there in the Ivy League baseball and obviously not the numbers of big leaguers, eventual big leaguers, but I've been able to make a career out of baseball from Harvard. Heck yeah, yeah. So, I mean, I'm doing that not to rip on Ivy League. My brother went to Yale. Yeah. I love Ivy League schools. Yeah. But when you signed on the dotted line, did you ever think you'd be playing 10 years in the show? No, I was just hoping to get out a rookie ball. I mean, I was hoping to make it, like, one level at a time.

I signed for $1,500.

We were talking about it last night in the bullpen.

Signing bonuses, everyone was like, you know, $200,000, 1.1.3 mill. I was like, $1,500, you know. You signed for $1,500. Yeah, yeah. So it was basically just a chip in a chair, kind of a chance to get out into pro ball and see what happens.

And I was lucky the brewers were very, very fond. So it was basically just a chip in a chair, kind of a chance to get out into pro ball

and see what happens.

And I was lucky the brewers were very, very fair to me, very welcoming, and they gave

me a shot every step of the way.

They obviously favored their prospects and gave them more chances, but I certainly got

chances and just kind of kept staying healthy, keeping my name in the roulette wheel if you will

to advance and yeah soon enough i found myself on the doorstep of the big leagues and got called

up and that was crazy so at what point when you were pitching for the crimson did you ever think

like yeah there's a possibility i could make it um i would say more in like the summer ball

circuit uh my sophomore year summer ball circuit. My sophomore year, summer ball circuit, I had a, like I was named all Ivy and I had a decent college season, but wasn't like an eye popping or anything. And then I went to the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League right by my house in Cincinnati, played for the Hamilton Joe's there and had a really good summer. Shout out Joe's. Yep, yeah, Hamilton Joe's all the way. But we wanted all. It was just a really good summer and I had a lot of professional scouts coming, saying, hey, we think you could play a pro ball. And then it started kind of getting in my mind, like, hey, maybe pro ball is an opportunity. I shouldn't just, you know, right off. I think it could happen. The next year, my junior year, I fell flat on my face. I just failed in every way, got sick midway through the year and lost 15 pounds and then just never really got it going. And so all the draft interest went away. I didn't get drafted. But luckily, I was signed on to play in the Cape Codley, kind of got my feedback about me, got generated a little bit of interest towards the end of that summer, and then senior year pitch is just good enough to get picked in the 31st round, and here I am, 13 years later, whatever it is. But once again, you get drafted in the 31st round, and always like, yeah, I'll be ready in about two and a half years. Right. So did you mentally say, all right, I'm going to give this two years or three years. And if it's not happening, then I'm going to use my degree. There wasn't necessarily a timetable on it, but I told my girlfriend at the time, who's now my wife, I was like, when it seems like, you know, the dream is kind of fading away, or it seems like I'm just maybe indie ball is the only option or

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