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Chatting With Adam Ottavino - PitchCon 2026

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4.7 โ€ข 842 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 10 February 2026

โฑ๏ธ 59 minutes

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Summary

Chatting With Adam Ottavino Nick Pollack sits down for an hour with Adam Ottavino to talk about his MLB and the landscape of pitching.

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0:00.0

Good to see you, man.

0:01.0

Hey, how you doing? Fantastic. How are you? Yeah, good. Good. Been a hectic morning, but I'm good. I'm glad to be here. Absolutely. And look at this. It's the coffee and baseball background that I see right now from your YouTube channel. And first I got to say, man, how's that going? I mean, what made you start doing that? Oh, I don't know. I came up with the idea a couple years ago sitting in the bullpen and I wanted to make a show that I wanted to watch, basically. And that was it. Just go for it. I felt like it's just fun. Something to do every day, almost every day. My kid's walking in here. Hello. Daddy, it's a lot something to do every day almost every day my kids walking in here hello

0:38.8

trucks trucks yeah so i just wanted to make something that was a little bit different than

0:49.3

that was out there you know my my my mindset was like a gaming stream type of, where the chat's super important and they kind of help produce the show. There's an awful lot of baseball out there to watch and it's really hard to really, it's really hard to watch it. You know, you might follow one team at a time, but I wanted to get more of, uh, the big picture. Um, and so, you know, given some of the tools I have, I'm able to watch games

1:12.1

really fast, check, make sure I don't miss out on anything, learn as much as I can. And,

1:18.6

you know, I was just hopeful that other people would feel the same. And, you know, I'm having a

1:22.3

great time doing it. I mean, it's, I love it. It's actually, I do, I think since COVID, I started to do one in the morning as I just did my picture list work.

1:31.6

Right.

1:31.9

It was, so I would, I would watch some starts from the night before, give some thoughts on it, do some YouTube videos here and there, just talking about the kind of the approach and what they're trying to do and what works, what doesn't.

1:43.1

And yeah, this is the kind of format that I think is just so fun,

1:47.3

especially getting your insight and everything that you've been through in the majors

1:50.9

and just getting a quick understanding of like,

1:55.0

this is what this picture is trying to do in this.

1:57.6

I've seen so many people react to like a fastball goes in the wrong

2:01.1

place and it strikes a guy out and it's like, oh man, what a filthy pitch. It's like, well, hold on. Like he got away with that a little bit. It's lucky that it worked out. Things like that. Yeah, it's just really fun having you inside that space and doing that. And I want to, I want to go back a long time here.

2:18.2

I have to do this, Adam, just for a second.

2:21.0

Because... and I want to go back a long time here.

2:18.2

I have to do this, Adam, just for a second.

2:21.0

Because I've known Adam since I was, oh gosh, I don't know.

2:25.8

I mean, you were on the varsity A team.

2:28.1

I was on the varsity B at Berkeley Carroll.

2:30.2

You were a senior.

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