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Now, relief pitcher.

Now Father, podcast. to the podcast now relief pitcher now father podcaster what yeah he's gram ashcraft how we doing doing pretty good doing pretty good thanks for having me a lot of change since uh we

last sat in this format.

Life's a little different in many ways.

Is it not?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I got a lot of different things going on nowadays.

I want to start right with, you know,

you had success as a starting pitcher,

which, by the way, most bullpen guys do.

And not to say that you're not going to start in the future. knows what the future holds um but when they first came to you and said we would like to see how you can do in the pen was there reluctance was their natural reluctance just because you've been a starter most of the time uh i mean not necessarily i mean when i went into like, they told me right out of the gate, like, hey, we're looking at you as a starter, but just want to let you know, like, at some point around the halfway point of spring, we're going to kind of figure out if we want to keep you there and move you to the bullpen. And I was, I told him, I was it's fine I was like that's okay I was like whatever we got to do and this is kind of

it's followed you anyways in that there was always the question just because and it's no

knock on you it's just the the your repertoire and the way you throw what would it look like

and the bullpins are so much more, they're so important in today's game, so vital.

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