How Austin Hedges Celebrated 10 Years In The Majors

Dugout Discussions with Chris Rose

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Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This week, Chris catches up with an old friend and officially a 10 year veteran of Major League Baseball, Austin Hedges. Austin shares some of the gifts he's received for this milestone, his thoughts on ABS so far, and how he might be more valuable than Shohei Ohatni!? 0:00 Gifts Hedges got for his 10 years of service time 2:50 Do veterans like to see rookies getting huge contracts? 4:40 Craig Albernaz being hit in the face with a foul ball 7:13 What 10 years of service time means to Hedges 9:45 Hedges doesn't feel bad for umpires getting exposed with ABS 13:45 how Hedges may be more valuable than Ohtani 15:10 Hedges' hot start with the bat Follow along with Jomboy Media at theshownotes.jomboymedia.com JM Merch Store: https://shop.jomboymedia.com/ Featuring: Austin Hedges Hosted by: Chris Rose Edited by: Alex Graap #JMBaseball Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	I'm going to guess it's not a drinking cup.
0:02.0	It's not a drinking cup.
0:07.0	Oh, come on now.
0:09.0	You've got to be... is that a gold-plated jockstrap?
0:13.0	Gold-plated jockstrap.
0:15.0	So, that was pretty cool.
0:20.0	Hello there, Mr. Austin Hedges, now officially a 10-year vet.
0:24.6	That happened earlier this year.
0:27.6	Was there a huge, is it like turning double digits, like a birthday party when you do that in the major leagues?
0:34.6	Yeah, yeah, a little bit of a birthday party. I even had cake, actually. in the major leagues? Yeah.
0:39.5	Yeah, a little bit of a birthday party.
0:40.7	I even had cake, actually.
0:48.4	The Dodgers visiting clubhouse guys that I've known for a long time since my San Diego days took really good care of me.
0:51.1	It all cake.
0:51.9	They made the whole day really special along with everybody else
0:56.1	wait a second so they got you like a cake and it's like got the little 10 figuring candles in
1:03.0	there and every the whole bit yeah yeah a whole bit got the cake uh you know a little, instead of champagne, obviously, Bud Light.
1:14.5	And then, you know, a lot of cool gifts from the guys.
1:20.3	They made some type of special, had my name on it, had 10 years on it,
1:25.4	had it made out of like cardboard and other stuff, but it was just a cool little,
1:29.3	cool little thing that I'll be able to make,
1:31.3	you know, put in my man cave.
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