Welcome to Rates and Beryl.

It's Thursday, January 9th, Derek Van Riperino-Seres, Trevor May, Full House here with you today.

We've got a special episode.

We're calling this How to Become a Pitching Nerd.

And I think there's like a biography element to this real quick that we should get into.

Like, Trevor, when did you realize that you were a nerd about pitching?

At what point in your life or in your

career did it click? You're like, whoa, I'm more into some granular or detailed aspects of this

than other people around me. And you were surrounded by pros. You were there, right? At what point

did you know you were also a nerd? Well, I've known

my whole life that I was into the nerdier side of things, but it was about what was available

when it became really clear to me. My mom literally just gave this to me a few weeks ago. A big

box full of a bunch of stuff I did in high school, just some of my high school stuff. There's a big

binder and I kept every stat like what I could, I tried to remember everything that happened in the game, how many innings they threw, strikeouts, all the stuff. Of course, I probably embellished quite a few times. I used to keep my statistics since I was like 10, just because it was interesting. I just liked the aggregation. My wife calls it number go up. I love grinding things out. So when I play

video games and stuff, I play games that also a number go up. So it started there probably in high

school, I realized, I'm like, yeah, no one else keeps their stats. And this is an advantage. And then in ProBall,

you know, I was always interested in like, we have video and we have like the box

scores and stuff. But I was like, there's so many steps between correlation between like using

this stuff. And then when advanced analytics happened, started to get more used by teams.

And there was a room of nerds. And I realized I was spending more time in there than I was in the

locker room. That's when it was, oh, I'm, this is the way that I can get an advantage or this is the way that I'm going to become the best version of myself. I got to use this strength or this natural, like, interest I have. So that's when I really leaned to do it. But of course, then I just overloaded myself and had to figure out how to use it right. But yeah, so two phases,

high school and then probably was like 24, 25. It's changed a bunch of times along the way, right?

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