Welcome to episode number 144 the Chris Rose Rotation, a production of John Boy Media,

and presented to you by our friends over at Seat Geek, and today we make a stop in the desert

or perhaps in Josh Rojas's gym. I can't quite. What is that thing behind you? Yeah, it's a little

reformer. Oh, are you a Pilates guy? Yeah, a little bit. I'm actually at my,

I was just playing outside. I stopped by my parents' house. This is their little reformer.

Oh, okay. Yeah. This is cute. Yeah, we got a lot to get to, a lot to get to. I want to start

off, first of all, I'm going to apologize. They're going to do one of two things. You know, we have a lot to get to. A lot to get to. I want to start off. First of all, I'm going to

apologize to you're going to do one of two things. You know, we have a half dozen regulars on the

Chris Rose rotation, one of whom is Miguel Rojas. So I'm either going to call you Miggy Roe at some point

during the interview, or I'm going to call you Josh Rose, which is my son's, my oldest son's name. So I'm trying for Josh Rojas, but I might

get Josh Rose and I might get McGee Rose. So I'm going to apologize ahead of time, okay?

That's all right. That's all right. Okay. Now, this is cute. For people that don't know your story,

I think you might be the first Diamondbacks player to have grown up a Diamondbacks fan in Arizona.

I don't know if we have that factually proven, but is it in the neighborhood?

So Kevin Crohn's also from Arizona.

He was, he debuted with Arizona as well.

I don't know if he was a Devaks fan, but I know he grew up, grew up in Arizona as well.

All right. And so where did you grow up? I grew up in Litchfield Park. I went to high school in

Goodyear, Arizona. Oh, that's the home of my, that's the spring training home of my guardians and the

Cincinnati Reds. Yeah, yeah, they're, uh, They're about 10, 15 minutes more west.

Got it.

So like when they,

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