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Texas Rangers Relief pitcher, 30-year-old rookie man.

It is one Peyton Gray.

Peyton, thanks for the time today, sir. How are you? Doing great. Thanks for having me. Dude, it's so good to talk to you. I actually talk to you on Sunday in the room after the finale against the A's, and we chatted for a little bit. But I think your story is fascinating. I know you've been doing a lot of these interviews because of it,

but you grind through eight years in the minors, independent ball,

and finally you get the dream.

You achieved the dream of making the majors with the Rangers.

What's the past two weeks, last two weeks been like for you?

Oh, man, it's been a dream. I mean, just to see it all come to reality and just be a major league baseball player.

It's been incredible.

And as far as like this being your first road trip, I'm curious.

So you debut at home, which, you know, the clubhouse, you know, the locker room is beautiful.

Now you're out on the road for the first time as a big leaguer. I'm guessing the travel is probably a

little different than it was back in, let's say, independent ball. Yeah, the travel is definitely a lot

different. The team play, it was a lot of fun, and then just getting to Detroit, super nice hotel. Yeah, it's awesome. So your story's very inspirational to young

baseball players. I mean, you were undrafted, no signing bonus. You grinded your way up. You

finally make it to the majors at age 30. Was there ever a point where you were thinking, man, maybe I have to

step away from baseball or do something else? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think every player

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