Tennessee Vols RF Reese Chapman
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
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🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Chase Thomas is Tennessee's Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by starting Tennessee Volunteers right fielder Reese Chapman to talk about his start to the season, how he prepared to be an everydayer in RF this offseason, what made the rotation at DH hard last season, being one of the vets on the team now and advice for the Vols' loaded freshmen class as SEC play is here.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guest: Reese Chapman
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| 0:00.0 | Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate it. I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:09.2 | All right. Hello. Welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast where I'm still. |
| 0:13.0 | The A for mention Chase Thomas coming to live from Knoxville, Tennessee, everything's cool, HQ. |
| 0:16.9 | We've got a first timer over here. He's got a busy day as we're taping this on a Friday. Reese Chapman, Tennessee, Vol, starting right fielder. Reese, good morning. How are you? Good. I'm great right now. I mean, every day I get to wake up and have a breath in my lungs. I'm great. So I'm doing well. How are you? Pretty good. Pretty good. I mean, are you ready for Liam Peterson this evening with the Gators coming to town? |
| 0:41.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.0 | I mean, take it. |
| 0:45.5 | We did my practice. |
| 0:48.6 | I mean, we prepared for them as best as we can and we're just ready to compete. |
| 0:54.3 | How hard is it from the start of just, I mean, because we're now just at the point where |
| 1:00.1 | it's awesome that we're getting Florida here to town to start off SEC play. But I mean, |
| 1:05.1 | with the to kind of get right games and you have St. Bonaventure and you have so many different |
| 1:09.1 | teams coming in over the weekends to get right for the season. How do you look at that when you know you have SEC play |
| 1:16.1 | looming where you're like, that's when it gets really real, but we also have to make sure we |
| 1:19.9 | take care of business before. How hard is it to kind of manage that kind of excitement to get to |
| 1:24.0 | this point in the year? To be honest, I don't think it's that hard because, I mean, we were stoked up for the first game of the year against Hovstra as if it was a Friday night in Florida. |
| 1:39.5 | Like, each game we play, we're just happy and glad to do it together as a brotherhood. I mean, |
| 1:47.6 | we're all eager to be on the field and play ball. So I didn't think it was honestly much of a |
| 1:55.4 | difference, but it will be a different environment for sure with the fans and everything come tonight. |
| 2:04.2 | Did you go into this particular offseason any different knowing that right field, |
| 2:09.3 | like you were in a good spot to be in every day or in right field and you had to approach this |
| 2:13.3 | off season a little bit different or is it just kind of, you kind of did what you've done the last couple years? No, like for the baseball aspect, I mean, everybody just tries to get better each |
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