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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

The must-listen Yasmani Grandal interview

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7620 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

After experiencing a nightmare season in 2022, White Sox catcher Yasmani Grandal is doing everything in his power to make sure it doesn't happen again.He sits down with Chuck Garfien to discuss all that went wrong with him and the White Sox last season. He also talks about his grueling 7-day-a-week workouts, his approach to the final year of his contract, losing Jose Abreu, why he's excited about the shift being banned, the "knockout punch" for the White Sox in 2022 and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I tend to take losing a little bit harder than,

0:07.7

I want to think a little bit harder than most people.

0:09.8

So it fired me up and by firing me up during the year

0:14.8

and kind of frustrated to me even more

0:19.0

as I wasn't able to be helpful.

0:21.6

Why did we do this? Why do we that?

0:23.6

Why did I do this? Why am I not moving this way?

0:26.6

So I'm like kind of like looking at myself for all the failure that we had and how I can change that.

0:38.2

Well, if you're wondering what happened to Yasmani Grandal last season, why he was a

0:44.5

fraction of his former self and what was a grueling year, both offensively and defensively,

0:51.8

well, he's been asking himself those same questions for months.

0:55.9

And here on the White Sox Talk podcast, brought to you by WinTrust.

0:59.3

Grandal gives a whole lot of answers in a 40-minute conversation about all that went wrong

1:05.9

with both him and the White Sox in 2022.

1:10.8

Hey, everybody.

1:11.4

It's Chuck Garfine.

1:12.3

And after watching Yaz go through a grueling two-hour workout here in Chicago, we sat down and spoke about his struggles on the field last year, both physically and mentally.

1:26.8

And of course, statistically.

1:30.3

And all that he's been doing to make sure that does not happen this year.

1:35.2

We talk about new manager, Pedro Grifold, losing Jose Abraeu.

1:39.5

This being the final year of Grandal's contract, why the shift going away could be huge for Grandal.

1:50.0

And what he believes was the crushing blow for the White Sox, which hasn't really been talked

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