Obviously today is kind of
crazy from my perspective.
I see Tristan goes, I'm like oh wow,
OK and then all of a sudden I'm
like wait a second will win too.
What was that like for you
to have that back-to-back?
Watching the draft like it is on my computer.
You know the stream is going on and I
was getting a call from my advisors and
we were talking about deals blah blah.
What was happening and then I was in
mid call talking about a deal and I
see Tristan go so like I had I had that
visual like vivid memory of that and
I saw him go and I was like oh blah I
I said a swear word I said oh Tristan
just went and then my my advisor was
like yeah he did just go and so then
we discussed some more deals and then
sticks picks later after the Yankees
it was it was the Giants that 106.
Dang man, and
obviously I know you're from San Jose,
right? So pretty close to home here.
Yeah, I've been a Giants fan of whole life.
My parents are very happy for
this moment my my whole family's
been Giants fans like just base
since I started playing baseball.
They became Giants fans because
they were the close team and such.
My mom is very very happy with what happened.
So I mean it's it's a dream come true.
I mean, that's just.
It's cliche to say,
but it's it's just it's true.
But it truly is. In this case,
you know, sometimes you get people like,
oh, dream, come true, but yours is
actually you probably dreamt of this.
Since you were a kid, right?
This is funny actually.
I have it right here.
Ask mom to get it.
There's a picture of me and Sergio
Romo when he's on the Giants.
This is it's when I was ten years old.
We won the the BV Pony World Series,
my bad and we got to go on the
field and meet all the meet
the whole Giants team.
So it's a pretty pretty special moment.
That's awesome
man. Did you know that was a
possibility heading into today?
I know I talked to Tristan he said you
guys have advisors and they kind of
let you know what teams are interested.
Did you know this would happen?
Yeah, so last night my advisor
said that he talked to the SF,
the Giants president.
They were considering a third round.
Like for me, so I was.
I was definitely excited about that.
But then in the morning a bunch
of teams were scrambling and and
calling and such like that so.
They had interest.
I didn't know it was gonna come out
of nowhere like it came out of nowhere
like 5 picks for more like I said.
But yeah, it was.
They definitely interest from the start.
They were they.
They followed me from the start and I
I had interest in them so it's a very
like I said it's a dream come true.
Well for you this season.
Obviously you had the injury.
Didn't get to play the whole time.
I imagine some ups and downs.
What's it like for that?
All kind of, you know,
roller coaster ride.
It still ends up here.
I imagine a place that you envisioned.
Dreamed
of yeah it was tough.
I mean, that was my draft season.
Like they say draft season or whatever
and when I got hurt I was just like
when's this going to it was an
injury where I had to let it recover.
I couldn't really do much.
I couldn't strengthen it.
I couldn't do a PRP shot or
whatever cortisone all that.
So I just had to let it recover and watching
Tristan and Gabe pitch every weekend.
I was definitely jealous but I was
so happy for what they were doing and
happy for Owen stepping up obviously.
And when I came back I knew how
to make that my moment like we
were talking about earlier.
Umm?
In my moment I was very happy with
what what happened in the end.
Definitely coming back strong.
I know that teams like to see that
like to see you bounce back from injury.
Strong.
It's never fun for a team seeing
a guy get injured and then having
the trust that going into the minor
league process, you know so it was.
It was tough.
But you know,
we we persevered and I'm very happy for that.
Yeah, do you know next steps here?
I know obviously with all this
you got to come to agreement with
the contract, all that stuff,
but has there been any talk of the
next steps for you in this process?
With the, with the area Scott this morning,
the one that I've been talking to for
the last few months and he said get
down to Arizona either like Thursday,
Tuesday is Monday. So either Thursday,
Friday or Saturday somewhere around there,
sign a contract, get going, get assessed,
getting housing and stuff like that.
And I don't know if he doesn't know if
I'm going to throw many innings yet,
but he just he just thought
about overall to start to train,
getting it assessed to me like
the very individualized a lot of
teams are individualizing workouts
that these days so get assessed.
Down there in Arizona,
and then hopefully if I throw
innings start to move up the system.
There you go. I was trying to
thank you in that farm system.
I'm pretty sure you could wind up
playing here in Spokane, right?
No, that's that's Rockies. That's with Gabe.
I know, I know, but don't
wouldn't they play it a Vista?
What's their high? A team?
Yeah, two genes. So I think we.
Yeah yeah, so we OK we
would play at A Spokane.
We went there for Rd series
right? Yeah, well what would that
be like for you to potentially play
against Gabe here in Spokane? Still,
that's that's a dream, like playing
for the Giants in general is a dream,
but playing against game because
I know it's going to happen in
the future don't know it's going
to be at the same time in high.
And if it's in Spokane, you know,
I, I can't imagine that.
That would be a cool deal,
especially pitching against them.
You know, if he's whatever roles
we have and such like that.
That'd be that'd be a dream
come true in itself.
I would just smile the whole time.
Probably
that'd be pretty wild.
But just going back to Spokane gonna be fine.
I'll probably come back up in the fall
just to see some friends you know work
out at the at the weight room scenic
and our trainer up there, Nick Carlone.
So see the coaches and everything.
All my friends that are still there.
Alright, we'll still see
you around here then.
Absolutely I'll find my way back up there.
OK, so talking about like
the guys going here today,
so obviously you're interested in.
But then you have Brody going too
and then you throw in the mix of
the madness of Gabe going 10th,
which was not expected by any means
like it's all been a whirlwind.
What's it like for you guys as a core?
Like all four of you get drafted
and have you guys been talking
about it while it's been happening?
Yeah, we have a we definitely we have an
iMessage group that we've been talking for.
Sure, we just keep in touch with each
other because we're really we're really
proud of each and every one of our.
We wanted everybody we were proud
of each other and from the start I
mean obviously with the same grade.
So we came in at the same time and we
started working working our butts off and.
Overall, the work just paid it paid off.
It's that's just how it was and
we kind of we invest as much time
as possible and we never took,
never took anything for granted we would go
to the field every day talking to each other,
learning new stuff from each other.
What are you working on?
What are what are you working on?
You know so always learning from each other,
that was a blessing to have those three
guys next to me and then bouncing off
of each other was was freaking awesome.
So it was a whirlwind for sure.
Seeing Gabe at 10 I I started crying.
I was so happy for him and I.
I you know I I screamed, I was.
I was genuinely shocked.
But also like I coach,
Harmon called it, he said,
gave it 10 to the Rockies.
He said it first, that was like 2 months
ago a month ago or something like that.
So it was a little bit in the mix.
But then seeing Tristan go right before me,
I was like, oh crap,
it was still in the moment.
Like I told you.
But you know, I texted them.
I'm I'm so happy for them.
I'm happy for every single one of them of us.
Yeah, and now you guys, kind of.
There's so many of you right now.
Four of you you can keep that
group chat going. I imagine as
you progress talk about minors.
That's the cool part.
Is like just keeping in
touch like always learning?
Yeah, we're all, we're all guys
want to bounce off each other
like I said so continuing that
into the Pro is going to be
going to be a real good thing.
Yeah, man. Trying to think did I.
Did I miss hitting on anything you
think I should ask you about when
it comes to all today in general?
Honestly, like you touched on the
hometown team, that's a big part of it.
Like I'm, I'm very happy.
A lot of people know that.
I mean, I've been a Giants fan my whole life.
A lot of my friends are from the Bastille,
so I'm very happy with that.
With that, how that outcome came to be?
And 3rd rounds pretty cool.
So I'm. I'm very happy about that.
I don't know.
I'm just excited to get to work,
to say the least.
I mean, I love working hard and all all
four of us and I know we love working hard.
So excited to see the progress
and the growth we're going.
We're going to make in these next
few months and next few years.