Easton Carmichael Is More Than A Power-Hitting Catcher

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So I'm here with Easton Carmichael.

Easton, you had a full year, your first full season of MLB or I should say professional baseball behind you.

You're on your way to, like a prospect league, the Arizona Fall League.

I feel like you've done this before.

You've had like a league after the season.

You're not going to try to leave this year, are you?

What does that mean?

What does that mean?

So I read of the Cape Cod league.

you said you're done.

You want to go home.

And, I guess your dad, Skip Johnson had to talk to you and they told you to make sure you stay, make sure you stay.

So that's funny.

No.

Yeah.

I do remember that actually quite vividly.

that's ironic because I am going to say, yeah, I'm only out here for a little bit of time.

I think I get out of here in October.

But I got a full offseason.

My brother's getting married.

I'm getting married.

So we got a full offseason to get home to.

So that's also a little bit of the reason we're getting out of here a little early.

So ironically, yeah, I am.

But no, that capes up.

That's a funny story, though.

So you aren't ditching them.

How dare you?

No, that is funny.

Yeah, because like I said, I read that.

Then you go on and play in the All-Star game.

You're the MVP of the Cape Cod All-Star.

So is your dad right?

Oh, yeah.

I can go all down the list.

Skip was right.

My dad was right.

My agent was right.

And honestly, I thank him now in hindsight.

Yeah.

What was the big reason?

you had those thoughts going through your mind.

Honestly, man, and now it's a lot different.

I'm a hundred and I think eleven games in now.

And so.

It was really, I just got done with a good full college season.

I was tired and wanted to see the girlfriend, wanted to be home.

I didn't have a car with me either.

And so it was just like, and I don't think I was playing well at the time either.

And that's, again, hindsight, I ended up having a good summer.

But at the time, I don't think I was playing very well either.

So I just, it was the perfect storm of just let's go home.

And ultimately I stuck it out and ended up having a good summer.

But I think that was the root of all of it.

Yeah.

So, again, it was a negative experience at first, right, going through some things.

But, obviously, ultimately, it turned out to be a very good thing that you stayed, right?

Oh, yeah.

When I went back, this All-Star break, that's where I proposed.

And, I fell in love with the Cape out there.

Me and my fiancee loved it.

Even my family loves going out there.

And, honestly, it will probably be a place that we continue to go up and vacation at in the years to come, to be honest with you.

Cool stuff.

All right.

Awesome.

Well, yeah, guys are listening to the North Shore Nine podcast presented by FanDuel.

This is the newest get to know you.

We're here with Easton Carmichael, the Pirates third round draft pick in twenty twenty five.

Now the Pirates number eight prospect according to MLB Pipeline.

Again, you'll be going to Arizona.

One cool thing I thought like you and my nephew actually share the same name, Easton.

And I feel like if you have a name with Easton, you probably got some ties with some.

You probably got some family members and no ball.

So I'm sure that's the case with you.

Right.

Oh, yeah.

My dad was a college baseball coach for many years.

Coached Oklahoma, a little bit of Fullerton, a little bit of Ole Miss.

So he's been around some high-level college baseball.

But actually, my brother was going to be named Easton, but he was still coaching at the time.

And my mom says, we're not naming a kid Easton unless you're done coaching.

and sure enough right when i was born in oh three he had literally just gotten out of coaching and he said well i'm done coaching and so that's what my name became easton but it's weird like growing up i didn't have many people around me named easton and now i feel

there's a ton of kids named easton like little kids like whether i do like lessons or anything like i feel like there's a ton of people named easton it's like dude come on i love it i loved having a name nobody else had

My nephew just started talking recently.

It's a great name.

It's a phenomenal name.

I was selfish because I was like, man, I got something nobody else has.

Now I feel like a lot of people have it.

Honestly, I'd want a junior, but I don't know if she'll let me have one.

Just look at it this way.

You're the trendsetter.

Exactly.

There you go.

All these little kids won't know what the black magic is either.

What's that?

All these little kids won't know what the black magic is either.

that old East and metal bat.

Yeah.

So like you said, your dad went there, your mother went to Oklahoma.

She was a cheerleader, I believe.

And your brother played, Oklahoma.

So the whole Oklahoma family, I guess.

Right.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

It's a sooner born, sooner bred.

yeah, my mom cheered there.

Dad played in coach brother played.

I have two cousins that went, my aunt went, Oh geez.

Yeah.

it's thick, yeah clearly did you was there any other choice for you i'm gonna be honest i entertained Ole Miss for a little bit and i entertained tcu a little bit okay but then the second you got

in the conversation because they were not the first in the conversation but the second they got in it was like twenty-four hours and i committed i see so from my recollection you committed at fifteen right

yeah it was i think like the first weekend or like the first or second day of school in my sophomore year so that was before like all the ruling change of like you couldn't talk to schools till your junior year and that was also before

your brother who's older than you yeah it was before him he committed so he was at Grayson College and he committed i want to say like a month or a

So I'm sure you rub that in every day, right?

A hundred percent.

A hundred percent.

I knew you went to OU because of me.

That's what I had to say.

Love it.

So also, like you said, he was older than you.

He went to OU eventually.

you became the first, pitcher catcher battery at Oklahoma, if I'm correct.

Right.

Yeah.

that I'm aware of.

I know there's some brothers that play together, obviously the Meyer brothers, And obviously the Witherspoons recently.

There's been some brothers, but Battery, I do think, were the first ones.

Yeah.

What would you say is your favorite baseball experience in Oklahoma?

That.

Seriously, that.

All the accolades and stuff are great, but being able to catch him.

And obviously then he ended up having a really good year.

It was pretty special.

I tell people to this day, I was more nervous for that start than I was my very first collegiate start.

I was more nervous.

I'm like, dude, he's going to, I just better not be five hole.

If he throws a change up in the dirt and I block it and it goes between my legs, I'm not hearing the end of it.

And so I was more nervous for that start than any other one.

And that start you're mentioning, he pitched a complete game, right?

Shut out.

No, that was Oklahoma State.

That was later in the year.

That was the last conference weekend.

Actually, I take that back.

That was probably the best memory was the CG shutout against Oklahoma State and Norman.

I think all my family was there, so that was sweet.

And then the second one would be the first in Globe Life, actually back home in front of all my family.

Awesome.

Okay.

But yeah, you catch him.

He has a complete game shutout.

obviously that was because of the work, the preparation, everything you do as a catcher, knowing all the hitters, not because he simply just listened to every pitch that you told him to throw.

Right?

No, that's exactly right.

He listened to me and that's, he knows, he knows I know best.

So that's why you committed first.

Exactly.

so, yeah, I was going to say, obviously, you being a catcher, I hear, you treat it as like a little bit of a chess game.

like what's the most fun part about that?

maybe screwing with the batter or whatnot.

Yeah, it is a little bit of a chess game.

I always tell pitchers, I'm like, you will never be able to fool a dumb hitter.

And I look by that because dumb hitter doesn't even know what they're doing.

Like, you can't fool a guy who's not even thinking.

So, that's what's been fun, like, the higher levels I get is you get smarter batters and you just get smarter baseball players.

And so, yeah, it is a little bit of a chess game.

And you don't necessarily want to fool them.

You just want to try to pitch to the pitcher's strengths.

But it's the chess game of moving the pitcher around to have his stuff as effective as it can be that night.

Yeah.

Do you consider yourself one who is like easily able to retain things?

You go off memory or are you the guy that writes down like a million types of notes to remember all that?

A little bit of both.

A lot of these guys I had grown up playing against or just know through people.

So a lot of it I can just retain.

But a lot of it too is video.

Like I watch video and then just from there you'll pick up on stuff.

For me, I pick them on cleats.

Like I look at people's cleats and that's how I remember stuff.

So if I'm like, oh, this guy's wearing Nike yellow cleats.

All right.

That's all right.

That's my that's I'm going to remember this guy when he steps up and he's wearing his yellow cleats or this guy's wearing Mizuno.

All right.

Not a whole lot of guys wear Mizuno cleats.

So I'm going to remember him from his cleats.

I pick up on guys cleats.

So like, yeah, I'll write reports down or even retain information, watch a video.

But if I see a guy's cleats, that's typically how I retain the report on a guy.

you're the co-worker everyone hates you know seeing people in the stalls huh i remember shoes because i'm a i'm a sneaker okay so i have a bunch of shoes so that's i guess probably the

attraction to that what's what do you what do you collect them what's your favorite or what haven't you gotten yet that you want I'm a Jordan guy.

I do like Jordans.

My go-to, though, is Air Maxes.

I'm a huge Air Max guy.

I've always been.

But I love threes.

That's probably my favorite Jordan is a Jordan three.

Okay.

But Air Maxes are probably what got me into it.

Braden, my brother, was a shoe guy growing up.

My dad was a big shoe guy growing up.

And then I think I took it to a different level between the two.

gotcha so you're like the biggest sneaker head then you would say of the family i would i would i would argue that i traveled literally the season i traveled and it was a pain to once i got promoted to pack them all up and even send them home at the end of the year i had this

big i don't even know the company just this big heavy duty crate like trunk that i just put shoes in and i probably traveled with twenty twenty five pairs this season and i was like and that's like not that's not even

scratching the surface of my collection and so that's what sucked because i couldn't bring all of them with me but it was a pain to pack up and move tattoo and then just in home okay i like it yeah i'll tell you what the early jordans are nice

i never like wearing them to me they're like the most uncomfortable pairs of shoes i've ever had but you can't go wrong with jay's so i get it but air max is no that's the opposite they're definitely air maxes yeah

Okay.

And this year, as mentioned, you were in Greensboro, you finished up at Altoona, you hit twenty home runs.

So I want to ask you this, too.

Like, what do you find more exciting or satisfying, hitting a home run or like just calling that pitch?

You absolutely knew that's just going to get this guy out.

That's a good one.

I don't really.

Gosh, I don't really know.

I don't know.

Now, if you're going in, I can go, I guess, take it to a bigger level.

was hitting my twentieth home run or calling the no-hitter we had in Greensboro.

The no-hitter was by far the coolest thing ever.

Even though it was my first twenty home run season, that was sweet.

And I was stuck at nineteen for three and a half weeks or whatever it was.

And that was just...

That's a different thing.

But the no-hitter was sweet.

And especially, like, whenever you do put so much time into the advance reports on guys and seeing a pitcher not only trust you but also have the conviction to truly execute pitches,

and he can follow you around in, out, up, down, fast slow that is that is one it's really cool because that's his job and to see him succeed you want them to succeed because

not only does it make him look good it makes you look good and it makes the team win it ultimately like there's a there's a pride in that of like i prepared he prepared we executed the plan and ultimately you had

a good outing from it So there is a different level of pride.

And obviously, I take a lot of pride in both sides of the ball, defense and offense.

But defensively, whenever you do navigate a game successfully, if you want to say successfully or efficiently, it's – it's fun because then you're winning games

and you're probably getting out of there in two and some change hours instead of sitting out there for a long time.

Right.

Yeah, – you have a perfect game, I guess.

what else is going to top that?

So, right.

That's gotta be an awesome feeling.

Not that I ever experienced that or anything, but cool, man.

When we talked about like the offense, talk about the defense, let's talk about the base running a bit.

you had, you had, Mm-.

Yeah.

And it was a good number.

Like, I was super pleased with the number.

I went in, actually, I think I might have written down ten.

It might have been fifteen.

I need to double-check all my goals for the year.

But, I was happy with it.

I hit just a dry spell there where, honestly, I wasn't feeling too good and just stopped pushing the envelope where I feel like if I stayed pretty consistent, I could have probably gotten twenty.

But that's also – that's why I continue to play.

But, yeah, I love being athletic.

causing pressure on the bases.

That's our whole mantra at Oklahoma was chaos and have moving pieces to create opportunities.

And that's ultimately what I take some pride in as well as being athletic, because ultimately there's bags to be got out there, especially being a catcher that is not going to get a whole lot of attention.

Sure.

And so, yeah, it can only when it helps yourself, but it helps the team win and ultimately guys like hitting with runners on scoring position.

So any way to get second or even third base only helps everybody.

Yeah.

There you go.

Yeah.

I think you had fourteen last year at Oklahoma.

A little fun stat here.

Last forty years, there's only been one catcher for the Pirates for their career.

Not like a single season, but like for their entire tenure as a Pirate to have more than thirteen.

Again, that was Jason Kendall who had that with like a one forty-nine, I think.

Russell Martin has thirteen, though.

But again, that took two years to do.

So...

yeah as a catcher you know those the fourteen in college right thirteen here this past year in the minors that's pretty awesome would you consider yourself fast or fast for a catcher I don't know in high

school I ran a six so that was cool yeah like that I don't think that's slow by any means I think that's quicker now I'd probably be I'd still think I'd be in the sixes, but I would be probably closer to that seven mark.

But I think I'm remotely fast, yeah.

Okay.

Good stuff, man.

Yeah.

Get them up there.

Maybe one day you get on that list.

You can be number two in Pirates for the last four years.

Dude, I want to try to beat that, top that.

I can get more than thirteen.

All right.

There it is.

Yeah, quick question here, too.

Would you consider yourself like a nutritionist?

a little bit.

My mom was, is, I guess is allergic to corn.

and so she had that allergy from a little kid.

And so she always would coach.

She's a great cook.

and ultimately I've learned how to cook because of her.

And so I'm a food snob a little bit.

I love good food.

if I go to a restaurant and have bad food, it just ticks me off because I'm like, I could have made it better.

So, yeah, a little bit for sure.

But I think it's more food snob than anything.

Like the actual macros and stuff.

I'm going to be honest.

I feel like I eat whatever I want.

But I like good food.

Interesting.

Because I saw in college your favorite pregame meal was an energy drink.

And Easton, I got to say Reese's energy drink.

Like that doesn't scream nutritionist to me.

No.

So that's a bad one.

That's a good picture, though.

Okay.

So actually, if you just got a ghost box today, they sent me a couple of cases.

My dad was working for Red Bull when I was growing up.

So there's the caffeine.

So I've been drinking energy drinks from a young age, which that might have taken some years off my life.

But ultimately, you live and you learn.

The candy side of it, that's just me being a college kid, to just be quite honest with you.

I think we were going down to Austin that weekend.

I think that was like the first or second weekend of the season.

We were going down to Austin, and I was like, you know what?

Let me get a snack for the road, and ultimately landed on Reese's.

I'll say this, though.

Big Reese's guy.

Dude, they're fire.

Yeah, for sure.

Even your blizzards and stuff or whatever, like your ice cream, it's Reese's in there.

I have a big sweet tooth and I'm not shying away from that.

I'll at least give you props.

You know your candy.

Mr. Nutritionist.

Another cool thing I saw too.

If you weren't playing baseball, you'd say you'd be doing home renovations and contracting?

Yeah.

I'm a big... I love...

I love using my hands.

the nerdy side of me, I love like Legos and like building Lego.

I have a ton of them, but like same with like home renovations, contracting, like we have, like some of my fiance's, aunts and uncles own a contracting company at little rock.

and just seeing some of the work they do.

And even when we had, some home renovation stuff back in Dallas, and my parents' house, like that looks super fascinating to me.

my whole, a lot of my family's really good, woodworking.

I actually built the desk I have in my bedroom.

I built, hand, cut it literally all by hand, went to home Depot, got all the wood.

Like I love using my hands.

and so I think home contracting, renovation stuff, I think would be really cool.

Well, good.

When you say your desk, I was going to ask, like, what's probably the biggest thing you're most proud of that you've built?

Yeah, probably that desk.

I built it back in the, or.

and I love it.

I still love it.

it's huge.

and ultimately it was cool too, is like, we've made the top have cleats on it so I can take the top off.

So whenever I'm moving in my own place, I'll just take the top off and like moving would be really easy.

Interesting.

All right.

There you go.

That's creative then.

Oh yeah.

You like, you say you like building, you're going to have a Mike Tallman show one day where you show like your Minecraft city or something too.

I think I posted an old picture on Instagram of my Lego collection last offseason.

I'll make a new post at the end of this offseason and do the updated one.

I'm going to hold you to it.

I've spent way too much money into it, but you know what?

It's a good time.

It's a great time.

Awesome stuff, man.

This was your first professional baseball season in total and such.

What do you think you learned the most living through the full season?

honestly just the day in and day out grind you get into june and july and man they are dog days and people would say that but they truly are you're

it's groundhog day every day you wake up go to the field come home go to sleep do it again the next day and when it's hot and you don't feel good and just that it's it is mentally exhausting to be to be quite

honest with you and having to perform every day and basically be the entertainment for everybody watching you.

it's a lot.

And so understanding that, but also understanding that one bad week, one bad month, isn't going to define the season.

and taking that on the flip side, one good month, isn't going to define the season.

And I've taken a lot of pride in being consistent in my work and my every days.

So ultimately is learning that it's a long season.

Can't dwell on anything.

One good game.

Doesn't mean anything.

One bad game.

Doesn't mean anything.

You're never really as good as you think you are.

You're never as bad as you think you are.

You just try to be right in that middle ground, be really consistent in what you do.

And that's what I tried to stay focused on every day and the whole year was just be really consistent.

Cool.

And yeah, like you did very well in Greensboro, rightfully got a promotion, got called up to Altoona.

It was a pretty cool story about that.

So you like a double header and then you had to get everything ready for like at four a.m.

and had a flight at eight thirty or something like that.

Yeah, I had a, we're in Winston Salem.

So it was only commuter trip, which is only about three minutes away from Greensboro.

We had a double header that day after the second game.

I don't know.

It was probably nine thirty or so call and get promoted.

Well, then we get had a bus back to Greensboro at like ten thirty, get back to Greensboro around eleven.

I had to pack my locker up, drive to my house in Greensboro, tried to pack up as much as I could of my stuff.

And then by this point, it's probably like two or two thirty in the morning.

Hop on a flight the following morning, I think at seven thirty.

Fly to Charlotte, fly to Akron, meet the team in Akron.

I was in the lineup that night.

Got two hits Sunday after the game.

I fly back to Greensboro.

Well, then I was late to Charlotte, so I missed the flight to Greensboro.

Good friend of mine, Jack Anchor, drove down to Charlotte, picked me up, drove me back to Greensboro.

By this point, we get back probably.

midnight, twelve thirty.

I packed the rest of my stuff up.

I wake up at like ten or eleven the following morning, drive down to and that was my off day.

Damn.

Yeah, it was a lot.

But ultimately, I wouldn't have traded it for anything.

we were we were joking the night we were driving back to Greensboro when he picked me up.

We I don't even know.

We stopped at like Panda Express or something because the only thing open we were sitting in like a Circle K parking lot.

I'm like, dude, we're getting paid to do this right now, by the way.

That's legit.

There you go.

I was like, dude, the normal mind won't be able to comprehend a lot of this because we're truly getting paid to do this, but it's wild.

And we still have eight games left.

Right.

Yeah, so you got promoted.

You got called up.

This is a little personal for me.

I'm going to expose myself here to everyone.

I know you're aware of this at some level, but you get called up to Altoona.

Essentially, you replaced...

Another person who got called up, right?

Derek Burr got promoted to Indianapolis.

So you come up to Altoona.

Why did you have to choose twenty eight, man?

I didn't realize this was Derek.

I posted this like your first week.

You go three for five.

I see twenty eight.

I see the catcher.

You both got a little bit of flow going.

And yeah, you guys call me out on IG.

Did you have to pick twenty eight, man?

That was funny, dude.

I'll be honest.

I didn't pick it when we got to Akron.

That was the only jersey that he had that our club he had.

And so he was like, dude, this is the only jersey I got.

Like, it's going to have to work.

I said, all right, I'll change numbers when I get back to Altoona.

Well, I didn't change numbers.

I just rolled with it.

So... Yeah.

It was given to me.

I'm going to be honest with you.

It was given to me.

And I also didn't change it because I wore twenty-eight in the breakout game.

So I'm like, you know what?

This number might be good for me.

Okay.

But I did not initially choose it.

Awesome.

Well, at least I know the story.

But yeah, my bad, Easton.

It was all good.

I saw it and I just started giggling.

It was funny.

Well, too, I look at it now and I'm just like,...

looks like you look alike trying to justify it's funny all right we're gonna end this up with some rapid questions mainly about you know you answer these to like you know the

guys would be arizona with you right now so first question who's the funniest person you'll be they're playing with in the afl that i know of michael walsh Michael Walsh?

Oh, okay.

He's a goon.

I'll be getting him next week then.

Yeah, he's good.

All right.

You have a six-hour road trip ahead of you.

Which teammate are you absolutely refusing to sit beside?

Refusing to sit beside?

Refusing.

Wyatt Sanford.

He's dirty.

No, I'm kidding.

He's my room.

Is he dirty?

Does he not keep things clean?

He's just young.

I make fun of your high school kid, your twenty-year-old.

Nah, he's a good dude.

He's from Dallas too, so I've known him for a little bit.

But yeah, he's my roommate and I just, I mess with him.

I'm like, dude, this wouldn't have flown in college, man.

Gotcha.

No, I say that because actually, I'm not sure you know this, but way back, that was like the whole story of like Henry Davis, also catcher, right?

The older statesman.

It was Henry Davis.

He was keeping Bubba and Anthony Solometo in line because they're the ones in the same house making a mess and whatever.

So you're taking that role.

Oh yeah, I keep Wyatt in line for sure.

All right.

Awesome.

Keep it up.

All right.

Which teammate would you trust the least with your credit card?

I'm sensing a pattern here.

Wyatt's getting wrecked on this.

No.

Oh, let's do...

Jack anchor.

Nah, because he would, he would pull the third round card on me and he'd be like, I'm going to buy myself something nice.

Like, dude, nah, but me and me and Jack are good buddies too.

So it would be, it would be either one of them would try to do some tomfoolery against me.

Okay.

Who would you say is the biggest trash talker amongst you?

anchor.

Yeah.

Why is that?

It's got to be a story.

Yeah, he's witty, man.

Growing up, I think he has a couple older brothers growing up on a dairy farm.

He's just witty.

He probably had to learn how to fend for himself a little bit.

He's got that little brother mentality.

Yeah, exactly right.

And I have a little brother mentality, but I also was taller than my brother when I was we would just go to knock down, drag out.

We wouldn't talk crap.

We would just start fighting.

My mom got tired of it and so got us boxing gloves.

That's sick.

All right.

You're going to be in the desert.

So essentially, if you left the campus, right, you're straight on in the desert by yourself.

Who's the one teammate you would call to rescue you?

Obviously not Wyatt.

No, -.

Nope.

Who's an outdoorsman?

Oh, I'm saying Aaron Shortridge.

He was my roommate in Altoona, and that man would make a fire every night we were in Altoona.

That man, he's an outdoorsman.

He is a true outdoorsman.

He literally because he when we when we just got him back from the Nationals because he was with the Pirates for a little while.

When we just got him back, he was like, all right, I'll be out next to the fire.

And every night was making a fire.

And that was it was impressive because it was just it was clockwork.

You just go out there, make fire.

No problems.

And I assume the best fire starter came in was the Altoona pizza, right?

yeah dude i didn't even try it i didn't perfect the answer my man i didn't even oh that's enough good stuff last question then so you're in the clubhouse

and i say this too because i saw your walk-up song in college was pop smoke so actually before i answer this or actually say ask it what's the walk-up song these days I changed it.

I wanted completely one eighty.

So I was always I'll give you the timeline.

So in high school was always polo G and college is always pop smoke.

I did a one eighty.

There's a there's a young Christian rapper named Caleb Gordon has a song called War.

I had it all year.

And honestly, for the foreseeable future, I'll probably keep it.

But it's a Christian rap song.

But honestly, like I like it because it's very subtle.

And ultimately, I just, the beat, the vibe, the rhythm of the song, I just really attracted to.

If you really get into the lyrics of it's a lot of what I stand for.

But it's complete one-eighty to everything else I had.

I was honestly, in college, I was going for a lot of the vibes and lyrics where this, it's still the lyrics, but the vibe's really good.

And I've had numerous people ask me, Hey, what walk-up is that?

So that's always something I've always had good walk-ups that people are interested in.

There you go.

Once again, a trendsetter.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

So then, yeah, I'll ask this question.

So who's the teammate you are ripping that aux cord off of and refuse to allow them to play their music in the clubhouse?

See, Bear has good aux.

Wyatt has good aux.

Anchor has okay ox.

I'll give it to Anchor every now and again because he'll play some throwback bangers.

But taking it away from... Gosh, man, I don't know.

Taking it away from... See, we just don't put bad people on aux.

To be real honest with you, I don't know if I trust myself on aux because I'll go what I like to play and not always what I like to play.

I'm all over the place.

I'll go from country to rap to worship music to EDM.

it's all over the place, and people will probably not jive with just the randomness of my playlist.

So I'd say myself.

I can feel that.

I just stay away from aux and let other people do it.

But those guys I said had good aux.

Okay.

All right.

A little bit of a cop-out answer, but I'll take it.

So I was going to ask over the next six weeks, but since you're leaving early again for the remaining time in Arizona, and I'm just joking with you, man, what do you want to take most out of this trip?

Yeah.

ultimately, the ABS, I want to get a good grasp of that.

Hitchcom, same thing.

I think those two are going to be good just time to have those.

Ultimately, I just – I want to play the best I can, build connections with guys that I had known from playing against or having mutuals that I've played with them.

Ultimately, stay healthy.

That's the biggest thing.

I want to stay healthy.

I want to play the best I can, but continue to get at bats and games under my belt.

for my first pro season.

ultimately, we're not vying to play one thirty eight.

We're vying to play one sixty two plus in the postseason.

So that's the more games I can get closer to that number, the better equipped I'll be potentially, hopefully for next year.

But ultimately, whatever God has planned for me.

But continue to get games under my belt, at bats under my belt and be the best version of myself I can be.

Love it.

Good stuff.

Well, hey, Easton, appreciate you coming on.

Again, Easton Carmichael, other Pittsburgh Pirates, and good luck out there.

Awesome.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

For sure.

No, yeah, and I'll see.

Appreciate you coming on.

Absolutely.

This was fun.

Yeah, always is.

Always is.

It was a blast.

And, yeah, I'll see you guys when we get out here on the twenty-eighth or whatever that is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Twenty twenty first.

Yeah, we'll be there.

So I think you guys, there'll be Wednesday, Thursday.

You have an off day on Friday and Saturday.

We'll catch you guys again.

Sweet.

Awesome, man.

Yeah.

Look forward to it.

But all right, man.

Well, hey, thanks again.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

Later.