Get To Know 'Em Podcast

Seth Stohs of TwinsDaily.com interviewed the following for this week's podcast:

Infielder Andy Young of the Arizona Diamondbacks chatted about growing up in West Fargo and his rise up the minor league rankings and to the team's 40-man roster.

Ten Minutes with Tyler discusses a variety of baseball and Twins topics of the day. 

Billy Boyer is the Twins Minor League Infield and Base Running Coordinator. We talk to him about what that means and how he works with the players, coaches and front office. 

Seth Stohs of TwinsDaily.com talks to people in and around the Minnesota Twins organization. 

This week, get to know Twins minor league right-handed pitcher and Twitch Gamer Austin Schulfer. Get to know Twins minor league catcher Caleb Hamilton. Get to know former Twins prospect and current Tampa Bay Rays late-inning reliever Nick Anderson.

Seth Stohs of TwinsDaily.com interviews Minnesota Twins Competitive Balance Pick (39th overall) and Minnesota native Matt Wallner about high school baseball in Minnesota, his All-America career at Southern Mississippi and getting drafted by his hometown team.

Also, Ten Minutes with Tyler will be a bi-weekly segment with Twins minor league RHP Tyler Wells. We discuss his rehab from Tommy John surgery and many other Twins and baseball-in-general topics. 

Seth Stohs of TwinsDaily.com interviews players from the Minnesota Twins organization. 

Travis Blankenhorn is a top hitting prospect who hit 19 home runs in 2019. LaMonte Wade made his major-league debut in 2019 and played a lot for the Twins in the final month. 

The players discuss their 2019 seasons on the field, what they learned about themselves and spoke of some special moments in their careers. 

Seth Stohs of TwinsDaily.com talks to a couple of 2019 Minnesota Twins minor leaguers.

RHP Tyler Wells was the Twins Daily Minor League Starting Pitcher of the Year in 2018, but he missed all of 2019 due to Tommy John surgery. Find out what happened and how his rehab is progressing.

OF Jaylin Davis hit 35 minor league home runs between AA and AAA in 2019. He was traded to the San Francisco Giants at the July trade deadline and continued to mash. He was called up to the big leagues in September. We discuss his season, getting traded, his big league promotion and much more. 

LHP Devin Smeltzer came to the Twins in a July 2018 trade from the Dodgers. He had gained notoriety because he met Chase Utley in Philadelphia as a childhood cancer patient. Then in Dodgers spring training a couple of years ago, he was brought into the clubhouse and the story was again told, this time with Utley in that clubhouse to meet him again. 

Smeltzer has been terrific as a starting pitcher in AA and AAA so far this season, but he continues to support people with childhood cancer. Recently, he started the Catch Cancer Looking campaign, selling t-shirts with proceeds going to Katie's Krusaders. 

A great story of an athlete giving back to kids that he had something in common with. Get to know Devin Smeltzer. 

As Opening Day approaches, Seth catches up with two Twins players with different prospect profiles. RHP AJ Achter was drafted in a round that no longer exists, but he ended up spending parts of three seasons in the big leagues. Now the pitching coach at Eastern Michigan University. Also, we catch up with top Twins prospect, SS Royce Lewis, to talk about his spring training and much more. 

Two very different stories in this week's Get To Know 'Em podcast. 

Pat Dean is a 29-year-old pitcher. He was the Twins 3rd round draft pick in 2010 out of Boston College. He pitched for the Twins during the 2016 season, even beating Felix Hernandez for his first big league win. After the season, he went to Korea where he has pitched the past two seasons. Just last month it was announced that he was returning to the Twins on a minor league contract.

We ask him about a variety of topics including his big league call up, the decision to play in Korea and the differences in cultures and on the baseball field there. And we also talked about his decision to return to the Twins.

Brent Rooker hit 32 doubles and 22 homers in Double-A Chattanooga in his first full season of professional baseball in 2018. He earned a big league spring training invitation.

We talked to him about what Twins spring training has been like for him and what he has learned already. We talked about his 2018 season of ups and downs and what he wanted to work on going into the offseason. He was married in November as well. 

Niko Guardado recently earned a leading role on the reboot of Party of Five. The 22-year-old has been acting in a variety of roles over the last decade. Guardado is the son of Minnesota Twins Hall of Famer Eddie Guardado.

In this show, we discuss his memories of his dad's playing career and what he learned from him. We also discuss his personal rise from child actor to his time on The Goldbergs and the upcoming Party of Five project.