Get To Know 'Em Podcast

Episode 19: Get to Know Royce Lewis

June 05, 2020 03:21 - 35 minutes - 21.1 MB

Seth Stohs of TwinsDaily.com chats with Minnesota Twins shortstop prospect Royce Lewis about several topics including the MLB draft, spring training, his 2019 season, and his new venture, a YouTube channel.

Episode 18: Get to Know Ryan Jeffers

June 03, 2020 05:19 - 27 minutes - 16.5 MB

Seth Stohs of TwinsDaily.com chats with Minnesota Twins catching prospect Ryan Jeffers about a variety of topics including the MLB draft, spring training, his 2019, and what's he's been doing since heading home during the corona virus lockdown.

Episode 17: Get to Know the 1980s Twins (with Howard Sinker)

April 24, 2020 05:59 - 1 hour - 69.1 MB

Seth Stohs of Twins Daily.com has been posting his choices for the Minnesota Twins All Decade teams. This week, the topic is the 1980s Twins. In conjunction with those articles, he recently chatted with Howard Sinker. Howard was a Twins beat writer from 1984-1987. In this podcast, you'll enjoy Sinker telling stories and reminiscing about players like Kirby Puckett, Frank Viola, Gary Gaetti, Kent Hrbek and other greats of the decade.

Episode 15: Get to Know the 1970s Twins (with Patrick Reusse)

April 17, 2020 04:49 - 1 hour - 36.4 MB

Seth Stohs of Twins Daily.com has been posting his choices for the Minnesota Twins All Decade teams. This week, the topic is the 1970s Twins. In conjunction with those articles, he recently chatted with Patrick Reusse, veteran sports writer and radio personality in the Twin Cities. Reusse covered the Twins in the 1970s and still does today. This podcast is filled with stories on Rod Carew, Lyman Bostock, Roy Smalley, Gene Mauch, Bobby Darwin and other star players from the 1970s Twins.

Episode 15: Get to Know the 1960 Twins (with Dave Mona)

April 10, 2020 01:37 - 1 hour - 46.8 MB

Seth Stohs has been posting his choices for the Minnesota Twins All-Decade team, starting with the 1960s at TwinsDaily.com. In conjunction with those articles, he chatted with Dave Mona, a sports-talk radio show host in the Twin Cities who covered the Twins as a newspaper beat reporter in 1968 and 1969. Mona worked at Metropolitan Stadium before the Twins came to Minnesota in 1961 and has always been a huge supporter of all Minnesota sports. Mona shares many stories of his interactions with ...

Get to Know: Anthony Slama, Former Twins Pitcher, Entrepreneur

April 01, 2020 04:07 - 47 minutes - 31 MB

Anthony Slama signed with the Twins in 2007. He put up dominant stats through the minor leagues before getting a big-league opportunity in parts of 2010 and 2011. Slama recently started 3 Week Beast, an online program designed to help 11-16 year old baseball and softball players work on their strength and conditioning. (www.3weekbeast.com) Seth and Anthony discuss his playing career, getting drafted, signing, getting called up to the big leagues and his post-playing career.

Get to Know: Dick Bremer, Twins Broadcaster, Author

March 15, 2020 05:10 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MB

Dick Bremer has been the TV voice for the Minnesota Twins going back to the early 1980s. He has been a Twins fan since the team came to Minnesota in 1961. His book Game Used: My Life in Stitches with the Minnesota Twins will release in bookstores and online on March 17th. In this podcast, we discuss his book and his Twins fandom. We also discuss his career and the joys he has found in covering the Twins for nearly four decades. His passion and love of the Twins organization come through. Enj...

Episode 12: Get to Know Marshall Kelner, Mighty Mussels Broadcaster

March 11, 2020 00:55 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MB

Marshall Kelner is the voice of the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels. A Minnesota native, he grew up a Twins fan and listened to Twins Hall of Famer John Gordon. We discussed his background in baseball and in broadcasting, but we also talked about the terrific Twins prospects who have played for Fort Myers the last couple of years.

Episode 11: Get to Know Twins Pro Scout John Manuel

February 11, 2020 04:53 - 1 hour - 45.8 MB

After 21 years at Baseball America, John Manuel joined the Twins organization in October 2017 as a pro scout. Seth and John discuss scouting, his multiple roles at Baseball America and so much more.

Episode 10: Get To Know Twins Pro Scout Wesley Wright

December 19, 2019 05:25 - 50 minutes - 31.6 MB

In this episode, Seth Stohs of TwinsDaily.com chats with Minnesota Twins pro scout Wesley Wright. Wright played 15 years of professional baseball, including 8 seasons in the big leagues. Following his career, he transitioned to the world of scouting. The two discuss his career and his new role with the Minnesota Twins.

Episode 9: Get to Know IF Andy Young, Minor League Coordinator Billy Boyer

November 27, 2019 08:13 - 1 hour - 54.3 MB

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 fr...

Episode 8: Get to Know RHP Austin Schulfer, C Caleb Hamilton, RHP Nick Anderson

November 14, 2019 12:51 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB

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.

Episode 7: Get To Know OF Matt Waller and Ten Minutes with Tyler

November 07, 2019 05:07 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MB

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.

Episode 7: Get To Know OF Matt Wallner and Ten Minutes with Tyler

November 07, 2019 05:07 - 46 minutes - 31.6 MB

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.

Episode 6: Get to Know IF Travis Blankenhorn, OF LaMonte Wade

October 30, 2019 06:28 - 49 minutes - 33.2 MB

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.

Episode 5: Get to Know OF Jaylin Davis, RHP Tyler Wells

October 25, 2019 02:28 - 46 minutes - 18.7 MB

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 league...

Episode 4: Get to know LHP Devin Smeltzer

May 21, 2019 07:02 - 23 minutes - 8.81 MB

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. R...

Episode 3: Get to Know RHP AJ Achter, SS Royce Lewis

March 27, 2019 05:45 - 49 minutes - 19.1 MB

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.

Episode 2: Get to Know LHP Pat Dean, OF/1B Brent Rooker

March 06, 2019 05:35 - 45 minutes - 17.6 MB

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 i...

Episode One: Get to know Niko Guardado

February 25, 2019 17:57 - 49 minutes - 18.2 MB

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.

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