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This is the Unparalleled Performance Podcast hosted by Josh Reband. Each week, they feature ambitious guests who are passionate about success. They cover topics that help people become more disciplined and committed to their goals in life, leadership, and faith. In this episode, Josh interviews DJ LeMay Hughes, a New York Yankee and a Major League All-Star. They discuss DJ's career, his upbringing, and how he stays humble and grounded. DJ talks about his success in high school and college baseball, his experience in the Cape Cod League, and the impact of the 3-2 count in the Catholic League on his approach at the plate. Overall, it's a great conversation about baseball and personal growth. This is the Unparalleled Performance Podcast. I am your host Josh Reband. Each week we'll feature guests who are ambitious and passionate about being more than the status quo because we all know that being average is the enemy to success. We will cover topics that will help you become more disciplined and committed to your goals in life, leadership, and faith. Now on to this week's episode and remember as iron sharpens iron so one person sharpens another. Enjoy the show. Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Unparalleled Performance Podcast. This is episode number 22 and if you haven't had a chance to subscribe you can find us on Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, pretty much anywhere you listen to your podcasts and if you haven't subscribed it'd be great if you do and you'll never miss an episode from here on out. We try to release episodes every Thursday. I'm just featuring guests who are ambitious about life and have accumulated some sort of success whether in athletics or outside of athletics whatever the case may be. So today's guest I kind of going back a little bit in time I think we've known each other for probably about 20 years now but yeah definitely going back in time we met in eighth grade at South Field Christian. He moved from Wisconsin and I remember the first day of eighth grade and an administrator teacher from the school came up to me and said hey there's this new new kid here he's from Wisconsin he really likes baseball and sure enough come to find out that ends up being a future All-Star and Gold Glove winner and definitely loved the game baseball as much as I did and our friendship definitely hit off from there we played catch after school and a lot of hoops in the driveway etc so definitely going back in time but DJ it's been really cool to see your career progress and also just to how you stayed so grounded and been in your roots of your upbringing and all that kind of stuff so DJ LeMay Hughes our guest today New York Yankee and I've been playing in the big league for for a long time now major league all-star and so DJ welcome welcome to the studio I'm glad to have you here. Yeah thanks Reeves thanks for having me. Yeah yeah to get rolling I'm gonna brag on you just for a minute here quick and then kind of we'll segue into the first question I have for you but your career has been just incredible and I don't know if you've really had a chance to sit back and think about it but from the high school days of being the Gatorade Player of the Year in Michigan I think maybe even twice, AFLAC All-American then you went to LSU which back when we were in high school not a lot of guys from Michigan went south to play at a school not only that you ended up starting starting there your freshman year made it to the College Road Series you got to play in old Rosenblatt then the new Charles Schwab Stadium and won the College Road Series your sophomore year got drafted by the Cubs and then you also were a Cape Cod League All-Star won a Cape Cod Championships on in college alone you won you won two championships which is pretty spectacular both at an extremely high level and then debuted with the Cubs and then you've been a Gold Glove winner four times then a Major League All-Star three times and then you've won a batting title in both the American League and National League so it's been really cool to see that but your humility and just kind of how you've stayed grounded through it all like you've always maintained your friendships and things like that what in your upbringing do you feel like has helped you stay humble and just kind of rooted with with your upbringing yeah well yeah that was I mean that was quite an introduction thank you I think my parents set me up really well for success I was lucky to have you know two parents that were you know so like led me in the right direction and tried to put me in as best of you know positions and opportunities as possible and so I have to give a lot of credit to them and you know I I don't know I just you know I enjoy friends and family more than you know more than baseball and baseball is obviously it's a huge part of my life and I enjoy it but you know friends and family definitely comes first and just like I said I think my parents just kind of led me in the right direction and they definitely you know I think the biggest thing is having success is don't change who you are as a person and I try to take a lot of pride in that super cool yeah and I I think to just looking back and I I have known nowhere near like I mean I know you wouldn't necessarily consider yourself famous just because you consider yourself DJ and just a normal person but one thing that you know in my the house that I grew up in which I know is very similar to you in terms of humility and things like that like one thing that my dad always talked about was just like when you're climbing the ladder if you have the opportunity to climb the ladder make sure that you are bringing people up the ladder with you because if you fall you want people there to catch you if you're just climbing that ladder by yourself there's going to be nobody to catch you and I think that's been really cool to kind of see just yeah like the friendships like I said that you've maintained you know from your high school days and obviously you know I I don't know many or any of your friends from college but just knowing that the type of person you are that you're you're going to be there for people so I think that's pretty cool when you when you have now gotten to where you are have you ever thought about out of high school like obviously getting drafted by the Tigers in the 41st round it's not like there's going to be a ton of money there but that was partially because I think everybody knew you're going to go to school but have you have you ever thought about what your career would be like had you signed with Detroit out of high school I didn't really take it too seriously take that opportunity too seriously I was like you said I was pretty set on going to college and I had a great experience there so you know not not like I really had you know I was gonna do anything else but I'm definitely glad I I had a few years in college and I think I think college helped me in a lot of ways yeah absolutely and can you touch on your experience in the Cape and how much that you felt like that set you up for success even just playing in the minor leagues like obviously college baseball you're playing on the weekends you might have a midweek on Tuesday or Wednesday or whatever maybe four games a week but when you get to the Cape it's pretty much every day and you had also just gotten done with a run at the World Series so I don't even know how much time you had between the Cape and then or between the World Series and heading out to the Cape but can you touch on your experience there and how you felt like maybe that prepared you for the minor leagues yeah I you know I I think the Cape was just a lot of fun I had a great host family and we had a really good team and just being in in a league like that playing competition every single day like you said you're kind of going from playing on the weekends in a midweek game to just playing every single day it's just you know I was everyone kind of was like you know hey this is the closest thing to pro ball without being in pro ball and and that rang true and I was just looking kind of looking forward to having that close experience of pro ball and playing every day and not worrying about school and just you know working on my game and having fun and playing baseball so it was it was a great experience cool and you uh you played in the Dominican didn't you I played I didn't play in the Dominican League but I did play in their instructional league there yeah okay and you had some early mornings if I remember right yeah we had some very early mornings that was a yeah eye-opening to be in the Dominican playing baseball for sure and sunrise eat breakfast and then go go swing at some balls oh yeah that's it that's all there was yeah yeah good stuff and then I was thinking about this too with our high school experience so we we played a brother rice together for coach Riker and our Catholic League had a 3-2 count and whenever I talk with people about the Catholic League and how much it prepared me for college baseball and probably most specifically the high school program that we we both had the opportunity to play in with Riker and the Kalsinskis and you know what they did for us in preparing us for a high level of baseball I think the 3-2 count at least from a pitcher standpoint like it it forced me and I probably didn't pan out as much as I wanted to athletically in college with my ability to not walk guys but you know I think the 3-2 count can really help with that how is that do you ever look back and think man that 3-2 count has helped maybe my approach of the plate and limiting strikeouts as you've kind of progressed to your career yeah I mean it's it's um it's one of those things I tell people yeah I played 3-2 ball and people laugh or like you know like what is that like you know three balls two strikes instead of four balls three strikes and people kind of laugh and think it's cheesy but I honestly thought it was great baseball I mean it's a lot of action and guys are throwing strikes and guys are swinging and I know as a hitter you didn't really with 3-2 you're not really looking for any pitch you're just kind of being aggressive and swinging the bat and I think that's great I think it's great for high school and I don't know how much it affected me in my career but I did I did like playing that format a lot yeah yeah I think you probably hit on the head with just being aggressive like it you know it teaches you can't really just look for one pitch you just you got to be ready to swing at anything in the strike zone and yeah absolutely especially with guys that were in the league like a lot of guys that went on to prominent division one schools or even made it up to the big leagues I think it was the year before I transferred into Rice I think maybe we went together to watch the Catholic League Championship I think it was Villanova and somebody it was like a 1-0 game and it took like 48 minutes or something yeah I'm like man this is incredible like the yeah the talent that was in that league and even still to this day like there's so much so much talent out of that league so yeah yeah no doubt cool I wanted to ask you about the 162 game season so I coach in the Northwood League and we have 72 games and try to figure out ways to break up the season to like just make it not seem as long per se would you would you say you have any like things that kind of compartmentalize or break down the season into shorter stints is it a month do you like in terms of being able to evaluate how you're doing throughout the course of the year would you say you're organized in that way or do you just kind of take day by day and just kind of roll with it I was I would say I look at the season I would say kind of series by series and kind of month by month I would say I kind of I mean that's those are kind of my time frames to reflect a little bit but as far as just you know breaking up the season and because it is a long season I just think you know I think you know leaning on your teammates and just realizing that you're playing baseball and there's not there's not a whole lot of other things you'd rather be doing so there are there are even though it's baseball and there's definitely going to be those those days right but I think I think those days that are kind of tough to get through or the long travel days or whatever I think leaning on your teammates is you know is the best answer and and then you know your other part about just reflecting a little bit on you know instead of looking at as a whole because because things can spiral right quickly and when you're playing that many games and there's really you know if you're going through it you know there's there's really no time to breathe right it's it's just the next day and you just keep going so things can spiral quickly so I just think you know looking at it you know a series by series I think is is beneficial and what like do you have anything that you look into at all in terms of like self-evaluation over the course of a three-game series that you guys play no I mean just kind of you know I would say just kind of you know more like how did I feel did I execute you know obviously the hits and the RBI's and the home runs are obviously the most satisfying but I think you can really build on okay was I mentally right was I physically right and did I do and did I execute to the best of my ability and sometimes obviously it's going to go your way and sometimes it's not but it's hard to do right you always want you always want results but I think big picture if you can look back at a series and say I I had good at bats and I was locked in I feel like that kind of carries you on to the next one and if you didn't then it's you know regroup and let's go again I love your approach man it's so simple I if I if I ever had the opportunity to coach you you would probably be one of the lowest maintenance players just because you just go about your business all the time which is pretty cool so appreciate it yeah yeah when you first got to the big leagues what what did you notice about the veterans and what did you like try to pull from them to maybe apply to the way you approach the game was there anything specific that you're like oh man like these guys have been here and doing it for 10 and 15 years if I want to do it for that long these are some things I need to implement I you know I think when I first got called up I was just I just wanted to knock it sent down right I just wanted to be on the team and I think I think just watching those guys I remember just watching you know just just watching them and I think that to me that was the biggest probably the most beneficial thing for me because in the minors you always run into those guys and you're like wow those guys are so good and then you get to the big leagues and it's kind of like it doesn't matter how good guys are you you got it you you got to do your thing there's nothing you know there's no excuses there's no oh the shadows are bad or the you know it's cold out or it's this or it's that or the pitcher it's just like you just got to go do it or else you're not going to be there so and then for those older guys just to keep doing it over and over again was you know I was like that's it's tough for you know you to make it but this day is tough it's really tough so but I got to learn from a lot of great players and I was really lucky with that yeah absolutely and what I guess to and kind of staying on maybe the veteran topic of learning things from them I think distractions are a huge thing that come across during a season whether it's externally internally whatever the case is like we we run into distractions over the course of the season especially for a major league baseball player that has 162 games and you start spring training in February and if you make a postseason run you're still playing right now and we're at the end of October and I think distractions can really kind of turn us away from our performance if we let it get to us is there anything that you notice from older guys and what they did that maybe you've applied in season to be able to help limit distractions yeah but just like in general yeah like making sure that you have time for yourself and time for your family those kinds of things yeah I mean I you know personally I you know me for a long time I'm pretty boring like personally I don't I don't really do a whole lot besides play baseball I have a few hobbies here and there but I you know I I would say I don't have very many first distractions personally but I do I do think again I think if you're a good teammate and you surround yourself with good people and good teammates I think the distractions you know find a way to not affect the team or your play so I would I would say you know setting a good example doing doing your thing as well as you can and pushing others and following those who you know you want to surround yourself with I think is probably the best the best solution to limit distractions no that's good stuff man like I said it's so simple and I think sometimes people just make it so complicated and I think that's from like my vantage point and I've we've known each other for a long time but I feel like that's one of the things that's enabled you to be as successful as you are and be able to handle it especially in a like people talk about going to play in New York City and the media and the fans and blah blah blah like it I mean it can be you know if you if you let it and let it infiltrate your mind you know you it can become a distraction but I think that's probably what's made you have a chance to be as successful as you are it's just by having what you would say a boring life which I think you know a lot of people look at you and they're like man that it's not boring but you know like talking about like hobbies and interests like yeah you're just a normal guy and you just enjoy enjoy hanging out and chilling and whatever so that's pretty cool having your baby Layton has that affected like how much has that affected I know for me like we just had our daughter Ellery I think it was I think our daughter was maybe born a little bit before yours but just like in terms of perspective like knowing that you know there's a child at home to take care of like after a game when I get done in Traverse City and my wife's in town with our daughter like gotta get to the hotel we gotta get our daughter down like there's not a lot of time to be able to do things how much as having a child kind of maybe altered your schedule if any or has it not and I know Jordan's a you know incredible spouse to you and she's done you even mentioned before we hopped on just how grateful you are and you know how much of maybe what you would maybe call a super mom that she is and you know helping out with things and whatever but how much is having a baby now in the house maybe not necessarily distraction but you know how much has that altered your schedule in the middle of the season yeah I mean I mean I mean Layton's been a huge blessing and there's there's nothing like having a daughter that's for sure everyone always said that but going getting to experience it now is is is really special you know and and yeah like you said and I and I said before we hopped on but this will definitely have a super wife and Jordan and how supportive she is and you know I think she does everything to kind of allow me to to focus on baseball and and also you know try to be as present as I can for Layton and this offseason has been nice just being able to spend more time with her and I'm looking forward to the next three four months here with some more downtime just being able to spend some time with her and they do travel a lot during the season which is really nice and so I get to see them about as much as possible so it's been great it's been great. That's cool. How does Layton do on airplanes? She she's good she's good she yeah she's she's pretty good I mean she I think she kind of got has a routine down now with with Jordan and you know it's one of the few times she gets to watch a show so she's she's pretty excited for it. Well yeah that's whenever we get back from a road trip or we flew for the first time with our daughter just recently but whenever we get back she just assumes that she's gonna be able to have an iPad on when we get back home and we're like no that's not the way it's gonna work. Yeah I mean obviously like there's time and place for it and we're you know like when we need to we'll pull it out and you know let her watch but you know doing activities and doing things is definitely a lot of fun so yeah. Wanted to talk real quick too about your kind of your high school days and multi-sport athlete I think that's always a hot topic and I was one that decided not to play any sports after my freshman year of high school I decided just to play baseball and I think I thought that that was going to be what would give me the best chance to play at the next level and I had no idea what the next level meant for me and I don't think any of us do as a freshman in high school but you played hockey and I know you played basketball the way through high school but I don't remember at what age you stopped playing hockey but how much did playing a couple sports other sports help you and then also too I don't even you can fill me in on this but in terms of like being the best player because I think sometimes that's a hard thing to adapt to especially as you climb the ladder is like all sudden maybe you're not the best player on the roster maybe you're the most talented but you don't have the experience that maybe some of the older guys do like maybe your freshman year at LSU you still may have been you know considered one of the best players there but you didn't have the experience but maybe playing hockey or basketball where maybe and you can again fill me in you probably too humble to say you were the best player on your team but like kind of going through those routes how much did you feel like playing another sport helped you accept and be okay if you weren't the best player in your team and then also to just from an athleticism standpoint yeah I mean I think I think I think basketball helps a lot you know I played a ton of baseball and in high school so it was basically you know spring summer and fall we're all baseball so basketball was like the you know the couple months where I wasn't playing baseball so it's kind of a nice break and you know I I enjoyed basketball and you know I definitely worked harder playing basketball than I would have if I if I was just you know getting ready for the season so I you know athletically I don't you know I don't know how much you know basketball and other sport I definitely as a younger kid but in high school you know I don't know how much athletically basketball helped it definitely didn't hurt and I you know I I feel like our basketball you know Brian Cowell and Joe Cowell and and those guys are some some tough some tough coaches some good coaches and you know with all the running and agility and competition and everything that we did for basketball it's just I feel like you know having them as coaches you know more than more than athleticism but just having them as coaches you know really helped me at in the college level because basketball was it was it was a grind I mean we didn't have any easy practices that's for sure yeah I remember Saturday you guys still like Friday night game and then you guys were back there at the gym yeah yeah I think I think I heard a lot of Walsett Walsett yeah yeah yeah we I think I tried to touch into the basketball a little bit we were playing two on two during the season and I think that got shut down pretty quickly yeah I think it did yeah probably a good thing for all of us no doubt you know to stay focused but we definitely had our fair share of no doubt in terms of staying calm I mentioned that kind of at the beginning or just kind of like low-key like is there anything that you do in particular to stay stay calm like you've played in a lot of playoff games now you've played in all-star games etc like you've been in a race for a batting title where you know another guy was sitting out injured and so you were just playing and like those things that can innately put pressure on ourselves like just from the magnitude of a game or a part of the season like do you have anything that you do to stay calm or is that like we've talked about it's all just kind of naturally built into you um no I mean I'm not you know I'm definitely not always calm that's for sure I you know sometimes I do better with it at times than others and I think overall I've done a good job in my career but there's definitely times that you know it's affected me you know one way or the other and for the most part I think it helps but I just it's a lot of factors and you know when the pressure is on it I just think you know just trying to eliminate kind of the noise and and just kind of control where you control and and focus on the pitch and or or out in the field or whatever and just try to not get too too far ahead of myself with the result you know I think a lot of times if I go up you know if I go into stuff with with the right mindset with the right focus and and I and it and I fail I don't I might have failed but I don't feel like I fail if that makes sense but when I go to it into it and I'm and I start to let outside factors affect it and I and I do fail you know then I feel like punching a wall you know so I just think going into it with the right mindset and and being able to live with whatever happens is has helped me the most. Dude I some of the conversations we had back in high school I just remember thinking like he keeps it so simple and like you in your own mind you're like man I think I might complicate things or whatever but like on the outside you just even still to this day like watching you play when I have an opportunity to turn on the game or whatever just seeing how calm you are in the box or on you know when you're playing on the field like it definitely like what you're saying you definitely apply like I think that's one of the missing links for a lot of people is that like we all know the things that we should be doing controlling what you can control what you're you know if you fail being okay with that and you know just picking it up and moving on to the next time but I think applying that and you know the knowledge that we have for that that's the separator and I think again that's probably you know where you've elevated yourself from other athletes is just the ability to handle that it's definitely you know you know if it's that you know I think that's what kind of what separates you know what separates you know guys and the mental side is a massive part of things as you know absolutely all right so I'm gonna flip the flip the script on you I talked about a lot of your successes can you touch on a time baseball wise where you felt like maybe you felt the most adversity and you had to kind of overcome it like whether it was a slump or maybe getting traded you know I think a lot of times like you get drafted by a team and automatically you think that's gonna be the team that you're gonna be with for the rest of your career you know I've had the opportunity to coach some guys that are in the minor leagues right now and they've been a part of some big league trades or minor league trades and you know I think sometimes that you know is some adversity because you start building all these really good friendships with other guys that are climbing the ladder with you and then all of a sudden you get sent to a new organization and you don't know really anybody is there a time that you can pinpoint where like man that was that was a tough part of the career and then this is kind of how I got through it yeah I mean there's many many yeah I mean I you know getting traded I don't know if it was as much you know as a low point it was it was definitely motivational I got traded you know right after making my debut with the Cubs and then got traded you know that offseason with a whole new front office it was definitely motivating you know I definitely had you know I you know I've been sent down you know five or six times and and and none of those were were fun you know I don't think I was really ever handed anything early on in my career I think from the outside looking in maybe some people think it's it's it was an easy path for me but it was definitely you know getting sent down and I was up and down for three for three seasons and and then my first full season that was like barely made the team the next year so a lot a lot of adversity a lot and you know this past year wasn't the first half wasn't great and rebound all right so definitely makes you stronger yeah yeah and that's probably to where like having Jordan or you know family and friends like just to be able to you know that are there for you when you're like we talked about earlier on like when you're climbing the ladder like just having people that are gonna be in your corner when you're going through those things and yeah I think you know it always does look easy for guys when they've made it to the bigs or like you have been able to be in the big leagues for a long time and it's accumulated a lot of success it's easy to think like that whole journey for them was easy I don't I forgot the name of the guy from the Pirates who debuted this year but he had been in the minor leagues he's like mid 30s now yeah you know like the amount of adversity that he went through like he's gonna take that with him for the rest of his life and I think that's probably one of the most underrated maybe character traits or qualities that athletes take is you know all the adversity that you go through to be able to finally accomplish something and then you reach that pinnacle and you're like man that was that was a lot of work and I had to go through a lot of things and you know had to be humble enough to you know continue working when people didn't think I was good enough and so absolutely yeah I appreciate you appreciate you sharing on that what I what kind of a more fun question may be for you but what made you want to train in Michigan I I know you kind of split part of your off seasons but what made you want to train in in Michigan or you know spend time in and you're where you kind of finished growing up through high school oh yeah I have a really good place to work out here my dad lives around here family around here great place to train it's just it's home you know it's still home and it's nice to after being you know kind of on the road or away for eight months you know it's um kind of nice to feel like you're at home for a little while so and I love Michigan so it's been great what's the first thing you look forward to doing to do in the offseason nothing really yeah nothing really in particular just just catch up on life a little bit catch up with some friends and just catch up on life and you know I'm still like working out a little bit here and there just you know that now is the kind of like the slowest time of of the year working out why I just kind of given the body a bit of a rest but still kind of working out a little bit and just catching up on life so it's been good it's yeah I mean it's been it's been a good couple weeks and looking forward to staying here through Thanksgiving so yeah yeah do you do you feel like you've always been able to compartmentalize like the offseason from being in season is that always been pretty easy for you to do yeah I think so I definitely you know Jordan always you know towards the end of the year I'm like a man I'm excited for a little break here I'm excited for a little break and then I get about two or three days in the offseason and like hey when does the season start I always thought that George was joking because I enjoy my time off but no but she's always like yeah like you know towards the end of the year you can't wait to take a little bit of a break and then you take a little bit of a break and you can't wait to get going again so that's kind of how the offseason is are you still hunting at all I haven't yet this year but I plan on going in later November so have you no I haven't hunted in a while but I kind of got the itch from it this summer a little bit just with a couple of the other coaches on our coaching staff in Traverse City they both they both hunt and just hearing them tell stories about you know different things of and the memories that you get from it especially if you know if you go with a group of guys or whatever you know it's just it's a good time so it just kind of made me think like you know that would probably be something I would I would want to kind of dabble back into so so I think you know my family well enough to where like my dad and brother are big hunters yeah and growing up I just always used what they've had but it's kind of gotten to the point now where I've kind of maybe had the itch to maybe get a bow or a gun so I haven't yet whenever I go I still I still mooch off of them but yeah have you gotten anything yet it like in your hunting career yeah I think three deer though you know I go up with I go up with the Linton's and I I'm always I always go for a long weekend with them and their family and again catch up with them a little bit and do some hunting so it's always a definitely one of the highlights of the of the fall and then of the year for sure that's going again like that's one of the things that I think has been just cool about you is just an ability to maintain relationships and you know I think that's been been really cool and another kind of segwaying into the last kind of topic that I wanted to touch on with you is your desire to kind of give back and give youth players an opportunity that or amateur players that you know you were given growing up and the travel baseball scene and you know the Cape Cod type thing you have recently helped quite a bit with the Royal Oak Leprechauns who are making the move to the same league that I I manage in with the with the Pittsbitters what kind of perk your interest to do that and has that always been a passion for you is the idea of like you know running a team if you hadn't gotten into a playing career have you always had the interest of maybe like a front office type mindset or what what perk your interest with all of that I think well first of all I'll say that you know playing it playing in the Cape was you know one of the highlights of my baseball career and most fun times so when when you know Mark Sockett with the Leprechauns he reached out and said hey I want to do a summer baseball team and we need a little bit of funding and need a little bit of help you know that was something that I thought was a really cool opportunity and and and I trust and I trust Mark and and I know that he's does you know everything he can to help guys have a great experience in the summer and and I thought that was just like I said it was just a really cool opportunity I think it's also something that you know after baseball you know it's something I want to be you know more involved with with my time and to have a team you know ten minutes away from where I live and to have some really high caliber players to be close I thought was you know really really cool so and then obviously you know joining the Northwoods League we just you know just wanted to beat you guys so that's the number one goal we got to be beat the Pittsbitters and Reid's team no but I think being in the Northwoods I think it's just I get it just some really high caliber players and it's a really good league so I'm really excited to be a part of it and continue to be a part of it and and after baseball just hopefully be able to give a lot more time to it yeah love that what on that kind of side of it is coaching interests you more does the front office or just kind of just being involved in any way yeah I don't know yet I don't know I think all the above and I just I think Mark has done a great job of getting good people around the team and the organization so I think that's that's like I think this is the fourth year now but the first year in the Northwoods League but the fourth you know season of summer collegiate baseball and I think it's done really well I'm really I'm really happy with with how everything's going so you know I don't know we'll see I keep my nose down playing right now so I don't want to make too many plans but I definitely do know I want to be a part of it one way or the other yeah no that's super cool when Tiff and I and my parents we came out to Boston a couple years ago we sat with Jordan during the game and we were just talking about what I was up to and whatever and she had mentioned that you know maybe at some point you would have interest in maybe doing something like that but like you said it's it's far too a way of you know figuring out what that is you got a lot bigger things to to do right now and whatnot so if I'm gonna leave you with one more one more question you've accomplished a ton is there I think I probably know the answer to it but if you were to accomplish one more thing baseball wise before before your career what would you what would you want that to be yeah I mean I you know definitely I definitely want to win a World Series and I definitely want to keep playing as long as I can so hopefully the longer I play the more some more opportunity I have to win it to win one so they kind of go hand in hand yeah yeah I figured that would be what you would say because you just you want to win and I think you know just watching kind of how your careers evolved and then you know I've talked with you a few times about you know just since you've joined the Yankees but knowing that like having a chance to win a World Series is a is a real thing in New York not that you don't have a chance in any of the other 29 markets or 29 organizations but you know when you go when you go play in New York you know you're gonna have a chance because the front office is going to do whatever they can to put a good product out on the field that's going to give them that chance yeah yeah definitely well cool man thanks so much for your time it's been great catching up with you and yeah I'm excited for the rest of your career and what you're able to accomplish with it and say to compete against the leprechauns in the Northwoods yeah good a good about what to put something on the line for that yeah no doubt about that'll be fun well thanks again appreciate it yep thank you Reeves thanks for joining us on this week's episode of the unparalleled performance podcast and if you enjoyed it please share with those around you we'll see you next week and go dominate your day