Farm Report: Quinn Mathews | St. Louis Cardinals

Farm Report: Quinn Mathews | St. Louis Cardinals

[Music] So, what are you excited about right now in your development? It’s a very fascinating question, especially I appreciate that. Especially since, you know, this year, I would say, hasn’t quite gone to plan for like my own personal point of view, and I would hope the organization would probably say the same thing. So unfortunately I’d probably say everything at this point just because again it has been a up and down year more so. So yeah, I’d probably say a little bit of everything at this point. It’s really easy not to learn when everything’s going your way and you have everything that you need to in order to have success and on the vice versa when you don’t have everything. And obviously from the pitching standpoint, it could be command, it could be velocity, it could be execution, it could be all those things. And I don’t think I’ve really had any of that this year. So, I’ve had to learn to pitch with a lot less stuff as people would say. And also just like compete from a day-to-day basis when things aren’t going to. Do you call your own games? If you ask me, yes. If you ask Jimmy, no. Jimmy calls them. I would say our catchers call. And they do a great job here. All three of them. Gavin, Jimmy, and yours. I would say 90% of the time, I’m going to go with what their, you know, guts telling them and their brain’s telling them. And on the off chance I want something else, I can shake my head and they’re normally pretty accommodating unless they really feel passionate about a pitch or, you know, we set them up for something and their report says to do something and normally at that point I’ll just go with what they what they got. And I read to you in an interview where you kind of talked about even how you hope to give back after baseball. I think working with kids is is one of your passions that you had mentioned too. So does that help kind of balance out when this game gets difficult? It it does in the sense of like it’s always the one thing in like the back of my head that I am always working for. Obviously friends and family keep you going dayto day, but it’s like what is that bigger end goal so to say? I don’t like the word goal, but I would say that is the only goal I really do have is like having not only like the financial well- means of like doing that sort of stuff, but also like it would be awesome to be a guy that kids can look up to in that sort of way and set a good example and be a role model for not only just the people that know you, but other kids that don’t know you from a person to person stand. Who wins in golf, you or Michael McGrevy? I mean, you could probably have me shoot nine holes in McGre shoot 18 and McGroovy will beat me. I’ve played nine holes of golf in my entire life. I am a competitor, so obviously I would hope I could get in McGrevy’s head enough to where he would flounder maybe on the the back nine, but I mean I know Mike’s a decent I’m going to say decent golfer and I I don’t think on a on a normal course I would even be competitive unfortunately. You can add it to the goals list, right? No, no goals. No goals.

Hear from Quinn Mathews on what he learned this season, whether he calls his own games, and the one thing in the back of his mind that he’s “always working for.”