Austin Hedges
Cleveland Guardians catcher
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Jul 9, 2026
Hopping Around With Brandon Lowe + Challenging Pitches With Austin Hedges
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22:03Mark SimonHOST
Do the Guardians have a strategy for when they'll challenge as far as counts and such are concerned? How often do you feel like you know? Have you

Austin HedgesGUEST
The zone did change at some point in the season, which was a little bit annoying because I felt like I was learning what the zone was from spring training into the beginning of the year and then that changed and now adjusting to what the new one is.

Austin HedgesGUEST
So just the fact that it's kind of changed and just trying to figure out where the ball's crossing the home plate um is it's just something that you know a catcher has never really had to have awareness of um you know for for my entire life my entire career i feel like i dictated the strike zone and that my setups and that my receiving uh my relationship with the umpire could um you know kind of dictate what the strike zone was for the day and now uh that that's just not the case the case is there is
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29:13Mark SimonHOST
How do you feel about those? And do you see any adjustment that could be done? You know, I'm kind of torn on it because

Austin HedgesGUEST
I do like old-school baseball, but I also think, you know, every sport needs to evolve, and baseball's trying to evolve.