Cal Ripken Jr. praises Orioles' catcher Adley Rutschman

Adly Rushman has very much been prioritizing making sure he's in the line up every game. How important is it for a team to have somebody like that, who's available like that? Well, I mean, I grew up thinking that was very important. The playoffs can boil down to one game, whether you make it or not, and then where can you make up that game during the course of season? In my rookie year, we went to Game #162 before it determined who's going to make the playoffs and we end up losing by one game. So I think all of us looked out in the field while we were watching the other team celebrate. We were thinking where could we have made-up that one game? And so it could have been in April, could be in May, and so you never know if you're taking that day off or you're skipping that. Maybe I could have done something to help the team win. So Eddie Murray was a guy in front of me that that showed me the importance of playing every single day and then and I think an everyday player then was defined as an everyday player. So I always appreciate all the extra intangibles that somebody like Adly Rushman does. He might not get any hits in a particular game, but he's he's really good at calling pitches and he guides a pitcher through a tough situation. He gets them out there or he works a walk in a key inning. There's all kinds of things you can do to contribute to the game and there's certain players in the line up that you want in the line up every single day. So it's it's a little tougher because Adley's a catcher and the and the physical demands of catching is is difficult but but do you want do you want Adley and you want Gunner in there as many times as you can get him.

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