Edwin Diaz on return to Seattle where he began his career before being traded to NY | SNY

Being good is a couple of friends here. Yeah ready and it's been fun. I bring my family with me because it brings six years. I think after the trailer having been here. So it's good to be back which friends decide to already I said, I'll do the bullpen catcher. You know, if one of the guys who's taking me here when I came here. Yeah, you know couple coaches will walk here with me when I was playing here but players left or right. I don't I don't think you might remember. I remember I don't think so. What's it like for you, you know be back and in the ballpark and that you have established yourself as you know, I remember I made my debut here and pitch my last game here to in Seattle. So I think that's the biggest memory I have. You know when I came home in 2016. My first game was here in Safeco and my Last game in 2018 was here inside CO2. So then that was my biggest memory. How much is their coaching staff, you know soon booming are reliever in mind only, you know, they talked me I told me you're going straight to the big leaf. You can come from the bullpen and do your jobs and they they they put me in the assault reliever. I did my job and they did it. They you know, they put their beaming up quick. Do you remember about that transition going from starting to relieving down in the minor leagues? No, I saw when they told me. I was a little bit worried about because was something new for me, but I assume they told me I will think you can be in the billions soon sooner than being started. So I said, okay, let's do and I start working as a reliever and pay off you ever think you'd be reliever. No, because my first couple years I finally play was was a star. I was throwing a lot of innings. I remember my last year's started through 140 1845. So I was in a good truck to we are starting the big level. They made that decision. I think that's the best decision I ever made for me, you know, when they throw they trained me I was going with my wife. My wife has to a concert they call me how you might you might got try to see her. Her to the meds we would call you back if something going off. So I went to a to a concert with my why I'm after the concert. They call me back and say how you're going to do the math. You gotta go. I'll fly to Source a Lucy to do your physic on everything and that's how I knew now. They're coming from see our first they are able work. We see are they coming for you? My God, try to the matter. Let's wait to see what happened. But that's something school. Right. Now, how was the concert? What's good? What's good? I don't know what's gonna I was with my wife and we how it was having fun. I just was waiting for the car to see if everything was going to be moving forward with the concert with me. And then what back was back in, Puerto Rico. Notions at the time I'm potentially getting traded know. What something new I did. I was I heard a lot of rumors about me always when I was in the manually, but I did realize I was something I thought would they will do it because you know, Robbie Cano call me to you is saying how we make that try to do the math. It was enacting a wedding too. And I said to him whatever you go if I go with you I would be fine. So I got lucky I got to ride with him to New York. You still talk to Robbie. Yeah, we talked on most away. Wait, you know, it's been playing Mexico. Yeah, that's been doing great with we talk a lot because we have a really good relationship you last season. The team record, what was that? What was that? That was great, you know find a one-eyed. My goal was have a great season and I remember when Scott came to me. I was a guy like one or two safe. Rico told me if you got more than 50 saying I was getting a haircut with some line that he and he told me if you if you got more than 50 say we do the same haircut you I said deal. I don't have anything to lose as soon I get the 50. So I Him the bone. Well, I remember we was in Arizona and then we fly to San Diego and I bring the Barbarian. We did it layered Center. If he came to if we come to minute here because now is increasingly saw some of our and we can make some bad and if you are with make him pay for Mariners fans who maybe haven't followed you super closely the past six seasons, how would you summarize your time with events? You know my time with them. I didn't start that way the way I want to you know, I came I came the tray on I didn't perform the way I want to vote. You know, I do after that day. I went home and realized I got to work harder and After that, see some everything went 5 2 million are being a being able to perform the way I want to New York and they can see like they come they go see numbers and everything. They can see like I've been able to do my work say that you realized you had to work harder. How did your work change? What did you do to turn things around, you know playing your stuff, you know, a lot of things happening the same time, you know, and you gotta concentrate on your job. So I went home in the offseason working my my body working my man. Holly do you know how to flush everything out how to handle everything and I think that those things helped me because after I clean up everything I perform better was gel gel born here your oldest son. No, he born in Puerto Rico. Yeah, but it won't that year. I came out to the big list. I he born in the All-Star break. Okay that year we was playing in Kansas City and flight back home to barrique on the flight back to Seattle. Yeah, I bought pay off because you know my kid came, you know, everything came in the indigent. And 16 like I 3 I made my dream come true. I get my first song Born to so that was a great year for me and have you followed it. All what Andres Munoz is doing for this team this year. Yeah. It's been it's been great. It's been great. If I think it was in the outside game this year and its really really talented play. I follow him before I think what we San Diego I watching him pitch and he got great stuff. You know, I made him my first time 2022 and Seattle went to New York. I made him because they will can catch a fly. Evan call me when I want to meet me. So I went to meet him yummy from so I by voice. I really I really pretty good pitcher. You got great stuff, and I think he's doing great. Just to note each other. He asked me how how I prepared for the game gobble gobble advice how to handle when it is not going good for you and I give my advice to him and I think he's doing right. What was that for you when you first came up having just made the change to the bullpen and then have the experience closing games like that in the environment that was going on here at that time with the way you were forming was great, you know is then when they they bring me how they did a really good job. They was bringing me in situation. I couldn't handle and then they keep climbing the ladder with me. So as soon as I give me the bone and I was I think I was ready to close games whose name is bullpen catcher who took you under his wing Fleming buys. Yeah. It was a great day for me when I got here, you know. He was always with me in the woods when we was playing catch together. He was he would help me a lot.