Texas Rangers manager Chris Woodward discusses the short amount of time players had to compete for spots and where Ronald Guzmán needs to improve.
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00:00 Yeah, I think it's unfair in a lot of ways, but that's just what we're dealing with.
00:04 I feel bad, but at the same time, there's nothing else we can do.
00:08 I applaud our guys for coming in ready.
00:11 That was the biggest thing.
00:13 I told them many times throughout this process, there's a good chance that we're not gonna
00:19 be able to evaluate you the way we'd like to.
00:21 So the urgency of when we arrive to camp, we'd like you to be ready to go.
00:27 However you have to do that, try to be as prepared as possible because we're only evaluating
00:33 you on two outings or 10 or 15 at bats.
00:37 That's all we have to go by, unfortunately.
00:40 I was really honest, our staff was really honest with our players about that.
00:44 They took that challenge on, and a lot of guys came in ready.
00:47 You can see some guys were actually better this time than they were the first time around.
00:50 Thank you.
00:52 Other questions, please, Chris?
00:55 To go back to TR's question on Guzman, specifically, because defense is still there.
01:02 What is missing?
01:03 What's the one thing that he's really missing or the most prominent thing that he's missing
01:04 right now?
01:05 Is it something mental or is he just not staying in the strike zone?
01:06 What's the one thing that's really sticking out?
01:19 I think it's just consistency.
01:21 There's a lot that goes into consistency.
01:25 Swing mechanics lead to the lack of mental stability.
01:32 Hitting's hard.
01:33 When you don't feel right, when you don't feel your timing's not right, and now you're
01:36 sequencing and your technique isn't right, it kind of snowballs and you start to lose
01:42 confidence.
01:43 Guzman, he's in a tough place, but he's trying really hard.
01:47 Obviously, he's been really open to the feedback from our hitting coaches, from everybody that's
01:54 kind of trying to help him out.
01:55 We're trying to keep it as simple and concise as possible so he can start.
02:01 I hate to say he's starting over, but we've got to kind of peel back a little bit so we
02:06 can figure out what was really going on.
02:09 He's been open to that.
02:10 He's been, the last couple of days, has been really getting after it.
02:14 So, hopefully, we'll start to see a little bit more of a positive trend in that consistency.
02:20 It's just going to take a little bit of time, I think.