Inside the Dugout & On the Field With the Miami Marlins

What's up guys? Young Hollywood here taking you behind the scenes with the Miami Marlins and their hometown kid. We are now in the clubhouse with outfielder for the Miami Marlins, Lewis Brinson. Six-five friend. To five-four, I didn't wear heels today cuz I wanted to be casual. Yeah. You are as impressive as they say. Look at this stature.

Appreciate it. Appreciate it. I get that a lot.

Now, how does height help you out on the field?

If I can you know, rob homers easily. You know, the wall's tall. I'm tall.

You got the call, you were being traded. You didn't know where yet. Where were you? And then you heard where it was.

Yeah. We were driving to the house and I got a call from the GM for the Brewers and he said, uh, we got we're on the phone, we're trading you to the Miami Marlins. Took me a second and I told my fiancé who was with me, um, what just happened and she almost cried, she screamed and was super excited cuz I'm coming home.

Besides outfielder, you have another title, hometown kid.

Yep.

This is your backyard, Coral Springs.

Mhm.

And now here you are.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I'm Coral Springs born, I went to Coral Springs High, um, born and raised down there and it was my off season home too. Um, I trained up in in Broward County and, you know, sometimes come down here just to hang out but, you know, this is really cool for me.

And your hero on the Marlins.

Yeah. Juan Pierre.

The Marlins actually set it up so you can meet him.

Yeah. I never met him in my life. Only, you know, from afar, kind of admiring from afar. Um, sitting in center field, watching him warm up, play out there and, you know, playing my same position and just kind of grew towards him and him coming out and surprising me, that was pretty cool. So, even though I'm a I'm a, you know, grown grown man now, you know, I still I felt like a little kid inside.

Breakdown what's here because your closet looks as busy as mine.

Well, we got a bunch of shoes. I'm a shoe guy. Um,

You're a shoe guy?

Yes. Yeah. I'm with Adidas. So, I got shoes. We got scouter reports. We got a book for, you know, scouting pitchers, uh, writing down what they throw me. I got all my shirts and stuff here. Pants.

Are these the bats you actually use?

In a game, yeah. The those are

Where are they?

Those are This is my game's bat.

Where where are these?

Those are them. Right here, yeah. This one's mine and this one is uh courtesy of Cameron Maybin. Oh. Let me use one of his bats.

How does one get ready for a game?

Come in here after a shower, get my clothes on, go stretch, go run out in the field a little bit. Get some pressure in. Yeah. Yeah. And then, uh, go in the cage, take some swings, get ready for BP. Come in, take another shower. Then we have a meeting about the pitcher we're facing, so look over that. Eat again because I we got that we got the chef in there. He makes uh chocolate bar for us, so. Regular dark chocolate. Peanut butter, uh, granola and honey. Mix it all up in a chocolate bar.

All right, say what is your guilty pleasure? But it sounds like that could be it. But there's

Sweet. Oh man. I got a big sweet tooth. They call me sweet for a reason, so.

Sweet.

They do. Sometimes I come in like, man, I want some chocolate. We'll get some chocolate real quick, go back out to the game, make a nice play, get a couple hits. If I if I get a couple hits, I come back in, get another boost of chocolate and go right back out to the game.

Marlins Park, friend. Yeah. Wow. Roof closed today. Supposed to rain. What's it like playing with a retractable roof baseball?

It's awesome. You get to play, you never have a rain delay, never have a rain out. You know, you come to the ballpark to play every single day. This is usually where I set up, so I'll come down, put my bats right here. Yeah. Everything right here. I don't use the bat rack. I never use the bat rack.

What other superstitions do you have?

I put on my left glove before my right. And now like, if I find myself putting on my right before my left, I'm like, wait a minute.

Look weird. We're going up. Going on deck.

Yeah. I'm right here. Yeah. I set up right here, put some Pine Tar on. Here's a bat weight right here, I put the bat weight on my bat. Got it. To kind of make my bat feel a little lighter.

And then your stance? Got this. Kind of like that. Yeah. Yeah, a little bit. Um, maybe bat a little bit higher and behind you a little bit. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Now, your CEO, Derek Jeter, you think he would say, yeah, let's put Leslie in some cleats and put her in.

Yeah, no. Me, no. No. He's a good guy to have around, he's been in baseball forever. Definitely. Living legend. Definitely.

What's it like having a CEO like Derek Jeter?

Oh, it's awesome. Um, I think there has to be at least five or six of us that maybe grew up loving Derek Jeter, uh, watching him, watching him on those great Yankee teams. Derek Jeter, you know, ultimate, you know, ultimate role model, so to speak. So, having him around is definitely uh really nice for us. Second guest: There's a tremendous kid. And I think that's what we've all found out. I don't know if you could have a better kid. He's the kid that you want marrying your daughter. And and a guy's pretty quiet actually, at least from our standpoint, he goes about his business. Not a lot of talk, not a lot of fluff, uh, just kind of come and work and now with with in the guys, maybe a little different. But he seems to be pretty humble about what he's doing.

use the backup. Okay. I gotta use the gamer. Okay. Give me a top one. Give me a top one. Throw to the pilot. Oh! He plays centerfield. You know what my secret was?

What?

I ate the chocolate.

Oh, you did?

I ate the chocolate. There you go.