Joey Gallo of the Texas Rangers recently joined The Ben & Skin Show on 105.3 The Fan [KRLD-FM] recently to talk all things baseball. Here are some highlights:

On Adrian Beltre's influence on the team, even when injured...

Gallo: He's one of those guys that he doesn't really care how hurt he is or if he is hurt. He wants to just play. And I think, for me, I've learned a lot from him because he would always tell me there's a difference between being hurt and being injured, and if you can play through something, you can play through it.

For him, that's how he got 3,000 hits is because he's not letting any little injury keep him out of playing a baseball game. I think, as us young guys ... we're taught that if you're hurt, don't play. If you're injured, don't play. But with him, he's saying there's 160 games, if you're a little injured or a little hurt you can play through it. There's a difference. You get to see that, especially at 40 years old, that he's going to play through it.

Even when I get banged up - my leg hurts or my arm's sore, something's wrong - I still play through it because he's playing through his, why can't I? And I think he just sets this great mentor-ship for us to look up to and to continue on in the future when, eventually, he does retire - which might be in 10 years, who knows? But he's just been a great leader, and he's awesome to have around the clubhouse and on the team.

There was a moment four or five games ago where you had a steal, and you got called out because your body barley came off the bag and the glove stayed on you ... do you have to change the way you approach stealing bases to avoid that?

Gallo: Yeah, that definitely sucks because you bust your ass, and you scrape up your legs and hands to get a stolen base and you end up getting called out.

That one was a weird play. When I slide in, I'm not fast enough to slide in feet first, so I have to go in head first because it keeps my momentum and I can go to the outside part of the base. But on that particular one, I usually slide in and let my body stay on the base and my leg will just stay on top on the base. But my leg was actually on his foot, which was in front of the base, and not the base ... So that's why I got called out on it.

Now, you know, I'm just going to have to make sure. Now that they have the replay it's tough because you can't come off the base a hair. You have to stay on, make sure some part of your body is on because they can just super slow-mo it and you're out ... We've seen guys kind of just slide in even feet first and just bounce up and they've come off for a split second and the tag's on them and they're called out. That's kind of the bad part, I think, about replay is it's not really used in the right aspect anymore. It's kind of getting a little too precise I feel like.