WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.719 Hell, Hi everybody, and welcome to Off Night Dodger Talk here on your 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:10.599 home of the Dodgers AM five to seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio 3 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:15.000 app. Thanks for being with us on this Monday night, June the third, 4 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:21.000 Yes, June the third, David Has caller Chris so eloquently put it 5 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:25.160 a couple of years ago, after the Dodgers got eliminated in the NLDS by 6 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:30.399 the San Diego Padres. The Dodgers off tonight. They are flying back east, 7 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:35.079 so take on the Pittsburgh Pirates in the series that begins tomorrow at PMC 8 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:38.960 Parker. Then three games this weekend back in New York, this time in 9 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:43.560 the Bronx against the Yankees eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight 10 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:47.159 six six nine eight seven two five seventy. We got a lot to get 11 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:49.920 to tonight, but a lot of your phone calls, we got plenty of 12 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:54.719 time to talk Dodgers baseball and a lot of things to cover here on Off 13 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:57.840 Night Dodger Talk. First, off, the Dodgers. Two months into this 14 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:02.280 twenty twenty four season, they sit thirty eight and twenty three, first place 15 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:04.959 atop the Division the Dodgers start the night with a six and a half game 16 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:08.879 lead over the San Diego Padres, an eight and a half game lead over 17 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:14.760 the San Francisco Giants, and the Dodgers right now playing some good baseball, 18 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:18.560 not playing great, just playing really good at this time, taking two to 19 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.640 three from Colorado over the weekend. They've won five of their last six. 20 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:25.400 And keep in mind the great start that this team got off to and then 21 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:29.879 the lull they got into offensively, top to bottom, especially hitters five through 22 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:33.480 nine in this lineup. Mookie got some struggles, Freddy has been up and 23 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:36.560 down with his swing at the plate right now. Shoho Tani is in the 24 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:40.359 midst of his biggest rut here in twenty twenty four. Despite all the ups 25 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:44.480 and downs, the injuries, the arms, the bullpen, Max Bunsei, 26 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:49.439 Jason Hayward, the Dodgers keep right on rolling with a first place lead here 27 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.359 in the division as we have now hit June eight, six, six, 28 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:56.280 nine eighty seven, two five seventy. But a lot to get to here. 29 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:59.920 We're gonna get to Blake Snell and what could have been for the Dodger 30 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:04.439 if he had not elected to sign in San Francisco. We're also gonna get 31 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:09.000 to a quick abbreviated farm report coming up at about seven and forty five. 32 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:14.599 We're not gonna go extensive into Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Great Lakes, and 33 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:17.360 Rancho Kucamongo just did that about four or five days ago here on off night 34 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:21.560 Dodger Talk. Not a lot has changed, but we're gonna point pinpoint a 35 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:27.800 couple of players who over the weekend had great games for the Dodgers and minor 36 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.520 league prospects. That's coming up at about seven to forty five, but again, 37 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:31.879 plenty of time for your phone calls at eight six, six, nine 38 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:38.319 eighty seven, two five seventy. Today in the La Times, an interesting 39 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:44.560 column penned by Dylan Hernandez title Dodgers are winning again, but who's convinced this 40 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:50.680 team will win in October? And he details the Dodgers running away with the 41 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:54.400 division, the ups and downs of the offense, the emergence of young arms 42 00:02:54.479 --> 00:03:00.080 like Gavin Stone, Walker Buehler coming back from his injury, Chhinobu Yamamoto, 43 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:04.719 the rocky start that he got off to in South Korea, but really has 44 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:08.719 been quite good for this Dodgers team over his last start five to one, 45 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:14.319 two seventy two e rora. What Tyler Glass now has meant to this Dodgers 46 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:16.879 team and if this postseason started right now would probably be your Game one starter. 47 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.319 He goes in depth to what really has transpired over the last two months, 48 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:24.560 and what you know is Dodger fans has happened, and he brings up 49 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:28.759 with a lot of Dodger fans that I run into, bring up all the 50 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:32.639 time. We're used to win the division. We're used to being the champs 51 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:38.080 in the NL West. Come talk to me October. Yeah. Yeah, 52 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:40.039 they could do all this in the in the regular season. They can break 53 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:44.520 the records for wins in a year. They can win one hundred and eleven. 54 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:47.439 Guys can win the you know, cy Young, we guys can win 55 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:52.439 the batting titles. They can hit thirty thirty, whatever these guys are gonna 56 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:57.159 do. That's great individual accomplishments and collectively winning one hundred plus games and winning 57 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:01.080 the division ten the last eleven years. But it feels like Dodger fans have 58 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:05.960 gotten now into this. What about October? That's all we care about is 59 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.479 October and we joke about it. But there was a caller Chris to Dodger 60 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:16.800 Talk after the Dodgers won the World Series in twenty twenty, they come back 61 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:21.079 twenty twenty one, a rough go twenty twenty two, what happens to the 62 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:28.279 Dodgers. They get bounced by the San Diego Padres in the NLDS and the 63 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.680 caller to Dodger Talk on that night in which the Dodgers were eliminated by the 64 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:35.959 Padres and the NLDS in October twenty twenty two, Chris says, and very 65 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:41.639 emotionally, his friends give him a hard time about the twenty twenty World Series 66 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:45.920 and he's tired of it and this Dodgers team, He's tired of running away 67 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:49.480 at the division and falling short in October, and then this comes on literally 68 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:54.160 the same day. He references June third as an abbreviated season of what that 69 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:59.040 day would have been like it And Dylan Hernandez writes his column today about Dodgers 70 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:01.680 will winning again and who's can miss this team will win in October. Ken 71 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:05.879 Rosenthal pens an article for The Athletic last week when the Dodgers had lost five 72 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:11.000 in a row, got swept in Cincinnati about what moves do the Dodgers need 73 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:15.879 to make. Is it really at that point right now where Dodger fans you 74 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:20.079 don't really care what happens in May, June, and July. It's come 75 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:25.560 September and then really October, that's all you're caring about. And the regular 76 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:33.199 season numbers, the stats, winning division is not important. I find that 77 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:36.199 hard to believe. I know we all want to get to October, and 78 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:40.920 the ultimate goal is to win a championship, But I look at this Dodgers 79 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:43.800 team this year, I mean, forget what has happened in the past. 80 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:46.079 Certainly the ultimate goal is to win a championship. When you fall short in 81 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.240 the World Series, you fall short in the NLCS like you did in twenty 82 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:53.639 twenty one against the Atlanta Braves and Freddie Freeman and that crew that won a 83 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:56.879 World Series, where you fall short in the NLDS like the Dodgers had the 84 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.759 last two years against Arizona and San Diego, you gotta get to the dance. 85 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:04.560 You got to get to the tournament, as they call it, the 86 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:12.639 postseason tournament. You gotta get there first. And the Dodgers are so talented 87 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:15.959 through the course of one hundred and sixty two they've earned the right over the 88 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:21.160 last twelve years to get to the tournament for a championship. Now they've come 89 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:25.560 up short the last two years. And we've talked about the struggles and what 90 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:29.040 they do right in the regular season as opposed to what they're not doing in 91 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:32.240 the postseason. Yeah, and the failures are what they are. Well, 92 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:36.759 I look at this twenty twenty four team and I don't see it as rinse 93 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:43.399 and repeat. I don't see it as just another Dodger regular season runaway and 94 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:47.040 they're gonna fail on October. And the reason I don't see it is I 95 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:53.639 see a different roster. I see a different makeup of this Dodgers team. 96 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:58.399 And I truly believe assuming everybody stays healthy and it is good to go on 97 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.120 October, now, certainly you're gonna have injury, groins, calves, soreness. 98 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:04.319 That's gonna happen. Oh, of course in one sixty two max months. 99 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:06.879 He's hurt right now with the oblique. We've seen some of the Dodgers' 100 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:12.199 arms hurt already as far as tightness, calf, muscle, hamstreak. About 101 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:16.879 that stuff happens. But outside of a major shutdown and losing a player or 102 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:24.399 players for the rest of the season. I look at this Dodger group having 103 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:27.720 more than twenty six guys that are can contribute, and when it comes to 104 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.759 the postseason, the mixing and matching at the top twenty six guys, you're 105 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:39.680 gonna find a talented Dodgers team with a different approach and ready for October this 106 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:43.360 year. Now, why do I say that what I've seen so far is 107 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:47.199 a team that has played small ball, a team that has added the run 108 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:51.319 element to the game with Shoe Hey Otani, have Jason Hayward. You've got 109 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:56.040 guys running Mookie Betts. You've seen some running hits, some hitting runs we've 110 00:07:56.079 --> 00:08:01.800 seen We've seen safety squeezes. We've seen bunchs dobing guys over. This is 111 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:09.720 all new. This is things that the Arizona Diamondbacks implemented it into their offense 112 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:16.399 a year ago and wrote it without relying upon the long ball to a World 113 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:22.279 Series appearance. Now, certainly you gotta get some luck. That's part of 114 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:28.360 winning a championship. Ball bounces your way, ball goes certain distance your way. 115 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.360 There's a luck element to it as well. Let's be real, But 116 00:08:31.440 --> 00:08:35.120 to set yourself up for the best situation. I truly believe this team, 117 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:41.879 the way they're built. We saw only a few games this year so far 118 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:46.480 where they have completely struggled to score runs. Yet on the flip side, 119 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:54.519 they've already shut out their opponents six times this season. And the contributions of 120 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.840 young guys, guys that they didn't even know who their name was, come 121 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:01.159 a spring training that have added to this Dodger team and then coming gone, 122 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.559 and the regulars out of the bullpen, and the additions that are coming, 123 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:15.039 especially with a Clayton Kershaw and hopefully a Bruce dargratterol and getting Joe Kelly back, 124 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:18.840 this team and makeup I believe will be ready for October. So I 125 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:24.759 find it interesting on this June third, the anniversary of June third David the 126 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:30.440 call her to Dodger Talk and the column pen today by Dylan Hernandez and the 127 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:35.440 column penn last week by Ken Rosenthal in The Athletic about what the Dodgers need 128 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.480 to do, what the Dodgers need to improve on. I mean, this 129 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.919 is a pretty talented Dodgers team right now, and it's not gonna happen very 130 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.080 often. Now. I know you can get into a five and seven game 131 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:50.039 series. You can't have it happen more than once or twice, or else 132 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:52.320 you're screwed and you're gonna lose the series. Well, I don't think this 133 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.600 makeup of a team is a team that one through nine is gonna go through 134 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:01.519 stretches where they're just not performing. I just don't believe that to be the 135 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:05.759 case. This lineup is too talented. And when you get to the postseason, 136 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:09.919 those hitters five through nine that we have talked about in the lack of 137 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:18.480 production we've seen, whether it's a order of Lux Hayward, Chris Taylor, 138 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:24.159 whoever in that five through nine spot, I think once you get to postseason 139 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:28.279 you'll see it even more. Guys ask to bunt, Guys ask to use 140 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:33.919 their at bats to move runners around, use their at bats for the betterment 141 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:37.440 of the team. Now, over the course of one sixty two, you 142 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.279 get into a game, you're not asking the guy to lay out a bunt 143 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.000 in the fifth inning in a one nothing game or a zero zero game, 144 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.960 or you're looking to attack on an insurance run if you're late in the game, 145 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:52.039 you just don't do that. But in a playoff game, I think 146 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.120 this Dodgers team, the makeup will You'll be different Offensively. You're not going 147 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:58.759 to see a team just slug slug, slug rely on the home run ball 148 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.679 and that's it. Home runner, die, home runner, bus, home 149 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.519 runner, go fishing. I think that approach is going to be different, 150 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:07.919 and we've already seen it this year, and we've still got a lot of 151 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:13.679 baseball for them to continue to show that here on a regular basis. Eight 152 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.240 sixty six nine, eight seven two five seventy. So yeah, it may 153 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:20.720 be the same old runaway with the division and it's already June, but I'm 154 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:26.519 telling you this Dodger team come October. I truly believe the makeup is different. 155 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:30.279 You go back to a year ago and we were probably saying the same 156 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:35.320 thing, but they got hit by injuries late in the season. Consolin broke 157 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:39.240 down, we lost dustin May. You saw a Dodger pitching stuff not as 158 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:43.440 deep as it is right now, relying on a young Bobby Miller who was 159 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:48.039 figuring it out as he goes an up and down Gavin Stone who was really 160 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:56.960 not effective until September, relying upon, you know, a veteran bullpen that 161 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.039 they only had a few arms. They can go to because they were dead 162 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:03.559 arms at that point. That's the beauty of what we're seeing right now with 163 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:09.240 Gavin Stone yesterday pulled after five innings seventy five pitches. No need to tax 164 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:11.639 his arm now in early June, no need for him to go out there 165 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:18.840 and prove what he can go seven innings, ninety five pitches. Why he's 166 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.679 already in line for a four to nothing lead, or at the time it 167 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.600 was three to nothing before they attacked on a run, he had already gone 168 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:31.240 five shutout innings, struck out six and the final four innings. You've got 169 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:37.120 Grove, Vessia and a Hudson the hand of the ball to pretty good guys 170 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:41.720 at the back end of your bullpen. You're not asking Elis or Hernandez or 171 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.399 a late addition to the roster, or you know, a DFAE player from 172 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:50.639 somewhere else like Baltimore in the Mets, asking him to come in here and 173 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:54.879 get you out of a jam. No one's healthy here. You're seeing the 174 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:58.919 back end of the bullpen really be able to help them out. And again 175 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:05.639 yesterday Gavin Stone five innings, seventy five he saw James Paxton start shorten. 176 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:09.039 We've seen it already with this Dodger team not having guys having to go deep 177 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:13.639 into games. There's a strategy to that. There's a way of looking at 178 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:18.159 how many innings, how many starts, assuming you're healthy, you're gonna get 179 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.559 over the course of one sixty two and having now a five day gap between 180 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.440 starts. Okay, so yesterday was a four day the old traditional four days 181 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:30.559 between starts, Well, it's not traditional any more, Dodger fans, Baseball 182 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:35.159 is changing. And when with usually now five days off in between starts, 183 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:39.039 when you ask Gavin Stone to go four days between starts may not seem like 184 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:41.399 a lot to you, but you don't want to tax the arm in June. 185 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:46.240 What's the purpose of having him go out and throw seven innings ninety five 186 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:48.559 pitches and then come back in five days, rinse and repeat, and you 187 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:52.840 get to the All Star break and the young man's arms gonna fall out or 188 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:56.000 he's already hit the amount of innings he's pitched all of last year. By 189 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.639 this year's All Star break, what have you accomplished? You've wasted his arm. 190 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:05.840 There is a strategy to piece you together innings and starts, and where 191 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:09.039 we see a guy going into the season in postseason, all right, so 192 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:11.120 we need to get this many innings out of this start. They project all 193 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:16.039 that. It's not just we're gonna figure it out and in five days, 194 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:18.799 hey, good to go, You're back out there and every five days. 195 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:22.399 No, there is a strategy to this. And sometimes guys go on the 196 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:26.960 iel arm fatigue. It's to give him a break because they know they're going 197 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.799 to be needed in maybe July and August, and maybe there's another eyel stend 198 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:37.559 because the soren is or fatigue, now calfs, hamstrings, those are different 199 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:43.039 stories. Those are free things that happen and twinges to muscles that you can't 200 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:48.360 control. But again, I think they're doing as best a job as they've 201 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:54.320 ever done now managing these innings to make sure a possible All Star here in 202 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:58.120 Gavin Stone, for what he's done already, is available in October, to 203 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:01.360 make sure Tyler Glass now Dodger f who's had a history of injuries, has 204 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:07.759 already had an arm surgery two years ago. You don't tax them by the 205 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:11.240 All Star break. So Yoshinoba Yamamoto, who is used to pitching every five 206 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:16.039 days in Japan once a week, you don't just throw them in the major 207 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:20.240 leagues in his first year and overtax his arm, which could happen and leads 208 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:24.000 to arm fatigue, leads to a surgery. You don't want the worst case 209 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:28.399 scenario, so going into it, figure out a plan. That's where they're 210 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:33.559 at with all their pitchers right now, even relievers. It's it's it's the 211 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.519 analytics of baseball in a good way, projection, looking ahead. This is 212 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:41.639 where we think they're gonna get to. That's why they look at a guy 213 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:43.440 coming back from an injury and reramp up. Okay, this starts gonna be 214 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:46.720 so many innings, so many pitches. The second start, we're gonna increase 215 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:50.519 that. So many innings, so many pitches, until you get to where 216 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.720 you're comfortable. Five innings, seventy five pitches is kind of the new norm 217 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:58.480 for starting pitching. You may or may not like it, but it's baseball 218 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:02.559 in twenty twenty four eight nine eighty seven, two five seventy. So the 219 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:06.919 Dodgers two months into the season. Where are you out with this Dodgers team. 220 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:11.840 I'm enjoying what we're seeing so far. And to think of Shoeyotani wasn't 221 00:16:11.879 --> 00:16:15.240 in a slump right now where this Dodgers team would be. To think of 222 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:18.080 yesterday as a prime example. Dodgers shut out the Rockies for to nothing. 223 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:22.240 Great pitching, Stone Grove to two shutout innings, Alex Vessio one, two, 224 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.960 three, eight, Daniel Hudson pitches the ninth. Can't ask for anything 225 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:30.039 better right there. Offensively, you get home runs from Rookie Betts, you 226 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.200 get a home run from Freddie Freeman. Rojas at the bottom of the lineup 227 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:36.360 drives in a run, You manufactured a running the eighth inning for an insurance 228 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:38.440 run. Hitters five through nine had five of your eight hits in the game, 229 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:45.039 and you do without Shoey Ootanni producing. Can't ask for match much more. 230 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:48.240 Austin bars two for fourth. The bottom of the lineup. The Dodgers 231 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:53.279 yesterday were like one for eleven. I think in runners in scoring position and 232 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:56.960 stranded double digit base runners. They could have blown open this game if they 233 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:03.279 get a couple more clutch hit but they still get to win. And they 234 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:07.559 left a lot out there offensively, a lot left out there yesterday. We'll 235 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:11.519 get into Shoeo Tani coming up in just a little bit. Don't forget. 236 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:12.920 We'll get you a little mini farm report coming up about seven to forty five. 237 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:17.599 Couple of guys the spotlight down the minor leagues who had great weekends for 238 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:19.839 the Dodgers down in the minor leagues. Eight six six nine eighty seven, 239 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:22.759 two five seven. We'll take a break, we'll come back. I got 240 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:25.519 one line open. If you're on hold, I see you. I appreciate 241 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:29.039 it. Let's talk some Dodgers baseball. We'll also get into Blake Snell. 242 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:37.039 The Dodgers look like they dodged a bullet with Blake Snell. He almost signed 243 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:42.119 with the Dodgers. Reportedly they were there. He ends up going to San 244 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:48.480 Francisco, and boy is it not worked out? Eight six six nine eighty 245 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:51.559 seven, two five seventy. It's off night Dodger Talk. The boys are 246 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:56.839 in Pittsburgh tomorrow to start a three game series against the Pirates. Your phone 247 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:00.880 calls a week comebacks, Tim Kates. Posts are up Off Dodger Talk here 248 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:04.160 on FI seventy, LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio. H Well, 249 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:08.039 David Vassay has got the night off. He is in Pittsburgh, hopefully enjoying 250 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:12.359 a nice meal in the four to one two as a Dodgers started a three 251 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:18.200 game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates tomorrow. Should be a fun three days at 252 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:22.240 PNC Park. Truth be told, I've never been to the city of Pittsburgh, 253 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:25.799 so I've never been to P and C Park. I had no desire 254 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:30.119 ever to go to Three Rivers Stadium because the design of the Vet Three Rivers, 255 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:33.000 and Bush Stadium in Saint Louis, all of them were just kind of 256 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:37.480 cookie cutter stadiums with turf, and I had no desire to go at any 257 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:41.559 of them. But P and C Park looks absolutely beautiful even to this day 258 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.240 and holding up with the test of time. There now twenty plus years, 259 00:18:45.240 --> 00:18:48.559 almost twenty five years, I think that place has been in existence, right 260 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:52.119 there on the banks of the Allegheny River and right across the bridge from downtown 261 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.799 Pittsburgh. I don't know what the downtown is like, but heck, that 262 00:18:55.880 --> 00:19:00.279 baseball stadium looks tremendous. Would love to go to a baseball game there in 263 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.799 Pittsburgh. As far as the Pirates are concerned, they have lost six of 264 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:06.559 the last ten. They're eight and a half games back in Milwaukee and the 265 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:10.319 NL Central. Currently they're twenty seven and thirty two on this season, but 266 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:14.000 they are going to see two of the best young pitchers in baseball, that 267 00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:18.160 is the Dodgers in the first two games of this three game series. First 268 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:22.000 pitch tomorrow is at three forty Tyler Glass down the Mountain. Right hander Jared 269 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.839 Jones, the hard throwing right hander for the Pirates, will go at it. 270 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:30.559 He has got an eleven starts seventy strikeouts, that's top three amongst rookies 271 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:34.640 in baseball. He's got four quality starts in a row. He's got a 272 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:38.359 three to fifty five ERA. And then on Wednesday, James Paxson will go 273 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:42.160 for the Dodgers, and the Dodgers for the first time will get their eyes 274 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:48.079 on former first round pick out or Turtle High School by way of LSU, 275 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:51.759 Paul Skeens, who was the number one pick in the draft a year ago. 276 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:57.000 The twenty two year old has really been good. I mean just absolutely 277 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:00.799 filthy with the strikeouts and throw one hundred plus mile at an hour. I 278 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:04.319 mean he's already got thirty strikeouts, five walks, and four starts two forty 279 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:08.359 five eras. Last three starts have been really good, all three quality starts 280 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:12.319 in a row. Allowing three runs and a total of eighteen innings with twenty 281 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:18.680 three strikeouts over those three starts. He is a fun young arm to watch 282 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:22.039 major League Baseball. He's got one hundred mile an hour fastball and a sweeper 283 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:25.839 that's just absolutely nasty. So it'll be fun to watch the Dodgers offense go 284 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:29.960 up against Jared Jones in the opener, and then Paul Skeens on Wednesday, 285 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:33.440 and then Walker Bueler get the finale on Wednesday afternoon in Pittsburgh. Eight sixty 286 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:37.160 six, nine eighty seven two five seventy. Let's go out to the phones. 287 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:40.440 I appreciate body being patient. Let's go out to Lis. How you 288 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:45.240 doing, Welcome to Dodger Talks to how you doing? Buddy? Hey Tim, 289 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.880 how are you doing? Am? I really enjoyed what you said, 290 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:52.880 and I agree with a lot of it, especially on the pitching side. 291 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:59.279 I appreciate it. Yeah, I think it's so much better in the depth. 292 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:06.200 It's just so much stronger. My only concern is still there's so much 293 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:11.720 strikeout in the entire lineup, even amongst the hitters who are who do well. 294 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:18.279 You know, Freddie and in Muki are probably the best. But I 295 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:22.759 think Freddie has struck out more. And then the only other question I have 296 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:32.480 that just comes at me is is there a way that they can incorporate more 297 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:37.799 running? And you mentioned it earlier and they have done more, but I 298 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:41.200 still see a number of opportunities even with the top three guys, and I'm 299 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.640 glad shohe is doing it, where like, yeah, a two in one 300 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:49.440 counts, this is the time to steal, to put some pressure on. 301 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:56.519 And then the final comment, and you sort of alluded to it, but 302 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:03.200 all of these comments by Ken Rosen and Dylan Hernandez about are they going to 303 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:07.079 go to a six man rotation? The Dodgers aren't playing that game. The 304 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:11.279 Dodgers, as you have pointed out, have sort of in the beginning of 305 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:15.119 the season, allotted innings to each picture and they have that down to a 306 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:19.279 science, and that's what they care about. And whether it's a seven man 307 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:25.640 rotation one week and a four man rotation the next week, that's what they're 308 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:32.759 doing. And the media is being as usual lazy frankly as smart as Ken 309 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:37.400 Rosenthal is, and I like him, and I think that's where we're at. 310 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:40.440 I appreciate that a lot of good insight there. I think you're right 311 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:44.440 as far as the Dodgers putting guys in motion, and I just bring up 312 00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:48.000 show Hey O'tani as an example. He leaves the Dodger team right now with 313 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:52.880 fourteen stolen bases. Showy Otani in his career, you know what the most 314 00:22:53.240 --> 00:23:00.799 stolen bases he's had in one season, twenty twenty one, twenty six bases. 315 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:07.960 He's on pace to break that career high twenty six stolen bases in twenty 316 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:11.720 twenty one. He's already got fourteen. He had twenty last year. Granted 317 00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:15.880 he missed about thirty games roughly, but in twenty twenty one, he played 318 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:21.039 one hundred and fifty five games, he was healthy, and he stole twenty 319 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:25.519 six bases. He's already got fourteen now on this season the Dodgers. You 320 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:30.839 look at Mookie Betts, even Freddie Freeman had a stolen base over the weekend, 321 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:36.480 showing off his speed. He's got two. Mookie Betts's got nine stolen 322 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:38.480 bases. Guys are starting to steal, I mean a lot more than they 323 00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:42.480 did a year ago, and I think that's going to continue. We've seen 324 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:45.480 the bunt, We've seen them running, hit, hit and run. We've 325 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:49.119 seen him kind of do all. And that's the beauty of this one sixty 326 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:53.319 two this year is you're seeing, I believe, a different approach. Now. 327 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:56.759 There was a game in Cincinnati. I don't remember off the top of 328 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:00.880 my head, but they got swept the last road trip. It did feel 329 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:07.480 like they reverted back to the Dodgers of the last few years. And again 330 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:10.640 it I can't remember it was the Friday, Saturday or Sunday game off the 331 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:14.000 top of my head, but there was at bats during that game where I'm 332 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:17.319 like, Wow, this looks like a team that's a bunch of individual guys 333 00:24:17.319 --> 00:24:19.559 out there just looking to crush the ball. And maybe it's because they're trying 334 00:24:19.599 --> 00:24:22.480 to snap the losing straight after losing, you know, two in a row. 335 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:26.279 And then maybe it was the second game on that Saturday and they had 336 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:27.920 already lost the first game, and you don't want to keep the losing going, 337 00:24:27.960 --> 00:24:30.559 and you're playing in Cincinnati, which is a home run friendly park, 338 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:37.400 one of the stadiums that the ball travels out frequently, that maybe these guys 339 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:40.359 were trying to jacket out of the park and get on the scoreboard and give 340 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:41.880 the Dodgers the lead. And coming out of their shoes a little bit, 341 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:47.480 as so to speak, and getting away from their approach. And I think 342 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:52.480 that's something that's been instilled in this Dodgers' offense or the hitting coaches Robin Skoyek 343 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:56.799 and crew. Is the approach. Dave Roberts has talked about it a lot. 344 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:02.079 He even mentioned I think in that Cincinnati series is that we got to 345 00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:06.079 stay to our approach and guys can't, you know, start chasing pitches, 346 00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:11.039 and guys can't start worrying about, you know, winning things or or creating 347 00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:14.440 things with just one swing of the bat like a home run, that they've 348 00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:15.640 got to put the ball in play. They've got to, you know, 349 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:19.119 get the motion going as far as guys on the base pass and just keep 350 00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:23.319 that line moving for the Dodgers offense. And they've done a lot better job 351 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:27.519 of this year. That's why I go back to this articles from Dylan Hernandez 352 00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:32.279 and other baseball insiders and the anniversary of June the third, David, they 353 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:36.640 call it a dodge of talk. I just don't see the same repetitive Dodger 354 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:40.160 approach from years past that we kind of hope that, oh, you know, 355 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:41.799 I don't worry when we get to October, they're just gonna can you 356 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:45.880 continue to slug? Oh yeah, I know. Games get shortened and you 357 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:48.759 know, all of a sudden, twenty seven out you start counting them and 358 00:25:48.920 --> 00:25:52.839 you start wornting a little bit because it's a one run game or a tie 359 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:55.839 game late and you start thinking, Wow, when's that home run gonna come? 360 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:00.759 When when's that big four run any where they hit two acts gonna come 361 00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:03.440 for the Dodgers, and they don't come, and they get beat by the 362 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:07.200 Diamondbacks or they get beat by the Padres. I don't think that's the approach 363 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:11.119 that we're seeing right now, and Dave Roberts knows they can't go back to 364 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:15.480 that approach, and so that's why you're seeing the philosophy change and they're still 365 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:18.200 winning games, but yet at the same time still hitting home runs because that 366 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.240 is part of the game. You can't just rely on Okay, we're just 367 00:26:22.279 --> 00:26:23.920 we're not get the ball out of the ballpark anymore. You're not eliminating that 368 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:27.640 part of the game at all. It's just a different approach, shorting up 369 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:33.400 your strike zone and not chasing pitches because that's what happens when you start pressing 370 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.559 and you're you start trying to jack the ball. I mean, you just 371 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:37.680 see a pitch and you just want to crush it, and you think you 372 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:41.279 can get any pitch in the zone inside outside ausby pitch, and all of 373 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:45.839 a sudden, you know you're away out in front of the ball and you 374 00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:48.279 look silly on strike three, or you're chasing a pitch that's ball four. 375 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:52.880 That if you're dialed in and you're looking about just you're at bat right now 376 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:56.359 and getting on bass however you can. You're taking that pitch knowing it's out 377 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:00.759 of the strike zone and taken first and given the bat to the next guy 378 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:04.400 to start getting something going offensively. That's the approach what you've seen, I 379 00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:07.440 believe this year, and I think we'll continue to see. And that's why 380 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:11.680 I think there'll be a difference come October. Frank and Temple City. I 381 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:15.680 appreciate you being patient. How you doing tonight, Frank, Hey, pretty 382 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:19.039 good. Thanks for taking my call. I think you just segued perfectly into 383 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:23.359 what I wanted to talk about, because come October, you know, I 384 00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:27.279 don't I'm not questioning Nobody's going to question the talent and the preparation and the 385 00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:32.519 professionalism of this team, but what we ran into the last couple of years, 386 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:34.920 and Matt Murdey Smith did a good job when last season flamed out talking 387 00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:40.000 about how you know Philly has a superstar in Bryce Harper that's going to be 388 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:45.200 an emotionals and if we find ourselves dropping the first game of the divisional series 389 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:48.319 and then all of a sudden we're down by three runs halfway through the next 390 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:53.559 game, have we addressed who's going to be that emotional leader for us? 391 00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:59.559 Because we know it's not in the DNA of Mookie or Freddy and because of 392 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:02.680 the language barrier, maybe even show Hey to be that guy? Is tay 393 00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:07.119 Oscar the person who are going to rally around or who's going to bring the 394 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:10.400 fire when we're up against the wall, because during the regular season, we're 395 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:12.200 not going to be up against the wall that much. We might be cruising. 396 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:15.640 When I asked David bet say this, he got a little upset. 397 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:18.799 Maybe he was jet lagged. I don't know, maybe there was a long 398 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.240 time on the tarmac. But who do you think the team's going to need 399 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:26.400 to hear from if things go south or things start off a little Rocky at 400 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:29.799 the start of a playoff puts good question. It's a good question, fak, 401 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:32.880 I appreciate it. I think tay Oscar could be that spark, that 402 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:37.599 vocal leader. He's certainly been around. It's not like he's a young player 403 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:41.000 anymore. He's spent time in Toronto, he was in Seattle, and even 404 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:44.039 though it's his first year with the Dodgers, he's been in baseball now a 405 00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:47.319 while. So I think he's got a voice that would be well respected in 406 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:51.400 that clubhouse, even though it's his first year. Jason Hayward is not a 407 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:55.720 raw, raw in your face guy, but we certainly know what he did 408 00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:59.359 in the clubhouse with the Cubs back in their World Series run in twenty sixteen 409 00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:02.880 that a delay, helping them come back and win that World Series. He 410 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:07.000 is a really well respected voice in any clubhouse that he is in, and 411 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:11.640 he's a vocal guy that gets his message across. And it doesn't do it 412 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:15.720 in a yelling, in your face, you know, necessarily as you as 413 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:22.680 you said, kind of raw, raw attempt. But I can see both 414 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.640 those guys being leaders. I think last year we saw Miguel Rojas. I 415 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:27.720 want to say it was the end of the year when they clinched. Yeah, 416 00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:32.720 that was right when they clinched the division in September and they gave their 417 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:40.960 toast in the clubhouse. It was Miguel Rojas giving the the speech to the 418 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:44.720 players when they toasted winning the division. And you look at what Miguel Rojas 419 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:48.279 means to Mookie Betts, really his mentor at shortstop. I mean, if 420 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:51.400 you get out to a Dodger game early when the gates open, even going 421 00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:53.920 on away game, when they're out there when the fans are there, you'll 422 00:29:53.920 --> 00:30:00.960 see Miguel Rojas and Mookie Betts standing together out at shortstop and going over things 423 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.480 and approaches and technique, and Dino Ebol's right there. They're just taking ground 424 00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:07.279 ball off the ground. I mean I sat and watched it yesterday for like 425 00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:11.640 twenty minutes, just ground ball, ground ball left right, charging the ground 426 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.920 ball, backhanding, the glove side everything. You can imagine, different kinds 427 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:18.200 of ground balls, and they were working on out there. So I can 428 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:21.920 see Miguel Rojas being that leader as well. And now that he's back and 429 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:23.960 he's in a second year in a Dodger uniform, maybe even more so of 430 00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:29.799 a vocal leader. But again, let's hope this Dodgers team doesn't get into 431 00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:34.319 that kind of situation. And I truly believe that if you got the top 432 00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:38.799 four, even top three with Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman and Shoo Tani, 433 00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:45.359 I like my odds. I'm at a gambler, so to speak. I'm 434 00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:48.519 not a poker player. You know somebody that goes to Vegas and does that. 435 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:52.119 I love a little sports betting, but I'm not a poker player. 436 00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:57.400 But I would believe that if you were to ask me if all three of 437 00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:00.519 them are going to struggle in a five game series or a seven game series, 438 00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:04.359 all three of those guys Otani, Freeman, and Betts, odds are 439 00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:10.039 at least one of them's gonna produce and help out this offense and carry them. 440 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:11.319 Now you're gonna counter back, and I can already see the phone ring 441 00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.400 and saying, well, what about lost against the Diamondbacks. Nobody came through, 442 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.559 nobody hit offensively. I don't think that happens. Again, I don't. 443 00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:22.680 And it didn't help that the pitching for the Dodgers didn't keep them in 444 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:26.799 games, and the Dodgers were constantly and then pressured to come from behind in 445 00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:32.079 that series and start feeling that pressure of no, we just had a wonder 446 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:33.599 one season. Oh no, we gotta get out of this whole up. 447 00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:36.759 I gotta be the guy who hit the home run, and he start changing 448 00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:38.519 your approach, and he starts swinging out of your shoes and swinging the pitches 449 00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:41.680 that are out of his own, and we saw what happened. So I 450 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.480 don't think it gets to that point. James in North Hollywood, thanks you 451 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:47.319 for to be impatient on this Monday night, off night Dodger Talk as the 452 00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:49.000 Dodger started a six game road trip tomorrow in Pittsburgh. How you doing tonight, 453 00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:53.200 Good, Tam good, sim Hey, I wanted to talk back to 454 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:57.880 you about what you mentioned about managing pictures. I love the logics for right 455 00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:04.440 now during the regular isn't absolutely However, come August, I would like to 456 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:08.279 make sure that all of these guys are built up to one hundred plus pitches. 457 00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:15.519 And the reason for that is because come the postseason, you know a 458 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:19.799 lot of times we've seen, you know, maybe the front office Dave Roberts 459 00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:22.960 get a little bit cute with pitching management and going to the analytics, and 460 00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:28.559 obviously, if a guy is mowing down competitors, like pretty much all of 461 00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:30.680 our starters, at least at some of the time, have shown that they 462 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:34.960 can do. You want to be able to let them run and if they've 463 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:38.839 been babied, if you will a little bit, which is necessary in today's 464 00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:43.640 game, right you know I get that now, But come August, I 465 00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:46.680 would love to see all those guys feel very comfortable throwing one hundred pitches, 466 00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:51.519 which, with as efficient as they've been, could be seven innings of solid 467 00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:54.799 work. That shortens the game so much, allows us to keep you know, 468 00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:59.720 these bullpen guys fresh, and as you said, all the injuries, 469 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:02.599 we only have half the bullpen guys available, or you know, if we're 470 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:06.640 down a starter or two and we have to piece together you know, a 471 00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:10.000 game five start in a five game series or something like that. I think 472 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:14.759 that it goes a long way to have these guys ready to go one hundred 473 00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:17.880 and be strong for all one hundred pitches. So I agree with the logic 474 00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:22.319 now, but I do think that come August you have to start building them 475 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:24.079 up a little bit. Yeah, no doubt, And I don't know at 476 00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:28.240 one point they start that James and I appreciate it. I would as I 477 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:31.279 would have to imagine that they have got this mapped out, assuming everybody stays 478 00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:36.079 healthy. That whether it's August, the middle, the end of August, 479 00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:39.880 the trade deadline, September one, September fifteenth, I don't know. At 480 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:45.200 some point, you're right, you got to take the restraints off the horses 481 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:50.079 here and let them ride, and let them get out in full stride and 482 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:53.200 get ready for the postseason. But at the same time, when you've got 483 00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:58.839 the back end of the bullpen like this Dodgers team, I feel pretty good. 484 00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:02.079 When you're looking at they just say, yesterday Gavin Stone five innings, 485 00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:07.079 seventy five. Let's say he labored for five innings and seventy five and still 486 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:09.599 put up a zero on the scoreboard. I feel pretty good about turning it 487 00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:15.000 over to Michael Grove and Alex Vesia, Daniel Hudson, and I didn't even 488 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:19.599 mention Evan Phillips. Let's hope knock on Wood, Bruce Dark Graderol can get 489 00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:22.880 healthy, and let's hope sooner rather than later a Joe Kelly could get Right 490 00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:29.199 now, you're asking your starters to even go shorter in a game which only 491 00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:31.519 benefits the Dodgers, But I'm with you. I think there is a point 492 00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:36.079 this season in which you got to take the training wheels off, so to 493 00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:37.559 speak. And not that they're babying, that's not the right term, but 494 00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:43.119 you know, take the restraints off these guys and let them go out there 495 00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:46.239 and if they're having a game like a Gavin Stone did the last two outings 496 00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:50.280 in New York. When seven innings comes back on short rest, it goes 497 00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:52.519 five and seventy five. So you look at the last two starts for Gavin 498 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:58.320 Stone, they did let him go the seven and yesterday short rest. In 499 00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:01.079 today's world of baseball short red this is four days now for us older folks, 500 00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:07.800 we know that pitchers routinely every year pitched on four days rest. That's 501 00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:12.000 why the old pitch every five days comes up, because that's what starting pitching 502 00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:15.440 used to be about in baseball. But now we're seeing it elongated here during 503 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:19.719 the regular season. I don't think it's a bad thing for the Dodgers, 504 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:22.719 and not at all, especially with the amount of veteran arms that they got 505 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:30.119 that have come through and coming off injuries, and you don't want to risk 506 00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:35.960 anything. You just don't because with the prize goal being October. The last 507 00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:39.119 thing I want to do is burnout an arm in August. Dead arm comes 508 00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:43.320 September. I mean a couple of years ago, Tony Gonson had an All 509 00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:45.880 Star year, but he also put a lot of miles on that arm. 510 00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:50.920 He wasn't the same the postseason. He certainly wasn't the same the year after. 511 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:54.480 Ends up going on late last year having Tommy John surgery or whatever surgery 512 00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:59.320 he had from his elbow. The yeah, Tommy John surgery. So you 513 00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:02.400 don't want to get to that routine where you're just burning arms, and when 514 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:05.840 you've got a lot of money invested in these guys. And I know that's 515 00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:07.039 part of the equation and fans don't like to hear it, but it is. 516 00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:10.480 And you've got years on a guy's contract and that's part of it. 517 00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:13.239 And you may not want to hear it because you want to win. Now. 518 00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:16.039 I get it. But when you start talking about a Tyler Glass now 519 00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:22.320 who's battle through arm injuries, Walker Bueller's now battle through to Tommy John surgeries, 520 00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:25.159 Bobby Miller, Bobby Miller's on the IL right now image, She and 521 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:30.199 young arm on the IL right now now. Not to say they burned them 522 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:34.239 out a year ago. But you know, he had a lot of innings 523 00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:37.840 on that arm last year from different levels, including the major leagues. Keep 524 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:40.199 in mind when they're down the minor leagues, the Bobby Miller's of the World, 525 00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:43.519 guys who are in Triple A and DOUBA right now even a ball, 526 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:47.159 they're not throwing two hundred innings. They're not out there making thirty five starts. 527 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:53.239 Some of these guys get you know, extended spring training and don't start 528 00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:58.119 until the first of May, so they miss the first month of the season. 529 00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:01.320 Peyton Martin, who's in a ball rancher kuocacumas example of that. They 530 00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:06.119 they lengthened him out in spring training so he would start a little later for 531 00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:09.239 his regular season so he can go deeper into the year. Because you want 532 00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:13.760 to build with these guys' arms. And we talk about the innings. Watch 533 00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:15.719 Bobby Miller a year ago. We kept looking at that innings. Watch like, 534 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:20.239 man, Okay, he's now surpassing how many Indians he's ever pitched in 535 00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:22.239 a minor league season, and uh, we're getting, you know, to 536 00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:27.079 the last month of September. So these are all things you got to realize 537 00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.480 that they're going through maximizing and minimizing innings depending on the pitcher and where they're 538 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:35.039 at. And again over the long one hundred and sixty two game season eight 539 00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:37.280 six, six, nine eighty seven two five. Say we'll take a break, 540 00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:39.119 we'll come back. We'll give you a quick update in one particular guy 541 00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:45.480 who really excelled over the weekend in the Dodgers' minor leagues with a little mini 542 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.400 farm report. But your phone calls as well. They should be impatient, 543 00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:52.400 they should being with us. On this Monday night, June glooms certainly here 544 00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:59.199 gloomy all day. Sun finally broke through late in the afternoon. I guess 545 00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:02.599 some Dodger base tomorrow. They're in Pittsburgh, take on the Pirates Tuesday, 546 00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:07.199 Wednesday, Thursday. Then it's off to New York for a massive three game 547 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:13.760 series against the Yankees. Tim Kates Off Night Dodgitalk AM five seventy LA Sports 548 00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:20.039 Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Off Night Dodga Talk continues here on your 549 00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:23.320 Home of the Dodgers A and five seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio 550 00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:28.599 at Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck. We'll get our coverage started tomorrow at two 551 00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:31.880 thirty in the afternoon early Dodger game in Pittsburgh as they start a three game 552 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:37.440 series against the Pirates. First pitch of three forty Tyler Glassnow and Jared Jones 553 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:40.320 the pitching matchup. Dodgers will see former number one pick Lash in the draft, 554 00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:44.440 Paul Skeens out of Atoral High School. That'll be on Wednesday in the 555 00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:47.079 second game of this three game series, and then Thursday, Walker Bueller and 556 00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:51.119 Bailey Falter the pitching matchup. And then it's off to New York for a 557 00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:55.000 three game weekend set against the Yankees. Real quick over the weekend. What 558 00:38:55.719 --> 00:39:04.639 a performance from Trey Sweeney, Dodgers shortstop in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City, taking on 559 00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:10.599 the Reno Aces and then taking on Albuquerque in the next series. He hovered 560 00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:16.840 three times and drove in five last Wednesday, after hitting a home run on 561 00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:24.320 Tuesday in the six game series opener against the against Albuquerque. Sweeney drove in 562 00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:29.519 five in the game three times this year, all of them against Albuquerque, 563 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:36.639 but what he did was pretty impressive. Tray Sweeney hit a couple of home 564 00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:43.199 runs yesterday and during the six game series, he hit six home runs, 565 00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:50.840 a triple A double, fourteen RBI and ten runs scored. He hit nearly 566 00:39:51.119 --> 00:40:00.400 four hundred with an eleven hundred OPS in six games against Albuquerque last week his 567 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:05.119 series that ended on Sunday, six home runs, a triple A, double, 568 00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:09.320 fourteen ribis, ten run scores in triple Oklahoma City for Dodgers, sore 569 00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:15.920 stop Trey swinging. Pretty impressive. And that is your quick farm report. 570 00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:17.360 As far as what's happening down on the farm last week, you give you 571 00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:21.239 more an extensive farm report, real quick before we get back out to the 572 00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:27.880 phones. Dodgers may of well gotten lucky here with Blake Snell deciding to sign 573 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:31.360 with the San Francisco Giants, and he chose to go up there after sitting 574 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:35.199 out waiting for a long term deal, didn't get what he wanted, He 575 00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:39.079 along with Jordan Montgomery, waited and waited and waited as Scott Boris clients, 576 00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:43.280 and then spring training came, and deep in his spring training he finally signed 577 00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:45.599 a two year, sixty two million dollars deal with the San Francisco Giants. 578 00:40:46.039 --> 00:40:51.679 Didn't really have his spring training, didn't have a lot of minor league starts 579 00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:54.599 at all. Just was through sim games and already he is now back on 580 00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:59.920 the IL. He's appeared in six games this season and has yet to pitch 581 00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:05.920 five full innings in any of them. He's got an ERA of near ten, 582 00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:13.079 allowing three earned runs in four and two thirds of winning work against the 583 00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.760 Yankees on Sunday and a loss. Keep in mind, this is a two 584 00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:21.679 time cy Young Award winner. He came to San Francisco and he thought, 585 00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:23.000 this is gonna be our bona fide ace. This is gonna be the guy 586 00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:25.920 that's gonna help us out. We couldn't lend anybody else in free agency, 587 00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:30.280 but we got Blake Snell and it has gone from bad to worse. Struggled 588 00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:36.760 early on now injured tightness in his left groin. It's the second time this 589 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:40.440 season and it's been brief for Blake Snell because he started late that he's had 590 00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:45.159 to deal with a groin issue. This time he's going to the IL. 591 00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:52.039 It's too bad for him, too bad for the Giants. So has it 592 00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:57.039 worked out for Blake Snell early in twenty twenty four, Greg and Corona, 593 00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:00.760 thanks for being patient. Welcome to Off Night Dodger Dog. Greg what's up 594 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.000 case? How you're doing? Man? Don't what you do for the Daily 595 00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:08.599 Show with the Petrous and everybody else. I love the narrative tonight. I 596 00:42:08.639 --> 00:42:15.360 think like, we need we win. We win one hundred games every year, 597 00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:17.880 right, but we need some dogs in there. And I love the 598 00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:24.039 team. I love the roster. I think possibly, I mean, I 599 00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:28.320 know Walker, Walker, Bueler is on his way back. Walker, I 600 00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:34.440 think a couple of other guys, maybe Kaoscar Hernandez can be the dog that 601 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:37.960 gets these guys going. I mean, of course we have we have Hall 602 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:42.800 of famers on the team, but we we have to have some dogs come 603 00:42:43.119 --> 00:42:50.039 October that pushes pushes up over the edge and it's just you know, you 604 00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:52.599 know, and and and then also just real quick on On Sweeney, that 605 00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:58.199 dude's a stud. He's six four short stop. He's gonna be up pretty 606 00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:00.760 soon. I I see on. I'm Greg. Appreciate it and squeeze at 607 00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:04.239 art in South l A. Appreciate your art for hanging in there. How 608 00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:07.920 you doing to nine, Hey, sir, thank you for taking my call. 609 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:13.360 Came the first time I get in diehard Dodger friends. Glad you got 610 00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:15.440 on board. What can we do tonight, Yes, sir, uh so, 611 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:21.400 I wanted to kind of piggyback off the last gentleman the call uh mentioned 612 00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:25.519 getting the pictures prepped, you know towards uh, you know, October, 613 00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:30.360 they're getting them, you know, and and you know, you guys kind 614 00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:38.079 of referenced the analytics as well, being you know, being used right in 615 00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:43.639 the in the postseason. I just want to I want to say one thing. 616 00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:50.440 Had sabermetrics or analytics been you know, such a big deal? And 617 00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:52.679 I know, you know, you know, everybody's changing the the you know, 618 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:57.519 the the athletes are getting stronger, they're getting faster, you know, 619 00:43:57.599 --> 00:44:01.199 they're you know, they're you know their pronte injury yep. More. But 620 00:44:02.199 --> 00:44:08.760 had analytics or stay a metric had anything to do with baseball back in no 621 00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:13.719 in eighty eight, you know, when Kirk Gibson was hurt. Yeah, 622 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:15.239 I hear you, running out of time. Mart would never put him up. 623 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:17.360 I know, I hear you, to Bet, I hear you. 624 00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:22.360 I appreciate it different air at different time. Not to say that today somebody 625 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.480 was hurt, they wouldn't try to play as much as they could or fight 626 00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:28.679 through that injury. Not to say that at all. We just don't know 627 00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:30.039 that's gonna do it. Thanks to Katy, Thanks to you for being a 628 00:44:30.039 --> 00:44:32.679 part of the show. Is he I apologize we couldn't get to you have 629 00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:36.719 a great say Fresh Year Thursday night. Thanks for being with us. Talking 630 00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:39.159 some Dodgers baseball. They're back at it tomorrow first pitch three forty Dodgers in 631 00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:42.599 Pittsburgh to take on the Pirates. So long, everybody,