Ay, beautiful nights here in southern California just gets better as we talk some
Dodgers baseball over the next hour. Hi everybody, and welcome to off night
Dodger Talk here on AM five to seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app. Hope you're enjoying your Thursday evenings. The sun gets ready to set
here on the West Coast. The Dodgers back on the West Coast after a
six game East Coast road trip, and what a road trip it was.
We'll die sect it. We'll get into it in just a couple of minutes.
Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy is your telephone number eight
six six nine eight seven two five seventy your phone calls between now in the
bottom of the hour, coming up at about seven forty. We've got a
farm report for you. I like to give you an update on the Dodgers'
top minor league prospects as we're now two months into the minor league season.
What's happening in TRIPLEA, Oklahoma City with guys like Dalton Rushing and Tulsa Double
A. What happened with Diego Kartaya? How about names like Peyton Martin and
Kendall, George Maddock, Bruns, Justin Robleski, just to name a few.
Hosuay Depala, who's out in Rancho Kuca Manga in a top three Dodger
prospect and a top fifty overall prospect in all of Major League Baseball? What
are they up to? How are they doing? We'll also get an update
from Michigan with one of the voices of the Great Lakes Loons. Looking forward
to catching up later on this hour to the Farm Report with John Vacari,
one of the voices of the Loons. Get an update on some of the
Dodgers' minor league prospects at high A Ball, because there are several of them
there now. Guys like Jared Carross Alex Freeland started this season in Great Lakes
and they've now been promoted to Double A toll. So that's coming up at
seven forty. But between then and now, we got a lot to get
to again, including your phone calls. At eight sixty six, nine eighty
seven, two five seventy, the Dodgers back home safe and sound after a
six game East Coast road trip. Before we get to what happened in Cincinnati,
it what happen in New York against the Mets the last three days.
I got to tell you about the world win last twenty four hours for this
Los Angeles Dodgers team. In case you missed it earlier on Petrosen Money,
David Vassa, who has enjoyed a night off tonight, well deserved after a
six game East Coast road trip in the start tomorrow at a brief three game
homestand against the Colorado Rockies, David Vassa called into Petrosen Money and it has
been a long twenty four hours for David vass part of the Dodgers traveling party,
the only embedded reporter outside of Kirston Watson who works for Sports in LA
that gets to travel with the team. Of course, we're your home with
the Dodgers here on the radio AM five to seventy LA Sports. And last
night, after the Dodgers finished off the sweep of the New York Mets with
a ten to three win, the team got ready headed to the airport Newark
Airport to head back home to the West Coast, and obviously, with the
time difference, they wouldn't be getting back to what two o'clock in the morning,
probably right around there. They got to Newark and according to David Vassay,
they got on the plane and waited and waited weather lightning, a storm
in the Northeast. What happens this time of year. It only gets worse
during the summertime with those summer storms. But they had to wait out a
weather delay, not for a game, but for a flight back from Newark
and New York. This is the Dodger team plane last night. David Vassa
told this this just a few hours ago here on I seven E LA Sports.
After the weather delay, the pilot and co pilot they had to wait
for because they were coming from an international flight, would then take over the
controls of the Dodgers team charter from New York to LA. The only problem
was they had expired their a lotment of time and needed to take a break.
You're only allowed to work so long a shift as a pilot makes sense,
it's a safety issue. You want your pilot to be rested and ready
to go. They had to wait for backup pilot and co pilot to get
to Newark. That was another two hour delay to get pilots who weren't scheduled
to work, call them in in essence on overtime on an off day to
come fly the Dodgers charter flight from Newark Airport in New York to Lax here
in southern California. In all David vassa our Dodger reporter, telling Petros some
money and all of you. Earlier seven hours the Dodgers waited on a plane
to come back to Los Angeles, did not get wheels up from New York
till almost five thirty in the morning Eastern Standard time, that's two thirty in
the morning. They didn't get back and land at lax till almost seven forty
five this morning. What a night for the Dodgers. Finish off the sweep
of the New York Mets, head to the airport, get ready to celebrate
a happy flight home. As Dave Roberts always says, they get a win
on the final leg of a road trip. It's a happy flight for the
Dodgers as they make their way back to southern California. The only problem is
they had a seven hour delay, did not land until this morning when the
sun was already up here in southern California. And for many of you listening
right now, driving home, still in traffic on the ninety one, on
the two ten, head into Santa Carino. Wherever you're heading and driving around
on this Thursday now night, you were getting ready for work. Maybe he's
getting ready to have finals, take the kids school for the last week of
school, if you're still in school and the Dodgers were just touching down at
LAX. Thankfully, a day off for the Dodgers today. Thankfully, the
Dodgers didn't have to turn around and start a series to night at Dodgers Stadium.
Thankfully, a built in off day for the Dodgers allowed them to get
some rest, recoup, recoup sleep, hopefully get back on track health wise,
and get ready tomorrow night to start a brief three game home series against
the Colorado Rockies. Now, the schedule makers didn't do any favors for the
Dodgers because not only did the Dodgers have to deal with all this travel issue
last night this morning, coming back from a six game East Coast road trip.
The Dodgers will be off on Monday as they head back to the East
Coast. What in the world, Yeah, I've talked about for the last
week here on Dodger Talk. How the Dodgers here in late May early June
have a brutal scrat schedule of back to back East Coast road trips with three
games Sandwich at home against the Rockies. They'll go back to Pittsburgh next Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and then back to New York against the Yankees in
the Bronx for three games next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday against the Yankees.
And it's three nationally televised games, and it's a Sunday night baseball game
for the Dodgers, who then will have to turn around and return home again
late into the morning to Los Angeles. Now, nobody's gonna cry about travel
proms. Certainly, you deal with your own travel proms. I deal with
my travel proms. We've all been through there. It only seems to get
worse. Delays, canceled flights, having to then wait on tarmax gates not
ready. It's a problem. It is a problem. But for the Dodgers,
they had a massive problem getting home last night from New York. They
eventually did, but not after a seven hour delay. Our own David Vassay
with the team as it happened last night, how worse would have have been
having to sit there for seven hours after a loss. It would have been
even worse if the Dodgers would have lost the series or continued the long losing
streak they had before heading to Queens, New York for that three game series.
Thankfully, the Dodgers players and team were in a good mood, a
celebratory mood after a sweep of the New York Mets, so the seven hours
maybe didn't feel as bad as it could have, but certainly feeling it this
afternoon after landing this warning night off tonight, and the Dodgers back at it
tomorrow night against the Colorado Rockies. Walker Bueler, by the way, scheduled
to get the start on Military Appreciation Night. We salute all those who have
served it continue to serve our fine country. Drone show Tomorrow night, Yamamoto
on the mound, Saturday night for Tyler Glasnew Bobblehead Night, and then Sunday
Gavin Stone on the mound against the Rockies in the finale. So it'll be
a fun weekend out at the Ravine. Dodgers back home, and wouldn't you
know it, the Dodgers left on this six game East Coast road trip to
Cincinnati and New York against the Mets with a six and a half game lead,
they lost all three games to the Cincinnati Reds and quite frankly, got
out played in all three games by the Cincinnati Reds. They get rained out
in New York a Memorial Day and then win three straight in New York against
the Mets, including a ten inning win to get it all started in the
first game of a doubleheader on Tuesday, and blew out the Mets yesterday with
a six run eighth inning and a ten to three win. They flipped it
just like that, a five game losing streak, a three game sweep in
Cincinnati, but they turn it around winning three in a row in New York,
and they sit atop the division still with this six and a half game
lead. The Dodgers hit the road for six with a six and a half
game lead, and they return to Dodgers Stadium for this brief three game homestand
with a six and a half game lead in the division. The Dodgers will
take that all day long. A five game losing streak, losing three in
a row to start an East Coast road trip. The Dodgers could have seen
this spiral out of control. The Dodgers could have seen that lead dwindle because
the Padres and Giants, don't look now, are playing better baseball. They're
nipping at the heels of the Dodgers. They've closed the gap from eight to
seven, six and a half and it got down to five and a half,
and it could have gotten worse and closer, but the Dodgers stopped that
with the three game sweep in New York, and it's back to a six
and a half game lead going into action tonight eight sixty six nine eighty seven
two five seventy. So the world is right now with the Dodgers back home
and still with a six and a half game lead. But last week when
the Dodgers were on this five game losing streak, I don't know about you,
I don't know about your friends who are Dodger fans, but they started
to become some panic amongst Dodger fans out there, and people covering baseball started
to pick up on I think this panic and watch this Dodgers team because quite
frankly, what they were doing on the field offensively wasn't very good. The
numbers were tanking as far as production. What you see in front of you
is pretty obvious. Can't score runs, cat string together hits, flying out,
striking out more than a hits, Losing ball games, not getting great
starting pitching, bullpen, not picking you up like they did in Cincinnati.
You can see with your own eyes. You can hear it with your own
ears right here on seventy LA Sports. Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic and Fox
Sports Baseball wrote a piece as the Dodgers were in the midst of this five
game losing streak and heading to New York, and he wrote, the Dodgers
are discovering that one point four billion cannot buy you a full twenty six man
roster. Even after their lucrative offseason, adjustments still will be necessary in LA's
quest for a World Series title. The long piece on The Athletic that posted
just before the Dodgers swept the New York Mets in queens A City Field and
talked about the struggles of the outfield, the lack of production from James Altman,
Keith ky Hernandez, Chris Taylor, seeing Taoscar Hernandez's numbers start to come
down, Andy Pajus's great start for the first two weeks. He cooled off,
The Dodgers are need of an outfielder. Can Mookie Betts continue to play
shortstop and produce at the top of the lineup? Or is he get a
falter and come down as far as the great offensive numbers that he had put
up the first two months, can he keep it up at this pace?
Ken Rosenthal wrote, do the Dodgers need to go out and get a shortstop
and move Mooki over to second base because of the toll that it's taking on
Mooki? Do they need an outfield help on an everyday basis in left field?
And how about this bulp and all the injuries Joe Kelly, Evan Phillips.
Well, they got Blake Trining back, Daniel Hudson's back, They're gonna
get Joe Kelly back. Evan Phillips, who I just mentioned it's hurt,
is hopefully coming back this weekend. But at a point last week the Dodgers
had four high end relievers on the injured list. They're getting healthy, thankfully,
But Ken Rosenthal, National Baseball Pundit wondered, did the Dodgers need a
closer and could that closer that they go out and get via trade be a
veteran who's maybe on the last year of his contract in Boston and ken Lee
Jansen. Could maybe William Thomas be that shortstop in Milwaukee that the Dodgers need
to go out and get. Could Tommy fam be that left fielder who signed
a one year deal in Chicago? I believe with the White Sox that double
check that matter positive. Could he be the answer for the Dodgers in left
field? Yep? In Chicago. Ken Rosenthal writing all these possible scenarios for
the Dodgers and making a trade looking to bolster an already good team that pumped
the breaks fans five games that's it at five game losing strenk and all of
the sudden Nationally, it's calling for a trade to add a reliever in Kenley
Jansen, trade possibly for William Dominson short stop to help out and alleviate the
stress of Mookie Betts and the struggles of Gavin Lux at second base, and
acquiring Tommy Famin veteran who can produce in October and a presence in the locker
room, but more importantly, can play every day in left field and produce.
Oh yeah, what about Boba shed Could he be a possibility in a
trade with the Toronto Blue Jays. All this was thrown out there by Ken
Rosenthal and other National Baseball riders after the Dodgers dropped five in a row and
then they proceeded to then win three straight in New York against the Mets.
It's funny how a little losing a rut for an offensive team that has been
really good for two months, the struggles of the bottom half of the lineup
and some bullpen hiccups, all of a sudden, it's panic time, and
how do we fix these problems immediately? Let's just go out and make trades
and trade the farm. Well, as I'm gonna tell you in the Farm
report coming up at seven to forty, Dodgers are rich with talent in the
minor leagues. They're one of the better baseball organizations top to bottom. Their
minor league system is stacked. They've got three catchers who are really good,
and how he thought of two of which are still considered top one hundred prospects.
They got pictures that at different levels a ball to double A. They
are really good right now as far as talent and rich with talent. That
talent could be used for trades. But as we sit here having not even
flipped the calendar to June, and it's already panic time. No, no,
no, pump the brakes, Pump the brakes. If that five game
losy streak turned into seven to eight to nine and they just couldn't find any
way to get out of it, then yeah, maybe some changes is necessary.
But they figured it out in New York. They got the bats going
again, they got really good starting pitching from Gavin Stone and Tyler Glass.
Now yesterday they got three solid innings from James Paxson, who was on his
short leak because of a short rest that he was on, and then the
bullpen game is basically what it became after that. Once they get healthy at
the back end with Joe Kelly, Evan Phillips, Bruce Dark Gratterol, hopefully
soon I think the Dodgers will be all right. But it's just interesting to
see a little bit of a rut offensively and a five game losing streak and
the wheels have fallen off. Panic time in baseball eight sixty six nine,
eight seven two five seventy your phone calls when we come back. Appreciate you
being with us on this Thursday night. Your phone calls, We're gott a
farm report, busy show, busy, busy show. Love talking Dodgers baseball
with you. Appreciate you. Listening on the iHeart radio app. Got people
texting right now. They're out about running errands in a store. They got
it on the phone walking around shopping love that. I was over at Whole
Foods here in Burbank last Friday because I had pre im post grabbing a little
pizza for me and Colin. Ye. The guy making the pizza the Whole
Foods was watching the Dodger game on TV. I had it on my iPhone
on the iHeartRadio app. The guy goes, hey, you listen to the
Dodger game. I said, yep. He goes yeah, I listened on
the iHeart Radio app all the time. Said we appreciate that. He goes
we I said, hey, work at A five seven YLA Sports. We
appreciate you. We're right across the street. Didn't get a free pizza,
but starting good. Your phone calls when we've come back, Tim Kate's,
Ronnie Fossio and you on this Thursday night Dodger Talk on a FFI seven YLA
Sports Live everywhere. Yeah, on that thing called the iHeart Radio app Off
night Dodger Talk continues. Tim k with you here until the top of the
hour. Coming up in fifteen minutes. We'll get you a farm report,
the latest on the Dodgers' top prospects from Oklahoma City all the way down to
Rancho Cucamonga. In case you missed it. David Vadsay on with Petro some
Money earlier relaying what happened and the Dodgers travel struggles home last night after their
game in New York, they went to Newark Airport, sat for seven hours
in a plane waiting the weather and then waiting for a pilot and co pilot
to get to the airplane. They had to get a crew that was on
call to arrive. Took a couple more hours after the weather delay. Seven
hours and all the Dodgers sat on a plane at Newark Airport waiting to leave
the East Coast and come back home. Didn't arrive till almost seven forty five
this morning. So thankfully, the Dodgers no game tonight and off nights,
and they'll be back at it tomorrow night against the Colorado Rockies. With Walker
Rueler on the mount. Let's go out to the phones. Thanks for being
patient, John, Advice. Tell you're starting things off here on this Thursday
night. Welcome John. How are you? John? Go ahead? John?
Okay, I'm here, go ahead. Hey. How you doing?
Then? Doing good? What's going on? Hey? Hey man? I
just I've been a Dodger fan for forty years and what I'm kind of getting
frustrated with is hearing about the weather delays and the travel delays of these players.
And I understand it's a legitimate deal, but I'm making a fraction of
what the league minimum is paying these players right now. And I have weather
delays, I have trouble trouble delays, but my boss still expects me to
show up. And I know that you you know, I know that you
might have producers and there, but it's just it's kind of difficult when you're
like a normal person. Yeah. Well, nobody's complaining. Nobody complained about
it at all, as David pointed out, and I appreciate the phone call.
Nobody wants complaining. David mentioned that on that team flight, everybody was
calm, everybody was cool and took it in stride because there's nothing you can
do so it's not like anybody was up on arms. Never said that once.
It was just pointed out that thankfully there's no game tonight because they had
a seven hour a wait on a plane, and I mentioned, you have
travel issues. I've got travel issues. It's part of the norm now,
and I'm just clearly pointing out that the Dodgers team plane had travel issues last
night. David Vasse was on the plane, talked about it with Petro some
money earlier. He said it. I'm repeating what he said. There was
no issues. Nobody was complaining. Nobody was throwing a fit, not at
all. Nobody was feeling like, oh, how can this happen to us?
That wasn't the case at all. Obviously you want to get home a
little bit of frustration, but nobody made it known. There was no player
or staff that got upset and made it known and made a big deal about
it. Because there's nothing you can do. You have to wait it out.
But the point is, hey, they got travel issues, just like
everybody else does. You tried going coast to coasts, weather issues, delays,
layovers, it's part of traveling now, and the Dodgers were the victims
of that last night with a seven hour delay weather and then waiting to get
a pilot and co pilot to show up to the team charter. So again,
thankfully they didn't have to play a game tonight, because their job is
to play and perform, and to have to fly overnight and land at seven
and forty five in the morning and come back and play less than twelve hours
later, it would have been tough. No matter what you're doing, I
have to do that to your job. So I get it. It's a
different world. They're flying differently, they live a different lifestyle, but hey,
weather and flying still delays, even them, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
That's the whole point of it. Nobody once ever said there was complaining at
all on that team charter what was happening, because again, there's nothing you
can do. Joe in La Joe, how you doing. How many times
did you travel lately? Joan had problems? Let me tell you, I
played professional baseball. We had fifteen hour overnight bus trips from Danville to Wisconsin
Rapids. That's at fifteen hours out of bus. That's a long time.
Okay, I know travel is not a problem. All the players want to
play. They don't care how long it takes to get there. Okay,
that's the end of story. What I call about is this, I know
the family. I know the kid. His name is Lane Thomas. He's
twenty seven. He's a five tool player, and if you check him out,
you understand any of the contract that is not that expensive. And that's
the guy that could be your center fielder of the future. So he is
the war Sends going nowhere. The Nationals are going nowhere. This is the
guy forget Tommy fam and all these wash up these guys that are looking for
a job. Lane Thomas. It's twenty seven. Please check them out.
Dodgers, if you're listening, this is the kid you want to trade for,
whether it's at the deadline or before or after Getty. I've been trying
to get him someone to do it in the off season. Now we're just
coming off an mcl a sprained mcl but he's back in the lineup. The
other night he was two for three and hit a home run. This kid
can play. He can run, feel throw, hit for power, and
he can hit for average. Check him out, all right, I appreciate
it. I appreciate Lane Thomas. Yeah, the twenty eight year old now
in right Fiel hitting two twelve, three home runs, thirteen home runs.
Not sure that's the direction they're necessarily going to go right now in Joe,
but I appreciate it. They're looking for a guy who is a veteran left
fielder with power, can hit lefty's and righty's. And again they've given opportunity
after opportunity to Kicky Hernandez Chris Taylor task Hernandez is now back over and left
field, and now that Jason Hayward is healthy again and in right field,
you're gonna see Teoscar Hernandez play a lot more in that left field spot.
So maybe it's a mute point looking to go out and get a veteran like
a Tommy Fam that was suggested by Ken Rosenthal. And this thing Tommy Fam
has been brought up for two years at least as a possible, you know,
outfield that the Dodgers could go out and get and put it in the
left field. But again, the Dodgers right now have a pluthora of outfielders.
They're just not overall producing. Yeah, Pat has got hot, James
Outman struggled, went back to Triple A and that's where he's at right now.
Jason Hayward has been up and down, certainly been hurt with the back
injury, and it's been a rotating door in left field. Chris Taylor,
who hopefully starting to get hot, Key k Hernandez, who's played left,
short third, second base already this year for the Dodgers. So they've thrown
multiple players out in left field to see what sticks, who can get hot,
and I think maybe moving forward, that'll be the way it goes with
left field. And you know, the whole lefty righty rotation thing determines whether
or not Jason Hayward plays right field. If that's the case, tay Oscar
moves over to right and they need to plug in somebody in left field,
and they got multiple players they can plug in with Chris Taylor, Keky Hernandez.
They can find guys to play left field. Miguel Rojas has been playing
at second and third and playing different positions outside of shortstop. Miguel Vargas,
who they called back up, has been playing left field. And Miguel Vargas
looks really good in that series against the New York Mets. Maybe he can
catch fire. Miguel Vargas was really good last to start the year in Triple
A Oklahoma City. Now we remember he got to start in the major leagues
last year as the everyday second baseman and then just couldn't get it going after
the wrist injury or the hand injury. Excuse me, and I think that
affected him. They're messing with this swing, trying to get him right,
and by messing with it, trying to tinker with it, get him right,
get him back on course. He just never did. And he got
sitting down to Triple A at the All Star break and never got back to
the major leagues. Broke camp and he was in Triple A, went to
South South Korea with him. But started the year in Triple A and got
going offensively and got called up and has played really well and the bats there
in the series against the Mets, and I think you're gonna start, hopefully
getting seeing him get some more at best, because he hasn't gotten a ton
of playing time, but when he has been out there, he's been really
good. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy. Mitch,
Mitch, how you doing by your Mets? Got beat by the Dodgers
in three games. I know you're out there in the East Coast, but
how about the Dodger You ran in to New York, the to Newark Airport
there in New Jersey. How bad of an airport is that, Mitchy,
It's been a while. How you doing. I'm a little fears of flying
traveler, you know what my daughters said. But anyway, you know it
was a screw. Why couldn't he play the Yankees? They're coming back to
York, sig do over again, hopefully goes. I mean that's something they
could have played a consecutive series with the day of in between. Yeah,
I would love to see after Bichetty move Mookie back to second and I'm dying
can similarly bring up some of the young players. Always hear his talk about
it. I want to be playing with La Dodgers at street bat. I
appreciate think about it. Yesterday the Dodgers were in New York playing the Mets,
and I looked at Colin he because the game was on TV and I
was doing post game, and I said, look at the outfield is Jason
Hayward, who a year ago they took a flyer on and he got back
to the Jason Hayward of ten years ago, and they bring him back this
year as an everyday right fielder. Andy pa Has was in center field and
Miguel Vargas was in left field. Both players started the year in Triple A
Oklahoma City. So when you say let's give some of the young guys an
opportunity, that's exactly what we saw yesterday. Vargas and Pahz two were the
three Dodger outfielders yesterday in a game against the Mets. So they're getting their
opportunities, no doubt about it. And it's not like they're just filling time
and space until somebody else comes off the injured list and his back starting every
day. Andy Pajez I think is here to stay. Hopefully he's turned it
around after the last two weeks of having a lull at the plate and that
whole cat and mouse game of pitchers figuring him out. He needs to figure
out pitchers and adjust that back and forth. It's his turnout to make the
adjustments, and hopefully he has because he swung the bat a lot better the
Dodgers' offense in the three games in New York. Really after that spark of
that seventh or eighth Indian Game one of the double hitter, they've looked different.
They've looked like a team that's not anxious at the plate, jumping and
swinging at bad pitches early in the count, swinging for the fences, not
trying to just put the ball in play and you know, pass it on
to the next guy, drawing walks. They weren't doing that against Cincinnati.
They got away from what they were really good at to start the season,
and they did that late in that opening game of the double header. They
certainly did a really good job of that in Game two and yesterday that six
run eighth inning. That's what we're used to seeing. Bookend to buy home
runs from Will Smith, Miguel Rojas, RBI single, Vargas a two run
double down the right field line, went with the pitch and hit a flare
down the right field line, didn't try to pull it, didn't roll over
on a ground ball, the shorter second for an out, went with the
pitch, Zach, like you're supposed to do to run double and then show
hey, o Tani the two run home run to left center field, going
with the pitch and his power he can hit it out any part of the
ballpark, anywhere, left right center, anywhere he can hit it out.
He's so strong outside fastball goes with it, hits a nearly four hundred feet
out of the park to left center field. That's what the Dodgers are really
good at. And when they're playing well and they're scoring and they're clicking good
pitching and the offense is producing top to bottom, and we saw that in
this New York series. So I hope they've maybe flipped it back to what
they were doing right and got rid of those bat at bats and maybe got
that rut offensively at least, I hope eight sixty six nine eight seven two
five seventy. Yes, I'm aware that Newark Airport is in New Jersey.
I get that. Yes, there is an airport closer. I understand that.
But they flew out of Newark yesterday seven hour delay, got back home
safely, and no nobody whined and complained about it. There wasn't an uproar.
Certainly probably not happy about it, but as David Vassay mentioned, the
struggles are real for everybody traveling, no matter if you're a Major League baseball
team or a family out and about just making your way through a vacation and
an airport going from one city or another. It's real. The travel struggles
are real out there with all the delays and the weather issues, and uh,
it's just bad. Easy. You gotta get to you easy before we
get to the farm report. Sorry for keeping you on a hold. Is
he happy? Uh? Soon to be birthday party for you this week?
I just saw your tweet about the invitation Saturday, but I don't have the
details. I'll I don't know. You can make it. You gotta do,
dog? Did they have? Yeah? I got the pie away.
Listen before before I forget, I did listen to the creked iHeart radio,
and I become a big click, big click thing. So anyway, but
anyway, I'm so so hard to give them from rest we can they said,
now they they're gonna be. I am gonna forgive them. They're a
long. Oh you're back, now, you're back. Now, I'm sure
done again. But oh wait, you know what I'll get all right?
Way they will. I feel like they've turned it around. I feel like
they're gonna start going on a run here. I feel it in my bones.
Is he and I appreciate it yeah, you mentioned the Quakes game that,
like, can you listen to Dodger games on the iHeartRadio app, but
you can listen to Quakes game. Our buddy Mike Linscott, who's the voice
of the Quakes, he was on the Farm Report a couple of weeks ago
here on Dodger Talk. He does a great job as the voice of the
Quakes. You can hear those games for free. Just type in RC Quakes,
Rancher Kukamuk Quakes and you can listen to all those games for free on
the iHeartRadio app. So we'll take a break, we'll come back and we'll
get you your Farm Report. Yeah, we'll get you updated. What's happening
from Triple A all the way down to a ball Also gonna be joined by
John Vaccari, one of the voices the Great Loons, the high A ball
team for the Los Angeles Dodgers. When you go to Rancha Coucamonga at a
young age, you get promoted to the Great Lakes, and then you go
to Double A Tulsa, and then you go to Triple A Oklahoma City,
and then you come to Dodger Stadium in Southern California. We'll get your Farm
Report. We'll try to squeeze in some calls if we can after that.
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everybody, what happened last night On the Dodgers' return flight from New York City
after the three games sweep of the New York Mets. They had to sit
in a plane for seven hours on the tarmac waiting for the weather to clear
up, and then waiting for multiple sets of pilots to come in and fly
the plane from New York to Los Angeles. The team did not arrive until
this morning, after sunrise here in Los Angeles. So thankfully a day off
today to rest sleep, get ready now for a three game series beginning tomorrow
night against the Rockies. All right, I promise you, I get you
a farm report. Let's get you updated on what's happening from Oklahoma City all
the way down to Rancho Cucamonga. Let's go down on the farm. The
Dodgers number two overall prospect, Dalton Rushing, number forty three overall in Baseball
America's Top one hundred list, second round pick in twenty twenty two out of
Louisville, the twenty three year old catcher, first baseman, designated hitter,
the left handed hitting slugger is in Double A Tulsa and he is tearing it
up. Nobody out rushing it to play, and he's swinging off high five
ball. The right turnit is back to defense. It is gone. A
crass slam. Dunton Rushing clears the basis, Hey grim slam and the Drillers
take a seven to three leads Tulsa Drillers Radio Network with the call. Thirty
six games, two fifty eight average, six doubles, seven home runs,
twenty five walks. He's got eight to seventy six ops. Host Way de
Pala. He's nineteen years old. He's the number forty two overall prospect in
Baseball America, top three for the Dodgers. In the organization, he's six
three, one eighty five and he's in Rancho Cucamonga through thirty seven games,
two forty six average, ten doubles, ten triples, twenty four ribies,
and last week he added the long ball all the way. There goes George.
The pitch his belt, it deep to right, to hate his turns.
Watches go on, Can I get a hat trick? Hust Paula over
less for the first fun plus of the season. Suddenly it's easy, just
like that, three home runs in three games. Rancho Kucamugga Quakes Radio Network
with the call, he would have four home runs in three games when it
was all said and done. As they move on to Nick Frosso, the
Dodgers top pitching prospect for the moment, twenty five year old right hander.
He is out for the year. Recovering from a labor of surgery on his
shoulder. River Ryan, twenty five year old right hander. He's also started
the year on the injured list. Jackson Ferris, He's twenty years old,
top ten Dodger prospect, a second round pick of the Cubs in twenty twenty
two part of the Michael Bush trade. The Dodgers wanted to draft him in
twenty twenty two. They get him into trade last offseason, and they love
this kid, left handed pitcher. He's in High A Ball with the Great
Lakes Loons. Nine starts, one in three five fifty nine ERA, but
he's got forty four strikeouts in thirty seven innings. With Moron Jackson Ferris,
we bring in one of the voices of the Great Lakes Loons, John Viccaris.
He joins us year on the farm report. John, what can you
tell Dodger fans about Jackson Farris and what you've seen from this young left handers
so far this year? Farris I think has been what the Dodgers have wanted
in more. I mean a twenty year olds who's pitching at the High A
level and is getting swings and misses. The era is not where you'd want
it. It's right now in the mid five. But he's been great.
All this stuff's been working. He's been throwing the four pitch mixed and landing
everything for strike. And again just twenty years old, competing against what the
average age is twenty three and twenty four year old batters in the Midwest League.
So he's been great. And I'll tell you, I mean getting him
from the CUB system, of course, there was going to be some hype
and he's delivered. Diego cart tie in twenty two year old venezuel And catcher.
He was a Dodgers' top overall prospect for the last two plus years.
Now a top ten prospect, he has fallen out of the top one hundred
overall prospects in Major League Baseball. He's in Double A Tulsa thirty games,
two poh two average, two doubles, four home runs, eighteen ribis and
a six to ninety one ops. Theyron Lorenzo, twenty year old catcher at
the Dominican Republic. He's a top ten Dodger prospect. He's in number ninety
two overall prospect in Baseball America. He has one of three catching prospects that
the Dodgers have in the minor leagues Dalton Rushing, Diego Kartaya and Lorenzo.
And right now in thirty eight games in Great Lakes with the Loons hitting two
thirty eight, eight doubles, five home runs and eighteen RBIs, we bring
back John McCary, one of the voices of the Great Lakes Loons. Last
year Dalton Rushing, Diego Kartaya. This year theyroan Lorenzo. What can you
say about the young Dodger catching prospects. Yeah, he's excelled. It's unique
because you mentioned Cartaya, Rushing and now Lorenzo. Each and every year,
just the top catcher comes through Da Diamond in Midland, Michigan, and they
all will have a stretch that they should go wow. And they all have
and Lorenzo already has, even though we're not even through the first two months
of the season. And they each went through very significant plumps. For Loronzo,
he was the worst statistic, statiscal offensive player for Great Lakes in the
month of April, and it was a struggle for him playing in the coldest
conditions that he's ever played in in the Midwest at Windy Weather and then once
it got a little bit warmer. His bat warmed up as well. Last
two weeks have been really just his big stretch run in Dayton two weeks ago
he had three home runs, including a multi home run game where it hits
one from the right side of the plate and the left side of the plate.
And then last week in a home series which was notable for a lot
of reasons. The main reason four consecutive ten inning games for the Loons to
play. They won three of them via a walk off. Loronzo had two
of those walk off and again one from the left side and one from the
right side, both a single and a double respectively. So he's been great
offensively. The power's been there as well, and the one thing that evaluator
is new coming into this season would be the thing he needs to pick up
on is the defensive side of things and trying to keep runners at bay.
We've seen an improvement in the month of May in that category from April as
well, so he's mixing everything pretty well in the overall play because his offense
is going to steal the headline, but those who know him, the defensive
improvements what you're highlighting, and he's been great and he's been great when playing
first as well elsewhere. Peyton Martin, top ten prospect for the Dodgers,
twenty year old right hander, seventeenth round pick in twenty twenty two. He's
in Rancho Cucamonga. Five starts, zero to two, five fifty two ERA,
twenty strikeouts in fourteen and two thirty eightings. He was slow to start
this season out of Arizona. Kendall George, first round pick of the Dodgers
last year, nineteen year old outfielder low a ball with Rancho Cucamonga. Thirty
two games, two sixty six average, eleven ribies, twenty one walks.
He gets on base and can. He's got fourteen stolen bases already on this
season. Maddix Bruns first round pick in twenty twenty one, twenty two year
old left hander now in Great Lakes with the Loons. Five starts oh to
one, one ninety eight ERA thirteen and two third innings. He's got twenty
three strikeouts. Maybe, just maybe, Maddix Brunns has finally figured it out.
Number fifteen overall prospect for the Dodgers, Justin Robleski. He's twenty three
years old left hander, eleventh round pick in twenty twenty one out of Oklahoma
State. He's in Double A Tulsa. Nine starts, two and two three
ninety four ERA, and he's a strikeout machine. Here's the delivery fastball in
there. Strike three strikes him out, So Morales strikes out for the third
time. And to carve up a really hot hitter like Morales, says something
about Justin Robleski Tulsa Drillers Radio Network with the call. He's got forty six
strikeouts and only six walks in nine starts. Justin Robleski, twenty three year
old, hard throwing left hander number sixteen overall prospect Ronan Cop twenty one year
old left hander in Double A Tulsa. Eight appearances out of the bullpen two
and zero seven to fifty nine ERA six and the third innings. He's got
one save. He was late to start the season as well. How about
some guys outside at the top twenty as far as Dodger prospects are concerned.
Via Baseball America and MLB Pipeline and MLB dot Com. Andre Lipsius, twenty
six year old second baseman signed by the Dodgers out of spring training after he
was DFAD by the Tigers in March. He's in Triple A Oklahoma City forty
nine games, a three twenty average, ten doubles, thirteen home runs,
twenty two walks, thirty seven ribies. How about Ben Casparius, twenty five
year old right hander, fifth round pick in twenty twenty one out of Yukon.
Started the year in Double A, now in Triple A Oklahoma City four
games, It's got eighteen strikeouts and at two fifty seven erra, he could
be a guy along with Jack Dreyer, twenty five year old left hander who
started the year in Double A. He too has moved up to Triple A
Oklahoma City. In six appearances, Jack Dryer six two third innings, nine
strikeouts with a four ERA. Jared Carrolls, twenty three year old son of
Eric Carrolls, started the year in Great Lakes with the Loons. Well now
in Double A Tulsa. He's made three starts. His first one when three
and two third indings give us six runs on seven hits, but his last
two starts have been really good. He's given up a combined three earned runs
in eleven and a third innings in those two starts. He's got fifteen strikeouts
in fifteen innings. One other player to pass along, Alex Freelant, twenty
two year old shortstop, started the year in High A Ball. Now he's
in double A third round pick in twenty twenty two out of Central Florida.
In twenty games so far in Tulsa, two ninety two average, two doubles,
four home runs, and eight Ribby's all right. One final time,
we check in with one of the voices of the Great Lakes Lons, the
Dodgers High A Ball affiliate in Michigan, John Vaccari. John. Outside of
some of the prospects we talked about, who are some of the loons that
have stood out so far here in twenty twenty four. Chris Nowles, the
guy's leading the Midwest League at home runs by a large margin right now,
has fourteen of them, had three home run last week. He's in three
instances had multiple games in a row with the homer his latest one. He
hit a homer in three straight games at home again last week. And this
isn't just a lefty who's okay tee and on right teeing off on righty's on
a short porch or anything like that he's hit two to left, two to
center, and then the bulk of them two right field, and it's happened
against righty's and lefties. Three of his home runs of the fourteen have been
against left handers, So he's been fantastic. He's always been strong in the
outfield, and he fell off the rankings because he had elbow surgery last year
that shortened his season. He's actually healthy this year and he's thriving. And
Noah Miller, who was acquired from the Twins this past offseason, he's one
of the best short ups defensively that this league has seen. I've been in
the league for three years. It's just from a defensive side of things.
Miller, Freelan, and then de la Cruz obviously with Cincinnati, they're all
in the mix. They all have played during the course of the Midwest League
season. That makes you go, wow, that's a major league play that
we're seeing at the high A level. So Miller is the top thirty guy.
Maybe doesn't answer the question directly, but it's been really intriguing to see
what Ferris and Miller, two guys who weren't in the Dodgers organization a year
ago, are doing now. That's Jon Facari, one of the voices of
the Great Leagus Loons. Appreciate his time on this Thursday and night as we
give you a farm report, all the latest news and notes for the Dodgers'
top prospects from Rancho Kucamonga to Great Legs to Tulsa all the way up to
Oklahoma City, the Dodger stars of tomorrow, and what they're doing today.
All right, that's gonna do it, Minni. Thanks to Ronnie Fossio.
Thanks to you for being a part of the show. Thank you for listening.
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First pitch at seven to ten, Walker Bueller on the mound. Until
then, have a great, safe rest of your Thursday night. So long, buddy,