The Dodgers are back for three games, but it's always good to come home
and see my guy, Bobby Miller. Bobby, thanks a lot for the
time. You look fresh and well rested. I feel great. Thanks for
having me. Everybody's wondering how the rehab is going. I know the way
you've expressed it to me that you're itching to get back. I'm definitely itching
to get back, but you know, I'm just trusting the process at the
same time. But I feel ready to go. I feel ready to get
back in major league games with where my stuff is at right now and health
wise, I feel one hundred percent right now. But you know, I'm
just here trusting the process. During your rehab outing, can you gauge anything
from those or is it more about how you feel the next day. It's
a little bit of a mix of both. You know, I felt great
that day and the day after. I've been bouncing back really good, especially
after a live BP here at Dodger Stadium. It seemed like right after that,
like I just started bouncing back really good health wise, and everything just
seem to go away. And I'm feeling nothing at this point, like no
pinch or anything in the shoulder even warming up. It's not taking me a
long time to get loose anymore. It's just like coming out good right away.
But like the takeaways from the game, I mean, it's hard,
like really to know what to expect. You know, you don't know if
there's gonna be guys like really really excited to face a major leaguer and start
swinging a lot. But you know, some of a couple of them put
together some good at bats. It's really just an execution standpoint for me,
like showing them something good or not. But I my takeaways were really good,
you know, I through a decent amount of strikes. Fastball was really
good, changed up was great, cider was great. Curveball still needs a
little bit of work, but I learned that everything's going good. The curveball
that's a field pitch, right, I mean, yeah, last year that
was a big field pitch for me. I could throw whenever I wanted,
whatever count. I still feel that way. It's just not as sharp as
it should be right now. But I'm sure once I get back into game
action, it'll be right where it needs to be. Have you heard about
the sinker coming back into vogue? Have you dabbled with the sinker at all,
the two seamer. I've always thrown a two SEAMERU college, I was
like a sinker guy. But then I came here and developed a really good
four seamer. It's don't really have a sinker anymore, but I still use
a two seamer to get guys off of the four seamer, just to give
him a different look. That's something I really wanted to mix into. But
you know, the four has been really good for me. And just mixing
the two seam into guys that I need to mix it into and we'll see
from there. I remember the first time Bobby Miller pitched at Dodger Stadium.
It was during the Futures Game of All Star Weekend here at Dodger Stadium,
and your manager was Mike Zosha for that game, and he had so many
great things to say about you. But the one thing that's refreshing is how
you prioritized throwing the fastball down in a way to hitters. That seems to
be a lost art. Yeah, especially like a guy like me too,
like a little bit of a taller guy being six or five. I'm not
releasing low, so you know when you release high, that fastball down in
a way is really good. It almost looks like it's especially if you have
good carry on the baseball, which I've had like this year and a little
bit most of the time last year. You know, and you stick that
down away heater. Being a tall and high release guy, it could look
like it's gonna be a ball out of the hand, like it's coming straight
down, looks like it's going into the ground. But you stick that pitch
and you'll get a lot of swings out other stuff, and then it's kind
of the opposite like a shorter guy or a low release guy, like throwing
the ball up, it's like the same effect. So but a lot of
people take that for granted. They think a lot of guys think like,
oh, I have really good vertical break up my fastball, I can just
throw it up at all times. But it's just gonna make your off speed
pitches worse. So that's something I had to learn coming into this organization is
learning out to stick it down on the way heater. I really started throwing
that more when I got to major leagues. I wasn't thrown that enough coming
up up through the system, and that's I'm prior helped me out with a
lot, and he's telling me like, hey, this is this is a
really good throw for you. And I started working on that. And I
still do every single bullpen and make sure I can establish that glove side heater
before I start throwing anything else. That's a really important pitch. Bobby Miller
is our guest. Walker Buehler's on the mountain tonight for the Dodgers. How
impressive has it been to watch him put in the work and obviously be able
to come back and pitch at this level the way he has? Yeah,
I mean, I know, knowing Walker, I know, I know he
expects a lot out of himself and he's a huge competitor. So I'm excited
to watch him tonight. You know, it's always a tree being able to
watch Walker pitch. He's always been one of my favorite guys to watch in
baseball, and it's a blessing being teammates with him, and and I'm pretty
good friends with him now at this point. And but yeah, I love
watching Walker pitch, and he's getting better every outing and and he knows what
he needs to do. How about your roommate, Gavin Stone, He's really
starting to put his name amongst some of the better rookies in the National League.
It's been a work in progress, but like you, he put in
a lot of work during the offseason. Yeah, he put in a ton
of work and it's obviously showing. The steps that he made from last year
to this year is crazy. You know, he's he's became. I mean,
he's he's one of the better arms and like all starters right now,
he's going deep into games every single start, which is which is really good
for our bullpen, and he's given it. I haven't seen him not give
the team a chance to win when he's out there, and that's something we
really prioritize as a starter as is just like the main thing is giving the
team a chance to win, and he does that every time he's out there.
Did you let him sleep in? I know your roommates long flight for
the Dodgers on the way back from New York. Were you quiet or were
you a little rowdy of a roommate? I'm not a rowdy roommate. But
it's funny because when he when he got back to the apartment, that's when
I was getting ready to leave to come to the stadium. To start my
day, which is that's good. I felt I felt horrible for the team
that day to go through that really long flight and landing at around eight am
the next day, But you know, everybody's bouncing back right and everyone's ready
to go today. Yin and Yang, that was good that you were leaving
while he was coming. Yeah, you know, he'll be He'll be fine,
he always is. Yeah, I'm a pretty good roommate, all right.
Bobby, thanks a lot for the time. Glad things are going well
for you and we look forward to seeing you on the mound soon. Thank you.