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Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy A big topic
Speaker 2: yesterday on Dodger Talk carried over to AFI seventy LA
Speaker 2: Sports today with Rogan and Rodney Petrow some money talked
Speaker 2: about it the last few hours as well. Is position
Speaker 2: players pitching in games and has become a topic here
Speaker 2: in LA and in particular on your home of the
Speaker 2: Dodgers ANFI seventy LA Sports because of Key k Hernandez,
Speaker 2: and we've seen the Dodger utility player pitch an awful
Speaker 2: lot already this season. Key k Hernandez has already pitched
Speaker 2: in five games in twenty twenty five, more than any
Speaker 2: other time he's pitched in a season. Miguel Rojas has
Speaker 2: made an appearance we all loved when he was out
Speaker 2: there in personating pitchers on the mound when the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were getting blown out by the Cubs at a home
Speaker 2: game last month. But keithk a Hernandez has been pitching
Speaker 2: an awful lot now for this Dodgers team because the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have been in situations where they've been blowing out
Speaker 2: teams and in an instance down in San Diego last
Speaker 2: road trip, the Dodgers were getting beat up by the Padres,
Speaker 2: and so we saw key Y Hernandez pitch for almost
Speaker 2: three innings. And it's not necessarily an issue with what
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are doing because it's part of the game.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I just have an issue with position players in general
Speaker 2: pitching in a game, and that kind of kind of
Speaker 2: opened up a can of worms as far as talking
Speaker 2: about it. Why it's allowed. The changes that Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball made before the twenty twenty three season allowing position
Speaker 2: players to be pitching in games and setting rules to
Speaker 2: how they are able to come in and pitching games.
Speaker 2: It's been something that's been in baseball where blowouts are
Speaker 2: happening and it's late in a baseball game, and rather
Speaker 2: than use up one of your arms, a manager will
Speaker 2: go to his bench or go to his outfield and
Speaker 2: bring in a position player to pitch. And it's something
Speaker 2: that we've seen prevalent in the late twenty teams, the
Speaker 2: nearly twenty twenty and in twenty twenty two, it got
Speaker 2: so bad in Major League Baseball that they had to
Speaker 2: change the rules before the twenty twenty three season, and
Speaker 2: the rule was set forward on the new guidelines that
Speaker 2: a team had to be up by ten or more
Speaker 2: runs in the ninth inning in order to let a
Speaker 2: position player pitch while trailing teams. Teams that are getting
Speaker 2: beat up on and losing big can use a position
Speaker 2: player anytime it's down by eight or more runs. Position
Speaker 2: players are also allowed to pitch anytime at extra innings,
Speaker 2: So if you are up by ten or more runs,
Speaker 2: a position player can't come in until the ninth inning.
Speaker 2: If you're getting boat raced by eight or more runs,
Speaker 2: a position player can come in at any time during
Speaker 2: a game. Yesterday, in the ninth inning, we saw key
Speaker 2: K Hernandez come into the game with a thirteen to
Speaker 2: three lead over the Washington Nationals and Dave Roberts elected
Speaker 2: instead of bringing out another reliever. What we've seen four
Speaker 2: previous times this year is Dave Roberts call upon Key
Speaker 2: K a Hernandez to go out to the mound, and
Speaker 2: Key K has had a lot of fun out there.
Speaker 2: He's wearing the helmet for safety reasons even though he
Speaker 2: didn't work yesterday, But the last few ituends for Key
Speaker 2: Ky Hernandez, he's not getting the swing and missus he's
Speaker 2: not getting the hitters up there, just looking to get
Speaker 2: the game over with and maybe swinging the pitches and
Speaker 2: chasing and popping out or grounding out or getting that
Speaker 2: one strikeout that he got. Instead, they're taking pitches and
Speaker 2: the ones that aren't over the plate for strikes like
Speaker 2: batting practice pitches, they're crushing. He walked three batters yesterday,
Speaker 2: allowed four runs, and got one out while throwing thirty pitches.
Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, it's eight, thirteen to seven game.
Speaker 2: Now I get Alex Vesi Gampa sack fly that was
Speaker 2: accounted to Keige Hernandez. But in a thirteen to three game,
Speaker 2: when you need three final outs, why can't we just
Speaker 2: bring a reliever in yesterday? I would love to have
Speaker 2: seen lu Trevina go back out there and pitch the
Speaker 2: final three outs and get out of the game. He
Speaker 2: pitched the day before, he pitched yesterday eighteen pitches, probably
Speaker 2: not gonna pitched in the early part of this series
Speaker 2: in Colorado, and with the roster shuffling around, who knows
Speaker 2: if he'll be on the roster. They may bring up
Speaker 2: another arm. But Luke Trevino could have very easily gone
Speaker 2: back out there and got the final three outs. Ball
Speaker 2: game over. Dodgers still win by six, they still get
Speaker 2: the victory. Every happy leaving Dodger Stadium. That's great, but
Speaker 2: it just widens out to a bigger issue in my
Speaker 2: mind with position players pitching, and we get focused on
Speaker 2: it again because it's right in front of our eyes.
Speaker 2: We're hearing it in Dodger games. Five times already, Keik's pitch,
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas pitch six times already this year in seventy
Speaker 2: nine games, have we seen a position player pitch for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. And I'm just using the Dodgers an example.
Speaker 2: It's an issue in baseball. We're seeing blowouts and we're
Speaker 2: seeing position players pitch way earlier than the ninth inning
Speaker 2: teams getting boat raced. Just rave the white flag and
Speaker 2: call it a game. Now, there's some solutions to this, certainly,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get into that in a second. But I'm
Speaker 2: not the only one that feels like, all right enough
Speaker 2: with the position players pitching. Here's a Hall of Famer
Speaker 2: on a recent podcast, John Smoltz from Fox well respected
Speaker 2: great baseball mind still part of the game today. Not
Speaker 2: an old timer out there just talking about their good
Speaker 2: old days. No, he is the lead analyst for Fox.
Speaker 2: He is relevant today. He's a Hall of Famer. Here
Speaker 2: he is on a podcast recently. He does not like
Speaker 2: position players pitching.
Speaker 4: I think it's the most embarrassing thing and anything you
Speaker 4: can do it is sport with the reality of all
Speaker 4: the smart people thinking pitching, bullpenning, both pending bullpenning. And
Speaker 4: we've had more position players pitch in baseball games than
Speaker 4: ever before, and what does that tell you? And it's
Speaker 4: been the most embarrassing thing I think there is. I
Speaker 4: think every once in a while you can think it's cute,
Speaker 4: the fan kind of get on it. But when we're
Speaker 4: having it at this alarming rate, I think Baseball needs
Speaker 4: to do something about it. I know they've made a
Speaker 4: rule and when you can use that person, but you
Speaker 4: know what, at some point, you know people keep talking about, well,
Speaker 4: let's just have a mercy rule. What are we doing?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just don't think the penalty is
Speaker 4: good enough. I think it's just embarrassing. And that's what
Speaker 4: I won't change my thought. Why don't we have pictures
Speaker 4: that will blowout game, go up them instead of the hitters,
Speaker 4: like people would get all over that they would be like,
Speaker 4: this is ridiculous, and I can't think of another sport.
Speaker 4: You know, even in the NBA there's blowouts. He lose
Speaker 4: by forty, but it's not like they're they're bringing people
Speaker 4: in off the sands to play the finish out the games.
Speaker 4: So that part's always bothered me. And I know that
Speaker 4: that you know, a catch flack for that, but I
Speaker 4: just think it's embarrassing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with him in the overarching game of baseball.
Speaker 2: I'm just not a fan of position players pitching. Here's
Speaker 2: Jose Mota yesterday, who is on part of the English
Speaker 2: and Spanish broadcast, of course, part of the great Motive
Speaker 2: family Manny Mota, his father Jose Motive player himself, joins
Speaker 2: us on the post game show after every game here
Speaker 2: on a FI seven of the La Sports. I was
Speaker 2: talking with him yesterday on the post game and asked
Speaker 2: him about position players pitching. Here's Jose Modi yesterday, the.
Speaker 5: Overora posision player thing. I'm not a big channel of
Speaker 5: sign and never i've been ever, and and I just
Speaker 5: it's it's a necessary thing now because when one guy
Speaker 5: does it or every team doesn't, I think some some
Speaker 5: it's the truth. I mean, go back and look at Hunter, Alberto.
Speaker 5: How many times did you pitch? I mean, and they
Speaker 5: have got Albert Poole's pitch and Rizzo pitch and yeah
Speaker 5: they're Milita. So something will be done because to me,
Speaker 5: my main concern is is way too dangerous. You know,
Speaker 5: I have batting touches pitcher right, he throws with the screen.
Speaker 5: Why exactly position player you expose him to so much?
Speaker 5: I understand again, is not just one teams. Every team
Speaker 5: that goes through this. Certainly, I just don't want to
Speaker 5: see anybody's career end because you know, a position player
Speaker 5: is thrown and it's just the way you know bopenser
Speaker 5: being maned right now. But if I don't seek again
Speaker 5: on my OWND the rest of my life, I'll be
Speaker 5: just fine.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 2: There's Jose Mota yesterday again, former player, part of the
Speaker 2: Motive Family, broadcaster. He is not a fan of position
Speaker 2: players pitching, and he brings up the safety issue, which
Speaker 2: I think is a great thing to bring up. If
Speaker 2: you want to eliminate this in Major League Baseball, this
Speaker 2: is all they would have to do to say enough,
Speaker 2: no more position players pitching. It's a safety issue with
Speaker 2: exit velocity, something that is now measured on scoreboards at
Speaker 2: baseball parks across America. All thirty parks across the country
Speaker 2: put miles prour exit velocity launch angle. We can see
Speaker 2: how hard these guys are hitting the baseball, how they
Speaker 2: are squaring it up. A show Ayotani hitting the ball
Speaker 2: one fourteen off the bat. Nobody wants to get in
Speaker 2: front of that. A Manny Machado, a Fernando Tatis of
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman won five off the bat, one ten off
Speaker 2: the bat. Nobody wants to get in front of that. Now,
Speaker 2: if you got a batting practice pitcher up there during pregame,
Speaker 2: as Jose said, they've got the l screen up there,
Speaker 2: so they're throwing batting practice pitches. They don't want to
Speaker 2: get hit. They don't want to get a line drive
Speaker 2: off the dome. They don't want to get a line
Speaker 2: drive off the chest or the leg. They don't want
Speaker 2: to die. If you're Major League Baseball, you very easily
Speaker 2: can say no more position players pitching. It's a safety
Speaker 2: issue with these position players out there just trying to
Speaker 2: get out. I get it. They're not trying to strike
Speaker 2: anybody out and be fancy and throw ninety five. They're
Speaker 2: just out there lobbing the ball, try to get the
Speaker 2: game over as quick as possible. I get that, But
Speaker 2: you can say it's a safety issue. When you're throwing
Speaker 2: fifty five sixty miles an hour out there, that's vp
Speaker 2: fastball for a hitter, and if you put one down
Speaker 2: the middle and they line it up, it could be
Speaker 2: dangerous for a position player, and they if they wear
Speaker 2: the helmets, hopefully that helps them. But you can use
Speaker 2: that Major League Baseball if you want, as an issue
Speaker 2: and a way to get out of having position players pitch. Now,
Speaker 2: it's got to be negotiated by both sides, the players'
Speaker 2: union and the owners, but if you wanted to get
Speaker 2: rid of it, you can say it is a safety issue.
Speaker 2: With that being said, you could also then say, all right,
Speaker 2: we'll expand the rosters by one two players and make
Speaker 2: it a twenty eight man active roster instead of a
Speaker 2: twenty six man active roster. So we'll allow you to
Speaker 2: add two more pitchers. Why not do that? Or if
Speaker 2: you want to keep it at twenty six man roster,
Speaker 2: thirteen pitchers, thirteen position players, why don't you say, all right,
Speaker 2: we can make it if you want. You can go
Speaker 2: up to as many as fourteen pitchers. You can go
Speaker 2: fourteen to twelve. If you want to keep it thirteen
Speaker 2: and thirteen, that's fine. But you are allowed to have
Speaker 2: fourteen position or fourteen pitchers and twelve players. You can
Speaker 2: have fourteen and twelve if you like, on a twenty
Speaker 2: six man roster. Giving you an extra pitcher if you
Speaker 2: need it, that would solve the issue. Give you an
Speaker 2: extra arm. I understand. Yesterday in theory a blowout game,
Speaker 2: why the Dodgers went to Key You get here, nan,
Speaker 2: I get it. You're up ten, it's the last inning
Speaker 2: and you're three outs away, you're facing the Nationals. It's
Speaker 2: the end of a ten game home stand. It's the
Speaker 2: end of a long streak of games for this Dodgers team.
Speaker 2: And then you're going into a day off, and then
Speaker 2: you're going to Colorado, where the old Saint bullpens go
Speaker 2: to die. So you want to save as many arms
Speaker 2: as possible. I get it. I understand it. But at
Speaker 2: the level of baseball, we're being played the highest there
Speaker 2: is in the world, with the best athletes out there.
Speaker 2: Even if it's a thirteen to three game, give us
Speaker 2: a pitcher, Give us a pitcher that's supposed to be
Speaker 2: on the mound that has worked their way to the
Speaker 2: big leagues to get to this point, to get three
Speaker 2: outs because it's fun and cute when the first time
Speaker 2: a position player goes out there and he's mimicking other
Speaker 2: pitchers on the team, or he's wearing a hat and
Speaker 2: he's throwing the ephis pitch and he's throwing a looping
Speaker 2: curveball and you get to swing in the mists and
Speaker 2: everybody's having a good time. That's great, but the novelty
Speaker 2: does wear off after a while if you're a baseball
Speaker 2: fan and a purist and watching the position player out there.
Speaker 2: Okay for the fifth time, and again, not a Dodger issue,
Speaker 2: a baseball issue.
Speaker 7: Again.
Speaker 2: This is happening across baseball with blowouts, so much so,
Speaker 2: as again said, they had to implement a rule in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three for how and when you can bring
Speaker 2: a position player in whether you're winning or you're getting
Speaker 2: destroyed in a baseball game. There are ways to fix
Speaker 2: it by just completely eliminating the ability to have a
Speaker 2: position player pitch, add an extra roster spot or two,
Speaker 2: or allow you to carry an extra pitcher on your
Speaker 2: twenty six man roster. That's an easy solution to this problem.
Speaker 2: Maybe you agree, maybe you disagree. Eight sixty six ninet
Speaker 2: eighty seven two five seventy. I've heard the other side
Speaker 2: saying this is fun, this is great for baseball. Who
Speaker 2: cares it's three outs? Who cares it's a blowout game? Anyway? Well,
Speaker 2: I look it from a fans perspective. Pay a lot
Speaker 2: of money to go to games. You pay a lot
Speaker 2: of money at games, and when you're at a game,
Speaker 2: you paid parking, you paid food, you got a family
Speaker 2: of four, you're at the game, you paid for tickets,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, it's a blowout game in
Speaker 2: the fifth or sixth inning, and you've got a position
Speaker 2: player pitching for the team that's losing. I mean, now
Speaker 2: it's turned into rock and jocks softball in essence for
Speaker 2: the final three innings. Okay, is that fun? Is that great?
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're into it, I guess, but you know,
Speaker 2: I know it in every game is a blowout. You
Speaker 2: get once in a home stand, once every two weeks.
Speaker 2: You get a blowout on either side, and it happens
Speaker 2: either way. Dodgers have been blown out like they were
Speaker 2: in San Diego, and on the flip side. Four out
Speaker 2: the five times that we've seen Keith Ahernender's pitch has
Speaker 2: been at home, when the Dodgers are blowing out the Marlins,
Speaker 2: when they're beating up on the Yankees, when they're beating
Speaker 2: up on the Giants last Saturday, and when they're beating
Speaker 2: up yesterday on the Washington Nationals. Yesterday. I would have
Speaker 2: liked to have seen Matt Soer finish finish that ninth inning.
Speaker 2: I just would have eight sixty six nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. It seems to have gotten into a
Speaker 2: big topic across baseball. Position players pitching has a novelty,
Speaker 2: worn off and time to put it into it altogether
Speaker 2: across the sport American League nationally, get rid of it.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy one.
Speaker 2: Last thing aground baseball today was in Las Vegas. It's
Speaker 2: been talked about, it's been voted upon. The city council
Speaker 2: has talked about it, The county in Las Vegas has
Speaker 2: been talking of it. Baseball a stadium in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: They got a Triple A team there, but bringing a
Speaker 2: major League team to Las Vegas. Today. We finally had
Speaker 2: a shovel in the ground as they start breaking ground
Speaker 2: at the old Tropicana nine acre baseball stadium being built
Speaker 2: over a billion dollars. Gonna see thirty three thousand fans,
Speaker 2: Gonna have a glass top dome so you can see
Speaker 2: out of it. It'll be indoors, so it's not one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen during the summer, which it gets like
Speaker 2: in Vegas. I think it's cool that baseball is going
Speaker 2: to Vegas. I love the fact that the Raiders there.
Speaker 2: I work for the Raiders. I love it. I love
Speaker 2: the fact that the NFL has games there, what eight
Speaker 2: times during the regular season, a couple of preseason games.
Speaker 2: They've had a Pro Bowl there, They've had a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl there, They've had NBA All Star or Summer League there,
Speaker 2: and now they have majorly Baseball there in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: Is pretty cool. Here's Rob Manfred earlier today at the
Speaker 2: groundbreaking track.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 8: Look, I could not be more excited to be here
Speaker 8: in Las Vegas today. Las Vegas has proven itself to
Speaker 8: be a great sports town and a great host to
Speaker 8: professional franchises. All of us at Major League Baseball. All
Speaker 8: the owners are excited to be adding Major League Baseball
Speaker 8: to the entertainment alternatives that are available here in Southern Nevada.
Speaker 8: The Athletics have a long and proud history, nine World
Speaker 8: Series titles, great players like Ricky Henderson, Dave Stewart, Raleigh Fingers,
Speaker 8: Vita Blue list goes on and on. I think about
Speaker 8: today as the beginning of a new chapter in that
Speaker 8: great history.
Speaker 2: I think that's well put by the commissioner, Rob Manford.
Speaker 2: I don't always agree with them, by I think you
Speaker 2: said it very well there. It is time for the
Speaker 2: Athletics to find a permanent home, and Las Vegas will
Speaker 2: be that permanent home. It's gonna be twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 2: still two and a half years away. They're gonna have
Speaker 2: to gut it out and play in West Sacramento in
Speaker 2: a minor league complex until they can get on the
Speaker 2: field in the spring of twenty twenty eight. But if
Speaker 2: they can wait it out, what's they're gonna have to
Speaker 2: it'll be worth it. And to have baseball in Las Vegas,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be fantastic and it's just gonna be like
Speaker 2: when the NFL games are there. It's gonna be a
Speaker 2: destination weekend. When your team goes to Vegas to play
Speaker 2: the Las Vegas As, it is gonna be a destination spot.
Speaker 2: I think it's really cool. I think it's good for
Speaker 2: the sport to have a professional team in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be great for the summertime to
Speaker 2: have the Dodgers in A's playing a three game weekend
Speaker 2: set up in Las Vegas, and to have Dodger fans
Speaker 2: be able to go up there. I think that's gonna
Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. Angel fans gonna be able
Speaker 2: to go up there for the weekend. I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be very cool to see that when it happens.
Speaker 2: Still two and a half years away, but again, shovel
Speaker 2: in ground today at the groundbreaking ceremony. We'll take a break,
Speaker 2: we'll come back. I got one line open eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Your phone calls
Speaker 2: when we come back. We're diving into the old position
Speaker 2: player pitching has its run, its course, has a novelty
Speaker 2: worn off. I think so eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. We've seen key K pitch five
Speaker 2: times and we haven't even got to July yet We've
Speaker 2: seen Miguel Rojas pitch already in a blowout game. I
Speaker 2: think it's jumped the shark. So this say in the
Speaker 2: old Happy Days reference eight six, six, nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy A nice Happy Days reference. Tim, wait
Speaker 2: to go, I'm referencing Happy Days. I'm not even that old.
Speaker 2: I watched it on reruns. Tim Kate's Ronnie Fossulio and you.
Speaker 2: It's Dodger Talking on Monday Night. Thanks for being with
Speaker 2: us on n FI seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app. A m five seventy LA Sports Live
Speaker 2: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tim Kates with you here
Speaker 2: on this Monday Night, June twenty third. Dodgers in act
Speaker 2: tomorrow in Denver, five to forty first pitch from Couriz Field,
Speaker 2: the first of three against the Rockies. Then it's off
Speaker 2: to Kansas City for a three game weekend set against
Speaker 2: the Royals. Dodgers start the night all alone first place
Speaker 2: atop the NL West at forty eight and thirteen on
Speaker 2: the season. The Dodgers have the Giants three and a
Speaker 2: half games back in the division. The Padres are five
Speaker 2: games back in the standings and the Padres inaction right
Speaker 2: now as we speak, Fourth Indian at Petco Park, as
Speaker 2: the Washington Nationals have jumped out to a two to
Speaker 2: nothing lead over the Padres eight six six nine eighty
Speaker 2: seven to two five seventy. I asked you about the
Speaker 2: position players yesterday. Key a Hernandez, for the fifth time
Speaker 2: already this season, was on the mound pitching in a
Speaker 2: Dodger blowout win, and for the second straight game, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers had to go to a reliever to get out
Speaker 2: of the game with the win. Now they were up
Speaker 2: thirteen to three. He gave up four runs. It ended
Speaker 2: up being a thirteen to seven game. They get the win,
Speaker 2: still in blowout form against the Washington Nationals. But how
Speaker 2: much more are we going to see this in baseball?
Speaker 2: These position players pitching? Is that what you want to
Speaker 2: see in a major league game? Arthur Marina del Ray
Speaker 2: start things off here on this Monday night on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talckey Welcome, Arthur.
Speaker 3: Are you doing I'm going to find how are you doing? Tim?
Speaker 2: I'm doing good? What do you think about the position
Speaker 2: players pitching and games?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 9: Earlier this year I was really enjoying KK, you know,
Speaker 9: and and it does something new that will be but
Speaker 9: five times. It's a lot of position players in my perspective.
Speaker 3: But I want to I.
Speaker 9: Want to give you and I told Ronnie that's what
Speaker 9: I wanted to talk about. But I has some test
Speaker 9: one to win quickly, you know, you know it's and
Speaker 9: it has to do with.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 9: Well, I think the station has done a great job
Speaker 9: and procassing the Dodgers. I'm concerned though that uh speaking
Speaker 9: about position players for and now it tonight and how
Speaker 9: many I was doing today? Is where's the important thing's
Speaker 9: school on right now? The right important thing is, uh,
Speaker 9: is what we're dealing with with with wrobably with the
Speaker 9: padres for example, we're hearing a lot of stuff about
Speaker 9: you know, uh, we we need to look at how
Speaker 9: we're speaking to two people and uh, I think, uh,
Speaker 9: And there's a lot of people to pay attention to.
Speaker 3: Todave and Day does a great job.
Speaker 9: I dave a lot and uh and appreciate what the
Speaker 9: work he does and you do, Tim, I appreciate the to.
Speaker 3: Our deck.
Speaker 9: There's a lot of shows doing the year and I'm grateful.
Speaker 5: It's amazing.
Speaker 10: I'm really grateful for you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I'm just saying about how, you know, how
Speaker 9: we look at things, and I did that. I think, uh,
Speaker 9: people who look at how Dave comes across, how you
Speaker 9: come across and sometimes if people are feeling negative, it's
Speaker 9: just drive race. You know, people cap into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, he just saying, Arthur, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I I'll push back a little bit in that we're
Speaker 2: celebrating the fact that this is a great Dodger team,
Speaker 2: and we celebrate the Dodgers every single day, and we
Speaker 2: continue to celebrate with this team did last year, what
Speaker 2: they're capable of this year, and how talented this roster
Speaker 2: constructed this past offseason was gonna look like and be
Speaker 2: and what it has been despite these injuries, and Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts gets applauded every single day. What this team is
Speaker 2: able to do, mixing and matching starters, openers, bulkanting guys,
Speaker 2: you know, back end bullpen relievers. With all the injuries
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips done, you know, Blake Trining has not pitched
Speaker 2: for a lot of the season, and to bring up
Speaker 2: players like Jack Dryer, Benkuspirius, to bring in the leech
Speaker 2: ravinos of the world. We celebrate that every single day
Speaker 2: on an off night. To bring up the fact that
Speaker 2: we're starting to see a lot of position players pitch,
Speaker 2: I think it's okay to send something to talk about.
Speaker 2: I think it's something we're seeing across baseball. It was
Speaker 2: an epidemic a few years ago, so much so that
Speaker 2: Baseball had to put tighter clamps on it and tighter
Speaker 2: rules to when you can or cannot bring in a
Speaker 2: position player. But as it is, the Dodgers have blown
Speaker 2: out teams on multiple occasions this year. That's a good
Speaker 2: thing and we celebrate that. Now, how often are we
Speaker 2: going to see a position player pitch? How often do
Speaker 2: we need to see a position player pitch in a game?
Speaker 2: That's what we're talking about tonight, and I appreciate the
Speaker 2: phone call. Al in Hollywood is next up here on
Speaker 2: off night Dodge Talk.
Speaker 11: Welcome, hel How you doing, Hey, Thanks Tayan for taking
Speaker 11: my call.
Speaker 12: First thing.
Speaker 10: I was there in Elson Gundong FARTI so so congratulations
Speaker 10: to you and the crew were putting up a good show.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you coming out.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I do agree.
Speaker 10: Well, I know you're a catcher for UCLA. I was
Speaker 10: the one with the UCLA light blue jacket hoodie on,
Speaker 10: So next time I'll put it on when we see
Speaker 10: each other again. I do agree with you. You're rewarding
Speaker 10: that bad team who's getting boat raced, as you said,
Speaker 10: and that they're putting in a player position. So I
Speaker 10: suggest a solution. If you do what Kike, like the
Speaker 10: Dodgers did yesterday's game, then what you should do is
Speaker 10: the next day, you lose the opportunity to date. The
Speaker 10: picture has to bat for himself. In other words, it's
Speaker 10: a one day thing. It adds excitement, but Shoey has
Speaker 10: to play the field if he can't. Dight, But you
Speaker 10: don't reward the team that's losing by saving their pictures
Speaker 10: for the next game. So if you can to save
Speaker 10: the picture, then you lose the d eighth and the picture.
Speaker 10: If you want to play the picture, you're saving him
Speaker 10: like in your example Trevino, Then if he pitches, then
Speaker 10: he's got to bat the next game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it. Now, I think that's overthinking it
Speaker 2: a little bit. I'll aboutways just get rid of it altogether.
Speaker 2: How about we look at a game as a team wins,
Speaker 2: a team loses, and if you're getting beat be better.
Speaker 2: If your pitching's not very good, make it better. Get
Speaker 2: better pitching, develop better pitching, Go out and get better pitching.
Speaker 2: Your pitchers need to do a better job executing the pitches.
Speaker 2: There's some games, some games, maybe your guy just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: It happens. It happens all the time to the best
Speaker 2: pitchers in baseball, the best starters that ever played this game.
Speaker 2: That happens. Maybe you add an extra roster spot for
Speaker 2: another pitcher. Maybe you make it so on the twenty
Speaker 2: six man roster you're not just limited to thirteen pitchers
Speaker 2: and capped out there. You're allowed fourteen. Heck, you can
Speaker 2: have as many pitchers as you want on a twenty
Speaker 2: six man roster. It's up to you to determine that
Speaker 2: that's the way that's tall this. Just get rid of it.
Speaker 2: A team that continually is getting beat up on, you're
Speaker 2: not doing them any favors, and they're just gonna bring
Speaker 2: a position player in, Oh it's fun. We're gonna go
Speaker 2: out there and we're gonna hit the ball round even more.
Speaker 2: And a team that's blowing out of their team, my
Speaker 2: old theory thinking is finish them off. Just take care
Speaker 2: of business. You know, it's a long season, it's a
Speaker 2: blowout game. You're only allowed to use it in the
Speaker 2: ninth inning. Just finish it off. We've seen it now
Speaker 2: five different times from Mkika and once from mcguil Rojas,
Speaker 2: and we're seeing it a lot across baseball. I just
Speaker 2: don't want it anymore in games. You know, you have
Speaker 2: all these pitchers in the minor leagues, you have a
Speaker 2: certain amount of roster spots at the big league level.
Speaker 2: If you have to go to a position player to pitch,
Speaker 2: that doesn't send a great message. And I know it's once,
Speaker 2: it's not even once in a blue moon anymore. I mean,
Speaker 2: you can't even say that. You can't say it's gonna
Speaker 2: happen once or twice a year, a blowout. You're gonna
Speaker 2: have position player pitch. It's a lot of fun. If
Speaker 2: that were the case, then yes, we wouldn't even be
Speaker 2: discussing it. It wouldn't be brought up. Baseball wouldn't have
Speaker 2: had to address it twenty twenty three. But it is
Speaker 2: happening a lot, and it's a way to save arms.
Speaker 2: I get it, But should a team be allowed to
Speaker 2: save arms, especially if they're losing for being bad, they
Speaker 2: can better position player in that's a reward. I don't
Speaker 2: know about that. Kurt sank Clementy, Welcome to Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: here on a FI seventy I Sports. Hi doing, Kurt.
Speaker 3: You know how you saved arms? How's that by getting
Speaker 3: rid of the pitch clock? And I know that that's
Speaker 3: not the issue, but I agree with small baseball making
Speaker 3: it league baseball. These guys are making hundreds of thousands
Speaker 3: and millions of dollars and baseball it's like the turning
Speaker 3: it into a curl.
Speaker 2: It is. It is kind of a weird feel to it,
Speaker 2: and it's, uh, it's not easy to digest if you're
Speaker 2: a baseball purist to see the amount of position players
Speaker 2: that are out there pitching. Sergio in Las Vegas. Speaking
Speaker 2: of Las Vegas, we mentioned it earlier today, the groundbreaking
Speaker 2: for the new athletic stadium that's being built at the
Speaker 2: old side of the Trapicana. Sergio, what's the buzz in
Speaker 2: the seven oh two?
Speaker 6: Hey Timmy, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3: This is the first time I ever recalled.
Speaker 2: I'm off my Dodgers talk, so I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 6: Couple things and then we'll talk about touch on Vegas
Speaker 6: really quick. U tremendous homestand seven and three coming off
Speaker 6: that huge eight in and twelve stretch with the tough teams.
Speaker 6: A great job by the by the ball club. I
Speaker 6: have to agree with Johnson. It's just embarrassing, you know,
Speaker 6: like you said the first time, whether it be Miggy
Speaker 6: or Keyga, go on the mound and they get out
Speaker 6: of the inning, you know, with maybe giving up a hit,
Speaker 6: but when you when you pk what he's given up
Speaker 6: eight runs in a total of one inning. The thing
Speaker 6: that's embarrassing to me is that is that Doc has
Speaker 6: a cup. He has to pull woman for an actual reliever.
Speaker 6: It's like, just like you said, bring the reliever in
Speaker 6: live Trevino in yesterday, and I know you have touched
Speaker 6: on his pitch count. Maybe maybe they bring in sour.
Speaker 6: Maybe that was a better call, but I don't like it.
Speaker 6: The fun, the fun part of it is over. Uh
Speaker 6: you know, I like your your roster manipulation, that's right
Speaker 6: the word to say. But to shuffle fourteen and twelve,
Speaker 6: I like that now. First dog to gain I ever
Speaker 6: went to Timmy nineteen seventy six. I remember like it
Speaker 6: was yesterday. I was six years old I moved, so
Speaker 6: I've been a huge Dodger fan. I moved to Vegas
Speaker 6: in two thousand and three, and when the buzz started
Speaker 6: years ago about potentially the A's coming here, I thought, Man,
Speaker 6: this is cool.
Speaker 3: I go home.
Speaker 6: My parents still live in Santa Monica. I crashed the
Speaker 6: couch and go to ten games a year. But the
Speaker 6: fact that the Dodgers will eventually come here every other
Speaker 6: year is awesome. There's a lot of people hating on
Speaker 6: it here in Vegas, but they did the same thing
Speaker 6: for the Raiders. You know, you said you worked from
Speaker 6: so I'm sure you heard all the negative stuff from
Speaker 6: locals here. I think it's gonna be awesome really quick,
Speaker 6: and I'll let you go. I used to I sell insurance,
Speaker 6: but I used to do uber driving part time, and
Speaker 6: one time I went to an executive airport and picked
Speaker 6: up the owner of the Raiders, Mark Davis. He was
Speaker 6: out here checking out the construction of the stadium and
Speaker 6: got to talking. You ask me, how long have I
Speaker 6: been there. I've been in been a long time, said man.
Speaker 6: The Raiders are gonna make money hand over fist and
Speaker 6: he goes, why do you say that? And I go, well,
Speaker 6: first of all, I'm a Rams fan, but I said,
Speaker 6: like you touched on it, Timmy.
Speaker 3: It's a destination city.
Speaker 6: You can fly in on a Friday night, like say
Speaker 6: you're a Bronco fan or whatever, a Charger fan and
Speaker 6: the stay Friday decided to go to this game Sunday
Speaker 6: and go home. I mean, it's gonna be the same
Speaker 6: thing for baseball. You have you know, I know cavel
Speaker 6: right now in Vegas people were talking about is down,
Speaker 6: but traditionally it's like forty seven million a year. There's
Speaker 6: gonna be a bunch of people from the travelers that
Speaker 6: come in here that go to games. I mean, I'll
Speaker 6: certainly be there for the homestands the Dodgers are here
Speaker 6: or the games. So I'm excited and hopefully I see
Speaker 6: you around the stateum here in the future.
Speaker 3: Buddy.
Speaker 2: All right, Sergio, I appreciate the phone call. Gary ladera Ranch.
Speaker 2: You're next up. Thanks for being patient. You're on Dodge Talk.
Speaker 4: Gary.
Speaker 2: How you doing good?
Speaker 3: Tim How are you doing doing good?
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 13: I'm opposed to it.
Speaker 3: I would just continue it completely. The position player allowed
Speaker 3: to pitch.
Speaker 2: I'm with you.
Speaker 13: I agree with you.
Speaker 2: I think it's time. I think we've seen it enough.
Speaker 2: I think it's only going to continue to be uses.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it crutches the right word, but
Speaker 2: you use in situations where let's just finish off a team.
Speaker 2: Either way, Gary, I appreciate the phone call. Thanks for
Speaker 2: being patient, Lou. And Irvine is next up here on
Speaker 2: off night, Dodge, you talk on an FI seventy. How
Speaker 2: you doing, Lou doing great?
Speaker 11: Here's one way you're gonna get rid of it. As
Speaker 11: soon as we blow a ten run lead, no one's
Speaker 11: gonna want to do it. Just look at what happened
Speaker 11: the other night against the Giants. Tik gives up a
Speaker 11: grand Slam to nobody, and so then you got to
Speaker 11: you know how quickly a game can turn. The next thing,
Speaker 11: you know, he wats another person, another hit, and then
Speaker 11: you've got three on and who knows what's going to happen. Yeah, no, nobody.
Speaker 11: I don't think anybody that really follows the game wants
Speaker 11: a position player up there. Just close out the game.
Speaker 11: That's what you gotta do.
Speaker 2: All right, Lou, appreciate it. There's a there's a way
Speaker 2: to make it easier. For your bullpen and the out
Speaker 2: of pitchers you have. And that's just add another arm
Speaker 2: on that twenty six man roster manipulated so you can
Speaker 2: get rid of that thirteen player cap right now, it's
Speaker 2: thirteen position players thirteen pitchers. It's got to be equal.
Speaker 2: You can't have more than the other. Just get rid
Speaker 2: of that and a lot of team to if they
Speaker 2: want extra pitchers, do it. Maybe add an extra spot
Speaker 2: or two on a roster. Make it twenty eight man rosters.
Speaker 2: Zach Echo Park, you're next up here on Dodge Talk.
Speaker 2: I doing Zach.
Speaker 11: Hey, Hey Tim, I'm doing good man.
Speaker 2: How you doing doing good things?
Speaker 3: Awesome?
Speaker 12: Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Look, with position players pitching, I think that I agree
Speaker 12: with John Smaltz a little bit. I think it is
Speaker 12: can be kind of the most embarrassing thing in professional sports.
Speaker 12: But then I mean, I remember Anthony Rizzo striking out
Speaker 12: Freddy Freeman a couple of years ago, and that's like
Speaker 12: one of my favorite moments in baseball. So yeah, get
Speaker 12: a little of the good and a little of the bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you see some funny moments. I appreciate it. You
Speaker 2: see some things that you'll never forget and you know,
Speaker 2: a guy striking out from Key k Hernandez or keyk
Speaker 2: Hernandez or Miguel varg Rojas mimicking Dodger pitches. It's fun
Speaker 2: at first, but you know, we got a long rest
Speaker 2: of the season to go. We've seen a lot of
Speaker 2: Key k hearn is. That means they're blowing out teams.
Speaker 2: That that's a good thing, Don't get me wrong, but
Speaker 2: you know, let's just finish it off. Let's get rid
Speaker 2: of the position player across the Board's not a Dodger problem.
Speaker 2: It's a baseball problem in my mind, and it's just
Speaker 2: something the Dodgers are taking advantage of. And because five
Speaker 2: out of the six times that they've brought in a
Speaker 2: actually four out of the six times they brought in
Speaker 2: a position player, Miguel Rojas and Key k Hernaniez each
Speaker 2: came in and losing efforts. The other four times they
Speaker 2: were blown out opponents. The Nationals, the Giants, the Yankees,
Speaker 2: the Marlins all blowout wins for the Dodgers. Darryl Palmdale,
Speaker 2: our final call here before we take a break and
Speaker 2: get to the farm report. How you doing, Darryl.
Speaker 13: I'm good today, David.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm doing graz thank you.
Speaker 13: I hate the position player pitching is just like football.
Speaker 13: You know, the runts didn't count, the whole runch can't count.
Speaker 13: So what you get a hold run up a position player?
Speaker 13: Is this garbage time? Get rid of it. We don't
Speaker 13: need it.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm with you, Darrel. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thanks for checking in here on off night Dodger talk.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the sentiment seems to be from all our
Speaker 2: callers here, not fans of the position players pitching. It's
Speaker 2: something that baseball is addressed, and we're seeing it over
Speaker 2: and over in blowout situations. And I say it over
Speaker 2: and over again, it's not a Dodger problem. It's a
Speaker 2: baseball issue right now. And the more and more that
Speaker 2: it happens, I think the more and more fans who
Speaker 2: are the ones paying and watching the games and spending
Speaker 2: the money are being drawn off by it and just
Speaker 2: turned away by it. And you know, it's something I
Speaker 2: think major ly baseball is going to have to look
Speaker 2: at again because we're just seeing a lot of position
Speaker 2: players pitching in games and just the simple an get
Speaker 2: rid of it. That's it. Get rid of it. Add
Speaker 2: a couple extra roster spots or manipulate the way the
Speaker 2: twenty six man roster is and how many pitchers you
Speaker 2: can have on that twenty six man roster. Prom solved,
Speaker 2: have an extra arm down their bullpen. You are good
Speaker 2: to go. All right, we'll take a time out, we'll
Speaker 2: come back. We'll get you a farm report. If we
Speaker 2: got time, we'll squeeze in calls. What we do is
Speaker 2: run down the Dodgers top prospects from TRIPAA down to
Speaker 2: a ball. Give you an update on a solve. These
Speaker 2: big names you've heard, you saw on spring training? How
Speaker 2: they doing now in the miners? When can we see
Speaker 2: them at the big league level. I'll get your farm
Speaker 2: report next, Tim Kates, Ronnie Fossio and you on a
Speaker 2: Monday night off nine Dodger Talk on an FFI seventy
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Speaker 2: First pitch from Cooris Field, Dodgers and Rockies is at
Speaker 2: five forty. Appreciate all the phone calls. Everybody weighing in,
Speaker 2: but a it. I'm gonna get to it right now.
Speaker 2: An update on the Dodgers' top minor leaguers from Triple A,
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City all the way down to Rancho Cucamonga. Let's
Speaker 2: get you a farm report. The Dodgers' top minor league
Speaker 2: prospect right now is host sway To Paula, the twenty
Speaker 2: year old left handed hitting outfielder. He's in high a
Speaker 2: ball with the Great Lags Loons six y three, one
Speaker 2: eighty five in sixty six games already this season, a
Speaker 2: two to seventy five batting average, eleven doubles, a triple,
Speaker 2: ten home runs, twenty eight RBI, fifty eight walks in
Speaker 2: eight eighty five ops. And host swayed To Paula had
Speaker 2: himself a day yesterday.
Speaker 1: Five ball opposite way served by Depaula. Petrutz's back pedaling.
Speaker 1: The wind is blowing out that way, and it has enough.
Speaker 1: It's gone.
Speaker 14: What want to PAULA hard hit bulled it in the
Speaker 14: right center field. A base hit George hits third will
Speaker 14: easily scores toe Bobble's a bit to Paula wants to
Speaker 14: and he's in. He goes pitches outside and third basement
Speaker 14: late had him on the moves. Dapola's on the move,
Speaker 14: pitch is low and the throw is not in time
Speaker 14: to Paula goes and another swipe for the Pola. Second
Speaker 14: time that he's stolen third Today Loon's Radio Network with
Speaker 14: the call host Sway to Paula. Two hits, a two
Speaker 14: run home run, and three stolen bases for the Great
Speaker 14: Lakes Loons Yesterday. Zayer Hope, twenty year old Outfielder's got
Speaker 14: a lot of hope to make it to the big
Speaker 14: league someday. He's in High A ball playing alongside host
Speaker 14: Sway to Paula. Quieter than Michael bush Deal a year
Speaker 14: and a half ago. He's off to a good start
Speaker 14: in twenty twenty five two ninety six average, sixteen doubles,
Speaker 14: two triples, seven home runs forty two Ribby's an eight
Speaker 14: seventy two ops. Alex Frieland twenty three year old shortstop,
Speaker 14: third baseman. He's in Triple A Oklahoma City and tearing
Speaker 14: the cover off.
Speaker 1: The ball the pitch has swung at hit pretty well
Speaker 1: deep center field hell then going back racing to the wall,
Speaker 1: jumping at the wall and gone. Alex Lynn goes deep
Speaker 1: in the first inning for a second consecutive game. It
Speaker 1: is his tenth home run of the season, and the
Speaker 1: comments leaded one to nothing in the first. It's his
Speaker 1: third home run in his last six games as well.
Speaker 2: Comics Radio Network with the call seventy three games for
Speaker 2: Alex Freelan two seventy one average, twenty three doubles, ten
Speaker 2: home runs, as you heard, fifty six doubles, fifty seven
Speaker 2: ribies and eight forty five ops for the former third
Speaker 2: round pick out of Central Florida. Jackson Ferris the twenty
Speaker 2: one year old left hander. He's in Double A Tulsa.
Speaker 2: We saw him during spring training make some outings for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers at the big league level. He was in
Speaker 2: camp with the Dodgers getting experienced and in thirteen appearances
Speaker 2: eleven starts this year in Double A three to five record,
Speaker 2: six to fourteen ERA, sixty four strikeouts with a one
Speaker 2: fifty eight whip. Emia Warrales an eighteen year old shortstop
Speaker 2: signed out of the Dominican Republic via Spain. He's in
Speaker 2: thirty six games in rookie ball so far, two seventy
Speaker 2: four average, three triples, five home runs seventeen walks, so
Speaker 2: he's getting on base twenty seven strikeouts but an eight
Speaker 2: oh seven ops. Kellen Lindsey, nineteen year old first round
Speaker 2: pick of the Dodgers a year ago. He's a shortstop
Speaker 2: in rookie ball, hitting two eighty seven doubles, two home runs,
Speaker 2: twenty two walks and forty five strikeouts for his first
Speaker 2: full season in pro baseball. Another Dodger top minor league prospect.
Speaker 2: You can see him out in Rancho Cucamonga here in
Speaker 2: southern California playing for the Quakes and Wardo Quintaro, the.
Speaker 7: One two smash left field hollow looking up gone eight
Speaker 7: Twarno Kintaro has the Quakes on the board in lead
Speaker 7: off fashion here to open the bottom of the first
Speaker 7: is league leading twelve fouve of the year, and it's
Speaker 7: three to one and his Rancho on the board.
Speaker 2: Quakes radio with the call. A home run for Quintaro,
Speaker 2: the nineteen old out of Venezuela with twelve home runs,
Speaker 2: hitting three thirty in fifty nine games for the Quakes.
Speaker 2: He's got an ops oh for one thousand. Don't know
Speaker 2: how long young Eduardo Quintero will be in the Ie
Speaker 2: Joandre Vargas, nineteen year old shortstop, also in Rancho Cucamaga,
Speaker 2: the six to four kid out of the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 2: Twenty six games in Rancho to sixty two average, three
Speaker 2: doubles and two home runs. Nick Frosso out of LMU,
Speaker 2: A South Bay Guy, twenty six year old, right handed
Speaker 2: coming off of shoulder surgery, missed all of last year.
Speaker 2: He's in Triple A Oklahoma City seven Stars. Twenty appearances,
Speaker 2: five to one, record of five ZHO three era in
Speaker 2: forty eight to third innings. He's got thirty four strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Kendall George Dodgers first round pick a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: twenty years old. Now he's in High A Ball. Part
Speaker 2: of that Great Lakes Loon team was Air Hope and
Speaker 2: Josuey Depala. Fifty four games for Kendall George two thirty
Speaker 2: six average and fifty strikeouts. It's been a slow start
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty five for Kendall George. Kyoung Siuk Jane
Speaker 2: twenty one year old out of South Korea. He was
Speaker 2: the top pitcher in Korea in twenty twenty three. Signed
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers last year. Had a good twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four and eleven starts with Rancho Cucamonga, thirty five and
Speaker 2: two third innings, forty seven strikeouts, and he's holding opponents
Speaker 2: to a one fifty six batting average. Young Siuk Jang
Speaker 2: twenty one year old South Korean in Rancho Kucamonga. Two
Speaker 2: other minor league prospects to keep an eye on. Chase
Speaker 2: Harlan eighteen year old third baseman, third round pick last
Speaker 2: year out of high school, coming off of hit surgery,
Speaker 2: making his pro debut this year twenty five games in
Speaker 2: rookie ball, twenty nine average, eight doubles and two home runs.
Speaker 2: And Guardo Henriquez twenty two year old out of Venezuela.
Speaker 2: You remember him at the major league level last year.
Speaker 2: He was called up in September, made three playoff appearances,
Speaker 2: did not pitch in the World Series. He's in TRIPLEA
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City. Hurt to start this season, he was injured
Speaker 2: until coming off the il the last week of May.
Speaker 2: Only pitched in ten games this season, ten and two
Speaker 2: third innings the seven to fifty nine ERA, fourteen strikeouts
Speaker 2: and six walks. As he builds himself back up, and
Speaker 2: we could see him coming out of the bullpen, a
Speaker 2: hard throwing right hander at Guardo Enriquez. So there you go.
Speaker 2: You're caught up on the Dodger top prospects from TRIPLEA,
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City, Double A, Tulsa High A Ball, the Great
Speaker 2: Lakes Loons, and of course right down the road here
Speaker 2: the ten Freeway with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. That's gonna
Speaker 2: do it for off night Dodger Talk on this Monday
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