Speaker 1: Join right now to a man that makes the baseball
Speaker 1: world here in Glendale, Arizona feel right. If he wasn't here,
Speaker 1: nothing would feel the same way. And it's not a
Speaker 1: coincidence that his old pitching coach, Rick Honeycut, scheduled his
Speaker 1: trip to camel Back Ranch at the same time that
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw would come back here. So we're here to
Speaker 1: see if that truck still works. Because you only got
Speaker 1: so many summers, Clayton, thanks a lot for the time.
Speaker 2: There was so much going on in that intro. I
Speaker 2: don't even know how to start, but good to see it.
Speaker 3: Dave.
Speaker 1: Oh, great to see you too. Tip of the cap
Speaker 1: to your guy, Brad Paisley.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was really good. So many summers. I'm in
Speaker 2: that music video.
Speaker 1: There's a music video.
Speaker 3: Yeah you didn't seen it? Okay, good, we'll check it
Speaker 3: out all right, thank you.
Speaker 1: MTV is not as popular as it used to be,
Speaker 1: so true. How about Rick Honeycut, It wasn't a coincidence
Speaker 1: to see him really take an interest in your one
Speaker 1: and only bullpen session this spring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Honey's great. It's always fun to have him here.
Speaker 2: And you got to hold on to the old guard.
Speaker 2: You know, it's nice to keep seeing people like I mean,
Speaker 2: you're old now, you know. So Honey's been here a
Speaker 2: while and we've got possum still so there's a few
Speaker 2: of us still around.
Speaker 3: But no, it's been great. Honey's awesome.
Speaker 1: I've never asked you this before, but during the seasons,
Speaker 1: if you feel like you're a little off or you
Speaker 1: want to bounce something off of somebody, do you ever
Speaker 1: reach out to him during a season.
Speaker 2: We have a great group, you know, Mark. I have
Speaker 2: a great relationship with Mark too. He's been awesome. And
Speaker 2: Connor also as far as like pitch grips and different stuff.
Speaker 2: We have a really good group. But yeah, if Honey's
Speaker 2: ever in town or he sees something, and we always
Speaker 2: we always talk pitching.
Speaker 3: I mean that's what we both know.
Speaker 2: And so you know, there's too many cooks in the
Speaker 2: kitchen sometimes, but not not with those guys.
Speaker 3: There's no egos.
Speaker 2: They just want to help if they can, and we
Speaker 2: really do.
Speaker 3: We have a great group.
Speaker 1: Clayton, you're back here in camel Back Ranch. We did
Speaker 1: see the bullpen session, so I guess is that a
Speaker 1: good sign that you're knee and your foot are healing.
Speaker 2: The right way, I think, so, Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 2: definitely progressing. Arms feeling good. So I wouldn't say I'm
Speaker 2: like one hundred percent yet, but I think I'm getting
Speaker 2: close and it keeps getting better every day. So keep
Speaker 2: throwing bullpens this month and start facing some hitters here soon,
Speaker 2: and you know, doing the rehab starts all that. We're
Speaker 2: still you know, it's still a process obviously, but I
Speaker 2: feel I feel good about where I'm at and I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm on a good track to be ready soon.
Speaker 1: What we saw a couple of days ago. Are you
Speaker 1: holding anything back in that type of setting or when
Speaker 1: you're landing on that front foot it's full force.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't have any pain.
Speaker 2: It's just, uh, you know, I think obviously there's some
Speaker 2: mental hurdles to come come through anytime with surgery. I
Speaker 2: think I haven't done it with the shoulder, and now
Speaker 2: with these two. There's just some mental hurdles like hey,
Speaker 2: is it gonna hurt, and so getting over that and
Speaker 2: not thinking about that as hard. But that's what bullpens
Speaker 2: are for, you know. And so there's no pain. It's
Speaker 2: just I think there's some you know a little bit
Speaker 2: out of sync a little bit, maybe not using all
Speaker 2: of my lower half like I can and just figuring
Speaker 2: out how to do that again.
Speaker 3: But it's all.
Speaker 2: Coming together and I think within the next, you know,
Speaker 2: a couple months to get there.
Speaker 1: So you're traveling with the team to Tokyo. Are you
Speaker 1: planning on doing something there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna do stuff, Dave.
Speaker 1: I want to know what to say. I want to
Speaker 1: know the extent of how much you're gonna do at
Speaker 1: the Tokyo Dome.
Speaker 3: Oh, you mean baseball wise? Yes, I thought you meant
Speaker 3: tourist wise.
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna do stuff that that way.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm kind of on like a Tuesday Friday
Speaker 2: bullpen plan right now, So I don't know how the
Speaker 2: days work over there. I'm assuming it's the same, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll go Tuesday Friday for a while and then start
Speaker 2: getting into like a five or six or seven or
Speaker 2: eight day rotation at some point and start facing some hitters.
Speaker 1: Are you planning on doing some ambassador's ship for the
Speaker 1: Dodgers in Tokyo?
Speaker 3: What are you?
Speaker 1: You're gonna be out there with your family, Charlie. Charlie
Speaker 1: and Cali are gonna be there with you. So what's
Speaker 1: the Kruse shot fan plans in Tokyo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got the whole crew coming. I don't know, obviously,
Speaker 2: we gotta we want to try the food. Everybody says
Speaker 2: the food's awesome. We want to ride the Bullet train.
Speaker 2: We want to maybe make a trip to Kyoto. We
Speaker 2: heard Kyoto is really cool.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I know Ellen's got it all dialed in itenerary wise,
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be super fun once again, lifetime experience,
Speaker 2: once in a lifetime to go over there with Shohy
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers and kind of the global brand that
Speaker 2: they've become, especially with you know, kind of our three
Speaker 2: Japanese superstars that we have.
Speaker 3: So it's, uh, it's gonna be wild.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Otani and those guys, what have you seen
Speaker 1: from Otani during the course of last year, just from
Speaker 1: start to where you're at right now, where he's at
Speaker 1: as a teammate with everybody, I.
Speaker 2: Think show is awesome, I really do, you know. I
Speaker 2: think I think having him around and he's just been
Speaker 2: you know, you hear stories and until you actually meet
Speaker 2: the guy for sure, you just don't know, right, And
Speaker 2: so last year I know, it was a lot whirlwind
Speaker 2: getting to know everybody, and I felt like he really
Speaker 2: came together with all of us. And this year's kind
Speaker 2: of been more of an extension of the same and
Speaker 2: man seeing what he has to do now, like get
Speaker 2: ready to pitch and get ready to hit.
Speaker 3: It is it's a lot.
Speaker 2: It's a lot, like you finish your throwing and then
Speaker 2: you go straight into the cage, like I can't imagine
Speaker 2: trying to be elite, elite at both and so, but
Speaker 2: that's why you show, hey, you know, and so we're
Speaker 2: excited to see that. Obviously, it's going to be really
Speaker 2: cool to watch. And I mean the year he had
Speaker 2: last year is pretty tough to beat, but when you
Speaker 2: throw pitching on top of it, it's gonna be kind
Speaker 2: of amazing.
Speaker 1: When you see Sazaki in spring training, does it remind
Speaker 1: you of how Yamamoto was adjusting to life in Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball in a new environment. Do we underappreciate how
Speaker 1: much that is part of this learning curve?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's it's so much, you know, like
Speaker 2: I can't imagine going to Japan and learning a new culture,
Speaker 2: learn like whole new living situation, speaking not speaking the
Speaker 2: language and then learning out how to pitch.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: So Rookie's obviously super talented. His split is like one
Speaker 2: of the best pitches in the game. Yeah, like when
Speaker 2: it's I don't think it's really hard to catch, let
Speaker 2: alone hit. It's just got so much movement, and so
Speaker 2: there's some stuff to work on.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Obviously he's only twenty three. He's not as polished as Yama.
Speaker 2: You know, Yama was twenty five, a free agent, been
Speaker 2: doing it for a while, and even Yama this spring
Speaker 2: looks just way more comfortable than he did last year.
Speaker 2: You know, So there's gonna be some learning curves, I'm
Speaker 2: sure with Roki, but the talent's undeniable and he's gonna
Speaker 2: get a lot of people out for sure.
Speaker 1: We know you're a creature of habits. Starting pitchers are
Speaker 1: creatures of habits. So what is the adjustment if all
Speaker 1: six of you are in the rotation at one point
Speaker 1: in time during the season. Is that an adjustment or
Speaker 1: do you feel like Andrew and Dave have kind of
Speaker 1: started to morph the pitching staff into five days of
Speaker 1: rest the last few years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do think it's I do think like a
Speaker 2: six day rotation has become a little bit more normal
Speaker 2: for us.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I feel like the last couple of years especially, you know,
Speaker 2: the trick is like if there is a time where
Speaker 2: you have to throw on that regular rest, you know,
Speaker 2: you don't want it to feel like short. So it's
Speaker 2: kind of like having routines locked in for both and
Speaker 2: kind of going from there. But you know, I think
Speaker 2: the extra day everybody's gotten used to now, and I mean, hey,
Speaker 2: when we have Shoe and Roki and Yama all going,
Speaker 2: it's going to be that way. That's the way it
Speaker 2: was in Japan, and that's the way it's going to
Speaker 2: be here, and we're all gonna have to figure out
Speaker 2: how to adjust to that.
Speaker 3: And but I think we all kind of did it
Speaker 3: last year, so we'll be good.
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw is our guest. Before I let you go,
Speaker 1: I love to rewind to last year the World Series.
Speaker 1: Walker Buehler is not with the Dodgers this year for
Speaker 1: the first time in his professional career. I've never asked
Speaker 1: you this during the excitement of the parade and all that.
Speaker 1: What were you thinking when you saw him go out
Speaker 1: to the bullpen and when you saw him come into
Speaker 1: the game in the ninth inning, because he obviously said
Speaker 1: he learned by watching you he wanted to be that
Speaker 1: for the team because you were not available, like all
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 2: How did you feel, Yeah, you can say whatever you
Speaker 2: want about Walker, but you can't.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 2: You can't deny the way he takes the ball, you know,
Speaker 2: and so we're going to miss him around here. He
Speaker 2: just he he was special in that regard. There was
Speaker 2: a lot of times when he just kept wanting to
Speaker 2: take the ball. You know, he's not afraid, and that
Speaker 2: was a kind of a great moment for him and
Speaker 2: super special, and we needed every pitch that he had
Speaker 2: and us, you know, we were pretty much then, we
Speaker 2: were pretty much out at that point. So for him
Speaker 2: to come in close a game like that, it was
Speaker 2: a really cool way to end his Dodger tenure.
Speaker 3: And I'm happy for him.
Speaker 2: I know Boston is going to be a good setting
Speaker 2: for him and he can handle that media crowd and
Speaker 2: be good.
Speaker 3: And so you know, I hope, I hope you pitch
Speaker 3: as well, just not against us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, has he reached out to you since he signed
Speaker 1: with Boston?
Speaker 2: He, uh, yeah, we faced on a few times. He's
Speaker 2: feeling good, he's in spring training and the ball's coming
Speaker 2: out good. You know, he's uh, he's back up to
Speaker 2: ninety five or so, and I think he's excited, you know,
Speaker 2: another year removed from surgery.
Speaker 3: So I think I think he'll be good.
Speaker 1: Did you uh, did you appreciate him referencing you doing
Speaker 1: what he did several times? I, Walker's great.
Speaker 2: You know, I think there's he was going to do
Speaker 2: that regardless stuff, you know, like he just uh, I
Speaker 2: mean for better for whereas Walker's he go is going
Speaker 2: to let him go out there and he knows he's good, and.
Speaker 3: That's just it was really cool to see.
Speaker 1: How about how he he did not hide the fact
Speaker 1: that his pose after the last out of the World
Speaker 1: Series was not spontaneous. He said he'd been thinking about
Speaker 1: that pose for a while.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like I said, he's special. He's special. Thanks
Speaker 3: a lot for the time. All right, Thanks Dave.
Speaker 1: Good to see you, man, Great to see you too.
Speaker 1: Were you really excited to see me?
Speaker 2: I was like in the middle, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 2: yeah it kind of you grow on you as the
Speaker 2: season goes, you know, so we need an off season though,
Speaker 2: to reset.
Speaker 1: Well maybe you and I, you and I can tag
Speaker 1: along in Tokyo. Maybe I'll be the fifth cruise Shaw.
Speaker 3: You want to hang out with us, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: Let's see where. Let's see where the bullet train takes
Speaker 1: us
Speaker 3: One step at a time.