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Speaker 2: Hi Dodger Fan, Tan, Welcome to Dodger Talk here on
Speaker 2: this off night, Thursday, August first. Thanks for being with
Speaker 2: us as the Dodgers road trip continues. The third stop
Speaker 2: begins tomorrow in Oakland and a three game series against
Speaker 2: the A's. As the Dodgers started this road trip in
Speaker 2: Houston drop two of three to the Astros, played two
Speaker 2: in San Diego the past two nights, drop both of
Speaker 2: those games to the Padres, and the Dodgers now head
Speaker 2: to Oakland for a three game weekend series. Phone lines
Speaker 2: are wide open at eighty six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five to seventy eight six six nine to eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. Got a lot to get to
Speaker 2: over the next hour. It's give me a busy sixty minutes,
Speaker 2: and I'll want you to be a part of it,
Speaker 2: wherever you may be on this Thursday night, eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eighty seven two five seventy coming up in
Speaker 2: about forty five minutes. Gonna get you a farm report.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers at the trade deadline, made a couple of
Speaker 2: moves and really only one top prospect got dealt, and
Speaker 2: that was Thean Loronzo, the Dodgers catcher and high a Ball,
Speaker 2: considered a top ten overall prospect for the Dodgers, but
Speaker 2: also considered the third of three Dodger prospects in the
Speaker 2: minor leagues here. In twenty twenty four, he was dealt
Speaker 2: to the Detroit Tigers in the deal for Jack Fulaherty.
Speaker 2: After that, the Dodgers maintained pretty well as far as
Speaker 2: their prospects are concerned, and their minor league depth stayed
Speaker 2: pat at the deadline. Even though the Dodgers were able
Speaker 2: to make some moves and add to their major league roster,
Speaker 2: their minor league system did not get depleted, unlike a
Speaker 2: couple of other organizations around baseball. So I'll give you
Speaker 2: an update on where some of these guys are at,
Speaker 2: how they're doing, because we could see some of them
Speaker 2: at the major league level this year. Certainly we'll see
Speaker 2: some of them next year. But the Dodgers not trading
Speaker 2: away the quote unquote farm at the deadline. So we'll
Speaker 2: tell you where some of these guys are at and
Speaker 2: how they're doing. That's coming up at seven forty five,
Speaker 2: eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the number.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a busy hour.
Speaker 2: As I mentioned, coming up in just a little bit,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are making their last trip to Oakland ever. Yes,
Speaker 2: we all know the Oakland A's have been looking for
Speaker 2: a new stadium. They are moving to Las Vegas in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, but in the meantime they're gonna be
Speaker 2: moving the Sacramento and playing their games at the TRIPAA
Speaker 2: Stadium there in Sacktown. So that means this is the
Speaker 2: last season that they are gonna be playing baseball at
Speaker 2: the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum. This is the last trip
Speaker 2: ever for the Dodgers in Oakland. Now they stay in
Speaker 2: San Francisco. They play the three games in Oakland, as
Speaker 2: do all the teams that fly and travel to the
Speaker 2: Bay Area to take on the Giants or the A's.
Speaker 2: They stay in San Francisco and they'll play this series
Speaker 2: across the Bay in Oakland. But the Dodgers have some
Speaker 2: history in Oakland, which we're gonna get to, some big
Speaker 2: history going back to nineteen eighty eight and that World
Speaker 2: Series showdown against the Oakland a So we'll remember a
Speaker 2: moment there in nineteen eighty eight because this is the
Speaker 2: last trip the Dodgers are ever making to Oakland. They'll
Speaker 2: be going to Sacramento, as I mentioned, and then eventually
Speaker 2: Las Vegas, where the A's will end up. The Summer
Speaker 2: Games are going on over in Paris, and we're just
Speaker 2: about a week in to the Summer Olympics, and we've
Speaker 2: got a lot of track and field still to come.
Speaker 2: In the second week. You're seeing a lot of the
Speaker 2: swimming events starting to wrap up today in tomorrow. Basketball
Speaker 2: is in full swing. But where's baseball? Why isn't baseball
Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty four Summer Games? Will it be
Speaker 2: in the Summer Olympics here in Los Angeles in four
Speaker 2: years in the twenty twenty eight games, Yes, yes it will.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that and why baseball isn't in this
Speaker 2: Summer Games? And one of the big questions that's going
Speaker 2: to be going in to the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics.
Speaker 2: And I know that the long ways away, but it's
Speaker 2: gonna be here in Los Angeles, and it'll be here
Speaker 2: before you know it is. We'll majorly play be able
Speaker 2: to play. Will Baseball pause their season for a week
Speaker 2: so they can play in the summer games in Los
Speaker 2: Angeles in twenty twenty four, You can make it so
Speaker 2: one of the two weeks of the Olympics is where
Speaker 2: you play those games, and you don't have to stretch
Speaker 2: it out over two weeks. Swimming doesn't do that. Swimming
Speaker 2: takes up one of the weeks, and then you get
Speaker 2: gymnastics that takes up a week, and you get track
Speaker 2: and field that takes up the second half of the Olympics.
Speaker 2: They spread them out pretty good, but they also divide
Speaker 2: it up pretty well equally as well. And baseball could
Speaker 2: be played in one week, maybe even eight days. It
Speaker 2: could be done. But will Major League Baseball allow show
Speaker 2: Heyo Tani Mookie Betts might trout to the world if
Speaker 2: he's healthy. The stars of the Big leagues, the Bobby
Speaker 2: Witt Juniors, will they be allowed to play in four
Speaker 2: years in the summer games? Now it's during the season,
Speaker 2: which is a lot different than the NBA, which is
Speaker 2: not the season. And right now, thus you're seeing Lebron
Speaker 2: James and Anthony Davis, and you know, the top fifteen
Speaker 2: players in the NBA from the United States playing for
Speaker 2: Team USA, and a lot of players representing Canada and
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico, the Dominican, Australia. There's a lot of NBA
Speaker 2: players in these Olympics, the French team. But baseball is
Speaker 2: a different story. It's like hockey in the Winter Games.
Speaker 2: The hockey season is taking place, but they pause. They
Speaker 2: pause for two weeks every time there's a Winter Olympics,
Speaker 2: so teams stop play and players can go play for
Speaker 2: their respective countries because it's a big deal for a
Speaker 2: lot of these hockey players. That's the NHL. Well, Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball do it in four years. I got some
Speaker 2: thoughts on that coming up. You can weigh in as
Speaker 2: well at eight sixty six ninety seven to two five
Speaker 2: seventy so got a lot to get into, including the
Speaker 2: update on Walker Bueler, which I'm gonna get to in
Speaker 2: just a couple of minutes. He pitched tonight and his
Speaker 2: night is over in TRIPAA, Oklahoma City, and if you
Speaker 2: were hoping for a good result, it was, And I
Speaker 2: got some thoughts on what that means as far as
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' rotation going forward. But the big question Dodger fans.
Speaker 2: Why the panic? Why the panic? We've flipped the calendar
Speaker 2: to August. Now the month of July, and the dismal
Speaker 2: eleven and thirteen record is behind them. The first losing
Speaker 2: month since twenty eighteen for the Dodgers is in the
Speaker 2: rear view. This series against San Diego is behind them.
Speaker 2: Certainly a four and a half game lead. And what
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have done up to this point is great.
Speaker 2: But now the Dodgers need to buckle up and get
Speaker 2: ready for the final two months of the regular season
Speaker 2: and October baseball. And this Dodgers team is going to
Speaker 2: start getting healthy. And I keep having to remind people,
Speaker 2: whether it's friends or family that continuously text, what's going
Speaker 2: on the Dodgers. What's up with this player? The Dodgers
Speaker 2: can be able to win without this guy. This guy
Speaker 2: needs to be out of the rotation. This guy's no
Speaker 2: longer a good player anymore. Just pumped the breaks for
Speaker 2: a second. They got out to a big lead. They've
Speaker 2: led the NL West virtually all season. You got a
Speaker 2: four and a half game lead now going into the
Speaker 2: final two months of play. Sure the Dodgers team right
Speaker 2: now playing five hundred baseball compared to what the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: and Padres have done over the last couple of weeks
Speaker 2: pre All Star Break and post All Star Break. That's
Speaker 2: why they've made up some ground. They're playing some good baseball.
Speaker 2: Well the Dodgers aren't, but that could quickly flip. As
Speaker 2: good as you are today, you can start a losing
Speaker 2: streak tomorrow and the lead for the Dodgers could balloon
Speaker 2: back up to seven and a half eight and a
Speaker 2: half nine games in the division. At what point it
Speaker 2: was double digits ahead of all the other teams of
Speaker 2: the division. So yeah, while the Padres and the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: are playing better baseball, they are and they've made some
Speaker 2: additions at the trade deadline. They did so before the
Speaker 2: trade deadline, with Luisa Rice coming over from Miami to
Speaker 2: San Diego. Dylan Cees they acquired well before the trade
Speaker 2: deadline at a bargain. Things got a little bit different
Speaker 2: that the trade deadline as far as asking prices, and
Speaker 2: players who were weren't available, weren't available were't going to
Speaker 2: get moved to guys who were tried to get moved,
Speaker 2: but the asking price was just too high for everybody.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are sitting in a good situation, and I
Speaker 2: know Dodger fans are panicking, but I remind you the
Speaker 2: ultimate goal is a championship. Winning one hundred and eleven games?
Speaker 2: What does it get you? What a note on your
Speaker 2: Wikipedia page it says, the uh, whatever year team won
Speaker 2: one hundred and eleven games. This year's team won one
Speaker 2: hundred and five games. That's all gets you, goes down
Speaker 2: on Baseball Reference dot com. Suret's there forever, But if
Speaker 2: it doesn't get you a championship, what does it really
Speaker 2: get you? So this panic of season's over throw it in.
Speaker 2: We don't have the rotation, we don't have the bodies,
Speaker 2: we don't have the bats. Our bullpen is aged and
Speaker 2: washed up. Hold on, just hold on a second. Guys
Speaker 2: are gonna get healthy Max months He's gonna be back
Speaker 2: in this lineup. I'm convinced soon.
Speaker 3: I hope.
Speaker 2: Mookie Betts is progressing every day. He's hitting off a tee,
Speaker 2: taking ground balls. The Dodgers are gonna get back Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman and more on him.
Speaker 3: In just a minute. He'll be back.
Speaker 2: In this lineup with Mookie and Max Munci and shoey
Speaker 2: Otani and now a heated up Gavin Lux and a
Speaker 2: tae Oscar Hernanez, and it'll be back to the Dodger
Speaker 2: lineup that we saw stacked one through six, and all
Speaker 2: you wanted to complain about was seven, eight and nine
Speaker 2: not carrying their weight in the Dodger lineup. Well, you
Speaker 2: take three of those guys out of the lineup, it's
Speaker 2: gonna look a little different. Run production's gonna look a
Speaker 2: little different. Results are gonna look a little different. Outcomes
Speaker 2: of games are gonna look a little different. And they
Speaker 2: have now as far as the bullpit is concerned. There
Speaker 2: were stretches this year. The Dodgers were thrown out Ramirez's
Speaker 2: and Bondas of the world, just to mix and match.
Speaker 2: They've gotten back Joe Kelly, They've picked up Michael Kopek,
Speaker 2: Daniel Hudson and Blake Tried and they'll be okay. Just
Speaker 2: throttle back their usage a little bit. But Michael Grove
Speaker 2: is close to returning to help out this Didger's bullpen.
Speaker 2: Right behind him the Bazooka Bruce Dark Graderol who hasn't
Speaker 2: pitched at all in.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Ryan Brazier, who has been one of these guys the
Speaker 2: Dodgers acquired and has been a very good reliever for
Speaker 2: them out of the bullpen. Those three arms are coming.
Speaker 2: They are That's like three trades right there. Haven't seen
Speaker 2: Grove in a while, haven't seen Graderole all year. Forgot
Speaker 2: about Brazier. All three of those arms are coming. Help
Speaker 2: is coming to a tired bullpen. Help is coming to
Speaker 2: an injured and depleted lineup. As far as the rotation
Speaker 2: is concerned, they added Jack Flaherty. Glass Now's back is good.
Speaker 2: Gavin Stone has been really good. You've got young arms
Speaker 2: like River Ryan who have contributed and have been surprises
Speaker 2: in eye opening. Justin Rubleski sent back to Triple A.
Speaker 2: Did nothing wrong. The Dodgers just brought back Clayton Gershawn
Speaker 2: added Jack Flaherty. There is one question mark for me
Speaker 2: right now in this rotation.
Speaker 3: Not to mention.
Speaker 2: Yoshinobo Yamamoto is throwing from distance on flat ground, and
Speaker 2: tomorrow Friday is scheduled to throw a bullpen session. He
Speaker 2: keeps on that track, he throws another bullpen early next week,
Speaker 2: and if that checks the box, he goes out on
Speaker 2: a minor league rehab assignments or plays and pitches in
Speaker 2: sim games to get built back up. Three innings, thirty
Speaker 2: five pitches, four innings, forty to fifty pitches, five innings,
Speaker 2: fifty to sixty five pitches, and he'll be back before
Speaker 2: you know it.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: Help is coming to the lineup, to the rotation, and
Speaker 2: to the bullpen. And with that all being said, there's
Speaker 2: still four and a half games up, and they got
Speaker 2: two teams who are red hot behind them, who won't
Speaker 2: be playing this hot all season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've won nine of ten.
Speaker 2: If caught and fire a little bit, Corbyn Carroll is
Speaker 2: starting to carry a little bit offensively in Arizona. That
Speaker 2: offense okay, great, but they're not gonna be able to
Speaker 2: keep it up all season long. Nor is this Dodger
Speaker 2: team gonna continue to struggle like they are on this
Speaker 2: road trip.
Speaker 3: Yes, numbers aren't great.
Speaker 2: One in four on this road trip, lose two to
Speaker 2: three in Houston, drop both games in San Diego on
Speaker 2: this road trip, five games, hitting one to eighty eight.
Speaker 3: Collectively with sixty six strikeouts. Yeah, that doesn't look good.
Speaker 3: It doesn't sound good.
Speaker 2: It's not good, But I'm pretty convinced things will level out.
Speaker 2: They do in baseball, it's a funny game. For the
Speaker 2: most part, You're not gonna suck for very long. You're
Speaker 2: not gonna actually go out there and win ninety percent
Speaker 2: of your games either. Usually you kind of find the
Speaker 2: happy medium. Usually you find a groove at where you're
Speaker 2: at that year. Now you can be a team like
Speaker 2: the White Sox. Sure, you do stink, and you are
Speaker 2: gonna lose a ton of games, and you're gonna have
Speaker 2: long losing streaks because you're the White Sox and the
Speaker 2: talent is not there. But the Dodgers have the talent,
Speaker 2: they got the depth, and they're gonna turn it around.
Speaker 2: This is a mini blip on a one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty two game schedule. Convince me otherwise. Eight sixty six,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven, two five seventy. Now I mentioned Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 2: He's been out since the Houston series. He left right
Speaker 2: soon as the Dodgers got on this road trip. A
Speaker 2: minute mid park. He got on a plane and flew
Speaker 2: back home and he came back to be with his family.
Speaker 2: And we've got an update. Now I want to pas.
Speaker 2: This comes from Freddie Freeman and his wife Chelsea posted
Speaker 2: a joint statement on Instagram just about.
Speaker 3: An hour ago.
Speaker 2: A little over an hour ago, Freddie Freeman again who
Speaker 2: has been placed on the Emergency Family List last weekend.
Speaker 2: Him and his wife revealed today on Instagram at their
Speaker 2: three year old sound Maximus, is suffering from a gillion
Speaker 2: Barret syndrome. It's a rare neurological disorder and the family
Speaker 2: has been huddled together with doctors at a local hospital
Speaker 2: here in southern California, and they said that he has
Speaker 2: shown significant improvement praise God for that the past forty
Speaker 2: eight hours, and he has had his breathing tube taken
Speaker 2: out and he's been taken off a ventilator. This is
Speaker 2: all great news. It is a condition that attacks the
Speaker 2: body's immune system and the nerves. It's very very rare,
Speaker 2: even more rare in children. Somehow he came across it.
Speaker 2: It affects weakness, numbness, paralysis. There's no known cure, but
Speaker 2: people recover from it, and it's a battle you have
Speaker 2: to fight through, and this young three year old Maximus
Speaker 2: is fighting a good fight. A lot of prayers going
Speaker 2: their way to that family, and they want to thank
Speaker 2: everybody for those prayers. And his condition, as they said,
Speaker 2: rapidly declined at one point he was in full paralysis,
Speaker 2: but things have dramatically turned around, so that is great news.
Speaker 2: I'm going to read you the whole quote here from
Speaker 2: the family, but certainly good news all around that Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman's young three year old son looks like he has
Speaker 2: taken a turn for the recovery, and that is awesome.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the number. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy in the full statement from Freddy in his.
Speaker 3: One make sure I want to read it here for
Speaker 3: you where it is there you go.
Speaker 2: Last Friday, Max rapidly the cline went into full body paralysis.
Speaker 2: We are very fortunate to have gotten him to the
Speaker 2: hospital in time so they can reinforce his lungs. Freddie
Speaker 2: was in Houston at the time and rushed to the
Speaker 2: first flight back home. After many tests, maxis battling the
Speaker 2: severe case of Gillian Barry syndrome, a rare neurological condition
Speaker 2: that is especially rare in children. These have been the
Speaker 2: hardest and scariest days of our lives. Maximus is such
Speaker 2: a special boy and has been fighting so hard. This
Speaker 2: is going to be a journey to recovery, but we
Speaker 2: have faith that he will completely heal. We have been
Speaker 2: blown away by his improvements in the last forty eight hours.
Speaker 3: That is awesome. Maximus was a vacuum.
Speaker 2: He was taking off his breathing to him and taken
Speaker 2: off the ventilator yesterday, which is a huge win for us. Again,
Speaker 2: this is from the Freemans. We believe in the power
Speaker 2: of prayer and we have been witnessing a miracle in
Speaker 2: his recovery. Amen, please continue to cover Maximus and our
Speaker 2: family and your prayers. We really appreciate and felt it
Speaker 2: all your support. Again, that is from Freddie Freeman and
Speaker 2: his wife Chelsea in their entire family. So that is
Speaker 2: some positive news. Now, when is Freddie Freeman go to
Speaker 2: be back back on the field.
Speaker 3: Who knows? This is an important situation that needs to
Speaker 3: be handled.
Speaker 2: It's family. It's family first. You take care of that
Speaker 2: and whenever the right time is and who's to decide
Speaker 2: what time that is? Well, Freddie and his wife and
Speaker 2: his family are the ones to decide that he will
Speaker 2: rejoin this Dodgers team. In the meantime, the Dodgers will
Speaker 2: start a series in Oakland tomorrow and going to get
Speaker 2: into it in.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 2: Why this series is special because the Dodgers don't go
Speaker 2: to Oakland often, and one of the times they went
Speaker 2: there many years ago, something special happen. Let's get out
Speaker 2: to the phones. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Let's go to Diana and Granada Hill starting
Speaker 2: the things off here on this Thursday night.
Speaker 3: Hi Diana, Hi Keim, how are you? I'm doing Gray,
Speaker 3: what's going on?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: First off, I want to say that I am saying
Speaker 5: for Freddie Maximus and his family. That's that's just huge.
Speaker 5: But anyway, so last night you were talking about the
Speaker 5: potential need for a raw, raw guy to be on
Speaker 5: the team, and my question is this, I just wonder
Speaker 5: about the guys on the injury list now, mainly Mookie
Speaker 5: and Max Muncy, Like, why aren't they with the team
Speaker 5: currently supporting their teammates.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of times.
Speaker 2: And I appreciate Diana, thanks for that and for the
Speaker 2: positive thoughts for the Freeman family. Again, so good news.
Speaker 2: The young massimist is off the ventilator and breathing Tuban
Speaker 2: has appeared to have turned the corner and continue to
Speaker 2: continue to turn the corner. But to your question about
Speaker 2: the injured list. Guys who are rehabbing can get more
Speaker 2: done either at Dodger Stadium with the physical training staff
Speaker 2: or in Arizona Cowback Raanch where you got a full
Speaker 2: staff there as well. You don't necessarily have to be
Speaker 2: with the team on the road. In Houston, you know,
Speaker 2: they they have a traveling staff, they have an athletic trainer,
Speaker 2: they have all that, Yes, but you can get more
Speaker 2: specialized individual work done at Dodger Stadium with the full
Speaker 2: weight room and everything that's there. At Dodger Stadium, you
Speaker 2: throw bullpen sessions, things get videoed. It's not just like
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts and the front office or three or four
Speaker 2: people can have to see it. And so wherever they're
Speaker 2: at on the road, you gotta go there. No things
Speaker 2: can be done away from the team, And that's what
Speaker 2: happens a lot, especially if you're rehabbing to Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 2: A lot of these guys they're not even with the
Speaker 2: team all year, and for home games, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: they'll pop up in a dugout and you're like, hey,
Speaker 2: there's Dustin May, Hey, there's Clayton Kershaw, Hey, there's Tony
Speaker 2: Gonsolin's an example. Tony Gonsolin doesn't travel with the team,
Speaker 2: but you see him at the Dodger Stadium in the
Speaker 2: dugout for home games a lot of the times. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because he's rehabiting and working out and he's at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2: When the team's on the road, he's at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 2: working out their facility, strengthening in his arm, going through
Speaker 2: the routine of returning from.
Speaker 3: Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they don't have to be with the actual
Speaker 2: team in the dugout at the stadium on the road,
Speaker 2: wherever that city may be. They can get it done elsewhere.
Speaker 2: Eight seventy real quick, we'll take it one more call
Speaker 2: before we can take a break. Kevin in Culver City
Speaker 2: is next up here on Dodge Talf.
Speaker 3: What's up, Kevin? How you doing?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 6: Well, thank god, everything's okay. With little Maximums. There's only
Speaker 6: one reason to have it after the other guy. Everybody's
Speaker 6: in praying. He's been in my thoughts. Praise the family.
Speaker 6: So that's number one. I'm just happy to get that news.
Speaker 6: That's that's like, that's like a four series Dodger wins
Speaker 6: for me. So I'm doing cartwheels after you delivered that news.
Speaker 6: Great job on that, Tommy. Back to the team, man,
Speaker 6: yo yo. Jack Flaherty coming to Dodgers is huge. He's
Speaker 6: been my guy. I mean, Harvard Westlake, Burbank's finest. I
Speaker 6: mean he was talking about the Mama mentality, Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 6: I mean, this is huge for La and he wants
Speaker 6: to be here. Like when you look at this team,
Speaker 6: I remember there was one game just Marionnate on this
Speaker 6: real quickkr Bueller and Jack Claridy pitched against each other.
Speaker 6: I said, want to be something for these two guys
Speaker 6: to be on the same team. And he's finally here.
Speaker 6: And when you look at this roster, we could potentially
Speaker 6: in the playoffs have Tyler Glass now, Jack Clarity, Gavin
Speaker 6: stone Yovanodu Kursaw and possibly Bueler for a playoff run
Speaker 6: with Coca in the bullpen as possible. I think that's
Speaker 6: our closer, by the way, throwing one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 6: We got a deep dep rotation. Andrew Freeman is a
Speaker 6: beast out on the trades, and then we got a
Speaker 6: factory in Mookie betts Otani and Freddie Freeman aren't together
Speaker 6: with Will Smith where he's supposed to be in Munsey.
Speaker 6: This is a world Series team. Everybody calmed down. This
Speaker 6: is a deep, deep squad. The Dodgers know what they're doing,
Speaker 6: and Jack Clarity is gonna be huge for this team
Speaker 6: down the stretch. A seven inning bulldog in La in
Speaker 6: Kobe Town's, oh, forget about it. This is big stuff.
Speaker 6: This is a huge, huge trade. Nobody's talking about. This
Speaker 6: is big, big for the city. Clarity and Glasshuw together,
Speaker 6: that's the one two punch I want to have for
Speaker 6: a World Series run.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Kevin Harvard westlay Heart High School stand up.
Speaker 2: Let's go Dodgers front of the rotation now, last two
Speaker 2: months of the season, going into October. When we come back,
Speaker 2: more of your phone calls. We'll get into the Olympic
Speaker 2: talk when it returns in twenty twenty eight. Baseball here
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. An update on Walker Bueller. His outing
Speaker 2: is over in Tripa, Oklahoma City, so we'll get you
Speaker 2: caught up on what happened with him. Eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy is the number. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Stop the panic,
Speaker 2: No need to panic, Dodger fans. Everything's going to be
Speaker 2: all right. Tim Kate's Ronnie Fosso and you here on
Speaker 2: this Thursday night off Night Dodger Talk Dodgers in Oakland tomorrow.
Speaker 2: We'll have all the action for a beginning at five thirty,
Speaker 2: first pitch at six forty right here on your home
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Speaker 2: on this Thursday night, August first. Thanks for being with
Speaker 2: us Dodgers in Oakland tomorrow as they start a three
Speaker 2: game series against the A's Gavin Stone scheduled to get
Speaker 2: the start in the series opener. Jack Flaherty will get
Speaker 2: the start on Saturday night his Dodger debut. River Ryan
Speaker 2: scheduled to go on a Sunday. The Dodgers going to
Speaker 2: Oakland for the final time ever as the team moves
Speaker 2: to Las Vegas. But before they actually get to Vegas
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight, there has been a few seasons
Speaker 2: playing in a Triple A facility in Sacramento. It's gotten
Speaker 2: really contentious up there. Between the Council of Oakland and
Speaker 2: the city and the organization the Oakland A's. So they
Speaker 2: are calling it quits and leaving after this year. And
Speaker 2: got me remembering some of the moments in Oakland for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and there's not a lot of them because
Speaker 2: they didn't play each other for a long time being
Speaker 2: the American League and National League and then Interleague started
Speaker 2: years ago, and the Dodgers have been making trips to Oakland.
Speaker 2: I remember a time where Clayton Kershaw got so madd
Speaker 2: he threw the ball against the wall in Oakland. That
Speaker 2: was kind of a funny little memory. Certainly, it's a
Speaker 2: different stadium, it's an old stadium, and the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: some history there. All you gotta do is go back
Speaker 2: to nineteen eighty eight. Remember the World Series the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and the Big Bad Bash Brothers of the Oakland A's
Speaker 2: with Tony Laruss at the Helm, Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire,
Speaker 2: and they squared off in the eighty eight World Series.
Speaker 2: We know happening Game one of course, Kurt Gibson the
Speaker 2: home run off Dennis Eckersley at Dodgers Stadium on that
Speaker 2: October fifteenth, ninth Dodgers take a one zero series lead.
Speaker 2: The next night they come back and they shut out
Speaker 2: the A's six to nothing. Game three up at the Oakland,
Speaker 2: Alameda County Coliseum. The A's came back at one two
Speaker 2: to one. Dodgers won Game four the next night with
Speaker 2: a four to three win to go up three to
Speaker 2: one in the best of seven series. October twentieth, nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight, Dodgers in Oakland at the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum,
Speaker 2: taken on the A's at night, in which the Bulldog
Speaker 2: Oral Herscheizer helped clinch a World Series.
Speaker 1: Green too to.
Speaker 8: Lansford down the line from third with two out, Steinbach
Speaker 8: on deck five, two Dodgers in the ninth.
Speaker 3: Got him. They've done it, Like the.
Speaker 8: Nineteen sixty nine Mets, which the Impossible.
Speaker 9: Dream revisited.
Speaker 8: A basketball nine strikeouts for Hersheiser. He gives up a
Speaker 8: total of four hits.
Speaker 2: And look at the club.
Speaker 3: It looked like he was going to be replaced.
Speaker 8: But we hung in her pull dog is quitting and
Speaker 8: meanwhile Jose Canseco quietly goes back to the dressing room.
Speaker 8: The biggest single gun in the open now let its
Speaker 8: thoroughly muffled in the series, Mister Horror Herscheiser Senior can
Speaker 8: finally relax for a moment. The A's a great hitting
Speaker 8: ball club, n one seventy seven in the series and
Speaker 8: scored a total of eleven runners in five games. Never
Speaker 8: would have believed that unless you saw it. You'd have
Speaker 8: to attribute it to pretty good pitching, very good pitching,
Speaker 8: and especially by the leader on the staff, the master
Speaker 8: of the house or Hersheiser.
Speaker 2: One at night for Oral Hersheisers. The Dodgers won the
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight World Series, beating the Oakland A's five
Speaker 2: to two on the field there at the Oakland Alameda
Speaker 2: County Colls scene with the Dodgers will play for the
Speaker 2: final time this weekend. Who will ever forget that scene?
Speaker 2: The strikeouts putting both fists up in the air, Rick
Speaker 2: Dempsey jumping up and hugging and clutching on the Oral
Speaker 2: Herscheiser and the Dodger players then surrounding them and jumping
Speaker 2: in joy. And the celebration that occurred on the field
Speaker 2: there in Oakland against the A's back in nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 2: Oral Herseeizer, by the way, Game five of that World Series,
Speaker 2: Complete Game two runs, four hits, struck out nine in
Speaker 2: getting the win. He finished two to zero in that
Speaker 2: World Series. So the Dodgers tomorrow will start a three
Speaker 2: game series final trip to Oakland. Ever, and that goes
Speaker 2: back to nineteen eighty eight with that magical moment on
Speaker 2: the field at the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum. Tony and
Speaker 2: Waittier is next up here on Dodge Talk on a
Speaker 2: five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 3: Hi, Tony, how are you hey?
Speaker 10: It was going on tim that much. I have a question,
Speaker 10: Well not even a question, but I just kind of
Speaker 10: want to say, I'm kind of liking this adversity to
Speaker 10: do this team station because let's be honest, they haven't
Speaker 10: played any meaningful games in August or September in a
Speaker 10: couple of seasons. So I mean I might, I might even, Okay,
Speaker 10: if the lead gets even, you know, a little bit
Speaker 10: smaller than that in the division. They need to university.
Speaker 10: They need to play meaningful games in August and September.
Speaker 7: Again.
Speaker 10: I'm ready for the postseason.
Speaker 4: I'm all for this. That's just that's just righting to
Speaker 4: let's just riding and see how far they can take it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it depends on how they face the
Speaker 2: adversity and how they get past that adversity. How do
Speaker 2: they handle it? And to your point, we haven't seen
Speaker 2: them a lot of adversity in the regular season, so
Speaker 2: quite frankly, I don't know how some of these players
Speaker 2: individually are gonna handle it, and certainly this collective group
Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty four, it's been so many injuries
Speaker 2: and so many guys coming in and out of that clubhouse.
Speaker 2: I don't know how they're gonna handle this adversity. You
Speaker 2: look at this team over the last five games, certainly
Speaker 2: haven't handled things well, not having their three boppers in
Speaker 2: the lineup, having Max Munsey gone for a while, having
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman out with the family emergency, and having Mookie
Speaker 2: Betts out for the last month. The Dodgers on the
Speaker 2: road have not been able to come over that adversity.
Speaker 2: But you go back to what they've done at home
Speaker 2: post All Star Break, the Dodgers were really good and
Speaker 2: then they win five of six to come out of
Speaker 2: the All Star Break. At home, the Dodgers, for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: away from the ravine, just haven't been a very good team.
Speaker 2: They won six of seven. That's what it was they
Speaker 2: went six and one at home, three or four from
Speaker 2: the Giants, and they swept the Boston Red Sox in
Speaker 2: those three games to start the post All Star break. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: this group is gonna face adversity. I'm so curious to
Speaker 2: see how they face it and overcome it. And I
Speaker 2: think it is a good thing, absolutely, because they test you.
Speaker 2: It tests you individually, it'll test this group collectively, maybe
Speaker 2: force them to come together a little bit better. Maybe
Speaker 2: you find out more about the teammate to your left
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse, to your right in the clubhouse, find
Speaker 2: out a little bit more about them, how they're they're wired.
Speaker 2: And knowing that going into October, when you face that
Speaker 2: adversity again, whether it's a tough pitching matchup, whether it's
Speaker 2: a tough situation, a mistake on the field that you
Speaker 2: cannot let it grow and an air on the field
Speaker 2: let more runs come in. You got to squash that,
Speaker 2: that that blip on the field as quick as possible. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll find out what this group is all about here,
Speaker 2: certainly in the next few weeks. Eight sixty six, nine
Speaker 2: eighty seven, two five seventy. I mentioned the Summer Olympics
Speaker 2: are going on right now, and there's no baseball in
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four Summer Games over in Paris.
Speaker 3: Now, there were.
Speaker 2: Games in the twenty twenty Tokyo Olympics. That's because Tokyo
Speaker 2: elected to have him as a temporary game as the
Speaker 2: host country Japan. Now, baseball was an exhibition sport for many,
Speaker 2: many years when the Olympics were here in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2: I'm old enough to have gone to those Olympics at
Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty four games at Dodger Stadium. I've got
Speaker 2: a team program still from the eighty four Games that
Speaker 2: has team pitchers and rosters of every team that was there, Australia,
Speaker 2: Dominican Republic, Canada, US, Great Britain. I forgot who else
Speaker 2: was that. Japan was there, Korea was there as well,
Speaker 2: And years later that was nineteen eighty four, nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2: This is how old I am. Nineteen ninety four. Ten
Speaker 2: years later there was a baseball card convention in Anaheim,
Speaker 2: and I think it was the national the big one
Speaker 2: that goes around the country. And that was ten years
Speaker 2: after the eighty four Olympic team, and many of those players,
Speaker 2: including mcbarry Larkin, were there signing autographs, guys like Scott Bankkhead,
Speaker 2: Roger McDowell, I mean, Rod Dato was the coach, and
Speaker 2: God rest his soul. It was pretty cool. It was
Speaker 2: a ten years after the eighty four Olympic team and
Speaker 2: they were all there signing. Most of them were there
Speaker 2: signing autographs. So that was a cool moment in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety four. And we're gonna get baseball back in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty eight.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: Baseball and softball will be Olympic sports at the LA Olympics.
Speaker 2: And between then and now, Major League Baseball has to
Speaker 2: figure out a way to get their stars and their
Speaker 2: major league players to play in the summer games, not
Speaker 2: just because they're in the United States. It helps with
Speaker 2: the time difference and guys not having to travel halfway
Speaker 2: around the world to go play for a week and
Speaker 2: then come back and resume their season. You can trade
Speaker 2: this almost like an All Star break. Heck, you can
Speaker 2: tie it into an All Star break if you wanted.
Speaker 2: You're gonna lose a lot of your top players. But
Speaker 2: maybe you just make the All Star break a week
Speaker 2: and a half and you play the All Star Game
Speaker 2: and then you let the guys go play in the Olympics,
Speaker 2: but the World Baseball Classic, which is, you know, not
Speaker 2: the Olympics, but that kind of stage where you represent
Speaker 2: your team nationally and you play country v country. And
Speaker 2: we saw how epic these games were being played in
Speaker 2: Miami and all across the country. The last couple of
Speaker 2: years was the last one. Last year we had Mike
Speaker 2: Trout facing Shoho Tani, two teammates, square and off in
Speaker 2: the twenty three World Baseball Classic. It's fun, it's very cool,
Speaker 2: it's very exciting. Fans get into it, represent your country.
Speaker 2: Didn'd be kind of sweet to have that in the
Speaker 2: Olympics in twenty twenty eight. So I think it's important
Speaker 2: that baseball get itself out of its own way and
Speaker 2: the baseball players associated do the same, and the two
Speaker 2: sides come together and let's figure this out. Elongate the
Speaker 2: All Star break in twenty twenty eight. Maybe make it
Speaker 2: two weeks if you have to play an All Star Game,
Speaker 2: and then you could have the summer games be played
Speaker 2: over the course of a week throughout southern California, or
Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium and Dodger Stadium, in Anaheim Stadium, whatever
Speaker 2: you need to do. To make multiple games happen. Let's
Speaker 2: figure this out.
Speaker 3: Let's get the.
Speaker 2: Olympics to have baseball with professional players, the superstars of
Speaker 2: the game. A stack Dominican Republic team, the Venezuelan team,
Speaker 2: a South Korean team, a Japanese team, a team US, say,
Speaker 2: with Bobby Witt Junior.
Speaker 3: Leading the way.
Speaker 2: Let's go. How awesome would that be. Let's get it done, Baseball.
Speaker 2: Let's get it done. Players Association, you have four years
Speaker 2: to figure it out. Ish in Riverside, next up here
Speaker 2: on Dodge Talk, how you doing, Ish?
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm doing pretty good.
Speaker 3: Jim, Hey you doing I'm doing good things?
Speaker 4: Well? Cool? Well, you know, I agree, man, that'd be
Speaker 4: really cool. I mean, our family we love World Baseball,
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, the.
Speaker 2: World Baseball Classics fining to watch, whether you're in person,
Speaker 2: we're watching on TV.
Speaker 3: It's a great experience.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean, and we're like a World Cup
Speaker 4: family too. So combining like World Cup with baseball just
Speaker 4: notice like a no greater you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Then you have well first and foremost man from my
Speaker 4: family to the Freeman's. You know, definitely, you guys are
Speaker 4: in our thoughts and you know, we we want the best,
Speaker 4: uh you know for girl Max. So that's that's definitely
Speaker 4: wanted to say that. But you know, I had just
Speaker 4: two points tim, you know, one was regarding Kershaw's start
Speaker 4: last night and then the other one regarding the trades
Speaker 4: and whatnot with with Kersh. You know, that first inning
Speaker 4: was it was like magic, you know, I mean, he
Speaker 4: almost it was almost like a seven pitch inning. You know,
Speaker 4: there was the extra batle that came up right with
Speaker 4: I think it was an error on us, but still
Speaker 4: what was like one or two pitches later and he
Speaker 4: got out of that. I thought like, wow, we're seeing
Speaker 4: like the pitch Kershaw, you know. So the reason why
Speaker 4: I mentioned that too is I've seen Bueler have kind
Speaker 4: of the same out, and I think he got out
Speaker 4: of the first inning maybe on a second or third start,
Speaker 4: on like six pitches and then boom like the next inning.
Speaker 7: So I don't know what what what? What explains Like
Speaker 7: how can you have such a discrepancy between like a
Speaker 7: you know, the first inning with the one through three,
Speaker 7: one through four batters versus like you know, the middle
Speaker 7: of the order, you know what I mean? What are
Speaker 7: your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You know, I think you're seeing a Padres team that
Speaker 2: is so used to facing a Clayton Kershaw. And last night,
Speaker 2: again he's not throwing ninety five miles an hour. He's
Speaker 2: hitting ninety US fastball and his slider had no bite
Speaker 2: to it, and that's a recipe for disaster. In his
Speaker 2: first start at Dodger Stadium, coming back from the shoulder injury,
Speaker 2: he had bite on the on the slider. He was
Speaker 2: mixing in his curveball, and that helps her fastball, which
Speaker 2: may only be ninety ninety one, get past guys and
Speaker 2: you get swinging missus. Last night, nothing on the slider
Speaker 2: fastball is what it is, and guys were laying off
Speaker 2: the curveball because he was having trouble throwing it for strikes.
Speaker 2: That's a recipe for disaster. And that's what happened last night.
Speaker 2: When you've got forty one swings and only two swinging misses,
Speaker 2: that's that is not good. And even Kershaw said that
Speaker 2: is really bad. His outing last night, which he couldn't
Speaker 2: get out of the fourth inning. Speaking of outings, tonight,
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma City Baseball Club, the Dodgers Triple
Speaker 2: A affiliate in El Paso taking on the Triple A
Speaker 2: affiliate there, Walker Bueller got the start. He went three
Speaker 2: and a third innings. He allowed three runs on seven hits,
Speaker 2: walked three, struck out six, got eleven swinging misses, and
Speaker 2: threw eighty six pitcheskay right away high pitch count, couldn't
Speaker 2: get out of the fourth inning, gave him three runs
Speaker 2: on seven hits. I mean, there's probably traffic on the
Speaker 2: bass pass. Three walks, yep, seven hits, three walks, a
Speaker 2: lot of guys on the bass pass. He was limited
Speaker 2: to three runs, struck out six, so he got out
Speaker 2: of some jams. Looks like this is my first impression
Speaker 2: looking at the numbers, and he had five guys steal
Speaker 2: bases off. He's now allowed ten stolen bases in two outies.
Speaker 2: He can't really read into that. A good friend, Eric
Speaker 2: Steven at Truberu Lela said you got to kind of
Speaker 2: put that aside because he's probably not worried about the
Speaker 2: base runners. He's working more as pitching on a rehab assignment,
Speaker 2: which is absolutely true. Spot on, He's right, but I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if this is positive, if this is the
Speaker 2: next step for Walker Buealer coming back three in the
Speaker 2: third innings, three runs, seven hits, three walks, struck out six,
Speaker 2: A lot of traffic on the bass pass, but got
Speaker 2: out of a jam.
Speaker 3: Eleven swing and misses. We'll see.
Speaker 2: I think he's still another start in the minor leagues
Speaker 2: away from a decision being made. I don't think this
Speaker 2: was that next jump that the Dodgers front office and
Speaker 2: the coaching staff wanted to see. I think they probably
Speaker 2: wanted to see him go deeper into game eighty six pitches,
Speaker 2: somewhere in the sixth inning, least a fifth inning, But
Speaker 2: to not even get out of the fourth inning on
Speaker 2: eighty six pitches, A lot of traffic on the base pass,
Speaker 2: not where he wanted to be. Eight six, six, nine,
Speaker 2: eighty seven to two, five seventy. We'll take a break.
Speaker 2: We'll come back if we have time. We'll try to
Speaker 2: get to your phone calls. If not, we got a
Speaker 2: farm report. Next trade deadline is coming gone. Top prospects
Speaker 2: are still here? What are they doing? Where are they at?
Speaker 2: We'll tell you next off Night Dodger Talk here on
Speaker 2: AM FI seventy LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Off Night Dodger Tah continues here on a five seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports Tim Kates with you here until the top
Speaker 2: of the hour. Thanks for being with us live everywhere
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app. Dodgers back added tomorrow in Oakland
Speaker 2: for a three game series against the A's. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: will send out Gavin Stone in this series. Opener Wronggo Casino.
Speaker 2: Dodgers on deck starts at five thirty. First pitch from
Speaker 2: Oakland is at six point forty. The trade deadline has
Speaker 2: come and gone in Major League Baseball. On the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: for the most part, held on to their top minor
Speaker 2: league prospects, so they're gonna stay with the Dodgers for
Speaker 2: the remainder of this year.
Speaker 3: Let's tell you who they are and what they're doing.
Speaker 3: Let's go down on the phone.
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing the dodgers number one overall prospect, a top
Speaker 2: fifty prospect according to MLB dot Com. Second round pick
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two out of Louisville. The twenty three
Speaker 2: year old catcher, first baseman, designated hitter, a left handed hitter,
Speaker 2: and he is good. He's in Double A right now.
Speaker 2: In Tulsa's seventy three games, two sixty average, fifteen doubles,
Speaker 2: got a lot of power with thirteen home runs.
Speaker 9: Swinging a drive out to right field forget it wow,
Speaker 9: way over the lazy river.
Speaker 3: Dalton Rushing exited this ballpark in a hurry.
Speaker 2: One hundred and eight miles an hour off the back
Speaker 2: four hundred and six feet is third home bro out
Speaker 2: of this series. Tulsa Drillers Radio Network at the call,
Speaker 2: fifty one ribies for Dalton Rushing, who's got an eight
Speaker 2: to forty three op. Yes, there's a reason they held
Speaker 2: on to him at the trade deadline when a lot
Speaker 2: of teams were asking for him. In return, O swey
Speaker 2: De Paula, nineteen year old outfielder. He started the year
Speaker 2: in a ball with Rancho Cucamonga. He's now with the
Speaker 2: Great Lakes Loons in High Aid, the Dodgers' number two
Speaker 2: overall prospect. Twenty one game so far since being promoted
Speaker 2: to twenty seven average, two doubles and a couple of
Speaker 2: home runs.
Speaker 11: Swung on and scorched in the air deep right center field.
Speaker 11: Doesn't happen. No, oh yeah, oh sway to Paula delivers
Speaker 11: his second home run and first here in down diamond.
Speaker 3: Tree ninety eight.
Speaker 11: One oh one off the bat and just like that,
Speaker 11: a whole.
Speaker 2: Different ballgame at six ' four Great Lakes Loons Radio
Speaker 2: Network with the call.
Speaker 3: He's also got twenty two walks.
Speaker 2: He's got an ops oh swaeyapaula of seven to seventy five.
Speaker 2: Nick Frosso, the Dodger top pitching prospects and number three
Speaker 2: overall in the system.
Speaker 3: Twenty five year old.
Speaker 2: Right hander has not pitched this year after offseason laborum surgery.
Speaker 3: River Ryan.
Speaker 2: He has been promoted and with the Dodgers he's gonna
Speaker 2: get the start on Sunday in Oakland against the A's
Speaker 2: Kyle Hurt. Twenty six year old right hander is Hurt.
Speaker 2: We saw him briefly with the Dodgers in Triple A.
Speaker 2: Tried to give it a go. Shut him down though
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago. Tommy John surgery. Jackson Ferris second
Speaker 2: round pick of the Cubs two years ago. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: acquired him in the offseason in the trade. He is
Speaker 2: their sixth overall prospect. A left hander, young and high.
Speaker 2: A ball at the Great Legs Loons and he's a
Speaker 2: strikeout machine.
Speaker 9: It's three to two cold strike three wrung up on
Speaker 9: low heat another two Strike Talk, Cold Strike three, Fastball
Speaker 9: Outer half three two got him swinging elevated heat. Seven
Speaker 9: punches for Jackson Ferris.
Speaker 2: Leni's radio network, The Call seven punchouts in this start.
Speaker 2: He's got one hundred and thirteen strikeouts on this season.
Speaker 2: Nineteen starts in Great Lakes three and four, record three
Speaker 2: sixty nine ERA in ninety and a third innings pitched.
Speaker 2: It's only giving up four home runs and only walked
Speaker 2: thirty nine batters. Diego Kartai, at one time was the
Speaker 2: dodgers Number one overall prospect, now considered number seven overall
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers in their minor leagues. Twenty two year
Speaker 2: old catcher in Triple A, Oklahoma City. He's actually hitting
Speaker 2: better than he was in Tulsa. They promoted him a
Speaker 2: few weeks ago. Twenty one games, two thirty five average,
Speaker 2: three doubles and.
Speaker 3: Two home runs.
Speaker 2: Peyton Martin, seventeenth round pick in twenty twenty two, ninth
Speaker 2: overall prospect, a twenty year old right hander. They started
Speaker 2: him slow out of spring training to get him to
Speaker 2: go a little deeper into the season. He's in High
Speaker 2: A Ball with the Great Lakes Loons after starting the
Speaker 2: year in Rantakoucamonga eight starts one and four to forty
Speaker 2: one era in thirty four in two third innings Kendall George.
Speaker 2: He is nineteen years old, the Dodgers first round pick
Speaker 2: a year ago five to ten, one hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: top ten prospect for the Dodgers. Low a ball in
Speaker 2: Rancho Cucamaga seventy two games to seventy seven average, three doubles,
Speaker 2: four triples, a home run, not a lot of power.
Speaker 2: He's a speedster, though, with thirty one stolen bases. Joe
Speaker 2: Andrey Vargas, eighteen year old shortstop. Dodgers signed him out
Speaker 2: of the Dominican Republic. He's in rookie ball thirty eight games,
Speaker 2: hitting over three hundred and at ops.
Speaker 3: Near nine hundred.
Speaker 2: Alex Friedland, twenty two year old shortstop, third round pick
Speaker 2: of the Dodgers in twenty twenty two out of Central Florida.
Speaker 2: He is skyrocketed up into the Dodgers' top twenty as
Speaker 2: far as prospects, and now considered the twelfth overall prospect
Speaker 2: according to MLB dot Com at MLB Pipeline, seventy games,
Speaker 2: two forty three average, fourteen doubles, ten home runs and
Speaker 2: thirty three RBI on this season. After tearing it up
Speaker 2: in High A ball, he is now in Double A Tulsa.
Speaker 2: Maddix Brunns has been on the il since May. He
Speaker 2: had five starts pitched well before they shut him down.
Speaker 2: Ronan Cop twenty two year old left in Double A,
Speaker 2: twelfth round pick in twenty twenty one. In twenty three games,
Speaker 2: he's two and one with a five to twelve eer
Speaker 2: ras got forty one strikeouts coming out of the bullpen
Speaker 2: in thirty one in two thirty innings. How about some
Speaker 2: guys outside the top twenty as far as the prospects
Speaker 2: are concerned, but still having great seasons. Ryan Ward eighth
Speaker 2: round picking twenty nineteen out of Bryant. He is twenty
Speaker 2: six years old, so he's a little on the older
Speaker 2: side as far as prospects. He plays left field. He's
Speaker 2: a left handed bat, and he's got a ton of
Speaker 2: power right now in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: Here's his pitch swings in hits a fly ball deep
Speaker 1: right center field, Taylor and Ellis jogging back.
Speaker 3: HiT's gone two run over.
Speaker 1: Ryan Ward coming went two strikes and two outs here
Speaker 1: of the six in in giving Oklahoma City a two
Speaker 1: to one lead. Here's twenty six of the year to
Speaker 1: lead the league and OKC we're their first lead today
Speaker 1: on the home Run by Ward.
Speaker 3: Ok SE Radio Network.
Speaker 2: At the call seventy nine games, he leads Triple A
Speaker 2: with twenty six home runs, nineteen doubles, seventy seven RBI
Speaker 2: and a nine to thirty two oh PS.
Speaker 3: Having a great year.
Speaker 2: Ben Kisperius twenty five year old fifth round pick out
Speaker 2: of Yukon in twenty twenty one. He started the year
Speaker 2: in Double A, now he's in Triple A Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: The big right hander eleven starts in Triple A two
Speaker 2: and two three, twenty eight RORA, forty nine in the
Speaker 2: third innings and fifty two strikeouts. Jack Dryer twenty five
Speaker 2: year old left hander in Triple A Oklahoma City. Started
Speaker 2: the year in Double A twenty two appearances, four to one,
Speaker 2: two oh three e RRA, thirty six strikeouts in just
Speaker 2: twenty six and two third innings. Edgardo Hernriquez twenty two
Speaker 2: year old right hander out of Venezuela. He is a
Speaker 2: hard throwing big guy. He throws one hundred, one hundred
Speaker 2: and one hundred and two one hundred and three miles
Speaker 2: an hour.
Speaker 3: He moved up from High A ball to A ball
Speaker 3: and now he's in Double A.
Speaker 2: Fifteen appearances so far in Tulsa, twenty two strikeouts in
Speaker 2: sixteen in a third inning.
Speaker 3: So you're all caught to date what's happening on the farm.
Speaker 2: Some of the names we've been talking about all season long,
Speaker 2: even going back to last year and the year before that,
Speaker 2: as Dodgers' top prospects, they've held on to most of them.
Speaker 2: They Ron Loronzo, the dodgers number eight overall prospect, the
Speaker 2: catcher who was in High A Ball. He got dealt
Speaker 2: to the Detroit Tigers as part of the deal for
Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty. But the Dodgers minor league system top prospects
Speaker 2: looking good here in twenty twenty four and beyond. Some
Speaker 2: of these names we could see still called up here
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, all these injuries the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: going through, and certainly we'll see some of these names
Speaker 2: in the years to come. All Right, that's gonna do
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