Speaker 1: I'm back home in Los Angeles. Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: David Vase with you until eight o'clock tonight here on
Speaker 1: AM five to seventy LA Sports. We have a great
Speaker 1: show for you tonight, and we have phone lines open
Speaker 1: at eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 1: Coming up in fifteen minutes. You'll hear from Dodgers GM
Speaker 1: Brandon Gomes. You'll also hear my conversation with Cy Young
Speaker 1: Award winner, two time World Series Champion and now analyst
Speaker 1: for the MLB Network, Jake Peevey. We will share that
Speaker 1: with you as well. Man. Very happy to be back
Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles after a great four days in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you these winter meetings were a
Speaker 1: lot more action packed than any winter meetings I can
Speaker 1: think of in recent memory. You know, at least it
Speaker 1: started off the right way with Juan Soto signing on
Speaker 1: Sunday night, and then from there we started to get
Speaker 1: more action, whether it was negotiations or actual signings. We
Speaker 1: actually had a few big things happen while we were
Speaker 1: in Dallas, Texas. After Juan Soto signed, then the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees moved on and picked up the pieces and
Speaker 1: signed in Sinos Max freed to the largest contract by
Speaker 1: a left handed pitcher. So there was a lot going on,
Speaker 1: including a lot of buzz about where Corbyn Burns is
Speaker 1: going to go, where Alex Bregman is going to go.
Speaker 1: And right now it's between the Boston Red Sox and
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants for Corbyn Burns, and that brings us
Speaker 1: to Tioscar Hernandez. We do not have anything new to
Speaker 1: report on that front. The Dodgers and Tioscar's agent are
Speaker 1: still in dialogue to try to make this happen, and
Speaker 1: it feels like it's stalled out at the ten yard
Speaker 1: line last week and we're still there. But my understanding is,
Speaker 1: as Andrew Friedman stated a couple of days ago, so
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are still hopeful to make this happen. Taoscar
Speaker 1: Hernandez wants to come back. The Dodgers want him back,
Speaker 1: So the sooner the better in my opinion, if it's
Speaker 1: really going to happen, because I know Boston has been
Speaker 1: talked about they were interested in Taoscar last year and
Speaker 1: right now they're trying to pursue more pitching, even after
Speaker 1: trading for Garrett Crochet. They're looking for pitching and maybe
Speaker 1: if they miss out on Corbyn Burns, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they may really turn their attention to trying to sign
Speaker 1: ta Oscar Hernandez. And my understanding is it's between the
Speaker 1: Red Sox and Giants for Corbyn Burns. Remember Burns, it
Speaker 1: went to college in the Bay Area at Saint Mary's.
Speaker 1: He was teammates with Tony Gonsolin, so you can understand
Speaker 1: why maybe he has more or San Francisco has more
Speaker 1: appeal to him than Boston. But it's still unknown whether
Speaker 1: or not the Giants are willing to pay the to
Speaker 1: sign Corbyn Burns. They had the press conference in San
Speaker 1: Francisco on the same day all of baseball and sports
Speaker 1: eyes were in New York for Juan Soto's introductory press conference.
Speaker 1: Go figure that out. They Yeah, the Giants had Willia
Speaker 1: Domis's press conference in San Francisco on the same day.
Speaker 1: The Mets had the big press conference of the sports
Speaker 1: world today with Juan Soto. Go figure that one out.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, the wild card in the ti Oscar Hernandez
Speaker 1: free agency sweepstakes, in my opinion, is the Toronto Blue Jays. Yes,
Speaker 1: he was there a few years ago before they traded
Speaker 1: him to Seattle. But you know, nobody can figure out
Speaker 1: what Toronto is trying to do. So the longer this
Speaker 1: goes on, the more you leave the door open for
Speaker 1: other teams that miss out on other pitchers or players
Speaker 1: to maybe engage with Taascar Hernandez, even with that qualifying
Speaker 1: offer attached to him. So, uh, you know, I'm still
Speaker 1: a believer that this will get done, but I would
Speaker 1: the longer it doesn't get done, you get a little concern.
Speaker 1: So that's where things are with Taascar Hernandez. Eight six
Speaker 1: six nine to eight seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 1: phone number in case you're wondering about Walker Bueller. Still
Speaker 1: no word on which team is going to land him.
Speaker 1: You know, the Oakland A's who signed Luis Severino to
Speaker 1: a three year, seventy five million dollar contract, they really
Speaker 1: did offer that same deal to Walker Bueller. And Walker
Speaker 1: Bueller is not going to pitch for the A's and
Speaker 1: he's not going to pitch for the A's and Sacramento,
Speaker 1: so that shouldn't be a surprise. He wants to win.
Speaker 1: He is a winner, and it looks like he's going
Speaker 1: to be wearing a different uniform next year. The Yankees,
Speaker 1: the Cubs, the Red Sox, the Orioles, the Rangers all
Speaker 1: have interest in Walker Bueller. So we'll see how that
Speaker 1: plays out. And also, you know, like we talked about
Speaker 1: last night from Dallas, Nolan Aeronato Dodgers thing, it's not
Speaker 1: going to happen. I would be shocked if it did.
Speaker 1: Brandon Gomes went on the record and said Maximunsey is
Speaker 1: going to be their third baseman, and I believe him.
Speaker 1: Right now, Nolan Aernato is owed a lot of money
Speaker 1: the last three years. Now the Dodgers have a lot
Speaker 1: of money, but they're not just going to throw it
Speaker 1: around for no particular reason. This is not twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: or twenty nineteen anymore. Nobody has ever beaten Father Time,
Speaker 1: and the Saint Louis Cardinals right now are going to rebuild.
Speaker 1: Nolan Aernato wants to be on a team that's going
Speaker 1: to win right now, he doesn't have a lot of leverage.
Speaker 1: I would say the one team that may make the
Speaker 1: trade for Aeronato would be the Phillies if they can
Speaker 1: move Alec Bohm. If they can move Alec Bohm, that
Speaker 1: would be the one team I would say Aeronauto would
Speaker 1: play third base for. But here's the kicker, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how many people realize this. I was told
Speaker 1: this today by somebody that is familiar with Nolan and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. I'll put it that way. The Rockies, and
Speaker 1: I believe this is public knowledge. The Rockies, when they
Speaker 1: traded Aeronaudo to the Cardinals are paying ten million dollars
Speaker 1: of his annual average salary. The kicker is, if Aeronato
Speaker 1: is traded, the Rockies are off the hook. Whoever trades
Speaker 1: for Aeronauto hypothetically would have to pay the remainder of
Speaker 1: his contract. And that's where it gets a little tricky,
Speaker 1: where teams are saying, all right, Cardinals, you don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of leverage here. We're not going to give
Speaker 1: you a lot for him, and you're going to have
Speaker 1: to pay for some of this. The Cardinals don't want
Speaker 1: to do that, and teams don't want to take on
Speaker 1: Aeronato's full salary. Now, will he be traded? I one
Speaker 1: hundred percent believe he will be, because how are you
Speaker 1: gonna go back now? But it's a lot more complicated
Speaker 1: than just making a straight up trade. With all these
Speaker 1: different things attached to his contract. Eight six six nine
Speaker 1: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number, Dodger
Speaker 1: talk with you until eight o'clock tonight here on AM
Speaker 1: five seventy LA Sports. Let's go out to the phones
Speaker 1: before we hear from Brandon Gohmes and then Jake Peavey,
Speaker 1: our guy Kevin and Culver City lead us off. How
Speaker 1: you doing, Kevin?
Speaker 2: God is good.
Speaker 3: I want to give you a Merry Christmas to you
Speaker 3: and your family. Happy holidays, glad you are getting some
Speaker 3: good family time. And I heard you went to Disneyland
Speaker 3: with the sam Got love that man. You know, you
Speaker 3: the best on on theirs and I appreciate everything you've done.
Speaker 3: I just want to give some kudos to my boy
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts, the best manager based all hands down. I
Speaker 3: mean he's evolved as a manager. I remember he didn't
Speaker 3: want to He took Tyler Anderson all of that game
Speaker 3: he left trying it in there. That was one of
Speaker 3: the managery moves of the whole World Series. And your
Speaker 3: boy snails Zilla, how many times I call Dodger tack saying,
Speaker 3: can we get our boy Blake Snail here? We finally
Speaker 3: got it done. Look, I'm smoking cigars. We got a
Speaker 3: bona fide ace who's a left handed ace to take
Speaker 3: that mantle from Kershaw, learned from the best, and he's
Speaker 3: a dog in the playoffs. We know we've seen him
Speaker 3: do it. He's always wanted to be a Dodger, even
Speaker 3: when you're doing this project interviews, when he's on the podjets,
Speaker 3: he seemed why he wanted to be here with us.
Speaker 3: So it's great. Look I'm not tripping. I'm still enjoying
Speaker 3: this World Series. Thank you, Walker Bila for all you've done.
Speaker 3: You are a great age for us. You are a
Speaker 3: bonaphyte stud in two World Series Championship wins for us.
Speaker 3: Now let's take care of our own. Bring Koster back
Speaker 3: and let's bring up Boy back, kek her nanez Mster
Speaker 3: Clutch and run it back. I'm so excited. I can't
Speaker 3: wait for the snail Zilla with Shuvasay and f snail Zilla.
Speaker 3: That's his stake on the song Dodger Blue by Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 3: Dodger Blue a Dodger song on your best so you
Speaker 3: gotta check it out.
Speaker 1: I've heard it. I love Ketchrick Lamar's new album, It's Awesome, Kevin.
Speaker 1: And that's when everybody freaked out about Nolan Aernato because
Speaker 1: one of his latest Instagram posts had that song attached
Speaker 1: to it, and that's when everybody freaked out. But I
Speaker 1: just feel like from what I gathered in the last
Speaker 1: couple of days, the Phillies seemed to be the best
Speaker 1: trade partner for the Cardinals for Nolan Arenado. Eight six
Speaker 1: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 1: And look, you know, all these other teams are still
Speaker 1: trying to fill out their rosters with impact players. The Dodgers,
Speaker 1: who won the World Series, started the off season by
Speaker 1: retaining Austin Barnes and Miguel Rojas. Then they lock up
Speaker 1: Tommy Edmund the NLCSMVP, to a five year extension, and
Speaker 1: then from there they go out and sign arguably the
Speaker 1: best starting pitcher on the free agent market in Blake Snell.
Speaker 1: They bring back Blake Trinin, and they go out and
Speaker 1: sign Michael Conforto, and they're still looking to add another outfielder,
Speaker 1: whether that's ti Oscar Hernandez like we all hope, or
Speaker 1: somebody else. The Dodgers, to me, have been the most
Speaker 1: aggressive team, and that's coming off a World Series championship.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: We have two lines open at eight six six nine,
Speaker 1: eight seven two five seventy. When we continue, you'll hear
Speaker 1: my conversation with Brandon Gomes Dodgers GM before we left Dallas,
Speaker 1: and coming up at the bottom of the hour, you'll
Speaker 1: hear from Jake Peevee, who's now given his great insight
Speaker 1: on MLB Network. So a lot to get to between
Speaker 1: now at eight o'clock and who knows, maybe that ta
Speaker 1: Oscar Hernandez breaking news may come down sometime between now
Speaker 1: and before we get off the air. That's why I'm here,
Speaker 1: That's why I'm live. I'm on TAO watch until it
Speaker 1: happens on AM five to seventy LA Sports Angelus Dodgers
Speaker 1: David Vasse back in the City of Angels after four
Speaker 1: days in Dallas, Texas. Our next Dodger Talk show will
Speaker 1: be next Friday night, and I would imagine by then
Speaker 1: we would have more clarity on the Tioscar Hernandez sweepstakes.
Speaker 1: Who knows, we may even have it by the time
Speaker 1: we go off the air. Tonight. But that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: All of you are looking at taoscar Hernandez and as
Speaker 1: far as Keyk Hernandez goes, you know, Keik wants to
Speaker 1: come back, the Dodgers wanting back, but there's no need
Speaker 1: to have to make that move right now. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of strategy involved in trying to maximize your forty
Speaker 1: man roster even during the off season, so that's part
Speaker 1: of what's going on there. I wouldn't be alarmed about it.
Speaker 1: Keyk is one of the best October players we have
Speaker 1: seen in a Dodger uniform. You know, obviously Freddie Freeman
Speaker 1: and Tommy Edmond were dominant. Mookie Bets had his best
Speaker 1: October of not only his Dodger career, but of his
Speaker 1: entire postseason career going back to when the Red Sox
Speaker 1: won the World Series in twenty eighteen. I feel like
Speaker 1: Mooki is not getting enough love out there. I think
Speaker 1: we're all taken for granted just exactly how vital he
Speaker 1: was to the Dodgers winning the World Series and how
Speaker 1: he actually redeemed himself with the way he played in October.
Speaker 1: And I know I was saying it from spring training
Speaker 1: on it was the season of Mookie Bets. And it
Speaker 1: was still the season of Mookie Bets with the injury
Speaker 1: to his left hand when he got hit by that
Speaker 1: pitch and missed six weeks. You look at Mookie Betts
Speaker 1: this year. He was really good. He helped the Dodgers
Speaker 1: come back in the NLDS. Remember he hit home runs
Speaker 1: in consecutive games to bring them back. In the NLCS,
Speaker 1: Mookie Bets had an OPS of almost twelve hundred. He
Speaker 1: hit three forty six in the NLCS and drove in
Speaker 1: nine runs with two home runs. In the World Series
Speaker 1: two seventy eight, he drove in the go a head
Speaker 1: run in Game five on a sacrifice fly, So you know,
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't any dramatic type of hit he had,
Speaker 1: but Mooki Betts when the series in San Diego really
Speaker 1: started to turn the Dodgers way after Keik Hernandez started
Speaker 1: every single game in center field and Tommy Edmond moved
Speaker 1: to shortstop, Mooki Betts, as you know, was out there
Speaker 1: before the first game in San Diego taking batting practice
Speaker 1: from teammate Brent Honeywell to really get his confidence going.
Speaker 1: And from that point on, MOOKI never looked back. So
Speaker 1: don't forget how good Mookie Betts was in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: He got a lot of criticism the last two years
Speaker 1: leading into this season, and the reason why I was
Speaker 1: so confident that it was going to be Mookie's year
Speaker 1: is because in spring training he had that same look
Speaker 1: and attitude about him that he had in spring training
Speaker 1: in his first year with the Dodgers twenty twenty. And
Speaker 1: everything Mookie said, and I'm going to find it, we'll
Speaker 1: play it back next.
Speaker 4: Week, he delivered.
Speaker 1: He said it wasn't just about the regular season, It's
Speaker 1: about October. It all doesn't matter until October.
Speaker 4: And he proved it.
Speaker 1: He kept his focus and he helped the Dodgers win
Speaker 1: the World Series. And I was extremely happy for him
Speaker 1: to be able to enjoy a parade here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Nothing like it and still one of my favorite days
Speaker 1: doing this job the last thirteen years. All Right, I
Speaker 1: want to share our conversation with Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes
Speaker 1: on our final night in Dallas. Here was our conversation
Speaker 1: about the Dodgers' off season, where it already has been
Speaker 1: and where it is going.
Speaker 5: Coming here.
Speaker 6: It works out that if you win the World Series,
Speaker 6: everything's a little more enjoyable. So this is the meetings
Speaker 6: have been great, and obviously we've turned our focus to
Speaker 6: twenty five of like going out and doing everything we
Speaker 6: can to repeat, which is incredibly challenging. But we feel
Speaker 6: like we're we've set a good foundation right now. I'm
Speaker 6: going to love to continue to add talent where we
Speaker 6: feel necessary, but also taking the time to appreciate the
Speaker 6: accomplishment of being able to win last year.
Speaker 1: And you guys have arguably been the most aggressive team
Speaker 1: already this offseason, signing Blake Snow, Michael Confordo, bringing back
Speaker 1: Blake Trinon. Do you feel like you've accomplished a lot
Speaker 1: that you wanted to accomplish already to this point.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we're right now if this season started,
Speaker 6: we feel like we're in a good place. That doesn't
Speaker 6: mean we're not looking to continue to get better, but
Speaker 6: we're happy with what we've been able to do. And
Speaker 6: you know, we kind of set out to add or
Speaker 6: relieve her a starting pitcher and an olt fielder, and
Speaker 6: we've done that, and now it's about how do we
Speaker 6: go out and continue to make the team better. And
Speaker 6: you said the repeating is even more challenging.
Speaker 5: Than winning it one time.
Speaker 6: So that's our main focus, and we'll do everything we
Speaker 6: can to put the best team out there.
Speaker 1: When you talk about repeating that you hear about the
Speaker 1: World Series hangover. How much of the equation to add
Speaker 1: players are adding hungry guys that have not won before.
Speaker 1: Blake Snell's never won before, Conforto hasn't won before. How
Speaker 1: much does that help just fuel that desire of guys
Speaker 1: that have been there and done it last year and
Speaker 1: other years.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think that is we're just looking to
Speaker 6: continue to add talent on those fronts. They are incredibly hungry,
Speaker 6: and obviously they're coming here to try to win a
Speaker 6: World Series. I feel like, experiencing the parade and what
Speaker 6: everybody went through last year, our guys are going to
Speaker 6: be on the other side of complacency, and I feel
Speaker 6: like it's going to be like this hunger and you know,
Speaker 6: an even deeper desire to go out and win, knowing
Speaker 6: how how how incredible it was to have that parade
Speaker 6: and get back to Dodger Stadium and see it packed
Speaker 6: and celebrate with the city. So I feel like our
Speaker 6: guys are in a really good place of Hey, let's
Speaker 6: get back to work and do it again.
Speaker 1: You know when you Obviously the last twelve thirteen years,
Speaker 1: players have wanted to come to play for the Dodgers
Speaker 1: because of the culture and the infrastructure.
Speaker 5: You guys have created.
Speaker 1: But this offseason, do you feel like you've gotten more
Speaker 1: offers from players that, hey, I'd love to join this
Speaker 1: party too. It feels like there's a lot more players
Speaker 1: that are being very upfront that they would love to
Speaker 1: join the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been it's been an exciting time to see that,
Speaker 6: and it's it's what you know, we were looking to build.
Speaker 6: And obviously having just one is incredibly helpful. But the
Speaker 6: culture and guys talking to guys that are on the
Speaker 6: team and other you know, other staff members, and like
Speaker 6: just understanding that we're going to do everything we can
Speaker 6: to get everything and talent wise out of each and
Speaker 6: every player, and we're going to take care of you
Speaker 6: on and.
Speaker 5: Off the field. So I think players are appreciating.
Speaker 6: That and want to come and join the group.
Speaker 5: Who you know, our number one goes to win a.
Speaker 6: World Series, and my assumption is that, yeah, that is
Speaker 6: the goal of most guys as well.
Speaker 1: Roki Sazaki's agent I got you know, well, Joel Wolfe
Speaker 1: had a big press conference yesterday to kind of kick
Speaker 1: off the period of forty five days for teams to
Speaker 1: sign him, and now able to kind of discuss it
Speaker 1: a little bit. What's so appealing about him? For those
Speaker 1: of us that don't know a lot about Roki Sazaki,
Speaker 1: why is there such a demand for him?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean it's an incredible arm talent.
Speaker 6: He's obviously young, and for as good as he's been,
Speaker 6: you know, we feel like being in our environment with
Speaker 6: our coaches, there's opportunity to continue to get better. And
Speaker 6: this is the type of arm that you watch him
Speaker 6: pitch and you're like, this could be a cy young
Speaker 6: winner in the big leagues. So I think everybody who
Speaker 6: has seen him throw, whether it's live or on video,
Speaker 6: it is it is wild type stuff with legitimate upside
Speaker 6: for him to continue to get better and grow and develop.
Speaker 5: So it's a unique package.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: There's Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes giving us a glimpse into
Speaker 1: the Dodgers off season so far and being very very
Speaker 1: candid with us as far as the Dodgers' evaluation of
Speaker 1: young Japanese right hander Roki Sazaki, who was posted a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago. Officially, he's twenty three years old,
Speaker 1: throws one hundred miles an hour, has a great split
Speaker 1: fingered fastball, and the Dodgers have a lot of interest
Speaker 1: in him and think very highly of him, as you
Speaker 1: just heard Brandon Gomes described now the way it's been
Speaker 1: described to me by Japanese reporters that have seen Sazaki
Speaker 1: pitch and know a lot more about him than I do.
Speaker 1: He's twenty three years old, and they still feel like
Speaker 1: he can grow into his body and that what you're
Speaker 1: going to get in his first season is not it's
Speaker 1: barely scratching the surface of the potential he has. And
Speaker 1: that's what is really attractive to the Dodgers and every
Speaker 1: other team in baseball to try to sign Rochi Sazaki.
Speaker 1: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 1: the phone number. Let's go out to Victorville. James, You're
Speaker 1: on Dodger Talk. How you doing, James?
Speaker 5: Hey, nice talking to you, Richard.
Speaker 3: Everything you do?
Speaker 6: A quick question regarding Dallas trip out there?
Speaker 3: Any word on boern Any.
Speaker 7: Paple talking about Bower bringing him back, or just to
Speaker 7: talk about him.
Speaker 1: Maybe now nobody ever mentions his name, James. I saw
Speaker 1: his agent Rachel Luba out there, but nobody was saying
Speaker 1: anything about Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 2: I you know, just there's like a lot of talk
Speaker 2: about pitchers pictures.
Speaker 1: Just out there, like hey, you know, well yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes you wonder why not, right, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: got to be more to this story than we know,
Speaker 1: right Why teams are not trying to give Trevor Bauer
Speaker 1: another chance? And I'm not talking about the Dodgers, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about any of these teams. There's gotta be more
Speaker 1: than we know about, right or you know, he's a
Speaker 1: He's a very polarizing figure, James, So teams have to evaluate, uh,
Speaker 1: whether or not the cost is worth the reward.
Speaker 2: Right right.
Speaker 8: I appreciate your help on this matter, and keep doing
Speaker 8: what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Maybe all right, James, thanks a lot for the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny not many people were talking about
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer. I feel like if anybody was gonna take
Speaker 1: a chance on him, we would have heard about it,
Speaker 1: but we have not. So Trevor Bauer, I believe, pitched
Speaker 1: last year again in Mexico. Yasio Puige is playing in Mexico,
Speaker 1: So that's where those two guys are right now for
Speaker 1: different reasons. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 1: seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had a great time in Dallas. The first night
Speaker 1: I was out there, went to a great dinner and
Speaker 1: it seemed to be kind of the place to be
Speaker 1: because at one table behind us was the entire Angels
Speaker 1: baseball operation staff led by Param Nissian. A few tables
Speaker 1: down was the Boston Red Sox table with Alex Cora
Speaker 1: and the team president Sam Kennedy, among others. And a
Speaker 1: table in the way back of the restaurant was Boris Corpse.
Speaker 1: Scott Boris's team were celebrating the signing of Juan Soto.
Speaker 1: It was on Sunday night, and the highlight of the
Speaker 1: Dallas was having dinner with Clayton Kershaw, Dave Roberts, Brad Paisley,
Speaker 1: and then going to Clayton's house. I've never been there before,
Speaker 1: and him and Ellen great hospitality and we hung out there.
Speaker 1: I think Brad was trying to pull off another deal,
Speaker 1: but you know, you can't recreate what happened in Nashville
Speaker 1: last year. But we had a great time. Brad Paisley
Speaker 1: actually flew in just to hang out and talk baseball.
Speaker 1: That's how big of a Dodger fan he is, and
Speaker 1: him and Kershaw are very close they so it was
Speaker 1: great that he came in, and it was it was
Speaker 1: really great to spend some time with Clayton as he
Speaker 1: recovers from his left knee and left foot surgery. He's
Speaker 1: not on crush it crutches anymore, but he has his
Speaker 1: foot in a boot. So he was in great spirits
Speaker 1: and uh uh, he'll be back as a Dodger. But
Speaker 1: like I said, there's a strategic maneuver here to open
Speaker 1: up forty man roster spots for a guy that's going
Speaker 1: to art the season on the injured list. Eight six
Speaker 1: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take our final time out here on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: When we come back, you'll hear from Jake Peevey and
Speaker 1: we'll take more of your phone calls until eight o'clock
Speaker 1: and you never know. Ta Oscar still a free agent.
Speaker 1: Who knows might happen in the next thirty minutes Dodger
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Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports David Vass Dodger Talk for your World
Speaker 1: champion Los Angeles Dodgers get used to hearing that they're
Speaker 1: looking to repeat this season, becoming the first major League
Speaker 1: team to win back to back World Series championship since
Speaker 1: the late nineties Yankees, and the Dodgers have a pretty
Speaker 1: good chance of accomplishing that if they can stay healthy.
Speaker 2: You may have a.
Speaker 1: Starting rotation in the postseason of Blake Snell, sho he Otani,
Speaker 1: Yoshi Imamoto, and Clayton Kershaw and maybe even Tyler Glass.
Speaker 1: Now that's a pretty good starting five if you're going
Speaker 1: into a playoffs series. Eight six six nine, eight seven
Speaker 1: two five seventy is the phone number. We have a
Speaker 1: few lines open. We'll get to you in a moment,
Speaker 1: but I want to share my conversation with Jake Peavey,
Speaker 1: who is teammates with Dave Roberts in San Diego, and
Speaker 1: it feels like everybody that had Dave Roberts back were
Speaker 1: rewarded with the way he managed last season and the
Speaker 1: Dodgers winning the World Series championship, and just the great
Speaker 1: job Dave did of handling his ball club all last
Speaker 1: year and especially in October. We're deep in the heart
Speaker 1: of Texas with one of the great guys you'll ever meet,
Speaker 1: a two time World Series champion, a Cy Young Award winner,
Speaker 1: one of the best pitchers of his generation for the Padres,
Speaker 1: the Red Sox, the Giants, and he now is lending
Speaker 1: his expertise and sharing everything he knows with us on
Speaker 1: MLB Network. That's the one and only Jake Peve. Jake
Speaker 1: great to do this in person.
Speaker 9: You're not supposed to mention all those teams.
Speaker 7: The Red Sox didn't, you know, won a World Series
Speaker 7: out there. The Giants and Padres aren't too well liked.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you this.
Speaker 7: I never got a chance to play for the Sorry
Speaker 7: about that, shaking Craig Counsel's hand, right. It's winter meetings
Speaker 7: like a family reunion. I never got to play for
Speaker 7: the Dodgers, obviously, I was a hated rival.
Speaker 9: Being in San Diego, being in San Francisco, Dodger Stadium
Speaker 9: was my favorite venue to play in home or away.
Speaker 7: I loved Dodger Stadium, seemed to do okay there and
Speaker 7: then now have close friends with Dave Roberts being the
Speaker 7: manager who I played with for many years and on
Speaker 7: down the line. Mark Pryor Josh Bard was my catcher
Speaker 7: side Young Award year. So many ties to the Dodgers,
Speaker 7: and it's hard to dislike it at all.
Speaker 1: Well, you're a hard guy to dislike as well. Trust me,
Speaker 1: we're all well aware of how big of a thorn
Speaker 1: you were in the side of the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Jake.
Speaker 7: Look, I was lucky that they didn't have lineups like
Speaker 7: they have now. I will tell you that I had
Speaker 7: to manage through in the early days. It would be
Speaker 7: Sean Green and Eric Carros and dodge around those guys.
Speaker 9: And keep the ball on the ballpark.
Speaker 7: But now, just what a venue Dodger Stadium was, and
Speaker 7: look on full display this year being World champions.
Speaker 1: Hey, Jake, I remember our conversation in the middle of
Speaker 1: the summer, and you really were stressing that LA needed
Speaker 1: to appreciate this team and Dave Roberts especially. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like after the way he managed not only Game
Speaker 1: five of that World Series, but the entire postseason, there's
Speaker 1: a greater appreciation for how good he is.
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 7: I think you know, this year everybody got to see
Speaker 7: who Dave Roberts was. Could he rally the troops you know,
Speaker 7: we'd always talked about the Dodgers, you know, albeit the
Speaker 7: twenty twenty season and World champions there were that asterisk
Speaker 7: that people wanted to put on it. It was, you know,
Speaker 7: horseshit if you asked me, it's a World championship, but
Speaker 7: there was just some stigma around it.
Speaker 9: So and then the path that the Unders took. You
Speaker 9: saw how good the Padres were.
Speaker 7: We saw that our back against against the wall with
Speaker 7: a bullpit game.
Speaker 9: We hear about him calling out Walker Bueller, not.
Speaker 7: In a malicious way, but a way that gets the
Speaker 7: best out of him. You hear Mookie Betts speak of
Speaker 7: Dave Roberts and what he means to all of them on.
Speaker 9: And off the field.
Speaker 7: I tried to convey that when we talked Midsummer, because
Speaker 7: I know all this to be true. I'm so happy
Speaker 7: Dodger fans. The front office, I know knows it, but
Speaker 7: I think the fans saw that he certainly rallied the
Speaker 7: troops and had them ready to play with their back
Speaker 7: against the wall. You win Game four, elimination game, you
Speaker 7: win Game five, and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: When a manager goes out like Dave Roberts did in
Speaker 1: Game five, and Freddie Freeman is showing him away from
Speaker 1: trying to take out Blake, trying in in a pivotal moment.
Speaker 1: He talks to try and looks in his eyes. Gets
Speaker 1: the feel that this guy can get what the batters
Speaker 1: that he's talking about. What does that say about him
Speaker 1: and what does it say about the players respect for
Speaker 1: him moving forward?
Speaker 7: Well, it says that he's got a feel on the game.
Speaker 7: And we'll listen to the guys who've been around. You know,
Speaker 7: the one thing that's kind of happened in baseball is
Speaker 7: players with years of experience in decades even are almost
Speaker 7: like not valued like their opinion should matter in the
Speaker 7: moment or in prep or decision making in general. So,
Speaker 7: you know, the best in the game I know, and
Speaker 7: the best I've been around, Bobby.
Speaker 9: Cox and Bruce Bouchie and on.
Speaker 7: So Dusty Baker, Tito Francona, could keep going on.
Speaker 9: There's all a.
Speaker 7: Measure of field that they have within the organization. They're
Speaker 7: certainly leaning on the front office and all of the information,
Speaker 7: but there's also a game feel and knowing what your
Speaker 7: players are going through that day, how they feel if
Speaker 7: they want it bad enough. So it was fun to
Speaker 7: see that the Dodgers, who take so much slack for
Speaker 7: being very analytically driven and making those decisions, they've proved
Speaker 7: that they have feel as well.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're describing what Blake's Noew described at
Speaker 1: his press conference when they ask them about Dave Roberts
Speaker 1: his relationship with him moving forward. He said, I want
Speaker 1: to invest in a relationship with Dave and the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: but I also expect them to invest in me as well.
Speaker 1: It sounds like that's the biggest part of this marriage,
Speaker 1: this new marriage with anybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, Look, I don't think to try to put what
Speaker 7: a manager does every day in perspective. A manager's got
Speaker 7: to get to the field, prep for the game, make
Speaker 7: sure all of his coaches are ready to go, talking
Speaker 7: to all.
Speaker 9: The front office and the strategy and all of this.
Speaker 7: Meanwhile, he's got twenty six players that he's got to
Speaker 7: talk to and connect for maybe two to five minutes
Speaker 7: each guy, twenty six guys on every day, you're trying
Speaker 7: to check in on him. Is everything all right at home?
Speaker 7: Is everything okay with their family? Down to You know,
Speaker 7: that's where the field comes in. You know, who's in
Speaker 7: a good mood, who's in a bad mood or things
Speaker 7: going good off the field not so good.
Speaker 9: You have a feel for your players. It is an
Speaker 9: exhausting job.
Speaker 7: You go talk to the media, you know, and then
Speaker 7: you go down and you grind through a game.
Speaker 9: As soon as that's over, you have to.
Speaker 7: Walk, you know, in None of the other coaches have
Speaker 7: to do this. The manager has to go in and
Speaker 7: now face the media and talk to him, answer all
Speaker 7: the questions. And that's on a daily basis for you know,
Speaker 7: one hundred and sixty two games over one hundred and
Speaker 7: eighty plus days.
Speaker 9: So the manager's job is exhausting.
Speaker 7: The guys who do it well are incredible communicators and
Speaker 7: know exactly what I just told you, and try to
Speaker 7: do that, but try to manage it's talk to forty
Speaker 7: plus guys that you're leading on a daily basis.
Speaker 9: It's a a big charge, you know, it's a big task.
Speaker 4: You ever get that guy out Rul Labanyak give.
Speaker 7: Him out much, I'll tell you that, And he still
Speaker 7: looks like he can plays jacked.
Speaker 1: Hey, how much do you love the marriage and the
Speaker 1: fit with Blake Snell on the Dodgers and in this
Speaker 1: rotation I'm been a big advocate of his. I'm curious
Speaker 1: from your standpoint a fellow saw young Award winner, what
Speaker 1: you see with Snell as a Dodger.
Speaker 9: Well, the Dodgers do it again.
Speaker 7: They go get the best guy on the market, Blake Snell.
Speaker 7: I love Corbyn Burns, and I love Max Freed, Love
Speaker 7: love Max Freed. In some other arms Valdi. Blake Snell
Speaker 7: when he is right, forget about it. And the Dodgers
Speaker 7: saw that, they understand that they've dealt with it firsthand,
Speaker 7: and watching.
Speaker 9: San Diego come up and deal with it, the Dodgers also.
Speaker 7: Fit what Blake Snell has been accustomed to doing five
Speaker 7: or six innings or so, and then you know just
Speaker 7: what they've been able to get out of their players.
Speaker 7: And then you start to win a World Series like
Speaker 7: they did this year, just become the most a desirable
Speaker 7: place to play on Earth.
Speaker 9: And look, you're in southern California. Does it get any better?
Speaker 4: Well, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Jake Pevy, you know all about that. Jake Peevey a
Speaker 1: great star for MLB Network. Yesterday, Brandon Gomes announced to
Speaker 1: all of us Jake PV that Mookie Betts is preparing
Speaker 1: to be the shortstop again, what was your reaction when
Speaker 1: you first heard that.
Speaker 7: I was a little taken back, you know, just because
Speaker 7: I think I was taking back because of how valuable
Speaker 7: you saw him be in the outfield in the postseason,
Speaker 7: the plays in right field, cutting off of balls, the
Speaker 7: dive in plays that.
Speaker 9: Was on full display.
Speaker 7: So to see that they're gonna move him. I haven't
Speaker 7: talked to MOOKI other than congratulations, and I haven't really
Speaker 7: talked to anybody in the Dodgers organization other than Dave
Speaker 7: Roberts just a little bit. We didn't get in any
Speaker 7: of this. It's just congratulatory stuff really, But Mookie can
Speaker 7: do anything he wants to do, and I think with
Speaker 7: him having a full season Dave said it last night,
Speaker 7: to offseason to prepport mentally and understand what he's gonna do,
Speaker 7: work on the arm angle and stuff like that.
Speaker 9: Mookie's the best athlete.
Speaker 7: I've ever been around, top to bottom, the best athlete
Speaker 7: I've probably ever had a chance to be up closer
Speaker 7: and personal with. So I don't put anything passing my
Speaker 7: expect him to win an MVP at shortstop.
Speaker 9: I like that.
Speaker 1: Jake Peevee, all right, before I let you go, since
Speaker 1: we are in the lobby of the Winter Meeting, where
Speaker 1: all the deals are made or come close to being made.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you some names, rapid fire. I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear your prediction on where you think they end up.
Speaker 1: Alex Brigman, I.
Speaker 9: Think Alex Bregman back ends up back in Houston.
Speaker 7: Houston's gonna give it one more go with that cast
Speaker 7: of characters they have.
Speaker 9: I think he ends up back there.
Speaker 4: Corbyn burns.
Speaker 9: I think Corbyn burns.
Speaker 7: Corbyn's a tough one on where he's gonna land.
Speaker 9: I think he might land in Boston.
Speaker 4: Walker freaking Buehler, I.
Speaker 7: Think Walker Bueher may end up in Boston with him.
Speaker 4: Breaking my heart.
Speaker 7: Look, I can't see Walker coming back with the surplus
Speaker 7: of arms, and that just doesn't have to be Boston.
Speaker 9: No, right, Look, I mean it's better than New York, right.
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 1: One other, this one for the Dodger fans out there,
Speaker 1: give them hope to Oscar Hernandez will find his way back.
Speaker 9: My gosh, I certainly hope. So.
Speaker 7: I don't know how with what all we know and
Speaker 7: have heard about tay Oscar and who he was, I
Speaker 7: don't know how. You don't make that happen. I'll tell
Speaker 7: you this, when the man has the postseason he did.
Speaker 7: When he has the season, all the other teams hear
Speaker 7: what they heard about the teammate and what kind of
Speaker 7: guy he is. It just and he's in free agency.
Speaker 7: He's getting bombarded in the price to retaining is going up.
Speaker 7: But again it seems like the Dodgers are okay financially
Speaker 7: and can do it. I don't see him letting him
Speaker 7: get out of town.
Speaker 4: All right, Jake, thanks a lot for doing that. Man.
Speaker 1: Awesome to meet you and spend time in person. Your
Speaker 1: first class. Now I know why everybody loves Jake Pevy.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot.
Speaker 7: Very good to see, always good to be on with you.
Speaker 7: We'll see how the n O West plays out this year.
Speaker 9: Gonna be a big win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like Yankees, Red Sox on the East coast,
Speaker 1: Dodgers Padres on the west.
Speaker 7: N O West is the new Jugger not you know,
Speaker 7: I know Colorado's rebuilding. The other four teams are very
Speaker 7: competent and can get in and win a World Series
Speaker 7: any given year.
Speaker 1: All right, there's our conversation with Jake Peavy. Appreciate his
Speaker 1: educated predictions on where players will land this offseason, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like Corbin Burns. It's either going to be
Speaker 1: the Red Sox or Giants. It's interesting Jake Peevey picked
Speaker 1: the Red Sox for where Walker Bueller is going to land.
Speaker 1: I know Walker has met with Alex Cora. Alex Cora
Speaker 1: was impressed with him. How can you not be right?
Speaker 1: He exudes confidence and is a big game pitcher, and
Speaker 1: Cora is that type of manager. So it's either for me,
Speaker 1: I'm going to predict one of three teams for Walker Buehler.
Speaker 1: It's either going to be the Rangers, the Cubs, or
Speaker 1: the Yankees. Those are my three teams that I'm predicting
Speaker 1: for Walker Buehler, especially after the Red Sox traded for
Speaker 1: Garrett Crochet. Now, if the Red Sox lose out on
Speaker 1: Corbin Burns, then maybe Walker Buehler is a stronger possibility.
Speaker 1: They may escalate their offer to Bueller if they don't
Speaker 1: get Corbyn Burns. But after Corbyn Burns signs, it feels
Speaker 1: like the next starter on the free agent market that
Speaker 1: is going to get the price bidding going is going
Speaker 1: to be Walker Buehler, who wants to pitch for a winner.
Speaker 1: He's not going to pitch for anything less, so I
Speaker 1: thought it also is interesting that Jake Peeve predicted Alex
Speaker 1: Bregman with stay in Houston. Kind of feels like Alex
Speaker 1: Bregman is looking at the Al East, either the Yankees
Speaker 1: or Red Sox. It feels like one of the worst
Speaker 1: kept secrets or the biggest rumor out there is that
Speaker 1: Christian Walker is going to sign with the Yankees, and
Speaker 1: possibly Paul Goldschmidt goes back to Arizona to close out
Speaker 1: his Hall of Fame caliber career. So those are some
Speaker 1: of the different things going on around the league. And
Speaker 1: first and foremost, you heard Jake Peevey say what everybody's echoing.
Speaker 1: They all expect Teoscar Hernandez to find his way back
Speaker 1: to the Dodgers. And I feel like, you know, the
Speaker 1: sooner the better on that, because the longer you leave
Speaker 1: the door cracked open with not getting it done, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now you're opening the door for teams
Speaker 1: that miss out on the primary targets to maybe come
Speaker 1: in and do something irrational. And that's what free agency
Speaker 1: sometimes turns into. And look, if the Dodgers lost ta
Speaker 1: Oskar Hernandez, would it be a devastating blow. No, but
Speaker 1: we all know what Taoscar Hernandez meant to the Dodgers
Speaker 1: and how much he meant in that clubhouse, and how
Speaker 1: he brought everybody together, not to mention how great he
Speaker 1: fits in this lineup. Thirty three home runs almost one
Speaker 1: hundred RBIs home run derby champion. One of the best
Speaker 1: smiles you'll see it just it just feels like ta
Speaker 1: Oscar Hernandez and the Dodgers are better together than they
Speaker 1: would be a part. All right, let's take one more
Speaker 1: phone call. She's been tweeting at me, instagramming at me,
Speaker 1: wondering when Dodger talk is going to happen. Our old
Speaker 1: friend Isabelle in Anaheim.
Speaker 4: Hi is he? How you doing?
Speaker 8: Hey hey David, Happy holidays to me your family. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you know, Oh thank you.
Speaker 9: Hey.
Speaker 8: Listen, I just I hate tity walks to goingwhere. But
Speaker 8: what you've been saying it's gonna happen, It's gonna happen.
Speaker 8: I just want to ask, good guy. It was my
Speaker 8: one of my favorite Dodger play and I will promise
Speaker 8: you this year I make ye. I'm getting to a
Speaker 8: Dodger gain some help. I still want me the whole team.
Speaker 8: But but then I was so excited about it.
Speaker 1: I think Ronnie's still offering a ride to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: If not, maybe Matt money Smith after one of his
Speaker 1: scintillating Instagram lives, can give you a ride to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, maybe.
Speaker 1: Next time you watch your Instagram live with Money you
Speaker 1: should comment and ask him, Hey, Money, when you going
Speaker 1: to take me to Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 8: I don't know how to do it, Like I don't
Speaker 8: know how TV incidram.
Speaker 4: I'll take care of it for you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but anyway, you know what though, I was so
Speaker 8: excited about the Dogs but the Dodge winning that I
Speaker 8: don't know what happened next year. If they happen next year,
Speaker 8: they can play fine. They happened, But the only thing
Speaker 8: I gotta say is it was a great season. You
Speaker 8: did the great job as always, David. Then you can
Speaker 8: did the great job. And I owed him. I owe
Speaker 8: him a bigger party after last year. So anyway, because
Speaker 8: because I was really lipping on the Dodges during the season,
Speaker 8: so I do owe him many party. So anyway, go
Speaker 8: Dodgers have a happy, more tough next making happy holidays.
Speaker 1: All right, Isabelle, thanks for the phone call, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Since we only have one Dodger Talk live show next Friday,
Speaker 1: I may drop a podcast exclusive for you guys next
Speaker 1: Wednesday before the Friday live show, and then from there
Speaker 1: it's Christmas vacation. And you know, the Dodgers already have
Speaker 1: put a lot of Christmas presents under the tree, starting
Speaker 1: with a World Series championship and now signing Blake Snell,
Speaker 1: Michael Confordo, bringing back Tommy Edmund, Miguel Rojas, Austin Barnes,
Speaker 1: and hopefully ta Oscar Hernandez here in the next few days.
Speaker 1: And you know, I always say opening day is not
Speaker 1: until you know, March for the Dodgers this year in Tokyo.
Speaker 1: But like I said, you don't want to leave that
Speaker 1: door open for some of these other teams that miss
Speaker 1: out on their pitching free agent targets to get any
Speaker 1: ideas about maybe upping their offer or actually getting more
Speaker 1: aggressive with Taoscar Hernandez. And I know there's some reports
Speaker 1: out there that there's six seven teams pursuing Taoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 1: That's not my understanding. If those many teams were pursuing
Speaker 1: Tai Oscar Hernandez. It would be a point where the
Speaker 1: Dodgers would have to make a decision. And what this
Speaker 1: tells me is that the market isn't as robust for
Speaker 1: Tioscar Hernandez. And also, Tioscar Hernandez wants to make a
Speaker 1: deal with the Dodgers. The Dodgers want to make a
Speaker 1: deal with Taoscar Hernandez. So let's get this going right.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to celebrate ta Oscar coming back to La
Speaker 1: Everybody loved him even after just one season. I think
Speaker 1: everybody showed that at the parade, and those emotions were
Speaker 1: raw for Tioscar. He's such a humble guy. I'll never
Speaker 1: forget at the beginning of the parade, as we were
Speaker 1: waiting for the buses to leave Dodger Stadium early in
Speaker 1: the morning, and ta Oscar thought it was just going
Speaker 1: to be another day, you know, Yeah, there'll be some
Speaker 1: fans out there, we'll celebrate. He had no idea the
Speaker 1: passion for the Dodgers that this city has, and quite honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't believe he knew how much you appreciated what
Speaker 1: he did for the world champion Dodgers until we turned
Speaker 1: the corner and got down there in downtown and he
Speaker 1: saw the millions of fans that were chanting his name
Speaker 1: and giving him as much love as Freddie Freeman and
Speaker 1: Mookie Betts. So I think we saw that on stage
Speaker 1: as well at Dodger Stadium as he was holding a
Speaker 1: Dodger flag and was he was definitely overwhelmed with emotions.
Speaker 1: And he has instructed his agent to try to find
Speaker 1: a way to make this happen, and hopefully the Dodgers
Speaker 1: in Taoskar can find some common ground here. I know
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, Ken Rosenthal reported three years
Speaker 1: sixty million dollars. I feel like somewhere between three years
Speaker 1: sixty million and three years seventy seventy five million, with
Speaker 1: a signing bonus and deferrals can be had here. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's not out of the realm of possibility.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take one more phone call before we
Speaker 1: say goodnight. Chris in Southgate walk us off tonight on
Speaker 1: our second and last Hot Stove show of the week.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you know all this construction that's happening at
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium right now, There's this giant moat, like a
Speaker 2: big giant French line running along the right field foul
Speaker 2: line to the stands. Yeah, about fifty feet wide. I
Speaker 2: believe the Dodgers should keep it in place so that
Speaker 2: the next time the Yankees play, their fans won't we
Speaker 2: lessnoky betts.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's an interesting word to describe what happened. And look,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say molested, but definitely assault was in play there. Chris,
Speaker 1: thanks for the phone call, and yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 1: And the reason why you see the photos you see
Speaker 1: of Dodger Stadium's construction since it was built in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty two into the mountain of Chavez Ravine, there's no
Speaker 1: way to dig from the side of Dodger Stadium, so
Speaker 1: that's the reason why they have to go in from
Speaker 1: the field from the top down. And they're renovating the
Speaker 1: home clubhouse from the dugout area all the way down
Speaker 1: to the left field foul pole. They're getting ready to
Speaker 1: renovate the visiting side. So that's the reason it looks
Speaker 1: the way it is. They're not changing the dimensions or
Speaker 1: anything on the field. It's just about how they're able
Speaker 1: to go and dig down into the mountain, the rock
Speaker 1: of Chavez Ravine and it's led by should be a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, the great Janet Marie Smith. That'll do
Speaker 1: it for us on Dodger Talk tonight. We will talk
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