WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.879 What a wild Thursday overcast raining here in the eight 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:06.799 one eight. Now the sun is out and there's not 3 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:11.359 a cloud in the sky and Dodger fans feeling good 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:13.960 about an eight and oh star to the season. Hi everybody, 5 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.120 and welcome to Off Night Dodger Talk here on your 6 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:19.960 home of the Dodgers, a five seventy LA sports live 7 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:23.879 on the iHeartRadio app. As the Dodgers are off tonight. 8 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:27.800 They are eight to zero on this season after a 9 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:30.559 sweep of the Tigers and a sweep of the Atlanta Braves. 10 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:33.960 And now they head east for a six game road trip, 11 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.840 three against the Phillies and then three in our Nation's 12 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:40.479 Capital against the Washington Nationals. Eight six six nine eighty 13 00:00:40.520 --> 00:00:43.600 seven two five seventy is the number A lot to 14 00:00:43.679 --> 00:00:47.119 get into here on this Thursday night edition of Off 15 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:49.600 Night Dodger Talk. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two 16 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:52.079 five seventy. Be a part of the show coming up 17 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:54.560 in forty five minutes. I'm gonna get you a farm report. 18 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:56.640 What is that? No, I'm not telling you how the 19 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:58.799 corn is doing out there. I'm not telling you how 20 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:01.439 to pay tomatoes are growing. I give you an update 21 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:04.480 on the Dodgers' top minor league prospects and guys in 22 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:08.120 Triple A Oklahoma City on rehab assignments, and guys who 23 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:10.319 started the year in Triple A not making the major 24 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:14.680 league roster. Guys like Bobby Miller, Guys like James Autman. 25 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:17.120 I'll tell you how they're doing. Triple A season is 26 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:19.760 underway in the minor leagues. Double A and A Ball 27 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:22.640 will start tomorrow, respectively. Will tell you where some of 28 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:25.519 the Dodger top prospects have been assigned here in twenty 29 00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:27.640 twenty five, So I like to tell you where the 30 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:31.799 Dodgers of tomorrow are today here in twenty twenty five. 31 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:34.359 We've seen guys come up the last few years and 32 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.000 help out this Dodgers team out of the bullpen, Ben Casparius, 33 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.239 Justin Robleski, Kyle Hurt, River, Ryan, these are names we've 34 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:44.799 been talking about here on off Night Dodger Talk for 35 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:47.760 two three seasons while they were in the minor leagues 36 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:50.319 making their way up at wardro Henriquez, we told you 37 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:52.959 about him last year on how he flew from A 38 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:55.319 Ball to Double A, and it was with the Dodgers 39 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:59.120 in September and into October. Pitching out of the bullpen. 40 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:01.319 So you'll hear about these guys now here on off 41 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.560 night Dodger talking throughout the season, how they're doing. When 42 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:06.920 hopes to be a part of this major league roster 43 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:09.360 at some part, either this year, next year, or in 44 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:11.879 the years to come. But big news. While the Dodgers 45 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:15.840 weren't flying to Philadelphia this afternoon, the team just a 46 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:19.960 few minutes ago announced that Freddie Freeman is going on 47 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:25.319 the ten day I L yes, retroactive to March thirty first, 48 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:31.039 when he re injured his surgically repaired right ankle slipping 49 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:34.400 at the shower in his house over the weekend. He 50 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:36.840 has been getting treatment. He had said he was good 51 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:39.199 to go in the second game of that three game 52 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.280 series against the Atlanta Braves. Wanted to go last night 53 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:45.680 Dave Roberts the Dodger front office that we're off to 54 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:48.919 a good start. Heal that bad boy, get it right 55 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:52.879 before you come back for this marathon of one hundred 56 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:55.719 and sixty two game season. No need to rush back now. 57 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:00.599 It's not September, it's not October, it's barely April. And 58 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:05.479 Freddie Freeman being placed on the ten DAYIL to me 59 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:08.280 is a good thing. It prevents him from really trying 60 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:10.039 to get back on the field, because, like I said, 61 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:12.400 you don't need him at this point. To re injure 62 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:16.280 it and have a nagging ankle injury all season long 63 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:19.840 is the last thing you want out of Freddie Freeman. Now, 64 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.039 he slipped in the shower over the weekend. He called 65 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:26.560 it a little mishap. But anytime you retweak an injury 66 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:29.360 that he suffered last year, that right ankle injury, had 67 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:31.960 to have surgery on it in the offseason, that's not 68 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:36.080 a good thing. But it's not bad, it's not severe. 69 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:39.479 It's just retweaked and get it right and then come 70 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:41.400 back when you are one hundred percent or close to 71 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:44.080 it and ready to go. So that's the news this afternoon. 72 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:47.000 Freddie Freeman placed on the injured list with the right 73 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.680 ankle injury after the shower mishap over the weekend. Now, 74 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:52.439 who are the Dodgers going to call up in his place? 75 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:55.960 That is a great question because the Dodgers right now 76 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:57.840 need some help at the first base spot. 77 00:03:57.840 --> 00:03:57.960 Now. 78 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:00.599 Kiki Hernandez has played there the first couple of games 79 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:03.800 against the Atlanta Braves and last night you know played 80 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:07.199 first base. Okay, had some opportunities to make some picks 81 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:10.479 on bad throws plays that Freddie Freeman were so used 82 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:13.960 to making. Keiky Hernandez not able to make. So who 83 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.079 the Dodgers going to bring up? Who was in the 84 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.360 waiting at first base to help out this Dodgers team 85 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:21.360 while Freddie Freeman's out for the next week and really 86 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:23.959 out for this six game road trip before he can 87 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:28.639 come off the injured list. James Autman. No Hunter Fraducia. 88 00:04:29.279 --> 00:04:34.639 He's a catcher, limited experience at first base. Eddie Rosario 89 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:37.279 not on the forty man roster. Left handed hitting bat 90 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:44.040 a possibility. Dalton Rushing maybe, but Dalton Rushing is in 91 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:48.199 the starting lineup tonight in Oklahoma City catching. More on 92 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:50.360 that coming up with Tony Gonsolan making a minor league 93 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:53.839 rehab start. So if he were being called up and 94 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:56.519 coming to the major least for the first time, my 95 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:59.600 guess was he wouldn't have played tonight catching of all 96 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:02.560 position in Triple A Oklahoma City. If he were being 97 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:04.720 called up and asked to play first base, wouldn't you 98 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:06.279 have put him at first base to maybe get some 99 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:09.079 I don't know, crash course of playing first tonight in 100 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:11.319 Triple A then having ready to go tomorrow when the 101 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:14.040 Dodgers starts the series at Philadelphia. So I don't think 102 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:17.480 that's necessarily gonna be the option. How about High Sun Kim, 103 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:23.120 the left handed hitting middle infielder. Maybe maybe he's an 104 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:25.560 option to give you depth in the infield. And he's 105 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:27.199 certainly off to a really good start in Triple A 106 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.319 Oklahoma City. His offense was a big question in spring training, 107 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:33.759 not as good as his defense, and his offense so 108 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:35.839 far in the first week in Triple A Oklahoma City, 109 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:38.639 he has been tearing it apart at the plate, so 110 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:40.639 that is a good sign. Maybe we see High Sunk 111 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.600 Kim get called up with Freddie Freeman going on the 112 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:45.800 injured list eight sixty six, nine eighty seven two five 113 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.279 to seventy. Dodgers finished off the sweep last night of 114 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:51.120 the Atlanta Braves. And yes, the Dodgers are really good, 115 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.560 and yes the Dodgers are talented one through nine. The 116 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:56.399 starting rotation is good, the bullpen is good. The guys 117 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:58.680 on the injured list who are gonna hopefully come back 118 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:00.319 at some point this year, and even the guys who 119 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:03.800 were sitting out recovering from arm injuries, are really good, 120 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:06.639 and the last night, the Dodgers, for the first time 121 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.839 in two weeks of this season, did not live up 122 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:12.120 to being the best team in baseball in those first 123 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:16.199 couple of innings against the Braves. The defense reared its 124 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:20.319 ugly head last night, and some sloppy play then as 125 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:23.720 the game went on, some sloppy base running, some miscues 126 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.079 out on the base pass from Michael Confordo trying to 127 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:29.759 go first the third, Andy Pajz not going back on 128 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:31.360 a line drop up the middle that was caught and 129 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:33.879 he was doubled up when the Dodgers had runners on 130 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:36.959 first and third in less than two outs. They were 131 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:38.839 able to come back and win the game last night, 132 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:41.000 and what a dramatic win it was. Was shoe Hey 133 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.279 Otani the walk off home run of the ninth inning, 134 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:48.000 Max Munsey atoning for his throwing sins in the eighth 135 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.079 Inny with the two out, two run double. But if 136 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:54.079 we're gonna look at this team and their strengths and 137 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:57.439 how good they are across the board, you gotta look 138 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:01.600 at their weaknesses and what could be a factor for 139 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:06.439 this team down the stretch in September, in October when 140 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:10.120 games are tight and outs are counted one at a time, 141 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:15.759 and at a premium is this defense? And last night 142 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:19.040 Max Munsey had a couple of throwing airs, one on 143 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:22.120 a bunny was charging, threw it away up the line, 144 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:24.839 and the other one just completely threw it away from 145 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:27.160 key Ky Hernandez on a one hop who couldn't field it, 146 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:31.519 and it led to five unearned runs. Andy Pajez boxing 147 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.639 a ball in center field ruled a double, but it 148 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:38.519 was clearly an air on the Dodger center fielder. The 149 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:40.879 catches in the outfield have to be made. But those 150 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:43.000 throws from Munsie at third. We've seen him make a 151 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:45.639 couple of throws to Tommy Edmond at second in this 152 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:48.600 homestand and what did Edmund do? Made great picks on 153 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:53.680 four US outs on plays at second base been bailed 154 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:57.040 out by some great defense the Dodger infielders. Let's go 155 00:07:57.079 --> 00:07:59.639 back to last year, right, how many times have we 156 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:03.399 seen Freddie Freeman pick a ball at first, jump up 157 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:06.360 with his big six foot five frame and make a catch, 158 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.160 come off the bag, catch a ball down the line 159 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:12.199 and put a tag on the base runner, bailing out 160 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:17.600 the middle and third baseman for the Dodgers. The middle 161 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:23.079 infielders who won hop a throw over Max Munsey, who 162 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.360 short hops a throw to third. I think we take 163 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:29.360 Freddy Freeman for granted how good he is. And when 164 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:32.480 you go and look up Freddy Freeman's stats, you see 165 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:36.559 the World Series, the MVPs. Freddy Freeman's got one gold 166 00:08:36.559 --> 00:08:39.559 glove to his name, and that came in twenty eighteen 167 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:42.480 as a member of the Atlanta Braves. I said it 168 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:45.240 last year. I said it on sports and at LA 169 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:50.960 in the offseason. Freddie Freeman is a witch with the glove. 170 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:57.679 At first, Freddie Freeman is lipstick on a well kind 171 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:01.080 of a blimished Dodgers defense. He makes it look good 172 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:03.399 in the end, and he covers up for a lot 173 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:08.000 of mistakes from the Dodger infielders. And I think a 174 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:09.759 lot of time we look at it is, oh, great 175 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:12.360 pick by Freeman into the inning, all right, Dodgers coming 176 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:14.480 up to start the bottom of the second. Yeah, he 177 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:18.039 just made a great play on what is a tremendously 178 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:21.919 hard pick at first, bailing out a throw from shortstop, 179 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:25.720 a double play ball that he picks on a short 180 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:28.159 hop to get out of a jam. Oh we've just 181 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:30.559 ho hum. That's the end. Of the half inning. Dodgers 182 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:31.919 are going to bat in the bottom of the fifth. 183 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:37.000 Freddie Freeman is really good at first base and he 184 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:38.879 takes a lot of pride in his defense. You hear 185 00:09:38.919 --> 00:09:40.759 about all the time him his work he did in 186 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:44.080 Atlanta with Ron Washington and now he does it with 187 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:49.120 Dino Ebol and the Dodgers coaches. Three hours before a game, 188 00:09:49.159 --> 00:09:52.440 you got all the other Dodger infielders and outfielders working 189 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.039 on their pick drills. Freddie Freeman takes a lot of 190 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:00.720 pride in that and has really honed his skill since 191 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.919 coming to the Dodgers. And last night, not having Freddy 192 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:07.559 Freeman at first base on those two throwing theirs for 193 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:13.000 Max Munsey, it was eye opening to me. He really 194 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:16.879 does cover for some bad defense at times from the Dodgers. 195 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:19.639 And again, maybe we're nitpicking a little bit of a 196 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:22.639 team that's eight to oh and we're joking it's gonna 197 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:25.639 go one hundred and sixty two and O and Vegas 198 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:27.639 has him now at one hundred and six and a 199 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:31.240 half wins. They've now moved up three and a half 200 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:33.960 wins on the over Utterer win total for the year. 201 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:38.519 Maybe they'll get to one hundred and sixteen and tire 202 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:42.639 or break the all time record for wins in a season. 203 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:47.000 Who knows, but watching last night's first couple innings, the 204 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:51.080 mis cus and or base running and in particular the 205 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:58.399 defense the throws the first I think Freddy Freeman is 206 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:02.240 undercover one of the best first basement in baseball, and 207 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:06.799 certainly for the Dodgers, picks up for some of the 208 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:11.360 miscues on the throws and bails them out. And last 209 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.600 night it was on prime example, and it led to 210 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:19.399 five unearned runs. But the Dodgers team overall so good. 211 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:22.240 The bullpen last night I mentioned on Dodger Talk last night, 212 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.399 credit to the three guys that came in after blake'snew 213 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.879 Ben Casparius, Kirby Yates, and Jack Dryer putting up zeros, 214 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:31.759 benk Sparius getting out of his own jam that he 215 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:33.879 set up in the sixth inning with a couple of 216 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:35.600 base hits and a walk to load the basis. With 217 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:38.879 nobody out, Dodgers were down five to nothing. The bullpen 218 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:41.440 kept it at five, and then the Dodgers just kind 219 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:43.080 of chip chip chipped away with the two run home 220 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.480 run from Edmond Canforto. The home run Max Munty. The 221 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.000 two run double, keeping it at five runs for the 222 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:50.559 Braves was huge. Then you cut into at five to two, 223 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:52.879 five to three, tied at five, and then the dramatics 224 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:57.240 of the walkoff were huge from shohey Otani in the 225 00:11:57.360 --> 00:11:58.919 ninth inning, and you kind of just felt like the 226 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:01.840 momentum was building towards that in a walk off home 227 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.200 run on his bobblehead night, with everybody standing, the crowd 228 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:08.840 into it and waiting for sho Heyo Tani. He delivered 229 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:11.600 with that first pitch that he saw from Iglesias in 230 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:13.519 the bottom half of the ninth and eight sixty six, 231 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:16.600 nine eighty seven, two five seventy. So yeah, the Dodgers 232 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.120 off tonight. Freddie Freeman placed on the injured list. Do 233 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:21.559 not know who will take his spot on the roster, 234 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:24.120 but the Dodgers of course have to pick from guys 235 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:25.759 on the forty man roster or else you got a 236 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:29.399 clear roster space and bring somebody up who's not currently 237 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:32.360 on the format forty man roster. But in Triple A again, 238 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:35.600 the minor league season started in Triple A Oklahoma City, 239 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.399 Double A and A Ball. Those guys haven't started yet, 240 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:42.720 they start tomorrow. They reported to their respective teams this week. 241 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:45.039 But I haven't played a game yet, So whoever the 242 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:47.600 Dodgers go to as far as bringing up to take 243 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:50.919 the spot of Freddie Freeman is going to have to 244 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.440 come from Triple A Oklahoma City. Maybe it's not an infielder. 245 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:58.879 Maybe it's not high Sunk Kim, Maybe it's not Dalton Rushing. 246 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:02.759 Maybe it's not Hunter for Dousha. Maybe the Dodgers go 247 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:05.679 and bring up an arm to help out on the road. 248 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.759 You're playing three straight days in Philadelphia. Rain could be 249 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:12.639 an issue. May have to go through a starter. You're 250 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:15.320 gonna need some bullpen help as you go then to Washington, 251 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.360 DC for three. Could be another arm the Dodgers bring up. 252 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:21.759 We'll find out before tomorrow's first pitch at Citizens Bank 253 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:24.519 Park against the Phillies eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, 254 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:27.000 two five seventy. The other big thing that's really made 255 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:32.759 news this week in baseball is these torpedo bats. They 256 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:36.519 burst onto the scene over the weekend with the Yankees 257 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:39.840 in their series I think it was against Milwaukee and 258 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.440 scoring thirty six runs in three games. The amount of 259 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:45.840 home runs that were hitting, and all of a sudden, 260 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:49.559 somebody started posting pictures of these bats, and then it 261 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:52.919 kind of caught on The baseball role was in gaga 262 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:56.600 about these torpedo bats because they look different. Oh, it's 263 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:59.679 not what we're used to. The bad head is different 264 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:01.600 from what it has been for one hundred and fifty 265 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:04.759 years in the game of baseball, and people are going 266 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:08.279 crazy about it, and teams across the country are ordering 267 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.759 it for their players. Players are reaching out to their 268 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.600 respective bat companies, whether it's Maroucci or Glomar or Trinity 269 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.679 Bat company based here in Southern California or Louisville Slugger 270 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:23.240 and trying to get their hands on models of torpedo bats. 271 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:25.840 It was a race to see who can get a 272 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:28.279 torpedo bat, try it during batting practice, and use it 273 00:14:28.360 --> 00:14:30.799 in a game out. Max Munsey used it as a 274 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:34.039 Dodger hitter last night his first couple of bats, did 275 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:36.320 not use it for his two run double in the 276 00:14:36.440 --> 00:14:40.159 eighth inning. But I don't understand what the big buzz 277 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:43.519 is about the bats. So they look a little different 278 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:46.399 as far as the badhead is concerned. The weight distribution 279 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:48.879 and the size of the barrel just a little bit 280 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:53.159 different looking that we're used to. But do we have 281 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:56.000 to remember a few years ago the ax handle that 282 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:58.759 guys like Mookie Bets used, and people were like, well, 283 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.080 this is different. There's no knob at the end of 284 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:03.080 the bat. It's an axe handle. How do you swing 285 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:05.840 a baseball bat like an axe? Well, it was designed 286 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:08.600 that way because of the motion of swinging down a ball, 287 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:12.679 getting the backspin and getting launch angle. I mean, well, 288 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:15.879 there's a cup at the end of the bat. Who 289 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:20.120 does that? Years ago? Wow, guys putting tape on their back, 290 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.440 Guys use pine tar. I mean the new thing, the 291 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:26.799 change people freak out about. I don't think it's that 292 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:30.360 big of a deal. It's soon going to be down 293 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:32.519 in the lower levels of the minor leagues, and I'm 294 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:35.559 certain it's gonna catch on, and batmanufacturers are going to 295 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:41.080 start making them for the youth. But it's just redistributing 296 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:42.399 a little bit of where the barrel's at. 297 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:43.519 Now. 298 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.399 If you're a pitcher, you want to start jamming hitters, 299 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:48.279 you want to start hitting the edge of the plate, 300 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:49.679 make guys hit it off the end of the bat. 301 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:55.360 Certainly there's gonna be a counter from pitching perspectives and 302 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:59.000 approaches to hitters with this torpedo bat. You're not gonna 303 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:01.600 just throw it into their wheat spots now knowing where 304 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:04.639 this guy's barrel is bigger than Okay, well, I'm gonna 305 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:08.159 throw this guy inside all day, all night, seven days 306 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:10.559 of the week and force him to try a turn 307 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:12.679 the ball and maybe hit it off the end of 308 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:17.559 the bat or the now smaller part of the barrel. 309 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:22.759 Because it's weight distributed differently. You know they're gonna counter 310 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:25.000 to this move that the guys are doing with the bats, 311 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:28.879 these torpedo bats. It's a game of chess baseball. So 312 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:31.919 all the hitters think, ha ha, I've got the advantage. 313 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:37.679 Torpedo bats. It's the new craze. Okay, great, people will 314 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:39.799 be using them guys, and will not use Aaron Judge 315 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:42.399 hit a home run again tonight for the Yankees in 316 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:45.639 the first inning in their game against the Diamondbacks. Aaron 317 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:48.639 Judge doesn't use a torpedo bat. You still gotta be 318 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:51.799 one of the best hitters in the world to play 319 00:16:51.879 --> 00:16:55.159 professional baseball at the highest level. Have the high end 320 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:59.919 eye coordination, have the strength, have the discipline, the play 321 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.720 eight to hit a baseball. Just because these bats are 322 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:07.200 a little bit different looking, and in reality you have 323 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:10.279 to really look closely because they're a little different. Now 324 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:11.839 all of a sudden, Oh, it's gonna make me a 325 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:12.920 thirty home run hitter. 326 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:13.240 It's not. 327 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:17.200 It's not. You're not getting one on the pitchers. You're 328 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:22.559 not sneaking one past the pitchers. They figured this out. Analytics, 329 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:27.559 pitching staffs, pitching coaches, the computer guys will all now 330 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:30.599 figure out a counter to the torpedo bed. Okay, so 331 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:33.319 this guy hits the ball two thirds of the way 332 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:35.920 down his barrel. He can go from a middle of 333 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:38.759 the plate to the out half part of the plate. Okay, 334 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:40.559 So what are they gonna do. Pitch the guy in, 335 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:42.400 make him turn the ball. See if you can turn 336 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:44.759 on a ninety seven mile an hour fastball and get 337 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:47.039 that sweet part of the barrel around on a fastball, 338 00:17:47.240 --> 00:17:51.480 good luck. Now you don't have the luxury of a 339 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:55.680 weight distributed evenly barreled bat to try to make contact 340 00:17:55.759 --> 00:18:01.599 on an inside fastball. So there's count counterpoint on all 341 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:03.480 this stuff as far as the game of chess, that 342 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:06.519 is a hitter in the batter and the pitcher. Excuse me, 343 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:10.519 so I don't understand the big deal about the torpedo bats. Okay, 344 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:14.079 they look different. I guess we're so used to what 345 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.839 a baseball bat looks like that a little variation to it. 346 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:20.839 We all freak out. But I didn't get the hoopla. 347 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:23.400 I didn't understand why everybody was so excited and freaking 348 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:25.680 out about the torpedo bats, like, I gotta get one. 349 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:28.559 I gotta call Marouci, I gotta call Trinity Bat Company. 350 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.039 I gotta get out there and get myself a torpedo bat. 351 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:33.119 Come on, it's not gonna make you a thirty home 352 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.279 run hitter. All of a sudden eight six six nine 353 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:38.480 eighty seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eight 354 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:40.799 seven two five. Say well, take a break, we'll come back. 355 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:43.880 Get to your phone calls the Dodgers eight tozer on 356 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:47.559 this season? Can they get to one sixty two and zero? Yeah, 357 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:52.160 not gonna happen, but it's fun to talk about eight 358 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:54.480 sixty six, nine eighty seven two five seventy Your phone 359 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:57.240 calls when we come back, coming up in about twenty minutes. 360 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:00.759 A farm report. Tony Gonsolin on a minor league rehab assignments, 361 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:03.119 and I Evan Phillips is in Triple A Oklahoma City. 362 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:07.519 What's up with James Altun, Bobby Miller, Justin Robleski, I 363 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:10.720 sung Kim so I hear hope? Where's he going to 364 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:14.519 the minor league? Saw him in spring training? Dalton Rushing. 365 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:16.960 Let's wait to Paula Jackson Farris, saw him in the 366 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:18.880 Freeway Series. Where are they at this year in the 367 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:20.920 minor leagues? I'll give you a farm report coming up 368 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:23.000 at seven to forty five. Your phone calls next, It's 369 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:25.880 off night. Dodger Talk Here on IM five seven e 370 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:29.200 LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio M five seventy 371 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:32.799 LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks for 372 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:38.759 being with us on this cool raining in some parts 373 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:43.640 of southern California, Thursday night, April third, Here with you 374 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:45.400 till the top of the hour. He had a farmerport 375 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:48.480 coming up in less than twenty minutes. The latest on 376 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:52.799 Tony Gonsolin, what's happening in Triple A, Oklahoma City and 377 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:55.799 the minor leagues? Dodgers off tonight. They're in Philadelphia tomorrow 378 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:58.759 as they start a six game road trip. Three in Philadelphia, 379 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:02.039 three in Washington. D Dodgers eight and Ozer to start 380 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:04.799 this season. Best start by a defending World Series championship 381 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:08.799 team in MLB history, best start in La Dodger history. 382 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:12.480 They are two games away from tying the all time 383 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:16.680 Dodger best start, and that came in nineteen fifty five 384 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:20.240 with the Boys this summer. In that year, the Dodgers 385 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:22.079 got off to a ten and zero start. The Dodgers 386 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:25.279 right now at eight to zero, six of which come 387 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:29.200 via walk off excuse me, come from behind wins in 388 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:32.319 the first eight games this season, including last night's walk 389 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:34.680 off home run from Shoeo Tani Blake Snell by the way, 390 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:37.559 four innames, five runs, five hits, four walks, two strikeouts. 391 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:40.160 He was arguing with the home played umpire last night, 392 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:43.200 a little bit of a command issue, got hit around 393 00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:44.839 a little bit, had some walks like he did in 394 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:48.079 the first game against the Tigers, and didn't help that 395 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:51.039 he got some throwing airs behind him on defense and 396 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:53.279 a drop fly ball in center field rule a double 397 00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:56.359 against Andy Pajis. Squat to the phones, got one line op. 398 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:57.559 But if you want to jump on board eight six 399 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:01.880 six ninety seven two five seventy man Well and Guardina Manuell, 400 00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:02.920 how are you doing, my friend. 401 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:09.240