Speaker 1: Yes, we go down on the farm Dodgers Minor League
Speaker 1: top prospects from TRIPLEA Oklahoma City, all the way down
Speaker 1: to Rancho Cucamonga. In between at Great Lakes with the
Speaker 1: Loons and Double A Tulsa. We'll get an update on
Speaker 1: Dalton rushing Alex Friedland coming up in just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes with Alex Friedman, the voice of the comments.
Speaker 1: But let's get you caught up on some other top prospects.
Speaker 1: Host Wade Depaula, the nineteen year old outfielder in High
Speaker 1: A Ball with the Great Lakes Loons. Ten games in
Speaker 1: so far, so good, deep.
Speaker 2: Thrive to right field, hit well, smith running back, watch
Speaker 2: that ball fly a grand slam for the teenager to
Speaker 2: take the lead in the eighth inning. Soon enough, he'll
Speaker 2: do it in Hollywood, but he is bringing Hollywood to
Speaker 2: Midland right now.
Speaker 1: LUN's Radio Network with the call a grand slam. Fro
Speaker 1: Swaye to Paula a couple of nights ago. He's got
Speaker 1: two home runs on this season, six ribbies, ten walks,
Speaker 1: three doubles, a triple. He's hitting just two forty three,
Speaker 1: but an ops of nine to forty five. About Jackson,
Speaker 1: Harris in Double A Tulsa, the twenty one year old
Speaker 1: left hander. Two starts, no wins, no losses, but a
Speaker 1: one to eighty ERA thirteen strikeouts already for Jackson Ferris
Speaker 1: in ten innings of work. Zayer Hope, the twenty year
Speaker 1: old outfielder. You got a glimpse of him in spring
Speaker 1: training in the Freeway Series against the Angels. He's in
Speaker 1: high A ball with the Great Lakes Loons. Eleven games
Speaker 1: so far, three sixty four average, four doubles, a triple,
Speaker 1: and a couple of home runs, fourteen ribbies on the
Speaker 1: year for Zayer Hope, he's got an ops over one thousand,
Speaker 1: and a few nights ago had a four hit game.
Speaker 3: Here's the pitch. HiT's a high fly out to right
Speaker 3: field toward the corner. Nate Nankill, He's at the wall
Speaker 3: and that hits off the Lansing BWL sign. Hope's around,
Speaker 3: so taking for third. Their relay throw arrives late, hitch
Speaker 3: to Hope. Ground ball saysled past Montero at first base,
Speaker 3: hit into the right field corner on the two run
Speaker 3: double by Zayirra Hope three two. A ground ball weekly
Speaker 3: struck towards second off the backhanded attemptive yama Uchi, you staggered.
Speaker 3: It kicks into shallow center. Hope reaches single, charged by
Speaker 3: the official scorer, and he swings and drives it center field.
Speaker 3: Rodney Green Junior goes back over his head and one
Speaker 3: hops off the wall. It's a double for Hope, an
Speaker 3: RBI two bagger, and the Loons go up seven to three.
Speaker 1: LUN's Radio with the call Zayir Hope quickly having a
Speaker 1: good twenty twenty five season in high a ball. Kellen Lindsey,
Speaker 1: nineteen year old shortstop down in Rancho Cucamonga, the six
Speaker 1: to two to one and seventy five pound first round
Speaker 1: pick a year ago, his first professional home run.
Speaker 4: Here's a high fly ball into right center. This ball
Speaker 4: is way back into the gap in it is gone.
Speaker 4: Last year's number twenty three overall pick in the first round.
Speaker 4: Kevin Lindsey goes yard. He deposits one into the right
Speaker 4: center gap.
Speaker 1: Quakes Radio Network with the call, thirty five at bats
Speaker 1: already for Kellen Lindsay two eighty six average. There's his
Speaker 1: first home run. You just heard the five Ribbies in
Speaker 1: eight sixty five ops. They like his speed and they
Speaker 1: like his defense. Ed Wardo Quintero, nineteen year old outfielder
Speaker 1: signed out of Venezuela two years ago. A lot to
Speaker 1: like about him, speed, defense, A five tool guy. He's
Speaker 1: an a ball in Rancho Cucamonga. Thirty nine at bats
Speaker 1: to eighty two average, and he's got a couple home runs.
Speaker 4: Here's a high fly ball into deep right center. This
Speaker 4: ball is way back, this ball is gone. Eduardo Kintaro
Speaker 4: goes yard. It is a long ball Sunday for the
Speaker 4: Rancho Cucamonga Quakes.
Speaker 1: Eduardo Quintaro with the home Run Quakes Radio Network in
Speaker 1: eight fifty eight ops to start the season for Quintero.
Speaker 1: Jion Ja Vargas, nineteen year old shortstop, also in Rancho
Speaker 1: Kucka Manga, thirty one at bats so far for the
Speaker 1: young Men at the Dominican Republic, two ninety average, six
Speaker 1: ribbies and his seven forty four ops. Kendall George, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers first round pick in twenty twenty three. He is
Speaker 1: in high A Ball with Great Lakes. Ten games so far,
Speaker 1: one ninety seven battian average, two home run, six ribbies,
Speaker 1: ten walks, so he's getting on base with a six
Speaker 1: sixty six ops just a low batting average. Young Siuk Jing,
Speaker 1: twenty one year old right hander out of South Korea,
Speaker 1: the top pitching prospect signed out of Korea in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. So far three starts in Rancho Kucka Manga
Speaker 1: oh on one record six fifty two ERA, eleven strikeouts,
Speaker 1: but in nine to two third innings, Jang has got
Speaker 1: eleven walks. How about Jared Carroll's Eric Carrolls's son. He
Speaker 1: is in Double A Tulsa, the twenty four year old
Speaker 1: two starts so far ohen one record with a ninety
Speaker 1: seventy two ERA and five strikeouts. All right, an update
Speaker 1: on some of the Dodgers' top prospects in A Ball,
Speaker 1: High A Ball and Double A Tulsa. Let's check in
Speaker 1: though with Alex Friedman, the voice of the Oklahoma City Comments,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers Triple A affiliate, and yesterday Alex Clayton Kershaw
Speaker 1: made a minor league rehab start for you guys, three
Speaker 1: shutout innings. How did he look?
Speaker 5: I think for any pitcher, whether it's Clayton Kershaw or
Speaker 5: someone who's essentially making their first spring training appear into
Speaker 5: the year, because this is what that is for Kershaw
Speaker 5: to go three innings, three scoreless and face just ten
Speaker 5: batters and be very efficient is very encouraging. The fastball
Speaker 5: velocity is a little bit down from where it was
Speaker 5: last year, but that's expected from any pitcher, you know.
Speaker 5: Like I said, basically their first game action of the season.
Speaker 5: But that slider had its traditional bite to it, got
Speaker 5: a few swings and misses on it. The curveball he
Speaker 5: dropped in a few of those as well. Nickson some
Speaker 5: changeups too, So overall, I think just very encouraging for
Speaker 5: him to have three innings, to get those three ups
Speaker 5: back on the mound to start his season.
Speaker 1: Evan Phillips has made some appearances. Looks like he is
Speaker 1: going to get recalled with Bobby Miller be an option
Speaker 1: back to Triple A. Ok See today. Tony Gonsolin, the
Speaker 1: Catman Dodger. Fans haven't seen him in over a year.
Speaker 1: He's in Triple A Oklahoma City. He's made three starts. Now,
Speaker 1: how is he looking as he looks to come back.
Speaker 5: Well, it's been nine total innings for Tony in eight
Speaker 5: of them have been really good. There was one that
Speaker 5: it wasn't even bad. He kind of got singleed to death.
Speaker 5: There was a lot of soft contact, so I don't
Speaker 5: think it's as bad maybe on paper as it seems
Speaker 5: that his last start two days ago against Tacoma, where
Speaker 5: he gave up three runs over four innings. Again, all
Speaker 5: three of those runs came in that one inning where
Speaker 5: just balls found some spots against him. But I mean
Speaker 5: hit his second start with us in Round Rock Boy,
Speaker 5: he was looking phenomenal. Fourteen swings and misses over forty
Speaker 5: six total pitches, twelve of those fourteen on the splitter,
Speaker 5: and you could see why at the time the Dodgers
Speaker 5: were saying, well, maybe it is just one more for Gonsolin,
Speaker 5: or maybe he could join us sooner than that, But they,
Speaker 5: I think, have the luxury of making another start at
Speaker 5: least how things stand now with us next week in
Speaker 5: Saul Lake, and that should be the final one. But overall, Tony,
Speaker 5: of course, you know, he'll be such a big lift
Speaker 5: for the rotation, veteran guy who knows what he's doing
Speaker 5: out there. And again, I think the majority of the
Speaker 5: results have been really good so far.
Speaker 1: Alex Fraeman, the voice of the Oklahoma City Comments, joined
Speaker 1: us here on off night Dodger Talk. All Right, some
Speaker 1: of the young guys. We'll start off with Hayesong Kim.
Speaker 1: They signed him in the off season. Many thought he'd
Speaker 1: open the season with the big league team. He struggled
Speaker 1: offensively in spring training, alex and that was the one
Speaker 1: thing that the Dodgers really wanted him to work on
Speaker 1: before they call him up to the big leagues. How
Speaker 1: has Hayesong Kim look so far for OKAC.
Speaker 5: Well, the batting average is in a decent spot right now.
Speaker 5: It's dipped down a little bit the last couple of
Speaker 5: games to sixty eight. But I think the thing that's
Speaker 5: been encouraging is especially for the Dodgers, has been the
Speaker 5: slug It's a five twenty one slugging percentage so far
Speaker 5: for Kim, with a total of eleven extra base hits,
Speaker 5: so over half of his hits so far have gone
Speaker 5: for extra bases. He's also played all over the field, second, short, center.
Speaker 5: A lot of people have been asking, well, how has
Speaker 5: he looked in center. He'd never really played there before.
Speaker 5: He's played a little bit of left field in Korea,
Speaker 5: and talking with him through his translator saying he's adjusting
Speaker 5: just fine. He perverse playing up the middle the way
Speaker 5: I've said it is he doesn't look any different than
Speaker 5: any other center fielder that I have seen this year.
Speaker 5: And I say that in a good way, but offensively. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's still some adjustments to be made. I think velocity,
Speaker 5: and he'll even admit the velocity on every pitch is
Speaker 5: higher than it is in Korea. And another point that
Speaker 5: he brought up again when I was interviewing him and
Speaker 5: assisted by his interpreter Joe Lee, is that the overall
Speaker 5: speed of the game is just faster. He's said, everything
Speaker 5: is faster here in the US. You don't have a
Speaker 5: pitch clock over in Korea, you don't have the pace
Speaker 5: of play in disengagement rules that you do when comes
Speaker 5: to holding runners on. So he's adjusting to that as well.
Speaker 5: And again it's some encouraging results, but I think he's
Speaker 5: certainly the first to let you know that there's more
Speaker 5: work to be done.
Speaker 1: Alex, what's the plan for hay Sun Kim? You mentioned
Speaker 1: he's playing center field. He has opened the eyes a
Speaker 1: lot of Dodger fans saying, well, maybe that's the long
Speaker 1: term plan form Is that the case or is it
Speaker 1: to make him versatile like a Chris Taylor a keyk
Speaker 1: Hernandez a Tommy Edmond, a guy who can play multiple
Speaker 1: positions infield and outfield.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't think I can definitively answer that question.
Speaker 5: I think you have to ask another Friedman spell differently
Speaker 5: the answer to the answer to that question. But I
Speaker 5: think we know that the Dodgers value versatility. I don't
Speaker 5: think that there is a plan to stick him at
Speaker 5: one position. I think it is to just keep him
Speaker 5: up the middle basically second, short, and center, knowing that
Speaker 5: he can handle any of those positions.
Speaker 1: Dalton Rushing, we saw the experiment in left field at
Speaker 1: the end of the year last season. Is he back
Speaker 1: behind the play at full time? How is Dalton Rushing
Speaker 1: the Dodgers' top prospect looking so far in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: Alex, Yes, he is mostly behind the plate, and that's
Speaker 5: nothing to say that he can't play left field. He
Speaker 5: did play a couple of innings there one of our
Speaker 5: game when he pinched hit, like in the eighth inning,
Speaker 5: and it just made sense for him to continue the
Speaker 5: rest of the game out there based on the rest
Speaker 5: of the lineup in defensive alignment. But it's mostly catch.
Speaker 5: There have been a little bit more first base then
Speaker 5: we saw last year. We basically saw none in Oklahoma City,
Speaker 5: so there have been some games at first base.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 5: The thing for Dalton is last week in Round Rock
Speaker 5: hitting before one of the games in the cage back
Speaker 5: locked up on him. He used the final four games
Speaker 5: that series. But he's been back this week the same
Speaker 5: guy that we saw last year. Really good knowledge of
Speaker 5: the strike zone, a really good hit tool as well
Speaker 5: as power, and he's had some really good early results too.
Speaker 5: But again that's been a little bit limited, just between
Speaker 5: again that minor injury and the fact that being a
Speaker 5: catcher he is going to get some days off as
Speaker 5: opposed to other position players. But it's in the starting
Speaker 5: lineup back behind the plate tonight, so looking.
Speaker 1: Forward to that Alex. One of the guys Dodger fans
Speaker 1: saw in spring training was Alex Friedland, the twenty three
Speaker 1: year old infielder out of Central Florida third round pick
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty two. He shot through the system
Speaker 1: last season, played really well at every level that he
Speaker 1: got to. Here he is in twenty twenty five. Is
Speaker 1: he still primarily a shortstop? Are we seeing maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit of him at third base? And how is
Speaker 1: he doing here in the start of the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, still, I think you nailed it. They're still primarily
Speaker 5: playing getting his majority of reps at short, but they
Speaker 5: have nicked some third in as well, and he's been
Speaker 5: totally fine, I think at both spots and a really
Speaker 5: good hands, strong arm. The offense has been the biggest
Speaker 5: difference for the most part. Last year, he struggled when
Speaker 5: he was with us, but he was starting to figure
Speaker 5: it out at the end of the season. Had a
Speaker 5: really good last series in the season in Salt Lake City,
Speaker 5: and it was one of those situations like, gosh, you
Speaker 5: just wish the season was kind of going to go
Speaker 5: on for him because, like I said, he was figuring out.
Speaker 5: It's carried over to this year. Talking with Alex, he says,
Speaker 5: I'm just playing free again. I got tight when I
Speaker 5: got here to triple A last year. I wasn't having success,
Speaker 5: develop some bad habits. I'm getting back to the player
Speaker 5: that I usually am and again a free Alex Friedland
Speaker 5: it is in his last name. Since it has been a
Speaker 5: really fun to watch again offensively defensive league. I can
Speaker 5: run too. He's got five stolen bases in six attempts
Speaker 5: since April of fourth. He leads all the minor leagues
Speaker 5: and hits, so he's been a hot hitter as well well.
Speaker 1: Alex, I appreciate the time and the update from OKC
Speaker 1: on some of the Dodgers' top prospects knocking on the
Speaker 1: door to get to LA. Thanks so much.
Speaker 5: Happy to join you any time.