Speaker 1: Oh, we got a fun show tonight, Off Night Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: On this Thursday night, April seventeen, twenty twenty five, Tim
Speaker 1: Kate's with you here for the next hour on Off
Speaker 1: Night Dodger Talk is the Dodgers hit the road for
Speaker 1: a five game road trip beginning tomorrow in Arlington, Texas
Speaker 1: at Globe Life Field against the Texas Rangers. Eight sixty six,
Speaker 1: nine eighty seven to two, five seventy is the number
Speaker 1: I want you to be a part of the show tonight.
Speaker 1: It's Dodger Talk. We talk Dodger Baseball. Eight six six
Speaker 1: nine eighty seventy two five seven. We got a fun show.
Speaker 1: Your phone calls talking Dodgers coming up. In about forty
Speaker 1: five minutes, we are going to get you a farm report.
Speaker 1: We are about three weeks into the minor league season.
Speaker 1: We're a month in to the major league season. We'll
Speaker 1: get you an update on the Dodgers' top minor league
Speaker 1: prospects and also check in with the voice of the
Speaker 1: Triple A Oklahoma City Comments, Alex Friedman will join us
Speaker 1: during the farm report, give us the latest on Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 1: who made minor league rehabs start yesterday in okc Tony Gonsolin,
Speaker 1: who's now three starts in to his minor league rehab
Speaker 1: appearances and hopefully joining this Dodger rotation soon. Hey Sung
Speaker 1: Kim in Triple A Oklahoma City, how is he doing
Speaker 1: in his first taste of professional baseball in the United States?
Speaker 1: Dalton Rushing and of course Alex Freeland the Dodgers' top
Speaker 1: Triple A middle infielder prospects. So we'll get an updated
Speaker 1: on all of them, plus the guys in Double A
Speaker 1: Tulsa High A Ball, Great Lakes and the Rancho Cucamonga
Speaker 1: Quakes that's coming up in about forty five minutes your
Speaker 1: phone calls between then and now. Though. At eight six
Speaker 1: six ninety eighty seven to two five seventy the Dodgers
Speaker 1: fresh off a six game homestand that saw them get
Speaker 1: off to a rocky start, drop two of three to
Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs, but then bounce back and really feast
Speaker 1: on a bad Colorado Rockies team, the Dodgers winning all
Speaker 1: three games Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last night in eight
Speaker 1: seven victory over the Rockies. As the Dodgers go far
Speaker 1: two on this most latest homestand They're now fourteen and
Speaker 1: six overall, and as we speak right now, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: now in second place in the National League West, as
Speaker 1: they are behind the San Diego Padres, who are leading
Speaker 1: the division right now, the Padres at fifteen and four overall,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers at fourteen and six. The Dodgers set in
Speaker 1: a game and a half back in the standings, the
Speaker 1: Giants two games back, the Diamondbacks are three games back
Speaker 1: of first place, and the Colorado Rockies, who we saw
Speaker 1: in the last three nights at Dodgers Stadium, boy, that
Speaker 1: is a bad baseball team. They are eleven and a
Speaker 1: half games back already now one month into this season,
Speaker 1: and that's where we're at. We are one month in
Speaker 1: to this marathon of his season. They've officially played eight
Speaker 1: percent of their one hundred and sixty two game schedule
Speaker 1: at twenty games in. And there's a lot to kind
Speaker 1: of digest with this Dodgers team now twenty games in.
Speaker 1: Most certainly what jumps off the page is the Dodgers'
Speaker 1: injuries and have they've navigated through these injuries and the
Speaker 1: injuries they knew about going into the start of the season.
Speaker 1: The Clayton Kershaws, the Tony Gonsolins, the bullpen, high leverage
Speaker 1: relievers in Michael Kopek and Evan Phillips. They started the
Speaker 1: year injured. Knew about those injuries, but then the injuries
Speaker 1: that they've had to deal with, in particularly the bug
Speaker 1: that Mookie Betts got that effected of him in Japan
Speaker 1: and the first part of the season, the il stent
Speaker 1: for Freddie Freeman reaggravating that ankle injury. The Dodgers haven't
Speaker 1: been at full strength this season. We've had the injury
Speaker 1: bug and we've had the sick bug go through the
Speaker 1: Dodger clubhouse, most recently Teoscar Hernandez missing a couple of
Speaker 1: games on this last homestand because of the sick bug
Speaker 1: that went through the Dodgers' clubhouse twenty games into this season.
Speaker 1: My thoughts, the Dodgers pretty much played as good as
Speaker 1: they can now. They're gonna get better and this Dodgers
Speaker 1: lineup is gonna get better and it's gonna get healthy.
Speaker 1: This Dodgers have with stand some injuries early on and
Speaker 1: really some disappointments early on in the rotation. Think about
Speaker 1: the Blake Snell injury and what the Dodgers have had
Speaker 1: to deal with with him making a couple of starts
Speaker 1: and then going to the injured list, the Dodgers navigating
Speaker 1: with Yoshi Yamamoto and Sasaki, two starters who realistically are
Speaker 1: gonna be once a week starters for the Dodgers. As
Speaker 1: will show, Hao Tani be a one start a week
Speaker 1: starter for the Dodgers when he gets healthy and joins
Speaker 1: this rotation, and the Dodgers having this depth that we
Speaker 1: thought they had in pitching well hasn't lived up to
Speaker 1: the hype quite yet. But twenty games into this season,
Speaker 1: we've got a pretty good sample size of this twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five Dodgers roster. We've seen some ops, We've seen
Speaker 1: some downs. We've seen some offensive slumps. We've seen some
Speaker 1: bad defense, We've seen some sloppy base running. We've seen
Speaker 1: some just flat out bad pitching at times. The number
Speaker 1: one thing that sticks out to me is the bullpen
Speaker 1: and what this Dodgers' bullpen has been able to do.
Speaker 1: I believe carrying this Dodgers team through the first twenty games,
Speaker 1: the bullpen has been asked to do a lot already
Speaker 1: this year. Certainly when you're in the beginning part of
Speaker 1: a season. You're not gonna throw your starters out there
Speaker 1: six seven Indians. You're not gonna have them go up
Speaker 1: to one hundred pitches. You're not even gonna get him
Speaker 1: close to eighty eighty five pitches the first couple times
Speaker 1: through the rotation. I understand that. So you're gonna rely
Speaker 1: a little bit more on your bullpen early in this
Speaker 1: season as you're starting pitchers ramp up. That's kind of
Speaker 1: understood already, But this Dodgers' bullpen has had to kind
Speaker 1: of cover the butts of starting pitchers who have just
Speaker 1: not been very good and not given them the length
Speaker 1: past the third or the fourth inning. This bullpen has
Speaker 1: been asked to do a lot entering tomorrow, eleven more
Speaker 1: innings pitch than any other major league bullpen so far
Speaker 1: this season. Dodgers relievers have averaged four to third innings
Speaker 1: pitch per game already this year. And remember last night,
Speaker 1: they had to cover the final six innings because Bobby
Speaker 1: Miller can only go three innings and get to eighty
Speaker 1: four pitches and give up five in runs. After giving
Speaker 1: up a run in the first, Ben Casparius has had
Speaker 1: been asked to carry a lot Jack Dryer has been
Speaker 1: asked to carry a load. Alex Vesi had pitched again
Speaker 1: last night. Anthony Bonda Tanner Scott, We've seen the Dodgers
Speaker 1: bullpen a lot the first twenty games of the season.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers relievers have pitched almost as many innings as
Speaker 1: Dodgers starters through the first twenty games, eighty seven and
Speaker 1: two third innings combined for the Dodgers' bullpen eighty nine
Speaker 1: and a third innings pitched by the Dodger starters. That
Speaker 1: has got to change as the weather gets warmer and
Speaker 1: we get closer to summer. It just has to, or
Speaker 1: else you're going to see a bullpen with dead arms
Speaker 1: by the All Star break. And quite frankly, the reason
Speaker 1: why we're seeing Michael Kopek, Evan Phillips, some of the
Speaker 1: high leverage older relievers for the Dodgers start the season
Speaker 1: on the injured list, it's because they pitched a lot
Speaker 1: last year. Bruce Dargraderol, where are you? It's been hurt
Speaker 1: the last year plus. He pitched a lot going into
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four injured last year, unable to help. That's
Speaker 1: why Jack Dryer and Ben Casparius were big parts of
Speaker 1: the bullpen in October and Casperi's pitching in the World
Speaker 1: Series because you used your bullpen a lot during the season.
Speaker 1: It's something that Yeah, twenty games in, are we panicking
Speaker 1: about the bullpen? No, but they have carried this Dodgers
Speaker 1: team to a fourteen and six start. The offense has
Speaker 1: been up and down. They can score runs in bunches.
Speaker 1: Last night they put a seventh spot on the board
Speaker 1: in the first inning. Unreal. But they could also go
Speaker 1: through droughts and the starting pitching has really not lived
Speaker 1: up to what we thought it was gonna be.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: Yoshi Yamamoto has pitched really well and has looked really good.
Speaker 1: David Vasse has gone out and said he could win
Speaker 1: the Cy Young Award, but before the season even started well.
Speaker 1: Four starts in, he's two and one with a one
Speaker 1: to twenty three ERA and twenty eight strikeouts. He's pitched
Speaker 1: really well. Dustin May welcome back. Code Red has pitched
Speaker 1: really well for this team. Roki Sasaki four starts up
Speaker 1: and down. Tyler Glass now up and down. You get
Speaker 1: a little cold weather, a little rain, and he melts.
Speaker 1: But he bounced back and pitched well against the Cubs
Speaker 1: over the weekend at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers are gonna
Speaker 1: get healthy and get arms back, but the depth has
Speaker 1: already been challenged with the rotation. The bullpen has saved them.
Speaker 1: The bullpen has carried it a lot the first twenty
Speaker 1: games I just mentioned pretty much even as far as
Speaker 1: innings pitched by the bullpen and the innings pitched by
Speaker 1: the starters. It's gotta change, gotta get more out of
Speaker 1: the starting pitching. As we get to May and the
Speaker 1: weather even gets warmer into the summertime, the Dodgers will
Speaker 1: get Clayton Kershaw back. Tony Gonslim will be infused into
Speaker 1: this rotation at some point show hey Otani, my guess
Speaker 1: is the second half of the season will be ramped
Speaker 1: up and added to this rotation. So you'll see major
Speaker 1: league depth ready to go, but already landed neck Justin
Speaker 1: Robleski and last night Bobby Miller, three young arms that
Speaker 1: going into this season, we looked at his depth. We
Speaker 1: looked at is all right extra arms ready to go?
Speaker 1: An injury occurs, we'll pop up Bobby Miller. Something happens
Speaker 1: in the rotation, a short stint on the il boom,
Speaker 1: Land and Neck inserted into the rotation. You didn't have
Speaker 1: a worry about that, and quite frankly, I still don't
Speaker 1: worry about them starting. But they none of them, Robleski,
Speaker 1: Knack and last night Bobby Miller, in their opportunity so far,
Speaker 1: and they've been given all opportunities to go out there
Speaker 1: and start and flash and do something to catch the
Speaker 1: eye of this Dodger coaching staff have not done that.
Speaker 1: Land and Neck has certainly not done that in his
Speaker 1: two starts in three outings. Justin Robleski has come up
Speaker 1: and pitched five innings and gave up eight earned runs
Speaker 1: on eight hits in his time out there, included a
Speaker 1: couple of home runs. And last night Bobby Miller was
Speaker 1: given a seven to one lead, only to give up
Speaker 1: five runs in the third and make it a one
Speaker 1: run game before having to hand it over to the
Speaker 1: bullpen after three innings. I love Bobby Miller, the kid
Speaker 1: as tough as nails. I love his grit and the
Speaker 1: way he goes out there on the mound and pitches.
Speaker 1: The control issues who are a problem. I think the
Speaker 1: confidence has been lost and he's searching for it. And
Speaker 1: we thought this offseason, he'd do some searching for it
Speaker 1: this spring training, he'd find it. Certainly, getting hit in
Speaker 1: the spring training didn't help. He was behind the eight
Speaker 1: ball as far as the race was concerned with Landon
Speaker 1: Knack to make the major league roster to start the season.
Speaker 1: But last night golden opportunity to come up. He was
Speaker 1: spotting a six run lead after one inning and couldn't
Speaker 1: get out of the past the third inning. Give it
Speaker 1: an opportunity. You gotta take advantage of it. Got to
Speaker 1: get more out of these young starting pitchers. You just
Speaker 1: have to if you're the Dodgers. That's what's stood out
Speaker 1: to me Dodger fans. The first twenty games of this season,
Speaker 1: the bullpen has been lights out. How many times have
Speaker 1: we talked about it on postgame Dodger Talk, talked about
Speaker 1: it on a five to seven DLA Sports. David Veasse
Speaker 1: has brought it up on pre and postgame shows. Rick
Speaker 1: Monday's talked about it. How big the bullpen has been
Speaker 1: putting up zeros, keeping teams at certain runs to allow
Speaker 1: the offense to get back into a game, keeping a
Speaker 1: team off the board so the Dodgers can maintain a lead,
Speaker 1: keeping a team off the board, So what is a
Speaker 1: scoreless game? The Dodgers' offense can get jump started and
Speaker 1: get going and give them the lead. The lack of
Speaker 1: starting pitching outside of really Dustin May and Yoshiyamamoto has
Speaker 1: been glaring the first twenty games, and the bullpen has
Speaker 1: been there to save their behinds and to help out
Speaker 1: this Dodgers team collectively. Last night, having to pitch six
Speaker 1: innings over the weekend picking up innings, Ben Casparius Jack
Speaker 1: Dryer asked to do yeoman's work pitching two three three
Speaker 1: plus innings add the bullpen times. Through twenty games, the
Speaker 1: bullpen has pitched just as many innings as the starters
Speaker 1: eighty seven to two thirds, eighty nine and a third.
Speaker 1: Basically right there next to each other. As far as
Speaker 1: the bullpen and starters is concerned, that's gotta change. But again,
Speaker 1: my my opinion, the first twenty games of this season,
Speaker 1: the bullpen has been the MVP for this Dodgers eight
Speaker 1: sixty six nine eight seven two five to seventy. The
Speaker 1: division is tight. The NL West is gonna be like
Speaker 1: this all season long? Will it be four teams vying
Speaker 1: for the division like it is right now? With the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: the Padres, the Giants, and the Diamondbacks. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think this will ultimately come down to a three
Speaker 1: team race. Really by the time the weather warms up
Speaker 1: into June, and by the time we get past the
Speaker 1: All Star break and get into August and pass the
Speaker 1: trade deadline, I think it can be tighter than that
Speaker 1: Padres and Dodgers. Right now, the Giants are playing way
Speaker 1: above their skis. You're seeing Wilbert Flores hit six home
Speaker 1: runs early on for a San Francisco Giants team that's
Speaker 1: getting big time production out of him. Junghuglee, Ustrimsky, Willia Domas,
Speaker 1: Helio Romes, Lamont Way Junior has done nothing for him.
Speaker 1: But you're seeing a Matt Chapman team for the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Giants off to a good start. They're not going
Speaker 1: to maintain this. They don't have the depth, they can't
Speaker 1: overcome injuries like other teams in the division, and they've
Speaker 1: got guys like Wilmer Flores having awesome starts. But quite frankly,
Speaker 1: we'll come back to reality at some point, as will
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Giants. They will be who they think
Speaker 1: they are pretty much an above five hundred team, but
Speaker 1: not a playoff team. The Diamondbacks, they're a team that's scary.
Speaker 1: They've now won in a row and are crept back
Speaker 1: into this race here early on with the Padres, Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and Giants. They'll be here for a while, but in
Speaker 1: the end it's gonna come down to the Padres and
Speaker 1: Dodgers again. It's gonna be a neck and neck back
Speaker 1: and forth. I think the depth of the Dodgers over
Speaker 1: one sixty two is the one thing other teams don't
Speaker 1: have and can't compete with. When a starting pitcher like
Speaker 1: a Blake Snell goes on the injured list on another
Speaker 1: team like the Padres, what happens to them? Their rotation
Speaker 1: goes down dramatically. Do they have the talent around them
Speaker 1: to plug in a starter, go to the minor leagues
Speaker 1: and plug in a young arm for a couple of starts,
Speaker 1: a couple of spins around the rotation. They just don't.
Speaker 1: They don't have what the Dodgers have. They don't even
Speaker 1: have a bullpen like the Dodgers. Even when a young
Speaker 1: arms like Robleski and Nack and Bobby Miller don't have
Speaker 1: great outings when plugged in like they have been. Other
Speaker 1: teams don't have the bullpen depth like the Dodgers to
Speaker 1: carry them for a couple of games series for a
Speaker 1: stretch like the bullpen has carried the Dodgers so far
Speaker 1: this year. If the Dodgers lose a player in the
Speaker 1: lineup like a Freddie Freeman, which they have for an
Speaker 1: il stint, lose a player like a Mookie Betts like
Speaker 1: they have because of the illness that he had in
Speaker 1: the stomach bug, miss a couple of games here for
Speaker 1: Taoscar Hernandez two games out of three in a series.
Speaker 1: Most teams don't have the depth in the lineup or
Speaker 1: the bats in the lineup to survive something like that
Speaker 1: over the stretch of a couple of eel stins. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers do. That's where I think ultimately it'll come down
Speaker 1: to the Dodgers and Padres the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Injuries are part of baseball. It happens. The Dodgers are
Speaker 1: gonna have them, the Padres are gonna have them. It's
Speaker 1: going to affect a team and kill a team's chances
Speaker 1: of a postseason run. But the Dodgers have so much depth,
Speaker 1: and they got so many guys still waiting to come
Speaker 1: back and haven't even played yet, that they are going
Speaker 1: to be able to overcome the longevity of one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty two game season just because other teams will
Speaker 1: not be able to do that. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a wild, wild though in l West this twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five season. Something I'm looking forward to it. It's good
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers, it's good for West Coast Baseball, and
Speaker 1: it's good for baseball in general to have a competitive division,
Speaker 1: to have meaningful games over six months of a season.
Speaker 1: The last thing you want is a blowout runaway. Well,
Speaker 1: certainly it would feel good for the Dodgers, But to
Speaker 1: be in a competitive division, to play meaningful games from
Speaker 1: April through September, to be in a fight for a
Speaker 1: playoff spot, to make this team hungry to get another championship,
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that at all. Eight to sixty six,
Speaker 1: nine to eighty seven, two five seventy. So the Dodgers bullpen,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, has been the MVP so far the
Speaker 1: first twenty games of this season, hands down. Even through
Speaker 1: all the usage, all the innings pitched so far, collectively,
Speaker 1: they have saved the Dodgers many times so far held
Speaker 1: on to wins for this Dodgers team, held off teams
Speaker 1: by putting zeros on the board when the starters go
Speaker 1: down early. The bullpen, to me, has been the MVP
Speaker 1: of this Dodgers team, and the NL Wild Wild West
Speaker 1: is gonna continue to be that all season long. And
Speaker 1: I'm ready for it. I'm excited for it. I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a lot of head to head showdown
Speaker 1: still with the Padres, the Giants, the Diamondbacks that are
Speaker 1: gonna be fun series at Dodgers Stadium and on the road.
Speaker 1: Eight sixty six nine, eight seven, two, five seventy. We'll
Speaker 1: take a time out, we'll come back. We'll get to
Speaker 1: your phone calls coming up in about twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get you a farm report, the latest on
Speaker 1: the Dodgers' top minor league prospects. Host way to Paula.
Speaker 1: Is that your hope? You saw them in spring training?
Speaker 1: You heard their name a lot. They're off to pretty
Speaker 1: good starts in the minor leagues. Plus, we will check
Speaker 1: in with Alex Friedman, the play by play voice of
Speaker 1: the Dodgers Triple A affiliate, the Oklahoma City comments, your
Speaker 1: phone calls, will we come back? I got one line open,
Speaker 1: Dodger fans, twenty games in. Your thoughts on this Dodgers team,
Speaker 1: what you've seen so far? To me, it's bullpen, bullpen, bullpen.
Speaker 1: They have been the MVP twenty games into this season.
Speaker 1: Your phone calls, when we come back. Tim Kates, Rodney Fossio,
Speaker 1: and you. It's Off Night Dodger Talk on this cold,
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Speaker 1: top of the hour. Coming up in about twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: we'll get you a farm report the Dodgers' top minor
Speaker 1: league prospects from TRIPAA, Oklahoma City, all the way down
Speaker 1: to Rancho Cucamongo. We'll check in with the voice of
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Comets, Alex Friedman. Also during our farm report,
Speaker 1: Dodgers twenty games in, I told you my MVP, the
Speaker 1: bullpen and what they've been able to do. Eighty seven
Speaker 1: plus innings pitched for the Dodgers' bullpen so far this season,
Speaker 1: eighty nine innings pitched for the Dodgers' starters. The Dodgers'
Speaker 1: bullpen has been big helping out this Dodgers team. Certainly,
Speaker 1: the lineup is what it is, but the Dodgers' bullpen
Speaker 1: has been tremendous. Eight sixty six, ninety seven, two five seventy.
Speaker 1: It's go out to the phones, Joshua and Porter ranch
Speaker 1: is first up here on this off night Dodge Talk.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Joshua, I'm doing all right.
Speaker 3: Mister Tim Kates. It is so refreshing to hear you
Speaker 3: on the radio and just the knowledge that you have
Speaker 3: that you're able to spread out. I completely agree. The
Speaker 3: Dodgers' bullpen has been phenomenal. For the years, we always
Speaker 3: struggled in the bullpen, and the Dodgers slowly built that up,
Speaker 3: and obviously their death has been huge because their pitching
Speaker 3: has struggled and their hitters have struggled. You got guys
Speaker 3: that batting in the lineup in the one twenties and
Speaker 3: the two twenties, and you know some of these guys
Speaker 3: that are barely hitting their weight, Chris Taylor finally hitting
Speaker 3: a little two fifty, which is not Austin Barnes back
Speaker 3: as usual. You know, zero fifty nine, but that top
Speaker 3: of the lineup is huge. But then once you get
Speaker 3: past that number five hit or we're in trouble, what
Speaker 3: do you think them?
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, Joshua, don't be a stranger. Thanks for
Speaker 1: checking in here on off night Dodger Talk. Thank you
Speaker 1: for the kind words. Yeah, we saw the Dodgers seven
Speaker 1: through nine hitters finally step it up for the Dodgers
Speaker 1: last night in the win against the Colorado Rockies, and
Speaker 1: I bring up Austin Barnes's name is Joshua did just
Speaker 1: now as a guy who finally got a base hit
Speaker 1: last night. It was great to see Austin Barnes deliver
Speaker 1: with a two run double. Dodgers seven through nine hitters
Speaker 1: last night in the eight to seven win over the Rockies.
Speaker 1: It combined five for eleven, a double, five ribbies, four
Speaker 1: runs scored, and a walk. So, yeah, we talk about
Speaker 1: the top heavy Dodgers lineup, guy get something out of
Speaker 1: the bottom of the lineup, and last night they delivered
Speaker 1: in an eight seven Dodgers win. But what happened also,
Speaker 1: the bullpen picked up the Dodgers when they needed him.
Speaker 1: When Bobby Miller went just the three innings, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: bullpen they combined six innings of work last night to
Speaker 1: help the Dodgers and really a Rockies team that the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are supposed to beat, and they did over the
Speaker 1: course of three games. But it wasn't just last night.
Speaker 1: Go back and look what the Dodgers they didn't. The
Speaker 1: bullpen has done throughout this first twenty games of this season.
Speaker 1: They have been nails and virtually every time they'd been
Speaker 1: called upon to come up out and keep a game
Speaker 1: where it's at, keep the team off the scoreboard the
Speaker 1: remainder of the way so the Dodgers offense can get
Speaker 1: this team back into a game. We've seen it time
Speaker 1: and time again what the Dodgers bullpen has been doing.
Speaker 1: Corey and long Beach is next up here on off
Speaker 1: Night Dodger Talk with Tim Kates. How you doing, Corey?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 2: Tim? Pretty good? Thank you. You don't think you're pushing
Speaker 2: the paddic button a little early, do you?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I think it's the facts of the facts. They've thrown
Speaker 1: eighty seven plus innings and the Dodgers starters are throwing
Speaker 1: eighty nine. That number's got to change. I said it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna change when it's the warmer, the weather gets warmer.
Speaker 1: But it's a little alarming to see how much this
Speaker 1: Dodgers used and what they've had to do coming out
Speaker 1: and saving the behinds of the starters so far.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's my response for you. Isn't that what we're
Speaker 2: used to the last three, four or five years, All
Speaker 2: these injuries to the pitchers and here comes the bullpen
Speaker 2: and they saved the day and they keep on doing
Speaker 2: it in all kinds of weather. And I mean they
Speaker 2: they have proved it. They've they ran a bullpen game
Speaker 2: in the World Series, for crying out loud.
Speaker 1: Right, it's because they broke down with their starters as.
Speaker 2: It absolutely positively can be done. And somehow, some way,
Speaker 2: if they run out of pictures somewhere in July or August,
Speaker 2: they're going to bring up a guy that I've never
Speaker 2: heard of, and he's going to come in and do
Speaker 2: the job.
Speaker 1: Well, they're running out of those guys you've never heard of, Corey.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you that they're running out of those guys
Speaker 1: you've never heard of, and all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: come up. The Jacked Ryers, the Benkusparius, they were in
Speaker 1: Double A and Triple A last year. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you a farm report coming up here. There isn't that
Speaker 1: ready to go. Wow, this guy's gonna be here the
Speaker 1: second half of the season. Type of prospects pitching wise
Speaker 1: that can help out this Dodgers team. Keep in mind
Speaker 1: a year ago the Dodgers got hit by injuries. Clayton
Speaker 1: Kershaw tow injury didn't see into what last seven weeks
Speaker 1: of the season. Tyler Glass now pitch really well, twenty
Speaker 1: two starts, an All Star, and what happened in the
Speaker 1: last eight weeks wasn't available. Gavin Stone, a start of
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, relied upon so much he threw his arm out.
Speaker 1: Twenty five starts last year for the Dodgers, one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty innings. James Paxton ate up a lot of
Speaker 1: innings early for this Dodgers team. Yeah, the Dodgers' bullpen
Speaker 1: fresh in our minds what they did in October because
Speaker 1: of their's lack of starting pitching and injuries. But the
Speaker 1: Dodgers' bullpen also did a lot of it during the
Speaker 1: regular season when they weren't getting starts from Stone or Glass.
Speaker 1: Now there wasn't a lot of depth from the other guys.
Speaker 1: James Paxson made eighteen starts, ate up some innings for you.
Speaker 1: Walker Buehler made sixteen starts, but remember was slow played back.
Speaker 1: Jack Floerty wasn't picked up until the trade deadline. They
Speaker 1: needed more arms. We saw Robleski make six starts last year.
Speaker 1: You know, we saw the opener multiple times. River Ryan
Speaker 1: came up, pitched four starts and threw his arm ount.
Speaker 1: Ryan Brasier was asked to make starts. Clayton Kersh only
Speaker 1: made seven starts a year ago. How many bullpen games
Speaker 1: did we see last year? How many piggyback games where
Speaker 1: we saw a Ryan Yarborough start the game or a
Speaker 1: Dodger reliever take the ball like a Ryan Brasier and
Speaker 1: then piggybacked with a Bobby Miller, or piggybacked with a
Speaker 1: long relief guy like a Landon Nak who did that
Speaker 1: three or four times last year in his fifteen appearances.
Speaker 1: It's April. It's not even the last week of April.
Speaker 1: We're twenty games into this season and the usage for
Speaker 1: the bullpen I'm just bringing up is a little alarming
Speaker 1: now as the season goes on, the starting pitching and
Speaker 1: the influx the back of Blake Snell, the influx of
Speaker 1: Tony Gonsolin, the influx at some point of Clayton Kershaw,
Speaker 1: and a show Hey Otani is going to help out
Speaker 1: this Dodger starting staff, and you're gonna start seeing, hopefully,
Speaker 1: the numbers of starting pitchers way higher than the usage
Speaker 1: of the bullpen collectively. When the Dodgers got to October
Speaker 1: last year, they relied a lot on the bullpen. It's
Speaker 1: not even argument. We all know that, but look at
Speaker 1: the effects of it. Daniel Hudson retired, Gavin Stone's arms done.
Speaker 1: Evan Phillips is on a minor league rehab assignment coming
Speaker 1: back in hasn't looked great, but probably will be activated
Speaker 1: this weekend in Texas. Michael Kopek a sore arm all
Speaker 1: off season, rested it, rested it even more during spring
Speaker 1: training and is just now working his way back the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Bruce dark Gratderol battling through injuries. Bruce dark graderole last
Speaker 1: year for the Dodgers, you know, was basically non factor
Speaker 1: in seven games that he pitched. He's been banged up,
Speaker 1: But you look at how many pitchers they used last year.
Speaker 1: The Rickyvenaskoz of the World, the Enrique the Edgardo Hernriquez
Speaker 1: who they brought up in September, Danelson, Lamett made some
Speaker 1: starts and outings, Gus Varlan, Kyle Hurt, and Abil Chris Met.
Speaker 1: They were stretching to get guys to give them innings
Speaker 1: last year. Codnor Brogden, I mean there was a lot
Speaker 1: of arms that the Dodgers relied upon last year. Johann Ramirez,
Speaker 1: Brent Honeywell, I mean, there's a lot of names I'm
Speaker 1: throwing out of you that helped out this Dodgers team,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be that case this year, especially
Speaker 1: for this bullpen as the amount of innings continue to
Speaker 1: rack up. Steven la is next up here on Dodger lock.
Speaker 2: Hey go Steve, Hey, Tim Good.
Speaker 5: You know, I think a couple of things. I think
Speaker 5: Padres and d Backs are legit. Three teams from the
Speaker 5: West make the playoffs. I could see a scenario of
Speaker 5: Muncy struggles below two twenty and his defense isn't that
Speaker 5: great that they go after Nolan Aeronado at.
Speaker 3: The at the what do you call it?
Speaker 5: Deadline?
Speaker 2: But Tim, the big thing is two Nicos are better
Speaker 2: than one.
Speaker 5: Nico Harrison and me. We got a quarterback at U.
Speaker 3: C l A.
Speaker 6: Yeah one.
Speaker 1: It's still not official, Steve, but I hear you. I'm
Speaker 1: excited as well for a little U s LA football.
Speaker 1: If Nico in fact gets to West, well, I don't
Speaker 1: know how many weds he's good for. To add to
Speaker 1: this UCLA team that's got a lot of transfers on it.
Speaker 1: Every year is different now, certainly in the last landscape
Speaker 1: of college athletics. So we'll see how that shakes out.
Speaker 1: It's only April and tomorrow's the spring game. Isabelle Anaheim?
Speaker 1: As we missed you last night on postgame Dodger Talk.
Speaker 1: Glad you're okay, and glad to have you on off
Speaker 1: night Dodger Talk.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well you know I can call after cam Ah,
Speaker 7: You're right? Why, Yeah, that's okay. Say let's will you
Speaker 7: say about the whoop? And I agree? Will you say
Speaker 7: about Miller?
Speaker 3: Are you agree?
Speaker 7: Now? The only thing is I was wondering something I'm
Speaker 7: still worthy. Oh By the way. I'm still worried about
Speaker 7: the team though, so, but I was thinking, you know,
Speaker 7: weird think I would be thinking if we never got
Speaker 7: we never go attorney, we'll probably will not read this
Speaker 7: thing team like we were. I wasn't thinking he if
Speaker 7: he was, if we were still with the Angels right now,
Speaker 7: how would where would it be?
Speaker 3: I know?
Speaker 7: And that's I love Otani. He's my favorite player. Don't
Speaker 7: tell platone please anyway, No, but but no, you know,
Speaker 7: I'm I'm happy. I'm sure we'll be about this team.
Speaker 7: I'll probably done with them.
Speaker 1: No, you're not easy. You're not done with them. You're
Speaker 1: not done with them. Stott saying that I don't think
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw is gonna get jealous that show Etani is
Speaker 1: your new favorite player. Uh eight six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 1: two five seventy will come back. We'll get to a
Speaker 1: farm report. We'll try to squeeze in your calls if
Speaker 1: we can. As well. They expected to be joined by
Speaker 1: the Voice of the Oklahoma City Comments Alex Friedman as well.
Speaker 1: Get his thoughts on Clayton Kershaw's performance, Tony Gonsolin, Hey Song,
Speaker 1: Kim Dalton Rushing, Alex Freeland a lot to get into
Speaker 1: with him, and a farm report from Tulsa, Great Legs,
Speaker 1: Rancho Cooca Manga that's coming up, and your phone calls
Speaker 1: if we can squeeze man. Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1: It's off night. Dodger Talk here on a FI seventy
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Speaker 1: Dodgers back at it tomorrow as they start a three
Speaker 1: game series in Arlington against the Texas Rangers. Old friend
Speaker 1: alert Corey Seeger with the Texas Rangers Dodgers on deck.
Speaker 1: We'll start at four o'clock. First pitch from Arlington Dodgers
Speaker 1: and the Rangers is at five oh five. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from the Voice of the Oklahoma City comments. Alex
Speaker 1: Friedman coming up in just a couple of minutes here
Speaker 1: as we start our farm report. Yes, we go down
Speaker 1: on the farm Dodgers Minor League top prospects from Triple
Speaker 1: A Oklahoma City all the way down to Rancho Cucamonga.
Speaker 1: In between at Great Lakes with the Loons and Double
Speaker 1: A Tulsa. We'll get an update on Dalton rushing. Alex
Speaker 1: Friedland coming up in just a couple of minutes. With
Speaker 1: Alex Friedman, the voice of the comments. But let's get
Speaker 1: you caught up on some other top prospects host Wade Depaula,
Speaker 1: the nineteen year old outfielder in High A Ball with
Speaker 1: the Great Lakes Loons. Ten games in so far, so good,
Speaker 1: deep drive to right field, hit well smith running back,
Speaker 1: watch that ballfly.
Speaker 6: A grand slam for the teenager to take the lead
Speaker 6: in the eighth inning. Soon enough, he'll do.
Speaker 1: It in Hollywood. But he is bringing Hollywood to Midland
Speaker 1: right now. Lons Radio Network with the call a grand
Speaker 1: Slam pro suade to Paula a couple nights ago. It's
Speaker 1: got 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 tender. Two starts, no wins, no losses, but a
Speaker 1: one eighty ero thirteen strikeouts already for Jackson Ferris in
Speaker 1: ten innings of work. Zayer Hope, the twenty year old outfielder.
Speaker 1: You got a glimpse of him in spring training in
Speaker 1: the Freeway Series against the Angels. He's in High A
Speaker 1: ball with the Great Lakes Loons. Eleven games so far,
Speaker 1: three sixty four average, four doubles, a triple, and a
Speaker 1: couple of home runs, fourteen ribbies on the year for
Speaker 1: Zayir Hope, he's got an ops over one thousand, and
Speaker 1: a few nights ago had a four hit game. Here's
Speaker 1: the pitch.
Speaker 8: It's a high fly out to right field, toward the
Speaker 8: corner Nate Nankill. He's at the wall and that hits
Speaker 8: off the Lansing BWL sign. Hope's around second, taking for third.
Speaker 8: Their relay throw arrives late, hitch to Hope. Ground ball
Speaker 8: sizzled past Montero at first base, hit into the right
Speaker 8: field corner on the two run double by Zayirra Hope
Speaker 8: three to two.
Speaker 1: A ground ball.
Speaker 8: Weekly struck towards second, all off the backhanded attemptive Yamba
Speaker 8: Uchiu staggered. It kicks in a shallow center Hope reaches single,
Speaker 8: charts by the official scorer, and he swings and drives
Speaker 8: it center field. Rodney Green Junior goes back over his
Speaker 8: head and one hops off the wall. It's a double
Speaker 8: for Hope, an RBI two bagger and the Loons go
Speaker 8: up seven to three.
Speaker 1: LUN's Radio with the call Zaiir Hope quickly having a
Speaker 1: good twenty twenty five season in High A ball. Kellen Lindsay,
Speaker 1: nineteen year old shortstop down in Rancho Cucamonga, the six
Speaker 1: to two, one hundred 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: Kelln 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 ribies 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. He's got 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 Quintaro.
Speaker 1: Jean Ja Vargas, nineteen year old shortstop also in Rancho Cucamonga.
Speaker 1: Thirty one at bats so far for the young Men
Speaker 1: at the Dominican Republic, two ninety average, six ribbies and
Speaker 1: his seven forty four OPS. Kendall George, the Dodgers first
Speaker 1: round pick in twenty twenty three. He is in High
Speaker 1: A Ball with Great Lakes ten games so far, one
Speaker 1: ninety seven battian average, two home run, six ribbies, ten walks,
Speaker 1: so he's getting on base with a six sixty six
Speaker 1: OPS just a low batting average. Young Siuk Jing twenty
Speaker 1: one year old right hander out of South Korea, the
Speaker 1: top pitching prospect signed out of Korea in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: So far three starts in Rancho Cucamonga one one record,
Speaker 1: six fifty two ERA eleven strikeouts, but in nine to
Speaker 1: two third innings, Jang has got eleven walks. How about
Speaker 1: Jared Carroll's Eric Carrols's son. He is in Double A Tulsa,
Speaker 1: the twenty four year old two starts so far, oh
Speaker 1: in one record with a ninety seventy two ERA and
Speaker 1: five strikeouts. All right, an update on some of the
Speaker 1: Dodgers' top prospects in A Ball, High A Ball and
Speaker 1: Double A Tulsa. Let's check in though with Alex Friedman,
Speaker 1: the voice of the Oklahoma City Comments, the Dodgers Triple
Speaker 1: A affiliate, And yesterday Alex Clayton Kershaw made a minor
Speaker 1: league rehab start for you guys, three shutout innings. How
Speaker 1: did he look?
Speaker 6: I think for any pitcher, whether it's Clayton Kershaw or
Speaker 6: someone who's essentially making their first spring training appearance of
Speaker 6: the year, because this is what that is for Kershaw
Speaker 6: to go three innings, three scoreless and face just ten
Speaker 6: batters and be very efficient is very encouraging. The fastball
Speaker 6: velocity is a little bit from where it was last year,
Speaker 6: but that's expected from any pitcher, you know. Like I said,
Speaker 6: basically their first game action of the season. But that
Speaker 6: slider had its traditional bite to it, got a few
Speaker 6: swings and misses on it. The curve ball he dropped
Speaker 6: in a few of those as well. Nickson so much
Speaker 6: change ups too, So overall I think just very encouraging
Speaker 6: for him to have three innings to get those three
Speaker 6: ups back on the mound to start his season.
Speaker 1: Evan Phillips has made some appearances. Looks like he's going
Speaker 1: to get recalled with Bobby Miller be an option back
Speaker 1: to Triple A. Ok See today, Tony Gonsolin, the Catman Dodger.
Speaker 1: Fans haven't seen him in over a year. He's in
Speaker 1: Triple A Oklahoma City. He's made three starts. Now, how
Speaker 1: is he looking as he looks to come back.
Speaker 6: Well, it's been nine total innings for Tony. In eight
Speaker 6: of them have been really good. There was one that
Speaker 6: it wasn't even bad. He kind of got single to death.
Speaker 6: There was a lot of soft contact, So I don't
Speaker 6: think it's as bad maybe on paper as it seems
Speaker 6: that his last start two days ago against Tacoma, where
Speaker 6: he gave up three runs over four innings. Get all
Speaker 6: three of those runs came in that one inning where
Speaker 6: just balls found some spots against him. But I mean
Speaker 6: in his second start with US in Round Rock boy,
Speaker 6: he was looking phenomenal. Fourteen swings and misses over forty
Speaker 6: six total pitches, twelve of those fourteen on the splinter,
Speaker 6: and you could see why at the time the Dodgers
Speaker 6: were saying, well, maybe it is just one more for Gonsolin,
Speaker 6: or maybe he could join us sooner than that. But they,
Speaker 6: I think, have the luxury of making another start at
Speaker 6: least how things stand now with us next week in
Speaker 6: Sault Lake, and that should be the final one. But overall, Tony,
Speaker 6: of course, you know, he'll be such a big lift
Speaker 6: of the rotation, veteran guy who knows what he's doing
Speaker 6: out there. And again, I think the majority of the
Speaker 6: results have been really good so far.
Speaker 1: Alex Freeman, 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 Hayesung 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 Okse.
Speaker 6: Well, the batting average is in a decent spot right now.
Speaker 6: It's dipped down a little bit the last couple of
Speaker 6: games to sixty eight. But I think the thing that's
Speaker 6: been encouraging, especially for the Dodgers, has been a slug
Speaker 6: It's a figh twenty one slugging percentage so far for Kim,
Speaker 6: with a total of eleven extra base hits, so over
Speaker 6: half of his hits so far have gone for extra bases.
Speaker 6: He's also played all over the field, second, short, center.
Speaker 6: A lot of people have been asking, well, how has
Speaker 6: he looked in center? He'd never really played there before.
Speaker 6: He's played a little bit of left field in Korea,
Speaker 6: and talking with him through his translator saying he's adjusting
Speaker 6: just fine. He perverse playing up the middle. The way
Speaker 6: I've said it is he doesn't look any different than
Speaker 6: any other center fielder that I have seen this year.
Speaker 6: And I say that in a good way. But offensively, yeah,
Speaker 6: there's still some adjustments to be made. I think velocity,
Speaker 6: and he'll even admit the velocity on every pitch is
Speaker 6: higher than it is in Korea. And another point that
Speaker 6: he brought up again when I was interviewing him and
Speaker 6: assisted by his interpreter Joe Lee. Is that the overall
Speaker 6: speed of the game is just faster. He said, everything
Speaker 6: is faster here in the US. You don't have a
Speaker 6: pitch clock over in Korea. You don't have the pace
Speaker 6: of play in disengagement roles that you do when comes
Speaker 6: to holding runners on. So he's adjusting to that as well.
Speaker 6: And again it's some encouraging results, but I think he's
Speaker 6: certainly the first to let you know that there's more
Speaker 6: work to be done.
Speaker 1: Alex, what's the plan for Hay Sun Kim? You mentioned
Speaker 1: he's playing center field. It 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 Key
Speaker 1: k Hernandez, a Tommy Edmund, a guy who can play
Speaker 1: multiple positions infield and outfield.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't think I can definitively answer that question.
Speaker 6: I think you have to ask another Friedman spelled differently
Speaker 6: the answer to the answer to that question. But I
Speaker 6: think we know that the Dodgers value versatility. I don't
Speaker 6: think that there is a plan to stick him at
Speaker 6: one position. I think it is to just keep him
Speaker 6: up the middle basically second, shortened center, knowing that he
Speaker 6: 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 6: Alex, Yes, he is mostly behind the plate, and that's
Speaker 6: nothing to say that he can't play left field. He
Speaker 6: did play a couple of innings there one of our
Speaker 6: game when he pinched hit like in the eighth inning,
Speaker 6: and it just made sense for him to continue the
Speaker 6: rest of the game out there based on the rest
Speaker 6: of the lineup in defensive alignment, but it's mostly catch.
Speaker 6: There have been a little bit more first base than
Speaker 6: we saw last year. We basically saw none in Oklahoma City,
Speaker 6: so there have been some games at first base.
Speaker 3: Two.
Speaker 6: The thing for Dalton is last week in Round Rock
Speaker 6: hitting before the games in the cage back locked up
Speaker 6: on him. He used the final four games that series,
Speaker 6: but he's been back this week the same guy that
Speaker 6: we saw last year. Really good knowledge of the strikes,
Speaker 6: son a really good hit tool as well as power,
Speaker 6: and he's had some really good early results too, but
Speaker 6: again that's been a little bit limited, just between again
Speaker 6: that minor injury and the fact that being a catcher
Speaker 6: he is going to get some days off as opposed
Speaker 6: to other position players. But it's going to starting lineup
Speaker 6: back behind the plate tonight, so looking forward to that, Alex.
Speaker 1: One of the guys Dodger fans saw in spring training
Speaker 1: was Alex Frielan, the twenty three year old infielder out
Speaker 1: of Central Florida third round pick back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: He shot through the system last season, played really well
Speaker 1: at every level that he got to. Here he is
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Is he still primarily a shortstop?
Speaker 1: Are we seeing maybe a little bit of him at
Speaker 1: third base? And how is he doing here in the
Speaker 1: start of the season.
Speaker 6: Yes, still, I think you nail it. They're still primarily
Speaker 6: playing getting his majority of reps at short, but they
Speaker 6: have mixed some third in as well, and he's been
Speaker 6: totally fine. I think both stops a really good hands,
Speaker 6: strong arm. The offense has been the biggest difference for
Speaker 6: the most part. Last year he struggled when he was
Speaker 6: with us, but he was starting to figure it out
Speaker 6: at the end of the season. Had a really good
Speaker 6: last series in the season in Salt Lake City, and
Speaker 6: it was one of those situations like, gosh, you just
Speaker 6: wish the season was going to go on for him because,
Speaker 6: like I said, he was figuring out. It's carried over
Speaker 6: to this year. Talking with Alex, he says, I'm just
Speaker 6: playing free again. I got tight when I got here
Speaker 6: the Triple A. Last year. I wasn't having success, develops
Speaker 6: some bad habits. I'm getting back to the player that
Speaker 6: I usually am and again a pre Alex Freeland it
Speaker 6: is in his last name. Since has been a really
Speaker 6: fun to watch again. Offensively defensive league guy can run too.
Speaker 6: He's got five stolen bases in six attempts since April
Speaker 6: of fourth He leads all the minor leagues and hits,
Speaker 6: so he's been a hot hitter as well well.
Speaker 1: Alex. I appreciate the time and the update from Okac
Speaker 1: on some of the Dodgers' top prospects. Not on the
Speaker 1: door to get to LA. Thanks so much.
Speaker 6: Happy to join you anytime.
Speaker 1: All right, there's Alex Friedman, the voice. So the Dodgers
Speaker 1: Triple A affiliate, the Oklahoma City comments, that's gonna do
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Speaker 1: week at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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