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Speaker 2: Welcome to off day Dodger Talk. David Vasse back in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles after driving up from San Diego last night
Speaker 2: after a great dinner in Little Italy with Dylan Hernandez
Speaker 2: and Jack Harris. Enjoyed that and then my wife sent
Speaker 2: me a request to share my location. I mean, what
Speaker 2: kind of trust do we have if I have to
Speaker 2: share my location with my wife? And I'm saying this
Speaker 2: because she doesn't track me. I know a lot of
Speaker 2: guys out there are tracked by their wives and their girlfriends,
Speaker 2: which I strongly object to. But I feel like my
Speaker 2: wife was sending me a message like hey, it's eight
Speaker 2: thirty time for you to drive back home. So I
Speaker 2: was on my way back after getting a little canoli
Speaker 2: there in Little Italy after some dinner. But what am
Speaker 2: I gonna do? What kind of trouble am I going
Speaker 2: to get into with two guys like Dylan Hernandez and
Speaker 2: Jack Harris. I mean, I could get into a lot
Speaker 2: of trouble with a lot of other guys I know
Speaker 2: out there, but those two guys, all they want to
Speaker 2: do is eat. Anyway, that was my night last night.
Speaker 2: You heard Petro some money, and I talked about the
Speaker 2: rental car logistics and being able to take my life
Speaker 2: in my own hands and drive back to LA after
Speaker 2: Yesterday's Dodger Talk, and I wanted to host Yesterday's Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk despite it being a getaway day. When I have
Speaker 2: those opportunities, especially in San Diego, I take them, and
Speaker 2: I'm glad I did. The Dodgers won two out of
Speaker 2: three in San Diego, as they return home for a
Speaker 2: long homestand a ten game homestand starting tomorrow night against
Speaker 2: the San Francisco Giants, and then they'll welcome the Padres
Speaker 2: to Dodgers Stadium for the first time this season a
Speaker 2: four game series, and then the Washington Nationals will come
Speaker 2: to town. I should mention this at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the show, that we have a lot to get to.
Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal is going to join us at seven point fifteen.
Speaker 2: We also have a pair of tickets to give away
Speaker 2: to next Tuesday Night's game against the Padres, which also
Speaker 2: happens to be World Series Replica Trophy Night at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 2: The first forty thousand fans in attendance will receive a
Speaker 2: replica World Series Championship Trophy. So we do have a
Speaker 2: pair of tickets to go give away the next Tuesday
Speaker 2: Night's game. Between now and eight o'clock, I'll also give
Speaker 2: you an update on show. Hey Otani, you'll hear part
Speaker 2: of my conversation with Mookie Betts. So a lot to
Speaker 2: get to between now and then. But looking back at
Speaker 2: that Padres series, the Dodgers really needed to win that series,
Speaker 2: not because it was the Padres, but they've been basically
Speaker 2: five hundred now for the last thirty games. Winning the
Speaker 2: first game of that series, obviously the second game not
Speaker 2: going the way they would like and Matt Sower having
Speaker 2: to wear it knowing it was going to be a
Speaker 2: bullpen game yesterday, but the Dodgers certainly were able to
Speaker 2: have that plan come to fruition, especially after Michael Confordo
Speaker 2: tied the game with a home run in the fifth
Speaker 2: inning and Taoscar Hernandez hitting a go ahead three run
Speaker 2: home run in the sixth inning. The Dodgers used eight
Speaker 2: different pitchers yesterday, including Ben Casparius, who was a starting
Speaker 2: pitch or yesterday not just an opener for a group
Speaker 2: of hitters or just one inning. Ben Casparius was efficient
Speaker 2: and he got through four innings for Dave Roberts, and
Speaker 2: from there they deployed Tanner Scott in the eighth inning
Speaker 2: against the leverage part of the Padres lineup, the teeth
Speaker 2: of their lineup, and then Alex Vesia came in for
Speaker 2: his third save of the season. But in case you
Speaker 2: missed what Dave Roberts had to say before the game yesterday,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are going to have Ben Casparius stretch out
Speaker 2: and be a starting pitcher with the injury to Tony Gonsolin.
Speaker 2: With Blake Snell and Tyler Glassnell out until the All
Speaker 2: Star break, it seems like and my prediction for Blake
Speaker 2: Snell is that he returns the first game right after
Speaker 2: the All Star Break at home against the Milwaukee Brewers,
Speaker 2: and if it's not the very first game, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be in that series. And Shoeo Tani is going to
Speaker 2: come back right after the All Star break as well.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what Dave Roberts said, has said, He's
Speaker 2: maintained it that Otani is going to pitch the second
Speaker 2: half of the season to get ready for October and
Speaker 2: help the Dodgers through the stretch run. But this is
Speaker 2: more than just injuries. It's a big part of it.
Speaker 2: It's a big part of why the Dodgers have to
Speaker 2: now take one of their best relief pitchers and make
Speaker 2: him a starting pitcher for the time being. It's about injuries,
Speaker 2: and it's about Landon Knack and Bobby Miller not seizing
Speaker 2: their opportunity. If they were good enough, the Dodgers would
Speaker 2: have Bobby Miller and Landon Nack in this starting rotation.
Speaker 2: And this also goes back to our conversation on our
Speaker 2: last off Day show and maybe during the last homestand
Speaker 2: are the Dodgers considering Bobby Miller turning into a relief
Speaker 2: pitcher and maybe a really good, high leverage, back end
Speaker 2: bullpen pitcher with a fastball and a changeup because for
Speaker 2: whatever reason it hasn't clicked as a star darting pitcher.
Speaker 2: But nonetheless, those are the circumstances of why now the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are considering Ben Casparius becoming a starting pitcher. And
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts basically said as much yesterday Andrew Friedman on
Speaker 2: the last homestand jumped on with Petros and Money after
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips was announced and declared out for the rest
Speaker 2: of the year and Evan just had Tommy John surgery.
Speaker 2: Here's what Andrew Freeman had to say as they get
Speaker 2: closer to the trade deadline on July thirty.
Speaker 4: First, if you look ahead to July, I think the
Speaker 4: most likely area that we'd be looking is that kind
Speaker 4: of right on right reliever.
Speaker 2: You know, Phillips.
Speaker 4: Filled it as well as anybody in baseball. Diaz has
Speaker 4: historically been really really good against right delivering. Got a
Speaker 4: little out of whack that we're gonna work with him
Speaker 4: on and feel like he has a chance to really
Speaker 4: slide into a media role for us and be able
Speaker 4: to handle some really good right into hitters.
Speaker 2: All right, you heard it from Andrew Friedman, and he
Speaker 2: usually is not that candid, which makes me believe, yes,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are looking for relief pitching, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: rule out the fact they may be looking for starting
Speaker 2: pitching as well, because a lot can happen between now
Speaker 2: and July thirty first, and we've already seen how many
Speaker 2: pitching injuries the Dodgers have sustained this year, so there's
Speaker 2: no guarantees that the guys that are currently in the
Speaker 2: rotation are going to stay healthy the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: So that makes me believe the Dodgers, yes, are looking
Speaker 2: for bullpen help. They may consider an outfielder, maybe a
Speaker 2: guy that can play center field as well, but I
Speaker 2: wouldn't rule out starting pitching. And if the Red Sox
Speaker 2: fall out of the race, Walker Buehller will be available.
Speaker 2: Would the Dodgers consider bringing Bueller back. It's been mixed
Speaker 2: results so far this season for Bueller with the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: But a guy that I believe is really interesting is
Speaker 2: Chris Sale, who has a club option at the end
Speaker 2: of this season. The Braves are not going to be
Speaker 2: in the race unless there's a miracle between now and then.
Speaker 2: Would the Braves consider trading Chris Saale with a club
Speaker 2: option for next year, and I'm not sure if that
Speaker 2: club option carries over if he's traded or not. The
Speaker 2: Braves probably believe they can make a run at it
Speaker 2: next year with a healthy Akunya, and they're young pitchers
Speaker 2: coming back. But it's an interesting thought and we'll ask
Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal about it as he'll join us in about
Speaker 2: five minutes, whether or not the Braves would consider trading
Speaker 2: a guy like Chris Sale. But yes, the Dodgers are
Speaker 2: looking for a high leverage right handed reliever with Evan
Speaker 2: Phillips out for the year, with no guarantees Blake Trening
Speaker 2: can come back from a shoulder injury, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: taking a flyer on Alexis Diaz, that's not going to
Speaker 2: stop them. And as we look forward to the first
Speaker 2: three game series this year against the Giants, the Giants
Speaker 2: are just a game back of the Dodgers and the
Speaker 2: pitching matchup for Tomorrow night is a great one Yama
Speaker 2: Moto against Logan Web. On Saturday, Kershaw will be pitching,
Speaker 2: and on Sunday, Dustin May will be pitching against the Giants.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 2: we have a pair of tickets for next Tuesday's game
Speaker 2: against the Padres, and you'll hear from Mookie Bets as well.
Speaker 2: Plus we have lines open for phone calls at eight
Speaker 2: sixty six, nine, eight seven, two, five seventy. Coming up next,
Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal from Fox Sports, the best insider out there,
Speaker 2: will join us live on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: You're a home for the world champion Dodgers. Dodgers return
Speaker 2: home for a big ten game homestand beginning tomorrow night
Speaker 2: against the San Francisco Giants. Our coverage begins at six o'clock.
Speaker 2: First pitch at seven ten Yamamoto against Webb. A great
Speaker 2: first pitching matchup between the Dodgers and Giants. And don't
Speaker 2: forget tomorrow is the twelfth annual kickoff to the PMS
Speaker 2: Summer Tour at Rock and Bruce and El Segundo from
Speaker 2: three to six o'clock. They got prizes, Dodger Padres tickets,
Speaker 2: gift cards to living spaces, and barbecues galore. They're giving
Speaker 2: away a fifty five inch Westinghouse TV. So they got
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff out there, and of course you
Speaker 2: got petros papadekas out there. That's the main attraction. And
Speaker 2: you never know if you might see the fancy bow
Speaker 2: tie of our next guest at Rock and Bruce and
Speaker 2: El Segundo tomorrow. He writes for The Athletic. He does
Speaker 2: it on television as the number one sideline reporter for
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Baseball's coverage baseball coverage, and he is the
Speaker 2: best baseball insider out there. And that's our friend, the
Speaker 2: great Ken Rosenthal. Ken, thanks a lot for taking the
Speaker 2: time to call in.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it, David, appreciate that build up. You're very kind. However,
Speaker 5: it's going to be difficult for me to be in
Speaker 5: El Segundo tomorrow as I am right now in Boston.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, yeah, well we'll take a rain check
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't mind being there though. For Yamamoto Web, that's
Speaker 5: going to be special.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. And we're all trying to figure out Ken,
Speaker 2: how are the Giants just to game back of the
Speaker 2: Dodgers with that lineup that they have? Have you seen them?
Speaker 2: Are they for real? Can they stand the test of
Speaker 2: a marathon season?
Speaker 5: They pitch and that's why they're where they are right now.
Speaker 5: And I believe lest I checked, they were second in
Speaker 5: the league, and you're ady to the Mets, and you're right.
Speaker 5: Their lineup has been I wouldn't say awful, but it
Speaker 5: hasn't been great, and now they're without Chapman and Balley,
Speaker 5: who are two critical players for them. Adama seems like
Speaker 5: he's finally getting going, but their offense has been a
Speaker 5: challenge for them, and first dates is a particular challenge,
Speaker 5: but even beyond that, they need more out of players
Speaker 5: that they have as well. So it's going to be
Speaker 5: an interesting test for them against the Dodgers, and obviously
Speaker 5: they're a team that has hung in there. I expect
Speaker 5: them to be aggressive at the deadline. Buster to Posey,
Speaker 5: in an interview with Tim Kallacami of the San Francisco
Speaker 5: Standard recently, kind of indicated that he wants to do
Speaker 5: some things, and David I found this really interesting. He
Speaker 5: reflected back on the Zach Wheeler for Carlos Beltron trade.
Speaker 5: I believe that was twenty thirteen, and obviously that trade
Speaker 5: did not work out great for the Giants in the
Speaker 5: sense that they did not win that year and Willer became.
Speaker 5: Of course, Willer became, But what Posey was saying to
Speaker 5: Tim Kahalakami was that's the kind of trade you have
Speaker 5: to make. So it's going to be interesting to see
Speaker 5: how they handle the deadline under Posey, and I do
Speaker 5: expect them, because of those comments, to be at least
Speaker 5: trying really hard to get some players.
Speaker 2: All right, since you brought up the trade deadline, as
Speaker 2: far as the Dodgers are concerned and just around the league,
Speaker 2: can the Braves obviously have had a disappointing start. If
Speaker 2: they get towards the end of July and they believe
Speaker 2: that the Phillies and Mets and the wild card situation
Speaker 2: is just not going to happen for them this year,
Speaker 2: do you believe they would consider trading Chris Saale.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have to be buried to do that, and
Speaker 5: I'm not totally convinced yet that they will be. And
Speaker 5: when I say buried, I mean really out of it
Speaker 5: and in an expanded playoff format, David, I know the
Speaker 5: Dodgers don't have to worry about this effort, but it's
Speaker 5: kind of tough to pull out of it unless you're
Speaker 5: really bad, like the Rockies or the Marlins some team
Speaker 5: like that. So obviously they have not played well. They've
Speaker 5: been a huge, immense disappointment, and in some ways it's
Speaker 5: difficult to see them turning it around. But they're gonna
Speaker 5: give it every opportunity to do that, and they may
Speaker 5: even add in the coming weeks because they know that
Speaker 5: the situation has turned urgent, quite frankly, and if they're
Speaker 5: going to get back in this thing one, they have
Speaker 5: to play better and maybe they have to find some
Speaker 5: more offense somewhere. So it's a tough question to answer,
Speaker 5: and I know there's so much deadline talk already, but
Speaker 5: it's an eternity away seven weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a while, a whiles away. But even in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, ken people are starting to have dreams of
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller wearing a Dodger uniform again. Could you see
Speaker 2: that happening? And he's on a one year contract. If
Speaker 2: the Red Sox are out of it, could he be
Speaker 2: one of the more valuable trade ships out there?
Speaker 5: He could be. But that's another team that is intent
Speaker 5: on competing hard this year. After several disappointing seasons in
Speaker 5: a row, they're coming off back to back series victories
Speaker 5: now over the Yankees and Race. They've got Roman Anthony
Speaker 5: up to find top prospect in the game. They're not
Speaker 5: going to concede easily either. Now, even with all I'm
Speaker 5: saying here, art creates that are of by sell nature possible, Yes,
Speaker 5: and maybe that's how a Walker Dower trade comes about.
Speaker 5: But right now, their biggest need is starting pitching, so
Speaker 5: I don't see how they can do that. Ueers he's
Speaker 5: been inconsistent, but he pitched better the other night. It
Speaker 5: seems to me they need to add pitching, and their
Speaker 5: surplus is with the outfield, and really the problem, it's
Speaker 5: a very interesting problem. They've got too many good position
Speaker 5: players to fit on an everyday lineup, So I would
Speaker 5: expect that they're going to look for pitching, and again,
Speaker 5: I don't expect that they're going to sell easily at all.
Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal from The Athletic and Fox Sports is joining
Speaker 2: us on off Day Dodger Talk the Dodgers and Giants
Speaker 2: in Action tomorrow night. All right, Ken, You've been around
Speaker 2: the Dodgers a lot. You are them throughout their entire
Speaker 2: postseason run last year. I'm curious from your standpoint, has
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman's legacy become something that we should be talking
Speaker 2: more about after the heroics of the World Series last year,
Speaker 2: has he elevated the way people value him because he's
Speaker 2: always so consistent and those players sometimes get lost in
Speaker 2: the shuffle.
Speaker 5: The World Series definitely elevated Freeman. Now, you're right. He
Speaker 5: is not a showy type, obviously, and he is someone
Speaker 5: who just is kind of like a metronome, producing and producing, producing,
Speaker 5: day after day. There's not much color to him, but
Speaker 5: it seems to me, and I was talking about this
Speaker 5: with someone just this week, leaving Atlanta, as painful as
Speaker 5: it was for him, best thing that ever happened to him.
Speaker 5: He got to play for a Dodger team that of
Speaker 5: course won the World Series, and he got to be
Speaker 5: the hero of that World Series, the MVP of that
Speaker 5: World Series. And as much as he loved Atlanta and
Speaker 5: didn't want to leave, La was home, a different kind
Speaker 5: of home where he grew up and it worked out great.
Speaker 5: And if you had Freddy on, I'm sure you've had
Speaker 5: Freddy on, he would say, this has been tremendous. And
Speaker 5: of course last year, the outpouring when his son was
Speaker 5: ill from the fans, all of that plays into it.
Speaker 5: So his legacy is going to be quite prominent and
Speaker 5: vast and something we do talk about for a long time.
Speaker 5: Even if your point is well taken, David, he is
Speaker 5: somewhat overlooked in the pantheon stars. Right now, He's still
Speaker 5: the guy Ken.
Speaker 2: I never asked you this before. You were the first
Speaker 2: one to interview Freddy after his walk off Grand Slam
Speaker 2: in Game one of last year's World Series. I'm just curious,
Speaker 2: from your standpoint in that moment, you understand the history
Speaker 2: of the game, what were your feelings, how did you
Speaker 2: compose yourself to be able well to capture the moment
Speaker 2: and calmly interview Freeman.
Speaker 5: Well, David, you've done this countless times too, and it
Speaker 5: is easy to get caught up in the moment and
Speaker 5: it is hard to collect your thoughts because there's so
Speaker 5: much happening. You've just witnessed history. You know the importance
Speaker 5: of a game one walk off Grand Slam in the
Speaker 5: annals of the sport. So my first question actually wasn't
Speaker 5: a great question if you asked me looking back, it was, Hey,
Speaker 5: where did this one ranks for you? But Freddy, dee
Speaker 5: and Freddy he gave a good answer. Is obviously the
Speaker 5: biggest hold of his career, and from there there are
Speaker 5: things to ask and obviously when he went over to
Speaker 5: his dad, I saw that and I asked him what
Speaker 5: was said, and if Freddy is a really good interview
Speaker 5: And it's funny to me people will sometimes say those
Speaker 5: are good questions, those are bad questions. The questions are
Speaker 5: generally the questions. It's the answers that you're looking for.
Speaker 5: And Freddy is really good in that moment. And when
Speaker 5: that interview was over, I thought it was good, but
Speaker 5: not because I was so brilliant in asking the questions.
Speaker 5: He just is someone who is really eloquent, frankly, in
Speaker 5: those moments, and he was that night.
Speaker 2: That's a lot different than Kirk Gibson blowing off Bob
Speaker 2: Costas before he went into the clubhouse to celebrate with
Speaker 2: his teammates and then came back out.
Speaker 5: Well, David, I was at that game. That was my
Speaker 5: second year as a baseball writer, and in that era,
Speaker 5: that was the late eighties, and it was just different.
Speaker 5: Players were different. Gibson was the most course of all
Speaker 5: of them, but players in general were not as cooperative
Speaker 5: might not be the right word. They just didn't see
Speaker 5: media the way players do today. Players today, in many
Speaker 5: respects see it as a vehicles who promote themselves, not
Speaker 5: necessarily Freddy, but they understand media. They've been interviewed from
Speaker 5: the time they were in high school. It was different
Speaker 5: back then. And yeah, Kirk Gibson, he did that. I
Speaker 5: remember one year with the Cardinals, might have been twenty
Speaker 5: twelve where they were doing a ceremony after the game.
Speaker 5: Jim Edmonds would run into the clubhouse with all the players.
Speaker 5: They'd toast themselves after when and then they'd come out
Speaker 5: for the interviews. That wasn't great and then baseball couldn't
Speaker 5: stop them. And it was the same kind of situation.
Speaker 5: But in general, players today are pretty good and it's
Speaker 5: kind of a pleasure now where before when I started,
Speaker 5: I was afraid to walk into the clubhouse, now it's
Speaker 5: not the case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you immediately think Kirk Gibson as you see
Speaker 2: Freddie and that the flight of the ball, I mean
Speaker 2: it landed almost in the same place that Gibson's home
Speaker 2: run landed in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 5: Well, I didn't think it as quickly as Joe Davis did.
Speaker 5: And that was an amazing moment in my opinion as
Speaker 5: a broadcaster. Doing that and quickly immediately connecting the two
Speaker 5: and his call was unbelievable. He just won the Sports
Speaker 5: Emmy for play by play a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 5: and I have to think that call had a lot
Speaker 5: to do with it. That was just so brilliant, and
Speaker 5: it reminded me of his predecessor, Joe Buck. Joe Buck
Speaker 5: had some amazing calls in his career. I remember one
Speaker 5: in particular, when the Cardinals fourth Game seven, the David
Speaker 5: Freeze home run, and Joe's call was we'll see you
Speaker 5: tomorrow night, and that was an echo of his father
Speaker 5: in nineteen eighty seven, Kirby Puckett's home running Game six,
Speaker 5: he said the same thing, and the best play by
Speaker 5: play people, I don't even know how they do it.
Speaker 5: They're amazing. And Joe was amazing that night. So he
Speaker 5: thought of it even faster than I did. He thought
Speaker 5: of it in the moment, which was cool, amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's the soundtrack. You gotta have the soundtrack
Speaker 2: to a great moment. And he did. Freddie Freeman Justice.
Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal does the players justice on Fox Sports and
Speaker 2: The Athletic all the time. Before I let you go, Ken,
Speaker 2: you did cover the last team you were there on
Speaker 2: the national stage for the last team to win back
Speaker 2: to back World Series championships, and that was Joe Torrey's Yankees.
Speaker 2: Do you believe the Dodgers have what it takes, not
Speaker 2: only talent wise, but the mentality to give it a run.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like with the extra round, even with that,
Speaker 2: they have as good of a chance as you've seen
Speaker 2: in the past. I don't know. Handful of years.
Speaker 5: Is healthy. Yes, My question is are they ever going
Speaker 5: to get healthy? And I know they're basically slow, playing
Speaker 5: the entire regular season and trying to set up everything
Speaker 5: so that they're strongest in October. It's what they should
Speaker 5: be doing, and it's easy to understand the way they're
Speaker 5: going about it. It's just David, I wonder if it's
Speaker 5: all got to come together as easily, not as easily,
Speaker 5: but the way that they think it's going to come together.
Speaker 5: That's the concern I have. Who is going to be
Speaker 5: pitching at the end. You're going to be Otani, Yamamoto
Speaker 5: and Snow If so, I give the doctors an excellent chance.
Speaker 5: I just don't know if that's going to happen. And
Speaker 5: Glass now, of course, is another wild card, and that
Speaker 5: to me is the concern position player wise. The lineup
Speaker 5: good good enough for sure to do what you just
Speaker 5: describe back to back. It's the pitching that I just
Speaker 5: wonder about because for whatever reason, they have a hard
Speaker 5: time getting it right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have a hard time keeping it healthy, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. But one thing I'll guarantee, Ken, snail Zella
Speaker 2: will be there at the finish line.
Speaker 5: I don't know all season.
Speaker 2: Well, there are little hiccups. Ken, We'll get the hiccups
Speaker 2: worked out. He'll be there at the finish line.
Speaker 5: Hey, he's a great second half pitcher, so I'm looking
Speaker 5: forward to seeing it.
Speaker 2: Hey, can't wait to see you back at Dodgers Stadium. Ken,
Speaker 2: thanks a lot for the time. And you got what
Speaker 2: Red Sox Yankees at Fenway I would imagine.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's exactly right, all right.
Speaker 2: Look forward to seeing that. Thanks a lot for the time, Ken,
Speaker 2: and we'll see you on the West coast soon.
Speaker 5: David sounds great. Thanks for having me there.
Speaker 2: He is the best, the best in the business, all class.
Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal from Fox Sports and the Athletic eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: What a great interview, and I had never asked him,
Speaker 2: even off the air when we're standing on the field
Speaker 2: about that moment when he interviewed Freddie Freeman. Just all
Speaker 2: of that coming together, Your thoughts on what Ken Rosenthal
Speaker 2: had to say about the trade deadline and everything else.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. We also have a pair of tickets
Speaker 2: to give away to Dodgers Padres next Tuesday between now
Speaker 2: and eight o'clock, so get ready for that as well
Speaker 2: more Dodger Talk with David Vasse right here on A
Speaker 2: five seven the LA Sports. Thanks again to Ken Rosenthal
Speaker 2: for joining us. Really appreciate that he's in Boston getting
Speaker 2: ready for Yankees Red Sox this Saturday. He is the
Speaker 2: best out there as far as the insiders go. Love
Speaker 2: him and Buster only. They just bring great perspective through
Speaker 2: their experiences throughout the years. And man, I love asking
Speaker 2: guys like Ken Rosenthal that I've never spoken to about
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman's walk off Grand Slam because we were both
Speaker 2: there on the field getting ready to interview Freddy. He
Speaker 2: interviewed him first. I was able to interview him after
Speaker 2: that on the field, and certainly a career highlight for
Speaker 2: me because I remember watching Bob Costas interviewing Kirk Gibson
Speaker 2: on NBC after he hit his walk off Grand Slam,
Speaker 2: and years later Gibson told the story that the reason
Speaker 2: why he blew off the interview initially was because now
Speaker 2: we know after every Dodger win that season, in that
Speaker 2: Magical Night teen eighty eight season, they would have a
Speaker 2: toast and say, what a bleeping team, the fruits of victory,
Speaker 2: what a bleeping team, And Kirk Gibson would lead that
Speaker 2: and he went into the clubhouse, did his thing, did
Speaker 2: that with his teammates, and then came back out and
Speaker 2: did the interview with Bob Costas, and that was really special.
Speaker 2: And Bob did a great job. In nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal also did a great job. In twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: Freddy wasn't so bad either. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out
Speaker 2: to riverside, John, you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 6: John, Hey, David with conforna struggling and reported leader shopping
Speaker 6: around looking for a left handed bat. Why can they
Speaker 6: not give Ryan Ward a chance? And then he doesn't
Speaker 6: have a.
Speaker 3: Position to be ready.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have a position. Not well, not well, right, Lord.
Speaker 2: I don't know if for whatever reason, has not gotten
Speaker 2: an opportunity at the major league level with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that's about. I know his tria
Speaker 2: A numbers are really good and have been over the
Speaker 2: course of the last three years. But he's got to
Speaker 2: get better defensively. I mean, baseball is not just hitting.
Speaker 2: I can't I can't stress that enough. Hitting is just
Speaker 2: part of it. You've got to be able to play defense.
Speaker 6: Okay, when she ain't gonna be ready.
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said he's gonna be ready before the All
Speaker 2: Star break, So that's a that's a great sign. And look,
Speaker 2: Caspiras may be filling in temporarily until Shean is able
Speaker 2: to come into the major leagues and start pitching games.
Speaker 2: Maybe Caspiraus and Image she and are piggybacking each other
Speaker 2: in the same spot. But they're gonna need both those
Speaker 2: guys until the All Star Break when they get Glass
Speaker 2: now Otani and Blake snail back. Let's go out to
Speaker 2: Garden Grove. Frank, You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi, Frank.
Speaker 7: Hey David. Love the show, so thank you.
Speaker 2: Hey Frank, Let me ask you a question. Let me
Speaker 2: ask you a question. Since we just were talking about
Speaker 2: Freddy's Grand Slam with Ken Rosenthal, where were you and
Speaker 2: Freddie hit his Grand Slam last year?
Speaker 7: I was in my living room and I had a
Speaker 7: bet down with my best man. I was best man
Speaker 7: at his wedding. He was best man of mine. He
Speaker 7: grew up basically next to Yankee Stadium, was an usher,
Speaker 7: lifelong Yankee fan, and we had a bet on the
Speaker 7: game and the series, and it was pretty magical.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would want you won that bet. What was
Speaker 2: the winnings?
Speaker 7: The winnings was cash the next time we were together
Speaker 7: in a bar, probably to be paid to the bartender,
Speaker 7: which it was.
Speaker 2: All right, Frank. I like that. That's a way to
Speaker 2: keep it in a good spirited way. I love it,
Speaker 2: all right. What's your question?
Speaker 7: All right? I have a solution to the seemingly unsolvable
Speaker 7: problem of dodge pitchers blowing out their arms. So we
Speaker 7: know the unsolvable problem. You can't tell pitchers not to
Speaker 7: pitch with max velo or max spin rate because they'll
Speaker 7: stop getting Major league hitters out. But when they do it,
Speaker 7: they blow out their arms. So this is an institutional solution.
Speaker 7: In a word, it is knuckleballers. And the reason it's
Speaker 7: institutional is what I suggest the Dodgers do, who are
Speaker 7: what we're thinking and sharper than every other organization, is
Speaker 7: every year in spring training at the low levels, they
Speaker 7: either sign for cheap or convert an infield or other
Speaker 7: pitcher who's not going to make it to the major leagues,
Speaker 7: five of them to become knuckleballers, and then let them
Speaker 7: rise through the ranks as merit dictates, and because you're
Speaker 7: adding five every year, really cheap the ones. Eventually you'll
Speaker 7: get one or more who rise to the level. If
Speaker 7: the Dodgers had a knuckleballer who could start every fifth day,
Speaker 7: they replaced the bullpen game logs two hundred and two
Speaker 7: hundred and fifty innings greatly reduced risk of blowing out
Speaker 7: their arms. You keep competitive in those games. You saved
Speaker 7: the bullpen pitchers for what they're supposed to be used for,
Speaker 7: and the ripple effect on the rest of the staff
Speaker 7: is dynamic and helpful, and you're finding gems at low
Speaker 7: cost because you're doing this year after year. Institutionally to
Speaker 7: something that's been proven to work at the major league level.
Speaker 7: Of course, the Dodgers had Candiotti, Tim Wakefield through twenty
Speaker 7: years in the Bigs, throwing two hundred innings a year.
Speaker 7: Ri Dicky did the same. This is not something that
Speaker 7: hasn't been done, but if you embrace it institutionally in
Speaker 7: a smart way, you can have something that beats these
Speaker 7: ridiculous lose eleven to one because you're throwing your the
Speaker 7: dregs of your bullpen out there.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Well, you know, I feel like
Speaker 2: listening to interviews with the knuckleballers, some that you mentioned
Speaker 2: and others like Charlie Huff, it's not as easy as
Speaker 2: people think it is to be a knuckleballer, or you
Speaker 2: would see more. Frank, I think that's the catch.
Speaker 7: Why that is the catch, But that's why. What are
Speaker 7: you losing? If you're taking infielders who are not going
Speaker 7: to make it to the major leagues and says, hey,
Speaker 7: we'll guarantee you three league, three year minor league deal.
Speaker 7: You're learning a knuckleball with trotting you out there, and
Speaker 7: some of them will make it. The cost is low,
Speaker 7: the investment is minimal. But because it's targeted and you
Speaker 7: are making them knuckleballers and not any other kind of pitcher,
Speaker 7: you start a pipeline that has a decent chance of
Speaker 7: paying off. Since there doesn't appear to be any other
Speaker 7: answer to the issue.
Speaker 2: Well there are answers, but it seems like an industry
Speaker 2: wide obsession with velocity and that's the way pitchers are
Speaker 2: being compensated these days. But Frank, I will say I
Speaker 2: would not shoot that idea down. It's an interesting, very
Speaker 2: creative solution.
Speaker 5: So good for you, Thanks David.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. Frank, I'm not shooting that down.
Speaker 2: If I was. Andrew Friedman in one of my guys,
Speaker 2: came to me and suggested that I wouldn't tell him
Speaker 2: to get out of my office. How about that? And
Speaker 2: speaking of knuckleballers, I'm going to give you a hint
Speaker 2: to the trivia question to win a pair of tickets
Speaker 2: to next Tuesday's game at Dodger Stadium against the Padres.
Speaker 2: It's the World Series Replica Trophy night to the first
Speaker 2: forty thousand fans. Here's the trivia question, and then I'll
Speaker 2: share my conversation with Mookie Bets so Ronnie can line
Speaker 2: up the calls. And this is gonna test whether or
Speaker 2: not you really do listen to Dodger Talk, or you're
Speaker 2: just hearing, or you're not listening. I'm gonna give this
Speaker 2: to a loyal listener. Matt Sour two nights ago through
Speaker 2: one hundred and eleven pitches in relief for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: After that game on postgame Dodger Talk, I told you
Speaker 2: who was the last Dodger pitcher in relief to throw
Speaker 2: that many pitches. If you were listening and you remember
Speaker 2: the name, you'll have a pair of tickets to next
Speaker 2: Tuesday's game against the Padres. The first caller that has
Speaker 2: that answer at eight six six none eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy will win a pair of tickets to next
Speaker 2: Tuesday night's game against the Padres on World Series Replica
Speaker 2: Trophy Night. So eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. And before the first
Speaker 2: game of the series in San Diego, I had a
Speaker 2: chance to catch up with Mookie Bets and after he
Speaker 2: had those four days off after stubbing his toe, his
Speaker 2: left toe, he has hit close to five hundred in
Speaker 2: that series against the Padres. He was aggressive early in
Speaker 2: the count and he seems to be the old Mookie
Speaker 2: bets Here was part of our conversation. MOOKI shortstop, y'all,
Speaker 2: you've looked like a natural out there this year. What
Speaker 2: about the little different things about shortstop? Do you feel
Speaker 2: like you're going next level now at that position? I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: It's hard to say, because you know, I just want
Speaker 3: to be consistent in being the best I can be
Speaker 3: every day, and that's you know, making all the routine
Speaker 3: plays and if I can make some some nice plays,
Speaker 3: then cool. I just know how hard it is to
Speaker 3: play shortstop, and you can't can't you know it continue
Speaker 3: to grow and continue to to try and be the
Speaker 3: best with doing all the fancy tricks and all that
Speaker 3: type of stuff. But you know, for someone like me,
Speaker 3: which is really like my I guess my second year
Speaker 3: doing this first year, really actually understanding what I'm doing,
Speaker 3: I just want to be a basic, vanilla bland shortstop
Speaker 3: that makes all the plays and hopefully can can do
Speaker 3: something in the box.
Speaker 2: You're doing that and more. But there's different levels of
Speaker 2: the intangibles of the position, and it feels like you're
Speaker 2: really commanding that position. I've seen you have meetings with
Speaker 2: pictures where the game's going too fast. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: what the l leader of the infield does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, that's all kind of stuff that I've learned.
Speaker 3: Miggie Row has really helped me a ton with stuff
Speaker 3: like that and telling me, you know, hey, you know
Speaker 3: you're playing every day, You're you're you're the guy. This
Speaker 3: is how to handle it, this is this is what
Speaker 3: it takes. And you're gonna have to be the guy
Speaker 3: that goes in and calls the meeting when the game
Speaker 3: needs to slow down. You're gonna have to know what
Speaker 3: everybody needs to be doing. You're gonna have to move guys.
Speaker 3: You know, you're gonna have to, just like you said,
Speaker 3: be the captain of the infield. And I didn't really
Speaker 3: know what that means. And I'm not really here to
Speaker 3: be the captain of nothing. I'm really just here to
Speaker 3: just kind of take care of my job. But I guess,
Speaker 3: you know, Miggi Ro kind of explained that that is
Speaker 3: my job is kind of doing that, and so it's
Speaker 3: a it's it's been okay, it's it's it's been okay,
Speaker 3: but definitely, definitely, definitely I got a lot more learning
Speaker 3: to do. Sometimes in the middle of the games. Man,
Speaker 3: I'm out there, like, I have no idea what to do.
Speaker 3: I have no idea If the ball is hitting me,
Speaker 3: I don't know. And like during those situations, Miggi ro
Speaker 3: is right there on the top step and I can
Speaker 3: look at him and we have this little sign language
Speaker 3: that would commune communicate and he he like helps me
Speaker 3: in those tenth inning, eleventh and twelfth in any moments, because
Speaker 3: I've never been in those situations before. That's the first time,
Speaker 3: you know, that's the first time I've been in the situation.
Speaker 3: So I had no idea, you know. And so yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean having the having him here is definitely help.
Speaker 2: With all that. Hey, we all need somebody to lean on.
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets has got Miguel Rojas and all of Los
Speaker 2: Angeles to lean on. And those four days while you
Speaker 2: were dealing with your toe, it feels like you had
Speaker 2: a chance to catch your breath as far as the
Speaker 2: offense goes, because since you came back, you've looked like
Speaker 2: the Mookie Bets we all know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a little time, like you said to
Speaker 3: to to really try and get the habits that I
Speaker 3: had developed out and it's hard. It's hard to do
Speaker 3: it when you're like playing every day. Like when you're
Speaker 3: playing and you have to compete every day, it's hard
Speaker 3: to really stack positive days because the game is so
Speaker 3: negative and like it's a game of failure, and so
Speaker 3: you know, whatever move and whatever you were working on,
Speaker 3: you go and do it in the game and you
Speaker 3: don't get any hits. Well, then you know that's the
Speaker 3: considered a failure, you know, and so we need to
Speaker 3: we want success, we need success now. But really, you know,
Speaker 3: having those those days helped me stack positive days, you know,
Speaker 3: one after the other, one after the other, and then
Speaker 3: I think I've built enough confidence to take it into
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 2: I still it blows my mind. As good as you are,
Speaker 2: you are such a humble person. Sometimes that bleeds into
Speaker 2: where you forget how good you are. Who's the guy
Speaker 2: now that reminds you how good you are?
Speaker 3: You know really, Uh, Doc does a lot. Doc really
Speaker 3: does a really good job, and and kind of reminded
Speaker 3: me of that. And uh, I mean, you know when
Speaker 3: it comes from the top like that. You know, we
Speaker 3: have my teammates and KK does a really good job.
Speaker 3: Would it Megi does a really good job? Would it
Speaker 3: Freddie Freddy. He has this weird, weird cell a way
Speaker 3: of just saying like, Okay, whenever you're whenever you're done
Speaker 3: in your little feelings and your attitude, then come on,
Speaker 3: I'm ready to play when you are, you know. And
Speaker 3: so that's kind of how he treats me, which is awesome.
Speaker 3: So it's great. I got a great group of guys
Speaker 3: I'm here to kind of all help me. But but
Speaker 3: you know, Doc, Doc really does remind me a lot.
Speaker 3: And it's it's you know, I try not to think
Speaker 3: about it, but sometimes it helps.
Speaker 2: Right now you're feeling good, though, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I feel feel a lot better now. I feel a
Speaker 3: lot better now, and I think we just got to
Speaker 3: get find a way to get healthy and then we'll
Speaker 3: start winning some ball games.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you need me to record a video for you, you
Speaker 2: could just look at it whenever you're in your feelings
Speaker 2: and I'll give you a hype video.
Speaker 3: All right. I'm down for that for sure.
Speaker 2: All right. Yeah, I'll be the hype man for Mookie bets.
Speaker 2: And as incredible as it sounds, this is something that
Speaker 2: I've heard about since Mookie became a Dodger. He needs
Speaker 2: to be reminded how good he is, and he gets
Speaker 2: really down on himself, loses confidence, and that's when things
Speaker 2: become a pro long slump. But ever since he came
Speaker 2: back after missing four games, he has been the old
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets. So he obviously, as Freddy Freeman told him,
Speaker 2: got out of his feelings and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: now he's aggressive early in the count and trying to
Speaker 2: pull the ball for power. So that's a great sign
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers. And you know, you can't there's nothing
Speaker 2: you could say to poke holes in the way he's
Speaker 2: played shortstop this year. He's played really good shortstop this year,
Speaker 2: and now he's starting to make plays that a lot
Speaker 2: of other shortstops wouldn't make, and he's starting to understand
Speaker 2: the subtleties of the position, the cutoffs, the relays. He's
Speaker 2: taken it to the next level. And that's what you need.
Speaker 2: It's not just about fielding ground balls. It's about everything else.
Speaker 2: When the ball's hit, where do you go, how do
Speaker 2: you make a great play on a relay throw? Where
Speaker 2: should you be? All those things. It's more than just
Speaker 2: fielding ground balls. Eight six, six, nine, eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number, and in case you
Speaker 2: want to listen to the entire conversation, you can find
Speaker 2: it on the iHeartRadio app. All right, the trivia question
Speaker 2: for a pair of Dodger tickets to next Tuesday Night's
Speaker 2: game against the Padres is who was the last pitcher
Speaker 2: in relief for the Dodgers to throw one hundred and
Speaker 2: eleven pitches as Matt Sower did just a couple of
Speaker 2: nights ago. Let's go out to Costa Mesa. Dan, you're
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk Who what's your guests? Were you listening?
Speaker 2: How closely were you listening?
Speaker 7: I listened last time. I put the podcast on all
Speaker 7: day to day, going back a week love it.
Speaker 5: I'm going to go with Clyde King, my man.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Dan, that's not the right answer. But you
Speaker 2: were listening because the thirteen hits that Matt Sower gave
Speaker 2: up in relief are the most by Dodger pitcher since
Speaker 2: Clyde King back in nineteen forty five. So I'm sorry
Speaker 2: you were listening, but that was not the most pitches
Speaker 2: thrown in relief since Matt sours one hundred and eleven
Speaker 2: the other night, Let's go out to Redondo Beach. James,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi, James, what's
Speaker 2: your guess?
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with Boostar Gattol.
Speaker 2: The Bazooka never threw even close to one hundred and
Speaker 2: eleven pitches in relief, James, But thank you for trying.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go out to our guy also in
Speaker 2: Redondo Beach. A lot of listeners in Redondo Beach. I guess, hey, Bruce,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk. What's your guess?
Speaker 7: Tom Candiotti?
Speaker 2: What's that? Bruce?
Speaker 1: Tom Candiotti?
Speaker 2: That's right? Can you make it to next Tuesday's game?
Speaker 6: Yes? I can?
Speaker 2: All right, great, Yeah, Tom Candiotti. Did you look that up?
Speaker 2: Or were you listening when I was saying that I.
Speaker 5: Was listening on touchers and money this afternoon?
Speaker 2: Oh, there we go, there we go. All right, I'll
Speaker 2: take it. I'll take it. I'll even though it's Petro
Speaker 2: some money, I'll still I'll still accept the answer. Bruce. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you, Okay, Bruce, hold on. Ronnie Fossil will get
Speaker 2: all that information. Yes, Tom Candiadi was the last pitcher
Speaker 2: to throw one hundred and eleven pitches in relief for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. The knuckleballer back in nineteen ninety four in
Speaker 2: Cincinnati against the Reds. Bruce and Redondo Beach has won
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Speaker 2: AM five to seventy LA Sports. All right, before we
Speaker 2: say goodnight, just want to remind you that sho he
Speaker 2: Otani threw more pitches and simulated more innings than he
Speaker 2: has since being in a Dodger uniform. He did that
Speaker 2: the two days ago before that eleven to one loss,
Speaker 2: Otani simulated three innings and through forty four pitches. He
Speaker 2: even hit ninety six miles an hour, and through his
Speaker 2: wide array of pitches the splitter. I actually talked to
Speaker 2: one of the minor leaguers that the Dodgers brought into
Speaker 2: San Diego to face Otani, and he told me the
Speaker 2: best pitch he saw Otani throw at him or throw
Speaker 2: to him was the sweeper. So Otani, you know, I
Speaker 2: was joking in the press box. If they needed a
Speaker 2: pitcher after Matt Soer, they could have brought Otani in.
Speaker 2: He's ready to go. But Dave Roberts completely shot down
Speaker 2: any thoughts that Otani would pitch before the All Star Game.
Speaker 2: The Dodgs are sticking to their plan to have Otani
Speaker 2: pitch post All Star Break and get ready for the postseason.
Speaker 2: And here's another layer to all this. On the postseason rosters,
Speaker 2: there are rules of how many pitchers you can carry.
Speaker 2: You can only carry thirteen pitchers on your postseason roster
Speaker 2: every round. You could change the pictures, but Otani has
Speaker 2: the two way designation as he does in the regular season.
Speaker 2: So essentially the Dodgers have not only an extra pitcher,
Speaker 2: but one of the best pitchers in the world as
Speaker 2: a fourteenth pitcher on their roster. Could you imagine having
Speaker 2: to face the Dodgers in a postseason series with Yamamoto,
Speaker 2: Blake Snell and show Hey Otani to go along with
Speaker 2: Kershaw and possibly Tyler Glass. Now, that would be tough.
Speaker 2: That would be tough, And I loved I forgot who
Speaker 2: I was talking to in the press box last homestand
Speaker 2: but David Kohane was kind of at the stage of
Speaker 2: his career that Kershaw's at right now. And Joe Tory
Speaker 2: carried David Cone on the two thousand World Series roster
Speaker 2: to face one hitter and it was Mike Piazza he
Speaker 2: got him out. So there's a potential relief role for
Speaker 2: Kershaw to come in and get a tough lefty out.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's even Brandon Neimo or Juan Soto. So all
Speaker 2: that stuff. And by the way, yes, Tim Kates just
Speaker 2: text me, I got out bid for the Mookie Bets
Speaker 2: bat for Maxmunsey's online charity. I'm aware of that, Kates.
Speaker 2: I was tracking yet, but it was a little bit
Speaker 2: too rich for my blood. But I feel like I
Speaker 2: did my part to boost the bidding for a good cause.
Speaker 2: Max Munsey was having a charity event tonight at the
Speaker 2: Inner Continento Hotel raising funds for the wildfires. So yes,
Speaker 2: I did my part to get the bidding up, but
Speaker 2: my wife, my wife would not allow me to go
Speaker 2: any So there we have it. That'll do it for
Speaker 2: off day Dodger Talk. Thanks to Ronnie Focio for his help.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Ken Rosenthal for calling in from Boston. You
Speaker 2: can podcast that conversation on the iHeartRadio app. Tim Kates,
Speaker 2: Will and Tim Kates. We'll be with you tomorrow night
Speaker 2: at six o'clock with Morongo Casino Dodgers on deck as
Speaker 2: the Dodgers begin a ten game homestand with a three
Speaker 2: game series against the Giants. Yamamoto against Logan Webb. That's
Speaker 2: a really good pitching matchup. We hope to see you
Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium tomorrow night, first pitch at seven to ten.
Speaker 2: Coming up next, Jason Smith on Fox Sports Radio. We'll
Speaker 2: talk to you tomorrow. See you