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Speaker 4: talking to you and coming up at seven forty five,
Speaker 4: you are gonna get a farm report as I give
Speaker 4: you an update in the top minor league prospects for
Speaker 4: the Dodgers. A lot of names you heard and saw
Speaker 4: during spring training here on the radio, you watched on
Speaker 4: Sports at LA. You saw out a Camelback Ranch, names
Speaker 4: like host Wadea, Paula, Zaiar, Hope Jackson, Ferris, Charles Davilan,
Speaker 4: James Tibbs, the Third, Zach Root, Kendall, George. They got
Speaker 4: a lot of playing time during the spring, especially late
Speaker 4: in games, so you heard the names, you got to
Speaker 4: see him. We're gonna tell you where they're at to
Speaker 4: start twenty twenty six at the minor leagues, what level
Speaker 4: and what kind of start are they off to. So
Speaker 4: that's coming up at seven forty five. I like to
Speaker 4: do that when I'm here on off night Dodger Talk
Speaker 4: during the season. We of course know what's happening with
Speaker 4: the big league team, but I like to give you
Speaker 4: a quick update on some of the Dodgers' top minor
Speaker 4: league prospects and names of the future where they're at
Speaker 4: right now. So that's coming up at seven forty five.
Speaker 4: BIZ road trip for the Dodgers, who go five to
Speaker 4: one on the road trip and they return home to
Speaker 4: start a homestand tomorrow night at nine and three overall
Speaker 4: on this season. We're officially now two weeks in to
Speaker 4: the start of the twenty twenty six baseball season. We
Speaker 4: have got two weeks of baseball underneath our belt. The
Speaker 4: Dodgers at nine and three sitting atop the division, the
Speaker 4: Arizona Diamondbacks at seven and six overall, the Colorado Rockies
Speaker 4: and the San Diego Padres as we speak, both at
Speaker 4: five hundred, and the San Francisco Giants, with a new
Speaker 4: head coach and Tony Fotello, are five and eight to
Speaker 4: start this season. What surprises you, if at all, to
Speaker 4: start this season in the NL West and across Major
Speaker 4: League Baseball eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two,
Speaker 4: five to seventy. I'll tell you what. The Colorado Rockies
Speaker 4: playing five hundred baseball winners of four in a row.
Speaker 4: A young team that quite frankly, the last two years
Speaker 4: have been awful one hundred lost seasons in twenty four
Speaker 4: and twenty five. The fact that they've already gotten the
Speaker 4: six wins here in the first two weeks of the season,
Speaker 4: that tells me right away that this is a team
Speaker 4: that's taken his lumps and at least off to a
Speaker 4: good start. Can they maintain it? We'll find out, and
Speaker 4: that's a big part of this great starts in April.
Speaker 4: Where are you in May, June, and July. Yonder Alonso
Speaker 4: was on with Petros and I earlier in the Petros
Speaker 4: and Money Show at five point thirty, and he said
Speaker 4: something interesting, and I think it's worth repeating. Baseball players
Speaker 4: generally look at April is put your head down, get
Speaker 4: your bats in, play baseball, and then when you start May,
Speaker 4: first look up and see where you're at in the
Speaker 4: standings and on the scoreboard. What do your stats look like,
Speaker 4: and what does the team look like? One month in
Speaker 4: roughly into this season. Well, we're at two weeks into
Speaker 4: this season. I can tell you right now, I feel
Speaker 4: pretty confident in saying the Dodgers are the runaway team
Speaker 4: in the NL West. I think it's gonna be an
Speaker 4: absolute dogfight after that between the Diamondbacks, Rockies, and Padres
Speaker 4: to see where they slot in behind the Dodgers and
Speaker 4: they get a wild card spot in the National League.
Speaker 4: The NL East is loaded with the Marlins, the Braves,
Speaker 4: and the Mets. And I didn't even mention the Phillies
Speaker 4: who got into the postseason a year ago. There are
Speaker 4: four legitimate contenders as far as playoff contenders in the
Speaker 4: National League East, the NL Central, the Milwaukee Brewers Cincinnati Reds,
Speaker 4: two teams who are quite frankly the favorites in those
Speaker 4: in the NL Central to go back to the postseason.
Speaker 4: The Cardinals still young, giving up. I don't think they're
Speaker 4: gonna be around too long. But right out of the
Speaker 4: gate two weeks into this season, you're starting to see
Speaker 4: who are the teams that are going to start rising
Speaker 4: to the top. Who are the teams playing above their
Speaker 4: skis and out in front and are gonna come back
Speaker 4: to the pack, And who are some of the teams
Speaker 4: that are just off to bad starts and need to
Speaker 4: get better, get healthy, and get back into the playoff race.
Speaker 4: When it's all said to done, it's still early, but
Speaker 4: twelve games in for the Dodger, I certainly like where
Speaker 4: the Dodgers are sitting eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 4: two five seventy. Yesterday the bullpen reared its ugly head
Speaker 4: for the first time this season. And maybe it's a
Speaker 4: hiccup at speed bump. We'll find out moving forward, But
Speaker 4: for the Dodgers, going five and zero on the road
Speaker 4: trip and a chance to close it out with a
Speaker 4: perfect six and zero road trip. Yesterday, had a three
Speaker 4: to one lead in the seventh inning, and shoe Heotany,
Speaker 4: quite frankly didn't pitch great yesterday. He admitted it. Will
Speaker 4: Smith said he was out there, he was efficient getting
Speaker 4: guys out, and he was. He had a high pitch
Speaker 4: count and a couple of innings and quite frankly had
Speaker 4: a lot of traffic on the base pass, but worked
Speaker 4: around it. And shoey Otani yesterday went the six innings,
Speaker 4: one run, four hits, didn't get a lot of swinging misses,
Speaker 4: only two strikeouts. They were putting the ball in play,
Speaker 4: but he was getting out of it and working around
Speaker 4: the traffic on the base pass. Jack Dryer came in
Speaker 4: and absolutely did not have it yesterday. In the seventh inning,
Speaker 4: Blake Trining came in bailed him out, not before the
Speaker 4: tying runs came across though, to tie the game at three.
Speaker 4: And then in the eighth inning, Ben Casparius on in
Speaker 4: relief and Casparius, as it turns out, gives up a run.
Speaker 4: It's an unearned run. Well, actually they did give it
Speaker 4: an earned run because it was a walk to turn
Speaker 4: around to score, but Ben Casparius the run scored on
Speaker 4: the wild throat to second base that Miguel Rojas probably
Speaker 4: should have had and dropped ball goes into center field,
Speaker 4: winning run comes across and the Dodgers lose. What a
Speaker 4: way for the Dodgers lose, by the way for the
Speaker 4: bullpen to give it up in the seventh and eighth inning.
Speaker 4: I don't think this is going to be something we
Speaker 4: see a lot of this year. Quite frankly, there's a
Speaker 4: lot of arms down there, and I think nine times
Speaker 4: out of ten, Jack Tryers gonna get out and pitch
Speaker 4: better than he did yesterday and have the control which
Speaker 4: he did not have yesterday. Blake Trining certainly came in
Speaker 4: and pitched well. Took him only nine pitches to get
Speaker 4: two outs. He had a in between. I think it's
Speaker 4: a blip on the radar. I'm not worried about it,
Speaker 4: and I think this team is so good they will
Speaker 4: be able to overcome it. You know, most times. Unfortunately
Speaker 4: they just over couldn't overcome it yesterday. And with that
Speaker 4: being said, they still had an opportunity. Down four to three,
Speaker 4: they had runners on first and second with one out
Speaker 4: against Jeff Hoffman, the closer who they got after yet
Speaker 4: last year in the World Series. They almost got to
Speaker 4: him yesterday, but he was able to walk the tight
Speaker 4: rope and get off that type rope and get the
Speaker 4: win over the Dodgers. So yesterday at disappointing seventh and
Speaker 4: eighth inning for the Dodgers' bullpen, certainly something I don't
Speaker 4: think we're gonna see a lot of this year. They
Speaker 4: have been really good the first eleven games of the season.
Speaker 4: They let one get away yesterday, But when it's all
Speaker 4: said and done, a five and one road trip eight
Speaker 4: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Yesterday also
Speaker 4: a sad day in the Dodger nation with the passing
Speaker 4: of Davy Lopes. Yesterday just sad news that came out,
Speaker 4: and certainly for those who knew he had been been
Speaker 4: battling Parkinson's and struggling as of late and was surrounded
Speaker 4: by family and friends in the Northeast and yesterday succumbed
Speaker 4: to that at the age of eighty, and it just
Speaker 4: brought back so many memories for so many Dodger fans.
Speaker 4: Yesterday in hearing, the passing, the Davy Lopes, and those
Speaker 4: were some of the great days of Dodger baseball, certainly
Speaker 4: some of the great days of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball,
Speaker 4: with Lobes and Say and Russell and Garvey out there
Speaker 4: in the infield for eight and a half years, four
Speaker 4: trips to a World Series, finally winning it in nineteen
Speaker 4: eighty one. That group, the eighty one group, just got
Speaker 4: the one championship. But I mean that was for the
Speaker 4: most part a decade of them either going to the
Speaker 4: World Series, certainly going to the playoffs and dominating, and
Speaker 4: it was a great stretch. Then he had Fernando come
Speaker 4: in in eighty and eighty one and take over and
Speaker 4: pass the baton. But that that group, that group that
Speaker 4: came up together burst onto the scene and for eight
Speaker 4: and a half seasons was together. Ron Say was on
Speaker 4: the station yesterday with the Petrols and Money Show and
Speaker 4: was reminiscing about one of his good friends. So certainly
Speaker 4: a sad day. And if you want to call in
Speaker 4: and talk about Davy Lobes and the great Dodger infields
Speaker 4: of the past, we can certainly talk about that as well.
Speaker 4: Eight sixty six ninety seven, two, five, seventy's. It's an
Speaker 4: air of Dodgers baseball, whether you were young or old
Speaker 4: at the time, that touched a lot of people and
Speaker 4: it was a part of their lives for so many years.
Speaker 4: That force some of the infield something we'll never see
Speaker 4: ever again in professional baseball. A group like that that
Speaker 4: came up together, and a group like that that spent
Speaker 4: that much time together and were so good together. I
Speaker 4: mean in Davey Lopes, four time All Star, I mean overall,
Speaker 4: he spent ten years with the Dodgers. You know, a
Speaker 4: franchise record for games played at second base, second all
Speaker 4: time to order only Moriy Wills as far as batting
Speaker 4: leadoff in the Dodgers organization. He was twenty seven years
Speaker 4: old when he made his major league debut at the
Speaker 4: end of the seventy two season. I mean, think about that.
Speaker 4: It's a group that the following year, Garvey Russell saying
Speaker 4: him would start really that eight and a half years
Speaker 4: straight together in the infield. Twenty seven years old he
Speaker 4: made his major league debut. You don't see guys at
Speaker 4: that age coming up at twenty seven now and lasting
Speaker 4: as long as they do. But Davy Lobes was one
Speaker 4: of the greats. Led the majors in steels many years.
Speaker 4: I mean nineteen seventy eight, he sold forty five bases
Speaker 4: on forty nine attempts. He won a Gold Glove in
Speaker 4: nineteen seventy eight. You know, after leaving the Dodgers, a
Speaker 4: lot of Dodger fans thought that was it. Oh, he
Speaker 4: went and played for the Eighties, went and played for
Speaker 4: the Cubs. Finished his career at the Houston Astros. Finished
Speaker 4: with five hundred and fifty seven career stolen bases, twenty
Speaker 4: sixth in Major League history. One of the great competitors.
Speaker 4: Many who played with them, played against them, coached with them,
Speaker 4: coached against him. Paid tribute to Davy Lobes yesterday on
Speaker 4: social media. Saw a lot of great tributes on the
Speaker 4: MLB network. I mean, he won a second World Series
Speaker 4: as the Phillies first base coach back in two thousand
Speaker 4: and eight. He was with the Dodgers as their first
Speaker 4: base coach twenty eleven to twenty fifteen. He was around
Speaker 4: the game up until twenty seventeen, when he was a
Speaker 4: first base coach with the Washington Nationals. He was a
Speaker 4: baseball lifer. Davy Lobes a Dodger great, no doubt, baseball lifer, certainly,
Speaker 4: and he deserves all the respect that he has get
Speaker 4: in the last twenty four hours since the unfortunate past
Speaker 4: at the age of eighty. Davy Lopes a Dodger great
Speaker 4: in the seventies and eighties World Cheeries champion as well.
Speaker 4: Eight to sixty six nine, eight seven, two, five seventy
Speaker 4: is the number uh Major League Baseball coming out with
Speaker 4: the annual salaries for teams and how much they're spending
Speaker 4: and how many teams are not spending. It's just kind
Speaker 4: of eye opening as well to see all the talk
Speaker 4: all off season and really the last few offseasons about
Speaker 4: how much money the Dodgers are spending and how much
Speaker 4: they're going out in free agency and signing guys to
Speaker 4: the huge deals, and people are saying the Dodgers are
Speaker 4: bad for baseball. Well, the Mets have gone out and spend,
Speaker 4: the Yankees have gone out and spend. The teams that
Speaker 4: are competitive and winning. Let's be honest, there are teams
Speaker 4: that go out and spend. And Major League Baseball came
Speaker 4: out today and said the average salary rose across baseball
Speaker 4: nearly four percent and talked about the Mets payroll and
Speaker 4: where it's at, and the Dodgers payroll where it's at.
Speaker 4: The major league average overall is up. Six clubs with
Speaker 4: payrolls of two hundred and fifty million dollars are up.
Speaker 4: That's a rise from four teams a year ago. Ten
Speaker 4: teams now in baseball are spending over two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 4: That's all positive for the game. Eight teams are now, though,
Speaker 4: under one hundred million dollars in total salaries, up from
Speaker 4: five a year ago. You have got to be kidding me.
Speaker 4: Eight teams in Major League Baseball under one hundred million
Speaker 4: dollars in payroll. That right there, folks, is a glaring problem.
Speaker 4: As the numbers on the other side have gone up,
Speaker 4: the numbers on the bottom side have also gone up
Speaker 4: as teams shedding payroll. The Saint Louis Cardinals, the jewel
Speaker 4: of the Midwest. You play baseball the right way, the
Speaker 4: Cardinal way, as they say, Well, what has happened to
Speaker 4: that their opening day payroll has gone from one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty one million dollars to one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 4: And that's including money they owe guys like Nolan Aaronado
Speaker 4: still on their contracts even though not even playing with them.
Speaker 4: He's in Arizona, and Sonny Gray and Wilson Contrere's dead money,
Speaker 4: so to speak. Other teams with big cuts the Cleveland
Speaker 4: Guardians cutting forty million dollars in salary from last year,
Speaker 4: the Washington Nationals somehow shedding another twenty three million dollars,
Speaker 4: the Texas Rangers cutting payroll thirty seven million dollars. The
Speaker 4: fact that there are eight teams under one hundred million
Speaker 4: dollars in total payroll in twenty twenty six is a problem.
Speaker 4: Why aren't they spending where's the money going? Baseball is
Speaker 4: bringing in riches for the owners. The players are making money,
Speaker 4: and let's be honest, the owners are making money. And
Speaker 4: the difference between good teams and bad teams there is
Speaker 4: a clear line being drawn in the sand. The owners
Speaker 4: that turn around, make the money and spend it back
Speaker 4: on the team to improve are winning or attempting to
Speaker 4: win if they haven't yet. And the teams that are
Speaker 4: annually at the bottom, annually picking high, annually trading off
Speaker 4: whatever talent they have, they're there for a reason because
Speaker 4: they're not spending the money What in the world are
Speaker 4: the owners doing with that kind of money If they're
Speaker 4: not spending it on their team. That is a problem
Speaker 4: that's going to be addressed to the next CBA. You
Speaker 4: don't want to go down too far that road of
Speaker 4: collective bargaining talk and what's going to happen at the
Speaker 4: end of the season. But when numbers like this come
Speaker 4: out released by Major League Baseball, and you know what
Speaker 4: the payrolls look like, what the average major league salary is,
Speaker 4: and how it's gone up or down, which teams are
Speaker 4: spending more, which teams are spending less, how it's affecting baseball.
Speaker 4: These are all numbers being computed and put out there
Speaker 4: for a reason. This is showing that there is growth
Speaker 4: in the game. There's money being made on both sides,
Speaker 4: the players and owners and again the haves and the
Speaker 4: have nots. The teams that are spending are the teams
Speaker 4: making money and putting it right back into their team.
Speaker 4: The teams that are losing teams will continue to be
Speaker 4: losing teams when they don't put the money in to
Speaker 4: the organization, the salaries the players. I mean that, that
Speaker 4: to me is just sad. It is sad to see
Speaker 4: that they're owners like that, and again it shouldn't be
Speaker 4: a surprise, but when you see the numbers and it
Speaker 4: hits you right in the face like that, Now eight
Speaker 4: teams that are under one hundred million dollars and that
Speaker 4: has gone up from five a year ago. What are
Speaker 4: they doing with their money? How is a team like
Speaker 4: the Saint Louis Cardinals who isn't an expansion team, isn't
Speaker 4: a team that never got any footing in baseball, not
Speaker 4: a team that's bad ownership, just continually over the years,
Speaker 4: the Saint Louis Cardinals are one of the one of
Speaker 4: the jewels of baseball in the Midwest, all the history
Speaker 4: and the Saint Louis Cardinals slashing payroll forty one million dollars,
Speaker 4: a lot of dead money out there just to save
Speaker 4: money as that to me is unbelievable, and it's a
Speaker 4: sad state for where some of the teams are in baseball.
Speaker 4: The game is healthy, don't get me wrong. Money's being made.
Speaker 4: TV deals are through the roof. Apple TV has got
Speaker 4: too broadcasts tomorrow. They're paying a fortune to the Major
Speaker 4: League Baseball to broadcast the games. NBC just did a
Speaker 4: new deal taking over Sunday Night Baseball on NBC and Peacock.
Speaker 4: They're paying a lot of money. There is money being
Speaker 4: made in the game of Major League Baseball, and to
Speaker 4: have owners eight of them can not spend it on
Speaker 4: their payroll. Well, if they're not spending on their payroll,
Speaker 4: you think they're putting it into other parts of their organization.
Speaker 4: You think they're putting it into scouting. You think they're
Speaker 4: putting into analytics. Do you think they're doing anything else
Speaker 4: to prop up their team if they're cutting their major
Speaker 4: league salary of forty million dollars here getting to under
Speaker 4: one hundred million dollars. If they're cutting one spot, there's
Speaker 4: no way the other area is they're just dumping all
Speaker 4: that money in that that doesn't make any sense. And
Speaker 4: that is sad that there's eight teams in baseball that
Speaker 4: can't even get over one hundred million dollars in salary
Speaker 4: and won't pay the guys that eight six, six, nine
Speaker 4: eighty seven to two five seventy. I bring that up
Speaker 4: because Major League Baseball announced that earlier today, and the
Speaker 4: Dodgers get hit hard nationally for a team that goes
Speaker 4: out and spends and paying players and bringing guys into
Speaker 4: free agency. You know what, I'm glad they do what
Speaker 4: they do. I am excited to be a Dodger. I'm
Speaker 4: proud to be a Dodger fan and to see ownership
Speaker 4: do what they do, spending the money, putting it back
Speaker 4: on the field, investing in their team. Because now now,
Speaker 4: and they're on the verge of a three peat. They've
Speaker 4: gone to World Series over the last decade, win divisions
Speaker 4: constantly every year, go to the playoffs every year. That
Speaker 4: to me shows a front office and ownership that cares
Speaker 4: and in just another example what the Dodgers are doing,
Speaker 4: you know what, and tip of the cap to the
Speaker 4: other organizations like the Mets and the Yankees and the
Speaker 4: teams that are spending and that are trying to better
Speaker 4: their clubs and contend. That's what it's about. Putting the
Speaker 4: best product on the field for your fans because you
Speaker 4: deserve it, you spend the money. Ticket prices get raised,
Speaker 4: concessions are high. Parkings through the roof wouldn't be worth it.
Speaker 4: If you go out to a game and the team
Speaker 4: that's on the field, well, not worth the price of admission.
Speaker 4: But that's not the case with the Dodgers. The great team,
Speaker 4: great ownership, and man, you look around the league. Eight
Speaker 4: other teams in baseball with a payroll of one hundred
Speaker 4: million dollars or less compared to what the Dodgers, the Mets,
Speaker 4: the Phillies, the Yankees, the Blue Jays are doing out
Speaker 4: there to better their teams. The Padres eight six six
Speaker 4: nine eighty seven two five say we'll take a break,
Speaker 4: we'll come back and we'll get to your phone lines
Speaker 4: two line in dope. What if you want to jump
Speaker 4: on board, grab him if you can. Eight sixty six
Speaker 4: nine eight seven two five to seventy coming up in
Speaker 4: about twenty five minutes. We'll get you a farm report.
Speaker 4: Play with the Dodgers. Top minor league prospects are up
Speaker 4: to to start this season. Tim Kates off Night Dodger
Speaker 4: Talk as the Dodgers back home tomorrow to start a
Speaker 4: road trip or excuse me, a home stand against the
Speaker 4: Texas Rangers and the New York Mets. And it all
Speaker 4: begins tomorrow night at seven to ten, six o'clock. We'll
Speaker 4: get it all started with Moroco Casino Dodgers on deck.
Speaker 4: Tim Kates Off Night Dodgers continues on this Thursday night
Speaker 4: here on Anti seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the
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Speaker 4: seventy LA Sports Tim Kates, Ronnie Fossil and you on
Speaker 4: this Thursday night as the Dodgers enjoy a night off
Speaker 4: after a five to one road trip. They're back at
Speaker 4: it tomorrow on showhy Otani Bobblehead Night as the home
Speaker 4: stand starts off with the bang. It's gonna be exciting
Speaker 4: at at Dodger Stadium. Now, if you got a ticket
Speaker 4: to the game tomorrow night, you need to be one
Speaker 4: of the first fifty four thousand in attendance to get
Speaker 4: the bobblehead. It is a Dodger Stadium that holds just
Speaker 4: over fifty six thousand, so almost everybody will get a
Speaker 4: bobblehead tomorrow and it's the first of two Greatest Game
Speaker 4: Bobbleheads presented by synchron The second installment of the bobblehead
Speaker 4: for the Greatest Game will come on eighth against the
Speaker 4: Colorado Rockies. It's a two part bobblehead series commemorating show
Speaker 4: Hayes outstanding performance in Game four of last year's NLCS
Speaker 4: against the Milwaukee Brewers. We know the game. He homered
Speaker 4: three times, he struck out ten batters on the mound
Speaker 4: in six shutout innings. So that is Tomorrow night the
Speaker 4: first of two Greatest Game bobbleheads. And the first one
Speaker 4: is him hitting a home run and holding the bat
Speaker 4: looking up into the pavilion. So the first one of
Speaker 4: his him hitting a home run. I can imagine the
Speaker 4: second of the two bobblehead in the series will be
Speaker 4: of him on the mound pitching. I don't know that
Speaker 4: for sure, but I'm gonna go ahead out on a
Speaker 4: limb and say that that that'll be the second one
Speaker 4: of the two bobbleheads for the Greatest Game. It's a
Speaker 4: homestand that will include Hello Kitty Night on Monday Night. Yes,
Speaker 4: a grey hoodie will be given out to the stadium
Speaker 4: gates as fan enter for the Hello Kiddy Night which
Speaker 4: Hello Kitty will be there in centerfield Plaza taking pitchers.
Speaker 4: The homestand will conclud with Jackie Robinson Day on April fifteenth.
Speaker 4: Of course, a commemorative jersey presented by UCLA Health will
Speaker 4: be passed out to fans in attendance. And fresh off
Speaker 4: their national championship victory, the women's basketball team from UCLA,
Speaker 4: Jackie Robinson's alma mater. Fours up. Let's go mc bruin.
Speaker 4: They will bring their trophy and they will throw out
Speaker 4: the honorary first pitch prior to the game. So that
Speaker 4: is on April fifteenth, Jackie Robinson Day, honoring the great
Speaker 4: number forty two Jackie Robinson, and that'll be a lot
Speaker 4: of fun out there. And of course having UCLA women's
Speaker 4: basketball team fresh off their win in the national championship
Speaker 4: game on Saturday against South Carolina, they'll be out there
Speaker 4: and great to see the Lady Bruins during the victory
Speaker 4: lap as they should be at a big ceremony at
Speaker 4: Paul Pavilion last night to be recognized. They were at
Speaker 4: the Laker game this week, they were at the Clipper game,
Speaker 4: so certainly making the tour on late night TV shows
Speaker 4: as well, celebrating that national championship, the first ever for
Speaker 4: LA women's basketball. Eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two
Speaker 4: five seventy. Let's go out to the phones, don't forget
Speaker 4: coming up at about fifteen minutes. We got your farm report.
Speaker 4: We'll start things off in Marina. Del Rey Arthur, thanks
Speaker 4: you for being Patia welcome to Dodger Talk. How you
Speaker 4: doing tonight?
Speaker 5: I'm doing fine. How are you doing, Tim, I'm doing great?
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I want to I.
Speaker 5: Find to do to sit here a segment about these costs,
Speaker 5: production and spending by some of the teams is now
Speaker 5: eighteen one hundred thousand.
Speaker 4: Uh, it's not it's it's it's I don't believe it's
Speaker 4: the Angels on that list that have gone under him
Speaker 4: one hundred million dollars. But we we've seen teams across baseball.
Speaker 4: The Minnesota Twins, for example, Arthur, they lead major League
Speaker 4: Baseball with the largest reduction in payroll. They slash ninety
Speaker 4: six million dollars from last season. They're down to forty
Speaker 4: six million dollars in salary.
Speaker 5: That's that's that's amazing. Sells fixteam.
Speaker 6: The thing is it's on is UH.
Speaker 5: I wonder what impact the players umen with the players
Speaker 5: women inspiring this here one of what that has to
Speaker 5: do with it. The other thing is that it is
Speaker 5: also the the cable TV packages going south.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have the local the local rights. You're you're
Speaker 4: absolutely right with the local deals. And I appreciate the
Speaker 4: phone call from UH. I know the Angels and the Podres,
Speaker 4: their TV deals all looped in and Major League Baseball
Speaker 4: has had to come in and take over their regional
Speaker 4: broadcast there. So yeah, I know those are struggling, but
Speaker 4: you know it's not our friends at sports and at
Speaker 4: l A, and they are thriving and certainly going hand
Speaker 4: in hand with what the Dodgers are doing on the field.
Speaker 4: It's it's just staggering to me to to look at
Speaker 4: teams across baseball and ownerships that just do not put
Speaker 4: the money in to the product on the field. And
Speaker 4: to see teams like the Minnesota Wins, who've got a
Speaker 4: beautiful ballpark at Target Field in Minneapolis, just a beautiful
Speaker 4: stadium there, and they don't put money into that team.
Speaker 4: The emerith the trade deadline last year, it was a
Speaker 4: who's who that was left in the clubhouse for the
Speaker 4: Minnesota Twins, and Byron Buckston was one of the guys
Speaker 4: left over, but they basically traded everybody else on that
Speaker 4: roster that they could. It's like the movie Major League.
Speaker 4: It's embarrassing. And on the flip side of it, you
Speaker 4: got teams at the top like the Mets, the Blue Jays,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers, the Phillies, the Yankees. They spend money. And
Speaker 4: what all those teams I just mentioned have in common,
Speaker 4: well outside of the Mets last year, who messed the playoffs,
Speaker 4: but perennially they are a teams that are in the
Speaker 4: postseason or fighting to win a championship, and moving forward,
Speaker 4: the Mets have put themselves in a situation to go
Speaker 4: to the playoffs every year. They've certainly spent the money
Speaker 4: and made the effort to do it, is the point.
Speaker 4: But you look at other teams around baseball and they're
Speaker 4: just lack of caring, really, and how is it going
Speaker 4: to affect the CBA when it's all said and done
Speaker 4: at the end of the year. And I know fans
Speaker 4: don't want to hear about that, but to see teams
Speaker 4: spending and then to see the bottom half or the
Speaker 4: bottom third not spending, that's a problem. And I don't
Speaker 4: think it's a player problem. That's an owner problem. That's
Speaker 4: a Rob Manfred, who represents the owners in baseball problem.
Speaker 4: They need to get on the same page, and if
Speaker 4: they've got problems between them, they need to figure it
Speaker 4: out and get on the same page moving forward, because
Speaker 4: you can't just sit there and claim to be poor
Speaker 4: as an owner when your team's valued at a billion dollars.
Speaker 4: How's that the case? You got a brand new basically
Speaker 4: ballpark in Minneapolis or a newer ballpark that still looks
Speaker 4: brand new. I mean, you can't cry poor as a
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball owner when you are a billionaire and
Speaker 4: you're giving millions every year in money from the taxes
Speaker 4: that are on the teams that are spending the money
Speaker 4: and going over that threshold. I mean, you are making
Speaker 4: the money, spend the dang money on your team. Eight
Speaker 4: sixty six, nine five seven again Dodgers in action tomorrow
Speaker 4: against the Rangers. Tyler Glass now on the mound for
Speaker 4: the Dodgers. Want to know already to start the year.
Speaker 4: Jorge and Londale next up here on Dodge Talk.
Speaker 7: Hi doing hoor hey, We're doing great here.
Speaker 4: How are you, Jim, I'm doing good, Thanks man, So
Speaker 4: I'll reiterate.
Speaker 7: And Uh As someone who grew up as a Dodger fan,
Speaker 7: got converted really during the Fernando area. I was, I was,
Speaker 7: I was a little puff. I was a little boy
Speaker 7: when when Fernando uh broke the bigs and got to
Speaker 7: meet him finally before rest Rest God, Rest is rest. Rested,
Speaker 7: see Fernando, and really just the commitment to winning. It
Speaker 7: made all the difference. And when we.
Speaker 3: When we had that that that down period when uh
Speaker 3: during the where it was you know, publicly known that
Speaker 3: McCourt was spending money on swimming pools and trying to
Speaker 3: appease his ex wife.
Speaker 7: And it's all out there, it's all public record what
Speaker 7: what he was spending his money.
Speaker 5: Spending money out of Russian psychic.
Speaker 4: So well, those days are gone. That's the problem that
Speaker 4: he was there too long, and it took new blood
Speaker 4: to come in. And we are thankful that the Gouggaheim
Speaker 4: group came in, and I appreciate the phone call. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you look back at those days and it was it
Speaker 4: was pretty rock bottom as far as you know, what
Speaker 4: they had available. And you know, Ned COLLETTI uh should
Speaker 4: get should get more recognition for what he did in
Speaker 4: making playoff teams, putting together playoff teams, putting together the
Speaker 4: rosters that he did with the with the wallet that
Speaker 4: he had to go out and spend with and looking
Speaker 4: at his wallet and just not having any money and
Speaker 4: trying to figure out ways to make deals and get creative.
Speaker 4: Read his book The Big Chair by Ned Coletti. It
Speaker 4: is a fascinating read. I love Ned. He's a great guy.
Speaker 4: He's been in the news lately what he did with
Speaker 4: Team Italy and putting together that team in the World
Speaker 4: Baseball class. I can hear him all the time here
Speaker 4: on a FI seven Ela Sports. He saw him on
Speaker 4: TV after he was done being the GM. He laid
Speaker 4: the foundation and then the next ownership group and the
Speaker 4: next management group took it and ran with it, even
Speaker 4: more so because they had money to spend. But he
Speaker 4: was the GM of the Dodgers during a period in
Speaker 4: which they did not spend money and to be honest,
Speaker 4: we're cheap and didn't have the money and the liquid
Speaker 4: assets to go out and make the team better. So
Speaker 4: he had to be creative. And again I highly recommend it.
Speaker 4: You can get it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, whatever
Speaker 4: you get your books. The Big Chair by Ned Coletti,
Speaker 4: because he talks about his time as the GM of
Speaker 4: the Dodgers and trades he had to make and how
Speaker 4: he had to put them together and manipulate things as
Speaker 4: far as you know, salary's working out and getting guys
Speaker 4: back and you know, taking chances on players and remember
Speaker 4: that was the era in which you know, they went
Speaker 4: out and took a chance on a young redhead who
Speaker 4: was dfade by the New York Mets, Justin Turner. And
Speaker 4: you strike lightning in a bottle with Justin Turner. And
Speaker 4: if he goes on to become a postseason hero, a
Speaker 4: World Series hero, a champion, and one of the best
Speaker 4: guys out there and a figurehead for the organization for
Speaker 4: almost a decade, Ned Colletti finds him again, that's just
Speaker 4: a different era Dodger baseball. And there was a lot
Speaker 4: of good, there was some bad, and certainly we are
Speaker 4: in the golden era of Major League Baseball. I have
Speaker 4: the list in front of any entering open week, including
Speaker 4: forty man rosters, non roster players, major League Baseball payrolls.
Speaker 4: The New York Mets number one, the Dodgers number two,
Speaker 4: the Yankees and Phillies and Blue Jays riding out the
Speaker 4: top five, and then there's a significant drop off to
Speaker 4: the Braves, the Ashros, the Padres, the Cubs, and the
Speaker 4: Tigers riding out the top ten. Then you get the
Speaker 4: teams that are under two hundred million dollars in spending,
Speaker 4: Red Sox, Rangers, Diebacks, Angels, Orioles, Mariners, Royals, Brewers, Reds, Rockies,
Speaker 4: and Pittsburgh Pirates. Then you get to the teams, the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 4: nine teams that are under one hundred million dollars, and
Speaker 4: what they look like. You've got the Cardinals, the Twins,
Speaker 4: the A's, the Rays, the Nationals, the White Sox, the Marlins,
Speaker 4: and the Guardians. It's there's got to be a floor.
Speaker 4: There's got to be a spending floor. If you're gonna
Speaker 4: cry that there needs to be a salary cap because
Speaker 4: of the teams at the top, the Mets, the Dodgers, Yankees, Phillies,
Speaker 4: Blue Jays, Braves, Astros, Padres, and Cubs, all spending money,
Speaker 4: all north of two hundred million dollars. And you higher,
Speaker 4: if you're gonna cry that we need a salary cap
Speaker 4: because the salaries are getting out of control and the
Speaker 4: spending is getting out of control by a certain number
Speaker 4: of owners, well, if you're one of those owners saying
Speaker 4: that and you're on the bottom looking up, that floor
Speaker 4: is going to be raised because you can't keep, you know,
Speaker 4: keeping everybody down with your payrolls at sixty nine million dollars,
Speaker 4: seventy nine million dollars, eighty three million dollars of the
Speaker 4: Chicago White Sox, Tampa Bay Ray's at eighty nine million dollars,
Speaker 4: the Minnesota Twins at ninety six million dollars. You can't
Speaker 4: you can't yell to the top to stop when you're
Speaker 4: at the back and at the bottom not doing your part.
Speaker 4: You just can't do that. And that's what's so frustrating
Speaker 4: about this. And it's going into the weeds, I guess,
Speaker 4: and talking about the CBA and the owners and players,
Speaker 4: and quite frankly, nobody wants to hear about it. It's confusing.
Speaker 4: Nobody wants to hear millionaires and billionaires fighting over it
Speaker 4: because we look at how much it costs to go
Speaker 4: to games and just to get there, eat park and
Speaker 4: watch nine innings of baseball. It's expensive, So nobody wants
Speaker 4: to hear about that. But it's just taking a step
Speaker 4: back and thinking and saying, what are we doing. Either
Speaker 4: spend the money or don't be an owner, But stop
Speaker 4: crying because other owners are doing what they're doing. And
Speaker 4: it's not one team out there just spending spending, spending, spending.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at three teams over three hundred million dollars,
Speaker 4: and I'm now looking at eleven teams that are over
Speaker 4: north of two hundred million dollars. So teams are spending money.
Speaker 4: Owners are spending money. Man, it's frustrating. And to see
Speaker 4: that baseball is in it a great area right now
Speaker 4: as far as fandom and popularity and where they're sit
Speaker 4: on social media. I can't go on Twitter or Instagram
Speaker 4: without seeing highlights of a game or postgame comments. You know,
Speaker 4: Joe Adell's three home run catches from a week ago.
Speaker 4: To see exciting plays, to see young players making their
Speaker 4: debuts and the young pups out there, you know, bursting
Speaker 4: onto the scene. I mean Connor Griffin last week was
Speaker 4: all over everywhere. Nobody's talking pirates baseball. But the nineteen
Speaker 4: year old rookie called up who hits a double in
Speaker 4: his first at bat and is celebrating with his family,
Speaker 4: that's a cool story for baseball. That's a that's a
Speaker 4: fun kid you can get behind and support, and hey,
Speaker 4: let's check more out about him. And you know, the
Speaker 4: father of three daughters, two of which are you know, looking,
Speaker 4: I have a teenage daughter who's looking. I had this
Speaker 4: nineteen year old game thing, and Wow, I'm gonna follow
Speaker 4: this kid. Now, I'm gonna see what he's all about
Speaker 4: on on social media, on his Instagram and TikTok. Well,
Speaker 4: now she's invested in see what this Pittsburgh pirate player
Speaker 4: is doing. Now she's invested in a different team outside
Speaker 4: of this market and watching baseball more and seeing the highlights,
Speaker 4: and that'll even open up to more teams and more players.
Speaker 4: It's the growth of the games at a good spot.
Speaker 4: It just frustrates me when I look down the road,
Speaker 4: and I'm trying not to, try not to. But when
Speaker 4: it's released today, the salaries and are up five percent
Speaker 4: across average wise, you know it's now five point three
Speaker 4: more million dollars is the average salary in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4: It's crazy. The numbers are crazy. Why mess with the
Speaker 4: good thing, baseball? What are you doing? Eight sixty six,
Speaker 4: nine eighty seven to two five seventy Again, tomorrow is
Speaker 4: show Heyo Tani Bobblehead night. And I have one of
Speaker 4: them sitting here in the studio that we were able
Speaker 4: to get and we posted up on social media and
Speaker 4: very cool. But again, there's fifty four thousand of them
Speaker 4: that'll be given out on Friday night. It's gonna be
Speaker 4: a sellout crowd. We know that sellouts fifty six thousand
Speaker 4: and change. So some Dodger fans won't get bobbleheads. But
Speaker 4: there's no need to camp out. There's no need to
Speaker 4: get there at five am and get your parking spot
Speaker 4: on Scott Road or Academy Eroad or Vin Scully Avenue.
Speaker 4: You don't have to do any of that. You don't
Speaker 4: have to get a head start. Okay, there's fifty four
Speaker 4: thousand bobbleheads. I feel pretty confident that you can get
Speaker 4: there when the gates open, drive in and get in
Speaker 4: three hours before first pitch and get a bobblehead even
Speaker 4: closer to that. So let's just keep that in mind.
Speaker 4: I know there was a big push for the Yoshi bobbleheads,
Speaker 4: and I'm just fascinated with the whole bobblehead craze. I
Speaker 4: really am. I mean a couple of years ago, we
Speaker 4: had the first Otani bobblehead, right twenty twenty four, and
Speaker 4: it was like, this is it. This is his first
Speaker 4: Dodger one, and we're talking about it on the station.
Speaker 4: We're trying to get our hands on one, and you
Speaker 4: know they're selling on the secondary markets for a ridiculous
Speaker 4: amount of money. I mean, is that not still worth
Speaker 4: a lot of money? Is that still not?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: I mean, if I have one, I'm I'm liking it.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm digging what I got. But a new year,
Speaker 4: new bobble ahead, and it's none of the next shiny toy,
Speaker 4: I guess. But again, there'll be fifty four thousand of
Speaker 4: them tomorrow, so you don't need to go too crazy
Speaker 4: if you got a ticket for the game at a
Speaker 4: Dodger Stadium and the Dodgers back home Tyler Glass now
Speaker 4: on the mound and the sea the series opener tomorrow
Speaker 4: night against the Texas Rangers. We'll take a break, we'll
Speaker 4: come back one more sevent to go. We'll try to
Speaker 4: get some more phone calls if we can. But we
Speaker 4: got a farm report coming up next.
Speaker 6: What is that.
Speaker 4: No, we're not talking corn, we're not talking growing fruit
Speaker 4: and vegetables. We're talking to minor leagues, the Dodgers' top
Speaker 4: prospects down the farm. Where are they at? What kind
Speaker 4: of start are they off to? That's next here on
Speaker 4: Dodger Talk on a FI seventy l A Sports Live
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Speaker 4: Thursday Night, April ninth, Thanks for being with us. Dodgers
Speaker 4: off today, Back at it beginning tomorrow knight after a
Speaker 4: five to one road trip. Now they kick off a
Speaker 4: six game homestand three against the Texas Rangers, then three
Speaker 4: against the New York Mets. Corey Seeger making his return
Speaker 4: to Dodger Stadium tomorrow night on show Hey O, Tony
Speaker 4: Bobblehead Nights, the first of two to represent the great
Speaker 4: Game four of the NLCS that he had last year
Speaker 4: where he struck out ten on the mountain within three
Speaker 4: for three with three home runs at the plate. It's
Speaker 4: all right, we'll get back to the phones in a minute,
Speaker 4: but let's go down on the farm. An update on
Speaker 4: the Dodgers' top minor league prospects. Names you heard during
Speaker 4: spring training, maybe you saw him out at Camelback Rams.
Speaker 4: They've been now sent out to triple A, double A
Speaker 4: A ball, low a ball, and we'll see how they're
Speaker 4: doing to start this twenty twenty six season. Dodgers number
Speaker 4: one overall prospect, number thirteen in all of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4: Host Way Depaula twenty year old outfielder. He's in Double
Speaker 4: A Tulsa three sixty four average over one thousand ops
Speaker 4: and last night he had himself a knight.
Speaker 2: Looks at the next pitch and it swings. Line's one
Speaker 2: in the left field for a hit. Up to get it.
Speaker 2: It's Honeyman second and third, two out of the pitch,
Speaker 2: swinging a line drive into center.
Speaker 4: There's another hit.
Speaker 2: Two more runs were going to score.
Speaker 4: Third.
Speaker 2: The pitch chopped over the second basement, gaz Dard into
Speaker 2: right field. That's a bass hit checks over his shoulder
Speaker 2: at first. George takes off, then stops as De Paula
Speaker 2: swings and drives one to deep left field. This one's
Speaker 2: gonna carry out over the bullpen and opposite field.
Speaker 4: Home run for host Way to Paula Tulsa Radio Network
Speaker 4: with the call host Way to Paula. Four hits, a
Speaker 4: home run of five RBI performance for the Dodger top
Speaker 4: minor league prospect want to start to the season for
Speaker 4: Host Way to Paula in Double A and Tulsa joining
Speaker 4: him in Double A Tulsa joining him in the outfield.
Speaker 4: Zayir Hope, twenty one year old outfielder, hitting two fifty
Speaker 4: so far, two doubles, two RBIs and seven strikeouts. And
Speaker 4: wardal Quintero, twenty year old outfielder in Great Lakes with
Speaker 4: the Loons in High A Ball. He's the dodgers number
Speaker 4: three overall prospect, number twenty eight overall in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4: Five games so far, just three for twenty two with
Speaker 4: six strikeouts a one thirty six average to start this season.
Speaker 4: Mike Sarota, number fifty eight overall prospect, number four for
Speaker 4: the Dodgers, a twenty two year old outfielder. He is
Speaker 4: in Great Lakes as well. Five games so far, just
Speaker 4: one for seventeen with six strikeouts. It's cold in Michigan still,
Speaker 4: though the offense a little slow to get going in
Speaker 4: High A Ball Great Legs. Emil Morales the dodgers number
Speaker 4: five overall prospect here in twenty twenty six, number eighty
Speaker 4: nine overall in Major League Baseball. A shortstop in Ontario
Speaker 4: with the Tower Buzzers. He's off to a good start
Speaker 4: three to sixty four average and twenty two at bats,
Speaker 4: eight hits and five RBIs for the nineteen year old shortstop.
Speaker 4: River Ryan started the year in extend to spring training.
Speaker 4: You remember he's coming off Tommy John surgery. The Dodger
Speaker 4: right hander is in Triple A Oklahoma City. He's pitched
Speaker 4: in one game so far, a start the weekend, four innings,
Speaker 4: three runs, five hits, six strikeouts. He is slow playing
Speaker 4: his way back from Tommy John surgery. No doubt we'll
Speaker 4: see him in the big leagues as soon as he
Speaker 4: is ready. Left hander Jackson Farris Dodger fans. We saw
Speaker 4: him a lot during the spring training. He got a
Speaker 4: good look. The twenty two year old left hander is
Speaker 4: in TRIAA Oklahoma City. One start so far, three and
Speaker 4: a third innings of work. Charles Davelin outfielder in Great
Speaker 4: Lakes High A Ball, twenty two year old. He was
Speaker 4: the forty first overall pick last year in the draft
Speaker 4: out of Arkansas, and he's off to a smashing start.
Speaker 4: Davlin swings hammered in the air, no doubt, shot for chuck.
Speaker 6: That was pretty at four hundred and seventeen feet from
Speaker 6: home plate.
Speaker 4: Helfitch. Davlin swings hammered.
Speaker 3: In the air to right field and gone a two
Speaker 3: homer inning, punctuating with a grand slam.
Speaker 6: That one was three point fifty five.
Speaker 4: Just had a number one oh one off the bad
Speaker 4: Charles Davlin, a couple of home runs five games already,
Speaker 4: two ninety four average, a double, the two home runs
Speaker 4: and seven ribbies that, of course, the Great Lakes Loons
Speaker 4: Radio network. The Dodgers number ten prospect going into twenty
Speaker 4: twenty six is in Great Lakes as well. Right handed
Speaker 4: pitcher out of Mexico, twenty one year old Christian Zazueta.
Speaker 4: He has started one game with four innings, one run,
Speaker 4: two hits and seven strikeouts. The name we heard all
Speaker 4: spring long and the name we keep hearing about in
Speaker 4: Oklahoma City. James Tibbs the third.
Speaker 6: Swings it hits another deep try this center Evan's going back.
Speaker 6: It is going. The second home run of the day
Speaker 6: for James. kIPS the third out to center field left
Speaker 6: on left crime, a three run blast makes it nine
Speaker 6: to four. Second home run in as many innings for TIBs,
Speaker 6: two home.
Speaker 8: Runs and his last two at bats, and he drives
Speaker 8: this one's deep the other way to left Carlo's back
Speaker 8: track wall on James tips the third with his third
Speaker 8: home run and as many at bets, he is four
Speaker 8: for four with three long balls in.
Speaker 4: A big sit Oklahoma City Comments Radio Network with the
Speaker 4: calls eleven games, He's already hit seven home runs, a
Speaker 4: couple of multi home run games. He is batting four
Speaker 4: to thirteen. He is slugging over a thousand. He's got
Speaker 4: an ops over fourteen hundred. He's got thirteen runs batted
Speaker 4: in already. James Tibbs the Third. The Dodgers got him
Speaker 4: into trade with the Red Sox last year for Dustin May.
Speaker 4: James TIBs the Third. We got to know him during
Speaker 4: spring training. He's only twenty three years old, played at
Speaker 4: Florida State, was the ACC Player of the Year. Drafted
Speaker 4: by the San Francisco Giants, traded to the Boston Red Sox,
Speaker 4: traded to the Dodgers, and they have found a young,
Speaker 4: left headed, power hitting outfielder that they can really get
Speaker 4: excited about now moving forward, they have changed the mechanics
Speaker 4: of his swing a little bit. No longer a big
Speaker 4: high kick with the right foot, just a little bit
Speaker 4: of a kick, and has generated more power, not that
Speaker 4: he needed it, but he's already got seven home runs.
Speaker 4: James Tibbs the Third. Just a matter of time before
Speaker 4: we see him playing at the major league level. How
Speaker 4: about Zach Root Great Legs High A Ball Dodgers number
Speaker 4: thirteen overall prospects. He was a first round pick out
Speaker 4: of Arkansas as well a year ago. Just like Charles Davilin,
Speaker 4: he is in Great Lakes as well. The six foot
Speaker 4: two to two hundred pounder had one hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: six strikeouts last year in college at Arkansas in a
Speaker 4: start already three innings, four runs, four hits, five strikeouts. Again,
Speaker 4: it's colback in Michigan, so you're not seeing a lot
Speaker 4: of great results early on, but once it starts to
Speaker 4: heat up in the Midwest, you're certainly gonna see the
Speaker 4: Great Lakes Loons all heat up as well. One of
Speaker 4: the guy I want to point out, Kyle Hurt coming
Speaker 4: off an injury. He's in Triple A Oklahoma City, five
Speaker 4: games in relief, four to third innings total, three runs,
Speaker 4: six hits, seven strikeouts. Keep in mind I Hurt. His
Speaker 4: role when he gets back to the big leagues looking
Speaker 4: like it will be out of the bullpen. So there
Speaker 4: you go. You're all caught up with the Farm report,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers' top minor league prospects where they're at to
Speaker 4: start twenty twenty six and how they're doing so far
Speaker 4: to start their minor league seasons. That's going to do
Speaker 4: it for off night Dodger Talk. Thanks for being with us,
Speaker 4: Thanks to Ronnie Fossio, Thanks for all you being a
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