Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth face.
Speaker 1: A spring training Dodger Talk.
Speaker 3: Here we go again.
Speaker 1: We're going to runner Back, hosted by Dodgers aint sider
Speaker 1: David Bassi. How three peat in the Mexican in on
Speaker 1: the show called eight six six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 1: five seven, And be sure to follow Dodger Talk wherever
Speaker 1: you catch your podcasts. Here's your host, David Bassey.
Speaker 2: We are live at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. Welcome
Speaker 2: the Dodger Talk. David Basse with you until eight o'clock
Speaker 2: tonight right here on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
Speaker 2: We have a great show for you tonight. Blake Trinan
Speaker 2: is going to join us. Yes, three time World Series
Speaker 2: Champion Blake trining is going to join us at seven
Speaker 2: point thirty to share how his off season is going
Speaker 2: to help him bounce back and return to form from
Speaker 2: what we saw in twenty twenty four. So looking forward
Speaker 2: to hearing from Blake Trinan, who, among many Dodgers, has
Speaker 2: come into camp a lot slimmer than what we saw
Speaker 2: a year ago and changed their routine during the off
Speaker 2: season to be ready for camp. Can't say enough about
Speaker 2: so many of the players that came to camp ready
Speaker 2: to go day one, and really that's the culture here
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers. Veteran players that have won back to
Speaker 2: back World Series championships have come to camp ta Oscar Hernandez,
Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas, Max Munsey, Blake Trinan, to the young guys,
Speaker 2: Gavin Stone, River Ryan, all of these guys to a
Speaker 2: man have come to camp ready to try to pursue
Speaker 2: a three pat And quite honestly, if you're not one
Speaker 2: of those guys that came to camp ready day one,
Speaker 2: you should be feeling a lot of pressure. You've got
Speaker 2: to feel that pressure from your teammates that hey, we
Speaker 2: all came to camp ready to work. What were you
Speaker 2: doing during the off season? And I think that's a
Speaker 2: question that only the players that did not come ready
Speaker 2: for day one can answer. And we'll get into that
Speaker 2: over the coming days here Live from the Desert. Phone
Speaker 2: lines are open if you want to know about any
Speaker 2: one of your favorite players, how they're looking, what they're doing,
Speaker 2: how they're feeling eight six six nine eight seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Evan Phillips has re signed with the Dodgers
Speaker 2: and he spoke for the first time since resigning with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. We will share that conversation with you as well.
Speaker 2: And how about this. Two of the villains in Dodger fans'
Speaker 2: eyes have spoke up to really celebrate what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have done over the course of the last last thirteen years,
Speaker 2: and that's Manny Machado and Bryce Harper. We'll share with
Speaker 2: you what they had to say as well. Don't forget
Speaker 2: tomorrow the first official full squad workout for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and then the first Cactus League game is coming up Saturday,
Speaker 2: and we will have that game for you right here
Speaker 2: on a five to seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers are
Speaker 2: actually opening up the first two games of the Cactus
Speaker 2: League with road games. Now, road games in Arizona are
Speaker 2: a lot better than road games in Florida. I've never
Speaker 2: experienced the Florida travel, but nonetheless, our coverage begins at
Speaker 2: twelve thirty on Saturday as we get you ready for
Speaker 2: the Cactus League opener against the Angels in Tempe. Arizona,
Speaker 2: and then on Sunday, the Dodgers will be in Peoria
Speaker 2: facing the San Diego Padres, and we will have pregame
Speaker 2: coverage beginning at twelve thirty, first pitch at one ten.
Speaker 2: We still have not found out from Dave Roberts who
Speaker 2: is going to start the first two games of the spring,
Speaker 2: but you would have to imagine it's the two guys
Speaker 2: that have come to camp setting the tone in Yamamoto
Speaker 2: and Otani, who are getting ready for the World Baseball Classics.
Speaker 2: So we'll find out, if not tomorrow, by Wednesday, Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts will lay out his plans. One guy that will
Speaker 2: not be playing in the first Cactus League game or
Speaker 2: even on opening Day on March twenty sixth at Dodger
Speaker 2: Stadium is two times World Series Champion NLCS MVP from
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, Tommy Edmund. We all knew it was
Speaker 2: a long shot that Tommy Edmond, after undergoing right ankle surgery,
Speaker 2: was going to be ready for opening Day. Well, today
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts made it official.
Speaker 4: I think just looking at where his ankle is at,
Speaker 4: trying to play the long view that you don't want
Speaker 4: to have any regression or setbacks, and so how can
Speaker 4: we be methodical with it, And just for me, knowing
Speaker 4: that he's just taken swings, isn't up to full speed
Speaker 4: doing the basement, so that takes a while to get
Speaker 4: your body into baseball shape. So we're not going to
Speaker 4: rush it. Want to put him in the best position.
Speaker 4: So I think it just kind of came more clear recently,
Speaker 4: very recently, And to be honestly, that's sort of my take,
Speaker 4: just looking at him and kind of knowing our process
Speaker 4: and how we get guys ready for a season.
Speaker 2: Well, there you go, something we all kind of believed
Speaker 2: was going to be a situation that Tommy Edmund cannot
Speaker 2: get around not being ready for opening Day, and Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts officially ruled him out today. And we always talk
Speaker 2: about the Dodgers' pitchers and how they want to make
Speaker 2: sure they're ready for October. Well that goes for position
Speaker 2: players as well. Well. Tommy Edman's been dealing with this
Speaker 2: right ankle even before he was traded to the Dodgers
Speaker 2: during the trade deadline of twenty twenty four. Finally had
Speaker 2: surgery on it this offseason, but still not going to
Speaker 2: rush it and cause damage to a surgically repaired right ankle.
Speaker 2: So Tommy Edman is not going to be opening day
Speaker 2: second baseman. So who does that leave. Well, the Dodgers
Speaker 2: have a lot of depth at every position, and second
Speaker 2: base is no different. Remember Miguel Rojas, Yeah, that Miguel Rojas.
Speaker 2: He played more games at second base last year than
Speaker 2: any other position he played. So you got Rojas for starters.
Speaker 2: And then Dave Roberts said, basically, it's a competition between
Speaker 2: two young guys that got their first taste of the
Speaker 2: big leagues last year and Alex Freeland and Hayesan Kim,
Speaker 2: who I saw tonight at a sushi joint in Peoria.
Speaker 2: It seemed like he was getting a sushi a lotier
Speaker 2: than I was. I'll just say that right now. All right,
Speaker 2: that's big league status right there. But that's what it's
Speaker 2: going to come down to, Rojas, Kim and Freeland. Rojas
Speaker 2: has a spot, Kim and Freeland are going to have
Speaker 2: to fight out for a spot on this opening day
Speaker 2: roster to see who is going to be the left
Speaker 2: handed platoon to Miguel Rojas at second base. And let's
Speaker 2: not forget this is Miguel Rojas's final season in the
Speaker 2: big leagues. He's thirty seven years old. You don't want
Speaker 2: to run that guy into the ground in the first
Speaker 2: two months of the season. So whether it's Kim or Freeland,
Speaker 2: you're going to see a lot of those two guys
Speaker 2: until Tommy Edmund is one hundred percent. And honestly, Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts said, and we all witnessed it, Alex Freeland last
Speaker 2: year allowed the game to speed up on him. It
Speaker 2: was just too much. And it seems like Alex Freeland
Speaker 2: is a little bit more mature than what he was
Speaker 2: a year ago at this time. So you know, let's
Speaker 2: not forget about some of these guys that everybody was
Speaker 2: hyping up the last two years. Just because they got
Speaker 2: a taste of the big leagues and couldn't stick with
Speaker 2: back to back World Series champion Dodgers, doesn't mean that
Speaker 2: their careers are over. No, they're just getting started. And
Speaker 2: Alex Freeland, Dalton Rushing, Hay Sun Kim give these guys
Speaker 2: an opportunity. So that's the second base situation for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: I mentioned earlier in the show to start it that
Speaker 2: so many guys came into camp ready to go, and
Speaker 2: I saw te Oscar Hernandez arrive at Camel Back Ranch
Speaker 2: this morning, and I've been following him on Instagram. His
Speaker 2: friends have been telling me he's been in the lab
Speaker 2: in Tampa, Florida since November. He is skipping out on
Speaker 2: playing for his beloved Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic.
Speaker 2: And I have said this here on Dodger Talk, I
Speaker 2: have said it on Sports net LA. This is going
Speaker 2: to be a huge, huge comeback year for Taoscar Hernandez.
Speaker 2: And last year wasn't awful, but it wasn't the Taioscar
Speaker 2: Hernandez that we saw in twenty twenty four. So Taoskar
Speaker 2: is in great shape. Another guy that has slimmed down
Speaker 2: that as he gets to age thirty three and beyond,
Speaker 2: has understood he's got to change the body composition. So
Speaker 2: being in left field, being in great shape, I would
Speaker 2: say this is the best condition Taoscar has been in
Speaker 2: since he's been a Dodger, and that includes his great
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four season. So just moving to left field,
Speaker 2: coming to camp in a great physical spot. He said
Speaker 2: it was the longest offseason that he has had to
Speaker 2: recover body wise in three years. Remember the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: played into November each of the last two years and
Speaker 2: have started before any other team in Major League Baseball
Speaker 2: beginning of the year overseas in Korea two years ago
Speaker 2: in Tokyo, Japan last year eight six six nine eight
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone Number one guy
Speaker 2: that you won't see at Dodger camp this year, at
Speaker 2: least is the Tigers opening day starting pitcher. Did you
Speaker 2: miss that tweet? The Tigers, after losing arbitration to Trek
Speaker 2: Scooble and Scott Boris name Trek Scouble their opening day starter.
Speaker 2: Remember all the phone calls we were getting because of
Speaker 2: the ping Pingalore You got pinged if you believed what
Speaker 2: he was saying back in December from a hotel lobby
Speaker 2: in Orlando, Florida. Yeah, KTLA's ping Petro some money talked
Speaker 2: about it. Mason and Ireland actually put this guy on
Speaker 2: their show and was eating up every single word that
Speaker 2: he was saying. Oh, tell us more ping. When is
Speaker 2: schoobul coming to the Dodgers. Well, he may come at
Speaker 2: the trade deadline if the Tigers are out of it.
Speaker 2: But if you were listening to this show, scary to
Speaker 2: believe I was the voice of reason saying the sources
Speaker 2: I spoke to around Christmas time and after said he's
Speaker 2: not getting traded for a number of different reasons. And
Speaker 2: the Tigers now have named Schooble their opening day starter.
Speaker 2: And guess who was here at Dodger camp maybe looking
Speaker 2: for Schooble was the ping himself. Remember this tweet in
Speaker 2: December that got you all riled up and children from
Speaker 2: school to school asking if schoobl was a Dodger.
Speaker 5: But here's the deal.
Speaker 4: Here's what I'm hearing right now.
Speaker 5: Freeman is uh trying to work.
Speaker 6: A deal.
Speaker 5: To pay a right there because he's gonna end up somewhere.
Speaker 5: The Dodgers would be the odds on favorite again. They
Speaker 5: got yeah, and they got the players. I mean, she
Speaker 5: should be in that deal.
Speaker 2: But they got a lot of young pictures right now,
Speaker 2: and school bol is.
Speaker 4: Going to be demanding somewhere and create three hundred and
Speaker 4: four and they were.
Speaker 2: All three hundred or four million. Huh. I think it's
Speaker 2: going to be more than that.
Speaker 5: You can drop at any time here.
Speaker 2: At anytime, Orlando, Yeah, December, stay tuned Dodger Nation to
Speaker 2: that means, yes, stay tuned. Dodger Nation. Oh sorry, Ping,
Speaker 2: school Balls staying in Motown, and uh, the Ping showed
Speaker 2: up and he took he took his medicine to a
Speaker 2: certain extent. As we were waiting for Dave Roberts, the
Speaker 2: Ping came in and you know, said, all right, let
Speaker 2: me have it. I said, what I'm just I'm just
Speaker 2: looking for schoobl Is he throwing a bullpen today? I
Speaker 2: had the schedule. I'm not sure if he's throwing a
Speaker 2: bullpen today. And the Ping, staying in true Ping character,
Speaker 2: maintained that he had great sources, but back down that
Speaker 2: he said that school Ball was going to be traded
Speaker 2: to the Dodgers from what we just heard right there,
Speaker 2: he said, it was happening. Look, this is the way
Speaker 2: it works. A player like school Ball a pending free agent.
Speaker 2: Of course, the Tigers were going to listen. I'm sure
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and Tigers talked to a certain extent, but
Speaker 2: it became very clear to the Dodgers and every other
Speaker 2: team in baseball that the Tigers were not trading Trek Scooble.
Speaker 2: That would be waving the white flag to a fan
Speaker 2: base that obviously was close to winning the Ale Central
Speaker 2: last year, and they just added from Bervaldez. They got
Speaker 2: arguably the best three starters in the American League and
Speaker 2: school ball, Valdez and Flaherty, not to mention a guy
Speaker 2: that's going to the Hall of Fame and Kenley Jansen
Speaker 2: closing games. So the ping will be back out here tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But that's the scene set from Glendale, Arizona. When we
Speaker 2: continue live from Camelback ranching Glendale, Arizona, we will let
Speaker 2: you here with Manny Machadawin and Bryce Harper had to
Speaker 2: say about the Dodgers off season. And we have three
Speaker 2: lines open. Eight six six nine eight seven two five
Speaker 2: seventy is the phone number. The only lights on are
Speaker 2: in the broadcast booth and in the Dodgers clubhouse management shop.
Speaker 2: Alex Torris. Only guy that's got the lights on still
Speaker 2: here at camel Back Ranch. So at least somebody else
Speaker 2: is here with me besides the Coyotes. David Vassay with
Speaker 2: you until seven o'clock or eight o'clock right here on
Speaker 2: a F five to seventy LA Sports. We are live
Speaker 2: at camel Back Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. The Dodgers getting
Speaker 2: set for their first official full squad workout tomorrow afternoon
Speaker 2: here at camel Back Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. The Dodgers'
Speaker 2: first game of the spring is coming up this Saturday
Speaker 2: against the Angels, and then they will be in Peoria
Speaker 2: to take on the San Diego Padres, who just have
Speaker 2: signed We're series hero from twenty twenty four, Walker Buehler
Speaker 2: has signed with the San Diego Padres. That's right, Buttane
Speaker 2: is now going to be part of the Padres, the
Speaker 2: team that he helped the Dodgers come from behind to
Speaker 2: beat in the twenty four NLDS and has been a
Speaker 2: nemesis of theirs for many years pitching for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: He has signed a minor league deal with the San
Speaker 2: Diego Padres, according to Kevin Ace of the San Diego
Speaker 2: Union Tribune. So what you're feeling, Dodger fans, breaking news
Speaker 2: your world series hero Walker Bueller is now going to
Speaker 2: be pitching for the rival San Diego Padres. That is
Speaker 2: somewhat shocking, but I had heard during this offseason that
Speaker 2: it was the Padres that had the most interest in
Speaker 2: Walker Bueller. Buehler incredibly had to pitch for teams last week.
Speaker 2: It was like a tryout. Walker Buehler had to pitch
Speaker 2: for teams last week. Haven't they seen the resume? I
Speaker 2: text a scout with a team in the American League
Speaker 2: West and I said, what do you need to see
Speaker 2: from Walker Buehler? And they told me that they needed
Speaker 2: to see how his fastball look. I know it's surprising
Speaker 2: with his resume, but it has changed over the years.
Speaker 2: So there you go, Dodger fans. Walker Buehler will now
Speaker 2: be pitching against the Dodgers in the same division, pitching
Speaker 2: for the San Diego Padres. I fully expect him to
Speaker 2: make that team. It's a minor league deal, a year
Speaker 2: after him signing a one year, twenty one million dollar
Speaker 2: contract with the Boston Red Sox. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number? Uh, Ronnie?
Speaker 2: Can you punch up our first call? Josh in Ontario,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk with David Vassy. What's your reaction
Speaker 2: to Walker bueller sunning with the Padres.
Speaker 7: I leave a bad taste in my mouth. It's behinnest
Speaker 7: for Padres. While I'm happy that he's in a team
Speaker 7: at least, but a minor league deal that's insane.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, that's hard to believe. A guy that
Speaker 2: was at the top of his game in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: Tommy John surgery twenty twenty one obviously has not been
Speaker 2: the same guy, but still was pretty good for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in the playoffs in twenty four. But it's gonna
Speaker 2: be strange to see him put on that uniform and
Speaker 2: face the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there have been way more worse pitchers. I've gotten
Speaker 7: way more opportunities, and I don't know what they're going
Speaker 7: off with just one year.
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, no doubt, it's gonna be strange.
Speaker 2: Did you have a question about Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, I was. I wanted to ask I saw
Speaker 7: a clip, Well, I saw two clips from Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 7: and I know spring training hasn't started. And some people
Speaker 7: said it was a overreaction because it got like a
Speaker 7: lot of backlash online. That's off on the comments. But
Speaker 7: one thing that concerned me because I guess maybe Dodgers
Speaker 7: have put a standard towards practice and like Doc always
Speaker 7: preaches about everything's intent, like every drills that that there's
Speaker 7: an intention behind it, and I just saw him like
Speaker 7: doing grabbing liners on the outfield, and it just looked
Speaker 7: kind of lazy and stuff. And I saw I know
Speaker 7: that pot is one that they were just it just
Speaker 7: looked like he was like watching Potters do drills. And
Speaker 7: I'll give him an excuse because maybe he was just
Speaker 7: like it was just a bad timing for him, but
Speaker 7: it just kind of broke me the wrong way because he.
Speaker 2: Was doing the Josh, do I have to go to
Speaker 2: uh the Allen iverson line? It's practice? Day one of practice?
Speaker 2: What do you want him to do and die for
Speaker 2: the balls? I mean, day one, you want him diving
Speaker 2: for balls on the backfield.
Speaker 7: I just think I just think that we're just.
Speaker 2: You'll be judged. I understand the reputation, but you can't
Speaker 2: look at stuff on social media from day one. The
Speaker 2: guy just got here. You don't want him pulling a
Speaker 2: hamstring or doing any of that other stuff. You'll have
Speaker 2: to judge him when the games count.
Speaker 7: Josh, I just think that I just I think we're
Speaker 7: just used to seeing Mookie and Freddy how they carry
Speaker 7: thoselves Like I saw mookis doing drills.
Speaker 2: I saw Freddy laying on the grass today drinking water
Speaker 2: around the batting cage. Okay, it's day one, Josh, Josh,
Speaker 2: it's day one. Calm down, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: I mean, really, we're gonna judge Kyle Tucker after day
Speaker 2: one of outfield drills? I mean, come on, I mean seriously,
Speaker 2: this guy has a resume that speaks for itself, and
Speaker 2: we'll see where that motor is. Like I said, there
Speaker 2: is a lot of accountability in that clubhouse to each other.
Speaker 2: You've got to be able to work hard. You've got
Speaker 2: to have your level of intensity up every day and
Speaker 2: understand it's a long season. So I mean, come on, really,
Speaker 2: we're gonna judge Kyle Tucker off one day of spring training?
Speaker 2: That seems a little excessive. Ronnie. Can you put a
Speaker 2: punch up Ramon in Arizona for me? Please?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 2: Ramone, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: Hey Dave.
Speaker 8: I got to see you today and talk to you
Speaker 8: for a little while, and I wanted to say thank
Speaker 8: you again for that, for that conversation that we had.
Speaker 2: No I was waiting to remember what did I miss
Speaker 2: when I walked away on field six.
Speaker 8: I just went over to watch a little fielding practice,
Speaker 8: then throwing the first second and covering home plate, and
Speaker 8: that was pretty much it, and then I didn't get
Speaker 8: I was over there on that side. I didn't get
Speaker 8: a chance to go see Edwin Diaz throw. I want
Speaker 8: to really see him throw, and I heard that Mookie
Speaker 8: was out there on the field. But I did get
Speaker 8: back in time to see Alex Vesia punch out Otani.
Speaker 2: That was what was your reaction to Vessia. So let
Speaker 2: me set this up before you give us your reaction, Ramon,
Speaker 2: it was Alex Vesia versus show Hey Otani on field
Speaker 2: one this SAP noon and Vessia, after he struck out
Speaker 2: Otani yelled out a primal scream because he was pumped
Speaker 2: up that he was able to strike out one of
Speaker 2: the greatest players of all time. And Otani did a
Speaker 2: double take, and the fans that were watching kind of
Speaker 2: got a laugh out of it. But it was unexpected.
Speaker 2: But that was the that's the intensity that you kind
Speaker 2: of need amongst these great players. But were you surprised
Speaker 2: that Vessia got so amped up for a live BP strikeout?
Speaker 8: Well, knowing Vessia the way he is, He's always amped
Speaker 8: up no matter what. It doesn't matter if it's a game,
Speaker 8: if it's practice, warm up or whatever. And I was
Speaker 8: just happy to see him be very competitive after what
Speaker 8: he went through last October. That was a very sad
Speaker 8: story for him and his wife. And just to see
Speaker 8: him go out there and compete in spring training about
Speaker 8: one hundred and ten miles an hour already. It was
Speaker 8: good and it was great to see uh. It was
Speaker 8: great to see and hear the roar of the crowd
Speaker 8: after that punch out, and it was nice to see
Speaker 8: you Taani smile back at him and it seems like
Speaker 8: you said you got me. But but yeah, overall, it
Speaker 8: was great to see Bessie out there.
Speaker 2: All right, Ramon, great to meet you out here today
Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll see you back out here. Eight six
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: And quite honestly, I have been coming to Camelback Ranch
Speaker 2: for the last fifteen years. I have never seen the
Speaker 2: crowds as big as they have been the last couple
Speaker 2: of days, the first weekend that fans were allowed in.
Speaker 2: Friday was the first day fans could come in. I
Speaker 2: know it's a long weekend, I know it's raining in
Speaker 2: La but still I have not seen it four or
Speaker 2: five deep around the fences this early in spring training
Speaker 2: and all the years I've been coming here. So that
Speaker 2: just shows you how good the Dodgers are for the
Speaker 2: game of baseball. And Manny Machado agree. Remember, Manny Machado
Speaker 2: got to see what it was like to be a
Speaker 2: Dodger for a half a season when the Dodgers traded
Speaker 2: for him after Corey Seger was hurt. He played shortstop
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers all the way to the World Series
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen. Manny Machada was asked at Padres camp
Speaker 2: yesterday what he thought about the Dodgers offseason and just
Speaker 2: the debate about what they're doing.
Speaker 9: Uh, I love it.
Speaker 10: I love it. I mean, honestly, I think every team
Speaker 10: should be doing it. You know, they figured out a
Speaker 10: way to do it and it just great for the game, honestly.
Speaker 10: So I think every team, every team has the ability
Speaker 10: to do it. So you know, I hope, you know,
Speaker 10: all thirty teams could could learn from that.
Speaker 2: Hey, the Padres have been doing it ever since Peter
Speaker 2: Seidler took over ownership of the Padres. Unfortunately, Peter passed
Speaker 2: away over a year ago and he has certainly missed
Speaker 2: with the Padres and anybody that got to know him,
Speaker 2: and you're not familiar with Peter Seidler and his connection
Speaker 2: to the Dodgers. He's the grandson of Walter O'Malley, and
Speaker 2: he was a tremendous person and he pushed the limits,
Speaker 2: the payroll limits to try to compete with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And I mean, if the Padres beat the Dodgers in
Speaker 2: the twenty four NLDS, who knows how different things may
Speaker 2: look in twenty five and even in twenty six. But
Speaker 2: many Machado knows what it's like to be a Dodger
Speaker 2: and understands the infrastructure and the support players have playing
Speaker 2: for this team. And Bryce Harper almost almost took the
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker type deal before he signed that long term
Speaker 2: contract with the Phillies back in twenty eighteen. I believe
Speaker 2: Harper wasn't even signed in spring training in twenty eighteen
Speaker 2: because he was still trying to get the offer that
Speaker 2: he wanted. And listen to Bryce Harper when again he
Speaker 2: was asked at Phillies camp about his opinion on what
Speaker 2: the Dodgers continue to do, and that's just win.
Speaker 11: I mean, I love what the Dodgers do obviously. I mean,
Speaker 11: they pay them money, They spend the money. I mean,
Speaker 11: they're a great team. They understand how to run. They
Speaker 11: run their team like a business, and they run it
Speaker 11: the right way. They understand where they need to put.
Speaker 9: Their money into. But also if people don't look at
Speaker 9: this either, their draft and their development is unbelievable.
Speaker 11: Like they draft and they developed, and then they trade
Speaker 11: those guys for big name guys and they can spend
Speaker 11: them money. So it's I don't know, it bothers me
Speaker 11: when everybody talks about the Dodgers are spending money.
Speaker 9: Do they draft, they develop?
Speaker 4: They do it the right way.
Speaker 11: They understand what it takes to be the best team
Speaker 11: in baseball, and you've seen that in the last two years.
Speaker 9: They have so much step. I mean, I think it's Will.
Speaker 11: Klein, the kid's name was came in up through six
Speaker 11: shutout in EAMs like I mean, you're ston in Arizona
Speaker 11: two weeks before. Like, they have that type of dynamic
Speaker 11: on their club, And that's what you when you think
Speaker 11: about drafting, developing and things like that. That's that's why
Speaker 11: they win, and that's why when they win a lot
Speaker 11: of games each year.
Speaker 9: So you know, I love what they do. I understand
Speaker 9: what they do I understand the.
Speaker 11: Madness behind it, but again, like each team at baseball
Speaker 11: has an opportunity to do the same They the same thing.
Speaker 9: Maybe not at the mrs and echelon up money.
Speaker 11: But they can draft, developing trade.
Speaker 9: And you know, I just I don't know.
Speaker 11: I think a lot of teams can do that in baseball.
Speaker 9: And they should.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but it sounded like Bryce
Speaker 2: Harper is a little envious that he's not a Dodger.
Speaker 2: That's what it sounds like to me. I mean, everything
Speaker 2: that he described right there is one hundred percent accurate,
Speaker 2: but it sounds like, you know, Valentine's Day was just
Speaker 2: the other day. It seems like Bryce Harper was walking
Speaker 2: on the other side of the street and saw the
Speaker 2: girl that he let get away with a brand new
Speaker 2: shiny man in a Ferrari. He could have been a Dodger,
Speaker 2: he could have taken that short term deal. Instead opted
Speaker 2: to go with the long term deal with the Phillies.
Speaker 2: And now his new GM Dave Dombrowski, is saying that
Speaker 2: he's no longer an elite player. Sounded like Bryce Harper
Speaker 2: wishes he was a I'm not putting words in his
Speaker 2: mouth but it sounded like a guy that man wish
Speaker 2: just wish. Sorry, I think that that ship is sailed.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. We're gonna take a time out here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. When we come back, more of your
Speaker 2: phone calls at eight sixty six nine eighty seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy you'll hear from Blake Trenton and Evan Phillips
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk live from Camel Back Ranch and Glendale, Arizona,
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Speaker 2: champion Dodgers AM five seventy LA Sports. Welcome back to
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until eight o'clock tonight
Speaker 2: here on AM five seventy LA Sports. Sometimes certain guys
Speaker 2: are excited to join the show. Some guys even shower
Speaker 2: and comb that beautiful blonde hair and trim that beautiful beard.
Speaker 2: Ready to go to talk to us for the first
Speaker 2: time in twenty twenty six, and that is Blake trying
Speaker 2: to Blake. Happy New Year. Great to see you, and
Speaker 2: thank you for taking a shower before this conversation.
Speaker 9: I wish you would have. We're in a good spot.
Speaker 9: Thank you for having me, Dave.
Speaker 2: You seem to be a little bit more tempered. You
Speaker 2: want to ease into things this time around.
Speaker 3: Hey, this is your show. You need you need to
Speaker 3: moderate how you wish. I'm here to answer any questions
Speaker 3: you want.
Speaker 2: Well, honestly, you are one of the guys that I
Speaker 2: was most eager to talk to because I have I
Speaker 2: don't have a short memory. I know how much you
Speaker 2: have done for the Dodgers in the last three World
Speaker 2: Championship seasons and how much you want to come back
Speaker 2: and be part of a three peat. What's what's this
Speaker 2: off season been like for you to get your body
Speaker 2: and mind ready.
Speaker 3: It's just been a lot of reevaluating how I trained,
Speaker 3: talked to Eric Cressey, did some some new training styles
Speaker 3: I guess to try to get myself more athletic, got
Speaker 3: some rest and recovery that my body probably needed I.
Speaker 9: Didn't realize it needed.
Speaker 3: And uh, of course I'm excited to come back. Last
Speaker 3: year wasn't a right ending for me in a sense
Speaker 3: of like helping the team, so I hold I like
Speaker 3: to think I've held myself to a higher standard than
Speaker 3: that in my career, and so this year really high
Speaker 3: expectations for myself and excited to get back out there
Speaker 3: and compete and have some success with the team.
Speaker 2: Blake, you pushed yourself to the limits in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four and in Game five of the World Series to
Speaker 2: help the Dodgers beat the Yankees. How real is it
Speaker 2: the after effects, the lingering effects of pushing your arm
Speaker 2: to the limits the way you did two years ago.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think I had other issues last year mechanically that
Speaker 3: probably made it seem like my body was fatigued. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think, you know, the biggest thing is just even
Speaker 3: just post surgery, as best you can do, the best
Speaker 3: I can relate it is you find something that works,
Speaker 3: and it worked in twenty four and then trying to
Speaker 3: find the version that I've been my whole career, you know,
Speaker 3: you kind of forget little cues and some things aren't
Speaker 3: clicking the right way, and you start trying to figure
Speaker 3: out what it is, and sometimes it walks you farther
Speaker 3: away from the answer. Sometimes it brings you closer to
Speaker 3: the answer. And I feel like we're in a really
Speaker 3: good spot this spring, and like my bullpeny went really
Speaker 3: well and got another one tomorrow and from there, we'll
Speaker 3: see if they have me in lives. So yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean I feel great. This is I'm super happy to
Speaker 3: be here. I know my family's pretty excited to get
Speaker 3: things going, and yeah, it's good to see everybody kind
Speaker 3: of rolling in this time.
Speaker 2: What are the cues? Are they the cues from twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four? Are they the cues that you discovered this offseason?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's stuff that I've had in the past, but maybe
Speaker 3: I couldn't get my body to get to those positions,
Speaker 3: so it's all not worth talking on the radio, but
Speaker 3: it's it's in a good spot.
Speaker 2: So you feel like the action on your pitches, where
Speaker 2: your arm slot is, all those things are where you
Speaker 2: want to be early on.
Speaker 3: All the signs from my first bullpen showed that everything
Speaker 3: was moving really sharp and late, so I'm excited about it.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is it to private to ask you how much weight
Speaker 2: you've lost and just the conditioning that you put in
Speaker 2: this soft season.
Speaker 9: I haven't lost that much.
Speaker 3: I just I think body composition changed a little bit,
Speaker 3: probably down a few pounds.
Speaker 9: But yeah, I feel healthy. I feel healthy.
Speaker 3: Just trying to I'm trying to, you know, play as
Speaker 3: long as I can and as great as you know
Speaker 3: the Good Lord will allow me so firmly believing that
Speaker 3: until the day I retire, I'm going to be competing
Speaker 3: at the highest level I've ever competed, and I don't
Speaker 3: expect anything different this year.
Speaker 2: I mean for a skinny fat guy. Blake. When I
Speaker 2: see a guy come into camp the week, any fat guy. No, No,
Speaker 2: I'm calling my skinny fat guy.
Speaker 9: And you looked right at me.
Speaker 2: I'm looking. I'm looking at you in the eye. I'm
Speaker 2: the skinny fat guy here.
Speaker 3: Back in a compliment, said, oh, you look great from
Speaker 3: working hard all off season, but you're a skinny fat kid.
Speaker 2: I'm the I'm the skinny fat kid. And that's why
Speaker 2: when I see you come into.
Speaker 9: Camp, you can is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2: No, No, I can't. I think I feel like you've
Speaker 2: gone yoga. Did you do a lot of yoga? You
Speaker 2: look like a yoga type.
Speaker 9: I'm out on yoga. I don't need yoga in my life.
Speaker 3: Plates No, just work hard, you can stretch.
Speaker 9: I need to go into that weird stuff. I ain't
Speaker 9: doing yoga.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I know you. I'm mentioned this to you yesterday,
Speaker 2: but the way your bullpen is shaping up now, Blake,
Speaker 2: it looks like with Bazuka coming back, Vessia coming back,
Speaker 2: yourself along with Edwin and Tanner, it feels like Jack Dryer,
Speaker 2: Ben Caspirius, Justin Robleski, how uh, how devastating have been
Speaker 2: Phillips second half?
Speaker 9: See see it feels.
Speaker 2: Like you guys maybe the forgotten part of this team
Speaker 2: that everybody's talking about.
Speaker 3: It's okay, is there all talking head points? And I
Speaker 3: appreciate that out of you. I just I've heard it
Speaker 3: every year where it's like, hey, this looks great, we're
Speaker 3: gonna you guys look like you're the best in baseball
Speaker 3: and this or that, or hey, like what are the
Speaker 3: things we got to answer? And it's all fair questions.
Speaker 3: I just at the end of the day, I just
Speaker 3: think we know what we're capable of.
Speaker 9: And just go do it. You know, it's nobody needs
Speaker 9: to try. I just do it. It's a league of
Speaker 9: doing it, So go do it. That's where I'm at.
Speaker 2: Okay, can I ask you a big picture question about
Speaker 2: the team? Blake trying is our guest on Dodgery Talk.
Speaker 2: You got to come with your a game if you're
Speaker 2: going to stand in front of forty nine's locker. When
Speaker 2: you look at when you look at the you go ahead, Dave,
Speaker 2: is it across the way? Clayton Kershaw held that locker
Speaker 2: for a long time. He's no longer here. What's it
Speaker 2: like without him in camp with you guys and just
Speaker 2: being on the other side of the doorway here?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I shot him at text.
Speaker 3: I said, it's a little weird you're not walking in
Speaker 3: with your coffee every day heading the shower, But I
Speaker 3: don't know you'll be bringing that energy at Team USA.
Speaker 9: WBC so just asked how he was doing.
Speaker 3: Wish him luck, and he said it felt feels a
Speaker 3: little weird, but but yeah, I think it'll feel weird
Speaker 3: for anybody when you finally hang it up. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: it'd be fun to watch him, you know, from from
Speaker 3: home here in spring training and doing this thing hopefully
Speaker 3: some pretty awesome moments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt the team US.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a great way. It's like a storybook.
Speaker 3: And then you know, having that chance to go out
Speaker 3: on top with us and then out on top of
Speaker 3: your nation.
Speaker 9: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 2: Before I let you go, you're a man that obviously
Speaker 2: has opinions about things. So when you look at I know.
Speaker 3: Careful, you might change the mass population's opinion of me
Speaker 3: in a good way. Since most people have different opinions
Speaker 3: of me, you might might actually swing some opinions in
Speaker 3: favor of maybe ask the right questions.
Speaker 2: If they listen to us, I mean, they know what
Speaker 2: kind of guy Blake Trning is. And I'm wondering what
Speaker 2: you thought about the Dodgers signaling from the top, signing
Speaker 2: these players and the reaction the rest of the league
Speaker 2: had to the Dodgers trying to compete and win.
Speaker 3: Again, Listen, I think everybody in baseball I would be
Speaker 3: shocked if people are upset with what the Dodgers are doing.
Speaker 3: I think it's something that most players have been excited
Speaker 3: for us to have an organization from top to bottom
Speaker 3: willing to invest in bringing a winning product in And
Speaker 3: you know, I think when you see other players talk
Speaker 3: about it, it's because, Hey, we want to be on
Speaker 3: a team. We want our team that we love and
Speaker 3: the fans that we love to be supported. The way
Speaker 3: that you know, the Dodgers' ownership and everybody's ownership group
Speaker 3: is different. I can't speak for people, you know, but
Speaker 3: to be a part of this organization where they're willing
Speaker 3: to put everything into making the club better, moving the
Speaker 3: needle in the positive direction, like it's pretty wild. And
Speaker 3: then pinch yourself to be a part of it, like
Speaker 3: the fact that I'm still here and they value me
Speaker 3: as a as a player, Like that's a huge blessing.
Speaker 3: I don't take that lightly. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: It's been a long relationship between you and the Dodgers.
Speaker 9: You didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I mean, I remember when they signed you. Going into
Speaker 2: the twenty season, a lot of people were wondering about
Speaker 2: Blake Trning, and you proved a lot of doubters wrong.
Speaker 2: And I feel like twenty six is going to be
Speaker 2: full circle again, prove a lot of doubters wrong.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Dave, appreciate it. You're the man.
Speaker 2: I'm here for you, life coach. Whenever you need me.
Speaker 9: You always are, you always are. You're always pumping my.
Speaker 2: Tire for sure. How could I not world series hero
Speaker 2: right here? Blake Tryning kline too? How about that you
Speaker 2: got a whole locker full of world series heroes twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. It doesn't happen without Blake trying to win
Speaker 2: back to back. I know but when you went back
Speaker 2: to back championships, you got to have the first one first.
Speaker 9: It's fair, Okay, It's just hard for me to hear
Speaker 9: you talk about it. We got new goles. I'm grateful
Speaker 9: for it, but we got new goals.
Speaker 2: This is the last time I'll ever mention it. Hey
Speaker 2: hold him to it, fans, Okay, thank you, Blake.
Speaker 3: In ten years, when we celebrate each of these World
Speaker 3: Series accomplishments, if you want to rehash it, I'll allow
Speaker 3: you to do it.
Speaker 2: The next debate will be who's got better here in
Speaker 2: the bullpen? You or Brock Stewart.
Speaker 9: Rocking habit, rocking habit.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for the time, Blake. Great to see
Speaker 2: you and man happy you're healthy and ready to go
Speaker 2: for the season.
Speaker 9: Thank you, thank you, looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: I'm a big Blake Trning fan. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of us forget how valuable he's been to the Dodgers
Speaker 2: in these three World Series runs in twenty twenty, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four especially, and look he battled his way through
Speaker 2: last year and tried to give the Dodgers everything he had.
Speaker 2: Obviously was not as effective as he has been the
Speaker 2: majority of his career, but you have to acknowledge the
Speaker 2: fact that a lot of these Dodger relievers were pushed
Speaker 2: to the limits in twenty twenty four and now they're back,
Speaker 2: and they did not get a lot of these guys
Speaker 2: are fresh arms. Bruce dar Graderol is not going to
Speaker 2: obviously start the year, but fresh arm at Guardo Enriquez,
Speaker 2: who got a real innings experience last year. Fresh arm
Speaker 2: Alex Vesia for unfortunate reasons, did not pitch in the
Speaker 2: World Series last year. Brock Stewart at some points going
Speaker 2: to come back. You got Blake Trinan, who is feeling
Speaker 2: good again, and you got a fresh new Tanner Scott
Speaker 2: to go with Edwin Diaz. To me, the Dodger bullpen
Speaker 2: is one of the parts of this team that has
Speaker 2: not been talked about enough, and I feel like they
Speaker 2: like it that way. Not to mention guys like Justin
Speaker 2: Robleski and benk Casparius. Evan Phillips, who we're gonna hear
Speaker 2: from in just a moment, is going to be like
Speaker 2: a trade deadline acquisition when he comes back from Tommy
Speaker 2: John surgery. So they have the potential to really be
Speaker 2: a big part of this team in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Let's go back out to the phones before we hear
Speaker 2: from Evan Phillips, Luis and Costa Mesa. You're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk Live from Camelback Ranch. Hi, Luis, Hey Dave, are
Speaker 2: you doing great? How you doing good?
Speaker 6: Good? Quick question? I saw you Stephen, Stephen Nelson and
Speaker 6: Mickey Roll come into the Egyptian Theater but like ten
Speaker 6: days ago, and I just want to get your prospective
Speaker 6: of your opinion on the film Homecoming. I didn't get
Speaker 6: a chance to see the whole film, just watching the
Speaker 6: piece here and there, but yeah, I just want to
Speaker 6: get your perspective. What do you think about the film?
Speaker 6: Is it something that you expected to see to watch?
Speaker 2: No, it was completely different than I thought it would be.
Speaker 2: And I believe it's in theaters for only two days
Speaker 2: next week, February twenty third and twenty fourth, a lot
Speaker 2: of different theaters near wherever you live. But it's centered
Speaker 2: around the Dodgers and Cubs. Tokyo series centered around the
Speaker 2: Japanese stars that were returning home to play the first
Speaker 2: two major league seasons. But it kind of gives you
Speaker 2: an idea of how important the game of baseball is.
Speaker 2: To the culture of Japan. So they take you to
Speaker 2: little league fields, families, musicians, hairstylists. They just show you
Speaker 2: how much baseball means to so many different people and
Speaker 2: how it shapes the culture of Japan. So I recommend it.
Speaker 9: Right right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's also my initial thought that I would expecting
Speaker 6: the backstage leading to the twenty twenty five series, but
Speaker 6: it was totally opposite. It was more towards the outside
Speaker 6: stadium of how much the Yeah, baseball has really changed
Speaker 6: the culture, Japanese culture. I mean, it's not just fans,
Speaker 6: the rout became the root of the culture of the Japanese.
Speaker 6: So that was pretty great. That was pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awesome to see and certainly unexpected in
Speaker 2: a good way. Thanks for the phone call, Luis, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I mentioned Evan Phillips. He is not going to be
Speaker 2: able to pitch for the Dodgers until the second half
Speaker 2: of the season Tommy John surgery last May, but a
Speaker 2: lot of teams had interest in doing what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: planned to do with Evan Phillips and bring him back
Speaker 2: the second half of the year, and Evan Phillips re
Speaker 2: signed for one year, six and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2: That's where the Dodgers' resources really come into play to
Speaker 2: be able to pay a pitcher that's only going to
Speaker 2: pitch the second half of the season, a reliever. Even
Speaker 2: at that six and a half million dollars, no other
Speaker 2: team was going to pay that. And that's why Evan
Speaker 2: Phillips or part of the reason why Evan Phillips came back.
Speaker 2: And he talked about just how a lot of teams
Speaker 2: started to show a lot of interest two weeks before
Speaker 2: spring training.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't say it was necessarily in doubt. You know,
Speaker 12: we had to have those conversations and explore, you know,
Speaker 12: the process of free agency. And I think my wife
Speaker 12: and I are glad that we're back here. There's certainly
Speaker 12: a level of familiarity that we were comfortable with and
Speaker 12: being back with this group that you know, started my
Speaker 12: rehab and he's gonna continue that rehab with me and
Speaker 12: you hopefully have us on track for a return at
Speaker 12: some points this season, but.
Speaker 9: You know, we'll see.
Speaker 12: I'm not too worried about the timeline yet, but definitely
Speaker 12: glad to be back in Dodger blue. And you know,
Speaker 12: it was a different offseason, but ultimately and they led
Speaker 12: us back here so overthrilled.
Speaker 2: It always feels good to be wanted. How many teams
Speaker 2: did show interest in you? And how how how did
Speaker 2: it feel to be pursued in that way?
Speaker 9: It was different.
Speaker 12: He was my first you know, crack at free agency,
Speaker 12: at least on this side of things. I'll say being
Speaker 12: a minor league free agent was probably less attractive to
Speaker 12: most teams, but yeah, it was different. It was nice
Speaker 12: to gauge interest and you know those plenty of teams
Speaker 12: came to kick tires and just check in and see.
Speaker 9: How my rehab was going, how I was feeling.
Speaker 12: And then when you push comes to shove, and it
Speaker 12: started to narrow it down what we wanted, you know,
Speaker 12: as a player, and you amaze and was hoping we
Speaker 12: were going to look for that narrator list down too,
Speaker 12: So it was it was interesting. Yeah, I didn't get
Speaker 12: too involved with the day to day conversations, and I
Speaker 12: think that was probably for the best. But you know,
Speaker 12: I was was filled in as needed, and then things
Speaker 12: came together pretty quick there in the last week or so,
Speaker 12: still doing just like long toss a few times a week,
Speaker 12: hoping to get on the bullpen. Or on the mound
Speaker 12: for for a bullpen next month. I'll start that mound
Speaker 12: progression here in the.
Speaker 9: Next couple of weeks.
Speaker 12: I think actually Tuesday, I'll throw off the mound for
Speaker 12: the first time. But it won't be to a catcher
Speaker 12: or anything. It will just be catcher standing up. And
Speaker 12: there's a slow, slow progression, you know, week by week
Speaker 12: for that point from that point, so plenty of steps
Speaker 12: ahead that's going to.
Speaker 9: Keep me busy, you know, here in Arizona.
Speaker 12: But definitely looking forward to that progression.
Speaker 2: What are your expectations on kind of setting a goal
Speaker 2: for yourself to pitch again in the game.
Speaker 12: I'm trying not to set too many expectations at this point.
Speaker 12: There's just too many boxes to check along the way.
Speaker 12: I think as we get closer to you know, the
Speaker 12: bullpens and and the live vps things like that, I'll
Speaker 12: I'll have my internal checklist, if you know, what I
Speaker 12: want to do execution wise and things like that.
Speaker 9: I'm going to things I think I'm going to need.
Speaker 12: To do to get you know, hitters out when it
Speaker 12: matters most. And that's you know, big reason why we
Speaker 12: wanted to sign back was to help us in October,
Speaker 12: and I think the Dodgers, you know, understand that I'm
Speaker 12: going to have that kind of runway to return to form.
Speaker 12: There won't be many expectations on my end early and
Speaker 12: I think on their end as well, so that that
Speaker 12: kind of relationship and familiarity that I spoke to earlier
Speaker 12: is going to be really important as I returned to games.
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips, one of the best relievers when he was
Speaker 2: healthy before undergoing Tommy John surgery, is going to return
Speaker 2: the second half of the season, and certainly with the
Speaker 2: cost at the trade deadline to acquire a top line reliever,
Speaker 2: getting a guy like Evan Phillips back off the injured list,
Speaker 2: and look, there's no guarantees that he's going to return
Speaker 2: to form, but there's a really good chance. With as
Speaker 2: long as this process has gone on and how the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have allowed Evan Phillips to be able to have
Speaker 2: an extended rehab, there's a very good chance he's going
Speaker 2: to come back and be effective. And when you look
Speaker 2: at the Dodger bullpen, like I mentioned, Blake Trning coming back,
Speaker 2: bouncing back at Guardo Enriquez, you got Jack Dreyer, you
Speaker 2: got Edwin Diaz, You got Tanner Scott, you got Ben Casparius,
Speaker 2: Will Klein remember him Game three of the World Series.
Speaker 2: You got guys like Bruce dar Graterol that's going to
Speaker 2: join the bullpen a certain point in time this season.
Speaker 2: I would assume first couple months of the year, Brock Stewart,
Speaker 2: probably second half of the season. Justin Robleski a swing guy.
Speaker 2: This Dodger bullpen, coupled with the starting rotation, certainly is
Speaker 2: going to be formidable and tough to handle. And tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: we have another Dodger Talk for you, live from Camelback
Speaker 2: Ranch in Glendale, Arizona, at seven o'clock. Max Mounsey is
Speaker 2: going to be our guest. We set that up before
Speaker 2: I saw the Dodgers social media post where he said,
Speaker 2: I guess they were asking different players which teammate would
Speaker 2: be able to do the most pushups and which one
Speaker 2: would be able to do the least well. Max months
Speaker 2: he took the easy way out and threw yours truly
Speaker 2: under the bus and said, I David vas Say would
Speaker 2: be the weakest guy and could not do push ups.
Speaker 2: I had a push up challenge a few springs back.
Speaker 2: I got to seven Okay, I feel like seven is enough.
Speaker 2: It's a mental block. Mental block. I was never grat
Speaker 2: at sit ups or push ups or running, so come on,
Speaker 2: give me a break. And happy birthday. Thank you Tim
Speaker 2: Kats for putting it on my radar. Happy birthday to
Speaker 2: huge Dodger fan Elizabeth Olsen. Very humbled that she watches
Speaker 2: the postgame shows as religiously as she does on Sports
Speaker 2: in at LA and hopefully she's become a new listener
Speaker 2: to Dodger Talk my day job. And hopefully we'll see
Speaker 2: Elizabeth at Dodger Stadium this upcoming season. Would love to
Speaker 2: meet her. So Happy birthday, Elizabeth Olsen from David Vassa,
Speaker 2: David Vasha and the Dodgers. Thanks to Ronnie Fossio back
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