WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (7-25-26) 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:02.920 The quest for the three peat has begun. 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.960 Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:08.600 three consecutive titles. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.559 The Dodgers are the favorites to become the fifth fifth. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.080 This is World Champion Dodger Talk. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.040 Here we go again. We're Gay running. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.880 Back to get him on the show called eight six 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.040 six eighty seven two five seventy, and be sure to 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:26.600 follow Dodger Talk wherever you catch your podcasts. Here's your host, 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:28.440 David Vasselas. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.360 Welcome the Dodger Talk. David vasse with you until eight thirty. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.960 Tonight at eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.360 We are live at City Field after the Dodgers beat 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.400 the Mets four to three on a night that Kyle 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:49.000 Tucker hit his hardest baseball of the season one hundred 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.840 and seven plus miles an hour, the hardest hit ball 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.840 Kyle Tucker has hit all season long, and it was 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.920 a home run leading off the third inning off Nolan 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.000 McClain that he sent to the upper deck down the 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.520 right field line, and then in his. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:06.880 Next at bat, he. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.360 Really smoked the ball to left field for what might 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.240 have been extra bases if not for the young left 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:21.000 fielder for the Mets, aj Ewing being turned around because 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.280 the ball was hit one hundred miles an hour and 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.240 he was turned around, but he recovered and made the catch. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.800 So I want to believe. I want to believe that. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:35.440 Kyle Tucker is taking off and never looking back starting 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.760 this series against the Mets, because let's be honest, the 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.880 first two series of the second half of the year 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.959 did not go well for Kyle Tucker. It looked like 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.360 more of the same. But the last two games have 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.880 looked like Kyle Tucker. I will say this as well 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:57.920 for Kyle Tucker. One thing that Dave Roberts said they 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:02.280 know Kyle Tucker can do is not chase pitches outside 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.920 of the strike zone. And Kyle Tucker is striking out 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.960 at a clip a lot smaller than he was. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:11.760 At the beginning of the season. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.080 He was striking out twenty eight percent of the time 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.320 in June. In the month of July, he's only striking 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.840 out ten percent of the time, which is certainly impressive. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.720 And certainly, you know what he told us in Minnesota, 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.760 that he is striking out a lot less than he 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.799 was at the beginning of the year. And I think 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:37.520 that's a part of the equation here to hopefully buy 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.239 in that Kyle Tucker can you know, right the ship 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.080 here in at the end of July and into August. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.799 But I think we all want to believe that Kyle 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.400 Tucker has found something, so we'll see how it goes. 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:55.760 Two games is not going to make us a narrative 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.280 change when it comes to Kyle Tucker. But getting to 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.400 know him this year, he's a really good guy and 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.160 you're rooting for him. I'll just say that I'm rooting 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.920 for Kyle Tucker because getting to know him on a 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.800 personal level certainly makes you want to hope for a 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.120 guy like that to be able to turn his season around. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.000 And I will say this. You know another subplot to 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:19.519 this series. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.400 I mentioned it during the Clubhouse show is the fact 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:27.400 that it was the Mets that constructed this wacky contract 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:33.000 to go shorter years with the highest aav this side 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.680 of sho hey Otani, and they went a little bit 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:39.480 lower to Boba Ship, but they basically did the same thing. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.960 They gave him forty something million dollars for one year 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.880 for him to be able to opt out. And Kyle 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.680 Tucker can opt out of his contract with the Dodgers 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:53.440 after year two. But look, it was the Mets that 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.360 offered Tucker fifty five million dollars for this season, and 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.760 the Dodgers said, you know what, We'll see your fifty 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.720 five and raise you five more because we can. And 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.680 Kyle Tucker I think made the right choice choosing the Dodgers. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.360 This would not have been a good situation for Kyle Tucker. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.200 Kyle Tucker great guy, a guy that wants to go 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.400 under the radar, does not want to be center stage, 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:22.120 does not want to have the expectations of having to 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.680 carry a team. And they all would have been looking 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:30.040 at Kyle Tucker right now in New York and Bobashek 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.599 got booed in the first series back after the All 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.280 Star break. But tonight, I didn't hear booze for Bobashitt. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.480 I didn't hear booze for Francisco Lindor. I guess they 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:45.000 don't boo people out here in Queens, but they do 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.520 boo a Yankee stadium. But yeah, I was a little 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.599 surprised they're not booing this team. More so different vibe, 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:56.039 definitely a different vibe. But going back to Tucker, yeah, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.719 he could have signed with the Mets, and he made 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.680 the right decision to sign with the Dodgers because, like 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.120 I've said before, he has the high price tag next 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:09.880 to his name, but the number doesn't match who he 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.240 is in his career. And that's why I always say, 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.800 forget about the salary. The salary means nothing when you 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.440 step between the lines or step in the batter's box. 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.880 That's for us to talk about. But you look at 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:28.200 Kyle Tucker's career. His career averages is two seventy hits, 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.400 somewhere between twenty five and thirty home runs, drives in 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.240 somewhere between ninety and one hundred runs. That's who he is, 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.040 and that's not a guy that's going to carry you. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.720 What that's going to do is to give a guy 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.679 that sees a lot of pitches. Even in his last 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.920 at bat where he struck out, it was a ten 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.600 pitch at bat. He's gonna see a lot of pitches. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.760 He's not going to strike out a lot. He's going 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.679 to walk as many times as he's going to strike out. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.640 But we just haven't seen that this year from Kyle Tucker. 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.680 But hopefully home ering for the first time and back 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.800 to back games is the beginning of Kyle Tucker, you know, 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.920 washing away the first four months of the season and 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.039 when you're on the Dodgers and you have the best 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.760 record in baseball and you're trying to repeat. If he's 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.640 able to become Kyle Tucker that he's been his entire career, 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:22.119 starting last night and carrying it over tonight and carrying 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.039 it forward, I think everybody would be happy with that. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.039 Tonight's game brought to you by Modello Modello The mark 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:30.880 of a fighter man. 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.120 I mentioned this earlier with Jose Mota. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.200 You hear about the Mets and how bad they are, 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.160 and then you see them in person and the care 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.080 factor you want to talk about, lack of care factor. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.880 I see a lot of lack of care factor out 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.799 here from a lot of guys. 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:48.159 Now. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.520 Before the game, Francisco Lindors showed a lot of care factor. 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.480 He was taking early batting practice and was trying to 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:58.760 get coached up by America's DH JD Martinez, who was 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.600 hired by the Mets as a hitting consultant. And JD 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.359 is in here for the weekend and is trying to 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.039 do whatever he can to try to help guys get better, 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.280 even if it is to close out the season. 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:11.360 But a guy like. 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.800 Lindor who struggled all year, hitting two twenty four with 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:19.160 an OPS under seven hundred out here early with Jad Martinez, 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:23.240 but you watched the game being played. Lindor cares he 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.280 loves baseball. From everybody I talked to around the Mets, 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:31.320 baseball is vita for Francisco Lindor. But you see some 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.640 of these other guys. I'm I don't see a lot 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.360 from Francisco Alvarez. I don't see a lot from Boba Shet. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:43.000 You just don't see it. This was a poorly constructed team. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.440 And like we talked about, you can spend all the 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.360 money you want, but if you don't spend it the 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.240 right way, you're gonna be where the Mets are forty 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.800 three and sixty two compared to the Dodgers, the team 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.480 the Mets want to be, Like, who's sixty seven and 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.280 thirty eight eight sixty six nine eight two five seventy 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:02.240 is the phone number? 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.680 Want to give you an update on show? Hey Otani? 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.960 Uh Showotani was tentatively how about that, I'll say it 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:15.520 that way, tentatively scheduled to throw a bullpen today coming 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.640 off his bullpen session on Wednesday in Philadelphia where he 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.720 threw thirty four pitches and threw his full compliment of pitches. 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.760 So Dave Roberts was asked before the game, Hey, is 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:28.720 he going to throw one? 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:33.000 Did he throw one? And the answer was no, And the. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.880 Exact quote from Dave Roberts was that Otani and the 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.839 Dodgers were going to kick the can down the road, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:45.160 meaning they're going to pause again the pitching because Otani's 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.560 left knee was sore, and the team trainer started to 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.640 get an idea that O'tani was not going to throw 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:56.600 a bullpen today yesterday because his routine changed. He just 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.720 instead of going out to the outfield to play catch 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:04.000 and his flat round pitching, he just threw plioballs against 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:10.640 the wall. So you know, they keep saying that the hitting, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:15.160 the base running is not affecting how that left knee feels. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.360 You can't tell me last night that Otani is trying 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.400 to stretch a double into a triple, slides into third 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:27.839 base hard into the bag, and today he can't throw 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:29.160 his bullpen session. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.320 You can't tell me. I'm not. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.120 Dave Roberts said, that's not the reason why. But you 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:38.199 can't tell me that's not contributing to the soreness. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:38.640 In the left knee. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.440 Not getting over the hump, and Dave Roberts talked about 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.280 the fact that his left knee is in a better 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.560 spot than it was before the All Star break, and 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.160 he did say that he's still confident Otani will pitch 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.160 again this season. That still remains to be seen, but 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:01.040 I would lean on that side if there's any sort 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.000 of soreness. We all know the Dodgers are extra cautious 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.920 with all of their players, let alone the best player 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:11.320 on the planet. So I tend to lean that he 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.000 will pitch again this season, and the Dodgers are just 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.160 being extra cautious with Otani's left knees. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.439 So he's ready to go in the postseason. But here's 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:21.040 the catch. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.719 It's fine if you want to rest him and make 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:28.600 sure that knees as close as possible to getting that 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.800 soreness out. But the longer he goes without throwing off 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.719 the mound, the longer it's going to take for him 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.600 to be stretched out again. Because now what we're going 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.520 on two weeks where he's not pitching and he's not 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.360 getting stretched out, it's going to take at least that 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.319 amount of time and counting for him to get stretched 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.480 out to pitch. So that's part of the equation, and 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.480 everybody's trying to tie in Otani pitching or not pitching 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.160 to whether or not the Dodgers will have more urgency 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.960 to pursued Zue Trek Scooble. I think a lot of 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.360 that hinges on how Blake Snell looks in his next 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.480 rehab appearance, and I kind of have a feeling with 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.559 Dave Roberts leaving the door open that Snell could possibly 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.280 make one more rehab start and then rejoin the rotation. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.640 I kind of feel like that's to see where he's 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.280 at before we get to August third. And that trade 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:26.080 deadline eight six six eight seven two, five seventy is 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.400 the phone number. We're gonna take a time out here 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.439 on Dodger Talk. When we continue, we'll get more into 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.560 the trade deadline and what the Dodgers are thinking. Also, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.600 we'll let you know exactly when Keyke Hernandez and Edwin 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.800 Diaz are going to return. As the Dodgers beat the 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.840 Mets four to three on a five seventy LA Sports. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.760 On air at AM five seventy online at AM five 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:57.040 seventy LA sports dot com and available my podcast on 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:58.440 the iHeartRadio app. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.880 This is Dodger with David Bassi. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.680 McLean's too two. Tucker tags it in the air, deep 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.199 down the right field line. 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:15.000 It is off the pole and gone. Kyle Tucker is 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:22.120 alive in New York. 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Eight six six nine to 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:06.239 eight seven two five seventy is the phone number the Dodgers. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.920 You know you gotta I'm gonna put into context with 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.000 the Dodgers have done coming out of the All Star Break. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.280 They have the best record in baseball. They take two 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:20.000 out of three at Yankee Stadium. They beat Garrett Cole, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.760 they beat Cam Schlittler, and they play a doubleheader on 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:29.520 Getaway Day before going to Philadelphia after Sunday Night Baseball, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.680 last Sunday Sunday Night Baseball night game on Getaway Day, 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.640 which has become the norm basically for the Dodgers this year. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.800 Tomorrow's the exception that they're actually getting a day game 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.280 on Getaway Day. The Dodgers have been on the East Coast. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.640 Tomorrow will be ten days, a nine game trip in 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.320 ten days. They take two out of three from the Yankees, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:58.840 including a doubleheader and Sunday Night Baseball. They go to Philadelphia. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:03.000 They beat the Phillies on a night that Christopher Sanchez 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.560 is pitching. They beat the Phillies when Zach Wheeler's pitching, 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.880 or excuse me, on the night that Aaron Nola was 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.520 pitching and they lost the game against Sanchez. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:15.080 Excuse me. 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.960 They beat Wheeler and Nola, so they take two out 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:19.160 of three in Philadelphia. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.760 They go to the White House. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:26.240 After that last game in Philadelphia, they're at the White 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:30.200 House or in Washington, d C. For about what seventeen hours? 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.280 They're at the White House for two hours, hop on 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.360 a bus back to the airport, get on a plane 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.400 to fly back to New York to play the Mets. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.760 All they do is come out and beat the Mets 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:48.400 last night, and they come out and beat the Mets tonight. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.040 That's all the Dodgers have done this road trip. Think 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:57.360 about that they've only lost two games so far on 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.920 this road trip. With all of that, who is going 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:06.040 to stop this team? And the Dodgers are only getting stronger. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:11.400 Next week, specifically Tuesday, the first game of the homestand 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.080 Key k a Hernandez is going to be activated. Dave 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.760 Roberts joins us once a week with the Manager's Meeting 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.080 presented by Downy Hunday. He told us before the game, 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.600 and you can listen to the conversation on the iHeartRadio 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.440 app that Key k Hernandez is going to be activated 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.840 on Tuesday, and Edwin Diaz, the former Met and now 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.640 the Dodger closer, is going to return on Wednesday night. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:41.040 Edwin Diaz is going to be active Wednesday night, and 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.400 Diaz is going to pitch one more rehab game tomorrow 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.600 and be active Wednesday night. So you look at the 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.680 Dodger bullpen now. As far as high leverage arms, Brock 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:56.040 Stewart just saved his first game since twenty twenty three. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.720 Tanner Scott for the most part, has done a phenomenal 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.520 j this year and also during the period of time 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:04.320 where Edwin. 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:05.560 Diaz has been out. 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.320 The Dodgers just got back Evan Phillips, who's shaking off 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.800 the rust. You still got Vesia and Gardo Enriquez has 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.360 been lights out this year. He didn't look great tonight, 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:20.320 but he's been lights out all year long. You got 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.400 Rock Stewart, you got Evan Phillips, you got Tenor Scott. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:25.800 You're getting back. 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:32.000 You're getting back Edwin Diaz, you got Will Klein, you 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.880 got Jack Dryer, who has not allowed an earn run 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.520 since June twenty first. And Jack Dryer is going to 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.120 join us on the pregame show tomorrow. So just think 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.560 about that. And as far as the trade deadline goes, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.440 go back and listen to the show last night. Unless 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:53.320 the Dodgers don't feel good about where Glass now is 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.320 or where Snell is, they are not going to go 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.960 all in for schoolbl they're going to be They have 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.480 checked in with the Tigers. They are in contact with 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:07.280 the Tigers about school ball because let's say another team 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:11.200 is offering, you know, something that the Dodgers field they 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.920 can do. They're going to go after school Bowl, if 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.840 it makes sense. But they're not going after school ball 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.919 to keep him away from the Brewers, the Yankees or 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.920 the Braves. They're gonna go after school Bowl because they 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.680 feel like whatever they have in house is not going 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.080 the way that they would like to. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:30.200 Now. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.080 Katie Wu the Athletic reported a couple of weeks ago, 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.720 and it makes sense that the Dodgers want to use 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.920 this trade deadline to try to replenish their farm system, 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.399 maybe with a guy like Eric Lawer, who's been phenomenal 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.960 and you can try to get you know, the Dodgers 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.400 have a plethora of outfielders. We haven't heard anything about infielders, 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.760 so maybe they want to upgrade there. Their catching depth 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.520 is a little thin, Maybe they want to upgrade there. 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.160 They're higher level pitching in the miner is a little thin. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.240 Maybe they want to add there. Now can they pull 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.760 that off? I believe they can, and I believe you 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.080 could do it not in a linear type of trade. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.000 Andrew Freeman has put together three team trades before for 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:18.000 major league impact players. Why can't he be the facilitator 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.520 of that with two other teams that are trying to 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.399 help their team in the here and now. So I 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.159 really do believe the Dodgers are going to be players 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.879 at the trade deadline. But I don't feel like it 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:35.480 necessarily has to be all about Trek Skuobel because there's 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.720 still uncertainty about whether or not the Tigers are going 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.360 to pull the trigger on a Schooble trade. But we've 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.440 been talking about backup catchers. I mean, that's how good 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.760 the Dodgers are. We're talking about backup catchers. I mentioned 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.199 Jonah Him makes a lot of sense. Chris Woodward was 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.800 his manager with the Rangers. Jonah Him was the catcher 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.760 and played a big part in the Rangers winning the 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:04.440 World Series in twenty twenty three. So he's a championship 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:09.240 winning catcher. Jonaheim and he's a rental. The A's acquired 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.760 him from the Braves earlier this year. Jonaheim would be 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.440 a really good fit, and the Dodgers have a guy 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.439 that has first hand knowledge of how good he really is. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.480 And Chris Woodward and you know, talking to Woodward over 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:26.560 the years, he really likes Jonaheim and he challenged Jonaheim 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.000 to be a better catcher over the years. So Jonahih 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:34.480 makes a lot of sense. Here's another World Series experience 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.800 catcher that nobody has talked about, and he used to 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.960 be teammates with Freddie Freeman on the twenty one Braves. 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:48.199 Travis Darnaut. How about Travis Darno who has not played 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.919 basically all season long with planner fasciitis. He's now on 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.400 a rehab assignment on his way back. Travis Darnault came 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.840 up with a lot of big hits for the twenty 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.600 one Braves to win the World Series, and he was 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.880 a calming factor behind the plate. You don't need Travis 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.359 Darnau to hit. You need a backup catcher in case 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:12.919 Will Smith can't come back to be that stabilizing force 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.840 if emotions run too high for Dalton Rushing. 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:19.200 That's the insurance you need. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:24.320 And if Will Smith does come back, there is a 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.639 way to carry three catchers. There is a way to 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:34.400 do that. Don't forget. In September, rosters expand by a couple, right. 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.359 I don't see Will Smith coming back in August. I 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.240 don't know about you. I haven't heard him doing anything 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.800 very vague, and you know, nobody's really saying much about 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.640 Will Smith. So I don't see him coming back until 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:51.000 rosters expand in September. So you make a trade with 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.840 the Angels for Travis Starna, maybe you make a trade 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.480 with the A's for Jonah him and all of a sudden, 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.200 the one area where you are a little concerned about 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:05.200 that can win or lose a game. Let's be honest. 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.879 A catcher can win or lose the game behind the plate. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:12.040 Travis Darnault makes a lot of sense. I mean, the Angels, 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.359 where are they going? Why do they need Travis Darnault. 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.720 They got Logan o'hoppi, and they got a GM now 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:21.520 that has some sensibility to him and John mozaylock. So 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:27.560 to me, Jonaheim or Travis Darneault makes the most sense 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:28.240 to acquire. 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:29.639 Eight sixty six. 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:33.200 Nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.080 The Dodgers beat the Mets tonight four to three. They're 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.680 looking for the sweep tomorrow. And just a little history 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:44.000 note as far as the Dodgers and Mets go since 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.680 we are out here in New York. Just to put 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:51.040 into contexts the Dodgers and Mets and how they're linked 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.479 as far as the Dodgers moving out west and the 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:59.080 Mets becoming an expansion team in the early sixties, where 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:03.440 were right now where this stadium is and where Say 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:09.040 Stadium was across the parking lot is where the mayor 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:14.960 of New York wanted Walter O'Malley to build the new 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:18.960 ebbots Field. When Walter O'Malley wanted to build the new 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:23.240 ebbots Field where the Berkley Center is in Brooklyn. They 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.480 were trying to force Walter O'Malley to build ebbotts Field 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:29.600 out here in Queens and he said, no, there's like 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:33.480 no public transportation. It's so out of the way. It's 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:39.120 not in Brooklyn. We're not moving there. And that's when 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:43.240 the Dodgers. Part of the reason the Dodgers left Brooklyn 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:46.960 and came out west to la And another part of 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:51.439 the equation with the Mets is that their colors orange 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:55.119 and blue was a combination of the New York Giants 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:59.359 and Brooklyn Dodgers colors, since they both left New York 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:03.159 within a year of each other. The Mets the expansion 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:05.320 team to give New York a second team in the 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:10.320 National League. They just combined the Giants and Dodgers colors 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:12.879 to come up with the Mets colors and the n 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:16.399 Why the Curse of n Y It's exactly like the 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:21.159 New York Giants hats. So there's a little history lesson 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:26.840 on the Mets, the Dodgers and where City Field sits 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:30.639 and Shay Stadium sits. This is where New York was 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:34.679 trying to force Walter O'Malley to build the new ebbitts Field. 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:38.359 And oh, by the way, the new EBITs Field was 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:43.040