WEBVTT - Offseason Dodger Talk (1-19-26) 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:02.759 All come on back. 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.320 Before you know it, they'll be back on the field 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.640 at Camelback Ranch. Why can't this be spring training? But 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:12.600 our coverage of the blue never stops. AM five LA Sports. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.400 This is off season Dodger Talk. Get in on the 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:20.320 show by calling eight six six seven four hashtag Dodger 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.760 Talk and now your host, David Bassey. 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.720 Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vasse with you until eight 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:34.000 o'clock tonight on this Martin Luther King Junior Day. We 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.840 remember the great Martin Luther King Junior and we'll hear 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.760 from Don Newcome in our next segment. He used to 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.879 tell this story about Doctor King, always saying thank you 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:49.240 to him, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella for what Jackie 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.879 Robinson did first and foremost breaking the color barrier in 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.440 Major League Baseball. And Don Newcomb, the way he tells 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.120 the story, Doctor King gave a lot of credit to 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:03.680 those brook Lynn Dodgers that broke the color barrier, and 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:08.119 you know, started the ball moving in the Civil Rights 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:13.440 Department for the Dodgers, and you know, for Major League 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.440 Baseball and for this country. So you'll hear from Don 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.840 Newcomb coming up in fifteen minutes. Also, at the bottom 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.440 of the hour, we'll share our conversation with Team USAS 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:29.479 and MLB Networks Mark DeRosa. Mark DeRosa is the manager 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:34.039 for Team USA and it was Mark DeRosa's idea to 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.440 have Clayton Kershaw be part of this year's World Baseball 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:42.080 Classic team. So we'll get to Mark DeRosa. We couldn't 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.920 get to him the last time we had Dodger Talk 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.400 because two minutes before we took the air, the news 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.559 broke that the Dodger signed Kyle Tucker to a four 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.160 year contract that is going to pay him and average 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:59.880 of fifty seven to sixty million dollars per season. Unheard of. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:05.840 I mean, I mean, I know Otani's contract is seventy 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:10.320 million dollars annually, but he deferred his contract and now 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:15.280 you got Kyle Tucker making fifty seven million dollars a year. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:21.400 And before we get into the overreaction of everybody outside 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.320 of LA, let's talk about some of the things that 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.799 was lost in why the Dodgers signed Kyle Tucker. He 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.959 helps the Dodgers in multiple ways, as we talked about 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.960 that night. First and foremost, he helps the Dodgers offense. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.600 And we know Andrew Freeman felt like that was an 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.280 area of need because the Dodger offense was not very 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.840 good the second half of last year. Mookie Betts had 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:51.280 his worst offensive season that carried into the postseason. He 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.960 played solid shortstop. I thought it was fitting that it 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.680 was him that ended the World Series with an unassisted 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:03.320 double play. And then you had ta Oscar Hernandez who 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.560 had his worst offensive season, especially after he injured his 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.680 growing in June. Remember we were talking about ta Oscar 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.760 Hernandez going to the All Star Game and then he 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.440 injured his growing and he wasn't the same offensively, and 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.760 he certainly wasn't the same defensively in right field. So 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:28.200 Kyle Tucker first and foremost helps the Dodgers offensively and 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:33.120 helps their outfield offense. And when you sign a player, 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.960 you got to make sure that he's pretty good in 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.440 your home ballpark, and the way he hits plays in 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.960 your home ballpark, because that's where you're going to play 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.680 the majority of your games. Eighty one games for Kyle 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.760 Tucker in the regular season at Dodger Stadium, and I 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.160 was curious, and I tweeted this over the weekend, and 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:57.000 it bears repeating that Kyle Tucker in forty career played 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.720 appearances at Dodger Stadium is hitting three with an ops 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.160 of one thousand. Six of his ten career hits at 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.600 Dodger Stadium are extra base hits two homers In case 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:15.040 you're wondering, so he plays at Dodger Stadium. Also, one 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:19.080 part of this that may get overlooked is the running 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.120 game of Kyle Tucker. He's younger, he helps the Dodgers 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.520 get younger, he helps the Dodgers get more athletic. Tucker 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.920 has stolen one hundred and nineteen bases in his career 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:36.479 on one hundred and thirty five career attempts. That's over 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.400 an eighty eight percent success rate. And in this day 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.839 and age of you know, the rules being bent to 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:49.080 lean towards players having an edge to steal bases, that's important. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.479 And the Dodgers, with all that being in play, were 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.440 near the bottom of stolen bases As a team. The 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:02.200 Dodgers last year only stole eighty eight bases. That was 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.839 twenty first among thirty Major League teams last year with 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:11.320 the rules being in favor of stealing bases, and there 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.800 were only three Dodgers that stole double digit bases last year, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.640 led by shoe Hey Otani who stole twenty, Pa Has 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:24.920 stole fourteen, and Kim stole thirteen. So you didn't have 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.279 a lot of the premier Dodger players running the bases 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:33.600 last year. So that's another factor in Kyle Tucker being 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.000 part of this Dodger lineup, not only what he can 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.960 do with the bat and what he can do defensively, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.240 but also what he could do for the Dodgers base 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.839 running to help them get into scoring position by stealing 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.240 bases going first to third. The Dodgers were pretty good 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:54.000 at that, but stealing bases has not been a forte 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.440 outside of Otani for the Dodgers, so that's something to 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.520 keep in mind as well. Eight six six, nine eighty 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.400 seven two five seventy is the phone number. Now, you know, 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.640 obviously I'm hearing everything that you're hearing, reading everything that 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.560 you're reading on social media. How there is it's inevitable. 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.360 Now there's going to be a lockout because the Dodgers 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:20.240 signed Kyle Tucker. I'm not a believer in that. I 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.080 don't believe there's going to be an extended lockout. I 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.200 do believe there is going to be a lockout, and 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.600 it may even bleed into the first or second week 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.359 of April. But I do believe that next year, in 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.960 twenty twenty seven, I should say two years from now, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.320 because everybody's acting like it's happening now, can we just 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.640 enjoy the twenty six season before we start, you know, 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.240 being doom and gloom about a lockout in twenty twenty seven. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.120 A lot can happen, as we know, in the world 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.880 between now and twenty twenty seven. So let's just enjoy 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.840 twenty twenty six and the Dodgers trying to make a 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.680 three peat run. A couple of things about the emotional 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:05.880 overreaction around Major League Baseball with the Dodgers swooping in 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:10.800 to sign Kyle Tucker. It wasn't the Dodgers that presented 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:15.000 the high annual average salary for Tucker, by all accounts, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.480 it was the Mets, who, by the way, they named 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.080 the highest luxury tax threshold for their owner, not the 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.920 Dodgers owner, but for the Mets owner, Steve Cohen. So 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.600 let's get that first out of the way. It's the 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:36.320 Steve Cohen tax, the highest tax threshold. Number two, do 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.080 you realize public numbers are out there that only twenty 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:45.640 of the thirty teams in baseball reinvest or excuse me, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.240 invest less than fifty percent of their revenue into their roster. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:57.000 Twenty of the thirty teams invest less than fifty percent 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:01.400 of their revenue in the roster. So to me, that's 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:07.000 more alarming than the Dodgers being competitive in a competitive 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:12.120 sport to try to win and compete. Why are these 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:16.720 other teams not competing? And for those that say other 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.840 teams field they don't have a chance going into the season, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:23.600 I got news for you. Every year there's about ten 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:27.760 teams that don't have a chance. Those teams change, and 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.480 the only way to change it is try to build 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:34.719 a better team through player development and supplementing with free agency. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.160 I'm sorry, am I missing something here? And I'm getting 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.400 tired of taking my dog for a walk and having 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.680 to explain this to every neighbor that knows that I 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:51.400 host Dodger Talk and I do baseball reporting. It's becoming exhausting, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.840 it really is, and there is you know, I don't 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.320 believe there's going to be a lockout. I actually don't 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.040 even believe there's going to be a salad recap or 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:05.840 a salary floor implemented next collective bargaining agreement, because I 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.040 don't believe the union is going to go for that. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.880 I actually believe they're going to just find a way 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:15.160 to make the penalties stiffer if you go over a 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.640 certain mark of the payroll, and you may even may 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.720 not be able to go as high as the Dodgers 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:26.600 have gone. But if they are paying this tax tax, 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.359 that means a lot of teams are reaping the rewards 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.400 of the Dodgers going over that tex and the so 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.080 called revenue sharing, the spirit of the revenue sharing, which 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:44.400 was implemented by Bud Selig after the ninety four lockout, 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:49.160 was for these big market teams, not the Dodgers back 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.600 in ninety four, but the Yankees, the Red Sox especially, 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:58.559 to have to pay a tax that gets distributed amongst 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.720 the rest of the teams in base with the intention 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:06.800 of reinvesting that into your major league roster. How many 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.720 teams are doing that? How do you explain teams that 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.120 have a payroll under one hundred million dollars. It's just 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:18.720 not happening. They're pocketing that money. That's not the spirit 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:23.360 of the revenue sharing. So I think fan bases should 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.560 be pointing the finger at their ownership for that. And look, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:32.240 the Brewers, the small market Brewers were the team that 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.400 had the best record in the National League. The Phillies, 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.000 another team with a high pay roll, had the second 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.440 best record, and the Dodgers only finished three games ahead 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:47.520 of the Padres in the National League West. So that's 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:52.320 an overreaction statement to say teams don't have a chance. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:56.000 And when Jeff Passing is quoting anonymous players saying how 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:00.600 do we beat the Dodgers, here's a blueprint. Hitch better, 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.839 hit better, and execute better. That's how you beat the Dodgers. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.960 The Phillies didn't do it, the Reds didn't do it, 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.080 the Brewers didn't do it, and the Blue Jays didn't 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:16.120 finish out the series and that's why they lost. I mean, 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.400 I could go on and on about this. Am I 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.160 missing something here? I just don't feel bad about what 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:26.000 the Dodgers are doing because for years we had to 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.760 watch the Yankees and Red Sox by World Series after 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.600 World Series, and nobody was screaming about that at the time. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.719 But all of a sudden, it's the Dodgers and the 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:41.520 sky is falling. They have the most unique player who 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.600 agreed to the most unique contract that benefits the Dodgers. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.199 If the Blue Jays would have signed Otawani, they would 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.440 have had the same benefit. Nothing is changing that eight 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.240 six six nine eight seven two five seventy is the 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.200 phone number. When we come back, we'll get to the 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.319 Freddie Peralta rumors. No, he's not a free agent. You're 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.840 gonna have to trade for him, and the Dodgers may 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.400 have the players to do so. Also will celebrate Martin 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.880 Luther King Day with the voice of Don Newcomb and 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.440 coming up at the bottom of the hour, Mark de Rosa, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.600 the manager of Team USA that has added Clayton Kershaw 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.960 for one last dance. Your phone calls. Phone lines are 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.960 open at eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:32.160 Am I missing something with the outrage sounds like jealousy 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.120 and envy to me on Dodger Talk and five to 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:44.120 seventy LA Sports Colin Yee handling things this week for 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.079 Ronnie Fossil on Burbank. I love not getting the leftover 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:52.520 songs from Petros and Money Show. Thank you, Colin. I 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:56.320 actually saw the Killers perform live during that spring training 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:01.360 concert last year. Man that it's great. I got mocked 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.680 for singing the songs by the people I was with. 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.280 I have no apologies for that. Welcome the Dodger Talker' 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.920 with you until eight o'clock tonight on this Martin Luther 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.880 King Day. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.080 Mark du Rosa, you'll hear our conversation with the Team 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:21.079 USA manager about Clayton Kershaw joining Team USA. It was 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.800 de Rosa's idea, and in just a moment we'll get 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:30.160 to why Freddie Peralta makes so much sense for the Dodgers. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.080 But like I said, you can't do a Dodger talk 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.760 show or any show, in my opinion, without acknowledging what 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.560 today is and why you got a day off and 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.600 why there's not a lot of traffic in the city 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.840 of Los Angeles. It's to honor the memory of doctor 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.000 Martin Luther King, Junior, who was the one of the 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:54.480 greatest men this country has ever seen, and certainly his 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.640 voice still resonates in so many ways. You can't play 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:05.000 his speeches enough in my opinion. And when Don Newcomb 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:09.840 was alive and around Dodger Stadium whenever he had the opportunity. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:14.120 He loved to tell the story about this dinner with 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.199 doctor King. The same month that he would have been 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:21.880 that he was assassinated in Memphis, and Bob Kendrick from 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:26.480 the Negro League Museum, the president of the Negro League Museum, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:31.680 posted this conversation with the late Great Don Newcomb about 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.160 his interaction with doctor King. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.960 There was a famous man, famous black man, sat at 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:40.760 my dinner table one night, and here's what he said 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.440 to me. This man's name happened to be Martin Luth King, 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.680 and he said to me, he said, Don, you and 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.040 Jackie and Roy will never know how easy you made 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.840 it for me to do my job to what you 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.520 men did on the baseball field. Imagine that at that time, 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.920 nineteen sixty eight, This is twenty four days before Martin 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.960 died in Memphis News, twenty four days He's at my 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.400 dinner table, Laron Jay as he had. I said, why 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.600 are you going to Memphis? He said, I've got to go. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.400 My brothers and sisters need me like our brothers and 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.640 sisters needed you and Jackie Roy when you started out 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.600 in baseball. My brothers and sisters need me now, and 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.440 I've got to go. Even though I'm sick and I'm tired, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:23.560 but I gotta go. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:29.000 And twenty four days later he was dead, and lou 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:33.480 he I he was being beat over the head with 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.000 billy clubs and dogs sicked on him at that time, 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:38.880 being thrown in jail. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.320 And imagine how his life would have been if he 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.200 had started nineteen forty six like Jackie Royan I did 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:51.200 with this baseball car because of this baseball and because 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.560 of a white man named Brant Rickey. How do you 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.360 think Martin Luther King life would have been, doing what 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:02.200 he was doing and undertaking what he undertook to get 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.800 us to where we are today as black folk. We 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:11.600 haven't won our battle yet, but by God, without what 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.760 we did on a baseball field, without Martin and all 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.440 the other soldiers that fought that war and they're still 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.360 fighting that war, how and where would we have been? 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.680 That's powerful stuff right there. The voice of Don Newcomb 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:31.280 with the Negro League president Bob Kendrick, just an incredible 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:36.000 story and incredible perspective that we can never forget, not 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:40.800 only in this city but across the country. And you know, 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.000 I think that's just remarkable. And I know Don Newcomb 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.920 was always blown away when he told the story that 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.960 he just told that Martin Luther King Junior would say, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.080 my job would have been a lot harder without Jackie 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.600 Robinson breaking the color barrier in Major League baseball in 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.280 nineteen forty seven. It was so much more than just 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.280 about baseball. And when you hear it from doctor King 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.840 relayed by Don Newcomb, it's even more powerful. And I'm 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.520 not sure you realize this, but Jackie Robinson was in 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:17.400 attendance on the march in Washington, and when doctor King 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:21.760 made that incredible speech, there so so many connections to 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.520 the Dodgers and Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella and Don 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:29.800 Newcomb with doctor Martin Luther King Junior and I couldn't 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.520 be on for an hour and not acknowledge the great 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.399 Doctor King and that story. Eight six six nine eight 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:42.000 seven two five seventy is the phone number. David Vase 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.040 with you until eight o'clock. Just want to remind you 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:50.160 that Dodger Fest is happening again this year January thirty. First, 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.679 if you want tickets, they're going on sale this week. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.760 Dodgers dot com slash Dodger Fest will be out there 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.840 having Dodger Talk and bringing you all the interviews of 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.920 all the players, maybe even Kyle Tucker will be out there, 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.400 and we will have the broadcast of the first Dodgers 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.960 Cactus League game, which is coming up sooner than you think. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.920 February twenty first first Dodgers Spring training game and opening 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.760 day not that far away either, if you could believe it, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:24.640 March twenty sixth, that's actually my daughter's birthday. March twenty 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:29.600 sixth against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodgers Stadium. And I 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.960 keep on mentioning this because it bears repeating. Can you 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.880 believe the Dodgers' first road trip this season, after they 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.080 open up with six games at home, is to our 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:46.439 nation's capital and then from there Toronto, Canada. Yeah, first 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:50.879 road trip of the year. Dodgers in Toronto, a rematch 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:55.600 of last year's World Series with Kyle Tucker now a Dodger. 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.480 Not only the Dodgers beating the Blue Jays in the 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:04.040 World Series, be signing show Hey Otani and beating them 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.560 for Kyle Tucker this past offseason. Now, let's get to 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:15.520 Freddy Peralta, who maybe the most realistic best candidate to 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.280 be traded as far as the starting pitcher goes before 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:24.000 spring training starts. Freddy Peralta, the Brewers ace last year, 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.320 only has one year left on his contract. The Brewers 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:31.879 want to get something for him before he hits free agency, 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.760 and you can get more for him now than you 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:39.560 would probably at the trade deadline. It's not a surprise 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:44.000 that the Dodgers' name since signing Tucker has emerged. It 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:49.080 made sense even before the Dodgers signed Kyle Tucker. You 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:54.320 look at the Dodgers' starting staff. No longer has Clayton Kershaw, who, 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.680 by the way, was super valuable for the Dodgers while 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.439 glass Now and Snell were on the il to start 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:05.439 the year and Otani was barely pitching. They don't have 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:10.760 Kershaw anymore. They have a Tyler glassanow who only made 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:15.400 eighteen starts last year. They have a Blake Snell who 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:19.720 only made eleven starts last year. They got an Otani 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:23.120 who is only going to pitch once a week. They 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.080 got a Yamamoto who I would imagine is going to 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.879 be slow played as far as innings go and workload 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:34.240 goes the beginning of the year after what he took 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.840 on last October. They got an image Sheehan who was 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.000 pretty good the second half of last year. And they 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.760 still have a young twenty two year old by the 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:48.040 name of Roki Sasaki who is going to get another 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:53.000 chance at starting. And if he does start, also what 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:58.119 once every six, seven, eight days, So it makes so 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.880 much sense the Dodgers feel like they need another starting pitcher. 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.040 With all that being said, and then you might say, well, 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.959 what about the young guys? Their depth? Yeah, there is depth. 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.320 You got Bobby Miller, you got Landon Nack, you got 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.520 River Ryan, who probably is not going to be seen 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:18.760 until the second half of the year like Emashan last year. 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.240 You got Robleski who finished the year in the bullpen 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:27.000 and was outstanding. I feel like Robleski is an outstanding 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:30.480 relief pitcher. Is he a starter? He was pretty good, 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:33.760 So I guess you could have Robleski star games. And 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:37.560 then you have Ben Casparius who took on so much 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:39.960 the first half of last year and seemed to be 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:43.439 out of gas the second half of last year. But 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:48.240 don't you want a sure thing You can trade from 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:51.520 that depth along with a guy like Ryan Ward now 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.640 who joined us on Dodger Talk before the Dodgers signed 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:58.520 Kyle Tucker. He's a twenty eight year old lifetime minor 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:02.320 league player who had his best triple A season last year. 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:07.000 Wouldn't it benefit Bobby Miller and Ryan Ward and maybe 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:11.640 even Landon Knack to get an opportunity in Milwaukee while 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:15.640 the Dodgers, who are so I think they've sent the message, 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:20.480 are so intent on making history to try to become 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:24.200 one of the few teams in baseball history to three pete. 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.280 Wouldn't you want a sure thing a guy that was 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.560 seventeen and six and a ballpark that is known for 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:35.600 hitters that made thirty three starts, struck out two hundred hitters, 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:40.119 that can be one of the guys not only the 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:42.480 beginning of the year, but a guy that you can 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:46.240 lean on in the postseason. Look, nobody loves Blake's now 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:50.639 more than I do, but he's not known outside of 0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:55.040 two or three years in his career to be there 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:58.840 start to finish. Tyler Glass now has not known to 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:03.040 be that guy to be their start to finish. Freddy 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:06.760 Peralta is that guy start to finish. And Look, the 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:09.240 Dodgers are getting to a point where there is a 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:13.800 forty man roster crunch. Why not make the trade. Why 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:17.600 not get the guy for one year and try to 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:21.040 go for that three peat? It makes so much sense. 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:26.560 And look, if the Dodgers trade for Freddy Peralta, it's 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:30.960 because of their player development system. It's not because well, 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:33.520 to a certain extent, it is about their financial might. 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:38.320 But they have drafted well, they have developed well, and 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:43.800 that gets overlooked when everybody focuses on the payroll size. 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:48.280 Not a lot of credit is given to their drafting 0:23:48.359 --> 0:23:53.040 and especially their player development. And that's what would allow 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:57.040 them to trade for Freddy Peralta. Eight six six nine 0:23:57.359 --> 0:23:59.920 seven two five seventy is the phone number? Now does 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:03.880 does that make more sense? Now? Why the Dodgers would 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:07.880 be a candidate to trade for Freddie Peralta, who is 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.440 on a one year contract, is not resigning with the Brewers. 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:15.359 I know everybody keeps on having dreams about Trek Skouolbol. 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:18.840 I just don't see the Tigers trading him. Now. This 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:23.400 arbitration thing can get contentious, but don't forget they can 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:28.280 settle right before they walk into the arbitration hearing. So 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:32.040 it's not a fore gone conclusion they are going to arbitration. 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:35.720 So Freddie Peralta is that guy, and that would be 0:24:36.040 --> 0:24:39.399 a more of a sure thing to have Freddy Peralta 0:24:40.040 --> 0:24:45.640 in your rotation with so many guys that push themselves 0:24:45.680 --> 0:24:48.639 to the red line last year to win back to 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:54.120 back championships, especially Yamamoto, you have a question mark and Sasaki. 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:57.600 You got guys that have not pitched a full season. 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:02.159 Freddie Peralta makes so much sense. And the Dodgers have 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:05.560 the players to get it done. And I think it 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:08.679 would be great for guys like Bobby Miller or Landon 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:11.720 Knack or Ryan Ward to be traded to get that 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:14.399 opportunity somewhere else if it's not going to be with 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:18.720 the Dodgers. Eight six six seven two five seventy is 0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:21.080 the phone number. When we come back, you'll hear my 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:25.320 conversation with MLB Network's Mark de Rosa, who is Team 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:28.800 USA's manager, who was the man that picked up the 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:33.320 phone and called Clayton Kershaw to join Team USA in 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:36.879 this year's World Baseball Classic. We'll find out how it 0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:40.719 all went down next right here on a five to seventy, 0:25:40.880 --> 0:25:43.479 LA Sports. Nobody gotta do it. 0:25:43.560 --> 0:25:45.840 I mean, hey, somebody gotta do it. 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:52.840 Let's see that it works. Let's see if that say, 0:25:53.200 --> 0:26:03.639 let's see if still got that sets David Basse with 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:08.159 you until eight o'clock tonight here on five seventy LA Sports. 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:12.919 That truck still works, no doubt, no doubt, and that 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:17.560 truck is still working for our guy twenty two, Clayton Kershaw, 0:26:18.080 --> 0:26:20.480 who is going to start that truck up again for 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:23.640 the World Baseball Classic. And we are a joint right 0:26:23.680 --> 0:26:26.400 now by a man that is part of my favorite 0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:31.520