WEBVTT - Off Season Dodger Talk (1-15-26) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.280 This is off season Dodger Talk. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:04.800 Get in on the show by calling eight six six. 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:12.040 Hashtag Dodger Talk and now your host, David Masse, we 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:18.240 have breaking news. Jeff Passen has just tweeted and reported 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:23.279 that it is the Dodgers that have signed Kyle Tucker. Yes, 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.000 Kyle Tucker reportedly is signing with the Dodgers on a 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.800 short term deal. I have a few texts out there 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.200 to some of my sources with the Dodgers to see 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.600 if they can tell us how many years exactly. But 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.600 Steve Cohen, the Mets owner, tweeted out about an hour 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:46.880 plus ago, let me know when you see the white smoke. Well, 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.879 the white smoke is out. And Kyle Tucker has chosen 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:55.360 the Dodgers, just like sho Hao Tani chose the Dodgers, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:00.240 just like Yoshinobu Yama Moto chose the Dodgers, and us 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:04.760 like Freddie Freeman chose the Dodgers among others, just like 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:09.120 Blake Snell chose the Dodgers' last off season. So the 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.720 Dodgers take Edwin Diaz from the Mets, and in some 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.760 form or fashion, in some ways, you could say they 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:21.720 have taken Kyle Tucker from the Mets, Edwin Diaz and 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:27.720 Kyle Tucker, Andrew Friedman, Mark Walter have signed. They've been aggressive. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.120 They do not care about one hundred and ten percent 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.640 tax on every dollar that they sign. They have gone 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.480 out and signed Kyle Tucker. And we are with you 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.760 until eight o'clock tonight. Here on a five to seventy 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:46.080 LA Sports, I had to say, Mark DeRosa, I'm sorry. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.840 We'll have you on the show on Monday night at 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.520 seven o'clock. That's our next Dodger talk show. But tonight 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.559 with Jeff Passing tweeting this two minutes before we took 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:01.480 the air, it is all Kyle Tucker. It is all you, 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:06.400 Los Angeles. The Dodgers have signed Kyle Tucker. Phone lines 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.079 are open right now. At eight six six nine to 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.440 eight seven two five seventy we are going to be 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.600 joined by one of Kyle Tucker's future teammates, the one 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.880 and only Dalton Rushing is going to join us. At 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.480 seven point thirty, we'll get his live reaction to the 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:28.000 news that Kyle Tucker has joined the Dodgers. And you 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.160 look at what Andrew Friedman set out to do. He 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.600 made no secrets about it. He wanted to make the 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.000 Dodger offense better than it was the second half of 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:42.800 the year and into the postseason. The Dodger offense was 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:47.440 not good from June on including October. If it wasn't 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.400 for the Dodgers pitching and some timely hitting and some 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:56.280 great defensive plays, the Dodgers many times would have been 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.840 eliminated even before they got to the World Series, and 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.120 a few times in Game six in Game seven, they 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.480 would have been eliminated from the World Series. Another layer 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.960 to this is it's a short term contract. Kyle Tucker 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.160 is twenty eight years old, and when you hear reports 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.600 that the Blue Jays were offering ten years, three hundred 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.360 million dollars, and then the Mets got aggressive in a 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.919 different way where they were offering four years, two hundred 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.920 million dollars, which averaged out to about fifty million dollars 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:34.840 a year. If you're Kyle Tucker and you don't believe 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.560 that five years from now that you can make another 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:43.440 at least one hundred million dollars, this next four years 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.320 five years would not have been good for you. So 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.000 he can hit the open market. If this is a 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:54.480 thirty four year contract, he can hit the market again 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.240 at thirty two years old and make even more money. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.880 And you know, for the Dodgers, they're not committing too 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:08.440 many years. They are committing just enough to feel comfortable 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.760 with Kyle Tucker. And I know many people were talking 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.800 about his down year with the Cubs. I gotta tell you, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:18.279 Cody Bellinger told me it's tough for a left handed 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.839 hitter to hit at Wrigley Field, especially the first three 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.440 months of the season. And in twenty twenty four he 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.800 only played seventy eight games, but that's because he felled 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.040 a ball off his shin and broke his shins. So 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:38.080 those freak things happened, no soft tissue injuries. So Kyle 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.839 Tucker when he was with the Astros was one of 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:46.359 the best hitting outfielders in baseball. And that's the reason 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:50.560 why the Dodgers and many or the teams that could 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.320 afford him were interested. Eight six six nine eight seven 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.800 two five seventy is the phone number the Dodgers, reportedly, 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.080 according to Jeff pass And, have signed Kyle Tucker. No 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.640 word on the contract details, but we are getting reports 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.080 that it is a short term contract. And if you 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.240 look at the potential opening day lineup, for the Dodgers, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.480 I'm just going to include Tommy Edmond as healthy, doubtful 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.359 that he will be ready for opening day. But you 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:27.560 have Sho Heo, Tani, Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:35.559 Kyle Tucker, Taoscar Hernandez, Max Munsey, Tommy Edmund and any 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.440 form or fashion and Andy Pajes. You got Andy Pajes 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.520 in this lineup. So the Dodger outfield now ta Oscar 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:48.440 Hernandez and left Pajz and center, Kyle Tucker in right field. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.520 And hold it. If you're saying the Dodgers are going 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.679 to try Taoscar Hernandez, now I would pump the brakes 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.960 on that. I would not. I would venture to say 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:04.080 keep Teoscar Hernandez. We also have some other news as 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.680 well that Jeff Passen reported, I mean rapid fire from 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.279 passing right before Dodger talk started. There is a three 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:16.039 team trade that has been completed between the Rays, the Reds, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:21.160 and the Angels. Former Dodger Gavin Lux is part of 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:26.320 this trade. Gavin Lux is headed to the Tampa Bay Rays, 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:31.320 Josh Lowe is headed to the Angels, and brock Burke, 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.960 left handed reliever, is headed to the Reds. But the 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.839 biggest news now is Kyle Tucker reportedly has signed with 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.640 the Dodgers. Eight six six nine eight seven two five 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:48.160 seventy is the phone number. I just have confirmation now 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.599 from an extremely good source with the Dodgers on the 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.200 length of this contract for Kyle Tucker. It's a four 0:06:56.279 --> 0:07:00.840 year contract with opt outs after year two, two and 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.800 year three. There you go, breaking news. I am breaking 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:09.440 that news right now. The contract details for Kyle Tucker. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.200 A four year contract with opt outs after year two 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.040 and year three. You are hearing that right now on 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.280 Dodgers Radio AM five to seventy LA Sports. We're gonna 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.760 take a time out. When we come back your phone calls, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:28.840 we have lines open. The Dodgers have signed Kyle Tucker 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.920 to a four year contract eight six six nine eight 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:38.040 seven two five seventy David Vasse, great timing on this 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.560 beautiful Thursday night in the city of Angels on a 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.840 five to seventy LA Sports. I can confirm it is 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:50.240 a four year contract with opt outs after year two 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:55.679 and year three. Kyle Tucker's four year contract is worth 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:01.200 two one hundred and forty million dollars to Jeff Passing, 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.240 I can do math once in a while. When the 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.720 numbers are that big, I need a little help. Sixty 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:15.080 million dollars an annual average salary. The Mets were reportedly 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:20.320 offering fifty million dollars for four years. The Dodgers have 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:24.920 now topped Steve Cohen with four years and sixty million 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:29.560 dollars opt outs after years two and year four. We 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.360 have learned eight sixty six nine to eighty seven two 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.559 five seventy is the phone number. Nobody has reported the 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:43.000 fact that the Dodgers and excuse me Tucker has optouts 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.880 after year two and year three. Nobody has reported that. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.360 But that is fact, according to my very good sources 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.080 with the Dodgers, that I got a green light to 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.000 report here on Dodger Talk tonight. Eight six six nine 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.840 eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.280 go out to Corona, Ronnie. You're on Dodger Talk with 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:07.040 David Massey. Ronnie, did this does this blow your mind? 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.720 I mean, the Dodgers just don't stop, and I mean 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.880 this is the greatest Aaron Dodger baseball and they just 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:15.000 make it better. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.319 How you doing, DV, I'm doing great, I said, Let's 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:21.920 keep ruining baseball, right. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:26.760 Yes, let's keep ruining baseball. Look, uh, if the Mets 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.680 wanted Tucker, they could have gone to sixty million dollars. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.760 The Dodgers said, you know what, We'll take your fifty 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.200 and we'll add ten more. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.320 Absolutely, what a great day it is for Dodger fans. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.200 I mean, just hearing the announcement a few minutes ago, 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.560 so exciting. And I cannot wait to see this team, 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:51.200 this lineup, it's amazing. I'm just so excited, no doubt. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.559 I mean, it is such a deep lineup and there 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:58.000 is no reason to trade anybody this year. Let's the 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.800 Dodgers are intent on trying to make this a three peat. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.040 And I think this. I believe this is a perfect 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.440 fit for Kyle Tucker because if he goes to the Mets, 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.520 the New York pressure cooker is going to crush him. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.240 There's going to be a lot of expectations. They're going 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.680 to compare him to Soto, to uh to Otani. If 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.760 he were to get this fifty million dollar contract with 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:25.720 the Dodgers, He's one of six seven stars on this team. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.320 Do I believe Tucker's elite? No, I don't believe he's elite. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.240 I don't when you talk about elite, you're talking about 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:37.400 Otanijan Soto type guys. You're talking about Trek Scougle, Paul 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:42.200 Sken's type of guy. But he's very, very good and 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.479 he is going to be even better with the Dodgers, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.800 and you know being in this lineup will make him better. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.960 And like I mentioned earlier in the show, people are 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.280 trying to poke holes, and that's what happens in these situations. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.480 You try to poke holes in a guy's game. The 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.800 reality is being a left handed hitter at Wrigley Field 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.360 is not easy. And you look at Cody Bellinger's numbers 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.280 a couple of years ago compared to what they were 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.960 last year at Yankee Stadium night and day, home and road, 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.320 night and day. You look at twenty twenty four, the 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.880 guy filed a ball off his shin, broke his shin. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.480 Freak accident, it happens. But prior to that he was 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.000 one of the best hitting outfielders and many people were 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.360 counting down to when he was going to be a 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.880 free agent. The one thing, you know, I'm not just 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.480 gonna be here like being a Homer. The one thing 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:38.400 is Kyle Tucker still has something to prove in the playoffs. 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.600 He's a two thirty three playoff hitter. He hit one 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.199 ninety in the twenty two World Series. But he doesn't 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.680 have to carry the Dodgers. He just needs to be 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.320 a piece of the Dodgers. Eight six six nine, eight 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.920 seven two five seventy is the phone number. Kyle Tucker 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.120 is a Dodger. Let's go out to Aaron in San Diego. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.400 You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Aaron? 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:02.880 Great? 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:03.160 Dave? 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:03.600 How are you? 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.200 I'm doing great? I mean they signed Kyle Tucker and 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.800 ta Oscar Hernandez will be moving to left field. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.400 All right, Well, hey, uh, I don't know if he 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.720 mentioned it to you earlier. I'm the guy who ran 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.400 into Dulton, Russian and uh down in Mexico this weekend. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:25.199 But my question is how is this going to affect 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:30.280 second base? Obviously Edmunds had has his challenges with his 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:36.040 injuries and and we don't have a firm solution there. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.559 But what I mean, what is gonna be that that 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.400 solution going forward? And also going back to Dalton. I 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.160 know the Dodgers, you know, obviously adults have worked him 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.440 out and trying to get him into the outfields, get 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:52.199 more at that. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.040 Where you know, how. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:59.520 Does this affect the young guys and the prospects coming 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.960 up and the second base problem that we have. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.160 Well, I don't believe the Dodgers have a second base problem. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.120 Tommy Edman was trying to play on this bad ankle 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.360 for the last two years. He finally had surgery on it. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.920 So he may not be starting the season at second base, 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.959 but he's going to play a lot of second base. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.959 And oh, by the way, is a goal glover at 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.520 second base three years ago with the Cardinals. So once 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.840 he comes back, he's gonna play second base. He is 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.439 going to kick out to the outfield whenever you need 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.760 to give Andy pae As a breather. His son Cam 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.480 is part of that second base equation. Miguel Rojas is 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.920 part of that second base equation. The Dodgers signed this 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.240 kid from the Tigers, Andy Abanyez, who's really good defensively, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.240 so they are they have more than enough guys to 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.079 cover the beginning of the season without Edmund, And when 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.600 Edmund comes back, you got a really good second basement 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.880 goal glove caliber that can also play third base. If 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.280 Monthcy for whatever reason gets injured, and so Canabanyaes. I 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.640 don't believe there's any problems right now with the Dodgers, Aeron, 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.600 It's as far as the young guys go. Rushing is 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.679 the Dodgers backup catcher and is going to play a 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.960 lot of first base this year to give Freddy Freeman 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.840 days off. He's thirty seven going on thirty eight. So 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.960 Rushing looked very comfortable at first base last year. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.680 Okay, all right, all right, sounds great. I appreciate it. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.600 Be all right, Eron, thank you for the phone call. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.120 We'll see if Rushing remembers you. Let's go out to 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.520 Culver City. Saul, you're on Dodger Dog. How excited are 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.560 you that, Kyle Tucker? After all, this is a Dodger. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:50.840 Not really excited. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.000 I actually think it's the Dodgers sitting the standard here 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:58.160 in LA. Actually, I think every franchise, as a professional 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.200 franchise in Los Angeles doesn't compete with their league. They 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.440 compete with the Dodgers. And what they're showing right now 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.240 is that they're not letting things stand still. They're progressing. 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.320 They're doing everything they can to stay on top. They're 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.200 showing MLB that they are the standard. They're showing La 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.000 that if you want to be great and you want 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.880 to be noticed, do what the Dodgers do. I don't 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.560 have a problem in signing Kyle Tucker. I think it's 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.240 a similar contract to what they did for Bryce Harper. 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:24.120 I love it. 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:25.400 I don't care about the price. 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.680 The opt outs are great because he doesn't have the 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.640 focal point of the offense Cherry the Dodgers the way 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.880 Gavin looks at a few years ago. You don't have 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.520 to do it all the time. Just come in, do 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.360 your part, and we'll be happy with that. 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.680 All right, Saul, thank you for the phone call. Yeah, 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.560 great memory. This seems similar to what the Dodgers offered 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.880 Bryce Harper before he eventually signed with the Phillies back 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.520 in what twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. I'm not sure it 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.200 was sixty million dollars a year, but it was a 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.160 huge annual average salary. So the Dodgers have been down 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:03.280 this road before. And the Dodgers also don't give out 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:08.080 no trade clauses, but they do include opt out clauses, 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:12.160 and as I reported earlier in the show, the Dodgers 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.240 have given Tucker and opt out after year two and 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.520 year three of this contract. Tucker is going to turn 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.680 twenty nine years old in two days. So if he 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.160 decides that, you know what, I've blown up with the Dodgers, 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.520 I could hit the open market again and make even 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.680 more double down. I can opt out after two years. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.960 So that's beneficial to him, and it's beneficial to the 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.720 Dodgers if things don't work out the way that they 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.000 envision with Kyle Tucker. They're only stuck with him for 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:49.120 four years, and the Dodgers have been able to carry 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.680 dead weight of Carl Crawford and other players and have 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.600 found a way to continue to win. So a four 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.320 year contract if it doesn't go so well, I think 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.960 the Dodgers are one of those teams that can absorb it. 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.240 But this is going to be a breath of fresh 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.480 air for Kyle Tucker. He's getting out of Wrigley Field, 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.200 which is not friendly by any means to left handed hitters. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.399 And Kyle Tucker just has to be a piece to 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:21.040 the Dodger offense, which struggled the second half of last 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:25.000 season and into the postseason. So you're looking at a 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:29.800 guy that is a upgrade defensively in your outfield you're 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.280 moving ta Oscar Hernandez to left field, where it will 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.120 be an upgrade from what we saw in right field 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:40.800 from Taoscar Hernandez, and you're giving Andy Pajez a second 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:46.240 full year in center field. My only question is the 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:50.360 Dodgers may be starting to get a little full with pitching. 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.359 I know we always talk about how you don't have 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:56.000 enough pitching. Are the Dodgers getting a little full on 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.800 their forty man roster with some of these pitchers coming 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.359 back and having guys that are still healthy and Bobby 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.760 Miller and Landon Neck. I thought if the Dodgers didn't 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.160 sign Kyle Tucker, there was a great chance they were 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.399 going to make a trade for a guy like Lars 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:15.040 now Bar or Brendan Donovan to try to, you know, 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.320 entice the Cardinals with more pitching. Maybe they do, maybe 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.360 they don't. Maybe there's another trade. Like we always talk 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:26.560 about Andrew Friedman, Sin's taking over the Dodgers, it's kind 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:30.600 of a cloud situation. One move is connected to another. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:35.919 Feels like there's still more to come from the Dodgers 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.879 than just signing Kyle Tucker eight six six nine eight 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.919 seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:47.000 out to Hacienda Heights. Robert, You're on Dodger Talk on 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.520 the night that Kyle Tucker chooses the Dodgers. 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.240 Hi, Dave, thanks for kiping my call. Appreciate it, longtime. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:55.600 Sam. 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.760 I just wanted to know, with the signing of Tucker 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:04.760 coming in, what does that mean for Ryan Ward, the 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.760 guy from Tripoli that they called up and put on 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.760 the fifty man roster. Are they not gonna caepe a 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:12.560 hold of him? Are they gonna send him back down? 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.720 And you know, does that mean any other changes besides 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.720 possibly tay Oscar moving or even Pies. 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.879 Look, I don't believe the Dodgers are trading Paz. I 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:28.560 really don't, but I wouldn't rule out another move from 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.560 Andrew Freeman as far as the trade goes, and as 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.000 far as Ryan Ward goes. He's twenty eight years old, 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:39.480 he's coming off his best professional season. It doesn't look 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.879 like he's going to get an everyday opportunity with the Dodgers. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.000 There's a lot of teams out there that would have 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.480 jumped on Ryan Ward if he was non tendered. So 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.800 I could see the Dodgers going into spring training with 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:55.720 Ryan Ward I could see the Dodgers trading Ryan Ward 0:19:55.800 --> 0:20:00.200 before spring training. I could also see Ryan Ward being 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.800 a depth piece for the Dodgers during the season, because, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.480 as we have seen, injuries do happen, and you have 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.800 a guy like Ryan Ward that you can call up 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.920 off your forty man roster. That's not too bad. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:16.359 Not bad at all. Thank you so much for taking 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:16.920 my call, sir. 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:17.600 Have a great night. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.359 Hey, thanks for listening. Robert Los Angeles should be excited. 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:25.720 The Dodgers are the premier team in North American sports, 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:29.800 certainly the premier team in this city that is full 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:34.119 of stars, and the Dodgers added another star tonight in 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.520 Kyle Tucker. In case you're joining us late, the Dodgers 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.680 have come to an agreement with Kyle Tucker for a 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:44.720 four year contract that is an annual average salary of 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:49.880 sixty million dollars. He has an opt out after year 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:54.520 two and year three. But Kyle Tucker tonight has chosen 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.800 the Dodgers. And oh, by the way, Kyle Tucker's agent, 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:03.520 Casey Close, who all also represented Clayton Kershaw eight six 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.480 six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:09.879 number let's go out to Santa Monica. Evan, You're on 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.640 Dodger Talk with David Vasse. How you doing, Evan. 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:17.080 I'm so happy, Dave. As soon as I heard the news, 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:19.560 I just couldn't believe it. And then what was even 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.880 crazier was that Dodger Talk was on. Just given all 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.119 of the love to all of Los Angeles for this 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.440 historic day. It's one of the greatest signings I think 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:33.520 I've ever seen the Dodgers have during the offseason because 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:37.720 it just makes this team unstoppable. One through nine. We 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.520 can't be Who are you going to pitch around? And Dave, 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:43.080 I want to know where do you think Kyle's going 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:44.000 to bat in the order? 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.240 That's a great question, you know. I believe that Mookie 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:53.560 Betts and Teoscar Hernandez have something to prove, and nobody 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.120 is guaranteed a spot in the lineup as far as 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:59.600 I'm concern outside of sho Heyo Tani and even to 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:03.560 a certain extent, Otani equis to try to get Mooki 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:06.480 going last year, move down to leadoff spot to hit 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:11.359 behind him. Freddie moved between second, third and fourth. So 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:15.320 if Mooki Betts is a two sixty hitter to begin 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.280 this year. I feel like you're gonna have Will Smith 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.320 hitting second, and you're gonna have Kyle Tucker hitting you know, 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:25.400 between third and and fifth. I really do. I think 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:27.520 that's where this is going to land. 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:32.360 It's unbelievable. Just the rich get richer and the three 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:33.280 peats on its way. 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:34.359 Daves, let's go. 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:37.840 Let's go. What a night? What a night? In January 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.919 eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:43.720 the phone number. I know we're all very excited about 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:47.160 Kyle Tucker's sunning with the Dodgers, but man, this took 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.840 a long time. Come on, Tucker, you should have made 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:52.359 this choice a lot sooner than what you did. Uh 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:55.720 felt like we were we were on Otani Watch, and 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:59.120 Kyle Tucker's a really good player. But he's not Otani. 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:02.399 He's not one soo. But in this Dodger lineup, he 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.639 may have the best years of his career. Let's go 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:09.400 out to Uh, Jamie in Rosemead, You're on Dodger Talk 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:11.760 with David Vasse. How you doing, Jamie? 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:13.040 Good? 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:17.440 David, how are you fantastic? Great timing for the show. 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:21.800 Hey, I'm just I'm just worried about Kik. I mean 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:24.119 it's I mean just his energy and and and just 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:27.080 what he brings to the Dodgers, and and I mean 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:29.960 that heartbeat, you know. I mean, how's he gonna fit. 0:23:29.920 --> 0:23:34.280 In key A? Hernandez can't play until the second half 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:38.400 of the year, Jamie, he had elbow surgery. So, uh, 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:41.400 he's he's a factor in the second half of the season. 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:44.639 He understands that. I don't believe the sonning of Tucker 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:45.800 changes any of that. 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:49.800 I mean, Okay, well, good to know, good to know, man, 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:52.840 because he's, uh, he's just he's a ball of energy. 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:55.399 So it'd be great to have him, you know, just 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:58.600 uh everywhere you know, third chart, he plays all over 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:01.159 the place. Man, He's just a he's a he's a 0:24:01.320 --> 0:24:03.880 he's a he's a unique piece of that that uh 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:05.240 Dodger Dodger team. 0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:07.480 No doubt, Jamie. He's been a big part of the 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:11.080 back to back World Series championships. And more importantly than 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:14.159