Speaker 1: The quest for the three peat has begun.
Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won
Speaker 2: three consecutive titles. The Dodgers are the favorites to become
Speaker 2: the fifth.
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Speaker 1: David Vasse.
Speaker 2: Last we are live at Uniclo Field at Dodgers Stadium
Speaker 2: after the Dodgers defeat the Seattle Mariners four to two.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: David Vasse with you until eleven thirty tonight at eight
Speaker 2: sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. We will
Speaker 2: continue to take your calls and questions regarding the trade
Speaker 2: deadline and all the trade rumors that you're hearing. I
Speaker 2: can clear up what is true, what is false, and
Speaker 2: what may be not really clear, So we'll get to
Speaker 2: all the mind numbing trade talk. And also you'll hear
Speaker 2: from Andrew Friedman because instead of being picked off by
Speaker 2: seven different writers during batting practice, he just decided, let's
Speaker 2: just do this in a press conference format.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to.
Speaker 2: Tell you what I'm going to do or whether or
Speaker 2: not we're trading for Trek Scooble or anybody else. But hey,
Speaker 2: let's let's go through this exercise. And I feel like
Speaker 2: he really wanted to clarify things on where show hey
Speaker 2: Otani's health is, because he said that the bicep is
Speaker 2: not the reason why O'tani is not pitching.
Speaker 3: It's more of the left knee.
Speaker 2: And I personally would love to do a press conference
Speaker 2: with Andrew Friedman after the trade deadline because whatever cards
Speaker 2: he's holding, he's not tipping his hand. And you know,
Speaker 2: being around Andrew his entire time with the Dogs, if
Speaker 2: there are guys that may or may not be coming back,
Speaker 2: or whether or not they're going to pitch in the
Speaker 2: second half of the season, he doesn't want that out
Speaker 2: there because he believes that can hurt his leverage and
Speaker 2: any trade discussions.
Speaker 3: But we'll get to what.
Speaker 2: He had to say as far as the trade deadline
Speaker 2: and what he may be cooking up and where his
Speaker 2: head's at.
Speaker 3: But the one thing that.
Speaker 2: Came to mind today when we talk about the trade deadline,
Speaker 2: and Andrew Friedman He's not a rookie. He's not Mike
Speaker 2: Breslo from the Red Sox. He's a guy that has
Speaker 2: been around in his position with the Rais and Dodgers
Speaker 2: now getting closer to thirty years than ten. Okay, you
Speaker 2: talk about a veteran player like a Freddie Freeman that
Speaker 2: has the experience of seeing a lot in the game.
Speaker 2: The big advantage for Andrew Friedman obviously is the financial
Speaker 2: where and also the prospect capital. But let's not forget
Speaker 2: about the experience he has in navigating trades at the
Speaker 2: trade deadline and understanding the dynamics better than anybody else
Speaker 2: out there in Major League Baseball about how to navigate
Speaker 2: a trade deadline for the big fish like Manny Machado
Speaker 2: or You Darvish, or pulling off a three way trade
Speaker 2: with the White Sox and Cardinals for Michael Kopek and
Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond.
Speaker 3: He's he's seen.
Speaker 2: A lot, and the experience he has is certainly going
Speaker 2: to lend itself to be a huge advantage for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine, seven, two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: phone number. The Dodgers remain unbeaten on nights that Eric
Speaker 2: Lawer pitches. He has made eight starts for the Dodgers now,
Speaker 2: after pitching six shutout innings tonight. He had an opener
Speaker 2: in Minneso, a couple of road trips ago, and all
Speaker 2: he did was pitch what six no hit innings, maybe
Speaker 2: six perfect innings coming in after the opener.
Speaker 3: Nobody saw this coming.
Speaker 2: But again, the Dodgers, Andrew Friedman, is pitching staff, Mark Pryor,
Speaker 2: Connor McGinnis, they saw something in Lower. They knew they
Speaker 2: can maybe bring the best out of him, and they
Speaker 2: have exceeded.
Speaker 3: All those expectations.
Speaker 2: If you told Mark Pryor and Andrew Friedman and Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts and said we're going to trade for Eric Lower
Speaker 2: and we're going to win each and every one of
Speaker 2: his starts, would they have said, Yes, that's absolutely the plan.
Speaker 2: We want Lower to go five and oh with an
Speaker 2: elra at three and be undefeated nine to oher every
Speaker 2: time he takes the mount for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: That's just not what anybody drew up.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure the other teams in baseball that right
Speaker 2: now are scrambling for starting pitching are kicking themselves, pulling
Speaker 2: their hair out that they could have had Eric Lawer
Speaker 2: for cash considerations like the Dodgers did, and they passed
Speaker 2: on him. But the Dodgers, who are very rich in pitching,
Speaker 2: felt like they needed an extra arm to support their
Speaker 2: six man rotation, especially since River Ryan has been a
Speaker 2: no show this season and Eric Lower has stepped in
Speaker 2: and then some And you know, I keep on asking Lawer,
Speaker 2: what is it, what is it that the Dodgers have
Speaker 2: done to make a click? And in Philly he gave
Speaker 2: me some answer that was about the mental skills, coach
Speaker 2: all that, and after the cameras went off, I looked
Speaker 2: at him and I don't usually do this.
Speaker 3: But I said to him, that was the biggest.
Speaker 2: Bunch of bs I have ever heard. It's fine, you
Speaker 2: don't want to tell us what they have taught you.
Speaker 2: It's fine, I understand, but don't give me that. But
Speaker 2: the mental part of the game is a huge part
Speaker 2: of it. But you could have your head on straight,
Speaker 2: but not the ability or know what you're doing out there.
Speaker 2: And you know, obviously the Dodgers have done something to
Speaker 2: help Eric Lower click. And look, Lwer's very candid with
Speaker 2: his answers, except when you ask him, what have the
Speaker 2: Dodgers done to help you.
Speaker 3: But after the game tonight.
Speaker 2: Look, there's no secret the athletic put it out there
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago that the Dodgers, and it
Speaker 2: makes sense, may flip lour before Monday's trade deadline with
Speaker 2: the return of Blake Snell. And we'll get to the
Speaker 2: night snail Zilla hat in Ontario and the return of
Speaker 2: Tyler Glass.
Speaker 3: Now you'll hear from Glass now a little bit later.
Speaker 2: But the Dodgers are getting back two big time arms,
Speaker 2: and Lower's expendable.
Speaker 3: As hard as that is.
Speaker 2: To say, a guy that has won all five of
Speaker 2: his starts and the Dodgers being nine to zero when
Speaker 2: he pitches, but the reality is that was the plan
Speaker 2: for the Dodgers when they acquired Lower, that this was
Speaker 2: a temporary situation.
Speaker 3: I started to look around at canvas.
Speaker 2: What team may be a match for the Dodgers if
Speaker 2: indeed they are thinking about trading Laer to help bolster
Speaker 2: their minor league depth, whether it be in the pitching department,
Speaker 2: middle infield department, or catching department. Because the reality is,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers don't draft high, they don't have a lot
Speaker 2: of international money because they're two times over the luxury
Speaker 2: tax threshold. And when you start to hear about the
Speaker 2: Chicago White Sox, who are a surprise team, a Cinderella team.
Speaker 2: They have a really good, young, energetic team, but they
Speaker 2: are in need of pitching. Not just one pitcher, we
Speaker 2: need like two or three pitchers, starting pitchers. And then
Speaker 2: you start to hear reports out of Chicago that they
Speaker 2: don't want to give up any one of their top
Speaker 2: fifteen prospects to land a Kevin Gossman or a Trek
Speaker 2: Schouble or Clay Holmes, and it clicked Eric Lower.
Speaker 3: Eric Lower fits.
Speaker 2: If they don't want to give up one of their
Speaker 2: top fifteen prospects, the Dodgers would try to find a
Speaker 2: way to make a deal with the White Sox. Eric
Speaker 2: Lower goes to Chicago, and the Dodgers find a minor
Speaker 2: league top thirty somewhere between twenty and thirty prospect that
Speaker 2: would fit where they're lacking or thin in the minor league.
Speaker 3: So I'm calling my shot.
Speaker 2: If the Dodgers trade Eric Lower, I believe it's going
Speaker 2: to be to the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 3: That's just my educated guess.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to the phones until we hear from Lower,
Speaker 2: Ryan who is at the ballgame tonight.
Speaker 3: Hi, Ryan, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: What's going on DV?
Speaker 5: How you doing?
Speaker 3: Everything's great?
Speaker 6: Awesome?
Speaker 7: Well, you know, I'm here with my buddy Jr.
Speaker 4: Two.
Speaker 5: We were at the game and we were sitting behind
Speaker 5: home plate and we had a little bit of a
Speaker 5: hot take.
Speaker 6: We wanted to run by you.
Speaker 8: You know how Munsey and keik A went to the
Speaker 8: same optometrists.
Speaker 3: Does Tanner Scott need to go to Roki's glove manufacturer
Speaker 3: and get one of those monster Mitch? Do you believe
Speaker 3: he was tipping tonight?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 4: He looked pretty good in the beginning, but he was
Speaker 4: getting smoked there.
Speaker 2: Hey, that ball that Mitch Garver hit, it seemed like
Speaker 2: he was aiming that pitch instead of pitching that pitch.
Speaker 2: He didn't let he didn't grip it and rip it.
Speaker 2: And how about Taoscar Hernandez. Ryan, wasn't I just saying
Speaker 2: this last night? Do not give up on Tioscar Hernandez.
Speaker 2: He's a winning player. You can't spell October without tail.
Speaker 2: And there you go. He made the best catch he
Speaker 2: has made with the Dodgers to night.
Speaker 8: Yeah, everyone was going nuts when he made that catch.
Speaker 6: That was insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was incredible. It was incredible.
Speaker 2: Eight six, six, nine eighty seven, two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. How about the ball in the ninth
Speaker 2: inning that was hit to right field. I thought that
Speaker 2: was a very catchable ball that Kyle Tucker should have caught.
Speaker 2: And I, you know, every it just kills me that
Speaker 2: everybody focuses on Tioscar Hernandez. Why why is everybody focusing
Speaker 2: on Taioscar Hernandez. This guy in the last two octobers
Speaker 2: has had bigger moments than a lot of guys on
Speaker 2: this team. Mookie Beds is having an all time worst season.
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to acknowledge that his on base percentage is
Speaker 2: in the two eighties.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker, one hundred plus games in, has not even
Speaker 2: come close to being Kyle Tucker, let alone a sixty
Speaker 2: million dollar player. But everybody finds a way to, you know,
Speaker 2: use ta Oscar Hernandez as escapegoat. It's beyond me and
Speaker 2: trust me. Just like he has come through the last
Speaker 2: two octobers, he will do it again. And tonight he
Speaker 2: showed the focus and determination on defense on a night
Speaker 2: where he was just one for four eight sixty six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: We got Eric Lauer talking about the trade rumors and
Speaker 2: acknowledging the fact this may have been his final start
Speaker 2: as a Dodger.
Speaker 6: Given how you're thriving here, what's the How has it
Speaker 6: been to deal with hearing your name floating around out
Speaker 6: of the deadline? Oh?
Speaker 7: My wife hates it.
Speaker 10: No, it's I mean, it's something that I was aware of,
Speaker 10: you know, coming over here, that it might be like
Speaker 10: a rental thing. There's some big guys that have injuries
Speaker 10: that you know there was just a need so see,
Speaker 10: a need fill a need kind of thing. But I mean,
Speaker 10: I love it here. I think I'm thriving here as
Speaker 10: far as as I can tell. And you know, I
Speaker 10: would love I would love to be part of this team.
Speaker 2: Heay, we would love for Eric Lawerd to stay part
Speaker 2: of this team. He's a great guy. He has fit
Speaker 2: in so nicely, and he has pitched so well the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and he has reminded Dave Roberts about this when he pitches.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are nine to zero, including tonight beating the
Speaker 2: Mariners four to two. Tonight's game brought to you by
Speaker 2: Modello Modello the mark of a fighter. Another left handed
Speaker 2: pitcher possibly could have made his last start in front
Speaker 2: of his home fans, and that is Trek Scooble.
Speaker 3: Trek Scouble pitched today.
Speaker 2: The Tigers had a seven nothing lead and they blew
Speaker 2: it to the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 3: They lost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on a day that school Bol recorded his one
Speaker 2: thousandth career strikeout. Pitched strong into the seventh inning, the
Speaker 2: Tigers blew a seven nothing lead on what could have
Speaker 2: been Tarek Scoobele's final start in a tiger'sform. I feel
Speaker 2: like the way things transpire today in Detroit, that was
Speaker 2: the final nail in the coffin. Schooble most definitely will
Speaker 2: be traded. Jeff Passing is reporting that the Tigers have
Speaker 2: not called teams to say officially, yes, we're going to
Speaker 2: trade them, but he expects that to happen in the
Speaker 2: next twenty four to forty eight hours. And obviously the
Speaker 2: running's on the wall after a game like today, and
Speaker 2: after the game today, Trek Scouble fielded a lot of
Speaker 2: questions about the fact that this very well may have
Speaker 2: been his last start in a Tiger's uniform.
Speaker 11: I don't even really want to speculate. To be honest,
Speaker 11: I try to live where I'm at right now, you know,
Speaker 11: and right now I'm going to try Tiger. I don't
Speaker 11: really want to speculate a ton on what's happening or
Speaker 11: what the future holds, because I don't know, you know.
Speaker 11: So yeah, I mean I understand the questions. I understand,
Speaker 11: you know, what could happen or what could change a
Speaker 11: week from now, But like, I don't really like thinking
Speaker 11: like that. You know, it's a tough place to be.
Speaker 2: Look, that sounds like a guy that knows this was
Speaker 2: the last time he's making a start.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: The only question is where is Schoolbol going to be traded?
Speaker 2: Like I mentioned to you last night, I have people
Speaker 2: telling me in the league that they expect the Tampa
Speaker 2: Bay Rays to be very aggressive, not only for school
Speaker 2: Bol but also for some offense. They feel like this
Speaker 2: is a golden opportunity with Junior Caminero having an MVP
Speaker 2: caliber season.
Speaker 3: To ride this all the way through October.
Speaker 2: They've got an incredible pitching staff starting staff already, and
Speaker 2: they want to add Scoobale to it as well. So
Speaker 2: just from what I've gathered I feel like handicapping this.
Speaker 2: It's going to be the Rays, the Braves, the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: and the Brewers. I know everybody keeps on saying the Brewers.
Speaker 2: And if you were listening to Dodger Talk, get the
Speaker 2: receipts on the podcast. That Saturday game in Milwaukee, Ken
Speaker 2: Rosenthal during the broadcast with Aj Prazinski and Joe Davis
Speaker 2: and Adam Wainwright, was the first one to say that
Speaker 2: he had heard the Brewers are considering trading for schoolbol
Speaker 2: and going for it. The way they went for it
Speaker 2: was CC Sabathia back in two thousand and eight. It
Speaker 2: obviously did not get them to the World Series, but
Speaker 2: it was an incredible electric run with Sebastia pitching on
Speaker 2: three days rest, just to get the Brewers to the postseason.
Speaker 2: So if they team Scooble up with Misowski and Kyle Harrison,
Speaker 2: that is going to be tough for any team to
Speaker 2: beat in a short series. But like I said, it's
Speaker 2: unclear whether or not the Brewers will actually pull the
Speaker 2: trigger on that and go all in. But my understanding
Speaker 2: is the Rays are very much prepared to do that
Speaker 2: and go for it. And yes, the Dodgers are in
Speaker 2: the mix. Do you want to know about another pitcher
Speaker 2: that I feel like the Dodgers are very much involved in.
Speaker 2: Nobody's even this up. Clay Holmes of the New York Mets.
Speaker 2: It has been reported by multiple people out there that
Speaker 2: multiple reports out there that the Dodgers were among seven
Speaker 2: or eight teams that had scouts watching homes rehabs start yesterday.
Speaker 2: You don't send scouts out just to go through the
Speaker 2: motions to deek other teams into believing that you're going
Speaker 2: to be in on a pitcher. The reason why Clay
Speaker 2: Holmes makes a lot of sense for the Dodgers is
Speaker 2: because he throws hard, he gets a lot of swing
Speaker 2: and miss, and he's a guy that has been proven
Speaker 2: that he can excel at the back end of a bullpen,
Speaker 2: and he has shown that he can make the transition
Speaker 2: as a starter. And what did the Dodgers talk about
Speaker 2: each of the last two years. They didn't talk about
Speaker 2: starters and relievers. They talked about the twelve thirteen best
Speaker 2: pitchers that they were going to deploy during the postseason.
Speaker 2: In twenty four it was majority relievers. Last year it
Speaker 2: was majority starters. Clay Holmes fits that bill perfectly because
Speaker 2: he has done both at a very high level. And
Speaker 2: the Mets, no doubt are sellers. And I don't believe
Speaker 2: Clay Holmes would take as much as it would take
Speaker 2: to get Trek Skouble. It'll take something. He's kind of
Speaker 2: a rental too, because he does hold a player option.
Speaker 3: But you get Clay.
Speaker 2: Holmes in the mix here, and he's a client of
Speaker 2: Joel Wolfs, who's the same agent for Key k Hernandez
Speaker 2: and Edwin Diaz and Yamamoto. You may have Clay Holmes
Speaker 2: for next year as well. So Clay Holmes to me,
Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense for the Dodgers. Eight sixty
Speaker 2: six nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Pallas Verdis Eddie, you're on Dodger
Speaker 2: Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 5: Eddie. I uh, I love the way you do the
Speaker 5: Dodger Talk. I love all the statistics you go through.
Speaker 5: And do you know the Dodgers like the back of
Speaker 5: your hand.
Speaker 6: Uh I know.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers better than I know my family.
Speaker 2: I'll just put it that way.
Speaker 5: Probably, So, I mean, you come up with so many
Speaker 5: you know, ins and outs about the Dodgers. That's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5: But the thing about, uh, what I'm calling about is, uh,
Speaker 5: I don't see how they're gonna get let this guy
Speaker 5: go uh wower Lower. Yes, yes, the guy's done everything
Speaker 5: he has to do as a Dodger ever since they've
Speaker 5: signed him. And uh, plus he wants to stay with
Speaker 5: the Dodgers, and uh, you get a guy like that
Speaker 5: that once, that's that's all in. And the thing you
Speaker 5: don't want to happen is to him to go to
Speaker 5: another team like the Blue and then him you.
Speaker 3: Know, he's not going to the Brewers. He's not going
Speaker 3: to the Brewers.
Speaker 2: It would likely be a team like the White Sox
Speaker 2: who is desperate for starting pitching. And look, his stock
Speaker 2: is at an all time high. If they can flip
Speaker 2: Eric Lower and get Blake Snell back, I feel like
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman is winning and everybody's going to be very
Speaker 2: upset that he's able to flip a pitcher like Eric
Speaker 2: Lower for a pretty good return to help, you know,
Speaker 2: refuel some of the farm system that is a little thin.
Speaker 5: Well you know that's that's my take. And another thing too,
Speaker 5: sound you.
Speaker 2: Sound Eddie, You sound very emotionally attached to Eric Lower,
Speaker 2: and that's not a good thing when you're trying to
Speaker 2: make the organization better. In Andrew Friedman's seat.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, well, I'm just telling you what I think about.
Speaker 3: I I love Lower, I love Lower.
Speaker 2: I wish there was a spot for him, but I
Speaker 2: just don't see him being effective coming out of the bullpen.
Speaker 2: I think he has served a purpose. And just think
Speaker 2: about this, Eddie. Not only have the Dodgers won all
Speaker 2: nine starts or nine games that Lower has pitched eight
Speaker 2: starts one opener game, but if they're able to flip
Speaker 2: him for some pretty good prospects from the White Sox,
Speaker 2: just think how much he has done for the Dodgers
Speaker 2: in what six to eight weeks. I would say Lower
Speaker 2: definitely had earned his World Series ring if they pull
Speaker 2: it off.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the phone call, Eddie, appreciate it. Yeah, think
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 2: Not only do the Dodgers go nine to zero when
Speaker 2: Lower was on the mound, but if they do trade
Speaker 2: him to a team like the White Sox and they
Speaker 2: do replenish, maybe get two I'm thinking two really good
Speaker 2: minor league players, because the Dodgers got two really good
Speaker 2: minor league players. From the Red Sox for five starts
Speaker 2: of Dustin May and Eric Lower has had a better,
Speaker 2: you know, period of time with the Dodgers this year
Speaker 2: than Dustin May had with the Dodgers last year. And
Speaker 2: Dustin May, by the way, he's had a solid year
Speaker 2: with the Cardinals as well. But I think that's what
Speaker 2: I'm looking at, and I would say nine and zero
Speaker 2: with Lower, and then he gets you two really good
Speaker 2: prospects from the White Sox, a Man Lower Andrew Friedman
Speaker 2: will be sending you Flowers. I feel like you have
Speaker 2: a lifetime pass at Dodgers Stadium if that comes to fruition.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Carson, who is at the game tonight. Hi, Carson,
Speaker 2: you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 8: Hey David, thanks for taking my call. So you brought
Speaker 8: up Kyle Tucker's defense. We saw it tonight and we've
Speaker 8: seen it this season. He is in the.
Speaker 6: Fifth percentile in range on Baseball Savant. My question for you.
Speaker 3: Is what does that mean? Explain that to dumb people
Speaker 3: like me.
Speaker 6: It's it's out's above average, basically measuring his potential range
Speaker 6: defensively against other corner outfielders.
Speaker 2: There you go, Carson, you got to explain how and why,
Speaker 2: because there's a lot of fans that don't get inside
Speaker 2: nerdy baseball like that.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you for having me explain, David. Yeah, job,
Speaker 6: his range is limited, and there we go.
Speaker 2: Now that now you're talking everybody's language. His range is limited,
Speaker 2: He's I was wondering, Carson, do you do we really
Speaker 2: are we starting to question whether or not the Dodgers
Speaker 2: are that much better defensively and right field with Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 2: I'm not so sure it's been that big of an
Speaker 2: upgrade from Tail last year.
Speaker 6: That's my question exactly, especially when you have young outfielders
Speaker 6: knocking on the door in the minors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you're not going to throw those guys into
Speaker 2: the fire at this point in time in the season.
Speaker 2: But keiy K a Hernandez is back and he plays
Speaker 2: the outfield really well. So uh And Alex Call I
Speaker 2: know he's been part of trade rumors as well, similar
Speaker 2: situation as lower. You know, you could trade him to
Speaker 2: a team like the Rangers possibly or the Twins and
Speaker 2: get some good minor leaguers back. But if it's a
Speaker 2: playoff game and Alex call is on this roster, I'm
Speaker 2: putting Alex Call in right field for defensive purposes with
Speaker 2: the Dodgers ahead in a game, and I'm putting Key
Speaker 2: k Hernandez in left field in a game where the
Speaker 2: Dodgers are.
Speaker 3: Ahead as well.
Speaker 2: Uh, if those two guys are on the roster in
Speaker 2: a playoff series and you're ahead four to two like
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were tonight, Calls going to right field, Key
Speaker 2: k is going to left field.
Speaker 8: And I'm wondering if you could even put Edmond in
Speaker 8: center and Paz in right field.
Speaker 3: Oh, why would you do? Well?
Speaker 2: You know, Pa has has been a goal glove caliber
Speaker 2: center fielder this year.
Speaker 3: I would not do that, right, I.
Speaker 6: Think I think they should explore some options though.
Speaker 2: Okay, Carson, thank you for the phone call. That was
Speaker 2: a good call. Appreciate it. Eight sixty six nine eighty
Speaker 2: seven two five seventy is the phone number. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: honestly I have given Kyle Tucker a very long lead.
Speaker 2: She was our pregame guest yesterday. We connect. He's a
Speaker 2: great guy. But it's not May. We're almost into August.
Speaker 2: This may be just who Kyle Tucker is this season.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he comes up big in the postseason. Hopefully he
Speaker 2: can do positive things to help the Dodgers win, even
Speaker 2: if it means not hitting a home run.
Speaker 3: But we're in August. Now.
Speaker 2: It's hard to turn around a season in August. But
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are hopeful that will happen. But sometimes seasons
Speaker 2: like this happen. Think about this for Kyle Tucker as well.
Speaker 2: He's been on three teams in three years. He thought
Speaker 2: he was going to be an astro for a long time.
Speaker 2: He was very comfortable there. They blindside him, trade him
Speaker 2: to the Cubs. He's with the Cubs as a rental
Speaker 2: for one year, he gets hurt and then signs a
Speaker 2: major contract with the Dodgers. I'm sorry, you have sixty
Speaker 2: million dollars next to your name. You're not under the radar.
Speaker 2: You're very much on the radar. And now it's your
Speaker 2: third team in three years. He and his wife welcomed
Speaker 2: in their first child within the last year. That's a
Speaker 2: lot of life changes for a guy. So you got
Speaker 2: to give him some grace. I'm not saying this is
Speaker 2: going to be Kyle Tucker next year, but this may
Speaker 2: be Kyle Tucker this year. And I think you all
Speaker 2: have to come to grips with that. Eight six six
Speaker 2: nine eight seven two, five seventy is the phone number.
Speaker 2: Dodgers beat the Mariners tonight by a final score of
Speaker 2: four to two. When we continue on Dodger Talk, more
Speaker 2: of your phone calls. You always say you can't get in.
Speaker 2: Now's a good time to get in if you want
Speaker 2: to do some trade talk, trade talk, my numbing trade talk.
Speaker 2: I will let you know which former Dodger could be
Speaker 2: headed to the Big Apple. I am hearing a lot
Speaker 2: about it. I'll let you know who that is when
Speaker 2: we continue on Dodger Talk. Right here on a five
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Speaker 12: With David bass In another one two pitch, Piz pulls
Speaker 12: it in the air left field, hooking towards the short wall.
Speaker 12: This boy is got a home run, Andy Paz behind
Speaker 12: an the count one and two puts the Dodgers up
Speaker 12: one nothing in the first.
Speaker 2: There was an Andy Paz side at Dodgers Stadium tonight.
Speaker 2: Andy Piz with his best offensive game in a while.
Speaker 2: He had three hits tonight, including that one out solo
Speaker 2: home run in the first inning to put the Dodgers
Speaker 2: on the board. Piz that was his first home run
Speaker 2: since July tenth, and only his fifth home run since
Speaker 2: the beginning of June. So that was a much needed
Speaker 2: game by Andy Piz for him to have three hits
Speaker 2: and hitting a home run in his first at bat.
Speaker 2: The first three hitters tonight, by the Way and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers four to two win over the Mariners were seven
Speaker 2: to four eleven. Pi Haz with three hits and by
Speaker 2: the Way, Otani, Piz and Freeman drove.
Speaker 3: In all four runs for the Dodgers Tonight.
Speaker 2: Otani had two hits, he had an RBI double Freddy
Speaker 2: Freeman with two more hits tonight and Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 3: I am not going to allow this to be taken
Speaker 3: for granted.
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman tonight with two more hits is hitting three
Speaker 2: to two on the season. He was two for for
Speaker 2: tonite with an RBI. His ops is at eight sixty
Speaker 2: seven thirty six year old Freddie Freeman uh certainly aging
Speaker 2: like fine Wine. A lot of people were so quick
Speaker 2: to say his career was over, his season was over
Speaker 2: after the first couple of months, but he has shown
Speaker 2: that it's a long season and there is no panic.
Speaker 3: He's mister consistent.
Speaker 2: At the end of the year, you're going to see
Speaker 2: a three in front of his betting average, because that's
Speaker 2: his career batting average. And it's great to see Freddie
Speaker 2: smiling as much as we're seeing him smile these days.
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Speaker 2: the phone?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: I told you I know about a former Dodger that
Speaker 2: could be headed to the Big Apple at the trade deadline.
Speaker 3: Who is that former Dodger? Is it Kenley Janssen?
Speaker 2: Is it Justin Turner leaving the Tijuano Toros for Yankee
Speaker 2: Stadium in the pinstripes, No, to both, It's former Rookie
Speaker 2: of the Year Corey Seger.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: The Rangers are looking to get out from underneath the
Speaker 2: remaining years and dollars from Corey Seeger's contract, and since
Speaker 2: the beginning of the season, the Yankees and the Red
Speaker 2: Sox have been pestering the Rangers about Seeger, who's just
Speaker 2: about to come off the ten day il again. He's
Speaker 2: had two or three different stints, But the Yankees are
Speaker 2: looking for a short stop upgrade, the Red Sox are
Speaker 2: looking for a short stop upgrade, and the Rangers are
Speaker 2: kind of rolling without Seegers, so they kind of feel
Speaker 2: like they made do this without Seeger and maybe do
Speaker 2: one of those trades where you get something in return
Speaker 2: that can help you this year as well as help
Speaker 2: you out in the future. The Rangers lost tonight and
Speaker 2: are fifty five and fifty three, a game ahead of
Speaker 2: the Astros in the alst What a different Skip Schumacher
Speaker 2: has made as the manager for the Rangers. No doubt
Speaker 2: about that, or there ever was a doubt because he's
Speaker 2: one of the best young managers in baseball. He did
Speaker 2: it with the Marlins and he's doing it now with
Speaker 2: the Rangers. But yeah, can you believe it? The Rangers
Speaker 2: want to trade the World Series MVP from their only championship,
Speaker 2: Corey Seger and the Yankees and Red Sox are very interested.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the phone number. Jose Mota is going to join us
Speaker 2: in ten minutes. We'll also hear from Andrew Friedman. But
Speaker 2: let's go out to the phones again. Ken, who is
Speaker 2: at the ballpark?
Speaker 3: RK tonight?
Speaker 7: Hi?
Speaker 3: Ken, you're on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I was not. I'm driving up from the OC
Speaker 4: David heading home to Tarzana.
Speaker 3: All right, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4: And you're making the drive go real smooth. It's nice.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: So, first of all, Seeger, Uh, that's very interesting. The
Speaker 4: Doctor's gave him a very fair offer and they sit
Speaker 4: for him. And yeah, he went to the Rangers and
Speaker 4: one at m VP. But as far as Kyle Tucker
Speaker 4: is concerned, I talked to you probably three weeks ago.
Speaker 4: I want to talk beyond the numbers. I want to
Speaker 4: talk about and I heard he's a very good color
Speaker 4: about his lack of range, how about his lack of hustle,
Speaker 4: Like if the ball goes by him, he's very nonchalant
Speaker 4: in trying to retrieve that ball. And it seems as
Speaker 4: though guys have taken extra bass on him. He is
Speaker 4: not Tommy I've been. He's new your colleague. I hope
Speaker 4: he's on in the postseason. Steve Shack, the guy doesn't hustle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like he plays it a little too
Speaker 2: careful out there in right field. And when you're not
Speaker 2: doing well at the plates, sometimes you're thinking about your
Speaker 2: offense when you're out there playing defense and standing out
Speaker 2: there and right field can but yeah, you know, Dave
Speaker 2: Roberts challenge Tucker, and I know Andrew Friedman did as
Speaker 2: well when they were in the process of signing Tucker
Speaker 2: to be a better right fielder, get back to the
Speaker 2: guy that was really good in Houston four or five
Speaker 2: years ago, and to jump on those balls down the
Speaker 2: line in the corner. And we just haven't seen that consistently.
Speaker 2: So that's why tonight I question whether or not or
Speaker 2: how much better the Dodgers are defensively in right field,
Speaker 2: because again, everybody loves to point out Taoscar Hernandez. All
Speaker 2: the guy does is hit big home runs and make
Speaker 2: big plays in the postseason. But everybody likes to single
Speaker 2: out what Taoscar Hernandez can't do. I got news for you.
Speaker 2: Without Oscar Hernandez. They don't beat the Padres because he
Speaker 2: and key A Hernandez hit two solo home runs in
Speaker 2: that game. The Dodgers don't tie the game. In Game
Speaker 2: five in the twenty four World Series against the Yankees,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers don't beat the Phillies without Taoscar Hernandez is
Speaker 2: big home running Game one of the NLDS.
Speaker 3: So I just I can't.
Speaker 2: Wrap my head around why it always comes back to
Speaker 2: Taoscar Hernandez. He has had bigger moments in the postseason
Speaker 2: the last two years than Mookie Bets has the more
Speaker 2: than you know, outside of Game four of the NLCS,
Speaker 2: more than Otani, I mean Taoscar Hernandez. I don't know
Speaker 2: why everybody wants to poke holes in his game. To me,
Speaker 2: he's done just as much, if not more than other
Speaker 2: players to help the Dodgers have big moments.
Speaker 4: Whose everybody, David, I think, I think you're overstaking the case.
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of games.
Speaker 2: I hear a lot of lot I hear a lot
Speaker 2: of tai Oscar detractors out there.
Speaker 4: I got another question for just telling you, Abo Tucker,
Speaker 4: I missed it last night. Did he have an explanation
Speaker 4: as to why he stopped. He didn't get a good
Speaker 4: read off the base hit, and then he stopped. He
Speaker 4: did not follow denal Ebel's sign. What did he say
Speaker 4: about that?
Speaker 2: Well, nobody talked to him. Everybody was freaking out over
Speaker 2: what o'tani was saying. But my understanding is that Kyle Tucker,
Speaker 2: you know, was thinking too much on the basis, just
Speaker 2: watch your third base coach, whatever you think is happening.
Speaker 2: If Dino Ebel is sending you you go.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: That is something I have not seen where I've seen
Speaker 2: Dino give up the stop sign and the runner runs
Speaker 2: through it because they can believe they could score. But
Speaker 2: I have never seen Dino Ebel wave a runner home
Speaker 2: and they stop on their own.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 2: That's just not something I've ever seen since he's been
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Yep, all right, one last thing, arise leading the league again.
Speaker 4: It'll be his fourteen leading the bat title. Amazing.
Speaker 3: All right, Ken, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 2: Hey, we're last minute, Luisa RAI shout out eight six
Speaker 2: six nine two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: go out to Bill who was at the ballpark tonight.
Speaker 2: Did you get your sugar das babblehead tonight.
Speaker 3: Bill.
Speaker 14: Yes, we did, me and my daughter Sidney, who got
Speaker 14: two of them, and I left mine under my chair,
Speaker 14: so someone's gonna get it.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty bummed out.
Speaker 4: Oh, I know, but I got need.
Speaker 14: I need to give me a take on what you think.
Speaker 14: We've been talking about trades and we have to address
Speaker 14: our catcher.
Speaker 3: We know.
Speaker 14: I know there's good news with Will Smith not feeling pain,
Speaker 14: but basically we have Rushing and that's it, and that
Speaker 14: position is too critical. I think we should go pretty
Speaker 14: hard and try to get somebody. I heard a hoppy
Speaker 14: from the Angels just got traded, so it's pretty thin
Speaker 14: out there.
Speaker 8: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: If Dalton Rushing got hurt tomorrow, who's catching is it
Speaker 2: Fonsie the rest of the way until Will Smith gets back.
Speaker 2: That's what makes me nervous as well.
Speaker 3: Bill.
Speaker 2: And that's why you know, if you're gonna go out
Speaker 2: and get an experienced veteran catcher, I think you look
Speaker 2: at the Angels again and look at a local kid
Speaker 2: like Travis Darnaut. I would be very much in for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to trade for Darnau because he's a world champion.
Speaker 3: He was part of the Braves run in twenty one.
Speaker 3: He was a big part of it.
Speaker 2: He's a really good veteran, calming presence behind the plate.
Speaker 2: And look, if you trade Alex Call, there's room to
Speaker 2: have three catchers on the roster. I don't want to
Speaker 2: see Alex Call traded because, like I said to me,
Speaker 2: he's a valuable defensive replacement in the outfield in a
Speaker 2: postseason game. But if you feel like you're getting into
Speaker 2: a roster crunch, then you know, if the Dodgers do
Speaker 2: decide to trade Call, it opens up a roster spot
Speaker 2: for a third catcher. But I'll let you hear what
Speaker 2: Andrew Freeman had to say in a moment about Will Smith.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm with you, Bill, I don't think that
Speaker 2: would be a bad IDEA. Eight sixty six nine seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number, all right. Andrew
Speaker 2: Freeman did speak to the media today. I was in
Speaker 2: the room for it, and I asked him about Will
Speaker 2: Smith and whether or not he has clarity on Will
Speaker 2: Smith's status as he gets closer to Monday's trade deadline.
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 9: When we were feeling our way through it. You know
Speaker 9: a few of the different doctors that we consulted. Everyone
Speaker 9: agreed on the diagnosis part of it. There was just
Speaker 9: disagreement on the timeline of how long it would take
Speaker 9: for him to feel good. And when he turned a
Speaker 9: corner and started to feel way better lined up perfectly
Speaker 9: with one of the doctors and what they said. It's
Speaker 9: obviously a difficult thing to know exactly and different guys differently,
Speaker 9: but it lines up with it. And he has continued
Speaker 9: to stack good day on good day and progressing And
Speaker 9: actually just saw him on my way here and he's
Speaker 9: doing really well.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Well, that's Andrew Friedman telling us before the trade deadline
Speaker 2: that all is well with will Smith, and my understanding
Speaker 2: is he is trending in the right direction. And Andrew actually
Speaker 2: confirmed what the actual injury was. It's an inflamed disc
Speaker 2: in his neck. So do you like how he said
Speaker 2: he does have clarity on the timetable for will Smith,
Speaker 2: but didn't share that timetable with us. So you're just
Speaker 2: hopeful that Will Smith is able to come back some
Speaker 2: point by September. Remember, in last year's playoffs, he had
Speaker 2: a broken wrist after exposing his throwing hand while catching
Speaker 2: and didn't come back until what the nlds uh. So
Speaker 2: he's shown that he can hit the ground running even
Speaker 2: missing a long period of time, and you know, having
Speaker 2: will Smith and Dalton rushing as close to healthy as
Speaker 2: possible going into the postseason would be phenomenal. Another guy
Speaker 2: that's getting close to being healthy is Tyler glass Now.
Speaker 2: Glass Now threw to hitters again today and is itching
Speaker 2: to get out on a rehab assignment so he can
Speaker 2: rejoin the Dodgers soon and get ready for the postseason.
Speaker 3: Here's what glass Now had to say earlier.
Speaker 2: Today about the back issues that's been plaguing him.
Speaker 13: It was just like, I don't know, it's hard to explain,
Speaker 13: like you're gonna throw your back at it anything in
Speaker 13: deflection or like any weird move in it feels like
Speaker 13: it's super tight. It's just like hard to move and
Speaker 13: I just think it was hard to get over that hump.
Speaker 13: It was like no matter what I did, any quick movement,
Speaker 13: I would feel it, or if I threw, would get
Speaker 13: like a little worse and then it would get better,
Speaker 13: and then I would kind of come back, try a
Speaker 13: little too hard. But I think it got to the
Speaker 13: point where I took enough time off got back to
Speaker 13: throwing where I was like zero symptoms and it's fine,
Speaker 13: all right.
Speaker 2: So that's like a trade deadline acquisition glass now and
Speaker 2: Blake Snell and my guy, snell Zilla, he was challenged
Speaker 2: to get twelve outs tonight. You heard my challenge last night,
Speaker 2: and snell Zilla responded with flying colors. Four shutout innings,
Speaker 2: allowed one hit, and yes, had nine strikeouts tonight. And
Speaker 2: that was what was required from Snell tonight if he
Speaker 2: wanted to have that door open for him to possibly
Speaker 2: return to the Dodger rotation the next turn around. Yeah,
Speaker 2: not necessarily making one final rehab start to get to
Speaker 2: five innings. That might happen on the major league level
Speaker 2: depending on what the Dodgers do or don't do as
Speaker 2: far as their rotation on Monday's trade deadline. So he
Speaker 2: got what Mark Pryor and the rest of the Dodgers'
Speaker 2: staff wanted him to do, and he threw sixty pitches
Speaker 2: and got twelve outs. Four innings equals twelve outs. I
Speaker 2: can do that math. I was put on the spot yesterday.
Speaker 2: Twelve outs from snell Zilla in Ontario. I'm tired of
Speaker 2: seeing snell Zilla in Oka see jerseys, Ontario Jerseys.
Speaker 3: I want to see him in Dodger jerseys.
Speaker 2: He's got to come in and he's got to dominate
Speaker 2: because he needs to regain the credibility with you the
Speaker 2: fan base on what he can do as far as
Speaker 2: dominating all the.
Speaker 3: Way through October.
Speaker 2: And speaking of the trade deadline before we check in
Speaker 2: with Jose Mota, one final thing from Andrew Friedman earlier
Speaker 2: today when he was asked about roundabout way pursuing superstar
Speaker 2: players at the trade deadline like Derek Scouble.
Speaker 9: Yeah, man, I think our mindset is always and we've
Speaker 9: talked about this, there just aren't that many star level
Speaker 9: players in the game, and anytime one is available, we're
Speaker 9: always going to, you know, participate in those conversations. We've
Speaker 9: shown to be very aggressive in the past, and I
Speaker 9: think again we're able to have those conversations. We've traded
Speaker 9: a lot of really talented young players. But we're able
Speaker 9: to be in that those conversations because of the incredible
Speaker 9: work by our scouts and our front offs and our
Speaker 9: player development group that has our farm system in such
Speaker 9: a strong spot to be able to talk to any
Speaker 9: team basically about any player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is something.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers have the largest or one of the largest
Speaker 2: payrolls in baseball, yet they're still able to be in
Speaker 2: conversations for players like Clay Holmes and Trek Skouble because
Speaker 2: of the rich farm system they have, and that's what
Speaker 2: separates them. And that was the vision that the Dodgers
Speaker 2: had when the Guggenheim Group took over. Stan Kasten said
Speaker 2: that very clearly. They're going to be immediately, but the
Speaker 2: goal is to develop a strong farm system to support
Speaker 2: all that. And that puts the Dodgers in position to
Speaker 2: be able to strike if they want to strike on
Speaker 2: players like Manny Machado in twenty eighteen. You Darvish in
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen to pull off a three way trade for
Speaker 2: edmund in Kopek and now be in the mix for a.
Speaker 3: Guy like Trek Scouble.
Speaker 2: And look, the Dodgers and Tigers have had this dance
Speaker 2: since the Winter meetings. It never really got anywhere, but
Speaker 2: there's no doubt about it. The Dodgers have interest in Schoolble.
Speaker 2: It just may not line up perfectly. And you know,
Speaker 2: Clay Holmes to me, certainly fits what the Dodgers do
Speaker 2: and I think he would be a phenomenal land if
Speaker 2: they're able to land him from the Mets. Eight six
Speaker 2: six seven two five seventy is the phone number. Let's
Speaker 2: check in with Jose Moda.
Speaker 1: It's time to go around the horn with Jose Motach.
Speaker 3: What was a mona? Eric Lower?
Speaker 2: Dodger fans are starting to get emotionally attached to Lower
Speaker 2: after what he has done in nine games for them.
Speaker 3: Did anybody see this coming?
Speaker 7: No? Absolutely not, but we knew was going to happen.
Speaker 7: Is you also detail here is a change of mentality
Speaker 7: and also the communication aspect of it. I was stalking
Speaker 7: to Eric Lawer back in Chicago getting the White Sox
Speaker 7: when we're there, and he said, you know what all
Speaker 7: I needed to hear from the Toronto Blue Jays coming
Speaker 7: out of spring training was when I was going to pitch,
Speaker 7: whether open or not, but just be consistent in the
Speaker 7: communication aspect of things. And that's what something that Dave
Speaker 7: Roberts even shared with me when he came over. He's like,
Speaker 7: we know, whinderstand what happened there? What really led to
Speaker 7: the unhappiness was that he didn't mind the role. But Dave,
Speaker 7: no matter what, this guy has understood what it takes
Speaker 7: to utilize and how to utilize that cut fastball, and yes,
Speaker 7: we can talk about, yeah, the cut fastball is the key,
Speaker 7: but as he meant, the changeup is one thing that
Speaker 7: opens up home play. So a lot of times he
Speaker 7: talked to Peters about guys that can make home play
Speaker 7: much bigger. Well, you know what'll be on the seventeen inches.
Speaker 7: You can actually make home play bigger by not even
Speaker 7: throwing that hard, even though today he amms up to
Speaker 7: ninety four, which is remarkable, but he understands how to
Speaker 7: expand on the outer half of that change up to
Speaker 7: the cut fastball when it's effective to not being even
Speaker 7: afraid David to pitch upstairs, because that is one thing
Speaker 7: Cornor McGinnis and my prior praise and talk about if
Speaker 7: you have the ability to change eye level at ninety
Speaker 7: one in eighty one or eighty two, is going to
Speaker 7: be very effective according to your pitch sequence and execution,
Speaker 7: and also reading swings, which he's gotten very good at doing,
Speaker 7: as he did well Cayl Rally in the first inning today.
Speaker 3: All right, let's fast forward to the end of the game.
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz activated earlier today on his bobblehead Night comes
Speaker 2: in and has a save opportunity right away. What did
Speaker 2: you see from as in his first outing in a
Speaker 2: few months.
Speaker 7: I was I saw rust and I actually were surprised
Speaker 7: when Dave Roberts announced before the game that he comes
Speaker 7: right into the closers role. I'm like, Okay, maybe they're
Speaker 7: going to just go out there and introduce them, reintroduce
Speaker 7: them slowly they get to that point. But obviously Edwin
Speaker 7: said I'm ready to take on the challenge. What I
Speaker 7: really hope doesn't happen is is it doesn't affect Tanner Scott, okay,
Speaker 7: and we just don't want this to be a case
Speaker 7: of Tanner Scott being so good for this long to
Speaker 7: take a step back, and I hope that doesn't happen.
Speaker 7: I don't think it's going to happen, but those are
Speaker 7: things you got to keep in mind when you remove
Speaker 7: a guy, and after somebody was out for that long.
Speaker 7: We did a very good job for you, But for Diaz,
Speaker 7: it's going to come down to just get the rust off.
Speaker 7: Command is going to be an issue for now Davies.
Speaker 7: You look at exit velocities, he got hit pretty good.
Speaker 7: Some of the else rolls all we hit really well,
Speaker 7: but expecting when he come back like that after you
Speaker 7: know the absence that he had. Velassi was fined ninety nine.
Speaker 7: Some ninety seven slider was I think a little inconsistent,
Speaker 7: but hopefully you'll find it soon because he knows what
Speaker 7: he's doing with that baseball.
Speaker 2: All right, Speaking of the hard hit balls in the
Speaker 2: ninth inning, I'll ask you a question that I raised
Speaker 2: earlier in the show, and a really good caller called
Speaker 2: in as far as the metrics with Kyle Tucker and
Speaker 2: right field, how much better are the Dodgers defensively with
Speaker 2: Tucker and right field compared to Taoscar Hernandez last season,
Speaker 2: who was playing with a bad.
Speaker 7: Groin, and every metric, they're not that much better, truly.
Speaker 7: I mean, beyond the first series against the Diamondbacks, I
Speaker 7: just haven't seen that range or that urgency or the
Speaker 7: accuracy and throws. The Dodgers are minus two and defensivet
Speaker 7: Russy's coming into today, And for Tucker, it's quite interesting
Speaker 7: because if you think about the athle that he is,
Speaker 7: the arm that he does possess, the experience that he has,
Speaker 7: but even that ball tonight, I think that ball should
Speaker 7: have been caught. It was an easier ball to catch
Speaker 7: in Tasco than the one he made, my opinion, And
Speaker 7: we know that there's way more in that attack with Tucker.
Speaker 7: There's more in terms of effort. There's more in terms
Speaker 7: of preparation, there's more in terms of reading balls off
Speaker 7: the bat and batting practice. It doesn't happen anymore outfielders
Speaker 7: in baseball, but nonetheless the numbers will lie. And you know,
Speaker 7: we talk about following the path of what's happening and
Speaker 7: the runs you're saving. It's not happening right now, but
Speaker 7: there's more. And I hope that at some point he
Speaker 7: does get to the point where he can be better
Speaker 7: at anticipating. On one aspect he's better than Tascar, which
Speaker 7: is Tascar in moving in and covering the short ball
Speaker 7: to right field, which was an issue for Tascar. But
Speaker 7: there's way more for him to do defensively, and the
Speaker 7: numbers will tell you that they don't lie.
Speaker 2: Hey, you saw Tucker when he was at his best
Speaker 2: defensively and offenimavely with the Astros. What's the noticeable difference.
Speaker 7: He was a guy he just couldn't hit the ball
Speaker 7: near in especially in that short porch and short wall
Speaker 7: in Houston. It's like he was on everything every single time,
Speaker 7: playing it out, the first step, the gliding into the baseball.
Speaker 7: Sometimes he's caught flat footed to get the best of jumps.
Speaker 7: And to me, David, that's been the biggest difference, just
Speaker 7: that urgency to want to catch every single thing when
Speaker 7: he came up. I just I'm not seeing it right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not seeing a lot of things from Tucker.
Speaker 2: I mean, offense is just one part of it, but
Speaker 2: you can't let it bleed into base running and defense.
Speaker 2: And that's something the Dodgers just don't accept.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 7: And you know one thing that I saw today too,
Speaker 7: which was quite interesting, Dave. When you are a pitcher
Speaker 7: and they tell you work ahead, there's a reason hitters
Speaker 7: get more defensive. Right as a hitter, they tell you, hey,
Speaker 7: get ahead, you want you want to know two and oh.
Speaker 7: But Tucker when he's ahead and counts one ninety six average,
Speaker 7: which is something you don't see around guys have been
Speaker 7: around that long. Which just takes you to say when
Speaker 7: you want to know two and one, you know three
Speaker 7: and one and you're hitting under two hundred. That says
Speaker 7: a whole lot about what pitches you swinging out to
Speaker 7: not allow yourself to get the results you need.
Speaker 2: All right, Jose, We'll see if Tucker can turn things
Speaker 2: around to a certain degree the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are looking to win the series again tomorrow
Speaker 2: against the Mariners, and we'll see which rokie we get
Speaker 2: tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: Do you know which rokie we're getting.
Speaker 7: He's gonna be the same rookie we seen the last
Speaker 7: two starts. Count on it, all right, all right, your friend,
Speaker 7: all right?
Speaker 2: Bona note, Jose, bona note. There he goes, Jose Mota,
Speaker 2: part of the Dodgers Spanish radio broadcast. One thing we know,
Speaker 2: Rookie will have that oversized uh you know, highlighter color
Speaker 2: glove tomorrow and we'll see how it plays out. I'm
Speaker 2: not I can't tell you that Roki's gonna do what
Speaker 2: he's done in his last two starts. He's got to
Speaker 2: prove it to me every time. And that's just the
Speaker 2: reality of it as far as the Dodgers go. Just
Speaker 2: one last thing when it comes to the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: Jason Hayward was our guest before the game. Jason Hayward
Speaker 2: joined the Dodgers before the season started as a special
Speaker 2: assistant to Andrew Friedman, and he has been all in.
Speaker 2: He's been scouting with Dave Finley, one of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: amateur scouts, at college baseball tournaments. He's been shadowing Chris Archer,
Speaker 2: who I joke is his supervisor because Archer has been
Speaker 2: around the Dodgers since the offseason of twenty four in
Speaker 2: a similar role. Jason Hayward is all in. He wants
Speaker 2: to be in the front office. He wants to be
Speaker 2: a GM and he's proving that he's not taking any shortcuts.
Speaker 2: So this will be his first experience of a trade
Speaker 2: deadline in the front office, not as a player, but
Speaker 2: in the front office. And I asked him what he's
Speaker 2: observed or what it's like watching Andrew Freeman and Brandon
Speaker 2: Gomes go to work.
Speaker 15: There's no wrong question to ask. If you have a question,
Speaker 15: if you have something you studied, if you have something
Speaker 15: that an observation that you want to bring up as
Speaker 15: a point, they welcome it that they want to hear
Speaker 15: what everyone has to offer. But again it's you know,
Speaker 15: how many ways can we get better today? How many
Speaker 15: how many opportunities can we take advantage of and widen
Speaker 15: our margins, you know, make our margins greater than they
Speaker 15: already are. As far as we know, It's been put
Speaker 15: into this team starting in the offseason. Financially, you know,
Speaker 15: the expectation is to win a ring each year, not
Speaker 15: about a back to back. But at the end of
Speaker 15: the day, it's you have a farm system, you have players.
Speaker 15: Sometimes you have more of one thing than another. Sometimes
Speaker 15: you might you might you don't need to fill a
Speaker 15: void or or want to take advantage of filling a void.
Speaker 15: And I think this is just like the long way
Speaker 15: of saying, like just be ready for whatever. You know,
Speaker 15: they don't leave any stone or turn.
Speaker 3: Are you going to be in there with him?
Speaker 2: Are you going to shadow him all through Monday's deadline?
Speaker 15: I'll be as round as much as possible. That's it's
Speaker 15: but it's been cool because like these are the things.
Speaker 15: Is that Andrew Brandon Gomes doc. You know, a lot
Speaker 15: of our scouts, you know, everyone has said, hey, collectively,
Speaker 15: be in the room for these you know, just just
Speaker 15: just listen. You Obviously there's gonna be times where there's
Speaker 15: a lot of things happening at once and you you're
Speaker 15: not gonna hear every conversation. But I think that's what's
Speaker 15: cool about it, you know, sitting in the draft room,
Speaker 15: seeing the amount of attention to detail that goes into
Speaker 15: there and like the pouring of out output of like
Speaker 15: information that each individual has. But then those like main
Speaker 15: combos so to speak, you know, will be very cool
Speaker 15: to hear what's on the table, what's not on the table,
Speaker 15: what's what sounds like it's off the wall, and then like, hey, no,
Speaker 15: that that actually sounds realistic for where we are right now.
Speaker 15: But I think another thing that is cool is from
Speaker 15: this side of things. You know, as a former player,
Speaker 15: there are opportunities when you're an organization like this one
Speaker 15: to maybe make a move that's going to help a player,
Speaker 15: meaning if again, if you have a lot of one thing,
Speaker 15: or there's an opportunity to create a window for them
Speaker 15: somewhere else and you can still get better as an org.
Speaker 15: Like that's also a conversation. You know, it doesn't mean
Speaker 15: it works out that way, but it's just nice to
Speaker 15: know that they are considering human beings. They are considering
Speaker 15: in the Dodgers' organization, just doing the best you can
Speaker 15: to support their individual and like give them a great career.
Speaker 3: Hey, that was Jason Hayward, who's a great guy.
Speaker 2: To hear the full conversation with Jay hay you can
Speaker 2: find it on the iHeartRadio app. And it sounded like
Speaker 2: he was describing guys like Eric Lower and Alex Call
Speaker 2: with Kei a Hernandez Back and the way that Taioscar Hernandez,
Speaker 2: Andy pot Has and Kyle Tucker are entrenched in the outfield.
Speaker 2: When is Alex Call going to play? I just don't know,
Speaker 2: And I don't know. It sounded like that's who he
Speaker 2: was describing, because the Dodgers are not going to have
Speaker 2: a guy just sit on the bench and never play.
Speaker 2: That's not beneficial to Alex Call. That's not beneficial to
Speaker 2: Eric Lower to put him in the bullpen after what
Speaker 2: he's done for the Dodgers this year. And I think
Speaker 2: that's what Jason Hayward. Jason Hayward was getting at as
Speaker 2: far as you know, not only helping the organization, but
Speaker 2: also helping players get into a better situation where they're
Speaker 2: going to play more. And if the Twins and Dodgers
Speaker 2: do line up on an Alex Call trade, that would
Speaker 2: be great for Alex Call. He would play more, and
Speaker 2: he went to high school an hour away from Target Field.
Speaker 2: He would be going home. So I would love to
Speaker 2: see that. For Alex Call, I would hate to see
Speaker 2: him go.
Speaker 3: He's a great.
Speaker 2: Guy and he cares a lot. And Eric Lower, I mean,
Speaker 2: what can you say. The Dodgers are nine to zero
Speaker 2: when Lower pitches, and I'm calling my shot Lower to
Speaker 2: the White Sox, Alex call to the Twins because if
Speaker 2: he's going to get traded, that would be a great
Speaker 2: place for him to get traded. Anyway, We'll do more
Speaker 2: trade talk, trade talk, my numbing trade all the way
Speaker 2: through Monday. So we got a lot for you, and
Speaker 2: I got more for you tomorrow. I didn't empty the
Speaker 2: tank tonight. I got more stuff that people are sharing
Speaker 2: with me around the league when it pertains to not
Speaker 2: only the Dodgers, but other players, other teams that are
Speaker 2: selling and buying. So we'll share that with you as well.
Speaker 2: There's another left handed starter out there that nobody is
Speaker 2: talking about that could be a huge difference maker for
Speaker 2: a contender. I don't believe the Dodgers are going to
Speaker 2: land him, but another team might and it may help
Speaker 2: them get into the NLCS or even just make the postseason,
Speaker 2: so we'll share that with you tomorrow night. Also tomorrow,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are looking for the series win with Roki
Speaker 2: Sasaki on the mound, going up against Brian wu. Our
Speaker 2: coverage begins at six o'clock with first pitch at seven
Speaker 2: to ten with Rick Monday and Steven Nelson. And by
Speaker 2: the way, the Dodgers with an eleven and a half
Speaker 2: game lead over the Diamondbacks. If the Dodgers went five
Speaker 2: hundred the rest of the way twenty seven in twenty seven,
Speaker 2: they'll finish with ninety five wins. The Diamondbacks would have
Speaker 2: to go thirty nine and fourteen to pass the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: I'll just leave it right there.
Speaker 2: Thanks to dwainn McDonald out here at Dodgers Stadium, thanks
Speaker 2: to calling you back at our Burbank studios, and thanks
Speaker 2: to you for listening. In case you missed any of
Speaker 2: the show or our pregame conversation with Kyle Tucker yesterday
Speaker 2: or Jason Hayward today. The iHeartRadio app make Dodger Talker
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Speaker 3: Once again.
Speaker 2: The final score tonight the Dodgers defeat the Mariners four
Speaker 2: to two.
Speaker 3: Have a great rest of your night. Seal send it away.