WEBVTT - Off Season Dodger Talk (2-5-26) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.800 This is off season Dodger Talk. Get in on the 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:07.320 show by calling eight six six eight seven or hashtag 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.480 Dodger Talk and now your host, David. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.080 Basse, Welcome the Dodger Talk. 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.360 David Vasse with you until eight o'clock tonight here on 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.720 AM five to seventy LA Sports. We have a great 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.080 show for you tonight. We are going to share our 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:30.000 conversations with World Series heroes Miguel Rojas and Max Mounsey tonight. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.600 Had a chance to catch up with both of them 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.320 at Dodger Fest, did not have a chance to share 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.120 it this past Saturday, thought we hold it back for 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.640 tonight's show, so you will hear from Max Monsey and 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.840 Miguel Rojas with us for the first time tonight. Max 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.000 Mounsey will join us in fifteen minutes. We'll share our 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:53.040 conversation with Miguel Rojas at the bottom of the hour, 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.279 and also we'll reshare some of the highlights of our 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:02.360 conversation with Freddie Freeman as well from Saturday's Dodger Fest. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:07.480 And look, we always talk about what's the biggest need 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.520 for the Dodgers during an off season or what's their 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:15.399 biggest task during the off season. Well, they signed Edwin 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.600 Diaz and Kyle Tucker to shore up two of the 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.160 spots that really were not as productive and gave them 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:27.160 some heartache last year. Well, Freddie Freeman has two more 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.320 years left on his contract. I would love to see 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.640 him finish his career with the Dodgers. I would love 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.240 to see the Dodgers just put away that question this 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:41.720 off season and extend Freddy sometime between now and opening Day. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.600 But I can understand from Andrew friedman standpoint, why don't 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.560 we just see how this year plays out. The CBA 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.400 is expiring at the end of the year and circle back. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.680 But once the dust is settled, after a new CBA 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.480 has agreed upon, whenever that's going to be about, lock 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.400 up Freddie Freeman and make him that legacy player and 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.440 give him a shot to get three thousand hits in 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.720 a Dodger uniform. But I can understand the Dodgers' hesitation 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.200 with so much uncertainty with the CBA coming up at 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.720 the end of this upcoming season. So I would love 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.399 to see it happen. But I can understand if they 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.120 didn't do it this op season. It would be great 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.480 if they were able to do it next op season 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.200 and not just have him as a lame duck player 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.160 going into his final year of his contract in twenty 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.639 twenty seven. Eight six six nine eighty seven two five 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.560 seventy is the phone number. Like I mentioned, I'm with 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.240 you until eight o'clock. I'm hoping to make it to 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.320 the Laker game by halftime. Wish me luck for that. 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:49.040 But since I got to experience going to a Laker 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.640 game from my home in the San Fernando Valley for 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.600 the first time this year, I had no idea. It 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.280 takes two hours to get to Crypto downtown from the 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.880 San Fernando Valley, So this is the place you want 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:07.280 to be. I will help you. Just relax, enjoy, give 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:11.160 you some baseball news, share Munsey, share Rojas with you 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.519 until you get there. So thank you for joining us 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.440 on this beautiful Thursday in Los Angeles. And there is 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.200 some baseball news that I'm sure some of your friends 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.800 are saying. Well, that means he's coming to the Dodgers. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:29.000 Pump the brakes. And what I'm talking about is Trek 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:35.080 Scooball winning his arbitration case earlier today. Scott boris the 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.480 goat of goats as far as sports agents go to 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:43.800 get this arbitration win for schoolbl It's record setting in 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.600 more ways than one. David Price was the pitcher that 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:53.400 won the largest arbitration case back in twenty fifteen against 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:58.160 the Tigers nineteen point seventy five million dollars school Ball 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.800 one thirty two million dollars. The Tigers were offering nineteen 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.200 million dollars. And in case you don't know, how it 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.520 goes in an arbitration hearing, and this is the reason 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.680 why so many teams avoid going into an arbitration hearing 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:19.040 with their player, a player, especially the caliber of Tarrek Scouble. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.920 The way it works is the team's job to win, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.960 and there's no middle ground. The middle ground is to 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.000 be had before you walk into that arbitration hearing. So 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:35.320 now the arbiter has to choose either the player's number, 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.680 which was thirty two million dollars in this case for 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:43.479 Trek's Scouoble, or the arbiter chooses the number that the 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:47.680 team submitted and the team the Tigers submitted nineteen million 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.960 dollars as the number. So it can't be the arbiter saying, 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.640 oh well, okay, let's meet somewhere in the middle. No, 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.360 they have to choose either the player's number or the 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.159 team's number, and they chose to Eric Scouble and Scott 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.280 Boris's number of thirty two million dollars instead of the 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:10.080 Tigers lowball number of nineteen million dollars, which wouldn't have 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.240 even set a new record because David Price, like I 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.359 mentioned in twenty fifteen, was awarded nineteen point seventy five 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:23.479 million dollars. And this is a long line of the 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:29.479 Tigers mishandling Schooble. Since he became a prominent pitcher in 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.840 Major League Baseball, they have low balled him extension offers. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.839 And then this is the most egregious. So, like I mentioned, 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.440 I'll explain this really quickly how it happens in arbitration. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.800 The team's job is to say what Trek Schouble hasn't 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.320 done well so that they can win the arbitration hearing. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.400 While Schooble and Scott Boris and his people are saying, 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.800 I've done this, I've won two cy Youngs on this 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.760 that this while the team is trying to tear him 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.719 down and poke holes in his game. And the player 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.599 is sitting right there. It's not like he's not there. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:09.159 He's sitting right there as the team representatives are tearing 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:13.640 him down. So Trek scuball heard the Tigers basically poke 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.920 holes in his game. How do you think that made 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.320 Trek Scuble feel. I'm sure he's well aware of what 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.880 it's going to be like. I am a one hundred 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:28.200 percent confident Scott Boris prepared him for what was to come. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:34.599 But what this tells me is two things. Number One, 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.279 Trek Scuble is not going to be a Tiger in 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.800 twenty twenty seven. He's a free agent at the end 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.680 of twenty twenty six. What this also tells me, because 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.919 Scott Boris wanted to set a precedent, he wanted to 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:51.120 get the highest arbitration win in the history of baseball 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.599 arbitration to set the tone that he is going to 0:06:55.600 --> 0:07:00.760 get Trek Skuble the largest contract in Major League based history, 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.800 at least for a pitcher. He has all the intentions 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:09.560 in the world to top Garritt Cole, to top Yamamotos 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.760 contract with the Dodgers. Trust me, That's what these two 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.880 things tell me about the outcome today. What it doesn't 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.000 tell me is that the Tigers are going to trade 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.400 Trek Scuble. Now, in case you missed it, they signed 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.680 from Ber Valdez to a three year contract one hundred 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:32.000 million dollars. So going into twenty six, the Tigers are 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.200 in a very winnable division. They almost won it last 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.440 year if not for their collapse, but they did make 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:42.720 the postseason. What this tells me is the Tigers are 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.640 not trading Trek Scuoble before opening Day. What this tells 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.320 me is Trerek Scouble is not going to be a 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:53.040 Tiger after this season. And what this tells me as 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.880 well is that Scott Boris is going to set a 0:07:55.960 --> 0:08:00.760 new record setting contract with Trek Scouble this upcoming off season. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.920 For those of you and your friends at work and 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.960 on your group text that are telling you all this 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.040 means the Tigers are trading him. They signed Valdez, they 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:15.000 lost the arbitration hearing, they poke holes, they tore him down. 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:21.680 They are trading Schoolble before opening Day. No, they're not, No, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.280 they're not. They are not trading him. I spoke to 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.120 somebody in Schooble's camp that laid out perfectly why the 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:33.880 Tigers would be ridiculous to trade Schooble. They would be 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.080 waving the white flag on their fan base, and b 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.680 the team that trades for school ball, let's say, before 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.280 opening day, has to unload the farm, and that puts 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:48.199 them at a disadvantage when Schoobol goes to free agency, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:53.720 because that gives Scott Boris even more leverage over that team, 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:58.760 so they are not trading Schooble before opening day. You 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:04.200 can make I am very confident in saying that what 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.920 it tells me is everything that I just laid out. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:11.320 And oh, by the way, it's not an exact situation, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.240 but a very similar situation. Corbyn Burns back in twenty 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.000 twenty three, going into the twenty three season, who oh, 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:25.040 by the way, is also represented by Scott Borris, lost 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:30.840 his arbitration case to the Brewers that year over just 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:35.800 seven hundred and forty thousand dollars. That was the difference, 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.720 and the Brewers did go through with the arbitration hearing, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:45.120 tore down Corbyn Burns in that arbitration hearing and eventually 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.360 traded him. But Burns made two million dollars that year, 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.640 was making ten point seven five million dollars right there. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:59.280 It's not parallel, but it's similar, right, It's close, and 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.319 Corbyn burn it's got a big contract from the Diamondbacks 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.439 last off season that nobody believed he would get. Now, now, 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.920 the Brewers did trade Burns eventually, but not before opening Day. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.840 And I'm not saying Schooble won't be traded before the 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.960 trade deadline if the Tigers are out of it. I'm 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.480 not saying that, but I'm saying he is not going 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.000 to be traded before opening Day. And I know there 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.080 was a lot of uh, you know, rumors on social 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:33.640 media that it was so close. All that needs to 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.040 be checked is with the Tigers owner. Let's check that box. 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:37.840 Uh. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:43.560 I guess not. I guess that report wasn't accurate. So 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.360 that's where it stands. With Trek's Schooble. I would love 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.360 to see him in a Dodger uniform. Who wouldn't love 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:54.560 to see Trek Scuoble in their home team's uniform and 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:58.200 the medicine. Dodgers have the prospects and the wherewithal to 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.400 pull off a trade for schoobl if the Tigers were 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:05.120 to trade him. If Scooble were to be traded, it 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.439 would be the Mets or Dodgers. They have the prospects 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.920 to be able to give the Tigers major league ready 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.600 talent and pitching, but I just don't see it happening 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.040 before opening day. And if the Tigers are in it 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.880 in a very weak al Central, that's why they're not 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.560 going to trade them. And going into the season, They're 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.800 going to try to win this with pitching because their 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.600 offense is not that great. They got Scooball, they got 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.400 from ber Valdez, who's one of the best big game pitchers. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.760 They got Jack Flaherty, and they got Kenley Jansen closing games. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.960 So that's their formula. And I don't see them trading Schooble. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:47.240 But obviously, if I was the Tigers front office, I 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:51.000 just keep my distance in spring training. Let aj Hinch 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:55.439 handle Schooble. If there's any message to be sent, let 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.320 aj Hinch handle it. I think that would be wise 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.120 after going through in our tration case with Trek Scooble. 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.600 All right, that's the situation on schoolbl When we continue 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.959 on Dodger Talk, we're going to catch up with Max Munsey. 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.440 He hit a huge home run in Game seven to 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.080 set up the heroics for Miguel Rojas and Will Smith. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.120 And speaking of Miguel Rojas, if he did not hear 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.960 enough of Miguel Rojas. I remember Miguel Rojas when he 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.959 first showed up in spring training back in twenty twelve. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.320 We're going to catch up with a guy that certainly 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.680 is far removed from being an unknown. He is forever 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.720 going to be remembered in Dodger history for his improbable 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:42.040 Game seven, game tying home run in Toronto. More Dodger 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.199 Talk until eight o'clock right here on a five to 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:49.640 seventy LA Sports. We are getting super close to the 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:54.199 beginning of spring training. Pitchers and Catchers report a week 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:59.040 from tomorrow at Camelback Ranch. Already some of the guys 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.400 have showed up the first one show. Hey Otani, who's 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.680 out there at camel Back Ranch already working? And I 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.160 was on speaking of Otani. I'll get to the other 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.120 pertinent dates here. But Pitchers and Catchers report a week 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.240 from tomorrow. I was on Access Sportsnet Dodgers last night 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:20.720 with John hartung and Jerry Harriston Junior and Herttungue threw 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:25.040 at us the odds of for the best Dodger pitchers 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:29.680 to win the Cy Young and Otani is forty to 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.920 one on some of these gambling sites to win the 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.720 cy Young this year in the National League, you know 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.079 there's a case to be made, and no doubt Yamamoto 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.120 is the Dodgers ace. But the odds were not that good. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.320 If I've got one hundred dollars and Otani is forty 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.800 to one to win the Cy Young, those are damn 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:55.240 good odds for the darling of Major League Baseball. The 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.040 voters seem to love to vote for this guy, four 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:02.240 time MVP, and right fully so. But you're telling me 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.720 if Otani makes twenty to twenty five starts this year 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.439 and has an ERA of two and a half at 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.480 the most, that some voters are not going to vote 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:16.240 for Otani because of the two way factor in all this, 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.440 that's damn good odds. I'm not saying he's going to 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.120 win the cy Young. But if you're looking at a 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.280 good odds pitcher to win the cy Young this year, 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:32.200 forty to one on Otani is really damn good. So 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.600 there you go. That's your gambling advice. I just had 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.600 to bring that up because I was shocked when Hardtung 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.800 presented that to us last night. And look, yes, Snell 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:46.040 two times say Young Award winner Yamamoto World Series MVP 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.200 is probably going to make the most starts of any 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:54.080 Dodger starter this year, but forty to one odds on show, 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.680 Hey Otani, come on, give me that all day to 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.680 win the cy Young So there you go. Oh, by 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:04.040 the way, here it is the dates for spring training. 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.360 I'm going to be flying out there next Friday. The 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:12.040 pitchers and catchers report. We will have Dodger Talk from 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.800 Arizona while I'm out there. And the first spring training 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.000 game is not even at Camelback Ranch this year. It's 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:23.680 February twenty first. The Dodgers open up in Tempe, Arizona 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.320 against the Angels, and you will hear it live right 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.720 here on a five to seventy LA Sports. That's actually 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.560 a Saturday. And I love the atmosphere at Tempe Diabolo 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.240 Stadium when the Dodgers are there. It's a great setting. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.400 So hopefully you can get there and see the Dodgers 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.680 start the Cactus League out there. And as far as 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:48.320 opening Day goes quicker than you think, it's March twenty 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:53.880 sixth at Dodgers Stadium, Dodgers versus Diamondbacks, and I feel 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.800 like it's going to be similar to last year. Where 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:01.000 the Dodgers celebrated Opening Day raise the Flag, and then 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.840 game two of the home stand, they are going to 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.520 give the rings to the players and Clayton Kershaw will 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.160 be there for sure when that happens, so just keep 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.920 that in mind as well. It's not just about Opening Day, 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.040 it's about the opening home stand. And oh, by the way, 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.360 the first Dodger road trip after they open up against 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.800 the Diamondbacks and Guardians at Dodger Stadium. The first road 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:30.440 trip includes a three game series back in Toronto against 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.960 the American League champion Toronto Blue Jays, so that should 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:38.560 be electric as well. Speaking of Game seven and the 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:43.040 World Series and Toronto, I know Miguel Rojas and Will Smith, 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:48.640 they were heroes offensively and defensively, but without Max Munsey's 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.600 home run earlier in that game to make it a 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:55.200 one run game, there are no heroes for the Dodgers. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.480 So here is Max Munsey. We had a chance to 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.640 catch up with him at Dotest. All right, we are 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.000 drawing right now by a man that has been to 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.560 the World Series four times with the Dodgers. Max Mounsey 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.640 showed up in twenty eighteen, left his mark and now 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.440 has become the all time home run King and Dodger 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.919 postseason history, including one of the biggest home runs in 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:20.920 Game seven of the World Series. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.960 Max Munsey, thank you for joining us. Great to see you. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:25.600 Always good to be here with you. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.080 Oh three time World Series champion has time for the 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:28.679 little people. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.639 I appreciate Save it, Save it. You've been out here 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.680 all day with everyone else, all right. I know, Well, 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.879 you like to make the grand the grand entrance. You know, 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.520 you're you're the guy at the party. You don't want 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:40.640 to show up right on time. 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.280 You want to be twenty minutes late so everybody knows 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:44.639 Max Monsey's at the party. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.960 That's false, that's fake, fake news. Dave. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.000 I know you just welcomed in your third child to 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.760 the world. What's the off season been like for the 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:58.080 Monzie family coming off back to back World Series championships 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.200 and having to deal with real life. 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:04.199 It's been short, it's been hectic, it's been lovely, all 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.120 the above. You know, a lot of emotions going through 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.159 and it's just, uh, you know, it's it's been a 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.199 little challenging trying to get ready for a season and 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:12.800 then also you know, trying to be a dat at 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.960 home newborn, and uh, you know, just trying to help 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:17.959 out as much as I can and trying to make 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.080 sure I'm getting healthy and you know, getting ready for 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.080 the season, and it's just, uh yeah, it's been, like 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:23.600 I said, short, hectic and crazy. 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.560 I told Will Smith I've been his spokesperson all off 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.000 season because he's been in hibernation, but I also have 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:31.960 been a Max Munsey promoter. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:33.240 That you're a home run. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.120 Without it, there is no Miguel Rojas game tying home 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.520 run and certainly no Will Smith heroics in the eleventh 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.919 inning when you hit that home run and pulled the 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.760 Dodgers within a run, did you feel that was as 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:49.080 big as it turned out to be. 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.480 Well, I mean, I've said multiple times like in the moment, 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.520 for me, I just knew it guaranteed show hey, one 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.359 more bat, and we were it was only a one 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.520 run deficit at that point, so I was like, okay, 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.320 we got it. Chants, But at the same time, it 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:04.080 kind of just built a little bit more more more 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.879 momentum for us, and you know, you started feeling that, 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.960 and I think the whole team felt it, and you know, 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:12.360 I know you keep saying my home run was big, 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.800 but every single play in that Game seven was big, 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:16.960 and you know, we we don't win that World Series 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:18.879 without every single guy on the roster. And it's just 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.200 it's really cool to look back at that and understand 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:23.920 that every single person played an important role in winning 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:25.600 that World Series. It was a true team effort. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.040 So many guys could have checked out mentally, like Miguel Rojas, 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.600 Andy pa Has justin Dean. What does that say about 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.280 who you guys are and the culture the players have 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.600 created that they remained engaged. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.400 It just means a lot, you know, It's it's it's 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.200 real easy for some of those guys to check out, 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:42.760 and they didn't. 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:44.400 You know, they understood what was at stake. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.040 It wasn't about them, it was about the team, and 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.160 you know, and that's that's how we've always been. And 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:51.720 it really showed right there, you know, it really showed 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.200 in that World Series that the guys were all about 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.120 each other. They were willing to do anything for each other, 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:57.800 and it's just special. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:58.720 Made it's so special. 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:00.639 Obviously winning the World Series special as it is, but 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:02.679 you know, being able to do it the way we 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.240 did it just felt it felt truly amazing. 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.320 You've been really in tune with this city. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.720 The city loves you since you showed up and brist 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.000 onto the scene in twenty eighteen. What's the reaction you've 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:16.080 gotten from fans that you've come across or just. 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:17.240 Through your wife. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.480 Do you realize how much this one meant to the city. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:25.440 You know, the thing you hear the most is not congratulations, 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.800 it's thank you. You know you hear that from the 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:29.359 fans all the time. It's thank you, thank you for 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.600 bringing a championship back to the city, thank you for 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.240 bringing the Dodgers back to us, and you know it. 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:36.600 It just makes it so special. And I talked about 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:38.480 this when we got that first parade in twenty four 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:40.800 that you know, when you're driving through the streets and 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:44.159 you see everyone holding up pictures of grandparents or parents 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.640 that aren't there anymore, just like these are who made 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:49.439 me Dodger people in that's when you start realizing that 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.200 it's not just a team, it's a community, it's a family, 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.439 it's an organization, you know, and the whole city is 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.879 built in on it, and it just it's truly been 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:00.240 a blessing to be all play for the Dog as 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.000 long as I have, and it's definitely not something that 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:03.959 I ever take for granted. 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.639 Is it surreal for Max Mounsey to look around the 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:10.760 clubhouse after winning back to back championships with these group 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.600 of teammates and look back on the same group or 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.960 the group of players that you played with in twenty twenty, 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:21.280 and you know, leading up to that championship, how the 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:25.120 faces have changed, but the feeling and the winning commitment 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:26.040 to winning hasn't. 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.360 Well, you know, the faces haven't changed that much. There's 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:29.800 been a lot of us that have been been around 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.720 for a long time, and you know, it's just that's 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:34.840 what makes it great. We've just had so many players here, 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:38.119 a core group of guys, and you know, unfortunately this 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.360 year is gonna be without Kersh, but you know we're 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.240 all Jim be happy for him. But you know, he's 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:44.239 the guy that's kind of started this whole culture for us. 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:46.320 And I know he says it started before him, but 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:48.520 you know, for me, he was always the guy that 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:50.639 led it. And you know, he never led it with 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.679 his words. He led it with how he competed and 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.359 how he prepared and how he acted. And you know 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:57.239 that's he just set the example that all a lot 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.320 of us have tried to follow and you know it's 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:00.959 gonna be hard to do it without him, but you know, 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:02.400 I think we're up for the challenge. 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.680 Feels good at number thirteen and Max Monthsey are going 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:07.639 to be back for the three p Thank you for 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.920 stopping by, and maybe we could just set the ground 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:13.120 rules right now spring training. 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:14.960 Should I ease. 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:17.280 Into approaching you or do you feel like I should 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.440 just dive in and hover around your locker day one? 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.240 You know how Dave might I might give you time 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:25.680 and day I might not give you time and day. 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:28.919 You know, when it comes to you, you just you 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:31.000 just kind of float, you know, Okay, you just kind 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:33.439 of float around. And so maybe maybe I'll talk to you, 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:35.439