Speaker 1: All come on back.
Speaker 2: Before you know it, they'll be back on the field
Speaker 2: at Camelback Ranch.
Speaker 1: Why can't this be spring training?
Speaker 2: But our coverage of the blue never stops. AM five
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Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. And now your host, David Bassey, Welcome.
Speaker 3: To Dodger Talk. David Masse with you until eight o'clock
Speaker 3: tonight here on AM five seventy LA Sports. And we
Speaker 3: have a full board of calls. Thank you to Petro
Speaker 3: some money for that four hour love fest. Great to
Speaker 3: hear Dave Roberts cackle it up with the boys, and
Speaker 3: they cackled right back when Dave Roberts, a three times
Speaker 3: World Series manager, cackles at them and oh a humble brag.
Speaker 3: He'll be playing at Augusta next week. Oh okay, Dave, Okay,
Speaker 3: we get it, We get it, Dave. Hey, those are
Speaker 3: the fruits of being a back to back World Series
Speaker 3: champion manager. Those are the fruits of being a three
Speaker 3: time World Series manager as well. We have a great
Speaker 3: show for you tonight. The man of the Hour, Kyle
Speaker 3: Tucker is going to join us. You'll hear our conversation
Speaker 3: with Kyle after today's press conference coming up in fifteen minutes,
Speaker 3: and at the bottom of the hour you'll hear from
Speaker 3: Andrew Friedman. So we'll get to those two guys later
Speaker 3: in the show, but between now and then, it's your
Speaker 3: phone calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven two
Speaker 3: five seventy. I got worried about this yesterday and now
Speaker 3: it's starting to really gain traction in New York. We
Speaker 3: had talked about in our last show about the possibility
Speaker 3: of the Dodgers being the team to trade for the
Speaker 3: Brewers Freddie Peralta. Well, it looks like the Mets are
Speaker 3: going to be the ones trading for Freddie Peralta, and
Speaker 3: that's a big acquisition for them, and they're rumored to
Speaker 3: be in the mix for from Bravaldez as well. So
Speaker 3: the Mets are quietly loading up. I would say that
Speaker 3: they've had a better off season than what their fan
Speaker 3: base beliefs they've had, and if they're able to pull
Speaker 3: off this trade, which it looks like it's going to happen,
Speaker 3: and then sign fran Bravaldez, they're solidifying their starting rotation.
Speaker 3: And I started to get worried about this that the
Speaker 3: Dodgers and Brewers never were really close to making a trade.
Speaker 3: But the Mets certainly were engaged with the Brewers. And
Speaker 3: don't forget the Mets GM president of Baseball Operations is
Speaker 3: David Stearns, And what team did he used to run?
Speaker 3: What team was he connected to the most? The Brewers.
Speaker 3: That's why he and Matt Arnold are able to pull
Speaker 3: off a trade like this. So that's happening. Freddy Prault
Speaker 3: is going to the Mets, and man, I just got
Speaker 3: to say, before we really get deep into Dodger baseball,
Speaker 3: I had a wild day today. I woke up at
Speaker 3: five am this morning because I got invited to speak
Speaker 3: at this La Breakfast Club, which takes place in Los
Speaker 3: Phelis at the Friendship Auditorium between Glendale Boulevard and Los
Speaker 3: Felis Boulevard. And the way they reached out to me
Speaker 3: was through Instagram dming me and it seemed legit. They're like, hey,
Speaker 3: would you mind speaking to our breakfast club. I was like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 3: Now breakfast for me, I'm not a big breakfast guy.
Speaker 3: Breakfast for me is like nine thirty or ten. So
Speaker 3: usually when people contact me through Instagram or any social
Speaker 3: media platform to speak to their club. Low maintenance, right,
Speaker 3: it's you go into a room, maybe a banquet hall,
Speaker 3: and you do a little talk and take some questions.
Speaker 3: But they really put together production and this La Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: I'll give you some local knowledge, as Petros would like
Speaker 3: to say about the La Breakfast Club. A wacky group
Speaker 3: that meets every week and they try to bring in
Speaker 3: special speakers. And I want to say thank you to Rachel,
Speaker 3: who's a big Dodger fan and certainly a big Dodger
Speaker 3: talk fan. So Rachel was awesome and she educated me
Speaker 3: on the La Breakfast Club. The Warner Brothers used to
Speaker 3: be members of the La Breakfast Club. And how about
Speaker 3: this when the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Walter O'Malley
Speaker 3: spoke at the same desk that I spoke at today
Speaker 3: at the La Breakfast Club. Yeah, this is a very
Speaker 3: historical club. They meet every week and very early seven am,
Speaker 3: I saw one of our old engineers that I used
Speaker 3: to work with at the place across the street on
Speaker 3: Los Sienaga, Tim Ahern. Great to see Tim Ahearn. But
Speaker 3: I spoke to that group. They are wacky they are
Speaker 3: fun and they love the Dodgers. So it was great
Speaker 3: to meet everybody today at the La Breakfast Club and
Speaker 3: they're like, Hey, are you going to talk about this
Speaker 3: on the show? I said, listen, after what I've seen
Speaker 3: here today, I'm traumatized and impressed, and I'm certainly going
Speaker 3: to talk about it. But great people out there. They're
Speaker 3: just good people, just having a good time. Very wild
Speaker 3: better than me walking my wife's dog around the neighborhood
Speaker 3: and being accosted by neighbor Richie, the Yankee fan that
Speaker 3: just wants to continue to badger me about a salary cap.
Speaker 3: And speaking of a salary cap, I want to address
Speaker 3: this part. Rob Manfred not sure if this was highlighted
Speaker 3: as much as some of the other highlights of his
Speaker 3: interview with Wfan last week, but he was asked directly
Speaker 3: about the Dodgers and they're spending and honestly, I hate
Speaker 3: to say they're spending their competitiveness because they are the
Speaker 3: most well rounded organization in Major League Baseball. They don't
Speaker 3: just throw money at players. They have a great infrastructure
Speaker 3: that Andrew Friedman built from the ground up back in
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen. I mean literally, net COLETTI had no resources
Speaker 3: when he was the GM under Frank McCort to bring
Speaker 3: in the infrastructure that Andrew Friedman brought in, and that
Speaker 3: is the basis of the culture that he has created.
Speaker 3: And here's what Rob Manfred had to say about the
Speaker 3: question about the Dodgers and if he has any concerns
Speaker 3: about the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: I admire what the Dodger organization has done on both
Speaker 4: sides of the house. I mean, they've done a phenomenal
Speaker 4: job on the revenue side, and they've made great baseball decisions,
Speaker 4: and you know, getting those two together is harder than
Speaker 4: you think. And everything they've done completely within the rules.
Speaker 4: And a large market like the Dodgers does drive your business.
Speaker 4: I mean there's no you know, whether you say large
Speaker 4: market villain whatever, you know, a team that's winning a
Speaker 4: lot does can drive the market. I think the advantage
Speaker 4: baseball has a very random sport, and you know, the
Speaker 4: chances of stringing that many together I think are fairly limited.
Speaker 4: But I do get concerned. You know, we try to
Speaker 4: listen to our fans, and we do hear from fans
Speaker 4: in a lot of markets that.
Speaker 3: You know, kids a city.
Speaker 4: When we look at the resources they have compared to
Speaker 4: the resources that are available in our market. We don't
Speaker 4: feel like it's quite a fair shake. And that's an
Speaker 4: issue we're going to have to deal with.
Speaker 3: All right. The end of that answer is so ridiculous.
Speaker 3: The Royals won the World Series and went back to
Speaker 3: back World Series back in the you know, just ten
Speaker 3: years ago, so that just doesn't hold water with me.
Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, the men Mets were the
Speaker 3: ones that offered Kyle Tucker the fifty five million dollars
Speaker 3: annual average salary. It was the Mets that signed Bob
Speaker 3: Bishett to a forty million dollar contract for one season
Speaker 3: because he can opt out after this year, and I
Speaker 3: have a feeling he will opt out after this season.
Speaker 3: So let's not forget that. You know, the evil empire
Speaker 3: or the villain of baseball was the Yankees and the
Speaker 3: Red Sox who bought up every player imaginable to buy
Speaker 3: their World Series championships from two to nine. Yeah, that
Speaker 3: Yankee World Series and oh nine, how many homegrown guys
Speaker 3: were on that team? The guys that were, they were
Speaker 3: starting to get a little long in the tooth. And uh,
Speaker 3: as far as you know, the Yankees now they're not
Speaker 3: well rounded and have not been well rounded in over
Speaker 3: twenty five years. So the Dodgers are what every other
Speaker 3: team strives to be and a lot of things have
Speaker 3: been They've been great. I'll back up here. The Dodgers
Speaker 3: have executed really well. But luck is involved as well.
Speaker 3: There have been some trades, there have been some signings
Speaker 3: that didn't happen, and they benefited from that, and you
Speaker 3: got to think that there is some luck. You talk
Speaker 3: about luck winning the World Series. Well, as they used
Speaker 3: to say, some trades that you don't make are the
Speaker 3: best ones. Some of the signings that you don't get
Speaker 3: the best ones. And you can thank the Braves and
Speaker 3: the Red Sox for saying goodbye to two really good
Speaker 3: players that are future Hall of famers, and Freddie Freeman
Speaker 3: and Mookie Betts. You could thank the Angels for saying
Speaker 3: goodbye to show Hey Otani, who's the best player on
Speaker 3: the planet, who has been the reason why the Dodgers
Speaker 3: have been able to reap the benefits of an international megastar,
Speaker 3: not superstar mega star. And again Scott Boris. You know
Speaker 3: many of you don't like Scott Boris. I do because
Speaker 3: he makes a lot of common sense, and he gave
Speaker 3: a statement today that said, this is a moment in
Speaker 3: time in the sport. There is no need for overreaction
Speaker 3: because o'tani is a once in a lifetime player. He
Speaker 3: agreed to sign an incredible contract that allows the Dodgers
Speaker 3: to be able to go out and fill in the
Speaker 3: roster around him. There's no need for a salary cap.
Speaker 3: There is a need for more teams to be able
Speaker 3: to try to reinvest the luxury tax dollars and the
Speaker 3: revenue they get from around Major League Baseball back into
Speaker 3: their teams, like the Pirates, the Reds, the Marlins. They
Speaker 3: all got to do that. And I applaud the Brewers
Speaker 3: because the Brewers actually have maintained a payroll over one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty million dollars, and they actually have had
Speaker 3: two really good gms and David Stearns and Matt Arnold
Speaker 3: that have built an infrastructure to compete every year, similar
Speaker 3: to Andrew Freeman and now Eric Neander in Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: With limited resources, it can be done. It can be done.
Speaker 3: But this is such an overreaction for anybody to say
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are ruining baseball. Honestly, the World Series was
Speaker 3: great the last two years because it was the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: it was the Yankees, and you had Canada's team, the
Speaker 3: Blue Jays in there as well. So I will maintain
Speaker 3: that nobody is going to sway me otherwise. And I
Speaker 3: still don't buy there's going to be a salary cap
Speaker 3: in Major League Baseball in twenty twenty seven. And I
Speaker 3: still don't buy they are going to lose games next year.
Speaker 3: It just would be so self destructive. Eight six six
Speaker 3: nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number
Speaker 3: when we come back. We'll get to Kyle Tucker. Had
Speaker 3: a chance to catch up with Kyle Tucker after his
Speaker 3: press conference, and he talked about trying to pry away
Speaker 3: number thirty from Dave Roberts. He did address in our
Speaker 3: conversation what has been said about him from anonymous staffers
Speaker 3: with the Cubs and other people around baseball. And we'll
Speaker 3: also get to where Kyle Tucker should hit in the lineup.
Speaker 3: Where would you have Kyle Tucker hit in this incredibly
Speaker 3: talented and deep lineup. I'll let you know where I
Speaker 3: have him when we continue on Dodger Talk right here
Speaker 3: on AM five seventy LA Sports Strange.
Speaker 5: Thinking is that who working.
Speaker 3: On David Vase with you until eight o'clock tonight here
Speaker 3: on AM five seventy LA Sports heading out to spring
Speaker 3: training on February thirteenth. But before that, what really kicks
Speaker 3: off every Dodger season the last few years is Dodger Fest,
Speaker 3: and you can get tickets at Dodgers dot com slash
Speaker 3: Dodger Fest. It's coming up at the end of January,
Speaker 3: and it's January thirty first. We'll be broadcasting live from
Speaker 3: Dodgers Stadium and Dodger Fest beginning at ten am that day.
Speaker 3: You'll hear from all the big names, from Dave Roberts
Speaker 3: to Mookie Betts to Freddie Freeman. And I'm sure Kyle
Speaker 3: Tucker will be back out there as well. Will Smith,
Speaker 3: the one of the heroes of the Dodgers winning Game
Speaker 3: seven of the World Series, will be out there as well.
Speaker 3: So Dodger Fest right around the corner on January thirty
Speaker 3: first for more information on how you could get tickets.
Speaker 3: Like I said, Dodgers dot Com slash Dodgers Fest. All right,
Speaker 3: had a chance to catch up with Kyle Tucker. But
Speaker 3: before we get to Kyle, and Andrew Friedman is going
Speaker 3: to join us. At the bottom of the hour, I
Speaker 3: saw on MLB dot Com they had a projected Dodgers
Speaker 3: lineup with Kyle Tucker hitting sixth. Now, I don't know
Speaker 3: who generates that lineup? Is it AI?
Speaker 4: This?
Speaker 3: AI generate that lineup? Right? Anytime I don't see something
Speaker 3: I like, I blame AI. So I'm gonna give MLB
Speaker 3: dot Com a free pass on this because I got
Speaker 3: news for you. Any time you sign a player that
Speaker 3: is going to make sixty million dollars in one season,
Speaker 3: he's not hitting sixth. And Dave Roberts said as much
Speaker 3: at the press conference today. When somebody asked him, where's
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker going to hit? He said, don't box me in.
Speaker 3: But I'm looking at second or third in the lineup,
Speaker 3: And it makes sense. Kyle Tucker can hit lefties similar
Speaker 3: to Cody Bellinger, as I was laying that out as well.
Speaker 3: Doesn't matter if you're right to your lefty. You gotta
Speaker 3: hit lefties to protect Otani and Freddie Freeman and Kyle
Speaker 3: Tucker do that really well. Now, if Kyle Tucker is
Speaker 3: hitting in the first three, who's the other guy? Is
Speaker 3: it Mookie bedsitting third? I could see that, and then
Speaker 3: Freddy Freeman said cleanup. And then you have Will Smith
Speaker 3: hitting fifth. That's a little late for Will Smith, who's
Speaker 3: your most clutch batter, one of your best hitters. Fifth
Speaker 3: is a little low. And then you got Muncie and
Speaker 3: then you're telling me ta Oscar Hernandez is hitting sixth
Speaker 3: or seventh. I could see that. I mean, this lineup
Speaker 3: is so deep, but it's gonna be about production and
Speaker 3: how this lineup. It's a lineup, so it's not about
Speaker 3: each man on an island. It's how the lineup fits together.
Speaker 3: And it'll be interesting to see who hits third and
Speaker 3: who hits cleanup. And there's no secret Mookie Betts is
Speaker 3: coming off his worst offensive season by a mile. If
Speaker 3: he hits two sixty and struggles for the majority of
Speaker 3: the season, how do you keep them hitting in the
Speaker 3: first four. And I'm sure Mooki would be the first
Speaker 3: one to tell you that. But I know Andrew Freeman
Speaker 3: believes Mookie Bets is going to have a big bounce
Speaker 3: back year. So what didn't surprise me? If Mookie Bets
Speaker 3: is hitting third eight, six, six, nine, eighty seven, two
Speaker 3: five seventy is the phone number? Where would you hit
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker in the Dodger lineup? And where would where
Speaker 3: does Freddy Freeman and Mookie Bets go? I don't see.
Speaker 3: I don't see Freddy Freeman hitting any lower than cleanup
Speaker 3: in this lineup. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven two
Speaker 3: five seventy is the phone number? All right? Here was
Speaker 3: our exclusive one on one conversation with the newest Dodger
Speaker 3: number twenty three, Kyle Tucker. All Right, Kyle, welcome to
Speaker 3: Los Angeles. Great to see you actually wearing this Dodger jersey.
Speaker 3: What does it mean to you to start this new
Speaker 3: chapter in your baseball life?
Speaker 6: This is awesome. I'm extremely excited. I mean this, this
Speaker 6: organization's very first class organization, from you know, ownership groups
Speaker 6: to front office to the players, and you know, I
Speaker 6: think the players kind of speak for themselves with their
Speaker 6: their playing out on the field, and I think everyone
Speaker 6: kind of recognizes that. So I'm excited to just be
Speaker 6: a part of, you know, the team organization.
Speaker 1: This this city.
Speaker 3: You said during the press conference, Freddie Freeman facetimed you
Speaker 3: and said, don't do anything stupid. Does that mean he
Speaker 3: doesn't want you to try to duplicate his worm dance
Speaker 3: during the off season. Have you seen that.
Speaker 6: I don't know if that is a part of that
Speaker 6: category or not, but I mean he seemed to be
Speaker 6: pretty good at it. So I'm excited to ask him
Speaker 6: to do it live. But we'll see what happens. But yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, we just talking him on face hime for
Speaker 6: for a second before we did the press conference stuff,
Speaker 6: and he was like, just you know, don't do anything
Speaker 6: stupid and you'll be good. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 6: I appreciate it. Yeah, you know, you don't have to
Speaker 6: worry about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He seemed like you play life pretty safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I try.
Speaker 6: I try to not not get too crazy with things,
Speaker 6: especially you know, front of cameras and stuff.
Speaker 1: But no, I'm pretty good with everything, Kyl.
Speaker 3: A dimension of your game that I feel like not
Speaker 3: enough has been talked about is the running the base
Speaker 3: running in your career, you've stolen eighty eight percent of
Speaker 3: the bases. The Dodgers were near the bottom of that.
Speaker 3: Is that having the baseball IQ the awareness? How much
Speaker 3: is that speed? I mean, what part of that dimension?
Speaker 3: Where does that come from?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not like the fastest guy, but I'm
Speaker 6: not slow by any means, but I mean, if I
Speaker 6: can take an extra ninety feet whenever I see that'll
Speaker 6: benefit our team to possibly score an extra round, Like,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna try and do what I can with it.
Speaker 6: I mean, this this team's probably like if you're on
Speaker 6: first base with the team, you're probably in scoring position.
Speaker 6: So that's probably why that was a factor. But I mean,
Speaker 6: I'm excited to help out the team, whether it's on
Speaker 6: the basis defense, hitting wise, Like, I'm really excited to
Speaker 6: get things going this year.
Speaker 3: I had to look how well you've done at Dodger
Speaker 3: Stadium in a small sample size forty played appearances, You've
Speaker 3: done pretty well. How comfortable in those small nine games
Speaker 3: do you feel hitting in this ballpark? And has Dodger
Speaker 3: Stadium become a hitter's ballpark?
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know my stats like that, but
Speaker 6: I mean it's it's exciting playing here. I mean it's
Speaker 6: it's a little tough because this team is very good,
Speaker 6: and the fans definitely back then with that. So I
Speaker 6: mean it's it's exciting playing here. I mean, there's there's
Speaker 6: a lot of a lot of cool stadiums around around
Speaker 6: the league, but I think This is definitely, you know,
Speaker 6: at the top of the list with a lot of guys.
Speaker 6: So just the history behind, you know, the Dodgers organization
Speaker 6: and this city and everything, I think definitely plays a
Speaker 6: factor into playing here. And it's it's exciting to be
Speaker 6: part of that, you know, eighty one games of a year.
Speaker 3: Now, Kyle Tucker is our guest. He's the newest Dodger
Speaker 3: wearing jersey number twenty three. This is Dodger Talk until
Speaker 3: eight o'clock. Kyle. A lot of players always talk about
Speaker 3: free agency. You want it for so long and then
Speaker 3: once you're there, it's a long winding road. How tough
Speaker 3: was the process for you? And when did you start
Speaker 3: to know that the Dodgers may be the team?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it was tough.
Speaker 6: I didn't try and like kind of over analyze anything
Speaker 6: or you know, put too much pressure on, you know,
Speaker 6: any decision. But you know, you over the last couple
Speaker 6: of weeks or so from today, is is starting to
Speaker 6: get there with everything with the teams. I mean, there's
Speaker 6: a lot of really good teams and organizations out there,
Speaker 6: but you know, I just I just felt comfortable coming
Speaker 6: to LA and playing for the Dodgers. Organization, Like I said,
Speaker 6: their first class organization. This this team's phenomenal team, and
Speaker 6: I'm excited to be a part of that. So I
Speaker 6: mean when I kind of my wife and I kind
Speaker 6: of factor all that into each other, I was like,
Speaker 6: I think this is a good landing spot for us.
Speaker 6: So that's kind of what we wanted to do, And
Speaker 6: you know, I'm excited to get things started here in
Speaker 6: spring training and then you know, opening day out.
Speaker 3: Here at the beginning of the off season, did you
Speaker 3: have the Dodgers in mind? Or is this something that
Speaker 3: started to become more clear in the last three weeks.
Speaker 6: Probably more so the second part coming, you know, more
Speaker 6: clear of the last couple of weeks or so. Obviously
Speaker 6: I've never been a free agent before, so I was like,
Speaker 6: I don't know how it works, but talking to other
Speaker 6: guys that you know, have gone through the process before,
Speaker 6: it definitely helped. And just kind of have a having
Speaker 6: a nice, you know, kind of group around me to
Speaker 6: kind of you to lead me in a direction on
Speaker 6: a path that definitely helps. So I think I think we,
Speaker 6: you know, made a pretty good decision in this.
Speaker 3: You're a guy that seems to let your play do
Speaker 3: all the talking and in free agency you gotta lay back,
Speaker 3: lay low. How did it make you feel when so
Speaker 3: many people were speaking about you and for you? Was
Speaker 3: that tough to you know, restrain yourself from Hey, that's
Speaker 3: not really me.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I mean, there's you know, a lot of different opinions.
Speaker 6: You know, there's a lot a lot of people out
Speaker 6: there that have different opinions, and you know, obviously some
Speaker 6: fan bases want you to come there and don't want
Speaker 6: you to go to other organizations and whatnot.
Speaker 5: So but I don't know.
Speaker 6: I was just kind of treating it like a normal
Speaker 6: off season, hanging out with my family and going on
Speaker 6: a little vacation, playing some golf and stuff. So I
Speaker 6: was like, I'm probably a big decision to be made,
Speaker 6: but I was like, I'm just gonna try and treat
Speaker 6: it like a normal off season. That way, I'm prepared
Speaker 6: to go in spring training and have the red mindset
Speaker 6: going into the year.
Speaker 3: All right, before I let you go, we are sitting
Speaker 3: in Dave Roberts. I do not have my feed up
Speaker 3: on his desk for the record, even though I want to.
Speaker 3: What was the call like to try to get number
Speaker 3: thirty from him? You said it was a shot in
Speaker 3: the dark. Did you feel like the conversation was quick
Speaker 3: or it was a good icebreaker to get to know
Speaker 3: your new manager.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously I kind of knew the reason behind
Speaker 6: him wearing it and whatnot, but I just want to
Speaker 6: at least, you know, at least give a courtesy call
Speaker 6: about it and just kind of discuss it with him.
Speaker 6: And whether I knew it was gonna be not happening
Speaker 6: or not, but I'd figured out I at least kind
Speaker 6: of reach out to him and just discuss it with him.
Speaker 6: I told him I got a backup number in case, like,
Speaker 6: it's totally fine.
Speaker 1: I get it. So that's kind of how things worked out.
Speaker 6: So he was like, don't hate me for not doing this,
Speaker 6: But I was like, nah, it's it's totally fine.
Speaker 1: We're all good.
Speaker 6: Like I got a backup number for you, and you know,
Speaker 6: it all works out. I was like, I don't want
Speaker 6: to mess with anything we got going up here, So
Speaker 6: if that's what I kind of do, we'll stick to it.
Speaker 5: Twenty three.
Speaker 3: There's been a lot of great twenty threes in Dodger history.
Speaker 3: Eric Harros, who you're gonna see a lot and he'll
Speaker 3: remind you that's his number. And I don't know if
Speaker 3: you've heard about this guy hitting a home run in
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty eight. He was a left handed hitter, Kirk Gibson.
Speaker 3: So I know Michael Brantlee is your guy. But twenty
Speaker 3: three means a lot for the Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of great players out there,
Speaker 6: like you mentioned, and I'm just excited to have this
Speaker 6: one and you know, start a new new part of
Speaker 6: my career here and you know, get things rolling with
Speaker 6: twenty three.
Speaker 3: All right, you look suited and booted, ready to go
Speaker 3: for LA. Damn good hair. Tucker, thanks a lot for
Speaker 3: the time and welcome to LA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: All right, there is Kyle Tucker, your first introduction to
Speaker 3: the Dodgers new right fielder. That's right, As we talked
Speaker 3: about many times on this show, Tucker will play right,
Speaker 3: Pahz will play center, and ta Oscar Hernandez we'll move
Speaker 3: back to left field. And my bad to Adrian Gonzalez.
Speaker 3: Another really good twenty three. I'm sorry, Gonzo, I did
Speaker 3: not forget you. Twenty three. Adrian Gonzalez, Eric Harros and
Speaker 3: Kurt Gibson have made that number famous wearing a Dodger jersey,
Speaker 3: and certainly it'll be even more bigger moments coming with
Speaker 3: another twenty three. This one. Kyle Tucker and I know
Speaker 3: you know, we talked about this during the offseason, and
Speaker 3: part of the reason why many people believe from what
Speaker 3: I understand, that Kyle Tucker didn't sign sooner or get
Speaker 3: more of an aggressive long term contract from another team
Speaker 3: outside of the Blue Jays was because there were some
Speaker 3: questions about the enthusiasm for the game of baseball. But
Speaker 3: you're going to hear from Andrew Freeman coming up in
Speaker 3: our next segment, and the Kyle Tucker that he describes
Speaker 3: is much different from the Kyle Tuck from the Kyle
Speaker 3: Tucker that we have heard about during this opseason. And look,
Speaker 3: I've talked to some players. It's gonna be proven on
Speaker 3: the field and we're gonna see whether or not this
Speaker 3: Dodger team, that Dodger club house, that Dodger culture, is
Speaker 3: going to bring the best out of Kyle Tucker. Because
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts challenged him to be better at today's press conference.
Speaker 3: So the Dodgers are a big believer that even though
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker has had a really good career to this
Speaker 3: point that he can be better, and that set the
Speaker 3: tone today. Let's go out to Pomona. Danny, you're on
Speaker 3: Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.
Speaker 7: Danny, Hey, David, how's doing Buddy? My question to you, actually,
Speaker 7: I would like to see Tucker at fifth and the
Speaker 7: reason is because if the guys get on base and
Speaker 7: he can bring him home, I think it's a win
Speaker 7: win situation. But what is your Who do you think
Speaker 7: had the best lineup for the Dodgers' history? And I'll
Speaker 7: take your call. I'll take your answer offline.
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 3: Okay? Well, that I mean I would have to take
Speaker 3: a look at that and really examine it. The greatest
Speaker 3: lineup in Dodger history, it would be certainly the seventy
Speaker 3: seven Dodgers. The majority of those players that played on
Speaker 3: the seven seventy seven to eighty one Dodgers, even the
Speaker 3: team that ended up winning the World Series, to a man,
Speaker 3: they all say the seventy seven Dodgers were the best.
Speaker 3: You look at what the seventeen Dodgers were doing. They
Speaker 3: may not have been what they became, but certainly they
Speaker 3: were a prolific offense. You look at a lineup in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one that won one hundred and six games
Speaker 3: with Trey Turner and Corey Seeger and Cody Bellinger and
Speaker 3: Justin Turner in the slame lineup. Those three come to
Speaker 3: mind off the top of my head, and I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: I disagree with you. I understand driving in runs, but
Speaker 3: you want to have Kyle Tucker hitting in your first three.
Speaker 3: He's that type of guy. And like I said, you
Speaker 3: don't pay him sixty million dollars if you believe he's
Speaker 3: a five hitter. I'm sorry. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,
Speaker 3: two five seventy is the phone number. When we continue,
Speaker 3: we'll check in with Andrew Friedman. Had a chance to
Speaker 3: talk to him about Kyle Tucker and the signing and
Speaker 3: where the Dodgers offense is headed this season as they
Speaker 3: person z sue a three peat right here on a
Speaker 3: five to seventy LA sports great pol callin ye. Everybody
Speaker 3: wants to rule the baseball world, but the Dodgers have
Speaker 3: ruled it for the last two seasons, back to back
Speaker 3: World Series champions, going for history a three peat in LA.
Speaker 3: It all starts as the Dodgers get ready for spring
Speaker 3: training at Dodger Fest January thirty first, will be broadcasting
Speaker 3: live from Dodgers Stadium at ten am, and you can
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Speaker 3: back to back World Series champions at Dodgers dot com
Speaker 3: slash Dodger Fest. Our next Dodger talk show is going
Speaker 3: to be on Friday night at seven o'clock. Happens to
Speaker 3: be my mom, Bianca's birthday. And since I am a
Speaker 3: sentimental guy and I am still a loyal guide to
Speaker 3: many of the Dodgers that have worn the uniform the
Speaker 3: last fifteen years, especially that I've been lucky enough to
Speaker 3: cover it, so happens that it's falling into place. They
Speaker 3: always come crawling back. That's what I always say. They
Speaker 3: always come crawling back. And look who's crawling back. He
Speaker 3: was in Seami Valley this past weekend and reached out
Speaker 3: to me wanting to come on the show, and that
Speaker 3: is Mariachi Joe Kelly. That's right. They always come crawling back,
Speaker 3: even from riverside. Joe Kelly is going to be on
Speaker 3: the show Friday night, and also Chris Taylor, who will
Speaker 3: get a world series ring from being part of this
Speaker 3: Dodger team at the beginning of the year, finished it
Speaker 3: injured with the Angels. He is going to have his
Speaker 3: third annual Polar Plunge at the Manhattan Beach Pier on
Speaker 3: February first, the day after Dodger Fest. So wanted to
Speaker 3: give Chris Taylor some love. And there's actually a video
Speaker 3: that former Dodger hitting coach Turner Ward posted today on
Speaker 3: his Instagram behind the scenes look, and I posted this
Speaker 3: on my Instagram story at officially vassay of Chris Taylor
Speaker 3: kind of emulating Justin Turner's batting stance as Justin Turner
Speaker 3: is getting ready for a game in the batting cage
Speaker 3: and on the couch you see a young Cody Bellinger, who,
Speaker 3: by the way, re signed with the Yankees today and
Speaker 3: Jock Peterson walking by Jock now is with the Rangers.
Speaker 3: So great to reconnect with Chris Taylor. He'll join us
Speaker 3: on Friday night. And yes, my old friend of me,
Speaker 3: Joe Kelly, will join us on Friday night as well.
Speaker 3: So if you love those two guys, if you love
Speaker 3: what Andrew Freeman has built and the players that he
Speaker 3: has brought in, so many great personalities, so many winners
Speaker 3: since twenty fifteen, and those are two of those guys.
Speaker 3: So looking forward to having both of them on the
Speaker 3: show Friday night. Speaking of Andrew Friedman, after we talked
Speaker 3: to Kyle Tucker, Andrew Friedman sat down on the vast
Speaker 3: a couch outside of the Dodger Clubhouse and here was
Speaker 3: our conversation. All right, Andrew, another day, another big signing,
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker. When did this start to become something you
Speaker 3: felt could really happen?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I think getting into the off season
Speaker 8: and thinking about our roster, the needs, what the free
Speaker 8: agent market looked like, what the trademarket looked like. Kyle
Speaker 8: was at the top of the list in terms of
Speaker 8: guy who could move our World Series odds most significantly.
Speaker 8: That being said, you know, we had no real expectation
Speaker 8: in terms of how realistic it was going to be,
Speaker 8: because for us, it was about doing something short term.
Speaker 8: We have a lot of long term contracts on the books,
Speaker 8: and for us, it was about you know, being as
Speaker 8: good as we could be right now with the core
Speaker 8: that we have in place, but not adding more or
Speaker 8: in a way that might really hinder us.
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty nine, twenty.
Speaker 8: Thirty, just looking out years to give us and keep
Speaker 8: us with the most flexibility, because while we're doing everything
Speaker 8: we can to win a championship in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 8: we have to keep an eye to those out years.
Speaker 8: And we've talked about it a lot over the years,
Speaker 8: you know, to not fall off the proverbial cliff. We've
Speaker 8: seen a lot of large market teams have a run
Speaker 8: of success fall off the cliff and take years to
Speaker 8: build back. So we're doing everything we can so for
Speaker 8: us going into this winner, we were only looking at
Speaker 8: shorter term deals and kind of pair as high end
Speaker 8: to talent with the group we have right now to
Speaker 8: do everything we can over the next couple of years
Speaker 8: to not be flipping about the opportunity we have in
Speaker 8: front of us with the group that we have in place,
Speaker 8: but also not do so in an irresponsible way that
Speaker 8: would come back to really hurt us later. So we
Speaker 8: didn't really have a great sense for the likelihood of
Speaker 8: that lining up.
Speaker 5: And I would.
Speaker 8: Say, you know, five six days before the signing is
Speaker 8: when we felt like, okay, this has some shot. And
Speaker 8: then Doc Gohmer and I got on a another zoom
Speaker 8: call with Tuck and his wife Sam, and the conversation
Speaker 8: got into the community and where to live, and you know,
Speaker 8: our foundation and things we do in the community and
Speaker 8: things they do in the community, and it got much
Speaker 8: more detailed, nuanced in a way where I thought, we
Speaker 8: do have a real shot at this. I can't remember
Speaker 8: a situation where a guy has signed a shorter term,
Speaker 8: higher AAV deal when he's also had a long term,
Speaker 8: big money deal on the table. Usually it's because that
Speaker 8: hasn't materialized and they signed the shorter term deal and
Speaker 8: try to reset the market. And so obviously it's a
Speaker 8: very personal decision, but for us, it was about putting
Speaker 8: the organization, the community, the fan base, the group of
Speaker 8: players we have, and the opportunity in front of us
Speaker 8: and sell that as much as we possibly could, which
Speaker 8: gets back to kind of our ultimate goal, which is
Speaker 8: to create a destination spot where our own players don't
Speaker 8: want to leave, where players from other organizations want to come.
Speaker 8: And I think it really played a factor in a
Speaker 8: real role with us recruiting Tuck here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is not unique. You've offered this type of
Speaker 3: shorter term contract with a higher AAV to a couple
Speaker 3: of other players that opted, like you said, to take
Speaker 3: a longer term contract. What does that say about what
Speaker 3: you've created here where now players will sacrifice that type
Speaker 3: of long term security to be a part of this team.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think the way that the Dodgers organization,
Speaker 8: our staff take care of players and families, I think
Speaker 8: is getting around the league in a way where we've
Speaker 8: had guys reach out, agents reach out and say, hey,
Speaker 8: I know you haven't called, but our player would really
Speaker 8: like to play there.
Speaker 5: And so we're feeling it way more over the last
Speaker 5: three four years.
Speaker 8: And that's the ultimate because obviously winning is everything, but
Speaker 8: you win by creating that environment, and by creating that environment,
Speaker 8: you get your own players to want to stay, you
Speaker 8: get players from other organizations wanting to join on, and
Speaker 8: then that's how you know championships are won. And so
Speaker 8: it's not something we'll ever take lightly and put our
Speaker 8: feet up and say, Okay, we've done it. It's kind
Speaker 8: of a living organism that you have to continue to
Speaker 8: nurture and enhance. But I feel like we've made a
Speaker 8: ton of progress on that front and it's something that
Speaker 8: is very real and tangible and playing out in free agency.
Speaker 3: You were very honest and open about the fact that
Speaker 3: the offense did not live up to what your standards were,
Speaker 3: what you thought the ceiling was for that team, to say,
Speaker 3: and half of the season and the postseason last year,
Speaker 3: how much does Tucker change the dynamic of your entire
Speaker 3: lineup and your offense.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I still think there's internal work we
Speaker 8: need to do, because I do feel like from July
Speaker 8: through the end of the regular season and into October,
Speaker 8: we did not perform up to expectations. And obviously there's
Speaker 8: some injury stuff and there's different factors that play into that,
Speaker 8: but we also need to have our eyes wide open
Speaker 8: and figure out ways we can get better. And I
Speaker 8: think what's exciting about this group is that everyone's focused
Speaker 8: on that.
Speaker 5: No one's pointing fingers, there's no blame, no.
Speaker 8: It's just about how can we do this together and
Speaker 8: continue to get better. And obviously adding Kyle will help
Speaker 8: in a meaningful way. He's the guy that you could
Speaker 8: argue is better against left and right. It's at least
Speaker 8: close elite decision maker, elite back to ballsk and just
Speaker 8: putting that type of hitter in our lineup is going
Speaker 8: to lengthen it in a crazy way. It's going to add,
Speaker 8: you know, real impact throughout our lineup in terms of
Speaker 8: how he chews up pitches, the fact that he really
Speaker 8: doesn't swing and miss very often, so putting balls in
Speaker 8: play and how that can help score runs.
Speaker 5: And I think the thing that kind of surprises a
Speaker 5: little bit through our.
Speaker 8: Conversations with him this winter is how much he cares
Speaker 8: about the little things and getting better. On the basis,
Speaker 8: getting better defensively. You know, last year's defense slips some
Speaker 8: now some of that is the number of day games
Speaker 8: in Chicago, and that can kind of wreck havoc on
Speaker 8: a lot of guys defensive numbers. But of challenging him
Speaker 8: for the you know, to buy into the daily routine
Speaker 8: that we see all of our guys do.
Speaker 5: He said he was all in on that.
Speaker 8: So I think just the value he can add defensively,
Speaker 8: the fact that he's hungry for growth and to learn
Speaker 8: more and to get better fits in very well within
Speaker 8: our environment, and we're going to continue to work with him,
Speaker 8: do everything we can to help make him better and
Speaker 8: better and help us win more games.
Speaker 3: The guy you just described getting to know through this
Speaker 3: free agency process doesn't seem to be the same guy
Speaker 3: that a lot of people were speaking about anonymously, you
Speaker 3: know in the shadows. What did you think about all
Speaker 3: that and do you feel like he's been misrepresented?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean we obviously we spend a lot of
Speaker 8: time on this talking to teammates and coaches and clubhouse
Speaker 8: staff he's been around, and trainers and just trying to
Speaker 8: understand him more. And I think, you know, he doesn't
Speaker 8: have the most demonstrative personality. It's not the biggest personality,
Speaker 8: and so I think his demeanor can be misconstrued. For us,
Speaker 8: We've got enough personalities. For us, it's about how well
Speaker 8: does he compete in the box, how hard does he work?
Speaker 8: How much does he care about winning? And for us,
Speaker 8: we felt like all those questions are really satisfied. His
Speaker 8: you know, commitment to you know, doing that daily defensive routine,
Speaker 8: which our guys do, we think speaks to that just
Speaker 8: add attention to detail and the fact that if you
Speaker 8: make it that important that you know, he's got the
Speaker 8: physical ability to be good out there, and it's just
Speaker 8: bringing that to life more obviously what he does in
Speaker 8: the box. You know, he's got a routine that when
Speaker 8: we acquired Freddy Freeman, people were like, oh, you know,
Speaker 8: he just his pregame routine just isn't very elaborate.
Speaker 5: That's okay.
Speaker 8: Guys who are really good at what they do and
Speaker 8: have a comfort with how they go about it. We're
Speaker 8: not looking to change, and so it is a more
Speaker 8: simple kind of pregame routine in terms of what he
Speaker 8: needs to get ready. But we don't have a rule
Speaker 8: of you have to do this. We have some guys
Speaker 8: who hit, in my opinion, too much before a game,
Speaker 8: and so for me, guys who hit too little before
Speaker 8: a game. If they're going out and producing at seven o'clock, that's.
Speaker 5: Not too little.
Speaker 8: And I think it's just about whatever you need to
Speaker 8: get ready to go out and compete and help us
Speaker 8: win a baseball game. And we feel very good about that.
Speaker 4: Yea.
Speaker 3: That goes back to what everybody on your staff says.
Speaker 3: We just let these guys be themselves, and that's what
Speaker 3: allows all of it to come together, is being yourself.
Speaker 3: Allowed Freddy Freeman to do the Worm more than twice
Speaker 3: this obseason, and I thought it was ironic that he's
Speaker 3: telling Kyle Tucker not to do anything stupid after seeing
Speaker 3: the Worm. Where are you at on the Worm and
Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 8: I was incredibly impressed by it, setting aside my emotions
Speaker 8: of how much I disliked it, and I can't wait
Speaker 8: to see him do it every week when he's working
Speaker 8: with us after he's done playing.
Speaker 5: Now I don't like it as much, but.
Speaker 3: On a scale of ten, it's gotta be a.
Speaker 5: Nine, right, it's solid.
Speaker 8: I mean, I may give it a nine and a half,
Speaker 8: but anytime he does it until he retires, it's a zero.
Speaker 5: It's a disqualification. It's a zero. I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I'm the only one that can do foolish things.
Speaker 5: Exactly, and we've got you. It's perfect. That's enough for us.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for the time, and I feel like
Speaker 3: my hair can compete with Tuckers, no doubt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I gotta tell you.
Speaker 8: I spent a little time during this interview looking at
Speaker 8: it and kind of taking it in and the symmetry
Speaker 8: it's impressive.
Speaker 3: We'll leave it right there. There's the great Andrew Friedman
Speaker 3: looking for that three pete. No doubt, And yes, indeed,
Speaker 3: thanks to my guy doctor Deutsch at Bosley, the symmetry
Speaker 3: of the head and the lettuce is looking great. I'm
Speaker 3: not ashamed. About it anyway. You know, everybody in the
Speaker 3: media world, and rightfully so, talking Hall of Fame for
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts. If you're saying Dave Roberts Hall of Famer
Speaker 3: in the same breath, you better say Hall of Famer
Speaker 3: Andrew Friedman, because you can't say Dave Roberts without Andrew Friedman,
Speaker 3: and vice versa. You don't say Andrew Friedman without Dave Roberts.
Speaker 3: They are together, right They're synonymous with each other. They're linked.
Speaker 3: There's no changing that right now. They are linked. Unprecedented
Speaker 3: success during their tenure of being partners in all this,
Speaker 3: and the one word I remember when Andrew Friedman was
Speaker 3: introduced taken over for Ned Colletti. He always talked about
Speaker 3: a collaborative effort, and Dave Roberts and Andrew Freeman certainly
Speaker 3: have had that. And I feel like it went to
Speaker 3: another level during the twenty twenty season and during that
Speaker 3: World Series. You know, being in that bubble, being in
Speaker 3: select from the outside noise more than any other regular season,
Speaker 3: feels like something changed in twenty twenty and it's just
Speaker 3: been you know, they've been in lockstep ever since the
Speaker 3: beginning of twenty twenty and they certainly have brought a
Speaker 3: lot of success to the Dodgers. And speaking of the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame, we haven't been we haven't been on
Speaker 3: since they elected Andrew Jones and Carlos Beltran into the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame. Let's start with Beltran. All these writers
Speaker 3: are so against the Barry Bonds, the Mark mcguires, the
Speaker 3: a Rods because they cheated the game. So I guess
Speaker 3: we're just going to have amnesia, selective amnesia when it
Speaker 3: comes to Carlos Beltran, who was one of, if not
Speaker 3: the ringleader, of the Astros cheating scandal in twenty seventeen. Yes,
Speaker 3: he was one of the great offensive center fielders in
Speaker 3: baseball history over twenty years, even though he did play
Speaker 3: twenty years and never accumulated three thousand hits or five
Speaker 3: hundred home runs. But he did hit four hundred plus
Speaker 3: home runs and had a lifetime batting average of close
Speaker 3: to three hundred. But he still cheated. The Mets hired
Speaker 3: him to be their manager, and when that came out,
Speaker 3: they couldn't hire him anymore because he was tainted. Barry
Speaker 3: Bonds made his teams better by trying to enhance his
Speaker 3: body and his performance, and he never tested positive. For
Speaker 3: all those that say he tested positive when he never
Speaker 3: tested positive. So I have an issue with that. If
Speaker 3: you're going to be on that side of history where
Speaker 3: you're not going to vote for the Bonds, the Clemens,
Speaker 3: the a Rods, how can you vote for Carlos Beltie
Speaker 3: and Andrew Jones? Come on, come on? Really he was good,
Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean he was a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3: I saw Andrew Jones play. He was really good, but
Speaker 3: he wasn't a Hall of Famer, trust me. And he
Speaker 3: cheated the game in some ways by not giving full
Speaker 3: effort when he signed with the Dodgers. Remember that one year,
Speaker 3: twenty million dollar contract I do. I mean that was
Speaker 3: not one of Neck Coletti's best moments sonning Andrew Jones,
Speaker 3: and that was that was you know, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to say that, mates, it makes his career. But even
Speaker 3: when he was with the Braves, I know his teammates
Speaker 3: love him, but who doesn't love their teammates. He's not
Speaker 3: a Hall of Famer. So I have a bigger issue
Speaker 3: with Carlos Beltrend than I have with Andrew Jones, and
Speaker 3: I kind of have an issue with both of them
Speaker 3: in separate ways. I'm not a big haul guy. Baseball
Speaker 3: has separated itself from the Basketball Hall of Fame and
Speaker 3: also the Pro Football Hall of Fame by really making
Speaker 3: it the Hall of Fame. And even in the Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame itself, there's different levels of Hall of Famers,
Speaker 3: but it feels like the standard has been lowered, and
Speaker 3: everybody tries to, you know, with time and statistics and analytics,
Speaker 3: trying to make a case and a reason for why
Speaker 3: somebody should be in there, and it's never consistent. If
Speaker 3: you're talking about a six year peak, is that really
Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame career? I don't buy into that.
Speaker 3: Sandy coach I hate when people bring up Sandy Kofex.
Speaker 3: He's an outlier. Of course, he was one of the
Speaker 3: greatest pitchers of all time, even in a short span.
Speaker 3: But that's not the case with everybody else. And also
Speaker 3: the guys that played twenty years, you should be able
Speaker 3: to get five hundred home runs and three thousand hits.
Speaker 3: Baltrand played twenty years, cheated and never got those numbers.
Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, telling me in twenty seventeen
Speaker 3: when he came up with this idea and how to
Speaker 3: bang the trash cans and use the video to their advantage.
Speaker 3: You're telling me Carlos Beltrand never did something out of
Speaker 3: bounds with other teams to steal signs. Hard to believe.
Speaker 3: Hard to believe. How can he not be allowed to
Speaker 3: manage in Major League Baseball? But then you're going to
Speaker 3: elect him into the Hall of Fame. To me, it's
Speaker 3: a huge contradiction. And honestly, I don't get that worked
Speaker 3: up anymore about the Hall of Fame. I think it's
Speaker 3: been so watered down and there's been so many contradictions
Speaker 3: that it doesn't mean as much as it used to.
Speaker 3: It may not mean anything to me until some of
Speaker 3: these Dodgers and some of these players of this generation
Speaker 3: are eligible for the Hall of Fame. And I'm not
Speaker 3: just saying Dodger players, but players from this generation. And
Speaker 3: maybe it starts next year with Buster Posey, of all people,
Speaker 3: he's going to be on the ballot for the first time,
Speaker 3: and also Dusty Baker and Bruce Bochi are going to
Speaker 3: be eligible in a committee vote. So I hate to
Speaker 3: break this to you Dodger fans, you may have a
Speaker 3: trio of giants inducted into the Hall of Fame next year.
Speaker 3: Two managers and a Hall of Fame catcher and Buster Posey.
Speaker 3: All right, that'll do it for us on Dodger Talk tonight.
Speaker 3: We'll be back with you on Friday night at seven o'clock.
Speaker 3: Mariachi Joe Kelly will join us, as will Chris Taylor.
Speaker 3: Thanks to Kyle Tucker and Andrew Friedman for their time today.
Speaker 3: Thanks to the La Breakfast Club for having me up
Speaker 3: earlier than I ever have been in a very long time.
Speaker 3: That's good training for spring training. I have to wake
Speaker 3: up early for spring training, So thank you to the
Speaker 3: La Wacky Breakfast Club, and thanks to Colinie for all
Speaker 3: his help, and thank you for listening. In case you
Speaker 3: missed any of the show or interviews with Tucker and Friedman,
Speaker 3: you can find it on the iHeartRadio app. You can
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Speaker 3: Cody Bellinger stays with the Yankees, Kyle Tucker is officially
Speaker 3: a Dodger, and Freddie Peralta traded to the Mets. As
Speaker 3: the baseball world turns sounds like a great sport to me.
Speaker 3: Don't let anybody tell you anything different have a great
Speaker 3: rest of your night. See you