WEBVTT - Offseason Dodger Talk (1-21-26) 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.639 All come on back. 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.240 Before you know it, they'll be back on the field 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.440 at Camelback Ranch. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:08.200 Why can't this be spring training? 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.399 But our coverage of the blue never stops. AM five 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.080 LA Sports. This is off season Dodger Talk. Get in 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:19.840 on the show by calling eight six six seven hashtag 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:25.079 Dodger Talk. And now your host, David Bassey, Welcome. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.880 To Dodger Talk. David Masse with you until eight o'clock 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.600 tonight here on AM five seventy LA Sports. And we 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.360 have a full board of calls. Thank you to Petro 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.760 some money for that four hour love fest. Great to 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.199 hear Dave Roberts cackle it up with the boys, and 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.680 they cackled right back when Dave Roberts, a three times 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:50.360 World Series manager, cackles at them and oh a humble brag. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.560 He'll be playing at Augusta next week. Oh okay, Dave, Okay, 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.319 we get it, We get it, Dave. Hey, those are 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.560 the fruits of being a back to back World Series 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.040 champion manager. Those are the fruits of being a three 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:08.080 time World Series manager as well. We have a great 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.759 show for you tonight. The man of the Hour, Kyle 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.240 Tucker is going to join us. You'll hear our conversation 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.240 with Kyle after today's press conference coming up in fifteen minutes, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.960 and at the bottom of the hour you'll hear from 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.360 Andrew Friedman. So we'll get to those two guys later 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.360 in the show, but between now and then, it's your 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.679 phone calls at eight sixty six nine eight seven two 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:36.320 five seventy. I got worried about this yesterday and now 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.440 it's starting to really gain traction in New York. We 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.680 had talked about in our last show about the possibility 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.560 of the Dodgers being the team to trade for the 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.880 Brewers Freddie Peralta. Well, it looks like the Mets are 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:54.080 going to be the ones trading for Freddie Peralta, and 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.000 that's a big acquisition for them, and they're rumored to 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.240 be in the mix for from Bravaldez as well. So 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:05.360 the Mets are quietly loading up. I would say that 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.280 they've had a better off season than what their fan 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:13.640 base beliefs they've had, and if they're able to pull 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.200 off this trade, which it looks like it's going to happen, 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:21.040 and then sign fran Bravaldez, they're solidifying their starting rotation. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.120 And I started to get worried about this that the 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:29.000 Dodgers and Brewers never were really close to making a trade. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.720 But the Mets certainly were engaged with the Brewers. And 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.880 don't forget the Mets GM president of Baseball Operations is 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.760 David Stearns, And what team did he used to run? 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.600 What team was he connected to the most? The Brewers. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.880 That's why he and Matt Arnold are able to pull 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.920 off a trade like this. So that's happening. Freddy Prault 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.119 is going to the Mets, and man, I just got 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.840 to say, before we really get deep into Dodger baseball, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.639 I had a wild day today. I woke up at 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:05.880 five am this morning because I got invited to speak 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.959 at this La Breakfast Club, which takes place in Los 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:17.040 Phelis at the Friendship Auditorium between Glendale Boulevard and Los 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.640 Felis Boulevard. And the way they reached out to me 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:25.440 was through Instagram dming me and it seemed legit. They're like, hey, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.959 would you mind speaking to our breakfast club. I was like, yeah, sure, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.680 Now breakfast for me, I'm not a big breakfast guy. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:38.440 Breakfast for me is like nine thirty or ten. So 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.680 usually when people contact me through Instagram or any social 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:50.200 media platform to speak to their club. Low maintenance, right, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.840 it's you go into a room, maybe a banquet hall, 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.160 and you do a little talk and take some questions. 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:03.000 But they really put together production and this La Breakfast Club. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.480 I'll give you some local knowledge, as Petros would like 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:10.040 to say about the La Breakfast Club. A wacky group 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.040 that meets every week and they try to bring in 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.040 special speakers. And I want to say thank you to Rachel, 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.200 who's a big Dodger fan and certainly a big Dodger 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.560 talk fan. So Rachel was awesome and she educated me 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.599 on the La Breakfast Club. The Warner Brothers used to 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.200 be members of the La Breakfast Club. And how about 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:36.039 this when the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Walter O'Malley 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.760 spoke at the same desk that I spoke at today 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.320 at the La Breakfast Club. Yeah, this is a very 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:50.400 historical club. They meet every week and very early seven am, 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.680 I saw one of our old engineers that I used 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.240 to work with at the place across the street on 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.760 Los Sienaga, Tim Ahern. Great to see Tim Ahearn. But 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.480 I spoke to that group. They are wacky they are 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.520 fun and they love the Dodgers. So it was great 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.320 to meet everybody today at the La Breakfast Club and 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.120 they're like, Hey, are you going to talk about this 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.160 on the show? I said, listen, after what I've seen 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:19.600 here today, I'm traumatized and impressed, and I'm certainly going 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.479 to talk about it. But great people out there. They're 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.599 just good people, just having a good time. Very wild 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:31.280 better than me walking my wife's dog around the neighborhood 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:35.640 and being accosted by neighbor Richie, the Yankee fan that 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:40.239 just wants to continue to badger me about a salary cap. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.520 And speaking of a salary cap, I want to address 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.280 this part. Rob Manfred not sure if this was highlighted 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.159 as much as some of the other highlights of his 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.560 interview with Wfan last week, but he was asked directly 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:00.279 about the Dodgers and they're spending and honestly, I hate 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:04.200 to say they're spending their competitiveness because they are the 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:09.080 most well rounded organization in Major League Baseball. They don't 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.960 just throw money at players. They have a great infrastructure 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.440 that Andrew Friedman built from the ground up back in 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:21.720 twenty fifteen. I mean literally, net COLETTI had no resources 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.800 when he was the GM under Frank McCort to bring 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:29.560 in the infrastructure that Andrew Friedman brought in, and that 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.760 is the basis of the culture that he has created. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.560 And here's what Rob Manfred had to say about the 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.640 question about the Dodgers and if he has any concerns 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.200 about the Dodgers. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:47.000 I admire what the Dodger organization has done on both 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.000 sides of the house. I mean, they've done a phenomenal 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.640 job on the revenue side, and they've made great baseball decisions, 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.040 and you know, getting those two together is harder than 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.400 you think. And everything they've done completely within the rules. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:04.200 And a large market like the Dodgers does drive your business. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.719 I mean there's no you know, whether you say large 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.920 market villain whatever, you know, a team that's winning a 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:15.880 lot does can drive the market. I think the advantage 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.520 baseball has a very random sport, and you know, the 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.920 chances of stringing that many together I think are fairly limited. 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.800 But I do get concerned. You know, we try to 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.440 listen to our fans, and we do hear from fans 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.200 in a lot of markets that. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:33.680 You know, kids a city. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:38.840 When we look at the resources they have compared to 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.360 the resources that are available in our market. We don't 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.600 feel like it's quite a fair shake. And that's an 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:44.880 issue we're going to have to deal with. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.080 All right. The end of that answer is so ridiculous. 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.480 The Royals won the World Series and went back to 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.600 back World Series back in the you know, just ten 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.800 years ago, so that just doesn't hold water with me. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.080 And oh, by the way, the men Mets were the 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:05.360 ones that offered Kyle Tucker the fifty five million dollars 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.440 annual average salary. It was the Mets that signed Bob 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:14.040 Bishett to a forty million dollar contract for one season 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.560 because he can opt out after this year, and I 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.080 have a feeling he will opt out after this season. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.120 So let's not forget that. You know, the evil empire 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.800 or the villain of baseball was the Yankees and the 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:31.280 Red Sox who bought up every player imaginable to buy 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:36.640 their World Series championships from two to nine. Yeah, that 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.319 Yankee World Series and oh nine, how many homegrown guys 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.120 were on that team? The guys that were, they were 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:47.080 starting to get a little long in the tooth. And uh, 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:50.360 as far as you know, the Yankees now they're not 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.040 well rounded and have not been well rounded in over 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:58.679 twenty five years. So the Dodgers are what every other 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.280 team strives to be and a lot of things have 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:07.440 been They've been great. I'll back up here. The Dodgers 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:12.360 have executed really well. But luck is involved as well. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.360 There have been some trades, there have been some signings 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:21.040 that didn't happen, and they benefited from that, and you 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.199 got to think that there is some luck. You talk 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.720 about luck winning the World Series. Well, as they used 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.240 to say, some trades that you don't make are the 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.160 best ones. Some of the signings that you don't get 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:36.040 the best ones. And you can thank the Braves and 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.600 the Red Sox for saying goodbye to two really good 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.200 players that are future Hall of famers, and Freddie Freeman 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.360 and Mookie Betts. You could thank the Angels for saying 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.120 goodbye to show Hey Otani, who's the best player on 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:52.280 the planet, who has been the reason why the Dodgers 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:57.960 have been able to reap the benefits of an international megastar, 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:03.440 not superstar mega star. And again Scott Boris. You know 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.400 many of you don't like Scott Boris. I do because 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.360 he makes a lot of common sense, and he gave 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.760 a statement today that said, this is a moment in 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.559 time in the sport. There is no need for overreaction 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:21.000 because o'tani is a once in a lifetime player. He 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.240 agreed to sign an incredible contract that allows the Dodgers 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.400 to be able to go out and fill in the 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.040 roster around him. There's no need for a salary cap. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.319 There is a need for more teams to be able 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:39.520 to try to reinvest the luxury tax dollars and the 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.880 revenue they get from around Major League Baseball back into 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.720 their teams, like the Pirates, the Reds, the Marlins. They 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.480 all got to do that. And I applaud the Brewers 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.320 because the Brewers actually have maintained a payroll over one 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.000 hundred and thirty million dollars, and they actually have had 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.000 two really good gms and David Stearns and Matt Arnold 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.000 that have built an infrastructure to compete every year, similar 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.880 to Andrew Freeman and now Eric Neander in Tampa Bay. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:12.720 With limited resources, it can be done. It can be done. 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:17.640 But this is such an overreaction for anybody to say 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:23.320 the Dodgers are ruining baseball. Honestly, the World Series was 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.920 great the last two years because it was the Dodgers, 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.480 it was the Yankees, and you had Canada's team, the 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:35.040 Blue Jays in there as well. So I will maintain 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.640 that nobody is going to sway me otherwise. And I 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.079 still don't buy there's going to be a salary cap 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.120 in Major League Baseball in twenty twenty seven. And I 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:48.240 still don't buy they are going to lose games next year. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.120 It just would be so self destructive. Eight six six 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.920 nine eight seven two five seventy is the phone number 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.200 when we come back. We'll get to Kyle Tucker. Had 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.839 a chance to catch up with Kyle Tucker after his 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:06.320 press conference, and he talked about trying to pry away 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.800 number thirty from Dave Roberts. He did address in our 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:14.079 conversation what has been said about him from anonymous staffers 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.520 with the Cubs and other people around baseball. And we'll 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.920 also get to where Kyle Tucker should hit in the lineup. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:24.440 Where would you have Kyle Tucker hit in this incredibly 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.920 talented and deep lineup. I'll let you know where I 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.760 have him when we continue on Dodger Talk right here 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.960 on AM five seventy LA Sports Strange. 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.920 Thinking is that who working. 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:46.160 On David Vase with you until eight o'clock tonight here 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.960 on AM five seventy LA Sports heading out to spring 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:54.160 training on February thirteenth. But before that, what really kicks 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.400 off every Dodger season the last few years is Dodger Fest, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.439 and you can get tickets at Dodgers dot com slash 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.560 Dodger Fest. It's coming up at the end of January, 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:10.320 and it's January thirty first. We'll be broadcasting live from 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:14.280 Dodgers Stadium and Dodger Fest beginning at ten am that day. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.840 You'll hear from all the big names, from Dave Roberts 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.439 to Mookie Betts to Freddie Freeman. And I'm sure Kyle 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.680 Tucker will be back out there as well. Will Smith, 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.120 the one of the heroes of the Dodgers winning Game 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.560 seven of the World Series, will be out there as well. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.480 So Dodger Fest right around the corner on January thirty 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.520 first for more information on how you could get tickets. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:42.720 Like I said, Dodgers dot Com slash Dodgers Fest. All right, 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.080 had a chance to catch up with Kyle Tucker. But 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.200 before we get to Kyle, and Andrew Friedman is going 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.600 to join us. At the bottom of the hour, I 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.000 saw on MLB dot Com they had a projected Dodgers 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:58.320 lineup with Kyle Tucker hitting sixth. Now, I don't know 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.600 who generates that lineup? Is it AI? 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:02.920 This? 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.120 AI generate that lineup? Right? Anytime I don't see something 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.080 I like, I blame AI. So I'm gonna give MLB 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.280 dot Com a free pass on this because I got 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.280 news for you. Any time you sign a player that 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.240 is going to make sixty million dollars in one season, 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.960 he's not hitting sixth. And Dave Roberts said as much 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.360 at the press conference today. When somebody asked him, where's 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.560 Kyle Tucker going to hit? He said, don't box me in. 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.560 But I'm looking at second or third in the lineup, 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.680 And it makes sense. Kyle Tucker can hit lefties similar 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.280 to Cody Bellinger, as I was laying that out as well. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.920 Doesn't matter if you're right to your lefty. You gotta 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.040 hit lefties to protect Otani and Freddie Freeman and Kyle 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:51.320 Tucker do that really well. Now, if Kyle Tucker is 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:55.320 hitting in the first three, who's the other guy? Is 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.120 it Mookie bedsitting third? I could see that, and then 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.360 Freddy Freeman said cleanup. And then you have Will Smith 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.680 hitting fifth. That's a little late for Will Smith, who's 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:09.320 your most clutch batter, one of your best hitters. Fifth 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.360 is a little low. And then you got Muncie and 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.640 then you're telling me ta Oscar Hernandez is hitting sixth 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.360 or seventh. I could see that. I mean, this lineup 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.800 is so deep, but it's gonna be about production and 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.600 how this lineup. It's a lineup, so it's not about 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.960 each man on an island. It's how the lineup fits together. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.800 And it'll be interesting to see who hits third and 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:38.120 who hits cleanup. And there's no secret Mookie Betts is 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:43.600 coming off his worst offensive season by a mile. If 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.600 he hits two sixty and struggles for the majority of 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.640 the season, how do you keep them hitting in the 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.080 first four. And I'm sure Mooki would be the first 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.040 one to tell you that. But I know Andrew Freeman 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.520 believes Mookie Bets is going to have a big bounce 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.520 back year. So what didn't surprise me? If Mookie Bets 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.640 is hitting third eight, six, six, nine, eighty seven, two 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.600 five seventy is the phone number? Where would you hit 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.960 Kyle Tucker in the Dodger lineup? And where would where 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.000 does Freddy Freeman and Mookie Bets go? I don't see. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.720 I don't see Freddy Freeman hitting any lower than cleanup 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.920 in this lineup. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven two 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.960 five seventy is the phone number? All right? Here was 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.880 our exclusive one on one conversation with the newest Dodger 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.400 number twenty three, Kyle Tucker. All Right, Kyle, welcome to 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.240 Los Angeles. Great to see you actually wearing this Dodger jersey. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.360 What does it mean to you to start this new 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.600 chapter in your baseball life? 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.840 This is awesome. I'm extremely excited. I mean this, this 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.760 organization's very first class organization, from you know, ownership groups 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.840 to front office to the players, and you know, I 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:51.680 think the players kind of speak for themselves with their 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.600 their playing out on the field, and I think everyone 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.400 kind of recognizes that. So I'm excited to just be 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.560 a part of, you know, the team organization. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:16:59.480 This this city. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.280 You said during the press conference, Freddie Freeman facetimed you 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.199 and said, don't do anything stupid. Does that mean he 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.000 doesn't want you to try to duplicate his worm dance 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:10.760 during the off season. Have you seen that. 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.439 I don't know if that is a part of that 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.560 category or not, but I mean he seemed to be 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.680 pretty good at it. So I'm excited to ask him 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.520 to do it live. But we'll see what happens. But yeah, 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.880 you know, we just talking him on face hime for 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:27.720 for a second before we did the press conference stuff, 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.520 and he was like, just you know, don't do anything 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.199 stupid and you'll be good. So I was like, oh, 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.080 I appreciate it. Yeah, you know, you don't have to 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:33.600 worry about that. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:33.920 Yeah. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.840 He seemed like you play life pretty safe. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:36.400 Yeah. I try. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.480 I try to not not get too crazy with things, 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.080 especially you know, front of cameras and stuff. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.080 But no, I'm pretty good with everything, Kyl. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.240 A dimension of your game that I feel like not 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.800 enough has been talked about is the running the base 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.679 running in your career, you've stolen eighty eight percent of 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.720 the bases. The Dodgers were near the bottom of that. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.720 Is that having the baseball IQ the awareness? How much 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.200 is that speed? I mean, what part of that dimension? 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.320 Where does that come from? 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:09.679 I don't know. 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:11.880 I mean, I'm not like the fastest guy, but I'm 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.320 not slow by any means, but I mean, if I 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.080 can take an extra ninety feet whenever I see that'll 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.159 benefit our team to possibly score an extra round, Like, 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:22.639 I'm gonna try and do what I can with it. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.760 I mean, this this team's probably like if you're on 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:28.760 first base with the team, you're probably in scoring position. 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:33.320 So that's probably why that was a factor. But I mean, 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.639 I'm excited to help out the team, whether it's on 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.080 the basis defense, hitting wise, Like, I'm really excited to 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:38.960 get things going this year. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.359 I had to look how well you've done at Dodger 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.600 Stadium in a small sample size forty played appearances, You've 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.200 done pretty well. How comfortable in those small nine games 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.560 do you feel hitting in this ballpark? And has Dodger 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.760 Stadium become a hitter's ballpark? 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.080 I mean, I don't know my stats like that, but 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.520 I mean it's it's exciting playing here. I mean it's 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.200 it's a little tough because this team is very good, 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:08.080 and the fans definitely back then with that. So I 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.440 mean it's it's exciting playing here. I mean, there's there's 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.280 a lot of a lot of cool stadiums around around 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:15.000 the league, but I think This is definitely, you know, 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:16.960 at the top of the list with a lot of guys. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.960 So just the history behind, you know, the Dodgers organization 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.280 and this city and everything, I think definitely plays a 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.359 factor into playing here. And it's it's exciting to be 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.000 part of that, you know, eighty one games of a year. 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.040 Now, Kyle Tucker is our guest. He's the newest Dodger 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.320 wearing jersey number twenty three. This is Dodger Talk until 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.760 eight o'clock. Kyle. A lot of players always talk about 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.520 free agency. You want it for so long and then 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:42.720 once you're there, it's a long winding road. How tough 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.439 was the process for you? And when did you start 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:50.440 to know that the Dodgers may be the team? 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:51.960 I mean, you know, it was tough. 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.520 I didn't try and like kind of over analyze anything 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.359 or you know, put too much pressure on, you know, 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.760 any decision. But you know, you over the last couple 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.560 of weeks or so from today, is is starting to 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:06.400 get there with everything with the teams. I mean, there's 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:08.520 a lot of really good teams and organizations out there, 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.480 but you know, I just I just felt comfortable coming 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.640 to LA and playing for the Dodgers. Organization, Like I said, 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.320 their first class organization. This this team's phenomenal team, and 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:19.119 I'm excited to be a part of that. So I 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:20.800 mean when I kind of my wife and I kind 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:22.760 of factor all that into each other, I was like, 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.560 I think this is a good landing spot for us. 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.840 So that's kind of what we wanted to do, And 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:29.520 you know, I'm excited to get things started here in 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:31.840 spring training and then you know, opening day out. 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.439 Here at the beginning of the off season, did you 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.280 have the Dodgers in mind? Or is this something that 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.560 started to become more clear in the last three weeks. 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.760 Probably more so the second part coming, you know, more 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.600 clear of the last couple of weeks or so. Obviously 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:49.320 I've never been a free agent before, so I was like, 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.800 I don't know how it works, but talking to other 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:53.720 guys that you know, have gone through the process before, 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:55.960 it definitely helped. And just kind of have a having 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:59.159 a nice, you know, kind of group around me to 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:01.639 kind of you to lead me in a direction on 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:05.159 a path that definitely helps. So I think I think we, 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:07.399 you know, made a pretty good decision in this. 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.199 You're a guy that seems to let your play do 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:14.000 all the talking and in free agency you gotta lay back, 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.480 lay low. How did it make you feel when so 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.240 many people were speaking about you and for you? Was 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.440 that tough to you know, restrain yourself from Hey, that's 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:24.119 not really me. 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:25.520 I don't know. 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:28.040 I mean, there's you know, a lot of different opinions. 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:29.760 You know, there's a lot a lot of people out 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.280 there that have different opinions, and you know, obviously some 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:34.560 fan bases want you to come there and don't want 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:36.760 you to go to other organizations and whatnot. 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:38.359 So but I don't know. 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:39.920 I was just kind of treating it like a normal 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:41.919 off season, hanging out with my family and going on 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.040 a little vacation, playing some golf and stuff. So I 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:49.040 was like, I'm probably a big decision to be made, 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:50.960 but I was like, I'm just gonna try and treat 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.639 it like a normal off season. That way, I'm prepared 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:55.520 to go in spring training and have the red mindset 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:56.200 going into the year. 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:58.560 All right, before I let you go, we are sitting 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:02.119 in Dave Roberts. I do not have my feed up 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.760 on his desk for the record, even though I want to. 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:08.240 What was the call like to try to get number 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:10.359 thirty from him? You said it was a shot in 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.840