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Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers get swept at home by the Boston Red Sox,
Speaker 2: who are red hot, but the Dodgers also pick up
Speaker 2: Trek Scooble, so an emotional rollercoaster a day for this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team as they get finished off by the Red
Speaker 2: Sox and eight to four victory for Boston as they
Speaker 2: finish off the three game weekend sweep. Jake Bennett the
Speaker 2: win image she and gets the loss. But on the
Speaker 2: flip side of the things, as Dave Robert mentioned, the
Speaker 2: Dodgers picking up Terrek Schooble just what they needed for
Speaker 2: the final two months of the season. In October, Baseball
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk is off and running here on this Sunday night.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us wherever you may be. Eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the
Speaker 2: number eight six six nine eighty seven to two five
Speaker 2: seventy coming up in just a little bit, you're gonna
Speaker 2: hear from Andrew Freeman. David Vesse had a chance to
Speaker 2: catch up with Andrew before the game and was on
Speaker 2: our Dodgers on Deck show and talked about the trade
Speaker 2: for Trek Scooble, what they gave up in River Ryan
Speaker 2: and Zayir Hope and a third prospect to get Trek Scooble,
Speaker 2: and what he means for this team. So you're not
Speaker 2: going to want to miss that. The comments from Andrew
Speaker 2: Freeman about the trade that he pulled off last night
Speaker 2: was made official this morning. And in case you missed it,
Speaker 2: Tarrek Scooble joined the Dodgers during the game, showed up,
Speaker 2: put on a Dodger uniform and joined his new teammates
Speaker 2: inside the Dodgers dugout. He gave Dave Roberts a big
Speaker 2: old bear hug, and then it was up on that
Speaker 2: second step sitting next to Freddie Freeman and different guys.
Speaker 2: Max muncie I saw him talking to as well, meeting
Speaker 2: and greeting his new Dodger teammates, and it looks like
Speaker 2: he's gonna get his start on Tuesday for his first
Speaker 2: start in a Dodger uniform in Chicago at Wrigley Field
Speaker 2: as the Dodgers head off on a six game road trip,
Speaker 2: and tomorrow expected to have him meet the media before
Speaker 2: the first game in Chicago tomorrow afternoon. But a lot
Speaker 2: to get to here on Dodger Talk, a lot to
Speaker 2: kind of process what just happened this weekend to Trek
Speaker 2: Scuoble trade and what happens now moving forward. All Right,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers lost three to the Boston Red Side. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna panic. I'm not gonna worry. Boston's the hottest
Speaker 2: team in baseball for whatever reason, They've put it together
Speaker 2: under Chad Tracy. They're doing everything right right now. Small ball. Tonight,
Speaker 2: they had four home runs season high in a game
Speaker 2: for them. They're not known for the home run ball.
Speaker 2: They're playing great defense, they're getting really good pitching, and
Speaker 2: they had three lefties going this weekend, two of which
Speaker 2: are rookies, and then Rangers sworez wining the series opener.
Speaker 2: Everything's clicking right now. For the Boston Red Sox, and
Speaker 2: they've got their own fight in the American League and
Speaker 2: their own battle right now for a wild card spot
Speaker 2: or if they can even get closer and get back
Speaker 2: in this Al East reethe race. I'm more worried about
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. I'm more worried about the final two months
Speaker 2: of this season and what this looks like now for
Speaker 2: this Dodgers team. And tomorrow at three o'clock is the
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball trade deadline, so there's still time. If
Speaker 2: Andrew Freeman and Brandon Gomes are working the phones trying
Speaker 2: to add to this roster or subtract from this roster
Speaker 2: to get more minor league prospect equity, there's time to
Speaker 2: do it. And I'm sure they're working the phones. I'm
Speaker 2: sure they're doing their due diligence. If they're gonna make
Speaker 2: any more moves, they have until three o'clock Pacific tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And my question for you is is there another move
Speaker 2: to be made for this Dodgers team. And I'm not
Speaker 2: getting greedy here and saying Trek's Google, Okay, now what now?
Speaker 2: What what are you gonna I'm not looking at that way.
Speaker 2: Look at this roster in the way it's put together
Speaker 2: right now and the way the depth looks on this
Speaker 2: Dodgers team. In reality, there is a need. That need
Speaker 2: is a catcher, and that is a glaring need tonight
Speaker 2: with Eliezer Alfonso getting the start. Minutes before the game,
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing was scratched with irritation in his right elbow. Now,
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said it hadn't been a problem before. As
Speaker 2: soon as he heard about it, he changed the lineup.
Speaker 2: Dalton Rushing's going to get the night off, get some treatment,
Speaker 2: get some therapy, and hopefully we'll be back in the
Speaker 2: next couple of days. Here, as he said, he's day
Speaker 2: to day. Well, he already got will Smith on the
Speaker 2: injured list and he hasn't played in months, and will
Speaker 2: Smith doing baseball activities is still what three to four
Speaker 2: weeks away. If he were to start right now ramping
Speaker 2: back up, and it's a slow ramp it's not like
Speaker 2: he's itching to go and you know, needs thirty at
Speaker 2: bats and hey, let's hurry then get those thirty at
Speaker 2: bats in real quick and get him back to the
Speaker 2: major leagues. This feels like a spring training ramp up,
Speaker 2: a month long ramp up. And if that's the case,
Speaker 2: look at the calendar. Talge ist second a month from now,
Speaker 2: we're looking at the first second of September, the final stretch,
Speaker 2: the final thirty days of season. So between now at
Speaker 2: three o'clock on Monday, is catching a necessity? Is there
Speaker 2: a catcher they can go out and get to help
Speaker 2: out this Dodgers team one because Will Smith may not
Speaker 2: be back for another month and Dalton Rushing, Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: a little little bit of a little red flag with
Speaker 2: the irritation and the elbow. Maybe it's nothing, maybe it's something.
Speaker 2: Who knows, but he was scratched from the game tonight
Speaker 2: and Eliotsarafonso love him, great kid, great story. Been through
Speaker 2: a lot in the last month with the tragedy in Venezuela.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to October baseball, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: he's one of my two catchers on my roster, no offense.
Speaker 2: But is there a catcher at the deadline that the
Speaker 2: Dodgers can go out and get. Is there somebody that
Speaker 2: makes sense that they can go out and get and
Speaker 2: be that backup catcher right now to a Dalton Rushing
Speaker 2: or play you know every three days, and then when
Speaker 2: Will Smith hopefully gets back. You make a tough decision
Speaker 2: on whether or not you're catching. You're carrying three catchers,
Speaker 2: or he gets released or whatever happens. But for the
Speaker 2: next month, can the Dodgers afford just to have Alfonso
Speaker 2: and Dalton rushing behind the plate? There's no depth at
Speaker 2: that position in Triple A or in Double A. There
Speaker 2: is no top prospect just knocking on the door at
Speaker 2: the catching spot. So that's something to keep in mind
Speaker 2: between now at three o'clock tomorrow, is there somebody that
Speaker 2: Brandon Gomes and Andrew Freeman can go out and get
Speaker 2: As far as catcher is concerned, there's not a lot
Speaker 2: of guys out there. Jonah him with the Athletics, but
Speaker 2: it's calling, he pointed out with the injury to Shangaliers.
Speaker 2: Jonah Heim's playing a lot now with the Athletics. Pedro
Speaker 2: Piaz with the Cardinals, they got two catchers they're rotating,
Speaker 2: and apparently the Cardinals have a lot of depth at
Speaker 2: the upper levels of the minor leagues ready to get
Speaker 2: to the major leagues at the catching spot. So there
Speaker 2: could be a possibility to bring in a catcher for
Speaker 2: the next month or however long you need him here
Speaker 2: for the rest of this season eight six, sixth nine,
Speaker 2: eighty seven, two five seventy. To me, if you could
Speaker 2: upgrade catcher between now and three o'clock Pacific on Monday,
Speaker 2: I do it. I don't break the bank. You're you're
Speaker 2: obviously you know you're not gonna go out there and
Speaker 2: find an all star catcher at this point. You're not
Speaker 2: gonna go out there and pull off a trade like
Speaker 2: you did for a school bl to go out and
Speaker 2: get a catcher because you have Will Smith long term
Speaker 2: Hunter Goodman, who is a stud Silver Slugger Award winner,
Speaker 2: already an All Star. You know, the kid is hitting
Speaker 2: thirty plus bombs. He's sitting now what thirty three home runs,
Speaker 2: ninety or sixty five RBIs. Yeah, if you're gonna get
Speaker 2: him in a trade, it's gonna cost you because he's
Speaker 2: got a couple more years of service time that you
Speaker 2: have him under control for. That's not the kind of
Speaker 2: catcher the Dodgers really are looking for. They're looking for
Speaker 2: like the paw has got with the car of the Cardinals,
Speaker 2: or somebody who is in a situation where there's some
Speaker 2: depth and somebody who can come in and help out
Speaker 2: this Dodgers team, whether it's for the next four to
Speaker 2: five weeks until Will Smith gets healthy and gets back
Speaker 2: to playing every day eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two,
Speaker 2: five seventy. But on top of that, the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: and Imate Shean, I'm not sure there there's a lot
Speaker 2: more starts in there for Immit Shean at the big
Speaker 2: league level. And I love Immit Shean. When his number
Speaker 2: has been called, he has answered it every single time.
Speaker 2: He has been one of the reliable starters that Dodgers
Speaker 2: could go to this year. Yamamoto, Sasaki, Robleski, Imit Shean,
Speaker 2: they're not. They haven't been sitting on the injury list
Speaker 2: like Blake Snell and Tyler Glass. Now, Imit Shean has
Speaker 2: been called upon and made start after start, but he's
Speaker 2: just not gaining a lot of outs and swinging miss
Speaker 2: He's given up too many runs. In fact, to go
Speaker 2: back and look at what he's done over his twenty
Speaker 2: star he's giving up runs in every single start. He's
Speaker 2: had traffic on the base pass seems like every single
Speaker 2: time he's out there. Too many leadoff walks, too many
Speaker 2: base hits, too many thirty pitch innings too many twenty
Speaker 2: two pitch innings. He'll get in and on traffic. He'll
Speaker 2: give up three runs here, five runs there. He'll give
Speaker 2: you a start, but he doesn't give you length. It's
Speaker 2: been since early June that he's gone at least six
Speaker 2: innings in a start. Tonight, in essence, turned into a
Speaker 2: bullpen game until Dave Roberts said, all right, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna keep running guys out there like Jack Dryer and
Speaker 2: Evan Phillips and Kyle Hurt. If we're down now what
Speaker 2: seven or six to three? All right, Wyatt Mills your turn.
Speaker 2: You get the final six outs of the game. And
Speaker 2: he struggled a wild pitch to pass the ball hit
Speaker 2: by batter a couple of walks in the ninth. It
Speaker 2: was a struggle out there for Wyat Wyatt Mills image.
Speaker 2: Shean cannot continue to pitch like this and expect to
Speaker 2: be in the die rotation. It's just a reality because
Speaker 2: of the return of Glass. Now a couple of starts
Speaker 2: from now, after he gets his minor league rehab assignment's done,
Speaker 2: and more on the near side, here is the return
Speaker 2: of Blake Snell, who's gonna make a start on Tuesday
Speaker 2: in Oklahoma City and then be good to go. Well,
Speaker 2: you're getting Blake Snell back, you're getting Tyler Glass now back,
Speaker 2: and oh yeah, you picked up Trek Scouble. That's three
Speaker 2: starters now added back to this rotation. They're not enough
Speaker 2: starts for everybody in the course of the week when
Speaker 2: you already got a rotation of six starters. Now, what
Speaker 2: about shoe a Otani the pitcher? Can you count on
Speaker 2: Glass now? Robleski's innings are starting to get up there.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of question marks going forward the next
Speaker 2: two months of this season. And for the Dodgers, they
Speaker 2: have the luxury of having so much depth. They've got
Speaker 2: eight and if you throw in Otani, nine different starting pitchers,
Speaker 2: they will have once Glass now and Snell come back
Speaker 2: off the injured Liss, that's a lot for Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: to choose from. That also means if you're not producing,
Speaker 2: if you're not going out there and getting out and
Speaker 2: putting up zeros, you're not gonna be out there because
Speaker 2: there's somebody else, most likely that can do that job. Yamamoto,
Speaker 2: Terre Skouble, Jessa Robleski, Roki Sasaki. Four starters right there,
Speaker 2: you're getting Snell back. Glass Now is down the road.
Speaker 2: It mean Shean? Can you pencil him in there? Once
Speaker 2: a week show hey Otani kind of feels like it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a while until he comes back pitching, and
Speaker 2: then there's Eric lower now before we get to tomorrow's
Speaker 2: three o'clock trade deadline, and let's just not all assume
Speaker 2: now that Eric Lawer is gonna be traded. It's a
Speaker 2: great story what he did turning his season around after
Speaker 2: disaster in Toronto the first month and a half to
Speaker 2: come to the Dodgers and be undefeated. Dodgers just win
Speaker 2: when he starts games. He's been fantastic. I kind of
Speaker 2: like Eric Lawer more than I like Image Shean right
Speaker 2: now at this point, I'd feel a little bit more
Speaker 2: confident for the next month here until Tyler glass Now
Speaker 2: gets back and im it or show hey o Tony
Speaker 2: gets back, assuming it's another month or so. If you
Speaker 2: need arms, do you want image Sheen out there? We
Speaker 2: went once a week or a Eric Lawer. I love Shean.
Speaker 2: I really like Eric Lawer, and I like where Eric
Speaker 2: Lawer's at right now with this confidence and the way
Speaker 2: he pitches and the way he gets out and puts
Speaker 2: up zeros and navigates, you know, when he does have
Speaker 2: traffic or gives up a couple early runs, is able
Speaker 2: to get back and put up zeros right after that
Speaker 2: and stack zeros and keep the Dodgers in games and
Speaker 2: wait for the offense to start slugging. So it's gonna
Speaker 2: be interesting to see how they navigate the next month,
Speaker 2: and really the next two months with guys coming in
Speaker 2: and out of the starting rotation, and again tomorrow three
Speaker 2: o'clock trade deadline. What should they do if they need
Speaker 2: another move or two to make? Is it subtracting Alex
Speaker 2: call and Eric Lawer I hate to see Eric Lawer go,
Speaker 2: I really would, Or is it to bring in a catcher,
Speaker 2: which I think is a strong need right now, an
Speaker 2: absolute strong need for a veteran presence behind the plate.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seven. Let's
Speaker 2: take a couple of calls we're gonna hear from Andrew
Speaker 2: Freeman coming up in just a little bit. Michael, who
Speaker 2: is at Dodger Stadium tonight. Michael, thank you for being patient,
Speaker 2: really appreciate it. How you doing tonight?
Speaker 5: We're doing great. It's so great to be talking here
Speaker 5: on Dodger Talk. We listen to you guys every night.
Speaker 5: Just love the show. Timmy do a great job. We
Speaker 5: live in Saint Louis. I'm out here visiting family. I'm
Speaker 5: here with my dad.
Speaker 6: And my son Matthew, and my son Simon, who's gone
Speaker 6: to Dodger Stadium tonight for his first time ever, and
Speaker 6: my nephew James, and they're just having a block, right, guys.
Speaker 5: So it's been a great evening for us. And I
Speaker 5: just got to say, you know, from from a Dodger fan,
Speaker 5: he's an exile. You know, we we go to a
Speaker 5: lot of road games. We rarely get to go and
Speaker 5: see him at home. Here Dodgers Tatum experience is so
Speaker 5: much better than other stadiums, and it's just unreal how
Speaker 5: how big the differential is. I mean, just little things
Speaker 5: like the cap games, a hitting ball thing so much
Speaker 5: better at Dodger Stadium. So we had a great time,
Speaker 5: even though we lost. I would just say I'm with you.
Speaker 5: Let's keep Eric Lauer. And here is a possible suggestion.
Speaker 3: The Dodgers.
Speaker 5: You know they don't they don't just go out to
Speaker 5: get anybody. Well, here's a wild suggestion. What if we're
Speaker 5: really worried about you know, Rushing. What about Adlie Ritschman.
Speaker 5: He's been on the market. We know the Oriols have
Speaker 5: been shopping him around. I don't know what it would
Speaker 5: take to get him, but you know he could spell
Speaker 5: Freddie at first base. He can give him a day off,
Speaker 5: he can play behind the plate. He'd be reliable for us.
Speaker 5: Just a suggestion. What do you think of that?
Speaker 2: It's interesting to see if they could go out and
Speaker 2: get him. I know the Yankees who are in the
Speaker 2: division with Orioles, and I appreciate the phone call, Michael.
Speaker 2: The Orioles and Yankees, those are the two teams talking
Speaker 2: about Adlie Rushman. I love Adie rush and I think
Speaker 2: he's a great defensive catcher. I think he'd be a
Speaker 2: perfect addition. At what cost, I'm not sure, but the
Speaker 2: Yankees are in dire need for a catcher right now.
Speaker 2: I mean, the combination of Ali Sanchez and Austin Wells
Speaker 2: has been bad, has been absolutely bad in the Bronx,
Speaker 2: and you're throwing the injuries to Judge and Stanton Bellinger.
Speaker 2: They need a little pop with the bad and Atlie
Speaker 2: Rushman could could bring that. It wouldn't surprise me though,
Speaker 2: if the Dodgers were in play for a guy like
Speaker 2: Adlie Rushman, because you never count out Andrew Freeman. Just
Speaker 2: when you think, ah, the Yankees and Orioles are gonna
Speaker 2: make a trade, and in comes Andrew Freeman, and he
Speaker 2: can come in very easily and make a trade for
Speaker 2: an athlete rush back. I think he'd be a perfect fit.
Speaker 2: At what cost, I'm not sure, because it again you're
Speaker 2: not thinking long term for catching, and in reality you're
Speaker 2: thinking Will Smith is gonna come back in September, and
Speaker 2: he's your everyday catcher once he gets healthy and does return.
Speaker 2: So what does that mean for Rushman? He's your backup catcher?
Speaker 2: What does that mean for Dalton Rushing? You only got
Speaker 2: twenty six spots on the postseason roster. Is Dalton Rushing,
Speaker 2: who you've relied upon a lot to be behind the plate?
Speaker 2: Is he out? So a lot of things to think
Speaker 2: about as far as pulling the trigger and making the
Speaker 2: deal before three o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Dodger's Baseball is brought
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Speaker 2: Dominic in wes Woods. Next up here on Dodger Talk,
Speaker 2: Red Sox beat the Dodgers eight to four. How you doing.
Speaker 7: I've been okay, trying to still keep positive despite what happened.
Speaker 7: I'll tell you, I.
Speaker 2: Dominic, your your phone is breaking up. My man, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna try to put you back all hold. We'll see
Speaker 2: if we get a better connection. But I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: If we can get a better connection, we will. Julian
Speaker 2: and for Wittier is going all right, Let's go to
Speaker 2: Corey and long beach. Corey, thanks for being patient, Thanks
Speaker 2: for joining us here on Dodger Talk on this Sunday.
Speaker 4: He a you doing, Hey, Tim, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: I am I am upside down over the fact that
Speaker 4: the contending teams that allegedly want to win, silly Milwaukee
Speaker 4: Yankees blah blah blah, they couldn't put together a better
Speaker 4: package for Derek scooball than the Dodgers did.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's not.
Speaker 4: All it takes. That's all it takes a prospect, a suspect,
Speaker 4: and an unknown.
Speaker 2: Well, the Dodgers didn't just give up nothing. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you Corey for checking and Dodgers didn't just give
Speaker 2: up nothing. I mean, Zaire Hope is their number two
Speaker 2: overall prospect. He's a top thirty prospect in all the
Speaker 2: baseball Everybody loves him. River Ryan can very easily be
Speaker 2: on you know, twenty eight starting rotations around baseball. Right now,
Speaker 2: he's just at a log jam with the Dodgers, and
Speaker 2: you kind of felt like with him not coming back
Speaker 2: up to the big leagues the last few weeks, with
Speaker 2: the injuries to glass Now and Blakesnell, and the Dodgers
Speaker 2: going out and doing bullpen games and you know, bringing
Speaker 2: up Wyatt Mills and different guys to soak up innings
Speaker 2: and not going to River Ryan. I think I said
Speaker 2: it a few weeks ago on Dodgers talk. It kind
Speaker 2: of fell like all along they're keeping him in Triple A,
Speaker 2: hoping that he'll be flipped in part of a deal.
Speaker 2: You don't want to bring up to the major leagues
Speaker 2: having get hit around a lot, you know, and the
Speaker 2: value goes down. You know, you want him at peak value,
Speaker 2: and that's keeping him in Triple A. So I think
Speaker 2: that's kind of why we never all him come back up,
Speaker 2: even though he's been healthy and been just making start
Speaker 2: after start in Triple A Oklahoma se He's had some
Speaker 2: nagging injuries this year, a couple of stints on the
Speaker 2: il in Triple A Oklahoma City, but for the most
Speaker 2: part he's healthy now. And then Brady Smith was a
Speaker 2: third round pick a couple of years ago at the
Speaker 2: lower levels doing okay. I mean, they didn't give up nothing.
Speaker 2: I mean, they gave up a young prospect, they give
Speaker 2: up a highly touted prospect, and they gave up a
Speaker 2: major league arm a young one who's got still got
Speaker 2: control as far as his contract in years in River Ryan.
Speaker 2: So it is interesting, I'll be fully honest with you,
Speaker 2: it is interesting that there wasn't a trade from Milwaukee
Speaker 2: or Tampa somebody else. That's just like whoa they gave
Speaker 2: up that they get Terry Scooble. They gave up the
Speaker 2: farm to get this guy. I mean you would you
Speaker 2: wouldn't be mad at it. You know, it's Terry Scooble.
Speaker 2: He's one of the best pitchers in baseball two times
Speaker 2: say Young Award winner. I mean, could be the most
Speaker 2: sought after free agent this offseason. But the Dodgers got him.
Speaker 2: And what the Dodgers had to give back in return
Speaker 2: is still really good. Like I mentioned, the three guys
Speaker 2: they gave back, are you know three bodies that are
Speaker 2: gonna maybe someday help out the Tigers more more currently
Speaker 2: River Ryan on the mound and in the rotation with Detroit.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they had to give up something to get
Speaker 2: Terrek Schouble. But it is kind of surprising that there
Speaker 2: wasn't that wow trade. There wasn't that Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: that's what they took to get Trekscouoble. So I'm with
Speaker 2: you on that, But for the Dodger's sake, I'm certainly
Speaker 2: so grateful to have Andrew Freeman. We're gonna hear from
Speaker 2: m coming up after the break and what he was
Speaker 2: able to do and navigate through this trade process and
Speaker 2: how it ramped up yesterday with the talks at the
Speaker 2: Tigers and the Dodgers were able to pull off the
Speaker 2: deal for Trek Scooble eight six six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. We'll take a break, we'll come back,
Speaker 2: we'll get to more of your phone calls, and we'll
Speaker 2: hear from Andrew Freeman himself, the man who pulled off
Speaker 2: the trade, the biggest trade here at the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: No matter what happens between now and three o'clock Pacific
Speaker 2: to tomorrow, this was the guy everybody wanted. Tarrek Scooble
Speaker 2: was the number one sought after pitching commodity at the
Speaker 2: trade deadline, and the Dodgers landed him in a three
Speaker 2: for one deal. He'll make his first start in at
Speaker 2: Dodger uniform on Tuesday at Wrigley Field. Will come back
Speaker 2: your phone calls Andrew Freeman, Dodgers. Oh yeah, by the way,
Speaker 2: got beat by the Boston Red Sox tonight eight to four.
Speaker 2: As they lose all three games to the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: BA doesn't matter. Ten game leading the division, two months
Speaker 2: to go, and Tarrek Scooble's now in a Dodger uniform.
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Speaker 2: The Dodgers fall to the Boston Red Sox on Sunday
Speaker 2: Night Baseball eight to four is the final Jake Bennet
Speaker 2: against the win for Boston image Shean couldn't get out
Speaker 2: of the third inning, gave up back to back home runs,
Speaker 2: three home runs to four batters over a course of
Speaker 2: seven pitches in the third and Dave Roberts has seen
Speaker 2: enough after two and two third innings, five runs, six hits,
Speaker 2: three home runs only fifty eight pitches. As the Dodgers
Speaker 2: were down early, took the lead in the second, but
Speaker 2: that lead was gone in the third, and then the
Speaker 2: Red Sox were off and running on their way to
Speaker 2: an eight to four win and a three game sweep
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Speaker 2: Dodger Talk on This Sunday Night. How you doing, Sean.
Speaker 3: Doing well? First time? Long time? If my question is
Speaker 3: two parts. One, you talked about Catcher, what why can't
Speaker 3: we bring back Beton Rhdvett? And number two we've talked
Speaker 3: about trying to find a second hitter. Why not move
Speaker 3: Shoha Tani to the second spot because he's not really
Speaker 3: a threat to steal with his knee. And I feel like,
Speaker 3: because he's hitting so many home runs, we should put
Speaker 3: like Tommy Edmonds first to get on base and to
Speaker 3: get more run potential.
Speaker 2: I like both of those ideas. I appreciated Sean. You know,
Speaker 2: I love Ben Rhardvett. I love Rordy. I think he
Speaker 2: is a stud behind the plane. You're gonna draw a
Speaker 2: pitcher of a Catcher in twenty twenty six. He is that.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna, you know, go into the old encyclopedias
Speaker 2: and look up for the young kids encyclopedias where you
Speaker 2: found like factual stuff and things in history. If you
Speaker 2: were to look up Ketcher, he would look just like
Speaker 2: he'd be the description he looks like a catcher. He
Speaker 2: is a catcher. What you get offensively from him, okay,
Speaker 2: it's great, But defensively a really solid I think, just
Speaker 2: above average defensive catcher, Ben Roard fat, he'd be perfect.
Speaker 2: And I believe he's in Triple A with the New
Speaker 2: York Mets, so you'd have to go dig him out
Speaker 2: of Triple A over there, putting Tommy Edman the lead
Speaker 2: off spot, dropping Show Hey to the number two spot.
Speaker 2: I don't see them shuffling the lineup right now and
Speaker 2: moving Show Hey out of the lead off spot, just
Speaker 2: because of where he's been and how he's done and
Speaker 2: all the lead off home runs and what he does
Speaker 2: at the lead off spot when you flip that lineup around.
Speaker 2: But you know, I wouldn't hate it. I can see it.
Speaker 2: Makes sense. You put switch hitting Tommy Edman, who gets
Speaker 2: on bass, finds the gap, puts the ball in play,
Speaker 2: can get on bass at the lead off spot and
Speaker 2: leading into Show Hey bat in second I can I
Speaker 2: can see it. I could absolutely see it. Dominic and
Speaker 2: west Wood are your next up. Thanks for being patient, Dominic.
Speaker 2: I think we've got a better phone line now, all right?
Speaker 7: Can you hear me now? No more wind or any
Speaker 7: of that.
Speaker 2: All right, we got I'm doing good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's this is a tough week. Just all three
Speaker 7: of my sports teams, including the Dodgers, lost this week.
Speaker 7: But you know what, the saving grace with the Dodgers
Speaker 7: is that we're still first and we got Scooble now,
Speaker 7: so that's at least at least there's a good ending
Speaker 7: to that. But yeah, I I will say I I
Speaker 7: do agree with you with Eric. I agree one with Eric,
Speaker 7: and so I am sorry. My headset was going all off,
Speaker 7: so I I couldn't hear exactly what you said, but
Speaker 7: I do agree with you on that. But I do
Speaker 7: have one off, sort of off topic question, I guess
Speaker 7: sort of off question, but it is. It is Dodger related.
Speaker 7: The La Sparks w n B A team is having
Speaker 7: the the Dodger Night. I was gonna ask Dave this question,
Speaker 7: but he's not on tonight. I don't know if you
Speaker 7: can send him the message, but is he going to
Speaker 7: be there for the for the Dodgers Night? Because I
Speaker 7: I for sure will be there on a season ticket
Speaker 7: holder with the Sparks, so I I I for sure
Speaker 7: will be there. But I also wanted to ask you
Speaker 7: as well, will you be there? No hard feelings if
Speaker 7: you can't make it, because I have a feeling there
Speaker 7: is a game that night as well.
Speaker 2: If the game, yeah, probably won't be out there, Thanks Tomin.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the phone call. Probably won't be out there,
Speaker 2: and I cannot speak for Dave, so I'll let you
Speaker 2: address that with Dave when he's back on Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is
Speaker 2: the number Dodgers loose to the Red Sox eight to four.
Speaker 2: But the big news of the day is Trek Scooble.
Speaker 2: The trade became official this morning. He was in the
Speaker 2: Dodger dugout mid game, hugging Dodge Dodgers manager Dave Roberts
Speaker 2: and meeting and greeting his new team teammates there on
Speaker 2: the second step of the Dodger dugout, hanging out with
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman, talking to some of the Dodger pitchers. I
Speaker 2: saw him in Yamamoto greet each other down underneath in
Speaker 2: the Dodgers' clubhouse, and Keiky Hernandez down there as well.
Speaker 2: So he has joined the Team's going to be on
Speaker 2: the team flight as they head now to Chicago and
Speaker 2: start a six game road trip at three against the
Speaker 2: Cubies beginning tomorrow. Tomorrow, Terrek Scooble is his scheduled to
Speaker 2: talk to the media before the series opener, and then
Speaker 2: he is scheduled to get the start on Tuesday in
Speaker 2: the second game of this three game series. And of
Speaker 2: course tomorrow at three o'clock Monday, three pm Pacific is
Speaker 2: the MLB trade deadline. We'll see if the Dodgers make
Speaker 2: any more moose. What they've done already is really really
Speaker 2: cause waves around baseball and around the sports world. As
Speaker 2: far as going out and getting Terry Schooble at the
Speaker 2: trade deadline. My guy Blake in Colorado. There he is, Blake.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk. How you doing, Buddy.
Speaker 9: Good? I tell what you doing today.
Speaker 2: I'm fantastic. Tarrek Schooble is a Dodger, Blake, Come on, Yeah.
Speaker 7: What do you think the God is going to need
Speaker 7: at this trade deadline?
Speaker 2: Well, I think catching could be a spot they go
Speaker 2: in an upgrade. I don't know at what level they're
Speaker 2: gonna go. If it's adi Ruchman, if it's a a
Speaker 2: pie has there in Saint Louis who they've got some
Speaker 2: depth availability to make a trade and help out the
Speaker 2: Dodgers with their depth at the catching spot. But with
Speaker 2: Dalton rushing scratch with a little bit of irritation in
Speaker 2: his elbow, Will Smith still he had three four weeks
Speaker 2: away from being ready to play against the major league level.
Speaker 2: You can make a serious case that they need to
Speaker 2: make a trade for a catcher tomorrow by three o'clock.
Speaker 6: Blake, Yeah, And I would like to see Alex calgo
Speaker 6: and they will gut and Mt.
Speaker 7: Hand Kit is really not doing that great.
Speaker 2: He struggled, no doubt about. I'd like to see Eric
Speaker 2: Lauer stay, Blake. I think he has been absolutely fantastic
Speaker 2: since coming over from the Blue Jays, and I don't
Speaker 2: mind throwing him out there once a week in a
Speaker 2: six man rotation. I don't care who's back and who's healthy.
Speaker 2: I think he has earned the right to stick around. Now,
Speaker 2: will he? We'll find out. You know, there was no
Speaker 2: guarantees when they made the trade for him. They took
Speaker 2: a flyer on him when nobody else would and they would,
Speaker 2: and you know, traded him for cash considerations and they
Speaker 2: have turned him into an absolute Jim again like he
Speaker 2: was pitching last year. Yeah, he is all right, Blake.
Speaker 2: Great to hear from you, my man. I'll be back
Speaker 2: in a couple of days as the Dodgers start a
Speaker 2: six game road trip, three in Chicago. I'll be back
Speaker 2: on Wednesday, on the getaway day.
Speaker 9: Okay, I talked to you Wednesday.
Speaker 2: God's good. My guy. Blake in Colorado checking in here
Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk. Ken at Newport Beach, Ken, Welcome to
Speaker 2: Dodger Talk. The sky is not falling, even though they
Speaker 2: lost all three to the Red Sox.
Speaker 8: I know, I got two quick things to talk about,
Speaker 8: christ Off. I spent yesterday sending messages up to about
Speaker 8: thirty people that are complaining about the Dodgers. They were
Speaker 8: ruining the game of baseball, that everything was going to
Speaker 8: change next year. And then I pointed out to them
Speaker 8: that that's my checked. Yankees won five in a row
Speaker 8: and the Bosome Suffix won eight.
Speaker 10: Room, Denny, you're alva jumping down and screaming and yelling
Speaker 10: about that that's part of the game, and complained about that,
Speaker 10: and they're going crazy.
Speaker 8: Complaining makes no sense. It just sounds like jealousy, Bros.
Speaker 8: The pictures are concerned. I don't want to see Sheen anymore.
Speaker 8: He's four and eight with a five point thirty e R.
Speaker 8: No more done history. I do like Laur a lot.
Speaker 8: He's four and all with the three R.
Speaker 10: There's no comparison between the two.
Speaker 8: So lease eat Blower, please say goodbye? Does she Han?
Speaker 8: And would go on hey to bad three games? But
Speaker 8: those things happen.
Speaker 2: Ye all right, Ken, great to hear from you. Well,
Speaker 2: I talk to you in a couple days, budd, I
Speaker 2: appreciate it. He brings up a great point. And before
Speaker 2: we get to Andrew Freeman here in his pregame comments
Speaker 2: with David Abatt, say about how he pulled off this trade.
Speaker 2: Keep in mind there's a lot of griping. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of people around baseball. There are a lot of
Speaker 2: sports fans, sports pundits, so called experts, and list talk
Speaker 2: show host everybody complaining about the Dodgers. Oh, how did
Speaker 2: the Dodgers get trek'scoogle? How did the Tigers trade him
Speaker 2: to the Dodge? Why would they do that? How are
Speaker 2: they letting the rich get richer? Listen, folks, it was
Speaker 2: as a trade involves two parties and they have to
Speaker 2: agree upon it. To make it happen, every other team
Speaker 2: in baseball, the twenty eight other teams that weren't a
Speaker 2: part of this one on one trade, had the opportunity
Speaker 2: to look at their farm system, to look at their
Speaker 2: team at the major league level, and put together a
Speaker 2: package they felt was good enough to land at terrek'schooble. Now,
Speaker 2: the Tigers are going to choose which packers they want
Speaker 2: to go with. And I don't know how many teams
Speaker 2: were involved in the actual bidding for a Terrek Schooble,
Speaker 2: but the Tigers felt the Dodgers package was the best.
Speaker 2: You may look at that package and say, that's it,
Speaker 2: that's it. Why didn't the Brewers do more? Why didn't
Speaker 2: the Yankees get involved? How come the Rays with all
Speaker 2: that young talent and the great Pharmer system, how come
Speaker 2: they didn't get him? Well, the Tigers didn't feel like
Speaker 2: it was good enough in return. And that's all that matters,
Speaker 2: is what the Detroit Tigers wanted. The Dodgers had to
Speaker 2: ask for a trade and get the permission of the Tigers,
Speaker 2: who they're the ones controlling everything. They have to present
Speaker 2: them with the trade and the other teams the one
Speaker 2: has got to sign off on it, not the other
Speaker 2: way around. The Dodgers presented who they felt was a
Speaker 2: good a lot of the players for a trade for
Speaker 2: Trek Scooble, and they signed off and made a trade
Speaker 2: between the two of them. I don't want to hear
Speaker 2: the griping anymore. I don't want to hear the whining
Speaker 2: and complaining from baseball people, baseball fans, and people out
Speaker 2: there saying they're ruining the game. If this were free
Speaker 2: agency and they just went out and said, here's a
Speaker 2: blank check, you fill it in. Trek Scooble, come join
Speaker 2: our team. Okay, we can sit there and have an
Speaker 2: argument about, all right, this isn't fair. They've got a
Speaker 2: blank checkbook and everybody else is just fighting for second.
Speaker 2: But there are a lot of teams out there spending
Speaker 2: money in Major League Baseball, and there are a lot
Speaker 2: of teams that should be spending more money across Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball, but their owners don't want to. They've got
Speaker 2: the money, they just don't want to spend it. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers are on ownership that want to spend it and
Speaker 2: put it back into their team, and they're smart about
Speaker 2: the decisions they make. Are they gonna hit on everyone. No,
Speaker 2: a lot of grip, and he complaining here on Dodger
Speaker 2: talk about it, certain Kyle Tucker and how he hasn't
Speaker 2: lived up to his massive deal. Shoe Ao Tani certainly
Speaker 2: has the trades for rookie Betts, you know, the signing
Speaker 2: to Freddie Freeman, the trades that brought him, the players
Speaker 2: that they flipped in for Trek Scooble. I don't see
Speaker 2: Buddy complaining about the Matt Baty trade and the Michael
Speaker 2: Bush trade. They got him River Ryan and Zayer Hope
Speaker 2: in those trades. They turned around and use that trade
Speaker 2: equity to then bundle up and get Trek Scooble. Every
Speaker 2: other team could have done that. We look at the
Speaker 2: Baseball Top one hundred minor league prospects. The Dodgers had
Speaker 2: what nine on there. They're still a lot of players
Speaker 2: from a lot of other teams that are still in
Speaker 2: the top one hundred list in which the scouts and
Speaker 2: teams all look at and ranked players. So there are
Speaker 2: other teams that could have got involved. But hey, it
Speaker 2: was the Detroit Tiger's decision on who they felt with
Speaker 2: the best return for Terrek Schouble, and they felt like
Speaker 2: the Dodgers were the best in return. That's it can't
Speaker 2: complain that the Dodgers did anything wrong. They put together
Speaker 2: a trader proposal and the Detroit Tigers are the one
Speaker 2: They had to accept it, and they did, and the
Speaker 2: Dodgers had to give up something to get him. And
Speaker 2: we'll see in a few years what Zayier hope is,
Speaker 2: we'll see what River Ryan's able to turn into. And
Speaker 2: I think he's a really good young guy and a
Speaker 2: good young man off the field, and I hope the
Speaker 2: best for all the three of those now former Dodgers.
Speaker 2: All right. Earlier today, Andrew Freeman caught up with David
Speaker 2: Vassay to talk about how in the world he landed
Speaker 2: Terrek Schouble.
Speaker 11: I think yesterday afternoon, even then, I would say that
Speaker 11: I was more confident, but not confident. You have no
Speaker 11: idea exactly what other teams were offering. And obviously it's
Speaker 11: in Scott Harris's entry to make it seem like it's
Speaker 11: more from other teams, and you know, he's probably saying
Speaker 11: that to every team. But we knew that what we
Speaker 11: put out there was aggressive and there was no way
Speaker 11: that someone was beating it by a lot and so
Speaker 11: then the question was, you know, obviously how they see
Speaker 11: our guys, and you know, just through conversation felt reasonably confident.
Speaker 11: But until he called and said, hey, we have a deal,
Speaker 11: I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2: We all know how good Schooble is when he's on
Speaker 2: the mound, but you obviously witnessed what made Cruse shot great.
Speaker 2: It wasn't just every fifth day, but the way he
Speaker 2: competed in the weight room, the way he pushed and
Speaker 2: had everybody feel that accountability to do the same.
Speaker 7: It feels like Schooble's that type of guy.
Speaker 11: Yeah, everything we've gotten on the guy, the makeup the
Speaker 11: competitor is as good as you could ask for, which
Speaker 11: in turn made us even more aggressive and trying to
Speaker 11: require him. That's like watching him last October gave me goosebumps.
Speaker 11: I love watching playoff baseball, especially when I don't care
Speaker 11: about the outcome. I hate watching our games, but love
Speaker 11: watching others, And it gave me goosebumps watching him compete
Speaker 11: last October. You could feel the energy through the TV
Speaker 11: and just the way he goes after hitters. It's rare
Speaker 11: to have that combination of power to your stuff and
Speaker 11: also feel in command. So to have that kind of
Speaker 11: dominant stuff and not walk guys, challenge hitters in the
Speaker 11: strike zone, be able to throw pitches kind of on
Speaker 11: to off to get miss. It's exactly how you draw
Speaker 11: it up. And he is incredibly talented and really excited
Speaker 11: about watching him compete in Dodger Blue.
Speaker 2: All right, there's Andrew Freeman with David Vassa earlier today,
Speaker 2: I are on Dodgers on deck? Is Trek Google is
Speaker 2: now wearing a Dodger uniform. Whether you like it or not,
Speaker 2: Baseball World, he is a Dodger and he's here for
Speaker 2: the rest of the season, and the Dodgers are pushing
Speaker 2: for a back to back to back championship run. All right,
Speaker 2: is he? Is he in Anaheim? Our final call the
Speaker 2: night on this Sunday after the Dodgers get beat by
Speaker 2: the Red Sox eight to four, they get swept in
Speaker 2: this three game series. But it's all right, Trek Scoogle's here,
Speaker 2: is he? Yeah?
Speaker 9: That's great? Yeah, it's really great. Who care? But I
Speaker 9: hate leading to any leading to Boston. But whatever, I'll
Speaker 9: live through it. But no, listen, hey, I'm so I'm
Speaker 9: glad that now we did that. But then telling you what,
Speaker 9: we need an extra We need an extra catcher, we
Speaker 9: really do.
Speaker 7: So I hate to.
Speaker 9: See that hours go, but we have to go then
Speaker 9: and go. So but yeah, and we'll see how this
Speaker 9: week go. They're gonna have a tough, tough week, so
Speaker 9: at least at least what's the cargo. So we'll see
Speaker 9: how this week go.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be We're gonna be an interesting road trip.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a tough six games, is he. There's
Speaker 2: no doubt about it. They're going to two teams in
Speaker 2: two cities here that are fighting for wildcard spots in
Speaker 2: the National League. In fact, they're both holding on to
Speaker 2: a wildcard spot of the National League, and the Cubs
Speaker 2: and the Diamondbacks both teams really out of their divisional
Speaker 2: races at the moment. The Diamonbacks ten games back and
Speaker 2: the Cubbies, I believe we six and a half games
Speaker 2: back in the NL Central but again leading the wildcard
Speaker 2: race in the National League. So they got a lot
Speaker 2: to play for. They're hungry. The Diamondbacks just swept the
Speaker 2: Dodgers in the three games right before the All Star
Speaker 2: break at Dodger Stadium. I mentioned it during the course
Speaker 2: of the first half of the season. If the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: were still in the playoff race, I thought they'd be
Speaker 2: a contender for Trek Scooble. Certainly they can still go
Speaker 2: out and get a starting pitching. There's been a couple
Speaker 2: of trades already before the trade deadline. Trek School will
Speaker 2: being the big win, of course for the Dodgers. But
Speaker 2: we've already seen Kevin Gosman go to the Cubs, Luis
Speaker 2: Castillo go from Seattle to the White Sox, Freddy Peralta
Speaker 2: going from the Mets to the Tampa Bay Ray. So
Speaker 2: pitching has been the thing that has gone first so far.
Speaker 2: As we get closer and closer to the three pm
Speaker 2: trade deadline tomorrow, so we'll see what else happens between
Speaker 2: then and now. That's gonna do it for Dodger to
Speaker 2: talk to night. Many thanks to Colin you, thanks to
Speaker 2: all you Dodger fans for being a part of the
Speaker 2: show and they can stay. Andrew Freeman for a giving
Speaker 2: us a little insight there about the trade process for
Speaker 2: Arrek Scooble and how it went down and how yesterday
Speaker 2: and it presented the trade and we're waiting to hear
Speaker 2: back from the Tigers' front office and finally did. And
Speaker 2: as he said, until you hear we have a deal,
Speaker 2: you don't have a deal. And the Dodgers were able
Speaker 2: to get it done. And now Trek schools, we're at
Speaker 2: number twenty nine. We're in a Dodger uniform today and
Speaker 2: we'll be wearing a Dodger uniform the rest of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six. And again we'll be making his Dodger debut
Speaker 2: Tuesday at Ridleyfield in Chicago, game two of a three
Speaker 2: game set. That series starts Monday tomorrow in Chicago. Justin Robleski,
Speaker 2: Matthew Boyd de bitching matchup, Murano Cassino, Dodgers on deck.
Speaker 2: We'll get our sucover started at four pm Pacific, First
Speaker 2: pitch from the Windy City at five oh five until tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Please have a safe rest here Sunday night, so everybody