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Speaker 2: a part of Dodger Talk. On this off night edition
Speaker 2: is the Dodgers have a day off finally, after a
Speaker 2: nine day, ten day road trip where they had a
Speaker 2: day off last Thursday in Washington, DC, but wasn't really
Speaker 2: a day off as they had to go to their
Speaker 2: third city and a stop in Washington, d C. To
Speaker 2: go to Capitol Hill and the White House, so not
Speaker 2: really a chance for them to get off their feet
Speaker 2: and exhale. But today true golden day off for the
Speaker 2: Dodgers as they are back home after a six and
Speaker 2: three road trip that saw them take two to three
Speaker 2: against the Yankees, two of three against the Phillies, and
Speaker 2: two of three against the New York Mets over the weekend.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be here for the next hour taking your
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Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight
Speaker 2: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy We are
Speaker 2: one week away from the Major League Baseball trade deadline. Yes,
Speaker 2: the deadline is a week from today, August third, and
Speaker 2: the big question is what is going to happen with
Speaker 2: Trek Scoobel of the Detroit Tigers. Now, maybe a little
Speaker 2: bit more clarity within the last half an hour as
Speaker 2: far as what the Detroit Tigers may or may not
Speaker 2: be doing because the Tigers lost again. Yes, the Detroit
Speaker 2: Tigers lost again tonight. The Tigers have not lost three
Speaker 2: in a row, and they are now seven games under
Speaker 2: five hundred at fifty and fifty seven. They are second
Speaker 2: to last in the Al Central and the Tigers have
Speaker 2: now dropped four games back for a wildcard spot in
Speaker 2: the American League. And there are a lot of teams
Speaker 2: between them and the Red Sox for that second wildcard spot.
Speaker 2: So reality, I think is kicked in for the Detroit
Speaker 2: Tigers on this Monday night, seven days before the Major
Speaker 2: League Baseball trade deadline. As far as what they are,
Speaker 2: are they sellers or they buyers and making a playoff push.
Speaker 2: With the loss tonight, where they stand in the division
Speaker 2: and where they currently sit in the wild card race,
Speaker 2: you have got to believe the Detroit Tigers are going
Speaker 2: to be sellers at the trade deadline. So will Trerek's
Speaker 2: Schoobel now be on the block, and if so, do
Speaker 2: the Dodgers enter that conversation with the Tigers eight six, six,
Speaker 2: nine eighty seven two five seventy. They're not a lot
Speaker 2: of teams that have the trade equity like the Dodgers have,
Speaker 2: And there are not a lot of teams that are
Speaker 2: willing to go out there and give up set equity
Speaker 2: for a player like Trek Scooble to get them. It's
Speaker 2: going to cost and there aren't a lot of teams
Speaker 2: willing to do that, nor can they do that. But
Speaker 2: the Dodgers are one of those teams. So are the
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Brewers. Are they going to push their chips in
Speaker 2: all to the middle of the table as far as
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six season is concerned, I think they might.
Speaker 2: I think it is the Milwaukee Brewers that are the team.
Speaker 2: The Dodgers need to keep an eye on it. And
Speaker 2: that's not a secret. That's kind of been what we've
Speaker 2: been looking at the last few weeks as things start
Speaker 2: to shake out. Now, twenty one of the thirty teams
Speaker 2: are within playoff reach here as we are a week
Speaker 2: away from the deadline, meaning they're either leading their division
Speaker 2: or they're within four games of a wild card spot,
Speaker 2: a real shot if you will, at making the postseason.
Speaker 2: Everybody else I look at as Nope, not happening, Sorry, Charlie.
Speaker 2: Twenty one of the thirty teams have a shot for
Speaker 2: October Baseball. How many teams are realistically gonna go for
Speaker 2: Tech School Not a lot. That means there's going to
Speaker 2: be markets available for other pitchers, other position players, right
Speaker 2: handed bats, role players, catchers. There's gonna be I think,
Speaker 2: a flurry of trades, but at the lesser level, not
Speaker 2: the big sexy names that are out there. And quite frankly,
Speaker 2: there aren't a lot of big names that are gonna
Speaker 2: be available at the trade deadline that teams can go
Speaker 2: out and acquire to change their roster and to make
Speaker 2: a difference. And here's something I thought was absolutely eye opening. ESPN,
Speaker 2: along with Yahoo and CBS and all these different websites,
Speaker 2: you know, their baseball pundits are trying to pick and
Speaker 2: project where these guys are gonna end up in trades.
Speaker 2: ESPN has a article posted that says, trade deadline, what
Speaker 2: NL contenders need to beat the Dodge That's the headline.
Speaker 2: That's the story, folks, What NL contenders need to beat
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. And in reality, we're not talking about fourteen
Speaker 2: other teams in the National League. It's the Braves, the Brewers,
Speaker 2: the Cubs, and the Phillies as the four teams that
Speaker 2: have a shot that could contend with the Dodgers, And in reality,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, in my opinion, and the Brewers are at
Speaker 2: a level above everybody else. And our buddy John Hayman
Speaker 2: at the MLB Network, who was on with Petro some
Speaker 2: money earlier today, tweeted that out a couple of days ago,
Speaker 2: and he said, it's twenty eight other teams trying to
Speaker 2: figure it out because the Dodgers and Brewers are just
Speaker 2: that much better than everybody. But outside of a trek
Speaker 2: schoolbl what O their pitchers are out there at the deadline?
Speaker 2: What other bullpen help is out there at the deadline?
Speaker 2: What other hitting depth is out there at the deadline?
Speaker 2: Mason Miller of the padres CJ. Abrams shortstop for the Nationals.
Speaker 2: The Francisco Lindor of the Mets. The Mets could be
Speaker 2: a wide open market if you will, as far as
Speaker 2: come on in, do you see something you like, make
Speaker 2: it offer. Luis Robert Jr. Could be available. Freddie Peralta
Speaker 2: certainly he's going to be available for the New York Mets.
Speaker 2: Ryan Jeffers the catcher for the Twins. There are teams
Speaker 2: looking for a catcher right now. Zach netto the Angels.
Speaker 2: The Boston Red Sox are looking at him. Kevin Gosman,
Speaker 2: who was really good last year for the Toronto Blue Jays,
Speaker 2: has been really bad for the Toronto Blue Jays this year.
Speaker 2: Not that he can't go and turn things around like
Speaker 2: Eric Lauer did with the Dodgers, but Kevin Gosman starting pitcher,
Speaker 2: could be available at the deadline. Jose Sorriano of the
Speaker 2: Angels could be available at the trade deadline. There are
Speaker 2: teams that are selling. There are more buyers than sellers,
Speaker 2: but there are teams that are selling. That means they're
Speaker 2: open for business and they've got players available that are
Speaker 2: out there for other teams to start shopping for it.
Speaker 2: But in my mind, there's one guy the Dodgers would
Speaker 2: pick up in a trade. There's one guy that I
Speaker 2: think if they're going to make a deal, they need
Speaker 2: to make the deal for it, and that's Tterrek Schooble. Now,
Speaker 2: if he's not available, that's one thing. If he's available
Speaker 2: and the asking price is way too much for everybody
Speaker 2: around baseball and he goes untraded at the deadline, so
Speaker 2: be it. But in my opinion, if the Milwaukee Brewers,
Speaker 2: And I know people disagree. David Vasse disagrees, but I
Speaker 2: truly believe the other team that is right there with
Speaker 2: you in the National League is the Milwaukee Brewers, And
Speaker 2: if you have a shot to come in and grab
Speaker 2: him at the deadline to prevail Trek Scooble from going
Speaker 2: to Milwaukee and pairing up with Jacob Mizerowski and Kyle Harrison.
Speaker 2: Still don't really know what I mean. He's gonna make
Speaker 2: a rehab assignment and he's expected to come back in
Speaker 2: the next week or two, it seems like in Milwaukee,
Speaker 2: but that's still kind of murky there. We don't know
Speaker 2: for sure what his status is, so they're looking for
Speaker 2: another starting pitcher. If you're gonna put Trek Scooble and
Speaker 2: Jacob Mezierowski together, folks, at is a one to two
Speaker 2: combination that's gonna be tough for any team in baseball
Speaker 2: to face. I don't care if it is the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers first. For that reason alone, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: prevent him to go to Milwaukee. Now. Is that a
Speaker 2: smart move? Yes, it absolutely is for many reasons. One,
Speaker 2: you're keeping him for Milwaukee, and two you're bettering your
Speaker 2: team which is already stacked. And for the argument that is, well,
Speaker 2: you know, we're not gonna be able to sign him
Speaker 2: to a five hundred million dollar contract in the off season.
Speaker 2: Scott Bors is gonna want a ton of money. We
Speaker 2: can't pay everybody this kind of money. What are we
Speaker 2: gonna do when the season's over. You know what, when
Speaker 2: the season's over, let the chips fall. Because there's a
Speaker 2: lingering labor stoppage coming up next year which nobody wants
Speaker 2: to talk about. I get it. Nobody wants to talk about.
Speaker 2: The S word has been thrown around by the owners.
Speaker 2: Salary cap players don't want that. So with all that
Speaker 2: lingering in the future and kind of down the road
Speaker 2: right now, right here, the present twenty twenty six season
Speaker 2: had a chance to three peat. Keep those you know,
Speaker 2: those binoculars looking closer as far as October and don't
Speaker 2: look past Trek Skogle makes this Dodger's team an absolute,
Speaker 2: absolute team to win a third championship in a row.
Speaker 2: You put them in Milwaukee and you got yourself a
Speaker 2: tough series, most likely an NLCS showdown on seven game
Speaker 2: series between the Dodgers and Brewers. And if you can
Speaker 2: prevent him from going there and keep him out of
Speaker 2: the hands of that team, then absolutely, And if you
Speaker 2: can sign him in the offseason, I'm not even worried
Speaker 2: about that. I'm out looking that far down the road.
Speaker 2: There could be a salary cap, there could be limitations.
Speaker 2: Who knows what's gonna happen next year and beyond. Live
Speaker 2: right now, Live to win a championship right now. If
Speaker 2: you're the Dodgers, live in the present. Those prospects all
Speaker 2: could turn out to be all stars. Maybe you don't know.
Speaker 2: You absolutely don't know what's gonna happen to him. They're
Speaker 2: all really good prospects. And the Dodgers, along with the Brewers,
Speaker 2: have one of the best farm systems in the minor leagues.
Speaker 2: We've talked about it with the off night Dodger Farm Report,
Speaker 2: gave it to you last Thursday. They are loaded at outfield.
Speaker 2: Here's John Hayman earlier today on Petro Some Money. John
Speaker 2: was asked by Matt money Smith about the Dodgers and
Speaker 2: Eric Schoolble and the idea, do you maybe make a
Speaker 2: trade even if just because you want to prevent him
Speaker 2: from going to Milwauk. You listen to what John Hayman
Speaker 2: had to.
Speaker 5: Say, I mean, I think everything is you know, considered.
Speaker 5: I think that's probably not the top consideration, but I
Speaker 5: think everything is considered. I if I'm the Dodgers, I
Speaker 5: make a trade for a prospect for school Bull and
Speaker 5: get it myself, and I want to lock down that
Speaker 5: third World championship. You know, I'm sure they got, you know,
Speaker 5: among the nine, I'm sure probably you know, they probably
Speaker 5: most of them come up and do well as most
Speaker 5: of the Dodger prospects.
Speaker 3: Seem to do. But you know, the championship would be nice.
Speaker 3: So I would just do it for that reason. As
Speaker 3: far as the Tigers go, they're not going to be
Speaker 3: able to resign him, so I think there's still a
Speaker 3: decent chance. And when I say decent, I mean close
Speaker 3: to fifty to fifty chance that they actually trade him,
Speaker 3: whether they think the race or not. Obviously, the manager
Speaker 3: doesn't want that, the players don't want that, but they
Speaker 3: know the front office knows they're not going to be
Speaker 3: able to resign him, so they should be able to
Speaker 3: get a top one hundred prospect and probably two or
Speaker 3: three other prospects for him and set themselves up. They
Speaker 3: also know that they were a seller in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: sending Flaherty to the Dodgers and other guys all around
Speaker 3: the league, and they ended up in the playoffs anyway,
Speaker 3: So you know, it's only one guy. It's only one
Speaker 3: guy who can help the Dodgers win a World Series.
Speaker 3: It's not going to help the Tigers win a World Series.
Speaker 3: I don't see how what are they fifty and fifty six?
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we've seen the Braves be under
Speaker 3: five hundred in I don't know, with two months to go,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe a half decade ago, and they ended
Speaker 3: up winning the World Series. That's pretty rare. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you're fifty and fifty six, you're probably not winning
Speaker 3: the World Series.
Speaker 2: They're fifty and fifty seven as they have now since
Speaker 2: lost since John Hayman was on this radio station a
Speaker 2: couple of hours ago. So yeah, John Hayman agrees, go
Speaker 2: out make the trade if he's on the market in
Speaker 2: Terrek Schouoble. Outside of Terry's Schooble, I'm not buyers. I'm
Speaker 2: not out there going and trying to get anybody else
Speaker 2: on this roster for the Dodgers. Because of the players
Speaker 2: you have returning because of the guys coming off the
Speaker 2: injured list beginning tomorrow, with Keith k Hernandez within followed
Speaker 2: by Edwin Diaz, Dodger closer who haven't seen since April.
Speaker 2: We haven't heard those beautiful trumpets being played from the
Speaker 2: Dodger bullpen since April. And they're still the best team
Speaker 2: in baseball. But that's besides the point. Now you're adding
Speaker 2: him to the ninth inning or a close situation in
Speaker 2: a game, to go with Tanner Scott, to go with
Speaker 2: Alex Vesia, to go with these guys down to the
Speaker 2: Dodgers bullpit. Now. I know they had a rough outing
Speaker 2: yesterday in New York, and more on that coming up
Speaker 2: in just a little bit. But here is Freddie Freeman
Speaker 2: yesterday postgame at City Field. He was asked by Dylan
Speaker 2: Hernandez at the California Post about the upcoming trade deadline.
Speaker 2: What about all these guys coming back from injury?
Speaker 6: Nice trade deadline?
Speaker 1: Huh No, it's exciting.
Speaker 6: I know those guys are itching to get back, you know,
Speaker 6: Key k Evan talking to him, Blake's hitching, Edwin's.
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 6: That's some really quality reinforcements coming for us and you know,
Speaker 6: we're looking forward to get home and getting them back
Speaker 6: on the team and getting going.
Speaker 2: Did you hear what he said there at the beginning
Speaker 2: nice trade deadline? Yeah? Absolutely, In place of trades, you're
Speaker 2: just getting guys who haven't been with you for a
Speaker 2: while off the injure list. So it's like you're getting
Speaker 2: them in a trade. It's like a new fresh face
Speaker 2: walking into that clubhouse for the first time. It is
Speaker 2: like the reinforcements coming to help out the guys on
Speaker 2: the front lines. Because that's exactly what it is with
Speaker 2: the return of Key k Hernandez. That's exactly what it
Speaker 2: is when you get an Edwin Diaz now at the
Speaker 2: back end of that bullpen with the Dodgers, it's like
Speaker 2: exactly what it is when you get a Blake Snell
Speaker 2: back possibly and ten days to two weeks. Blake Snell
Speaker 2: is going to make a third minor league start on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: and Dave Roberts said, is that want They want him
Speaker 2: to go four innings and build up to about sixty
Speaker 2: pitches after that, he's good to go. So you look
Speaker 2: at the following week when the Dodgers make their next
Speaker 2: road trip, possibly Blake Snell coming back to this Dodgers' rotation. Folks,
Speaker 2: those are better than trade deadline acquisitions, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: A two time Sy Young Award winner, one of the
Speaker 2: best closers in baseball and one of the best clutch
Speaker 2: utility players, Swiss army knives in baseball. All coming back
Speaker 2: in the next two weeks for this Dodgers team, which
Speaker 2: already has a double digit lead, which already has the
Speaker 2: best record in baseball, and which already is the back
Speaker 2: to back defending World Series champions looking for a three peat. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: there's no need to go out and make trades and
Speaker 2: give up the farm for any other player out there.
Speaker 2: You tell me right now, Dodger fans at eight six
Speaker 2: six ninety seven two five seventy, outside of Terry Schooble
Speaker 2: a better player, they can go out and get in
Speaker 2: a trade that at Blake Snell at the starting pitching,
Speaker 2: That at Edwin Diaz as a bullpen arm encloser, that
Speaker 2: a Key k Hernandez as a right handed bat, Swiss
Speaker 2: army knife who can play multiple positions. For you all,
Speaker 2: wait and listen. Eight and sixty six ninety seven two
Speaker 2: five seventy. Those are three guys right there that are
Speaker 2: better than anybody else out there on other teams at
Speaker 2: the trade deadline, So there's no need to go out
Speaker 2: and make a move.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: On the flip side of this, Katie Wu brought it
Speaker 2: up from the Athletic and it's an interesting point. What
Speaker 2: about guys like Eric Lauer and Alex call Because you're
Speaker 2: getting back Key k Hernandez, and because you're getting back
Speaker 2: Blake Snell and down the road Tyler Glasnaw who just
Speaker 2: threw the hitters on Friday twenty five pitches and is
Speaker 2: looking to expand that in a sim game and then
Speaker 2: go out on a minor league rehab assignment. So with
Speaker 2: that in your back in your mind, Tyler glassnew knock
Speaker 2: on Wood stays healthy and the back doesn't have spasms anymore.
Speaker 2: Is a few weeks down the road past Blake Snell.
Speaker 2: That's another arm to this rotation. You've got too many
Speaker 2: starting pitching And I hate to say that because you
Speaker 2: really never have enough starting pitching in baseball because injuries happen, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: but you're gonna have too many arms here as far
Speaker 2: as starting pitching is concerned, and you have a redundant
Speaker 2: role in Alex Call and Keiky Hernandez, they're basically the
Speaker 2: same player. Utility guys can start, can play multiple positions,
Speaker 2: and bat right handed.
Speaker 1: They're the same guy.
Speaker 2: So Alex Call is expendable. You're not just gonna send
Speaker 2: him down to Triple A. Off the top of my head,
Speaker 2: I don't even know if he's got anything left as
Speaker 2: far as possibly is it going back to Triple A
Speaker 2: anymore option? Well, that being said, then you look at
Speaker 2: the market in baseball right now at the trade deadline,
Speaker 2: is it crazy to think that Dodgers might actually be
Speaker 2: sellers and not just Eric Lauer but Alex Call. When
Speaker 2: you think about what are some of the big pickups
Speaker 2: teams are looking for. Pitching and depth and death can
Speaker 2: come at any position, catcher, alfield, infield, well, Alex Call
Speaker 2: can play multiple positions for you. So he checks a
Speaker 2: couple of boxes. It's got playoff experience, He's a veteran,
Speaker 2: been in this league now a few years. That is
Speaker 2: somebody that teams could be interested in adding to their
Speaker 2: depth come Octil. Unfortunately, the way the Dodger roster is
Speaker 2: when everybody's healthy, just not enough.
Speaker 1: Room for a.
Speaker 2: Alex Freelan and an Alex Call, Freeland's got to go
Speaker 2: back to Triple A Oklahoma City. But Alex Call, he
Speaker 2: becomes now a trade ship. Eric, with six starting pitchers,
Speaker 2: you've now got a trade ship and you've built them
Speaker 2: up and you've turned a season around that's been great.
Speaker 2: But you can go out and you can get something
Speaker 2: for him. Now, what are the Dodgers going to get
Speaker 2: in return for an Alex Call or an Eric Lawer
Speaker 2: if they were to go out and shop them at
Speaker 2: the trade deadline? Because those are commodities. Now, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, the Dodgers are a team that teams are
Speaker 2: calling and saying, oh, hey, you know Eric Lauer. Okay,
Speaker 2: we need a veteran left handed pitcher. We love what
Speaker 2: you did with the guy. You've turned his season around.
Speaker 2: He was not having a good twenty twenty six in Toronto.
Speaker 2: Dodgers has flipped his season around. He's been great. Ah,
Speaker 2: we might take a flyer on him. What are you
Speaker 2: guys interested in Alex Call? Absolutely, we can use the
Speaker 2: right handed bat off the bench, a guy who can
Speaker 2: play multiple positions and start for us. Say yeah, yeah, well,
Speaker 2: well we're interested in Alex Call. What's it gonna take
Speaker 2: what's it gonna take minor league prospects the Dodgers can
Speaker 2: go out and bolst of their minor league system. Well,
Speaker 2: they're already loaded at outfield. There's no question. Six outfielder's
Speaker 2: in the top one hundred on MLB's Top one hundred list.
Speaker 2: You don't need any more outfielders. How about another catcher?
Speaker 2: How about some more starting pitching. Look at the Dodgers'
Speaker 2: top minor league prospects. I'm just gonna give you a
Speaker 2: couple of them. Jackson Ferris, acquired in the Michael Bush
Speaker 2: deal from the Cubs a couple of years ago. Okay,
Speaker 2: they got him, added depth to their minor leagues. He's
Speaker 2: a really top, really good prospect, top twenty prospect. James Tims,
Speaker 2: third guest on this show on Off Night Dodger Talk.
Speaker 2: James Tims the third was acquired for Dustin May at
Speaker 2: the deadline last year. Okay, all right, you see where
Speaker 2: I'm going. River Ryan River. Ryan wasn't drafted by the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: He was drafted by the Padres. Dodgers got him into trade. Okay.
Speaker 2: Seems like this Dodgers front office and player player development
Speaker 2: knows what they're doing. Drafting and acquired minor league players
Speaker 2: at the minor league level and the major league level.
Speaker 2: All right, Mike Sorooda, here's one for you. Mike Sereda.
Speaker 2: Folks wasn't drafted by the Dodgers and developed. He was
Speaker 2: drafted by the Cincinnati Reds and then traded for Gavin Lux,
Speaker 2: so he came over via trade. I just rattled off
Speaker 2: what three of the Dodgers' top twelve prospects were acquired
Speaker 2: via trade and were acquired to bring in his depth
Speaker 2: in the minor leagues. So you can use him then
Speaker 2: to flip in trades at the major league level, or
Speaker 2: you develop and bring them up to the major leagues yourselves.
Speaker 2: So there's different ways of making trades. The Dodgers could
Speaker 2: be sellers and buyers at the trade deadline. They could
Speaker 2: be sellers in adding depth in the minor leagues, and
Speaker 2: they can be buyers in that they can go out
Speaker 2: and get Trek Scouble Again. One player on my whiteboard,
Speaker 2: if I'm Dodger front office Andrew Freeman and Brandon Gomes
Speaker 2: in that front office crew, there's one name up there,
Speaker 2: and there's one name only that I'm interested in, and
Speaker 2: that's Terror Schooble. Now on the other side of that
Speaker 2: white white board is Eric Lawer Alex Call, and I'm
Speaker 2: taking phone calls on those two guys. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 2: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five seventy eight
Speaker 2: eight nine eight seven two five seventy. We'll take a
Speaker 2: time out, We'll come back. I gotta line open. We're
Speaker 2: a week away from the Major League Baseball trade deadline
Speaker 2: here on Dodger Talk. What should the Dodgers do? Buyers
Speaker 2: Sellers and his terror Schooble that name Tiger's lost again tonight, folks.
Speaker 2: They're pretty much out of it. There's seven games under
Speaker 2: five hundred. You gotta believe they're gonna sell off Terry
Speaker 2: schoobl to the highest bidder. Will it be the Dodgers?
Speaker 2: Will it be the Brewers? Do you need to prevent
Speaker 2: Milwaukee from getting them? Eight six six nine eighty seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy It's off night Dodger Talk. It's good
Speaker 2: to have a double digital lead in the division. It's
Speaker 2: good to be the best team in baseball. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about a week come back here on an FI seventy
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Speaker 2: Dodger talk continues here on this Monday night. They s
Speaker 2: for being with us. Tim Kates with you here until
Speaker 2: the the hour as the Dodgers enjoying a little rests
Speaker 2: and relaxation on this Monday after a nine game, ten
Speaker 2: day road trip that ended yesterday in New York. They're
Speaker 2: back at it tomorrow for the first to three against
Speaker 2: the Seattle Mariners as they start a sixth game a
Speaker 2: home stand. The Dodgers first place atop the ANL West
Speaker 2: and certainly feeling comfortable where they're at right now in
Speaker 2: the standings and head of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: right now currently twelve and a half games up on
Speaker 2: the Snakes, fourteen games up on the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 2: So I'm kind of keeping an eye on in the background. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they've won three in a row. Still playing five hundred
Speaker 2: baseball right now. In fact, they're five hundred on the
Speaker 2: season at fifty three and fifty three. But we'll find
Speaker 2: out what they're gonna do. We talk about what the
Speaker 2: Tigers may or may not do with Trek Skouobel. Now
Speaker 2: that they are seven games under five hundred. They are
Speaker 2: not even in contention in the division, and they got
Speaker 2: a lot of teams between them and the Red Sox
Speaker 2: for the second wildcard spot in the American League, So
Speaker 2: their postseason hopes are looking bleak at this point. And again,
Speaker 2: we're one week away from the major league trade deadline
Speaker 2: in baseball, So what teams are gonna do or not do.
Speaker 2: It's gonna start coming into clear pitcher here in the
Speaker 2: next couple of days. And you look at the Padres.
Speaker 2: They're only a game and a half back in the
Speaker 2: wildcard race in the National League. But it's the Padres,
Speaker 2: the Marlins, the Nationals, the Cardinals, the Diamondbacks and Pirates
Speaker 2: all right there with the Phillies and Cubs. So it
Speaker 2: is a logjam of teams fighting for the two wildcard
Speaker 2: spots in their division is and certainly in the NL
Speaker 2: West with the Dodgers just absolutely boat racing teams. The
Speaker 2: only way that Diamondbacks and the Padres will get in
Speaker 2: to the October playoff run is as a wildcard team,
Speaker 2: and both those teams now certainly right there in contention.
Speaker 2: And what are the Padres gonna do with Mason Miller.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be interesting to see. There have been a
Speaker 2: lot of talk last week that if the Padres continue
Speaker 2: where they're at and not in contention, they could go
Speaker 2: out and get a nice lit hole for Mason Miller
Speaker 2: if they made a trade to a team looking for
Speaker 2: a closer at the back end of the bullpen. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know if they do that. Now the Padres
Speaker 2: of all of a sudden come back to life and
Speaker 2: showing that they're back in this wildcard race. So this
Speaker 2: is so interesting about this year is how many teams
Speaker 2: are still alive, how many teams realistically are in the
Speaker 2: playoff pitcher. I mean outside the division winners. In the
Speaker 2: American League, you got the Yankees, Red Sox, Guardians, Twins, Mariners, Orioles, Astros,
Speaker 2: and Tigers technically all within four and a half games
Speaker 2: of a wild card spot. That's a lot of room
Speaker 2: though between the Tigers and the two top teams in
Speaker 2: the wildcard spot. Again, they're just not gonna get there.
Speaker 2: As far as the National League wildcard race, you got
Speaker 2: the Cubs and Phillies holding onto the two spots, but
Speaker 2: the Pirates, Diamondbacks, Cardinals, Nationals, Padres, and Marlins all two
Speaker 2: games within a wild card spot. That's a lot of
Speaker 2: teams crunched together there and not a lot of separation.
Speaker 2: All those teams we just mentioned, and the nationally and
Speaker 2: the American League are all looking for help, all looking
Speaker 2: for guys to walk into those clubhouses next Monday night
Speaker 2: or Tuesday after the trade deadline and help out their
Speaker 2: playoff push. And Eric Lower and Alex call they could
Speaker 2: fit right in if the Dodgers are looking to be
Speaker 2: sellers on the flip side. Out of all these teams
Speaker 2: we just mentioned, the Cubs of Phillies, Pirates, Diamondbacks, Cardinals, Nationals, Padres,
Speaker 2: even the Marlins, none of those teams look like I
Speaker 2: mean maybe the Diamondbacks. You can make a case Arizona
Speaker 2: it's got the depth to do it, to go out
Speaker 2: and make a playoff push with a Terrek Scooble. I
Speaker 2: mentioned the Arizona Diamondbacks about him six weeks ago as
Speaker 2: one of the teams I thought could be in the
Speaker 2: Terry Schooble consideration because they're not going to win the division.
Speaker 2: But as a wildcard team, we've seen funnier things happen.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty three, they went to the World Series based
Speaker 2: the Texas Rangers. It is possible, It is possible that
Speaker 2: they go as a wild card team and make a
Speaker 2: run like they did a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 2: if you added Terry Schooble. Who knows, a lot of
Speaker 2: these teams just don't have the minor league equity to
Speaker 2: go out and pull off a trade. But the team
Speaker 2: like the Dodgers can eight sixty six nine eight seven
Speaker 2: two five seventy. All right, let's go out to the phones.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Eric and first time caller in Los Angeles. Eric,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodger Talk with Tim Katester on this Monday night.
Speaker 7: How you doing, Hey, Tim, thanks for taking my call. Sure,
Speaker 7: and don't due respect.
Speaker 8: I think you got it wrong.
Speaker 9: Okay, there's a there's the something I haven't heard anybody
Speaker 9: talk about. You know, you've got Will Smith with a
Speaker 9: major neck injury. Now she is coming back, not to play.
Speaker 7: Right field or the infield. He's coming back that played catcher.
Speaker 7: He's gonna have to be able to take one hundred
Speaker 7: mile an hour of fastballs off the face mask. That's
Speaker 7: probably how he got injured in the first place.
Speaker 1: I don't know that he can.
Speaker 2: Do that, So you think the Dodgers need catching him?
Speaker 7: Will Smith is coming back as catcher, so you may
Speaker 7: have to take a new position.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know where where does he fit? Where
Speaker 2: does he fit into the puzzle this year? Moving positions
Speaker 2: And that's just not going to happen. Eric, You're not
Speaker 2: gonna move a guy.
Speaker 7: I know that he's going to come back as catcher.
Speaker 7: So if I'm gonna move my guys to make a hole,
Speaker 7: it's catcher, it's not pitcher. We are really in need
Speaker 7: of another catcher. And all those Eric Lawers and guys
Speaker 7: like that that you want to move to get somebody,
Speaker 7: get a catcher first, and then worry about the pitching.
Speaker 3: We got pitching, all right.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, Eric, I'm push back a little bit.
Speaker 2: Catching is a position that the Dodgers, in my mind,
Speaker 2: don't need to go out and get. I just don't
Speaker 2: believe so. Ryan Jeffers from the Minnesota Twins is considered
Speaker 2: the top available catching option on the trade market. The
Speaker 2: Yankees are desperately looking for catching help. And that's just
Speaker 2: the the first team, off the top of my head,
Speaker 2: that's looking for catching help. You could take Shaye Langleers
Speaker 2: out of the equation. He just tores meniscus in his
Speaker 2: right knee, likely ending his season by the way, so
Speaker 2: he is gone. He had been considered one A, one
Speaker 2: B with Ryan Jeffers as far as top catching availabilities
Speaker 2: at the trade deadline. Top catchers. Ryan Jeffers is the guy.
Speaker 2: Hunter Goodman. He's not going anywhere. Colorado would be stupid
Speaker 2: if they traded their thirty plus home run hitting catcher
Speaker 2: and have him under control for the next like forty years.
Speaker 2: That would be anyotic of the Colorado Rockies to trade
Speaker 2: Hunter Goodman. They would have to get so much back
Speaker 2: in return. It'd be more than what you get for
Speaker 2: Terrek Skouble, just because of how much control you have
Speaker 2: over him. So that's not gonna happen. Adleie Rushman of
Speaker 2: the Baltimore Orioles, Tyler Stevenson of the Cincinnati Reds, I
Speaker 2: mean a rental guy getting a little interest out there.
Speaker 2: I mean Tyler Stevenson's a name. Yeah. Maybe, but you
Speaker 2: could live with Dalton Rushing catching going into October. I
Speaker 2: could live with that. I can honestly live with that.
Speaker 2: I don't have a problem. And to have Will Smith
Speaker 2: come back and to say he's gonna change positions, come on,
Speaker 2: he's not. He's a catcher. I mean three years. You
Speaker 2: want to have the conversation about him moving to first base,
Speaker 2: we could have that conversation. We're not having it on July.
Speaker 2: What is today, July twenty seventh. That's just not happening,
Speaker 2: John and Resita, Welcome to Dodger Talk on this off
Speaker 2: night as a Dodger's back at it tomorrow against the
Speaker 2: Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 8: How you doing, John, Hey, Tam, thank you very much
Speaker 8: for taking my call. Sure, I totally agree with you.
Speaker 8: Let's go out and get scoobled, because if you take
Speaker 8: a look at a Dodger pitching staff, it's not as
Speaker 8: strong as it looks. You got glass Now and Snell
Speaker 8: which are coming back up injury, which are injury prone
Speaker 8: in the first place, and glass Now will never last
Speaker 8: a full year anyway. Snell has a performed that well.
Speaker 8: Even when he came back a couple of months ago,
Speaker 8: he didn't do that well. After he was on his
Speaker 8: babblehead night he came back and it wasn't any good.
Speaker 8: And then you guys show Hey, which is still undetermined
Speaker 8: about his knee and can he put pressure on that.
Speaker 8: That's three pitchers that are fifty to fifty or less.
Speaker 8: I think we should go out and get Scooble because
Speaker 8: that is the uh, that's what we should do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you, John, and I'm glad you brought
Speaker 2: up show hey Otani, because that is to me a
Speaker 2: serious question mark, because we just don't know. We don't
Speaker 2: know how bad the knee is with him pitching moving forward.
Speaker 2: It's bad enough where they've shut him down pitching and
Speaker 2: he's just throwing bullpens, at least one of them last
Speaker 2: week on the road trip. But outside of him DH
Speaker 2: and every day. Will he be there in September and
Speaker 2: October to start games for the Dodgers. Dave Roberts seemed
Speaker 2: pretty optimistic about it, certainly, but it's a legitimate question.
Speaker 2: And then Blake Snell love him. That's fast as guy
Speaker 2: Snell zilla two times, as he says, Sion Award winner. Certainly,
Speaker 2: but he's made one start and then had the elbow surgery.
Speaker 2: You're assuming, you know, in this fair to assume he's
Speaker 2: coming back healthy and is about as close to one
Speaker 2: hundred percent as possible body wise, he hasn't thrown a
Speaker 2: lot because of the elbow, and elbow wise, we assume
Speaker 2: he's back to normal because he had the procedure done
Speaker 2: to take out the chips in his elbow, and he
Speaker 2: can get full flexibility now and throwing pitches, as he
Speaker 2: alluded to on a pregame conversation with David Vassa a
Speaker 2: couple weeks ago. So we're assuming when he comes back,
Speaker 2: he's gonna be back at that Blake Snell elite level. Again,
Speaker 2: we're assuming that Tyler Glass now fingers crossed that the
Speaker 2: spasms don't act up. But Blake Snell, yes, I'm assuming
Speaker 2: he is healthy. Tyler Glass. Now, I don't know the
Speaker 2: track record show he could come back and be really
Speaker 2: good and reliable, or he may not be there like
Speaker 2: he was a couple of years ago in October for
Speaker 2: the Dodgers in twenty four. We don't know which Tyler
Speaker 2: Glass now we're gonna get. It's fair to say that
Speaker 2: it is because of his injury history. And you got
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski, who, folks, I love Justin Robleski. I love
Speaker 2: everything about him, his makeup, his grind, his backstory, his
Speaker 2: fight to the major leagues. This isn't a bonus baby.
Speaker 2: This is a guy who got hurt, went to three
Speaker 2: different colleges. JC in there in the mix at Oklahoma State,
Speaker 2: got hurt, threw out his arm. Comes to the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: They believe in him. Didn't get drafted where he wanted
Speaker 2: to because of the injury, worked his way up to system.
Speaker 2: Still only twenty six, fought his way into the rotation
Speaker 2: this year because of injuries and spring training to Blake Snell,
Speaker 2: and has taken every opportunity and ran with it to
Speaker 2: become an All Star, eleven game winner and an erra
Speaker 2: that's top ten in the National League right now. I
Speaker 2: love everything about Justin Robleski. At the same time, the
Speaker 2: question has been brought up even to Justin Robleski and
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts after his last starting in Philadelphia on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: where he pitched into the seventh inning. He's sitting right
Speaker 2: now at over one hundred innings. He's made sixteen starts.
Speaker 2: The numbers don't lie. There's a lot of innings in
Speaker 2: twenty six for Justin Robleski. With that being said, you
Speaker 2: don't want to overwork them. You need them, but you
Speaker 2: also want him for the stretch run in October, don't you.
Speaker 2: So how do you balance that fine line with the
Speaker 2: Justin Robleski whose numbers are getting up there as far
Speaker 2: as innings pitched with us all being said, the uncertainty
Speaker 2: of show Hayes knee which Tyler Glass, now are you
Speaker 2: gonna get? We assume Blake Snell is coming back at
Speaker 2: Blake Snell level, and Justin Robleski love him, but keep
Speaker 2: it on on his innings and his workload. This is
Speaker 2: where Trek'scooble makes all the sense in the world. I mean,
Speaker 2: the more and more I talk about it, the more
Speaker 2: and more I'm sold on it. And not just for
Speaker 2: the reason of blocking him from going to the Milwaukee Brewers. Yes,
Speaker 2: that is a great weapon to have to prevent him
Speaker 2: from going to the Brewers. With all the trade equity
Speaker 2: you have in the minor league systems and what you
Speaker 2: could offer to the Milwaukee Brewers, and if you're excuse me,
Speaker 2: to the Detroit Tigers. If you're the Tigers and you're
Speaker 2: sitting there looking at the Brewers and Dodgers, the asking
Speaker 2: price is going up. It's going up. It's going up,
Speaker 2: and certainly they're going to get the most out of
Speaker 2: a potential Tarik Schooble trade and good for them on that.
Speaker 2: That's the bargaining right they have for having the biggest
Speaker 2: chip right now at the trade deadline again for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Keep him out of Milwaukee's rotation for October. And in reality,
Speaker 2: when you look inward on this Dodgers rotation right now
Speaker 2: and moving forward, yeah, there is in need maybe for
Speaker 2: a potential starting pitcher of that caliber to help anchor
Speaker 2: this rotation. Are they in trouble?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Is there a serious question about the depth? Not really,
Speaker 2: They'll be okay. Remember it's a six man rotation they're
Speaker 2: currently working with. It's not a five man rotation. It's
Speaker 2: a six man rotation that Dave Roberts is working with.
Speaker 2: That's the luxury that they have. Eight six six nine
Speaker 2: eight seven two five seven. We'll take a time out,
Speaker 2: we'll come back. We'll get to your phone calls. So
Speaker 2: we're here till the top of the hour. We're a
Speaker 2: week away from the trade deadline, and the Tigers are
Speaker 2: falling further and further out of playoff contention. Trek Scooble
Speaker 2: is more and more of a reality as far as
Speaker 2: being traded by next Monday, Will it be the Dodgers
Speaker 2: eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy your
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Speaker 2: Dodgers back at it tomorrow as they start a three
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Speaker 2: deck beginning at six pm. We are now less than
Speaker 2: seven days away from the trade deadline as it comes
Speaker 2: next Monday afternoon. We mentioned it earlier. The Detroit Tigers
Speaker 2: lost again today. They're now seven games under five hundred.
Speaker 2: They are really not in contention in the American League
Speaker 2: Central and certainly have a lot of teams between them
Speaker 2: and the wild card race in the American League for
Speaker 2: those two top spots. So looking more and more like
Speaker 2: they could be sellers at the trade deadline. Trek Scooble
Speaker 2: the only name I'm interested in right now if I'm
Speaker 2: the Dodgers to help bolster this starting rotation which we
Speaker 2: went over at last segment from show Heyo Tani's knee
Speaker 2: to the back spasms to Tyler Glass. Now he's going
Speaker 2: to come back here in a few weeks, Blake Snells
Speaker 2: right right there on the horizon, coming back with one
Speaker 2: more start in the minor leagues before he gets ramped
Speaker 2: up and is ready to go to rejoin the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: And you're getting back your closer, Edwin Diaz on Wednesday
Speaker 2: and tomorrow welcome back keyk a Hernandez, who'll be back
Speaker 2: in the Dodgers roster. And we'll see what corresponding moves
Speaker 2: happened tomorrow. Most likely Alex Frielan getting sent to Triple
Speaker 2: A Oklahoma City, but we will see tomorrow afternoon. Aaron
Speaker 2: in Lakantha love it down in Lakenta. Aaron, how hot
Speaker 2: it was it out there today?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: One hundred and eleven hundred ten?
Speaker 10: Aaron, go ahead, Yeah, So you're spot on with the
Speaker 10: Dodgers starting pitching. Do you want to talk a little
Speaker 10: bit about what we've got in the minor league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 10: So that's my question to you. I'm curious what kind
Speaker 10: of options that we had here on the farm to
Speaker 10: bring guys up.
Speaker 2: His season, Well, appreciate it, Aaron. There's options in Double A,
Speaker 2: but guys who I don't think are major league ready.
Speaker 2: You look at the Dodgers' top ten prospects and we'll
Speaker 2: just start right there, from hose Way to Paula, Mike Serota,
Speaker 2: Zaier Hope, Christian Zazoweta, who is a right handed pitcher.
Speaker 2: All those names I just mentioned are in Double A.
Speaker 2: Tulsa River. Ryan is the closest to being major league ready.
Speaker 2: For him, it would be again coming back to the
Speaker 2: major leagues. So there there again is another arm that
Speaker 2: didn't you know, didn't get brought up that could help
Speaker 2: out this Dodgers team as far as starting games in
Speaker 2: the second half of this season. James TIB's the third
Speaker 2: just knocking on the door in Triple A Oklahoma City.
Speaker 2: You have to wonder with Tibbs because he's primarily an
Speaker 2: outfielder and can play a little bit of first base. Again,
Speaker 2: logjam in the outfield, but for Tibbs, do you not
Speaker 2: bring him up to the major leagues because you can
Speaker 2: use him in a trade, you don't want to bring
Speaker 2: him up to the major leagues. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if exposed is the right word, but let teams see
Speaker 2: what he can or can't do initially at the big
Speaker 2: league level. I mean, you bring a guy up, and
Speaker 2: you get him up, then all of a sudden, its
Speaker 2: eyes wide open and things are overwhelmed, and he gets exposed.
Speaker 2: That could devalue him as far as a trade. If
Speaker 2: he comes up and all of a sudden he tears
Speaker 2: it apart. You're starting to wonder at my trading this guy,
Speaker 2: and his trade value also goes up. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, if you keep him in triple A, you
Speaker 2: kind of know where he's at right now, power hitting outfielder.
Speaker 2: It's putting up twenty plus home runs. You know where
Speaker 2: you're getting at the trip and a team might want
Speaker 2: to go out and you know, acquire this twenty two
Speaker 2: year old twenty three year old now outfielder and James Tibbs.
Speaker 2: So there's possibly the thinking there, But most of the
Speaker 2: talent for the Dodgers is in double A, so I
Speaker 2: think it's a bigger jump at this point, and they're
Speaker 2: a Dodger team that doesn't need that help. And it's
Speaker 2: not a Dodgers team that's looking to rebuild. It's not
Speaker 2: a Dodger team that you're thinking, Okay, we're gonna throw
Speaker 2: away twenty six. Let's bring up these young pups and
Speaker 2: let's let's show them off and show our fan base
Speaker 2: what the future holds. You're just not an organization, nor
Speaker 2: are you a major league team that is doing that
Speaker 2: right now? All right, Aaron, I appreciate it, Arthur and
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Speaker 1: Arthur?
Speaker 8: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Turn your radio down or your Higheart radio off. Turn
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Speaker 8: I wanted to talk about tim is a pictures about
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Speaker 2: Okay, you're all you're on the air, Go ahead, what
Speaker 2: do you want to say? Yep, it is me, Arthur.
Speaker 2: Howre you doing?
Speaker 10: You know here there? Earlier said catching? I think that's
Speaker 10: a really that's a weak position. Everything that's the rest,
Speaker 10: it's it's the uh catch.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I'm having a hard time here in your Arthur. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put your back on hold. Actually we lost you there.
Speaker 2: Your phone was kind of cutting in it out there. Uh,
Speaker 2: but you brought up the catching spot that one of
Speaker 2: our previous callers brought up. I just don't think when
Speaker 2: you look at how many teams are out there trying
Speaker 2: to better their rosters, if you're going to make a
Speaker 2: move for the Dodgers. To me, it's Terry scouble. I'm
Speaker 2: not out there thinking catching that's where I need. Unless
Speaker 2: they know something about Will Smith that we don't know
Speaker 2: that he's not coming back in twenty six And I
Speaker 2: have no clue. I have no idea. I'm just saying
Speaker 2: maybe that's the case. But I'm okay with Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 2: With that being said, if Dalton Rush is might everyday
Speaker 2: catch in October, I'll followed that. Isabelle Isabelle and Anaheim.
Speaker 2: Our final call the night on Off Night Dodger Talk
Speaker 2: is he How are you?
Speaker 10: I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 1: Hey, I do agree.
Speaker 7: With David, But then I always agree with David. Gave
Speaker 7: me Catching.
Speaker 2: Day, and it's now always you know, it's now always
Speaker 2: gave me TV day.
Speaker 1: They did pay you on the scoop board.
Speaker 7: They will win the championship.
Speaker 2: You guys, no but it puts them in a better situation.
Speaker 2: It puts them even a better situation than they're at
Speaker 2: right now. That's what I look at it is. You're
Speaker 2: already the you know, front runners, You're already the number
Speaker 2: one team everybody's trying to knock off. ESPN's got a
Speaker 2: whole article about how do you get better as teams
Speaker 2: trying to contend with against the Dodgers in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: You are the team people are chasing and for the Dodgers,
Speaker 2: Terry Schooble is a guy. Outside of that, I'm not
Speaker 2: making a trade, all right. Thanks to Michelle, Thanks to
Speaker 2: you Dodger fans for being a part of the show.
Speaker 2: Thanks for podcasting as well. Well, that's gonna do it
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