WEBVTT - Off Season Dodger Talk (12-10-25) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.000 This is off season Dodger Talk Winter Meetings edit year. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.840 Now Everyone's favorite Dodger Insight David Basset. 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:13.600 Hey, welcome to our third consecutive Dodger Talk David Vase 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:17.840 live from the Sportsnet LA studios. We had just finished 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:23.520 access Sportsnet Dodgers Day three recapping the Winter meetings, and 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.720 Jerry Harriston Junior is going to stop by at seven 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.639 point thirty and coming up in our next segment, Andre 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.600 eighth Year is going to join us. He just got 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.839 out of his kid's Christmas program and was eager to 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:42.080 join us. So everybody from Jerry Harriston Junior to Brian 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.239 Cranston to Andre eighth Year are as excited as you 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.440 are about the Dodgers wanting more, wanting a three peat. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.400 And we are going to have another Dodger Talk on 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.360 Friday night at seven o'clock as well. We'll have another 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.240 special guest trying to work on it. It might be 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.880 a big enough guest where they could tell us what's 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.319 going on as far as other moves the Dodgers have 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.959 up their sleeve. And look, you heard Petro some Money 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:15.640 talk about it mock Pingalore from KTLA five News and 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.360 it sounded like a generic fan basically. You know, I 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.320 could have came on here. I could have gone on 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.160 Twitter weeks ago and said, Hey, I hear the Dodgers 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.920 and Tigers are talking about Tarrek's scouble. Yeah, they talked 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.280 about Trek scouble two years ago, but the Tigers were 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:34.399 not going to trade him because they believed they were 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.360 going to be contenders the following year. And that's exactly 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.040 what took place. The Tigers have been very good the 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.960 last couple of years. Now, here's what I know as 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:51.520 far as the Trek Scouoball situation. Number One, they're GM. 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:57.240 Scott Harris has had multiple chances to deny and flat 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:01.840 out say he is not trading terror schoolbl He never 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.400 did that and has not done that, which makes me 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.320 believe there is a very good chance that Tarrek Scuubole 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:15.320 gets traded before opening day. I was a little suspicious 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.960 that these were just rumors and the Tigers were just 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.840 trying to gather information, and at the end of all 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.800 of this, they may just be doing that. But I 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.280 know a lot of people in Orlando, and I'm not 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.440 talking about media people. I'm talking about a lot of 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:35.560 managers and GMS in Orlando either believe Schoolball is going 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.680 to get traded or are not sure whether or not 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.400 the Tigers will trade him. What I knew now talking 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.880 to people in Orlando that we're there and are very 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:50.919 familiar with what the Tigers are asking for Trek's Scoobol. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:55.359 They are asking for a one year rental of Trek's Scoobol, 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.680 a package that would rival with the Padre sent to 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.919 the Nationals for Juan Soto. In case you don't know 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.680 what that was, and Soto was under team control for 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:15.560 two years. The Padres sent cj Abrams, James Wood, Mackenzie Gore, 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:20.040 Luke Voight, and an outfielder that never materialized in another 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:26.480 starting pitcher that never materialized, six prospects, one that was 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.840 ready to go, the other two a year or so 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:35.280 away for two years of control of Juan Soto. From 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:39.720 what I understand, the Tigers wants something that rivals that. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.839 And the difference is the Tigers are trying to win, 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.920 and if they trade Trek Scoobel, they've got to sell 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.120 to their fan base in Detroit. We just traded the 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.360 best picture the Tigers have had since Jack Morris or 0:03:54.040 --> 0:04:00.440 Justin Verlander more recently for more than just prospects, very 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.800 winnable Ale Central and the Dodgers have those type of 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:09.320 players to send to Detroit. And before we go any 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:14.400 further with all that, let's just make this clear. The 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:19.360 reason why there has been rumors and reports linking the 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:24.200 Dodgers to a possible trade for Trek Skoubel is not 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:29.000 because of their three hundred and something million dollar payroll, 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:34.320 not because they have the financial wherewithal, but because of 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.760 their drafting and developing. When they don't even have first 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:43.200 round picks, they just forfeited their second and fifth highest 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:47.960 draft picks by signing Edwin Diaz. This is a testament 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:54.120 to Andrew Friedman, to Brandon Gomes and their scouting department 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.480 to be able to not only go after the top 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:04.560 tier guys like Otani Freeman and Taoscar Hernandez and even 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.159 to a certain extent, Mookie Betts when they extended him, 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:12.800 but Blake Snell, Tyler Glass now guys like that. It's 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.119 not just about them going after those top tier, high 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:21.160 money free agents, but also having the farm system thanks 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:26.239 to their player development, to be able to be even 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:30.200 considered by the Tigers. Said, Hey, this team may have 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.720 what we want. If the Dodgers do end up trading 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.320 for Trek Skouble, whether it's before the season or at 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:41.600 the trade deadline, don't get it twisted. There's going to 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:47.440 be people outraged and pointing the finger that baseball's broken. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.880 The Dodgers have all this money, uh huh. When it 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:55.159 comes to this, this is about their drafting, their scouting, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:06:01.159 and their player development to have players young players prospects 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.320 to be able to trade and be engaged with the 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.240 Tigers for a Trek Scooble. Has nothing to do with 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:14.040 the size of their payroll. Has everything to do with 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.960 their player development and having these players that are very talented, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.200 whether or not they turn out to be really good 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.679 or not well right now, a lot of people believe 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.320 they have the potential and that's why they get tagged 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.920 as a prospect and have one of the top five 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:36.120 farm systems according to multiple publications. So if this happens, 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.280 it's not because of the financial might of the Dodgers, 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.680 it's because of the player development system and the drafting 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:50.320 under Andrew Friedman. And look if Tarrek's scouble, if the 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:55.279 Tigers are listening for Trek Scouble, you gotta believe Andrew 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.800 Friedman is not just going to pass on it. He's 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.120 going to be aggressive because he has the prospects to 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:08.279 be aggressive within reason, within reason. And don't forget Trek 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:13.040 Scuble is a Scott Boris client. The chances of him 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:19.320 agreeing to an extension are very unlikely. Boris clients usually 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.360 go to free agency, especially in a situation like this, 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.360 especially for the premiere pitcher. Scott Boris is not going 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.720 to sign an extension. He is going to take Trek 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:35.080 Scouble to the open market. Whether it's the Mets, whether 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.360 it's the Dodgers, whether it's the Pirates, whether it's the Tigers. 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.760 Trek's Scouble will be a free agent. So it's a 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.600 one year rental with the hopes of trying to bring 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.880 him back. Make no mistake about that other Dodger news 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:55.640 Taoscar Hernandez, who has been rumored in trades. He told 0:07:55.840 --> 0:08:01.160 a reporter in Spanish, I believe his I tweeted out 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.720 his name. I don't know him off the top of 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.200 my head, but I'm going to get his name right now. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:12.720 He told Moisis Moisus fabion of Moises to sport this 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:17.280 that he is not going to play for Team Dominican 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.640 Republic in the World Baseball Classic so he can get 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.560 the recovery that his body requires. Remember he had the 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.440 groin injury, so he is not going to play for 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.040 the World Baseball Classic. He has let Albert Poolhols know 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:34.760 that already, and the Athletic is reporting the Royals have 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.600 been a team that has a lot of interest in 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.319 Taioscar Hernandez. So we'll see what happens with ta Oscar. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.119 If you see some of the videos on his Instagram, 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.480 he looks phenomenal. He looks like he's ready for a 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:51.160 rebound season, and I hope that's with the Dodgers. We're 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.400 gonna take a time out here on Dodger Talk. We 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.160 have phone lines open at eight six, six, nine eighty seven, 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.760 two five seventy. Andre Ethier is going to check in 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.440 outside of his kids Christmas program. Ethier a man that 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.840 spent his entire Major League career with the Dodgers and 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.560 still has strong bonds to the Dodgers, the players, the 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.959 organization is going to join us next and Jerry Harriston 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:16.920 Junior is going to join us. At the bottom of 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.560 the hour. David Vasse with you until eight o'clock on 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:25.600 Dodger Talk live from the Sports net LA studios, five 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.640 seventy LA Sports. Thanks to the good people here at 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.640 sports net LA for allowing me to do radio magic 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:38.599 from their studios. We just wrapped up access sportsnet Dodgers 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.959 at seven o'clock. I'm sure it's replaying right now and 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:48.120 we'll replay tomorrow morning. You can find that on sportsnt 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.840 ALA and also we have Dodger Talk for you on 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.680 Friday night at seven o'clock as well. Jerry Harriston Junior 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.480 is going to join us at the bottom of the hour. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.240 Andre Ethier going to check in outside of his kid's 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.959 Christmas program. But I kind of filled you in on 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.640 everything I know. When it comes to Trek's schooble am 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:14.680 I going to say, hey, I'm hearing Andrew Freeman's really 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:19.439 working hard, or there's an extension, or the Tiger's owner 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.120 has got to sign off. If you're getting so far 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.760 down the road on a trade, the owner would be 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:31.000 very much involved before you got that far down the road. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.880 And I'm not saying that it's not going to happen. 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.960 I would say that if the Tigers are indeed open 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.440 to trading Schooble. The Dodgers and Mets would be the 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.319 two favorites to land him for a one year rental 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.319 and see where it goes from there. Eight six six 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.520 nine eighty seven two five seventy is the phone number. 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.080 All right, we are joined right now by a man 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:57.480 that spent his entire twelve year Major League career with 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.400 the Dodgers. He still has strong ties and a lot 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.040 of Dodger pride and may have even had something to 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:08.600 do with Edwin d As choosing the Dodgers over the Mets. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.560 He's outside of his kids Christmas program. The love of 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:17.240 the game still very strong for Andre Ethier Dre. Thanks 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.959 a lot for calling in. How did the Christmas program go? 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.120 It went good? Thanks for having me on, Dave, you know, 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.240 into with the gotel on the mountain for the big 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.680 clothes and you know what a night you know, good night. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.600 You know what a season it is. And like you 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:38.240 mentioned about our guy, our newest edition there, Edwin Diaz 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.120 had a chance to, you know, be at the MLB 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.640 Awards there Vegas a couple of weeks ago for the 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.800 golf Term and Award show, and it happened to be 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.400 I don't know if it was meant to be or not, 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.720 but it was. I was at a table for the 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.079 Ward Show with Edwin Diaz, and that was the first 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.000 thing I said to him as soon as we sat down, 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.040 was you're gonna sign with the Dodgers, right, And of 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.920 course he gave me that smirk. And I sat there 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.600 now for the entire two hour event and talked up 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.080 the Dodgers soon the whole time. So I don't know 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.080 if I had a had a hand in it or not, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.520 but I like to say that I was one of 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.400 the first ones to go heavy and hard after him 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:18.360 that he should be a Dodger. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:19.320 I love that. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.840 And you know this better than we do. Players talk 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.400 when they hear that from another player or they hear 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.080 it from current players. How much does that sway a 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.080 guy from choosing one team from the other if it's 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:33.280 close like it was. 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:36.959 Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I don't know 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.839 if he was taking my word, but he probably got 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.200 more annoyed with me sitting there talking to him about 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.960 the Dodgers and how great it was. And I know 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:46.960 his brother was on the team, and you know, he's 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.439 pretty familiar with his experience there and I mean what 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.920 to get what to start to to the offseason. I'm 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.360 not surprised that the that the Dodgers made that move, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.000 and I'm not surprised that the first ones to make 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.440 the big splash and let everyone else know there. You know, 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:06.040 no across baseball that we're not stopping by any means. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.080 Just because they've won the second World Series doesn't mean 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.320 they're going to stop there. And they're going after it 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.040 again and doubling down. And I've seen a lot of 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:18.280 rumors here about another certain Cali Arizona boy that could 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.320 be end up a Dodger here hopefully if the trade 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.600 comes down to it. And you know what a time 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.880 to be a Dodgor to be a doctor fan, all Right? 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.800 So I asked Brian Cranston this the other night. He's 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.840 in London on on some sort of theater. He's starring 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.720 in a theater. Play out there, my three sons. It's 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.240 one am in London. When Game seven was going on 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.439 in Toronto. We haven't talked. You haven't really shared where 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.160 you were when the Dodgers found a way somehow to 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.800 come back to win Game seven. Where was Andre Ethier 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.560 watching Game seven of this year's World Series. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.280 I was luckily sitting at home, uh, you know for 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.840 the night before. I I I think I hastily pushed 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:10.240 my kids through the neighborhood. You hurried them for trick 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.160 or treating the night before, and that next night definitely 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.640 exhausted from you know, the night of of a trick 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.520 or treating. I got a chance to sit at home 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.640 and watch that game, and I mean, yeah, the edge 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.920 of my seat. I uh, I guess that one play 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.080 alone just sums up the game of baseball. That play 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.240 at home plate that Mickey made, and uh, you know, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.760 with the outreach and stretch of Wales Smith there, it's 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.320 a game of inches. You hear all the time, a 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.480 game of inches. And literally the Blue Jays were that close, 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.000 like that close from winning a World Series and the 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:51.320 Dodgers losing and it just slips away. And yeah, so 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:52.520 I was lucky to be able to sit at home 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.320 to enjoy that. I was screaming for that last you know, 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:00.960 six innings of the game going through it. But shows 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.520 a lot to you know, what this team has done 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.680 with organization done. And I guess you know, you year 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.120 it over and over. You can't be more proud or 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.520 more happy for the fan base and for the city 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.040 of la for how they've rallied around this team the 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:15.080 last twenty years. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.120 You said you were sitting next to Edwin Diaz at 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:22.200 the MLB Award Show. You were partners with Will Smith 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.760 in the golf tournament part of that week in Vegas. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.320 What did he share with you about the World Series? 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.640 So what did you ask him about the play at 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.520 the plate, about the home run? Did you, guys, did 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.880 you try to pick his brain and figure out what 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.000 he was feeling through all that? 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.320 Well, Actually a very interesting twist to that. Our first 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.440 day pairing and that golf tournament head to head was 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.720 with Blue Jay's. We were paired with Clement and the 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:55.080 big home run hitter walk off Joe Carter himself. Oh 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.360 wow was our pairing. Yeah, it was our pairing for 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:02.040 the first day and so Joe, Joe Carter had nothing 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.160 but bad energy. He'd liked to say towards Will Smith 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.040 because he said, you try to steal my shiginn and 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.480 in Toronto, and after he was giving Will Smith a 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.880 hard time about the whole time. So, yeah, Will got 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.280 to extrapolate a little bit on that home run, and 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.240 you know, just up until that point, like he was saying, 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.560 you know, he was really struggling to really drive the ball, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.400 get behind a pitch. You know, he was making great contact, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.160 just doesn't feel like it was really lining up too well. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.480 And then that last couple of games, stuff started to 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.600 click where he was able to add a little bit 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.400 behind it, was able to get in that strong, you know, 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.440 hitting position where he could drive the ball. And he 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:46.560 had faced you know, pitcher a few times and knew 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.760 what he was coming at him with, he said, and 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.200 sure enough, I think he had a homer off him. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:52.720 And I thought, I don't know if he was college 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.840 or minor leagues off a similar pitch. He was saying, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:00.840 so you know he had some had some spears against him, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.200 and knews just throw that pitch, and sure enough he 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.680 did and hit a homer offit. But yeah, that play 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.840 by Big he said, after that play, and I was 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.760 given him hard time. I said, when are we going 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.439 to get the air guitar out on the green? Are 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.399 we going to get the air the air guitar that 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.560 you had after that play at home plate or that 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:22.400 play you know by Kik the double play there, and 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.720 you know he was he was having a hard you know, 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.359 a fun time with that, but I mean, what an 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.720 experience to hear it from him firsthand, and then getting 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.880 to hear it from Blue Jays on the other hand, 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:36.200 kind of getting to relive it again a couple of 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.920 weeks later from it. It was a great time and 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.760 for great event. And you know, Will what a what 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.280 a hero and what a guy keeps coming through those 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:45.080 big situations. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.440 Must be something to do with that jersey number sixteen, 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.560 Rick Monday a big home run in the NLCS and 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.560 eighty one. You're known for being one of the most 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.680 clutch Dodgers in the last twenty five years, and Will 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.000 Smith one of the most clutch Dodgers at number sixteen. 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.120 There's something with it. 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:05.880 I like to think it, but you know, it's still 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.200 the player, and I mean, the guy's having a great 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.480 career and you got to give him a lot of 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.159 credit for, you know, the way he's been able to 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.520 do this over the last couple of years and played 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.760 a premium position like catcher and getting up there and 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.760 handling the staff. You can just see the experience he 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.800 brought into that world series and how he's you know, 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.920 just leveled out and able to keep calm and stay 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.639 focused on the situation. And I think that was the 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.040 thing I kind of was talking to him about on 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.080 our right around, was you know, just he said, it 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.560 was just so much energy, so much going on in 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.359 that whole series. But you look at Will and you know, 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:49.080 during the regular season, Will's the comics guy, and you know, no, 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.560 no expressions, nothing, And he was the same way in 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.480 the World Series, except those couple of moments in those 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:56.840 you know, in Game seven where he let out the 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.480 air guitar. He you know, was pumping his fist doing 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:03.000 that stuff with the big homer, and you know, he's 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.200 just a steady player and it's amazing to see. And 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.080 I'm gonna say he plays golf the same exact way. 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.760 There's not a he doesn't get too excited with the 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.800 good shot, doesn't get too excited with the bad shot. 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:14.600 It's the same guy out on the golf course. 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:21.159 Andre Ethier, number sixteen himself is joining us on Dodger Talk. Hey. Andre. 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.959 Last night, Logan White, a guy that you know really well, 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.000 announced that he's retiring from the game of baseball. He 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.320 was a big part of Nick Coletti's front office. Dan 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:36.159 Evans front office and even for a short time, was 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.600 able to stick with the Dodgers through the deep adesty years. 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:44.480 But when the Dodgers traded for you, they didn't draft you, obviously, 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.440 but when they traded for you, I would imagine Logan 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:51.280 White had something to do with it. Are you familiar 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.720 with what his involvement was? How close are you to 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:58.440 Logan White because he drafted so many of your great teammates, 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:02.040 including Kershaw and kem. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:04.160 Yeah, and I think it started off like this whole 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.679 run these Dodgers are on has a lot to do 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.920 with the architect that Logan White created. 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.280 He was the architect of this run that you're seeing 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:18.960 in twenty twenty five. You know, it's it started with 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.680 Clayton Karshaw, It started with Matt Camp. It started with 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:26.200 him drafting all those great players that showed up when 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.000 kind of when the Dodgers were hitting their stride when 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:33.600 Guggenheim took over. Those were the key, you know, players 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:37.400 in that system that he had drafted and scouted all 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.600 those years that you know kind of has led to 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:41.520 this success. So you got to give him a lot 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.600 of credit. And I don't know if the fans realize 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.199 that or understand that that he was. You know, you know, 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.080 you have a GM, you have a guy like Andrew Freeman, 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:52.560 a guy like Ned Cletti who are there, you know, 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.280 with the team, the major league team day to day 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.919 operate that obviously they oversee the entire top to bottom 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:01.760 operation of the organization. But at the same time, you 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.360 have your minor league scouting coordinators, your directors, all those 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:07.879 guys who run the minor leagues and are the ones 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:10.960 like we're seeing today, are providing the pieces for great 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:14.080 trade prospects, maybe graduating a guy up to the big 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.240 like a Will Smith who's a really productive player. And 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:19.560 they're the ones who are the backbone of this organization 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:23.720 that are always there to like I said, promote those 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:25.760 guys add pieces when you need it if you have 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:28.440 the depth in your minor league system, and I don't. 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:30.199 I think they fly under the radar a lot. And 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:34.520 you know, Logan did a great job in all those years. 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:39.480 I mean identified arguably the best pitcher in our generation, 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:41.920 if not you know, top ten pitcher of all baseball. 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:46.120 He identified him, wanted him, got them signed, and got 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:50.159 them developed in the big leagues within a couple of years. 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.080 You know, I had a great relationship with him. He 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:56.159 scouted me my last two years in the minor leagues 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:59.840 from you know, being at a higher level in Double A. 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.440 And then of course when I was in the Fall 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:08.160 League with Matt Camp, Russell Martin, James Loney and those 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.199 guys in the Fall League, guys like Logan White, all 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:13.520 the scouting directs, all those guys are pretty much at 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.360 every one of those games all Fall League, watching their 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:19.520 top prospects play. So Logan was there watching those guys. 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:21.840 And when that was when I was in Oklahoma, he 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:24.760 was there watching me also, And that's kind of how 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:28.199 that trade when it got proposed with A's I was 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:31.040 the key piece that those guys wanted and you know, 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:33.000 they weren't gonna stop. And you know, that was the 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:34.840 same story he told me a couple of years ago. 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:36.680 When I read it him, he goes, what what a. 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:37.680 Trade me we made? 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:40.679 He's like, we told him that we weren't gonna, you know, 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.720 go past anyone besides you on that on that deal, 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:46.440 and that was our our sticky point. And you could 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.680 have you know, Milton Bradley, and we had to throw 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:52.359 an Antonio Perez just to make them feel good about 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:54.800 giving you up, and you know, I was very thankful 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.520 and obviously sitting here today to be a part of 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:02.000 this organization and be a Dodger changed my life, changed everything, 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:05.280 you know, my trajectory of where I was, my baseball career, trajectory, 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:08.320 where I am in my life. And I'm thankful for 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:10.840 guys like him who went to that for me and 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:13.600 fought for me and believed in me and saw something 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:15.320 special in the limited time you got to see me play. 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:19.080