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Speaker 1: seven two five seventy as your Dodgers Off Tonight. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: they start a road trip in Denver with the first
Speaker 1: of four against the Colorado Rockies. As the Dodgers sit
Speaker 1: atop the NL West Aster eighteen games, they are fourteen
Speaker 1: and four, and now they've got a stretch of thirteen
Speaker 1: games in thirteen days beginning with the four game wrap
Speaker 1: around series. It starts tomorrow at Corsfield and we'll finish
Speaker 1: on Monday. Then the Dodgers will head to San Francisco
Speaker 1: for a three game series next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Speaker 1: before returning home. But the Dodgers now embarking on a
Speaker 1: stretch in which the depth is gonna be tested, and
Speaker 1: the depth of the starting pitching is gonna be on
Speaker 1: full display in my mind, and the Dodgers with a
Speaker 1: six man rotation here in the month of April, especially
Speaker 1: going to this stretch where they're not gonna have a
Speaker 1: day off for two weeks, playing every single day. To
Speaker 1: see six man rotation for Dave Robertson this Dodgers team
Speaker 1: moving forward until they can finally come up for air
Speaker 1: and get a break on the schedule. Eight six, six, nine,
Speaker 1: eighty seven, two five seven. We got a lot to
Speaker 1: get to over the next hour, including a farm report
Speaker 1: coming up in seven forty five. Yes, the minor league
Speaker 1: season is about three and a half weeks old, and
Speaker 1: we're starting to see some of the Dodgers' top prospects
Speaker 1: do their thing. We'll give you an update on host
Speaker 1: Way Depaula's i hear Hope and Ward o'quinteraro, Emil Morales
Speaker 1: who was in Ontario with the Tower Buzzers, Kindle George.
Speaker 1: Some of the Dodgers' top minor league prospects. Guys, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see tomorrow how they're doing today down in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues. Jackson Ferris, an update on River Ryan, who's
Speaker 1: in Triple A, Oklahoma City, working his way back from
Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery. So that is coming up in seven
Speaker 1: forty five. We'll give you an update on how those Dodgers'
Speaker 1: top minor leaguers are doing, including James Tibbs the third,
Speaker 1: who hit another home run last night, a four hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty nine foot bomb in Triple A with the
Speaker 1: com He is just absolutely knocking on the door to
Speaker 1: get to the major league level. Unfortunately, right now there's
Speaker 1: just not enough room for James Timms, the third with
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers. But whenever the case is, they
Speaker 1: need somebody to come up and play outfield and get
Speaker 1: some at bats. No doubt James Tims the Third will
Speaker 1: be wearing a Dodger uniform soon. They Dodgers did make
Speaker 1: a move today. Yes, they acquired right handed pitcher Chase
Speaker 1: McDermott from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for right handed
Speaker 1: pitcher Axel Perez. Now McDermott twenty seven year old in
Speaker 1: Triple A Norfolk with Baltimore. Want to know the six
Speaker 1: to seventy five Erora he will be in Triple A
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. Another arm for the Dodgers to go to,
Speaker 1: a big right hander that the Dodgers now having their
Speaker 1: stable of arms down in the minor leagues. Eight sixty six,
Speaker 1: nine eighty seven, two five seventy is the number. Woke
Speaker 1: up today and I saw an article on the California
Speaker 1: Post from Dylan Hernandez, long time columnus here in Southern
Speaker 1: California had covered the Dodgers for a long time the
Speaker 1: La Times, and it opened up my eyes and got
Speaker 1: me thinking, Wow, the Dodgers seriously have a debate on
Speaker 1: what to do with show Heyotani, and in my opinion,
Speaker 1: there is a decision to be made, and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: it's not as easy as you think. The Dodgers last night,
Speaker 1: a couple hours before the game, released the starting lineup
Speaker 1: and show Hey Otani was not a two way player.
Speaker 1: Otani was the starting pitcher. Shoe Altani went out last
Speaker 1: night and absolutely dealt against the New York Mets when
Speaker 1: six innings ten strikeouts kept you know, the Mets in check.
Speaker 1: Last night, shoe Aotani did his thing, but it was
Speaker 1: for the first time since twenty twenty one that he
Speaker 1: pitched a game and did not hit in the game. Now,
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, they changed it to the Otani rule,
Speaker 1: so when he comes out, he can stay in the game.
Speaker 1: But last night, Dalton Russia was a designated hitter and
Speaker 1: Shoe Aotani was only the starting pitcher. Dave Roberts told
Speaker 1: David Vasse and the media before the game that after
Speaker 1: getting hit on the right shoulder on Monday night by
Speaker 1: a pitch in the series opener, he was still sore
Speaker 1: and just for precautionary reasons, they didn't want him to
Speaker 1: also have to bat, just concentrate on pitching, and again
Speaker 1: he went out there six innings, struck out ten, and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers got the winning to sweep over the New
Speaker 1: York Mets. Dylan Hernandez wrote, don't overthink it. Dodgers must
Speaker 1: let show Heyotani hit even when he pitches. And I
Speaker 1: literally stopped in my tracks this morning, thought do they
Speaker 1: should they? I don't think they necessarily need show hey
Speaker 1: Otani the hitter on nights and when he pitches. And
Speaker 1: let me lay this out for you at eight six, six, nine, seven,
Speaker 1: five seventy because it's it's it's not as simple as
Speaker 1: you think. It's not as black and white as you
Speaker 1: would think. Yes, he's a hitter when he pitches, or no,
Speaker 1: they have another designated hitter in his spot when he's
Speaker 1: a starting pitcher. Yeah. They signed show Heyo Tani to
Speaker 1: a seven hundred million dollar deal a couple of off
Speaker 1: seasons to go, the most lucrative deal in baseball history,
Speaker 1: because he is a unicorn, because he can do two
Speaker 1: things at an elite level that nobody else has done
Speaker 1: or will do. Be a starting pitcher at an elite
Speaker 1: level and be a hitter at an elite level. Now
Speaker 1: show heo Tani. Whatever he does, he does it at
Speaker 1: a just different level than everybody else. Show Hey has
Speaker 1: won MVPs, Shoe Heo Tani has been an All Star
Speaker 1: show Heo Tani is now a two time World Series Champion.
Speaker 1: He was the Rookie of the Year. He was an
Speaker 1: MVP in the NLCS. He's a four time MVP in
Speaker 1: both the American League now in the National League. He
Speaker 1: was a National League RBI leader. He's a fifty to
Speaker 1: fifty player with the fifty home runs in the fifty
Speaker 1: stolen bases. He has done it all except win a
Speaker 1: Cy Young and if you're show Hey O Tani, and
Speaker 1: he hasn't public coming, you know, as far as I
Speaker 1: know come out and said this, But I've seen quotes
Speaker 1: from Dalton Rushing and Will Smith when asked about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's certainly on his mind. In something that he would
Speaker 1: want to do is check another box and win a
Speaker 1: Cy Young Award with the Dodgers All Star World Series Champ,
Speaker 1: MVP four different times, Silver Slugger Award, Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: home run leader twice. He has done almost everything you
Speaker 1: can do in baseball except when a Now I understand
Speaker 1: individual awards you don't really look at and you know,
Speaker 1: will you want to harp on? And it's a team sport.
Speaker 1: I get all that. But two years ago, Shoeyo Tani,
Speaker 1: the hitter, was coming back from Tommy John surgery. Two
Speaker 1: years ago he hit fifty plus home runs and stoled
Speaker 1: over fifty bases, something he had never done before individually
Speaker 1: in his career. Certainly not anybody has done that collectively
Speaker 1: until he did it two years ago. Fifty home runs,
Speaker 1: fifty stolen bases, And because he wasn't pitching, Shoeyotani said,
Speaker 1: what can I work on? What can I go after?
Speaker 1: What can I be better at? What can I master?
Speaker 1: If you will stolen bases, set a goal, stole fifty
Speaker 1: plus bases, hit fifty plus home runs, did something nobody
Speaker 1: had ever done before. Again, will you do that again?
Speaker 1: Probably not because of the dynamic of him pitching now,
Speaker 1: in the stress and the physical toll that it puts
Speaker 1: on you having to pitch once a week. But now
Speaker 1: that he has accomplished all that he has accomplished in
Speaker 1: his career, and the Dodgers are as good as they are,
Speaker 1: why not have show Aotani just pitch and not hit
Speaker 1: once a week eight sixty six, nine, eight seven, two,
Speaker 1: five seventy. I kind of did an informal poll among
Speaker 1: some friends, some text messages, and some people here in
Speaker 1: the building, just walking around here in Anti seventy LA
Speaker 1: Sports and down the hall on our sister station KFI
Speaker 1: AM sixty, and it was kind of split about, Well,
Speaker 1: you got him for a reason, he said, two way superstar.
Speaker 1: Even when he's pitch, he's got a hit, right, they
Speaker 1: need him in the lineup. A couple of other folks said, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, the lineup is so good. Why do they
Speaker 1: need him one day a week when he's hitting the
Speaker 1: other days. I can't just focus on pitching that one day.
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, Yeah, you're right. This Dodgers
Speaker 1: team is so good. This Dodgers team is so talented
Speaker 1: top to bottom. And we're seeing five through nine continue
Speaker 1: to produce the pot hezs of the world. Alex Freelan,
Speaker 1: contributing Miguel Rojas one through nine. It is such a
Speaker 1: deep lineup. The One Night Show, Hey Otani is pitching,
Speaker 1: why not just let him dial in on pitching, focusing
Speaker 1: on pitching, and have somebody else designated hit that night.
Speaker 1: Last night it was Dalton rushing. Maybe you rotated to
Speaker 1: get somebody off their feet, Max Munsey. One week, you
Speaker 1: can put somebody over at third you know, maybe it's
Speaker 1: a Freddie Freeman's DHA. One night, you can put Dalton
Speaker 1: Rushing at first base. You know, there's ways to do
Speaker 1: it with Will Smith getting off his feet and being
Speaker 1: a dh That's something that the Dodgers have thought about
Speaker 1: this year, is giving Dalton Rushing more time behind the plate,
Speaker 1: more at bats to get Will Smith off of his feet. Listen,
Speaker 1: I say this knowing when you get to October it's different.
Speaker 1: But over the course of one hundred and sixty two games,
Speaker 1: Dodger fans think about it. To save show Hey, to
Speaker 1: make sure he's healthy. Why not have him just pitch
Speaker 1: those knights that he's on the mound and not worry
Speaker 1: about hitting, not worry about running off the mound and
Speaker 1: putting on the armor eight sixty six, nine eighty seven
Speaker 1: two five seven. I think it's a fascinating conversation that
Speaker 1: I wonder if the Dodgers are truly having and thinking about.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna take going to show Hey and laying
Speaker 1: him out and explaining why it works, why it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Why you're pro this, whatever direction you go, but I
Speaker 1: think it's worth looking at. Right. Let him once a week,
Speaker 1: and it looks like Wednesdays are the days, the off
Speaker 1: days on Thursdays. I mean, they're trying to line it
Speaker 1: up best with an off day after he pitches. It's
Speaker 1: a six man rotation right now. The Dodgers have made
Speaker 1: it very clear that they're so deep they're gonna have
Speaker 1: guys throw once a week. It's not just Otani with
Speaker 1: a six man rotation in the off days. You now
Speaker 1: have your starting staff go one day a week. If
Speaker 1: that's the case, show Hey, the hitter is there every
Speaker 1: other day for you. If you're worry about show Hey
Speaker 1: and keeping him fresh, keeping him going, keeping him healthy
Speaker 1: through the course of one hundred and sixty two games
Speaker 1: and not getting burnt out, I mean, heck, what did
Speaker 1: we hear last week in Toronto in the final game
Speaker 1: of the road trip, Well, show Hey, Otani tired final
Speaker 1: game of the road trip back east in Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: In Toronto, he's got a pitching the getaway day on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: off day the next day. But you know, didn't have
Speaker 1: that stuff that we saw before out of show, hey, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, if he doesn't have to worry about
Speaker 1: hitting and you can alleviate that for at least one
Speaker 1: game a week, why not. Why not? You've got depth
Speaker 1: on this team, assuming everybody is healthy. It's an embarrassment
Speaker 1: of riches that this team has. You can give some
Speaker 1: abs to somebody else and show he can dial in
Speaker 1: and on pitching, and you can save the wear and
Speaker 1: tear of his body. That's the big thing. The wear
Speaker 1: and tear is alleviated for at least once a week
Speaker 1: with him only pitching and not having to worry about hitting.
Speaker 1: Eight sixty six nine eight seven two five seventy. I
Speaker 1: think it's a valid question. Now when you get to October,
Speaker 1: do you want to have his bat in the lineup
Speaker 1: every single game? Yes, So you have to come up
Speaker 1: with some sort of plan to ramp him back up,
Speaker 1: maybe in September where he's back in the line of hitting.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about over the course of this season.
Speaker 1: It's April sixteenth, folks. You can't afford to have Show
Speaker 1: a burnout by July and August. You can't have anybody
Speaker 1: on this team wharing and tear, just taking a toll
Speaker 1: on him. Over the course of one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: two before they even get to October. If the regular
Speaker 1: season and the Dodgers have proven it they can go
Speaker 1: through a regular season, win the division with the ease,
Speaker 1: win series after series, and get ready for October and
Speaker 1: crank it to another level, then why not throw this
Speaker 1: into the equation of having him just pitch once a
Speaker 1: week and an night that he pitches, he's not a
Speaker 1: hitter eight sixty six, nine eighty seven to two five seventy.
Speaker 1: There's so many ways that can splinter off this conversation,
Speaker 1: and I heard it all day today and it's fascinating.
Speaker 1: The argument of well, that's stupid, Tim, because October, why
Speaker 1: would you not have his bat in the lineup? Well, again,
Speaker 1: you get back to October and that this plan is
Speaker 1: thrown out. I'm talking about over the course of one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two, over the course of the grind
Speaker 1: of a season, if you can alleviate some of that grind,
Speaker 1: some of that physical toll on him. I mean, in
Speaker 1: my mind right now, if you're driving around, if you
Speaker 1: remember last week in Toronto, kind of envisioned last week
Speaker 1: at the Roger Center in Toronto, show Heyotani came out
Speaker 1: to pitch the bottom of the first inning last week
Speaker 1: against the Blue Jays, and I remember this as clear
Speaker 1: as that. I can see it right now because Rick
Speaker 1: and Tim talked about it on the broad or Steven
Speaker 1: and Rick talked about it. They said, show, hey Otani,
Speaker 1: he's got dirt up and down his chest and on
Speaker 1: his pants because he had to dive back when he
Speaker 1: was on base. That's something you know see all the time,
Speaker 1: the starting pitcher already covered in dirt in the first inning. Well,
Speaker 1: you can alleviate the wear and tear of that thirty
Speaker 1: times a year by just having them as a pitcher.
Speaker 1: I think it's worth at least looking into. Is Showy
Speaker 1: gonna want to do it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna agree to it? Probably not? But I
Speaker 1: think it's something if you're an analytical driven team, and
Speaker 1: let's face it, professional sports is all about analytics right now.
Speaker 1: And what's the word in basketball? We all cringe when
Speaker 1: we hear I'll give you a second to think about it,
Speaker 1: and we all can say it out loud together. What's
Speaker 1: the word in the NBA in basketball that we have
Speaker 1: heard over the last few years, and every time we
Speaker 1: hear it. We cringe load management. Oh, these guys can't
Speaker 1: play eighty two games in the NBA. Oh these guys
Speaker 1: can't play back to back. Oh, these guys can't do
Speaker 1: this because they're gonna get hurt. Well, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: go to say that's the l word for show hey
Speaker 1: Otani in this instance, because he's not sitting the rest
Speaker 1: of the week. He's still grinding the five or six
Speaker 1: other games that you're playing that week, depending on the schedule.
Speaker 1: All you're doing during a large portion of the regular season.
Speaker 1: And I'm not smart enough to even look at this
Speaker 1: or figure it out, but I'm sure there are people
Speaker 1: that are smart enough in the analytical the world. You
Speaker 1: can look at the map, out the schedule, when he's
Speaker 1: gonna start, when you start ramping him back up, when
Speaker 1: you put him back in the lineup, knowing that in
Speaker 1: October you are going to have to have him in
Speaker 1: the lineup. If he starts Game one, he has to
Speaker 1: be in the lineup. If he starts Game two, or
Speaker 1: whatever game he starts, if he starts multiple starts in
Speaker 1: a series, you got to have his bat there. You
Speaker 1: just do, because you have to have the best lineup
Speaker 1: out there. For your team, and he in the lineup
Speaker 1: provides that. I just bring it up for the course
Speaker 1: of the regular season. A Wednesday game in Toronto last night,
Speaker 1: a Wednesday night final game of a series against the
Speaker 1: New York Mets. Does he really have to go through
Speaker 1: the wear and tear of having to hit three or
Speaker 1: four times when you ask him to go out there
Speaker 1: and throw almost one hundred pitches, strike out ten, and
Speaker 1: go six innings for you to pick up the win.
Speaker 1: And I haven't even looked to see how many people
Speaker 1: are are ready to go and talk about this. I think, oh,
Speaker 1: I got one line open eight sixty six, nine eighty seven, two,
Speaker 1: five seventy. But for those who first thing you want
Speaker 1: to say is if you do this, though, Tim, what happens?
Speaker 1: You can't have that great game that he had in
Speaker 1: the NLCS where he struck out ten, he hit three
Speaker 1: home runs. Okay, stop right there. How many times that
Speaker 1: ever happened before happened once? You think it's gonna happen
Speaker 1: fifteen times, twenty times when he makes starts this year,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. That was a once in a
Speaker 1: lifetime game that we're gonna talk about forever. So I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear that argument because that probably will
Speaker 1: never happening, and if it does, it just further proof
Speaker 1: of the guy's a unicorn what she already is. And
Speaker 1: we know that he's the greatest player I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: But I want to see him healthy and I want
Speaker 1: to see him out there. And if your show, Hey Otani,
Speaker 1: and you haven't won a cy Young Award, Hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, maybe dial back the amount of bats I
Speaker 1: get and I won't hit on those days that I'm
Speaker 1: pitching so I can win a cy Young Award. I
Speaker 1: think it's worth bringing up. I really do. Dylan Hernandez
Speaker 1: California Post said, don't overthink it. Dodgers must leto Tani
Speaker 1: hit even when he pitches. I don't know. Eight sixty
Speaker 1: six nine eight seven, five seventy. We'll take a break,
Speaker 1: we'll come back. I got one line open, jump on board.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about it. I think it's a discussion worth having.
Speaker 1: And don't call me an idiot, don't say I'm stupid.
Speaker 1: I think it's something to at least kick around. If
Speaker 1: you can give shoe Aotani once a week to deal
Speaker 1: and give you six innings, put up zeros, strikeout eight
Speaker 1: to ten, have an erora under two. Guys gonna win games,
Speaker 1: He's gonna rack up the strikeouts, he's gonna win a
Speaker 1: cy young and then the other five or six days
Speaker 1: of the week he could be your designated hitter and
Speaker 1: still hit thirty five home runs. For you. There's the
Speaker 1: best of both worlds here, and for longevity, because look
Speaker 1: at he's not Benjamin Button. He's not getting any younger.
Speaker 1: He's not twenty seven, he's not twenty six. He's down
Speaker 1: north to thirty. Got factor. All this in am I crazy? Eh?
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it with you eight six, six, nine
Speaker 1: eighty seven two five seventy. Thanks for listening. Off night
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Speaker 1: Tim Kates with you here until the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: Dodgers in Denver as they start a stretch of thirteen
Speaker 1: games in thirteen days, beginning with a four game series
Speaker 1: at Corus Field beginning tomorrow. Tyler Glass now will be
Speaker 1: on the mount in these series opener first pitch at
Speaker 1: five point forty Marongo Casino Dodgers on deck, will get
Speaker 1: it all started at four thirty. It's a four game
Speaker 1: wrap round series, so weird Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday finale
Speaker 1: from Denver and then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in San Francisco
Speaker 1: against the Giants. Dodgers fourteen and four on this season,
Speaker 1: but nipping at their heels. It's the San Diego Padres
Speaker 1: who continued to win. They're beating up on the Mariners
Speaker 1: right now down at Petco Park after a come from
Speaker 1: behind win last night. Giants won earlier today snapped their
Speaker 1: losing streak. Angels won in New York. Mike Trout hit
Speaker 1: five home runs in this series, first player opposing player
Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium to hit four home runs in a
Speaker 1: series in four consecutive days. So a lot happened in
Speaker 1: the world of baseball, including your phone calls eight six, six, nine,
Speaker 1: eighty seven, two five to seventy. Moving forward in the
Speaker 1: regular season, should the Dodgers just let O Taani pitch
Speaker 1: and not have him serve as the DH on those
Speaker 1: days that he pitches. Certainly every other day he is
Speaker 1: the designated hitter and leadoff hitter for Dave Roberts and
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. But last night, because to the shoulder, you know,
Speaker 1: getting hit by a pitch on Monday, they elected to
Speaker 1: have Dalton Rushing serve as a designated hitter, and it
Speaker 1: was only the pitcher show. Eotani struck out ten over
Speaker 1: six innings to get the win eight six, six, nine
Speaker 1: eighty seven two five to seventy. Michael and Covena start
Speaker 1: things off on this Thursday night. How do Michael?
Speaker 4: I'm good, Tim, I trust you're good. I feel like
Speaker 4: we might have played against each other once upon a time,
Speaker 4: village Christian versus Marinatha. But I want to tell you
Speaker 4: that Dalton Rushing is a masher and if he was
Speaker 4: a full time catcher somewhere, he'd be top ten. We
Speaker 4: just happened to have the best catcher in baseball. So
Speaker 4: we all said, have Otani, who like you said, is
Speaker 4: a unicorn, an amazing hitter, we can't leave him off
Speaker 4: and load management is BS and I just don't buy
Speaker 4: into any of that sort of thing. So therefore I'm saying,
Speaker 4: put O'tani in right field, but definitely find a way
Speaker 4: to let Dalton Rushing mash because that's what he does,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the phone call, Michael. I don't think that
Speaker 1: really addresses the question though, more of a Dalton rushing
Speaker 1: getting him more. AB's solution, which you know is great
Speaker 1: and will Smith. The goal is to get him off
Speaker 1: his feet more than in years past. Again, these guys
Speaker 1: aren't getting any younger, and over the course of one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two, you don't want to tax out guys.
Speaker 1: By the time you get to September, they've got, you know,
Speaker 1: fatigue and soreness, and you want to be good to go.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Of course you're going to have some of that, but
Speaker 1: you want to alleviate as much as possible and stay healthy.
Speaker 1: With the course of one hundred and sixty two and
Speaker 1: with the six man rotation here in April through the
Speaker 1: end of the month, because of the schedule, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: have the fortune of having enough starting pitching to allow
Speaker 1: guys to pitch just once a week. And that being said,
Speaker 1: when he does pitch once a week here in April, May, June, July, August,
Speaker 1: maybe save some of that wherein tar and just keep
Speaker 1: him as a pitcher and let somebody else dh on
Speaker 1: those one game a week when he does pitch, something
Speaker 1: to think about, and certainly getting some conversations started here,
Speaker 1: David and Lomb's welcome.
Speaker 5: How you doing, David, we're taking my call.
Speaker 1: Sure, what do you think?
Speaker 6: You know, I totally agree with you one hundred and
Speaker 6: ten percent. You know, on the night set he's pitching.
Speaker 6: Let somebody else, you know, take up the load. Like
Speaker 6: he said, you know, you don't want to burn him out.
Speaker 6: But here's the thing. If, and this is a big if,
Speaker 6: if we're in a dogfight for the division, you know, Arizona.
Speaker 6: I'm not too worried about, you know, San Francisco, Colorado
Speaker 6: wanna bees. But if we're in a dogfight for the
Speaker 6: division and it's gonna make, you know, make us or
Speaker 6: break us, then I say, yeah, go ahead, you know,
Speaker 6: let him be, let him be the two position player
Speaker 6: that he is, let him swing, let him pitch. So
Speaker 6: we need to win the division, and we want to
Speaker 6: get back to October.
Speaker 1: Sure, I appreciate that I preface this all with Certainly,
Speaker 1: when you get to October, he is going to be
Speaker 1: the DH and he's gonna pitch in the games he
Speaker 1: does pitch, He's gonna do both he'll be that two
Speaker 1: way player. And maybe if the terms dictated that he
Speaker 1: needs to do both, then yes, you let him do both.
Speaker 1: But if there's a chance to alleviate some of the
Speaker 1: stress and physical grind on a guy, why not give
Speaker 1: him that opportunity, Even if for the first half of
Speaker 1: the season, Even if it's April and May and June,
Speaker 1: and then the second half of the season when it's
Speaker 1: hot and we're getting ready for postseason baseball, you know
Speaker 1: he's back to being that two way player once a
Speaker 1: week hitting and pitching when he makes the start. But
Speaker 1: if I guess it's just in my mind, if you
Speaker 1: could get him three less at bats in the game
Speaker 1: and let him just dial in pitching in April and May.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have the stats in front of me.
Speaker 1: I don't have the physical numbers to say, yes, the
Speaker 1: toll will be this percent is less and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be less. This on his arm, my eyes, in my mind,
Speaker 1: just tell me, hey, that's a less workload for a
Speaker 1: guy in April, May and June. We know what he
Speaker 1: can do, and the Dodgers have an abundance of talent. Now,
Speaker 1: if this were a Dodgers, let's just be real. If
Speaker 1: this were a Dodgers team that was not who they
Speaker 1: are one through nine and have talent just oozing in
Speaker 1: the lineup every single night, then of course this doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: But when you've got a guy in Dalton Rushing that
Speaker 1: you can come in and be a DH once a week,
Speaker 1: or Will Smith is the DH. When Dalton Rushing catches
Speaker 1: that one time a week that show A pitches, it's
Speaker 1: three or four bats that he is sacrificing to be
Speaker 1: a pitcher only in April, May and June. That's the point.
Speaker 1: So what let him do that? And you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure if you let him just focus on pitching,
Speaker 1: even for the first half of the season, you're gonna
Speaker 1: see the wins, You're gonna see the strikeouts, you're gonna
Speaker 1: see the record for him be really good, the eer
Speaker 1: be really good, and the guy is probably gonna be
Speaker 1: in contention to win a cy Young in the National League.
Speaker 1: So again, he hasn't done it. I'm assuming he'd love
Speaker 1: to be a cy Young Award winner. Jason and Corona.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Dodger Talk on AI seventy l A Sports Live.
Speaker 1: Everyone on the iHeartRadio app how you doing.
Speaker 7: Jason, Hey, Tim, thanks for taking my call. Man. Look, brother,
Speaker 7: I got to agree with you one hundred percent. People
Speaker 7: have to understand out there that Dave Roberts is playing
Speaker 7: chess and managing workload in a season as long as
Speaker 7: baseball season. I am a firm believer in the team
Speaker 7: is so talented. I'll be honest with you. Send show
Speaker 7: Hay to King Kun for two months. This team is
Speaker 7: good enough to win and show Hey can lay on
Speaker 7: the beach and rest. I would rather have his big
Speaker 7: time super bombs in September and October than in April.
Speaker 7: So I'm a firm believer of it. You know, let
Speaker 7: Dalton rushing, get Will Smith off his feet more, run
Speaker 7: a six man rotation, do all that stuff, as long
Speaker 7: as we stay on top and the division on for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Jason, I appreciate it. I'm going to add
Speaker 1: this to the conversation. And again this is, you know,
Speaker 1: something that I doubt will happen. I think should be
Speaker 1: brought up. But in my opinion, because I just was
Speaker 1: double checking whin the show, his birthday fifth, Okay, he's
Speaker 1: thirty one going on thirty two, not getting any younger,
Speaker 1: got more years left on this contract, and we want
Speaker 1: him to be healthy for as much as his contract
Speaker 1: as possible because he is so much fun to watch
Speaker 1: and the greatest player ever and had to treat every
Speaker 1: time he's out there. Okay, he's also a guy who's
Speaker 1: had Tommy John surgery twice. He's had his arm worked
Speaker 1: on twice. Folks. There's no need to put a thirty
Speaker 1: one thirty soon to be thirty two year old this
Speaker 1: summer two times surgery on his two times he's had
Speaker 1: surgery on his arm, and now going out there and
Speaker 1: making thirty thirty two starts, and every time he makes
Speaker 1: a start, he's gotta make three or four at bats
Speaker 1: at the plate. You're gonna wear him at out. And
Speaker 1: I know he's being paid a lot of money. Don't
Speaker 1: tell me, Oh, he's being paid. Who cares. No, He's
Speaker 1: an investment that you want to take care of. That's
Speaker 1: why I bring this up. And the whole thing was
Speaker 1: seeing a columns. They don't overthink it. Dodgers must let
Speaker 1: show Hey hit even when he pitches. I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm overthinking it. I think I'm being practical. I think
Speaker 1: I'm being pretty. I don't know responsible for my investment
Speaker 1: in a seven hundred million dollar player and wanting to
Speaker 1: maximize the most out of him over the course of
Speaker 1: his career. Again, this is a Dodgers team that has
Speaker 1: so much talent. You could do this if this were
Speaker 1: a Dodgers team that, oh man, they got three or
Speaker 1: four at bats that are really just threats every game.
Speaker 1: But those other four guys in the lineup, I mean
Speaker 1: two hundred hitters, maybe ten home runs. I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: put him back on the Angels, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Put them on any other team in the division. And
Speaker 1: we're not having this conversation. We're just not. But because
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are who the Dodgers are in twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: and have the lineup that they have, have the bench
Speaker 1: that they have, and oh yeah, got guys like Mookie
Speaker 1: BET's not even in the lineup right now. He's heard
Speaker 1: Keiky Hernandez is hurt. I mean, it's embarrassing how good
Speaker 1: this team is. And because of that, huh, let's maximize
Speaker 1: our best player are our unicorn two way superstar once
Speaker 1: a week by alleviating those three or four bats. He's
Speaker 1: got to work, and you know, worry about I just
Speaker 1: think it makes sense. I just think it does and
Speaker 1: it's not taking anything away from the fans. Oh I
Speaker 1: came to see him hit, well, you know what, you
Speaker 1: get to see him pitch even better. Oscar and Baldwin Park,
Speaker 1: thanks for being patient. Welcome to Dodger Talk on this
Speaker 1: Thursday on Oscar. Are you doing.
Speaker 5: Homie Kate's was something? Man haven't talked to you since
Speaker 5: scam Man early in the morning.
Speaker 1: Hey Man, great, talk to that guy YouTube.
Speaker 8: Brother.
Speaker 5: Was that Ronnie who has the phone?
Speaker 4: It was?
Speaker 1: That was the chairmer of the ball Shay.
Speaker 5: Shout out to Ronnie Man haven talked to me for
Speaker 5: though that said the best of the bid as Harmon
Speaker 5: needs to say. Shout out to og Ronnie. But hey,
Speaker 5: real quick, real quick, man, you gotta brun up a
Speaker 5: hot take cakese my opinion, Well, first of all, I
Speaker 5: wish show hey be okay with that? Well is uh competitive?
Speaker 5: Juice is not want them to do that because that
Speaker 5: part of his contract is being that two way player, right,
Speaker 5: being a pitching in hitting right that I know that's
Speaker 5: in the contract right to be that guy.
Speaker 1: But he is five or six other days of the week.
Speaker 1: You know that. That's the thing Oscar's not like he's
Speaker 1: sitting the bench the rest of the week. You've literally
Speaker 1: got then the best hitter in the lineup the other
Speaker 1: five or six days that they're playing one day a week.
Speaker 1: Let's alleviate three at bats he's got to worry about.
Speaker 5: Okay, real quick, two kids. How's any different from the
Speaker 5: well back in the day and nationally when the pitcher
Speaker 5: is still hit no matter what.
Speaker 1: It's not any different. But the game is different. The
Speaker 1: way these guys are trained as different. And you're asking
Speaker 1: him to be the only one to do it. If
Speaker 1: everybody else was doing it, it wouldn't he be in
Speaker 1: a question, Oscar. But you're asking him or you're not
Speaker 1: asking him. He's so good he can do it. But
Speaker 1: because he's so good at doing it, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the variables here. He's getting older, he said
Speaker 1: his arm worked on twice. You want the legevity of
Speaker 1: the contract. If there's a way you can get him
Speaker 1: off his feet a little bit, because he's not gonna
Speaker 1: take a day off, Oscar. He's not gonna take a break.
Speaker 1: But when he's pitching, if you can say hey, show hey, uh,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get three at bats but don't worry.
Speaker 1: The rest of the week. You're good to go. I
Speaker 1: think you can kind of pick and shoes here and
Speaker 1: this is the one area, the one area that he
Speaker 1: might be up for.
Speaker 5: Hey, real quick too, how many but how many starts
Speaker 5: is that? How many starts is that in the season we're
Speaker 5: gonna lose his bat? That may that many games in
Speaker 5: the season? Ball with twenty starts, right, twenty twenty five
Speaker 5: starts at least?
Speaker 1: Yeah, about twenty five to thirty stars? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: But are you worried because the rest of the lineup
Speaker 1: won't pick up the slack? I mean not the adult
Speaker 1: rush is gonna hit a Grand Slam every game. But
Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident that for three or four at
Speaker 1: bats once a week, you can get a guy in
Speaker 1: there who could, you know, get you some production. Albeit
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be show hey, but still, Oscar, I
Speaker 1: appreciate it, my man. Great to hear your voice as always,
Speaker 1: Rudy and North Hollywood. You're next up on Dodger Talk
Speaker 1: on this Thursday night. Rudy, how's it going doing great?
Speaker 1: Him doing Greek? Hey, man, you're right on point. I
Speaker 1: think uh Otani could definitely take a break from the bat.
Speaker 1: Not that he needs it, but I mean, why, why chance,
Speaker 1: you know, him getting hurt in a game that he's pitching,
Speaker 1: in which case you'll lose two players essentially. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: just silly. And I also think that the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: playing so well they could do this until they all
Speaker 1: start break past All Star break. You know, you know
Speaker 1: he doesn't need to pitch every day. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: mean hit every day, right, he's thanks ready for the
Speaker 1: phone call. He's pitching once a week. He's you know,
Speaker 1: let's let's say they play six other games a week.
Speaker 1: I know there's off days. Well, it's just for the
Speaker 1: sake of argument, seven days a week. Six of those,
Speaker 1: he's your hitter. Here's your designated hitter. He's getting three,
Speaker 1: four or five at bats us your lead off guy.
Speaker 1: He's freaking show hey, Otani, But that one start that
Speaker 1: he gets, let him just pitch at least hear the
Speaker 1: first half of the season. I get it, Okay. I
Speaker 1: got a couple of tweets. I ain't got a text
Speaker 1: from somebody who said, October, are you still gonna do this? Question?
Speaker 1: Mark No, When it comes crunch time in October, he
Speaker 1: is a two way player again. But if we could,
Speaker 1: if we could get him off his feet and get
Speaker 1: him I don't even want to use the word load management. Gosh,
Speaker 1: it's just I hate that word. Yeah, it's gross. If
Speaker 1: we could just alleviate the stress of him having to
Speaker 1: do two things in a game and not be superhuman
Speaker 1: and not be a unicorn for just a one night,
Speaker 1: because we know we can. I think it's beneficial to everybody.
Speaker 1: It really is. You're not losing him, Your fans aren't
Speaker 1: being jypped.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: I came to see, Oh Tony, why wasn't here in
Speaker 1: the line. Well, it's because he's on the mound dealing
Speaker 1: for six innings. Still get to see number seventeen up
Speaker 1: there doing his thing. James and Guardiana, Thanks, you're being patient?
Speaker 1: Ain't doing James?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Good tim Yeah. Well, the two points that came
Speaker 8: to mind for me was like, like, first, I remember
Speaker 8: John Smolts via the Fox tvanoist once said that if
Speaker 8: all show Hey did was pitch, he could be the
Speaker 8: best pitcher in baseball. And the other the other thing
Speaker 8: I remember was like when show Hayes last year with
Speaker 8: the Angels, towards the end of the year, he was
Speaker 8: in a doubleheader against Detroit, he pitched like the first
Speaker 8: game he pitched like a nine inning, one hit shutout.
Speaker 8: But then he came back and he hit like I
Speaker 8: forgot two home runs or something of the second game.
Speaker 8: But then like right after that, that's when he injured
Speaker 8: his elbows. So but yeah, you gotta you know, I
Speaker 8: think protect him from himself sometimes.
Speaker 9: By great way.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that Angel game into try. I
Speaker 1: remember that explicitly, that game and what he did in
Speaker 1: those games against the Tigers on the mount and at
Speaker 1: the plate. I believe it was a double hitter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no need to go out there and do that
Speaker 1: for one day or one start or one day a
Speaker 1: week in April, May or June. Save yourself for October.
Speaker 1: Kurt san Clementy, thanks Kirk for being patient. Welcome to
Speaker 1: Dodgers talk.
Speaker 9: Just like to say, as a baseball fan and having
Speaker 9: played both ways like Otani when I was playing baseball,
Speaker 9: this shouldn't even be a debate. Otani when he pitches,
Speaker 9: should not hit. And the reason is is because pitchers
Speaker 9: have to be like your best cardiovascular players on the team.
Speaker 9: Pitchers are always running, and that's because when you take
Speaker 9: the mound and you're pitching. You're gassed after you face three,
Speaker 9: four or five hitters, especially with the pitch clock now
Speaker 9: where they have to pitch in a certain amount of time.
Speaker 9: TONI coming up, so Otani coming off the mound and
Speaker 9: having to go right in the dugout, get ready to
Speaker 9: hit it? Just it's it doesn't it's not practical.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, you brought the pitch again, another level
Speaker 1: of the conversation. Baseball's different now, even from a few
Speaker 1: years ago. You got a pitchclock where you got fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds to pitch. It's a fast paced game. Now you're
Speaker 1: asked to move at a quicker pace. You're throwing more pitches.
Speaker 1: Just another, just another, I think, example of why he
Speaker 1: should not hit on the nighty pitches. John and Rissina.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Speaker 6: How you doing John, Hi, dam thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 7: Sure you may have answered this, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 6: Okay, say Otani is pitching, he's pitching right, and doult
Speaker 6: rushing as dhing or whoever, and they pull him from
Speaker 6: the game. Is he eligible to come back in.
Speaker 7: And pinch it for someone?
Speaker 1: No, No, he's not allowed to do that Yeah, he'd
Speaker 1: have to start the game as a designated.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I didn't know if it was another Otawi
Speaker 4: rule or something.
Speaker 6: All right, John, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All I appreciate it. Is he oh is a bell
Speaker 1: and Anaheim? What do you think? Is he?
Speaker 6: I guess if they want to do it? So anyway,
Speaker 6: the only thing, like we say.
Speaker 7: Though, Tim, how about all these kids they want to
Speaker 7: see you Tony.
Speaker 1: You know they're still gonna see him, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be on the mound. You have a chance to see
Speaker 1: him throwing no hitter?
Speaker 7: Kay, Yeah, I know, I know, but they want do
Speaker 7: you see him always?
Speaker 6: Just seeing him hit too? So I don't know.
Speaker 7: I guess if they want to do it.
Speaker 6: So I don't know.
Speaker 7: So I just I end up seeing Oh your point,
Speaker 7: but I just got mixed feeling about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it. Is he great to hear your
Speaker 1: voice and we'll talk to you. I don't know soon.
Speaker 1: Thanks for checking in. I think it's a valid question
Speaker 1: to ask, and maybe it's something that Dodgers won't even
Speaker 1: think about. I don't know, but I thought, man reading
Speaker 1: this column that came out talking to people today, he
Speaker 1: must hit what he pitches really he must, I don't know,
Speaker 1: kind of feels like it's a wear and tear on
Speaker 1: the third one, going on thirty two year old, already superstar.
Speaker 1: I want to preserve that. I want to bottle that up.
Speaker 1: I want as much O Tani as possible. And if
Speaker 1: it means he doesn't hit a couple of times on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday because he's pitching in Daling six innings, so
Speaker 1: be it. We'll come back. We'll try to get some
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls. He got a farm report
Speaker 1: coming up. Next. It's Dodger Talk, Tim Kates, Ronnie Fostio
Speaker 1: and you here on an FI seventy LA Sports Live,
Speaker 1: everyone on the iHeartRadio app. Off night, Dodger Talk continues
Speaker 1: here on AM five to seventy LA Sports Live everywhere
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Tim Kate's with you here until
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. A lot of great phone
Speaker 1: calls tonight. Appreciate that show. Hey Ho Tani. He's got
Speaker 1: his mindsets. He wants to win his Cy Young Award,
Speaker 1: and maybe that entails him not serving as the Dodger's
Speaker 1: designated hitter on the nights that he pitches once a week.
Speaker 1: This season. We'll see if that trend continues after last night.
Speaker 1: Certainly different circumstances after getting hit by a pitch on
Speaker 1: Monday night last night did not serve as a designated hitter.
Speaker 1: But maybe that's something we start seeing moving forward. All Right,
Speaker 1: Dodgers back into action tomorrow night in Denver. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be snowing during the day. Cold come. First pitch was
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go down the farm. Give you an
Speaker 1: updown on the Dodgers' top minor league prospects from TRIPLEA,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City all the way down to the Ontario Tower
Speaker 1: Buzzers host way to Paula, the dodgers number one top
Speaker 1: minor league prospect, number thirteen overall on MLB dot COM's list.
Speaker 1: He's in Double A Tulsa, the twenty year old outfielder
Speaker 1: nine games, already thirty eight at bats, hitting three forty two,
Speaker 1: four doubles, eight ribbies, and nine to fifty eight ops,
Speaker 1: including a home run.
Speaker 10: Runner takes off the pitch will be lifted out towards leftfield.
Speaker 10: Levinson is gonna watch it one hop off the wall.
Speaker 10: George has tons of speed. They'll get the wave around third.
Speaker 10: There will not be a play at the plate and
Speaker 10: host way to paula tyss ballgame for the ringing double
Speaker 10: the left.
Speaker 1: Tulsa Drillers Radio Network with the call host Swadea Paula.
Speaker 1: Starting to heat up here in mid April, Zayyear Hope,
Speaker 1: twenty one year old outfielder also in Tulsa and double
Speaker 1: A Major League Baseball's number twenty five overall prospect. Through
Speaker 1: nine games, zi year Hope to ninety seven batting average,
Speaker 1: two doubles, two home runs, eleven ribies and at eight
Speaker 1: fifty five ops. Zayre Hope, with the grand slam has.
Speaker 10: Lifted out to left field. That ball is trouble, Levinson's
Speaker 10: on the jug and Hope has just hit a grand slam.
Speaker 10: Here it happens field a no doubter off the bat
Speaker 10: one hundred and one miles an hour as its sales
Speaker 10: beyond left field, four on the board, all with two outs,
Speaker 10: and in the blink of an eye, the Drillers now
Speaker 10: hold a seven and nothing lead.
Speaker 1: Grand slams Zayre Hope, Tulsa Drillers Radio Network with the
Speaker 1: call and Wardo Quintero Baseball's twenty eighth overall top prospect
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. They're third top prospect in the organization.
Speaker 1: He's a twenty year old erfielder out of Venezuela. He's
Speaker 1: in Great Lakes with the Loons in High A Ball.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: It's cold in the Midwest. Certainly we know that a
Speaker 1: slow start the first couple of games. But ed Wardo
Speaker 1: Quintaro starting to heat up. Three key tarot swings here
Speaker 1: Indian the left doesn't happen enough.
Speaker 10: You bet.
Speaker 1: There's that signature moment. There's that first long ball at
Speaker 1: down Diamon three ninety three, fred Wardo Keenzaro three run
Speaker 1: shot Lune's lead at six to three, A big three
Speaker 1: run home run for Quintaro. He goes two for four
Speaker 1: in the game yesterday, and maybe things starting to turn
Speaker 1: around as the weather starts to hopefully heat up in
Speaker 1: the Midwest. There in Michigan. Mike Sirota number four overall
Speaker 1: prospect for the Dodgers. He's in Great Lakes as well.
Speaker 1: The twenty two year old outfielder ten games so far,
Speaker 1: just seven for thirty two two nineteen average with nine walks,
Speaker 1: in Ontario with the Tower Buzzers. Get out there and
Speaker 1: see a Meal Morales.
Speaker 11: Bought him in the second score tied up three, Maybe
Speaker 11: not anymore, Emeil Morales, he's out of here. Gives the
Speaker 11: Buzzers back to the lead.
Speaker 1: He tops his first one of the year. Morales ranks
Speaker 1: one down the line. This second of the night is
Speaker 1: way gone. There's the big fella. Just like that, it's
Speaker 1: a tie ball game.
Speaker 11: He was crushing them in batting practice, and it's safe
Speaker 11: to say it's translated over.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers, number five overall top prospect, number eighty nine
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball is a good one. Nineteen year
Speaker 1: old shortstop six three one ninety five nine games in.
Speaker 1: You heard him right there with the home runs last night.
Speaker 1: He hit two of them for the Ontario Tower Buzzers.
Speaker 1: He's now fourteen to forty one five doubles the two
Speaker 1: home runs he hit last night and ops over eleven
Speaker 1: hundred of Meal Morales playing right here in the ie
Speaker 1: with the Ontario Tower Buzzers. River Ryan in Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: with the Comets, twenty seven year old right Hendrick coming
Speaker 1: back from a Tommy John surgery. Two starts, four innings,
Speaker 1: three runs, five hits, six strikeouts the first time out,
Speaker 1: then three innings, two runs, four hits, four k's in
Speaker 1: his second start. Jackson Ferris heard his name a lot
Speaker 1: during spring training. Twenty two year old left hander. He's
Speaker 1: in TRIPAA, Oklahoma City. Two starts, three and two third innings,
Speaker 1: two runs, three hits, then three innings, four runs, four
Speaker 1: hits and four walks for the young left hander. Charles
Speaker 1: Dabbling in Great Lakes with the Loons, twenty two year
Speaker 1: old outfield. He's not a very big guy. Five to nine,
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety five pounds, forty first overall pick
Speaker 1: last year out of Arkansas, and this dude can rake
Speaker 1: swung on and lift it in a shallow center. Dabbling
Speaker 1: and RBI, we're all tied up here. The fifth Great
Speaker 1: Lakes owns radio with the call. He had a basin
Speaker 1: with the RBI there ten games, a two ninety seven average,
Speaker 1: four doubles, two home runs, eight ribies, a nine to
Speaker 1: seventy seven ops for Charles davilin Christian Zazowetta. He's in
Speaker 1: Great Lakes as well. A twenty one year old right
Speaker 1: handed pitcher out of Mexico. Two starts so far, oh
Speaker 1: to one, four to seventy ERA fourteen strikeouts in seven
Speaker 1: and two third innings. James Tibbs, the third and TRIPLEA
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, got off to a tour it starts, hitting
Speaker 1: eight home runs in the first two weeks. He cooled off,
Speaker 1: but last night's hello.
Speaker 2: Hit very high in the here to centerfield even has
Speaker 2: got a long way to go on the warning track
Speaker 2: at the wall. That one is gone just over the
Speaker 2: four to twenty eight sign. James Tibbs launches a home run,
Speaker 2: his ninth of the season.
Speaker 1: Comments Radio Network with the call. A four hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty nine foot blast last night for James Tibbs, the
Speaker 1: third in Okle home of City. The twenty two year
Speaker 1: old is on fire to start twenty twenty six, in
Speaker 1: eighteen games, hitting over three hundred. He's got the four doubles.
Speaker 1: He's got a triple now nine home runs, fifteen ribbies
Speaker 1: and an ops near twelve hundred. Kendall George fourteenth overall
Speaker 1: Dodger prospect going into the season, twenty one year old,
Speaker 1: former first round pick in twenty twenty three. He's in
Speaker 1: Double A Tulsa six tolen bases. He's a speedster, gets
Speaker 1: on base eight games, three seventy one average, thirteen for
Speaker 1: thirty five at to play, three doubles and seven ribbies.
Speaker 1: One guy not listed as the Dodgers' top twenty prospects,
Speaker 1: but starting to open some eyes here early on in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six minor league season, twenty one year
Speaker 1: old outfielder in Ontario with the Tower Buzzers, Jared Elkins,
Speaker 1: an eighth round pick in twenty twenty three nine games
Speaker 1: so far in Ontario and a ball a three twenty
Speaker 1: eight average, two doubles, a triple, four home runs and
Speaker 1: fourteen RBI. Already in nine games we got an OPS
Speaker 1: over twelve hundred. So there you go. You're caught up
Speaker 1: on the Dodgers' top minor league prospects, where they're at,
Speaker 1: how they're doing, and a couple of names also to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on as this season moves forward. All Right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for off night Dodger Talk Mini.
Speaker 1: Thanks to all you Dodger fans for being a part
Speaker 1: of the show. Thanks to Ronnie Fossio for all his
Speaker 1: help tonight. We'll be back at it tomorrow with Marongo
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