Speaker 1: The biggest thing is obviously making sure guys are healthy
Speaker 1: at the right time of year, and as Katie just
Speaker 1: went through, we're getting some really key pieces back at
Speaker 1: the right time. Hello everybody, and welcome to a brand
Speaker 1: new live episode of Dodgers Territory. I am live from Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: Katie Wu is live from Philadelphia, and Clint is live
Speaker 1: in California doing all the things that he always does,
Speaker 1: putting this great show together. It is All Star break.
Speaker 1: That is why Katie and I are here. Happy that
Speaker 1: you guys are with us. Get your thoughts in the
Speaker 1: chat and we appreciate your conversations and your stuff.
Speaker 2: All Right, first half of the season, it's a wrap, kids.
Speaker 1: Katie, what is your I guess your assessment of the
Speaker 1: first half of the Dodgers season as we head into
Speaker 1: this All Star break.
Speaker 3: We just forget about the last week. Great and that's
Speaker 3: gonna happen, right, that's gonna have. But every team has
Speaker 3: highs and lows. We know all the cliches. But I
Speaker 3: think for the Dodgers, I mean they finished with the
Speaker 3: best record in baseball. They did so with out essentially
Speaker 3: an entire first half of Blake Snell, Tyler Glassnow and
Speaker 3: Edwin Diaz. They got a chance to test out their depth.
Speaker 3: Turns out that's pretty good too. Yeah, they had about
Speaker 3: a couple of clunkers to end out the season. He'd ever,
Speaker 3: you know, more step for the first time by the
Speaker 3: d Backs to close out the first half. But all
Speaker 3: in all, it's not what we expected, right, Yeah, this is.
Speaker 4: This is what you expect that of the Dodgers, you know,
Speaker 4: and this is now three years running where they kind
Speaker 4: of limp into the All Star Game, into the All
Speaker 4: Star break, they play like crap, I don't know where
Speaker 4: I'm sitting. That means that that bodes well for October
Speaker 4: and for you know, hoisting a trophy. But listen, nobody
Speaker 4: wants to talk about how this this the you know,
Speaker 4: first half of the season ended. There a lota We
Speaker 4: want to talk about the good stuff. I think our
Speaker 4: powers made Justin Robleski an All Star because that has
Speaker 4: happened between our shows ALTA. When you think about Robo
Speaker 4: the Shark, friend of the Show being added to the
Speaker 4: All Star Rust, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for him and it was well earned. I
Speaker 1: hate that it was kind of like via the back door,
Speaker 1: if you will, and obviously if you talked to Zach Wheeler,
Speaker 1: he's a little irritated.
Speaker 2: About being named to the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: But you know, a couple of things had to happen
Speaker 1: for Justin Rableski to be added. But you know what,
Speaker 1: all's well, that ends well. Robo is an All Star
Speaker 1: this season. What he's been able to do for this team.
Speaker 1: I also think it helps that Dave Roberts is the
Speaker 1: manager of the National League and knows what that guy
Speaker 1: can do. He sees him go out there every fifth,
Speaker 1: sixth days. So I'm happy for him, I'm proud of him.
Speaker 1: Is well earned, and the thing I want for Robo
Speaker 1: is to just kind of soak it all in, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy that nobody even gave
Speaker 1: any sort of credit or credence to coming into the season.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't strike guys out, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: We discussed it at length when he was on the show.
Speaker 1: We were like, is he a bullpen guy? Is he
Speaker 1: a starter? Or what is this guy going to do
Speaker 1: for this club? And he's been one of the most
Speaker 1: consistent starters. You see the numbers there, guys ten and
Speaker 1: two on the year, A two, six nine ERA and
Speaker 1: over one hundred inks pitch and that's what I love
Speaker 1: so much about him. He just goes out there and
Speaker 1: he shoves. He gives the team length, He gives him
Speaker 1: an opportunity to win, and I hope that he enjoys
Speaker 1: this opportunity and kind of picks the brains of everybody
Speaker 1: in the National League that he wants to learn from.
Speaker 2: And it's awesome.
Speaker 1: And also Kudo's and a hat tip as well to
Speaker 1: Christopher Sanchez who gets the start for the National League.
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts given him that call certainly well deserved too.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Robo, he's an All Star.
Speaker 4: Hey, now you're an All Star, Katie thought. I mean
Speaker 4: you were there, you were around him as he got
Speaker 4: the nod. I guess technically not he was on the
Speaker 4: golf courses he got the phone call, but yeah, how
Speaker 4: was he, you know, in terms of his excitement and
Speaker 4: you know, the honor for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he actually missed that first call because
Speaker 3: he was on the golf course.
Speaker 5: So we know it was very you know, I get it. Priorities.
Speaker 3: I think Robo did all the right things when the
Speaker 3: rosters were first released and then the initial subs were
Speaker 3: the replacements were named, where he said, hey, you know,
Speaker 3: like this would have been great, you know, would have been
Speaker 3: an honor, but I'm okay.
Speaker 5: And then we talked to him on Saturday.
Speaker 3: He goes, yeah, I was upset, and we were like,
Speaker 3: you know what, yeah, we know, we know you were upset.
Speaker 5: You deserve to be an All Star.
Speaker 3: I mean, we saw the status up there with a
Speaker 3: lota just now up in the top ten in multiple
Speaker 3: categories for the National League, and it's well deserved, because
Speaker 3: sometimes I think the Dodgers get a little Dodger fatigued,
Speaker 3: right when you look at all thirty teams. I understand
Speaker 3: other fan bases might be like more Dodgers, seriously, but
Speaker 3: I don't think like Justin Rabuski should be punished for
Speaker 3: that because he put together an all Star caliber first half.
Speaker 3: As we've seen, we think about his importance to the
Speaker 3: Dodgers club in the first half, you can argue, outside
Speaker 3: of the big stars that we talk about every day,
Speaker 3: he's one of the more underrated and important guys on
Speaker 3: this roster, just based on what he's done for this rotation.
Speaker 3: So to see him get rewarded not just in that clubhouse,
Speaker 3: but from a national scale. He'd been here in Philadelphia
Speaker 3: with the rest of the guys taking it all in.
Speaker 3: It's well well deserved for Justin Rabuski, who's having a
Speaker 3: breakout season and continues to show why he's so importan,
Speaker 3: and not just for the future of the Dodgers, but
Speaker 3: right now too.
Speaker 1: You know another thing too, Katie mentioning the fan base
Speaker 1: that there might be some Dodgers fatigue. I tell you what,
Speaker 1: the fan base, every fan base wanted to see sho
Speaker 1: hey Otani, and that really bums me out that he's
Speaker 1: not here, and he's not here because he was supposed
Speaker 1: to get his knee drained on Sunday. Of course, he's
Speaker 1: still dealing with some inflammation in the knee. We knew
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to pitch, but he was going to
Speaker 1: serve as a dh for the National League.
Speaker 2: And he is so well beloved around the world that.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like that's a reason that Murataki Murakama,
Speaker 1: I can't even say that name correctly. I apologize got
Speaker 1: added so quickly to the home run derby right because
Speaker 1: the Japanese contingent is so big observedly so, but Shohy
Speaker 1: was like leading the pack in terms of that, So
Speaker 1: he's not going to be here. He's not participating, which
Speaker 1: is a bummer obviously, But I guess more of the
Speaker 1: question is Katie, is he going to be good to go?
Speaker 1: I mean, is this going to be enough of arrest
Speaker 1: for him to be ready for the second half of
Speaker 1: the season when this All Star break is over?
Speaker 3: They think so, he thinks so. So when now we
Speaker 3: just wait and see. He was supposed to get his
Speaker 3: knee drained after Sunday's game, a couple of days of
Speaker 3: rest and recovery, possibly an injection that we haven't confirmed that,
Speaker 3: and we'll just see. Because technically, the Dodgers can restructure
Speaker 3: the rotation with four days off where show Hay can
Speaker 3: pitch at the end, right, he can be that sixth
Speaker 3: guy to go if he's going to be in the rotation.
Speaker 3: We have a couple of off days too, in that
Speaker 3: ten day, nine games, ten day section that we have
Speaker 3: coming out of the break, So the Dodgers can be
Speaker 3: strategic with how they use Otani as a pitcher. If
Speaker 3: they want to buy him more days again, they can
Speaker 3: pitch him later in the series.
Speaker 5: They can move him back if they need to.
Speaker 3: But I think the big thing for show Hay is
Speaker 3: figuring out how to make sure this doesn't keep happening.
Speaker 3: And when we talked to him Saturday after the game,
Speaker 3: he said, you know, I feel the knee pain more
Speaker 3: when I pitch rather than I hit. And I asked him,
Speaker 3: is it because of how you're planting, how you're finishing pitches?
Speaker 5: And he said, it's hard to tell, but that might
Speaker 5: be it.
Speaker 3: Probably, So he's going to have to make some mechanical
Speaker 3: changes to ensure that the impact on that knee is
Speaker 3: no longer going to be to the extent that it is.
Speaker 5: We talk about this all year long. Guys.
Speaker 3: It's true the Dodgers need show Hey Otani in October.
Speaker 3: So if that means he's resting in July, as much
Speaker 3: as we want to see him in the All Star Game,
Speaker 3: it sucks.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 3: He's obviously the biggest space that you're gonna see and
Speaker 3: you're gonna want in events like this.
Speaker 5: But the Dodgers need him for October, so this is
Speaker 5: the smart play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you need him for October. I don't need to
Speaker 4: see him try to pursue a Cy Young Award finish
Speaker 4: or whatever I mean at this point we're not going
Speaker 4: to get there. That's that's a ship that has sailed
Speaker 4: with how good Misowski has been and all that kind
Speaker 4: of stuff. But yeah, bubble wrap the dude. I don't
Speaker 4: care if you miss a couple of starts. Obviously he
Speaker 4: remains in the lineup.
Speaker 6: As a hitter.
Speaker 4: You need to have that slug in the lineup. But
Speaker 4: protect show Hey at all costs and have him ready
Speaker 4: to be one of the first three dudes to pick
Speaker 4: up a baseball in a starting capacity for the Dodgers
Speaker 4: in October. You got to have him around. More good
Speaker 4: news on the injury front. We had some good Blake
Speaker 4: Snell progress. We had some great Edwin Diaz progress who
Speaker 4: went out there and pitched a game for the Ontario
Speaker 4: Tower Buzzers down the road for me. Keyky Hernandez said, hey, boys,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be back like after you guys are finished
Speaker 4: with your East Coast run. Katie tell us a little
Speaker 4: bit more about the Blake Snell situation. It seems all
Speaker 4: signs are great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's just do an injury rundown.
Speaker 3: We'll start with Blake Snell, who will schedule to start
Speaker 3: a rehab assignment around this time next week. Which is
Speaker 3: all things considered a huge deal, especially because we just
Speaker 3: didn't know what that recovery was going to look like. Yes,
Speaker 3: he had the same surgery by definitions T school, but
Speaker 3: we've said this, I think Schooble said it.
Speaker 5: Blake has said it as well.
Speaker 3: It's you can't compare the two surgeries because two different people,
Speaker 3: two different recoveries.
Speaker 5: So we knew he was going to.
Speaker 3: Come back as early as Google did. However, with Blake,
Speaker 3: I think this is such a benefit because when he
Speaker 3: first went down with this injury, like, is this gonna
Speaker 3: be Is he gonna be back by September?
Speaker 5: We just don't know. It's already May.
Speaker 3: What's the recovery process look like if you're gonna lose
Speaker 3: his season? But now the Dodgers look like they're gonna
Speaker 3: get him back right around August, which lines up right
Speaker 3: with everyone's favorite phrase, just like making a trade at
Speaker 3: the deadline.
Speaker 5: It's not. But this is a huge first step.
Speaker 3: So Bake Snell scheduled to start a rehab shortly after
Speaker 3: the All Star break. Edwin Diaz made his first rehabit appearance,
Speaker 3: as you said, Clint, with Class A Ontario eleven pitches
Speaker 3: eight for strikes two punches perfect, so he'll make a
Speaker 3: couple more. Again, we talked about this because he's a closer,
Speaker 3: he doesn't need to make multiple innings, so it's all
Speaker 3: about one inning stance.
Speaker 5: Can he pitch well? Can he recover?
Speaker 3: That's the key thing, and hopefully the Dodgers get him
Speaker 3: back shortly after the All Star break. Tyler glassnow threw
Speaker 3: a bullpen on Friday at Dodgers Stadium. Was around maybe
Speaker 3: fifteen pitches fastballs only, but an important first step. That's
Speaker 3: the one to me where the Dodgers can't afford another
Speaker 3: setback with him, because if he's shut down again, we
Speaker 3: look at the calendar, it's already midgell. That ramp up
Speaker 3: period can take six weeks or so, so then you
Speaker 3: run out a runway. So for Tyler Glass now, it's
Speaker 3: important that he is just working consistently, not trying to
Speaker 3: rush back. So he might he's going to be a
Speaker 3: little longer, maybe mid August, and then Keigy Hernandez got
Speaker 3: to be back for the homestand so four key players
Speaker 3: making the returns for the Dodgers huge.
Speaker 2: Right after his bobblehead day.
Speaker 1: It was so funny too, because I was looking at
Speaker 1: Keyk's bobblehead day with his family and obviously Penelope throwing
Speaker 1: out the first pitch, and then I saw the baby.
Speaker 1: I saw Santi sitting on the ground next to that bobblehead.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why is Santi the size of the b
Speaker 1: I was so confused. I was like, is this a
Speaker 1: perspective thing? And then I realized the bobblehead was like gigantic,
Speaker 1: So anyway, it'll be good.
Speaker 2: It'll be good to get those guys back.
Speaker 1: Obviously, Kik is such a huge just a jolt of
Speaker 1: lightning into the offense, and obviously, as the calendar turns
Speaker 1: closer to October, it's important to get him back as well.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, much more to come on this brand
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Speaker 4: played well, they've already played the first half of the season,
Speaker 4: because eighty one games is a long time ago. But
Speaker 4: now the unofficial official first half of the season is over.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers out the best record in baseball. Dodgers have
Speaker 4: scored a bunch of runs. I think they've allowed the
Speaker 4: fewest runs in baseball. They got eleven a half game
Speaker 4: lead in the NL West. Alana, what are your blankets
Speaker 4: thoughts on the first half of the season. Doesn't need
Speaker 4: to be grandiose, something simple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the blanket thought is they're doing exactly
Speaker 1: what they need to do. I mean, they're doing exactly
Speaker 1: what the Dodgers need to do. At this point, you're
Speaker 1: checking off the boxes. Right. It's already leading the division
Speaker 1: by a wide margin. I mean, you could just be
Speaker 1: leading the division by one game. That's all you want
Speaker 1: to do is win at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: and they're doing that with a pretty pretty hefty lead
Speaker 1: in the NL West.
Speaker 2: So that's you know, that's a check.
Speaker 1: The biggest thing is obviously making sure guys are healthy
Speaker 1: and at the right time of year, and as Katie
Speaker 1: just went through, we're getting some really key pieces back
Speaker 1: at the right time obviously to continue to push this forward.
Speaker 1: And the next goal is obviously to get a buye
Speaker 1: right to not have to go in as a wildcard,
Speaker 1: and they'll do that in home field advantage and all
Speaker 1: of the things throughout the postseason.
Speaker 2: So my blanket statement is good job.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're doing exactly what you're expected to do
Speaker 1: with the roster that you have and the experience that
Speaker 1: you have coming into this season to try to make
Speaker 1: it a three p And you know, my only concern
Speaker 1: is where are we going to be And we can
Speaker 1: talk about that going into the second half in a
Speaker 1: little bit. But yeah, he a minus just because I mean,
Speaker 1: we can't give them you know, it can't be a plus.
Speaker 1: That would just be too unrealistic and not objective at all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you survived the first half. I wouldn't say survived
Speaker 4: it exceptionally healthy. But as we talked about, as you
Speaker 4: just mentioned and as Katie mentioned before, like trending in
Speaker 4: the right direction with everybody on health, you'd probably like
Speaker 4: to see some better updates on the Will Smith factor.
Speaker 4: But we will hopefully eventually get there as the calendar
Speaker 4: gets into August. Katie what about your thoughts first half
Speaker 4: of a season covering this team? You know what's the good,
Speaker 4: what's the bad in your opinion from the first half.
Speaker 3: So when I took this job, I was told to
Speaker 3: be prepared to be bored, and I was like, what
Speaker 3: do you mean.
Speaker 5: This is like a team flu superstars. I'm not going
Speaker 5: to be bored.
Speaker 3: And I get what people are saying because they win
Speaker 3: so often, and then whether you have what seems like
Speaker 3: a dire injury or a big something that could be
Speaker 3: potentially disastrous for the season, they just have next man
Speaker 3: up mentality and someone steps up and everything is fine.
Speaker 5: They continue to win.
Speaker 3: So yes, it's boring in a great way if you're
Speaker 3: covering the Dodgers, because any time there's potentially a big story,
Speaker 3: they fix it. And that, to me is the key
Speaker 3: to their first half was just your ear as good
Speaker 3: as your death is right, and the Dodgers unfortunately had
Speaker 3: to rely on their depth a lot, especially on the
Speaker 3: pitching side, but it gave us a breakout star like
Speaker 3: Justin Rabuski Edgardo Enriquez might be my underrated pick for
Speaker 3: the bullpen of the first half. That stuff has always
Speaker 3: been nasty, but the command is there. He's become a
Speaker 3: true weapon on the right side for Dave Roberts and
Speaker 3: his staff. You look at guys and that was something
Speaker 3: that was important yet to step up with Edwin Diaz
Speaker 3: being injured so early in the season. Same with Tanner Scott.
Speaker 3: We're seeing the Tanner Scott that the Dodgers ideally would
Speaker 3: have had last year. So when there were key injuries
Speaker 3: to guys that the Dodgers thought they were really going
Speaker 3: to need to rely on, their depth stepped up. I
Speaker 3: know Dalton Rushing has been a lot to talk about,
Speaker 3: but if you're looking just at his play and what
Speaker 3: he's been able to do as a backup catcher, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that the offense is tapered off a little bit, but overall,
Speaker 3: he's finishing the first half with ten homers and ops
Speaker 3: over eight hundred, and he's learning to navigate and pitch
Speaker 3: call one of the most accomplished staffs in baseball. That's
Speaker 3: a lot to handle for someone in his first full
Speaker 3: year getting starting reps.
Speaker 5: I think he's done a nice job with that.
Speaker 3: So that's my spin on the first half is how
Speaker 3: good was the depth and we see it right now
Speaker 3: over eleven game leading the Division, best record in baseball,
Speaker 3: like you said, Clint, and they did this without several
Speaker 3: key players. So yeah, things again remain good in Dodger Wand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely a lot of great things in there. And
Speaker 4: you mentioned you're kind of an under the radar guy.
Speaker 4: I appreciated the narrative here of your column that you dropped.
Speaker 4: I believe yesterday you mentioned some of those names in
Speaker 4: there at Gardo Henriquez. I figured we could have a
Speaker 4: little bit of fun, each picking our own under the
Speaker 4: radar guy. I'll all go first, because I mean I
Speaker 4: was leaning Henriquez, and I don't know that an All
Speaker 4: Star can be an under the radar guy. But I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go Max months because we keep talking about Munsi
Speaker 4: and every offseason, I am somebody who's very guilty of
Speaker 4: always looking at grass being greener on the other side,
Speaker 4: and wondering if at some point the Dodgers need to
Speaker 4: look to get younger or look to the future at
Speaker 4: third base, How can they do that? How can they
Speaker 4: address third base? But Munsey has gone out there and
Speaker 4: honestly quietly put together an all star first half, and
Speaker 4: we can forget about the last week. Defensively, you know,
Speaker 4: things have been a little wonky for months, but he's
Speaker 4: got the power. What seventeen homer second on the team,
Speaker 4: he found the clutch with runners in scoring position. The
Speaker 4: ops is solid around eight point fifty. And he has been,
Speaker 4: as you know we've seen over the last couple of years,
Speaker 4: he has been the most vocal leader, at least media side,
Speaker 4: public facing, the most vocal leader in that clubhouse, navigating
Speaker 4: a team through interesting, sticky situation. I'll also add, for fun,
Speaker 4: as Katie kind of noted there, I'm giving the award
Speaker 4: to Dalton Rushing for the most on the radar guy
Speaker 4: this year, our viral sensation. But hey, Dalton, for all
Speaker 4: the reasons you said, wou like he has done great
Speaker 4: in his first half of essentially being a full time
Speaker 4: player the first half of the season. Like he's got
Speaker 4: a lot thrown on his plate and he's handled it
Speaker 4: okay enough and keeps getting better. But yeah, what's your
Speaker 4: name again, Alana?
Speaker 6: What do you think of? Who's your under the raid?
Speaker 4: Listen? I'm trying heresurdly, Wow, who is your under the radio?
Speaker 1: The mighty have fallen? So quickly has my career come
Speaker 1: to this demise?
Speaker 2: Am I under the radar?
Speaker 1: And kind of along the same lines of what you're saying.
Speaker 1: I'm not certain if it's fair to call somebody that's
Speaker 1: an All Star under the radar, but nobody outside of
Speaker 1: us knows. Justin Robleski, guys, and I wish that people
Speaker 1: nationally could see what he's been able to do for
Speaker 1: this club on a on a team that has an
Speaker 1: unbelievable amount of quality starters and big name starters. Right
Speaker 1: you're in a rotation with shohe Atana, You're in a
Speaker 1: rotation with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who is the World Series MVP
Speaker 1: last year. You're in a rotation with the likes when
Speaker 1: he comes back of a two time say Young Award
Speaker 1: winner in Blake Snell, Tyler Glasdow. Obviously, when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: we know what he can do. But Justin Rableski has
Speaker 1: been every bit of this team's ace this season. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it by definition, but what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is he posts we just talked about it.
Speaker 2: He's ten and two.
Speaker 1: He goes out there and gives you a chance to
Speaker 1: win every single time. He has a sub three ERA.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy that was allowed to be
Speaker 1: himself and has worked very diligently with Mark Pryor obviously,
Speaker 1: and Connor McGuinness and the entire pitching staff with the
Speaker 1: Dodgers to really involve into a pitcher that has been
Speaker 1: incredibly impressive.
Speaker 2: So if you can be an all star and under
Speaker 2: the radar, I mean, he's my.
Speaker 1: Guy, and I think that, you know, the nation in
Speaker 1: the baseball world doesn't really quite know who Justin Robleski
Speaker 1: is yet, but he's been an under the radar superstar
Speaker 1: if you will on a team full of superstars.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Katie, you got a quick one. You're definitive under
Speaker 4: the radar guy of the first half.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, Dave, you got to throw robusting inning tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Put him on the stage.
Speaker 3: We saw him go toe to toe and the World
Speaker 3: Series last year.
Speaker 5: Get robustate inning and then we'll all be happy here.
Speaker 3: But no, I really think I'd like to spend on
Speaker 3: Erika's just a little bit because when you look at
Speaker 3: his Baseball savon page he jumps off there is so
Speaker 3: much red there. And this is you know, I cover
Speaker 3: the team mostly every day, so what you're watching, Enrica
Speaker 3: is you're like, Okay, you know there's some potential there.
Speaker 3: Then you see him slowly climb up Dave Roberts trust
Speaker 3: tree if you will, and he gets hired and higher leverage,
Speaker 3: and you're like, wait a second, he keeps getting out
Speaker 3: of it, and then by the time, you know, a
Speaker 3: couple weeks ago, I was like, let's really look at
Speaker 3: the changes that he's made, And there haven't been a
Speaker 3: lot in terms of the numbers, but it's the stuff
Speaker 3: and the command that he's made because he's always had nasty,
Speaker 3: wipeout stuff.
Speaker 5: Two fastballs over one hundred miles per hour.
Speaker 3: He technically has five pitches, although his secondaries doesn't throw
Speaker 3: as much, but because he has so precise command of
Speaker 3: the fastball, he can go to the breaking pitches and
Speaker 3: get the you know, he's not going to blow you
Speaker 3: away with strikeout stuff if you look at the Salon page,
Speaker 3: but he's pretty good at inducing the chase because he
Speaker 3: is able to pitch out of the zone on purpose.
Speaker 3: That's key for mister Enriquez here, who was out of
Speaker 3: the zone a lot accidentally last season.
Speaker 5: So watching his.
Speaker 3: Progression, looking at what he's been able to do to
Speaker 3: solidify that right side with diaz Ou, I think this
Speaker 3: is going to be a guy that's going to be
Speaker 3: instrumental for the Dodgers in the setup role going forward,
Speaker 3: and I'm excited to see what he does to finish
Speaker 3: out his Here leaves some love, guys.
Speaker 2: I think that's so funny.
Speaker 1: I should go on the quote board when he was
Speaker 1: out of the zone accidentally versus out of the.
Speaker 2: Zone on purpose.
Speaker 1: One really quick follow up on Rableski though, I had
Speaker 1: just said that, you know, nobody outside of us and
Speaker 1: those that cover the Dodgers really know him. But it's
Speaker 1: starting to get to the point where people are taking notice. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Shark, right, so Pedro Martinez. When Pedro Martinez is
Speaker 1: starting to talk about you and then calling him the Shark, you.
Speaker 2: Know something good is about to happen to this kid, right.
Speaker 1: So when the national media, the likes of the Pedro
Speaker 1: Martinez Is of the world are starting to pay attention.
Speaker 1: And again, the game was probably on TBS or whatever
Speaker 1: it was where Pedro was able to watch him start.
Speaker 1: But people take notice because I think this is going
Speaker 1: to be a name that we hear a lot more
Speaker 1: of in the future, for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and deservedly so. Again, he has been great. He
Speaker 4: has turned himself into an innings eater for this team.
Speaker 4: He posts every six days in a role that he
Speaker 4: was not expecting to be in but always hoping to
Speaker 4: be in. He's handled everything and still kind of again
Speaker 4: the would we say the weighted dog has been great
Speaker 4: as the season has gone on. It's not the same
Speaker 4: as we saw in the World Series last year. He's
Speaker 4: been a little bit calmer, a little bit more tame,
Speaker 4: but we know that animal is in there. So we
Speaker 4: are at that point though, where we're trending towards the
Speaker 4: second half of the season, the official unofficial second half.
Speaker 4: And of course there are concerns with this team. We
Speaker 4: just talked earlier about all the injury updates, and so
Speaker 4: instead of diving into direct concerns, I think all of
Speaker 4: us would agree it is the state of the starting rotation,
Speaker 4: because that is something that could be very, very strong,
Speaker 4: or one of those setbacks happened all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: you're worried. If you get through the trade deadline you
Speaker 4: haven't made a move, you're gonna get a little worried.
Speaker 4: So in the spirit of this, if there is an
Speaker 4: X factor to a good second half of the season,
Speaker 4: and you don't need to say in the starting rotation,
Speaker 4: I am. I think the biggest X factor is Tyler
Speaker 4: Glass now him returning, because that's somebody you can start
Speaker 4: for game three, you can start for game four. You
Speaker 4: saw him pitch and relief last year for this team
Speaker 4: in October and be an important weapon. I feel confident
Speaker 4: Blake Snell is gonna return, but an X factor for
Speaker 4: me is Tyler Glass now's health and him being in
Speaker 4: the rotation by I don't know, mid to late August
Speaker 4: and continuing to post from there, Katie, do you have
Speaker 4: an X factor for the second half?
Speaker 3: Now we're just so aligned because that was exactly what
Speaker 3: I was going to say. Everything about Tyler glassnow there
Speaker 3: is true. I'm also confident about Blake Snell coming back.
Speaker 3: And you look at if the Dodgers at full strength
Speaker 3: and you run their post, he's in rotation of Otani
Speaker 3: Yavamoto Snell Glass. Now you're like, oh gosh, if you're
Speaker 3: an opponent, or like, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 3: But without Glass Now, it's not that the Dodgers can't
Speaker 3: win without him, but they are just so much stronger
Speaker 3: with him, and he, to me, is the biggest question
Speaker 3: mark of his recovery. But Quinn you were all on
Speaker 3: it about Tyler, so I'll go my secondary is Blake Snell.
Speaker 3: Even though I'm pretty confident that he's going to be
Speaker 3: fine and he's going to pitch well, you just never know.
Speaker 3: I think the Dodgers can be just fine without Evan Diaz.
Speaker 3: Certainly they'd like him, but they've proven that they can
Speaker 3: pitch without him. Starting pitching is the most pivotal thing
Speaker 3: for contending teams going into the postseason. So having a
Speaker 3: healthy Snell, healthy Glass now is pivotal. And if you're
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, it's absolutely going to shape your trade online
Speaker 3: thinking because you have to say, you know, do we
Speaker 3: have enough protection here to in case something happens to
Speaker 3: one of these guys where they go down or are
Speaker 3: you banking on their health and say no, there's other
Speaker 3: avenues that we can go and improve our roster for
Speaker 3: the future. That all depends on the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: As both pictures, you know, Snow starting that rehab in
Speaker 3: Glassdownchin closer, how they look with their health journeys.
Speaker 5: It is always.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be crunch time for Andre Freeman and his
Speaker 3: staff come August third.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I would say is another sneaky end of
Speaker 4: the radar guy or not under the radar, but X factor.
Speaker 4: Getting River Ryan healthy, just to help fill out some
Speaker 4: meetings as they Maybe he doesn't end up being a
Speaker 4: part of the postseason roster, but they need, they need
Speaker 4: some innings out of somebody else. We saw the return
Speaker 4: of Landon Nac did not go great. Happy to have
Speaker 4: him back for sure, but need to get him back
Speaker 4: on track. But anyways, I just want to give a
Speaker 4: shout out. Hopefully you weren't going to say River Ryan.
Speaker 4: I don't think you are, but Alana, who is your
Speaker 4: second half X factor?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, River Ryan definitely as a cushion for an
Speaker 1: innings eater at certain points throughout the regular season, second
Speaker 1: half and the postseason.
Speaker 2: We shall see.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go one picture and one position player.
Speaker 1: I think my position player. Again, this is not a
Speaker 1: knock on this person. I would just like to see
Speaker 1: more of what we are used to in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: in particular Taskar Hernandez. The two forty three average. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just not the lack of power is
Speaker 1: kind of problematic for me too. Just the eight home
Speaker 1: runs thirty six RBI. I'd like to just see a
Speaker 1: little bit more from Tao, just that you know, two
Speaker 1: forty three average three nineteen obp seven oh six.
Speaker 2: Ops.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see more from him. You know what
Speaker 1: we kind of got from him in twenty four, twenty
Speaker 1: five a little bit. Certainly twenty four was impressive. So
Speaker 1: a little bit more Tao, I think my picture. I
Speaker 1: do need to see what Edwin Diaz can do. I
Speaker 1: think the closer you get to the postseason and more
Speaker 1: of the postseason games really relies heavily on a bonafide closer.
Speaker 2: And I know that Dave Roberts has done.
Speaker 1: A masterful job of having to, you know, work a
Speaker 1: bullpen in a postseason that has not been ideal for
Speaker 1: a lot of teams, but he was able to maneuver
Speaker 1: it and put that piece of the puzzles, the pieces
Speaker 1: of the together in the right way. But I would
Speaker 1: love to see the dominant closer return that we were
Speaker 1: so excited to get in the off season. And you
Speaker 1: don't know what he's going to be like when he
Speaker 1: comes back. I mean, he hasn't pitched in months, so
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that he can just be a really solid
Speaker 1: compliment but also be that like put that fear of
Speaker 1: God in the opposition, like oh Man, game over a
Speaker 1: type of situation. Not to say it's like Eric Gannie,
Speaker 1: I know, game over, but like to be like many
Speaker 1: and they still have Edwin Diaz in their pen that
Speaker 1: type of thing, because the bullpen has done a really
Speaker 1: nice job this season, and to Katie's points, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: have pitched well without him. But I would think, like
Speaker 1: she was saying with Tyler Glass, now they're stronger with
Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz than if he's not on the team.
Speaker 2: So I guess those two are my x vexors.
Speaker 4: No, I mean that's great. You know, we're talking about
Speaker 4: adding an all star closer to the back end of
Speaker 4: your bullpen. All of a sudden, everybody moves down. You
Speaker 4: have a lot more optionality with Tander Scott and with
Speaker 4: all of the great stuff that Edgardo Henriquez has been
Speaker 4: able to do this year. Getting Evan Phillips back pitching again,
Speaker 4: that's what's so crazy about the scene. It could be
Speaker 4: so damn good in the second half and into the
Speaker 4: postseason with the pitching. You know, I think while you
Speaker 4: were talking Therez and we'll move on to last slicks
Speaker 4: after this, but I started worrying, like, are we going
Speaker 4: to look back at this particular conversation and be like,
Speaker 4: we probably should have had bigger concerns about the offense
Speaker 4: because there are a lot of guys that have stressed
Speaker 4: they've put a bunch of points on the board, but
Speaker 4: they tend to do it in bulk, So hopefully we don't.
Speaker 4: I'll speak for myself that I don't end up being
Speaker 4: a Noaster dumbass later in the season. But anyways, we
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Speaker 2: Home.
Speaker 1: Home Run Derby is tonight. It is over on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Our girl Lauren Shahati will be hosting that on the
Speaker 1: field of Prior to I've heard of her. Yes, prior
Speaker 1: to that. We have the media day and Katie and
Speaker 1: I will be headed that way momentarily. So Home Run Derby, Clinn,
Speaker 1: who are you taking to hit the most dingers?
Speaker 4: You just you can't not pick Kyle Schwarber in Philly.
Speaker 4: Dude has been an absolute powerhouse once again here in
Speaker 4: the first half. I think, what leading baseball with thirty
Speaker 4: six homers or something like that. Schwarbs is my guy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we're commedy a little bit sneaky pick as well, Katie,
Speaker 4: who's your who you pick?
Speaker 3: Do you think I'm going Junior? I think Junior Kemini
Speaker 3: is the al MVP. Yeah, and I think he's so
Speaker 3: underrated because he plays in Tampa Bay, small market. But
Speaker 3: if this is a Dodgers show, I understand what the
Speaker 3: people want. We're going to be Team Dino. So Bryce
Speaker 3: Harper take it away.
Speaker 5: A good call.
Speaker 2: That's a good call.
Speaker 1: I would run through a wall for that guy, for
Speaker 1: both of them. By the way, congratulations to the evil family.
Speaker 1: Another another kid headed.
Speaker 2: To the Brewers. We're proud of you Tree.
Speaker 4: Congratulations big Brewers family over there.
Speaker 1: Listen, Linda, you have a son that get drafted into
Speaker 1: major league based I don't think so good.
Speaker 4: No, I would never have a son that sounds awful.
Speaker 6: Children in this economy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna yeah, really, no kidding, I'm gonna pick Also,
Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber. I know it's not a sexy pick. Everyone's
Speaker 1: doing it. I'm not going out on a limb. Thirty
Speaker 1: two home runs, major League Baseball leader in home runs
Speaker 1: he had this is what third major League Baseball home
Speaker 1: run derby appearance.
Speaker 2: He did it in eighteen and twenty two as well.
Speaker 2: So Schwarves. Schwarves is my guy.
Speaker 3: Good pick.
Speaker 4: It's a good pick. The reason everybody's picking him because
Speaker 4: dude's got pop watch us also sneaky Wilson concerero is
Speaker 4: gonna be sneaky he is? Will he get ejected?
Speaker 5: Ejected?
Speaker 2: That that is the better question.
Speaker 4: Share your thoughts.
Speaker 5: Could he get ajected from the All Star Game?
Speaker 1: I could see that the fan dual odds on Wilson
Speaker 1: contreres getting ejected three times in the last week and change.
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