WEBVTT - Dave Roberts is the Best; Different Trade Deadline on the Horizon? 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.440 I think people will realize when he retires and when 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:04.720 he doesn't want to manage anymore, how good of a. 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:06.440 Manager he was for one of the best teams of 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:07.400 this generation. 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:24.320 What up, everybody? Welcome to an oddball edition of Dodgers Territory. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:28.080 It is not Monday, it is not Thursday. But and 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.000 we're not postgaming tonight because Alana is busy. She's better 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.160 than all of us. But you got me, You got 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.680 k dub is what I'm calling you today, or Katie 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:37.400 Wu if you want to be proper about it. And 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.920 you know, big win last night for the Dodgers, big 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.720 win for friend of the show. Justin Rableski picks up 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.920 win number ten on the season, strikes out the Shark, 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:52.360 strikes out eleven, a career high, clearly inspired by me 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.320 mentioning that he struggles with the strikeout pitch or has 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.040 been struggling, and then he goes out there and just 0:00:58.080 --> 0:00:59.280 double birds it. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:04.800 Eleven k uh your territory, there's eleven k sorry about it. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.320 And then of course Doc wins one thousand. Before we 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.280 talk about Dave. Just a few thoughts about the game, 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:15.360 about Rableski, and also about what we can call it 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.199 the shit show that is Sutter Health Field or park, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:19.119 whatever it is. 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.920 It feels. I'll say this and you ask the players 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:24.480 and they've said it. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.679 They've said it before, like the plane surface, but ultimately 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.240 matters is the plane surface of the field. And for 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.000 a field that is because when the A's aren't here, 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.080 the Giants Triple A team is playing the River Cats, 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.199 so you're essentially getting you know, one hundred and sixty 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.800 plus games. The field is in really good condition, especially 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.120 for a Triple A park, and given how hot it 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.280 is in Sacramento for like the entire summer, the facilities 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.360 are what they are, but everyone's just kind of making 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:48.760 the most out of it. I will say it's a 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.760 trip to do clubhouse postgame and have to walk across. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.280 The field after the game. That's weird. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.520 We're just kind of hanging out in center field behind 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.640 the fence for media. We're like dodging foul ball during 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.400 batting practice. It's very scary, very terrifying, but you know, 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.440 it's it's weird. It's fine for three games. I wouldn't 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:09.480 want to do it for eighty one. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:10.519 But I think. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.120 Everyone's pretty ready to get out of here and get 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.040 back to Dodger Stadium, and we got the next nine 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.639 games until the All Star Break at home, so that'll 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:18.359 be great for everyone. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.399 Huge, get to stay home, not pack again. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:21.520 Now. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.359 It's always a lot of Obviously, Alana will be back 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.000 with us on Thursday. It's always a lot of least 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.079 favorite part, most hated part of the job was packing 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:33.239 for a long Roadie, guys, help us out. Subscribe to 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.160 the channel. If we could somehow get to twenty thousand 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.440 subscribers by the time Alana is back tomorrow, that would 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.359 be huge. We'd appreciate you for doing it. But and also, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.280 everybody sound off on the comment comments. Share your love 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.960 for Dave Roberts, share your trade deadline stuff. We will 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.799 be talking trade deadline. Yes it's early, but Katie did 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:52.760 some work about it. But how about we talked Dave 0:02:52.840 --> 0:03:00.720 here in the big ticket number one thousand his career. 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.080 That is a thousand wins as a Dodgers manager. He 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.760 has one loss as the Padres interim manager. So suck 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:13.360 on that, San Diego. Just just a guy, talk about 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.200 a guy. That's a dude. Dave Roberts obviously friend of 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:21.960 the show. I think I have a lot of thoughts 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.880 having watched his team so closely over the entirety of 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:30.280 his tenure, both covering it somewhat professionally, if that's what 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.360 we're want to call this, and also as a fan, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.880 and you know the insanity that comes with the fandom. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.480 But you know you're the person who's there closest to 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.120 Dave day in day out. You see the way he 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:46.480 is received in that clubhouse. Talk about one thousand for Dave, 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.400 what it meant for him, what it meant for the team, 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.560 his wife, the players, all that kind of stuff there. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.600 What was it the sights and sounds of the clubhouse. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.840 Yeah, obviously everyone was. Everyone was aware of it. And 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.000 one thousand is such a significant milestone. Dave really strus 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.880 is that players celebrate their milestones and achievements, so I 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.160 think it's only fair that. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:05.160 His players do the same. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.240 And the Dodgers did their tradition that they do after 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.600 every significant moment. We walked into the clubhouse in center 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.120 fields after the game and there was a folding table 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:17.240 propped up six bottles of champagne fresh off Miggey row. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.440 Freddie Freeman led the toast for Dave one thousand wins, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.640 the quickest manager to do so ever, and I think 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.080 when you what has really surprised me coming in in 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.240 my first year with the Dodgers is how much his 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.960 players get his job. And I'm guilty of this. I 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.760 think a lot of people in the industry were guilty 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.839 of this. When you see the roster that Dave Roberts has, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.719 you think, yeah, you better win with that. You're supposed 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.440 to and anytime, you know, I had a Manager of 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.000 the Year vote that always factored in, like Dave was 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.680 supposed to win with this roster. And I think when 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.920 we were asking players around over the last week or so, 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.400 we were like, does it make it any easier to have 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.400 this many stars to manage? And they said, no, it 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.840 actually makes it harder because there are so many superstars 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.960 and so many people that he has to really manage. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.000 I think that's the actual definition of a manager in 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.000 these days is how do you manage the people in 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.520 your clubhouse? And now that I've seen it, I completely 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:13.640 understand what they're saying. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.680 So to hear the respect that they have. 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.640 We talked to Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, Mickey Rowe, Tommy Edmund, 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:20.520 Justin Rabuski. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.640 Every guy has something positive to say. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.599 About who Dave was as a person, and I think 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.120 that says all you need to know about who Dave 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.360 is as a manager. I'll go read through some quotes 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.200 Bobby and our Die and I had in our story 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.680 last night, this one from Mookie. If I can find 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.320 it right here, let's just do a little search. He said, 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.240 Dave Roberts is a special person. He's my manager, but 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.200 I just don't really see him that way. I see 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.480 him more as like a baseball dad. To be honest, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.760 I think that is what stood out to Dave Roberts 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.279 throughout his career, the people and the players and the 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.599 careers that he's changed so well deserved across the board 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.520 for Dave Roberts, here's two thousand more. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.479 Right, Yeah, Dave, that's a big thing. You know, it 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:05.640 takes time to get to earn that kind of bravado 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.760 in your clubhouse, but to I mean not, I guess 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.240 say it in a crass way, to not really have 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:15.239 to throw his dick around, because he empowers his club. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.080 He empowers his teams, his players, his veterans, even some 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.760 of the rookies. He empowers them so much to kind 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.640 of self police when needed. He knows when to step 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.760 in and when his his tutelage or an arm around 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.960 somebody's shoulder, like we saw recently with Dalton Rushing. He 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.440 knows when to do that. That's the thing that makes 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:40.120 Dave just such a special human for this job. Obviously, 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.280 the managerial role kind of piggybacking off of what you said, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.039 it's changed a lot over the last ten fifteen years. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.560 And you could think back to Dodgers fans thinking back 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.919 to the end of the Dawn Mattingly era, just the 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.120 way that sort of ended. You you get him sitting 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.960 a very cold towards Friedman and the rest of the organization, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.280 and they welcome in Dave. There's always a smile there. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.040 And yeah, we had a lot of growing pains. He 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:06.680 had to learn how to manage on the job. He 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.200 had to learn how to trust his instinct, trust some 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.800 of the numbers when it came to bullpen usage. We 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.360 suffered through it so at different times, as did he. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.040 You know, you could pick out a few points in 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.400 the postseason. But as I talked to him a couple 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:25.640 of spring trainings ago about everything has been learning, improving, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.320 getting better not just in his decision making, but the 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.400 most important part of a manager's job these days is 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.760 to keep that clubhouse in check. If Dave was able 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.240 to survive, let's say the twenty seventeen club that had 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.280 Andre ethi or brooding around with a mostly broken leg 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.680 for most of the season and then coming back in 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.080 September and having nowhere to play, Dave would be set 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:48.760 up for just about everything to be able to manage 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.800 through that. Flash forward twenty eighteen. A year later, they 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.520 make it to the World Series. But what a weird 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.760 roster you have. Cody Bellinger. You're platooning him a year 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.559 after winning a Rookie of the Year, a year before MVP. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.560 Matt Camp is in that outfield, very much a salary dump, 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.360 puts together an all star kind of season. Matt has 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.960 been on the show talking about how awesome it was 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.280 to play for Dave, and Matt was also in that 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:18.200 outfield with Yasio Puigue who was at the end of 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.760 his tenure and had been sent down. Just a lot 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.000 of egos, Adrian Gonzalez losing his job to Cody Bellinger 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.400 and kind of I wouldn't say being okay with it, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.520 but these guys buy into what Dave is asking of them. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.720 They all buy into each other because at the top 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.280 is Dave saying, look, we have one goal, one mission. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.360 That's to go out and win a World Series. And yeah, 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.560 it took us a little while, took Dave a little 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.559 while and make it to twenty twenty. People have their 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.040 thoughts about twenty twenty. That is the World Series that 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.400 everybody was allowed to try to win, and the Dodgers 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.319 did it. But now it's back to back champs and 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.840 you just see a different the melting of the stress 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:00.640 coming off of Dave's shoulders. And you know he, Katie, 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.960 he said, one thousand wins, this is me, this is 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.319 the team. These are the players that he's had. Kershaw 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.520 was a part of a lot of those. Canley Jansen 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.280 of saving a lot of those towards the end of 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:15.360 his tenure. But to get the most out of your players, 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.600 you need to have a good guy at the top, 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:18.760 and Dave is the best. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.960 Maggie Roe said it best. He said, it's not about 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.840 how you manage personalities in here. You're not managing any team. 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.240 You're managing one of the best teams that's ever been assembled. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.120 You have more personal on top of your shoulders because 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.079 you're supposed to win. So if you don't win, you're 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.120 not a good manager, right But at the end of 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.640 the day, it's about the environment that we have in 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.920 this clubhouse, and that's what separates Stock from the rest 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.360 of the managers I've had. I think people will realize 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.880 when he retires and when he doesn't want to manage anymore, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:44.839 how good of a manager he was for one of 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.520 the best teams of this generation. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:47.760 Maggie row per. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.480 Usual spot on and like you said, Clinton, the growing 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.280 pains are supposed to happen. There's no such thing as 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.040 a perfect manager, but a manager that learned from his 0:09:55.080 --> 0:10:00.240 mistakes and can consistently promote healthy, good communication because it's 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:01.480 I'm gonna like what he has to say a lot 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.920 of the times they shouldn't. This isn't a just one big, 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.199 happy family. This is a dynasty fun for one of 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.720 the best influential teams we're going to see in any 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.560 sport in our generation. But for each player to consistently 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.600 say he's easy to communicate with and he's easy to 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.600 play for says all you need to know about the 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.000 culture that Dave Roberts has instilled in that Dodgers clubhouse. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.880 Roy in the chat saying nothing but respect for Dave Roberts. 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.640 But honestly, amongst the fan base, it took a while 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.360 for him to not earn that respect. But just when 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.079 you have that kind of roster, Katie, will you understand 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.720 it's not just the you know, for the professionals, the 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.200 talking heads whoever, who say, oh, the Dodgers lost in 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.000 the World Series, it's is that on Dave or that 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.120 kind of stuff, you know, It's also about the fans. 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:51.000 Fans have insane, the ridiculous, mostly unattainable expectations day in, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.560 day out, each pitch and all this kind of stuff. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.720 I've been doing this this shit for a while now, 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.840 ten years, talking to Dodger in front of a camera 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.200 here in some version of an office or a room 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.520 or a bedroom through COVID and all this kind of stuff. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.320 And what has brought me a lot of joy over 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.880 the last couple of years is the comments. We don't 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.800 unless it's people just dicking around with us, don't see 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:19.600 fire Dave Roberts anymore, because there's a man that's earned 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.560 the respect of literally everybody. And again one k for 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.520 Doc faster than anybody. Somebody said in the chat, like, 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.960 how did he get here, well, yeah, a lot of 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:31.240 I had to get there so fast, a lot of 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.280 damn good players. But also, you know, good decision making, 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.760 bad decision making has all built him into the man 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:43.959 that we see. Final thought on this, we're into season eleven. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.040 You have to wonder how much longer he really he 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.960 can do this as long as he wants. Now, how 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.520 much longer does he want to do it? Because you 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:58.640 always see him smiling when he comes into the clubhouse. Yeah, really, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.000 he enjoys the hell out of it. Like five ten, 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.400 does he have another d Is he going to surpass 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:05.120 Walt Alson? 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.559 Well, you know he's only fifty four and a manager speak, 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:12.280 that's like a spry thirty, right. But it's interesting because 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.680 he's one of the elder statesmen now and when you 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.040 think about the managers that he came up with, you know, 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.280 Bruce Boche, Buddy Black, these are guys that are you know, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.480 he's one of the only true like there is no 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.080 Dessie Baker anymore in the league. It's Dave Roberts. He 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.719 is that that elder statesman of the group. And we're 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.480 seeing MLB the industry as a whole, trend towards those 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.000 young managers you know you're looking at Look at Baltimore, 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.480 look at the Nationals, look at San Diego. 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.000 It's all the the new, up and coming. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.960 Hey you're thirty five cools come manage a ball club. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:45.360 But didn't used to be that way at all. So 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.400 it's been cool for me to see Dave kind of 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:52.559 embrace his role as one of the leaders the veteran managers. 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.240 And you saw him inviting Cardinals manager Onie Marvel to 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.160 the All Star Game. Those two have a really special bond. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.520 It's a mentorship theyer. I saw it in Saint Louis 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.600 with Ali consistently praising how much Dave Roberts has been 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.000 there for him. So, but that's just who Dave is 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.079 as a person. He can do this as long as 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.480 he wants. He's earned that right. He's a future Hall 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.320 of Famer in my book. I don't think he has 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.160 any plans and slowing down anytime soon with this team. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:16.080 Why would, Jeff. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.080 But it's interesting to see how the managerial trends are changing. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.040 But Dave Roberts will be a staple here for as 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:21.880 long as he wants to be. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:26.560 Yeah, cheers. A tip of the cap to Dave, congrats 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.280 to the first one thousand. We're looking forward to the 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.400 next one thousand. In the Dodgers' uniform. 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Still, I imagine your editor tasked you to this. 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.120 Maybe you came up with it yourself because you're damn 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.360 good at your job. But yeah, everybody wants to talk 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:18.120 about the trade deadline right now. You pen to column 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.880 on Monday given an idea of where the Dodger's thinking 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.200 is at right now. In terms of the big names, 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:29.040 everybody wants Trek Schooble, everybody wants to add I don't know, 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.080 some sort of big name power bat even though this 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:33.960 lineup kind of doesn't need it, and there's the thread 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.760 the lineup kind of doesn't need it. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.560 Yeah, No, we're gonna we're hard launching trade deadline coverage 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.000 here at the Athletic and it's July first, so we 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:43.960 are obligated to talk about it, even though we are 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.600 still a month away. So I'll preface this with things 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.400 will change. The market has yet to be defined. It's 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.320 already a slowly developing market. And we'll get into this later, Clint, 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.120 because the entire American League is just not all that competitive, 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.400 and who really knows what a seller's gonna look like, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.400 because you could be sub five hundred and sneak into 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.840 a wild card spot if things stood today. So my 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.400 initial prediction is that this trade deadline, this market really 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.200 doesn't get defined. It usually doesn't start defining itself until 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.480 after the All Star break. I dare to say it 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.640 might be the last week of July before we truly 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.640 know what's a realistic deal and what teams are looking for. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.040 But the Dodgers have a pretty clear plan because when 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.280 you have the Dodgers, you can control the market. 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.560 And we have seen over the last couple of years. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.040 President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman has preferred to avoid 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.880 the trade deadline. He wants to, you know, if anything, 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.080 make little increments. But he said it before, if we 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.040 are buying at the trade deadline, that's not a position 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:37.680 we want to be in. 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.680 The Dodgers not only have do they have the best roster. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.600 In baseball, they have one of the best farm systems, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.640 and they want to keep their depth, but they also 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.400 have an area of need or an area that they 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.440 can deal from to address areas of needs. And we 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:54.120 talked about this in a column in The Athletic yesterday yesterday, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.960 where we know the Dodgers have one of the most 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:03.560 robust outfield farm systems baseball, and they're lacking in other areas, 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.800 specifically catching middle endfield. 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.119 And you can make the argument upper tier minor league pitching. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:10.480 So what can they do. 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.159 They could deal from one of those outfield prospects not 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:17.200 named as Depaula and look to address an area of need. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:18.160 You're thinking a. 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.119 Michael Bush trade in twenty four or even a Gavin 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.280 lux trade. I know he wasn't a prospect then, but 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.880 a similar concept essentially top prospect for top prospect deal 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.720 to help balance the Dodgers farm system because they have 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.000 I mean, we can go through the list of the Dodgers' outfielders. 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.080 There's Depaula, there's a Wado Quintaro, There's Hope Sarota, James 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.600 Tip the third that's kind of like the first tier. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.920 Right then you have the Kendall, George zach Erhard. Those 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.959 are like the second tier. Those are just the game 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.439 that the names that are coming to mind. You can 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.480 even throw Ryan Warden there. In terms of outfield prospects, 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.600 they can't have an entire nine person team be outfielders, 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.720 so they have this area to deal from, and they're 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:00.359 very thin on catching depth. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:01.080 In their minor league system. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.680 They don't have like a true middle infield prospect coming 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:06.560 up in the future that they're super excited about. 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:07.959 And you can always use more pitching. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.840 So can the Dodgers trade one of their outfield prospects again, 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.879 not to Paula, for another prospect that can help balance 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:16.480 their system. 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.760 That's what they're looking to do as things stand right now. 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:20.640 I don't know, man, I feel like you can use 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.480 you know, five, six, seven outfielders down the road, you know, 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.800 there's there's thing changes come into the CBA. But also, yeah, 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.199 very much agree, it's not it's not the norm. And 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.959 usually you know you mentioned the Michael Bush trade. At 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.720 least it was obvious, like he made his debut, it 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.160 was obviously there was no place, there was no space 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.800 for him at the big league level because hey, they 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.400 got this guy, Freddie Freeman. He plays the position, same 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.280 with somebody like Ryan Ward older in the you know, 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.480 the prospect age side of things. I don't know how 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.280 many teams are going to really be clamoring for Ryan Ward, 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.480 but we're talking about Brandon Gomes and and Andrew Friedman. 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.320 Ryan Ward could get you the next tie here. Hope 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.320 he could get you the next river Ryan, Like when 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.919 they flipped Matt Batty a number of years ago to 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.280 the Padres. I'm sure they're still pulling out their hair 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.120 for a trade like that. So I do think it's interesting, 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.280 and you know, fans have heard a lot of this 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.400 as well with this club. You know, the Dodgers don't 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.080 just think right now, They're not Yeah, it's win now, 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.120 but you also think three, four, five, ten years down 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.119 the road. That's how you sustained success, That's how they've 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.879 won every division. Well, what is it now, twelve of 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:32.080 thirteen divisions since twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. Whatever, math is 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:36.840