Speaker 1: I love this dude with a deep passion because of
Speaker 1: how much he loves the Dodgers, how much he loves
Speaker 1: playing baseball, how much work he puts in each year
Speaker 1: to getting better.
Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, what's going on? And welcome to a brand
Speaker 2: new edition of Dodgers' Territory. I'm Alana Rizzo.
Speaker 3: That is Katie Wu and Clint Pizias. We are psyched
Speaker 3: that you guys are here. Thanks for being here. Everybody.
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Speaker 3: to recap, a series, to preview, Let's get.
Speaker 2: To the big ticket.
Speaker 3: I just would like to put out there that the
Speaker 3: girls are better than the boy, because Katie and I
Speaker 3: said that we were going to take three or four,
Speaker 3: and he said that we were only going to win
Speaker 3: two out of the four.
Speaker 2: Katie and I were correct, Clint was not.
Speaker 3: But that's okay because the Dodgers won three of four games,
Speaker 3: and that's all we care about. Katie, you were there,
Speaker 3: what did you like?
Speaker 2: What did you not like?
Speaker 4: Well, as much as I want to take credit for
Speaker 4: our incredible skills, have always been right, Alana, I will
Speaker 4: say that Clint was very close to being right if
Speaker 4: it wasn't for two insane comebacks Thursday and Friday to
Speaker 4: be down six zero in the season or the series opener,
Speaker 4: We'll get to the Roki Sasaki stuff and then go
Speaker 4: back and score what was almost twelve unanswered runs. That
Speaker 4: was a big one. I felt like that was really
Speaker 4: deflating for the Padres. And then the task of Hernandez
Speaker 4: returned the Grand Slam that I felt like everyone knew
Speaker 4: was coming. Great call by Joe Davis, by the way,
Speaker 4: that to me felt like the dagger. So Clint, you
Speaker 4: were almost right, but you know, you just can't beat us,
Speaker 4: just like the Padres can barely beat the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, more more to be said about the Padres for sure.
Speaker 1: And you see it on the bottom there, the reeling Padres.
Speaker 1: They needed that win yesterday. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: it really helps them with their season. I do think
Speaker 1: at one point I had said three or four before
Speaker 1: I took a step back either way. I will happily,
Speaker 1: you know, have egg on my face with this series.
Speaker 1: A lot of good stuff. The Tao was the biggest
Speaker 1: one that that Friday game was a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: there obviously battling back the way they did on Thursday.
Speaker 1: You're down early with rookie Sasaki on the bump down
Speaker 1: what down six over the first like three innings year
Speaker 1: feeling God, here we go. It's one of those games
Speaker 1: in this season series between these teams with the Padres
Speaker 1: usually win that first game. In fact, they're able to
Speaker 1: battle back with a vengeance put twelve runs on the board.
Speaker 1: That was a lot of fun, but the Dodgers had
Speaker 1: zero business winning that Friday game. Tayo Tao with the
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't do much in the series, but
Speaker 1: he did something when it mattered, and that that Grand Slam.
Speaker 1: If we're gonna talk about the Padres for a second,
Speaker 1: that is that has got to be just the biggest,
Speaker 1: like devastating blow. I think I put embarrassing in the
Speaker 1: title hell of this episode. It's an embarrassing situation for
Speaker 1: the Padres where they're at, considering what a month prior
Speaker 1: they had a half game lead or whatever it was
Speaker 1: in the nl WES to now be coming out of
Speaker 1: the series fourteen games down, Alana, That's that's embarrassing. That's tough.
Speaker 3: It is embarrassing, and you know, we had hoped that
Speaker 3: we would win the division.
Speaker 2: I didn't think that.
Speaker 3: We thought we were going to have a fourteen game
Speaker 3: lead on July sixth.
Speaker 2: That that is still where we stand.
Speaker 3: Correct, We were fourteen games yesterday going into the into
Speaker 3: the series. The Dodgers, you know, they had won ten
Speaker 3: of their last twelve before coming into the game. I mean,
Speaker 3: you want the adversity during the season, so you're prepared.
Speaker 2: But we've talked about this before.
Speaker 3: We talked about it on our Monday show that as
Speaker 3: long as they're playing good baseball at the right time,
Speaker 3: and obviously as long as everybody's healthy, it just matters
Speaker 3: that they win the division. That's the first box that
Speaker 3: they want to check, and they're going to do that.
Speaker 3: I mean, guys, they're sending what six players to the
Speaker 3: All Star Game? You know, show Heyo Tani, Freddy Freeman,
Speaker 3: Max Munsey, Andy Paiez and Yoshinobuyama photo You are correct,
Speaker 3: math is hard, so five guys. But they're the best
Speaker 3: team in baseball by a lot. And I'm not talking
Speaker 3: about just the National League guys, I'm talking about all
Speaker 3: of baseball. They lead the majors in batting average, OPS,
Speaker 3: runs per game, Their third and home runs in all
Speaker 3: of baseball, and you think about it a little bit. Guys,
Speaker 3: it's remarkable what they've been able to do. And they
Speaker 3: haven't even had their full rotation the entire season. They
Speaker 3: haven't had Blakes now, Katy's going to give us an
Speaker 3: update on him. They haven't had Tyler Glasnaw for the
Speaker 3: majority of the season. Really, Edwin Diaz, he's starting to
Speaker 3: make some progress, but he's not been with them the
Speaker 3: last couple of months. Yet they still rank fourth in
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball and ERA. Someone's about to ring my doorbell.
Speaker 3: I think sorry about that, oh Tani firmly in the
Speaker 3: Cy Young conversation at eight and two with a one
Speaker 3: to seven to nine ERA four and two thirds inning
Speaker 3: shy of qualifying for that Cy Young, we were worried
Speaker 3: about the innings.
Speaker 2: Was he going to have enough?
Speaker 3: Maybe Yamamoto nine and five with a two four nine
Speaker 3: ERA and surprise of the staff, Justin Robleski, friend of
Speaker 3: the show, who should be an All Star.
Speaker 5: Maybe he gets there.
Speaker 2: We don't know. The manager of the National League could
Speaker 2: do something about it.
Speaker 3: He leads a team with the ten and two record,
Speaker 3: Rebleski does, so, I tell you what only the Astros
Speaker 3: have blown fewer saves than the Dodgers this season, and
Speaker 3: I'm impressed with what they've been able to do without
Speaker 3: having arguably two of their best arms in the rotation
Speaker 3: and the best closer, one of the best closers in
Speaker 3: baseball in their moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you met mentioning there. You know, the Edwin Diaz factor.
Speaker 1: Tanner Scott again, I think people were not giving it enough.
Speaker 1: Everybody's not getting enough love to Tanner Scott what he's
Speaker 1: been able to do filling in without Edwin Diaz here,
Speaker 1: picking up a lot of saves for this team. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you're getting Edwin Diaz back maybe in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: You mentioned we're going to talk about that. You're getting
Speaker 1: Evan Phillips back today. We'll talk about that a little
Speaker 1: bit later. This is a very good baseball team and
Speaker 1: they are going to just keep getting better. One of
Speaker 1: the narratives, and Katie, I am interested in your opinion
Speaker 1: of the Padres. We'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 1: But one of the narratives, of course, Kyle hurt. Not
Speaker 1: a great game for him yesterday. It has been a
Speaker 1: rougher go of things for Kyle Hurt, and I am
Speaker 1: the the the leader in the clubhouse when it comes
Speaker 1: to the the Kyle Hurt, you know, marching in chowder society.
Speaker 1: I do wonder if it's time for maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit of a triple a mental reset because there he's
Speaker 1: been given up just a lot of base runners just
Speaker 1: but it was like every inning he's coming in, he's
Speaker 1: walking or giving up the hit to the leadoff batter.
Speaker 1: Hasn't been a smooth going for him. It looks like
Speaker 1: he's really trying to hone it in. Katie, What's what's
Speaker 1: your kind of thought with where the team is at
Speaker 1: with Kyle Hurt and you know, maybe getting ahead of
Speaker 1: ourselves a little bit here, could he be somebody that
Speaker 1: potentially is the odd man out in the Evan Phillips return.
Speaker 4: No, And unsurprisingly I am not concerned about Kyle Hurt.
Speaker 4: I think that is the beauty, if you will, of
Speaker 4: the Dodgers roster, especially with Phillips coming back. You can
Speaker 4: tweak bullpen roles at any time, and we've seen guys
Speaker 4: step up like Tanner Scott. We've seen guys maybe to
Speaker 4: have a little bit of aggression like Kyle Hurt right now.
Speaker 4: But the Dodgers have a such a big lead in
Speaker 4: the division and be so many options in their bullpen
Speaker 4: that I think you can make the argument that maybe
Speaker 4: you take Kyle Hurt out of more higher leverage. I
Speaker 4: know yesterday didn't exactly scream the highest levers, but it
Speaker 4: was still important to hold that score, which he did
Speaker 4: not do. But I don't think this is a triple
Speaker 4: A situation. I think this is just renegotiate the role
Speaker 4: a little bit, restructure the bullpen again.
Speaker 5: Phillips coming back should be today.
Speaker 4: We should have that announcement shortly actually, and then maybe
Speaker 4: move Kyle Hurt back down to the leverage spots that
Speaker 4: he was at the beginning of the season, just so
Speaker 4: he can find his feel again. Baseball is all about
Speaker 4: a game of adjustments. So we talk a lot about
Speaker 4: pictures adjusting to hitters. Well, hitters are going to adjust
Speaker 4: to the pitchers too, and it seems like they've caught
Speaker 4: up a little bit to what Kyle Hurt's doing.
Speaker 5: I don't think that necessarily means a demotion.
Speaker 4: I just think it's time to maybe put him a
Speaker 4: little bit back in the trush tree, have them work
Speaker 4: some things out at the major league level. And rely
Speaker 4: on the veterans that are coming back over the next
Speaker 4: few weeks to have him regain his confidence. I'd be
Speaker 4: very surprised at the Dodgers ship him out.
Speaker 3: Katie Wu is the voice of reason on Dodger's territory
Speaker 3: that we love that she is here in her third
Speaker 3: season making people back away from the ledge a little
Speaker 3: bit more. One thing I want to talk about in
Speaker 3: all seriousness is the job in the situation that Alfonso
Speaker 3: Eliezer Alfonso Junior had to deal with over the course
Speaker 3: of a weekend. What an emotional roller coaster, you guys,
Speaker 3: for those that don't know, and I'm sure you guys
Speaker 3: listening and watching do because you're big Dodgers fans. A
Speaker 3: devastating debut major League Baseball debut for him and his family.
Speaker 3: He hails from the country of Venezuela. Obviously, you guys
Speaker 3: know that Venezuela had two massive earthquakes, and unfortunately his
Speaker 3: sister and his stepmother are were two of the people
Speaker 3: that have perished in this earthquake. And he had to
Speaker 3: take that aside for a moment and make his major
Speaker 3: league debut. What should have been an un believable moment
Speaker 3: for he and his family something obviously he's wanted his
Speaker 3: entire life. He I'm sure he, you know, had a
Speaker 3: very heavy heart and a very heavy mind. And Katie,
Speaker 3: of course was there. So my heart breaks for him,
Speaker 3: and my thoughts and prayers obviously are with him and
Speaker 3: his family and obviously the entire country of Venezuela. But
Speaker 3: you were there, and he didn't have to speak to
Speaker 3: the media, Katie, and he did and I would I
Speaker 3: would like your perspective about this.
Speaker 5: No, he absolutely did not.
Speaker 4: And we saw the reports coming in that morning of
Speaker 4: yesterday's game, and you know, we're still trying to verify
Speaker 4: our own and trying to make sure that this is
Speaker 4: a one hundred percent thing that unfortunately happened. And you
Speaker 4: saw the reception from Dodger fans before his first a bat,
Speaker 4: and to have the stadium kind of recognize the tragedy
Speaker 4: that happened and offer support. I mean, this is supposed
Speaker 4: to be one of the best days of his life,
Speaker 4: and unfortunately it becomes one of the most tragic for
Speaker 4: his entire family. And he's still elected to play Sunday,
Speaker 4: get in the plate, make his major league debut in
Speaker 4: honor of his stepmom, Patricia and his sister Eliana, and
Speaker 4: it was such a delicate situation post game, and I
Speaker 4: really want to commend him for being at his locker
Speaker 4: and speaking, because you're totally.
Speaker 5: Right, Alana.
Speaker 4: He doesn't owe anyone, especially us, any kind of conversation
Speaker 4: or explanation. He could have absolutely said no, thank you,
Speaker 4: and I think it would have been very much understood.
Speaker 4: But he stood there and answered questions and spoke about
Speaker 4: an unspeakable tragedy. So I think all around he spoke
Speaker 4: to the ovation that he received from Dodger fans, and
Speaker 4: I think that really meant a lot to him because
Speaker 4: it just recognized again the profound tragedy that him and
Speaker 4: his family were going through. This is someone that there's
Speaker 4: a lot of connection with the Alfons of family. Maggey
Speaker 4: Rope knows his father back in Venezuela. Dave Roberts actually
Speaker 4: played with his father two seasons on the Giants. So
Speaker 4: to see the Dodgers' clubhouse come out and kind of
Speaker 4: band together and support him, Dodger fans doing the same thing,
Speaker 4: and then of course speaking and giving you know, his
Speaker 4: personal feelings about again one of the most unimaginable tragedies.
Speaker 5: It was a very sad day, But I do hope the.
Speaker 4: Alfonso family can take a little bit of solace and
Speaker 4: knowing that a dream, a lifelong dream, was achieved yesterday,
Speaker 4: and I think we'll continue to be rooting for this guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously, so much could be said about this. Your
Speaker 1: heart goes out to everybody, every family that has been
Speaker 1: affected by this devastation in Venezuela. If you are going
Speaker 1: to find the positive and something, it is Dodgers fans
Speaker 1: in this situation. You know, media, other fan bases like
Speaker 1: to give Dodger fans a lot of crap. Oh, they
Speaker 1: show up late, they leave early, they don't really know,
Speaker 1: they show up to the game just to take their
Speaker 1: selfies and whatnot. But that stadium gave the kid a
Speaker 1: standing ovation. They are in tune with what's going on
Speaker 1: with this team day in day out. You get people
Speaker 1: obviously hanging out with us here a few times a week,
Speaker 1: trying to get their Dodger fixed, trying to be in
Speaker 1: the know with as much stuff as we can share
Speaker 1: along the way with them. But this is a fan
Speaker 1: base that understands a moment, understands the situation. And you know,
Speaker 1: Alfonso had said it was emotional when he heard his
Speaker 1: name announced that first at bat. To feel the support
Speaker 1: from the fans. It's something he's going to keep in
Speaker 1: his heart with him for the rest of his life.
Speaker 1: To bring it just some smidge of joy on what's
Speaker 1: got to be the most devastating day in your life,
Speaker 1: to to learn what you had feared, you know, was
Speaker 1: a reality. You know, you got to commend the Dodgers
Speaker 1: for and the fan base for help, and just bring
Speaker 1: a little bit of joy in what should have been
Speaker 1: the best day of your life. You're making your major
Speaker 1: league debut, you know, but yeah, shout out Dodgers fans,
Speaker 1: Shout out Alfonso. Hopefully, you know, you start to heal
Speaker 1: moving forward.
Speaker 3: And while Andy pa Has is not dealing with the
Speaker 3: exact same type of situation guys. Obviously, with the devastation
Speaker 3: of an Ala, he has yet to be able to
Speaker 3: reach his family as far as I know to this point,
Speaker 3: and that maybe that's changed, but to my knowledge, Andy
Speaker 3: Pa has has not been able to reach his parents
Speaker 3: to let them know that he.
Speaker 2: Was selected to his first All Star Game.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Andy pa Has is from Cuba, and the communication
Speaker 3: and you know, infrastructure and all of the things very
Speaker 3: different in Cuba than it is in the United States
Speaker 3: of America. My mom came from Cuba. They immigrated here
Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty five for a reason to get out
Speaker 3: of there, and it's a tough go there. But Andy
Speaker 3: Pai has has had such tremendous year, in fact, an
Speaker 3: all star type of season, So congratulations to him as well,
Speaker 3: and hopefully he will be able to reach his family
Speaker 3: to give them.
Speaker 2: Give them the good news. So it's a heavy thing here.
Speaker 3: But this is another reminder, guys, and we say this
Speaker 3: all of the time, right that these guys are people
Speaker 3: before they are players, and you know they have a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff going on too. You know, they're not
Speaker 3: just robots out there just taking the ball every fifth day,
Speaker 3: getting in the lineup every day or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: So anyway, we're thinking about you, Eliezer Alfonso and your family,
Speaker 3: and obviously thinking about the country of Venezuela as well.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, much more to come on Dodgers' territory
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Speaker 1: Hey, it's our catch all segment where we have a
Speaker 1: lot of dodgers things to catch up on my favorite
Speaker 1: one of the day. As we get back into some positive,
Speaker 1: some joy, some I guess good things for the Dodgers
Speaker 1: family as a whole. You get e phillyback, Evan Phillips
Speaker 1: returns today, Katie, what can you tell us more about
Speaker 1: the return of of Evan high leverage honeybun there is Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay, is that what we're calling him? You guys got
Speaker 4: to keep me up to date on this, honey.
Speaker 1: And then we came up with the high leverage honeybun CLEA.
Speaker 4: Then we don't even need to worry about Kyle hurt
Speaker 4: because he's bumping down and leverage. Here it comes Evan Phillips.
Speaker 4: Everything is good. We never worry about anything in Dodger Land.
Speaker 4: But yeah, he should return today off the sixty sixty
Speaker 4: day il along a way to return for Evan Phillips.
Speaker 4: It'll be nice to have some more veteran presence and
Speaker 4: a bullpen that, in my opinion, has been the most
Speaker 4: surprising and a good way of the first half where
Speaker 4: these Los Angeles Dodgers. A forty man decision will need
Speaker 4: to be made, so we're looking at two kind of
Speaker 4: separate roster moves today. I'm not quite sure who is
Speaker 4: going to take or who Evan's spot is going to take.
Speaker 4: That's when it makes sense. But you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: I will say, Apolosi, your based through two Indians yesterday,
Speaker 4: So if you're going on speculation usage, that seems to
Speaker 4: be the most likely route.
Speaker 5: But we'll see again.
Speaker 4: It will require a forty man move to activate Evan Phillips.
Speaker 4: That should officially be today. I know there was some
Speaker 4: thought of it maybe being yesterday. But welcome back Evan Phillips.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Dodgers bullpen that has been an
Speaker 4: anchor for this club.
Speaker 5: Things are trending in the right direction.
Speaker 4: We have a lot more Dodgers coming back post All
Speaker 4: Star break, So get ready to hear our favorite saying
Speaker 4: it's just like making a trade many times throughout the
Speaker 4: meth of July.
Speaker 1: That's what they do, you know, and no other team
Speaker 1: gets to add these guys, Will Smith, Edwin Diaz, Blake Snell,
Speaker 1: a couple of names I just mentioned there. Edwin Diaz,
Speaker 1: big one yesterday throws a baseball two hitters, including Keiky Hernandez,
Speaker 1: another guy this team's gonna be getting back on the
Speaker 1: active roster at some point what can you tell us
Speaker 1: about Edwin Diaz and you know his timeline of return,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure the Dodgers are happy he put one
Speaker 1: out there publicly.
Speaker 2: Yes, love that.
Speaker 5: I love when players do that.
Speaker 4: A very newsy Sunday morning slash afternoon, A little insane
Speaker 4: for a day after a holiday.
Speaker 5: I had to lock in real quick when I got
Speaker 5: to work.
Speaker 4: Yesterday see Edwin Diaz facing live hitters for the first
Speaker 4: time since April. He faced Alex Freeland twice, keik Hernandez one,
Speaker 4: so that was super notable both for Edwin Diaz and
Speaker 4: k k Hernandez taking swings. He wants to call over
Speaker 4: we have assignment.
Speaker 5: We talked to him.
Speaker 4: Yesterday right after you through hitters and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm ready to go, just winning on the dodge.
Speaker 5: To tell me when we can do that.
Speaker 4: So looking at sometime post All Star break, I know
Speaker 4: we've had different stints and different lengths for multiple rehab
Speaker 4: assignments for relievers. With Edwin Diaz, it's key to remember
Speaker 4: the Dodgers only need him for one inning, the ninth inning,
Speaker 4: so we're not really looking at a lot of bulk,
Speaker 4: you know, even with Evan Phillips for example, it was
Speaker 4: can he do up and down? Can he do back
Speaker 4: to backs? Can he get hot in a moment's notice?
Speaker 4: Can he plan out and be a normal reliever? Edwin
Speaker 4: Diaz doesn't have to check all those boxes. The Dodgers
Speaker 4: just need him to a stay healthy obviously and be execute.
Speaker 4: They need him for one inning top, so this could
Speaker 4: be depending on how he recovers a shorter rehab assignment
Speaker 4: once he begins. My speculation of this timeline is that
Speaker 4: we see him back right around the trade deadline, which
Speaker 4: to the Dodger's credit, is actually exactly you know when
Speaker 4: they rough estimated when we could see him back. So
Speaker 4: everyone gets one right, you know, the Dodgers touched not
Speaker 4: always with their injuries, so we'll be nice to see
Speaker 4: Evan Diaz back. And again, no need to trade for
Speaker 4: a closer when you're getting one back.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: One. Actually, one more thing, my bad on that. One
Speaker 1: more thing. Off of that, he also addressed something we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about a whole bunch because MLB hasn't talked
Speaker 1: about Dodge. IM talked about about it, but the whole
Speaker 1: cock fighting thing, it seems like nothing. He hasn't really
Speaker 1: spoken to nobody from baseball spoken to him about it much.
Speaker 1: He said something that's legal in his country, or at
Speaker 1: least it's not illegal. You know, the morality of it
Speaker 1: is an entirely different story. But can you tell us
Speaker 1: about him kind of addressing that situation?
Speaker 5: Is this for me?
Speaker 1: Yeah you were there, Okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just making sure, But yeah, I think I think,
Speaker 4: like for Edwin, I think he said all he could.
Speaker 4: You know, if it was going to be an investigation,
Speaker 4: maybeage Baseball would have done it by now. And again,
Speaker 4: as an animal enthusiast like Alana, you can absolutely debate
Speaker 4: the morality of it. But it's a different culture over there,
Speaker 4: and who am I to speak on someone's culture that
Speaker 4: I'm simply not.
Speaker 1: A part of.
Speaker 4: So I can understand the investigation and wanting to know
Speaker 4: if there was going to be any sort of con sequins,
Speaker 4: It does not sound like it. We have not heard
Speaker 4: of an MLB investigation. It's been several months now, so
Speaker 4: I think this is mostly.
Speaker 5: Put to bed at this point.
Speaker 3: So from the back end of the bullpen to the
Speaker 3: front end of the rotation, Blake Snell is finally facing
Speaker 3: hitters as we know, or extra stor and baseball. That's
Speaker 3: a good thing. Getting closer to facing hitters, is what
Speaker 3: I meant to say. Heading out on a rehab, I
Speaker 3: feel like he's been gone for seven months, but it
Speaker 3: is good to see him on a mound. Of course,
Speaker 3: the training staff is looking Mark Pryor, you can see
Speaker 3: him there looking at Blake Snell as well. Still has
Speaker 3: the positive attitude, still seems to be like a fun guy.
Speaker 3: You see him messing around with Kirsten Watson and the
Speaker 3: dugout when she's trying to do her interviews and stuff,
Speaker 3: and he's back there dance and kind of taking over
Speaker 3: key K's role with me when I was there. It's
Speaker 3: good to see him, though, how close is he really realistically?
Speaker 3: Is this a post All Star break type of thing
Speaker 3: and how far out?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a great question.
Speaker 4: Obviously, great to see Blake Snell not just throwing, but
Speaker 4: throwing off a mount. I'll need to face live hitters
Speaker 4: and then we're gonna go back to the longer kind
Speaker 4: of rehab stint because he's a starting pitcher. Daughters want
Speaker 4: to build him out. We went through this the last
Speaker 4: time around May when he was coming back. So usually
Speaker 4: the progression is three innings then you go right around
Speaker 4: four to five, depending on how you recover from your
Speaker 4: first start. And then when you get to write around
Speaker 4: the five innings seventy pitch mark, that's kind of when
Speaker 4: teams can make the decision on if it's time to
Speaker 4: activate it or not. With Blake Snell, you don't really
Speaker 4: need him to go eight, right, You need him to
Speaker 4: do five or six quality innings, take it over to
Speaker 4: the bullpen. That again will be replenished with Evan Phillips
Speaker 4: and Edwin Diaz. So my rough estimate, it all kind
Speaker 4: of depends on when he bases live hitters and starts
Speaker 4: that rehab assignment. It's July sixth today, so I still
Speaker 4: don't think we have an exact timeline for Blake Snell.
Speaker 4: But the closer is to throwing off the mound, the
Speaker 4: closer us to facing live hitters, and then once you
Speaker 4: do that, you're pretty much set for a rehab assignment.
Speaker 4: But he does have to build up obviously, get that
Speaker 4: arm back to where it was. That takes some time
Speaker 4: for starters, certainly much longer than reliever.
Speaker 1: Another guy a little bit further behind, probably a lot
Speaker 1: of bit further behind Blake Snell, But we have seen.
Speaker 1: He has emerged from his cocoon. Tyler glassnew throwing a
Speaker 1: baseball at Dodger Stadium. We saw a video of that.
Speaker 1: I think what Thursday or Friday was throwing. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he got an any action in on over
Speaker 1: the weekend. But it doesn't need to be a whole
Speaker 1: lot here because there's not a whole lot to say
Speaker 1: about glass now. But where are we at in that
Speaker 1: progression now?
Speaker 5: I saw him throw with my own eyes. It happened.
Speaker 4: He's been doing that throughout the week, throughout the last
Speaker 4: series against San Diego, so certainly working back and this
Speaker 4: again is going to play into We've talked about this before.
Speaker 4: It's Snell and Glassnow's health and where they stand leading
Speaker 4: up to the August third trade deadline will dictate to
Speaker 4: some extent what the Dodgers do at this deadline. Andrew
Speaker 4: Freeman has said before he'll probably say it again. They
Speaker 4: don't want to be very active this deadline. They really
Speaker 4: want to focus on, if they could, at a perfect world,
Speaker 4: being sellars, which is kind of weird because they are
Speaker 4: the best team in baseball. The best team in baseball doesn't,
Speaker 4: but this is the Los Angeles Dodgers we're talking about.
Speaker 5: So the rules don't apply. If there's a.
Speaker 4: Setback with Snell or Glass, now the Dodgers might rethink
Speaker 4: their stance on their current rotation. But with those two
Speaker 4: plus Otani plus Yamamoto, you have Robleski adjusses for Robo,
Speaker 4: get them in the All Star Game, maybe coming in
Speaker 4: as like your emergency starter if you need one. Then
Speaker 4: you have a bullpen that starts with Edwin Diaz, Roki Sasaki,
Speaker 4: Emmit Shean.
Speaker 5: You're feeling pretty good about the pitching. So the best
Speaker 5: thing the Dodgers can do right now is wait and
Speaker 5: see for Tyler Glass.
Speaker 4: Now, Luckily for them, they have this crazy lead in
Speaker 4: the NL West, they have the best record in baseball.
Speaker 4: They can afford to do this at the moment. We'll
Speaker 4: see how things look. Closer to August.
Speaker 3: We are a week away, ladies and gentlemen from the
Speaker 3: Home Run Derby for the Midsummer Classic, of course, taking
Speaker 3: place in Philadelphia, Philly, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Citizens Bank Park.
Speaker 2: We are going. Kittie and I will be there.
Speaker 3: Foul Territory is going to be there as well, so
Speaker 3: we're going to be getting all the content for you guys.
Speaker 3: But I'm excited to be there just because there's so
Speaker 3: many All Stars that are going to be there representing
Speaker 3: the Dodgers obviously show hey, I mean that you might
Speaker 3: as well just write that in every year, right, Freddy
Speaker 3: Freeman veteran player Max Munsey. We'll talk more about Max
Speaker 3: and how cool this is. Andy Pye's to me is
Speaker 3: so neat, I mean, and not just because he's a Dodger,
Speaker 3: but because Dodgers fans showed out and hopefully other fans
Speaker 3: in the league too, you know that watch and are
Speaker 3: paying attention to what he's been able to do. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is a guy that I, yes, me, wanted to
Speaker 3: send to the Moon last year, and now the man
Speaker 3: is an All Star and so deservingly so, I mean,
Speaker 3: and the one of the top vote getters, and I
Speaker 3: thought that was really cool. People are paying attention to
Speaker 3: what Andy Paie has is doing, so I'm excited for that,
Speaker 3: and of course Yoshinobu Yamamoto as well.
Speaker 2: So it's great.
Speaker 3: But let's talk a little bit more about Max Munsey, guys,
Speaker 3: because we were talking about this on our production meeting.
Speaker 3: This is a young man not so young anymore, but
Speaker 3: younger than us, well not Katie, but whatever, that didn't
Speaker 3: even have a job about you know, ten years ago
Speaker 3: or whatever. He was with the Oakland Athletics and they
Speaker 3: were Oakland at the time they defade him.
Speaker 2: He was kind of just sitting on his couch, didn't
Speaker 2: have a job.
Speaker 3: And you know, he was kind of a reclamation project
Speaker 3: when the Dodgers got him. And he is arguably one
Speaker 3: of the most impactful Dodgers we've certainly had in the
Speaker 3: last ten years in terms of what he has meant
Speaker 3: to this team. Maybe doesn't have the bigger name, but
Speaker 3: certainly has had some of the biggest impact.
Speaker 2: And Katie, you.
Speaker 3: Can talk about that more about what his fellow All
Speaker 3: Star Freddy Freeman said about him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was talking to a majority of veterans in
Speaker 4: the Dodgers' clubhouse about what Max Munsey means because I
Speaker 4: think you're right along. I think in the national scope
Speaker 4: he's kind of underrated, which sounds crazy to say, knowing
Speaker 4: what we knowing what we know about how much he
Speaker 4: means to the Dodgers franchise. But I think in the
Speaker 4: overall picture, when you have a roster that's at star
Speaker 4: supt do as Los Angeles, Max Munsey and his accomplishments
Speaker 4: get kind of buried, and I can understand that as
Speaker 4: an outsider. But inside the clubhouse, make no mistake, there
Speaker 4: is so much value and love and appreciation for Max Munsey.
Speaker 4: Fredi Freeman said essentially what you just said about. You know,
Speaker 4: I think he gets kind of lost in the shuffle,
Speaker 4: but make no mistake, inside this clubhouse, he is absolutely
Speaker 4: a pillar.
Speaker 5: He's the longest tenure Dodger.
Speaker 4: He has consistently taken less money to stay a Dodger.
Speaker 5: He wants to be in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: A really good story by Fabi and Ardaya in The
Speaker 4: Athletic about all the changes he's made since twenty twenty
Speaker 4: with mental health or mental skills. Coach Brent Walker, this
Speaker 4: is a guy who was so committed to be the
Speaker 4: best possible Dodger and is going to be in the
Speaker 4: Dodgers Hall of Fame one day and is absolutely deserving
Speaker 4: of being the starting third basement for the National League.
Speaker 4: His three children, I think as oldest is going to
Speaker 4: be able to remember this. This is something that he
Speaker 4: talked to me about and how much this meant to
Speaker 4: him getting his family out there. So Dodgers fans Dodger
Speaker 4: Nation knows how pivotal and important Max Munsey is. Now
Speaker 4: is a chance for the rest of the baseball world
Speaker 4: to see it as well. It's not just always the
Speaker 4: Otawni Yamamoto, Freddy Freeman, Mooki bets show that it feels
Speaker 4: that way. Max Munsey absolutely right up there in terms
Speaker 4: of the most important Dodgers in the last decade.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, we're talking about Max and it's
Speaker 1: not just oh oh, Max is getting in there because
Speaker 1: like it's this last season or something like that. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he still has more years of baseball left in him,
Speaker 1: but he is like arguably the best third baseman in
Speaker 1: the National League this year. I mean, only behind Junior
Speaker 1: Cameronaro for all third basemen all told. It's why I'm
Speaker 1: making him today's FanDuel Daily Dinger pick. By the way,
Speaker 1: just how good Max has been for this team this
Speaker 1: year as I got to look over here, put some
Speaker 1: things on the board here and whatnot. But I love
Speaker 1: this dude. I love this dude with a deep passion
Speaker 1: because of how much he loves the Dodgers, how much
Speaker 1: he loves playing baseball, how much work he puts in
Speaker 1: each year to getting better. Last time, he was an
Speaker 1: All Star twenty twenty one, had a great year. He
Speaker 1: was setting up to be the first basement for this
Speaker 1: team for the foreseeable future. That final game, his elbow
Speaker 1: gets destroyed, gets run in by Jase Peterson, probably a
Speaker 1: little more inside the line where he should be trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, reach base in the final game, a meaningless game,
Speaker 1: I believe, at that point for the Milwaukee Brewers, Munsey
Speaker 1: battles back, has a couple, you know, a really tough
Speaker 1: start to his twenty twenty two trying to figure out
Speaker 1: if he could ever get back. Also, at that time,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers go out there and they ink Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 1: He gets displaced from first base, moves over to third base,
Speaker 1: doesn't want to play third base, doesn't like third base,
Speaker 1: becomes one of the better defending third basemen in baseball
Speaker 1: as well. Whatever this team has needed out of Max
Speaker 1: Munsey over the last eight nine, coming up on ten years,
Speaker 1: he has done. And he's also rewarded them for his
Speaker 1: for their belief in him by you know, consistently signing
Speaker 1: for well under what he would be valued in free
Speaker 1: agency because he wants to be here. He wants to
Speaker 1: be a part of something special, of a three peat
Speaker 1: of you know, coming off back to back, all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. It's just it's so cool. He's getting
Speaker 1: super close to being the all time LA home run
Speaker 1: leader as well. Yeah, he's not going to pass Duke
Speaker 1: Snyder on the all time franchise list because four hundred
Speaker 1: dingers is a long way away. But what this dude
Speaker 1: has meant to this organization and how much work he
Speaker 1: puts in to getting better every single day, every single
Speaker 1: year and being a leader in that clubhouse. Daily dinger
Speaker 1: all day, just not even daily weekly dinger, all the things.
Speaker 2: Love you, Max, you do that was quite the guys,
Speaker 2: A dude, love it. He is a dude.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. We haven't seen anybody participating yet, have we. Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 4: I mean with the biceps issue for Otani that you
Speaker 4: know as much as I love as for the fans
Speaker 4: of Lesi that that's a bad idea, that's a bad play.
Speaker 4: Maybe Jordan Walker Walker shout out Cardinals ud be fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't. I haven't seen any official announcement yet.
Speaker 3: And I know they have obviously a monetary incentive, and
Speaker 3: they're you know, changing the rules a little bit.
Speaker 2: But it'll be fun to watch. Looking forward to get
Speaker 2: into Philly and and all that.
Speaker 5: Out's got to do it.
Speaker 2: I mean it's Sliver should do it.
Speaker 3: I mean Schreber should do it. I mean obviously his
Speaker 3: his hometown team there. All right, guys, let's let's take
Speaker 3: a look at the puppers.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: We introduced you to Scottie last Monday, we're still doing
Speaker 3: it because this little sweet boy, he's three years old,
Speaker 3: needs a family. He's looking for his forever home. He's
Speaker 3: being fostered right now in Huntington Beach, California, but unfortunately
Speaker 3: his fosters are a little bit on the older side
Speaker 3: and he's a lot of dog for them. And we're
Speaker 3: looking for an active family, somebody that could give him
Speaker 3: long walks or hikes or you know, just give him
Speaker 3: some you know, a little bit of play and fetch
Speaker 3: and get that puppy energy out.
Speaker 2: He's only three. He's a healthy, happy, good with other dogs.
Speaker 3: So if you're interested in learning more about Scottie, please
Speaker 3: reach out to me at Gidry's Guardian dot org or
Speaker 3: just hit me up on social and I can give you.
Speaker 1: More scott He looks like a good boy.
Speaker 2: He is a good boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all good boys. By the way, I'm looking
Speaker 1: over here at yesterday, of course, Joho Tani's birthday thirty two,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday show. Hey, but of course you know the
Speaker 1: picture used is him and decoy and you decoy. It
Speaker 1: was just another first pitch, Yeah, he does.
Speaker 3: That was the most as you would expect, the most organized,
Speaker 3: well executed first pitch ever in the history of first pitches,
Speaker 3: because he's well trained and show hey, U has done
Speaker 3: a nice job with that pepper. All right, So looking ahead, guys,
Speaker 3: Rockies for three. Not the most exciting team in the
Speaker 3: world coming into town. But you know what might be
Speaker 3: an important opportunity, Katie, and I'm interested in your opinion.
Speaker 3: Maybe the most important game is the Rohi Sasaki game
Speaker 3: because he just hasn't looked right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, last start of the or of the first half
Speaker 4: of the season before the All Star break, and a
Speaker 4: lot of eyes will be on Rokie Sasaki because there
Speaker 4: has been some regression, a lot of aggression lately, and
Speaker 4: we hit a stride of me and the president of
Speaker 4: the Broky Truthers Club, but things have gotten back to
Speaker 4: reality unfortunately. We talk about this. It's all about adjusting,
Speaker 4: and I think Rochi still has plenty of adjusting to do.
Speaker 5: To major league.
Speaker 4: Hitters, there's got to be just better overall execution.
Speaker 5: And I think this is part of the growing pains.
Speaker 4: That we sign up for with a young pitcher with
Speaker 4: so much talent and such a high pedigree learning to.
Speaker 5: Do this at the major league level. Now, has it
Speaker 5: been good?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: It has not.
Speaker 4: Are the Dodgers in a position now where they can
Speaker 4: kind of weather the storm again because of their leading
Speaker 4: the division. Absolutely, they still need Roki to take each
Speaker 4: of his starts because the six man rotation is important.
Speaker 5: Longtime listeners of the show know my spiel here.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to redo it again, but it's super
Speaker 4: important for the Dodgers to have that six man rotation.
Speaker 4: It's important for Roki to figure this out this season.
Speaker 4: While the Dodgers have such a comfy lead in the
Speaker 4: NL West, they also don't really have anyone blowing the
Speaker 4: door down.
Speaker 5: In Triple A right now with River Ryan's latest step back.
Speaker 4: So this is a There's always pressure to perform in
Speaker 4: the big leagues, but when you take everything else aside,
Speaker 4: there's not a lot of pressure from exterior factors right
Speaker 4: now on Rokie. They have the division lead, there's nobody
Speaker 4: clamoring for a call up. This is the perfect time
Speaker 4: to start figuring things out and the first half on
Speaker 4: a high note and go into the second half figure
Speaker 4: out a way to pitch. They don't need him in
Speaker 4: the postseason to be a starter. They need him to
Speaker 4: be an effective, confident reliever. But they need him as
Speaker 4: a starter long term, so take the next two months
Speaker 4: to get there, take some steps forward. It's all about
Speaker 4: the execution with the fastball, using the pitch mix a
Speaker 4: little bit more. Getting on the same terms with Dalton Rushing,
Speaker 4: who I think has done a good job with Roki
Speaker 4: El things considered.
Speaker 5: And just be better, because you know what.
Speaker 4: Shout out to the Dodger security guards that let the
Speaker 4: media in before the games. They have been letting me
Speaker 4: hear it about Roki.
Speaker 5: So I need this. I need this so I can fight.
Speaker 1: Back fans of the show. Yeah, listen, I've talked about
Speaker 1: this before. We were talking about this a little bit
Speaker 1: in the production meeting. I need I need to see
Speaker 1: something out of Rokie. And you know, I need to
Speaker 1: see no hitter out of Rokie for me to have
Speaker 1: any sort of belief. I'm I'm seriously, I'm serious that
Speaker 1: ye listen. I feel like I was lying to everybody,
Speaker 1: lying to myself a whole bunch when we were talking
Speaker 1: about oh man, these yes, he was taking strides forward,
Speaker 1: but still there was something that went bad. Every single game.
Speaker 1: It was, oh he only had it, only gave up
Speaker 1: a three run inning. You know, Oh man, that's that's
Speaker 1: so much better or whatever. Yeah, he's not doing getting
Speaker 1: pulled in the first inning like he was in spring training.
Speaker 1: But at this point, yes, the Dodgers have a massive lead. Yes,
Speaker 1: you could let this kind of ride out. He's not
Speaker 1: going to be starting a postseason game for the Dodgers
Speaker 1: if the postseason started tomorrow. But this is sink or
Speaker 1: swim time where we learn whether or not this guy
Speaker 1: can be a major league starter or he's going to
Speaker 1: be in the bullpen, because right now that bullpen is
Speaker 1: looking like a really sexy option when Bro has an
Speaker 1: era hanging around five and that's supposed to make us
Speaker 1: feel a little bit. No, I don't know. It's a
Speaker 1: good start against the Rocky. It's a good way to
Speaker 1: kind of trend in the right direction. But watching this
Speaker 1: guy that's important to people, Just so I can tell
Speaker 1: you she's wrong for me.
Speaker 5: I actually don't know what that sentence means.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, cool.
Speaker 3: Sometimes sometimes like wow, before yeah, yeah, before we say goodbye,
Speaker 3: I wanted to get to the super chat. It's actually
Speaker 3: kind of a funny comment too. So this is a
Speaker 3: skier loves Baseball ninety nine cent super chat. We appreciate
Speaker 3: that very much. But they also had a funny comment
Speaker 3: down here. Okay, thank you so much, Bobby Miller, question
Speaker 3: Mark Caspirius, Gavin Stone still alive, kidnapped, sent to Mars
Speaker 3: at the Bull in Scottsdale.
Speaker 2: As anybody here heard where these people are.
Speaker 5: Arizona as of June first month ago saw them there.
Speaker 1: I got it. Yeah, they have it. Yes, Stone Stone
Speaker 1: I believe was abducted by aliens for sure. Bobby Miller,
Speaker 1: he was showing video of him throwing. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: anything else. Ben Casparius as well. That would be another
Speaker 1: nice one to have back, just just an option for
Speaker 1: this team. But as of now, check your milk cartons.
Speaker 1: They might be on the missing list.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, Clint and I are back together on
Speaker 3: Wednesday evening for Dodgers' postgame Katie.
Speaker 2: Of course we'll be in.
Speaker 3: Uh a rookie start in the clubhouse doing all the
Speaker 3: real world, doing all the real work, and then we're
Speaker 3: the three of us are back together on Thursday.
Speaker 2: So have a great week, everybody.
Speaker 3: It's today money yet his money. We're back together Wednesday
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Speaker 7: Bye,