Speaker 1: Eric Lower.
Speaker 2: I mean, you could argue he's been one of the Dodgers'
Speaker 2: most important players in the first half because his ability
Speaker 2: to go out there every sixth day allow them to
Speaker 2: keep that six man rotation. That service will no longer
Speaker 2: be needed when Snell comes back.
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, what's up?
Speaker 4: And welcome to a brand new live episode of Dodgers' Territory.
Speaker 4: The Gang is back together again. Alana Rizzo, Katie Wu
Speaker 4: Clint Pics. We are site that you guys are here
Speaker 4: as well. Get your comments there in the chat. We
Speaker 4: want to hear from you. Certainly, certainly, certainly. All right, guys,
Speaker 4: it is time for Monday over reactions if you will
Speaker 4: on this Monday, July twenty seventh.
Speaker 3: Katie, you were there. You're on the road. You've been
Speaker 3: on the road.
Speaker 4: I feel like forever. Two of three in New York City.
Speaker 4: That is a good thing. The biggest thing, six and
Speaker 4: three on the road trip. You'll take that any day
Speaker 4: of the season. What's the biggest takeaway that you had
Speaker 4: being in Philly, the New York, then Washington, then Philly,
Speaker 4: the New York then New York and then Washington and Philly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know where I am right now. I
Speaker 1: don't know what day it is.
Speaker 2: It's fine, we're here, we're all back together. I don't
Speaker 2: have any overreactions. Shocker, I know, because a six and
Speaker 2: three road trip on the East Coast where you win
Speaker 2: all three series. They faced some really good pitching, especially
Speaker 2: against the Yankees and the Phillies status quo. I'm sure
Speaker 2: we can nitpick the bullpen. I'm sure we will. I've
Speaker 2: looked at the rundown of the show. I know that's coming,
Speaker 2: and I understand that because the bullpen is always what
Speaker 2: we fixate on the most as media and as fans,
Speaker 2: because that's when the game is decided. When the bullpen
Speaker 2: is bad, that usually ends in losses, and that's what
Speaker 2: fans usually fixate on. So bullpen aside, Dodgers are playing
Speaker 2: Dodger baseball. They still the best record in baseball. They're
Speaker 2: getting all their guys back this week. Life is good
Speaker 2: in Dodger Land.
Speaker 1: But we can overreact anyway. Why not? We will.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be overreacting because we can nitpick this team
Speaker 4: today because what else are we going to talk about
Speaker 4: when they're so good? All of the little tiny things
Speaker 4: that don't really matter. But to your point. We're gonna
Speaker 4: get into the bullpen in just a second. But Clint,
Speaker 4: I want you to once again glaze as the kids say,
Speaker 4: where would this team be without Maxwell Muncie.
Speaker 5: Yah, Maxwell, Steven Munsei. You know, like you mentioned, they
Speaker 5: go six and three on this road trip. He played
Speaker 5: a big part in several of those dubs. As the
Speaker 5: kids say, he's been great. Three massive homers on the road.
Speaker 5: He eight runs batted in, you know, didn't get all
Speaker 5: of the hits in the world. Still gets on base,
Speaker 5: still has a slug, still has an ops around like
Speaker 5: nine to fifty.
Speaker 6: Still an All Star.
Speaker 5: Hey, now you're an All Star, Max Munsey, but also
Speaker 5: playing really good defense for the greater part, obviously a
Speaker 5: big factor in that game ending double play in Philly
Speaker 5: with you know, the whole real Muto forgetting how to
Speaker 5: baseball and all that kind of stuff. But Munsey is
Speaker 5: one of those guys, Alana, We've talked a lot about
Speaker 5: him over the last couple of years. Munsey is just
Speaker 5: one of those guys so underrated around baseball, so important
Speaker 5: for myriad reasons on this team. But you're talking about
Speaker 5: a guy who gets a job done at the plate.
Speaker 5: On defense, and then in the clubhouse, nobody better than.
Speaker 4: Max, no doubt about it. And the thing is congratulations.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean not many.
Speaker 4: If you're thinking about the amount of home runs by
Speaker 4: a third baseman in Dodger's lore, I mean, he just
Speaker 4: passed Ron Say in terms of that.
Speaker 3: In terms of home runs.
Speaker 4: The amount of home runs that he has and a
Speaker 4: Dodger uniform overall is impressive. When he's like two twenty
Speaker 4: nine or something like that. It's really cool to see
Speaker 4: Max Munsey develop into the player that he has become.
Speaker 4: And I'm not just talking about this year, right, I'm
Speaker 4: talking about since he has become a Los Angeles Dodger.
Speaker 4: And this is a story we've talked about at nauseum
Speaker 4: in terms of the cast off that he was with
Speaker 4: the Oakland Athletics that were Oakland at the time, how
Speaker 4: he didn't have a job, how he was sitting on
Speaker 4: the couch, how the Dodgers saw something in him. Hey,
Speaker 4: let's come to spring training. See what you can do
Speaker 4: on a team that already has a lot of firepower.
Speaker 4: But what he has turned into has been really impressive.
Speaker 4: Even when Max isn't hitting home runs, which he does
Speaker 4: a lot of, he gets on base, right, he has
Speaker 4: his his on base percentage is always good. He makes
Speaker 4: the opposing pitcher, work forces the opposition to throw a
Speaker 4: lot of pitches. He lengthens the lineup. I mean, these
Speaker 4: are all the things we've talked about at length. But
Speaker 4: what also has really impressed me about Max Munsey and
Speaker 4: Joe and Oral we're talking about it on the broadcast recently,
Speaker 4: he has turned himself into a very good defensive third baseman, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, he is turning himself into what some would
Speaker 4: say is in the conversation of a gold glove third baseman.
Speaker 4: Remember when we were like, oh my god, are they
Speaker 4: seriously going to put Max Munsey at third base? Howard,
Speaker 4: what are we doing? And what's going on? And he
Speaker 4: has really embraced the position. He getting glasses helped, which
Speaker 4: is fine, but you know what, it's good for him.
Speaker 4: Good for him for being a three time All Star,
Speaker 4: a three time World Series Champion, and a three time dad.
Speaker 4: And Kelly Munsey you know posted that too. It's been
Speaker 4: a coal it's been a cool year for that family.
Speaker 4: And I don't know in terms of Dodgers over the
Speaker 4: course of the last ten to eleven years, since he
Speaker 4: got there whenever it's been. I don't know that they
Speaker 4: win back to back World Series championships without Max Munsey.
Speaker 4: I don't know that they get there without Max Munsey.
Speaker 3: So I think he is.
Speaker 4: I don't know if we can say he's underrated, certainly
Speaker 4: not by the Dodger faithable, but maybe baseball overall. But
Speaker 4: to be an All Star again and having not been
Speaker 4: in five years and having this type of year again
Speaker 4: is really cool to.
Speaker 6: See, Katie.
Speaker 5: I mean, you're still new issue here. What was kind
Speaker 5: of the Monthsye? You know, I guess narrative outside of
Speaker 5: LA before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really glad Alana brought up the defense because
Speaker 2: it was the other day in New York.
Speaker 1: He charged a slow hit ground ball, made the playoff first,
Speaker 1: and I was like, that guy is moving.
Speaker 2: And the narrative away from Los Angeles up until I
Speaker 2: got here was, you know, an offense first, maybe on
Speaker 2: the decline were he wasn't playing hot corn or fourth
Speaker 2: defense necessarily. And this goes back to a conversation that
Speaker 2: we brought up on the show last month that I
Speaker 2: had with Freddy Freeman, where the Dodgers know what kind
Speaker 2: of player on kind of value Max Munsey brings, but
Speaker 2: because he plays on a team full of superstars, he
Speaker 2: can sometimes become overshadowed by you name it, I mean,
Speaker 2: go down the list. But that doesn't diminish his place
Speaker 2: in Dodger lore. And this season, specifically, with the down
Speaker 2: years from Kyle Tucker, with the questions over the entire
Speaker 2: offense really especially the corner outfielders, it's Max Munsey has
Speaker 2: been slight silently carrying this offense for a large majority
Speaker 2: of this season, and it's still going pretty unnoticed even
Speaker 2: though he is an All Star across.
Speaker 1: The league because there are so many names to fixate on.
Speaker 2: But now that you're I'm in Dodger Land and I
Speaker 2: see the ins and outs of the clubhouse and just
Speaker 2: what Max Munsey means to the fan base, to the team,
Speaker 2: you can absolutely make the case Dodgers Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: To me, that's no brainer.
Speaker 2: And see what he This Dodgers team, this core, this
Speaker 2: dynasty is nowhere near the same without Max Munsey on
Speaker 2: and off the field.
Speaker 6: Them are facts.
Speaker 5: Now after the auls or after the trade deadline and
Speaker 5: then things settle, I think it's about time we finally
Speaker 5: have Max on the show properly because Alana, we've been
Speaker 5: doing this for a while and Max has been on
Speaker 5: the show. Every time we go to spring training, get
Speaker 5: a chance to talk to him.
Speaker 6: Love Max.
Speaker 5: I always feel bad about potentially bugging him because he
Speaker 5: has to deal with, you know, the Foul Territory boys
Speaker 5: at least once a month. It's like, hey, leave him alone,
Speaker 5: let him do with his own thing, but let's get
Speaker 5: him on there.
Speaker 6: Yeah we could share.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Katie and I will work on that because I
Speaker 4: do feel like we go to him a lot because
Speaker 4: he is on Foul as a regularly regular guest and
Speaker 4: as a friend of the program. But yeah, I would
Speaker 4: love to. Of course I would love to have him
Speaker 4: on Dodgers Territory. Much more to come in terms of that.
Speaker 4: As far as the overreaction, and let's talk about it, right,
Speaker 4: I mean the bullpen, they were not great. And you
Speaker 4: know what, Katie, and you noticed it too, and you
Speaker 4: and Clint were talking about it earlier. It's not just
Speaker 4: the bullpen on Sunday that had the meltdown with Jack,
Speaker 4: you know, Jack Dryer, Evan Phillips and then we'll climb
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness. And to Jack Dryer's credit, he's been
Speaker 4: very very good over the course of the last month.
Speaker 4: This was just a bad outing for him. Will Klein
Speaker 4: hasn't been that great and July was horrible for the
Speaker 4: relieving core and Clint, you can throw up the graphic
Speaker 4: that you made. I mean, ninth worst in all of
Speaker 4: baseball guys, I mean, that's not going to get it done.
Speaker 4: And they again, they have time to fix it, and
Speaker 4: Edwin Diaz isn't back yet. Those types of things. However,
Speaker 4: I would like to know if this is is this
Speaker 4: your biggest concern as we sit here, Katie on July
Speaker 4: twenty seventh, or is this just a you know, flash
Speaker 4: in the pan type of situation.
Speaker 2: I think it's probably a really good time for M
Speaker 2: and DS to be coming back, so that will help.
Speaker 2: He'll be back Wednesday, made his final rehab start with
Speaker 2: Oka see on Sunday, and that's going to allow everyone
Speaker 2: to shift down a little bit right because Edwin Dz
Speaker 2: is going to go right back into that ninth Innian
Speaker 2: Tanner Scott.
Speaker 1: He's been really really good this year as well.
Speaker 2: So you have the lefty righty combo, and that allows
Speaker 2: the leverage roles to everyone trickles down. This is especially
Speaker 2: important for someone like Evan Phillips, who is still coming
Speaker 2: back from you know, and adjusting to the major leagues
Speaker 2: after missing significant time coming back from Tommy John.
Speaker 1: I think Evan's been candid about.
Speaker 2: How difficult it can be to adjust to the major
Speaker 2: league atmosphere. The pitch selection in terms of what he's
Speaker 2: been throwing hasn't always been great. We've seen a high
Speaker 2: homer rate so far in the small sample size. But
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said yesterday, you know, I still trust Evan
Speaker 2: a lot. He's still up there in terms of a
Speaker 2: big weapon for us and high leverage in means, but
Speaker 2: right now, for him to get his feelback and his
Speaker 2: confidence back, we're gonna slot him down to lower leverage.
Speaker 2: And that's smart because when you have someone like Evan
Speaker 2: Phillips coming up and returning to the team, he's earned
Speaker 2: that that trust, that high leverage, But with him still
Speaker 2: adjusting to major leagues, still finding the fuel for his
Speaker 2: pitching again, it makes sense to slot him down. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers can do that now with Diaz coming back. Jack Dryer,
Speaker 2: bad day, he's been really good from the left side,
Speaker 2: will climb a bad month, So this can allow kind
Speaker 2: of as a reset, and the Dodgers have so much
Speaker 2: pitching depth for relief wise that I don't think this
Speaker 2: is that big of a deal. If we were still
Speaker 2: a month away from Edwind Diaz returning, I'd be panicking
Speaker 2: a little bit more. But Wednesday we'll have a much
Speaker 2: different bullpen. It'll look much more lined with the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Believed it would have, you know, in April, and we'll
Speaker 1: go from there.
Speaker 2: But the two guys I'm really I'm really looking at
Speaker 2: are just Diaz and Evan Phillips, because if they can
Speaker 2: get back to their form, we're not talking about the
Speaker 2: bull time come September.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I want to focus a little bit on on Will
Speaker 5: Klein because this is a guy who had kind of
Speaker 5: moved up the trust tree confidence cactus, if you will,
Speaker 5: and and he has been quite not good over the
Speaker 5: last two months, trying to pop up a screen here.
Speaker 5: We got the last ten days with a an era
Speaker 5: pushing eight. We got seven five to nine ERA since
Speaker 5: the start of June, actually since June fourth, the second
Speaker 5: appearance of the month, we have a six sixty ERA.
Speaker 6: And this is a guy.
Speaker 5: He's struggling with the walks, he's struggling with a little
Speaker 5: bit of command. He's coming in in leverage situations with
Speaker 5: guys you know, runners on base, other guys you know,
Speaker 5: leftover ducks on the pond, and those guys are scoring,
Speaker 5: and that's somebody, you know, to piggyback on what Katie
Speaker 5: is saying there for him to move down into probably
Speaker 5: a little bit lower of a leverage situation maybe be
Speaker 5: I wouldn't want to call him a mop up guy,
Speaker 5: but just somebody to get some outs, probably start some
Speaker 5: fresh innings, but get some outs, get that confidence back
Speaker 5: because we've seen the stuff. We know it's pretty good.
Speaker 5: Over the first couple of months, he was very good,
Speaker 5: very important for this team as well. But that's one
Speaker 5: of those guys where it feels like Dave got so
Speaker 5: reliant on him to sort of be a fireman while
Speaker 5: being without Phillips for majority of the year, being it without,
Speaker 5: you know, eventually losing the trust in Kyle Hurt and
Speaker 5: all that kind of stuff. Kleina stepped up and he
Speaker 5: hasn't handled it as well, but I think it's a
Speaker 5: great opportunity. Everybody moves down, getting Edwin Diaz back, so
Speaker 5: that is huge, But that's somebody over the next month
Speaker 5: and change. Really keep your eyes on Will Klein because
Speaker 5: you're gonna start piecing together what a postseason roster, postseason
Speaker 5: bullpen looks like. And there might be just a couple
Speaker 5: better guys than Will Klein who can take the you know,
Speaker 5: take down those innings.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what I was gonna say.
Speaker 4: They are getting to the point now, you guys, where
Speaker 4: they're really going to start thinking about what their postseason
Speaker 4: bullpen looks like. When Edwin Diaz comes back and then
Speaker 4: they start moving backwards from that on ninth inning, what
Speaker 4: does that look like? So you know, again, it's only
Speaker 4: July twenty seventh, the trade deadline is a week away.
Speaker 4: There's still a lot of baseball to be played. But
Speaker 4: the Dodgers know that they're in right. I mean, they
Speaker 4: have a fifty billion game lead in the division, that
Speaker 4: type of situation. So this is where they start really
Speaker 4: thinking about what makes the most sense, who makes the
Speaker 4: most sense. When they start looking at who they potentially
Speaker 4: will face in the first round, which for us we
Speaker 4: would believe would be the National League Division Series, let's
Speaker 4: shift the conversation here on Dodgers' territory, and again we
Speaker 4: want your comments, guys to get in the chat, see
Speaker 4: what we think. Thanks, see what you're thinking as I
Speaker 4: spit all over myself, which is nice. Showay o taani.
Speaker 4: He has not been the same guys since the All
Speaker 4: Star break and you can take a look at and
Speaker 4: Katie's talked about this too.
Speaker 3: But in MLB dot com.
Speaker 4: On MLB dot com rather there's an article. It wasn't
Speaker 4: from Sonia She's I believe out. But they talked to
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts about if he felt that Sho Hay's situation
Speaker 4: has to do with anything.
Speaker 3: Is the knee affecting the swing?
Speaker 4: And Dave said the quality of contact has gone down
Speaker 4: considerably since the break.
Speaker 3: I just think he is missing the ball.
Speaker 4: He did hit the ball hard a number of times,
Speaker 4: but since the All Star break, seven for thirty eight,
Speaker 4: that's a one to eighty four average, no home runs,
Speaker 4: just two walks in ten k's. Dave is not blaming
Speaker 4: it on the physical situation rather, and he's not chasing Katie,
Speaker 4: but he is saying he's mishitting the ball.
Speaker 3: What do you what do you make of those comments?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's difficult for us because we despite multiple
Speaker 2: requests throughout the road trip, we haven't gotten a chance
Speaker 2: to talk to a Tani since.
Speaker 1: Before the All Star break. So Dave Robertson is in a.
Speaker 2: Tough situation because he essentially has to answer for Atani's
Speaker 2: health every day because we obviously want to know, and
Speaker 2: the only person that really knows how Atani is feeling
Speaker 2: is Otani.
Speaker 1: Now, when you look at the numbers, I agree he's had.
Speaker 2: Some more heart hit contact than the numbers would suggest,
Speaker 2: but there's been some questionable decisions on the bass paths,
Speaker 2: especially for a player who should be resting that knee right.
Speaker 1: We saw it in Philly.
Speaker 2: He goes from first to second and then Elijah Alfonso
Speaker 2: wipes out at home plate. That run doesn't count. We
Speaker 2: saw him trying to stretch a double into a triple.
Speaker 2: These are things that are going to be reflected in
Speaker 2: the average and make it look a little worse. But overall,
Speaker 2: I don't think we've seen nearly the same type of
Speaker 2: Otani the hitter as we saw for most of the
Speaker 2: first half. And you do have to wonder at this
Speaker 2: point how much is that knee affecting it.
Speaker 1: And you know, he said I feel the need more when.
Speaker 2: I'm putching because he believes it's more of a planting
Speaker 2: thing mechanic wise, but there is a mental thing. Possibly
Speaker 2: you could be overcompensating for not wanting to damage that
Speaker 2: knee and throwing off your mechanics. And I think overall,
Speaker 2: it's it's worth questioning if the Dodger should just sit
Speaker 2: Otani for a couple of days and rest that one
Speaker 2: hundred percent. And again, it's hard for me to sit
Speaker 2: here and say that's what they should or shouldn't do,
Speaker 2: because we haven't talked to him and we don't know
Speaker 2: how he's feeling.
Speaker 1: We go off what Dave is saying, and Davis obviously
Speaker 1: hearing that from show.
Speaker 2: Hey, but if the numbers keep progressing this way, it's
Speaker 2: warranted to continue asking should they shut him down for
Speaker 2: just a week and just make sure that knee is
Speaker 2: all a one hundred percent. I'd be under the impression
Speaker 2: of that is something that they should do, especially with
Speaker 2: this comfortable twelve game lead in the division. They're not
Speaker 2: exactly in a spot where they need to keep stacking
Speaker 2: up the wins. And I say that with respect. I'm
Speaker 2: not suggesting that they're gonna, you know, just all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, throwing the towel and not care. But they've
Speaker 2: earned this lead, and they have the luxury to be
Speaker 2: able to do things like take a couple of games
Speaker 2: off for their star players. Maybe this helps Otani's knee overall,
Speaker 2: we'll see.
Speaker 4: I have a question for you in terms of access, Katie,
Speaker 4: because when I was there with the Dodgers for seven seasons,
Speaker 4: Show Hay was not a Dodger yet, so I don't
Speaker 4: I didn't have the same types of experiences that you
Speaker 4: guys are having now in terms of the amount of
Speaker 4: Japanese media that are there for not only Show Hey,
Speaker 4: but for obviously for Yamamoto and for Rokisis, but certainly
Speaker 4: more because of Show Hey. Now, the fact that he
Speaker 4: hasn't talked to you guys since before the All Star
Speaker 4: break that thrives me bananas.
Speaker 3: Now, I was a team employee.
Speaker 4: So I really couldn't say much because I was a
Speaker 4: Dodger employee. I was part of the Dodger family. But
Speaker 4: as a beat writer for a non Dodger organization that
Speaker 4: must drive you guys insane. I mean, does it get
Speaker 4: to the point where you have to go to the
Speaker 4: league about it?
Speaker 3: Do you go to I mean.
Speaker 4: Why is it allowed for Show hay not to speak.
Speaker 2: It's a It's a really good question, and I think
Speaker 2: it puts like from my perspective, I don't want to
Speaker 2: be speaking for show Hey Otani because that's a responsibility
Speaker 2: that that's it's not mine to wear that. I don't
Speaker 2: want to put the words in the mouth of a
Speaker 2: global superstar, which is why I think there's there's a
Speaker 2: desire for us to want to talk to him right
Speaker 2: now because he's the only one that can really convey
Speaker 2: how he's feeling.
Speaker 1: And I can.
Speaker 2: Completely understand and respect the amount of insane demands show
Speaker 2: Hey has every single day been related to media and
Speaker 2: when he's pitching, and most starting pitchers are required to
Speaker 2: speak after every start my recent memory over the last
Speaker 2: six months i've been here, He's always done that and
Speaker 2: that's appreciated. But right now, you know, we've seen players
Speaker 2: duck out when injuries before, especially when they really don't
Speaker 2: want to talk about it. It's why we appreciate you
Speaker 2: guys like Fernandez, who as soon as he suffered that
Speaker 2: that oblique strain, was at his locker ready to talk.
Speaker 2: They're not required by any means. All we can do
Speaker 2: is keep asking and then if we don't get the
Speaker 2: player access. It's our job to go find people who
Speaker 2: will tell us.
Speaker 1: What they think are what they're hearing.
Speaker 2: That just adds another level of complication, though, And the
Speaker 2: last thing that I want to do as a beat
Speaker 2: reporter is misconstrue information or say, oh, I heard this
Speaker 2: from this person who said show he is feeling this,
Speaker 2: but Show he is actually not. The Only way for
Speaker 2: us to know that is to be able to talk
Speaker 2: to him. So we're going to continue requesting and hopefully
Speaker 2: he'll talk to us back at out your stadium.
Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 5: And what makes it tough, though, is you know, it
Speaker 5: does make Dave the unwanted Show Hey spokesperson, and you
Speaker 5: know you talked about it in your column, Like He's like,
Speaker 5: I'm going off what I'm hearing from Show Hey, what
Speaker 5: I'm hearing from the training staff.
Speaker 6: This is your quote here or Dave's quote.
Speaker 5: In from his words of hitting the running not affected
Speaker 5: by the knee. I can only go by what he
Speaker 5: and the training staff are telling me, so unless I
Speaker 5: hear otherwise, you know, if something is if the hitting
Speaker 5: is compromising his health, I'm gonna keep putting him in
Speaker 5: the lineup.
Speaker 6: It's Putt Dave in a tough position.
Speaker 5: To have to be that spokesperson and really on the
Speaker 5: swing part at whatever the show, Hey thing, it's he's
Speaker 5: a unicorn. I guess he gets to do whatever he wants.
Speaker 5: Probably should be a little more available, but the swing
Speaker 5: the knee more so might not affect the actual swing
Speaker 5: and the mechanics and and and hurt the knee.
Speaker 6: More by him doing it.
Speaker 5: But you could tell it's affecting the swing and the
Speaker 5: fact that the body probably can't get into certain positions,
Speaker 5: and you're seeing he's hitting the ball hard. But it's
Speaker 5: right at dudes, he's a guy who maybe you know,
Speaker 5: you get the launch angle going because you're able to
Speaker 5: get down into that back knee at back leg a
Speaker 5: little bit more. I think that's what's missing. And I
Speaker 5: do believe the knee is affecting the swing, and I
Speaker 5: believe it's probably not gonna hurt him to take a
Speaker 5: week off. It's okay, you're probably still gonna win the MVP.
Speaker 5: But the World Series needs to be the most important thing.
Speaker 1: Preach.
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Speaker 4: All right, guys, I feel like we've been talking about
Speaker 4: the trade deadline since spring training kicked off. It seems
Speaker 4: like such a huge topic of conversation. Everybody wants to
Speaker 4: know who we're going to be additions, who were going
Speaker 4: to be the subtractions. It is about a week away
Speaker 4: August third, a little lateater this year. The Dodgers are
Speaker 4: in an interesting position when it comes to the roster, Katie,
Speaker 4: because guys are coming back from injury that could make
Speaker 4: other positions and other guys a little bit redundant. Take
Speaker 4: us deeper into your recent article with The Athletic.
Speaker 1: Yes, my time to shine.
Speaker 2: I love the gossip portion of this job, but we're
Speaker 2: talking as we are a week away from this August
Speaker 2: third deadline. Freddie Freeman said a best post game yesterday
Speaker 2: at is Locker. Dylan Hernandez asked, you know, Freddy, what's
Speaker 2: the feeling getting He gave Hernandez back Edwin Diaz, Blake Snell,
Speaker 2: and Freddy did my favorite thing.
Speaker 1: He smiled, and he said nice trade deadline. Huh. So essentially, yes, these.
Speaker 2: Guys coming back are going to make this club much
Speaker 2: better than almost any available deadline situation could possibly do.
Speaker 2: We've talked about this for the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: but what the Dodgers are looking to do is capitalize
Speaker 2: on the margins and capitalize on the market, which makes
Speaker 2: guys like Eric Lauer and Alex Call expendable. Two reasons
Speaker 2: why the names of the guys that we just listened
Speaker 2: to coming back makes these positions redundant. And also, when
Speaker 2: you look at how the trade market is shaping up,
Speaker 2: starting pitching is always at a premium and there is
Speaker 2: a real, real limited availability of.
Speaker 1: Right handed bats.
Speaker 2: And the Dodgers, with Kik coming back tomorrow that is
Speaker 2: the plan, are suddenly going to have a lot of
Speaker 2: right handed bats on their roster, So why not alleviate
Speaker 2: will start with Alex Call first some of that roster
Speaker 2: congestion and try to capitalize on the market.
Speaker 1: Where there is a significant demand for it.
Speaker 2: Alex Call is not this power bat right and that's
Speaker 2: not what I'm implying here when I say right handed bat,
Speaker 2: I'm saying Alex Call has the skill set of the speed,
Speaker 2: the ability to come in late in the game, platoon
Speaker 2: in the outfield that contending teams want because they make.
Speaker 1: Their postseason roster better.
Speaker 2: It is exactly why the Dodgers traded for him at
Speaker 2: this time last year because of that skill set. And
Speaker 2: with so many teams on the bubble right around are
Speaker 2: above five hundred, right outside the wildcar picture in both leagues,
Speaker 2: a player like Alex Call will make your post season
Speaker 2: better because of that skill set. We know the Dodgers
Speaker 2: want to reallocate or rebalance their farm system. They got
Speaker 2: a lot of outfielders, not a lot of middle infield
Speaker 2: catching depth.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that course. Pitching in the upper tier.
Speaker 2: Moving Alex Call to maybe bulk up some some of
Speaker 2: that minor league options is a win win for both sides.
Speaker 2: They get to capitalize on a need in the market
Speaker 2: and addressing need in their minor league system without deviating
Speaker 2: from their major league squad. Same with Eric Lawer, and
Speaker 2: this one's a little more I can go both sides
Speaker 2: on this one, so I'm interested to hear what you
Speaker 2: guys think. The Dodgers believe that they're starting pitching depth
Speaker 2: come October is the deepest that it's going to be,
Speaker 2: assuming Blake Snell, Tyler glassnow edwind Diaz all come back healthy.
Speaker 2: The reason we already know you only need four starters
Speaker 2: tops in your playoff rotation. You can slide a Rokie
Speaker 2: Sasaki and his big glove. You can slide justin Rabluski bullpen.
Speaker 2: You have DIA's back. Everything is kind of reallocated where
Speaker 2: you have all of your best arms on the roster,
Speaker 2: regardless of role. Eric Lawer for as valuable and as
Speaker 2: serviceable as he's been in that first time, I mean
Speaker 2: you could argue he's been one of the Dodgers' most
Speaker 2: important players in the first half because his ability to
Speaker 2: go out there every sixth day allowed them to keep.
Speaker 1: That six man rotation.
Speaker 2: That service will no longer be needed when Snell comes
Speaker 2: back and Eric Lower has two months remaining of control,
Speaker 2: so easy for the Dodgers to take or for an
Speaker 2: opposing team to take a flyer on. Dodgers can capitalize
Speaker 2: on on starting pitching because every team will overpay at
Speaker 2: the deadline for starting pitching. Lower is not going to
Speaker 2: make that playoff rotation, all respect to him, probably not
Speaker 2: going to make it at all in the bullpen, So
Speaker 2: why not move.
Speaker 1: This is how the Dodgers are thinking.
Speaker 2: We have two areas of need, or we have two
Speaker 2: areas of depth that other areas need. There are not
Speaker 2: a lot of places on the market for starting pitching
Speaker 2: and right handed hitters. Can we move them and then
Speaker 2: address some of our minor league need because the guys
Speaker 2: coming back from the al are already going to make
Speaker 2: our major league team stronger.
Speaker 5: Listen, I feel like it makes a lot of sense
Speaker 5: obviously to trade lawer, try to get the recoup the
Speaker 5: most amount of talent back that you can out of
Speaker 5: what was just a throwaway flyer sort of acquisition. But
Speaker 5: now I want to be greedy here. I want to
Speaker 5: be glutton this. I want to also protect the starting rotation.
Speaker 5: When I look at Eric Lower, and We've talked about
Speaker 5: this a lot, this is a guy who he wins
Speaker 5: the dodge, the team wins every single time he goes
Speaker 5: out there and starts.
Speaker 6: And now that I've said that, it's going to change.
Speaker 5: But I have talked ad nauseum about Justin Robleski coming
Speaker 5: up against an innings not a limit, but he is
Speaker 5: about to surpass a career high in innings and there's
Speaker 5: still two months of baseball to be played. You don't
Speaker 5: know about the state of Shoheo Tani. You don't know
Speaker 5: how far Tyler glassnow is from actually rejoining the team,
Speaker 5: if he ever does. I feel strong about Blake Snell,
Speaker 5: but Glass now, even with him throwing the guys, things
Speaker 5: can change. What he threw the bullpen on Friday. I
Speaker 5: think having Lauer around.
Speaker 6: Is just a good safety blanket.
Speaker 5: That's what more so it is, it's you're glutting us
Speaker 5: with the safety blanket there. And for a team that
Speaker 5: cares more about October, given the giving the rest of
Speaker 5: the starting rotation an opportunity to kind of like, hey,
Speaker 5: you know what.
Speaker 6: Let's give this dude a blow. Will throw in laur here.
Speaker 6: That's what I really like.
Speaker 5: That said, if they can go out and find a
Speaker 5: way to get another probably not a TIBs or something
Speaker 5: like that, but I trust Brandon Gomes and Andrew Friedman
Speaker 5: to get value back for somebody like Eric Lauer, especially
Speaker 5: in a market like this, it's just river Ryan is
Speaker 5: still not healthy. You don't have depth. You need somebody
Speaker 5: to be able to eat some meetings in the rotation.
Speaker 5: That's kind of where I'm at, Riz. I'm interested in
Speaker 5: your thoughts.
Speaker 4: I'm looking more, I guess towards the postseason. I think, yes,
Speaker 4: right now in the immediacy, I can see what you're
Speaker 4: talking about in terms of Eric Lawer eating up innings.
Speaker 4: But the thought of Eric Lawer not being on a
Speaker 4: postseason roster, at least not for us, is crazy to
Speaker 4: think that our depth is that good. And as you
Speaker 4: guys were just talking about, as Katie was shocking about,
Speaker 4: this is, you know, the most depth that they feel
Speaker 4: they've had in their pitching staff in a very long time.
Speaker 3: But again, like what would you do with him?
Speaker 4: And I think about that too when you're looking further
Speaker 4: into the postseason. Eric Lawer is not going to likely
Speaker 4: be on the postseason roster, right, So it's like, okay,
Speaker 4: so me and you for the first round, you only
Speaker 4: really technically need three, right, So that means Justin Robleski,
Speaker 4: who's been unbelievable it could be an ace on other
Speaker 4: teams obviously, is going to be in the Dodgers' bullpen,
Speaker 4: whether that's like as a long man or however they
Speaker 4: decide to make to change the work load for him.
Speaker 3: But I wish we could have.
Speaker 4: A trade deadline right before the postseason started, right so
Speaker 4: I wish you could have like Eric Lawer here until
Speaker 4: eating up some innings and letting our other guys get
Speaker 4: totally healthy. Whatever happens with Tyler glasnow and those types
Speaker 4: of things, and then if he's not going to make
Speaker 4: our postseason roster, then allow him to be on a
Speaker 4: postseason roster, just not for us. Can we make those
Speaker 4: new rules? Like if I was commissioner for the day,
Speaker 4: I would do that.
Speaker 2: Well with you guys, because I think this is exactly
Speaker 2: what the Dodgers from office is debating.
Speaker 1: You know, do you take a risk?
Speaker 2: And if River Ryan was healthy, I don't have any
Speaker 2: issue with dealing Eric Blower. And it's been kind of
Speaker 2: a fumble of the bag by River Ryan the season.
Speaker 2: There have been many opportunities for him to come up
Speaker 2: and that stuff is just so good. I still think
Speaker 2: there's a chance we see him late in September. But
Speaker 2: if you had a healthy River Ryan all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any debate of keeping Eric Lawer
Speaker 2: or not. But because there's going to be a gap
Speaker 2: coming up really in the next two weeks, we're not
Speaker 2: going to have six starters even with Lower here, I
Speaker 2: can understand the hesitation because you want to protect your
Speaker 2: starting pitching depth.
Speaker 1: However, when you look at what Andrew Freeman.
Speaker 2: Does best, it is again capitalizing on the market, and
Speaker 2: this Lower trade is very similar to what the Dodgers
Speaker 2: did last year, this time with Dustin May, now a
Speaker 2: little different. Lower is thirty one, and May I think
Speaker 2: was twenty seven when he was traded, but again was
Speaker 2: going to be a free agent, just two months remaining
Speaker 2: of control, and when the Dodgers swapped him in that deal,
Speaker 2: it was for two output the prospects James Tais the
Speaker 2: third and Zach Erhard, which who ironically are in consideration
Speaker 2: if the Dodgers go there the prospect for prospect trade
Speaker 2: route to be dealt for a different kind of prospect depth.
Speaker 1: So you are looking, if you're Andrew Friedman.
Speaker 2: At a unique opportunity to go shop a starter and
Speaker 2: net a return that's gonna help you in the future
Speaker 2: for someone that you're not gonna miss in your postseason roster.
Speaker 2: And again I don't want to diminish what Eric Lawer
Speaker 2: did in the first half.
Speaker 1: He saved that rotation. They're eight tozer with him. He's
Speaker 1: gone out and done his job.
Speaker 2: He's a veteran guy that's gonna give him even more
Speaker 2: value because teams are gonna look at his track record
Speaker 2: and say, this is someone that we know exactly what
Speaker 2: we're gonna get with. He has postseason experience, He's not
Speaker 2: gonna cost a lot because they'll be a free agent
Speaker 2: come October. These are all things that teams way that
Speaker 2: give lower value, and Lower's best value in the second
Speaker 2: half of the Dodgers might be trading him to see
Speaker 2: what he can bring this organization because he's simply not
Speaker 2: going to make that playoff rotation and probably not going
Speaker 2: to make that playoff roster in general. So it's it's
Speaker 2: an interesting gamble that the Dodgers you're gonna make. But
Speaker 2: I think Andrew Friedman doesn't need me to say this
Speaker 2: is smart enough to know when to came was on
Speaker 2: the market and when not to.
Speaker 4: It's funny that you say that, because I swear to God,
Speaker 4: I texted him yesterday about a guy that I was like, Hey,
Speaker 4: can we get this guy as a backup catcher? I
Speaker 4: realize he's not Will Smith, But Will Smith is, you know,
Speaker 4: not coming back anytime soon. By the way, Will Carroll
Speaker 4: of Injury Territory is going to come on our show
Speaker 4: on Thursday to talk more about the Will Smith situation.
Speaker 4: But what we really need that I tell you guys
Speaker 4: that so I can tell you this the definite need.
Speaker 4: We can debate, you know, the Eric Lower situation all
Speaker 4: day long. This team needs another catcher. So Katie, I
Speaker 4: just I'll ask you that who's that going to be?
Speaker 4: What does that look like to you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think the Dodgers are one very confident that Will
Speaker 2: Smith is going to come back before the postseason, and
Speaker 2: they really like what they've seen from Dalton rushing at
Speaker 2: this point. They feel like he's earned this run of
Speaker 2: everyday playing time. And I don't disagree, but I do
Speaker 2: agree that that finding a third string casher to slop
Speaker 2: behind Dalton and in front of CHUCKI Robinson and Eliza
Speaker 2: Alfonso is is probably the biggest need for this roster
Speaker 2: at the moment, just because as if something happens to
Speaker 2: Dalton all of a sudden, your catching looks crazy. So
Speaker 2: you're not looking if you're the Dodgers to go and
Speaker 2: find someone that's going to take away reps from Dal
Speaker 2: and Rushing.
Speaker 1: They don't want to do that. But when you're looking at.
Speaker 2: At available guys, they're not going to go out in
Speaker 2: trade for Bryan Jeffers. Alright, the catching pitching, or the
Speaker 2: catching market in general is pretty pretty slim. But they
Speaker 2: could go around and just find some backup depth, like
Speaker 2: exactly the kinds of trade they made last year right now,
Speaker 2: I don't really know if that kind of reunion is
Speaker 2: in the cards. But speaking of cards, this is supposed
Speaker 2: to be a much more seamless position.
Speaker 1: You're looking at tea that have.
Speaker 2: Like up and coming prospects in Triple A or a
Speaker 2: redundancy in catchers, and the Saint Louis Cardinals have some
Speaker 2: of the largest catching depth.
Speaker 1: In all of baseball.
Speaker 2: They currently have three catchers on their active roster. All
Speaker 2: three are very young with several years of remaining control.
Speaker 2: They also have a very heavy catching prospect system in
Speaker 2: their minor leagues. Now Andrew Freeman Heim Bloom, there's obvious
Speaker 2: a tie there from their days in Tampa. You're looking
Speaker 2: at you know, maybe this is just me speculating floating
Speaker 2: a name around. Someone like a Pedro Pajaz, who has
Speaker 2: been with the Cardinals for a couple of years now,
Speaker 2: was lauded by this Veterans staff for the last couple
Speaker 2: of years for his game planning and prep. He's not
Speaker 2: going to go out there and slug twenty homers, but
Speaker 2: he's going to take care of a staff and allow
Speaker 2: Dolins to give a little blow when needed and just
Speaker 2: hold down the.
Speaker 1: Fort until Will Smith comes. That's kind of the trade
Speaker 1: they're looking at potentially making. It's not going to be
Speaker 1: a big go get the best catcher on the market
Speaker 1: and just kicked Dalton out of there. They just want
Speaker 1: to bulk up their depth.
Speaker 2: So maybe it's someone like Pedro Pajas, or maybe it's
Speaker 2: an up and coming catching prospect that they can help
Speaker 2: build up their catching depth for the foreseeable future. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure we're seeing a lot of certain ties right now.
Speaker 2: So it's most likely going to be someone that we'd
Speaker 2: never heard of, that Andrew Freeman is going to be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's been there all along, or or.
Speaker 5: It's finally going to be Bennyvett coming back home. Listen,
Speaker 5: I'm always going to go back to Benny Biceps. He's
Speaker 5: actually on a heater right now at Triple A, last
Speaker 5: four games, hitting four hundred six for fifteen. He's playing
Speaker 5: part time at Triple A. Thing I like about rourt
Speaker 5: Vett is he has familiarity with this staff, with the organization.
Speaker 5: He's a fan favorite. The tattoos look good. He looks
Speaker 5: good with the shirt off. He's got the guns, all
Speaker 5: of that kind of stuff. He knows how to handle
Speaker 5: a champagne shower. And the Dodgers were also four and
Speaker 5: oh in the playoffs last year, in games in which
Speaker 5: he started, while we were waiting for Will Smith once
Speaker 5: again to return from an injury, that time the hand issue.
Speaker 5: He had the fractured hand. But Katie, you had mentioned
Speaker 5: the Dodgers are confident that Will Smith will return from
Speaker 5: the injured list of JO. They were also confident that
Speaker 5: he wasn't gonna need to go on the fucking IL
Speaker 5: back in June, and here we are. They're also confident, Oh,
Speaker 5: it's only gonna be probably, uh, you know, the short
Speaker 5: stint ten days and.
Speaker 6: He'll be back.
Speaker 5: And now we are approaching two months, and you know,
Speaker 5: I was talking to Will Carroll earlier about that you
Speaker 5: know you had we had seen last week. Maybe mid
Speaker 5: August is kind of the target. He's saying that it's
Speaker 5: an optimistic checkpoint right now rather than a return date.
Speaker 6: And I worry about Will.
Speaker 5: Coming back too late and maybe he's not locked in,
Speaker 5: or maybe something goes wrong with the neck again, and
Speaker 5: then you're caught with your pants down around your ankles.
Speaker 6: Because it's not going to be well. Dalton.
Speaker 5: Obviously he's catching the majority of your postseason innings, but
Speaker 5: at some point you're probably gonna need to see some
Speaker 5: Alfonso in there. I really hope we don't see Chucky
Speaker 5: Robinson in there. They have Griffin Lockwell Powell down at
Speaker 5: Triple A as well. I am not comfortable with the
Speaker 5: lack of a veteran presence behind Dalton or in front
Speaker 5: of Dalton for a postseason run all of the important Alana.
Speaker 5: You saw it in twenty twenty, Will had the Keys,
Speaker 5: lost the Keys, Austin Barnes took over behind Catcher and
Speaker 5: they don't win that World Series without Austin.
Speaker 4: People realize how much Austin has meant to this team.
Speaker 4: In the postseason, specifically, you can throw out Austin's regular
Speaker 4: season numbers. But remember when we had Yazmani Grandal, mister
Speaker 4: passball may Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean Austin Barnes not
Speaker 4: to not for nothing, when a j Ellis was in here,
Speaker 4: Austin Barnes was Clayton Kershaw's personal catcher. Okay, that that
Speaker 4: to me speaks volumes, and you need a veteran presence
Speaker 4: back there that, yes, to your point, has dealt with
Speaker 4: the pitching staff before, or at least has some you know,
Speaker 4: some some.
Speaker 3: Notches on the belt, if you will.
Speaker 4: That's probably not the right way to say that, but
Speaker 4: you know what I'm talking about, Like, you need something
Speaker 4: around the hell they're doing behind the plate, right and
Speaker 4: Austin Barnes is not the guy for this situation right now.
Speaker 4: Austin Barton probably hasn't picked up a baseball at a
Speaker 4: long time, and he's he's, you know whatever, he's not
Speaker 4: probably in baseball shape obviously. I kind of like your
Speaker 4: Ben hurt Fitt move. I mentioned Carlos Narvayaz of the
Speaker 4: Boston Red Sox because he's not getting any playing time
Speaker 4: in Boston right now, really, and I think he'd be
Speaker 4: a solid kind of veteran backup presence for Dalton until
Speaker 4: Will does get back. And again, when when are we
Speaker 4: certain that Will's going to come back? I mean, granted,
Speaker 4: we're not going to necessarily need him for his offense
Speaker 4: in terms of the timing getting that ready, but you
Speaker 4: just never know what you're going to get from a
Speaker 4: guy that is coming.
Speaker 3: I will flip you the burd just that I.
Speaker 4: Heard Tim Federovitch is available stop at FedEx is not
Speaker 4: available in the organization, I think as yeah, and Jonaheim
Speaker 4: is not, and the Athletics are losing guys to ruptured testicles.
Speaker 4: Shaye Beangaliers is now out with the ACL issue.
Speaker 3: I think, Jah, I'm going to literally I.
Speaker 4: Don't think Jonahman's is going to be available for any
Speaker 4: team to pick up. I don't think the Athletics are
Speaker 4: going to part with him, even though they have no
Speaker 4: reason to even play baseball anymore.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 6: I think I think we're all in agreement here. They
Speaker 6: need a catcher.
Speaker 5: I think the organization is an agreement that they would
Speaker 5: like to have just a break in case of emergency catcher.
Speaker 5: I have no problem with them carrying three catchers on
Speaker 5: the active roster because you're barely using Alex Freeland as
Speaker 5: it is Alex call is, you know, as we've identified
Speaker 5: a redundancy with Keiky Hernandez coming back and Tommy Edmund
Speaker 5: being around and Tao being healthy, so on and so forth.
Speaker 5: When Alfonso is starting, he's off getting pinch hit for,
Speaker 5: and then Dalton is losing his days off, so carrying
Speaker 5: three catchers it doesn't hurt you right now, and then
Speaker 5: hopefully knock on desk here, everything is fine and William
Speaker 5: dill Smith is back and healthy and his neck is
Speaker 5: mobile by the time we get to September and he
Speaker 5: has a month to lock in and go to be,
Speaker 5: you know, back to being the postseason hero we know
Speaker 5: and love.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm reading some of I'm reading some of our
Speaker 4: comments from the chat.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just too good.
Speaker 4: A no, it's like ruptured Testicles is kind of a
Speaker 4: banger of a name.
Speaker 3: Not gonna lie Peanuts.
Speaker 6: That's a it's a good band name right there.
Speaker 2: I was just about to say it sounded like a
Speaker 2: band name that like little grunge underground situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Seattle is coming to town, so maybe we will.
Speaker 4: We will get that, all right, guys, So we definitely
Speaker 4: need a catcher. That's the whole point of that whole
Speaker 4: conversation is we need a catcher. All right, Let's get
Speaker 4: to last lectur really quick.
Speaker 6: Do that, all right?
Speaker 4: So some good news. Corer is officially being adopted. This
Speaker 4: is Core's mom, Caroline. She is going to be on
Speaker 4: a transport from a very rural town in Texas to
Speaker 4: southern California, where she's going to be getting a lot
Speaker 4: more exposure. But we need she needs an adopter, and
Speaker 4: we need donations for the transport because it is not
Speaker 4: inexpensive to get dogs safely and legally to their new location.
Speaker 4: So if you want to learn more about Caroline, please
Speaker 4: let me know. And if you could drop a dollar
Speaker 4: at gidri'sguardian dot org, that would be most helpful as well.
Speaker 4: So Core is getting a forever home. We're hopeful that
Speaker 4: Scotti gets a forever home coming up. He's in a
Speaker 4: foster trial right now. Millie just got adopted. So we're
Speaker 4: getting there. We're getting there, We're getting there, we're getting there.
Speaker 5: Can't help myself, I can't help myself, Caroline.
Speaker 6: That's sorry.
Speaker 3: He see I think I think of sweet Caroline.
Speaker 6: Well, you would get out of your masshole.
Speaker 3: Listen. I don't like this song. I'm just telling you,
Speaker 3: that's what comes to mind.
Speaker 5: We've got twenty bucks right now from Nancy saying for
Speaker 5: the dog. We got another twenty earlier actually from Nancy
Speaker 5: giving some love to Alana, saying love Alana, She's living
Speaker 5: my best life.
Speaker 4: Oh, I love you, Nancy. Thank you, sweethearts. Yeah, thank you,
Speaker 4: appreciate that very much. All right, guys, good show. Appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Clint and I will be back together on Wednesday for
Speaker 4: postgame first game of the Seattle series, No Second of
Speaker 4: the Seattle series. Katie obviously will be in the clubhouse,
Speaker 4: and then the three of us, I think, are back
Speaker 4: on Thursday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll talk about all the entries.
Speaker 4: Will we'll talk about Thursday, guys.
Speaker 2: You know what else is Thursday? Rokie and his regular
Speaker 2: size glove Day. So this is my favorite bits. It's
Speaker 2: my favorite bit. It's gonna get bigger every time it's
Speaker 2: but don't worry, it's the same glove.
Speaker 5: It's like that hat and super Troopers. It just keeps
Speaker 5: getting bigger.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I sent I sent Oral and Joe a
Speaker 4: text about this when he pitched a few outings Ago,
Speaker 4: I'm like.
Speaker 3: Why is his glove gigantic?
Speaker 2: Anyway, he said, A space is getting smaller.
Speaker 1: Rookie has jokes. He's growing up.
Speaker 6: Rookie has jokies.
Speaker 5: All right, guys, we'll see you on Wednesday.
Speaker 6: Bye,