Speaker 1: You know, I was going to find a way to succeed,
Speaker 1: and I think that was regardless of role. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I've had that confidence in myself to be
Speaker 1: able to go out there and get out whenever I
Speaker 1: need to.
Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome to a live episode of Dodgers
Speaker 2: Territory on this Monday, June twenty ninth.
Speaker 3: We appreciate the fact that you guys are here.
Speaker 2: Don't forget to subscribe to us on YouTube, wherever you
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Speaker 2: of those places. We have a lot to get to,
Speaker 2: but we're going to skip all of the pleasantries because
Speaker 2: it is always an honor and a privilege when we
Speaker 2: have a current Los Angeles Dodger able to join us today,
Speaker 2: and that is the case third year Dodger, two time
Speaker 2: World Series Champion Justin Rableski joining Dodger's Territory.
Speaker 3: Justin, Thanks so much, man. We appreciate you being here.
Speaker 2: I know you guys are you know, pulled in so
Speaker 2: many different directions, but to have you on here is
Speaker 2: a privilege. Appreciate you first and foremost. This has been
Speaker 2: a pleasure to watch you pitch this season. How would
Speaker 2: you assess your first big league season as a starter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's you know, it's it's going. Uh,
Speaker 4: it's going well.
Speaker 1: I'm learning on the fly, you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: as I've been doing the past couple of years. Is
Speaker 1: just trying to trying to learn and trying to you know,
Speaker 1: improve as I can. And uh, yeah, it's it's been
Speaker 1: a lot of fun and I'm having a good time.
Speaker 4: So I guess that that checks that box too.
Speaker 5: So, uh, I'm not gonna say hater. They're they're entering
Speaker 5: the season you get in that starting irritation. There are
Speaker 5: some haters, there are some doubters about Justin Rableski's ability
Speaker 5: as a starter.
Speaker 6: For me, I'm not saying I was a hater or
Speaker 6: a doubter.
Speaker 5: I just saw you dominate dudes out of the bullpen,
Speaker 5: and I was like, I want that guy there.
Speaker 6: He's so damn good at this.
Speaker 5: Like, how how good does it feel to to know,
Speaker 5: like you you are succeeding in this.
Speaker 6: Role you always hope you can do.
Speaker 5: Uh, that was always the goal for you, to be
Speaker 5: a starter. I don't know how much you know you
Speaker 5: tune out the outside noise. I'm certain that's the only
Speaker 5: way to do this job well. But at some point too,
Speaker 5: you also need to be like given one of these
Speaker 5: the people who said, no, this guy needs to be
Speaker 5: in the bullpen. How does it feel just to you know,
Speaker 5: know that you can do this job so well.
Speaker 4: No, it feels good.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you know, I never you know,
Speaker 1: I never doubted kind of my ability to succeed in
Speaker 1: this role. I always felt like, you know, I have
Speaker 1: I have the ability to have the I don't know,
Speaker 1: like the work effort, like the workout, think and everything else.
Speaker 1: Like I know that, you know, I was going to
Speaker 1: find a way to succeed. And I think that was
Speaker 1: regardless of role. I think, you know, I've had that
Speaker 1: confidence in myself to be able to go out there
Speaker 1: and get out whenever I need to, whether that's in
Speaker 1: a bullpen capacity, whether it's as a starter and as
Speaker 1: you guys know that's on this team. It's it's not always,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not easy to find your spot, especially
Speaker 1: as a young guys. It's tough to kind of figure
Speaker 1: out where you fit in. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you know, I felt like, you know, if
Speaker 1: I was given the opportunity, if I was finally given
Speaker 1: you know, a run of more than you know, two
Speaker 1: or three starts in a row that I could I
Speaker 1: could figure this thing out and be a starter, and
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, it feels good to kind of be
Speaker 1: able to prove that, you know, when everyone's telling you
Speaker 1: you can't do that, and oh you don't have the stuff,
Speaker 1: Oh you don't have this, you know, have that, and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it's it's it's kind of nice to to
Speaker 1: to kind of show people like, hey, I can do
Speaker 1: this and I am capable of it. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, you know, it's always people are gonna people
Speaker 1: are gonna say what they want regardless, and you kind
Speaker 1: of got to tune it out and just kind of
Speaker 1: stay in your own world and stay locked into to
Speaker 1: what you know, you know gets gets you the results
Speaker 1: that you want, whether that those results are coming right
Speaker 1: away or whether you know they're going to come in
Speaker 1: the future.
Speaker 4: I think that's kind of the big thing.
Speaker 7: Rub Well, you talked about it a little bit, but
Speaker 7: coming into spring, we were kind of looking at the
Speaker 7: starting rotation and thought, you know, maybe the Dodgers would
Speaker 7: use a sixth starter kind of a piggyback role. And
Speaker 7: you seem to be the logical fit and then you
Speaker 7: said I'm gonna take that opportunity and run with it.
Speaker 7: And now we can't picture that res ortation without you
Speaker 7: as you're making that adjustment. Obviously you've had this stuff,
Speaker 7: You've had the experience, But what's different about pitching out
Speaker 7: a relief and then pitching in rotation and how do
Speaker 7: you use those skills that ultimately helped to become this
Speaker 7: effective of a starter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think a lot of it has
Speaker 1: to do with the way you manage the game. You know,
Speaker 1: last year you'd see me go into my card a
Speaker 1: lot more, especially back half and in the playoffs, because
Speaker 1: just the way you game plans a little different. Obviously
Speaker 1: as a as a bullpen guy, you're kind of going
Speaker 1: out there and you know, you're just you're trying to
Speaker 1: create as much miss as you can. You're you're not
Speaker 1: worried about, you know, how long can I go or
Speaker 1: how long can I last in this game to save
Speaker 1: the guys behind me.
Speaker 4: It's just like I need to you know I'm coming.
Speaker 1: And that was something I had to learn, is like
Speaker 1: I'm coming in this game because I fit this lane
Speaker 1: that is coming up in in the order and I
Speaker 1: need to throw my best stuff and I need to,
Speaker 1: you know, make these guys swing a miss.
Speaker 4: I needed to get out of this inning. You know.
Speaker 1: However, whatever it takes, And as a starter, it's definitely
Speaker 1: more of a there's more of a chess match.
Speaker 4: You can tell, there's.
Speaker 1: More of a plan versus you, just because obviously, like
Speaker 1: you know, I've I've been on enough teams in Propol
Speaker 1: now and being on our team and just kind of
Speaker 1: watching how guys prepare, there's a lot more preparation for
Speaker 1: a starter than there's for a reliever, just because obviously
Speaker 1: you're going to have more at bats off the starter,
Speaker 1: and I think that's something you got to adjust to
Speaker 1: and realize as being a starter is the game plans
Speaker 1: a little different, and also the game plan is going
Speaker 1: to change sometimes, Like certain guys are gonna hunt you
Speaker 1: in certain spots and certain teams are going to look
Speaker 1: for certain things, and that's just kind of the fun
Speaker 1: of being a starter is trying to figure that out
Speaker 1: as fast as you can and then exploit those those
Speaker 1: game plans that they have against you. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of different things, you know, being a starter and
Speaker 1: a reliever.
Speaker 4: But I think the most.
Speaker 1: The biggest difference is the game planning and just kind
Speaker 1: of that chess match is being played, whereas as a reliever,
Speaker 1: you're not playing that chess match as much. You still are,
Speaker 1: but it's you know, you're not facing the guy multiple
Speaker 1: times for the most part.
Speaker 2: Justin when you talk about the game plan, I wonder
Speaker 2: what your game plan is going to what is expected
Speaker 2: to be a start for you tomorrow in Sacramento. I mean,
Speaker 2: it is a bandbox, right of course, It's a very
Speaker 2: unique park. This is a weird situation for the athletics.
Speaker 2: Do you play the park, do you go with your strengths?
Speaker 2: How will you approach that to keep the ball in
Speaker 2: the yard because that is very difficult to do in Sacktown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know what, It's funny because in
Speaker 1: the Major league is like, yeah, this is you know,
Speaker 1: this is a park that you're that is more hit
Speaker 1: or friendly, right, But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: when I played here in the PCL, I was like,
Speaker 1: thank god, we're going to sack Like this is one
Speaker 1: of the best places of pitched in the league. So
Speaker 1: it's funny that kind of you know, the just the
Speaker 1: way it's different. But yeah, I'm not you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to try to change based on what the
Speaker 1: ballpark is. You know, maybe I'll give up some cheap homers,
Speaker 1: maybe I won't. Maybe you know, I'll go seven scoreless,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll go seven two runs, whatever, whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1: At the same time, I think it's just again worrying
Speaker 1: about what I can control them, the things that you know,
Speaker 1: matter within my process, and making sure, you know, I
Speaker 1: understand the hitters and kind of how they are reacting.
Speaker 1: And yeah, just kind of going going satis quo for me,
Speaker 1: just trying to go out there and get as deep
Speaker 1: in the game as I can, and yeah, wherever that
Speaker 1: may take may take me, it'll take me.
Speaker 5: And you know you mentioned pitching deep in the game
Speaker 5: seven innings, eight innings. Some people would call you old
Speaker 5: school throwback. I don't know if you saw this. It's
Speaker 5: the Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez had some high praise
Speaker 5: for the kid there. It's a kid that's very unusual,
Speaker 5: good character on the mound. It hits location like an
Speaker 5: old timer, changes speed with each pitch. See the smile
Speaker 5: on your face a little bit there, you know, like
Speaker 5: what does it mean to hear from Pedro Martinez, like
Speaker 5: the fact that he's watching you, he's impressed with what
Speaker 5: you're doing.
Speaker 6: The same with other guys in the rotation.
Speaker 5: I mean last year pitching with Clayton Kershaw, future Hall
Speaker 5: of Famer, learning from him, getting in this day and
Speaker 5: age of you know, obviously we'll probably talk about it
Speaker 5: in a little bit. You know, the strikeout numbers for
Speaker 5: you probably aren't where you want to be, but it
Speaker 5: doesn't matter what you're doing, what you need to do
Speaker 5: for the team, getting deep into games, pitching every six days,
Speaker 5: getting out So that's that's your fucking job, you know,
Speaker 5: and you're killing it. What does it mean to see,
Speaker 5: you know, what what Pedro had to say for you
Speaker 5: or about you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's super cool.
Speaker 1: You know, it's super cool to see, you know, anyone
Speaker 1: you know that that played at a high level saying
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Let alone, you know a guy that
Speaker 1: that's arguably one of the best pictures of all time,
Speaker 1: arguably the best pictures of all time to certain people.
Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, it's it's super cool to see that.
Speaker 1: It was it was kind of funny to see that,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he he said the whole shark thing, which
Speaker 1: is which is funny in the clubhouse right now, Meggi's
Speaker 1: Meggie's eating up on that.
Speaker 4: Which is pretty good. But yeah, it's it's pretty pretty
Speaker 4: funny stuff. But yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: It's really cool. You know Pedro's obviously what a great picture.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I've always I've always thought his his kind
Speaker 1: of you know, post pitching and his you know analysis
Speaker 1: and stuff is good. And yeah, I like watching him
Speaker 1: over there on TVs, so super cool, someone I really respect.
Speaker 1: And yeah, what a beast when he played man it
Speaker 1: was I still don't to watch on his starts whenever
Speaker 1: I get the chance, and whenever they pop up on
Speaker 1: my Instagram, I'll see like a clip of a start
Speaker 1: and I'll be like, a, let's go back and watch
Speaker 1: what he was doing.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was an absolute animal. Quick follow quick follow
Speaker 5: on this. So, I mean, we've we've grown up with
Speaker 5: you being robo? Where are you robo versus shark? You're
Speaker 5: saying this kind of taking over the clubhouse there, and
Speaker 5: then the second part, I want to know which you prefer? Uh?
Speaker 5: And then also have you seen this monstrosity that's that
Speaker 5: that is justin Rableski the shark. So shout out Nike.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Nike, deal there.
Speaker 1: So that's like the that's like the brain rot like shark. Right,
Speaker 1: that's the Trilileo Trella law. Right, that's that that one
Speaker 1: is with be on it. Which that's interesting, good stuff.
Speaker 4: Shout out shout.
Speaker 1: Out Nick Frosso and uh and okay, see he's my boy.
Speaker 1: He's he's big on he's big on that stuff. That's funny.
Speaker 1: But yeah, as far as Robo Shark whatever, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I think ROBO's probably more of the nickname
Speaker 1: that people were gonna know me by if I had
Speaker 1: to take a guess, But yeah, whatever, whatever people want
Speaker 1: to call me, I can't you know, I can't control that.
Speaker 1: So but it's it has been funny just kind of
Speaker 1: see that whole thing, and yeah, it's good stuff.
Speaker 7: You know, it's funny looking at what Pager Martinez said
Speaker 7: about you. And I think if anyone was called unusual,
Speaker 7: Like if someone called me unusual, I'd be like, well,
Speaker 7: that's not very nice.
Speaker 3: I don't love that.
Speaker 7: But for sure to be called unusual, that's pretty you know,
Speaker 7: testament to how valued you are. Then for Pager Martinez
Speaker 7: to say it that's like the highest tier of compliments.
Speaker 7: So I just love the picture language where the more uncommon,
Speaker 7: the the insult is the actual like better.
Speaker 8: It is a testament to you.
Speaker 1: But that's what we're trying to do is be unusual.
Speaker 1: That's that's the whole goal. If you're unusual, that's usually
Speaker 1: a pretty good thing as a picture, unless you're unusual
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, walking too many guys are
Speaker 1: giving up too many homers. That's roight, so you don't
Speaker 1: want to be But other than that, it's a good thing.
Speaker 7: The weirder the better, especially for lefties. But you mentioned
Speaker 7: with watching pedro is, are there any other pictures? I
Speaker 7: know you've had so many already in your early career
Speaker 7: that you could do watch in real time kershaw, you
Speaker 7: have to show hey once a week. Y'a'm a moto
Speaker 7: just a staff full of aces. But when you were
Speaker 7: growing up or even now, were there specific pictures that
Speaker 7: you were locked in and watching starts on?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I think for me, I grew up a
Speaker 1: Cubs fan, so kind of anyone that was good in
Speaker 1: that Cub's rotation, especially you know, watching the area to
Speaker 1: do what he did for that period of time, and
Speaker 1: he was a guy I like to watch, but really
Speaker 1: anyone like Hendrix Leicster, that whole rotation. Those are the
Speaker 1: guys that I watched a bunch and but I still like,
Speaker 1: wasn't like super I don't know, I wasn't like, oh
Speaker 1: I got to watch every day. That wasn't really how
Speaker 1: I consume baseball. I just like to play it more
Speaker 1: than you know. Yeah, i'd watch the Cubs, and as
Speaker 1: I got older, like into high school, end of high school,
Speaker 1: I started watching every game. And but I think, you know,
Speaker 1: once I got into college, that's kind of when I
Speaker 1: really started being like, Okay, let's watch who's great right now,
Speaker 1: Let's watch who's really good. And so I would watch
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole, I would watch, you know, I think a
Speaker 1: guy that I had circled and I would watch every
Speaker 1: start was de Grom, just like anyone during that era
Speaker 1: when he was just like, this guy's throwing one hundred
Speaker 1: every pitch, like this is crazy, How's how's this?
Speaker 4: How's he doing this?
Speaker 1: I'm sure the kids in college right now are watching
Speaker 1: Miserowski kind of the same way. I mean, like what
Speaker 1: is happening? But at the same time, yeah, that like
Speaker 1: those are my guys. Obviously i'd watch Curse when I could.
Speaker 1: It's just tough being on the East coast, you know,
Speaker 1: to stay up till ten o'clock to watch watch a
Speaker 1: Curse starts a little different, but whenever I could, I'd
Speaker 1: watch Curses starts and just kind of anyone who is
Speaker 1: really good, Sure's Heer, just just all the guys Verlander,
Speaker 1: like all those guys. Just whoever was great. That's kind
Speaker 1: who I would watch. Whoever's really good and performing at
Speaker 1: a high level, That's what i'd watch. And I'd say
Speaker 1: I kind of still do that to this day. It's
Speaker 1: just kind of whenever I can tune in to the
Speaker 1: guys that are that are really good and see what
Speaker 1: they're doing and see if I can adjust anything I'm
Speaker 1: doing to kind of match match them and.
Speaker 4: Stay ahead of the curve that way.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's I just like I like watching
Speaker 1: people who are really good and seeing what I can
Speaker 1: take from.
Speaker 2: You said that you don't care what people call you, uh,
Speaker 2: in terms of nicknames you to me, I'm seeing a
Speaker 2: little bit of Timothy Chalomay. If Justin Robleski, if Justin
Speaker 2: Robleski wasn't dominating on the mound every fifth day or
Speaker 2: sixth day, depending upon the calendar for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 2: What would you be doing what takes your mind off
Speaker 2: of baseball?
Speaker 4: Oh well, that's two different questions.
Speaker 1: I think as far as like what I would what
Speaker 1: I would like to be doing, as far as and
Speaker 1: then what's possible are two different things. I think if
Speaker 1: I wasn't playing baseball, I probably would have tried to
Speaker 1: pursue golf in some capacity, just because, you know, golf
Speaker 1: is something that my dad and I, you know, I
Speaker 1: grew up playing. I played golf for I played baseball,
Speaker 1: So you know, I think that'd be something I probably
Speaker 1: would have. I don't know, that's just kind of my personality.
Speaker 1: Golf's kind of right up my aliti and the fact
Speaker 1: that like you can just practice it and grind and
Speaker 1: there's always.
Speaker 4: Ways to try and get better and whatever. So that'd
Speaker 4: probably be one thing.
Speaker 1: If if I didn't have athletic ability, I think it
Speaker 1: would be probably something within an engineering field of some sort.
Speaker 4: I don't know which one.
Speaker 1: That's what I was doing my first year at college,
Speaker 1: so I think that probably was where it would have
Speaker 1: took me. But then obviously ended up going to junior college,
Speaker 1: so that that went out the window after after that
Speaker 1: freshman year. But yeah, i'd say probably probably something along
Speaker 1: those lines.
Speaker 2: It's funny too that you say that, because your path
Speaker 2: in terms of your collegiate activity and playing baseball was
Speaker 2: not linear by any stretch if I'm looking at this correctly,
Speaker 2: justin Clemson, then Oklahoma State, State College of Florida in
Speaker 2: in Bradenton. So tell me how your path kind of
Speaker 2: evolved to the point in which you were able to
Speaker 2: get to, you know, the draft type of situation and
Speaker 2: get to the professional ball. It's not it's certainly not
Speaker 2: an easy path.
Speaker 4: No, not an easy path.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of things you know, quote unquote
Speaker 1: go wrong during my my college career, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: struggled my freshman year pretty heavily. Pretty much got got
Speaker 1: cut after that year, and they kind of said, you know,
Speaker 1: you're not a fit here anymore.
Speaker 4: So I was like, dang.
Speaker 1: And this was before transfer portal and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: so I couldn't just you know, go to some other
Speaker 1: d one.
Speaker 4: I had to sit out a year if I did that.
Speaker 4: So I went to.
Speaker 1: Junior college and you know, again shout out to to
Speaker 1: Stay College of Florida and coach Hill and coach Batson
Speaker 1: and you know Donnie the pitching coach there.
Speaker 4: They they really are great people.
Speaker 1: They gave me a shot, just kind of went somewhere
Speaker 1: where I was able to pitch, and you know, I
Speaker 1: was still hitting at the time, so kind of doing
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, I ended up.
Speaker 1: You know, I got I broke my jaw while I
Speaker 1: was there, like my first our first practice back in
Speaker 1: the spring, so that that happened, and then you know,
Speaker 1: I come back. I actually got got the wires out
Speaker 1: of my face, you know, a five five weeks mouth
Speaker 1: wired shut. And then on the last day of that
Speaker 1: I got the wires out. I remember, went and got
Speaker 1: some Chick fil A. Couldn't eat it because I was
Speaker 1: on like liquid diet. I was on Linquid diet for
Speaker 1: five weeks. I was like, oh, this is a great idea,
Speaker 1: let's just eat Chick fil A. And then I just
Speaker 1: like couldn't eat it. Got to the yard. I started
Speaker 1: that game that day on the mound. Bitch that day.
Speaker 1: But I went from you know, like a ninety five
Speaker 1: guy to like an eighty eight, ninety one guy. And
Speaker 1: then Covid hits and then end up you know, losing
Speaker 1: the rest of that season kind of doing whatever, and
Speaker 1: then going to Oklahoma State finally feeling like I'm getting
Speaker 1: back back on the saddle and feeling good and like,
Speaker 1: all right, I can be a top five round draft
Speaker 1: pick here if I just stay healthy.
Speaker 4: And then sure enough, you know, tear my.
Speaker 1: EBow, you know, midway through that year, and it gets
Speaker 1: surgery and all that.
Speaker 4: Stuff, and then the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Dodgers drafted me in the eleven the eleventh round, which
Speaker 1: the time I was upset about. I was like, dang, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to be a higher round pick
Speaker 1: and and and everything. But you know, hindsight is it's
Speaker 1: all worked out kind of the way the way I
Speaker 1: way God wanted to and it's all, you know, everything
Speaker 1: happened for a reason. I think it all made me stronger.
Speaker 1: And yeah, the Dodgers drafted me was obviously one of
Speaker 1: the greatest things that could have happened, just because you know,
Speaker 1: they do such a good job with with guys with
Speaker 1: that are coming off surgery and such a good job
Speaker 1: with the rehab and everything else. And yeah, thankfully came
Speaker 1: back and I was able to have a pretty smooth
Speaker 1: ride right up up to the top, so hoping to
Speaker 1: hoping to keep it going. And yeah, that's that's my story.
Speaker 3: That's a good one.
Speaker 6: It's a good one.
Speaker 5: It's a great story. Appreciate you being open, honest, taking
Speaker 5: some time with us. We want to get some more
Speaker 5: out of you. We obviously you know you got to
Speaker 5: get to the ballpark at some point soon. But I
Speaker 5: have I have a couple here to to try to
Speaker 5: rapid fire one.
Speaker 6: I'll say.
Speaker 5: I hope Jerry Harrison Junior doesn't hear the golf thing,
Speaker 5: because he's probably gonna start blowing you up with that too.
Speaker 5: Who has the better swing? Is it William Dill Smith
Speaker 5: or is it justin insert middle name, Michael Rubleski who
Speaker 5: has the better golf swing?
Speaker 4: I think probably right now will does.
Speaker 1: I got down to like almost a scratch, and then
Speaker 1: I've been kind of making some changes, trying to improve
Speaker 1: a little bit, and we're kind of in that like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get worse for I get better phase.
Speaker 4: So I'm swinging it a right now, but not not
Speaker 4: where I want to be.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I probably will right now if I guess
Speaker 1: I've actually I actually haven't gotten to play with him yet
Speaker 1: because he's kind of had the injury stuff, so we
Speaker 1: haven't had the chance to get out there. But last
Speaker 1: year I didn't really bring my clubs much either, so
Speaker 1: this year made it a point.
Speaker 6: Well, also a different animal.
Speaker 5: When you know you're in the bullpen, you don't really
Speaker 5: have that freedom of every five or six days to know,
Speaker 5: all right, we're this course, we're going to go to
Speaker 5: this course, so now you'll be locked in the other
Speaker 5: part you're talking about the you know, obviously getting drafted,
Speaker 5: the evolution coming up through the Dodger system. I'm always
Speaker 5: kind of curious, like, who would you say you earned
Speaker 5: the most from of the many people that make everybody
Speaker 5: great in the Dodgers system, who would you say, like
Speaker 5: a coach maybe a teammate that made you the best
Speaker 5: version of yourself as you were coming up through the orc.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's that's pretty that's a pretty hard
Speaker 1: one because it's like there's there's so many people and
Speaker 1: so many you know, great coaches and everything in this organization,
Speaker 1: but kind of two people that come to mine or
Speaker 1: Rob Hill and David Anderson, those two you know really
Speaker 1: have have you know, David was my pigeon coach in
Speaker 1: Hi A, and then you know, last year he ended
Speaker 1: up he was in Triple A as well, so I
Speaker 1: kind of got to to split some time with him
Speaker 1: and spend a lot of time with him.
Speaker 4: But he he knows my throw really really well.
Speaker 1: You know, still kind of ask him questions every now
Speaker 1: and again, him and Rob just kind of trying to
Speaker 1: figure out, you know, certain things like, hey, when I
Speaker 1: was doing this, what was the.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah. So yeah, probably those two.
Speaker 1: And then obviously in the big leagues, you know, Mark
Speaker 1: and Connor and and Bartow, they all have I have
Speaker 1: had a super huge impact on me.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'd say if I.
Speaker 1: Had to narrow it down, it's probably those all those
Speaker 1: people right there, But that you can't really put it
Speaker 1: to one. I think, you know, you could ask me
Speaker 1: about any coach I've had in our system and they've
Speaker 1: had some sort of impact on me and kind of
Speaker 1: helped me in some way. So that's kind of the
Speaker 1: great part about our organization is those kind of you know,
Speaker 1: relationships and those people just because they've done a great
Speaker 1: job and they will continue to do a great job, I'm.
Speaker 7: Sure, all right, Robo A couple of starts to go
Speaker 7: at home, David Besse Soft launched your twenty twenty six
Speaker 7: All Star campaigns, so we are here to promote that further.
Speaker 7: You have pitched fantastically in the first half. It's really
Speaker 7: been one of the true I mean there's several success stories,
Speaker 7: maybe the Los Angeles Dodgers, the whole organization is that way.
Speaker 7: But to just see you come out and really take
Speaker 7: this big step forward in your career, it'd be quite
Speaker 7: an honor if you were part of Dave Robert's staff
Speaker 7: in Philadelphia in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 8: What would be an All Star mean to you?
Speaker 1: It'd mean to time, you know. I it's something I
Speaker 1: know you dream of as a kid. You know something
Speaker 1: when you're playing baseball, you want to be an All Star.
Speaker 1: You want to be, you know, someone that's considered one
Speaker 1: of the best in the game. And I think you know,
Speaker 1: being an All Star would be huge to me. I'd really,
Speaker 1: uh be something that would mean a lot. So hoping,
Speaker 1: hoping to do enough to get it done. But like
Speaker 1: I said before, there's not I can't really you know,
Speaker 1: control whether I'm selected or not and and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So it'd be really cool. But again, it's not something
Speaker 1: that's like oh if I do. If I do, I'll
Speaker 1: freak out and if I don't, I'll be really really sad.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of one of those things where I
Speaker 1: trust that, you know, if I continue to to kind
Speaker 1: of stay on my path and do what I need
Speaker 1: to do and stuff like that will come and and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just but super exciting to kind of even be
Speaker 1: in the in in that conversation.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm hoping I can get it done.
Speaker 2: I love the fact that you're like an officer and
Speaker 2: a gentleman. I realize you're way too young to know
Speaker 2: the movie, but you're so poised. You wanted to be
Speaker 2: an engineer if you didn't have any athletic talent, but
Speaker 2: here you are.
Speaker 3: You do have athletic talent.
Speaker 2: Timothy Shallomey Oscar Award winning dude. But I also know
Speaker 2: that you have the dog in you because when the
Speaker 2: Dodgers were in Toronto, there was a different justin Rubleski
Speaker 2: that had them wall and on the mound. And I
Speaker 2: love that about you. So how many personalities do you have?
Speaker 2: And tell us about that world series and just kind
Speaker 2: of what goes through your mind what happens to your
Speaker 2: DNA when you're in a moment like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, that's kind of something you
Speaker 1: have to That's also part of your development, figuring out,
Speaker 1: you know, where you need to be on that kind
Speaker 1: of you know, mental mental scale in order to pitch well.
Speaker 1: And as you guys obviously can tell, I need to
Speaker 1: be a little bit more revved up than than than calm.
Speaker 1: I think you know, Yosh is a guy that needs
Speaker 1: to be a little calmer to kind of pitch well,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of the opposite of that. So you
Speaker 1: kind of figure out who you are, and it takes time.
Speaker 1: It takes you know, trial and error, it takes you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you can be a little too much, sometimes you
Speaker 1: too well, like not enough, so that's part of it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think you know in those spots and
Speaker 1: that's I'm just not a guy that's ever gonna back down.
Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, when I'm out there, it's it's
Speaker 1: not I don't know, it's a different guy. That's that's
Speaker 1: what I'll say. I think you know, when I'm pitching,
Speaker 1: it's it's a different guy than than every day.
Speaker 4: And I think you know, you kind of have to.
Speaker 1: Be that way to perform at a high level, because obviously,
Speaker 1: if I was that way in my normal life, I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people would like me. So
Speaker 1: you got to learn to turn it on and off.
Speaker 1: But that's that's kind of who I have to be
Speaker 1: when I'm out there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm nothing if not a hard hitting journalist. Here
Speaker 6: I'm not.
Speaker 5: But the question I would have to follow that if
Speaker 5: if a hundred is replacement level, what was your ex.
Speaker 6: Dog during that world series? And what's your ex dog now.
Speaker 1: Replacement level? I don't know, I don't see. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I don't live in an expected world.
Speaker 1: I live in a real world, So I'd like to
Speaker 1: just use dog. So, you know, if I lived in
Speaker 1: an expected world, everyone says that I wouldn't be very good.
Speaker 1: So uh but no, in the real world, i'd say,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe i'd say, what's what's what's the standard deviation?
Speaker 4: Like, what is it ten on the scale deviation? Maybe
Speaker 4: maybe two? Maybe two dogs?
Speaker 1: Two dogs above replacement That's that's I'm troud to be at.
Speaker 4: That's that's where I liked to be at.
Speaker 5: You know, I saw I saw m VP levels of
Speaker 5: dog in that world series. It's bare minimum. Man, We're
Speaker 5: talking like like a one eighty maybe weighted runs weighted
Speaker 5: dog created plus I don't know, I'm making this as
Speaker 5: we go.
Speaker 4: Perfect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's so many stats now on that. Like
Speaker 1: you know, you can you can say anything and someone
Speaker 1: will believe it. It's a stat so's really true.
Speaker 6: Woo send us off.
Speaker 8: All right, well, Robo, I know you got to get going.
Speaker 7: We have a first of three out in stack, but
Speaker 7: hopefully you get to golf after a solid start tomorrow.
Speaker 7: There actually are some good golf courses around the Sacramento
Speaker 7: But no, thank you so much for the time.
Speaker 8: It has been wonderful getting to know you a little
Speaker 8: bit more.
Speaker 7: And with this interview, not only are you number one
Speaker 7: on the Dodgers beat rankings, you're number one on Dodgers
Speaker 7: podcasters too. So keep up the good work. We'll see
Speaker 7: you later. Thanks against the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, thank you guys.
Speaker 9: Thank you guys.
Speaker 5: That guy's pretty damn good at this. It's pretty damn
Speaker 5: good on the mound and I'm looking forward. I'm really hoping.
Speaker 6: That guy could make an All Star team.
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Speaker 5: A little delayed, big ticket for everybody. Extended time with
Speaker 5: Robo as well. Awesome dude, But quickly we got to
Speaker 5: talk about that series that just happened. The Dodgers take
Speaker 5: two or three from the Padres. Once again, it feels
Speaker 5: like the same old story with those series. Dodgers lose
Speaker 5: Game one. Everybody's heads or you know, Pet's heads are
Speaker 5: falling off because it wasn't a great loss.
Speaker 6: You know, it is what it is.
Speaker 5: But then they take the next two in that series. Katie,
Speaker 5: you were there, What were your thoughts about that series?
Speaker 11: In San Diego, they have a ten game lead in
Speaker 11: the division, They are among the best Ajor League Baseball
Speaker 11: and starting pitching in bullpen and most offensive categories.
Speaker 8: What else is there to say?
Speaker 7: It's the I had a great time in San Diego
Speaker 7: watching the Dodgers make my job very easy.
Speaker 5: So ten series, yeah, they are really locked in a riz.
Speaker 5: What i'mking is Mookie, you know We've had a lot
Speaker 5: of dialogue about Mooki this year. Four big hits in
Speaker 5: that series, two Dingers, six runs bad at It is
Speaker 5: hitting three sixty eight over the last two weeks. The
Speaker 5: ops is just a little under eleven hundred. There's no
Speaker 5: sign of him cooling down. That's why first he is
Speaker 5: this week's fan Duel Daily Dinger pick. But this is
Speaker 5: a guy who was absolutely just on fire. Riz, what
Speaker 5: are you seeing with Mooki? And then we have more
Speaker 5: Mooky from Katie.
Speaker 2: Yep, don't tell Mookie that. He's not quite ready to
Speaker 2: say that he is all the way back, which I
Speaker 2: can appreciate. You had mentioned he's having a very very
Speaker 2: good June. I don't even want the calendar to switch
Speaker 2: to July. Unfortunately it is doing that on what Wednesday
Speaker 2: it looks like. But yeah, it seems like he's kind
Speaker 2: of found his way, kind of seaball hit ball type
Speaker 2: of situation.
Speaker 3: And it's good to see that. We had mentioned.
Speaker 2: Probably three weeks ago on our show, guys, that we
Speaker 2: don't need to have Mooki bets being the offensive powerhouse
Speaker 2: at the shortstop position as long as he continues to
Speaker 2: do what he's doing. Defensively at short but he seems
Speaker 2: to be finding his way at the plate as well.
Speaker 3: It's good to see.
Speaker 2: I think anything that comes from this a very strong June,
Speaker 2: and what he does forward in terms of his offense
Speaker 2: is only icing on the cake, if you will.
Speaker 3: He looks really good at the plate.
Speaker 2: Right now, but again I think it happened last year
Speaker 2: also when Mooki Bets completely tunes out the noise and
Speaker 2: simplifies things. That is when Mookie Bets has the most
Speaker 2: amount of success at the plate really quickly. Before Katie
Speaker 2: weighs in on Mooki, the biggest thing that stands out
Speaker 2: to me, She's absolutely right. The Dodgers have a ten
Speaker 2: game lead in the division. But always will stand out
Speaker 2: to me is a plus one fifty two run differential.
Speaker 2: Nobody in the division has a positive run differential.
Speaker 3: That's all you need to know. Kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, wells there, they are pretty damn good at They
Speaker 5: are who we thought they were, Katie, your your counterpart,
Speaker 5: Fabian our diapend a column about Mooki and just kind
Speaker 5: of where his brain is at now. I guess more
Speaker 5: so where his brain isn't, which is thinking about his
Speaker 5: swing and all this stuff. In the box. He's saying,
Speaker 5: you know, hitting has been hard. Now he's not thinking
Speaker 5: what can you tell us about Fabian's column? And then
Speaker 5: also just what you've been able to pick up for
Speaker 5: MOOKI being around him this season, the change as it's
Speaker 5: gone on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, I'll keep this one short because I
Speaker 7: know we want a time crunch here.
Speaker 8: But with Mookie Betts, I thought it was interesting. We
Speaker 8: talked to him first of.
Speaker 7: All, great gigs by by Fabian to get a candid Mookie,
Speaker 7: and then we talked to him after Sunday's game. I'm
Speaker 7: actually keep checking my email here because I feel like
Speaker 7: Muki has a really good chance to win a nationally
Speaker 7: Player of the Week after his performance.
Speaker 3: Over the last days.
Speaker 7: But I asked him, you know, if there's anything over
Speaker 7: the first month and a half when he came back
Speaker 7: from the injury, the obig injury, that he felt like
Speaker 7: he learned about himself that he didn't know before.
Speaker 3: And he pondered it.
Speaker 7: For a little bit and he said, you know, he
Speaker 7: mostly just learned that the stuff that he used.
Speaker 8: To do doesn't apply anymore.
Speaker 7: He's not the same guy at thirty three or fifty
Speaker 7: four whatever. However, that he was when he was twenty seven.
Speaker 7: So the work that he was putting in the game
Speaker 7: that he was playing it wasn't the same.
Speaker 8: So we had to relearn to reinvent himself.
Speaker 7: And he talked about this back with me in May
Speaker 7: when he said, you know, I'm still trying to figure
Speaker 7: this out.
Speaker 8: I'm trying to figure out what works for me.
Speaker 7: It looks like he's getting there, and I find it
Speaker 7: funny how we've asked him, are you more comfortable saying
Speaker 7: you're back?
Speaker 8: And he keeps saying no, I'm not going to say
Speaker 8: that yet.
Speaker 7: But I think all the signs that we've seen over
Speaker 7: the last two and a half weeks points to Mookie
Speaker 7: Bets looking much more like mooki Bets just finding the
Speaker 7: newer version of him that can continue to post at
Speaker 7: thirty three years old.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's locked in, and I'll we can say it.
Speaker 5: That's the thing, Mookie don't listen to us. We know
Speaker 5: he deleted social media apps on his phone, so he's
Speaker 5: not going to hear us say, Mooky, you're crushing it
Speaker 5: playing exceptional defense at shortstop. And again that's why he
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Speaker 5: Series against the A's. Hey, listen, the A's are bad,
Speaker 5: but every team the A's, the.
Speaker 2: A's might they only there's only four teams in the
Speaker 2: AL that have a winning record of winning, you know,
Speaker 2: record above five hundred. The A's may make the postseason
Speaker 2: and the Mets will not. So there's your twenty twenty
Speaker 2: sixth season in a nutshell.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, good, good series coming up for your Dodgers,
Speaker 5: winnable series. A A's are throwing some solid pitching out
Speaker 5: there as well. Dodgers getting Tao back tonight. It's gonna
Speaker 5: be a good one. Uh whoa real quick? Dodgers win
Speaker 5: two of three, sweep. What are you feeling?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 8: I feel good about two three. I look about two three.
Speaker 7: This is a weird ballpark, weird city, weird everything, but
Speaker 7: we'll have a black weird everything.
Speaker 5: Appreciate you guys hanging out with us. Oh, go ahead,
Speaker 5: go ahead, ris sweep sweep, you got sweep?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 5: I'm taking two or three. I think I think the
Speaker 5: weirdness will happen. Well, we appreciate you guys hanging out
Speaker 5: with us on this edition of Dodger's Territory. Big shout
Speaker 5: out Justin bless you taking a chunk of time out
Speaker 5: of his day to join us.
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Speaker 6: She might appreciate the shark joining the show. But that's
Speaker 6: about it. We'll see you later this week.
Speaker 5: Okay, bye,