WEBVTT - Rushing, Edman, Muncy, Dodgers Down Phillies! Lauer Trade Chip? 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.840 Windingo World Series with a sixty million dollar player on 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.640 the bench would have to be more impressive than anything 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:17.720 the Dodgers have done the last two years. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:20.520 Hey, with this guy here on this channel, I better say, 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.000 coming at you live from my home studio and beautiful 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.840 Love Point d California. This is Dodgers territory. I know, 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:30.040 wrong channel, Guys. The Dodgers have won a baseball game. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:31.960 It's a good day. It's a good day. You take 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.640 two of three in Philly, and I have my guy 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.800 Noah Cameras joining me. Throwback Wednesday here or way back 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.280 Wednesday here on this edition of the show. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:42.280 Been a long time, buddy. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.720 Obviously, we've been talking here, chopping it up while the 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.800 Dodgers have been doing work in Philly. Guys, sound off 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:51.440 in the comments, let you know, let us know what 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.199 you think about the team, about the game, all that 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.520 kind of stuff. I should note he's in for Alana, 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.040 who's on vacation. Rizz will be back on Monday. Me 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.520 and Katie will be here tomorrow Thursday. But yeah, quick 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.640 instant thoughts this game, this series and all that kind 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.160 of stuff before we really dive into it. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.800 Yeah, well, first, thanks so much, for having me super 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.039 excited to just pinch it today. And yeah, I mean, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.319 obviously to go into Philly take two out of three. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.200 Obviously take two out of three from New York too. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.080 It's a really great start to the second half. And 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.600 you can't say enough good things about Tommy admind, just 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:23.880 the impact he's made in the lineup. And also you 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:25.960 got to keep giving credit to Eric lower Man. I mean, 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.880 all he does is do his job for this Dodgers team, 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.920 and at some point, you know he's gonna be an 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.400 unsung MVP for them considering what he's done as a 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:35.040 sixth starter. 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:37.640 Yeah, yeah, we'll talk a lot of Eric lower We 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.640 have probably maybe some differing opinions on the hour. With 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.800 the trade deadline coming up, let's get into some of 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:44.800 the notes of the game here. 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.440 Yeah, offense, I've missed this. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.440 You know, they had a good game where they put 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.960 up what I mean seven runs late in the first game. Yeah, 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:00.360 had had a nice movie because of movie, but you 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.920 know here to be scoring early and often. You saw 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.520 a big difference in this game in that it wasn't 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.119 just the usual suspects. We saw Dalton rushing wake back 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.079 up and you mentioned Tommy Edmund doing something for this team. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.440 I mean, I really want to focus on the rushing. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.600 Max Munsey, who we keep talking about over this road trip, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.160 has been hot. Another two run homer off of an 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.359 ace or at least a former ace in Aaron Nola there. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.399 Talk about rushing here. Because this is a guy, obviously 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:32.440 he's an internet darling. We will say solo homer top 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.359 third there snaps an over nineteen streak, first homer since July. Second, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.160 does a forty one played appearance stretch. Later in the game, 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:44.360 we have the two run double there. All this comes 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.440 after he tells I think it was Bryson Stott at 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.680 second phase, like get the half back and all of that. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.920 This is a guy. We know, this kid needs to 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:53.760 play with fire. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.480 And it felt like after you know, the most recent 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.840 I don't know, I guess bs with him. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:01.640 He kind of was playing d nutted. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.720 I was talking last night at my All Dodgers show 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.680 that you know we were missing he was missing his mojo. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:08.080 Bro go does mojo back? 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.760 Yeah, I mean, like you said that over nineteen skid, 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.600 you know it's gonna get you a little. They're definitely 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.000 I mean, I don't want to say they working him into 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:15.919 the ground, but it was pretty rare for him to 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.000 be getting days off at this point. Finally, you know, 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:19.880 obviously the double Edtery in play Sunday, and then he 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.440 got yesterday off, which was you know, surprise, concerned how 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.120 often he's been playing, which I think he needed it, 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:25.760 and then he comes back with a little bit, like 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:27.280 you said, a little bit of a vengeance. He gets 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.320 the home run. I love the swing on that double, 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.320 and yeah, I mean I do feel like that that 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.839 moment with Stott. It's like, I mean, maybe it's gonna 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:35.680 go viral on Drumboy because they always want to do that, 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.720 but oh, either way, liked it. It definitely shows a 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.800 little bit of that fire, that playfulness that he kind 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.680 of needs, which means he finally looks relaxed again, which 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.560 is what they need because they do have to keep 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.840 running him into the ground for the next however long 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:49.920 until will Smith is out unless they do something at 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:51.920 the deadline. But yeah, I definitely love to see that 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.000 from him. And he also moved down to the ninth 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.040 spot today. He's really he's really been hitting the eighth 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.720 and then they moved him down to ninth with Edmond 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.920 Uptathe and obviously it or so you definitely love what 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:00.880 you see from him today. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.120 Yeah, and here we have on the screen last ten games. 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.440 This is including today a multi hit game hidden you know, 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.640 under one hundred zero eight seven doesn't matter. It's about 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.920 what you did for us today and what you do 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.880 tomorrow all that kind of stuff. So hopefully this is 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.240 a big wake up call for him because you saw, 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.120 i mean early on in this game the offense was 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:20.919 kind of looking stagnant again, and they kind of have 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.839 It's that time a season. You know, we've been through 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.760 this a number of times together and not together. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:29.760 This is the time of the season world. We're checked out. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.880 The team has checked out. We're a little checked out. 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.680 Maybe they don't have the maximum focus, maybe they're tired 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.640 after back to back you know, world series runs and 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.240 all that kind of stuff. Not even maybe they one 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.760 hundred percent are. Yeah that Dalton wasn't necessarily a massive 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:43.560 part of that, but. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:46.080 You know, finding. 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:50.119 Offense in different spots. You know, you don't have Tao 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.280 necessarily hitting right now. You haven't had much from Tucker 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.240 all season. Mookie has been at times a black hole 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.159 at times on fire. You have to have that production 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.320 down the lineup and having it back to back today 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.480 with you know her guys, Yeah, Tommy Edmund and Dalton Rushing. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.400 That's where you get yourself the type of game, yeah, 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.839 where you know Dodger's gonna put nine points on the board. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:11.760 Yeah. 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.400 No, I like you said, the top of the lineup 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.039 wasn't really the one care I mean show Hey, he 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:16.800 did hit the ball hard, but he went oh for four. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.320 You know you're not seeing it from Tucker. Like you said, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.120 Mookie had the great game a couple of days ago. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:22.640 But hey, if the if the bottom of the lineup 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.600 keeps doing that, you know it's gonna it's gonna answer 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.280 a lot of questions about what this team needs to 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:27.880 do at the deadline, because the answer is going to 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:29.760 be not much, at least on the offensive side of things, 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.560 because even if Kyle Tucker continues to be below average, 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:35.599 they're able to make up for it with you know, 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.120 mister Tommy Tanks and again I mean don't rush. He 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:39.800 is a key piece because without Will Smith, I mean 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.120 Will Smith being a hitting catcher is such a bonus 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:43.680 for this team. And you know he's usually in your 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.480 three holes somewhere up there, so you really need rushing. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.360 You know, he gets off to the hot start kind 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.280 of plateaued, but he is a pretty important piece. Without him, 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.400 then you do kind of start to have a pretty 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.200 big black hole in the lineup. So you know, it's 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.000 as important as ever to have him. And I mean, 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.000 you just can't find of good things about Tommy Edmond though. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.120 I mean, all he's doing is hitting for this team 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:02.520 right now. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:03.800 It's it's really something to. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.719 Say, Yeah, it's another three hit game from Tommy Edmond. 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.320 Let me scroll down find my Tommy Edmund notes, because 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:10.520 it has been impressive. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:11.960 I don't remember where I put. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.640 Him, but I think it's something like nine multi hit 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.719 games in his twenty eight games back or something like. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.160 He has just been so damn consistent with a three 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.239 hit game today. There it is, Yeah, nine in twenty 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.280 eight games, one of those being a four hit game. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:28.960 And you know, I've talked about this a lot. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.560 The difference of healthy ankle makes you know, we we 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.560 saw him go out there and win that NLCS MVP. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.200 Maybe some of that was a little bit of smoking mirrors. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.400 Maybe that is the real deal with Tommy Edmund. I 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.520 don't think anybody saw this version of Tommy Edmund. But now, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.160 like this is where I was telling you earlier, Like 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.440 I think yesterday morning, I woke up and I kind 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.960 of had this this feeling of dread deep in the 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.960 pit of my stomach, of which there is plenty of 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.800 about you know, just there's something that's not I don't 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.680 want to say it's not right about this team or 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.360 different about the team, but I didn't have the same 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.240 good feelings about this team as I've had probably with 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:06.080 like last year. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:07.040 Maybe even the year before that. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:13.480 Even when everybody's not you know, streaking together, riding together, 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.920 hitting well together, they still find ways to win. But 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:20.920 seeing Tommy Edmund produce and knowing that at some point 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.400 in time Show Hay is going to go back to 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:22.880 being show. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.400 Hey, Freddie's gonna. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.480 Do more of what he's done, you know, a multi 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.080 hit game for him as well, a couple of doubles 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.520 in there for Fredward Freeman Muns. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.080 He is absolutely on fire. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.360 Yeah, you get Tao going and you get maybe something 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.480 out of Tucker. This is a very very dangerous lineup, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.360 and that's where you suddenly you feel I just get 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.640 as we've felt a lot. You just get a little healthy, 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.200 get a couple of pitchers back and then you're locked 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:50.520 in for that postseason run. 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.960 But yeah, I mean, you think about if Kyle Tucker 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.480 even has like a one to twenty WRC plus this year. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.640 I mean, you're talking about this team being historically great, 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.920 but he's not even average right now. So that's kind 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.000 of the one question of I don't know that maybe 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.840 some of that dread and you're feeling is just of 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.240 that that weird black hole in the lineup. He's making 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.560 sixty million dollars a year that it's just not not 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.040 similar that the Dodgers usually have. But you know, I 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.559 mean what last yeard it was conforida you at least say, okay, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.560 you know he's only making whatever was seventeen nineteen, I 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:22.440 forget exactly. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.360 Oh god, people were still so pissed about that too, 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:25.120 And of course. 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.200 Then you're still but then you you triple that, almost 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.440 quadruple that, and you got Kyle Tucker doing pretty much 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.400 the same thing, and it becomes a little more of 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.040 a concern. But yeah, I think I think the Tommy 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:34.640 Eddon good vibes are there, and you know, you got 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:36.360 Keicky Hernandez back next week. 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:37.160 He's gonna I. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.240 Mean he's he's four for four this year, you know, yes, yes, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.280 and he hasn't gone out yet, so you know you're 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.760 gonna get good stuff from him. And then the trade 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.480 deadlines right after, which it's exciting to see what they 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.599 may or may not do. But it's always fun to 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.200 add a piece because then at least you have something 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.079 new to energize you a little bit. 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:53.120 Yeah, all eyes. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.640 I mean, as as we've talked about a lot here 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.400 on the channel, particularly myself and and Katie Wu. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.040 You know, we always have. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.680 To talk about they're gonna have a great deadline because 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.560 you're getting Blake Snell back, You're gonna probably maybe get 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.600 Tommy Edmund I mean Tommy Tyler glasnow back, you're gonna 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:12.480 get you know. 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.920 So on so forth. You're adding Edwin Diaz next week 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:16.480 or whatever. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.680 Still, so there's kind of your spark getting Kik one 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.440 hundred percent as a spark. We'll figure out we'll talk 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.480 a little bit more deadline a little bit later. One 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.760 more piece on the offensive side. I mentioned a couple 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.200 of times, but Maxwell Steven Munsey another homer two run 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.719 bomba for him twentieth on the year. Bro has been 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.760 on fire on this road trip, a couple of homers 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.400 in there, the Ribby's, Uh, well, I think I thought 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.800 it was three homers for Mounsie. But either way, he's 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.760 been he's been locked in and again you get Munsie, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.160 you get Munsie in there, and again just those other guys. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.920 If you can have tail Or Tucker also hitting, Yeah, 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:53.000 this is a frightening line up. 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:53.560 Man, that's scary. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.959 Ut Yeah, I mean, I mean, Max Monsey's always been 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.840 the guy, you know, he's if he's going, the Dodgers 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.040 are going, which is crazy to think about when you 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:02.800 have Mookie Freddie show. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:03.880 Hey, you know, Andy. 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.520 Po's having an All Star season, but once he's always 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.880 just been that guy to run producer. If he's going, 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.320 this team is out, he's gonna stir the drink. And man, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.679 it's been such such a season from him. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:12.840 You know. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.840 Obviously he gets rewarded with the All Star Game, and 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:16.280 then he comes back in the second half and it 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.680 just picks up right where he left off. And the 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.840 second he hits that home run, you're just like, Okay, 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:22.200 they're gonna win this game now. I mean, it's to 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.200 go ahead home run. It's something he's continued to do 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.280 all year. Hitting that big go ahead home run, and 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.560 like you said, against the former ace Aaron Nola, who 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:30.600 you know, the five to two, we are just flashed 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.920 on the He's not the same, but you know once 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:34.840 he does against anybody, I mean's he's just having that 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.400 good of the year and it doesn't matter who the 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.160 picture is because at this point he's just he's gonna 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:40.640 have that big hit for this team. And it seems 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.120 like more often than not one to have a big hit. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:42.840 It's been monthly. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.280 Yeah, we got more, we got it. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.240 We haven't even touched the surface when it comes to 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.000 glazing on, Eric Lauer. 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We'll 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.040 talk about Eric Lower because that's another guy I really 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.400 like on the Dodger side of thing. He has just 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:40.360 been another one of those Brandon Gomes Andrew Friedman pickups. 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.360 It's like, there's no there's no reason. Yeah, you should 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.079 have a what three a d R A and a 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:49.960 Dodgers uniform consistently giving you quality starts. He's not great, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:54.520 he's not in Cy Young contention, but where would this team. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:55.160 Be without him? 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.760 Five and a third, four hits, three earned on the board, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.880 five k's two homers and that's after two week layoff, 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.480 you know, victim of the of the All Star break here. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:08.160 But yeah, just he has been fantastic for this team. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.040 Yeah, I'm gonna call it stupid in the most complimentary 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.760 a possible. It is stupid what Eric Klawer is doing. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.120 I mean, he has a I want to get it 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.560 exactly right. He had a six point six y nine 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.920 ERA with the Blue Jays and they get him in 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:24.400 May after he's DFA and all he's done is helped 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.560 the Dodgers win. Now, you know, Pitcher wins aren't what 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.840 they used to be. Now he's four o as a Dodger. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.520 The more important stat The Dodgers are eight to o 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.360 when Eric Lauer starts Slash the one game he had 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.640 behind an opener, So they are eight and oh when 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.000 Eric Klauwer pitches bulginnings for them this year. You can't 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:41.920 ask for anything more from a six starter. You can't 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:43.560 ask anything more from any starter. You know, if a 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.920 team is eight and oh when you're pitching, it clearly 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.040 means you're doing something right. Yeah, maybe some of the 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:49.520 times the offense picks him up, but for the most 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.040 part they don't need to, because if he's giving three 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.360 or fewer runs up every time with this offense, that's 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.280 enough to win a game. And all he's done is 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.920 enough to win a game for them and eat any 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.800 and fill the rotation need. And you know, show Hey 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:03.360 goes down. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:04.880 You don't have Snell, you don't have Glass. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.800 Now you're a little concerned about where they're going to be, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:08.880 and now you have Eric Lauer, who's all of a 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.120 sudden one of their best starters, which is crazy to 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.559 think about, but he is truly. I mean, you feel 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.880 there's two guys right now who you probably feel more 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.720 comfortable with, and Yamamoto and Robleski. After that, you probably 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.040 feel more comfortable with flour, which is just a crazy 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.120 thing to think about, but that's what they've done. And yeah, 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.640 I mean it's it's stupid that Andrew Friedman and Brandon 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:29.760 Gomes and the rest. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.600 Of them did this, but I mean it worked. It 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.000 really were That's what they do, and it's always funny. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:35.800 They just find a way to find some guys that 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.480 maybe need a little bit of a tweak, a little. 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:38.920 Bit of adjustment. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:40.880 It's not even like, hey, we're going to change your 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.280 delivery and all of this or add a pitch. Maybe 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.840 sometimes it's ad a pitch, you know, change a grip 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.200 to make a slider a sweeper or something like that. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.960 For him, it's just, you know, use this stuff, go 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.280 out there and pitch. Trust your stuff, you know, pit, 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.440 throw what the guys are putting down for you. Trust 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.480 your guy behind the blade, you know. Shout out Dahl Rushing, 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.320 who's also called really good games these I think caught 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:06.960 the bulk now of Eric Lawers. Uh starts there Dodger 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.600 Dog and the chat saying he's just holding a roster 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.840 spot for Snell and Glass. Now at one point he 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.720 was Yeah, for sure, I mean, yeah, gun to my head, 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.600 I'm taking him over him. But she in at this 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.160 point and you know, you don't even need like, bro, 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.040 don't even take the gun out. I'm good, like you know, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:26.400 he I like what Lawer has given this team. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:30.360 Beyond that, you know, it's it's what we keep hearing 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:30.720 a lot. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.880 And I know my my co host here, Katie Wu, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.720 has written about it a lot on The Athletic. She 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.560 still sees a path as do other people, still seeing 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.880 a path to where uh this guy is traded. He 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:45.920 is obviously he has been one of those guys. They 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.600 they brought him in, they fixed him, and then he 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.440 is somebody who could be moved for I don't know 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.160 if it's another Dalton rushing time, I mean Dustin May 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.800 type of Hall at the deadline. But you could absolutely 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.760 get get a Hall, absolutely get a Hall from a 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.960 team that's looking to get one of the very easily 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:07.120 acquireable you know, ale wild card spots or something like that. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.960 Should they and why would they. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.040 Actually trade this guy because it just feels like, why 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:13.800 would you give that up? 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:14.280 Right now? 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:15.200 I know. 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.800 So it's a weird one because it's at the one hand, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.400 it's this guy is probably your third best starting pitcher 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:20.840 right now. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.240 He's not even the number six starter. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.560 He's the number three star concernering how he's pitching right now, 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.280 and you know they're waiting on Snow. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:27.400 He's going to be back sooner. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.800 They're weighing on class now. It's kind of a mayde 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.920 with Glass now and then show, Hey, really the biggest 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.040 maybe of you know that it's gonna be careful with him, 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:35.360 So why do they trade him? 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.400 Is kind of the question. Now, I think we might 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.760 disagree on this. I think you have to trade Lower, 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:41.600 and I know that doesn't make so much tiense. He's 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.280 spearing what I just said before that. But the thing 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:45.359 with trading Lower. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.280