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Andrew Friedman joins Dodgers Territory · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: It just goes to show nothing is impossible because you
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Speaker 1: pointed out the banana suit. Ten years ago. If you
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Speaker 1: would have said he is going to grow into this
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Speaker 1: kind of leader, I would have bet a lot of
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Speaker 1: money against man.
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Speaker 2: It is good to be back with you guys live
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Speaker 2: on Dodgers' territory. That is Clint Psias. He was holding
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Speaker 2: down the fort all of last week while I was
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Speaker 2: on vacation. I am Alana Rizzo. We are together again
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Speaker 2: for a brand new episode of DT. Thanks for being
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Speaker 2: with us. Make sure that you rate us five stars,
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Speaker 2: like subscribe all of the things wherever you get your
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Speaker 2: podcasts as well as on YouTube. We love having you guys,
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Speaker 2: and we love having Dodgers. President of Baseball Operations Andrew
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Speaker 2: Friedman is coming on the show momentarily. Clint, it's been
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Speaker 2: a hell of an off season. Let's get into the
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Speaker 2: big ticket.
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Speaker 3: Let's do it.
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Speaker 2: My goodness, I tell you you and I had a
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Speaker 2: list of all of the people we wanted to have
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Speaker 2: come back to the Los Angeles Dodgers, either come back
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Speaker 2: or be added to and every single one that we
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Speaker 2: wanted is there, the latest being keyk Hernandez. Albeit the
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Speaker 2: Dodgers have not made it official, but Key K himself
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Speaker 2: has said hashtag twenty sixth man, he's walking through that door.
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Speaker 1: He is back.
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Speaker 2: What your thought, Oh, there it is. That's not the
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four World Series Championship ring. That is the
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty World Series Championship ring. But Key K is officially,
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Speaker 2: according to him back in Dodger Blue Clint, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It's It's what we wanted. It's what the fans wanted.
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Speaker 4: What's what every player we've spoken to or heard from
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Speaker 4: this offseason wanted. Key Y Hernandez. There is something special
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Speaker 4: that he brings to the clubhouse. Yeah, the numbers aren't
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Speaker 4: always the sexiest, but he finds a way to produce
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Speaker 4: for this team when they need it most. There's just
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Speaker 4: so much talent. I cannot wait to talk to Andrew
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Speaker 4: about how they fit this very complex puzzle together. But
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Speaker 4: I would rather have more talent than less talent, as
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Speaker 4: we've seen in decades past as Dodgers fan, So welcome back.
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Speaker 4: He k waiting for it to be official. But love, love,
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Speaker 4: love everything about this. How are you feeling about Enrique
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Speaker 4: being back?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I can't tell you the last time I
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Speaker 2: was this confident about a roster going into a spring
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Speaker 2: training season, which is obviously here. Welcome baseball, Welcome baseball,
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Speaker 2: Welcome baseball. The Super Bowl is over. Congratulations to the
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Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles. I'm so sick of the Chiefs and I'm
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Speaker 2: just excited. I'm excited to talk to Andrew about this
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Speaker 2: team that he has built. Why so many pieces now
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Speaker 2: versus the trade deadline. We'll get into that with him.
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Speaker 2: I'm grading this offseason as an a plus. As we said, Clint,
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Speaker 2: every single person we wanted starting back with obviously, the
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Speaker 2: Tommy Edmund extension. Miguel Rojas is back. Austin Barnes obviously
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Speaker 2: was given. You know, he's back with the team as well,
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Speaker 2: the longest tenured Dodger other than Clayton Kershaw. And then
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Speaker 2: you have I Blake Trin and I want him back desperately.
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Speaker 2: Then you get by the way, we want Tanner Scott Okay,
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Speaker 2: I didn't even ask for Kirby Yates. We got him,
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Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki, we want him done. Tay Oscar, they better
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Speaker 2: bring him back. Okay, he Gay, we want him back. Now.
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Speaker 2: The step Brothers are back together, the Hernandez Bros. Are
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Speaker 2: back together. I'm giving it an A plus. What are
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Speaker 2: you giving it?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is I said it a couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 4: I don't know how you get a better grade, but
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Speaker 4: this is like SSS plus plus plus. This is the
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Speaker 4: absolute best offseason you could ask for. That's one of
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Speaker 4: the things I do want to ask Andrew about as well,
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Speaker 4: because I got a sense during the parade, you got
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Speaker 4: a sense that they got that taste of of, you know,
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Speaker 4: a real World Series champions ship. They got that opportunity
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Speaker 4: to celebrate with the city of Los Angeles, and they
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Speaker 4: want it back. They want it again. They really really
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Speaker 4: want to do that again. It's fun to win baseball games,
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Speaker 4: it's fun to win championships and bring home that Commissioner's Trophy,
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Speaker 4: and they want to do it again. Like like shoe
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Speaker 4: hae Otani said, let's do it nine more times. This
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Speaker 4: is a good way to set up for I mean,
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Speaker 4: at this point, it's got to be at least two
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Speaker 4: in the next five years. Maybe that might not be enough.
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Speaker 4: How set up is this team for the next half
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Speaker 4: decade for success?
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean that's what you're saying. Mookie Bett's like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: let me get nine more and then we can talk
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Speaker 2: about it. But let me ask you this, though, do
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Speaker 2: they now have to win? I mean, if you look
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Speaker 2: at this roster Clint. Last year, some might say they
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Speaker 2: had no business winning with all of the pitching injuries
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Speaker 2: that they had. This team was decimated, and they figured
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Speaker 2: it out and they won. And this year, my gosh,
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Speaker 2: they are so stacked. I almost feel like we know
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers are getting into the postseason right. This team
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Speaker 2: is built for October. We know, barring some catastrophe, they're
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Speaker 2: going to the playoffs. So this team is the roster
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Speaker 2: is constructed to not only get into the postseason, but
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Speaker 2: to go far into the postseason. So I would think
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Speaker 2: now with this team, they've got to win it all, correct.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the narrow last year Mookie Bets put
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Speaker 4: it out there a dog Dodger Fest. Twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 4: we have a target on our backs. It's every team's
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Speaker 4: World Series when we head into their ballpark, it's got
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Speaker 4: to be the same feeling. I mean, it was World
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Speaker 4: Series or bus last year. When you make the sheer
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Speaker 4: amount of moves at bringing as much talent that they
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Speaker 4: brought in this offseason. We understand the playoffs are a
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Speaker 4: crap shoot, but if they're not in the World Series
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Speaker 4: and like one win away from winning the title this year. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: it's hard to call it a failure, but it almost
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Speaker 4: feels like it would be a failure to not bring
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Speaker 4: home a title with all of these additions.
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Speaker 2: I mean, let's be honest, though, the Dodgers are always
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Speaker 2: expected to win, and I understand the argument that they
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Speaker 2: spend the most money, and I get it that guarantees
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Speaker 2: that you get into the postseason. It does not guarantee
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Speaker 2: that you win a World Championship. So they're used to
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Speaker 2: the pressure, they're used to having the bullseye on their back.
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Speaker 2: But man, this is a fun team. This is going
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Speaker 2: to be so much fun to watch. And we you
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Speaker 2: and I my friend are hoping to go down to
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Speaker 2: camel Back Ranch and take Dave Roberts up on the
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Speaker 2: offer that he put out to you and I when
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Speaker 2: he was on our show not that long ago that said, hey,
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Speaker 2: you know what, I know I was questioned during the postseason,
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Speaker 2: but I'm willing to sit down with the two of us,
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Speaker 2: Dave said and kind of go through those in game
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Speaker 2: moves that he had and what he was thinking of
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Speaker 2: and why he was moving those puzzle pieces. Of the
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Speaker 2: way that he was, So I'm looking forward to that.
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Speaker 2: So we're going to go down there. Foul Territory is
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Speaker 2: going to be down at camel Back Ranch. Looking forward
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Speaker 2: to that. Francisco, thanks for the super chat, my friend
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Speaker 2: four ninety nine from Francisco Diaz. Even on the NFL's
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Speaker 2: biggest day, mister Friedman and the Dodgers make headlines.
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Speaker 1: Love Keith av and.
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Speaker 2: Back, Let's go Dodgers, and congrats on your birds. Clint
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Speaker 2: didn't know that. I didn't know that you were an
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Speaker 2: Eagles fan?
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Speaker 3: Are you big time Birds fan? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I got I got my Super Bowl fifty two glass
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Speaker 4: up there. I was drinking lots of high balls out
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Speaker 4: of it. Jim Beams sponsor your boy again, and yeah.
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Speaker 3: It feels really really good. They telling me the.
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Speaker 4: Eagles couldn't have done it without me. But this is
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Speaker 4: not a show about the Philadelphia Eagles. This is a
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Speaker 4: show about the Dodgers and bringing Key k Hernandez back
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Speaker 4: and one piece, one piece left to complete. I guess
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Speaker 4: I'm going to call it the Infinity Gauntlet here for
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Speaker 4: the Frankie Freeman in this front office. You still need
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Speaker 4: to see Clayton Kershaw back. Even though he's not pitching
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Speaker 4: until July or August. I don't know how he fits
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Speaker 4: in the rotation, even after talking to Faby and Ardaya
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Speaker 4: about it last week while you were out. But still
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Speaker 4: just give us all the talent. Just keep it coming
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Speaker 4: to la I mean.
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Speaker 1: I doubt that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no doubt that Kershwasher. I just give
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Speaker 2: him a French name. He's French now. By the way,
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Speaker 2: I don't have a doubt in the world that Clayton's
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Speaker 2: going to be back, but he'll be back when he's
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Speaker 2: healthy and ready. Right, they don't need Clayton until September October,
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Speaker 2: so they're going to be fine. And this game has
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Speaker 2: a way of figuring it out. And as much talent
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Speaker 2: as we have, there's going to be need for pitching.
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Speaker 2: There always is because people unfortunately get hurt, you know,
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Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens. We're going to talk to
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Speaker 2: Andre Friedman back in just a moment, but before we do,
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Speaker 2: And no doubt that Andrew Friedman will be dialing one
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Speaker 2: eight hundred flowers to send to his lovely wife Robin.
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Speaker 2: She should get them every single day with the amount
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Speaker 2: of time that this man works uh and has to
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Speaker 2: spend time away from her and their three beautiful kids. Andrew,
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Dodgers territory. Two time World Series champion, President
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Speaker 2: of Baseball Ops for the Dodgers. It is great to
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Speaker 2: see you.
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Speaker 1: He as well, Thanks for having me on now.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate you very much. We were just talking about
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Speaker 2: Key k Hernandez, albeit not officially made by the Dodgers,
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Speaker 2: but Kik announced it himself. Looks like he's the twenty
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Speaker 2: sixth man on your roster, probably the last to sign.
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Speaker 2: I tell you what, why is he such an important piece,
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Speaker 2: Andrew to what this team wants to achieve. We know
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Speaker 2: that he lights up in the postseason, But why was
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Speaker 2: this important for you? Because you had said at Dodgers
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Speaker 2: Fest that the door has never closed on kyk.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is how we feel. The door
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Speaker 1: will never be closed on him. And you know, for him,
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Speaker 1: it was about you know, he and Mariana taking time
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Speaker 1: and figuring out what made the most sense for them.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't something for us that if we were not
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Speaker 1: able to line up with kk, where we were going
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Speaker 1: to go, Oh, here's the next best option. Like a
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Speaker 1: lot of times, you have a need, you're targeting a need,
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Speaker 1: you have the player at the top of your list
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Speaker 1: and then others. In this case, it was Kik or nothing.
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Speaker 1: And as you pointed out, still not official yet, but
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Speaker 1: obviously the impact you know he may has made in
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Speaker 1: October on field, it was obvious off field this past
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Speaker 1: October may have been the most impressive displays of leadership
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen. His connecting with different guys, going out
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Speaker 1: of his way on a number of different fronts was
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Speaker 1: quite possibly the most impressive leadership I've ever seen.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's impressive to see the man who what about
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Speaker 4: a decade ago, wore the banana suit. To see him
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Speaker 4: grow and mature to become the like you said, the leader.
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Speaker 4: It was very apparent during this postseason run, or this
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Speaker 4: last postseason run. It was impaarent when he put a
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Speaker 4: little bit of a target on himself talking to Ken
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Speaker 4: Rosenthal and maybe getting himself a little bit of a fine.
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Speaker 3: That was fun for everybody.
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Speaker 4: Keik is just one part of the equation added to
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Speaker 4: this team. You picked up a few Infinity stones. If
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Speaker 4: you're reading the memes out there on the internet, Key
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Speaker 4: K Snell, Tanner, Scott tay oscar Back, thank you for that.
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Speaker 4: Rokie frickin' Sasaki did the front office? Did you guys
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Speaker 4: hit on just about every point on your offseason checklist?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just to close up on Keyk real quickly. It
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Speaker 1: just goes to show nothing is impossible because you pointed
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Speaker 1: out the banana suit, and ten years ago, if you
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Speaker 1: would have said he is going to grow into this
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Speaker 1: kind of leader, I would have bet a lot of
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Speaker 1: money against. So it just goes to show things can
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Speaker 1: play out differently than you assume and expect. But no,
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to take a little dig at Kik.
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Speaker 1: But as far as the off season, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: not anything we take for granted. I've been doing this
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Speaker 1: a really long time and I've had a lot of
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Speaker 1: a plans going into an off season. It's hard to
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Speaker 1: make a deal. It's hard to sign a free agent,
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Speaker 1: it's hard to make a trade. Those things are difficult.
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Speaker 1: It's a really competitive industry and there's thirty really smart
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Speaker 1: teams all trying you know, to do similar ish things.
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Speaker 1: So it's really hard. And last offseason, in this offseason,
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Speaker 1: you know, the off seasons have gone basically with our
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Speaker 1: a plan, which is, you know, quite possibly something that
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Speaker 1: will never play out again in my career. You know,
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Speaker 1: very very fortunate, and it's not anything we take for
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Speaker 1: granted at all.
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Speaker 2: Andrew, let me ask you this because obviously you've been
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Speaker 2: around this game for an incredibly long time, one of
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Speaker 2: the bright minds.
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Speaker 3: In this game.
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Speaker 2: But you came from a very different organization in Tampa Bay.
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Speaker 2: It was run very differently. So with that comes to
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Speaker 2: challenges as well. You barely have you know, a deep
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Speaker 2: check book there. And with the Dodgers it's different. Now
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Speaker 2: you're known as the new Evil Empire. You're ruining baseball.
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Speaker 2: We're giving out too many contracts, all this deferred money,
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Speaker 2: which has always been there for some reason, people are
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Speaker 2: just talking about it this year with the Dodgers. What
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Speaker 2: are the challenges of both types of organizations And aside
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Speaker 2: from the fact that the money is different, what is
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Speaker 2: the biggest difference for you in that same role with
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Speaker 2: two different teams.
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Speaker 1: And we could do a whole lengthy podcast on that.
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Speaker 2: Oh, we have time, We'll keep you. We'll keep you
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Speaker 2: for hours if you want.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a lot of differences. And you know,
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Speaker 1: being in the American League East with the Rays and
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Speaker 1: our resources compared to the teams we were competing against,
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Speaker 1: we had to think about things differently. We had to
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Speaker 1: figure out levers, we had to be first to market
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Speaker 1: on different inefficiencies. And you know, as we're competing against
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Speaker 1: the Yankees and Red Sox, the greatest fear that I
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Speaker 1: had was that they would have their financial might and
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Speaker 1: be doing more cutting edge stuff and just being more proactive,
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Speaker 1: and just what a difficult combination those two would be.
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Speaker 1: And so when the Dodgers scene came around, you it
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Speaker 1: was an incredibly difficult decision for me personally in that
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Speaker 1: the people that I worked with, the Rais, we had
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Speaker 1: gone to each other's weddings and we're apart. You know.
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Speaker 1: It was just much more than you know, kind of
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Speaker 1: typical work dynamics. And but part of the intrigue for
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Speaker 1: me was, you know, I felt like I'd gotten to
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Speaker 1: the point where I was a little bit complacent. Turns out,
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Speaker 1: with retrospect, it wasn't quite that, But it was the
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Speaker 1: idea of taking certain aspects of what we did with
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Speaker 1: the rays and also having you know, the financial might
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Speaker 1: to back up some moves that combination and how specially
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Speaker 1: it could be, and just throwing myself in the deep end.
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Speaker 1: I didn't have any idea what CBT was or exactly
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Speaker 1: what went into it, and now I am incredibly well versed,
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Speaker 1: but it was throwing myself in the deep end on
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Speaker 1: a lot of fronts to rewire kind of how my
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Speaker 1: brain thinks about things. And you know, but payroll doesn't
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Speaker 1: decide the standings, and we've seen it time and time again,
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Speaker 1: and there are a lot of teams that have spent
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Speaker 1: a lot and haven't done well. There's teams that haven't
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Speaker 1: had a super high payroll that have done well. And
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Speaker 1: I think for me, the biggest thing about the focus
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Speaker 1: about our payroll the biggest thing in that. Well. One,
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Speaker 1: it's true and we have the financial might because of
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Speaker 1: the passionate fans that we have and we're investing back
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Speaker 1: the pressure we feel comes from our fans and the
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Speaker 1: passion they show for this team and us being able
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Speaker 1: to deliver for them one, but two, to me, it
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Speaker 1: takes away a lot of the accomplishments of so many people,
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Speaker 1: our scouting staff, our player development staff, our international guys
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Speaker 1: are R and D group. We have so many high
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Speaker 1: performing men and women in so many different roles that
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Speaker 1: are killing it professionally and have been a huge part
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Speaker 1: of the success we've had. That just kind of gets
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Speaker 1: washed away. It's like, oh, they're just spinning a lot,
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Speaker 1: so they're going to be good. It's the amount of
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Speaker 1: things we are doing really well because of so many
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Speaker 1: people that that is one thing that bothers me in
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Speaker 1: it is it's not giving enough credit for the amazing
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Speaker 1: work that so many.
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Speaker 2: Are doing, No question about that. Do you laugh when
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Speaker 2: people say you're the man ruining baseball?
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Speaker 1: You know, I've gotten asked that just twenty nine fan
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Speaker 1: bases feel that way, and I just turn it around
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Speaker 1: and say, the inverse of that means that our fans
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Speaker 1: are really happy, and that's what we're charged with and that's.
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Speaker 2: How you work for.
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Speaker 1: So there you go.
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this before Clint jumps in here.
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Speaker 2: Can you explain the situation and how things have kind
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Speaker 2: of changed in terms of show Hey Otani and the
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Speaker 2: whole you know, designated hitter and two way player type
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Speaker 2: of situation. If you look at it either the current
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Speaker 2: MLB season or any of the two previous seasons. So
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Speaker 2: this has been a recent change as of February seventh.
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Speaker 2: Can you explain what this means to our fan base?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wasn't aware of the change February seventh, and
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Speaker 1: that actually reads the same as my understanding of the rule.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, though the big change was it was one
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Speaker 4: it was the previous season before now previous two seasons.
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Speaker 4: MLB once again doing things to help the Mighty Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, uh, yeah, I guess if someone is out
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Speaker 1: two seasons, that's pretty significant in and of itself. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: the two way designation is incredibly helpful. You know, with
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Speaker 1: the thirteen pitcher limit, the two way designation allows us
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Speaker 1: to not count show as a pitcher, which in turn
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Speaker 1: allows us to have flexibility with our starting rotation and
19:08
Speaker 1: still maintain an eight man bullpen. And that was part
19:11
Speaker 1: of our pitch to Rokie, and something that we believed
19:16
Speaker 1: very strongly was no team was better equipped to bring
19:22
Speaker 1: him along in the major leagues than we were because
19:25
Speaker 1: of Showy, and we have given starters extra rest in
19:29
Speaker 1: the past, and we've been pretty aggressive doing it. It's
19:32
Speaker 1: hard and there's a friction that comes with it, especially
19:36
Speaker 1: now with the five option limit in each in each season,
19:42
Speaker 1: there's friction that comes with it. You're sending guys down,
19:45
Speaker 1: you're clicking along those five options, You're disrupting things a lot.
19:50
Speaker 1: We had determined in the past what we felt like
19:54
Speaker 1: was some advantage or at least most cautious of pro
20:00
Speaker 1: which for player health was that and so therefore it
20:03
Speaker 1: was worth it. But it wasn't costless, and you know,
20:07
Speaker 1: it just required us to communicate our way through it
20:09
Speaker 1: a lot. But it can be a little clumsy. But
20:12
Speaker 1: with shoe Hey, you can have an eight man pen
20:15
Speaker 1: and so not put your relievers at risk, and you
20:18
Speaker 1: can have flexibility on the starting front. And so that
20:22
Speaker 1: for us with show Hay coming back from injury, with
20:26
Speaker 1: Yamamoto in his second year with Roki, you know, with
20:30
Speaker 1: other guys Dustin May and Tony Gonslin coming off injury.
20:34
Speaker 1: It just gives us some flexibility to read and react
20:38
Speaker 1: to what's going on and how guys are recovering, which
20:40
Speaker 1: we can't know as we're sitting here on February tenth.
20:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's it's crazy you name you say all these names.
20:48
Speaker 4: We we haven't even talked Tyler Glass now in that
20:50
Speaker 4: mix as well. It's insane the amount of talent that
20:54
Speaker 4: this this organization has been able to accrue. We'll say,
20:57
Speaker 4: over the last couple of off seasons. It's it's been
21:00
Speaker 4: a special time for Dodgers fans since Guggenheim took over,
21:04
Speaker 4: since you came aboard and started running this organization a
21:07
Speaker 4: little bit more legacy. And then obviously we have a
21:09
Speaker 4: lot of things to look forward about in twenty twenty five.
21:12
Speaker 4: But I want to go back to when the Dodgers
21:14
Speaker 4: and you guys acquired Mookie Bets and the extension. We
21:18
Speaker 4: had asked you at the time, Hey, when are you
21:19
Speaker 4: building the Andrew Friedman statue. There's a lot of fans
21:22
Speaker 4: I would love to see the Andrew Friedman statue out there.
21:25
Speaker 4: But when you look at what you've done since the
21:30
Speaker 4: Mookie Bets trade and that extension and in the decades
21:32
Speaker 4: since coming to LA again understatement to say, it's been impressive,
21:36
Speaker 4: but you're not done yet. If you were to summarize
21:39
Speaker 4: the point of all this, if you were to summarize
21:41
Speaker 4: your first ten years in LA here and looking forward,
21:46
Speaker 4: you know, in a few words, describing what the next
21:48
Speaker 4: ten years look like. How would you do that?
21:52
Speaker 1: I stink at looking back. I'm just not very good
21:56
Speaker 1: at it. And I've joked that when I get fired,
21:59
Speaker 1: I will be able to like look back and take
22:02
Speaker 1: stock on the things that we were able to accomplish
22:05
Speaker 1: as a group. But I'm not very good at it.
22:08
Speaker 1: I'm so focused looking ahead. And you know, I've talked
22:11
Speaker 1: about this some, but from a big picture standpoint, our
22:16
Speaker 1: goal is for when we look back on this period,
22:19
Speaker 1: for this to be considered the golden era of Dodger Baseball.
22:23
Speaker 1: And that, to me sets such an incredibly high bar
22:27
Speaker 1: that as long as we are striving for that and
22:33
Speaker 1: working towards that and trying to get better at everything
22:36
Speaker 1: we do, the you know, the more fulfilling and satisfying
22:41
Speaker 1: it is, you know, more success that will have, et cetera.
22:45
Speaker 1: So I think that captures it as succinctly as I can.
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Speaker 3: All Right, I'm going to follow this one's for me.
22:51
Speaker 4: Then, if if there were to be an Andrew Friedman statue,
22:54
Speaker 4: would it be the robe?
22:55
Speaker 3: It's got to be the robe.
22:59
Speaker 1: I were like, maybe a desk that you like, maybe maybe?
23:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the essentia bottle right there.
23:07
Speaker 3: We Yeah, I got you.
23:10
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this because you did say Andrew
23:13
Speaker 2: that you're not good at looking back, and neither is
23:15
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw when I've asked him in the past. You know,
23:18
Speaker 2: can you appreciate what you've done? Obviously you're headed to Cooperstown,
23:21
Speaker 2: he said, No, I will at some point, is Kershaw? Obviously?
23:26
Speaker 2: I know that he wants to be a Dodger. I
23:28
Speaker 2: mean where do you where do you put him? And
23:30
Speaker 2: and do you do you legitimately see him coming back
23:33
Speaker 2: when he's healthy in you know, September October.
23:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think the one constant going back through
23:42
Speaker 1: my ten years obviously Kersh and the impact that he's
23:49
Speaker 1: had on the game, on the Dodgers. But the one
23:52
Speaker 1: constant has been, you know, us having fun arguments about
23:58
Speaker 1: when his return to play. He is so competitive and
24:02
Speaker 1: wants to be back the next day, and I am
24:06
Speaker 1: more cautious and want him back for a strong October run.
24:10
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's important to him to be a Dodger.
24:14
Speaker 1: It's important to us for him to be a Dodger.
24:17
Speaker 1: I've said this in the past. Things are just right
24:20
Speaker 1: in the world. When Clinton Kerschel is wearing a Dodger uniform.
24:24
Speaker 1: I will view it as a real failure on my
24:26
Speaker 1: part if he's not, and he deserves that, and you know,
24:32
Speaker 1: talk about a statue, that's a real statue.
24:39
Speaker 2: Maybe not with the not with the shirt off though celebrating.
24:42
Speaker 2: We're gonna go ahead and make sure he puts his
24:45
Speaker 2: jersey back on and give the.
24:47
Speaker 3: People what they want.
24:48
Speaker 4: Riz Come on, that's one guy you guys absolutely need back,
24:52
Speaker 4: and another guy too, I think complete that at what
24:54
Speaker 4: I said earlier, the Infinity Gauntlet is that Dave Roberts extension, which.
24:58
Speaker 3: We hear is in the works right now.
25:01
Speaker 4: Can you just talk about Dave and the growth that
25:03
Speaker 4: he has made as a manager. I don't know that
25:07
Speaker 4: anybody could have helped navigate the team with all the
25:11
Speaker 4: injuries and all the stress that happened this past postseason.
25:16
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody could have done it better than
25:18
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts.
25:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was phenomenal. And you know, it's funny people
25:24
Speaker 1: are like, oh, you know after the Padre series, like, oh,
25:28
Speaker 1: Dave finally managed a good postseason series, And there's just
25:34
Speaker 1: so much outcome around, so much of this, which I get,
25:37
Speaker 1: like it's the world we live in and but I
25:40
Speaker 1: don't think it was necessarily something where it's like he
25:44
Speaker 1: wasn't managing. I think he's always been a good manager,
25:48
Speaker 1: But like anyone that we work with are goals to
25:50
Speaker 1: get better every year. Like the people who don't have
25:54
Speaker 1: that growth mindset and are like, hey, I've got it
25:57
Speaker 1: figured out, those are not the people we want to
26:01
Speaker 1: work with. And so, you know, Dave has been really successful.
26:06
Speaker 1: He's of the mind to grow and learn and get better.
26:11
Speaker 1: You know, Like speaking for myself, I hope I'm better
26:13
Speaker 1: at my job a year from now than I am today.
26:16
Speaker 1: And so I think there's that natural kind of improvement
26:19
Speaker 1: that you know comes with the territory of someone who
26:23
Speaker 1: has that kind of growth mindset. So, you know, Doc
26:26
Speaker 1: has been a big part of our past success. He
26:30
Speaker 1: was a big part of our success lost October. But
26:34
Speaker 1: I don't think it was necessarily in a way that
26:36
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have done three or four or whatever years earlier.
26:41
Speaker 1: And you know, there's just so much outcome based narrative
26:45
Speaker 1: that comes that it's how to kind of sift through
26:48
Speaker 1: that a little bit. But yeah, we've you know, been
26:52
Speaker 1: through this a number of times with Doc and He's
26:56
Speaker 1: talked about how much he wants to be here, We've
26:57
Speaker 1: talked about how much we want on him here and
27:01
Speaker 1: have been successful looking back. It's just not something where
27:05
Speaker 1: I give any kind of play by play something. Whenever
27:09
Speaker 1: there's something to announce, whatever you know, we'll be sure
27:12
Speaker 1: and share it, all right.
27:14
Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman got me into the most exclusive restaurant in
27:17
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay when Morgan Wallen canceled his concert and I
27:21
Speaker 2: texted and I said, I have a night free. Can
27:23
Speaker 2: you get me to this restaurant? He did, So I'm
27:24
Speaker 2: going to ask you this, Can you get me two
27:26
Speaker 2: tickets to the Tokyo series because they're impossible with Otani
27:32
Speaker 2: Sasaki Yamamoto and him and auga. So let me know
27:36
Speaker 2: if you want your girl to come on the charter
27:38
Speaker 2: with you. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. You know, if
27:41
Speaker 2: you want your girl to come on the charter with you, again,
27:43
Speaker 2: you let me know. Andrew, you are wonderful. Congratulations, you're
27:47
Speaker 2: not getting fired. You are the best at what you do.
27:50
Speaker 2: We appreciate you very much. Thanks for taking time to
27:52
Speaker 2: be with Clinton and I on Dodger's territory, my friend, of.
27:56
Speaker 1: Course, Thank you guys for having me on enjoyed it all.
27:58
Speaker 2: Right, Andrew Friedman, the best president of baseball ops for
28:01
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. Let's get to Leslick's.
28:03
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
28:09
Speaker 2: All right. Paisley, guys, she is so sweet. Look at
28:12
Speaker 2: that little side eye. She's a little flirt. So you
28:14
Speaker 2: know she'd be great if you're a single guy. I
28:17
Speaker 2: want to attract the ladies. Paisley could be your wingwoman.
28:22
Speaker 2: She is getting Spade tomorrow. She's a great gal. She's
28:25
Speaker 2: an Australian Shepherd mix. She's about one year old. She's
28:29
Speaker 2: fully vaccinated. She's working on potty training. She's doing really
28:33
Speaker 2: well with that. She's great on a leash. She's good
28:35
Speaker 2: with other pups. If you're interested, she's being fostered right
28:38
Speaker 2: now in Santa Clarita, California. Reach out to me or
28:41
Speaker 2: Clint or Gidry's guardian and adopter. She's available and she's wonderful.
28:46
Speaker 2: All right, Clint thought for the road. I love this.
28:49
Speaker 2: I can't wait until you and I can see it
28:51
Speaker 2: in person at camel Back Ranch. But look at this
28:54
Speaker 2: a new look for twenty twenty five. This is at
28:56
Speaker 2: Camelback Ranch, Dodgers Spring Training. I believe this was from
28:59
Speaker 2: the right, John su who who's already there all of
29:03
Speaker 2: the World Series championships obviously if you look at twenty
29:06
Speaker 2: and twenty four the two most recent. But that's awesome.
29:09
Speaker 2: I mean, this is they're always doing stuff to elevate
29:12
Speaker 2: the fan experience and I'm super psyched to see this
29:16
Speaker 2: in the flesh.
29:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, they keep doing making improvements to Camelback Ranch.
29:23
Speaker 3: They understand one of the things.
29:24
Speaker 4: Andrew talked about there, it's not just about you know
29:27
Speaker 4: what we see at the immediate top of the organization.
29:30
Speaker 3: It's all the way to the very bottom.
29:32
Speaker 4: And it's something we've talked about a lot with people
29:34
Speaker 4: this offseason, you know, JJ Cooper Baseball America and I
29:37
Speaker 4: talked about it last week, Fobby and Ardaia as well.
29:40
Speaker 4: They invest in every aspect of this organization and doing
29:45
Speaker 4: something like that. Yeah, it's simple, but that's also I'm
29:47
Speaker 4: pretty sure on like a brand new building which helps
29:51
Speaker 4: with player growth development, all that kind of stuff. It's
29:55
Speaker 4: just a perfect, perfect organization. And I'm saying that slightly
30:00
Speaker 4: to if you do get those Tokyo tickets, I can
30:02
Speaker 4: be one of the tickets.
30:04
Speaker 2: Oh no, the two tickets is for you and I
30:06
Speaker 2: let's go, oh yeah, due, we gotta take you got
30:09
Speaker 2: to take international and uh and go to Tokyo and
30:13
Speaker 2: do it. We have to learn Japanese first though. Honestly,
30:16
Speaker 2: to Andrew Friedman, thank you so much for being here.
30:18
Speaker 2: That's huge, such great information. I love what he said
30:20
Speaker 2: about KIK, about the leadership stuff and the off season.
30:23
Speaker 2: You know, a little insight on kersh kind of what
30:25
Speaker 2: goes through a president of baseball operations mine. It's not easy.
30:28
Speaker 2: I don't envy the choices that they have to make,
30:30
Speaker 2: but do all of you listening and watching. Thanks for
30:33
Speaker 2: being with us. Clint and I are going to be
30:35
Speaker 2: back on Thursday for another live edition. We're going to
30:37
Speaker 2: try to get KIK on soon. Hopefully the Dodgers make
30:40
Speaker 2: it officials soon. Thanks for being with us. We appreciate
30:43
Speaker 2: you guys. We'll see on Thursday.
30:44
Speaker 3: Go bye,