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Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman joins DT · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Andrew Friedman, President of Basketball Operations, joining us now.
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Speaker 1: And Andrew is a man of his word because he
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Speaker 1: told me that he would come on in January, and
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Speaker 1: here he is on January twenty ninth, just at the
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Speaker 1: nick of time. Andrew, good to be with you, My goodness.
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Speaker 1: I tell you what, going into the off season, I thought,
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Speaker 1: you know, and all of my expert knowledge, that we
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Speaker 1: needed an outfielder and we needed a closer. Not only
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Speaker 1: did you check the box, Andrew, you checked it with
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Speaker 1: a big, big check mark. Congratulations on the off season.
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Speaker 1: Were those your two biggest targets as well? Getting an
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Speaker 1: unbelievable closer, the best available and getting the best available outfielder.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, first of all, thanks for having me on, and
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Speaker 2: like I said, it would be in January. So like
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Speaker 2: to kick the can as much as I can, but
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Speaker 2: obviously a man of my word, So thank you guys
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Speaker 2: for having me on. As far as as Sugar and Tucker, Tucker,
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Speaker 2: you know, for us, as we're sitting around, our goal
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Speaker 2: is to have a shorter off season than everyone else.
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Speaker 2: So as much as we are complaining about it in
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Speaker 2: the moment, and you know, doing the best we can
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Speaker 2: to get caught up on the off season. You know,
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Speaker 2: we sit down and talk to our existing roster and
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Speaker 2: look at you know, potential needs and line up the
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Speaker 2: free agent market and the trade market, and for us,
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Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker and Edwin Diaz were at the top of
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Speaker 2: that list. You don't know how things are going to
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Speaker 2: play out. In fact, in my head, Edwin was going
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Speaker 2: to go back to the Mets, and so we were
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Speaker 2: more focused on other you know, kind of more realistic targets.
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Speaker 3: But you know, near the end.
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Speaker 2: Before we close the deal, we started to sense that
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Speaker 2: opening that we had a real chance and we struck.
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Speaker 2: And you know, we talked about Tucker more recently, but
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Speaker 2: obviously for us, it was about maintaining a shorter term deal,
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Speaker 2: and anytime you're doing that, you're introducing risk being able
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Speaker 2: to get that done. So I wouldn't say we were
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Speaker 2: confident about it, but you know, five seven days before
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Speaker 2: we were, before we signed him, we started to get
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Speaker 2: some sense that we had a real chance.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exceptional additions, obviously, I think the real question we
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Speaker 4: should have opened with, the thing that's on everybody's mind,
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Speaker 4: how are the Golden Globes?
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Speaker 3: Andrew?
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Speaker 2: They were good, they were good I'm sure it's on
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Speaker 2: everyone's mind. You know, Todd Bowleyer ownership group is very
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Speaker 2: involved with Dick Clark productions, and so it was a
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Speaker 2: cool experience. You know, you're so marred and the day
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Speaker 2: to day and the stress of the off season of
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Speaker 2: the season, so to step back from it and watch
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Speaker 2: other people be stressed was fun.
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Speaker 4: And also being a part of another you got a
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Speaker 4: viral clip. You're in the background of Leo's shot, whatever
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Speaker 4: he's got going on there. That's a lot of fun.
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Speaker 4: As somebody who covers his team watches his team. The
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Speaker 4: off season was a lot more fun for me. You know,
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Speaker 4: it's funny to me that it feels like the Edwin
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Speaker 4: Diaz signing happened and we've just kind of glossed over
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Speaker 4: that kind of everybody's already moving on. Is like, what
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Speaker 4: else do you and Brandon have cooking? Uh, you guys
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Speaker 4: were cooking. Obviously a little bit of a slow off
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Speaker 4: season for what we're used to, but still very good.
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Speaker 4: Bringing back Miggie row you got, you got, you mentioned
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Speaker 4: what we got?
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Speaker 3: What is it?
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Speaker 4: Sugar and and uh the Sugar and Tucker LLC. Is
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Speaker 4: what Alana said in our chat. Andy Ebanie is added
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Speaker 4: to the mix. What can you say more about adding
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Speaker 4: Edwin Diaz? Here's the point, adding Edwin Diaz that bullpen
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Speaker 4: that we thought would be a massive strength for this
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Speaker 4: club last year, and then obviously you had to scramble
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Speaker 4: a little bit.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 4: What does adding a closer to the back end of
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Speaker 4: that bullpen really do to help solidify things and makes
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Speaker 4: mcdoc's life a little bit easier.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we talked about this a lot. I
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Speaker 2: think bullpen is the hardest thing to pin down. And
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Speaker 2: it's funny because it almost feels like there's an inverse
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Speaker 2: relationship between the better I feel about it in spring
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Speaker 2: training and the worse it does versus some more were.
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Speaker 3: Worried consumed I am by it the better.
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Speaker 2: Obviously that's not actually correct, but it's how it feels.
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Speaker 2: It is definitely the toughest part of roster building and
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Speaker 2: just comes with the most volatility. So obviously last year
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Speaker 2: was not the strength we expected it to be, but
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Speaker 2: even going into this offseason, we expect it to be
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Speaker 2: a strength in twenty twenty six. Just looking at the names,
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Speaker 2: you know, different looks, right hand, left handed, different arsenal mixes, just.
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Speaker 3: Felt like it was going to be a strength.
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Speaker 2: Now that being said, and what that put us in
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Speaker 2: position to do, it's just shoot at the very top.
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Speaker 2: We weren't looking to lengthen it and add depth. We
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Speaker 2: have a lot of depth. We have a lot of
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Speaker 2: really talented arms, and so for us, if we could
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Speaker 2: put someone at the top of that and beyond what
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Speaker 2: Edwin does on the mound, just the type of teammate
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Speaker 2: he is, like we saw it in the NLCS in
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Speaker 2: twenty four his willingness to come into a game in
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Speaker 2: the third inning, fourth inning, fifth whatever, all he wants
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Speaker 2: to do is win, and just the way that can
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Speaker 2: permeate clubhouse and an organization beyond the obvious kind of
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Speaker 2: talent points.
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Speaker 3: Uh, definitely were a factor as well.
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Speaker 5: Andrew High, Hello, nice to see you, coming to you
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Speaker 5: live from an airport, so that's super fun. So with
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Speaker 5: any of her sounds right in the background, my question
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Speaker 5: for you. We had some some topics about the WBC
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Speaker 5: come Up Team Japan released their roster. Yamamotos on there
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Speaker 5: we knew show he was going to play no Roki.
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Speaker 5: What were the obviously you guys do play a decision here,
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Speaker 5: the kind of talking points you went through, and then
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Speaker 5: what are the pitching plans for Yamamoto and Otani.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, from our standpoint, it's easy to be
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Speaker 2: supportive of the WBC as a fan of baseball, someone
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Speaker 2: who loves the game and it's looking for it to
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Speaker 2: continue to grow and get better.
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Speaker 3: It's easy to love the WBC.
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Speaker 2: Now in my specific role, it's a little bit harder,
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Speaker 2: but have to kind of set that aside, and so
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Speaker 2: our conversations we understand the immense pride that these guys
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Speaker 2: feel for representing their country and that competition. And you
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Speaker 2: know that Otani trout that just Japan US game was
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Speaker 2: one of the more fun you know, because obviously when
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers are playing, I would not describe my experience
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Speaker 2: as fun. Ever, so watching that game was like I
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Speaker 2: felt like a fan, Like there was a real level
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Speaker 2: of enjoyment.
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Speaker 3: So I get it.
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Speaker 2: And the reason it is so enjoyable is because of
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Speaker 2: how much pride these guys have and how badly they
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Speaker 2: want to win for their country, and you could feel it.
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Speaker 3: It's palpable.
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Speaker 2: So talking to these guys, it's just about partner up
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Speaker 2: with them and understanding where they're at, what their thoughts
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Speaker 2: are you know how we do it in the best way.
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Speaker 2: We have designs of playing through October, so what does
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Speaker 2: that look like in February March, and.
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Speaker 3: Just how to balance all of it.
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Speaker 2: But really good conversations with all those guys, and you know,
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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, we are supportive.
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Speaker 1: And Roki Saslaki Andrew of course a big part of
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers future moving forward. And this is a kid
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Speaker 1: that obviously has a tremendous amount of talent, but he
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Speaker 1: is still young. A third pitch I think would be helpful.
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Speaker 1: Brandon Gomes said that you guys see him as a
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Speaker 1: starter at least in the onset. Would you be willing
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Speaker 1: to have him perhaps start the season in triple A
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Speaker 1: to continue to work on that third pitch or what
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Speaker 1: do you see his role in the immediate future?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think last year all in all,
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Speaker 2: was a really good experience for him. You know, he
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Speaker 2: was able to dominate in the MPB with those two pitches,
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Speaker 2: and frankly, I think he could hear as well with
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Speaker 2: being able to execute his pitches at a higher level.
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Speaker 2: Last year, just delivery was out of whack, velocity was
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Speaker 2: down a little bit, ability to execute was off a
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Speaker 2: little bit, So it's either you know, adding that third
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Speaker 2: pitch or elevating the pitch making ability. And we've seen
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Speaker 2: that from him in the past. Uh, you know, we
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Speaker 2: talked about this last year. We see this a lot
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Speaker 2: with guys who have some kind of soft tissue injury,
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Speaker 2: whether it's a hamstring, and the way that affects how
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Speaker 2: they get off the mound, which has downstream effects through
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Speaker 2: their delivery, or an oblique where you're looking to rotate
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Speaker 2: and create it in a different way because subconsciously you're
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Speaker 2: protecting that oblique.
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Speaker 3: We see it all the time, and.
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Speaker 2: Obviously that happened with Roki when he was in Japan
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Speaker 2: and then his last year in Japan. You know, we
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Speaker 2: don't necessarily have the same insights that we have when
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Speaker 2: a guy's our player or playing in the major leagues,
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Speaker 2: and so that coupled with it, it takes time to
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Speaker 2: build trust and we weren't looking to try to force that.
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Speaker 2: We're playing the long game with Rokie, but I feel
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Speaker 2: like we got to a place of a lot more
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Speaker 2: trust and that comes from, you know, building a relationship,
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Speaker 2: and so we couldn't be more bullish on what he's
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Speaker 2: capable of. He is an extremely talented pitching prospect, and
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Speaker 2: you know, sometimes takes those guys a little bit of
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Speaker 2: time to put things together. But I will bet on
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Speaker 2: him having a really long and really good major league career.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's been my argument for sure, telling people who
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Speaker 4: were like, well, they just put Roki in the bullpen.
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Speaker 4: Obviously you won a World Series with him in the bullpen,
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Speaker 4: but you don't bail on somebody with the upside of
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Speaker 4: a starting pitcher. And there was a reason everybody wanted
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Speaker 4: Roki Sasaki last winter. Of course, you guys were lucky
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Speaker 4: enough to be the one to land him. Got a
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Speaker 4: pretty good landing spot there. Seeing some of the questions
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Speaker 4: in the chat, I'll find a way to make it
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Speaker 4: a little less direct about a player name, but any
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Speaker 4: other moves in the hopper for you guys before you
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Speaker 4: report to camp in a couple weeks. Maybe a fan favorite,
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Speaker 4: maybe somebody with some postseason and World Series experience, Maybe
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Speaker 4: somebody with a Tober named after them.
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Speaker 3: Something in the works.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we're still having conversations on a few
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Speaker 2: different fronts, and you know, for us, it's about putting
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Speaker 2: the best team we can together, not just as we
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Speaker 2: break in April, but what it could potentially look like
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Speaker 2: in October, and from our standpoint, we talked about it
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Speaker 2: a lot last year, we want to do everything we
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Speaker 2: can to stay out of the buyside market in July.
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Speaker 2: You know, prices are one hundred and fifty two hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty percent more at that time. So just trying
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Speaker 2: to get in front of it as much as we can.
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Speaker 3: And so we are.
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Speaker 2: Viewing moves through that lens and continuing to have conversations
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Speaker 2: about bringing back guys that can help us win a
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Speaker 2: championship in twenty twenty.
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Speaker 3: We'll accept that. I'll accept that answer.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, spoken like a true front office executive, so very
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Speaker 5: well rehearsed, Andrew, you want to focus a little bit
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Speaker 5: on another fan favorite. We talked in the winter meetings
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Speaker 5: that Tommy Edmon is likely going to be delayed to
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Speaker 5: start spring. Let's start with a little prognosis update on him,
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Speaker 5: if you have an idea on what his spring will
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Speaker 5: look like. And then while yes, you could make another
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Speaker 5: couple of editions to this roster, what a second base
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Speaker 5: look like for you right now? Andy Evania is coming in.
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Speaker 5: You can give him a longer run, but if Tommy
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Speaker 5: misses extended time, how are you looking to fill that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Tommy, the arrows pointing up just went and got
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Speaker 2: evaluated again for that checkup, and everything is pointed in
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Speaker 2: a good direction. Exactly what that means, we don't know
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Speaker 2: yet until we really start ramping up baseball activity, getting
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Speaker 2: him in spikes and doing it day after day after day.
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Speaker 2: How the body responds well, dictate a lot of it.
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Speaker 2: And so we're not going to be foolish and try
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Speaker 2: to cut corners. But that being said, we're also not
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Speaker 2: going to artificially.
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Speaker 3: Hold him back.
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Speaker 2: And so we'll have a much better feel as we
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Speaker 2: get into February, and you know, kind of by late February,
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Speaker 2: we'll have an idea whether we have the runway to
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Speaker 2: safely build him up and be ready or if we don't.
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Speaker 3: And if we don't, we feel.
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Speaker 2: Really good about, you know, Alex Freeland, Hessan kim A Bonyez,
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Speaker 2: Miggie Rowe. We just have a combination of guys that
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Speaker 2: we feel like, you know, can help hold down that
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Speaker 2: spot for us and do it at a pretty high level.
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Speaker 1: Miggie Rowe is obviously solidified in terms of what he
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Speaker 1: can do for this club. How much more of a
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Speaker 1: runway Andrew? If more would you like to give Hessan
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Speaker 1: Kim in terms of being able to see what he
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Speaker 1: can do with or I know a lot of it
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Speaker 1: is dependent upon Tommy Edmund and the health, but would
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Speaker 1: you like to see him out there more? What's the plan?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I mean I feel the same way about Freeland. So
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Speaker 2: you know, we've got, you know, kind of one spot
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Speaker 2: short of injury, and you know, let those guys kind
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Speaker 2: of duke it out some. Both are really talented young players.
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Speaker 2: They kind of get to their value in slightly different ways,
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Speaker 2: but both great workers, great makeup and real ability, and
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Speaker 2: so you know, we have to figure out and you
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Speaker 2: never want someone to get hurt, but obviously things will
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Speaker 2: happen and guys will get some runway, and we need
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Speaker 2: to be able to provide that runway for our young
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Speaker 2: players to get a better sense and a better read.
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Speaker 2: And for us, it's about integrating those guys onto our
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Speaker 2: roster over the next two, three, four or five years.
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Speaker 2: So when we can get those runways and opportunities, we're
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Speaker 2: going to be aggressive to do.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 4: One thing that really excites me, and if Mark Pryor
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Speaker 4: recalls being on our show a couple of times. He
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Speaker 4: knows I love talking pitching, particularly starting pitching.
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Speaker 3: I love this.
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Speaker 4: Era that we are in, of this rotation that you
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Speaker 4: guys have assembled. You know, I'm gonna throw it on
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Speaker 4: the screen because it is an electric collection of arms.
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Speaker 4: We hope everybody can stay happy and healthy and provide
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Speaker 4: some innings for the team of the course, with the
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Speaker 4: regand season into the postseason, YadA, YadA. Is this Andrew
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Speaker 4: the best starting rotation in the history of baseball?
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Speaker 3: That's a tough question.
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Speaker 2: It's definitely the best sort of rotation I've ever been around,
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Speaker 2: and the deepest.
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Speaker 3: Is the deepest and best collection of arms I've ever
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Speaker 3: been around.
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Speaker 2: As we got into the off season and kind of
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Speaker 2: assessing where we're at, what we're looking for, it really
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Speaker 2: kind of solidified and set in of just how special
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Speaker 2: this group of arms are and shouldn't take it for granted.
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Speaker 2: It's not a common, easy thing to reproduce. So while
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Speaker 2: mired it, really enjoying it and savoring it and doing
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Speaker 2: everything we can to help further it and continue it well.
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Speaker 5: Going off of that, we just saw the arms pitching
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Speaker 5: depth is, as you know, one of the most pivotal
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Speaker 5: important things an organization can have, regardless of what you're
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Speaker 5: spending on the major league roster. If you don't have
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Speaker 5: triple A depth and ready to go arms, you don't
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Speaker 5: really have much of anything. As we get to pitchers
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Speaker 5: and catchers in just two weeks, what excites you about
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Speaker 5: the back end of the rotation. I know we've talked
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Speaker 5: about potentially doing a hybrid six man to start the year.
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Speaker 5: A lot of these things will answer themselves as spring
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Speaker 5: goes on, but as you're coming to camp, what names
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Speaker 5: are you looking at to kind of fill out the
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Speaker 5: back end of your rotation?
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Speaker 3: I mean, for us, I think.
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Speaker 2: There's so many talented arms that it's hard to say,
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Speaker 2: you know this guy that guy, But I think two
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Speaker 2: guys I'm really excited to see her Gavin Stone and
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Speaker 2: River Ryan, both obviously really talented young pitchers. You know,
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Speaker 2: Stony was in the middle of an incredibly impressive season.
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Speaker 2: River came up and had that you know, five start
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Speaker 2: run where he showed off his potential. Both are coming
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Speaker 2: off surgery, both are doing well, but seeing them in
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Speaker 2: camp and watching how they rebound and how they're holding
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Speaker 2: their stuff are all things that I'm really interested and
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Speaker 2: excited to see this.
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Speaker 1: Spring Andrew, how strange will it be to go to
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Speaker 1: Camelback Ranch, be its spring training, start games, all the
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Speaker 1: things without number twenty two in that clubhouse?
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Speaker 3: It is definitely going to be.
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Speaker 2: You know, hopefully we're fortunate enough to get him to
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Speaker 2: work with us, but it won't be the same not
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Speaker 2: having him around on a daily basis. And you know
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Speaker 2: signed him last year to help provide depth and obviously
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Speaker 2: anytime Clayton Kershaw wants to go at it, you want
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Speaker 2: that competitor on your side. But for him to finish
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Speaker 2: second and innings on our team, you know, based on
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Speaker 2: the conversations in March and how much time he was
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Speaker 2: going to miss to start the year, just isn't surprising
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Speaker 2: with that, guys. So beyond what he means, uh, you know,
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Speaker 2: over the over his career and the impact he's had
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Speaker 2: on this city, the impact he has in our clubhouse,
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Speaker 2: he was also still really good and so you know,
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Speaker 2: missing out on all of those things are a very
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Speaker 2: real point. But hopefully we've got the depth and the
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Speaker 2: talent around and then some of his influence around that
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Speaker 2: to help bring it up even more.
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Speaker 4: What I what I love is you're so.
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Speaker 2: Good, shameless plug curse in case you're listening.
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Speaker 1: Come work for us.
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Speaker 4: Well, we hear he's getting this this with us. We
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Speaker 4: hear he's getting this NBC deal. Maybe he's gonna be
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Speaker 4: a broadcaster, which, by the way, I love, love to
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Speaker 4: plug him into the end of the booth with Joe
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Speaker 4: and Ral because my god, the report between those three
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Speaker 4: is great. But curse, it's just as he's gotten on
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Speaker 4: in years he has. He's just phenomenal at everything he does.
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Speaker 4: Going to miss that dude in the clubhouse going from
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Speaker 4: Glazing twenty two to to Clayze and Andrew Friedman here.
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Speaker 4: So good at your your job.
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Speaker 3: You're so good at everything you'rezing. I know, I know.
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Speaker 4: That's why I make sure we've got a nice intimate
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Speaker 4: two shot here so everybody can see you. You're so
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Speaker 4: good the things you do. You got yourself another gig
18:13
Speaker 4: this off season, of course, helping out Mark Walter with
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Speaker 4: with the Lakers. A lot of people are like, oh,
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Speaker 4: this is why they were slow in the off season
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Speaker 4: early because he's so busy with that Lakers job. Help
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Speaker 4: help kind of clear the air for people who aren't
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Speaker 4: really in the know with what you're doing there, like
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Speaker 4: in that advisory role with Rob p Lincoln and just
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Speaker 4: what you're doing with you know, the Purple and Gold
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Speaker 4: on the other side of not the other side of town,
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Speaker 4: I guess, just down the road on the one ten there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean on far on A spending a lot
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Speaker 2: of time helping you know, Mark and all of his
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Speaker 2: different interests.
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Speaker 3: I've got a pretty full time gig here.
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Speaker 2: That being said, you know, we're all kind of under
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Speaker 2: this TWG umbrella and it's about providing resources to one
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Speaker 2: another and whatever benefit we can get, you know, kind
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Speaker 2: of collaborating and you know that's kind of how we
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Speaker 2: see it and anything that's kind of under Mark's umbrella.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of on all of us to be able
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Speaker 2: to work together and achieve the best outcomes for for TWG. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, still a full time job here. Definitely not
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Speaker 2: taking my eye off the ball, but just having really
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Speaker 2: good conversations with Rob Polenka. You know, Farhan has jumped
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Speaker 2: in there some and you know Rob came out to
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Speaker 2: our town hall Dodger Organization town hall and did a
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Speaker 2: Q and A with with Gohmer and myself and just
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Speaker 2: all kind of leaning in together. To work together and
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Speaker 2: try to figure out the best ways to bring as
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Speaker 2: many championships to Los Angeles as we can.
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Speaker 3: Love.
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Speaker 5: That got it right, all right, Andrew, Let's let's stick
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Speaker 5: to the championship talk, because unfortunately my prior stop I
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Speaker 5: didn't really get a lot of postseason games. You, on
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Speaker 5: the other hand, have your very fair share. And I
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Speaker 5: was wondering, as you're watching the World Series go on,
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Speaker 5: whether it was Game three, whether it was Game six
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Speaker 5: or Game seven, is there any moment that stood out
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Speaker 5: during that World Series? But I think we can all
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Speaker 5: say one of the best ball classics of all time
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Speaker 5: that stood out too, like this isn't normal, or this
20:17
Speaker 5: is really cool, just as a baseball mind that you
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Speaker 5: were witnessing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there was a very intense series. Everyone
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Speaker 2: keeps talking about how great it was, and I'm sure
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Speaker 2: it was for for.
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Speaker 3: A lot of people.
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Speaker 2: There were times where I had to like step back
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Speaker 2: and remember to breathe, like to take breasts, something.
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Speaker 3: I'm not very proud of.
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Speaker 2: I may or may not have spiked a barstool in
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Speaker 2: that Game three, and it's because of the.
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Speaker 3: Range of emotions.
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Speaker 2: Will Smith hits a ball to center that in my
20:54
Speaker 2: mind is definitely a hoper and bar show goes back
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Speaker 2: and catches it, and so I'm like the excitement of
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Speaker 2: the homer to the catch next inning, and I might
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Speaker 2: have accidentally let the barstool slip. But you know, Game seven,
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Speaker 2: I've always said that the way I am wired, I
21:15
Speaker 2: cannot handle extra innings of Game seven of the World Series.
21:18
Speaker 2: I don't know how people do it. I could not
21:21
Speaker 2: handle it, and it turns out you just do it.
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Speaker 2: Definitely wasn't mentally prepared for it. You're just in it.
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Speaker 2: And it's a surreal feeling. And just the amount of
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Speaker 2: times I have said that and then to be in it,
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Speaker 2: it was pretty surreal.
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Speaker 3: At least you.
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Speaker 1: Didn't throw the barstool over the wall at the bar
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Speaker 1: and land on some police officers in Nashville. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you got that going for you waiting.
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Speaker 4: I was waiting for the Morgan walland by the way,
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Speaker 4: I was waiting for that.
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Speaker 1: Real people listen. By the way, Andrew, if you ever
21:52
Speaker 1: meet him, your girl Alana loves him, Let's get that together.
21:56
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the stuff behind you. I love, love
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Speaker 1: love the picture sure of Bran Tricky obviously with Jackie Robinson.
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Speaker 1: So special, so important, A sport changing move, a franchise
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Speaker 1: changing move. So everybody knows about that. But what about
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Speaker 1: over your right shoulder?
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Speaker 3: The lineup?
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Speaker 2: What his lineup card from the twenty twenty World Series
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Speaker 2: Game six?
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Speaker 3: And a picture of my family I can't tell little Yeah,
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Speaker 3: his are so little. That's so sweet.
22:35
Speaker 1: Before I let you go, and I know Katie has
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Speaker 1: to get on a plane per usual. Rocco ball Dully
22:39
Speaker 1: a new addition to the Dodgers coaching staff, or at
22:42
Speaker 1: least the staff there. I mean, this is most of
22:44
Speaker 1: your coaching staff hasn't has gone unchanged for obvious reasons.
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Speaker 1: Incredibly successful. I know you know Rocco from the Tampa
22:51
Speaker 1: Bay days. What does he bring to the club. What
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Speaker 1: do you expect his role to be?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I had Rocco as a player and then hired. He
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Speaker 2: did a lot of scouting, He was involved in a
23:02
Speaker 2: lot of our trade discussions and just really part of
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Speaker 2: our inner circle. Went on to coach the Rays after
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Speaker 2: I left, and then obviously was managed the Twins for
23:13
Speaker 2: a while. And he is as good of a person
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Speaker 2: as there is in this game.
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Speaker 3: The way he's able to connect.
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Speaker 2: With guys, just the thoughtfulness and we have a lot
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Speaker 2: of really talented minor league outfielders. We have really talented
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Speaker 2: minor league outfield coaches as well, but Roco to be
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Speaker 2: able to help add value there.
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Speaker 3: Will be significant.
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Speaker 2: Roco's scouting eye is great, Roco's ability to ask questions
23:41
Speaker 2: and just you know, for him to come in and
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Speaker 2: connect with the people we have in place and get
23:46
Speaker 2: to know them, be around in spring training. You know,
23:50
Speaker 2: we intentionally left it a little bit vague and we'll
23:53
Speaker 2: kind of see where things take us. But he's capable
23:56
Speaker 2: of doing anything in this game and just an incredible teammate.
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Speaker 2: And I'm excited for the guys here to all have
24:02
Speaker 2: a chance to work with them.
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Speaker 4: Andrews, we let you go here. There's a line in Ghostbusters,
24:08
Speaker 4: the original Ghostbusters. He got the tools, he got the talent.
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Speaker 3: What ghost was afraid of? No ghosts.
24:17
Speaker 4: There's another great Bill Murray line too, which is true
24:19
Speaker 4: what they say this man has no dick, But we
24:21
Speaker 4: don't need to get into that line as well. Great movie, great,
24:23
Speaker 4: very quotable movie. What went wrong if the Los Angeles
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Speaker 4: Dodgers aren't repeating this year? Putting you on the spot man?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, obviously injuries always play a prominent role. But
24:43
Speaker 2: you know, twenty four and twenty five was the first
24:46
Speaker 2: time a team had won back to back in over
24:49
Speaker 2: twenty years. The nature of the playoff system in baseball
24:54
Speaker 2: sets up for there to be more randomness than in
24:57
Speaker 2: other sports. It's a fact, and so you have to
25:03
Speaker 2: have some good fortune and obviously have a lot of talent.
25:06
Speaker 2: So hopefully we're bringing a lot of talent to the table.
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Speaker 2: You know, first, we obviously have to qualify for October,
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Speaker 2: and then if we're fortunate enough to do so, you
25:15
Speaker 2: need some good fortune. But we feel like we'll be
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Speaker 2: bringing a really talented roster to the party. And for me,
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Speaker 2: I'd rather focus on the things that can go right
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Speaker 2: and you know all the different outs we could have
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Speaker 2: of how to be as good as we could be.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you've earned that right. Congratulations, back to back World
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Speaker 1: Series champions, going for the three. Pete, Andrew Friedman, Tel
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Speaker 1: Robin and the kids. Hello, thank you so much for
25:39
Speaker 1: taking the time. We will see you at spring training
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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, and just thanks for putting
25:43
Speaker 1: such a good product on the field and giving us
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Speaker 1: some to talk about. It's a pleasure. Thanks so much.
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Speaker 3: Thank you guys.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on Safe Travels, Katie,