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- 0:00Speaker 1: In our organization.
- 0:01Speaker 2: You know, we're feeling the ramifications of the series, but
- 0:04Speaker 2: it's across you know, the landscape baseball is a whole
- 0:06Speaker 2: lot of teams are dealing with injuries.
- 0:20Speaker 3: What up, everybody, and welcome to the Wednesday slash Thursday
- 0:24Speaker 3: edition of Dodgers Territory. We are your hosts. I am
- 0:27Speaker 3: Alana Rizzo. That is Clint Piscias. We love that you
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- 0:46Speaker 3: you get your pods. A big show for you today.
- 0:48Speaker 3: We're excited about it. Dodgers pitching coach entering his sixth
- 0:50Speaker 3: year as the pitching coach of your LA Dodgers, Mark
- 0:53Speaker 3: Pryor is going to join us shortly. But first we're
- 0:57Speaker 3: going to introduce you to a new segment. It is
- 1:00Speaker 3: the Arena club Player, Spotlight. Hitt it, Clint, let's do it.
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- 1:13Speaker 3: of ours here on Dodgers' territory as well as the
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- 1:19Speaker 3: be talking about. We don't talk about show Hey Otani enough,
- 1:22Speaker 3: so let's absolutely make him our arena club spotlight player.
- 1:26Speaker 3: This is a dude, right, I mean, this is a
- 1:28Speaker 3: guy that is so unbelievably gifted. Entering play Clint on
- 1:34Speaker 3: Wednesday the twenty first, as we sit here and we
- 1:37Speaker 3: record this show, he is nine for twenty seven with
- 1:39Speaker 3: three doubles, three home runs, seven stakes, six runs scored
- 1:44Speaker 3: in six games versus the Diamondbacks this season. How about
- 1:48Speaker 3: some fun with numbers? Will you on? Show Hey. He's
- 1:51Speaker 3: batting three twenty three, four thirteen, six, seventy nine with
- 1:54Speaker 3: thirty eight homers, seventy five ribbies and ninety eight runs
- 1:57Speaker 3: scored in one hundred and six regular season games at
- 2:01Speaker 3: Chavez Ravine as a member of the do Yeers. That's
- 2:04Speaker 3: a lot of numbers I just threw out there. But
- 2:06Speaker 3: the point is, sho Hey Otani is so awesome, and
- 2:10Speaker 3: by the way, he's getting closer to facing hitters. We'll
- 2:14Speaker 3: get into that with Mark Pryor coming up. But he's
- 2:18Speaker 3: just a dude.
- 2:19Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know amongst the league leaders and wins
- 2:21Speaker 5: above replacements, dollin bases, batting average, you know, a leader
- 2:27Speaker 5: in homers and all that, just so dang good at baseball.
- 2:30Speaker 5: And I said, as of the time we're film in
- 2:33Speaker 5: this recording this, he's he's fifth in baseball and wins
- 2:35Speaker 5: above replacement. That we like you said, it's getting healthier,
- 2:38Speaker 5: getting closer to getting him on a mound where he
- 2:40Speaker 5: is essentially the war cheat code. When Showhy is healthy,
- 2:44Speaker 5: it is on the mound. And we did get a
- 2:45Speaker 5: positive update this week from Dave robertson company. Yes, he
- 2:49Speaker 5: finally has mixed breaking pitches into his routine. He's doing
- 2:54Speaker 5: that on flat ground, but he's already thrown off a
- 2:56Speaker 5: bullpen mound. So that means we are inching closer to
- 2:59Speaker 5: him facing, which means we're inching closer to needing to
- 3:03Speaker 5: see how they figure out what a rehab situation looks like,
- 3:07Speaker 5: because it's pretty difficult to lose your lead off hitter
- 3:09Speaker 5: and your DH and all that kind of stuff. He
- 3:12Speaker 5: can't go run off to Rancho Kucamonga and start some games,
- 3:15Speaker 5: but just at this point right now, obviously a lota
- 3:20Speaker 5: Like you said, We're gonna talk to Mark about all
- 3:22Speaker 5: of the pitching injuries, Like how much of a boost
- 3:24Speaker 5: when adding somebody who's not only an MVP with just
- 3:27Speaker 5: a bat, but a legitimate cy Young Award contender with
- 3:32Speaker 5: I guess the arm to the pitching match how much?
- 3:36Speaker 3: I mean? It would obviously be massive, Clint, But I
- 3:39Speaker 3: will say this, there is a caveat to the massiveness
- 3:41Speaker 3: of this. He has to be healthy and he has
- 3:44Speaker 3: to be ready. I do not want them to force
- 3:46Speaker 3: show Hao time. Not that they would force him, but
- 3:48Speaker 3: I do not want them to force show Heyo Tani
- 3:51Speaker 3: to come back sooner than he is ready to because
- 3:55Speaker 3: of the decimation of injuries to this starting staff and
- 3:58Speaker 3: even to the bullpen that is obviously being overworked and taxed,
- 4:02Speaker 3: just because of the lack of starting arms in the Dodgers' rotation.
- 4:05Speaker 3: If he's healthy, if he's ready, if he's stretched out,
- 4:08Speaker 3: if it makes sense, bring it. But please do not
- 4:11Speaker 3: rush him back just because we desperately need some starting arms.
- 4:15Speaker 3: We can sustain up until he's actually ready. We will
- 4:19Speaker 3: be fine. The Dodgers are still in first place. It's
- 4:21Speaker 3: May twenty first as we sit here today. Just don't
- 4:24Speaker 3: force the issue. But yes, of course, if he's ready,
- 4:27Speaker 3: I cannot wait to see him, and we will talk
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- 5:42Speaker 4: He's pretty important.
- 5:43Speaker 5: He has nothing really going on in his life outside
- 5:45Speaker 5: of a billion injuries.
- 5:47Speaker 4: But what do you say? We welcome in our friend,
- 5:48Speaker 4: Mark Pryor.
- 5:50Speaker 3: Let's do it. Always great to be joined by Dodgers
- 5:52Speaker 3: pitching coach obviously started with the organization in twenty eighteen
- 5:56Speaker 3: and is now the Dodgers pitching coach for the last
- 5:58Speaker 3: six seasons. Mark Pryor the USC great, much to the
- 6:02Speaker 3: chagrin of Dave Roberts. Mark, good to be with you.
- 6:06Speaker 3: So you got nothing going on, right I mean, nothing
- 6:08Speaker 3: on the top of your head, nothing to worry about,
- 6:10Speaker 3: nothing to work through.
- 6:11Speaker 1: How you doing, I'm doing great recency bias. You know.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Last night was great, Yama.
- 6:19Speaker 2: Yama went out and performed like an ace and stopped
- 6:23Speaker 2: an unfortunate losing streak.
- 6:25Speaker 1: But I'm doing well in general.
- 6:27Speaker 2: But yeah, clearly we uh, you know, we have our
- 6:30Speaker 2: challenges right now in front of us, and you know
- 6:33Speaker 2: we're gonna find a way to do it.
- 6:35Speaker 4: Mark.
- 6:35Speaker 5: I assume you guys by this time of season. Are smart.
- 6:39Speaker 5: Don't look at the internet, because when I read the internet,
- 6:42Speaker 5: I hear Mark Pryor is actively injuring all these pictures
- 6:45Speaker 5: and the strength and conditioning coaches.
- 6:48Speaker 4: Nobody knows what they're doing.
- 6:49Speaker 5: It turns out pictures can break. It's it's a very
- 6:52Speaker 5: volatile career choice, as you know very well. Could you
- 6:56Speaker 5: help try to explain to some folks so we can
- 6:59Speaker 5: we could use this and perpetuity. Explain to some folks
- 7:02Speaker 5: how sometimes injuries just plainly aren't something you could control.
- 7:07Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, clearly I can. I can speak to the
- 7:10Speaker 2: injury front as a player. Yeah, it's it's a unique environment.
- 7:15Speaker 2: I think, you know clearly in this you know, in
- 7:19Speaker 2: our organization, you know, we're feeling the ramifications of the injuries.
- 7:23Speaker 1: But it's across you know, the landscape baseball as a whole,
- 7:26Speaker 1: lot of.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Teams are dealing with injuries, and you specifically to pitchers,
- 7:32Speaker 2: and it's tough to it's tough to pinpoint one thing,
- 7:35Speaker 2: you know, and you know, I know, I don't think
- 7:38Speaker 2: it's fair for me to go and say, you know,
- 7:41Speaker 2: what is causing injuries is not causing injuries. Unfortunate I
- 7:45Speaker 2: don't think it's fair for anybody, because I do think
- 7:47Speaker 2: there's so much that goes into you know, guys getting
- 7:50Speaker 2: hurt is so much of just an individual basis. You know,
- 7:54Speaker 2: where they've been, what their previous injury history is. Some
- 7:58Speaker 2: things are fluke, some things are you know, wearing tear
- 8:04Speaker 2: you know, or being used, you know, tire type thing injuries.
- 8:08Speaker 2: But it's it's an unfortunate thing that we're having to
- 8:11Speaker 2: deal with, and so is every other organization to some capacity.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Right now, it's very acute for us.
- 8:16Speaker 2: We've lost, you know, a lot of guys that we
- 8:19Speaker 2: expected to carry the bulk of the innings for us.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Let's put a lot of pressure on some other guys
- 8:24Speaker 2: and unfortunately, you know, we've had some guys come up hurt.
- 8:28Speaker 1: But I don't know. One thing I can.
- 8:30Speaker 2: Say for certain is there's no active training or anything
- 8:34Speaker 2: to try. And it's weird because you know, over the
- 8:38Speaker 2: course of you know, twenty twenty some plus years now
- 8:42Speaker 2: that I've been as a player or been on the
- 8:44Speaker 2: minor leagues or the big league side as a coach,
- 8:47Speaker 2: you know, things have drastically changed. You know, we've gotten smarter,
- 8:50Speaker 2: the the technology has gotten better, our recovery. The trainers
- 8:55Speaker 2: and the strength conditioning are really maximizing every individual's talentles.
- 9:01Speaker 2: But I don't think we've slowed, uh, you know, the
- 9:04Speaker 2: injury front, and that's unfortunate. And you know, it's unfortunate
- 9:08Speaker 2: mostly for players, you know, who have to deal with
- 9:13Speaker 2: the injuries.
- 9:14Speaker 1: It interrupts careers, it interrupts seasons.
- 9:17Speaker 2: Obviously, it can you know, wreck havoc with organizations and
- 9:21Speaker 2: their plans. I think you know, for fans, fans want
- 9:24Speaker 2: to see the best players in the world play, and
- 9:27Speaker 2: you know, when they're hurt.
- 9:28Speaker 1: Uh, it's unfortunate.
- 9:30Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking of the best players in the world, show
- 9:32Speaker 3: Hey Otani, Mark looks like he's getting closer to facing hitters.
- 9:35Speaker 3: That's a good news. Where is he in terms of
- 9:38Speaker 3: that process and what does a ramp up for him
- 9:40Speaker 3: look like? Obviously you can't send him out someplace because
- 9:43Speaker 3: he's a DH What does that look like for you?
- 9:45Speaker 3: And how close is he?
- 9:47Speaker 1: Uh, he's getting closer, you know it.
- 9:49Speaker 2: To put a time on it, I think is is
- 9:53Speaker 2: probably not prudent. You know, it's been a very interesting
- 9:56Speaker 2: rehab to you know, personally from an experience standpoint.
- 9:59Speaker 1: As an organ I think it's been interesting to watch.
- 10:03Speaker 2: You know, Normally, you're dealing with a guy who's that's
- 10:05Speaker 2: all he does. It's all he does is pitch, and
- 10:07Speaker 2: so you you know, you kind of know what their
- 10:10Speaker 2: workloads are. You know, you know when they're tired or
- 10:13Speaker 2: expect to be tired or sore, and when they shouldn't be.
- 10:17Speaker 2: And so you can kind of go off of that,
- 10:19Speaker 2: you know, and and the track record of previous guys
- 10:22Speaker 2: who've had previous, you know, similar injuries. You know, again,
- 10:25Speaker 2: as as everything with Show, he's unique and he's kind
- 10:28Speaker 2: of an outlier situation. You know, there's days where he
- 10:31Speaker 2: goes four for four and he's run around on the
- 10:33Speaker 2: base pass, and he comes in the next day and
- 10:35Speaker 2: he's feeling, you know, tired and exhausted. You know, so
- 10:39Speaker 2: the throwing work volume needs to be cut short or
- 10:44Speaker 2: or tweaked to kind of manage that. And so it's
- 10:47Speaker 2: been an ongoing learning process, I think for everybody involved.
- 10:50Speaker 1: But he is getting closer.
- 10:51Speaker 2: His last couple of bullpens, he's really ramped up kind
- 10:54Speaker 2: of the intensity and all his pitches, and.
- 10:56Speaker 1: So, you know, I think we're getting close. I think
- 10:59Speaker 1: we're getting close.
- 10:59Speaker 2: To where you can start facing some hitters, whether that's
- 11:02Speaker 2: in the next couple of weeks or you know, as
- 11:04Speaker 2: we turn into into June.
- 11:06Speaker 1: At the latter part of June.
- 11:08Speaker 2: I don't think that's unreasonable, but honestly, things are are
- 11:11Speaker 2: always a little bit TVD just because of what he
- 11:14Speaker 2: does on the offensive side of the ball and and
- 11:16Speaker 2: what the stress of.
- 11:17Speaker 1: That takes on his body at times.
- 11:20Speaker 5: You know, one of the guys who has been around
- 11:22Speaker 5: this season has actually been able to stay healthy and
- 11:25Speaker 5: is a damn good ace for this team is a
- 11:28Speaker 5: guy who won. Well, we're recording this and we're gonna
- 11:31Speaker 5: post this on Thursday, so I can't say last night's game,
- 11:33Speaker 5: but last night's game you should know. Mu Yamamoto plays
- 11:35Speaker 5: the stopper for this team, and my god, he's so
- 11:39Speaker 5: good this year. What was something you guys worked on
- 11:41Speaker 5: with Yama to kind of get into this point where
- 11:43Speaker 5: he's taking these next steps into really becoming you know,
- 11:47Speaker 5: he's an Ace of Japan and now he is a
- 11:49Speaker 5: true cy young front runner in MLB. What what was
- 11:53Speaker 5: the big difference so you guys worked on this offseason.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, I think it goes back to the playoffs.
- 12:01Speaker 2: You know, I think last year was such a learning
- 12:03Speaker 2: curve for him as we see you know, you know,
- 12:07Speaker 2: Rokie trying to transition as well as show did you
- 12:11Speaker 2: know back when he was with the Angels. I think
- 12:13Speaker 2: that first year is such a transition on so many
- 12:16Speaker 2: different levels. But I think what we saw when he
- 12:19Speaker 2: came back off of his il stint in September and
- 12:23Speaker 2: then through the playoffs his was his understanding of the
- 12:27Speaker 2: hitters and what the game is like over here, and
- 12:31Speaker 2: then really understanding how his stuff and his strengths play
- 12:34Speaker 2: against these guys. He's got above average pitches, you know,
- 12:38Speaker 2: split fastball, his command, you know, he can do a
- 12:42Speaker 2: lot of different things, which allows him to attack hitters
- 12:46Speaker 2: in a lot of different ways and change the way
- 12:48Speaker 2: he attacks hitters so they don't always have the same look.
- 12:51Speaker 2: And I think that started really he started feeling that
- 12:55Speaker 2: and having that confidence with themselves. And I think if
- 12:57Speaker 2: you go back to that first playoff game against the Padres,
- 13:01Speaker 2: I think there was a lot of little, uh, some
- 13:04Speaker 2: previous games that he had in that season last year,
- 13:07Speaker 2: the first game in career obviously, and then you know,
- 13:09Speaker 2: during the season and then he kind of got roughed
- 13:12Speaker 2: up again a little bit in that game, you know,
- 13:13Speaker 2: in that that first game against the Padres and the DS,
- 13:17Speaker 2: but he really you know, around rally, his teammates rallied
- 13:20Speaker 2: around him. He really went to work, and it was
- 13:23Speaker 2: more about understanding how his stuff plays against hitters and
- 13:26Speaker 2: really kind of fine tuning that and looking at you know,
- 13:29Speaker 2: if guys had splits, uh and it faced these hitters,
- 13:33Speaker 2: going to see what the swings looked like. And so
- 13:35Speaker 2: he think he started really internalizing, which just led to
- 13:38Speaker 2: more confidence. And then I think he saw him take
- 13:40Speaker 2: off in that game five of the DS, you know,
- 13:43Speaker 2: and obviously in the CS in the World Series.
- 13:45Speaker 1: He got stronger.
- 13:46Speaker 2: Over the offseason, he put a lot of work into
- 13:49Speaker 2: knowing that he didn't want to go on the injured
- 13:50Speaker 2: list like he did last year. And so I think
- 13:53Speaker 2: you're seeing the strength component, and then you're layering on
- 13:56Speaker 2: and compounding that just the overall confidence of he knows
- 13:59Speaker 2: that he is elite pitcher in this game right now,
- 14:02Speaker 2: and I think seeing that every time he takes the ball.
- 14:05Speaker 2: And I think last night was a prime example. His
- 14:08Speaker 2: last couple outings have been you know, for his standards
- 14:11Speaker 2: haven't been up to you know what he had set
- 14:13Speaker 2: out at the beginning of the season, but very much
- 14:16Speaker 2: obviously it's still quality outings, and then he kind of
- 14:19Speaker 2: got into it. As a game went on, he just
- 14:21Speaker 2: got stronger and stronger, and that's what you see from
- 14:24Speaker 2: elite guys.
- 14:25Speaker 1: They might not have it.
- 14:25Speaker 2: All lined up in the first couple innings, but as
- 14:28Speaker 2: the game gets going and he gets into a rhythm,
- 14:31Speaker 2: he just started, you know, locating and commanding.
- 14:34Speaker 1: He would make guys miss, he'd make guys get caught
- 14:36Speaker 1: in between.
- 14:37Speaker 6: It was.
- 14:37Speaker 2: It was a really, really phenomenal performance at a time.
- 14:41Speaker 1: When we really needed lengths out of him.
- 14:44Speaker 2: For one, we needed quality out of him, which he got,
- 14:48Speaker 2: and then he really just set the stage for us
- 14:50Speaker 2: to have a chance to win a ball game.
- 14:51Speaker 1: And that's what you ask out of your aces.
- 14:54Speaker 3: Yeah, the end game adjustments from Yamamoto seems so much
- 14:57Speaker 3: more apparent this season than they did last season. Obviously,
- 15:00Speaker 3: another year under his belt. Let's talk a bit about
- 15:02Speaker 3: Roki Sasaki mark because this is a guy. Of course,
- 15:04Speaker 3: everyone heard the name in the off season, everyone trying
- 15:06Speaker 3: to land this twenty three year old, but honestly, he's
- 15:09Speaker 3: a kid. How much do you think that shoulder injury
- 15:11Speaker 3: was kind of hampering the results. And where is he
- 15:14Speaker 3: right now?
- 15:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you can't say it's nothing.
- 15:19Speaker 2: You know, how much of it played a role into
- 15:22Speaker 2: kind of his trend down after you know, his opening
- 15:25Speaker 2: couple starts. That's hard to say, but I definitely think
- 15:28Speaker 2: this is something that's you know, clearly he was bothered
- 15:31Speaker 2: by it last year at times in Japan, and it's
- 15:33Speaker 2: kind of reared its head again a little bit. So,
- 15:36Speaker 2: you know, I think, what's you know, you have kind
- 15:38Speaker 2: of two different paths going on here. You have a
- 15:41Speaker 2: development path, you know, overlaid with him trying to perform
- 15:45Speaker 2: at the major league level, and those things aren't easy.
- 15:47Speaker 2: We see a lot of times with you know, guys
- 15:50Speaker 2: coming up from Triple A and the minor leagues and
- 15:51Speaker 2: they're trying to continue their development at the big league level,
- 15:54Speaker 2: and that's extremely hard and sometimes it gets messy. But
- 15:58Speaker 2: I do think the shoulder thing has has something to
- 16:00Speaker 2: do with it. He did clearly, the velocity continued to
- 16:03Speaker 2: trend down, you know, and finally he got to the
- 16:06Speaker 2: point where he spoke up, and we're glad he did
- 16:08Speaker 2: because I think it's something that we needed to address
- 16:12Speaker 2: his overall you know, shoulder.
- 16:13Speaker 1: Conditioning and strength and and so that's.
- 16:15Speaker 2: What he's been They've been really hammering over these last
- 16:18Speaker 2: you know, ten days, is making sure that his shoulders
- 16:20Speaker 2: in a good spot to continue to throw. I think
- 16:23Speaker 2: once he's you know, feels and everybody feels he's in
- 16:27Speaker 2: a good spot, then he'll start picking up a baseball
- 16:29Speaker 2: and then we'll go to work as a group, you know,
- 16:31Speaker 2: trying to find tune some of the things that you
- 16:34Speaker 2: know need to be fine tuned, is you know, his
- 16:36Speaker 2: fastball quality, trying to mix in his breaking balls, his
- 16:39Speaker 2: command in general, which I think has been a step
- 16:43Speaker 2: down from what I think has been in Japan.
- 16:45Speaker 1: And so it's a.
- 16:45Speaker 2: Matter of trying to get that back, uh, and not
- 16:48Speaker 2: making it so easy for hitters or be superdictable to
- 16:51Speaker 2: hitters where they can just kind of sit on one pitch.
- 16:53Speaker 2: So there's gonna be a lot more of this stuff
- 16:55Speaker 2: that's in like you know, what we call player development
- 16:57Speaker 2: type stuff. Why as we try to ramp him back
- 17:01Speaker 2: up to pitch for us in the major leagues.
- 17:02Speaker 5: Hey, great conversation so far with Dodgers pitching coach Mark Pryor.
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- 18:14Speaker 5: and be that dominant arm that that everybody was hoping
- 18:18Speaker 5: he could be in the starting rotation. You do get
- 18:20Speaker 5: a grizzled veteran to go from the young guys to
- 18:23Speaker 5: the grizzly veteran back. Clayton Kershaw rejoined the team over
- 18:26Speaker 5: the weekend.
- 18:27Speaker 4: It results.
- 18:27Speaker 5: Notwithstanding, obviously I'm pretty sure Curse would have preferred a
- 18:31Speaker 5: better season debut, but there's still just something about adding
- 18:35Speaker 5: the goat back to the mix, adding a future Hall
- 18:38Speaker 5: of Famer to the mix.
- 18:39Speaker 4: What does that do to a clubhouse? What does that
- 18:40Speaker 4: do to.
- 18:41Speaker 5: Kind of energize a pitching staff that, let's be fair,
- 18:45Speaker 5: it's kind of going.
- 18:45Speaker 4: Through it right now.
- 18:47Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 18:48Speaker 2: I mean, anytime you get Clayton Cursher, I think just
- 18:50Speaker 2: the name alone, you know, starts kind of getting people
- 18:52Speaker 2: adrenaline going. It gets our adrenalin, It gets mine adrenaline going,
- 18:56Speaker 2: because you never you never sleep on Clayton. You never
- 19:00Speaker 2: sleep on these greats because you never know when when
- 19:02Speaker 2: they're going to show up and just go out and
- 19:05Speaker 2: do something, you know.
- 19:06Speaker 1: Masterful h and we've seen that last year. We've seen
- 19:09Speaker 1: it at times.
- 19:10Speaker 2: Albeit you know, I think it was like I don't know,
- 19:12Speaker 2: six seven starts or whatever he made last year. Some
- 19:15Speaker 2: of those starts were extremely important for us, you know,
- 19:19Speaker 2: when you look at the end of the season, you know,
- 19:20Speaker 2: we win the division with three or four games left
- 19:22Speaker 2: in the season.
- 19:24Speaker 1: He had some moments.
- 19:25Speaker 2: Where we were in a situation, you know, like Yamamoto
- 19:27Speaker 2: was last night, you know, up against it from a
- 19:30Speaker 2: you know, guys aren't available to pitch, or we had
- 19:33Speaker 2: some injuries, and he'd go out and you know, he's
- 19:35Speaker 2: getting us six innings in Saint Louis last year in
- 19:37Speaker 2: a day game where we really needed it. So guys,
- 19:41Speaker 2: you know, they feel that, you know, and I think
- 19:43Speaker 2: guys respond, players respond to that. They want to perform
- 19:46Speaker 2: and they want to play at their highest level to
- 19:48Speaker 2: support him. But he can still pitch at this level.
- 19:51Speaker 2: And I think the one thing that we took out
- 19:53Speaker 2: of and watching him the other night is his stuff
- 19:56Speaker 2: ticked up from where it was in the minor leagues.
- 19:58Speaker 2: His command was, you know, was slightly off, not to
- 20:01Speaker 2: his standards, but his work in between has been better.
- 20:06Speaker 2: His bullpen yesterday was extremely encouraging. So I think we're
- 20:09Speaker 2: gonna see a guy continuing to to get better as
- 20:13Speaker 2: far as his command and kind of seeing the same
- 20:15Speaker 2: guy that we used to. He knows how to pitch,
- 20:18Speaker 2: and that's the one thing that you know, has never
- 20:20Speaker 2: has is not a physical thing and has not been injured.
- 20:23Speaker 2: He always knows how to pitch. He knows how to
- 20:25Speaker 2: try to stay a step ahead of hitters. He knows
- 20:29Speaker 2: what they're trying to do, and he knows what he can,
- 20:31Speaker 2: you know, kind of tact and go to some different
- 20:33Speaker 2: direction or when he can just stay with his strengths.
- 20:35Speaker 2: And so that's the one thing that is still you know,
- 20:39Speaker 2: an elite level. Even as the physical tools as his
- 20:43Speaker 2: he's logged more innings over his careers, maybe have pulled
- 20:45Speaker 2: back a little bit, his mind still works at an
- 20:48Speaker 2: unbelievable level. And that's just he knows how to pitch,
- 20:51Speaker 2: he knows what to do, he knows how to, you know,
- 20:54Speaker 2: in the moment, figure out ways to win and will
- 20:56Speaker 2: himself to win ball games or get outs more or less.
- 21:00Speaker 2: And I think that really just fires everybody up because
- 21:03Speaker 2: they like to see that because they know it's not
- 21:05Speaker 2: the guy that he was ten years ago. But he's
- 21:07Speaker 2: the guy that can still perform at a high level
- 21:09Speaker 2: and set the standard for us.
- 21:11Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's still the guy chasing three thousand strikeouts
- 21:14Speaker 3: for his Hall of Fame career. Mark, Let's talk a
- 21:16Speaker 3: little bit about some guys that maybe you have your
- 21:19Speaker 3: eyes on as a staff. Maybe somebody that's not on
- 21:21Speaker 3: the forty man roster that you guys have been surprised about,
- 21:24Speaker 3: or that you enjoy what they're doing in terms of development,
- 21:27Speaker 3: that might come up at some point and help the
- 21:29Speaker 3: big club. Anybody we should be watching for.
- 21:32Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think Jackson Ferris is the name
- 21:34Speaker 2: that you know, obviously, people know who he is if
- 21:36Speaker 2: they follow organization.
- 21:38Speaker 1: I think getting a look at him in spring training.
- 21:41Speaker 2: You know, he's got a deep arsenal, He's got the
- 21:43Speaker 2: ability to throw multiple pitch, multiple pitches to both sides,
- 21:49Speaker 2: and I think that's one of the guys that I think,
- 21:51Speaker 2: maybe you know, where he ends up this year, I'm
- 21:53Speaker 2: not quite sure, but you know, I think if he
- 21:56Speaker 2: continues to progress and he takes off this year, yeah,
- 21:59Speaker 2: we could probably see him by think he's a guy
- 22:00Speaker 2: that we're looking at, you know, next year to kind
- 22:02Speaker 2: of step in and be one of those younger guys
- 22:05Speaker 2: to continue his development, you know, in the Triple A,
- 22:09Speaker 2: you know, Triple A and then into the big leagues
- 22:10Speaker 2: next year. I was in beressed with the way throws
- 22:14Speaker 2: I think left handed. I think, you know, with our
- 22:17Speaker 2: right handed dominant starters. I think being able to have a.
- 22:20Speaker 1: Different look is important for us, you know.
- 22:23Speaker 2: And I think that's another thing where Clayton brings up,
- 22:25Speaker 2: just brings up a different look and we get different
- 22:27Speaker 2: lineups and then we are able to maximize kind of
- 22:29Speaker 2: our bullpens.
- 22:31Speaker 1: You know.
- 22:32Speaker 2: I do think there's still the progression of guys if
- 22:35Speaker 2: Ken Rollbusky kind of take that next step.
- 22:37Speaker 1: I thought his last outing when he came up was encouraging.
- 22:40Speaker 2: You know, Bobby, he's obviously, you know, really trying to
- 22:43Speaker 2: grind through and trying to find his footing again. I think,
- 22:47Speaker 2: though people know who those guys are, I do think
- 22:49Speaker 2: they still play a huge role for us and if
- 22:52Speaker 2: we can get them over that hump, I do think
- 22:55Speaker 2: that all of a sudden provides a huge, you know,
- 22:57Speaker 2: depth piece to us that allows us to you know, know,
- 23:00Speaker 2: do what we do best, and that's you know, be
- 23:03Speaker 2: able to map out and do it map out the season,
- 23:06Speaker 2: not lean on guys as much as we'd like, but
- 23:08Speaker 2: obviously when we have injuries like this, uh, those guys
- 23:11Speaker 2: stepping into and playing key roles like Bobby did in
- 23:13Speaker 2: twenty three are huge.
- 23:14Speaker 1: And those things kind of get lost at the end
- 23:17Speaker 1: of the season when we're in.
- 23:18Speaker 2: Playoffs and and people kind of get focused on one
- 23:21Speaker 2: or two starters. But those those starts throughout the course
- 23:25Speaker 2: of the season, and what helps you set you up
- 23:26Speaker 2: for hopefully winning a division or at least very least
- 23:28Speaker 2: getting into the playoffs.
- 23:30Speaker 5: The depth always tested, tested, tested, Mark Pryor, always tested. Hey,
- 23:34Speaker 5: before we let you go, what's something you do when
- 23:37Speaker 5: you get home from the ballpark to just not think
- 23:40Speaker 5: about the team, not think about the injuries and the
- 23:43Speaker 5: next day and the why is this happening to me?
- 23:45Speaker 5: What does Mark Pryor do to unwind?
- 23:48Speaker 2: No, first of all, it's not a wise and me
- 23:51Speaker 2: I feel very blessed and have a lot of gratitude
- 23:54Speaker 2: for the position.
- 23:55Speaker 1: We have a lot of really good players.
- 23:58Speaker 2: And you know, you know, over the course of the
- 24:00Speaker 2: six years I've been here as a pitching coach, and
- 24:02Speaker 2: the other two is a bullpen coach.
- 24:04Speaker 1: You know, we seem to we've we've gone through all of.
- 24:06Speaker 2: These things before. You know, it's unfortunate, it happens. Unfortunately.
- 24:11Speaker 2: We're uh, I guess we have the experience. But uh,
- 24:15Speaker 2: you know, it's never a why what you know, why
- 24:17Speaker 2: is this happening? It's just really about how do we
- 24:19Speaker 2: find ways to win? And when guys step up, it
- 24:22Speaker 2: gives people an opportunity to play and perform and try
- 24:25Speaker 2: to take you know, take a job if if they can.
- 24:28Speaker 2: Look at Banksparius, he's a guy who came out of
- 24:30Speaker 2: nowhere last year and all of a sudden now he's
- 24:34Speaker 2: he's one of our guys by his own performances and
- 24:37Speaker 2: stepping up when the opportunity was given to him.
- 24:39Speaker 1: So that's that's been a fun story to watch.
- 24:42Speaker 2: But you know, I'm like anybody else, you know, I
- 24:46Speaker 2: get home and uh, you know, maybe watch a show,
- 24:49Speaker 2: maybe watch you know, something just to kind of edge.
- 24:51Speaker 2: But to be honest, it's it's a pretty quick go
- 24:53Speaker 2: to bed. I'm I'm getting up there and giving the
- 24:55Speaker 2: white hairs and the beard. You know, it gets bet early.
- 24:59Speaker 4: Polished. Hey guys, hello line.
- 25:01Speaker 8: Oh jeez, I don't know what about an entire Bob,
- 25:06Speaker 8: Mark Pryor. We appreciate it very much. There's one thing
- 25:09Speaker 8: about this club. You are deep, you are good. You
- 25:11Speaker 8: will figure it out. You talked about recency bias. Look
- 25:14Speaker 8: no further than the twenty twenty four World Series. Thank
- 25:17Speaker 8: you so much, my friend. Great to be with you.
- 25:19Speaker 8: We appreciate you.
- 25:20Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me. Thank you so much.
- 25:23Speaker 5: A big thank you to Mark Pryor for joining the show.
- 25:25Speaker 5: But first, we got one more message from our friends
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- 26:06Speaker 3: All, right, let's get some dogs adopted. I want to
- 26:09Speaker 3: introduce you guys and gals out there to Rusty. Rusty
- 26:14Speaker 3: was saved at literally the last minute from a shelter
- 26:17Speaker 3: in San Bernardino. They were going to kill him because
- 26:20Speaker 3: they just needed space. This dog is gorgeous. He is young.
- 26:24Speaker 3: He's not even a year old. He's a Retriever mix.
- 26:27Speaker 3: We just sent out his DNA kit to get the
- 26:29Speaker 3: exact breed. We're waiting for those results. It's always fun
- 26:32Speaker 3: when they come back in. All he needs you, guys,
- 26:34Speaker 3: is a loving home, someone that's gonna be actively involved
- 26:37Speaker 3: in his life. Care for him, love on him, get
- 26:39Speaker 3: him exercise. He's awesome. He's vaccinated, he's healthy, he's neutered.
- 26:44Speaker 3: Gidri's guardian took care of all of that stuff for him,
- 26:46Speaker 3: and he's ready for his forever family. Hit us up
- 26:49Speaker 3: Gidrisguardian dot org, or hit me up on social to
- 26:52Speaker 3: learn more about Rusty. Like bear claws like pas.
- 26:56Speaker 5: Yeah, those paws were something else. And my assumption is
- 26:58Speaker 5: you guys, are you're gonna cut opening into him and
- 27:00Speaker 5: count the rings and you're going to see that he's
- 27:02Speaker 5: at least eighty percent good boy.
- 27:04Speaker 3: That's that's at least a one hundred percent.
- 27:07Speaker 4: At least Oh wow, that's that's.
- 27:09Speaker 3: He's he's he's been through so much, he's one hundred
- 27:11Speaker 3: percent good boy.
- 27:13Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 27:14Speaker 3: He actually did eat his foster's pillow. He shredded it.
- 27:17Speaker 3: So maybe he's ninety nine percent good boy. Right, But
- 27:20Speaker 3: that's okay. He's a puppet with it. He'll get he'll
- 27:23Speaker 3: get through that puppy stage. All right, what's coming up?
- 27:26Speaker 3: What's coming up for you? Wait, we have a baseball
- 27:27Speaker 3: thought for the run.
- 27:28Speaker 4: Yeah, let's talk.
- 27:28Speaker 5: Let's talk Dodger baseball, because you know, we spent a
- 27:31Speaker 5: lot of time talking Dodger baseball with Mark Pryor. But
- 27:33Speaker 5: the Dodgers are off today. It is Thursday as of
- 27:36Speaker 5: the time this is airing, and starting Friday, they are
- 27:39Speaker 5: flying to New York right now they're facing the Mighty Mets,
- 27:43Speaker 5: Juan Soto and the Mets. You know, I could talk
- 27:46Speaker 5: about Wan Soto for a while because, like there's some
- 27:49Speaker 5: narrative out there that he's having the worst season in
- 27:51Speaker 5: the world. When you look at the numbers, he's so
- 27:54Speaker 5: the average isn't there. He's not always been an average guy.
- 27:57Speaker 3: That's the problem when you sign a seven hundred and
- 27:59Speaker 3: sixty five million dollar contract. People are going to be
- 28:01Speaker 3: on you because with great you know, greatwar, high expectation
- 28:06Speaker 3: or whatever.
- 28:07Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 28:07Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what, I think the biggest thing
- 28:09Speaker 3: is what can't slump or what can't have a you know,
- 28:12Speaker 3: below average for him is his effort. I think people
- 28:14Speaker 3: are getting on him because he's not hustling out of
- 28:16Speaker 3: the box. He says that he is, but Mendy, their manager,
- 28:19Speaker 3: talked to him about it. But now is a good
- 28:21Speaker 3: time to catch the Mets. They're scuffling a little bit,
- 28:23Speaker 3: and their top of the order as far as lind
- 28:25Speaker 3: or their leadoff guy obviously Polar Bear one soda or
- 28:29Speaker 3: all of the things. They're scuffling. So let's get after it.
- 28:32Speaker 3: Dodgers are scuffling a little bit, Mets are scuffling a
- 28:34Speaker 3: little bit. This could very well be a matchup in
- 28:37Speaker 3: the postseason. I love these types of early season matchups
- 28:42Speaker 3: just to kind of see I know it's a cliche,
- 28:43Speaker 3: but the measuring stick type of series.
- 28:45Speaker 5: Yeah, you get a measuring stick early, you get one later,
- 28:48Speaker 5: and then hopefully you get one in October.
- 28:50Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to seeing this series, though, I think uh.
- 28:53Speaker 5: I mean we've now seen the Diamondbacks a bunch over
- 28:55Speaker 5: the last week and a half or something like that,
- 28:59Speaker 5: kind of shifting east. And what's good when the Dodgers
- 29:01Speaker 5: shift east, especially on the road. That's earlier games for
- 29:04Speaker 5: your girl, Alana, and she's much happier watching Dodger games,
- 29:07Speaker 5: not at midnight am.
- 29:11Speaker 4: By the way, we should.
- 29:12Speaker 5: Point out we are going to post game Sunday after
- 29:15Speaker 5: the game.
- 29:16Speaker 4: I think that's an ESPN game.
- 29:17Speaker 1: I'm not here.
- 29:18Speaker 5: I think it is, but what we post gaming after that?
- 29:20Speaker 5: We will not have a show on Monday because it
- 29:22Speaker 5: is Memorial Day, so everybody go celebrate, get real drunk,
- 29:25Speaker 5: have that. I guess we talked about the bottle of
- 29:27Speaker 5: wine with prior off off camera. I don't know whatever
- 29:30Speaker 5: we did. He doesn't drink a bottle of wine.
- 29:32Speaker 4: Just throw that out there.
- 29:33Speaker 3: That's probably not by himself.
- 29:36Speaker 4: According to sources.
- 29:37Speaker 5: What are you looking to see in the series, Like
- 29:38Speaker 5: you said, a couple of teams that are kind of scuffing.
- 29:40Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I would like to see good pitching performances.
- 29:45Speaker 3: Of course. I'd like Curse to have a back, you know,
- 29:48Speaker 3: a better pitching outing than he did in his season debut.
- 29:52Speaker 3: I'd like to see, you know, just good baseball, just good,
- 29:55Speaker 3: clean baseball, and take advantage of the mistakes. Now, I
- 29:58Speaker 3: will say that Met's have a very good rotation, have
- 30:00Speaker 3: the best E r A in baseball right now, not
- 30:02Speaker 3: just in the National League, but in all of baseball.
- 30:05Speaker 3: So just good clean baseball. Don't give them any extra outs.
- 30:08Speaker 3: Those types of things, like like Clint said, we will
- 30:11Speaker 3: be live post game Sunday night. No show on Monday
- 30:14Speaker 3: for Memorial Day. Please think, I know it's not Veterans Day,
- 30:17Speaker 3: but thank of veteran and remember those that have served
- 30:19Speaker 3: and have paid the ultimate price. And then Clinton and
- 30:22Speaker 3: I will be back on Thursday. So there's a lot
- 30:24Speaker 3: of numbers, a lot of information.
- 30:28Speaker 4: Tuesday, Wednesday, something like that.
- 30:30Speaker 3: We're post game, We're post game Tuesday, is.
- 30:34Speaker 4: It Tuesday, whatever it is, we'll be around. Whatever the
- 30:36Speaker 4: important thing is, we're gonna be here. Just subscribe to the.
- 30:39Speaker 5: Channel, hit that notification bell that'll help you be alerted
- 30:42Speaker 5: of when we are live again. Tube in for for
- 30:46Speaker 5: postgame on Sunday. I'll be live on my channel All
- 30:48Speaker 5: Dodgers with Clint to Sea said is I I'll be
- 30:50Speaker 5: live Saturday morning, talking about the Dodgers and other little things,
- 30:54Speaker 5: taking comments, hanging out with the fans.
- 30:57Speaker 4: I guess that's about it now, like all the things
- 31:00Speaker 4: on the next one.
- 31:01Speaker 3: God h m hm
- 31:10Speaker 6: M hmm.