Dodgers Territory - Bold Season Predictions, Tokyo Recap and Reflections

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas break down the latest round of roster cuts—any unexpected moves or real surprises? (0:55) (7:02) The Tokyo Series made a massive impact on baseball worldwide, but is there reason to worry about the shortened spring training for the teams involved?(9:52) Should MLB consider adding another international tournament to its calendar? Our hosts discuss.(10:57) Nosta-dumbass is back! Our hosts make their bold predictions for the 2025 season, from dark-horse All-Star candidates to team MVPs and everything in between.(24:25) Plus, Max Muncy joined an exclusive club during the Tokyo Series. Subscribe to DT on YouTube! DT is LIVE on Mondays & Thursdays at 12p PT/3p ET all year long!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We are coming to you for the fourth time this week. Monday, two post games on Wednesday or Tuesday and Wednesday. and now another live edition of Dodgers territory. That is Clint Piscius. I am Alana Rizzo taking you through the next half an hour. Glad to have you guys with us. As always, please rate us five stars, like, subscribe, do all the things. Big thanks to those of you who joined us on the two postgame shows on Tuesday and Wednesday.

We know it was early, but we're always happy to have you guys. Again, thanks for being here. Let's get to the big ticket, Clint. All right. We're going to go 162 and 0, maybe 173 and 0 if we win 11 straight games. in the postseason. All things being, you know, joking aside, how about the fact, though, you go to Tokyo, you start to season off to nothing? That's exactly what you wanted to do, right? Win both games. I would have been happy with the split, but we'll take a, we'll take it

two nothing season advantage. Yeah, again, we said this the other night or the other morning. Time has no meaning this week, but to be able to pull off two wins, you're missing mookie bets, you're missing Freddie Freeman in the lineup, and you still put up runs. The pitching does enough to keep the Cubs off the board. You can't ask for a better time in Tokyo. And also we saw people got to shake some weird show hey hand. Everything. Everybody's a winner.

Everybody's a winner. Everybody's a winner. And the Dodgers are, yeah, that's true. And the Dodgers are back home. They landed safely back in Los Angeles. Good to see that. We have proof.

There it is. Thank you, airline videos for this. Landing 24-hour live cameras on just planes landing and taking off and stuff. And that is odd. But I love it. That's really cool. Congrats to the Dodgers for a very successful Tokyo trip and welcome home. Again, Clint, they're back, but they have made some roster moved as we get ready to continue to push towards the domestic opening day a week from today.

In fact, no big shock here, I guess. The Dodgers optioned right-handed pitchers Matt Sauer and Landonac and outfielder James Outman to AAA Oklahoma City. Any thoughts on outwriting or not outright? writing rather optioning outman versus paas? No, I think the Dodgers kind of made it pretty clear. And Dave Roberts made it clear that the plan was Andy Paix is going to be in center. We talked a little bit about this one of these mornings. I think the Hessan Kim, or maybe it was on Monday, I think Hessan Kim not really being ready for

prime time sort of prompted the Tommy Edmund move back to second base where he's a two-time Gold Glove Award winner. And then, you know, Andy Paix has played some center field for this team and has played it decently at times, above average at times, and other times a little sloppy, but the only way he's going to get better is with playing time. So the ship might have sailed a little bit on James Outman for the Dodgers. Sure, he'll be one of the first guys called up if there's an injury to another outfielder or something like that. But for now, no real surprises there. And of course, the pitcher's being optioned down as well. They'll be around. They'll be important for this team.

Landon Nack picking up a couple of endings in game two and all of that. But seeing some of the names that are still on the roster, Alana, I know some folks will be like, hey, who are these people? Jack Dreyer is still on there. Yeah, Jack Dreyer and Louis. Yeah, and Louis Garcia. Again, it's going to take, and we've discussed this a variety of times, the opening day roster is not the playoff roster, right? The opening day roster is not even the roster come, you know, April 27th or whatever it is. I mean, you're basically making moves to win. the game in the immediate future, right? Don't look at it as a macrocosm. Look at it as a microcosm of what the Dodgers need to do at the moment to win that game or the next couple of games. They

need arms right now, right? I mean, you have a billion guys on the IL and right now, Luis Garcia and Jack Dreyer are healthy arms that they need. So I'm not that surprised. Are they going to be on the roster the entire season? Absolutely not. But for now, these are just part of the that's part of the plan and the moving pieces for what the Dodgers need to do to whatever, take on the tigers. I mean, that's the first thing that they have their set on, you know,

their eyes set on. Yeah, it's really, it's an issue of who's available and 11 pitchers currently on the IL, five of them on the 60 day. I think four of those guys are done for the season or three of those guys are done for the season. But this is the team missing key names.

Michael Kopeck out. Evan Phillips out for now. We know Bruce Darrydardrol is going to be out for at least the first half of the and Tony Gonselin, of course, loves the injured list. So he's back there after Dave Roberts told us about that workout lifting weights incident that led to an achy, breaky back or whatever's going on with Gonzo right now. So this is what the Dodgers have. And, you know, they made it work.

They made it work in Tokyo pretty decently because you still have some big names in there. Tanner Scott, Alex Vescia, our friend of the show, Alex Vescia, so on, so forth, Kirby Yates. They have enough coverage to where, if there's a Louis Garvey. Garcia, you know, Major League veteran. He's, he's put in time. This is a 38-year-old dude. He has been all around this league. Some people have, even when I saw him, I'm like, who is this guy? It's pretty old to be a kid. And then, you know, Jack Dreyer is another guy that some people, the prospects, lovers, prospect huggers really, really high on because he kind of has that sort of Alex Vescia type of fastball, a lot of, a lot of spin on it. They call it the, what is it, the perceived, like

rise on the fastball. But are they going to be key factors for this team in six months? Probably not. Well, maybe not. But you know what? It takes a lot of people to get it done. It's going to take the 40 man and everybody gets a ring. If the daughters win the World Series this year, those guys,

Luis Garcia's of the world and Jack Dreyers and all of the things, they'll get a ring as well. I mean, this is just a matter of an issue of who is really available and what it takes to win on any given day. This is also a situation of the fact that, you know, this is a team that, knows how to maneuver things and knows how to use guys up and down and knows how to use the options and it's kind of the elevator between AAA and the big league. So I'm looking forward to it. I did have a conversation actually with Bruce Dark Gratterol last week and he feels good and it's unfortunate that he's going to miss the majority of the season, but he is also talking about, he told me, you know,

that he's really talking to the training staff about making sure that he kind of saves himself from himself and doesn't come back too early because he's obviously very competitive and he's a fiery guy, but he's doing well and he's on the right track and hopefully he can throw some big innings for this club when it matters the most in the postseason. We know we're going to get there, right? It's just a matter of who's going to be around to push this team once again over the edge.

Thoughts and reflections, Clint, on the Tokyo series. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I don't like having to be up at 3 a.m. for the wrong reasons. The right reasons is you're still up and the party is still raging.

The wrong reasons is you're getting up to watch baseball and then have to do it. post-game show, but also we are blessed to be able to do that much. That much aside, again, Dodgers came out of it healthy. The Cubs came out of it healthy. The country of Japan enjoys baseball. They love baseball, and they got their heroes back with Roki, with Shohei Otani, and with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shota, Mike Imanaga, if you're nasty.

And a lot of people watching this series, Alana, 25 million viewers tubing in in Tokyo. That's a lot of eyeballs. on this series. Yeah, it is a lot of eyeballs. And I'm going to take the opposite approach of you. I don't mind. Yeah, do I want to get up early? No, but I love this for the game of baseball. And it would be different like, for example, if they sent this team to Madagascar to play the Cubs. And there's no Madagascarans that, you know, are on the teams. But think about what this did for the global perspective of the game. And we don't always give Rob Manfred props, but I am going to give the commissioner props here. I mean, to have an opening series in Tokyo,

when you have the likes of obviously Shohei Otani, but Roki Sasaki, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shota Imanaga, Sayas Suzuki, all of those things. And the way that Japan and Tokyo embraced the big leagues and embraced the teams and the situation and everything, what an amazing host city, what an amazing host country. It is good for baseball. Imagine yourself in a vehicle from Hyundai's bold EV lineup.

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I also, yeah, I would like to see the Dodgers be at home for a full spring training. It has been a while with, you know, Japan, Korea, World Baseball Classic before then. All of these things are great for the game. They're great for growing the game. Baseball is not dying despite some unpopular belief from talking heads out there. It's a very popular game. It is a worldwide game. It's where we have a World Series and all that.

And these are the type of things that help keep the game growing. and keep, you know, producing in different areas of the world, superstar talent, like we've seen the Dodgers go out and acquire all of them if you're asking fans of other fan bases. So I love it. I also hate it. It's a love-hate relationship. But, again, good for the game. Cannot disagree with that.

I have a love-hate relationship with day games. Hate getting up, but love to see the park waking up. Let me ask you this. Could baseball pull off a four-nations tournament like they do in hockey? Do we kind of consider the world baseball classic that may be a little, even though it's not four nations? No, I wanted to know if you thought the, you know, baseball could, you know, Canada, U.S., Finland, and Sweden are the four in hockey, right?

Could we do that? Could it be like Canada, U.S., Japan? But there's so many good Latin American teams. I don't know who you'd keep out. Venezuela, the Dominican. I'm not taking Venezuela or the DR out. Puerto Rico. I'm not taking out.

And Korea in there as well. So, yeah, I don't know you can do four. It'd have to be like six or eight. Maybe it's a, you know, what is it, an elite eight or something like that for baseball? There you go. Rob, call us. We have ideas, Rob. We have ideas.

All right. Let's go to Nostra Dumbass. It's back. What a beautiful front end there. I mean, that's special. Guys, this is the part of the show where we're doing our 20, 25 predictions. So we want some people in the chat. sharing their thoughts. We got some team X Factor. Sy Young Award frontrunners, our team MVP. So we want to know how fans are feeling about this team for this season. But now that I've stolen the thunder, Lana, go ahead. Yeah. So let us know what you think about this. Put it in the chat where we're going to see where everyone is at with this. We're going to start first with our season predictions of the team X factor. If this guy, Clint performs to standard, if they stay healthy, it will be huge. If you.

he does not do that it will be a problem i'm going to go ahead and take honors on this i have i mean the obvious answer is show he it's too easy right so for me it's going to be the same guy that i think was the MVP for the season in the first half of the season last year and that is teoscar hernandez i think teo was so valuable last year to what he did for this club uh to me if he does it again this year the dodgers have a pretty pretty pretty good chance of going back to the world series i love I love his bat. He plays a decent right field. Teo's my guy.

Teo is not a bad answer at all. I don't think the Dodgers win a World Series without Teoska Hernandez. I don't think they win the most baseball games in 2024 without Teosker Hernandez. And I think they're pretty lost without him this year. If they didn't have him, I should say. But good answer there. For me, I'm being less, I don't know if it's bold or whatever, but Mookie Betts, this team needs Mookie Betts to be the shortstop.

to be the two-hole hitter, to be the guy that stays in the lineup, ideally avoid pitches on the inside, don't get that hand broken, stay in the game, stay in 140, 150 games, hit. How many do we decide? It was 30, 30, 29. He's 29. He gets 29. He gets to 300.

29 homers away from 300, which he can very much achieve this year. But more importantly, Muky is just, he is a spark plug. He is the spark plug for this team. And yeah, he's not leading off for this team. them anymore. Shoah is pretty good at that as well. But to have that dynamic profile in the two hole for this club, it just makes everything else that much easier for Dave Roberts and the lineup behind him. So Mookie's my guy. He's the X factor, both offensively and defensively. All right. I can understand that. Let's get Mookie healthy first and get him in that lineup for the

domestic opener a week from today. The next category is Dark Horse All-Star Candidates, somebody who could fly under the radar and have a really good year for so basically in clint paseous's terms who's your dude um my dude is my dude is uh Tommy Edmund and I only say that he's under the radar just because of the team that surrounds him I think Tommy Edmund on other teams would be an obvious choice but if you look at the star power that the Dodgers have he may get lost in the shuffle but I love what he brings to this club and I do think that he could be an all star if he plays the majority of the year at one position what's going to hurt him is if he's at second base call a bit and if he's in center field quite a bit because then it kind of gets lost in terms of the

numbers. But I think Tommy Edmund is pretty, is pretty special. Tommy tanks. He's my, he's my dude for this, for this club this year. Yeah, I mean, he's somebody who could play a lot of different roles wear a lot of different gloves for this team that, you know, we know Kike's going to be doing that, but we don't know what Chris Taylor's season's going to look like. And, and Tommy is somebody who could be the starting second baseman, could be the starting center fielder for this team. so it's a hell of a pick. For me, I'm looking at Max Muncie. I need to see Max Muncie get back on track, not have any injuries.

We talked to him at spring training. He's feeling good, down 17 pounds because of reasons. And he is somebody, I asked him, hey, are you going to go out there and finally hit the 40 home run plateau? And that's his goal. He wants to hit some dingers. He wants to get on base. I'm sure he wants to raise the batting average a little bit. That's not necessarily his game.

But we want to see him make some plays at third base and not get robbed by the fence or or in some people's view, Rodney Pete over there down the third base line. But you got to have Max Muncie doing what Max Muncie does when he's right, doing that in the five or six hole like we talked about yesterday. That is huge for this team. So that's my position player side of it. On the pitching side, Alex Vescia, because he's another one of those guys. This for me is for the narrative because last year, Alex Vescia was a guy we were talking about

the star-studded roster. How does Alex Vescia still have a roster? spot and he goes out there and he puts up a fucking season. Shubs. Yeah. He absolutely shoves. He is nasty and he's been nasty for this club often over parts of the last, you know, four seasons that he's been with the club. And of course, last year, a full complete season, no, no options, no nothing to have him be somebody that he saves game two for this ball club. He is an important piece. He's kind of the Kike Hernandez of the bullpen, in my opinion, for Dave Roberts, because he's going there and get some big out.

So I just wanted to throw a pitching option out there to make sure we give pitchers some love. Yes, give pitchers some love. Relievers need love too. I love the emotion that Alex Vesia plays with. His sister calls him kind of he's out there tweaking, not twerking people, tweaking. That's the energy. All right. So the next one, you're going with Vesia for the pitching side.

But let's talk overall pitching in terms of the team Sy Young. For me, it's Blake Snell. And I don't say that because he already has two Sye Young's one in each league. I say that because he was specifically signed Clint to be the Dodgers workhorse. We know about the injury capabilities of all these other guys or injury injury proneness, easy for me to say. But I like Blake Snell as the team. He may not win the Cy Young in the league,

but my point is he's the team Cy Young because of the workload that they expect him to take on. Yeah, no, that's fair. And I agree. He is somebody who was signed to be to lead this team innings to go out there every fifth or six day. He could be one of the. few that goes every fifth day to keep, you know, the Japanese starters on more Japanese regular rest. For me, and obviously we're avoiding Shohei and a lot of these answers for obvious

reasons. He's very good at all of the things. But I'm going with his longtime teammate as my Syung guy. And I've already said this is my Sayong pick for MLB. Yoshinobu Yamamoto. We saw some of the reasons why in his game one start. Yoshi, when he's right and he's feeling good, he is a goddamn good pitcher. And he wants to be better than he was last year. This is a guy who's won multiple you know, NPB, Sy Young awards. I forgot what they, what they called the award there. But he's a very good pitcher and he wants to show MLB, uh, the greater baseball landscape, why he was signed for $325 million. Uh, so that's my guy. I think the Dodgers go very, very far, uh, with, uh, on, on the right shoulder there of, uh, Yoshi Yamamoto. Yeah, I think he's definitely

much more of a finished product than Roki Sasaki is. Obviously, Roki's younger in his early 20s. This is a guy that the Dodgers know that they can continue to develop him. Yama's a little bit ahead of the process. And again, $325 million. That's nothing to sneeze at. So you better deliver. All right.

So team MVP, and we're calling this the non-Shohei MVP. Because, again, Show-A Otani can be the answer to every single question, every single category. For me, it's the same guy that I said last year. It's what we started the show off with is Teo. I think that if he does what he, if he does exactly what he did last year, he doesn't have to do more. If he does exactly what he did last year, I think he's the team non-showay MVP. He just provides so much value to this team. He's my guy.

Teo, great answer. Shohei is, I think, our superseding. That's at the top. I'm not picking Shohei, but I have the clip here. I just want to run this shot again of Shohei's Homer in game two of the season. By the way, props to our guy, Joe Davis, got a little bit of crap for the call. ball, the ball did hit the roof. It did hit the roof there at Tokyo Dome. So I just want to throw that out there and show hey, getting some, some love there for his homer. But for me, my answer, my team MVP,

it's a fellow by the name of Freddie Freeman, Fred Word, if you're nasty as well. He's just a heart and soul guy for this team. And this is, you know, he's not a dark horse guy. You expect a former league MVP to be somebody that is an MVP candidate. But the importance that he has and kind of galvanizing this club in his own way. You hope it's not because of injuries or because of illness in the family like we've had, like we had last year. But the importance of Fast 5 Freddie, it's going to loom large again for this team. So that's my team MVP right there.

You know what's stupid is that I think Freddie is entering his fourth season as a Dodger. That went quickly. That went quickly. Remember I was like, oh, I'm like, hey, Corey Seeger's numbers available when he was still, and free agency. I'm like, you can come get number five if you want. Freddie, now he's entering his fourth season with this club. Imagine yourself in a vehicle from Hyundai's bold EV lineup.

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I'm myself. Tune in next time to see if I do it again. Spoiler, I will. That had everything. Reeses, suspense, Reese's. All right. Milestone that we're looking forward to in the 2025 season. For me, it's Clayton Kirschaw, 32 strikeouts away from 3,000 strikeouts. And I asked him on foul territory last week if that mattered to him. And of course it does, but that's not something that Clayton obviously is focused on. He's never focused on individual accolades and accomplishments.

But you got to admit, I mean, you know, 3,000 strikeouts is massive in this game and he's left-handed too. I just think that's super cool. And he's my, I mean, Clayton's the goat, right?

He's going into the Hall of Fame. First ballot Hall of Famer. 100%. So that's what I'm looking for because that means Clayton's healthy. And it means the dog. Lodgers are doing some good things. Yeah, I think he can also become, if he's not already, become the franchise.

No, he can't, he actually, no, he could become the franchise all-time wins leader if things really fall well. I got it. We didn't look at the numbers about this. And I forget the morning hasn't, the coffee hasn't kicked in all the way this morning, but I think it's what Don Sutton at 220 or 222 or something like that. He is at 212 is Clayton Kershaw. But that's something you absolutely, absolutely need to be watching.

we already said earlier, Mookie Betts, 29 homers away from hitting 300. How about this, guys? How about this? If the team can win like 150 games this year, Dave Roberts reaches the 1,000 win milestone. That's what I'm looking forward to. Okay, 150 and 12. All right, let's do it. Good luck, Dave.

I hope you become the all-time winning us manager in Dodger history this year in 2025. All right. predict the Dodgers final regular season record. You just said 150. I don't think that's what you really mean. No. How many do you think the Dodgers are going to win this year realistically? I had to look around because I have another monitor in my way here,

and I had written it down from my All-Dodgers show. We did our predictions a couple weeks ago. I think you and I are matched, 109 wins. Oh, wow. I've got the team going 109-54. Yep. That's what I said as well, just because I want to do a couple better than they were, you know, two or three years ago.

I don't even remember how many games they won last year. But anyway, it doesn't matter. 99. No, 98. 98. We're seeing a lot of people thinking in the chat, a lot of people thinking that they break the Mariners record there. We got some 118 win predictions.

Wow. Our friend Denny Cortez saying 107, which is also pretty dang good. But yeah, I don't think they break their own franchise record of 111 that we saw in 22. Mostly because, as we've talked about a number of times, even talked with Dave about, the NOS, very, very good. Yeah.

Yeah, the division's really good this year, which is good. I like that. I want competition. I think it's better to prepare you for the postseason, obviously, and it very well could be two wildcard teams coming out of the West, too. So there you have it. All right. Let's get to last licks.

All right, a little different last licks today. I want everybody to know that we are running a promotion, Clint, if you could throw it up there with the auction. It is Dodgers versus Cubs. No, this is not in Tokyo. This is not something that we should have ran last week. This is the rematch of the season at Dodgers Stadium on April 13th. It's an auction.

So all you have to do is create a free account at 32 auctions.com slash LADCubs. So L.A. Dodgers, Cubs. And you get a free account. You just go on there and bid for four tickets and free parking in lot I. So right now the high bids at 50 bucks. If you go on there and the bid, increments are $10 each. So if you go in there and bid $60, you can get four tickets and parking on Sunday, April 13th for the Dodgers at the Cubs. So it's an important thing for Guidry's Guardian Foundation. We are 100% donation-based. So if you could please do that and bid and win yourself four tickets, the highest bid obviously wins. The auction ends in about four or five days. Please help us out. We definitely need we need some donations. We've had a lot of medical cases coming in. So I appreciate that very much. And thank you to Anita Olson, massive Dodger fan for donating her four seats and parking in

lot. Ive. We appreciate that very much. All right. Time now for the baseball thought for the road. And we talked about Max Muncie is your guy that needs to be the dude. He is now hit, now has had one hit. I cannot talk today in Japan, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and South Korean. And thanks to the great Sarah Langs for noting out that he is the fourth major league player with a hit in five countries or territories joining Xander Bogart, Paul Goldschmidt, and Eduardo Alfonso. It's pretty special. That is pretty cool. Another reason why, you know, I want some love, make sure we get some love out there for Max Muncie, because people can trash on Muncie. You see it a lot here online,

and I don't think it's always very much deserved because this guy, you see on the screen, does some special things for this club beyond just hitting dingers beyond you know game uh with game for the world series 2018 or whichever one that was the 18 inning game um he does a lot of cool things for some reason and he's he's moved up in like dodger lore with just longevity i mean this is a dude who's who's done a lot hit a lot of bombs for this club and and remember this is a guy that was df a Oakland athletics of all teams dfayed by the oakland athletics he's sitting on his couch. He didn't have a job. The Dodgers take a flyer on him and he ends up with, you know, back to back to back to back billion seasons of at least 30 home runs. He's a very, very patient

hitter. He gets on base, has a high on base. I know the average isn't there, but whatever. He's an OBS merchant. He's had, yeah, he's had some really good games and really good seasons in a Dodgers uniform. So good for him. Max Muncie, that's pretty special, just the fourth player ever to have a hit in five different countries or territories. Clint Pisces doesn't have a hit in anyone. What's coming up on all Dodgers with Clint Paseas? Hey, I'm a damn good, bad softball player, so I'll throw that out for myself. But tonight, more random Dodgers talk is there's stuff to talk about, but there's also not a whole lot to talk about because we're waiting for the season to begin again. The restart, like you said, starts in a week. So we'll be just hanging out with the

chat tonight. 6 p.m. Pacific time is the plan. If anything changes, I will post it on my social media is which you guys can find us at these spots on all of the social medias but yeah tube in there subscribe do all that kind of stuff best way to know when i'm live subscribe hit that notification bell same here with dodgers yeah yeah especially hit that subscribe button because we are almost to 10 000 subs we appreciate you guys very much and also wanted to let you know kersh will tie sutton with 21 wins as far as that is concerned so thanks for being here everybody we appreciate you guys as two more seasons yeah Two more seasons. Thank you guys.

As always, we are back on Monday. Clint and I will have a brand new show as we get ready for opening day against the Tigers on the 27th. Go Dodgers. And we'll be back at noon on Monday, noon Pacific time. Oh, right. Right, right. Thankfully. Okay, bye.

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