Dodgers Territory - Dodgers Break Baseball, Sign Kyle Tucker to Insane Short-Term Deal!

Episode Date: January 16, 2026

Katie Woo and Clint Pasillas break down the big news of the week. Top free agent Kyle Tucker and the Los Angeles Dodgers have come together on a 4-year mega deal. How fast did the deal come together? What does the outfield look like with Tucker in the mix? And are the Dodgers ruining baseball? Check out DT merch at https://dodgersterritoryshop.comSupport Guidry's Guardian at https://guidrysguardian.orgFind Clint on YouTube at https://youtube.com/@alldodgers Subscribe to Dodgers Territory on YouTubeRate and review our podcast on Apple and SpotifySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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edition, a Friday edition. We're calling this an emergency edition of Dodgers Territory. I am Clip to see us. That is the great Katie Wu, and we got some things to talk about Katie. Kyle Tucker, you are a Los Angeles Dodger. We're just jumping right into it.

Here we go. I'm going to set you up as best I can. Kyle Tucker, four-year, $240 million deal. My sweet word, that's a lot of coin. 30 million deferred opt-outs after years, two and three. Katie, how fast did this thing come together? How long have this been in the works? And that's a lot of money. First of all, where was the air horn for that?

You could have gone, Kyle Tucker is a Dodger, Airhorn. I got you. Hold on. Wait, give me a sec. There it is. Everybody better? I'd be happy. Could it come through? There we go.

Thank you. It's better. Yeah. This, you know, it seems like not that long ago, about 24 hours ago. You, Alana and I were talking about you. The Dodgers really need Kyle Tucker. And it turns out that, you know, they maybe not, didn't feel like they needed him, but they just really wanted him.

Because if you are willing to pay a player annual average value of $60 million and set a record for the net present value of that contract, you really wanted him. Ken Rosenthal of the athletic and foul territory with the details here. Yeah, you know, is it surprising? No, this is the Dodgers. This is what they do. We've come to expect this. Is it still really cool for one particular fan base and horrifying for 29 others?

Yes, that is true. But really, I think when you're looking at, we'll go break this down, Clint, when you're looking at the way this contract is structured, to me, it wasn't surprising that Kyle Tucker went to L.A. We knew they were one of the three finalists. What was more surprising was the way that this contract was structured and how it benefited the Dodgers on their terms. And for agency, it's a lot about what the player wants. So for the Dodgers to be able to get Kyle Tucker on the length of contract they wanted, that is, I think, the exclamation point here for me.

Yeah, absolutely. I had in our rundown here, it's crazy. Once again, the Dodgers get there, man, but more so to me. It's crazy that we're in an age of Dodger baseball where they could just financially bully. their way to getting out of a player's decline years. He's going to be a Dodger from ages 29, or at least playing his age 29th season through his age 32 season. You're not paying for him to maybe be the next Albert Pooholz or insert other player who aged poorly for a baseball team. This is phenomenal for the Dodgers. It's a great deal for Kyle Tucker as well. I mean,

dude is making a lot of coinage for sure. Looking at some of the numbers here, and we appreciate everybody in the chat. I did not mention. Alana is unavailable for today's show. So you got Katie and I that will call us the B team, the rag tank. That's right. But, hey, technically, looking at the payroll compared to what the Dodgers paid last year to what they're currently, I guess, what's the word I'm looking for here, projected. There you go.

That's the word. Listen, I've been cranking these things out all day. like a weird thing. But anyways, they got money to spend, is what I'm getting out. They got a little bit of money to spend, right? They got about $5, $10 million. I don't know why I looked at my watch. I'm excited. I'm excited that I did not see this happen in the same way. Didn't see Edwin Diaz happening, but Andrew Friedman once again, just working in the shadows being, I don't know if he's being sneaky, but he doesn't need to air out his laundry. He'll let you know when something is ready, when somebody is going to be a

Dodger, which they still technically have. This is not official yet. Dodgers still need to make a roster move. But, you know, we keep talking about you coming from the Cardinal beat now to the Dodger beat. Is it kind of strange to really have no murmurs, no whispers of deals and goings on with your organization? Yes, I'm hoping to change that, obviously. One month onto the, into the job, though.

And, you know, say what you want about the Dodgers. They've been lurking most of the offseason. and they came to life two times and the two times it mattered. I mean, I think the Dodgers operated exactly how you'd expect a two-time World Series championship team to operate coming into the offseason. They said, hey, look, there are two areas of our roster that we feel our weaknesses. It's the bullpen, specifically in the closer and then the outfield. But hey, you know, we're not panicking because we just won two World Series and we have the

resources to fill this if we need. We're comfortable with not, you know, taking our, our chances here with the internal talent and we're comfortable waiting to see if the market came to us. And maybe that's why you just didn't hear a lot about what the Dodgers were doing because they had the luxury to sit back and wait for players and the market to come to them. And that's exactly what happened with Edmund Diaz. And that's exactly what happened with Kyle Tucker. Now, both of these came with a little bit of concessions, obviously. For Diaz, let's break him down first.

The Dodgers weren't really wanting to do a deal more than two years for a reliever. Now the market dictated that they would need to do three once Devin Williams sign and they were in on Devin Williams. So once they saw that they were going to have to go three, they said, you know what? If we're going to have to go out of our comfort zone, we might as well do that for the best available guy. Forty hours later, Edwin Diaz is a Dodger for Kyle Tucker. And we wrote about this in the athletic. This kind of contract formatting, we talked about this for the last month, short term higher AAV. That's what the Dodgers wanted to do for Kyle Tucker.

They even said coming in after the winter meetings, there might be a scenario where they have to incorporate some opt-out clauses. And that's something that Andrew Friedman historically has shied away from to ensure they have the best chance at landing Tucker, should his market not project the way that I think we all thought it did. And as we get closer and closer spring training, we see that the short-term higher AAV deal is in play, enter the Dodgers. They do make those concessions. Kyle Tucker, like Diaz, has had a qualifying offer attached, so they lose more draft picks. Guess what guys?

They don't care because they were able to have the market come to them both times and they were able to adjust on the fly and AAB doesn't really matter. They were able to not just address the two weaknesses they thought they had, but they did so with the two best options available in the sport. It's what they do. Yeah, I really appreciate when these players keep kind of falling to the Dodgers, a ballpark, what they want to do. Obviously, they could have gone out there. They could have given Kyle Tucker 10 million or 10 years and all. this money over the years. That's not what they want to do. They want to protect themselves for the long term. This is an organization, a front office that looks at this year, two years from now,

10 years from now, what will the organization look like? And yeah, losing all these draft picks, there are a small, there's a small group of people that upset about that. They got enough talent. They, all this success and they still have, you know, what, the number one ranked farm system amongst like MLB executives and all this kind of stuff. You mentioned, you know, it was a very weird, it felt like a very weird offseason, very strange offseason for Tucker, settling for a short-term deal. This cannot be what him and his representation expected entering the off-season, right? No, I don't think so, but I also think that this is a benefit that works out for Kyle Tucker, specifically with the opt-out clauses. He turns 29 tomorrow, so a happy early birthday to you, Kyle Tucker.

I wish I got $60 million for my 29th birthday. But whatever. Next time. For Tucker, this is really, I think, the way this contract is set up, and we expanded on it in a story this morning on the athletic, it really benefits both sides because the Dodgers obviously in the middle of a competitive window, a dynasty, some would say. And they don't seem to be stopping it anytime soon.

They're looking like 3P or bust. And for Kyle Tucker, you have an opt out after year two and year three, your age 31 and 32 season. That's the perfect time to really reevaluate your market as you approach those prime age 30 seasons, because once you get to 34, 35, 36, in baseball land, you're old and decrepit, apparently. So that's very humbling realization.

But for Kyle Tucker looking to maybe maximize if he has two good years or comes off into a year where he's really outperforming what is projected to be not that strong of a free agent market in 28 and 29 so far, this allows him to best capitalize on his value and it allows the Dodgers to have a competitive window continuously. You have a starting lineup of seven of nine, at least two all-star appearances, and you have this crop of outfield prospects waiting in the wings, not quite ready yet, but you're not blocking them with this mega, six, seven, eight-year deal.

This is essentially best-case scenario for both sides when you're looking at the future. And obviously, the present looks pretty good, too. Present looks phenomenal for this team. We're going to talk lineup. We're going to talk kind of the outfield construction and all that. I do also want to talk about the crashouts, obviously. The Dodgers stay ruining baseball. We probably really, even as Dodgers fans, watching the show myself and you covering the team,

we need to have a serious conversation about maybe we're starting to dip our toe into too much territory, which sounds like the next show as part of the Fowel Territory Network, could be probably about the Dodgers or maybe just the Dodgers front office. But obviously, everybody in the chat, extremely happy. But you're seeing some crashouts. You're seeing some fans. You're seeing pundits have strong opinions, as they rightfully should, about this deal and the state of the Dodgers. I'll put that value back up, or not that one, sorry, the payroll back up.

This is a lot of money. Back-to-back years, over $400 million in payroll. You mentioned they get the two, arguably the two best free agents on the market, definitely the best pitcher or best reliever and the best outfielder and Tucker and Edwin Diaz. Is it too much? Is this bad for baseball? I know we overuse that expression, but people are mad. Let's break this down, I think, in the most rational way that will not agitate Dodgers fans.

Two things can be true. It can be fantastic. All this money coming into the sport from the Dodgers, from the men, the Blue Jays are spending. And I think we need to have a separate conversation at some point about what Shohei Otani's contract has done for the Dodgers organization. But that's a tangent. I'm not quite ready to go on.

It can be a good thing that all of this money and resources is being poured into MLB, the luxury tax. When you break it all down, the simple messaging here is that it does benefit the rest of the clubs and player retirement in a way. It can also be true that for 15 fan bases, This is not good for baseball because there is something to be said about big market and small market. And small markets like the Reds, like the Marlins, like the Pirates, just cannot keep up with the spending of the Dodgers and the Mets.

And to an extent, the Cubs. So I understand both things can be true. I love how much money is coming back into baseball. I love that teams are willing to spend. I also think there is something that needs to be done. And I don't have the answers here. I'm willing to debate it on how to get these small. or market teams more competitive because if you're a fan of the Washington Nationals,

you're sitting here looking for opening day. Your home opener is like April 3rd and it's against the Dodgers. Wow, what a great random team I just pulled. And you're thinking like, cool, I'm so excited for the home opener. So I understand. I don't want to say that it's bad for baseball because at the end of the day, this significant amount of money going into the league is fantastic. But I do understand the gripes of the competitive nature because at least half the league just cannot keep up with the other half. And it turns out there is one team above all the other 29. And it continues to be a debatable problem for the rest of the league. Yeah, I mean, we could obviously not every organization can compete at the level that the Los Angeles Dodgers can,

their ownership can when it comes to the money. But the thing that's funny about baseball is you invest in your organization, people show up and watch that team, you make more money, you're reinvested into the team, and that's kind of how we got to this point with the Dodgers. It wasn't all rosy every single step of the way. Obviously, the Dodgers went through lean years. Hey, we get to a point here. I want to talk about, you know, really the Dodgers hitting a point. The front office, Andrew Friedman, Mark Walter, hitting a point of enough is enough.

You know, they win that 2020 World Series, mostly built on internal guys, guys drafted and developed by this organization. And then we hear 2020 is a flipping Mickey Mouse ring. And now we're talking about, I loved this one. So I had to put this from the Twitter or whatever. Animal fries, fries well done, solid. I'm not a huge in and out guy. But that's a good order right there. It's a good pull.

Dodger said enough is enough. You know, you win in 2020. You get slammed for that. You run out of gas as a team, both in terms of just healthy players in 2021. And you get kind of made fun of there. Obviously, knocked on their ass in 2022 by a guy. very good Padres team embarrassed by the Diamondbacks in 2023. And then they said, enough is enough.

You get Shohei, you get Yamamoto, you get Tyler Glass now, you get Teasca Hernandez, next offseason, you win. Hey, that's fun. Let's do it again. You get Blake Snell. You get Tanner Scott. You get Rokhis sake. You get Teasca Hernandez again.

And now this winter, Edwin Diaz, and now Kyle Tucker in L.A. It's a fun time to be a Dodger fan. And this is what happens. Eventually, you bully a team. you bully somebody enough, they're going to pull them up, pull themselves up by their bootstraps and use all of that precious money to just kind of flip everybody the bird and say, all right, all right, you know. We did it your way.

Now we're doing it our way. And my dog is upset about it, apparently, that people are mad about the Dodgers. One last thing before we talk about the fitment and the lineup, because that's the stuff that is fun, that is exciting. We had discussed yesterday, me, you, Alana, about maybe Tucker, not, being a great fit in the New York market. This is going to be a great market, a great team for him because he can just show up to work, go put himself in the back of the clubhouse, and then, you know, 7-10 comes around, run out to right field or left. We'll figure that out in a second.

Run out to the outfield. Go hit when it is your time to hit, drive in some runs, go home, come back and do it the next day. I think it's going to be a perfect fit. What do you think? For someone, I've had friends who've covered Kyle Tucker extensively throughout his career, career for someone who, again, have not met Kyle Tucker yet, that will change very soon, who maybe doesn't like the spotlight, just wants to go out there, get his job done, help the team win, all the cliches that us reporters love so much. This is the perfect spot for him, because Kyle Tucker is going to hit maybe fifth or sixth, possibly seventh, depending on the lineup for this club. And he is like the sixth or seventh biggest star here. His only job is to come in

and drive in runs and call it a day. We'll probably never really need to enter. interview him unless he's like the walk, hits a walk off because there are so many other stars that can kind of take the limelight off his back. And we talked about this before, Clint. If they don't, if players don't like the limelight and just want to play baseball, that is okay. It's okay for some players to not have the superstar temperament. And if that's who Kyle Tucker is, can't think of a better spot for him. So, and I can't wait to break down this lineup because it is so exciting for Kyle Tucker to come in and have this fit of L.A. we've seen it throughout the industry, people talking about MLB network, ESPN, the athletic. The overall consensus is that playing in LA is the better fit for Kyle Tucker because he doesn't

have to be the star and maybe that is something that he struggled with for his Eurston in Chicago. Yeah, I mean, definitely there was a lot more expectations on him. And when he was healthy, he performed admirably in Chicago. He did find his last season in Houston as well. I mean, he was on pace for an MVP season. Like I think some people don't realize how incredibly talented this dude is as a hitter. Yeah, he doesn't have all of the flash and pizzazz. He's not a Juan Soto.

Does not need to be a one Soto. He just needs to drive and runs, hit some dingers because chicks dig the long ball and catch the baseball when it comes to him in right field because that's where I'm slotting him. Before we talk about the depth, I want to tell people we don't have Dodgers or Kyle Tucker or Juan Soto money here. So if you want to help support myself, Katie Wu Alana Rizzo the Dodgers Territory Team

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You want to talk kind of out. outfield alignment, the depth chart look, or do you want to talk line up first? So I feel like definitely burying a lead if we push lineup further down. Yeah, let's do lineup first, and then let's expand about the outfield because I have some hashtag thoughts. Hashtag thoughts. Well, we discussed, I think, last week on your first official show, you know, you could put any of these names, and you kind of alluded to it here, you put any of them into these names

into a random lineup generator, and it's a good lineup. There are no wrong answers. This is what I came up with. By the way, people in the chat, feel free to disagree or be upset. I do have Will Smith in my lineup here that we're going with hitting second because the last time he did that, the Dodgers won a World Series. They won a game seven with him hitting second. I think Mookie Betts maybe not a number two hitter anymore.

I don't think there is a wrong answer. But Kyle Tucker there in that three hole for me being a run producer. And all of a sudden, you got Fredward Freeman batting fifth. it's just an insane lineup. Even that bottom three, we're expecting a huge rebound from Tommy Edmund. Andy Paez was solid. You could argue the best number eight hitter in baseball.

And of course, Muncie always finds a way to do some damage. How far off am I in your interpretation of a lineup? Or did you like that? Again, there's no wrong answer. I'm trying to, okay, let's test my daughter knowledge,

which is minimum. The way that we had, projected lineup is very similar. Our bottom three are the similar, but I think it would go Otani, Betts, Freeman, Smith, and then Tucker to Oscar. Uh, just, and when you, when I say that lineup out loud, it feels like I'm just reading the National League All-Star team. Maybe I am. But from a pure offensive standpoint, I mean, good luck. Even Andy Paz and Tommy Edmund eight and nine, I mean, I remember when Tommy Edmund was hitting three for St. Louis. Okay. So this is a, This is a lineup that will absolutely break.

And yes, I know Mookie Betts is coming off an offensive season he'd like to put behind him. I know Freddie Freeman's bit was banged up to end the year. Hopefully an offseason shorter compared to most others coming back will help these guys. But I think Will Smith back in that cleanup spot is going to look really good. And obviously, I don't understand anything about Otani because he is Otani. Now, where it gets a little, I think if you could nitpick this roster just a little bit, it comes down to Tommy Edmund's health. And we've talked about it on the show before.

There is some growing concern if he's going to be able to start the year healthy. And maybe this played into the Dodgers being a little bit more aggressive for Kyle Tucker. If Tommy Edmund is not ready to go, okay, you still have Andy Paz in center field. That's totally fine. He's more than serviceable there. And I think the Dodgers will put Kyle Tucker in right field, actually, and Tiosker on the left, which brings up the very legitimate concern of Tioskers defense. I think it is better.

I'm not sure which corner outfield spot is better, to be honest. But if it lines up like this, then I can see the nitpicking about the defense. And you know what? It's valid. I get it. This is a much better defensive outfield with Tommy Edmund and center. And while Andy Pa has, again, very serviceable in center field, no complaints. I personally thinks he profiles much stronger in a corner spot.

So you put Paa has maybe in left and Edmund and center. Then I don't really know what you would see Oscar there. But it's a good problem to have. Great problem to have. Right? Yeah, well, I'd say it's a great problem to have too, is it also, like if they're done at this point, you know, us here as I'll use the hashtag or the air quotes of content creators, hey, if the Dodgers find themselves needing to be active at the trade deadline this coming summer, I'm not going to be mad because we need things to talk about just like we have for a majority of this winter so far. So if Andy Pahas takes a step back from a pretty solid sophomore season in 2025, if Tomi Edmund ankle just doesn't quite figure itself out, you know,

and Hesong Kim can't find a way to maybe take a, you know, take the reins at second base or something like that, they have ways they can still maneuver this roster. Alex Cole, serviceable baseball player. Ryan Ward is a guy they added to the 40-man roster, somebody who looked like could be in maybe some sort of platoon in left field before this Tucker deal happened. Like they have options. They have plenty of internal depth to still survive. And then, you know, if you need to make some moves, you need to make some splashes at the trade deadline.

You can. But still, the look of this. Yeah, Kyle Tucker needs to be in right. Just to kind of shift gears back to that. He needs to be in right. I think you limit some of the defensive liability of Teoscar Hernandez. You limit that in left field just because his, in my opinion, that worst play for him is that flow. kind of fly ball that drops just between him and an aging and slowing down Freddie Freeman.

Maybe a healthy Tommy Edmett's second base could scoop that up and cover that area. But, you know, Kyle Tucker is a very good outfielder for a reason as well. I don't know a whole lot about his metrics. But even in the outfield, it feels like there's not really bad. There's no, like, wrong answers here. There are probably just slightly more right answers than the other. And that to me is just kind of the Dodgers in a nutshell. Are we really going to nitpick the maybe one roster problem they have right now when I can think of 14 other teams in the National League with a lot more problems?

So this is to me the cherry on top of a winning offseason. You think about, and this is something that we didn't get to discuss last show, but from a fan perspective, when you have back-to-back off seasons of Otani, Yamamoto, Glassnow, and then Snell, Sasaki go down the list. You're thinking, okay, well, our expectations are very high. The Dodgers just won another world series. This can't be it. They can't be complacent. And I think there was some fan frustration there because it's been so quiet. And it got a little bit better after Diaz. But this, I think, is the last move that Dodgers fans needed to feel comfortable that, you know, the Dodgers aren't conceding anything. They're not okay. They're not complacent with just two titles. They've made it very clear that they want that third one. And getting Kyle Tucker puts them right

in the mix as the favorites to do exactly that. Yeah. Waiting for this to still become official, of course, gang, the Dodgers will need to make a roster move. Most likely, Michael Ciani, who is a guy that you know and covered in St. Louis, very, very exceptional defensive outfielder. Baseball bat comes, you know, some assembly required.

Maybe he's somebody who could pass through waivers, end up at AAA, could be a pitcher. We'll know more about that, I'm sure. We'll discuss that. on Monday show because I'm really hoping we get a press conference at Dodger Stadium very soon announcing Kyle Tucker who will need to pick a new number because he's not taking Dave Roberts number 30.

You don't take the number of a Hall of Fame manager. My final thoughts on this, I read your column earlier in the athletic guys. Please go check it out. Really, really good stuff from Katie. But one of the things you had in there, and you mentioned it earlier in the show, it's two championships aren't enough.

It's three pete or bust. Honestly, I think a three-peat. is the floor for this team. You look at that lineup, you look at the starting rotation, just insane, that bullpen, which, reminder, again, I'll say, added Edwin Diaz to the mix this offseason. You're expecting a rebound from Tanner Scott, Alex Vescia back in the mix, so on and so forth.

This is the platinum age of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball. Everybody, please do yourself a favor and enjoy it. And then when fans of other teams give you crap about your Dodgers, buying championships and all this. You just put those two rings that they have just won back to back right up in their faces. And then I don't know where you put the third. But it's a great time to be a Dodgers fan. That's all I got for you.

What a nice problem to have. I don't know where to put the third. Also, I just saw. I'm not video. I'm not recording from my laundry room. Okay? I just moved. I haven't set up my little room yet.

Give me time. That's make me laugh, though. I wonder if you can see my washer in the background. We can't. Let's see. I see the... That is a quality kitchen right there. We're looking forward to getting you settled in.

We want to see what the producer cave looks like for you or your content cave or whatever you're going to end up having. I'm sure that's going to be a lot of fun. We need everybody. Send her bottleheads. Send her stuff. What do you got? That's it.

Exactly. My brother was like, you have a, you have nothing. It's all cardinals. You can't have that in the background. And I was like, yeah, I got us. I have one Friday Freeman bobblehead that I got from a random game. So we're off to a good start. You can throw in, you know, anything Tommy Edmund.

I think that still kind of plays through a little bit. That counts. Final thing we should talk about as well in a little bit of an extended big ticket here. The dam has burst. Kyle Tucker signs and then everybody else signs. Boba Chet to the New York Mets. They miss out on Tucker. Apparently, they weren't too far off on Kyle Tucker.

Will Salmon is having himself a hell of an offseason here. Four years and 220 was the number for the, from, the Mets to Kyle Tucker, they end up landing Bo Bichette. Was it three years, 175? What was the number again? Was it a 120? It happened when I was at the gym. Okay, yeah.

Listen, we don't, we don't cover the Mets. We don't need to care about that. And Dodgers got Tucker. I'm assuming the why not both insanity of my offseason wasn't going to be real. The Dodgers were not going to get Tucker. 126, I think it was something like that. Dodgers could have done that too, right? Why not get Boba Shett while you're at it?

But yeah, quick turnaround for Stevie Cohen and company to get Bo there, kind of sweep him off or sweep him away from what looked like he was going to be a Philly. Kind of didn't work out. But thoughts on. They thought he was going to be a Philly. You know, it's crazy the Kyle Tucker market, just kind of the waterfall effect, the ripple effect, if you will, because the Mets, I think were right in it, wasn't sure what Kyle Tucker was going to do.

He goes to the Dodgers and they're like, you know what? We cannot let another. top free agent get away. Let's go get Boba Shet and the Phillies all this time thought Boba Shet was theirs until the 11th hour. Steve Cohen comes in, here come the Mets and they pick up what has been a very topsy,

turvy kind of offseason for them. I don't really know how to describe it, but certainly getting boba shat helps. And then the thing that's the only thing left in this puzzle is Mr. Cody Bellinger. Will he sign soon? I feel like that would just be the cherry on top of what has been an

insane like 15 hours but Kyle Tucker we set this all along it's going to take one person to go in the free agent market turns out that was Bregman kind of as the pre-start and then Kyle Tucker really got the things the ball rolling now let's do the pitcher so that we're all settled before spring training in about three four weeks yeah let these guys figure out their for their families as well

whatever their home residents all that kind of stuff they need homes they need to be able to fill out their laundry room just like Katie does that's what we got hey dodgers uh you know this is for everybody dodgers stay winning the off season you get kyle tucker uh great spot no wrong answers katie's wifi is having trouble so we should probably hit that wrap it up button from here uh any final thoughts before we sign off if you can hear me i don't even know if you can hear me it's very friday it's very friday it's it's very friday it's all right your wifi gave us uh like 90% of the show and that's what we need we needed

the important part of Kyle Tucker being a Dodgers. Guys, we'll be back on Monday. Myself, Alana will be back on Monday. Katie is out on assignment or doing something, whatever she's doing. I don't know. Don't ask her. That would be rude. I will be back on my All-Dodgers

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