Dodgers Territory - Kershaw Coming Soon, Flowers for Miguel Rojas, Dodging Snell

Episode Date: June 3, 2024

Clayton Kershaw is "ahead of schedule," according to Dave Roberts. How soon until he’s back? DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas explore the Kershaw rehab and talk about why Miggy Ro deserves more playing time!The Dodgers were also reportedly in the hunt to sign Blake Snell in free agency. With a tough start to his Giants tenure and recent injuries, the boys in blue seemed to have dodged a bullet. Clint and Alanna discuss how the Dodgers came out as winners in that non-signing.Finally, Alanna's biggest surprise from the first two-plus months of the season and much more on another edition of Dodgers Territory live!DT streams Mondays & Thursdays LIVE at 3p ET/12p PT all season long on the DT YouTube channel!--Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase at drinkAG1.com/foul. If you want to take ownership of your health, it starts with AG1. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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YouTube watching on YouTube. The love affair between Clint Paseas, my host, and Miguel Rojas, continues to grow. You think he still needs a bigger role. You're still not satisfied. Never enough McGee Roe. It's tough because I think he's playing as well as he is because of the, it's not a limited role. It's not a reduced role. It's a very good role for him at this age. A great article came out over the weekend from the LA Times talking about where he's talking a lot about his role and how much work he's still putting in before the games. You know, we talked to him a couple weeks ago here on this show. If you guys didn't watch it, it was a good conversation with Miggy Roe.

But he's put in a full game, you know, a full day of work before the games, working with somebody like Mookie Betts at shortstop, of course, Lux, Muncie when he wasn't hurt. But this team is very, very good when Miguel Rojas is in the lineup. You see 17 and O here on the screen when he records a hit. That's pretty good because you want to see more wins than losses. I had also noted on my Twitter, 25 and 10 when he's in the game, 17 and 8 when he does start. So he's a difference maker for this team, whether it's at second base, whether it's at third base, or shortstop where I think we could see him end up long term. But McGee Roe, getting it done at age 35 and it's fun to watch.

It's funny. When you're 35 and you're a baseball player, you're ancient, I would kill to be 35 again. It's funny, though, because as soon as they flash up a bunch of numbers on the broadcast talking about what the Dodgers do, when he's in the lineup, you were literally the first person I thought of because I was like, he has been singing the praises of Miguel Rojas for so long. And here you are. And again, he continues to pay dividends. But you're fine with the role that he has right now, the amount of times that he's playing, the amount of starts that he's getting. And then you're pushing the pedal to the metal when it matters the most. Yeah, I think that's a good plan for this team,

especially if, you know, obviously I was sipping the Kool-Aid a little bit last week, got the Francisco Lindor talk out there and some other people already making, Frankie Lindor edits in a Dodgers uniform. So that's always funny. But this team has a very good unit when it comes to the infield when it comes to the defense. And if we see him down the road, maybe he starts to pick up more playing time in September. If somebody like Gavin Lux can't figure it out or whatever it is, they're going to be

in a very good spot. This seems to be in a very good spot, whether Miguel Rojas is at second or better yet at shortstop. And what I like also about him and Alana, I know how much you love. former Dodger Justin Turner and how important he was to that team, to that clubhouse, and to Dave Roberts. We're kind of starting to see a lot of that from Miggy Row here. How important is it for somebody like Dave to have that field general in the clubhouse?

Somebody he can lean on. It's everything. That's such a good point that you make. And I still will never get over the fact that they let Justin Turner not finish his career in a Dodger uniform. I thought that was a huge mistake. I understand that it comes down to money. I know that he wanted a multi-year deal, whatever, whatever.

but it's Justin Turner and he literally, I understand for not many teams, there's not a captain in baseball. I get the Yankees have it. But Justin Turner, for all intents and purposes, was the glue that kept that team together. And Dave Roberts called him the glue that kept that team together. He is the captain of the Dodgers. And he was, whether he was 0 for four or four for four, he would post after every game, he could have committed three errors or he could have hit the game winning home run. And he was there for you. And he held other guys accountable. And with that, not only is the bat gone. And as he got older, the defense at third base wasn't necessarily there. We know it's a tough position to play. But not only was one of the most clutch bats out of the lineup,

that leadership that you're talking about was out of the clubhouse and out of the dugout. And I certainly think that Justin Turner could be a manager someday. I think he will be a manager someday. I mean, I think he's on that trajectory. But yes, if it's not Kershaw, who's not necessarily always with the team, because he's doing rehab starts and simulated games and those types of things, he's not always traveling. If it's not Kirshah, who, again, is a veteran, is a leader, people like, you know, back in the day when E.F. Hutton spoke, people listen. That's Kersh. I don't even know if you know who E.F. Hutton is because you're younger than me. But Miguel Rojas is that guy, right? He's that position player, the veteran player. And that's what pissed me off so much when Jazz Chisholm Jr. was talking about how, you know, Miguel was getting on the Marlins. Well, where are the Marlins right now? Derek Jeter bolted. Kim Eng says, no, thank you. You're not bringing somebody in. above me when I just took this team to the freaking playoff. Skip Schumacher doesn't want to sign an extension there. I mean, there are probably already parting ways,

even though he was manager of the year last year, but whatever. So, Jess Chisholm, you know, doesn't like McGee Rojas getting on the young guys. It's a different thing between letting yourself have your own personality and being who you are. But there's a reason veterans are in this game as long as they are. There's a reason Miguel Rojas is, you know, fully vested in Major League Baseball because of what he brings to the table. And he knows, I mean, if, if Miguel Rojas is teaching Muky Betts, one of the best athletes in the world, how to be a better shortstop, that should tell you something. So he's so instrumental, not only at what he brings defensively, but what

he does as a leader and a cohesive unit to keep that team together. Yeah, McGee Roe fun. And he had also mentioned recently last year. He knew he was going to get a lot more playing time. he was chasing the numbers a little bit in his own words now he's playing free and easy and he feels I think he feels in the second year back with the team he feels a lot more integral to the day-to-day operations and he's essentially a coach on the field right now he's still playing but uh hey maybe one day we got jt managing and miggie row can be that bench coach but that's down the road they want to be here for a good long while sorry dave robert taters here on the internet No, Dave Robert is a great manager.

I'll, you know, I'll take that to the grave. Dave Roberts has done a tremendous job with this club. You know what surprised me even more than the McGee Row numbers, which wasn't really a surprise, but it was great to solidify what you've been talking about for two months. What surprised me is Kershaw and the fact that they even put a timeline out there and what is the point in saying he's way ahead of schedule. If there is any team that likes to keep things close to the vest, other than a hockey team that say lower body and upper body injury. It's the Dodgers and Kirschaw hates timelines. Did that surprise you as much as it surprised me, Clint, that he's ahead of schedule. You don't need to bring him back.

They don't need Kirsch until September. Am I wrong there? I mean, maybe a little bit more than September. You want a two-month run. Still, the hope was the earliest return was going to be July. He's now, what was it, on the first of June is facing hitters live at Dodger Stadium. That's really freaking cool to see. I don't know if that's ahead of schedule. I don't know if that's on time. I mean, this is really the start of his spring training, but I don't think, I agree. I do not think you need to put a date, a time frame, anything out there at this point because it just adds to the potential for disappointment. And like I said, it's good for storylines for people like us who have to cover this thing a couple times a week

when you're like, oh, man, he's way off schedule. They're pushing him back two, three weeks. I was also surprised like with max munsey they put a timeline they expected them back at the end of you know the 10 day iL stint but now we're probably going to push a month and a half without max munsey in the lineup on the active roster with that oblique thing so it's very yeah it's very not dodgery but all that aside love seeing clayton kerschow ck 22 almost back uh throwing to hitters and and uh that's it's good for baseball and it's good for the dodgers And it's the thing that you want to hear, you know, when you come out of those simulated games or a bullpen or whatever, you stretch out to, you know, 90 feet, you're playing catch or whatever it is that he's working on as far as baseball activities are concerned. All you care about is that he feels good is that he's care about his schedule. I mean, he's coming off the first surgery he's ever had. And you just want to make sure that whatever it is that he's doing as far as the progression is concerned, that he feels good the next day coming out of it so you can move forward. But the fact that they said he was ahead of schedule, I was like, whoa, when did Clayton Kirshaw say it was okay to talk about a timeline? I'm like, I felt like I was living in, you know, in the twilight zone here because that never happens because let's just say, I don't know, he gets a hang nail.

And then he gets pushed back and he's not back. And you're like, oh my God, now what are we going to do with Clayton Kirshah? So whatever it is about Freddie Freeman, perhaps Clint Paseas, if it means going to Colorado and right in the ship and getting things going, I'm all for it. Freddie looks good. Come check this. I heard in TikTok have come together to create something new. I love it. where the world of TikTok meets your playlist.

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Hopefully he can keep it going the next time he also is in Colorado. Just have him always face Rockies pitching. But this is a guy who needed that. He needed to have this kind of series. Did Fred Word Freeman not having his... best season by his own, you know, very, very lofty standards. All that said, he's still hitting 2.93. He's still getting on base at an almost 400 clip.

And, you know, they've been working. They've been working on him a lot, working on some mechanical cues in his swing, talking about, I mean, Alana, you've seen it over the last decade plus of Freddie Freeman playing baseball. He is at his best when he's just pumping that ball over the shortstop, sending that ball to left field. And that's when he's going to do his most dance. And he's getting closer to that.

They feel he's getting closer. And if you can get him all the way back, this lineup just gets that much more frightening for sure. It really does. And obviously, now there was some talk. I'm not certain if it's going to happen. Clint, I'd like your opinion about this too. There was some talk that perhaps Dave Roberts was going to split up Freddie and

Shohey in the lineup when facing certain pitchers. I mean, this is a team that constantly tinkers with the lineup. And that's what I do love about the Atlanta Braves and Brian Snicker. It's like you pretty much know where you're going to be in the lineup every single day, barring a day off or barring an injury or what have you. Are you all right with splitting these guys up at the top of the order? Well, the idea was just breaking up Otani and Freeman versus lefties, which is fine. That's okay.

You know, Dave Roberts does love doing his lineup tinkering. It usually loves doing it after a few months into the season. So it is what it is in that regard. But at the top of the lineup still, like we've talked about it before, hey, if they're separating him, who are they throwing in there? It's Will Smith and how good has Will Smith been? By the way, I was going to tag you, Will Smith, or Dave was talking about Will Smith on, I think it was MLB Network Radio over the weekend and talking about how he believes he is one of the most underrated, but one of the most underrated players in baseball.

You know Dave Roberts is listening to Dodgers territory. You know they're on the plane right now on the way to Pittsburgh because they flew today instead of flying yesterday after the game, which I thought was odd, but they flew today to Pittsburgh and then they have a team dinner tonight. And I guarantee you, they're all on the plane watching us. Don't think they're not. They love Dodgers territory. By the way, happy birthday to Dave on May 31st. You just had a problem.

Yeah, when are you going to get the, when are you going to pull the Dave Roberts card and get him on here? That's a good question. I'll do that. I'll get Doc on. No problem. I can do that. Don't challenge me, Paseas. Don't challenge me.

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All right. So remember when the Dodgers were heavily pursuing Blake Snell? And I don't feel like the guy's thrown like two winnings this year for the Giants. Aren't you glad? I know hindsight's 2020. And you and I were talking about this with our producer, Jeremy, in our production meeting. But I'm kind of glad that the Dodgers didn't get Blake Snell. Snell was one of those weird ones.

Like early in the off season, there was no chatter. There was no links between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Blake Snell. Then as the offseason kept progressing and the phones were not really ringing off the hook for Blake Snell, I started, you know, we had a whole live stream on my All Dodgers channel where we were talking about it. And I started the segment in the narrative of, no, this team doesn't need him. then we started thinking, oh, this injury can happen or this, or Bobby Miller's head falls off or whatever it is. And then you started realizing maybe, maybe this team really does need Blake Snell. Then, of course, he signs very late with the Giants.

And then we get the report. They did make a push late for him. Maybe they were watching me because apparently they're big fans. But very, very glad they did not make that move because, one, this is a very, I wouldn't call him phenomenal. It's a very good pitching staff starting rotation that we already see with this team. And again, like you said, hindsight 2020, but I take James Paxson over Blake Snell. And yeah, I'm using the numbers. But I'm glad it's working out the way it is.

And here's why. I mean, he just, he hasn't pitched a lot. I mean, he really could have used a decent spring training. He pitched so late that, you know, they had to ramp them up. He still isn't really ready. He wasn't really stretched out. And then he just left Sunday's game. We know we're getting the reports that he had an MRI after leaving Sunday's outing early

because of an adductor issue. So it's like he was a big sign, obviously. going to get a, you know, wanted a lot of money. I thought it was a good signing for the Giants at the time. But, you know, again, I was not certain about the depth of our pitching staff and if we were going to be okay. But think about had we gotten Blake Snell. That would have been a bummer.

It had the same, obviously had the same exact things happen to him in a Dodger uniform as are happening with him in a Giants uniform. Yeah. I mean, you don't wish injuries on anybody. It's a two-time Sye Young Award winner. And it's real, real easy again, with the benefit of hindsight saying, it's a good thing they didn't get him at this point because he would have been injured or maybe he wouldn't have been maybe if he signed earlier but yeah don't they need to fix to make this an

entirely different question or whatever they need to fix like the offseason needed to fix the signing the teams that don't want to spend money need to start spending some damn money because it's damn shame that we're in this situation with blake snow coming off the young award where He should have had a job much earlier. But the giant, yes, but the Giants did try to spend money. I mean, they tried to get judge. And by the way, the nice job Yankees kicking the shit out of the Giants all weekend at Oracle Park, including yesterday's come from behind game.

Yeah, Denny Cortez says that she's happy that they did not land snow. I hear you. You know, and again, I don't want to wish injury on anybody, but it's crazy. Justin says should have taken Yankees off her. You know, the Yankees took care of business against the Giants this weekend. And Aaron Judge even said, hey, it was close. It was close. I mean, the numbers were pretty close. And ultimately, we decided to go back to New York.

There wasn't a chance in Heller and Judge wasn't going to go back to New York. I mean, there's no way. But the Giants did try to spend money. They just, you know, I didn't, you know, Chapman is not working out the same way that I would have thought that Chapman would have been doing. I mean, they've been decimated by injuries. I get it. But so nobody's going to feel sorry for the San Francisco Giants, let alone a Dodger fan. But doesn't Gavin Sohn make it a little bit easier and saying, hey, it's okay that we don't have Blake's knell?

giving giving my time to to give my flowers to Gavin Stone. I've said it a number of times across the internet here over the last couple of months. This is arguably the most important pitcher on the Dodger staff, how much he's grown over, well, really over the end of his last season into the point he is now. I think at this point, we're talking about minimum all-star birth for Robin Stone because he has been really fucking good at his job to borrow from grandma i don't know it's it's fun watching him and yeah it does make it a lot easier to swallow not getting somebody like you know a guy coming off of a siong award uh last year when you have somebody who figured it out put together all the pieces put in the work

and is reaping the benefits of it uh for it Gavin stone very very uh important and fun figure in this Dodgers uh pitching staff man if you were to go on a date with Gavin Stone or Miguel Rojas, who are you going to choose? I don't know who you're going to take right now. This is crazy. You got this crush on Stony and, and McGee Roe. I will always choose Russell Martin. That's what I'm saying.

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It took 20 years. To hear these and more, listen to Keep It Pies, Sweetie, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of The Fault and Our Stars, and now I guess also as the co-host of The Away End, a brand new world soccer podcast. I'm Daniel Alarcon, a writer and journalist, and John and I have known each other since we were kids. My first World Cup was Mexico 86. I was nine years old. I watched every game, and I fell in love. On our new podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. For us, soccer, football, is a story we've shared for over 30 years since Daniel was the star player on our high school soccer team. Very debatable.

And I was their most loyal and sometimes only fan. I love this game. I love its history, its hope, its heartbreak, and above all, it's beauty. Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important. Listen to the away end with Daniel Auer Kohn and John Green on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, let me ask you this, though. Going back to Blake Snell for just a hot second. Not to take anything away from him, obviously he's a two-time Siyang Award winner, one in each league.

But if you look at the other years, Clint, in which he did not win the Siyang, again, and press, doing that. Best pitcher in the league in that year. If you look at the other years, though, very unimpressive. So it's quite an interesting dynamic with Blake's now. He's either really good or he's super mediocre. That's fun to think about how good. He could have been with this Dodgers pitching staff or the coaching staff

because they turn everything just about everything. Very, very good, including friend of the show, Mark Pryor. But yeah, Blake Snell, get better. That's all I got. Well, we hope you feel better, Blake. No, truly, I hate, I don't want to see. Oh, this is, by the way, I need to say this. And this is true.

So when Ronald Ocunia Jr. went down, I had a Dodger fan. Did I say this already? A Dodger fan DM me on Instagram that said, good. It opens up the way for Freddie Freeman or Mookie Betts to win the MVP. That is a garbage take. I never want one of our guys to win an MVP award or any award, because one of the best players in the game, the National League reigning MVP got hurt.

That's be better, Dodger fans. Be better, be better fans, period. I don't want anything to come because of an, you know, at the expense of an injury to a really good player. All right, time now for last licks, my friend. Where was I during this whole situation with the Dodger dog at the park? I mean, really? If there's one place Lana Rizzo should have been,

I'm talking about myself in the third person like Ricky Henderson. It's here. We're missing you in that scene. Look, there are two, we could have had two iconic Alana Rizzo scenes in the outfield. And that is, of course, you and Nomar on 100 years home run. It happened. And then you could have been out there with all of those good boys, including this dog, which that is an adorable hot dog. It's a dog in a dog. It's like a Dodger dog, but it's literally a dog. I mean, it's so cute. So I love Bark in the Park as long as it's a decent weather, you know, suffocating of heat exhaustion and they have water. So good job Los Angeles daughters. All right. Last Licks for Guidry's Guardian Foundation. This is Bernadette. And there is a, remember Boogie? I introduced you to Boogie who was a stray that got dumped in a South L.A. Lawn at night. Well, she was pregnant and she had seven puppies. And we named them after the Big Bang Theory cast. So this is Bernadette. So there's a there's Bernadette, Penny, Amy, Sheldon,

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Or, of course, you can hit me up at Alana Rizzo. Those pups look very, they get squishable faces. Oh, they're so sweet. For people that are listening to us, and by the way, if you're listening to us, subscribe, leave a review, all that kind of stuff. So Alana, we've just passed. the 60 game mark here for your Los Angeles Dodgers 61 games played any any surprises for you from this team so far anything stand out the biggest the biggest surprise for me is that it's the same issue

that we felt all season long that just the bottom of the order makes me nervous it really does the bottom of the order makes me nervous and I still think we need a back end of the bullpen piece I'm still welcome I'm happy to welcome Kenley Johnson back we've discussed that before um if Boston in fact becomes a seller at the deadline which I think they will be I mean, that concerns me. I think right now it's just status quo. I mean, they're still winning the division. There's no, it's easy to, you know, want to poke a hole.

It's like easy to want to poke a hole in the Phillies. And what are you going to poke a hole with with the Phillies? The fact that Taiwan Walker's not great and maybe Spencer Turnbull should not be in the bullpen. I don't know. When your team is as good as the Dodgers is or as good as the Phillies are, it's hard to point fingers. But bottom part of the order, it's got to step up. What about you? Yeah, I mean, you can't not point out.

out that bottom part of the order. I think there was a lot of hope and expectations for guys like Gavin Lux entering this season. James Outman being sent back down. I think it was really unexpected for this team. The fact that we reached this point where they don't really have a good outfield. They do not have a good outfield. The numbers say it's arguably, well, it's not arguably. The number say it's the fifth worst out. I think it's fifth worst outfield in baseball, at least it was in the month of May. They need some help. They need some offense there. You know, talked about, you know, maybe adding a shortstop or whatever you had mentioned maybe moving Mookie Betts back into the outfield. I'm, I'm less on that. I think Mooky Betts is fine as a second

baseman playing some shortstop during the regular season as long as Mikhail Rojas is that shortstop come playoff time, but they need outfield help. And that was something I was not expecting this drastically how bad the outfield has been outside of Teasca Hernandez. And it all combines with the bottom of the lineup too. It's funny because I was on ESPN, L.A. with Mason and Ireland the other day, and they brought up the fact that we talked about Francisco Lindor and Harrison Bader. They're like, I heard you said you wanted Francis. I said, no, no, no, no, no.

Don't put me on that train. I said, that's my partner, Clint Paseas that was talking about the fact, what if they got Francisco Lindor and Harrison Vader? And then I got reamed a new one because I said, maybe you should put Mookie back in Wrightfield and admit that you made a mistake. So I'm having a lot of fans now in L.A. Like, what the hell is this chick talking about? All right, DMAX, number one fan.

no one Kenley. I don't want a heart attack. Oh, Dima. Remember what the man did for you in a Dodger uniform? My goodness, what is wrong with you? Don't forget about everything that he was able to do. I'll agree. I'm very much a no on the Kenley train. Why? I think they have enough pitching as it is. You just saw, for the first time all season, they got the band together that they thought they were going to have with Danny Hudson with Blake Trident, who is absolutely disgusting, a friend of the show, and also Evan Phillips locking down the door. You make six inning games. You have a

enough weaponry there. Alex Vescia is so damn good at his job, something I never thought. There's another big surprise. And I talked about it last, on my last stream on Thursday, Thursday stream. That's my biggest surprise. Like, everybody was clowning on Alex Vesia, and he has been an absolute beast. And this is a team that's still going to hopefully knock on desk here, get back Joe Kelly, maybe a Ryan Brazier. I don't have any hope in the world to see Bruzdar Gratterol back this season at this point because it's not even football but they still have all that aside they have a very good bullpen as it is and canley jansen you know don't get back together you know what's crazy what is the last time the biggest concern of the los angeles dodgers was outfield production

think about the outfield that we've had in the last few years when belly was there when matt kemp was there eighth year, you know, obviously Mookie the last couple of years. I mean, when was the last time that you were seriously? Like before we say goodbye, when was the last time you were seriously concerned about outfield production? It's been a very, very, very long time because you mentioned, you know, Dre Day, you mentioned Maddie Kemp. And CT3 and Kiki when they were crushing the ball.

And, I mean, they were playing in the outfield. It's been a long time that we've had an outfield that you're like, me, they're not really that great. You know, the name people are really clamoring for now. outburst over the weekend aside is Tommy Fam. Longtime former feature. No, no. I don't need him slapping the shit out of anybody over fantasy football or any of that.

I mean, that guy, I mean, it's June 2nd. He's like so frustrated. I mean, it's like I know you're frustrated. It's a show, shallow left feel. Obviously, he was going to be out by a mile at the plate, but I'm good. I don't need to know that you, like, fight in the offseason because you're ready to have somebody up at any moment. I'm good.

I'm good. Keep him and jock super, super far apart. All right, don't forget. We are so happy that you guys are with us on Dodgers territory, a thousand subs. Let's get to 2000. Clint and I are going to be back Wednesday for post game, the first Dodgers territory post game with the two of us. We might be hammered. I'm not sure.

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