Dodgers Territory - Roki Shines, Rotation Competition Heats Up, Bullpen Concerns

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas break down Roki Sasaki’s standout spring debut against the Reds on Tuesday. (0:50) (2:24) Could Sasaki have the best “stuff” among the Dodgers’ trio of Japanese superstars?Get 20% off your first Slab Pack or card purchase by going to ArenaClub.com/foul and use code foul.(9:57) With time running out, players are racing to make their mark on the Dodgers’ front office and coaching staff. Who’s making the strongest case for the fifth rotation spot?(12:25) Our hosts dive into why it might actually be a good thing that Tony Gonsolin has stayed under the radar this offseason.(17:07) Clayton Kershaw is on track for his return, but how does his comeback shake up the rotation puzzle?(19:20) Plus, with the bullpen starting to thin out, are we still feeling confident in its depth?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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And again, it might be on a rotation basis. Hey, everybody, it must be Thursday because this is a live, fresh edition of Dodgers territory. We are your host. That is Clint Paseas. I am Alana Rizzo, taking you through the next 30 minutes of all things, Dodgers. Thanks for being here. Make sure you like us, subscribe, smash that like button. Tell your friends, we appreciate you guys very much.

For those that are here, what's up? that are going to listen later. Thank you as well for being here. All right, Clint, today's show, at least off the top, this big ticket item is all about the Roki reviews. Sasaki's first outing. Let's get there. I have to say, I don't think he disappointed. I was very much looking forward to how he handled things outside of the bubble, if you will. Pretty good final line, three innings again back to back, or excuse me, backing up Yamamoto. Two hits, one walk. No earned runs. You got to love that. And you also got to love the fact that he had five punchouts. I mean, that's a pretty good, pretty good final line for a guy that is

pitching in the big league level for the first time in a spring training game. Again, I don't put any, you know, emphasis so much on results, but it was good to see him get out there outside of that, you know, controlled environment, if you will. Yeah, I think he looked really good. I think we saw some nerves early on in the outing, but he found it. The fastball sitting around 98, 99, the splitter looking as disgusting. Forkball really is what it should be called, but we'll call it the splitter. Quieted anybody who had concerns about Sasaki and where he's at and how the Dodgers were kind of, we could say hiding him in the background.

Of course, like you had mentioned, the B game on the backfield against the Intra Squad plus the White Sox. Well, here you had a team that was trying to beat his ass down and they could not. And some dudes, obviously, a couple guys gave the baseball a ride, a couple foul balls, very, very. loud strikes, but otherwise when he decided to turn it on and dominate, he did that. So seeing that, seeing Roki with stuff versus big league hitters, it was impressive. And it makes me feel a whole lot better about a starting rotation I already felt pretty dang good about. It's funny because you talk about the starting rotation. We'll throw up that graphic here in just a second. But what I like about the fact is that many are saying, Clint, that Roki

Sasaki is the best in terms of stuff of all three of the Japanese-born pitchers that the Rogers have, which is pretty, pretty hard to say. So do you think that in his spring training debuts or the stuff that you saw last year with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, do you think that Yama looked as good as Roki did in his first if we're going to go ahead and compare? Because that's what we do on these shows, right? Let's just compare everybody. I mean, that's what we have. We only have history to work off of. And Yamamoto definitely was, I think he had a little bit more struggles. I think there was also just a lot when you're talking about, you know, the price difference between the two pitchers, $325 million or whatever it was for Yamamoto and all the expectations.

He was also working on some things. The Dodgers were kind of working on changing his delivery a little bit. He's also getting used to the baseball was Yamamoto last year. So the numbers weren't very good. And then we also saw that in his debut outing game two against the Padres, you know, five earned runs, one inning. And then he's out. Of course, everything better after that point. So I think the Dodgers kind of learned a little bit about how to get some of these guys over here, acclimated, adjusted to the baseball, the mound, the environment. The Dodgers players have been doing a great job getting these guys acclimated as well.

We've talked before about, you know, Mookie Betts working with like somebody like Hesson Kim, kind of getting getting the crowd involved out there at Camelback Ranch. Come on, let's go. Let's go Dodgers, all that kind of stuff. The Dodgers have learned a lot on how to manage, like game situations or managed situations in, you know, here in spring training, but also even last year heading into the postseason and all that stuff we've talked about, hey, leave the wives, leave the girlfriends at home, let's focus on being here. Let's be boys for the next three weeks

and try to go win this thing. And now, here they are a year later, using all the information they have to try to get Sasaki in the best spot to potentially start game two against the Cubs there for for the Dodgers in Tokyo. All right. Well, Jason Gianaros wants to call. it the splurk ball, the splitter and the forkball. So that's fine, Jason. You better go ahead and trademark that bad boy, splorke ball. Let's see what Roki Sasaki himself, Clint,

had to say after his first spring training outing as a Dodger. Well, of course, ah, my ball, it's not even up, you're playing sprit more good to go out of, that sort of, so that's a good ball if you're, like,

like, oh, so, like, can, can't, can't be, That's a few so much

so much that's both both things I noticed with big league hitters they do

hit mistakes and they do take some some splits that I threw but I did feel really good about being able to

jam some hitters and as long as I throw quality pitches I should be able to get these guys out that's what we saw thank you Roki Sisaki

and thank you Will the thrill you know it's one thing for Roki to say what he said Of course, you want to hear from the horse's mouth, if you will, or actually through Will Iyerton, but that's another time. How about what Dave Roberts, Clint, had to say about Roki Sasaki's outing? He was saying basically the best that they've seen from him.

I mean, you talk about the fact that we have seen him in bullpen sessions. We've seen him in live BP. We've also known that they're kind of coddling him, if you will, for lack of a better phrase. But this is the first time that we've seen him in compete mode, according to Dave Roberts. and it's the best that we've seen him. You've got to feel good about what the skips had to, Skip had to say. Yeah, when Dave feels good,

I'm going to feel good about somebody out there. Also, sometimes we know Dave has to kind of guide these people into confidence, but I feel really, really good about Sasaki and where he's at. The stuff looks nasty. The stuff looks as advertised. You know, we saw this graphic going around online, the release point for all of the pitches at the slider splitter. And four seamer going did Roki against the,

reds the other night and the release point that hand is staying right there that is that it's staying about in the same spot that's telling you the deception is there uh batters are going to have a hard time a very difficult time reading this baseball coming out of the hand and again we saw it it's some of the uh some of the pitches some of the at bats one of the guys looking absolutely foolish just throwing a sword out there with his with his bat trying to hopefully make some sort of contact and stay alive but the you know baseball's four or five inches under the bat The stuff was disgusting. Roki is disgusting. And, you know, to, like you said, to think that he could be somebody who ends up being the best of the three Japanese stars on this team.

It's got to be daunting for everybody else in the league to think about. Yeah, it's a pretty scary proposition. And think about the fact, of course, that the opposition doesn't have much of a book on Roki Sasaki. I mean, of course, you can watch all the video that you want. You can go back to the World Baseball Classic. You can see what he's done in terms of videos and those types of things. But until you're standing in the box and you're facing this guy that has that splitter that Clint talks about, that has that fastball, obviously.

And they're going to continue to work with him and mold him into the pitcher. He really wants to be at the big league level. Remember, he could have waited to have been posted and made a lot more money, but he wanted to get out of Japan and pitch in the big leagues. And he's a work in progress. He is a mold that the Dodgers will continue to mold into what they think he can be. terms of talent-wise, but how scary it could be with the three-headed monster of the Japanese-born pitchers, not to mention all of the other starters in the Dodgers rotation. Clint, you and I talked about it with Sarah, our producer, throw up that graphic as far as the options for starters in the

Dodgers rotation. It's disgusting. No lack of star power and no lack of talent. Of course, the factor is how healthy is everybody going to be? We get that. But look at this starting rotation option as far as that is concerned and holy moly i mean that that's pretty impressive yeah there's a there's a a lot a bounty of options there for this team of course a couple of guys uh not going to be ready for opening day clayton kershoshio tani but they still have enough pitching i think we can talk about that when we come back but first we should hear from our buddies eric crats and scott brawn about arena club FT fam, if you love ripping packs of cards, there is a modern way to do that now on Arena Club with their slab packs and crats.

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And, you know, we'll get back to the rotation options there. It feels like we've seen everybody that's going to, well, of course, we've you've seen everybody that's going to play an important part, an important role for this team on opening day and starting rotation should be about five starters. I will throw that graphic back up because it's fun. It should be the five starters. We know Blake Snow is going to be in there. We know Tyler Glasno is going to be there. We know Yoshinobu Yamamoto is getting that opening day nod Sasaki probably one step closer after that. But then you have a little bit more competition for that number five spot. I think Landon Nack, he ends up on the opening day roster. I think

he ends up in a bullpen roll, which we'll talk about more later. But look in between Gonsland and May, just as it was when we entered spring training. These are a couple of guys that are fighting for a role, battling for a role, D. May getting the ball again today at Camelback or wherever they're playing. But I want to point out, we have not talked a whole lot about the Catman this offseason and into spring training. Tony Gonsolin has looked pretty good in his small sample size here in spring training. And I think he needs more love. he's somebody was an all star in 2022.

It's very, very good when he's healthy. And he has been healthy longer in his career than Dustin May. What do you think about the state of competition? That's like half a dozen on one side, six on the other, right? I mean, they both have had their injury woes. But I will say this. I would be shocked if it wasn't Dustin May in that fifth spot. Obviously, Tony Gonsland is going to be on the Dodgers opening day roster.

That to me is a given. But I would be shocked if it wasn't Dustin is the fifth starter. And again, it might be. on a rotation basis. I think obviously both of these guys have to get built up. I don't think any spots are locked except one through four. So it may be, you might see a rotating, you know, a revolving door there, if you will, uh, in terms of the fifth spot. But I wouldn't be surprised if it's D-May there in that, in that fifth spot just because he's looked really good. And the fact that he is healthy, thank goodness, he's okay. And I think maybe Tony Gonsolin,

although I believe Dustin May is built better for the bullpen. I think Gonsoling comes out of the open at least to start the year. Why do you think it is that we're not talking as much about Gonsolin? Do you think that's because, as you said earlier today in our pre-pro meeting, that he's doing his job. So since he's not ruffling feathers, that's a good thing. Yeah, I mean, I think he's somebody that is showing up to work, ready to play, ready to work, ready to do his job, and just kind of be the middle reliever for this Dodgers starting rotation. We know middle relievers when they're doing their job, you don't hear shit from them. You don't have to hear from them.

They don't talk to media. They don't, you know, have a bunch of questions thrown their way. So Tony Gonselin, also just generally a quiet dude as it is, doesn't want the spotlight. And he is not coming off of all of the headlines that Dustin May has had over the last couple of years. You know, Tony, it's one elbow injury. It's Tommy John. He also pitched through that injury part of 2022 because the team was so, you know, riddled with injuries on the pitching staff. so he kind of took one and wore it for the team.

But he, again, to me, I have the reverse view of where you're at when it comes to the fifth starter competition. Tony, in my opinion, is the lock just because, like you also said there, I think Dustin May's future profiles better in the bullpen. It seems like his body is not ready for the rigors of a, in every fifth day, every six day, trying to go out there and let it eat for five or six innings. you just give him a fastball and a slider. Give me 25 pitches every couple of days, and Dustin May can absolutely dominate. As were Tony Gonsolin is somebody who, again, has been an all-star, has led the team 16 and 1 a couple years ago in ERA,

just a bit over to when he's right, he's good. He's another dude with the forkball, fastball, and he has the ability to give this team length and stay in the rotation. And that's a big thing. I don't think they want to have to keep bouncing. bouncing back and forth, getting different guys in and out of there. Sure, they're going to need to and injuries are going to happen.

But if you have one guy just kind of be there day in, day out, week in, week out, I think that's something that really, really helps Tony, that when he's healthy and he's right, he is very, very good. And to stash him in a five or six spot for this team, that is sexy. What do you think about this? Just some unconventional thinking, kind of thinking outside the box here, if you will. We talked a lot about how the Dodgers last season we're going to talk today, Roberts about this specifically on Monday when you and I are out there exclusively with a sit down

with Dave. We're doing a foul territory from Dodgers camp too on Monday. So stick with us for that. But what do you think about the non-traditional approach of perhaps piggybacking those two in terms of maybe Dustin May comes out and gives you two innings? And then you get five from the Catman or he gives you the 25, 30 pitches that you're talking about. And then I don't know. I mean, is that you don't want to blow out your bullpen obviously. You only have a certain amount of roster spots and a certain amount that you can have in the lineup and in the bullpen and all those types of things. But is there a piggyback situation in your mind for these two to get them built up to keep them, you know, keep them healthy in those types of things?

I mean, I think it's more than just for these two. And I think I'll preface this by saying, you know, the days are gone of us seeing Dodgers pitchers at least go out there for 30 starts and 200 innings. Those days are dead. This team has the amount of starting pitching that they acquired, and picked up along the way, whatever it is. They have all these arms for a reason. They want to keep people happy, healthy, on the mound. And what we saw in Roki's debut, hey, before him for four innings was a Yoshinobu Yamamoto appearance.

And they have enough arms. They have enough length arms with Dustin May, with Gonson, with Landon Nack. Ben Consperius is somebody we'll talk about in a second, who looks to be a lock for this team, but can give this team multiple innings as well. We could see that be a way, especially early in the season.

season to keep starters healthy and more kind of slower in their buildup because it was a short spring training. We could see them kind of go to that piggyback route, maybe four or five innings for your starter. Then you have a bulk guy give you two or three. And the bullpen itself is super thin right now when they're going to be missing guys like Evan Phillips, Michael Kopeck, let's throw Michael Grove in there, Bruzdar, Gratterol. There's a lot of injuries that keep them from some of those high leverage back into the

bullpen guys. So this is where those starters, the more built up dudes could help out and, you know, bridge that gap to a ninth inning and to a win and all that kind of stuff. So I think we could see very, very creative, see the Dodgers get even more creative than we're used to when it comes to starting pitching. Does a healthy Clayton Kirshah, who appears to be ready to return to a big league mound in June, does a healthy Clayton Kirschaw complicate this whole situation even more? Well, I mean, it feels like a good problem to have when you could just plug in a future Hall of Famer in the form of a Clayton Edward Kershaw. And he's going to go out there and give you how many innings and how many more strikeouts he needs to reach 3,000. Complicate probably. I think it complicates it to a degree.

But listen, we know how things go for the Dodgers these days. There's going to be injuries. Tyler Glasnow missed, you know, the last two months of the United States. the season, three if you count the postseason. Yeah, he was super happy about them shutting him down, too. Yeah, that's like to about that. It's a little bit awkward. You know, Blake Snell missed some time last year. Yamamoto missed some time last year. Roki Sasaki hasn't pitched over, I think, 125, 129 innings in a year in his life. Tony Gonslin missed all of last year. Dustin May has missed the better part of the last five seasons or four seasons. The point is that I think you're trying to make,

you never have enough arms. You never have enough. You never have enough. You never have enough. Just like you told us last year, about almost a year ago as we near the one-year point of Dodgers territory, you can never have too much pitching, starting pitching. This team did not want to have to deal with what they dealt with last year. And that's what Andrew Friedman told us, told everybody a couple weeks ago or a couple months ago, like, we don't want to be buyers at the trade deadline. So let's get a bunch of people. And, you know, if we're looking at Clayton Kershaw as a complication, I love to see this. that for this team. No doubt. Anytime Pershah is in the mix, I would, and just even seeing that video, thank you to Bill Plunkett for posting that so we could steal it. I'm going to be taking so

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Nice. Yeah, it was really nice. All right. So the bullpen, we thought, I swear to you on Monday. This is why baseball gods are like, ha, ha, watch this. So on Monday, I said I felt better about this bullpen than I had felt about a Dodgers bullpen going into a season in recent memory, right? Well, now it's a little bit disintegrated because we have some news, obviously, that

co-pick threw his first bullpen. When the team goes to Japan, Evan Phillips will stay back. He's going to face hitters. So we knew this, though. He's healthy. He's just not built up. He could be active by first second week of April. So, you know, he's going to miss the first couple of weeks of the regular season.

Ben Casparius, who I know you've been high on him, Clint. You're really good about the young guns coming up and, you know, the rookies, if you will. And I mean, at least the guys that don't have a ton of time with this organization. He's probably going to be on the opening day roster as a multi-inning option. Do you still feel as good about this bullpen as you did before? I mean, as we did before, no, because you're missing Michael Kopeck. You're missing Evan Phillips. missing bruisedar gratterol. So it's definitely not the setup that you would like to see,

but it's also opening day. It's the month of April. It's not something where I'm frightened to see Benny Capps getting some important innings early in the season for this team. Same with Landon Nack, who's going to most likely make that opening day roster. Nack has not had a great spring numbers-wise. We know these guys are out here working on different things, but at some point you need to have 13 pitchers on the roster to go. along with the 13 position players and he is but somebody that is healthy is land and neck where we learn now another name missing in action we will not have edgaro henriquez as an option for this team for at least four to six what the hell is a is a mishap away from

the field is this like when when um brittie tripped over his dog in the driveway when clint barmas like was carrying a slab of deer up the stairs and hurt himself um Good pull. What are we doing? That's a good pull. What are we doing? Yeah, Dave, not happy. He did not want to talk about this.

Reporters pressed him after the game to get some more information. And this is what we got. He had a mishap away from the field. And you know, I mean, Alana, you can read Dave. You can know when he's not the most happy fellow out there. Chances are it was something not bright that Henriquez did, maybe kicking something out of frustration, or maybe, you know, a speculation.

We don't have, we don't know what happened. Maybe he's riding a bike and fell off his bike or something. Like for sale. Exactly. Whatever it is, he broke a bone in his foot and he's going to miss at least the first month and a half of the season, which is a big setback for him. If you're, if you're, Edgaro Henriquez, I'm just, I'm just,

spitball in here. Wouldn't you put yourself in a bubble and just make sure that you don't do anything in the world to jeopardize an opportunity to pitch for the Dodgers? and break camp with this club. What are you doing? Yeah. I mean, ideally you want to be as safe as possible,

but also, you know, you want to go live your life. And again, we don't know what happened. No, no. If you're not,

if you're not Clinton, Kershaw, Moogie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell, those big names. Shohei Otani,

you don't get to live a life. You sit there like this. Just sit there until you're, you're called upon. Good, good point. Good point from Jason in the comments, pointing out that Anthony Bonda also had the incident last year where he was upset and punched a wall, broke a bone in his hand. Thankfully, he came back.

Listen, these dudes are human. They get frustrated. Men get frustrated. And we decide to punch and kick things to make us feel better. Doesn't mean it's right. But women, I love it, because women are the emotional ones. Yeah. Anyhow.

All right. This feels like a good conversation. Let's keep this one. Back to the bullpen situation. Again, I still feel like we have enough arms. And this is a team that is so good about the mixing and the matching of using their arms in a different way. And this goes back to not the V for victory, but the V for versatility, because they may have to, I was used to call Ross stripling an accordion.

And I think I've told this story before. If I have, I apologize, but it is what it is. I always used to call Ross an accordion because they would smash him together when they needed him to come out of the bullpen or just give him an inning or two. And then they would stretch him out when they all of a sudden, oh, by the way, you're back in the starting rotation again. I think that there's a lot more of this happening in Major League Baseball right now. I mean, there's certain guys that are obviously bona fide starters. Just ask Alex Wood if he wants to go to the bullpen. But are they together again, by the way?

Because they've been on the same teams for the last like three or four seasons. I don't think because Ross is with the Royals, I think on a minor league deal. And I don't think Alex. Yeah. Bring back Woody. I don't think so. And Kyle Farmer is with the with the Rockies. So the whole, you know, triple-in-law.

thought, by the way, Kyle Farmer, becoming a major league shortstop. Oh, yeah, that too. Dude who came up as a catcher hit that, what was it, a pinch hit, double to walk off the game or whatever it was in his debut. I think it was his debut. Some crazy ass shit happened with some of those guys. By the way, I love Ross, and he was big fan of that role he had with the Dodgers,

of course. Big fan. Well, I love Ross because he's just a quality human being. Anyway, the point is a lot has changed in three days. And that's, and that, I think, is the bigger picture. of well we take what we take away from this right like we're so set on like okay we have these pieces but you have to be able as i mentioned that versatility you have to be able to bend adapt yeah adapt overcome survive because you have to and then again we're really going to talk to dave about this

clint and i are going to go with our producers and talk about certain situations over the course of the five game series in the world series that dave really had to you know manage better than he's ever managed before we're looking forward to that all right um we're running out of time here let's get to last licks all right i always appreciate it's a pre-reesome appreciate our friends at foul territory letting us do this. This is Ruby and Ruby was living in a backyard, very neglected and alone. Didn't get a lot of social time, but she's a sweet girl. She's in a foster home right now. She is an ingwood in a wonderful foster home. She's four to five years old. She needs an adopter. She's great with dogs. She's great with all, all people, big and small. She's on her way to get a full vet work up and eventually spayed. She is a full-bleed Yorkie. We're looking for a forever home for Ruby. If you're interested in learning more about her, please. Shout out.

Go to giddreesgarden.org or hit me up on social. I can get you more information. And if nothing else, please share her, because she certainly is deserving of a forever home. All right, Clint, what's coming up? I'll say this. She looks like somebody that you can definitely watch a Dodger game with. Well, I mean, I don't know what she's watching.

Well, she's actually not watching, but her foster was watching something. So just take that screen and put a Dodger game on and just snuggle up with little Ruby. and you'll have a Dodgers viewing partner for life. Okay, before we talk about what's coming up on all Dodgers, how about the stadium, the most beautiful stadium in all the land? Dodgers stadium's looking good, and I have to be honest, Clint,

when I knew that they were going to do an additional $100 million renovation to the third oldest stadium in the major leagues, I was like, how is this bad boy going to be done by opening day? But look at that. The grass is down. It looks gorgeous. Thank you so much to Vast Sky Media for this drone foot. We appreciate you guys.

How beautiful is this stadium? Yeah, this is, this is something when I see that. You see this. You shouldn't get excited to see grass. What is that? You know, it's as excited as watching paint dry or watching grass grow. But when you're watching sod get laid down at Dodger Stadium,

that is cool. That is fun. Of course, you know, doing all their top dressing, getting some sod down, getting the watering, getting that settled in, all the seats back in.

Because all of that stuff, all the seats you guys see on the screen. If you're watching, all of that was gutted everything was gutted down to the roots they were under the stadium expanding the home and visitor dugout bringing the the latest and greatest of technology there to the stadium because it only helps the dodgers in one get better get their players better but two also in recruiting not that they need a whole lot to help bring people to dodger stadium or putting on that dodger uniform but to get the best of the best when it comes to the

the technology in there, you know, batting cages, you know, the pitching lab or whatever. Having Mark Pryor have a pitching lab at home is going to go a long way for this team. Well, having a woman with the brilliance and foresight like Janet Marie Smith, who is the VP of development with the Dodgers who has had her hand in so many different beautiful ballparks, including Camden Yards and Baltimore and many others. She has had this unbelievable ability to keep a park. It feels like sometimes when you walk into Dodger Stadium and you turn a certain way, you feel like you're walking into the stadium for the first time in 1962.

But it also has the, yes, I know, Joe, when the kids say go touch grass, I wish I could go touch that grass, no doubt. But it also has the modernization of being in, you know, not even 20, 25, being more like in 2030 with all the different amenities. And it's truly one of the most beautiful parks in all the land. I highly hope that everybody has an opportunity to go watch a game at Dodgers Stadium. All right, what's coming up on your show? Tonight I will be live as usual 6 p.m. Pacific time, unless I decided to do a different time.

As of right now, we're doing these shows at 10 a.m. I really don't know what the show is going to be about, but come hang out. That's what I would tell people to do. I have a lot more time and ability to kind of get into comments there. And we just touch on everything. All the latest that's going on with your Los Angeles Dodgers. And Alana, I'm going to put you on the spot here. have an idea because obviously if I'm going out we're going out to Arizona I can't just give up on my channel while we're out there so I had an idea and now that we're talking about it publicly you're going to look like the the rude one if you say no but what I want to do is I want to ask people on my channel and even from our show here I have a voicemail hotline for my channel

what I would like to do is have people call in leave us questions comments thoughts and all that kind of stuff on the voicemail hotline and then I'm thinking you and I you can finally make your all Dodgers debut, we can answer fans from the voicemail hotline on a video on my channel. What do you think about that? I'm in. Totally in. So guys, check out my channel. That's where you can get the phone number, all that kind of stuff.

We'd appreciate it if you would contribute to the voicemail bag that will be happening next week. We also appreciate if you guys give this video a thumbs up, hit that like button, share it, tell your grandma, tell your dog's friends about Dodgers territory and subscribe. And tell your great. and your grandma's friends about Ruby on last list. All right, that's going to do it. We'll be back on Monday from Glendale, Arizona. Bye.

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