Dodgers Territory - Shohei's Anaheim Return, Resting Freddie, Best in the West!

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

DT hosts Alanna Rizzo and Clint Pasillas talk about Freddie Freeman's resurgent series and wonder aloud if more days off moving forward would be beneficial as he gets older (0:37).(6:44) Beyond Freeman, Shohei Ohtani is chasing the first-ever 50/50 season in MLB history and will continue his pursuit of destiny against his old mates down in Anaheim. Alanna and Clint cover Shohei's return to the Big A and the potential for those Halos to mess up his welcome party.Go to Orgain.com/FOUL to receive 20% off your order. Real Nutrition for Real Life!(25:24) Also some appreciation for Mookie Betts in this episode!SUBSCRIBE - DT is LIVE on Mondays & Thursdays at 3p ET/12p PT all season long on the DT YouTube channel!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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into the conversation. So let's get right into it, Clint. Let's get to the big ticket. Freddie Freeman needed the mental break. It paid off in massive offensive dividends, your take. Yeah, you know what? I said last week I didn't like him not going on the aisle with the broken finger. It proves that if you have a couple of days off,

maybe things get good, maybe things get better, or maybe just playing a team where as important as that series was for the Dodgers, proved to be important for Freddie as well. but I talked about it last night on my show as well. You know, despite how good he's been in Dodger Blue since joining the team, maybe this will tell him that days off here and there as he gets into his mid-30s, maybe they're not a bad thing because all of a sudden we see him go off, three homers, 10 RBI, of course, five of those coming last night

against, or yesterday afternoon against those show snakes. But to see Freddie training in the right direction here at this point in the season, you love to see it. I can appreciate the fact that he wants to post every single day. There's a lot that goes into that. And I can appreciate that he wants to be a reliable and dependable player, only taking the day off after they clinch as the off day that he uses in the regular season. But you know what?

At least I'd rather have that than what I saw over the weekend when I actually looked up and I was watching the Angels game finish up. And I saw Anthony Rendon on the field Clint. I saw a unicorn. I was like, oh my God. Anthony Randone's actually off the I.L. He's in the game. I don't know. I saw him walking on the field doing high five.

So I would rather take Freddie Freeman over a guy like Rendon who never plays for whatever ailing thing he has at the moment. But how about Freddie getting a mental blow pays dividends offensively? But the guy that has been so unbelievable all year long, Clint, we've talked about it at length. Show Hay's probably going to be the MVP in the National League. But for the Dodgers to me, Teo, here's your chance to say, extend him. It is time for Andrew Friedman. to draft up that contract. It is time to extend to Oscar Hernandez.

Don't wait till the offseason. Don't wait for other people to get involved. Other people to realize the mistake they made and not offering the amount of money this man was looking for in the off season. What a bargain, by the way. There are no such thing as a bad or there is no such thing as a bad one-year deal. But this could be one of the best one-year deals of all time. It's definitely in the conversation. But five-hit game yesterday.

A couple of those cheapies like the one we see here on the screen. just finds no man's land. Corbyn Carroll playing deep, deep out there in right field of chase. But he finds a way. What I love about Teo, he just seems to get it up when the games mean the most. And I don't have numbers to back that up. I don't have any sort of stats. I did know looking at it outside of my eyes and my brain remembering some things.

He just gets it up when the game matters most. When the teams are doing something else important in the league, I'm very excited to see this man playing postseason baseball for the Dodgers, and I'll say I love this man deeply. Yes, give him some flowers again. This is just what Teoscar Hernandez is done. Speaking of five, as far as that is concerned, Freddie Freeman with the five RBI night on Monday. Teosker Hernandez notched his third career five-fit game in Mondays when you talked about that. He is hitting Clint Paseas, 350, so that's 14 for 40 as far as AB's, six extra base hits, seven RBI over his last 11. games. Freddie Freeman went six for 15. That's batting 400. That's quick math for you, my friend. Four home runs in the series against Arizona, including that five RBI night that you're talking about.

It wasn't just Freddie and Teo. The Dodgers offense, six multi-hit games for these guys. That's the offense you needed to see. BC Dodgers finally over five runs per game. That's the office offense you needed to see against a team like the Arizona Diamondbacks, who's fighting for their playoff lives as well as trying to. take over the division and the Dodgers lengthen the lead in the NL West. Yeah, these aren't the Dodgers that were going out there running Kevin Vizio out there every single day running who are, I mean, I blocked some of these guys. Nick Ahmed out there.

Much love to Nick Ahmed, very good defender, but these guys aren't the guys that we expected to see in the lineup. So all of a sudden now you get healthy, you add a piece like Tommy Edmund. And it just feels like the collective group that you're supposed to see out there, a collective group that could actually do some damage to another team in the postseason. And the offense hasn't been there for the Dodgers in the postseason over the last couple of years. That said, this team has been very, very good, very prolific at scoring points in the regular

season over the last couple of years. But these guys just seem to have something a little bit different. I hope, I desperately hope we are not. I am not proven wrong with that because I think these guys, there's just a, there's a different aura to them when you could project it into a month from now when games start meeting something again. But it's worth noting now. Dodgers are 17 and 6 in their last 23 games. They have a chance still. If you get real lucky, if you kind of match that, you can still win 100 games this season, which I think would be pretty cool. Not important, but it could be pretty cool. Offense is definitely

going to pilot this team, though. Gavin Lux, of course, an extra base hit in four straight game. He was six for 13, four doubles in that span that we were just talking about. You mentioned that the Dodgers could win 100 games this season. They're in the middle clint of a 21 game stretch where they don't leave the West Coast. They're 10 and 3 so far. This is a team now that has taken 3 or 4 from the Diamondbacks, a team obviously that's trying to prove that they belong at the top of the AL West. The Diamondbacks, they've gone.

So the Dodgers have now clinched the season series and the head-to-head tiebreaker. They held a six-game lead over Arizona for the NLIN. L. West lead and a five game lead over the Padres, who by the way, Nick Ahmed is now a member of on a minor league deal. He just keeps going around the West. He's going to end up in the Rockies in about a week and a half. So that's good news. Another thing I wanted to talk about in the big ticket before we get to, well, we're going to talk about him more, is Shohei Otani. Let's get to the greatest showman right now. All right. Your boy, my boy, our boy, Japan's boy, is going back to Anaheim for the first time, Clint, in the regular season. Now, we know he's He's gone back there as a member of the Dodgers in the exhibition game, the freeway series,

but this is the first time since signing that record-breaking $700 million deal, that he's going back to the Big A. What do you anticipate the reception to be like? I mean, if Angels fans, let's be fair, it's going to be stacked with Dodgers fans. They show up, show out down the street there in Anaheim. So he's going to get a wild ovation because he will get that anywhere he goes where there our Dodgers fans, but any Angels fans that are there need to show this man and abundance of love because he gave them everything he had for the first six years of his MLB career.

And he did it with scraps around him, bits and pieces of humans pretending they were baseball players. Mike Trout missing most of the time or a lot of the time that, you know, Shohei was there in Anaheim. You already mentioned Rendon and all of his on the field problems, staying on the field problems. So he should get some love. Now, there was a rumor. There's a, I don't know if I want to call it a report, but I've seen online that maybe the Angels might not look to play another video or, you know, properly honor him heading into the game.

If that ends up happening, that is an absolute travesty. And that's just another reason the Angels organization is trash. And Artie Moreno just looked at it as a fucking pocketbook to himself. It's not a baseball club. It's an accessory. If they do that, it's a travesty. What do you think? I disagree with you.

I love you, but I disagree with you wholeheartedly. Shohay Otani did not lead the Angels to a World Series championship. I realize he is one man. He is not 25. He is not 26 men. However, however, I think the tributes have gotten a little bit out of control. Okay? I think that you can respect your opponent, but you don't have to roll out the

carpet, he didn't choose to stay in Anaheim. Okay. I understand why. The offer wasn't there. They didn't match the Dodgers. He wanted to play for the Dodgers. He wanted to. I understand.

But I don't think you have to go bananas with the tributes all the time. Like, this is not a man that gave them a World Series championship or got into the postseason year after year after year. I realize it's not all his fault, you guys. Stop mean tweeting me. Stop all this stuff. But I just, I'm a little over the, like, okay, you know, every time a player goes away and they come back to the new stadium, like people have to go bananas. Like, are we doing too much of the, like when guys retire and the whole parade around every single stadium and the Padres give them a surfboard and that, you know, somebody gives them some seats from the state?

Like, those like major, major players, yes, I don't know. I think it's a little silly to think, yes, I understand B.C. He did win two MVPs. I get it. I get it. But that's because he's just so above and beyond any other player on the planet that no matter where he was, he was going to win AO MVP. I don't think it's just, I don't know. I just think like they did enough in the, in the freeway series.

Like enough. That's the freeway series, though. This is the regular season. He's putting up another MVP season. He made that organization a butt ton of money. He made already. He didn't make the, I don't know. I just, I don't know.

I don't think you get. I don't think you get. Literally everything he could. I don't think you give guys a tribute because they made you a butt ton of money. I think you give you give guys tribute because they made your franchise. They took your franchise. The whole thing, not just you as an MVP. They took the whole franchise to the next level.

Like, you know, I get Matt Kemp getting a tribute and retiring one day as a daughter. He spent the majority of his career as a Dodger and did some pretty incredible things as a Dodger. I'm not saying that Shoah, Otani, at one point, is not going to be. lotted the same way as a Dodger when, you know, we win six more championships with him at the helm in the 10 years that he's going to be in a Dodger uniform. I'm just a little over the every time a player comes back, we got to do all this stuff and making it this this huge deal. It's a little silly to me. It's like when our producer and director, Jeremy Meyer, who unfortunately is a massive Red Sox fan, it's like when Ryan Brazier went back to Boston as a Dodger,

Like they were giving him like the Red Sox were giving him this tribute, I think is what he was saying. Like what? I don't even remember when Ryan Brazier was a Red Sok like, I mean, at least help them win a World Series. So I could see like the winner, the, a World Series take or side of what you're saying there with Show Hey didn't do anything, didn't help them get to a postseason. But again, that's not Show Hay's fault there. I saw somebody here in the comment saying, Kino saying, Tani gave his elbow to Anaheim two times. He was on the field as much as he could. Okay.

All right. So let's say Walker Beeler gets traded. Hang on. Let's say Walker Beeler gets traded. Otani gave us out. I'm not saying, bring out the Clydesdale's. I'm not saying a five-minute video tribute or whatever. But you could argue the amount that he did for that organization compared to what other people had done in the history of that organization that has one World Series title to its name.

The fact that organization messes up a lot of things. The fact that people are still wearing Kingfish's number, 15 isn't retired, 16 isn't retired for Garrett Anderson. I mean, you can go on. They should probably retire. Jared Weaver's number for what he did for that organization. They don't have, despite being in the league this long, they don't have a lot of history. Take care of somebody that actually put butts in the seats for you. I think I don't have the numbers in front of me.

I saw him earlier in the season. But from what I can recall, I think the Angels were ninth in road attendants, take this. with any grain of salts that you want. Ninth and Road attendance with Shohei on the team, 30th or 29th, without him on the team this year. He did a lot for that organization while learning how to do it. I am not discounting. I am not discounting. What Shohei Otani does for any team, for any team.

Look at what he's doing for the Dodgers. People are lined up for 458 miles on his bobblehead night. The Dodgers don't need money. the Dodgers, I get what he means. He's an international icon. Of course he's putting money in the pockets. Of course he's putting butts in the seats. But I just don't, like, to me, he's not, he's not the, he wasn't on the team that won the

the World Series. He's not, I don't know. So Jared Weaver catches the no hitter, or excuse me, throws the no hitter. Should they, by the way, my husband was behind the plate catching the no hitter with a broken wrist. That's neither here nor there. So when Jared Weaver and Chris Aoneta go back, should they throw them a big fat parade because of the, you know, the no hitter that he threw in 2012.

I love Otani. The man is, he's amazing, but I'm over the, I'm over the, like, the tributes every single time. I, uh, what I think, uh, also, it just makes it worse that it's the angels. So two years ago, like the angel, two years ago when they had the 20th anniversary of the O2 World Series championships, the organization literally wouldn't even pay to fly out dudes that were important to that team. The Scott Spizios, your Troy Glosses, whatever,

they wouldn't pay for them to come out. They wouldn't house them. So if you couldn't figure out how to get your ass over to Anaheim, sorry, you weren't going to be a part of the celebration, the 20-year anniversary of that championship. It's the Angels organization that's going to make me more annoyed about this situation. Shohei deserves some love. He did something for that organization.

And 99 homers, by the way, in his career at Angel Stadium. 46 stolen bases in his career at Angel Stadium. He matched that this year alone, which is kind of funny. I take more exception to the stupid rally monkey and the same exact opening montage and music at Angel Stadium every single, like, you know, calling all angels and the rally monkey. I take more exception to that that they haven't gotten out of 2007 more than if they don't give Otis. tawny a tribute. Like you've got to, you've got to move forward a little bit in terms of the music and and the time and the and the pop culture and that, that irritates me more. They're like stuck in, you know, the early 2000s with their their stuff. That's neither here nor there. Let's talk about

what they're still. Hold on. One last thing. They're still stuck in 2020 as well with their broadcast, because isn't, aren't the travel, the broadcast team is not traveling still? Isn't that same thing? I have no idea. I have no idea. Once we got, once we got Moda away from the Angels. And I love, I love Mark Goobie's one of my favorite humans in the world. I don't know what they're doing with their broadcast, but let's talk about what Shohei Otani is doing for the Dodgers. You just talked about the 46 stolen bases, has already surpassed what he did at Angel Stadium. He has 44 home runs now, correct? So he's 44 and 46. This 50-50 thing, this could legitimately happen.

At this point, you got what, 20, I think they have 24 more games or something like that. it's got to be a foregone conclusion. Barring injury, and I don't even want to throw that out there, but barring injury, show you, Otani, he's going to get 50-50. And I don't care that Francisco Lendora plays shortstop. A man getting 50-50. I have the number somewhere. He's also about to be, he's going to pass Dave Robertson,

Ichiro Suzuki, depending on how many stolen bases he become. Right now, he's the third most prolific base dealer, Japanese base dealer in baseball history. That's a 50-50 season. go play shortstop all you want, Frankie Lindor. You're going to have a nice second place MVP trophy that you don't get. You don't get trophies for that. But this guy is very, very good at baseball and what he's doing at the plate with the legs.

It's not done often. In fact, what we're seeing right now, 44, 44 has never been done. That's got to mean something. He's only been caught four times. So let me ask you this. Do you think that, and he's only been caught four times total all season, he has stolen 23 straight. stolen bags. Do you think had the bases been the size they were before, does this happen? Is he that good of a base dealer or do the larger bases play a portion of what he's able to do?

I mean, I think in the same way that they played a portion in Ronald Acuna's 70 last year. Absolutely. Baseball wanted stolen bases back in the game. And they got their pizza boxes and I'm absolutely certain that, what is it, three total inches or whatever. I'll tell you, three inches goes a long way. Hey, somebody hit the drum roll. Hey, hey, hey, hey, show is absolutely, not drum roll, sorry, that's a rim shot. That's my bad. Yeah, it's absolutely helping him. But he's playing the game as it's laid out for him. You don't think that higher mounds helped Bob Gibson back in the day. You play the game that you have in front of you and show hey shouldn't take any crap from somebody saying, oh, they're playing with pizza boxes or whatever.

Yeah, where was people saying that with Ronnie Acuna, Acuna last year? So that's it. I got nothing. By the way, I'm in Atlanta right now, so I was just at Truis Park. And that's a cool ballpark. If you've not had an opportunity to come see the Dodgers play the Braves. And Austin Riley, who has a broken hand out six to eight weeks, he was on the field working out. So talk about decimated injuries.

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Just a bit outside. That's something I still say daily multiple times a day during a game. So just to have that lasting memory for baseball players, like that whole moment, we're talking about a baseball. I forgot the second part of the, you know, it was trying to dot the corner and it's like 30 feet wide or whatever the hell it was. But not a big time movie buff, but you get me some lines that I could, you know, grab a hold of and use in everyday life.

That is one. So there's your love for Tiger Blood himself, Charlie Sheen. It's hard to me that you say you're not a movie guy because I feel that that is something that is ingrained and innate in men. I feel like men know every damn movie line. Yes, Jobu is one of my kids. I mean, that was so great. Joe Boo was fantastic.

And by the way, the actor that played Joe Bu is a massive Dodger fan. But anyway, I, I'm surprised that you don't know the lines because I feel like that's just a guy thing. You're supposed to, you know, the stepbrothers movies, all those silly things. Like, I feel like you guys would know all that stuff. I like candlesticks make a great gift. Like when they had the, you know, when they had the meeting on the mound and they're talking, you know, I enjoy that.

That's what's your favorite baseball movie besides me? Let's let's say major league is up here. Yeah, major league is up there. I'm not, again, I'm just not. I've never been a big movie guy. I don't know if that's ADHD or something like that, but the idea of sitting there. And I mean, then I sit there for two or three hours. You can watch a baseball game before the pitch clock and that was fine.

It's a different story each time. But like the movies that I will hone in on, I've watched Robocop a thousand times. I could quote that movie to you front and back. But still, like the idea of like, you know, there's so many other things I could do, I could be doing.

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and we can't have a show. If we're talking a whole bunch about show, we can't have a show where we're not talking about the guy who it's right behind him. Mookie Betts is just, he's a game changer for this ball club. So I was having a conversation with a friend earlier, an East Coast friend who he has to hear BS from Yankees fans and talking about, you know, that fan would take, what is it, Judge Soto and Stanton over Shohei and Mookie and Freddie.

And I just kind of laugh. I just kind of laugh at that. I mean, it's not like extremely laughable because obviously you're not going to have a problem there. But do you, it's like so hard to take Mookie over Shoeh or sorry, over Soto, Soto over Shohay, but just Mookie. But Mookie just does so much on the baseball. field and the fact that he can play some infield for you when you need he can play some right

field for you at a gold glove caliber uh level out there and he could what i what i love about this version of muki he's he's spraying the ball everywhere he's showing out for a little bit of pop when he needs to as well and i think having muki in this two hole uh it's kind of a game changer for this team i think it that that's going to be something that that plays up very well when we're talking a month from now and, you know, trying to put the demons of the past two post seasons behind this team, Mookie in that two hole doing what he's doing right now. I think that's going to be a difference maker. But tell me some positive things about Mookie because you got to love Mookie.

I mean, how can you not? And by the way, Eduardo Delgado, calm down. Of course, we're going to talk about Mookie. I just think that Mookie, I love the fact that the Dodgers left him, you know, left Shohay in the leadoff spot and put Mookie in the two hole. If you look at our number one, two, one, two, and three, okay? You see what they're capable of doing, back to back to back jacks. I think if you, not to take anything away from Juan Soto or Aaron Judge, but there are the only two legitimate hitters in that lineup.

I think the rest of the lineup is it has like a 68 OPS. I think when you look at the length of the Dodgers lineup, and I understand Anthony Rizzo is back. I understand that type of stuff too, but I just think the Dodgers are a lot more formidable. offensively. I think the Yankees probably have better starting pitching all the way around in terms of health and arms right now. But I like the Dodgers lineup better than I like the Yankees lineup. Mookie is a game changer. I mean, he is the type of guy that, as you mentioned, can play all over the field, but I don't want him to. I want him to stay in the outfield. He just brings a presence to that lineup. There's no easy out with him. He, you know, he takes good at bats. But so does

show hey. And so does Freddie. And so does Will Smith. And I know that you've been down on Will's production lately, but I do think that Mookie, when he's in there, he matters. And people know, like, oh, okay, Mookie's in the lineup. This is going to be a much tougher day for me, a much tougher out for me. There's nothing that he can't do. I mean, he is very, very athletic. And he's probably the best athlete. Forget baseball player. I'm talking best athlete all around in all of major league baseball, just every single thing that he can do. Yeah, bowling, golf, basketball. ball all the things you're not supposed to be doing uh in the cba but that's fine that's for another conversation by the way 20 games by the way since he's been back 20 games since he's been back with

862 ops four homers five doubles 18 runs batted in and that's what show hey still hitting all those homers in front of him it's pretty damn impressive what mookie's doing listen to this one soto had two hits on monday but he's batting 200 265 311 is his slash line nine for his last 45 with one home runs over his last 11 games. If Juan Soto or Aaron Judge go cold, the Yankees are done. And I think if you look at the Dodgers, they have a lot more in terms of length of the lineup. Yes, of course you want Mookie to hit.

Of course you want Freddie to hit. Neither one of them did last October, and they are very much aware of that. But the Dodgers have more weapons, I think. You know, so I got two things I want to say, and then we'll get out of here. One, if you really want to see a Yankees fan lose their shit these days, just mention the name Alex Verdugo or Yankee Bullpen,

but the Alex Verdugo watching people rip out their hair. It's so bad. Pinstriped Derek had to shave his head about it. I think that was something different, but still that's how bad Rurugo's been for them. But also the Will Smith thing, hey, Will Smith, listen to your boy and drop five hits in Arizona. So I'm just saying, I'm saying I know how to light a little fire under these dudes' asses every once in a while.

I'll take all the credit. Now you're taking credit for Will Smith's offensive production when you wanted, when you were having discussions about taking him off the roster on all Dodgers, even though we just gave him a $100 million deal. Okay. Listen, listen, I had to bring it up because maybe you gently shoved me in front of a bus as I was just trying to come up with something that I was talking about. But it was fun.

And we had good conversation on my channel about it last week, me and our buddy Scott German. So if you guys miss that, check it out. I do talk about Will and the whole idea that maybe, you know, he needs a little bit of a little more time off here and there because the swing gets long. He does get tired. But a shout out, boys. Keep it going. Sweep this mini series in Anaheim.

Porton starts, Bueller and Bobby Miller over the next two days. But got to sweep. Shohei, get the 50-50 this week. Yeah, road starts for Walker Bueller in five. Five starts, an 884 ERA at home, a 394 ERA. So it'll be interesting to see what Butane can do. All right, that's going to do it for Dodgers territory on the Fowell Territory platform. Thanks so much for being with Clint and myself.

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