00:00uh nick castellanos is ends up he's in padres camp now a.j prowler the general manager of the
00:06padres makes a move here and now there's a one-year deal with um castellanos here your takeaway now
00:12you put him on that lineup there with you know to teach jr you put him in the middle there
00:16with
00:17machado and the padres again i mean they spend money now which they did it in years past what
00:22your takeaway especially since how that whole thing ended in philadelphia for him it's a strange
00:29situation right we just don't hear this i mean you and i are older rights we've been around the 70s
00:33and all the stuff that went on there is a different different game back there with what you can get
00:37away with today with all the cameras you don't see someone have a beer in the dugout right you just
00:42don't all right he got to the fight with the manager it's always like he wanted to make sure he
00:46was
00:46going to get out of philadelphia which i find strange for a team that's competitive each and every year
00:50but hey we all have our issues he had to move on there now listen tatis is great machado was
00:56great
00:57but they're all right-handed when you're in philadelphia you had schwarber and harper
01:02you're going to face the left-handers there now you're also playing in a band box in philadelphia
01:06right small ballpark good go very good hitters ballpark san diego's more neutral you know last
01:11year look at the numbers age 17 home runs 72 rbis batted 250 it's okay i don't know those numbers
01:17improve i just don't know if they're going to improve in san diego i don't see that they're saying
01:21he's going to play all over the place a little dh a little first base a little outfield
01:24i think he's pretty much a not a strict platoon because he'd be on the wrong side of the platoon
01:29against the left-handers only but he's not going to play every day either maybe four days a week
01:32five days he's not the player he once was let me let me ask you about dave dombrowski you know
01:38i knew
01:38dave when he was down with the florida marlins and he was there with larry bindfest and they were
01:42building that minor league system he goes up to detroit did some great things there obviously when he was
01:47in boston what's your takeaways of what he's done with uh philadelphia right now i mean if you look at
01:53it
01:53here george i mean at the end of the day you know there's a baseball team if you look a
01:58year ago
01:59you could probably make the argument the two best teams in the national league were the phillies and
02:03the dodgers you know wheeler goes down for the phillies and obviously that was a real death nail to
02:09that team in the postseason but the job that you think dave dombrowski has done in philadelphia
02:15i think dave has generally done a very good job right i mean all right they haven't gotten over the
02:19hump
02:19all right and listen the national league is it's the dodges i get it no one's getting over that hump
02:24probably anytime soon here is what it is but he he has done over the hump but he's put together
02:28a damn
02:28good team maybe he hasn't been able to acquire that final piece you know well whether it's been that
02:33the bullpen's been a headache for a while there but it's almost every team has bullpen problems the
02:38dodges have bullpen problems all right no one can finally get that the staff has been generally good
02:42i question it this year all right dan i mean i don't know when zach's coming back is he going
02:47to be that
02:48pitcher anymore we don't know you know you lost war resonate so you had that this sort of guy
02:51know that in my mind is not much at this point it's great i don't have a four-star there
02:56a major league
02:57starter but not that guy you can rely on especially uh in a playoff series you know so i think
03:02they're
03:02i think they're missing a piece or two i do bryce harper he's not the superstar right he's a good
03:07player but he's not a superstar i mean we know he's gonna get hurt for 20 30 games he does
03:10every year
03:11so i uh i think that hurts them somewhat they play in a rough division all right the mets uh
03:16they're
03:16another team we could talk about for an hour about what they've done this offseason or haven't done
03:19this offseason uh but they should be competitive all right we know that you know so yeah they
03:24land the braves i think they're a pitcher or two short as well but they're going to be there
03:27watch it in miami still uh working things out there but it's a tough division where you can't afford to
03:32make too many mistakes here or have too many shortcomings so i think uh i think he's done a good
03:36job but i
03:37don't think it's finished i think he needs to add more and maybe this year more than any other at
03:41least
03:41in the last few years he needs to add more than he has in the past
03:43you
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