00:00The National League MVP probably still Shohei Otanis if he doesn't pitch another inning, honestly, this season.
00:06Still no one in the history of baseball is doing what he's doing.
00:08And he had a great season pitching, Tom, if it is over.
00:11But it does look like, at least for the time being, we won't see him on the mound.
00:15He was supposed to make a start, then he was scratched.
00:19Then he threw a bullpen session Saturday.
00:21That didn't go well.
00:23Dave Roberts says that he will pitch this season.
00:25So call me crazy, Tom, but here's kind of what I see.
00:28I see him doing very little between now and the end of the year, making a couple of starts or
00:33a couple of appearances in September.
00:36And then in the postseason, when you're facing a few guys and you need Shohei to get a few outs,
00:41they bring him in in the bullpen.
00:42I mean, come on, you know the Dodgers are going to add stuff here at the trade deadline.
00:45I mean, with this new collective bargaining looming, you're telling me that the Dodgers aren't going to make one last
00:49push here and say,
00:50this could be the last time they have a chance to do what they're doing right now.
00:53So they'll end up with some major player that we don't know about.
00:57They do it every – you know, it's funny, Tom.
00:59I saw somebody report – I don't know who it was, and I apologize to whoever this was.
01:03I'm not trying to tear you down.
01:04And Sam, tell me who it was.
01:06I don't remember.
01:07That the Dodgers don't do that much at the deadline?
01:10Wait a second here.
01:11Didn't they get Manny Machado?
01:13Didn't they get Max Scherzer?
01:14Didn't they get Trey Turner?
01:16Like, I'm going through all these names that they've got.
01:18They always make a monster splash at the trade deadline.
01:21I saw that report.
01:22I was like, what?
01:24I think they're probably saying because of the big name acquisitions that they made lately have been in free agency
01:29or trades in the offseason with Glass, now Snell, and Otani.
01:32But still, they made plenty of moves at deadlines.
01:35Big ones.
01:35As for Otani for pitching, it's spot on what you said.
01:40He comes back in September.
01:41Maybe he throws 40, 50 pitches.
01:43The next time he throws 50, 60, 70, whatever it is.
01:46And then he's ready to roll for October 1st because that's what it's about.
01:50It's not about him going out there and having 10 strikeouts against the Giants on August 20th or whatever.
01:56No one cares about that.
01:58And they have the luxury of riches, right, where they can get him back.
02:02I don't know what the course for Snell or Glass now is right now.
02:06But if you get those guys in the same spot where they can make one or two starts, just get
02:09them healthy, ready for October, that's all they need.
02:11That's all they care about.
02:12They don't care about a random start at the end of August.
02:14Be healthy for October, and they go from there.
02:17Yeah, and may not even be a starter for them in the postseason.
02:20Sure.
02:20He'll pitch and get outs.
02:24They're not going to need it.
02:25Look, they didn't have him pitching last year.
02:27Come on.
02:27You know how this is going to go.
