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00:00That's the final week in a regular season.
00:05Who ends up with the best record in baseball?
00:08The Phillies, the Yankees, who's it going to be to get that by?
00:13I've said from Jump Street, the Dodgers are the best team in baseball, and I'm going to
00:17stand by it until the very last day.
00:19That doesn't mean they have the best pitching staff, doesn't even mean they have the best
00:22offense.
00:23There's something about this team collectively.
00:25You got Shohei, you got Mookie, you got Freddie, all three of those guys are healthy.
00:28You got Max Muncy back, and you got a semblance of their pitching staff back, relatively healthy.
00:33I do think the Dodgers are going to end up being the best team in the game.
00:35I think they're going to end up with that by, and I strongly think it's not a good thing.
00:40So far, we've seen the by, what, for two, three seasons so far, and it hasn't garnered
00:43the results that I think Major League Baseball truly wants.
00:46I think the idea of parody is great, but to this point, the by has been a punishment for
00:49the best teams in Major League Baseball.
00:52What is your opinion of this guy, Otani, in terms of what you've played with and seen
01:01in your career?
01:02Like, there are guys, I won't deny that he's a badass and he's brilliant.
01:07I won't deny the guy can hit to the moon and can pitch and can do everything.
01:12He's a phenomenon.
01:13I mean, the guy is literally a freak.
01:17But you know, when I was covering the Pirates in the 80s, Barry Bonds was that player.
01:26He was a 20-20, then a 30-30, then a 40-40.
01:29And then when he went to San Francisco, he started juicing and lied about it, obviously,
01:34like everyone else.
01:36But I have never, I don't care if he juiced or if he drank cow milk, that guy, he could
01:42hit a fastball better than anyone I've ever seen in my life, including Otani.
01:47And I'm going to say this, I've seen better base stealers in my life.
01:51I think Otani's incredible.
01:52He had 50-50.
01:53That's incredible.
01:54But, I mean, that guy, literally, like Lou Brock, Ricky Henderson, they were both better
02:00than him.
02:01Stealing bases.
02:02I don't care what anybody says.
02:03No question.
02:04Well, Ricky Henderson is in a class of his own.
02:06I mean, famously, Ricky Henderson called Harold Reynolds the one year that Ricky got hurt
02:10because Harold Reynolds ended up winning the stolen base record that year.
02:13And he called him and said, hey, how many did you get this year?
02:15And he said, I think I had like 63.
02:16Oh, Ricky would have had that at the break.
02:19Ricky was in his own category when it comes to stealing bases.
02:22But you're not wrong.
02:23I mean, listen, Barry Bonds, I've had the luxury of hitting with Barry Bonds and working
02:28him out with Barry Bonds.
02:29And I love Barry Bonds as a kid that grew up a Dodger fan in Los Angeles, who I hated
02:32him my entire lifetime.
02:34And then getting to know him off the field, dude, he's one of one.
02:37But dude, I got to say, Otani is, when I say one of one of one of one, is just a, it's
02:43a different thing.
02:44This is a year where Otani is supposed to be injured and during his injured year, decided
02:48to go off and do something that's never happened in 150 years of Major League Baseball.
02:52I hear what you're saying about about the Barry Bonds of the world.
02:55But I'm telling you, of all the people I played against and I have played against Otani, Mike
02:59Trout is one of those guys where I'm like, that's guys not playing the same sport as
03:02me.
03:03Otani might be playing a different sport than everyone put together.
03:06This was supposed to be a down year for Shohei Otani.
03:09And I was telling everybody to fade him when it came to the MVP at the beginning of the
03:12season.
03:13At no point are they ever going to give an MVP to a National League DH.
03:16He's going to have to do something that's never happened.
03:19Did it.