Dodgers Make SHOCKING Change...

Los Angeles Dodgers have made a shocking change. The crazy update has dropped surrounding Shohei Otani and the status of him on the mound this season. Folks, we have a lot to break down and a lot to consider when it comes down to the remainder of this Dodgers season as well as we get towards the trade deadline with many names that have been injured returning soon. Things have taken a major turn. We're gonna be breaking it all down here in this video. Now, folks, before we do get into it, if you haven't already, be sure to drop a sub here on the channel. We're currently sitting here at 17,107 subscribers. Trying to get to 18k. Help us get there. We need 893 more of you guys, but you're sportsmen and crazy. I appreciate all you guys. You're killing and we're gonna do everything we can. Me and Chase will get you every single bit of Dodgers news coming here on the channel. And with that being said, we need to get straight into it because there's a lot of new things that have dropped surrounding Shohei Otani and we spoke about this just a little bit yesterday during that video but of course a trade happened. We moved this one to today. You see Dave Roberts say this. Don't know yet, but kind of where we're at right now, how we're proceeding, I would say it's going to be some time. This surrounds Otani on the mound and when a return date may be. It's not going to be a day-to-day thing. I think once we move to Emmett Sheehan, the rotation can keep going forward without Otani for the time being. Again, I can't speak on how long that is going to be. Now, Dave Roberts really emphasized the fact that he can't say anything just yet surrounding the knowledge of when if he will return to the mound this season and that's a pretty big development knowing that how good Otani has been, not just the start of this season, but this entire year on the mound. We look at the baseball savant right here and of course we know what he throws. He throws just about everything. He is one of the best pitchers in the league. He's one of the best hitters in the league at the same time and having him out of this rotation is obviously going to be a huge noticeable thing and we're going to go over why this may not all be such a bad thing here in a moment. Before we do those folks, we have a word from the sponsor of this video, Prizepix. Prizepix is America's number one sports picks app and they want to get you in on all of the action. You sign up using the link below in the pinned comment or the description. You should go digest while doing so. You'll get $50 instantly when you play five in lineups and Prizepix has a lot of promotions going on. One big one today. I'm going to go over those at the end of the video as well as my picks here at the end. So be sure to stick around and thank you again to Prizepix for sponsoring this video. Now, the good news and I know that may not seem like there is good news behind this, but Dave Roberts said this. Honestly, I think the part of it, a lot of it, is where we are at. We put ourselves in a good spot in the sense of could he probably pitch if so, if he needed to. Sure, but right now the benefits don't seem to outweigh the cost at this point in the season. So for not really knowing a whole lot, we know what's the need, we don't know the timeline, this is about as positive as things could have gotten. Dave Roberts saying he can pitch, but they don't want to risk it at this point and that is by far the smartest decision to make. There's no doubt because when we go ahead here and look at his stats, we look at Otani's stats in the past couple of seasons, he's been great. You know, there's no doubt about it. You look at the innings pitch, 132, 166, 130 with the Angels. Last year with the Dodgers, 47. He's already pitched about double this year what he did last year and that's excluding the postseason of course, but you know that it's going to take some time to ramp up to get back if at all to that 166 innings mark, which the Dodgers don't need him to do. So given that we've seen him already, plus the way the rotation looks right now with Yamamoto, Emmitt Sheehan, Gus Robucki, Eric Lauer, Roki Tsutaki, and although Emmitt Sheehan didn't have the greatest performance last night, there's a lot of positives still that we can run with this. I don't think this is going to be a crazy impact of Otani out of the rotation, but I do think it is certainly something to keep an eye on, especially the way we saw Dave Roberts discuss Will Smith, how he was on, I believe it was the 10 or 15 day aisle, one of the two that he's on. gonna rush them back because the big thing now is prepare for it, not just the trade deadline where we know they're probably gonna make a few other low-key underrated additions, probably not go out and spend heavily at this deadline, although they certainly can. You get a Blake Snell back, you get a Tyler Glasnow back, you get ready for the postseason, they're gonna be in a good spot, they're already in a good spot, and I think right now the way we've seen this team perform on the mound, at the plate, it's all going to be fine, and also on top of that, Otani is not gonna be not hitting, and we look at the Savant here on the offense, it's just about as good, if not better, than what we're seeing pitching, so on top of this, you're not losing him completely, you still have him in, he could be shut down, maybe, I don't think so for sure, but the Dodgers could throw him in the game here and there if they want to, if they need to, if they feel like Otani could kind of slow down a little bit in his performance, he's still gonna be throwing and I think at the end of the day, that is what matters, so given all of that, given where, once again, we are in the standings, although we don't have the best record in the MLB anymore, that belongs to the Brewers, I think 63-37, well, 64-37 now, compared to 51-48, not too bad, like Dave Roberts said, puts us in a very good position for not needing Otani to pitch every single day, every single game, and the best thing to do is let him rest, get him healthy for There's also a little bit of this, I feel like that's gonna cause a few questions surrounding the rotation, are they in the trade? You see this here, the Dodgers do not plan on going all-in on Eric Scouble, they'll be around if the opportunity arrives, they plan on operating the trade deadline similar to last year by looking to improve on the margins, but refrain from big splashes, so whether or not Scouble is the option, I think that it's certainly a case where you want to not see Eric Scouble in the postseason, if someone else got him, certainly, I think a very good example of that is what we saw from, of course, Jeff Passan say the other day, last night against Christopher Sanchez, he was very good, you don't want to play against him, and if you have the opportunity to take out one big name in Eric Scouble, it makes sense, but I don't think that changes anything too much, I don't think that this is the case for Katie Wu, and of course, Otani being out, I don't think changed a whole lot when it comes to that either, but I want to know what you guys think down below, do you trust the rotation enough without Otani, and this should be yes, I mean, for sure, I'm dropping a Y in the comments, let me know down below, Y for yes, N for no, if you trust the rotation, I do think that, you know, with Emmett Sheehan, his performance as of late, and kind of throughout this season, it's been sketchy, but it hasn't been the worst thing we have seen, and plus how Yoshi's been performing, how the rest of this rotation's been performing, plus hopefully, very, very soon, getting Blake Snell back, you're gonna be fine, you know, if things get into a dire situation, which let's hope they don't, I do not believe they will, they may bring Otani back into the rotation, but I do think we have nothing to worry about here whatsoever, so folks, let me know what you think down below about that as well, and I also want to, you know, kind of show this off from what we saw in yesterday's trade with Seth Halvorson, you're giving up these types of trades, this type of asset, Nick Brasso, Landon Witterecht, you're getting Seth Halvorson,