Dodgers Great Justin Turner Answers Your Questions, Names His Favorite Baseball Guy

Hi, and invited to different version of Dodgers Dugout. My sanction is Houston Mitchell.

We received much than 500 questions for Justin Turner after putting retired nan plea a mates of weeks ago, which is simply a record. (Some were nan aforesaid mobility asked by aggregate people.) I selected a few, and Turner answered them via email betwixt games pinch nan Tijuana Toros.

Mark Haendel successful Santa Monica asks: Any ideas of staying successful shot aft you really retire? Coaching, managing, assemblage aliases pro level, etc.?

Turner: I will decidedly enactment successful nan crippled successful immoderate capacity. I emotion it excessively overmuch and my boy loves being astir it excessively overmuch to measurement away.

Kristen Lazalier successful Norman, Okla., asks: Please stock 3 favourite memories of your years pinch nan Dodgers. Thank you for ever bringing specified passion and joyousness to your play — some connected and disconnected nan field!

Turner: It would person to beryllium winning nan World Series successful 2020. Winning nan Roberto Clemente Award successful 2022. The walk-off homer successful nan NLCS and winning nan instrumentality ballot for my first All-Star Game successful 2017.

Chris Nayve asks: What is your go-to mindset aliases thought that helps you erstwhile things get challenging successful shot aliases conscionable successful life?

Turner: The champion point is conscionable to simplify things and not effort to do excessively much. Take nan results retired and spot nan process. Live successful nan infinitesimal and power what is successful beforehand of me.

Robert Scott Wallace asks: First and foremost, I wanted to convey JT and his woman for each nan bully they do for nan metropolis of Los Angeles. A basal question: Who is nan toughest pitcher you had to ever look successful nan large leagues and why?

Turner: Felix Hernández was nan nastiest. Cliff Lee and Tyler Glasnow, aft nan 2020 World Series, ain me. (Editor’s note: Turner was 0 for 3 pinch 2 strikeouts against Hernández, 1 for 20 against Lee pinch 4 strikeouts and 0 for 11 against Glasnow pinch 10 strikeouts.)

Paul Mihalow asks: Did anybody connected your MLB teams ever kick astir nan “pine tar” connected nan backmost of your jersey — for illustration clubhouse managers aliases laundry guys?

Turner: No. I asked nan clubhouse guys and they said it was really very easy to get retired each night.

Jeff Plotkin asks: Who were immoderate of your favourite teammates?

Turner: That’s a reliable one. I get on awesome pinch conscionable astir everyone. But my favourite shot feline of each clip is, hands down, Chase Utley.

Gabriel Ortega asks: What is 1 instruction you’ve learned from fatherhood that has amazed you nan most, and really has it changed nan personification you are some connected and disconnected nan field?

Turner: Being a dada decidedly taught maine patience and understanding. That conscionable because one cognize what I’m saying aliases asking doesn’t mean Bo aliases anyone other does. Sometimes you person to get imaginative to get your connection across.

Robert Shannon asks: Where does nan 2004 College World Series title pinch Cal State Fullerton rank connected your profession highlights?

Turner: That has to beryllium measurement up adjacent nan top. That’s 1 of nan hardest tournaments to triumph and that was ever a typical group of guys.

Marshall Fong asks: What adjustments did you make arsenic you aged to stay a competitory player?

Turner: The biggest point is clip guidance and learning really to get my activity successful that needs to beryllium done without sidesplitting myself and my power for nan game.

Thanks again to Turner for taking nan clip to reply scholar questions.

Andy Pages has a burden

Last week, workfellow Liana Handler wrote a bully communicative connected Andy Pages and nan struggle he has arsenic his family lives successful Cuba. He is incapable to spot them and sometimes he can’t get scope them connected nan phone, which is erstwhile nan fears really loom large.

A fewer cardinal passages from Handler’s story:

Unlike his teammates — some American and those connected visas — Pages is distinctly trim disconnected successful nan United States, wherever he lives pinch his wife, Alondra, but is separated from his parents and sister successful Mantua. The third-year Dodgers halfway fielder is making $800,000 this twelvemonth but can’t walk his money connected flights location aliases connected bringing his family to nan state wherever he plays baseball. The tense relations betwixt nan U.S. and Cuba — nan Trump management has imposed economical sanctions and made negotiated threats — don’t let for that.

“I haven’t recovered immoderate measurement that gives maine that tranquility and peace,” he told The Times successful Spanish 2 weeks ago. “Because nan measurement things are there, what’s ever connected your mind is that it could happen. Anything, immoderate time. And I person each my family successful Cuba. So, you person to unrecorded pinch that interest each nan time.”

Most of Pages’ family tin only perceive to his shot games connected nan power aliases done fuzzy images connected nan television.

No 1 understands that much than Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas. A Venezuelan immigrant, Rojas said he felt a individual work for Pages, who is caught betwixt wanting to speak much astir nan business and being guarded because of his budding profession and nan truth that he’s not yet eligible to beryllium a free agent.

“We request to sphere our job, because this is our only measurement to make an income, and a batch of america are nan caput of nan family, truthful we sewage to proceed to deliberation astir it that way,” Rojas said. “I would for illustration to beryllium much vocal and beryllium a small spot much coming for my community, but it’s really difficult because I’m performing my job, and if I extremity doing this, I don’t cognize really to do thing else.”

As Rojas describes, it is not easy to attraction connected your occupation erstwhile you spot group you cognize astatine location suffering.

“We are present to execute and really supply intermezo to people, and sometimes we are seen for illustration that,” he said. “The problem is erstwhile nan lights are disconnected astatine night, erstwhile you person to spell home, erstwhile you go a regular quality being that is connected nan streets.”

The communicative is good worthy your clip and tin beryllium publication here.

Perfect Father’s Day present

Shohei Ohtani missed Friday’s crippled to beryllium coming for nan commencement of his 2nd kid pinch his wife, Mamiko.

“We are again overjoyed to acquisition this awesome time successful our lives together,” Ohtani said on Instagram. “Thank you for being calved safely. We would besides for illustration to definitive our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has supported america passim this journey.”

Injury updates

—Will Smith has an inflamed disk successful his cervix and precocious had an injection location to thief trim it. The earliest he will beryllium backmost is Friday, arsenic he is not going connected nan team’s travel to Minnesota.

—Teoscar Hernández will statesman a rehab duty successful triple-A this week and could beryllium backmost earlier nan extremity of nan month.

—An MRI connected Blake Treinen‘s elbow showed nary structural damage, truthful he should beryllium backmost arsenic soon arsenic he tin travel disconnected nan 15-day IL.

—Reliever Edwin Díaz is progressing good and remains connected way to return aft nan All-Star break.

—Reliever Evan Phillips has sounded successful six games for triple-A Oklahoma City. In 5-1/3 innings, he has fixed up 5 hits, walked 4 and struck retired five. He should return successful early July.

—Reliever Brock Stewart could beryllium activated earlier today’s crippled against Minnesota. If not, past sometime this week.

These names look familiar

How notable players who were pinch nan Dodgers nan past mates of seasons are doing pinch their caller teams (through Sunday). Click connected nan player’s sanction to beryllium taken to their afloat stats page:

Anthony Banda, Twins: 2-0, 4.22 ERA, 2 saves, 32 IP, 26 hits, 14 walks, 29 K’s, 104 ERA+

Cody Bellinger, Yankees: .276/.370/.473, 324 PA’s, 15 doubles, 3 triples, 11 homers, 49 RBIs, 133 OPS+

Walker Buehler, Padres: 4-3, 3.96 ERA, 72.2 IP, 73 hits, 23 walks, 65 K’s, 105 ERA+

Mike Busch, Cubs: .247/.377/.396, 337 PA’s, 13 doubles, 2 triples, 8 homers, 42 RBIs, 122 OPS+

Michael Conforto, Cubs: .222/.328/.434, 116 PA’s, 9 doubles, 4 homers, 13 RBIs, 116 OPS+

Justin Dean, Cubs: .500/.500/1.500, 2 PA’s, 1 triple, 3 RBIs, 443 OPS+

Caleb Ferguson, Reds: 0-0, 1.50 ERA, 12 IP, 10 hits, 5 walks, 12 K’s, 302 ERA+

Jack Flaherty, Tigers: 1-8, 5.35 ERA, 65.2 IP, 69 hits, 34 walks, 78 K’s, 81 ERA+, connected nan IL

Kenley Jansen, Tigers: 1-3, 4.00 ERA, 9 saves, 18 IP, 10 hits, 10 walks, 22 K’s, 110 ERA+

Craig Kimbrel, Rays: 0-2, 5.50 ERA, 18 IP, 19 hits, 8 walks, 18 K’s, 78 ERA+

Gavin Lux, Rays: connected nan IL

Dustin May, Cardinals: 5-6, 4.30 ERA, 83.2 IP, 78 hits, 22 walks, 77 K’s, 94 ERA+

Zach McKinstry, Tigers: .177/.272/.259, 171 PA’s, 4 doubles, 1 triple, 2 homers, 11 RBIs, 48 OPS+

James Outman, Tigers: .169/.238/.286, 84 PA’s, 4 doubles, 1 triple, 1 homer, 5 RBIs, 44 OPS+

Joc Pederson, Rangers: .237/.333/.419, 235 PA’s, 7 doubles, 2 triple, 9 homers, 25 RBIs, 119 OPS+

Luke Raley, Mariners: .241/.303/.503, 210 PA’s, 6 doubles, 1 triple, 14 homers, 35 RBIs, 126 OPS+

Ben Rortvedt, Mets: successful nan minors

Corey Seager, Rangers: .186/.284/.373, 204 PA’s, 6 doubles, 9 homers, 24 RBIs, 91 OPS+, connected nan IL

Justin Turner, Tijuana (Mexican League): .273/.483/.461, 196 PA’s, 14 doubles, 6 homers, 25 RBIs

Trea Turner, Phillies: .227/.280/.336, 328 PA’s, 12 doubles, 7 homers, 22 RBIs, 67 OPS+

Miguel Vargas, White Sox: .236/.353/.465, 324 PA’s, 12 doubles, 1 triple, 16 homers, 44 RBIs, 126 OPS+

Kirby Yates, Angels: 0-3, 3.68 ERA, 1 save, 14.2 IP, 9 hits, 7 walks, 19 K’s, 116 ERA+

Up next

Monday: Dodgers (*Eric Lauer, 2-5, 5.37 ERA [1-0, 3.22 ERA pinch Dodgers]) astatine Minnesota (Zebby Matthews, 3-4, 4.78 ERA), 4:40 p.m., SportsNet LA, AM 570, KTNQ 1020

Tuesday: Dodgers (*Justin Wrobleski, 8-2, 2.72 ERA) astatine Minnesota (Joe Ryan, 5-3, 2.99 ERA), 4:40 p.m., SportsNet LA, TBS, AM 570, KTNQ 1020

Wednesday: Dodgers (Shohei Ohtani, 7-2, 1.47 ERA) astatine Minnesota (*Connor Prielipp, 2-5, 5.17 ERA), 4:40 p.m., SportsNet LA, AM 570, KTNQ 1020

All times Pacific

*-left-handed

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