Eric Karros (5-6-25)

Eric talks about Freddie Freeman's incredible start to the season, Hyeseong Kim's potential, and playing in the Marlins first game in 1993. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now an exclusive interview with David Bassey for Dodger Talk. Well,
I had to catch up with my TV partner.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's always great to be on sports and at LA
with the great Eric Carrows, who has hit more home
runs than any other LA Dodger in history, the nineteen
ninety two National League Rookie of the Year, the first
of five in a row for the Dodgers, and he
wears a nice Dodger polo on TV each and every day.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Thanks a lot for the time.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Absolutely love to help you out DV, especially after working
together in Atlanta and looking forward to the next time.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Colorado and KC. We always get the A road trips.
That's right, that's what I'm talking.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
This is the A road trip Atlanta, Arizona.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
We got some big teams. Yeah, the rooftops in Miami
are beautiful.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I don't go out.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
When you look at this team and where the Dodgers
are baseball's best record, it feels like there is still
more and that's a little scary for the rest of
the league.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I think just because of the expectations we've had that
were placed on the Dodgers. Well, we're going to win
one hundred and twenty games, one hundred and thirty games.
You know, the reality is that you know it's a
long season. The season does not discriminate. You're going to
have your ups and downs. Every organization is but every
single day this year, if you ask me what team
I would want to be, I would say I want

(01:18):
to be the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
No doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
It feels like a lot of players want to play
on this team. You obviously were a really good first baseman.
We get to see one of the best in Freddie Freeman.
Do you feel like he's starting to look like the
Freddie Freeman?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
So it's interesting, you say, we were talking about it
on the broadcast last night, where one of the most
underrated great starts in all of the league. I mean,
if you look at what he's done so far, you know,
the ops is over a thousand, it's hitting home runs,
the RBI's driving and runs. And this is a guy
that again is coming off major injuries last year, had

(01:56):
the bathtub accident, and is just still quietly I said,
like you look at the numbers, they're unreal.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I've said before Eric that if my life was on
the line, and I needed and at bat from a
current player.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I think Freddy would be that guy.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I think somebody copied what I say every guy on
a broadcast because I've said Live or Die. I said this,
you know last year Live or Die. A guy on
second base and I need to get him in. Doesn't
matter who's out there pitching. Freddie Freeman is up at
the plate and he continues to show that, you know,
no matter what he has, he has an innate ability

(02:33):
to drive in runs. And he's still he's old school
where RBI's RBI's meant something. And if you look at
there's two guys on this team currently for me, it's
Tail and Freddy that at all costs, I'm driving in
the run.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I'm glad you brought up te Oscar Hernandez. He obviously
got hurt. He's out for weeks. According to Dave Roberts,
how big of a hole is that in the lineup?

Speaker 3 (02:56):
So again, it's going to I look at it as
it's going to create opportunity. And so James Outman is
going to get a run right now, he's gonna come.
Are you going to replace him? No? It's just like,
are you gonna replace Blake Snell. No, are you gonna
replace Tyler glasnow? No. But the organization has created depth,
depth that is second to none. So when guys get

(03:17):
hurt here in this org it's okay, Yes, that's not great.
It happens in every organization. Corbyn burns down, sang it down,
steal like everybody. But the difference is here we can
put in guys that are everyday players and they're gonna produce.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Eric Harrols and Steven Nelson will be on the call
tonight for Sports net LA. Obviously, Eric has a big
place in Dodger history. When you look at hay Soong
Kim Eric, there's a lot of buzz about what he
did last night and what he did in the ninth
inning in Atlanta is the biggest thing now is to
be consistent after this splash.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, I mean, it's just getting an opportunity and going
out there and playing. And I think what he did
in Atlanta from me, forget the stealing the base, forget
moving second to third, it was having the confidence to
go out and do that because this is his first
experience in the big leagues and he's in a crucial
situation and he acted like he had been there a

(04:15):
thousand times over then obviously last night, getting an opportunity
to start and coming up with an RBI, a few
base hits so far, and again it's two games. The
one thing I can confidently say is he does not
seem to be overwhelmed in his first trip to.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
The big leagues.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Before I let you go back in nineteen ninety three,
the Marlins first came into Major League Baseball and the
Dodgers were the first team to play the Marlins. It
was Charlie Huff on the mound. What do you remember
the most about that first ever Marlins game?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Charlie Huff versus Oral Hersheizer and I couldn't believe we
were facing Charlie Huff. I think also I was thanking
goodness that I didn't get drafted in the expansion draft
that was playing for the Marlins. But they went out
and they beat us, Charlie through a great game, beat Oral,
and you know it was It was interesting, but a
long time ago, for sure.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Did you like playing at the old Joe Robbie Stadium?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
No, I mean it was all right. It wasn't bad,
I will say this, And you know it was after
my Dodger tenure though, But when we played there in
the playoffs with the Cubs, that place you could not
find an empty seat and you know that was like
seventy thousand people and that was insane.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
All right, Well, we won't remember how that ended. Thanks
a lot for the time, Eric, and always love seeing
you and certainly you mean a lot to a lot
of Dodger fans because of what you did and what
you teach us every night.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
So thank you.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Look forward to working together again, Davy.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
All right, yeah, Eric carrols with the great fabio hair
here on South Beach.