Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 192 | AL Central Tightening, Cubs Should Feel Good, and Everyone Got Mad

Episode Date: August 21, 2020

Trevor attempts to Wally Pipp Jake on today's series recap! The Yankees are all hurt and the Rays sweep 'em, the NL East is funky, Ryu and the Blue Jays are turning it on, Cleveland is tightening the race in the central, the Cubs gotta feel good, Giolito and Berrios make Jomboy eat a bug, we're over the Reds, the Angels are horrific, thew Padres are going crazy, Grichuk hits a buncha homers, Tim Anderson is a stud, Matt Olson's stats are weird, and bad teams are turning back into pumpkins!   Leave a voicemail at 917-426-2796 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What's going on, everybody. Welcome back to talking baseball. It's Friday. There's been a whole week of games. Let's fill you in on what happened. Here we go. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to talking baseball.

My name is Jimmy. Trevor Plouf is joining me from California. And producer BPD is behind the plate. We are coming to you live from the Roosevelt Studios here in the Bronx. Young Jake is off in Oklahoma on his annual. draft what is it annual fantasy draft golfing outing

outing so trev your turn to step in and tell the people what happened in the series how you doing I'm doing great I'm actually going to go by plough Garrig today that Wally Pitt dude out in Oklahoma

yeah Jake don't don't let me slither in here buddy and take your spot don't let me do that I've done it before my career Who'd you Wally Pip? Who do you have like on your list? Like I took your spot. I don't want to go into it.

Okay. Not a, you don't want to talk about it. He's told us before. Oh yeah, you've told us before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone's got to do that. You got to take somebody's spot. Yeah, yeah.

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Oh, yeah, we got a lot going on. Now how this works is I. We always preface it with we didn't watch these games. There's too many games. Some of them we watched. Well, some of them. But not all of them. I mean, there's 14 games a night, four nights.

impossible. Impossible. So I don't even know what happened in the West besides the few games I watch. So you're going to tell me. I got you. I got you on the East. Let's play the music. Let's do it.

The East region is as follows. Toronto and Baltimore teamed up and Toronto said, you guys aren't the young darlings? We are. Toronto sweeps them. Rieu versus Cobb. You think a good pitching matchup in game one. Cobb goes 6.2-5 earned runs.

not good. Rieu goes six innings pitch. One earned run Gritchick with a three-run homeer. Toronto wins seven to two. In game two, it's a one-run game. Pearson versus LeBlanc. Both of those guys gave up five earned runs. Pearson left with an elbow injury, really hoping it is not Tommy John.

Scary for the young stud, but he left with elbow tightness. That usually leads to some bad things. This one went extras, though, and the Blue Jays won on the classic. Classic. Walk, bunt, fielder's choice to push the go-ahead run. And then in Game 3, Classic. In game three, the Orioles can't avoid the sweep. Roark v. Malone. Gritchick gets it done again with a six-in-homber to take the lead.

Toronto is now above 500. The Orioles are now below 500. And I think my guess is that's how it's going to go the rest of the way between those two. Maybe. Actually, more on that later. Philly and Boston had a two-game set. Philadelphia came to Boston to play in Fenway. Historically, a really fun matchup seeing the Phillies in Fenway.

Bryce and Fenway, I do like the visuals this gives you. But the game won is a mess. The Red Sox went with the bullpen that day. Six of the seven guys they threw out there, gave up earned runs. The Phillies just slammed them. They should have saved some runs for game two, though, Trev, because they only score three as Boston wins six to three. Arietta versus Kyle Hart, and I didn't update this yesterday.

My bad. I only did up until then, but I think Boston Iivaldi finally went seven innings. They finally had a starter to go seven innings. Red Sox finished the series seven. No, no, that was the Orioles, so we're good. That was a different series. Different series, I was going to say. We don't even talk about that.

The Phillies and the Red Sox split the two-game set. The Phillies fought back to tie it late, but Ramon Rosso gave the lead right back. Devers and JBG get it done. The Mets and the Marlins squared off for a four-game set, a little bit like Toronto and Baltimore, where the Mets are like, no, hold up, we're supposed to be in first place, not last. You guys are supposed to be in last. They go Penn versus Penn, game one.

Kanoa and Alonzo both hit two homers each. Mets win big, game one. Mets win pretty big game, too. Oswald versus Mejia, Rosario, Nimmo Davis. Their turn state home run. So the Mets have a smattering of guys hitting bombs in this series. They win game three. DeGrom comes back. Great pitching matchup with Pablo Lopez on the bump for Miami. Lopez goes 6.2 to earned. That's good. DeGrom, he goes 6.0 earned. That's better.

The Mets Penn tried their best to give the lead back. They gave up a run. The Mets offense scored more. Mets Penn gives up more runs. Mets offense scores more. And game four gets canceled because a player and a coach on the Mets come down with COVID. That's not good. Hopefully they're doing well. the Yankees get swept by the Reyes, and they have three players go down with injury during this series. Tanaka versus Snell. Tanaka didn't have it. Snow looked great. Cole versus Glassnow was a really good pitching matchup. Glassnow looked best. He's looked in a while. So did Cole, to be honest. Yankees bullpen blows it late. Paxston versus the bullpen, and the Reyes get it done. Again, Ray's just out-coached, out-pitched, out-pitched the Yankees, out-hearteded them.

To be very honest with you, Ray's clearly had more on. on the line, wanted it more, which I'm not, is not an excuse. I'm trying to give the raise as much credit as I could. The Nationals and the Atlanta Braves squared off for a two game set. Braves win game one with a walk-off Annie ball and Tuki.

Both start, both don't look that good. Braves were down three going into the ninth inning, hit by pitch, home run to bring it within one single. Danesby home run to win it. He stays hot. Good job. Danesby, you pretty boy. The Braves lose game two. Both versus Tom

Both was bad. Nine hits, four innings pitched. He gave up five runs. He's supposed to be, you know, let's see what both has got. Not good. But the Nats and their bats back him up with a four-run fifth inning. Nationals win. They split that series.

That is what happened in the Eastern region. A couple sweeps, a couple teams saying, no, no, no, no, no. The Ray's looking at the Yankees saying, no, no, no, no, no. We're saying, we're better than you. The Blue Jays, look. looking at the Orioles saying, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're supposed to be better than you. And the Mets looking at the Marlins saying, no, no, no, no, no.

So they're coming for it. Hopefully what you talks about, Nate Pearson, hopefully that comes back. It's just a little tightness that you've got to stretch it out or something like that, maybe two weeks off. But that's a big blow to them, but they answered. Yeah. The rays are now in first place.

Yankees are in second place. So that's the injuries, man. We hired a whole new strength in conditioning, coordinator set the whole program up and then we're still going through it. Cressy. He's supposed to be like the big deal. Like, you know, he's got clients all over the place. You know, it's, this year, we talked about injuries, man.

Like, this was something that happened last year when he had the full facilities. This year we don't have the full facilities. Guys are coming in staggered times. We knew it was going to happen to some teams. But, man, the Yankees just have that bug. It's bad, man. We have the depth, though. Pax, not really anymore.

Like, they used up all their depth last year. No, if you want to hear me be very sad and worried, listen to the talking Yanks app. I don't see how the Yanks can win in the playoffs if Paxton is out for the season with Tommy Chant. He came out or after the game, he said that he was feeling a little discomfort, right? He got an MRI. He didn't come out of the game, did he? Tightness, yeah, he came out. Because he should have stayed in.

He's only 80 pitches and he was doing looking good. in close game. So, yeah, I mean, Yankees' brains, you know, I just, I'm preparing myself for him to have to get Tommy John. We've had Severino get Tom. You know how many players have had Tommy John for the Yankees? Glaber, Dedy, Hicks,

Keynes, Cainley, Sevy, Montgomery. In the last three years, am I missing anyone? I want to say Domingo had it if you, he was still like not. Was he with the Marlins? A lot, dude. Oh, he was. Why the position players?

Why the position players? How does that happen? Glabors was on a freak slide. Okay. Hixies was too, wasn't it? Yeah, and Dedees was on. Isn't the playoffs that weird play where he, like, fielded it off the monster like that?

Yeah, Dedy was, Didi fielded a ball off the monster and tried to throw it like an outfielder all the way home. So it's bad, a man, if Paxson goes down, you know, they do have the bats. And it's also very frustrating, and I'll do it quickly. the Yankees Underbune haven't prioritized putting their foot

on throats and pedal to the medal and I kind of agree Fernando Tate's way I kind of agree with it for this short and season you know but it's frustrating day and day

like Chad Green's their best pitcher he didn't pitch once in the series and then you have Judge and DJ on that judge and DJ out so like Tyro Estrada and Wade are playing and you know Gary's finally on fire. He can't play game three,

but I understand that because day after night. So it's just like, you know, the race fans get all the credit to talk shit right now. I wish, I wish that, you know, the Yankees.

You want the whole team. You want the squad. Yeah, the lineup yesterday was like in the pregame show. It's like this lineup's not going to beat the race. No. You know what the raise do? This is interesting because I had a problem with it while I was there.

But look, it clearly is doing something. They have a program. They call it shellbow. And it's your shoulder and elbow exercises. And they make every single player go through it, position players and pitchers. Pitchers is probably more detailed and specific to each guy. But they make you go and do these things, things that typically a position player wouldn't do.

You go lift, you get your legs in, you do a little upper body pump to feel yourself. But then they make you do the shoulder elbow exercises, the YTWLs. They make you do all this stuff. I even told them to go F off because I didn't want to do it My arm is fine, don't mess with me But this is something that they do Maybe that they've found works for them to avoid some of these injuries I don't know

Sounds like a lot of the Yankee stuff is freak But definitely, I mean year after years Some are freak Judges are kind of freak But not like Glaber with a hamstring, calf string Not all the soft tissue stuff Soft tissue sucks, man. Yeah.

Yeah. Hey, what do we do? We talk about the Phillies. They had a two-game set against Toronto. No, against the Red Sox. No, but again, yesterday, they had a double-headed. Then they play someone new today. Oh.

Yeah, that should have been included. So if you want to talk about that, they got swept. Toronto swept him. Toronto swept him yesterday? Yeah. Oh, sorry. I didn't realize that. I should have put that in my breakdown.

Yeah. That's not good. Dude, the NL East is. is so weird to look at. Like, the Braves are still looking pretty, but I don't think any Braves fan is sitting confident with what's going on over there with their pitching and their injuries. Yeah.

Exactly. The Nationals and Phillies, I actually think the Phillies may make a run here. I love the Phillies. We talk about them all the time, but you can't have that bullpen and do it. You just... The Marlins are like one for their last one win in their last 10 games.

They're not going to... Like, who... Second place in the NL East is. is actually going to be a bad team, statistically, not talent-wise. You know, and maybe the Nats can just do what they did last year and just get that second place in the division spot. Exactly. Look, they get hot at the right time. You know somebody from that division is getting in, one of those teams.

Yeah. Get hot at the right time, man. It's all that matters. You know, we talk about this all the time. 60-game season seems like a warm-up for most teams. Three-game set against the nationals, and you've got to face those three guys, if they're all healthy.

Yeah. That's what they did in the playoffs last year. Red Sox finally won some games, but Red Sox fans, we have some friends, and they don't know how to handle this, you know. The Red Sox have never been, they've been bad. Like, they've finished last place, but it's usually after like a disaster finish, like the Bobby Valentine year. Usually like they're in it, they're in it, they're in it, then they fucking bottom out.

Dude, they should be rooting to just be horrible. I know, but as a fan who loves watching, watching baseball. Sure. You know, it's such a, it's, you get institutionalized by the game. It's every night, seven o'clock. And then like in the off season, there's moments where I'm like, oh, shit, what do I do? I just watch movies now.

Like, you know, to do that in season, as the Yankee fan, we've had bad seasons, but they're always 85 win teams. Like, you know, it's always like there's some storyline to watch. I don't know if I'd be able to do it. I think Red Sox fans are having a real crisis here. Like, it's tough, man. Every night I watch baseball. I really don't want to watch this game, though.

I think you got to get into. to the nitty gritty then look at the trade deadline let's see what the prospects like if anybody's coming up can we get rid of some of this money you know they haven't had a high draft pick in a long time like maybe root for that dude i don't know we they they haven't had a top six pick since like 50 years jake has a stat he's been saying it all rain man like um the blue jays though they're getting hot which is cool they've won they've won five in a row now and they have a you know, they have a lot of games against the Yankees. So I'm hoping they don't get too hot, not the real deal.

But they're going to fight for that wild card spot. They'll fight for the last spot for sure. I think, you know, obviously Tampa, New York, going to be the top two spots. And then that extra wild card, they're going to fight for it, man. And I'm excited to see the young guys go after it. If anything, you're a Toronto fan, get these guys in the playoff hunt. Go get them that experience.

So when that time comes, when it's like, we're full go, they have it. Riu is having an awesome month of August. Maybe he should put him on an Fuego. I mean, he's got two earned runs in his last three starts in the month of August. 17 innings pitched, three games. They've won every game. Go Riu. Yeah.

All right, let's move it along to the Central. I'll start it off, Trev. You're going to finish it. Here's what happened. A lot of games in the Central. Are you ready? Do you have the back end of this? I do have the back end, baby.

Here we go. The Central Region, the St. Louis Cardinals were back in action. They face off against the Cubs. These guys played five games in three days. Double-header, regular game, double-heder. St. Louis takes game one, three-to-one. Cubs try to get the seventh inning complete game from Kyle Hendricks, who is pitching really well.

Goldie and Carpenter get some hits, so they take him out. They bring in Roman Wick, and Miller takes them deep to grab the lead, and then Miller, Andrew Miller, closes it out. So Brad and Andrew, the Miller's getting it done for St. Louis. In game two on this day, the Cubs win. Five to four, they go bullpen versus bullpen. Cubs win it in the six with four runs from a Contreras double and a Bodie Homer. Then you have the one-nine inning game.

Six to three win. Hugh Darvish, just another dick-dropping tour game from him. Six innings pitch, one-er-and-run. Cubs are up on the series 2 to 1. Two more to play. Flaherty versus Mills in game 4. Flaherty only goes 1.2 innings pitched 40 pitches. I'm guessing.

This is a pitch count thing I didn't look into. I'm guessing he was around 50 pitches and he didn't have a great 1.2. I think our dude Ian Hap took him deep open the game. So two friends of the program battling it out. And Mills, my dude, Alec Mills, he may be turning back into a pumpkin. Carpenter hits a grand slam off him in the first and they never looked back. Game five has a pitching matchup of two dudes, not in my book. Adbert Alzale versus Johann Aviado.

No clue who the fuck you guys are. Jeffreys blew the lead in the six. Cubs grab it back with the Bodey RBI. And then Kimbril locked down the save. I believe this is his first save or clean save of the season. He's had three scoreless outings in a row now, but the others were kind of just like slop time. Let's get it back.

So maybe Kimbril's back for the Cubies. That's a positive. The Cubs do take the series. three to two. Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Cleveland has to sweep the Pittsburgh Pirates. Cleveland sweeps the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first game was Cookie.

Carrasco versus Brewbaker. Carlos Santana with a three run. Homer and extras to win it. Game two, Savali more on him later. He shoves complete game, one earned run. Two homers each for the Santana boys. That's Carlos and Domingo. Get it?

The Millers did it. The Santana Bros do it. In game three, Beber, he goes out there and shoves. They actually, did they win? Again, I did not update this. This is my bad. I did this before. They had to win, right?

I don't know. Cleveland Indians game three, I didn't upload. Yeah, they went two to nothing. Beaver shoves, and they sweep. It a zillion k's, I think 12Ks. Bo Taylor single and Bo Taylor Fielder's choice are to push the two runs across to get the lead. So good job, Bo Taylor.

I don't know who you are either. I'm sorry if I should. Detroit and the Chicago White Sox, they square off for four games. And Detroit's going pumpkin mode. They bring up all their debut guys. So if you're a Tigers fan, this isn't even about winning. It's just about seeing these young guys in the future. But for the White Sox, they're about winning.

So they win. They sweep. They win all four games. Anderson and Robert each hit two home runs in game one. School Bowl debut versus cease in game. Game two, Scoobel gets knocked around. Anderson Homer's again. He has three RBIs.

He's going off. In game three, it was the debut bowl, Mize versus Dunning. Both of these kids in their debut go 4.1 innings pitch, three run, seven-case. Both debuts, same line with those three stats. Gregory Soto blows it in the eighth and gives up a homer to Obrayu and Edwin. And in game four, Gialito deals and Anderson homers again. Bluff, what happened between Milwaukee and Minnesota? Well, we saw the first game.

Minnesota ends up taking the series two out of three first game, Kenta Maeda. Those eight no-no. Then the game turns into a shit show. He gives up a little blooper to Stilgard, an air lets the broucruc tie it up, and then Minnesota wins it on a ground ball because they have Byron Buxton at third base,

and he's very fast. The twins get the win, but they rain. on the Kentimaida parade. More on that later. Second game, Brew crew comes out swinging everybody, homers. Kestin, Hira, off a position player, don't be coming for my crown, Keston. That is mine. In the rubber match, Minnesota takes the game seven to one behind Barrio. He shines. He shuts Jimmy up. He says, Jimmy, I don't care about your peripherals. I'm going to go six innings, one hit nine Ks because Enosaris said,

all I had to do was get back in the zone and I'll be fine. So he went out in did. Minnesota takes a series two games to one. On to the Cincinnati Reds versus the Kansas City Royals. They just played two games, a double header. And the first one, Kansas City comes out swinging for nothing. They win it. Keller, is he a guy guy? He almost goes a complete game shutout.

Shuts down a good lineup. If you look at his numbers overall in his career, he's kind of been a guy guy. Got to be excited for that if you're in Kansas City. in the second game, Red's peg at 5-0-0, the Bower Dick-Dopping Tour rolls on. He threw a complete game and did all sorts of silly shit. He took his jersey off after the game. He was strutting around like Connor McGregor after strikeouts. One hit, 9Ks.

He set some strikeout record. Who cares? He's dominant right now, and the Reds offense went on a little tour of their own and not a dick-dropping tour, more like a small coffee shop acoustics. tour. They hit four homers in the game. It was nice. Reds and Royal split the series. And that's what's happening in the back end of the Central. You see the movie Rockstar with Mark Wahlberg? I have. You know the final scene? Great movie. Yeah, great movie. You know the final scene when he's just doing the acoustic show in like rainy Seattle Bar? That's what you're talking about?

Kind of, yeah. Just, you know, like early Pearl Jam when they were going and playing these shows. It's a nice show. That's my kind of music. Yeah, you do like that kind of music. Yeah, small venue shit. Yeah, man, a lot of stuff happening. A lot of, like Cleveland needed to beat Pittsburgh. The White Sox needed to beat Detroit. They both sweep.

The Cubs get to play five games in three days. They get three wins in three days. So if you're a Cubby's fan... That's as good as you can hope. I think on both sides. Yeah, if you're a Cubs fan, I mean, that's awesome. I mean, don't be upset that you didn't like get four or five. I think the Cardinals should feel the same way.

You have that huge layoff. And, you know, you basically split. You know, you can't split a five-game series, but you show life. You have some guys hitting the ball. Get your pitchers back up to the pitch count. I mean, if you're a Cubs fan, I think you've got to be feeling really good right now.

The starting pitching looks good. Kimbril gets a save. Jeffers blows one. But, like, you know, if Kimbril can get back on track. Oh, boy, they need him. They got 16 wins, Trev. The next in their division has 11. the Brewers.

They're the only team in their division above 500, so I mean... That division we talked about it all preseason, all during the early COVID stuff. We have no idea what's going to happen in this division.

They all kind of seem the same, but now the Cubs have pulled the way. I mean, they got that like, that stack at the top of their lineup. And their pitching's been great. Yeah. I mean, they can kind of start to like map out playoffs.

Just get the one seat. and then you'll face who the fuck's going to be the eighth seed in the nationally? You think they got that locked up already? Oh, no, no, no, no. For the division, for the division. They're not going to have the one seat overall. I know, but do you think they have the division locked up? I'm not so sold on that, Jim.

Yeah, I think they have the division locked up. Okay. No one's close to them, man. I know, but the Cardinals have only played 14 games. They played 10 less games. So, like, let's see where they end up. I think I like the Cubs more, but we got to let the Cardinals breathe a little bit. But if the Cubs pitching is, like, real deal.

If Darvish is bad. if Kendricks is that, if Lester's, like, you know, then they are, I think they're better on paper than the cards. Yeah. So, I mean, let me see the Cubby's schedule. You love a schedule. I do. Well, only this year, I usually, if anyone listen to us. It's hard to keep up.

Yeah, usually I don't, I don't care about schedule stuff. But in such a short season and with like this being regional, like, you know, how many more games do the Cubs have against the Cardinals is what I'm looking. I like that. I like that. I want to look up. Because that's what the Cardinals would need to do. Okay, they have another one, two, three, four. They have another five, five games set in four days.

And that's all. That's so much baseball. So they have another five games against the Cardinals. Who do they play from the AAL? They got the Indians, the White Sox. Okay, those guys might be playing for stuff down the line. And they have three against the White Sox. But the Cubs look good.

They do look good. Chicago. Be happy with their baseball team. right now. The White Sox are coming. Tim Anderson looks like the real deal. And people were shitting on him because of his Babib. I was. Lucky. Yeah, yeah. I said, look, I like

this guy. Like the way he plays the game. I enjoy watching him. Is he a batting champ type hitter? No, that's what I said last year. But the guy's hitting 379 right now. I don't know what his babbip is. It's got to be higher than 379. But whatever it is, it's back-to-back years. He's

doing it. And he's hitting homers. And he plays short. And he's electric. and he's a guy that the one-nothing guys, bro. We've talked about this on the show before. When you get the lead-off hitter, they can go pump one, put you up one-nothing.

Love it. Yeah. Ian Hap did that. Ian has a pump guy. He's a one-nothing pump guy, man. I'm looking at the twins. What's their schedule? Because, dude, the Indians are breathing down their neck.

They are. They're a half game back. And then the white sacks. They're in Kansas City. They're in Kansas City for how many? Let's see. The White Sox are right behind them. Kansas City for three and then Cleveland for three.

Yeah. All right. Oh, dude, this Central is a good division. Yeah, I think it's going to provide the most drama. And then Cleveland, I mean, you get back. Clef. I mean, they've been doing this without, I mean, arguably they're one B. This is a very interesting next two series for the Indians and the twins.

The Indians play the Tigers. who just got swept. Okay. And they're probably going to continue bottoming out. And I'm not trying to be mean. You know, they're just, it seems like their focus has changed. Let's get the, let's see what we got with the young kids, ride out those starts.

You know, we got the service time figured out. Well, CJ Crone, the glue of that team went out. And ever since then. The twins are playing the Royals. And shout out to you. Brad Keller's stats this season are very good. He should probably be on Enfuego at some point, too. I didn't realize he was that good.

His whole career has been pretty good too. It's like, yeah, okay. So if the Indians can beat the tigers, and if the twins, so I need the, I need the tigers to get swept and the twins to lose one game

so that this matchup between Cleveland and Minnesota next week, is they're tied for first facing each other. Because that's good for baseball. You love the sweep. Sweeper be swept is the slogan of the season. season for Jim. Bad teams get out of here. You want to have teams playing their best.

But I don't want Minnesota. Where's the matchup at? Is it Cleveland or is it Minnesota? Cleveland. Who, that'll be a fun one. No matter what happens this next series, they'll probably each win two games. Go into that.

It's going to be an excellent series. I don't know what the pitching matchups are, but it's going to be cool. And the White Sox are the, they're right there. They're two games out, but they're right behind. Like, you know, if the twins run away with first place, the White Sox and the Indians will be battling for that second spot. And they're going to make the standings, the playoffs really interesting in the Central because, you know, say the Indians get the two spot, right?

That means they're four, five, or six seed. And then the White Sox are a division. That means they're seven or eight. Yeah, they're going to play someone like the Yanks or the race. or the race. Well, the Yanks right now where it would be the four seed, so they'd be playing the five seed,

which is probably the Indians or the White Sox. It's going to be fine, man. I can't wait for that. Hey, and also, Lucas G. Lido told you to shove it. So did Burrios. Yeah, they're all just saying, Jim. Just relax a little bit. Let me get my shit together.

Burios looked nasty. I was watching that game. Like his pitches were dancing. They look great. Those guys are very, I mean, they're not the same pitcher, but the way they attack guys is they need to get ahead, use their good strikeout stuff. That's the problem with G.

Leo turned the corner when he started throwing strikes. So it's a good strategy. You can't be working from behind all the time. Both these guys know that. You know my love for burrios. I have never seen anybody work harder than him. And when that happens, you're going to get a guy with his talent.

He's going to shoot into All-Star. He's already been an All-Star, I think twice. but like he's going to shoot into Sy Young type seasons if he puts it all together similar to what Gio Lido did last year Can I tell you something about the Reds? Yes, you can.

I'm over it. They're pissing me off. Me too. Be good. You've got so much talent. I mean, Sunny Gray and Bauer are amazing right now. The lineup has, the lineup can bang if you want it to. Dude. I mean,

they haven't won two games. in a row since August 7th. And the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and the last 8 games, they can't put back-to-back wins together. Against the Pirates, against the Royals. They had two games against the Royals, two against the Pirates, two against the Royals.

It's a six-game set. They went three and three, and they never put it together. Like, you need to win. Like what we're saying about the White Sox and we're saying about the Indians, like you've got to beat the Pirates. to beat the tigers. And I like what Bauer's doing. Definitely creating interest in the game. It's definitely being a heel and doing, like doing what he's doing. Like, you know, I'm not against it.

He's digging in. He's digging his heels. And he can do it because he's fucking dominating. But Reds, what the hell? You're in fourth place. You have a losing record. And who do you I bet a lot of money on you to hit over 255. Let's, you know, come on now. You said 240. So much talent, man. This should be good. What do you got on the Bauer stuff?

Like, is it, hey, man, it looks, it's funny because you're dominating and doing it. Like, if you have a few dog shit starts. Well, I, man. What do you do then? I like Bauer. I went on the show with him and like in person, incredibly nice guy, soft-spoken. Like, we chatted for a long time. He was nice.

You think it's a. persona. Yeah. Like a schick. Yeah, in a way. But I also think that that's good. Like you should, like, that's fine. Taking off his jersey to promote his own merch,

I love it. That's fine. Like, it's, when you shove, Trev, you can do it everyone. That's what I'm saying. That is what I'm saying. You know, he can't, he can't do that if he doesn't go complete game. And it's the ninth inning.

Yeah. I mean, or, or. You can't get taken out in the seventh and undress on your way to the dugout. Or do it no matter what. I think that's, I like that better. If he sucked and got pulled out of the game and still took his shirt off, I'd be like, okay, dude, you're for real. You're for real.

I like it. Keep doing it. The cleats thing, Jake and I talked about this on John Boy and Jake Radio, our daily show that we do. And, uh, the cleats thing is fun. He, it's a little, his tweet afterwards saying like, I thought we could wear whatever. we want. MLB said that we could wear whatever I want. So now you're going, it was like, dude, you have people on your side. You don't need to distort facts to get more people on your side. The rule is you have to okay the cleats with MLB. And if they say you can wear them,

you can wear them. And why would MLB okay those cleats? Come on. You're mocking their decision. Obviously, they're going to say no. So like, I don't even care. I think it was a little hypocritical. I don't know if you saw this. interaction between him and Justin Verlander's brother. I don't know his name. Well, Verlander's brother's a butthead. He's always... Well, he made a good point, though. You know, you got to give people credit when they make a good point.

I didn't see it. It was, you know, free Joe Kelly on the cleats. But then Bauer has the tweet up about like, don't you throw it anybody's head. Like, it's bullshit. Don't do that. Well, that's exactly what Joe Kelly did. I mean, threw it. Yeah. Breggins head. So, like...

He threw behind his head. back. It's up there. It's too high. Trout's getting balls at his head. That's a different story. We'll get to the West soon. My thing is, Bauer to spin it and be like, I thought this wasn't against the rules. Like, dude, the rules say you have to get him approved. And why would they approve those cleats?

It's a lot. Bauer's a lot. People like that. He can do his thing. No judgment here. Go do what you got to do. Like you're mocking the commissioner's decision. And the decision is stupid. Just keep doing it when you're doing bad. That's my point. just like the one's he's dominating he can do it you know and I think

I think on the whole net net to steal Jake's favorite phrase what Bauer's doing is good for baseball and the growth of the game and interests of young kids and people let me ask you this Jim but the tweet where it's like come on Rob little hypocritical it's like dude I mean obviously he's not going to allow those things

well that's pandering he's pandering yes yeah yeah but let me ask you this question this is a serious debate and like I guarantee he's thinking about it Why not sit out now? Why not sit out? You're a free agent at the end of the year. You have dominated.

Why? He doesn't care, man. He just wants to sign one year deal, so. He could sign a $40 million deal the way he's pitching right now. I mean, would teams frown upon that? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know either. All right, we got to keep it moving.

We got the whole West to go. All right, here we go. Ready, Treb? I have no idea what happened, so please let me know. Let's go. The West, here we go. In the first matchup, huge. Houston goes into Colorado and sweeps.

Jake's Rocks. Jake sucks. We all know that. First game, Houston takes two to one. Cray hits a two-run double. And Belak looks like a dude. He's one of those guys. You look at his numbers.

He might be a dude. That's crazy for Houston. They continue to develop players. However they want to do it. Second game, same score. Two to one Houston. Grinky deals. Goes eight innings pitch, one run.

Straw walks off the rocks. in the 11th with a single. Third game is a banger for Houston. They win 13 to 6. Framber, our guy. We love Framber on the show. Seven and two-thirds, one earned run, and the offense came to party.

Correa again. Four other homers. They're just tattooing the ball in Colorado. And then, on the final game, going for the sweep, the bat showed up for both teams. Houston ends up winning 10 to 8. Aronado and McMahon hit homers for the rocks.

The man hits two. But Ashtra do it bigger because they're from Texas. Everything's bigger in Texas. Every starter Xed at one as a hit. Even Altuve had two hits. Jose Atouva. Asco's are red, freaking hot, nine straight. And I love it, Jim.

We'll go into it a little bit after, but I love it. Moving on down to Arizona. This is a great series. Oakland visiting Arizona. First game opens up. 4-3. Arizona takes it. This one ended up getting. split two to two.

Oakland ties it up in the eighth of the first game. Then David Peralta walks it off in the ninth. No real standout performance is just a good, well, hard-fought game. Second game, 10 to 1 Arizona. Montes gets snake fit by the debacks. You see what I did there, Jim? You like that? That's good.

He gives up nine earn runs in one and two-thirds. That's not what you want. It's not typical to him. Tough to come back from that one. If you are the Oakland. And then getting things started on Oakland's side. Third game, 4-1, Oakland wins. Baby Jesus, shoves, cana, bat flips are a year-round fruit

because they're always in season. That was another good one. I wrote that. He homers and Oakland wins. In the last game, Oakland splits at 5-1, Mania responds to my criticism. I said, you gotta get it going. It's his first one of the season,

and Chappie hits two home runs because he's a god. And he can do whatever he wants on the baseball field. Series gets split 2 to 2 Oakland and Arizona Great Series Heading on down to LA, Seattle, and the Dodgers We kind of knew how this one was going to end up

Sweep or B-sweb the Dodgers didn't sweep But they won the series Three games to won in the first game The Dodgers put up a nickel in the second The Mariners answered with a nickel in the third And then the Dodgers, because they're really rich In money and talent They just said, we have more nickels than you

We're going to put up another one in the seven They put them up for good Jansen gets to save Bet's Homer The Seeger Bros. Homer. It's like the Mario Bros. But Seagre Bros. A lot of other people, Homer, too.

Great games to watch if you like offense. Second game of the series, 2-1 Dodgers, Gonslyn shoved, and has zero earned runs this year in 14 plus innings. The Seager Bros. Doubled in this game. So, Homer together, doubled together.

And train and close the game out for the Dodgers. Third game of the set, Taiwan Walker, Nice start. Urius with, 6-4 Seattle wins, Austenolo of four RBI's, and Dylan Moore with a homer.

L.A. ends up winning the series in the last game, 6-1 Dodgers. Kershaw is still really good. I looked up his numbers. And man, the playoff, Kershaw kills his stigma.

He's ridiculous. He's a Hall of Famer without a doubt. Is he a unanimous Hall of Famer? He's better than Barry Jeter? I don't know. Kikuchi was not very, good in this one. Belly hit a home run late. Dodgers take the series, three games

to one. And then we go to probably the most fun series that we've had all year. San Diego Padres in Texas, or this is a two and two series. They went into Texas and they went to four games set, whatever. I'm trying to be accurate here.

The first game, this is the game that everyone was talking about. Padres ended up winning 14-4. They were ahead by seven runs. Tatees hits the 3-0 Grand Slam. Chris Woodward is not happy, but who gives a shit because it was awesome. 80s versus Miles. Tatis had two homers, seven RBIs. Talk about the managers, Tinger and Woodward look very soft.

San Diego kills that game. Next game, six, four, Padres win again. Guess what? We had another grand slam by Will Myers. Bullpen was great. Gallo hit a home run. Hidman had an RBI in the boss, whatever. the story was another grand slam for the pod game three goes into extras guess what happens in extras jim grand slam by

machado to walk it off odor pro far tautis and gala all hit solo homers that was the lanselin game tautis struck out in the first comes back to the second about hit one deep to the center it's the tauti show down in san diego right now last game of the series another extra plenty of trailer our boy, Gibby versus the Met. Guess what happened? Another Grand Slam. Four straight games.

First team, I think, in history to do that. Osmer hit the Grand Slam this time. Trinidad and Tolak for Texas good homers. Tie France and hedges with a homer for the Pogs and San Diego walks off on an air. And Jake wrote me a note here. It says they should fire Woodward. I don't know about that.

He had a bad take. Let's let him live. Continue to coach that team down in Texas. Padres freaking sweet, dude. That was nice. And we're going to round it off with the Giants in LA, two teams we don't care about. First game, seven to six.

The Angels win it, Canning versus Anderson. Yeah, they didn't do very good. Belt and Trout Homer, the Scylla, with the walk off Homer. That's always fun. And Fran answers back the next three game, in two, eight to two San Francisco Giants. Trevor Cahill,

Never. You gotta love it. Out dual six, Dylan Bundy. The Dick Druffington Corp only slows down a little bit. Maybe he's going to join the Reds offense on their acoustic coffee shop tour. Because he still likes to play music. Yaz and Sandoval Homer.

Did you see the Sandoval Homer? I did not, no. It was a bad swing, bad pitch. It was horrible. Lesteller with another Homer. Third game of the set, seven, two Giants win again. Quito's solid. Wilmer and Slater.

Homer for the Giants. And rounding out that. series the Giants win again 10 to 5 Gousman versus the opener plus to Ron Homer and Crawford Homer for the Giants Angels are a horrific French

Jake write that for you at the end there and they are right they are but it's tough to watch if you're an angel's weird like their their GM Billy Epler like kind of regarded like you know he's done some moves that are celebrated at the time they just

don't win the one important aspect of the game. It's pitching. Yeah. I mean, Otani hurts them, but, like, their plan, I don't know, man, it's bad. It's all bad. There's a lot of games in the West, buddy.

Shout out to Mikey Rotano, who does the music, did the music for us here. Great tunes. A lot going on. Great job, Trev. A lot of info. Houston, they smashed Colorado. Last year, Colorado ran into the Houston buzz saw,

and their season was never the same again. So I hope Colorado can bounce back from, this. Astros, they keep losing guys. They lose Bragman, they lose Alvarez, they lose Verlander, they lose everyone's respect, they lose Altuvae, basically. And they're winning. They're just winning and winning. It's because they've accepted it. And I said, we're going to be the heel. No, I think it's the young guys who don't give a fuck.

Ray has been doing it. And he's the, him and McCullors have accepted the heel thing. I don't know, read it kind of the same way. and they're just doing it, man. And, like, that's a storyline that you want in baseball because don't you love it when you just absolutely hate a team and they're playing a team that you like? It's the best. Yeah, baseball's got a lot of fun storylines going on right now.

I mean, the other one... It's like a UFC fight. You want the guys to hate each other. So you want these teams. A lot of teams hate the Astros. Let them be good and then let's see an awesome playoff series with it. Yeah. I mean, skipping a little bit to the other storyline.

It's the Padres and the Rangers and sweeping them. And I mean, you, Woodward came out any, any, Woodward looks like a butthead every time he talks right now. Because he came out, Trev, and said like, just because I don't like it doesn't mean it's wrong. Well, you fucking told your player to throw at them for it. So just because you don't like it doesn't mean you get to tell your player to throw a pitch at them. Dude.

If you're going to sit here and say, just because I don't like it, doesn't mean it's wrong. It's just my personal opinion. Well, that's great. But when you act on that personal opinion and have your player throw at another player, you kind of just are talking in circles. He sounds like an idiot through this whole thing. I don't think you got to fire him. But I think I haven't seen a Rangers fan support Woodward and the Rangers side of that argument yet. There's really no way to decide.

No, a lot of Rangers fans are like, this sucks. Like, I don't want to be this team. look I'll blow them up a little bit I had to give you text to me we're talking about it we always have discussions about tough things to talk about and we were good at it we were diplomatic is that is that the right way you use that yeah friendly okay we talked about it and this really started my whole thing and when I went on Twitter I was like these unwritten rules are stupid I liked what Woodward said yeah I didn't like it you know but doesn't mean it's right but like you said then don't throw with the guy because your imaginary line got crossed And you got your feelings hurt. I want to eliminate that from baseball, Jim. I think that's my next, like, crusade is like, stop hitting dudes. Like, why do the hitters have to get hit all the time? Like, this is bullshit.

It could really, it could end a career. Of a star player, like a guy like this guy, you know, you know what it is. And broke his rib and it cost them a lot of freaking money, dude. Do you know what it is? The great comparison. Do you know the Stanford Prison Experiment? Have you heard about that? I've seen it on Netflix.

million times, never watched it. Oh, it's a real thing. I've never seen the movie. They took these young boys and they brought them into an controlled environment and randomly said, you're a guard, you're a prisoner, right? No merit, no reason for why they did this. And all of the, all of the guards just got in their head and they degraded the prisoners. And the prisoners like, dude, like, you're not actually a guard. It's a fake experiment. They're like, shut the fuck up and started beating them just because they were randomly given this power. Because pitchers have the ball in their hand, that means they write the rules. Because a batter can't throw us bad at a pitcher.

Yeah, there's nothing you can do but sit there and get hit by the ball. No, there's one thing you can do. You can charge the mound and get tackled by five freaking... But then your punishment's way worse than them throwing a ball at you. So it's just like this power that's given to pitchers because they have the ball and it's gotten way into their head. So it's stupid and I agree with you. It's a great point, Jim. The A's are, they split the series, but it's kind of fine with them.

Like, they don't need to win every series from here on out. They can just split four game sets and win three games sets, and they're looking pretty good. You're just starting pitching, Jim? Can the camera tell me you like their starting pitching? Uh, no, but their bats and their pen is good. And if Mania and fires are, like, giving them kikles, I, like, that's all they need. You know what I mean? like they're pretty good team.

But the Astros are breathing down their neck a little bit, so I'm hoping the Astros make that fun. I don't know. Quentin Huberner's in the chat. He's an Astros fan. Is this the pitching that the Astros are getting and the ways that they're going on this streak? Is it sustainable?

And I'm not a prodding question, like a legit question I want to hear, Quentin. You know, if Verlander and Granky and McCullors are doing this, obviously that's sustainable. But you have some young guys coming, up pitching. And I don't know if they expected this or it's kind of like,

ooh, this guy's giving us way more than we thought. So our guy Framber. Framber. Belak. Yeah. So I'm wondering, like, is it sustainable? Should we ask Redick's wife, what she thinks? She was not happy with their pitching staff.

And those guys have saved this team. Yeah, that's true. That's true. The Rangers get swept. So now they're 10 and 14. still in the hunt for that. You know what I need to, you know what else I need an audience member or listener or BPD?

What is the NL West record against the AL West? Hmm. Because how the hell does the NL West have three teams or four teams with 13 wins when they all play each other? Are they just dominating? the ALS anytime they see these guys? The Rocky's just lost, so that doesn't fit it. Do you have it, BD?

I don't know, man. BD says he can find it. How is the NOS have so many wins when they play each other nonstop? It's kind of weirding me out. There's a couple bad teams in the AOS, the Angels in Seattle of, you know, a 296 and a 308 winning percentage. So there's that, but, you know, the other three teams aren't too bad.

I don't know. I'm just trying to figure it out. That's interesting. Yeah. All right, Trout's getting balls thrown his head. I don't understand that. But we are running late. Let's pivot to the second half of the show. We're going to standout performances,

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Performances. Trev. You want to go first? Yeah. And Quentin says it's as sustainable as two young guys pitching lights out. If they can keep this until Verlander's back, I'm excited. um okay so i don't know if that doesn't sound like it's that sustainable quentin we'll see yeah let me get to my standout performance quentin thank you for your input mine uh this was

kind of an easy one for me i have some ties in the city of minneapolis and we saw kentimaida just go do it eight no no he looked nasty jim he threw this one pitch to um kestan hira it was like a slider that rose. And if you want to go check that highlight out, people, go check it out. It's the weirdest pitch I've ever seen. Kest in here, it looked like he didn't know what just happened. But he had the split working with them. He had 12 Ks through 8, and then Sogard comes up and bloops went in to ruin it.

But Maeda looked great. That's exactly what the twins needed. And if they want to be a legitimate World Series contender, Kent has got to step it up. Burrios has to step it up and both of them did it this week. Kento was lights out. I really was rooting for him to get that no-hitter. Everybody raves about him how good of a guy he is there.

And he kind of exemplifies that joy that you want to see you guys have when they play the game. He was very happy with his start. Obviously, made a great job. What do you think about the bloop? We talked about this on John Boy and Jake Radio as well the next day. I think two out of ten times that gets caught I think if he catches it we're saying that's the play

every no hitter has a play but I saw a lot of people saying it 100% should have been caught I don't know you know they were shifted and look if he started one step back yeah he would have caught it but that's the game of baseball man yeah and it's like a bloop it's hard to get like a perfect read on those bloops right it also was coming right at him

So when the ball, a line drive is coming right out. You like that. And that was, you know, a full swing, but he got jammed or hit it off the end. I'm not sure which one. But it's coming a lot slower. So it's just a difficult read for a guy and straight at you. It's tough because you can't break and pivot one way back. You have to just go straight.

It's tough to do that as an infielder. Yeah. Whatever. It's still a great start. Good job. But I like his little shimmy. It sucks. He goes from no hitter to no decision.

Oh, you did like that little shimmy, didn't you? it's fun oh man how many times does that happen dude like you know you get into that ninth inning it just seems like it's like i wanted i wanted to do a i wanted to do a breakdown but it's a lot of work uh maybe if i have a team to find it because i think the casual baseball fan doesn't know that if a guy has a no hitter or a perfect game going in like the eighth or ninth inning as soon as like he gives up that first one it unravels like i don't know the percentage. But like as a as a as a as a baseball fan we watch it like oh no take him out because like it's going to unravel now. I think the casual or or new baseball fan would be like why he's still fine. He's still having a really good game. But like baseball fans know like oh you got to get him out because

it's going to unravel. Well they did take him out and then it did unravel. I know. But it's it's it's very it's you know it's just a it's a weird mindset that we have because we've seen it that I think the average non baseball mind would be like wait what that's a thing. Like yeah it's a thing. It's like on the offensive side, it's like someone's been holding your head under water, and you find they get a little bit of air, and you can breathe again, and then boom, it kind of opens the floodgates up there. But that was a weird one. They tied it on an air, kind of a double play ball that they rushed, threw it away,

yellow scored. But they got the win. Yeah. My standout performance is a Cleveland Indians pitcher, not named Clevenger, not named Beber, not named Plesack, not named Plutko. Not named Cookie Carrasco. He's not named those things. It's not his name.

Those are the guys you think of. Sivaleigh. On the alternate site. Yeah. The Siv. Dude, they called up, the Indians called up a kid to make his debut over calling Cleven and Plesack back up.

It's real. Yeah, I mean, look, go on and we'll talk about that after. Talk about Sib. He deserves it. Yeah. Aaron Savali, the Siv, Siv the kid. He goes nine innings pitched, five hits, one earned run.

six k's he's not really like he's not pumping pump a cheese or anything up there but you know what I always like looking at when I see these trev and the audience probably knows I like looking at this how many one two three innings because you you know that just means you keeps you in the zone so he opened up one two three inning one two three inning then one two single so there's so we're two three the fourth he goes one two three the fifth another single uh six 6th, 1, 2, 3, 7th, 1, 2, 3, 8th, 1, 2, 3. So he got strong there towards the end. And then he gave up. What was the score of that game, Jim?

What's that? What was the score of that game? Do you have it? It was 6-0 going into the 9th inning, and then Josh Bell had a sack fly to make it 6 to 1. I mean, he was very, he was one out away from a complete game shutout. Yeah. Or 2 outs away from a complete game shutout. Five hits, yes.

Okay, you know, I was going to say, when you do work like that, to your point, you know, not only does it keep the defense ready and able to make better plays for you because you're working fast, getting guys out. But offensively, it's like, dude, we're just out there for, we're out in the field for two minutes and let's go back and hit again. Keeps you in that rhythm. Yeah. Fun, so fun. When your pitcher's dominating like that, you know you're going to win the game. I lost your audio a little bit.

But sound like you said fun games to be a part of? Those are fun games to be a part of. Am I back? You're back. Norm Schaver says the A's are 13 and 4 against. the NL West, only team with the winning record. Do you have the numbers? I slacked them to you, but now that I'm already talking,

NL West is 30 and 20 against the AL West as a whole, but they're 21 and 8 against the Mariners, Rangers, Angels. Okay, so Mariners, Rangers, Angels are giving the West all these wins because it didn't make any sense. Good job by me. All right. You want to talk about, no, we got to keep going with these. In Fuego.

You ready for some dirt nasty? We dropped dirt nasty right now. Here, where's it, where's it, where's it, where's it? I like dirt nasty. Dirt nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco. Okay. We got some guys here, Trev.

Yes. Randall Gritchick. That fuck Gritchick is what we call him because he just crushes the Yankees for some reason, like a jerk. He's a good player. It's a good player. The series against Baltimore. So, you know, they had the two games.

said against Philly. I wasn't counting that. The three games set against Baltimore, Gritchick had 11 RBIs and four home runs in the three games against Baltimore. Eish. Crazy on fire. Robbie Grossman. Jake put Robbie Grossman in here.

Oh, I put Robbie Grossman. All right. What's Robby? Let's talk about Robbie Grossman, though. That professional hitter, always giving you a good at bat. Nothing crazy standout about the guy. But this year, he is just getting it done. You know how I said Longoria called me a raise player?

Like you're a raised guy. Robbie Grossman is an A's guy. Gives you those good at bats. Right now, he's got a 452 on base percentage. He's slug in 615 for a 1.068 OPS, 197 OPS plus when you get a guy like this, who you're not counting on to give you huge offensive numbers, give you huge offensive numbers,

that's going to spark your record. And that's kind of what we've seen with the A's, the offense has been there. Robbie's been a huge part of it. I don't know, he hasn't been crazy hot the last three games. He's just been kind of keeping it going. But I wanted to give him a shout-up because he deserves it. He's been hot all season long.

452 on base percentage is no joke. Move on down, my boy Tim Anderson. We talked about him a little bit, but in these last four games, or I don't know if it's four games, whatever, however many games it's been since August 17th, nine for 18 four homers seven rb i's hitting 3 79 with a 1.172 he's for real and he's having fun with it he does that thing he hits the ball spins back towards the dugout and that's like become his signature pimp job yeah it's kind of cool to have like only he does it it was very frowned upon

the first time he did it because he threw the bat and all that now it's become accepted and you're saying oh that's that's that's t that's what he does yeah so he's been in Fuego and then another guy. Tim Anderson in his last five games has a 522 on base percentage. Hmm. Crazy.

Yeah, that's weird because I said he's 9 for 18 and I said he's hitting 379. So that is not... Oh, that's on the year. That's on the year. I'm sorry, 9 for 18 in his last games, but on the year he's hitting 379. I'm sorry. I think I F that up a little bit. All good.

Who else you got on here? Another one. A guy needed to give a shout out to because Brad Miller was laying up in a hotel room for a zillion days straight. Comes back, out of bed, goes seven for 15, two doubles, two homers, eight RBIs, hits 467, 619, 1.619 in those games. He's doing it. Doing the damn thing. Good.

Speaking of Brad's, throw Brad Keller on there. Every start, the series is good. Ryu, throw him on there. It's awesome. All right. Brad Miller's got a fun stance, too. he kind of like just stands there and he wears the high socks and the tight yeah funny guy too yeah go brad uh luke void he's in fire i mean he's said four or five home runs in the last four games or something

like that like absolutely insane he's on tour speaking of home runs let's go to the race to 20 brought to you by roosevelt's we laid down a bet that someone's going to break 20 home runs i think we're still on a great pace here the leaderboard has been so fun to watch guys jump up, jump down. So thanks to Roosevelt's for making this a thing with us. Go to Roosevelt's.com slash john boy. Get 20% off anything you want. Tons of fun shirts, hats, shoes, bathing suits, all that stuff. They're dropping some brand new sandlot stuff coming up. So watch that. Trev, the home run race, we had some people climb up. We've had a change. Judge is no longer there because he's been out. He drops down to Tide for fifth.

And we have three players with double-digit home runs. Fernando Tati's, Jr stays atop the leaderboard with 12. He climbed up with the Grand Slam. He stays there. Mike Trout, he's number two with 10. And Luke Voight, guy just mentioned, he hits, what do you, four in the last four games? Five in the last four games. So how he's got 10.

He's playing in the 90s with the Bash brothers. Like that's how he swings the bat. That's how he fills out a uni. He's fun to watch, man. His stats, like you asked us, it's like Luke Voigt for real. His stats since joining the Yankees are really, really good. And he's got this one stretch where he had like, what do you have abdominal strain?

Playing through a hernia. He's playing through a hernia. That's really bad. The numbers are really bad. If you take that out, if he was just to be like, hey, I'm hurt. I don't want to play. His numbers are like even crazier. Like, you hear a guy like Luke Void ever say that.

Like superstar level, like really good. So get to know him. Mookie Betts is up there with nine. Castiano stays with nine. Nelson Cruz, he climbs his way up. to nine. Judge stays at nine. He'll be coming back this weekend. Matt Olson's up there. There's a lot of guys. Brandon Lau, just sneaky MVP candidate.

How do you do the math on this? The only thing about this is Tatis keeps hitting home runs, but I think he keeps falling off pace. So he's got 12 in 27 games, which is... He's definitely on pace. I know, but he was on pace hit 25. And then the next update, he was on pace to hit 23. I mean, it sounds like he's on pace hit over 24. Because 60 games.

27 games already. He's got 12. I have 27. 27. Now he jumped up his pace then. Good job. He's going to do it. Someone will do it.

A lot of guys will do it. Now it's like, well, over under, we'll five guys do it. It's crazy. I was on record of saying, I don't think it's going to happen. But we did as a company decide that it was going to happen. So I'm happy that we did that.

Yeah. Now, Trev, we usually just go straight to slump, but we've put two guys in their own category here, and I think they might be both coming off. Joey Gallo watch, Manny Machado watch. Joey Gallo, he had a hit in each game this series against the Padres, which is good.

He had two homers and a double. I think he only had one hit each game, so one for four each night is a 250 batting average, which is what you expect from Joey Gallo. You just need those hits to be extra base hits. Two of them were homers. One of them was a double, and I'm guessing one was a single. So that's like Joey Gallo.

So I think we might stop this or maybe we do one more week of Joey Gallo. I love looking at his stat line. It's so, so awesome. It's new baseball. He's not hitting very well. And then he move over to the right. And you see the OVP. You're like, okay, he's okay.

Then he move over two sections to the right. See the OPS. Like, oh, he's got a 903 OPS. 145 OPS plus. It's, look, back in the day, a guy like this probably wouldn't have been appreciated. but with what we know now and how these homers change games and you know he had four it had four walks too so four hits four walks so he's on base twice each game good job and then we had machado on here because he was wavering between slump and then he was back

and he was slumping he has three multiple hit games in a row he hits the grand slam i think we're going to end machado watch i mean we'll have to get jake's final say but i think we're going to end it i still like watching joey jell well jake's out of this show he's fucking out of wallie pipps him. Yeah. All right. Moving on. Slump watch.

Some housekeeping. Altuve's been on here. I didn't update that. Kaltubei do anything? I think he did get a hit. Two for five game. It's still not very good, Jim. I think he could still be on Slump Watch.

Because he's not Altuvae yet, you know. Oh, he had back-to-back multiple hit games in a row. So I will leave him on there. It looks like he's climbing off. David Dahl. He feels pretty cool here now. David Dahl is still not playing. They're still not starting him,

so I'm just taking him off because we're not going to monitor a guy that's not a starter anymore. That's sad. Shout out, David. Shout out, friend of the program, rooting for him. Jack Peterson, two games, two for eight with a Homer. But in his last 10 games, he's still got a 0.8-3 batting average. So I'm leaving him on. It seems like we need one more week to see if he can climb out of this or stay in it.

Is he, baby, is he Joey Gallo Light? Is that how we see Jack, He's also a platoon. He's an interesting guy because they also like, they platoon him sometimes. I can't get a read on him either. Glass now's off. He shoved. Wilson Contreras is off.

He played in five games. He started four of the five games for the Cubs as a catcher. That's pretty cool. And then he came in to the one game he didn't start. So like, I was shocked to see he didn't get a full day of rest somewhere in those five games in three days. But he had a 471 on base percentage in the five game set. off. Havi Baez.

He went two for 16 with one walk. He's, he's still on. 222 on base percentage, 125 batting average. So I'm leaving Javier on. And then you took over here. Yeah,

Young Thick, Austin Riley. Didn't play much. He went two for six with three RBIs. He still has a 222 on base percentage. Let's leave him on. We like Young Thick,

but let's leave him on. Okay. Edwin-on-Karnassione, went three for 12, two homers. but again we're going to go with the on base percentage, 258. This is the thing that's concerning. Five walks, 22Ks.

Don't love that ratio. I say we leave him on. You think so? I mean, all of his hits came in one game and the two homers came in one game. So yeah, I think we'd leave him on.

Just watching. Just to watch a lot. I'm not expecting him to go crazy, but he's better than this. Yeah. And then we'll go to Annabelle Sanchez, five innings pitch, three earned rones,

and then only one strikeout. I know he's not a big strikeout guy anymore, but that's just not going to get it done. Still has an 8-5 ERA. He's on, buddy. Yeah, but he's getting close to Bad Watch. See, I don't know. We're doing bad.

I didn't know we have a bad watch. Like, he hasn't had a good outing all season and or four starts. So I think I'll give him one more. But I don't think he throws up another. Separation that he used to have with the fastball and the change-up, and that's the problem.

Burillo shoved He's off Off He shoved it up your butt Yeah he looked great He looked really good There was a couple of pitches that he threw That was like whoa

That's a crazy slider I added some people Todd Frazier Big fan of Todd Frazier New Jersey kid obviously I met him he's nice But tough series One for 15 with two walks

067 slugging You know the Rangers Had a bad series Todd get some more hits Yes I threw McGee Cabs on here Another old great He went two for 14

Two walks What's going on with you, Maggie? It's tough watching those guys At the end of their career man Yeah that's why you got out That's right I went out in a high note my 2017 season Holy shit what a high note

Yeah same with me That's just got out before I got bad Never started Matt Olson One for 13 Not good Matt Olson, come on. He'll be fine.

I know he'll be fine, but you got to, you know, Slump Watch is usually like, he's also like top four in home runs, right? Yeah, but at one point he had like, his last four hits were all homers, but he was garbage in the stretch. Yeah. There's something weird like that.

Yeah, you know, he's definitely on Slump Watch. That's not him. And then Jose Ramirez had an O for Series, O for 12, so you just got to watch him. Yes. O for series. They suck. They suck.

Yes. They suck. Who got mad? We have an Earl Weaver sound bite for this. You are lying. You are a lie. You are a liar. You are a lie.

No, you are. Everyone got mad. Everybody did. Treb got mad. People got mad at Tatis. We got mad at those people. Philly's fans got mad. Yankees fans.

Yeah, some Yankees fans probably got mad. I got sad. I got sad. I got sad. Let me give the stat on the Phillies because the Phillies fans got mad because they split with the Red Sox, who they should sweep.

Then they went and got swept by the Blue Jays and a two-game double-heder, or obviously a two-game double-heder. Nice use of words there, Trev. But this is a stat in the second game. Or no, excuse me, both games combined in the double-heder against the Blue Jays.

They used seven relievers. They threw a total of 95 pitches and got only five swears. wing and misses, and there were three by Nairus who was at the end of the game. That's not what you want there. 95 pitches and only five were swung and

miss at. That is a recipe for disaster and a sweep and a double header. Not good. Billings fans are not happy. No. I don't think there's a fan base in the NL East that's happy. And the Braves, you know, are winning, but they're still

I wouldn't say they're unhappy, but they're very weary. Not weird A top prospect, right? Are they, who? Key Boom, he's been up. No, somebody else. He called up because Marqued just got hurt.

Who is it? Christian Pache. Yeah, Pachet. I'll just say Colin, but that's a pitcher for the brewers. Call him Pachet. Well, all right. That's who got mad. That used to be a big segment, but it's kind of hard.

And we're deep into the show. Let's move on to a, Award I'm giving out, Trev, is the Hung Award. Hung. Jake's favorite TV show. He used to say his dream was to be an old man who had one DVD box set, and it was just the TV show Hung that came on before Entourage on HBO. That's a guy with a huge dick.

That was a real show? Yeah, Thomas Jane. I think I remember that now. That's a fun show to be a part of. Like, everyone just thinks you have a huge cop, because that's who you play on TV. Yeah, yeah. Don Draper.

What's his name? Don Draper. What's the name? John Ham should have played it. He's got a huge dick. No, have you seen it? You never seen it. I have.

I know what you're talking about. And I feel like it's kind of like overstated a little much. Like it's not. Come on. That's crazy. We're a white guy. It's like the size of my wrist. Hung, the Hung Award.

Thomas Jane played the TV show Hung was based off a guy named Jonah Falcon, who's got the world's biggest penis. Jonah Falcon used to host a radio show called Talking Yanks. How about that? It was a real, based off a real person, that's awesome. Kind of. I think like, you know, if you make... Big old cock. Yeah, yeah, yeah, hung.

The Hung Award goes to Jose Alvarez. He got hit right in the nuts, 105 mile per hour line drive right to where the good things hang. And he hung in there, Trev, and made the play. Got the out at first base. You know, it goes dick to hand to first base. Yeah, do you think his big old dick saved his balls? Maybe the test results came back.

The test results came back negative. He said it was pretty bad. Obviously, it hit me in my private parts and it's a pain that's hard to describe. But thank God I'm feeling much better. Everyone was good in the hospital. Nothing bad. I mean, yeah, it could have been like really bad. You ever get hit in the nuts?

Do you wear a cup at third base? I wear a cup no matter what. I just feel comfortable with it. Even the outfield, typically outfielders don't wear cups. But whenever I put a baseball uniform on, it's like I got to have a cup on. Yeah,

Beltray, Jake didn't wear a cup growing up because his league never made him. But like I always did, they did cup checks, like knock and all that stuff. Beltrade took that shot to third and like ruptured his nut

because he didn't wear a cup at third base. How could you not wear a cup at third base? Because he's so damn good. His hands are his cup. That's true. It's true.

Well, good job by Jose Alvarez. hanging in there. What's your award? Mine is the not-so fairy tale award. Because Prince Charming isn't coming. He was just fine hanging out with your stepsister, Cinderella. You can go back to your pumpkin. Goliath dodged your dumb rock and came over and bashed you in the head with his giant hammer fist, David.

These are not fairy tale endings like we thought. In this, I have to give credit to Bob Nightingale. He put a great tweet out, and I stole it from him. The feel-good stories of the Marlins, the tigers, the Orioles, and even Jake's Rocks, who are defying our imagination just a week ago, have now lost 23 games combined in a row. We've been talking about the fall from grace of these teams. It came out hot. It happens every single year.

People get excited. And then, boom, it comes crashing down. That's what we're seeing with these teams. Rockies are on the fringe there, but the Marlins, the tigers, and the Orioles. You are who we thought you were. That's my award. I kind of stumbled into this take before the season started, if you remember, where I kept saying, I don't think we're going to get a darling.

I think the cream's going to rise to the top. Because what we did was we looked at the Mariners last year when they started hot. Yes. And then we looked how quickly they were bad last season. And before the season, I was saying this. and it's kind of coming true. Like, do we have a darling left? Hmm.

And don't confuse a darling left with a bad team's going to get the eight seed. Like the American League eight seed is going to be a bad team. Yeah, no one's, no one stepped up. Like the Marlins were like doing it for a little bit. They've lost five in a row. The Blue Jays are the only team. At this point in time, the Blue Jays are the only team. where, yeah, maybe the Baby Jays can have some fun.

Other than that, man, the Padres, too. Everyone thought the Padres are going to be around 500. Right now, the Padres are, they truly are like America's Darling. So I think the Padres is the last one last. And they seem like the real deal. Padres in Toronto, though, I mean... But the Padres have talent. The number is just cute, though, because they just swept.

So, like, the Blue Jays that won five in a row. The Padres won four in a row. And right now they're sitting pretty. But I guess you can... I'm not going to consider the Padres a Cinderella team because they do have the talent. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. A Cinderella was truly like

Orioles, Marlins, pirates, giants. He's Charming said, look, your stepsisters, I'm okay with them. I don't need to chase you around looking for you and your glass slipper. I don't care about that. I'm on the prince. Like, I don't need to chase anything.

Yeah, I'm out of here. All right, the last thing we do, Trev, we'll be quick this time because it's a longer show. How long are we? Almost to 120. 120. All right. Really quick, Trev, the last segment we do is elevator talk.

If you get into an elevator with a guy wearing the hat of this team, here are some quick talking points. The Detroit Tigers. There you go, man. I mean, Detroit Tigers, it's debutable, that Casey Mize comes up, skewable comes up. They called up the third kid who's like even younger. I forget who they, they, it was Mize. scubel and another kid

got called up I'm blanking on it but yeah you talk about the young kids do you think it is oh you know I'm just excited that we got a future

Mickey Cabs is his time done Boyd it's all about the future now make some trades while you guys got guys with value so you don't foamer

and boyge yourself again have they gotten rid of those horrible pants with like 70 belt loops I don't know I don't know that would be a step the right direction if they want to go to the future, get rid of those.

I do, you know, and we talked about this and I said it last step, but maybe if you didn't hear it, they have guys that they should be shopping. I'm not sure if they're going to find a match to trade them. I'm not sure like how all that's going to go, but they signed all these one-year contracts, all these pillow contracts to get them to cushion the gap until Mises up, until Turnbull's up. They even got that outfielders making diving plays in spring camp. He's super young.

Like, you know, they got guys that they signed that aren't the future of this team. I've been saying this a lot. But if you're in the elevator, just prod away, you know, do you think, do you think that they're going to try and trade scope? Do you think they're going to try and trade mine? Does maybe even have trade pieces, you know? Romine is, man. People are always, and you're not going to get much for them, but you're going to get zero

for keeping them on your team the rest of the way. Do they have someone really fast, they can trade? because I think that's going to be such a weapon. Mabin's a good clubhouse defense guy. He's older now, but he changed the whole vibe of the Yankees last year. So if you want clubhouse, that guy, Jordan Zimmerman's a free agent. Yeah, guys. Hmm.

Hmm. No one's paying up for Zim. I love his Zim, but. No one's paying for any of these guys. It's about getting like anything. I don't know if you get anything for. Well, what if you get international signing bonus money? That's better than nothing.

Like $15. Just like, here you go. Some teams value that. Some teams don't. International science. No, they do. You're right. You're right.

Tigers, man. It's weird. We're trying to be a Tigers fan. It's been a weird time to be a Tigers fan. Who do they got coming up? That's always a good conversation. Ever since they got rid of Verlander, I think that's kind of been. After that run, when they had that team, didn't win the World Series, didn't really

win anything. They got to the World Series one year. It's been, it's been tough for the Tigers. They have such a fucking rough. Stretch coming up. Holy smokes. The rest of their season basically blows. Holy shit, dude.

I think I mentioned that on one of our... Three against Cleveland. Three against Chicago Cubs. Four against Minnesota. Then you got two against Milwaukee. Maybe that's a breather. Maybe not. Then four against Minnesota.

Then Milwaukee. Holy smokes. Stuff. You know what's tough about Detroit, too? It's a tough ballpark to play. It's freezing. It's huge. It's a weird place, man.

It's in the middle of nowhere. I haven't been there since going to it. Yeah. All right. That's the show. Thank you guys very much for tuning in. We will be back on Monday with another series recap. So enjoy the weekend.

The baseball this weekend. We'll be back to let you know what happened and what you missed because it's impossible to watch all the games. Absolutely impossible. Thank you very much. This doesn't sound correct. We're going to rock with it. Jake sucks.