Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 204 | Astros are Lucky, Oakland’s Conspiracy, and Corbin Burnes

Episode Date: September 11, 2020

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Welcome back to talking baseball. It's Friday and we had a full week of games, so many games, so many scores, and then the results as well. And we're going to discuss all of it. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to talking baseball. My name is Jimmy. See next to me is Jake. Behind the dish we have producer BBD.

It is the Friday recap episode. We're coming to you live from the Roosevelt Studios in the Bronx. That's RSVLTS. Jake is donning a shirt today. day. Thank you to all of our newest patrons from Patreon. We got Pete Gallo, Aria, Jimmy Foti, Eric Carey, Matt Castro, Andrew Leptak, Leptak, Leptac, Chris Wagner, Jonathan Davis, Brady Weller, Keith Herring, and Matt Piscatella. Isn't that a character in Orange is a New Black? BBD, you're my Orange's a new block expert.

Is that a character in there? Yep. Yep. This could tell a lot of baseball names in there today. That's a good start to a show, baby. That is. Jake, how are you doing? I'm good, James, I'm good.

The sports world is straight up on fire. Unreal that football's back. Patrick Mahomes, with the most touchdown passes by an MLB-old. Always talking baseball. No, Jim, you didn't let me finish. The most touchdown passes by an MLB owner ever. So that's baseball. Unbelievable that football is going on.

Baseball still so hot in the damn streets. And yeah, man, crazy. This week was tough to keep up on. I don't know if we just got sucked into so much Yankee crap this week or what's been going on. BPD said it the best this morning. Every day felt like a day behind. But we're here on Friday.

I don't know what happened. I didn't take, like usually Thursday night. Dude, I think. I take all my notes and I get ready for this show. I woke up today. I was show and I screamed. I said, oh, shit. Yeah.

Katie said, what's wrong? I said, I forgot we have to do the thing today. I almost texted you last night because I had the same thing happen. And I know you like to get it all the night before as much as you can the night before. But then I fell asleep on the couch. So, yeah, I think we just got sucked into Yankeesland like the biggest we have this week because they, they hit rock bottom. So everyone was enjoying that. But yeah, man.

You know what it was? As soon as the Yankees got rained out last night, I said, oh, okay, I'm turning my brain off. Yeah. That's exactly what happened. That's true. We put on Cobra Kai. I had the football game on my laptop,

and I just, like, got high and sat there for like four hours. Yeah. So that's what happened. Well, yeah. A lot of baseball to be played. I think we got to start going through it. I think we're going to keep the recaps a little tighter. We've been getting a little too horned up doing the recaps

because it's baseball's fun. I was going to do a little production note for the people listening. These recap episodes have gotten too long. We got from touching on highlights of the series to doing a full... Every game recap, basically. Too far. When we do the music plays, tighten it up. Don't expect both starting pitchers who scored the runs, how the game...

Tighten that shit up. We just got too much going. Just too excited. I'll show them what I'm talking about. You ready? Show me. Here's what happened in. In the eastern region.

You ready? Yes. The Red Sox and the Phillies squared off for a two-game set. It was a double-header, Jake, so two seven-in-in-games. Phillies win game won on a walk-off down in the last inning, walk-single, and then a walk-off single from bomb. Okay. Home.

In the second game of the double-header, the Red Sox win. Tied at two in the seventh. The Phillies go to their new toys. I thought this was of note. Phelps, quick two-run shot. Jojo Romero. They just called him up. She's actually been pretty good.

And then Heath Hempry, old Red Sox. stinks. He let his old team win. So Boston wins game two. The Rays and the Nats squared off for a two-game set. And the Nats won both games. Not good for the race. Shurzer goes seven-in-stonged.

Yarbrough can't get out of the third in game two. The Nats won both games. They scored 11 runs. They did not hit a home run in either game. Mike Rizzo got ejected. Oh, no, that wasn't the series. It wasn't the series. Yankees and the Blue Jays, they've faced off for three games.

Toronto won games one. And two, the Yankees got to Rieu, but the Jays had a 10-run inning in game one. Not good. Jonathan Davis, two-run home-running game two. And in game three, young Davy Garcia pitches well for the Yanks. Roark! And Stripling didn't pitch well for Toronto. Yanks don't get swept.

They just get embarrassed. Miami in Atlanta. Miami wins game one, 8 to 4 in the 10th. In the inning. Birdie bunts them over. Then the single by Migi Rojas gets them to lead. Extra innings is so boring now. I'm actually getting more and more anti-runner on second as it gets more and more boring. Love it.

These walk-off wins. In game two, Six-O shoved. Kyle Wright didn't. Kyle Wright had pitched four innings, Jake. And three of them, he gave up a run before recording it out. That's bad. Six-O is really good. So Miami wins the series, but Atlanta puts.

puts up a 29 spot in game three, and they're excited about that. They lost the series, and in game three, Tommy Malone allowed nine earned runs. So you can hang your hat on 29 runs, but there's a lot more to be upset about than happy about in this three-game set. If you're a bravest fan, IMO. Baltimore and the Mets, they had a two-game set. Means finally had a good start for Baltimore. DJ Stewart, talk about him later. He had a home run in both games.

Mets come back from being down six-three. They win game two to not. get swept in the two-game set of Lonzo with a big home run. And that's the East Coast. Now, I think I still even gave too much info. Yeah, it was still a lot, but it was good. It was beautiful. It was hot.

It was hot. It was hot. We'll see in the Central. Man, there's a couple big storylines in the East. So let's start with them. Let's do our Yanks first. Yanks, that Monday night Toronto game, you know, Yanks said basically our season starts now.

They have a 10 run blowup inning by the bullpen. and the longest inning of baseball I've watched in a long time. Could not tell you. And then Cashman gives the speech. They lose that game. But they start playing some baseball, Davey Garcia with a nice start. I'm riding hot on the Yankees because that's all I've got sometimes, folks. And those dark nights looking at the mirror wondering, why are we here?

What's it about? You standing in the mirror? No, I'm sitting on the sink. hoping it breaks for my body weight. So I can see my fat rolls build up. Cross-legged. Yes, Indian salt. On top of the stank.

Well, no, no. Oh, 2020. Yeah, geez. Sorry. Wow. Oh, my God. Anyway, the Rays are still in first place in the AL. The Braves are still in first place in the NL.

Phillies are three games out of second place. Blue Jays are three and a half. I think the Rays have first place locked up, although they did lose two to the Nats. And we're not talking about it, but they lost yesterday. So the race are on a three-game loser. Great. Good news. The Yankees still are the eighth seed.

Baltimore is coming for them, and there's a four-game set between the Yankees and Baltimore. So if Baltimore wants to get funny, they can jump the Yankees in the standing this coming weekend, which would be interesting. There's a double-hatter now, and I think that changes things because I don't, I think majority of double-headers this season have been split.

I want to do the full math on it. I mean, that's a safe bet, yeah. But I did half math. Half math. I think the odds of taking two are hard. Which, well, you know, you know, but like. Right. Even, even.

Same odds of losing two. Yes. Heavy. You can almost, I think, I would say it's 80% split. Okay. I'd be interested to get the real numbers. I don't know. Me too.

Someone doing for us. Someone get on that. Yeah. See if there's an article written. Someone might have already been tracking. Yeah, the baby Jays got pretty hot in the early part of this week. That was cool to see. I mean, their record right now they're 24 and 19.

That's pretty good. I mean, baby Jays. They were one of the teams coming in the season. Would it kind of click and it has for them? Good for them in the NL side. Braves fans, you know, a lot of love, hey, we're hating the manager. We win the blowout. We want more love for the blowout.

It's tough to keep up with you, Braves fans. You're still good in your last 20s. 12, but you're in a little bit of a rough patch. Well, they're in their own heads. Yeah. They want love, but they hate themselves, but they don't want you to hate them. Our division stinks, but love us, our pitching stinks. Anyone that's coming new or just doesn't know us or me.

Sure. Because we've said this on a lot of shows. I think our regular shows. As soon as you score 12 runs, I don't care about 13 through whatever. I've said that for seasons. Like when, like, Twitter's going crazy. Oh, who cares? You've already put up 13.

And especially when your pitcher and your team gives up nine, now you don't have much, you know. Which that was Tommy. My general rule, I think, is a 10-run gap. So if it's 5, 15. Sure. Get yourself a 10-run gap. I agree with that.

That's what I- So that was Tommy Malone trying to be nice and make it seem like the Braves game was closer. But, yeah. I didn't realize they lost a series. I was getting yelled at on Waking J. Oh, the Braves put up. and you don't really care and it's like, no, because, I mean, you lost the series. The 20 of those runs don't really matter.

And that's the thing. Yes, it's cool. You set the franchise record. That's awesome. I mean, that's there forever. I do like that. As a Braves fan, you should care a little more than the rest of baseball. But, you know, would it be a lot cooler to see Adam Duvall had a 9 RBI game

and a game the Braves won 12 to 8? Yeah. Adam Duvall carried the team that day Like people are going to look back and be like it was 20 It's very cool I just didn't realize they lost a series Like Miami's still walking away from that three-game set With their heads a little higher

Yeah I was getting ready to make some Nats hot takes After they beat the Rays But they lost game one to the Braves last night We're not talking about that I was hoping they could get crazy hot And spoil some things Marlins and Phillies are playing seven this weekend Jim Yeah, yeah

Yeah, the first seven game set since like 1990. And right now they're a half game apart, so decide your season. It's also hilarious. Hilarious is very wrongly used. It's interesting. You know, you, like I heard you on Wake and Jake say it's a playoff series. Well, no, because one team can win seven of the games. Right.

Oh. Like, imagine if you've lost six in a row and you have to show up for that seventh game against the same fucking team again. Yeah. They might have some gentleman's rules of engagement in place, just so that doesn't happen. Like, hey, if this starts getting ugly, like game four, you know, both ways. First seven game series since 1967.

Oh, that was good. Mad Dogg said on an MLB last night. Yeah, Matt Dogg watched it. Yeah. He was there for all seven games. So working on a double-header thing. He might have watched it. No, not on TV, but he was alive for sure.

Yeah, big time. He gave his top five pictures ever yesterday. It's a good list. Top five pictures of his lifetime. Of his lifetime. When's that start for him? Like... When was Mad Dog born?

He said he missed Kofax. But he was born... 60. He was born in 59. Is he counting five-year-old MAD dog? Because I called... He was born in 59.

I think he was saying, like, since he was paying attention. It was all right. He had Pedro and Randy Johnson, two, three, which I like, they're really good. It would have liked to see a couple... Okay, Kofax, 1966.

So he's not. counting seven-year-old. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Seaver one. Rip. But yeah, enough mad dog. Anything else in the east? Okay. Someone did the math for us and the patient. Just did the math. 50% of doubleheader split, 50% taken by one team. That's way different than I thought. So, yeah, the article I found was historically it's 50-50 or split. Oh, but what about this season? I don't know about this season. This was in 2017, and so far through that season,

it was like three of 20 were sweeps. Because I think with the seven innings, teams are much more like, let's just grab one and use all our guys. I'm trying to find it. Oh, I see the numbers. 2020 says 50-50. So crazy. So, yeah.

Mets, I'm off the Mets train. They were fun for a couple days. They lost me. You were big on the Mets train last time I sat. Last week, they got Todd. They started going. Alonzo had the big game winner. But like the Marlins deserve more respect, man.

They had a really cool game yesterday. And the Brewers are past the Mets and the Rockies. You know, so the Mets have three teams they would need to jump to get that eight. They were hot in the streets for three days over them. Over it. Do you believe the Phillies can jump the Braves? No. No.

Three games back? I would take the Marlins over the Phillies. Okay. They got a little magic right now. Fish with arms. Fish with arms. Starling Martee doing stuff for them. What's the, let me...

Philly's bullpen still stinks. Yeah, it's pretty stinky. It's pretty funny that all the guys they got are the ones doing bad. Like the rookie call-up, Jojo. Jojo. He did good. Phelps came in in a tie game, walk home run. Yeah.

Okay. So the Phillies in Miami, because they're playing the seven-game set, so you have Miami winning the seven-game set then? I think so. I have a little bit of a cheat because they took game one, even though we're not talking about that right now. And, dude, it was comeback against the Penn, Starling Marte with the big hit.

Like, it was, yeah, is the formula. Philly schedule is kind of tough. After this seven-game set, which might be a slog, they don't, they go Mets. I'll give them two there. Home versus the Mets. I'll give them two. Yeah.

Easy. Then they go four against Toronto. Toronto's fighting. Yeah. Then they go four against the Nats and then three against the race. Half. It's half and half. Yeah, but that's like a lot.

I think we're going to stumble into tougher schedules than this. But I'm looking at that schedule and I'm thinking 500 is probably the best, like around 500. I mean, do those raise games matter for the raise? Probably not. They're probably just getting everyone right. So they're probably going to use their like good relief. no matter what, some games. starters probably don't go full pitch counts and stuff.

All right, all right. Jake hates the Phillies. I just think you're going to see tougher schedules coming up for some of the teams we're going to talk about. So you think Phillies and Marlins are both going to be in the playoffs. So one of them will get the wild card. I think the NL East is providing three teams. I think there's a good chance. I don't know, man. The NL is such a mess.

I don't have my mind wrapped around it. I really don't. Do you think the Yankees are getting the eight spot? Do you think the ALEC is providing? Yanks are coming back. They're going to jump the Jays. Okay. Wow.

Yeah. Heard it here first. Yeah. Sorry, Jays fans. Sorry Jays fans. Yanks have still been good at the stadium. I don't have the same confidence Jays. I hope that they handle the Orioles.

Host and Bmore for four, and then they're hosting the Blue Jays, and then they play the Red Sox. So I think they're going to... I think they're going to do well in both these series. They're going to feel good about themselves and play Boston for three, and there will be someone's Boston going to spoil them?

And then it's like, oh, no, they're so bad. They don't want to spoil. I do not have your confidence. They want to lose. And your confidence is scaring me. Good. Let's go to the Central. I like that.

Give me the Central, babe. Minnesota and St. Louis had a two-game set. I think this was double-headers as well. Minnesota wins game one. St. Louis wins game two. Josh Donaldson hits a big three-run, home run early in game one. Sineau hits a two-run shot to seal the deal late. Dobnack with a rough outing, Jake.

His third inning was weird. Two walks, two hit by pitch, two singles. So he didn't get, like, knocked up? Like, he didn't get pregnant? Didn't get... I just made a ploof, ooh noise when you said Donaldson. Ooh. Twins rookie Brent Rooker.

How about that name? He hits his first big league knock. Congrats to him. That's good. Kansas City took three out of four. from Cleveland. What the hell? Plesaq was good, though.

You hear more about him. Keller was bad. Cookie Carasco was good. The bullpen for Cleveland was bad. And Singer for Kansas City, really good start. Savali plus the pen bad for Cleveland. Michael Francoe.

Hear about him later as well. But how about Cleveland losing three out of four to Kansas City? Love it. Can't do that. Love it. Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh played. Pitt had a walk-off in game one.

second walkoff in a row for them. Two single. This walkoff was weird. Two singles in the ninth inning. So the White Sox intentionally walked the next guy to load the base to put the force everywhere. They get a chopper right back to the pitcher. He underhand tosses it to the catcher. Catcher just doesn't catch it.

Is it Grandal? I think it was Grandal, not McCann. It just didn't catch it. It's like the second walkoff Pittsburgh has where they're like, yeah. Okay. Hustling. Thanks. Hustling.

Chicago White Sox did win game two. Dane Dunning with another great. Great start, and McCann hit two home runs. St. Louis also had a double-heder versus the Detroit Tigers yesterday on Thursday. They split that. So this is where I was getting my splits from. Right. Every double header on my board got split this week.

His board got split. Scoobel was bad. Two innings pitch, six-turn runs, five home runs for the Cardinals in game one. Should have saved them. Because five runs seventh in game two. Wins it for the Tigers. They were down. They scored five runs.

And the last inning, the Lagos blew it. What else happened in the Central, Jake? Jim, the Central was a little messy this week because of some COVID stuff. So we had another Detroit series, Detroit Milwaukee. I believe this was not the doubleheader. Excuse me. 8-3 Tigers game one, Turnbull. Impressive outing.

He's having a nice little year. Add him to the Tigers 2021. This game was 8-0 at a certain point. Candelario and Castro, the Seas, had big days for the Tigers. And then the Brewers come back. Corbyn Burns drops some serious dick. Seven innings pitch, 11K, zero, and runs. And then Braun, Arias, Arcia, Taylor, all had three plus hits. Brewers put up a 19 burger.

So there's that. Cincinnati at Chicago, John, your Cubs versus your Reds. Cubs, the M's and the Bs, Jim. I know you always love these. It was Mills versus Molly. Alec Mills out pitches, Molly. They both pitched pretty well. But Bodie and Baez both had RBI

And that's the difference. Three-nothing. Second game is also three-nothing. Marquis matchup, Bauer, Darvish. Darvish gives up a three-run yacker to Moose Tacos in the first, and that was it. Bauer was great. Three-nothing. And then the final game, eight-five.

Cubs, Sonny Gravers, Al-Zalay. They were both pretty bad. Hap and Horner. H's. Five RBIs combined. Wilson Contreras, four hits. Cubs win the series, and since he doesn't, and that's obvious. And that's the second.

Wait, hold up. Yeah. The Reds didn't win that series? They did not win the series. I thought shoving up the ass and all the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just interesting to me. Sike!

L-O-L. Reds don't win anything. Dude, can we, like, have the Pirates won more series than the Reds? We'd have to get into the numbers on that. I can do that. I don't know if either team does. deserves to be talked about that much. That's the problem.

But I just, is it as rare as it sounds that the Reds haven't won more than two series this season? Again, it's one of those around the league's thing. I would assume that they're up there on not a lot of Series 1. Send BBD on it. Pirates are really bad. Pirates are really bad.

Okay, the Pirates won 1. I've got 1. Okay. Two. I've got 2 already. A third gets them there. Yeah. Yeah. It's okay. Two as well. Reds have stunk. I mean, again, we're talking about them because they don't deserve to be talked about.

So out. Let's talk about the- They're worse than the Mets. The playoff picture for the Central is the White Sox are in first place. Yeah. The twins jump up to second because Cleveland lost three or four to the Royals. Yeah. And in the Central for the National League, the Cubs are still in first place.

Cardinals are in second place, but the Cardinals are one game over 500. their three back. Neither team is, no, the AL is producing a wild card. And that's kind of cemented. Yes. That's bona fide. Yeah. So right now the Indians are the eight seats.

And they'll be. Or the seven seed. I'd say it's, I'd say it's 90%. They're going to be providing the four seat as well. The first second seat in the AO. Yeah. Unless Toronto or the Yanks went nuts, which doesn't seem likely. Yeah.

And that's where it sucks. because the seven seed, if it comes from the central, is going to get screwed. Because they're going to have... Or the two seed gets screwed. Yeah, or the two seed gets screwed. Yeah. Because they have to, yeah. But, you know, it's not.

Which would be funny if that's another central team. So it all may be for not. Right now it's the Rays. Right now it would be Rays Indians 2-7. Oakland took over the number one spot. It would be Oakland to Yankees 1-8, White Sox, Astros, twins, blue Jays. Battle of the baby blues, twins blue jays

It's going to be funny to see that sort out Yeah, that's what I haven't looked at like Jim Your twins Yankees Matchup is becoming kind of real How would you have it? I mean if the Twinkies were to pass the Blue Jays It could be the 4-5 Or if the twins take back the Central

I guess they'd have to get first place And the Yankees would have to stay in 8 But it's very much in the realm And I think Not cocky Yankee fan I think if you're a twin fan, you'd have to be like, come on. How did that happen? But you've got to beat the bad guys at some point.

And if there's a year to do it, it'd probably be this year. Probably that year. This is what I want to look at. Out of all the one-play seeds, Tampa's got a 636 winning percentage. White So, White Sox have a 628 and 643. So it's pretty close. It's tight. It's tight.

It's tight. It's tight. It's tight. He's tight. Cubs have that locked up, you think? Or no? I wanted to come off of it. Here's my thing.

And again, MLB teams aren't wired this way, but I think in this season you kind of can be. I think the Cardinals are playing so many games that 500 days are fine for them. Like, they're not, they know that the Brewers and the Reds aren't going to both catch them. Like, no way.

Like, maybe one of those teams figures it out, you'd lean Brewers. But if you're the Cardinals, you just stay at 500 and you're dancing this year. And you're playing so many games. Let's see if it shows up. One, two, three. Looks like they have three double-heder days left. They're all, they don't have any of the last week of the season.

I mean, they're hosting your Reds this weekend, so we'll see if anything happens there. Well, that's a win. Okay, so that's two wins, minimum for them. We'll see what happens this weekend. And then they play five with the Brewers. So that's when things get really exciting. And then they have five with the brewers to end the season. So they have 10 against the brewers.

Okay. So, yeah, let's start talking brewers and cards more. And you're actually, I didn't even know this, but like a pig falling in shit. I'm ready to talk some brewers today. Wow. I'm in on the crew, everybody. The Cubs and the Cardinals don't play each other anymore. Yeah, I think the Cubs with the Cards craziness.

and just getting out to that hot start is going to be the difference for them. I think they win the Central. Things would really have to fall apart. And you know what? With the way Darvish and Hendricks are pitching, I don't think things can really fall that far apart. Sorry.

Mute my phone. No way. Random-ass number. So, never mind. Okay. That's just going to be me. I went to the Reds schedule just to see who they're granting wins too.

Sure. White Sox get two minimum. Probably. And the twins get two, so that'll help the rest of the season. Yeah, and then in the Yale, White Sox are on top for now. They're playing three against Detroit at home, so you'd like to get those before the twin series. Detroit, 20 and 23, they're still battling, but, I don't know,

three and seven in their last 10. this weekend might be the knockout punch for the Tigers. Who are they playing? The White Sox. And then the rest of their schedule is hard, right? White Sox. Two with the Royals. Cleveland Twins, Royals.

Yeah. Cleveland twins. Those four against the world. I mean, I don't have the whites. I don't have the Tigers. But that's very Yankee bias. I just don't want to have to be scared by them. Yeah.

I am, hey, they continue to fight. Good for them, but I could, I don't know, the White Sox at home this weekend, fighting off the twins and the Indians, they're probably looking to get three. Can I tell you something? Yeah, always. I'm getting excited about like these scary last week of games. Yeah, here we go. Fall weather coming in.

Why are they going to release the damn schedule for the playoffs? I mean, they've got, I mean, they need to announce the bubble, which they haven't fully. Yeah, we're like. I mean, I think either way, the three wild card game shouldn't change. I think that's going to be the 29th, 30th. But there are three game sets now, not just one game. Right. 29th, 30th, 31st, 30 days half September, so October 1st.

Does the one seed get all the games? Yes. Okay, so. And they said it's... The first four get all home. I don't, I want to know the times. The actual start times of the games. Yes.

I don't have that. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying. But we're very late. We're getting 16 days. We're getting tight. We're getting tight. Two weeks out. Yeah. Drop.

I think it matters like what teams are playing. You know what I'm saying? Like if the Yankees have to play Oakland. Yeah, okay, sorry. I would just want game one is at this time. I want to set our schedule. We want ours. I want to be able to know what I'm doing.

We want our schedule. Yes. What games, what is our record? When and where? Yes. I'd like to know when we have to have games on and know what's happening. Yes, I'd like to know my schedule. It affects us very personally.

Truly, my neighbor. Oh, my God. Jake, what's going on in the West? Am I talking about the Burial Area? Yes, I am. Good, good. Jimmy. Oh, good.

In the West Coast, Houston at Oakland. Walk in straight from Oakland. Hold in my dick like the U.S. Open. Trophy. Six-0-0-A's in game one. We're up to Heifie. Chris Bassett. Still doing it.

Seven innings pitch, zero earn runs. your normal guys, Kemp Murphy, Luriano Piscotti, all with Ribby's in that one, 6-0-0-A's. Then we play to Jimmy's theory. They split them. A's win game one. Houston takes a second. Montes out-duals Grinky. Chris Davis with an opposite field homer and a double in this game.

Can he get going? He's been missing for a little while. Houston takes the final one. Olson homered early. Houston was down 4-1. They come back. Ugly walks. Two RBI walks, a Gurriel game-winning sack.

The Jake Storelli. And then Oakland takes the final two, three, two, three, one. Springer Guriel went solo in the first one, but a Tommy Lestella, two RBI double that Kyle Tucker went punt team on, kicked it into the bullpen. And then Luriano, Lasers show with the walkoff teaser. 3-1A's in the final, Mania shoves, Matt Olson, Homer. Colorado went to San Diego, and, oh, no, they get the broomsticks brought out on them. Fun game, game one, one nothing. Freeland Lament, you won't see two more opposite pitchers.

Lefty and righty, Jim. Padres walk it off, pro far double, and your guy, Jorge Mateo, with some fun base running. Hold that helmet, kid. Next game is 14 to 5. Cleve Day. Aronado makes it 3-0 in the first, but yikes. Slam Diego, Will Myers gets another granny, and he hits another home a later.

I mean, they put up a 14-stop. Holy smokes. and then they take the final five three. Zach Davies, five straight wins. Seven and two on the year. He out duels San Zatella, Mitch Morland with a Homer and Austin Nola with the insurance RBI. Couple trade pieces.

Tags Brian Cashman. Seattle, San Francisco, they play too, and San Francisco treat. They take both of them. Kind of ruin Seattle, but San Francisco keeps winning. Five-one. They were down in game one. Moricio DuBont with the home.

Homer and Darren Ruff with the pinch hit home run to take the lead. And then game two, Tyler Anderson. I feel like we mentioned him a lot. He has a nice performance. Six innings pitch zero home earn runs. Yes with the three-run yacker. Longoria had a nice day. How about that?

Jimmy is flashing me right now. Dodgers go to Arizona. Dodgers, they take the first two in extras. First one was crazy. 10-9 final. Back and forth all night. There was a bad Arizona error. Gavin Lux, Jim.

We forget. They kept him down so he could. can work on his fielding. It's my best friend. Two homer day. And then six four the next day. This was Clark versus Kershaw. Kershaw gets knocked around a little bit.

Mookie and Kikeh homered early. Taylor and Pollack with the RBI singles and extras to win it. And then the final game, Dustin May, leaves early. Gonna hear Trevor Ploof Matt about that later. Madbumb with an okay start. Five innings, five innings pitch, three and run. Carson Kelly with a homer. Good year last year.

He's been harrible this year. Maybe that sparks him to 50. finish the season well. And then Toilet Bowl, I mean, hit the flush noise. Angels at Texas. Lance Lynn drops Dick the first game. Texas scores five run in the fifth, the second game.

Kiner Filafa, your guy with four hits. Jim, look at this joke. Teheran has been Teherrable. Texas takes two out of three. Angels salvaged it, sure. Jared Walsh is hitting homers for them. Who's that? Not sure. Trout hit a homer off

Gibby, our friend. Dylan Bundy 12 case. Big old dick on my shoulder. And that's what's happening in the West. Wow. Good stuff, Jake. Dunker. Good stuff, Jake.

Good stuff, Dick. I had some stuff to say, but I forget it because we went to the flush. So much to say. So much to say. The playoff outlook is the A's are in first place. Solidly. First in the East, right? Is that what you said earlier?

In the AL. First in the A.L. Half game on the White Sox. It's so cool. first in the east. Half game on the race. Dude, it's tight, man. Are they a half game up on the raise and the white socks?

Didn't we just do this? I didn't know. I thought you just said it was one team. I didn't think it was both teams. Yes. Okay. All three are very, very close. Pardon a me.

The Astros are lucky that the angels suck. Dude, I put that together this morning and it makes me so mad. I mean, they're 22 and 23, right? Astros are under 500. Like, the Astros don't have the Blue Jays in their division. Like, the Yankees are now in third place because the Blue Jays are challenging them.

Playing good ball. That's who the Angels or the Rangers, but mostly the Angels should have been for the Astros, like challenging them right now because they got second place. I mean, Mariners are two and a half, two games behind, but they got second place, unless they really spiral. But, uh, I hate the Angels. This was your opportunity. There's eight teams getting into the playoffs.

The Astros are below 500. So dumb. Yeah. So dumb. Yep. Don't go 6 and 15 on the road, Angels. Well, all those fans reminding them but they don't like them and stuff like that.

Free Mike Trout. Astros drop below 500. Kind of doesn't matter. And again, I've been saying this across. us the network, but they're lucky that the Yankees have stunk because otherwise Twitter would just be an Astros bashing for them. I have an Astros question for you. Sure.

In the last seven days, 19 different guys have thrown pitches for the Astros. Sure. How many have not allowed an earned run? 19. 19 guys. A lot of guys. A lot of pitchers. 19 guys.

A couple of those guys probably have multiple appearances. So you're probably start at if it was single appearances, maybe it's five. Three guys didn't pitch a full inning. Okay. That's probably a bad sign. I'll go two. One. Brooks Raleigh, three point two innings pitch.

Now, a run scored while he was pitching. Right. Just not an earned run. Unerned. So 19 different people have thrown pitches for the Astros over the last week. And someone came across home plate. And someone came across home plate. We're all 19.

Yeah. I would love to have an honest conversation with Dusty Baker. We can set it up. I know. I don't think he can be honest until after this season. That's crazy. 19 pitchers, a run was scored for all of them. 6 and 17 on the road, 16 and 6 at home for the Astros.

Someone make some bad tweets about that. I don't know. But yeah, kind of doesn't matter unless the Mariners get really hot, which it sucks that we have to bank on them and not a team like the Angels that have a ton of talent. Oakland, good for you. They're sneaking out some sneaky starting pitching performances. Anaya had a good one. Basset. Basset.

NL. I mean, Dodgers just roll. What's Seattle's schedule? I'm very interested. Can it get scary for the Astros at all? I don't think it can. a good question. Because third place in the West, I don't think, is getting a seven or eight seat.

They have a three-game set the last week of the season. Okay. But unfortunately for the Mariners, well, they play the debacks who are dying. But like, they just lost two to San Fran. Whatever. They're hosting the A's for two, so you could survive that. Mariners are? Yeah.

They do host the Padres for three. So they finish with four against the athletics. So if the athletics can find a comfortable playoff spot and then punt all those games to the Mariners. Four? Four. They're within striking reach? Just stay within striking reach and the A's just gift you four games. Yeah.

Do that be hilarious. Oh, and know what? Jim. I got it. I got it. Jim. Put it out. Light on me.

So Jim, something. that you dislike and for good reason. The second place team in the West will be the six seed. Yep. The three seed that will play them will be the worst number one seed. So if Oakland

punts those games to be the worst number one seed, the three seed, they will play the six, which could be the Mariners if they allow them to win. Hello! The red tape is out.

Hello! We've connected the dots. There's pushpins everywhere. Seattle needs to keep it within three games. Right now it's two. Keep it within three. Yeah. The A's.

Blow it in the last four. Delicious. On purpose. Then they've faced the Mariners in the first round and the Astros don't make it. Ooh. Wow. We found it. Now the Astros, they play the Dodgers.

Right, so this can continue. So they play the Dodgers for two. Then they play three against Texas. At home. You know them, them Rangers? No, they'll probably win those easily. And then they play three against Arizona. They've got six at home versus Texas and Arizona.

They've got to win five of those, and I wouldn't bet against it. Okay. Otherwise, they head to Seattle, and then they finish at Texas. Hey, Rangers. You want to earn a lot of fans at the end of this year. Finish Strange. Wow. Okay.

That's fun. Okay. Dude, the Padres are full-blown legit. Oh, yeah. They have the second best record in the NL. I mean, they traded for a lot of players. They're really good. They're really good.

The Angels, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, San Diego, Dodgers. The Angels are only four games. Yeah. But they don't play, they don't play them. The Angels are dead. I know the Angels. I wanted to. I really wanted to.

They just lost two out of three to Texas. They're dead. They're dead. I just wanted to see if they play Houston. Like if there's a four-game set, then you can be like, oh, that's sweet. But you can't even do it. The San Francisco Giants deserve a little more love than they've been getting as my Rockies jump. Get swept and fall three games below 500.

The San Francisco is keeping the ship above 500, which is what the Cardinals are doing, and basically no other team in the National League can do. Gabe Kapler, manager of the year. Right now it's Dodgers versus Giants, one versus eight. How about that? Dodgers would love that. That's cool, though, storyline. Storyline.

Braves versus Marlins, two versus seven. Another storyline. I love them fish. That's West versus East in the first stage, and the Cubs versus the Cardin. Whoa. Yeah. So we actually need some shuffling there.

That's weird. I want to see teams that haven't. Yeah, yeah. Right now it'd be Dodgers, Giants, Braves Marlins, Cubs, Cardinals. It's just staying within. And the only outlier would be Padres, Phillies, 4-5. Come on, Marlins. You can do it.

Actually, maybe not, Marlins. Stay away from the Padres. Stay away from the Dodgers, too, though. I have a question. You don't want to be the eight or the five-seat in the N-O. I have a question. Me and David are here. How many three-game sets are there?

Eight? What's the question? For the wild card, for the wild card around this year? Yes. How many will be quote-unquote numerical upsets? Ooh. I mean, I'm probably going to pick. You're taking all the ones?

I got to see what it looks like, babe. 50%? No, I'm probably... You're rocking chalk. No, I'm probably like three. Two from one side, one from the other. I think, again, home field advantage won't mean something. I think batting last still means something in a baseball game.

And how many of the eight will Vegas disagree with the seating? Ooh. Probably two. Two? Like whoever Houston plays? Houston, yeah. Potentially where the Yankee slot. Okay, cool.

I'll ask you that question again. Okay. And then we'll see it when we get there. Then we'll see it when we're there, guys. Yeah. Now it is time for us to pivot to the awards section of the show, the cat Trigori's, which is brought to you by Draft Kings. Thursday was just the warm up.

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Who goes first on Fridays? You've been the Friday guy. How about that? Skin, bink-dink. I'm going with the Nelson Lament. Seven point two innings pitched. Zero earned runs. 11Ks. And this was a tied game. Every pitch was pretty high leverage, high intensity pitch. He didn't have a 6-0 lead where he just, you know,

let me just attack the zone because if one mistake's not going to hurt us, Dude was walking a tightrope. Story, Aronado, Blackman. Zero, zero game. Yeah. He goes into the eighth inning. I think he gave up an hit, so they took him out. 11K's really good performance by the Nelson Lema.

Do you know that he, I think right now, he's the only starting pitcher that throws a slider as the premier number one pitch. His featured pitch. Is the slider? I think Chris Archer, is a starting pitcher that like his number most used pitch is a slider

but Denelson Chris Archer's not pitching So I don't know You have to check the numbers but I believe I mean he throws his slider 52% of the time He's a good pitch too That's pretty nuts

He's a good pitch 52% of the time He throws a slider Jim he's got As a starting pitcher A 0.917 whip And that's a The dude always has punched guys out.

He brought his K per 9 is actually down a little bit, but his walk per 9 is also down. He walks less than a batter per 9 innings, which I think that means something has clicked in his brain. The numbers are nasty, man. Yeah, he's got nine starts with a 2-24 ERA. Yeah. Dude, these Padres, man.

I mean, what Davies is doing, Paddock, I mean, he's kind of had a mad year. But dude, Lamette Davies, Paddock, they picked up that guy Cleve. Like, they could go in a seven-game set and like their starter every day. Yeah, his average line, not ERA. Right.

He averages five and two-thirds. Yep. It's closer to six, but it's in the middle. and one earned run. It's pretty good. One and a half earned runs. It's where you want to be. Yeah.

But he just went seven and two-thirds, so I wonder if he stays. If he stays going longer. Because, you know, he hadn't broken 90 pitches. No, he hit 97 one time. That's his first time breaking 100 pitches this season. I don't know about it this career. And that'll be something to keep track of.

He doesn't have a full resume of big seasons. I think he pitched 140. Innings. I just clicked away from the page in 2017. Yeah, and then he got Tommy John, right? T.J. He pitched 73 innings last year. He's at 52-1. So, I don't know. If you're a Padres fan, that's something you're tracking, especially if they go into the playoffs. Probably, probably for the best. This is a short season. Yes, for him, absolutely.

Because he might have been on a bit of an innings limit or something like that. Absolutely. Eh. And last year, because he was coming off of Tommy John, he didn't throw a slider a lot at all. Right. in the games he played last season. Ticks up. So, like, look at it because he was purposely not throwing it out.

Look at the chart. This is the sound effect. His slider on the chart make all the way up. Beauty. Yeah. Who's your standout performance? Beautiful stuff. De Nilsson Lomet.

That's how you say it, right? I checked a bunch of highlights. De Nilsson Lament, yeah. Because I know. Looks tricky. People get mad when we mispronounced names, but we try our darned. You stupid Americans. Jim, I've got, well, I've got one that we'll be able to pronounce.

Okay. Corbin Burns. That's actually Bines. Corbin Burns. Starting pitcher for your Mill of Wauke Brewers, Jim, St. Mary Gale. Did you know that? Really? Yeah.

Really? Yeah. Where's his warrior at what high school? Centennial in Bakersfield, Cali. Anyways. Bakersfield and St. Mary's. 6-3-2-25. Yes.

You know my friend Jamie? Yeah. You know my friend Sabs? Yeah. One played softball for St. Mary's. St. Mary's. One played softball for Bakersfield. Makes you think.

Corbin Burns is on a season-long dick-dropping tour, but he also is coming off a start against... Oh, Jimmy just made a weird reaction. Jim, so this was in a 19-to-nothing game, but it didn't matter. Because he went seven innings pitch, one hit 11Ks, no walks. Drops his ERA to 1-99 on the year. Jim, he's been one of the best pitchers in baseball this year, and I don't think a lot of people are familiar with Corbyn.

He's got nine games, six starts, two games finish, so the Brewers have done some brewer's stuff with him. 1-99 ERA. He's leading the National League in FIPP, field independent pitching, if you're into that kind of thing. Friendly in person is what I thought that meant. And Jim, you like this. on the internet, but in person. He's got the lowest

hits allowed per nine innings. In nine innings pitch, he's allowing 4.4 hits. That's cool. So that's pretty nutty. And Jim, it also ties me into, I think I'm buying into the Brewers. I don't know if they get in as a wild card. I don't know if they catch the Cardinals. Corby Burns is a very dangerous pitcher.

Bobby Woodruff has a nice little playoff resume at this point, and he's talented, not having his best. year still good um he could turn that around with a good couple starts and the brewers put up that 19 burger so i'm kind of i'm still in on my brewers who was in on before the season and a lot of the reason is because corbin burns has been special pardon me if i miss this sure did you give his era as just a starter i did not give it as just a starter this season no because i think it's going to be far more impressive than his ERA. Okay.

How do you find that? As starter? Yes. So his ERA as a starter is a 1-3-8. It's pretty good. In six games. It's pretty good. His relief outings tick it up a bit.

Ha. Because he's got a 3-55 in relief. Trash. He started one game. They used him in the bullpen. They started the last five in a row. Yeah. So as a starter, he's even better.

Now what I saw, and you said, Jimmy saw something liked, and you know I like this, I'm going to send it to the patron chat so they can look at with me. His pitch mix chart is drastic. Oh, yeah. Like, that's maybe the most drastic one I've seen. We got four different lines, crisscrossing. Dramatic change from last season. His four seamer went from 52% of the time down to 3% of the time.

Not tossing it. His second most used pitch, Slider, went from 30% of the time to 12% of the time. So his two most used pitches, the pitches he threw, shit, dude, 80% of the time last season. 80% of his pitches were these two pitches. He doesn't use them at all anymore. 80-20. That's crazy. He now throws his two seam and a cutter.

So he's just getting that X-action on his fastballs. Lance Linen. That's a crazy change. I've never seen a guy go from 80% of his pitches. Now he doesn't use either of them anymore. He's Lance Lennon. And it's working. Get your spin rate up, kids.

So, yeah, in on Corbyn Burns. And we watched a chunk of this game. Because it was the YouTube game of the day. We were also mostly watching because Trevor took Ryan Braun in the Homer draft and he hit it. But Corbyn Burns was lights out. And yeah, man, Brewers are a sneaky team that I don't think anybody would want to see because of Woodruff, who's got a nice playoff history, Corbyn Burns, who's

dropping Dick, and then Hater and Williams in the bullpen. You don't want to see those guys. No. Good standout, Jake. Thank you, Jim. You as well. Bones. Bones. Thanks. Moving on. Moving on up. I'm moving out. To the east side. Wakego Jake, you had a lot of pitchers in here I put down some hurlers Jim I put down some hurlers

Who you got? I put a couple central guys That we like Bauer deserves to be on here He went he went toe to toe With Darvish Wasn't his last start poor Like in Fuego means you're like on a hot streak

I mean you know One game you could also say this season He's generally been in Fuego I mean he's back in the Cy Young race He's got a 174 ERA. Yeah, yeah. And he went toe to toe with Darvish, one of his biggest competitions for the Siam.

11 runs in the last four starts. I don't know. I mean, he's still twirling innings in that start, those starts. Like, it's not, he went 7.2 10K shutout, going toe to toe to do with Darvish. He's in those starts, you just mentioned. He's got a 284 ERA. So I think that can still be in Fuego. His ERA is not in the zeros anymore.

He's good. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, some, we're anti-reds right now, so it hurts. Well, he's got four, you gave up runs, but they counted as unearned runs, but they shouldn't count. He did poorly, so I don't know. I put Trevor Bauer on there. You don't have to take credit for it.

Hendrix, drops him, drop some dick. We love him, doing it on the opposite side for a winning team. And then Mania, man, his stuff has ticked up a little bit. The A's are one of the best teams in the AL, although we know they're now dropping to the three-seed. but they still have to figure out, you know, what does their three-man rotation look like in a playoff series? Is it Bassett Mania?

Baby Jesus? So, you know, if Mania can keep shoving, he's a guy they can trust with the rock. Five starts in a row for Mania. He turned the corner. His first four were poor. He's got a 198 in his last five stars. Yeah, he looks good.

Put your guy Plisack on here, Jim. Policeack's good, man. I mean, it'd be interesting to see what his season. looks like if he doesn't have to go get put in time out for a while because he's only made five starts but he's got a one three two ERA in those what's his worst start Jim sevenings pitch three run runs Yankees would give a standing standing ovation for that start we have that's his worst start sevenings pitch three runs all the four others they're only got five the four others are really good right but yeah he's he's doing the damn thing I put the Braves as a team

on here. You know, things get skewed in a 29 run game. But Freeman, Duval, and Acuna, numbers are nuts. So the Braves. Jeff McNeil's turned his whole season around with a hot week or so. So that's cool.

Really like Jeff McNeil. The squirrel, man. I'm into that. Chimer. Jamer Candelario? On Detroit? He put up a five for six. You pronounce the J. You do?

Yeah. Jamer. Weird. I had a long look-up session. this morning. He was bro the night. BPD had a big J session this morning. Congrats. And then,

what were you watching? Ryan Mountcastle, Jim. Jammer Candelario highlights. Not excited to see him in this upcoming series because he is legit. But then you put a couple names on here. One, I'm very happy you put on him here. Let's see.

I put DJ Stewart on here. Five home runs his last four games. Yeah. Four games in a row with a home run. It's a funny sport, man. And I think DJ Stewart's got a friendly face. Yeah. I think you guys have similar faces.

His is more friendlier than me. What's his DJ Stewart? Yeah, man, I think I don't, actually, you know what? I didn't look up his other surrounding numbers. Sure. But I just know he's got five homerous. Yeah, he's hitting homers. Oh, no, he's got, but he's got hits as well.

Okay. Wow. 571 batting average in the last four games. Hell yeah. But that's kind of like he didn't have a hit. Oh, so people need to know this. His first 10 games were hitless. Part of the story is that.

Yeah. Like shame to flame in the biggest way. He didn't have a hit. And then he finally breaks out of his slump, home run versus Garrett Cole. And now he's going off. And Jim, if I may, the guy he's replacing currently,

was Santander. Who was playing awesome for them. So Stewart comes in and plays even better for now. Yeah. Witt Merrifield. This is the one I was happy you put on there. I just sway. wiped out of the page.

Because I don't know if you saw how much of a slide he was on before this. He was on a one for 30, if I remember correctly. Damn. Three multi-hit games in a row. He's saving his season. And in the four games against Cleveland, where the Royals did take three out of four, he had eight hits in four games. Yeah.

So there you go. Save your season wet. Michael Franco. Franco. In his last 18 games, he's got a 346 on base percentage, 306 average. 486 slugging. which is like a nine-something OPS. I need Royals fans.

Reach out to me. Has he looked good? Because, like, his, you know, he came up and he was a pretty big-time prospect, and then he was kind of thick with Philly, and it just never happened, and he looks skinnier this year. He's leading the league in doubles. How about that? So give me a...

K.C., give me some Michael Franco stuff. Franco. Franco. Franco. Franco. Jamer. it's kind of interesting because you would think that the first name is pronounced like Michael or something different

and then Franco is just straightforward but it's a straightforward Michael and then it's a weird Franco Yeah throws you for a loop I bet a lot of announcers have a lot of trouble with that Royals fans always get mad I was getting so mad so mad

Jesus Aguila Your guy Last seven games 471 on base percentage 519 slugging Jesus Aguilar Yeah Good for him

And then Is that all? Laidad by BPD I think Bobby Dahlbeck Does deserve to be talked about Including yesterday Five straight games with a homer Using JBJ's bat

Jim Why? He doesn't have his own bat yet I think he just did He felt it And he's like I like this bat Can I use it? And he's hit five homers with it

Which hey Tough look for JBJ Six homer in 10 games. Is he on pace for 20? He's good. If he had a full season. Yeah.

Wow. Wow. So that's exciting for Sox fans. You got something to watch there. Yeah. What, is he at Lepti or righty? He's a righty. Okay.

Where do the Yanks play? The yanks are going to Boston? Going to family. So that fucker's going to... Think I'll go to Boston. Whoa. Hopefully the scouting reports out by that. Race to 20?

Race to 20. Dude, the race to 20. So scary. It's tight. It's so scary. The race to 20, we teamed up with Roosevelt's to keep track of the race to 20 home runs, which was the Vegas line. Will a player hit 20 home runs in the shortened season?

We said yes. We've been pretty cocky about it. And now we're getting, been scarier and scary every week. There are only two players on pace to hit 20 home runs as we talk. Mike Trout and Nelson Cruz. Again. are the only two Trout's on pace for 22. Yeah.

Nelson Cruz is on pace for exactly 20. 20 on the nose. So those guys need to hit some homers. Now, you know, DeVall's hit six home runs last week. Sure. So that puts him at 13 home runs. How about a year by Adam DeVall? So if he can have another three homer night, that might help.

Two more three homer games and you're right there. Right there. Yeah. Mike Trout's leading the league. He's got 16. Nelson Cruz has 15. Fernandortis Jr. 15. Mookie Betz has 14.

Luke Voight has 14. He was on pace. Yeah. And then the Yankees got rained out and now he's a double header. So now he's not on pace. You know what? But he wasn't playing yesterday. Yeah.

He might play both games today. So if Voigt... That could be an advantage. If Voight D8 plays both games today, he's back on pace to hit 20. Then you have three guys. But only three guys. Yeah. No, it's tight.

I've been on a Mookie thing. I still think Mookie's going to have a big day, which is going to put him in the run. running. I don't know if he gets there. I like Trout and Cruz being involved. I mean, those are two guys doing it. What Nelson Cruz is doing is insane. It's 40. Takes those naps. It takes those big naps. And yeah, I almost gave him my award. I did not. Sorry, everyone. You might hate my award. I kind of hate my award. I love my award later. I love my award later. But yeah, he went both ends of the double header.

Clip that. Taking naps. So yeah, like Nellie, like Trout. We'll see if Tatis can find a little more magic. I mean, like if Tatis homers in one game, like today, he's probably back on track. Yeah, right now he's on pace for 19 and a half homerous. Yeah. So let's tell them the 19 pace guys. Boy is on a 19 and a half right now. Mookie's on a 19 flat.

And that's all. Those are the 19 guys? There's three 19 guys. So like if they homer today, they'll, but yeah. Yeah, it's still good. Yeah, it's getting tight. It's getting scary. Vegas knows what they're doing.

I believe. I believe. I believe. Jake believes. Jake believes in believing. Shrump watch. Are we still doing the Gallo thing? I updated it, but no. Another series.

This stats look the same. Every series. Two for 11. Two singles. One walk, 5Ks. We got to stop. It's gotten sad. Sorry, Joey.

It felt like we were interested at first, and now it feels like we're just single. I'm actually deleting it. Every episode. Delete it off the sheet. It's gone. It's off the sheet. And you know what, Joey?

Show us up. Poke your head on Enfuego next week. He's only had two multi-hit games this season. It's got to be tough to watch. Get him some help next year, Texas. Come on. Slump watch, Jim. I drew a couple guys on here.

A couple Astros for the girls. Kyle Tucker and Yulee Gariel. Both had 17 at bats. Tucker had one hit. Coriel had two. So that's not good. Our biggest offers this week, we had two guys tied with O for 11. Joe Adele and J.D. Martinez, top prospect, good hitter.

Has Jady been super streaky this year? I feel like he's a lot of slump watch or Enfuego. Not a lot of tweeter weeks. I put him on slump watch once because he had an Ofer series and we both said, yeah, he'll be right off of it, you know? What are his final numbers right now? I don't know. 2.11.

With a 297 on base percentage and a 672. But he's probably one of these replay guys like Havi Bias. Yeah, big video guy. Nope, bad. And he opened up the season with a three hit day and a two hit day. So like if you take away those first two games of the season, how ugly does that get? It's got to be what?

175. 189. Okay. Yeah, you know what? It seems like he has a lot of, he has eight. multi-hit games. And for someone with an average as low as that, those are saving him. J.D. dude. Yeah, let's see if he finishes from. He's got 19 games without a hit out of 40.

So half. But I mean, he's supposed to be so good. Yeah. I think he's got another option he can pick up for 20 mil, if I remember correctly. He can do this and then just be like, give me 20 mil at the end. I think he has the options for each year left. So I don't know. I don't have all the details. I'm going off baseball reference, but he has a 20 million option for this year, but if he opts into it, he also has 20 mil for the next season.

So I don't know if he has another opt-out after this year. It was after year two, which he's after. Right. He's in year three. He has opt-outs each year for the total of the five years. So take them those. I mean, hopefully it's just a dead year for JD. You need some juice.

You need some juice, yeah. I'll juice you up, bro. No, I got juice. Thank you. His weighted runs created plus on the season is 77, and you take out those first two games. It drops to 62. It's not good, man.

That's bad. It's not good. But still not a guy I'm ready to doubt out, because when he's locked in, it's stupid. You mean for, like, next season? Next season? I mean, he could still finish strong, like, two good weeks. I don't know about that.

Yankee spoiler. He was so uninterested. But next season, like, I'm not counting him out for next season at all. No. Just a weird season. And it's strong, J.D. except against the yanks. I put Yamamoto and Lopez in here.

They were kind of the two big ones in the 29 run game. My guy, Jordan Yami, gives up 12 and 2.2, I think. That's tough. And then, Jim, I put your guy out of Vino on here with an LOL note. Yeah. It's tough. Slumping. It's supposed, you know.

It's kind of been all season. It's talented of a reliever you'll see. 0.0, 6 run runs. Yeah. And then I put a couple lefties that got knocked around Mill 1, who got traded to the Braves. He gets lit up again. And then Boyder, who was starting to figure it out, he gets roughed up.

That's tough because he's just on not good watch. He was, well, it looked like he was saving his season. I think he had three straight that were okay, okay to good. And then, you know, this one kind of. This was through Dracula's chest there. Yeah, it's bad. Let me see if there's anyone that deserves it. Because I think Kyle Schwabber has been really bad lately.

And Jesse Winker, who was doing really well. Barely know her. Jesse Winker for the Reds, but he was one of their lone offensive guys is, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, okay, yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes. Yes, yes. In his last eight games, he has one. hit. Like it's very bad. Zero 45 batting average. Zero four five slugging.

Is it again walked at all? Are they just pitching around them? Seven, seven walks in the eight games. It's a 267 on base percentage, but I mean one hit in 30 plate appearances. Just pitching around them. You don't have to be scared of anyone else on Cincinnati. Yeah. And then probably making them chase. Kyle Schwerber for the Cubs also on, uh, yeah. Okay. So these are the two guys. Yeah. So So seven games, one hit in his last seven games. 26 played appearances, one hit for walks. So those two guys. Central.

Yikes. Yikes. Awards? Who got mad? Who got mad? Javvy's mad at the Astros for taking away his video replay. Yeah. It's interesting.

Quentin in the patron chat says that Kyle Tucker never being on a fruego. I think we mentioned him. Yeah. We had him on Enfuego. Yeah. I feel like we've given him love. Jake gave him big, big time love. Almost told Clinton, they eat a bug.

But I think, well, I think you gave Kyle Tucker and Jesse Winker. I think it was like, these are the guys carrying. They're doing it. Yeah. Yeah, Javey getting mad is interesting because you hear him presented that way and you're like, oh. Now other more players feel like they're being punished because of Houston's actions. But another mad dog reference. Mad Dog kind of had a good point where he was like, you know, if this was across the league,

like you could point to different things and say that, but a lot of guys are playing really well. Yes. Yeah. Guys do prep differently. So it sucks if the guys that this is their system and got them there. Right. Now it's not. But whatever.

Creatures a habit. Oh. Jake, I'm giving the favor return toward. Love when you give this bad boy. You know what people say? say don't call it revenge. Call it returning the favor. Yeah. Hell yeah.

Yeah. Hurrah. Oh, yeah. Ramon Luriano has the walk-off versus the Astros. Yeah. And, you know, he got into it with Centrone, the bench coach. Yeah. He got hit by pitch four times by them or whatever it was.

Yep. I looked up his numbers versus the Astros. He hits them better than any other team this year. Yeah. He's got a 948 OPS versus the Astros, a 314.14. batting average, a 405 on base percentage, and a 543 slugging. So every slash line, like the batting average starts with three, the on base percentage starts with four, the slugging starts with five, the OPS starts with nine.

Yeah. I mean, if anyone wanted a calculator of like, what's a good slash line? Well, there you go. Every fucking digit is correct. So that's his stats versus the Astros. And, you know, just return in the favor. Yeah. He gets the walk off.

Happy for Ramon. Friend. Yeah. Friend. He's awesome, man. He's a fun watch. Yeah, he hits the walk off into the gap. What was really cool, again, this isn't really anything, but he hit it in the gap.

And he starts running to first, and you see him, you can see his eyes literally. Look at the left fielder. Look at the center field to see if it drops. So he hits it. It goes left, center. All right. Game over. Got it.

He's awesome. He's kind of an overlooked piece on that, on that Oakland team. But I love him. So I'll always be happy if you give him an award. All right. Cool. So I got to, again, love this award, hate this award. Love this award.

I'm giving out the sun is hot award. Okay. The sun is hot. And Jim. The Blue Jays. The sun rises in the east. facts. You're with me?

Yeah. Jim, I had a weird... Well, who defined East? It's a great point. I didn't. I had a weird thing this year where I looked on the West Coast and there was a lot of stacked infields,

especially third base. You know I love third base. Sun may rise in the East, but at least it settles in a better location. Peppers, babe. Go listen to him. Jim. My, like...

Its name of my cover band, the Peppers. Hey. Tide for one for my favorite positions on a baseball field. Yeah. Third base. And center field. Tide for one. Third base.

The hot corner. Yeah. Jim, the sun is rising in the east. Okay. Jim, just think about these names. The Red Sox call up Bobby Dalbeck, who plays a little third base. They also have that Devers guy. You may need to...

Is this going to make... sense soon? Yes. Okay. You're right there. We're supposed to be. We're right. You're supposed to be at this point. You're building a moment, Jim. We're supposed to be confused still. Jim, Ryan Mountcastle. Okay. Plays a little third base. Okay. He looks really good. Okay. He looks really good. Jim, in the National League, young thick Austin Riley. Uh-huh. Doing it at third base. The Nationals, they've got their top prospect. Key Boom. Key Boom. Third base. And Jim, another guy who's raking, Alec Bome for the Phillies. Okay.

The sun is rising in the east. Okay. The east third baseman have a lot of young third baseman her doing it, and that got me really excited today. Because you were jealous of all the young third baseman on the West. They were all in the West Coast. I was looking at Aeronado, Rendon, Chapman. All these guys are studs.

Now, out of these guys that you named, Key Boom, they say defensive liability. A couple of these guys are defensive liabilities. And I like that. Young Thick isn't a liability. ability, but he's not picking it. There's questions. What about Devers? Well, Devers, him or Bobby Dalbeck is going to have to, one's going to first.

Okay. One's going to stay at third. Can Dalbeck pick it? He's listed as a first base, third base, I don't know. One of them's going to play there. Okay. So the East may have some offensive third baseman coming up. I'm just saying.

All right. I like that you're getting excited about it. A lot of young third base talent at the hot corner right now. And a couple of these guys do have their question marks. I kind of like that, Jim. I kind of like that. But they can hit. And that's a good way to play.

Oh, yeah. That's a good way to play. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good award. Thank you. Sun is hot award. Sun is hot. Yeah, I almost gave that to the Blue Jays.

It's a big time. By the way, the Jay's draft pick this year, Vandy might be playing third base for them. By the way. Yeah. Don't. Don't say it. Blue Jays fans.

Yeah. You shouldn't feel that good about what happened. Ooh. Do they? I don't know. I don't think so. Do they walk away from that series? I think the Yankees being dead was the story.

Yeah. Blue Jays should be happy with their team this year, though. I mean, they very well could have... That Taiwan Walker performance was lackluster. A little bit. He didn't give up any runs. I know, but that's more on the Yankees being awful. He didn't have his A stuff, for sure.

Blue Jays are 24 or 19. They could have very well been. 19 and 24. I don't think they played their best. No. And they still took two out of three. Really good. I'm a dead team.

Wait till the stadium, babe. Oh, it's going to be rocking. Nah, no one's there. Thanks, everybody. You don't want to do, uh, you want to do a... Let's get in the elevator, Jim. Let's send the people out on the Vader. Elevator talk, who we talking about today.

Elevate my soul. Alamed you too. The Royals, are we doing non-eating. playoff teams? They just, they took three. Didn't we do them recently? Because we did like all the bullpen arms? We did them recently.

We did them recently. We did them recently. We did them recently. We did them again. Brady Singer, become best friends with Patrick Mahomes. Problem solved. Oh, the Coutown. Oh, the Chicago Cubs.

Shy town. Casey, back up to Indiana, L.A. Cubbies. Nelly's going to be on this season of Dancing with the Stars, Jim. Do you see that? Oh, wow. Jess wants to watch. We're fading into the abyss as people.

What about these Cubs? Who else is going to be on it? Do you want me to bring up the list? It's all celebs that I don't know and I don't want to know. No, I don't really want to watch it. Okay. Ian Hap. Ian Hap, love him.

Talk about him. Schwabre, huge slump. You know about that now. Get it going. Dude, Kipness. How about Kipness? Yeah, Kip Daddy. The Cubs are still,

Cubs fans can't be too excited. I mean, they were 13 and 3. They're 12. 26 and 19 now. So that's 16. They're 13 and 16 in their last 29 games. Yeah, so. I mean, you just, again, it's kind of what you're saying.

Like, not much matters as long as you're getting in the playoffs, but like you're saying about the Yankees not playing good baseball. It's got to feel like the Cubs aren't playing a good brand of baseball. I mean, Hendricks and Darvish are doing really good stuff. You like them. How about Adbert Alzellay? guy. He's, uh, I think he's...

Adbert. How do you think that happened? Stutter. Adbert. Someone's not talking... No, who needs some love? Jeremy Jeffress. Yeah, you think so?

Jim, 18 innings pitched. He's only given up seven hits. He's got a one ERA on the nose. Okay. What about Row and Wick? He's locked up the closer roll for them pretty good. Rhone Wick having a nice year. Dude, Alec Mills, like, he fell apart.

Right, he's coming back, baby. He's a good start against the Reds. Red suck. Coming back. Red stink. What's going on with Kimbrel? Any updates there? I don't know.

I guess, like, Cubs, you tell us. Yeah. Javi Baez, he's all, he's in his feelings about the video stuff. Ian Hap has been their best player this year. No, who's been their second best? Jason Hayward. Yeah. It's pretty nuts.

And then Kipnis is very nice. really good. It's very odd. Yeah, they really haven't gotten Rizzo, Schwabo. Bryant was hurt for a while. We'll see if he gets gone. Kimbril's having a good September. Actually, you know what? There's one. Kimberl was terrible for the first four outings

in his next nine. He only has one, one bad one. So he's eight for his last nine in doing his job when put into the game. Your job. Zero runs in eight of nine. Okay. Yeah, yeah. That's pretty good. 216 ERA and that's been. Cubs fan.

Fans know what you should be excited about. Cameron Maven, man. I love Cameron. Great guy to having the dugout. He hit a triple the other day, which that's just fun. I don't know. Contreras had a four-hit day the other day. So I don't know, Cubs, you're dominating your division with a lot of your guys not playing well.

You know what's going to suck for the Cubs? What's that? They have one, two, three, four, five, eight games out of their remaining 15. Okay. are against the Indians, the twins, and the White Sox who are all in a battle. So you, hey, maybe that's a good way. Like if you're getting the one seed, well, you're going to get a lot of competitive games going into the season

because you have the Indians who are fighting for spot, the twins and the White Sox all going up against you. And they're going to try and win because they're in a battle. So that's kind of, I'd spin that positively. I don't know, man. If your team, okay, so our Yankees are playing pretty bad. bad right now. Bad.

If you heard the Yankees are playing, you know, the majority of their series coming up are against really good teams. I don't think that would excite you. The Yankees are bad. The Cubs aren't bad. The Cubs have been playing bad for over a month. 13 and 16. The Cubs have the one spot locked up.

Right, but they're playing bad brand of baseball. Like, this has been your thing. You said, you know, who really cares as long as you get in the dance? But you're also saying that the Yankees are playing a bad brand of baseball. But Jake, the Yankees are in the eight seed. can be out of the playoff picture by the end of today. Sure. The Cubs are nowhere near that.

Right. So you can't compare. They could have a team sneak up on them. I mean, the Yankees, I still very much believe they're going to be in the dance. If both of these teams are going to be in the dance. The Yankees are scratching and clawing to get into the playoffs. They're bad team. As of this week.

The Cubs might be on the skid, but they're in a terrible... Cubs fans let us know. They're in a terrible division. We're both guessing. Yeah. Let us know, Cubbies. Ah, coffee is so. Fuck.

Oh. Oh my God. Oops. I did. Really bad. Yeah. One month of this now. I think it got worse.

The ice melted. I don't know what just happened. It was gross. Well, that's the show. Jason Hayward. Great year. See you guys. Ian Hap.

Friend. Love you. Thanks for watching.