Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 21 | Sept 13th | Amazin Mets, Brewers without Yelich & Indians Climbing

Episode Date: September 13, 2019

The wild card races got interesting again. Yelich is out for the season. We've got two braves on slump watch and two En Fuego.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 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.

Today is September 13th, and the Mets are making a big push as they bury the Diamondbacks. Yelich gets hurt, and the Astros and A's go off for 20 runs each. Let's do it. Talk some baseball. What's going on, everybody? Thank you for hanging out with us for a little bit on this Friday afternoon. To talk some baseball. My name is John Boy.

I'm coming to you from New Jersey. I got my co-host, Jake. coming to you from Denver wearing a Bernie Williams hat. Bernie Williams for you non-Yankee fans wore number 51, and today is his 51st birthday. I wonder if Jake even knows about that as he's wearing the 51 hat. You're asking if I know it's my dad's birthday. I mean, that's, I mean, what are we really doing here, people?

Okay, so you're aware. Did you put it on thinking I got to wear his hat? It's his birthday? I mean, Jim, I'm going to leave this up to you. You know me pretty well. When was the last time you've seen me wearing this hat? Never. But I know you well enough to know I don't think you know Bernie's birthday.

Maybe you saw it in a tweet. Well, my mother used to pretend he's my father. So what are we doing here? Okay, what's the date of his birthday? September 13th. How'd you know that? Jim, you were going to keep running into the same answer. It's because it's today.

And you're wearing my shirt, which is nice because it's close to my birthday in a sense. You're wearing our shirt. Yeah. Technically, no, this is not supposed to be worn by me, but it is. Well, it's true. True. Welcome to talking baseball. So much going on.

I had a busy, busy week with my girlfriend's parents in town going to the city to try and try and find apartments doing a ton of meetings for John Boy Media that I really I know the big storylines Jake because I did make some breakdowns I looked at the ejections and stuff I don't really know like how the standings went now I do for the national league because I was in charge but I'm very interested in the American League to know what happened with the wildcard race and the central which I think is still the twins easily But we'll get there eventually first. Got to let you know who is sponsoring this show, Jake.

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page as well behind the scenes of making breakdowns and shit like that. Jake, how are you doing? Are you nervous at all about how little baseball is left in the season? Are you, see, are you excited? For me, for talking baseball, I'm so excited for the postseason. Yeah. For talking the yanks as my Yankee fandom, I get a little sad that the season's ending because it's closer to no baseball.

Like I'm excited for the postseason, obviously. but it's closer to no baseball and the Yankees are my everyday life. But as like these other teams, the Dodgers, the Braves, I'm so excited for the postseason. Like, let's see what we got here. Yeah, and Jim, I think the other elephant in the room there is, I mean, Alexi Ann. Talking Yanks ends one of two ways.

It ends really sad or really happy. And talking baseball, I mean, if there's a crazy, NLCS game between the Dodgers and the Braves? Cardinals and the Braves? My Braves? Let my Braves be in there. We'll be able to talk about that on talking baseball and be like, oh, that three two pitch by Soroka. That was incredible. So yeah, for talking baseball, it's like it's just building up full speed ahead. For talking yanks, it's like, all right, the train's going to be going and we're either going to celebrate at the end or, there's going to be a really sad episode where you and I stare at each other and go,

well, I don't know, you look back. It was a really good season. But it's not what we wanted. And, yeah, we'll talk about the offseason in a week or so. Don't talk to us. I'm also really excited for the wild card games. Nope, not being in it. We've talked about that a lot.

Oh, yeah. Still need the race to not host one. Crazy drunk. That was my deal for everyone. You're going to be crazy drunk? That was my deal for everyone on talking baseball that I don't have to. Like the wild card games are so nerve-reck. Like I couldn't drink during that.

What's the date of the wild card games? God, I got to, they're what, the month, the Tuesday and the Wednesday? I don't know. October 1st and October 2nd. Okay. October 1st and October 2nd. So when's, what, okay, so that's a Tuesday and a Wednesday. So what are we, I don't know what our other commitments are.

But yeah, we should maybe try and go live on YouTube or something. Yeah, definitely. Right. what's that you're going to have them on cable right yeah because they're going to be what tvs and fox or whatever we won't be dealing with a delay so yeah maybe we try and live stream a little during that okay maybe we'll see that's such a commitment that it's hard to i shouldn't have thrown it out there before we're going to be watching them gonna be watching them i'd like to be making gifts and stuff too so we'll see but you can carry that when i get busy anyway jake are you ready for the national

league report. I think I am, Jim, and I know you said you said you were excited to hear about the American League. I've got some stuff in there. You're going to like, but yeah, you got to catch me up on the NL. And I love to you opened with Mets Diamondbacks. And hindsight's 20-20. Would have called that the shovel series? I just put a bunch of shovels on the middle. Someone's getting buried this series. Is it you? Is it us or is it both of us? Who's getting buried? It's like you throw like a gun in the room with two guys and like figure it out. It's the Joker. The Joker scene.

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And I do have to apologize. Last episode we were talking about their slogan, Dare Mighty Things. It's a quote from Teddy Roosevelt. And in the context of the quote, it makes more sense. And we were like, what does that even mean? I don't even get it. Truth or dare, the dare mighty things. But it's kind of shorthand for a dare to dare yourself to do mighty things.

What's the mightiest thing you've ever done? That time you got beat up, took on five guys and lost. That was pretty, like that was big dare. It's kind of a big dare. A lot of lesser men wouldn't have done that. I didn't think that it was just going to be the five and me. Um, it's the biggest thing I've dared. I don't know, man.

Okay. Tough. Cool. The National League report. The music from the show is always Mikey Retano, who I want to give a lot of love to because I love all the music. The Pirates took three out of five from the giants. No one really cares. The Dodgers and the Orioles met up for a three game set and the Dodgers won.

Two of the three, Walker Bueller and John Means had good starts. Rich Hill made his return from the injured list, Jake, exited the game with a knee injury before getting out of the first inning. That's not the best sign for them. The Phillies and the Braves split a four-game set in Philadelphia, which is like good for Philly because the Braves are a really good team, but also you're looking to do more than that. Dallas Keikle had another good start for the Braves,

so good for them and good for Keikle. The Premier Series is the Mets swept the dime, in the shovel series, a four-game set, they won the first two in close games, then they blew them out in the next two. In the first game, in the first game, DeGrom had a good start. Alonzo went deep twice. In the second game, Wheeler had a good start. Todd Fraser had all three RBIs.

In the third game, Matt's had a good start. Todd and McNeil both go deep twice. In the fourth game, Stroman had a good start, and Juan Ligaris goes deep twice. Offense and pitching coming through every single game. The Diamondbacks were held to four runs in the four games. The snakes go from one and a half out of the wildcard to three and a half out, and the Mets jump from four to two. It's a big, big series for the Mets and momentum and all things, Metropolitan's.

The Brewers swept the Marlins in a four-game set. Old friend Tyler Austin had a ninth inning sack fly to win game. two. In game three, Mike Mustakis had a two-run homer in the ninth to take the lead. Big comeback wins. Big sweep for the brewers gets them right back into the race. But Yelich is hurt and out for the season, and that is fairly damaging. The Nationals beat the twins in three games. Berrios and Anabal had a fun pitcher's duel in game one, I believe. And that's win.

The Rockies won a series. Jake, the Rockies won two games out of three against a team. It was the Cardinals. Chi Chi Gonzalez had a really nice start, and he's got a really fun name, so I put him in the notes. The Cubs and Padres had a four-game set, and Jake was very excited about this one last episode. The Padres won two, and the Cubs won two. Padres walked off a game, then they shut the Cubs out in the game.

Then U. Darbish went to work and dropped a 14K start. As for the standings, the Brewers and Cubs are now tied for the second wild card spot, both sitting at 78 and 68 on the season. Mets and Phillies are both two games behind them tied themselves. That's your National League report. Who doggie? You don't. Who Darvish?

Who? Darvish. Who? Who darvish? Caught a little bit of you. Great stuff, James. Thanks. Fantastic.

caught a little bit of U-START against the Padres. He was throwing dirty stuff. That was between the Yankees double header the other day. So I got to watch a little bit of that. Jim, I mean, what jumps out? Is that Pirates Giant series? No, I don't want to talk about that at all. Let's talk about the Amazons, man.

I preluded it, the shovel series. They won't die, man. In Mets fashion, they got written off by even their own faithful last week. and now here they are scrapping. I mean, it's still not in the likely bucket, but they're around. Step right up and meet the Mets. Greet the Mets.

They beat the Diamondbacks. Hey, and this was kind of a you versus me because you were saying the Diamondbacks are in it, and I was saying, no, they're not, but the Mets are. Not that. Well, this doesn't answer any of those questions, but we were both. I was saying the Mets are in it,

the Diamondbacks aren't, which I was like kind of wrong about because they were both in it up until the series. But Diamondbacks failed. I mean, the Mets did good, but we also got to say the Diamondbacks, like, what are you doing? This was the, I mean, in the shovel series, the Diamondbacks, they flunk the dunk. I mean, this was, you'd had, you'd put so much work in to get yourself to this point. And I mean, it's also credit to the Mets. They went out and they shoved and they had the magic going a little bit, the, the, the

pitching was there. You mentioned, I mean, some of the hitting performances, Alonzo, Frazier, Ligaris. I don't know if you saw the highlights from that, Jim, but they did the classic. He came up with the bases loaded in the broadcaster, which, you know, this isn't no Stradamus stuff, but the broadcaster goes, you know, he's never had a grand slam, hits the grand slam, everyone's going nuts, good times in Metsland, comes up for the second at bat. And this one was pretty good. The announcer goes, you know, he's never had a multi-homer. game. Should I try that one? And then he hit another homer and he got his first multi-homer game. So that was kind of fun. Yeah. I mean, the debacks, you put in a lot of work to get where you are and then to have a

series like this happens. That's brutal. For the Mets, I mean, it's still two games out and you still have to hop, what, three teams? But, Jim, I think the bigger thing, because again, like last week, they blew the seven-run game and everyone was ready to bury the Mets and everything that's been going on with them. Jim, at the trade deadline, the Mets went out and got Strowman. And, you know, are they going to trade Wheeler? Are they going to trade? Who are they going to move? They go out, they got Strowman. Hey, if you told them with two weeks to play that they'd be two games out of the wild card, I think they'd be pretty happy with that. So, I mean, shout out to the Mets. Well, they're almost done with this tough stretch. You know, we said like they have a tough,

tough stretch of games here. They, it was really tough. And they got swept by the Braves. Then they got swept by the Cubs. And it was like, damn. They got Philly, the Nationals, Philly,

and Arizona coming up. They beat the, they beat Phillies two out of three. They beat the Nationals two out of three. They lost to the Phillies, two out of three, but then they sweep Arizona. So they come out looking pretty good.

They have three games against the Dodgers coming up. And who are the Dodgers going to pitch? because after that it's kind of gravy for them the Mets like after that if they want to go on a tear they have the schedule to do it they're going to get ooh they're going to get kershaw and ryu and we'll see and Sindergarde starting versus Kershaw and Gugard's been causing some noise have you heard all that this catcher he doesn't like throw into blanking some big yes met's officials last week and to pair him with either

Nito or Rivera instead of Wilson Ramos Yeah, and one of the reports was like he was livid And he went to talk to Mickey And he was like, I wasn't livid And it was a calm discussion And then Just want to throw to one of these other guys, man Yeah, no, but then

Somewhere I was reading or listening to Maybe it was Joe and Evan on WFAN They're like, I'm sick of this dude He's really good I'm sick of him I think so I don't know if that rings true For a lot of Mets fans but I was sick of Syngard earlier in the season.

It just kind of complains a tonne, it seems like. That could be false narrative. I'm a little not like in deep, but it seems like he's complaining about a lot of things a lot of times. Yeah, it feels like there's a lot going on and whatever comes from it, kind of. Like Wheeler, de Grom, Mats never hear them as like complainers. Right.

It feels like Cindergards always complaining. And maybe there is a little New York media there. These other guys, maybe they don't really do much of anything, so they gravitate towards Cindergarde and they make a story out of the story. Like we just said with this. He just said, hey, man, I'd really like to throw to one of these other catchers. And then look at the first things we say, that Cindergarde threw a tantrum and asked for another catcher. And it's like, well, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.

but it gets blown up a little more. Yeah. Well, good for the Mets. They're two out. Hey, man, if they can win games against Kershaw and Riu, still impressive even though both of them are on a slide. If they can win this Dodgers series. Yeah.

Then I'll get really excited, because I still don't think there's a chance they really win the wild card. I still think it's locked up with Cubs or... Cardinals or Cubs are Brewers, but now Brewers are tough. So maybe the Mets can squeak out. But if they win this Dodgers series, Jake, I'm almost become a believer that they get the second wild card. Wow. Because the schedule from there is pretty easy.

It's Rockies. It's Rockies, Reds, Marlins, and then three with the Braves at the tail end. And we know the Phillies, who they're competing with and is harder. a harder schedule. I think Phillies are excited. They split with the Braves, which is kind of like mentally not where your head should be. Yeah, it's tough, man. The Braves are crazy good. I mean, you're obviously going to hear me talk about them because that's a main feature on talking baseball. But dude, I mean, like literally, we've done this since right before the All-Star break, Jim. You and I, we did a couple like tester episodes and then we let we let it rip on all the main.

channels. Can you remember an episode or like, ooh, Braves slip up? Like, no, they just don't. Well, I think this one is the, I was surprised that they didn't win this series. Right. But like you were saying, this series means so much more to Philly and it's in Philly. Do you have the Braves beating the Dodgers? Or like, is this swoon from the Dodgers like, who cares? Because I still think the Dodgers can turn it on at any second. But also, it's definitely a better series than it was two months ago in my head. Right, right. I think that's definitely the case.

I mean, the Dodgers are still more talented. I'd say the thing you're running into, and I don't know if I'd call it like a Texas Rangers effect or a Cleveland Indians effect a little bit. But, you know, the Dodgers had a couple really good tries at it. And maybe they just turn it on and they're easily the team out of the NL. That wouldn't surprise anyone. But what if these Braves do get some momentum or one of these other teams catch fire?

I mean, the pressure falls on the Dodgers because they are the most talented team that's been there the past two years. I mean, the pressure is going to be on them. If one of these other teams get some magic going, which it feels like the Braves have a little bit of, and I mean, we'll see if one of these teams from the Central can get it going. Or hell, the freaking amazing Mets, man, how awesome would that first round series be the Mets first the Dodgers, the Mets playing with some of the most house money you could find in baseball, and the Dodgers, like, just needing to survive. Otherwise, they're kind of like a laughing stock, like an NL Dynasty laughing stock,

if somehow the Mets played the Dodgers and they beat them. Yeah. The freaking amazing Mets. But there's a lot of dream in there still. What's going on with the Brewers? Like the yellow ginger is brutal. They're currently tied for the second wild card with the Cubs big, big for them, because they were like out of it three series ago. Remember they're like four and a half back or something?

Yeah. They're currently tied 78 and 68 with the Cubs for the second wild card. But Jake, Yelich is out. And who are they have? Yelich is out. Hero, your guy. Jim, and it's funny, they have a big series this weekend because they face the Cardinals in St. Louis. You just mentioned the Cardinals lost, and I think Flaherty opens up this series for the Cardinals,

so that's going to be a brutal ass. But Jim, the Brewers, A, their pitching has gotten going a little bit. I'm going to talk about that a little later. Jim, after this Cardinals series, so they've got three with the Cardinals. So, I mean, even if you get one, Like it's not the end of the world. Jim, they host the Padres. Or, yeah, they host the Padres for four.

They host the Pirates for three. Then it's three against Sinci, three against Colorado. I mean, those are, you talked about the Mets having a good schedule? I mean, if the Brewers can survive this St. Louis series, just don't get swept. I mean, they're looking good, man. But who's their pitching? Like, I know who they're pitching is, Hauser. Lyles, Gio Gonzalez, had a good start, I believe. Maybe he didn't. But I mean, I think, Jim,

they're already to compare that to DeGromps and Gard Stromen, Matt's Wheeler. Right, but they're, they're kind of in just piece it together mode, man. I mean, they're, you know, haters gotten it going. They've got Claudio in the pen, uh, Gera. I mean, Hauser, I mean, Zach Davies has had a solid year. Woodruff is hurt. I think they're just kind of day by day. Jordan Lyles has been great since the trade deadline. Drew Pomeranz is doing good things for them.

So I think they're just kind of like day by day. They're kind of in that baseball mode where you look at the lineup every day and you say, all right. I mean, we lost Yelich, which is nuts. You know, Grandal, he's having a really good year. Tames is having a good year. Hayura. Mustak has had a big home run.

I have a definitive take or point of view now, which if we have any brewers, fans, listeners, you're not going to like. I'm not rooting for the brewers. With Yellowchow, no one excites me on the brewers besides Hader, and he's at the end of games when you're winning. None of the starting pitchers excite me. I don't think the brewers can make a run, even if they win the wild card. And I'd much rather the Mets get into the wild card.

and see that starting pitching do something and kind of the magic instead of this piecemeal Brewers team. And that's kind of fair, Jim. I mean, it does hurt to say, I will say this, Jim, if you look at the games played, you'll like the Brewers. They run the same guys out there every day pretty much. And so I know you're into that a little bit. The Yellich thing is awful.

That's kind of why we were rooting for the brewers because it's like, hey, if Yelich wants to go nut job, we are here for it. and that it's kind of i don't want to say it's a sucky thing but we we like when teams rally in sports but like if the brewers went on a run without yellage that would also suck like he's he's so good and then if the brewers get going it's kind of going to be i i don't know it'd be be an interesting storyline to see how it all goes down but i i get what you're saying that is a little tough for the brew crew yeah anything else in the national league you want to I want to mention or talk about before we move on.

I mean, the Cubs and Padres, you were very excited for that. And you were rooting for the Padres to spoil the Cubs. They split. Are you still against the Cubs? I mean, I still, I just want that wild card. Like, I want the Mets, Philly, and maybe Zona if they can get hot somehow, lost their last five. That's a tough way to go about it, Zona. All right, all right.

I have a question, Jake. Right. Okay. So this is what you and I want. Right. Who do the... How did the series break down coming up? So we have the Mets versus the Dodgers.

So we're rooting for the Mets to win, right? Ruding for the Mets to win two of three. Cubs, pirates. They have to survive a little bit. If they lose two of three to the Dodgers, it's not the end of the world with their upcoming schedule. No, no, but this is what we're hoping for because we want a four-way tie in the wildest.

wild card after this weekend. Okay. So anyone else, and if you're an American League fan, this is probably what you're rooting for because mayhem's more fun. Mets have to take two of three from the Dodgers. Pirates take two of three from the Cubs, which I don't know is possible. Brewers take two of three from the Cardinals.

No, we need the Cardinals. They'll take the division. Brewers lose two of three. Oh, Jimmy, I'm going to stop you there. I was just about to say, the Cardinals might come back to Earth with the other teams. Jim, the Cardinals, they've got the Brewers this series. Jim, we've been doing a lot of schedule talk. Listen to this happy horseshit.

So the Cardinals host the Brewers for three. Fine. They host the Nationals for three. That's tough. The Cardinals then go on the road to the Cubbies for four. They go to the West Coast. They play the Diamondbacks for three. and then they host the Cubs for three to end the year.

So, I mean, the Cubs kind of control their own destiny a little bit. I mean, give me central mayhem. Give me wild card mayhem. No, okay. I'm rooting for the Brewers to lose two or three from the Cubs. And then the Red Sox to beat the Phillies, or for the Phillies to beat the Red Sox twice. That we have a four-way tie for the second wild card

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You've got some cool designs. If you love the Sandlot as much as I do, you're going to enjoy it. The American League report, Jake. James, on top of the East and all of baseball in the American League, the Yankees, they lose game one to the Detroit Tigers 1211 in a wild punt game. Yankees come back. They win both games on a double-heder day after the rainout to win the series. Voight and Deity get going.

Edwin and Gary behind the plate get nicked up. Yeah, sounds like the Yankee season. Tampa Bay, the Rays lose two out of three, visiting the ballpark in Arlington as the Rangers bullpen them to death. Kind of both teams did. And there's a fun moment, Jim, you're going to love this. Nick Solac for the Rangers, the rookie. He homered off.

Fairbanks for Tampa, who he was traded for two months ago. That's our favorite. So they won that trade. Think I'll go to Boston. Actually, the Sox went to Toronto to play the Baby Jays. The Red Sox win game three to fend off the sweep. Toronto. Trent Thornton hears a who.

He shut him out in game two. Jim finally in the east. The Orioles played three games against the Dodgers. They won one. Huge for Baltimore. John, what do you mean? Good for him. In the Centrale, you heard the tiger snuck one out against the Yanks. Minnesota, they hosted the nationals. Barrios helped shut out the Nats in game one. Then those pesky Nats won the final two games, flexing the long ball behind the usual suspects you'd expect for Washington.

Jimmy, your Baleveland Indians. What's dead may never die. Indian sweep the Angels in Anaheim. Impressive starts from Zach Plesack and not Justin, but Shane Bieber. The White Sox hosted the Royals for this week's Stink Bowl. Royals win two out of three. Sure. In the West, you heard Texas beat up on the raise. You heard about Anaheim forcing our free Mike Trout chance.

In Seattle, getting some dubs and interleague play. Jim, the leading Houston Astros win game one against Oakland. put up 15 runs given the world series but then guess what the a's take game two putting up a 21 spot of their own and they win the final two games in houston the a's they take three out of four matt olson man some clutch hits that dude's for real good for oakland love him and jim that's your a l report What's going on in Houston? Dude, Jimmy, it's funny. A phrase I haven't said on here in too long is that you say baseball moves fast. Think about how long ago was that Monday game where Houston, they put up 15 runs, they won 15 nothing.

Everyone's freaking out like, oh boy, Astro Season, man. These guys can't be stopped. And then Oakland. They say, we see you're 15, we raise you 21, and then they win two games. They get a couple clutch hits from Olson. I think it was 5.3, they won the second game, and then maybe 4-3 the final. I'm blanking on that right now. But Oakland, man, they're turning it on.

They're calling up a couple big-time prospects, Jimmy, who are doing good things for them, trying to catch the magic. It's a fun time to be an Oakland A's fan. Hendricks is awesome. I watched the end of the game yesterday. I went live on Periscope for it because I was like, yeah, let's watch us together. His fastball is just dot in 99 mile power fastballs right on the inside corner. So awesome.

I have a big theory that Fires was tipping pitches. Right. And then the next day, Houston pitcher was tipping pitches himself. You're going double-tipped pitches. Well, no, I didn't look at the box score of the next game. Who got lit up for Houston? I think it was Wade Miley has been getting absolutely killed for them recently. But that doesn't even matter for them, right?

Like that would be the same as, for the Yankees, that would be the same as J.A. Hap getting lit up. And Yankee fans would be like, don't care. Yeah. Yeah, let me check. Yeah, Wade Miley, 0.1 innings pitch, seven earn runs. Yeah, so they were trading cameras, tipping pitches back and forth. I mean, Mike fires line.

That doesn't happen unless you're tipping pitches. Honestly. Baseball, it's a good team. It's a hitters park. Jake, single, single home run, home run, hard ground out. Single, single home run, home run. How many swinging strikes were? there.

You'd have to tell me. Uh, okay. Through the first two batters, none. Okay. Through the first four batters, none. Okay. We're, we're injuring closer and closer to, uh, this being, uh, tipping pitches. Okay.

Could it just not add his stuff that day? Through the first six batters, there's not one swinging strike. Okay. The seventh batter has one. Finally. Yeah, he is tipping pitches. we got we got two swinging strikes in the first inning and there was seven batters or nine batters nine nine batters two swinging strikes three home runs four singles i mean i don't have a

problem with it but i just i think that's the easiest solution there there's a chance for sure Altuve homered. They're good at that. They're good at picking that up. Like when the Yankees went there into Houston, um, who was it? Paxton was tipping pitches and they just lit him up.

They just sat, spit on everything. And then when the fastball come came, they were just rocked them. And Beltron was like, yeah, you tip in your pitches. It was pretty obvious.

So. But then Wade Miley, maybe he's doing the same thing. That was crazy. And then like the, the two blowouts are in such a close game. three, two with two runners on in the bottom of the ninth, and Hendricks trying to close it out.

That is the craziness of baseball. Brantley up there, runners on, yeah. And I mean, that's a big, big brother game. I mean, Houston has been obviously dominant for a couple years now. They've got the budget. They can bring on a Justin Verlander when he was struggling, making 20-plus million. Oakland can't do something like that.

So, I mean, there's a little bit of a big brother, little brother effect going on there. But yeah, I mean, I mentioned a couple young guys. Sean Murphy, that catcher, big time catching prospect, Jim. He had a big series. They called up Jesus Lazzardo. You'll hear about him later on call-up watch. Oakland's pulling everything out, man. They're pulling out all the stops.

Oakland can't do what? Bring in Justin Verlander for 20 plus million. They can. They have the money. They just choose not to run. the organization. Well, that's not how they operate. That's how the owner.

So technically they can't. Like the GM and the team can. The GM and the team can. The owner could. So that's why I never give the A's like credit for not spending money. They're always like, we're a small market team. It's like, no, you get one of the richest owners in baseball. You just, right.

You can't choose to be cheap and then use it as like an excuse. Well, the GM and the players and the fans of the organization can. It's on the owner. Yeah, but, yeah. But the A's can't bring them in because that's what their owner does. That's how he operates that business. Yeah, no, but they can bring them in. They just don't.

The owner is the, the owner is the A's. Right. Yeah. They could be, and like, they have a big baseball city. Like Astros were garbage five years ago, and they were smart. A's refused to do that stuff. they'd rather roll the dice and every three years they're really competitive

and then they'll trade everyone away. It's terrible. It's a, I don't know, it's kind of been working for them. They've been good for a few years now. They haven't won anything. Right. But not a lot of teams have.

Astros have. Astros have. Well, the A's, the A's are now in the lead. in the wild card, which gives them home field advantage, which is perfect. Stay that way. And the Indians get right back in. They're only a half game out.

They're actually tied with the raise in the loss column. So that's, these wild card races are getting excited. This one is actually pretty cool. I mean, where are the Red Sox in this? I mean, they're done. They died last week. They're down to nine and a half out. Yeah.

Yeah, they're going to. You think they'll finish above 500? They have to. There's seven games above 500. They have to, like, really tank. They have to go, like, seven and, or like six and ten in their next, whatever. Yeah, and they won't do that until they're officially eliminated from the wild card, which I think is six games.

And then, I mean, you'll see them probably rest guys and stuff. So, I mean, it's not crazy, crazy to think about. But, yeah. Yeah, I mean, the story. is Cleveland, Tampa, Oakland, and Jim, Minnesota, this is what I want to get you excited about. Jim, the Indians, we basically mark them for dead. You know, Jose Ramirez has been out. They've been losing games.

They've been, you know, Oakland and Tampa are bringing up either prospects or guys getting healthy. Jimmy, the lead in the AL Central is three and a half games, and the Cleveland Indians are hosting Minnesota. for three games this weekend. Yeah, I know. That's kind of exciting because we said, you know, keep it close, keep it within a strike range for when you play them.

And they didn't do that. Then they beat the twins. They beat the twins, like the last three series they've played them, I think, something like that. Can't confirm. Yeah, so they beat them last series. They took two of three.

And then the one before that, they took three of four. So the last two times they've played, they beat them. Now they welcome them. But who's the pitching matchups? Because I know Cleveland just through like Plysack. I mean, it doesn't really matter for Cleveland, Jim.

They've got arms on arms on arms. They do? Yeah, dude. Their pitching is insane right now. Beaver's a stud. Clevenger is a stud. Pleasack is a stud. So they have Bieber and Clevenger going.

and then Savali, who was doing... I'm like, dude, I'm just telling you. It's not a lot of names you know, but these Cleveland pitchers, it's wild. All right, so I'm now rooting for all that in the National League four-way tie, and I want the Indians to sweep the twins. Okay, that's fair. If the Indians sweep the twins,

that fucks the twins and the race, slash a's Yeah Like if the Indians Win two out of three Against the twins or sweep them That's big changes Across the board

Yeah two out of three I mean that's what I was going to say If you're Minnesota You need to get one Because if you could get one You're still going to walk out of there With a solid lead in the division Minnesota

This is a massive series They have to fend off that sweep Because Jim now They are back in the midst of the wild card race if they don't. And that's what would be crazy. And that's why I was kind of rooting for that in the NL Central, too. Because, I mean, we can make both these centrals and wild card races a mess real quick.

It'll be interesting to see what Minnesota does. There's been a couple times we've kind of called them out and we've been looking for them to, hey, show us Minnesota. Like, we know you're hitting home runs, but show us. So maybe this is a chance for them, too, to go to, to go to, Cleveland and try to seal off the division. I want to sweep. Right.

I won't rest until I get it. No, you better. I'm not a believer in the Twins, and it might slap me in the face big time. But I haven't been, and I won't be until I have to be. Won't be until you see it. You got to see it. And I think that's fair.

That's not being too rude. I like Nelson Cruz. It's good. Mitch Garver, catcher. Yep. Got to respect that. everything else is kind of bad Orioles are bad

Yankees are getting hurt left and right Yanks Yanks get a couple injuries that was a crazy thing and I I don't know I'll mention it a couple times but there's a if you're listening to this you know but maybe I'm going to make it a mission to like spread knowledge of punt days in baseball better like an NBA has their rest days

where they keep their guys rested and healthy, and they're kind of punting those games a little bit. With how fragile pitchers are and everything that's going on, and you all have seen it. But tell a baseball friend that doesn't know yet. That, like, yeah, there's probably once a week that, I mean, sometimes twice a week, that teams are throwing terrible guys out of their bullpen

and losing games because that's kind of part of the state of baseball right now. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people. There's a lot of people on Twitter that they just hear like the cookie cutter regurgitated take, and they'll just say it without knowing anything. Like the Yankees lost to the Indians and they're like, wow, you really don't have any pitching. Good luck winning in the playoffs with that pitching. And it's like, well, they didn't throw a single guy.

Right. He's going to be on the playoff roster. So don't just talk without knowing anything. Right. And that's the same thing that was about Houston with Wade Maile. Like, is he going to affect their playoff chances? Probably not. Don't think so.

Not anymore. Yeah. So it's got to know that kind of stuff. Jake, are you ready to go to our standout performances? Standout performances. Yeah, Jim. I'm excited for yours. I get to go first.

Yep. And I'm doing a good friend of mine. Yeah. And by that, I should let you guys know. I've never interacted or talked with him. But he follows me on Twitter and he retreats me every now and then. Todd Frazier. Pride of Tom's River.

Todd father. Having a rather lackluster season for a while, he went off in this Diamondback series, Jake. And he played in three of the four games. He went five for ten, two doubles, and three home runs. Five hits, three home runs. runs, two doubles, seven RBIs. He scored four runs, so he's responsible for 11 runs that crossed the plate. But the thing is, they were really big RBIs. In the two-double game that he got,

the Mets won three to two. He had all three RBIs. So he's the offense. In the next game, the Mets won big, but it was Todd's home run in the first that was like the dagger. They're up two-nothing. Todd hits the home run. That goes from two-run first inning. easily to recover from to a four harder and then after him another home run five runs in the first for the Mets and Todd's a big part of that with the home run he had another home run later on and then in the third game the Mets win big again but the first run that crossed the board was a second inning homer from Todd gets it going big series for the Mets big series for all the pitching and there was other guys McNeil had two home runs Lagaris had a lot of RBIs and two home runs Alonzo had two home runs in the

first game. All of Todd's hits were huge momentum changers from tied games or, you know, close games. There was no, like, tack-on homers. Todd Fraser had himself a hell of a three-game stretch. Having a good couple weeks, too, his last 13, 378, 465 on base, five homers, 15 ribbies and 13 games. Todd gets it going and you end up stumbling into some generic stuff like, oh, tough not to like this, guy in New Jersey and all of that. But all of it's true with Todd Frazier. I mean, he plays with emotion. Like, normally there's guys that would shy away from that in an interview and be like, Todd, you know, is eighth inning and you got two runners on base, you know, is there, are you feeling anything different in that at bat? And a lot of guys just give generic answers in those

questions and they're like, yeah, you know, it's another at bat. I just try to stay my plan, look for a pitch and drive something. Todd Frazier's like, yeah, man, are you kidding me? Like, the stadium's rocking. Like, I love that stuff. And it's, uh, he's, he's just a good dude and a good friend. Best friend of mine. A good best friend. Who's your standout performance? John, my standout performance. And we're bringing it back to Believeland. I went Zach, please, Zach. I could have went, I thought about Bieber. I also thought about you Darvish. I was feeling the pitchers this week. Zach, please sack, we talked about him a little bit. He's a rookie Jim. His uncle Dan was a major league pitcher for a long time. Zach Plessack out of Ball State,

Muncie, Indiana, Jerry Gergich's time share, Jimmy. He went complete game shutout, man, and this is a, you know, we can make our generic jokes. This is going the way of the dinosaur. You're not going to see a lot more of these in baseball. Five strikeouts, but that's fine, because he gave up nowhere in runs, Jim. And I kind of, an extension of this is the Cleveland Indian staff as a whole. hole. But Zach's been good, man. For his rookie year, 19 games started, 8 and 6 with a 364 ERA, and I gave that whole spiel about punt days and rest and bullpins. Complete game shutouts, man. I mean, those re-energize your team for a couple of days. You've rested your bullpen. You got the win yesterday. I mean, that is like a big trump card in a series when other team is starting to burning through

their arms, and you get a full rest day out of it. Um, and, and, and Jim, I think the other thing that is funny, we wrote off the Indians a little bit. I mentioned Ramirez getting hurt. They were starting to slide. Minnesota grew their lead. Oakland and Tampa both had reinforcements coming, and we were like, Cleveland, this is kind of tough.

Know what helps you win a lot of baseball games? Pitching. Really good pitching, and Cleveland has that on a day-to-day basis. And I think back towards there was a part of this Yankee season when the first island of Misfit toy Yankees got going, going on their West Coast trip, and it was like, wow, how are these Yankees winning? Who are these guys? And it was like, well, the Yankees were pitching really good.

And sometimes it's tough to ignore that, especially when they're not household names. Bieber's not a household name yet. Plesack isn't. Savali, you know, even Clevenger, who's a stud, but he's not well known yet. But, I mean, they throw those guys on a given day, and you've got a chance to win. I had Plesack as my standout performance. I changed to Todd. Because the Angels are so bad and Mike Trout didn't play.

And Otani got hurt and pinch hit four. So this is what we're looking at, Jake. Brian Goodwin, David Fletcher, Otani to Boar. Good. Justin Upton. Yeah. Cole Calhoun. All star.

Andrylton Simmons. Stud. Jared Walsh. Okay. Then it gets bad. Yeah. Luis Rengifo. Love him.

Anthony Bemboom. And I looked through the game log and I was like, they guys suck. They were just swinging early and putting balls in play. He only had five strikeouts. Like the Angels were not trying. Is this Ben Boom? So there's two catchers right now.

There's Ben Boom and Key Boom. Okay, so this is Ben Boom's second team this year. So he's been on Tampa and the Angels. Wasn't he the 29-year-old rookie that came up? Yeah, so he was the 29-year-old rookie. Who's, um, so key boom, okay, so key boom, there's a Spencer key boom on the Nationals. There's a Carter Key Boom. Who's also on the Nationals?

This is starting to freak me out. I'm done with the booms. There's two key booms? There's two key booms in Major League Baseball right now. And they're on the same team? How do you spell their name? K-I-E boom. the fuck oh so spencer's not with the nationals anymore

um he's on the he's on the iL and he hasn't played it all this year right are they brothers i think it would say that in baseball reference it doesn't say anything they gotta be right how do you have two keybooms on the same team how do you have Carter key boom and spencer key boom one is from walton high school in georgia and the other from South Carolina. Damn. Freaking me out. What the fuck?

I'm out on the Key Boom Brothers. Who do you think's got the better Twitter handle? Spencer's is Key Boom 22. And Carter's is Carter Key Boom. Number two, easy. The keybooms. Yeah, so anyway, the Angels had a terrible lineup. Police sack.

it's still impressive that he got the complete game shutout, but it wasn't enough for me. I looked at the game like, and I was like, damn, that's, those angels suck. Trout's kind of hurt. He's going to try and come back and play.

Otani's hurt and going to get another surgery, and then he's going to be recovering from two at the same time. My brother-in-law is a big Angels fan, and he might listen to talking baseball. So I know that you're a huge get trout out of Anaheim proponent. Fram. And it's really hard not to be. Yeah.

Like, what are they doing? I don't know. I mean, we'll talk about a lot of this stuff in the offseason. Do they have the money to go out and get a Garrett Cole or someone like that? And with Colin Otani pitching next year. But again, like I just put Garrett Cole on their team. Like, that's not a guarantee at all. It's just, it sucks, man.

And it's going to, I feel like it's going to be a bad trivia question. Like, which, which two Hall of Famers played a decade together and never made a playoff game? And it's going to be Trout and Pools, one of the best first basement ever and maybe the best player ever. And it's just, it's frustrating. I'm not even a fan. I'm not a fan of their team and I'm frustrated. Buck Johnson says the keybooms are brothers. in the chat.

Okay, get out of here. They went to different high schools in different states? I don't want to Google it. Okay. I'm watching. Jim, final thing on Plessack, I mentioned complete game. You rest the bullpen. Jim, that was the middle game.

They used some bullpen guys the next game, and then they had an off day. So like you said, you wanted them to get a sweep in this Minnesota series. They are full bore. They're full bore. Full four. I'm rooting for the Indians. I say good.

They are brothers. And they're on the same professional baseball team? Sounds like no fun. It sounds like an ideal childhood. Oh, there's a third brother. Oh, no. Don't. Oh, no.

We got a Manning brother situation here. Oh, boy. Trevor Keyboom Looks like the middle brother Oh tough Trevor did not want to catch like his older brother But he didn't want to play He started as a bat boy

Okay well I don't know what happened to Trevor Keyboom but it seems like he's not on the nationals And his two brothers are Well Manning Manning brothers that's a good segue into slump watch Dude he's an agent Yeah And one of the men

Manning Brothers does oil stuff or whatever. Trevor Keyboom, certified agent. So it's pretty cool to be an agent when both your brothers are pros. It works out. Mm-hmm. Really works out. It's going to Slump Watch. Trevor Bowers been on Slump Watch for a bit.

He goes 6.1 innings pitched, three hits, two earned runs, three walks, eight strikeouts versus Seattle. the Reds lost the game, but that's a good line from him. So let's get him out of here. Yeah, he's gone. Maybe one golf clap at Seattle. So whatever. I'm not glad.

See you, Trev. Rieu still didn't pitch yet because he's skipping his starts. He will face the Mets. So we'll see how that goes. Okay. Crush Davis for the A's, Jake. He goes five for 15 in the series, which is a 375 on base percentage,

I know 8 OPS. He did have a home run, four BIs. He had a hit in four games in a row, which I don't think he had done in a long, long time. So once again, he's momentarily off of slump watch. And it's like you can clap for him if you want, but I'm not going to. Right.

What do you got on Chris Davis? I'm not clapping for him. I was going to cover it in Fuego, but I'll mention it now. The numbers from the Houston-Oklowcline series are all inflated because of the 15-run game and the 21 score. I could have done a whole Enfuego with just Houston and Oakland players,

so I actually excluded them from Enfuego. Yeah, my old theory, runs 1 through 10, very impressive. Any run scored after the 10th run in the game, you don't get credit for it. It's not impressive. you're facing slot bullpen and position players. Jim, there would be a legitimate argument for one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven players from the Oakland Houston series to be on Enfuego. So by that rule, you're not in fuego.

You're like the norm. Yeah, it's true. So good for you, Chris Davis. Get going. Well, Andrew Benintende. He goes one for 10 versus Toronto. He's not one for his last 26. Talk about a guy they might, you know, phase out towards the end of the season just to kind of rest him.

Unless he wants to play and finish strong, I guess it's kind of up to him. But yikes, Ben Intendi stays on slump watch because he's slump in. Yeah, that'll be interesting just to see if Benny wants to pull the court on this season and be like, oh, that wasn't great. Or if he wants to try to salvage it with a little bit in the, the next couple weeks. Eddie Rosario, he was on here. He went two for ten this series with two walks.

Twins lost the series, 273 on base percentage. Not enough to get off slump watch, right? No, and with the big series coming up, but I think Eddie, next week is Eddie's put up or shut up. Like you're either off and you kind of blew it, or you can, you know, have an impactful week and the twins need it. And Aristides Aquino did the same thing,

two for 10 with two walks, just like Eddie Rosario. And he's got a 486 OPS in September now, Aquino. He's a home run phenom. So, I mean, it's a difference. Like, is it slump watch or is it figured him out watch? And we probably won't know until next season. And that's why, I mean, I still want Aquino on the list just because I want to watch. You just want to pay attention.

Yeah, I just want to know. I got to know. I got to know. I mean, if you are, that's fine. I just got to know. What are he talking about? Come on. Purcello did not pitch, so I hear the new additions.

Get him off. He's bad. Yeah. Okay, cool. Don't care about him. Don't want to keep up with his starts. Yeah. Want to keep track on a keynote done with Porcelo for this year.

These are my new additions. Yep. Alex Smith, Seattle. He's O for his last 22. Hasn't had a hit since September 1st, Jake. Yikes. Yikes. me either to be fair but oh you got a hit one of those tweets was good Travis Shaw oh for

September what I don't understand what they're doing with Travis Shaw 21 played appearances without a hit he's been like having a weird season have you seen his stats on the year Jim they're like past atrocious yeah I don't get like well I'm just not as tuned in and some brewer's fan would explain it to me like is it injuries is it Has he been up and down? Is it just like bad? Why is his play so sporadic? I'm guessing.

And like, is he just not a guy anymore? Jim, what do you think his batting average in OPS is on the season? I would guess like 2.10 and 520. Jim, his batting average is 151. Okay. Yikes. And his OPS is 526. So you're right there.

So he's not on slump watch. He's just fucking bad. bad. Yeah, but a Brewer's fan needs to reach out and tell us what happened, because Jim, the past two years, he had 31 homers and 32 homers, respectively. And OPS is in the 8th. So, like, this is one of the steeper drops we've ever seen. So, yeah, if you're a Brewers fan, I mean, was it injury? Was it just a bad season and injury? Like, what happened? I got two guys going on Slump Watch from your Braves. Yeah, Young Thick.

Young Thick Austin Riley comes off the IL and in his six games, four starts, he gives one for 13. So this isn't really slump watch. Every guy coming off the IEL has to have time to like reacclimate themselves. And it might be, it's his first time coming off the I own in the major leagues. So, you know, it might be different for him. But I just thought we'd watch it because Dansby Swanson, Jake, he came off the IL a while ago. maybe a full month ago. And since then, he's starting shortstop.

He's slashing 143 batting average 263 on base percentage with a 447 OPS. I mean, that's not good. So I don't know what the future. Coming off the IL. Tough break for my Braves. What's that? Couple guys coming off the IL. That's a tough break for my breaks.

Yeah, but Swanson's been, his numbers are since coming off. but he's had enough time where it should be good now. Austin Riley hasn't. I'll allow it. But I don't know. I mean, Swanson's the shortstop. Does Austin Riley not have a guaranteed spot if this is how it is? I think so.

I think, yeah, Marquakis is coming back soon. I know Matt Joyce has been really solid for them. I think it depends on the matchup. They probably won Austin Riley in versus lefty, right? Yeah. Austin Hedges, speaking of Austin's for the pod. Austin Hedges is two for his last 28. He's slashing 0-7-1-188 on base percentage in September for your Padres.

Good-looking catcher. Not good-looking with the bat right now. Yeah, and that's got to be one of the more disappointing things in Padres land this year. He's so good defensively, and he made a baby step last year. He had a 7-Eleven OPS, which for a catcher is what it is, especially if he can do what he does behind the plate this year. man, 184 batting average of 579 OPS. Man, it's crazy.

And for you and me, I think there's another effect to this that's like, yo, guys having a bad year. Did you know the ball is juice this year? Like, Travis Shaw, this could have been like a 45 home run year for you. And instead you're having an awful year? Yeah, Travis Shaw. What's going on? That's tough.

That's tough. Well, moving on. Dirt Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco. Woo. A lot of people don't expect to hear Dirt Nasty on Talking Baseball. Hmm. That, we're Bay Area rap guys.

Jim and Fuego, I want to start off giving some love to the pitchers. This guy got mentioned earlier. He almost got my stand. standout performance. Jim, U. Darvish for the Chicago Cubs, six innings pitch, 14 strikeouts against those Padres we just talked about. Austin Hedges probably got a couple. Jim, in his last 11 game started, U. Darvish, 244 ERA. And Jimmy, again, we had a couple of our Cubs fans reach out. One of them said, like, hey, Lester's been our big game guy. It's tough for me to picture them not giving Darvish the Rock.

game they need. I mean, he's been their best starting pitcher of late. It does get scary with some of his playoff history and Jim, I mentioned that 244 ERA in his last 11. Most of that is from one bad start, which is kind of the catch-22 with you Darvish. If you get him and he's great, you're looking at six innings, one-earn run double-digit strikeouts. If you get the bad day, your season's over. Who? Who Darvish. Oh, that's a fun call. Cubby fans, reach out at John Boyat Talking Jake.

Let us know who you want to get that rock. Maybe you guys catch up to the Cardinals. We don't even have to talk about it. Jim, this guy, I just had to put him on there. He could be on here pretty much every week. Justin Verlander for Houston. His last four games started, 27.1-1-1-3-ERA. He's silly.

He's... Hey, what was his? start after the no-hitter? Verlander start after the no-hitter. I'll get there, James. Justin Verlander, after the no-no, it looks like he went, here it is.

He went no-hitter, and then he went seven innings pitched, four hits, one-earned-run, run, seven-Ks. So, yeah, man, I mean, it's just silly. You could go back. You could do his whole season with it. numbers and it looks pretty good. He's incredible, but he does deserve to be mentioned at some point. Can't just pass over him every week.

You know who got him? Who got him? Verlander, after the no-hitter, he had two hitless innings. So I had those up. So that's 11 because the game before the no-hitter, he got ejected after giving up a double. So, yeah, so it's 11 no-hitnings in a row. and Shed long. Ooh.

Actually, Anki. My arch nemesis. Yeah, you and Shed been fighting. Me and Shed are beefing. We'd love to talk about it, Shed. No, like Shed wrong. Shet wrong. Justin Verlander could be in Fuego every week.

He lives in Fuego lifestyle. Shane, not Justin Bieber, Jim, for Cleveland. We talked about him. His last 10 game started a 2-27 ERA, and Jimmy more so the John Boy pitching stat. Look at his game lock. Jim, in the last 10, he's only given up three earned runs once. It was three earned runs on the nose.

Everything else is two and under. And it's six innings plus every time. Okay. I'm excited. It's like, it's your, Shane Bieber's last 10 has been your dream starting pitcher. Oh, yeah. But I mean, that's like, It's not even mine because I allow a little more than what people allow. This is good to anyone's measurements.

Yeah. Shit. And it's, I mean, it's what I've been talking about. I mean, again, Shane Beaver, yeah, we saw him in the All-Star game and you're like, sure, he's a young guy having a good year. No, I mean, he's every night. You've got a chance to win. And you could say that with basically the other four guys on the staff, too. shout out to Shane.

He's got three complete games on the season. We like that. Damn. And I mean, Shane Beaver and Justin Bieber have that thing going. So if Shane Bieber can be really good, like that, he's like the number one growth option for baseball right now. If you could feed off of Justin's coat tails, I know that you're saying this as somewhat of a joke,

but it's actually pretty serious that. If he becomes one of the best pitchers, having the name Bieber and Justin Bieber existing could be huge marketing for the MLV. None of that was a joke. None of that was a joke. It's kind of like a silly way to think about it, but it's true.

I mean, it's crazy true. I mean, they've already exchanged tweets and stuff. Like, I'm sure Shane Bieber probably has more Twitter followers than every other Cleveland Indian. I'd have to check on that. Not Bauer. But when Bauer was there? Not Cleveland Indian, so it works out.

When he was there. though. When? So yeah, good job Shane Beaver. Jim, you mentioned Milwaukee and the guy that gets you excited because when he's electric, he's electric. Josh Hater, he was on slump watch for a while. Jim, he's figured it out. His last nine games, six saves, 10.1 innings pitch. He's getting 20 strikeouts in those 10.1. So two strikeouts an inning. And oh, by the way, he hasn't give up an earn run. He's only given up three hits in a walk. Hater's back. And that's huge. for them. That is, but I'm not rooting for them anymore. They're boring. So, sorry, Brewer fans. Jim, let's get to the bats, because this is where it gets fun.

Jim, this might be a rookie, or maybe both Bichette or someone else got on here. And maybe Vlad, Kyle Lewis, a rookie for Seattle, you're going to hear he got called up. His first three games, Jim, he homered in all three of them. One of them broke up Sunny Gray's no hit bid. So he's five for 11. in his first three games with three home runs playing right field for Seattle. Good for you, Kyle Lewis. Get some excitement going on up there. Jake, I have to pause you for a second.

Please. So I did my John Boy stat with Shane Bieber. And it's maybe the most impressive going. Like Verlander, I'll have to find it out. Jake, 25 of his 31 starts. fit into my category of you did what you did enough for your team to win right

25 of 31 it's an 80% of his starts are a winning effort it's fucking crazy man for that means four out of five starts so basically he's gonna he's gonna give you one start a month that's math yeah it's not even terrible it's just man right he doesn't have a six earned run he has one six earned run start

this season and four five run runs. Which, hey. No, it was six out of 30, so it's 80-7%. Because there's one he came out of the bullpen. It's incredible. I'm a big Shane Bieber fan. Shane Beaver fan, John Boy. All right.

So, Jim, back to the sticks a little bit. Kyle Lewis, good for you. We'll mention you briefly later. Jim, I want to bring up my guy Jorge Soler again, solar power in Kansas City. Jim, he goes six for 13, three of them being home runs. Jim, since the start of August, so 37 games, so we're going back a little bit. He's had 16 home runs with a 292 batting average, a 410 on base, and a 1.1.1.8 OPS.

Jim, Jorge Soler has 44 homers and 107 RBIs, and there's probably not a lot of people outside of Cubs Nation that know. what he's doing at all. Outside of Cubs Nation, because they traded them. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Jorge, O'Lear's going to sneak up on 50 yaboes this year. And I think...

It's cool to see him put it together. That's exactly what I was going to say. And, Jim, it's why I stretched out the stats. Because 292-4-10 with a 1.11 over the past month and a half, with his season numbers, it's like, damn, Jorge Soler put it together, which has to be exciting for Royals fans. They're looking for things to rally behind. And, dude, I saw one of Soler's homers, and he, I mean, he pimped it pretty good.

He's feeling himself. And I'm happy for him. Well, some of his homeruns are bombs. I mean, he's got crazy power. And that was the scouting report, even when he was in Chicago. But it was, can he put the ball in the bad enough? Good for Jorge. And Jim, I'm glad.

I am so glad, Jim, that you ended Slump Watch with Austin Riley and Dansby Swanson from my Braves. Because I did a combo and Fuego for Albi Zakuna and Freeman. My guys, you thought I wasn't going to talk about them? Are you kidding me? Jimmy, in this series, they just played against the Phillies. They just missed the three of them getting on base at a 50% clip. So those three guys coming up every time through the lineup for four games basically got on base, flip a coin.

And that's just, again, I just think that's so impactful for them, especially when Donaldson's right behind him. Oh, and Jim, because I couldn't give him my award this week. Akuna is the youngest player ever to reach the 35-35 club. He's got 39 homers, 36 stolen bases. so he's going to get 40-40. But yeah, I mean, Al-Bizakuna Freeman, if you go a whole series getting on base every other time

with three guys, that's impactful. It's very impactful. Good for them. Good for the Braves. They're making up for Dansby. Danzby. A weird name, Dansby. Danesby.

Vandy, go doors. You know what? Guys. The Orioles played the Dodgers. They did pretty well, right, Jake? Yeah, man. I dug through the stats and I was looking for, like, anyone that really jumped out. Nobody really did.

Kudos to the Orioles. They won one against the Dodgers. The Orioles, obviously, a terrible season. They're going to end up with a better record than Detroit. And, I mean, they're putting a couple notches on the belt. They beat Verlander a couple weeks ago. They got a game against the Dodgers. Good for you, Orioles.

although we do get really excited when you get a bad player hot. So if you could do that next series, we'd appreciate that. Did you see the Bundy thing? Mm-mm. So he crossed up his catcher or missed his spot and his catcher, his catcher missed it and it goes to the backstop and there's two runners on. And he doesn't cover home so two-runs score on the play. Mm-hmm.

And he gets taken out right. after. Hyde's pissed at him. It's very, I'm going to do a breakdown. I haven't really looked at all the footage, just a one angle. Because part of it looks like he's just so mad as catcher missed the ball when he struck the guy out. He's like, fuck this. Part of him may have thought, just throw it to, since bases were loaded, like he can't

run to first. Can advance. It's just a strikeout. Or some people think it looks like he said, fuck this. and let the run score. I doubt that. He definitely knew he fucked up and was just like looking around mad afterwards.

But I was in some Orioles threads and they're like, they say he's got bad attitude these days. How the fuck could you not have a bad attitude if you're playing for the Orioles? And I was reading like how Tigers fans are like, hey, the Orioles are awesome because we're worse than them.

But they get credit. dude the Orioles are embarrassingly bad like they have they've had two fights within their own dugout they're giving up the record for home runs allowed their defense in the outfield is atrocious like I don't know if the tigers have all these like extra things that are just like gut punch after gut punch after like that make them a laughing suck there tigers are just bad the Orioles are laughably bad yeah but we've we've seen a lot of the Orioles and they've got a line up in a couple pieces there. And I don't know, I think for Bundy, I mean, Dylan Bundy has been on the Orioles since 2012. So here we are in

2019. And he's got a five flat ERA and like he probably carries himself like he's not a part of it. And it's like, dude, you're kind of the main part of this. But that was Toconos. Yeah. Talking O's. Well, we have some more talking about later. Oh, we mean, we could technically do hide for Who Got Mad because he was mad at Bundy. Who got mad? How do you don't? That is so bad. That is absolutely brutal.

That is unbelievable. That is totally absurd. Who got mad? Jake, who got mad? A couple more objections. Couple more objections. There's always objections. James McCann.

So he gets strike one called on him. James McCann for the, why am I blanking? Why am I blanking? White Sox? Yes. Gets called to strike one pitch on the outside. That's off the plate, calls it a strike. Later on, I think he was D.Hing.

He's in the dugout, and his teammate gets an outside pitch, and it's called the ball. He's like, hey, those are the same thing. And he gets yelled at. He gets thrown out. Will Myers, middle of that bat, drew a line in the dirt, showing the ump where the ball crossed and he got ejected i think it was actually a strike i think well it was wrong um woodward for rangers gets ejected for balls and strikes this was an interesting one for seattle detricks at bat jake in the ninth inning two outs runners on base detrick's up

oh two pitch he swings at the ball checks his swing the ball hits the dirt bounces off the catcher and then on Dietrich's back swing, his bat hits the ball, which sends the ball to the backstop, which allows a run to score and Dietrich to run to first base on the drop third strike. And the Mariners and Scott,

how do you say his last name? I think it's Servace. Me too. Survease. Survease. He's like, what the fuck? Like, yo, he hit it with his bat. You can't advance on that.

And the ump called it the check swing. The third base ump called it a swing. So technically, as soon as the bat hits the ball, it's a dead ball. No one can advance. The game's over. They umps like didn't get together. They never all got together and talked about it. And they said, no, it's like drop third strike.

The Seattle Mariners entertainment people in the, in the scoreboard, the infield scoreboard, they showed the highlight of the bat hitting the ball after the argument. and Scott's service just went crazy. And he's like, are you kidding me? Look. Look. So that was kind of an interesting rule that you don't really see a lot and kind of wild. It's just like just fucking use replay MLB.

Yeah. This isn't a reviewable play. Why? It took the public two seconds to understand it hit his bat. Literally it took them probably 10 seconds to understand it hit his bat. And now we have 10 minutes. of yelling and arguing you guys try to figure it out because you decided this play can't be reviewed?

I don't understand it. I really don't understand it. Yeah, I'm trying to think of, Jim, there was an NFL game last year or a couple years ago where they missed something blatant. And, like, technically by the rules, like there was nothing the refs could do about it, except there was one hidden NFL review rule

that's called, like, the, I forget what it's called, but it's basically a we fucked up rule. And so the refs came out and they were like, we got this wrong, we have to do this. And everyone moved on and was like, yes, because we got it right. And the MLB, they'll have to work towards having the like, the get the call right line somewhere in the review rules. Because, yeah, if you can see that, you're not benefiting the sport anymore.

No, it's stupid. It was really dumb. Hey, kid. Guess who? Guess who? Grandpa? I don't know, man. You're the GM.

I have your number safe. You're getting the call, kid. Welcome to the show. Yeah. Tell me, who got called up? Call up watch. Jim, at first I got a little daunted. I was like, oh, damn.

Like, there's like nine or so names. I was like, how are we going to do this? this. Jim, luckily, four of them were from the Seattle Mariners. I don't know if the Mariners just put it together that you could do September call-ups, or maybe their AAA team was in like the finals or something, and they were like, hey, go enjoy it, guys. But four guys for the Mariners get the call. I'll start a couple pitchers came up. Jim, you would like this. Justin Dunn, his MLB debut, Wox Five. I tried not. I tried not to laugh.

It's tough, kid. He's 23. He's going to get more of an opportunity. But that's tough. Time out. He walked five? Walked five. So that's a tough break.

What's his name? I mean, this is a muscle. Justin Dunn. Wow. Justin Dunn. I knew you were going to dive into that, so I'll keep going. Art Warren also got called for them. He got one out, gave up a hit in a walk.

No runs, though. Good for you, Art. They called up shortstop Donnie Walton. I don't think he's a big time prospect for them. They've got Crawford at shortstop. Walton gets the call. He got his first MLB hit. And Kyle Lewis, Jim, in Wrightfield, we talked about him a home run in each of his first three baseball games, including the Sunny Grano hitter. He's a top 100 prospect. If you're in Seattle, you're pretty excited about Kyle Lewis right now. Justin Dunn went to Gunnery, so do you like him? Yeah, I saw it. Well, he grew up in New York, went to prep school in Connecticut, right? Yeah. And I think he's the dude that's friends with Justice Sheffield.

Like, I think they're tight. Like, it's part of the reason they sent Sheffield to double A or whatever. But that's irrelevant. Okay. So first four pitches in his big league career, ball, ball, ball, walks Josh Van Meter. then throws a ball and then a strike swinging to Joey Votto and they steal. So I think it was a hit and run.

Because they're like, yo, he's going to throw you a cookie. He has to. He threw five balls in a row, has to throw you a cookie here. Let's put on a hit and run. I like that. Votto missed it, but the steel was fine. He gets to 3-2 on Votto with a called strike. So there's one called strike. strike in his first

in his first 10 pitch is one called strike good job but he walks Votto um dude then then they stole third damn then they did a double steal on him

it's tough this is brutal yeah then uh eugenio uh jenio Suarez comes up he gets it to full to a full count called strike called strike and then foul ball ball ball foul ball so through some strikes in there so now he's got the bases loaded with three walks the first three batters he's faced as a professional player he does sound a lot like justice sheffield you're right

uh fly ball so the sack fly for an rbi i from our dude at our steed is but you know you'll trade that heartbeat. Easy. Then he walks Freddie Galvis. Yeah. Then another sack fly. Then he walked Brian O'Grady. Damn.

I'm sorry, Jesse. I'm rooting for your success long term. Yes. But that is a horrible debut. Not all MLB debuts are made equal. Dude, walk, okay, he allowed five walks, two sack flies, and three stolen bases. It's tough. That's, and he didn't finish the first inning.

It's not an easy game. We, again, with lots of love, Justin Dunn, we are rooting for you. but yeah Seattle more excited about Kyle Lewis right now. Jim, we got two big ones here. Nico Horner, the shortstop for the Cubs. If you remember, it's when we were recording last episode. He officially got the call, but we didn't really deep dive into it. Decent shortstop prospect, five for 15 in his first four games.

Cubs fans were reaching out to us a lot. They were really excited. Jim, they were batting him. I think he was mostly eight-hole and he got one game at the six-hole. So it looks like they're not banking on Nico Horner, but they're giving him a shot. Triple in his first game. Like that. That's cool.

That's a good time. Addison Russell's hitting like a bag of shit. Is he hurt? He might be hurt too, I forget. He's having a bad year on and off the field. How about that? Jim, the other guy, I mentioned a. before. Jesus Lazzardo for Oakland. Jimmy, he's 21 years old. He's Peruvian. How about that? He did grow up

in Florida. But Jim, you're going to like this. He came out of the bullpen. Three innings pitched, one hit. It was a home run to someone on the Astros. Your only hit. Who is it? Is it Breggman? Altuve, who got you? Martine Maldonado clipped him. Not as exciting. But Jim, I told him. you, man. Oakland now, they've called up Sean Murphy. They've called up AJ, AJ Poek. They called up Lazzardo. They're bringing in the reinforcements, man. They're, they are full, full bore. Second time I've said that. Full bore. Full bore. Full bore. And, dude, you and I did a whole thing on talking yanks, how you want weapons. If Lazzardo's a guy that could go three for them in the playoffs. I mean, that can that can change a game. Jimmy, the last guy, Johnny Davis. We like that.

Fundamentally strong name. Center fielder for Tampa. He's 29 years old, so we like when one of the older guys gets a call. Jim, he pitched run in the seventh, and that was it. He didn't steal or anything. Yeah. Johnny Davis does sound like a fast name. Good job. So his, his MLB debut, he pinched run, didn't steal a base, didn't score anything. I'm hoping Johnny Davis gets a chance to swing the stick at some point, but you got the call, kid. All right. Moving on to, Jake, my award, okay? And this is a quick one.

It's a quick hitter. It's the Great Minds Award. Okay. And it goes to Brandon Hyde. Okay. Orioles manager. Orioles manager Brandon Hyde. He was asked about, you know,

if the Orioles finish with 99, 100, or 115 losses, like, you know, what's, what's it? He says, all those numbers evoke the same feeling. And I think that's a great mind. Like, yeah, 99 losses isn't any better than 115. Good call, Brandon. And then he also said, I want to finish the season strong and then I want to be a lot better next year. And it's like, damn. another just genius plan.

And if I was in a spot, I'd have the same plan. And I was just like, there's great minds. That's why they hired that guy. You and hide. Yeah, me and Hyde. I mean, that would be my plan as well. Just I want to be better or no, I want to be a lot better next year. Not just better, a lot better next year.

I'm just not sure, you know, he knows how it works. but I just great minds to think to have to be able to have the mental fortitude to understand that that should be the plan it's great by Hyde the wherewithal yeah yeah so

I'm excited for this Orioles off season what could I mean we'll do this later but like what could possibly be what's a what's a possible move that can help them no idea they've got a couple guys who could hit. Maybe if they could bring in an outfielder that can play defense and hit, that would be a

big plus for them. And then, yeah, I told you my plan with their pitching is you go like Disney movie. You have open tryouts. You invite everyone from overseas. You invite everyone from independent ball. You have it out. You find one guy there. So you got John Means.

And I don't know, take a couple bullpen flyers. I think, you know what, next year. I think the Orioles are going to be better. Yeah, but Brandon Hyde is a great mind. He wants to be a lot better. And that's smart. Yeah. That's smart.

I mean, what's you mean? Just lose 80 games? He knows they're not going to be like a winning team. I think, I mean, you probably say it's spring training, like, 500 is the goal. And then, I mean, if you're being honest, honest with yourself, it's probably like 90, 95 losses. I don't know what they can do. We'll dive into it in the offseason.

I don't know. They don't really have much in the pipeline. They don't like spending money. What are you going to do? Trade back for Yostremski. Jake, who's your award going to? Jim, my award, a very prestigious award, is the Waring Layers Award.

Oh, because we're going into fall. We're going into fall in one of your favorite seasons. You know, the times are changing. Yesterday was the first time in like four months that I had to bring a little hoodie to wear when I was taking my dog out. So people, wear your layers. Jim, someone, and I don't know if you know this yet, or if you know the whole thing or what.

If you don't, I'm so excited to see your reaction. The award goes to Ryan Braun. Jim, because in yesterday's game, he wore Yelich's jersey under his jersey. Not a joke. Why? So go Google it. And Jim, that's where we're going to get into some stuff that I think we can have a lot of jokes with. A, Braun hit a home run.

So I'll get you there. Braun hit a home run while wearing both jerseys. So good for you, Brony. B, have you ever worn a jersey? Picture wearing two jerseys. That's not comfortable. It's kind of, it's restrictive. Again, he hit a home run, so good for him.

Jimmy, all of the quotes coming out of this, and so I'm going to preface it, sports teams are always looking for something to rally around, whether it's a hurt player or a coach or, you know, the Yankees playing New York, New York. Boston snagged as much of that as they could, and they ran. rallied around it. Sports teams look for motivation anywhere they can. Jim, some of the quotes from Ryan Braun, they're treating Yelich like he died. Was it a jersey or was it like a shirzy? Jim, full jersey. Are you a positive on that? Yeah. Where can I send you a link? Um, because I mean, it's a, like you can literally see it hanging underneath. Um, I'll send it to,

I'm looking at it. Yes. Full jersey. Full double jersey. I'm so happy you didn't know about this because I know this pulls on you a lot of different ways. Jesus. I mean, Braun's never been cool.

Sure. Unless you live in Milwaukee. Nah. Yeah. Steroids lying to everyone. I think he had a call and personally apologized to everyone. I was like, dude. Right.

He ruined someone. one's life. I mean, he's a bad guy. Not a great guy. He ruined a guy's life, like sent him to jail. Right. Knowingly said he, if anyone doesn't know the story, the guy who tested the steroids, Braun said that that guy fucked with his results just to mess with him, which is tampering, which like ruined that guy's career and life for a little bit.

And Braun knowingly did that because he was a bad guy and did all the same. steroids and stuff. So, I mean, Braun's not a good guy. No. And he's always like the clothing line he had with Aaron Rogers, which just maybe one of the douchier clothing lines you can possibly have. Sure.

This is preposterous. Jimmy. If you're yelling, you don't like this, unless they're laughing about it in the clubhouse. Which maybe they are. But Jimmy, no. I mean, the quote,

the quote from Braun, and they're treating Yelich like he died. Ryan Braun literally said the words, like, I know he's watching. It's like, what? Like, Yelich, he broke his kneecap. It wasn't like a plane accident or anything. So I don't know. I just know that you're a guy that probably a nightmare would be playing baseball in two jerseys

because that just seems sweaty and so uncomfortable. And it's pretty ridiculous. as hey, he hit a homer. Maybe there's magic in that jersey, and they're using it to rally around right now, and they've won seven straight. So if that's what they need, knock yourselves out.

Gross. You know what? It all adds up. All the Brewer stuff has added up. Heads up. Elevator talk. We got Chicago White Sox, Jake. You want to take it on?

White Sox. I feel like we've kind of done them. We've done like the whole Gialito thing, and they're not super excited. fighting right now. It's tough for White Sox fans. I know.

Baltimore Orioles. We just did them. Now we have to do this team no matter what. This is the money one. Chicago White Sox again. White Sox. Then the White Sox won, man.

Is Ivan Nova still doing good stuff? If you're in an elevator with some White Sox fan. I mean, really, you got Anderson going for the batting title still, right? Right. You got Abraeu. I mean, Eloy Jimenez, I think, just went off.

So the White Sox are in a good place because they still have promised for next year. Right. Especially with, I think, the royals and the tigers are still going to be bad. Very bad. So you have the Indians. And the Indians will see what they do. They have a lot of young arms, but, like, they're going to run out of money soon. And they've actively said they're not going to, like, spend money, which sucks.

Well, I mean, at some point, they're going to be able to flip Lindor or something and, I mean, load up the cabinets again. Yeah. So what are White Sox fans watching for? Their manager gets objected nonstop. Jim, you mentioned Tim Anderson. That's exciting. Moncada is keeping it going, dude. His numbers on the year.

That Chris Sale trade may look very different in about a year or so, depending on how Michael Kopeck comes. comes back because Munkata's having a very good year. Eloy, he's shown the power. That's kind of all you want to see from his rookie year. Jim, you know who's a crazy, interesting guy? Jose Abraeu. I always laugh because when we search through the game logs to look for who's hot and who's not, Abraeu's name is first just because it is alphabetically.

So I've got a pretty good idea what Jose Abraeu is doing on a weekly basis. And he's putting together just another really good year. Where do you search that it's alphabetical? Baseball reference. Oh, we must do it different. When you do the last four days or whatever, search, and it pops up, and then you have to hit homers or hits or whatever. Oh, yeah.

I click OPS immediately, so I never even knew there was alphabetical first. Right. Before you click OPS, they're alphabetical. So that's what makes me laugh because I see it every week. You'll see it now, too. Pretty quick with that. Nova had that incredible stretch Jake. Yeah.

Then he has been not good again, which sucks. It was rooting for him to get a paycheck off the incredible stretch. Lie about a new approach. Renteria has been ejected a bunch. He made the hump come to him. You can talk about that up your White Sox fan. Gialito started off incredibly hot, then get bad, and now he's been good again. Oh, shit, he's bad again, Jake.

Oh, his last start was good. No, it wasn't. Six things pitched five earn runs. You're not going to like this, but he had a bunch of strikeouts, right? Who cares? Yeah, he's figuring out. This season doesn't matter, Jim. He, if you're talking pitchers in White Soxland, you say, hey, Gialito, what a year.

Like at this point, it's already been a great year. You're saying, hey, you know, Rinaldo Lopez and Dylan Sees, are you seeing stuff you like? Sees is striking out a lot of guys. We could build on that. Lopez had that really good start to go. And you get excited for Kopeck next year. Yeah. through 16 games Gialito had a 272 ERA through 29 he's got 3-4-1 and rising that's a bummer

yeah I mean it's still it's still gonna be a really good year I mean it especially where he was and juice ball et cetera et cetera it's it's a great year for Gioido what was his ERA last year it was terrible right six I mean he had the most losses in baseball right his ERA was six one three last year 13 losses Is Obreu a free agent soon? I was just going to look that up. I think they signed him to not a super team-friendly contract, but just kind of what you'd expect,

like $18 million a year, $20 million here. Actually, hold the phone next year. He might be a free agent, yeah, which that's bizarre to me, though, because why was there no, like, Jose Abraeus available at the trade deadline talk? That's good. That's a really good point. right like we we did a lot of trade deadline stuff

and Jose Bray was never mentioned anywhere could be our fault could be us is a Brayu coming back do they have a first baseman in the pipeline um not that I know of if you're a white socks fan reach out that's where you got to be asking the guy in the elevator

if you're with an in-depth yeah white Sox fan all right that ends this episode of talking baseball thank you guys very much for hanging out with us and listening. We will be back again on Monday and I think we'll be in the same room doing it, Jake.

Yes, sir. I'll see you in a couple hours. Cool. Bye, guys.