Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 312 | Talkin' 2021 Prospects with Peter Moylan & Kelsey Wingert

Episode Date: March 25, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We're going to be talking about some prospects today and a new show. We're very excited that's coming to John Boy Media. Let's do it. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. Thank you guys very much for joining us today. We hope you're doing well. Spring training's coming to a close.

Next week is opening week. And we have a new show that we're gearing up to release right then. And we're going to talk about some prospects that will be coming up this year. My name's Jimmy. Jake's here in his Savannah Bananas. Yellow long sleeve. I have that same shirt. Exciting.

We should wear it on the same day. BPD is in the corner. What are you doing? Glen Rock High School baseball shirt. Yeah. Shorts day, though. Oh, yeah. BPD's going purple shorts,

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Very special guest. Jake, going to do a grand intro, Roman style? We have. Oh, sorry, our Roman guests of the episode. You're there a Roman or. We hit, oh, like a Roman, the town crier. New members of Jamboy Media, Kelsey Winget, previously a Fox Sports, and Brave Sightline reporter. Thank you, thank you.

Also, we are joined by today, formal reliever, Peter Boyle. Oh snap. That was lit. Hey guys. It's Jake's Town Cryer impersonation. Basically, you just have to get, you have to wind yourself on every sentence. I thought I was in the Coliseum for a second there. We all did. It was great.

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thank you very much for joining us. As we said, you guys will be having a new show on the John Boy Media Baseball YouTube and a podcast as well. And one of the main things you're going to be covering is all the prospects in our fun, young, and growing game. So I don't know.

Let Kelsey go first. Because Kelsey is kind of the brainchild in the start of this. And as usual, Pete just jumped on a moving train. and join in. So Kelsey, what's up? Well, Peter and I worked together here in Atlanta covering the Braves on Foxport South and we're homies and we just have so much fun working together.

So whenever I was talking to y'all about potentially starting something on the network, you know, his name immediately came up and my conversation and Jake, you scared the living daylights out of me because I was bringing up potential co-host. And I said Peter Moylan and you're like, I'll freaking hate that food. And I thought I blew it. But you were being, you were kidding because you talked everything apparently. So kind of what we want to do on this podcast, obviously we're talking about the prospects that you guys know about. You know, we're going to talk about the Torkelsons.

We're going to talk about the dollback. We're going to talk about those guys. But we're also not just going to cover prospects. It'll be the guys who are up and coming, maybe, you know, the 28, 29-year-old guys. who are finding their taste in the show and international baseball because Peter has such an extensive background than that.

You know, he has a lot going on over in Australia. I know you're going to be going to Taiwan for something. Potentially, yeah. Yeah, for the Olympic qualifiers. So, just a bunch of stuff on the international front, a bunch of stuff with the prospects, a bunch of up and coming guys.

So there's just a ton of different stuff to cover and the basis. of it is we just want people to feel like a little bit smarter, which is what I feel like you guys do on this show. We walk away from this episode. If you listen, you can talk to your friends and give them some tidbits that they don't know. And we just want people to know a little bit more about the guys that you don't know as much about, but you're about to start hearing their name. Love that. I think the line you wrote was like, we want people to hear about the guys they're hearing about. Like you just know their name. And,

you guys are going to give more than just their name like, you know, Bobby Witt Jr. I think everyone right now that's following spring training and following news and just reading treats knows that name. I don't know anything about him besides he's a prospect that people think will be great. So I'm excited for you guys to kind of give me more details and info. And there's so many young prospects. And you guys with the Braves saw a lot of young prospects come up and deliver. Acuna, Albies, Paschae this year.

You know, it's an endless line. And I think what's so different about this year is because of the adjustment going from 60 games to 162, I feel like there's going to be a lot of roster moves that you may not have seen happen in a regular league year because of maybe not so much manipulation of the roster, but resting guys and making sure guys get through a full season and are ready for the playoffs. So you may see young guys that you've actually never heard of and we'll bring you those guys as well. And I think I should go back to a second where Kelsey was mentioning some ideas and she mentioned your name, Peter, and I instantly said no. We became fast friends last year. I was constantly joking with Jim.

I was like, yeah, I think Peter Moyland's my best friend. I did my first ever periscope, and you jumped in live with me. I did. And we had not met. I didn't really know what periscope was. good. And then a hilarious thing happened the other weekend. We were shuffling around. There's one room in my apartment that has two closets and we were actually doing a closet swap. Wow. Bad ass. Yeah. Flex. New York City. Why did you just want the closet that you took and you made you move?

I honest, that's like your touchy area. I still don't know, but the closets had to be swapped for whatever reason. So when she was swapping the closet, she moved my golf bag. and she sent me a picture text and said, hey, Jake, what the hell is this? And it looks like a baby Nike shoe, which had her all sorts of scared. Do you want to explain that, Peter? Sure.

So quarantine hit, and everybody was stuck in their house. And a buddy of mine sent me a photo of his little girl's Jordan shoe on the top of his putter. And I came up with this idea that I was going to see if I can get this thing rolling. And so I started a little company where I had some inserts manufactured and I then blew the inserts into these baby shoes and they actually fit perfectly onto your golf putter that you can roll around with any kind of Jordans that you want or Adidas or Nike's or AirMax. And yeah, it was a pretty cool idea.

I haven't really tackled it too much, but I sent him off to first. friends, people think it's a cool idea, and then a few people around Atlanta, and now in New York are rolling with these putter covers. So, yeah, after like five Twitter DMs and a Periscope, Peter Moyland asked for my address and sent me a putter cover, and now we're here talking about baseball's top prospects, and to give you more love than I probably will ever again. And this was through Kelsey. Kelsey said when she reached out to you, she didn't even say the idea. She just said it was with the Johnboy media guys and you jumped on board. So excited for it, because I know both of you guys are going to have fun. And I mean, you're baseball people. I mean,

Kelsey, that's, that was like the first thing you said. Like, you know, you've done other stuff in the Atlanta area, whether Hawks or, I think some college football stuff as well. But you're, you're a baseball person. You want to do baseball. And that's what, that's what we're all about, man. Yeah. Yeah. That's, I mean, baseball. I feel like if you're a baseball person, like you're deep in it. You know, I mean, I started in high school as the manager for my high school team, and I just fell in love with the game. And I haven't been with Fox Sports South since March 11th of 2020,

which was I was working the game when Rudy Gobert tested positive, and the whole season was canceled. And I was on that house live show. And my last show wasn't going to be until March 31st, but then that ended my stint there early. and man, not baseball last year, as freak brutal. Having to watch the games and not be a part of it.

And getting to listen to you guys has been the way that I have kept up. Talking baseball has been how I've kept up with the league. And you guys are just so freaking hilarious. And you all have so much fun. And I just said, look at Tref's smile. I love compliments. So thank you, Grandma. Typical here.

I really do you guys. I love that you are not a math pod because I'm not a math person. And I just feel like those pieces make us a perfect fit, you know. Man, I tried to do math on a show yesterday. It's so bad. Like I had the calculator out and I was just doing like the simple arithmetic wrong. I wish it was a bit. And I'm not just dumb.

Trev, you haven't talked yet. And I'm going to ask you if you remember your two. played appearances against Peter Morland. Well, I don't think I did anything because I try to only remember like the good parts of my my career. So I'm guessing I'm over two if I had to guess. No, you're not O for two. Peter, do you remember them at all?

I don't remember them, but I think it was one for two. One for two. Your first at bat, one one count, ground ball through the shortstop third ball hole, single. Oh, I got through the hole, baby. Yes. That was before the shift. That was before the shift.

And then, well, these are both in 2016, 2017, so we can find the footage of these. I watched them. You watch them? So Peter left a little bit of a hanger. I couldn't tell if it was a slide or a change, which is a sign of a good pitch. And that's what Treve pulled through the hole. And then 2017 A's Trevor Plouffe, which Trevor Plouffe doesn't speak kindly about. It looked like a new stance, punchy on the fast.

while Trev, you tried to bunt in that at bat. Oh, Trey. I was trying anything. I was such a bad baseball player. Whatever. You know, I'm one for two. I'm happy about that. But I will say this.

I knew you had a great career. I just went on your baseball reference page and it's pretty impressive. So congratulations. Thanks, Trey. On everything that you accomplished. I'm serious. I mean, especially coming from,

Australia, dude. Like... Lake Bluma. Yeah, baseball's not a prevalent sport out there. I played with a bunch of Aussie guys. I love all of them. I roomed with them. So, yeah, congrats on a great career. And I'm happy to have both of you here. I'm stoked that you guys are going to be talking about minor

leaguers and the prospects and letting people know who they are as people, because I think that's super important. Because like Jim says, I feel the same way about all these guys. I know Bob Wood Jr. is awesome. I own a few of his rookie cards. Flex. But I have no idea what he sounds like or is about. I don't even know. Like, is he a power guy?

Is he average guys? He was this spring. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, he was. I might hate Bobby Witt Jr. Yeah. Tune in.

You start talking about. I might hate him. But at least I'll know. Oh, man. It's the knowing. It's the knowing. It's the knowing. So I'm happy to have you guys both on here.

Another ATL person or peoples. Yep. Here, we're just going. He's a rips in. So shout out to Ashland, who does, is with us. And she does mansplain. We were talking to her last night. We told her about this.

And her jaw was like dropped in happiness. And she was like, those two people are loved in Braves Nation. So that was cool. Cool. Very cool. Peter, do I have to call you Peter? Is that too formal? Moylan?

Because every time I've said Peter, I've felt like that's too formal. Just call me Pete. Moylo. Call me anything. I answer the most things. Moilo. Moilo. Moilo.

Roman, maybe. Kelsey, you didn't know how had an Australian accent. So come on. Let's share that story. Share that story. You guys told us that story. When we were just chatting about the concept of the show. And I think it's.

Oh, and Trev doesn't know. And Trev doesn't know. So yeah. Go ahead, Kelsey. I feel like I need to explain my side before, since you have exposed me, what, 10 minutes into this? from John Boy Media.

So when Peter came back to the Braves, I heard from all the guys in the clubhouse, all of the fans, they were like, yo, this dude is going to be your favorite guy on the team. He's freaking hilarious. He's always pulling pranks.

He's a favorite among the players and the fans. You're going to love him. But they emphasized that he was hilarious, which, you know, we all know that now. But so when we first were talking, and I was going to interview him,

it was Frank training. and I was going to interview him in the dugout. So we started talking in the clubhouse. And when you're in the clubhouse, you know, there's more chatter going on. So I didn't pick up on the accent in the clubhouse. And then we walk out through the dugout. And we start doing this interview.

And Peter is faking this Australian accent. And I decided that he was trying to pull my leg since he's so funny. So in the interview, I start speaking back to him in my British accent because I feel like my British accent turns into my German accent. I'm writing this for like a minute, right? And he's like, why are you talking like that?

And I just thought he, I literally just thought he was faking this Australian accent. So he probably went on for like a minute and a half into this interview of me faking an accent thinking he was faking an accent. And then, you know, I was like, this dude really is from Australia. And this accent is not fake. And I look like an absolute dingbat now.

And that's how Peter Moyland and I started a friend friend. If there's one thing that you can, it's very hard to fake an Australian accent. So that should have been the first guest. But you came back with it. It wasn't like a proper British accent. You said, oh, you're from London. It was that kind of, it wasn't the proper well-spoken English. Pete, you should have switched to an American accent.

accent on her and been like, you're right, this was fake. Yeah. Kept it going for a while. When I have more than one glass of wine, the infamous British Kelsey comes out. And I just start speaking in a British accent, which I studied on YouTube videos to get it down, watched a lot of Love Island. So that's what I whipped out on Peter. And I just don't think I'll ever, I wish I had that footage. I don't think I'll ever, I was so embarrassed.

I mean, someone has to have it. Yeah. We have a friend at Yes Network who can get us like any game footage from 1995 on. So someone's, you just got to find that guy for Fox Sports South. That's an incredible story. That's hilarious. Yeah. It's pretty good.

I was so dead set that he was taking that. I don't remember. Did we end up redoing the interview or did we just keep it as it was? Yeah. No, I think that Fox was so afraid of looking for more. that they made us restarting and everyone. It's got to be somewhere.

I mean, you guys have heard the story. Cody Decker. Yes. What he did to Frank Kor. So, I mean, you're still under that level, but it's still pretty funny. They told him Frank Korr's mute. Or they told him Cody Decker's mute, right?

A player on the team. It wasn't Cody Decker. It was a different player on the team. And Frank Kor just like the whole year, right? Yeah. Went for three months. I thought he was. The deaf guy who just signed to him and like, and then finally he was like, I can talk.

That's really funny. We all heard that story when we found out it was Jeff Rangor. It made it so much better because it just fits his personality so well. That's awesome. How are you maybe before we get into some of the top prospects, I mean, you guys are still very much on Braves Pulse, Braves Country. You're still very involved in the mix down there. How are you guys feeling?

I know, did our PPP just drops tomorrow on it? So we won't get our thoughts will be fully revealed tomorrow, ad. How are you guys feeling? I know there's still a crazy amount of youth. You don't think of it, because these guys have been so good for the past two years. But where are you guys at with the Bravo's this year? The Bravos are locked in. I think there's still a couple decisions to be made on the bench.

Janza looks like he might have snuck his way under the team. The lineup that they're rolling with today looks like. like maybe the opening day lineup. Austin Riley ran into a couple yesterday. So, I mean, if he can have a big year, I think that solidifies the lineup. We've turned through six now with a couple of question marks towards the end.

But, you know, it's, the bench in the bullpen really is the only thing that is left to be a question. They lost a few guys in the back end of the bullpen. So Will Smith's going to be closing. Green is still a free agent, by the way, which is just that. to me. So there's still a few guys that may get picked up towards the end of spring,

but I just don't understand that right now. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited to see Josh. I put it together for a full year. I mean, as of right now, he has more post-season A-Ds than regular season A-D. But, I mean, I just remember talking to, you know, because Andrew Jones would be around them a lot. And the way that guys like Kipper Jones and Andrew Jones were talking about Austin Riley

and Christian Pache. I mean, Andrew had told me at one point that Pachet is the best outfield prospects he's ever seen. Chipper had told me Austin Riley, who had the ability to win a gold glove at third. And just hearing guys like that saying their praises. And when Austin came up, I mean, he was just ripping it. He was ripping it.

So we're hoping that, you know, he can fall back into that, make whatever adjustments he needs to make. But I haven't gotten to see Pachet play in person. and obviously nobody has unless you were able to go to the, do they have fans at the CS? And the DS? I think so. I think the CS.

I think in Arlington they did. Yeah. Yeah. So to see what they do, Acuna, I feel like every time I log on Twitter, it's like a video of not just a home run, but like the sound that the ball is making off of the bat.

People have a special year. So, I mean, I think it's their division to lose. at this point. I mean, it's going to obviously be the best division in baseball, but I think it's the Braves to lose. We ran into a couple of things that we liked.

I won't spoil all of them because it comes out tomorrow. Usually I forget everything we say on the TPPs, but we did it like three days ago. But one thing we did say is last year when we did the team profile for the Braves, we challenged Dansby and we were like, you need to perform in 2020. Otherwise, it's kind of like you're not locked in anymore. And he had a great year.

we now are giving that same challenge to a young thick Austin Riley because he's got two years now I think it's an 86 OPS plus both years and there's a lot of good third baseman they can trade for if they need to and all that so he's got to have a good first couple months I think and he can he's got all the talent Peter does a Yopalma Carmargo been doing in spring he's not he's not he's not doing he had a great offseason he had a great Caribbean series and I thought he was going to roll into spring training,

you're ready to go. I know he lost a little bit of weight. He's in some good playing shape. He had a tough game yesterday. Made a couple of throwing errors, made a couple of errors in the field. I'm not sure. I think he's slated to be maybe one of the bench guys,

but I'm not 100% sure. Peter, can I ask you about Camargo real quick? Yeah. Is he as hot as Ashland and all the other man's playing girls, Emily and Marla say he is? His skin, is close to flawless. He's got the swaggy earrings going.

He's got the uniform. He wears, did you see the NASCAR style uniforms that are wearing in the Caribbean series? He just made that look like it was, he looked like a car. He was, he was a good uni guy. A good uni guy.

Like pants up, can wear the pants up with pride. It doesn't have particularly big calves, but it still pulls it off. So it's, um, I like that. It's good. They've been trying to sell me on him for,

for months now. Well, have you seen, I mean, Pete, have you ever had a batter that, like, I fucked you the way Camargo I fucks pitchers? Like, he just stands there and... He's just smoldering, like, sexiness the way he stares at the pitcher in the box. Some people call it intimidation. Other people just want to look at you like they want to take your shirt off.

You know, it's each to their own. Make sure the road... I can't see. My vision's not very good, so I'd never notice whether hitters were looking at me or not. I was just too locked here. I got one for Kelsey. Is Chipper just saying that about Austin Riley? Because I've had people say that about me too.

I was never going to win a gold glove. But they wanted, thanks Jake. They wanted me to feel confident and it worked. Is Chipper just saying that? Or have you seen enough like, hey, this guy can actually move if he can go get it? Like, where's his ceiling? Is it a gold glove? The reason I don't think Chipper was just saying that was because he wasn't saying

that in an interview setting where Austin Riley would have even heard that he said that. Chipper watches, you know, he goes to a lot of the Braves games and has his seats right by the dugout. And it was just in a casual conversation because he was spending a lot of time with the prospects. So I don't think he was just saying that. And the other thing about Austin Riley is, and you guys have kind of alluded to this, but like he's just, he's somebody you want to see well because he's like a good dude, you know, and he knows his. place in the clubhouse and I mean when he just came up I mean he was getting he was sending one out of the park every other a B and it was just catching all the headlines and then he cooled off so we've

seen the potential but he does have a good glove out there I just think once he's able to get that consistency at the plate it's also going to help him with the glove because he's going to be that much more confident being in the lineup and knowing that he can do it at the plate but I don't think Chipper was just saying that because it wasn't anything that would have been publicized until right now. I love it. Pete, well, first, I, you've probably told this story a bunch and you're going to tell a lot of stories about how people and international players find their way on a path to MLB.

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So I was, we have a scout from every team in Australia, represented in Australia. And they usually, we have a national championships that happens for age groups 14, 16, and 18. and they will scout those two weeks of tournaments and they usually find a couple of guys every year that will sign, especially back in the day, you know, the Luke uses and these sorts of guys. There was an Aussie going up to the States or two or three Aussies go to the States every year.

So I sign as a, I was actually a shortstop, but they signed me as a pitcher. I come over to Minnesota, I'm in Fort Myers, and I went from, you know, being a pretty good Aussie baseball player to running into 150 of the best guys that I've ever seen play baseball. So I was a little bit intimidating to start off with. And then my want to have fun took over from the focus of the baseball.

And I didn't really give it all that I should have. There was an incident down on Fort Myers Beach where it was spring break and I was 19 and it was fun and I got arrested. And the next day I got released. So came home, worked every single job you can think about. I was a pool plumber. I was a concreter. I was a glass splashback installer. I eventually landed a few sales jobs.

I was selling pest control for a little while. I was selling lift chairs to retirement villages and nursing homes, you know, to help people get up out of their chairs. And then I was still playing and coaching. club ball baseball in Australia because I just loved that. Playing first base, hitting, pitching every now and then. And then I had a back surgery, so I stopped pitching. Two years after this, I was managing a team and we needed some pitching help.

So I was messing around with a sidearm arm angle out in the outfield, started throwing, felt pretty good, jumped on the mound. That arm slot obviously agreed with me. And my velocity jumped. I didn't know my velocity jump because there's no scouts at BLEague baseball game. I didn't realize how much it had jumped until I was pitching for the state and the national team coach was watching other players with radar guns. And he comes up to me, kind of like the rookie story.

He comes up to me after the game. He said, you have any idea how hard you were trying? And I said, no. He said you were 94 to 96 from a sidearm army. So that started to get the people talking. And I had got a couple of offers to go playing Taiwan and Japan. And then they asked me to try out for the war. World Baseball Classic Team, the first World Baseball Classic team in 06.

I ended up making the team. First it was a squad of 60, then it was a squad of 40, then it was a squad of 30, and I ended up making the team. Came in a pinch against Venezuela, Miguel Cabrera, Malcolm Scootero, Ordonez, all these guys. Walked five, punched out four. Let's go. But it was blowing up the radar gun.

And then the next day, Dayton Moore and JJ Picola, who are now with the Royals, walk me around the facility in Orlando and said, hey, we want you to give this a try it. So called my boss, who I took two weeks annual leave to come and do this. So I had to call my boss and say, hey, you're going to have to find another sales route. And yeah, so I packed for two weeks and ended up staying for eight months. And two weeks into the AAA season, I was in the big leagues and made my debut. I was going to say you went straight to AAA after all that, right? Yeah.

And you were, you were 28. AAA. You were 28 then, 26? 27. 27? Yeah. That's wild, man. Treve, are you sure they have 30 different scouts in Australia? It's not just one guy with a bunch of aliases?

There's at least, there's probably three or four teams that aren't represented. I think, and if it's, it'll be like a low-level guy. You know, he can, he's not going to sign anyone, but he's going to, he's going to make sure that people are aware of guys that are in Australia. Yeah. Treve, I know your eyes lit up a lot during that, but especially being a young kid parting in Fort Myers Beach. care to comment.

I mean, there's probably times I should have been arrested on four-hires-neesh. I got to be honest with you. But that's an incredible story. Can you imagine if you didn't make the Australian World Baseball class of team throwing 94 to 96 sidearm? That'd be an epic fail by whoever is banishing. Darren O'Day has the same story. I mean, he was with the Braves.

Did you guys chat? Like, he was playing in a men's league, fuck around league, and just started throwing sidearm because he was just having fun, and then his body agreed with that, and now he's had a renaissance. Unbelievable. Yeah. And he developed the Finchie,

which is the one pitch that I wish I could have worked out how to do, which is that ball that Treve, you know, that one that stays true through the zone instead of actually sinking. He developed that, and that just changed everything for him. Any sidearm guy that can throw that ball that stays true is going to have some success. It looks like it rises. Any 24 to 26-year-old guy that was a pitching prospect, but now is just playing in beer leagues, like drop that arm down,

see what's going on. You should see the amount of guys in Australia are on side up now. It's ridiculous. Well, you're like, I mean, you're the third highest-tenured Australian MLB player. Yeah, yeah. Well, Liam Hendon can get there. Yeah, so there's a lot of people looking at you saying, I'll do that.

That guy made it. Right, right. Grant Balfour and Graham Lloyd. Oh. Yeah, then Liam will get there. Liam will definitely get there. Hey, were the twins, they must have been on the forefront of the Aussie brigade because I could rattle off like seven or eight Aussies that I played with.

There was a scout by the name of Howie Norsetter that was just trying to give everybody as many opportunities as he could. And he signed Grant Balfour. He signed Liam Hendricks. He signed myself. So there's been a good history of arms. We haven't had a lot of bats come through, Husey and Justin Huber. Justin Huber could hit, man.

Yeah. So there was a... Joe Quinn from 1884 to 1901. Yes. That guy got on the wrong boat. How did he get from Australia to the U.S. from me? That guy was a criminal and he escaped jail. He was from Queensland.

So it was just an accident. They're crazy up there. You know. I'm done talking about these sidewinding prospects, finding it and making it, Kelsey. Can we talk about some real prospects? because that's what you guys are going to be doing. And I know you guys have sort of mapped out the first couple preview episodes a little bit.

So I don't know. Do you want to start going with a couple individuals or maybe get people in the mindset? Do you want us to give a preview of what these first three little clips will be about? Give a little preview. It'd be good to let me know too, Kelsa, that would be good. As we can, so we can nut it out while we're on the air, that'll be good. Work it out. So what we want to try to do with these first three episodes

is kind of show the different types of prospects or up-and-coming stars we're going to cover. So one of our episodes is going to be going in depth on the bandy boys, Lider and Rocker, who are just, I mean, the seasons that those guys are having right now is insane. They are, I mean, Peter will talk about it. But seeing those two guys at the same school just to work their way. I mean, you know, Rock are expected to go number one overall, but Lighter could knock them off there if he keeps rolling. So we'll talk about them in one of the episodes.

We're going to recap the 2020 draft in one of the episodes. And just kind of how they've, you know, a little bit more summary on them. And then what's unfolded this past year, obviously, it's been weird. A lot of the pitchers weren't in games at the big league camp, they were up at the big league camp during bullpins or live BP, whatever it may be, and update them, their ETAs. And then the third episode, we're kind of waiting to see if there are any big names that are going to crack opening day as we get closer.

I know Jake, when you were texting earlier, we threw around the name, Andrew Vaughn, who, I mean, you bought on Twitter. Oh, White Sox. Wait. Did you all see what the article that came out in USA Today and the White Sox came out and said, we are not going to manipulate his time. If he's good enough to make it, he's going to make it. Like, thank God.

Yeah. It's nice that they have to come out and say that. You know, this time, we're not going to manipulate the time. I know usually. Well, they basically said that he made the team. It was, they were talking to the GM and he said, well, that sort of news has to come from the manager, not the general manager. So I think he's going to, I think he's going to make the team. So that's something that we'll talk about.

And I want to talk about the guys that are potentially going to suit up for the Olympic. squads leading up to the Olympic year this year. So we're still got two qualifying tournaments that they have to play in. There's only two spots left. So it's going to be tough. The USA has to make the Olympics? US still can make the Olympics. Yes, sir.

Want to play? Trev? No. Absolutely not. But I thought they were done. Did they just open some loophole for the US or what? No, no, no. There's the last chance qualifying. I think it's in the Dominican Republic. One's in the Dominican Republic and one will be

in Taipei, Taiwan. And field gold stories like Brett Honeywell from the Tampa Bay raise, 1,200 days without throwing a pitch. And so that's that sort of thing that we're going to talk. I'm really excited about it. That's going to be awesome. Yeah, I know I mentioned Andrew Vaughn just because our White Sox preview came out and we were talking about Eloy and DHN and they have a couple bodies there.

And then, yeah, all the White Sox fans come in. and that's why we always say, like, you know your team better than us, is that all this Andrew Vaughn stuff's coming out now, and I don't think he's gotten at bat above high A, but people are talking about him as the D.H. So those are the stories that I'm so excited for, because it happens around the league, and especially to start the year and coming off the weird year last year,

and there's so much young talent in this game. We always reference it, but our winter meetings, when Bob Costas was on Flex. He just, everything he said was so beautiful and awesome. And he was talking about how talented all these guys are now. And whether it's the guys you know, you know, the Aeronados or Byron Buxton covering the outfield. But now all these guys who are coming up and Garrett Crochet casually pumping a hunch and McClanahan on the race pumping a hunch and coming in for the players.

I was like, there's so much young talent in this game that needs to be highlighted. So I'm so excited for you guys to run with it and get weird with it at the same time. Yeah, we're going to touch on some other things. I'm going to go on rants. Like, I'm going to call Trev out for the substance abuse that he threw on people yesterday about sticky stuff. And it's going to be fed. Ah, good time to get off. Yeah, he's scared the hell out of him.

All right. We're both having it, too. Treve, you didn't miss anything, which is good. I just pulled up Andrew Vaughan. Guess in 54 games, his sophomore year of college at Cal, guess his slugging. I'll let anyone try and guess. It's incredible. Didn't we do this already with him?

No, we did it with the Rangers guy with the nice neck. Josh Young. Oh, Josh Jung. Josh Young. Yeah. All right, he slugged 819. Sure. Oh, my.

As a sophomore, Cal. He hit 400, too, right? Yeah, he hit 400. On base percentage was 531. Slugging was 819. He got 44 walks and 37 extra base hits. Barry Barnes. Not bad.

Incredible. Oh, damn it, I had a question or... Okay. I forget. Sorry. Damn, I lost it. Would have been gold. Oh, do you know?

looking up, so I was bored last night, and I was looking up the hardest hit balls of spring training so far. And there's the name of the guy who's hit the hardest hit balls. The most over 100 exit Velo was a name of a prospect of, I don't know, so I didn't want to put anyone on the spot if you guys also don't know him.

But if you did, that would be cool. Derek Hall, Derek Hall, he is in the Phillies camp. I was surprised that it was a name. It was like, you know, it was like Judge Ocuna, Stanton, Derek Hall. Yeah. Wow. I have no idea. I mean, I wanted to like tweet out like to or Philly's fans. Like who is this dude? Like yeah. Like he has like double the, he has double the amount of 100 mile per hour exit velo hits than like the third. D-A-R-I-K. Dare it. Yeah. Is that it? Yeah. C-K. D-A-R-C-K. Yeah, I don't know who he is. He's an iron pig, Trev. That's your home country up there.

yeah he probably has heard of the stories about my fillies legendary career so he's trying to follow in those footsteps i get it there is he a big boy uh 6 4-232 yeah oh baby love that i am pigs the team who has the shirts that you can scratch it's like a piece of bacon and you scratch it and it smells like bacon i didn't know that but it sounds exactly like an Iron Pigs piece of merchandise. I have one of those. It's a piece of bacon on the shirt and you scratch it. I've never been more embarrassed to wear a uniform

than that last year when I was in AAA because they made us wear silly ones. We literally had a piece of bacon strip as our hat. Then we were the Chupacabras, I think. And we had like neon green uniforms and you know how it is, man.

They make you just, they make you look so crazy in the minor leagues. I got to play for the Simpsons team. That was good. Albuquerque isotopes. That was a highlight for me. Actually, that was a highlight of a year when I became a pop-up guy

for the Los Angeles Dodgers as a right-handed specialist. That was fun. Golly. Dodger legend. You've seen a lot of the country. You've probably seen more of the country than the average U.S. citizen.

Do you have a favorite region? Yeah. I love Chicago. I love Chicago. And San Diego is pretty hard to pass up. A couple of mine, Nashville, little minor league cities. Nashville was in Columbus. Sneaky.

Whoa. Whoa. I mean, sneaky. Hold on. Hold on. You went San Diego, Chicago, Nashville to Columbus. I just want to just give you an idea of where I'm had.

That's a beautiful place. This place is amazing. Okay. Sneaky good clubs too. Calce the college right there right Maybe Kelsey you're you're a Are you Texas originally

And now you're kind of Atlanta So I mean do you just keep it proud down there You got you got some sneaky spots I mean so I was I collect back from all the ballparks I've been to And I wanted to move them over here But you can't see it in my shot But I've been to 22 of the 30 ballparks

Okay I've a lot of the AL teams I haven't into um because the drugs and you know um but i think my least favorite city oh if i could say that i'd say that i'd say down Cincinnati every single morning i would wake up in Cincinnati i was like i'm still in Cincinnati i know preb you went to the mall there with somebody i have no clue where the mall is i would walk around downtown try to find it um didn't like Cincinnati shout out to Red Spence. Yeah.

Yeah. Shut out, Red Spence. That's fine. You know what? I'll back you up. There's nothing too special about. Top bellies. Top bellies.

I didn't have a bad time there. In fact, I went to a great steakhouse there. But if we're just talking about comparing it to the other Major League cities, I mean, I get it. I get it. Yeah. I obviously love PNC Park is probably my favorite ballpark just because of the view. I love going to Denver, love where our hotel is located

in downtown Denver where it would be my favorite city. Now you're speaking Jake's language old Denver boy. Hey Pete, I know that Jake DMs you once. We were doing our radio show where we do trivia

on Wednesdays and we stumbled upon your postseason game log. And like we didn't know if your fielders got paid off by the other team or like what was going on because two you came in to get the last out induced the last out and the infielders booted it to like turn the game like brutal so here's some bad memories for you can you talk on these bad times it was it was a that was a tough series we we went into that series and we lost chip a Jones uh game one we lost billy wagner to a her

Martin Prado went down. So we didn't really have a lot of guns that were still left. And unfortunately for Brooks Conrad, who's still one of the greatest teammates that I've ever had, he just had a bad series and misplayed a couple of balls. And, you know, a couple of managerial decisions and a couple of relief outings that didn't go our way. and the Giants ended up winning, if it was 2010, yeah,

the Giants ended up winning that year. So we had a really fun, awesome. You know, they talk about chemistry and you can't have written that sort of thing, but that team was probably the most fun I've ever had

on the baseball field because it was just a, we had Troy Gloss playing first base for the first half of the year, and then we traded for Derek Lee. We're talking about, like, guys, superstars. Yeah, it was awesome. It was a lot of fun.

We deserved better. Yeah, I, I'm remembering that. now and I your your response to me was tough to come back from thanks for the sweet memories though O'Day will be great on your show so when we do get Darren O'Day for talking Yanks he'll be a good time so it's a win net net yes that's a win okay now for something good to balance it out do you know what batter you struck out the most do you have that in the memory bank yeah Dan ugla wow you're sorry about it Dan yeah shout out to Dan

because he did take me deep and he's lost the bat against me for the Marlins. And then he became my teammate. So he had the bragging rights. You faced him twice after that, though. Yeah, with the Nationals. Yeah. Do you know how many guys got multiple home runs off of you? None.

None. Wow. No repeat customers. Yeah. It's pretty exciting. It's pretty exciting. Sinker. You know, it's just the get agile free card.

Hit the ball on the ground. Now, trust me, that didn't work in 2018. Check those stats out. I was taking missiles off Jake Carrietto. It was time for me to get out. It was time to get out. We didn't do this at the top of the show, but Pete and Trev both requested that I do the new patron.

So this episode was brought to you by Alex Harmon, Brian, Maximus Mickleroy, Scott S, Mark Bessie. Now, this one, I don't know if it's a typo on my sheet. or a typo on the birth certificate, but it says, uh, Pieter, Peter with an eye before the first E.

I'm looking at it right now. So like, there's a typo here or there's a typo at the hospital. I have met, uh, Peter who spelled it that way, wasn't American. Pronounced Peter.

Pronounced Peter. Interesting. European. That seems like a quick fix. Yeah, we all told them it was wrong. Uh, Shane Block.

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Hide the Prime Hide the Prime Hide the Prime Yeah so I got a couple there I think that was an easy batch Yeah Pieter I don't know

I thank you guys for wrestling the technology Any other baseball takes You guys have been needing to rip for a while. Any... World Series picks? Any player to watch? Sneaky team?

Trev wants your World Series picks? My World Series picks. So I'm looking up that spelling of Peter. Pita. It says it's a variant of the name, Peter, and it may refer to Peturi. Peturi is a mix of leaves and wood ash, traditionally chewed as a stimulant.

Ooh. Like that. Aboriginal Australians widely across the continent. Wow. Wow. Back to you, Peter. I wrote a thesis on the Aborigines. Thesis paper. Richard.

Yes, I wrote a, yeah, one of my thesis papers was on treatment of the aboriginals. Yes. Wow. I lived there, so I was always interested. No, not good. They have a national apology day. Correct. Well, thanks for your baseball takes with the Aborigines.

Yeah. Um, I know. Tough. Anything else? We want to talk about Australia? Airs Rock. Uluru.

That's where I first saw me. He's an Aussie. He's sitting there. No, I live there. That was when I first saw an average, my first Aboriginal person still. Just chilling outside of like a somewhere. It's called Ayers Rock when I live there.

Now they change it back to Uluru, right? Yeah. Yeah. And you're not allowed to climb up it anymore. You used to be able to climb up it. Oh, you're not allowed anymore? No.

No. It's like heritage listed now. That makes sense, I guess. Kind of crazy, though. Yeah, it's massive. Just a massive rock, just in the middle of no one. Yeah. It's like alien type stuff.

Anyway, all right. Well, everyone be on the lookout for Farm to Fame. We're recording, like, or batching like three mini episodes to just kick it off, right? And then, uh, It'll be once a week. There will be segments on the YouTube channel and then full episodes on the podcast

and clips everywhere and socials everywhere. We're going to get it going and I'm very excited for it. So that damn John Boy Media baseball page is. Oh, also, you guys are going to be on a team. It's going to be the two of you, Trevor and Chris Rose, in the John Boy Media Homer Draft that we're doing Monday through Friday. It's property versus property versus property versus property. So the three of us in this room,

talking yanks, will be on a team. The four of you will be on the John Boy Media baseball team. And then Mansplained Baseball will be a team. I thought you guys cut me from your team. You're trying to go to back on. Yeah, you're back on. Huge because I didn't want to be with those other people. Get away from the producers.

So you guys, I might be breaking this to you, or I think you knew. And then, so get excited. You guys, Trev, you're not happy about this? I'd rather fly solo. no offense to anybody. No, illegal. Just saying that right now. Illegal.

You're on the Jammo Media Baseball team. All right, fine. I love you guys. But, you know, I love picking my homers. I love picking homers. Well, maybe they'll let you be captain for like a week and see how you do. Okay. You can be captain.

Yeah. Okay. You don't want that. Yeah, you guys don't want that. Peter, just because you're older than me, stop trying to, you know, be the boss all the time. Did you win the award draft last year of trip? you lose okay now we're just i don't remember we all tie i swear we all like tied like with

everything prop beds all that stuff i didn't win it did bleed into the postseason jake came in last place and we had to like make a rule up to like keep him alive in the postseason that is sure to stay alive in the regular season so don't go there i didn't make up any rule you don't want the horns um some rules that's quadruple day uh Yeah, he's Braves World Series, by the way. Ploof one, Ploof had 30. Jake and I tied with 28 each. Braves World Series?

Is that what you said at the N.P.? Yeah, these Braves World Series. It's going to be tough to beat the West Coast teams, but I've got to say, Brace. You know, it's a... Can't not. How about those are going to do this year? You know, you see all the teams fall off,

but then you go and get power. They're going to be pretty good. I think it's going to be tough to beat them. They're going to be back. It's going to be, yeah. I think it'll go. through them. Come on, Braves.

Braves got to do it. Come on, Braves. All right. Well, I think, you know, for so many Internet, the tech didn't do that bad. Good job by BBD, wrangling it all, and everyone else. Thank you guys for coming on. We are very excited. I think a lot of people are excited to find out about these young players and get more baseball talk.

So looking forward to it. Thank you, guys. We are very excited too. And there it is. Jake sucks