Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 322 | Musgrove's No-Hitter and the Alec Bohm Slide

Episode Date: April 12, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Baseball's hot in the streets, another weekend full of action grabbing the headlines for all the right reasons. Let's talk about it. Welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for joining us today. Appreciate you. As always, we're brought to you by Draft Kings. My name's Jimmy.

His name's Jake, BBD in the corner. And Trevor, not in California. He is in Florida. I am. How's the sun out there? It's a beautiful day. I walk my family down to the beach and said, you know what? You guys go have fun.

Daddy's got to work. Wow. So here I am. I mean, that's undeniable my work ethic. It's crazy. On and off the field. He was drinking a beer when you came in here. Sure.

I'm drinking. I'm on vacation, man. Sure or false. You spilled on yourself at the airport. It is true. I spilled some wine, but you know I was okay because I was wearing all black. Let that be a point to everybody there. Travel, wear black.

It's a good call. Jake, before we get to you. Yes. I don't know. Is my mic loud or is my headphone loud? I think my headphones are a little loud too. I think I was going to play through it. Sounds good to me, Jim boy.

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That's a great name. Greg Vince, Jonathan Williams, Diego Rivera, and Ryan Covella. Those are our most recent patrons. Thank you guys very much. Appreciate you each and every day. Jake, how are you doing? I'm good, baby. I'm good. Baseball in full swing. No more excuses. No more seasons just getting started. Hey, you're slumping, you're slumping. Get out of it.

People are getting benched. Jay Bruce, we'll see. I'm good, man. Had a nice weekend. Watched a lot of baseball. I think last night was hilarious. I mean, the ESPN game. It was kind of the perfect short story of where baseball is at.

The stars shined. Albies, Akuna, Freeman, Harper. Like, all the stars did their thing. And then you get the ESPN broadcast, which has now become a good form of bad entertainment also. And then you get a replay that becomes the storyline and one of the storylines of the weekend. I mean, it's baseball in a nutshell. The stars were incredible. Everyone's talking about replays today.

So I'm good, man. Our Yanks got their butt kicked a little bit, but they survived. So we're coming up on that. And like you, I mean, you know, we kick it around on this show. I'm excited to hear Trevor's first leadoff episode on the road. It kind of feels like we're a team that kind of got off to a ho-hum start. And we're like, okay, let's put the big guy up top and see what happens. I like that.

I like that analogy. I think you call me the big guy. Okay. Well, with this crowd. Yeah. I have a question because you talked about the Sunday night broadcast. I obviously didn't get to see the game. I was traveling.

Will Middlebrooks, friend of the pod, our friend, I like Will a lot. He put out a tweet last night. I need confirmation that this actually happened. He said the Phillies were down three to two. D.D.

hits a three run home where they go up five three. And Arod says, now we got a ball game. So, so three, two, not a ball game. Five three, ball game. Because even leads.

Yeah, you never heard Arod talk. about two-run leads. It almost is a bit at this point. Yeah. He... What's his deal, dude? He's not a real person. I mean, I posted his selfie from Instagram.

I mean, is seemingly normal, but also if anyone looks at it, it's one of the weirdest things they've ever seen in their life. What? He posted another selfie? Oh, yeah. Oh, you didn't see, Jake? We had a little Twitter back and forth with some creepy picks. It was, as someone put it, nightmare fuel.

I didn't see. I fell asleep real early last night. I woke up to pee and then my phone was blown up. Oh. So he, on Instagram, his Instagram story, he did exciting game tonight at Phillies and then at Braves, which is not the Atlanta Braves' Instagram account, so they went untagged. Interesting. And it's just, it's a wormy pick.

Like, I've taken a lot of wormy picks, but... Yeah, there was something wrong with it. It was... He's... He's something. When you have that much money, sometimes things get a little strange. You don't live in the same world as everyone else.

That's okay. You need some toxins. He needs some toxins. That's what it helps you out. Like, I'm drinking a beer because I know I need to stay like a regular person here. Yeah. Everybody knows that.

This is necessary. Man, that's a weird pig. Like, in a way, it's a normal selfie. In another way, it's one of the weirdest things you'll ever see. He's not normal. If you didn't know A-Rod, you think, that's not that big of a deal. But when you know the backstory and all the stuff that goes around it,

you're like, okay, dude. Yeah. No more J-Lo. No, they're still together. They're still fighting through it. Yeah. They're doing their... I actually...

I actually... I actually... I'm like good. Yeah. Their kids have been, like, like his kids have been with J-Lo, like for like their formative years. So I do feel like everyone's just laughing at that

because J-Lo's kind of odd and A-Rod's the biggest weirdo ever. But I do feel bad that like, you know, there is like a family being. People attached. That attached. I love that angle that you just took right there. That's why you're the best. That's true.

You thought about someone that nobody else is thinking about. Yeah, everyone just likes getting their A-Rod jokes off. We started the show. and I do. I mean, I'm Sean Wallaceing his face right now. Yeah. But, you know, their family has been around. You're going to do a Yuba different? Yeah, I'm going to do a Yuba different. It's already done.

There's A-Rod jokes to be had. We leave the kids out of it. There he is. My goodness. He looks great. I'm going to, sorry, I got the U-But-Different done. It's a little distracted. Sean Wallace's face. It's no problem. It's out there. Replied to Jake's tweet. Let's talk about the NL.

Trevor. Oh, I'm leading. off. Okay, let me go my page up, guys. Big guy leading off hitter. Do you ever lead off in the show? Not too sure. I don't think so. Okay, we'll get on that. You're too powerful. You're too thick. I'm so thick. And our dude, Mikey Retano, who makes all the intro outro songs. Mikey, I don't know how much people you know. I don't know if you know how much people

love the intro outro for this show. People have like asked for the files for like ringtones and shit. Which is that even a thing? Do ringtones? Maybe like alarms? Dude, ringtones. used to be. Yeah. Yeah. So he heard that we wanted an extended version or needed one for these recaps. And we have one now, so I'm very excited about it.

Trevor. We have news. Trevor, you have one played appearance in the number one spot in the batting order, but you did not start the game there. It was a pinch it. How do you do? Nothing. Got out. Yeah.

It wasn't a strikeout, though. It could have been a barrel. It could have been a barrel. Pin-shitting's hard, Treff. Thank you, James. I'll see if I can find the details of the... Oh, stop. Just let me lead off. I will preface this by saying I was traveling yesterday,

so if I messed some details up, don't get mad at me, okay? All right, here we go. This is your NL recap weekend series. Trevor, on the mic. There it is. All right, we'll start with the Nats visiting, the Dodgers. The Dodgers get their rings in front of everybody, and that game was awesome.

They won at 1-0. Walker, Bueller, tosses the gym. And our guy, Justin Turner, hits the Homer. Dodger sweep. Sunday night game was Kershaw versus Serser. Six shutout innings. And our guy McKinstree, just the never-ending supply of good players,

comes up, drives them all three runs, including a two-run homer. Bad news. Bellinger placed on the 10-day aisle on Friday. Betts missed the whole series with the lower stiff back, but they don't care because they have players coming out the Yahoo. Dodger sweep. Marlins at Mets, they split the series.

The Sunday game is suspended. McNeil hits the game tying Homer in the ninth. Confordo does the freaking stick his elbow off. That's the whole walk-off controversy that we'll have to get into. Another cool thing that happened. Janice Chisholm took DeGrom Deep, big fly. Love to see that. You don't get to see that too often, so that was cool to see.

Like I said, they split. Sunday got suspended. Cubs at Pirates. Pirates took two out of three from the Cubbies. Areietta wins the game, the first game, four to two. and the Pirates take the remaining two games. I don't even really want to talk about that series, to be honest with you.

Next, we'll go to the Brewers at the Cardinals. Our brew crew wins two out of three. Burns looks nasty, but they lose. Wainwright gets the dub in that game. Aeronado breaks the tie, the one-one tie with a two-run, home run in the eighth, and then Wong in the same game, gets the standing ovation from the crowd,

because Yadi is the absolute best at that. Yelich, and Shaw, of the game on Sunday for the Brewkers, so we have to check in on that. That is not good for them, but they do take two out of three. Then we'll move on to San Francisco. Rocky's coming to town, Rockies leave town, Jake, your rocks, they got swept. Quedo looked all funky on the mound. He was doing the shimmy. He was doing all that. Longo was hitting the ball hard like he always done. McMahon does hit a homer. Five home runs on the season. Who cares? They got swept. Moving on. Big series here.

Phillies in Atlanta. The Braves end up taking two out of three. Morton versus Wheeler in game one, Anderson versus Eflin game two. Braves win both those games. And then the controversy that we'll get into a little bit later, Phillies win last night due to a faulty call. Alec Baum sliding in. Looks safe. He wasn't safe because you got to touch the base to be safe. People don't remember that too often, but they do. Anyways, Braves took two out of three. And the last NL. Series of the week was the Reds at Diamondbacks. Diamondbacks take two out of three. Reds' bats cooled down. Yeah, they cooled down a little bit. They did. Naquin hits his fifth homer in game one. That's all I know about this whole series.

I can go down. Vbacks take the second two games to take the series two out of three. I'm exhausted now. Batting leadoff is tough. That's the NL recap. How about that? Beautiful. End leadoff's tough.

I think that's tough I can't even find you guys Where are you there you are Only one screen today Treve huh There you are A lot happened Baseball how about that

That was a lot of baseball A lot of baseball Jake's Rocky's getting swept from the Giants I like hunting out the inner division series I think the Brewers taking two or three From the Cardinals is pretty cool Especially without Well they had Burns and How's ago

They didn't have Woodruff go But those injuries Yellich and Shaw and belly for the Dodgers. We're seeing a lot of guys hit the IL early. Shaw was my guy. It's riding them. Hopefully that doesn't come back to bite him. Cubs, pirates.

Pirates win two out of three. Cubsies, what you doing? You know what the Cubbies are doing. Did the Marlins' mats get suspended to the rain? Yeah, the whole thing was a mess. They started the game. Started the game nine pitches from Stroman. Then they axed it.

Come on. Waited two hours. Yeah, Stroh put out the tweet, and he's just like, hey, you know, I train my body to get ready, like, every fifth day. So if you could kindly let me know, yeah, I mean, Metsy as a Getsy. And it was, they had the fans, they had fans there wait for two hours to officially exit after the first nine pitches. It was very, it was a mess. It was a mess. It is a mess.

And Stroh was getting misquoted saying, like, it was all about him. He was talking about the entire team out there. Oh, yeah. Anybody that's playing in the rain is subject to getting hurt. I mean, Lendoros, their new guy, they just paid a zillion dollars to you want him playing in the rain? You don't, you don't. Puddles. And yeah, and the other thing is, Jim, like you mentioned, inner division, like these are the Marlins.

They're going to see this team all year. Yeah. I do that. There's no reason to run that race. My guy Rogers shoved got tagged in a couple tweets when you just, you know, you throw something out there preseason. And now that's my guy forever. I think the general public knows this, but I'm just going to put it out there. A lot of the times, the only, they shouldn't have started that game.

What they'll typically do is they just won't tell people that they've canceled the game. They want you to go in. They want you to buy a beer, maybe even a second beer while you're waiting, and then they'll cancel it. But they rarely just cancel it like they should. We were victim to that, I Yank Stadium once. We hosted our first ever event. And we had like 90 minutes of all you can eat, all you can drink on the party deck. And they let that 90 minutes lapse.

And then as soon as the 90 minutes was up, they canceled the game. When we had gotten some texts from people on the other side of the wall being like, yeah, the players already know this game's not happening. They just let it happen. So then they said, yeah, well, we'll refund you for the game, but you don't get refunded for the party deck because you had the full party deck time. And we're like, that's bullshit. It's brutal.

And that happens way too often. Literally, when you're in the clubhouse as a player, like, they'll tell you, okay, we're going to meet in 30 minutes. We're going to meet in 45 minutes. We already know the outcome. You're literally just waiting for people to buy beer. Yeah. Like, we know.

Sometimes you'll be ushered out quietly before the fans even know. I don't like when that happens. I'll say that right now. Yankees ticketing ended up hooking it up for us. They did. Thank you guys. They said because we know you have a Yankees audience and we're like, well, no, you should hook up everyone. That got screwed.

Yeah. Flex on them. Oops. Awesome. More news. Trevor, your lead-off appearance. You were playing for the Tampa Bay Reyes at the time. The Texas Rangers were in town.

It was the bottom of the 10th inning on July 21st of that year. Alex Claudio was pitching. You pinch it from Alex Smith and lined out to left field to end the game. Farrell. I barreled it for sure A lineout for sure Thank you A line out to the outfield barrel

Don't bring that 80th 2017 rough year in my career But thank you for finding a gem TBD Don't bring that 83 mile per hour Junk in here Claudio I'll be

I'll be back of the truck I'll be back in the trap in a few days Probably gonna get a standing out For the way I handled myself there For 20 games We should We should try to get in touch

With the Ray's PR team And have them Like a montage Between innings guess who's in attendance it's Trevor ploof here's here's Evan Longoria telling Kevin Cash to not start him over him

a lot of beautiful moments in the trop anything else on this name is I stopped Alex Cobb from getting thrown out of a game one time so that was I was showing my veteran leadership there love that that's huge I mean I've seen John Chasso go back to the trop and

get like sexy the announcers were like John Jaso nice name right there Nice name, ugly style. No. Oh, one of the grossest guys to do. You're trying dreads John J-Say-so? Yeah, when he went on purpose ugly.

He went full pirate. Yeah. I went full pirate. That happens. You saw a look at Jorge Cantor and it was like, I can't help that. I want that. Now I'm going to go look up John J-Sos career numbers because I'm very curious. 112 OPS Plus career.

I don't think he's getting a award. Tim LoCastro set the record. He did? Yeah. Cleats are going to the Hall of Fame, gave his mom the base. That was very nice. The debacks are our best friend. They were already in the chat today.

And they take two out of three from the Reds who were hot. The Reds only win was 10th inning. So, okay, we love the debacks. How about the NOS doing it? Giants are getting off to a hot start. Johnny Quato to come out in the ninth inning. Those are some of the sexiest words. You can whisper in my ear.

Guess the standings of the AOL. West right now. Al West? NL West. Guess the standings of the NL West right now. Dodgers are 8 and 2. Padres are 7 and 3. Giants are 6 and 3. D. Backs. 4 and 5? 4 and 6.

Rockies, 3 and 7? They might go pole to pole. They lost opening day. Who? The Dodgers. No, well, no, okay, not pole to pole. From now until this poll to this poll. Starting today, like,

Dodgers, Padres, Giants, one, two, three, Diamondbacks four, Rockies five. I wouldn't be surprised if no one ever moves the rest of the season. I'll follow it.

I love that. I do want to talk about the Quato Capler Exchange. Quedo, people don't know, was trying to finish the game, goes back out into the ninth, has like 115 pitches or something like that. Cap goes out there,

and people are like, oh, he's going to take him out. Cap wasn't going out there to take him out. there to take him out. A couple things he was doing right there. He was going out there. One, he wanted a little bit of ovation for himself and two, he wanted the crowd, a little bit pump up for Quato to finish the game. He went out there and said, I'm going to give you this game. You can't have a runner on. You get a runner on. We're done. Because there's only a two run lead, I believe. Two or three run lead. One out there said, if you get a runner on, you're out, but I'm going to give you

this ovation right here for both of us. And he did just that. So just a really savvy move by cap right there because managers sometimes need to get pumped up too. It's an entertainment game and adrenaline looms large. So like there you go going out there making the crowd think he's going to get pulled and then you make the crowd think that

Quato convinced him. Yes. Like that's what the crowd thinks. The crowd always thinks that. A bunch of dudes nudge the guy next to him like Quito convinced him he's going to finish you like yeah! And he listened to his player, yeah! That's my manager. That's trust. So that's

Awesome. He did come out eventually, right? Like he didn't finish the game. He could get up a hit. He got to hit the story with two outs, I think. Tough matchup. That is good matchup. Kind of a cheap, cheap hit, too. But yeah, Cap knew exactly what he was doing.

And the crowd will fall for that every single time. Ted Lassau. The Quato triple hezzi into the changeup was art. Go check that out if you haven't seen it. How's he do that? A lot of giants. I don't know. It's like core strength.

I said, Teddy, watch this game. Watch this guy pitch. Like, this is fun for you. And so, Jimmy, you mentioned the stadiums. I want to go catch a lizards, Dad. We do need. Teddy's a driller now, dude. He's running it on the team. Yeah, he rakes.

We need the Giants to fall off enough so that they'll trade Quato at the deadline. We need Quato on a contender this year. Well, being third in the division isn't going to get them much. But you know the Giants think they're good. I always think they're good. Quato's on a walkie, right? I'm pretty sure, yeah. Nah, they're third in the vision.

will trade him. Buster Posey's still good, by the way. For everyone that thought he wouldn't be good, he's like still really good. Huge update. Each. Yeah. Treve, I saw you doing a coach's pitch for your team there, the Diamondbacks.

You know that I won a championship coach's pitch, seven-year-old baseball. Okay. So the other team's junk. We don't keep score yet because we're still. How old is Teddy? This is a five-and-six-year-old league. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

I heard that. Well, when you get to seven-year-old's, Just let it know that I won a championship as coach's pitch seven-year-olds. Dude, I can't wait to pick a pitcher that's like eight years old. Like I'm going to like, oh, he tilts his glove this way, guys. It's a curb. I'm going to tell all my kids. I can't wait to do that.

You just got to find their swing. Actually, the championship game was at 8 in the morning after sober grad night senior year of high school. I was supposed to leave early, but my girlfriend got hypnotized. So I had to stay until like 4 a.m. So I pitched the championship game two hours sleep. This is heroic. Livermore Orioles. What the fuck did you just say?

A bunch of truth. Who hypnotized your girlfriend? A hypnotist at sober grad night. She was singing Fergie to the whole school. I was like, this sucks, man. You're not a hypnotist. I couldn't leave mid-hypnotist because she'd be like, where's Jimmy? Right.

So I had to wait until she got unhypnotized. So do you, like, believe in hypnotists now? I believe in dumb people. I mean, if I've tried to get hypnotized like three times And he's like, it's not going to work on you And I'm like, yeah, because I'm smarter than thinking hypnotism is real. My girlfriend's like, how do I get hypnotized? It's going to be so fun.

Well, of course you're going to get hypnotized. You want to be hypnotized. So yeah. Anyway, just like pressure's on to win a championship as coach pitch. That's all I was trying to say. Jake, can you tell us what's going on in the American League? And can you also tell us about how well-groomed your junk is?

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Get 20% off plus free shipping with the code talking at manscape.com. Manscape.com code talking. 20% off and free shipping. Jake, what happened in the American League? Will you please let me know? Fellas, the Oakland Athletics, they're dead in the water, their season's over. They take two out of three. from Houston. How about it? Mania and Montes, the M&M brothers, everyone's calling them.

They get a couple dubs, six innings pitch, one run run run from Mania. Luriano, big two-run Homer in game three. Good for the A's. Getting back into the race, still a bad year so far. Yankees, House of Horrors in Tampa, Trevor's down there to give the guys a pep talk. Yankees lose the first two games. They salvage the last one in 10 innings. Klubott got the Ray's treatment and the Yanx's treatment. Defense was kind of bad. Archer, second game, he gets pulled because of injury.

Not as bad as it looks. That's what he's telling or replying to Treff's tweet. Oh, by the way, Randy Rosarana is back to being the best ever. Holy smokes. The Red Sox. Oh, my God, Bobby Dalbeck. The Red Sox sweep the Orioles. Dalback's not playing, I know, Treps.

No, who is? Jady Martinez. Holy smokes. Three homer game. He looks like he's back to form going Apo Taco with ease. Red Sox getting hot. Don't let them get hot. Povetta has a nice start.

Devers is doing it. Go, Sox, go. Cleveland. They take out the broomsticks against the Tigers. Man, this Cleveland team. When they pitch, they make it so hard. Plesaq, Savali, both go seven, one-er and run from Savali. Plesaq was three-hit shuddy in his seven innings,

and Allen, with a good start in the third game. Fran Mill had a two-dinger day. Cleveland, I wish they'd spend on a lineup. Still had Lindor, probably. Trev, your twins! They lose two out of three to the Marineras. Holy smokes. Burrios pitched well in game one.

That was the game the Twins won. Then the Mariners take the next two. Corey Seeger's brother, Kyle Seeger, with a big day, three-run homer off Colomé, his second-blown save on the young year. How about the Mariners doing it? White Sox and Royals, they end up splitting because of a rainout on Saturday. Lance Lynn dropped his manscaped on the table, if you know what I mean. They won that game six-nothing, and then the Royals, they win in 10 innings.

Minor versus Cease. Adam Eaton had a two-run homer before Santana tied it back up. Penintennie Buntz in the run in the 10th. How about that? Baseball. And then your final AL series of the Freakin' The Halos. They went to Dunedin to play the Blue Jays. They take two out of three.

Canning versus Stripling in the first one. That goes to 11. David Fletcher with the big hit in the 11th. Otani Show continues. That guy is an absolute freak show. Stephen Matt's. Second good start on the young year for Stephen Matt's. How about it?

Sad news, Dexter Fowler, out for the season torn ACL. Hate that. Hate that. But we want to end on a high note and Bo Bichette. Hot. That's the A.L. Thank you very much, Jake. A lot going on there.

A lot of baseball. Lots going on. Oh, my God. Where did you guys head jump to? A lot. Well, first, Kikuchi, good start by him. I'm tracking him, six innings pitch, two-run runs. Nelson Cruz got him with the two-run homer,

and that was the only markings. And, I mean, that guy hit the most home runs in the entire 2000s, so we're okay with that. He good. We're okay with that. He's hitting these line drive home runs that are just gross. Yeah, that's not fair. The Red Sox, they've won six in a row

without having, like, good starting pitching, so that's pretty impressive by them. I think Garrett Richards went five innings pitch, two run runs, and that's the best. pitching line from this series against the Orioles. So the Orioles just, they used to be the hitters. I guess they're not anymore. Or they are, but their pitching is still just awful.

Good for the, good for the Red Sox either way. It's a nice hot start. If any team, like, you know, I think we talked about the Red Sox and there's like, well, if they don't get off to a hot start. And we're still only nine games into the season. But they were a team that was a hot start. A hot April, May can change very much how they handle the rest of the season. Trev, tell them what Chris Rose told you on your guys' pregame show there.

We talked about that, Jim. You're a big schedule guy. We know that. April schedule, very easy, May schedule very hard. So we're going to see how they are after the May schedule. Yeah, I mean, like I said, the pitching wasn't. Maybe scoring, Jim, 6.4 runs a game. Yeah, yeah, no.

Against the raise, too. And they saw the raise. They saw Glassnow and Yardby. Glass not a good game. Yardrie didn't. So, yeah, yeah. I mean, it ended up. They're not for real.

I'm going to say, I'm just going to put out there right now. They're not for real. I'm just going to say it. You said it. You said it. Oh. You said it. Not me.

Wow. I said it. The angels continue to make headlines and like just be a fun team to watch. California baseball is kind of doing it right now besides the ace. But the giants. Yeah. The giants, the angels, the Dodgers, the Padres are carrying California. While the A's, they did win two over the eights.

their last three and they did win the series. So great weekend for California. Always is, Treve. Always is. I left it to come to Florida. Fools aren't. It doesn't make any sense. Well, Gary needed to be down here. He said, get the Tampa quick, Trevor said, I got you, bro. Did a good job

with Gary. Speaking of, the race, I mean, the trop and the race continue to be a nightmare for the Yankees. Their Saturday game, we talked about it on Talking Yanks, was like the worst game in like recent Yankees memory, like the lowest energy game you could possibly have. It was just a bad time. The Reyes bullied them the first game.

The Yankees, thank God. You could see us live and die on the live stream we did yesterday. They fought back a little bit. Rognet O'Dore season and pinstripes looking clean. Looks good. Looking better. So yeah, it's the Yankees to get, I think every Yankee fan, and maybe it's Yankee fans being, I don't know, two brow rays.

I don't know. Everyone was ready for the sweep, and then they ended up getting a win. So it's like, all right, let's go to Dunedin and play those Blue Jays and start hitting again. The rays are gross, man. Did you see what they did, Treve, in some of these games? And this is a credit to the race. I'm not knocking them. They put out, like, their B effort and just, just,

They just mentally toy with the Yankees so bad. Can I tell you who pitched the game that Jake, who pitched game one for them? Or is it game two? Game two. But game one as well. Game one was the game you're talking about where it was like. Listen to the pitchers.

Rich Hill, Hunter Strickland, Chris Maza. Come on. That sounds like, uh, that sounds like a, um, independently guys getting back into the game. That's a little mean at Rich Hill. Well, Rich Hill's good, but he hasn't played in a while. But, like, and Chris Mazza, two good outings for him. Yeah.

And then they ran Maz out there with a four-run lead. And they're playing, like, they had a guy make his debut at third. Or I don't know if his debut. Like the Yang, well, we're saying, the Yanks didn't see Glass now. They didn't see Yarborough. They only, that's the scariest thing for you guys. The Raz are basically like, we let's put out our C-plus lineup and just fuck with their heads for a while. And it works.

They're so in Yankees heads. It's crazy. So we did that on the, Rose and I were on the IG Live. He asked me if the Red Sox rivalry is being usurped by the Ray's Yanks. And I said, I think that Yankees' Twitter is more

scared of the Ray's because it's the whole devil you know thing. Like they know who the Red Sox are, like what kind of team they are. They almost are similar run franchises, if you will. But the Rays have this sneaky little weird

instances that happen throughout the game they put weird players in they match up differently and it's like it's just the unexpected and they've run it out there all the time and they've been they've been a nemesis for you guys yeah but definitely

those games matter more like but like if it's like a Wednesday night baseball or Sunday night baseball against the Red Sox there's still that kind of like innate feeling of like oh this is yeah this is fuck them blah blah the rays I'd almost rather like sleep during the game and like listen to it the way I listen to a golf broadcast

if they're in the trap. It's just, they just bore you and confuse you to death where you're like, what's happening? What kind of whirlwind is this? It's like when a big, a huge like heavyweight fighter

has to fight like somebody that's not in his weight class but like this guy's like quicker than him. Smarter. Yeah, it's nuts. Yeah, just like different stuff. It's fun to watch those games because they are, I mean, the organizations, aren't so different now, like, player development-wise,

but, like, in people's minds, Yankees raised, there couldn't be two drastically different teams. The raise, you're also facing the TROP and, you know. You're not facing the Trump. Stop with that. No, Trevor, you know, people hate going to the Trop. It's Wisconsin baseball. Trevor, we're telling, this is us telling you something.

This is an opinion. The Yankees hate going to the Trop. They're scared that everyone is going to get hurt. Trevor, literally there's articles from last year that the Yankees don't know what shoes to wear when they play at Tropicana field 20 years later. Yeah, it's pretty weird. It's an absolute house of orders for them. That sounds so, I'm sorry. It's pathetic.

I get it. It might be what's happening. It sounds so stupid to me. Oh, we're a thousand percent in agreement. They won't play guys three days in a row on the turf. It's like, whatever, though, raising the truck. about fucking Toronto. They don't, what about that?

Same thing. The Eden baby. No, they did. I'm saying, are they scared of going to Toronto too? They would not play guys three days in a row in Toronto as well. But Toronto's had crap pitching for the past six years, so the Yankees like going there. Where the race. What a weird.

The trap is whatever, man. It's not that bad. It's a boring atmosphere to watch a game. But it's also because the Yankees just get beat all the time down there. I think that's what it is. Anyway, I was trying to say the rays are good. and they didn't even play their best guys. They just...

That's funny. ...dard trying to find ways to win. Like, Mazza coming in in four runs, you're like, what the fuck is this? And then he just shuts him down. Like, oh, my God. Astros lose two of three to the A's. It's kind of good for balance in that division

because it would have been really sad. Well, and that's... I didn't watch a lot of this series. Astros won the first game, so, I mean, A's had to be tight butthole. I mean, you've got two games coming out that, I mean, if you lose them, that's kind of it.

So good for the A's to bounce back. And I think it is a good reminder for everyone that, like, it is so early in this marathon of a season. Bob Melvin, given the impact speeches. And, yeah, I mean, the only other thing I had in the ALE was, oh, I mentioned it in there. I mean, just like excitement and frustration for the Cleveland Indians. I mean, you know, Plesaq and Savali go out and just drop dick those first two games. And Alan, even game three. and they sweep the series and it's like

I wish I could be excited about that team but their owner's their rudder list we don't know where they're going ownership has just sucked the life out of it they're not selling out and they're at like 13 20% or whatever they're I think like maximum capacity is 13,000

and they're like the only team that's not selling out even with that good why would you it's cold and teams not trying to win yeah What's going on with your twins? It's the only team we kind of didn't talk about real quick.

I mean, it's just a tough series. The Mariners came out and banged. Went toe to toe with them, basically, right? Buxton's still freaking going strong, like looking like an MVP guy. I think he's leading the AL and OPS.

Gross. Playing a platinum glove center field. I mean, it's been a lot, it's been fun to watch. They did go in, they did like tie his maturation. In the second game,

they went into extras. Yeah, I mean, second game goes into extras And then, I mean, Colomé, second blown save, three run Three run Yacker. That's a turning around. I told you guys, it's very tough with him. And Morocco came out to the game. He said, you know, he's still our guy.

We're going to get back out there. That's just code for, I'm not going to blow my player up in the media, but he'll probably pitch when they're up four runs in the seventh inning next time to get his legs back underneath them and some confidence back up. I don't think he'll be closing the next time there's a safe situation. He doesn't have to have an outing or two in a less, what's that called? Lower leverage. Low leverage.

Thank you, Jake. A couple of those. Then maybe he can work his way back up. But Swin's territory has got to know. That's just the way he operates. His track record is excellent, but it's a rough road to get to that end point with him. single single home run to start. Ain't that it?

Welcome to the game. Goodbye, yo, my guy. 22.1 innings pitch, or this is last year, 22.1 innings pitch, two earn runs, three, three runs total all of last year. That's crazy. He's now 5.1 innings, four earn runs, seven runs total this young season. It's early, guys. It's early.

I know I keep saying we're like two weeks in, but we're not even. Not even. A full two weeks in. Well, there's one interleague series. You guys want to hear about it? Who need it? Go, Jim. Go Jim.

Something big happened, I think. Here we go. The Padres went to Texas to take on the Rangers. And in game one, Joe Musgrove tosses a no hitter as the Padres win. Three nothing, ten strikeouts. The one base runner was a hit by pitch. Joey Gallo drilled him right in the thigh in like the fourth. inning, hung on, catcher, Kertini has now caught back to back, no hitters.

He got Alec Mills last year, Joe Musgrove, this year. Pretty cool by him. In game two, Paddock gets blowed up a little bit, not a good outing by him, but the Padres pulled on to win seven four. They hit a lot of home runs. Grisham hits a homer, his first of the season. Kim hits his first home run of his MLB career. I believe Hosmer hit his third of the season.

In game two, the young gun more home. leaves very early with left elbow forearm strain. The bullpen comes in and pitches 8.1 shutout innings and Grisham homers again. But that's scary little injury update for the Padres as they sweep the Rangers. They've kind of just been going at the Rangers hard ever since the Woodward 3 and O Grand Slam Controversy. So that's that. Padre Sweet. Joe Musgrove.

Joe Musgrove. Pretty cool. Was a guest... You think Chris Woodward really regrets like being mad at Frantatez Jr.? No, I don't think it has as much to do with it besides the Rangers being a poor team right now. That's true. But yeah, I think, you know, run franchise. The joke gets to be made and maybe he's like, I wish I didn't, I wish I didn't give him ammo for that joke.

Right. I know. I like, he's a good guy. I don't know why we talk so much crap about him. and it's not his fault. The front office is brutal. Rangers shut out twice in this series in Arlington.

Woof. Nothing. Can I segue? I think so. I think we've got one. Have the Padres won seven games now? Seven and three.

And the seven don't come in around? Tadis is coming back, by the way. That's what they're saying. Fernando. No, no, not in the season, Jake. Against the Padres, against the Rangers. I think it's seven straight losses. Yeah.

Since the Grand Slam, seven straight losses. Joe Musgrove with the no-no. He might be a standout performance. I'm not sure. But we may be able to get there. Injuries hurt in the Padres. More hon leaving early. That kind of sucks.

And the other thing I wanted to say about the Rangers is Fulte, Fulte for the Rangers. He went seven innings, one earned run. And that's really good to see, you know, everything he went through last year with getting DFAed kind of out of nowhere and losing a lot of miles per hour. And he kind of just looked really skin and skinny. And there was a lot of things being said about that.

So it's, and I think, you know, the playoff loss before 2020. So good to see Fulte have a really strong start. and hopefully he has a lot more for the Rangers. I like that, Jim. That's nice. Pump that gas a little bit. That's nice. All right.

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all right time for standout performances standout performance Trevor I let you go first lead off Wait I need to get my sheet one second okay I have some stuff I wrote down one seven he's got his sheet he's looking at plufel round first. It looks like he's going to take second. The outfield, it looks like the outfielder bobbles it and ploof's going

for third. Ploof's got to there. Here's the play at third. It gets away from the third basement. Ploof's going for home play. Here's the throw! Stop right there. I gotta know right now. I don't know if Jake knows it, but he

was doing Paradise by the Dashword Light by Meatloaf. That's like the exact Phil Rizzuto call and then it goes into the song. Some of it. It was similar. It was my own call for Trevor. Trevor, who's your guy? That's over my head. I'm going to talk about Joe Musgrove. It's an easy one, but we got to talk about it because there's some cool things going on with him.

Obviously, he throws the no-no. It's the first one in San Diego Padre's history. Yes, he's from San Diego. That makes it really cool. But let's talk about how this came about. Starts his career in Houston goes to Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh in 2019, he decided to he wants to change the arm up a little bit. Just in a bullpen kind of does it on himself. I'm going to call it the Lucas G. Alito effect. Instead of having that long, downward swing of his arm, a lot of the guys now are taking it back and going real short with it.

A little short arm action, bringing it up, getting on top of the ball a little bit better. Did that in 2019 in the bullpen. And then 2020 was back and forth for him. He was okay, had a little bit of injury bug going on. But then at the time, the end of 2020, his last three starts, he had 29Ks and three walks. It's really good.

It's really good for him. Padres sees something, goes over to the Padres, keeps that arm angle, keeps everything going on. Obviously, nine innings pitched and no hits. That's really good. on the year. 15 innings pitched. Zero runs. Only three hits. 18Ks. Zero walks.

Like this guy is on fire. Made a mechanical adjustment. Like I said today with Rosie. This is one of those things. Like a guy finds something and it's like a light bulb. Just clicks. Turns on. We could be talking about Joe Musgrove, you know,

being a guy guy he's 28 years old he's got five six years left in the tank and when you find a mechanical adjustment that works for you and you're getting these type of results I can't wait to see what his line ends up at the end of the year I hope that he just goes out and shoves and it's talked about you know possibly being a Cy Young candidate at the end of the year because he had some years he's pretty good but then he finds that one thing that works for him I love those stories man I love what

when guys finds something that works. And boom, not only does he have good starts, he gets rewarded with a no hitter for his hometown team, the first one, they're the last team, they did not have a no hitter,

last team to do that. Boom, gets it. It's just a cool, like, story all around for him. And then I love the mechanical part of it. So I had to shout that out.

Go Joe Musgrove, man. Also add an awesome interview on the Chris Rose rotation. Go check it out. It's crazy. How many, pitches he throws and it was cool in his post game to say that's why I think carotini

came over with darvish um because he's darvish personal catcher was able to guide me through that there's six different pitches in the first inning that's so new school baseball like six different i didn't even know joe musgrove had six different pitches a lot of shapes man a lot of shapes and vloes you got to worry about and he's able to control them that's the thing that you can throw 10 pitches but you can't control them and throw them for strikes you just start eliminating eliminating, but he's been able to throw him for strikes. And like I said, this year, 15 innings, pitch, zero runs, 18Ks, no walks. I am speaking in parentheses here.

I hope he doesn't go, like, deep into the next game because that's like, I think 30% more pitches or innings he's ever thrown. He said he's never gone that deep into a game. He's never thrown that many pitches. They had the bullpen warming in the seventh. inning in case he gave up a hit to get him out of there because that's where the pitch count they wanted it at and he ended up pitching the seventh eighth and ninth so you know I hope that he's he'll have a quick look at him don't worry about that I'm I'm more worried about

gang let's go zero point two how's your whip zero point two I think I've seen that over 15 innings that's disgusting good for him man everyone talks snell everyone talk darvish I I'm officially giving myself a new rule, the Musgrove Bundy rule. If you come from a shit organization, I will hold all opinions on you. Because a lot of Yankee fans were so... Musgrove became like a talking line this offseason. And he was good and everything liked him in the 60 game season. But before that it was kind of eh.

But Trev, like you're talking about adjustments and changes. And man, I mean, it's becoming clearer and clearer. the organizations that if you're there, you are fighting with one or two arms tied behind your back. So, good for, good for big Joe.

It's a big boy. He did make this adjustment in the Pirates organization, though. You have to remember that. Kind of on his own, they were talking about, Rosenthal had a nice little, well,

shout out Rosenthal because, you know, we got a little mad at him with the whole Bauer thing, but he had a nice little article today, kind of doing background on Musgrove, and he was talking about that. All right.

Well, what was Joe Musgrove's ERA? Zero. On the season? Zero. There's a guy that's my standout that matches him. Ooh. An ERA on the season. Zero.

0.00. Lance Lynn. Yes. I know you're supposed to go next Jake, but the segue was perfect. You're good. Complete game shutout on Thursday. I want to talk about Lynn so much that I was going to do it on Friday's episode. I got reminded that was the weekend series.

so I had to push it so it feels old now, but I don't care. Guess he threw 111 pitches, Lance Lynn, threw 111 pitches in his complete game shutout against the Royals. Guess how many of those 111 pitches were not a fastball or a variation of a fastball? Honest guesses from the panel. Jake, Trev. I know what it is. I know I already know what it is. 10.

Jake guessing 10. Trev says he knows. BPD, I'll let you guess. I have a feeling it's zero. It's not zero. It's somewhere in between zero and ten. Trev. Yeah, I think it was eight.

It was like seven or eight. Three. Oh, three of... Oh, was it 108 out of 111? 108 out of 111 pitches in his complete game shutout were a variation of a fastball. That's crazy. He threw two curve balls and one change up. He struck out the side in the first, decided that sucks.

I can't pitch as long if I strike everyone out. So in the second inning, he just pounded the zone and gave up three fly balls. One, two, three. strikeout second innings one do three fly balls he gives up a couple hits i think he gave up back-to-back singles at one point got out of it i mean this dude is nuts and the what that can do for a pitching staff and for the bullpen like yet alone how awesome it is that they get the win there and how badass it is that lanceland is able to do this with fastballs but what that can do for the entire outlook of the White Sox team.

It affects every bullpen pitcher. It affects all the other starters. It's amazing. And that's why this shouldn't die in baseball. And they should let guys and teach guys to go this long because, I mean, it's just crazy. It's so cool. Lance Lynn, if I ever get the chance to give him standout, he deserves it. He was one of the top three from this weekend series.

I will give it to him. It's just nuts. and his fastball you know you got to paint the picture it's not just a straight heater coming at you I don't I don't does he know like what the ball's gonna do

when it leaves his hand because it seems to me like and I'm sure he does but how are you supposed to figure it out they're all coming out the exact same arm slot they're all about the same miles per hour probably like 92 to 96 and then one just turns one way the other one turns the other way the other one rises

the other one sinks I think he knows exactly It's a weird It's a pinpoint control It's a strange thing Dude watching him pitch It's it's fun It's a lot of fun watching it

It's art man And hey if you're one of those young guys On the White Sox If you're Crochet If you're Kopec Who had a really nice outing Over the weekend Man I would stick like glue

To that guy Because look what he's doing Like people There's probably Nerds that hate Lance Lynn No. Yes, dude. Who does?

Nerds that say, well, you need to throw up breaking pitches. Well, he doesn't. He doesn't, man, because guess what? Location, like we're saying, if you can put it wherever, you kind of, you don't need other stuff. If you've got the deception,

what you're talking about. You know, if it all looks the same out of the hands, hitters are really smart and pick up on stuff. It's very impressive. when you do that, Treve, and I love you, and I think you're beautiful, and I hope you get a nice buzz today, and you and Olivia explore the space together, but Lance Lynn's fastball school, man. Fastball farm. Fastball farm on a school, in a farm.

It's a beautiful thing, man, and he's a beautiful guy. Yeah. He's my standout. Jake, who's your standout performance? Treve, what were you going to say? I was going to say, little known fact. I think Lance called in on a landline to do an end. interview with us? Yeah, and I, I mean, I don't know where he was, but I have him in the middle

of a field on the farm. He was on the fastball farm. Yeah. I know where he was. It's very close to that. Well, I mean, but he could have been like in his living room. I have him walking in a field in the farm. We know where, yeah. Like if you were to, he has like, he just has a landline in the farm somewhere. I have him murdering, I haven't murdering turkeys with fastballs. He has since. Bo Jackson. Oh, wow. I watched the 30, 30 on Bo on the way here. He got known in his town because he threw rocks so hard

he killed a bunch of boars. Nobody talks about that. Not enough, but we do here. It's a strange thing for Boe, but that happened. Speaking of killing boars. My standout performance this week, a guy who's racked up one war in this early baseball

season, Jady Martinez with your Boston Red Sox. He has the three home or day. I mean, I'll give you a slash line for the year so far. 472 batting average, a 500 on base, a 1.083 slugging. Wow. A 1.5 OPS.

J.D. Martinez has been one of the best hitters in baseball for the past few years, minus last year 60 games where they had the ghost of Ron Renicki managing the team. and he didn't have his iPad. I believe he's a big iPad guy. And man, so, you know, the Red Sox and what are they going to do this year? And they got an easy slate early. And they got a, you know, Yankees, Braves, tougher slate coming up later in the season. J.D. Martinez, when he's right, is one of the best hitters in the sport,

a guy that if he could, you know, we've become such war people in baseball. And, you know, defense was never his, his, his, his, his bag. I mean, if he could do it a little bit on defense, this is a guy that when he hits right, he would be in the MVP conversation. 2018, he hit 330 over the course of a season, 1.031 OPS. From 2017 through 2019, he had a 1.0.0.0.S. This guy is one of the best hitters in baseball when he's right. He changes the whole dynamic of the Red Sox lineup when he's in the zone.

He's currently leading baseball on hits, doubles, homers, and RBIs. How's your burger? And man, if him, Devers, Bogarts, Verdugo, when those four are right at top of the lineup, that's a tough day at the office for any pitcher. That's how a team identity starts to form. And if they can, Jim, we did this with one of the Yankees teams. I forget what year it was. If this team can have a couple big months, and it looks like they could potentially have a big April.

And then if you stay 500 in the other months, you stay away from that bad month, that's how you make the playoffs in baseball. What Yankees team was it? A lot, a lot. Two good months. Two good months in a season, you can go two good months and then four or five hundred months you make the playoffs. There's a lot of history of teams riding off two good months. You just can't have a bad month. But Trevor, you're saying pump the brakes or what you're saying?

You got a hand up? How's a pump the brakes? Pump the brakes signal for you. Wow. You hate the Red Sox. I just look, I mean, it's April 12. Sure. You know? And like I want to see him, I want to see him get through two months. I don't really care about expected numbers, but he's outperforming his expected numbers by a lot.

I didn't, I'm not talking to JD. JD is going to JD. He is a guy guy. On top of the Red Sox overall, I just want everyone to just, you know, temper the expectations a little bit. They just, it's, it's April 12th. That's not me being mean. They've hit the crap out of all. They haven't pitched that well like Jim alluded to earlier. It's just really early on. You know, I don't think they're going to be there at the end of the year.

But I hope they proved me wrong. I mean, that'd be an interesting story. Be bad for your yanks. That means something happened. Stay in it, stay in it till sale gets back. That's got to be the Red Sox mindset. Yeah, but what's sale? I mean, yeah, I don't know.

He's going to pitch every fifth. I mean, everything you said about Lance Lynn. I mean, sales isn't a help him for sure. If Sale can look like Chris Sale and get a big start every five days and make the bullpen that much better. Goes back to guys coming back from Tommy John. Team mindset.

Like, if you're in it and now sales back, like, your pitching just got that much better. Evaldi's been good. E-Rod's going to try to still figuring it out from missing last year. Tommy John for sale, right? Yes, but he's on a better time. timeline at least than like Sevy and a couple of the other guys. J.D. Martinez. Great outing by him. And it's funny, man, I mean, you know, he looked so dead last year. I mean, if you combine, he played 54 games last year. If you combine him with the eight this

year, he has a OPS in the eights, which, you know, it's a funny thing. A, we're still so early in this season. And we do like last year was so bizarre. Peter Lonzo is my biggest example. Bizarre. The last two days of the season, Peter Lonzo bumped his OPS from like 670 to 805, and it goes from awful to good,

and it was two games. That's how small last year's sample size is. And how small to this year so far. It's even tiny. Baseball, baby. All right, let's move on. We got slump watch. At least very part of the show right here.

BBD, can you let us know how the people perform? The guy's still left on the list. Kestenheura. This series went two for five of the Homer three RBIs. That's pretty good. How many games did he play? Two, um, Nelson? Yeah, we'd guess two.

And then maybe there's a walk in there. And he was one for 23 before that, so working towards it. I'll take, it's two games. Get him out of here for now. Yeah, sure. If he shows up again, like, we'll remember. Okay. He's off.

You can get back on quick. Get off. Get out of here. Get out of here. Good two games. Good two games. Good two games. Good two games by Keston.

Don't come back. Jock Peterson. Two for eight, an RBI and three Ks since we last spoke about him. He's got a hit in his last four games, which doesn't mean much, but at least he's been part of every game. Pre beating. And that would leaves him with a 250, 250 across the board, because I think they're all singles. I don't know. If we take Keston off, we have to take...

I think we take him out. The game hits three. You hope he gets a, you know, a hit and a walker reaches twice in the game soon. Because, you know, one for four every day isn't winning, isn't good baseball, Trev. It's true. He's off for now.

I'm taking them off. It's like... You take everyone off. I'm trying to think of the perfect comparison. I do take it. It's like a parent dropping off a pair of kids and being like, now I'm dropping you kids off at the bowling alley. Don't try to sneak into that bar again.

And the parents are going to do a lap. And you better be in that goddamn bowling alley and not the bar. For him and Keston. I thought I wasn't going to like that analogy, but then I liked it. Yeah. Like we're close watch. Trust me, baby. Come on.

How old are these kids? 15. Yes. And they're letting. just the fucking bowling alley just letting him in the bar? Bowling alley in my town Livermore shoutout

7 year old champions, Orioles, had a bar in the bowling alley. But the bar with that 15 year olds go drink. You get some beers if you wanted. Bartending at a bowling alley?

Yeah, you think of bartending. What are you, God? What the kids drink? You know my father? What am I god? Who else we got, BPD? One of the probably the most interesting debate we could have.

here, Ozzy Albies. On the weekend goes three for 14. All three hits go for extra bases. A homer, two doubles, three RBIs, only struck out twice. He's off. Yeah? I don't know. I think when you look at the rest of the guys remaining.

We take Kestin off. We take Jock off. He's better than Jock and Keston. I mean, he had 11 more at bats than Keston. Yeah, being bench doesn't get you off slump watch. He can, he's off. He's with her and Peterson at the bowling alley bar. Actually, you know what? Let's keep all those guys.

All those guys. Three RBIs and three games. I don't know. I'd take him off. He contributed. This is the slippery slope thing, dude. If we take Keston off, we got to take Jock off. And if we take Jock off, we got to take all the off.

And I don't think any of those guys need to be on or off. So we got to leave them on. All right. They're on. And given the rest of what the rest is about to be. I want to take guys off. You might wish you took him off. Routy Telez, 0 for 5, 2Ks.

Geeks. On. Aaron Hicks. There is a way to get off on the other end. I mean, Routy Telez is 0 for 21. How much longer are we going to track? He won more series away from being off forever and don't care about it anymore. It's not there.

We're going to be watching him with the Yanks anyway, so let's see what Routy's about. All right. We'll watch. Jake loves Routy. He's due for a day off as he starts. guarding every game? Come back. No, no, no.

I think he got a day this weekend. Because he only got five of that bads. He's defensive replacing or something. Aaron Hicks against the race, two for 11. One of the two is a homer. Hicks is a homeer. He's on. He's on.

And Fried and Baumgartner haven't pitched again. So they stay. I got to stay. Okay. All right, how many people are we adding? Cheesh. Cheez. I don't like this.

Wait, all these guys. We kept everyone. Ozzie Peterson and Heros should be in a purgatory. Yeah. We don't have that, though. So they're on. We can do whatever we want, baby. This is, okay.

We make the rules. That's true. That's true. You're right. So what are the series stats for... Who's coming on? This is tough because we don't have the series stats, which is the whole thing.

You want a tighter run now that we're more than week of the season. This is the last one with the full season stats. That's okay. It's been three series. Matt Chapman. four for 34 on the season. Treve. Miguel Sunnoe, three for 33 on the season. Treve. He's on.

Didn't Suno do some... He beat out an infield single? It's pretty good for him. It's almost like a home run. Got a big fella. Same effect. Every single one of these guys you're mentioning, people in my mentions tell me to fix them. So, I mean...

So if you're getting asked to fix. I'd fix Chapman right away because that's my guy. guy. Well, fix him then. But, you know, I'll take, look, if someone needs fixing, I can help. All right. Michael Conforto's 3 for 21.

His biggest contribution to the year is leaning into a pitch. To hold him. Keep your eyes open. Sarkin hits. Over both the cards. Paul DeYoung, 3 for 31. Not having the best time.

Two homers, though. So the office team has him going on the homer draft today. Add. Tommy Pham's 4 for 33 and Marco Gonzalez through two starts Just not a lot of good 10.1 innings two earned 17 hits

Fam stands out Padre swept He played all three games He's probably one of the only Padres Walking out of that stadium Personally like I didn't do much You went 0 for 10 In 12 bat bats

Grounded into two double plays So yeah it's a It's a good one They're all good. Those are some big names struggling. Gonzalez was an opening day starter. Yeah. It's been good.

We got a lot of slump wash. I don't like it, but you deserve it. You deserve it. Just watching, Trev. It's going to be a lot of house cleaning this Friday. Yeah, there's a lot of names. It's going to be a lot of house cleaning Friday. It's going to be guys coming off for different reasons.

A lot of house cleaning. All right. Let's get to the positivity, which Trev likes so much. Let's move it on to. Dirt Nasty's on Fuego That means I'm on fire, baby Like Waco Trev, you let off

So who is on fire right now Well, Jim, we go down the line right here Byron Buckson 13 for 27 leading the league In a lot of different categories His swing looks incredible Five homers, nine RBIs And that is in eight games Played.

Raphael Devere, six for 13, four homers, nine RBIis That's the last three games. That's really nice. Ronald Acuna has really turned it on. In his last six games, 14 for 24, four homers,

eight RBIs and two stolen backs. We're always on the 40-40 watch with Acuna Jr. Fran Mill hit a few homers in the series, six for 11. Three homers, five RBIs.

It's just big, big-boy homers. I love watching that guy hit. And my guy, ooh, Eski! For Jim's Diamondbacks, Eduardo Escobar,

in the last four games, seven for 18, four homers, eight RBIs, two walks to three strikeouts. Love that. Then obviously we know about Joe Musgrove. I already told you his starts and two starts this year, 15nings pitched, 18Ks, zero walks. Jacob de Grom gives up the one earned run

in his two starts. I suggest Chisholm Homer. He's 0.1. Despite having 14 innings pitched, only one earned run and 21Ks to 2 walks. And he's 0 and 1. Got to love that. And then Descofini and two starts this year,

one and no 11 innings pitched only one run he hasn't got 10 hits though for walks 12 kids i think i don't like him being on this now that i'm reading it all that loud 10 hits is a lot hey 10 hits four walks he's got over a one whip don't like it runs is what matter trep uh to the simple baseball fan but we are not that they've they've won both games he started he went five winnings pitch. Would you rather have Jacob de Grom? Well, obviously. Okay, he can be on. I want everyone to be having a good time, but I just read that stat and I saw the 10 hits. Kind of threw me through a loop there, but those are the Enfuego guys, man. There's some, there's some big names on there. I like that. Like Buxton coming out hot, like a Cooney getting super hot. I want a 40-40 season

out of him. He was so close in 2019. Ended out of three bags short, which is stupid. Like, just steal until you get it, man. How many people? People have gotten 4040. Is it three people? It's Konseko. Soriano did it, right? Or did he come up short? Soriano did it, yeah.

And then one other person. That's it. Is it Arod? Barry Bond, Soriano, Arod, Konseko. Four people, so he'd be the fifth. Yeah, you're right. Whoever the Braves, like, record monitor is should have been in his year. Got to go.

He had, you know, so I remember that season, he had 37 with like a week to go and didn't get one, didn't get him at the end. Did the twins have a milestone guy? Does every team have a milestone guy? Like, hey, you're five hits away from 200 or hey, do they tell you before? They tell you after? How's it work? I don't think they really tell you too much unless it's a really meaningful one. You're going to have to do some press for it. But those packets that always talk about we should get for this, they have all the milesons.

Like, crazy stuff. Like, I don't know who does it for all of MLB, but they have like weird ones. like your 25th game and all that stuff. That's cool. Shout out to... Yeah, 40.40. Shout out to Eddie Escobar. Your guy, Trev.

Love him. Electric to play. Home runs in four straight games now. And by the way, and this is something we'll watch out for next episode when we clean up the slump watch. Eddie Escobar, I believe, was on one of the original slump watches.

He started this season, the first five games, one for 20. an 048 batting average. Since then, he's gone absolutely beast mode. Trev, back in the day, we used to call it shame to flame when you were. Yeah. Slump watched. Slump watch to Enfuego.

So I think Eddie Escobar gets our first unofficial shame to flame. And, hey, we left enough suckers on there. Hopefully one of those guys makes us feel good and we get another shame to flame. Yeah, I got Ozzy. Got the extra base hits. A little shame to flame action. How many flames to shame are we going to do this year, though? We don't talk about that.

Okay. I don't like that. All right. Awards. Treb, once again, you're batting lead off. First award. Who you got? Oh.

Never mind. Yeah. Not interested. Trevor has left the program. We're having another beer sandwich. Oh, I hear them. Sorry, guys. I went to do my fancy, like, click on my mouse, like, to get onto the other page and just X'd you guys out.

Just straight close. Okay. Got my... Hold on one sec. I didn't know I was going first. My award is the Taste Yourself Award. I'm going to taste myself because I want to talk a little bit about Gary. Oh, okay.

And just I was, in all for transparency reasons, I was going to give BBD a tasty award because I thought the Phillies infield was so. good this year, but it turns out that he is manipulating the media market and making you think they're really good. In all actuality, it's Reese and Riyomuto have been good. And D.D.'s been okay. And then Gene and Alec Baum have been really bad. So that award is gone. Every night it's someone different helping out. Not a lot, though. Not enough for an award, though. Every big moment, one of them's involved. Not a lot. Not enough for an award. So I'm giving the taste yourself award to myself as Gary's personal hitting coach he's came out like gangbusters and what I really like is I'll read the stats real quick I mean he is 296 he's got over a 400 on base percentage 406 he's slugging

five for these six for a nine sixty two total um he's been objectively the yankees best hitter and what I like though is is the K to strikeout ratio he's got four walks to five strikeouts that was obviously the Achilles heel with him is the strikeouts I mean if you look at some of the past years in 2019 the last full year. 40 walks to 125 strikeouts, that 1 to 3 ratio, not going to get it done. If you can get around the 1 to 1, that's phenomenal. 1 to 2 is about average. So he's doing that right now.

And every single time I watch him at the plate, he looks comfortable there. He's taking good pitches. He took a really, he had a walk yesterday in the game where he took two really close pitches and that's the sign of someone being locked in. So pat on my back right here for telling him to get started on time. He's been he's been really good. He's been really good. It's been fun to watch. I hope he can keep it up. He also had a video of him doing catching drills. I know he hasn't looked great defensively. I know that. Jimmy actually is his defensive coach. We found that out actually. So blame all of that on Jim, but he is working hard. He's made some errors. She's had three errors already.

not what you want. Well, errors is bullshit. One of them was a running catch on the... Oh, that was one of you're right. That was bad. That's ridiculous.

He was... And then the second one was catcher's interference, which shrug. I think that's a catcher's fault. And then the other one is the most legitimate of them, but I think... He threw it over the first base in his head, right? Bounced it. Yeah.

None of them have been blocking, which is the... Which is the good thing, because that's his worst area. They've all been, like, odd. So there still count, but. Yeah. So Gary's been, he's looked really good. I'm excited. Hopefully he continues it because that is something that the Yankees desperately needed.

Oh, he needs him back. And him, yes. The walk to strikeouts is really good. It's the best thing. BPD, how many Philadelphia in-field positions? Catcher, first base, second-based, third-based shortstop have a positive war on the season so far? I would guess. Three.

One. How is that? The first base position for the Philadelphia Phillies has a zero war. Oh, good, Jim. Second base, negative 0.1. Third, negative 0.2, shortstop, negative 1. Catcher is fourth place, 0.4. So you've really tricked the entire world.

You tricked everybody. Thinking the Phillies, didn't you have? You're throwing small sample war at me? Wow. What stat would you like me to do? I don't care. Two out of five have OPEB. He's been better than the stats dictate, I think.

He's had a lot of big defensive plays. Hoskins, a positive war. Position got tough there. Stop your brainwashing people. There's some guy that I didn't draft. B.B.D, I said this beforehand. We were all laughing. I thought Alec Bohm was having an incredible season,

and I turned on Sunday night baseball, and his OPS was like a 508. And I was like, what the hell is happening? so stop brainwashing us. It feels like that, and he hasn't even gotten that yet. Stop brainwashing it. Trev, great job fixing Gary. Great job fixing Gary. He's been the best hitter on the Yanks.

We talked about it a lot on talking Yanks last night. Huge for his career. It's going to be fun to track this season, and you're right with the walks and the strikeouts, because if you're a pitcher, I mean, it's almost turned into why would you throw him anything in the zone? He's taking on it. Stay hot, Gary.

Let's go, Gary. Stay hot, Carrie. I'm going to give out, again, another vaunted award, an award that we kind of deliver. It's our whole show's thing, honestly. I'm giving out the Eat a Bag of Farts Old Media Award. And this is going to Ronald Okunia Jr. We talked about him a lot this episode.

Trev just did his 40-40 thing. The guy could stumble into that if he wants. We have. memory of Ronald de CUNY Jr. going back to playoffs, the Snickker interview, the regular season of Ronnie hitting a couple

deep balls. I think he hit one off the wall and he didn't run it out. He was held to a single and he's got this incredible speed. It became a talking point amongst baseball of Ronald Ocunia Jr. being lazy and not running out balls. Well, guess what? He hit a bullet

at BBD's D.D. Grigorious at shortstop. fielded it. Did a little hop towards first. Throws over what looked like the most routine ground ball to short you've ever seen. Ronnie just beat it out. He was booking down the line. It kind of looks like it's not real. It almost looks like the video is doctored. Did they ever show? ESPN ever show the wide shot? The full wide? No. No. Good job ESPN.

Yeah. Classic. If there's a replay you want to watch ESPN will for sure not show you. We don't have it. And we mentioned him on Enfuego. He's off to an incredible start. And circling back to kind of where I started this episode. And where we started talking baseball at, I became infatuated with Ronald CUNY Jr. He was lighting it up incredible. It wasn't like it wasn't a take by me.

He was just like, this dude's incredible. I'm loving this. And man, he might be the most underrated player in baseball. And that's even if you know he's a top 10 player. Like this dude can put up a fight for number two, I think with Mook Man. This guy might be coming for Trouty. The Soto hype has gotten there because Soto is doing incredible things hitting-wise. Guess what?

Ronnie does it better on not, Ronnie does it defensively as well. He's got a cannon. He covers ground. He's got the speed game. I mean, five tool Ronnie. The guy is a beast. And it's what I was saying about the broadcast. And it ties into getting guys out there.

and everything that MLB needs to do better. I mean, I watched the home run off of Ocunia's bat to center, and he made it look so easy, and I was like, damn, this dude's awesome. And even the Harper bomb the other way. Like, my love for those two dudes was rejuvenated after watching them for one swing on ESPN with the broadcast on mute. So Ronald Ocunia Jr., my guy, screw the old media. Like, that highlight of him not running a little bit.

a couple years ago was the talk of sports for a little bit. And yet, the highlight we posted of him beating out the single, we were kind of the outlet that covered that the most. You didn't see a lot of it anywhere else, to be completely honest. It was all over the place. We had it better than anyone else, man. Well, we got it out and they used our footage. But, I mean, I saw it somewhere else.

It was all over the place. It was wild. Not as much as him not running. Well, I have to, I think this is a win. I interpreted this as a win for the people yelling at him for not running out. The home runs back then. No. Because it's like, yeah, dude, look what happens when you run hard.

I think they won and now he's running hard. I think they're patting themselves on the back. They are, but that's because they suck ass. But I agree with Jim. I think Ronnie is hustling now because he got in trouble for not hustling when he was younger. And that's a win for. Yeah. And hustling is cool.

Even if his own coach and his teammates were on him for not hustling. and like now they've won. So it's the maturity of him. I don't think this is a gotcha to the old media. Gotcha, suckers. Look, you, I don't know if I want to bring this up. I'm going to bring it up.

I'm going to bring it up. I'm going to do it. Okay. I agree with Jim that this is a win for those people. But there was another tweet out there that you brought up to my attention. It was Ben Verlander put out, you know, basically saying like, Acuna is everything. like F the old fans, they're not going to like him, bat flipping, doing his thing, and that's fine because we don't need them.

I don't agree with that. I think we should try to please all the fans. Why do we have to segregate the fan bases, the young with the old? Hustling is good baseball, whether you're an old head or a new guy. Like, that is good baseball. So why are we trying to make it pit against each other right there? Like, that's just good baseball. Yeah.

Jim? Except if you're Brandon Nimmo. you hustle on walks. That's where I draw the line. Don't like that. I also don't like that. Also, if your pitcher don't run back into the dugout.

Don't hustle at that point. You hate pitchers. I just, I don't think the hustle thing is fine. I've never seen a pitcher sprinting dugout. I think I'd kind of like that. Oh my gosh. I've never seen that happen.

I think Hater does it. He like, he runs to the, he like runs and then jumps through the fill. Whatever. Oh yeah, you're right. To me,

to me that's, hustling isn't like a form of like old baseball old man baseball that's just like you're doing it obviously i don't agree with hustling i don't agree with like running 100% every single time you're out there that doesn't make any sense to me you know if you hit a ball to the first baseman and all he has to do is touch the base you can jog okay if you're a catcher like there are times you're going to have to jog a little bit but ronan lucunia part of his game is his speed well that's where these that's where the that's where the these old heads need to eat a bag of farts because guess what he was running to first when he was young or two and beating out hits he thought he hit a home run and he didn't run that out and i get that

that's not a good look that's going to happen you guys don't think he was running to first young rama i'm not saying you're beating out infield hits i have no idea i have no idea but i agree with them on he should have i mean even his coach and his teammates were like yes ronnie has to argue so i'm not saying he shouldn't have run out the ball he's hit he's as a homer. So then you're part of the old fart media? No.

The whole like... Cover the full game. Good baseball is good baseball and people should root for that. Like I don't like the whole them versus us. Like dude, collectively we all know

what good baseball is. Like are some of the old guys not happy with like the bat flipping? Sure. But I guess what? A lot of the players that you like in the big leagues are also not okay with it. Like sometimes you got to earn that shit.

And that's not talked about enough. Like, yeah, we want people to come up and be themselves, but also, like, earn it a little bit. You know what I mean? Like, you can't just come up here doing it. And I know boomer Travis coming out, but that's how a lot of people in the game feel, too, okay? Everybody feels that way.

Everything's gray. My award is the, it's not funny anymore award. Ooh. Ooh, Randy. Oh, that would be good. But no. The Mets. Whole team?

Yes. Trev laughed at DeGrom being 0 and 1 with his stat line. Two starts. 14nings pitch, one earn run. And I think for Mets fans, it's never been funny. But I think the rest of the league and Trev just laughed at it and I would laugh at it. It's not funny anymore. It's almost as brutal as MLB getting replay wrongs. Like, stop wasting DeGroms starts.

Why aren't people as loud about getting him off the Mets as they are? about getting trout off the angels if this is how the Mets are going to treat them. Like, it's saddens me. I can't, I can't even, like, muster up laughs anymore. I feel so bad for him. When they did Coles, like win total and de Groms, like he's going to make the Hall of Fame and not get 100 wins. It's so crazy.

Fucking hit when he pitches. Bullpen, lock and load. treat it like maybe they are treating it too much like it's game seven of the world series like maybe the pressure's on when de grom pitches i think the pressure was off for a while they're like de grom's up there we we don't have to do too much i don't know what it is but basically if you're an opposing pitcher you should be begging to face de grom it sucks did you see did you see the tom verducci article that came out was like de grom's not that unlucky here's the here's the guys that are really unlucky and then he got he got ratio to death

Everyone's searching for an angle. Mine is it's not funny anymore. It's just very sad. Ryan Spader, who's been interacting with us a lot lately. What Ryan. Jacob de Grom, 78 starts over the last four seasons. In victories, 25, he's had an ERA of 1.11. Insanity.

Games he's lost. An ERA of 3.8. Whatever. And no dis... Which, by the way, is good for a lot of other pitchers. In no decisions, 33 of them, Jacob de Gromzi are is a 176.

The Mets are 36 and 42 in those games. It's insane. And their team can hit too. It's unreal. Nate in the chat is saying wins and loss don't matter. I said they're wasting DeGrom starts. They're losing these games as a team. They aren't winning games that he pitches.

They're wasting full seasons too. though, not just his starts. So there's that. And then, like, yeah, 100 wins is still a cool milestone. And I think if he gets to Hall of Fame with Lestan, it'd be the first pitcher ever. So it's more just a sad reflection on the team that he played for, that they couldn't get him to 100 wins when he's been the best pitcher of his generation. It's crazy.

It's like if he does it again next time, I'm going to be just like I'm watching a dead dog commercial, just like sad. what's that female singer does the Dead Dog commercials Sarah McLaughlin yeah put her over DeGroms statelines yeah Sarah McLaughlin Award it's changed those were never funny whatever

just a little just a little eyebrow raise I was just going to give Brody van Wagon in a compliment because he extended DeGrom and I was going to say like was that his best move locking up deGron for a little bit not to scare Mets fans this isn't the ending of the episode you want

He's got an opt-out after 2022. I don't know. I don't know. Something to keep in the back of your head. Yeah. It's there. Let's move on to the last segment of the day. Elevator Talk.

Right? Well, there is one more segment we were going to add. Oh, best friend of the week. This week it's easy and we're running along anyway. So it's Lance Lynn, who's also a standout performer, complete game shutout, all good stuff. Best friend Lance Lynn. Go listen to our interview with Lance Lynn.

Slend, best friend of the pod. All right, let's spin the wheel. If you're stuck in an elevator with the team, a fan of this team, here's some talking points that you could say to them, ooh, the San Francisco Giants. So right away, you can say, wasn't that great move by Kapler going out there and getting everyone riled up in applause? You can talk about how they're in third place. And do you think that, you know, they'll sell at the deadline or buy it the deadline or

what, that's a conversation we had on this very episode. So we already gave you some fodder. Oh, Trev, your pitcher. on Fuego Disgolfo Or no Disco Yeah

He's having a good start To the year Longo's a hot boy And he If you want to ever interact with him There's a Hard breaking group on Instagram He's constantly on that at nighttime

He's doing them You can like Literally go in alive And do it with him It's called picks and pools I'll give him a shout out there Cool But yeah

There's a lot of good stuff going on San Francisco We don't know the direction of that team we never know, but they're kind of like going the right way, I think, right now. They think they can win, man. It's just that the Padres and the Dodgers are so good. Posey and Longoria off to good starts. I love that, Trev. A lot of people are talking shit about Posey. The big dog still doing it. They, uh, I stumbled into them on Wake and Jake this morning because I was like, okay, are we going to get bought into the Giants this year?

I think early May, because, you know, they've got a couple potts. series, you know, they're kind of doing a good team, bad team for a little bit. Early May, they stumble into back-to-back series against Texas and Pittsburgh. So if they can stay around 500 till then, even if they can keep their head above it, and then they got five games against two of the worst teams in the league, I mean, that almost keeps you in the hunt till the All-Star break. Yeah, pitching's been really good, Gossman's good, disco good, quito good. more quato

yeah quato they're playing the reds coming up and the reds are leading MLB and run scored by a lot there was a cool graphic and the reds were like way ahead and run scored than the rest of the league hey we this is something that we've tried to figure out

and we can't do it perfectly relievers for enfuego Jake McGee four for four and save opportunities five point one innings pitched no hit Ow, good job Jake McGee. Jake Sox.

Not McGee. Aren't you guys dancing?