Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 323 | What Can We Learn From the League Leaderboards?

Episode Date: April 14, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for joining us. We're going to talk about who's leading what in the MLB. Leaderboard update. Hello and welcome to talk in baseball brought to you by Draft Kings. My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake in the corner. We have producer Bug Bug Dude.

And in California with his family in the sun is Trevor Plouf. He's not with us today. He's not here. quit asking us about it. We're also not live, live. We are pre-recording this episode for everyone that joins us live on YouTube. It's a little different. For everyone that listens on the podcast app,

same exact thing for you, because there's a big day tomorrow and Treves in Florida and the Yankees have a day game. Jake, how you doing? David, James, Trevor, and his family in Florida. I hope everyone's having a great day. Jim, I can't wait to find out about all of it, you know? You're just looking for answers. Soul searching.

Each and every day. I mean, BBD is here. Yep. He's here. He's going to tell us about the league leaders. Yep. And then we're going to tell you guys if they're hot or not. Yes.

That's something along the lines of what we're going to do. Some Joe West. Our most newest Patreon that we have to shout out. His name is Henry. Ginder. It could be Ginder. Ginder. I tweeted at him asking, is it Ginder or Ginder?

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Hugh Grant. Let's go ginder. Genders, what I'm going with. It was hard to come up with a comp that was a hard G that didn't have a U or an R right after the G. It was all guinea pig or Guinness book. I guess Gander is right there. Gander, yeah.

Goose and a gander. Would have been nice to know that earlier, BPD, when I asked you. Oh, it would have. when I asked you right before we start. Can we have fun this episode? I know with Trevor. We're always buttoned up and it's like, oh, you were a great third baseman, dude. Mm-hmm.

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Yeah. Like if you show up and you've got the official mask of the MLB Or you've got this party hat that I've been rocking. Even the outfit Trev was wearing. Another person sees you in there like, well, they got me today. Get foked up, Foco. I want to talk about this, before we get into the leaderboard stuff,

I want to talk about the Joe West, Paul Luduka situation. Yeah, you're in this. I mean, it's pretty wild, man. So the easiest 500 grand Joe West has ever earned, Joe West umpire, Paul Luduka, ex-Met and Dodger catcher. Loduka was on a podcast and talking about stories. And he told this story about how Wagner, Billy Wagner bribed

What, Billy Wagner Bribed Joe West Let me just actually like Let me find the quotes Because I tried to say it When I tweeted about it because it's interesting But like the actual quotes Jake Like listen to this

This is the story that Leduca said This is him talking We're playing like a really tight game Against the Phillies And Billy Wagner comes in from the bullpen I used to go to the mound every time And say like what's going on And he's like hey Joe's behind the plate

Set up a couple more inches inside I was like, are you kidding me? Joe hates me. He's like, no, no, no, no, no. Joe loves me. I go, he hasn't given us the corner all game. He's like, don't worry about it. He literally throws 10 pitches and strikes out three guys. Joe rung up all three guys. Eight of the nine pitches were at least three or four inches inside, not even close. Guys were throwing bats and everything. Joe walks off the field. I get back into the clubhouse and I'm like, what the fuck just happened just now? And Wagner just winks at me. I'm like, what's the secret. He's like, eh, Joe loves antique cars. So every time he comes in town, I lend him my 57 Chevy so

he can drive it around. So then he opens up the strike zone for me. Like a really detailed story that Luduka told. Vivid. Like very detailed. Vivid. Joe West never caught a single inning, or Joe West was never, never umped a single inning with Billy Wagner pitching and Leduca catching. So it just straight up didn't happen. What the hell, man? Isn't that weird? And now the Duke has to pay him a half a million dollars. The easiest lawsuit that was ever settled. And Joe West is like,

I'm trying to get into a Hall of Fame of umpires. He's 60 games away from breaking the record from most games ever upped by an umpire. He will go into Hall of Fame. Everyone gives Joe West a lot of shit. They call him Angel Hernandez, but Joe West is a diva and makes the game about him. But whenever you ask a player, they like Joe West.

And he always gets good approval ratings of like his actual umping skills. It's just all the nonsense about him. So he is going to be a Hall of Famer. And this article, Jake says that Hall of Fame umpires earned 250K a year by doing speaking engagements and like card shows and signings. So Joe West is like, hey, this is terrible. Like that's horrible for my reputation. If anyone thinks that's true. And you could fuck up all my career earnings after retiring and my Hall of Fame case. So they ruled in his favor. He gets half a million dollars. Leducas. Jim, you know I specialize like Charlie, mostly in Birdlaw. Uh-huh.

But for me, I mean, has there ever been a more open, shut case than this? No. Okay, let's check the facts on this one. First of all, never caught a game with him behind the dish, Leduca behind the dish and West calling it with Billy Wagner on the mound. That's the first funny business spell. Secondly, the defamation part of it is huge Where Joe West can say like, yeah, you know, A, trying to be a hall famer and remembered the right way

So this completely false story really sucks And then there was one other detail, but I'm a bad bird lawyer, so I don't even remember it But like, what the hell, man? Don't lie, kids. It's so weird. It may, like, the only thing I could think of is, like, La Ducca just had the wrong picture. Like, in his memory. And obviously, I think Liduga just made up a story because he's on a podcast trying to make up stories. But what if Loduka just had the wrong pitcher?

And now he's out half a million dollars because he was actually thinking of a different closer. Well, that be, like, and he's like, just can't remember who it actually was. Well, that's the thing. Just inserted Wagner as, like, a name because he couldn't remember who the actual picture was. So you went to pitcher, I mean, judging from Leduca's character and all that stuff, I'm guessing Liduca heard this from another catcher and just placed himself in the story. Maybe. That makes more sense in my head.

Billy Wagner's stats, when Joe West was his umpire, 12.2 innings, 142 ERA, 21 strikeouts. It's not bad. just a crazy story. And the fact that half a million dollars. Yeah. Billy Wagner's considered like the most underrated pitcher all time. Good for him.

Isn't it though? Do you think he'd rather be considered just really good? I mean, probably. I think he's considered that too. But like a lot of his numbers are absolute freak show. Royal Lloyd's reliever of the year. Yeah. Like, I mean, he's on the Hall of Fame.

ballot and stuff and he was one he's probably one of the more debated guys just because what's the value of a reliever all that i i had never looked at his baseball reference page before this last cycle because when he was big he was in the national league when i was a kid so i truly just didn't really notice him i mean his baseball reference page he's really really can i tell you why he should be a hall of famer tell us jake his agent's name you're not going to believe Billy Wagner's agent name is Bean Stringfellow Which looks like it's my current name in this outfit No, because Bean is like a nickname for

Hello Bean is a nickname for like a skinny guy Are you interested in signing Billy? And then Stringfellow This dude better be very strong He has to be 6, 9, 140 pounds He 6-2-193 He played

His full name is Thornton Bain Stringfellow He played in the minors For Atlanta Dean Stringfellow Yes That's not legal It looks like It looks like his only client ever is Billy Wagner

I'm on his LinkedIn page Now he's going to know I was looking at him 52 connections on LinkedIn When was Billy Wagner in the miners? Did this dude just they were teammates in the miners And then he took him on Wasn't that Scott Boris's thing Bean string fellow

Bean string fellow was In the miners from 85 to 89 With Atlanta So how did Are they from the same area Bean Stringfellow? They're both from Virginia. Yeah, they're both from Virginia.

He's only eight years older than Wagner. Bean Stringfellow. I did not realize how much. His first name is Thornton, though. So, like, how did he get that nickname? Looks like he was originally drafted by the Yankees in 1984. So. It looks like he was.

went into real estate. A super airbrushed photo of him here. Bean Stringfellow. Gives me the Habeas. Here it is. Stringfellow goes from pitching to yogurt. Get that out of here right now. Oh, stringfellow goes from pitching baseball to yogurt.

Billy Wagner has the craziest Twitter handle I've ever seen. Is it a guy? Doing a Beggio? No, like, I can't pronounce any of this. Okay. Try. Try your hardest. There's a link to it on his baseball reference.

And he's a private account. And verify it's all very confusing. At Wagsk13 would you see. So Wags. Wags makes sense. K-13. Was he number 13? Yes. And then WJS underscore E.

I don't know what that stands for. That's the really confusing part. Wags K-13. His bio says happily married for 25 years, father of four, struggling Christian. Jesus. I've never seen struggling Christian on the bio.

I request to follow. Do you a request of the follow? Yeah. Okay. Bean Stringfellow. Hello. The name's Bean Stringfellow. You just call me Mr. Stringfellow. It's still weird.

Anyway, all right. So that's though Joe West, Leduca stuff. Very interesting move. And good for Joe West. Made a bunch of money. I'm happy for him. Do you have anything else you want to talk? 500K. Someone defame me.

Yeah. Defame Jake. My life's kind of being defame. famed. It's like what I'm good at. Someone starts saying Jake doesn't suck. Just sue them. Penny's on the dollar.

People think they're supporting you and you're like, actually, that's my entire brand and you're going against it. So you owe me five bucks now. I'll suck. You have anything else you want to talk about before you're a leaderboard? All right. Well, let's go to the leaderboard. Updates was brought you by Magic Spoon slash baseball.

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We don't know. We did not look. I know some just from paying attention and seeing tweets. What do you got? What category are you going to go first? BD. Well, I think to start off with just, There's four guys tied for the league lead and homers.

Do you guys want to take a stab at naming them? Some surprises, some guys you might expect. League lead and homers. Can I guess the amount first? Yeah, yeah. This is an easy part of the guess. No. Five?

Yes. Four guys have five. It's April. It's April 13th at 4 p.m. Yeah. So this could change in an hour or two. Is Castiano still there? He is not. He is one of many tied with.

four. Buxton? Buxden is one of them. Buck Daddy. Did Cruz get to five? No, he is at four. That's a cool noise. Thank you.

Of the four to our AL to our NL. Hello, the name's Bing Stringfellow. Naquin. Next. Yep. Okay, here's something. His name is pronounced Nakeen. Are we, I've got to quit.

Can I call it 30 second time? I'm not joking. Joey Votto came out and was like, hey, you guys have been saying his name wrong and he didn't care to correct you. It's not Naqqin. It's Naqin. It's Naqin. It's not keen. And then the reporters went and like checked. And they're like, oh, it's not keen. Not Naquin. So fix yourself. You never know

with Joey. That could be a long play. No. It's pranking everybody. No, he's a good guy. It's kind of like a... The only prank's a posing. He never told anybody he personally spells it with a K. Yeah, you have it happen a lot. Not keen. Baseball reference still with the Nei Quinn I'm on to you Votto This week

I'm on to you Joey Last night Last night Last night A lot of time It was like It was like big on Twitter You can't trick me Joe

Good try Here here Here Knuckin Another Knuckin I said that right Knuckin

Are you sure it's Naquin I think it's not kin I think it's not kin If you ask them It's French If I'm not mistaken You can laugh all you want, but I think it's not gay. This is like from Anchor, man.

I speak French as not gay. Anyways. So they thought he was joking because of that. And then they went and like looked into it. And there was a bunch of Redsby reporters. Right here. Trent Rosecrans, is that you pronounce that his name? Didn't we meet him at one of our meetings with Lindsay Adler?

Maybe. So they went and checked with his family. And it is how his family pronounces his name. Nakkin or Nakene? I don't know. Tyler Naquin with five home runs. Rood. With five home runs.

He's a Texas boy. It's Tyler Naikwin now. Do we, are we excited for that? Like, yes, right? The Reds offense is crazy. Like, what's the Naquins story? He's on a team that cares now.

Not kind of, not even really, though. I don't know. I can look into his numbers. Who's the other leaders while I look into it? I mean, he's obviously hitting the ball hard and stuff. Is he a swing path guy? Someone let us know. The other two guys tied with five, Jady Martinez and Ryan McMahon.

Three run homer for Martinez should have. Three homer day. For both of them. Yeah. And the guy, there's a bunch of guys tied with four, Freddie Freeman, Wilson Ramos, Frammao Reyes, Eduardo Escobar. Wilson Ramos off to a good start. That was a, sorry guy fuzzy tweeting about that. Jed Lowry and Wilson Ramos left the Mets doing well.

They were good before, good after. His, uh, Nackin's launch angle is actually less. His career average is 10. Right now it's 8. But he's hitting his barrel percentage. His career average is 8 this season so far, 21. So he's just barreling balls up. So I really don't know.

Devers Kyle, Kyle Tucker, Nelson Cruz, Mike Trout, Nick Castiano's, Akuniala 4. The only thing I can think of with Nakkin is, is that the Indians might have been trying to do small ball and, like, go the other way and that stuff. And the Reds might have said, no, dude, just swing as hard as you can. We've heard stories like that a lot. Dede Gregorius.

The Reds, actually, Dozier, we're trying to get him to go the other way with the ball. And then he went to a new team or got a new hitting coach. And they're like, no, just swing how you naturally swing and swing hard. So maybe that could be it. Hmm. He good. So out of those four, who would you be? bank of having the most.

JD Martinez. JD. By the end of the season. No keen Naquin. Buxton. And McMahon. Buxton. Yeah, I mean you lean JD just for the track of your homers.

Yeah. Buxton man is doing stupid stuff. I know we've run into him a few episodes, but I think A, he just home. Did he homer in this game? So does he now have six? Oh, he hit a double. That's right. Update.

It's Henry Ginder. Ginder. Ginder. Ginder. Gindre. Ginda, Ginda. Dude. Buxton is just annihilating the ball.

He's been sneaky, like good the last couple years now. It kind of feels like this is the year. It's all full coming together. His last 47 games, he's on a 63 homer pace. So watch out. Because you can get inside the parker, too. Watch out. Watch out.

All right. What leaderboard category we're going to next? Oh. Well, my eye goes to the batting average on base percentage area. It's, your mean Mercedes is still batting 500. He is? Yeah. Because he went like, you know, after going 8 for 8, he went 0 for 8 or something like that or 1 for 8.

Oh, he's balling still. At least entering today. 556 OBP. 500 batting up. How many people have a batting average over 400 still? 10. Oh, okay. I thought it might be a lot more.

There could be more people. I see no indication. There's more of a tie there. What do you think your min ends at? You're mean. I mean, he might not even get full season of play. Yeah, the whole thing's so bizarre. I mean, you got to run him out there.

He's 28. Big boy. I'm finishing this year like 475, something like that. Drop down a little bit. I don't know, man. Who knows with this guy? I mean, the thing with baseball that always scares me is none of these stories ever end with like they changed baseball. Like normally this story ends with, well, the league found out curveball away.

He doesn't hit that. Yeah. So I don't know. I'm just interested to ride the wave. And I think he's going to get at bats throughout, right? I mean, who's challenging him for playing time? I don't know. It's, uh...

So, I mean, right now... He's hitting... So his worst batting average is on breaking balls, and it's 286. I mean, Eloy got hurt. This guy's plugged in for him in the DH spot. The guy's competing for time. Zach Collins, Andrew Vaughn, if he figures it out, some point, Jake Lamb, Nick Williams is starting in left field.

Like, this dude's going to get a full season of that bats in the middle of this White Sox like really solid lineup. He has not struck out on a fastball yet. Like the strike three pitch has not been a fastball yet in his, however many played appearances, 40. I've got him being an All-Star. Yeah? Yeah.

That'd be really fun. Yeah. That be the feel-good story of the All-Star game. It'd be like when Hazus Aguilar was an episode. All-Star. Do you think he can handle the air in Denver? Yeah. I don't know.

Why not? I don't know. It's tough. I didn't like it. Like, okay, this will be a talking baseball deep cup, but when Hazus Aguilar made the All-Star team at age 28. Yes. Everyone was, like, dapping him up, like, dude. Like, we knew everyone who knows you knew this was going to happen at some point.

We were just waiting. And I think that's what you. what people will say about, you're mean. They'll be like, oh, this dude, I remember him. Everyone just wondered when it was going to happen, and now it's here. I love it. Congrats on the all-star. Have we, like, heard a story of, like, was there, like, some adjustment he made?

No, I think he just got promoted. Finally got the chance. I mean, certainly wouldn't be the first guy to put it together at 28. It's like, that happens in baseball. Do you want to know what his, like, um. We kind of put it together at 20. Yeah, 27, 28. No.

Do you want to know what his numbers are in the minors, eight seasons in the minors, 617 games? 302 batting average, 366 on base, 491 slugging, 857 OPS. It's interesting the slugging wasn't there. The slugging's there right now. Took so weird, man.

This guy has done nothing but hit. Yeah. Isn't that so This is what got us with Luke Voight and Mike Tockman Sorry Yankees references, but that's the team we like But you go and you check these guys minor league numbers And it makes you, it drives you insane If you're a fan of another team

And I guess this had to be an AL team And same thing, kind of with Luke Voight, He plays an okay first base These guys just needed opportunities and there's so many teams that run dudes out there who aren't it. It's like how did the Oakland A's never trade for this guy? Dude, that's the problem. When we talked to Trev about it before,

and there's a book I read that talked all about this. Once you crack that 40-man roster, you can bounce around for a while on 40-man rosters because you've done it. They just see you as an MLB. We're getting trending away from this a lot. Yeah. Because right now it's all about having prospects

and minimum wage and controlled guys. But a while ago, I read a book. I forget what it was. And they listed some players that were never good. Yeah. But had 10-year careers. Who was that second baseman that I put him on blast? It was a second basement in one of the classics

they were playing in the office. It was a really funny name for like the Tigers or the Blue Jays. short second baseman, played for 10 years, and we were looking at his numbers, and like, he was never good. I don't want to throw a name out there. Yeah, right. He's a guy being not good. Who's a...

I forget. Like a fun last name? Yeah, as a fun name is a short second baseman. Ten years. First name that came to mind was Aaron Hill, but I'm pretty sure he was actually good. He had a couple good ones. No, Jake didn't even know this guy's name. No, I think there's...

It's why Jeff Mathis has become popular on the internet, and it's recently changed with middle infield as well. Those guys could stick around for a decade just if you were good defensively. Like they didn't care if you hit. And I think there are a lot of those guys, and baseball is kind of getting away from that. Congrats on retiring Jeff Mathis. Congratulations. All right, what's the next?

category. Well, I kind of want to stick to just reading some names that are still a couple weeks in. Well, it's a sudden's obviously up there. J.D. is obviously up there. Cedric Mullins is kind of a surprise of this season. He's been, it's been hitting. Happy for him. He was a big prospect. It didn't work out at all, and now he's going. Keep it up to him. OBP is at 512. I mean, how old is he now? He's... 26. 26. Okay, he's older than I thought. I thought he was like still 25. And it's like, Oh, that's pretty normal. Okay.

So not as much. But he's hitting now. Tyone had a good quote when he homered off Tyone and his first start with the Yankees. And he was like, yeah, I gave him the change up, which is my fourth best pitch. He did nothing to deserve that. That was just funny. Yeah, that was Tyone's quote. He was like, I was cursing myself.

He did nothing to deserve that. He had nothing to deserve that. It's a really funny phrasing there. But he's playing really well this year. Yeah. He deserved it. And the other name says, stick out on the still hitting over 400.

Omar Narvaez. Mm. That 440. And Philip Evans on the Pirates has been, people have been chattering because I think he's also got like some crazy hard hit stuff. I saw that picture going around. If you look at his baseball savant page, you might find some stuff you like.

Philip Evans. Another 28-year-old. What if we compare his career to Evan Phillips? Ooh. What about that? Let's just see who's the better. I mean, obviously this is a natural battle. One's a pitcher, though.

So that's hard. I mean, they got to face each other? They might. No, Baltimore doesn't play Pittsburgh. They face each other in spring training, I think. Did they? And it was a thing already? Yeah, for a day.

Okay. Who won? Pete Evans 28. Looks like a fake Twitter account, but they're giving them credit. So happy for that. Okay. Yeah, they did face each other.

That's cool. I mean, they know. When we interviewed Ian Hap, we asked him, like, when you face J. Hap, did you know? And he was like, oh, yeah, we know. It was on. A hat ball. Yeah.

All right. What are we going to do next? We're going to end up in a team stat. Just looking at just team home run leaderboards, Cleveland's third in the league. Well, not kin. Isn't there anymore. Correct.

Yeah, he left. He's on the Reds. who lead all of baseball. Cleveland's third. Fran Mill. Their middle of the pack and total runs scored. So kind of fake. And everybody's within 10 of each other.

So they're just hitting a ton of solo shots. Who's hitting them? Berto Perez was too early. Good for him. Yeah, pretty balanced outside of Fran Mill. Fran Mill's got four. Luplow. Should have three, those sons of bitches.

CSing MFers. Austin Hedges. has one. Yu Chang doesn't have any yet. Chang yet. Naylor off to a bad start. Yeah, odd look. Not a regular season guy.

No. No, odd look looks like the Cheshire Cat. Cheshire Cat. Okay. Red Sox are just hitting, man. 58 runs scored. That is up there in the league lead third. for second with Houston. All a baseball.

Nice. What about like OPS? As a team. Or as individual. I think the Reds were up there because they were bombing. Yeah. Do like individual OPS. Who's leading in triples? Reds are leading in team OPS, then Dodgers, Houston, usual suspects. Yeah, so good for the Reds. I mean, a team that was dead last year early on. Isn't that baseball? Triples? We have any fun triples?

Does anyone have two? Does anyone have two triples yet? Four guys have two triples. One guy has three triples. One guy has three triples already? Yeah, and you will never guess him. Okay. Is he not in my book? He is on the Colorado Rockies. Hampson?

No. He's the only guy that I thought you might guess on that team. Tappia? Owing's. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. He's on the IEL right now, so that sucks. Three triples, huh? Three trips for always. The other-ball.

So he had one on the opening day, and then he had one on the seventh, then one on the ninth, which are the last two games he's played, and then no more. No home runs, three doubles, three doubles, the triples. He's hurt now, though. The other guys with two triples, Jake's guy, David Peralta, Gavin Lux. Great train.

and Shohayotani. Did Gavin Lux hit his triple in Colorado? Ooh. That we just, funny business. Just call illegal. Yeah. He hit his triple in, and he hit,

Gavin Lux hit both his triples in Colorado. So we're on to something here. Big outfield. Paralta hit his triples. Oh, boy. Don't, don't tell me Paralta hit his triples. No.

In Colorado. Can't. I'll freak out. Don't tell me. One of them was in Colorado. One of his two. So how many triples has Colorado seen? Can you do like stats per ballpark?

It might be able to do that. It's a big triple ballpark. That's so funny. Do you guys see how Tani hit one like 119 off the bat? Yep. He's really good. I think those, someone said those numbers are cooked a little bit with the new technology they're using,

but they said like it's still 117 or 1.5, so that's still insolently. saying. Yeah. Why are they cooking those? What do you mean? Comparatively to last year? Just like the... I don't know if they switched out technology

or what they did, but... What's another fun category to go to? Well, you asked about OPS. Buckson, who I think has multiple hits today already, but he entered today with a 1.7. J.D. Martinez is the second, 1.5... 1.58. The Cooney's just under 1.5, 1447.

I'm DMing baseball reference. Is there a page where I can see stats per ballpark for the season thus far? Like how many. Example. Trimples have been hit in cores and all other fields. They should have that. Yeah. I mean, it sounds like Cores has 90% of the triples this season.

Ballpark splits. Not by team. Not by team. MLB splits. Ballpark splits, baseball reference. All right. Should we do some pitching ones? I know that Garrett Cole leads in strikeouts.

I do have one team stat kind of earmarked. Okay. Similar to, and Garrett Cole's very closely related. The Yankees lead. league and K percentage as a pitching staff by like 3%. They have 32.7% K rate. Padres are in second at 30. Right three.

Entering today. You're out. You're out. Four eyes. What about home runs given up? How about my dude, Boyd. Hasn't given a home run in three starts. It's a stud.

It's turned a new leaf. Well, the Tigers as a team have surrendered the most home runs 18. Trying to find individual leaderboards. Find out this ballpark stand. It's driving me nuts. Well, I found, like, ESPN has park factors, and they have that the park factor, Bush Stadium ranks number one in allowing triples so far this season.

But it's not like how many of they allowed. It's 4.5.00. So, like, yeah. Jesus Christ, guys, stop doing math. There are three pitchers in baseball that have given up more than three home runs. All three were opening day starters. Say that again? There's three pitchers that have given up more than three home runs this year.

All three of them were, like, coming into this year, considered the best pitcher on their team. They all started opening day. They've had the most starts. They've had the most starts. Two of them have only started two games. but one of them started three. Granky's given up four.

Max Scherzer's given up four. Marco Gonzalez has given up five. He's the one that's been actually bad. The others are who they are. Cranky's throwing 51 right down the middle. That's so cool. Has he revealed his full mindset on that? No, I don't know.

He doesn't talk to anyone. Yeah. I was talking with my new friend Bill Hader. Flex. He sent me that video. and then we were trying to figure out what other characters are in baseball right now. Like if Ken Byrds did a documentary

and we were watching it 50 years from now, who else would get like that he was larger than life? Like we were joking like he sometimes told the opponent what pitch was coming. Yeah. Or, you know, and often he would throw a pitch as slow as he could with two strikes. He used to be and should be Puege.

That's what I said. So I had Puege as number two. But then I was, I could not think. And 10 years ago, there's a lot of characters because you had like Brian Wilson, Heath Bell, like a lot of the closers. Yeah.

Like, have closers lost their character of late? A little bit. Yeah, I guess he does on the field. He's not, yeah, I guess he is. He's a little zanier. element of like now kind of everyone's willing to let their weird out a little bit. Yeah, and it has to be genuine. Like Dietrich wearing a B suit, that's not actually like a character. That's just him.

That's him choosing to do something weird. So I think it's Granky. Granky is like, you could read about him and his antics, and it would feel like you're reading about an 1890s ball player, Rub Wendell. I mean, that's what I want to know. Like, did he, does Grinky see something in a scouting report? and see like this sucker on 0-1 on 1-0 pitches if he sees a pitch start above his shoulders he will not swing at it like I need to know I need to know or does he just do it

um there's got to be something there's got to be something can I go like something I can do here on this is I can go find all the pitches he's throne, sub 70 mile per hour. He just knows no one's ever going to sit on that, man. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, I think he knows he can get away with it. Maybe, yeah.

Or maybe he knows, like, there's a guy who just doesn't swing it off speed pitches in this count. So that's when he dials up. So the one yesterday was... He twist the knife a little bit. The one yesterday was a 1-0 count. Or, yeah, 1-0. Yeah. So I don't know.

Like, does that guy only sit fastball 1-0 or something? Let me see. I want below 70 miles per hour? Below 65. I'm getting my greater than and less than signs confused here. It's tough. It's not easy. So, oh, fucking.

Yeah, I got to go to 65. It says he's thrown, it said he'd thrown like a thousand pitches below 70 miles per hour. Yeah. That's pretty nuts. Yeah. So I have below, all right, he's thrown 67 pitches since 2015 below 65 miles per hour. He does it a lot.

Diles it down. Let's see, I can do graph and we can do count breakdown. All right, so here is. When he throws a pitch lower than 65 miles per hour, pie graph is being made. This goes from 2015 until now. pie graphs still being made. Never mind, I guess. It felt so close.

It did. It felt really close. It's so many pitches. I think that's the problem. My assumption is it's a batter tendency and not a grinky tendency. Okay. Yeah.

Looks like he's throwing it. He's thrown it twice and three one. He's done it twice and three runs. run 3-1. Four times in a 3-0 count. Oh, some of those are intentional walks. We might have to come back to the table

with these numbers another time. Yeah. Yeah. It does it a lot. When did they take away the intentional walk? And say, just take your base. I think 16 was the first year without it? Hope the fours. I don't know.

no other I think 16 was the turning Power's probably the other guy that fits into the character category with Frankie Puee there's enough stories about you're doing if you're doing the documentary

you're right it's just not One time he hurled the ball to center field It's not fun loving like Granky is I don't think there's anyone Does it for him I don't think there's anyone that has I don't think Granky is haters right now

across the league. Yeah. Bauer is a character, but he's very divisive. In the dock. All right, anything else we want to do? Any other leader boards we need to look at? Do you want to hear about the saddest players in the league? We've been hit by the most pitches?

Yes. But here's a really funny stat. So out of all the 34 pitches from the last three seasons. So it's 19, 2020, and 2021, short season. even shorter today. He's thrown 34 pitches. Okay. 65 miles per hour or lower.

Guess how many have been hit? Two. Zero. Zero hits. I mean, eight have been put in play, but zero hits. That's so cool. Four called strikes. Four whiffs.

Oh, boy. And we lost them. That's funny. All right. Hit by a pitch leader. Well, Madbum has hit. the most batters with three. Love that.

What are they going to do about Madbom? I don't know. And the batters getting hit by the most pitches. Six guys have been hit by three or more pitches so far this year. The leader, only one guy's been hit by four, and that's Nick Solack. Damn. He's leading the league in strikeouts, too. Believe so.

That's two fun categories. He's having a brute. That's like a nightmare. He leads the league and going back to the dugout, pretty upset. He's having a bad time. leaving the batters box upset. And the other guys with three, Roman Quinn, Wilson Contreras,

that was kind of a story recently. Did a breakdown. Dude, the Wilson Contreras getting hit in the elbow montage is really funny. It's good on Chris Rose's rotation, too, when they talked about that. Yeah, Brought was like, it doesn't even stand that close. Yeah, it's just that's his weakness and guys miss. It's funny. The other guys with three, Gallo.

So two Rangers, we believe. Guy France and Jonathan India. Gallo struck out on a 65 Granke pitch. I mean, that's still like a baseball pitch. Yeah. That one to Senzatella right here. Yeah, he's messing with the future. O2 in a tie game.

Bunt. Yeah. That's awesome. Well, there you go. There's some early leaderboards. What do we learn? Your men still doing the damn thing. I have him being an all-star now.

that's big for me. White Sox fans. What up? Bucksden. Luriano, not mentioned. Leading the league and still on bases with seven. Wow. That's a lot. Yeah. Second place is four. So Luriano's going this year. Has anyone been caught stealing? Like three times. Caught stealing leaders. Let me see if this is on the screen. I don't know if I can find it. It should be just bad news. Only one person Has been caught stealing twice in this young season D.D. Gregorius. Man

I feel bad. I did not know this gentleman's name until right now. Oh. Who is it? Eli White. Dude, I saw his name the other day because I was looking at the Rangers lineup for something. Yeah.

And I saw Eli White and I was like, what is that name? Eli White, your left fielder for the Texas Rangers drafted out of Clemson. 11th round pick. Hey, you're a leader, man. Last two games. Got me beat. That's funny.

All right. Well, that's a little leaderboard update, midweek update. A little insertion episode. Oh, Trevor's gone. We got a busy Wednesday. Yankees are early Wednesday. We just got their lineup for tonight.

So we got a pregame show. Hell yeah. See you guys. Thank you very much for tuning in. Appreciate you. each and every one of you. Jesus.