Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 324 | Carlos Rodón's No-Hitter, Red Sox are HOT, & Ronald Acuña's Domination

Episode Date: April 16, 2021

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. Rodon throws a no hitter. The Brewers and the Cubs got beef and Trevor. Try it out for Tampa. Let's do it. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball brought to you by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for tuning in today. My name is Jimmy.

His name is Jake. Trevor, coming to us from? Are you still in Florida? I am still in Florida, James. And producer Bug Bug Bug Dude, the P Festival. producing in the corner. Yeah, it's on Wikipedia. Jake and BPD both have nicknames in Wikipedia now.

Jake is Jake No Pecker, Sterilely. And BD is David P Festival Mendelssohn. So that happened while you were gone, Trev. How are you doing out there in Tampa? I'm doing great. Enjoying my time here. I'm happy to be back on the show. I'm sorry I missed last episode.

Everyone was tweeting at me. not Facebooking me. We don't, we don't mess with that right now. But that's a little inside joke. Things are good. Polaris is good right now. I'm excited to talk some baseball. I do enjoy talking baseball.

Jake, how are you? Early in the evening, just round supper time. Ah, copyright. Snagged. Episodes done. Oh, no. I'm good. I'm good.

I've got two things I need to clear up. Three things. Two things. The first thing is that it's actually three. Yes. And the second is. Trevor. The picture of you and your beautiful family with Raymond.

I need to explain this to you because you think I'm going to say something weird or gross or something. I'm not there. It's your new Twitter picture. Treve, you know when people go to an art museum and they say something just speaks to them? Like they feel that. like the emotion in the painting or whatever it tells them. Raymond in that picture is how I feel just in life. It's your you, your beautiful family,

and there's Raymond with a big old smile on it looks like a goddamn alien. So Jake thinks that if you were to take this picture with him, it wouldn't look much different. It's the same picture. So when he has this as his profile picture on Twitter, it's because he's Raymond, the Raymond. The Ray's mascot. I am Raymond.

Yeah. That's how I feel. I could see. I get the comparison. I thought you were going to go a completely different way with that. I'm glad you went that way. You actually texted me something really nice last night. Yeah.

You want me to share that with you? You can. I was really cross-faded last night. Yeah, you were, it was about one o'clock in the morning. And Jake said, I'm really jealous of your happiness. I'm not. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. And I.

I thought that was a huge compliment. I'm like, you know what? I am happy. Thank you for pointing that out. You shouldn't be jealous of it. Yeah. I think, I'm in the pursuit of it. Oh.

I'm in the pursuit of it. That's exactly what I was thinking. You know, you're pursuing it. I'm a little bit older. Yeah. Baby, are you happy? Oh, man. Okay.

Loaded question. Happiest I can be. Okay. We'll take that. The second thing I'd like to clear up really quick is last episode, a lot of the comments, Or Jake, how high are you? Jake? You look like you're on the moon. And everyone is very right.

Because the... You weren't high. I was not high. Yeah. Everyone was so right to comment that. Because yeah, you know, it was midweek. We're in a little malaise. We built up to get going.

The problem was I had hurt my neck again. So I was doing this like, drifty, like... You were stiff. I mean, at one point I was talking to Jake. I don't know what show that was on. And he, it was like I was talking to a mannequin. because you were, I fucking the camera. Well, no, Jim, it's the opposite of what you're saying right now.

I was moving all over. I had like Ozzy Osbourne. I was like, I was just floating and drifting throughout the camera shot. So was not high, a little bit of neck pain, a little midweek. We were very loopy in the office, like before we started the show. And I was wondering if when we started like, all right, let's tone down the silliness because no one's going to understand it. And I did the intro.

and then Jake just went right to the state of being that we were at beforehand. So I rewatched it last night because I was like everyone's saying Jake. Hi. I need to see what this is all about. And then I watched the intro and I was like, oh, yeah. That's how we were acting in the office. Because we take these Polaroids. We take Polaroid pictures for Sam, for Patreon.

Speaking of this episode, our most newest Patreon. We got Freddie Luna, Daniel Gris, Gores. Speedy Gonzalez. Wow. Finally nabbed him. Justiniano. Just, is this one word? If you're like this is a joke.

Justiniano. Matt Hoke and Taryn Rasmussen. So we do like these photo shoots with Sam and basically, because every patron gets a one-of-one polar-word photo of us that we sign and they get an, it's authenticated. It's authenticated. It's pretty funny. And we always get in a pretty silly mood when we do that because we're just like models. Yeah.

And then we brought the show. So good clarification. so open up, Jake. Thank you. So what, you were not high. I was not high. I was not high. Sober is a bug.

The only show we do high is John Moore and Jake Radio. Add. And watching. Add. Those are the only two. I'm not going to say what shows I do or do not do high. How about that? Respect that.

Respect that. Really respect that. Did they welcome you? Did you see any players down in Tampa? Did you like Kevin Cash invite you into his office and make you play cards with him. Can you still pick it, ploof? That's the thing about COVID.

It sucks. You know, typically I'd be able to go down in the clubhouse and do all that fun stuff. But we got to go to the game. I said hi to everybody. I went down to the Rangers bullpen. Unbeknownst to me, my friend Drew Boutherer, friend of the pod, he's on the taxi squad there. So he was in the bullpen. I went down,

said hi, I gave him a hug. Oh. He gave him a hug. Protocol. Saw him. I saw T. Hunt. I saw Gibby and then as I was leaving because I'm a professional and a veteran

I walked down to the raised dugger I literally did this I walked down right next to the raised dugger John Joso you did John Joso you're John Joso yeah but that picture holy shit and I think I may or may not

have gotten high with John Joso before just FYI. I mean he's kind of like you get high when you talk to him guy kind of not a lot of options I won't say who else was there but I walked down to the dugout and I said Kevin and Cash looked at me like he wanted to fight me you know sometimes guys come down to the dugout and he's like has to deal with these bums I was one of those bombs I said hi to him a motor our hitting coach come up and said hi to me so

uh all and all a good trip it was fun to see baseball again I swear I swear I understand why people like get mad at players the game looks so fucking easy sitting in the stands I was up there like dude I could rake yeah yeah didn't you text us out there now tweeted that. I really, I feel, I felt like I saw the ball really well in the stand. You were seeing the ball great. Yeah. Yeah.

It's huge. Did they do a tribute video or anything like that? No, they asked me where I was sitting and what my walk-up song was going to be. So I think they may have had something planned, but I was never in my seat. Like my kids wanted to go walk around. We went to see the rays in the tank, which there are no rays in the tank right now. I don't understand that. Oh, they died.

COVID. Home run ball landed in the tank. Too much sticky substance on it. Killed to the race. Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah, well, I'll tell my kids that after we're done recording. Hey, kids, remember there is no stingrays? They died.

They're all dead. They just all died. No problems. Let's get into the baseball. Jake is taking care of the NL recap today. I'm excited to hear about it. Jake, let us in. What happened?

Baseball! Boys, let's start out. Peat Festival, he's leaving. Pittsburgh. BPD's got a pee. The Pirates, they split two with the fathers. How about it? Yarr! Darvish, pitched well in game one.

Scared ploof away and BPD already. Joey Musgrove, first start after the no-no. They limit his pitch count. Smart. Fournings pitch, one-earned run. It gets out-pitched by Mr. Anderson. 5.1-1-run run. Padres take the fourth game to split the series. Hey, how about those fighting pirates?

Braves, uh-oh, Atlanta, Twitter. I see you guys getting hot. The Marlins take three out of four. They take the first three, two of them in ten innings. Max Fried with another bad appearance. He goes to the I.L. He's our friend. We wish him lucking to get better.

Ronald Acuna Jr., everyone's hot in the streets on this guy. Rightfully so, but the Braves got to start winning some games. Brewers' Cubs get beefy, huh? Willie Contreras getting in the mix. Woodruff, what he keeps saying? That's fucked up. That's fucked up. That's fucked up.

Brewers take two out of three from the Cubbies. Our crew off to a hot start. Peralta, we heard about him. We told you about him. He's pitching well. Check that out. Oh, Daddy told you about Corbin Burns, too. Took the final game against Area at a 7-0.

Cardinals Nats, Nats take two out of three. Ross is also a really good start for them. Zimmerman, Mr. Nat, gets his first home run of the season. Yadi for the Cardinals catches his 2000 game. Good job, Yadier, my man. The Giants, Trevor's favorite coaching staff, and they are off to a hot start in San Francisco. They take two out of three from the Reds.

The Reds took game one. He was just being Miley as Wade, went five shutout, Winker and Votto home runs. Castillo gets knocked around in the second game. Quato pitches really well again, but he leaves with a little tight lat in the back. Sonny Gray expected to come off the aisle and make his season debut this weekend for the Reds. Matt sweep the Phillies. How about this?

We were kind of surprised by this one. I think was there a double header in there? We had a game postponed. V.R. had a walk-off single. Taiwan Walker. 8Ks, one-er-and-run in 4.1 inning. Strohsho with another good star. Peterson, too.

You pitch, you win, kids. And the Dodgers sweep the Rockies. And that's obvious power with a good start. And the Rockies are a bad team, and Dodgers are a great. Wow. How about that? A lot of stuff going on. A lot of stuff.

The first thing I want to look at is my dumb prop bet of the day yesterday. Will the Rockies at any point have a lead in the game? I think they did. Did they? Because Reyes gave up five runs. They did. They scored in the first. Oh, did I win then? What did the public have, Trev?

Might have won, which brings me up to 500 again. Yes, I won. Hell yeah. Okay. Hell yeah, Jim. Yeah, thank you. While you did this, I wrote down some things that I thought were interesting. Beanstring, Phil.

Because I've done this, and I think while you're going through it, I'm like, oh, that's cool. And then I forget. Sure. Number one, limiting Musgrove's pitches. That was something I touched on last episode, and I hope they would do because he really pitched more pitches than he ever had before in a single game. Happy to see that the Padres did that, handled it properly. He went four innings pitched.

How many pitches did he throw? I think, was it in the 80s or the 70s? I think 85, Jake and I checked on Wake and Jake yesterday. It's not that limiting, then. It is. I mean, he's a big boy and built up. We've just been brainwashed by the Yankees and all their hurt pitchers. A lot of pitchers can throw 100 pitches,

just not for the New York Yankees. The NL standings, I said that they may never change last episode. And the Padres are now in third place, and the Giants jumped them and are in second place. So they changed as quickly as they possibly could change. That's baseball. That's baseball. Good job by me.

And the Brewer's injury suck. Yelly on the IL. Cain's fight. Is it Cain is the other guy who finds it off? That sucks for them. But their pitching's amazing. Yeah, I think we'll hear about. Hurra later. He's hurting just on the field. Yeah, man, the crew's off to a good start.

Seven and five, they're tied top of the NL Central with Los Reds. Those Reds had that hot start. They're starting to come back to Earth a little bit. Dodgers are just a goddamn wagon. Padres, bummer they split two with the Pirates. I think they had something else on their mind. Big weekend set with the Doyers, so that'll be fun. And how about the Mets? I mean, they missed that opening weekend so we kind of, I don't know, put them in the back of their heads and then they had some rain stuff going on. Five and three technically has them on top of the NL East. So early, so early. But good job the Mets and Walker and Stroh Show, man. Both those guys have looked good early. Yeah, I think a national league, if you look at the stings, they're kind of exactly

where we thought they would be. The Dodgers are running away with it. Central and East divisions are just an absolute mess. And a couple surprise teams that's up. I don't think, I mean, some people predicted the Mets to be good. I did not. The Braves are not looking great. And then the Reds have kind of, they've, they've, they've taint. They're, uh, what's the word I'm looking for?

Sound like you're going to say taint. It's not all, it's not taint either. Okay. They've simmered down a little bit from a, from a hot start, but they're at top of the division with the brew crew. I love, I love when divisions are a mess. I can't wait to see, uh, you know, in two months. months what we're looking at here. I think it's going to be more of the same.

The Nationals got their stars back. Bell, the guys, Bell, Schwarber, who else was it? We're out, right? They got my last series, really, but, you know, Schwerber's now played four games. Bell's played three games because they were out with the COVID stuff. So the Nats are in the bottom of their division, and I wonder how, what's the Zite guy? of Washington National's baseball fans. I'm curious to go dive into some of those communities and stuff. Yeah, I know Strauss.

I saw Strasbourg. I think Petriello tweeted out, but I think his fastball Velo's doing the bad stuff. So, yeah, we'll see. I mean, they've got to be so frustrated. They, you know, the start last year and then to have basically the same thing happen again this year. Oh, my God.

But also they played the Braves and Dodgers. out of the gate, you know, arguably the two best teams in the National League, maybe not an argument. Padres, where are you? I didn't realize Corbin's two starts. Yeah, Corbin got knocked around two. He's giving up 15 earned runs and two starts. Not good. Our D-backs got them. D-backs got them.

So, yeah, hey, they lost their games to the Dodgers. I think a lot of teams are going to do that. Yeah, they got to start winning soon, but they got a big series with the Mets coming up this weekend. Or no, excuse me, misread it. They're playing the D-backs. So win a couple of those games? I don't know. Yeah, it just sucks at once.

Soto's not living up to his potential. Only 378 batting average, 465 on base. Come on one. With a one dot OPS. People are watching these games. And a 181 OPS plus. So you'd like to see those numbers climb up a little bit, but it's a solid start for him.

Yeah. On the opposite end of that, our friend Max Reed has been very poor during his first two starts. Then he pulls the hammy running to second base. Now that is two. Harbor West State guys They cannot run the bases Jack Flaherty's famous

famously cannot run the bases And now Max Freed Pulled the hammy after hitting a double I believe I texted them I said are you okay What's going on? Are you of the opinion That pitchers are athletes Treve?

These guys are These guys are real athletes I've seen them do athletic things I'm talking about Freed G-Lito and Flaherty But man you know think when you just get in the game and you get that pitcher only mentality, like sometimes that athleticism leaves you and we've just seen it time and timing. Did you guys see the Johnny

Quato swing? Someone put it on Twitter. I was going to talk about that. I almost made it my award at the end of the show, but then I saw he got hurt. It cracked me up. And hey, he ended up with a hurt back. So I don't know if it's tied to that at all. I think it was before that. But I mean, just like the saddest swing you've ever seen. And then it cracked me. up. He did the, just hammered his back leg, like, okay, I just got to stay in a little longer, make sure I get my hands through. It's like, Johnny, I don't think, I don't think that back leg was the problem, Big Daddy. I remember, and this is kind of going away here, but who cares? This is what we do on talking baseball. I watched Homer Bailey when he was in high A. He was

about to be called up to double A. We were in the Florida State League together. This guy was in the cage before a game by himself hitting because he knew in double a that's when you start to hit for yourself dh is no longer like if you played two national league teams the pitchers started to hit so this guy was like putting in work putting in work pitchers don't do that shit anymore and that's why all this stuff happens and then you know all these purists that want the pitchers to hit and the strategy and all that bullshit you just show them the quado swing you know like they don't they don't work on it so why do you want to, there's no strategy there. I don't understand it at all. Last year. I think so. Yeah, that makes sense. Well, pitchers get better. Like, it'd be like arguing, it'd be like arguing to go black, back to black and white TVs are like typewriters. Like, if you would argue for that, that's the same thing you're doing with pitchers hitting.

You love a good typewriter. Hey, is jazz chisholm good? I do. Really good. He's electric. He's electric. He wants to be a Hall of Famer. Well, who doesn't? Well, I know that, but, like, normally you don't say that unless you're pretty good. So, like, I'm kind of wanting to do it. We are.

No, for Jamoy Media. Oh, sure. We're going to have two Hall of Fame. I'm in. I'm in. Well, I don't know if you're in yet, Trev. I think I'm on my way. I had two people in my head that I thought would be on the ballot already.

And it was Lou Ellen and Bubak. Oh, okay. I see where you're going on. Yeah, okay. Fan Hall of Fame. Well, we can get in there. I just think they're more deserving than us as of it now. You got a label.

I think it's a fan hall of fame. I'd like to be able to get in there. I'm already gatekeeping. Are you a fan? Huge fan. All right. You got a chance. We'll see when your ballot comes around.

He's off. He's a pretty good start. It's pretty impossible to tell. He hasn't been gone twice to the league. But as of right now. His first 10 games, it's really, really good. His OBP's great. His slugging's really good.

When I'm looking, he, yeah. When he hits the ball, he hits it hard. Fairly legit prospect. I mean, the Marlins traded Zach Allen for him, who Zach Allen's been really good and cheater. This was his guy to go get. So they believe in him. He hasn't been intentionally walked yet.

So that's, you know, no one's respected him. I have him at a 779 Arizona Rookie League, 683A ball, 842, high a, 761, AA. I want to like Chaz or Jazz. I don't like Chas. Chaz is a good nickname for him, by the way. Chaz Jizm. He's gotten that before.

He's gotten that before. It's actually Jake's Porn Star name. Yeah. Hello. But I just... Solo only. Yeah. I guess you got to put it out there.

You got to put it out there if you want to do. It's so nice having that noise in the bag whenever I need it. Yeah. Good luck, Chaz. Anyway. You guys want to go to the A-L? Do we miss anything?

No. Jake got it. Jake hammered it. Cubs Brewers' beef. Everyone saw that a little bit. Oh, the Cubs and Brewers' beef. Yeah, it's fun. I mean, don't care either way about any of it, but I enjoy it.

What did you think about him saying, that's not cool, bro? Or like, nah, it's fucked up. He looked like a giant baby. I loved it. I loved it. Like, I liked it. but like his feelings were hurt. Yeah.

Like he can't stand there in the post game and say like, it didn't hurt my feelings. I just don't like it. Like, no, dude. Like the umpkins sold you. Did he say it didn't hurt my feelings? No, but if he wanted to, he can't because it hurt his feelings. He said, that's fucked up. Oh, that's fucked up.

He didn't say like, fuck you. That's a thing, man. No, he went serious mode. He went like truly like, that's fucked up. I love genuine emotion. Yeah. whatever it is and his was hilarious Yeah

No man like I'm cool That's just fucked up It's fucked up you know it I know it does fucked up Yeah and then they um Like Estherbrook consoling him Estabrook's one of the bigger dick umpires going At least on the field

I don't know his personality with his kids But or like you know In his daily life But uh Big Mike You know you you know Estabrook umpire

I know him yeah Did you think that Did you think it was odd Like he like was squeezing his shoulder And massages him like a goodwill hunting scene like it's not your fault it's not your fault starring pictures and umpires have this weird relationship they're always looking at each other they're they're staring at each other the entire game that's a funny thought process that's

actually great Trevor and you know when they look at each other and the guy goes yeah was it up like they had this fucking language up up no outside oh okay okay okay um yeah that moment to me was just so weird some brewer's fans got mad at me that i thought it was weird And I was like, I've never seen it before. So, yeah, they got beef. I don't, I mean, like, I think it's all fair game in a way. Like, you shouldn't throw. They threw behind the pitcher.

I feel like that pitcher on the Cubs got told to throw at him and he didn't want him. So he just threw behind him. It's fucked up. There's a lot of weird things. Like Wilson Contreras then said something to him and they were like, okay. They were fine. He should be mad at Wilson Contreras because I feel like that was the whole thing. Wilson Contreras said, like, we shouldn't have thrown at you.

That is fucked up. We should have thrown out a position player. That pimped job. That pimped job and camera angle with Wilson Contreras was dope. Pretty good. Pretty good. But why is a great question, Tref. Why?

Why? If you want to hit. If you're going to, like. But I don't think Contreras been thrown out on purpose yet. Yeah. I don't think so either. I don't think so. You just, but it is bullshit.

You can't be pitching him high and in there if you can't control it. brought on the Chris Rose rotation laid it out so perfectly. It's just like, yeah, I mean, you know, Riz gets hit because he's all over the play. Contreras, you just try to pitch him up and in and guys miss. He like laughed. It's like, sucks, dude. Yeah. Yeah, not trying.

Put the gear up. Put all that gear on. You'll be okay. Gear up. Shout out, shout out Yadi. I feel like we need to just put this out there. 2,000 games for the same team. Never once called a no-hitter.

Wow. Oh, he's. I don't know if that's true. Someone commented that on, like, as a joke on the YouTube video. Like for him? has to have. Because Zach Collins, it's like his 15th start ever, and he caught a no hitter. And then Caratini, like no hitters to start ratio is crazy because he's a backup.

And then McCann last year was backup for the White So he caught Gio's no hitter. So someone was like all these backups catching and Yadi still never got. I don't know if it was truth for or not, but it's kind of just like a, it's not a blight on Yadi at all. It's just a funny thing to say. Damn. 2,000 games behind the dish, man. you start doing the hand clap more I love when you do that

I do that on Instagram live a lot because I'm holding the phone on my other hand right Jake you're a little Have you ever seen my brother Luke do that No He can like clap He just like shakes his hand like this

And it makes like A clapping noise Well Jake has comically small hands Comically small Yeah Trevor you're still addicted to Did you try to go live at the trap I was on Instagram

You got a lot Yeah, I was on Instagram It said Trevor Ploof is going live And I was like, oh, this got to be good And then it was already gone It wasn't good And I was like, what am I doing? I'm here with my family,

Like enjoying a baseball game Like this is stupid So then I turned it off Well, I don't know what's not stupid, Trev investing wisely Yes And this American League recap is brought to you By Fund Rise,

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There's no way you have one. I got a couple things in one of the apps. What do you have? He bought $1 of a doge coin. One dollar of doge coin. I bought one Twitter stock. Nice. Because I was like, I'm on there.

But Twitter stock is always terrible. Oh, yeah. and I got one stock of silver. You need the staples. You need the big ones. Yeah. You need the big ones. If everyone wants stock, it's like.

Yeah. Jake, I see a future for you. Yeah. Thank you. All right, here's what happened in the American League. Are you ready? The Red Sox went to Minnesota and took three of four from Trebs' twins. Not the right music for.

Sure. It's a good tune. That is a good song. PPPs. There we go. There it is. The Red Sox went to Minnesota and took three of four from Trevor's. Twinkies.

Perez pitched. All the Twins pitchers didn't make it out of the fifth inning. Besides Pignetta, game four gets seven shutout innings. Doogie put on a display for the socks. They're pitching pitch pretty well. They had a lot of big innings, a lot of fun. Red Sox are having a lot of fun right now. Not having fun are the Yankees.

They lose two of three to the Blue Jays. They win Cole start. They lose the next two starts. Rieu was nasty for the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays had to, they scratched a pitcher. Meriwether, their star reliever got hurt. That's not fun. Romano also got hurt.

Another bullpen guy for them. Bichette had two home runs, including a walkoff. Routy Tiles got his first hit of the season in his first home run. Kirk Alaharanro Kirk got his first hit and his first home run of the season. Blue Jays having some fun. The Rangers went to the trot just like Trev and took three out of four from the Rays.

Glass now and Dunning put on an absolute show in game one and Ray's won one to nothing. The Rangers took the next three games. Our buddy Yarby and Gibby faced off in game two. Gibby had a good outing. Yarby had a bad one. Our other friend of the program, Dahl, had a two-run double in game three. And then Garcia hits a two-run home run. To take the lead in the 10th, Rangers went three out of four.

Another sweep. The Tigers swept the Astros. Casey Meyes had a good start against Granky, best start of Casey Mey's young career. Boyd had another great start against the Astros. As did Fulmer, who got moved from the Penn to start. A little caveat here, the Astros either all got COVID or all got the shots and got IEL.

I don't know if there's been an answer if they got COVID or if they got the shots and had. But Braggman, Altuve, Alvarez, Garcia, Maldonado all placed on COVID list. So good job. The Tigers, Astros fans, I don't think are incredibly worried. Angels and Royals played three games in Kansas City. Cobb had a basic outing. Same with Singer. Otani, three hits and three RBIs, including a double.

that was a hundred and nineteen mile per hour off the bat. Dylan Bundy has a nice outing alongside Duffy. Man, Rendon placed on the 10-day I-L with a left groin strain. White Sox and Indian split a four-game set. Rodon had a no-hitter. If you hadn't heard, that's pretty good. Savali pitched really well. And you know who pitched really poorly?

Uh, what's his name? What's his name? Our guy. Plesack. Worst outing of his entire life, he said. And the guy alongside him through no hitter, his press comments was sad. Orioles and Mariners play. Mariners took three out of four.

Sheffield had a good outing. Gonzalez rebounds from his two bad starts. He has a good outing. Harvey goes 4.2 to earn pitches. That's a series. That's interesting. Mariners take three of four from the O's. That's pretty much it.

That's what you got. Anything jump out of you guys? Hey, L. Standings a little bit. Mariners on top of the West right now. How about that? It's kind of funny. Nobody's off to a terrible start. Like the Ray's, Yankees, and Orioles all have five wins.

But everyone in the AL, the only team off to a great star is those Red Sox, who got swept the first series, ran nine in a row, and then they lose that final game to Trev's twins. But those guys are hitting. I did this on the TPP, and it almost became a meme in our comments section where they're like, how many times are Jimmy and Jake going to bring up the 2017 Yankees?

I'm bringing them up again. Because I said that this Red Sox team has a chance to do with that 2017 Yankees team. Expectations are low. No one's counting you out. Everyone's giving you the excuse of a rebuilding year. So even if you don't perform, no one really cares. so you can just go out there and have a fucking party.

And I said if the Red Sox get off to a hot April and their schedule allows them to get off to a really hot April and have fun, they may force Heim's hand to not give them time and act now. So I'm monitoring them how much fun they're having and like come from behind wins and you can't count them out. Like the mojo that they've built around this first 10 games,

I think will linger. And let's see how long it can linger. The schedule does get tougher, but I'm starting to, you know, see that comparison more and more, which I was interested in looking for from the TPP. We did some deep diving on the Red Sox, me and Rosie, when we did our IG Live. They're just hitting, man. Their pitching's been okay. I think it's probably performed a little bit better than it should have.

They're still walking a lot of guys, and I think some of the, I just, it's hard for me to get on the train. I know the bats. We knew the lineup was going to be decent, but they're kind of, they're going nuts right now. I got to see it for two months. That's what I said. He asked me how long until we say these guys are legit?

I get what you're saying. Like, this is a nice little opener for them, and they're going to be confident. And now, you know, they're going to be able to say, hey, we can, we are that team. We can be that team, but I got to see it for two months. Well, I agree with you.

I agree. I think just one month. I think if they can, Yeah. So again, that 2017 Yankees team, they were like a 700 record in April. And then they were 500 in May, June, July, and August. 500. And then they had a like 700 winning record in September. And that got them to the dance. And then they had a ton of fun.

So this is their hot streak. They need to like ride this out as much again. But the bigger part is they're having so much fun. Like the vibes are incredible. Yeah. They believe. You know, they got, they got Povetta and Rodriguez. It's only 28 years old.

So like these guys could be entering their prime. Is Povetta taking that step that everyone's kind of always said he might take? I'm not so sure about that. Eovaldi, when he's healthy, is like a guy guy. So like if he can stay healthy, like there's no reason to think he won't be, you know, a top pitcher. I mean, and then Sail coming back is the biggest question mark. Is the sale going to come back and be fucking Chris Sale? because if he is, if the bullpen is pitching the way they've been pitching,

I mean, we could be looking at a team, like you're saying, a surprise team. I just, it's just so hard for me to buy into it right now. I get what you're saying about the record, then they can coast the rest of the way. In this series, their bullpen was really good. In the first three games, they won all three games. They pitched eight innings, I believe, allowed zero earned runs to bullpen. Yeah, Karabas had a Jakey Butterknife tweet of sorts. see a couple guys in the socks pin like 24 inning, zero and run.

So, hey, man, good for them. If they get-arns, yeah. Yeah, if they get some pitch in Darwin's in, I believe, Whitlock, the Rule 5 guy from the Yanks. How about it sucks? Well, yeah, I know. Stay in there. Treb, what's going on with your Twinkies? I was going to stay with the Red Sox.

Oh, sorry. I thought you were doing. It's okay. What do you got in the Red Sox? I was just going to schedule watch a little bit. Four games with the White Sox at home. you know, survive that, you know. Blue Jays, they got two.

And then it's Seattle for four, Mets for two, Texas for four, Detroit for three, and Baltimore for four. That takes you through early May. And I mean, those are a couple of those teams are the bottom feeder. So if the Red Sox can keep the energy up and keep just racking up a couple dubs, they will force Himeshand. Like, get Sam back. The April schedule.

I will say that June, I mean, I'm never the schedule guy. But June is Houston, Yankees, Houston, Toronto, Atlanta, Casey, Tampa, New York. So, like, June is going to be, June we're going to find out about the Red Sox. And I wouldn't be shocked if they're in it and you got that good baseball, Juju, baby. Keep going. 15 and 8 was a 17 Yankees record in April. Then they lost losing record in June, losing record in August, barely 500 and the other two. two good months.

Win you that wild card. Treve, your twins? To be honest, I mean, their pitching has been okay. Their hitting's been okay. They just haven't been able to get those wins.

I think they've lost a lot of really close games. I haven't done a huge deep dive on this. You kind of caught me off guard there a little bit, Jam. I think I read a tweet that they've played, you know, six or seven, two runs or fewer close games and have pretty much lost them all.

So I'm sure if I look up their run differential, How do I find that right now? Well, yeah. I mean, Pineda had a really good start. Finally gave him the bullpen, the ball in the eighth inning. They put Robles out there, and he goes hit by pitch, stolen base, walk, walk. And they brought Rogers in. Verdugo, I think we said this when the trade happened,

that Verdugo is going to be loved in Boston. And I think he is very loved right now. Made a game-saving catch. Big three-run double. Awesome home run. Yeah. It's like beautiful. I want to go at Jeff Passing just a little bit here.

You know, I love to do that. Jeff put out a tweet nine hours ago talking about the first place teams in the American League today are the Boston Red Sox. Kansas City Royals in the Seattle Manors just like everyone thought it would be. Classic. Nine hours ago puts that at 2.15 in the morning? Is that? Wait a minute. Does that make sense?

It could be $1.15 for him because he's in the middle of the country. 115. Well, he's traveling. I took a picture of the standings. Did I get that in there? Yeah. And that was at 10.04 Eastern. So I had the idea for that tweet before Jeff did.

But then I started watching Handmaid's Tale with my wife and I forgot to tweet it out. So Jeff, I had you, bro. Season one? Gotcha. Yeah, season one. Sad show. It's not a happy show. Don't nudge your wife and say, like, this is pretty cool, huh?

I don't. I don't. She's the one that pick this show out. I've actually only watched, like, half of season one. I've just kind of, like, dozed off doing other stuff. But it's intense, bro. And, like, people say in the parallels. No parallels.

Well, not really. But you can make the parallels between what's going. If things were a thousand times worse, this is how it would be. Oh, it's a parallel. It's the mask thing and I don't know, whatever. Yeah. All right, anything else jump out in the AL here? I thought you were going to make fun of his tweet because it's 10 days in,

but then you said you were going to do the same tweet. But I didn't do it because it is 10 days in. I'm on record of saying, if someone would have said, like Passing, and we love passing, he's a friend. Yeah, I'm just messing. If someone would have said, like, hey, 10 games into the season, these are going to be the people in first place. First place.

We would have said, oh, yeah, sure. Okay, it's 10 games in the season. Sorry about your tweet, Trev, that you didn't tweet. Blue Jays playing in the Niedin. They walk off game three. What's that? They're doing it. Doing it.

Yeah, Yankees are dead as hell. Like I had some Blue Jays fans in our live chats and our reactions that were like, how do you guys look worse than us? Like I don't think it was impressive baseball at any point in the entire series. But the Blue Jays won, and their hitting's good. Man, the whole East, I mean, Blue Jays are under 500, 6 and 7, Yankees are 5 and 7,

Rays are 5 and 8. Like those, none of those teams are kind of happy with their results right now. The Rangers taking 3 or 4 from the raise is kind of interesting. Treve, you were there. yeah i mean i saw six settings of baseball so take that for what it's worth uh i mean when i was there who's the um i don't even know the guy's name i'm so sorry arihara yeah that is first lane

shut him down yeah shut him down a lot of ground balls a lot of weak contact nobody was hitting the ball hard and the raise had a lefty out there that was actually throwing decently uh then when i left i think they gave up some runs right after that But they kind of looked, look, the Ray's lineup isn't like a great lineup. We always talk about that. Sure, they put them in positions to succeed, and sometimes that works out, or a lot of the time it works out. But there's going to be stretches where they don't hit the ball.

Right now, I mean, that series is one of them. Yeah, Dane Dunning shut him out too. We went toe-to-to-toe with glass now. We'll be talking about him later. Well, I mean, he only pitched four. And then our dude, Hearn came in and had three good in. Thanks. Hearn struck out seven over three?

Hern hunch. Andy had to find 100 bucks for being late on the bullpen train. I texted Gibby the video. You out at him? It's messed up, dude. Yeah, of course I did. That's my job to make sure these rooks understand what's going on. Fuck, man.

Messed up, bro. That's my guy. People on Twitter did not like that tweet. Like, literally nobody liked that tweet. I felt like another personality that I always make fun of. But hey, that's neither here nor there. Wow. That's okay.

Herne, 13Ks in 8.2. Our guy. He's a big dude. Big boy. Yeah, I hit a homer off him. When I said hi, he's big, yeah. I hit a homer off him. Tried not to take a picture next to him.

Over the driveway. Got him. Deep. No big deal, Jim. Yeah. Punched him. Oops. You guys really want me to go over this Interleague series that happened?

Yeah, but I feel like we miss some teams in the AL and I don't want fans be getting mad at us. The Astro stuff's pretty wild and really good job by Casey Mize. Boyd and Fulmer. Guys, I always rip on they're pitching well. Granky gave up a lot of earned runs. I think his slider didn't perform well,

and they asked him, how do you feel about your slider? And he was like, I never want to throw it again. That was his answer. It's like, I love Granky. Funny guy. Funny guy, yeah.

Astros fan, I don't know resident Astro fan, Quinn, is in the chat. But what is going on? Because they got COVID stuff, and it's a lot of dudes. I don't know if they got the shot and they're not feeling well,

if they, like, fully got it, but Jimmy, you mentioned it. Test positive, no symptoms. I don't. Yeah. I mean, it's Jordan Alvarez, Altuve, Bregman, Maldonado, Robel, Garcia. But I don't know if this is, if these dudes are out, Bregman Altovae Alvarez, that's a heart of a lineup. They really wanted the game to get canceled.

They said that McCullors was pitching with, like, shaky legs. Like, Dusty was like, he was wobbling out there. Like, he couldn't even stand, like the team's sick. So it'd be really funny if they were like, let's get our shots right before the tiger's coming to town. Who gives a shot? Sounds like that's what happened. Or something else.

I don't know. So maybe jokes aren't the best. But Hinch comes and sweeps his old team. A little bit of a storyline there. Yeah. A little bit. What about the Mariners? I'm looking at what are the Mariners doing well?

Because they're hitting okay. I mean, not really. They're 103 OPS plus. I think they're playing the Orioles. but they're I mean they have I don't know If I was to say like what did they do well

This week I would say they played the Orioles The Orioles Treve I know you love a good run differential Astros are the only team With a positive one in the AAL West The 8 and 5 Mariners are minus 8 A lot of positive in the ALE Central

Royals Indians white socks twins That those standings are hilarious right now. I hope that division turns into a little bit of a spit-shell, but we'll see. And the Red Sox plus 23, man. Orioles have not won a nine-in-in-game in their last 10 games. Ouch. They're two, they have two wins in their last 10 games. One was 11th inning against the Yankees win, and the other was walk-off in a double-hatter seven-in-game.

So yeah, I'd say what the Mariners did really well was played the Orioles. Hanager's off to a good start, which is good for him. Seeger's off to a good start. Sheffield had a good outing. The pitching. I think Marco Gonzalez had a bounce back. He needed that. We'll talk about that in Slump Watch later.

The fact they were searching for what they're doing well, it's funny to me because they are leading the AOS, and they're not doing anything particularly well. It's just, you know, one of those things were two weeks into the season. Hey, Will Vest, 8.1 innings. How about a 108 ERA? Can I make a point going back to the NL real quick? Just real quick.

Wow. Super. Super quick. Because I'm about to do Interleague, so it kind of plays, okay? Dodgers last night. Do we talk that series? Isn't that? Like a little bit.

They swept the rocks. Okay. So this is part of it. It's so funny that ESPN and all the major outlets only talk about the teams that are, like, the Dodgers, because obviously that's where the money is. And like even our analytics kind of show that. But for us, we like never talk about the Dodgers because they're so good. They're so good. There's not much to say.

Makes me blow my mind how like the major networks can like figure out what to say. They're just good. Last night, last night, they didn't have, well, Bellinger's hurt. They didn't have bets in the starting lineup. They didn't have Seeger in the starting lineup. And I'm just thinking about that bench. You have Seeger, you have bets, you have Gavin Lux. You didn't use your closer or your setup guy last night at all,

and they still win seven to five. Homer's by Turner and Muncie. Like this team is just a freaking machine. B lineup, you go out there and score seven freaking runs, and David Price is closing out the game on Jackie Robinson Day. It was just like, I looked at the box score, and I was like, this is fucking crazy, man. McKinstree, I know we mentioned him before because of the mustache.

He's playing some good ball. And I forgot to say this last episode I wanted to. He was a 33rd round pick. I know we haven't done MLB draft stuff in a while about reducing this draft and stuff. But hey, this is one of those stories. So good for him and the Dodgers are sickos. I mean, look, yeah, look at that lineup. So Turner was a free agent minor league sign.

He's sitting second. He's a stud. Muncie was a free agent, minor league sign. He's hitting third for them. Will Smith, the catcher was like another late round, 20 or 30th round pick. He's hitting fucking clean up for them. I mean, want to talk about player development? We're talking about player development right now.

Freaking Dodgers, man. I found out what the Mariners are doing well. Defense. Consistency in the top of the lineup. Wearing their jersey. All 13 games, Hanager leads off. France bat's second, Seeger bats third. Every single game.

not rotated that at all. Hanager 956 OPS, France 823 OPS, Seeger 860 OPS. So those three guys at the top of the lineup are doing it. And as you know, Trev, because you tell me, consistency helps. So good job. Consistency is key. Treve has that tattooed on his ribs. No.

I think I do. I have Chris Rose texting me that he needs to see me in five minutes. I forgot about. Oh, you forgot to tell him. Tyler Wade has. that tattooed right here. I'll hit that's confidence is key, right? Confidence, yeah. Who's going to go on?

I'll ask wing nut. Yeah. Treve, why don't you tell us what happened in the Interleague, all of the Interleague series and all the big Interleague games this past week. On your mark, get set, go. Oh, wow. I'm waiting for music. Yeah, me too.

I'm always waiting. We're all waiting. And we have it. Buckle up. It's going to be a long one. The A's visiting. the Diamondback. Game one Bassett versus Bumgarner. Bassett comes out, five innings fish, two earned runs. Bumgarner, not looking too hot out on the mound. Four point two innings fish, six earned runs. He says five plus earned runs and 13.2 innings pitch and both starts this season. Chapman finally gets three hits, comes up and slide a little bit. We'll talk about that in a

minute I'm sure. Hits the home run. Lowry just going off. Second game, Luzardo and Gallin, both start gallon making his season debut doesn't go very well or it does go really well four innings pitch one earned run Luzardo did not go too hot 2.2 innings pitch 5 earned runs Lowey stays a lot with a three run Homer and the 7 to tie the game

then set around go ahead home run on the 8th and Luriano just stealing bags he's got eight of them already that's actually kind of crazy what a step that is athletic sweep yes this happened on Monday and Tuesday we're talking on on Friday it's a little crazy but that's the only inner league game

that we have Jim. Wrap that music up right now. Ah, Trev got two games. Two games. Lizardo, not good. Jed Lowry is doing it. Jed Lowry is doing it, guys. Metz fans got to be upset about that because he went there,

didn't play at all because he was hurt. They called him a bum. They said he stinks. Well, it turns out he was just a little injured, guys. That happens. Lazzardo. No, not having a good start to the season. He has an 8-3-1 ERA.

He's allowed 12 earn runs. Not good. Bum Gardner. Ooh, yikes. Yikes. Can I remind you guys? This is Bum's second year with the Diamondbacks, right? In the short and season, he has a 6-4-8 ERA and his nine starts.

He's pitched three games right now. He's allowed 17 earn runs. He leads the league and earn runs allowed in those three starts. And can I remind you that he signed a $85 million five-year contract with the Diamondbacks? So four and a half years left with a limited no trade clause. He has five teams on his list that he will accept a trade. to those teams. I have no idea who they are. Good golly miss Molly. That's some French, Jake Luey speaking. This, this might get uglier. I got a couple of them for them.

I don't even fault the Diamondbacks for signing him. I guess it looks really bad. Wasn't their reaction? Like that's way too much money? It was a lot of money, but I think that year before, like Mad Bum was fun. It was almost like he was re-figuring it out without his electric stuff. In 2019, 34 starts a 390 RA Which, you know, nothing crazy, but teams do pay for that. That was the highest of his career. Teams do pay for that kind of pitcher, though. But yeah, I mean, I mean, he's just been off the goddamn ledge.

He's 12 starts a 764 ERA. Like, that's, they didn't expect this in any world. Yeah. You know how I always say, like, sometimes teams will pay a guy like this. I mean, he was still was, what, how old was he when he signed this deal? He was 30 when he signed the deal. So they said, okay, you can pitch to your 35. you look like you're one of those guys.

A lot of miles on that inning because you spend a lot of time during the regular season on the mount and the post season. Got those extra endings on there. But I always say, look, they sign guys like this to be a mentor for some of their young guys

and it might even be worth it to overpay a little bit. I don't, is he that kind of guy that's going around sharing information? Doesn't really, in my mind, I don't see him doing that. I could be completely wrong. Never met him.

Never met him. Never heard the story. I don't hear any reports on that. You know, all you ever hear about Garrett Cole is he's helping everybody out. Garrett Cole is the pitching coach. When Larry Rothschild was the pitching coach, he was really Boone's right-hand man. Like, any time they showed Boone in the dugout, Larry Rothschild was standing right next to him. And you were like, okay, there's a bench coach.

But Larry is really the second in command here. Now it's Garrett Cole. It's not the pitching coach. They show the dugout, it's Garrett Cole, like in Boone's here. He's the Yankees' the pitching coach. Yeah, I don't see, I don't get that vibe from old Madison And that's kind of that's a little bit disappointing And maybe that'll change

You know, maybe he will end up being a good influence And in helping guys out But the performance has definitely not been there I've got a couple important things One, it's a story that a lot of other people are talking about So I guess we should mention it The whole Jed Lowry thing and the knee stuff with the Mets That's another one of those like, whoa

I've missed all that, can you explain it? The Mets told Jed Lowry not to get knee surgery, and he, like, needed it. And so now he left, he got it, and he's playing great baseball. Why did they tell him not to get it? They just thought he could survive without it. I haven't, like, deep dove. I mean, it's very, the whole thing seems Metsy as a getsy. A lot of people, like, Eno's been on it, a few other people.

But, yeah, I mean, it's one of those bizarre things that, I don't know, when you look into how organizations are actually run, it's like, what? That segued into Jed Lowry's off to a great start this year, which is really cool and happy for Jed Lowry. I went to click on his baseball reference to get the actual numbers, and I accidentally clicked on Peanuts Lowry, the outfielder third baseman from 1942. Penis Lowry? Peanuts. Like the snack.

Are you saying penis or peanuts? Not the snack, but, yeah, Jed Lowry off to an incredible start. 348, 97 OPS. In those days, we did a whole conversation of, will they get back to 500? They're six and seven. Good weekend. They can be back over the hump.

I love Jed. Jed is one of those guys that helps out the younger guys. He is one of those guys that's like an extra hitting coach, a mentor. And so, you know, if Mets fans think that he was a guy that's just going to go collective paycheck and be hurt on purpose and not try to come back from something, he's not that kind of guy. So I'm happy he's like back in Oakley's 37 years old doing it, man. Stanford boy, he's a smart one.

Oh. You know, Bowmail loves Cal guys and Stanford guys. We all know that. Peanuts got his nickname because his grandfather used to describe him as no bigger than a peanut. Or because actress Thelma Todd reportedly gained his good behavior by promising to buy him some peanuts. Gained his good behavior? Yeah, it's like another way of saying bribed. Like, you know, if you're good, I'll get your peanuts later today when he was a little kid.

It's a little too clever of a sentence, I agree. Peanuts Lowry. Real name Harry Lee. And that went out the way at that time period in the U.S. All right. There you go. That's the Interleague. Thanks, Treve.

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What? For real. Not a joke. Boys. Yeah. A couple things. As mentioned. Yeah.

Got pretty cross-faded last night. Just out of town. Me and noodle. Just grinding. Eapas and gummies? What are you drinking on? Grinding. A little whiskey.

Oh, wow. So, yeah. Whiskey and a weed. Dad was back in the game, baby. What were you watching? Felt good. All of it. How were you, uh, how were you inbibing?

How were you imbibing? How were you imbibing the whiskey? Inbibing? Yeah. I was drinking it. Yeah. Uh, so. Straight?

Mixed? Follow up to that. Uh, on, on the rocks. On a rock. Who is this madman or something? It's the only masculine thing about me. Uh, anyways. So woke up, still feeling.

pretty good and just as out of town so I forgot I had to take noodle out this morning, so I was running a little late. So you guys kind of beat me to the sheet and took the good ones. There was a guy on here I kind of wanted to talk about anyways this episode, and he was lights out, and he deserves to be talked about. Trevor Bauer, you guys might know him from internet fame. He does some media stuff. Just a casual seven innings pitch, zero earn runs, 9Ks, only one hit.

We forget, sometimes there's a lot of other stuff. But, man, his good is about as good as anybody else is good in Major League Baseball when he's right. I was remembering that playoff start last year and, like, how nasty that was to the point that it became a no-fun game. But Bauer with the great start and something that I've been trying to pump is more guys need to do signature stuff. I'm for that on the field. I want stuff that kids can do when they're playing wiffleball in the backyard and T-ball. He got one of the pitch ninja swords. and he put the sword away in its sheath on the mound.

I know it's a little hokey, but baseball's fun. What do you mean? He put a sword away? Like just an invisible sword? So do you know the swords that Pitch Ninja does? The swing, a check swing. Yeah, like a check swing. Yeah.

So he got one of those strike three. Oh, he induced one. He induced one, and then he... The way you stated it was I thought Pitching Ninja was selling like swords. No. Because he uses that a lot. And then he bought one. And then he, like, took it out of his pocket.

There was no actual sword on the mound. He tucked an invisible sword. That might be coming up now that you mentioned it. But I like that, man. Like, have fun with it. You're not, that shouldn't hitters, we talk about pitchers being soft. A hitter shouldn't be embarrassed by that. Like, let the pitchers have a little bit of fun.

Let the kids, when they're playing wiffleball, and they get their buddy on one of those in the backyard, do the same thing so they can have fun playing this game. So Trevor Bauer. Nice performance. Have fun. I will say this. Look, he's one of the guys who I don't think would be upset

if a hitter hit the homer and then put the sword in the sheath because that's coming. Yeah. It better hitter in MLB. When you take Bauer up top, put the sword in the sheath. Cross home plate. Put the sword back. Please.

Or take it out. The Red Sox and unsheathing all the arrows with some of the cooler response to a personal thing going? When Well that one Trout and Poolews did that with the... Fernando Rodney shot one in the Angels dug out and then Trout and Poo Holes did it together The Falling Day.

But I didn't like that. I like that. I like that. But the Red Sox, I think was Johnny Gomes. Unsheathing. He just unsheathed... What's that thing called? Oh, the basket. Emptied the quail or something like that? Ooh, there is a term for you.

I think it was emptying the quail. Like you're out of fucking arrows. Quill. Yeah, Quill. That was cool. I like one that things are that. I don't think anyone cares. Did you hear his press conference, Trev, about the sticky stuff?

Because if you didn't hear this, I think it's worth sharing with the audience and with you. I heard it. You can play for the audience. It's long, so I'll dance around. But in response to the article that mentioned that MLB took his balls. And I had told you guys what Bob Melvin said that they were just collecting them to take data. Quiver. Emptying the quiver.

There you go. Gossip bloggers, writing stuff and having no clue about the actual rule or actually knowing the rule, but intentionally writing something without going investigating. I don't know. I don't know what the hell that report was about. Basically, so I can explain to everybody what the actual rule is, MLB is just collecting baseballs to do a study.

Like, they're not doing anything with them. No one's under investigation or no one's like just these gossip bloggers just out here writing stuff to try to throw water on my name or whatever. I don't know, as personal vendettas, I guess. And anyone with MLB retouch to you or you reach out to that? He's correct, man.

And what's not correct is that MLB clearly told when they went around spring training, clearly told the clubhouses, yes, we're sending balls to labs, but we're not incriminating anyone on what we find. All we're doing is collecting data to see what substances you guys are using

so we can try and find a substance. that everyone can use in the future. Very clear. We've had two people now come out and say that and like be very calm and confident that that's what's happening. But MLB told the public or whoever's feeding writers or the way the writers input it into their heads

and then outputted it for the masses was that they were like going to suspend people if they find funny shit on the balls. And it's very clear because game one, opening day, every pitcher that used his sticky stuff was just using it, didn't give a fuck. So it's very clear MLB told all the clubhouses,

don't worry, we're not going to punish anyone, we're just collecting data. Which the fact they told the clubhouse is that but not the public is ridiculous. Like, come on. Have some transparency one time. And now you have a lot of writers like writing just wrong stuff.

Yeah. I agree, Jim. I mean, it's funny. He clearly, like, in my mind, TB had, like, a notepad. Like, what am I going to talk about on press garns? And he, like, had gossip blogger, underlined it twice and was like, okay, I'm going with that. Gossip blogger, gossip blogger.

But, you know, MLB could save a lot of money and then maybe just give it to me. I'll tell them what people are using. I mean, I literally know what people are using. They could just save a lot of time of money. Just ask, just ask around the lead. Formal application. They'll tell you what they're used. Formal application to go to the MLB lab.

Love to see what we're doing. Oh, my God. There's no MLB lab. They don't have a lab. What's going? I don't know what's going on. It's just a guy doing a lick test. There was, yeah, seriously.

Mr. Torrey, there was. There was one of the more prominent people in baseball, active players in my DM sending me pictures of pitchers using, like Pintar or whatever they're using. not pine tar, like their substance. Like, sending me, like, this is a hot button issue and like,

it's, MLB's just going to screw it up again. No. But maybe they just like it. But yeah, I mean, okay. That press conference by Bauer was great. I mean,

he's using, he's using the gossip dig because he knows that hurts hard. Yeah. Hard. He does. But he knows it hurts hard because in this scenario,

they're just gossiping. Like MLB isn't going to incriminate anyone or like act on it. P Festival, third P? Might be a third P. Third P in the show. I'm starting to get worried. I've never seen this happen before. Is this an other thing?

No, no. Okay. Not a third P? No. Okay. Has Pied three times. There have been three times. But this wasn't one of them.

I choose to receive the kickoff. So in this case, it is a gossipy because they're writing that, you know, M. And we've been taking this to lab to, you know, punish people when it's very clear. We had a manager and a player. We're like, no, that's not. And we've had every pitcher that uses it, not try to hide it any bit.

So it is a bit gossipy. A little bit. It is. And you wouldn't expect it from some of the guys that are being gossipy, in my opinion. You kind of, I think they thought it would just go kind of over the radar. Under the radar? Over the radar.

Who the fuck says that? Jake. What are you talking? What do you guys have as good baseball players? I have glass now as my standout performance. A colleague. 7.2 innings pitch. Zero earn runs.

14Ks, two hits. Zero walks, which I love the zero walks. He's a tall dude, and it takes the taller guys like that. It takes them a while to get that consistency in that location. He added a third pitch. If anyone was with us during the playoffs last year or at any time last year, at any time last year. I was pretty adamant that he's not going to be successful if he just stays with the two-pitch repertoire. And he added this third pitch, and I've talked about it, and he's just using it a lot.

In this game, he threw 59% fastballs. He threw 23% sliders. That's the new pitch. He didn't have that. And 19% curve balls. So you almost have 20% with three different pitches. I chose like a random start from last. year to see at the same date, his third start of the season last year, 68% fastballs. So even if you throw 100, Trev, guys can sit on it if it's that high, if it's 70, like, near 70% of the time. So third pitch, not only does it give a third pitch, and you can't just be a guess hitter on him, but now you can't sit fastball as easily as you can anymore. And it's performing really well, and he's pitching really well. 60%

Where was it? No He had a 50% whiff rate on the slider Damn. Yeah No Really good outing I love him now

Because he has a show on our network And I've listened to him talking He's like A real cool, chill guy But dominated Yeah Career ERA 420 you know I've mentioned it multiple times Jim two pitch pitchers man you can pick them apart

like they have to have both working or else you're going to be able to sit on one of them I mean that's that's that's that's deductive math right there is that right BPD do I use that word right deductive math math I think so yeah fucking yes but you know you add the third pitch in you add a new wrinkle in and it's really surprising not surprising which kind of it's more of like makes me sick to my stomach is that there was another article not by a gossip blogger but by Enos Saris out talking about all the new pitches

people just fucking make up a new pitches on a whim now and it actually makes me a little bit upset because that's just not fair you know you think hey I've seen a guy 10 times you know 12 15 times I got an idea of what he's got

and then boom he just adds a new pitch because they got the slow mo cam and they can I mean it's crazy to think that pitchers can do that so quickly now. It just, to me, it didn't used to happen like that. Every once in a while you'd have like, hey, Mariano showed me how to throw his cutter and, you know, whatever. Like sharing knowledge has been around for a long time, but being able to practice it

the way they practice it now and develop new pitches like as quickly as they can, that's tough for hitters. It's tough. Correction, he did have one walk. Our stat sheet says zero. I checked the actual one had one walk. It's okay. It's a bad call.

Oh, it was awful. In my opinion. Last three years with the race, Tyler Glass now, 26 starts at 255 ERA. Pretty, pretty good. And it looks like he might be taking it to another level. He struck out the side in the first, then he struck out the side in the third. Whoops. It's nuts.

Trev. Who you got? Mine was pretty easy. I snuck in here. I think, geez. somebody took Bauer first. And then I said, I'm going to take Bro, Don. Let's talk about the guy's no hitter.

I tuned in for the last four outs of it. Just an incredible performance. And I talked about this a little bit with Rosie after it happened. But it was a cool situation because they were up eight to nothing. So there was no real like, hey, we need to win this game. Like if somebody gets on base, he's going to be taken out. Like, this was his free. freaking game. Tony the Russo, old school manager, would have let him pitch to 170 pitches

probably. But in the ninth inning, he had over 110 innings pitch and the guy's pumping a hunch. His fastest V-loughs of the night came in the ninth inning and that is just pure adrenaline. And watching him throw, you could just tell he had everything working exactly how he wanted it to work. And that hit by pitch meant to Perez. There's nothing he can do about it. I want people to know that. But he did exactly what he wanted to on that pitch. He threw two fastballs up like 98. 98 Perez is on him. That was the back foot slider. It ends up hitting him. He was on like nobody was going to touch him. I know there was one three one count where he had J. Ram and he's like he knew a fastball

was coming. He said something like the dog in Kansas knew the fastball was coming or something like Kentucky. And J. Ram hit Kentucky. Hit a laser to left field. Caught, obviously. But it was just really cool to see. His wife put something out on her Instagram. She said after the seventh inning, it was all gas, no brakes.

And that's exactly what it looked like. This guy was on the throttle, going as hard as he could. And it showed. And after he gives up the hit by pitch, it was almost like, is this guy going to blow it now? Unraveling is a very real thing. Yeah, so he's two outs away from a no-hitter. And yeah, he loses the perfect game.

And I think a lot of people at that point would just take a deep breath and be like, fuck, you know, and then maybe give up a hit. He did not do that. He came back out, got the next two hitters, gets the no-hitter. It was such a cool performance, especially if you know his injury history. I face the guy. I know what kind of stuff he has when he's on. I enjoyed it very much more so than a lot of other no-hitters.

I've seen. There's been a lot lately. We know obviously Musgrove last week or whatever it was, the ninth or something like that. But this one felt special to me. I really liked it. I really enjoyed watching it. Yeah,

it was awesome. He is, his whole press, whole post game press conferences were really funny. Can I, can I call out a bunch of soft people, Trev? Ooh.

Sure. Some people were mad at Nailer for hustling down the line on his little swinging bun. Like he didn't bunt on purpose. There's a swinging bunt. And he hustled down the line. line and tried to be as safe as hard as he possibly could. A lot of people on the internet being like, it's 8-0-0-0-0-0.

Really? Just let them have it. That's the softest mindset. Do you know how embarrassing is to be a team that gets no hit? Did like real people have that opinion or just like Twitter people? No. No, I don't think real people. But a lot of fans in the comment section on Twitter. Like, it's embarrassing to get no hit.

If he hustles and is safe and his team doesn't go as the team that got no hit. hit. That's awesome for the fans, for the morale of the club and all that. Like, try your hardest not to be on the team that gets no hit at all times. Now, an 8-0-0-bunt, I do still think that's, I don't like that as much. But as long as like, it's a like swing, play, hustling down the line, slide, and try to be safe. Like, I think never ever play softer so the opposing opposing team can get his no hit or a perfect game because it's a bad look if you get no hit. It is. And he's a young guy. He's trying to like establish himself in the league. You're going to tell this guy not to hustle. Yeah. It's eight nothing. He reaches first doesn't make it win. It's like, yeah, but you don't want to be no hit.

Yeah. He wants to get a hit too. Like he wants to get a hit. A couple things mentioned before with Glass now, Bro Chill. Routon. Also Brochill. Oh, my. God, what's up? That was really good. You can really, this sounds dumb, but you can tell, like, the dudes were genuinely stoked for this guy with the injuries and apparently who he is amongst the team, like kind of just a cool guy. Everyone was so stoked for him. That was really cool to see. The story with the surgeries is nuts. I mean, he gets non-tendered. I would have to ask my White Sox fans if it's really true, but he said, like, he was coming back to the White Sox. The White Sox had seen how much he was rehabbing and, like, know who he was,

and I guess he wanted to stay there, which, if that's fully true, like, I don't know his full free agency, but that's what he said. But, you know, I'm trying to tell people this, like, think about what that actually means. I think he was going to make around $5, $5.5 million. He resigned for $3 million. That's still the Chicago White Sox telling him, like, hey, we're going to cut you a two and a half mill short. Hope that's not a big deal. So the fact that he did that, he's looked great.

His couple starts this year, like we mentioned, with Joe Musgrove. Look for the next start. I hope Tony Larusa probably has him land in the 75-80 pitch range to, you know, after coming off of those surgeries, keep that in check. And I love this. This sounds really dumb, but I love this for the White Sox and Tony Larusa. Like, shit like this brings a team together. It's fun.

And, you know, we were worried that, like, this White Sox team might not have that with Tony. And now, I mean, they're having fun. Everything we've heard from Gialito on Chris Rose rotation. I mean, it doesn't sound like fluff. It sounds like they're actually into this dude. So good for the South Siders. They love their new pitching coach over there. They had the pitching coach that was a mainstay in Chicago for, like, a long, long time.

And Katz is his name, the new guy. And he credited Katz, like right away. Ethan, like Ethan Katz, I think is his name. That was Harvard Westlake's pitching coach. He was the high school pitching coach for all those guys. And now he's with Gile. He's back with Gile. That's fucking nice.

Well, kudos to him. Good job. And the white sucks. Go buy shirt. We got toe hitter shirts on the store. You know, he did mess up. I have to bring this up. Rodon messed up.

After the third out in the ninth, he went and hugged Montcada. Very interesting. move. You got to go to the catcher. Everybody knows that. I actually did a similar thing. Shout out myself, 2004, through a no hitter in high school.

And I went and like, hug somebody else and my catcher to this day. It's one of my best friends. Will not let me live that down. I felt when I was making the breakdown, I saw that. I was like, oh, that's weird.

Like, it was very awkward. They never worked a game together before. You got to go. If you're going to throw no hits. or pitchers. Spring training. He did. And then he also wasn't incredibly. He didn't talk about him a lot in the post game on the field.

But when he did the Zoom, he was like, I didn't shake him at all. It was perfect, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like so, good job. He said, and he said something or Don what he said. What's catcher's name? Zach Collins. Jack Collins. He said his defense has improved a ton.

He could always hit. I played against in college. But yeah, the pitch framing of blocking. Because Zach Collins was told he would never be MOW-Katcher that he would have to move the DH or first base. So that's cool. You know what I'm curious about. I know this is going long, guys, but this is a thought in my head.

It's been there for a while. I want to know the stats from like the sixth inning on of catchers catching a no-hitter. They're batting stats. Like, are they just so wrapped up and like finishing the game? They don't even give a shit about their bats because I think he won 0-4 in that game. And it got me thinking, like, you just lost me a half a day. I got a stats guy for you. You dickhead.

Yeah, no, not Jim. Let's get somebody else on this. But I'm curious, it's got to be weighing on their minds. They probably put those at bat to say, who gives a shit? I need to focus. We're ready for stats that exist, but do not matter. Let's keep it going. We got to do Trump Watch.

At least favorite segment. Yeah, we're so packed because we kept so many people on. So we got to take some people off Slump Watch. We're just watching these guys. BPD, can you update us on the people that have been had watching? The people we've been had watching. Justin Hira. It was one for seven, RBI.

Three walks. Don't care anymore, watch. Yeah, like, he's almost got to prove he can hit again. It's been a while since we've seen. He's so bad that he's off. Yeah. We haven't seen him hit in two years now. Yeah, last year.

I mean, I also need to trim the fat here. I want to like the guy. Led the league in strikeouts last year and hit 212. His last 286 plate appearances. He has a 198 batting average, 287 on base percentage, 385 slugging 79 OPS Plus. So yeah, love you, Keston.

Hopefully you can earn the right to be on slump watch again. But for right now, you're just on like not interested watch. That's 2017 Trostas right there. He's off. Next up. Jack Peterson. He looked like you starting to get it going last time.

He had games. It's a few games in a row, but 0 for 8 since then. Oh, Chuck. Stay on. Stay, man. He's with the new team. He stays on.

Damn, tough. This is going to be interesting one. Ozzy Albies. This week two for 11, five walks. And his hits our homer in a double for RBI's. Good OBP.

He's got an 866 OPS in his last nine games and a 350 on base percentage. He's off. It's not translating to batting average, but... A little monster. He's off. Congratulations, Doc. He's coming. Off cloud.

This is a big one. Routy, my guy. He was looking for his first hit the last time we talked, and he's gotten at 6 for 16, Homer. Two ribbyes. only struck out three times in that span. If you include the Thursday game, yesterday's game, which I know we don't. We don't, but we can't.

If you included it, it'd be shame to flame. Yeah. Baseball's such a ridiculous sport. Yeah. It's almost shame to flame anyway, but not really. Yeah, he's definitely off. And that was a breaking the seal off. Yeah.

Like it was, you had to have a hit all season. So it might just keep flooding now. EBD, breaking the seal? Yeah. I thought we were talking about the animal. There'll be another one before the end of the episode. Aaron Hicks only played two games since we last discussed him. Three for eight.

One of the hits was a double. He's like kind of off. He's only hitting from the right side right now, which is kind of, you know, the pain of being a switch hitter. And Hicksie's normally a bigger threat from the left side. Has he dabbled in that before? Like he's done that before, right? He gave up one really quick.

or is that somebody else? Not him, I don't think. Unless it happened in the minors or something. I'm just not interested in this one anymore. Yeah, I mean, he's technically three for eight. I hope it's coming around. There's not a reason that league-wide fans need to track this. Three for 12.

Tiny clap. Matt Chapman, breaking out, 5 or 15 this week. Homer, triple, double, five ribbies. Ooh. Five RBIs? Yep. Homer the night we almost picked him in the Homer draft And he's hot

He just played two games, right? Yeah And these stats? Well, yeah, well, we only do it on the series So he was four for ten So yeah, he's almost shameful flame He only's played two games, but in those two, he's amazing Still great.

Good job, Matt Miguel Sineau, the big guy One for seven, the one is a home run, three walks One for seven with the homer. Four game set. There was a double header here, so he only started three games. It's a 500 on base percentage this series and a 1.071 OPS.

He's off. It's not his fault. People aren't pitching to him. Hitting one Hyundai on the year. I saw something about his hard hit. His exit Velo's down. His barrels are down. Dude, he got on base half of his plate appearances.

It's not off. Get him off. I want to watch him. You just, interested? I'm interested. He, uh, Kestan, Kestin Hurrah led the N. L. in strikeouts last year. So no. The A.L.

With a 2.04 batting average. Leave him on if you want. I kind of want to track him a lot. Jake wants to track him. I want the big guy to get it going. Michael Conforto. Since we last discussed, O4, two walks, two hit by pitches.

Before that, before this last series, this only major contribution on the season was a hit by pitch. He only played two games. He's on. Because he's a free agent at the end of this year. Another 500 on base percentage, but no hits. He has no hits, but just two hit by pitch. I mean, I want to watch him because of the whole thing.

If he does well, he unlocks a lot for the Mets. Yeah. Is he the one with the Hot Mom or is that a Nimo? Huge. I need to start taking questions to guys with Hot Moms, like how it affects their child. childhood and their careers because Teddy is going to have to deal with this. That's going to be tough around.

Yeah. You shouldn't have married so hot. Idiot. It's not my fault. Paul. Dumb. Who else? Paul DeYoung.

Two for eight with a walk, four K's. Get him off. Yeah, take him off. Kind of, Paul. Paul. And our last hitter that we're reviewing, Tommy Fam, two for nine, three walks. Come off. That's Tommy Fam's game.

I think all three of the pitchers we were watching are all off. 4-62 on free's hurt. Freed gets off because he's hurt. Madbum gets off because we don't care anymore. Terrible. No, no, no, no, no, no. We got to watch the Madboom. I want to watch that.

He's not slumping. He's not slumping. He's just bad. Oh, believe me, we're going to keep an eye on him. It's fun to watch. He's off slump lot. He's off. We can make a news.

Like last year we had Gallo watch. It wasn't Slump Watch. We're just interested. We can give Madbom one more start. And then, like, the Diamondback should be saying the same thing. Whoa. Leads the league in Aaron Runders. Does he have, like, the biggest contract in Diamondbacks history?

Probably, right? Yeah, I don't know. Marco Gonzalez, he gets claps. Nice start. Ace of those Mariners. All right. So who are we? adding. A few guys to add. Bryce Harper, one for 10. Four Ks. Jose Abraeu.

Hold on. Bryce Harper. What was it? He was one for 10. With four Ks. He's on. He's on. He's on. He's on. He's on going. The timeliness I've been watching their games. Yeah. Yeah. Jose Brayu on one for 12. Although he did make that big play in the... Toe hitter and five walks. Five walks. Five walks. Five walks? Yeah, it's a 353 on base percentage, which is decent, but I mean, he only got one hit. Last year's MVP, leave him on. He can come off pretty easy in one more series. Yeah.

Here's one for you, BVD. Racer, one for 10 with a walk. He was so hot before. Yeah, I bet. I mean, that's a real one for 4Ks. Oh, no. And then our friend Ian have one for 12, walk, 3Ks. Check out the new episode of Sequence, though.

Is Happer hurt? I feel like he's been missing a couple games. Or I'm just reading my fantasy updates wrong. He didn't start like two games, it looks like. Okay. Yeah, that's fine. Hey, Hap, we're rooting for you. Topsyria's in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee's got good pitching. Good pitching. No shame. And a couple guys close to all of our hearts. Gio Orchella goes one for 12. Two ribbies. And Max Kepler. 5Ks and 12 A, B's one for 12.

Did salvage the sweep though, Max. A walkoff hit. A cutie and a hottie here. Get better. Routing for them to get off. We'll watch, Gio. I mean, I wonder he started the year or so then he got hot briefly. Well, he had one big game, so that's where I, that's one of Jimmy's favorite butter

knife. If you cut out the one big game, what are his stats? And I bet they're pretty bad for. G. Yeah, I mean, he had four hits in one game. He's got 11 on the season. Yeah. So.

Not a math pod, unfortunately. 42 minus 5. Sure. It's 37. 37. 11 minus 4. Seven. Also seven.

Seven for 37. If you take out the one game, is a 189 batting out. That's not good. Not good. It's not good. What's going on with Kep Daddy? You're going to get it going? Do I need to do a fix Kep's swing?

I don't know. It's early, guys. One good game. God, Kepler's... One good game. It was only three games, but Kepler's been in the show since 2015. It's wild. Trevor Ploof's twins.

Okay. Yep. We cleaned up a little bit. Not a lot of O-Fers. Which is interesting. Fran Mill went O for 13. And J.D., after his real hotness, he went O-4. For 12 played appearances, no hits.

Sad. That's like flame to shame. Flame to shame. Yeah. All right. Who's gotten Fuego today? Poppy. Dirt nasty's on Fuego.

That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. You boys know I love the hot boys. We got a couple guys. with Braves connections. One's still doing it. Ronald O'Cunia Jr. He's kind of been like the storyline of baseball.

People are doing some best player in the league type stuff. Seven for 16. Three homers. Triple double. Every at bat, it seems like he's going nut job. A couple guys with Braves connections. Adam Duval. Hello.

Hey, big spender. Seven for 14. Three home runs. Nine ribbies. Oh, nine ribby steaks. Thanks. Billy Ripkin. Charlie Culberson makes.

How about it? I don't even know where Charlie's playing. Rangers. He's on the Rangers. You saw Culberson. Good for him. Getting some A.Bs. Put in that works.

Rangers need somebody to hit. Culberson's doing it. My man. Alex Verdugo, we talked about him earlier. A little six for 15. Some big hits. Akeel Bedu won't stop. Two homers.

Five for 15. Mitch Hanager mentioned him with our Marinera. Seven for 16. Two homers. Yuli, you lie. Oh, Uly Guerriel. Seven for 11 when he gets hot. That guy gets hot in a hurry.

And Salvi Perez, baby. Eight for 16 with a homer. That's hot. The pitchers, we mentioned Rodon, mentioned Bauer, mentioned glass now. Jim, you mentioned Casey Mize before with his best start, seven innings shuddy. And Shane Bieber kind of got screwed. Nine innings pitch, zero earn runs, 11 cases. Something that Rodon said was that, because Lance Lynn went complete game.

shutout and then like the next day musgrove threw his no-no and rodan rodan said in his post game like yeah lance was always telling me like you got 24 hours in baseball and then no one gives a shit anymore because i go complete game shutout 24 hours later musgrove goes no hitter because musgroves goes no hitter week later you go no hitter no one cares anymore it's the fastest cycle of news going crazy wow trev who those guys do you like i like sal Perez I just like what he does, and he's behind the dish so much, but still hits. Is there going to be a statue of Sal Perez outside of Coffin Stadium one day? Sure.

Was Soto not on the Enfuego list? Soto not listed. I think he led the league in hits this week. He's very good. In his last four games, he's got a 471 batting average 500 on base. That includes last night. Not bad. He hit a few hits last night.

Yeah, I know if homers when we needed him. Yeah. I mean, in the series, he had a 500 batting average, 530, 3 on base percentage, so he should be on Fuego as well. What do you do, man? What do you do with that guy? And Akeel Badoo, we've been getting yelled out for not mentioning him a lot on here. He's pretty good. He's been great.

Got to see it. Same with jazz. Sustain. Sustain. You got to see pitchers twice before. You really, anyone can say anything about you, in my opinion. You do. Cool.

Good job. Time for a war. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Guys, I've got an award. Treve, you wish. Thick boy, Treve, you're in the middle of the lineup today. Not skinny, healthy California, Treve. Guys, I'm giving out the Seitz-Tuyken Award.

A whole classic scene from Forrest Gump. I mean, just classic. Can't sit here. Seats Tyken. So sad. It's sad. The Seats Taken Award is going to Mike Trout. I don't know if you boys are familiar.

center fielder for the Angels Acuna's hot in the street right now people are running hot on Ro Ro. I was at the beginning of the week, I kind of kicked it off. It's not a big deal. And then everyone else jumped on the wagon. Trev, you know how it is.

I discovered this Akunia guy. No, people are getting hot on Ronnie and rightfully so. Guys, Trout was not mentioned yet this episode. Michael Trout was not mentioned this episode. Guess what kind of start he's off to, this year. 381 batting average, a 509 on base, 762 slugging, a 1.2. 271 OPS, wild tracking balls down in center, a 1.2 war.

What are we 10 games in? 12 games in for Michael? The number one spot is still taken, baby. It's kind of the Dodgers effect we talked about before. We're almost bored of it with trout. He just goes. He doesn't stop. He's getting on base.

over half the time. Yeah, no triples. No triples, though. So he has flaws. We all do. No stolen bases. He, two intentional walks leading the league. That's how you know you're good.

That's how you know you're good. Chaz Jism, gets your intentional walks up. He's led the league in intentional walks three times. You know, everyone's running hot on Ronnie. I was running hot on Ronnie. We're going to run hot on Soto. because we deserve to. Mookie almost shared the award

because he's been in the two spot, and by the way, Mookie's off to a really solid start himself. But I'm just leaving it with Mike. I mean, my God, he's a freak. 29 years old, by the way. That's nuts. I'm just going to just go right now

because you kind of just stole my thunder a little bit. Because I went with the I'm rich but severely underpaid award, and I'm going to be talking about Mr. Ronald. Ooh, I love it. So he's taken. So he's taken. Can't sit here.

I'm not saying he's the best player in baseball because we had this discussion. Me and Rosie talk a lot of baseball. We talked about this. I said exactly what you said. I said, look, Trout has been doing it for so long. And Acuna's best year OPS is one of Trout's worst years. OPS.

You got to put a few one dot OPS years in front of you. he's got to get the on-base percentage up. Trout has a 420-ish career OBP, which is just fucking incredible. I don't think people understand how insane that is. But we're talking 2021. Yes, people like to say, people do say he is underpaid.

I will give people credit for that, but the $100 million tag is still a very big tag. The Braves put it out there. I think a lot of people initially said, That's a lot of money to give someone who's played one year in the big leagues. It looked like geniuses now. Eight years, $100 million. What's that?

Quick math pod. 12. You know, that's around a long for a year. 13. Podcast cut out. Something like that. But if you go and you know I love the deal with it.

2021 MLB batting leaders page on baseball reference. Every single box where you can expand one through 10. If he's not already listed on the top, you can see his name. You expand the list down to 10. He's on every single damn one of them. The guy is nuts. The only ones he's not on are the ones we don't give a shit about.

Like singles in defensive war. We don't care about that. He's on every single one, usually on top. He's leading war with everybody. He's leading war with position players. He's fourth in batting average. He has the on base percentage at 492 right now. He's second and slugging.

Only the Byron Bucks then look out. but he's doing everything well. Ryan Spader, our guy, we're using him a lot in our stats lately. Ronald de Cunia Jr. has 51 home runs and 43 stolen bases over his last 162 games played. I need, I need it.

I need the 40-40 season out of him. It's been Bonds, A-Rod, Soriano. Canteco? Somebody else. There's five. Cicco. Yeah, no, I think there's four.

he could be the fifth. He, you got, I need it out of him. There's not too many players in baseball that can do that. He's obviously one of them, um, slow start. We kind of, I think we had him on slump watch for like the first episode or something. Clearly he's off of that now. And this one triple. So he's on the board.

If this Atlanta Braves team wants to be the team that they think they are, this is the guy that has to be the guy. He's hustling now, which is kind of cool to see. He's doing everything right. I love watching him. He always does like the same celebration

where it's like hands down flex kind of thing. And so let's go. He says a lot or Vamo maybe he says. Either way. But it's been a treat to watch, man. And I think he's just coming into his own. How old is he?

He's 23. Leading the league in runs. Leading the league in hits. leading the league. Second in doubles. Sixth in triples. First in home runs. Third in RBIs.

What else do we care about? Stolen bases? He's fifth. Batting average, like you said. He's fifth. On base percentage, he's 10th. Slugging. He's second.

OPS, he's second. One sack fly. Shout out to Ramon Luriano's got eight stolen bases on the year. He's still three again this series. Next most stolen bases so far is Garrett Hampson. He's got four. Hampson sprint speed faster than Buxton. My award is the Welcome to My Office Award.

Goes to Jesus Aguilar. He's fun to watch. And if you get yourself to first base, when Jesus Aguilar is playing first base, you are in his office and he is going to fuck with you. He stole Dom Smith's defensive alignment card out of his back pocket. He was pulling a Zunia by his jersey. Just like, nope, not going to take that big of lead.

Nope, not that big of lead. The other day, he threw his glove at a ball that was hit, like a single down the line. He threw his glove at it, try and stop it. And it's an automatic three bags if he made contact with it. So probably that's smartest idea. He's just fun, man. Like, he's bringing a lot of life.

His numbers are really good as well. But it's almost like if a guy gets the first base, Let's see how Hesuz messes with this guy or chats him up. He's got good season going. 333 batting average 413 on base percentage. The slugging's not there, but those two numbers are. He's just having fun, and he had this little interview with Jazz Chisholm I put on here. That's pretty funny.

Let me see if I can play the audio. It's like 10 seconds long. Gotta keep going on, just coming. Say hi to the people in the Bahamas. Say hi to your mom. Hi, mama. Say I love you. I love you, Mom.

Okay, let me finish. It's really good. It's really good. Say how to the people in the Bahamas. So, yeah, just fun to watch. I was watching some of the Marlins game the other day, and he was messing with Ozzy at first. And then I was like, just went on Twitter and searched Aguilar

and just found like, that's his office. If you want to be on first base, we always ask players, like, who's the chattyest first baseman? He's just going to punk you out. What would you be like if you're a first baseman, Jim? Just I was I was very chatty Like when I played ice hockey and stuff So I just talk

I didn't just make dumb Just talk I just do play by play on the bench And hockey Like my line mates hated it I love it He's fun to watch I love him swinging the bat

Big Big Boy You know we love big boys on this show Huge that's why I posted the picture Of him and Ozzy staying next to each other And just these guys are different sizes Yeah very much so Yeah Chris Rose rotation

with Rojas and Chisholm. They were talking about Aguilar a lot, and Jazz said, like, that's his big brother. Like, that's his guy who's gonna, he's gonna, he's got a lot of leash. Jazz has a lot of leash with the hair and fun and doing all that. But if someone's going to yank him back down or needs to, it's going to be Jesus. That's really fun. Yeah, and he's slapping it around this year.

And Chisham said him and Aguilar are having their own personal home run race. and Jazz currently has them 2-0, so I'm watching that. I wish I had the confidence of Jazz Chisholm. I mean, he's talking about being a Hallfamer, wants to compete with Hages Aguilar and home runs. Never going to happen, man. I'm all for it, man. Your parents didn't name you Jazz.

Yeah. I know, I got this boring name. Chaz Jism. I feel like I'm over-com. I probably am over-confident for, like, what I am, but not, like, jazz is, like, off the charts. Gazrato, Hermice Arrington Chisholm. His agent's name, Beanstringfellow.

No, it's not listed on here, I don't think. Beanstringfellow. It's cool. It's cool. Like, Aguilar, like, got designated a few different times, kind of has found a home with the Marlins. I like stories like that. You know, it's hard to get designated. It's hard to get your confidence back up.

It's hard to go to a whole new organization and start everything over. and have to prove yourself and create value for them and worth. So they want to keep you around because once you get designated, man, teams don't have, you know, a lot of stock in you that they need to, you know, keep running you out there. Unless you're a pitcher. Like your original pitchers can get designated and always come back and always come back like the David Hale story. But they can also just continue to get designated.

Yeah, over and over. Yeah. Yeah. It's really tough to do as a hitter. And, you know, looks like he's found home. And people in Miami appreciate what he does and the clubhouse on the. field. So that's a good story. Let's see who our best friend is. BPD, who is the best friend of the week? Our best friend of the week is our best friend. Kyle Gibson. Another good start.

Seven innings, one run, four hits. Six total base runner. His first start, he didn't get out of the first inning. That was terrible. Since then, 13 innings pitched. Only one earned run. So Gibby doing the damn thing. Treve, you got to see him? Or did you have the other game? Other game. I didn't see him pitch, but he came down and said, what's up before the game? He looks good in the Texas Rangers Union. Not a lot of guys do.

He looks really good in it. I love the role he has there. He's kind of the elder statesman. And you couldn't pick a better guy to run your clubhouse or be one of the guys running your clubhouse. You guys know how he is. He's just, he's like an actual good guy. I love that.

Leads the league in win percentage. Perfect. One dot. Leads the league in game started, three. And leads the league in. Home runs allowed per nine. Hasn't give one up yet, okay? All-Star Gibby, people are talking.

Has a new cutter. Trade deadline to the Yankees. People are talking. Oh, wow. People have been talking. Let's do the elevator talk as we end this episode. How long do we go today? And we're at an hour 49 right now.

Holy smokes. Sorry, everyone. Wow. We got caught in the sauce today. Elevator talk. Here we go. You guys missed me. That's why.

That's a long fucking episode. Oh, the Pittsburgh Pirates. Holy smokes. If you find yourself in an elevator with a Pittsburgh Pirates fan, ask them how they're doing. Be nice to them. Is everything okay? They did just win. Yeah.

So maybe you're like, think there's any more magic coming? You don't want the magic. Four and two in their last six? Pirates are getting caught. You can talk about, I think what you'll talk about is, is it going to be lighter or rocker? Yeah, which one do you want?

That's kind of what you do. Which one do you want? I go rocker, I'm just saying. They're going to face the brewers or the brewers are coming to them. I'm not sure where it's being played. They're going to get Houser, Anderson. and Peralta, so they're not seeing Woodruff and Burns, the partners, although Peralta's been pretty good, and Houser, been pretty good.

Beautiful ball party in Pittsburgh. I don't know if you guys know that PNC is gorgeous, bridge out in center feet. What are Pirates fans talking about? Richard Rodriguez is closing for them. I know he was a name that was mentioned a lot in the offseason, currently 4.1 innings, zero earned runs, only one hit one. walk. Could be a guy on the trade block. You'll start seeing his name mentioned for every team in

contention to get another bullpen arm. Philip Evans. Sneaky coming for BBD's Phillies infield. Jacob Stallings, the catcher having a nice start for the year. 877 OPS. Colin Moran at first, a 915 OPS. Adam Frazier at second, 855 OPS. Philip Evans has been killing it at third, one dot OPS, waiting for Key Brine to come back. Shortstop's kind of been a black hole because call up Cole Tucker Who I might be seen Sex on the field Travis says he might be seeing Cole tonight

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