Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 328 | Tatís Homers Five Times & Gallen-MadBum Shove-Fest

Episode Date: April 26, 2021

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. We had another wild weekend of results and action and drama and Trevor's back from Florida. So how about that? Hello and welcome to Talkin' Baseball presented by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for tuning in. We hope you had a wonderful weekend. We hope you watched some baseball and enjoyed it. And since you cannot watch every single game on every single night, we're here to fill you in on a little bit of what happened.

Who's hot? who's not what's good what's bad one of the main storylines and we got a bunch pretty excited about it my name's jimmy sitting next to me is jake in california back in his studio we have trevor ploof and in the corner we have producer bug bug dude wearing san diego padre's jersey today what do you got about what do you think about that trev i like it okay you're you're allowed to root for whoever you want to root for, BPD. Okay? It looks good on you.

I like the colors on. I don't sell these infield specific stuff, and I don't care about the whole team. Just the infield. You should get a custom Philly's jersey that just says the infield. If the Phillies are listening, the infield.

They should send BPD a custom jersey that on the back, the name says the infield. Infield is like a five or six for the number of positions? It should be like one, two, three, or no, No, no pitcher. So it's two, three, three, four, six, five should be the number infield. Yeah. Or two through six you could do.

Yeah. And then up top says the infield. A classic jersey. A classic baseball man's jersey. I'm saying if the Phillies are listening. We're all on to BBD secret. Like he had us going for a while, but we found him out. No, he's like still like right now, right now, Trev.

I've been like, well, maybe they are good now because all I see. see his highlights. I still don't know. I have to check every two weeks to see how the infield is actually doing. Well, sneak peek to our best friend of the week may be a part of that. Jake, how are you doing? James, Trevor, Big Baby David.

Trevor Plouf is still my favorite Phillies infielder of all time. So that's pretty big. Doing well, man. I mean, obviously Dodgers Pods stole the show, which was fantastic for baseball. I mean, in a little bit of classic baseball, we end up in extra innings, so everyone has to do their thing on that, and it does suck, and it's not real baseball. But, man, I mean, watching Tattis do it on the big stage, watching that comeback,

watching all the talent on the field. Incredible. Our Yankees finally showed some signs of life, so that was enjoyable. And, man, a lot of, like, standout performance and awards and stuff. A lot of guys Dropped it This weekend So I'm excited to talk about it Oh yeah Yep

Hammer time Who's playing the most time At second base for the Phillies Jimmy So Because that's the only position They actually lead the league in OPS It was Gene Segar

Or wins above that In war war war Gene Segura He's hurt right now And then Nick Maton stepped in And been awesome A little Brad Miller action there.

Brad Miller's their second in OPS at second base as a team. I think every time Miller's gotten into a game late at second, those have been the days he's gotten. You don't want me to say the first base, third base shortstop numbers. Catcher. Fifth. Fifth and catcher.

Brad Miller's sneaky hot boy. He's tall, got a good body. I don't know. Party in your backyard. Not traditionally good looking. Trevor. I'll put it all together. I'll handle the not traditionally good looking, all right?

It's fair enough. Fair enough. Thank you. I'll give that to you. It's his domain. All right, you guys want to get right into it? I need to hear it. Treve, do you know what happened in the National League?

Are you ready even? I'm not doing the National League, James. I know. So I'm asking, do you know? And then you're supposed to say, no, Jim. I have no idea. And then I'm saying, well, here you go. I screwed that one a big time.

No, Jim, I didn't see any of it. Can you please inform me about the baseball that happened? Hell yeah, let's do it. The series that everyone was talking about, and for good reasons, is the first one I'm going to talk about. The Padres took three out of four from the Dodgers in another exciting series. They've now played seven times this season, and six of the seven have had the tying or winning run come to the plate in the last inning.

So just crazy good baseball. All the Dodgers starters had good outings. Darvis shoved in his. The Dodgers were about to split the series. Sunday night baseball, they were up seven to one after six. The Padres came back. Bauer and Tatis had some fun trash talking to each other, peeking.

Sheldon Noisy got his first hit as a Dodger, his first Homer as a Dodger, and had a big series. Good for him, but Padres did sweep. The Giants keep, not sweet, they took three or four. The Giants keep going. They take three out of four from the Marlins.

Holy smokes, the Giants, four starters combined for 27 innings, and only two earned runs, and both runs were solo homers. The Giants bullpen allowed seven runs and nine innings, so not as good as the starting pitching. Yaz with the big series at the plate for San Francisco, five hits two homers.

And on the Marlin side, Pablo Sanchez had a good start, and Corey Dickerson, the only Marlin with good offensive numbers. Brewers took two out of three from the Cubs. Brett Anderson left game one with the knee injury. Lindblom gets called. up to replace him and the Cubs light him up. But the Cubs lose the next two games.

Arieta and Hendricks did have good starts. Woodruff had a good start for the brew crew. Kane is very close to returning and the brewers are optimistic that Yelly can be back before the end of the week. So that's good news for the brew crew who are now just winning. The Mets. The Mets beat the Nationals two times and they lose once. DeGrom, complete game shutout, 15Ks, only two hits.

And he recorded two hits himself with an RBI. He's insane. Alonzo, Conforto, and Davis combined for 12 hits and three homers. Patrick Corbyn with another stinker for the Nats. And the Nats only recorded two extra base hits. The entire series. That ain't good. The D-BACs with another series win.

They are now at 500. They took two of three from the Braves. The Braves took game one, but then the D-Backs held the Braves to one hit over 14 innings during the Sunday double header. Zach Gowan goes complete game one hitter in game one of the seven-inning double-hatter, and then Bumgarner goes complete game, no hitter in game two. Yikes, the Braves. Not good.

Congratulations, the debacks. The Cardinals sweep the Reds, and the Cardinals really needed a series win and a sweep, so I'm a little bit happy for them, sad for the Reds. Only the second series wins for the cards on the season. They got good starts from Kim, Gant, and Jay Flair, Dylan Carlson went off seven hits in the series. Good job with Cardinals. Jake's Rocks took two out of three from the Phillies.

Tapia hit a walk-off home run in game one. Hoskins, Phillies infield. He went off two-run, home run, home run in game two after home run in game one as well. Ten guys pitched for the Phillies in this series. Nine of them gave up an earned run. That ain't good. For the rocks, Cron, Cron. Cron? Cron? Cron?

Crone? Cron? Cron. Tapia and Story. Those three guys combined for 18 hits and five homers in the three games. Wild. And that's your National League update. Nice going, Jim. That was smooth sailing for you right there. Appreciate it. I had time, so I wrote it. I wrote it out. A, A. Yeah, some good stuff, guys. Where do you want to start? I feel like every, it's a lot of give and take right now in the National League. Like the Phillies, I feel like they just won a series, now they lose a series.

The Mets lose a series, now they win a series. The Rockies lose, now they win. You know, the Cardinals lose, now they win. It's like, besides the – and now the Dodgers lost. So I don't know. The Brewers are the only team, like, really, like, consistently winning series. It feels like. We've brainwashed ourselves a little bit.

I mean, we've been so excited for 162, and Trev, I know we'll talk about this with your Yanks a little bit coming up. But, you know, you have – You are so into it and we're rolling that, you know, I joke this morning, like, if any team railed off a five-game win streak right now, like basically except the Detroit Tigers, it changes the outlook of their season. You're like, you're either off and running or you're feeling it. But yeah, I mean, NL, NL East, full slog mode, NL Central, full slog minus the brewers.

Be cool if the cards get hot. We like the cards. We're obviously biased. We love J. Flair. Rose rotation today add so that's a lot of fun but uh yeah I don't know what kind of jumped out you mentioned that the cards and the other side of that what jumps out to me like we got all excited about the Reds the Reds are hitting this year they're doing it yeah we kind of like them Castillo sunny Gray's back they're in a bad place right now they've lost uh their two and eight

in their last 10 um I don't know the men we talked about that though right yeah like they wanted to have the big dick swinging attitude you just can't i mean then this happens and where does it all go like if you have an identity keep your identity like are they still doing all those things they were doing when they were winning those baseball games probably not so like i think it's funny when teams do that they come out they're talking all this shit because they're winning some baseball games and they go in a little rut like this and now everyone's tails are between their legs like if you got an identity keep doing your identity if that's what you wanted to B, got to keep going.

Keep your tails out. Keep your tails up. Yeah. Dodgers lose three out of four and they're still have the most wins in the national league. How about that? They're good. The Giants?

Yeah. I did look up Milwaukee. They've won five out of seven series. I'd be interested to see. Series stats. What team is winning the most series? Also, Jake, I really want to do the other stat we talk about I'm talking Yanxious. Which team has the most starting pitchers go six innings. Don't even care about results, Trev.

Just that's so huge right now early on. Like bullpen not being overworked. We'll see. Yeah. You want to talk about the Giants, Trev? Their pitching was insane. I mean, they're 14 and 8 on the season. They're ahead of the Padres and the standings.

We talked about them a lot in the season, the preseason leading up and where are they going? Like, what's the direction? and they signed a galsman really early. We're like, okay, they're at least being somewhat aggressive and free agency, but we still don't know the direction. But my man, Gabe Kapler's at the helm. Maybe he doesn't even know the direction, but I know one thing.

He's working those guys. They respect him, and they're just going out and playing good ball. A lot of names that you don't necessarily know. I mean, Yostremski is a name because he came out like gangbusters last year, and his grandpa is a guy. But, like, other than that, You know, these guys are just kind of getting it done really under the radar. Everyone's talking about the Dodgers and the Padre series, but you look up, what are they?

They're one game back of the Dodgers? One game back of the Dodgers. And you know I hate looking at standings before two months into the season, but I think we need to give a little bit of credit for what they've been able to do there. Something's going on. You know, I love the player development there. There's something going on. And can they keep this up?

I'm very interested to see. Good pitching is what's going on. Gossman goes aiding's pitch, one run run. Aaron Sanchez, five innings pitched, zero earned runs. Logan Webb, seven innings pitch, zero runs. Alex Woods, seven innings pitched one run, which when it's that dominant, leads me to believe the Marlins are a bit stinky right now.

Team ERA in the season is 294. I don't want to send shots fired at Yostremski because Trev mentioned this fun fact, but my grandpa was also a guy. But no, the pitching's been lights out, dude. You look at their, if you go to their baseball reference, They have six starting pitchers listed. You know, Gossman, Webb, Disco, Quedo, Sanchez, and Wood.

Logan Webb's ERA is 403 and four starts, which is whatever. Everyone else is under 214. So when you get someone giving you an effort every night out of the starting pitching on the bump, that helps out. And then for the offense, it kind of turns into a spin zone. Nobody's really going gangbusters, like Posey and Longoria, got off to nice starts for themselves. But, you know, Yaz, the OPS is sneaking up a little bit.

Nobody else is going. So it's, you know, it's the spin zone. Do you say, hey, maybe these Giants got more in the tank or, you know, if the pitching starts to level out a little bit and the hitting stays there, we might get kind of a little more of what we expect from the Giants this year. But I love their coaching staff. Yeah, yeah, Yaz was the only hitter that really, like, had him very impressive.

of numbers in the series. It was all pitching. It's cool to see when a team can reel off some wins like this and only have one of their sides firing. You know, if they do get it all working at the same time, like maybe we're talking about a good baseball team here. I'm going to quiz you guys right now. I'm looking at the team stats. I hope you don't have it up. Obviously, we're talking about the Giants. They're third in the league

and ERA Plus right now, which is awesome. The other top five, you could name three of them for sure. Do you know who's number one in the league right now. An ERA plus? Yep. ERA plus. There's absolutely no way you're going to get this unless you've seen it.

Okay. Someone pitching good that you wouldn't expect us to know. It's got my brain spinning the Mets. Literally we talked about them all offseason about like what are they doing? They need pitching. Oh, Texas. Toronto Blue Jays.

Oh, okay. Toronto Blue Jays. Their bullpen has been lights out. Yeah. They just, they've been doing it, It's interesting to see when you look up stats like that right now. The Giants sitting right behind the Padres at 130 ERA plus. They're twirling it out there.

I think Jake made a good point about how last year in only 60 games has kind of brainwashed us because I never looked at the standings until before the All-Star game or paid them any mind or cared about anything as much as I'm caring about right now. I think it's because we're, and like, you know, like you said, like you win five games, your whole outlook is better. and I think two years ago we wouldn't even be doing this but we're just so excited to get like 162 again we kind of forgot like I don't know this matters that much

Pirates are 500 we'll talk about them in a little bit yeah I looked at this in the chat one of my good buddies Kurt Casali former teammate of mine the stat was you caught five shutout games in a row

that's cool that's awesome I like that Kurt that's incredible dude so hey if you want to stick around in the show, Kurt, keep doing that. Like, I'll have 10 years before you know it.

I love when catchers get that, like, that stigma. Like, they call good games. They handle the staff well. Those guys have the longest freaking careers, man. Drew Bieu. Yeah. True Bue.

All right. One thing I wanted to note was that I didn't say it, but Walker for the Mets, Taiwan, friend of the program. He had a really good start. Stroman had a, not a good start after DeGram, and then Walker picked it right back up

for the Mets. That's pretty cool. And then let's talk Padres, Dodgers, real quick. I mean, this was like a big storyline Sunday night baseball. Down 7-1, the Padres comeback. Eno Saris had a great tweet about the Padres hitters versus the Dodgers bullpen. Like the Dodgers bullpens power sinkers and high fastballs, which can, that style of pitching can only get beat by singles and singles to the opposite way. and the Padres just hit three of those in a row and it's like match up like nightmare.

I thought that was really cool nugget from our friend Eno and the comeback was cool and you thought like oh man, Sunday night baseball is going to be the only one that's a blowout. That's a bummer because the series has been so good and then the Padres come back and make it a game. So I mean, I know that everyone's talking about it and we want to spread the love around the league, but I was watching that game,

I was watching when Noisyy hit that home run and there was like little kids in the crowd. Like the camera, like ESPN showed like little kids like going crazy and doing like going to the music and dancing. I'm like, man, I know it's impossible to have every game be what this is because this is like special baseball two really talented teams in the same market, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But man, if we can get like every game to just be a touch closer to how those feel,

I mean, that is like a Padres game and Dodgers game went up against the Oscars. and like views and being talked about. That doesn't happen usually. Or in the last couple of years. So I was awesome. And then we do have the Bauer and Tati stuff where they're tweeting at each other. And Bauer said that, you know, celebrations are okay. I don't care.

They really trolled him. They did like all of his stuff right back in his face covering the eye, the strut. Good. But good, fun. And Bauer didn't care either. And he's like, yeah, it's fine. And he even said like he did the sword to Hossman. and then Hosmer did it right back after he got a hit.

That's what I'm talking about. Let's have some fun. Baseball is fun. And that's what it was. And I think, Jim, what you're trying to say is, like, they were having fun. They were also playing elite, elite baseball, man. I mean, the guys that pitched in this series, you know, it ends up being one of the butter knife stats of this series.

But Tatis is the first guy ever to hit two home runs on back-to-back days off of different Cy Young winner. So again, you got to chop that up a little bit to get there. But think about it. I mean, Kershaw, Bauer, Tate's got two off of both of them. The guy's a sick puppy, man. And then he gets the one, but it's the blowout game. And then he's on the bases and just everywhere he shows up,

except the defense right now figuring out a little bit. But everything is so talented, so fun. I mean, even the casual hair flip. I mean, Santa Maria. You brought me into the broadcast because watching that was something. Listening to Arod, let me just say. Like, I know that people feel a certain way about him, but if you just went in there and just didn't know who he was, you would say, that guy doesn't know baseball. He didn't play baseball. He was trying to, he was trying to describe a safety squeeze,

which is essentially just a squeeze that the runner reads the ball down before he takes off. It's not a full-on squeeze. That's it. That's the definition of a safety squeeze. Got it. See the ball down and go first. He couldn't do that. And listening to him talk about the game and saying, oh, these guys are channeling. They're for sure thinking about Tony Gwynn when they're up at the plate because they hit a few ground balls that got through the infield. No, they're not. They weren't thinking about Tony Gwynn. So it was, I don't know if he adds to.

I feel like he's almost so out there and so strange that he almost like adds to the game. I was posting all the clips of the stuff he's saying and people are like, why don't you just put on the nerd broadcast the. And I like Benetti, but they're too much for me. Like, I actually kind of... I didn't even know there was another brother. Yeah, ESPN2 does it. It's too much. I don't like it.

I love analytics and, like, having that info, but I kind of like it after the fact. Like, they just kind of inundate you with it. But A-Rat's hilarious. I'm almost to the point where, like, I want him to stay on is a Martian. Yes. It's just not a human.

He probably is in normal conversations, maybe, but like he's he's not a human on that broadcast it's almost like third rock from the sun a martian trying to fit in it's so weird i mean this sound bite his name is rookie bats i said poppy can he play baseball he said man can he play baseball i mean i was i was giggling that conversation never happened by the way i mean obviously that's what we said in the office like i was like in the funniest thing is like that's that story just 100% never happened like do you think David Ortiz

straight up said he's going to be the face of the Red Sox for two decades? No. Have you ever heard of anyone? He said Rod. He said, Rod. This guy's a great bowler. This guy's a great.

He can dunk a basketball. Like, that stuff about Mookie wasn't even like in the, like, how would David D'Rtees know that from? He said, he's probably said, look, Alex maybe asked him about Mookie and Ortiz

probably said, hey, he's special, man. Like, this guy can play basketball. He's a bowler. He didn't say that. He's going to, be a really good baseball. David Ortiz didn't know that 19 year old Mookie Betts could do all that stuff

when he was a professional leader. He probably did because people do talk about that. People talk about that with Maurer. Like, Mauer's a scratch golfer. Can bowl, can play, you know, quarterback. Florida State Sine. So you do know what kind of athletes of these guys are. There's no way he just went in like that. I mean, the whole conversation

was just completely made up, basically. Like they made it, it maybe talked about it a few different times, little bits here and there. And then Arod's like, okay, let me put it all together and talk about. on Sunday night. Does Arod have any idea of the entertainment he's providing? Yeah, I think he sees all this. Oh, is he self-swear? I think he's, no. He sees interactions. He sees interactions and says it's good. Okay. No, he's not self-aware. No, I mean, it was a comedy show. I hope he never gets self-aware because it's kind of like so bad it's good, like one of those things.

You might try harder. I was laughing. It's, dude, it's bizarre. It's entertainment. Like, he's not a human. Saying Tony Gwyn never struck out 40 times in a season with that baseball game that was going on last night was completely meaningless. Completely meaningless. The hitters don't care. The pitchers are throwing a little grosser stuff than when Tony was around. And by the way, Tony Gwyn's widely regarded as one of the best hitters to ever play the game. So let's not compare every hitter in this game. Rightly, some of the guys the Dodgers are thrown out because of injuries like, you know,

Jorge Mateo, my guy, I don't think we should be comparing him to Tony Gwynne right now. Like, A-Rod, it's a form of entertainment. I don't know what it is. He said no launch angle. Like, no, it had a launch angle. Like, every ball has a launch angle. It could be negative, could be positive. He goes, no launch angle.

Like, dude, Machado, I promise you, wasn't trying to hit a ground ball to second base. Okay, like, he just, it was a slider. He got out in front of it a little bit, kept this. hands through and that's where the ball went. Like he is not trying to shift beat. But Arod, according to Arod, he channeled Tony Gwynn because he was thinking about him. Did it.

Channel Tony Gwynn. Possessed. John Turner's reaction. Most players would be standing at second base. Rookie Beds goes first to third. JT says, Hey, big fella. Thank you for that steak.

He called the truck. And it was an at-bat later. He called to the truck. was like, can you show that replay of Turner and Betts? High-fiving. And then the, I mean, how is the producer not like just say no to that? Nah, we're going to keep moving on. We're just...

No, trust me, I have this steak joke lined up. We're going to stick with the game here. That's so funny. Trev, Tatis, peeking nonsense. Did you ever peek down at a catcher's placement? Did you ever take a gander or try to look at his fingers or try to look at the way he shuffles? It does happen from time to,

time but me personally know i told you guys pre show like you try to do it right now like anybody that's listening to this go ahead and put your eyes down and peep back this way like you it's really hard to see and like you got to think there's a catcher with his leg shadowing he's got his glove there it's really hard to see and i mentioned this on the uh IG live with chris rose that we're doing every day um there's one time that you can do that as a hitter and you know what's going on It's like the 1 o'clock games, 3 o'clock games when the sun is just right

and the shadows are casting out towards the field of play. You can see where the catcher's lining up. That's one thing I used to love. I would look at that all the time. That's interesting. That's cool. Yeah.

To peek down and see a sign, like maybe, maybe you're doing it to see where he's setting up. But it's really hard to go and look at his fingers right there. So, yeah, I thought your video was great on it. Yeah, I mean, because I went to and see it, but the sign was done.

And like, even then, it was like the cutter sign, which is like five or three or it's like some weird three with a thumb up. So, like, even if you did see it, I don't think Tatis knows like, oh, that's the cutter. It wasn't like one or two. But he didn't. The fingers were gone before he even looked or whatever. So. Yeah. It's a strange gray area because if you're at second base, you can look right in the signs all the time.

Like obviously they're going to change up their sequencing, but like they should probably be doing that anyway nowadays. But I would say that's more Bush League for a hitter to do it than a runner on second base. But they're kind of the same thing anyway. But Tatis wasn't doing it. Even so is like an outside pitch that he pulled. Yeah. So that was nasty.

Yeah. All right. Let's go to the AL. Treb, you have the AL this week? I got the AL. I love it. I'm going to slow it down a little bit because I feel like I go a little too fast and I forget things. Okay.

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Can that help us with our whole math? situation here? I think I need to go back to arithmetic. Okay. But maybe that's step one. Two steps. Step one of baseball analytics. No math.

Arithmetic. Know what math is. I can do arithmetic. I can do addition and subtraction. Kind of. I don't trust myself. Yeah. If odd numbers get involved, I'm out.

Anyway. The American League. I'm trying to say. Trevor. What happened? Whoa. American League. We're going to start off with the Yanks in Cleveland. It's the odor effect. He is sparking that clubhouse baby. And Indian take three or four though. So I don't know what he's sparking. Strike that. Strike that reverse at Yanks took three or four. I was, I, why did he write that on there? My bad guy. Set up for failure. I'm like, Bronberger just reading the sheet right now. Yankees take three of four.

for Hermon versus Raleigh in game one. Odor has the go-ahead two-run single in game one. Higgy also homers. He might be taking the drop from Sanchez. I don't know how you got to feel about that. We'll talk about it afterwards. Game two, Montgomery versus Allen. Stanton hits a couple of lasers.

O'Dore hits another homer and Hicks gets one off of, oh my goodness. Either. Sorry, my thing is messed up. Hold on one second, guys. Let me start. Time out. Quick, time out. Quick, quick 30 seconds.

You go on vacation. You're rusty. No. My screen just screwed up on me. Hold on. I'm sorry. I need a refresh. What do you want us to talk about right now? I hate when my calculator breaks. Start it back up. You're ready.

Okay, here we go. Here we go. Trevor Ploof. Ladies and gentlemen. Yanks take three of four. Game two stand hits two lasers. Game three, it's Cole versus Bieber. They're both who they are supposed to be. Cole seven innings pitch, one and run. Bieber seven in a pitch, two in runs.

O'Dor and Hicks for the second game in a row. Hit homers both off Beaver, so O'Dore is really bringing it. In the last game, the Indians get the better of the Yanks. Fran Mill Reyes, three-run, home run, falls a double short of the cycle. Tyone, did he change the arm action a little bit? A little longer arm action? Or just, that's what we were talking about a little bit, huh? He's back.

Anyways, on to the next series. Mariners in Boston, two surprise teams, doing really well. We thought they were going to suck, but they're playing pretty well. Game one, closer than the final score dictates done versus full pension, full pension Piv. Mariners school four in the 10th. Agriety RBI double and Hanninger, my guy Mitch, with a three-run, home run. Boston takes game two Perez versus Kikuchi. Bogarts and Martinez, two hits in a home run, each in game two. Bogarts had three RBI's. The X-man just gets it done. Game three, The Mariners take pretty easily.

Flexen versus Eovaldi. Flexen goes seven innings pitch with one earned run. Seeger does all the offense. Four, the Mariners, three hits and three RBIs, including a two-run triples. We love triples. We're triples kind of pod. And then in game four, Red Sox take it five to three. Rodriguez versus Mergevicious.

Margevicious. Red Sox score four in the first inning in game four on two hits, four walks, and a hit by pitch. And D.D. hits two doubles. On to the Angels in Houston. Astros take three of four. Friend of the program, Cobb gets to start in game one for the Angels. Loses to Javier, Breggman's three hits and three RBIs in game one. Javier five shutout endings with a career high, nine K's.

Game two, the Astros take it and walkoff fashion Grinky versus Keeney. Astrosk score three after the Angel scored two in the tenth of game two in the Robel Garcia, a little walkoff jam shot into center field to win it. for them. Game three Astros dominate. Odarezi has to come out of the game in the first ending. Kent Emanuel comes in. And all he does, eight and two-thirds, two-run runs in the MLB debut. That's incredible. In relief, eight-and-two-thirds doing it. The Astros hit three home runs in that game. Game four, Angels find a get-won Bundy versus McCuller-Otani with the go-ahead solar home run in the eighth inning. Astros, looking to get them.

field back. Al-Tube is going to be back Monday. Oterese is going to be the doctor on Sunday. We'll see how that goes. Big story out of the contest was Mike Trout, hit by a pitch in game one and missed the rest of the series. Rendon, Stassie. They're coming back for the Angels as well. That was a good series, though.

Now, moving on to the A is going into Oakland. They, or excuse me, the A is going into Baltimore playing the Orioles. They take two out of three. Their winning streak ends at 13, I believe. They take game one. Irvin versus Lopez. Cole Irvin, swerven Irvin, former Lehigh Valley Iron Pig teammate of mine. Five and a third inning pitch, one earned run. Loriano hits the Homer and Prescotti with an RBI single. Game two, Jed Lowry, my guy. Three run, home run, game two. Cana and Olson, two hits two RBIs

apiece. You're running the streak up to 13. And then guess what the Orioles say? We've had enough of that. We've had enough. They went eight to one, Means versus Lizardo. 13 game win streak is snapped. Means six in one third innings, one earned runs in Hayes for the two-run homer. Moving on, Kansas City. Going into Detroit, Royals have taken all three.

There's another game tonight. Benetendi and O'Hurr hit home runs in game one. Benettoni also had a really nice catch in game one. So there with a two-run double. Game two to one, Royal Singer versus Boyd, a pitcher's duel, if you will. Seven innings pitched, run for Stinger. Boyd, your guy, Jim.

Eight innings pitch. Two runs, only one earned. And in game three, Royals take it. Duffy versus former Duffy with five shutout innings in game three. Hunter Dozier with the Homer. Almost there. Blue Jays at Rays. Blue Jays take two of three.

Matt's versus Glass now in game one. Glasson gives a five earned runs. Four in the first, but case 10 in game one. Samian with the three run Homer. Gritchick also homers. Game two, Honeywell versus Ray. Yarbroe comes and backs up.

Honeywell, five and two-thirds shutout innings as the long man Zunino and Brasso hit homers. And that fuck, Randall Gritchick, homers again. Game 3 1-0, Blue Jays, Rio versus Patino. They both look good. He leaves the game in the third,

game three in the fourth inning with a little glute strain and the bullpen comes in those five and one-third shutout out endings. They were doing some crazy cheers for our guy. What's his name? The guy that does the squat, Romano. Oh, yeah, yeah, Jordan. Pretty cool, pretty cool right there. But the Blue Jays are getting some guys back.

Springer and Tayasca are expected to return this week. And Ryu's expected to be fine. Just a little butt strain. That's all he had. No big deal. And rounding out the AAL Rangers going into Chicago, the White Sox, sweep 9-7, 2-1, 8, 4. The White Sox win.

Kopec does his thing. Calhoun hits the game-tying home run before Madrigal walks it off with a double in game two. Kikl's good. Gibby in that game was also good. Sixth innings pitch, one-earned run. Abrae with a two-run, home run,

and a sack-flying game three. Madrigal is still doing it with a two-run triple. White Sox get the sweep. I'm exhausted. That's all there is in the AL. Thanks for sticking with me. Ooh, Kopeck. This is the one thing that stood out.

Copac gets the second start through like 90 pitches. Need that. White Sox need that. He was supposed to be the peace with Moncada coming over in the Chris Sail trade. A lot of some off-the-field stuff, getting himself right. And he is looking, holy smokes, man. I mean, every year, you know, we talk about this a lot. But every team comes in, you know, with a plan.

for eight starting pitchers. You know, you got your starting five, you got your long man in the bullpen you're going to kick in. You might have a veteran in AAA. You might have a top prospect or two. I did have a moment because, you know, I was on the Twins bandwagon this offseason, which ain't a fun place to be on right now.

But when I saw Kopec and you realize, you know, coming into this year, him and crochet were kind of like bonus pieces for them. It's like, yeah, This team does have some talent up and down the lineup, deep in the pitching department. And they're having fun right now. Sneaky getting hot. They get a little sweep.

I think they won the series before that against Boston. Is it six out of seven now? So the White Sox are starting to get into it. They're good. I don't know if Crochet was a bonus piece for them. He's the real deal, man. I know he only had a limited action last year. so I guess you're seeing if he could repeat it,

but he looks like a problem for the AL Central. Gross. Glass is now getting roughed up a little bit. It was all on two outs in the first inning, and then he bounced back for a while and gave him like a good performance. But Blue Jays, two outs, first inning, putting together, I don't know, I think it was a hit, a walk, a hit, and a homer.

Well, two out first inning rally? It's pretty exciting. you could do that. You get ahead in the count on Glass now. I think he's a guy that you can put some runs up against. Don't fall behind. Not right now. We see it with so many of these ones nowadays. Your best chance is probably the first inning before they've settled in, before they've kind of found their slot. You know, Bieber Cole, which we'll talk about in a little bit, the Yanks got a couple guys on on Bieber in the first. And it was like, are we going to strike now? And I think Glass, I mean, you know, kind of the same thing. Once they settle in, you're in they're going to be able to put the ball where they want and that's when you're having a bad time he also struck out four in that first inning there was a wild pitch yeah he's that didn't hurt him at all it was came after the runs but that's pretty funny yeah i know the the farm to fame crew is talking about it

but patino gets the call he was the piece that came over in the snelt trade he was the arm they got so uh he had a nice debut i think 2.2 shuddy and relief uh so interested to see if they stretch him out and maybe start adding him to that follower role or whatever it'll be because he's supposed to be super talented, really young and all that, all that jazz. Yard bro is still coming out of the pin. It's so ridiculous.

Hate you, Ray's. It is ridiculous. It makes me mad. Yeah. And like the Ray's fans are, the race fans are just blinded by what's happening. And they'll just be like, he's better and he starts on the second inning.

Like, that's not a fucking thing. Yeah. That's not a thing. I wonder how he feels about. long man that goes six innings is better. Well, they're avoiding the top of the order. He pitches to him the next time. It's not a real thing.

Let him start. Do you want to know how he feels about it? Do you want, do you want, like, when we interview him, and he asks, or, you know, when the interview stops and we ask? I want to really, I don't want to know for real, real. I bet he feels, it's bullshit. I know where I'd place my money. Yeah.

Can he, I think. I think one thing he would talk about is arbitration and... Yeah, he lost his arbitration case because of it. Yeah, can he get wins in that role? He can, but he can't get games started and he can't be... Like how arbitration is comps. So he got comped compared to first year starters, even though he'd been a main pitcher for like three seasons.

So his comps hurt him because he gets comped. first year starters last year and now he's not even first year starter yeah yeah like he's he's going five innings every time it's another salary suppression type thing that teams can do like i i firmly believe that there are some pitchers that maybe or some rotations that need to be set up that way but i think like the whole shortening starting pitchers workload i don't think is injury related i think it's more of like man if we can get these guys and they only throw 150 the innings a year, like, we probably have to pay him less. Well, if you're doing like an opener and a bolt guy, like a two inning guy and a three inning guy

or one inning guy and a three inning guy to get you that start, he's going 60, he's going six innings, five innings. 5.2 shot. Like 5.2 shutout innings. So it's, it's nothing but manipulation. And the raise want to say, and there's strategy involved for sure. But it's. I want to know what that is.

because this is the raise. We do have, I think we respect the decisions they make most of the time. They're good for winning games. They're bad for like. I mean, what they're saying is you miss the, you know, you're going to miss the top three, four hitters in the lineup, but you're normally the best three, four hitters in the lineup. So Yarborough comes in after that.

He sees them once or twice after if he's cruising or you're ready to go to the pin by then. So there's a strategy. I just, he's like the only, like they used to do this. with other dudes. Turinos, but he's hurt. Now he's kind of their kai, which is ridiculous, especially because their pitching staff isn't as deep as it has been in the past years with Snell and Morton.

But it also could be a buildup. Like I saw Nick in the chat right now just said like Patino, Honeywell, Glassnow, Yarborough, and another guy should be their starting rotation. Well, Honeywell's gone through the injury circuit. Petino's super young and they're still figuring out. So I think the raise, and like a lot of other teams, are going to build up towards something at the end of the year that ideally will be their playoff plan.

But Yarbrough should be a starting pitcher in this league. They used Honeywell. They used Honeywell as the opener and he gave up 300 runs. But more importantly, Yarbrose done enough to just be a starter. A starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. Yes. Yes. It sounded like the godfather there.

Noah team everyone got their tweets off about this morning, Trev. Who's that? You're wearing their hoodie. your Kansas City Royals. Best record in the American League. Win percentage-wise right now. They get a little sweep. It's good vibes, man.

Witt's doing it. Carlos Santana got hot a little bit. And again, the dirty secret when we talked about Los Hibitoiantes, they're pitching. They're pitching. Danny Duffy's getting his pitch ninja on. Ooh.

Like that. Duffy's got like the top five lowest ERA. in baseball out of guys that have started four starts, like really, really good. He looks gross. Looks so gross, man. Hey, someone asked this when you say Los Hibidos Hermon, what, uh,

Oh, it's not right. Like, what's that middle word? Someone asked, what's the middle word, Jake says? Oh, Hibito. I mean, it's not right. It's not a word I made up. Oh. It's like around what it should be.

It's like Hugador is supposed to be like sports team or something like that. Well, Hentes? No. I mean, that's around Giants. It's my thing. I got it. Reach out. DM me.

I thought you were saying an actual word there. I mean, Hyantes is giants. I know that. The middle word, I thought. I think it's supposed to be

Hugador or something. We've done this before. Anything else? The American League we need to talk about. The Royals been looking good. Duffy's been good. Intred's book.

Astros came back with a good series. Yeah, that was. The Hentz-Emmanuel comes in. That's pretty impressive. Debutt coming in. We'll talk about that later.

Obviously, And we can move on from that. We can move on from that. Asher's a good. I think last episode, Trev, I said there was only like two teams in the American League with a record above 500. It was two or three. We had six now. Jake also said that he thought the bats were like fully coming back.

And I think we got that in a big way this weekend. And there was a lot offensive. Offensive power. Do you guys see what the league-wide OPS is right now? What is it? Because it was really bad. 700. Yeah, it was in the sixes a little bit ago. Yeah,

so it's getting, it's coming back. Coming back. Can we get, um, can we get some snaps for the, for the A's? Nice wind streak. Way to go. You were horrible. One in six. One in seven. Yeah. And then you reeled off 13 in a row. That's, that's why you can't take a week and say, this is, this is this, this is that,

because nothing then that can happen. So, good for that. Bauer versus, or Beber versus Cole was a pitcher's duel that was like, you know, everyone was talking, it got like promoted and then it actually came to. Very rare that that kind of actually happens, but they were both dealing in that game. Two of the American League best starters. So I like that. Our Yang showed some signs of life that Treve alluded to. All thanks to Ruggie Adore. No.

They were just playing bad baseball, man. It's why that first inning Thursday clip. was as popular as it was. Everyone had heard that the Yankees and the Yankees fan base was complaining, and then they saw that, and they were like, oh, you guys weren't messing around. But they started playing a good brand of baseball, which was fun to see. They get three out of four. They're heading to Baltimore and Detroit.

So in Yankeesland, we're starting to get the good juju going. It looks like Trevor. Trevor Plouffe, Stanford. You have a question in the back. How are the Mariners doing it? I'm just a serious question. I'm looking at the overall team numbers. OPS plus sitting at 97, which is exactly league average right now.

ERA plus they're sitting at 104 and league average is 103. So they've just been average, but their record has been much better than that. Is there something not missing? Is the defense playing a factor? Is it just them matching up against teams that aren't playing well? I'm generally curious that haven't watched a lot of their baseball. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, chat?

What's their record just a little over 500? Bullpen. 13 and 9. 13 and 9. Yeah, I mean. Mariners' bullpen has allowed four in runs in 46.2 inning since 411. 0.77 ERA and Kendall, former team, Kennell Graven, has been a stud. Thank you, Ben, for that.

Like that. In chat. Yeah, Montero, Vest. Sadler, Missowitz, LJ Newsom. Bang. I'm not saying like go ahead and like

count on the regression coming, but when you're just looking in all that, you can probably count on the regress. I think Mariners fans understand that. They were started like 15 and three a couple years ago. My dude Kikuchi hasn't been pitching well. I think the bounce back season is not too much possible anymore.

Maybe. Only been one month. Fun to watch those. Guys, I mean, I just said I haven't seen a ton of it, but the stuff that I have seen from them, which I guess is mostly highlights, they are fun to watch. Highlights are usually pretty good. Kyle Lewis just came back.

Stay in the wild card by the time you call Kelnick up. Let's have some fun. Yeah. Will Vest is the name. He made his debut this year. He's been nasty in his 10 appearances, 154. Only two earned runs and 10 appearances.

So when are they using them? What's funny? not using them in high leverage really we um when i was in oakland kendall graven was there as a starter and he's one of those guys we always said like how does this guy get hit like he his stuff is nasty and he did he got banged around but i guess he's found his calling like he's been really well doing really well in the bullpen right now his numbers are seven games eight innings pitch he's allowed one hit, no runs, ten strikeouts. That's really good.

That's MLB right now. If you've, if you got some stuff or if you got that grossness in you, now we can use the cameras, figure out why it's gross and figure out how to either have you located or what works and, you know. I want to talk about that a little bit actually because Eno has put out some good stuff. We love Eno on this pod. My goodness. He's talking about how, teams need to

change the mindset because you can develop the stuff now like you can develop VLO you can develop stuff but control you need to draft he's like teams be better off drafting people that are

accurate and have control and then coaching their stuff up it's too hard to go the other way that's pretty I thought that was really interesting huh well you know it's probably case by case. Because you look at your guys like, you know, those tall motherfuckers.

Maybe you put a height limit on that. If he's under 6'4, you draft control, you build up speed. If he's over 6'4, you draft speed, and then you build control. Because those guys just don't know how to use their, those guys don't know how to use their body yet. Yeah. Yeah, what is that? Why are they so awkward? I don't understand.

There's a lot of moving parts. There's more to do. Why is it so hard to be tall? They grow, man. I mean, like. What the fuck. I've been the same height for a while now, so I got a lot more practice. I don't know.

I would draft all not max effort guys. So then if they're not good starting pitchers, you kick them to the bullpen and say, throw your hardest to your best. Ramp it up back there? Yeah. Makes sense. I don't know. That's why I'm not a GM. Yet.

Yet. I mean, once you go to sports management worldwide, you can do anything you want. do anything you want. Yeah, that might be good for me. Yeah? Oh my God, Jake takes the eight-week class, comes out such a cockhead. Cashman to Story Ellie, people are talking. Actually, guys.

I mean, look, the GM of the Angels is like, was a bat boy than a clubby? Cashman was younger than Jake is now when he got the job. He didn't even get that class, so. Well, maybe. We don't know. We don't know. When did he become the GM? He was 30 years old, 1998.

Okay, so he was there right as he had several... My rise, in 2000s around there. It's tough with the like fake titles or real titles. I think he got named GM in 98. Yeah, I think it's 98. He was with the Yankees in 86. Watson was there through 95. And I think there's some midler years.

Okay, cool. But Cashman started as like an intern. I think his dad was buddies with Steinbrenner from, racehorseing community in Kentucky. And that's how he got us in. Justin Morse. Is he going to be the GM of the twins one day? Our guy, Dusty. We're asking.

People are saying Dusty and Jake's Dorealee. Do Dusty's such a funny name? Good content. His name's Dustin, I'm guessing. Dusty. That's awesome. All right, Jake, you got the Interleague. What happened? Can you tell us? A huge third.

a re-gamer between Cole Tucker's Pirates and Trevor Ploof's twins. This series was off the map, man. Jayhap, game one, are you kidding me? No hitter into the eighth? The happer? 70% fastballs, 90 miles per hour? It's unhittable. Love me some J-Hap.

Astodizio and Cave with the home runs in that one. Love me a J-Hap. and love me a guy that's built like Jake. Cahill in game two for the Pirates, six innings pitch, one earn run. Kevin Newman hits a homer, Perez over from the raise. And then the Pirates take game three, six to two as well. These Pirates are rolling Reynolds getting going. He's supposed to be a part of the future of that team.

Polanco's hitting a little bit, three hits and a homer. How about it, babe, the Pirates after taking two out of three from the Twinkies, they are back up to 500. Twins. Hit the red button in Minnesota? Back to you guys in the booth. Wow. Wow.

Treb, are they hitting that red button? It's not fun right now. I follow a lot of twins people on social media, media members, bloggers, everyone you can think of. And it's pretty bleak out there. It's pretty grim on twins' Twitter right now. You know, so I, I, what's the overall problem? Colomé. Yeah, he's the big one.

He's the big one. It's been really tough. I think that is probably a thing that's worn on them the most. Like losing some of those games can bring you into a kind of a cycle like that. And then it's these series like this. Like you've got to freaking beat the pirates, man. I think this is, I think I read a stat that this is the Twinsworth start since 2016. I was a part of that.

Yeah. And that's when we went, we went 0 and 6 to start the year. and that hurts. It's just a bad time. It's really bad. Really bad, yeah. Yeah, it's just, it's not fun. I'm actually going there.

I'll be in Minnesota and June. Hopefully things will turn around by the time I get there. If not, I mean, are they going to be asking me to get back on the field? I don't know. I don't want it, though. That's dangerous. You've been doing your gym workouts too and stuff? If they're like, hey, Treve, like, let's just kidding.

I'm such a bad baseball player. Let's see you swing it a little bit. No, it's not going to happen. They called up. a lot. That's good. It's bleak. It's bleak in Minnesota. And I kind of love when Minnesota sports teams like have bad stretches because man, these guys, they're just like, well, that's what being a Minnesota sports fan's all

about. It's, you know, you get, you get a little bit of good, but a lot of bad. And like they're just kind of used to it right now. It's like, there's, there's almost comfort for them, I think, in where they're at right. When things start going good, people Everywhere besides Boston and L.A. has that same exact sentence. There's organizations that have winning franchises. But as a city. Steelers, like Cardinals, things like that. But yeah.

As a city, yeah. They're two and 11 in their last 13. That's not good. That's bad times, man. The Minnesota Twins. How about your dude, hap? He threw one changeup. So hot.

which makes me laugh just through one of them. It's like, ah, whatever. Just pumping heaters, man. He's Lance Lynn Light, literally. Actually, have you seen his beard? It doesn't look great. Really? I mean, I'm not good in the beard world.

I know that, but I like it on him. It looks like it was painted on. Because it's like so spotchy. I don't know. Yeah, no. He looks like a non-beard guy to me, trying to grow a beard. He's got intense eyes as well

Passionate lover One change up Mitch Garber's been having a tough time He kind of looks lost up there I think I'm going to send in a sequence tape that we have done Add sequence You know what I It's just too gray for me now

Because here I like it Wow Yeah No I'm going to run into a big issue In a couple years now When my gray spot overtakes it And then my beard's fully gray in like two to three years

because then you really look people already think I'm way older than I am then I'm gonna really look old so maybe I just lose a couple some weight before my beard goes gray that'll be the lose some weight dye the beard bingo bingo bingo.

I don't die in my beard I died it once or twice I died my hair twice and then like that was a lot you didn't hate it did that what's that? You liked it it went quickly back to gray. I did like it because I hate my gray hair

but it's like a lot. money you have someone do it for you every Tuesdays. A lot of maintenance. Guy named Dale. Dale. Dale Scott. My personal stylist. Yeah.

He rocks the gray. He looks great. He looks great. This one he used to hit on Trevor on Twitter. He still does. Those are the best days. He does. He does do that.

Good job, Pirates. 11 and 11. What was there over under? because they're getting close to it. It wasn't very high. Yeah, what was there over under? It was like 59.5 or something. It was low.

That's pretty funny. Could they hit it? It's 58. So there are 11 wins. 58 was there over under? Season's going to hit its stride soon. I think a lot of these teams we're talking about. There will be a different story in a month.

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I love that. You guys have had that conversation because that is, man, I'm blessed. Seahawks have rust. They were talking about getting rid of him. They're talking like weird stuff in Seahawksland. And if they do, I just, I don't know what I'm going to do. How else are you blessed? GERTH. All right. Stand out performance. Standout performance.

I, Trev, I did this yesterday or I did this last episode. It's an illegal move and I'm doing it again. I can't believe you're doubling down. I'm doubling down again. There's a pattern here. It makes sense again. I'm going Madison Bumgarner and Zach Gowan. They combined on the same day for 14 innings of one hit ball. Madmum gets the no hitter. Zach Gowan pitched before him set the path. And his one hit was a bloop shot.

So Braves, what are you doing? But really good for both these guys. Zach Gallon had a little setback to the season. A little injury in spring. Mad bum just had been awful. like absolutely awful in his first four starts. So really, I mean, incredible day to be a Diamondbacks fan. And horrible to be a Braves fan.

Seven innings pitched, seven Ks, zero hits, zero walks for Mad Bum. It was one error that led to it. He faced the minimum because he got a double play right after the error. So he did face the minimum, which is cool. And then Zach Galen, seven innings, pitch zero and runs six Ks, and it's right after each other. It's not one day than the next day. Like, if you're a diehard Braves fan and you watch all four,

14 innings. Oh, man. How draining that must be? That was awful. But congratulations, so Zach Gowan and Madbub. Maybe the single best day in, maybe the single best day in Diamondbacks pitching history statistically. I don't know if you'll find more innings and less hits in a single day of Diamondbacks baseball.

Right? Can't. It's got to be the most inch with the least amount of hits allowed in Diamondbacks history. Has to be. I like that. You can see that. We're crediting Madben with a no-hitter, right? Like he threw- Yeah, I mean, I don't think he would have got a nine-inning one because he had 98 pitches, but maybe would have.

But also, like, if you're going to credit as a complete game in the book, which I don't think you should. Well, I don't care. But you can't do complete game, not a no-hitter. It's either it's not a complete game. Whatever. It's a complete game, no-hitter. He didn't choose the circumstances. Yeah, that's kind of where I landed.

I'll go through my whole process real quick. At first, I was like, wow, MLB got in front of this one. nipped it in the butt. Like the day they announced seven inning games, they said, you know, perfect game or no hitter won't count. And to kind of end the conversation. And it was like, okay, yeah, I kind of get that because it's seven innings, baseball's nine innings. I get it. And then, you know, you see Mad Bum do it and you're like, well, fun. Fun exists. I like that. But then, yeah, I saw everyone else on the internet that was doing the, you know, like this was the game he was given. He was given a seven inning game. It's not like they played two more innings or he could

have even said let's play two more innings. Like he was given a seven inning game and he threw a no hitter. So I almost, there was an error. That was the only Ahmed threw one away. So I'm almost happy it wasn't a perfect game because I think if it was a perfect game, I think people would be a lot

louder. Like I already think the internet stopped caring about it a little bit. But yeah, I mean, Zach Gallens, one hitter goes down as complete game one hitter and it's in history with all the other one hitters. Yeah, they want to exclude Mad Bum's

I think they're going to figure this one out I think baseball's smart enough to find the easy win here and just do it and it's hilarious that it's Mad Bum Did you hear his post game Treve? I did hear it's pretty funny I didn't know that he like had humor in his bones

or like lightheartedness is a better way to put He's probably funny but lightheartedness like Well dude he was probably super stoked He's been so bad he had a really good game He was like this is awesome It's pretty good You remember what that feeling was like. Should we play it for anyone?

Maybe some listeners haven't heard it? Sure. By the way, Madbom did say he would have thrown a no-hitter. Well, yeah, you should. Take that for what it's worth. All right, here's his post game. I don't know the 30 bullets in there.

I just want to, I want to say two things. Then I'm going to go celebrate with the guys. I want to thank these shadows in Atlanta. They help me out a good beer. That's pretty awesome. And I want to thank Rob Manfred for making these seven in the games. All right. They takes the headphone off and leaves.

He didn't let them ask a single question. Power play. Do you as a hitter trap? Do you like him thanking the shadows? Because it's kind of like, you know, tipping the hat like, you know, I had some extra help here. It's funny. Yeah, I mean, it's funny because you do get pissed when there are shadows as a hitter.

You know the pitchers are benefiting from it. But, you know, good for him. I think that that probably was a lot of weight lifted off his shoulders like we've been talking about. I think he does care. You know, he's been pitching poorly and he doesn't want to do that. Oh, man. Will this propel him to kind of like maybe did he find anything out or was it just the shadows? We're going to have to see next time he starts.

Yeah, I'm moderate. Good for him. Jake and I were recording the Weekly Dumb this morning. We stumbled into a joke, I guess, or a thought that cracks me up. And it was mad bum petting his horses when he came home at night. And telling them like, we got no hit her tonight, boys. I did it. I did it.

I'm back. Proud of Dad, just petting his horses. Beautiful. I like that visual. I bet money it happened. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. And Jim, I almost...

Sunsets behind them. I did it tonight, boys. I almost made you split up this award because Zach Gallen deserves more love, man. I mean, hey, I'm the number one gives Zach Allen love guy. The brave side of this is kind of messy. Right, it's bad time in Atlanta right now. But Zach Allen is literally off to one of the best starts to a starting pitching career. He had his streak.

I think it ended last year, whereas three runs or less in his first 23 career starts or whatever it ended at. I mean, just like if we, you know, if this Wednesday we decided to do our talking baseball episode and we did best young starting pitchers, we would say so many names before we get to, to Zach Gallen and we really shouldn't. You know, we do Walker Bueller and oh, we love Jack and, oh, Freed though, he's lefty. And we would go through all these names. And then we'd finally mention Zach Gallen where, man, could you imagine, if he,

if he did what he's done, 30 games started, a 272 ERA up into this point of his career, if he did that in Boston or Chicago or L.A. or New York, I mean, we would be nuts about this, dude. So more Zach Gallon. More Zach Gallon. More Zach Gallon. More Zach Gallon. Nope. Are we going to start calling him Jake's D-backs and Jake's rocks are gone?

Like, you don't care about the Rockies anymore. No, it's actually our D-backs. The Rockies. They're the whole companies. They're kind of the team of John Boy. Well, there's a couple teams. The Rockies. We have like a meeting with them, Trave.

They love us. The Rockies kind of got relegated, basically. And so, yeah, it's Jake's D-Backs. Well, here's the thing. Rockies and the D-backs, both dark spots for me. Daddy's D-Backs. Been very forthcoming with this. I'm, uh, instead of trying to pay attention to both,

I'm just blocking the Rockies out. They're not going to get any of me, Top-Yos, a tune-in-in-in-he's fun. And then I'm just going to, I'm going to learn about the Diamondbacks. It's beautiful. I'm going to learn real hard. Jake, who, or no, actually, Trev goes next. Who is your standout performance, Treb? I want to talk about.

I want to talk about Fernando Tatis Jr. What he did in prime time. You got go back to two games, three for five, two home runs. Two for five, two home runs. It's another one. Five home runs and a three game stint, three game set. Three game, I don't know what I'm supposed to say right there. Anyways, the reason I want to give him this award is because he's had to make an adjustment

with his swing that might have really. hurt a normal person, but he's a superhero, so it didn't hurt him. We all saw him sublux his shoulder on April 6th. You know, he has that really violent swing, and he lets go with one hand, and that's basically what happened. He let go too far, and his shoulder couldn't hold it in anymore, and it came out. So have you been watching him hit, it's been all two-handed follow-throughs. And that is, it might seem easy to do that. And some guys do both, but to go exclusively one, way go two hands and I think he did it on accident one pitch when I was watching last night he actually let go of the bat but I could tell he was trying not to so to be able to make

that adjustment and then kind of you know the first couple games that he came back you know he did that he sublux on April 5th came back on like the 16th I believe and had a few Ofer games there but in my opinion he was just working through that like it's a totally different type of swing that you have when you're going one-handed and exclusively two-handed now. And he came into Daughter Stadium and just did it, man. And his swings have been so good. It's just really cool to see him come back that quickly. We thought this might be like a season-ending injury the way it looked. And he took like a really I think the limited amount of time, the least amount of time on the IL came back and has looked good. I mean, he's, we always talk about.

He's the most electric player in baseball. He's a wow guy and he's doing it now and having to make an adjustment in prime time. It's awesome to see. Yeah, I mean, five home runs in three games is crazy. Seven hits, five homers, and three games. Yeah, but most people, like, when you do it as a swing, against the Lexpress pitchers.

Yeah. Who do he hit him off of though? Kershaw, Kershaw, Bauer, Bauer Mae. If you're a guy, if you're, you know, for anybody listening there, if you're a person who played baseball and you let go over the bat and had one-handed, one-handed follow-through, go ahead and try to keep two hands on the bat. It's going to feel very awkward for you.

I try to do it a little bit towards the end of my career. It really feels like you're cutting your swing off. It's really hard to get extension when you're not used to doing it. But he's just so good that he's just figured out a way to do. Do you think it has any effect on pulling it more or going opo more? Yes. Which way? I mean, he's still pulling the ball more this year than his career averages so far, very small.

But his whole career is kind of small. I think he'll pull the ball better, like the right way with the two-handed swing. He's really forcing himself to stay inside the ball with it. So I think we're eventually going to see his spray chart kind of move more towards the center of the field. I know you said it's been towards left field I think as he gets really comfortable with this two-handed follow through we're going to see him spray the ball

like throughout the field more but he's pulling the ball the right way because it really does force you to like try to stay through the ball so it's been really impressive I was curious to see how he would handle that and the first couple games not so great and then he comes into LA

and just does his thing so do you know his total hit numbers I'm learning this for the first time I knew it was crazy but he doesn't have an opo hit yet. He has 13 hits, seven are home runs, five are singles. I mean, dude, he didn't.

And one is a double. He hadn't done too much heading to this weekend. He was hurt, and then a five homer weekend will do it for you. So 14 hits, one double, seven home runs. Half of his hits are home run. I mean, that one Bauer slider he hit was like outside of the zone or whatever it was.

And he just, but he got full extension. He peaked. A little car. Controversy. It's just impressive to me to be able to do that. I think that people need to know how hard that is to make an adjustment like that. And then come back and still kind of look like the guy that we're used to seeing. That's true.

Jake, who is your standout performance? stand-up performance, Treve. Trevor. Five homers, three games. Trevor, dude. Bang up job, man. He should start making some plays that short. Good read by you.

Finding this guy. I am going with a guy who I share a lot with. Mostly. His abbreviated name is my name.

Jacob de Grom, I think I gave him one the other week. I think I game one when he was pitching at Cores and he racked up a casual 14er. He, uh, he came back and he said, that was, that was boring. I gave up some unearned runs, too. Why don't, why don't I take it out of the boy's hands a little bit? How about nine-inning shuddy?

Uh, not too bad. 15Ks! Two hits. And in that game, I believe he also, had two hits. Everyone's talking about this Otani guy. Give me DeGrom. It's just...

The reason I think you lads didn't pick him is because it's kind of the same thing. Like, we've been so blinded the past four years now by how incredible this is. He's giving up one-earned run this year. 29 innings. 50 strikeouts. He's led baseball and strikeouts the past three years now, if you include this year.

The guy's unreal. By the way, pitchers can't hit, but he is 6 for 11 this season. The former shortstop. I didn't see his hits. What were they? I mean, he's got one double on the year. He's dinking and dunkin, but he's hitting. So I don't know, man.

It's weird that this is boring to talk about. At the same time, it's so electric when you watch it. I know our guy, Maddie Mas, went to the game, tweet out a funny pick about me and Jimmy's Mets history. But he was like, yeah, dude, it was kind of cool, like going there and just rooting for the Mets and DeGrom. And I was like, yeah, that's what we used to do that on Harvey Day. So it used to be really cool.

But DeGrom is doing it to a whole different level, a Hall of Fame level. Every time DeGrom has a nasty start, Trev's guy, Jeff Passon is letting you. you read his article about it. The guy's a monster. He's kind of like broken the game. It's kind of funny when I'm watching him hit right now.

And we did this with Tristan McKenzie, but this is way different. But it just doesn't, it's just funny that like you can tell the body type of a pitcher or hitter, just more when you see them in a box. Like that, he's just a little far away from the plate there. Standing more upright. Yeah. Like that stupid word hitter. Yeah.

Like he looks hitterish. Like you could just look at this and be like, that guy doesn't look hitterish, but goes the other. It goes the other way, a little flare shot. That was one of them. So have they won more DeGrom games than they've lost now? He, his record is two and one.

They have, they lost the first two, they've won the next two. So, hey, how about it? There you go. How about 14 plus Ks in your last three starts? Jim, how nasty was Garrett Cole on Saturday versus the Indians? Second half of the game, he was crazy. Pretty nasty, seven innings, 11Ks. I mean, 14, 14, 15.

Stupid, man. No, he's really good. I love that you're giving to Grom some love. Obviously, he deserves it. You talk about how we don't talk about enough because he just does it all the time. The Kirschoff effect. he's the guy.

People talk about DeGrom. He's the best pitcher ever. He's a Hall of Fame. Kershaw's been doing what DeGrom is doing even better for seven more years. I feel like people... I live in L.A., and I don't think of Kershaw

in the same way I think of DeGrom. And I don't know why that is. Trev, can you get an unplug, repug? You went robot on us. Oh, robot Treves. I'll say what Trev was about to say, and, you know, Jake's underappreciated, too. like Kershaw's kind of the Jake effect

and I like that you were heading there man You didn't have to do that but you did that No I mean Foolish baseball is truing it out Like what would DeGrom have to do To have a better final career than Kershaw And it's almost like It's impossible It's impossible

But she Because they're the same age and you don't think about that You think he's younger Yeah Check check check check Yeah I mean Kershaw's best stretch probably 2013 through 2016 area

Yeah I mean it's a very similar ERA plus to what DeGrom's doing DeGrom's got the punchies a little more And a little more pizzazz if we're being honest But no I mean Clayton Clayton he does art man The Grom's ERA plus right now on the season so far Is 1,238

Yeah Meaning He's 1,000 1138% better than the average pitcher. True. 1,138% or. I'm done giving them stand out because it's not, it doesn't even stand out anymore.

Yeah. Normal de Grom start. Normal to graham start. The only thing that stood out here is the two hits, to be honest. Yeah. I was like, oh, yeah, cool. All right, let's get negative. Let's get negative.

Negative. Whomp, womp, wom. Wow. Sun watch. Trump watch. I thought I saved the sound bite last time, but I guess I didn't. The soundboard. Check up your butt?

No, I didn't. Wait, wait, wait. Checking? Checking? Tramp watch. What you got, Bieber? Well, we're starting off with a man very close to my heart. Reese Hoskins, this week, four for 13, three dingers, six ribbies,

and a walk. Shame to flame. God, Bree. It's a great. One of my favorite swings. Oh, it's Trevor. Oh, my bad. That's my bad.

That's, don't speak for Trevor. I wouldn't do that. Little brain. And our guy Ian Hat. There's one for 10 coming into last week. One for seven this week. It only played two games. Only played two games.

Two walks. We're still going to keep him on. We're still watching him. We're going to move past her quickly. Shout out sequence episode coming out tomorrow, second AB. And a bat against like, trying in. Ian, go watch.

go taste yourself a little bit. Power sinker. Frankie Lindor, we almost took him off because one of his three hits. Last week was a homer. This week, three hits again and 13 ABs, three Ks. Yeah, no, he's still on. I mean, he had no walks. He had no

extra base hits. He just had one hit in each game. So he's very much still on. Max Muncie, one for nine. Eight walks. Geez. Crazy. A ribby. Yeah, man.

What's going on? Is he the Joey? Is he... He loves it. Can we do, like, Max Muncie watch now that Mad Bum's off Mad Bum watch? Or unless Mad Bums still on because... I still want to watch Mad Bum. Like, a 5.56 on base percentage.

I think he's just off and it just sucks. I mean, this is my walk thing yesterday. Like, he got a 2-0 pitch right down the middle and just couldn't have been less interested. Yeah, not going to swing 2-0. But also, then Pomerant's... got him out one, two, three through three fastballs in the zone. Nasty last one lasty. That's tough. But still, I mean, came into the zone.

So it's, you still got a hit. I had like a shower thought about Muncie this morning. I was like, he is always doing way better and way worse than you think. And I think this is why. Because he just walks all the time. When he gets hits, they're usually for power too. Well, noisy is the new Muncie. And he made his debut.

Remember we said? You were thinking about Max Muncie in the shower? Yeah. I mean, that part's normal. Just I had to have thought about him this morning. He's an ever new, Trev. George. He was just of us.

Yeah. Actually, George and. It's actually a bean. It's actually just like a beanie and a tube sock. What else do you think about? Maxxon for the shower? Are there other thoughts, BBD? Yeah.

Oh, plenty. But that's its own show that I do. Yeah. Could the shower at hold me. Mani Machado. Four for 18, two Ruby's five K's. So for seven the week before. Still on.

Still on. I mean there was a very clutch hit, though, so I think Padres fans were like. Is everybody like Stang? Yeah, Ozuna's staying. Zahua. Yeah, Zona's Ofer, yeah. Azuna stays. Shwerber stays two for 12. Unless you don't care.

Oh, that's interesting. No, I do care. It's still April. We care. It's on a new team. Don't like him looking at uni. Gary Sanchez, he stays. Will Smith is an argument. Three for seven and two of the three are doubles. Yeah, Will Smith.

And get him off there. 429 batting average, 556 on base. He's off. And Zach Plessack did not play since we put him on. So he can't come. I'm just a scary. Yeah, so Gary Stang, he did have a good on base percentage in the three games or two games that he played.

He's still seeing the ball well. He just not getting hits anymore. I was going to put out a series of tweets about what I'm seeing. I thought I might save it for a sequence episode. Essentially the same thing is happening with him. He's starting a little late, and then everything speeds up after that. So he is swinging at good pitches, but his barrel location is not there, like his barrel accuracy. So he's getting these heaters and just, he's just a little late.

Just a tiny bit, man. So hopefully he figures that out. I'd like it if he did. Yeah. All right, we got some players that are getting added. I ask him. Before we do that, Jeff, Jeff Bridich resigned from the Rocky's GM job. No.

British. British. Say why? Wait, that's fucked up. Yeah, Kyle sent it to us in our talking baseball. A couple people slacked me and I got in the past and tweet. Why? Because he did bad at his job.

But the owners don't. He's saving his own face. Yeah. It's like late to do that. Like you're pretty much like pot committed. Like if you like resign before being forced to do that trade, not after. Right. You know, if you're like not on board and you want to resign because you don't like the way the ownership is making you run the team or whatever and you think it's going to block in your name as a GM, do it before you make the Aeronado trade, which was awful.

Not after. It's kind of like, wait, was he against the Aeronado trade? I thought he was like the guy that ran him out of town. No idea. Either. That's what I'm trying to say. Who's. Yeah.

It's weird. Like, I thought him and the owners were kind of doing the same bullshit together. And now to find if you find out like he's, the owners want him out or he wanted out, like, well, who are we mad at then? Both still? Yeah. Sounds to me that the owners are just scapegoating him. Even though he's probably deserved of getting his job taken away from him, like they can just put a face on it. Yeah, I guess they could have also given him the, we're going to fire you.

So resign or resign. But even then, like firing him to. put a face on it like it's still from the top. Yeah. Like I don't know, they don't want him in charge of the trade deadline. But it's top stuff. Everything you're saying. Yeah, I guess I'll read a bunch of, I don't know anything.

It might be a big part of Wednesday's episode. Trying to wrap my head around. We don't talk about them. We're Deepak fans. That's true. That's true. All right. So guys to add.

Oh, yeah. We got a lot of players staying. Holy smokes. Might not want to add many. Do I read? Yeah. Okay. So I'm starting off.

Well, I forget how we do it now because we've talked about so many different ideas. Acuna, he comes back for the injury and goes 0 for 10. So I don't know what we want to do there. Yeah, I thought we were only going to be adding five. Well, there's a few options there. And I thought we were set up on. You guys like pick each pick one to add, but also we picked a bunch this week. So it's a tough ask.

We've got some other offers on there. I don't, I don't, I don't fault Boba Shet for slumping just because Carl Ravich. Completely embarrassed him on Nashville. No, he's, Bo Bichette is in every other series player. He went, he went flame against the Yankees and then shame against the Rangers and then flame against him ever played last week. And now he's going shame again. He's like, he's just almost almost like.

Oh, I like that. Wow. Can we get his splits weekday versus weekend? Does baseball reference offer those? I think they do. I can't at least find the days of the week. He's both turning up individually. That's so funny.

Does he have his peaches down in the channel? Can we just take all the Braves off? Because, like, I'm over. Yeah, Braves stink right now. So I'm taking Ozuna off. I'm taking a Coonia off. Yes. I'm just taking all the Braves off.

You just stink right now. And then Schwaber and Bell. I mean, they're like, you know. They're the same thing. But I am interested. I'm not interested. But kind of once one of them's off, I don't care about either of them. Has Schwaber been good yet?

Because then it's not slump watch yet. He had a homer. Yeah. Huge. One that I saw. His first two. His first two, and then he had a good stretch against, he had a good series against the Diamondbacks.

It's like supposed to be a hitter. It wasn't even that good, though. No, no. He's just been bad. I mean, I'm, this is like, we have to rid, you're not good yet out of the slump watch. Otherwise, we're still going to have like 20 people every time. Okay.

You have to be good and then be back. Yeah. I mean, is Gary off then if we're doing tough love? Well, Gary's been good. He has two games. I think his stat is if you take away the first two games, he's been, I think he had a bad since. It's not been extra. He had a couple games after.

If you can send that's like five, I'm with you. Just saying, it's still early in the year. I understand the policy you're trying to set. Yeah, I mean, through the first, through his first 32 plate appearances, Gary had a 406 on base percentage. 296 batting average. That's a good stretch. He's been like over. Do I need to call Marcus up and just say, this is what I'm seeing?

Can you tell Gary this for me? Like, what's going on there? It's so obvious to me. I don't understand how he's not. Call Marcus. Call Marcus. If you've got that ability, we would really appreciate it. I swear to God, if someone put me in contact with him,

I could work with Marcus to fix Gary. Whose number do you have on the Yankees? Tyler Wade, my bad. Is he on the Yankees right now? I have some, but I'd never text them to try and fix a player. Imagine if I'd text them. Here's a thing about hitting coaches, man. They got 25 or I guess 12, 12 or 13 guys they got to take care of, man.

Yeah. A lot. Matt Chapman, 0 for 9, four walks. He had a hot streak a couple weeks ago. At the beginning of that. Eugenio Suarez, but hasn't he not even started hitting yet? Eugenio. Do you guys handle this?

This is my least fair part of the show because I just, It's a mess. I don't know how we did it in past years, but like this is... I think we got to chop down even more. I got, yeah, I thought we said only five can be added, and then like only five can stay. Like, we need to chop it down a lot. We're kind of, we're close to that right now and it's still messy. I think we've got to reduce even more.

Okay. Toilet flush, because we don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. It's to be good. Luis Castillo getting hit. How about that? It's three starts in a row.

Not bad. Yeah, I had Corbett on here as well, but I'll take him off. He's been awful. I don't know what's going on with him. Got paid and laid. What's going on Fuego? I'm over these guys. They're all going to be hot.

That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco. All right. In Fuego, we got some hitters here. Tatis already heard about him. Five home runs. CJ Crone. Yes. Seven for 12 with two homers,

six, 15 on base percentage. Colton Wong for the brew crew. Pretty good. They're searching for offense right now. Off the IEL. Off the IL. Pitching has been great. He goes 7 for 13 with a homer and three doubles. That's really good. Dylan Carlson, one of the few cardinals that raked the pitching did a lot of the work.

Carlson went off 7 for 11. He's having a good season. Yon Mancada. He homered three RBI's, three walks, 643 on base percentage on the series. And Tapia, the one dude from the. the Rockies that I'm paying attention to. He 462 average 500 on base percentage. Six for 13 with the Homer.

Trade him. Walk off Homer. Walk off Homer, yep. So that's the hitters that had the best weekend. Or the ones we wanted to highlight. There might be something that had like better and whatever stat you like. Pitchers that are hot.

DeGrom talked about him. Boring. Matt Boyd has a 164 ERA in his last three starts and a 182 on the same. season. Renating. Actually, I haven't... You're still in Bundy.

I haven't gone and looked into if he's doing anything different or just being better. I'm interested in to see what... Bundy and Boyd. There's anything difference, yeah. We should take a picture with them. We should.

You Darvish. He's got a 1-33-R-A in his last four starts. Trade's working out pretty well. He looks pretty good. Walker Bueller, we saw him in that same series. 216 E.R.A. Different.

And Gibby, our best friend, he's got a 0.6, 7, ERA in his last four starts, 27 innings pitch, two and runs, 22Ks. He looks great. Those are your Enfuego pitchers. Ghibie going to be traded? Get him in pinstripes. What's his salary? Does he make less than... I love that he's bounced back from that first start.

As bad of a first start as you can have to start a season. As bad as you can have. Nasty sense. What's his season year right now? We've got to look that up. I got my gibbies down in Georgia. 2.30. I mean, he's doing it.

So that's awesome to start off with a 135 ERA. Went to Lance's fastball farm. Making nine and a half mill this year, seven and a half next year? Pinstripes. I don't know if they can afford that. Pinstripes. Well, there you go. Willing to eat a lot of Ruby?

This seems, someone said the Yankees can't afford something. is such a different mindset than like I grew up. Like the Yankees could afford everything. Anything. Yeah, I mean, they still have the second half payroll. The game done changed. They still spend more money than your team. A lot of fans of other teams like to call the Yankees cheap,

but the Yankees still outspend them. The only fans I can do that is the Dodgers. The Yankees still spend more than the U. Straves Dodgers. Yeah. All right, let's go to a whoa. I am giving out the who. Who is she award?

Beautiful. Want to read a fun stat here? Listen to this. Love that. Tweeted out by Matt Birch. Shohei Otani will be the angel starting pitcher on Monday. It's been almost exactly 100 years since a player made a pitching start while also leading the majors in homers. Babe Ruth did it.

We're literally getting the hype. we were told we would get. Shohei Otani's hitting homers, leads the league, and he's going to be pitching. And he's pitching isn't that bad either. It's crazy. Like if he can keep this up, it's one month, we'll see.

But so far, even the fact that he's doing it, and he did it in 18, and he's doing it now, when all the injuries and all that, we were like, hey, maybe you don't even do it. I know, we'll just run them out there. He's going to go Babe Ruth on everyone. It's crazy. His swing is so weird.

He's got a lot of pop in that swing. It doesn't seem like it's a swing that generates a lot of power, but my goodness, that guy can hit the ball far. I don't get it, Travis. I got a trampoline bat or something. When he hits one, Opo, it just never looks like he actually got it to me. And then I'm like, what? Let me tell you something, Jim.

A lot of guys are searching for that Japanese wood. Ooh. When you get a Japanese wood bat, it's harder. I don't know what the deal is. There's some SSKs that I used to, I forget who used to have those. Somebody used to have those. And boy,

those things were hard. I bet you Otani's got some nice, dense, perfect wood bats. I'd like to investigate that a little bit. Okay. It's not like a cheating thing or anything, but I bet you he's got like incredible sticks.

Yeah. I'm interested. There's a website called like what players wear. What pros wear.com. And they usually have like all the equipment. That guys like their gloves, their cleats, their bat. It says that looking, looking, looking, they don't have it up here. They have everything else.

They have his cleats, batting gloves. They just don't have his bat. Curious. I'll look into that a little bit. There's a blank square where it should be. What the hell? So yeah, Otani's Ruth.

Think about Babe Ruth and like what Otani's doing. And then you have to imagine like the rest of the league was just like, like there's some really good hitters and home run hitters in the league. And then back when Babe Ruth was playing, like he was like twice as good as any other hitter too like as far as like power. So it's interesting to think about that. Like if Otani was leading the league with 40 homers, the next highest person was like at 20.

like, Babe Ruth was so dominant for his time. A6, Trev. A6, Maple, Bat. Gold Stage seems to be a premium label in Japan. I bet you nobody else is swinging A6 in the show except for show hay.

Show hay. So yeah. Just making history. Leading the league in Homer, starting pitching. And they played him in last. field for the first time, which should qualm there. We're not going to hit him on days when he pitches because we don't want to lose the DH or would you still lose the DH if you move him to the field from pitcher?

So if he's pitching and then he goes to left field, you still got to replace the pitcher. You lose the left field. But you wouldn't lose the DH? I think so. I don't think so. He stays in the field. Yeah. So that might be their way.

That might be their way around that And get him to hit and pitch in the same game more often He played, it was the first time he ever played the outfield Or the field Field. Field. In MLB. That's cool. It's a freak. He pitches tonight?

Monday. Monday. Which is today. Okay. Yeah. I was going up against the Rangers And we had, I was on the IG live saying Corbyn Burns, Shohay Otani, a good chance They might throw no hitters tonight because of the offenses they're facing. And then Willie Calhoun was in the chat. I had to walk that one back a little bit.

Hey, maybe Willie, you'll take him deep to know. Boy, Willie. Damn, damn. I got to watch what I'm saying. Damn. Damn. Damn. Damn.

Me or you, Jake. You. It's always you, baby. All right. I'm giving the, are we doing boners? Oh, wow. I did see you write that in there. We doing boners award.

You got to stay with me here. I'm going to try to piece it all together for everyone. I'm talking our guy. What? That's what awards are, piecing it together. Usually, if you ask me that question, are we doing boners? I'm going to say yes.

This one, I'm not sure. I'm talking about Emmanuel Clace. Reliever for the Cleveland Class A. I was wondering. Is it a class? We're not great at names, but I think it's a class. Whatever. Emmanuel from the Indians.

Okay. If you look at his transaction history here. Let's get down here. I had it up. So he was signed by the Padres. Then he was traded to the Rangers as a player to be named later for Brett Nicholas. Now, people don't know who Brett Nicholas is. Very nice guy.

But he's essentially Rube Baker. You know who Rube Baker is? Rube Baker. Like the catcher that has to recite the Victoria Cs catalog. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yes. So the Rangers, I'm piecing it. The Rangers essentially got Class A for free from the Padres.

And then they shipped him off to the Indians in the Kluber deal. So he's been really good. 2020, guess what happens? Makes his debut in 2019, has a good year. 2020 gets bang for PEDs. That's where my hesitation comes and misses the entire season from that. Then he comes back. And I don't know if you guys have watched this guy pitch.

Mm-hmm. Like a 102-mile-an-hour cutter. It's disgusting. So he's had this strange transaction thing. The Indians basically got him for free after the Rangers gave up on him and they got him for free. Now he's throwing probably my favorite pitch and all the baseball are now. He looks disgusting. But I'm not sure, like, am I supposed to be rooting for this guy?

Am I doing boners with the Manuel Claisse? Because he is a steroid guy. He got pop, missed a hole. season, but he's so good right now and so fun to watch. What am I supposed to do? How do you guys feel about that? I think you can root for him, man. I don't know.

What do you get popped for? Do we care? Just says a performance enhancing. Got 80 games. They gave him the full season and counted that last year. The 60 games counted as an 80 game suspension. There's no transparency. There's zero transparency.

transparency, really, between these pops unless you're like cano and then there's so much like going into exactly the drug he took and why he took and all that. And there's so many stories of guys to get popped and it says PEDs and then you like read deeper and it's not that I almost don't even input that as information. Like I have no idea of this dude actually was like cheating the game or he was recovering from an injury or he would just like something small that you would get at a pharmacy. see like it's kind of they've watered down that suspension in my brain like I don't actually consider anyone unless it really comes out like canoes really came out and they're like no it's this and this and this and he's a repeat offender yeah so I almost don't hold it against guys that get just popped once Montes yeah he's 23 years old he's yet to give up an earned run he's 9.1 innings pitch he's got 11 k's I don't even think he's figured out the kind of

pitcher he can be. Like I think he has the stuff to like be like a elite reliever. And the Indians, again, just finding pitching out of nowhere is kind of the story here. Yeah, I don't know what stats, but he looked incredibly wild against the Yankees. I'm looking at like his spray charts now. He does three walks to 11 strikeouts right now. But when you throw that damn hard and the ball is moving that much. Yeah.

It's unbelievable. He basically cut her slider guy. I want to root for him. Like, basically that's my whole thing is I want to root for this guy. I think watching in pitch is so fun, but I also don't like the steroid thing. So my boner is confused right now. Let's root for him.

I mean, it obviously sucks a little bit, and I think we still, you know, I get caught up in the 90s era because you think about steroids and you still jump to McGuire, Konseco, these big guys, and that's not Class A. So I'm going to root for him.

I mean a 102 cutter, it's kind of unreal. Like he threw one the other day while we were watching, and it's just like, oh, my God. Like, that's unreal. Like, that's where I laugh at Arod referencing Tony Gwynn, because guess what Tony Gwynn didn't see? 102 cutters, man. So, yeah, I think we could bone her up for him.

I think he's gross. He's got a great baseball savant page, Jim. I know you're like that. 72% of the time he's still on the cutter. 24% he's still on a slider. and the pitches are just nasty, man. They're just nasty. I want people to go check them out.

Do it. Did you ask Chris Rose? Cleveland guy. I didn't. I should. Tomorrow I'll ask him about him. Tomorrow I'll ask you about them. Insta live.

11.30 Eastern. John Boy Media, Instagram page. Jake? Who's your award? My award just got renamed. It was going to be. the Neil Allen Award. But it's, we're doing the Let's do Boners Award.

Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah, I'm doing the Let's Do Boners Award. Because Trev, and I don't think you realize this, but there's some beautiful artistry that's about to go on. I am giving my award to Kent Emanuel. So we went from Manuel Class A to Kent Emanuel. My guy made his major league debut for the Stroes

Our guy, Odo gets hurt We're going to check in on him We'll get an update for you guys Gets pulled after one out Kent, you're in buddy The lefty 28 years old making his major league debut Probably didn't know he was going to pitch this day

You know, they were probably expecting six strong out of Odo And then go to the meat of the bullpen What does Kent come do? He comes in and he throws the baseball baby. 8.2 innings goes the rest of the way. He only gives up two runs, two homas. I mean, for a major league debut, I can't even imagine, man. Like, that would be the last thing on my mind. I'd just be hoping to throw strikes and get some outs. Kent said, screw that. You gave me the bump. I'm going 8.2 is the first time a reliever's gone that long since...

Ernie Shore. I took a guess. took a guess. It was Neil Allen in 88. Uh, so 30 plus years. And Trev, here's the kicker. My guy got popped for a PD suspension, Kent Emanuel, but it's controversial. He got tested positive for D.H. CMT, which I guess is this old steroid that I don't know. There's a bunch of articles on it. Ken Rosenthal wrote one. It's like kind of controversial. My guy Kent is so built up and pissed off, he got the number zero because he said, I should have been suspended for that many games. He said it in his post-game presser.

Yes, after his major league debut, where he came out and pitched 8.2 in relief, he said, I'm wearing number zero because that's how many games I should have been suspended. Man, are you going to fit in well in Houston, buddy? Keep that up. Keep shoving, my man, and good for you. I don't know anything about the actual deal. H-CMT, but apparently there's a discussion around it. But again, it goes back to what we're saying.

I mean, Kent is 28. He kind of looks like our- East German steroid from the 70s and 80s. So like... There was a lot of guys that stands a ball in this. Like a lot of guys were getting popped for it out of nowhere. I think that's where... I'm forgetting his name now.

Chris Colabello, former teammate of mine. He's denied it vehemently that he didn't take any steroids. But what a line right there. zero on my back because that's how many games I should have been suspended for. Yes. Welcome to Houston. He was waiting on that one. I wanted to give him standout, but Mad Bum no hit, so I altered.

But yeah, that's really cool. Do you know who Ernie Shore is? Ernie Shore. Sure don't. Ernie Shore threw a perfect game, but it doesn't count because Babe Ruth threw to one pitcher. Oh, yes. He threw like two pitches. The umpire called him balls.

And then Babe Ruth charged the umpire. He got ejected. Ernie Shore replaced him. Got 27 batters. Well, Babe got him loose. He got all 27 batters that he faced out. But Babe, like, let the first runner on, like, four-pitch walk and got ejected. Pretty funny.

Pretty good story. Babe got him loose. Kent. I'm reading the article about Kent, Emmanuel, on the Wall Street Journal right now. So everyone go check that out. I'm sure there's some good nuggets in there. What do you think they say? said did it was he lined up to start the next day or no i bet it's a bald guy for oto i mean

i don't have no idea i'm guessing he was like i thought about that if he had no idea but i'm guessing they said like hey otto's not going to go deep because he's still starting i guess like still getting into the season like you're going to be his second the second guy out but i'm i'm totally taking a blind guesser eight and two thirds is you know he's probably i'll go four it was a funny I'm good I'll go for. It's a funny graphic of, you know, Kent Emanuel. They put up underneath him, like, you know, MLB debut. And he's facing Pouls.

And the graphics said, like, has Helmered off 413 different MLB pitchers or whatever the number is? It's kind of funny. And then Poulos Homered and then Shohay Homer, but he did go 8.2. I think because I think Emmanuel got called up Friday. So, I mean, he was around. I don't know. Interesting stuff. But talk about, you know, every.

Everyone's major league debut is a story, and Kent's got a good one. Yeah. Do you want to do elevator talk? I guess that's how we usually end the show. I'm about to dive deep into a long one today. It is. I'm going to dive deep into this Rockies thing, though. The official statement's interesting.

We also have to give out the best friend of the week. Oh, best friend of the week. Who was it? Well, as much as Gibby tried to go for his third, the best friend of the week is Reese Hoskins with the three homers, six ribbies. Good job, Reese. Great job by Reese. I needed that from you personally.

Yeah. The Rockies official statement says that the Colorado Rockies now said at the club and executive vice president slash general manager Jeff Britch have mutually agreed that he will step down from his role effective immediately. So it sounds like they said we're firing you or you're stepping down. That's usually how that, what that structure of that sentence means. And then I found interesting that they're like Fiesel, the club's executive vice president. He's been named President and Chief Operating Staff, and he will now oversee baseball operations in addition to his current responsibilities

leading all facets of the club's business operations, including spearheading the organization's role as host of 2020 MLB All-Star Game festivities in July. I don't know why that's included in this at all. Yeah. Just getting people excited about it. Yeah. Reminder, we do have the All-Star game. I can't believe this guy's name is Feasel.

That's tough. Just way too close to Weasel. Feasel the Weasel? Yeah. He heard that grown up. Still does. Also, measles aren't a good. When you type in Feasel, when you type in Feasel to Google,

my auto, like, populate brings up Feasel the muffin thief. Mmm. Oh, it's a World of Warcraft thing. Huge. All right. Thought it was a real life muffin thief. All right. We can do a little quick.

Quick elevator. One minute. One minute on the clock. Because I got to be honest to you guys, I've been holding in a piece since Trev started the AL recap. And it's, it's spinning the wheel. If you're stuck in an elevator with a. Hey now, hey now. If you're stuck in an elevator, Philadelphia Phillies.

Wow. And the episode. And the, you know that. They've got an outfield. They've got Wheeler. They've got Nola. Harper's hot. Bomb.

That was a bomb he hit. He went into the staircase. You want to talk about someone? I said, hey, did you hit that? You see that ball Harper hit in Colorado? It went out of the stadium because it went into a staircase. And they never found it again, actually, ever. I've seen live Bryce Harper hit a home run in Colorado.

How about that? You sure? Yeah. He's a pretty good player. Yeah, all time. Oversshadows the rest of the team. Nice. Their second worst and OPS from third basements.

They're 14th. D.D's worldly. No, he's 14th at shortstop in OPS. First base is 13. So don't believe what BPD tweets. Follow BPD. He's got hot. Philly's updates.

Nick Maton's taking the hearts of Phillies fans. He's got like several multi-hit games in a row coming up. He's got like a 400 or 100-something batting average in his first six games. A lot of people are like, hey, can we like have him play center field when Gene comes back? Because they get nothing at a center field. Hey, hey, easy. Mickey Moniac. They are.

I'm just telling you what the replies to all my tweets says. They are 30th in OPS from centerfielders. Out of 30 teams. Moniac did Homer recently. Sorry, Philly's fans, that elevator talk has gone south with you. But if you need positivity, go to BBD's Twitter. Right here. We're just fighting the demon.

No, is it Mayton or Maton? I think it's Mayton. He's brothers with the twins, not twins, Indians reliever. Phil, man. Nick. Nick, yeah, man. His last four games have been multi-hit for a rook. He's got a hit in every game.

Six games. Philly's fans are going a little overboard. They're calling him the next Chase Utley, and that's too much. It's a little hot. He's played six games, guys, but they think he gives the same energy. Six. And they saw Chase Utley and I did. Starting his MLB career, 11 for 22.

Go get it, kid. Love that. Thanks, everybody. You can go pee. Yeah, I'm out. We love you. We're all going to pee.