Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 330 | Phillies & Cardinals Hit Each Other + Vladdy's 3-Homer Day

Episode Date: April 30, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We are through the first month of the season. How about that? It flew. Let's talk about what happened this week, though. Don't no, no. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for joining us on this Friday afternoon.

We appreciate you dearly. My name is Jimmy. See next to me is Jake in California. We got Trevor Plouffe. And in the corner, we got Big Baby David. Producer extraordinaire here at John Boy Media. How many shows do you produce, BPD? This, Yanks, J.J.R.

Nick's Waken, Jake. Love making. Five? I think so. Free game show on Mondays? Mondays. Six shows. Hot.

Insane. Jake, how are you doing? James, Trevor. Beautiful, baby, David. Everybody in the chat. What's going on? I'm doing well, man. You honest about that?

I'm doing well. Yeah, I think so. I think so. I think like Trevor's about to say, I'm getting my second shot tomorrow, which wasn't, I thought it was this Friday. It turned out it was next Friday, but we moved it up. So that kind of changes my whole weekend around. It's like, oh, you know, probably have a nice relaxing weekend,

watch some baseball, maybe do some stuff outside. Now it's like, oh, well, my weekend's kind of shot. So, but I'm doing good. Baseball continues to be hot in the streets. It's the first thing. Like, NBA's been dead for a little bit. The NFL draft tried to hop in last night. Always fun.

Good seeing, you know, happiest moments of kids' lives and stuff. But everyone only cares about the first round. So it's over? We're back to baseball. No, I don't. I care about day three. I only care about day three. You're a day three guy.

You have filled a roster guy. No. Ben Mason guy. Newtown. Rumors the Jets might be Ionum. Newtown. Yeah, he went to Michigan, Trev. Ben Mason.

brick of a human being. Harbo was using him as a tight end or fullback, which he kind of is. And then he switched him to defense, I think. And it was like, what are you doing here? And they ruined him. Ben Mason. What's the significance of Ben Mason? He's my neighbor. He's my, he's Luke's buddy. It's my neighbor. He's like, saw him when he used to come over, sloppiest eater I've ever seen in my life. He would come over and eat dinner with us and just be like, Ben, you need a napkin or 10 because you got all the food over your entire face. So he's looking to get drafted. Hey, hold on.

You might take his draft stock down a little bit. Those NFL guys, they find the strangest things to move you up or down the board. So a sloppy eater. A full back tight end, sloppy eater drives it up. That drives it. It goes up. Yeah. You want your fullback tight end to not breathe while he eats.

What do they play on defense? Fullback tight end? Was he like a blindbacker? Yeah, I think they moved him in the line. They beefed him up. They moved him around a lot. He's a... He's a... He's a...

He's a big boy. He's a big boy. He's a big boy. Yeah. So, rooting for him. I think they were getting into more of a spread offense, so they weren't going to use a fullback as much, but he was like an elite talent, so they still wanted to use them. So they had him on defense.

So go Ben Mason's day three, round six or seven. His freshman year, he was basically... Who was the Earth, Wind and Fire running back for the Jacobs? He was basically Brandon Jacobs for a mission. Michigan, like his freshman or sophomore year in high school, or if they were within five yards, they just gave Ben the ball. I think he had like four touchdowns, one game. And they were all like two-yard runs.

I love this. Talking football. It's already better than talking giants. That's odd that we have. This is already better. Shots fired. Pool man, beef. Bobby Skinner tried to come at me on Twitter.

I expect more out of them. I didn't even give it a response because it was so, it was just a bad joke. Did you see our talking giant crew both say, um wow in the same in unison or whoa it's the fun it's so funny whoa I haven't seen that

that's our shout out talking giants our crew that covers the giants all right I'm just kidding how are you doing crap to me I'm doing well you know I had the second shot uh night up I felt fine then I woke up in the morning felt a little woozy um a little bit of nauseous

but um honestly I took some Tylenol and I felt fine you know kind of bang me up a little bit but this body's ready for that i'm ready for anything in this thing so i'm back today i feel great i was a little bit sluggish on this on the on the on the on the IG live i looked bad so these sunglasses are helping me out a little bit um but i'm back man i'm ready to talk some baseball recap these series let's do it man i'm excited i love talking basically. Shake.

Taboo ginger with a hot face. All right. Draft Kings, presented by Draft Kings. I don't think I said that and I've said at the beginning of the show. So Talk of Baseball presented by Draft Kings.

Nailed it. Jake, you have the National League today, which means you're batting leadoff. I'm very interested to find out what happened in the National League. I know some things this time, but not all. To the what? To the, what?

To the, ooh. It's your birthday. Happy birthday. All right, Jake, let's just do it. Let's get into the weeds here. On your mark. Get set. What happened in the National League?

Tell me you ready. James, Trev. David Ho. There it is. Let's start out with Mansplained Baseball's Atlanta Braves. They took on the Cubbies. Braves had been off to a slow start. And hey, they win the first three.

They dropped the fourth game. But Braves kind of getting. back on track, Freddie Freeman with the big day. You know a first pitcher home run in a while. How about that? Good for you, big fella. Mariznick hits. We've already always had a Jake Beef. I'm out on that. Braves take three out of four from the Cubs. The Brewers take on the fish with arms.

My Marlins. How about my guy Rogers? Kind of planted a seed there for no reason. Took a chance. He's making me look good. Unfortunately, the other guy was making me look good. Corbyn Burns. He has a bad start. and he goes to the IL. I hate that.

I hate that. Hasey's Aguilar might hear a little bit about him later. Marlins take two out of three from the Brew. Cardinals and Phillies. They split four and they go every other. Phillies, Cardinals, Phillies, Cardinals. Reese Hoskins, have you heard about this Phillies infield? It's all I see when I close my eyes at night.

Big injury week, guys. Cardinals, Molina, Wainwright, and Miller, all to the 10-day I-L. I hate that. They split the series. Los Hippido-Hantes. Those words almost mean nothing, but the Giants are your best team in the National League. How about a little pure disco?

One of the first albums I own, Discalfani. They take game 1-12-0. He shoves. The Rockies take an extra innings game for the second one, but the Giants come back and win the series. Giants starting pitching in this series and this season, a 183 ERA in the series. They've been lights out.

Yostremski to the IL. Mike Talkman coming to town, my guy. Dodgers, they must have won their series, right? The Dodgers, no, this is baseball, baby. Cincinnati Reds take two out of three. Pop to Molly, I'm sweating in game one. The Reds take game two as well. Dodgers bounced back.

Clayton Kirshaw on the bump. That guy's pretty good. More injuries, guys. Gratterol and Price. Make it stop, make it stop. And the final NL on NL action, my D-Backs. take on my Padres just claim them. They split. D-backs took the first one. Padres take the second one. I think it broke a streak of like nine straight games that the debacks had beat the Padres. Something

crazy like that. Machado with the big, that whole inning, they went nuts. That was actually fun. Watch that live. More injuries. Calhoun and Widener to the I.L. Make it stop. Make it stop. That is your NL recap. How about that? I'm sexy. Like there's, there's, No other way to say it. Hmm. There's a lot of other ways, I guess. Kind of sexy.

Not sexy. Sometimes, yeah. How about that? Some interesting results here, you know? Marlins beat the Brewers. And then the Dodgers lose to the Reds. And the Giants stay winning. Not an interesting result there for the Giants.

I would have guessed the Giants won that series, but they just keep doing the damn thing. I like. Best team? Best team in the world, Trev, your Giants? We talked about it today. I mean, I said, is it the Dodgers or the Brewers for best team in the NL? And we said, what about them giants? What Gabe Kapler and that coaching staff is doing is remarkable. They just keep reeling off wins, man. And, you know, Rose and I talked about this when he was still working with us and not doing the NFL draft. He still thinks they're in cell mode that the GM there, the GM there, and I'm forgetting his name.

I think it's Mr. Jim. Is it Farhan? Yeah, Farhan. Yeah. He thinks that Farhan has set this thing up beautifully, where they have these pitchers performing on a really team-friendly deals, one-year deals, $10 million deals. He says that come around July, Farhan will be shopping these guys and doing exactly what he planned to do. He doesn't think they're going to stay in it

through the end of the season because he thinks the Padres and the Dodgers are too tall of a task. I don't know, man. Like, what record do they have to get to for that not to be it? For them to go into buyer mode? Like, do they have to be, like, something silly, like six or seven games up? Man. I don't know.

It's so early. So tough in that division. Like, do the, if the Dodgers and Padres go full tilt. And if you're the Giants and you're somehow, if you're somehow keeping pace, you have to reward that. But at the same time, if those teams go full tilt. Feels like the giant's can. They did the same thing last year.

Remember that? They were in the hunt and they kind of went for it instead of selling off. They ended up like one game out of a wild card last year. I'm curious to see how they're going to react this year because it's essentially as of April 30th. They're in the same situation. I mean, they have a little bit more cushion. Like they're in the lead right now. But those two teams are tough.

I don't know, man. It's going to be interesting to see what they do there. But regardless, they have been doing a phenomenal job winning baseball games. I've always been big on Kapler. and all of the developmental coaches there. You have been. It's my favorite coaching staff. Yeah, you know, Kapler is kind of pissing me off

because he doesn't get ejected anymore because he doesn't feel the need to appease the Philly crowd and he's in San Francisco. And that fan base doesn't really care that much. Where in Philly, like, it was a big deal that Kapler didn't get ejected in his first year as a manager. It was like a headline. like Kapler has not didn't get ejected all season so in year two he came out and gave us just three of the most hilarious ejections that you'll see and uh you know the San Francisco fan base isn't clamoring for for that and now Kapler's not getting ejected

and he had like a disagreement the other day but he just like kind of handled it like calmly because he's a calm dude and um that's upsetting for me well calm do you think it's money driven do you think he's like sick of see and $10,000 taken out of his chest? No, dude, I think he's a kind of guy that takes pictures on a beach and linen clothes and not the type of guy that smokes cigars and screams at umpires. I got to tell you, there's a little bit of not the smoking

cigars and yelling at the umpire. There's some intensity there. There's a lot of intensity there. It's bottled up and sometimes he'll let it out. Most of the time he he'll meditate and get back to his chi and the Zen attitude that he carries around most the time, but, you know, it's in there, man.

But yeah, get on them. I'm both those guys, which usually happens. But you know what else keeps you from getting ejected when your pitching staff has the second best ERA in your league? That helps you not get ejected as much. Yeah. But that one GIF of him just going, oh, oh, is the funniest baseball gift that's like we've had.

You should do, we should, maybe Erica will do like a manager gif montage because that Bud Black won the other day? Yeah, that's really good too. So okay. That's low. Okay, we got that. That's coming up. I mean, that Kapler Giff is all time. All time. Oh! Oh!

So what I wanted to look at here in the National League, and I should have done this before the show, is that no NL East team has a winning record right now. And a lot of people could say, well, they've been beaten up on each other, right? So I wanted to take a look at that to see if that's true. I have three of the teams done right now

because they really haven't even played that many in-division games, which is kind of odd. Because that's what I thought like the excuse would be if you're a fan of that division. But I'm looking at it now. The only team I have left to do is the Phillies. I have nationals. I have Mets. I have Miami. Who am I missing? Nationals, Philly. Marlins. That's Miami. You have the Braves.

Braves? The Braves. I got to do the Braves. ATL. ATL. Do the A-Town Crow. So, because that's, you know, naturally I think that's what everyone would say, the Mets are the only team, I haven't done the Braves yet,

that have a winning record in division. Which is kind of, I don't know if this matters or not matters, but we were saying that the division might beat up on itself, so it might not get a second wildcard because they might all just be around like that 88 to 92 because they play each other so much. But I think they're just bad right now and it's not that they're beating up on each other.

I mean, NO West, four teams above 500 right now. I think we've got some good slogs this weekend. Like, I'm really, I'm excited for this episode. I think Monday we're going to have some flames because you've got the Cubs are going up against the Reds, the Mets are going up against the Phillies, Nats Marlins. I think this weekend, we've got a lot of the slog matchups,

and it's going to be excited who can take out the broomstick, and we'll be like, this is the first big step of their season. So the Mets are 7 and 4 in division. That's what I just did the math on, so you can't fully trust it. But it looks like they're 1-1 against the Marlins, four and two against the Phillies, and 2-1 against the Nationals, which would make them 7-4. Braves are 5 and 8 against the division

Marlins are 5 and 8 Nats are 2 and 4 and Philly is 6 and 6 So they're kind of beating up on each other Kind of It's all early and ugly I know Jake story Ellie story I know it is

Philly was the big team when we did the TPPs When we were like ooh Philly's got a lot Because they've had 12 games I think that's the most Where they got a lot of games Against each other They could really take off But survive and they split two with the cards

research starts getting it figured out when he gets hot. Oh, yeah. He gets hot like nobody else in baseball. Cardinals just go town to town firing up other teams hitting him in the head. They're just kind of like a fire starter. In the face. Yeah. I want to pump the brakes on that discussion because that might be talked about a little bit later. Yes.

Pump me. But you do have me looking at the standings and doing all this stuff. Who's the hottest team in baseball now? Do not look. Hottest team in baseball right now? Over the last 10. Giants? Mariners?

The Arizona Diamondbacks. Eight and two in their last 10 tied with the Chicago White Sox, both at eight and two. Go snakes. Rattle up. D-back it up, baby. We have a meeting with them. Oh, Jake's D-Bam. Yeah.

D-back it up. We'll tell him you said that. Freight train, David Peralta. Milwaukee's still doing the damn thing, even though they lost 15 and 10. Everybody. They lost everybody. Yellich is hurting. Burns.

Yellie. is out. Hopefully that's, have we got an update on that, BBD? On what's going on with Burns? Because I thought last time I checked it, they weren't sure yet. I know we went on the I.L. Yeah, I don't know. But our dude, Colton Wong, we did a little Instagram live

with him on the John Boy Media Instagram channel. Jake and I have a little chat with him. What's that? They still have it as undisclosed, Trest. And then Wong hits a home run and then turns a crazy awesome double play. Nasty. So let's go. That's John Boy Media Effect. It's worth

fucking up. Yeah, it's a cool. Lying across the bag. It's like a cheater jump throw off the base. It's cool. I saw the play. I don't want to,

you know, always talk about myself. I'm going to talk about myself right now. I had a play similar to that. Me and Jamie Carroll rolled it up the middle. I'll get the highlight. I'll put it out on Twitter so you guys can see. Love me.

Some Jamie Carroll talk. And the other, I mean, it started off, but the Braves. Braves had been struggling pretty hard. They win that. That first game, the Freddie Freeman Big Three Run Homer, almost give it up.

But then 5-0-10-0, they dropped the final game. But Braves Nation, they needed that, man. They, uh, one of the better teams in the league, and they were off to a rocky start. No, get going. Rocky? Wish I knew a guy named Rocky. Talking to one. No.

Anything else? No, I guess, yeah. Do you want to move on to the AL? I don't know what's going on over there? I got you. I would love. to hear what's going. Well, it's brought to you by our good friends

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Keller versus Turnbull, Santana hit a two-run, home run. Royals complete the sweep over the Tigers. The Indians, they took two of three from the twins. Twins stay losing. Colamey stays bad. Damn, he loses game one. Ramirez game tying home run. Luke Blow walk off two-run homer.

They did win game three, and they hit six home runs to do so, including three in the first. How about that? Twins avoid the sweep. A little bit of pride there. The A's and the Rays split a four-game set. Good pitching and timely hitting all around. No Tampa starter allowed more than, no Tampa pitcher allowed more than two earned runs.

I don't believe an A's pitcher allowed more than two earned runs either. It's just kind of like good, like what they call playoff baseball, just timely home runs and good pitching. So good job by those two teams in the trot. The Angels took two out of three from the Tigers. Otani hits and pitches in the same game again. Mike Trout now has a 420 batting average and a 524 OPS. Holy smokes. That guy is good.

The Yankees and the Orioles also split a four-game set. The Yankees finally got good starts from a pitcher not named Garrett Cole. Mullen. Cedric Mullins went off for the O's. Two home runs in game one. Walk off sack fly in game four. And Aaron Judge sits games three and four because he's sore for. from traveling so much.

Yikes. The Astros took three out of four from the Mariners. Astros go back on to a little bit of a winning streak. No Astro hitter hit a home run, but every Astro starter had an RBI or a run scored and contributed offensively, which I found interesting. My dude Kikuchi shuts them down in game four

to avoid the sweep. Go, you say, you say Kukuchi. I say cacucci. They're always chanting that. White Sox took two of three from the Tigers. Boyd exited Thursday's game with a left knee 10. The night is not happy about that. Ramos game tying RBI double.

Garcia go ahead to run single in the fifth. Mercedes hits another absolute bomb completing his fantastic April. There you go. That's what happened in the A.O. Ayo. Nice job, Jim. Nice job. American League

Boston Still top of their division Royals still top of their division Oakland Still top of their division Oakland's just going off 16 and 10 Boston and Oakland are both 16 and 10

Those are the two best records Mariners Two seed What about that Yankees dead last Dead Texas is worse No I mean dead last in their division

Yeah I want to pet myself on the best a little bit here because I'm looking at the standings here I put out the over underpics from our TPPs and every single division leader even the surprise ones the Red Sox the Royals the Giants I had over on every single division leader right now right here huge that's a congrats man let's see on on April 30th I'm doing really well see if you can cash the ticket uh the series I'd want to hear more about A's and race uh I I've I'd didn't deep dive and watch a lot of this.

Trev, we previewed it on the first day we did the preview, the Chris Rose MLB preview show, and then BBD hopped in. Built different, entirely different. Man, that series, I'm assuming it was good baseball and good pitching. I think every game hit the under. 21, 4, 3, 203, 2.2. And, I mean, I don't know, it's the A's raise.

I feel like we compare them a lot for kind of the way those, those organizations operate sometimes. I wonder if that felt like playoff baseball light or what did it feel like. I'd want to hear from those fan bases because a lot of good pitching, you know, low scoring. That's kind of playoff baseball scores. Yeah, Rich Hill had a really good start. He gives up a two-run, home run to Sean Murphy, and that does him in. Other than that, he went six things pitch, 10Ks.

Manai had a good start. I mean, there was all really good pitching. I don't know the intensity level. It's the TROP, so there's not a lot of intensity there. And the Rays are good at baseball. Okay. And they deserve a better stadium. Yeah.

Rays fans who defend the TROP are the weirdest people in the world to me. Like, I don't know if there's a syndrome. I don't know if you're allowed to say the syndrome anymore or compare things to that. But like, it's like, dude, you don't have to defend the TROP just because you're a race fan. you can admit it's a terrible atmosphere atmosphere for baseball and that having a white roof is stupid.

Yeah. Like I don't, they're like, they feel like the need to defend that. Like, dude, you have a white roof and the ball's white. And Joey Wendell missed a pop-up and it led to a run being scored because of it. Whatever.

I had a whole Twitter back. Yeah, there's a lot of them things and stadiums throughout the league. I mean, the trop is the trop. Obviously, they'd want a new stadium. but it's not that bad.

I've been able to experience it now as a fan and a player. I mean, it's just, it's one of those things. You don't want the white roof. You don't want the catwalks coming in. Those are the two main things. Those are the two main things. But in Houston, two years ago, we had a hill in center field, and they used to have a freaking flagpole out there.

Like, there was just dumb things in Basel Park. They forgot to put bullpens when they built the new giant stadium. Like, what are these places thinking? At least the Trop was like an wasn't supposed to be a baseball stadium. Yeah. I mean, I have an excuse for, for it. It's interesting. Home run dimensions. I don't care. You can do, like, that's part

of the beauty of baseball. In the 80s, they made cookie cutter stadiums and everyone hated them. And go watch, Jake and I, Gwen watch. They're so boring. Every home run was the same and all that. And like, literally, the fan base was like, this is boring. We want unique parks again. So, I'm all for unique

walls and high walls. But, you know, in, fielders losing a ball because the roof is white and the ball is white. That's not like a fun, unique experience. It's not gamesmanship. There's nothing. It's like not professional. It's not professional. If you're a kid and you also when it rains there, you feel like the roof might fall there. I'm serious. You think about that when you're out there like this could happen like that thing could collapse at any second.

If you're a youth and you haven't seen the highlights of the Houston Hill, go go check that out because that's just that's just the good stuff right there. Sean Murphy hit another home run in the second game off Dio Castillo, which I find pretty cool. And that was to put it within one in the ninth inning. So, you know, I'm sure that they were intense games if you were watching them and a fan of either team because every game was close toward the end. You know, these A's they got so hot. They went on an East Coast road trip. It's Baltimore and Tampa, but they go, what do they go?

Four and three. They're still 15 and three since that horrible start. And now they come back home and they host Baltimore, Toronto, and Tampa. Three East Coast teams coming out. West. So A's try to keep it rolling one of my all-time hot boy team members, unfortunately. Got his face jacked up. Matt Olson.

Eye is shut. Got hit. I think it was in BP. Got them pretty eyes, boy. So I don't know. Get better, Matt. Probably not in BP. It sounds like it might have been in the cages because it ricocheted off of the screen, like the L screen.

And it's not going to come back on a BP throw. So he must have been doing some. canoe drill or some really close front toss or something like that but that's that's scary man it happens yeah yeah even even game four of this game jke keermeyer was up with the uh tying run phillips on second base so like every i think it was it was good baseball around good baseball yeah and cool pitching matches we talked about glass now versus irvin i don't think you can get two more different types of pitchers you know on different ends of the spectrum glass now you know tall right-handed I, Irvin, we found out, was taller than I thought.

He says 6-4 on the baseball reference page. I don't think that's the case. He's a soft-house and lefties. Tristan McKenzie versus Bartolo Colon. Ooh. Body size. They're righty. They're both varieties.

But like bot, I'm not even talking pitch type. I'm just talking if you're like a fan and you're like both those guys do the same thing professionally. Marcus Stroman. Randy Johnson. Those guys are sharing the same amount. Yeah. It's crazy.

Sports. Baseball. Baseball. It's beautiful. It's short point cards and centers and stuff. That's different positions. Right. Like both those guys can throw.

Ready for Interleague? It's crazy. Yeah. We cover this enough. The Twins, Columet loses again. Jeez. Oof. Yeah.

And Boston. Is that in the Interleague? Yeah, we got it to the Interleague. There it is. Trevor. Trevor. Tell us what happened in the Interleague. Trevor Ploos.

We got three. Two game sets happening. Royals and the Pirates. The series gets split. Game one goes to the Pirates 2 to 1. Game 2, the Royals take 9 to 6. Wilmer Defoe, Pinchit, go-ah, RBI single in the 7th of Game 1,

and Colin Moran, our guy, sneaky doing it. Sneaky doing it. Dozier with a 2-run triple, and Benetennie with a 2-run double in game 2. They split that series. Nationals, down in Florida, the Florida Blue Jays. They're still down there, right?

They split the series as well. Game one goes 9-5 to the Blue Jays, game two, eight-two to the Nationals. That game one, Vladdy, has three home runs, seven RBIs. I won't go into detail because I think we're going to do that a little later in the show. Game two, the Nats gets some big homers from some veterans. Harrison hits a three-run, home-run, and Bell hits a two-run home-run. In game two, they split that series.

And the Red Sox going into flushing. Going into flushing against the Mets, the Red Sox sweep this two years. game set two to one. Garrett Richard Richard versus Peterson in game two. My guy. Full pension Piv versus Jacob deGrom. Devers with the go-ahead single.

In the sixth inning of game one, Garrett Richards did the damn thing. Seven innings pitched, one earned run, 10 Ks. And then in the second game of the series, DeGrom gets outduled by the Boston pitching staff. He goes six innings with nine Ks.

But, Vasco, hits an RBI double in game two, and that's all they would need because you know what? The Mets don't score any runs when Jacob de Grom pitches. Red Sox get the sweep. They're the best team in baseball right now, and that's what happened in the Interleague series. Very nice. Beautiful. Josh Bell hit a home run?

Huge. Second on his year. I mean, he was in a slot. I mean, his whole season's a slide. So maybe that can get going for him. Get hot. Hard to ignore the whole DeGron. Grom doesn't get any run support thing.

Yeah, I'm bored. I'm like, I don't find it cute or interesting anymore. Just like, this sucks. I said that, like, I think three weeks ago. It's like this sucks. Trevor, I mean, did you ever run into anything like that? Like, the ace is on the bump, so you feel a little more pressure to push some runs across? Is that all it is?

Because, I mean, at some point, this is, like, the math equation has to be thrown out. Like, something's happening. They're feeling it. you know there is a guy that we had on the twins that we didn't score any runs for but i'm blanking on the name but it's not like they're out there saying oh jake's on the mound we don't have to score that that many runs that's not the case in fact they might be pressing too much right now saying jakes on a mouth let's get this motherfucker some runs for once um so i i don't know man you know it's seems to me like when you have a pitcher dealing you're on defense it makes it a lot easier out

there. You don't have long inning, so you're coming back to the offensive side of the ball feeling good, you're fresh, but, you know, I'm hoping it's one of those situations that they just break out, and for the next like 12 DeGrom starts, they just go gangbusters and

hit a bunch of, get a bunch of runs. I'm hoping that's the case, but right now they are struggling. Capital S. What is his run support right now? It's, oh, it's 2.7 runs start. per nine

did I go per nine or just in his endings? I don't average is per nine yeah per nine yeah that's not good Jim I pose this question

to Jake on the IG live are like on a scale of one to ten how legit are the red socks uh legit like this one to ten seven and a half for eight

wow Jake gave him a six. I went seven. You went above everybody else right there. I've been a believer in it the whole, I said it before the season started. If they have a good April, I see them having a good season.

We've seen teams do this before. They have the talent. All they needed was some pitching and they're going to get help. I don't truly believe in all the help. The schedule gets a little tougher for them, but the best thing they have going for them is mojo. And like unity and fun and the Cora effect, if you're giving him credit or whatever it is.

But no, I'm a huge believer in all that shit. Like, just the energy of the team is phenomenal. It might turn south at what, but right now, like I'm not going to bank on, not going to bank on them falling apart. Because they needed a hot start to do it. So I think they're legit. I think they're going to be in their wild card race.

I think they're going to make moves at the deadline to better the team. Small ones. Not like going to leverage the future. But yeah. I mean, we're at the end of April here. It wasn't two weeks. Full month of really good baseball. They got Texas, Detroit, Baltimore coming up.

Like, where they're not slowing down. So, yeah, I think they are legit. I think Yankees fans should be very worried about the Red Sox taking the wild card. Or the division and the, because the raise are kind of not taking running away with anything either. Nobody is. Yeah. Besides the Red Sox. And if they were going to be there in the end, they need a big head start.

And that's what they've given themselves after one month. So, yeah, no, I... And I think it would be an awful, awful look for the Eagles. So, yeah. Okay. No, yes, I think they're legit. I want to see a little more. The offense has been clicking, and we kind of thought that they've had some guys in the bullpen step up.

And just interesting to see if that carries on. I mean, a couple young guys, Garrett Whitlock, came over rules. five from the Yankees. How about that for you? He's gone 13.1. Zero earn run so far. Andresi, Matt Barnes off to a good start. So I'm interested to see if the bullpen continues to hell. Your guy, full pension Piv doing it early on too. So, hey, man. I mean, again, kind of a simple sport. Right now they're fourth in ERA and I think they're second and hitting, first in hitting. So yeah, if you do that, you're going to be there. Interested to see when the schedule turns up a little bit. like Jim said, I mean, you know, if you can keep stretching that out, like momentum is real.

Good vibes are real. And a lot of front offices have kind of ignored that. So if you believe Cora makes your team that much better, believe it. And like accountability, man. Some rooted Yankee stuff coming out, if we're being honest. Yes, it is. But Garrett Richard just had a really good start and he made a tangible change to his like his delivery like something which I like that for him he's in the book like he made a fix I don't know what it was

I think I remember I think he just went to the stretch or something like that the Red Sox have the weirdest pictures on baseball reference I've never known notice this. If you go to the Red Sox main page where it has their top 12 players, it's bizarre looking. I don't know what they did differently. Okay. Interesting. Like, I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. Look at Devers and Vasquez and like just the background. Background's different,

different lighting. I don't mind it. J.D. Martinez looks high. Like J.D. looks stoned. Devers looks like. A four-year-old. Yeah, like a nervous middle schooler. Vasquez. Wait, I like the background of this, though. Vasquez looks lost. I like this. I was looking at one team the other day. Jake and I both like looking at those mug shots they do use on baseball reference when you go to the team page. Because they're silly looking. But I like the background.

The Red Sox did there, unlike the other teams. There was a team. Who of the Yankees played recently, I guess? Because there was probably a team they were playing. And it just looked like all the same person. I forget who it was. Orioles? No, because it was all, it was just all white dudes.

Maybe it was the Yankees. Maybe it was the Yanx. What's that one movie? I laugh every time I hear it. It's like, you white, you Ben Affleck or something like that. That's role models. Roll models. Yeah.

That's a good joke. That's good stuff right there. Good stuff. What else in the Interleague? Blue J split and talk about some personal. performances there later. I don't know, like team. But yeah, I think that's it.

That's everything. You said Dozier for a second. I thought it was Big Brian back, but that's that's on tour. We've been on a group chat getting ready for Mowers softball event, and so he's having to send a bunch of videos in to like tease up and hype up the event.

And so, like I sent mine in right away because I'm professional, had all the stuff. And then we have a bunch of these old boomer guys like Joe Nathan, Nick Ponto. It's really funny. to see them try to like work a camera and like put these videos together but some of the guys have gotten pretty creative it's been fun okay if you could if you could send whatever brian doger sent i don't know i mean you could ask for permission or whatever but um i might like i'd like to see

where his self-content game is at he was golfing and then like actually like jove was calling him then he ran to the gym and it was shown him working out and he's he's looking jacked but he always that's that's him man i get that Yeah. Good job I am. Good job. All right, let's move it on to the next back end of the episode where we will be discussing some personal performances.

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which brings us straight into standout performances. Stand out performance. Who did it on the big stage this week? Jake, you get to go first. Say what? Guys, yeah. This always happens. I don't know how.

I don't know why. I'm just a West Coast guy. And what stands out to me? How about the best team in baseball? The San Francisco Giants. And my guy, Disco, Anthony Descalcalfani, a good pison boy. You know I'm about that life. Nine innings pitched.

How zero earn runs for you. Nine Ks, three hits, one walk. My dude is off to a nasty start this season, by the way. Jim, you'll like this. Five games started. He's got a 1-5 ERA. In four out of five starts, he's given up one runner less. Ooh.

So my guy is not only keeping you in the game, he's like making sure you have a chance to win. And man, we talk about this Giants coaching staff, a lot on this show. They're doing something there. I got into some pitch mix stuff for you, Jim. Nothing too crazy, but, you know, he does what he does. The fastball velo's a little above average.

He's not walking too many people. He's missing enough barrels. Descalfani, man, the Giants, they've got a little, they got some good energy right now. And if you go nine-innings shuddy, that's a good way to get on here. And Trevor, the biggest secret of all, a secret of life. He got pooped on by a bird. Before the game, he got pooped on by a bird, which is internationally. known to be good luck.

So I guess my standout is to the bird. Yeah. The bird wins. Good job, bird. Chad, have you ever been pooped on? Ooh. By bird? I don't think so.

By bird. You don't know, you have to tell us otherwise. Oh, like, you know, like poop poop? No, I don't think so. Okay. Teddy never got you? Oh, maybe. Yeah, you're right.

For sure, I've like had some of my children's poop on me somewhere. Cool. Sometimes it just goes. They explode. You don't need to talk about that. There was a girl in third grade who was sitting next to me and she pooped her pants. That's tough. It was a bad time.

Should you just start yelling? That's tough. Bad time. I mean, I think, you know, obviously waterworks and stuff. But, yeah, there's a turd on the floor. I got out of her pants and stuff. Like a little turd. How is that?

I'd rather not relive it. I did that in Maramarin. We'll talk after about this. Did that one. when I was in probably second grade. That was wild. That's a fun story. Should move on.

Yeah. I like the, I always like Jay. I said it to Jake earlier when people say, oh, you're going to have a good luck now because you got pooped on by a bird. It's like, oh. It's kind of like in hockey. If you break a skate lace, like tying your skates and like your skate lace breaks, they're like, oh, you're going to, you know, going to get a point now. You're going to get a goal.

It's like every time something bad happens, you can't just spin it that it's good luck. Oh, I like that mindset, though. I like that mindset. I think it's a good mindset. Okay. All right. I like it. Good job. Good job, Disco, good job, Jake.

Good job to the bird. Giants. Coaching Giants. Can I ask BBD? I don't know who's going next, but I sent a video over. Can you prep that to be put into my screen when I give mine standout? Yeah, I'll go next. Okay.

I am giving it to Vladdy Jr. Yes. Everyone's been on us all the time. You guys haven't talked about Vladia. You haven't talked about Vladia yet. I usually, I usually I'm not into three home run games because usually the third one comes in slop time against a bad pitcher and you're like, whatever. This is not the case with this three homer game from Vlad.

It's really cool. And the first inning is comes up against Scherzer with a runner on and one out. So if you're a Blue Jays fan, you're like, man, if we can push one across early against Scherzer, like that changes everything. He grounds into a double play, disappointing. Scher gets out of the inning. And his next at bat in the third inning, now the BluJer. Blue Jays are down 3-0.

So Scherzer has an early 3-0 lead. This is going to be, oh, no. Vladdy comes up with the bases loaded and hits a go-ahead grand slam as a 2-1 slider, and he hit an absolute bomb to left center field, which even looks more like a bomb because they're playing in the spring training stadium. So like it goes out of the stadium, not just like into the 10th row of the bleachers. So that home run mattered. It gave them a one-run lead early in the game and kind of cemented that Scherzer's not

going to have a good, good numbers on the game here. His next at bat, he leads off the inning against Scherzer, and they're up by three runs, and he hits a home run off Scherzer then, a three-two pitch outside fastball he took to center, kind of like a laser, that, you know, would save the bullpen. Three-run lead turns into a four-run lead because he clipped Scher again. So two-home runs off Scher. But no, the Nats come back. they make it a one-run game.

Now Vladdy comes up in the next, whatever inning it is, and there's a reliever Kyle Finnegan in. He gets a one-one fastball and takes it oppo to give them a three-run lead again, whatever it is. So every home run was impactful and off, not slop pitching. Usually a guy has a three-run home day three-run game. You know, one of the ones in the tail end are like, yeah, okay, well, they brought in their slop guy,

because you're up 7-0. All of these, two of them were off Scherzer, and they're all impactful to, like, the outcome of what pitchers get used in the game. So incredible day at the plate for Vladdy. And his dad never hit three home runs in the game. So he got that on dad now.

Eat shit, dad. I love that, man. There was some social media interaction. Vlad was all on social media talking about, like, another one, another one. Like, that's cool. I can only hope, man. I know that's a long shot,

but if my boy Ted gets up there and starts hitting some homers in the show, I mean, that's like tears every single time type thing. I'm proud when he, I don't know, like puts away a toy in the toy box. Huge. Can't imagine three homers.

Clean up. Clean up. Everybody do your share. Man, he, uh, 1.141 OPS so far this season, 223 OPS plus. Uh,

seven home runs. He's making my Vladdy home run underbet, basically be gone by July. And that's fine. Because I said when I, when I wanted, that one. If he goes over, that means he's special. And holy crap, does he look special? Now a career OPS Plus of 120, which we forget. We don't forget, but he's 22 years old.

And I heard, I forget if it was Marley or if it was one of the reporters, but they were like, Vladito, he pictures himself with Acuna and Soto and all these young dudes who are supposed to be next. And we kind of forgot about him. And the last stat, because all of his stats are nuts right now, 17 walks, 15 strikeouts. That's awesome. So if Vladdy does this for another month, like we're on like MVP Vladdy watch. Yeah.

Shurs her too, man. Come on. He good. He got him. Yeah. Two time. Trev, who's your standout performance? Well, speaking of AL MVP candidates,

I'm going to be talking about my guy, Iron Buxton. Went five for five. Homer, two doubles in the game against the Indians. And the fifth hit was a ground ball to basically shortstop to the second baseman fielded because they were in a shift. Runs a 368, 371 down the line shows off the tools. So he's obviously having a great season, a 1.4 OPS.

He's leading the league in homers and slugging. Great. Could it be just first month? I don't think so. right here our guy Parker Hagerman shout out Parker on Twitter

put out this video showing the differences between Byron's 2016 swing and 2021 swing I play with Byron in the video

that's on I guess the left of the screen and he looks just very disconnected you see the leg kick he's pushed his hands back during all that

there's a lot of excess movement and then you go on the right side of the screen he's preloading the scab a la Will Monsieck They're doing the same thing. That's getting it back into load position, ready to launch everything so much more quiet. And this adjustment is going to allow him to, you know, see the ball, have that recognition time.

And he's his age right now, 27 years old, 25, 827 OPS, 26, 844 OPS, 27. Now he's sitting at 1.4. Obviously it's going to come down a little bit. but he's making adjustments, he's becoming a guy guy. And twins fans and people all around baseball have been waiting for him to turn into this because of the tools that he has. And whether it's some coaching tips that he needed, whatever it was, he looks like he's in a groove at the plate. And he made the right mechanical adjustment to be consistent. And I think with a guy like him, he was so wildly inconsistent because of his mechanics. when you get to a point like this

where you can say every day I know what I have to do and I'm going to see the ball really well today because I'm putting myself in that position the sky is a limit for this guy. If you can hit two doubles and a bomb and then in the fifth of bat go leg out an infield single, I mean it doesn't slump.

Can't slump. This is what he's feeling right now he's feeling like Mike Trout. Mike Trout has a great setup. He sees the ball. He's consistent every day. He knows his zone. He knows everything.

Byron is in that. He's locked in right now. How long can you keep it? We will see. But this mechanical adjustment, right? I mean, if you look at these videos, you just see. Jimmy, your least favorite word, hitterish. This is hitterish, right?

Yeah, I like, I liked what you said. It's just less so much more quiet. Like there's just, it's just compact. It's all one thing on the, on the right there. It's connected. Yeah. It's good. He's having an amazing.

Yeah. Because of this, you know, he's able to throw that barrel. The barrel accuracy, you know, jumps because he, because he knows where his barrel is. If you watch the video on the left-hand side, that thinks swinging all over the place. How do you know where your barrel is? You watch the video on the right.

He's got it set. It's very silent. Well, I never really thought about that. Like the Gary Sheffield. Like, it's hard to find where the barrel is in the path if it's swinging like that. Yes. Go check out sequence with Trevor Pluth, get more of that.

Trev, I, you know, we're friends at this point. And, you know, You know, I have a certain stereotype about me. And I need to give you credit for something. Your three stopwatch times and then the A-Rod face, one of my favorite tweets of the year. I missed this. What happened?

So Buckson beat out an infield single, and Trev. So I was curious because Trev's like, I got three times on it. And I was like, so wait, Trevor watched the replay of this. three times, had his phone out and was timing Buxton at first, which, yes, he did. And so he did the three screenshots of the Buxton Times, and then he did the A-Rod zoomed-in frog face. And that's a good tweet. Is that what we're calling it right now? The Frog face? That's a fantastic tweet, Trevor. Very proud of you. It's the very first thing I said when we brought up Buxden on the IG live

yesterday. Just one of my favorite tweets ever. You done did good. I like it. I like. I like the A-Rod frog face. I've never seen three pictures of a stopwatch timer in A-Rod's face. That's a fantastic tweet. Dude, I can't look at that A-Rod picture. Wait, wait, hold on. Why do you call it the frog face? I'm curious.

Dude, it kind of looks like a frog. Like, if you do, I don't know how those face-mashing stuff works, Boomer Jakes out. But if you did, like, turn A-Rod to a frog, it would not be that much different. Finn that picture. I love the picture. I've used it again. I might be overusing it. It's so fun.

Keep running it. Running into the ground. Man. All right. Good standout. Let's move on. Next up, we have Slom watch.

And we've tidied it up a little because it's gotten out of control. So BBD. Pay attention, everybody. There's five. names that are left over from last week. BPD is going to give us the new five biggest slumps we need to watch out for, and then we will decide which five out of the 10 are sticking around. Bd.D. who are the new additions? These guys are all O for on the week. J.D. Martinez went

0 for 9 with two walks. Dom Smith goes 0 for 8, struck out four times in that. Aaron Hicks, the biggest ofer, O for 15. Got an RBI in there? Don't remember that. Walked once. Anderson Simmons, O for 11, and Marwin Gonzalez, oh for 10. Wow. So the part that's wild here in this new format is we have the five that carryover. Yeah. And, you know, when we ran this through in our heads, it was like, you know, two of those guys are going to play well. So then we'll sub in two and we'll keep a rolling list.

Looks like everyone did pretty bad from the old slumpflip. Yeah, so the five that were on here, I mean, we have, let's see. I'll go through, I'll lead us through this because I think of the five that carried over, haplandor Muncie Machado Schwaburber, Mani Machado is off. He had two hits. He had a triple. He had four RBIs. I think we're going to take him off.

I'm fine with that. And the easiest replacement here for me is Hicks. He went Ofer 15. That's the most offers. But I have a second. The only thing with Hicks, Jim, it's been all season. And that's kind of been your thing. Yeah.

Like Hicks hasn't gotten it going yet this year. He had like four games where he was good. He had like two back-to-back righty Hicks games. But other than that, man, I mean, he's been, it's been a tough year for Hixie so far. But of the week, it's the biggest. Yes. All right. Well, you know what?

Then let's do Dom Smith. Because he didn't have a single walk. He didn't have a single RBI. He didn't have a single positive thing in his line. Let's replace Machado with Dom Smith. We good on that. I'm good with that. And Dom has had good stretches this year.

I love him, man. He's awesome. Yeah, I do. I like Dom Smith a lot. And, you know, he's got, he had a good stretch going. He's got three multi-hit games. He started the season, the first five games he had a hit. But O for eight's not a lot, though.

It's two games. It's tough. But we're just, we're just, we're just, no, we're watching out for it. It's a slump watch. This is watch, Trap. Like, like, that's what we're saying. Hicks, it's not like we're watching out. out like is he slumping? Is he not? No, he's slumping. He's off. He's off the watch list.

And Damo's kind of off to a tough start this year. Negative 0.5 war, 203 batting average, 252 OPS. So I'm kind of interested because this dude's supposed to be a hitter. Yeah. Well, that's what happens when people put you and Barry Bonds swing next to each other. Like talk about expectations. Never were 12 for me. Just pump the brakes a little bit. I don't like being part of this slump wash because it makes me feel really bad. I know what it's like to go over

You don't feel like you're in slump. But I get what you're saying. It's a slump watch. He's also O for his last 12th. So, Damo can stay. Well, there you go. The next guy I think that needs to come off is Kyle Schwerber. I mean, he did get a hit.

It was a double. He walked as well, comparatively to the offers that we're adding. I think we can replace Schorby here. Yeah, I mean, so I think reverse engineering this, I think Happer has to say he's our guy. He's in it bad right now. Linddor is kind of one of the stories around the league. So I still want to keep tabs on that.

So yeah, I think Schwaber or Muncie has to come off. Muncie is his own thing, dude. He did it again. Muncie went 0 for nine with four walks again. Like is Muncie in Madbum range? Like, it's just Muncie watch? Like, he's just walking. He's gallo from last year.

It's unreal. No, not even. Let's, um, so Hicks isn't there. What about J.D.? J.D. 0 for 9. I want, I think I want Muncie off. I'd like J.D. on the list because he's having such a great start to this year. Yeah, that if he does.

put another three ophers then where it is like ooh yeah okay so once they're actually on a slump we take them off slump watch it's precautionary okay the timeline for me this is this is tough but i get it i'm like if jd goes oh for his next 10 then we're like ooh not good he's slumping now dude we caught him munsey's in his own world right now the last six games one hit 12 walks. What's his OBP? 500. Jesus.

So he's not slow. Like in Max Muncie World, he's hot. He's getting on base. So I'm interested by it. I'd be cool if he had speed. Come on. You know what? I actually have heard he's one of those guys.

It's like, I'm so off calling hefty dude sneaky fast. Someone tried to tell me, let's go to the real thing. Baseball savant. guess Max Muncie's speed percentile. We've done this already. He's like upper

third, I think, right? So give me a number. 53rd. Sprint, sprint percentage? Sprint speed? I want to say he's in the 70s. I think we've done this. I'd go, yeah, like 50 on the nose. I'm bringing it up now. Oh, I know you had it. Well, I had his name typed in. I just had to hit enter

because I wanted to play the game. Jake made me... 52. But we need to get we need to get yeah it's not enough to be happy I don't know I thought I was higher than that you until I get an answer from the people who run baseball savant yeah and how they calculate sprint speed Jake has completely erased it as a stat for me

because Jake's like do are they just calculating every time a dude goes the first base because they're not always sprinting sometimes they know it's a single so they just jog other times sprint speed yeah like what is it like I want to know guys at their fastest like a hustle double or like tagging up from third. I don't want to know a guy who hits a ground ball past a shortstop

and jogs the first and now that brings down their average. So I just need baseball savant or whoever that does sprint speed to let me know what it is because there's a chance. It means nothing at all. A measurement of a... Yeah, I don't think it's what you're talking about like where they just taking every single one.

There's no way. A measurement of a player's top running speed expressed in feet per second in a player's fastest one second window. It's supposed to be their top speed, I think. Well, I'm more confused now. Okay. Okay.

So who's our final five? Hap, Lindor, J.D., Dom Smith. Marwin and Simmons didn't get included. So let's just leave Muncie. He's a Monday away from being his own list. Okay. Watch out for whatever Muncie's doing. If you're in a fantasy baseball league and you do walks or OBB.

I don't know. I don't know what he's up to. It's weird. Can we just get a highlight of all that bats? Like Kyle, like he's in the office. Can we just get... Every pitch of his last however many games you just said?

Six games. Like what's happening? 12 locks. The umpires love him or pitcher. Is it a force field around his strike zone? I don't know. It's pretty weird. All right.

That was Slump Watch. Next up. Jake, can you run through the hottest hitters of this week for everyone? Speaking of a run. How about Trey Turner? Get hot. Six for nine. BPD, I smell you.

Buster Posey. Treves respect your veterans, man. Seven for ten with a Yabo Giancarlo. Stanton, he's getting hot in a hurry. 500 batting average, 18 at bats. That's nine for eight. We're a math company. Young Thick Austin Riley getting in the mix.

That can change. Going to pause you right there. Just let everyone that's not in Braves territory. No, that's a big deal, and I'm happy for him. Okay. Ozzie Albys, the Little Monster. He's figuring it out. All the Braves trying to get it going with Freddie and Acuna.

Mike Trout could literally be here all the time. Seven for 13. He's insane. Chris Bryant could be significant as this season rolls on, a little five for 12er. And then the guys that hurled the puck. Christian Javier for your Astros, 17 innings pitch, zero earn runs his last three starts.

That's good. DeGrom, you already know, it's unworldly celebrated every time. Rodon, Mr. No-no, the toe hitter, 25 innings pitch, two earn runs. And Alex Wood, yep. Sanclam, Cisco, 18 innings pitch, three-er-runs, runs. kind of a step below the other guys, but still good. So that's who's hot right now. But good stuff by all those guys.

Austin Riley is the only one on that list that I think has a position that could be replaceable come August, September, if he's not swinging big. So that's why I say it's nice and it's not just this series. His last 10 games, Austin Riley has a 605 on base percentage of 483. Batting average and now his season stats on the month. He had a good April, where at one point, like when the Farm to Fame crew was here, they were a little worried about the start of his season. Because if the, you know, after 15 games, his season stats were 182 batting average 275 OBP. In the next 10, he raised him all to 300 batting average 416.

And that's a team, you know, Chavez talked about Jose Ramirez. We talked about trade candidates at third base. The Braves can upgrade. So it's good to see him have a good April, especially when it was looking south. Our Braves Connects told me they very much believe in his defense. We heard Chipper Jones off the record said nice things about him that he didn't have to say. So people believe that defensively he can be a very good third baseman. And yeah, man, if he can hit, I reference this when we do talking Yanks a lot.

Every GM in their room has a, you know, their team this year, their team three years from now, their team five years from now. And, I mean, Austin Riley could very well be on the five years from now. Or, you know, if he has a tough month, you know, Chris Bryant, whoever else is out there. Like, these Braves are in their window. And if a guy like Austin Riley can be a stud third baseman, I mean, that window just got bigger. So keep doing it young guy. Someone in the YouTube chat misunderstood me. I'm not saying Riley's going to get traded,

saying they trade for a third baseman to play over him in the playoff push and then give Riley another chance next year or something like that. Other team would probably ask for him. Yeah, yeah. But I didn't necessarily mean he was going to get out, just mean he was going to give her subbed out, go to a bench or whatever. Good job, Jake.

Let's go to awards? We go to awards. Awards. Awards. Jake, you get to go first. James, Trevor, big beautiful baby David. Everyone in the chat. Your parents.

Your loved ones. I'm giving out the Pimp My Ride Award. Hell yes. I love this one. Ride. We're going to go to Ish with the interior. He pimped out the whole thing. Exhibit.

Exhibit. How high was Exhibit when they were doing those things? He's 10,000. 30 Jake Storelli. The Pimp My Ride Award, a very prestigious award. You know, when they were pimping out the cars, you got the interiors, you're doing the outside, you got a couple features. They used to do the TV on the back of the headset, and that was like, whoa. Trev, you know the one thing you had to do.

You need the subwoofers, man. You got to get loud. When you roll up next to someone at a red light, they can't be louder than you. and my guy had someone trying to be louder than him. And the music he was trying to be louder with was jazz music. My award is going to Jesus Aguilar. We have gotten a lot of insight on the Miami Marlin season this year. You're just about there.

I need you to hold on for 30 seconds. You're just about there. We heard that Jazz Chisholm and Jesus Aguilar are in a home run competition this year. Jazz Chisholm got off to a hot start. Everyone's in on Jazz Chisholm. We love Jazz Chisholm. Farm to fame has called him their king. Guess what Big Hazus has done recently?

Five homers in six games. His stats on the year are back up to a really good spot. 295, 383, a 921 OPS. He is leading the National League and runs batted in. I know some of the geeks don't care about that stat, But guess what? When you're a Marlins fan and you're watching your fish and he's driving in the runs, you like that a lot.

So, Jesus Aguilar pulled up. He heard some loud jazz music right next to him. And he pimped his ride. He turned up the speakers in the woofer up to 10. You can't hear that jazz music anymore. We're dancing, baby. Jesus Aguilar. It's beautiful.

It's poetry. Second Jesus Aguilar award on talking about. baseball this season. It might be the first player to get two awards. Stud. Yes. Good stuff. Pimp my ride.

Good show. You think jazz, you think every interview jazz starts? They go, so do you like jazz music? And he just goes, do you want me to kill you? Yeah. Would you like me to kill you right now? No, but this interview's over. Yeah.

Okay. Goodbye. Good job, Jake. Oh, Jakey, Jackie. You got anything on that, Treve? I'm happy. You know, Hey, Zeus, one of those guys kind of had been a castaway, maybe found a home

here. I love those stories, you know? I love that. Find a home, get comfortable, and do the damn thing. Maybe it turns into like a Nelson Cruz type, a resurgent career, you know, later on. I like that stuff. Trevor. Seems like he's a good influence too. Yeah, he's so much fun. Arm around the shoulder. Welcome to my office, I think,

was the award I gave him. 13 walks, 13 strikeouts. So we love that balance here. And yeah, leading the league in Ribby. man, Jesus Aguilar. That still matters, geeks. I know you don't think so, and yeah, guys have to be on all of it, blah, blah, blah, but. Trev, my award's going to lead to a bit of a lengthier discussion because I have questions for you. So I'm going to let you go first.

Wow. Sure, sure. I don't think we've talked about this, but we're going to go into the Hennesis Cabrera. You know, he hit Bryce Harper and Dedy. You know that? So maybe we have the same. His name was Genesis. It's Hennesis.

Well, mine is the Go Sit in the Truck Award. That's what you tell people who are just not performing. Go sit in the truck. You know who I want to go tell us? Go sit in the truck. John Haman. Go sit in the truck. John Haman Award.

Listen, this guy puts up ridiculous tweets all the time, but he had a couple all-timers, including the one one day ago when he said Cardinals should send Hennesis Cabrera to the the minors. He didn't hit Harper Gregorius on purpose. No shit. But he's not competent enough to be in the majors at this point. Clearly, this tweet was dumb. A cry for attention. Here we are giving it to him. They got ratioed to hell. But guess what? Ennis says is a competent pitcher. He should be in the big lees. He had two batters, two pitches, get away from him. He was very sorry. There was no intent.

Harper already issued like, hey, man, like you're okay. Don't worry about it. I'm fine. Like, can you imagine just having a couple bad pitches and some idiot telling you to go back to the minor leagues this guy has been a pretty damn good pitcher over his big league career can you imagine if john haman fired off two tweets and somebody was like hey john you know like i guess that's what i'm doing to him right now hey john two bad tweets go sit in the fucking truck i can't stand when people do that this guy you know you saw his emotion after he hit the hit uh gregorius and harper like He didn't want to do that. He had to stay in, finish the next batter because of the three batter minimum rule. He went and did his job. He went and sat down. I'm sure he's had a lot of time to reflect on this.

And John Heyman putting out that dumb tweet pissed me off so much that I had to come on here and give him a negative award to go sit in the truck award, John, because I'm sick of it, dude. I'm sick of it. What makes him credible enough to say stuff like this? He just wants the reaction. I'm giving it to him, but only because I'm so damn fired up. The second dumb tweet he put out was he said the Marcelo Zuna selfie celebration, the best celebration in the biggest. It's objectively not the best celebration in the biggest. I think it's one of the worst celebrations in the big leagues. So John, go sit in the truck, bro. Just give up your Twitter.

Get out of here. Yeah, I'll do my once every three months advice for everyone that I guess you didn't take last time, Trev. Mute John Heyman on Twitter. If you. I don't follow him. You have to be neither, but mute him. I'll mute him. retweet him or people get mad and give him attention.

You don't see it because I don't know what he does. I don't read his articles. I don't see what he says on TV shows. It might be good. It might be balanced. It might be better. He runs the worst Twitter account in all baseball. And it's only going to make you mad.

And I used to play the game. He makes me mad. He had me blocked for a while because I used to like do translations. Like what John really means? And just my advice, just mute his Twitter account. I don't know. I'm not saying he sucks as a person or his. His articles suck or his TV appearances.

I don't watch it, but I've read his Twitter, and it's the worst Twitter account all baseball. So I think I do this every three months. Your life will be better on Twitter when you follow baseball. If you mute time. Yeah. I mean, don't look at anything you sees. It's awful.

It's awful. I like his stuff. I think, you know, he's just so misunderstood. No, it's so bad. You know, some of my darkest nights, here we go. you know, he is a reflection of Major League Baseball. And there's so many people on Twitter that follow him for stuff about Major League Baseball. And it sucks.

And the part that kind of reeled me back in was I watched some of his MLB network appearances and he was actually solid. Like he had a decent presence and he talks like a guy. And like, you know, he kind of knows his stuff. And then to bring that on Twitter, like, it's part of what Major League Baseball is missing that, you know, if you have that as a reflection of your game and your network and what's going on, like, that's a big, that's a giant piece of the puzzle right now. And it's, it's, like, bad for the sport. But let's get him in the box against Hennis'est. It's two pitches, dude.

Two pitches, and you're saying this guy isn't competent to pitching the big leagues. Like, stop it, dude. Stop. The RA plus of 117 for Hennesis early in his career, the 24-year-old. And then the Ozuna selfie after the bomb, obviously. That's not the best home run. It's a good one. What's the best?

Do we have a consensus best? Yeah, the prize field, jump on home plate, everyone falls like a pin, like bowling pins. Love that. That's great. I meant today. Who's got it? I have to look. I just know it's not that.

I'm not going to put a tweet out and say something. that's so far removed from the truth. So I'm out on that. Good award. I'm giving my old school baseball award. I didn't really get too creative with this. I just kind of liked it. I'm intrigued by it too.

That's why I want to ask Trev some questions. It goes right along with the Hennesis Cabrera stuff, hitting Harper in the head. And then the next game, Neres, Neres. I think I said that every time I say his name. Naris. Hit Aeronado. and like the elbow or back.

I'm not sure where it clipped him. It was like below the shoulders. Might have been the back, might have been the elbow. Scapula? I don't know. But hit him. And then Shilty, manager of the Cardinals,

had a really interesting post-game press conference. And I want you to hear it, Trev, because I want to hear your opinion on it because I'm really torn on it. And I'll just play the audio. So Harper gets hit in the head And then Dedi gets hit in the side by Hennesis Cabrari's got no control He blamed it on the three pitch minimum

He's like I would have taken him out Because clearly he didn't have any control But he had to face one more batter That's what Shilty said Like this is the three pitch minimum Three batter minimum This is three batter minimums fault here Clearly it wasn't on purpose that he hit Harper

Everyone knew that But then clearly they still retaliated And they hit Aeronado because they still just got to protect their guys. And here's what Shulte said on all of it. He did it right. You know, he took one shot and he got him low, fairly low. Thankfully, not a different story.

We're probably having some issues if he gets hurt, and that's the risk of doing it. But it's old school baseball. We didn't mean to hit a couple of their guys, but nonetheless, a couple of their guys got drilled pretty good. And, you know, so you can expect some retaliation. And it was done as clean as possible. and we move on.

And that's how the game polices itself. And that's why you didn't see this ugly people going nuts, skirmish. So he goes on for longer. I just played a clip. Like he was like, they'll probably deny it. And they should. That's smart by them. But I think it's pretty obvious.

It was on purpose. And I'm fine with it. And I was, in a way, I love it because it's like, yep, like this is the club we're in. And like, no, I don't have a problem. I'm glad they didn't hit him in the head or like up top. It was kind of higher than. I think he's acting like it wasn't like at the hip. On the other hand, like throwing at people on purpose,

like I still just like think it shouldn't be part of the game. But he's like his interpretation is like, well, it is part of the game. And, you know, that's how we police it ourselves. So I love that he wasn't mad. And he says it was all handled properly. But I'm also like, I don't think they needed to throw it Aranato because if he gets hurt and like, or they miss by half a foot and it is too high or too low. So I'm interested to hear what you have on this, Trev, as a guy you played, like, in this

changing realm of it. Before Trev goes, one thing I want to add that I think is important, the Naris hit by pitch, was ninth inning tied game two outs. So I just think that's important for the scene. Well, also, though, Real Mudo didn't put his glove up. Like, as soon as the ball was thrown, Real Mudo dropped his glove to his, uh, to the dirt. I gotta see it I gotta see it Yeah It's on purpose

I don't know if you were saying No No I just think the game scene is important here This wasn't a blowout in there Yeah Yeah no they were You were saying you think 100% that was on purpose Nair is hit Neronado

1,000% But Shiltie actually I'm gonna do a breakdown Shiltie walks up He gets ejected He walks up and he doesn't walk up to the um He just slowly casually walks up to Real Mudo And ask him a question

And Real Muto smiles and knots And like my guess is he's like thanks for keeping it low or like we're good and Rimo says and Rialdi says we good now and Rial Moto says yeah we're good now. It's very interesting but and then his quotes yeah it's definitely on purpose. Rommudo doesn't he drops his glove as the pitch is coming

and then fake puts it up. He just leaves it there. Yeah. No he drops it down. He drops it down as the pitch is coming like halfway. The ball's halfway and his gloves down and at the end when it hits him he throws it back up. You know I

I've been hammering this home for a long time. I don't think hit by pitchers should be part of the game. Intentional hit by pitchers should be part of the game. I understand Shilty, very old school type of guy. You know, you go up and you hit Harper. He's making a lot of money. He's the heart and soul of the Phillies team. It's almost, that is part of old school baseball.

If you're going to hit our best guy, then we got to do something. And what's messed up is if this was Andrew Knapp at the plate, my guy nap they probably wouldn't have thrown at Aronado the next day so it's it's something about protecting your best players I still don't think when it was clearly obvious that

there was no intent that I don't think you need to reciprocate because like what you're saying Jim these guys they don't always have pinpoint control Naris doesn't have pinpoint control okay like if he slips in one and hits Aronado and the job like then what are we talking about that's what I'm saying like I don't

I'm glad no one's mad here, but I also don't agree with it. I don't like it. I don't like it at all. I don't think you need to answer for it like that, especially when Harper comes out and was like, hey, Hennesis, like no big deal, dude. That should be the end of it.

Harper should have said that's the end of it, okay? You don't need to be protecting anybody because this could just lead to more things down. So that's a great segue into the next sound by I have because Schilt had another absolutely fantastic quote about how Harper handled this. Let me, I have it here. Bryce Harper sent over a nice text to Genesis Cabrera.

You want to talk about a first-class move. Whoever's a fan of Bryce Harper, or ever has children that are fans of Bryce Harper, support that guy. What he sent over in a message day was completely a class act. And he wanted to make sure that Genesis knew that he was aware it was unintentional. and that if he needed to talk and make sure he was okay with mentally about what took place,

then he was free to have the conversation with him. But he had empathy for the guy that hit him. So a lot of respect for Bryce Harper. So that's also just an interesting element, I think. Awesome that Harper did that. Awesome that Schilt. He made it public knowledge that he did that, I think. Yeah, I mean, look, obviously Schult handled it the right way.

I even like what he said back to Gerardi when Gerardy was going nuts. he's like, lead my fucking players alone, Joe. That's all he said. So, you know, I don't know, man. I am totally against it. I don't, if someone's out there and he's, the other team is intently hitting guys because they hit a homer, then there's got to be some retribution. You have to police it yourself a little bit.

So I know I'm walking back my statement. But I feel like those circumstances are so rare in today's game. Like, not many guys are headhunting on purpose. right now. Not many guys are. Do they want to pitch in and up? Yeah, because it's effective. So sometimes those run away from a little bit and they start to hit guys. But I bet if you went through a whole season, every single game,

I bet you can count on two hands the amount of times people hit someone intentionally, like less than 10. For the whole league or for one team eat? For the whole league. For the whole league. Intentional hit by batters, hit by pitches is just not, thing, in my opinion, that happens too much anymore. Maybe I'm totally wrong about that. Maybe there's a bunch of pitchers out there that are debags.

I'd say it's more than that. In my time playing, I don't think it happened. Talking about thousands of games, thousands of pitches. I know. I know. I think series is where things get complicated because if this happens too much and this is why this is a discussion is it's a gray area. Because there,

it should be kind of enforceable on the field. Like the It was Nolan Aeronado for a reason. This is your guy. This is a stud. You hit our stud in the face. Sure, it was an accident. But, hey, make sure your pitchers know that's not cool.

And this can't be happening. So, yes, there's intent there. Yes, it's an area gray because it's goddamn caveman shit. You hit our guy in the face, so we're going to hit you. It's literally an eye for an eye. The whole world is blind. But in a way, this is supposed to be. the game's enforcement. And when it's done the right way, which in a way this was, you know,

both sides kind of tip the cap. Like, hey, it stops here. Like you're saying, he checks with real moot. I think when it's done right, this is it and you move on. So it sucks. But, you know, if you're Aeronado, you know, you kind of look at the pitchers and you say, hey, check out this black and blue I got because you let a couple slip. I know it was an accident but hey, like tighten it up. Yeah. I'm looking at the video right now. It seems intentional.

They are not a one? It seems intentional. It's so intentional. I don't know. Obviously that's coming from the manager. I don't think that's coming from Real Muto. I don't think that's coming from Harper either. Maybe a pitcher, a veteran pitcher said to do it. I think Real Mood is just doing his gloves like pre-routine.

Like calls the pitch. But the way he holds it there at the end. When he holds it there at the end, I think he's proving his point. I also watch the other pitches and he doesn't do it. Like, there's a body language there when a pitch is thrown. Like, when the pitch comes out of his hand, his glove is just down, like not in a completely relaxed motion. You're right.

You go slow-mo. It's just like this. And then at the end, he just throws it up. I don't like any of it, to be honest with you. I don't like the reciprocation. I don't like that. Me and Trevor Bauer agree on things. The Trevor's.

I didn't like it either. I like that no one's mad, but it's kind of like the, it's kind of like, when 10 years ago when every hitter was saying, no, it's fine if they use pine tarts, like, okay, well, I mean, if the players don't care, who am I to care as a fan? But then now we're coming, it's weird. And also, I mean, it starts tying into team identity and stuff. Like, say, okay, say the Phillies and Nerris, Gerardi tells them like,

hey, cut the shit, let's get a W. We're not doing that. Then they go to their next series. And let's say Hoskins gets one above the shoulders. You know, at a certain point, you're a team sitting there like, we're just going to let this happen? So, like, it's tough. It's the gray area.

I was shocked when he said they did it the right way and kept it low because it's not that low. It's not. It's not low. Yeah, that was. I think he just wanted to put an end to it. I think Shillardy just wanted to, he complimented Harper. I think he just wanted to, they've hit two, you know, Flaherty hit a guy in the head as well on accident. So the Cardinals have now hit a couple guys in the head in one month on accident.

Ain't great. I think he just wanted to kind of put an end to all of it. But interesting anyway. All right. Fibita, you were doing a lot of calculations. Is that behind the scene stuff? Or your rules were turning? You saw me doing something else.

But Trev, while we're here, if you could do an unplug, re-plug, that'd be cool. Because you just rode about it a little bit on your last sentence. Unplug, re-plug while we set up for elevator talk. If you are stuck in an elevator with a person wearing this hat, we will put two minutes on the clock and we will give you some fodder that you can have with them. Sound good? Treb, you back? Check, check.

Check, check. It's not better. Okay. Okay. Try it from the other end or something. Oh. You guys take it. You guys take it.

We're going to spin it. Oh, boy. The Yankees. Oh, boy. Seems a little unnecessary. Should we spin again? I mean, it's a national baseball podcast. I know you and I get timid about it, but...

Well, anyone that listens to this, that's a Yankees fan, also listens to talking Yanks. Right. There's no one listening to this. But we're here to catch up the league. That's what this is. All right. So they finally got good starts out of Kluber and Hermann.

That was nice. Judge is getting rest and they won't say what he's sore with. It was a side thing. Now it's a lower body thing. Boone-sided travel as a reason why he's getting rest. But the whole team's traveling. So that's the topic. Judge, starting pitching, overall vibes.

Yeah, I think going back to the origin of this, it's in the elevator. So if you see a Yankees fan and you want to be nice to them, it's like, hey, DJ Stanton look like they're coming around. How great is that G.O. or Shelle been for you guys? Cole looks like he could be in the Cy Young races here. If you see a Yankee fan and you feel the other emotion, I know, how about that start? Is Boone on the hot seat?

Sanchez bench? I don't think any Yankee fan is going, and if two Yankee fans, fans come together. There's no way anyone's talking about anything positive right now. It is only negative. They stink. 11 and 14. The Orioles have the same record as them. All this stuff

is going to come out in Yankee fan talk right now. And deserve it be so. They had a winning road trip, Trev. We had this team at over 95 and a half wins every single one of us. They are not going to get there. Big 9 game long stand coming up. Detroit,

Houston, and the Nats. We can talk about this. I think this nine-game homestand is going to find out. We're going to find something out. And I don't know if I'm excited to. Trave, did you ever pay attention to the old baseball adage, win at home split on the road and you have a good season? I mean, people always said that.

But, you know, we broke it down more win a series. Like win the series. But you did have that thought. So, like, the other day I tweeted out, like, you know, got to win. With the series one, the Yankees are going to, like, semi-nec not-care about this last game in Cleveland. Instead of going for the sweep, they didn't care about it. And someone responded, like, winning series doesn't matter at all. And I said, I think that's like

the whole nature of the beast in this sport. So professional players, you do, you're cognizant of that, like, let's win this series. That's been heard before. I mean, it depends on, you know, the type of team you have. I think a lot of teams do think win a series. Sometimes it's, if you're not as good, I feel like teams will say, all right, day by day. Like, let's take today. Short memory, come back tomorrow. I think when you're a good team, I think the mantra is more like, let's keep winning series.

Racking up those series wins is more of like a good team's mantra. And then like game by game is more of like, we're kind of crappy. But like if we just take it game by game, maybe we can add them up at the end of the year. I like that. Goodbye.

And Booney always references like, it was a good homestand or it was a good road trip. So he seems to lump all of it together like that. They're nerds do. See you guys. Goodbye J-Sucks