Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 331 | Phillies & Mets Sloppy Series, Scherzer Shutout, & Kiriloff Hits 4 Bombs

Episode Date: May 3, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. A wild weekend. People getting hit in the face, people getting ejected, wild calls. Let's talk about it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball, presented by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us and hanging out with us a little bit as we recap the series that were. My name is Jimmy.

I got Jake sitting next to me. I got Trevor in California. We got producer Bug Bug Bug Dude in the Corner. And we are excited to talk to you. Let you know. What happened in the ANA? What happened in the AAL? Some Interleague series, we got you.

Slump watch and Fuego, we're doing it all. Jake, how are you doing? James, Trevor, Senor, bug, Diamondbacks in the chat. Jake's snakes. Wow. We're hot, baby. Baseball's so hot in the streets.

Arod didn't get too weird on us last night, but still weird enough to party. I'm doing good, man. I mean, wild, wild. And I know we say this a lot, how quickly baseball moves game every day, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yeah. We're like a week removed from the podcast where we were talking about madbums, no hitter. And that feels months ago. And in a way it was, because now it's May, Treve.

And there's no more excuses. If you're still slumping, you're fine in the bench, babe. It's time to perform, Trevor. and I know that's what you're all about. Performance. I love that you're just dropping D-backs right away. We got him in the chat. You got the jersey.

We got the Mad Bump talk already. So good to be back to you guys. I love the Monday episode more than anything because the weekend goes on. You know, there's some stuff that happens. You go out, you get away from the game for a little bit. Then you come back and boom, we're going to just lock you back in.

Every single one, he's about to get locked in on what's happening in MLB. Is it the MLB? or MLB? The Major League Baseball. Yeah, that's how it goes now, right? Yeah, no. I think they, like, actively, people like hate when they say that. Whatever. You know who's going to get locked in? A couple special people. Blake Newsom, Michelle Haley, Brandon Wilkerson, Dylan Kahn, Thomas Schroeder, Thomas Botching, Andrew Bull, Don Draper.

Sorry, not Don. That's not who he is. It's Dan Draper. Very close. Jordan, Harry, Joseph Kearns, Nick DeMarco, Andrea Ramsey, Jeffrey Leonard, Bryce, Bridwell, Jeff Allen, Patrick Collins, Dank Hill, Curtis, Alex DeMorrow. It was an artist, a musician with that last name that I like. Don Juan, Hondo, Austin Kent, Raymond Sveck, patron. He was in the Q&A. Gabriel Enriquez, William O'Koon, Robertott, and Jim.

Corbett. Those are our most recent patrons. Thank you guys very much for supporting us. We appreciate you very much. I nailed every single one of your names. Don't come at me and tell me I got one wrong. When I didn't. Got them all correct. All right, Trevor, you are batting leadoff today. Are you excited? I just want to ask a question. Yeah, because there's Gabriel and there's Gabrielle. Yeah. Is it two L's for Gabrielle? Is that the distinction? I think it's a Daniel Daniel thing. I think it's a two L situation. Yeah, I believe it will be. It'd be an E-L-L-E-L-H-E-E-H. the end for Gabriel. Yeah.

Gabriel. Recently, Jake and I compared how many Gables follow us on Instagram. Yeah. 18 people, 18 Gables follow Jake on Instagram and 18 Gables follow me. We weren't sitting next to each other when we did this, but we are guessing they're the same 18 games. But it'd be so interesting if it wasn't the same 18. Yeah. But I don't know how that happened.

Jake just texted me one day and said, guess how many Gaves follow me on Instagram? Yeah, I went. That's the 10 p.m. thing. Yeah, it was late. It was getting late early in the Story Ellie household. Yeah, I, because I think I went to high school with one Gabe. I don't think we're amigos on social media yet. And then, yeah, I don't know.

Trev, your boomerisms cover up for my boomerisms, but I recently found there was like, you know, on Instagram. I knew you could search your followers, but I didn't know how it really worked. So I typed in Gabe and I was like, whoa, 18 Gables. And I was kind of shocked by that. So shout out to all my Gables. If you're a Gabe listening, leave a review, Gabe Day.

That doesn't even count Gabriel. No, that's just Gables. Just Gables. Those are Gables. Oh, wow. Yeah. Any Gabe I've ever met or Gabriel, for that matter, been a nice guy. Is it one of those names just coincides of being a nice guy?

Did we have a conversation about this? I'm blanking because, again, it got late early. that night in my home. But I think we said, like, if you're a Gabe, you have to be a pretty, like, kind of an innocent chap. Oh, yeah, you can't be, like, no Gabe's ever gotten arrested. Okay. And if they did, it wasn't their fault.

Maybe a misdemeanor marijuana. There's no career criminal named Gabe. Okay. I agree with that. I don't want to upset you guys. There's, like, one Gabe I know in my life. Awful. Well, not a criminal.

Is he not a criminal? No, no, no. never, but he's just not pleasant to be around. Okay. Not a friend. There's zero active MLB players named Gabe right now.

This was the conversation we had. I said So I had Jimmy guess how many Gables follow me. He guessed. I said it was 18. He looked at his. He said also 18. And he said, so the Gables are loyal. And Gabe is a loyal name. Yeah.

When Gave's with you, Gabe's with you forever. So again, shout out to my games. Yeah, the last Gabe in 2020, Gabe Spear played for the Royals. Other than that, MLB right now is Gabeless. And that's something that they should work on. Cover the demographics. Anyway, let's go to the National League.

Trevor is going to take it away. Fill everyone in on what happens. So, Trev, here we go. What you got? All right, we're going to start out with the Dodgers in Milwaukee. The Brewers take three or four from the Dodgers. Game one goes 2-1 Brewers. Two-run bomb by Travis Shaw.

Game 2-3-1 Brewers. Six, five Brewers in game three with a walk-off from Travis Shaw. Again, he had a great series. Three close games and a route by the Dodgers, 16 to 4 in game 4. We'll go into more of that later. St. Louis and Pittsburgh Cardinals sweep the pirates

because, of course, it's the pirates. They've been playing good, but I think that carriage is about to turn back. into a pumpkin if you know what I mean. 73, 12, 5, 3-0, Carlos Martinez, spins one in game 3. O'Neill, Aeronado, and Edmund, go nuts

in the series. Miami, visiting the nationals, the nationals, sweep the Marlins, 2-1 Nats, 7-2-nats, 3-1-nats, that last game, Max Scherzer, complete game, 9Ks, then goes straight to the hospital and sits there and watches his wife give birth to their third

child, Schwarber with the walk-off homer in game one. It was a 94 mile an hour heater. Down the dick, 454 feet. Awesome. Go watch that highlight. Cubs in Cincinnati, Reds take two or three. A lot of crazy stuff went on in this series. 8-6 Reds, 3-2 Cubs.

The last game was 13 to 12. Reds. There's a ton of home runs in game three, 10 of them, to be exact, and it ends on a bloop kind of single. Castiano's versus Kimbril. Ian Hap, friend of the pod, has a collision in game three, has to leave the game.

We'll check in on that. But Reds take 2 or 3 from the Cubs. Now the all Jake Bowl, Colorado, Visin, Arizona. Jake's Snakes versus Jake's Rocks. They split a four game set. You've got to be happy with that. Both sides won for you, Jake. I think you're more of a snake fan now.

So we'll keep that going. 5'3 Arizona in game 1, 7-2 Arizona. And wait a minute. Yeah. Did they split this series or not? Snakes up, Trev. We don't lose. Three one?

We don't lose. baby. The research was wrong. They didn't split a four game set. The snakes took it 3 to 1, 53 game 1, 7, 2 game 2, 14 to 6, Colorado game 3, and then last night, 8 to 4 Arizona takes it. The series is all about old guys hitting go-ahead triples, boat and Escobar both did that. Story has to exit the game Sunday. We'll see how that goes for him. Then we'll head down to San Diego.

San Francisco Giants take on the Padres. Podres take two or three from the Giants. 3-2 San Diego in game 1, 6-2 San Diego in game 2, and then 7-1 San Francisco Giants in game 3. Guess who homers in game 3, guys? Your guy, Mike Talkman, going deep. Darvish had a really good start in game 1, 6.1 innings, 12Ks. And then in the last series, and probably the biggest one,

and the one we'll talk about most, the Mets in Philadelphia, Phillies take 2-0-3, 2-1, Philly. Mets take two or three. This research is all wrong. Mets take two or three from the Phillies. Two to one game one for the Phillies, five to four, eight to seven. Mets take the last two games.

I don't want to go into any of this because we're going to talk about it in full. That is what happened in the National League. Who did my research for this? Hey, my bad, Trev. I don't know what happened. Sabotage. I was Russian and I just straight up got things a lot wrong. You know, like, because I, it's not interesting.

why I messed up. I know why I messed up. Because I did the games and then I just kind of threw the thing on top lazily. I got Philly's one too, but my bad. I sabotaged you a little bit there. Got God. It's all good. I got it. I got it. Hotest team in all of baseball in their last 10?

Jack Flaherty. Cardinals. Jack Flaherty, those cards. They're 8 and 2 as they swept the pirates. They're 8 and 2 in their last 10. Only team in MLB to win 8 out of their last 10. So go cards go. That bumps them up to second place in the division behind the Brewers

who take care of business against the Dodgers. And the Dodgers were scuffling there. Dodgers, man, I think they're 3 and 10 in their last 13. The Brewers, they won an absolute spit show of a game Saturday night, pure chaos, extra innings. Teams are running out of pitchers that I think the Brewers were more than happy once they got that win to sacrifice the Sunday game. But yeah, good to see the Cardinals kicking a gear.

Man, there's just been so much slog. And I think David Cohn said it on one of the broadcasts, he was like, there's very few teams right now in baseball that are just connected. Like, it's either a team gets their pitching going and they're not hitting or they're hitting gets going, they're not pitching. There's very few teams that have the full engine going. So it'd be cool to see if the Cardinals kick into gear. and I don't know.

Any separation we can get early this year, I might become important because, man, it's not happening in the NL East. I think all year those teams might stay locked up because it's a mess. National sweep the Marlins. It's good for the Nats. What did that do for the standing? Still, no one's above 500. I was reading more on it, and I touched on this last episode to see if, like,

they are beating each other up. And I read, I forget where. some people and they were like, yeah, no, they actually are kind of beating each other up. Like, the Phillies have played 50% of their games or over 50% of the games in division. So they haven't really been able to dance around that much. So we'll see if it evens out eventually. But yeah, no one's above 500. I don't think it means the East is bad.

No, it does. But everyone's saying that. It's like the meme right now on Internet is like making fun of the East because they were supposed to be good. But everyone's like, but no one's over 500. I'm like, but I don't think that means they're, I think they're just playing. each other. They're all good. I think it's what we said. Also, just one, it's one month, too. I think there's some really good teams in that division. I hope

it stays this way. I hope they're all 500 towards the end of the year and we get an excellent race in September. It kind of seems like that's what's going to happen and that's, as a baseball fan, how could you not want that? I think so, man. And how much of a forgotten team are these nationals? I mean, with the bizarre year last year,

I mean, your 2019 world champions of baseball. And then last year's a mess. They've got COVID stuff. Soto shows out. and everyone's like, he's kind of having MVP-type season, but this team's not winning, and they were behind in games. Now, hey, you know, it still shows how early it is that they get a nice little sweep in there,

and I think they've won four straight. They're up to 500 tied for first in that division, but when that team clicks, it's beautiful. I think the problem is their bad is pretty bad. Their days they look bad. It's no pitching. You look around there's some old guys, and it's kind of like, what is this?

But when it's right and they got their good dudes on the bump and Soto's doing it, love me some Trey Turner. I hope the Nats stay part of this season because, well, A, mostly Soto, if I'm being honest. I'll sure is there too. Yeah. It's having a great start to the year. I mean, think about like the thought process for him. He's like, my wife is very much pregnant, can go into labor at any second,

goes out there, throws the CG runs to the hospital. Just like kind of an incredible day. Deuce is. Can I tell you guys a little something? Yes. Maybe. Unless you wanted to... I'll allow it.

Sunday night baseball, the schedule picker has been crushing it. Sunday night baseball's done one, two, three, four, five games so far this season. Only one of them hasn't been tied in the last inning. Isn't that wild? I love that. They had the Otani pitching and hitting for the first Sunday night baseball when there was that crazy. wild pitch, all the crazy action, and then Jared

Washett, the walk off through on home run. Then they had Philly at Atlanta, tied 6-6 going into the ninth inning. Then they had Atlanta Cubs. That was the blowout. Then they had the Padreys, big comeback tied with that went into extras. And then last night they have the Mets Phillies, which is just a wild game and the Reese's home run. So Sunday night baseball has been getting a lot of winners right now. And Arod's passed the point of, like, Jake Trued it out that he was excited for Sunday Night Baseball for A-Rod. And, like, he's gotten to the point where, like, I was let down that he wasn't weird.

Weird last night. He did say a couple weird stuff, but it wasn't, like, bizarre, bizarre. Mooky Betts. Yeah. Someone suggested we have an A-Rodism segment. Yeah, I can, like, you know, I'm not going to do that because then it means that every Sunday night I have to, like, listen to A-Rod. Too much at that point. I think my Sunday night baseballs.

But I can give you my favorite that I tweeted out because some people listen and don't follow on. The winners last night were what, Pilar and then the Mets approach speech? D.D. came up and he said he was a contact guy and then D.D. He had a bomb. And then Pilar came up and he said he was a contact guy and he had a bomb. And he's not like wrong in there, but still it's just hilarious. But this was my favorite after the Pilar home run.

He was clearly reading like the notes that the producer gave him about Pilar. and then went off script, and this is what it came out as. Nicknamed Superman for all his diving catches. His father was a race car driver and a nice pickup for the Mets. And a contact guy, a gritty guy, a winning player for the New York Mets. A nice pickup for the Mets, a contact guy, a gritty guy, a winning player for the New York Mets. Baseball. It's all of it.

So he's doing it. Guess what? I do know Pilar's dad. Nice guy. How about that? He's a race car driver. I didn't know that. He runs a flooring company now. So if you need any flooring done out in L.A., he did my house. How about that? So, like, was he really a race car driver?

That's full circle. Maybe. Back in the day. You know, pull up to a green red light, rev the engine a little bit. Give him a little voom, boom. That's so funny. That was an 18-year-old kid. Girl I know is dating.

She's like 26. She was dating this 18-year-old kid, just a high school came to, like, a graduation party. He's trying to make polite conversation with the Trev. He goes, yeah, I'm really into cars. I'm really into racing. And I didn't know he was 18. I didn't know he was, like, really young.

Slash didn't know he's dumb. And so I was trying to have a serious conversation. And he goes, I'm like, oh, that's awesome. Like, is there a racetrack around here that you go to? Because, like, I had a boss. He was in the racing and he went to tracks or, like, soapbox, whatever. He goes, oh, no, man. And, you know, you just had a red light next to a car.

You give him a little voom, boom, boom. off the line and I was like, oh, you're just an idiot. Yeah, your child. You're not into racing. Yeah. So that's that's a different kind of race. Give me a little voom-v-vum. When did I hear that?

I've heard that story before. It's just so funny. It's a good one. It's a good one. We drop it a couple times. If anyone doesn't know, there you go. Guys, speaking of a little vroom-v-room. The N-L-West, baby.

We've got teams that are winning. We've got teams with positive run differentials. The top four teams in the NL East have negative run differentials. The Marlins at 11 and 16 are the only ones with a positive run differential. That's probably why they're getting laughed at a little bit. In the NL West, Giants, Dodgers, Padres, and my, Diamondbacks, all positive run differentials. Diamondbacks are still playing good baseball, 15 and 13. Padres are 16 and 13.

Giants jump the Dodgers, 17 and 11. They are tied with the Brewers for the best record in the NLIN. NL right now. And West Coast, best coast. I mean, that's what I'm always saying. Always saying that. And, you know, the Diamondbacks are playing really well. Tori Lavello is kind of making things fun there. And they're doing the dancing post game. I've been waiting for TikTok Jake to join in on fun. Keep your eyes peeled. Keep your eyes peeled, trap. I figure there's something in the works. Tori Lavello, my skipper, his 300th win last night. Very excited for that.

Yes. Very excited for that. Claps for Tori, a friend of mine also. 300 wins. Joey Votto. We didn't mention that. 300th Homer. I'll clap for that.

You know, 300 homers. Love that. You think about 300 homers. You're like, okay, like there's been a lot of people that have hit 500 and 600 and whatever. 300 homers. I mean, you break it down,

not a math pod, but that's 10 straight seasons of 30. Okay. It's a lot of homers. When you start thinking about those like 600, homer guys, you're like, that is 20 straight seasons of 30. Yes, pretty nuts. Or 10, you know, like those numbers are nuts to me.

Well, Maurice Hoskins thought he had his 100th homer of his career. He did not. He missed it by a millimeter in like the most dramatic ending ever, which was just amazing. I love it. It was. The whirlwind of emotions that Reese goes through. I love that he was a mother F in the empire. Yeah, I mean, I think he said afterwards, like, you know, I trust them to get it right.

I think he was upset because I did the breakdown. I showed it. He stopped at second base and asked the hump, like, what is it? Because the Mets kept playing the ball like it was a double or it was off the wall. So he stopped at second and that um told him, no, it's a home run. So I think he was like, you just really tricked me, dude. I tried to trust to do. They should do that.

Lean towards a home run and put a guy back on second base. if it was like inconclusive, then Reese gets a homer. If they put him at second base and it's inconclusive, then it gets a double. So he should be happy, they said that. I'm happy with how the whole thing played out. I was incredibly entertaining. And a lot of Phillies fans were, at first I thought they were watching a different replay. I legit thought they had a different broadcast that wasn't showing the angle because, like, once you see the replay, it's as clear as day.

It hits that bar. And the ground rules are that that bar is part of the wall. So, but it was. cool. I thought it was cool when I went and did the breakdown to see that he did stop at second, and the ball was in Conforto's hand before he even reached second. So like if it played out naturally and they didn't say home run, it would have been on second both runs scored. So like nothing got fucked. Like it was handled properly by everyone. It was handled properly. I think the thing that's unfortunate for me and, you know, everyone is tween about it. I think Kelsey Wingered, I forget

how she phrased it, farmed a fame ad. But, you know, that had every part of being a home run without being a home run. So, yes, by the rules, it was called accurately. But the thing that was getting back to me, and, you know, we've seen stadiums and they've got the yellow lines and all of that, that part of the structure isn't supposed to be part of the field and the fence. Like, that is a railing so people don't go past it. It's railing, net railing.

So, like, for me, yes, everything was called accurate and was right. But why the hell is that in the field of play? Because that should be a home run. That's out of the ballpark, man. That railing isn't part of a baseball stadium fence. That's to keep people from jumping over. Yeah, but it's not like it's like behind it. It is just like an extension of it.

But that's not fence, man. That's a railing. Yeah, put a yellow line on that. But I mean, it's part of the wall. It's just see-through. Isn't that left field? But that's what the same thing it is around the whole thing. It's just the wall just goes higher.

They just made it see-through so the fans can see through it. Right field's a little different. Yeah, I, I, no. That's what it is. I don't know. I mean, yeah, but some people on the comments were complaining about like, wait, wait, wait, quirky walls, like someone responded like, that's a dumb wall. And I'm like, that should be part of every MLB tour where the tour guys says, yeah, and there's our wall.

There's our dumb wall. There's our dumb wall. Every stadium has a dumb wall. The trop has that three. foot one in left field that one on the playoff spot at one point. That's what baseball is. It's unique park rules and every park has its own rule.

The Phillies made the rule so they can't complain. It's their home field and that that's the rule. So I mean, I don't know. I don't think anyone's complaining now. I think it's more just in the heat of the moment. Like they thought they just tied the game up and then they didn't.

I don't blame Reese for screaming and yelling. That's pretty up. And he had blown the game earlier or kind of whatever. So, but yeah, I mean, that's just, that's just incredible that you, like, he hit the ball as far as you get hit the ball without it being a home run. It's insane. A couple more notes on Reese. You're going to have to wait one more homer to join the very exclusive 100 home run club. Will you send him, will you send him a text and say welcome? Yeah, you will. Okay. Of course. Welcome to the triple digit club. Nobody's ever gotten more than triple digit home run. So it's the most exclusive home run club. Then second, that's a nice baseball reference page. I'll research.

It's a little shocking some of his numbers. I didn't know they were that good. Career 361 OBP, 497, slugging 858 OPS, 125 OPS plus. The guy's a banger. It's like a banger bang. He's the modern player, man. Power and on base. That's good.

Good job by the Mets. They took two or three. We talked a lot with the Phillies, but the Mets looked pretty good there. And, oh, also the call on Cutch. just another mind-blowingly bad call in MLB. It's weird. The game was too fast. I'm hope.

No, that was umpires. Some umpires are forgetting that they're allowed to not say anything. Like the same, the obstruction in Milwaukee, you're allowed to say that didn't happen. I don't understand. Like you're doing too much. You don't. It's really bad.

And I'm hoping that we get 10 more of these So they changed the replay to like Let's just replay everything I don't get it like no it's a judgment call so you can't review it Yes you can review it and make a new judgment Right Yeah it's very simple Yeah that was a horrible call

A horrible call Like all the rules of how they implemented replay from the jump Because they were dip in their toe We don't want to overrule the umpires too much But we'll use it when we can And now it's the point we're like Hey use it as much as you can and just get the call right You get the call right.

That's the intention. Yeah. Bad. All right, let's move on to the AL, which is brought to you by MagicSpoon cereal. Go to magic spoon.com slash baseball and grab a variety pack and try it today. Be sure to use promo code baseball at checkout to save $5 off your order. They got birthday cake flavor now. Limit addition, man, it's got zero grams of sugar, 13 to 14 grams of protein,

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Trevor Ploofs Yankees played the Detroit Tigers, and they suck. This Tigers team is bad. Detroit fans. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you got to watch this product right now. But Yankees needed it. They sweep the Tigers.

Garrett Cole drops dick in game one. Yankees hit a bunch of homers. And then the end cap to this series. Corey Kluber, eight innings, 10 K's? Okay, Kluba. I smell you. Jameson Tyone gets his first win two years apart from the day. How about it? He was emotional.

Let's go, Yanks. The Red Sox, oh my God. They dropped three of four to Gibby's, Texas Rangers. Gibby shoved in game one. That's obvious. Trevino had the big home run. The game that the Sox won was nasty Nate of Aldi, but kinder Filetfa with the big series.

Adivino blows game four that could have been the split. He's our friends, so we're kind of sorry, but we're kind of not because we're Yankees fans. Houston plays Tampa. Oh, little ALCS rematch. Houston wins two out of three. McCullors and Erkiti. They each go seven shutout in the first two games. That's a bad feeling.

Tampa salvages the last game, friend of the pod. Austin Meadows with a big three-run homer in that one. Cleveland versus the White Sox. The Indians take two out of three. Bieber, game one, strikes out 11, sets some strikeout record. He basically does that every start now. The game the White Sox won. T.A.

Kevin, Grand Salami, like that a little bit. And then Plyssack Gialito, that's a fun one. But Cleveland shuts them out. They win 5-0. Jim, Lance Lynn came back in game two. We like that a lot. Royals versus the Twinkies. Literally Trevor Ploof's twins.

He's heading there soon, getting the swing ready. And so did the twins. They win two out of three. The bats get going. Kiroloff finally got those extra reps at the alt site. He needed those to get his swing right. The game Kansas City won Danny Duffy because it's just his year, man. Holy smokes.

Nine runs. That's how many you needed to win a baseball game in this series. O's at the A's Battle of the Vowels. And how about those Orioles? They win the first two games in Joklyn. Means out dual fires. The Orioles first win in Oakland since 2017, BBD. What grade were you in in 2017?

I was in college. Okay. depends what part of 2017. All right. We'll check in with you later. Matt Harvey wins his third straight start. How about that, Jim? Your guy?

And then Luriano with a Superman performance in the third game, saves the series for Oakland, game saving catching a homer, final series out West, Angels Mariners. Mariners take two out of three. Justice Sheffield with the big performance in game three. L.A., they hit a bunch of homers in the game they won,

Walsh, two of them. Seattle, they just kind of. to keep winning. And that's the AL Recap. You're so much better at this than me. Sexy. Great job. Like one of the only things that, you know, you do better than me.

Kind of true, Trevor. Hotest American League team in the last 10 games? It's a three-way tie. It's not the Tigers. Astros, Blue Jays, Yankees. Mm. White Sox. White Sox.

Royal. Royals. There's a lot of teams. Okay. How about that? What is it? Seven and three? Seven and three, yeah.

The royals are still leading their division. Red Sox are still leading their division, but it gets a little closer because they are five and five in their last ten now. And then also three or four to Rangers, which can't do that. Can't do that. That's what I've been telling the Red Sox. You got to squeeze this run. They're winless in May.

I'm worried. Oh, wow. I'm worried for the Red Sox. The A's continued to do their thing. Are you going to pay Bob Loren? trademark for stealing his Battle of the Vowels? I forgot it and then BVD reminded me this morning on Wake and Jake, but Battle of Vowals, Azo's is really good.

Shout out to Big Chess Bob Lorenz. Could you add the J's and say a consonant? I can just say forget about the AYS? No, because the J's is J-A-Y. It's the full. I know that, but. You had that one. Phonetically, it's just a consonant.

We'll work on some other consonant vowel stuff. It's done for the year. So, easy and those won't play again. Yeah. Save it for next year. We'll playoffs. They'll face off.

That's a bummer. How about the West? Every team is doing good besides the Rangers, but they won three to four, Gibby shoved. I like that. So what did the twins do? Remind me.

Twins won their series. Good for them. Happy for them. So they put up the bat started going. I think Treves Kiraloff. We might hear about him in a little bit. A couple other. The big boys got it going.

and then, yeah, the game of the Royals won. I mean, Duff Man just can't stop this year. That Central's very interesting to me, the AL Central, because I thought it was going to be, we'll see, when does it get separated? I thought it was going to be a two-team race, and right now it's a four-team race. Besides the Tigers.

The Tigers are off to a historically bad start. What was the Tigers team? That was the worst Tigers team ever? 1980-sept-Sept-Tigers. Also the 2018-19-19-19-Tig. 20-1 Tigers. And they're like on par for that. It's a little shocked.

I'm over here trying to figure out Seattle. Okay. What are they doing to win these games? I mean, three games over 500, 16 and 13. Their bullpen. Not exactly. They're bullpen. It's just, I was saying it's just the bullpen.

So just the bullpen. So our stat guy Max couldn't do the stats this week. That's why I sabotaged. Treb by accident. So we're hoping he'll be back. He had some stuff going on overseas. Pretty crazy. But so I was looking at the Mariners Angels series, and I was like,

so game one of that series, 7-4 Mariners win. So I'm like, okay, what happened? What are the highlights? Their starting pitcher, Flexen went four innings three-run runs. Steckenrider Sadler Misowitz, four-inning shuddy. And you do that, you push enough runs across. And that's what they're doing. Will Tom Murphy getting it done?

Dylan Moore? That sounds like an Eastern European law firm. We got Woodruff and Burns and they got whatever you just said. Steckenrider, Sadler, and Miss Swintz. Yeah. 2003 Tigers. Oh, three Tigers. They were, the O3 Tigers were three in 21 in April.

Who, name a player on the O3 Tigers. Three and 21. O3. I'm not good. Jake. Name a player on the 03-2-10. Well, I'll bring it on with you. Brandon Inge.

Yes, yeah, thank you. I was going to say Brandon Inge. Dang it. I like this Inge guy. I just love how his. Maglio Ordonians? If you do his initials in last name, it's binge. No.

Dmitri Young. Ooh. Carlos Pena. What? Bobby Higginson. Bobby Higginson. Brandon Inge must have been a rookie. Ramone Santiago.

Bobby Hagen's say, can play. 2003. Placito Polanco? Like Placid. I don't think he was there. No. Hinch was on there. Wow.

So Hinch might be part of the two worst Tigers teams ever. There's a good storyline for you. Yeah. The rotation was Mike Moroth, Nate, Conejo, Jeremy Bonderman, Gary N. Knott's and Adam Bernaro. Rookie of the year, Jeremy Bonderman? One of my biggest fears is, like, people talking about the twins and the 2010s and then

being like, who the fuck is that guy? Like, they don't remember me at all. So luckily, you know, I'm still keeping my name relevant doing this stuff because I had a- That's for sure what would happen. This is a tangent. I'll ask it real- Yeah, this is a tangent.

I'll ask it real quick, Trev. where's Brian Wilson the Giants reliever? Katie, Bay Area gal my wife, asked me that. If anyone seemed prime to have a job in media, like you're saying you're keeping your name out there. It seemed like Brian Wilson. And he's not around. It's one way or the other in my head.

Like he would still be in the forefront or we're going to hear Brian Wilson's been living in Montana for four years. And he breeds and eats his own buffalo. You know when you're weird and a regular person, you're just weird. Yeah. But if you're weird and you're rich, you're eccentric. He's just like eccentric. So who knows what he's doing? He's doing something strange probably somewhere, but it's okay because he has a lot of money.

So people are going to call him eccentric. Okay. It's weird if he's doing the living in the woods thing because like Linscom's already doing that from his team. You can't have two woods guys. Oh. Poof, I guess. It was gone. He went,

Gary. That's right. It was one of those. A one ball, two strike count. Tell him's delivery to him, and ploof, you're out. It's funny. It's funny, but it's also so fucking disrespectful. Man, how much.

He laughs after he says, Ploof, you're out. Like, it's a cackle. That's tough. Like, he had to, like, get it back together. Jake and I,

when it came up the other day when you tweeted out, and then it came up, Jake and I would laugh. I understood your anger. It's, it's, yeah. He's pretty funny.

Hey, you know what's funny? Is I should, I should make a video and say, and ploof, Gary's not the Orioles broadcaster anymore.

I think he's pretty happy. I'm happy to not be that broadcaster anymore. He had to watch a lot of bad baseball. I think it was pretty sudden and maybe unexpected. That's the gist that I got from it. So maybe I just need to retaliate a little bit and just go at the throat with Gary. Gary Thorn's the best. I know.

Everyone says that. You ever hear his Yankees home run? You ever hear his Yankees home run calls? It's not a good time to plan, but there's like one that's so fucking amazing from the 1995 postseason. See on socials? We'll link something on it. All right. Red Sox still in first, Royal still in first, A still in first.

Anything else from the AL? I think we're good. Let me tell you about the Interleague series. You ready? Yes. Hell yeah. All right. We only had one Interleague series this weekend.

The Braves went down to the Needed and got swept by the Blue Jays. They beat them big in game one and then close in game two. And then decent in game three. Springer gets his first hit as a Blue Jay and pops his first and second home run as a Jay in game two. All 12 Blue Jays that walked up to the plate found their way on to the base at bases at least once. All three Braves starting pitchers gave up four or more earned runs. And Austin Riley stays hot for the Bravos. And that's basically all you got.

Braves lost all three. Dropping them to a row. record of 12 and 16. I mean, that's my World Series team right there. My World Series winning team. Blue Jays, second place in the ALE East, 14 and 12. Springer pops his first two home runs, so I think that's pretty cool. Yeah, the Blue Jays, they're just pitching isn't sustainable. Like they went, no pitcher threw more than four innings for him, I don't think.

I think Robbie Ray went four something, stripling went four something. Game two, they went Tommy Mill won as a bolt guy, but a bullpen game. so they need something to come around because they can hit and the bullpen's been great. We knew that. Bullpen's pitched the whole season in April, it feels like. I kind of like when we knew all of that going into the season, the Blue Jays were going to be able to hit.

They were starting pitching probably wasn't going to be sustainable. And then that's exactly what's happening. They're hitting the ball. Their pitching's probably not sustainable. Mill 1, shout out, came in and, you know, held them together for a little bit. But now he's on the IL. So best wishes over there to Tommy Mill one because he's a big friend of the pod. They're seven and two in their last nine, Springer's back.

And yeah, the only thing I'd combat that with, Jim, is that we still need to see how hitting evolves this season. Everyone's like, you know, we're going to regress to the mean. If this Jay's lineup can hit like this Jay's lineup can hit and the rest of the league is still kind of all over the place, I mean, this lineup on any given. and day can ruin you. Especially with Springer back now, Vladie having the season he's having. I mean, we saw Bichette having the up and down series. Gritchick, who's like a bonus piece for them, he got off to a really good start.

So if this team can hit and ruin your pitching staff on a day-to-day basis, I mean, look at the Red Sox and how hot their start was. It was because they were hitting and they were getting good bullpen performance. So sustainability is a question, but. Yeah. You know the Yankees, we watch the Yankees and we've been worried about the pitching and how little they, how little innings the starters get for a while. The Yankees have had eight pitchers throw 15 or more innings this season. The Blue Jays have only had three pitchers throw more than 14 innings.

They're using so many arms. No one's eating innings. They don't have a pitcher that's thrown 30. and they just they just DFA'd Roark which I feel bad about now but you know it made sense because it was bad I got a little Blue J. stat for you guys

I was thinking about this like you know Dunedin not a big league park everybody knows that it's a spring training facility they've done as best the job they can do with it but it's not a big league park a lot of things are different when you go into a spring training site than you know when you go into a real stadium with three decks things are just different

for you. And I think what I'm looking at now, I thought this was going to be the case. The information matches up with what I thought. Seven and four at home, seven and eight on the road. They've scored 71 runs in those 11 games at home and only 49 on the road. So I think that they're very comfortable hitting there. And I don't think people who are coming in to play in Dunedin are comfortable playing there. It's just different. I don't know what it is. But that could be, some sort of a home field advantage for them. If they can, you know, go off at home and like we always talk about, maybe play 500 ball on the road or a little bit below 500 ball on the road,

they could be hanging in there. How do you think the adjustment is going to work when they go to Buffalo and they're not planning to need it anymore? Warriors. We lost your mic. Lost Trevor's Mike. Silent. I think he said, I don't know.

That'd be a good fake storyline, though. Be a good fake storyline if they... What if I told you, the team with the best home field advantage? was leaving their home. They go to Buffalo and then they like go one in five and they're like, let's go back. Let's go back to Dunny. Still don't have you. I don't know what's going on.

Do you try and leave and come back or? A little reset. Do you have them? Does the chat have them? Reset the offense. No one's got on. I saw. Ploof in the Post.

What was that? Interleague. Yeah. Braves, man. We've got a lot of Braves connections. at this point and it's kind of bad time season 12 and 16 Austin Riley's hitting though Did you see his this is rude do you see his error the other day?

I did not he just fielded it cleanly through it and it was like it was just really high so freddie didn't even offer at it Which is kind of it's a mean feeling oh we might have you there trev heard a laugh check yeah gotcha bang I want to watch that now yeah I mean pretty funny I saw it. It's a little rude. Did that ever happen? When do they go to Buffalo? When do these,

when do the Jays go to Buffalo? I thought I was in June, but I really don't know. Interesting. What about last year? Were they home field advantage in Buffalo? Like where they had a really good record? I guess I can look that up right now.

Look it up right now. Look it up right now. God, I'll produce this freaking show. Do it, do it, do it. You know, as you look that up. I mean, yes, yes. 17 and 9 at home.

What was there a road record? 15 and 19 on the show. the road. Those home jays. Another not a big league stadium. Teams don't feel comfortable. Pitchers probably feel weird there. This is something we need to look into for the rest of the year. Okay. So are you proposing they never go to Toronto and they just become the minor league team? Maybe. Maybe it

works out that way. They're like the snowbirds. They stay down in Florida until it gets warm and they go back up to Buffalo. Got it in summertime. I'd love to be that first game back in Toronto. It's going to be wild. Canucks are going to be rowdy. That'd be fun. Not talking Tellez either. Oh.

He killed himself on air. He's not there anymore. No. Routy? He's resetting the offense. He's getting some swings in. Figuring it out? Yeah.

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kept nodding him, and I kind of have to explain this. His transaction page is a mess. Now, he is with the Brewers in Spring Training, gets activated off the 10-day IL on April 22nd. Well, then on April 22nd, they also designate him for assignment. They take him off the roster. The Mariners, six days later, claim him off waivers, and activate him two days later on April 30th.

He's there for two days. The Mariners designate him for assignment May 1st. And then guess what happens? The Brewers trade for him on May 2nd. He makes his start on May 2nd. He gets four at bats. First game of the season hits two homers. When you were going up and down like that, on rosters, off rosters, two different teams,

it's a lot of travel. It's a big headache. You're doubting yourself. You're wondering if you're ever going to be back in the majors again. This guy gets to start. In a losing effort, sure, but he hits the two homers. He's got to be feeling really good about himself. hopefully, hopefully, this leads to some more playing time.

The note I had was the weight of two Jake's story alleys are off his shoulders now, and maybe he can just go and establish himself. But great job, Jacob Nottingham, two homers, first game of the year, crazy transaction page. I'm really happy for him. That's a nice feeling. So he was with the Brewers? With the Brewers.

They released him. Released him. The Mariners picked him up. Yes. He never played for the Mariners, though. was there for a couple days. But didn't get any action? No action.

And then the brewers had some injuries happen. Obviously, they've been pretty banged up. And they're like, we need this guy back. And they trade for him back. And put them in the lineup right away. Mariners just got a whatever they got in return from the Brewers. I mean, it's probably not a lot, but they got something. How about that?

Yeah. How about that? Good guy, too. So I'm happy for him. Good guy. You know him? He's a Cali guy. Yeah, he was at all the California Strong stuff.

He rose with that crew. I think Yelich was having him around. He worked out with them this offseason, so I popped in there a few times and saw him. Big boy, nice hair, kind of good looking dude. Two homers, good for him. Oh, Travis is a valley guy. Yeah.

Redlands High School? That's not, he's, no, he's not like a Valley Valley guy. Redlands is not. Not, I think that's NorCal. No, Redlands is NorCal. It's not NorCal. Easy California, girl. else. Well, it's not. It's west of Riverside. Oh, okay. Yeah. Good for him. Nottingham.

Congrats. Nice, nice little story there for you. Two hits, two homers. Jake, was your standout. Yeah, I was going to, Nottingham, he was eyeing him for a potential award, but he deserved it, Treve. Good job. Stand out, dude. I'm going with a dude who I think there's a fun conversation around him and the year he's having. I'm going with KB. Chris Bryant of your Chicago Cubs. He has a little three-for-five with two homers in the absolute insane game the other day,

the one the Reds won in the walk-off, 13 to 12. Castellanos, I mean, he had five hits and you could have penciled him in. But KB gets it because of the storyline. Chris Bryant is your National League leader, in home runs, doubles, slugging, OPS plus in a contract year baby. He's basically split time between third base and the outfield this year.

The Cubbies off to a slow start like we've talked about a little bit. They welcome the Dodgers this upcoming series. So Chris Bryant's been killing it. Good for him. Contract year. Another guy, man, you look at the baseball reference, and it's not the image of Chris Bryant that I think a lot of us have in our heads. I mean, dude's got an MVP in the bag. OPS right around 900, 282, 381 on base kind of guy.

I do think defensively at third base, I think the numbers come in pretty bleh. But I think you could stick him in left field, and this dude's got another half of his. career coming up that I think could be really nice. He's coming up towards a payday at the end of this year. Is he on the trade block? We'll see how the rest of the Cubs year continues. But A, good for Chris Brian Trev. I know when I came out with my third baseman list, he was one of the guys you were most disappointed in me in because this dude does have an MVP in the bag. I think the funny thing is,

if you listed him as a left fielder, he might be a top three left fielder. And that might surprise some people. It's a little bit because of the left fielder. in this league. But Chris Bryant's a stud, man. And think about this, leading in home runs and doubles. My dude is mashing right now. And so now I'm kind of starting to get near you guys where if the Cubs wheels start to fall apart, I can get some Chris Bryant dreams going on. Well, all you need is Bryce Harbor to say, go get me my best friend. They got Real Mudo back. He just publicly say, bomb's not cutting it. BPD should have drafted us. I need Chris Brian.

A couple things here. I can't believe you didn't mention. You were on his baseball reference page. You didn't mention his high school's name. Okay. Bonanza High School. It's good. Excellent name for a high school.

What's their mascot you think? The Bonanza. Got to be the bananas. The Bonanza Gold Rush. Yeah. So Rosie and I on our IG live show, we talked about this today. He said, is he going to be playing at Rigley, you know, come July?

and I said absolutely not. And we started talking about where he could end up. I think a lot of people talk about Braves during the off season. I want to hear a team that we came up with, a surprise team that could make a run at this guy? Like a mercenary type thing.

They have him for half a season. Bangles. The Bonanza Bengals. Yes, I'm interested in terms. Oh, Benanza Bengals, nice. The Kansas City Royals. Currently atop the A.L. Central, they have wiggle room in their payroll.

It's not going to cost a lot. you know how many prospects is it really going to take to prime from the Cubs right now I think there's a chance where they go ahead and say look the A.L Central's a mess we're ahead right now make a little push right here Dayton Moore go get your guy I like that I'm interested I'm interested you got to give me like three more weeks and then I think we're officially on like who's going to be shopped list you know because that's where we ran into with the the tigers Jose Uranus having like a decent start his first six starts or five starts he's like performing and he's cheap as shit.

He's going to cost like $1.5 million. So some teams gonna just pick, you know, some teams pick up like they pick up a stud pitcher and then they pick up a backup pitcher at the deadline as well, just like eight innings and maybe he's good. Like Jose Rang's a cheap option there. So I'm interested in that thought process. Middle of May we start looking at, you know,

who could be traded. And Cubbies, their schedule, so they've got three versus the Dodgers. You've got to survive that. Even one, I think you're, you're okay. You host the pirates for three, and then the Indians for two, tigers for three, and then you get the pirates again after that. So, you know, still early. Get things clicking a little more. You're back up to 500. You're in the race for everything. But be careful. These next couple

weeks, Chris Bryant's season. His eyes are too nice. Too piercing. My standout performer, Trevor already mentioned this. Max Scherzer, complete. game, nine innings pitched, five hits, one earned run, nine strikeouts. He took the shutout into the ninth inning and then got clipped for a home run. So it doesn't get the complete game shutout, complete game one hitter. What makes it amazing is that his wife gave birth to their third child right after the game. He didn't even do like interviews or press conferences. He just kind of got off the mound. In my head, he didn't get out of his uniform and he's in the hospital spikes on still like a scene out of a movie. And I love it. Probably not what happened. But

it's his 12th career complete game. And it's his 13th. child. And he had 21 of 31 first pitch strikes. So he kind of knew like, let me get this over with. I got a kid coming. Yeah. Man, you know, like, it's such a special moment. I know it's his third kid. So, you know, definitely the first time, like, it's like you're part of a, I'm like, it seems like an alien's being born. You don't know what to expect. Third kid, you know what to expect. I have this vision of him, Jim, also in his uniform. And there's no real beds for like the husband to sleep on. They give you like a little fold-out couch most places. I had a really nice room in Minnesota for when Teddy was born. Still not a great night's sleep. I just have Max Scherzer like,

I just threw a complete game, uh, nine strikeouts. I'm worth 500 zillion dollars and he's sleeping on this like little pull-out couch in his uniform. Very funny visual for me. Love it. I like that. I always laugh when they show pictures from like presidents of the past like doing like a big meeting and you think it's some secretive big club and then they're just sitting on like folding chairs and a folding table at some empty conference room at the local hotel and you're like what that big ass meeting about the war didn't happen in like a cool place like no it's just conference room b at the hyatt it's available yeah all right let's move on to Trevor's favorite segment of the entire show.

Blah, Blah, blah. Some watch. BPD. Who are we adding? Well, guys, there's a few interesting players. Some of the guys that got on the list that were, like, the biggest

overs of the week might not actually be good, but that's for you guys to determine after. Daniel Vogelbach goes over 10, 4Ks on the week. Jorge Salare. Similar story. Over 10. A couple walks mixed in, at least. And we get to some more fun names, which isn't fun for this segment, but Evan Longoria goes 0 for 8, 6Ks.

There's a no longer, after. There's a no longer rule. Seattle, Thai, France, O for 11, three walks, five, Ks. His name didn't stick out to me, and then I was like, well, he's one of the big Ofer's, he's having a great ear, so that, like, really stuck out. Okay. Now, Shohay Otani, one for 11 on the series. The first app out of the series he homered, and he's Ofer since.

And it was against Seattle, where you expect the angels to go off. That's what they usually do there. Jose Brayu, O for nine. Two hit by pitches. So that's just, ouch. And a walk, 5Ks. Okay. All right.

Let's see. So we got some new additions. Now the rules are only five people can be on. And we have five people that were still on from last year. Ian Hap. Ian Hap went four for 10 and hit a huge home run and then got injured. He got bruised ribs. He's doing all right.

I was texting with him. He's doing good. But he's off. Like, obviously he's off slump watch. A great performance by him. So I'm so happy for him to be off. Easy. That clears up spot.

Also, J.D. Martinez, shame to flame. He has a 417 batting averages, series 5.63. He's kind of been doing this. He has five hits, two home runs, five RBIs. That was the last. He's off. J.D. Tied for the league lead in homers.

Jadie's still doing it, man. Well off. Dom Smith, part of a lot of action today or this weekend. And a good series. Five for 13 with two doubles, RBI. He's off, so we're clearing it. And the five we kept on, three of them earned their way off. Reset.

Now, the two that are still around, Max Muncie, he went 0 for 10 with three walks. I think it's one for 10. I miss typed there. One for 10 with three walks, kind of what he's been doing. I'm keeping him on because I'm just so interested to keep watching this happen. and Lindor and he's staying on because it's getting loud because if they didn't sign him to an extension

this would be so loud I'm actually, it's better that they did because you remember you traded for him and like it's only this year but and they're just doing it too much every time he got up Arod's like is this a signature moment? Jesus Christ, guys.

So those signature moment Aeroad's those those Buster only interviews about your smile and your matching glove ain't as fun when you ain't hitting. Yeah. And you're in New York and you're playing for the Mets.

And Mets fans are, no offense, but actually, yeah, offense. Mets fans are miserable. Yes. They come at me the most and they're very, let's just say they're aggressive on Twitter. They're a cat in the corner at all.

That's their, that's their like status quo. Yeah. They're just, their first move is to scratch and hiss. It is. It is. I've been ratioed by Mets Twitter before. That's fun. They come in hot.

Yeah. Go Mets go. So I would like, I'll choose one. I'd like to add Otani because he's been doing it with the bat and I like Otani and he did, his first hit came first and they went over. So again, we're just watching out. Like, hey, maybe this might lead to something. Maybe not.

But I'd like to add Otani to the list. There's two more spots open. So you guys can pick and choose who you want out of these guys. Let's see. So there's interesting, but I feel like he's kind of a streaky. guy in general. I could be wrong about that. That's just the impression I have in my head. And just his numbers on

the year aren't like crazy. Like he might just kind of not been good all month. I'm okay with keeping it at three. Then Dorr, Muncie, and Otani is a nice little list right there that we can keep an eye on and keep a nice team. We have five, Trevor. These are the goddamn rules. We have to have five.

Don't make me put Longo on there. If you put Longo on there, I'm out. We just instated the no Longo rule. We're putting Jose Brayu on there. The guy won the MVP last year, 0 for 9. White Sox have been winning,

but they haven't kind of fully hit the switch yet. Give me Jose Abraeu on there. Put Tai France on. He went from having a 325 batting. Average is down to 269 now. Tie. Ty. Ty. Ty goes to the runner.

Abraeu and Thai France. So that's her we're left with Lindor, Muncie, Otani. Jose Abrae, Thai, France. O'Reu, Thai, France. O'Bray, Thai, France. I like it. Done. We're just watching out.

Now, Lindor, he's slumping. He's kind of, we're still watching because we're interested. Max Muncie, we don't even know if he's slumping. He just playing his game and it's weird. So we do have some interesting things going on in Slump Watch here. By next series, it might have to become a Max Muncie watch as its own thing. Yeah, and already half is. And Lindor might get himself off Slumwatch because it's just a, you see, we don't need to watch anymore.

We're not watching it for us. But I'm still kind of interested. Someone reminded us, Jake, that in the first year of this show in 2019, they said if you were on three weeks in a row, you just got the boot. I forget if people remember our show better than me. We make rules. Yeah.

No longer. Hey, Will in the chat says, shout out to Danny Jansen. Catcher for the Blue Jays ending in 0 for 35. I didn't even know who's going on. That's tough. That sucks. Good for him, though. Well, you know, he needs to play the Yankees and he'll be fine.

You got young, sexy Kirk. That's because he benefits a little from Kirk. and good amount of time there. All right. Trev, can you read off the hottest players, the Enfuego, after I play the soundbite, will you play for Enfuego? Dirt Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco.

Do you know that song, Trev? Do you know what that is? I know who Dirt Nasty is, but I don't like, I don't know his music, really. It's about as good as that. Which is strange. I know him. He's been in a Hollywood scene forever.

Yeah. Simon Rex, I believe is his name. Yeah. All right. Who you got, Trev? Well, Rymel Tapia of Jake's Rocks, right? That's the Tapia we're talking about.

Eight for 12, four runs, three RBIs, and as Jimmy put in the notes for the National League recap, eight singles. Yeah, surprise me. Which is awesome, because he's fast, too. You think some of those singles he might just, like stretching a double. No, he didn't want to. Wasn't feeling it. Not into it. Then

Alex Kirloff will go into this a little bit more later. Four for 12. I don't want to go into it at all. Actually, wait for my award here. Teaser. Chris Bryant, we talked about already. He went gangbusters. And I'm like, I kinder for Leffa. He was struggling a little bit, I believe, at the beginning of the season. He was 7 for 15. Three Jimmy Jacks, four RBIs,

two walks. And Jimmy, just for good measure, he added the triple in there. I know you love triple. Trevor Story, six for 15, two homers, two doubles, a triple. Three walks, five, RBI, and it's still on base. You did hurt his hand, a pinky or something like that? No, wasn't a pinky. It's a finger, though.

Finger. So we'll see what happens with that. Shout out, maybe a little foreshadowing. Is that still happening? Yep. Yep. Still going on. Do we want to announce it right now?

I'm lost. Trevor Story, Future Friend. Oh, yeah, yeah. Look out for that in a couple weeks. Look up for that in a couple weeks And you've been intended to end this little segment Which I love the Infuego's segment is my favorite Six for 11 two homers two RBIs and four runs

That's four or five forty five with a one dot oh nine one OPS and that's who's in fuego Good job guys A lot of hitters started going this weekend I know the chat everyone yelling for their guy J Ram I know Pollock had a year guy Pollock had a eight ribby day A couple, nothing like eight ribby steaks in one day, huh? Billy Ripkin, but yeah, you know, that's the list.

Hey, chat, we usually have more, but we usually have a researcher doing this stuff for us. Okay, we didn't have it this time. We're a little light on the enfuegos, but you guys know. You know. What do you like? What does the chat like? Stugging. Castianos, Polack.

They like OPS? Josh Harrison. We got them. Kirk, only played two games, but they were real good. Fordo, people ask. for Confordo? Oh, no, he's 10th on the list in OPS, so he's not there. Boo.

People get mad when we don't mention their favorite players, and it's just a lot of players to mention. There's a lot of town. Thousands of players, man. Longoria. I usually just go games over the weekend, OPS. Choose the top guys. Mitch Hanager.

John Means. We love, what's the John Means Pod? John Means. John Means well. Ooh, you know, Dan, producer Dan, will probably madden me if we don't mention Aaron Judge. Aaron, big AJ getting it going. He's 15th in OPS. Watch out.

Yeah. Two homers, eight RBIs. Who had the most RBIs? Kierloff and Pollock tied. Caught stealing leader on the weekend, Ben Intendi. Oh. And Victor Robles. Cool.

All right. Let's go to a wonder. Trevor, you get to go first. All right, here we go. I'm giving out the Trust the Process Award. This one's going out to Alex Kierloff. Going into April 29th, his batting average was 176. Would you say that's good, Jake, or bad?

And be honest, Jake, don't talk out your butt right now. I'm not, I'm new to the sport. It's bad. 176 is bad. That's below the Mendoza line, which is 200. but his expected batting average was 365, meaning he was hitting the ball hard, he just wasn't finding any holes.

But when you're young, in your mind, results matter. And it's hard to have the mindset of trusting the process. But I believe he has some good mentors there that said, hey, keep doing what you're doing. It's going to come. It's going to come. And then Kansas City comes into town. And all he does is go four for 12,

four homers, ribbies it raises his OPS plus over league average to 103 the sky is the limit and much like me after a long day with the kids he's ready for takeoff if you know what I mean this guy is a stud

and when you don't get those early results a lot of the young guys can go down into the depths and start thinking hey I got to change something I got to change something but he didn't do it he stayed within himself now he's getting the results and I think once you get that confidence you're here you have some of bats under your

belt you know that you can play in the big leagues because you're getting the results he's going to take off the guy's the guy's a banger so trust the process award alice kirolov let's go baby i'll see you in june i like it i didn't know he was such a serious fellow how old is he they say he doesn't smile and they said they're like working like working on trying to get him to smile like they were holding his face up in the dugout so he's uh he's an intense guy or just just is he a a Kluber guy, like a DJ LaMayhew guy? Yes. Okay.

He's a Pittsburgh guy. You know, they're just... Oh, so he's an angry person? It's all to the earth. It's all to the earth. Okay. How old is he? 23?

Man, smile, Alex. You can tell in his, if he go to his baseball reference page, the picture of him, he is smiling, but it's like they had to tell him to smile. Yeah, I mean... I forget. I didn't know if he was not smiling because he was slumping or if that's who he is, but I was reading it and they were saying like that's kind of who he is. He's just a serious guy. Just quiet, reserved, yeah. Okay. I'll break him out of his show come June. I'll get in there a little bit. Do that. Do that? Jake? Touch him. Do you have an award you're giving out? Carol off and Pat McAfee from the same town in high school. So opposite personalities.

Wow. Yes. Rust Belt. What about that? I love Pat McAfee. America. Follows me on Twitter. My bad. Whoops. Okay. Flexing on him. I am giving out... Okay.

Let's go. Pat. Do you follow him? I do. Okay. I don't. So he's a follow for follow guy. I am giving out a prestigious award of some sort.

Just followed Pat McAfee. We'll let you know when he follows back. I am giving back the win your name back award. Oh, wow. You've been saying that you wanted to do this for a long time. Win your name back award? Jake, he's trying to start a petition for them to keep the name Indians. I guess here we go.

No, no, no, no, no, Jimmy. You say if they win, they should have to keep it? That's inappropriate. I've seen the documents. That's inappropriate. You haven't seen any documents. Okay. I don't have documents on my computer.

Don't think I have Word. A couple years ago, if I mentioned to you, a starting pitcher that had the name Corbyn, you guys would have said, oh, you know, was he on my snakes at the time? Did he just sign that big contract with the Nationals? You'd be talking about Patrick Corbyn. The guy this year, another guy who's been my guy,

Corbyn Burns. He's been nasty. Got nasty last year. It was nasty this year. Got hurt recently. We'll see him back soon. Patrick Corbyn ended a 10-game losing streak his last start. Ten games. Patrick Corbyn got the big money. And we're talking about the nationals this episode. They got back to 500. one of his wins in that series. And man, he said he changed some stuff in the delivery. Who knows? But when you're on a 10-game non-heater, aka the Storielli, that's a bad feeling.

So Patty gets one back in the win column, and if these nationals want to make some noise, that's got to be a big part of that. That's supposed to be their whole thing. I mean, Scherzer, Strasbourg, Corbyn, that's supposed to be kind of the heart of that team, especially financially. So Pat gets one back in the win column

The numbers are still kind of gross The baseball savant's pretty gross I'm hoping that whatever changes he made Helped him out and he can find that slider That helped make him so dynamic But go win that name back Go get your Corbin on man Yeah his baseball

I was looking at his baseball savant in the other day It's interesting because slider actually He throws a slider to the most It's been all right his third and fourth pitch are just getting hammered. If he throws the two seamer or the change up, I mean, they have a one dot slugging, both of them. Like, is that tipping?

What is that? I'd have to see. I mean, they're crazy. He's got a 455 batting average against his sinker, a 556 batting average against his changeup, and then when they get hit, they just get slugged to hell. It's like, this is third and four. He lost a little juice on a couple of his pitches.

So I think that's a partial factor on it. I don't know. He said he worked on some things. That slider's always been there. His baseball savant, even in 2019, when, you know, he was still Patrick Corbyn who was lighting it up, you know, he had a couple elite things, his whiff percentage and chase rate.

The other stuff was pretty low. His curve spin was second percentile, his barrel percentage, 13th, max ex at Velo 8. So Patrick Corbyn was his own pitcher, and I think he can find a way to do that again, or I hope so, because, man, they gave him the big bills. And, you know, on Yankees' Twitter, the Yankees wanted that guy big time.

And if things start going south, a couple Yankee fans are going to do some freezing cold takes type stuff, win your name back, dude. Win it back, beat up burns. The bowling alley that I used to go to that my parents were in a league at. What was it called? Corbyn Bull. That's cool.

So when your name back, Corbyn. Corbyn Bull, huh? It looks like a cool place. Trev, what's your highest bowling score ever? Low two's. I haven't really done like a high two game. I think 220 something, 223 is. That's what the number in my head is.

but I'm not exactly sure. Okay. A couple good games. I'm more of like a, I think I averaged 185 in a league that I bowled in. I wasn't a great bowler. That's pretty good, Trev. Yeah.

You sit down on yourself. Corbyn balls like vintage Venture Boulevard bowling alley. These pictures of it are cool. Real deal. Yeah. 215 is my highest. Whoops. Yeah.

Are you a two-hander? No. Hey, that's a thing. That's like people, that's what they do now. Yeah. People wear Rexbacks as well. It's like spin, right thing in bowling now. The two hands, you get the whole like thing.

Yeah, if you're not on. Jake, Jake has to see that. He's not in the bowling circuit. I know what you're talking about. I know the guy that started it. The Australian that came over and started spinning it with two hands. So don't bring that smoke over here. I just don't think Rexpects should be compared to that.

I think some people need those. Context exists. Bowling. Yeah, some people. It's like, oh, a belly putter. Belly putter. Better comparison? Yeah, a little bit.

Oh, yeah. Better. Better. I like that. Okay. I am giving out the stop. Stop. Award.

Stop. Stop. Stop. And it goes. S-T-A-W-P? It's actually from the start of a dirt nasty stuff. Jake and I used to laugh about in college. She starts, like, rapping like, for real.

And his producer, Andre legacy in the booth, just goes, stop. Stop. Take a hit of this. Stop. It goes to Alvarado and Amir Garrett and any other pitcher around. Like, stop. We cannot have the benches clear. After strikeouts.

And Trev, you've poisoned my damn brain, man. You've poisoned my brain. Strikeouts, we're in a year and a time in baseball where the most common out is the strikeout, basically. Like a ground out, fly ball. The strikeout's the most common. So. What was the Yankees' Tiger strikeouts? Oh my God, dude.

The Tigers struck out. 53% of their outs in the three-game set came via strikeout. So, home runs are very rare. Strikeouts are the most common result of an at-bat right now. So I understand if it's a big inning, base is loaded or go-ahead run or tying run at third or whatever and you end the inning with a strikeout fist pump celebrate celebrate you with your team but amir garret motherfucking rizzo and just screaming in his face after an middle of the inning

strikeout in a game that he's losing what are we doing it's like pitchers are hearing like bat flips are cool celebrating's cool it's allowed now so they're like okay I'm going to to do it too. And then they're just like so off base. Like wait, hold up though. You did it for something kind of common and you, instead of celebrating yourself, you just talk shit to a really respected veteran in the game. And, you know, we were talking pre-show about this and it's a really good point. Some people are like baseball soft, blah, blah, blah. It's like, no, no, no, no. Any sport, in any workplace, in any, anywhere, if anyone does what Amir Garrett did to Rizzo, it starts a confrontation. You cannot just walk up to someone and scream,

this is my fucking house, motherfucker, fuck you. Like, what are you doing? That's literally a starting house fight start. And like Amir Garrett's like, oh, I'm just doing me. I'm just doing me. I'm bad. It's like, dude, no, you're not. You're not just celebrating you.

You're taunting and antagonizing and shit-talking another player in the middle of an inning after getting a very common result. Strike out the side or something. I don't know. It just feels so awful. and untrue. And like Bauer doing the sword stuff and all that. Like maybe it's like cringy at times or funny at times, but it's not.

Hokey. Maybe it's hokey, campy. It's not like straight up disrespectful or taunting. It's in good fun. So I think people are seeing this and some people just, it hasn't clicked. No, that's different. Alvarado doing it to Dom Smith when Dom Smith is walking away with his back turned. And that one has, you know, they each have their beast, but like, dude, it's a strikeout in the middle of the game.

The inning's not even over. It just, that's not true. So everyone's saying that like, you know, baseball is soft. Like, no, no, no, no. That starts a fight literally anywhere. Nowhere can a man walk up to you and motherfucker you and it doesn't start a confrontation. So just stop, please. Yeah.

The Amir one is interesting because it does seem like he talks to himself a lot to pump himself. up and like I don't know when that started you know like I get like maybe that's what he does now I'm curious like when did that start when was the first time Miri Garrett started motherfucking himself on the mound to get pumped up I'm curious about that but yeah like you said

just wasn't the right time and then like you don't have to do it towards anybody like Rizzo wasn't saying anything he's walking back to that don't do it towards him if you want to do it with your boys on your team go ahead if you want to do it to yourself that's what I'm saying He's talking at Rizzo for no reason. Rizzo's walking back to the dugout.

That's the strange part for me. I get it. If you want to be emotional, that's how you get pumped up. I think it's cringy as hell, but you do you, right? But 11 ERA, weird moment in the game, not really a big moment. Lefty, lefty. Like, Rizzo's, you know, he's going to strike out a lot against lefties, especially a guy that throws a lot of sliders.

Like, that's just a thing. And like, you're saying, Jim, it's not that rare to strike somebody out. I don't know, man. Whenever I talk about this, people call me a boomer and say I'm not with the new age game and stuff, but let me tell you something. I texted a bunch of people throughout the game. I talked to you guys about a few of them. I didn't mention the other guys I taught to as well.

The general consensus around all the players that I talked to was like, same thing you're saying, like, stop, bro. Like, there needs to be some feel. That was one of the main words that kept getting thrown around. The lack of feel right now in the game. Everyone's just going wild. and there's no, there's no boundaries whatsoever. I think there needs to be some boundaries. You want to have fun and celebrate and have kids watching the game,

and I think celebrations are fun, but like shit talking for no reason, that's just, it's a lack of feel. And I think we're still, it's still new, and guys don't know the line. And that's, you know, think about it. We're, what, two, three years removed from having this discussion, but about bat flips. And like, is it, well, a bat flip?

I don't know, man. And it's like, oh, wait, they're hitting a home run. And it's not to show up the pitcher. It's to celebrate doing one of the hardest things to do in sports. And, yeah, again, think about where we draw lines. If you homer and you bat flip and you point to your dugout and you say, let's go, boys, yeah, that's perfect. If you bat flip, you homer, you bat flip and you point to the pitcher and you say,

MF this, MF that, then you're the bad guy. And that's what the pitchers haven't figured. out yet. Like, I want you to celebrate. I want you to have fun. I want, if you're an intense guy, like Amirgaer, who clearly needs to fire himself up and, like, talk that shit. Talk that shit to yourself and, like, you know, celebrate and be a part of it with your teammates. He also, he walked up to Rizzo before the at bat, too, and said something.

Yeah. I mean, he's an intense guy. You know, I love the energy. and I want him to bottle that up and use it like he does, but use it for your teammates. Or, you know, if you punch a guy out, turn around and yell at your shortstop. Like, that MF or can't touch me. What's he doing?

Like, that's still cool. That's good. If that's how you got to operate good. But like, Jim, where you started this and the whole conversation, like the whole thing is showing people up. And there's no reason to do that unless there's some pre-be. and there's other stuff tied to it. And, you know, if Anthony Rizzo had smack talk to you, you know, last year and said,

that guy throws junk, he can't get me out, and then you punch him, sure, now we're getting into storylines and all that. But, like you're saying, it's Anthony Rizzo. It's, you know, the guy that ESPN stands up straight and says, how good is that Frederick highlight? And it's like, yeah, it's pretty good, but it's also as plain Jane as it gets. He's just yelling a guy's name. So, yeah, I don't know.

The pitcher still don't have it figured out. And like Trev says, they're a little soft. They're soft on a lot of levels. Dude, I don't, but the thing is, it's also just like, dude, you faced one batter or you struck out one batter. Like in the grand scheme of the game and your team's losing and it's one batter. It doesn't mean shit. It's, strikeouts are the most common thing. So I just, I just think the feel like Trev's saying, is.

off. It'd be like a guy coming off the bench in the last five minutes of a basketball game, hitting a three. It's his first possession of the game and then his team's losing. And he just turns to the defender and he's like, you can't fucking touch me. Like, dude, you just got in the game. You hit one three. We're winning. Like, what? You know, it's, the Cubs aren't completely innocent in all this. Like, they're a very chirpy team as well. So, like, there's, there's, there's chirping going on. So this isn't just like an isolated thing where he just did it out of nowhere. It was, it seemed like that. In the game, it was an isolated thing. But they chirp. So maybe he heard something that he didn't like before. Maybe we don't know the full story. But the overall

theme of it is, yeah, like a little bit lack of feel. And then if you're a teammate of a guy that's constantly causing confrontations, which, you know, I think Amir Garrett can be labeled as that. he causes a lot of confrontations. The only thing you're thinking is like, bro, really? Like, I don't want to, like, go in and brawl because you can't control your emotions and then I might get sucker punched or even if nobody gets hurt. I get fine. I get thrown out of the game and I got to lose money because you can't control your emotions.

And then the next game, a batter might get hit by a Cubs pitcher and it's surely not going to be Amir Garrett standing up at the plate. Those are all the things he's going to have to answer to his own teammates, about because like I said when he gave him that moniker the big dick swinging bat flipping motherfuckers that was a lot of cussing I'm sorry for the kids listening I said it's exhausting to have that mindset all year okay so like it's only the beginning of May and I bet people are tired of it already I'm curious to see you know if there are going to be some talks in that club I was being like hey bro like we got a long season like let's just chill it let's just take it back a few steps here

And Trev, like you said there, the comparison that works for me, because there was a time in my life where I was a duchy bro, is like, you know, everyone's got their buddy, one or two guys who's kind of a hothead. And, you know, the first time they're at a bar and they're, that guy, that guy talked junk to me. And he pushed me. And, you know, he gets into a fight and whatever happens.

And you're like, wow, that was pretty crazy. Second time you're like, man, like, I'm just trying to go. out and, you know, have a good time, have some drinks. Like, I can't really do this. I mean, after this, if it happens again, now you're a liability. Like, we don't want to go out with you. And that's kind of the red stugout right now. Like, hey, man, like, if you're intense and it's a good game and someone starts something,

we got your back. But, like, you know, every outing from your lefty reliever, like, come on, man. Comes in for two batters. It's just not the role. It's just not the role. I don't know It's just weird Anyway

I feel bad for Moose Because he is the bouncer Peacemaker I was gonna say the same thing He's always on the front lines He's incredible He was there with Yadi Apologizing for Castiano

He was there with Javi Apologizing for Ramir Garrett Every time you see you can read his lips He was I know I know man I'll tell him I'll tell him you can like just see him saying that It's crazy Every

dust up there's moose Yeah calming it down handling the piece. I love it, man. He's also Hauser's throwing up on the mound. He's the guy. He's didn't care of people.

Yeah, I love it. Pat in the chat saying, But for real, though, they got to be sick of that. I'm saying BBD is the Amir Garrett of John Boy Media. I did see BBD once walk past Kyle and just middle finger him right in the face the whole time once. That was good. Yeah, that was just the moment was right. Okay.

I picked my spots. Yeah. All right. So I wanted to have that conversation. So my award is stop. Celebrate. Celebrate whatever you want. But don't antagonize and taunt, especially when one strikeout in the middle of an inning.

Need one of those yes or no, like charts that goes down. And it's like, should you celebrate? Like, yes. Okay. Are you making fun of an opponent? Like, no, bad. Are you celebrating with your teammates? Are you cursing out an opponent?

No. Yeah. All right. We got, oh, who's the best friend of the week? Our best friend this week is A.J. Pollock. Almost got his way on to Enfuego. He goes three for six with two homers and eight RBI's Sunday. On the series, he went five for 18, a 1.1.11.

OPS, nine ribby's, three homers across the whole weekend. Nice job, AJ Pollock. Good job. Eight ribby day. What was your biggest ribby day, Trev? You get a four or fiveer out there? Oh, for sure. I don't know what my biggest one is.

I don't know. But definitely, I definitely had four. If I mean, hit a grand slam before, you know, a couple of them. I'd say probably five. I don't know if I had six or seven. I'm not sure. Okay. BPD's on it.

Get on a BDD. Let's go to elevator talk. Are you ready? If you find yourself stuck in an elevator with a guy or a gal wearing the hat. of this team will give you some instant fodder to talk about with them. Skidab-dink-dink-d-d-d-do. Come on. The team we are talking about today is the Miami Marlins.

Fish with arms down there in Miami. Jake, what were you saying? The run differential is bad. So, yeah, you'd say you get in the elevator with the Marlins thing. You're like, what's up, man? You know, tough series with the Nats. But, you know, we're the only team in division. with a positive run differential.

These other teams are just skating by. We're doing it. And then the guy's like, yeah, all right. Okay. Cool. No, it's a sign of things to come. It's like the Pythagorum or whatever. You say like, well, hasn't Jesus Aguilar got two awards?

I'm talking baseball. Baseball's award section? He really has, huh? What do you got on this jazz chishol kid? Oh. Ten day I. Yeah, definitely talk about jazz. Yeah.

mentioned he's on the aisle. He's super cool, though. And it's almost like a Robin Big type relationship that they have, jazz and Jesus. Ooh, check this out. Miami has... Sounds like a good weekend for me. Seven of their next 10 games are against the Diamondbacks. And fishes don't do good in the desert.

Unless they find an oasis, which BBD likes. It's been talking about. God. I don't think fish is used that way. We're just going to say fish. No, Fishies is. Fishies is okay.

I'm okay with fishes. Appreciate that. Anything else on? You can say that, you can say Miami's in pitching well. 119, ERA plus. That's good for one, two, three, four, five, six, seventh in the league. They're pitching the ball.

They haven't really been hitting the ball. They're second to last in the league in OPS Plus, even with jazz and Jesus going off. You can say Corey Dickerson's had one of the quietest, pretty solid MLB careers you'll see. I mean, 824 OPS over nine seasons. And you're like, okay, Corey Dickerson. You can also say, hey, I know this isn't about the Miami Marlins, but on May 3rd of 2015, Trevor Plouffe had his most RBIs in a single game

when the twins beat the White Sox 13 to 3. And Trevor Ploughy went three for five with five. RBI's, two runs scored. He hit one home run. We also had two five RBI games in the minors, Trev. In 2010, you had a three-for-five at the Red Sox affiliate, and you beat up on Yankees' AAA team in 08. Grand Slam off John Danks.

Remember that? I do. First career grand slam. The night after my grandfather died, I left to go to his funeral a few days later. It's kind of like the Max Scherzer birth story, but sad. Hey, last thing on the Marlins. We got to talk about Trevor Rogers.

My boy. Absolute stud. If you want to go and say, hey, what do we got draft in the first round of 2017 out of New Mexico? He's coming up and he's been doing really well. 191 ERA this year. Go Trevor. Go Trevor's.

Just had his worst start of the year, and it's not even bad. Five in a pitch, three and runs. Not even bad. See you guys. Love you. Jake sucks. gets a shout out for something.

Oh, yeah. Robbie Ray won 6.2. Sorry, me, juice.