Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 334 | Jomboy's Back, Rat or Raccoon, & Dodgers Slide

Episode Date: May 10, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We hope you had a fantastic weekend. We are here to update you on the things that happened in the baseball. Hello and welcome to talking baseball brought to you by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us today on this fine Monday afternoon. We hope you are all doing well. My name is Jimmy. Sitting next to me is Jake.

In the corner of the room, we got producer BBD. And in California, we got Trevor Plano. And this episode of Talking Baseball is brought to you by a whole slew of fantastic new patrons. Tom, Andrew Calhoun, Jess Sparks, Adrian. Whoa. Whoa. Adrian Magyar. I never seen a G.Y combo in a last name like that.

Garrett McCarney, The Doe, Andres Martinez, Braden, Van Teling, John Bernier. Jr. Joe. Joe Bernier Jr. Dan Packard, Kyle Showalter, and Alexander Kahn. Show Walter, huh?

Yeah, Buck's nephew. Okay. Buck calls him a little... I was going to use the Ramon Laureano word. I don't know why I stopped. We've said much worse on this show. It's not a great one.

It's not an on-air word. Okay. Yeah. It's a pussy boy. Oh. Ramon Luriano taught me that. That's fair. He's back.

That's fair. He said, how'd you read my lips so well? I said, oh, did I get everything right? And Ramon Liner said, yeah, you got everything right, except you missed when I called him a pussy boy. And I said, Ramon, I didn't know that that was a word or a phrase. Hard Peebies. My bad. I like that phrase a little bit.

It's very fun. Jake just called you that before the show started. Well, peel the curtain back. He did. Well, that's because he's all the way in New York. Yeah. Treve, how you doing? Yeah.

doing great jim it's good to have you back in the chair bbd got a rectangle i don't know if you saw that but on the episode the zero's filled in bbd got a rectangle yeah the chat and sister so that's funny you're right the chat the chat and bd have this thing going on i thought i was the king in the chat turns out bbd's the king of the chat so uh but other than that my weekend was good mother's day all that good stuff we had a nice day yesterday um how about you guys how are you guys you doing? Jake? Jake? How are you doing? Jake had himself a hell of a weekend. He fucking did, didn't he? Poppy Gordo had a weekend. I'm glad my friend James is alive. It's good news. Trevin and I did have the emergency face time to go through if you die. Like what's the what are we have a plan? We have a

plan. Oh, that's good. Luckily there's enough tape on you in the breakdowns that we just we can chop up each word. Siri me. Yeah. Okay. So you will you will you will you will you will you will you will you will live on. So that's good news. Yeah, I had a... No, wait, Jimmy, Jimmy, that really, we really did talk about that. So we've laid out some... The plans in place. Now you're allowed to die again. Congrats. So when you do die, you'd be happy with it. I missed more time this weekend than I did when I actually had COVID. Yeah. You're a... Interesting. It's tight. It's tight. Either way, we're happy to have you back. You know, anytime I've got to put on a strong face.

It's not my strength. I'm good at putting on an ugly face. I had a little bit of a baseball weekend, babe. The Diamondbacks. Tori Lavello is a huge fan of everything we're doing and just Joe cool. I mean, literally hung out with him for five minutes, and you're like, yeah, I would go to war for him. And I'm still ready to go to war with him.

Diamondbacks were awesome. They fully let it rip and let us in. I'll be grateful for that forever, excited to get in the pool down there. You know, I think that would look good on me. We actually got some numbers and information. We could do a pool day with the debacks pretty easily. So that'll one day down the line. But they were awesome.

And then, yeah, I got a little birdie that told me Shane Green was linking back up with the Braves. I asked the little birdie for more information or how they knew that information. and it passed the sniff test. And then as everybody knows, the real ones, I said, would you bet our friendship on it? And they said, absolutely, I'm a big fan. And I wouldn't just do this. Went for it.

Bang, bang, skeet, skeet. We're out here. So it was a- And they actually credit you. Rosenthal, Heyman, Sherman, they all actually credited it. Yeah. You know, social media, Kyle was raised. ready to go for throats if they didn't.

So I'm happy they did. And yeah, that's cool. I know we've all had our different turns, breaking news. And, you know, at this point, we're up to 50-50 on it being a good time. So now that we've kind of figured out our way of doing it, got the pass in text that was like, oh, I miss when you used to hand me things like this. And he's like, congrats. And it's like, hey, like, I know you're busting balls, but is it really a converse?

Congrats. Like, what are we doing? Let's just share information on the internet if it comes through. But it was a big weekend. And obviously there was some hilarious irony that it was happening while you were dying, more or less. You put the team on your back, Jake. And I did something this weekend that I hate to do. Okay. Which is give you credit. Yeah. I did that on social media for you. That's how good of a weekend you had. It's huge. It's huge. Credit from Treve. Treve, how was your weekend?

I saw Teddy with a rope over shortstop. Yeah, we had a second to last game. The team is finally firing on all cylinders. It's a shame that the season is ending now. What team is that again? We were a D-BACS company this weekend. The D-Backs had a great game. Like I said, just one more to go, which kind of stinks.

Because, like I said, I really believe. And I have a bunch of kids that aren't very good baseball players on my team. The first time I were playing, they're finally starting to do it. That's fine. They know. They're finally starting to get it, man. Like, we barely had to use the T this weekend. We're going.

We're making outs on defense. And then, boom, the season's coming to an end. But it was a good weekend for Teddy. He crushed it. That's awesome. Good for Teddy. Kyle and I had a nice conversation. That was on our way to the D-Backs game.

Who, D-backs are live in the chat right now, the best. And, you know, we've mapped out a good amount of Teddy's future. So if you ever want that information, let us know. Okay. Trev, you know, that's stuff that before you get the numbing needle at the dentist, they put that, like, stuff on your gums. Jake and I are both numbed up with that right now. They prescribe that to me.

Like ambassol? What's it called? Lidicane. Ooh, yeah. So why does Jake have it? I told Jake that I had it. And he was like, I got some stuff I could use numbing. I've had a couple cold sores, but I was in no spot to talk about them because I was clearly getting out cold sword.

I think you want to say cancorsor. I think you want to say cancorsor. You said that in the week with dumb today and I wanted to correct you, but... That's all right. It's sore. Soar, yeah. Noodles got a poop butt thing going on. Let's talk some baseball.

Let's talk some baseball. I'm giving the NL update. And are you ready, Trev? No, you're not. It's not. Okay. Well? The Cubs took two of three from the Pirates.

Cubs relievers pitched to a 1-6-4 ERA and 11 innings. Good job by the Cubs relievers. Cubs hitters slash not that great. They only had two extra base hits all series, but Jock had six hits. Tyler Anderson, eight innings pitched, two earned runs on Sunday. T.A., good job by him. The Mets swept. Talking snakes.

Oh, no. Not a great road trip for Jake's D-backs, the Mets starting pitchers, and the offense. Both weren't great, but the relievers, Trevor May, shout out, were really good Patrick Mazica. Is that how you say it? Had a walk-off dribbler in game one in his second career played appearance. Both New York teams with walk-off dribblers this weekend. Lindor breaks his slump. He goes five for 13 with a home run and four RBIs.

He also had an altercation in the tunnel with McNeil that wasn't a rat raccoon situation, but they bonded over saying it was kind of. My suspicion is that McNeil's not happy with any part of the scenario. We'll get to that later. The Brewers, the brew crew, they took two out of three from the Marlins. Both teams pitched well. Miami pitchers recorded a 257 ERA. Milwaukee, a three flat ERA.

Hauser struck out 10 and homered in game two. Chisholm is, well, what's this? Brett Anderson makes his return from the IL. Chisholm's going to have a rehab assignment. Burns, hopeful to be activated by the end of the week. So all teams getting some guys back. The Braves take two out of three from the Phillies. They tied game two in the ninth.

Then they tied it in the 11th. Then they scored four in the 12th to finally win it. Segora, Realmudo, McCutcheon all had six plus hits. and 3 plus RBI's. Good job by them. Morton got rocked. And Yonoa, is how you say it? Enoa continues pitching well.

Is he still hitting 400 as well? I don't know. Ocuna left Saturday with the bruised pinky, but returned Sunday. He's fine. The Cardinals swept the Rockies. How about that? Cardinals hitters slash 289 batting average 358 on base percentage. The Rockies hitters were worse than that.

Flaherty gets a six. seven innings pitch shutout and hits his first career home run. So two pitchers dealed and hit home runs in the National League this weekend. Wayno also had a really good outing. Aronado Homer's off his former team. That was a fun storyline. The Giants took two out of three from the Padres. The West is just beating up on the West.

Disco versus Snell in game one. Man, Gossman versus Musgrove, Paddock versus Quato. All the starting pitchers kind of struggled. Slater, two home run in the series, including a go-ahead home run. Yeah, he was my what-to-watch for and my nickname that I never actually got called. Aaron Sanchez, Alex Dixon, placed on the 10-day I-L. Tough, tough, tough, tough job. Way to go, Jim.

Welcome back. I was worried about that, to be honest. But I light a caned up, so I'm good. It lasts for four hours, and I need more. Do you feel bad, Jake? How the Diamondbacks performed the weekend that you took over their team? So, no. I think if we're being honest, I think there was a Hail Mary effect.

Because at that point, by the time I went to the game, I think it was an L4 in the street column. So, you know, it's like, hey, at a certain point, let's just throw, I mean, literally shit at the wall. And hopefully that turns it around. Yeah, I mean, there was a moment during the game. that Kyle and I realized that we were like, hey, if the Diamondbacks could go on like a six-game winning streak, we could milk the hell out of that.

But, yeah, a West Coast team came out east. My D-backs had a couple tough series, and, hey, the Mets, the rat, raccoon, whatever's going on, teammates fighting, hey, they're winning baseball games. They jump on top of the NL East for a little bit. Yeah. Are we going to talk about that? Do we need to or should we just kind of? The rat raccoon story?

All right. So for anyone that has no idea what happened, Lindor and McNeil, there's a ball to the shortstop side of second. McNeil was kind of closer to it when it started, but it would have been a backhand play because of the shift, whereas it came right to Lindor. Lindor fielded it and threw it the first,

but he bounced it and the runner was safe and McNeil kind of didn't get full. out of his way. I don't know. It was kind of a weird nothing play, but also kind of a something play. Then the Mets are going to the dugout, and all of a sudden you see Conforter like, here's something, and Dom Smith, and they just, they sprint to the tunnel because something's going on.

And no one really knew what. But it's something making all, anyone that heard it sprint to go help. That's how loud or whatever it was. So a lot of people were speculating that was Lindorne, McNeil. fighting in a way. And then there's a lot of speculation that McNeil kind of looked like his jaw got, I don't know, that's kind of too much for me. But there were a lot of pictures of McNeil's face and lip and jaw and said,

look like he got punched. Then Lindor hits a big home run. They tie the game. Everything's going well. After the game, it's very clear that the Mets knew this was going to be a huge storyline and all the questions were going to be about this. So they concocted a story. that, and I mean, you know what, you almost need to hear Lindor say it.

If I can pull up the audio. Because he says it, he tells this story. If you were to just read it, you'd be like, hey, we're not that dumb. But the way that they said it, like they're not trying to hide it. Like the way Lindor tells the story, it's like, here's the bullshit story we're going to tell you. Yeah. Ha, ha, ha. Obviously, this isn't actually what happened.

But we're not going to tell you what happened. here's this joke. Well, if you don't hear it, you might not understand that, like, they know no one's going to believe them. They just simply don't care. You know what I'm saying? And then the media was so mad about it

that they didn't come out and just tell the truth. It's like they didn't want to. Like, it was something that happened in the clubhouse. They didn't want to talk about it. They knew they had to face the media at some point. And then the media got mad. And then they made it into a huge story. And then they were mad at,

then Doar for making it a huge story, but it didn't have to be a huge story. It was, they pretzled each other. Yeah. So. Door and the media, they all pretzled. Here's, uh, here's the audio. I told him, I was like, hey, I'd never seen a New York rat. So we went down sprinting.

I wanted to go see a New York rat. And he got mad at me. He's like, no, it's not a rat. It's a raccoon. I'm like, hell no, man. It's a damn rat. Who was he? Who were you debating that with?

I, Jeff. I can bring him out and probably give him a kiss in the sheet. If you guys want. Sure, why not? That edit, I don't know why they put the song behind it. And they also took out the part that I think is the best because he says, basically, if you ever see me hashtag wow or I hashtag, oh, wow, it's like, hey, I'm being very sarcastic here.

Please don't take this seriously. After he said it, he was like, it was crazy, man. It was amazing. It was crazy. And it's like, yeah, okay. Still, people were like, you think we're going to believe this? And it's like, nah. But I was laughing.

Because I think McNeil got the short end of this whole damn story. He got, like, for all we know, he got shoved or punched in the tunnel by Lindor, the new guy on the team who's been slumping like crazy. And then he's not even allowed to talk about it. You just got to eat it and be like, yeah, it was about a rodent fight. Like McNeil wasn't as into it as Lindor. So I think Liss's Lindor kind of big dick in his way around the Mets Clubhouse a little bit. Not a bad way, I guess.

A little bit. And, hey, you know, if we want a jakey detective get in on this, you know, McNeil's nickname. It's got some squirrel things in there. So maybe they spun off of that. And they were like, we got into a tussle. And then, you know, Lindor, you know, maybe he dug into his road and stuff. It's weird. We don't know what happens.

And that's, Trev, you mentioned the two-way pretzel here is that any other baseball team would have said like, yeah, there's a little bit of a scuffle in the hall. way, you know, everyone's good. You know, these guys run hot. They just want to win baseball games and you move on. The media, not even being able to get that answer, was like, what the hell? You guys are going to rat raccoon us? And so that's, both sides kind of ended up in a pickle there. And it's, you know, Mets, again, a lot of, actually, the good Mets fans understand.

A lot of Mets people came up at the game and said what's up and big talking baseball fans and all that. You know, every fan base has their 1% on the internet and that, you know, and especially Mets fans, because there are a chunk that thinks Yankees, Mets, it's a whole thing. Like, I don't live there. Like, no, if we see you in a World Series, yeah, it'll be intense and I'll go at you. But until then, I see you for like five games a year.

So I'm kind of good on that. You know, I'm kind of root for the Mets because, oh, my God, a New York, New York World Series. That's like my dream. Anyways Yeah, it's just My best thing I can say is, hey, zoom out And whenever we make jokes or the Mets or whatever, Zoom out on the Mets and then zoom in

Between this Rat Raccoon situation They made up a fake hitting coach. Like, this isn't normal baseball organization stuff. Like, if I told you before the season, there was going to be a team that made up a fake hitting coach and then said that there was rodents fighting in the hallway of their team dugout. Everyone would have guessed the Mets and we would have been right again.

I also have some things like about the Chili Davis firing that I really can't go into. There's stuff behind the scenes that's also going on that, again, if I was to lay it out there and say guess what team this was, you'd probably guess the Mets. And I don't know like, honestly, I haven't followed the Mets long enough to know how long this has been going on. that seems like for quite some time.

A couple years ago, they retired a guy. Just being, whatever, I will get it. There's some real fun Metsie Mets stuff. And, and this is, so, okay, let's spin it back up for Mets fans. A lot of the Mets actual baseball fans, because they're baseball fans. I love baseball. All the real Mets fans, we're in the comments saying, like, hey, we're kind of playing some good ball.

Can we talk about that? Five wins in a row. Yeah, we're getting hot. Like, Lindor got a couple big hits. Hopefully he gets going. The crowd loves Conforto. We were out on right field. I didn't realize, yeah, Mets fans were all about it.

Polar Bear. They're pitching a little bit. Taiwan Walker making fun of me, always. So, yeah, the Mets fans are like, I wish we could kind of move past this Rat Raccoon stuff because we're playing a good brand of baseball right now, which, hey, you do that for two series in the NL East right now, and you're the top dog.

Yeah, I love the NL East. I love that Braves, Phillies matchup that went on. It's just a good division right now to watch games in because you still have the Mets at top right now. The Phillies and Braves are right at 500. The Marlins, who are the Marlins?

That's kind of like where I'm at with them. I don't know. I think they're going to be kind of where they're at the rest of the season. And then you have the nationals that can come in and beat you whenever they need to with that starting pitching. So it's going to be such a fun division

to follow. I'm glad that the Mets have kind of woken up a little bit. We need Lendor to get going, but it's going to be a fun division to follow all throughout the year. You mentioned Braves-Filly's. Last note, just on the game I went to, Trev. Did you see who got the start for the Mets? It was an opener, and it's one of your boys. Big old Tommy Hunter. Got the opener start. I saw he got called up, yeah. So that was kind of a funny moment. But you mentioned Braves, Phillies. A lot of these NLEs matchups have been just messes. The Saturday game, 12 innings, that was the official.

Everyone send out the win probability chart of the game because it was just up and down. Braves end up winning two out of three there. And I feel like every episode we keep saying, is this when the Braves kick in? Is this when the Braves kick in? They might, I know, Shane Green is a solid bullpen ad. Nothing crazy, but he's an arm out there. They're also supposed to get Chris Martin back soon,

who's supposed to be another kind of key cog in the bullpen. You add a couple bullpen arms. You start winning a couple games. Is this what gets the Braves firing all cylinders? Because, man, very few teams in baseball are right now. Giants. Giants win again. Yeah, so the Mets are leading the East.

And the East now has three teams 500 or above for a long time. It was like no one in the NL East has a winning record. And the Nats. The Cardinals leading their division with the Brewers behind them, Cubs 500. And the Dodgers, I didn't say them because they had an interleague series, but they drop all the way to third. And the Giants stay in first place in their division

because they just keep winning. Oh, good for the Giants. There's a Christopher O'Brien in the chat right now, shaking things up. I'm not sure what that's all about. What's he saying? He said, who's the guy in the left? Oh, my God.

Yeah. Looks like you. That's really it. Good job by the Cardinals. Yeah, cards probably deserve a little more love in this segment. They're playing good baseball. I think they're one of four teams with 20 wins right now. They swept the Rockies.

Good. And the Rockies stink, so. Is that going to be like a thing where we just, if you're a betting man, like, are you just going to go after the Rockies and tigers? Yeah, but I mean, Vegas is going to alter the odds. Like you're going to... I know the odds are going to be big, but like, I mean, how many... These teams look so bad.

They look so bad. You know, it's like a third worst record in all of baseball? The Angels. Twins. Yeah. Yeah, they look terrible. They look terrible. How...

Well, we'll do the AL, then we'll get to the twins. Yeah. Who's bringing it? You, Jake? I'm bringing it. Giants. You're probably. stoked like taking two out of three from the Padres

with the start like that must have been in division win it's impactful yeah no I mean a couple more of those or Wi-Fi's out so I can't look at anything so that's always fun here someone got mad at me last episode because we were giving Gabe Kepler credit and they didn't like Gabe Kapler

but guess what I don't care Gabe is doing it he should never have been fired from Philadelphia the Giants got him and here we are you know how I you know how I peruse all of the team subredits, just to hear what fanbases are saying sometimes. There was someone in the giant subreddit that was complaining about how Gabe Kapler has no fire. And it made me laugh because that was the exact storyline in Philly. But San Francisco doesn't really demand that out of a manager besides this one guy. Because all the response were like, who cares?

And it's so funny because when you see Gabe Kapler in these altercations, he doesn't want to get ejected and yell and scream. and he'd rather have a deep conversation with the empire he he'd rather pry into their soul than yell at him that's the kind of guy he yeah no i just saw and i laughed because that's what uh that's funny um someone asked how is the wifi out but the stream is still up streams on ethernet hard line hard line we're not dumb we're not dumb here tori lavello big fan of the breakdowns yeah uh there was a joke made that like hey if you get tossed today like we got you and uh He was like, well, if there's a play at one base, me and that umpire have a little bit of a history, so maybe.

So we were kind of like, all right. He got tossed the next day? Yeah. So was it third base? Because then that hump went to home plate. No comment. Okay. I don't think I'm going to do a breakdown because he left his mask on the whole time and you can't really.

And it was kind of like he just got tossed because they're losing a lot. Yeah. He needed to protect his player. He needed to spark him before we get back to Arizona number one state. He said the breakdown I did about him. I got it right A lot of the lip reading Yeah that's cool

He mentioned that him and I Used to go like toe to toe At this thing called the over the line tournament I kept saying Trevor Plouf And he's like Who? Yeah yeah yeah he freaking knows who I am Trust me used to wax that ass

In the over the line tournament You should have told me that What's the over the line tournament It's like a charity thing That my high school baseball team would do And it's like you never played over the line It's like a baseball game that you play. Maybe.

I don't know by that name. It's not important. It's not important. But I love Tori. Tori's always been a good guy. So I'm happy that you two are like friends. You basically are like are friends now, right? Friends.

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Smoke your CBD with promo code baseball for 20% off today. Cushy dreams. Jake, what happened in the American League? Because it's one more day up in the canyon, and it's one more night in Baltimore for the Red Sox, who just won three straight games against the Oriole. They're playing the fourth game today. How about that?

Pivotta, Trev's guy, full pension, Piv was on the bump. Richards, Rodriguez, more so for the Orioles starting pitching. They got rocked around so far. 794 ERA and 11.1 innings pitch. No, Bueno. Five Red Sox hit homers. Chavis Ice Horse season. He gets his first.

We've seen him go ding-dong. Kike, my guy. He gets hurt, though. Don't like that. We'll see what happens in the final game of that series today. Twins and Tigers. Game three got postponed, so they split the first two. Seven-three?

Seven-three. Tigers hitters were hitters. in a little bit. 289, 393. Like that. Tigers match, though. 292, 418. Tigers relievers, it's bad, man. It's bad. ADRA that series.

Five of seven relievers give up runs. Man, tigers, bull. Like, how do you not have... Not doing that now. Mariners at Rangers. Rangers, get back up to 500. Taylor Hearn. Follow them on Instagram.

It's good content. Both offenses hit a little bit. Rangers. put up a big number. Garcia for the Rangers. He's been hit in. You might even hear about him later. You also might not.

Great end to game, too. Garcia throws out Lewis at the plate. Really good pick by the catcher. That was fun. Arihar to the aisle. Blue Jays at Astros. Astros take two out of three. They win on Arcite and Grinky Day.

Matt's was out there for the Blue Jays win. We had a little Guriel Fest. That was fun. We've got them on both sides. of the puck. Simeon four hits, including a home run. Astros were hitting. Blue Jays were not pitching too hot.

And then the White Sox take on the Royals. Oh, boy. Are the wheels coming off for the Royals? Are the White Sox getting it going? White Sox top, hop on top of the AL Central. Rodone. Lance Lynn and the girl from Gialito. Lucas Gialito, tall and tan, and young and lovely.

White Sox starting pitchers, Jim. you like this. 0.56 ERA. That's good. That's good. Royal starting pitchers, one, two, three, four. That's bad. 1234 ERA. Abreu and Mercedes, a couple thick boys knocking it around in the Rays at the A's. Couple West Coast, East Coast teams that get compared to each other. Athletics take the first two to one, six three. Race take the final one, four to three. Athletics relief pitching. Eight point one innings only. one earn run like that a little bit. How about a Seth Brown walkoff

and in sad news, Kevin Kiermeier, the sheriff goes to the IL. And that's your AL recap. Fantastic job. Where to go, Jake. I know, I was going to say, I know, you know, Treb's on the show. He played for the twins for a while.

And I said at the end of the NL recap, third worst record in all of baseball, they lost a game to the tigers in which they had like I was just looking it up like how did they lose to the tigers because we've seen what the tigers have done they had 13 hits trev they went one for 14 with runners in scoring position and everyone has their troubles and it's just one game they're uh what are they two and seven in May what's up trev when we're getting to the middle of May and I and I you know I Obviously, when the Yankees were doing bad, Jake and I were irrational and we're like, this looks awful. This is terrible. And they're somewhat, while still not really looking better at the plate, Sands, Stanton, and Lamehu, they were winning now, which is good.

The pitching's been better. What's going on with the twins? And how much longer can it go before they're like, well, division's not happening? I honestly do not know. I mean, their hitting has been, honestly, it's been pretty damn good

if you go on the team's stats. I mean, they're second in OPS plus. They're like fourth in OPS. They're doing it. Have they done it with runners in this quarter position? Not really.

Pitching hasn't been there. It's just one of those things that haven't clicked to get wins. And we talked about it before on this show or another show, I don't know. I think Jake mentioned it about how in nine inning games,

they're not that bad. But the extra. ending games, the seven ending games, they've been really, they've been really poor. So do I think they're a 12 and 20 team? No, I don't think they're a 12 and 20 team, but they are a 12 and 20 team. That makes any sense, what I just said right there. I think they're going to be better, but there comes a point where if you get down this many games in the division, it's hard to climb back up. And it's a tougher division than we had given it credit for before the season. We said the Royals, they could be okay. The Indians are going to stink. They don't want to

win, well, guess what? They're winning, even if they don't want to win, they're winning. So there are some good teams in that division. And if the twins continue to pile up the losses and get behind and get behind, it's going to be interesting to see what they do. Because a lot of the people they have, like most of their good players are old. Like that core they had, like they're, they're going to have to make some decisions here. Falvi and Levine, Levine, they're going to have to make some decisions here coming up quickly. Because they're this window that they thought was open, I don't think it's open as much as they thought. Buxton goes to the IL, and he had been so good for them. So, so good. I mean, MVP race good.

So that hurts. And, yeah, Jim, it was my fun stat from last episode trying to impress Chris Rose. And it's not, not impressed. Didn't like my pool pool. No. The twins are now 12 and 9 in nine in nine-inning baseball games. They're 0 and 11 in extra innings and seven-inning double-hatters. I heard a lot of the extra inning stuff, I believe, because their bullpen's been bad. And I don't know if the twins have figured out. The Yankees haven't figured it out yet how to do the extra innings. Like they're trying to play it like it's real baseball.

And the teams that have understood like, okay, this is a bunting and fly ball competition now, are winning in those games. As well as the idea of, well, tie game in the ninth inning, if you're at home, you always just throw your closer out there because there's no safe situation anymore. But you shouldn't do that now. You should throw your next best reliever who's still available, and you should save your closer for the potential 10th inning with the runner on second base, especially the Yankees,

because you just need strikeouts at that point. Yeah, you're a strikeout. And I'll roll this Chapman strikes out 90% of the batters he faces this year. So it's a waste to use him in the 9th with a clean slate and then bring in, you know, the second tier reliever because they already burnt all the other guys, and you bring in, I don't want to throw anyone to the bus. I'm just trying to.

Like you bring in Wandi Peralta with the runner on second, and it's like, why don't we save our biggest? And other teams are doing that, and they're saving their strikeout pitchers when they're runner on second and they're bunting, hitting sack flies. It does get tricky because, I mean, if you use Wandi Peralta in the ninth,

and then you blow the lead there, and now your team is down in the bottom of the ninth, that's the counter to that. You don't want to go without using Chapman. But it's very true what you're saying. If there's a set up. guy available, like a, you know, if there's a high leverage guy available. A high leverage guy available.

Chad Green. Yes. Yes. relies a little more on contact. Yeah. As opposed to the extras. Save your strikeout guys for extra rings. I know it's all different because it depends on who you're going to have up, who the runner on second base is.

But it seems to me like if you're the visiting team and you're going first, you have to just try to score that one run. Yeah. Like the teams that are trying to bang and, you know, have a multiple run ending, I don't think that really works out. Get that one run in and then put the pressure on the home team to have to do it again. Guys don't know how to freaking bun anymore. So if you do score that one run, if you just, you know, hit the ball to second base or you do bunch them over, whatever it is, like it's not a for sure thing that the home team is going to be able to match that. Especially if you can play a little bit of bunt defense or like you're saying, the visiting team saves a strikeout pitcher for that bottom half. It is interesting.

You know, I really haven't thought about that. there has to be some strategy for this dumb extra innings rule now. Like you have to plan for it. Yeah. It's happening a lot. No, yeah. It's a different game. And I got frustrated with the Yankees.

And I don't know if the twins are not doing it, but they're losing a lot of the game. So you have to give up and be like, all right, this is a bunting and sack fly competition. Anything that comes after that first run is awesome. But if you don't score that first run by bunting them over and then hitting a sack fly, you've lost the game. And that's where I think analytics has been telling people that if you're the away team not to bunt, which Trev, I'm completely with you. I think you do whatever to get that run on the scoreboard because then you flipped the pressure. And if the other team doesn't get the runner over or whatever,

you've now put your position, like the mentality, because we're a couple gamers here. We've got four gamers on the show right now. You've got to get that. You have to put a one on the scoreboard. Like, I almost look at it. Jimmy's played me in ping pong and he knows my fatal flaw is I just play defense. I don't have winning shots. Grew up playing against the board.

I used to play against. I hate playing against somebody like that. I used to play against a wall in my basement. It's how I learned. I never hit winning shots. Why, you can beat Jake. You just have really fun rallies for a while. And once you land one good shot, you get him.

I'm the dream ping pong opponent. Yeah. It's like I would just get the run across every inning and force them to make the mistake. Like, I bet, do we have stats on that? Can we look at the away team who score in the 10th? They push that first run across how often they win. How often they win? Or it goes to an 11th inning?

Yes. Jeremy in the chat says the rays have yet to bunt an extra inning. So now let's go look at their record in extra innings. See if I can find that. You got to do it because we don't have Wi-Fi. I got you. You're our research department. I tried taking every computer off that.

I don't think it's, we'll have to reset it after. The Red Sox are, they beat the Orioles again. Best record in baseball. Let's get this out. Tampa Bay Rays, 0 and 3 in extra inning games they've yet to bunt, according to Jeremy in the chat. So maybe there's some correlation there. The best team in extra innings is a team that is four and oh.

I'm trying to get it back up here. Seattle and Texas are both four and oh. See that. Feels like teams that probably go small. Best teams in baseball. Yeah, and Milwaukee, their four-and-one seems like they probably would do it as well. Yeah, I hate that nonsense. I hate that nonsense.

They say if you don't bunt, you know, if you bunt them over, the run expectancy is better to score one run, but worse to score multiple runs. Well, it's a tie game and extra inning, so one run. The odds of scoring a run go up. Foolish baseball, did a good video about it this weekend. Oh. Yeah, the Dodgers starting. Dodgers starting pitchers, 2019.

Bailey calling out Christian Yelich's mom. So I started calling out Bailey's mom on Twitter. And he wouldn't show a picture of her coward. Send a good mom off between you two. Yeah. Rogers 1 and 6. Red Sox. Red Sox come off a real fun slate of teams that they've played against here.

Seattle, the Rangers, the Tigers, Baltimore. And the Yankees beat these teams as well. So it's not really shit talking. I'm just interested to see. Like I for sure think they're a playoff team right now.

Like I think that if they can drive this. That's a hickered in baseball. If they can drive. Yeah, but still there's some people doubting them, and I think that's kind of foolish. I wouldn't doubt them. But I'm interested to see. I mean, the Royals,

I'm more so intrigued by still. Do you guys think the Royals are the real deal? Or do you think that they might, you know, get got by the White Sox or whatever? Because I think the Red Sox will be top of the division first or second. I don't. I don't. I think both.

those teams will end up not being in the playoffs over 162. Especially, you just talked about the slate of games that they, the Red Sox just went through. We talked about this a little bit with Chris Rose this morning. Their schedule coming up now is tough. And then if they get through this and they're still doing it, I'll be a believer. But they don't play a good team. They don't play like a bad, bad team until August 3rd, which is Detroit.

Like they are going to be run through the gauntlet the rest of May and all of June. and all of July. Like, it's a tough, tough schedule. So let's, I really want to see how they perform in these next few months. I'm not, I'm just not on the Red Sox train right now. And this might come back to bite me. But I just, I don't see it. Yeah, I mean, it's two different conversations.

They're the best record in baseball. I mean, that just, it doesn't pass the sniff test. I think they're going to be solid. I mean, the top half of that lineup. and it's just, it's where do you actually land when we hit around the trade deadline. You know, I saw Sox fans getting excited for some Shurser. I mean, I bet we'd all be a lot higher on the Red Sox if Chris Sale comes back and looks 90% of Chris Sale and they made a trade for Max Scherzer or something like that.

So just stay in the mix. That's what I said for day one with these Red Sox, and they got off to a hot start. I know Trev, you get running hot on managers. They clearly feel a little bit of energy from Cora, whatever that means. means. Cora also does look better when a lot of those guys are raking. They have the highest OPS in the majors, which I won't give Cora credit for that. And, you know, that ties into the whole what's going on in baseball with the hitters right now because highest OPS, I think, compared to last year, the year before that, they would have been ninth best. But nobody's

hitting. They are right now. And they're getting a little bit of pitching. So I do want to see they've got a couple tough months of summer baseball coming up. Right now they're feeling good. So, hey, you know, string along some series, string along some wins. You should be fine, especially, you know, if you could get around the trade deadline, they should have a little bit of flexibility. But yeah, no, we still have a lot to find out about this Red Sox team, but, I mean, the dream start they wanted coming into this season. The Royals, I'm a little worried.

It's starting to feel like that good energy. And, you know, I said a lot of this, so I'm putting myself out in front of the bus. you know, I don't know. Their run differentials looking bad. They're under 500. That division was supposed to be tough. The twins we just talked about, they haven't figured it out. The White Sox are starting to look good.

Cleveland does what Cleveland does. You know, Trev, I know you said like, hey, Chris Bryant, these Royals, they were winning games. There's a trade deadline where the Royals ain't buyers. They're sellers. And that might be 60-40 sellers at this point. Yeah, I mean, to get Bryant, they would have had to continue to be there at the deadline. I hope everyone proves me wrong. You know, I want all the teams to do well. I just, they're there. If I'm looking at these teams and just, you know, watching the games,

reading the statistics on paper, I just don't see either of them at the top of the divisions. I don't know, man. I don't know. It's hard for me to talk badly about teams and players, but I just don't believe in them. Okay. You know? Not good. I'm trying to look. I was looking up the Mariners and extra innings.

The first one was the first game in the season and the opposing pitcher walked in the walkoff. Walk three batter straight. That helps. That helps when you don't have to swing at all. Also, yeah, White Sox got the sweep. That's awesome. The Astros took two or three from the Blue Jays. That's a pretty big series right there.

Is it, what are the Blue Jays up to? What are, what are they, where are they in the standings? They're a game above 500. I mean, the Yanks and the Astros are both two games above 500 right now. So they're, they're doing things. Yeah, they're still in the mix. Houston's hitting the ball. Yeah, Houston's, Houston's on the way back.

Yeah. As, as the temperature goes out, goes up. Decide to see. See, somebody get hot, man. Did you see the picture of the Cardinals? Yeah, the El Tuve pick. They are 8 and 2 Cardinals shout out in last 10. The Altuve picture was making the rounds around the internet.

He had all the pink on. And it was just a really bad angle for him. It made him look even shorter than he is. And people, it was. Hey, when he first came up, I did a whole video on short players versus tall players. When Altuve came up, when the Astros were still in the NL and they had the old uniforms, He was listed at 5-5 on all the scorebugs. It's 5-6 now.

I don't think he grew since he was like 23 years old. Good pair of spikes? Yeah. I wonder what his actual height is. Let's see him. Let's get him on. I think some places list him as 5-7 now. But when he first came up on the scorebug, it was 5-5.

Definitely not 5.7. I was going to say, I think I've seen him listed as 5-7. That's what I've seen. Like listed it. It's not what he is. Because I've always said he's our height. But they had him listed us 5-5 when he was in his real. rookie seasons.

It's a two-inch fluctuation there. I've been there. Trev, I know this is someone you were tweeting about, and I felt the exact same emotion, and it was just seeing him. Yarden Alvarez, man, I think we're starting enter some special territory. I mean, that opposite field home run he hit

looked like a miss hit, and it's out of the yard. And this year where people aren't hitting, like, his numbers at his age. I mean, it's special. And Paul O'Neill on the Yankees broadcast when the Yankees played Houston before he homered twice off Garrett Cole, Paul O'Neill, who's a hilarious and awesome broadcaster,

he was, Yorne Alvarez wasn't doing much and he's just like, this kid's approach is unreal. And hearing it from him helped as well. But man, he's a dude. He's a dude. Yeah, he's, he got a lot. a lot of praise. Breggman put out a big tweet about him and just how good he is.

I remember, I told you guys, man, this was the reason I picked the Astros to get to the World Series. They were adding Yordon back, you know? Like, this is a real deal, like, bona fide, offensive superstar. And I said, I think he's got one of the

sweetest, most pure swings in the game, top five, in my opinion. But he looks really good. You know where he first signed and who should still have him? Dodgers, right? The freaking Dodgers traded him for Josh Fields. Can you imagine? No. Friedman, he has a quote saying,

that's probably a mistake that I traded with Yordon. Can you imagine the Dodgers with Yordon Alvarez? Well, Jay, can you let us know of the Dodgers? Or Trev, let us know what the Dodgers did this weekend in the Interleague because they're a fun storyline as well. Here we go. Fine, I'll start off with the Dodgers, even though I'll at the bottom of my list.

Jim, they went down to Anaheim, the freeway series, and the Angels took two out of three. First game, Griffin, Canning. That's our guy, Nate Steele's boy versus Eureas. Angels take it 9-2. Second game, Kershaw versus Bundy. That was the game. The Dodgers came out like gangbusters,

and then the Angels kind of roared back. So the score was a little closer than it actually was. Dodgers dominated that game. And then on Sunday, Angels took the rubber match 2 to 1. Quintana versus Bauer. The hitters did well on both sides, to be honest with you. Joe Kelly and Dennis Santana for the Dodgers did not have a good time in this series. Rookie infielder Jose Rojas had four RBIs and his first career home run.

We like shouting that out on talking baseball. And Albert Pooholz's replacement, Jared Walsh, records five ribbies in the series. David Fletcher, six hits. A couple of injuries. Cobb was placed on the IL, the 10-day IL. and Iglesias. Not sure what's going on with him, but he exed on Saturday and did not start on Sunday.

Moving on to the Reds in Cleveland. The series got split one to one because game three got postponed. That first game was the Miley versus Pleseck. Indians get no hit by Miley. That's the second time they've been no hit in three weeks or something like that. Not really good for Cleveland,

but what do they care? They're still playing good baseball. Miley throws a no-hitter. The second game, Savali versus Castillo. 9-2 Indians. Indian starting pitchers were there. 0.6 ERA, Pleseck, 8 innings pitch, no-er-n runs in Savali, 7-ting pitch, 1-and-run, and A-un. Seven-home run in this series.

I'm kind of doing. I kind of like that guy. Do you remember he had that highlight where he, like, threw the rock horn up when he scored the winning run? I do not. You guys don't remember that, I do. Okay. Moving on, the last Interleague series was your guys, Yanks, hosting the Nationals.

The Yanks take two out of three. Nationals won game 111 to 4 Corbyn versus Tyone 4 3 Yankees in game 2 They walked it off in extras I believe it was stintin with the walkoff single It looked like he hit it a million miles an hour And then the rubber match

The Yankees took 3 to 2 Hermann versus Ross Scher was dominant in game 2 Before the bullpen blew the two Leeds like Jimmy pointed out The Nationals social media team Calling you out And then you called them back out

Great job James The Mayhew had five hits Torres had three hits and they're the only Yankees itters to have multiple hits Turner and Cashel with five hits each for the nationals five different nationals

hit home runs and guess what boys Luke Voigt Giorshella expected to return early this week the Yanks they're going like this they're going up

they're going up they're going up and that is what happened in the Interleague series this weekend thank you Trevor Luke Foyt is crushing the ball in AAA. Yeah.

Got to love to see that. Yeah, I'm excited for him to rejoin. They haven't had any production from first base at all. At all, at all. So I'm excited for that. Yeah, the Yankees played the Nationals. They took two of three. Sherser was great.

The Nationals are a weird team to me. Was it you guys talking with Rose last episode? I think maybe I overheard it or maybe it was with us. like no one talks about the Nats and then you wonder like should people be talking about the Nats? And then you're like, maybe not.

Is it because their logo looks like Walgreens and they don't have a state, which I think was what Jake said? Like they're not actually in a real state. What was your joke? I think it was Trev's joke. Trev's joke. Well, I said they're not a real city.

Yeah, they're not in a real city. I don't know. They don't, like, they came to town and I was like, oh, okay. This is a weird hodgepodge of players all in the same team. Shorebert had a bomb. I like that.

Yes. I mean, I didn't like it, but I liked it. Yeah. Schwabber hitting bombs of Yankee Stadium. We've heard about that during each trade deadline for the past couple years. Yeah, Yankees sneak a couple out. I mean, talk about they lose game one. They have the blow-up inning.

And then Mad Max Scherzer's out there for game two. Mose them down, but the Yankees find a way against Brad Hand both times. God, Brad Hand and the Yankees, not good. So the Yankees sneak out that. Trev, we talked about it about 10 or so days ago on you and Chris Rose's pregame show. about what the Yankees needed to do on this homestand. And I asked if it was unfair or fair to ask for six, seven wins. And you said, no.

I mean, that's what they should be looking for. And they did that. So that's good. Interested, they've got a big 10-game roadie coming up that starts in Tampa. That's been an absolute house of horrors for them. But they do get King Louis V back. So that's a lot of fun. Can I say something?

Please, man. I know that Brad Hand has good outings. Yeah. But he never has good outings against the Yankees. And it matches the eye test that he doesn't have good outings every time I see him pitch. Now, I don't know if he pitch is different against the Yankees. He's blown a save against the Yankees his last three times facing the Yankees. And, you know, we were live streaming in the playoffs.

And I was like, what the hell? He throws. He throws a junk. He's a junk closer. I need to watch him when he has a good outing because I don't understand how he ever has a good outing just by watching his stuff. Yeah. I mean, especially if he's coming in after Scherzer. It's like, what?

You know, Trevor May was talking about on the Rose rotation how, you know, he's like, I got a really good fastball. But if I come in after DeGrom and throw my fastball, it's easy as shit to the batters because they're used to seeing DeGrom's fastball. Throwing Brad Hand in following Scher. I mean, that seems like an illegal move if you're the manager. It's just going to look. I don't know.

I'm interested to see how Brad Hand ever has good outings because it doesn't match the eye test. It looks like Roark to me. No. That is just like a lefty looper He throws funk man He throws junk He's a funk closer That like after Scherzer

I actually like that Because it's a completely different style It's a completely different at bat Trevor May is saying You know A righty throwing a four seam fastball After Grom That just look

That's the Little League effect Yeah but like the guy in Baltimore It throws a dead fish Like that's funk I mean well that's maybe the funkiest pitch In the league so yes But yeah Hands there

He was having a great year Up until the Yankees So I know I don't care I need to go watch it. We'll have you watch some tape. People just don't hit the ball hard against him. You know, that's the thing.

Is he soft contact, keeps the ball on the ground, you know, he's at a 51.1.6% ground rate in league average is 44%. So that's kind of a new age way of thinking about things. You know, you want, I think most teams would rather have a strikeout guy in the role that he's in. But the ground ball pitchers and weak contact guys are becoming increasing. recently valuable in the era where we're playing with this ball that is extra bouncy. So that's just kind of what he does. His exit Velo average is 83 miles an hour league average is 88 and a half.

So like he's just soft contact, except when he faces the Yankees apparently. Even the DJ one was a 10 hopper up the middle in the playoffs. But he was also wild this series, which I don't think is an armly part of his game. Yeah, that's not good. And Stanton hit a ball, $1,000. miles an hour off of 10. Always. Do you remember that application in high school we had at Palm Prog?

Jake, it was called like faces where you could just like, it was like a police report. Like you could like choose the eyes and choose the nose and you could build a face. Oh, I don't know. Well, that's what his picture looks like. Okay. It looks like someone just like shows different aspects and put it together. It's also blurry, which is tough. Okay.

Tough for baseball reference picture to be blurry. It kind of looks like my grandpa. It's badass. Okay. Yeah, my grandpa is a badass. There was a badass. Dodgers are losing, Jake. Yeah, a lot of games.

It's kind of this hidden story of baseball. I'm sure Dodgers fans don't feel like it is, but nationally it hasn't gotten a ton of love because they're still, they've stayed above 500, but man, they have been losing a lot of games. And Trev, you mentioned this quickly. They went up 13-0. Again, Stilling Bundy, eat bugs. They went up 13-0, and in the seventh inning, at the end of 7,

It was 14-11. And I think the Angels had a couple more guys on base that that game was late night Saturday. You know, a lot of people were in bed. Mike Trout was in bed. He got pulled from the game early because they were up so many runs. If they had fully blown that game, we would be in Dodgers hysteria right now. If they blew a 13-run game and they were kind of close. Like that, that got swept under the rug and, hey, they won the game.

But with the losing pattern streak, whatever you want to call it, they're on, if they had blown a 13 to nothing game, it would have been full-blown hysteria. Man, I don't know, Dodgers. What the hell? It's so weird because you look at just what they're doing. Just look at the stats, which I know doesn't tell the whole story. Like they're still well above average, both sides of the ball. And Jim, your favorite statistic.

Boners. is it called the Pythagoreanth whatever? Yeah, that's your favorite. I got that from you. Oh, wow. Oh, well, they should, according to that, they should be 21 and 14. So maybe they're getting a little bit unlucky.

Well, that's, uh, I don't know, but it's been bad, bad base, it's been bad winning. People use that for them. It's a judge manager. So tough job by, uh,

Roberts. Yeah. I don't. 21 and 14. Yeah, their run differential is still there. Man, it's, what do they start out, 13 and 2 or something like that? Yeah.

It's been bad. It's been full-blown bad. Not like, not bad road trip bad. Like, bad, full-blown bad. Guess what their odds are to make the postseason? 100. 93%. 98%.

So they're still, the computer still believe in the Dodgers. I, apparently the computer, too, because I 100% still believe in the Dodgers. I still think they could even win. 100 games. Like, they're just that good. I think they've had a, I think, do they have a losing record in their last 30? They have in their last 20, their last 10, and five. Yeah, they're 14 and 16 in their last 30 now.

That's crazy. You see Bowers quotes? He was like, I'm pissed. I came here to win. How would you feel about that, Treve, as an everyday player? I think Bauer's been performing on the mound. But again, he pitches once a week, maybe twice a week. a week. And he says, you know, I'm pissed. I didn't, I came here to win. I didn't come here

to lose it. I think it's fine quotes. But I'm interested from, he wasn't just talking about the games he's in. He's talking about like a team dynamic as a guy. Genuine question. I'm not really pointing you in any direction. If a pitcher speaks about the team as a whole, when you're, then he's not an everyday player. Fair? Not fair? Does it mean anything? I think it's fair. I mean, He's part of the team. I haven't seen the quote, so I don't want to go too far into it. But I think if someone was offended on the team,

they just say, hey, Trev, we're in early May. And I don't know if you know that, but we're a really good team, and there's a lot of baseball left and we'll be there at the end of the year. I think that's the gist of the clubhouse in general. Sure, it's probably pretty grim right now because, I mean, when you start losing, like, they've been losing,

it's just not fun to show up to the yard. But they also know, like, we are the best team in baseball. Like, we will be okay. If there's anything, any team that's really confident and can say that, it's the Dodgers. So I think that, you know, he's maybe doing a little bit of lip service to the LA media, like showing, hey, I want to win. I think that's good. Like, whatever, that's fine if he wants to say that.

But I think there's, I don't think there's anybody whatsoever in the Dodgers club. I was panicking right now. He said, I said, I'm pissed. I freaking hate losing. That's why I came here. We're not playing up to our capability. I'm mad. I'm not going to speak for anyone else.

You can say it's early and there's no need to panic. And it's all true. At the end of the day, we're not just going to roll out the bats and balls and win baseball games. We're not going to sleepwalk our way to winning the division in the World Series again. That's not how it works. You got to go out there and beat somebody every day. We haven't been good at it and we need to get better.

So I thought it was fair quotes I get it I liked it I thought it was great I think that's what you want to hear from anybody on your favorite baseball team that you hate losing Yeah I saw a ton of people

giving him shit for talking since he only plays won the game And I didn't that didn't ring true with me So I wanted to get your opinion on it Yeah I think that's a fine quote Cool yeah Losing does suck Boom

Indians and Reds We didn't really talk about that Wade Miley, no hitter Unfortunate timing Because I think everyone was already at the tipping point of Why is nobody hitting this year? And then Wade Miley throws a no-no And everyone's like, ah

Yeah, it does suck Because what he did Obviously it's very exciting for Wade Miley And his name's in the history book But We're lying if we don't say that Wade Miley throwing that no-hitter Stamped the well

No-Hitters might mean a little less this season instead of stamping Wade Miley's career is amazing again and on a good projector. That's harsh. We're lying if you don't, if you're not saying that. Yeah, the record in a single season

which has been done three times is seven no hitters. Technically, we've only had four this year, but we should, I mean, we have five. If you really want to break it down, Mad Bumns should count. But, I mean, is there any way that that record doesn't get broken? Like, it has to.

I'm kind of out on it, man. People are requesting breakdowns. They already don't get watched that much. And they're like, take 10 times as long to do. So everyone requested no hitter breakdowns. I'm sorry. I don't think they're going to happen anymore because they're boring now. Honestly, if you had a meter and it was like,

Wade, Miley's going to have a great season or, okay, no hitters are kind of meaningless. His no hitter swings it the way he'd rather it not swing. Sorry, Wade. Good job. Congratulations. Amazing game. But if the Indians get no hit for a third time, then it kind of cancels out all the Indians no-hitters.

I mean, that's twice and under a month. I believe it's like three weeks. Yeah. And they're still winning baseball games. Like, baseball's nuts. Baseball's nuts. All right. Let's go to the individual awards.

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Stand-out performances. Stand-out performance. I get to go first. I grabbed our dude, J. Flair, Jack Flaherty, has a fantastic outing on the mound and a good outing in the batters box as well. Seven innings pitched, zero earned runs, only three hits allowed, and he hits his first career home run. In this single game, he lowered his ERA from 341 to 283, and that's a huge drop on the

test when you're just looking at numbers. He raised his OPS from 350 to 702 near average with that one home run. So every number went drastically a better route. His home run had an exit velocity of 106.2 miles per hour. He did not allow a single base hit in this game with a higher exit velocity. So of all the hits he gave up and the hit that he had, he had the hardest hit ball, which I think is kind of cool. Bragging rights for a while. So good job, J. Flair. He's my standout. You boy. You boy, Trev. He's doing, and do you guys remember

the first game of the season just was horrible for him? And ever since then, he's been doing it. So I'm happy. I texted him. Yeah, I was looking at his pitch mix a lot. This was the first game he really was like a three pitch pitcher like his third pitch he used was 15 percent um he does a lot of different stuff I went game by game and you know one game the slider

was the most used pitch a lot of times it's a four seam this game was pretty even between the four seam and the slider two seamer gets in there it's uh must be on feel or scouting report but yes his usage game on game was interesting he uh yeah he enjoyed it

hit hit the yabo it was a shit one. No questions asked. Love that. And yeah, I mean, hey, I don't want to start saying All-Star starter, but House 7 and a, he's 6 and 0 record, 283 ERA, J. Flair? Mile High City, we'll see you there. And if you're wondering, part of the reason the Cardinals are starting to become one of the better teams in baseball, mentioned this last episode, Wayne O's ERA is now 38, Flaherty 283. Carlos Martinez is the low man or the high man, 4-3, 4-3-5.5.5. John Gant 215 Kim 306

Cardinals' rotation right now looks pretty good Oh yeah It looked like more of the team we thought they were going to be Like preseason we're like okay this is what we think they're going to be And they're kind of they're getting there Jake who is your standout Jamalama ding dong you almost pooed me a little

Like my whole noodle situation at home right now There might be poop all over my apartment That's a whole other issue. I am giving it to Mad Max Scherzer. 7.1 innings pitched. One earn run, 14 Ks. 14 Ks. That is a record for an opposing starting pitcher

against the New York Yankees. Yankees have a lot of history, folks. A lot of history. And Max Scher sets the record. He was gross. He was dotting pitches. was after a two to three hour rain delay. There was a genuine part of me that thought the Yanks might be messing with Schurzer a little bit

because it won't rain. And in the Bronx, it was the lightest rain you've ever seen. So I think conspiracy theories were kind of okay on it. There's also my what to watch for. A fake rain delay. Fake rain delay. Fake rain delay. That's what I said on the pregame show. It might have been very real.

He comes out. He drops dick. He was dotting pitches. There's my favorite one. He brought one back. against Brett Gardner and dotted it. And you could see Gardy, like, almost want to argue. And then he just kind of stiffened up.

And he's like, no, that was about as perfect. The back or front door? Front door. Front door. And he's just like, that's as good as it gets. So Mad Max Scher and a part of the reason I picked this as a storyline. Hey, man, I'm out on the Nats. I'm quitting on them.

My heart wants to get tied up in them for whatever reason, like that pitching staff and I love Soto so much and I wanted to believe in Schwerbo and Bell. I love Trey Turner. I'm just out. I'm just out. Until they get three games above 500, I just can't tap into the Nationals. Right now they're in the bottom of the east. I think they're 13 and 17.

Again, no interstate here. So the Mad Max Scherzer trade deadline rumors are already starting to swirl, and I'm almost ruined for it at this point. Let's get some chaos. We'd love to see a team. I mean, if you're any team that thinks you're borderline in the playoff race and you get Max Scher, you now think you're a World Series contender. So I'm rooting for that.

Either win me over Nats or trade Mad Max, and I'm currently big-time team trade them. That's something that never even came into my mind, trading Max Scherzer, but you're right. Son of a gun. I'm curious, there's going to be a lot of people up for grabs, I believe, this trade deadline. And Max is going to be one of the people at the forefront.

My goodness. Yeah, they'd have to take on a good amount of money. So that's the interesting part of it. But someone would grab him. If he's available, someone would make the move. Yeah, and it's like $20 million for half a season. Well, at the trade deadline, I mean, you get them because what's he making? 25, 30.

He's making 42. That's right. The Nats do those funky contracts. Oh, you eat a little money, you get more prospect capital. That's how trades work nowadays. If Mad Max is available to be traded, a team will go and get him. Yeah, they have a big decision to make. Trev, who's your standout performance?

You guys know I went back and forth on this. I didn't want to take another pitcher. Then I was going to go with Yuleg, Yuleigur, who had a great night on Friday. I thought that night happened on Sunday on Mother's Day, and there was the whole thing with him and his brother playing against each other, his mom had the split jersey on which i love i love split jersey split hats because people it fires people up when that happens so she had the ashore's blue jays thing going on but turns out like i said he hit his homers on friday so i said nope then i went and i'm going to go

with dj lemaehew who i believe this also happened on friday three for four two home runs now the thing with dj is he hasn't been hitting for any power this year whatsoever okay if you go back to where is it April 26th that's when the batting average and everything bottomed out he was hitting 250 671 OPS something clicked multiple hit game multiple hit game and all the way through down now um in that span from April 27th to May 9th he's kind of just been going off and the Yankees are 9 and 3 he's got the OPS back up to 765 with those two homers um on Friday so they need the machine back He can't be a slap. He can't be what he was in Colorado when he had that under 100 OPS plus.

He needs to hit for power. That's why the Yankees gave him that money. So let's go, man. Two home runs, very nice. Keep that going. The Yankees have started to win because he started to hit a little bit better. He's my standout performance. Two homers are off of Patrick Corbyn who he absolutely crushes.

Six home runs off of him now, the most he has versus any pitcher. They've seen each other a lot. His numbers versus Patrick Corbin are incredible. OPS Plus takes in ballpark factor, so I don't know if those home runs will help them out too much as I think they're out in one stadium and one stadium alone. Both were... Were they really short? I didn't even see him. Both were not home runs off the bat. Second one is nice.

The extra base hits so far this year for him. You know, he's really been just slapping the ball around. He's been topping everything. Him and Glaber haven't had any power, any power. So hopefully it does spark him and Trev. He has become such a. part of the Yankees lineup and dynamic that when he's not right, the Yankees don't feel right, man. So he, like you said in his past 12 games or so, he's looking like the DJ

Lemayhew, the Yankees have seen for the past couple years. So, uh, yeah, what, hey, what's wrong with a couple porch jibbers? There's nothing wrong to that. That could get him going. He said five games in the last 12 with multiple hits, only three games without a hit. He went from 250 batting average, which is important because that's, that's a stick. stick for a to measure DJ with 250 to 281. So he's doing it. Good for him. All right. Let's move it on to

Slump one. Swamp one. BBD, who are the guys that we may be adding to the list? Well, we've got five of the biggest offers of the week potentially coming on. Pete Alonzo could be replacing his teammate. Goes O for nine on the weekend

before walks. Eduardo Escobar goes O for 11 with Jake in attendance. Not for all of them. Hunter Dozier, O for 10, two walks in there. Sean Murphy O for 10, 3Ks, no walks. And Jonathan Scope, O for 7, a walk, and a strikeout. All right, so I think it's really fun to just simply replace Alonzo. Alonzo for Frankie.

Lindor came off Slump Watch in a good way, and he was on there for a long time. Five for 11 weekend. Yeah. So Lindor was good, and let's replace him with, Pete Alonzo. I like that. Some other guys on the list from last week. Ty France.

He went one for nine with a double. Carlos Correa had a rough weekend. Only one for eight. It was a home run, the one hit. Freddie Freeman, he's off. He had a 364 batting average 500 OBP on the weekend. Frederick. Classic.

So he's off. So Freddy's definitely off. So we got one spot available to all these new guys. you want to go. Escobar? I feel... Judge is staying on. I don't think we said that.

Yeah, Judge Karea Alonzo and Thai France. Thai France is starting to get into a nervous area where it's like, hey, man, you either got to get off or we got to figure it out. I'm fine with putting Eduardo Escobar on here because we did that earlier in the season, and he was ashamed of flame. And, you know, Eddie's a friend.

Has he retweeted me on Twitter? Absolutely. Because Jake Snakes and all that. you know, Trev, I guess you know him too. You guys played baseball together or something, but I have the most confidence that Eduardo would be a shame to flame guy, so I have no problem putting him on there. Okay, and you want to leave Thai France on?

I think so. I'd like to watch him one more time, but if kind of if it doesn't happen, then I just don't believe in his April. Yeah. Like this is Thai France's last stand. Okay, because, yeah, his numbers are plummeting fast. He had a really good start to the season. I'm fine with that.

You can either have an honorable discharge or a dishonorable discharge. So then the other offers for the week, Dozier, Murphy, and Scope, we are just... You got lucky. And I assume of that group, Escobar is probably having the best overall year. Maybe Dozier, but... I'm not sure. Just guessing. Yeah.

Don't have numbers. All right. So Ty France, Alonzo Correa, Escobar, and Judge, we're watching you guys. Now, as for who's been swinging the bat? Well. Add to O'Lease Garcia, 7 for 12 with two homers, 7 RBI's and a stolen base.

And he had the crazy, nice play to end the game where it fell in front of him and then he just scooped it and winged it at home to get the runners from scoring. That was awesome. Jorge Polanco. Five for eight with a homer, two doubles. Good job by him.

Gene Sigora. He went eight for 13 with a homer and three RBIs. You guys talked about this guy already. You're Don Alvarez. He's got it going. I mean, he was kind of, his batting average was bad. Those numbers were kind of bad for those Yankee homeruns against Cole, right? That kind of set him right?

Or was he already kind of a group? No, I think he was going. I was just on his page earlier. He's a disgusting human being. So he's human bean? Are you saying being or bean? Bing. I don't think he's a bean.

His numbers on the air are grosso as I try to bring it up on my phone. It looks like he's been hitting all season, but his... I think his power numbers maybe weren't there before Cole. Because, yeah, 362, 395, a 1.0.0.0.0.0. Yeah, but the stretch he's on right now is, Crazy. His last seven games, he's gotten multiple hits every single game. His last seven games, he's got a 517 batting average and a one dot slugging. I mean, guys, look at his career so far, 116, 116 games.

116 games. He has 34 home runs, 103 RBI. 324-407, 1.057 OPS. Guys, insane. He's a monster of a man. swing is so quiet. Oh, my God. He was born in Las Tunis, Cuba. Does that stand for it? It fits my narrative.

Go on. If you're a GM, just get all the Cubans. Cuban players. Cuban GM Trev. Yeah. I forgot about that. I mean, the White Sox kind of trying that. And they're in first place.

JT.R.Muto, six for 13 with a home run, two doubles, three RBIs. Kyle Lewis had a nice series. Good for him. for 13. Dansby, five for 11, and Alex Braggman. So a couple Astros on there,

a couple Phillies. Good job by all those guys. And that's who's on fire. Hmm. Good job. I love that. Love a little in fuego. All right.

We'll rip through some of these awards real quick. Awards. Mine's the Happy to Not Know You Award. Ooh. Jim? The Happy to Not Know You Award. Oh, Jim? Any guesses?

Pretty tough. I already clicked on your link, so I know who it is, but. I'm happy to not know you. You'll give you a million dollars if you get it. It's not me, right? Not you. I know you. It goes to umpire John Lipka.

Mm-hmm. I'm actually going to do a breakdown on this because I do so many breakdowns shitting on ums when they get bad calls that I think it's deserved. Okay. I don't know this umps name. I checked. He has a jacked. some people, ejected one player in 2020.

He ejected three people in 2019. Scott's service, service, every both times. So maybe he's got a little thing with him. But, yeah, I don't know that name. I know more umps names than I should because I do a lot of the breakdowns where I learned them. Do you know this up, Trev? John Lipka, like from your playing days? Not off his name alone.

I'd have to see his face. I guess I could look him up right here. John Lipka. Yeah, I didn't know him. He had the best, you know, there's that Ump reports, Twitter account, the report cards, which, I mean,

Donaldson, like, posted it one time, so, like, he's looking at it. Players are looking at this shit. And he had the best Ump report card I've ever seen. He had 99% overall consistency, 99% overall accuracy, 100% outside the zone accuracy, meaning he didn't call a single pitch

that was a ball, track as a ball, and only one pitch that they tracked as a strike, he called it a ball. And it's so borderline. And it was like a high curve ball. So just a good job by an umpire doing a great job. And happy that I don't know your name, man,

because if you know an ump's name, it's usually for the wrong reasons. But maybe now people will know this guy's name. He'd be like, oh, yeah, he had a good game. Great game. You know, if this came out that it was Angel Hernandez who had a perfect game, you'd be shocked. It comes out that, oh, an umpire had a perfect game,

which one? And then you don't know his name. you're like, ah, that makes a lot of sense. That's a good gumbo. Yeah. Only one missed call. I like looking at those umpire scorecards. It's pretty cool.

Yeah, it is. Lipka? Libca. L-I-B-K-A. Yeah, he's a young guy, which makes sense because guess what? Your eyes get worse as you age. I know. There's been a lot of tests and the younger umps are actually, like, better.

Because, dude, like the old umps, like Joe Weston, I know you're going for the record. He's going to retire next year after he breaks the record. But, like, there's no way Joe West can function in the way that you have to be able to function. You know how fast the game is when you're, like, at playing level? It's just, it's unreal. It's kind of like how we don't make, like, 90-year-olds retake their driver's test. There's like, oh, yeah, they're still good.

It's like, dude, if my grandma can legally drive right now, then the government is insane and wrong because she can barely walk. But she's legally allowed to drive. They're dangerous. They're like, whoa. It's so weird. It's just because old people make laws? Anyway, John Lipka, happy that I didn't know your name because it means you're doing a good job.

What up, John? I hate when you do your picks just for ratings. What's that? Getting Lipka's name out there just for clicks. Yeah. Yep, I knew. I knew you were going to do that, by the way. Internet's back.

Or at least it's working for me now. Hell yeah. Craig, do you want to go? You want me to go? I'll go. I'll go. My award is the No Dix for you. award. Wow.

And that is Dix. Got favors. Let me finish B-B-D. No Dix. That's D-I-C-K. Of course I'm talking about Dick's sporting goods. This is a little off-the-cuff here. But my friend John Jay, okay, started with the Angels this year. Was up for a little bit, made the roster. Then he went on the, what's the list where

the his wife was giving birth to their son. What's that list called? Paternity. Paternity list. Went on the paternity list and they released him. And I talked to him and he wasn't sure what was going on. He wasn't sure if he was going to play again or just kind of be home. He decided that he wanted to go back.

He went to Salt Lake City, which is where they have their AAA team. He was going to go do it. And he put out a little IG post. He was at Dick's Sporting Goods. And he was looking for pants. Because if anybody knows, the minor league pants are brutal, especially if you've been in the big leagues for a long time.

So he went there. He bought pants at Dick's sporting goods. He bought Mike Trout cleats at Dick's sporting goods because he says Nike had not been treating him fairly since he got sent down. Well, turns out he didn't need the Dick's pants or the shoes because he got called up. And then in that game against the Dodgers,

he replaced Mike Trout. Got a couple hits, even got an RBI. So, no dicks for John Jay. Dude, congrats John Jay. Minor League uniforms are so bad that players would rather go buy their own from Dick's sporting good? 100%. What the hell? They've missed it for years, Jim.

It's insane. What's going on? I'm sure, like, if you go play college ball, I guess they make more money than minor league. They're just, um, so, okay, for my, my experience is Rochester, Red Wings. There's an equipment closet and it's just pants that have been around for years, years. And some will have elastic in the bottom. Some won't. It's just bad. Like, you're not going to get a pair of pants that fits you correctly. So, you know, I guess that I guess I get, I get, I get, I get you don't need like, you don't get fitted perfectly pants if you want tapered,

if you want baggie, blah, blah, blah. I mean, it should be of quality. That's crazy. That's crazy. The affiliate team can't at least buy the dick's pants. They do they do if the colors match but most of the time they don't match. So you're just going to get these random pants and they're different brands and all this weird stuff. But anyways

I just thought it was really funny. Like this guy's been in the big leagues for so long. Like your favorite player's favorite player is John Jay and he was shopping around a dick sporting goods because Nike wasn't treating him fairly and because the minor league uniforms are so bad. But he didn't have to use him. So no dicks for John Jay.

Trev, I don't know if you've seen it yet. I would not have seen it. I got pretty lucky. John Jay made an awesome catch in left field the other day. Awesome. So I'm happy. I know you're a big John Jay guy. He's one of the most respected guys in the show right now.

So if you don't know him, know him. Know him. Beautiful. He's also Cuban. Okay. I can love Cubans, man. I love Cubans. I love Cuban sandwiches, too.

I love Cuban coffee. I like Cuban sandwiches as well. Put a little bit of Cuban in my hair. That's how I get it like this. Hmm. No, actually, Jake put ball toner in his hair today. I did. Oh, you did?

Manxcape ball toner? Yeah, sprayed in his hair during the weekly dome. Can't hurt. No. Jake, do you have an award? I'm giving out the Miss Jackson Award. Sorry, Miss Jackson. Woo!

That? Yeah. Yeah. Are you for real? Never meant to my guitar. Keep going. Let's see where we land. million thumbs.

Then it's like a wrap. Like, I don't have that part. You got it. I'm giving it out to a guy that I've always liked, and I think he's proven that he is for real, as Jimmy laid it out. I'm giving it out to Sean Minia. You know, we always wonder,

what's the secret sauce in Oakland? They're the West Coast Rays. Basically, both team's secret sauce is they pitch. And Sean Maniah, man, he's having a really good start to this year. He's got a 307 ERA and 41 innings pitch. I think if we started talking Oakland A's playoffs, I think he's the starting pitcher I'd least want to see on the mound

as baby Jesus figures it out. And I know Bassett broke out. I like me, some Sean Mania. And he's low-key. He had a really nice Major League career so far. He's 29 years old. Over the last four years, if you want to go there, you know, 50 starts a 344ERA. That's a really quality starting pitcher.

If you tighten it up a little bit, it gets even better. The past three years, 23 starts at 325. I like me some Shamanias. Some of the baseball savant stuff is weird. Fastball spin ain't there. His curve spin ain't there. But a lot of it is there. The VLO ain't there.

But a lot of the exit VLO not walk. guys. I'm a Sean Minaya fan and he's having a nice year, so I'm doing it. Good job. I saw him throw no hitter once. Baby giraffe. The kid. He's also a really nice guy, cool guy, guy that you want to hang around. I've shared some beverages with him before and just a delight, a delightful human being. second highest war on the team to Us Merro Petit Oh

How about that? How about a one four A one four war out of the pen for use marrow Maybe he should have got the award But I love me some of nigh Trave you ever been in a building for a big league No hitter I was part of one

Jared Weaver no hit us in Anaheim Damn I almost I hit a ball foul by the Homer foul by this much. Almost ended it for him. But I'm actually like now that it's all over and done, I'm happy that he got the no-hitter because, you know, whatever. Nice.

I saw someone tweet out and let me confirm this. How old do you guys think Jared Weaver is? 39. He's, yeah. 38? 38. 38. I would have said like mid-40s.

He got in trouble this weekend. He got ratioed. Oh, oops, I'll look it up. All right. Who was the best friend of the week, BBD? Our best friend of the week is Jack Flaherty. We already talked about him. Great outing.

Hit the homer. You know he likes hitting, so. Good job, Jack. Round of a close. And I think we're getting Robo Trev. Robo Trev. All right, let's do elevator talk. If you are in an elevator with one of,

with the person wearing the hat of this team. Here's some simple fodder for you. Two minutes on the clock. Just getting up and down the Vader. You want to prove you're a fan. No, we've done them already. I'm doing it again. The Mariners?

Mariners. Well, they're the best team in extra innings. So if a game goes into extras, hey, we're 4 and 0 in extra inning games. You say, no why I like this team? They play the game the right way. they get to run across what they need to. Four and oh and extras. They have a winning record,

but they're in third in their division, so you can kind of say what's going on here? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, they're calling up some kids. On the Enfuego list, Kyle Lewis, that's good. Kyle Lewis. I actually, you want to talk about something? This just happened.

The chat just put this out. Apparently Joel Sherman and somebody else falsely reported that Kellanek was on his way. Yeah. Travis, Trevor's robot Trev for the YouTube, but for the podcast people, don't understand you.

Yeah, all their reporters just chasing stories like bloodthirsty, dumb dogs retweet and clearly fake accounts. Not me, baby. Kelnick, just go Kelnik. Just be like, I like to start. We got off to,

a kid could be special. Yeah. What's their schedule coming up? Who do they got? Let me see. You know who's a guy you might know, Trev? They got the Dodgers. Kendall Graveman is having a great year for them

and throwing gross stuff. Pitch Ninja. Kendall Graveman. Yeah. They got the Dodgers. They got the Indians. They got the tigers and the Padres. So there's some stuff you can talk about.

All right. Thank you very much for tuning in. We will see you on Wednesday. Goodbye