Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 337 | Pujols to the Dodgers, Vladdy Keeps Raking, and the Machado Slide

Episode Date: May 17, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Another great weekend of sports pools is now a member of the Dodgers. How about that? And a ton of other stuff. Let's do it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for hanging out with us for a little bit as we recap the weekend that was in Major League Baseball. It's Talking Baseball brought to you by Draft Kings.

My name is Jimmy. I have Jake right next to me. We got Trevor in California. BBD sitting in the corner producing and this episode let's see what patrons do we got we got Daniel O'Connor Carlos Avia and Megan Brown our most recent patrons we appreciate you thank you guys very much got some good stuff to talk about little AL recap L NL recap little interleague recap standout performances awards slump watch and fuego the works Jake how are you how is your weekend James

Trevor Big baby David Everybody live in the chat Weekend was good Man New York City got some good weather This weekend Had spent a nice Walk

slash early afternoon at Central Park Yeah Watch some Yankees baseball Watch some baseball around the Liga Shocked to see Poole Signed with an NL contender Who could have seen that? coming. But I'm generally well, Trevor, Drew Bugan, Ribby's. How are you? My God, you know,

it was a full weekend for me. We had our last coach pitch game. James Loney and I got asked to manage the All-Star game. Wait, no, we didn't. Some other dad is the manager of the All-Star team. I mean, who makes these decisions? 20 years NLB experience combined or like a dad? Maybe they're like, did Trevor an All-Star? And they went to your page and they were like, nope. Oh. That's a good point, Jim. It's a good point. It's a good point.

It's a low blow. It hurts, but it's okay. I'm still in a good mood. That felt bad coming out of my mouth. I thought it was going to be more of a joke. Jeez. I didn't like it at all. It's fine.

Look, I actually answered that with a Twitter post. I said most days, I feel like I wasn't even that good. So I'm on your side. on this one. Second deck. Trev. Thank you. Protecting Joe.

I wore these ridiculous headphones because I don't want Robo Trev to come out today. So that's an improvement by me. All things consider Jim and Jake and BBD, I'm doing great today. And I'm excited to talk about an amazing weekend of baseball. We're getting into the midst of the season. Like we're getting into, like someone said it's early. And I was like, I don't, we're getting. pretty close to you not being able to say that anymore.

But it was a player I heard in an interview. I think it was J. Flair. Or maybe it was Snell on miced up on Sunday baseball. You know, it's still early. And I was like, ooh, I don't, I don't know. I don't know how. I think we're a week away from you can't say that anymore. Once June comes, it's not early.

I think it's June. There was a couple series results that happened over this weekend. And then you look at the team's record and you're like, ah, okay, it is still kind of. of early. You know, a sweep either direction can still be like, oh, this team's three below 500. They kind of stink, ah, and then they sweep and they're 500, and you're like, okay, well, playoffs are today.

They're in it. So there's still a little bit of that going on, but no, I mean, like, team identities are formed, you know? A little bit, yeah. It's only a quarter of the way done. So if you're thinking about, like, a horse race at the quarter turn, whatever, like, it's still early. In my opinion, there's a lot of baseball left to be played. So

I don't disagree with whoever it was, Snellard or J. Flair. I think it is. I'll give it one more week. When we're sitting back here, maybe a week and a half. But we're close to it being in the middle of the season. June, July. I like the All-Star break, to be honest with you. I know that's a long time away.

What? There's so much baseball. A team can lose the season before the All-Star break, Minnesota. James, there's 120 20 games left. No when the season starts. June 4th, Yankees, Red Sox play for the first time. I'll be in California.

These are the only two teams I want to see. I'm good at being old and dying sometimes. Sometimes. Other times, you're young and vibrant. Nice shirt. Thank you. All right, BBD, how are you? I'm well.

I mean, but when the seasons, I don't know, by June, the teams got to start deciding what they want to add at the dead. Exactly. Once the trade deadline Like process comes in like here You got to decide some a lot of For a lot of teams the season ends July 29th Because they decide to trade instead of going for it

I know but it's May 17th you guys There's still some time So yeah I mean there's teams There's four to five series before June 1 So you can still You can still write your ship Or wrong your ship for the most part I'm not by saying it's not early anymore

Treve doesn't mean your fate sealed and just saying like, you know, you didn't have a rough start anymore. You're having a rough season at this point. It's getting late early. It's getting late early. I like that one, Jake. Nice. Yeah.

Jake Yogi Berra. It is right there. Zendino the Great. You're always the best. All right. All right. Let's get right into it. Let's go to the National League recap.

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Bernie Mac stand-up. Los Hippido Hi-Hantes, the Giants. I last I saw you guys, I was giving them an award. believe roses smell like boop, bo, boo, boo. They split four with the pirates. They got walked off on twice, feeling the effect of the Jake sucks theory. Uh, they win the bookends, three, one and four one, Descalphani and Wood. Alex Wood, how about five and oh on the year? Good for him. And Yaz's homered in that last game. They split four. The Brewers and the Braves, the Braves, they win the first two. Are they getting it going? Are they getting it going? We keep waiting. Ronnie's hurdy pinch hits in the last game

An absolute spit show of a game 10-9 burrs Wani Peralta was six shuddy The Penn gave up a seven spot in the seventh Chaos that finishes 10-9 final Braves still win the series they gotta keep doing more of that Speaking of an ugly fest Rockies and the Reds

Reds went into Colorado They split four man Rockies won the first two Reds won the second two The last game, the Reds won because of a passball in the ninth and a wild pitch in Buenos Contos. So it's just like, guys, this is a bad brand of baseball. Castellanos is hit, and that's what he does. So I like that. Nationals and my D-backs, D-backs get roughed up in the first game.

They lose 17 to 2. Freight-trained David Peralta takes the bump, though, gets a punchy. So that's basically a win. D-backs win the middle game. Nats take the last one. Fettiwop with the big start for them. Seven shuddy. Yeah, the Jake D-Backs effect sucks.

Sucks Ascrabbs and Carson Kelly to the 10-day IL. Padres sweep the Cardinals. Hello. There's one that'll jump out and grab you by the balls. Sunday night baseball. We saw that last night. 5'3. Good miced up.

Jay Flair and Snell are guys. Musgrove Paddock Padres, man. Holy smokes. Austin Nola's. back doing it. I like that guy. I like him a lot. Paul DeYoung to the aisle. Sorry about it. And then the Marlins and the Dodgers. Dodgers take two out of three. The first two, in fact, Bauer was nasty. Kershaw won the first game, or didn't get the dub, excuse me. Marlins take the last one. Adam Duvall, three-run Homer, and he threw out

mooky bets at the plate in that one. Dodgers, feeling the injury bug. Max Muncie getting hot. that's what's happening in the National League. Very nice, very nice, very nice. You like Austin Nola? I thought you didn't like Austin Nola. Say, what? I don't know. I don't know where you got that from.

No, I think I said I liked him a lot. I thought you were. I thought when they traded, you were shocked because he doesn't actually have a lot of years being a good catcher and he's old. No, I think I liked him because he was amongst catchers, what he was doing is really good, and they get him for a long. time. Oh.

Like he's cheap. I don't know where I got it from. Maybe Trev hates him. We'll just put it on Trev. I don't hate him. Okay. Maybe it was you. No, I like catchers.

Maybe it was a dark thought. Hard to find a catcher. Isn't that Aaron Noah's brother? Yeah. I wanted him to get traded to feel like I think they need the brother battery. But they got real moot instead. That's good. Yeah.

Mets get swept. That's on that. me. They're leading the division. I was just doing the division leaders. Central, cards, and Giants stay in first place in the West. That's all they know. But the Dodgers got the big man coming their way. They pick up pool holes who cleared waivers, so they get him for what, the minimum? Yeah, for the minimum. 420K, something like that, pro-rated for the rest of the year. Because she dreams. Surprised a lot of people besides Jake. Well, I mean, listen, what happened with Albert was,

he gets designated, clear his waivers, obviously. He's owed a zillion dollars this year. So once he clears waivers, he's open to touch all the teams. The word out of his camp was that he wanted to be an everyday player. Turns out,

he just wanted to be out of L.A., angels. Truss. He didn't want to sit on the bench for a team that's going to stink all year. He would be willing to sit on a bench and come off and help a team that has a chance to win a World Series.

This is completely on the Angels. Pujols probably realized, look, the only teams I'll get to go play every day are the Baltimore Orioles like Trevor said, because I was definitely right also. But that was just not going to happen. Science with the Dodgers. And look, he's a better option than anything that they have on the bench right now. I'm excited for him.

I compared it to Sandoval at first. And I think there might be a step above that because there is playing time to be had with these Dodgers right now. especially versus lefties. But yeah, Treve, I mean, that's where, I mean, you and Rosie poo-poohed me, you know, ugly, short, all the insults came out. And it was, yeah, Albert Pujolos wants to be

an everyday starting MLB player. So do I. But I fucking suck at baseball. If you can ever compare yourself to Albert Poo-Hoss again on the baseball, I'm leaving the freaking show. We have the same swing. Me and Albert both breathe there. Listen.

The Angels stink. The Angels are bad. The Angels are last place again. The Angel stink. Here we go. So Albert Pooleos, no, he didn't want to sit on the bench. Oh, Rangers jumped them for last place, excuse me. But there's room for him.

I love this. I love this. He can get a start versus a lefty pitcher and get two at bats. And then if you want to sub them out, what the Dodgers should be able to do with the amount of bodies that they have going through right now, Sure. Or if you just give him the pinch hit at bat, you know, this whole three batters rule, if you still get Albert, that good matchup runners on beach versus a lefty pitcher.

His last full year in 2019, he had an 830 OPS. That was like a full season versus lefties. So I'm happy for him. I think it's a good fit. I hope he find himself in a big situation. And if they put him in the right spot to succeed, I think he will. Does he stay? Is he on the Dodgers roster?

entire year. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I mean, if you heard Buster only talk about Sunday at baseball, he was like, yeah, this is, in a way, they picked, the Dodgers also picked up Setsugo, right? Yeah.

This is like Buster was, like, Dodgers don't have as much depth as everyone said they did. No, they do. They're just all hurt. Well, I know that, but. 13 dudes on the I. Well, that's when the death's supposed to come into play. But 13, don't fucking, I mean, the Yankees had 30 last year, so I don't care about 13.

Okay. Okay. Okay. The Dodgers have just better depth than the Yankees. Yeah, but the Dodgers infield now with Seeger out, but that doesn't come into Albert at all. I mean, you know, Muncie's there. Gavin Lux is supposed to be the second baseman. He's not there. They've been noisy's been playing.

I mean, Turner's there. But it's Muncie can go play second base when a lefty's pitching. Albert can play first base. And, you know, they've been rotating noisy McKinstree Lux playing second versus lefties. And none of those guys really have been doing anything, especially against lefties. So, like the rotation's there when you really think about it. At first you're like, where's you going to play? And then you're like, oh, well, okay, it makes sense.

And then I love what Jake said. Like, in big moments, just pinch hit Albert versus a lefty. And that becomes an event. That becomes the panda effect. So what sandiball's been. And that's where I was saying. So, Trev, you mentioned, they are feeling the injury bug. And it's a real one, man.

It's kind of, it's been buried when they were losing and we're like, oh, what's going on? I mean, Cody Bellinger pretty much been out all season. Dude won an MVP. It's in his back. He's got that. AJ Pollock hurt you, and I'll hold that against him forever, but he's a good ball player. And he's hurt. Edwin Rios, a guy that everyone was pissed that he wasn't going to be starting. He's out. Torn Labrum. Now with Seeger, that's the new one. Also, they're pitching, man.

I know, but none of them are infielder. It's not DePaul's thing. Yeah, I mean, they've got guys that move around. I mean, Cody Bellinger can play a really good first base, and they've done that the past. Either way, it's this roster. And if all those guys come back, you know what? There's still a, there's still a spot for Albert. Right now, they've got one, two, three, four, five, six guys on their bench. What does that look like in the playoffs? Do they have five? Do they have six? If Albert Poolehost is your lefty masher, there's room for that guy. I mean, the Braves have had room

for Sandoval, and he kind of didn't have a position. The position was just Pinch Hedder, and he's doing it beautifully. So, yeah, Albert's going to be on this team. And I think, you know, we've seen how switchy the Dodgers get. It was actually kind of what got them in trouble in the World Series against the Red Sox. Because remember everyone was like, hey, stop messing with your lineup. Put a couple of those lefty bats up there. They did it.

Albert, give him a start against lefties with today's starting pitcher. That's two at-bats. And then you pinch it, whoever you want for him. or if they start the righty and they bring a lefty out of the pen, there's the machine waiting for you who against lefties. You can't do the career numbers because all of his career numbers are insane. But even in recent years, even this year, it's very small portion, but he still hits lefties.

It's fun, man. I'm excited. Yeah, I think that the Dodgers might have been the only team to be able to get Albert on this bench roll deal. not only because they're a World Series contender, but also because Albert doesn't have to pick up and move everything, dude. That's a big deal during the season. I know it can be done and it happens all the time,

but the dude's entrenched. I mean, he's probably going to just stay in his house wherever he's at in the Orange County somewhere and just commute. Maybe he'll do what Kobe used to do. And, oh man, this sounds terrible, but Kobe used to take a helicopter. No, every day from his house in Orange County to a hotel in L.A. and fly back. So maybe Albert does that. maybe just has a car service, I don't know.

But I think that's also a big deal with this. The location change doesn't have to happen. So I'm happy for him, man. I think he gets everything he wanted to get besides the everyday playing time. I think he's going to get enough playing time to kind of feed whatever he needs to. Is he there? Is he in uniform? They haven't done like the official pool host presser yet.

I don't believe. I think today they said they were going to make it. Because they face it in like an hour or maybe a 13-11. They face Bum-Garner tonight. Start him right away. Come up. Lefty. Yeah, Madbom versus Bueller.

That's a little fun tonight, late night. Get your nap in and get your cushy dreams going. Trive, how much genuinely, I mean, a guy like Albert, who's got, you know, he got the back. He got a couple bags. I mean, if, let's say, I'll just throw this out there as an example, let's say the Braves came to him and they said, like, hey, we're actually going to use you. Like, you know, we want to get Freddie off his fee. I know this is a fake example and it's not real, but how much would that truly weigh in the moving stuff?

When you're someone like Albert, like to move somewhere for four months for Albert Pujos, I mean, the money ain't a problem. Is it just literally leaving your life? I don't know. It comes into play, dude. It's not when you, if you don't have the choice, like, you know, I got shipped off from the A's to Tampa.

I didn't have a choice, dude. Like, I need to go play. Like, I still needed to make my money and do all these things and try to, you know, further my career. But when you're, Albert, everything is up to you at this point. He can decide where he wants to go and if he wants to do it or not. So, I mean, it does weigh in. You know, he has a family.

He's a big family type guy. So, you know his kids probably are in school out here. Like, you have to think about that. Moving your family. If he's just going to go solo, it's a lot of it comes into play to answer your question. Okay. I think L.A. was like the perfect destination for him, the Dodgers, obviously. Do you think other teams put in a bid

And because the Dodgers are sliding right now They're lower on the waiver wire And they were able to get them Like are they He went through waivers Oh he went through waivers And then he was in control I wonder how many other teams are

Reaching out Yeah because you kind of need the space I'll just say this And this was kind of my argument from the start Is that NL Benches A, they carry usually another body than AL teams. And, you know, even some of those NL central teams, like if you look at the last man on the bench,

which I think if the Dodgers get healthy, that's kind of where Albert or B, the last guy in the bench or the guy before the last guy in the bench, like, you know, you can click around some of these teams, like the Brewer's bench right now is Pablo Reyes, Billy McKinney, and Tyrone Taylor. Like, I think you guys would be surprised. If you really look at the depths of the bench, even on good teams in the National League,

a lefty mash in Albert Pujolos, throwing the arm over the shoulder some guys and getting a couple of bats, I think there was a hole for him. So I hope he shoves it, man. I hope Angel fans... Not being able to run does hurt. Angel fans just start punching dirt.

Yeah, the last thing I'll say on this is, like, people are all Angel fans. Like, get ready for him to hit a bunch of ground balls at third base, dude. And it's like, okay, he didn't like playing for the Angels. This is one of those things. It's a change of scenery type thing. He's going to go to the Dodgers and he's going to be fired up

because this team just won a World Series. They're going to be in the playoffs this year. How old is he? Like 40 zillion years old? Angels fans have every right to be upset with what Albert Fools did for them over a decade and for their ownership to be spending that much money. The dude sucks, Trev. He's like got 40 war on the Cardinals and I think eight.

on the Angels. Those aren't the exact number. It's not his fault that they gave him 10 years. No, of course he can accept the money, but Angels fans can be mad at him and can be mad at the ownership, but Angels fans have every right to be upset over the 10 years of bulls. The only thing that the ownership likes... I don't agree with that at all. I don't agree with that at all.

I think this is going to... You got to think of a guy that old needs this. As a fan, Treve, come on. Come on, dude. If you're a fan, Jim, what do you expect from a third? 38, 39, 40-year-old dude. Well, to produce? What do you expect?

I mean, he didn't have any good years, Trev. Okay, look. He wasn't the reason they didn't go to the playoffs. He's going to get energized by this, you know, going to L.A. I'm not saying he's going to be a banger again like he was in St. Louis, but, you know, for them to be like, go, get ready for all these ground balls. I hope he comes up and has some big hits for them. I'm rooting for Albert big time.

I'm not saying I'm not, but I'm an Angels fan. and that's a bad contract and a bad performance for a guy taking on that much money. They have every right to be upset. At the front office? That's the front office. I want to be mad at Pujols. He got old. He was trying.

It's not like he was lollygagging anything. The guy put everything on the line. Yeah, but I mean, that gets blinded when you're a fan because eventually you're just like get him out of here. We're better fans than that. That's what we're trying to do for the people. I feel bad for Angels fans. I mean, that's disappointing. I think that the ownership still.

loved it because they turned around and said, we got pool holes, and then they turned it into a huge TV deal, which actually they, like, made money on the contract. Yeah. The money side of it, but I'm expecting, like, one magical week or, like a one magical pinch hit home run from Poulson. And then the rest is kind of just, he's there as a Dodger. Find that lane. Bring out the lefty. Bring out Albert.

Podger's sweep. Good for them. against the cards who we're all excited about. Yeah, Kim gets his first bad start for the Cardinals. And let's see, the Padres now, they're still in second place, but they have a better record than the Cardinals now. How about that? Yeah.

Yeah, I think we'll talk about it a little bit in the AIL and kind of like we were saying, when does the season start argument to start the show. You know, little teaser, the AL East starting to look a lot better for a while. It was like all these things, what's going on with Tampa? What's going on with the ink? The cream's starting to rise a little bit.

Padres, big series for them. And Elise, God, so sloppy. Yeah, DeGrom is, he's supposed to come back today and throw like a little side session. That's a big, that's big news for the Mets fans. I don't think it's come out yet the results of that. But if he does feel okay, he's got to start against the Braves. It's a big series coming up.

Like that. That's so sloppy. The Nats are in last place and they're only three games out. I'll tell you there. We're very early into East Division in the NL. Yeah. Like that might not get settled forever. That's wild.

Last place in every other division is the Central. Pirates are only five and a half. But the NLEs three games separates last in first place. That's wild. Sloppy jalopy. Let's go to the American League. Trev, you are going to let us know what happened. I'm excited to find out on your mark.

Get set. And go! We'll start with my Twinkies. Oakland coes into Minnesota and they take two out of three. The twins tried to muster up some wins. In game two, Suno hits the go-ahead Homer. They get the win, 5, 4, and then game three, the rubber match. Simmons, two-run homer to tie in the bottom of the eighth,

and the twins make a few airs and they give up the go-ahead run on a wild pitch. Just an absolutely deflating series for them. And man, it is worrisome in Minnesota. A's take two out of three. Moving on to Boston, the Angels go and visit the Red Sox. The Sox take two out of three. They just keep winning. Jake texted me and said, our guy Buterra had two RBIs in game three,

and he muscled that ball out there right off the fist. Cool thing about this series, Otani with the go-ahead home run in the ninth inning off Barnes. What's that poll called? The pesky pole? Hits one down there to salvage the series. Angels only take one. Sox take two out of three. Moving on to Baltimore. Your guys, Yanks went in and took two out of three.

Five, four, game one, eight two, game two. And then it looked like they were going for the sweep. Gary Homer's, Clint Homer is in the first inning off. My guy Adam Plutko, the opener for the Orioles, then all the wheels fall off. Montgomery gives up some runs, and they end up losing 10-6. They take two out of three.

In Game 3, interesting stat. Every hitter for the O's in game 3 had a hit except for my good friend, Pat Fulika, who I watched Mortal Kombat at his house. I'm going to say that story every time I see his name. Let's move on. Two! The Houston Astros hosting the Rainer,

The Rangers, the Ashoes, they're on a roll right now. They're doing it. Four game sweep of the Rangers. Four, three, and 11, the first game, 10, four, six, five, and then in game four, six to two. That one was McCullors versus Gibson. Gibby, our guy, still going strong seven innings, pitch, two and runs. But McCullors matches them, go six shuddy. Dahl tied it in the seventh, but the stroves answered back for four in the eighth to win. they are on fire. Go do it. Moving on to Chicago, the Royals going in to play the White Sox. They split the series.

Two, two. Royals win the first one. Six, two, from game one of a doubleheader. Three won the White Sox win game two with Kopec on the mound. Royals take game three, five to one. And then yesterday was a banger of a game. The White Sox won it four to three. It was a controversial play at the plate to end it. Abrae, you avoided it.

to tag or does he the umpires say he did the call on the field stands interesting stat on game four 17 hits in the game only two for extra bases that seems like uh a lot they split the series two to two the white socks are still looking like a really good baseball team and to end the things off in the a l the mariners host the indians and they go and take three out of four game one the take because Pleseck almost through no hitter. They went four to two, and then it was all Mariners from there. Seven three Mariners, seven three Mariners, seven three Mariners again in game three, and then three, two Mariners, Bieber versus Dugger in game four. Beaver maybe had the worst start of the year, four and two-thirds innings pitch, only three and runs, but four walked. You just don't see it

too much. And the Mariners in that game only had one hit, only had one hit after the fourth But who cares? That's all they needed. They take three out of four and get the series win. And that is what happened in the AL. Mariners taking three out of four. How about that? Royals and White Sox splitting when the Royals were on such a bad little skid there and the White Sox looks so great. So good for the Royals split versus the White Sox. Probably a little bit of a win for them. Astros are the hottest team in baseball. They four game sweep the Rangers who are the coldest team in baseball. Astros have the biggest win streak at six.

Rangers have the biggest losing streak at six. A lot had to do with that four-game matchup. But Astros are playing good baseball right now. They're 8 and 10 in their last 10, 8 and 2 in their last 10, 18 and 12 in their last 30. They're looking pretty good. Climing on up to only half game behind the A's, and they're tied in the lost column.

So right there. Did you guys see the Abrae you slide? Yeah, I just did a whole breakdown on it. Okay. And I didn't watch the breakdown. What was your conclusion there? Safe. Good call by blue. There was one angle where it looks like he touched the jersey,

but then there was an alternate angle where... There's another angle. So I always take both broadcasts because both broadcasts have different angles, which is kind of crazy because, like, one fan base just gets kind of brainwashed by whatever they show and the other one the other broadcast has better replays. And then the MLB has their own replays as well. But there's a replay that came at the very end that shows the behind view, which is kind of what you needed because there was a blind spot on every replay they showed forever.

There's a blind spot where the glove like, well, he could have touched him right there, but we don't know. And then they finally showed one from behind to Brayu. And it's not like 100% definitive. But if I was to watch those without any knowledge of what the umpire called, I would say safe. And that's what needs to be done. I hate that the call on the field is told to the umpires in New York.

Because someone made a really good point. The umpires on the field and the umpires in New York know how these guys feel. Everyone was off the field already. Do you really want to bring the white socks back out on the field in front of their home crowd? They don't want that to happen. So, you know, the call in the field definitely had something to do with it. I wish they didn't know the call on the field. It was so funny because I made fun of it in the breakdown because the Royals coach gets on the phone.

Like, hey, should we replay this? And it's like, yeah, man, you have a challenge left. And if you don't, the game's over. Why? Like, why are you asking your replay department? Just fucking say it. But yeah, it was a cool. I mean, it's crazy ending because there was an out at the plate right before that,

Merrifield gunned down Moncada. And then it was just like a little passball wild pit. Just skirted away from the catcher, like, tiny bit. And Brayu takes off. And his celebration was wild. He partied in the dugout. Ray is the man. He also, he had the collision earlier on that series or the game before that series.

And he came back. You know, not a ton of tough guys floating around baseball these days. Now that pluffy's out of the game. But, yeah, the crowd gave him a, like, standing ovation. The fact that he came back and he was playing And then he ends up scoring on that one And yeah, I mean, that's, hey, like, let's get more cameras and angles And maybe every stadium has like the same angle

So like, you know, in the NFL you have the pylon cameras And you have the same shot So it helps make reviews easier Instead of every broadcast does their own thing Some of them have standard definition cameras Some of them, yes, crew, rolls around with really, really good cameras everywhere. So I don't know. That's next CBA.

We'll have an offseason to talk about that. We're just making public because they do have cameras at the replay room has that the broadcasts don't have in-house cameras. So they're really bad. Like Fenway, there's not a lot of camera wells. If you ever watch a game at Fenway, they just, the amount of cameras that they use is, it's significantly lower because they just don't have the room for cameras. So the coverage ability at Fenway is always much less than other stadiums. Interesting things. I like that shit because I went to broadcasting school or whatever.

But I always thought it was like, if there's a shot that you want to come from behind the third baseman at Fenway, it's really hard. They like don't have that angle that well. Like from the left field pole, if you were like, you know, behind third or the angle we kind of needed from a brayu, it's. but yeah What a camera on the monster It's get nice cameras Right now it's up to the

It's up to the Like you said A lot of the public ones Are at least up to how much they spent Like the A's replays are in like SD And One time there was a play where the A's fans thought It was this and then there's like

Well but here's the other camera Which is HD and good And it's like clear as day Not that so It's a real weird wrinkle in MLB right now that your broadcast team can win you challenges

because you have better angles. Strategy. Yeah. We talked about this on the C-Rose IG Live. You know, it's funny. He's like, who do we need in the replay booths in New York? Like, should we not have current umpires?

Should we have retired umpires? And I told him, it doesn't. You can have anyone in there. Anybody can do that job. Every team's replay guy is just like a guy. It's not like somebody that's like studied video analysis or anything. It's just the normal guy who they pegged to be

the replay guy this year. I think the Dodgers is the chop. Just some like ex-college player or something like that. It's interesting, man. It really is. The Astros, Jim, you mentioned how they are looking hot, hot, hot. I like

the Fangraph's power rankings. I referenced them a couple times on the program. If you want to go check them out, they're right there on the Fangraph's roster resource page. It says over the season, the Astros have seven guys in their lineup who are top 81 baseball players. Obviously, a weird number to fit one more guy in, but that's fine. Over the last seven days, over the last week, they have five guys who are top 36 hitters in baseball.

So, I mean, that offense is clicking. And, man, you know, every night they get an effort from a pitcher that's, going to give them a chance and that's that's a good formula yeah when you watch them you're like i just feel like they're a team that's always like they're just not they don't slump and they just don't go into these big ruts like they just every night you're like this team could beat anybody and i don't think you can say that about every team in the big leagues i mean you can say that about maybe three or four other teams well hitting hit hitting's been so down across baseball that i feel like every team has their three guys that it's like, hey, let's get a runner or two on,

and, you know, this is our chance. And then you look at a lot of bottom of the lineups and you see a lot of interstate batting averages. These Astros, man, I mean, they've got two cores. I mean, Altuve, Brantley, Bregman, and then you go Alvarez, Gareel-Currella Tucker. Like, they, that's a tough lineup to navigate three, four times. Altuve, Tucker, Bregman, Alvarez, and Maldonado. Aldi.

Well, let's throw a guerrilla in there as well. I mean, well, no, Maldonado, the lowest OBP in the last 12 games is 371. Like you're saying, it's not just three guys that are hot. Like, they got a lot. It's a team. It's not even counting. Well, Correa's been struggling a little bit. But, yeah, they've been looking really good. It's a good job by them.

And then we don't even talk about the A's. The A's are better than them. We'll see, Trev, because right now they're tied in the loss column and they play each other. a three-game set in Oakland. So the standings may be flipping very soon. If you're the Astros fan, this is your chance right here. They've owned the A's, too, right? Or if you're the A's, the other side of this,

you got slapped to start this year. You got slapped in the playoffs. You know, if you want to celebrate, you got hot, you got out of that rut. Like, hey, this is your chance. Three at home with you. They've traded series. So it was a four-game sweep, and then the A's won the second series. but only two out of three.

So it's a fun series coming up. I don't know what the probabilities are. I'm interested in that, so I'm going to Google it. Google it, Google it. But yeah. And that's going to be a really fun one to watch. I agree. It looks like we got Javier versus Menea,

Granky versus Montes, and Luis Garcia versus Cole Irvin. Swervin. Swervin's been doing it too, my guy. I think he has, I went on his baseball, savant page and he is dead last for spin on his fastball

like he has a zero on his page I believe I just love that I love like the counter you know like I think we talked about this last time he put out a an article about how teams are going to start bunting and stealing

bases again because it's it's now started to add runs because of the percentage the teams have been successful at these things So it's like they went so far the other way that now it's advantageous to do regular baseball again. And I think that's hilarious. Regular. Go swerving.

Baseball. The White Sox are the real deal still. If you look at like, I love looking at the baseball reference page that breaks down the standings, White Sox have like a winning record in every category. They have a winning record at home, a winning record on the road, a winning record in one-run games, a winning record versus right-hand pitchers versus left-hand pitchers versus teams over. 500 versus teams under 500 last 10 last 20 last 30 the only thing they have a they're oh and three in extra inning games and that's and they're according to the pythagrum theorem they're

unlucky their record should actually be 26 and 13 not 24 and 15 so they're when you look at all that stuff they're like the one team that's like oh they're the real deal right now I don't know. Yeah, they are the real deal. Red Sox stay in first place. They beat the Angels. Fun series. A lot of weird stuff happening there.

So close to the sweep. Show hey. Two outs. Trout single. Otani. Poles one. It was a monster. I haven't looked up the analytics because, I mean, it goes around pesky

pole. He did catch it clean, but it's one of those, like, how many stadiums would that have gone foul at stadiums with deeper right fields? I don't know. That's the beauty of the old pesky pole there. Yeah, his arm is really that big.

Like that picture was circulating around Twitter. Slulhei? Standing there going to interview. He looks huge. I did not see that. I'm interested in it. I think you should just Google like Shohay Swole arms. So the expected batting average on that home run, Jake, was 160.

He got it. The exit villa was 96.6. launch angle was 36, which is higher than you want. It's gone at Fenway and Yankee Stadium. Yeah, I wonder, you can do the overlay. I had to go to a different website. But, yes, Fenway reared its head. They got a monster shot double from Dahlback and then a pesky home run.

But I sent you guys, Cole Irvin's baseball savant page if you want to go check out. It's actually really fun. I think that means the Rockies got to go get him. I think when we got into those nerdy Rockies analytics, I think you want your fastball that doesn't spin. There it is. Curve spin fastball's in one and six. Don't need it.

He doesn't need it, man. He's swerving, baby. Anytho strikes. So it's all about Mariners feeling good. Kalnick. Yeah. Call up Gilbert, the other kid. And they win the final three games of that set.

Good for them. According to this, that Otani home run would have been out at a lot of stadiums. That's what I was trying to say was weird about it. I mean, he got Goodwood. It was high. But for me, it was the fair element of it because it was turning. But, yeah, I mean, this makes it look like it was gone almost anywhere. I haven't found a stadium that it would not have been a home run out.

How far did they say it went? 372 feet. Yeah, that's... Really? Did you see his home run over the monster? The dude's a freak. I thought that was going to be a flare to short, and it's over the monster.

I don't understand his swing. I've said that many of times. Yeah, that Otani home run, it looked like a pesky pole shot, but according to baseball savant, I literally just overlaid every single stadium, and it's out at any stadium. I mean, nothing is 3.709 down the line, yeah.

Nothing's doing that, yeah. That's pretty cool. It was cool. I did, like, what was it, Baltimore? It's like a bomb. Yeah, I mean, Baltimore, that gets you a plaque. Yeah. It's crazy.

Oh, man. All right, you guys want to hear what happened in the Interleague? I need it. I need it. Here we go. Good job, A's twins. You're dying. Yeah, not worth talking about the twins there.

Interleague play in the Mets and the Rays. The Rays swept the Mets. How about that? Glass now had a really good game. Eight innings pitch. Two earn runs, 10 K's. The Mets got a good. start from Peterson, a bad start from Stroman, and then Lou Casey in the middle game.

They tried to give him an opener to ease into it. Did not work. He got slapped around pretty hard. The Ray's batters had 16 extra base hits in the series. 16. Mets had six. Five of them were home runs, though. Conforto and McNeil both go on the IL with hamstring injuries, so that's no fun at all.

The Cubs and the Tigers matched up for three games. The Cubs took two out of the three. Hendrix and Arieta both had good starts for the Cubs. Boyd and Scoobal. Both go six innings pitch, four earned runs for the Tigers. Five Cubs played all three games. The five main guys. Those five had a slash line of a 333 batting average of 3.47 on base percentage.

Pretty good. Tigers starting pitchers, not good. relievers decent. The Phillies and the Blue Jays, they split the first two games, then the Blue Jays beat the Phillies in the rubber match to take the series. The Phillies bullpen did really well in game one. The Blue Jays bullpen did really well in game two. In game three, both bullpen sucked. BPD's infield goes 17 for 48.

That's a 354 batting average with five doubles, a triple, and two hundred, Homers. Chase Anderson had a horrible start in game three for the Phillies. Segora and Gerardi got into it in the dugout. Then Gerardy said, don't ask me about it. Gurriel Jr. and Guerrero Jr., the G. Juniors combined for 11 hits, six runs, and five RBIs. And Flattie had three home runs. Because he's very good. And that's all that happened.

Three interleague series this weekend. Big series for BBD. Big, big series. The Mets stay in first place, even though they got swept, mostly because they have not played that many games. So the lost column looks really good for them. Blue Jays, their game and a half behind the Red Sox in the East. And let's see to the Cubbies, they stayed in fourth place and do nothing.

I want to talk about my AL East. I know I'm normally an NL West guy, but I'll try to talk some AL East a little bit. Sox, keep rolling. They got the good energy. The bats are going. Most hits in April. Most hits in May so far.

Got that stat from Coach Ballgame. The Blue Jays, they're doing it. The Yankees, they've gotten hot. They've been one of the best teams in baseball over the last month. The Rays with a big sweep, they needed that. Their hitting was dead. It looks like some of their guys are coming back to life. And, yeah, I think it's, it's,

just funny. I mean, you've got, you look at the AL East right now and it's like, oh boy, if the Blue Jays keep doing this, you know, we've talked about the NL East slog. This AL East might become a slog when these teams start playing each other a lot because the Yankees haven't even played the Red Sox yet. I know I did my dumb old guy impression before, yelling at the cloud. Yankees and Red Sox haven't played an odd game yet. They got what, 19 coming up? Uh, Jay's, Rays, as the Jays, Vladito's looking like an MVP candidate, George Springer trying to come back for them, the Ray's figuring it out. I mean, the ALE East is going to be a bloodbath.

I like all four of those teams a lot. Red Sox in their last 30, 16 and 14, Yankees, 17, and 13, Ray's and Jays, both 18 and 12. So, yeah, last 30 days for those four teams have all been winning. I think they all have winning records in the last 20 as well. And in the last 10. How about that? How about it?

The Phillies are hanging in there too. I'm excited about that. I saw Archie Bradley was in his rehab and in Lehigh Valley. He's with the Iron Pig. So they get a little bit of bullpen help back there. BPD. Okay. Got to go to you here.

Okay. you love Girardi I do obviously you love the Phillies in field I need to hear your take on the Gene Seguera

Joe Girardi fiasco we're handling this in-house no no no we need it we need the real take here It's a team Trevor Whose side are you on? Let them handle it

Trevor we we aren't discussing it further publicly You saw what you're going to see from that I don't know how I feel about the answer I go back and forth about like keeping things in house like that Like clearly there was something and reporters are going to ask about it Like Gerardy knew they were going to ask about everybody knew they were going to ask about it

Especially in a town like Philadelphia You guys like the way he handled it? Love it. Love it. Really wish Boone would do this. Really wish Boone would Does he not? No, Boone doesn't say a bad thing ever like I just said so I didn't watch much baseball this weekend I was visiting college friends and stuff.

I, um, sex. Was the Girardi comments in a post game thing? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, Seguer made a weird play. And then he's made a couple weird plays.

And Joe got on him in the dugout right away. I don't think it was anything crazy. And then Segarer wanted to yell back because he's in the moment. He's got to be held back. And then they ask him about it. And Joe says that's in-house. I'm not going to talk about it. Maybe he's because I listened and watched Gerardi for 10 years.

Maybe it's because, boom. hasn't yelled at a player and the Yankees have been making brain dead plays all season and then he has their back. I would much rather the Gerardi route if I was a player on the team. I was a guy, I asked our coach to yell at us more. I was like, you don't discipline us. We play bad and you just don't care at all. Like, can you yell at us?

And then he asked the team, he's like, do you guys want me to get on you when you're bad? And every single player raised their hand and said, yes, we'd like to be held accountable. So I love it. I like that Gerardy made it like somewhat public that, hey, we don't stand for that. You cannot just be botching routine plays. And then I like that he wouldn't take it outside the clubhouse and said, no. Like, yeah, I'm going to yell at my guys if I think they need to be yelled out,

but I am not going to share that information with you. I love it. This is exactly how I think, like, managing and accountability should be played out. I don't mind that the Mets made up a fabricated story to keep theirs in-house. It's a different way to go about it. but man, I mean, Judge botched a play, and it cost the game. And Boone's quote afterwards was really good play by Judgey to stay with it. Because after botching the ball, he ran to the warning track and picked it up and threw it in.

And, I mean, I was as infuriated as I've been. Like, I love it. I think there's a difference, you know, if you're a manager and you see a guy and make a physical error, you don't need to yell at the guy. They're all trying. But I think that's the difference here. I think Seguera, I mean, and someone can correct me if I'm wrong. He did have a bunch of physical errors in this series.

And there has to be some sort of lackstadaisicalness about the way he's approaching the game. Because he's a guy that deserves respect. He's been around the game for a long time. So there must be some sort of he's not going out for early work. He's dogging. We saw him throw the glove at the ball. Because if I'm a player and I make an error and it's just like, literally, I just messed up. It's going to happen.

And my manager blows me up. going to be pissed by manager. But if I'm a player and I've been fucking around and not taking things seriously, then I'm okay with my manager blowing me up. So I think that I don't think Gerardi is a guy that's just going to blow you up for making a physical error. I think it probably had something to do with Gene Dogget in it at some point, whether it's pregame or during the game.

And Trev, that's, I mean, you're starting to show your colors, man. You said, you know, you want to hear about this. That's because you're a media man now. Trevor Plouf was in that dugout. He said, no, we're handling this as a team. It's not a big deal. Coach yelled at Gene. I really don't have an opinion either way on this, to be honest with you.

I'm just curious what you guys thought. No, I, man, we don't know, and that's probably a good thing. Like you're saying, it's, you know, Seguera, maybe it was throwing the glove, or maybe after he threw the glove, he says, ah, come on, Skip, don't worry about it. And then he makes another one, and Skip says, hey, hey, Gene, I'm worried about it. So, no, man, that's the dream for your team. You either want, you either want full exposure. You want the fight in the dugout and you want the Johnboy breakdown reading lips.

Or you say, okay, yeah, there's a little bit of a beef. There's a rat raccoon. And, you know, we're going to figure it out. Don't worry about us. I like, I like that. Ooh, someone's there driving me something. I like that cigar fought back a little bit. I like that the media member kept pressing Joe.

and I like that Joe held strong. Like I have no one doing anything wrong in this situation. I think your guy asking the manager after the game, yeah, ask and then do a follow-up, then do another follow-up because maybe you're going to get some info. That's your job. I like Joe holding strong and saying, nope, I'm not talking about it. And then I don't get all.

Someone in the chat did say that, and I remember reading this now, that Seguer didn't go to the mounds, when there was a visit. Every other infielder went to the mound and he did it. What does that mean? I mean, I have no idea. Is that something?

Is that he dodging Joe? What do you think, Trev? Is that weird? If you saw that? It is weird. It kind of depends on when it's happening. Like, if it's just like in a regular game and there hasn't been any errors or anything like that and like maybe he's just out there stretching or thinking or something,

it could be okay. But I think clearly this was him being like, I don't. I don't know. There's one word that's my mind. I'm trying to find another word. The B-Hurt, B-U-T-T-T-Hurt. But hurt? Yeah.

Stubborn. Yeah, I think that's what it was. Yeah, it was a weird situation, man. Because once you do blow a guy up in the dugout, like it's not in house. It didn't look like he really blew him up that much either. It looked like he just said like. Well, Seguer got mad for something. Yeah, but we don't have a shot of Joe, so who knows.

Yeah. But Sear-King-in-bad, that's part of them. Those words, those words. I mean, in Sigura's mind, he made a few mistakes, but he's also, like, statistically having, like, one of his best seasons right now. It's tough for me. It's tough for me to acknowledge that, because I don't know. That's not me tricking you.

Like, it's, like, statistically one of his, either's first or second best season, if you look at the baseball reference. I should have just been a flow. I'm sorry. I don't know why I tried to dance around the word. But-her. It's a good word. You never know.

Oh, but-hurt. All of us have been but-hurt. I didn't know that word until I moved to Northern California I think it's gotten more mainstream now I think it picked up I think it came through probably around that time too I'm a little scared of a lot of words I think that word could get you in trouble nowadays

I don't know I think so it's hella butt hurt I don't know I think it's like you know you fall on your butt and get hurt and then you walk around a little mopey like oh

I can't believe I just fell and hurt my butt that's a good butt hurt voice right right? live butt hurt I like that you're talking about it A fall Yeah Comes from spanking

You know You get in trouble You get spanked And then your butt hurt That's your opinion I grew up with a different butt hurt No that's where it comes from That's the origin of the word

Yeah It's the etymology of it Where I grew up It was if you fell on your butt They're hurt Let's go to the awards Anything else on the American League Interleague

Standings team stuff at all I think we got it. Teams do we miss. Padre's fans in the chat. Upset, we didn't talk about them, but Padres fans and Mets fans are the most upset fan bases ever. Slept the Cardinals, we were stoked for you. Don't ruin it.

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Standout performance. Jake, you get to go first. Who, who. Told you, it's a big AL East show for me today. Normally an NL West guy. I'm going with Aaron Judge. 6-7-282. hunk a man

Had a two-home or day the other day Not a big deal and that's fine Leading the American League in home runs Trevor Plouf A guy that we had on Slump Watch A couple weeks bag He's striking out

Bapadoo bidda-da-de-dee Guess what he's doing on the year 298 batting average For a 6-7 guy, that's pretty good 399 on base We're going over 400 soon A 1 dot O-O-9 OPS.

The judge, man, he was off to, I'll say an inauspicious, I don't think that's a word start, where he was kind of, he was doing his thing. He was around, the stats were kind of a tier below what Aaron Judge's career stats have been. And lately he's just been going straight hamburger, depending how you want to cut him up. In his past six games, five of them are multi-hit.

that's good. He's got four homers in the last three games, three straight games with a homer. And if you want to stretch it out, my guy's been going for a little bit now. The last 17 games, 356, 433 on base, a 1.229 OPS. The big fella is ranking. He's reminding people as long as he's healthy and in the lineup, he can bang with the best of them in this sport. And it's been good to see, man.

Because, you know, weird year last year and everything else going on. And, you know, the Yankees, they had some COVID-slash-vaccine stuff. And then he was kind of limping around. And you're like, what's going on? Judgy looks back. And when he's right, man, it's, you know, we talked about how the ball comes off Otani's bat differently and all that stuff. judgey he makes the sport look different because you don't see a lot of guys his size doing it so big aaron judge very nice b a j trev who's your standout oh man look i love watching this guy pitch

and i can't deny it any longer i'm going with trevor power up against the marlin seven to innings pitch, 10 K's, two hits. And what I like about watching him pitch is he makes dudes take absolutely silly swings. And I posed this question to a group of pitchers in the show. I said, does Bauer have the best feel for his pitches in the game? And the reason I say that is that he approaches his pitching with an engineering-type mentality, like he's broken them all down. He's studied them every single one.

And he's learned, he's just learned what his pitches do, what he can make them do. And you can tell that he has the confidence to move them around the zone, speed them up, slow them down because his sequencing right now is incredible. Like he can get guys, that front door,

that front hip two seamer that he's going to lefties right now, it's so hard to throw that pitch that's why you don't see a lot of guys throw it and he's mastered it and he's able to throw his secondary pitches off that fastball so well you see this guy just absolutely dominate hitters

and people were talking last year oh it's a Mickey Mouse Cy Young he only started 11 games in it well he started nine again this year so that's 20 starts and he's been arguably even better this year in some regards. He was that good last year that he won the Saoyang.

He's leading the league in strikeouts and innings pitched. What else do you need the guy to do? He's been one of the best pitchers in the big leagues. At some points, he's been absolutely unhittable. And against the Marlins this weekend, that was the case. He was unhitted. He led the league last year in Homer's not per nine. He's right now averaging less than that.

He also, I did a breakdown on some of the, of the ejections in that game, Treve and I left in Bauer using that front hip two seamer to a lefty because it's just so nasty and he threw the slider beforehand, like backfoot slider to make that lefty feel uncomfortable on the inside and then made use of that uncomfortable by throwing the front hip two seamer in the combo there, back them up and then bust him in. It's like not fair. The two seamer right now is incredible. So Trev, it is easy for us to sit on our couch and say, why don't more guys throw that? But correct me if I'm wrong.

But hey, you leave that out a little bit? That's a two seamer over the middle. Guys hunting fastballs, that's a problem. And if you're a little too far in, you're hitting a batter and you're a wild pitcher, and it's a bad time. So that's why more guys don't do it. And yeah, he loves his stuff. He sets him up.

He feels so comfy. I think the only guy that maybe gives him a battle would be Beaver. But Beaver's more of everything's just on the same plane. you'll see guys take fastball over the dick, and you're like, what? It's like, well, they were sitting nasty curve. Yeah, I don't see a pitcher in the big leagues getting more swings on pitches that go like 50 feet. Like, he gets guys to swing at pitches that aren't even freaking close. And, you know, when you're on the mound,

then, like, obviously you haven't pitched in a long time, but I remember this. When you're trying to go inside front hip on a lefty, the visual is just so hard. How can you pick up that point and say, I need to start it literally hitting the guy and run it back. It's a weird mental thing to do. But like I said, he's just deconstructed his pitches so well and he just understands him probably better than anybody in the big leagues right now

that he's able to do that. And for me, like I said before, and Jim, you alluded to it too. It's just the sequencing of pitching, setting guys up to throw the next pitch. And guys know it's coming too. They know that he's going to set them up because he wants to kay them. and it's just, I mean, he had guys slamming their bat, at bat after a bat after a bat, and that he know, you know he loves that show.

He had a 54 whiff percentage on his slider. I remember there was one like Garrett Cooper swung out, like a 50-foot bouncer like you're saying. Yeah, people love to hate the guy and like, look, we understand there's, maybe he gives them a reason to sometimes, especially if you're not a fan of the Dodgers, but if you just objectively look at him pitch, he's it's incredible to watch well earned my standout is Jared Kelnick made his debut this weekend he went 0 for four in his first game a lot of nerves a lot of jitters next game the nerves are gone he goes three for four he actually struck out in his first at bat so now he's 0 for five two strikeouts he's saying this isn't what i want to do next at bat homers third at bat in this game two doubles fourth

that bat in game two doubles. Final line in his second ever game is three for four with a homer and two doubles and three RBIs. It's a guy with a lot of hype, a lot of talk about him. And I think the next couple games weren't great. So we're just doing this one game, standout performance. Good job by him. Jared Kelnick. It's cool seeing the excitement, man.

Cool seeing the baseball world excited for him for a Mariners prospect. That's fun. Yeah, and the Mariners win. series so they're just having fun they're having good time tref's mariners another family in the stands the reactions are great gotta love all that

all right tromp watch Trevor's favorite segment Trevor's favorite segment he loves this he submits so many players to the slump watch that we're like tref chill out baby we need fewer who are our options to be added

yeah so a reminder for everybody we We were still watching Eduardo Escobar, Mike Trout, Joey Gallo and Paul DeYoung. Potential ads. My guy, J.T. Real Moodo. He just came off COVID stuff.

He goes 0 for 7 since coming back. Nick Madrigal is in an 0 for 14 slide. 2Ks, no walks in that period. Nate Lowe, look at his numbers on the ear. He's having a good year. Not lately. One for 14, three walks and a sack fly in there. So that's trying his best.

Seth Brown, similar boat, having a good year. Not lately. One for nine. Three walks, though. Jesse Winker is 2 for 16 this weekend. It's a 125 average. I got to walk in there.

And I hesitate to even put him as an option because he just got off. But Lindor does go 1 for 12 on the weekend. The one's a homer, but should be mentioned, a 1 for 12 weekend. I, okay, so real moot, I don't care about. 0 for 7, two games after coming out of the COVID. He just got back. Yeah, so I mean, that's, I'm not worried about that at all. I think he'll be fine. He had a pretty good game against the Braves,

and the Nats and Covitz. Ramuda, I take him off. He'll save him. Yeah, he's not getting added. Jimmy's Madrigal, though. I think he is getting added. Yeah, I think so. I mean, no walks.

This is a guy who needs to hit. Otherwise, he doesn't bring anything else to the table. And we have spots to fill. And it was, you know, four games. for him. So it was one for 14 in the four games with no walks. They took him fourth overall. Supposed to be an 80 contact tool kind of guy. Holy.

Did Tony the Russo draft him? What's going on with that? He's 5-8-175 with his only skill being contact and we're drafting fourth overall. He used to be taller. Shrunk. Yeah, he's an interesting player. I don't know if I ever made the video But I did a super deep dive on him at one point

Because I think he got an award on this show Yeah Yeah I feel bad But you know He's got to hit like 330 Otherwise he's not worthwhile

And even then if he hits 330 He doesn't slug He's yet to hit a Homer in the show No and all of his doubles All of his doubles are singles That he turns into doubles Like he does I went through it at one point

He had like maybe one like over the out fielder's head drove it. So, yeah, either he's got to develop some power, and he's 24, or he's going to be a bench player, Util and Fielder. I think we're going to see him slapping it around, hitting in the 300s for the next decade or so. Yeah, you said that about Ronald Torres, too, though. I didn't say that about Ronald Torres.

Were they expecting a Jose Altuve type? Maybe that's kind of the comp they wanted, or because defensively, I'm looking, I don't think he's a bangor defensively either, so. No, I mean, he's supposed to have a special hit tool. I mean, the... Doesn't steal base is either. I think there's like a joke on the White Sox that they call him Mr. 3,000 because he's...

They think he's going to get 3,000. He said that. He said he wants to get 3,000 hits. Yeah, that's my... I don't mean to be mean to this guy, but I just... Feed Jimmy. Jimmy likes it. I'm good with him being a major leaguer, but fourth overall pick? I need to go back to that draft.

I'm going right now. He just said in the bar. It's just a hard thing for him to do because if he's not getting, you know, four hits on every three games, he's not bringing anything to the table. Oh my God. Jared Kellanek was picked two spots after him. Minor league. And people are saying he's Grady Seismore reincarnated.

Madrigal's minor league numbers that might interest you, 51 walks, 21 strikeouts. over a lot, like a lot of at-bats. He doesn't strike out. He's the 100th percentile and whiff percentage and K-percent. But if he doesn't get hits, I mean, you know, there's a lot of guys. I am rooting for him, I guess, to develop some power. Because he needs to.

He's not going to be a 10-year starter if he doesn't. He's got to be able to hit the ball over the out-fieler's head. You got to. there's a lot of really good players that I'm looking at that have already debuted from that draft. His savant numbers and stuff, it's like comfortably above average sprint speed and defense stuff, but not like special special.

It's like, hit tool is the thing. Let's put Lindor right back on there. Yes. Absolutely. Yes. I mean, because so, I mean, he came off with one good series, right?

Basically. Yeah. So the people that were on. that are coming off. Joey Gallo is coming off. He went four for 13 with the homer. So he's off slump watch. Good job by him. Job Joey. Paul DeYoung is coming off because he went to the IL. Did not play. So it's one way to do it. Eduardo Escobar, he went four for 12 with two home runs. And he pitched.

Eight RBIs. He had a seven RBI game. No, he didn't pitch. David Carralza. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. Eddie Escobar, he's flame to shame. Shame to flame guy. You know who's staying on Trev? who Mike Trout is staying on I dig that is in his last six games he's one for 19 we're coming up against maybe his biggest

worst 10 game stretch of his career what's his overall stat line right now it's still amazing he's Mike Trout 333 4662 1 dot OPS but I think he was still over 400 like a week ago it's coming down Yeah

Yeah No he'll stay on slump watch Yeah So Lynn door's there You guys want to add Winker He's been having a great season And that's a bad weekend for him I'm interested yeah

We've been on the Winker train Is Magical not going just because No no he's going for sure Because he needs to hit He can't go over 14 We're watching if he doesn't come off It's because he can't play Mike Trout's last six

one for 19. I'm telling the sport gets everyone. You just town criered me. The sport gets everyone. Yeah, I wanted people to hear it. Nate Lowe? Lowe. I think he's a low.

Ooh, someone called him Mike Tadpole. Come on. Come on. Just the past two weeks. I don't think Tadpoles grow into trouts, but I think they're, they grow into frogs. Here we go.

We care about Nate Love. He kind of is having a nice year Yeah, he is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, everything dropped. His batting average dropped 20 percentage from these four games. 289 to 289 to 269. Put him on there. Yeah, let's put him on.

Okay, so that's our list. I don't care about Seth Brown. Sorry, Seth Brown. Sorry, A's fans. Seth Brown had been doing a lot of nice things for you guys. Yeah, but it's a catcher. They're allowed to slump. But he just got one-upped.

Magigal, Winker, Trout, Lindor, Lowe. That's our slump watch. I like it. Seth Brown's on a catcher. B.BD said that. He tricked me. Sorry. Who's the catcher? Prior to and trick.

Sean Murphy. Which guy? Oh, well, I thought of a Sean. Yeah. Sean, normal last name. Where's Seth Brown play? He's an outfielder. Next up.

Oh, what happened here? Lump it. Dirk nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. All right. Slump Watch is over. Fuego is here, and these are some guys, if you are doing daily fantasy sports, if you're streaming

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Big Aaron Judge made the list. Chopped through some of those stats before you guys heard about him. But for Home or Series and what he's been doing for coming up on a month now, not too bad. Jonathan Daza on my Colorado Rockies. Get hot, kid. A little 10 for 17. That's a good feeling, Trev. I know you feel that one.

Yonidaaza? Oh, Enidaza. Nolan Aeronado. Oh. Oh, how about him on the Cardinals? Six for 12, three homers. How about his cousin, Josh Fuentes, also on the list. The Lindas wants you to open the door.

Nine for 18, Homer, couple doubles. How's 10 ribby steaks, Billy Ripkin? Reese Hoskins, Philly's Infield. Pretty a swing, according to Trevor Plouffe. A little five for 10, couple extra bags. Jan Goams. He had a big day at the office. I think he had a five for six.

So we're parlaying that into Enfuego, take that and rewind it back. Adam Frazier, putting it together for those pirates. I think him and Brian Reynolds, again, the pirates guys, you want to be doing it. I think are doing it, a little eight for 18 trips, dubs. And then there's another guy who's been really hot who's about to get my award. So I don't know if I should give it away. Yeah, pocket it. I'll pocket it.

It's being pocketed. I'll pocket it. Those are your hottest hitters. The guy you all want to hear about. can I say Josh Fuentes Nolan's cousin I saw like a little thing

that he was doing for the Rockies he's hot like a hot boy like kind of a cool like attitude and so I know that the mansplained girls got mad at me

that I said Nolan like wasn't hot turns out his cousin's hotter so I need to have a talk with them and Josh Fuentes might be moving up that list

that we will have another one coming out mid-season. That's tough, man. Big Josh Fuentes guy. I mean, there's a side-by-side picture of them, and I mean, they look like pretty similar, and I know you were just on a firm, like, Nolan, not hot thing. The attitude. As I know Nolan's kind of, like, from what I've heard,

I don't know Nolan personally. I've heard he's kind of squareish. It's wired. And Fuentes is a little bit more chill, cool guy, better vibes for me. I'm a vibe guy. Big time vibe guy. There you go.

Awor. Yanni Dazza, like, the best week ever. It goes past this series. 600 batting average in the last seven games. 10 for 17. Hey, smash that like button, 1,000 people. 1100 people watching. 186 likes.

Smash that game for us. Please. Jake, what's the award that you pocketed? I am giving out the Jeff Goldblum's Glasses Award. Prestige Prestige Prestige It's going to

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Man Homers in three straight games Again he was listed on Enfuego before I picked him for the award Five for 11, three homers There's an eye test That comes in sports

And we all do it It's kind of the beauty of sports Like we could chop up these stats all day and say, yeah, but I kind of like that guy, or I kind of like his swing on this, or, you know, he's good against this. Vladdy, Jimmy brought a picture of Jeff Goldblum's glasses. It's not those ones, but it's good.

A, Jeff Goldblum's so hot right now. Vlad Guerrero Jr. He's currently got 11 homers. That's one behind the AL lead. How about this? 319, a 440 on base, a 1.040.4. 9. OPS. Okay, now Jimmy's looking at nude pictures of Jeff Goldblum on the beach.

And now I'm looking at naked pictures of Jeff Goldblum. Do they have sex? Yeah. It looks like we're now watching Jeff Goldblum have sex on the beach. So Vlad makes me feel like I'm having sex on the beach. That's not a very big weaner. I did my preseason bet on Vlad not hitting. the over on 28 and a half homers. That will be shattered pretty soon.

And he looks awesome. He's hitting it out every direction. Like, we're looking at a top five MVP, Vladdy, this year. You really took the under on Vladdy's coach? Yeah, man, because I think what makes him special is his contact tool. And he lost all the weight. So I thought Vladdy was going to slap it around and hit 3.30 this year and probably win an AL batting title right next to Nick Madrigal.

But instead, Vladdy might just go out and grab himself some other hardware because the power swing looks beautiful right now. And I said this when I made the bet so you guys can check it. Man, part of the reason I was fine taking the under was that if he went over, that mean Vladito was here. Boy, is he here. He looks awesome. Gladie Jr.

The Jeff Goldblum Glasses Award. How did that tie in again? So a couple things I got thrown away by the nudity. I hadn't seen those before. That was nice. You never seen those? No, I've never seen those before. I hadn't seen those either.

Oh, those are famous. You guys looked at up. They just went naked, had sex on the beach, knowing the paparazzi was there because he didn't give a shit. Yeah. And then he's walking away, just still boned up. Yeah. That post-sex bone.

I was referencing the Jurassic Park where the guy takes off his glasses. That wasn't Jeff Goldblum, but I'm glad I got to see Jeff Goldblum naked. So it's win, win, win, win. Good stuff all around. Oh, that's the other guy. Yeah, when he first season, he's like, oh, ha. So that's what I was going for.

I guess I'm doing Jeff Goldblum when he sees the giant poop for the first time, but I just got to see him naked. Trev, what's your award? What the fuck is going on? I love you, Jake. Mine is the hero we need. award and yes we have not talked about the castiano's video yet uh kyle i think from john boy media social put a great um clip together so a lot of you're

robo tref i told you you got to do the midway plug-unplug you want to give your award jim we'll circle back on trev yeah sure uh my award is the joan jane Award. Yeah. The Joan Jet Award. Want to know who goes to? I love Joan Jet. You do?

What's your favorite Joan Jet song? Then I know where we go. St. South, says, I don't think that's, that's not Joan Jet. Um,

no, I don't know. Who's it going to? It goes to Maddie Machado. Okay. Joan Jet. I don't give a damn about my reputation. Ooh.

Living in the past is the new generation. Uh, yeah, Machado. The play yesterday on Sunday night baseball, obviously his reputation makes everyone think it's dirty. I saw that play in Blink and I. I think it's a pretty normal baseball play. Tries to avoid the tag, sliding under the tag, ends up taking out his feet. Coincidental, accidental, but I guess you guys told me people are hot and bothered about this. I didn't know that.

And then Trev and I, Trev had the same award that I had. to steal it from them unbeknownst to me. I had to pivot last second. I figured we'd talk about Machado. I didn't realize people were on the street saying it was dirty. I watched it in live time. I didn't think it was anything close to a dirty play. It was interesting. So I don't know. Do you guys have anything on this? I really don't have anything on it. I just knew that people wanted to hear us talk about it. And Treve and I had the same award. Robo Treve. Treve, we want to give it a shot? In my back. I think you're back. Yeah. That pissed me off. I'm sorry I threw my equipment. I got

really upset right there. I wearing these headphones to try to figure it out. I don't know why you didn't do the unplug, re-plug half way through. Because it's the mic. It's nothing to do with the headphones. Well, I can only record for an hour on this thing. Like, what kind of mic do I got here? It's on the mic. It's the whole setup. It's a whole riga-rig. I just got to unplug. Okay. Wednesday or tomorrow, whenever we record. Yeah. Unplug replay.

So Trev, your baseball player, you played. I didn't, I saw that play and thought it was pretty benign. What are your thoughts on that Machado slide play. I thought that it was totally fine. And if it wasn't Manny Machado, there wouldn't be much uproar about it. And, you know, it's just one of those things. Look, you're taught to not get tagged out and allow a double play. And there are different ways to go about it. Some guys retreat and go back to the bag and make him throw to first. But when you do that, you open yourself up to the double play because you throw to first, then you get in a rundown, you're probably going to be out. Other people

just drop down suddenly, but that's not easy to do. When you're running the bases, I mean, you don't practice this type of stuff. It's just kind of like an instinct thing. I thought he was trying to avoid the tag. And Edmund, I think it was Edmund at second base, you know, he got hit, made it kind of like look worse than it was. So a lot of people were freaking going crazy about it. And I just don't agree with it. I think that there, he was just playing baseball. Same. All right. He's got that bad reputation. It's the reputation. And, you know, a young, a young Mani Machado got himself into a lot of junk. I mean, I remember we used to go into Orioles series,

and Jimmer would tap me and be like, kind of like, let's see what Mani's going to do this time. He was. He was a punk. He was a kid. As a punk gets from like 19 to 21 years old of playing baseball. And that's which, if you make the show at 1920, that's the formula makes sense. But yeah, and I guess that's why there's some feedback. I looked at a couple articles on this.

And one of them is titled, like, how could anyone be mad about this? So if you get that side of the spectrum. And then another article that seemed to be more spaced out on it, A, they linked the John Boy Media video clip in the article, so I like that. Great job, Kyle. And then, yeah, you know, they showed, they said, like, the other side of this is, you know, a young manny Machado was once mad that Josh Donaldson tagged him too hard. So when you do put all that in the bucket, I see where-

threw his bat at him. I see where... Yes, he did those bad at them. When you do put all of that in the pot, you say like, oh, you kind of point the finger back. But no, I think any of the baseball minds that got involved said that was not a dirty play. He was trying to evolve it. Tough night for the cards infielders last night.

Moroff got popped by Carlson. He caught him with the left hook. Machado came in low on Tommy Edmund. He's going to be a sock, huh? But yeah, I'm fine with it. did um you talk about no no what you're saved yeah what's your award yeah your award trab

i think everyone already saw it but i'm just i want to hear you guys your opinion on it um i do have a question at the end but yeah it was the castianos the hero we need award we all know that he got suspended earlier in the year for flexing over a pitcher at home plate which i think everybody's in agreeance on that was just absolutely ridiculous so you know he's not exactly happy with you know the face of that other side. Rob Manfred, our commissioner. Well, not our commissioner.

Baseball's commissioner. I think, Jimmy, are you our commissioner? I think we've all got commissioner shirts out there. Maybe D, maybe. I don't want to be commissioner. If you didn't see it, Castellanos hits a home run, and when he comes back around the plate, fist bumps a guy in the front row that's wearing a Reds jersey. After the game, they're interviewing him,

and the broadcast asked Castellanos, what was that fist bump about? That's cool. We want to hear the story. And instead of telling the story, he says, can I have the guy tell the story? He brings the fan over, puts the headset on him, and the guy goes on to tell the story.

I have it. You want me to play it? Yeah, go ahead. Here we go. He should imagine, so I told Nick when he got out there, that he should imagine that Rob Man for his face was on the baseball. and the next pitch

he lit it up over the fence, baby. All righty. And the first time what's going on. Castellanos is just standing there with his arms folded, smiling, and he gives the shrug. I mean, can you name,

there's no other sport where the players openly go at Rob Manfred, or their commissioner, excuse me. Like, the basketball players seem to like silver. I think, NFL players are kind of scared of Roger Goodell.

They're not going to say that out in the open like this. Baseball players constantly are going after our commissioner. And this is going to be funny. I'm curious to see how Manfred is going to handle the situation because Cassionis didn't do anything. He can't do a thing. He didn't say a word. Manfred's best would be to just let this slide.

I think, get petty. We agree with that, but is Manfred actually going to do it? Manfred always does his best. Get petty. Get petty. Suspend them two games. COVID protocol. You can't share a microphone with a fan. It's great move by Cassiano.

That's good. I bet you they do do something like that. I was going to give this the Roundabout Award because it's just like Cassiano's like he probably like tell those guys what you said to me. Like he, it's not like Cassiano was blindsided by this dude saying that. Like he'd very much knew. Pretty happy to give him the mic. Yeah.

The facial expression alone, I think Rob Manford is going to find him. like he was so happy with himself that this was going on like and and he should have been because there was an amazing moment like that that should live on forever that clip right there that's how freaking good it is like that he's so though it's it's pretty funny man manfred just puts his foot in his mouth i mean i think once he called the world series trophy a scrap of metal he lost every single player's trust or faith Also, I mean, you know, you have the PA going clubhouse to clubhouse just fucking making Manfred out to be 10 times worse than he actually, actually is because they hate each other so much. So you got no friends.

That's just, it's going to be an interesting CBA. It's going to be an awful CBA. I can't wait to be a labor pod again. We're a labor pod on the midweek at. Maybe. There's a topic we got to discuss. Did we do best friend of the week? Did not.

In a way, when we touched on him during In Fuego, it's Reese Hoskins. Oh, touching Reese. Oh, yeah. Five for ten, two doubles, three ribbies. Now, have we added Trevor Story to the friend's sheet? I don't know if he's been added to that, but he is a candidate now. Yeah. You haven't listened?

Go check out our Trevor Story interview. All right. the wheel for elevator talk if you find yourself in an elevator with someone that's wearing this hat here's some instant fodder uh we talked about them no you want to do them i'm just having a big a leese pod well we're going to do the first team so i don't want to do that team we're going to do the blue jays yes the blue jays the second place blue jays i think they're a game and a half behind the red socks um get my peaches down in charge oh my gosh Another clip that'll live on in infamy.

Boba Shet can sing Bieber, baby. Yeah, that was weird. Let's see. What he's doing amazing. You can talk about that. Dude, I, oh shit, I saw a stat, a tweet or Reddit post. It was like every single Tampa Bay or every single Toronto Blue J pitcher that started the season with them has either been on the IL or been released besides three pitchers. Say that again?

Only three pitchers that started the season with the Blue Jays have not been on the IL or released. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're I-List right now just looking at baseball reference. Dolies, Mill 1, Baroquee, Phelpsi, Meriwether. Oh, you know what you said? Tell them about the Gritchick stuff you said.

You sent us. I don't know if I can. We might have said too much. He's about to have a big week. I think they're seeing a bunch of lefties this year, or this week, and Gritchie crushes lefties, and he's been having a good year anyway. So, I mean, watch out for Vlad, watch out for Simeon, watch out for Bo, watch out for Tiyosk.

I love to say Robbie Ray. How about them tight pants? You can say that in the elevator? Tight pants. You can say Ryu has just shut everybody up because he's just a good pitcher. He's good, man. He's got a kind of grips with it, guys. And he got hurt, and he came back.

He's part of that IL crew. chicken strips. Ross stripling's a friend. Yeah, I went on his podcast. How about this for some symmetry? Career ERA for Ryu, 295.

Season ERA for Ryu, 295. Got to love that. Maths are some symmetry there. Who do they have coming up? They have Boston. That's going to be a fun series. And then Tampa.

Okay, Toronto. And then the Yankees. Wow, they're going through it. Jake sucks. Really? That's a great pick on