Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 339 | Two More No-Hitters, Tony La Russa, and an NL West Sweepfest

Episode Date: May 21, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We had two more no hitters. We got LaRusa saying dumb stuff. We got Davey Martinez getting ejected and Pintar back on the front page. Let's do it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for joining us today. It's brought to you by Draft Kings.

My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake, Trevor, out in California, and producer BBD in the corner. And we've got some things to discuss. Today as baseball rolls on, we're in thick of it. I love it. Most recent patrons, Jason Hagelsworth. Haggles to get his worth in life. Right off the bat, baby.

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Tons of perks. Jake, how are you doing? James, Trevor, beautiful, bodacious, baby, David. We're back. Should we just start the show over? What did they hear? Did they hear the patrons? Jake, do everything you were just saying again. I guess it's the Trevor Plouffe show now.

No, they're good now. Yeah, I know. I'm good. I'm good. Trevor, how are you, Big Dog? That's it. You don't want to go over that again? I'll give you the stage.

Treve, it's your stage. Okay. I'm doing great, as we talked about before the show, these recording on Tuesday and then not seeing you guys again until Friday. I don't know if that's going to work for me. No. Maybe we just got to add a fourth episode or something like that because I missed you guys a lot.

I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be with the chat. We've got a lot to talk about today. So I'm excited. I'm excited as well. BBD, how are you doing? We're in the pirate shirt? Just coincidence?

Not a coincidence. Nothing's ever coincidental, Jimmy. And I was great until that happened. Now I'm going to be pretty mad all day. Wait, so we got, we found out, and then you put the shirt on. We found out, like, right after I got out of the shower. I thought of it. I figured you were already on your way to...

It's perfect timing. No, I ran a little late today. BPD is wearing a pirate shirt, and our dude, Show Tuck just got called up. Breaking news. Co-Tuck Shurzy. Oh, very nice. I need to get one of those.

I didn't know BBD nice. Oh, yeah. EBD's in the swag game. BD's in the swag. Five Tool Tuck is back. So pirates on the up and up this episode. Watch out for elevator talk, but. You want to get right into it?

I think we got to talk some baseball. Let's get right into it then. I will bring you the NL recap. Wow. Here's what happened. It's brought to you by hydrant. Jake's drinking some right now. Staying hydrated is key.

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And they have the 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you don't love it, send it back for a free full refund. So that's drinkhydrant.com slash baseball. Enter promo code baseball for 20% off your first order. Here is what happened in the National League. The Marlins took two out of three from the Phillies. Marlin's starting pitchers had a 048 ERA. Philly starting pitchers did pretty well themselves.

Both bullpens kind of sucked in this series. Rojas and Anderson had four hits, a home run, and a double each. Real Mudo sits on Thursday because of his hand. Also talked about some other stuff that involves hands. We'll get into later. Mets take two out of three from the Braves. Mets roll on. Both offenses struggle.

but both starting pitchers and relief pitchers put up good ERAs in this series. And the Mets got help from the backups. Nito, Paraza, VR. And is this a typo? Is his name, John Zway? Fargus. He made his debut. Those guys combined for seven extra base hits, three-home runs.

But I saw this name on the sheet today, John's way. Is that a typo? Or is that real? We can get into it. But Acuna hit his first career walk-off home running game three. good job there to save the sweep. Not a typo. How do you pronounce that name?

You're all over it. Johnisweet. You're all over it, but. Noah out multiple months after punching a wall. Enfried exits game one with cramping this in his hands. So bad time for the Braves and their hands. Ended both series recap with hand stuff. Giants sweep the Reds, the Giants in a four-game set roll on.

They won the last game 19 to 4. just daring people to not believe in them. Every single series, man, it was nuts. They had nine home runs. The Giants starting pitchers pitched to a 075 ERA. Just crazy shit. Crawford hit two home runs in ADRBI's. Dubon and Rough had six hits each.

Nuts. The Cubs took three of four from the Nationals. There were some drama in this series. The Cubs were hitting Hap. Our dude, three home runs. five RBI's, Havi, two home runs. Cub relievers pitched 16.1 scoreless innings. How about that?

Strassburg's coming back for the Nats on Friday, so that's exciting. The Cardinals swept the Pirates. That's why they're bringing up Kotuck, help them out a little bit. There's only two-game set. Cardinals hit pretty well. Pirates, starters pitched to a 12-15 ERA. Not good. Flarity improves to 8.

and O on the season. Edmund had five fits and five RBIs in the two games. Martinez and Mickelis to be activated from the IL and start this weekend. This is tough. Jake's D-Backs got swept by Trev's Dodgers. Dodgers starting pitchers had a 1-25 ERA. The relief pitchers had a 1-8-ERA, just dominated everyone on the mound. D-Backs hitters slashed 131 with a 203 on base percentage. Will Smith hit two home runs.

Poole sits his first home run as a Dodger, and Bellinger is going to start his rehab assignment in AAA, and this one's tough as well. The Padre swept Jake's rocks. Man, Padre starting pitchers just dominated. The relief pitchers had eight scoreless innings. Tatees goes four for four with a home run and two doubles in his return from COVID. Melanson records his 15th save. Good shit for the Padres.

is your NL recap. Tough, tough to be a fan for you, Jake, huh? I mean, they're previously Jake's rocks. We all know when they traded Aeronado, you know, that was the end of my fandom. And then I got courted by another beautiful NL West team that we're going through of something right now. We're going through something, ran into the Dodgers at the wrong time. Dodgers sneaky, eight and two in their last 10, are they figuring out? You just kind of haven't noticed because,

because Padres are 9 and 1 in their last 10, and so are the Giants, 8 and 2. So the NL West is sorting out. We're seeing a lot of stuff sort itself out. My Rockies, by the way, previously Jake's Rockies. Two and 17 on the road this year. So 13 and 12 at course. Trevor's story, I love you, baby.

We love you. Two and 17 on the road? The road's been tough for us, all right? You're not part of them anymore. Are you there or are you not part of them? That was Trevor's story talking through me. Oh, okay. Oh.

Because we have the same last name. Josh Fuentes. Yes. Big fan of ours. He reached out. I'm a big fan of his. Hot boy. Better looking than Nolan Aeronado.

Probably funnier than Nolan Aeronado. Tref. Maybe they're going to lose us. Maybe they're going to be gone. Yeah. Trevor's Rockies, official. Stamped. Okay.

Great. That's huge. All right. So we've talked about the worst team. Cardinals still separating the Cubbies The only other team in the NL Central Above the 500 mark as of right now Fuentes hot right now

Just to let you guys know Yeah Oh yeah Yeah He said wow my cousin's doing good I'm gonna do the same stuff 813 slugging in his last eight games Can I pose a question to you guys?

I love being asked questions Okay You know, Rosie and I talked about it a little bit today on the IG Live. Shoutout, ad. He thinks the Giants are still going to sell. He thinks that, you know, what's the guy's name? Farhan. I think it's Fugon.

Farhan Zaidi. He has a plan. He's going to stick to his plan. Zaid. Blah, blah, blah. I told Chris this morning, I don't think so. Are the giants, are they a juggernaut? Are they as good as their record indicates?

What do you guys think? Well, according to the Pythagorean win-loss record, they are exactly as good as their record indicates. A lot of people like looking at that. That says they should be 28 and 16. They are 28 and 16. They have a winning, and luck factor has them at zero, which would go hand in hand with that.

I mean, all of their numbers are good. Six and four versus the east. Eight and three versus the Central. 11 and seven versus the West. Three and two in Interleague, 14 and four on home. At home, 14 and 12 on the road. They're bad in extra innings. But yeah, I mean, I don't know.

Everything kind of adds up. There's statistics add up too. Treve, it was my award. A couple Eps ago. Headed into the weekend. The Roses, Outcast, music video. Listen to that song. Got the YouTube one-month trial.

You did. Trying it out. Yeah, letting it rip. Listen to music. It was like, whoa, so people just listen to music? I said, Poppy. The Giants, Trev, we talked about this. If there's one thing that they kind of had,

the sneaky snat of the off-season was they were the only team with seven starters returning that had OPS plus of 100-plus. We talked about their hitting coaches, ad nauseum, my favorite hitting coaches in the league. And the other thing that ties into that is that, The pitching is just ahead of hitting right now. Like, A, something happened with the ball. But the pitchers got far ahead.

The technology won. Go check out some of the stuff that's happening in the minor leagues. The Yankees number 28 prospect Glenn Otto. Here's a deep dive. He struck out 14 of the 16 batters he faced. Prospect number 28 last night. The pitchers are ahead. Our other dude, Waldichick or whatever is.

Waldichick. And that's bring this to the Giants now. Gossman, who clearly found something. and got out of, you know, Orioles hell. He's been lights out. Disco DiScalfani looks nasty. Wood looks grosser than him. They have pitching.

They have hitting, like, yes, I'm bought into these giants. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is like shades of the 04 Red Sox team. Like a bunch of like kind of outcast veterans mixed with some younger guys. Like that's kind of the feel it has to me. I could be completely out base because I don't know the statistics of that. team. I just remember them, you know, obviously in a positive manner. But man, like, what they've been able to do, they just

put 19 freaking runs against the reds. They can bang, they can pitch, they've been doing it and arguably, you know, one of the best divisions in baseball. Big freaking series coming up against the Dodgers, though. This is going to be a lot of fun. What are the problems?

Wood tonight. Power versus Wood. Love done. Um, Gabe Kapler was on both those teams that you just talked about. Oh, maybe that's your connection. Wow.

Boy, Gabe. Do you know what Gabe's middle name is? I don't. Wow. I like that. He seems more Stefan than Gabe. You guys saw Ocunia when he hit that walkoff? What's that?

You saw Ocunia when he hit that walk off, give the Vince Carter. Sova. That walkoff got buried in sports news. I don't know what it was. I woke up. I haven't even seen it yet. Jim, this is what I'm saying. Like, we have, you know, the Braves are one of our strongest ties in the company right now.

I woke up. We were doing Wake and Jake and we're just going through like, oh, okay, this happened last night. It was like the Curry-Lebron game happened. And Kluber through the no-hitter. And going back. Davey got ejected. Going back through some of the box. I was like, all right, what other baseball stuff is of notes?

And it's like, okay, Acuna home run in the ninth propels Braves. And I was like, okay, me and BPD both started laughing. We were like, okay, does that, was it a walkoff? Or did that just start a rally? Acuna hit a walkoff home run, and it got no pub. Well, Braves fans were asking me to do a breakout of us. I never had time because so much shit was happening. But like, shouldn't that, but it like never came across your general timeline, right?

Like, Ronald. The video of it didn't. But also, I don't really use Twitter the way normal people. Right. So I can't. I'm not a good judge of that. I don't know. It was just weird.

Like, that should have been the most seen video that night. And I think it just got buried by other sports stuff. Can tell you something? Please. Mets stay in first place in their division. Hell yeah. The cards sweep. They stay in first place in their division.

I've got your pronunciation. How do you say it? Geneshwee. Oh, I like that. It's not John's way? It's not Johns. Where's he from? Genesui.

Fargus is from Puerto Rico. Genesui. Geneshui. It sounds like a French name to me. It does. Geneshwi. How do you spell it? J-O-N.

So that's the John you were again. Yep. Ash, E-S-H-W-I. Genes-wee. Yeah, the end of that looks like someone fell on the keyboard while they were typing it. Come on. People forget the French gave us the Statue of Liberty, so. People forget that all the time.

That's why the inside of it looks just like the Eiffel Tower. Yep, sure. Go France. Take it back. Is France doing something wrong these days? No idea. Trive, weren't you going to tell us that Eiffel Tower story you had? I've never been to Paris.

Oh, I love to go. The minor league, Eiffel Tower story you had. I don't know what you're talking about. Okay. We'll move on. Houston Astros are in the AL, so we're not going to talk about them yet. Huge. Giants are leading the...

They used to be in the NL. They used to be, for sure. The Giants are leading the West still. Braves are 20 and 24. What the F. They're only three and a half games back. Yeah. The nationals get bumped down.

Four and a half back. That was like they were all within three at this point. Cubbies with a sweep. Second in the NL Central. The Rockies do Treves. Twins of favor and become the worst team in the league. They're 13 games back in the West. Oh, I like that as a path for the twins.

That's first step. Jump one team a series. The first step was don't be the worst team in baseball. Monday's up, we're saying, okay, twins are up to 28. Yeah. Next Friday, 27. You know what we can call it? The twin ladder.

We'll call it the twin ladder. Yeah. And we can check in on it. That's tough for me, guys, because I want to. go off, but I'm also visiting the Twin Cities in a couple weeks. So I got to like, you know, can't be just off the rails here than going and shaking a bunch of hands, right? I think what it's going to be is, you know, there's going to be a Twins record before Coach

Trev visits, and there's going to be a Twins record after Coach Trev visits. Well, you know, I'm going to give a shout out, you know, go check out what Joe Mower is doing. We're doing the home run derby there. Just got told today, and I'm probably going to lose now. I thought I was going to win, but Jim Tome is also in Norman Derby, so I'm absolutely screwed. He is literally Paul Bunyan. And fuck with his bat. Okay.

I would never. I'm just saying if you wanted to win, or his bat or something. He looks like, like, we used to call him, you know, Jim credible because he looks like Mr. Incredible. Yeah. Like that is him. That's good. Anything else in the National League that you guys want to talk about?

talk about any big storylines here? All of the big storylines came from the American League, right? Jimmy makes all the interns here call him Jim credible. It's a requirement. Yeah. I heard it's a harsh environment there that's, you know, it's... Jet peed on someone yesterday. He'll be killed.

I peed on someone. I hit BBD in the elbow with a pitch in the back alley. Jim was who got peed on. Not enough people are talking about how sweet BBD swing looked on that one ball that actually bounced. You nailed it back up the middle Nice swing BPD Swing path guy

Yeah Just gonna get more reps today Find the timing again It's tough for BPD because He is my stand-in And he sees 30 pitches That come nowhere Close to the zone

And then I post the five That look good If there was a running pitch count on BVD It would be a 29 ball Four strike count Yeah But the ones that get in there Yeah

Nasty Thing is I feel compelled to swing At anything that looks like might be hit around it. Well, we have the strike zone now. So we're going to be much more. You have a thing you're specifically aiming. Yeah, accuracy is going to be better.

Back alley at bats. It's going to be a real thing, Trevor. You're going to fly out and take some at bats? Let's see. Yes. I don't have that plan, but we can plan. When did the pirates come to the play the Mets? Because I told Kotuck he had to come stand in.

And he was like, I'm all about it. He's not about it. Before we move on from the NL, I think we have to mention DeGrom, like going down into the minor league. and just making a mockery of it. It's messed up, man. What did he do down there?

Nine batters. Nine batters struck out eight, I believe. Yeah. That's me. In like no pitches. It was like 60 pitches or something like that. But he's, he's, that's the, that's, you know, the personification of a man amongst boys.

At a certain point, do you even need batters to stand in if you're de Grom? It's funny because, Because you know those kids are like, shit. Like these actually count on my stats, which sucks. Because this guy's throwing, he threw a hundred and two. He had the other team's social media tweeting saying, like, we give up. Like, what did we do to deserve this? He was so good.

And I'm sure he bought them a spread. I'm curious about that. Well, who was the two did he buy? Who were the two players on the Palm Beach Cardinals that put a ball in play against him? The PVCs. I'm going to find it because they should be celebrated. Yeah, one guy got on in an air. I saw that.

Pirates come to New York, July 8th through 11th, Thursday through Sunday. July 8th through 11th? Yep. We'll be here, right? I think so. Okay. We leave Sunday morning. That Thursday is a podcast day for us, but I think during the day we're good.

Last series before the All-Star break. Oh, yeah. How about it? It's a Friday. Bitch, I'm about it. Huh. Hmm. What team is Tanner Murphy on?

That'll help me out a lot. Okay. Okay. Tanner Murphy's on the Port St. Lucy, whatever, myjigs. Yeah. It's the Palm Beach Cardinals is who he faced. So the first batter put it in play reached on an error. And then Jacob Butchberger, he ground it out.

So in the first inning, DeGrom allowed two balls put in play. Second inning struck out the side. Third inning struck out the side. And that's all. They pitched three innings. This was fun. Do you guys got anything on Poulson's his first home run? That's in the National League.

Do you get given an awarder and talk about that? It looked like a weird swing to me. It did look like a weird swing. Look like he popped it up. Yeah. I don't know his numbers. What are his numbers, BPD, if you can find that since he went over to the Dodgers? 273, 333, and 879 OPS.

I mean, 11 at bats. Three hits. One's a homa. Apotoc. He started three of the four games. It's playing. And Belly is coming back and we'll see how that all works itself out. If there was a time he wanted to bet on the Dodgers,

I think that time is about to be done because they're going to get their team back. And I look, I know the Giants and the podgers are good, but this team, when they're healthy, nobody's stopping them. So hold up. He started first game against Muncie, lefty, and then he started the next game at first base. Um, Bumgarder, not Mattis, not Muncie. Then he started the next game at first base against Aritee.

I didn't think they were going to use him this much. Then he sat but got to pinch it. And then he started again. So Muncie just went to second every game. Muncie's hot right now too. Yeah. Yeah. I think Muncie.

Thank you, Josh, for the 10 bucks. I will see if I can steal one of those monster bands. Muncie leaning the NL and OBP right now. Muncie Ball. It's a new version. Batting average up to 277. He's hitting two. Leading in walks.

Gets you there. I post... We've talked about them. Little message to Dodgers fans. Muncie's not fast. Not slow. He is slow. Didn't we do this last...

We've done this before. It is. He's average speed. His baseball is average. His baseball is average. Which is slow. Which is average. Not slow.

50 percentile That's average Yeah If you look at him You're like The slow guys bring it down But they talk about him Like every time we do a video

They're like well Why you act like once he's slow It's like he's not fast I think you'd expect him to be like the slowest guy And he's not It's like when a bird shits on you And then someone's like Hey that's good luck

And you're like well you're just saying that No Because a bird shit is not a good luck It's not It's not good luck It's bad I'm glad we all agree on that That's a ridiculous statement

For someone to make I would argue it's bad luck. It's just trying to spin that person's feelings. Like if you step in dog shit, that's good luck. No, it's not. It's horrible luck. It's disgusting. Yeah.

Fall inside a blowhole, that's bad luck. Shouldn't have been playing by the blowhole. What's a blowhole? Oh, it's like a rock formation on the side of the ocean where the, it's like a cave. You ever seen Fool's Gold? This big blowhole seen in Fool's Gold. The water goes into the side of the earth. and there's a hole underneath the rocks and water blows up.

Famous one in Maui. There's a famous one in Australia, and I saw a guy almost fall in, and a lot of people fell in and died because they play by the ballhole. That sounds like a bad idea. It does. It's not fun. Let's go to the American League.

Find out what happened there. It's brought to you by Jake. Are you ready? Brought to you by Jake? Not, okay. Brought to you by Jake. The American League. Let's there.

Ooh. The American. league. How about we start out with the Rays versus the Orioles and the Rays sweep. People are sleeping on the Rays. They've started to figure it out this season. They're getting it going. Also helps when you play the O's. The Rays bats went this series. Finally. They kind of haven't gone all season. 347.

One dot for the series. That'll do it. A Roserena and Joey Wendell with Big Series. Love that. Santander returning for the O's. Let's go, Baltimore. Yankees at the Rangers. They drop the first game. A cold start.

Oh, my God. What's going on? They win the next three, including a Corey Kluber. No, no. Hey, how about it? But the injury bug is starting to find the Yank. Stan and Hicks both to the I.L.

Don't like that. Red Sox in Blue. Blue Jays. Okay, how's you're hitting? Blue Jays win game 1, 8-0, Battle of the Southpaws were you and E. Rod. Red Sox take the middle game and the final game. Both offenses hit, kind of like you'd think. Jay's actually out hit the shocks, but Martinez with a big go-ahead, two-run Homer with two outs in the night. That's how you win a series, babe. Trevor's twins play the White Sox. A lot of conversation around this series. White Sox take two out of three. They win 16 to 4 the first game. You might have heard some stuff about that.

And then they take the last game, 2 to 1, Gialito, twirled an absolute gem. My guy, Nick the stick, Madrigote, hits his first Major League home run. Love that. Indians at Angels. Indians take two out of three because they played the Angels. Starting pitching, actually Indians got a little hitting in this series, which again, that's a little odd. Bullpen shoves, 0.870 RA and 10.1.

Mike Trout out six to eight weeks. Sad for baseball. We don't like that. How about a little double dip with the halos? Because they played the Twinkies in a split double header as a makeup, and they split. Cob versus the torpedo. Angels took that one. Twins won six to three.

batadillos versus canning. So no. Getting hot, by the way. Might hear about him later. Astros in Athletics. Astros take two out of three, and that's obvious. The athletics won the first game. My guy, Mania, was on the bump for that one. Astros hit this series.

356 batting average. Holy smokes. Athletics did not. 208 batting average. 12 extra base hits for the Stroes. Mitch Morland goes to the IL for the athletics. Finally, Tigers sweep the Mariners. tough, sleepless in Seattle.

4-1-5062. Sheesh. Seattle did not bring the sticks. I guess the Tigers pitched in a kudos dispenser turn bowl with another no-hitter in this 2021 season. And that's what happened in the American League. Great stuff, Jake. Nice, Jake.

Nice, guys. Great stuff, Jake. Great stuff. Jake. Great stuff. Cake. Can I tell you something? Uh, yeah. I'm down for that.

I hate the Angels. Oh, sure. I'm back to it. Welcome. I know, but like... We wanted to. You want to get in on them. I was never in on them.

You guys know that. Never. Yeah, there's a couple weeks there. It sucks that Trout got heard for all of baseball. Yes. But now they're just going to wait. based Otani. Yes. Dude, I hate the Angels.

Could have signed with the Yanks. Imagine, like, being the Harlem Globetrotters, but then you only let, like, the Waterboy take shots. It's just, like, tons of cool passes and awesome plays, and then you just dish it to the one kid and you just bricks it. It's kind of what the Angels do. It's like, that was a spectacle, but they never win. Okay.

I think you could take that a step up to real basketball and be if, like, LeBron played with us for. but LeBron like, can't shoot. Like three of the five are like nuts. Like you're just going to see crazy athleticism. And then, but they only let the other two shoot. There's some really good stats. They change every day.

But they're like, you know, if you do Trout's War, Otani's War, and Jared Walsh, the first baseman who's been killing it, it's like 85% of the Angels war. They stink. They're, the Rangers passed them for last place. Good job, Angels. but yeah, I mean, it's just, it's rinse repeat every year. It is.

It is. And there's a great meme on the internet right now that a lot of people are using to describe the angels. It's like a Bugatti sitting next to this, you know, old broken down home. It's exactly what it is, man. Like you got some good players, but you don't got a team. Well, it's mostly partly because whatever. Tell me, Jim. Tell me.

It's crazy. we spent all off-season saying like go get Oterizzi, who I know is hurt, or go get Bower. Bower. Tanaka. Like, go get pitchers.

And they got Kintana and Ka. We don't want a guy with the career 4 ERA. And everyone was like, well, why didn't you get any of the big pitchers that were available? And now every single pitcher has an ERA It's bad. That's horrible, besides Otani.

Cobb, 47, 8. But it's... He's the low, he's the low man. Like the most casual of casual baseball fans could, what it was saying in the off season, like, angels should go get some of these pitchers that are good. I didn't get any of them. So it's...

What's my new favorite word? Oh, BPD. Egregious, erroneous. The court work. negligent. Negligent. Angels are negligent. It's one of your favorite word.

So that's my AL take. It's all I got from your recap. Dylan Bundy. I'm mad at him. Dylan Bundy, 6ERA this year. Oops. Let's talk about the good teams. Let's talk about the teams that deserve to be talked about.

Red Sox. Red Sox are still doing it. That whole A.L. East. Boogity, boogity. Red Sox. Yeah. One game up on the race. A game and a half up on the. the Yankees and two and a half up on the Jays that J.D. Martinez, Homer.

It's the closest top four out of all six divisions. And they're four good teams, man. This is going to be fun. The race kind of turned up the knob when everyone turned their head for the past week or so. Eight and two, 26 and 19. Man, man, the ALEs is going to be a lot of fun throughout the summer. I'm excited for that. Astros win

That was a big series If the Js would have held on last night All the teams would have been within one game Yeah it's pretty cool I know it's in May but that's awesome man It's what you want So who are you blaming for that? I don't know who got the Homer

It was Dolis Delis I blame him Mad Adam Here's what I don't get I'm looking at this Like the stats

I like to go and the teams that are good usually have good OPS Plus and a good ERA plus. And the raise are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5th in all of baseball in OPS Plus with a 110, but the numbers supporting it, 235 batting average, 315 OBP 404 slugging, don't add up. So I don't understand how they come up with that number. They're setting records for strikeouts. I think they've been leading the league all season and it's on pace to set

the strikeout record. Man, they needed some Orioles pitching. I think that helps. But a Rosarayna of the last seven days, Fangraphs has him ranked number three of all baseball players, Joey Wendell, 14. When the Yankees saw this team last, they were dying, they got a getaway day win,

and then I think from there, the bats have woken up. Because they still, it's not a lot of the same names, but they're finding pitching. It's what the Rays do. So if they hit enough, they get hot. And that's what they're doing right now. Kiermeyer's back. G. Man, Choy is back.

They had a little bit of the injury bug. Man, a fun Tampa Sox series this weekend. Holy Cowby, Dahl back. And who is the, are the Yankees playing the White Sox? Is that who it is? Yeah. Another good series. That's going to be a really fun series, too.

Yeah, I don't know. I'm a little nervous about tonight, more excited about tomorrow. But we'll see. Who's pitching for the White Sox? Who we got coming in? I know tonight's Robon. Rodon, Dylan, cease, and not sure who Sunday is.

Should we have Giolito come by? Maybe hit him up. Are they allowed? I don't know. We can meet them in the park, mug them. Move on? Yeah. Keikle Sunday.

What if it's a running series we do, Treve? It's a joke. It's like the 9th at 9 and Happy Gilmore. We just, whatever visiting player, like Gritchick's coming, this by the Blue Jays. We'd just say, hey, meet us by the fountain. And then we have camera set up and we mug them. This is the Bronx. Yeah. And then we mug up and that's a new. We do it on camera so it's a prank. It's just called mugging MLB players. Yeah.

Ooh, G. Alito was all up in your city last night eating some really expensive looking sushi. He saw that on his IG. He's here? The fuck. He's going to sushi places? Travel Bay. Like a real, like I'm saying, like, you know, New York's. sushi's already price. This looked like one of them $4 on Yelp places. $4.00.

Yeah, that's Storealele sushi. Let's talk about the Astros a little bit. Let's do it. That was a big series. Oakland's still at the top of the division, am I right? Nope. Astros are now in first place. Oh, they took it from them by half game.

Okay. I mean, yeah, they're 8 and 2 and their last 10. I mean, they're just doing it. They're a team that just gets it done, man. Finding pitching where they need to. Grinky had a great start. Did you hear what Granky said about his start? It's kind of more personal storyline. I think Granky said, like, yeah, I was trying to just throw harder, and it worked.

Something along those lines. It was, I wish I had the quote in front of me. It was funny. Haven't been there. Man, Ryan Presley is starting to put together a nice season as the closer on that team. Yeah, again, I've mentioned it a lot on here. the fan graphs last seven days. You know, if red is good on that page,

that means you're kind of top tier. Altovae's been doing it. Bregman's been doing it. Guerreel, Correa. They've got three guys in the top 17 for the last week. Like, that lineup, man. They're a good team.

Yeah. We were on that. We were on that before the season. I got him in the World Series. That's what I got. Granky's four seam Velocity average 90 miles per hour

He maxed out at 92.3 I don't know There's a quote about him Thrown harder It doesn't seem that much harder Odorizier Kiti Valdez Verlander on the IL That's a whole other starting pitching staff

Well What's Didn't Framber get some like Crazy news that he's going to return? I think Framber's coming back Yeah I thought there was a headline And it was like what See

Astros. Big Framber Poundez continuing to rehab Saturday. So, like, yeah. Granky jumped up two miles per hour. He usually sits 88, jumped up to 90 average. A little harder. It's a big jump. Is Framber still using that little league glove, like the nine incher?

Got to. I hope he goes smaller. I love that. I'm trying to buy myself a little league glove for back alley up at bats. I was trying to throw a little harder today, but then it ended up being a lot harder. It was Granky's quote. I knew it was a funny quote. Yeah.

It's a good strategy. We got to talk about Tigers, Mariners, because people are going to be mad. We've got to mention everybody. Tigers get the sweep. Mariners get no hit for the second time. Tigers are hot, Tref. Don't sleep on the Tigers. What are they doing?

Let me see. I got the stand. In the last 10, the Tigers are 8 and 2. They heard us talking shit. Damn. Yeah. 95 winning percentage now. Also, how much does that end the Mariners season?

Yes. Same way the... The Mariners did that two years. That's the new rule. If the tigers sweep you, you're done. The royals got swept by the tigers. We sat here. We declared the royals done. Trade everyone. And now the mariners get swept by the tigers and now they're done. Yeah, like, have fun. You still got the young guys.

Kelnick got the call. You weren't expected to win anyway. All the dudes like, good run. Yeah. I love Kellanek and I love the pub that he is getting. I really do. But for people to come say, oh, they need this guy. He's going to bring him to the playoffs.

He's going to be a savior. It doesn't work that way. Kelnick. It does not work that. Well, Kellenic, what do I keep saying? It's Kelnick. Two syllables. Ignore that second eight.

You're talking about them. My name gets absolutely butchered all the time. These guys, stop being so soft. I did a whole video on Sandy Alcantara. But that's how I say it and that's wrong. Is it Alcantara? Alcantara. Yeah.

That sucks. Alcantara is so much more fun to say. Alcantara? That blows. Imagine growing up with a name like Plouf. And like every day. Come on, guys. That's why you were so angry all the time.

I'm not. I think it's funny. In fact, I usually let people just say it wrong because, like, who cares? One time in my life, someone mispronounced my last name, and it was the wildest moment I've ever had. What did they say? Aubrian, straight up, ignored the apostrophe. Ooh. I kind of like that better.

You sound like a guy from Game of Thrones. Only happened once, Aubrian. Jimmy Aubrian, was like, whoa, you're come. some kind of special. Okay. Mariners fans would probably want us to say something about injuries, Marco Gonzalez, Evan White,

Ty France, Slump Watch guy, Shad Long, Enemy, James Paxton. Trade guys from Seattle. Trade guys from Seattle. Kendall Graveman, Kyle Seeger, Mitch Hanigar.

Now we're talking, Mariners. Yes. Yeah. I believe they're going to be good soon. I know they got a lot of prospects ready to go, but, you know, it ain't the year this year. Jake called time out.

I called time out. What are you calling time out about? Nottingham, back to the Mariners. That's right. I got Jacob. That happened? Not an early settler name. Can you tell people the whole path then?

Jacob Nottingham is just being shared by the Brewers and the Mariners. This is unreal. They claimed him off waivers for the second time. the first time the Brewers traded back for him and now he's happened with David Hale and the Brewers a couple years ago, right? Twice this season Jacob Nottingham has been a part of the Mariners of the Brewers. He's a dual player. It's a loan system.

Like just, yeah, at a certain point, MLB should just shake hands. Kind of a hot boy. They just call each other up like when do you need him next? Yeah. Yeah, he does some of that Callie Strong stuff, right? He's around that. He was out there working out with Yeli in the offseason, so I got to meet him a few times.

Big boy, got good hair. I can see why teams are like, hey, this guy looks like a ball player. Looks good in a uniform, that's for sure. Can I tell you guys something? What a ball player does. My dude, you say? Yeah.

He's putting it together. He was my, like, I think he's going to, like, announce himself. Tough start. Tough start. Last four starts. Three ERA, no clunkers. You say.

He might be traded. Someone in the church. Chat said Jake looks like he smells like cream cheese. What do you guys think that means? I mean, I love cream cheese on a bagel. What kind? Do you get regular cream cheese or you'd get some of the fancy ones? So I have my bagel spot that I go to and I just get regular whipped for me.

I get strawberry for the kids. I'm on a poppy seed bagel guy. Poppy seed, huh? Oh, get that a little high, huh? Hmm. Jake doesn't even like cream cheese, I don't think. I love cream cheese You don't like bagels

You'd think I like bagels more than I do I love bagels I like a bagel I like bagel I like bagels It's a bagel place in my town Best bagel I ever had I love that Jim

I've been around Nice bagels excellent I go there I would disregard bagel flavor I just say what's the most fresh Because they come right out of the oven What does everyone you just finish One time it was cinnamon raisin I was like

Well I don't want cinnamon raisin I'm not a child Ooh, sin and raisin is good, but that's no cream cheese It's just brought up. It's like a dessert bagel. It's a bagel. I will say this. I don't smear my whole bagel. I do it by the bite because I don't want hot cream cheese.

Oh, interesting. Girls with braces do that too. All right. Interleague. White Sox, Indians, still command the Central. Are we doing TLR now, later? You want to do TRLR? Let's do it later.

I'm so sick of talking about that guy. He's a bug. We've all kind of got our thoughts on it out there already, right? It's just... I guess we're doing it now. Everybody predicted it. Everybody predicted it. And what's funny is, I'll say some...

Let's just go about it right now. The problem I really have with him is he still thinks he didn't do anything wrong. All the backlash. His players contradicting him to the media, Lance Lynn, like his veteran presence in the clubhouse saying the exact opposite of what Tony the Roos is saying, the russ is saying and then tony le russ acts like not one guy in the clubhouse has a problem with me it's like dude you were just tim anderson like they tim andersen mrs quoted on instagram they put out tony the russus quote on instagram and tim anton

commented and said like game wasn't like like actively said the opposite of what tony the rusa was saying and then l russo said no one has a problem it's like well no no it's already happened the quote to lanslan i really i didn't hear how tony the russes said it. I'd love to hear the audio of it because like, if he said it with a laugh, there's a way that I'm like, okay, it wasn't that bad. But if he said that straight up, that quote that he's got a locker, I've got an office. Like, if he said that like firm, that's the worst quote of the bunch. Like Lance Lynn is the most likable guy in baseball and he's what, like Jake and I said this somewhere, he's an alpha, but not in the bad way. Like Lance Lynn isn't like a bro douche, po. I'm in like,

going to flex in your face and talk shit to you. Just presence alone. Kind of like that. Lance Lynn wants you to do your thing. Whether you're Cory Klober, he talked about it on this show when he was in Texas. He's like, you're Cory Klooper. You got size in the bag, dude. Or you're Tim Anderson.

Like Lance is telling Tim, be you. Batflip. Go for it. Like Lance is the man. And for Tony to go there. It's just so dumb. It's a great quote. Someone messaged me like, that's a great quote, though.

And I'm like, it is. It's kind of like when Rex Ryan said, I've stepped over tougher guys. I've stepped over bigger dudes on my way to a bar fight. Yeah. Yeah. That's a great quote that Rex Ryan had. And Rex Ryan said it being with a shit eating grin and joking and having fun.

It is a great quote. He's got a locker. I have an office. But if he didn't say it in like a very joking manner and said it, I didn't hear it. Saying it to the media. Yeah. Then it's just like, what? And he's known Lanssela in like a really long time.

That's why I wonder if it was like a joke. I wish I, do we have? the audio of that? I wonder if he was saying like, look, he's going to say that because he's in the locker room. I'm separate. I, you know, I'm, I shouldn't be defending him at all.

But it's clear that he just has no idea what the hell is going on. The game has passed him by. Trust me, he is not the reason that the White Sox are in the position that they are in. It is 100% the players and T-R-T-L-R. No, no, no, no. We're not saying that. Yeah, we hate it.

I'll say you made a good point. It's too good of a nickname for him. I refuse it. I don't understand why it's happening. Why is everyone calling him? The Roos is too long. Well, why is everyone calling him TLR? It's for tweets.

I never, oh, it's just to condense it. Yeah. A tweet, it's just easier. And people, I get confused on like what parts of LaRosa are, like, capitalizers there are supposed to be a space there. Just TLR's easier to type. That's a good point, BBD.

Good point there. We all called it. We all called it prior to the season when they first hired the guys. We thought that was the dumbest thing they could do. And then there was like this little bit of a wave being like, yeah, you want to know why? All the white socks spares were defending him, but you want to know why? Got to. Because it was spring training.

Is there man? It was spring training. The, the optimism and like the mood in spring training is always good. I'm over it. I don't want to talk about it anymore. I'm a little biased because I'm a, I'm a thick guy by nature. I think Jeremy and Mercedes is hot. Do you see them all tatted up and stuff?

Yeah. Cici Sabathia, did you hear his quotes on it, Trev? Yeah. He was fired up. Cici crushed it. He always does. He's like, this rookie's, like, carrying you right now. And a lot of people...

A lot of people say he missed a sign or whatever. And, like, if he did miss a sign, then there is a problem. You can't just, like, disregard signs and shit like that. If there was footage of Tone and the Rusa running up the steps, yelling, take, take, take, we would have seen it by now. I straight up, don't... believe it happened. I think maybe he was yelling take and stepped up on the step. But there's no way he was even yelling. Yeah, I don't even think so either. I listened to both

radio announcers with the volume tuned all the way up and both TV broadcast with the volume tuned up to see if we could hear anything. Couldn't. That doesn't prove anything. It could have been drowned out anyway. But it would have been out there. Like they have that footage, you know, that guy in San Diego that punched that fan. That was broadcast footage that they leaked because they wanted that dude to get in trouble. Like it would have been out there. I think he just said it for effect. And he's so out of touch, Trev, that I think he was trying to get ahead of it to stop the twins from throwing at him. Like in his twisted old senile brain, he's like, oh, people are going to be upset about this.

I should get in the front of it and let the twins know that I disciplined them already. They don't need to do it. And he doesn't understand. It's like, no one's that upset. And, you know, I feel bad for Duffy now because Duffy didn't want to throw at him. I said it in the breakdown. Like, Duffy didn't want to throw at him. we've seen Phil Hughes say this before

pitching coaches coaches say you have to throw out this guy otherwise you're in the dog house you're back of the packing order and they have the power you can read Duffy's mannerisms that entire time he did not want to throw him

even when he missed him you could see him like oh shit and now he gets suspended and now like the public's against Duffy and I guarantee you he did not want to throw at him. He didn't. And Duffy is one of the funnier, cooler guys in the league. Like, everyone should be, like,

rallying around rooting for the guy like Tyler Duffy, who has made a career, you know, out of, you know, being a swing guy, being a sometimes starter, spot starter, a reliever.

Like, this guy has earned his money. And now, like, you think he wants to go around away and get 40 grand? He doesn't want to do that. Twins players... A new kid.

Like, the twins players weren't upset about it. Their coaches were. The coaches made Duffy throw it. So I will address that because I put that out. I took the temp of the clubhouse. Players I talked to were not upset about it and said that didn't even think twice. But then I got a DM from a guy that covers the twins and he said a couple guys that he talked to were a little bit irked.

So obviously there was a few different opinions on it and then we know what the coaching staff thought about it. So it's, I don't know. I'm going to chalk it up to Rocco, whoever gave the, you know, the go ahead, the throw, your mean, I think they were trying to fire the team up, I guess. Like, they're scratching a clawing. They're trying anything to get out of the pit that they're in. So it doesn't excuse it at all. But that's what happened.

Yeah. Interleague? Treve. So it's not a long one. Interleague play. Big series. Just when Jimmy deems them out of the race, the Royals go ahead and sweep the brew crew in two games. Two-oh, first game, six, four, second game.

Not a lot of offense in these games. The Royals hit 200, two-seventy-three, three hundred. The Brewers hit 185, 239, 292. That is terrible. Royal's starting pitching, obviously. Pitched pretty good. And one guy for the Royals, Kelvin Gutierrez, had a third of the hits. Four of the 12 hits went to one guy.

Yelich did get activated. A little rusty went 0 for six. Did have three walks and then some sad news coming out of Kansas City. Danny Deffey, who has been one of the brighter spots for them. And one of the better pitchers in all the baseball to start the year is being placed on the 10-day I-L Royal Sweep of 2 game set. And that is the Interleague play. Ooh.

That was nice, Trell. Very nice. What are you got, Jim? The Royals are back. No, no, no. They have... Huge. I mean...

Huge two games. They have too many pieces to move where I know ownership brought in a lot of guys to, like, give back to the fans and give a good product and all that. But, I mean, the Royals have so many pieces to move and get a return and get, you know, a collection of a return that that... I hope ownership doesn't try to just say, no, we're in it, we're buyers because we want to reward the fan base. Because there will be Royals that like that. But they got a lot of pieces, man.

I mean, I think you already said it. When they got swept by the Tigers, that was the death punch. I do think there's going to be at one, you know, one of these check-ins probably mid-June. The Royals are going to have like a five-game losing streak, and it's going to be like your hand has been forced. Like the ownership's saying, you know, we're two games under 500, we're still long season. There's going to be a front office level death punch at some point. Sorry, Royals fans.

And hey, prove me wrong, but you got trade pieces. They got a lot, man. I mean, if you want a defensive center fielder because you need a defensive replacement in the outfield, go get Michael A. Taylor for cheap. You want someone that can crush Ritees, go get some. Salair. Mike Minor for this year and next year. A lefty that's been getting people out, go get him. They got a lot. Santana on the two-year, there's always Whitmerfield rumors kind of for no reason because he's their guy. A couple bullpen arms. Yeah.

What do you guys got on the brew crew? We know they're a good team. They got the starting pitching to do it. Yelich, they need him. They need him back. They need him being MVP Yelly. And I I think he will do it. Hopefully, like, this is the last time he had to go on the IL. Hopefully he's back, gets his timing, because the game is more fun when the brew crew are running out there starting pitchers and a guy like Yelich.

Yeah? So I haven't seen it this year yet. Their Achilles heel the past little while now is there's just times when they don't hit it all. I mean, pretty much all the shortened season, they are in a little bit of a funk right now. So they were 17 and 10. they are now 21 and 22 so they are 4 and 12th in their last 16 that's tough

um you know narvaez is back he's been hitting for them Wong's been doing what Colin Wong does yeah I mean they you know when that team doesn't have MVP level Yelly in the middle of it that changes the whole dynamic that sounds obvious but um because they're starting pitching still been really good Woodruff Peralta Burns and Houser are all still there. So expect to see them back. It looks like they're in a little bit of a funk. And they'll be in the slog.

I got to, I got to hurt. I don't want to ask this question, but I'm going to ask it. Ask it. Lorenzo Kane. So. When the Brewer signed him, we heard that this was, this was a big signing for them. And there was a lot on the line for the guy, you know,

know, that put his, that wanted Lorenzo. And if it didn't work out, it was going to be tough for that guy. It, it hasn't worked out. Like, is he going to, do you think he's got it? Do you think Lorenzo can come back and, like, be the offensive threat that he once was? Like, is he going to be that guy in, you know, in the outfield still? Like, where are we at with Lorenzo? Because they need him, too. They want to make a run at this thing. I'd have to ask Brewers fans, what the numbers are telling me. I mean, he obviously sat out most of last season with the COVID stuff, so you kind of have to shrug at that. We heard he was hurt in 2019.

He did win a gold glove. So, yeah, I mean, I think the book's still out on this season. It's obviously not ideal, 208, a 313 on base, 674. You want Zoe to be above that. I'm assuming defensively he's still doing it, but his numbers, I mean, it's all carried by a huge, a very big 2018, but his numbers with Milwaukee, He still look pretty good.

280 batting average, 358 on base. 750 OPS with, you know, plus plus defense. That's kind of what they believe in. They need more from him this year. Yeah. He's 35, man. I hate to do that to guys, but... Older than me.

It's going to be tough. Older than me. And me. My birthday's coming up, guys. When's your birthday? June 15. Oh, my God. It's a big day for, like,

America. Sure it is. It's less than a month away, Jim. See you like 20 times between now and then. California is scheduled to like fully open up June 15th. And I believe even our guy Biden was talking about using that as a springboard for the rest of the country as well. So. Well, isn't everyone else?

Will we celebrate my birthday and have. I think California would be the last to open up. Dude, we are crushing it. We have like zero COVID cases. Really proud. It's the best. There is Florida. They stop counting.

it's the best. Don't get political. Don't you dare get political in here. Just reporting news. Yeah, both of you, both of you were on the line there. Not over the line, on the line. Oh, because I said Biden? Yeah, kind of.

This is funny. I'm not, I don't mean any way. I'm a central guy. I want to hear the topic before I make my decisions on anything, but they had Biden in a Ford Lightning truck, and he like drove it. And like, there was like conspiracy theorists saying that secretly the Secret Service was driving it.

It was like a driver's ed car with two steering wheels, which it clearly wasn't. How hilarious is it that they're making stuff up like that? Like, come on, guys. You don't know. You don't know. Was it like a remote control car or something? By the way, old school Ford Lightning's 2000.

Bad ass car. Cool beans, man. Can I introduce a new segment to you guys? Yeah. New segment alert, chat. Everybody clap. It's a new segment. I have a soundbite for it, I think.

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Standout performance Stimbo You're the leadoff hitter this week I am? You been Cool My standout performance is Darren Ruff You ever seen Darren Ruff?

Hot I don't know about that He kind of like He looks like I don't know how to say What I'm going to say He's okay looking you're just looking at a picture of his face

yeah no you gotta see his whole body and stuff it's like oh you're in on that he's uh six i'm googling dear and rough body he's 6 2-30 but the way he plays like the outfield and like looks on the basis you'd think he was like shrek okay just kind of like huffers there he doesn't look like shrek his body movement his body movements yeah you gotta like watch him

like i did a breakdown on him because he he botched like two balls they hit him in the head don't get but like Jake Jake yeah No offense, Darren. He's not hot. Okay, here. Look at this photo of him running.

It kind of gets it across. Yeah, he's not. He's not like fluid. He's a ball player. He's a hitter. Yes. He looks like he'd twist his hands and sawdust would come out. He's got nice size.

Yeah, really nice size. Far from an ugly guy. He's nowhere near ugly. Yes. I wasn't even talking about his... Yeah. I was talking about the way he moves on a baseball field is funny. Right.

Okay, anyway, he had an absolute awesome day. He almost hit for the cycle in four innings. You guys think that's cool? Yeah. Yeah, that's why he's my standout. Okay? Yes. He goes four for five with the walk where they crushed Cincinnati, 19 to 4,

but a lot of his hits didn't come in slop time. In the first inning, he had an RBI single off of Tyler Molly, right? Then he gets up in the third inning, and he has a single. to get the inning going. There's a walk and then he hits a single. Eventually comes around the score, I believe. He gets up again in the third inning. The Giants bat around.

They bring in a new pitcher, Ryan Hendricks. He greets him with a home run. Whoops. So now he's got a double, single, and home run. He's a triple away from the cycle after the third inning. Pretty good. His next step bat, what happened was there was a runner on third.

only one out. Pitcher threw a pass ball. Heath Hempry, the runner came home. Now he doesn't have an RBI opportunity. He's out, doesn't care. He lines out to third base, moves on. He was bullshit about that. And then he comes up again later in the game gets a double.

So four hits, triple shy of the cycle. Great game by Darren Ruff. My standout performance. Two RBI's four runs scored. I like that. Can I say something nice about him? I feel so bad now. I wasn't trying to insult him.

No, Trev went. He looks like a hit reason. I have to defend the hot boys. You can't just lump everybody into the hot boys. That's my brand. He said he was a hot boy. I like, Darren's done it. Darren has played in the big leagues,

found himself in a situation he didn't like, went over to Korea, absolutely mashed. And then he came back here, and he's in the big leagues again, doing that, Jimmy. I think that's really cool. Because once you go over there, a lot of guys say,

hey, that's probably going to be it for me. But he came back, found his way back into the big leagues show, and he's doing it. So I commend you, Darren Ruff, because you put the work in, and that is commendable. Yeah, man. I remember when he was on the way up, and Phillies fans were pretty excited.

He put 2012, 25 years old in Redding, double A. How's 38 homers, 317, 408, 1 dot. So this guy was a hitter prospect. And then, you know, he played for the fills. He was up and down. He kind of got one season of run. It didn't click. Like you said, he goes to the KBO Rakes.

And now he's back with our favorite hitting coach organization, San Francisco Giants. And how about the two years he's been back? 914 OPS. That's pretty good. Very good. Jake, who's your... And he's from Omaha.

He looks like he's from Omaha. Who's your standout, Jake? My standout. You guys may be familiar with them, and I mean now that trout's hurt. I'm going with the best ever. I'm going with Randy. Hey, Rosarena. He had a two homer day against the birds.

You know, say what you want about the O's. A two homer day. He also brought one back. He robbed a homer that day. So that's net three homers, basically. Who do you rob? I'm not sure. I have to check.

I count it. Randy's season is starting to get there. 283, 370 on base, an 829 OPS, a 142 OPS plus. I was excited for these raise coming into the season. The offense was really sputtering early, and it had me a little concerned. Randy's getting it going. He almost has a two war so far in 41 games. And I think, again, the story that ties into this, you know,

last year he slaps it around 23 games in the regular season they think he might just be there kind of a lefty platoon guy he goes on to the postseason to basically become the best ever as people are saying and then think about that there's a long off season you only have a small sample size he comes out this year didn't get off to the hottest start he's going bbd you look very excited uh he robbed pat valeka oh no Oh, my God. Mortal Kombat, Pat? As people are calling him.

That's a good nickname, I love that. One of the homers came off means, and he opened the game up with this, which in the book, they said deep to left field, but it's a routine flyout, but I wanted to see if maybe he was. Gone at Fenway. Camden. Yeah, gone at Fenway. Yeah. Yeah. It's a deep fly ball. Yeah.

Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. So, uh... Good job. Randy, the best ever. TBE. Trev, standout performance, who you got? Yeah, I got to put my cool guy sunglasses on the wire. Of course. Shout up polite, my friend's company.

Go check him out. Add. I am going to give it to a guy who absolutely makes the game better pretty much in every facet, off the field, on the field. Of course, I'm talking about Fernando Tis Jr. Now, if you recall, he went on the COVID list. he was out for eight days and all he did was come back and go

four for four with a homer two doubles, two RBIs. He made a slide turn into a highlight because he was so athletic and flexible like everything this guy does is cool and one of the reasons that this is even more spectacular

is when you're on the COVID list you're quarantined baby this guy didn't even pick up a bat for eight freaking days we're talking to Rosie about it. Chris Rose and he said that all he did was like run some sprints one day outside of his hotel

or wherever he was staying and that's it. That's all the baseball activity he had comes back. Doesn't go to any rehab games. Mind you he sublux to shoulder so he has a new follow through. Like I keep referencing that because it's a big deal. First base hit up the middle.

Right center field Homer two doubles down the left field line. The guy sprang into all fields after missing eight freaking days, comes back and hits big league pitching like that, he's an absolute superstar. He's the coolest guy in the big leagues and he just

as much credit as we give him, he doesn't get enough credit for what he does for baseball. So congratulations to Fernando Totis Jr. Great job, great job, great job. Good sash. Good sash, people are saying. Which brings us

to Treve's favorite segment. Is that Jake? Yeah, that was Jake. BBD? Who are the potential additions? Got some good names potentially coming on. Ozzie Albies in an 0-4-16 slide, one-walk 5-Ks.

Yelly, we talked about him a little briefly, 0-4-6, 3 walks. Justin Turner, O for 11 with a walk. Whiton-Marifield O'4-7 with a walk. Mikel Franco, we saw him do damage on both sides against the Yankees just a week ago. Over 14. Oh, no.

So I'm going to take Yeli off. He just came back from the IEL. It's first six at Bats. I don't think that's... I'm not watching that yet. Not yet. Yeah. Ozzy, 0 for 16.

That's a real one. Yeah. That's a real one. Little monster. And I'm also going to take Witt off because he only played two games. Okay. There's only two games. Whit. So we got to add Ozzy.

So let's see. Out of the people that were on, Nick Madrigal. was on slump watch. We said he needed some extra base hits, Trev. You and I both. We said, hey, this guy, he needs to start getting some extra base hits if he's going to stick around. He responds with a homer and a double.

Absolutely love it. Maybe the little slide that he went in was like him just trying for a little more power. It took a week for the power swing to connect or something. Who knows? But, yeah, 500 on base percentage, 375 with Pop. Very happy for Nick Magical. If he can just do that every two weeks, just, pop a couple doubles in a home runs.

All his numbers are going to be insane. A lot of people on White Sox Twitter were saying that they haven't seen me and Nick Madrigal in the same room. Okay. I too haven't. So that's something to watch going forward. We'll see.

Well, I mean, he's in New York right now. Did you see he had my massive glasses on? No. They did, oh, for their road trip, this was actually pretty good. They had, you know, we've been seeing the teams go to Miami and do like, you know, we're going to Miami, do beach outfits or whatever. They did a Yon Moncada.

Everyone dressed like Yon. So they were all just like swagged up. Yeah. I like that. Yeah. That's pretty good. It looked like outfits, like your outfit would have worked. Your beach outfit?

Madrigal wore a Jake fit. I got to see it. That White Sox Twitter was tagging me in. And I love you guys. It's going to be a big weekend. Oh, I see it here. I got it up. Yeah.

The White Sox Twitter account tweeted it out. Do you think Tony Larissa planned that? Is Rodon? In a wool, suit, and tie. I mean, that's literally my chain. Those are literally my big... That's Davy Garcia and you combined. Yeah.

Nick Madrigal. Mm, I like Davey. They're all in the one and you have Magical come. Step in against us, backyard. Okay. I'll just reach out. Yeah. You know them.

Yeah. Well, yeah, I'll just go get them. You want me to get him now? He's off Slump Watch. Good job, Nick. And Ozzy replaces him. Jesse Winker, 4 for 14 with a Homer, two walks and two RBIs, 375 on base percentage, 286, having a good season.

And that's what we wanted, Trap. This is why we put Jesse Winker on Slump Watch because we're like, dude, you're having a great year. You just had a bad series. We got to watch this. So he takes himself right off. That's the power of it. Wanker off.

And I'm going to put Turner in his place. O for 11. Bootstrap Bill. And I love Turner. Yeah. Big Turner fan. But he's going to come off. That's exactly the thing.

Yeah. It's a process. It's a process. Mike Trout got injured. So he's off. And that's not fun. Miss you. Is Lindor's still doing bad?

The Mets are doing so well? Yes. So that one, that one blip was a blip? It's a blip. Man, that's tough, man. Two for 11. He needs to be his own thing, right?

Yeah. I mean, he's not really. slumping at this point. How about this is Lindor's last slump watch? Okay. We'll see if we make Lindor watch. His numbers on the year. 301 OBP, 280 slugging.

280. Yeah, he's got three doubles and three homers and that's all. I mean, yeah, he's just having a bad year right now. Like technically career, it's a slump, but it's, do one more. We'll give him the weekend. Do you know what Justin Orno would say to him? hit the ball You go up, slap on the butt and say

Don't worry buddy, your money's guaranteed You know? No one's ever said that to me Go be you That was Justin Moreno Nate Lowe He was on there Stays

Stays Yankees Pitched him into Bigger Slump That won for his last 26 Were you going to say something like Pitched his butt? Yeah

I was going to say Yankees I wanted to say Yankees Pitched their butt off but I said his instead of there, so I had to alter the sentence. Nice audible. So I had to audible. Yeah.

So I audibled to whatever I said. You want to put Michael Franco on there? I do because, you know, a little 0-14 jobber. And, you know, when we do start getting heavy trade talks this year, he's kind of having a tough year. But he's a guy that should be, if you need third base help,

the Orioles will be selling, and he's a major league. third basement. So we'll keep an eye on him. You guys would love him. You guys would love him and his energy that he felt that watching him. Yeah. He had some cool quotes about Galvis because they played in Philly together. And then he said like he taught him how to be a good third baseman and then now they're together in Baltimore again. He's just been a menace to the Yankees. He's that's the other times. I've seen him. Been playing really good defense at third. So Slump Watch is Ozzy Albies. Justin Turner. Mike, is it Michael Franco? Michael Franco?

whatever. Francisco Lindor and Nate Lowe. We're watching you guys. Lindor, we've been watching, getting tired of watching. See you later. Maybe just get some hits. Please, just get some hits. Up to Donnie Diesel. I would say just stop dyeing your hair. I'm going to say that right now.

I'm just saying. Got to be him, though, trash. Yeah, I'm the opposite. I'd say super dye your hair. Die your face. Dyer pubs. They're died. Sometimes you just got to go, I'm not going to make it about me.

But just stop. There's no one that you're here anymore. Appreciate that. Enfuego. That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco. Enfuego is brought to you by Dougout Mugs. Look at these mugs. I put my mug right in front of Jake's mug.

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They are the perfect gift. They are the perfect gift. The perfect gift. That wasn't mocking Dougomugs. They are a perfect gift. It's mocking my own voice because I delivered it like a stupid idiot. En fuego. We got Randy the best ever, Ozerania.

Jake touched on that. Trey Mancini. America's heart, feel good story. Everyone's rooting for him. He goes six for 12 with three homers. Leading the show in RBI's, right? That's awesome. I believe so.

Miguel Sanoe. Thies as big as Jake's body. He hit four homers, three in one game, right? I believe so. I believe I saw it was three in one game. He also had a couple walks, 389 on base percentage. Joey Wendell goes seven for 11, two home runs, one of those coming off a 47 mile per hour pitch from a position player.

No one cared. Kevin Cash clapped for him and high-fived him after he hit it. Weird. Because it doesn't matter. Will Smith, he hit two home runs. I think he had two in one game. 545 batting averages series 6 411 Nick Castiano's

He goes 7 for 12 He's doing the damn thing Jake Croninworth The Unforgette The Forgotten Padre 6 for 11 with the home run And Harold Castro Not in my book

No 6 for 9 who's Harold Castro I think he's a tiger My dream in that? Yeah because I think they have the cast The castros yeah Of Willie? I don't know.

Willie and Harold. Yeah. Go Tiger up. Don't sleep on him. Can I give a Nick Castellano shout out real quick? Sure. Want to hear how many positions Harold Castro has played this year? Yeah.

That's wild. He's played all of them. Yeah. I mean. Not catcher, not right field. That's wild He has pitched He's pitched

So he's got Versatile He's got 10 games at first Seven at second Three at third Three at short Two in center field Two in left field

One at pitcher One at DH I mean Playing shortstop And center field Shout out Caracas Venezuela I've been there

Not to be rude His picture Just like his face He doesn't look like a guy That's playing Shortstop and center field. He gives you some middle infield vibes. When you hear that's a middle

infielder, you're like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, he can pick it. I see him as a corner infielder. Facewise. I see the middle. I'm just looking at his face. Looking at just his face, I get the sense he's a guy you would stick at second with positioning. He's fine. But I guess he picks it. Wasn't in my book either. He just got a little baby face to him where I'm like,

I think of him as like a chubby guy, but he's not a chubby guy. Paroscien vibes. Thank you. That's in Fuego. Trev, I know you wanted to tap up Castellanos. Yes. Funny video. He's the king of the funny videos right now in MLB.

The crowd shouted out to him. This is a new thing the crowds are doing. It's right-hand, left-hand, and they're giving them auctions. Trout did it with like these guns and call of duty, I guess. They asked him, right hand boobs, left hand, but

he put both up. He likes them both, which is a great answer for that. So good for Castellanos. Have a fun with the game and absolutely raking. Fun king. Shout out. Castiano's. Yule Gariel, I have seen the chat going.

He had a casual six for 13, and he's having a great season. So, hey, nothing against you, Stro Nation. I'll give Uli some love. Didn't we give him like last week? He's been, it's kind of funny, man, I was going through his stats. There hasn't been series that he's kind of totally blown up, but you see a couple four-hit games and like just on the month, 318, 9, like his whole season has been Fuego.

Nice. Astros Infield, sleeper pick for Trev. Brings us to. Awards. My first award. is heavy lies the crown award yeah heavy lies the crown award trev

so true man you know I stole this award from Jake he said it in the office the other day said I'm going to steal that from you since I go first I yelled BBD can you remind me to steal this award from Jake BPD put it in the sheet for me which helped me to remember that I was stealing Jake's award

yeah so heavy lies the crown goes to who's ever in first place in the American League. Not a place you want to be. Days are there. They're moving away from Oakland. The team's asking to leave. They're getting other things in the news.

Not talking about how they're a first place team. Talking about other shit. White Sox. First place in the entire American League. What are we talking about? The manager. Being an old butt head. So just be careful.

You know, Boston, Yankees take care of the White Sox this weekend. I don't think they really will. But if they did, and Boston takes care of the race, and now Boston's the number one team, heavy lies the crown. Maybe Alex Corr gets busted for being a cheater again. Who knows? I don't know. We don't know. I'm just being, be weary about being in first place in the American League.

Bad headlines. More money, more problems. Jake, what's your award? God, I hear that. You got a piece of glitter right under your eye this time. Get it with your tongue later. Smell like baby powder, too? I'm going with, uh,

these eyes are crying. These eyes have seen a lot of love, but they're never going to see an award. Should I write that down, BBD? Okay. I am giving it to Mad Max Scher How about a little cross-promotion on the award

Was just on Rose rotation It's a must listen One of the biggest bankrolls To appear on the John Boy Media Network Mad Max known for those eyes Two different colored eyes He's got the dogs It's kind of like a weird

If you showed someone from Europe They'd be like, okay, what cult is this? Mad Max Scher's his last four starts 26.1 innings pitch a 137 ERA. I think these gnats are going to eat it. You know, they just got beat up by the Cubbies. I feel like every time I tune in to the NL East, I announced it on this show.

I'm quitting on the Nats for a while. I couldn't quit them. I'm quitting on them. I'm tracking Mad Max. Trev, you kind of got me excited with your trade deadline. Everyone goes. Bugety, boogity, boogity. If this dude gets moved at the desert.

deadline this year. I am so stoked for that. I am rooting for that. Didn't they come out and say they weren't going to trade him? Sure. Teams say a lot of stuff, man. Astros said they didn't cheat. Scherzer, four games, dropping it. I'm excited. I want to see him in a different jersey and go check out the Chris Rose rotation. He was great on there. Nice award. Thanks, Treve. Trevor, your award? Rocco Rocco says we need to give Matt Debt. an award because he's just been really good. I like that. I like Matt Duffy a lot. He's been through a lot.

Had some injury, so he's playing well. Boom. That's not my award. But shout out Matt Duffy. My award is the Gandalf the White Award. There's a scene in the two towers movie where Gandalf goes into Rohan. He's got his gray cloak on and he's trying to get King Theoden getting get the curse out of him. Sarobon has possessed him and he's speaking through King Theoden and he says, you have no power here,

Gandalf the Grey. And then all of a sudden, boom! Opens the cloak up. He's Gandalf the White, baby. Let's freaking go. J.T. RioMuto was Gandalf the Grey, very powerful, awesome dude, kind of caught in a weird space and all the sticky ball stuff.

But today he took that gray cloak off and became J.T. the White. Because he unloaded in an article that Ken and Eno wrote about the sticky stuff and he called out the pitchers. And why it's a big deal is because catchers have very close relationships with all their pitching staff. And very rarely do they ever cross over and become part of the hitters portion, the position players portion. They're mostly on the pitching side. But we've been talking about this sticky shit for a long time on this podcast, this show, and it never really gets any traction. We talk about it. People forget about it. I really believe JT is kind of opening the floodgates now. When a guy like that puts his name on it in an article

and says, look, these guys are doing something crazy with the ball. It's not just the launch angle approach that's bringing down, you know, the hitting. Everyone's complaining about how bad the hitting is. These guys are doing stuff with a ball you're not supposed to be able to do. Okay. And this needs to be talked about way more. MLB has been so slow on enforcing it. And I think, like I said, because J.T. put his name on it, came out against the pitchers and said, this has to stop. I think we're going to see more and more guys come out and talk about it. And I think that's going to end up being good for baseball. Because this is, it's getting ridiculous. Nobody wants to see a no hitter every week. They don't.

Nobody wants to see guys looking foolish up there, teams hitting under 200. Like, big leaguers don't have one approach. They don't just go up there trying to hit home runs. I know a lot of people have that narrative. That's not the case. The case really is, the biggest part of it is the fact that these pitchers are all getting these 300 RPM bumps. And I believe that JT is going to help out with the cause. So congratulations, JT, the White.

Good job. Job JT. There's a really your boy, Trev. In the chat, Nate Steele said, he said, Tolkien baseball. Ooh, I like that. That's good. That's good.

B.B.D. Who is our best friend of the week? Job, Trev. Our best friend this week is Ian Hap. Five or 14 week. Three homers, I believe a two homer game. A double five ribbies and a walk. Ian Hap.

You have to have the compound, I think, just went out an hour ago. He came back from being. on the IEL because of that collision. He played in one game. His first game back went 0 for 5. The next 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 games. He's got four home runs. He is making up for lost time.

Ian Hap, good shit. Let's go. Brings us to our last segment of the day. Elevator talk, if you're stuck in an elevator with a fan that's wearing this hat, here is some quick fodder. Come on baby. You can save BBD two minutes on the clock. Diamondbacks, is it worthwhile? All right, I'm pulling up trade pieces then.

I mean, they just got swept. The first thing you can say is like, man, those guys got a great social media team. I wish the team was playing well. Can you believe the Dodgers be back to being the Dodgers when we run into them? Yeah, we're in a little bit of a funk right now, but we're working on it. You can say, hey, did you hear Stephen Velt was just on the Chris Rose rotation? And you can talk about that a little bit. God, what a great episode that was.

You know, we ran into the injury book. Carson Kelly's hurt. Christian Walker is Drewbel Cabrera, Swole Calhoun. This is the heart of our team. We're getting screwed! I heard they have algae in the pool and right center. Mad bum's a stud.

Yes. I mean, very true. The housing market in Phoenix is looking great. How about this Josh Rojas kid? You can say that. Josh Rojas, local guy. Yep. Local guy.

Mad bum. Whoops. how's his last Dude, everyone's hurt That's what he's like You just get the air So everyone's hurt Huh?

Everyone's hurt Yeah, Escobar's fun Eskobar likes Fogh at Chown Madbums Madbom's last six 34 innings pitched A 132 ERA

On the table Is Escobar gonna get traded? It's hot He'd be great I mean Can play a lot of positions In the infield Um

Free agent He'd be a true rental Yeah I mean, they should probably, a team's going to be looking for, you know, anyone that's looking for infield help platoon. Jake? Eduardo Escobar leading the National League in. Runs batted in.

How about that? Oh, SQ. RBI's for short. Love that. We're 32. All right. Goodbye. Farewell.

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