Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 340 | Winker and Riley Go Off, Padres Swag Chain, + Yankees & Dodgers Sweep

Episode Date: May 24, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. We had another wild weekend of the sport. We're going to talk about it. Some guys are really hot, playing really well. Other teams got swept. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for joining us today. We're presented by Draft Kings.

We're excited. I like the Monday morning episode because the weekend feels like, you know, like a tidy recap. Everyone, every team played three games. Some play wrap around four game sets. I don't know if we have any of those going on today. I hope not because those are weird and dumb. This one's brought to you by our most recent patrons, Aidan Sheedy, Nick Greco, J.T. Harrison,

Matthew Dildene, Rob McDonald. That's so close to Ron McDonald. Shane Kalori and Colin Taylor. Thank you very much. My name is Jimmy. Sitting next to me is Jake. Trevor Plouffe coming to us from California and producer BBD in the corner. How's everyone doing, Trev?

I will start with you. Thank you, Jim. That's very nice of you. I'm doing great. I had a great weekend. Thanks for asking. But like you said, a lot of good baseball, some huge performers. Your guys Yanks did the damn thing.

So I know you're in a good mood today. That's always nice for me coming in here knowing you guys are happy because I like when you're happy. So I'm excited. We'll talk some baseball. and recap this for the people. Jake. I'm pissed off. Wow.

No you're not. Classic setup. No, I'm good, man. I'm good. Just told you guys watching Nives Out this weekend. That was cool. It was a huge sports weekend. So Sports Jake, my original AOL screen name, was pretty happy.

Golf, basketball, hockey. But the baseball continues to be hot in the streets. The bats are starting to play. pick up. I think, you know, some of those early year numbers are starting to creep up to kind of a more normal territory. So maybe some of that ball talk could have been for not if the hitters keep going. But yeah, man, I'm good. Basketball hockey trying to be hot in the street, but baseball is hot in these streets. That next game was pretty cool, though. It's good, man. Garden was rocking. Good amount of people in there. And, uh, it, if it,

feels weird how foreign packed stadiums are. Right. It's like watching that and they were like doing all the crowd shots. And I was like, well, even with the Cards Cups, I was pretty packed as well. Was it that one? Yeah. And it was a lot of and I was like, whoa. Different.

Have we seen like 100% filled 100% baseball stadium? Yeah, the Rangers opening day. Rangers opening day. Is that the only one? Yeah, I don't know. Cards Cubs seem pretty good. It's close. I don't know what Missouri's what they're doing.

Missouri. We're ready. Let's do it, man. Liberty, Missouri. Does that speak to you, Trev? It does not. It does not. I'm not Jesse James fan. It's tough. Jim has you as half a history guy with him and that just took you down it wrong. No, I don't. I didn't think you would know what that was. I just, I'll save that for when Buster comes on again. I got to be honest with you. I have to like turn that section of my brain on. Right now, I'm strictly baseball. All right. We will keep it. We'll keep it strictly baseball. And one of the main reasons you're so locked in, Travis, because you're batting lead-off today. Oh, my goodness.

I got to get ready. You have the National League? I don't know. You know what? We haven't given our reminder to people in a while. You know more about your favorite team than we know about your favorite team. Been seeing the, been seeing the, like, mild, like, little complaints spring up here and they're like, they don't know nothing. And it's like, well, you know more about your team than us.

We're not trying to fool you. Garrett, imagine acting like you. Yeah. Imagine acting like you knew everything about 30 freaking baseball teams. At least we're honest about it. It is impossible. It's like there's so, like, you know, 30 players and every, like Jake did a video on the Yankees White Sox games. Like every player has a little story going on here.

So incredibly hard to know all of them. I had it, I heard an interview with Max Kellerman. And I was like, oh, man, I can't wait to for the wolves to eat this guy up. A, he was actually pretty good. kind of a similar Nick Wright effect, like they give you your angle, and it makes a lot more sense. But he's talking about, because he's a boxing guy originally, and he's like, boxers haven't had storylines in years.

You used to have the story of this guy, and that used to be what made it appealing. And that's what I was running through with baseball, and that's, you know, everything we always talk about, getting these guys more out there and stuff, when you know their story and you know what they're about, that makes what's happening more impactful. So, yeah, I would love to know what happens.

in the American League. But first we have to hear what happens in the nationally. Yeah, you've got to wait, wait that out. Max Kellerman, I saw his name come up somewhere, but now I think I'm have him confused with another. Yeah, no, Kevin Burckhardt, so I was thinking of. Do they look alike? Burckhard and Kellerman?

Yeah. What's the guy that rapped back in the day? Is that Kellerman? I think that's Kellerman. There's so many, I don't know if he's brutal, but there's so many brutal guys that lump them all together. No, I mean, Kellerman's tough because he does the daytime back-and-forth circuit with, you know, Stephen A, and like, it's a lot of hot takes, and it's a lot of yelling, but, no, he had a couple good lines that you're like, okay, that's a good line. Burkhart, we're now bringing up a picture of Burkhart and Kellerman.

They don't look anything alike. Oh, it's white. Yeah, big time. You white, you Ben Affleck. Think if you grew up beard, we'd be there. Uh, Burkhart is... Burkart looks like he's from Indiana. He's not.

He's not. He's from New Jersey. He's from the town that I'm moving to. That's why he was on my mind. Hmm. Okay. All right. Skinnamarinka-dink-dink.

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Oh, we had some big plans, though, to be, you know, All-Star game. Oh, no. Well, there's one idea we had that. It would make for a very nice, pleasing visual for the audience. And we'll save that for the All-Star game. And let's go straight into the National League recap. Trev, tell everyone what happened. All right, the pirates went down into Atlanta and the Braves took three or four.

That's obvious because, let's be honest, the pirates stink. And they only gave Cole Tucker two at bats during the whole damn series. Game one, six, four pirates. They get in the extra innings. They thought things were going to go great. Next game, 20 to one Braves, then it was six to one, then seven to one. Like I said, they took three out of four. The Braves amashed in this series.

They slashed 321, 378, 7, 14. slug with 15 homers. The Pirates did not rake in this series. Braves pitchers obviously did pretty well. And our guy young thick, four homers and nine RBIs, while Dansby and Albies had three homers each. And Acuna, of course, he joined in on the party with two home runs. And here's a silly stat that Max put out there.

Ion Anderson, first pitcher in the modern era to face different pitchers with his last name and back-to-back starts. That's Brett and Tyler Anderson. That's an awesome stat. three out of four the Braves take uh take that series and then we're going to move on to the fish the Mets go down to florida in miami and the marlins take two of three first game Mets one six to five and twelve stroman versus curtis it was a bullpen day and then the marlins took the next two three one and five one the marlins starting pitchers did extremely well point six R a three

games both offenses pretty much struggled uh garrett cooper with the two runs walk-off home run Saturday, or two home runs, including a walk-off home run on Saturday. Him and Brian Anderson both had six hits each. They raked and now DeGrom after destroying some minor leaguers' dreams is expected to return on Tuesday. Moving on, the Brewers went into Cincinnati and took two of three. The Reds, this is a common theme going on here. The Reds took the first game nine to four, then it lost the next two, four, three, and again, nine to four. that Brewers won the series, despite slashing 210, 310, 400,

and pitching to a 5.54 ERA. So they won some ugly games, I guess that's what we're trying to say. Yelichich's first home run of the season. He's back. Miley and Sensel placed on the 10-day I-L. And Kestinheera, our guy, one of the Brewers' main pieces from a couple years ago was expected to be recalled from the minor leagues. Brewers take two or three, Winker.

I think you mentioned him. He's a stud. He went off. Moving on, the Dodgers went into San Francisco, and all they did was sweep that ass. 2-1 Dodgers, 6-3 Dodgers, 11-5 Dodgers. They're ridiculous. Nothing they do impresses me anymore because I just think they're that good. Muncie had two home runs.

Scott Casimir back in the show, one earned run in four innings pitch on Saturday for the Giants. Bellinger could return next weekend and bet Smooky, or guy, he was scratched Sunday with left shoulder, I think he ended up getting placed on the I-L. Could be wrong about that. Dodgers sweep. They take the three-game series. Moving on. The Cubs went into St. Louis.

And they took two or three. Again, Cubs won the first game. 12-to-3, 2-1 Cardinals, then 2-1 Cubs in the rubber match. Neither the offenses hit particularly well. The Cubs-starting pitchers did pitch well. 1.45 ERA, and the relief pitchers pitched 8 And a third shutout inning.

Baez breaks the 10th ending. Scoreless tie with a two-run, home run on Sunday night baseball. And that shit was loud. I had to tweet about it. It was so damn loud. Michael S.X. is the first start since 2019. That's a really sad story. He fought his way back.

Four innings pitch. He came out. Had to call the trainer out there. He's placed back on the IL with right forearm tightness. But the MRIs were good. That showed no structural damage. So let's all send some good vibes to that guy because he's been working hard.

The cubbies take two of three. And last but not least, Jake's D-backs at Jake's Rocks. The Rockies. The Rockies swept them as soon as Jake left and got off the train. They said, screw you, Jake. We don't need you.

Time out? No timeouts. Keep going. Oh, you said a timeout. You called the timeouts. No timeouts in burns. You guys know the rules. You called the time out.

There's no timeouts. We were spelling the hands on. 7-1 Rockies, 7-6 Rockies, 4-3 Rockies. The Rocky slash 2. 286, 340, 520, Diamondbacks, not so hot. 232, 307, 284. That's ridiculous.

Come on, D-backs. Rocky starting pitchers. Pitch to the 2.5 ERA and the D-back starting pitcher, 7.71. That's not going to get it done. Rocky sweep. Fuentes, our guy who DME says he likes our stuff, had three plus extra base hits. What does that mean? Three plus extra base hits.

He had more than three? Why don't we just write the right number? Anyways, Rocky sweep. And that is what happened. in the NL. It says story and Fuentes three plus extra base hits. Ah, whatever.

But still. It's beautiful. Why'd you call it timeout on me? I'm curious. Guys, the Rockies are two different teams. The home team Rockies are a solid Major League baseball team. They have a winning record.

The Rockies on the road. John Boy Media Traveling Baseball team So are you But you jumped on You switched Like officially last episode you said Oh I'm not a Rockies guy I'm still Dbacks till I die

I know but it's a little It's a little like maybe the Dbacks wants you off Because Jake's rocks No no no And then you switch to Jake's Dbacks And then the Dax gets swept by your former team No Their skid happened before I jumped on board

It's kind of like say you're dating a girl right And her life's terrible And then you break up with her and then you date a new girl and now the new girl's life starts plummeting and the old girl's life just start getting great and the new girl is now like wait. Great analogy, Jim. Are you the one dragging me down? So you're saying the Rockies are great because they're the old girl in this situation. Comparalli saying the Rockies are great. They just swept.

Okay. John Boy says the Rockies are great. You're doing better without you. Yes. No girl. If she starts dating me is doing well. So you agree then? No, your whole equation is wrong

Because you said the new girl I started dating Was already doing well That's thrown out the window This thing has holes all over Jess is an angel Right, but I mean when we match Yeah Imagine

You brought her down She was higher than an angel What's higher than an angel? No, dude, she has to be messed up enough To go on a day with me Like where are you guys right now? It's like I'm doing the show With Jess, me and BPD

Speaking of BPD said my analogy was best ever. He selected to me. He did not. I'm in the same slack. I also liked your analogy too, Jim. So you're Jake, you lose. Okay. Let's talk baseball. No points to everyone else. So many Andersons. That was my first note that I took. Did like three pitchers and then Brian Anderson for the Marlins. I have two things I want to discuss deeper. Dodgers are Mets. Which one do you want to do first? No one cares. Mets? Did you see the Mets on their, their walk, their win in the 12th

inning was, I mean, they're so banged up. They got like 10 position players on the IL. But it was really cool. I have a breakdown of it. Edited, not done yet. But so first, Jake Hager, I don't know how to say his name. Comes Hager. Hager, I think.

He comes to bat in the top of the 12th of the tie game. It's his eighth ever MLB at bat. And he gets a hit. So all of the Mets, Alonzo and Nimmo are on the railing, like, get the ball, get the ball, get the ball, that's his first hit. The next batter is Wilfredo Tovar. He strikes out. Then Khalil Lee comes up. It's his ninth big league at bat or something like that.

He hits a double. It's his first career hit. So all the Mets are on the railing, like get the ball, get the ball, get the ball, get the ball. Then comes up Janeshway Fargus. it's his 14th big league at bat. He's got three hits already at that point, I think. But he comes up and he hits the triple that scores the two of them. So it was three guys that don't have 15 at plate appearances to their name

getting the win for the Mets in the 12th inning. It's really fun and cool. They went on to, did they win the series? They lost the next game. They lost a series. They lost a series, but they're so banged up. And this, Janeshway, is that how we've decided it said? Janeseway.

He also made a great catch, but they went on to lose that. Kupalup got him. But those three at-bats in a row were just, I don't know. You see that that often. First Major League kit, first Major League hit, fourth Major League kit. I don't know if you're, I believe it was the first ball. Cleely's put in play as well. I think he struck out and he was eight, first eight at bats.

Wow. What? Then he gets the big hit. You can't just say something like that. Now I have to go look. Yeah. I went to his game log to make sure at least the strikeout number adds up. 15 at bat's one hit, 10 strikeouts.

They could have been at that point. I like it, BD. Coming up to that point, you're right, BPD. And yeah, I mean, Mizzica has one career hit. Their fielders choice walkoff guy. So, yeah, I think at one point this weekend, I think the Mets had three guys on their team with one career hit. So, yeah, that's when the injury bug starts to bite you.

That'll happen. They got Gierme, Alonzo, Confordo, Davis, Pilar, Nimmo, McNeil, and Al-Mora, all on the I-L. It's a lineup. Is it? Yeah. I love them in Kaleel. Kareel's a good name. Eight.

Eight, yeah. Then they have, then DeGrom. There's a pitcher. That's their lineup. They also have Walker and Hunter on the aisle as well. But like the position players. Brandon Jory's on the Mets? Oh, yeah.

He was in AAA. I think he got the call through all this chaos, yeah? Wow, I did not know that. Good for him. So, yeah, that was the Mets. It was a really cool ending for them. Wait, the Mets actually have. Oh, there's no catcher.

Damn. They need a catcher on the I-O? Yeah. Otherwise, they have every position. Yeah. Alonzo at first. You go McNeil at second, Giormet at short, J.D. Davis at third.

Nimmo, Conforto, Elmora, Jr. in the outfield. Pilar, if you want them there. So, yeah, you just need someone to sit behind the dish. Just put Guillermo behind the dish. He's got fun. He can do it. It's probably the emergency guy anyway. Pilar can catch him with his face.

Hey. Proven to be able to do it. Oof. Yeah, you know what people say? You guys didn't even mention Pilar at all on these shows. So here we are mentioning. There's going to be stuff we don't mention. People are going to have to understand that.

Geneshoe. He let out real nice, let's go. It's funny because he tried to go for an inside-the-park home run but got thrown out at home plate but didn't care at all because he got the go ahead to RBI's so you never see a guy get thrown out but come up just like yeah Soto Soto in the playoffs when he got tagged yeah yeah it was pretty funny all right the other thing I wanted that I wrote down that I want a voice is my irrational but rational but I know Giants fans are going to be upset Giants are dead Dodgers are going to win the division

Oh. Jim, you're proclaiming them dead, May 24th, 2021. They got a front office that still sees selling. They're in third place in their division now. If they were to go beat the Dodgers, it would have been like, yeah, we announced ourselves. Dodgers just big brothered them. Ran into them at the wrong time, man. Dodgers are hot.

11 of 12, 7 in a row. I wouldn't be surprised if you're like, from here, out. These are still the bad men. They were still the bad men when they were losing. You know, on the Giants bandwagon and it wasn't like, Dodgers, you're gone. No, the Dodgers and Padres were still always going to be there. Don't let a three-game set where Scott Casimir got the pill in game two, Trevor Ploof Scott Casimir. I mean, yeah, let's pump the brakes on that a little bit. I don't think they're dead, but I will say this. I mean, the Dodgers are the boogeyman. Everybody knows that.

That's what I'm saying. Best team in baseball. They don't even have two of their best players on the team right now. I mean, and they haven't had them. I mean, they've been all over the place too. Their depth has been questioned and we've seen some of it.

And man, they're just just wait till August, September comes around. We're going to see a whole different Dodgers team out there that's going to be scary, scary, scary. Ellie's supposed to be returning soon. Bauer, Bueller, Eureas. Whew.

Hold your death. There were some funny stuff in that game with Bauer. You know, he was, we talked about this a little bit with Rose on the IG show. He was, you know, taunting the fans and doing this, and he was doing the sword thing, which I will say this about the sword thing. I don't like it because it's showing up the other guy. We always say, you want to show emotion in this game. Go ahead and do it, you know, but celebrate with your teammates. Have the raw emotion.

The sword thing is a planned celebration that's, you know, you're basically just talking shit to the hitter right to his first. face. Yeah, I guess you're right. Because it would be like, if he like spiked ball four, it'd be like the, it'd be like the pitcher just like doing a mock like spike in the hall. Heard should do that. Yeah. Well, that's what he would say is, well, why don't they do that to me?

And I think that's, that's just like you're going to snowball into a bunch of ridiculous shit. Like, let's, let's have some professionalism out there. I do not like the sword thing. Some other funny stuff. You got thrown out at first base on a nice hit to right field. Who was it? Yaz came up throwing him out.

That was pretty funny. and there was another thing he did. Oh, yeah, he made basically two airs on one play. Longo hit a ball back to him. He botched the fielding portion of it. Then he picked it up and, you know, pitchers just can't throw to bases. We all know that.

And he just, and he lobbed it, but at the same time, airmailed it over the first baseman's head to let up a run. So, you know, look, it's give and take, I guess, but my main takeaway is the sword thing's tired. I'm in on the sword thing. kids should be doing that on fields across the world. It's, Trevor, goes back to pictures being soft.

Jay, please take that back. That is not like celebrating for yourself, which we always say. You got them. It's the intentional talk. Chris Rose show segment for 11 years. Got him. Like, you know, that's what Trevor Bowers trying to do. And this is the whole point.

If you do what you're trying to do, if you get that strike out, do it. if you hit the homer celebrate it that celebrating your homer is different than showing up the pitcher or showing up the hitter that's exactly what they're doing now well Trevor I mean we've come back

the outcome that happens more often than not exactly talk about strikeouts on this thing on this show no he's saying you can fist pump you can you can throw like even Bruce start throwing his gloves he's not saying that he's saying strikeouts happen all the time that pitchers do that it's expected of them it's the expected result It is now.

But I think Trev has a problem saying just because it's mocking the hitter and not celebrating you. He is celebrating him. By mocking the hitter swing. He beat the hitter. I'm going to get called Boomer in the chat, I'm sure. I'm going to look right now. I think this squares up with everything that you and I have always said. I see what you're saying.

It's not celebrating yourself. It's kind of poking fun at the other guy. I could see a bad or taking offense. That's everyone being way too soft. not that bad. It's being everyone being way too soft. We need to move past that. I want pitchers to celebrate. I'm I want emotion in the game.

I like that. That's totally fine, but it shouldn't be directed towards the other person. That's because look, at the end of the day, you're both majorly baseball players. You've worked your ass out to get here. It's competition going back and forth. There's still can be some professionalism in the game.

I want people to celebrate with the team. Get happy. Show emotion. But it should to be like 100% directed towards one person. Because guess what? It's going to start fights. You're going to put your other teammates in jeopardy? I always say that, man.

You want to go and, you know, do all this stuff? Some of your other teammates are going to get put into jeopardy. It's just getting away from the fun that the game should be. Like, you know, he does the one-eye thing, and then Tatis hits the homer, and he does the one-eye thing back. That's fine. Like, if Bowers going to do that to you, then next time you get a hit off him, yeah. He did that in spring training, though.

No, that was real. The one-eye thing. No, he didn't. Bauer did his part in spring. Bauer did his. Tate's part was in the regular season, right? Yeah. But Tatis didn't hit a home run with one eye,

so it was kind of like, well, what are you doing? David Price's role with the Dodgers interest me. I mean, I don't tune into his, like, press conferences and all that, but it's kind of weird that he's an opener slash slop guy. out of the pen. I don't know if he deserves to be something different than that. It's just, I can't remember the last time we saw a guy sit out a season. His team wins the World Series. Obviously, we've never seen that. But then he comes back and he's not a starter and not a high leverage guy.

It's got to be kind of weird, right? They probably have a plan. I mean, getting him into throwing shape or something like that. You know, he sits out last year. A lot of people thought that his jet was running low on fuel anyways. But yeah, I mean, someone with the Dodgers organization and Price has passed, I'm sure they discussed it all, especially when they gave May the starting job out of camp. Yeah, I just wanted to expect it to be, you know, he comes in when they're up by six or more. I'm so mad right now.

What? I know as soon as you say anything that contradicts like any new age baseball, you're a boomer and you're like mad at everyone. That's not obvious. If you've ever listened to the show at all, you understand that we are about having fun on the field. Like I've seen it.

I'm just telling you what happens when you start doing this shit all the time. It's directed towards one specific player, whether it's right or wrong, stuff happens. But I think that's the misconception on that. I don't think it's targeted at the individual play. player, it's targeted at the action. Pitch Ninja has made the sword a thing.

So when a sword happens... Hitch Ninja can do it. He's a... A sword is when a batter takes a very embarrassing swing. Like a check swing. They didn't want to swing at a pitch because it's good. Yeah. So that's Bauer celebrating himself.

Like, he beat the hitter. I mean, look, man, I'll agree to disagree on this one. And everyone's going to call me a boomer. I see where you're coming from, Treve. I think it's like very... valid point. I think it, I think it's,

like it is at the hitter, but I don't think it's that bad or egregious. I just think it's kind of. I don't think it's that bad. I think it's corny. Well, the sword celebration, if we're going to go back to its origins,

is from Mighty Ducks, and it's the coolest thing you can do in hockey when you take the slap shot and go into your belt. I mean, you know, Fulton Reed kind of invented the sword. So it's a Bass Brother thing. So like,

that's when sword started everyone. That's when the sword celebration. It was invented. 1994. Well, it was Mighty Ducks 2. I think when they did it. No,

I think it was Mighty Ducks 1. So 1994. Yeah, they did the sound effect. Badass. So. Okay. Give whoever wrote Mighty Ducks some credit.

I'm just getting in trouble. The more I talk about it, people are going to get mad of me. So whatever, we can move on. Okay, we'll move on. Anything else in the National League? National League.

Jim had his two items. Braves absolutely crush the pirates. I mean, everyone gets hot in that game to the point where no one gets hot. I got to do my constant reminder that like a 20-run game to me, boo. Not boo, but like, you know, I'm not going to do a breakdown on it. I got so many requests.

Statement series for the Cubs against the Cardinals, right? Yeah. Cubbies did. He's big. It was a statement series. And they looked kind of good. And Rossi got fired up and ejected from that hump to his 30 years old. So I feel like because he's like the youngest hump.

But his own is not awful. Yeah, he was in over his head a little bit. All he was in way over his head. He just let Rossi undress him. He didn't even say anything. Did you see the tweet that at that. point in the game, he had an 83% correct call thing, which is that would have been the lowest ever since they kept track of bumps, I think.

But he raised it to 85% to the end of the game, which put him at six worse. But at the time Ross got ejected, he had the worst zone that we've ever seen since they've been keeping track like that. So, like, I think he understood. And then Baez almost got upset about a pitch and. He was just trying, like, looking at the ump and the ump was like, just stop. Just please stop. Like, almost like begging.

Like, please stop. That's why the ump didn't talk. He didn't have anything to say. No, he just, you're right, Rossi. Yeah. No, Cubs second place in the Central, two games back of the Cardinals, the only two teams above 500. Cardinals and Cubs in that division.

Only team in the NL East above 500 is currently Los Mets. And the NL West, those three teams, Padres, actually have the one hole, 30 and 17. Dodgers right behind him, 29 and 18. Giants a game back from them. Since Hap started hitting, came back.

They are 8 and 2. Since he came back, he had one buffer game. They're 8 and 3. Yeah, 8 and 3. But I'm not going to not going to count that because he was just getting into the groove. Once he got into the groove.

When he's back back. This is back back. Second game, he started hitting 8 and 2. So Hap. He's like a star. dude like he's all over like the broadcast he's got my he's miced up he's he's a guy guy huh he gets it think you think he's gonna come in the back alley and get uh nice stuff probably hit me hit us probably probably probably launched some home runs in the back alley i don't even know when he's coming new

york but yeah suck it pitching though i thought you guys were gonna hop box the back alley with with with hap could maybe i don't know i don't know if he'd like that or i mean i don't know if his people would like that. Oh, you're right. Cub people. But yeah, that Cubs Cardinals game was good. And that division's looking like it's going to be fun. What's the closest division? Yelly back a little bit,

getting the homer. He said it's better late than never, guys. Well, the NL East right now, everyone's separated by two and a half games. Everyone. Everyone. That's crazy. Wasn't it three? It got closer. It got tighter. Yeah. It got tighter. NLE East. That's crazy.

Padres take first place. All right. I think we're good on the NL. You guys want to move on? Need it. AL Recap. Here we go. On you mark. And get set.

The first place Chicago White Sox came into the Bronx for a close three game series. Yankees took game one, two, and three. Every game came down to like the last couple innings. It was crazy. Yankees starting pitchers all zero earned runs. 19 scoreless innings, now 35 straight for the Yankees starters. The Yankees hitters slash 287 and 351. White Sox just 176 and 257.

Glaver Torres went absolutely crazy. He went 8 for 12 with a home run, 8 RBIs. He had the walk off game one. Judge had the walk off walk. Game three, they won solidly in game two. The Hicks is going to get the surgery for his sheath of his wrist tendon. and Stanton is returning tomorrow. Battle of the A's in California.

The athletics took two out of three from the Angels. The A's all hit really well. They had a 380 on base percentage as a team with nine home runs. The Angels slash line was worse than that. A's pitching, the starters, 245 ERA. The relief pitchers for the A's not that good. 8-2-2. Loriano had seven hits in a home run.

Walsh had two home runs. Otani had a big pinch hit at bat. The crowd all went kind of nuts when he stepped to the plate, and it was like, wow, he's got a lot of juice, and he deserves it. And then he did come through with the game tying sack fly in that moment, but the Angels loses theirs. The Blue Jays and the Rays, they do have a wrap-around. They've played three games.

The Rays have won all three. The fourth game is getting played. Today. Glassnow versus K. McClanahan versus Ray. Waka versus Ray. Rays are on fire, man. Blue Jays have taken the lead in the eighth inning or later in all three games. They've all been close. I tuned in to some of them. Zanino. He just hits bomb home runs now. Vizio placed on the 10-day I.L. Lowe and Mahia, two home runs each. the Rangers swept the Astros in the Battle of Texas

did not see that one coming two of the three games go into the 10th inning Rangers didn't hit that well but I guess got on base and slugged a little not even I don't know Astros didn't hit at all Rangers starting pitchers pitched to a 2-37 ERA

Gibson Liles and Fulte get it done Astro starting pitchers Ivy who's that McCullors and Javier air. Not as great. Garcia Adolice. He's like a stud. He's the best. He had a walk off three-run home run on Friday, two home run on Saturday, walk off sack fly on Sunday. What? Kiner Folefa had six hits. Good job. The Royals took two out of three from the Tigers making up for the time when the Tigers swept him earlier in the season. Minor Boyd and Mize pitched for the Tigers,

Uranus, Singer, and Bubik. Both teams raked. Tigers had 288 batting average 347 on base percentage. They out hit the Royals who had a 311 on base percentage. And the Royals pitched to a 4-6-7 ERA. Tigers 5-4-0. None of these numbers are really that impressive or that terrible. Santana walk-off home run on Sunday. Miguel Cabrera had five hits, two home runs, and five RBI.

A little meagab season. How about it? Trev's twins get on the right path before they're awesome. easy schedule comes. They take two out of three from the Indians. Two of these games winning extra innings, the twins. Hey man, no one hitting this series either.

Twins relief pitchers pitched to a 164 ERA in 11 innings. Wow, the twins bullpen getting it done. Cesar Hernandez had a walk-off home run Sunday. Kyle Garlick had a go ahead three-run home run in the 10th on Sunday. Maeda goes to the I.L. And Reyes to miss five to seven weeks with left internal. oblique strain. Been there, Trev, huh?

He's raking, too. There you go. That's the AL. How many extra earnings games do we have? One, two, three, four, five, and then the Yankees had two walkoffs, but they weren't extra earnings. They were ninth inning. Wow.

A lot of close games in the AL. And the Ray's Blue Jays had one, but I think a lot of those games were close to. So he has a lot of close games. The Rays are now tied with the Red Sox, 29 and 19. The Yankees are tied in the loss column. Red Sox raised and Yankees all have 19 losses.

White Sox stay top of their division, even though they got swept. And the A's stay atop their division. The Rangers climb up to third place with their sweep of the Angels. How about that? Not a sweep. Houston. Houston. Houston, yeah.

Bang Biscuit. What do you like, Trevor Plough? The coolest thing I saw wasn't even really like, I guess, important in the game. But yeah, you talked about it when Shohei came up to bat. Pinch hit. People are appreciating what we're seeing. And I think that's really cool. I mean, the guy, like, you see these stats so often on Twitter now. You almost go numb to him.

But I think he has the hardest ball hit, the fastest pitch thrown. and he runs, I don't know, like he's at the top of like sprint speed, hard hits, and fastest pitch thrown. He's near the top or at the top of all three of those things. And if you really sit back and think about it, that's one player. It's incredible. He's a freak. And I don't know how he's not going to win the MVP. He stays healthy. It's got to be some of the best odds he got. Yeah, we had one of our investors reached out over the weekend and he came in humbly, a little too humbly, just to do it. And he was like, why do the angels stink?

And it's a heavy question. I mean, you know, they had trout for years, and now they have Otani and Trout. Trev, you've raised your hand. It's the pitching? Yeah. Yeah, I said pitching and organizationally flawed. Because every year it's the same...

I haven't developed any pitch. Every year it's the same story, too. Like, it's just... Both. bad enough that it's kind of unwatchable, you know? Like it's not even 500. It's not a couple games up. It's just bad.

And, you know, we talk about them getting jumped by the Texas Rangers and the Mariners are still ahead of them. God, I mean, it feels like a lot of people have missed out on actually watching Mike Trout. Like, we all know Mike Trout, but how much Mike Trout does someone actually watch in a given week in a given month? And now Otani, I mean, at least when he's the start. starting pitcher. You can kind of tune into that a little more than a guy getting four at bats. But yeah, man, I, you know, always got to have the Yankees spin zone hat on. You know, Otani was originally looking at the Yankees. That, in theory, would have had him

penciled into the DH spot some days. And he would have been their pitcher, which would have stopped the Giancarlo Stanton trade. So it's one of those things like, man, the Otani, when they do the Otani roundabout one of these days and the ripple effect that it had on baseball, that's going to be a funky starting point. But yeah, man, it's crazy. Running, pitching, hitting. He's a creative player.

Yes, I think Poo-Hulls, I'm answering your question again, pitching, and the Poo-Holls contract hamstrung them a little bit. He didn't perform as well as they had hoped. What? And then when you give yourself a cap, a salary cap, you can get hamstrung by that. There is no salary cap in baseball. We always have to remind people. You can still go out and spend money.

But that is also another problem that they've had. Don't want the owners off the hook for that, Trev. Yeah. They can spend more. I did my whole rant last episode about hating the Angels. A lot of Angels fans agreed with me, but some got mad at me. but I mean, there was no reason to give Rendon $245 million when you needed pitching. And Cole was on the market.

And every rumor that I heard was Cole wanted to stay in California. And Bauer was on the market the next year. And you gave Rendon $240 million. Got them. It was just, that was no reason to do that. So they just sink themselves a lot. But Angels fans just like, angels owners just like selling tickets and selling TV deals. I don't care about.

Is Mickey Calloway still part of the organization? Have they done the investigation? Do they have a pettings? I don't know. I don't know. Let's talk about the race. They're good. They've won 10 of their last 10 games. They've won in their

last 20. I think they're 18 and 4. 16 and 4 would make more sense, math-wise. Math-wise, yeah. I think they're the hottest team in baseball right now. Their lineup has done, it's just pretty spread out. They've had 11 guys in this 10-game stretch hit a home run. They've had 13 guys with an extra base hit.

They're doing it. This came off the Yankee series where we saw them and their hitting was sad. And I think I said it on talking Yanks. I think I said it on here. I was really disappointed in the race. I had the same bar of expectation as I know Trev did last year, as one of the top contenders in the American League. And they were dead ducks as of two weeks ago.

And they hit the switch. Randy has gone off. G. Man Choy has come back and been really impactful for them. They traded away Willie Adamas. I thought they were going to do a little shake-up. I didn't know if it would be Willie. Everyone was hoping that the call was going to be Wander Franco. No, they've got other talented short stops that they had an option to call up on.

So they went to Taylor Walls. time. Next time it could be Vidal Bruhan. So, like, this team has options with that lineup, and now it's starting to click. Joey Wendell is being Joey Wendell. Mejia and Zanino has turned into a really nice catching platoon. Beelow is starting to get hot. Meadows, like, this lineup did the turn, and like the race always do, which allows them to go on a 10-game win streak, if their bats figured out, they always pitch. They always pitch enough, man. So that's, That's the recipe. They went out and got two new guys to add to the pen just because.

Like, why not? Let's add some different looks. Oh, you've seen our relief pictures enough. Let's just go change it up. Fire Eisen and Rasmussen. Is Fire Rising in my book, guys? Yes, in AAA. He is.

He's in Jimmy's book, too. Who? Fire rising. Firearms. Yeah, I was excited because he's a Yankees' prospect, so I know how to say his name because we've been saying it forever. who's actually a twin Indians prospect.

It was part of the Andrew Miller trade. But everyone was struggling with his name. Like Wingerd on Farm to Fame, her and Moreland didn't know. And then someone else got... Not us. Yeah, and I was like, that's one that I know.

There's a lot I don't know out there, but Fire Eisen. I know that. I think he has a fun experience about... He proposed at a minor league game. There's some proposal story with him. Anyway, Rich Hill's been great. And by the way, with the race,

You talk about the race being the raise And maybe some people don't understand What we're saying when we say that Because we get to see them a lot Trevor Ploof was Star 3rd Baseman for them for a while So he gets it Fire Eisen comes over He got the save the other day

He had one career save before that Well yeah I'd love to I mean That's Ray's baseball Before we knew who the pitcher was in the trade It was like you know pitchers are coming back I was like well expect him to be You know an 8th inning guy down the

stretch in September, October. Because that's how that goes. Yeah, and you knew our boy, Enosaris was going to have something good on this, and he did, he mentioned that both of those guys have excellent vertical break on their pitches, and that is something that the race covet. So if we're looking for like trade pieces of the deadline for the race, they want vertical break. So if you're another team, if you're out here watching this show, go try to stock up about some

vertical break guys, okay? vertical. Because if the rays do it, you should do it. I have something to tell you guys. Rich Hill's first four starts. After the first four, he had an 8-82 ERA. That's not good. He gave up four-run runs in every start.

In his next five starts, 098 ERA. Rich Hill has been dealing. His season is down to 389. But yeah, in his last five starts, he got a 098 ERA. Pretty crazy. The other interesting thing, looking at the raise pitching, Glass now, our friend, shout out Chris Rose rotation. He has now had two games this season that kind of jack with his numbers,

which are still amazing on the year, where he's given up five earned runs, two games where he's given up five earned runs, both the Toronto Blue Jays. So, you know, maybe if he's got All-Star contention on the line. Maybe if, you know, something like that, maybe he's like, hey, let's skip Glassnau versus the J's. They may know something.

I wonder what it is. You think he's tipping? You think it's just because they're like a young group there. They don't give a shit about his Velo? I don't think tipping unless they figured it out in the middle of the first game. He struck out 10 the first time. He went six innings pitch, five runs with 10Ks. But this recent one was bad. It was only 4.2. 9 hits, only two strikeouts. Go look at the game day, Savon. Yeah, I like that. And then G. Man Choy's been back.

So with G. Man Choy being back and taking the first base, they've been, they were moving Yandi to third every now and then, Wendell to short, and they call up walls. So it kind of allowed them to move on from Willie as they have some guys and then bring up more guys and get some pitching because their bullpen has been really injured. So G-man's back. G-man's back. He's already got a 500 on.

base percentage. Gene and Choi. Tied up with the Red Sox atop the A.L. East. Man, J.D. Bogart's endeavors are still having incredible seasons. And Kike's back for them and playing pretty well. Sox are doing it. Out of Vino's been pretty solid of late for them. And the Yankees, half game back, tied in the L column.

After sweeping the Chicago White Sox. man that first game was kind of bad strikeout baseball then it was good strikeout baseball then it was just really good baseball i mean every pitch every play had a good defensive dynamic to it there were deeks there were base running there was bad defense it was uh the final three innings of that first game you know i i said should be sent to every third grade class around the country and the kids should be forced to watch it to learn the beauty of the game. I heard nothing back on that.

So we'll see. Who are you expecting to hear from? I'm on the internet. Who's in charge of all the schools? Who's the teacher head now? Is it the sorting hat? Who's in charge of education? Head of education.

Is that the title? Ford of Education? The Education Secretary? You're looking for that guy? A scientist BPD. I don't know who it is. Relax. Oh, I actually think the dude's a CCSU guy.

Yeah, Miguel Cardona. So, yeah, Jim, I am expecting him to reach out. Jeez, Miguel. The head of teaching in America went to the same college as you and I. Why? That's damning. Uh-oh. Tyler Glass now only 18% swing and miss on his four-scene fastball in the game

against the Blue Jays, that seems rather low. So yeah, Ray's fans, what we got? Did it look like they were on him? He's been known to tip in the past. Did he, did the Jays get something on him? I'm gonna go take a look at that for sure. I'm curious now. You've got Trevor's curiosity.

You got Trevor's curiosity. Oh, yeah. You peaked. Hey, you mentioned the twins are about to enter the easy part of their school. He averages around 30. whiff percentage on his fastball. So look into that, Trev. Look into that Glass Now versus Blue Jays.

They found some. I scratchy. Yeah, the twins are about to go through the Royals and Tigers Gambit or Royals and Mariners. Orioles and Royals. Orioles and Royals. Colorful series. 12 games under 500.

Yeah. Is there a scenario before the All-Star break, we see a 500 team? Before the All-Star break? I guess that's a lot. lot. That's that's that's coming up quick. That's six weeks. You might, you might even hear a little on this topic later. We'll teaser for you guys. Okay. We'll do a lot of math by then.

Is that a yes or no, Jim? I think they can. I'm going to have to do a lot of math on it. I'll help you with that. Yeah. When's the Allster break? July 12th. Yeah. Well, they play, that's June. Oh, by July. Yeah, they can. Yes, they can. I don't even have to do math Wow, no math Wait, where's my Where's my Minnesota?

Oh, wow Let's go Twinkie fans Let's go baby Yeah man What the fuck is this They gotta have you save it for a little bit What the fuck is that? Okay

Saving it Jake wants me to save it Jake, can you give us The Inner League series? Yeah, before we go there AOL West Athletics on top They jump the Astros after that sweep. Classic. We'll watch that

happen every time until they link up and play and then the Astros will jump them. God. And screw the Angels. You want to talk about the Rangers at all? Gibby. Taylor Hearn got his second win. Everyone's a friend.

We're all friends. And dude, Garcia, man. Holy smokes. Adolese. Did a sequence episode with him. Shout out. Go check that out. He's a monster. That all? Mariners, get anything on them? Bugs.

Okay. We haven't played. We're getting to the Interleague, Jim. Here we go. Getting to the Interleague right now. Ooh. Baltimore Orioles versus the Washington Nationals don't have to travel far.

Maybe a little I-95? Nationals sweep the Orioles, Strasbourg, Lester Corbin. But it was mostly the sticks. Holy smokes. Nats hit 3.55. This series, Orioles starting pitchers got roughed up. Brad Hand, Jim, your boy closes out all three games. How about it?

Red Sox and Phillies. That's not too bad of a commute. Ah, you kind of got to travel a little bit. Whatever. Red Sox take two out of three. Sox took the first two and then Phillies. Man, Zach Wheeler, they take the Sunday game six to two. Red Sox starting pitching.

They get hit a little bit, but they're bullpen. Red Sox pin been pretty good this year. Hoskin, Segura, Miller. Trevor's backyard, Brad Miller. They all hit home runs. Real Mudo to the aisle. We hate that. We hate that.

Padres, Mariners. Padres sweep the Mariners. House 16 to 1, 6 to 4 and 9 to 2. Boogity, boogity, boogity, Tatis goes nut job Mariners both starting pitchers and relievers got hit a bad combination for winning baseball there uh yeah did the Padre Slug 600 this series sheesh uh Padre sweep they're on top of the NL West and that's a little inner league nice great job great job Jake Beltway series bottle of the beltway bum but um

Baltimore loses, Trev. I didn't watch any of that series. I'm going to just be honest with you guys. Probably right, too. Wow. I think you're, yeah. I didn't mean not to. I just didn't.

Hand closes all three. What you got on that? I like that. Good for him. Three days in a row pitching. A lot of soft pitchers out there wouldn't do that, but Brad Hans is up to it. And he had two runs on Friday and then came back Saturday and Sunday.

I like that a lot. So would they have three? I guess? Because he got the save, right? Counted out of a save. 4-2-12-9-65. So they're up four. So he turned it into a save?

Oh, he didn't get the save. He didn't get the save. You can't turn it into a show. Wow, I gave up a home run. I don't know. I got nothing on that series. Nationals are two and a half games out, so that's cool. Everyone's close.

Next series here, Red Sox versus Philly. Call that the American Revolution Series. Boston and Philadelphia. Treves got that part of his brain turned on now. Yeah, you got your history brain turned on? I like that, Jim. Okay. Yeah. I like that, Jim. Brad Miller, our guy, did he get tossed?

Founding Father's series? Or was it during this series? Brad Miller ejection? I didn't, I saw it. I barely remember seeing this. Didn't he not say much? He just complained about, the pitch.

Oh, no. He said a lot? Okay, maybe I'm thinking of someone else. He went off. Dan I. Sonia gave him the... Oh, he... Well, Brad was basically...

That was the series before this. Okay, the series before. Okay, yeah. Well, he's been kind of hot. It was in your backyard. Homer, I think it was an opo. Homer he hit down the left field line. He's kind of doing it this year.

Crashed your house. For Brad. Who pitch for the Red Sox? The Red Sox. It was Perez of all the Rodriguez. Oh. Their combined ERA isn't great, but Erod was the only one that gave like a non-competitive outing.

Really? Is Avaldi doing good? Sox are doing the damn thing. They really are. Like a distant name for me. It still blows my mind. He's young enough to still be going. Man, all five of their starters are kind of,

giving them a chance. Evaldi, Erod, Richards, Pivotta, and Perez all rank inside the top 100 starting pitchers this year, which with that lineup, you got a chance every damn day. Big yawn for me. Oh. It was a big yawn. Just, you know, Monday morning yawn. I'm pulling up weird shit to look at.

Okay. Yeah. You are. You are. I just, I get them envious. That's obvious. Fuck. What kind of weird stuff are you looking at?

Red Sox batting orders. Okay. Super envious. Just like, they've played how many games? 48. Verdugo's hit two hole 40 times. Martinez is hit in the three-hole, 45 of the 48 games. Oh, you love this.

Bogart's hit in the four-hole 43 times. Devers 35. Hernandez 32 lead off. What do the Yankees do, Jim? Take pride in not having the same lineup. Because the Yankees think they're the fucking raise. The most... It's really funny.

The most is DJ Lemayu, lead off hitter. 43 out of 47. That's great. After that, it's 27 from Judge in the three-hole. Yeah, I do love that. I do like consistent lineups. It means that you're staying healthy and that you're hitting well enough

that the manager doesn't have to think, and you don't have to think. What's the thing that all millionaires believe in? While they all dress the same? Oh, decision fatigue. Decision fatigue, yeah. That's why all Zuckerberg and Gates and Apple dude. Gates and Zuckerberg, yeah.

What's the guy from Apple? What? Tim Cook. Tim Cook? No, the guy died. Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs. They all wore the same outfit and all that they eat the same breakfast every single day.

because they say they don't want to make a single decision until they're at their desk making work decisions. I feel like you're in that category. Like, you know, your outfits or, you know, you have your hat. You have a baseball shirt and I haven't like been there yet. Steve Jobs also like only ate fruit and smelled terrible. And people said like he was horrible to be in the same room with. So I don't want to like get to that place. But yeah, I'd love to, I do believe in that.

I'd love to not make a decision until I sit down at my desk. And that's why I think I like when, if you're a baseball player, J.D. Martinez, he should. he shows up, he's hitting three-hole, or he has the day off. That's a pretty nice... I've told you it matters, dude. It does matter, and I know that, you know, the front offices don't think it matters, but there's something comforting about it, man. It definitely matters.

It's definitely one less thing. That's all life's about, one less thing. It's interesting that they're letting that happen there. You know, Haim is a raised guy. but I think that he's smart enough to say look if this works it works sometimes shit just works yeah they've also been winning a ton and their lineup's been nasty

yeah yeah we said give heim time he didn't need any time apparently he had last year and that was it trades mookie bets away has last year now they're first place in a leese so go get him heim the rest of the bad boys have caught up though They have. All right.

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Trevor, you are batting leadoff. Who is your stand-out performer from the weekend? I'm going with a guy who, I don't want to say we were talking crap we were trying to motivate a little bit earlier in pre-season talking Austin Riley of the Braves 3 for 4, 2 home runs

double and 3 RBIs bringing his season total and I had to double check these numbers because I wasn't sure 320 B.A 414 OBP 549 slugging for a 963 OPS

We said the guy needed to hit young thick Austin Riley we said hey you need to hit big guy if you want to continue to have a starting job in the big leagues and guess what guys he's starting to hit and he's carrying that team or one of the guys carrying that team a team that i have predicted to be a world series champion so they needed him to step up and he has so um you know 750 OPS in 2019 716 220 and 2020 and now he's just turned it on to a 963 and man only 24 years old. So the sky's the limit for this guy, and I'm excited to see what he turns into.

Good job. Good job. Young Thick. It's a great picture of his last eight games, 500 batting average and six homers. Because the last time we checked in on Young Thick, I know you said the Brave fans were being a little mean. Last time we checked on Young Thick, he was solid, his OBP was high, the power stroke just wasn't there, and now, holy smokes, man.

I mean, he's having those numbers for a third baseman. That's why a lot of... It's a little bit unsustainable. His Babbup is pretty high. But, you know, he's doing it right now, so you've got to give credit when credit is due. He's got a 421 Babbup right now. So it's going to come down his batting average at least,

but, you know, he hits the ball hard. Hit it out. You know who else is hitting the ball hard? Ooh. My standout performer. Yes. Jesse Winker. Oh.

He had himself a game against the Brewers. He went four for four with two walks and two home runs or three home runs. They didn't get him out. They tried real hard. They never did. Maybe they didn't try hard. His first at bat, he had a single. First pitch of the game off of Hauser, King of the Puk.

Nice little single. He goes on to score. Second at bat, works to count full. against Hauser. Hits a home run. That was another lead-off at-bat. His third at-bat, also a lead-off at-bat. So all of these just stinging the brewers right away.

You can't even get an out before Winkers on base. Third-at-bat, second pitch of the at-bat, home run. So now he's two-for-two with two homers or three-for-three with two homers and a single. His fourth at-bat, they walk them. Smart. Comes up again in the 8th to lead off the inning again. First pitch of the inning, Homer. So only one walk.

But so every time he let off the inning, he got on. And then there was one at bat where he didn't lead off the inning. You batted second. And he was like, whatever. And just walked instead. Whatever. It's amazing. He's having himself a crazy year.

Currently leads the league in OPS Plus and OPS and slugging. Don't try and throw him a fastball because he's got an 833 slugging on fastballs right now. 10 of his 13 home runs have come via the fastball. He's got a 427 batting average on the fastball. Jesse Winker playing out of his mind. And that game is my standout performance. And Jim, he's one point behind in batting average to teammate Nick Castellanos. And he's three total bases behind Nick's Castellanos to be leading in that too.

So winkers. Winkers looking like a video game. Looking good. Who's your standout? James. Trev got really excited when he saw my standout because he likes when we feel the noise from the Yankees haters. I'm going with Jordan Montgomery.

You know, probably maybe the name you least know in the Yankees rotation. Monty, Gumby, the big lefty highest release point. of any lefty in MLB. He's had his ups and downs. To start this White Sox series was an up. Seven innings pitch, zero earn run, 11Ks, four hits. And Jimmy, you ran the Jimmy Liddix on it

and what makes that more important because that does go toe to toe with the best starting pitching performances of the weekend. But why it stands out, the Chicago White Sox have killed lefties. I think the number you had was 23 and 2 the past two years. 23 and 2, and the 2 were Mike Minor. And the two were one guy, Mike Minor.

So if you were a lefty starting pitcher and you saw the Chicago White Sox the past two years and your name was not Mike Minor, your team did not win. Monty goes out, drops dick on him, and sets the tone for that whole series, Cole on the bump the next day. who I love it I like that Jake I like that one that wasn't so Yankee bias

because you you put together a nice little storyline about the lefties and J. Montgomery's stepping up so good job Jay Montgomery, you like that? No, it's Monty or Gombie he's not cool enough to be J. Montgomery

It sounds like a... Jay Montgomery's like a detective. Steakhouse detective. Jay Montgomery's from Texas who wears a cowboy ahead and he solves crimes. Or he's like a crooked politician in a small Texas town. Jay Montgomery.

What's that? Gumbie's got one of the thicker acts. I feel like I'm not the only person that calls him that. I never heard it before. I've never heard it. That's kind of why I brought it out. We've been talking about him for five years now. But I mean, it's not bad.

Treve, I've got a question for you. He's not a Jay Montgomery. I got a question for you. It's about baseball. There's obviously deceptive deliveries. you know guys who hide the ball blah blah blah release point was there ever guys that just the release point was funky for you

I mean obviously sidewinders and stuff like that but they you know you talk about vertical drop with you know Saris and all that so they like Monty's high release point does the actual release point bother you at all or it's just the fact that they can get it on that downhill playing better yeah it's because it's just a little bit different you know

one that comes to my mind is Chris Young, who is the GM of the Rangers now. He's just a tall dude, but he also was very much an overhand type pitcher. And it was, the ball was just on a little bit different of a plane. And when you go up there and you're dialed in to hit, you know, between this and this percentage of downward break and this guy is not in that little realm, it just makes you have weak contact or swing and miss or take pitches that you normally wouldn't take. So the over-the-top thing is interesting because usually you think deceptiveness, okay, yeah, side or below. But when you get those guys straight over the top, it can be just

as equally as deceptive. Beautiful. What about a guy's release point like when you can tell it's different? For different, for different pitchers? Like Lucchese for the Mets, I was reading up on him. He's got like completely different release point for his curve than his fastball. Davy Garcia for the Yankees has that, which is why they're starting to scrap the curve. That's easy to pick up on.

It can be. It just kind of depends. If you hide it really quick, if you hide it then have like a quick arm motion, then it won't necessarily be easy to pick up. But if you're kind of deliberate with your motion and, you know, yeah, you can see a guy and he's here. I can get there here and here.

I mean, you can pick it up. But I would say that's not very common. Okay. And I see some people in the chat, mad, they didn't hear about their guy. This was maybe the most packed list of standout performances we've had. So if your guy didn't get the shout, I'm sorry, but we, there's probably 30 names on the list. Yeah, the only other options that I think could have been chosen are Vladi, Tatis, the Saul. A lot of guys had good days at the office this weekend.

A lot of seven innings pitched, right? Every single pitch we have on here, seven innings pitch. None of the pitchers, I think, are standout worthy. Those are just good starts for them, not like other, where Monty start is much different for him than usual. Vladdy, he had multi-homer game. If it's not a multi-homer game, it's never going to be a standout for me offensively.

That's kind of my rule. Four triples? You know, I like... That would more be I'd slide it down to an award because that's more silly and weird than like this guy crushed. Base is clearing triple. I like Ozzy Albies hit one from both sides of the plate.

That's always cool. A lot of guys got screwed. You might hear about them in Enfuego later. Yeah. No, we're doing your favorite segment. Slomp watch. This one is brought to you by Trevor Plouf. He enjoys when baseball players struggle.

Jimmy, a lot of guys we had on slump watch last week are making good cases to come off. So the potential guys were adding biggest ophers of the weekend. Anthony Rendon, O'4Ks, three walks. Matt Chapman, Trez, Guy, O for nine, four walks, one strikeout. Jordan Alvarez, O for nine, RBI snuck in there and four strikeouts. Jorge Solero for 116Ks. Yandi Diaz, O for 14, a walk, and no strikeouts, though. We were just talking about him with the,

with the Adama's trade and everything. Raise. It's got a lot on his mind. Man, that's a lot of bad stuff from a lot of people that are names. Yeah. Yeah. They all could be added. Let's see.

Ozzy Albies is coming off. He went six for 16 with three home runs, two doubles, six RBIs, Pirates let everyone hit. Shame to flame. Yeah. Justin Turner, he went on Slump Watch last week. He stays. He went one for 11 with a walk in.

3Ks. Turner, love you. Dodgers swept, so he didn't hurt the team. Yeah. But come on. You can get yourself off. JT. stays. This one's good. Franco. He went 3 for 10 with two doubles, two RBRie eyes, and a walk.

I wasn't sure if he was going to work himself off this. And he did. He's been solid. So I'm proud of him. Nate Lowe for the Rangers. He goes four for 14 with two RBRie Eyes, walk, six Ks. He was coming off an 0 for 12. The Rangers sweep.

Sweep. Yeah, I think that puts it over the top. Yeah, he's definitely off. Good job, Nate. Low. Lindor. Now, we said this was the last time Lindor would be on Slump Watch whether he was good or bad. He just played with the balls just enough, man. And he's 3 for 12 with a double an RBI and maybe his biggest ability is availability right now since they have 10 position players on the IL.

I love that quick. I ain't clapping for him, but we're just done. It's just done. We can't do it anymore. Unless you guys want to make a Lindor watch. I'm not even that interested. Let's take them off for now. I'm really interested with that stat line.

Like, it's clearly kind of not off, but we've also just been doing this for so long. Like, I think when Frankie Lindor has a good series, all the Mets fans will let us know. So. He got his on base or center. over 300. He's slugging 285.

Not good. I'm mad at it. Yeah, he's off. It's not a clap. No, but he's off. See ya. And then that means we can add four people, one person we can't add.

So I'm not going to add Matt Chapman because he had four walks and only one strikeout. Right. Rendon just won up to him in like every category. Yeah. So Rendon's, on.

I might have another laid ad if we're interested. Okay. That was on this. Who? Bryce Harper is in an 0 for 16. Oh. Yeah. So I think, good job, Chad.

Did he only play two games this series or something? Two games this series and then it's two games into the last. All right, so let's not put a layer off. O for 11, six, let him. He's just not having a good year. That year watch. Yeah. Okay.

I'm not, I'm not interested. Gandhi kind of. Oh, yeah, I just looked at Solair's numbers for the season, and he's not going to be able to get off. So he's off, and Bryce Harper's on? Bryce Harper, O for 17. Okay. He's at it. Bam.

Good job. A lot of strikeouts, too. 10 strikeouts from Bryce. That's always tough for me, but for some reason Trev loves this segment, so we just keep running it back over and all. over i probably would have been on this damn list a lot that's what i always think of i'm like god they would have been saying my name is shit time all right jesse winker i already talked about him he goes seven for 13 tatis we mentioned him briefly he went seven for ten three home runs coming off of the tested positive but wasn't actually sick list glabor torus same story we might be

running into a theme here as if you which is what i said do you on talking yakes i said maybe they're going to find out that quarantining a hitter, an infielder for 10 days in a hotel room, and then releasing him, he just goes off for two weeks. A little shorter than the 10 days, right? Because Glaber got cleared early. Yeah, five days, six days. So it might be a new strategy. Just five days, lock yourself in a hotel room with your thoughts, figure it out.

Yep. Mm-hmm. You'll come out like a ball on fire. That's what they should do. Lindor should get a fake positive. They just test it out. I had a nasty joke. Okay. All right. Austin Riley, we already did him.

Dansby Swanson, 8 for 15 with three homers. Good job by him. Come on. Can't just put every Braves on here. They played the Pirates who didn't try. They didn't even play Cole Tucker. Adelis Garcia. He belongs five for 15, three home runs, eight RBIs. Cooper Loop. Six for 11 with two home runs and a walk-off bomb. Four RBIs for Garrett Cooper. Labor Torres, 8 for 12 with the home run. He had a walk-off hit as well.

He was dinking balls everywhere. No walks and only two extra base hits, but kind of cool I was just going with him. And then our dude, Laser, Luriano, who also made a hell of a catch. I don't know if you guys saw that. Seven for 14. That's 500. The homer and two doubles and walks. So good job.

By those players, they are in Fuego. Yeah. That's the list you would have been on, Treve. Yeah. sometimes. I was streaky, so I would have been on bowl. That would have been fun. We would have had a lot of fun with you. Oh, snap. That was lit. Awards.

Trevor, you get to go first. We're going to run it back with the Tolkien baseball theme. This is the One True King Award. I'm talking Aragorn, son of Ayrathorn, Acile Door's heir, the One True King. Back in the first week of the season, we had Amir Gareth, saying we want to be the cockiest, bat flippinous sons of guns around the league. And I told you guys, it's hard to do that all year long. Now, I don't think anybody's going to be, besides maybe Jesse Winker and Castellanos,

nobody's been calling that team the cockiest, bat flippinous sons of guns, the team anymore because the one true king of that category is the San Diego Padres. Tatis, the ringleader, comes back. They bring out the swag chain. I don't really love the swag chain. I know everybody in the chats can you be like, Trev, the swag chain's awesome. I don't care about the swag chain.

They can have the swag chain because guess what? They're the one team that embodies that. They personify that swag on the field. Tatis. I know Hosmer and Machado haven't put up the numbers, but when you see him on the field, they really do it. They got Blake Snell doing it on the mound.

So I believe if we're going to have that team, the cockiest, swaggiest, bat flippinous team in the show that has the swag chain. the Padres are the ones that should have it. The record backs that up. And like I said, they have the one true king. And that is Fernando Tatis Jr. Comes back.

He just looks good in that thing. He should just probably play with it on there. It's six pounds. They got it from some jeweler that does a lot of stuff for Machado and his family. I'm curious to hear your guys take on it. My take is, I don't love it, but I don't really care about it that much. But if there's one team that should have it, it's the San Diego Padres.

I agree with the back half that it fits the Padres perfectly. The Yankees do a belt, which is just as good, but also just as boring. I like giving the player of the game a fun thing and they take a picture with it. Like the Yankees do the belt, and it's a big deal. Whoever gets the belt, player of the game,

they take a picture with it. Some of them are like heartstrings. Some of them, like they give like a speech. And sometimes the speech is, yeah, like a serious. Sometimes it's a joke. It's up to whoever, got the belt the day before it gives it to the new. I don't know how the podgers are running the swag chain. It's pretty swaggy. Like if you're going to do that, you have to go as all out as they did.

I like when it's something random or like just like a little more offbeat. Like that's a little too baseline for me. Well, people are saying it's it's basic and you said baseline. It comes from University of Miami who did the turnover chain and that's like Machado is obviously hometown. So I think there's a little bit of connection there with that. But yeah, I'm hoping those are some real diamonds. And it's got to be at least real gold-plated because this is the show here. This is the show. You can't be having some rinky-dink plastic thing.

And they did say it weighs six and a half pounds. So I'm assuming there's some realness in there. I'm curious how much it cost. A lot of money. So Ayrathorn is the son of Aragorn, right? Aragorn is the son of Ayrthorn. The dad, that's my bad. He's also a Sealedors.

heir who defeated Sauron. Through the pass, yeah. Way back when. Ghost Army. Okay. And Erdogan hit out for a little bit. He was a ranger. He picked up the nickname Strider in that role.

And then, you know, he had to step up and he did. He became the one true king. Like Fernando. He is the one true king. I love watching that guy play. It's a joke, dude. My award is the DP award. the D.P. Award.

What? D.P. BBD. D.P. And there, one in there. Come on now. I was doing this research during the live stream while we were watching the Yankees game. And since I did some research for it, I was like, well, I'll just share it on the talk of baseball because I already had like the Google sheet made. I did math.

Trevor, we had a hunch that Yankees fans had seen more double plays turned and hit into than any other team in baseball this year. Because it's just they hit into a ton because they hit the ball hard. They're the slowest team in baseball. They're the team that hits the ball the hardest in baseball. They're the slowest team in baseball. And they also have good on-base percentage. So it's a perfect storm for being the team that hits into the most double plays.

And now with Gio and Odore, they turn. a lot of double plays. Our hunch was correct. Yankees fans have seen 97 double plays so far this season. Yankees have turned 41. They've hit into 56. They just took the lead from Texas Rangers fans. The team that seemed the least,

the New York Mets. The New York Mets have only hit into 26. They've only turned 30. I thought they would have turned more in the infield there. So Baltimore, you guys have not seen a lot. Brewers and Dodgers, you're in the bottom five and diamondbacks. Bottom five, you guys don't get to watch a lot of double plays. Sorry about it.

Top five in double plays, Blue Jays, Red Sox, Houston, Texas, and the Yankees. So this doesn't really mean much. It's kind of a stats that exist, but don't matter. But I did the research. I thought some people might be interested in it. The team that's hit into the most is by far the Yankees and then the Rangers, then Houston. Team that has turned the most.

So best infield is Seattle and Tampa Bay are tied. Turn in a lot of double plays. Jim, in my opinion, it's the prettiest play in baseball. A nice turn double play is the prettiest play in baseball. And I'm somewhat of an expert on this subject. I think it's the biggest difference in the product of watching a baseball game live. versus on TV. I think a lot of double plays on TV.

You kind of anticipate it. The angles kind of lead you to believe it's going to happen. It takes the excitement. When you see a double play turned in live time at a game, it's 10 times prettier, more exciting, more you think like there's more like you hold your breath a little more. I think it's the biggest difference. And they're hard to turn.

You know, when you get like a shortstop in a second basement, that's the prettiest. When those two are working together, they've done it so much, and they're usually the most sure-handed, you know, fluid fielders on in the infield. You get those guys that's super pretty. And then you got the corners, you know, the first base, the 363 or the 361, whatever you got to do to turn that, that is a really tough play to do. And then the five, four, threes are kind of boring.

In my opinion, they're most boring. but I love me some double plays. I'm glad you brought up D.P. in on this episode. DP is one of my favorite categories. Speaking of BPD, Alec Baum has hit into the most double plays this season. Zach Granky and Patrick Corbyn

have induced the most double plays. Maybe our next John Boy stat for teams can be like net double plays. Oh, you just want me to like subtract? Yeah, so like... Okay. Okay. I'm going to do it right now if you want to give your award.

Yeah. My award is the Who's Your QB Award? Who's your QB? Treve, the beautiful state of Minnesota. Thought we were going up there. We'll get them next time. You'll be up there. John and I won't.

We'll get up there sometime. We're going to blow it out when we all get up there. I mean, Trevor Ploofs, Minnesota. With the full family band, it's going to be a good time. Trevor, your twins have won three of their last four. What an extra innings game? We did the debate earlier before the All-Star break. Minnesota's seen some guys come through.

I mean, we're talking Randall Cunningham, Dante Culpepper, Brett Farve, Case Keenham put up a 13 and 3. They have 13 games coming. up against the Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals. I believe it's Baltimore, Kansas City, Baltimore, Kansas City. And man, I'm wondering who's going to step up and be that team's quarterback. Because if they do a Randall Cunningham and they can crank out a 15 and 1, Minnesota Twins are back.

If they could do a Case Keenum 13 and 3, they're back in the mix. They're right around 500 and you try to throw out every memory of that start. You can. But if you start trickling into Kirk Cousins, 10 and 6, I don't know if that does enough for you. You start doing a, God, they've had some bad quarterbacks. Dante Colpepper's bad years, and you do a 6 and 10, it's over. Christian Ponder. Ponder. Who, your boy?

I'm not a Christian Ponder. You got an unplug, re-plug, Trab. I did. I did. Didn't take. So who's going to step? up for these Minnesota twins and be the QB for the next couple weeks because this is it. This is your soft spot.

And if you make it through the regular season, if you get your 13 and 3 and you're back, Minnesota's postseason starts the next week because they get the Yankees and the Astros following. So, hey, Twinkies, step up, get it going. Now's the time. you can save this ship. You're not sinking yet. After the Yankees and Astros, they go Mariners, Texas, Sinci.

Those are all losing records currently. Cleveland, which is like around 500 right now. Or they're about 500. Then they have eight games in a row against the Tigers, which earlier in the show it, I was like, what the fuck? It's separated by the All-Star game, but like they end four games against the Tigers,

and then they go to the All-Star game, and they come back and play four games against the tigers. That's funny. That's weird. Super weird. How's my mic? I'm assuming it's great.

Sound beautiful to us. We can never hear the robot. I think it's okay. I'm on my chat. B.B.D. thinks it's okay. Let it rip, Trev. I've been unplug and re-plugging, and I'll tell you what, man.

In a span of like four minutes, we heard DP, we heard crank it, and we heard something else that was also very, Fuck me silly. Sexual. Okay, so Jake,

you asked me the net. Now I'm turned on. Of double plays? Yes. So I took double plays turned. I minused double plays hit into. Right. Because you wanted to be positive.

Right. Seattle and Tampa are tied. They both have turned 46 and hit into 27. So they have a net double play of 19. So I mean, that's 19 times two. We all know that math. is 38. Yeah.

So, I mean, those teams have earned themselves a baseball game and a half of outs, just with the double play. Yeah. You like that, analytics geeks? The Yankees are dead last, negative 15. They hit into so many. They've hit into, yeah. And the net neutral, Boston, Tigers, and the Brewers.

Those guys have all turned the same amount of double plays as they have hit into. Whoa. But the Yankees is the triple play is involved in here. So it's actually negative like 14, not negative 15. Still puts him dead last. So there you go. Who was our best friend of the week? Has our best friend of the week?

Dansby. Wow. Yeah. Eight for 15. Three homers, three doubles, four RBIs and a walk. Pirates weren't trying. Trev, what were you going to say about your twins? Your Mike went Robody.

Are you drinking the Kool-Aid or what? I mean, I think they're too good of a ball club. Like they're obviously playing worse than they are. But it's, you know, they dug themselves a pretty big hole right now. What's that hole in like Batman begins? You got to crawl out of it? Like Bain crawled out of it. Can they crawl out of it?

I don't know. Christian Ponder. Let me tell you something about that guy. He made fun of my jacket one day. I'll never forgive him. What was the jacket? He's on my shit list. What was it?

He said it looked like I was wearing a motorcycle jacket. Well, you're wearing a lot of jacket? It wasn't. leather. He's an absolute dork, so he just didn't get it. Team Trev. Team Trev for sure. I'd unfollow him if I followed him. Yeah, no one follows him.

All right. Dee Dulaney in the chat says ponder's a dork. Ponder's a dork. He is. You know who isn't a dork? I'm just in a name drop. This is huge. I met Matt Stafford. Oh, wow. He's the new quarterback of the Rams. into our neighborhood and I got to meet him. Very nice guy. Big baseball sand.

No way he's a dork. That video of him like leading the, the, the, um, fuck, whatever. Got it. Nice guy. Leading his team with the, uh, with his shoulder like out. Yeah. Like, that's not dorky. It's pretty pretty gritty.

He'd have pine tar all over his bat if he played baseball. Ooh. He might be bare hand. He might be no gloves. Gotta be careful with the hair and all that pine tar. Elevator talk. Two minutes on the clock if you're stuck in an elevator with the team wearing this hat. Ooh, the Cleveland Indians.

That's cool because we didn't talk about them on the show at all today, really. They're four games over 500. I just keep waiting for them to not be good anymore. But they're still kicking around. And that's exciting for them. They got four game set coming up with Detroit. So they're about to be seven games over 500. if things pan out how they should.

Pretty excited about that for him. They just lost Fran Mill for a while with the oblique. That's tough. He was the only other guy in the lineup that was really hitting. The guy in the lineup that was hitting, shouldn't shock anyone, Jose Ramirez, again, year in, year out. What this guy does. Like, as this season has gone on,

I've seen some people like, hey, know how everyone was really excited about Lindor? like Ramirez has an argument that he might be the better ball player. You know, it was real hot. Ahmed Rosario. Like that. Yeah. He's got 10 hits in his last six games, 462 on base percentage.

No homers. Two doubles and a triple, but he is putting the ball in play. They picked him up this year. And they pitched the shit out of the ball, the relievers. Ahmed Rosario leading the league in triples. Say that to the dude in the elevator. Let him know. five of their relievers got a one or below

Brian Shaw, Karen, Chad, Quantril, and Clace. Clase, I don't know. That's pretty cool. It's disgusting, though. That's kind of what you want, one of the sneakier, better bullpens in the league. Bieber, how's Bieber doing? The strikeout numbers are there. Everything else.

332 ERA. 332 ERA. What's that about? I don't know. Yeah, Bieber this month hasn't been as sharp. He's only got one game. where he's has...

This is a very high bar, but we're talking about one of the best pitchers in baseball on So young. He's only got one game where he's allowed less than two runs. So like every game,

it's two or three. He's never allowed more than three. Yeah. It's two or three runs every game. It's walking too many people. Walking too many people. Stop walking them. Yeah, 23 walks and 10 games.

Not good. Jake sucks.