Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 349 | Blue Jays Hang 18 on Boston, Cubs Sweep the Cardinals, & Matt Olson Goes Off (with Chris Rose)

Episode Date: June 14, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking to baseball. We got a lot to discuss from the weekend. Some good teams are still good. Some bad teams are real bad. How about that? Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Thank you very much for joining us today on this Monday afternoon to recap the weekend that was in Major League Baseball.

Talking Baseball brought to you by Draft Kings. My name is Jimmy sitting next to me is Jake. and we have special guests today. It's not Trevor Plouf. It is Chris Rose. Hi. Oh, stop. Just actually keep going.

And producer BBD in the corner. Rosie, you have subbed in for me. You have subbed in for Jake. And now this is the first time you get the middle, the middle camera. And you sub in for Lord of the Rings, Treff. I know. It's the first time I'm guaranteed to be uglier than the guy I'm filling in for.

So there we go. You know, Ploof off doing. his thing. That is so cute. That is so just endearing for everybody. I appreciate you guys having me. I always love chopping it up with you guys for a good, you know, 90 minutes or so.

And man, do we have a ton of stuff to talk about, including how soft ploof is. So I can't wait. Plouf is in Minnesota. He's going to be doing a home run derby for Twins charity game. I don't know the official wording, but I got it. And he says he hasn't taken any

practice swings yet. So I think he's a little nervous. And that's a lie. Yeah, he's been Olivia's been soft tossing all day. When when when people don't play, you know they, they tend to blow out. That oblique could come back a little sore. So that is the one thing that you want to make sure. Now pluf has the advantage. He's what is he 34? I mean, technically should still be playing on somebody's team. So I think he should be okay. Yeah. Did you just say 35 tomorrow? Tomorrow's Trev's birthday? Yeah, tomorrow's 30s?

Oh, happy birthday, Trev. June 15th. Everyone tweeted Trev tomorrow. Yeah. Oh, my God. That's going to be great. We'll see if I'm interested to see what Trev says. He's definitely swung a little bit.

Not like he's been training, but he's swung the stick. And it always gets me when I look at old pluf highlights. He was a thick third baseman. He was a power hitting third baseman. And now Trev's clean, his broadcast pick the, other day. I mean, he had his, he had his GQ vibes going. So I'm excited for him. He's having fun out there, uh, talk to him a little bit. And he had his, uh, you know, he had a big smile on. He's like, Minnesota in the summer, man. This is, you know, that was his life for a while.

And he was kind of the king. So that was his life for a long time. Yeah. So excited for him. And, uh, you know, Chris Rose, the excitement on your face when you're talking baseball. Oh, yeah. That's what you like to do. So I'm giddy up. I've actually been sitting in this chair since last Wednesday. Ready. Yeah, anticipating this moment. So I'm ready to go guys. What do we got? Well,

I believe Jake is bringing you the National League recap today. And I don't know much about what happened over there in the National League. So I'm excited to hear it. It is brought to you by our good friends at Draft Kings. If you download the top board of Draft King Sports Book up now

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How about the Mets? Let's go Mets, babe. They take two out of things. three from the Padres. The Mets keep winning series. Padres kind of keep losing series. Three, two Mets, four one Mets. Padres salvaged the series with Paddock on the last day.

It wasn't a very offensive series. Met starting pitchers. How about 1.04 ERA for that? Tatis, two homers, and that's obvious. He had the Tatee slam. Love that. Go Mets, babe. Trevor May.

He's on a show somewhere on our network. Giants at Nationals. They split four, including a double header day. I've got a lot of zeros on the scoreboard. We had three shutouts in this one. Disco Di Scalphani, you might hear about him later. That's a guy you need to know if you're a baseball fan at this point for these giants. They split whatever.

Schwabert, three home runs. Cardinals and the Cubs, the Cubbies sweep the Cardinals. Full capacity at Rieb. We got the big snake in the crowd. Oh, my God, what's he talking about? Cubbies sweep. They take the final game, 2. Oh, Zach Davies.

They kind of need that. Jock with a pair of homers. Cubs, man, they are winning tied atop the NL Central, and the Cardinals just dropped below 500. Ooh. Getting hot in St. Louis. The Reds, they're starting to figure it out. They sweep my Rockies.

The Reds, you know they're hitting, and they did that all. series. How about a 583 slugging for the series? That ain't bad. That ain't bad. Castellanos with five hits. Hey, Ryan McMahon for the Rockies. Two home runs. He's up to 15 on the year. Let's go Rocks, baby. Reds back in the mix. Back in the mix. The Marlins take two out of three in the Braves. Holy Atlanta. Are they ever going to click? They dropped to 30 and 33 this year. Marlins take the first two, 434242. Braves, salvage it. Freddie Freeman with a nice series. Ronald Acuna Jr. left precautionarily. It should be okay. Fish with arms, man. They do it. How about it? And then the pirates at the brew crew. Brew crew take care of business working overtime. They sweep the pirates like you're supposed to.

That's what a good team does. And they didn't do it that impressively. That was kind of Brewers baseball. slash 216, 340, 352. Hater gets the save in all three games. When you got a formula, use it. And friend of the program and one of my fashion gurus, Colton Wong, will be returning for them soon. So that's what happened in the National League. Wow. Thanks, Jake.

There you go. Hey, guys, breaking news. Yes. Oh. Trevor Pluth has joined the chat. Oh, no. That doesn't do anything for you? Holy smokes, what happened?

Well, when you join the chat, when you're not on the show and you join the chat, it's a little bit firing from the hip. It's a little, you might get, you know, they'll get a little loose in there. Trest tasting himself right now. If he's in there, you know, we might get some hot takes in there, a little worried. Oh, yeah. There's no question. But I'm feeling the pressure now that the guy's watching.

I don't know if I can take this. Damn, looking over your shoulder. How about some central sweeps? The Brewer sweep, the Reds sweep, the Cubs sweep. You say the Reds are back in the thick of it, but they're winning. Well, they're over 500 for the first time since April 21st. Yes. And now, granted, they went against a team that is, I could not believe this when I saw it.

Do you know the Rockies Road record? I do. Jake knows. It's 5 and 27. five and how the hell does that happen even the diamondbacks are going what the fuck's a problem on the road guys can we pick this up a little bit please geez that's bad and they're 20 and 14 at home it's just it's bizarre i mean maybe they're starting to figure out the cores effect they're just not figuring the out of cores effect they need my idea a home team and a road team yeah it's perfect they never mingle they never meet either maybe maybe the two three four hitters get to play in both other than that because they say that's the hardest part is going from one to the other. So

you just don't do it. So guys, when am I going to have to apologize to the Chicago Cubs for saying they were definitely going to be sellers because they've won 15 of 20 games? They are tied with the brew crew atop the National League Central. Give me a date. I have to apologize.

What is it, June 14th right now? Just wait it out to the deadline. Really? If you want to, this This is a forum for that. It's okay. I've declared like every team in the league dead. That's true. You have.

Yeah. You have. We've needed to pull out our little paddles occasionally. Yes. But they work. I don't know. Jake, you don't seem to be on board with that.

You feel like I should take that next step right now. No, I mean, I've, I've been okay with the, baseball is baseball. Stuff happens over a season. If we restarted this season, the Cubs could be, you know, under 500 right now. But they've played well this year. They've gotten enough from their pitching.

And that lineup always plays. That was the thing when we did all the teams on paper before the season and you start thinking, what is this team's formula? The Cubs formula is simple. I mean, they've got a lineup that can bang with anyone when guys are right, especially Chris Bryant returning to form. Havi's been pretty good after a bad start. Like, this Cubs lineup can go toe to toe. Toe with anyone when they want. The question was always the pitching. Well, it still is the question, although Davies' last two starts have been sensational out in San Diego and then last night against the Cardinals. He's been great. But for the most part, that starting staff, they didn't have one guy with an ER and or four until Davies started to get it going. I don't even know what he landed at after

last night's win. But the bullpen, first of all, Kimbril, like, he's a guy who I'm shocked was able to rediscover the form. I thought. that we had it was kind of over like right everybody's career kind of goes like this and i really thought craig kimberl was right about here but he worked his way back up and and he's been great he's been and anytime you have that ninth inning sealed down the way that the cubs do it just makes the rest of your team better so i think that is a huge huge thing while everybody else kind of feeling their way around you know kimbril i think really deserves a lot of credit here yeah it's a volatile position but a lot of a lot of their bullpen's been good

You know, since May is really when they turned it around. And offensively since May, there's no stat line that is like a juggernaut with the bats. Like you're like, wow, he's got a one dot, something OPS with the bat since they started winning. It's all sustainable because they're just hitting, you know? Like I just looked it up. I'll find it for you. Their main guys, jock, hap, Bryant, Rizzo all have an OPS that start with an AAP. batting averages that start with like 280.

It's all, I'm saying it's sustainable, in my opinion, because no one is like carrying the Cubs on their shoulder. It's just all their good hitters were like, hey, if we're all good enough at the same time, we can probably win a ton of games. So what's been more impressive? What was more impressive this weekend? The sweep of the Cardinals or the Cupsnake that the fans created.

I just saw that someone calculated how many beers it was and the price of the Cupsnake was around 30 grand. No. That's what someone in our chat just said, and I trust our chat enough. Math pot. And it makes sense. They're like 10 bucks a beer, right?

300 cups. Is that math? Wow. It looked like way more than 300 cups, didn't it? It's got to be more than that three. It would have to be like 3,000 cups, right? Yeah, it went from the top all the way down to the basket. Someone.

It's never been a math pod. Yeah. It's never been a math pod. Sorry, guys. I'm Googling 30 grand. Move, get back here. No, look, NBC Chicago has it.

Cubs fans epic beer cup snake cost almost $30,000. Okay. Sources. It's around 100 foot snake at two cups an inch equals 2,400 beers times $12 $12 each $28,000.

That's the math they're doing it right there. So that is impressive. Impressive. Now, but that Rizzo at bat and the home run for the Cubs at Wrigley, which they were calling opening Day 2.0 because first time they had a PAC Stadium, Bill Murray being there.

And so funny because it was 14 pitch at bat, but the crowd didn't really get into it until the 14th pitch. Like, they didn't all, the whole stadium didn't rise and start clapping until after the 13th pitch. So it was as soon... I did. I know, but as soon as the full crowd caught on,

he hit a homer. So it's almost like he was just waiting on them. Like, hey, you guys see what's happening? As soon as you stand up, I'll tie the damn game. And then they did. So with all that being, said, can I still tell you I believe more in the Milwaukee Brewers? Sure. Well, pitching wins out in the playoffs and like down the stretch and the brewers have a lot of pitching. And they haven't hit worth a damn at all this year. They really haven't.

The guys they were supposed to rely on, I mean, Yelich has started to heat up a little bit. I know at one point this weekend, his OPS got above 800 for a tick. But yeah, the starting rotation, phenomenal. They've got the two fire breathing dragons at the back of the bullpen. I still believe in them. They've won 17 of their last 21. And I don't know, it corresponded with the Willie Adama's deal. You can say whatever you want. That guy is good energy. You had him on your Instagram live show a few weeks ago. I had him on as a guest. Glass now basically cried his eyes out because he misses him so much. There are dudes that you cannot put a numerical value on that mean a ton to a team and he's one of them.

And you can put a numerical value on OPS and his home and road numbers, which you guys talked about on the Rose rotation. Like he was talking about how he can't hit in Tampa, he can't see the ball. And he was talking about how guys thought it was just a cop out excuse. And he's like, no, I'm being serious. So, and it's such a brewer's move. Like Willie Adomis is a guy who's going to go out there every day and rack up war.

We'll see. I don't, you know, I think his road OPS was like eight 70s or. or something, which if you're a shortstop, I mean, that's a, that's kind of an all-star player. So I don't expect him to necessarily live there. But man, if he can be a solid day-in-day-out shortstop, they got that guy for a couple bullpen arms, which Milwaukee feels like they can dig up and find Brad Boxburger having a couple good weeks for them. So they're, I feel like they're going to be a sneaky trade deadline team, man.

We know they were in on Justin Turner, or at least they were helping drive up the price a little bit for Justin Turner. So we'll see. We'll see who's available because, man, I mean, a couple more sticks to help out Yelly. Like, love me some Voguey and he gets hot. He's actually had a really good past week. But if you could get a couple more bodies, like right now, FanGraf says, Jace Peterson technically as a starter for them, which no shots fired at Jace Peterson, but, you know, he's been a bounce around U-Till guy, like an annual DFA. So if they can, if they sneak up on the deadline and they make one or two, I mean, we'll be tariff. talking seriously about Milwaukee.

I'm in. I'm in. I love them. Anything else to catch you? I'm trying to do math, which always sucks. 21 plus 26. It's 47. Yeah. Plus 23. Okay. We're going to get the 60 there? 60.

Where are you at with the Cardinals, Chris? Because they, you know, when the Aeronado trade got done, the St. Louis Cardinals were the favorite in the Central and they are one in nine in their last 10, Flaherty's hurt. Yeah, I don't, um, A, I don't love their bullpen.

B, the guy who pitched great last night to me was all. He's like the, the swing piece for them, Carlos Martinez. I mean, he had a couple of starts where he looked terrible in the first couple innings.

Like, how is that guy not better? He's a two-time all-star. He's got wicked stuff. He's got a future Hall of Famer, you know, calm him and down. behind the dish. Like I never figured out why he's not better.

And he's the sort of guy that they need to take him to the next level. But I think that they lead the, if I'm not mistaken, I think their bullpen leads baseball and walks. That's something that scares the hell out of me.

I can't have guys coming out of that barn door, ball four, ball eight, ball 12. You're not winning games that way, guys, it's just not happening. So I had Milwaukee

the entire time. I had St. Louis's second, but I think I'm going to have to reverse that. I had some people hammering me in the chat about Wednesday. I was going to apologize to apologize. I'm not going to apologize for. My opinion is my opinion. You don't like it. I'm sorry. But at the same time, yes, I will admit that I thought they were a 500 team. I think they'll win more than 81 games. So if that's an apology, you're welcome. No, it's an acknowledgement. Thank you. I have trouble working on that word with my therapist. The math I was trying to do is that the brewer's stretch started 23 days ago where they've just been winning a ton.

And their five starters, Anderson, Burns, Peralta, Woodruff Houser have made 19 starts since that stretch combining for a 2-50 ERA. That's a good formula on any team. Which, that's amazing. I mean, 2-5 ERA for one dude in 19 starts is, you. You see it, but to have all five, like not have anyone have a outlier start that brings it to a crazy number. And Brett Anderson kind of is doing that. Everyone else is dragging them down.

But Brewer's pitching is for real. And I always bank on pitching more than hitting. So that's, I agree with you, Rosie on the Brewer's Cubs. Final Outlook. Yeah. Hey, before we're not, are we ready to move on to the American League or no? I think we have to talk about the Mets being good. which we can transition from the Cubs into the Mets

because they have a four-game set coming up and both those teams have been winning a ton so I'm interested to see how that plays out for both of them. I'm really excited for when the Mets catch up on games because they can either really cement. It's coming soon. I've said this. They can really cement themselves or they can come down.

And I'm going to see they're the only team that hasn't played 62 games and they're at 57. So they're behind. There's five games behind the rest of the league. I think they've got 33 games. They're in an area where they're playing 33 and 30 days or something. Yeah. A terrible, terrible number for them.

And yesterday, I don't know if you guys were watching yesterday when Tatis hit the Grand Slam, but I watched that entire inning. And Familia, what they were trying to do because they were so short-handed, not only in the bullpen, but position player-wise. So they couldn't pinch hit for certain guys. I don't know what's going on with them. Like, do they not know that they're allowed to have 26 guys on a roster? Are they only playing 22?

I'm confused here. So they let Familia go more than 40 pitches for the first time since 2014. And at the end, he was just gas, dude. You know, they wanted to get him through the sixth and the seventh, and they couldn't do it. And so I think he walked Fam to get to Tatis, and I was like, oh, God, this is it. It's over.

And sure enough, there was a one-one pitch where the ball was maybe this much outside, and they called it a ball, and the next pitch he hits it for a rant slam. and if things go backward for the Mets, it's going to be that decision making and that missed pitch where Mets fans are going to go, you see where it was, that was it, we got screwed, blah, blah, blah. So just mark it on your calendar.

The Padres are, I'm running into a big theory here. I don't know the stat on this. I'm going to call it the TAO. They are the best TAO team in the majors, and that stands for take advantage of. Rangers In New York What's that?

Jimmy's a big town We're going to Tao in New York Yeah The Rangers first basement I forget who it was drops the pop-up Maybe it wasn't the Rangers Angels

I forget And then Tatis hits the Grand Slam Astros Astros Tatees hits the Grand Slam Rizzo drops the pop-up on Machado Next pitch He hits the home run

This pitch could be a strike It's a ball Next pitch home run the Padres are pretty good at taking advantage of breaks when they get them according to I don't watch day and day out but the highlights I see it's like every home run a moment before it's like and it could have been over if just this then the Padres hit a home run so it's a good trait to have I guess yeah and with all that being said by the way are we worried it all about the Grom he said he's not but whenever you hear the word flexor then like I start to break into

convulsions he said it's listen I've had all sorts of our mission issues, I'm not worried about it. Would you be worried? Well, you never trust the player, but I think in DeGrom's part, you can. I guess he's different. Like, he's a weirdo. We'll find out on Wednesday, and it'll, you know, I think if any of us had to bet, you know, we'd probably bet seven innings pitch 12Ks or something like that.

So that's where I'm at with DeGrom. You know what? Here's the only problem. I'm starting to feel about DeGrom the way I did about Chris Sale when he started to get great but you were thought he was like going to fall into 17 pieces on the mound like something was going to break and only after that when I cleared that out of my head space could I appreciate how great he was but I'm starting to feel that way about the grom like I'm wondering okay what's going to go wrong why is he only going to go five why is he only going to go six and I can't

enjoy the experience once again I guess that that's a me problem but does it do either of you guys feel that way when you watch him right now or do you just want to enjoy his mechanics are so normal because he was a shortstop and a position player that he throws you know no i mean with sale that was i think that was like everyone said that after every good sale outing like man he is dominant but how is that going to last same with linsicum and uh i don't know we'll see no is the how sale returns the one i saw on the interstate this weekend which you know it shows how quickly baseball moves. And hey, maybe I'm a little biased to the names involved here. Jake Areetta, when Areeta turned it on for those couple years, how lights out he was.

There was some stats that, like, DeGrom needs to not give up a run in the next 30 innings to be on the pace that Jake Arieta was his Cy Young season. So it's going to be interesting to see. DeGrom doesn't have the mileage. So, you know, we've been, a lot of baseball has been on this, like, DeGroma Hall of Famer conversation. And, And if he obviously continues, like, yeah, that dude's gross. But we forget baseball moves quick. Like nobody's having the Areetta Hall of Fame or combo right now. So we'll see.

Believe in DeGrom until he gives us a reason not to. Okay. One other quick point. Somebody said in the chat, DeGrom, cheater, I just want to hit on this real quickly. None of us know who is and who isn't. We just don't, okay? I was having a conversation with a player who faced him within the last three weeks.

and I said, is he really like, because you've been around for a decade now at the major league level, is he that much better than Verlander or Scher when they were at the top of their game? And he said, Chris, I've never faced a guy who could literally walk the ball from the mound to the catcher and drop it in wherever he wanted to put it and do exactly what he wanted to. And he made one point before we finished our discussion because we've talked about the whole putting goop on the baseball. He made the point. I didn't bring it up. he said, and he's one of the few guys that doesn't cheat. He said it, a hitter.

His RPM has never, it doesn't have that cheating uptick that a lot of them do have. But, I mean, I would take a lot of the players' words for it that came out to support the Grom. And the statistics don't shout them out like they do Cole and Bauer and a lot of the other pitchers that, I don't know, are we not supposed to name them? Like Wade Miley and. There's a lot of guys that have that crazy uptick. Sims. I just wanted to point that out that when we talk to players,

I think it's important for us to relate to listeners and to viewers what we're hearing. Yeah. Because we're hearing a lot of stuff in the baseball universe. We don't know what to grab on to these fans. I don't even, I wouldn't blame it on any individual player either. So I'm fully on the league gave these guys. I mean, Trevor Bauer's story. It's why I made that video.

I mean, I know a lot of fans want to point because that's what fans like doing. Like, your guy cheats. Your guy cheats. Every single team has someone that uses this or has used it. Multiple. And multiple. And it's not a player versus player thing. It's, and it's not, well, the rule book says, yeah, the rule book says that.

And then the fucking official walked around every clubhouse and said, but don't worry, you're not getting in trouble this season and told all these guys that. So, like, you know, they're, the word, uh, cheater, I, the league cheated itself by allowing these guys and giving them Cardi Blanche to use this. So I, I'm getting annoyed at fans that keep just trying to like, he's a cheater. It's like, dude, the league told them they could use this. It is be mad at the league. But this is what the league wants. They want everyone to be mad at the players and not them.

This is the league fuck this up and be mad at the league for not, not only did they not enforce their own rule. they gave them the freedom to break it and told them, don't worry. We're not coming after you. This might come as a complete shock to all of our viewers and listeners, but I'm a tad bit older than you two. You guys really didn't live through the steroid era, the way that I did. Yeah, no.

And all I can tell you is this, it's the reason if I had a vote for the Hall of Fame, and I know we're getting offline here, but it's an important point. I would have voted for Bonds and Clemens because baseball in general did not give a shit. And I'm feeling like I'm fighting the same fight here. That they just, they turn the other direction. It's what baseball does.

As much as I love this sport and we all love it, they don't like having the tough discussion. It wasn't important enough for them in the 90s to sit down at the negotiating table, look the players in the eyes and saying, folks, we are on a train and there's no track. in about a thousand yards. So we better figure out what the hell we're doing. And it was the same thing with this, because there's so much animosity between the players and the owners and a lack of understanding and wanting to listen to either side

that they just want to find something to blame the other side about. And this is the perfect example. So Jimmy, you are a thousand percent right on this, that the league just wants the players to, look, they're the ones that did it. They're the people to put the stuff on the ball. And at the end of the day, it's just going to hurt everybody. And then the people that aren't huge baseball fans, but they've heard about this. Then they just look at me because I work at the NFL network and they're like,

why is baseball so fucked up? Why is it every news story that becomes a big thing is about something bad? Why can't we talk about something good in your sport? I'm like, I don't know. It's crazy. It pisses me off. That documentary on McGuire and Sosa, when McGuire is just using it in front of all the reporters. openly talking about it and the league didn't punish him.

And then they celebrate the two biggest users. Unknown users. And the league celebrated them and promoted them and marketed them. No, at the time, no news. It wasn't a secret during the home run race that they were using steroids. It was, watch that documentary. It's known. They're asking them about it and they're not denying it.

And you see the league promote those guys and celebrate them. Well, that's basically saying we're not going to get anyone in trouble. They're celebrating the guys that are using it. when you see Cole get all this money and Bauer get all this money and Bauer quite literally said, I am going to use this stuff. And then they give him the money. He doesn't get in trouble. And then he puts it on in broad daylight.

What's the league saying? Not to mention that. They literally went through and told him, don't worry, we're collecting the balls, but we're not going to get true. Bob Melvin said that. They told him we're collect. So it's annoying that fans are just going to fall into the trap of pointing at the players

because that's exactly how. the league wants it to go. It's frustrating. And let's not confuse this for, uh-oh, it's a bunch of people talking shit about the sport we all love. That's not it. Sometimes you have to have hard discussions in life about things that you love, whether it's family, your profession, baseball, whatever it is. Yeah. Have the discussions. And we're not doing that. By the way, the Major League Baseball All-Star ballot leaders just came out for the first time. Do you care if I read the National League leaders? Sure, go ahead.

Am I overstepping my bones? No, I'm going to read them, read them. I'm interested. It's just going to be all the fan favorites, right? Actually, in the National League, I think they've done a hell of a job. Posey, Muncie at first base. Ozzy Albi is a second. That's questionable. Chris Bryant, Tatis, Outfield, Acuna, Castellanos, Winker.

So they put Brian at third. They did pretty well. So they put Brian at third? Yeah. So that's how they did it because he hasn't played third all month. No, I know. But he's on the ballot as a third base. Well, that makes it a much easier decision.

When I did mine and everyone got mad at me, I didn't put him at third because he doesn't play third. But it's pretty good. Well, Ozzy at second is the only one, right? It's cute. Yeah. Guys, I think other than that, it's pretty good. All your steroids, all your sticky stuff.

Chris Rose admitting he's older than us. There's no proof of that. Yeah, that's true. Danny Almonte. BPD doesn't even get that joke. Seriously, does this look older to you? No, I got older looking hair than you. Yeah, we could do some full gray.

Jimmy's got a face swap app. That ring around my head. There's a team that we didn't mention throughout all that who has the best record in the National League is still the San Francisco Giants. Bro. Dodgers are a game back. And, you know, they've been lurking all year,

but Giants just, they constantly deserve more love. They're doing it. Yeah, they're in the same boat with the, Cubs fans. When is Chris Rose going to apologize to us? I'm inching closer on that one, I think. Okay. Their pitching's pretty good. More on that later. Oh, teaser. I'll go to the AL.

I'll let you guys know what happened. Here we go. On your mark. Get set. The Astros took two out of three from the twins. The twins continue to lose. The Astros continue to win. In game one, Donaldson did tie it up with an eighth inning home run. They're going to do

the same thing they just did to the Yankees? No. Twins gave it right back. Stroh scored two in the ninth to win it. In game two or three, I don't know when, but Dobnack came out of the bullpen to replace Pined to Jake. I don't know if you know this. He gave up six earned and two innings pitch. He's given up 23 earned runs in his last 1841 innings picks.

Tough for Dobnack, but he got paid. Framber. On the other hand, he's gone seven innings pitch, one run and three consecutive starts. We are a Framber pod. We like that guy. He's doing well. Astros hit the ball really well.

Twins did not. Astros pitched the ball pretty well. Twins did not. In the east, the raise swept the Orioles. How about that? Our dude, Yarpro goes six shutout innings. He gave up two unerun runs in game one. In game two, Hill was cruising until the fifth.

He gave up some walks to single and then a grand slam to win so his final line looks bad. Other than that, it was bullpen day in game three. and the Ray's relievers combined for 14.1 shutout innings while the Ray's batts slash 289, 378 on base percentage. Kiermire and Lowe had four at five hits each. Five hits each. No Oriole had more than two hits. Man, Ray's just took care of business.

The Indians took two out of three from the Mariners. How about that? Indians slash 267, 363. Two. Savali had eight shutout innings with 11 strikeouts after Chris Ross set on Instagram live to keep an eye on him that night. Good call by Rosie. Ahmed Rosario had seven hits. Bobby Bradley had four hits. The Indians rallied in the ninth with two walks and two hits to push three across for the tie in game two. And then Harold Ramirez won it in extras. Theber gave up 10 hits in game three.

though. Not good, so they did not get the sweep. The Blue Jays, they took two out of three from the Red Sox so far. Game four of this set is on Monday. Blue Jays hit a bajillion home runs, 14 home runs, eight in game three. Povetta gave up a bunch. They called up Weber. He gave up a bunch.

Ugh, not good. But Bobby Dalbuck had two home runs himself. Sox bringing up guys. They get lit up, they send them back down or their DFA.F that was their weekend. White Sox swept the Tigers because the White Sox are really good. Gialito Ceason, Rodon. Rodon took a no-hitter into the seventh or the six, I forget. They hit the ball like crazy.

The White Sox just, they just win, man. Jose Breu had six hits, three doubles. Man, Tiger's pitcher threw up on the mountain. They got swept. The A's took three out of four from. the Royals minor had a really good start for the Royals interested to see if they move him, if anyone wants him, seven innings pitch, one run for him. Every athletic starting pitcher goes at least 5.2 with two or few earned runs.

That's really good. They brought two earned runs into the six every single game. Elvis Andrews had a walk-off single in game two. Olson had seven hits and three homers. Chapman had seven hits and two homers. So the mats combined math, 14 hits, and five homers. How about that? Good job by the Aids.

That's all. That's all we got. Royals are here. Oh. Hey, babe. What's happening? Oh, my program is Frozen, BPD. That's what's happening.

Oh, okay. Oh, there you go. There's your American League. White Sox still in first place. But the rays overtake them. for most wins in baseball. There we go. Must have unfroze.

Must have unfroze on me. What caught your ear, Rosie? I think the rays are amazing. And somebody asked a question in the chat that I wanted to ask you guys. Is the raise being this good, good for baseball? No, no, no. It's not okay to have a team. No.

That has a bottom five payroll? This is something Jimmy's pretty passionate about. No. I'm happy that they're smart, but no, it's not good for baseball. They're not fun to watch unless you're a raise fan. No third party would enjoy the product they put out bullpen in game three. It's not fun. They purposely don't develop stars.

Like they've kind of admitted to that. They'll trade them before they can develop stars and they don't market them in their area because they don't want you to be a fan of a player. They want you to be a fan of a uniform, which is fine. I get it. But like they go out of their way. They platoon guys, so they rarely have any full-time starters. And then there's no consistency.

So, no, I'm pretty passionate about that. Race fans don't really get it, but I don't expect them to, but like, they're good. They've broken the system. They're so smart and it's so incredibly impressive what their front office has been able to do with the money they do it and the way they do it. And it's really good for winning baseball. But no, it's not good for the entertainment that. of the sport. It's bad. You don't think they have some fun guys?

They do. Joy. Oh, yeah, but they hide them and then they show them. They have so many guys that should be studs, but they don't do it. I mean, we like baseball. If I go ask anyone that doesn't like baseball to name a Ray, and they were in the World Series last year, mind you, I doubt I get an answer. I always think of my sisters and my wife's family because they're not big baseball fans. as like just, you know, casual.

They hear it a lot from me and it's around them in their world. I go name a Ray. And they're in the World Series. I doubt they get any. And maybe tell you Blake's now and he's not there anymore. Yeah. Gone. Yeah, I don't, for me, I mean, my, my Jess talks about Tyler Glassnell a lot.

Not sure what that is. No, it's. Is it during date night, Jake? You know, she'll be muttering it in her sleep. I don't, just off. often, all day. How frequently does she ask you to wear a wig and put on stil? That was before she knew who Tyler Glassnow was.

Yeah, I don't know. No, Chris, it's why it's a great question because you respect the hell out of it. Like, they've done it, you know, and they move Snell. I was pretty confident they were going to, after that World Series start. They did. I mean, they moved on from two really good starting pitchers, Snell and Morton, and they took flyers on Rich Hill, who was just on with you. They took a flyer on Archer and, you know, Michael Waka.

And you wonder, like, do the raise, are they starting to get in the lottery business where they're saying, hey, one of these guys is going to work out? Or do they have the special sauce? And, you know, is this going to be a landing spot for a lot of reclamation projects? I don't know, man. They have it figured out, and I respect that as an organization in the realm of baseball. Are the race good for the sport? I think it cuts into a lot of different levels, but probably no.

Like, get this team to Nashville and pay a couple stars. It is amazing. Who played in the Super Bowl? The bucks. Tom Brady. The bucks and the Chiefs, okay? If that was the ALCS, if that game was happening down the street, most people wouldn't walk to see it. What I'm saying, those two cities, right?

It's so dependent in this sport to have larger market teams that we care about at the same time. And I know it's a cap issue and all that sort of stuff because in football, they all spend the same amount of money. And in baseball, they nickel and dime. The rays are consistently a bottom five payroll team, just like they are this year. But man, it's crazy that we don't care. that they come from small market Kansas City and small market Tampa Bay when they're playing in the Super Bowl. But when they,

when all of a sudden they take the grand stage in the World Series, the razor shitty for us. The team that represents Tampa Bay, no, Bueno. It's no good. And I'm with you. Listen, I do a rose rotation with Tyler Glass now who has all but admitted he knows he's getting traded at some point.

It's probably going to happen this offseason, to be honest with you. He knows it. and that is hard on a fan base. Like for years, I'll use my kids as an example. They always wanted to get a Browns jersey. And I was like, guys, have to run it past me, who you're getting. Because I don't want to get another one next year. You like Joe Thomas?

Right? That was it. My freaking oldest son in 2017, the night of the draft, he goes, Dad, I'm getting a Deshaun Kaiser jersey. I was like, stop. You are not getting a Deshaun Kaiser jersey. We are not having that. And he got a just on Kaiser jersey.

So now I make him wear it around the house just to show him what a moron he was. But yes, that is a great point, Jimmy. Like the fan base has nobody to cling on to. They're clinging on to an idea. We care about the people inside the uniforms. We really do. Those are the people who give us the memories. Routing for a front office is a weird way to be a sports fan.

And it's kind of like a big section of baseball fans now. And even probably our audience, because the people that listen to this show are baseball diehards that care enough about more than their personal team, which is awesome. And I appreciate it because that's what baseball needs to kind of grow. But I'm not referencing them when I say, I'm referencing the casual fan that is not a fan yet that we want to become a fan. You know. Think about any fan that wasn't a raise fan, but then watched them in the World Series. And then they just traded everyone. And they're like, wait, what?

I just, I was going to buy in. I don't know. It's just, but rooting for a front office is such a weird thing that baseball has convinced its fans to do. Like, you know, a hard hit ball is hit right at a guy who's playing in a position that no one stood in for the last, you know, 100 years. And we're like, wow, the scouting was perfect. Claps off to the analytics department.

And it's like, oh, wouldn't it be so much cooler to see a guy who make a running play? And you go, wow, he got a great read on that and a great. jumps, collapse for his athleticism, but baseball's not that right now. We're cheering on analytics department. It's very much a mathematician's dream, you know. I am waiting for somebody to show up to a raise game with a jersey on the back that says opener. I really want to see it. Might be out there.

I'll even, I'll even pay for it. Well, actually, you guys pay for it. But somebody's going to pay for it. And, Jake, you wanted to say. Yeah, I was going to say you mentioned this year's Super Bowl, Tampa, Kansas City. you know, Tampa, and this was the conversation on NFL network and wherever all year, you know, Tampa kind of had been irrelevant in NFL circles for a long time. But they added Tom Brady, which, you know, that litmus test we talked about before,

everybody's passing. Everybody's passing. So that's where, you know, even if it's not, baseball doesn't have any stars of Tom Brady's level. But if you can get a couple of guys, even someone like Joey Wendell, like if that guy's a ray for life and people can rally around that, like get dudes that stay there. And that's, I hope when baseball does the CBA, and I want it to be a topic, but I don't think anybody inside the walls does. But like you're saying, Chris, we care about the dudes inside the jersey. It's part of the reason we've been successful. When we started talking Yanks, we did all things about guys' personalities.

One of our favorite silly episodes that people bring up is we did, if the Yankees had a barbecue, what would everyone be doing? Who's on the grill? Who's playing yard games? We like that stuff. And when you know the guys, that's what makes the game more fun and impactful. And if you're a raised fan, why would, you know, Glass Now is awesome. You've won us over with Glass Now after we hated this tall Goliath that mowed down the Yankees.

And we thought he probably didn't have a personality. and he no he's god damn fantastic i love him if you're a tampa fan like why would you get invested in that he's going to be ripped away from you soon probably this off season yeah here's the national perspective and i think the the true tests if the Padres make the world series they've got arguably the biggest star in the game in Tatis right in terms of marketability you know he's got a great look he's signing for fans as the bus is waiting for him, right? He's got any stud on the diamond.

Will that translate into ratings? Because it's a little San Diego that doesn't have much of a following, doesn't have much of a baseball history on a national perspective, right? Yeah. That's going to be the true test now. We'll see if that works. I hope it does. But I think I veered us off track a little bit.

I apologize. So the Rays and White Sox now have a series, which I know you'll recap on Friday show. But who's the, which one's the more complete team after watching what each did this weekend? They both had sweeps. Jimmy? What, two teams? White socks and the race.

The white socks and the race. White socks are really good. More complete. The only, the, you think you're more complete? Well, like I said, the race can just mix and match like crazy and they're going to have, they have the bullpen arms and they know how to use all their guys. But so I don't.

I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. I just, I like the way the White Sox are made up a lot. They got, I know, I know Magical went out, so that's a little bit of a bummer. Because they had slappers, they had boppers, they had fast guys, and they had slow sluggers, and they had great relievers and good, like, it was, it's pretty well-rounded team. Just don't pitch Hendricks in a rainstorm and you're good.

But the rays will, if they're not rounded, they'll go find someone in, quadruple and round it out. Jake? Yeah, you lean White Sox because I think you lean the high-end talent. I do think they have that at the end of the day. But, yeah, Ray's going to raise, man. For the past three years, I mean, anytime they play the Yankees, you know you're in for it.

Like they're not just going to go down and they're going to be in the right places. And they encourage their guys. You know, if you're Mike Brassot, who you crush lefties, they're going to put you in the right spot to succeed in. And they constantly do. So I like the White Sox better from the pure talent wise. But again, the Ray's org, it's tough to argue against that. You know, to me, they're fascinating because they are on such opposite ends of the baseball spectrum. The White Sox have started seven different guys on the mound this year.

The raise of like 11. There's two guys that have saves for the White Sox. Hendricks has 17 of the 19, I think. The race have six different guys who get saves. Like their bullpen, they threw seven no-hit innings. In their last 17 games, they have an ERA of like under one six. They just, they have figured out their formula. And with all that being said, I'm a huge White Sox believer, not a fan.

I'm an Indians fan. I'm a believer in the White Sox. I think they're going to be a tough out come October. Because good luck against that rotation. And Kichel's got the worst ERA. He's a smidge over four. We haven't even, nobody talks about Dylan's cease and the improvement that

he's made. And you guys all love Lance Lynn. I mean, I know Jimmy's done a breakdown on him. He's the best. I think he's pitching tonight. He is against last now. Oh, that'll be fun. Two different ways to do it as Beauty and the Beast right there. Why aren't they marketing it that way? Yeah. Dude, you got to chuck a lot of BBD on that one.

That's what the show's about. That's Beauty and the Beast right there. Which one? Lance Lynn's the Beast. Lancelins is very good because he, whenever he motherfucked the other team, he makes sure to turn away from them so they don't see him.

He just shouts it towards his own dugout when he walks off the mound, which I appreciate. But yeah, there's going to be some good stuff. That's fun. Astros are really good as well. Talking about good teams. The Astros can just hit and they Frambers pitching his dick off and the twins win. My God.

The twins win against the Yankees did not catapult them to more wins. Like the some thought. Hoped. So Astros are good. Rays are good. Indians beat the Mariners. And then the Blue Jays just absolutely hit like crazy over in Fenway. The most home runs ever in Fenway.

Fenway kind of did their best. We're going to throw slop routine. Yeah, but it's against a really good team offensively. And here's the one thing. When I watched the Blue Jays do what they do, and I thought it was so cool that on consecutive days you had Vlad, Vigio, and Bichette all Homer in the same game. Like, I don't know.

Maybe I'm the only one that got all the feels on that stuff. But when I watch them play, if that team does not pull the trigger for more pitching help, they are wasting an opportunity. I think they might be waiting for when Springer returns and he's about to go on a rehab assignment. But if they don't do that, because they've got extra major league pieces that teams would want.

They should. They should go get Gibby. That's what I was saying last episode. Sure is there. Yeah. The only thing I worry about with him is that, is it park inflated? because that place plays weird.

Looks like it's a real pitcher. Gibby's a friend of the pod so we don't talk about any stats or facts that might go against him. Then I'll move on to somebody. Gibby's lights out and he learned a cutter from Lance Lynn, so that's why he's lights out now. Got it. So what I was saying is I think he learned a cutter from Lance Lynn. And so I think he would be a wonderful pickup for the Blue Jays. Yeah.

Perez. They got the Perez real bad. And then the Red Sox went to Ryan. Ryan Weber, who, I mean, you know, they said, hey, Webby, you're throwing 100 pitches no matter what happens. So have fun. And he continued to throw 95 of the most miserable pitches you'll see. The Blue Jays lit him up for 13 hits, 11 earned runs, four home runs.

I mean, Ryan Weber was kind of a joke last year of the league. Like, it was like, well, here's the worst pitcher you can face in the Major League Baseball. he just got called back up from AAA where he was not performing well and they just said go empty the tank against the Blue Jays top task But do you know how much

Do you know how much respect he just earned? Yeah, he saved the whole bullpen He got sent back down probably but yes But yes it's a shitty all around for everyone besides Blue Jays It is but I guarantee you that every one of those Every one of his teammates went up to him and thanked him

I guarantee you that's how it went down because they all know. No question. I'm telling you. Rosie, any Cleveland update it? I feel like it's a team that doesn't get talked about a ton on this show. We recite the same lines. Is there anything we're missing? No.

They're slightly about like they're going to end up with 83 wins. I'm telling you. I'll see you at the end of September. I wish I could get super excited, but they did have their best win of the year. They were down 4-0. going into the ninth and down two outs, and Bradley Zimmer started a rally, and they ended up winning an extras five to four.

Obviously, Jimmy, you're not as excited because you're yawning at that story. No, I was yawning. I was yawning. I was also nodding saying, yes, yes. Yes. I saw that because I... It's actually a lack of oxygen. Yeah.

It's a tight room in here. Good for the kid, Logan Gilbert. He out duels Beaver. He'll remember that forever. That's fun. Not a ton of Mariners talk on this pot either. And A's role, man. That's a team that just wins.

They're good. So here's the question. Both Matt's Chapman and Olson are free agents after the 23 season. Yeah, they're both gone soon too. I know, but A's fans are going to be more upset over which Matt being traded. Chapman. Really? Do you see what Olson has done over the last couple seasons?

Yeah, but Chapman is. I might even hear more about it later. Chapman is, you know, hot corner. The left side of the defense was like a big thing. Platinum glove. Like he became their guy guy, I think. I get it. But Matt Olson is a gold glover at first.

He hammers. I mean, how many home runs does he have over the last two or three seasons? In anordinate amount. I think he's at 289 right now. His OPS is almost one dot, as we like to say here at John Boy. I don't know. I mean, if you're an A's fan, leave it in the chat. Which one are you going to be more upset about when they trade?

Maybe someone gets a package for the mats. Who's your mat? They're both free agents and after the 2020-three season. So if they're not traded this off-season, expect them to be traded halfway through next year. Okay. And that suck? And that suck because they're like a really good team.

That's 10 games and in a window. No, it would be really cool and good for baseball if the mats stayed together for 10 years. Yeah. And it was like, look what they did. Sign them. Both. See, here's where it really pisses me off. I think it's Lou Wolf is their owner, if I'm not mistaken.

And I think he's one of the richest owner in the sport. You've cut into two of my- You're hitting all my sore subjects of baseball. Yes, I lived in the Bay Area. The A's owner is like the fifth richest owner in baseball. They draw zero casual fans to their ballpark because it's a piece of shit. The diehards like it. Literally.

So when you go to an A's game, it's awesome. The atmosphere is great because the fans that are there are diehard fans. They're fans of the team. If you, you know, every, every full attendance game is made up of 50% casual fans. And the A's just don't really get that. Sands like little kids get tagged along with their parents. But if you go and you're in a close game, Coliseum is a good time. The fans are lively.

They're just never packed. And they don't get any, you know, If you're visiting the Bay Area, you're not going to be like, oh, we should go check out a ball game and go to the Coliseum. You're going to go to the Giants game because it's a nice brand new stadium. Coliseum is literally a shithole. They have so many nice places to build up there, too. It'll be pricey. Yeah.

And I can just tell you, having lived in California for two decades and Jimmy, you know, that's having lived in the Bay Area, it's not easy to get a stadium referendum passed in this place. And the Giants owner paid for the stadium. So I don't know. Yeah. One last thing in the American League. From now until the end of baseball, billions of years from now, when you mention the name Bo Burroughs, Jimmy, what are you going to think?

Throw Burroughs. Threw up. That sucks. I felt bad for him because he was like sick, sick. Yeah. But that guy could win three Cy Youngs, and it's still going to be the only thing you think of is him hurling on the mouth. My biggest thing is when I saw his name, Bo,

borrows, I was like, why aren't you playing football? Bo Burrows from Texas, that's a football player if I've ever heard one. He had two options, Texas or LSU. Yeah. Yeah. No, and... You didn't store on Friday Night Lights. The other part of that clip that's really good is that it's your mean, right?

Yeah. And your mean just points and it's like, oh. That guy's puking. That guy's throwing up on the mount. Jake, can you give us the I. I cannot, but Chris Rose can. Oh, yeah. Wow.

Yeah. Yeah, what's the matter with you? I have no idea. That's my bad. I'm feeling beef. BPD, Q music. Let's go. What happened?

Free Interleague series force this weekend, including right down the road from the Rose Hotel in Chavez Ravine, where the Dodgers take two or three over the hapless Texas Rangers, although Gibby learned a cutter from Lance Lynn, so I feel good about that. Now, they didn't have to face him this weekend, so that was good news for the Dodgers, who slashed 3243-3-8. 76, 578, banged seven homers. They did have a little bit of a bull plan of implosion.

And, oh, by the way, the Rangers did win the meat part of this sandwich series, 12 to 1 on Saturday. Bad news for the Dodgers, Muncie goes on the IL. Cody Bellinger, please show up at some point, exited Friday games, sat out Saturday and Sunday. The Angels, they remain red hot, they sweep. The Zerpians out in Arizona. Good news for Arizona. They did come up with the awesome city connect bunies. They all had the snake dragging around their neck during the promo released on social media. I want the jersey. I want nothing to do with this snake during the shoot. By the way, the Angels over 500 for the first time since May 1st, and Arizona has now dropped 33 of its last 38. The good news is they now hit the road where they have lost 19 in a row. And we'll wrap it up. Cover your ears, boys. Actually, yours are already covered.

tune out. Phillies sweep the Yanks in a brief two-game set at the bank. Phillies, they were pushed the extras. The Yankees had a huge comeback but couldn't finish the job. Phillies went at 8 to 7. Ying Seguro with another walk-off shot there. And then the Yanks had no shot against Aaron Nola. seven and two-thirds shutout ball.

He looked like old Aaron Nola in a seven-nothing win. Nine strikeouts in that game. Bills wrap up a six and one homestand as they head out to face the world champs. And they have a winning record for the first time in three and a half weeks. BPD, we can save the music. As I ask my two biggest Yankees fans that I know, your team has lost seven of nine, 13 of 18. You're eight and a half out in the American.

American League East. Are you boys okay? Oh, no. No, that's an easy question. No, not okay. Now, the yanks are not good. Worst fundamentally, worst fundamental team I've ever watched. That's true. Chris, how many, how many times should a 12-year-old little league team get thrown out on a ground ball to the shortstop when they're on second base with less than two outs? In front of them. Groundball in front of them. They're on second base. What's that? Possible they're teaching that aggression, guys.

Maybe look at that. No, they're not because after every game, they come out and say that's a mistake we have to work on. Then they don't work on it. A 12-year-old little league team, maybe that happens once and you tell everyone, hey, that cannot happen again. It's happened three times in the last month. The Yankees are just, they're really bad. It's pretty simple. They built a team that was support.

to mash and they're not mashing. You know, people thought they might be going in Minnesota. They got a couple pitchers on the mound in Minnesota that help them mash a little bit. Supposedly they're a week from Luke Voight coming back. That could help Stanton and Carlos Stanton, who was on fire three home runs and two games in Minnesota, got one at bat in this series because no DH in Philadelphia. Aaron Judge only played one game. He's been their best player this year.

So when you put it all on paper and you say that, by the way, the two starting pitchers this series combined for 4.2 innings pitched and 11 earn runs, that's a bad formula. So I don't know. I mean, it's very much a fight or flight point of the season. They would have to show something differently than they have. And they can. I mean, that's why it's baseball.

That's why it's beautiful. If Judge Stan, if DJ LaMayhew can get going, if Luke Voight can join the gang and look like home run leader Luke Voight, that can change your season. But they need to change their season. That's the whole point. And that's kind of the scary part in Yankee land right now, is that they have just kind of gone through the motions for the past 100 games now.

They're 52 and 48 in their last 100 games. And, you know, they still. do some analytically driven stuff, a couple air quotes for those on the podcast. Rognet Odor batted third yesterday. The Texas Rangers, Kyle Gibson slash Lance Lynn's

fastball farm Texas Rangers, one of the worst teams in the American League, are paying Roognette Odore $13 million a year to not come to work for them. That's where the Yankees are, yeah. So Rosie, check this out. Odor and his last,

since he came off the IL. He's played 19 games. He started 17 games. He has a 231 batting average, a 275 on-base percentage, and a 691 OPS. Horrible numbers, right? Below average, terrible, bad numbers. Yes. He's batted in the 7-8 or 9 hole once.

I get they have to play him because of injuries, and sometimes he's good to be, you know, put out there in second baseman. he's batted second three times during this stretch. They put him at the front of the order. And then they try to tell the fan base they're trying. It's like, well, you're not. You only, you have this guy because he caused zero dollars towards the luxury attacks. So I, whatever, I stomach that, I guess.

You have to play him because Void's hurt. You don't. You can do something else. Well, why do you have to hit him at the front of the order? They're so dumb. They think they're the race. That's the biggest thing. So perfect conversation.

The Yankees should look at the White Sox and say, ah, maybe we can do that. Instead, they look at the raise and go, let's be smart like them. And they're not. All right. Let's wrap this up in 30 seconds. Does the team presently constructed as is make the playoffs? Yes or no. Jake?

It's presently constructed. No. No. I said to you before we started, shake. the tree. I don't know if that's someone coming back and calling up a minor league or I don't know if that's a couple small trades. I don't

know what it is. You got to shake the tree a little bit. And I knock on wood, I hope they will. Okay. Good for the Phillies, though. Phillies played good ball, pitched well. They did a lot of hit and running. I mean, you know, they took

advantage of two pitchers who were poor. But they look good. They were doing baseball stuff. stuff. Yeah. And if Aaron Nola pitches the way that he did yesterday, I like Nola. Look out. Wheeler, Nol, Eflin at the top of that rotation, then we're doing something. That's, that's Brewers without the bullpen, but more of a lineup. Angels. Yeah. Okay. So the Angels have won 11 of 14, all Sons Trout. And basically, Sons Otani on Saturday and Sunday this week. Now, granted, I know who they were playing. I get it. I understand.

Jimmy, you had an anger issue with them earlier a few weeks ago. Have you calmed down? Are you like, well, I hate the Angels front office because they're disrespectful to Angels fans who I have their back. But what's the question? Well, hold on. Why are they disrespectful?

What? They're not disrespectful. They're just bad at their jobs. Isn't there a difference? Well, when the entire general public knows the biggest thing, but you'd spite them and don't do it. Like you could talk to a casual baseball fan at any bar and be like, oh, the Angels, no pitching.

Yeah. They didn't need to give Rendon all that money when Cole and Bauer were available that year and next year when I heard Cole was very interested in pitching in the West Coast and searching out the Angels. And Bauer, he was a finalist there, but didn't really want to go because of pitching coach concerns. And then, you know, they were at the end with another pitcher

got snaked from them and yeah they just they needed pitching so i don't know the question is like yeah that's not i don't think that that's disrespectful i think that's bad at your job they're willing to spend the money they always have been yeah it's just like when you walk into somebody's house and you're like why do you have all this artwork but you don't have anything in the kitchen like there's not one appliance in here yeah i'm saying the same thing we're just interpreting the wrong the word differently like to be that bad right when everyone is yelling Do you think this team could make a run? No.

You could just say that's a stupid question, Rose. Because everyone always, like now that we have more people that listen, people get upset with me all the time. I'm not trying to hurt feelings here. I'm just, they can have a good season. Keep the energy up for when Trout comes back. And then if you can maybe make a deadline move, you got the juices going, and that's kind of how baseball works.

I believe in baseball juice. If you told me they were going to play the Mariners, the Royals, and the Diamondbacks, I said they'll probably have a nice little trip there. I don't think you can sway any opinions based on those series. They have Oakland coming up, and then they have the Giants and the Rays and the Yankees coming up. Not that the Yankees deserve to be in the good team list, but we'll see then. If they lost to those teams, it would have been bad, bad, bad. bad, bad, bad. But they took care of business and that's good. But I don't think it has any bearing on,

you know, oh, now they're a playoff team. One last point, and then I know you, we got to move on. But if the Angels offered Shohei Otani 200 million this off season, who says no? Like, is the team not going to make that offer? Or does Otani turn them down? Shohay Atani says yes. Jake? I'd really like to see the rest of this season. man I'd both say yes how about that I'm a sucker so the angels make the offer and otani take it to market another star they do huge in that market overseas and otani gets

basically a bag for life when he's proven it for a season as a pitcher as a pitcher Otani has to say yes to that I mean or at least the people the people telling Otani to make Otoni the player might say I'm worth more I'm not going to get hurt I'm going to be playing both sides for 10 years but whoever his camp has to say hey man what has he made so far five million dollars

you know or or um yeah he's in the middle of a two year eight and a half right you have to if you're Otani you have to say yes to that and just try to get the years lower so that you eventually you can earn again for the last three years if you're older sluggers, something like that. So maybe I'm with Jake, both sides, to say yes to that. Let's do it. Let's bring them both to the table.

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Stand out performance. Stand out performance. Take, do you get to go first? I am going first. I am taking someone, Chris Rose began to highlight, and I'm flipping the script on it just a little bit. Wow.

I am taking Matthew Kent Olson, Maddie Olson, the first baseman for the Oakland days. I am a huge Matt Olson fan. I do think he is one of the best-looking players in the league. I think he's my number one. I would, like, date my daughter player in the league currently. And outside of that, I know that's the important stuff. A, he had two games on the list that could have been picked this episode.

He had a four-for-five with a homer and four-ribbies. That game was a blowout. He had a two-for-four with two homers in a tighter game, so I guess I'll technically take that one. Matt Olson is underrated. Chris kind of started going there before. Two gold gloves in the bag at age 27. That ain't too bad.

But by the way, all he's done is hit for a little bit now. If you do the last three seasons, he's got an 879 OPS, and he's on a 40-plus Homer pace over the season. And Jim, I've got a couple stats you're going to like. Let's start scratching both ways. Maddie Olson, Jim, how about split-proof, 9-79? OPS first Riteys this year. 990 versus lefties.

Slightly better versus lefties. Hey, are we on the home or the road? There's some of those guys. We talked about slick Willie Adomas. 981 OPS at home, 989 on the road. If Matt Olson is in the lineup, lefty, righty, Homer Road, you're going to get gold glove defense at first base and you're going to get a lefty power masher in the middle of your lineup.

And man, if there isn't something romantic about a big power hit in lefty, at first base, then I just don't know. So I'm taking my guy, Maddie Olson. Nice. Not Chapman, Olson. Not Chapman. What did he do in the one game? He had a two homer day.

He also had a four for five, or but I lean the two-for-four-four-two-homber. Two-for-four, two-homers. Yeah. Nice. Good job. All right, my standout is Desclophani. San Francisco Giant starting pitcher. he had a complete game shutout to help his team get the 1-0 win.

And Disco, what I really like is he only faced 20-8 batters. He faced one over the minimum. But three guys got on base. The first two guys got on base, immediate double plays or double plays later that inning. Talkman did rob a potential Soto Homer, and there was another nice diving catch by Lombe. What's his name in right field there? Wade?

Wade, yeah. So some good defense there, but Disco was having a phenomenal year through his first nine games. He had a 203 ERA. Then he got absolutely smoked by the Dodgers. Ten earned runs over 2.2 innings pitched, which bumped his ERA from 203 to 354. Then he had a not great outing, bumped it to 356. And you're like, oh, shit, is he going to stay at 3.5? decent, still a good year.

This helps him go back down to 309. Complete game, zero earn runs. That means if he has his average start next game against the Diamondbacks, I believe, he goes six innings pitch, one run run, he's back in the twos. That's a nice correction after the 10 run runs,

which you would think is usually an ERA killer. But this helps him get back right, and I mean, they want to one nothing game because of it. So, Disco doing the damn thing. He is my standout performance. 9 in pitch zero earned runs eight case two hits one walk good job I did very good so I know that when you mentioned the Houston Astros on John boy media it's a big buzz we're not a lot of it goes a little

nutty but I will tell you this for years we thought Al Tuve was the guy who really got it done for their office and then we were like oh it's Alex Bregman no question about him and then you know Yuleiguriel always gets big hits and drives and runs. The best hitter on that team is Michael Brantley. And in my opinion, it's not even close. Yesterday, four for five, three doubles. It is the third time this year that he has had three doubles in a game. And I believe the most ever in a single season is four games in which somebody had three doubles or more in a single game. What's made it more impressive, he missed a dozen games. because of a hamstring injury. He has reached base 15 of 23 plate appearances since being activated off the injured list. 15 of 23. He's hitting 337. It's going to be his fourth straight year

of at least hitting 300. It's going to be his fourth straight year of an OPS plus of at least 124. He's 35 years old. He is Dr. Smooth and he never looks out of control at the plate. And in a game where guys are swinging for the fences and that's it. He is one of the few guys who changes his approach based on situation and the pitcher he's facing. I love that about him. I've always liked him. He's a classy guy and we'll see him in Colorado at the All-Star game.

Congrats, Michael. He's had nine games with three hits or more this season. Nine. Pretty damn good, dude. All right. Good standouts by everyone. Just a reminder when those guys. guys are healthy. Altuva, Brantley, Bregman, Alvarez, Gurriel, Correa, Kyle Tucker.

How's your seven hitters on your team? More on that later. Oh, it ain't that. All right, Trev usually doesn't like this segment, but maybe you will, Rose. Okay. Slump watch. Slump watch. How it works is we have five guys from last week that we put on a watch list. Like, hey, you might go into a slump soon. We've got to check this out. BPD is going to add five more, five more potential ads. Then we're going to work through it so there's only five left. Hopefully some guys got off it.

Who are the potential ads this week? Some big O for weekends on the board. Trevor Story's O for 11 with a walk, six K's hit by pitch, recently back from Andrews, so that might excuse him. Alex Bragman, who we just talked about briefly, He goes 0 for 12, 3 RBI's walk, 4Ks, 2 sack flies makes sense, so that's kind of cool. Gio Orchella goes 0 for 9 against Philly this weekend, 3Ks, Brandon Bell, 0 for 12. He's having a good year for at least helps us with the Humber draft ones.

I think the year's good, 6. There's 7 strikeouts, rather, and a hit by pitch. And Dom Smith, O for 12. Damn, I like Dom. It's 0 for 12. Okay, so immediately, Trevor Storkeyes. He's only played four games since coming off the IL, so I'm not going to count that here.

You want to? I mean, I want to track him because he's going to be the sexiest name in baseball in the coming weeks. I mean, come the All-Star break and the trade deadline, it's going to be a baseball is going to be a Trevor Story company. Okay. All right. Gio only played two games. We usually nicks those guys off.

Cheers. Well, Belt just came off the injured list, too, by the way, guys. Okay. Injured Crow. Yeah, he did. And he came off. He had three hits in his first game back off the IL, and now O for since then. So, well, let's see how many spots we get open. Yeah, let's see who's coming on. Rees Hoskins, he had a 0 for 13. And then the next two games, he went one for six. He did have three walks. So, I mean, the 33 on base percentage, which is Reese's game.

You want to keep him on, Jake? I want to keep him on because I think Reese is a streaky guy. And I think we'll be on here Friday saying Reese Hoskins is, off two homers, blah, blah, blah. So I'm excited for that. All right. Remember who he's playing, too. He's at the Dodgers. Get into the depths of that bullpen and get a couple of ease.

No depth. Is my, am I not allowed to bring that one up? Is that like Kyle Gibson territory? Is that okay? That's fine. We got a lot of friends here. Austin Meadows is a friend of the pot.

He went one for eight with a walk. Two Ks. That's kind of a me. I don't know what to do with that. The good news is Eddie Eskabon. bar went four for 13 with the home run and two homers. He's streaky. He goes over and then he goes really well.

This is he goes on. He gets on and gets off. Schwabow, we put him on here because he might be trade deadline fodder. He went three for 12 with three homers. Yep. So he's off. Good job. Dylan Carlson was on here, O for 94K's last series.

This series, two for 12 with two doubles. And a walk. I don't know. What do you want to do with Meadows and Carlson? Jake. You want to keep those guys or no? Well, let's see. I want I want Story and Bregman, for sure. So the question is,

would we rather track Belt Dominic Smith over Dylan Carlson? I think we leave MEDs. Meds is having a borderline all-star year. I want to keep an eye on Meds. Okay, so Trevor Story and Bregman are added. That means Belt and Smith. So I'll leave it to the guest, guest of honor.

I mean, do we want Dylan? Carlson or Brandon Belt or Dominic Smith? We can't. We got Oh, one of those three. You want Carlson? No, I don't want Carlson. I want I was trying to look at Smith to see what his season is.

Dominic Smith? Yeah, it's not good. I like him, so I thought it was good. So no. We'll just leave Carlson then. I guess. I don't care. Rose, who should we watch? Carlson, Belt, or Smith? Puts a lot of pressure. on them to work themselves off, you know?

Well, I would watch Brandon Bell because I think he's going to have a monster. All right. Do you remember who they're playing? Giants are playing. Oh. Uh-oh. The Serbian things.

All right. Let's get to the fun stuff. No, Jake, you're not. No, we're not. We're tanking. Jake, walk us through who was hot this week. My guy, Maddie Olson, supposed to be on this list, but I snagged him. He can still be.

But the Mats are both. And Matt Chapman's referenced earlier. He had a little seven for 16, too. Good job. The Mats. Miss Dr. Smooth, Michael Brantley, we're great. We're killing this episode. How's your 8 for 11?

That's unfair. Vladito, probably a little too late to be mentioned in Vladito. He is your current AL Triple Crown Leader And a 7 for 11 with 3 homers helps that Bo Bichette, Kevin Bizio, all the Blue Jays If you were a Blue J, you're hot right now. To Oscar Salvi Perez, man, Salvi. He was sputtering a little bit.

He's been hot for a little while now, 5 for 11, 2 homers. And we mentioned Schwabo. He gets on the list with the three homers. Shame to flame. Kind of all of it. So that's the inflago. That's who's hot. Good stuff.

Next up, award. Jake, you get to give out your award first. Lead-off hitter today. You know, I didn't get too much funny business with this one. I went with, it's the quiet ones you got to worry about award. Okay. It's the quiet ones you got to worry about. The best soft contact hitters in the league.

It's a theory there. I'm going to a guy. who we do love, is a friend of the pod, who we haven't talked about a lot this year, nay, really at all. Nay, really at all. Yeah, that old sentence. I'm giving it to Walker Bueller.

Oh. Our friend Walker Bueller. Has he been in the MLB discussion this year? Not really. You know, Jack Flaherty was rolling for a while. Another friend of the pod. I thought he might get the starting nod in Colorado this year. He got her.

There's always de Grom, Bauer's always doing something. We're always hearing about pitchers. Know what Bueller's doing this year, and we haven't really mentioned him? 6-0, a 238 ERA. He's 26 years old, and he's been doing this. His career ERA is 3.01. And he's just become, I don't know if it's Dodgers fatigue, or if there's other guys or Bueller was so good.

so young that we kind of keep it moving sometimes. But he's just doing the damn thing again. And the strikeout numbers aren't crazy. So I don't know if that's got people off the scent. But he's getting people out. He's having another great year. And he hasn't lost a regular season game since 2019. So.

Wow. Wow. And when we talk to Walker, funny little personality. A little quiet. But he's got his jabs ready to go. And we actually, we walked away after talking to Walker. We walked away.

Like, man, that guy's pretty funny, but he keeps it, he keeps it pretty low key. So big fan of his. Pretty good. Pretty good Walker Bueller story. Walker Bueller story in the Rose rotation. Rose Rite has which dropped today has which dropped today. Like that. There you go.

There you go. Oh, Rose, we might need you to close the browser and then re-release. click the link is that what works? Refresh the link or just refresh the URL. That's what Trev does after a while it gets all robot That's hilarious Robot Rose

I forgot to warn him about that Robot Rose We should have given a little heads up Let's see you back I kept seeing all this Robo Rose stuff So it's an episode It's an episode It's an episode episode

Trevor Ploofs Mike And we never We still don't fully know the solution, but he would go robot voice to the point that it became fan art. We have some robo-trev that we put up. Shout out. So you, there it is.

So you got roboat as well. Yeah. It's a right of pass. Am I back to being normal? Yeah, you're back. You're back. You're normal. Yeah, because I kept seeing this stuff in the chat and it's like, I can't wait to see go robo rose. And I was like, is that a personality thing? Is that an age joke? It's around the hour, 20 minute mark.

Is that? What are they doing on TikTok now? That's funny. Good award, Jake. It's the quiet ones you got to worry about. Thank you. No one's ever said that about you. No, no, no. Don't have to worry about Jake.

The stocky ones you got to worry about. I did a lot of math for my award. It's called the June Bottom Award. Okay. The June Bottom. Any guesses? June Bottom. The June Bottom Award.

Yeah. Did you go to prom with the June Bottom? I wish I did. Hmm. I went with Amber. Shout out. Yeah. You took a stripper to the prom?

You don't have to answer that if you don't want to. Yet. No, that's been. Oh, snap. That was lit. I wanted to look at which team's bottom of the lineup is getting it done the most. Just out of curiosity, what seven, eight, nine hitters are really doing it for their team. And I just, I did it just in June, just to simplify it.

the Astros 789 and Jake led to this with his depth of their team. The Astro 789 hitters have more hits than any other team, 789 hitters in June. The Astro 789 hitters in June in 12 games have scored 21 runs. They have 12 walks, a walk per game. They have 19 RBIs and they have 36 hits. They're batting 272 in June. June. It's mostly Maldonado, straw, and stubs. Yeah, that team is deep. So I just wanted to look at what team's bottom of the lineup is performing best across baseball.

I knew it was going to be an A.L. obviously. But, yeah, it's the Astros, and they were pretty good. Now, there are some big games here that really help them. A big game by Maldonado, where he had five R.B. the ice himself helps but still that's a big that's big for a team when that happens yeah so the june bottom winners right now the astros got it huge yeah all right good job by them it's big it is big i didn't know what to do for the award stuff i i froze sorry guys i you're all good i apologized i didn't want to i didn't want to step on ploof's turf because i know he's very protective of his harry potter's Yeah, Harry Potter. He is a huge Harry Potter fan.

Huge Potter on snow. It's coming on Friday. Don't worry. Okay. Okay. No award today? So that's a tease. Well, the whole idea of the award is that it's got to be a friend of the show, is-ish.

It's wherever you want to go with it. If there's one... I don't think any of those Astros players like us. Not that group of them. If there's, well, A, the crowd wants to hear the Walker Bueller story. And then B, if there's, I don't know, any player thing you'd like to highlight, that's kind of what awards is there for. All I can tell you about the Walker Bueller story, it has to deal with Rich Hill and Walker Bueller's propensity to swear while on the mound.

So there you go. You can enjoy that. Jimmy, once again, not impressed since he yawned you. I'm a yon. I'm a yon. You need to get you an oxygen mask. Yes. That'd be dope.

That would be really nice. We would use that in out of the mouth. How about this? My award of the week can go to you guys for inviting me to the All-Star game. I just saw on social media that we've got a big meet and greet that just started to get promoted. Yeah. Big deal? Well, yes, patrons only have first crack at it right now.

So if you're a patron, make sure you go check that out. I think for the next two days, it's only available to patrons. And there's only 50 tickets available. So for the VIP hour and a half before the All-Star game, we are, if you're going to be in Denver, the Denver area, we are at the improper city bar for just a watch party. Anyone can come to that for the game. But if you are interested in hanging out with me, Jake, Rosie, Treve, Kelsey Wingert, Peter Moyland, Joe's McFly, Ashland's going to be there. We, and the rest of the crew, BPD and the rest, we'll be there as well. We are doing like an hour and a half beforehand.

We got games, giveaways. We got, there's an alley. So we might be taking some out. You can take at Bats against Trev or Pete or any of us and back alley at Bats. And with your ticket, you get two drinks. So if you're a patron, you got two days to go. A patron in the area, going to go, going to be around. Go check it out.

not a patron, it'll be open to the public soon. But again, it's, how many are we giving out for the VIP? We're doing 50. 50. So, yeah, kind of limited. We wanted to be a nice experience where you can actually engage with us. And that's going to be during the All-Star game. And we're going to be in Denver Sunday through.

We might be doing some homework derby stuff. We might have a little Blitzball game. So there's going to be some content coming. Content machine. I love it. It's exciting. I'll rest up. Good award.

Who is the best friend of the week, BBD? Our best friend of the week is Kevin Bigio, mentioned in Inuego briefly. He goes six for 12, 500 on the weekend, two homers, two doubles, two RBIs, two walks. I think pretty recently came off a pretty lengthy IELston, so he's back. Yeah, Britain walked him in the minor leagues. That's what I remember. Oh, yeah. One of the best Twitter handles, Chris Rose.

Is Kevin Bigio. Doing it, Biggio. Doing it, did you? Ha. We think he made it when he was 12. Stuck with it. Yeah. We asked him, right?

Absolutely. Did we ask him? I think so. Yeah, we definitely asked him about it, and I assume it was on the interview. Didn't he just nod and say you like that or something like that? I forget. I remember.

He was cool guy. Do you guys know that his dad played? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Yeah. We asked him. You know what?

We'll talk offline about it. Yeah. You tell us all about that. Do you know that? You ever play catcher? Huh? The dad? Do you know Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard?

I heard that rumor too. Boys, it was fun. I appreciate you invite me on today. We got one more thing we have to do. One final treat for you. It's called elevator talk. And what we do is we spin a wheel. It's got all 30 teams on there.

You love a good wheel spin. If you ever, if you're getting an elevator and the person next to you wearing a hat of this team. Here's two minutes of fodder that you can just throw their way. It is the Detroit Tiger. So right away, you just say, hey, did you see that kid throw up on the mound the other day? That's like the instant. If you're in Detroit on an elevator, Michigan, uper area, you say, hey, you see that guy

throw up on the mound, that's an easy one. I think you talk about the other. Did you hear that, did you hear that Spencer Torkelson just got promoted to like Erie. Okay. How's that? I like that. That's good elevator fodder. The young starting pitching has turned it around a little bit. They got hot for a while. Casey Mize.

Good Auburn boy. He's been doing it. Scoobel really turned his season around. And I'm glad we're doing this with Chris because I think the last time we had discussed, we were frustrated because we just saw the Yankees play the Tigers and they looked

atrocious, atrocious. They've actually started playing a decent brand of baseball since then. I think they were nine and 24, and now they are 26 and 39. So where are my math people at? 9, 17, 24. They've had a winning record for the past month and a half, month.

You can say something like McGee Cabs. He's not good anymore, huh? Do you can talk about, remember the good times? You've seen his numbers? recently. Have either of you seen Miguel Cabrera's numbers on the season? Looking at him now. I know that Lucas Gielito had some really fun stories about him. They are. If his name wasn't Miguel Cabrera, you'd think he was a pitcher.

Hmm. Wow. They are. But the good news is. He has 60. OPS. He's 40% worse. OPM plus. 40% worse than the average hitter. The good news is Is that in the elevator Contract only goes Two more seasons

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