Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 354 | Sticky Checks, Padres Sweep the Dodgers, & Wander Franco is Here

Episode Date: June 25, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. It is Friday, June 25th, and we had a wild week of baseball. Honestly, it was a wild one. It's a good one. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Echo! Hello. We played through it, Trap.

No one even noticed. Hello, and welcome to talking baseball presented by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us today. My name is Jimmy. Sit next to me is Jake Trevor Plouffe in California and producer BBD in The Corner. And this episode is also brought to you by our most recent patrons. Ben Grow. Cameron Rochelle.

Alex Moses. Brett Sevel or Saville. Zach Chowicz or Sheowitz. Carmen. Tryferro and Ray John Samra Rahan Samra? God, that's a tough one at the end.

I apologize. I think it's more like a ja. Rayjon, Rayjon. Like Dejan, like a Dijon, but. Okay. Samara. That's my guest. Samra. Well, thank you to our most recent patrons. We appreciate you very much. Thank you very much for the support. and my bad on the Echo intro.

That's my bad. I don't want people thinking that was BPD's fault. It was mine. Jake, how are you doing? James, Trevor, Big Baby David, everyone in the chat. Everyone listen to this. Hope you're doing well. Baseball is the hottest in the streets.

We had the hottest night of regular season baseball in my lifetime on Tuesday night. wild we got pitchers just showing dick on the mound literally i mean we talk about it and then it literally happened there was a genuine moment this is not a joke i make a lot of dumb jokes and i continue to there was a second on tuesday night where i thought i might actually be dreaming when romo dropped trow and wander show and all of it i genuinely thought that dream or simulation. Like, I started questioning things.

I tried thinking of stuff to see if it would happen next. It didn't. Turned out I was just awake. We all were. But baseball was hot in the streets. I'm excited to chop it up with you, lads. Big weekend for me and Joms. Yanks this weekend with the socks coming up.

That'll be hot takes on Monday. But for now, excited to yuck it up with you, boys. And a special episode we're dedicating to BBD's grandma. We're sending our well wishes. She hurt her pitch and shoulder. But we love her. And she's going to be 100 soon. So shout out.

Shout out, Grammy. Is she coming up on 100? Or is Jake just making things up? No, she just turned 88 in March. I'm talking on the gun. She's going to be 100. 100 is what we're talking about. Yes, yes.

Yeah. You want to do the nature of the timeline on that? Baseball show. We're working on it. The more Norm MacDonald joke about well-wishers? If you want, you teed it up. No. Okay.

Go Google Norm MacDonald roast if you're looking for some laughs today. Treves, speaking of roast. Jake, you have a lot of well-wishers here tonight. Yeah. And a lot of people I would like to throw you down one. A well. That's my favorite, Norm McDonald's. it's five minutes

Dino Trev What's up dude Do I need to come save the show already? Is that what's happening? Dude, according to ink.com You're kind of the show's biggest derailer. I think that's true. At least that's what the

What's his name? Kevin? Kevin said about me. I'm a little self-conscious right now because I just realize I'm wearing a talking baseball hat on talking baseball. And it's like

you know, you can't go to a rock show with like the band of your, like the band that's playing, you can have a t-shirt on of the band. Yeah, but it's baseball. You can wear a base, like the team, you know, you know, Yankees players wear Yankees hats. Not off the field, but you're not off the field. You're in between the lines right now. I guess, I guess you're right.

I guess you're right. I had a big morning today. I had to go to CVS to get some lice removal kits. We found that Teddy might have some life, so we just preemptively did it for him. He's going to a summer camp now. So, you know, kids are disgusting. Kids are disgusting.

Thanks for calling me, Teddy. Yeah. So, yeah, that's where I'm at right now. I got a nice Starbucks coffee here, which I never do. Nice. It's doing pretty good, besides my hat. Excited.

It's a nice hat. It is a nice hat. Be excited about your hat. BBD, how are you? Okay. Okay. Okay. That's fair.

It's fair. James? I'm doing good. I'm doing well. We have a half day today, so I'm excited about that. Well, Friday's. Half day in the office. I'm going home to work. I told Katie, I was working all night.

So I guess I don't really have a half day. Half day in the office. Yanks socks, let's go. Yanks socks tonight. Excited about that. Baseball, there's a lot of topics that we'll cover along the way. But yeah, it was one of the wildest days in baseball. and then some more big stories kept happening.

So I'm excited to talk all about it. Oops, over the monster, second deck at Yankee Stadium. Hello. Home run champ. Trev, you're the National League presenter today, correct? Completely wrong. I am not. Nope.

Jacob. You just made fun of me for the... You've been slumping on that lately. We might have to add you to slump watch. I know it before the show. And then when I get in between the lines, I botch it. thinking about it too much. You just got to trust yourself.

Because I knew Trev had a lot of teams. Right. So then I was like trying to, oh. That's okay. Also, nothing. Okay. Do we have any add? Everyone goes to smash that.

I was going to mute myself and ask you. I was, I just sent you a slack. I didn't explicitly tell you this, but no. Okay. Huge. I should have said it before. Okay. That's why I was really tripped up.

We're going to the All Star game in Denver. This. NL recap by Jake. It's brought to you by John Boy Media. It goes to the All-Star game. The whole crew is going to be there, all the baseball people. Jake, Trevi, you have your hand up, or you're celebrating? I'm celebrating.

Celebrating. Okay. Yeah. Confuses a lot of teachers when you're celebrating in class. Jake, you're out. Huge. All-Star game. See in Denver.

July 13th. Tuesday. What happened in the N-L? The National League. We had a big boy. series fellas fellas late night dodgers at Padres grab your brooms the fathers are back the Padres sweep the Dodgers three at home oh boy we're doing it in the NL best Darvish Snell and Musgrove first Eureas Kirshon bowler this was a real one fellas

manny Machado is all over the field making big plays welcome to the crom Zone zone. Jake Cronin worth doing it. Belly came back, but he's still getting ready, and Seeger should be back soon. Padre sweep the Dodgers for the first time since April 2013. First time at home since 2010 people that's over a decade. Father up, boy, did they need that. BPD's Phillies, Phillies get swept by Poppy Gordo's Nationals. Natitude season, boys? It's just sweat. Scherzer outduals Wheeler 3 to 2 in the first game.

And then we had a chaotic second game. 13 to 12. This game was all over the chart. Everyone was tweeting out the win probability chart. It's up, it's down. It's yes, it's no. Gerardi, go check out the breakdown on that. I thought he was going for Scherzer.

Actually, old friend K. Long, getting the business from him. You want to go K-Long? A lot of energy. How about Bryce Harper, two homers? How's your burger, Schwabow season? We'll talk about that at some point. Mets and Brave split. We like winning series.

This included a double-header. Met's starting to make up their game. So, hey, maybe that's good for them. Survive. Survive. Jeff McNeil, he returns from the aisle. The Flying Squirrel. He likes to slap it around a little.

bit four hits in this series. Max Fried expected to return. Trevor Tex, we'll ask about that in a minute, and Brandon Nimmo is supposed to come back soon. The Saltman, Charlie Morton, he had a really nice start. Talk about that a little bit. Sinkers. Brewers at DeBex, Jake's Snakes versus Jake's Brewker. This was a tough one for me. I've got to be honest with you. The result that needed to happen, happen. Brewers take two out of three. DeBacks take the first one. Let's go. And some, streaks with that. Brew crew, Freddie Peralta, man. That's the name you got to start knowing.

They win the second game, 5-0, and then they take the rubber match. Offenses struggle a little bit in this series. We saw a glove confiscated during fever dream. Crazy night of regular season baseball. Peralta's glove was too light. Good way to piss them off. Ooh, Yelie bomb. I feel like we haven't heard enough about that.

Vogue goes to the IL. We hate it. We hate it. We hate it. And that's what's going. on in the National League. Wow, wow, oh wow. Good job, Jake.

Great job by you. What do you want to start? What stands out to you, obviously, if it was me? Yeah. It's the Padres. I think it's Padres, Dodgers guys. Padres have two sweeps in a row, four-game sweep of the Reds, three-game sweep of the Dodgers.

They're feeling good. Machado's making plays all over the field. Yeah. It's reading that it might be his best defensive season this far. and Roberts comes out, says he hates the shift now. They shifts so much. I know. Well, I did a sequence episode on Machado doing that shift.

Like normally he's just doing the regular shift, but then every once in a while, they'll put him back where he's basically a right fielder. And I did an episode where that saved a game where a ball came off the wall that Will Myers didn't catch. and he was right there. And it's like, why the fuck is the third baseman in right field? But it worked for them in this series.

I mean, that ball he almost caught out there was, it was insane. He's a monster. Crazy to watch him do that. He's a monster. I mean, we forget him about him a little bit because of that Tatis guy. But, I mean, he's still, he's 28. He turns 29 July 6th. So get ready for that.

Happy 4th of July to Mandy Machado. This was huge for the Padres. You know, we've been lightly checking the same. standings. It's the time of the season where the standings are getting more real with the trade deadline approaching. Padres had to get hot a little bit. Dodgers and Giants put a little separation between the fathers, as Jimmy mentioned, they get their sweep on. And now they are tied with the Dodgers. And look who's four and a half games up in the NL West, your San Francisco Giants. They just keep winning. It's insanity. I love it. I love it. Good for the Padres.

good for the Dodgers. Those games are going to be electric the rest of the year. And giants might just trickle through the whole time. The Padres, now I am not tuned in to Padres talk. And I'm scared of the fan base because they're the most pissy fan base out there. It's intimidating. It's got to be something. There's got to be some half-baked, half-serious, half-joking theory of like, they do

the reopening day. This team was so good last year and they didn't have fans. The fans were standing in the streets celebrating for the team as they got on the bus. They couldn't get in the building to cheer these guys on since they've been like this Tatis swag show. And now they finally get fans and they are undefeated with a crowd. They have one more home series left. It would be so cool if they sweep the debacks and that's kind of a narrative.

and like since the Padres have given back to the fan base, they're undefeated. Because the energy for all those games is crazy. Awesome. Awesome. Get back to be an America's team, right? And I don't know if they just show young kids, but when I flip through the Dodgers-Padre's games,

it's a bunch of young kids. Maybe that just might be the broadcast, but it's a bunch of young kids all with the same exact haircut, all in Padres' uniforms, celebrating. And I'm like, they might have the youth. That's a young fan base. This is the thing about San Diego, though, that they don't have other pro sports there anymore.

Like the Padres is the only show in town. They don't have a hockey team. They got rid of their football team. They don't have a basketball team. Same with Oakland, but you're not going to see that place packed. It's a dump. Oh, no.

Oakland is so close to San Francisco. Like, there's teams there that you can go see. I mean, San Diego's pretty close to L.A. It's not close to us. It's three hours from L.A. Oakland, if they were well-running, getting a new stadium, should print out the San Diego.

Padres model copy and paste. Yeah. Because you're right, Trev. I think that's a good thing. If San Diego becomes a baseball town, beautiful San Diego, now we're talking, babe. Orsillo did it right. It's the perfect storm for to be a baseball town. Southern California, baseball is pretty prominent down there or around here.

And then, like I said, all the teams left. I guess the only one team, there's only ever a football team. There was never a basketball team. They never a hockey team. I don't know if there's a soccer team. I don't think so. So here they are, man. And they have a good team.

I think that's the most important thing. They were crappy. That's what I hear from my buddies from San Diego. It's like, man, we were so bad for so long. They're so excited to have something to root for. And you see it every night. I don't know what the same haircut thing. What kind of haircut you looking at, man?

Everyone's got somewhat curly hair behind the hat. And then they all have a hat on. And they all have like a dusty brown hair. And they all look the same. It's like a light. It's like a sun-striked brown hair. Like I bet if they came for a northeast winter,

they have dark hair, but down there, my brother does this. In the summer his hair turns like light brown. I think they're all using sun in and wearing the same hats and molding the back of their hair. And Dan kind of looks like a poddry. No, who kind of? I'm trying to think of the best examples.

There's a few NBA guys, like lamello ball kind of did it to a big degree. Oh, that's just the youth haircut now. Yeah, that's the one you're talking about where they poof it all up here. And then it's, You get a little extra flavor up top. Yeah. Yeah.

It almost looks like the same five kids that they just superimpose every time they do a close-in shot. Okay. Be gone in a year. It's awesome. Every time they show the crowd of pot. Badger's game. It's like electric. It's electric.

And Melanson's the saves leader. He picks up four saves in the last like five games or whatever. It blows my mind. 36-year-old Mark Malanson leading the league in saves and got like four in the last five days. Hot boy summer. Trev, let's see. I think I think I may. I think I might.

I'm not hating on the haircut, Jeremy, just so unless you know. It's just, it's, I'm just pointing out that it exists. 20, 21 kids' haircuts, he's. Oh, I don't like that haircut. I'll say I hate it. Like the perm thing. Drew Boutera did it. Yes.

Zach Wiesack did it. Yes. It's the Patrick Mahomes cut. Yes, Trevor. Thank you. Yeah. Yes. We'll try hard for me.

If you have to try hard to do it, you shouldn't do it. I guess that's my point. I think the other team that is currently grabbing the conversation of the NL series are the nationals. Holy Toledo, Trev. Trev's pumping the brakes on me a little bit, but this is a segment where we talk about the series. So they're back to 500, 36 and 36.

Could be an award later. I don't know. It could be. We're not sure. We'll see. I'm not sure. You guys got to stop giving awards to full teams. Jake did it. Yes. Last episode and now you're doing that. Oh, I'm not. I'm not. Okay. All right. Well, then we'll

we can talk about the Nationals as a team? What do you want to talk about, Tref? How about that? I'm just saying, I got some stuff to say that we're probably going to double up on. I don't want to do that to our chat and the fans that are listening to this show, okay? Awesome. But yes, incredible series. The Nationals are doing it.

They're back reminiscent of what? 2019. Just don't talk about Schwab or too much. That's all I'm saying. Okay. There you go. You know, who's been playing a decent ball Jake? You're Rockies.

Well, and they're at home. They're a great team. Yeah. I think since stories come back, they have a winning record. He also helps. They're six and three or something like that. But they're like 500. Buyers at the deadline?

Yeah. Are we going to talk about them during the IL recap? Because that's... The IL has so much. Let's just... I'll do the AL real quick. Get rolling, kid. I'll do the AL because the AL's kind of got nothing.

And there were so many Interleague series. Here we go. The Astros went to Baltimore and absolutely kicked the Orioles asses. They extend their winning streak to 10 games. Paranthases, it's now 11. They started the next series yesterday, and they won that game. But Oterizzi has another good start. Doesn't go that deep into the game, but really good.

Granky has a great start. Or Kitty has a great start. The Astro starting pitchers had a 047 ERA. The relief pitchers were even better. Orioles pitchers 816 ERA. Jeez, and 7-11 in the bullpen. The Astros took a combined no-hitter into the eighth inning. Or Kitty then had seven shutout innings.

Bregman still isn't playing, but he's two weeks away. The Astros' offense absolutely explodes. They had a 336 batting average this series and a 4-18-on-base percentage. They had six home runs. That's one of the best, not one of, currently the best team in the AL. beating up on one of the worst teams and doing it soundly. The Royals came to the Bronx to play the Yankees. They lost game.

They won game one. Cole on the bump versus the Royals. They come back and win it. Johnny Lausagna blows it for the Yanks. But the Yankees come back and win it in game two with some big home runs by Aruganed Odor and Gary Sanchez in game three. the rubber match. Jameson Tione has his first good start in a while. Six point one innings pitch. One earned run. Gary Sanchez hits another Homer. Luke Voight made his return and hit really well in

this series. Judge also had some good stuff going on. So the Yankees take two out of three from the Royals. Needed that. The Red Sox went down to Tampa to play the Ray's and lost two out of three. Ray's win the series. Even though the Red Sox won game one, which went into extra innings and the put up four in the 11th inning to win nine to five. Game two, the Reyes won easily, and game three was wild. They had a no hitter on one side. We had barely any hits. We had a bunch of walks.

We had outs at the plate. We had pickoffs. And the Reyes win after Margot Steele's second, advances the third on an error, and then scores on a wild pitch, which was also a swinging strike. So the Rays take that series. The A's and the Rangers. played four games and they split, which is boring. Very boring.

Gibi had a good start. I think Montes didn't, and they got an awful start. The Rangers hit, which is good. Eli White had eight hits with a home run. Willie Calhoun had six hits. Adelis Garcia, I feel like we haven't heard his name in a while. He had two home runs. Bassett, seven innings pitched, one run in game four,

and Romo dropped his pants when the umps checked for substances in game. too. And that's all you have in the AL. There's a lot of IL. So if we just want to kind of talk quickly about some of these teams, we can. But the IL's got a lot of the action. The Yankees needed to beat the Royals. They did. Still, we still, this Red Sox series could put the Yankees right back to like bad times and out of it. So it's a big weekend coming up. And for the Red Sox as well, because they just lost a series to the raise, which was cool. The Wander Show was happening. game three was wild

I don't know if you guys have anything on Oakland and Texas or Houston and Baltimore Houston's so scary Houston looks like the best team in the big leagues right now for sure they've won 11 in a row their offense they don't even have

Braggman it's so deep and their starters are just like Oter Izzy now being a pitcher and like pitching well for them is just man you just spent their offense is ridiculous. Their pitching has been great both sides of the ball, starters and relievers.

They could use another reliever, but they've still been good. And also, their defense is like second best in the league if you're going by defensive run-saves. They are literally firing on all cylinders. I love when teams go on stretches like this. And sometimes it doesn't

equate to wins. But this one definitely has, and they're just going and they're going and they're going and man like it's i can't tell if i actually like love the story of this redemption for them where it's like they're not banging on a trash can anymore people still say oh they're still cheating it's like no they're not cheating they're just really good they didn't have to use that stupid freaking system i wish that never happened because they were a a beloved team throughout

baseball and they're never going to get that back even when they're playing this good and they're this fucking fun to watch. Nobody, like, they're not the darling of the MLB anymore. They never will be again because of what happened. But they're playing like it. It's fun to watch. And I think this could be the start of something for the Astros because they have Detroit and Baltimore as their next two series.

So this team is poised to go into the All-Star break. They finish at Cleveland and then hosting Oakland and the Yankees. It's looking like with Baltimore and Detroit coming up, I think one of the stories at All-Star Weekend that we'll all be at and discussing stuff is the Astros could be the best team in baseball. They are right now.

They might be then. And like you said, Trevor, it's everywhere. It's everywhere. It's like they have bonus starting pitching that you just don't hear teams ever talk about. Can I tell you about the starting pitching? Please. A little bit.

in the last five times through the rotation, the last five times, so you're talking about 25 starts, math. They have a collective. There's a lot of starts we're talking about here. Sure. 2.55 ERA. How nuts is that?

Slites out. That's Luis Garcia, Zat Granky, Jose Orchitty, Framber Valdez, and O'Darizzi. Garcia has six starts and O'Darizzi has four, the other three have five, but it's five times of the rotation, a two-five ERA. That's like, you know, having a Sy Young pitcher throw every start. Every start.

Not bad. A Sy Young pitcher throw every start for the last 30 days. It's a good feeling. That's so crazy. And, hey, good for them, you know, talking about some of the lesser teams, Orioles, Tigers, stuff like that. Good. They also have. That's a trait of good teams is rolling up on the bad ones.

30 days, the Astros offense also has eight players with a 830 or above OPS. So you're getting a Cy Young outing from a pitcher every night and a close to All-Star. Borderline All-Star. Yeah, eight, eight deep borderline All-Star at the plate. I mean, four of them have a one-dot OPS in the last 30 days. So you're getting four MVPs in the last. 30 days. And then two of them have 9-6-9-4, so that's definitely all-star.

Yeah. So, I mean, that's a... Last 30-day, that's the impressive, impressive baseball from the Astros. Love it. Houston. Man, the Yankees, you know, it's the Royals. They win two out of three. They're fighting.

A lot of come from behind wins. Luke Voight is back, which feels big. Gary Sanchez has been raking. Like Jim said, I mean, it's a Boston and Yankee series, so they can either team can be devastated by the outcome this weekend. Boston can really be reeled in if the Yankees have a good series and their good start isn't out the window, but it just comes into frame how much, how long a baseball season is.

And if the Yankees get rolled up on by the Sox, we will be back down in the dump. So tune in for that. Excited to see Red Sox raised. They were button heads down in Tampa, like you mentioned, Jim, that wild last game Wander's debut, extra innings

That was Joe's McFly posed a good one on the final game of the series Like who do we want to win or lose And it's kind of a sick Yankees question I didn't know Didn't know Athletics Rangers

Ooh Kind of don't care right now Sorry Good for the Rangers Love Gibby For tying it up The A's Like A's are kind of fine

with splitting at home. I think the Rangers also kind of fine with splitting at home, unfortunately. I think the A's, you know, what did they do? Road trip? I guess it's a road trip, but it's not, you know,

that successful of a road trip. It's a losing road trip for them, so I think, and now they go to San Francisco. So so far it's a losing road trip, and now they go play three against San Francisco, which they're home, they're in their beds, but technically it's a road trip. Well, rivalry weekend, huh?

Mm-hmm. But if the A's are going to win 96 games, then have to play a wild card. Like, that's what's going to happen? It's going to suck. Oh, hey, do the Interleague, and then I'm going to do my Friday. This would be the playoffs right now, update. Which we decided I was going to do on Fridays, and I'm excited about it. Let me get there.

And then BPD is going to be the stimulator or simulator, or both, depending on what he wants to do. It's going to stimulate the simulation, and he's going to stimulate the simulation, and he's going to play out the whole playoffs for us. Interleague. Ready, Treve? I'm ready. We'll start out in Minnesota. The Reds came into

town. They split this series one game apiece. The first one, 7-5 Twins. Suno walks it it off. Hat versus Molly. Second game, 10-7 Reds, Miley versus Ober the Twins

slash 293-slugged 524. The Reds hit well as Hit good as well. Hit well as well. That's what I was going to say. It doesn't sound right to me. Twins starting pitcher is not so hot.

The Reds did okay. My league goes seven innings pitch, one earned running game two. The only starting pitcher on either team to complete five innings. Bad news for the twins. Bucks and fractures his hand on an errant fastball, and he's placed on the 10-day I-L. They say it will not need surgery. Also, Randy Dobn not placed on the 10-day I-L. They split the series one to one.

Moving on to Detroit. The Cardinals go in and get swept by the Tigers. We haven't talked about that enough. The Cardinals have not been playing good baseball. Eight, two Tigers, six two Tigers. The Cardinals did not hit. The Tigers hit pretty well. Scope had two home runs.

Matt Manning Ernst's first career win and his second career start in game two. Edmund, Tommy Edmund, the only Cardinal with three hits in this series. Miguel Cabrera exits game one and sits game two is growing tightness in Turnbull, not expected back in. until after the All-Star break. Good news for the Cardinals Harrison Bader to begin rehab assignment. Cardinals get swept in Detroit.

Moving on to Florida. The Blue Jays go into Marlins Stadium, whatever it's called, and they sweep them. Two-one Blue Jays, three-one Blue Jays. Neither team hit really well. Both teams pitched well. Ray and Stripping both go six innings pitched, one earned run for the Jays.

Ramano, our guy, records two saves. Starling Marte, future Yankee, three hits in a home run, the only Marlin with multiple hits. Nate Pearson is going to get a fourth, not a second opinion, not a third opinion, but a fourth opinion on his strained right groin. Dickerson to remain in walking boot for three weeks before being re-evaluated, and Cooper starts rehab assignment for the Marlins. They get swept by the Blue Jays. Moving on, the Indians go into Chicago and they split the series. Indian Savale versus Alzolay in game 1. 7-1 Cubs, Hendricks versus Morgan for the split.

Neither team really hit that well. Hendricks goes six shutout endings for the second straight start in game two. Has gone six plus innings in each of his last eight starts. Wilson Contreras, four hits with a homer and two doubles. Raphao Ortega, two hits, is the only other cub with multiple hits. Josh Naylor, three hits with a home run, and he's the only Indian with three hits. Like I said, neither team hit well at all. That series is split.

Oh, yeah, and Aaron Savali leaves the start early. Placed in the 10-day I-L with a strained right middle finger. Give him the bird. He can't right now. They split the series. Anaheim brings in the Giants. Guess what the Giants do? They sweep because all they do is win freaking baseball games.

5-0 Giants. That's Escalfini versus Heaney. Oh, that's a fun one to say. Second game, 9-3 Giants and 13. That was Galsman v. Otani. Giants starting pitchers, 0.64 ERA, and the relief pitchers through eight shutout innings.

Angels pitchers did not fare so well. East Calphina goes seven shuddy. Galsman goes seven innings with one earned run. He's the only Giants pitcher to give up an earned run. It scored seven runs in the 13th inning of game two, including Toceman with a three-run Jack. He had five strikeouts before that. That's how you turn the day around, baby.

The Giants are waiting on the MRI results but a really good chance belt we placed on the IL up in exits game one and since game two with back tightness the giant sweep moving on to Seattle the Rockies going and get a series split good for them that's a win for the Rockies 2-1 Mariners in game 1 5 2 Rockies in game 2 both offenses struggle both starting pitchers and relievers did okay Marquez eight innings pitch one-and-run free than six innings pitch one-and-run for the Rock story with two homers my guy J.P. Crawford is the only mariner with multiple

hits he had three gray to return friday for the rocks that's good for your rocks jake and ending the i l white socks going to pittsburgh and they split the series six three pirates four three white socks i don't really want to talk about anything because the song just ended let's talk i l baseball good great job trev what a slog because um i don't we you i don't know if you were on the episode when jake declared this or rose was filling in for you um but i'm in him in full agreement. Two-game interleague series absolutely suck. I don't give a shit about the results of a single one of these.

I was trying to find ones that I think I care about. White Sox and Pirates split two games. Rockies and Mariners split two games. Giants sweep the Angels, two games. Like, it would have been nice that the Angels could split that. But Indians, Cubs split. Like Blue Js sweep, I got excited. I was like, wow, the Blue Jays really needed that.

But it's only two games. so I don't care. And then the Cardinals, a lot of Cardinals fans asked me, are we dead because the Tiger sweeped us, even though it was only two series? I said, no, you're not. Because two games series don't mean anything.

So this, I think, it's a bummer. The way you have to look at it was I believe these are all home and away two and two. Yeah, I think, so I believe you have to look at it like a four game set overall. Yeah.

Maybe it's the better way to do it. And they lump off days around it. That was kind of the whole plan. Yeah, as a player, you like this. Right, but that's kind of what we're saying. Like, you're going to do this. It's meaningly.

Like, I think even as a coach, you say, like, you know, these either are wrapped in off days or there's one off day attached. So it's kind of like your team takes three days off, which, yeah, I'm sure is really nice for the players and they need to work on the off day system. I would even be more fine if these two game sets weren't interleague. And I think they have done that. But, like, if you... The fact that they're interleague.

If you play your division team and, like, if you get a two-gamer, then that's kind of like, let's go. Like we just got two games on a team in our division It's just kind of a miss I think the players like it because there's off days in front and behind And then a lot of guys get a day off So they get three off days and a four game stretch And then there's like

It's more of a rest week than a results week Do yeah and it's fun to go to new cities You're seeing I like I like I like interleague Because you see the different teams play each other Like I want a I'm fine with interlegged I just don't like the two game series Yeah Just like the two game midweek

Interleague series are It's hard to, like, form an opinion about anything on them. Jim, I do, I have a little bit of good news for you from that Blue Jays Marlin said, A, these are the two teams I said should trade. They should have just left bodies like Blue Jays trade some of your hittings for Marlins pitching. As the Yankees

got the ship in the right direction, the Blue Jays have been a little bit of the forgotten team in the ALE East. They got two nice starts. Six innings pitch, one run from each of them, stripling and Robbie Ray. Well, I think Robbie Ray is having like a season now. They also had a good. good start from K. Is that yesterday or is that the day before?

I think it was yesterday. So it's next episode. Hey, keep that going, Blue Jays. That's good for you. I guess it is against the fish who also have those arms. And then, yeah, I mean, my eyes jumped to Giants Angels just because Angel fans were talking shit like a week and a half ago because they played nobody. And now you're three games under 500, your two games back of the Mariners,

and you've got the rays and the Yanks coming up. Yeah, another thing that Jake said that I'm going to agree with him. Schedule shaming in baseball should be more prominent than it currently is. Like, everyone says, you know, well, you can only play with on your schedule. And I understand that to be very true. But yeah, Angels fans, there's like the Angel subreddit like hates me. So they're like, the Angels have won nine in a row. And it's like, well, I wish you were winning more.

But like, who did you beat? Okay. You beat the Merit. You beat the Royals, the Diamondbacks. You got swept by Oakland. then you beat the Tigers, then you got two games sweep by Giants. So the Angels are exactly who they are. If a team is statistically supposed to be worse than them, they will beat them.

If a team is statistically supposed to be better than them, they will lose to them. That's kind of just going to ride that line all the way through. Joe Madden, I hate to say it. I mean, they had a lot of chances to win that game Otani started because they didn't have a DH for Otani. So it ended up biting them. And I don't mind him doing that because Otoni. Tony is a game-changing hitter. With his power, he can change the game with one swing.

Problem is, they have a short bench. And when you have a short bench, you know, you're going to have to have some pinch hitters when you're not using a DH. And if something goes wrong, like, Otani actually went, what do you go, six innings or something like that? If he goes four innings,

you're going to use up your whole bench automatically. But then something else did happen. Kurt Suzuki had to come out of the game. Now all of a sudden they had an emergency catcher. They had pitchers playing in the outfield. They had a pitcher with the game tying or winning run on second base and extra innings having to take an at bat. Like, I think he needs to rethink about doing that with Otani.

Like, he shouldn't be hitting on Dasey pitches unless they have a full bench, maybe even an extra guy on like a double-header day or something like that. Because it just, it blew up in his face here. And it's not the only reason they lost the game, but I'm sure he would have liked to have a full bench there towards the end of the game, or at least some guys to draw off of. I like that. Should there be like a third catcher rule?

Like if your catcher either leaves with injury or you just have to have three catchers on the roster, like add an extra catcher spot. How many times the games come up and it's like, well, it's just the catcher on the bench because we're saving them. I don't know. I think there's something there to make the game fun.

The only other thing that felt semi-impactful, man, St. Louis. It's like, Jim, I know you say it's two games, and St. Louis is sad right now, and they've been in a little bit of a funk, but when you have two games come up versus the Tigers, you're saying, like, well, let's win two, or if we split, whatever, let's move on. When you lose both of them, like, they're searching for the bottom right now.

It's not two games with the Cardinals. I think I just look, they're five and 15 in the last 20. Is that right? Bad feeling. That's bad. Yeah, they're five and 15 or last. 10 and 20 in their last 30 this team has fallen off man

and it's not good we I declare them easy NL Central champs after they got Aeronado and they have not lived up to that hype whatsoever I know they've had a few injuries here and there but I think some I think we didn't get enough credit to some of these teams going into the season that's what I'm thinking

well and I you know we we did our over unders up and they're I love that up That was a blast. We got to talk about like every team. That was fun. I had some team research stuff. Rosie mentioned it, I think on your IG show,

Annie's mentioned it on here. The Cardinals walk stuff is bizarre. The amount of guys their pitching staff walks. They're the worst team or best team in baseball at, I guess the worst team. I don't know, man. Jayflair, come back, straighten it out. But what's going on in the loo, man?

I don't know. They're six games out at this point. They would not be in the postseason. Reds jumped them. Who would be, Tim? Yep. So BBD's postseason simulation. He's going to stimulate the simulation.

I just need a quick three-second answer, BBD, and no one's going to hold you to it. The Cubs and Brewers are going to be playing a one-game play-in for the division leader right now. Who wins the one-game playing? Brewers. Okay. All right.

So then in the NL Wildcard, you have the Dodgers versus the Padres. Who's winning that? Oh, Dodgers. Wow. Huge. Now you have, in the NLDS, you have the Brewers versus the Mets. Mets.

Wow. Good job for the Mets. The Brewers had to use their best pitcher in the one game play. One game. Yeah. Dodgers versus Giants. Great series in the NLDS, too. Still Dodgers.

Rivalry. Wow. It's a rivalry. Okay. and the Mets versus the Dodgers in the NLCS? Who's going to the World Series for the NL? Dodgers, Mets live in heartbreak. Wow, tough.

Okay. In the American League, the wild card game, one game playing is the A's versus the Red Sox right now. Who's winning that? Red Sox. Wow. Sorry, Joklyn. Chris Hales back by then.

Oh, and Chris Hales is the Wild Card starter? I had him in like a... A mid-game relief. I have no idea what he's going to be. Yeah. Okay. But it'd be cool. That'd be the coolest thing to happen.

Okay. Righty. A.L. Divisional Series, Rays versus White Sox. Old school versus new school. White Sox. Glassnell says he's going to be back. It's just one game. Red Sox versus Astros.

Red Sox had to use Chris Sale in the wild card game. Okay. Houston makes it to the ALCS for a fifth time in a row, and they face the White Sox. Sox. Who pulls that one out? White Sox. Wow.

Wow. White Sox versus the Dodgers in the World Series. White Sox. Wow. The BBD stimulator. Wow. Okay. What a playoffs it was.

Yeah, that is. Tony Larusa taking the crew to the world. See, do you think he's in a party after one? I'll keep a note here on June 25th. The White Sox are the BB. stimulation simulation winner. Every Friday.

Every Friday we'll just find who's going to win. Can we get Tony Laruso a driver for that night? Is that bad to say? Let's set that up early. I feel like we can schedule that. We can schedule that. All right. Anything else you want to talk to on the team front?

I think we're good. All those two games sets stink. A little bit. It's like they have the holiday weekend coming up where they want to put all their good matchups. I just knew it was a dead one. A little bit. Let's move on.

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Who's your standout performer? Oh. To the what? Oh. James had a couple. Went a little whoop-whoop. When I was looking at my standout performance. And Jim, you know this about me.

I'm proud about some things. Okay. I'm a proud Connecticut boy. Yeah, you are proud of it. I really am. I don't know why. Anywhere I'm been I'm kind of happy about. That's a cool thing to say.

And a CT boy dropped it on the table this week, and we're this week. A lot of talk about pitchers and sticky stuff and a lot of spin rate checks. A guy I mentioned, a guy I threw under the bus just for connecting some basic dots for the people said fuck your dots, little kid. Do you really? Charlie Martin, the salt man. He's throwing sinkers. He don't even need it.

Seven innings pitched. One hit. 11Ks, two walks. And how about two hit by pitches? Don't stand on that plate. Daddy's pitching inside. Charlie Morton drops it These Braves are searching for any air at this point

Oh my God, the Nats are flying past him Charlie Morton, a guy that's been linked to a lot of stuff Because hey, he was in Houston when they were doing funny business At this latter half of his career and he found something Well, he dropped it on the table the other night His spin numbers were fine And guess what? When he's right

Like go back to some of the recent Playoff games and look what Charlie Morton does. Holy Toledo. CT boy. Good for him. Seven shuddy. Keep it going, I guess. Or trade him.

Oh, Braves. He's a Connecticut guy? Joe Barlow High School, baby. I lived like five minutes from Joe Barlow High School. Had one of my most frustrating soccer games against Jill Barlow. So rather not talk about it. If you like Connecticut so much, why don't you live there anymore? He works in the city.

Work in the city. I live basically as close as you can while trying to build a fucking media empire and not get stoned and talk about dinosaurs all day, Trev. Some people in the chat were knocking you for being a proud Connecticut person. And I, I get it. No, I don't. I live a lot of places in my life. Connecticut, great towns, terrible cities.

That's its motto. Yeah. And you're from the towns. Also, what's the city in Connecticut? There's a lot of them. They're small. Hartford, Hartford, New Haven,

Bridgeport. Stanford's trying to make the turn on that. Yeah, Stanford's a good spot. I didn't make up that saying. That's like the Connecticut name. I think Connecticut is beautiful. Four perfect seasons. That's my favorite thing about it.

Three months of summer, three months of spring, three months of winter, three months of fall, rinse, repeat. You get excited, you love it. You get a little done with it. You're ready for the next one. It comes. I'm like sure there's douchey people,

but there's douchey people. people everywhere. So like, yeah, you got that right. Yeah. Is that targeted? Um, my standout is a guy who didn't allow a single hit yesterday. Trev, three words about Charlie Moran. I don't know. I don't know. No, that's great. That was perfect. Jimmy. Jimmy. Jimmy. Um, Nick Povetta. Ooh. Yes. That's guy. No hitch yesterday. I don't know if you guys know that. he got pulled. He didn't finish the seventh inning. Pitch count was up there.

But he didn't allow a single hit against the raise. And through four innings, he had faced the minimum. He walked someone double play. I think he walked and hit Lowe. I think Lowe was like, well, this guy might hit me. So I just fuck him. Struck out the side in the first, had 8Ks, shuts down the raise in their ballpark.

He was all excited about when the Red Sox might have scored the go-ahead run because he was through six. He was going to come out for the seventh. They might be giving him the lead. Then Keirmeier throws him out to play. His reaction is really funny. He gets up, celebrating and he sits down,

collects himself like, okay, I got to go back out there. And then there was an error behind him in the seventh, so he gets pulled. But yeah, full pension Piv. Good job by him.

Great start. Piff. How was this spin? I'm curious. I don't mean a dog. I'm just asking. I will. I will check.

I did want to say something. Something to add on the Morton stuff, which I forgot. This start by Charlie Morton brings his ERA from the fours into the 3.6, which I think mentally for him and for opposing batters and opposing fan bases does change the thought process on him. You know, you see a guy coming in town who's got an ERA in the fours. You're like, okay, we should. Let's hit a little. Let's hit a little bit.

So just that the mental game is a little bit more in his favor now with that start. Did you find Pivotta's spin? I can find it in two seconds. I was a Nevada, Canada guy. Didn't know that. Yeah. I still, he still be my standout. Canada.

His spin was only down. It wasn't down. It wasn't down. It's all down, which I find funny. Like the four steam fastball is down 28 RPM, which isn't anything. Not down. It's good for him. Good job.

His knuckle curve was actually up 79. Trevor, you should send. You should go, we'll go through the numbers. a little bit. I won't. Max. Moyland's been all over it. You should go through the numbers, and anyone who's been stayed,

I think you should send the text. Like, you should be the authority on that. Like, you're a good person. I don't know if, I mean, for doing, like, what's, like, right? I'm not going to tell you that. Yes, quit making it about the players. I'm fine with any pitcher that was using it. I don't think we've talked about that at all.

the U Darvish brought, had balls from the NBL, NPL? NPL, the Japanese League. He had them sent out, and those are tackified. Yeah, yeah. I think Mizzuno makes them, and he brought them, he gave some to his pitchers and then sent to the Reds, and they were like, oh, this is great. Yeah, well.

How easy of the solution is that? I think that's, guess what M.B owns the balls. I think that's what they're going to do. I mean, we can save this for another thing, but they said that in the past they have brought those balls. and Korea has tackified balls as well around. Yes. And tried to like see if this is like an option and everyone kind of just shrugged.

Well, it's because this wasn't a story back then and they were like happy using their substances. Now they can't use the substance. Like oh yeah, I'll take that. Give me the tap ball. Yeah. Yeah. Funny. Do you guys see the picture of that machine, that mud ball machine?

That's, we tweeted it out too. I mean, it's just it's, it's, it's, it's comic. how far we've come away from like roll the ball out there kids this machine that's supposed to The process we've talked about this before The process of them rubbing on balls is a joke anyway It's an absolute joke

So they need to do something But let me get to my standout performance You're up All right I am giving it to my guy Dan Rourke Producer extraordinaire's favorite player I've never seen someone ride for a person the way Dan rides for Aaron

freaking judge. It makes me really happy. Did you see his one tweet about dump? I didn't. We shouldn't. Let's not do that on the air. Genuinely, no. Stop interrupt me, Jimmy. People don't like that. Okay, they always comment that. You interrupt me too much. Ooh.

Anyways, he goes three for three with a double, two RBIs and two walks. Had a great series against the Royals. was having a down June a little bit after having a good April and May and then in the last seven days in six games, 24 at bats, eight hits, two doubles, a homer. That's good for us. 970 OPS. That's the kind of thing that we expect from Judge. Right now he's sitting at 149 OPS Plus. That's right in line with his 150 career OPS Plus. He's been playing. When he's on the field, he's one of the best players in the league. We love to see him. So congrats to Aaron Judds for just being yourself, you 6-7-280-pound animal.

I love that, man. Love that guy. So shout out to Dan Rorke, too. Yeah, we were at the game. I was joking at the game because Yankee fans were like, Judge hasn't hit a home run in forever. His numbers in his last seven games are awful, which they were. There's 241 batting average in a 58 OPS. But they weren't like awful, awful.

So when he had the one game, which you just earned your standout for, I joke that like, well, when you add that one game now, I bet his last seven looks really good. And it does. So now his last seven is a 924 OPS and a 321 batting average. So like his his bad stretch wasn't that bad because if your bad stretch is really bad, you're like 0 for 10 and one game doesn't get you back into like, well, now all those games are good. So good job by Judge. Judgey, big weekend. Big weekend.

6, 7, 280. I mean, I know he's big, and then you read that out, and you're like, holy shit. It's nuts. For a while, the thing with the Yankees was all these big guys. It was Dellen, it was Cici. Now they have a little more, like, scale. We should make the Yankee scale, because it starts with Judge, and he's a monster, and he's thick, and he's tall, and then it goes to Stanton.

It was 6'5, but he's, like, cut up, and you're like, okay. And then it goes to Luke Voie, who's like, 6-2 but you know more linebacker dn build and like as you go down the scale and you look at luke void and you see how huge he is and then you remember that there's a person between him and judge you're like holy crap judge is huge he's massive huge big guy and those teeth didn't affect his his his gameplay which we were worried about him out it's huge yeah all right traves see you later. All right, BPD, you got it?

Trump Watch. It's a slump watch. We had five guys that we were monitoring. We have five guys that may be added. BPD, who may be added to Slump Watch? The guys who might be added Shohei Otani's in an 0 for six with a walk slide. Five of those six are Ks. All these two game sets.

Yeah, two game set season. Jose Ramirez goes 0 for 8 with his only one strike. I'm putting the ball in play. Glaber Torres, he goes 0 for 6, this series with three walks, but we figured out yesterday just how long his bad stretch is. He's in like a 2 for 35. So it's pretty bad. Charlie Blackman goes 0 for 5.

Mitch Hanager goes 0 for 8, 2Ks. Dude, thank you very much. I tried to find out if we can make the Otani two games. If you could extrapolate it. I went to 6. Okay. Because there's three or four, it's still pretty small. Can be tight.

In his last six games, which include the two that got him on this list, he has a one dot OPS. Yeah. Was this two homer game right before that? Well, he's four home runs in his last five games. Yeah. So like if I go to last four games, it's still an 866. So you can't find it. It would be rude of us as a baseball podcast to do that.

Always watch Joe Hohantani. How about that? Yeah. We are actually on show. Hey, O'Toney. Watch, if they announced he's starting in the Bronx, Jake and I are going. We're going.

Jim, we had a couple guys on the slump watch. Yes. We had the Yandy Man, Yandi Diaz. He goes two for nine, double walk, K. After his one for 12 series. I don't know. I kind of want to see the rest, I guess.

Chris Bryant goes two for five with a homer in three walks. I think that's a little golf clap for me. 500 on base percentage. Good job, KB. Robbie Grossman with a one for five after one for 19. I feel like we're in. He's been very poor and yeah. He had like one big week in the mix of like two months of kind of bad.

Get back in the trade combo Robbie Grossman. Aronado, one for eight. The one is a homer. And last series it was three for 13 with the homer, but it's still not good. Seems like he stays. It feels like it's time for a little This is the last time Aronado's on

Yeah like maybe we'll see what's up Who are they playing this weekend? Who's there like are they Is it Cardinals Cubs? They're rivals right That'd be great Starling Marte A mini shame to flame

Three for seven Homer in a walk When the rest of his team Didn't hit that whole series in Toronto So earned as well The Cardinals play the Pirates Atleine Aronados Numbers last 22 games bad So how about this

I say we leave Aeronado and we do like a one and done with it. Because the pirates are coming in. Like, you better go shame to flame. Yes. Yeah. Glaber's got to be on there. Glaber has been bad, bad. And the Yankees don't have another shortstop that they can replace him with.

He will be playing. He'll just play. So he's got to get better. Hanager, Blackman, I don't care. Ramirez, I'll see, because it's only an 0 for eight. It's only two games. Like, if it's the same thing as O-Ton. Should we see if it goes beyond these two?

I'll check it out. Because I think I'm okay with Ramirez and Hanager because they've both had. Cleveland's still doing good things and he's their guy now. And Hanager's having a nice year and he's kind of their guy. He was not that long ago tied for a league leading homers situation. His last six games, 551 OPS. Worth watching. You can do Ramirez.

Yeah. He'll be fine. His last 10 games. He can be a little streaky. 647. And this is to get him off. Yeah, motivate him a little bit. I don't care about Blackmun or Hanig or whatever.

I think we should put Hanigar on there. Mariners fans in the chat seem to be. Tanager. There we go. Chuck Nasty, you dodged a bullet, good three walks. We did it. Trev, you're allowed back. Trevor, if you're there, you're welcome.

Yandi Diaz, Nolan Aeronado, Glaver Torres, Jose Ramirez, Mitch Hanigar. We will hopefully say good riddance to you next week. Good riddance Goodbye to you Trev Come back To Trevor ploo

Trev come back Trev We'll show him on the screen in a second And I think beep producer BBD He says he's Just playing with dinosaurs Off screen right now

Wow As soon as he came back I was going to go To the bathroom Okay But I don't want to leave you doing a one-man show All the pretty girls St in the line for the bathroom

Any Farrell fans out there? For sure. There's at least 10 to 15. People don't remember how big fronten was at the time. I don't. That's a true statement. Do we just want to move on? Is Trev missing BBD?

We need a little more. Oh. There he is. You can go pee. All right. After you play this clip. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco.

Trevor. If they're. There's one thing you like. It's hot guys. So let's talk about who's in Fuego. Welcome to the Cronzone. Oh, might not have had your audio there. Jake Croninworth, how's your 5 for 12 with three homers?

Holy smokes. The Croninworth, truthers, are like always right. He's good. Three games in a row with the homer. Holy smokes. Sean Murphy, 5 for 11, two homers. You know Sean, Trev? Do you guys link up in Oakland at all? Never, no. I don't mean, he might know me. You know what I'm saying?

You know what I'm saying? You know what you're saying? Uh, Wilson Contreras. Holy smokes. We haven't, I know Jim said we hadn't heard from Adelisse in a while. I feel like Wilson Contreras, four for seven, a homer, good for him. Eli White, eight for 15. Good for you, fam. Couple extra base hits and two hit by pitches. Sorry, Eli. Come on, pitchers. So, see, cool. They're so soft Michael Brantley, Dr. Smooth Dude, what has Brantley done since he's come back?

I feel like he's had 3-7-for-11 series. I'm going to go find a bigger... He might have the best swing in all the baseball, at least like the most consistent. He's... He's Joe Mauer, like the way that he commands the strike zone and can repeat his approach.

I love that comparison, Trev. He doesn't get fooled. Joe never got fooled. They are very similar. I'm looking at Brantley's number since his return on June 8th. That's 15 games. He's 30 for 61. That's 492 batting average.

Slugging 705 that comes to a 1.249 OPS. 12 runs scored 15 ribbies, eight doubles in that period. That's a... Homer and a triple two. Only five strikeouts. Some real sicko stuff from Michael. Brantley. Jonathan Scope,

four for nine, two homers. Machado, he's been doing it on both sides. He gets a couple. Aaron Judge, you heard about him. King Louis V. Luke Voight is back for the Yankees. He hit a couple balls. Just missed a couple homers, too. And then Ryan O'Hern for Kansas City. He came off the aisle.

He's been swinging in all right, Beth. So that's in Fuego. Jim, the biggest update is Brantley's an insane person right now. What was the number, BPD? Run it back. Since June 8th, 15 games since returning from whatever his thing was, 30 for 61, 492 batting average of the 1.249 OPS. 12 runs scored, 15 ribbies, eight doubles.

How many days are games are you going back? Only 15, 15 since he returned. Days or games? 15 games from him. Struck out five times in that period. Jesus. Do you think any, do you think second? place is close. I'm going to do 17 days guessing the Astros had two off days.

It feels fair. Oh. There are players with higher OPSs than him, but not batting average. Not batting average. Jim, I gave the comparison. I said Michael Brantley is very similar to Joe Mauer in the fact that he does not get fooled. It's very repeatable. his swing. I was just looking at their numbers. They're not too dissimilar. Joe's got him a little bit on the

OBP, or the CBP, Brantley at 356 and Joe is at 388. Brantley's just barely beating him in Slug. The thing that they both do well is they don't strike out a lot and they walk a lot. Brantley career 435 walks to 600 strikeouts. It's a very good ratio. And Joe Mauer, 939 strikeouts to a thousand 30, 934. nine walks to a thousand thirty four strikeout so he was almost at that one to one ratio which is incredible so both those guys are stupid good shit love that shout out to uh reese mcguire in the last 17 days he's got the second ice batting average half the at bats of brantley but good job all right wowser wowser wowser wowser that leads us straight into a whoa which are brought to you by all of our college world series coverage talking farm to fame.

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We always talk about on here. It's a great bus movie. We used to watch it all the time in mind. This is a good bus movie. You can tune in if you want, tune out if you need to. A lot of chicks in there, yeah. Okay. Right about that in the article.

Elijah Cutbirth. Ooh, got a shape to her. Alicia? Alicia, I don't know how you say it. She's in a lot of music videos. The guy next door. Puddle on. You know, I think there's a couple old tropes in play here.

You know, the girl next door is always the, you know, the cute gal that your neighbor and you like them and, you know, they're studious, they're nice, they're a good person. The guy next door is always kind of like, I feel like the movie trope would be like, you know, the guy next door, yeah, he's not the hot guy. It's, okay, maybe it's me. No. There's a guy literally next door to someone who needs to get more love.

He's gone a little bit of love this episode and I want to give him some more love. and he's usually the guy next door to Fernando Tatis Jr. I am giving the guy next door award to Mani Machado. I love me some Mani money. He put on a display in this Dodgers series, and everyone goes to Tatis, and that's fine. We even talked about the Crohn's Zone a lot this series. How could you not?

Mani Machado, very casually, you know, having a Hall of Fame career next to Tatis, and we as a society, we're so excited for the unknown and where Tatis lands. Is he going to be one of the best ever? Is he the best shortstop in the game now? Mani Machado, how's your gold glove all-world third baseman? Platinum glove in the bag, whoops.

And he does it over there. And then in the shifts, we talked about a little bit. Treve, you did the sequoense on it. he's doing the martini shift where he's the second baseman he's making nice plays on ground balls over there that's not an easy play especially for a lot of third baseman to make and then the fly balls to write we saw him dive on the warning track he made a great play earlier this year his versatility and ability just gets overlooked with some of the hubbub with these padres trev do you want to guess the career war top of your head he's 28 years old

Machado? Machado. Career war. He's 28 years old. He's probably had eight seasons in the show around there, maybe nine. I'm going to guess. He's probably pushing 35. Mani Machado has a 42.9 career war. If he does about, if he has half of his career, so he turns 29 in a couple weeks, we're excited for that. but if he has half of his career

and the rest of his career whoa little Jake Math coming out you he's at a Hall of Fame pace for third baseman all time and he got the big contract Harper Machado and that kind of whole thing sorted out weird he went to San Diego we thought we might not see much of him

now he's in San Diego and he's kind of the bonus piece everyone's on Tatis Machado's a stud man I love watching him play his swing. Trevor, and I'll have you double-checked me on this. When his swings right, I think it's one of the prettiest right-handed swings in the game, the long follow-through, and everything he does on the field,

and he had a hustle beat-out single, and, you know, there was this stereotype with Machado that he wasn't a hustle guy because he had a couple moments when he was young. Dude, that guy loves to play baseball. How many other star third baseman can you tell in the shift to go play short right field? I don't know. A lot of those guys wouldn't like it. He doesn't care. He's a gamer.

I love him. Mani Machado, the guy next door. Mani Machado, the guy next door. All right. You got to see a lot of Mani when he's with the Orioles. And he's a special talent out there. I mean, had to move when JJ was there to third base. Now he's playing third with Tatis there.

So he's had some really good guys next to him. I don't know how much that helps him. or doesn't help him. I don't know. But he's an elite player. That's for damn sure. And he is on a Hall of Fame trajectory. 100%.

Can't say that about a lot of guys. Good award. Thank you. Good award. I am giving the tight squeeze award. You guys got any guesses? Could you possibly figure it out? Treve?

Guessless. What about now? Does he remember now? Mm-mm. Well, It's a lyric from Trev's favorite band because he's stoner and their stoner band. And tight squeeze, cool breeze, this is something that will never let us down. We're about to embark on a lifelong journey.

And that goes to Ray's fans in Wander Franco. And Wander's debut was incredible. Yeah. But I was even more impressed when I made the breakdown for game three with how involved he was in the dugout, screaming and yelling. with like pouring the Gatorade on like Lough started it But then he was holding him to get the Gatorade shower for Margo He's a young kid 20 years old

He's according to the shots I saw He's not like a quiet rookie Sitting by He's like taking charge They're running pick plays behind the runner He has a home run is his first hit And that's obvious a double later on So

Wanderer Franko, starting his journey with the race. And Treve, you're probably right. Like, it will taper down maybe. And he's just like, you know, a very fun debut because it's all it goes a lot of times. But or maybe he stays hot forever. Who knows? He hasn't gotten a hint in his next two games.

But even beyond those first game of performance, I was impressed with just how, like, what is the word I used for? Like, weaved into the fabric of the race he feels already. in the dugout and all the celebration stuff. He was there. It's cool. If you're looking for energy, the guy has got energy. Bringing that youthful exuberance to the field.

Did have the big opening day or opening game for himself and then hasn't hit in the other couple games, but his presence has been felt. He's done well defensively. And he's just like one of those guys is all over the field. You know, not even the celebrations of stuff. Just playing defense and the way he's running the bases. I mean, that is going to lift up any team that he's on.

So it's given the raise the spark they needed. He's, anybody that watches him plays, all right, that guy's going to be okay. Like, struggle or not this year, like you just watch his actions and you watch the way he approaches the game and the way he takes his abats. The results may not be there in the first three games, obviously.

But he's going to be a damn good player. Like a damn good player. Yeah, I mean, how's your, Played a game at third, played two at shortstop, batted second, batted third, 20 years old. It's sick stuff. As Yankee fans, we don't see a lot of this. Like even if a top guy gets called up,

like Glaver Torres, his first year when he was, you know, lights out, he was nine-hole Glaber Torres. Yeah. For this guy to come up and now, like, you're the dude. Like, Randy, the best ever is obviously the best ever. But wanders the dude. and I'm excited for him. How could you not love that debut?

Even if you're a Red Sox fan, like, hey, you get to watch it, and you won the game, so enjoy it. Man, if he's for real, that changes a big dynamic in the ALE. Like if Tampa Bay just snagged another, a star infielder? So I'm really interested to see how his next few weeks go, and I know we always watch for kind of the second time through. Second time facing teams.

Yeah, if he has a hot couple weeks, you know, what's the follow-up? What are the adjustments? It's constant adjustments. But, man, it's exciting, man. Dude feels like he might have a little star-powered juice to him. What's crazy to me is... Well, two and three, yeah.

What's crazy is, you know, these guys are international sign-eat. So any team is free to sign them. You know, they have to go out and shell out the money. And I think the race picked him up for, like, I don't know, close to three million bucks which is a it's a big signing bonus but wouldn't another team why didn't you just go give them three and a half million or four million bucks like i don't know man that whole that whole signy international thing is strange to me because if i was i know there's

a capital like on a limit of the amount of money they have to spend but you can like get more through trades i would just be trying to acquire so much international sinee capital just go give everybody money down there. Everybody. Yeah, I mean, that's... Some teams straight up don't care about it. It's crazy to me. The Yankees care about it,

they don't care about the draft. Some teams care about the draft, don't care about the international. So it's... Some teams half care about both, I guess. I think we might have a good nickname alert, and it's similar to one of my many. He has it listed on his Instagram,

So I guess it's a nickname he believes in But El Petron, which is the boss. So yeah, that's pretty powerful. And I'll get us a double ad deal here. One of my many nicknames is Poppy Patron. Vegas trip went in on some Patron. So there's a select group of people that know me as Poppy Patron. So me and him, you know, we can have L Patron and Poppy Patron,

get a little Patron ad deal going. I don't know. You don't know. Yeah. How many games do you think it took the Yankees to put Judge into the three-hole in 2017? In 2017, he starts going nutty. I'd say, what, like a month? He was good, right?

Yeah, I mean, at the end of the first half, he had a, Yeah. He had 30 home runs with a 3, 33 batting average. 50 games. Not bad. Took Wander 1. 50 games, wow. Wow.

Yeah. Trev, do you have an award? I do. It will not be a Tolkien baseball award. Those are on hiatus a little bit. I want to be perceived as a serious. What are we journalists? No, my Twitter says not a journalist. That's true. Okay. So I'll be talking about real sports right now, right? Especially America sports. I'm talking about football, and I'm going to give the Relax Award, the R-E-L-A-X. Do you guys remember when A-R-R-Rod said that? Not A-Rod, I'm talking about Aaron Rogers. Sat down, had the press conference, and said, guys, we're one and two.

Everything is going to be fine. Relax. People were saying, you're done, Aaron. You have a collarbone issue. You're dating Olivia Munn. You can't focus on the football field anymore. And I wouldn't blame him if that was the truth. But he said, guys, relax.

They went out to win 11 of the next 13 games, and everyone was like, well, I guess Aaron was right. Kyle Schwaber said a similar thing to the press. Not too long ago, he said, stay with us. Stay with us. Remember, guys, this is a good team. They're 9 and 1 in their last 10 games, back to 500s. There's a lot of comparison to 2019. Schwarber has been incredible.

Month over month, April, March, 619 OPS, May, 857 OPS, now in June, a 1.102. He's been carrying the team, but there's other things happening as well. Patrick Corbyn and his last two starts. They need him to get going. They need him to get going. His last two starts, 14.1 innings pitchers, only three earned runs. That's a 1.88 ERA. They need him back.

Strasberger is thrown at 150 feet. Daniel Hudson is about to come back. The guy from 2019 that basically won them everything is about to come back. The nationals have been doing it. You remember, Gerardo Parra, we said this could go one or two ways, man. This could go really bad for them or could go really good. He's played in four games so far. Guess what they've gone in those four games, Jake?

Four in no. 4 and oh what's he done his stats yeah I had him up but I erased him it's not great but he has a good OPS because he had a good extra base hit I think he's hitting 250 with something what four at bats 400 on base 900 OPS

there you go he's only yeah but his presence Jim is what we're talking about and another similarity to 2019 the nationals the fourth oldest team as far as batters. The first, the oldest team, as far as pitchers go. A lot of things

going on. The NL East is up for grabs. No one's running away with it. We know that. Can the national sneak in, get healthy, have the three-headed monster rolling again, and then find the guys to have the offense. That's exactly what they did. They rolled

with like five freaking pitchers, the entire playoffs. That's all they needed. Can they do it again this year we will see. But right now, Schwarber is the guy. He's been going freaking nuts. And he told the guys, he said, stay with us. This is a good team.

And I think they are a good team. All they need now is Brian Dozier back. Here's a sound bite of it. Remember, this is a good team. You guys stay with us now, right? Stay with us. It's a good team. All right.

Something about the way he says that makes me believe him 100%. Like, Jake, you've been wanting the Nats to just to fall out of it. so they could trade some people or you haven't been believing in them? My last award that you were mad I gave a team award said I was back on the bus. Well, that, that, that, like, why? That's just like, I believe in the Nats now, just because it's the way he said that, that's line. Because that's a Midwest guy. That's a guy with morals.

That's, you know, I say something like that. And you're like, okay, let's see. That's this dumb Connecticut Guido saying. But Kyle Schwabre says that. dude i mean and you really look at the players they have and like there's some fucking talent on that roster wonsoto obviously everybody knows what he can do he's actually been having a down year by his standards because his standards are so fucking high but he's doing it then everyone forgets about trey turner man just how good he is ryan zimmerman is still there still producing like i hope i hope

this turns into a real story we're like holy shit the nationals are doing it again they were bad everyone wrote them off and now here they are catching fire at the right time because you guys know that's what it takes in the playoffs. It's all about the team that gets hot and who has the best like six or seven pitchers. And they could be a team that does that. Joe Gerrari galvanized him. Maybe. Moment.

Uh-oh. We glossed over Swarber's numbers because technically for the series for this episode, his numbers aren't good, but he has eight homers in his last five games. That's good. He's like the hottest hitter. in the world. Yeah. Oh, I, yeah, I touched on him a little bit. Like I said, he's got a 1.102 in June.

You got a standout performance last step. 12 homers in June. Who's the best friend of the week? I've got a little something on that. On the best friend of the week? No. On Schwarbo. A little Foolish Bailey.

He had a theory developing, and I think there's two guys that have a little overlap, different hitters but similar hitters. Kyle Schwabber has been going nuts. and there's a little theory that it's all happened kind of in sticky stuff time and he struggles with the high fastball, I believe, which is kind of going out of favor with the sicky stuff. There's another guy that's hot with the New York Yankees, Gary Sanchez, who struggled with the high fastball,

and now he's hot as well. And their career numbers are oddly similar. Schwaber 232, 335 on base, 822 OPS, Gary Sanchez, 237, 323, and 825 OPS. There's some weird similarities for very different guys there. Nice. Did we lose the chat? Yeah, internet's down.

But we'll ride it out, posted for the audio people, and then repost it for the YouTube. Best friend of the week, PPD? Best friend of the week. First time recipient, Jameson Tione. Holy smokes. Let's go. Gets into the seventh inning.

Was that yesterday? Yeah. Week. 6.1 innings, one earned, 6Ks, 5 hits. Just two walks. Jamo. I love it. How about it?

Needed it bad. Yeah, baby. All right, let's go to elevator talk. I'll spin the wheel. Two minutes on the clock. If you're in an elevator with a fan that is wearing this hat, here's some fodder. It's the St. Louis.

was Cardinals and we kind of talked about them. Jeez. They're in a bit of a slide. They're six games out. They lose two games to the Tigers. They are getting, what do we say that? Baders on a readout assignment. Yep, he's coming back.

What else has been the problem for him? Say, can we stop walking, guys? Our closer, Alex Reyes, 33.2 innings. 31 walk. He almost has a walk per inning. He's not giving up a lot of hits either, but the walks are a problem. They're last in baseball. Throw it over the dish pitchers.

Let Aaron Nott will go to work. It's funny because you look at their stats, you're like, oh, like their bullpen looks like it's done really well. I mean, they have three guys with a two or below. Reyes has a 107. I know he walks in people, but it doesn't matter. He's doing his job. The starters have been okay like Wainwright 3-7-4

Gant 376 Flaherty was doing his thing hopefully he'll be back soon he says he's throwing he's throwing more and more each day so he'll be back obviously Carlos Martinez is going through a real rough stretch I mean Kim has been pretty good he's not going deep in the games Wayno's doing

his thing Carlos Martinez has been I don't know if they've been losing yeah he's an instant loss they've lost every single start of his this month and his east ERA in the month is going to be gross. 13.73.

So I think that's what you're saying in the elevator. Like what is, how do we fix Carlos Martinez? Because he is like an instant loss for them. And putting them, he's got one good start this month, but they lost that game anyway. He's nasty. I know. He could also say Tyler O'Neill should be in the home run derby. That little guy can swing it.

Thick. When you're walking out the elevator, you say, hey, you see the all-nil-neillard. name team kid they brought up the other day. Lars Newtbar. I was doing my... Yeah, that's your guy. I know. He's my buddy Ollie is his agent. I was doing my new thing where I click each thing.

One pitch at a time, searching for action. I saw RBI double by Newt Bar and I was like, Newt Bar. Lars Newt Bar. Large Newt Bar. Jesus. Treve, I did know that. It was one time you, me and I.

Ali facetimes, so I added him on Instagram. Ali is my best friend. Wow.