Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 366 | Padres Trade for Adam Frazier, Nats are Sellers, & Mariners are Fun!

Episode Date: July 26, 2021

Timestamps: 4:30 - NL Recap 10:30 - Adam Frazier Traded to Padres 22:45 - Cardinals 2530 - AL Recap 31:45 - Mariners 36:30 - Red Sox-Rays Race 40:45 - Tigers 42:30 - Yankees 45:00 - IL Recap 48:00 - Nationals Selling 56:00 - Pete Alonso 1:02:30 - Ned Williamson 1:07:00 - Larry Corcoran 1:10:00 - Patrick Sandoval 1:11:30 - LaMonte Wade 1:12:45 - Slump Watch 1:19:00 - En Fuego 1:23:30 - Awards 1:33:00 - Elevator Talk: Miami Marlins Presented by DraftKings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. What a weekend it was. Some good games, some bad games, some trades were made. Let's talk about it. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball, brought to you by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us on this fine Monday afternoon. We are excited to sit down and chat about baseball. It's kind of the whole show.

We like talking about baseball. We sit down and we talk about baseball with each other. My name is Jimmy. His name is Jake. BBD is in the corner. And Trevor Plouffe is not here. He took a secret, impromptu, vacation to Mexico. How are you doing, Jake?

James, Big Baby David, the ghost of Trevor Plouf, everyone in the chat. Excited for Trevor's return. He's got a lot to spill. The last I heard, he was at some Hollywood, like, funny business event. celebs there Nelly was in the IG story for a little bit So Trev's got like a tell-all

When he comes back And when he starts telling us all We'll probably Just turn off his mic Because it'll be trade deadline And we'll get focused on that But it's going to be a big Friday Talking baseball

We're going to have a regular episode I think we're going to do some trade deadline stuff So gear up for that Good for him He's having fun He was slicked back hair, Trev, which is always my... The old impromptu Sunday morning to Tuesday night trip to Mexico. Yeah.

I mean, he built different. He just built different. So happy for him. And we're back to our OG roots, Jim. Oh, yeah. Beeper Keeper going through it. And it was a fun weekend of baseball. I mean, hey, our Mariners fans always want Mariners chat.

We're going to be talking about them, J.P. Crawford. It's out of the way, even though we'll be doing more of that. Good Sunday night baseball. Lance Lynn versus Woody. A little 2 RBI single, so it doesn't get any better than that. And everything else in the baseball world. This episode is also brought to by Michael Santana,

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That's what we do. Leak Secrets. All right. We had a lot of good baseball, man, and some good trades. Actually, we didn't discuss where we want to fit the trades in. It'll just happen naturally. It'll happen naturally as we go down the board here. Probably in the NL discussion.

Now, Trev had the IL today, right? Yeah. I told me. No, you had the I. No, I was supposed to be. You had the IL. Trev's gone. Now, you're taking over the NL.

Wow. Receive the kick. Do you think that's why he left? Because he knew he was batting lead off. He was like, screw that. Olivia, we got to get out of here. I cannot do the NL this week. If I shit the bet like I do every episode.

He's going to show up in the chat. Yeah, he'll be here. He'll be here. Actually, no, he's got a Mai Tai in his hand. He's probably, it's on a boat. You think Stafford invited him? Touching fish? No.

Okay. No. Definitely not. Well, we'll see. Someone. That'll be our test because the one thing Trev did tell me was that, like, this was on their radar. They kept going back and forth on it. They said no.

And then they caved. So if Stafford is in the mix, then that was a lie. Well, maybe this was on the radar because Stafford kept inviting him. He's like, you got to come, you got to come. You got to come. You got to come. Saturday night at the big swanky party. And they say, you got to come.

And they say, you know what? Let's do it. Swanky. Let's get into the NL recap. Here's everything that you missed and you need to know. Jake will be doing the rundown. Jake, what happened? Jimmy, you know I love starting in Cincinnati.

Los Reds, they take two out of three. From the dirty birds, the St. Louis Cardinals speaking of Nelly. How about that? The Reds mash this series because that's what the Reds do when they play well, Jim. A little 314 batting average for Yackers. Our guy, Jesse Winker, had a hell of a series. You could even hear about him maybe later in the episode.

That's a tease, people. Cardinals salvaged the last game of the set, 10 to 6. Cincinnati, why did you blow that last series? The All-Star break. Otherwise, there'd be a lot more fun discussions around you. Jack Flaherty, speaking of friends, he's about to start a rehab assignment. And Luis Castillo, with another good start. He has been hot, hot, hot for Los Reds.

The Philadelphia Phillies hosted the Atlanta Braves for a four-game set. And Jim, they did the every other. Braves win the first one, seven-two. Zach Wheeler drops it as the Phillies win 5-1. Braves come back and they roll on Drew. He's just being smiling. 153, holy smokes. And then Nola.

What a start by him, 2 to 1. So yeah, Phillies win the Wheeler and Nola starts, and they lose the other two. That's kind of how it happens. Seguera and Ronnie Terreas, five hits in a homer each. Shout out to my short kings of the world. Young Jock, boy, he's still doing it for Atlanta. How about that, young thick, hello. Marlins hosted the Padres they split for.

Padres, take the first two. Marlins take the second two and then the Padres go out and get a little reinforcement's little Adam Frazier to San Diego Marlins and Padres both starting pitchers both starting pitching crews pitched well this series Starling Marte beefing up that resume another six hits over the series for him Hazus Aguilar big go-ahead two-run single in game three Ryan Weathers the kid he hits a yacker pitchers who raised Otani Weathers? That joke kind of has to leave our society. Trevor Rogers goes to the IL.

I hate that. Cubbies hosted My Snakes and they take two out of three. Are they back in it? No, they're about to trade everyone. How about Robinson Chorinos with a two-homer game? Where have you been, Mr. Robinson? Nobody really hit this series, if we're being honest. 231 from the Cubs, 236 from the snakes. Dalton Varshot. Snakes, baby. He had a big series. Three extra base hits into that. Kattel Marte is going to begin a rehab excitement. Ooh, haven't said his name in a little while. The Dodgers take two out of three from formerly My Rockies.

Rockies take game one in the 10th. You can't teach that. You can't teach that. Story gets it done with the RBI single. Chuck nasty with the two-run homer to follow him. That gets them the dub. But then the Dodgers take the next two one-nothing, three-two. Holy smokes. by the skin of their teeth.

Is that still a phrase? Muky Betts goes to the aisle. Bellinger leaves with hamstring stuff. Man, these Dodgers have been getting banged up all year. That's kind of the story of their season. But they win the series. Josiah Gray, four innings, two and runs in his first career start. Good for you, kid.

The Giants, Los Hibitoihanes, they lose two out of three to the pirates. Pirates, mixing it up after the All-Star break a little bit. Lamont Wade, Jr., year he keeps hitting. You might hear about him later. We'll see. Gossman gets knocked around for the first time. Six earn runs. Um, has only given up more than two runs three times this season. Brandon Crawford cleared to resume baseball activities. Brian Reynolds with a big series for the pirates. And Kevin Newman, he has five hits. So the pirates, they sneak two out of three out from the Giants. And that's what happened in the National League. Almost there.

Got it Got it No Shout out to Mikey Ritano Who made our music Sometimes you gotta hear the end The song's great But it's you know

If I want it When I want to land At the end of the song I will You gotta save that For the special moments Giants lose to the Pirates That's the thing that stands out

The most to me Kevin Gossman with a rough start Kind of two rough starts Back to back He only went three innings In his last start 80 pitch and gave up two earned runs, so it's not, but two homers, not horrible.

But, I mean, you know, not being able to get out of the into the court. It's one of the best pitchers in the NL and Jim. I mean, you know, I've seen some stats that exist but do not matter. And I don't know. 173 ERA in his last two starts, it's up to 2-2-1, which is still amazing. So he has a good start next week and you're back. But he says, Gossman says it was a mechanical issue, but good for the pirates. Problem solved.

Yeah, and the Pirates, who's the – because we said this the other day. They took two out of three, or did they sweep another team that was in the mix? Didn't they beat the Cubs? No. The Pirates beat the Mets. They took right after the break, they took three out of four from the Mets. Los Mets, that's right. And the fourth game was the Taiwan Walker foul ball game.

Sorry, they took two out of three after the break. They split a four-game series with the Mets before the break. Right. So they went four and three against the mess. They're mixing it up after the break. Yeah, but now Frazier's gone. Frazier's gone. That's the big news here. Both teams in the NL, so it seems like a good time to talk about it.

Yeah. So Frazier leaves the pirates to go to San Diego. Jim, you just talked to Chris Rose about this. You and I haven't discussed it yet. What do you think? About the trade. I like the trade. They get Fraser for this year and they get them for next year.

year and he's good. And, you know, they do have a bit of a lineup crunch because I don't like, I like consistent playing time for everyone. Hosmer's been good lately. Like his July numbers are really good, but they're saying they're trying to trade him now. That's going to be hard to do. You're going to have to eat a lot of money. Seems like something the Padres don't give a fuck about right now is money. They're just trying to win it all costs. But they need to, if they move Hosmer needs to be part of a deal for pitching. I still don't love their pitching right now. But as far as a lineup goes, they got balance galore.

They have two switch hitters that are going to be in the starting rotation. Then they got righty, lefty, righty, righty, lefty, righty, lefty. They can play a lot of ways. They got Kim as super util. Like if Kronerworth wants to move to first and Hosmer, Hosmer comes into a bench, platoon guy. But, I mean, it's, you know, then you go Frazier at second. Fraser's finished some games in the outfield.

He hasn't started any of this season, so he's familiar out there. But they also, they have a lot of outfielers too. Like Grisham's going to play center field. Pham's having a really good year in left field. And then you have, they've been doing like Mateo and Myers and right. That's where this gets kind of fun. Or pro far.

Because you almost have to go process of elimination with it, which again is a great problem for the Padres. And hey, as long as you're winning and guys are getting enough run. And of course, a couple injuries. are going to come up and it sorts itself out easier than you think. But I mean, Fernando Tatis will be in the lineup every day. Mani Machado, you're going to put him in the lineup every damn day. Grisham, you know, one of the more underrated guys in baseball is gold glove, lefty bat.

He's going to be out there. Tommy Fam is having a great season. And by the way, Tommy Fan's a really good ball player. So you kind of need him out there. So you trade for Frazier, who he was an all-star this year. He leads the National League and hits. And that's where things start to get funky. You got Hosmer.

I mean, Will Myers, Kim, who they went out and paid, Pro Far, who they paid to be a utility guy. So, you know, right now it's one of those good problems. If you're the Padres, and, you know, as long as they keep the ship going the right way, you know, to finish out the rest of the season, you play some platoon stuff. It's national league. So you kind of say like a, hey, you know, all hands on deck guys. We got a lot of talent here.

This team's going to be different. But if the ship ever starts going the wrong direction, and then you got guys fighting over playing time, Hosmer's the only one that you got to circle. Because, I mean, they paid him a ton of money. And, like, Eric Hosmer looks at himself as a starting first baseman that deserves to be paid, you know, $150 million or whatever he got. So that's going to be an interesting one to circle.

I mean, man, if they were to trade him, that would be wild because he's, you know, he was the first guy they brought in to turn the Padres around. So if for them to get over the top, it's to get rid of them. I mean, that's some weird life stuff. But yeah, I mean, you got to like it for the Padres. Frazier is going to do his thing and hit. Interested to see if he ends up in the outfield a lot. And, you know, with prospects, guys, let's be honest, you never really know.

Everyone seems to like the Marcono infielder guy. Hopefully, you know, he gets a full opportunity with the pirates, whether it's this year or in the coming years. and they get a couple other flyers, and that's kind of what you look for in a trade if you're trading for prospects. Do you think they're going to slot Frazier into the leadoff? They've been going Grisham and FAMM depending on the pitcher,

so they don't have an everyday guy. Frazier's been leading off. They could also just slot him into like the five hole, but that's pretty deep when he leads the NL and hits, and he's been leading off all season. Yeah. Fam's got good numbers from the leadoff position, and so does Grisham.

They actually have better numbers from the leadoff position than not. But it's not like Grisham and fan platoon at leadoff was their plan all along. They were trying out Tatis. They were trying out some other people in the season. So I'm interested how it goes, how they use them. I mean, Kim's got the most versatility.

So I think he's your give a guy a day rest and off the bench guy. But I mean, Pirates fans let us know what you think. You're more in tune than us, obviously, but you're not going to trade for Frazier and not play them every day or as close as possible to every day as you can. And for me, I think,

they probably end up leaning into a platoon type situation, but at the same time, Tommy FAM's a reverse splits guy. Tommy FAM against Ritey's actually mashes. That's his strength, 272, 381 on base, and underrated, I say this a lot, underrated on-base guy in the league. You can butterknife his numbers to the best of them. So I think they'll find something. I think the interesting question for me is do you do, do you go nationals a couple years ago? where they had Turner and Eaton up top, and that was to set the table for Soto and Rendon to do damage. And, you know, the equivalent in this case would be sliding Tatis down

and having him, you know, in the three slot. Or, you know, do you put Tatis up top and say, hey, welcome to the Thunderdome, let's play some baseball? That's going to be a fun story to track. I'd give Frasier lead off. You go lefty, righty, righte, Tatis, and you go lefty, Croninworth, righty Machado right off the bat. Well, I talk of a comparison.

I mean, if you do lead off fam and you go Frasier, you go righty lefty, and those two do their Trey Turner at a meeting, and you can tee it up for Tatee, Machado, and the gang, that gets fun too, so I'm interested to see. I'm interested. I'd keep Tatees, too. He's pretty good. He's pretty good.

No reason to mess with something. And I wouldn't mess with that. It ain't broken. I mean, Tatease 2 and Machado 4 and Cronomor 3 seems to be working. so I keep it at. It's awesome. There's rumors now that Barrios is on, is about to be on the move to either the Dodgers or the Padres.

Both teams need pitching. The Dodgers need more immediate relief. Because if Kerchall's back and some other guys are back, and I think they have the arms to mix and match in the playoffs. The Padres need a pitcher. They need a guy that's going to be there like through like a playoff spot pitcher. But Dodgers lost Bauer as well. So, I mean, that's going to be interesting as well.

Man, it's, I think it is a great deadline to be a seller. And I think, you know, you talk about the Padres and Dodgers bidding against each other. Like, those are two big boy teams with real prospects to give up that, man, if you're selling, you know, and Craig Kimbril's been one of the big names around and you literally every contender, the Padres, the Dodgers, Houston, like, If you're selling, man, I think you're going to get like a 125% return. That's a good time. Someone in the chat live on YouTube said, like, it's a nice move, but does it put the Padres over the edge? And I don't, like, I don't think they traded three guys.

One was a top five guy, but they have Fraser for next year as well. But this year does this move? it doesn't really inch them that much for me at all when I really think about it. Yeah, I mean. But it depends on the next couple moves. Line up wise and, you know, you're a big playoff game away from saying,

wow, he went three for four and that changed the tone. It's, I'd say the equivalent is like, I don't know. The Padres are the Padres, you know? Like, if they make a lot of noise or make a World Series run, it's still, it's always going to be on the shoulders

of Tatis and Machado and, you know, whoever's thrown for him that day. Like, but adding Kevin Newman an all-star hitter, whether he's batting leadoff or whether he's at an eighth. Adam Frazier.

Frazier. Who do I say? Kevin Newman. Kevin Newman. I always at the front of our mind. I have beef with Kevin Newman. Because he's been blocking Cole Tucker all year. So like, get out of my fucking face.

What if they turned and they traded pro far? I let that out. They could. I mean, man, that's the part of this that's kind of weird and wild is like, Hassan Kim, they went out and got pro far. They threw money at two. They gave them a real deal. They like those guys, and, you know, NL baseball is a different breed.

They've got a lot of guys that can play a lot of different positions, and you're going to pinch it, and you're going to play the matchup. So, you know, they've got 13 guys right now that they like having in their lineup. So that's a nice place to be. I need some starters. One more, like, impact starter would go a long way. Yeah. Darvish, Snell, Musgrove, Paddock?

I mean, Paddock's been bad. Weathers has been good? Weather's been good, but he doesn't go deep at all. Is he hurt right now, or was recently hurt? He's young. He was hurt. Like, every team at this point can use pitching in a playoff series. I mean, the Padres are still, like, I guess that's what I'm saying. I mean, even.

Show me the team that wouldn't want to add another arm. So we're talking about Barrios right now. How much does that really change their playoff outlook? Like it's going to be Darvish-Snell. And then it's going to be Musgrove, Burios, Paddock. So, you know, when we're talking about the Padre's outlook this season, they already got a lot of the big impact pieces. I mean, Kimbril would be the name that I think Padre fans would say that changes our outlook.

Yeah, I mean, their starters haven't been pitching well right now. Yeah. In the last, like, month or two, Darvish, Musgrove, Paddock all have like six ERAs or more. So I guess those guys just need to get it in gear. Be good. Be the good. The only one with a decent ERA in the last 60 games for the Padres is Ryan Weathers. and I believe he doesn't go deep into games at all.

He's kind of... Youngblood. Who's the youngest starter in MLB for a while? Twice through the order and out. Use that in the playoffs. Yeah, he averages three and a half innings right now. He'd be great as like a bulk guy in the playoffs. Is that in the playoffs?

Good candidate to come in later in a game. And I guess that's what I'm saying. When playoff times get here, I'm going to believe in you, Darvish. I'm going to believe in Blake Snell. Yeah, I don't know if I agree with that. Okay. But we'll see.

Anything else here? Cubs win a series, but they haven't made any trades yet. Cubs are just waiting for the unload. Philly's in Brave Split, which is as boring as you can do. Yeah. Adds up. That's great news for the Mets. Yeah.

And I mean, Phillies, what are they going to do? They're kind of the hot team in the streets right now because they're going to buy. It's Dumbrowski. So what does that look like? I mean, there's still four games back. the Mets, Braves are five, so, you know, they're a bone arrow away, but what are they going to do? I don't know. I don't know.

And then, yeah, Cardinals and Cubs, obviously the Cubs sell is coming. It's how significant. Is it Kimbril and Baez? Is it Byaz Rizzo? Is Bryant gone? That's obviously the one, two teams everyone's got circled right now, Cubs and Twins. The Cardinals, beautiful baseball town, 62 games to play. Jack Flaherty rehabbing

Harrison Bader's hot as hell right now Cardinals fans are telling themselves Let's get hot and see if something can happen I don't think they can buy or sell at the deadline So they're just kind of in bed with their team But I don't know Have fun They're one of the teams that

The rental guys aren't an option for them Rental's not going to make sense Neither is selling If they have a group that they believe in for next year again Yeah, they just got to like finish strong and take some momentum in the next year. But they have a nice schedule coming up, the Cardinals. Two against Cleveland is what it is. Then they have Minnesota, a down and out team that's going to be more busy like trading people.

Right. It might even be sitting people that are good because they're about to get traded. Then they have Atlanta. That's going to be a good series. And the Royals, Pittsburgh, the Royals. They do have a lot against Milwaukee. left. That's what, which...

No, the Cardinals, I would put that in a bad column. Yeah, the Cardinals are... Just play good and get momentum. I think... For next year. They've been playing better. They're outfield, man. Carlson has been raking.

Harrison Bader's been going nut job, which they've been waiting for. Like, I do think in, you know, four weeks, whatever it is, like Jack Flaherty's back. I think we're going to have a conversation like, well, the Cardinals are four games out of the wild card if they can get a little hot, but I think they just dug too much of a hole. Wouldn't they be closer to division than wild card? Brewers are 58 and 42. Padres are 58 and 44. I don't know how to do that math.

Padres have two more losses. Yeah, so there's seven games out of the wild card. There's seven games out of the second wild card right now with two teams ahead of them. that's tough man you gotta win your division if you're in the east or the central jakey shower thoughts was like one

there has to be a team that scares somehow the reds man why'd they blow that series be so much more fun and then yeah circling back Phillies braes I mean Phillies winning the wheeler Nola start Loki hilarious

because that's you're good pitchers No, has been pitching well. And that's obvious. Yeah, I believe. He looks like he's turned the corner to use a good baseball term. What else is here, man? Dodgers and the injury bug kind of continues.

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They win one game. Red Sox come back to win in game one on a million wild pitches. The record was set for wild pitches in a single inning by rookie Brooks Criskey for the Yankees. Red Sox take advantage and win a back and forth fun game. In game two, Cole Deals, Erod comes out early with a migraine. So I hope he's doing good. I haven't heard anything. Devers hits two.

three run, home runs, one off Cole, one off Nestor Cortez to lead the Red Sox to a 6-2 victory. In game three, the Yankees are the ones that come from behind. Tyone and Avaldi pitched good games. But then, oh, man, Adabino comes in, and the Yankees get a little two-out rally to put four across, come back and win it late, four to three. In-game four, it's Domingo Hermann, and he's got a no-hitter going through seven. Dugo leads off the eight with a double to break it up. Then Boone messes up the bullpen and the Yankees give up a ton of hits and credit to the Red Sox because they rally and they break the Yankees back and the Yankees spirit and win the series three to four.

The Reyes went to Cleveland, played four games against the Indians, and they took three of four from the Indians. Calquantra had a really good game for the Indians in game one, but the Reyes won in extra innings. They tied the game in the ninth with the Diaz home run and then Lowe had an RBI double. Cruz hit a home run in his first at bat. Was that the series? I think so. Then the raise came back in a big way in another game with six runs in the ninth inning. Choi had a three-run home run and Cruz homered in his debut.

Indian scored two in the eighth inning of game four to take the lead and avoid the sweep after YARB had a great start. Bieber was transferred to the 60-day I-L. Ray is scratched from game four lineup with back spasms. And Colin McHugh plays on the 10-day I-L with a micropinus. Athletics at Mariners. This was a series that you want to tune in. If you didn't see it, go watch the highlights.

We said it last episode that this was going to be a good one. And it was. And basically, the A's won the first game. And then the Mariners won the next three. And they were done in. The A's were done. done in by wild pitches. Brooks Crisky set the record with four wild pitches in an inning for the Yankees this week.

Then Deikman or Deekman tried to break it. He had three allowing the Mariners to push across the go-ahead run in the seventh inning of game two. Kukuchi had a nice start. Then it was Gilbert versus Bassett in game three. Mariners win five to four. Was that the walk-off? They walked off on a wild pitch as well from Trevino. Just not good at all.

for the A's bullpen. Mariners pitchers didn't pitch great, but their relievers were good. A's starters had a 491 ERA, and their relievers had a 154 ERA, but a lot of unearned runs with all wild pitches and errors and shit. Walks, hit by pitches. Just kind of gave it away. But hang good for the Mariners. That's what they do.

They win losses. They run differential and great, but their win loss record is great. Mariners are feeling fantastic. Astros swept their statehood brother people, the Rangers. How did you say that? They swept their state mates. Framber Valdez had a great start. Ghibi had an awful first inning.

He walked four, I think, and then ends it with a good start. So good job by Gibby. Granky went six innings pitch, one earned run. Kiner Falefa is the only player for either team with four hits in the series. And only three Rangers recorded multiple hits in the series. The Angels took three of four from the twins. The angel starting pitchers were fantastic. How about that?

Patrick Sandoval took a no-hitter into the ninth inning in game three. The Angels had a combined 195 ERA their starters. The twin starting pitchers were also good, but not great. Jose Iglesisys had five hits and three extra base hits. And the Royals swept the Tigers in a sloppy. I don't know if it was sloppy, but the box score says it was sloppy, so I'm going to say it was sloppy. Good job, Royals.

Baumount. That's the AO. job, John. Mariners A's is the series. That was really fun here. The Mariners take three of four. A lot of close finishes. Now the Mariners are feeling good about themselves.

Man, and good for them. They're game and a half out of the second wild card now. It was a joke, a joke a little bit that we weren't talking about the Mariners that we started talking about them. And deservedly so, man, I mean, they do have the crazy. record in one-run games. Their run differential is negative, but kind of the opposite of what's going on in Yankee land, you know, you play to win the game. And they did it, and this was a big series, man. This was the biggest series in Mariners baseball in a long time, and they take three out of four after Manaya

just drops the hammer on them in game one. My goodness. But good for them. They're a game and a half out. And, you know, it's a team in their division, so I think they got some more coming up. They get some dubs. They've got a lot of young players, you know, roll with that energy. And supposedly they're in on, dude. Supposedly they were in on Adam Frazier. Supposedly they're in on Whit Merrifield. Which, again, and you've been on this Jimbo, like, if the Mariners do add, it should be someone who's a part of next year's plan. And Frazier and Whitmerfield fit the bill on that. So that's supposedly what they're looking for.

And if they can bottle up a little more magic this year, awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, their record, you said it, I'll let people know. They are, where is I just had it, they are 23 and 8 in one-run games, and they're 10 and 1 in extra innings. The Dodgers are 1 in 10 in extra innings.

It's a bad feeling. The next highest is the Brewers have eight. The Brewers and the Reds have eight extra inning wins. But they're eight and six, eight and five. Mariners are 10 and one. Don't go to extras with the Mariners. Don't go to extras with J.P. Crawford and the Mariners. Yeah.

It's just a rule, man. One and a half out. Who do they go on to play? And who do the, does Oakland go to play? Does one of them play Houston soon? Houston. I was doing some schedule watching elsewhere. Seattle goes to play Houston now. They play Houston tonight, tomorrow, and Wednesday. Survive.

So you got to survive that. I mean, who does Oakland play? This is going to be fun. You wanted Oakland. You're not rooting against Oakland. You're just rooting for chaos and they're your biggest chance for chaos. They are the best chance for chaos. The Mariners did their job and now they've got to got two at San Diego and Jen, this will make you laugh a little bit, but they've got four at Anaheim, which Anaheim got back to 500 and they believe these games matter. So that's going to be really interesting. Like this is going to be, and then it's two more. They host the Padre.

So there's going to be a little interesting stretch for the athletics. And yeah, man, I said we should be rooting for the A's to come back down because if that brings in the Blue Jays into play, if that brings the Yankees. he's into play for the second wild card. It makes for easily the most fun race of this 2021 season. The Mariners are 32 and 21 at home. But the A, the Astros are 27 and 19 on the road. They're good.

Yeah, the A's. If you're Houston, do you punt a little bit just to piss off the A's? We wanted that to happen last year. We wanted a mini punt. Just a two out of three rest your pitchers. just to piss off Oakland. Who are the probabilities? What were the probabilities?

Because the Mariners had a lot of their pitchers go in this series, but it was a four-game set, so they should be able to flip it over. No, the Mariners are TBD today, tomorrow, and the next day, unless they've announced it elsewhere. We'll figure it out. It should be flexing. Should be someone flexing Kikuchi. Gilbert, maybe.

No, it can't be Gilbert. He pitched. He was the walk-off game. Yeah. Yeah, they have it as McCawin, Flexen, Flexen, and McCoggin, Flexen, and Cacuchy. Darren McCoggin. Jim, I was doing some other schedule watching before schedule pod. So they're going to bullpen.

Yeah. What schedules do you like? I was trying to see when the Raisin Sox are going to link up because that is one of the better races right now that hasn't been talked about probably enough. Boston is one game up on Tampa. Tampa is hosting the Yankees, and then they host the Red Sox, and then there's another Tampa Red Sox series coming up. So over the next, over the next like 10 days, I think the Rays and Red Sox will play each other six times or something like that. Or maybe it's 14 days, but that's fun in a divisional race that's going to matter. Right now, if you're the Red Sox or the Raise and you end up in a one-game playoff,

Like that's a mess Yeah The wildcar games are going to be fun Scary I Who hasn't What fan base hasn't done it yet Have the Red Sox done a one-game wildcard

One game wildcard? I don't think so The Rays definitely have They did it last year against Oakland Rays have A's have Yanks have Orioles have Twins have

Twins have I meant of the teams this year Like have the Red Sox not done it? I don't think the Red Sox have. I don't believe the Red Sox have been involved. Mariners haven't. I want a new fan base to experience it. It's gut-wrenching.

It's a bad time, dude. It's horrible. Knowing that Astros haven't with real expectations. Yeah, it was 2015. They're also pretty comfortable right now. Yeah, they push their league. What about the NL? Who's it looking for?

It's looking like Dodgers and podcasts. haven't. They're not at it. I know it's NL West. Yeah. Until I don't think any of those teams have. I don't think either of those teams have either. The Giants have if they fall out of the first. Yeah, but the Padre is doing all these trades for one-game playoffs is sick.

I, dude, it's a very big catch-20, catch-22. And they're going to change it. You know that MLB wants to change. I think this is going to be the last year for a one-game wild card. It's high drama. And when your team is in it, so like, Red Sox fans don't do it. Like win the division? obviously, that's the dumbest

the most blanket statement. But almost, almost I want you, I'm not rooting for you to lose. I don't care. It's not like an anti-red sucks thing that I'm doing right now. It's I want someone to feel that emotion

that hasn't felt it. It's gut-wrenching. Sealing your last six months come down to every pitch. Yes. Every pitch is a bad feeling. And it's different than a game seven where it's like every pitch,

but like at least you got to do it. Like you lose the wild game. You don't even get to do it. And yeah, it's a bad feeling. And I did see someone in the chat mention Zach Hample beating Trevor Plouf to a home run ball. And that's probably a tough feeling too.

It's like a hand of God. Yeah. I don't even get how to that came about that. Go check out the home run derby vlog because it's art. Yeah, man, that's the Red Sox Ray's situation kind of hasn't been talked about. Like we've talked about the NL West

a good amount, like Giants, Dodgers, Padres, you know, that's looking like the wild card. If the Dodgers clip the Giants on like the last day of the season and then the Giants end up in a one-game wild card, that's insane. Man, the Razor socks are one of those teams is going to be in a one-game playoff for their season. That's sick baseball. It's nuts.

And I love it. And I love it. What else caught your eye when you were recapping, James? Nothing else. All the other series kind of were boring. The Angels pitched really well, and they won. They took three or four from the twins who were trading people. But, I mean, good for the Angels.

I mean, they did pitch well. You know why? Because they drafted 20 pitchers and 19 college pitchers. So I think, you know, all the Angels pitchers are like, oh, shit. Maybe we should know. Uh-oh. Our job might be on the line. Doors getting knocked on, I think.

Right. I don't think they care. It's a joke. I feel like we have to say jokes now because people are dumb. We understand how draft works and it takes guys. Yeah. They don't join the team. Most of them will not make it.

The Royals. Sweep the Tigers. That hurts me a little bit. Tigers had some good juice going for a while. For a while, man. Yeah. For two months, they were one of the best teams in the aisle. Yes.

Which is nice. It's still nice. That's why I'm saying, like, They were never more than what they are, so I don't think this kills. It's still going to be a very good year for the Tigers. I think when you're rolling hot and you run into a team that was projected to be better than you in division,

and then they sweep you like that. I think that stinks a little bit. You feel bad today if you're a Tigers fan. Don't we back tomorrow? That's baseball, baby. They play Minnesota, Baltimore next. Their next one, two, three, four, five, six, seven games against Minnesota and Baltimore. So the Tigers are going to be right back.

That's what I'm saying about the Royals too. They thought that was going to be part of the stretch. We beat up on the Royals. Like tigers right, or tigers right now are hunting the Indians. Sounds like some weird West World shit, huh? Tigers are hunting the Indians. That's backwards. Yeah.

But no, they're not. Hunting them for what? Just a better record at the end of the year? In the division, yeah. That would mean something to the young tigers Okay Nothing else stood out No it's uh

Yanks lose in tragic fashion And that's the update Yeah Do you see how many views are talking Yanks has? Yeah People love sadness Watch that talking Yanks if you want It's emotional

It's not even sad It's mad It's like It's like It's like Mad disappointment Like parent stuff Like a flabberg

casted Matt at the lack of managing that happened. Unreal. Unreal. Yeah. BBD, you're going to do the aisle and taking up for Treff? Yep. Are you ready? Trevor Plouf is in the chat.

Trevor Plufe is in the trap. He's about to watch himself get Wally Pip. This is wild. Plupe probably sitting on a lounge chair on the beach with the phone. in his hand, sunglasses on, and drink in hand. Listening to BBD, Wally Pipham. Here we go. Guys, you have three IL series this weekend. The Brewers and White Sox face off. The Brewers won games one in two, seven, one and six to one. But the White Sox win the finale on Sunday night baseball three, one, Lynn versus Woodruff. So who really won? The Brewer Slat slash 232, 336, 442. White Sox were even worse. They had just four extra base hits and one.

Homer on the series. Brewer starting pitchers pitched to a 2-1-2-E-R-A. The relievers had an ERA under one. White Sox starters had a 2-25 ERA, and the bullpen let them down a bit, an 8 ERA on the series. Rowdy, Teles, six hits, three extra base hits, two homers. Tyrone Taylor with five hits, three extra base hits, two homers, including a grand slam in game one.

Andrew Vaughn, who Jake's fallen in love with, six hits, four extra base hits and a home run. No other White Sox player records more than two hits on the series. That stinks. Woodruff Burns, Lynn, and Gialito all get quality starts. Eloy Jimenez is expected to make his season debut today, Monday, and it looks like Locaine could return during their upcoming Padre series of Vogelback and Shaw are beginning rehab assignments this week. Over to Queens, Blue Jays faced the Mets.

Mets took two out of three when game one, three nothing. Blue Jays win the laugh or 10-3 Saturday. I was locked into that one. Mets win the final game 5-4. Both offenses were solid. the Mets, they had almost 800 OPS on the series, and so did the Blue Jays. Met starters had a 5-4 ERA, but the bullpen did their job, 3-75 ERA, good enough. Blue J. starters, a 3-6 ERA relievers for 4.5.

Pete Alonzo, 5 hits, three homers, six ribbies, two homers in game one. He's a good player. To Oscar Hernandez, two homers and six ribbies. Tyler McGill go six shuddy in game one, a 2-10 ERA through six starts in his rookie year, and 0.87 ERA in his last four starts, so. Have yourself a season. Stephen Mats in his return to city field. 5.2 earns.

That was game one of this series. Rich Hill makes his Mets debut. He goes 5 and 3 in the finale. McNeil sits games 1 and 2 with the leg injury. He enters late in game 3. David Peterson is undergoing surgery on a broken pinky toe, which could end his season. Music just stopped for everyone or just me.

Okay. And finally, Nats and Orioles. Orioles sweep. That's killing me. They win 6153-5-4. The Orioles have over 800 OPS on the weekend. Nationals had an Ops in the 500s. Orioles starters had a 26-ERA.

They were leavers over sub-3. Nationals were 5.8-7 and relievers of five ERA. Everyone bad. Mancini and Mollins each get five hits. Mancini and Trevor Ploos, Pat Valeka, each hit two homers. Now, Harvey goes six, shut out innings for the first. second straight start in game two, so I don't know, flip him for something maybe. Trey Turner is the only Nats player to record four hits, only five Nats get multiple hits on the

series. Ryan McKenna dodges a tag on a fielder's choice to walk off game three. That sounds tough. Shurs are throwing another bullpen Monday or Tuesday before the Nats determine if he'll make his next scheduled start Thursday, and there's rumors and all that. It's all fun. Freddie Galvis to start a rehab assignment this week is on track to return in early August and that. is the eye over the cat. How about that Beltway series? Orioles sweeping the Nats. Which is the best thing to happen to the Nationals,

and I genuinely mean that. No. You know I'll counter. Like even... I know it's tough as a Nationals fan to understand that. But you have so many pieces, kind of, that teams may pick up. So the Orioles

solidified it and said, hey, you got five days. Go try and get whatever you can. For Schwerber, for Scherzer, if someone's crazy enough to pay for him. Is Hudson having good season? Does anyone need a catcher in Gomes? Is Lester, lefty veteran?

There's a lot of guys that are on like rental deals for the Nats. There's a, yeah, man. the Scherzer rumors hit more in the streets this morning. We had pass and say on this show, like, to figure that out, like the trade would already have to be in motion. So I know there was Scherzer Mets rumors this morning. I don't know if it does happen. I mean, it would be the woe of the deadline.

Yeah. It would be the woe. So I'm not saying there's no chance, but like if you start hearing your team with Scherzer, not to shoot you in the foot. I'm not believing it until passing, tweets it. Like, not believing it until King Passing's on it. I believe that the Mets might be asking and poke it around,

but, I mean, for them to trade them to the Mets, I think they'd need a really big capital return. Not in, sorry, sorry, prospect capital return. To give your division reponent an ace for the postseason as a rental. Because the true rental, so the return is never going to be crazy because it's really 10 starts plus playoffs. Like rental returns aren't insane anymore.

No, I mean... There's so much money attached to that I get if a team was like, hey, we'll pay, because it's all deferred money. Right. So if a team was like, we'll take on, like, a lot of the deferred money, but we won't give you any prospects, maybe a team does that, but not the Mets.

You can't give him to the Mets. Mets, unless you're pillaging in a way their farm system and getting a top guy. Right. So if I was the Nats, I'm almost, it's a no to the Mets. Yeah. I mean, it's a note almost anything. I mean, they're probably asking for a legit return because if you add Max Scherzer. But say the giants say, we want Scher, we're not going to give you a lot of prospects,

but we're going to give you salary relief and like his, like, all the deferred payments, we'll take him on. Sure. Scher, that's almost nice. Also has to agree to it But if he agrees, yeah. Like, yeah, okay, Scherzer, you deserve it. Go to a contender and try to win another ring.

Any other team besides in division? But I don't even see that happening because that's a GM, like, cleaning up another GM's. Not mistake, but, like, deferred money. Like, think about how much we hear about Bobby Bonilla Day and stuff like that. Like, Scherzer's lined up for that for another GM to come in and sweep up the mess. I think that's almost. I agree, not likely. I put it, like, I said 20% that he gets traded to the Mets,

but I was like with Rose, but that's, even now, it's like, you can't trade into the Mets. You would need, like, a huge return. Mets, by the way, are one of the Interleague series. They take two out of three from the Blue Jays. Yeah. The Nats going on, like, Hudson should be traded.

Daniel Hudson should be traded. He's having a good year. Jan Gohm should be traded. He's having a good year. When's Schwarbo supposed to come back? Um, dude, even like, there's a lot of players that they can trade so that the Orioles really did him a solid by sweeping them. So go get, go get some return. It's true.

You know, it's only because they have so many one-year deals. Kyle Schorber with a hamstring. Man. Trade Lester to the Dodgers. Dodgers need immediate relief and then he can become whatever he is. And they love old guys. And they love old guys. And pool holes?

Oh, my God. It's not going to be a big return at all. I mean, you're talking about retirement. Lester, trade Lester for a player to be named later and let him just go get one more chance on a playoff team. He's making, it's going to be like $2.5 million. You're not going to get much prospects back, but just it's something. And Lester gets. Trasbber, man.

Well, Schwerber's a big piece. They have short. But it's the rest of the year. And like, he's had a great year, but it's still a rental. And that's kind of where we started this. Yeah, yeah. We always get a little overhyped over a over a rent. I mean, Kyle Schorber having a huge year.

He's got a, you know, good history, not as good as he was hitting this year. But he's injured and, like, it's a clear rental. I mean, you saw the return for Kevin Newman for a year and a half. Adam Frazier. Adam Frazier. Why do I keep doing? I hate you. Well, their names are so similar. I hate you, Kevin.

Yeah, that's the weird part. They're such different names. And you're saying it's... They're parades. They were pirates infielers. And they're not Cole Tucker. Sweet man. It's gentle.

But firm. Can you even trade Bell if you want, but you can keep Bell around for next year. You can wait for that to be an offer you like. Yeah. They just have so many guys that are off the books next year. So good job, Orioles. Thanks for helping them out. Thanks, those Mets take two out of three.

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The best baseball on paper this weekend White Sox Brewers It's a Sunday night game Brewers take two out of three. Lance Lynn and his big old nuts get the third game. Really great pitching matchups. Peralta Gialito, Burns Rodon, Lynn Woodruff. Really good matchups there.

But the Brewers win Handily the first two. Bummer. Bumorosa Ranch. And yeah, BBD mentioned it. I just really like Andrew Vaughn. Every time I see him, I'm like, whoa, that dude is locked in. Okay. He's show.

You ever seen his baseball reference photo? Because that's locked in as well. Yeah, I think that's part of it. His eyes are pretty dialed. Dude, they did... Like they did a slow-mo replay. Know how you watch the replay and sometimes some guys blink when they swing?

Vaughn ain't a blinker. He might not have eyelids. His baseball reference picture looks like he might not have eyelids. But yeah, he's giving me young job. Josh Donaldson vibes, and that's from someone's whose opinion doesn't really matter. So you like Andrew Vaughn. I like Andrew Vaughn. Oh, wow.

All these other pictures, his eyes look normal. You know, this ain't bad. That's a nice picture of him. This you can see a hint of the crazy, but it's not there. And by the way, me liking Vaughn, like that's, he was the third pick in the draft, who's a big prospect. So this isn't like me digging deep. Their fans were excited about him this year.

I've got one for you guys. Yeah, but you're not even talking about his skills. You're talking about his presence. His present in the box. Yeah. Powerful. Adjusted to left field well. He did.

But we'll see what happens because Eloy is back today. My dude. They said six, they originally said out for the season, then they said six months, which is the season. And he's back playing today. He rehabbed. He's starting today for the White Sox. Which, how's your deadline ad? Don't know yet.

They don't know. Hop. All right. Anything else before we move on to individual performances? I don't think so. Okay. Let's go on. We got standout performances.

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and you'll get actual reports and scouting and some players. comps and stuff like that. So after the trade deadline, I would guess they're going to go through all the prospects that kind of changed hands. And if you're one of those teams, if you're... We'll find out about your new guy. Sorry, Nat's fans, we just poo-poot on you, but, you know, you'll hear about who's coming back. Yeah. Farm to fame. Stand-out performances. Stand-out performance. Jake, you get to go first. Are you serious?

Yeah, with all my heart. I appreciate that, man. Jim, a lot of contenders this week, by the way. Yeah, when I looked at the sheet, I was like, holy shit. Holy shit. I didn't say that. I said, holy shit when I did it. So, Jim, I like you.

Thank you. Hell, I love it. Huh. Jim, your award last week is something I think I'm going to tie in to my standout performance. Tie on. Wow. Nope. No.

I don't know. Jim, I'm giving it to my guy. I love this dude. Again, go check out the homerun derby reaction video. Pete Alonzo goes two for four, two homers and three rib-eye stakes in game one against Toronto. Jim, couple things we like in a standout performance. A good game. Yep. You have to do well. And what does it mean in that game? That was a 3-0 game. Pete Alonzo drove in all three runs with two homers. Two for four. And like you mentioned with your award, James, there's a stigma around the home run derby.

You do the derby, it messes with your swing. You'll never be right. Pete Alonzo, since the home-run derby, nine games, 368 batting average, 442 OBP. A one dot! No. 231 OPS. Wow. with five homers.

Pete has been raking since the All-Star game. I love who he is as a person. When we talk about Bryce Harper a lot, we talk about someone being in their own skin. I think Pete Alonzo is so in his own skin. He couldn't not be Pete Alonzo if he wanted to. And his numbers now this year, 265, 342, 858 OPS. Those are right around what his story.

career numbers are at this point. And man, if he turns up the knob at the second half gets in the nine OPSs again, I mean, Pete Alonzo is, you know, an elite slugger in this league. And the Mets are hitting now. So I'm giving it to Big Pete. Good job. Polar Bear. Good job, Pete Alonzo.

Everyone's so happy and proud of you. Game tying dinger yesterday, too. Whoops. Diem. Diem. Diem. Damn. Damn.

Damn. I want to catch that. I like Pete. I use this glove to catch the ball. Yes. Damn. Damn. Good award or standout, I may.

Do you have a stondout? I do. I'm going to pitching, obviously. I always go to pitcher with a standout, unless it's like something really impressive. Like Devers, you could have got it. What was the last like three homer game? B.D.

Top of your head? It's been a little bit. It's been a little bit, right? Did anyone do it this season? Had to be one. I think you gave a standout at one point for a three homer game. Seems like that would be a time I'd pivot away from pitcher and do. Oh my God.

Did JD get one early? Just clicked. Such a bad link. What'd you click? How'd you search it? I searched three home run games, 2021. Winker, I think, has a couple of them, friend. And it sent me to a baseball almanac site site of three home runs games.

But it started in... Tatiste did, right, this year? I think so. It started in reverse... I think Winker has a couple. So let's see if they have the up-to-day because this may help. Brad, oh, Brad Miller like two weeks ago. Ryan Mountcastle.

Brad Miller back-yard. That's got to be the most sense. Ryan McMahon. Jesse Winker. Jesse Winker again. Schwabor Tates Miller. J.D. Martinez has one. Gladito.

Backyard Brad, like, just had his. Yeah. J.D. has one this season? I'm not seeing that. Maybe I'm thinking of last year when he had his hot stretch at the very end. I don't have Jay. So this, the website. I'm on baseball almanac.

It's a great website. Which has them sorted in reverse order. So this year in the AL, J.D., Vladito, Suno, and Mountcastle. And I think you got most of the NL guys. Did mooky bets have six three run home? Something like that. It's ridiculous. In his career?

Yeah, six, three. I think I remember somebody saying, it's like a couple. It's like tied for the record or something. It's him. I have it right now. It's him, Sammy Sosa and Johnny Mise. Yeah. They have six three-run homer games.

Squad. Squad. What is that? Squad. Who has the first three home-run game? Johnny Mice. Baseball history. Babe Ruth.

Over the fence homers? I don't know. I just know in 1884, Ned Williamson. got three in 1884 probably has the video there Ned Williamson Ned Williamson

I don't know if I trust it you just said you love baseball Almanac What's Ned Williams first name Ned Can't be Ned word

That's gonna depend if I believe it or not So BBD can you find out Ned's first name It was 1884 Yeah His home runs year by year He played it 1878 to 1890 1-1-132

27, 369, 812. That's hilarious. So he's a steroid guy. They must have changed the stadium that year. Did he, where do you play? Baker Bowl or some shit? Played it Wrigley? 84 Chicago, so I'm not sure.

Game logs do not exist for this player. First name, Edward, well, full name Edward Nagle Williamson. He was the home run leader. Babe Ruth broke his record. Yeah. And it's all one season. So the.

So the main cause of Williamson's record-setting season was his playing in Lakefront Park where Wright Field was only 196 feet away. That's a Little League home run. That is a Little League. Not anymore, actually. Little League moved the fence back. It's like 250, right? 225, something like that.

250s. Like the official Little League fields. Lakefront Park dimensions. I wonder if like... Fuck you, Ned Williams. I wonder if Clems baseball has. has this, another great site. I go back to 84.

I think I can play. Of course you could play. Thank you. You just needed a dad who would allow you to. Like, that's what it took. You needed to not have to work in a factory. Yeah, you had to have a release from the societal pressures to work from 12 years old until death. No one's believed in me.

Like, you know, that's why I was a bunch of ramshackle people. There's a bunch of betters and hooligans. A bunch of guys who are just around. Here's a... A lot of one... Wait, a cup of coffee guys back then. This says league park, but I feel like this is it. No, this is...

Wait, this one is $2.90. Dude. It cannot be undersold how sure $1.97 down the line is. I mean, it's not even double the baseline, right? It's a little more. You're close. You were tight. No, I was all.

all over. It's within 20 feet. You were tight. Like, I see what you were doing with the numbers? I need a graphic of Lakefront Park. Really bad. It's going to piss me off if I don't get it. No.

No who you have to reach out to. A name we haven't talked to in a long time. I guarantee you Calcutera has something on it. Okay. What year is it? 1880s? 1884. 1884 was the money year.

That's the 27, 27 home or year. I mean, is that it right there? I can't tell. We have a bunch of drawings. Pictures look like they're from forever ago. A lot of drawings from the left field foul pole. So that's a tough. It's up to really get a sense of it.

I mean, come on. Okay. Do we get your standout? His first name was Edward, which is the usual name for Ned. because Edward becomes Ed becomes Ed becomes Ned. My standout performance is, believe it or not, Ned Williamson. Really did.

No. How come no one else was hit homers at Lake Front Park? Because Ned was different, dude. Not the same. Not the same. He had power the opposite way. Oh, a lot of guys were hitting homers at Lake Front Park on his team, which is the 84 white stockings.

Oh, excuse me. I can't believe you just got that wrong. That's my bad. Ned Williamson, of course, led the team with 27. Oh, God. Fred Feffer had 25 homers, if you remember. Abner Dalrymple. Yeah.

He had 22. Cap Anson was good. Cap Anson was also the manager of this team, I believe. Yeah, well, he was number four in homers. Looks like he had the, he was player manager. He had number two on the team OPS. King Kelly. How do you be a pitcher on that team?

Let's see what the pitchers did. Yeah, the pitchers on this team had to suck, man. They also pitched like nine innings no matter what. Four different guys gave up double-digit. So Larry Corcoran got them. Oh, my God. Look at Larry Corcoran's photo. That's amazing.

He gave up 35 homers that year. Look at his second photo. Still 24 ERA. Why do they even have that? He's got a second photo. Larry Corcoran has two photos. It's not clicking for me. I don't see one.

Oh, wait, wait. Well, the second photo, he looks mean. Just looks like he was out in the streets and they snapped one. He alternated arms. He threw with alternated arms during one game. 5-3-127 from number one pitcher Larry Corby. 5-1-27? Do you know how small that is?

Like, honestly, picture that. Five-foot-three. We're short people. I haven't weighed 127 since fifth grade? Dude, I think that's smaller than my sister. That's like Courtney. That's like Courtney. Yeah.

Incredible athlete. 5-3. So you could have been a baseball player. I would have been a stud. His brother. We'd be talking about me. Oh, my God, dude. They actually would have called you the Flying Salami.

Oh, yeah. Like, you'd be a legend. Crowds would love me. That would have been, like, in baseball reference. That's what you're under. Because, you know, you went by a nickname. I would have gotten murdered. His brother pitched in one game for the 1884 Cubs.

Mike Corcoran's brother, Larry Corcoran, one game. They definitely just called him up because they're like, hey, my brother's in town. We need an arm. He pitched a complete game. He gave up 16 hits and 14 runs. Only four earned. The defense let him down. Seven walks.

Only one homer. And that's his only career game. career game, like minors or anything. How many pitches you think he threw? Because we don't have it, but... 2.75. It's an honest guess. It is. All right, let's go.

My, sorry, guys. My stand-up performances, Patrick Sandefall. He goes no-hitter into the ninth inning for the Angels. 8.2 innings pitched, one-er-and-run 13-k. I wrote it on my notebook, but I didn't bring my notebook in here, but I remember the numbers anyway. He generated 18 swings on his change-up in this game. 13 swings and misses for 72% swing and miss on his change-up. I posted a little video of it on Twitter, just nasty.

I didn't know that he was one of the premier change-up pitchers in baseball. He has four games now with double-digit swing and misses on the change-up. He actually has the most. He had 17 swings and misses on his change-up in a game on June 6th. other pitcher that has more than that is Giolyto. He has six, five games with double digit changes. But yeah, Patrick Sandoval doing it for the Angels, good outing by him. I don't know, Angels fans, tell me what gets him in trouble because his ERA on the season is 352, which is good. It's good. But he has some games where he looks, lights out. And then even in the game where he had

the changeup was working, he still gave up a young guy. I mean, 24. So, you know, sometimes it takes a little bit to click. Angels pitching and the draft. Yeah. Oh, you got motivated by the draft for sure. Yeah. Patrick Sandball, that's my standout performance. It's huge.

BBD, are you taking a standout? I did set aside a guy. I'm doing a classic steal from myself. I'm waking Jake, he got a bro of the night, and he'll get a standout performance here. Lamont Wade Jr. I believe this was yesterday's game Sunday. He goes three for five, two homers,

and a double and a six one win. against the pirates, but you're playing who you're playing. Won by himself. He's a big part of what, like, the Giants are doing. He kind of unlocked, he's a big thing that unlocks that team. 49 games, he's got a 930 OPS. Giants, man. Imagine?

Those coaches, they unlocked something. Trevor was all on it. He was on it. Lamont Wade, Jr. Junior. Fear. Fear the turd omers and a double, by the way, was the third hit that day. Go Terps. Okay. In other news, Boston Red Sox signed free agent right-hand pitcher Yonfee Rodriguez to a minor league contract today.

Good job. Congrats to Yonfee. Yep. You want to move it on? Damn. Move it on up to the dark side. Slump watch. Five guys we put on Slump watch last episode. Hoping, praying, wishing it helps them get off and fixes them a little bit. Five new guys may be added. Some may stick around. B.B.D. Who are the new additions?

Five guys are turning. You're going to have to make some decisions, but the biggest potential ads. We've got Joey Gallo went 0 for 8, and he's a trade deadline guy. Patrick Wisdom, 0 for 5 with a walk. Mike Yaz, 0.10, 8Ks. J.P. Crawford, always has to get a mention. One for 16 with a walk, 6Ks. and Jared Walsh,

I think was a candidate last week, if I'm remembering right, one for 14. The one was a double, 5Ks on the weekend. Okay. All right, so let's see who got off.

First one's easy. I'm going to give it to him. Cody Bellinger, he goes two for four. You only play one game, I'm guessing? Yeah, I think you got hurt again,

so it's a double off. Well, it's like a clap, clap, sorry. Two claps, people say. Willie Adamas. We were sure he was going to get off. I don't think he is, Jake.

He's one for nine with an RBI four walks. Face some good pitching. Four walks. You're going to hear about him soon maybe. But he stays. I think he'll be fine next step. Trevor's story, three for 13 with a homer and three RBIs. That's not enough for me.

And we're just watching. And do you hear that the Padres were thinking about trading for him and putting him in center field? Supposedly them, the White Sox, the Yankees, which is the Trevor Story, man. it's got to be an interesting place to be right now. He's got four more days as a Rocky unless they don't trade him, which is some good in Rockies' insanity stuff. But yeah, people, you know, he's a class shortstop,

and there's rumors he could go to the Mets, and then when Lendor comes back, they kick him to third, there's second base rumors, there's outfield rumors. I wonder if that, like, I mean, he's a friend of the pod. We could reach out. I wonder if that excites him, or he's like, what the fuck, guys? Like, I'm a top three shortstop in baseball.

Play me at shortstop. I'd like to play at shortstop. It would be hilarious if he goes to the Padres because that's the one that it's just kind of like, well, we just do whatever we want. That guy kind of does have me beat, if anyone. Yeah. Not defensively.

Not defensively, which again, jittery run. Oh, okay. I found it. Dude, I found it. drawing of Lake Front Park. A good one. Okay. Because it was actually called Union Baseball Grounds.

I couldn't live if I couldn't, didn't find this. Sure. Look at this. Oh, no. That adds up. It was shorter to left. This is back alley at Bats. It literally is.

Can I not pay? I think you need to slack it to me. That I don't think will work. Can copy and paste on it. It's in the chaper. right now. It's not in the chat right now. It looks like it is for you. Oh, wow. So we got to get a hyperlink, link the link people talk about. That's unreal. It's back alley at bats. It is back alley at bats. I wish you, I mean, $1.90 down both lines. I thought it might have just

been one, and it favored one people. Yeah. But it, I mean, all pitchers were fucked. That's crazy. So I'm sending it to BBD, and he'll put the picture up there. Um, So Trevor Story staying on. Here's the guy that's coming off. You're Don Alvarez. He goes three for nine with a homer and three RBIs, two walks. That's 333 batting average 417 on base percentage. Your Don's coming off, Jake.

Love him. He's good. As they sweep and I believe he got some big RBIs at times. And then Adelis Garcia, he's staying. He's staying 0 for 7 with a walk in 3K. So we have three guys that are staying on Slump Watch. We're giving him another week, give him a little boost. Now I'm going to add Joey Gallo.

He's 0 for 8 with only one walk, right? Joey Gallo's dead. Joey Callow. Yeah. Is he getting traded? Probably not. Yeah. They didn't trade Lance Lynn and I think they're fine to trade them in the offseason if they want to trade.

I'm like, you know. Wait, also is there a guard tower in center field? Sure is. Oh, yeah. Sure is. Because it's a baseball field. Yeah. Were they

Is this to add a place that required a guard tower separately? I'm asking if this was at prison. No, no, it was a... I think it's just a tower. They played a lot of sports there. I guess we used to have a hill at Houston until like... Yeah. It's cool.

It's now the site of Millennial Park in Chicago, if anyone goes there. Oh, wow. That's like a big thing, right? It's right on the lake. Yeah. The first college football game in the Midwest, was played at the park in 1879 when the University of Michigan

played against the Racine College. Michigan won one to nothing on a place kick by David Dattar. Thar. Pulitzer we had in Slump Watch. J.P. Crawford. That breaks my heart. Yastramski, Yaz?

Yaz with an 0 for 10 and 8Ks. That's a big one. Yeah. And then, and then, so congrats to Walsh, Crawford, and wisdom you don't get on. Yeah. Everyone else is on. They got a little lucky.

Walsh lucky back-to-back of episodes, I think. They got lucky Willie Adomas didn't get one more hit because then I think he would have been off. Yeah. Dude, okay. I think I can find dimensions of this park. It's huge. Because it just went by a ton of different names.

It then went Grant, became Grant Park. Whatever. All right. Should we move on to Infuego? I think so. Dirt nasty's on Fuego That means I'm on fire, baby Like Waco

Have you seen these guys, Jim? Are you still lost in that stadium? So lost. It was a ground rule double Over the right field fence But in what would be their final season They decided that it was going to be a home run Yeah

So it wasn't like they just played one season there they just said, well, fuck this. Let's just give ourselves a lot of home runs. Yeah. So for the last year, they were like, you know, the whole fence is a home run. They hit 142 home runs as a team. And second place had 39. Bill different.

It's wild. In Fuego, you got it? Jim, we're going to have a lot of people mad at us because a lot of people went nuts. We talked about it in the standout performance. BPDs, Lamont Wade Jr. was leading it off for us. And then Pete Alonzo, you already heard about them. We're over it.

Harry Bader, excuse me. He's been going nuts. Six for 11, two homers. Rowdy Tell us says, I'll check, raise you. Also, six for 11 with two homers. Young Thick, Austin Riley, two yakers. Six for 16. Chris Taylor, All-Star.

Chris Taylor, six for 13. Tyrone Taylor. Oh, my God. It's a Taylor Festival. Five for 11. If you watched him on the Sunday night game, he was barreling everything. G-man-Cholars.

for the raise. He's been getting it going. A couple yakers for him. Jesse Winker, you may even hear about him again. Andrew Vaughn is one fan hitter. He goes six for 12. And Brian Reynolds, kind of the Pirates guy now.

A little six for Chertene. So, yeah. Gee Man, Troy, good job. Rowdy. Rowdy's actually a really good job because They traded for Rowdy, and he was like, oh for a lot until this series. He had a tough start. And I mean, he wasn't getting like regular reps, so I always understand it's hard for guys to get into rhythm there.

I had it up before. But it has to be good. A team trades for you because they want you and they think you can help them and you struggle in your first couple games. So it had to be really good for him. In his first nine games, he only started four of them. he only had two hits. And then in this series, up against really good pitching,

he had six hits. So good for Routi to let's happy for him. I almost gave him an award. I thought about it too. It would have been a little pat on the batty back for me because I really loved Routy coming into the season and he was eating bugs for a while. But I hope he's figured it out in Milwaukee, man.

They've got a way. Where there's a will. They've got a way. There's a way. Yep, but I do it. Someone said we should do that in the offseason. We should just, like, pick a park and do a little combo on it. Dude.

Or it's its own series. Let's go to Chicago, set up a back alley at bats in Willenium Park and done. Map out the original dimensions and play. It's pretty good. Crazier things have happened. Crazier things have happened. A guy got struck by lightning nine times. Remember?

We did an episode on it. You don't like him? Oh, is his name Roy? It was Roy Kent. No. No, that was. How'd you like the first episode? We'll save it for John Boy and Dick Radio.

I'm not doing it this week. Fine. I thought it was a setup. Roy Sullivan. I was hoping for a little more, to be honest. It's a big setup episode. It's a big setup episode. I haven't watched it yet.

Oh. BD. Wow. Roy Sullivan got struck by lightning. And I obviously didn't like the opener. Because a dog got hit? based on a real based on a real thing

there's a YouTube video of that happening which is funny spoiled the opening seconds for me I spoiled it from my dad and my brother because I said it

like can you believe it they open it open it up with a few thousand people too I was joking tens of thousands of people yeah

well no they don't know they don't know the true stuff let's go to a war let's go to a word it's Rochelle and I got seven times

that's all Jake you get to go first yeah man Yeah, man. I'm audibling a little bit. Okay. Because I was going to give out the Pros versus Joe's award, and I was going to give Trevor Plouf a slap on the ass

and compliment him on the Giants hitter in the whole Lamont Wade situation and tie that end to Stephen Dugger and all those guys that have been going off. But BVD gave out a standout, and the Giants hitting coaches have been a joke on this show for a little while now. So, Jim, what I am going to give out. Is the, uh, uh, nothing, well, it's Olympic season. Nothing, nothing wrong with the top 10 award. How's afraid you're going to do this for being like as honest as possible.

Me too, man. I was like, I really hope he doesn't do the nothing wrong. I got to tell you what, man. Me too. So, I mean, we have to ride it out at this point. Yeah. But what you got? James.

I stumbled into this this morning on Wake and Jake. The name that you're going to hear, maybe the most coming up to the trade deadline, is Craig Kimbril. And Jimmy's having an amazing year. I didn't realize how good until today. 0-50 ERA. A 0673 whip.

Kimbril has been nasty this year. In 35.2 innings, he's given up two earned. runs. Do you know where Craig Kimbrel stands on the all-time saves list? Eighth. He's ninth. I'm taking it. That was I was going to take one below one off as my victory. Jim, he's 33 years old. He's one of the best relievers in baseball history. That's not like sufficiousness, okay? He's going to be traded to a contender. at this deadline, or the Phillies.

And, man, we need to put a little more respect on Craig Kimbril's name. He's got a career 207 ERA. Career! The last two years, Jim, he's kind of been, yeah, if you remember, he was late to get signed because he had the draft pick attached to him. So hopefully that's something that gets addressed in the CBA, by the way. So he only got 20 innings, and he got hit a little bit for the Cubs.

last year, the short season, his numbers, his analytics were there, but he got hit a little bit again. And over those two years, shortened seasons for both of them, 36 innings. He had a 6 ERA. Everything outside of that has been one of the best relievers we've ever seen in Major League Baseball. And he's going to be traded at this deadline. And, man, he's got a chance to land in some very rare air in baseball history. like Craig Kimberl's having a Hall of Fame career and we kind of, I think because of the last two funky years, it's just been ignored.

And I also think relievers are so volatile now that once someone comes down from their reign, then you just get written off like, oh, yeah, his good years are done. Yeah. Like once, I don't even know Papabon had any good years with the Phillies, but once he wasn't with Boston anymore, I think people just thought of him as like, yeah, well, he's not who he used to be. And I think a lot of closers.

that happens to. So 23 saves this year. 61 strikeouts and 35 innings. Dirty Craig, man. Where do you have them going? Houston. Yeah. Houston's a great fit.

So San Diego. People saying the Dodgers, too. They got a good closer in San Diego. Everyone can use arms, but. Well, Presley's been nasty for the Stroes this year. It just feels like he fits with them so. A little bit. Or the Red Sox, man.

Yeah. Been there, done that. D-de-do-do, boom. Dada-do-do. Bado-do-do. Okay. My award is the Do the Derby-Durby award. And it's building off what you said, which built off what I said, which made me interested in the whole thing.

Yep. goes to Juan Soto, Pita Lanzo, Salvi Perez, Shohay Otani, Trey Mancini and Matt Olson. Six of the eight guys that did the derby are crushing it. Gallo and Story are not. But the other guys, I mean, Trey Mancini's got a one dot OPS since the derby.

Otani's got an 8-9-1 since the derby. Salvi's got a 9-48 OPS and, the derby. Alonzo and Soto 1.2, 1.5. Matt Olson, 1.1. Do the derby. It'll fix your swing.

I did all this research. As the episode was going, I had a different award, but I was, when you said that Pete was also doing well, I wanted to see collectively how the group was doing. Collectively, they have a 945 OPS,

588 slugging, 358 on base percentage, and 285 batting average since in the second half. Oh, nice. Yeah. I mean, and that's with Gallo having a 0-6-7 batting average and story of a 182. Like, those guys are pulling it down.

But Soto and Alonzo are pulling it up. They kind of balance out. And then the rest of the guys are doing well. I mean, man, you were there again. Go check out the vlog. Homer and Derby, top five sporting event you can go to. So, and now that they're paying guys to win. And now that these guys are hitting, go due to the Derby.

Go do the derby. You got to beat Pete. He's the champ, and he's going to stay around as long as he can. Even when he's retired and he's a big ball of man, you still have to beat him in the derby. Beat Pete. That would be awesome. Oh, yeah.

I already have that. You have him winning like the next decade? Yes. And then he's retired, but he just is a derby. Like you, like, grandfathered in? It's like the Little League World Series when they do, like, the final USA game and then they play the international game the next day. Okay, so you play the active and then Pete's there.

After you win, you then take on the final boss Pete Alonzo. I mean, hopefully Pete wins for 10 years. Baseball, I got all these ideas. It's a really good idea. When does the Little League World Series start August? It's a good question. I guess so, because it's July and I haven't heard anything. I know it's typically in August.

because growing up, like I would go on vacation August and it was always on that week. I think it's August 19th through August 20th or something like that. No, it's sick. I hear the phrase growing up and I picture an A-Rod Instagram post. That is weird. Like that's actually sick. Yeah, you're diseased.

I was like you grew up looking at those either. Growing up. No, that's just how A-Rot starts all this post. Well, who's our best friend of the week? BPD. You have an award? I do have an award if you want it. Yeah, what's your award?

This is the Chop Sui Award. Wow. Make up. Grab her, back up. Yep. And it's going to Willie Adomas. He was miced up last night on Sunday night baseball. He entered that game in an over 13 stretch.

He was one for four last night. So he's won for his last 17. So with a 147 OPS Plus in his time with the Brewers, including that stretch, by the way. So it shows how hot he was before. But he, you know, they got him miced up. He was like, saying to his bat, wake up. In Spanish, so I don't know how to pronounce stuff, but he was saying, wake up. And then he gets an infield single that could have been gone either way as an error.

And then he has a fun little moment in the dugout, because when he realizes it got ruled a hit, not an error. He's like, they gave me a hit. That's all I needed. So he's going to be off Slump Watch next week. Gotcha. That's all you need. Desperta.

Yeah, so I'm not going to get that. According to Google Transit, that's how you say wake up in Spanish. Desperta. We have the clip on at Talking Baseball underscore if you ever checked it out. Advertisement. Wakeup. Girl brush, put on a little makeup. Okay.

Best friend of the week. First time recipient is one of the newest friends, Jesse Winker. Six for 12 with a homer and three doubles, two walks, four ribbies. How'd you guys the figure out of share up? Reminder, he's still very good. Jesse Winker's still really, really good. At what? Scootin?

Baseball? I think being an uncle, Uncle Jesse, for the Castiano's family. So, yeah. Good stuff. All right. Next up, we have elevator talk. Elevator talk. Let's talk in this vater.

Where in an elevator and a guy comes in the elevator or a woman or a kid or a robot. We don't know. They're wearing a hat that... The Miami Marlins. Oh, my God. Trevor Rogers goes down. He was like the NL Rookie of the Year watch. Yeah.

For a while. How hurt is he? I don't know. I don't know. BPD's on it. Starling Marte. Big trade deadline. He's got to go.

I mean, he really should go. So many teams need center fielers. He's having a nice year. Lower back muscle spas. Oh, we'll be back. He's a young kid. They're just saving his pitches. Does Aguilar go?

McGee Rojas, Chris Rose rotation. Does he go? Adam Duval mashes lefties. Does he go? Oswego? Oswego. Well, so they got any bullpen art? Yemi Garcia?

Didn't we dream him getting traded in the preseason? I'm reading an article here that says the Marlon should sign or trade for Bucks, Bxton, I'm out. You can sign them? So I googled Marlins and then clicked news. And one story is Marlins, Derek Jeter explains why he signed son of ex-Janky's teammate. Do you know this story? They signed Pettit, right?

Jared Pettit. Yeah. Mention that. Jeter had a simple quote on why he signed him. He's got good jeans. No joke. Yeah. Yimmy Garcia and Dylan Floro, Dick Blyer.

Watch the breakdown. Anthony Bass Trade everyone Yeah, trade everyone I guess Buckson's kind of fun Because he's there next year, right? You'd have to re-sign him Because next year's still not the year

For the Marlins Yeah Who else are gonna trade? Do you know that Diary is hereditary Runs in the jeans Thanks.