Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 377 | Field of Dreams Game, Oakland Rolls, & NL East is NUTS

Episode Date: August 13, 2021

Timestamps: 3:15 - Field of Dreams 9:30 - NL Recap 14:30 - NL East 20:30 - NL Central 23:30 - Tatis 26:45 - Sandy Alcantara 27:30 - AL Recap 32:30 - Tigers 33:15 - Mariners 36:00 - Blue Jays-Angels 38:45 - Oakland 41:00 - Rays-Red Sox 43:30 - Yanks-Royals 45:00 - IL Recap 46:30 - BBD Simulation 50:00 - Standout Performances 54:00 - Wainwright 56:15 - Corbin Burnes 59:00 - Slump Watch 1:02:30 - En Fuego 1:07:15 - Awards 1:12:30 - Braves Infield 1:18:30 - Elevator Talk: Detroit Tigers 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. Let's recap the week that was in Major League Baseball because a lot of fun stuff is happening. Let's talk about it. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball brought to you by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for tuning in, hanging out with us for a little bit as we sit around and talk about the baseball. My name is Jimmy. Sit next to me as Jake. In California, we have Trevor Plouffe.

behind the dish. We have producer BPD. We're coming off the field of dreams games. We got a lot of standings, getting shifted constantly. It looked like there might not be a lot of chaos is what we were thinking, Jake, the rest of the season. And now it's looking like the month of August, at least, is going to be bringing a lot of chaos. We'll see how quickly it sorts itself out if it ever does. I'm excited to chat about it with everyone.

Jake, how are you doing? James Trevor Plouf, former MLB third baseman, first baseman, shortstop, right field and left fielder? Do you ever get in left? Okay. Oh, yeah. Like you, guys. Myself, I also moved around. No, everyone live in the chat right now.

Love you. Coming off a huge night for baseball, listen to a little WFAN where we were last Friday. and they had the crazy New York sports calls. The last night was the best night of baseball I can remember in a long time, and that's kind of the consensus around the country right now. So I guess you could say baseball Caliente in Los Streets. So, yeah, I'm enjoying it and, like, Jim Orteased it. Holy and at least, I can't wait to talk about that with you, boys.

Baseball is doing it. Trevor, Paul, how are you? What? I don't know who that is, but I'm Trev here. Coach Trev's doing great, man. I'm happy to be on the sticks with you boys on a Friday morning. I guess it's afternoon for you guys. But yeah, a lot of good baseball. Last night was incredible. We'll talk about that a little bit, right? It's a little bit. Before we get into the games, NLEAS is dumb. A lot of things going on. Giants keep winning. Dodgers, a lot of people hurt. What's going on with that? I'll break it all down. I'm batting lead off today.

Wow. All day long. Seven series. I'm going. through it. I got my big peopper stopper on the mic today. Gonna sound crispy. Wow. James, how you doing, man? I'm doing well. According to Google

translate, this is how you say hot in streets in Spanish. Calor in las calles. Calente in los calles. Caliente in los calleys. It's me. Okay. I'm doing well, Trev. I'm doing well.

I have a very stiff neck. Stifest neck I've had in a while. So little Roman stuck in the throat. Playing with a stiff neck. No, I'm good. And we should talk about the field of dream games to start off the show. It is stealing the lead-off spot from your little. We'll do it quickly because the actual results of the game are technically the weekend

series. This show is about the White Sox versus the twins and the Yankees versus the Royals, not the Yankees White So gameplay, we can get into that later. But I'm interested to hear both your overall thoughts. of just the spectacle because I'm sure the audience is interested in now, all of ours. And I went in as cynical and like I don't care as possible. Not as possible.

Like I was interested, but I wasn't. Didn't do anything for you. Wasn't salivating, didn't do anything. I was, I remember back in 2019 saying like, good, do it in America, not London. Like try to put baseball in places that don't have teams in the U.S., not London. I don't like the movie. a whole other thing. All that being said.

Tough intro to the good stuff. All that being said, that was awesome. And I think MLB should do more special events like this around the country. Stop trying to go outside the country. You got a lot to fix internally first and grow. You have so much room to grow internally at this point. But I thought it was just the concept. I know Jake tweeted out a bunch of like different places.

Just do a game in a weird spot every year and make them where. old uniforms and it's like old barnstorming vibe that's like if there's like you know a barnstorming game every year where who cares they're at this guy's barn now or now they're at the grand canyon or this or that like and it's only 8,000 people there but it's uh everyone's going to tune in like it was a spectacle i do think a lot of people watch that don't watch baseball regularly or watch those teams regularly and i think that's a huge win and then and then the teams put on an absolute show to finish the game so I thought it was great.

Yeah, I don't think there's much of an opinion outside of that. I mean, that's the consensus. I think that's what everyone in this chat is thinking right now. I was, you know, I tweeted out, you know, this feels like a huge win. And you're right. I mean, and, you know, who knows, you can tie local stuff to it. You know, I mentioned the Grand Canyon. Get a D-Bax game near the Grand Canyon or something.

That'd be nuts. So maybe each team finds a local place that's there, you know, there's some sort of story around it. I don't know. And I'm fine with the international stuff too. I mean, Canada, Mexico, London, if they do some Asian games. I mean, you got the Caribbean, Caribbean islands, like, do stuff there, too. Like, there's a lot of baseball players from there. Well, all those places have baseball.

I'd be fine with all those places. They are a baseball nation. Just go for it. It's fun. Even I enjoyed the London series. This was a little different and a little better of a scene. I mean, there's no arguing that with the cornfields and the history. the ties to it and playing having a catch not playing catch with your pa so yeah uh loved it and uh hope they

do more the one thing i did say which was a good reply and is always the huh uh you know someone said they cost five million dollars to put this event on uh which is cool and you know it's for mlb i'm sure they made their money back and some it was more like uh they turned it into a minor leagues thing. They were like, you know, we're spending $5 million on this. If there's some way we can still get the minor leaguers, a couple extra bones. And hey, let's link that all together. If you're going to spend five mil on this, you know, match 50% of it so minor leaguers don't have to eat cheese sammies and sleep on a couch, Trev. I mean, those things aren't mutually exclusive. They can do both of those things.

Like $5 million to MLV is nothing. They sneeze it. That's right. shaky boy. The game itself last night, I think, is what made everything. I know there was some beautiful, you know, cinematography and Iowa, let me tell you something. Iowa looked beautiful. Never would have put those two words together. But your pink sky last night, Iowa, really did it. So congratulations on that. But if the game wasn't as good as it was, we're not talking about it the way we're talking about it. So like the back and forth, you know, the white socks, by the way, their bullpen's incredible.

I know they blew the game last night, but that has to scare every single person that watched the game, the guys that they're bringing out back into their games. I do want to say about your point, we should do this and all these different places. I think it's hard to do it. I think it's hard to just construct a field somewhere, dude. Like, if you're trying to go by the grand can,

it's really hard to just construct a major league quality baseball field. So they're going to run into problems doing that. I wouldn't mind if they just ran this thing back for, you know, just say make it like five years we'll commit to five years of doing this see where it goes from there uh the players seem to enjoy it which is always a good thing that's always something you have to think about as well when you talk when you talk about going international like during the season like that's that's tough man kind of gets right in the schedule and everything this was a really easy little quick trip for them so i think that's why it worked as well but kudos man we talk craft

about nlb and their production value um quite a bit so maybe that's what it is true maybe you do five years or three years. You build a stadium, you do field dreams for three years, okay, where we go in the next three years. And then you do three, you know, a Grand Canyon series in the AOS, three years in a row. And then you move it to wherever. And that would be a bit of a more makes sense than a new stadium or a new like makeshift stadium every year.

Yeah. Yeah. I think, you know, it's, I think it's cool if we, if Major League Baseball started leaving these stadiums, yeah, use them for three or four years and then find a way to give them to the city and let them, you know, figure out a way to use it. I don't know. Dyrtonville, Iowa has

4,000 people there and the stadium fits 8,000, so. They could, you know, you run college tournaments through there. You run summer leagues through there. There's a lot of things you could do. Yeah. Yeah. Make it special. Find a way. Good job baseball. All right. Let's get right into the

NL brought to you by Trevor Plouffe. Can you tell us what happened? I need to know. I want to know. You're up. All right, here we go, boys. The LA Dodgers went into Philadelphia, and they took two of three from my Phillies.

Five-O Dodgers, eight-two Dodgers before the Phillies won the rubber match, two to one. Suarez pitched excellent in that game in game three, four in a third inning of only one earned run. He's been one of the biggest surprises of the season. Good job. Ranger. But the Dodgers just took it to the Phillies. It wasn't really a contest, the first two games.

Dodgers are banged up, though. Turner sits the whole series. Mookie placed on the 10-day I-L. Kershaw transferred to the 60-day. Got a lot of things going on there with the Dodgers, but they're still winning games. Bad news for the Phillies as well. Hoskins placed on the 10-day I-L,

but he should return on Wednesday. Dodgers take two or three from the Phil's. Moving on, the Reds went down into Georgia, just like the devil. And they lost two out of three Braves. win two games of the series. Three, two, Braves, eight, six Braves in 11, a thrilling walk-off game before the Reds handle it.

12 to 3 in game 3. Austin Riley doing it. Four hits with two extra base hits. Ozzie had two homers. Votto continues his tear six hits with two home runs in the series. Like we said, Albies walked it off in game two, a three-run homer in the 11th, and it was a bomb, and it was fun to watch him around the bases.

Winker had a grand slam in game three. that blowouts. Big news for the Braves. You know what to be activated. And he's going to start next Tuesday. And Rosario begins the rehab assignment. So guys are coming back. My Braves.

They're still in it. The doors open. Braves take two or three from the Reds. Moving on. The Brewers sweep the Cubs because the Cubs don't care anymore. And the brewers are a very good team. Double header. 4-2-6-3 Brewers.

They win both of those. Then 10-0 and 17-4. They just stepped on the 3. throw and didn't get up. Eddie Escobar, nine hits with two extra base hits. Luis Urias, eight hits with six extra base hits. Jesus, guys. Jace Peterson's seven hits, three extra base hits.

Everyone was doing it. Andrew Romine, yes, he is in my book. Did come in to pitch the last game. He pitched to his brother Austin. We'll have to talk about that a little bit. That's pretty cool. Cubs released Jake Arieta after that one. That's a tough weekend or a tough beginning of the week for the Cubs.

They lose four games to the Brewers. Moving on, Nationals at Mets, and the Mets do the damn thing. Polar Bear Pete, let's freaking go. Eight, seven Mets, and then they sweep the double header four one and five, four. They hit the crap out of the ball. The Mets did.

The Nationals did not. Alonzo, my guy, six hits with four extra base hits in a home run. Confordo Davis and VR five hits a piece. Carter Key Boom. Remember him? Only National will record four hits. Roman doing the damn thing. Five innings pitched in a third with one-earned run in game two.

Friend of the pod, Trevor Williams, my guy, four and a third. One earned run in his Mets debut in game three. Alonzo did have the walk-off former in game three after the Nationals tight with three in the seventh. News on DeGrom. DeGrom will undergo another MRI in the coming days. Hobby bias, penchits in game one, but doesn't start any of the games. And Mets plan on using Sinegard as a reliever when he returns. A lot of notes on the Mets.

They sweep. Take three from the nationals. Moving on. Giants sweep. A two-game set against the debacks. They cannot lose a game. It's 8-7, Giants, 7-2 Giants. What are we going to talk about? Posey continues to do his thing. Brandon Crawford, is he an NL MVP candidate?

Probably, Galesman goes five innings, pitch, one and run, and records two hits of his own in returning from the fraternity list. Jim, stats that exist that don't matter. Giants sweep the two-game set. Moving on, a lot of sweeps, baby. Cardinals do it to the Pirates because obviously Cardinals sweep a three game set for one Cardinals. 4-0 Cardinals, 7, 6 Cardinals. Jay Ahap goes six, ending spish, one and running game one.

My goodness, he's got a 2-4-5 through his first two Cardinals. He starts. Wayne Wright, though, was the story of the series. Those are a complete game. Shuddy on just 88 pitches, 7Ks, 2-hicks, zero walks. 11 shutouts are the most of any Cardinals pitcher in the wild card. era Lars Newtbar hits his first career home run and that is awesome and our guy Jack is back today let's freaking go last series marlins at Padres Padres take two out of three eight three

Padres six five Padres seven oh Marlins what else we got Tatis is coming back this week and that's all I really care about Padres take two out of three and that's what happened in the NL good stuff good stuff Trevor As far as standings are concerned, the Brewers have an eight-game lead over the Reds in the Central. The Giants have a five-game lead over the Dodgers in the West. Dodgers and Padres are still your wild card teams. And in the east, the Phillies are currently half-game up on the Mets. They are tied in the loss column.

And the Braves are one game behind them. The East is kind of a chaos dream right now. It's the beast of the East or it's the best of the West. We are the very best. We are going to be EAT beat them. BUSD Bust them. The Atlanta Braves are going to be a big talking point this episode. We mentioned run differential on here.

A lot only team in the NLE East with a positive run differential. And it's getting to a fun spot. Plus 59. While every other team, including the Phillies and Mets are negative, Meanwhile, Mets are half game ahead of the Braves. They do some dirty work that they needed to before their hellish stretch. They needed to. Pistol Pete walked that walk.

You could hear about him later. And BPD's Phillies, man, 8 and 2 in their last 10. Good for them, doing the damn thing. This seems like, unless the Tampa Bay Rays come back down to Earth, which they just don't ever do, the NLEs, feels like it's going to be baseball's best storyline the rest of the way, with maybe the AOL Wildcard, getting a kick in the pants there. But, I mean, just each team's storylines are so much fun and how they're going to develop,

like, you know, again, listen to WFAN. They're saying, if the Mets go seven and six, hell six and seven, they're set up good the rest of the way. But if they drop a three in ten or something, whew. Yeah, they'd sign up for 7 and 6 right now. They take it to the bank right freaking now. They are playing at the Dodgers kind of like an opportune time, though.

A lot of people hurt. I know Belly's kind of got the stroke going again. That's good for the Dodgers. But if you're going to play the Dodgers, I think right now is the time. What's going on with Kirschaw? I mean, they can backdate the I.L. So is a 60 man, him going to 60 men, just a roster move to get someone else on the 40?

It's not an additional injury. I think so. Right? Okay. I didn't hear anything about an additional injury. Yeah, usually that's just roster crunch stuff and like it wouldn't even change his timeline. Sindegarde going to the bullpen. Does that do anything for you guys?

I mean, he's had setbacks. It's late in the season. You really don't want to mess with them. I think it's. Yeah. And they need, they need bullpen help because they've been taxed, man. The bullpen's been working a lot.

So to have an extra arm out there, and especially a guy that could get stretched out, it's going to help their bullpen. Yeah, I just wonder their rotation, because they also need help there a little bit. But the bullpen's been good just taxed. The rotation, you know, not giving them a lot of innings. That's why they need the bullpen's been taxed. And that's kind of what they're saying. Like if Cindergard can give them innings, like he can, you know,

if he can give you two innings right now in the MLB, that's kind of better than the three he could give you in a rehab start. So, I mean, this is the Mets season is here. It's in the balance. So get it going. Let's get some Cinderguard. Shirtless out at shortstop. Yup.

I said now's the time to get the Dodgers. And then you look at who their starting rotation is for this series. It's Urius Walker and Scherzer. Have fun. Good luck. The Braves staying in the NLE East. The Braves win some games with a big walk-off win by Ozzie as well. And then their pitching has been good.

And they're getting E. Noah back. I think he's making one. One more rehab start. I think he's set to return. And Mueller, who's been the only kind of blight on their rotation, gets bumped. You know, is going to come in. But where I just had this up, they've been good. Freed's been good his last time through Charlie Morgan, twirled to gem.

Smiley, 16-inch pitch to run runs his last start. So I like the Braves pitching. And then if they just, I don't know, I'm very excited for this. This NL East run. be pretty crazy. Did you talk to Gibby at all about what Gerardi did with him? Interesting move. I'd always interested to see how a starting pitcher reacts. If anyone doesn't know, it's been done before. Rain was coming and it looked like, you know, the forecast said that we'll probably start this game. Then there's going to be a delay after the

third inning of like an hour. And then we're going to come back. So 30 minutes for game time, Gerardi was like, all right, Gibby, you're not starting. We're just going to throw some relievers and you will start after the rain delay. And it happened perfectly. perfectly. Gibby got hurt by some errors, but I was interested in, like, how does he feel about that? That's kind of odd. Yeah, I haven't talked about him, but I'd assume you'd rather do that and get to pitch a bulk of endings rather than start the game and only get to go one or something like that. Yeah.

If I ask Ghibi about it, be like, man, whatever he wants me to do. You know how Ghib is. Yeah, it felt like Ghibie wasn't going to put up too much of a fight there, but. No. Not much to talk about with the Brewers Cubs. Brueers sweep. Brewers are good. Cubs aren't really trying.

They're kind of way on their way out. Yeah, a lot of... They're digging deep quickly. A lot of possible brew crew for standout performance, which almost hurt them a little bit because they had a couple big ones. Their starters, that series, had a 0-8-90.

All right, if you're looking for a good time, I tweeted it out, check out the brewer's top three in their rotation. And when you start thinking about your teams playoff future think about playing a team like that. They're El Grosso. Can we can we kill off the Cardinals

or are we still in on them? Because they're six and a half back. No, that was going to be my next question there. They sweep. They get the sweep. They get amazing outings from their starting pitching. They have more starting pitching coming. They're still, what did you say on the division? Six or eight? Well, they're six and a half out of the wild card.

If you sweep In the division And you can't make up like any ground I think you You know Yeah they're 11 back in the division So the wild card is their only hope There's six and a half back there

And they got a lot of teams in front of them They have Atlanta, New York, Cincinnati Before they get to San Diego in L.A. I was kind of I've been saying it with the Yankees I brought it over to the Cardinals I basically said you know win When nine

nine games in a row and we'll talk about you So they got a lot win six more. Yeah, they lost one to KC, but they've got another KC set. They're playing three at Kansas City, who they're falling out of it. Then you run into Milwaukee, but if you survive, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Pittsburgh. So I'm very interested to see. Detroit's good, man. It's a two-gamer with Detroit. So they'll split that because two dump game interleaks. But man, that's seven games against Pittsburgh. In a nine-day period, I'm interested to see if we're having fun cardinal convos come August, August 30th.

Add for that episode. Add for that episode. St. Lou, what up? And don't look at their September schedule. No, no, that's a September. That's a future them problem. I mean, we're talking like this because there's a chance for fun, but if we had to put a number on it, like it's 2% or less. I hope we can have a fun combo come August 30.

because if we can't, then there will be no fun combos. Okay. BPD said he'd go five. I'm going 2% or less on the cards chances. But I'm happy they swept and they've got some good performances. Anything else we got to talk about. Padres take two out of three from the Marlins. You know, Padres, they could really go on a run here.

But Cincinnati, losing to the Braves, helped them out. Yeah. Because they win two out of three. They don't sweep. That's fine. Getting series wins is good. but since he loses two out of three to the brave, so they actually gain because of that.

So they're three and a half. Hey, that gets to four and a half, five and a half. You're done looking at it a little bit. Yeah, he's a, I think this move, I don't think we've talked about it, the move that he's going to be in center field. I mean, they've all but said it now. Yeah.

Or did they say it? I think that improves, I think it improves, their team because now you get to put Crohn's on at short. So that's an elite bat for shortstop. You could have Frazier at second right?

Sure. Cam. Upgrade there. You know, it's like they're adding a bat essentially to their defense. They can get those guys in the lineup all at the same time now. I'm curious to see how Tatis does out there. You know he's going to do something flashy

right away. He may not grade out well, but he's going to do something flashy first game. He's there. It's diving catch. It's like a ball that bounces off the wall, and he bare hands it and turns and throws it into second. And like, you know, the guy doesn't even run to second, but the throws perfect. And you're just like, well, it looks smooth. Some.

There's just, yeah, no, he's going to look good on some plays. He's going to look bad on some plays because there are some balls that you just have to have been in the outfield to get a read on. balls right at you. That's the one they always say is the toughest, you know, breaking in, breaking back. That's it. There's going to be a liner right at Tatis. He's going to take a step in. It's going to be going over his head and he's going to make like the shortstop lead catch because he's six, four and a freak.

I like that. The ones that are scary are the balls in the gap because he has no practice out there with other outfielders like coming at the ball as well. And you have to be able to communicate, where am I going? Am I going back? Am I going in front? And that just takes time, man. So I'm scared to, you know, to watch some of those. And that's, you know, obviously the athlete he is, he could do anything.

And I see, you know, Trent Grisham mentioned in the chat. He was the gold glove winner in center field last year. So I wonder what does that look like? Is he banged up at all right now? No, they're just going to move them. So that's interesting. Padres van let us know. And obviously we're going to get some updates on the internet.

But Will Myers, yeah, Will Myers will be going to the bench. It'll be, uh, with Tatis, it's always, it's always fun to watch. And I like it for this year, Treve. I know you talked about it on your, uh, with Chris Rose on your, your daily show. Go check that out. But yeah, we're at the point of the season where anything goes. Like, you know, the Padres traded for Frazier. They didn't necessarily have a spot for him.

And now look what's going on. Cinderguard. We just talked about him going to the bullpen. Tatis, some outfield Tatis. for the rest of this year? Yeah, let's have a party. But interested to see how it plays out for the rest of this year and the next off season and all that

because there's a lot of money. Everyone in the chat is saying Tautis is in right field. They're in a leave Grisham and center, which makes sense. I'll believe them. Yeah, it makes sense. All right, anything else in the east? Are we good? The only other note that's not really

a note, I'm thinking about making and if they were Yankees, Yankees fans, would go absolutely nuts about them. And it's Sandy Alcantra, Alcantara, on the Marlins, because he is absolutely gross. 94 mile per hour changeups.

Yikes. He's scary on the hill. We got that in the heel. Heal. I can feel the fear building up when I watch him pitch. From you or from opposing hitters? Yeah, I know.

Just like I know if I was to get in the box against that, God, there's something about him. He's, like, kind of tall and lanky. He's just, like, he's just big. Give up 10 earned? Yeah, that'll ruin your ERA. He's got a 10 and an 8 that hurts your earn. He still has a 3-5.

Yeah. 10 earned. Six, five up there, just slinging it, dude. That's not a comfortable. That's called being uncomfortable. Okay. You guys want to hear about the AL? I like have to.

Okay, here we go. This is your AL recap. The Rays went into Fenway. They were tied up in game one, and then they said, ah, we'll just win. And the Rays beat Boston and break their hearts with four runs in the ninth inning. Then the Red Sox beat them handedly in game two. It seems like the Rays were going to lose that game.

They pitched. They just let the. The bad pitchers just go forever, and the Red Sox put up 20 runs. The race score eight themselves, so I don't really know what to think about game number two. And then the race win in game number three, eight to one. They get to the pen again. I believe this game was really close into the sixth inning, and the rays went off. The raise pitched horribly.

Their starters had a 10-13 ERA. Their relievers had a 7-11 ERA. Now, that is brought down because they had a position player pitch, so it's kind of foo gazing. The Red Sox pitched decent. Their starters had a 3-1-2 re-ray through three games. Their relievers were awful. Renfro had five hits, four extra-based hits,

a home run and a botch play in right field that allowed a couple runs to score. Bogart's endeavors also hit home runs. Evaldi went seven in his pitch one-run in game two, so the Red Sox got a nice start out of him. And Sale is going to make his debut today, tomorrow. I don't know when that note was written. Schwerber could also join the Red Sox as soon as tonight or tomorrow. I don't know when that was written.

The athletics and the Indians played three games and the A's swept the Indians four to three in game one in extras. Six to three in game two, 17 to nothing in game three. Bieber is coming back for the Indian, so the season might turn around. Only four Indians record multiple hits. Andrews had a game tying home run. Larry, go-ed three-run Homer in the eighth of game two. The 17-0-0-0-1-1 is the largest shutout in athletics franchise history. So good for them.

White Sox went to Minnesota to take on the Twins. And the White Sox won handedly in game 1-11 to 1. Bo Burroughs did not have it. Lucas G. Alito, he did. Twins won a close game in game two. Griffin-Jack pitched well. Keikle gives up a two-run. Homer.

Twins win four to three. and then the twins won again in game three one to nothing. How about that? Huh? What of it? The numbers are weird. The White Sox out hit the twins in every slash line and out pitched them. Starter ERA was lower, reliever ERA was lower,

but the White Sox also lost two of the games. So kind of funky baseball in Minnesota. Yankees went to Kansas City to take on the Royals played an absolutely wild back and forth game in game one. It broke records. Both teams scored runs in the seventh inning, the eighth inning, the ninth inning, the ninth inning, the tenth inning, and the eleventh inning. A lead went back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, Yankees hold on to win it. Royals win game two, eight to four. Yankees win game three, five to two.

Should note the royal starting pitcher, her name. He does. He's got the third most deceptively fast fastball in MLB. It's DeGrom. Glass now. Glass now. And that dude. So if you see him pitch, tune in for a little bit.

Six Yankees relievers combined to allow just two earned runs in game three to clinch the series. They went superfan. And John Boy Media's super fan Rob Brantley threw out Whitmerfield in game three to end his streak of 33 consecutive stolen bases without being caught. How about that? Asher's and the Blue Jays played four, or Angels in the Blue Jays, I'm sorry, played four games. They had a double header on the first day, and they split that, obviously. Then the Blue Jays won game three, Angels won game four. Otani pitched.

He did his Babe Ruth thing again. He went six innings pitch, two and runs for the win in game four. Manoa had a really good start for the Blue Jays, 6.2 with two and runs in 11. K's. Otani also hit his 38th home run league leading. I think it had been two weeks since he. He hit a home run. So good job by Otani.

Blue Jays. You got to win that series against the Angels. Rangers or Mariners play two out of three. Mariners take two out of three from the Rangers and the Tigers sweep the Orioles. That's your AOL recap. Hmm. Can I start with the Tigers? Go.

Yeah, sure. Kind of funny business down there. Miggy hits $4.99. They're in Baltimore. They say he's going to play. Everyone's like, why not just sit him on a weird day? he can hit his 500th in Detroit. Turns out everyone was right.

And who's the manager there? Hinch. Hinch was like, oh, yeah, we are actually going to sit him. So he'll be back in Detroit. 500 home runs, one swing away. 3,000 hits on the horizon for Miggie. I think he's at 2950 right now. I mean, think about those numbers, peoples.

500 Jimmy Jacks, 3,000 hits. That's a joke, dude. So shout out Miggie Cabs. Pretty crazy. Just doing it. forever. Mariners win two out of three, but they're on a slow walk to out of it, if not already.

They're four and a half games back, Jim. Of what? Wild card. I had some people... We can't kill them yet. We can't kill them. I had some people talking about someone... I forget.

The division to me is different. Four and a half games out of division. You probably have a lot of games. against those teams. The wild card, you need to be closer because you don't play the, unless you're playing the team you're chasing, like the Padres and the Dodgers for home field. But, you know, the Mariners, who are they chasing in the wild card?

It's the Blue Jays, the Red Sox, the Yankees, the Yankees. And the A's. So, like, if it was just them and the A's... But they're six and a half back of the A's. There's six and a half back of the A's. So they're out. You got to... If you don't have games, for me, like Paul O'Neill, like I said yesterday,

always says if you're five games out, but you play the team. What if I've got some good news for you? Then you're in it, but what, they're playing all those teams? Three against Toronto this weekend. Okay, well, then I'll wait until those are gone. But the wild card, you need to be closer than the division to still have faith in my mind because you play teams in the division a lot. Yeah, it's either that or you run off 10 in a row, nine in a row.

Yeah. You can do that too. And this team's capable of that. I love what J.P. Crawford's doing it short. Marco Gonzalez with a couple good starts to kind of get his season back in line. He was getting roughed up this year. No, I mean what Jimmy's saying is like this was a movie saying. The Seattle Mariners, you know, they're sword fighting and they're starting to back up to the cliff.

And hey, if they start going nuts and start whirling birding everyone and chopping heads off, Yeah, you can dance, but otherwise there's a lot of bodies there. So we'll see what happens, Mariners. Keep fighting. Make us talk about you. I was going to say Kelnick, has he gotten it going? I saw him hit some homers, but then you look at his numbers. He has not got it gone. I'm starting to think baseball's tough, man.

It's definitively better than that first time he was up, but that's a low bar. Kellnick, Duran. All these young guys, it takes a little while to adjust, man. Everyone's built different. Yeah, I just did like just his second stint so far. I'm not even going to do it. Who cares? He's a rookie.

He deserves more time. He's a rookie end of that. He's 22 years old. What else we got? Texas stinks. Orioles stink. Good job, Tigers. Tigers jumped in a second place.

They passed Cleveland. That's crazy. Let's go. Blue Jays. They have some pitching. I would have liked the Blue Jays to win that Angel series. Obviously, as a Yankees fan, I'm fine with them, not being as competitive as they are,

but they're really, really good, and I don't know, one more win puts them tied with the Yankees and the wildcard. Now, they're not that far out, but, you know, the Angels, Otani's really good. It's kind of a bummer they ran into Babe Ruth on Game 4. You got Otanid and a double header that they split. So when you break it up like that, it makes a little more sense.

Man, some of their dudes, Manoa keeps rolling. Bichette's at a couple games. and Vizio supposedly on his way back. So, you know, that's a couple guys that they would have like to have there. But, yeah. Manoa's one of those guys. They need to go lock him up.

Thick. Oh, I like that. Go lock him up. Get him cheap. I mean, that sucks for me to say that as a player because I don't want anyone to get cheaped out of anything. But, dude, go offer this guy. I don't know what.

30 mil for five, six years, whatever the hell you want to do? Sure. You know, you tick it up whatever the average for a good starting pitcher is. Take your chance is the point. Like, that's, if you're not one of the big boys who are going to have a $200 million payroll every year, why not, man? He looks legit.

He was a legit prospect. I'll tell you why. Because, you know, if the CBA wasn't coming up, you just buy out his arbitration at around 10 per. like the nice thing. Oh, you don't have to do 10 per. That's too much. I mean, that's not really what I'm talking about.

Well, that's what they do. They would wait a couple years. They're not going to extend him right now. I'm not going to extend a pitcher in the first three years of it. Usually they wait and then they do the Dobnack, the Seve thing. And they say, hey, we'll buy out the next four years of your controlled years, arbitration years, 10 million per. But with the CBA coming up, they're not going to offer him anything until they figure out

what the next couple years look like. Take a chance. Not the high school dance. Yeah. Did Stripling go to the IL? Sure did. That's a bummer for them. Bummer.

Aaron. They don't necessarily need him. I know he's been okay, but they have four legit starters right now. I think were they six men in it for a little bit? So that's kind of the risk you just run this season. Yeah, I don't know. Burrios had a bad game. He gives up six earned.

but Manoa Matt's had a He goes 4.2 But only two earned Manoa's kind of their dude The A's not fucking around Well yeah seven in a row Dude

Where they at? Oakland Yeah seven in a row I kind of A we're scheduled pod They played Cleveland They beat Cleveland in Cleveland Good

That's what you're supposed to do Man they're sneaking up on those stroes again and I did not think that conversation was going to come into play, especially, you know, tracking the wild cards so closely. You know, you saw Oakland like it was a thing, you know, Boston fell behind Oakland and the other teams were sneaking up on Boston, so you wondered what it was looking like. Man, good for Oakland.

They are a game and a half back of the Houston Astros, two in the loss column. I assume they're going to have some against them coming. Oakland's got a schedule pod. Oakland's got a tough stretch. They do finish end of the year. They're going to have six versus Houston, so keep it within four, but they got a schedule coming up.

Well, they got Texas the next series. Texas, then White Sox, San Fran, Mariners, Yankees, Tigers, Blue Jays, White Sox. I think they're better than all those teams except for the White Sox. San Fran. forgot you said San Fran Okay

Yeah Seems like a split series to me One and a half out Imagine if the Astros had to go to the wildcard Not gonna happen I would not bet against that happening I know the Astros are banged up right now too But

It's close It's real I almost think Yeah Whatever Astros will be in the CS And if you bet against that You're stupid Yeah kind of

It's been happening kind of Boston and the race Boston thinks they got game one Ray's put up four runs Boston wins game two handedly and I don't want to like take away from that win it's nice but if you look at the box scores

it's very clear the race were very willing to punt that game they must have been down what's that once they went down they must have been out of pitchers kind of like what the Yankees are doing with Heaney and all teams do it with someone at some point because you look at the box score and they let Fleming give up 10 earned.

And this is the race. Wear it, kid. The rays change pitchers. If the wind blows a new direction, they say, oh, dude, you're on fire, but the wind just went from northwest to southeast, so we're taking you out. Sorry about your no hitter.

We're playing the wind today. Like the rays, they don't let pitchers die. and they let Josh Fleming die. So kudos to the Red Sox because if you lost this game when the Rays were, by and large, ready to forfeit, that'd be bad. How'd you get the win? I said this to you on the way back yesterday because, you know, this was a big series for Boston. You know, they just had what they thought was their worst loss,

the George Springer home run to blow that final game and lose 9 to 8. They follow that up by blowing a game to the raise, which that turned into their worst loss. I think they were up four to two in the eighth, and then they find themselves down eight to four in the ninth. And the raise just raided. I think old backup catcher Frankie Mejia with the big game buster, and that's obvious if you're the raise. And then, yeah, they basically punk game too. And then I said it, we did a little field trip yesterday.

I was like, I bet the rays win by one today. Boston's going to be sitting there sitting on their hands like, didn't we dominate this series? We basically won game one. We killed them game two. And then the race, they ended bullying them in game three, too. And if you're Boston, you have the Orioles this weekend. You gotta go to work.

Chris Sale coming back. There's rumor Schwabo might be on the way back. So handle your business against Baltimore. Yes. has the big hit, the backup catcher. Renfra bobbles it and right, but big hit in the ninth inning. And then the next ninth inning, he's on the mound. Giving up six earned. Ain't that it? Treve, I did laugh. I know we already talked to Oakland A's, you mentioned Jed Lowry's going to have like a big playoff double the series before. And then I opened their box score on Monday or Tuesday night.

And he had the game winning go ahead double in the 10th inning. And I was just like, yeah, okay, Disco Jed still got it. We've danced around our Yankees and Royals. Jim, you summed it up well in the thing. That first game was absolute chaos, zeros on the board through six, and then every reliever that came in gave up a run through the 11th inning. You know, some ghost runners got involved during the Manfred times, but an absolutely wild game.

And Yankees continued to need to win series, and they do. not always the prettiest still but they're a conversation point again and they lose more people to COVID yeah yeah Gary you guys want to play Greg Cole cracking you want to play the game real quick

Who? What What? What? The Jed Lowry game 71 got my headphones and that seems a lot I hate to kind of cut you off a little bit and I don't fully believe it but

BBDs here. I'll go 69 on the nose. Ooh. You guys are both heavy. I felt like mine was way to my. What is it? 58. 58 mill. Although this year they don't, they have listed as 100,000. I know he's in a minor league deal. Probably making a mill this year, so I'll give him 59.

Okay. And all his endorsements, that gets him up to 591. I love me since I have that. Disco, Jed. Sexual. Sexual. This is this 13th year in the show. That's awesome. Jake, can you let us know what happened in the interleague players?

You serious, Clark? Yeah, I'd really like to know. Kind of. I kind of hate it. Well, there was a huge makeup game. The game everyone is talking about. Cleveland hosted Cincinnati's O-H-I-O. Are you kidding me?

And what a game it was. Luis Castillo, I've been giving so much love to, because he turned it around. He gets rocked. How's your eight Ernie's and 3.1? He'd been great. His previous 10 starts, Jose Ramirez Trev's future, Brave with the two-homer game, two-home run and a triple. Wow, Ahmed Rosario, he gets a triple. That's fun. Wilson Ramos, old dick, as people are calling him, with a two-run yacker. Cleveland wins that game nine to three, and then my, Rocks went to H-town, John Boys, H-town, How's Your Pignada? And that's kind of what the Rockies were.

5-0-0-0-1. Oda Rizzy, ooh, he's so rich, Trevor. And Framber Alert, Framber Valdez, he does it too. How's your 0-82 ERA from the starters, relievers with seven shutout innings while the Astros hit 313 as a team. They good. And that's the interlead. Nice.

A nice tidy interleague. Where they go, gay. And we kind of talked about all those teams ready, so I don't think we need to do much. Tidy, tidy, tidy, tidy, tidy. So it is time for, where's that funky loop I have? Play that funky. Oh. Yep.

Time for this is the new soundtrack for it. It's BPD, Stimulation, simulation. Are you ready? I can't. I don't know. Wow. Are you ready? It's a whole new playoffs this time.

We've got some things changing. In the American League wildcard, Boston is heading. They're flying all the way to Oakland for a one game series. BD, who wins that one game? Oakland. Wow. Okay. The White Sox are going to Houston.

This is the same as it's been. It's the old manager's bowl. Who's winning White Sox or Houston five games set? Oh, no, it's Houston. Oh. They go over to the season. They go to the ALCS. Yeah, they go to the CS.

You just said you're an idiot if you don't pick that. In the DS, you have Oakland. Now they hosted Boston. They fly to the cross of the country and they take on Tampa Bay for a five-game series. Who wins that one? Oakland. Wow. That's a crazy ALCS.

You have Houston and Oakland division rivals in the American League championship series. And who wins that? Houston. Houston. Houston. Wow. In the World Series. All right.

The NL, the wild card game. We still have the Padres flying all the way to L.A. to face Walker Bueller in the wildcard game. Dodgers. Yeah. Walker Bueller. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. You got Philly. Philly. First time they're in the stimulation. They're going to Milwaukee for a one game set. And they are... It's the Brewers. Yeah, it's the Brewers.

It's the Brewers. Brewers. Wow. The DS, the Dodgers after winning the one-game wild card, will fly up north to the Bay Area and take on the San Francisco Giants. Who wins that? Giants. Okay, so your NLCS is the Milwaukee Brewers versus the San Francisco Giants.

And who's going to the World Series? Wow, Brewers. Wow. What a team. So it is the Milwaukee Brewers versus the Houston. Astros. It's not the best marketability. But who wins? I can't get over that rotation,

Brewers. Wow. That is the first time the Milwaukee Brewers have won the Stimulation Simulation Playoffs. Great job by them. Milwaukee Brewers

World Series champs August 11th simulation. Is it 12th now? Or is it still 11th? is the 13th. Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th. Great job, BBD. Um, that's their first one, yeah. Was that, uh, Res? Yeah, that was Res. Ooh, that was, Res would hate that, but there's Res tones in there. I'm, I'm like a huge Res fan, so I knew

that she would hate that. Bro, you would dig. At a Res concert, you'd be like, yo. All right. which is good. I'm into it. Let's go to the second half of the show where we shout out some of the individual performances, and this is brought to you by Farm to Fame. Farm to Fame is a show on the network. Former Big League pitcher Peter Moylin

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and super behind the scenes insight into what it's like being traded as a minor leaguer. Up until like who calls you first, the team that traded you, the team that's getting you, and who's calling you from those teams? And like all that info that I am super curious about, just like the ins and outs of that. So they had an interview with him. They go, their episodes are released every Wednesday morning on the John Boy Media Baseball channel, J.M. Baseball and everywhere else that you listen to your favorite podcast, You can stay up to Instagram and Twitter by following Farm to Fame underscore.

That's a great account for your baseball fan. They do an absolute wonderful job highlighting these rookies and these young guys and even minor leagues. Like you're going to see cool minor league plays that not a lot of other places are really highlighting. So shout out the Farm to Fame. They are bringing you the standout performances. Standout performances. Who played the best. Yeah.

And we had some confusion in the YouTube comments last episode. Standout performance is a single game performance. In Fuego is you had a great series. Standout a single game. It started as just pitchers, and it was very hard for hitters to make it. But Jake and Treve have found some hitters they like these days. But usually it's got to be like a big, big day at the plate. Treve, you go first.

Who's your standout performance? Speaking of big days at the plate, my guy, Lewis Brinson. I want to call him Louis. I think Louis is a good nickname for him. Louis Frensen goes three B. With two freaking Jimmy Jacks, three RBIs, and he threw a walk in there for good measure. Why did I pick Brinson?

One reason and one reason only. He just switched representation and is now represented by my buddy, Ollie Linton at CAA shout. Ollie. You try drums in my band. Now he's doing big things at CAA. So shout out Louis for having a good game. And shout out Ollie because you're just the goat.

Also the all the good, the home runs and stuff. Yeah, whatever. It's my standout performance. His nickname, according to the baseball reference, is Bryn Diesel. We like that. We do like that.

And look, he's having a good year at the plate. Hasn't found that stroke. He's 27 years old. Things are kind of coming to him this year. Maybe he's found something late bloomer Come on briny If he uh he was like

The biggest piece in the yelly deal So I know our guy foolish baseball's been all over that if And I you know I love putting guys in the they figured it out late bucket I know BBD was getting the mix on the internet with some of that If Lou Brew figured it out at 27 awesome and hey let's uh He would expedite the marlins 22 season uh He's 6-5. He's a big boy, huh?

6-5. His last 10 games, 432 batting average 1.340 OPS. So he's on a 10-game heater right now. Pop to Ryan Weathers twice. Good for him. Maybe he can get that Byron Buxton offensive game going. Don't worry too much about the walks. When you hit it, drive it, and let's go. That's kind of what his stats are looking like.

Good job, Bryn Diesel. My standout performer is Waino. Adam Wainwright. I know we said the Cardinals are dead or whatever, but my mom actually texted me a Jack Flaherty tweet. And she said, are these teammates fighting? Or is this a beef between teammates? Because Jack Flaherty quote tweeted Waino's stats and said,

or quote, treated a picture of Waino and said, this guy's a joke. I was like, no, no, mom, she means. She means he's so good that it's laughable. But what he's doing at age 39 is crazy. He's got a 3-2-7 ERA on the season. He's got a 263 ERA in the last 13 starts in this game that he's receiving the standout performance where he went nine innings pitched against the Pirates. I get it.

But still, nine innings pitch, zero earned runs, two hits, both by Colin Moran. And the first one was not a hit. and the scorekeeper, I got huge bugaboo with you because there's a little unwritten rule of scorekeeping that says the first one's got to be a real one and this was not a real one. It was a comebacker, one hopper right into Wano's glove that he missed and it should have just been an error on Wano

and I'm sure he'd be like, yeah, give me the error and not the hit. I should have had him out. So come on, scorekeeper. First one's got to be a real one. Should have been a one hitter because the next one was real. So good job by Waino. he's old and they're just going to sign him for another year

unless he wants to retire into the sunset because he's just still doing it love it hot shout out we know i love uh i always love a when a guy bucks uh you know the traditional trend wano you know great career 34 35 36 he gets hit around the park a lot and he's bounced back for three seasons and he looks gross out there

and Jerry Blevins, Shea Station. Shout out. New show on the network. Go check that out. Mets fans or baseball fans. He got the Twitter effect a little bit. He's like, Wayno's going to be top three, Sy Young this year. And then he replied to himself.

He's like, maybe top five. I looked around a little bit, maybe top five. And that actually segues into my standout performer a little bit. He was my dark horse before the season, tasting players and tasting. tasting myself at the same time as one of my favorite activities. And Mr. Burns. Disgusting. Corbyn Burns.

How's your MLB record? 10 straight punchies? Is that good? It's really good. His final stat line, eight innings pitch, zero earn, run. 15Ks. Picture you watch a starting pitcher have an eight-strike-out game. That's pretty good.

Picture, watch the starting pitcher have a seven-year-old. strikeout game. That's also pretty good. I combine that. And one day at the office, Corbyn Burns is gross. Jim, I'll give you a couple Johnboy stats. What if I told you he had 14 starts of one earn runner less? That's good. Only two of those starts are in the five-inning range. What if I told you, Corbyn Burns leads the National League in

strikeouts per nine walks per nine FIP Fielding independent pitching Did I say home runs per nine He runs allowed He leads in that as well How would you rank those four

I bet mine's drastically different than I mean I think FIP is important And that ties in the K per nine Walk per 9 stuff Not allowing homers Really important too But yeah And if you're a baseball savant person

go check out Corbyn Burns It looks like he was made in a lab A lot of 100s And 99s and 98th Expect a IRA chase rate All of it He's gross And again, that top three

In the brew crew rotation right now Pick ya poison Cutter Jump the cutter up to 52% It's crazy The Brewers might have made him in a lab I don't know This might be the reddest I've ever seen a savant page

Oh it's a good savot page Issa gus savant page Can't believe you haven't directed you here before Sorry Okay Trev see you later Do I want to go? Should I stay? We're trying to go quick You're gone See ya

We're going quick BPD we had five guys on slump watch We had Carlos Santana Pete Alonzo Patrick Wisdom, Colton Wong, Mike, Stramski. Some of those guys, I think, are coming off. Who might be coming on? I think someone already coming off with big claps and the guys potentially going on, biggest offers of the week.

The first two guys, Jose Ramirez and Fran Mill Reyes, they go 0 for 11 and 0 for 9, respectively. A couple walks each. Those don't include the makeup series because I don't care about that. Those are the games against the A's. Josh Bell goes 0 for 9, 2Ks. Max Kepler goes 0 for 10 with a walk. 2Ks and Eric Haas, who is July

rookie of the month. O for 9, 3 walks, 4Ks. Wow. All right. Jay, can you walk us through who's coming off? Uh-huh. Jim, let's start with the biggest of claps. The polar bear.

Pete Alonzo goes 6 for 12. Homers, 3 doubles, the walk-off. Good job, big fella. He's off. Patrick Wisdom. This was one I was really excited for. Talk about a guy who could be potentially a late bloomer. He's been having a great year for the Cubs. He had a bad week.

Got me nervous. He goes four for 11, two Jimmy Jacks, four ribbits. Not actual ribbons. We've come a long way from those, but maybe later this year. We'll see. Against the Brewers, too. But, definitely, like, as big as you can snap. Colton Wong, my fashion coach.

3 for 13 doesn't jump off at you, Jim, but he got on base at a 375 clip. And that's what Colton Wong's supposed to do with 3 doubles. So when he did hit him, they counted. Colan Wong punishes him. You're off. And then Yazur, this is a tight one because it's few at bats, but 2 for 7 with a walk, couple RBIs. That's kind of all you can ask.

And Jim, I think now we're getting to the math portion of Slump Watch, I've got one guy I don't want to add, and I think Carlos Santana stays because he threw up in 0 for 11. I think Max Kepler just been bad. Like Fran Mill's been hitting dingers. Jose Ramirez is a stud. Eric Haas, again, having a huge rookie year. And Josh Bell was hitting a bunch of homers last I checked.

So I like those four. I'd be open to a debate between Bell and Yazs, just because. Yeah, Bell. Yeah, exactly. And Josh Bell isn't a free agent. He's got another year left of arbitration and all that. And they traded for him, so they're not going to, like, non-tender him or anything. So, like, I don't know.

If Josh Bell is a little not motivated right now, I don't care. He's had a little teeter point in his season right now. I mean, 767 OPS. He's probably going to get 8 mil next year. I don't know. I'll let you roll. I got my thoughts out there. In Josh Bell's 10 games before these three, his numbers were good.

946 OPS 287. So I'll put Bell on there because I'm being nice to him. I want him. Right. Get paid. Want him to get clapped off. Have the Nats keep you next year. Yeah, he has had a 375 OBP.

We'll take you ass off. and we'll put J-Ram, F-ray, J-Bell, and I-Has on. E-Has. As they're known in the clubhouse. Yes. Okay, Trevor. Y-Has. Welcome back to the show.

I-Has-Met D-Jo. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. In fuego. Luis Jureas went eight for 12 with two. homers. Louis Brinson. Trev told you about him.

Anthony Santander. He goes five for 11, the height that I will one day be with three homers, four rebis, and a hit by pitch. Joey Votto, what are his numbers looking like in this stretch as he started hitting homers? Can you butter knife those for me, BPD?

If you have a second, very interested. In this series, Joey Vada goes six for 11, two homers, 6.43 on base percentage. Lord, it's good. Junior, five for nine with two homers, hot. Brandon Lau, five for 11, two homers, two doubles, four Rieyes, two walks. Jace Peterson, wow, great to hear.

Seven for 11 with a homer. Is he playing every day, Jase? What's he up to? Everyday Jase? Because that's a great... I think it's just Brewers Witchcraft. When he plays, he wins the game if he doesn't, it's fine. I'm happy that he's like got a home.

Yeah. Because if you told me back like from 2017, 2018, Chase Peterson, if he just, you know, I don't know. Pete Alonzo, six for 11 home run, three doubles, a hit by pitch, tons of smiles. Hunter Renfro, 5 for 12, Homer, three doubles and seven RBIs. Did you have? Yeah, I have Joey Votto stats that I think of appropriately butter. And I came back from the break with a series against the brewers that I kind of don't care. care about.

And from then on, they played the Mets. 22 games since then, 14 homers in 22 games. Batting at a 3-786 batting average of the 1.416 OPS, 5 doubles, 32 RBIs in those 22 games, 13 walks. How much do you, are you on his game locks page? So from that Brewer's, what was his slash line at the end of the Brewer Series after the break? At the end of that Brewer Series first series after the break, he was at 249 with a 789 OPS. 249, 789.

That's Chase Peterson line, not a Joey Votto line. So what's it at now after the 22 games? Today he's up to 285-9-57. So he went from 22 games, he went from a bad season, if your name is Joey Votto, to a Joey Votto season, if your name is Joey Votto at this age.

His season numbers are great. Not to be the Butterknife King. You know, I've, I grew up in butterknife. You want to go from the home or barrage? Well, Jake wasn't allowed to have steak knives allowed by him. Jim, what if I told you? Yeah. April 12th.

That's what, the start of the year? 12 days after. The first three series, if you take those out, the first three series. Mm-hmm. Joey Votto, one dot 034 OPS. For the whole season? Take out the first three series. And he's got MVP numbers.

His last 77 games. Good for him. Joey V. Good for him. Okay. Trague, you laughed? I got a, my, uh, my standout, I told you was Louis Brinson, did my friend Ollie. He's now representing.

It's not, it's not him, so. Shout out Louis. Ollie's not representing him. No, he's not. It's a different person. Completely different person. So, still shout out Ollie.

Still shout out, Prince. Love sharing. It's me. Love sharing. I don't know if you need to cut that out or something, but. You just did. No,

so retroactive. You cleared the air on that. Yeah. I just got him. I'm proud of you for coming. I don't know he was 6'5, so shout out that. Yeah. Okay.

No. Yeah. He's not good. He's fabulous. Hmm. Why did no one correct me in the chat? Where are you at, chat? Why would they know his representation?

I don't know. Talking about one of your close friends. You're in a band with. I took your word for it. We were leaning on you there. Oh, dude, it's been a while a couple days from me. I'll say that. All right.

I'm back. I'm back, though. Chat on name those guests. I'll taste other dudes. Yeah. All right. Trev, you are up with your award. It's me.

Well, you already kind of spoiled this. Also, I'm going with the OK Peter Award. You know, before this last series against the nationals, Pete came and held the press conference saying, everybody smiled and we're playing baseball, then we're going to do this and we're going to do that. And I roasted them a little bit. I said nobody wants to hear that in New York, dude.

Nobody wants to hear smile. Like, go. Actions are what matter. Pete, that's what matters. Don't sit up here and preach to us. Well, he said, okay, Coach Trev, you want some action. Went six for 12, four extra base hits, two homers. They sweep the gnats, three games in a row.

I know they got the Dodgers coming in. I know he's got a tall task ahead of him. But if I'm going to sit up here and talk a little bit of crap to your polar bear Pete, I better sit up here and also say congratulations for, you know, backing up your words. A lot of times guys will say stuff and not back it up. Pete backed it up. So shout out P. Okay, Peter Award goes to you today.

And I want to see him continue it. Pure Pete. I want to see them go all the way. I don't want to see them get out of the race after these 13 games. No, me neither. I want those to go down to the end. Yeah. I think his nickname should be pure Pete.

I know it's Polar Bear, but he's just so pure. Yeah. He said all that stuff. He believed it. And he meant it. And, well, it's three games. And it's really good to do it right away. West Coast Street's doing it.

It's a little daunting, but they'll walk off. So pure Pete. They needed these games. He walked it. And that's why whenever we talk Pete, I get the Rye smile and I shake my head a little bit because it's so natural and it's, you know, I think he went back to the reporters. They interviewed him after the walkoff and he said, you know, he had a kind of a coy line like, you know, baseball's fun.

Like kind of going back to that, you know, enjoy watching whenever we're playing baseball. And it's like, you're kind of a low-key sick puppy and you have no idea, Peter. What a stud. There you are, Peter. Ali rep him? Ollie doesn't rep him. Do you want me to tell you who it is? Yeah.

Taylor Trammell. Taylor Tram. That's right. I think you told me this over the weekend. I want to put this on the soundboard just to let you guys know. Okay. you are Peter Yeah

I like that Remind me it's from Hook Oh yeah you are Peter It is you Peter Pan's a weird story But whatever An angel Bringing a bunch of kids to heaven

That's weird do you Always land here Yeah I don't want to think about kids Going to heaven Sorry You'd rather them go Live a life on earth Good answer

Great answer. A great answer. Strong answer. Thanks. Am I? You got one? Of me. I'm up.

Yeah, it's a Hardin Hustle Award. Rich Hill laid down a bunt and just ran to first base. And if you haven't seen it, you need to see it. And I mean, it's half a joke because it looks hilarious. And it's half not a joke because it's like there's no reason at all that Rich at 40 years old needs to be laying down a bun. I don't think it was safe and running that hard down the line. I almost think like the Mets coaches were like, dude, like, no, don't need it.

But heart and hustle, some things you can't teach and sometimes you can't unteach, you know? Hard to unlearn heart as much it is to teach it, Treff. Rich Hill's just a competitor. You put him between the white lines. He'll dinosaur run his ass all over that field. Dinosaur run? Did you see it? I watched it.

I didn't get the dinosaur. Looks to me like a little... Like a... Like an unbalanced. What's the bumbling, fumbling fools of the dinosaur world, whatever that dinosaur was? Man, if I'm sprinting like that at 41... Looking better than me now, probably. What a win.

There's a lot of comments that looks like he's going 30 miles per hour and two miles per hour at the same time. I don't know. originally said that but it's pretty good i met um rich at a twins fest when i went up and just said hi he had just signed there um i didn't say my name i was like hey rich how are you doing you know he had no idea who i was for sure he he acted nice and we talked and we had a nice conversation but when i left i bet you he was like you don't know that guy one of those interactions shout out ollie good story jake do you have an award I do. I do. I am giving out the missed flight award.

Missed flight award. If anyone's ever missed a flight, you step up to the desk, you say, so what can we do? How can you get me where I got to go? And then they start running through it, and they're like, well, you know, we can connect you through Pittsburgh, and then you'll take a flight, and that'll get you to Denver. or oh, well, we can get you, we'll get you in Nashville, Tennessee, and then you'll go to Seattle straight from there. Jim, I think our guy, BBD, missed a flight. He thought he was supposed to connect through Philly.

For that infield, they shot him down to Atlanta. The Atlanta Braves infield. The Braves are back in the mix, people. What a weird brain you have. What are you guys doing? What's going on in Atlanta? What's their identity at them? this point. No Ozuña, no Okunya, you know, Soroki, he's out. What's the identity of these Atlanta Braves?

Jim, I figured it out. This Braves infield, you'd love this, Jim. Austin Riley, Freddie Freeman, Dansby Swanson, Ozzy Albies, all 113-plus games played. There are four Braves with 400 plus at bats. There are four Braves with 300 plus at bats. It's those four guys around the horn. They all combined to have a nine and a half war. It's better than the Phillies infield. Sorry, BPD. I know you're getting a lot of shrapnel right now.

Do you need to account for the catcher position? Even when you add real mootoh, it doesn't add up. BPD. Ronald Terreas is coming forth in war for the Phillies infield right now. Ozzy Albies, Dansby Swanson, Freddie Freeman, Austin Riley. They all have 20-plus homers. Your Yanks only have one guy with 20-plus homers, Jim. The Atlanta Braves infield is what kept them together through this.

Those guys are playing almost every day. Ozzie Albee is trying to sneak into the Jam all baseball team at second base. Peter Moyland texting me and Jim saying, is Danesby a top 10 shortstop? We say, I don't know, Peter. There's a lot of pretty good short stops, dude. Look around the league. And he says, yeah, you're right.

But he's kind of around that tier, right, near the end? Sure, man, whatever you need to hear. Young Thick having the breakout year and Freddie Freeman back up to Freddie Freeman's stats, the Miss Flight Award. Can you unravel how you got from... Did it start with you wanted to talk about the Braves' infield? I wanted to see what was going on with the Braves. And then I saw, like when you look at their stats page, it clearly jumps out.

The games played, the at-bats. their stats, everything they're doing, it's all the Braves Infield. So then I thought Braves infield, Philly's Infield, how do I collect connect Philadelphia and Atlanta? I almost tried to do a math pod where I was going to say like the wrong division, something like that. But yeah, I landed on the Miss Flight Award.

Beautiful. We should take at the end of the year, take a look at all of our draft and see what, comes up with Bryce Harper at first, BPD? Should you slide him there? Illegal. I mean, the numbers before and after being exposed

the first base position. Say Peter Moylan in an Australian accent. Peter Moylan. Dude, that the John Boy breakdown Peter Moyland's first walk is a must watch if only to see the hair

he was growing on his chin to try to be a hot boy. Unreal. God. Yeah, he texted me back, or he texted me when it went out and just said, I fucking love you. Did you watch that, Trev? I didn't see that. When did that come out? Yesterday.

Did he know you were going to do that? Well, yeah, because I texted him. I thought, I remembered you would talk to the other, you would reach out to the other guy. Yeah, I reached out to the pitcher. I don't think he ever responded. Sean Gallagher. I couldn't remember if you talked about it. It was his debut.

and he walks Moylan and then Moylan drills him. I was just like, hey, making a video on this, you remember anything? He didn't respond. Same farm to fame guy we mentioned earlier. Kelsey Winger. I'm watching right now. Oh, nice. Anything else we need to do?

Two more else's. Best friend? My God. Yeah, best friend. Oh, who's the best friend? It's the second time receiving a Yankee bias. It's JMO. It's his second best friend award.

He has earned it. He goes six innings, no earn. He's the one run was unearned. 4Ks, four hits. Walker Bueller and Gibby are the only other pitchers with multiple best friend awards. Tion ZRA being down to 382. Go check out that game log. Game logs.

Shout out J-M. I liked him, man. You met him. Good dude. He's been... Love J-Mow. The parking lot times. He's been...

Sarasota Parkland. Things are changing now. It was our parking lot friend. He was all hobbled, remember? He had the, like, the kneel, like, you know, put your knee on it thing. That makes sense. People know what I'm talking about.

Yeah. The scooter. A knee brace? Scooter. It was a scooter. It was like rolling around, all cool. Cool and sexy. My gosh, we've come a long way, guys.

I love it. Let's tell us. Hello there, talk. Yeah, let's do it. What team do you guys want to talk about? Doesn't matter. The wheel decides. I'm going to guess the Royals.

Wow. Like guessing the wheel. I'm going reds. If you find yourself in an elevator with a person who is wearing this hat, oh no. Came up Texas Rangers. Yeah, let's talk to Texas. Texas Rangers.

Let's talk about it. That guy, he chose. He said, you know what? I'll take another. Is it a gag gift. Oh, the Reds. I feel like we talk about the Reds all the time. I think they got over my guess.

Third, final spin. Final spin. FIFA spin. The wheel decides. The Tigers. Tigers, do we do them? We talk a lot of baseball teams on this show. Well, we do two a week, so.

Hey, we got second place. You know what they did that we can talk about? They locked up scope. And he said that he wanted to be nowhere else but Detroit. I think he went to, I think he's Boris. And I think he said, hey, well, this is where I want to sign in the off season. So just do it now. And Scopes locked up for two more seasons after this, which is very happy for him

because he's been hunting one-year deals, it feels like, for four years. And I remember, I think it was my brother-in-law was like, why does no one sign this guy? Like, he's not, like, comparably around the league. He's, like, got stuff to offer. Why is he only get one-year? your deals. Seems like he wants to be in Detroit. They want to have him.

He signs a two-year deal with them. So, I mean, that's what you say in the elevator. Like, hey, you know what? This Scope guy wants to be here. That makes me like him. It is kind of crazy. He hasn't commanded it a longer-term deal. Yeah, it's odd, right?

31, so far, 31.6. And now he's got those two extra on top. I think there's a way to chop up his stats a little bit that, Jonathan's scope, like we're talking about, I mean, second baseman never had power in baseball, like literally ever until this era of baseball. And I think if his numbers and Rugi Odors' numbers are in like baseball history as some of the most home runs from a second baseman.

If you're in that elevator, you're talking about one thing. It's not Jonathan Scope. I apologize. You can bring it up secondary. It's McGee Caps chasing down 500. That's a good one too. It's all watching. You go into the game.

You watch it. You think it's tonight, all that good shit. I'm glad they're doing it in Detroit. It sounds like you'd probably be talking about the pitching, too. These guys have showed up. They're here a year too early. Ooh. Wish they would have came.

That's what I would be saying. Wish they would have showed up next year. Get that draft pick. Now, not so hot. I don't even need the draft pick. You know who's leading the team. Scope is a low-key, thick boy, too. Yeah.

Leading the team in Wartrev, your boy. Grossie? man fuck the girl Jake sucks Trevor against Rich Hill O for one with a hit by pitch

What The out The out's a line out All called strike Called strike foul It's goddamn I'm gonna put this out there If I face Jerry Blevins

10 times To be a 400 career hitter Oh my god What's up Jerry You're saying the same thing about you