Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 378 | Tatis & Sale Return + Tyler Gilbert's No-Hitter

Episode Date: August 16, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. The baseball happened. The teams played. Games were won. Games were lost. Players played their hardest. We're going to talk all about it. And welcome to talking baseball.

Brought to you by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us today as we recap the weekend that was in a major league baseball. My name is Jimmy. Sitting next to me is young Jake in California. we have Trevor Plouf and behind the dish producer BBD. We are all wearing different colors today on our chests. Jake and Trev are wearing the same color hat. This episode of Talkin' Baseball is brought to you by our most recent patrons,

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Trevor, how are you doing? How was your weekend? What's up? James, Jacob, big, big dong. Everybody in the chats. I'm doing great, man. Happy to be back. You know I love Monday episodes.

Is it Monday? It is Monday. I love Monday episodes. I'm in a great mood. I had a good weekend. We did Legoland. We did this little hotel down in San Diego. Good times, man.

Nice little family weekend, but also some good baseball. A couple of my friends did some really cool stuff in the major leagues. You guys ever heard of that? Yeah. But that's it, man. I'm excited to talk about it. What about you, Jacob? How are you doing?

Trevor, James, big baby David, everyone in the chat. D-backs in the chat right now. Let's go serbientes. I'm doing well. I had a nice little family, a weekend. Saw my nephew, aunt and uncle up from Florida. August, a big birthday month in the family. Saw pops.

Watched a lot of baseball, a lot of yanks running off of the field of dreams game. So that was a good time in the salad. side and baseball continually hot in the street. BPD's Red Sox with a big week, a necessary weekend. And man, that Tatis guys back. Like, baseball's just constantly caliente in Los Galles. Pretty good. Thank you.

Shout out Zendino. Zendino the great in the chat, always. And everyone, T. Back it up. Jim? I'm good. Yep. I have a headache in the back of my neck right now. I don't know how that happens. That's not a headache, but whatever.

Ooh, interesting. Depends where on the neck, to be fair. I mean, it's a neck ache. That would... Where you're pointing is your head. It's the head part of your neck. It's like where it connects. That's where I get majority of my headaches, right here.

Back of the head. Trave, what do you got to say about that? Right here. What's this? Top of the neckache. I don't like that. Looks like right where head meets neck. neck. That's where I get a lot of my headache.

We're head meets necks. Play neck. Yeah. Sounds like a compression in your spine problem. Maybe we need to get you on one of those. You know those like things you lay on and they flip you upside down? I love one of those. Yes.

Yeah. Let's get you one of those. We're getting one in the office. We were, Jake and I, before we even got the office when we were just, it was a two-man company and we were daydreaming about an office. Didn't we daydream about having one of those? Yes. I've wanted one for a while.

And we, I think our idea was that if, If you used it, you had to go on Instagram live for the duration of using it. Like you just had the live streamed yourself being upside down. End of the day. Yeah. Inversion table. Yeah. And version table.

Yeah. But I'm doing good, man. Baseball is awesome. I know this is an MLB pod, but I love the Little League World Series. So I spent all Saturday watching all the regional championship games because they scheduled them out. So it was one after the other, after the other, into the Yankees game. So I was just building furniture around the house. Nice.

Big fan And I haven't been able to watch it I don't know why Well it didn't happen last year Year before that I did watch it So I don't know I love the Little League World Series Starts on last year right

What's that? Canceled last year And this year there's no foreign Countries So there's the top Oh what? Because of COVID So the top two from each region

Are making it to Williamsport Sucks I don't like it I like it Well I don't think they like it either Hands are tight Yeah I get it. I get it. Hey, someone, this comment got deleted in our chat quickly because it was in all capital letters. You guys know you're not allowed to do that. I'm not really sure why, but the moderators do the moderating.

Because Jake and I are dumb and those grab our attention too much, and we don't want the chat to constantly distract us with all caps. That's why there's no all caps allowed. I didn't call you guys dumb. You said that yourselves. I didn't. Alex Verdugo mentioned your paternity video. Is that true? Did he? Well, I don't know. Do he's a fan, so it could have been. It's a dude. He's with us.

Okay. If he did, someone send that my way. I'd like to hear that. Elvis Andrews went on paternity leave, so are we just going to bet the house on him coming back and going nuts? Yep. Dang. Yes.

Treb, did you play Little League? I did not. At the time, like, 11 and 12 years old, I was playing Pony League. So we didn't really have a. there's not like a world series that gets any publicity. Oh, okay. All right. I would have loved to, man.

My Little League did go to the World Series in 94. I think I probably mentioned that before. The Earthquake Kids, Northridge Little League. Yes, yes. That was a very famous team. Yeah, my brother should have been on that team. League politics kept him off. He was 11 years old.

Stud. Shout out, Marsh Face, HD Webb. So he missed his chance. It's a bummer. Kind of sucks. Next year they're revamping the Little League World Series. There's going to be more regions. There's only eight U.S. regions, which is cool for us, Jake,

because it's the metro region and the Mid-Atlantic. So there's going to be a lot. Jake and I want to challenge whoever wins the Mid-Atlantic. Well, it's the Pennsylvania team or Tom's River to Blitzball. They get all of them. Nine v.2. Nine versus two on a Little League field, running the bases, making plays. Me and Jake versus the team.

If anyone listens and knows those teams, this is a serious thing. to reach out to them. We're going to smoke a little. But yeah, it's me and Jake. I've thrown as hard as I can. I hit up Todd. You did? We were ships passing in the night because he was in Bristol, Connecticut,

because he went to go see his nephew playing. I was in Southington, and I was like, oh, shoot. So I was like, hey, shot in the dark. If you're around, I'm actually in Southington. He goes, oh, bro, just cleared out. Lie. He was still there. No, that's not true.

His dad, I made a video of the Tom's River Little League team. And I think it's his dad at the end. It just looks at the camera and just says, going back down the Williamsport. Just cracked me that pound. Matter of fact, it was. Nailed it. All right, let's get into the MLB action.

The NL recap. Jake's batting lead off today. Holy cow. And that's why it's brought to you by Manscape because Jake told us earlier today in the office. Actually, on Weekly Dom. Spoiler, he said that he needs to trim up down there. Yeah, I've let it go for a couple days.

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what happened in the National League. Honestly, please tell me. We are starting in Trevor Plouf's Flushing's Queens. The Mets hosted the Doyers big series. This started their 13 game set. And we're going Buenos Contos free baseball in the first two games. And although that's been bad news for the Dodgers all year, they get the first two and then they win the Sunday night baseball with Max Scherzer on the bump

14 to 4 man oh man this Met stretch did not need to start off with two extra inning losses to the Dodgers fun games man we had a little bit of a laser light show on the field we don't like that people be fans you and me didn't make it to the show Jim and Trevor did uh will Smith with three homers in this set. I think that matched a couple Mets players this year. People were having fun with those stats. Mets, you got to hit better than 163, although Eureas, Bueller, and Scherzer make it really tough too. Tough start for the Mets and DeGrom. Shut down two more weeks. Oh, boy, Mets. Keep your head above the water. Speaking of, Reds and Phillies, a couple teams trying to stay in the mix. And the Reds take two out of three from Trevor's Fills on.

The road. Neither team really hit. Well, the Red's hit with some power. Six homers, but the batting average weren't there. The Red starting pitching had a nice Siri. Papa Molly. I like that. Sunny Gray, football, quarterback. People forget. Castillo with a bounce back from him after his bad day at the office. And Aaron Nola gets punched around a lot. Jesse Winkert aggravates his intercostal strain. Don't make me try to point where that is on the body. He'll be further evaluated today. And Rieser, Hoskins, friend of the pod, supposed to be coming back. But Philly's not happy to drop a set at home. Watch out people, the Atlanta Braves. First place in the NL East that Braves infield. People were talking. And they went off this series. Dansby, how's your four homers?

Albies with a couple yakers. Young, thick, Austin Riley. Guys, I told you about missing your flut. With this Braves infield, everyone. Freddie, Ozzie, Dansby, Youngthick, they each had one daughters for this three-game set. They sweep the lowly nationals. Boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity in Atlanta. And Treves, you know what?

Coming back off the 60 day. Oh, boy. Frieden Morton, quality starts from them. Brewers take two out of three from the Pirates. They split the seven-inning double-diff. Pirates put up a 14 burger in the first game. Good for them. But then they get shut out the second game. Ten Brewers recorded multiple hits. Only Yelly and Adami's with three plus though. Brew crew beat the Pirates. And sometimes it's simple as that for your simple ass. Kid Cuddy, wow, haven't seen him in a minute.

Giants. Los Hippido Hiantes take three out of four from the Rockies. And that's obvious. Giants win because guess what? Starting pitching and relief pitching, both had ERAs and the two. They hit enough. Tommy Lestella's back. Holy smokes, we haven't heard that name in a minute for My Rocks. Marquez, he got knocked around. C.J. Crone, he's still getting some hits. Good for him. Thought he was going to be traded. Wasn't Kyle Freeland with a good start. Colorado's finest. Giants take three out of four. My snakes take three out of four from the Padres. Who's your daddy, San Diego? Diego, Los Serpientes. How's your no-no?

My God. Tyler Gilbert, have a day. How much fun is that? You Darvish gets hurt. Who's your superhero? Fernando Tati's Jr. comes back to Homer Day in his first game back. What a sicko.

But man, the snakes, Madbum. He has a Snell Southpaws in the second game. D-Backs blew him out in the first. Boogity, boogity, boogie-duty. Dalton Farshow. Welcome to the show. How's your walk-off? that and the Florida fish sweep the Chicago Cubs because both these teams kind of stink.

But hey, the fish are at least fun and not dying. And that's the NL recap. If the fish were dying, whole world. Oh, my God. How much would that affect the land world? Ooh. I think we need fish. I think fish are important to the ecosystem.

What if all the fish died? I'll find out. Where all the good fishies go We'd have no sushi, that would suck Oh Yeah, but what would happen to the land The actual animals, like what birds Some birds would die

Probably they eat fish Whoever eats those birds Yeah, that's like a whole like Yeah, bad You get rid of your seagulls Even if like the plankton dies That's bad Does the whole ocean die?

Good news is the fish didn't die They swept So all the fish are still alive According to Marine biologists Just in general Yeah Let's say around 90% of all marine species die

It could very well mean the end of life on Earth As we know it What does as we know it mean? Like would we still be alive? Oh my God That's such an escape word Let's save that for hour two Okay

Let's save that for hour two Trev your National League You know Walk off for the Phillies when you played in the NL. What jumped off the map to you, kiddo? The Reds kind of hanging around still? What are we supposed to do with this team?

What are we supposed to do with them? Where are they sitting right now in the Wild Card? It's a tough conversation, man, because if we want the Reds, and I think we might talk some dirty birds in a little bit, hello. If we want the NL Wild Card conversation to get fun, the Padres have to fall off, and they're kind of still America's team, but Darvish gets hurt.

Tatis is back, though. But man, the biggest thing that jumped out to me in the NL standings, the San Diego Padres are 10 games back of first place. They're six behind the Dodgers. So it's like... Yeah, they never were in there. They're just cooked. Their second wild card,

or they let those NL Central teams sneak up on them, which they still have a ton of work. to do. But that was the first thing just standing-wise that jumped out to me. Yeah, and who's your guy if you're the podgers? You know you're going to be in a wild card game. Now, who's your guy? Darvish has hurt right now, right? We looked it up. Snell's been having a good month and Joe Musgrove's been shoving it. That kind of becomes the conversation. But, I mean, as a road game, as a starter in the season they're having, that doesn't, it's not like, all right, let's get it and start a five game.

LA or in San Fran. Yeah. Go Reds go. That's what I say. Cardinals, two games. I'm rude for this. They're a fun team to root for this. They wear John Boy Media hats

in their postgame press conferences. I hope that Winker feels better. Go, Reds go. Podgers aren't wearing John Boy Media hats in their post game press conferences. Well, they can if we need them to. Sure. Maybe, but right now they're not.

Sure. And we gave so much energy last year, Jim, to rooting on the Reds, only for them to let us down. So I kind of like to get some reciprocation. Tucker Barnhart loves us and hasn't made an error in like 160 games or something crazy. Couldn't it if he wanted to. That's insane.

An intercostal strain, Jake, is the little tendon between your ribs. Yeah. I've pulled it. It's not good. I was going growing. I had something happened to me in between my ribs when I was in college. So I thought it was that, but I texted my aunt who also had it. And it's not that.

I had coston conchritis. Which. Dry skin. No, no, no. It's similar, I guess. But the rib stuff sucks. I thought I was having a heart attack. I had to get ER'd out of my hospital.

Costo condritis. If anyone else has had that, it sucks. Anyway, the Padres have to go to Colorado. and play Colorado in Colorado. They're good there, by the way. And Colorado is one of the best home teams, right? Then the Padres have to play three against the Phillies. That's a team that's in a battle.

Then they have to play three against the Dodgers, right? The Reds, they get three against the Cubs who are handed out wins. And then they play four against the Marlins. And the fish aren't dead, but they're not alive either. They're just kind of floating, paralyzed. So go Reds go. Let's pick up some games. After the next seven games, let's have it be a tied wild card race.

Wow. It's two and a half out, so it's not like crazy. No, they are, uh, the Reds are somewhat, they're in the mix. They're in the mix. They are in the mix. I don't want to talk, I want to talk. We're going to talk more about like the no hitter, obviously. That's going to come a little bit later in the show.

Dodgers Mets. It's a series that everyone was looking towards. If you're a Mets fan, you were either excited or scared to death. If you were scared of death, you were absolutely right to be scared of death. They get swept. The two extra ending games lead to the trouncing in game three. I turned on the game when it was already out of hand. Dodgers just can hit.

And then they bring in Drury to pitch and they rake him. I kind of mentioned this earlier on C-Rose IG. It's the worst-case scenario for the Mets to start off this 13-game banger. The two tough losses, then the Sunday night game National Showcase to be embarrassed the way they were, then hop on a bird across the country, get in at 4 a.m. in San Fran. The best team in baseball resides in San Fran, and it's a tough place to play. Jim, I'm going to spin zone this one. I'm going to ask you what you think about it.

is this a rallying point for the Mets? Are they going to show some gumption? We all got in it for. It all sucks, but we're in it together. Like, let's go to battle. Like,

is that the mindset? Are we going to see the Mets come out and spank them tonight? Or are they just going to be sleepy and get trounced? You, I don't know, man.

I mean, it was it was Sindigard who publicly complained, right? Which, chill out, dude. Everyone has to deal with,

this stuff. Like, come on, man. Yeah, I don't know. I mean. Who is he complaining to? The Yankees complained a year ago. I think I said the same thing. It's the Adrian Gonzalez effect when he was in the Padres and he got traded to the Red Sox and he was like, you guys play too many national games here. It's like, what?

That's what happens when you're a good team in prime time. Like, Mets, you got flexed to the Sunday night game because people want to watch you because you're interesting and you're good. Don't go whining and complaining about it. I know the schedule sucks, but that's the product of being a good team. All the top seed teams have worse Sunday night,

Monday turnarounds because they get flex to Sunday night baseball. That is, you know, a negative reward for being good. So it's always weird when players complain about that because like people have been doing it, week in, week out. That being said, it is as bad as it gets going east coast, west coast, overnight flight, Sunday night baseball. So I get, I get it. I get it. why they're complaining, but like you're saying, Tref, you either galvanize and you say, well, screw it. Let's go, let's go mess up the Giants tonight, or you're down 4-0 after 2 and you're like, this could be a long one. What do you say that if they were going to Arizona?

I still think so. Like, travel-wise, it still sucks? It does suck, but like, it's just because they're going to the Giants, they know they're going to get beat up on, probably. There you go. I don't like the I don't like the the complaining about it

and guess what man I'm sure when I was a player I freaking complained about it too but you know it doesn't do any good in my old years my wise years I'm here now

I'm basically gand off the white I've shed my gray cloak I understand that does absolutely nothing to tweet about it dude they go to San Francisco they face Gossman

229 year in the season Webb 296 area in the season and disco 329 year in the season after facing Urea Spuehler Scherzer yep

they got they got Richel in the bump chair what's um why did Dave Roberts why isn't he looking at Max Scherzer why wasn't there like a handshake or like a high five what was that all about I saw our good buddy Dallas

Braden put something out I saw an article I saw, didn't understand the context. I saw pitching ninjas said that Dave Roberts like slapped him on the butt after a good outing and Scher just said like, don't fucking touch me because he was in Bulldog mode. I think, yeah.

Oh, he's that guy. Yes, I think he was his first start. Roberts gave him a slap on the bum. And I think Roberts was shocked because players don't talk to managers that way. But, yeah. Wait, he said like, don't fucking touch me. He said he like mumbled it under his breath. Yeah.

And, I mean, when you put all the pieces together, it's not too shocking that Max Scherzer is dialed in. I mean, to go. I didn't know he was like that. Yeah, to go as far as no butt taps. Yeah, I think he's. I mean, he's kind of insane. Yeah.

On the mound. Yeah. So that's fun. Yeah. Tough job for the Mets. Jolly Olive and Jerry Blavins are doing their Shay Station. They're recording. Should be coming out soon if you're a Mets fan.

So if you need some sympathy or some, I don't know what their tone is, I'm interested to listen to it. Survive. That's a tough stretch. Survive. And you would have liked to win one at home because now you play the next couple on the road. And, dude, I mean, they have the rally in the first game. Alonzo's getting the crowd going.

They all come around to score. It's like, it was the Mets. It was you got to believe and it's Alonzo. And then to lose it in extras, when the Dodgers, I think they were one in 11. In extra inning games or one in 12 and then they win two against you? Like that's such a dick punch. Can I say something? Always, man.

That's the show. Not only is making the playoffs in question. Sure. But just having a good year. Like if they lose two out of three, they're now below 500. 500. Yeah, they're not having a winning season. They are third in their division, nowhere close to a wild card,

and then they still have seven more tough games ahead of them. Like, I don't know. I didn't realize, I never put it together. I never looked at their record. I just saw that they were in first, they lose first, but I didn't realize that if they lose tonight, they're 500 team. They lose two of three there.

It's crazy. They were very high. We're a scheduled pod. They are clearly in, like, these have been essentially the two best teams this year, and they're playing them for 13 straight days. So, I mean, that's as bad as it gets. And after this, they do get a clear out. I think they play the Nats and someone else.

So survive Mets. But you're right. I mean, they are on the ropes taking punches. If they can survive, they've got a chance on the other side. But, man, oh, man. And, hey, we're also an injury pod. we gave them credit for battling through their injuries. Nolan Dorr.

No de Grom. I mean, think about how big of a part de Grom is on this team. So that also really hurts. Their little downfall has coincided with the de Grom thing. Yeah. As soon as he was out, that's a huge morale killer.

And I will say this, about morale. 13 games in a row against quality pitching. like upper level pitching will absolutely ruin you as a hitter like you need to breathe you need to be able to face some four or five starters that are just kind of like there

you know you need to be able to like feel good about yourself but that's not going to happen really with these with these games like you maybe will get a reliever who's okay and you get some some meatballs but Giants, Dodgers, pitching staffs, like they're just good. Like every single at bat for 13 straight days is going to be off someone that's legit.

That's tough, man. After that, they get 14 against Nats, Marlins, Nats, Marlins. There you go. Need it. Five. Five. Survive. Let's move on to the, well, we'll do the Brewers quick

before we get to the West Coast. We got a little bit. We got to chew off. We haven't mentioned the Atlanta Braves yet, who they take care of their business. They're the first place, Atlanta Braves. First place, baby. First place, Atlanta Braves. You know what coming back.

We know it's the Nats and everyone's beating up on them right now, but they handled their business. And they're in first place. They got good juju. I hypened myself up on the infield, obviously. But So Lear's been hitting. There's a totally different energy around that team. And the other dark secret of every time you see a team on a winning streak, their pitching's doing it.

Freed, Morton. Like, the Braves obviously aren't back. There's no Coonia, there's no Ozuna, but if you start doing talent on paper again, if Freed and Morton can do what they do, they can go toe to toe with any NLE's team. I'm interested to see I don't want to do it now, but which NALE's team is best suited for a five-game series?

It's got to be Braves or Phillies. I think it's the Phillies. I think it's the Braves. I think the pitching is a little bit deeper. It's a fun conversation. I saw a cool stat about the Braves. I'll throw out there. Someone posed a question on Twitter.

Has there ever been an entire infield, first base, second, a short shot, third base to hit over 30 home runs in a season? And the answer is no. There's never been a team in Major League Baseball history to do that. Right now we're sitting

Freeman at 25, Ozzie at 22, Danesby at 24, Austin Riley at 25. They might not get there, but they also might get there. And that's how you save a season. You have that kind of offensive production step up at the right time. So I think the Braz are in a good position. But Acuna, man, Akunia not being there is,

it kind of makes me like, you know, you can't really see them in the World Series. But teams get hot, teams get hot. teams get hot teams get hot and teams get hot yeah uh

Philly what did Philly do Philly lost to the Reds who were kind of rooting for the Reds they had Wheeler Moore and Nola so I mean that's two of their two of their dudes

they actually won the Moore game so yeah we had a no hitter they took them out with six innings that's right no hits that's right and

Nola I'm looking at the sheet right here, Jake. I don't know if you said this, but he's giving up four plus runs and five of his last eight starts. Not the streak you want to have at this point, but I still obviously believe in him. He'll be fine.

I said this on Waking, Jake, this morning. I mean, just being honest about baseball, Atlanta and Philly, the last two weeks are going to decide it. Like, they're going to be there. They're going to win enough games. The Mets, they are now the question mark. Can you survive this brutal stretch

and then beat up on the best? bad teams that in the two weeks you'll still be there. I think they will, but right now they're, they got the outside pole. Who do you have on the, on the Braves pitching? Who do you have as the top three? Freed Morton. Freet Morton, Ion, Anderson. You like that better than Wheeler, Nola Gibson? I, not those three in particular, but there's also Yanoa that comes in to play. And I think the Braves have a better bullpen. Okay. Yeah.

I think I'm not, I think it's close. I mean, I'm more, I want to look at it more. Interesting. When you look, when you look at ERA plus for the Braves and their pitchers, and I did this with the Giants too, and basically their whole team, ERA plus OPS plus. The Braves don't put out a pitcher that has an ERA plus under 100. That's cool.

Everyone's pretty good. That's cool. Trevi run differential. Braves plus 72. Philly and the Mets both negative. minus 18, minus 25. Flawed stat, like Jolly Olive said on his Twitter, it is a flawed stat, but it usually ends up being right.

So it's interesting. There's correlation. There's correlation. The Brewers take two out of three from Pittsburgh, and they did it without really throwing anyone. The pictures they used were Anderson, Cousins, Topa. Sanchez. Jason Peterson got on the bump.

Ashby started. Boxburger. Then Williams and Strickland, those are good guys in game too. Then Lauer, Souter. They don't use the top like three pitchers. The law firm. The law firm. I think they're saving them for a semi-important St. Louis series

when we get to St. Louis in a minute. Yeah. Anything else in the NL? Good. Snakes up, baby. Good job. Dodgers. We play for rings in the desert.

Good job, Giants. They just win. Okay. Trave, you got the AL? I have the AL, James. There we're going to. All right. We are going to start off in Iowa.

What the heck? Yankees at White Sox first game. Play at the Field of Dreams Field Stadium, Cornfield, whatever you want to say, it was an epic game. Ended by Tim Anderson saying, It's over, baby. It's over. home. Yankees take two out of three though. They win the next two games. That first game was

nine eight white socks, seven five Yankees and ten, then five three Yankees in the rubber match. Pretty cool series. I know you guys are happy about it. The offenses were shining, baby, which means the starting pitching not so hot. Judge five hits with two homers, Gallo gets two homers, one off Hendrix that was a moon shot. And maybe one of my favorite hitters, Jose Brayu, man. When you watch him, It's awesome. He had six hits with four extra base heads, two homers. Eloy continues to rakes since being back.

Six hits with a home run. I mentioned Anderson's walkoff home, which was awesome. So good series. And the Yankees, they're expected to get a colt back today. Montgomery on Tuesday. Sanchez could return on Tuesday. A lot of people coming back for the Yanke. So that's nice to hear.

Rodon, speaking of the White Sox and injuries, his medical exam comes back clean. So it's just a little sore shoulder for Rodon. They need him. But great series, Yankees take two out of three. Moving on, the Orioles, those birds, the orange ones, they went into Boston and they got swept. Go Red Sox.

I'm happy they did this. 8-1, 16-2, 662. They absolutely raked. By they, I mean the Red Sox. 19 extra base hits in the freaking series. Povetta and Rodriguez, both the quality starts. And oh, yeah, Chris Say, is freaking back.

More about him later. I don't know. Good news for the Orioles. Mount Castle begins baseball activities. Hey, hey. Go Orioles. Go birds. Red Sox sweet.

Moving on, my Twinkies. Take two or three, two or three from the Rays. What is you doing, baby? Rays, what are you doing? 10-4-12-0-0. The first two games. 10-4-Rays, then 12-0-0-T-N-T-ins.

than five, four twins. I don't know what the twins are playing for, but they're doing it. They hit the craft out of the ball. Brent Rooker, my guy, six hits with three extra base hits and two homers. He also had an unbelievable catch in left field. Garber, Donaldson, Sinell, all had four hits with an extra base hit a piece. Mike Zunino, he just rakes all the time.

Four hits, two homers. Franco, Wander, the freaking Wanderboy. Three extra base hits with a home run. Cruz, homers, and his return in Minnesota, because he loves freaking hitting there. That's why. Polanka with the walk-out sack by in game three. Ieda shuts him out for six in games in game two.

He's been pretty bad his last two starts, so that was nice to see. Rays, don't be losing to teams like the twins. Twins take two or three from the Rays. Moving on, the A's went into Texas, and they lost two out of three. A's, what is you doing? Eight, six Rangers, eight, three, A's, seven, four Rangers in the rubber. match. What happened here? Five Rangers record four hits with an extra base hits. That's Kina Foleflau, Kohlberson, Yo Hel Pozo, and Yanni Hernandez. Love those names.

DJ Peters, three homers, including two in game three. My guy, Mack Chapman's starting to swing the bat a little bit. Six hits for three homers also. Maybe the play of the year on defense. You see that one? Pretty freaking sweet. In his debut, my guy, Yo Helpozo, gets a go-ah three-run Jimmy Jack in the sixth inning of game one. Love that. Rangers take two out of three. Ace. Let's go. Step it up. Moving on, Blue Jays at Mariners. Mariners take two out of three. J. P. Crawford, J. P. Crawford. J. P. Crawford. Three, three Mariners, before the Blue Jays won game three, eight to three. Mariners did not hit particularly well, but they did hit the long ball. Five homers, ten extra base hits. France and Torrens were four hits apiece, two extra base hits and a homer.

Kellanick with the freaking walk off. Kelnick, sorry, Kellnick with the walk off, walk in game one. Luis Torrance had to go ahead, two run homer in the seventh inning up game two. Logan Gilbert didn't look that good. I got a couple more to get through, so bear with me.

Astros go into Anaheim. The Astros take two out of three because they're good and the angels just kind of art. Grinky goes seven shutout innings. Astros, not sure when Bregman will resume, his rehab assignment. that's not good. Kyle Tucker,

not expected to return this week. Don't know why. Angels' organization has not discussed shutting Trout down for the season, but maybe they should. And the last series, Indians at Tigers battle for A.L. Central's second place. Indians take two out of three behind McKenzie.

Tristan, that is, almost going perfect against them. Cool to see that. Jose Ramirez does his damn thing. Four extra base hits in a home run. And that is what happened. in the AL. A little longer today.

The only one IL series. Where do you want to start, Treve? I think we got to talk about the Red Sox. Yeah. They do. Needing a sweep. They do it.

Needing it. They do what they have to do. You know, and they don't even have to do that because it's hard to sweep. But the Orioles are a bad team that are kind of really floundering, I think. And the Red Sox needed wins. Not only do they get the wins, they get kind of big wins and easy wins. And that's what Baltimore does.

I remember there was when the Yankees played Baltimore after the Marlins, on talking yanks. Or maybe here, Jake and I said, use Baltimore to get your bats hot. And it kind of worked. And they all got hits, so then you get hot. So hopefully this didn't work because Boston comes and plays the Yankees.

But good job by them. and sail coming back, I think they definitely get some wind in their sails now, like much needed because they were kind of stranded on the middle of the ocean, windless ocean for a little bit. Wind in their sail. And there was just, there was an old man like,

the wind will come, trust it. Hmm. I don't know about this. I'm giving an award to sail later. Oh, just relax. Stay tuned.

I know everyone's going to be asking. Holy shit. I did not even mean to do a sale, sale thing. That was the whole thing we were talking about for a minute. You did do that. Yeah. Yeah, this was a necessity.

I always say I enjoy Monday as a day of the week because it's a necessity to, like, get back into things. They needed this Orioles series, and hey, how quickly does it turn, man? Now you have Chris Sale. Kyle Schwerber makes his Red So, you know, you go from the floundering Red Sox, when will it end to, you just swept the O's, you have sail back, you have Schwerber back, and now they are going to play three games. and two days against the New York Yankees. Those are going to be fun ones to watch. Good for Boston. And they're three back at Tampa.

So, you know, that's the, a series in reach. Yeah. And I guess Tampa will stay on the east. Tampa loses to the twins. They get the What Is You Doing, baby, from Trev. Tampa's. Twins just hit. Yeah, Tampa's also, they're getting a lot of people back soon

because their pitching is just not good right now. at all. They're getting Nick Anderson. I believe he made two appearances. He might be coming up soon. So he's going to be on his way back. Let's see. Archer's doing rehab assignments.

Travis? You talk to him? He pitches tomorrow. And then Fairbanks also, he threw a bullpen. So that's good for them. But, you know, Ray's got to handle that series. I know sometimes it happens. The twins, like I said, they can swing the bat a little bit.

But they also just sent Ryan Thompson and J.P. Fire Eisen on rehab starts. So they're getting some – this is all bullpen. Their starting has been so bad. In the last 30 days, Ray's starting pitchers have a 6-ERA. And a lot of innings, too. It's not just like opener three games. It's 136 innings. 27 games.

So it's – they're averaging – the starters are averaging five innings a game. with a 6th ERA. Their starting pitcher has been brutal, but it doesn't matter. They just continue to win. So as soon as they get some, the starting pitching will come around, and then they'll probably just still continue to win. Well, and that's, you know, we are a schedule pod,

and they have four coming up against the Baltimore Orioles. So, you know, we'll be sitting here and another five days saying, oh, the race stretched out their lead. Another game and a half. They're four and a half up. So Ray's going to Ray Are the twins, Trev, I know you're our twins correspondent, some of our new listeners might not know you worked there.

I think they're having, they're playing a better brand of baseball lately, right? Like the couple twins follows I have have been in better spirits lately. They're 10 and 10 in their last 20, 14 and 16 and last 30. If you tighten it up, it's actually better. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight and four in their last 12, that might be one of the best twin streaks this year.

Yeah, but people have checked out. Football's starting now. Minnesotans have moved on to the Vikings. They're soul crushed by the Vikings now. It's fun, though. And then they have A-Rod with the Timberwolves. I'm Minnesota. It's been a tough run for you this year.

I want to go back to the Orioles. Please. You're making fun of the Orioles saying, are going to go in there and they're going to get their shit done, whatever. It brings me back to the day we went to Sarasota and saw them blasting crowd noise and dropping pop flies in the infield. They were catching them.

No, they dropped a bunch and Hyde was yelling at everybody and it was just, it looked like a shit show and it's been a shit show. Is there a time table? Are we looking like good? like they're Britt Garali put out there's no end

in sight on her Twitter a couple people clap back at her and said we know our farm system's this our farm system's that and she's like no

there's no end in sight like the next three years are going to be miserable and Baltimore fans don't deserve that because I always I'll back Baltimore fans

they show up and they're fun to play in front of so I'm sorry I'm sorry Baltimore man this is a bad brand of baseball

I mean Mollins is still hitting like crazy. Mountain Castle he's coming back, you said, because he was on a heater. Hadley Rushman should be up next year. No, it's tough. And man, does that, that Buster-only tweet,

like, that's like living in my soul. Like, they will be the example of why they need better competitive balance in baseball. And when Buster tweets that, it means something. Howie. Mean something. A lot of Orioles talk, awesome.

How about Mariners? Good for the Mariners. Make us talk about you. Jake said the Mariners were the sword fight where they're like up against the cliff just swinging. And he's like if they could take two steps forward, that would be amazing for momentum. And they kind of did.

They get the walk off. They jump Ryu in the first inning. Is that what they did? Is Ryu really struggling? I think he might be having a tough stretch right now. So good for the Mariners. Not great for the Blue Jays. who are kind of in the same situation

where they just need to get some wins. Where's the, how are those guys doing? Seattle is five and a half back. Toronto is four and a half. They got a lot of work to do. A couple good teams between them. Yeah, but good for them. Stay alive, stay alive as long as you can, fellas.

You know what's good, though, is also, if you're in Seattle and you're a Mariners fan, you probably know that this isn't your year, and we've talked about that constantly on our show. Like, they're a year or two early probably. But these guys are getting a bunch of, like, meaningful baseball experience, and you can't replicate that in any sort of practice. So the fact that they're getting this a year early

is just going to set them up when they're ready to go and they have, like, their guys, and maybe they make some offseason acquisitions, they're going to be ready to play this type of baseball, because it is different. And they're young. And Jimmy's reference it. The wild card numbers, the games back feel almost double

or multiplied by one and a half because in division you can control that a little more. Well, A, Oakland is a team in their division. And by the way, schedule pod, Oakland Athletics. Be careful. White Sox, Giants, Mariners, Yankees. so Oakland is running into a little bit and hey the Mariners might be able to control a couple of those games stay alive keep swinging the sword Seattle

do it I wish wars were still fought by swords do you it's so awesome I mean I wouldn't want to be part of it and I wouldn't wish that upon anybody but also maybe I don't want that to happen never mind okay really like J.P. Crawford it's short for them What else do we got? Astros Angels

Angels lose a series because they play a better team. I think that's the whole thing. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Angels are 30 and 48 against teams that are over 500

and 29 and 12 against teams that are under 500. Hello. And they are a game under 500. The Angels will finish the season at 500. John.com. Speaking of shitty travel, the Angels just played Houston.

And then their next series, they're supposed to have an off day as they go up to Detroit, which isn't that bad of travel, middle of the country, just kind of going up. They have to fly to New York for one game against the Yankees, then go to Detroit. So that's shitty travel. That's not too bad. It's shitty travel. Well, it's nice because they got good New York's Yankees. Man, it would suck if they didn't take the game seriously.

tonight against the yanks yeah throw a crappy lineup hey i will say this every you keep referencing this and i know it's it does get said so you're not wrong jim but to say that the yankees visiting clubhouse is the best restaurant in york i mean it's not true but well i don't think anyone thinks it's a real thing it's a saying trev i didn't start it it's really good i didn't the best i think everyone knows it's a little facetious yeah it's a little bit of a joke but i didn't start saying that. That was, I know you did. You said that. Saying it. I never said that. Someone said the line. It's the best five, best five star restaurant.

People say that. I've heard it said. Yeah. Hey, when you two fight. Trev, we let out a lot of our Yankee thoughts on a podcast show we host called Talking Yanks. Yanks White Sox and wild baseball this weekend, Big Daddy. You can talk about it from the White Sox perspective, too, if you want. I mean, they are now 16 and 21 against teams over 500. That's a a little curse of the AL Central for a while. It used to be the twins bugaboo. Now it seems like it's the White Sox bugaboo. LaRusa just doesn't challenge plays.

And not Larusa. Their replay department, I don't know who does or doesn't, but they have the second least amount of plays challenged. And the White Sox had two calls that very quickly they could have challenged and it would have been reversed in their favor. And they didn't. So you got to be there.

Struggling there. And then Kimbril. and Hendricks both get beat up. So that's, from the White Sox's point of view, that's probably a little disappointing. Yeah, I'm going to go, I'm going to give my point of view, because that's how just,

I don't know how to give the White Sox point of view. Oh, stop. I'm going to say bad things. Okay. Yeah, you know, as far as Larusa and the challenges, that is his decision. I mean, he gets the call and they're saying, like, this is what's happening.

usually what the replay guy will say is like, uh, 50-50 or, uh, you know, I think we should challenge up to you or if there's a definitive one. He'll just say challenge that fucking play. Uh,

but the manager has the end say in it. So I don't, I don't, I remember one play specifically, Jim, it was a, they called him out at first base and he was safe or the other way around, right?

Yeah. That was the one that like in the first or second inning. And you were like, I don't, Maybe they don't care because they don't want to get it wrong and lose their challenge for the end of the game. But then one happens in the seventh inning. And they don't throw it there either. You should just go.

And in the eighth and the ninth inning, I think it gets auto reviewed, right? If you just ask. Yeah, man, yeah, the umpires can. So in the seventh inning, any close play, why don't, yes. Someone on Twitter was saying like, well, you know, he's challenged, the White Sox have challenged half as much as the race, but they have the same amount of overturned. So, well, I'm like, well, who cares? You don't get harmed by being wrong.

It would be cool if you had three more. It's almost like throw a challenge every game because the way that the umpires do it, who knows? If it's a seventh inning and a close game and there's a close play, let's take a look at that. Who cares? I mean, yeah, it was a hell of a series to watch. That was fun, two good baseball teams going at it.

Obviously the Field of Dreams game, you guys, I'm sure talked about that at length, incredible. we talked about it on Friday yeah we talked about that game as a whole then yeah the Yankees come back and do the damn thing man they needed that Gallo with the moonshot against Hendricks was really cool

I get all the judge highlights for my friend Dan Allen work so I know that he's been banging lately he's been putting on the team on the back a little bit judge he had a really big series Brett Gardner's been playing good baseball he deserves a shout out Tyler Wade Tyler Wade And Nestor Cortez Jr., man, that guy was the gag gift of Yankees' Twitter,

and he has put together a nice, better than nice, a great season, a great season. That dude deserves some love. And, yeah, Trev, your guy, Jose Brayu, he was dialed that whole series. So good. TA 7 with the walkoff on the national stage. The most watched baseball game in 16 years. Let's go baseball. That's pretty awesome, dude.

They did it. But I also think it was a byproduct of the game. But maybe not. Viewers showed up without even knowing how the game was going to turn out, right? So if I could take one person's American accent, I think it would be Tim Anderson. Think so? Yeah. I don't understand what that means.

Like, if you open it up international, I'm probably going to take like Italian or French or Spanish or something like that. But if I'm keeping it in the States, Tim Anderson, I can listen to that dude, read a phone book. Awesome. Okay. He doesn't like baseball. His celebration. Who did that first? Who did the It's Over?

Is that an Iverson thing? Vince Carter, I think. Don't contest. Vince Carter. Yeah, Vince Carter. And then he did it. And then there was a football player, I think, on the Bengals that was like, I'm on my TA7. He was doing this.

So he's kind of like doing this whole movement, which is basically the story of Tim Anderson's career. Swagged. I mean, he's been at the forefront of a lot of these things, man. celebrations and he just continues to freaking... What time did that? I'll be honest. I, um, playing against him first year, I think he, he hit really well, but he had this

crazy high bab-ip and just didn't seem like it was sustainable than every freaking year, man, just goes out there and rakes. So I got to give credit to him. He made, he's, there's one play that he made on me. I think we had discussed this before. I was gimped. I can't, I couldn't even run, but he made this incredible play on me in a lot. ball in the hole or it makes me look so bad oh it's part of like a highlight montage we've

seen yeah you guys would have beat it out like anybody they could actually run and wasn't like hindered by some sort of injury would it beat it out but i wasn't treb you are right that the viewership numbers were boosted because of the closeness of the game because they broke their peak numbers at the three hour mark it was a three hour 29 minute game flip over, man. And at the three hour, it was a close game, but turn it on.

And that's when they got six million viewers. Rest exams, channel nine. Oh, they have six million spike right there? Yeah. Most watch regular season baseball game in 16 years. It struck a chord,

obviously, with people throughout the country. Dude, I don't even think that it has anything to do with the movie because anyone my age or younger doesn't really have a nostalgia bone for that movie, I don't think. But I do think it strikes a chord

with the inferred or kind of like how Sandlot strikes a chord and people like hits a nostalgia chord with people even though no one that watched actually grew up like that but they're like are like long for a time. Baseball started as just you just paid pickup games and that's why I was called the America's game because there was no formalness. You just played, let's play.

And I think it struck a chord with that vibe of like human like, wow, this is cool. They're just playing in a cornfield. I do think that they can do it other places. I like it. Like it. Any other teams we can talk about? Tigers and Indians battle.

Indians took two out of three. More on McKenzie later. Astros, Blue Jays Mariners we talked about. The Rangers take two out of three from the A's. You got anything on the A's, Jake? A's got a tough schedule coming up. We might be talking in a week about how it would have been really nice for them to win that series.

I hate the Texas Rangers for how they treated my friends, so. Yeah, thank you very much. GSC Chappies play, though? I have not seen. Nice. Willie May's catch. Yeah, Popfly, short left field. Looks like he has absolutely zero chance,

and he just goes and gets it. Even he said, he's like, I thought I had no chance. But he still tried, and that's the lesson. That's what it is, kids. Everyone out there. You know? He's a freak. He's a...

Come on, kids. And he hit a little bit. Try your hardest. If he could get a stick going. Ooh. Ooh. I'll say it again. I'm on record.

Matt Chapman's best offensive year. He's going to win the MVP. Huge. Well, actually, never mind, because Show Hay's here. So, show he's going to win the MVP for the next, like, seven years straight. Shout out Yo Hel Pozo in none of our books. Hit a go-ahead three-run Homer and his MLB debut. How do you spell his first name?

Y-O-H-E-L. Yo-H-O-H-O-O. He's from Venezuela. Yopo. I mean, is he get called Yopo? Seems like he should be a call. He should get called me Yopo. Or just Pozo.

I mean, that was off the tongue. Yo-Hel Pozo. Went two for four in his first two big league games. Yo! Yo-ho! Yeah, that's a great name. It is a good name. Jim, I need the interleague.

Dude, you guys... Fish needs water. Well, and we all need fish to need water. We found that out. In the interleague, there was one series of the Cardinals and the Royals, a neighborhood game between two teams. J. Flair, dominates.

Beats Mike Minor, game one. Cardinals win. Six nothing. Flyer to go six. Shutout innings in his return. Yeah, he's good. In game two, Lester versus Keller. Keller's defense abandons him, abuses him, and makes him sad.

Lester pitches good, and the Cardinals win 9 to 4. In game three, Hap goes 5.2 shutout innings for the win. How about that? A 162 ERA through three starts with the Cardinals. Good job. Jayhap, Bubik gets the loss. Aronado at five hits in three. three home runs.

O'Neill had two home runs. Perez had four hits and a homer. Perez hits his 30th home run of the season, giving him the first 30 home run season of his career. Oh, Salvy. And that's your update. Good job by the Cardinals. Nice job, Jim.

Against ex-coach, Mathini. What are we doing with the Cardinals here? I'm drinking a little Kool-Aid. Just because Jay Flares back? Four and a half back. They're four and a half back. of the wild card the same distance as the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League. They are two games back of the Cincinnati Reds.

And guys, schedule pod. Circle it this week. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, they are getting the Brewers full punch. Brewers with an off day and they are giving Burns, Peralta, and Woodruff. Hold on to your dicks. And guess what? If they do hold on to their dicks, I'm asking for one if I'm a birds fan

because you go pirates, tigers, pirates. You stay hot through that, then you host, then you play the Cincinnati Reds. Let's go birds. Hold on to your sexual reproductive organ, whichever you have. Whatever you got. Take care of it. Keep it clean. Manscape.

Manscape. I'm not buying it. I'm drinking it a little bit. I'm drinking it a little bit. Jay Flair poured you a little shaw a coolade jam. You better be drinking it. Just a little Kool-A. I like J-Flare.

I like Wayno. I'm just not drinking the Kool-Aid. I'm a huge Reds guy. Didn't you hear it at the top of the show? That's fine. Go Reds go. I love Jack Flaherty. I think he's my favorite player in the big leagues.

But don't tell other people that. And the other reason I'm drinking a little bit of the Kool-Aid. It's because you like Kool-Aid. Nolan Aronado. He's getting going three straight games with a home run. In his last 11, he's 1.1. Man, Jack Flaherty's back. Nolan's rolling.

By the way, I think Fuzzy just tweeted. Jay Hatt? Fuzzy just tweeted it out. Nolan Aronado, same WRC Plus as, is past like five years in Colorado. So hopefully if you're still a little Rocky's hater or doesn't understand it, like these guys are good, it turns out.

Playing baseball a mile high is tough. Go check out back alley at bats. The fuzzy tweet is 2015 to 2019, Aeronado, 129 OPS Plus, 2021, 129 OPS Plus. All right, there's your team updates. Let's kick it to the second half of the show. where we highlight some of the individual performances.

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I don't know about a big fight. I've been to a few UFC matches. It's a lot of fun. What's your question? Yeah. I have a dream. And this isn't coming at drafting sports, because they're a wonderful sponsor of ours.

I enjoy them. But, you know, they offer these things. Spet a dollar, get 200 and free credits. 100 this week in free credits. My dream is that one of our, listeners does it gets the hundred free credits. It's a parley turns into a thousand.

It's another parley, turns into 10,000, and then before we know it, they got 50 grand riding on the Seahawks to win the freaking Super Bowl. That's my dream. I'll give my standout performers, and BPD just cut that out. My standout

performance, you boys know I wear one name on the front of the jersey and it's Serpia. My guy, Tyler Gilbert. If you're listening to this podcast, you already heard, but I got to give my dude some love. His first MLB start, fourth MLB game, he throws a no, no, nine innings pitch, zero earn runs, five K's, no hits, three walks. Tommy Fam, you bug eater.

I think Jim Boy maybe even working on a shakedown right now. It might not be the prettiest no-no all time, but it's in the books. And guess what? We were a no-hitter shaming pot for how many there were early this year. We stopped giving love. We're almost mad at you if you threw a no-no. This is the first no-hitter since the band of the sticky stuff. And my guy, Trev, I think you know him.

I think you might have even played in the bushes with this, dude. You know, for me, he's something I circle. Missing last year with no MLB, well, with the shortened MLB season and no minor leagues hurts him. Because his minor league stats are kind of nice. 2019 with the Phillies, he had a 283 ERA. Like, and he was 25 years old. So last year would have been his age 26 season. Like, that's when you get a chance if you're doing enough in the minors.

He didn't get that. He gets the chance this year with Jake Snakes. His dad's in the crowd. That stuff is always incredible. I think he was doing some electrical work with his pops last year during the clamdemic. So shout out to my guy, Tyler Gilbert. What a moment. What a moment.

Fight on. USC guy, too. So a lot of similarities here. I did play with him in 2018, the Iron Pigs. We kind of had a squad there. I had a squad. Yeah. You know, this is a culmination of like decades of hard work.

You finally get a shot to start a game. And he hasn't really, I don't think he's star, oh, he was starting this year in the minor leagues. But before that kind of out of the pen, mostly, the last couple of years. Great guy. Like just like great personality has just grinded his way. He's done the Dominican Winter League. He's done everything he can. all the stops in the minor leagues gets his opportunity and just shoves and against the good team too

talking about the freaking pot trace in front of all your family the dad thing was cool i've always loved the family reactions but tie i text all right i dm'd him on i g i actually dm'd him before he even started i said i do this is awesome congrats like i'm getting your first start those the the purvey then i said something like you're a literal legend wow like his name it's true he's his name he's his name is with four guys like Bumpus Theodore and some other weird name. Like this hasn't happened since early 1900s. You know, so shout out Ty. Everyone that ever played with Tyler knows.

Like you root for him regardless of what happens. And then now like something like this comes along and you're just genuinely excited for him. Yeah, it's awesome. Dad stuff's cool. I've been watching all the footage of it all day because I'm trying to make like a, the no-hitter ones are. I stopped making no-hitter breakdowns because I take forever. But this is the first ever start, so it's pretty cool.

Shout out to the defensive position coach. Padre. Did he have a lot of good ones? Yes. Tyler knew where his guys were. Yeah. For sure. Padres hit a lot.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not trying to discredit him, but, you know, his defense made a lot of plays. He said the same thing. He was like, when they asked him. to me, he's like, well, every time they hit a ball, it was just right at a guy. So I kind of was like, this is a weird game. And then he said, then when Hosmer in the fifth inning hit the comebacker, like, right to me and I caught it was when he, he said he started to realize like something's up. Like, this is weird.

Yeah. And you know, like, what's, what's he making in the minor leagues? 60, 70 grand probably. Like, and that's like a, probably not even that. That's kind of a lot to make in the minor leagues. Dude, it's such bullshit that they take his glove. they take the ball they took his cleats they took all this stuff from him to go sell it or auction it or put it in the hall of fame it's like him they said they took like all the stuff

yeah that's definitely going the hall of fame but uh you know my point i was trying to make was like this guy could spend you know he's obviously got himself more starts in the big leagues now have you though no hitter you're probably going to get a little leash here two three more starts within those two weeks he's going to make more money than he would the minor leagues for a guy that's did like that means something man i know we're not like love to talk about money a lot here but like it when you put that much fucking work into something now he gets a chance to like hey let's go earn some dough man like stay there the rest of this year get a chance next year to tie love you buddy yeah it's awesome he also said something that like a reporter was like so what's

what happens now you're going to go buy beers for everyone and he was like oh my dad's probably picking up the tap got to save that money man save that money Trevor who's your standout Well, I'm going to another pitcher who had another spectacular game. Our guy Tristan McKenzie sticks, number 24 on the Cleveland Ball Club, the Guardians, if you will. Eight innings pitched. He had the perfect freaking game going. I think he gave it up with two outs in the eighth, a little base hit. It gets through the ending, 11Ks.

And there hasn't been a perfect game since Felix Hernandez in 2012, which I did not know. Like, let's step it up, pitchers, like figure it out. But it was just fun to see him out there. You could tell when a guy is really feeling himself and is very confident in his pitches. And as I tuned in, I think I tuned in in like the sixth inning to watch it. You could just tell that was the case. And yes, I've had him on sequence ad. And one of the at-bats we did was Miguel Cabrera.

He struck out McGuropra in his debut. And he was, like, so stoked on that. because I believe he grew up in in Florida or whatever. Like he grew up watching Miggy and then gets to face him, K's him in his debut. And then now, you know, a year later,

he's got a freaking perfect game going. I think he faced Miggy last in the seventh inning and just cated him. Just blew a fastball right by him, toying with him, if you will. And you just saw that like, that confidence. And Tristan hasn't had a great year up into this point,

really. So, you know, this is one of those things, man. You get this start. turn that into a little bit of confidence and you start rolling because he's got the stuff he showed it last year really good numbers last year um and yeah man near perfect game eight innings pitched 11 k's

no walks which obviously we love and just the one hit so tristan mackenzie two four snaps i'm going tautis with my standout comes back from the iL his team gets no hit the game before he says don't worry about you leads off the game with a double down the line oh two Fastball hits double. Then he gets a home run, another home run. We talked about the MVP race in the NL and, well, if Tautis comes back and looks like Tatis, he should have it locked up. Well, one game in looks like he should have it locked up.

So he leads the NL in stolen bases and home runs and he's missed 30 games to come back and go four for five with two homers and just say like, yeah, I'm fine. He plays right field, no problems. Got three fly balls. he wants no hard plays but looked fine so I just gotta stop being surprised by

Tatis I guess that's uh if they end up in a one game playoff like there's few position players that you're like oh that guy could win the damn game for you so we'll see if they end up there and Trevon Tristan McKenzie we saw him

earlier this year in his Yankees start and he just he looked kind of lost he was wild his stuff wasn't there I'd really love to know if there was an adjustment because it looks like he's been having some serious control problems this year. He's been walking a lot of guys, and he clearly didn't have that in the start the other day. So I wonder if there was an adjustment or whatever. But good for sticks and good for meaty sticks, Tatis.

He's kind of skinny, too. He got a little meat, well, I mean, compared to Tristan. Sticks. All right. See you, Trev. Nice to meet you, Trev. It was nice knowing you. Let's see if we got anyone hot.

We put five guys on Slump Watch last week. There are five potential new guys replacing them. But guys on it, got to get off. Who are the additional maybe replacements? We got a good set of names and suggestions this week. You know, Braves, they're back in Firths, and Jorge Salar didn't really help them this week. Go for 13 a walk and three kids.

Mani Machado goes one for 14 with two walks. Jose Altuve one for 13. The one was a double. A walk in 4Ks. Bo Bichette won for 13. The one was a double. A walk in 5Ks. And Gene Seguera was on the fringes of the batting title.

Still is. But he goes one for 12 on the weekend with a walk. Hmm. Hmm. Okay. Interesting. So those guys are potential ads. Let's clear out the obvious.

I think we got. two claps, not the two clappers. We got two clap. Eric Haas, going for the rookie of the year. Three for eight, Homer, three rib-eyes, you done. And then J-Ram, Jose Ramirez, we knew he'd get off. Five for 13, Homer, triple, two doubles, four RBI, two walks. Yeah, when he does that, you remember that he's incredible. So those are the clear they're gone.

Jim, a couple big boys. Carlos Santana, Franmill, and Josh Bell. What are you doing with these dudes? Well, Fran Mill's definitely still on. He went one for 11 with an RBI and 6Ks. Damn. Damn. It's more about how they stack up against the new guys.

Yeah, let's put Solair on there for one week. He's having an awful season. You had your trial. Solair had a good four days. I believe for the Braves. But if he has another bad series, then we're right back to like that. Right. So I'd like to spark him for the Braves.

Right. We'll put him on Slump Watch to Spark Solair. And then you have Boba Schett. He had 5Ks in one game. Is he coming back from something or am I thinking of someone else? I think they've had Biggio out. Bigio's been out. All these Bs get me.

B-I infielders. Um, yeah, dude, Bichette we should put on there. Okay. He's struggling this month. Um,

was an all-star. And he was an all-star. Yeah, I think Bichette should be on there. Okay. I like that. Now, B.B.D.

Jean Segoorah. You're a resident Philly's Infield fan. A great year. It's having a great year. Um, and they're in a race. Yeah,

I'm more interested than him than Santana. I'm not, yeah, let's take Santana off. Sorry, dude, you had a chance. He doubled. I'm not worried about El Tuvae at all. And, you know, if one of the Astros is going to slump for a little bit, so be it. They're so good anyway. Who cares?

Yeah, I might go Machado over Josh Bell because that could matter. Yeah, okay. You know? All right. Sorry, Jay-B. We put you on there. You went two for ten. A couple walks, so not an awful series.

One of the two was a double. Yeah. So there you go. Fran Mill, Manny, Salair, Pichette, Sigora. Those are guys in races. Like that. Guys in races. Dark nasty's on Fuego.

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I was just saying they need pitching help. They add another. The Major League deal will get to go to AAA to get into routine from Mark Topkin, who covers the team. Yeah, I mean, that Ray's find a way to twist the knife sometimes. That'll be a tough one. Tough one for Yankee fans to see. I like to grab a lot.

Great body. Yeah, he does have a good body. Great body. He was there in Philly when we went down to spring training, right? Yeah, yeah. Saw what I needed. Arieta to the Padres. Yeah.

You hit him up. Are you a hit-em-up basis with him? I can. I can. I have it in a while, though, to be honest with you. Another just absolute pro down there. They've got a lot of money there. If anything, the Padres, got some show dinners going on.

Nice row dinners in San Diego. Jesus. I might just sign up to see if I get a piece of that. See if they're in L.A. Hit him up. Golly. Areeta. People say things about Arietta. I loved him, so.

D-Rob I want to It would have been cool If the Yankees got him But they don't seem to like him It's really weird When he was a free agent They didn't offer him anything

At the Phillies Come on Gerardi That's why we have you Yeah, it's true Fucking raise I mean if they're all gonna give you something If you're D-Rob Probably choose raise

If you're ready When he was on Like when he was good He was fucking Fasty Like nearly unhittable One of my favorite curve balls It's not

it's not like a loopy zito or like a crazy sharp uh curveball but it's just like when he was throwing it was just like it looked like a video game curveball to me like how the video game would make like it's pretty sharp it's pretty sharp it is pretty sharp yeah trev how do you think you did against him oh not good oh very bad yeah oh for nine seven k's oh yeah yeah you know like what he would do is he throw that fucking ball because he's my language, but he'd be fired up. He would throw that ball at the bottom of the zone

that looks like it's going to hit the dirt. And then it just stays and hits the bottom of the zone. And then so you have to tell yourself, like to swing at that, and then he throws you a curve ball that starts middle of the plate and then ends up in the dirt and you're screw. It's like, it's a tough at that, dude.

Mike Harky, the Yankees bullpen coach. He was on R2C2, and they asked him something about forget the question, but it led to him saying that D-Rob just knows nothing about pitching. He said it in a loving way.

That's why he works. He never throws the pitch he's supposed to throw. He's like he just like sequencing and like, you know, just kind of does what he wants. Reading swings or or building up a not bad of like going fastball then off the curveball type stuff.

He was like he just goes with whatever he feels in the moment for no reason at all. I mean, they work off each other. He only throws two pitches, right? Fastball, ball. Yeah, that's funny, though. Last time he faced him, hard ground at a third. Hell yeah, Trev.

The other ball and play is labeled weak, grounder to short. Okay. He was a tough face. When was that last time I faced him? It was that city field series, Ray's Yankees, 2017. Oh, Todd fielded the ball at third?

I think so. Nice. Josh Rojas. He lost went 10 for 15 with a homer. He had a triple and two doubles, or had a triple and three doubles. Good for him. Dansby Swanson, seven for 14 with four homers.

Jose Ibrahim, who's six for 10 and five of those hits were in one game or four of them were in one game. All right. Then you go four for five or five for six? He did a couple big days. Yeah. Teoska Hernandez, seven for 12 with two homers and two doubles. Bobby Dahlbach. Hit him, Jake.

Bobby Dahlback. Five for 12 with three homers. Nolan Aronado, five for 12 with three homers as well. Also two doubles. Nine RBIs. Brent Rooker, six for nine. Two bombs. Frank Schwindle.

Never heard of you. Who's Frank Schwindle? Schwindle. Schwindler. Schwinn master. No idea. Well, he goes five for 13 with two homers. So good job.

Ozzy Albies. Five for 13 and three. Obviously. Frank Schwindle. Yeah, he's from Livingston, New Jersey. Everybody knows that. Go off, Frank. Go off, Frank.

St. John's kid. All right. Robbie Trudinos, six for eight with a homer. Three doubles. Interesting about Frank Schwindles, if I go on his baseball reference page, and I look at his picture, I'm like, this guy's like a little kind of skinny,

dorkish kind of a guy, and then you look, 6-1, 2-20. Mm. Break you in half, Jake. Mm. he wouldn't have to because we'd be friends. That's how I fight, a friendship.

Okay. Good for you, Frank Schwindle. My guy, Josh Rojas, go check out the numbers. He's having a really nice year. Good for him. Frank Schwindle, since being traded to the Cubs and just becoming a starter, he's in 14 games, has 370 batting average with a 408 on base percentage. That's the...

That makes sense. Maybe a lot of the Cubs that are hanging around are like, man, I don't care. And he's like, well, I got something to prove. So good job by Frank Schwinds, man. Whether it's Tyler Gilbert, Josh Rojas, Brent Rooker, Frank Schwindle, bad teams can lead to opportunity. It's Frank J. Schwindle. Go get that back, baby.

That's me. Trevor Plouffe. Actually, I'm doing, before we go on to awards, doing a sequence on a defensive play I was a part of. And I was watching the video, and Livy was there. I was grabbing it inside. And she goes, oh, look at that. Oh, that was 2012.

She's like, what do you think would have had happened if you didn't, like, have that good, like, Homer two weeks? I'm like, honestly, I don't know. It could have just been, like, gone. We would have been, you know. Tell you what? You wouldn't be rubbing elbows with Matt Stafford, Olivia. Yeah.

All right. Knocking boots with Matt Stafford. Frank Schwindle's Wikipedia picture is pretty good. It's a Wikipedia picture His baseball reference When he's kind of got the ears gone He's sexual Check out the Wikipedia picture

Yeah I can say stuff about ears people Because I grew up with big ears Wow It's like Jimmy when you talk about speech impediment I have tiny little elf ears Tiny weiner Excuse me

Now I'm gonna go on Schwindles Wikipedia Frank Schwindle Wikipedia She's got a new baby So congrats on the baby Frank Oh, nice pick. Frank. Two double thumbs up. A happy pick.

Jake, who's your first award? My first and only award for this episode. I will be giving out the Love the One You're With award. I'll keep it pretty tidy. A, a fire song. Love the one you're with. Never heard of it. I sleep brothers.

Go check them out. I'm going to Robbie Ray. Robbie Ray The AL-Sai Young Race is a pretty tight-knott group of guys at this point. It's Lance Lynn with his teammate Rodon

kind of hanging around and Garrett Cole with still some big numbers on the year and that's probably going to wind down that way. There is a fourth place in Vegas and statistically right now and it's a guy that you know we kind of we say his name a lot

and there's a lot of indifferent feelings on it. Robbie Ray for the Toronto Blue Jays. He is having a great year. 23 starts at 2-8-E-R-A. Okay, you're not an E-R-A-Ga. You like punchies, 137 innings, 167 strikeouts. Those are big boy numbers.

And by the way, Robbie Ray, he's kind of been doing this for a little bit. After his next start, he is going to be fourth in strikeouts since 2016. You want to know the guys ahead of him? Max Scher, Garrett Cole, and Jacob de Grom. I know strikeouts aren't everything, but they tell part of the story. Robbie Ray's gross is about as gross as anyone's in baseball.

He signed this free agency early, November 7th. He re-upped with the first. the Blue Jays. And a year we knew was going to be a weird free agency after COVID and all that stuff. We saw what happened with our guy, Oda Rizzi, and a bunch of the dudes in free agency. It was a weird year, a lot going on. Robbie Ray re-signed with the Blue Jays because he has a great relationship with the bullpen coach and the pitching coach.

And he is having a lights out year. And guess what? He might have got himself a full bag and more. because when he hits free agency this time, it's not going to be one for seven. He's going to say, hey, I've been fourth in strikeouts the past five years or whatever it is. He's going to say I got a 288 this year. I'm a lefty. I'm 29 years old right now.

Turns 30 October 1st. A team is going to talk themselves into a lot of money for Robbie Ray. And he deserves some credit too. The walks have always been a problem. He's got his lowest walk per nine this year. point four per nine. Bob Ray. Good job Robbie Ray.

Nice job Robbie. That's award, Jake. You got some stats while we get the next award, BBD? Robbie Ray and Trev. They ever link up? Trev. You got an award? My award is like,

excuse me, is called the Like He Never Left. Award. I am giving it to Christopher Sale. Now people, I get it. Didn't pitch last year at all. 2019, you know, maybe not his best year.

But what were we expecting him to come back? Come back and be bad? Because that's not going to happen. Look at the baseball reference page on this guy. Starting in 2012, All-Star, Syung 6, All-Star-Sai-Young 5, All-Star-Sai-Young 3, All-All-Star-Sai-Young 4, All-Star-Sai-Young 5, All-Star-Sah-Yung 2, All-Star-Sah-Yung 4.

That's seven years in a row in the top five, or top six, excuse me, in A.L. Sy-Yung voting. The guy is the real deal, Jim, he's got 16 bolds on his baseball reference page. Two of them, guess what they are. Of the gold variety. That means all-time career record. He holds that for starting pitching in strikeouts per 9 at 11.1. and then strikeouts per walk at 5.39. We're talking all-timer here, people.

So he comes back, five-ennings pitched. He strikes out eight people, two earn runs, but we got the report. They said in his rehab games, he looked great, his VILA was there. The thing that I liked about his first game was he was locating wherever he wanted to go, wherever he wants to go.

So zero walks, playing with that outside corner. He lets the ball go at first base. He does the backdoor thing. Then he does the back foot thing with the slider. Then he throws it harder. Then he throws it slower. He's got the V-Lo. I saw a 95-on-hour fastball.

I don't know if that was the top, but that's plenty. That's plenty for Chris Sale. So the Red Sox got exactly what they thought they were going to get. Essentially, I mean, was there a better pitcher, you know, shipped at the deadline? Scherzer and then who? Probably Chris Sale, the best acquisition, if you want to call it that, when the Red Sox desperately, desperately needed it.

So go ahead, check out his baseball reference page. Don't forget about who Chris Sale has been in the past, and it looks like he's going to be in 2021. Love the baseball reference page. Haven't been on it in a while. Okay. Trevor Plouf against Robbie Ray. Seven for four.

Seven for four. is quite a guess. One for four. Some of the worst luck on those three outs ever. Deep fly ball to right, deep fly ball to center. A ground ball double play, hard hit. Robbie Ray deflected off his foot. He comes a double play. And then you solved him the next game.

You faced him. Looks like two months later, double down on the left field line. The way I saw it in my head, the person wrote their one, like too much. They put that thing on the top of the one. That makes it kind of look like a seven. I'm assuming it was a deflection off his foot,

just as double-play pitcher to shortstop to second base to first, and that's the only way that logically makes sense. We don't need C'd add. If you do the tail on the top of the one and then the base, like you have too much time on your hand. Give me the tally mark and move on, people. Don't be doing that formal one shit around me. Genuine question for some Red Sox fans.

They gave Sale the Orioles, and then who's his next start against? the... Looks like we just looked at this morning. Pure curiosity because, you know, they play the Yankees. I love to... Oh, I think the Texas Rangers.

I think it's either range... Oh, no, yeah, rain... He gets first game of Rangers, last game of twins. I would be curious to see if they timed up those two teams for a reason, that's kind of a soft landing

for a guy coming off a big injury. Genuine question, no idea. Makes sense. They gave Cole the same thing. If I counted right this one, morning he gets that Orioles warm up, Rangers warm up, twins warm up, and then I think he gets back to back raise. Fayo's in the chat saying it's only, avoid, you know, making a judgment on sale because

it's only one start. But if you watched his stuff, like it was there. Treve. His stuff was there. How do you write your twos? You loop it or you hard stop to the right? Just right here. Hard, hard.

stop you do a hard pivot no looping I'm not a looper guy I was in a looper and then when I was like an eighth grade I saw someone loop it I thought it looked more fun and I've been a looper ever since I'm the most obvious looper out there I'm a looper Treve

Chris Sale 1553 it's 283 average two doubles yeah not a lot of extra base hits against him I got my Knox you know what's weird man and real quick because I know you got your award Jim handwriting special We write differently every single one of us, man, and they can tell if you wrote something.

What the freak. Yeah. I don't know. I think people were more consistent with their handwriting when they had to write in cursive all the time. Because, I mean, you find me on, I actually have a daily, like, note journal that I keep in the handwriting. Sometimes it's all caps. Sometimes it's lowercase. Sometimes it's very neat.

Other times it's incredibly sloppy. It just all depends. It depends on the pen I'm using too. Yeah, I think it's like more so, more so like the pressure of which you hold the pen and like the strokes. They can tell it from that, not just like looking at the handwriting. Phrenology? I don't know. Maybe.

My award is Hope of All Hopes. A Hope of All Hopes Award. Yeah. What if I told you? Graphology, sorry. First round pick and his third career start went up against the lineup or seven of the nine hitters have an OPS that starts with an eight or above. Tough matchup, I'd say.

Yes. Facing a deep lineup. It's his third career start. He's a first round pick. And he shuts him down. Six innings pitched only three. Three hits, one earned run. Hope of all hopes.

Goes to Reed. Detmers. Angels. Louisville. Let's go. Chatham, Illinois. Fired up. Same high school as Worth.

Jason Worth. And Phil Moton. I don't know how you say. Is it Mayton? Yeah. Hope of all hopes, man. Be good, Reed. Also, I went to baseball reference.

I clicked his Twitter account and then it says he follows me So now I'm a fan of his That's how that works And I hope that he's good For the Angels because they need pitching And hope of all hopes Finish out the rest of the year strong

But that is a deep lineup So, you know I went to check to see Did the Astros Like Have a lot of subs blah blah But no it's a lot of good players Brantley took him deep

Which is you know Almost a good thing Yeah that's nice He and I have the same birthday so I'm a fan. Same birthday. There were a lot of different pitches too. 32 curve balls, 23 fastballs, 19 sliders, even got a sinker involved a little bit, 20% swing and miss rate, 30% strike rate on whiffs plus called strikes.

He's got the looper curveball. I'm interested to see how that develops. He's a lefty, right? Yeah, but how does he write his twos though? Oh, you can't ask a lefty about handwriting. He's age 22. Honestly, he feels like a rights-righty kind of guy. That's what I'm getting. Oh.

I respect lefties more if they write right-righty. Want me to tweet at him and ask for a handwriting sample? Yes. Also, Beau Clor. Boe-Clory? What is this? $50. $50? He wants to let you know. I believe it's a guy.

Could be a girl. Bo Clor wants you know, he's Team No Loop for 50 bucks. Wow. Okay. I think he wanted you to know that. He should have done. Also, phrenology is the study of the size and shape of craniums. Whoa.

So it's a little off. I very much appreciate it, Bo, but you kind of have to donate 22, 22 there. No, he's made the right call. And I kind of, maybe I'll start unlooping it. I don't know. I like the loop. Big changes at that. I'm all caps all the time.

My dad used to write that way and then I just... I'm mostly all caps all the time. Yeah. We'll do anything not to handwrite. And the show, Jim. Cursive and script and making kids write that might be the stupidest thing society's ever done. Just formal for formal sake.

Like, this isn't necessary at all. It's crazy that they made kids write that. There's no benefit. There's zero benefit or reason why you should have to write in cursory. And that's the show. I kind of like it. Yeah, it looks pretty. If you can do it, that's fine.

But like in school, they made you do it, which seems so unnecessary. Why do girls naturally write bubbly? Why does that happen? Because society demands things out of different sexes and it's fucked up, Trevor. You think society teaches girls to write more bubbly? Try being a girl with boys handwriting. Try being a boy with a dog's handwriting. It's messed up, man.

Jake sucks. The Declaration of Independence was written in all caps, not curse every day. That ass. We didn't do elevator talk.