Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 383 | Padres, Mets, & Oakland Spiral + Back From the Road Trip

Episode Date: August 27, 2021

Timestamps: 3:00 - Road Trip 7:45 - DH 9:00 - NL Recap 12:45 - Padres-Dodgers 21:00 - Giants-Mets 24:15 - Braves 34:45 - AL Recap 42:30 - Mariners 48:30 - Oakland 53:00 - Red Sox 55:00 - Twins & Frank Viola 1:03:45 - IL Recap 1:08:15 - Casey Mize 1:12:15 - Yanks-Braves 1:14:15 - Standout Performances 1:16:00 - Blake Snell 1:17:45 - Brandon Belt 1:21:00 - Robbie Ray 1:27:45 - En Fuego 1:31:00 - Awards 1:40:30 - Elevator Talk: Boston Red Sox 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. We're back from our tour and we're going to talk about all the games we went to and all the ones we did it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball brought to you by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us today. We are very excited. My name is Jimmy, Trevor, in California. Jake in the Bronx with producer BBD in the corner. How's everyone doing?

We woke up in Philly this morning. Jake, BPD, and Zach. We drove to New Jersey, returned the RV. Jake, B, B, B, D, Zach got a ride right to the office. I came home, and now we are back to work talking baseball. Trevor, how have you been since we saw you last? James, thank you for asking. I've been great.

Got back to my role as dad back home, but I did miss being in that RV with you. guys. I saw you in Pittsburgh and in Philly and Chicago getting the red carpet treatment everywhere. Are you guys famous? Like, are you legit famous right now? It was unbelievable watching you guys. I'm the most famous person in the world is what I've been telling people. I don't disagree. Like people like you Jake. It's a weird thing because I think you're semi-repulsive, but people love you. Yeah. I know. People have said I'm S-R before. but no I mean Jake's gestures are strong. Once you're in this tangled web, it's tough to leave.

But man, good to be back in the office. I missed the Friday recap app before the road trip. So this is, whew, it's been a minute. Good to be back. We're kind of building up for the playoff run, boys. We're kind of the white socks right now. Like we kind of, we got it in. We had some fun.

Now it's going to be like, let's fine tune it. Let's get ready. You know, we'll take our turns doing the ALNL and aisle. And when the playoffs get here, you know, Lance Lynn, Kimbril Hendrix, game over. You really think so? Before we get to James, can you address us, please? Like, I didn't like not being addressed. James, Trev, BPD, everyone live in the chat.

Yeah, you open it up to the Jester. So I had to address them first. Jake's Jester's strong bunch. man let's get it Jim how are you we've been sleeping together the rumors are true

yeah a lot of good nights I'm good I'm eating a PB&J my nephews are here I don't know I'm not I'm tired

you want an honest answer here what do you want I'm tired man maybe five hours of sleep a night it's so funny when we go on these trips because people try to say like, oh, well, you know, just schedule a call here. And it's like, no, we're busy. And I think people think we're joking.

But yeah, it's it's 7 a.m. till one and a.m. every day. Nonstop there, but there's so much fun. It was really fun meeting people. We met one kid who did a stretch off with Jake. Trevor, shout out Charlie. Also brought the picture of Jake when he looked not like himself when he looked like a, like a big oof. My hunchback family picture.

My hunchback family pick, yeah. He brought it and signed it. He brought it. Jake signed it. Then they did a stretch off. There's a lot of fun. It was cool going city to city. It's always cool. Meeting people that listen to the show and hang out.

And say, like, yeah, man, you guys fill my days. It's always awesome. Really also cool to just like, we were just around the bullpen. And then the outfield for the Rockies and some guys come over and players. And they're like, love it. Love the stuff, man. Like the Diamondbacks bench coach. Is it bench coach?

Pipe. This is colloquial name. It's like he dropped a what is you doing, baby. It was like Jake. He goes like as soon as we arrived in PNC Park, we went to the Diamondbacks dugout. And he just like, he was waiting for us, I think. Yeah. And he just goes, Jake, you driving in the rain?

Like you're going to crash that thing? What is you doing, baby? It's funny. So that's always cool. I said, I told him that was the first funny thing Trevor's ever done on the show. So I'm glad he was paying homage to that. I do want to give you a shout out, Jay. Oh, okay.

Because we always tell people you're a hard worker, but nobody really sees the behind the scenes. Like, we're doing stuff for the field all day. Then when you get a free minute, you're editing breakdowns. What do you got? Like, 10 in the chamber right now or something ridiculous like that. Like, you don't stop. When Jake and I get a little break, you're going.

So we appreciate the hard work. And I know everybody does. Because we did have some. It was really cool meeting. like legitimate fans. I feel like sometimes I'm just in this own little world. I just talk to you guys. Yeah, we have the chat.

But then to be able to go out in the real world and meet people, it's pretty cool, man. I thought, I thought something you said, Trev, that I think people that listen to the podcast, because you're basically kind of supporting the fans is when we were in Milwaukee, you said that you wish active players would take a game in from the stands, like incognito or whatever, just because I think the word you said was just to see that it actually really means a lot to fans. And then sometimes that gets lost when you're in the every day of grinding and trying to stay a big league or and perform.

But I thought that was cool to hear your perspective of that, of like the, seeing the different side of it. Yeah, I mean, people, they come to the park, they're excited for it. I mean, they save a lot of money to go to these games. And I think that's kind of what really hits me is like, you're bringing a family and you're making a sacrifice to go to the game. Players, I mean, I know it's your livelihood, too. but you're there to entertain and like I don't know man it is just different getting that point of view

because I understand it from both sides now like I know that you're like when you're a player you're grinding like you said Jim but every once in a while you got to stop and look around and see like you can make a difference in a young kid's life like think about like your first big league you met you probably remember who it is that's crazy talk I don't remember shit from my youth really you know but I remember baseball games and stuff like that so it's important My neighbor was Ventura. No, no, no. Not Robin Ventura. Valentin.

Valentine. Yeah, yeah. Ted Lilly, first signed ball. Never forget that. Ted Lilly, slinging it from the left side. And on the other side of it, like, shout out to the fans. Because, you know, just even going back to the Philly game we were at last night, like, when Bryce came up, like, fans, like, let's go. And they were even bumping, like, the people they were with.

Like, this is Bryce Harper. still putting it on the line for us, like, you clap for him. That's, that's really cool. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That being said, you guys want to get right into it. Oh, Jim.

Lead us off. Need us off, King. I got the NL today. Go off, King. We saw some of these games. A lot of these games. Whenever you got the music, I am ready to go. Your NL recap.

What do you feel about the DH, Jim? The DH is important. Imported. I sometimes. Sorry. No. No. Some here's the thing. Sometimes I, I use words that other people take seriously and I don't like the word idiot. And I've been getting in trouble with that forever. Like I call people idiots and I don't really mean it. It's just like, you're such an idiot.

A lot of people take that like, put much more weight in that word. I, the young kids that are defending pitchers hitting on Twitter to me, I want to say, I want to say the meanest things, but then I know that they support us and like us, so I won't, but I can't understand it. One of the biggest things I can't understand in the world is people that defend having

a guy who legitimately does not practice hitting or care about it at all be part of the lineup, and you give NL pitchers for free outs. Yeah. A game. Well, two, I would say two free outs, any of the pinch hitters, but it's, it's, I'm glad you like,

You're there. I want to be real me. I want to be like, dude, if you have this opinion, we're not friends, but obviously we can be friends. And nothing's that important at all.

But old people, it's fine. But like when I see, there's some young kids defending it, I'm like, what are you? What is you doing? What are you doing?

Okay. All right. Let's do the end. Sorry. Here we go. The Mets ended their 13 games stretch of games against the Giants and the Dodgers. They get swept.

Bye. They get swept by the Giants. Pre-game. They get absolutely slaughtered. They get absolutely slaughtered in game one, eight nothing, lose the next two, both three to two. Man, Crawford-Garhead, two-run, double in the seventh of game two. Rojas catches Keith for pulling Walker,

going to loop before the Crawford hit the crowd is chanting fire Rojas. Oh, no. Alonzo was up with the game on the line. Jake and I watched that did not come through. The Mets are optimistic that the Grom will be able to return to the second half of September. And Sindergarde, Giermo, start rehab assignments soon. The Giants continued the role, and the Mets are done with their hellish stretch. They did not fare well.

I think they lost, like, four of them by one run, but still. Dodgers and the Padres, they meet up for three games, and the Dodgers do the Padres the same way the Giants to the Mets. They sweep them in three games. The Padres offense is like the story of bait one a little way right now. They had a 090 batting average as a team in these three games. They had a 2-11 on base percentage. They were absolutely horrible.

Their approaches are really tough to watch, just like weird. There was a long 16 inning game. Blake's now absolutely dealt. Pollock had four hits, a home run, and a triple. No Padres, but three hits. Dodgers just are in absolutely. The Brewers and the Reds made up. The Reds still thought.

they had a chance of the division. The brewers reminded them you don't, but enjoy the wild card. Brewers take game one. They take game two, and they lose game three. Sunny Gray with another absolutely great outing to salvage the sweep. They lose the series, but they do not get swept. Woodruff goes six, shutout, innings with 10 pays. Adamis, or dude, exits game one, sits two and three with quad discomfort.

Brewers rolling on, but also getting a little banged up as they do. Rockies and Cubs. They played three sets. The Cubs took two out of three. They were supposed to be at one of these games. We did not get to go. Cubs starters were bad. Their relievers were also bad.

Rocky starters were worse. Their relievers were also worse. Because the wind was blowing out, our dude, half has five hits, three-exter base hits, a big three-run, home run off our new friend, Bard. McMahon with the go-ed, two-run home run in the tenth of game three.

The half-sendered the extras. And Tres could return Friday. Haven't heard. Thought about him in a while. about that story exits game three after aggravating a leg injury the marlins took two out of three from the nationals and the pirates took two out of three from the debacks debacks avoid the sweep because we were in the building to help them bar show is short but we like them and peacock is cool ironbacks really there you go that's your n l recap treva i think i know why your mike blows when you

blows out when you do the recap. That was hauntingly loud. The, what was it? The music? The music. Yeah, it was really loud. That was particularly loud this time. On the final mix, it was not much louder than normal. It was really loud at the beginning and I dropped it a lot. Oh, okay. We got there. Yeah, that's what happened in the end now.

I mean, Padres, I think, are the main story if you want to start off with them. They're, they fire their pitching coach. They're losing like crazy. their best hitter, I think, right now is Will Myers, who's like, that's not who they would guess if you asked. There are no one's hitting. Man. And we talked about it a little bit today on baseball today. You hit the 90 batting average against the Dodgers,

but it goes further back than that gym. I think they're like 2 in 12 or 2 and 14 in the last 16 games, something like that. And they're hitting like a 180. Like it just, they haven't hit. They have not hit. Fire the pitching coach. Sure, whatever.

But spark the offense, dude. And a lot of people are wanting me to say these dudes are dead. I'm not going to say they're dead. They just got Darvish back. They need the offense to click. They need to go. They're not dead yet. My dad used to have this saying,

one foot in the grave, one on a banana peel. Maybe they're there, but they ain't dead. I like that saying. Love that. Yeah, no, I mean, the Padres aren't dead, dead. It sucks. I mean, you know, the first series after the all-star break, we thought the Reds blew it when they lost to the Brewers.

And now look what they're at because of the Padres. You know, the Yankees totally turn their season around. So they got to find it. They fired Larry, scapegoated him a little bit. Darvish is back. People are saying he should have had seven strikeouts last night and not six. Gambling pod. Yeah, man, I always referenced my fan graphs.

overall power rankings in last seven, and I don't know how they do it, and that's why I like it. None of their starters are in the top 172 baseball players over the last week. That's problematic. That's problematic. This team's supposed to slap.

Tatis, get it going. Crohn's Zone, Machado, Grisham, like, they need that. And, hey, you know, Snell's been doing better, right? Darvish is back. So, like, get those big boys in the rotation going. Musgrove season is good.

They're not dead, but they're spiraling. And you got to, they need a tourniquet. They need to have a good road trip here because they go play the Angels. And then they have three against our D-Backs. Jake Snakes, baby. Well, people are saying the debacks haven't lost when I've been at a game. I've heard of people saying that. Yeah.

Let me pose this question. to you. This is C. Rose's asked this. I mean, I'm curious on your guys take. Do you think not getting Scherzer and Turner and then seeing them go to the Dodgers mentally broke the Padres? I feel like if player Trev gets asked that, he kind of scoffs up the question. I think that's a lot of fun fan fodder that I would, I love those types of storyline. So I buy into them. I don't know how real they are. But I think that Padres fans may have been broken. And they probably should have went after some pitching, but it's hard because they have so much pitching that it's not healthy. So then you're going to have so much of you just keep chasing the depth. But what the difference is, they just don't have depth. Like, you know, struggling.

And the Dodgers could have someone struggle and they just pull up a AAA player and he'll rake for a little bit. But the Padres to build this team sold the farm. So when these guys are slumping or these pitchers get hurt, they don't have that like replacement depth because they sold, they traded everything. everyone. I think Padres fans would fight back a little bit on that. They kept a lot of their top prospects throughout, but a couple, you know, those guys aren't ready yet. And they've got their dudes.

They just have to perform. And if they don't, you know, looking at their stats on the season, you know, OPS, their 15th in the league, middle of the pack, ERA, their 17th from their starting pitchers. Like, if you put their stats on paper, what they have this year is a good bullpen. And the other stuff has been very average. hey, what do we got, boys? A little over a month left, six weeks. You have a good six weeks, Padres.

You can come to the dance. Otherwise, look at the Yankees. Look at those Yankees, Treves Yanks. I don't know, man. Do you guys want to be reminded of the Padres schedule? I mean, they might be in the WAP. It'll be really tough. It's going to be tough.

Yeah. I will say this. Houston Dodgers. At Dodgers, at San Fran, at St. Louis, San Fran, at St. Fran again, Braves, Dodgers, San Fran. That's the rest of their season. Run the gauntlet, babe.

Gotta get hot. They're two games back of a wild card. I cannot consider you dead two games back of a wild card. Especially after the- They sweep the angels and take two out of three from the snakes. They'll be back in the wild card next week. Oh, baby. Regarding player Trev scoffing at it, I don't know, man.

Because remember it was a Kenny Rosenthal tweet that said it was done, basically. So you go from getting Scherzer on your team and high-fiving and hugging, like, let's go, boys. We're about to make a run to not only you guys missing out on him, but him going to the freaking Dodgers with Trey Turner. That does hurt, dude.

Like, yeah, you can say we rally around the guys in our clubhouse. I get it. But knowing the Dodgers just reloaded their clip, I don't know, man. I think there is a little bit of mental anguish there that comes along with it coinciding with Tatees getting hurt and then their offense, man. Damn. Well, I think this is the first time.

I agree with you guys. There are only two games out. They're not dead yet. If everything clicks, they can get rolling. But that schedule is so hard that this is the first time you can say the Padres can finish below 500. Hmm. That's on the table. Two weeks ago, three weeks ago, month ago, it wasn't even a factor for me.

Baseball reference has their worst case at 79 and 82. in their best case at 88 wins. And I think they're predicting them for like 83 wins. So that's crazy. There's like really sliding. And the schedule is so hard. It's go or don't. Go or don't.

The Dodgers on the other side of that series just win. Bueller's nasty. Held. Bueller's nasty. Those same Padres were talking. talking about and, you know, we just kind of pooped on them a little bit because they deserved it, but coming to the season, if there's one thing they could do, it's hit, held him to an 090 batting average? What is that? It's a joke. Think about the guys they had the face, Jake.

Walker Bueller. Like just sigh young after sigh young after sigh. And these guys are just because the Dodgers pivoted. I mean, there's some like injuries, but then they saved all these guys, you know. Urius goes five innings pitch, the earned runs. Then they, unload the bullpen on them. Then game two, Blake, no, no, Walker Bueller goes 6.2, zero earn runs. Then they unload the bullpen in a 16 inning game. Does that phase of Dodgers?

No, because they have Max Scherzer. That pitches deep into the eighth inning. And that's where the other. And Shane Green, who they just picked up for funzies. The other side of that is how demoralizing baseball can be. You lose to Eureas and you're saying, okay, well, here's Bueller and Scherzer. you take the Bueller game 16 innings, you know? They could have had that.

Instead, you lose the 16, or you've lost the series, and there's Mad Max staring at you down the barrel. What a fun time. Yeah, crazy. Dodgers are good. Guess who's better. The Giants. The Giants.

Listen to this ridiculous stat alert. Ridiculous stat alert. Ridiculous stat alert. Dodgers last 30 games they're 22 and 8 that's nice they should be gaining some ground guess what the giants are 22 and freaking 8 dodgers last 20 17 and 3 17 and 3 we got to gain a few games in the last 20 the giants 16 and 4 you play 17 and 3 ball and you gain one freaking game in the standings that is golly I know Posey came out of the game is he okay? Because that could change things,

but the Giants are, they're unstoppable. Gabe Cap, they're more on him later. Yeah, who pitch for the Giants here? It was like long, quato and wood.

You know, the Mets didn't even get the studs. You can't even say what is you doing, baby, to the Mets, because, well,

they're dead, so they won't be able to respond. to you, you almost just feel bad. You want to say like, it's okay, baby. What, what, so Jake, going into this road trip for the Mets. Yeah. You were very much looking at the schedule saying that the rest of the season's easier. I believe you were, your advice was just saying survive the road trip. Survive the road trip. And then what we're at right now, yeah, they pretty much did not. Yeah, I was going to ask, did they, did they survive the road trip in your, they're hanging on with

one finger because they have, what is it? It's Nats and Fish coming up for the next 12, I think. So we're currently at Mets hope we can talk about you in two weeks. If you take care of your business over the next 12 games, you pull off an 11 and 1, you pull off a 10 and 2. We might be able to talk about you. But as you noted, Jimmy, the schedule after this does get hard again. They have a cakewalk for a little bit.

You have to put up a crazy 10 or 2 or better. What are we even talking? They're 61 and 60 freaking six, you guys. They went 2 and 11 in those 13 games. They didn't survive. There's no fingers left. Those are gone. They've rotted.

They're in the ground. The fingers rotted. The bones turn to ash, down to the ground, plant some soil. Life goes on. But, but, but. We're all tomorrow's food. Trev, they are, they do have, do math for me. They have 14 games coming up against two teams again, Washington and Miami.

Now when we were at Milwaukee, the Brewers told us that the Nats team is actually pesky and like not fun to play because they're a bunch of young guys trying to prove it. Let's say the Giants flip the script. They went two and 11, right? So let's say they go 13 or they go 12 and 2 now. That's crazy. I don't think they can have that in them. But say they do that, what would their record be? If they just roll maybe four games over 500, whatever that is.

I don't know. If they go 12 and 2, they would be 70. and 68, which you need the Braves to slow down a little bit, but the Phillies are on a death march. Like, you know, the Braves, the Mets are seven and a half back of the Braves and even further back of the Wildcard. Can I ask something? Please.

Is this race, which the Braves are kind of up now, much to do, much to do about nothing? Like, does any of these East teams have a chance in the postseason? Yes, the Braves do. They do. Because I think they're pitching is, like, with Yanoa back and looking good. I think they have a chance. Max Fried, Morton. It's, it's.

On Anderson's coming back. Morton's look good. Yeah. Especially a five-game series. I mean, kind of anything can still happen in baseball in five games. I'll say this. The Mets, they need to go nuts. And, hey, I hope we can talk about you in two weeks, Mets fans.

No promises. The Braves next week, they're hosting Los Hibito, Hiante. and then they're going to play the Dodgers. So would it shock any of us at the Braves threw up a one in five this next week? So, hey, take care of your business, Mets. And hopefully we can talk about you. And hopefully the Braves eat bugs. Yeah.

Chaos. We want chaos. All right. Marlins, Nats. They played. Pirates, debacks, they played. Good games. That's not nice, you guys.

What are we going to do, Treve? You know, there's only so many hours in a show. You want two minutes on the clock for your Pirates, Debacks, Marlins, Nat's thoughts? I think Pirates debacks deserve a little bit of something. They were nice to you guys. I think my boy Gilbert pitched. Yep. You guys, were you talking to him?

Who were you talking to from the snakes? Lavello and Pipe We did some That was in the bullpen? Yeah Okay We did some flirty stuff

With Estrebel Cabrera Yeah Because he's an absolute sex pistol Jake tipped his pirate's hat To ASCabs And then he kind of just nodded back And said yeah I mean

You gave him this one? I gave him this one? I gave him no I did that I did the hat off to you sir Oh yes Respect I was showing

respect to the legend. Then we then we looked at Askav's baseball reference and we're like holy smoke. Trev, guess is OPS plus. 15 years. 15 years he's been in the bigs. 15, he's played in 15 different seasons. I don't know like the actual games. OPS plus. Yeah. Easy one. Easy guess. I think it's going to be like right around

the average. Put a number to it. Jake was one off. 98. 105. nice he's had some good years he's had some good years for sure it is like slash line it was like 262 330 his recent years are good too he had some homer years that's over 15 seasons ooh play the game let's do the career salary i have no idea i'll pull it up as trouble cabrera's bank account now we're talking did he ever sign up did he ever get the paid day he might have

gotten a couple like a couple year thing yeah he had to he had to get a good How many years, Jim? He had to get a good two, three year. So he's played parts of 15 years. He came up in 2007 as a 21-year-old played in 45 games. Since then, he's been a starter. I mean... I'm going to put it at a pretty decent number.

I'm going to put it like at 50M. I was going to say like 42. Okay, 50 and 42 is what you guys are both guessing. Hearn guesses. Career to date 64. Let's go. That's cheese, man. But he's, yeah, he's only made 10 in a season once.

His last year of arbitration with the Indians, it looks like. Why did someone say hit the passing button? What's up? B, BD, you slacken? No. The only passinable thing I saw was draw dice into the Blue Jays. Oh, claimed off waivers. I don't know if something else.

Ascabs to the Reds as we're talking about them. Is that real? Wait, what? No way. Oh, that did just happen. No way. Between one minute ago. I hadn't, excuse me for not looking at Twitter.

Wow. One minute ago, ass cabs to the Reds. We're talking about career ASCabs and he's going to the Reds. Wow. Confirmed postseason for the Reds. Wow. Dude, I thought they couldn't do those now. it's got to be a free agent signing, right?

Or did he get designated or something like that? Yeah, he got designated. Yeah. You can still do waiver stuff. Forget what the stipulations are now, but... Wow. I think they, like, have to be straight-up waiver claims and you can't, like, do a trade.

Okay. I think teams do, like, back alley deals and stuff. How about that? Speak of the devil. Yeah, I think those go through the 31st of this month, and in September, there's none. Good for him. John Boy's Reds. Yeah.

Hell yeah. So John Boy's got the Reds. Jake, you don't really have a contending team for your NL team. Are you going to go BrewCrew? You can go BrewCrew. No, we're all collectively Brewers. Yeah. I am too, yeah.

But my NL team's the Braves right now. Okay. I've always been on the Giants coaching staff. More on them later. Well, Reds we didn't really talk about. They don't, they lose the series to the Brewers. I mean, they faced, they faced the law firm in Woodruff and Burns. And they lost both those games.

So what are you going to do? Those guys are good. And I think maybe, maybe the best quote from our trip was from Brett Anderson. Trev's new friend, Brett Anderson. Yeah, we're friends. We ended our, we ended our beef. And we were talking about baseball. And we were talking about baseball athleticism,

and Brett Anderson pointed to his left elbow, to his left hand. And he said, this is the only part of me that's athletic. Everything else is just trying to keep up. I'm athletic from about here to hear. Which was, that was a really good line. I liked meeting him and hearing his cadence and his voice, I needed to put that on his tweets. And now I appreciate his Twitter more.

He's salty. He did greet you with a, there's the guy who hit the triple play. off me. Yeah, he can't Which was really good. Guns blazing right away. Well, dude, that was the nicest thing you could have done for him.

He was in a jam. He owes you a steak, I think. I think I could hit Homer off in like two day. Yes. Yeah. Why not?

Lefty. You're lefty? You're going to bat lefty against? Guys. Jerry Blevins, Brett Anderson, Dallas Braden. Bruce Chen. Cubs Rockies.

Cubs were super. nice to us too, but the game got rained out, so that was a little bit of a bummer. How was Happer? Hap's a stud, man. He is a stud. Good looking kid. Good build. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, Hap's funny. I mean, we had him on this very podcast. I'm sure you listen, Trevor. We sat in the park. The cicadas were chirping. No, Hap's great. I mean, he's got like a very subtle sense of humor. Coach Ballgame actually got him cackling a couple times in a video coming out on John

Boy, Jake TV. we were playing some games with them. But then he goes, we told him. We said, hey, man, Daniel Bard came up to us, said he loves our stuff. So just take it easy on him. Legit, I think it's on camera conversation I had before the game. So take it easy on him is Bard's a fan. And then Happ, it's a three run game tying home runoff.

It's like, do you understand what take it easy on him means? We know you got homers in the back. Just save it. Bard's on the mound. He's a friend. That's funny. Big time. People really love the ad reads in the Ian Hap interview.

Go check those out. Yeah, Jake was rapping. Whoops. Whoops. Hold on. Just one quick question. Reds Brewers. Reds are a half game up.

No, wait. They're two games up of San Diego right now. And then the other closest team would be the Cardinals at four and a half games back. So are we calling it a two-horse race right now? I think so. My whole thing with the Cardinals, they're my current Mets. You know, they had an easy schedule, go win enough so you could be in the conversation. They're barely around, but I think they've got a brutal schedule.

And didn't, Flaherty got banged up, right? Yeah, bad shoulder. I talked to him a little bit about it, but he sucks for him. Yeah. Third start back from coming back from the Obelique. So good vibes as well. St. Louis has Pittsburgh this week. Make some noise, St. Louis.

Okay, okay. Jake's got all teams still in. That's not true. Make some noise. Phillies are so dead and they're a half game back of St. Louis. And you think the Phillies are dead? So dead. Really?

Sorry. Gibby, God damn it. He's our friends. That's so mean. I'm not claiming them dead just yet. Okay. Because they have Gibby. If they start Gibby every game, I think they'd have a chance.

I don't know about that. I think that actually hurts them. I don't think he's built up for that. I think he is. Oh, he's going to be mad at you now. That's kind of Trev's ERA thing. Oh, man. I hurt his feelings there.

Texan with Gil. The A.L. Texting with Gibby was fun, Trev. I mean, he's an exclamation mark guy. He's an exclamation mark guy. He's always happy. I've never seen that guy not happy. I love that.

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That's all I'm saying. Ladies can dip. Oh. Boys, I'll tell you about the American League where they have John Boys, D.H. Speaking of John Boy, his Boston Red Sox, they had a little makeup game with the Texas Rangers, and they went eight to four. This was a crazy game. Baseball moves quick.

Man, nasty Nate was on the bump. And how about, God, Rafael Devers, that guy. Sexy, sexy, pretty little thing. Shaw with the walk-off slamma-lamma-ding-dong. There have been nine walk-off grand slams in baseball since the start of last season. Rangers have given up four of them. That's a stat. That is a stat.

Red Sox, I believe they won that series because of it. Nate Dog dropped it. Make it regulate. The Blue Jays hosted. the White Sox for four, and they split. Manoa versus Lynn, how's your beard and dick in game one? Holy Toledo. Siss and Berrios in game two, how's your curveball?

Ray and Gialito, boogity, boogity, boogity. Rodon and Ryu, lefties. Again, they go every other Blue Jays, White Sox, Blue Jays, White Sox. White Sox mashed all series, and their starting pitchers did it, The relief pitchers got hit a little bit. Simeon did his thing. Alejandro Kirk with the go-ahead RBI in game three like that. Ryu struggling.

Jim, you were on that. Yasmani could return this weekend, and so could George Springer. How about that? The Oakland Athletics hosted the Seattle Mariners for two. And oh boy, fellas, J.P. Crawford's Mariners win both. games let's go mariners make us talk about you marco gonzalez flex in where they're starting pitchers uh they both did solid 284 er a from the combination of them but the relievers shut out the a's how about that chris flexen tie france ha ha ha my guy award winner tie france game tying homer

and then jake bowers with the go-ahead two run single in the ninth i'll put some lead in your Let's go Mariners. Red Sox picking back up with them. They take two out of three from Trevor, plowfs, twins. Chris Sale at the end. He does it again as the socks put up some crooked numbers on the board. Crooked ways.

Go check them out. Twins won the second game in extras 9-6. That was another sad one in the Bean. Holy smokes. But they take the series after they won the crazy first game, 11-9. A lot of hitting in this series. like that. Twins Red Sox adds up. Bang Biscuit. Astros, they take two out of three as they'll never be Royals. Royals won the first game. Lynch, nice little outing by him, but the Astros bounced back for nothing and then six, five in extras. Boogity, boogity, boogity, boogie. Braggie Smalls, he's back. You might hear about him in a little bit. Astros walked off game three on a ground out to the pitcher where he won.

Went to first instead of going home with it. That was the game-winning run. A breakdown? Maybe Whitmerfield hits, and that's obvious. So does Gurriel, man. How about it? The Orioles take two out of three from the Angels. Oh, no, Angels, what is you doing, baby?

Angels lose to a worst team. Orioles get rid of their losing streak. She's and rice, halos. 14 to 8, 10 to 6, 13 and 1 were the scores of this series. Hey, get pitching. Any team in baseball. Get pitching. It's important and imported.

Marsh with seven hits, including his first career home run and Joe Adele. So some Angels future right there. Maybe trade for a pitcher. Otani gets his 41st homer. Do we know how ridiculous that is? Good job Orioles Santander and Mount Castle with two homers Indians hosted the Rangers they take two out of three Rangers win game one because Hearnhunge was on the mound

and that's obvious and let's be honest none of you really care Indians hit this series so to Texas though how about that you Chang Chang four hits two homers for my man Taylor Hearn Hot and that's what happened in the ALE thank you Nice job, Jake. Thank you. Thank you.

Congrats T. Hearn. First career win? As a starting pitcher, yes. Yeah, he got, did he get a win as a reliever before? I believe so, yes. Yeah, but he's got two of this season. He's kind of nasty. I'm just going to congratulate him for being himself because you're a good pitcher.

Wow. Got a 2, 3, 4 ERA since June 30th. So in everyone's face. Where are we starting? Taylor Hearn. Just always Taylor Hearn. He's our guy. And he got a Waterburger ad deal?

Yeah. He's so tall. You know, when he's tall people would command the room so much. Good for you. Fastball sits. I got a, I got a hit off of him in Blitzball. Fastball sits 95. Whoops.

Whoops. I knew you were going to say that. Treve, what jumps out to you? You're my AL guy. Well, we got to give the Mariners the credit. Wow. I was going to say we need to start with the Mariners as well. Wow.

You got to start with the Mariners J.P. Crawford. The analogy, Jake, that you had, where they're at the edge of the cliff and they're swinging. And then it's, it's, it's been beautiful. Your analogy has played out because that first series win, they kind of fought back a little, right? And then they got another one and they kind of fought back like a little more. And now they're almost so far away from the cliff. Their back is still towards it. They haven't reversed field.

But they're fighting. Now it's like the crowd is like, oh, wow, they're in it now. Maximus, Maximus. Am I reading this right there? One behind Oakland for the second wild card. Am I reading this right? I think they're... Baseball reference, clean up your wild card standings.

What is going on? They're two behind Oakland. They're three behind Boston. They're one behind Oakland. Yeah. They're three and a half games out of the second wild card and Oakland's two and a half. Yeah. They are 69 and 59.

You're looking at the same thing I am, Jim. Oh. They have the white socks listed in the wild card. But I don't know what's going on. Baseball reference. What is you doing? I'm not looking at that. Oh.

I have Mariners record at 69 and 59, Oakland at 70 and 58. Yes, that is correct. Which means they're one game behind. That is correct. Yes. Man, every wild card website, get your ish together. MLB just took me.

It is. They just took me to the wild card standings from two weeks ago. Why would I care about that ever? It's a big deal in our life. Yes. That there's not a standard place to just find the wild card. The best place that I found is the stupid, what app is this? I hate this app.

ESPN app. That's awful. navigate. But that's the best place I found to find the wild card, like up to date and easy to read. NBC sports is what I'm on. Like, why do I have to go to NBC sports to the wild card? I was at CBS sports. Here's what I'll say about the Mariners.

I've made my equation about the Cardinals make us talk about you. The Mets hope we can talk about you in two weeks. Mariners, you're making us talk about you. And guys, it sounds kind of dumb with six weeks of baseball left, because we can play the, oh, this team turns on the switch. But we're scheduled, guys. We've talked about that via Los Mets, via the Reds, via the Padres. They're playing the Royals this weekend.

Handle your business. They've got two Astro series that are sandwiched with two Diamondback series. So if you can balance that out enough, like they kind of control their own destiny. Red Sox, Royals again, A's Angels. Like, the Mariners have a fighter's chance. Yeah. I'm looking at something crazy right now.

What are you looking at? Okay. Well, I'm just seeing who Thai France is. We don't talk about this guy enough. My fellow Frenchman, who also is from California, California Frenchmen are hot in the streets right now. That's what people are saying. But the career numbers on this kid, and he's young, 27 years old,

career 793 OPS in the majors. Guess what his career? OPS and the minors was three years. 793. The guy's a banger. Put me in a league. I'm going to hit. That's what Ty France is saying.

34th round draft pick. Out of San Diego State? You hang of me bangs? Get to know him. Ty Franks. Mariners were doing fun stuff. I think, I forget if it was right field or left field,

but they had a bunch of people dressing up French. Always a good time. We had some baguettes in the crowd. You got to love that. Oh my God, that's what that was. Yes, that was for Thai France. Love it. We were watching at the casino and there was like four TVs on.

And that one wasn't getting a lot of my attention, but I just kept seeing them holding those fake baguettes. And I had no idea what was happening. I thought it was just a family that brought. I think they were real baguettes. They were. You got to love a real baguette. Yeah.

No one had taken a bite out of any of them, though. They're game baguettes. It's hard to hold a baguette for that long and not take a bite. That's what they say. You're damn right about that. How long do you think you would last, Jake? I'd last probably five minutes max. I mean, plain bread, that doesn't move the needle for me as much as other things.

A nice French baguette, though. It's warm. It's not warm anymore. You just traveled to the game with it. They're cold. They were clapping with them. You know they didn't bake those baguettes in the parking lot. I think they were fake.

Treves never had a parking lot bag yet. Well, I think they were fake or their... Not the bread, at least. They would add bites out of them. Good job, Mariners. France did help us in the Revolutionary War, too. Big time. The Revolutionary War was basically a mercenary war between England and France.

Actually, between German and France because all the Brits was just all the Hessian armies, and then France was big time fighting for the Americans. Got to love that. Yeah. Diva La France. and they gave you guys your statue. Why did you say our guys?

That represents you as well. Well, that statue represents all of America. I agree with that, but like it's, I feel like it's New York's. They own it. Is Oakland in a sneaky death march that's not being talked about enough? I think people are talking about it.

I was perusing all of the, well, I don't know, media-wise. I was perusing all of the subredits on the drive this morning, getting fans flavors what they're talking about their own team and yeah the Oakland one was like hey guys this ain't good five straight else the Mariners are one game behind them and they have three more against the Yankees who objectively are playing some of the best baseball right now they're 12 straight they lose a close one to the Yankees yesterday Oakland and the Mariners are a game behind like

they're one wrong day from being tied with a division rival in the wild card. So yeah, I think Oakland fans are a little bugging. Yeah, they're, I think three and ten in the last 13, not playing well. It's not good. You know, like these teams need to win or if they don't win in Oakland, and even if they do win, but really if they don't win, you know what happens there. Guys are gone. Like turnover happens, and they have a nice little core there that you don't want to see that happen.

I want them to win. Trev, we sit here Monday. We say hi. Catch up. It's nice. Who's ahead in the standings, Oakland or Seattle? Seattle's got the Royals. Oakland's got the Yanks.

Oakland has been losing for a while now, Trev, too. They're 14 and 16 and last 30. We've won two of their last eight, and they've won, they've lost five in a row. I think Oakland finds the way to win a couple of these games. Yankees, I know they're playing good ball. Now historically, not too hot in the Coliseum, tough to win. Tough to go in there and just keep that winning street going.

Like, kudos to the Yankees for getting the first one. But I think Oakland ends up winning two of these games this weekend. That's my guess. So Seattle would have to, you know, go and sweep to get ahead of them. And I don't think that happened. So I think Oakland will still be up. I mean, they're not fighting Seattle. Who cares about Seattle?

They got to get in front of the Red Sox and the Yankees. Unless Seattle gets in front of them. They got to win these games. I think they will. Two of the next three. Okay. Okay. I don't know.

Let's tie it up today. I know what your guy's answer is. Yeah, but I don't think there's too much bias in our answer. I agree. Oakland may win one of these games. They might split, but Mariners are playing the Royals. So. Then the Mariners have the Astros, so then it gets harder for the Mariners.

But let's have it even out just for a day, just to say it happened. Yeah, I like that. You know, one day. Sure. Mariners, Astros, or Mariners, A's, same record. Because that, as an A's fan, is when it really gets scary. When you check the standings in your... I don't understand why you guys care so much about Seattle and Oakland.

I know that they're in the same division, but I'm looking ahead. You want to talk about your socks? The people were actually in the wild card. Well, you got to be the best way to track down the team in the wild card. The Red Sox is to be closest to them. That's a... I learned that. I was talking to some of the Brewers Analytics guys,

and they gave me that tidbit, so I figured I'd pass it on. We did. We had a nice conversation with those guys. Have Sox kind of righted the ship? They win the series against the twins. They needed to do that. They won the series against Texas. We don't schedule shame.

We schedule appreciate. They needed to do that. Evaldi with- Well, right now, they're the angels, Jake. They're winning, they're beating the teams worse than them, and they're losing some teams ahead of them. That's been their August. That is, those are harsh, harsh words.

I said that's been their August. You've got to get fat on the other teams, but so I'm saying, so they have Cleveland coming up. They got to win this series. Then they have four against the race. And then we'll see what. the Red Sox are then. Man.

But I'm not trying to discredit them. You have to beat the Rangers and the twins. It would have been nice to sweep one of those two teams when everyone else is just sweeping like crazy, the teams that are hot. But those four games against Tampa for the Red Sox are going to be where my eyes start actually like watching again. I'll take them out of my rear view for those four games and then make up my decision then. And Red Sox, they've got a two team stretch.

it's two-team stretch part of the season. They are going Cleveland, Tampa, Cleveland, Tampa. The Rays seemingly bring it every night, the best record in the American League. Cleveland, a couple of those young arms are starting to twirled at the end of the year, and they hit last series. Boston, these, like, season is in the balance.

Yeah, they're getting Logan Allen, Calquantral, and Eli Morgan. Cal's been dirt, dirt, dirt lady. Dirt, dirt, lady. Did you call me? Dirt Dirt. Lately? He said Dirt Dirt D-D-Ley.

I meant Lately. I said, lady. That was the nickname of the girl I went to prom with. Come on. They need nasty Nate. They need Tanner Hauk. And they need Chris Sale. Chris motherfucking Sale.

To lead them to the playoffs. I think their offense is going to be there. I think they can hit the ball enough. I'm personally hoping it's not. well I'm just telling you we got to talk about sale a little bit here emacclan ending third amaculate ending in his career

about him later Trev not going to talk about him too much let's talk about the twins Frank Viola Jr. blasting them on Twitter this morning I always love when like a 60, 70 year old dude

gets on the bird and just write stuff let's it really understand it's going to the whole world who said what Frank Viola Jr. said the twins aren't playing real baseball like basically saying like they don't

they're not brought up with real baseball players so they're not playing real baseball but a lot of twins people were quick to defend the fact that they won the division the last couple years with basically the same group so it basically was old man yelling at cloud a little bit but you got to give him

a little credit he's a Cy Young World Series champ yes got some bold on his baseball reference I went to Twitter to find the tweet and Frank Viola the third retweeted it. So his son approves. Yeah, his son approves. The twins have forgotten. I love that. The twins have forgotten

what baseball is all about. Fundamentals. They said no more fundamentals anywhere in the game. Like we're just going to go with no fundamentals because our computers told us to do so. What a tweet. Hey, but for real though. Wait, can I read the rest of this tweet? That was the first

sentence there's got to be more gold in here the twins have forgotten what baseball is all about dot dot dot dot fundamentals the belief in each other mm the love of the daily grind you don't have baseball people leading this attitude and approach you have a losing organization wrong leadership equals no chance to succeed I mean That's such a way to say something powerful By being vague and like nothing It's just it's I mean

I don't want to bag this guy that much Because look I have respect for him But come on dude Like you never run a losing team Frank Come on like everyone's trying Sometimes it doesn't work out Your star player's out for most of the year Sure, you have some people underperforming, but guess what?

That's baseball, buddy. Like, you think they just ditch the fundamentals? Just don't care about the fundamentals. These guys have been playing baseball their entire freaking life. And if anyone taught the fundamentals to this young core, I was in the organization. It's all we ever freaking talked about was the fundamentals, maybe to a fault. It's all we ever did there. So, like, understand that this whole core came up in the system.

Kepler, um, Polanco, Suno, Buxton, all these dudes that are there came up playing fundamentally sound baseball. They're having a tough year, Frank. Don't tell me they've forgotten all about that stuff. Come on, man. Be positive. Be like a, be an influence.

If you want them to play fundamental baseball, tell them how to play fundamental baseball. Get in that clubhouse and say, this is what the pitchers need to do. Instead of just harping and saying shit into the fucking bird. Whoa. Dude, Trev. Frank Fiola Jr., his son,

first year in the league. The twins went 60 and 102. His second year, they won 70 games. His third year, they're 500. 81 and 81. They finished second. His fourth season, they won 77 games. His fifth season, they won 71 games.

And then he finally was on a winning team. So I don't know. It seems like Viola doesn't know much about winning. He wasn't around it. It wasn't in the culture of winning. You won a World Series. That's what they'll always go back. too. Pretty, pretty nice baseball reference page. 47 war, Sigh young in the bag.

No, guys, here's the deal. We all get old. His, his tweet before that one is a retweet against Robo-Umps. So, I mean, what do we really think's going on here? I just look, man, and I know, I've been, I've done this too. And when I do it, I freaking hate it. Like, don't be, like, pointing out problems, especially if it's in an organization that you've been a part of. You think there's a problem. I go and say something.

Don't say what the problem is. Say how to fix it. Trev, genuine question, as Jimmy is lost in Frank Viola Heaven. What, if you saw, like, let's say the twins infielers were getting there like hop-step in a second late and it was driving you up a wall.

Like, what would your order of operations be? Would you hit up someone in the front office and be like, looks like everyone's stepping a step late. Would you do something like that? Possibly. The first thing I would say was I would talk to somebody who's there, like with the guys, like actually watching the games. I mean, how can we, I would say this is what I would do.

If I saw something that I didn't like, they weren't doing this or maybe this guy was, like you said, getting ready late at the plate or defense. I would talk to Moore No and say, do you see this? You're watching the games every day. What do you see? And then if he says, then you look, and then he'll go down to the coaches and talk about it.

Like, there is a way to get a hold of people. You know, you don't have to go straight to the manager. I don't know, man. It just sometimes that pisses me. Jim? I got a little mad, but he's the best Twitter in the world, dude. He's the best. It's a good Twitter account.

look at this man a three oh fastball must have gotten away a breaking ball grow up people i guess garbage can didn't work astros you put yourself in this position live with it thank those who put you in this position oh wait most have moved on you got them stealing signs during game used to be an art now it's flat out cheating god help pitchers if hitters continue to get the help the astros got hashtag watch your lips dude Hold out hold there's two more There's two more

There's dude Okay Astros you cheated Life's a bitch You bleeped out bitch Hang with them boys Your fortunate times are what they are I love old school players

Hashtag play by the rules I don't know whose side he's on The side he ended up on I don't know I have no idea if he's four against the Astros In that treat Man I don't tweet much, but could anyone understand where I'm coming from?

How can you have two of the so-called best teams in baseball, both win 100 plus wins on the season, and neither has a fourth starter? Like, clearly it worked, Frank. It won 100 games without one. Now it's just knocking 100 game winning teams. Hey, that's good news for the twins. if he's knocking the makeup and strategy of 100 win teams,

obviously he's got something to say about, you know, this year's twins. Yeah, I mean, that's almost a parody account of old man yells at clouds. I could go on a rant. I respect a lot of the players that come from generations before. And I think everyone really should. But like,

just be a help to the next generation. Don't tell them that everything they do is wrong. Like, that's stupid, dude. Like, because something, that we did when we played in 10 years, they're going to be like, oh, that was dumb. And I'm not going to sit back and be the guy that says

baseball is better in my day. It's like, let me understand what's going on in the game now. Because he doesn't, clearly, probably doesn't understand what's going on in the game now. A lot of new stuff is coming about. How are you guys not more excited about getting old than just going off the deep end? Like, I'm already en route.

Oh, man. I think we're going to have those tweets soon. Did anyone watch White Sox Blue Jets? Was that like a really good brand of baseball? Was that I'm asking White Sox and Jay's fans. I don't really know. I did not catch much of it. Okay.

Saw the Lynn. I saw the Lynn Manoa game a little bit, Lynn doing his thing. That's two good pitchers. I like both those guys a lot. Like I think I're falling kind of for Manoa. And possibly this Blue Jay's team next year, 2022. Full season.

him, full season to Barrios. Like, I like those taught too right there. Nate Pearson, still getting his grind checked? Remember when that was a weekly update? Yeah, yeah. I don't want to talk too much about Robbie Ray, because more about him later.

But dang, they should try to resign him like now. Although he's not going to do that, because he's about to get freaking paid. What happened in the IEL? You ready? Brought to you by candidates. All right, my guys. Well, the Yankees went into Atlanta and they put the sweep on the Braves.

Ashland, how you feeling? You got to pay a lot of debts, honey. 5-1 Yankees, 5-4 Yankees. Lost, won both games. What am I talking about? Yankees didn't really hit, but when they did hit, they made them count seven of the 13 hits or extra base hits with four bombs. Stanton put him on his back.

Three hits all for extra bases because does that guy ever hit a single? Two homers. Judge had four hits with a dub piece. Austin Riley stays hot, though. Four hits with a double. Could have had another RBI. But umpires, what is you doing, baby?

Freddie was safe. They would have tied the game. They probably would have won game too because in that last game, Freddie comes up. Peralta comes in. after Chapman, sweating all over the place, walks the house. We're off the throws a zillion changeups in a row to get ready to fly out. And the Yankees get the dub piece.

11-game win streak. Now we know it's 12th for the Yanks. Penn Strait Series for the first time since 19-freaking 54. How you feel it. And guess what? Clube Peace on his way back. He's going to return Monday. Yankees get her Shala back.

Trouble in the back of the bullpen, though Britain might need surgery. Chapman's look like do-do. They need lasagna to step it up. Braves, a little bit of good news for you. You're still leading the division. And Ion, freaking Anderson coming back on Sunday. Yanks sweep the Braves. Moving on, Jim, do you like sweeps or do you like splits in these two-game series?

Sweeps. you're going to like what happened here the rays went into philly and so wept my fills three one raise seven four rays the rays just did their thing like normal they kind of hit they pitched phillies didn't really hit franco four hits that's wander two extra base hits harper and hoskins hit homers we know now that hoskins season ending surgery cruise nelson go ahead two run double in the eighth inning of game won the first game he's ever started or appeared at first base. How is that even a real thing? Francisco Mejia with the go-ahead three-run Homer in the ninth of game two after Gerardi leaves Wheeler in

to start the ninth in a four-four game. That's what the Reyes do. Francisco Mejia with the go-ahead three-run homer in the ninth. Troy placed on the 10-day-I-L. Fairbanks fire-eyes feel good after rehab appearances. The Reyes get the sweep. Jimmy, not gonna like this one. Last series in the Interleague, tigers go into St. Louis and they split.

Four three tigers, then three, two Cardinals and extras in the second one. I'll start off with saying it. Flaherty came out, he was hurt out of the game. He's on the IL now. I'm very sad. Tiger starting pitchers did the damn thing. Pitched to a 1-8 over the two-game series. Cabrera, go!

Three hits with two extra base hits apiece. And seven, Tyre. Liger's recorded multiple hits. I like that. Goldie doing his thing. He had two hits. They were both homers. That's how you get that slug piece up. Tommy Edmund three hits and no other cardon records multiple hits. Casey Meis, is he good? Yeah. Because I got a bunch of his rookie cards. Like, be good, Casey. Five shutout endings for the win in game one. And then our guy in game two. Lars, the Newt Bar, walk-off single in the 10th inning of game two. Allie Linton, my friend, is his agent. gotta love that.

That was after the Tigers tied it in the night. We already talked about Flaherty Haas is expected to return Friday and Boyd for the Tigers expected to return on Sunday. Tigers, Cardinals split the series and that, my friends, is what happened in the I.L. Casey Mai is good? Yeah, for a second year. Like, you know, made stride. She really doesn't go deep in the games right now that much.

So I don't know if they're on a pitch limit with him. or they pull them early or what, but. He was going 90 pitches, 100 at the start of the year. Now he only goes like 80. He got a 3-5-5 VRA. So yes, he's having a good season, especially. I think it's his first. He broke out last, he debuted last year, but that was a pretty fake situation.

Leads the league in. I guess we can keep it there. Leads of the league in. Hit by pitches. Oh, he's hit. Right. I think he walks too many people too. Or damn, baby.

Auburn, speaking at Ashland. 38 walks and 24 games. All right, Lars Nupar. Is he a thing? Let me look up this guy's names. Lars Nupon. Great name.

It's like one of those names, it's like a weird name, but you know how to say it. You know how to pronounce it when you see it. That's always nice. I think his uncle was someone famous. El Sagan. guy. Oh, he's an LA boy.

Oh, now I love him. Oh, he's an SC guy. I got a new player. We got a new player. 775 OPS. He's 23 years old. All right, I'm digging you. Great grandson of Herbert Newt Bar.

What was Herbert's deal? Super rich dude from Chicago, basically, you know, very involved in Pepperdank. university my friend got married there yeah he's a good dude live till he was 108 years oh my god i'm for sure living until 108 i've already decided that's cool man yeah my goal is 110 geez i don't know about all that what year where that put you at were you born in 87 86 yeah bdd 2090? If you're going to live that long, just live until 3,000, dude.

No, Jim, that's, no. I would live to 2100, maybe. Well, that's what I'm saying. Three bills would be a big one. Three bills would be a lot. Dude, my Nana. Like getting to 2000 was like a big deal for like people of that age range. That's pretty, pretty wild.

We won't be able to get three. I don't think we're getting three. Can I ask you as a question? Yeah. Didn't we just have like the 20th thousand player in major league history? 25th or something like that, yeah. I think 20,000 just hit you. Was 20,000 this year?

Or last year, I don't know. Lars Neupar debuted this year. Yeah. On June 22nd. Yep. He's the 22nd,000. 430th player. How did that happen? A lot of guys making debuts.

Was that, no, this is a serious question. Was that a Negro League's edition? Oh, that could have been as well. Yes. Because this doesn't seem like, doesn't make sense to me. Because it was 20K this year, and then they added some of the Negro League stuff, so yes. Because it changed, because it was the Mariners'

like backup catcher that got it. and then I think it reworked back to somebody else. I forget. All this math is making my fricking head hurts. Still can't put them all in, you can still fit them all in one stadium. So that's always cool. I like that thought process.

Anyway, Yankees beat the Braves. Freddie was safe at home. Replay gets it wrong. Tough break. Yankees are on a crazy world, getting a lot of calls. Chapman fixed himself already last night against Oakland, so don't even worry, Trout.

Did he give up a Homer to fix himself? again this time? No, I wish he did. He didn't throw a single slider last night. It's all he threw the other night. Because his fastball has no accuracy to it. And he was just instead of trying to find accuracy, he was like, well, I'm just going to throw my slider.

And that sucks too. So I at least appreciate it is very much talking Yanks. I appreciate that last night he went with a completely different strategy. Like he wasn't like, well, I just do what I've been doing. Fastball was still wild last night. He came through, but he threw like two secondary pitches and there were the split fingers. So don't worry about Chapman. I mean, why was he sweating so much though, Jim?

That's Chapman. That's normal. That's how that's very normal. If he's not sweating, it's like really concerning when he's in the trough or an inside stadium and there's no drip from his chin. That's why he wears turtlenex. He likes working hot. But yeah, that amount of sweat is. status quo for chappi. Okay, shoot. Yeah, it's wild.

He looks like that, the key and appeal gift. He does. He really, he really does. He has to razz in his hat, so it stops dripping in his eyes. Yeah, it was a lot. I was concerned about him, but now I'm not. Change his past. Brave's still in a good spot.

You know, Brave's still in a good spot, as Ashland put out there on her tweet. They lost two games, had an off day and still gained the game in the standings. Awesome. Awesome. Let's step it up. Let's get into the individual awards. Yeah.

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Find it on the JM Baseball YouTube channel Or wherever you listen to podcast And the big thing, the first thing I said when I came into the office today about our trip, Stephen Braalt, hot. He comes off more cute, I think, on the Chris Rose rotation. You know, he's got the nice voice and he's kind of bops around and he's very friendly. In person, you see the tats.

You see the little bit of the flow, nice facial hair. Brault hot. Is that your award? No. That was an ad read. Oh. I get to give my award. I get to give my standout first.

Can I just say this about Brault? He's a freaking musician and a major league baseball player. Don't bring your girl around the guy. He's tatted up too. He's taller than I thought. And he's tall. Jesus. We were shorter than he thought.

Probably packing. It all worked out. He was on the field. level and where you guys are down a little. Still true, but perspectives were not favorable. Yeah. My standout performance is going to Blake Snell. And we talked about the Padres being terrible and all of this.

For a lot of reasons, Blake Snell's outing the other night is going to get completely lost in the shuffle. Went 16 innings before it went extras. He did pitch deep into the. eighth inning of a shutout. He gives up a home run in the eighth inning. So he leaves the game tied. But seven point two innings pitch, one earner run, 10ks, three hits, zero walks.

I mean, if the Padres can score a couple of runs, if they win in extras, you know, or if they score a couple runs, you're talking about how Snell just went so deep into a game, only allowed one, struck out 10, didn't walk a single batter. It's my favorite stat of the line for Snell. And helped out the, the whole bullpen reset.

And we're talking about how amazing of an outing that is. But because he gave up the tying home run and then it went 16 innings in the bullpen didn't get reset, that little accolade isn't going to get tossed around. But he's having a really good month of August. What's plagued Snell is every month he has one game where he gives up seven earned runs, it seems. But he's had a good month of August so far.

I think five starts. So I'm giving Snell the award because he hasn't had a lot of outings of like Ace like stuff like that. And that would have been a very, very big one against a very good team. And it all goes unnoticed because of the way it went down after he came out of the game. Snell.

You're my standout performance. Love Snell. Who you got, Jake? Ooh. Snell was probably my favorite Chris Rose Rotation episode. My standout performance, Trev, you know,

you're always given the coaches, love. I got to give the players a little love because they do it on the field. I am going out to the San Francisco treat. A guy we've talked about a little bit, and I think Trev had to walk it back a little bit. Brandon Bell had a two, donger day at the stadium, four for five. You know, we often look at this Giants team and how do they do it? Well, Posey's still got it. And, you know, there's some different guys in their lineup that they play baseball the right way. Brandon Belt's last two years,

which you know last year, that used to be a little bit of a cop-out because it was a short season. If you combine Brandon Belt's this year and last year, 123 games, how's your 944 OPS, 152 OPS plus? Brandon Belt, 157 homers in the show.

If you look at his year by year, this guy is an underrated ball player, man. 123 career OPS plus And man, if you're a right-handed pitcher in the playoffs And Belts at the plate, that's not a dude you want to see, man So Brandon Bell, a little bit of a lifetime career achievement But he also put up a big day at the office You know, when you talk about Premier first baseman around the league

I don't think Belt's name gets brought up a lot But he's solid on defense, swings the big stick and Trev, lifetime earnings? A lot. 70 or 80. Jimmer? Really? It's more than that, isn't it?

I have no idea. I would have guessed they signed him for a long time. He's been with the Giants for 11 years. Ooh. So he mapped out his Arb and then he signed like a four-year deal for, let's say, 10 each. That's 40. I'll say 75. I'm going high. I'm 185. 86.9 for Brandon Belt. And he's going to be a free agent this year. And he's currently got a 896 OPS, which by the way, look around baseball right now. 896 is a legit OPS. So

Brandon Bell, the baby giraffe. Belt played in a couple of other stadiums. His first couple years he probably doubles his money. He's one of the biggest when we looked at all of his flyball outs and doubles and triples at home throughout his career. And if you overlay them in other stadiums that have a shorter right field porch, like

didn't we do that, Jake? It was like it was a couple per season. It was like four five. I think it was five a season. But I mean, you're talking about 11 years now. That's 50 extra home runs to his name. He'd be at 200 career home runs at this point. Well, he's almost his which is drum boy now.

So keep going, Robbie. Or keep going. Brandon Robbie. Speaking of Robbies. Trev, who's your standout? My standout performance is our guy, Robbie. Mother freaking Ray.

You want to know what he did, guys? What do you do? Only seven innings pitched, one Ernie, 14Ks, one walk. Now, we've been known... He's been able to strike people out before.

Like, he can strike people out, but he's walked a lot of people in his career. To a point where he has over a four walks per nine coming into this year. This year, he's figured it out. 2.2 walks per nine. Wow. I knew it was coming.

Damn, dude. And I reminded. a couple ups ago gave Robbie Ray an award because he does have a low-key, very impressive career. And Trevor's probably going to highlight the same things I said the other day, but just be nice to him, a nice guy, handsome, my friend. I knew that was coming. I was just about to say, as soon as I get this award out, I got to go.

Okay. Let me get back to Robbie Ray. 2.2 walks per 9 right now. He's leading the league in strikeouts with 100. 192. Jim, here's a stat that you love. Out of the 25 games he started, only six times has he not gone six or more endings. I do love that. And when you were a strikeout guy, that's a lot of pitches. Like, he's throwing a lot for them. He's been a workhorse this year. He's a free agent,

I believe. Go get you some money, Robbie Ray. You're doing your thing. And oh yeah, Jake, what I brought up to you before the show. Chris Sale currently has the all- time record for strikeouts per nine from starting pitchers at 11.1 per 9. We don't know how long you have to pitch to qualify for that. All I know is Chris Sale has gold on his baseball

reference page. Well, Robbie Ray, who's played eight years in the show, he's averaging 11.2 right above Chris Sale on the strikeout mark, so snaps for Robbie Ray. Tight pants, baby. It fixed everything.

Someone will have to correct. correct me on this stat. I thought Eno had it, but I just scrolled his Twitter and couldn't find it. I think 11 of the strikeouts were swinging on pitches outside of the zone, which is just a little demonstration of how gross. How gross is your gross? Robbies is up there. There it is. Chad, am I okay? Am I clicking again? Good awards. I got to go anyway. Slump watch. Go for it, boys.

Slump watch. Slump watch. We have five guys on slump watch. Looks like we did not fit too many of them, which is upsetting. And we have five potential new ones coming. BVD? Who might we be adding? Five potential add-ons.

Leading off with a friend, Trevor Story, 0 for 9 with a walk in 2Ks, J.D. Martinez, 0-4-18. slide with a walk in 6Ks. That includes a Rangers makeup game from this week. Jake Cronenworth, O411 with four walks. Three of them intentional, I assume, just creating forces and stuff. Anthony Rizzo, our guy, O4Ks going back a little bit. He's in a 1 for 14 stretch. And Joey Vado, who is like the hottest guy in the league for like months. One for 10 with an RBI, 5 walks, 5Ks, and a walk. I got a lot of easy decisions.

Jim, I'm going to let you roll, Big Poppy. Oh, I'm Robody now. I'm Robody now. Oh, no. Yes. Double bots? Yes. Okay.

Then I won't let you roll, Jim. Rafael Devers was on last week's slump watch. She's the clear off. Five for 17. Homer, two doubles, RBI. He's making him count. Rafa. Good job, you sexy man.

Everything else, Jim, I don't know. Am I still here? I've got you. I don't know what Trevor does to avoid this. Good? I think you're good. Run it. Okay.

This is so easy for me. Trevor's story, I think, got banged up or hurt, so he's definitely not going on slump watch. I hope he feels better. J.D. Martinez, I don't want to fix, so he's not going on slump watch. Anthony Rizzo, I want to fix. So he's going on slump watch. All of the Padres are getting lumped together just as the Padres.

Ah, perfect. Perfect. It works, right? Yeah, in on that. Okay. So congrats to Devers and congrats to Michael Brantley. They're off. We had Machado on there.

We had Tatis on there. I mean, they went on there for like fam and Cronenworth and all these people. So. Man. Yeah. We can keep Muncie on there. Yeah, let's keep Max on there because he was actually, wasn't he a popular conversation piece because wasn't there an article that said like he's not as sexy as

Tatis or something like that and it's like well that's wrong yeah i think you were the one that's saying he's sexy yes max moncy the Padres Rizzo Votto and we have room I can put JD just to be nice but i mean i really i'm like in playoff mode right like so i i'm really i'm really hoping the Red Sox just loose. You don't want to spark them, but it's fair. That's fair. It got to be nice. Well for 18, JD.

Yeah, you're welcome. What the age? Help you out. Is Trevor back? I thought he said he was leaving. Well, he had to leave to, uh, because slump watch was coming. Sunplotch. Oh, okay.

All right. And he just walked away again, but. We did it. We're good. Slump watch is over. Let's talk about the good hitters. Yeah. Jim, how was that robot feeling?

What is you doing? I don't know. I just refresh. Is that all you have to do? Yeah. But doesn't it make you feel bad? Yeah, well, it sucks because the chat's on like a two-minute delay or like a minute delay. So you don't know for sure when you're back.

So you're done. So the chat starts saying, yeah, when I come back, I still have people saying, stop talking, stop talking. I'm like, I think this is delayed chat, not new chat. So that's the confusing part. In Fuego. Dirt Nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby, like wake up. Anthony Santander goes 7 for 14 with two homers and three doubles, Jake.

Them Orioles. They're a bunch of hitters. That's what they say. Hunter Renfro, 5 for 14 with three bombs. Good job. Hunter. Brandon Marsh, 7 for 13. Home run.

Looking pretty. Coming his hair. Andy Abanias. Is that Raul's son? Andy. I don't think I know who Andy Abagnas is. Who is that? Not in your book.

Not related to Raul. It looks like he's Cuban. Cuban. Having a solid year. Good job, Andy. Ian Hap, hottest of all hot. You Chang. Four for eight with two homers and two doubles.

Nate, low. Eight for 17 with a homer. Double four BIs. Witt, Merrifield goes 5 for 14 with a Homer, a triple, two doubles. Wow. So no singles? No one single.

Hit for the cycle. Seven RBIs. Good job. Whitt. Quit. Witt. Whitt. Merrifield.

What part of the country is it that says the, quit? I think it's like the south, like Georgia South. I knew it was the South, but I didn't know if it was like Western. Maybe Carolinas, I don't know. Why? Quit. Yeah, that's like deep south.

I think it's like Georgia-Savana area. Yeah, like Alabama. Oh, yeah, maybe more Georgia. It reminds me of like, where do they have the hearing in my cousin Vinnie? That's Alabama. Yeah, that's Alabama. You probably get some quits down there. Yeah.

You're regular old war. Oh. What happened? The Astros have signed Marwin Gonzalez to a minor league deal. Wow. What? Flames. Cool.

Hmm. Postseason hero, Marwin. What is everyone bored today in MLB? Bored day. Why are we getting moves? Is this the last day you have to have your roster set by September 1? Definitely got to be something about saving money or something. There's some stipulation that there's like moves being made today.

I don't know. 27th, so to get them on for September 1st or something like that, probably. Yeah, I'd see a flurry of them until September 1 when they have to be set. Quit. My award is a mean award. Oh, no. Hmm. Yeah.

Yeah. It's, uh, it's like, I took a straw poll award. You took a straw poll award. Well, I mean, it's, I mean, it's, I. I took a straw poll award. Okay. You would say I as well. Okay.

Yeah. It goes to, uh, Zach Wheeler. Hmm. You know, Coach Yost had a really good shot for the Hall of Fame. Then they said, coach,

I took a straw poll. You just lost yourself to Hall of Fame. Wheeler was a heavy candidate for Sall Young. Three starts later. I don't think he's in the conversation. Wow. That's a tough break for Zach Wheeler and the Phillies. It's a good break for Walker Bueller.

And the other, who's the other one? There's Wheeler, Bueller, Corbyr. Corbyn's Burns? Burns, yeah. Wheeler's taking himself out of the running. I think he's giving up five, three starts in a row, five or more, three starts in a row. Hmm. So, not great.

That was Jake, that was Trev's guy. Well, what do you mean? You chose him. no i have walker and jkaz corbin are you wheeler no trev was wheeler i have this there's a google doc jim go check it out wow you were wheeler

i got walker buehler plus 1500 as my preseason pick oh preseason talking about two different conversations talking about the episode when we did like three weeks ago we did awards and what did i say about wheeler you were all over wheeler you were pushing for wheeler to be part of the conversation. Yeah, part of the conversation.

Then he had three do-do starts. Came down to the last second. All three of you had a different guy you wanted. I forget who was who. I think Jake was Walker Bueller that day because it did come down to me at the end. It was a dramatic experience for me. It was genuine pointing fingers

and everyone just got stuck with a guy so everyone would win. So. I've lost. Walker's been my guy the whole year, Jim. Oh, he's my guy. In fact, I can bring your guy. eyes up if you want, but let's move on.

All right. That was my award. I don't know if I'm going to snap for that award because that's a mean award, but is a mean award, but I love remember the Titans. And it's always nice when I can get to remember the Titans quote into the show. It's true. Jimmy, your pitcher was that greenie to lead edge ends.

Leave the Aon wins. What's that? Your prediction is that. It's a completely different conversation. Talking about the Cy Young conversation we had three weeks ago. Yeah, don't remember. You were Wheeler.

Clearly. Great job by both of you. A lot of a relevant conversation. I... Let's tweet on Frank Viola. I see what he thinks. Frank Vio. I would love to see his year-end awards.

Who threw the most pitches? I'm giving the way... I'm giving the castaway award. You guys know I usually like to take us on a little artistic journey. But this player took up. on the artistic journey. You probably remember his preseason hype video that featured Poppy Gordo.

I'm giving it to Alex Breggman. Breggie Smalls is back. He pulled a fast one on the internet. It had been a while since he was back, so he posted a video or a picture showing that he was back, but he looked like he was cast away. He had long, shruffy hair. He had a big beard.

it was like, whoa, Bregman went off the deep end. It was a joke. He showed up and he was kind of clean Alex Bregman look. But man, the American League, we've been talking a lot about our Yanks because they've been hot, hot, hot. Love that. The White Sox were kind of over it because they already ran away. We haven't talked much stroze in a little bit.

And they've just casually been winning the AL West. Trev also had that on his pretext. preseason bets, which we're not talking about at all. And, man, Alex Bregman, talk about stat pages. Go check out that stat page. He is back. He's been out a little while for the Stroes. The bad man is back.

And I think we're going to, I think our Houston talk died down for a little bit. I want to be shocked if Houston turns it back up in September, and we're talking about how scary that. team is. Okay. I like it. Thanks for the snaps. Did he do anything?

He scored the game winning run. Oh, yeah. That's impactful. That's impactful. That's, that's. The picture was fake. Kind of disappointing. The picture was fake.

He, uh, he kind of got the people. We all thought it was real. I did. He looked like Aragorn a little bit. Scored the game winning from me. He was the ghost runner. That's fine.

Yeah. Play the game. Does that count as a run scored? Well, I wouldn't. I believe it does. You're only the ghost runner if you get out. I believe it does count offensively as a run scored in your stats. It doesn't count as an earned run for the pitcher because it didn't earn that.

Should count if like you're a pinch runner, I guess, because then you're being put into score a run. But if you're just on second because you got out last, you shouldn't be rewarded a run because you got out. In the book a run score, it's a, it has to be documented, but... You're right, it shouldn't be positive. What if there's two runners on base,

and the runner ahead of you gets picked off, and that ends the inning, so you got on base, but now you're the ghost runner. Hmm. What? It's just simple baseball stuff. Keep up, Jim. Trev, what's your award?

That's not who the ghost runner would be in that scenario. Because the batter didn't get out. So there's runners on first and second. Oh. Oh, sorry. Welcome to baseball. Trevor, your award. I, my friends,

I'm giving the Gabe Kapler Award. No funny name for this one. This is straight forward. Am I giving it to him because he is leading the Giants to an 83 and 44 record, the best record in the big leagues? No. Am I giving it to him because he's built like a Greek statue?

No, what I am giving him an award for is this tweet, this quote that he gave out, a tweet by Brian Murphy, don't know what he does, Gabe Kapler continues to fascinate, believe that, buddy. He told us hip-hop lyrics will course through his brain during games, and when Webb and Monsas dueled it out last Saturday, he thought of the digital underground song, Freaks of the Industries line, with a jab and a stick, I'm going lick for lick. Gabe Kapler then went on to say the next day that that's what happens. During the game, he'll think about hip-hop songs and lyrics come to his mind about what's going on in the game. So when you see Chiseled, Tan, Gabe Kapler on the dugout steps watching the game, just know, some Tupac might be playing in his head, some Kendrick. Why do I say those two guys? Because he released his bracket, his hip-hop bracket.

Do you want to know the final four? Need it. It was Pock versus Biggie and M versus Nause. He went with Pock and M&M with Tupac being the winner of his hip hop bracket. Gabe Kapler, he is fascinating. Congrats on your award. Kind of creeps me out.

You would love him. I've liked a lot of guys we've met. I'm just saying. This whole being is, he fits well in San Francisco He's unique He's a beautiful mind Yes

Yes Who's the best friend of the week Bebers Best friend of the week Pulling up the stats I know it's Ian Hap It's his third time winning it He went five round

With a Homer two doubles Three RBIs and a walk this week Good work you and have Andy hung out with us Nice We'll have to do the stimulation simulation simulation on Monday Because I have to get going

and I'm going to have to leave you guys to bring this one home. If you want to do elevator talk, I cannot miss this meeting because I missed it last week on them. Quick elevator. Love you guys. Goodbye. Hi, Jimmy. All right, let's start the pod, Trev. Finally, holy.

I'm ready to hit the live stream button with you guys. Welcome to the Colgate Comedy Hour. What should we talk about? The boss is a way the mice will play. We'll have sex. What, um, Trev, I'll let you pick the team. What's the team you want to talk about?

Who do the people need to know about today? Ooh, poof, foo, foo, foo, foo, all right. I'm looking through the league. I'm looking through the league. Tick, tick, tick, tick. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I need to talk about the Red Sox. Okay, get it going, Trev.

I do. I just feel like I don't, I don't know what their team identity is. Okay. Are they a team that rakes? are they a team that has starting pitching? I know they're not a team with a bullpen. Right? Am I wrong? Their bullpen was really good.

I'm guessing they've come back to Earth a little bit. I mean, I guess that's my thing. This team is supposed to be built on hitting my guy Bobby Dalback had a big game the other day, two homers. For me, it's Bogart, Bogatz. Bogots, Devin. is JD has been in a slump. You missed that, Trev.

He was on slump watch. Man, Keeke, Verdugo. When you play the Boston Red Sox, you should be in fear of your starting pitcher having a bad day at the office. And I don't know if that's been the case, at least against the good teams for a little bit. So I don't know.

They've half-handled their business lately, except the Yankee series. I got to take it back. Their bullpen, I guess, a little bit of recent. I saw some blown-up saves. Matt Barnes not looking too hot. But collectively throughout the year, it looks like they put up decent numbers. And they got three starters right now that I like.

I like that. Tanner Hout come up and doing the thing. Yvaldi twirling that bird up there and Chris Sailed doing his thing. And they do hit a little bit. So this is still a dangerous team, even though I don't see them as that. Man, they're one through six. and I guess seven Renfro's been having a nice year if he's there

but man Kike Schwabers Zander Devers Devers Jady Verdugo that should be a gauntlet for any starting pitcher to go through and a little shout out Mr. Bloom give him some time dude Kike Hernandez is one of the best free agent signings of this offseason he got four and a half war

damn I didn't know that Are you scared of the Red Sox in a wildcard game? Yes. Jake sucks. Jake Sox. They're the Red Sox. One game? Devers?

Big freaking party tonight. Let's go. Matt Staff? Time to get started. Thanks, everybody. Have a good weekend.