Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 395 | Rays and Jays Drama & Cardinals are Hot

Episode Date: September 24, 2021

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. It is the Friday series recap. The Cardinals are in. A lot of things are happening and two teams got really sad on us. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. My name is Jimmy. Sitting next to me is Jake in California. We got Trevor Plouffe and in the corner behind the dish.

We have producer Zach. No BBD today on Talking Baseball. Brought to you by Draf King. Zach subbing in for the great Bucing. And we had ourselves a weekend and we got ourselves a wild week and a half left in the season. My intro was about a 5.2 out of 10 because I didn't get to say a lot of things. Cardinals aren't in, but they're playing damn well. Two teams, I think, are sad.

We have wild card in the AL is wild and it really starts tonight. And it's good times. Trev, how you doing? Good outfit. Yeah, this is, I'm going straight from my New York Twitter people, my Yankees Twitter people. Twins taking on the Jays this weekend. Yanks and Fenway. My goodness, what a weekend of baseball we're about to have. I got to say, look, obviously I miss BPD.

Big, big dong in the corner. Love the guy. But if you're going to put someone in there to replace them, holy shit. we got big dig Zach wow wow and I don't know there were going to be times this episode where I'm not going to be really concentrating on what you guys are saying

that's fair which I guess that's kind of normal so Jake how you doing man yeah that's every episode James Trevor Zach the chat BBD's in the chat

making love gun slam You're slinging it right now. Guys, I'm doing well. Baseball couldn't be hotter in the streets. Went to a concert last night. Gris, Trev. Not Rez.

Grizz. What? Good vibes. Good times. It was one of those no cell phone concerts. He was playing some of his new stuff. Didn't want it out there. So they put in one of those pouchy things.

Got rained on. Jess hot. It's a lot of loving and touching in there. Not sure where I was going with that. Jim, you mentioned a couple baseball teams died. Yeah, man. And you texted this earlier. I mentioned it on Wake and Jake, but we're in the playoffs.

Like, Yankees Red Sox. Like, I was doing some Yankees math the other day. Like, if they don't win this series, it's kind of done. I had the perfect equation or perfect. Perfect equation. Not equation. What you'd call it equation? Comparison?

Comparison. Here's my comparison, Treve. I'll see how you feel about it. The AL East and the second wildcard, which is the AL East right now. It's the Red Sox, Toronto, and the Yankees fighting for two spots. They all play each other these next nine days. So basically these next nine days are the equivalent of the semifinals in the conference tournament to see which two get to go to the big dance.

And they're basically in playoff mode. That's playoff mode. When you're not an auto bid conference and you've got to win or make it to the finals, that's playoff mode. And that's what the Yankees, Blue Jays, and Red Sox are in right now. It's an absolute mess. I love it. I talked about it today with Chris earlier

about what I thought about the Yankees Red Sox series. How many times have we said this is what you pay Garrett Cole for? How many times we said that this year? This is the time I think it means the most. This is what you pay Garrett Cole $300 million for to go into Fenway and shove. Can't wait to see if it happens.

It hasn't happened this season. I don't think he's gotten the best of them. Yankee fans are hoping. They're two tough starts there. Yankee fans are hoping they get to say that sentence twice more at least. I know. That's what I'm saying. So yeah, I mean, good luck, Garrett, especially coming off a bad start and some hamstring stuff.

But that's for this weekend. We got to cover the week that was. And the chat brought it up too. And Trev, you replied to my tweet. You didn't like my reply to Bernie? You just needed to be a regular. person. I just need to be cool and I wasn't. It was a little try hard.

I've had some try hard tweets lately. I don't know. Sometimes I sit there and I'm saying, I said, you know, I've got to put something out there. Yeah. And you end up putting something out there you don't really mean. Yeah. I just, Bernie changes. Can you read it for the people that don't know what you're referencing?

So I met Bernie Williams the other day at the Yankees game and he's my like one one ever always like my parents were very happy for me that i met bernie my mom was emotional um so posted instagram me jo's and bernie great pick um and bernie commented on it um and it's great seeing you guys last night all the best keep up the great work very nice a nice instagram comment odds that that was bernie slim and none yeah okay uh so i was like well i can't leave bernie williams on red, so I got to reply something and I hit him with the... You were making moves.

Sorry. Sorry, but there's no LOL there. You made that part. Oh, I was laughing. Yes. I was laughing. You were making moves. Sorry to bother you. Hope to catch up with you another time. Which is just like the... What does that mean? What is... I don't know,

Treve. He was making moves. He was just kind of standing there, taking pictures. He was making moves. He was getting through the crowd. I don't know. I blew it. It's a great response You know, I don't hate it You're supposed to be nervous That's a, you know

That's one of your idol Well, it's very endearing There's a video, I videoed Jake When he was in a state of nerves And it's, I think everyone liked it And then in like a non-ironic It was endearing, cute way Jake was nervous

That's his idol He's the king It's all downhill from here No, the Yankees started winning As soon as you met him Yeah, that's true Bernie Williams saved the Yankee season And now you're batting lead off

And now I'm batting lead off And you're gonna tell us Everything that happened in the National League I think so. We'll see. You see? And it's brought to us by dugout mugs.

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So you got text word super to 8-5-3-1 and be entered to win the autographed prizes. Jake. Randy is the AL Rookie of the year favorite. Like big time right now. Yeah, Randy is. It's Randy Meadow, no, Randy, Mountcastle. Adelis. And Adelisse. And Adelis and Mountcastles, because we were sitting next to an Orioles fan who was talking to me about this.

And I looked up Adelis and Mountcastle. And they almost have like identical seasons. At least offensively. I didn't look at war. Jonathan India minus 1-1-150 for rookie of the year. Ooh. Whoops. I love that.

I kind of have a hot top. take on the rookie of the year and stuff. I don't want you right now. It's your turn to tell us what happened. We'll get to that later. I don't know what happened. Can you tell me? Fellas, bird, bird, bird, bird is the word. My St. Louis Cardinals

have reeled off 12 straight wins to basically secure the playoffs and man, they played at the Brewers. They take down Peralta. They take out Woodruff. Mr. Anderson, talented from the elbow to the fingers. They get him. And then the fourth game of the series, Brewers go up 5-0. Every winning streak

has to come to an end, right? Wrong. They come back from down 5-0. My guy Goldschmidt might hear about him in a little bit. These birds are playing different right now. Man, and it looks like They are going to be in the wild card. Which NL West team will they get? Goldschmidt's nasty. Molina was doing it. Wood-Firdwood Druff matchup. That gets your wood excited.

Cardinal sweep. Four games from the Brewers half don't care. Padres in Los Hibito hiantes. And the Giants take two out of three is the Padres ship is burning down. My goodness. Gossman and the rest of his merry men. You guys see that pick? They win the first game 6-5 over Musgrove.

Scott Casimir got the pill in game two as the Giants win that one, 8-6. Padres salvaged the series, kind of, as they win in the 10th inning 7-6. These teams hit all series. 13 extra base hits for the Giants. The Padres out hit them. 573 slug as a team, but they still drop the series because the Giants win games. We know this. That's just what they do.

Watch out for this Camilo Doval. Don't know if I'm saying it right. Throws gas, hit 102.5 on the gun for the Giants. Jake Arietta Diffaed by the Padres. Oops. Oops. Dodgers Rockies. Dodgers take two out of three from formerly My Rocks.

Dodgers win the first game in 10 innings. Urias for Senditella. Oh, mouse. Marquez versus Bueller in the second game. That's the one the Rockies got. How about it? Those Rockies in Colorado. Dodgers, they go to extras again.

This was on Scherzer Day. Don't play the Rockies in Colorado. You don't want that smoke. CJ Crone hits, hits, hits. He's having a great year. Good for him. Albert Poulos with the Go-Ahead hit in game one of that series. Story with the Go-Head, man.

Muncie with the Go-Head hit. Man, the star showed out. I like that. Dodgers take two out of three. Braves take three out of four from my snakes. You know it. He did it in game one. 6192 Braves. D-back's in that fourth game.

Let's go. Mad Bum versus Morton. Have you guys seen Morton's slider? No. Gross, gross. Go to pitch ninja like now. Morton's doing gross stuff with his slider curveball. Braves mashed.

Riley and Albies each hit their third. 30th homers of the season to make the Braves the second team in MLB history to have their primary first, second, and third baseman all hit 30 dongs that Braves infield. I tried to tell you, don't miss your flight. Reds and Pirates, man, they split two. Game three was postponed. These pirates are a little friscus since they called up Cole Tucker. Reds won the first game nine to five with Gutierrez on the bump, but the Pirates, man,

6-2 in the second game Su-Su-Sugo he kind of went nut job for the Pirates of late I love that Cole Tucker go-ahead RBI single in the fifth inning Whoops Sorry about that Vanessa's Instagram lately

We'll talk about that later Holy smokes Marlins hosted the Nats Nats take two out of three Oh we don't care Lizardo sure Rogers versus Rogers that's always fun.

Oh, but that series, I mean, nothing matters. Josiah Gray had a good start. And that's what happened in the national league. Great job, Chris. Great job. We start off with Vanessa? Yeah. What's going on?

Hey, man, I, you know, again, Kotuck is someone I consider a friend at this point. We were talking, you know, he had to go ahead hit. He had a couple games, and I was like, let's go. Like, let's go. And then we were talking life a little bit. I don't, you know, hey, just honest the hour. That's Hudgens, beautiful woman. She's starting to do some work with Rihanna's Savage Fenty line.

And the content is Flames emoji. I told Cole, I was like, dude, good for you, bro. I'm laughing, but I know exactly what you're talking. I know you do. Snaps to Cole Tucker, baby, let's go. Snap's for Cole Tucker. Can I tell you? And for Vanessa.

Yeah. Cardinals have won 12 in a row. Whoops. They just had a four-game sweep of the Brewers. I was trying to write them all down because I noticed this, but I didn't get a chance to write them all down. In game one, walk, bunted them over, single scored him. In game two, they won two to one against the Brewers,

against there was Woodruff in game two. Woodruff, Woodford. The wood matchup. That's the wood. The first run, the Cardinal scored, walk, stole second, ground out, moved him to third, line out, scored him. The second, they scored him. Stole second single scored on the single game three walk fielder's choice

Throwing error then they bunted him over to third and then they sacrificed Flied whatever him to score the next run was a hit another run hit by pitch Fielder's choice to move him over sack fly another run single moves over on a wild pitch Then they sacrifice him and then the double scores him I don't know the numbers on it what's normal and what's not normal, but the amount of times the Cardinals in the series against the Brewers moved their runner over via out or stolen base or hit by a pitch or error was crazy.

Whatever base they were on, they were to the next base, and then they just kept playing small ball. So kind of cool when your team does that, and it works, and they win 12 in a row, and you're playing baseball. Yeah, you don't see that too often. that is the Cardinals way

you know and I think they kind of got some grief for sticking with the Cardinals way and when everyone else is you know basically trying to just get on base and hit three run Jimmy Jacks it is refreshing to see some move them over you know

I think stolen bases are probably the thing that needs to really really come back in the game put so much pressure on a defense I think one way to do it to get guys to do it and I think this actually should happen for your statistics. If you

single and then you steal second base, you should now be credited with a double in your slugging percentage. Like, why not? You're on second base now. I'm open. I don't know if that's the end result that you have there. I like, but I don't know if that's

the form of. Something like that. Like stolen bases should be part of OPS or whatever. A stat we want to reference a lot. Make our own. Yeah. Because it's, if I have a guy they can hit a double, but slugly, or I can have a guy that hits a single that's going to steal second base. I'm probably want the guy that's going to hit a single and steal second base.

I'm into that. Yeah. They had three stolen bases in this series against Milwaukee. I'm trying to see how many sack flies and sacrifice hits they had. Holy smokes. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight sacrifices in the four game set. So they average two sacrifices a game.

and almost one stolen base a game. So yeah, that's fun baseball. Yeah. And I, yeah, the speed thing, it's going to be funny when analytics figures out how to properly measure it because, you know, defense takes less of a priority nowadays. So when there is someone speedy on the bases, I mean, that always put pressure on a defense,

but especially, you know, there's a lot of infielder that are out there to hit, not field anymore. So it really changes the game. Man, go Cardinals go. They've basically wrapped up the second wild card, which is insane. You know, I know we don't give, you know, we have our debates about how much loves managers deserve. I think this is a situation where Shilti should get a little bit. I mean, this team was 500 for most this season.

And, hey, you can't give him credit for Tyler O'Neill starting to ball out. Goldschmidt has turned it on. Full-fledge, but, hey, to keep, like, even heads in there to set themselves up to be able to do this. And, dude, their pen shove this series, and they've got some gross guys down there, man, if we're lining up, if it's Dodgers versus Wayno and Flaherty out of Penn, I mean, pump that into my veins, baby. Yeah, J. Flair's getting the start today. You know, I don't know what his pitch count is. I think they have a double header today.

I think so. Cubbies. They have two against the cubbies. It'll be interesting to see how he looks there. It's been quite the layout for him. They need him. I mean, look, I know they've been winning without him, but you want to go somewhere in these playoffs.

You've got to have Jay Flair. I know Waynos been the ace, but I think Flair is the ace, like when he's right. Yeah. Well, hey, credit to them, Lester and Hap. No one was talking more shit about that Hap trade than me. And he's doing it. Like, it's not like, it's fucking, it's classic J-Hap.

You look at the game logs and you're like, this isn't great. But it's a winning enough effort if you have a good bullpen and your bats hit. You got a 4-3-ERA and 9 starts. When the runs are down, he goes like, you know, just finishes 5, 4. And then Lester's got like a 2-something in his last 5 or 7 starts. And if you're the Padres,

you've been rolling out Jake Arieta, are you like, hey, they made so many trades. They got injured on their pitching. We all know that. But, I mean, Cardinals are the fun conversation, 12 in a row, I think 13 of their last 16 or something like that. Padres, their two losses away from finishing 500, Trev, and they play the Giants who have to win every single night

because the Dodgers are on their butt. So Padre is saddest, tailing baseball this season? It's pretty sad. From where they started at the beginning of the year and the expectations that they had, and they should have had. I mean, they have a damn good ball club, but they just couldn't keep it going throughout the year. And part of that has been, like, I think as good as Tautis has been, it's been kind of a strange year for him. Like, you know, you have the shoulder thing going on, you get moved to the outfield, and you kind of play

some shortstop. It's very disappointing. And then I'm even more disappointed. It does my friend Jake Garietta for assignment. You know, just show them a little love and then you just throw them to the trash. But they, I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't know how we rate them for next year coming into 2022. Because they're still going to be a really good team. They have all their guys and we're going to say, okay, you know, they're going to be healthy coming into the year.

But are we going to say third place NOS to start the year? It's going to be tricky. I mean, the Giants, man, depending what they do this postseason, if they have a quick out, like nobody's going to believe again for next year. And, I mean, hey, let's, one of the Padres all-in moves was going to get Clevenger. And then he got hurt that year. And that, you know, he was out all of this year. So that's a big one.

I mean, when Clevenger's right, like, we forget how gross that dude is on and off the field. You know, Snell's hurt right now. Paddock's hurt right now. So, yeah, I think Padres, I'm not going to start spinning it yet into, like, this could end up being a good thing for them. But, hey, if the Padres do go out next year and they ball out, like, I think, you know, they got punched in the mouth a little bit this year. Baseball happened. You know, they were kind of the prince who was promised, and now heads are starting to roll. Do you think that Preller hires his fourth coach or third coach under him now?

Was there someone to foregreen? I think it would be firing his third coach, hiring his third. Right? I don't know, man. I don't know if that's the problem. It rarely is. Yeah. Like, you know.

It's almost symbolic. But it's almost just a symbolic move. And when you become a manager, you're at the mercy of those symbolic moves a little bit. I wonder. Aaron Boone. Yeah, same situation if the Yankees don't make the playoffs, I think. No, Aaron Boone. San Diego.

He'd fit those vibes. Yeah. It's a good vibe for him. I think he's from there? He's SoCal somewhere. SoCal somewhere, yeah. Nevin's from San Diego. Nevin's from San Diego.

Ooh. If I say to you, St. Augustine, Florida, what comes to mind? Dawes song. Fountain of Youth. My favorite song from Dawes. Thank you, Jake. Way to go. The fountain of youth.

And I think the Giants bought the whole. city of St. Augustine, Florida because they have Scott Casimir pitching for them in a very, very crucial stretch of their season. It's crazy, man. What's going on? 2004

Scott Casmer's debut. I love it. I love it. I was a freshman in high school. I think I was in the big leagues for Scott Casimir's last career 2016. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

What's going to? How are they doing it, man. Dude, good for him, who hosts is going to go there next year and hit 40 homers. Poolhol's going to go. I'm going to give myself another quick pat in the back for Albert Pujolos

sending up on a good team and by the way, he's been mashing for the Dodgers. He's been killing lefties this year and that's what he does. Every time I see Pooleholtz now and I see his batting stance, I think of you doing his batting stance and it cracks me up. It's my first thing that I visualize when I see it. So he's open,

up his stance a little bit more. I think that's Albert got a little older and he's, you know, cheating to get ahead a little bit because, you know, father time. Man, his goatee is as well manicured as one can be. I mean, that, I wonder if he has the grounds crew help out with that. It is like, it is so dialed. He's the best. Albert, we're the grounds crew. It'll only take a minute. Do you think he has it, um, lasered? Like, Edwin and Conaccion did. Potentially. That's how good you think is.

Potentially. But sometimes he does go beard. Yes, but, you know, you've seen a lot of good beard sections. You haven't seen that area, the goate area, is just always as crisp as it gets. You think he has it penciled in a little? Fill the gaps? I'll try to find a picture. I mean, I'm on it.

I googled Albert Poole. Dude, he's so thick. He's a thick lawyer right now. He's so thick. My God. Picture of you and him together? That's not us. Someone wearing a mask.

Someone in the chat said his barber travels with him. Yeah. Why not? He's probably his best friend as well. Look good, play good. What a dream, man. He hit the game. Dude, he's living the dream right now.

Well, I think for a long time he's been living the dream. He went over. The highest paid Hall of Famer. No, he went over to the Dodgers. And in this game, he had the game-winning pitch hit RBI single and got pinched ran for instantly. You guys want the win Here we go

I'll be in the showers Put the slides on Come back out eat some gummy bears I think there's a speed That pools can get to That he purposely Keeps away from everyone I don't know about that anymore

Like you see him run Even when he was with the Angels No I think My last few years If you got a ground ball From Out Pruhoes You had a double take How much time

It almost fucked you up How much time you had He hit the ball to you and he'd be like, oh my God, he is. What? Three steps out of the box. He just needs the postseason. That's what he's been saying, this whole angel's tenure. Yeah.

I get the postseason, I'll bring it to my top 10, you know, 10 out of 10 speed. So we haven't seen it. We might see it now. He might beat out a single. I'd bet on it right now. I'd bet one penny. I'd probably get a thousand bucks back. I could see Albert beat out like a big double play in the postseason.

They can. I can't. I mean, he's not, like, beating it out. but it's a ball that shouldn't. Hey, he's second percentile in sprint seat, boys, okay? Who's below him? There's a whole tier below him. Is there a way that you can...

Is there a way you can search? I don't know, I'm not. I'm sure there is. It's got to be. Baseball savant. Anything else we need to close up in the NL? I'll do... Braves.

If BPD was here... If BPD was here, he'd have Plufe versus Casimir pulled up. Mm. So in honor of that... No, it's not a shot at 10. It felt like a shot at Zach. It was in remembrance of BBD. Not a shot at you, Zach.

BPD lives on Treps' first pitch or pitch. I am 8 for 26 against Scott Chasmere, two doubles, four ribbies, 3.08 average 400 OBP. Whoops. Not great slugging. First at bat you ever had versus him? Double. You know, I rate lefties. Me and our Pruholz really do have a lot.

What a weird call. Really think about it. Look at this. Serious pop. Look at this call I'm getting right now. It just says Fox TV stations. Pick it up. Yep.

Should I pick it up on air? Pick it up on air. Yes. What if it's like an actual call that I have to take? Give him your social security number, though, first. Let's see. Hello? Hey, Jim.

This is Jonathan at Fox 5. How are you? I'm doing well. I'm in the middle of recording a show right now. Can I give you call back? Sorry, guys. Let me talk to you about the Braves. Yes, Trev.

Go. All right. All right. Perfect. Do you know? I mean, the odds that was a scam call because I show Jake my scam calls nonstop that just say like government. Jake's or really. That's crazy. Yeah.

Does he really from Fox? Yeah, I think, I don't know. It's weird that the call already says Fox Fox TV. Maybe that's a thing you can do now. I don't know. Yeah, it's weird. Because people will answer it instead of the number. All right.

Well, Treve, you're Braves. We're talking about young. we're talking about that little monster getting to 30 homer so now here's the stat I don't know if you read this I don't think you read this the second team

in MLB history to have their primary first baseman second baseman and third baseman all hit 30 that's how you do it Dansby is at 26 can Danzby just get hot and get to 30

Dansby Swanson with a 30 homer season that is something that none of us would have taken prior to the year. So you got nine, nine games to hit four ding-dongs for Dan's me. That could be tight. That could be tight. Could be tight. I love the brace.

I love watching them. I know it was the Diamondbacks. I get it, but they look good. They look like they're like getting ready. Like I feel like when the postseason comes around, we're like, okay, like the Braves are kind of like set. Let's go. Yeah, I wasn't joking. Go check out pitch ninja.

and check out Charlie Morton's slider curveball thing. I mean, you talked about how Sail the other day, his slider can, like, go into the dugout. Morton does the same, but from a normal arm slot. He's a sicko, man. When that guy turns it on. Yeah, I mean, but talking about the Braves, you have to mention Solair.

Another trade that I was kind of like, whatever about. I mean, he just got moved, or did he just get hurt? They just get hurt or out, but what he was, he's got to be injured at this point or something. But what he was doing from the two-haul, I mean, to get traded over, he was a 77 OPS plus with the Royals. They put him in the two-hole in between Albies and Freeman. Probably seeing a lot of nice pitches in front of Freddie. And it was 845 OPS, 118. But what happened?

He's not playing anymore, so I need. Braves fans, let us know. Rosario came back. Dude, is that what it is? He's going to the bench. Rosario's been killing it for the bridge. Solair, 845 OPS. Adam Duvall, 857 OPS.

Eddie Rosario, one dot in it in 23 games. Like, man, hey, you know, we get hesitant about giving managers love. Maybe we should give GMs a little love because the Cardinals, their hap-Lester move,

that didn't look like much, have become a big thing for them. And the Braves, man, I mean, dude, think about it. They brought in a whole new outfield. They brought in Jack Peterson. They brought in Solair. They brought in Duval.

Eddie Rosario. They brought in four. They brought in four, man. And that's, hey, how about this? Let's hope the Braves get rewarded. So, oh, my God, I'm so dumb. So more GMs try to do that. He moved to the lead-off spot.

I was looking at all their batting. I was so upset with myself because I was like, he's playing. I was watching the Braves yesterday. He just moved to the leadoff spot, and I was looking at the two-hole on. So, yeah. So there's been awesome. And I doubted that one, but he had the talent. Just got to help.

If you're a Royals fan, you're like, what the hell? Well, how much does protection do you think help them there? Protection, confidence, new motive and drive, Trev? Like, do you put any of that into it? Or is it just baseball? Like, that just happens. I think it's like, yeah, going. from the Royals.

Good franchise to play for, but now you're in a postseason raise could really spark some guys, you know, get them really refocused, if you will. And isn't he paying for some payday? He's a free agent after the year.

Yeah, like that's the motivator right there. Like, time to go. They had them five hole and four hole in Kansas City. They never really had them, you know, couple games in the tool they tried him out in front of Santana. But you got to think being where he is in that lineup in front of Freeman and Riley behind him. He's getting a couple more pitches in the zone to mash.

Oh, my God. Jake, you talking about Morton. Yes. Interesting, like, little tidbit. I think someone talked about it, though. I don't know if it was pitching injure or who, but they showed the pitch he threw to a lefty and basically wiped him out. I think that's what you're referencing. Literally took him down, yes.

yeah he like fell down and Morton was saying and this is so cool like such great perspective and insight from him about his himself so he would know he loves when a lefty is a bat with his curveball his breaking ball because he says that he can now use like the entire all the quadrants like he can backdoor it and then he can also start it inside and let it end off way off the plate because he can he can get swings and misses on that from a lefty he said when a Ritey's up there. If he starts that pitch there, they take it. It's an easy take for them. So it really limits him. He needs to start that ball middle and then go inside to a Ritey.

Whereas for a lefty, he's got the entire plate to work off because he can get those swings and misses on that side of the plate. So definitely something cool. Like you don't think about too often, but that's why he's still doing it. He understands how to fucking pitch, obviously. Gross. CT boy, too. Whoops. Whoops.

Chris Kruel in the chat deserves some love for reminding us this. Eddie Rosario was traded for Pablo Sandoval. Andy Rosario is so badass. I love him. Are they playing Pablo Sandoval? Can't. I don't think he ever played for that.

Yeah, I think it was. I think we have video footage of that like killing my soul. Yes. And people were like, why is John Boy so upset by this? Does he like Sandoval? Does he like Rosario? I was just like, no, it's just if you're an Indians fan. Yeah.

I mean, you could have got two 18-year-olds that maybe might have become big leaguers. Like Luis Heel, the Yankees got him in a complete Rule 5 dump trade. They had to trade Jake Cave. And they're like, well, just give us an 18-year-old that's pitching. And now he's getting big league outs. But the Indians elected Pablo Sandoval. Just to save a couple. Just to save a couple dollars.

Don't care about their future at all. Mm. Bothersome. All right. Anything else? I mean, we didn't talk Dodgers Giants at all. That race is going to be really fun and crazy. Who did the Dodgers play?

Because the Giants play the Padres. The other team that deserves to be mentioned in kind of the satellite, John Boy Media's Reds. Come on, man. Dude, I mean, the birds turned it on and they kind of turned it off. Like, it's tough. Jonathan India is still turning people on. Yeah.

Oh, sure. I mean, Phillies are four and a half out of the second wild card spot, and that's the closest team. Sincere five and a half. It's over. There's two back of ATL, though. The Cardinals are going to be able to rest their pitching for the one-game playoffs. God.

What do you think their street gets to? Well, the Dodgers and Giants don't. Mm-mm. Honestly, with the Cardinals not losing yesterday with the big comeback, like, I think you start going Looney Tune mode. Like, I'm kind of a fan of the streak being over, so that doesn't become a conversation. And, like, end of the Brewer Series, you still won three out of four.

I think that's the perfect moment. They got a double dick against the Cubs today? Like, let's go. You win both of those seven inning games against a team that's done. You're at 14. That's a big number. Yeah, man, it's wild that the Cardinals are in the better spot for the Wild Card. Then the Dodgers Giants.

Team-wise, talent on the team, I'm not knocking the Giants or Dodgers, but those guys want to win the division. They're going to go to the end. They're going to use all their relievers. They're going to use their best starters. They might put someone aside just in case because they want, they're not going to burn all their starters for the wild card. But the Cardinals get to make sure all their top pen arms are ready for that wild card game.

they're going to get their starter, Wayno, like lined up. Odd to think about it that the Dodgers might have a 15-game lead on the Cardinals or whatever it is. But the Cardinals have a better set up for a one game than they will in a way. Didn't we say they lined up Scherzer for that game?

We did that math on here before. I think he is, and by the way, you know, we've gotten so lost in the Brewers pitching this year. go look at where Scherzer, Bueller, and Ureus's stats are now. This isn't throwing him under bus, because I think he's one of the best to ever do it, and he's still doing it. Scott Van Pelt, his sports center was on the other day,

and they were doing like a gimmicky trivia show, and they go, you know, which Dodgers pitcher has the best sigh young odds, and he goes, well, I just saw Ureas' stats. It's got to be him, right? And then he's like, oh, I didn't see Shurzer. He's doing nasty. I knew that. And then Walker Bueller's been like the number two Sy Young guy for the past two months.

Like, I feel like we haven't had Dodgers fever for a little bit because the Giants continue to hold them off. And I sent you guys, if you haven't seen the Gossman pick. I sent it in our talking baseball chat. Sexy, sexy, sexy. Dude, the Dodgers. And by the way, those three names I just mentioned aren't Clayton Kershaw.

Dude, like, the Dodgers are a problem slash they might be out in one game. Now, the Dodgers dressed up like Sons of Anarchy and the Giants dressed up like Sailors. No, the Dodgers did TV shows, like whatever you would have. Well, their pitching staff did Sons of Anarchy, right? Yeah. And I didn't see the rest. I'm interested in that.

And the Giants dressed up as sexy sailors. I just love that picture. I just love that picture. Good juxtaposition between the two. if they ever meet up. I mean, where's Gabe Kapler with the pipes? Do you think they're just eating a bunch of goji berries in San Francisco? Do you think that could be it?

Yes. Goji berries produce HGH in your body, I believe. Really? Maybe that's it. We just found it out. And I'm going to go order goji berries. What neighborhood in San Francisco do you think Cap's staying? Hmm.

Mission? I think he's... No. He's not tough enough. Isn't that super hipster? I think he's in the marina. I think he's sleeping outside. Gabe Capuch is very tough, you guys.

I don't think you guys understand how tough Gabe. I don't agree with the mission. Physically. I don't agree with the mission. No, no. I think Gabe, like, wants that. You do? I do.

I think he wants the intellectual side. He wants to be the toughest guy at the intellectual side of the city. Like our friend Rob, who's like a big pharmacist, but he wants us, he wants to look dumb. He's smart. Gabe's the opposite. I think Gabe, you know, there's some, the homeless situation in San Francisco is scary. It's, it sucks. It sucks.

Like, I wish that wasn't the case. But there are a lot of, um, zombie-esque. Like, there's a lot of drugs there. I think Gabe, like, goes and, like, be friends these people and talks to them where other people are, like, scared to even walk around. So Gabe is, Gabe is like, you know, he's very much in his element. No, man, I did that when I first moved there and I had a conversation with this guy. And I mean, it's really scary. They call it like the...

There's a lot of drugs downtown, man. I went to school, like, right by, like, kind of tender horn, the fifth admission, like, bad area. And, like, at, like, 2 o'clock, it's like they call it the witching hour. It's when everyone's coming down looking for their next fix. And it's honestly just zombies. It's really sad.

But, like, one guy just jumped out the corner every time for me. It just stand in the corner, you walk by, and you'd scare the shit out of you. I was like, whoa. I think one of the last times I was in San Francisco I think I went to a convenience store and I started walking with a limp just to like blend in a little more

Maybe I think I did Well we got to figure that out Okay that needs any figure Well California won a lawsuit against Utah or Nevada Because they took all their psych patients And their hospitals and gave them one-way bus tickets to California

Messed up Kevin Newsom messed up He just he had some big tax initiative or we're going to try to fix homelessness and stuff, which is, I'm in for that. It is.

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All right. California rolls there, five top flavors. Trevor, what happened in your American League? Well, let me tell you guys what happened. We're going to start out at the Trump. Hardgate series. Blue Jays rolled down to take on the raise. And the rays take two out of three, six four rays, four two blue jays in game two, and then an absolute buttwop. And seven to one raise in game three. Shane Baz, remember that Chris Archer tray that everyone likes to talk about? This is the other guy. They had Austin Meadows. They had Tyler Glass now. Now Shane Bass

thrown 100 miles per hour up there. He goes five innings pitch two and runs for the win in his MLB debut in game one. Dias with a go-ahead three on Homer in the fifth inning. Bichette, our guy, Bo. Go ahead, sack fly in the sixth inning of game two, and then game three is where all the shit went crazy. The race took it to him, but the bench is clear after Ryan Burrucky, great name, hits Kiermeyer, and we all know what happened after that. Go check out Jim's breakdown. We'll probably be talking quite a bit about that after I get done here, but the raise take two out of three. Moving on, the Rangers, go. up into New York and the Yankees sweep. We love to see it. Go ahead, get it. Yankees 437-1-7-3.

Yankees bullpen goes four and two-thirds shutout endings with just two hits and no walks in game one. Montgomery goes five and two-thirds with one and run for the winning game two. Sevy comes back and those two shutout innings in his season debut. Good to see him back. And Torres, go ahead. RBI double in the eighth inning of game three. Kind of stinks because our guy, Heron, look pretty good. We love him, but the Yankees do it, man. They get the job done and get the sweep. Mariners go into Oakland, and the Mariners sweep a four-game set.

Oakland, what is you doing, baby? 4-2-5-2-4-1-6-5 Mariners. Flush. Tyler Anderson goes seven innings pitch with one earned run for the winning game one. That's his best start as a mariner. Gonzalez goes six innings pitch, two runs for the winning game two. Flexen, seven in a inning pitch, one earn run for the win in game three. Is that good for your starters?

I think it is. Luis Torrens with a go-ahead two-run homer in the sixth inning of game four. A four game sweep. The Mariners are still in it. The Mariners are still in. The A's. They are not. Chris Bassett comes back, though.

Shout out him. We'll talk about him later. White Sox at Tigers. Tigers sweep. Not really a what is you doing, baby, because the white socks don't. really care right now. It's only a two game set. Game 3 was postponed. Four three tigers, five three tigers.

Harold Castro, the go-ahead RBI single in the eighth inning of game one. And my guy, Nico Goodrum, go-ahead RBI single in the seventh inning of game two. Are they going to make up this game? Probably won't even matter, so probably not. Astros go down to Anaheim, and they take

three of four from the Angels. 10-0, 10-0, 10-5, Jesus. 9-5 in game 3 and 12 before the Angels avoided the sweep 3-2 in game 4. Our guy Framberg, O 7, Shuddy, more about him later in game 1. Astros score 4

in the 12th inning of game 3, including Jake Myers' go-ahead, RBI single, Garcia go 6 shut outings, my goodness. And then for the Angels, Mayfield with the go-ahead to go-ah-hulled to go-ahed two-run double in the sixth inning to avoid the sweet Bauderz. He's on his way back. That's a good thing. And the last series,

Royals at Indians. I know we're going to say we don't care, but we do care. We're talking Baseball. Royals take two out of three. It was supposed to be a four game set. Game four did get postponed. Seven two royals. Four two royals. Those are both seven innings. That was a double header. And then the Indians won the last game four to one. Brady Singer. I got a lot of his rookie cards. Pitches a seven inning complete game with two and runs in game one. Go off King. Anthony Ghost, that was the story of game two. Comes back to the major leagues as a pitcher this time. goes one in two-thirds innings pitch with one earn-run, run, one hit, one walk, and one-K. Fun to see him doing his thing in the show again.

And then our guy, Quantrell, goes six and two-thirds, one-erun run for the win in the third game. They get that one, but the Royals end up taking two out of three. And that, my friends, is what happened in the American. You guys both left it just enough. Jake wasn't going to get upset with me for letting me ride. Well, I wanted it to ride today. Thursdays when I don't. Oh, okay.

That's why I give you the cue. Good job, Trevor. Job, Trev. A little stretch there. We can start with some of the sad news, like Oakland, get swept. Because I think that sweep is sadder than people realize, but people in Oakland may. Like, finishing third, the owner wants out of Oakland.

Everyone's a free agent. and then you got a lot of guys who you can trade. I think the Oakland window, this unit, we're seeing our last nine games of it. I think you got Kana. I think he's out. Manaya traded. Chapman, probably gone.

Olson. Chapman and Olson, one of them. I don't know. But I think that this unit, which was really good, probably over. Which sad. Like, honestly, it's a really, it's a good team. There's a bunch of good group of guys.

The diehard A's fans in Oakland are awesome. But that's like, that's finished in third. And the owner's been like, kind of disrespecting Oakland and the fan base all season anyway. Sad times for Oakland. I was reading a bunch of comments on about them from like A's fans on Reddit and stuff. And they're all like, yeah. windows kind of closed, but that's about as open as our window ever gets.

It's like they're good. Win a lot of games, make the playoffs once or twice, but never fully like attack it. They're used to it there. And we know what sucks before this four game sweep. They won five in a row. They haven't been great in the second half. I think they're below 500 in the second half after these four losses. But it is tough.

It's tough to watch them. I don't know if they're trading everybody. I guess I have to go look and see where everyone's at. But they do still have a nice little core there. But, you know, they don't keep teams together. We do know that. And they do like to sell it high value. So it wouldn't surprise me to see, you know,

two, three, four of these guys get out of there. Arb two is usually when the raise and A's kind of sell their guys. And that's what everyone's kind of getting to. That's what Chapman and Olson are getting to. Kana is gone. He's a free agent. so it's not trade. But then like, Manea can get traded or Menaia Pinder.

So, yeah, I don't know. It's going to be like when we look at offseason rosters after the playoffs and we're like, so which teams might be dumping, I think they're going to come to mind. Tough, man. Luriano gets suspended. He's a huge part of that team. One of their bigger offseason moves, they signed Trevor Rosenthal coming out of his awesome season last year.

And he was out for the season started. He was supposed to be their closer. So you look at how. some of these little things come together, and they made moves at the deadline. Chafin's been gross for them. They traded for Starling Marte, which I at the time said, I hope I'm thanking Oakland for him not getting traded to Houston. Luckily, the Yankees have a lot bigger problems than to think about that.

But, man, yeah, I don't know. And you mentioned trading at a high that makes me think, my guy, Maddie Olson is arguably, I think he's having a top five MVP season. And Maddie Chapman kind of had a weird start to the year and all that. You know, if we're talking about getting value, my guy date my daughter, Matt Olson. And on the flip side mariners, they sweep them. And the mariners are kind of cementing their next year as maybe buyers. Maybe Seeger's off third and Chapman comes up north.

We love the 2022 Mariners. I think we were the first on the 2022 Mariners. Could have been. I think I've been following it. I think I'm going to give myself a little backpack. Back pad. I said, I think the Mariners are going to be the fun offseason team. And the team has given them every reason to do it.

First of all, J.P. Crawford, big time. But yeah, man, I mean. He had a big series, too. Kelnick's up. He's been hot. He's been hot. They made that Toro trade. Toro.

Kyle Lewis has barely even played this show. Thai France. Kyle Lewis has barely even played this year. They've got Julio Rodriguez. A huge prospect for them. Could be up next year. Oh, yes. And hey, Seattle fans, they're two back. You know,

Yankees and Sox are going to be punching each other in the face this weekend. Sox could basically end the Yankees season. And then, hey, Yankees play Toronto after that. Yankees knocked Toronto down. Seattle keep winning. Yeah, I was trying to...

Keep swinging that sword, baby. I was trying to figure out Seattle's path because, say, the Red Sox sweep the Yankees, that's what Seattle would be rooting for. But then Yankees, Toronto, I think they'd want the Yankees to sweep Toronto. Yeah. And then the rays to sweep the Yankees.

It's a lot. It's interesting. It's asking for a lot. just keep winning games. Yeah. That's all you can do. Just to think about how their seasons started with, you know, the front office

saying dumb stuff to a rotary club and, you know, saying that Seeger wasn't going to be back, so you got his wife on Twitter being like, I guess we're moving. Yeah. And here they are, man. Like, is, you think they pick up Seeger's option now?

No, no. Probably not. But good chance. to like resign him. Maybe, yeah. Now he's not coming back. If they don't pick up his option, there's no way he's coming back.

They offer you the most money. He's pissed. Seattle's home. All right. Anything else before we get to like the crazy teams? American League. The Tigers sweep the White Sox. It was two games.

The third game got postponed. And I think the White Sox just decided they turned it on. They played a double header yesterday. which doesn't count as the recap. But I don't know what they did in game two actually, but in game one, I believe they won handedly. Let me try and nope, then they lost game two.

Well, they clinched. They clinched. So they were happy. We got to see the locker room celebration, Lucas Giolyto pouring champagne all over his face, which I love. I think those are my favorite baseball highlights of the years, the champagne's

They're always fun. It's so fun. It's so fun to watch that stuff. You get to see a lot of players' personalities that you don't get to, that are different, you know. And you get to see which guy you don't really know his name, but he's going the craziest in the clubhouse.

It's always one of those. You always can spot the Canadians because they're just getting shit-faced. Wow. Love that. Shout out to Tyler O'Neill. The, I'll save the Kiramars up for the end. So the Yankees sweep the Rangers, which is good.

They're in a position now where their destiny is in their hands, playing the Red Sox and playing Toronto. They need to win the next two series. But the bats came alive, but the Rangers are not a great team right now, Trev. And we were at game three, which the Yankees won seven to three is very exciting. And the more and more and more I think about the thing. that happened in the game, the more I get, like, worried. We were there, so we had stadium energy, but still just a lot of errors, a lot of missed

opportunities. They tied the game on a wild pitch. They've scored the most runs on wild pitches out of any team. So I still, my juices are flowing for tonight with the Red Sox. I still can't get hurt. I've already been, like, felt that. But if they win tonight, it'll, I'll find myself in a very exciting and crazy state of mind.

I got to say, as my first year part of Yankees Twitter, it's a ride. Holy shit, you guys. Well, they have been the streakiest team in baseball this year. So the ride this year is different than any other ride we've been on. Okay. That makes me feel better because I don't, like, 2022, I don't know if I can, I might have to, like, unfollow some people. Like, I got a lot of Yankee stuff on my feed.

And it's, is they lost 12 in a row. Then they won 12 in a row. but even when they win, they don't look good doing it. And that's like the part that people say is obnoxious. But we did this. We do like an analytical thing. The Yankees have the least amount of blowouts in baseball on either side. So they have the most amount of close games.

They have the least amount of wins by five or more in MLB. So every game's a roller coaster. So every win feels like you just scrape by. And every loss feels like your bullpen blew it. That's been the whole season. So it's just like nothing but high emotions and craziness. Their one-run game stuff is insane. Two-run games as well. But yeah, like you said, Savi's back, which that was a cool moment for Yankee fans.

I mean, that was, I said this on Talking Yanks, but, you know, early talking Yanks, that used to be like the Internet battle. It's like Gary Sanchez stuff, which Trev, I know you've jumped in the teeth of. And it was like, is Luis Severino a true ace? And, man, 707 days since he pitched. he didn't look like top of the line Ace Severino, but he hasn't pitched 707 days. So that was nice.

They got Mike King back in their bullpen. Hermann is back. And those could be two-inning impact guys. I mean, it's just, they got nine games left. You pretty much have to go six and three if you want to dance. Just have to play really clean baseball, and we haven't seen that a lot. And of the three teams going for the two wildcards, they have the hardest path. the Red Sox and the Blue Jays have much easier paths

because right now those teams are a little better than the Yankees, in my opinion. And they play the Yankees, and then they play Baltimore and the Twins. The Yankees have to play the Red Sox Toronto and Tampa. Twins are going to be spoilers? I wouldn't. I don't know. We'll see.

I wouldn't, like right now, I think rational brain says it's Red Sox and Toronto in the wild card. You're putting six and three. That's the record. I think so. I think so because those games are against Boston and Toronto. So, like, if they go six and three, you know, that means they've taken so many games from Boston and Toronto along the way that I think that would get them home. They need to win both those series. Like, if they go six and three, five of them have to come. And, yeah, they just need to go two and they need to win the Red Sox in Toronto.

But, I mean, if they win one of the series and then they sweep Tampa to end the year, that probably gets them home. But, I mean, that's the raise, man. As if the raise, even while clinched, would let them sweep all three games. They would pitch every pitcher in the Saturday game to ruin the Yankee season. I think they are anyway. Everyone goes three-batter minimum. I think they are going to do that.

It doesn't matter if you get them out or not. That's what teams do in preparation for the post. season is they just let all their relievers get one inning to go shove and get right. So I think the, like the Yankees aren't going to face an easy race team. They're going to face a raise prepping. They're going to their starter and then reliever games, which are hell. Let's go twins. Go, twins go.

The Blue Jays and the raise. They're in the AL recap and they had the most drama. The raise took two out of three, like we heard. And then we got Cardgate. How about that? Kiermarer tries to get a little league home run on error by the third baseman. Slides home. tries to get sneaky with the tag.

Alejandro's Kirk's sheet, which Trev, can you give insight on what might be on that catcher's sheet? I know you asked around. Yeah, I taught to my buddy Drew, and my thought was it was just pitch sequences, like signs for run around second base. You see the pitchers all the time going,

like looking at their sheet and going four, and they catcher going, okay. But Drew said it can be more than that. It can be just that. it also could be, you know, how you approach a guy. So it looks scouting reports, but he said it can get really specific. Pitcher on the mound, certain counts what they want you to throw. He said you could call a game sometimes based on the information that you have there.

He says he hated it because he felt really robotic with it. So he didn't like to do that. He said you really could do that. So there's a lot of good information on there. and for the race, I mean, they definitely took a picture of it. Let's just be real. Like they had it with plenty of time. Like, snap.

To know how they put their information down on the card is something. To know how they want to approach you in certain counts is something. But I said it before, and I'll say it again. I mean, you kind of understand how teams want to approach you as a hitter. So I don't think it's like a crazy thing. Unless there's something else that I don't know could be on there. The sequences is easy enough to change around. especially if you have a card in front of you.

So it's not like you have to remember or memorize a new set of sequences. But it could be a lot of stuff. I kind of zoomed in on in the breakdown. To me, it looked like it had a square for each batter. And then like, you know, just tracking like, you know, maybe fastball inside or like little circles and the names of pitches. But I have no idea. But the Blue Jay said if there's one piece of paper,

we wouldn't want them to have it's this, which why would you say that if you're the Blue Jays? Like that. I think the Blue Jays said, Lou J. I am so torn. If you're a fan of either team, obviously it's black and white. I like, like and dislikes. Or I'm not like, but I'm fine with and not fine with so many different avenues of this thing.

Like, Keirmeyer taking it. Yeah, who cares? Kirk ran away. He was on the ground. Take it. It's not like he dug it out of his pocket or like snuck into their clubhouse and took it. It was right there. Kiermire acting like it wasn't a sneaky move.

Like, come on, dude. Just. just if you were like, if your curemire just was like, yeah, thought it could help us out. It was just laying there. I dig it.

I think people would be fine with that. They could have done it so much different. Like Keirmeyer could have just snatched it up, put in his back pocket. Yeah. Because that's what he would do if it was his. Put it in your back pocket. Go into the tunnel and say,

coach, follow me. Give it to your coach. Take a picture of it. Then just go give it back. And like, oh, we didn't even really, I thought it was mine here,

take it back. This whole shenanigans, the charades that played out was interesting to me. But I guess, you know, it was the heat of the moment. That's the thing for me, and it's kind of how Jimmy's voicing it, but for me it doesn't get me jazzed up at all. The whole thing is a pile of bleh for me. I don't even like that catchers have these cards that could have that much information on them. You know, and like, so that part is kind of eh.

Like, Kiermeyer stealing it, yeah, he, he, He's open to that. I think, you know, this would have been a non-story if he just taps it and gives it back to Kirk. And I wouldn't think less of him as a competitor. Like, you know? And then the Blue Jays and how they're handling it and all of that, like, I don't know. The whole thing should be exciting. But for me, it's just like, eh.

I almost, like, everything is like minus one point in my head. And I just don't like it. I some people are like it's like finding a wallet on the ground and stealing its money it's like no it's not that's robbing a human being this is gamesmanship

and you're competing I think the equivalent is if you get into your classroom early and your teacher left the answer sheet on like a student's desk it wasn't her desk which she was just like it's just lying around

you're gonna take a look at that and you're gonna feel not great about it but you're gonna get the answers and you're gonna like use it and if you get caught you're going to get detention or whatever and you're going to be like, whatever, I deserved it. So I don't even really have a problem with Kirmyer getting hit,

which is where I'm really odded out by my own brain because I don't like throwing at batters. I'm always pretty like, don't. Like you have like a weapon in your hand, don't do it. But the way he did the interview and stuff, I was like, eh, it adds up. Like it was very much him and not like, well, you're a pitcher hit one of our guys,

so we're going to hit another random guy and innocent people being like, you know, the way he handled the internet. I didn't even mind that they hit him. So I was enthralled. or like humored by the whole exchange. I actually agree with you on that. I'm also on the no hit batters committee.

But I think this might have warranted it a little bit, except for one thing. You said it was water under the bridge, dude. I don't like you coming out and saying that, saying, oh, we're done, it's over. And then hitting him anyway. And then not only just hitting him, you wait two days.

and wait till the game's out of hand to hit him. If you are so mad and you really want to send a fucking message, go hit him. I understand you're in a playoff race. You don't want to put a runner on base when it might mean something. But like, that's what you do.

If you want to be a tough guy, that's what you do. But don't tell, don't Charlie Montoyo going and saying it's water under the bridge. Like, that should have been it, dude. Yeah. Honestly, I think a lot of people lost a lot of respect. for him in that regard where it's like you said it was over and it wasn't.

You lied to everybody that you were a friend with for many years. Well, if I had to guess, and obviously I have no insight here, it's pure speculation and guessing, I would guess for Montoya it was under the bridge. And I would guess that after the second

game, there were some Jay's players or Jay's maybe Hardo coaches that went, were still like, they're just bullshit. Who the fuck's going to do it. Someone better hit him. Someone better hit him. And Baroquee came in and maybe, we've heard from players that have hit guys because they were told they had to from their coaches or a teammate. Of course. It felt like that situation to me the way he was kind of standing on the

mount after just like, what? Oh, okay, I'm gone. So I would guess that there's other people in the Jay's dugout clubhouse that just for like not on the same page as Montoya ever. And then it was kind of just divided there. I think pitching coaches might be the most. I think pitching coaches might be the most hardo coaches in baseball. It's always very much old school. Gotta pitch inside. The biggest thing, pitching coaches always say,

gotta move their feet. You know, like, no, you don't. You don't have to fucking knock me on my ass so you can pitch. Like,

that doesn't make any sense, dude. Command the inside part of the plate, sure, but you don't need to buzz me and knock me down to make me feel uncomfortable. That's such like the old school,

you know, mentality that a lot of these guys have. So I agree with you, Jim. I don't think Montoya it, but it's under his umbrella, dude, so it's his responsibility. Yeah, I decided I, uh, my dream, how that scenario went is Keirmeier picks it up and just rips it. So it's just like a minor inconvenience. Like, yeah, you probably got more of these,

but fuck you. Uh, but yeah, I, I said at the end of my breakdown, it's obviously a bigger conversation and one that we've had a lot. Get paper out of baseball, man. No fan wants to watch these players look at a study sheet on the field. And not sports. Imagine. a basketball player, like running back to his defensive position and looking at like a piece of paper that was on an armband about what they yell out, zone four, whatever it is, and he just looks at it. Like, it's, uh, quarterbacks do it, obviously. They have a lot to memorize.

It's a lot more, but get paper. Quarterbacks do it. Defensive captains do it. Golf does it. There are a lot of sports that have a lot of notes written down. So I don't love it either, Jim, but I don't think it's that big of a deal. Yeah, I wouldn't fight hard for it. But if you were just to ask me, I'd say, yeah, get it out of there.

Would you rather have this going on or like the bench coach top step, waving his arms? Oh, I love that. I love that, dude. They did that in the, uh... Get a couple players ignoring it. That's the best. I think that was the twins.

There was a game I was watching yesterday. I mean, it was Pirates, Phillies. They thought they were intentionally walking the batter because the infield coach was just throwing up four fingers and the announcer's like, they're going to walk them? and the other guy was like, no, no, he's just telling him four infielders now. They had three before. And I was like, yeah, I like the war signals. I like that stuff.

Yeah. The one thing I will say is there is nothing more boring than a defensive positioning meeting. And so these cards kind of like put an end to that because now you just got to look at the card. So that was nice. Like you, I fell asleep during a lot of these things. Like, holy shit, we're going to go through every hitter. a slight pull, slight oppo, three steps. Like, dude, I'm not going to remember any of this.

So I'm going to watch you. And we see where the coach is doing. Come up off the bench and tell me where to go. So the cards, I'm split on the card. I like the non-cards because some of the coolest time, like Lou Pinella, his game in the game 163 against the Red Sox, I think Billy Martin or someone told him to move at the last second. And then he made the lunging grab.

Paul O'Neill, another Yankee one has one in the World Series. in 01 when they were just screaming at him, screaming at him. Like, go that way. Goes that way. And then he makes the catch at the wall, like last stride. And then you have that moment. You're like, oh. But when he looks at a card, it's not as cool.

Yeah. It does give you a built-it excuse as an infieler cheap. Like, you guys put me here. Again, I wouldn't like lobby hard against it. But if you were to ask me, I'd say, I'd get paper out of baseball. I like that saying. I'm going to pay. click. I'm sorry. You're going to miss my

interle. I know, dude. It's right. I have to I need to click in and click out too, Jim. Yeah, it's fine. I'll go solo, man. We'll do the inner league. I didn't. No, I'll be right back. Ready, Zach? You ready with my, I'll be back, Zach? I don't know if I think so.

It's a robot picture. Yeah, I've got the robot. All right, do what these are happening in the IL. The Mets went up to Boston to play two games against the Red Sox and they stunk it up as the Red Sox beat them. 6 to 3 in game 1, 12 to 5 in game 2.

Erod and Sale pitch for the Mets, Strowman and Walker pitch, Erod and Sale pitch for the Red Sox, Strowman and Walker pitch for the Mets. The Red Sox slash 324 with a 403 on base. They had 15 extra base hits. How about that? The Red Sox starting pitchers, 3-86 ERA.

Mets starting pitchers? I think it is mostly Walker. not good 12-86 ERA not good at all Schwarbo had four extra base hits two home runs Boggerts had three hits in a home run Alonzo though two homers two homers for Alonzo four of seven Mets pitchers give up multiple earned runs Walker got rocked not fun to see that Schwerber homers in each of the first two innings of game two

that's only happened 10 times this season and Schwerber's done it in three of those times Holy smokes. The Orioles and the Phillies played three games, and the Phillies lost the first game. Uh-oh, are they going down the drain? Sadness abounds. No, they win game two and extras. They win game three with Wheeler on the bump.

No starting pitcher for either team gave up more than two runs. So as a pitching fest, Philly starting pitchers were Rangers Juarez. Green? Who that? Whaler. Real Muto had four hits. McCutcheon had four hits with a homer.

Means went 6.2, shut our innings for the winning game one, which is good. Orioles win the Means games at least. Have some pride. Twins and Cubs played. How about that? Wow. This game on the schedule back in April, you were looking at it like,

hey, this might mean something. It means nothing. Twins won both. That's your interleague recap. Hmm. Mets go in sabotage mode on the Yankees. Well, if we're not going to make the playoffs, let's at least take the Yankees down with us.

What's the sadder collapse? Padres or Mets? Padres. The Mets haven't fully gone all in yet. It's like Cohen's first year. They did get Lindor. They did make some trades. De Grom got hurt, though.

And the bats haven't been around all year. Padres were, they made a lot of moves. Then they made more moves. They had higher expectations, and there might be 500 now. Yeah, the tough part might be, you know, Mets, they led the NLEs for a little bit. The Padres never did. I mean, the Giants were always ahead of them. And, you know, the Dodgers had such big expectations where the Mets, God, you know,

we kind of saw it happening before our eyes. And, yeah, I mean, that's the most interesting race in baseball right now. Rockies are two games back of the Mets. You know, if the Rockies catch the Mets. Wait, is that fucking true? Yes. That's going to be like, that's going to be a big line this off season. Oh, the Rockies actually finished higher than the Mets?

Yeah. How close are the Rockies and the Padres? Not close. Six games. Close enough. Mets are two games up on the Rocks. They're going to finish in the same ballpark. they're all going to be a group.

These three teams finished equally. You're like, what? Padres can still salvage a little bit and be like over 500. They won't. They're going to get the 500. They play the Giants. All these guys now, man. And this just happens naturally.

You're competing for the spot. All of a sudden, you're basically out of it. How quickly your mental state can change. Like, oh, shit, I'm about to have some time off. it's such a weird feeling at this point of the year you've been going hard for eight months straight go to spring training basically two months down there six weeks

then you got the whole six month season and all of a sudden you're like I'm about to not have to do anything for a while it's a weird thing to think about a lot of these teams getting to think about it the Mets players lining up their vacation homes Reds all these teams

Padres they're all lining it up a lot of people probably be in Hawaii soon I had to guess. It's a popular destination. I got bad news for you guys. Game two of this Red Sox Mets series, three pitchers took the mound that have been guests on this very program.

Actually, I've been guests on John Boy Media shows. And they all gave up earned runs. And they combined for seven innings pitched, 11 earned runs. Not a good look. Taiwan Walker season's bizarre All-star I don't know what his final numbers are going to look like

but not all-star level anymore That sucks for him You know this This series Good for the Red Sox In most regards, bad Garrett Whitlock plays in the 10-day IL He's been an absolute star

For them I wonder if that's just like a precautionary thing It says right pectoral strain. You're not coming back anytime soon with that. I don't know. I guess if we have any Red Sox fans in the chat, what's the sniff test on all of that? That sucks, dude, for a guy, he's a rookie

this year, right? Yeah, yeah. Schwarber, the note that Statt researcher Max put for us is he had a home run in the first inning, then a home run in the second inning. That's happened 10 times this season, and he's done it three of them. Wow.

Dude, shout out Red Sox, man. Everyone seven in a row now? Seven in a row at this point of the year. That's huge. That's huge. I mean, even if it was six in one, we're talking about the wild card being completely wide open.

Instead, I mean, they are pretty firmly in the door. They would have to collapse. They're playing good baseball right now, Schwerber balling out. Good for Boston. In the Yellow City Connects, getting it done. I don't like those uniforms. But credit to the Red Sox.

they've always taken chances on uniforms. I think because it's like the opposite of the Yankees who never changed. Red Sox's like, fuck it, it will wear anything. Green, yellow? What do you got? How many different uniforms are you seeing the Red Sox in? They're green. Do you think Cole is going to just like really hate the fact that they're wearing yellow jerseys tonight

and like focus in on that and try to... Interesting. Are they wearing them tonight? Are they just wearing them now? I think they've been wearing them on their winning streak. I love that, dude. I love that. That sucks that they're...

Canary in a coal mine, like canary yellow coal? There's something there. We could make something up for there. Canary's not going to fly back? You're going to put the canary to death? Call the canary's dead. The canaries are very much alive right now.

Yeah, but... They're whistling in the coal mine. Coal versus. Avaldi tonight, let's go. It's funny because Cole is one of the Yankees, one of. Coles the Yankees ace. Red Sox fans are not scared of him. Sale is the Red Sox ace.

Yankees fans aren't that terrified of sale. Avaldi's been really good lately, but kind of up and down naturally in his career. Yankees fans are terrified of Avaldi. So basically, I'm more scared of Avaldi than the Red Sox are of Cole tonight. Avaldi just shuts the Yankees. down quick too. He does. It's not a fun watch. Pumping heaters. And he's been really good of Aldi. I just wanted to say my pee was dedicated to Big Baby David. It was. That's nice.

That's nice. Big Pierre. Piss Festival. Speaking of Piss Festival, Philly is still doing it. Yeah. He still have a real shot at the Braves because who do they play next? They play Pittsburgh next, and then they got a three-gamer against each other. Against Atlanta. And they just played Pittsburgh yesterday, and we don't do Thursday shows

if they're the start of a series here, obviously, but they were down 6-0 and they won 12-6, and a little baby toe hit a homer. Not a joke. That dude's smaller than Jake and I. We stood next to him in a locker room with you, Trev. Probably in better shape, muscle to fat ratio probably much better.

Definitely in better shape. But low baby toe hits a big homer. Seven homers this year different. Well, in that moment, for him to go deep, like, like, you know, that's a sign of something. That's more than just what it is. Same amount of home runs as Glaber Torres. Oh, my goodness.

Yeah, I'm curious. I mean, look, we're talking, the Braves are, are made some good moves and they're kind of the talk right now. and then the Phillies, like, they could sneak up and snatch that thing, dude. That's, I've been tough on the Phillies. I'll probably say it every episode the rest of the way. I will believe it once they're in the playoffs.

I believe in organizations. And, like, right now I can point to St. Louis Cardinals. And what they're about, Phillies prove me wrong, man. But I don't know. I believe in the Braves. What if tonight the Braves lose to the Padres, Sure. And the Phillies beat Pittsburgh, and it's one game.

When do you start? What if they go in even? You think the Braves would take care of them? Yeah. I mean, I'm almost at. The Phillies have to jump them. Before they play each other, is what you're saying? No, I mean, even if they're playing each other and the Phillies go from even to one up or whatever, that's when I'll buy in. Well, the Braves have the Mets. The Braves have the Mets, the last series of the, and Philly has Miami. So, Philly schedule, which it's been the whole time.

Easier on paper. I like the Braves. I don't really have a lean either way. Something about when Philly does an exciting thing, I like get more excited by it. I don't know why. I don't know if I like their crisp uniforms. It's just a Harper effect. I think it's Harper, man.

And that guy's awesome. Yeah, I think it's... His game-winning run when he hits home played and gives out the let's go and it's not... You know, it's crazy that we've seen him from such a young age. I think he's just a Harper effect. That's Harper, dude. Like, he's got, you know, he's going to have a weird basement with $400 million worth of stuff. But, man, when he's round in the bases trying to score, it's, you know...

Bobberd or Hay. Pete Rose or, like, whoever you compare him. it to. Whether you love him, hate him, or indifferent, he's a bright light wherever he is on the field. Like if the cameras are on him, it feels like a bigger moment. I don't know how anyone can hate him. Like, what has he done to elicit hate? He's pretty, be really good, one, like be a phenom at something. Invokes a lot of jealousy. They don't hate the bad players. Yeah. Face of a team. Like, if you were a rival of the Nats, then there's four teams that have to play him a lot and you're like fucking hate that guy and then he's always not cared what people

thought man and like some of his first times on the main stage like when he was home run derby i remember they like did a camera where they like went back into the clubhouse with him where he was like putting on his eye block and putting on his like USA like and he's flipping his hair and like you know that might be a little too much for people i love the drama of it all and the w w w eve at all but some people i understand why some people like love to hate him because he's that I can't understand that. So the only thing they hate about him is he's good. To me,

that means he's done nothing. And he's done everything right way. And he knows. And he knows it. Yeah. Well, shit, he's been on the, he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at 12 years old. He's a LeBron James of baseball, essentially.

Even more, he didn't, he didn't, well, not even more, but in that way. He didn't graduate high school, guys. Yeah. Just so he could get, right. Just so he can get drafted early. Like, that aspect of his story, I will be 80 years old telling my grand. So I'm like, well, that guy actually, he tested out of high school, played half a season at a junior college. So he'd get drafted at 17 years old as the number one overall pick.

Was a catcher, too. People forget that. And he pitched a little, I think, for that Juko team. Can I get some? You got to give love to him, man. If you hate Bryce Harper, you need to look in the mirror, I think. I just think you need to understand it as like you don't actually hate them. It's like a playful hate.

If you're an NL, I think the only. Only caveat, if you're an NLE East opposing team, you can hate Bryce Harper. Yeah. It's like Pedro and David Ortiz for me. Metz fans should hate Bryce Harper. You appreciate him. It's a respected hate. What he does to your team.

Yeah, like David Ortiz is very much a respected hate. And then once he was insane with Pedro. And once they were not in the Red Sox anymore, I was like, I loved them as guys, his personalities. So, all right. I want to go into the rest of the show where we do awards and stuff? A lot of stuff going on. What's Ian Hap's

Oh, Ian Hap update Waited runs, created plus That's what we're going on. I know he got to the 100 mark. I click J-Hap, God damn it. He's at 100 OPS Plus, so that's nice. Okay. Let's have final nine games.

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Who are you going will? Holy smokes. I'll keep it high and tight because this is how my guy keeps it. gave him my end-of-show award the other day for how much I just love this dude. Paul Goldschmidt, I'm keeping the love. The birds deserve it. 12 straight. And by the way, it's going to be the third time I've referenced this game now. Game four against the Brewers. You've won 11 straight. You're down 5-0. What does Goldie do? How about two ding-dongs? They score the next eight.

Paul Goldschmidt, I got caught up talking about Tyler O'Neill a lot last episode. It was sexy. It was too sexy. Paul Goldschmidt, speaking of living sexy, I believe I had the numbers in front of me. I think he is third in National League players in war. My guy's gone nut job. And again, like, Paul Goldschmidt's going to go down

as one of the best first baseman to ever do it. And I don't think we think of them in that light. And, man, just how much this Cardinal team changes. Like when you actually think, and this is why they were the favorites coming into this season, it's like, Nolan Aronado is one of the best to ever do it at third base. Paul Goldschmidt's one of the best to ever do it at first base. Yachty, I mean, he's at the back end while those guys are still in it, but, you know, as a catchers go, people are talking about him as a Hall of Famer, their outfields picked it up, their pitching is picked it up. But Paul Goldschmidt, man,

I mean, that guy, he's sneaking up on Tatis war-wise. Paul Golch, if the Padres can continue to die? Paul Goldschmidt might be your number two for an LMVP. Love them. Goldie. Trave? I really love Goldie. My standout performance is our guy Framber Valdez. He goes seven innings, shuddy, six Ks, did walk three people. But, James, 20 games started this year. He had a late start to the year.

I don't think he started until May. 20 games started this year. 15 have gone at least six innings. Love that. I know you love that, his stat. So he's keeping the bullpen fresh, and, you know, he had a couple of rough starts right before this one. He had six innings with four runs,

five innings before and runs, comes back against the Angels and shoves, got his ERA, 307. It had gotten as high as what? I guess not even that bad. 3-2-2 is the highest ERA this guy's had all year. He's one of our favorite. You know that he's going to have a big role in the postseason.

The Astros are just like kind of just like hiding behind everybody. And then the playoffs start and they're just going to pop out and be like, hey, surprise, we're the fucking Astros. Remember us? And Framber is going to be a big part of that. So shout out Framber and his little glove. I was going to say his glove's not going to be a big part of it. No, it's the smallest little thing.

Might be the biggest face to glove ratio going in MLB. I really like watching him pitch too. It's fun. It's funky. but it's like he's got the stuff too and do you think if he held his glove in front of his face he wouldn't be able to like block his whole face like it would look like this right now just barely just barely you'll see his ears for sure he's got like he's got the he's got the facial hair that's like this just that so shout out to my dominican king franber valdez

i love framber five eleven no he's not no he's not he's not he's not he's not Around. He's thick. Not cool, but he's thick. My standout performance. Standout performance. There's a guy that many of you might not even know exists. Wow.

Josh Rogers. Pitcher for the Washington Nationals. Why are you giving that look, Trubb? Just I might have had an award going. Oh, yeah. Well, I knew that. You can talk about the performance. Talk about the performance.

Yeah, I was just talking about the performance. Teaser. Sorry, I didn't have one. I forgot, but it's not part of that at all. I won't say anything about it. He had his longest outings since 2017. He got traded as part of a Rule 5 dump for the Yankees for the Dylan Tate, Zach Britton trade.

He was just like, Josh Rogers, Cody Carroll, Dylan Tate for Zach Britton, I believe. If I'm remembering correctly, they're all Rule 5 guys. Then the Baltimore just released. him. So he's kind of out. Nats pick him up. And in his four starts, he's gone, he's been doing well. He faced the Marlins back to back. But longest outing since 2017, 7.2 innings pitched. So it's cool to see someone, it kind of dumped in a trade like that, a four for one or three for one, and then get released and then pitch well. Some other stuff happened. I'm not talking about it.

Not talking about it. Thank you. Thank you, James. Not being discussed. Back-to-back outings against the Marlins, though, I think 12 innings pitch zero and runs. Yeah. He is a Beverly Hills Sports Council guy previously of Sosnik, Cobb, and Karen. Mm-hmm.

All three of his parents names. So I think once the Karen craze came along, he's like, can't be represented by Karen. Cannot, can't do it. Can't play with him, can't do it. So I like watching. All right, guys. The slider, you up the slider ahead of the fastball.

back-to-back games against the same team. Usually they change something up. All right. We'll do Slump Watch real quick. It's starting to get sad because guys can't get out of it. Want to skip it? I'm over it. Wow.

Good vibes only? Good vibes only. Good vibes only. Let's clap for the people that got off it. Because Randy was on Slump Watch Treb. He goes four for 10 with three doubles and a walk. So he gets claps for coming off. Rookie of the year.

Andy. And then Starlin Marte, dead team, but he went four for 15 with a homer and two doubles. So 353 on base, a 267 batting average and a 600 slugging. So one or two small claps for Starlin. And then, yeah, let's skip Slump Watch. Yeah, over it. Good vibes only going in the postseason. GVO.

Dirt nasty's on Flakeo. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. Don't play it twice. All right, Jake, take us through the list. You want to go through this list right now? Tell us who's hot. Let's start.

Man, we got some thick boys. We got some hot boys. We'll start with the youngest and the thickest of them. It is young, thick, Austin Riley. A little seven for 17 with three homers. Whoops, Goldschmidt, six for 17, three homers, my guy. How about hot boy, Max Kepler, Trev, your boy, six for nine. Yep, shout out BBD, two homers.

Juan Soto, man. Jesus, six for 10. Extra base hits galore, six walks. CJ Crone, my guy is having a huge year. Go get some money this offseason, CJ, unless the Rocky still have your rights, not sure about that. Kyle Seeger, our guy, having one of the weirder years all around but fun. Jordan Alvarez, Treves, dude,

underrated as one of the best hitters in the game. Mani Machado tried to put the team on his back a little bit. Two homers. And then Kyle Schwabo with four for six, two homers in the two games. I think his numbers off Taiwan Walker are insane career. And that's who's hot. I think he's five for ten with five homers or something like that. Now it might be six for 11 with six homers.

Jeez. I'll find it. Jake, you also get to do your award first. Are we ready for awards? Unless you want to kick it to Trev since I kind of almost sort of kind of stole his or walked on it a little. Bringing in the righty? Sure, I'll go.

If the gun's hot, let it ride. It feels like a more natural transition. My award is the about time award. I'm pretty sure everyone's seen this already, but we need to shine some more light on it because I think it's important. Jazz Chisholm, we love jazz, very fun ball player to watch. He's damn good at what he does. I love watching him hit Homer.

She's got a swing, man. One of those swings are like, okay, I like it. He hits a couple homers off Eric Fetty, Wop, and does his patented Euro step right before the home plate. And I can't really do it. It's like, boom, boom, step on the plate. Okay, he does it all the time. It's fun.

People like it. He's got six chains on, got the hair going. Like, even kids on my small team, six and seven-year-old kids know who jazz chisholm is. Like, that's what this stuff does for you. That's, I mean, Anyways, that's besides the point. We love watching jazz do his thing. Well, Josh Rogers, pitcher on the Nationals told Fetty, he said,

hey man, if I get jazz, I'm going to do it right back to him. So he does it, strikes out jazz, does the Euro step right back to him, and in perfect, you know, jazz demeanor, he takes it in stride and says, I love it. Like, that is so cool. Like, I do it. He can do it too. meat, it's no big deal, no hard feelings. Josh was very complimentary of jazz. He said jazz his quote is kind of all time, so I want to read it verbatim. Let's see, where is it? Jazz is a sick

player. He's fun to watch. It's the show, man, so it's entertainment for people. And like, that is what we need. You don't need to hit Jazz Chisholm with the baseball because you're mad that a Euro step to the plate. Go get him out and Euro step on his ass. Like, this is, this is the back and forth that will bring people to this. And you want to know why I know that? Because that has made the rounds on all the national sports shows. Not the baseball shows, the sports shows. LeBron James is retweeting about this,

talking about how cool it is. We got all these NFL players are like, do you know how many flags will be on the field? If a person in the NFL did that, people are jealous of Major League Baseball right now because we're letting guys celebrate. So let's keep it up. No more hitting batters.

Do what the Josh Rogers did. Just get him out. Euro step right on him. It was awesome, dude. So shout out to those two for, like, showing baseball fans in the baseball world what, like, some friendly, fun competition can look like. So snaps to Josh and jazz.

Love them. One aside. No one answered this. What the hell is the NFL doing? I watched a compilation of all the taunting calls, and it was crazy. No fun league. And MLB gets the wrap.

Yeah. It's like, what? It's crazy what they're doing in the NFL. Two, stat boy, job update. Schwerber in his last five at Bats versus Taiwan Walker has hit a home run. That's pretty good. Last five. And last five at Bats, he's hit four home runs.

In his last three at Bats, he's hit three home runs. Jesus. Nice. Jake. You have an award? I'm giving out the thank you coach Treve award Oh Thank you coach Trevor Ward

You know I And maybe I'm starting to lean into this a little more Because I've been rude to the Phillies But you know I'm drinking some Braves Kool-Aid I meant Charlie Morton told everyone to go check him out I'm pitch ninja CT boy Talked about all their outfielders

There's a guy who's a friend of the pod who I feel like we haven't talked about a lot this year. Maximus Freed, man. Max is having another great year. He, you know, he had the injury, and he still got it up to 26 starts. This kid is so good. He led NL pitchers in war last year.

Him and Bauer tied with 2.9. His war on the year is up to 4-6, and I was trying to put together a stat that was like, you know, over the past two years, Max Fried, maybe he's got, you know, top three NL War or whatever it was. And then I was interested because I clicked to Pitcher War, and his pitcher war is a little lower than that. It's not as impressive as a number.

So I was like, what's Max doing? I know he's a good defender. He's, what else is it? Can we talk about Max Fried in the box this year? Max Fried, 306 batting average, 358 on base, a 726 OPS. 29 games this year. Two-way freed, baby.

And, I mean, I know who this guy works with in the off-season. I know who's getting his mental awareness ready to be in the box. Gave Charlie Morton a lot of love. Max Fried, I mean, hey, by the way, what he does for his main gig. 26 starts this year, a 3-3-1 ER. that's pretty good, but he's doing it. He's hitting a little bit too. And maybe the last year that the NL will be doing it.

Man, I know whenever we mention his name, we just casually like, man, he's one of the best young pitchers in the game, Max Fried. But like, he's doing it this year. If he wasn't Max Fried this year, I think we'd be talking about the Phillies and L East, but he has been. And how about swinging the stick a little bit too? Let's go. You know, when you talk to those guys,

the Jack, Lucas, and Max, they always say Max was like, could have went as a position player. Jack always says he was the best, he was the best, like, athlete and best hitter. So to do it, I mean, it's pretty legit. Got that three to start the batting average, okay? That doesn't mean, yeah, he's up there swinging, dude.

By the way, got the gold glove last year. He's a freak. He's a freak. And the nicest person. So nice. Nice. My award is, it was going to be the illegal award, but now it's an actual freak award. Actual freak award.

Yeah. Illegal also works. Yeah. It goes to Juan Soto. Yeah. I don't know if you saw a second home run, but that opo laser to the foul pole, that's what we were seeing like with juice balls, but it was, but like that one's believable, but I don't even get it. He had two outbow home runs.

Juan Soto's star shines so bright when he was in the World Series. And you don't hear about him as much. But he's doing the same amount of shit, man. He's so good. It's crazy. Have you seen his walk to K ratio? His walk to K ratio is 156. That number might mean nothing to you.

Number two, the second best, is point. 8.8. So whatever that is, 70 points higher from first place to second place. Math pod. Crazy. He strikes out at a 13% clip. He walks at a 21% clip. The next best K to walk ratio that has a 20% walk rate, you have to like go deep down the leaderboard to even find it.

They're all just not strikeout guys, but they don't walk. So their ratio is good. I mean, the next guy that has it, I can't find it. I just went down 100 people. Oh, no one else has a walk rate in the 20s. So to walk that much, to strike out that little, some might think it's three true outcome ball, where it's also like 1% hard hit rate.

Sounds like Joey Gallo a little bit. Well, he strikes out a lot, so maybe not. But not that. But his average is amazing. 325 average. 470 on base percentage 559 slugging 1.0.0. Maybe he's just not as exciting, but he's got the Soto shuffle. Is he like not as swaggy as, you know, Tatis?

But I feel like he's dipped in that Harper, Tatis, Acuna, like, Meld, like Vladdy of, you know, who's the most like upcoming swaggy guy? And it's like, well, on Soto's got the same. skills. He's illegal. That's crazy. It's broken the system. How much he loves protecting the zone is awesome. Yes. And people will point Jim to, oh, he's been walked 21 times. He's got no one around him, so they just pitched around him. The guy is 22 years old. It gets frustrating at a point. If you're, I mean, obviously it happened to me a ton. Okay. Like, people weren't pitching around me a ton. But there have been times where I got pitched around after a hot streak, it's very difficult

to maintain your composure there and just take your walks. Obviously, he can do it with the best of them. There was a tweet out there. I don't know who did it. They were talking about his command of the top of the zone. A lot of people are trying to go up there to get him to chase. He just doesn't swing at that pitch, dude. And I don't know if it's because he's crouched down. I don't know what it is, but he does not offer at that high pitch. It's so impressive to watch what he's doing. Like I said, 22 years old, all these top prospects were waiting to see

if they're going to be any fucking good are older than him. And he's already established himself as, like, I think I said, I mean, he's 100% of top three hitter in the game. He could be the best hitter in the game. Yeah, also one. 22 years old. Also got a ring on his finger,

and in that postseason was a main cog, not just like a rookie that was there for the ride. to start his career. He had a 927 OPS and a 373 OBP in the postseason. Man, I don't know. I'm looking up some Vegas odds now. If Harper gets the Phillies in there, he's got a really good chance for it. The Tatis Juice has died down. If Soto has a final eight, nine games, which don't ever bet against that,

his numbers are going to, you know, war speaks in baseball land and riderland right now. if Harper's Phillies aren't in it and Tatis's Padres aren't in it I mean I think Soto might sneak in and grab this thing And he uh Plus 1,000 right now right It's still like crazy value

And Jim you're right There's just something about the Nats that don't There's a weird juice behind it I don't know if it's because they kind of came out of nowhere To get that championship But yeah man And I uh you know You guys know Jakey High Thoughts one of his weird baseball

conundrums is kind of how do we get some less walks? Because it's crazy impressive what Soto's doing. But if there was a way where I could get, you know, pitchers to pitch to him and he gets 60 more at bats instead of walks, I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's a solution. And maybe it's the Nats just around him with the right guys. Get a bopper behind him and get an on-base guy in front of them and let's see what happens. But they tried. Just trade a Tray Turner. I don't know, man. I click around a lot of baseball reference pages. I know you guys do too, and you don't see a first four years that look like this on anyone's page.

Nope. Yeah, Ted Williams. Go check out Ted Williams page. Teddy ball game. Zach, we have a best friend of the week here. Do you have the sheet open? Is there? No, I don't.

Okay, it's Austin Meadows. Okay, okay. That's a very good choice. He ties hat for most of all hitters. BPD said nobody had great stuff. stat lines, but Meadows hit a three-run home run in the game where the race clinched to playoff spot, so he gets it. I like that.

Okay. Uh-oh. Zach's time to shine as he is in charge of the simulator, stimulator, this episode. Here we go. Okay, Zach. The wild card in the American League, the Yankees head up to Boston to play the Red Sox. isn't that interesting. It's what's happening tonight. Who wins that?

Yankees win. Yankees. Call show. White Sox head to Houston for a five-game series. Houston. Okay. And then the Yankees would go and play the raise. And they have home field advantage.

Yankees raise. Raise. Oh, brutal but honest. Okay. In the American League Championship Series, it would be the Houston versus the Tampa. Houston versus the Tampa Houston.

The Houston's win, and they will be going to the World Series. Who will they play on the National League side? The Cardinals are going to go to L.A. To play the Dodgers. Simulator says Cardinal. Wow, that would be insane. Holy smokes. Braves going to Milwaukee.

Milwaukee. Braves going to Milwaukee. Braves going to Milwaukee. Braybara. Okay. Is that a rivalry series? Braves, Milwaukee. Aren't they like?

Old school? It used to be the Milwaukee Braves, right? All right. Giants would then face the Cardinals. How about that? Oh, boy. This isn't me. This is the simulator.

Simulator. What does it say? Cardinals. Holy smokes. Cardinals versus Brewers in the NLCS. Who wins that one? Brewers. Brewers, Astros, World Series.

Who do you got? I hate it. Trev hates it. Trev doesn't like it at all. It's a stimulator. I do like it. Who's winning the World Series? Who's winning the World Series?

Brewers or Astros? Wow. Great job. Punching the numbers there. You're September. 24th World Series winner. Wow. The Mill Wauke.

Brewers. Is that their second title this year? That's their third title this year. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. That was hot. Yeah. You guys want to get in the elevator with someone?

Always. Yep. Yep. Okay. Finding my wheel and bam. The person that walked in the elevator, Tampa Bay Rays fan. Wow. Oh. Oh, the first thing you say is, oh, first time to Tampa?

Hmm. How about that card gate? How do you feel about that stealing a $20 bill from somebody? Keirmeier sure is fun, but he's bad on the mic, huh? My wife, she loves Keirmeier. Why do you think that is? What? I make things awkward in the elevator.

Elevator eject. Yeah. You're probably talking about their playoff. Playoff rotation and bullpen. Last I checked, a lot of the relievers were floundering. Did they write the ship here? I mean, people were telling me that Anderson was looking bad when he came back, and he came back.

The Razor sickos, man. That wasn't me. That was the chat or the comment section or the chat last time said that some of the big name relievers were having some struggles. Dude, they have so many guys with a positive OPS Plus. Long elevator ride. Yeah, it is. I wouldn't mention the OPS Plus thing in the elevator. I think you'd talk about Montoyo being most hated figure in Tampa right now.

And he was in that system for so long. Stabbed this in the back. Didn't he win? Didn't he hold the longest streak for being a AAA manager with the Durham? With Dorham, with the race AAA? Grim Bulls, yeah. Yeah. I'm just kidding.

I love Charlie Montoyo. He's awesome. He's such a wholesome dude. His son's awesome. I had a great time with him. I don't hate Charlie. It is interesting, though, him lying. Yeah, I think he just, they just kept him out of it.

Anderson's been fine. Who told me that he's been bad? Did you say we're going to win the World Series? Yeah. See you in the World Series. David Robertson has a good body. Wait, I thought the Giants won the World Series. I like hearing Trevor Plouf say JT's last name.

Shagawa? Mm-hmm. See ya. I'm French. You are French. Go twins. Go fucking twins. Jake sucks.

Go twins. Go twins. Go yanks. I got a bad tattoo.