Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 398 | Mariners are HOT, Phillies are NOT, Regular Season is Almost Over!

Episode Date: October 1, 2021

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. It's the last series recap of the year. Basically, five of the divisions are locked up. One of the wild card races is locked up. Let's talk baseball. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Brought to you by Draft Kings. Thank you very much for joining us today.

This episode is brought to you by Mike and J.B. Our most recent patrons. My name is Jimmy. Sit next to me as Jake in California. We have Trevor Plouffe and behind the dish producing. We have big baby. David. Big show today.

Some things got locked up. Some things got more confusing. Baseball. Jake? What state is it in? In French. Ah, ha, ha. And le car de la se far flue.

Yes. Hot in the streets. Baseball's hot in the streets. Trevor Plouffe, live from France. He's there. He's in the south of France. France right now with his beautiful family. He goes there every October on a camping trip.

What's going on chat? What's going on? BBD, James, Trevor. The A wild card race, I'll tell you what, that's hot in the streets. That might be the only thing that's hot in the streets besides late night LeMont, excuse me. That was a sexy finish to baseball last night. Boys, we're finishing it.

is it. Like, Treve, I'm going to be seeing you soon. Hansy. Hansy. I do feel a really handsy trip coming on. You guys are going to be so excited. I mean, I'm just going to put it out there. I believe there'll be a game in the Bronx while we're there.

The energy is going to be palpable. But before that, the last series recap of the year, it's a Friday app that means we get BBD stimulating us at the end. Jake, I'm just going to say it. Jake said he might show penis. And he didn't say it was his or just some pictures on his phone. I may show penis this show.

Yeah. No, he's not going to. He had his big eyes reveal the other day. I'm going to have my wiener reveal. I haven't seen it in a while. Old man's thumb. Go look at your grandpa's thumb. You've seen it.

Late night Lamont. Trabb, will you be here? here for the next show? Yes. No. No. No. No. No. No. You leave. We do Monday show. Then you fly out. I'll be in Magnum Condom Studios Monday morning. I'll be in the bros. We're giddy. We're excited. We're excited. Baseball. Rizzo. Ficking, such a baseball. Rizzo. What a weirdo. That's so weird.

Rizzo now? Yeah, Brissow made the last out of the inning. I think we tweeted it out at some point. He knows what he's doing. He's self-aware. He is. It's kind of like an alien getting, or a computer getting too smart. People like

when I scream going into commercial, okay. Yeah, I wish I could find it. Oh, Rizzo. Anthony Rizzo. He says Anthony normal. It's so weird. Shout out to Gabe, who had that ready for me on the Twitter machine. So you're doing the show Monday, and then you're coming out.

Obviously, like Monday, there's another series to recap. We keep saying this is the last series recap. That show on Monday is going to be like half recap. We're not going to do the full format that you're about to hear, and you've been hearing all season, because we're going to preview the wildcard games on it as well, or 163. That might be happening that day. It's going to be exciting.

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That's how Trev's coming to New York. I love it. Let's hear what happened in the NL. I'm excited to find out, Trev. What you got? All right, my people. We're going to start down in Atlanta. The Phillies go.

into Braves country and get swept. 2-1 Braves, 7-2 Braves, 5-3 Braves. It was all pitching. Morton goes 7, shuddy for the win in game 1. Big game, Charlie, of course. Freed, our guy, those seven innings pitched with one earned run and one earned run and one unearned run for the win in game two. He deals, and then Anderson comes right back and goes six-enings.

fish for two and runs for the win in game three. The Braves clinch the NL East with the sweep and the Phillies get eliminated. That's a 10-year playoff drought. It's the longest in the NL. Phillies. What is you doing, baby? Moving on, the D-backs go into San Francisco and the Giants do what the fucking Giants do. They win every single game. 6-4-105. four and these weren't easy victories either the giants have that freaking magic Gabe Kapler are you doing puppet master Gabe Kapler right now pulling the strings Flores with the go-ahead rbi single in the sixth inning of game one web goes five shuddy in that game would would go six shutout innings in game two bryant breaks the score with his tie with the sack fly in the seventh

and then the last game is all late night lamont with the walk-off RBI single he went up there knew and he was going to do it and he did it Giants get the sweep they're basically NOS champs Padres at Dodgers Dodgers get the sweep they can't gain a game they sweep they can't gain a freaking game that's what's going on out west two one Dodgers 11 nine Dodgers eight three Dodgers they get all three games Bueller goes seven shuddy for the winning game one And then the five home runs in two endings for the Dodgers in game two. That was in the seventh and the eighth.

It was a comeback win. Bellinger, our guy, we'll talk about him a little later. He hits a game-tying home run after entering the game late. And then Seeger hits the go-ahead to run Homer. My goodness. Dodgers hit five homers in game three, including two from Seeger. He's getting hot. Remember what he did in the playoffs last year?

He's a freaking guy. Dodgers sweep. Still, two games behind the Giants in the standings. Brewers at Cardinals. Cardinals take two of three. Six, two Cardinals, four nothing. Brewers, that stopped the winning streak, and the Cardinals come back and win again, which I really like for them. Wayneau goes six innings pitch, two earned runs for the win in game one, and that was their 17th win in a row. Could they get 18? No, they could, and they had that streak snapped in game two.

Hauser and three relievers combined for a three hit shot. shutout. Ashby goes two scoreless, hitless innings with 5Ks to end it. Then in game three, Dylan Carlson. Go ahead two run Homer in the sixth inning of game three. It's the second homer of the game. Guess what? I got a really nice Dylan Carlson, rookie patch, auto card.

Let's go, Dylan, keep it up, baby. Cardinals take two out of three. Moving on, Marlins at the Mets. Mets take three out of four. Both these teams season is dead, so we'll kind of go through it. Quick. Fias scores the winning run on a grounder to walk off game one. Sindigard comes back.

Pitches at 1-2-3 inning with 2Ks in his season debut in game 2. Rojas, our guy. Go ahead, two-run single in the eighth inning of game 3. And then Pete does what Pete does with two homers in game 4. Mets take 3 out of 4. Then we have the Nationals at the Rockies. Rockies take 2 out of 3. Then we have the Cubs at the Pirates.

Cubs take 2 out of 3. And then we have a Pirates and Reds make-up game, which the Reds won 13. to one. We'll talk a little bit about those. But right now, that is it for the NL. You're welcome. Great job, Treveyor. Great job, Trevor. My goodness, there was some hot baseball. The NL's done. Lots of. Giants are insane. Clops to the Braves. They clinch their division. We'll start with the Braves because what they did to Bryce Harper in these three games is super impressive. I mean, guys,

gunning for the MVP. He's been amazing. It's almost like all of the team pitching scouting reports or whatever. We're just let's just get Harper out, figure that out, and the rest will fall. I mean, Harper went 1 for

12, 1 for 11 with a single and one walk. No, he didn't even have a hit. He scored one run. He went 0.411 with a walk. It's very tough. that's like the opposite of what I thought was going to happen. I thought Harper was going to rake.

I did say Braves just don't throw this guy any strikes, similar to what the Red Sox are going to do with the one Soto this weekend. But don't throw the guy any strikes. And I watched a few at bats. And sometimes when that happens and Harper's trying to make things happen, start chasing, then start having bat at bats. 0 for 11, man.

And I mean, really had it all in front of them. Reality sets in, man. Sometimes the number, don't lie. Braves are going to win the NL East. We'll see how many games it ends up landing at. Their run differential plus 129. That is the same as the Milwaukee Brewers.

Do what you want with run differential. It doesn't mean the world to me, but it's interesting. The rest of the NL East is going to end up negative unless the Phillies have a 13-run blowout win this weekend in a game that doesn't matter. We said this series was a playoff series. I'd kind of been crapping on Phillies fan more than I even like. Like I kind of heard myself talking.

I was like, whoa, Jake, easy. But the facts were there, man. Longest playoff drought in the NL. Love me Harper. Love me Gibby. Love me sexy. This Phillies team, man, I don't know. They were better than the Mets who, well, they were better than the Mets once they

lost DeGrom. Atlanta, kudos to the moves they made at the All-Star break. They got in a whole new outfield, four outfielders. Their infield has been studs all year. And, man, with what Freed and Morton are doing, they're now, like that Braves Brewer Series is up in the air. Is up in the air. So that's going to be some fun baseball.

It's nice that they both lock in. And the nice that the Braves got to lock in and sort everything out for three days here. They get to party. They get to have a hangover game. They get to then get it right. Ozzy gets to swear on camera. Hey, you know where this really sucks that there's only two extra guys in September because, you know, if you're trying to party last night, you clinched the division with three left.

You're supposed to get a day off today. Now you can't. This is when a guy guy separate. himself. Yeah. Guy, guy gets the day off. Yeah, that's true. If you're just a guy. Oh, I was going the other way with it. I was going to say like, you know, I could see, you know, everyone's got a little bit of red eyes in the morning and I could see Adam Duval like right before the game like just chugs a beer and says, all right, boys, let's get another one. That's a different version. You're absolutely correct. There's some guy he's going to say,

look, I know I'm not a guy guy, but I'm going to step up for the boys today. You know how many Red Bulls are going through right now? A lot of Red Bulls. Game one. Game one of the series, which we had said is it was the series the whole time. Close game. In the ninth inning, the Phillies had bases loaded because they intentionally walked McCutcheon to get to D-D with Will Smith on the mound. And he hits a line drive, drives in a run.

But there was a moment in Philly's fans. hearts where they went like the D-D-D get that and then they switched cameras and it was a sack fly still scored one and then Freddie Galvest strikes out after that but when you look at the uh the Phillies lineup and we said this halfway through the season it was top heavy yeah because once you got past Harper and real moodo losing ryser was huge for them yeah yeah there were some things that happen losing reissor alec bomb wasn't very good for them this year i think they were counting on him to like take a nice big step similar to what austin riley did for the braves i mean this guy's a highly touted prospect so that kind of hurt them a little bit but you're right man top heavy

and they had some guys that they know that were hitting a little bit like dd's numbers aren't bad there's not many sluggers like they had a lot of guys that could hit singles jean Sigura, Dedi, who else has a good... They have a lot of above-average OPSs, but no slugging and knock-rate OBP. But the game plan had to be just get Harper out, and they did it, and it worked. The Phillies is basically every position player prospect

didn't come through this year. The stat I saw this morning. Boom, Kingery, Moniac, Hazley, and Quinn combined to hit two and nine. with just seven homers and 159 strikeouts and 497 ABs. Not good. Damn, man. Reese had 27 homers in 107 games.

Reese is nasty, dude. He's nasty, dude. One of my favorite swings, I'm always saying. He has a fucking beautiful swing, man. And you guys are fellow crop top wearers. He loves the crop top. He's a sexual guy. You got to say that in common.

He's a sexual guy. Man, Braves. The NL East was such a slog throughout this year. And the Braves having, you know, Ronnie out and Marcel out. You know, we haven't been able to get excited about Atlanta, especially with how gross the brewers were and how awesome the NL West has been. But, man, I'll get a little excited,

You know, they still got Freddie. Ozies had a huge year. Young Thick had a huge year. Adam Duvall, beer before the game. Adam, I think he was like leading the league in Ribby. Allegedly. Ribyes for a little bit. Darno is back.

Dansby having a season. So, man, when you put it all together, Morton, Freed, eye on you, Noah. They've got guys in that bullpen who were doing it the past couple years. They're going to be fun. They might mix it up this October. Mix it up. Dude, this is a team that 100% can win the World Series.

The way they're playing right now, the way they're pitching right now, too. Will Smith, yeah, he's been shaky and he's kind of a roller coaster ride, which is scary in the playoffs. But if he can settle down and kind of be who he is, like the back end's not bad there, starters have been going off. They're scary, man.

They got so much time off. They got five days. off in between. Pretty nutty. That is. Also really like, you're like, the fucking. But from the end of the season they do? Yeah. The last game's the third and then they don't play until the eighth because the AL is the first D.S. to start. Wow. Yeah, Morton pitches their last game of the season. Yeah. And I was, and then I can't believe they just get to go to the D.S.

You're so jealous. So jealous, dude. You're so jealous. So, I mean, what's their record? 86 wins? Is that going to be the least amount of wins to get in the playoffs and they don't have to do a wild card? This year.

Cardinals are in the wild card and they have more wins than the Braves. Dodgers. I know it's just this year. I know it changes year to year, but still when you look at it, you're like, fuck, man. Yeah. Hey, and I, you know, obviously haven't done a full deep dive on this, but we mentioned, you know, when we were,

originally talked about the NLE skin solved. We said, you know, it could be a big deadline deal. Chris Rose was all over that. He was talking about it on the Chris Rose rotation. You know, Dombrowski in Philly, what was he going to do? He brought in Gibby. Gibby game some starts. Man,

the Braves and all those outfield moves, like that's, I think it's funny BPD, you mentioned all the Phillies youth guys that kind of, it just didn't click this year. You know, the Braves, I mean, Pache, we wanted to get excited about him. His season kind of wasn't there.

You know, they're, they don't have a bunch of guys that made the leap either, but they're going into October with Jorge Soler who's been hitting for them. Eddie Rosario, who's been doing the thing. Adam Duval and they got chalk. Like, they didn't have those young guys, so they got four old guys and, like, they've kind of clicked. Yeah, I would say Austin Riley is a young guy who. He clicked.

Huge. Hot. That's, I mean, that's. Hot. If he's not there, they're not where they're at. Jose Ramirez is there if he's not. Oh, my gosh. Good job, Austin.

Great job. Should we move on to the Giants? That's really, yeah, the Giants and the Dodgers. The Giants just, I mean, I told everyone a while ago, they just don't lose. I would love to see their numbers now. I have no idea how I got to that page in baseball reference when I did all that research. It was like a real hidden page

Man, I said this on Wake and Jake the other day It just seems like every time I open the standings They're on a win streak And it's just every time they're on a win streak It's like one and a half games better than the Dodgers They're on a six-game win streak right now Dodgers are on a four-game win streak I can't imagine

There has to have been some pretty genuine frustration and the Dodgers locker room this year, that they just, they couldn't catch these guys. Well, yeah, even last night, their game ended, they win, and then games tied. Or, like, the Diamondbacks had a lead, I think, three times in that game, and the Giants just kept answering. And, yeah, the Dodgers are in the clubhouse.

That game surely is on. And then, late night, Lamont, as I got you. Mm. It's wild, man. All of their stats are gross. Having him on, like, we finished recording talking yanks. We go out to the recliners. Their game was on and we were like, oh, who's on the bench?

And then they flashed to like Lamont. And we all said, and this is so cool. It's just like a meme. It's like, well, I said, oh, late night at Lamont. They'll come through. And then he hits the foul home run. And you're like, whoa. And then he hits the walkoff single.

And you're like, yeah, obviously. I think we got some late night shirts on the way, by the way. Hell, cool. That is cool. It's a good shirt. Whoops. I've been saying that the giants were in the water, and then the shark was behind them and the shark was the Dodgers,

and eventually they were going to come up and get them. Turns out that the giants were on a mega yacht, and they were going shark watching. And they just don't care really about the sharks. They're just going to do their thing on their mega yacht. They're just that good. it's incredible man you watch that team play no sense of panic at any time of the game everyone's just like kind of cool even keeled they find guys like late night lamont uh i just did a

sequence on uh camillo de ball you see that guy pitch yeah huh she threw a pitch a hundred and a half miles an hour in the minor leagues this year gross they just got him going i taught to my friend JP about it. He says, guys got ice in his veins. Nothing bothers him. And I think that is what, that's the mantra of the team, I feel like. Nothing bothers these guys. We found another secret of the Giants

last night, Trev. They've got a Gabe twin. What? I think it's Gabe's main bench coach or one of his bench coaches. He wears the same glasses. No beard, though. It's kind of a knockoff Gabe vibe. I don't know.

Well, they showed a close-up of the two and they didn't look alike, but when they showed like a kind of from the field level into the dugout, it looked like Gabe had a stunt devil next to him. Yes. Yes, it looked like when if you saw an Instagram post that it's like, oh, this was Brad Pitt's stunt double. That's who Gabe had. Maybe it is a stunt double.

I think it was. He does his own. I think it might have been Donnie Ecker. Okay. I don't know. Kai Correa. That's what we got some Giants fans in the chat. Kai Correa

Giants, I think it is Multiple Kyes has me Right, here it is Wait Was it this guy? Yes, that's Kai Kerea That's Kai Karea.

I want to say Kai Karea, yeah He's got the beard, he's got the glasses Treve, you got Did you get a picture? Maybe you kind of got to put that on the screen, I think. You just search Kai Karea and Gabe Kappler? Yeah, so first thing that comes up. Okay, we're going to get that on the screen

for you, Trevin. You're going to like this a lot. I think I know who you're talking about. It's sexual. Great name, by the way. Yeah. Like your girl ends up with Kai Correa and you're like, damn, she's doing better than me. She's doing it. I want to say something that might be controversial. Uh-oh.

The look, it looks like Gabe has ordered Kai Correa to look like that. He doesn't pull it off. Like, it only works because it's like dress like the coach day. Like it feels like he's doing dress like Gabe Day. And he got... Am I going to get this picture? He's got the beard and the glasses. It just looks slightly better on game.

Yes. It doesn't have to be shots fired. It just looks slightly better on Gabe. Yeah. That's like, oh man. Treve, I mean, that's... That's guys looking like each other. That's just tough for Kai.

I mean, bro, the guy looks good, but then you bring in Gabe Kapler and put him next to him. That's tough. We got a, I know you've got connections to Gabe. We might have to reach out to Kai. Do you think a third Giants coach has come in with his, send me that picture? I'm going to send it to Gabe today and say,

what's up, dude? Text me that picture. Do you think that, you know, a third coach came in with the dialed beard like that? Yeah. And like the thick frame glasses and walked in and, and Kai and Gabe were just like, get the fuck out of here, dude. You don't think

Kai and Gabe would survive in Philadelphia? Couple pros and matching looks going to the coffee shop. Treve, not for nothing. I mean, it looks like how a protege should act. If we, you have your beard grown in a little bit and we get you those frames in a giant's hat.

got to darken your beard a little. I think get some dark just for men. That's great, dude. Send me that picture. I'm seriously. I'm going to ask you. Just Google Kai Correa. Treve can't Google. We shall. Just Kai Correa, Gabe Kapler, it's the first one that comes up. Of course it is. And that's obvious. Yeah.

Giants are nasty. Dodgers sweep. We got to talk about the Dodgers. Sherser. They got some shit. You got some shit going on, man. Scherzer has not looked good. There's talking Dodger Town. Who's, he's still going to start the game. Like, at this point, at this point,

do you just line up and make sure, like, you have Bueller and Eurias ready to go in that game, right? Like, you line it up. Like, you're, I guess there's the division's still out there, but, like, barely. Division's not out there. I mean, they have to sweep. They have to sweep and the Giants have to lose.

Two. Yeah. Right. They could tie. Which would tie it up. Which would tie it, yeah. That would tie it up. Them sweep and Giants lose?

That would tie it up. Yeah. So it's wildcard. Yeah. The Giants don't lose. That's the main issue. Yeah. It's interesting.

It's the, you want to be an MLB manager. And what do you do? Because, you know, not to jump too far ahead. The Yankees could be in a similar boat. Cole's last couple starts haven't been as crispy. He's going to be in a one-game wild card. Yankees bullpen has looked

disgusting. Dodgers, they've got some guys in the pen. You know them. I mean, Kenley's had some gross stuff trying, but they also have the starting pitching that. Yeah, I mean, if Scherzer comes out, and, you know, the first couple innings don't look great. I mean, man, that's a, you take

Oh, you get on the hook. You take that guy out of the game. I'm not. It happened in 2019. They had a wild card game against the Brewers. He didn't look great. Didn't he settle down, though? Didn't they let him pitch five? I think he got through five.

I don't think that's because who else were they going to throw? It was Daniel Hudson and the starters there. Daniel Hudson threw every single inning that postseason. This is interesting for the Dodgers because you got Clayton going tonight. If they lose tonight, Eureas is scheduled to start tomorrow. He goes three in my opinion. like just to get out there, get your bullets in, and then Sunday, I don't know, you kind of,

maybe you just go bullpen day, whoever is scheduled to start, maybe they just go a couple of endings, but you got to have it freaking lined up. That's who it's going to be in the wildcard game. It's going to be Scherzer, and then Bueller and Eureas, they're going to have to start in the bullpen, right?

You just go to the bullpen. Usually you put one of those guys, because if you win, you need one completely fresh, but it would be interesting. I mean, a lot of the pitchers that have been going down the stretch, their guys are faltering a little bit at the end here. I think Waino is the best wild card pitcher down the stretch, but he had a rough outing two starts ago.

I think he's got like a five-year range, last three starts. You know, but it's taxing season, man. I mean, sale got beat by the or. A couple homers. Baldy got smoked by the Yankees. Barrios had four good innings then got beat. Robbie Ray just gave up five. Cole gave up five.

You know, a lot of these pitchers that you, if you're going into the wild card, you'd want them to be like on an absolute heater. No team is really getting that. Yeah. A lot of these guys aren't Corbyn Burns. A lot of these guys ain't Corbyn Burns. People are saying.

I was talking wild card. Yeah. Yeah, it's... Doors open. You know what? The door's open in a lot of these awards, too. Like, who's, is NL MVP? Who's winning that?

Dude, I just looked them up and it... Harper Soto. It still has Harper as, like, a pretty big favorite over Tatea's and Soto, which, like... Turns into, like, a, not a sad award at that point. I mean, that's just Vegas, that's just Vegas, right? That you're talking? Yes. But... Because these boats...

voters, man. I think they're going to, I don't know, that last series, as dumb as that sounds, that's going to linger in voters minds. Don't Harper and Soto aren't the only people with the OPS and the ones? Wones. Soto's so fucking nuts, dude. Give it, if none of them. He's still 22 years old. If none of them are dancing, give it to Soto, I guess. Or Paul Goldschmidt, let's go, Goldie.

Harper doesn't have it. Last time I checked is Harper, like, had it. Like, if you look at the stats. Vegas has him as minus 273 right now, which... No, so... It gets shifted. It's shifted. Soto's got them and all the slash lines now besides slugging.

Really? Or, you know, a lot of them. Soto just doesn't get pitches. I mean, you can't fault him for that because he's just got no one around him. But what's Soto's walks... What's his on-base percentage in September now? 6-11. Yeah, like 550, 600? I don't even know.

His on-base percentage. in the month of September was 565. It's a joke. With a 404 batting average. He's 22 years old people. That's crazy. When a guy makes it to the show at 22, you're like, oh, fuck, this is a guy.

Soto's been established for what, four years? 18 first year or 19? Corbyn Burns, this is live draft Kings, minus 175 to win the NLSI young. Hell yeah. Good for you, Jake. Did you actually place that bet? Jakey.

He still has the one more. Jakey Kissies against the Dodgers. Nothing else matters, right? I mean, Cardinals been locked up. And L's done, man. For what it's worth, the draft king's odds on MVP, Harper minus 180, Soto plus 180, and Tatees plus 550. Goldschmidt and fourth.

I would take Soto right now. When we talked about it on Wake and Jake Monday. sprinkled some cheese on Soto, which was plus 300 at the time, so. How did the Cardinals do just alter Waynos starts and stuff? I think they pushed him a day.

I remember looking at this midweek. And didn't they have Flaherty come out of the pen? Did that happen? I think that's the plan. I think that's the plan. I haven't taught the job. I should ask Jack, but I don't want to borrow. Flaherty through 17 out of the pen on Wednesday. I think they said the plan was when he came back he'd be in the bullpen,

which is exciting. I wish he could start. Yeah. That's a lot of rest for Waino. Waino's built different. That curveball is ready to go any day. A lot of people in chat say you look like Tyler O'Neill right now. Yeah, I got one.

The chat's been great today. Shout out to the chat. You know, we call you out if you're having a bad day. You're having a great day right now. and someone was like, you should, they told me to get a fashion coach and be Tyler O'Neill. And I might get the opposite of that. Eight days rest for Wayno.

One, two, three, four. Someone in the chat says they talked about Wayno getting into the game Sunday, get a little action. I think a lot of teams are going to use that last day on Sunday to just get in the game. Okay, that makes sense for the NL because they have three days after the Sunday game. And the AL, the teams don't do that. If they're in the wild card. Because only two days, it's only a day.

So usually you just throw junk. You just throw non-playoff roster guys. But the ANO, they have two days. So, yeah, he'll probably get a bullpen Sunday tune-up. And then it will be like three days rest, but it was just a tune-up in between. That makes sense. Hmm.

Can I just go on a little Juan Soto tangent real quick, about 30 seconds? Do it. 30 seconds. Guy comes up at 8, in 2018 and 19 years old. 923 OPS, plays 116 games, comes back in 2019, plays 150 games, 949 OPS, 2020, 1.1, 2021, 1.0. The guy is, he's putting himself in the conversation,

and this is not hyperbole. This is fucking facts. He's putting himself in a position to be mentioned with, like, the greatest hitters of all time. that's what we're looking at here. We need to realize this is the beginning of possibly an all-time great career at the dish. So don't, I know the national suck right now, but like still go watch this guy play. He's incredible, dude.

He's incredible. He's illegal. Wayno? 432 OBP in those four years combined. It's crazy. His opo power's ridiculous. Wayno has 302 innings pitched in game started on six plus days rest. 340 ERA.

He's worse on five days rest. How about that? Who cares? All right. Let's move on to the American League, Trev. The American League, because we're Americans. It's brought to you by Gabby Insurance. You guys remember Gabby Insurance?

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Here we go. The American League. What's going on in the A, T. Let's find out. The A's went up to Seattle, and Seattle swept them. There's a fever going on. Baseball. They blow them out in game 1, 13 to 4. Win close. Games 2 and 3, 4 to 2.

Oakland now has to win out to hit their over under from the episode before. I don't think that's going to happen. The Mariners slash 290, 362. The A's didn't hit it. all. Mariners starting pitchers got it done. Their relief pitchers were amazing. 0.73 ERA. Crawford had six hits,

two extra base hits. Hanager had three home runs. What's he up to on the year now? 50,000 or something like that? Only one of nine Mariners' relievers gave up any runs. Three of them, Sadler, Seawald, and skicking her at her. Have multiple scoreless

appearances in the series. Hanager, two, three-run, home runs in game one. going nuts. Gilbert had a go-ahead two-run double in the six-in-game three. Then Seth Brown tied it back up with a home run before Ty France. It's a go-ahead, sack fly in the seventh. The A's have been eliminated from playoff contention,

and Elvis Andrews is undergoing surgery for fractured. Fibule. What? I can't read that word. Fibula. And repair of upper ankle sprain. So goodbye to Oakland. Hello, maybe to Seattle.

Yankees at Blue Jays. The Yankees win game one. Tyone versus Ryu, the guy's coming off the I-L game. Tyone goes back on, kind of, he got hurt. Ryu got hit. The Yankees win, seven to do, seven to two, judge hit a homer, Stan hit another homer. Michael King in the bullpen locks it down for the Yankees,

as the Jays only had like three hits, I think. Blue Jays win, game two, Burrios versus Cole. Cole was fastball happy, and the Blue Jays are fastball happier. They were slapping him around for a bunch of runs. Burrios was dominant. it perfect through four. Then the Yankees put together a two-out rally to tie the game, but Bobauchette comes through again.

Another home run is second of the day versus Clay Holmes. Really impressive swing. Really nice home run by Boba Chet, who was crazy all series. Kluber versus Robbie Ray, a guy who's won a Cy Young versus a guy who's about to, and Ray gets got. The Yankees had five hits at one point, all of them homers, or maybe it was four in all of them homers. They didn't have a hit that wasn't a home.

home run. Klooper pitched a right. King comes out of the bullpen. The rest of the Yankees bullpen looks good. Yankees bullpen looks good right now. Yankees are two up with three to play in the AL wildcard. The Red Sox went to Baltimore and got beat twice. Trev, hit him. Red Sox, what is you doing, baby? Not good. Sal gives up a home run to Mount Castle. Is Mount Castle the rookie of the year now after this series? He has two homers, five RBIs. Severino had five hits. No Oriole starting pitcher gave up multiple earned runs. Red Sox.

What the hell? Man. Avaldi six shot earnings for the win in game two, so that's good. That's good. Raised and Astros played, and the Astros took two out of three. This series had a walk-off walk, and it had a game featuring two mix. McCullors versus McHugh. Who opened for Yardby.

Astros won game one. Astros lost game two, Astros won, game three. A Rosania, go ahead, a home run in the top ninth. Ray's clinch, best record in the AL in game two. They party. They lose game three. No one cares. Troinas took two out of three from the Tigers.

Indians and Royal split a four-game set. The Angels and Rangers played three games. Rangers took two out of three there. Junk and Otto? Both pitched in that series? Yankees pitchers that they traded at the deadline to both teams. That's cool. Tigers and White Sox played a makeup game,

and the Tigers won, 8 to 7. And there you go. That's your AOL recap. James also Pachy Notton pitched in that series, too. Junk Otto and Pachy Notton. So that was cool. Pachy Norton. And Hern.

Our dude. Hot. Did you know that you're going to get, we're doing a special with Hearn in the offseason? apparently. I did not, but that's cool. Huge. Yeah.

Oh, you mean we're going to go rub some horses? Yeah. Some things are going to get roped. Yeah. To the gray wide open. You're going to have Jake run around naked and have her and rope his little weener. Oh, I wasn't going to give that away, but yeah, that's the show. A couple things.

I want to kick us in a direction. First, I call this outfit guy you see on vacation and you go out of your way not to talk to. Your look right now? Yes. That's the guy who's mad on vacation. Yeah. Yeah.

He wants you to... That guy's mean to his kids. He's the guy that he sees... Yeah. I was going to say he sees you at a vacation bar and he instantly brings up politics. Or betting. Yeah. Like that dude's like at the...

Horse racing. He's in the pool bar. The bar that swim up bar. Yes. But he's like not having a relationship. relax time because he's gambling on the sport that's on the TV. Yeah. And just ruining everyone. I lie. Yeah. And you're dipping.

No idea what's actually going on. He speaks only in hyperbodies from what he read on his Twitter. I didn't want to fully start there. I wanted to start somewhere where I don't know if we fully started any AL segments this year. The Seattle Mariners. Man, oh man. We had debates to calling them dead. We called them zombies. It's young, it's fun. Oh, their off-season's going to be killer boots, man. They are tied for the second wild card spot.

They sweep the athletics. Holy athletics. What a demise to their season. Back-to-pack sweeps by the Mariners. They're going to face L.A. without Trout Rendon and No Otani on the bump. At home, Seattle, packed house to try to run this thing the distance. They control their own destiny.

the Seattle Mariners with a weekend left in the season. J.P. Crawford. Man, go Mariners. I don't know how to feel about all of this, man. It's so awesome. Part of me really wants Yankees' Red Sox in the Bronx. That is a classic, beautiful matchup that one fan base is just going to absolutely get its heart ripped out

on national TV. So that's appealing to me. I want to see someone suffer. But the Mariners, get these guys in the playoffs? What if they go in a run? What if they're the 2019 nationals? Well, they're not because they don't have three incredible

Saw Young type starters, but crazier things have happened. And they're fun, man. They're fun. It's been a crazy stretch. What are they? Nine and one in their last 10? Dude, and I talk in baseball tweeted it out the other day.

I think the Mariners have the best record in the American League since June 12th or something like that. Really? Yes. Like, Mariners. Prove everyone wrong. I mean, obviously, I guess the best case scenario, which we kind of talked about already, would be the game 163 between Red Sox Mariners. Then the wild card.

I just... One game for your season is crazy. Having to do that twice. Oh, my God. They are 58 and 35 since June 12th, which is number one in the AO. Man. Doesn't have them above the Giants or Dodgers, though.

Those teams are so good. Dodgers in the playoff game. What the hell? Think about, yeah. I mean, Dodgers, I think, have gained one. I saw a stat talking about their record, and they're like, they did this. You know, they won so many games.

And in that span, they gained, one game. Yeah. Which is crazy. In this 11 or 12 game run, they're 11 and 1 in their last 12 games, I believe, the Mariners. What starting pitcher do you think?

And I don't even know the answer. I'm just, what the hell? Oh, I see what happened. I was saying, what starting pitcher has been like their guy in this stretch, who's turned it on? I know Flexen's doing well.

for them. I think he's second in the ale and wins, which, you know, we don't track that unless we're talking about making the playoffs. Marco Gonzalez's last two games have been great. Like that. Anderson out of the stinker. There's been some stinkers. What reliever have they relied on the most?

Man, Paul Seawald has gone nuts for them. Former Mets DFA guy, I think. Drew St. He's a good looking guy too. Stekin Rider. J.P. Crawford. Are these Steckenriders who I'm talking about?

I'll look it up. Steckenrider hot. Oh yeah. Steck and Ryder. Good looking guy. Six, four, two, 17. That's a nice body right there. He's got a good head of hair on him.

Yeah, well, what about, how about, how about, how about, what about do a little? Sean? He's got a look. He's got a look. Been pitching. Five scoreless or something like that. Go Mariners. Control your own destiny.

You said it. That's crazy. I had a dream about Sean Doolittle the other day. So maybe that means that he's going to come up huge for the Mariners. You and Sean would just have so much fun together. I think so. Yeah. I feel like coffee house vibes.

You guys would talk about books that you've read, some obscure music that you listen to, maybe some film. Like I feel like he hasn't really hit it off. Let's do it. Sean. Yeah. You and Sean do little. Me and Tyler O'Neill.

Neil, Trevor, and Cole Tucker. Wish. California Dreamhole. He'll be at my house within two weeks. Yeah, okay. When he's home, we go out. No, you got it. Trevin, backyard, Brad.

I'll say backyard, Brad. Can we lay out the American League wild card a little bit? Because it's very hard to wrap your head around. The Yankees are up two with three to play. Then the Mariners and the Boston Red Sox are tied and Toronto is one below them. So as far as we looked at it, the Mariners or the Blue Jays are hunting a game 163. They would need everyone to collapse for them to get in.

If they win out, they would still need some wild stuff to happen for them to get the second spot. Their most realistic dream right now is sweep in the Red Sox and Mariners lose one game. Which is pretty, it's in the realm. But that ties him. Right. Yeah, that gives them a 163. Right.

The Yankees need to, magic numbers too. The Yankees can clinch a wildcard spot today with a win. And one of those teams losing, the Red Sox or the Mariners losing. They could clinch a wildcard spot today. So that's exciting. A 163 between Blue, between Boston, And so. Seems likely to me.

I don't know what the odds are. But I would put it like 33%, one of them wins it. Like I'd go 33% Mariners are in, 33%. Red Sox are in 33%. We get a 163. My good follow on... Drop it down 30, 30, 30, 30, 10 Blue Jays. Ooh, I like that.

I got a... I don't want to mess up his name. I believe it's Harold Bryant. Follow him on Twitter. He's talking about how ridiculous it is. Not only that we have this system where the Dodgers could end up in the wildcar game because that doesn't make any sense, but also that the Red Sox, last three games of the year,

an American League team will not have a DH and have to go play National League Baseball for all the freaking markets. Yeah, it's bullshit. It doesn't make any sense. I don't like it at all. I would be very, I don't know if we said this on talking to anxious somewhere, but I would be pissed. You know, all of a sudden,

Stanton was like half an option for us or whoever it is. And they have two guys, Dahlbach and Schwerber. They're going to have to lose one of them. And J.D. Whoever it is, like they got guys. That's a very important role that they've built their team around. Obviously, you just say, well, don't put yourself in the situation.

But that happens in baseball, so I don't like it. And I think they have to have Schwerber on the bench. I think he's the best he knows how to do that more than anybody else. You can't put Dahlbeck. If you want him to play, you can't have him off the bench. He doesn't know how to do that yet. Like you have to have someone experienced in these games to come off the bench. Yeah.

Right. It looks like the Red Sox have E. Rod. How can sail against Josh Rogers, Josiah Gray, and Eric Fetty. So, man, who? Where are they playing? No, it's hilarious. The Nationals team hitting stats this year. It's in Washington.

So they don't have left field of fanway to just hide J.D. there? No, that's why NL. Oh, obviously, Jim, you dumb. You're all right. We got you there. We wanted to walk the horse to water there. You loser. The Nationals as a team, their hitting stats are kind of great, and I think it's all Soto.

Like they are second in OBP. I think that's Soto. It's crazy. Stupid. He's a joke, man. You know, on this show, two years ago, maybe, I said Juan Soto's the rookie card that I'm buying. Did you?

I 100% said that on this show. Did you buy the card? No. I didn't. I have some Sotos, but no, rookie cards for Soto. Were expensive then. The last time the Red Sox had to play National League Baseball was June 15th.

It was in Atlanta. J.D. went to left field, Verdugo's center field, Dahlback, or Renfro right field. Dahlback was at first. Kiki at second. Bogart Stever's obviously. So what are they going to do?

You probably play pitching matchups a little bit. You can do some lefty-righty stuff with those guys. It means Kike and Chorber on the bench? you have Kike in the field. They need him. He's their guy. At second? Second.

Center. I think Swarber. I think Swarber starts on the bench just for the reason I said. I think he's their best option. J.D. at left. Kiki at second. Man.

So I've been suing through all this because, Jim, you know, last night's Yankees game. I was like, this is a huge game because basically, them winning last night basically took the Blue Jays kind of down like they needed a lot of help at this point and the Yankees basically stay out of that conversation so that's why I was so juiced up about last night's Yankees game man the more I think about it we're talking about the Red Sox

A they just lost two out of three to the Orioles and they're playing National League baseball there's a good chance they're going to lose one of these games the Blue Jays are behind the pack they're playing the Orioles that just beat the Red Sox So A, maybe they've got a little juice. But either way, if Toronto sweeps, they need help. The Mariners are at home against a dead angels team.

Yeah. Yeah, and they're playing some fucking lights out baseball right now. They might just win three and take the flight to New York City and see Garrett on the bump Tuesday night, baby. I need to see something here. Oh, see something. Okay. Blue Jays aren't losing a game.

can't. They're 11 and 5 against Baltimore this year. That park is built for their team. They might hit 50 home runs in this series. They are going to go off. If they find any pitching whatsoever in this series, they will win three games. Like, no doubt in my mind.

I mean, you would have said that about Boston too. I don't think I would have said that about Boston. They're facing means. So they do get a means game. Means game. last start of the season. He's a legit pitcher. It's just, I think about that lineup and those

mashers in that park, and I just do not see them losing the game. There's a good chance they can sleep. I just don't. Yankees held him to three hits with all bullpen arms. This is just in my head. I hear you. It's what I see.

I hear you. Means has been pretty good, though. He's a good pitcher. Gun to my head right now. I think I'm going Mariners. All right. Anything else? I'm going to click out, click back.

It's about that time. Jake, tell us what happened in the aisle. Reds played two at the White Sox. White Sox won both games. 7161. Hell yeah. John Means versus Toronto. 135 batting average against, against this crew.

Four homers in 48 played appearances. All right. Yeah, I think that's it. I think we did all of it. Rodon 5 shuddy, that could be important. And Kopec 3 shuddy. So those could be important in a week or so. Yeah.

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We're skipping slump watch. It's not fair. It's not fun. It's good vibes only. Oh, shit. We're not skipping standouts, though. Oh, wow. Moaks.

Treve got you with the reset. Yes. That's usually slump watch when Trev comes back. And then I do in. I'm looking at the clock. It was an hour in. No, that's fine. It's my bad.

I'm just Jake's. Jake nailed the reasoning of why. I almost, I debated driving home in the streets of New York last night, just popping over to Jersey to play some bets. At that time, it's kind of easy. But I didn't. Yeah. I didn't.

And said I looked for parking for a while. Parked too close to a fire hydrant. and got a ticket. It's the only spot available. Did you know you were going to get a ticket, or you just like, you just prayed that there wasn't going to be one? I got as close as I could to the other car

that hoping if the officer saw it, maybe a sign of respect was like, I'll let this go. No. No, no. You become a traffic officer if you hate life. And people. A little bit.

I'm just kidding. I'm sure there's some nice trash. Yeah. Speaking of, Trev, you get to go first. Who's your standout performer? Yeah. Okay, hold on. Let me get it up one sec.

Huge. I have a guess. My standout performance goes to my guy, Mitchie Hanager, goes two for five, two freaking bombs, and gets his career. total to 100. He is in the triple digit club.

38 homers on the year, 95 ribbies. Hey, you want to get paid a little bit? Go out and have a season like Mitch Hanager just did. Put the team on your back. I mean, if they don't have him, Mariners aren't anywhere where they are at now. So you get to be part of this incredible, you know, resurgence in Seattle, 38 homers.

he said after the game, you know, he went through a lot of injuries. And he said he'd sit there and think about, you know, getting to 100 homers. Well, you got there, you have a really good chance to be in the playoffs too. So snaps to Mitch Hanigur. He's my Twitter friend. We've been boys for a long time. So just a little bit of respect. Just put a little bit of respect on that name, Mitchie Hanager.

100 homers. Congratulations. Congrats to Mitch. All right, my standout performer, guy made his debut this year. So, awesome season. You always remember it. Crack the big leagues. Had a pretty rough go for a long time.

It was a tough path for him. He didn't really have a good start at any point. And then in his last start of the season, he goes out there, six innings pitched, one earned run, just shuts him down, goes into the office. season says, yeah, I made my debut and my last game was great. Alexander Wells just, wow, six innings pitched, one earned run. Boston only got three hits. No other team hadn't been able to get him before.

He just upped it for the Red Sox. It's just a great standout performance by Alexander Wells, the twin from Australia. Australia's in some deep shit right now, too. So maybe you can't go back this offseason. So good memories to sit around to. Do they have some kind of crazy COVID lockdown going on there, right? Like insane. Yeah.

Like U.S. news don't even know how to report on it because neither side wants to like agree or like fully disagree. But like everyone's just like, oh my God. Yeah. Shout out Alexander Wells. That's like a combination of two classic authors. or it could just be a combination of Alexander Hamilton and H.G. Wells. Yeah.

Graham Alexander Well. She's pretty nice. Yeah. Vernon Wells. Dominant. Very nice. I love that that's where you go. I love the classics.

Go read. No. Don't. Don't. Never mind. No embarrassed. I was going to give a book recommendation. No chance.

War of the Worlds. Go read it. I'll just, instead of reading, I'll eat some peanuts. Or you could watch the Tom Cruise movie. I think I did see that. That's pretty bad, right? Which one? War of the Worlds. Didn't see it. Who's your standout, Jake? My standout is a guy who stands out.

Literally and figuratively, Jim. Sometimes we get nervous about the Yankees stuff. These guys love the Yankees. They've got Yankees bias. I think they're fans. the Yankees. We are. That's what it's all built on. James yesterday. I mentioned the importance of the game between the Yankees and Toronto.

Robbie Ray on the bump, he's going to win the American League, Cy Young. Toronto needed it to be in the mix. The Yankees needed it to hopefully not be in the mix. In the first inning, big Aaron Judge goes big fly. I think he was about 4-50 On the first one And I say the first one, Trev Because there was a second one later in the game

But it was only about 440 And Trev, we like numbers sometimes Unless you're fucking geek And Trev, we got into the numbers the other day Because, you know, with Judgey, You've seen Yankees Twitter We run hot, we run cold

And Judge is interesting Because that's our pride and joy That's the big fella He came up through the farm We love him Like when he's right It feels like he goes toe to toe With anyone in baseball

So Trev And I gotta give kudos to my friend Jimmy O'Brien on this one You can follow him on Twitter At Johnboy underscore Hmm We got into some OPS stuff In the recent years

From 2017 to 2021 Was that four years or five years now? Five and a half. It's four and a half because it's 2020. Right. Without doing any other stipulations, I have 400 games played. Number one, Mike Trout.

Yep. People call him the best to ever do it. Last five years. Number two, Juan Soto. You just gave a speech about him. They you said he's on a trajectory to be one of the best to ever do it. Number three, big Aaron judge. And by the way, if we wanted to get really funny with the butter knife,

you make it 500 games because Soto hasn't played 500, and neither has Mike Trout in the past five or whatever it is. So an Aaron Judge who, you know, there was some injury concerns and things like that, he's been out playing Trout. and by the way the third best OPS in baseball over that time span when he's right it's special man the ball jumps off the bat and it's special because he's 6-7-280 guys like that aren't supposed to swing the bat like he's supposed to

and he's been on a heater man and it's it's like very fun to watch if you're a Yankee hater you know I kind of get it honestly but enjoy judgy man enjoy Stanton too but enjoy judge he's a freak he is a freak man and he got the teeth fixed and everyone's like is that going to be a problem hasn't been a problem is he married or something no he's had the same girlfriend for a while right well on and off but he went back on recently I think but I have no idea he's pretty quiet about his personal life

gosh I'm so fascinated by that like I want to know all about his personal life I just can't imagine He can't go out anywhere Can't I mean he never could 6 8 He can't He's too big

He comes from a small tiny farming town In Linden California Does he get dinners Yes Oh New York You can go to dinner And not get harassed

If you just get the back room Or like Yeah a lot of back alleyways All that good stuff I see the back alleys I don't see the back That's on your way Actually

Going out is tough Because there's always to be someone with a cell phone. You know, like you can get, you can get the VIP room, I guess. I'm just curious about his life. In our research, Trev, on OPS stuff like that, that's not where we started.

I did not realize how rare a 900 OPS for a full season is. And I don't think the general baseball audience knows that. Like they know one dot is elite and they know nine is good, but nine is elite, and one dot is insane.

Nine is elite. Like right now, there's only five players that are qualified with OPS in the nines, in the AL, like in the American League. I think there's under 10 in baseball. And we went through the last couple years, and it's like 10 or under most years, qualified, played enough games, had enough played appearances, and had a nine or higher OPS, like even 901, you know, like that's elite. I don't, yeah. I had to retrain my brain a little because I never thought of like 900 or 901 as elite but it it truly is if you do it for full season. Yeah, you know, it's I think in my mind, I think a lot of baseball players would probably agree. I think once you cross like the 780 margin, like 780 into the 8s, that's a really,

let's just say, round numbers. If you get into the 8s, you're extremely happy with your season. You're extremely happy with your season. You get in the 9s, that's rarefied air once. We're going to talk about that but you get in the eights and you're feeling really really good about yourself and like i said you get seven 80 or above you're happy yeah yeah one's one dots and nines are those are reserve for the freaks that's that's where i think it gets confusing when you talk about the MVP race every year you're going to have two maybe three guys in that air that the word elite gets tricky and it used to be the fun football conversation eli manning and all that stuff but you know, if you start talking, you know, top 10 hitters in the AL,

seven of them, if not eight of them, are going to have 900 OPSs. Or the bottom two aren't, you know, they're going to be in the eights. So in the American League right now, there are five players with an OPS 900 or above. I wouldn't have guessed that. I would have guessed like 15, I think. So that's cool. In the National League, there are seven. So wild.

I have to adjust my brain a little bit on a full season OPS. And if I see 900 on the dot, I have to understand that's not good. That's a top 10 player that season. He's not good. He's fabulous. 900 means you are most likely doing both, getting on base at a good clip and slugging. You got to do both. It's really hard to just slug your way into a 900 or on base.

yourself into a nine-h-h-h-h-you have to do both it's a great point trib Salvador Perez and everyone knows his 48 homers this year he has an 870 OPS yeah because he kids gonna get on base yeah cool cool beans good standouts guys thank you now you ready I think so I just want to get to the stintuator that means I'm on fire baby like wake-wake-o Hello. Stand out. God damn it, you loser.

Corey Seeger's in Fuego, six for 13 with three homers. Aaron Judge, you just heard about him. Dylan Carlson, four for 11, three homers. AJ Pollock, oh, might hear about him later. Mitch, he's hot. Mitch Hanager, four for 12, heard about him already. Bo Bichette, he may be coming up later in the show. Seven for 11 with two bombs in the same game.

Brandon Lowe, five for 12 with two homers and two doubles. Byron Buxton, 5 for 11 with two homers coming back strong. We looked at his games played and it was much lower than anyone thought. It's 55 or something like that. 58. Salvi Perez, 4 for 9 with two bombs. How about that? Trevor's story.

7 for 11. Get that batting average. Let's go. Get it up. I think it's impossible to get it up above 280, but Brian Reynolds, 6 for 10 with two triples. What in the hell? So that's who's hot. Tell him who's.

who's Trevor Storer with the OPS in the 8th. Mm. He was on the all Maker Jake team. Dang average. I know it's not getting there. What if he goes 20 for 20? Let's go. What if he goes in the next three games, he goes 20 for 20.

Oh, boy. What would that be? And it's turned into math pot. I'll let you do the math there, Jimbo. And before we get, do we call him regular load awards? Do we do the ads? Are we good? We're good. I do them all.

Holy smokes. Ad. Oh, if you guys 20 for 20, you have a 280 batting average. Let's go, Treve. Trevor's story, go 20 for 20. Let's go. Trev. Yes.

You have. Oh. The first award, my man. All right. Give me a sec. In a big Trevor pod the last couple minutes. All right. My award is, I don't have a name for it.

Huge. I kind of want to talk. talk about when you know something's wrong, you need to change it up quicker, but at the same time, when you've had so much success doing something and then it doesn't work, it's hard to change. So I'm going to call this award. Cody Bellinger is figuring it. He's maturing. The Cody Belling Award. The maturation of Cody Bellinger, Trevor. Thank you, James. Thank you, James. You know, let's go back.

This is another guy. Obviously, MVP, he gets to the big leagues at 21 and 2017, rookie of the year, All-Star, MVP-9. Everything's working. Next year, another great year. 2019, everything comes together. The guy won a freaking gold glove and the MVP. Like, that's you to man.

2020. 2020 comes along. He struggles a little bit. Has an injury. 2021 comes along and boy oh boy he's been a it's been rough for him this year he's working at a minus 1.7 war he's hitting 162 belly came into this year changing a few things up he wanted to work on it he opened a stance up he was still tall in the box hands really high open he's really struggled with that this year and hasn't really made any adjustments well now he's

has made an adjustment. I think finally it got to a point where it might have been the shoulder ailing him. It might have just been him having to make this adjustment because the league figured him out and made an adjustment and kept going in and up on him. Two things happened. One was his mechanics. Brought the hands down a little bit, closed off his stance, brought him real closer to the body. He's real tight with everything now. So now he doesn't have to go as far to get to that inside pitch. When you're upright, open hands up, getting to that inside pitch requires a lot of movement. You got to get to this spot. He said, you know what, I'm just going to put my hands in that spot. Brought the hands down.

Now that inside pitch is really just a leg thing, get their legs through, hands are going to work. So he makes this adjustment. Hits a home run, pinch hit, not a pinch hit. He came in late. Hits the home run. The Dodgers need Cody Bellensure. maybe they don't need him but they sure would fucking like old Cody Bellinger back okay so he makes the adjustment

I think he feels really comfortable and this might be a scenario where wow he figured it out just in time because there's a second thing he did that shows his maturation Jim you want to know what it is got his hair

he cut his hair no more stoned belly memes people this is business belly ever heard of him he cuts the hair he makes the adjustment it's the maturation of Cody Bellinger just in time for the

2021 playoffs I like it dude it shows his willingness he said he goes someone said why didn't you do this earlier he goes you know what I won an MVP and a rookie of the year doing that it was hard for me to say I needed to change

did you hear the real reason he cut his hair it's not that mature tell me tried to spit a piece of bubble gum up catching his mouth land did in his hair. He had his buzz it. Is this not sure? It's not... I made that up. It's a rumor. It's a rumor

that just started right now. You know, he actually told a story about his haircut, so I can tell you it. What do he said? Went to his barber. She said, what are we going to do? And he's just sat there and said, you know what? I don't really know. Just buzz it. She goes, you guys, make it. Fated up, buzz it. Let's go.

That kind of is... That kind of is a mature move. I don't know. I just need a guy. goddamn haircut. Because this ain't working. It ain't working. Hands in. So the maturation, hands in, quick to the ball. Very just direct people right before the playoffs. Baked belly. No more baked belly memes. They'll still happen because I think it's kind of his general being, not his hair, but. Yeah, you're right. I'm kind of a baked He's got resting baked face.

He does have resting baked face. It's like confused, baked. Yes. Huh? That's my award. My award. Are you guys ready for my award? Sure am.

My award is the your hired award. Any guesses? You're hired? Your hired award. Vanessa Hudgens. Both correct, but there's also a third. Whoever runs. Orioles Twitter.

Just a great job. Reach out. You're hired. Apply within. If you want to leave Baltimore, move to New York City, and run socials for us, we got something. DMBD.

DM, everyone. They were the best content in baseball. We got beat. Orioles Twitter was crushing it. A couple tweets. Yeah. A couple tweets. I do love that now they can use

all the same memes and gifts they were making and just take the Blue Jets, off and put the Red Sox on because now the Red Sox are rooting for them and the Blue Jays aren't. And that's going to crack me up when they do the same GIF and just switch out those two teams. They should run back the exact same tweets. Yes, the same. Like that one with the three kids dancing, it should just be a different team.

So good job by them. They won. Hired. You're so hired. Memes are so hard. Here we go. You know, like, they figured it out. Those were good.

I struggle with my memes. Jake, you were like, you're like in the middle. I feel like you're not that good, but you know you're not that good. So they become really good. She's not trying too hard. I feel like I try too hard on my meme. Jake has developed his meme lane and people, like, if another account sent out Jake's memes, they wouldn't hit. But because you know it was Jake doing it, they hit.

It doesn't work. from a different account. I'd compare it to going to a piano bar or going to any bar. Like, you can't play the number one song every time. You know, you got to mix in some other music. And then when you play those hits, it's slap. So when Piano Man comes on, you're ready to go. You can't just play Piano Man on repeat.

Treve, I only know a few memes. Stop reading books. Get in the meme game. I have to... Why a generation was ruined. Kyle told me last postseason I had all these movie scenes from like the 90s that I said like if you put this team here and there like they say funny things and we had them ready to go. Kyle reminded me I didn't have that yet. So I got to get on it.

But I do. I was watching a documentary on drummers. If anyone, I'll let the audience in and you guys can help me because really. Yeah. They're fine. It's just this crew. Okay. I found a a they're not going to be able to see it.

They're going to be able to hear it. Okay. I found a video. that when the time comes and it's applicable, it's going to be perfect. I just need to be aware of that. But it's from this documentary. You ready to hear it, Trev?

Yeah. Wrong, wrong, wrong. No, no. But it's kind of right. I like that guy. I watched a documentary. You watch that one? You know the, what do they call him?

The drum doctor. Yeah. He's like my buddy. He lives in the neighborhood. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, he's great. Him and the other guy, the tailor for food fighters.

Yeah. He's awesome. Whoops. That's like, I love that documentary. I watch music documentaries like that all the time. I have no idea what they're saying. I can't like hear what things that they're talking about.

They're like, yeah, then he hits the high hat, and then he comes in with a little woolshy, and then he has a fill there, and I'm like, oh, dude, I don't know any of that.

I don't know what any of that means, but I love it. Who's the one guy that leads that big drum circle? Like, he was kind of like the almost like the main, guy in the documentary. He's so intense and so like he has so much crazy energy, dude. I think he's I think he plays for the who now. No, no, no, no, no. That's that's your. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He did cover in for them, I think. But he's, he's like a nine inch nail, not nine inch nail,

somebody like that. Yeah, I don't know. Anyways, talking drumming. Here we go. Talking drumming. Jake, do you got an award. I do. Uh, he does. and it goes, I'm going to do it fairly high and tight for me, at least. I'm giving out the Beatles award. Wow, more music. It's basically a music pod now. The Beatles, Jim, some of the kids are familiar. Most number one hits all time.

And my award is going to the guy with the most hits this season in the American League. Any guesses, top of your heads? Most hits in the American League. Most AL hits this year. Brantley. Whitmerfield. The most hits in the American League this year. The least terns.

This guy is 23 years old. He plays shortstop. He is a star in this game. Unfortunately, he's gotten one up by his neighbors this year. Bobauchette. Man, this guy is a star. and he's got a little bit of the Beatles flow. Bo Bichette is going to finish this year with six war.

He's 23. The question about Bo Bichette coming into this year was he hadn't done it for a full season. He only played 46 games, his rookie year, age 21, by the way. And then he plays 29 games in the 60 game season last year. He's played 156 this year with three to go this weekend. He's been at shortstop basically every day. my God is he entertaining. The way he swings, the way he plays defense, he is awesome.

He is a Yankee killer, and he's going to be a Yankee killer for a little while. His two home run game the other day? Garrett Cole and Clay Holmes. And by the way, the second home run won them the game in a tied 5-5 ball game in the eighth inning. Bobeshett's nasty. I love watching him play. Violent swings. sexy

He is a good looking guy If he ever gets a haircut If he ever goes high and tight I don't know It doesn't Canada he's good It doesn't get too small of a head to go high and tight Too small Bo Bichette

His home running against Clayhomes was awesome The drummer that we were talking about Trev was Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction From Thousand Oaks, California That's why you like Really? Alley boy

He's got so much energy It's almost like if you get it around the guy, it's like a little scary. Like he has an extra battery. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? Speaking of Bo Bichette,

I'll just never forgive Carl Ravich. Yeah. Just never. I like a lot of the stuff Carl Ravich does. That one hurt. I got my peaches down and jar. Who's the best friend of the week?

Tough being sandwich between Vladdy and Simian this year. Or you might like it. I like it. AJ Pollock's the best friend of the week. His fifth time won a new award. Four for nine, three homers, six ribbies and a walk. No, no, fuck AJ. So how big of a tie do we have?

The hitters lead is a three-way tie with Pollock, Hap, and Meadows. What about pitchers? Walker Bueller has seven. So Bueller's best friend of the year. Looks like it. Walker Bueller. I guess nobody can tie.

The guy that could care of the lead. Not at least. That's perfect. We send him a trophy. We're sending him an award. Sending him an award and he... He'll never look at it. He won't look at it.

We'll ask him about it and he'll say what? It will be in the package. Not that he hates us or dislikes us. He just doesn't give a fuck about us. It's just purely not caring. Seven innings, two earned. Walker. Okay, well...

No. I got something to tell you guys. No. It might be time to get... Bunky. Oh my God. Go BPD. Devin Williams out.

He's out. The last postseason stimulator simulator of the year. And this is what we got. BPD. Are you ready for this? We got the Mariners in Boston playing a 163 playing game. Who wins that?

The Mariners. Holy shit. Mariners then fly to the Bronx if they were hosting it. Either way, I take the train to play the Yankees. Who wins that one? The Yankees.

Holy boy. The White Sox go to Houston. They play a five-game set. Old man managers. Who's that? White Sox. White Sox are winning it. The Yankees versus the race.

They're playing this weekend. They'd be playing again in this one. Five games set, a repeat of last year. Who wins it? All the Yankees. Holy smokes. It's the Yankees versus. Five and one against the White Texas is here.

It's the Yankees versus the White Sox. Jake, it's a mean trick. White Sox. Oh, my God. White Sox. White Sox are in the world series. That shall be exciting in the National League. Wayno going up against the Dodgers in L.A.

Who wins that? The Cardinals. The Cardinals are taken down the Dodgers. Holy smokes. Dodgers. Oh, man. The Cardinals would then try. Travel up to San Fran and play a five-game set against the Giants.

The Cardinals again. Holy shit. Cardinals are in the championship series. Who are they to be facing? The Braves are going to Milwaukee. It's the Braves. Ho! The Braves.

Cardinals. What is this? 1990? Rogers, the Giants, the Brewers. Everyone's sitting in Pritties out. Holy smokes. Braves, Cardinals, seven games set. championship series.

Who takes it? The Braves. Oh my God. The Braves versus the White Sox, a matchup that we have not discussed, talked or thought about once on this show. Who wins the World Series October 1st? I think that's a date. Maybe a second. It's the first.

And it's the White Sox. Oh, my God. Wow. No, BPD. No, no. Wow. There is a world. There is a world.

That was insane. So, I think that's the White Sox first Stimulator win. Wow. And at least cracked a couple World Series, but. That was electric. We have a bull in a china shop,

noodle. Jake's dogs here to bring some energy into the show. Jake's dog is taller than Jake, taller than me is a big, big boy. Oh my God. You're kicking everything. So immediately knocked over. And he's out.

Stop nudes. Oh, man. Good. Okay, guys. The White Sox win the World Series. We will be back on Monday. Same time. Actually, I think we might be going early, Trevor.

We locked that down yet. I think we're aiming at 11? Eastern. Yeah. I think we're aiming 11 Eastern. You got to tell us if you had to drive to school or not. You know what? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's go 830. All right. 11.30 Eastern. So we'll be a little earlier. We're going to try and start when we need to start 11.30 Eastern 830 California time next Monday. We'll just recap. I mean, it's not going to be in Fuego. It's not going to be standouts, awards.

We're literally just going to kind of recap the series that mattered, which is like four series. And then we will be doing in-depth wild card previews on that episode. There will be another episode later on where we do divisional series previews after the wildcard game. And we're every day, guys. We are streaming every night. We are 11 o'clock every day. Recapping the games that happened the night before.

So if you need some company to watch some playoff baseball, you got us. And we're very excited to watch it and take it all in with you. Thanks for a great season. We'll be back on Monday. Juices will be flowing. It's got real. It's real. So handsy when I get to me doing it.

Yeah. Happy bidet to Benjamin Goldberg. Oh. Just beat in a day. Yes, it is. Cardinals and Wayno agree to extension. Two minutes ago just reported.

Oh. What? Wow. He's bad. Baseball.