Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 482 | Mets No-Hitter, Sox Struggles, & Julio Rodriguez Hits His First Homer

Episode Date: May 2, 2022

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. What a weekend it was. A combined no hitter, not a lot of sweeps in the NL. And we're going to talk all about it. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Hope you're having yourself a fantastic Monday morning or afternoon. My name is Jimmy. Sit next to me as Jake, Trevor Plouffe looking great in California

and producer BBD behind the dish. Brought to you by Seatkeek. Also sponsoring the episode, you can use code talking, get $20 off your first purchase. I was just had breakfast with a couple and they said they wanted to go to a game. And I said, hey, if you want $20 off tickets, you can use this code. And they did. And they texted later and said, hey, your code worked. Thank you.

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is not the best deal. Green, go. Enjoy the game. So, thanks, seekeek. Jake, how was your weekend? You could go maybe even see Trevor Plouf at a game pretty soon. Tomorrow. Rumors in the L.A. area.

Tomorrow, go use Ciki, go see him. My weekend was good. Good. Trevor's Yankees are hot in the street. New York City baseball. is hot in the streets. I'm loving it. My dream is to have the Yankees and the Mets do a subway series while I live in New York City.

We'll see how tight that window becomes. But things are looking good. Well, meanwhile, everyone else on the West Coast says, shut your butt because the NL West is nasty. My Angels, Trev's Angels can't be stopped. Good weekend. Jess is away this week, so me and noodle will be in survival, baseball mode. a lot of ordering in a lot of baseball um a lot of tictock trev how you doing that apartment is going to stink let's open the windows up let's light some candles baby i'm doing great at a hell of a weekend

started on a thursday kind of been on a bender since then i've said on this uh this show before can't get hung over if you keep drinking that's kind of where i'm at right now except i haven't had drink today. So these eyes, they still look good though. Look at this. I'm awake, ready to go. I've already done one show today. My baseball knowledge is on point. I'm excited to talk about it. I kind of stumbled into a guy. Like, we haven't said his name once on this show all year, and he's having a magical season. So we'll talk about him a little bit. But my vibes are high. A lot of youth baseball for me this week. I will be at the Dodger game tomorrow. Rogers versus my manager, Gabe's Giants.

So it'll be fun. I'm bringing the family. James, how you doing, man? Doing well. Doing well. I dyed my beard, Trev, so there's no more white in the beard. Yeah, you did. Yeah.

Also died my hair, but I'm wearing a hat so you can't see. So no more gray. So that's exciting for me until it fades. And then I have to do it again. And then it's like, this is a whole thing. Watch some baseball. Watch Blue Jay's Astros game. I've got a gripe with Saturday broadcasts after watching the Yankees and the Blue Jays one.

They don't bring the energy on Saturday day games. Yeah, why not? I don't know. But I watched two games on Saturday, and both of them were just kind of like, dull. The games were good. Like the Astros Blue Jays game was good. Yes. The energy that, I think I was listening to Blue Jays feed, it was like, not exist.

But it was the same at the Yankees game. games. It's not like a, you know. Usually I like listening to Blue J games. I don't know if they changed the booth. I don't know. Maybe it was the Astros. No, it was the Blue Jays feed I was watching. But so that's my update.

You were watching baseball. We talked on the phone and you were watching baseball, baby James. I said, baby James, what's up? What's a fire Jake? And he cooed and we bonded again. What? Cooed. Cood, bro. You don't know what that means. Yeah, he's not a dad. Just let's hear the fucking noise, Trev. You're such a dad-in-year.

Let's hear you coo. Why don't you coo for the people? Maybe David. I thought you're a man of the people. Let's hear you coo. Ooh. And that's what I wanted. Okay.

It's more like a... Why did you... Yeah, I don't even... I tried. I'm a man. Yeah. Yeah. Why did you put that picture of me

stretching my forearm? I don't know what you're talking about. I'm trying to get people. to watch our content. Sorry. That's a messed up looking picture. It's a weird pick. You look like you're out of a scary movie.

That's a feed stopper. You're scrolling down your Twitter feed and you see that. Like, whoa, hold up. Wait, hold up. What's he doing? I need to be humbled sometimes. So I'm happy about that. Secret to life, guy.

I mean, that is such a weird picture. It's just weird. Feels good, though, to do it. Stretch your forearms. Yeah. Anything you guys want to get off your chest Before we get into the games Um

There's been a lot of boes making their debut I mean that's of note I think Yeah Bull Solcer made his debut recently And so did Bo brisk Brisky So I don't know what that means

But the name Bo Isn't there other Didn't Bo guy named Bo make his debut last year For the Tigers Oh there was beau porter manager of the astros for a season or two we got four active bows in the league right now all since 2018 so and are they B E A you yeah except for Bichette he's B O it doesn't count Bo Bauda shit yeah not even counting with Bo Bauda Chet yeah sorry what's his

name is it just B O is just not Wait, is his name B.O. Like his birth name? Can't be right. Full name, Bo Joseph Bichette. How about it? Man.

It's disrespectful to the French people. That's all I'm saying. Like, spell it like the French, spell it. Folks name B.O. I mean, what a play by Dante. That's like, that's like you're in deep Louisiana. Oh, Louisiana is French.

They just B-E-A-U. People forget. Bell was more like Arkansas, right? Dante Bichette, 274 career homers, 152 career swipes. It's pretty good. His first son's name is Dante. Former Yankees' track.

After, named after himself. Joe Girardi's first son named after Dante Bichette. Joe Girardi, Dante Bichette, go on a fishing trip with their sons. It's Joe and the Dantes. It's three Dantes. and Joe Gerardy. Sounds like a cooking show.

That happened at one point. Joe and the Dantes hung out. His best friend. It's like I named my son James. You name your son James after me. And we all go hang out. It's Jake and the Jameses. Jameses.

I dig it. Teddy's middle name is James. So he can come to. DJ. Nice. Well, he's Winston James. Theodore Winston James. Yeah.

Jesus. Treve. That's the most regal name I've heard in a long time. Oh, he's a stud. Theodore Winston James ploof. Yeah. Coo again.

Yeah, that's kind of a coup. All right. Who's got the NL? Speaking of coups. Yeah. Wait for me and James to fucking put a coup on this company. I'm waiting.

You're in. You're James. You're good. Jake. It's you. It's just me, then. Out. Yes, me then. Thumbs up. Let's go. NL recap. I'm leading off today. Here it is.

Hey, Trev. Get on base. Give the offense a fucking chance today. I'm going to hit a Homer, baby. We are going to start in New York where the Phillies went to take on the Mets. The Mets are rocking. Baby, they take two out of three.

It was 3-0 Mets. 4-1 Phillies and then 10-6 Mets. We know what happened in game 1. McGill, Smith, Rodriguez, Lugo, and Dio. What they do? It was the no-no, baby. Nola wasn't bad himself. Six-innings pitch, three earned runs. McNeil had to go-ahead, two-run single in the fifth, but obviously the story of the game, that no-hitter.

Diaz, like nasty there against Ria Muta, the last batter. Game two, our boy, Ghibie, four-and-third innings pitch, one earned, un-earned run, excuse me. Walker had five shutout innings, so a nice pitcher's duel there. Swarber with the go-ahead, two-run Homer in the seventh. In a game three, Scherzer goes six-in-th pitch, gives up a ton of runs. The Mets scored the goal. ahead running the fifth on a passball.

Dom Smith had four hits on the day before the Mets need to decide if they're keeping him, which they did decide they're going to keep him. Robinson Cano see you later. Schwerber had two home runs in game three. Mets take two out of three. Moving on to Pittsburgh, the Padres came into town and they took two out of three from our pirates. Seven three Padres, seven, six pirates and ten.

Five, two Padres in the rubber match. Darvish six-ending pitch, three run in game. one. They also were mocking him during the series. Did you guys see that tweet a little bit? That was fun. Krona worth the go-ahead RBI single in the fifth of game one. Hayes scores the winning run in the 10th on a fielding air by Hosmer in game two. And then Musgrove dealt in game three, seven innings pitch, one earned run against his former team. Keller, not too bad either. Sixth inning's pitch, one earned run.

But the Padres win five to two. They take two out of three. Moving on, the Nationals came into San Fran, and they did what to the Giants, they won the series. They took two of three from them. Nationals bang it first game. They went at 14 to four. Giants win nine, three, game two, before the Nationals opened up the offense. Again, 11 to five in the rubber match. Bell, Robles and Franco each had four hits in, damn, in game one, they all had four hits. Let's go. Game two, Webb went six innings pitch with three earned runs. He gave 11 hits, though. Estrada had three RBI. in the rubber match, the national score

for five in the first on four singles, three walks, and an RBI field's choice, and a bump. They take two out of three from the Giants. Cubs go into Milwaukee. The Brewer's still doing it. They went two out of three from the Cubbies, 11-1, 9-1 before the Cubs took the last game,

two-to-nothing behind a strong pitching performance for Marcus Stroman. In game one, Renfro, two home runs. Adomis, Yelly McCutcheon, Peterson also hit home. runs. Five on the, five different players on the team had them. Game two, Lauer, seven-nings pitch with one and runs, 11-Ks. Let's go. Yelly homers again. And then like I said, Stroman outbattleed Burns, who wasn't too bad himself. Stroman seven shuddy. Burns went seven-nings pitch with two earned runs, but the Brewers take two at three. And then we're moving on to Arizona at the Cardinals.

You guys are not going to like this because they split. Eighth three Cardinals, six, two D-Bex, two-0-D-backs. And the Carbats. And the Carlin. Cardinals in the last game, 7-2-5. Goldschmidt had three hits and three RBIs in game one. Varshot, your guy, Jake, an RBI double, and Smith had the RBI ground out to take the lead in the third in that game. In game three, Marte, Homers, and Ahmed had Helmers in the eighth to break the score of this tie.

And then we will talk about one guy who exited the game in a little bit. Moving on, Reds, Rockies, guess what happened? Rockies. Weep. 10-4 Rockies, 4-3 Rockies, 10-1 Rockies. We'll get into that one in a little bit. But that, my friends, is what happened in the N-M. I got to be honest. I can't hear the music, man. It's messing me up a little bit. You killed it. I did great, I know, but the music helps me out a little bit.

I just let you know that you got four minutes, 37 seconds, and you just put it on your phone or something. I know, I need to do that. Your phone is right here. Hit by a pitch. You got on bass, kids. Good stuff up there. Your NL standings, Mets are in first place in the east. By three games. Brewer's in first place in the central by two games.

Dodgers are up on the Padres due to winning percentage. The Padres have 15 wins, but they have eight losses. So the Dodgers are ahead in the loss column. And no sweeps in the NL besides one. And it was the team that played the Reds. The Reds let a ball drive. up in the infield. They're like all time bad right now. But they were, we almost had the complete opposite of sweep week. And I was like, wow, I have a competitive series. And then I got

to the very last one. And I was like, ah, yeah, that makes sense. But good for the Rockies, because they had just gotten swept. So they needed to do some sweeping. Good for them. We can start at the top. The Mets have all the news right now. They do the combined no hitter. Well, they brought last week. They combined no hitter. And then they just made a move on Canoe. A lot of teams have to make the roster move now because they have to get rid of the two roster spots. It goes from 28 to 26. That's over. So Cano is at the mercy of that.

Big decision. Good for the Mets for pulling the plug on a guy that is owed money, I think. But Mets have a bunch of different storylines to talk about. Jake, yeah. You got any? The whole energy has changed, Jim. We've talked about it a lot. We talked about it in the TPP.

Buck Show Walter is different. Cohen comes in, you know, one of the wealthiest owner in baseball. And, you know, what's going to change? They still had some weird stuff going on, a little Metsy at times. You bring in Buck Showalter, I mean, one of the most respected guys around baseball. You bring in Max Scherzer also one of the most respected guys around baseball. And everything has changed. I mean, last night's game was a blast.

I mean, the Mets kind of bludgeoned the Phillies. and the Phillies tried to bludgeon their way back into it, and the Mets said nah. And yeah, man, the whole energy is a real thing, and it's changed. They're the best record in the National League. I mean, McNeil looked good. They keep Dom Smith instead of sending him down

to keep Canoe on the roster. And, you know, we all get to sit at home and say, like, oh, well, Canoe might be fried. Just eat the 40 million. is $40 million to pay a guy to not show up to the office. That's that baby James Trev Storelli deal that we're working out in the future. So, man, I love it. I know Mets and Yankees and some people don't fully understand the Mets-Yankees relationship.

I love everything that's going on over at City Field. Shea Station, Jerry Blevins was in the office today. they got the news live about Robbie Canoe. And yeah, they mixed in a little combined no-no too because McGill's gross. So I love it. MetLife, baby. I agree. The energy has changed.

It seems if you had to put like a emotion on this energy, I'll say what I think. I'm curious to hear what you guys think. Chat sound off. It's like an angry energy. Like a pissed. You know, like I know they're smiling and having fun. but there's like an edge like pissed off energy like with them.

I think it starts with Scherzer probably. And all the hit by pitches. Hit by pitches. That's helped definitely. And, you know, Schoalter's not going to smile all the time. But he doesn't give like an angry energy to me either. I think I've said this already on the show.

I think it starts with Scherzer. Like he's brought it and people are just kind of feeding off of it. But I like what they're doing. Canoe really didn't have a place on the team. You know, and like I know, $40 million, a lot to eat. but do you know what 40 million for like a guy that's worth 12 billion is this is not a lot of money bro

he's got 12,000 millions he had like four hits one extra base hit or something like that yeah he was 501 OPS like he wasn't doing anything anyway Chris Rose asked me if I think he's going to catch on with another team I said there's a possibility you're getting a guy at league minimum maybe yeah well I think I think a team's going to grab him I don't know I haven't racked my brain over who would or what. I don't know if chat's got any suggestions, but one of the best second baseman ever played the game. Controversial shit pushed aside,

which opens up the door for other stuff while a steroid. But I don't know. I think someone would take a shot. It's a sweet swing. He, uh, spring training, which again doesn't matter. But in a way it matters that like you could still hit a baseball somewhat. Someone will take a flyer on Robbie.

I think he wants it. You know, my first reaction was that he, he'd just call it. But, like, Robbie Canoe was dialed up for a major league baseball season this year. Like, he's ready to go. So, yeah, I think if you're him, you probably chill out, you know, hit a couple baseballs. And then whatever team starts getting the injury bug and they think they could use a little Robbie Canoe.

Also, how about those 15 DH spots that just opened up across baseball that, like, hey, that swing is still so sweet. It's not, Jake. It's not that sweet. It's tainted. It doesn't taste sweet anymore to me. It's tainted. It's like a nerd rope.

No, those are delicious. I haven't had one in years. I don't put that in my body, but that's not. I agree with you back in the day. I was very into what Canoe was doing, turning those dope plays. His swing is sweet. I understand it.

But now, it's all sour to me now, man. It just is. Okay. Philly's side of things, they had just, uh won four in a row against the Rockies and now they lose a series to the Mets. They hit at some big homers from some big guys. Fun spots, but couldn't get away.

I mean, they didn't hit game one, obviously. Literally. No hits. Bad. But, um, what, last night, didn't Schwerber open it up? Didn't Bryce get Scher? Schwerver hit two and Bryce hit one, but it was kind of. And they out hit them in game two and won that game.

I don't know what's going on with the Phillies. It sounds dushy to say, but I think Scherzer was kind of throwback pitcher mode, which again, it's Max Scherzer, so it's not crazy. But, like, you know, I think the Harper home run was 02, and he threw one over the plate where, like, you know, how many of today's pitchers would just bounce three in the dirt to Bryce and hope it goes? I think Scher was like in the driver's seat, I'm throwing shit over the plate. You might run into a couple, but I think we're still going to win this game.

So it's cool. I mean, Schwabers starting to get hot, three homers in the last two games. That's big. I mean, the Phillies just straight ran into a better team right now. Yeah, I don't think the series wasn't super bad for them. That's a great movie. Obviously, the no hitter is just kind of like an anomaly.

Bad day. The other two games, you just chalk it up, they split those. Jolly had this excellent tweet. I'm trying to find it. It was not excellent. It was actually like the most savage thing I've heard in a long time. Damn. Oh, about Joelle?

Basically, he goes, how do you spend all offseason constructing the best lineup in the league only to get no hip, or like sacrificing your defense, having the worst defense in the world and only to get no hit by Joliet Rodriguez or something like that?

Like, it was savage, bro. Sometimes it just happens. You have a bad day at the park, dude. 10 years ago for me. Jolly's feeling himself right now. I'm like, gosh, dude. And he should be. If you're Mets fans,

taste your stuff. right now. I got to get the right tweet up. I feel bad butchering it the way I just did. Fuck. You're good. Padres, Pirates,

Padres took two out of three, won the bookends. Pirates snuck out a win in the middle game. Do you see that play where Hayes scored? Keep Ryan from first on the air. They won. He knew right away. Do the hands up.

I guess everybody does that, don't they? Yes. Yeah. Everybody does that. Padres, they're, again, kind of one of the question marks coming in this season,

15 and 8, man. They are often rolling. Just the problem for them as the whole division still is. Yeah, I don't know. Decent schedule coming up, Guardians, Marlins, Cubbies, so,

hey, just stay alive. They keep getting pitching performances. Get that Tatis guy back. I've been hitting, man. Yeah. They've been hitting. Chata looks good.

When does Tate's come back? We're looking at a June thing, right? That's what it was initially. Originally, yeah. Yeah, I thought it was after the All-Star break. Oh, shit. I have no idea. That's just mentally what I remember putting in my head is that there's half the season.

I feel like I remember three months getting thrown out there when the injury was announced. Not seeing any update. So they said a mid-June return would be roughly 60-65 games. One line in a sporting news article. The sporting news. Back to the booth, Samson. Nationals just hit like crazy against the Giants. They win game one.

They put up 14 runs. They win game three by putting up 11. They lost the middle game, but did they push three across versus Webb? I think they did. They did. That's kind of a win right now. I don't know. What's going on, Nats?

We're supposed to be losing. You get 11 hits. So how many hits did the nationals have in this series then? Shout out to my guy, Yadio Hernandez. I gave him an award on an early talking baseball because he's a journeyman guy. He's raking this year for the Nats. And Josh Bell.

Might be a name you hear around the trade deadline. Sorry, Nats fans. 351, 457 on base for Big Josh Bell. and lucky for him, as you remember, coming out of those Pittsburgh years. He had one or two Magh years. It's looking like those are becoming the outlier. So I love that for Big Josh Bell. Robles had eight hits, Bell at six, Yadio, five.

I'll see this five, Caesar five, Soto five. Giants? Yeah. What happened? Got got. The last game, they scored five in the first and kind of held on and scored more against the bullpen later. but go nuts that's fun man that's that's that's that's that's why baseball is great going to a

team that's hot like the giants and go take a couple from them Nelson Cruz I don't know what that means yeah Nelson Cruz supposed to get hot you didn't get hot at all he do you know the twins got Joe Ryan for half a season of him whoops trade him back get Nelson Cruz back maybe Brewers pitch really well. They should trade for Nelson Cruz. That'll be great. They should.

Have both? They're going to. Brewers held the Cubs to one run, one run, and then two runs. And lost the game where they allowed two runs. Because Stroman was nasty against them and shut them down. But Brewers are in first place, remain in first place. Their pitching's nasty. And according to, I didn't see these games, but according to the numbers,

the offense came alive. 277 batting average and 15 extra base hits with nine home runs for the brew crew in those first two games. It looks like they didn't put up a lot of offense in game three. So that's, even though they didn't sweep, they win the series. And it seems like, I guess Brewer's fans, obviously, you know more than me. It seems like the bats started to come alive, which is something they've been waiting to happen.

Renfro got that OPS in the sevens, baby. Happy birthday. And speaking of actual happy birthdays, Stroman was on his birthday. Wow. So we like that. We like a nice birthday performance. Dude, we got a bunch of seven-year-olds on this team now. Don't you just calling for that?

Yeah. All right. Yelly has, yeah, he got four hits, two homers, run for a five hits, three homers.

So they had some fun. Hopefully that leads to more and more and more. And break out of the bats. Because if their bats aren't going at all, the brewers are incredible. Yes. We had a caller this morning on our, um,

Baseball Today show and admittedly I did not get to watch the Brewers games. But he said that Yelly had a different look in his eye. So I'm going to go our eyes. He has two eyes. I'm going to go check this out and see what's going on because usually with a look in your eyes and adjustment has been made. So I'm going to go check it out. We'll report back to you guys if there's anything that's changed.

But I get Yelly going. Like you said, James. Just a look in his eye, just hungry. Tired of sucking. Speaking of, my D-back split with the cards, love it. We had a chance to go three in a row to end the series. Cardinals come back, Harry Bader with the big home run. My guy, Nick Ahmed with homers and back-to-back games,

that's normally not his calling card. Shout out to my guy, Merrill Kelly. He dropped it on him, seven shuddy. Snakes. How about it? We're playing a brand of baseball. Jake Snake Saturdays, 3-0, the last three Saturdays. Yeah.

They're just playing Saturdays. Look out. You don't want to see them on a Saturday. That's all I'm saying. Leplow comes back to Omer's. Whoops. And then your rock sweep. Kelsey came back.

Kelsey came back in the Reds. She did come back, didn't she? Are you kidding me? Reds are 319. Yeah, I think. I think they're close to, they've had a 10 game losing streak and they might have another, they're like couple away from another 10 game losing streak.

That sucks. So I wanted to mention one player before we move on to the AL and we kind of just skipped over his series right there a little bit, or at least I did. Do you guys know what Tommy Edmund is doing? Hot. Go get your baseball reference pages up. Pull Tommy Edmund.

This guy is already amassed to full war. He's hitting. He's playing defense doing all those damn things. I don't think we've said his name on this podcast once this year. So we got to say his name. Tommy Edmund, Tommy Evan. Now my iPhone's going to send me like Tommy Evan jerseys to buy. That's what happens.

Or is accounting stats? So like you can't drop, right? You can't drop. Yeah, bad, bad games bring your war down. I think he's leading. It's him and Machado, right? I hate war. Yeah, Machado's at 2-2 and Edmonds at 2-0.

And then our guy, J.P. Crawford. Why do you hate war so much? Just a quick little stat you look at. That's all. Because what is he doing well? It doesn't really tell me anything. All-encompassing. I know, but the defensive stats that it goes into are,

like what defensive stats does it use or, I don't know. I just need a little more like I just not blind trust in an all-encompassing stat. I guess I just don't fully buy in. Can't be the only thing. It doesn't tell the story. Yeah, it's just a quick reference

to how they're playing. And then there's some guys that's how I view it. Wars have been deceiving. So then I'm like, well, I need, I need the next layer. It's Bebore. That helps.

Yeah. I just... 306, 405 on base and 891. Oh, he's raking, yeah. So that's good. he's playing good defense. Won the gold glove last year. Whoops.

Tommy Edmund. Short King, right? Gotta be. Listed 5.10. So, yeah. 5.8 and a half. But like a full... Baseball is the best sport, dude.

Just all shapes and sizes. Got to love it, dude. I was going to talk about it. Well, it's part of the AL. Like Toronto rolled out a lineup of, like, more under six foot guys than over. And, well, Matt Chapman's listed at six foot, but he's not. He's not.

Shots fired. Well, he's not. He's not. He's not. I like Matt Chapman. He hit a bomb fifth row. Yeah. I stood next to him.

He's not six foot. And then there's another guy on the Blue Jays that's listed at six flat as well. And maybe I forget who it was. But they had some rookie, a 5-8 rookie. And then Kirk, who's listed 5-8. They put out like an all-short lineup in their most recent game. proud of them for it, which brings us to the AL. Let's talk about them, yeah.

All right. Fire it up. Here's what happened in the American League. The Yankees swept the Royals in a three-game set in Kansas City. Game one was a slut fest for the Yankees. They put up 12 runs. They held them to two. Game three, both teams left double-digit men on base.

The Yankees pushed three across on a sack fly, a sack fly. fly and a double play which pushed a run across. And in game four, a sloppy back and forth affair where the Royals kind of just refused to win and allowed the Yankees to come back. Yankees pitched well. The whole series was just kind of like, eh, Astros went to Toronto and the Blue Jays took two out of three from them. They lost game one.

They beat up on Astros beat up on Kukuchi. And then game two was an absolute pitching duel. Springer went deep twice against his ex-team to lead the Blue Jays to victory, two to one. And in game three, you had Gossman and Valdez both pitch pretty well. Gospin struck out 10. Espinall hit the go-ahead RBI in the seventh. Gossman now has 41Ks, zero walks, joined Cy Young as the only pitcher since 1903 to start a season with five-plus starts, no homers, no walks. crazy.

Angels and the White Sox in a four-game set. They've played three so far. The Angels have taken two out of three. How about them, Angels? They used an opener, game one, to get the win versus Gialito. Game two, the White Sox won. Yay, Anderson hit a solo home run, and Robar. Hit a three-run homer in the fifth.

Game three was a doozy. Lorenzen goes 8.1 innings pitch, three-earned runs. How about that? then the Angels almost let the White Sox come back at the end. Scary ninth inning. But they shut it down. They get the win going for the win of the series today. White Sox looking to split it.

Red Sox and Orioles, oh no. Red Sox win game one on a rich hill start. Orioles had a rookie making his debut. Kyle Greatish, actually decent start for him in his debut against the Red Sox. Red Sox win, though. Orioles win game two on a wild walkoff, overthrow from the catcher or from the pitcher by the Red Sox heartbreaker. Then the Orioles win game three, nine to five. Lyle shuts down the Red Sox.

They're in a bad place right now. Not happening. Twins went to Tampa and took two out of three from the race. Kluber had a really good start in game one, and Bundy did not. Archer pitched well. in game two, which led to a 9-1 Twins win. And then Fleming. No, wait.

Josh Winder, his first career start. A lot of debuts. How about that? Twins win 9-3 in game three. Guardians at A's. The Guardians got swept last week by the Angels, so now they do the sweeping this week. They sweep the A's.

Game one was just kind of a bad starting pitcher off. They just let them keep going. Game two, really good starting performances. Beaver and... And Irvin go back and forth against each other. Richie Palacios, our buddy. Hit a go-ahead two-run double in the ninth. His first career extra base hit, his first RBIs.

Go ahead, double. Way to go, Richie. And then McKenzie shut him down in game three, six point one, shutout innings. Guardians win the series. And that's the American League. Great job, James. Excellent job.

You got some standings, Timbo? Yeah, do if I can find the page. What a stat you had on a Gossmann. Pretty good start by him. Sy Young, huh? 1903. I'm so sick of Sai Young. It's like you have too many records, bro.

Just chill out. Chill out. Chill out. Yankees are leading the east by a game and a half. Fun series coming up. Yankees and Blue Jays this week, four games set. Blue Jays have had a tough schedule and they have a good record. Yankees have had an easy schedule and they have a good record.

So it would be good to see how they do against each other. The twins lead the Central by three games and the Guardians are now in second place with a 10 and 12 record. White So what's you doing? Angels lead the West by two and a half games. That's kind of a fun division too. Houston's 500. Some interesting results thus far. far.

You do like a, like these socks got holes in them joke because the white socks, red socks. What's you doing, baby? White socks. Yeah, I don't know. I know you've been heard a little bit,

but come on now. You're not this bad. And the red socks, I don't know, man. I keep hearing this offense is going to start clicking. It hasn't clicked yet. We've,

we've been lucky enough that our Yankees are rolling nine games in a row. I talked about all the good energy with the Mets. You can say a lot of the same with the Yankees, and it's tied to, you know, a couple tweaks. I mean, the pitching, that's not a minor tweak. Their pitching is electric.

Rizzo has been incredible. Judge got going this series. Yeah, the Royals were a little sad. I was hoping to see a little more juice from the Royals. They're off to kind of one of the worst starts in baseball this year. and yeah, the Yanks kind of breeze through them and it felt like cool, dominant Yankee stuff. And yeah, it's built enough for this Toronto series,

which I mean, when we get to even the Astros or the White Sox, you know, I think in a few weeks we're going to be reminded how early it still is into this young baseball season. Like the Astros being 500, you're like, whoa, Astros 5,00. And, you know, in three weeks or so, if they reel off a nice little streak, they're going to be sitting right where you expect them. So, yeah, Yankees looked good in games that were odd and not exciting, kind of from the Yankees side.

Sometimes it feels that way in Kansas City. It's a strange atmosphere out there. What did you guys think of the play that everyone's talking about, the Bobby Witt, Claiboros play? See where he slid off the base or got knocked off the base? I don't think you got, you got to see that? I mean, I don't think you got not. It's, it's impossible to comment because everyone hate Shaggy fans already,

but I genuinely don't believe he got knocked off the base. I think he, I think, I think he was coming off. He really, if you, because I slowed it down. I'm making a breakdown.

He's got the oven mid on and he already missed being able to hook himself, like his hand on the base. He had nothing to grip on. He was just going. He had his leg, though. There was one, the angle looking directly, like parallel with them as they're running.

I thought, oh yeah, he slid past the base. But when it was going like towards the left field line, it looked like he was going to be able to stay on there. See him like reach back with the oven mitt and he couldn't grab it. I think it was more like he hooked the leg behind the base a little bit. It's near impossible. Bobby Wood Jr., by the way,

100th percentile sprints. Holy see. He's real deal. Awful play by Clayper. I'll say this. Glaber, it's not like Glaber's intent was to push him off of the bag. Glaber Torres goes full extension to try to make the play. So it's one of those things like it felt like kind of a clean active baseball.

Bobby Wood Jr. trying to escape. Glaver trying to make a play. It wasn't like Glaber was doing something malicious. That being said, like Glaber, you got to have the scouting report there. Glaber thinking he was going to track down Bobby Wood. That was going to, hey, Glavey. Well, even like in a rundown, like if you do the, I'm going to, all right, I'm just going to run like chase after him. You can only do that if you're directing him back to second.

Or you think you can catch him. But even if you think you could catch him. But even if you think you can catch him, Trave, they would still kind of direct you like it's not worth it. Just throw ahead of them if he's going toward his feet is advancing. This is a really bad play by Glaver. I'd really like to see what Glaber sprint sprint. speed was, I bet you he hit his top notch there. Because when you're chasing somebody who's faster than you, I think you, don't you run faster than typical? Like, there's like, I went to a dog

track one time. Okay. And this guy was explained dog bedding to me, racing. I don't know what you call it. And he said, there are some dogs who just like to be in second place because they run faster behind these other dogs. Seabasket. What? Sea biscuit. Yes, exactly. I bet his sprint speed went up right there. because he's chasing him. 50 percentile sprint speed glaber Jason after hundreds percentile Bobby Witt. So that was funny. Average.

Not bad. Jay Strow's got. I guess if you get a minute today, watch Gossman Splitter. I don't even know what you do with it. It looks like a left-handed pitcher slider. Like it's ridiculous. I wouldn't even compare it to a change.

up, it just moves so much. And I think it plays perfectly off of his fastball. He is one of the toughest at bats in baseball right now. And good for the Blue Jays. Went in two one-run games after dropping the first one to the Stros. It's a great series right there. Springer. Big-time player.

Springer wins a game by himself, basically. Springer was offense, defense, had the whole thing. My boy Matt Chapman went fifth deck. Yeah, it was nuts. You know there was five decks. How tall is he again? Fifth decks. He's a, he's six foot, bro.

Yeah, right on the nose. Right on the nose. You love Chapman. That's your guy. He is my guy. They had, yeah, the Blue Jays, where is it? What was their lineup? They had Vinny Capra.

Major League debut, right? Yeah, Major League debut. Boba Chet, also listed at six foot. That's the other one I'm saying, well, you're fighting. 11 then. So I think they had a bunch of shorties out there. But Vinnie Capra made his debut. He listed 5-8.

And he's from Melbourne, Florida. Wow, his name is Vincent James. My name is James Vincent. Look at. You're a JV. Okay. I'd be listed at 5-8-2. Any camera.

We're the same. So what, Gossman's at 41. K's no walks. and the record is 54. Is that what we're looking at? Or is it more than that? I don't know. I got to look it up right now

because that sounds, I'm dumb if I don't know what I'm talking about. It's a funny last name. Capra? Gossman. Gossman, yeah. Blue Jay's just...

He was also done like 98 miles an hour to go along with his left-handed slider that he's a right-hander. Yeah. Gospin should win the Scyon. And the Blue Jays should just always trade for a guy that wins a Sion. 58 was Corbyn's record.

So he's got... two more starts. You can get there. People are saying he's ducking the Yankees in this upcoming series. It's really weird. It is a bummer that it's a four-game set and the Yankees aren't going to face

Gosman or Brrios and the Blue Jays aren't going to face Cole or Severino. So both teams one and two. Three games. Oh, is it three games? Is it three-game set? Yeah, that's why they're not seeing Gosman and Brios, and that's why they're not seeing

Cole and Sevy. So is there a game today? Yep. So it's Wednesday night, it's a late night for us? All right, I just lied to Katie. I got to fix that. Uh-oh. Totally wrong day.

Well, anyway, yeah, both teams aren't seeing, I guess they're top two. I think Yankees is definitely Colin Severino right now in field, Nester, I guess, but, you know. Nestor and Manoa have their own arguments. Yeah, well, Manoa definitely does. Manoa, he's awesome. So, yeah, that's what happened.

It would be a fun watch. The Angels in the White Sox series is still going on. It's a four-game set. A wraparound, as they call it. And the Angels keep winning, and the White Sox keep losing. And Lorenzen, I'm pretty happy for Lorenzen, man. For a guy who went out and said, I want to be a starter. They never let me start in Cincinnati.

I can do it? And everyone's kind of looking around like, can you though? To go 8.1. That's a start, start. He was going for nine. He had a zero on the board. He was at like 90 pitches. BPD was saying Maddox in the office.

And then that final game, if anyone was watching that on Sunday, you want to watch a game get out of control quick. 6-0 to 6-3. Ryssel's in. Rysel gets pulled. It's 6-5. Here comes to Perra.

And a little nubber down to first ends it. Strong win by the halos. Strong win by the halos. This is a guy like Michael Lorenz. and who's 6-3-2-17. I don't believe that at all. This guy's a big mother effort. Maybe that's just all muscle.

Like zero fat on his body. Yeah, he's roped up. Does he just go like to the front office and say like, I'm going to do this and like it happens? Like are they just like that scared of him because he was a reliever but also wanted to hit and like they let him hit. And then he's like, ah, I don't want to be a reliever anymore. I want to start.

and they let him start. Does he just scare people into letting him do whatever he wants? He's the only player in the billies and go do that. Him and show, hey. So something going on there, man. Lorenzen's a scary dude. Or his fans on the mountain, too. I guess.

Okay. Probably should be. Noted. White Sox, wake up. Yeah. I don't know what's going on. They kind of needed that comeback to get their season started. Six runs in the ninth.

That would have been like. Maybe doing that at least. gets them some juice. Tony the Russo is going to get thrown out of a game soon. That's the trick that he'll pull out of the bag, like to get the boys fired up. He's going to get thrown out of a game this next series. Mark my word. All right.

Old school ejection. Like throw the bats on the field or something. Yeah, he'll milk. He'll milk it. But then like also he can't. I don't think he like walks around that. Yeah. He ran out last year.

It was a wild scene. It was a wild scene. It was viral. Viral. The Red Sox and the Orioles. I'll say this, Jordan Liles, before he played the Yankees, I was like, this guy, his stats don't say the results are there. He went six innings against the Red Sox. I don't know.

In the first five innings, the Red Sox had two runners on every inning, at least. Damn. It's an awful feeling if you're a Red Sox fan. Jordan Liles won six innings pitched, one earn run. The Red Sox had two runners on the first five innings. That's been the Red Sox. Brutal, man. This year.

Our buddies are down bad. And I told you, these Orioles, they're a lot peskier than I thought. And they can actually pitch a little bit, which is very different than previous Orioles teams. They got some pesky players. Like in one of these games, it was tied, or they were down one nothing. and then Mullins hit a double,

then Santander hit a double, something like that to tie it. And it's like, yeah, those two guys are good. Like, obviously Mullins is good, but they're... Castle Hayes, they're pests, man. I have a question for Red Sox fans.

Or, yeah, I guess. With the dead and ball, small balls come out to play and something that has been nice about the Yankees is they actually have the personnel to do it and they're scoring runs on outs and sack flies and moving runners and all that stuff. Looking at this boxer with the Red Sox,

Like, have they not, this is a genuine question, have they not committed to that or what's going wrong offensively? Are they just hitting fly balls, striking out? Because I think, I mean, I was looking up the numbers a while ago and a lot more teams in the AL are committing to the bunt and the hit and run and all that shit. Small balls like coming back because the balls are dead. So I think the teams that are just saying, yeah, okay,

we'll play that game are faring better. The angels. The angels are stealing like crazy. like crazy. Yeah, this is not a roster constructed to play small ball. It's not. And some of the usual names haven't got it going. I mean, Verdugo's not going yet.

Story hasn't done anything yet. Kiki hasn't done anything yet. So they got to get the offense going. We did not think that was going to be the problem. I did say this team would go as far as Nick Paveta. He's been, it's been pretty bad for him. But, like, their pitching has been solid. Like, Waka's been a guy for them.

Eovol. I've had people in the bullpen doing great. They've had great seasons by people in the bullpen. It's just the offense hasn't woke up yet at all. From what I hear from my Red Sox, guys, they've been saying, there's just holes in the lineup. And when you've got, when guys are giving you zero, that's just really tough to overcome as an offense as a whole.

So, yeah, I mean, whether it's a JBJ or Kike, Dahlbach, like, yeah. Those guys got to get going. The team is supposed to be built off of its offense. What's up with Alex Cora? He's the sorcerer. Uh-oh. Twins took two out of three.

Archer. Fornings pitch, one-armed run. Is he not stretched out yet? I'm not sure. Bundy with a bad start after a good start. Klobber with a good start. Travis, you see any of this? Nine runs, two games in a row for the twins.

Their offense coming around. Offense coming around. they called a guy up today Miranda for Kyle Garlic. He's one of their top prospects too. So another guy coming up. I mean, Buck's been buck. Kepler's gotten hot. Twins are fun, dude.

And if like the white socks are going to be hurt and kind of like can't get a footing in the division and the twins keep pitching the way they've been pitching, I mean, they're going to be there at the end. It's not how we saw the season going whatsoever. That's the beauty of it, I guess. 162, though, remember people, it's a long way to go. I'm not taking anything away from what the twins have done, because they have looked really good. But I think the white socks, like, they have to, right?

I've got to get back in the swing of things. One hot streak, they're back. Guardians sweep the A's, and that's obvious. Well, the A's had been playing well, I thought. They were playing an okay brand of baseball. I've got a little tidbit on the Guardians for later in the show. Okay. All right.

What about that? Tristan McKenzie hot. You want to go to the Interleague? Yes, three Interleague series this weekend. Oh, sure. One, two, one to the one, two, three. Trevor York, Los Angeles Dodgers took on the Detroit Tigers, and they take two out of three. Five one, five one swap both ways.

Dodgers won the first one, Tigers, but the Dodgers, Walker Bueller, five shutout innings. And like that, it's so obvious. Tommy Canley comes back for the Dodgers, former Yankee great. Man, he is a fun watch. He could be a big factor in that Dodgers season. Nasty verse left is that change-up. Mookie, Javi Baez, yeah, you're familiar with those guys for a reason. They have nice series.

Dodgers take two out of three. The Fish with Arms. I feel like we keep saying they keep winning series, and I like that. They take two out of three from the Mariners. Again, cross the map. Marlins 8-6-3-1, and then the Mariners and our guy, Logan Gilbert, they get that final game. J.P. Crawford keeps going. Julio Rodriguez, pretty eyes.

He gets his first Major League home run. Hopefully that gets him started because, man, it looks like he's got all the talent. in the world. Lazzardo versus Robbie Ray. How about a couple Southpaws in that middle game? Lazzardo looking at Robbie Ray, like, I can do that. I can do that, man. Uh, go Marlins go. They've got a fan and me. Cool, Jake. They don't care. They won two out of three. And then my, Texas, Rangers, they take two out of three from the Braves. Braves. Trains leaving the station. Let's start winning some games, Atlanta. Uh, a little bit of a hangover. I will say they had an unfortunate matchup.

Game three, they faced Taylor Hearn, five innings pitch, two earn runs for the win. They kind of never had a chance. That's our guy guy. We love him. Dane Dunning, always confuse which Army throws with. He has a nasty start in game two, 7.2, one earn run. Braves, figure it out. It's May.

Get it going. Seeger got it go in this series, a couple home runs. Adelis Garcia, remember how much we talked about. He talked about him last year. He has a nice series, too. Rangers, they take two out of three from Braves, and that's what happened in the Interleague Baseball. In the Interleague Baseball.

Marlins keep winning, but I feel like the Mariners have lost a couple series in a row. Am I wrong about that? Those are the two things where I'm like, huh? They just played the rays, and the rays and the fish are starting to honestly get confused in my head, which isn't great. I could be wrong. No, I think you're right. I think they just lost two out of three to the race.

So yeah, they're in a little lost four of their last six. And a little Florida trip for Seattle. That's tough. Come across the map. Yeah. Some games. Having some fun in Miami. Oh.

You got to mention that Miami, they are in second place in the NL East. People were mad. We didn't reference them when we were talking about how tough the East was. I have a question For you guys We give them the exact amount Props they need Right

We don't give any team enough props That's true I have a question You guys looking at the standings Do you have that page in front of you? Sure can Can I think this is a very easy answer So I want to see if everyone answers are the same

What division would you bet You say one of these six divisions Is going to end up in this order At the end of the season There's one that I think is in the order I would have guessed it ends up. The West. N-O-West.

No. Wow. Where are you going? I guess not the beginning. The NL Central is at this point, like if I had to bet on one, just that being what it is at the end of October 3rd.

A little different. Yeah. What had the Pirates and the Reds, it's 4-5 switched, but at this point. Yeah. Pirates and the Cubs with the same record right now. All the other divisions is like there's no way this is how it ends in my brain. They just are jumbled.

I don't think the NOS can end like that. Yeah, I think so. No, I think the Giants will be in first or second place. Okay. They're good. I think PODJers can be right there, but I wouldn't bet that it's going to end that way. Sure. I know we're jumping series here.

This is the series recap, and I'm going to talk about one game that's coming up, I think, tonight. Zach Gallin versus Pablo Lopez. 0.39 versus 0.6. Jake Snakes. How do they do on Monday nights? Pitching.

Doesn't matter. We play on Saturdays in the desert. Shout out the Marlins. You guys are doing great, and you can pitch the shit out of the ball. And we wish you would have signed Nick Castellanos, and yeah, Jets was still there. But, Kim, you're doing it.

So who cares about J. See you later, dude. Old news. Preach. I covered everything. I just contradict myself like five times and once in a sense. That was perfect. It was beautiful.

That was perfect. Tigers, what is you doing, baby? Are we ready to go there with them? Like, they were coming out hot talking a lot of shit at the beginning of the season just has not gone their way, huh? They got to be bummed out. I mean, we had this conversation. But, you know, when the tigers looked at themselves in the mirror, I think they saw something a little better than... The outside world did because they had a solid little year last year,

and they added Javvy and Erod and they were calling up Torkelson. They got punched in the mouth early. I mean, hey, they lost two out of three at the Dodgers. A lot of teams are going to do that this year. But, yeah, they, hey, they got off to a slow start last year, right? So maybe that's part of Hinch Magic. Yeah, I was trying to see, like, strength of schedule stuff. But the tigers are right in the middle.

They are pretty even. So there you go. Peaving. I don't know. I'm looking at, I haven't watched a ton of, Tigers games. Torkelson, chat sound off, but looking at his stat page, at least he's got 10 walks to 25Ks. The 10 walks is a nice amount. Tells me he's still like having strike zone recognition, but you know, 190, 660 OPS. It's tough. Bigleys is tough, guys. Doesn't matter

who you are. Hear that. Since we're on the Interleague play series of the episode, the Dodgers, Rockies and Giants, all four and one in the interleague play this year. So way to go by them, get them guys. That means the NL must be like winning. Come on. Come on, AL.

Tigers blown it. They got four losses. Okay. That's, we have to mention. I mean, we didn't talk about it. I thought you guys were going to mention it.

Kirshall? What about them? Dodgers record? Yeah, Dodgers K leader. Pretty cool moment with the slide ball. And they put out this video. I think that's for Dodgers fans. It's a big milestone.

We talked about Kirstrow this morning on a baseball. His career stats are disgusting. Yes. 249 ERA, 2,700 innings, something like that. He's at a 1.000-0-01 whip for his career. And if we see a guy do that for one season, we basically, you know, we love them. Persia's been doing it. So shout out Kirsch.

Should have a long contract. Oh, do you guys want to play that game? Because I did that with C-Ros too. Guess the career earnings. For Kerchaw? Yep. 180. I was going to say 210.

I really don't know. Well, you guys went really light. He's at 275. Really? Good for him. You know, there's a lot of pictures out there that are $3.50. He just never got that long, long deal. Congrats, Kirsch.

Congrats, Kerch. Say hi to him, Trev. I will. I will say hi to him. All right. Want to go to the awards? Need it. Who is, we got, who do we got?

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Yeah. Stand outperformer. Stand out performance. It's going to be a guy who just took the game over all by himself. My guy George Springer, two for three. with the two homers, two solo shots. Those are the only run scored in the game, put the team on his back.

Had a really fun series. He's just like an electric player to watch. One of my favorite players to watch in the big leagues. So well-rounded. And just like a... How can you... I mean, I know how you can hate George Spring. I was about to say,

how can you hate George Spring? And there's one big... One big thing you could say about him. But I love watching the guy play. So he runs all over the field. He's exactly like... he's a gamer man like you get one of these guys in your team it's like thank you we need this guy i have i have one uh on my youth team right now his name is wiley i feel like wiley and george springer

kind of similar attributes wiley it's great yeah shout out george of course he's gonna take over grew up with a wiley walker our name wiley walker that is a good name yeah george springer homer's a lot makes really good place so good i know he has i know what he's got on him but dang. Good pick. Good picks. I saw those homers. Only two runs they scored that game and they won.

Yeah, Montario got ejected, which was really funny because it was one of those where like your star players mad at the ump. So you have to get ejected. Like I believe that if that wasn't Vladdy arguing or it didn't happen. And this is normal.

It didn't happen to Vladdy. If that happened to, Goreel there's no ejection but Vladdy got rung up once he was mad he went to the dugout he was talking he was talking and he's talking and he gets rung up again unlike the same thing

and Mentoro's like all right I'll get ejected for you Vladie here you go I love you bud it's like the ladle's out there yeah it was interesting to see the guy the umpire saw the batthroat pointed at it like usually they point at it

and they put the hand up and that means you're gone but I think right then his brain was like shit. No, that's when they give you the fine. The equipment. It looked like he wanted to go. Okay. And sometimes that confuses,

it confuses me when they point. You get a fine if you throw your equipment. And how they signal that is they just point at the equipment. Point at it. He was looking at it. And I think maybe you're right. Maybe that's all he was going to do. Maybe he thought about this beforehand.

Like can't throw Vladia out in Toronto because people will be very upset with me. And I think also Charlie knows that. And he said, I got to get out there. I'll get thrown out. Not my wagon having, bang and slang and... You got it if you're Charlie. But it's just funny because it's like,

oh, we go. I am going an odd route. It's kind of a cheating route. I'm going to shoehorn something in here to standout performances. Because I want to talk about it anyway. I'm... My standout performance is Jordan Romano. He pitched in this series against the Astros.

But it's kind of, I usually don't do this at all, but it's bigger than that. So it's just the season. And the Blue Jays have had a tough schedule, so they've been in a lot of close games. Jordan Romano has 11 saves. The Blue Jays have won 15 games. They've won four games where they didn't use Jordan Romano. And he leads the league with 13 games played right now. Lee leads the league with 11 saves 12.1 innings.

I think that's the most out of any closer or reliever. Not reliever, but closer or kind of holds guy type thing. They just been put his arm to the test. So as the Blue Jays, it's awesome that he's been there for him right now and hasn't. He's blown one. But they got to get some blowouts. Otherwise, I'm worried about my guy Romano's arm. And the schedule does ease up for.

them but I don't think it really eases up till after May. But I was looking at that today. I was like, damn, that's very impressive. When you got a tough schedule and you got to beat good teams, you're going to rely on your closer a lot and he's been there for him. But 11 of their 15 wins is closed out. That's nuts. It's kind of like an elite closer in the game right now.

I mean, not, I mean, the 11's nice, but like just going over looking at what he's put up in numbers he's put up. It's pretty impressive. And he's got like the, you know what I like about him. I like this in my relievers, especially lockdown people. They all got something they do. You know, Kimbril with the fucking arm out there, you know, people have stuff. This like crouched thing, it's his. So shout out Romano. You have something and you're good. Very marketable. Yeah, the Blue Jays run differential is zero. Interesting. Mm-hmm. Coming off 31 straight saves for Romano that ended last week.

He's gross. And it's kind of a fun part of like a new young team that's introducing themselves to the mix. When they've got a fun party trick at the end of the game, that's like a really, that's a fun part of the story. Oh, this is your guy that at the end of the game is like your final soldier. What year is that?

We were at opening day and he pitched against the Yankees. Was that 20-1 or was that last year? Yeah. And he had a good 2020. Maybe we didn't even like just think about him. But he came in to close it out. We're like, who the fuck is this guy? Some Blue Jays fans in the chat saying the ball has helped him out a lot and that he hasn't looked as good as his numbers are.

Baseball savant has his numbers pretty awful. So maybe a push will come to show. Uh-oh. 5% in average exit velocity, 5% in hard hit rate. bottom 20 and expected batting average but he's got whiffs he's got chase

he doesn't walk guys I mean look at his stats for the last three years like they're mirro they're identical like he's been a guy like sometimes they're just a guy

that he can care of his numbers are blue on baseball savant he gives a shit I get outs bro I want to make bank bro so his FIP is much better

than it's been in the last two years. So how is his baseball savant so bad? 14Ks, two lot? I don't know. So when they're hitting it, they're just hitting the shit out of it? Someone explain that to me, I don't know.

Is he Canadian? He is. Oh, that's beautiful. It's perfect. It's literally perfect. Oh, I see what they're saying, the ball, like the deaden ball is. I thought maybe like with his pitch scriptures on it.

They're talking about like a lot of warning track. Okay. Yeah. Which probably helps the FIP. I guess. Who's your standout, Jake? Good job, Romano. Yeah, sorry.

It took a sour turn of the end. Holy smokes. I'm going to a guy who he kind of got jobbed last episode. Yeah, what? Or two episodes ago, excuse me. Eric Lauer, the starting pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers,

last time we saw him, He had a monster game. But we gave a lot of credit to Angel Hernandez, who was behind the plate for his six innings, 13 strikeout game. Well, he said, you know what? Throw someone else behind the dish. And I'll go seven innings, 11Ks versus the Chicago Cubbies. A couple things I like here.

A, that's a great start. Good job, Eric Lauer. The Brewers are 4-0 in Eric Lauer's start days. We love that. Jim, I went into some pitch mix for you because I know that's one of the things it makes your winky move around a little bit. Is he throwing the cutter more?

You know he is, because it's 2022. He kind of ditched the change up. You think Eric Lauer kind of a lefty twirling it. Is he going more change? That's out. Sliders up, cutters up, and his main fastball down a little bit. But hey, Eric Lauer, we, brewers, coaching staffs, organizations, those Milwaukee Brewers pitchers, we give them a lot of credit,

and their staff. And now here comes Eric Lauer. I mean, pretty much trying to join the law firm. And he's having an incredible start to this season. His curveball and cutter are getting smoked. So I wonder if he makes another change to his pitch mix soon. Sliders looking nasty, though. You know what's crazy, man.

What's that? You know, think about all these teams. We've had good pitching. You think about giants. You just talked about the brewers and what they've been able to do. the Yankees, you guys have watched them very intently. You know their pitching has been incredible. 138 ERA plus for the Yankees is second in the league to the fucking Dodgers at 170.

What is going like, are? If Canley's Kayneley's, they just that good? They just added another guy too. Yeah. Scary. Scary. All right, Trev. It's that time of the show.

Okay. Trump Watch. But hopefully we got some people hot, you know? Yikes. We put Brandon Lau. He was on there twice in a row. Cody Ballinger, Nelson Cruz, Coutel Marte, and Framil Reyes on Slump Watch, hoping that we got some of them off.

Hmm. Oh, shit. This is looking bad. B. Lau went two for 12 with two doubles and three Ks. I don't. He's not off. but he might just be not on anymore because that's his second time.

And I don't, can we wait around? This whole thing is grossing me out. Cody Bellinger, one for 11 with the double, RBI, a walk. Nelson Cruz,

I'm desperate to get him hot. He went, and the whole team was hitting. He went one for 13 with two RBIs. Our best shot is Ketel Marte. He had three hits. One of them was a homer. One of them was a triple and one of them was a double.

He's hitting it. So he's getting actually slugging's through the roof this series. 563 slugging with the 188 op on base. So his OPS is what did you say? It's in the sevens. In the sevens on the series, Jake. Let's just take them off and say, you know, okay, best of the bunch. You guys ever use a bowl or something and maybe you leave it out and there's something in there

and that bowl ends up being really dirty and you're just like, you know what? Just toss it? We had a good run. I mean, this whole thing, I've seen. these names for too long now. You just want to get rid of all of them. Like, I think we might just need to refresh, man. I want to give Cotel Marte like two golf claps.

Okay. And then we'll just get all the rest out of it. Yeah, just like, whoa. Whoa, yeah. Vives were bad. All right. So who's now being added to slump watch, Dylan Carson? He went over 15 with 5Ks.

Gior O'Shella went over 13 with 3Ks. Ah, Eugenio Suarez, went over 12 with a walk jerks and pro far over 12 with a walk and david peralta over 12 rbi three walks so those guys are added hopefully they they will they get clapped off next week they're gonna they're going to i don't like that no dirt nasty's on fuego that means i'm on fire baby like wake oh treb you want to tell us who's hot every time i hear those song I went what what what show is this yeah it's like what the fuck is this wait what am I doing go you can do in Frego oh yeah I'm doing Frego oh yeah I'm doing in Frego yeah I'll see in awards all right

we got some good names on here guy hunter renfro what a name hunter does he hunt probably five for 12 three home runs five ribbies that's nice Kyle Schwaber doing the damn thing four for eight three homers five ribbies three walks you got to love the walks I'm telling you people always focus on the walks. It'll tell you how people are really doing. Aaron Judge, you know, he had some homers. Three for nine, all home runs, six RBIs. He's going to get paid.

Yankees better make him that offer. I don't care if he said no offer. Make him the offer again, a bigger one. J.P. Crawford, that's all we care about on this show. Six for 11. Homer, two doubles in RBI and a walk. Tim Anderson. Leadoff homers is what he does.

Seven for 13 with that homer, a double, two RBI's. Andres Jimenez, six for 13, a homer two doubles, six ribbies. Victor Robles, love him, eight for 12. I had a boy. You feel so good when you go eight for 12. You just feel so good. He, you know, he on the bus, you're vibing out to the music. Nobody can tell you anything.

Double five RBSs two walks for him. Taylor Ward, my guy, six for 13, Homer, double two RBIs in a walk. He just will never stop hitting. Kyle Tucker. Eight for 12 is cool. Seven for 12 is just a little bit less cool. Two doubles, two RBIs. And then Jeff McNeil, he's a little fiery dude, isn't he?

Him and Max Scherzer, I bet, are really good friends. I just have a feeling that, like, talk to each other and get mad about stuff. Six for 11, two doubles, three RBIs and a walk. Nice group of guys there. Nice group of guys. I don't know about the Scherzer McNeil thing. Really depends how you use the word friends, because your end was right. Yeah.

They definitely get men. at each other. They fight every day. Well, it's in, yeah, it's all relative. Like, their friends are people that they can be around and just, like, get fucking mad together. Whether it's at each other or it's something else. They share the bond of being mad a lot. Like if in the Mets documentary that would come out, like there'd be a cutscene that would be like,

and, you know, not everyone was best friends on the team. It would be like Scherzer and McNeil. McNeil probably calling pitcher soft. No, well, we already had the squirrel. Like, McNeil got punched. Right. So, you know, Lindor is not his friend. I think that Scherzer calls McNeil a psychopath on his off days when Scherzer's in a silly, goofy mood.

And McNeil snaps and he's like, he doesn't get it. You're a fucking psychopath, dude. Everyone fucking calls you psychopath. And Scherzer's like, nah, dude, you're a psychopath. Gotcha. Yeah. And then McNeil tries to give it back to Scherzer on Scher's. There's throw days, but then, like, he actually is a psychopath,

and he's like, you know, choke slams him into the... That's what a real psychopath looks like. And then McNeil talks to the other guys, and he's like, that guy's a psychopath, right? And everyone's like, yeah, dude. But the next day, off day, Scherzer comes and goes, you're fucking nuts, McNeil. Yeah.

See, like they fight and they make up. I love it. Can I tell a quick story about feeling like I could get murdered at any second? Yeah, absolutely. All right, because this, you know, Scherzer gives off those vibes. Like, I was just thinking, like, him, if he ever came out to me and he was like why you call starting pitcher soft that would be like i'm sorry max i don't know anyways name drop here at a party this weekend chuck laddell's there

now chuck and i have a very interesting relationship half the time he doesn't remember me the other half were best friends so this particular evening we were best friends and he was telling me about some some like situations he's been in lately where guys have kind of like been saying stuff he's had to go over there and kind of like flex on him but he was really like in my face kind of like close with me and like I don't know if you guys have ever been around someone that could like you just know could kill you if they wanted to like my uncle dragons yeah like that's how I felt it was a it was it was it was a humbling moment for me because I was like man if this guy really wanted to like even if I got a good shot off on him

he could just choke me out like and just like suffocate me yeah your good shot doesn't affect him No, it doesn't at all. So, you know, I think sometimes Scherzer can give off a vibe like that in the clubhouse. And McNeil is the only guy that's going to go to him and doesn't feel that around Scherzer. Maybe Pete, too. Pete's kind of psycho on his own right. But I think that's the vibe there. McNeil's not afraid of Scherzer the way I'm afraid of Chuck.

You standing there with a glass in your hand, Chuck Liddell having a nice conversation with his friend. And you stand in there thinking, what would my hardest punch do to him? Nothing. Nothing. No, no. You know what I asked in that? I said, dude, like, how many times have you been? I swear to God.

I was like, how many times you've been in a situation where a guy wants to, like, fight you? And like, you get put in a bad situation. You have to choose. Like, what you got to do? He goes, no. He goes, never. He goes, because I know how to diffuse a situation. And I go, how do you diffuse a situation?

He doesn't look like a diffuser. And he came up with a perfect solution. You want to hear it? Yeah. So a guy comes up to him and they're all like, you know, feeling himself frat boy big dog all roped up muscles wants to be a tough guy so he said if a guy like that comes up to him and like start saying stuff chuck will say hey i'll be honest with you i don't really want to fight you you look like you could be a fighter have you ever thought about that like you

look like you could really throw a punch and he goes that way the guy gets his satisfaction gets to go tell his friends chuck lidel said i look like a fighter it can throw a punch and so i thought that was genius but chuck very enlightened response to that that question I asked him. Smart guy. Really good stuff. You should fight him. Nope.

I love Chuck. Want that on record. Yeah. Okay. Do we have Kelsey's thing on the sound board or anywhere yet? Okay. Oh, I don't have Kelsey?

She sent it, but we don't have it. Not yet. Trev? My award is, I had something else going on, and then this got brought up on baseball today then in my Twitter as well. This is the 10 year anniversary. I'm to call this the the Weave Daddy Award. It's a 10 year anniversary of Jared Weaver's no hitter

against the twins that I was a part of. So I guess, you know, I want to just shout out Jared a little bit. This was in his, he hadn't declined down to the 80 mile-hour fastball range yet, but he definitely wasn't the 96-hour flame thrower that he was. was. So kind of middle phase for him, but an excellent pitched game. I did come close to breaking it up with a Homer foul. But then eventually he got Alexei Cascia to fly out to Tori Hunter in right field and they celebrated. And it was cool to see. You never want to get no hit. But like I have a like a history with Weaver like same area growing up. Same draft class. How about that? So shout out Weez, man. Ten year anniversary of that's.

good golfer invite me to your country club please because it's a much nicer one than I'm a part of so that's what this was I was just just trying to fish in for a golf invite yeah nice country club he's at my award is now uh called the barometer award oh no yeah shit this might be my award no i don't think so okay it was very me award Okay. Is yours a very me award? Kind of, yes. Uh-oh.

Mine goes to the Cleveland Guardians. Yeah. Same exact award. Really? Yep. What was yours going to be called? It's the 21 Angels. I wrote it in there.

Oh, I didn't even look. Tough. Go. I'll get another one. No, go, go, go. I got another one. I got awards. You're going.

Tell the people. It's for you. I was excited. I was happy to tell you. Yeah, that's funny that Jake and I land on the same exact awards. Um, yeah, Trev, do you know what we're talking about? No idea. I'm lost right now.

The barometer. Jake's the 21 Angels award. The Cleveland Guardians are 0 and 10 against teams above 500 and 10 and 2 against teams below 500. So if you want to know you're a good team or a bad team, you just invite the Guardians to town or head up to Cleveland. And when you end the series, you will know which side of the scale you land on. It was the Angels last year. Angels beat teams that were better than them and lost the teams,

or beat teams that were worse than them and lost the teams that were better than them. And right now, Guardians are the barometer of MLB. I like that. On the expanded standings page, it's pretty funny to look at. It's who did you play?

Yeah. So to recap, they split a series with Kansas City to start it. They beat the Rets. They lost it. to the Giants. They beat the White Sox.

Now it's an interesting one. They lost to the Yankees. They lost to the Angels. They beat the A's. White Sox is the one right there. We're like, we didn't know. We didn't know. But they're playing, they're playing obviously like a sub-500 team.

They are. The Guardians? No, the White Sox. Yes. So I get it. But maybe that means they're going to be bad all season. Who knows? If the White Sox get over 500, then they're screwed.

I like that award. It's a nice. to have a barometer. Yeah. That's, so who do the guardians play next? Padres, they should lose.

Toronto, they should lose. And then the White Sox again. So that's kind of like, the White Sox can now beat them. And then you say, well, we did both.

And you're like, okay, wait to the third time. O and 10 against teams that are better than them. Tough. Sorry for stealing. It's beautiful.

That means it's important. Really going to have the same award. I mean, Jake said he pivoted. I would have pivoted if Jake wanted. I didn't know. I didn't know he makes a hivit. I come into the show with three awards just in case.

Your pivot. That's the IL. You got to know your role there. I'm doing the all it takes is one award. I mentioned it briefly before. He's got to be on every hot boy list for like the next five years. But then those tweener years between being young and rich, you come off the hot boy list and then he'll be really rich.

again, and that'll be full hot boy. It's Julio Rodriguez of the Seattle Mariners. My guy hit his first home run. Trev, you mentioned it briefly the other day. You were like, hey, I mean, him and Kelnick, they're struggling. What do you do with these guys? They're big-time prospects. I think Julio is about to go-go.

He has nine stolen bases. That leads Major League Baseball. He has zero-caughts stealings. I think he needed to see one happen. Trev, you've talked about the scoreboard effect. When you see that zero or the low batting average, sometimes that starts to dig at you a little bit. I think he's special, special.

I think Major League Baseball is really hard. I think a little humble pie here and there helps you. I got Garrett Cole. This year with the Yankees needed a little humble pie in his first couple starts to kind of get him back on the right track. The Mariners, they are 12 and 10. My angels look a little feisty. The Astros haven't fully gotten it going.

It's been a solid start. J.P. Crawford's going nuts. Logan Gilbert. Lillio Rodriguez is fourth in war with his tough start. I think he's about to go. And, man, I think he's genuinely future of baseball between the speed, the power, the smile, the eyes. It's all of it.

so I'm excited for him, excited for Seattle. I guess I got to Google his eyes. Twice you brought him up. Good looking guy. I don't really remember like beautiful eyes out of Julio. Like nice body for sure. Yeah.

You guys look for different things in people. Yeah. We do. We mentioned it. Yeah, I think maybe it was the Friday show or was the Wednesday show. I said that. I said,

Kelnick and Julio got to get it going. And people in chat said, yeah, Julio's looked a little bit better. better. April 22nd, so that's basically, you know, 10 days ago, uh, two hits, and then he went two hits, one hit, one hit, one hit, one hit, two hit, O for three hits. So only, uh, two Ofer games, a bunch of round numbers there. That's, that's the confidence right there. Okay, hits, hits, hits, it doesn't even have to be, you know, homers are great. Yeah, this might,

this homer might get them going. But if you're consistently getting on base, that's the type of spark a young guy wouldn't need. Okay, I can do this. I'm barreling the ball up. And you mention the nine is still on bases, man. Got to play small ball in the dead ball era. It's back. Is it the new dead ball?

Last nine games, kind of like you're saying, Trev, 364, 432, 978 OPS with five swipes. Special. But you know, it's so early, like just looking at the game log right here. Before yesterday's game, we said in 205. Yeah. Goes off three for four. He's hitting 234.

So, like, one hot series, the guy's hitting over 300. We're like, holy shit. Baseball. Who's the best friend of Zweek? Best friend of the week is our guy, Jesse Linker. He goes five for 13. Two ribbies, a double. Been a different winner each up so far.

Not in the gang, is Trevor, his scooter gang. A different friend each week has been the tops. Ooh. They sure have been the tops. I think Winker would, like, I'm getting more and more, like, where he'd want me on the team. Well, I don't know. I know where we do want you, Trev.

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Go check them out. TopsnFTS.com. And now it's time to hop into the elevator. I kind of hate elevators. You do? Really? Yeah. I mean, they serve an excellent purpose.

I understand that. But we need to change the elevator up. Why does it have to just be like a metal coffin? Like, let's put some amenities in these elevators. Like a guy? Chairs? No, I don't like a guy. Drinks, chairs and drinks.

Yeah, like a snack table or hand sanitizer. I don't know. I found an hour long YouTube video called Tower of Terror Q Area Music. Okay. What about this? What about those seats to fold up to the wall and then you could fold them down and sit on them

while you're in. Like Tower of Terror. Yeah. All right. Here's the team that we have to talk about for a minute. Oh, almost was a one orange team, but then it slightly got to the next orange team.

San Francisco Giants. They just lost a series to the nationals, Trave. Are you worried? They're in third place now? How worried are you? No, their record is great. They got a big series coming here. It's a two-gamer with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Coach Trev will be in attendance. The first one, I believe it is Eureas and Rodon tomorrow. So that's a nice little pitching matchup to start the series off. Not worried. Do you think Giants fans are talking about how much they miss Gossaman at all? Maybe a little bit. They've had some COVID stuff going on. They haven't exactly been running out like their best lineup in the last couple of games.

So you could talk about that. say we're going to get our guys back. We'll be fine. We still have a great record. Gabe Capler is the hottest manager in the league. Everyone knows that. That's true. Two versus the Dodgers.

St. Louis for four, and then they host the Rockies for three. So it kind of just depends if Kelsey's there or not. You're a Giants fan. You've got to be a little bummed out that the Dodgers are, again, just this good. Yeah, but you can't be shocked. You're not shocked, but you're just like, come on.

The pitching's that good? Look at the lineup. Giants lineups and thunky.