Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - 493 | Red Sox Keep Climbing, Joc Talks to Barry Bonds, & Dansby Swanson Goes Off

Episode Date: May 27, 2022

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. No Trev, no Jake, me and Moylan. Let's do it. Hello and welcome to talk and baseball presented by Seatkeek. Thank you very much for joining us today on this Friday recap episode. I'm going to let you know what happened in Major League Baseball. No Trevor, as I said. He is in Italy on vacation.

No Jake. I think he's in Cape Cup. cod at a bachelor party so we've brought in the reliever levens was on the show earlier the week now we have the righty reliever the roogie farm to fame fame valley sports south fame i'm everywhere right now jimmy manager of the melbourne ises albernaises former pitching coach now manager of the melbourne is current analyst jack of all trades I can do a lot of things quite well, not very good at a lot of things. I'm awesome, man.

I've been doing the Rose rotation or Rose, what I mean? What have I been doing? I've been doing baseball today with Rosie every day. How good is that? He really preps you. Holy shit. He's a machine. I'll tell you that.

But yeah, it's been fun. I'm locked in on baseball right now. I'm working every day with the Braves. I'm doing this every day. So it's a good time to be baseball fan. There's some cool things happening. Do you feel like, like you said, you're locked in, you've been busy, you've been watching every day,

but you're probably more in tune with the league and the sport than like most. I'm really locked in on the bravos, obviously, because I work for the Braves. And every team that they come in in in the National League, and I, you know, I dive in to stats that I wouldn't normally do when I'm not working. But because I've been working so long, I think I'm on 21 straight days, something like that. So I just feel like it flows now. The prep work when I'm in day one, two, three is like an hour and a half. Now that I'm here, it's just like, I just remember everything that's happened the last three weeks.

Yeah, you just get a lot of input. Oh, man, I'm jealous. We've been doing it. I've been trying to change the way I do this show. And because we've been, we used to do the homework ourselves, the sheet that you get sent. We used to do that. But it was more work than I ever done in my whole life. It was tough.

Yeah. And now, and then we switched it. We have a research team that helps build that for us. but then we all felt like we were leaning on it too much. And we weren't actually watching or paying attention or at least me person. That's how I felt. But so now I have the sheet. But then I kind of just blindly watch a lot of the highlights.

And I feel so much more in tune, just even doing that and knowing things and around the league. But I asked Jake asked you if you want to, I think he did, if you wanted the NL or the AL. Because I figured you may want the NL because you're around there. No. But you have the A out of that. Yep. I'm ready. I like to learn about things too because I don't get, because I'm so locked in on the NL,

I don't get a chance to, I'm like you. I just rely on highlights. So it's tough. When you're doing national things, there's 30 freaking teams you got to try and keep up with. And you don't want to sound like an asshole when you're talking about any of them. So I, I err on the side of not saying much if I don't know a lot. And I'd rather dive in on the stuff that I do know, obviously. Yeah, that's what we always say.

You know your team better than us. and we usually lean on it. But as we've grown and this show has gotten bigger, it's gotten a lot more people that are upset. Yeah, they get upset. So I mean, I love our audience and stuff, but I'm no comments, no chat now because it's just like anger. I mean, it's tough to cover 30 teams.

So I, I'm never a comments guy. I've never ever been a comments guy. I've maybe read a couple of comments. And I'll read my Twitter feed every now, and then just to get a reality check. But I don't read comments for that very reason because there's just too many people out there that, that one, don't have an identity.

You just come out there and feel like they can say whatever they want because there's no recourse to it. Whereas I'm linked to every single account that I have. So you know it's me. I don't know who's giving me shit, but you know I'm giving you shit if I give it back to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we were laughing because you were getting all this love in the comment section

and we were like, no, they're all good. For the most part, our vast majority of our audiences, is awesome. And usually our YouTube communities are really friendly and nice. I just, it's just been like, I mean,

there's 30 teams where I'm not going to know. You guys are getting bigger though, too. You guys are getting, you guys are, yeah, no, like three weeks ago,

I told Jake, I said, I can't have the chat open. I can't have the comment. I'm not going to read the comments. And I, and I've been enjoying it a lot more. Good.

It's just too much stress. It's like, uh, was that a DiMaggio code? It's always someone's first time listening. So they're not going to get it. Yeah. Yeah. Trev likes a chat.

He likes, uh, what's, what's the line Jake's been mocking Trevor saying? Sound off in the chat. Yeah. Trev, Trev, Trev's a confident guy, though. Trev, I feel like Trev can handle pretty much anything. He's got, there's not a lot of people can throw at Treve that he doesn't have a rebuttal for, I feel like. Yeah, it's also like, um, and some, and Jake doesn't mind it either because he's like,

that's what sports is. you, you know, you have like hot takes or takes people to disagree with and like, like, yeah, that's exactly the type of show I was trying not to create. Like I don't, I don't, I'm not trying to ruffle feathers. And if I am, I, in my opinion, I'm like 100% joking, but then people don't see it. And I'm like, oh my God, now I got to defend a joke. Right, right. Um, anyway, let's get right into the NL because I, I got some stuff I want to talk about after, uh, deep diving all morning to what happened here and watching all the clips. Are you ready?

I'm ready. Yeah. We'll just go straight to it. Let me pull open the thing because I lost it. And then Mugsy's will sponsor the next one. Bang. All right. Let's start off with the Mets and the Giants.

The Mets went west. They took game one, 13 to 3 against the Giants. It was a slaughter. Peterson pitch really well for them. Cobb. Had like four bad breaks, which makes his line not that good. Game two was a must watch. Go watch the highlights, the back and forth from this game.

The Giants end up winning 13 to 12. Jock Peterson goes in Spain. The Mets scored seven and the eighth to tie it to take the lead. And then the Giants come back. It was a doozy. And then in game three, the Giants win, nine to three off of a rookie pitcher. How's his name?

I wrote it down at Zapaki, I think. He had a tough outing for the Mets, given the Giants the win and the Mets, the loss in the series. Next, we have the Brewers and the Padres. Another series I would suggest going to watch some of the highlights. It was a pitching and defense display. Some of the defensive plays made in this series

were absolutely awesome. Croninworth, a diving stop in game one with the base is loaded to get out of it. We had crazy double plays by Machado. Snell has his second start of the season. He gets through five looking really good. They push him an extra inning.

And then he puts two on. And then the bullpen gives up a home run so his final line doesn't look great. Padre is one game one. The Brewers won game two and three. The Brewers were also without Josh Hader as he stayed home. to deal with some family stuff.

And that might have changed the outcome of game one, but also Devin Williams stepped up for the Brewker to get some saves. So that's a cool storyline there. The Phillies and the Braves, a four-game set. And if you want to see awful defense, tune into this series. It was jarring to go from the Brewers and the Padres to the Phillies and the Braves. Two balls dropped in the outfield where the outfielers just said, don't know.

You got it. I take it. They split the series. Phillies win the bookends. Braves were in the middle. But yeah, mostly my takeaway is the defense was awful. Kind of for both teams. Dodgers and Nationals, they played three games.

The Dodgers won the first two. Then they went with a lighter lineup in game three, and it did not work for them as Fetty on the Nats. Shut some down. Three is pitched good, but Fetty pitched better. The Nats put together small ball to win game three. Dodgers game one and Dodgers game two, they just hit the shit out of the ball.

Tray Turner got a standing ovation in his ex-team, and then Josiah Gray pitched against the team that traded him away. So that was some fun storylines there. The Cubs and the Reds, I like this. The Cubs won game one. The Cubs won game two. Do it, Cubby. Sweep the Reds and put yourself back into the standings. And nope, they lost the next two.

They give up 20 runs in game four. Time to start looking at the Cubs roster and who they're going to trade because I want D-Rob. Rockies and Pirates played for. games and the Pirates took two out of three. Pirates took the bookends. Pirates also lost Vogelback and Susugo to the 10-day IL. Rockies won an extra

innings. Rocky's on a bit of a slide, I think, and that's all I got. Do I clap now? Where is the music still going? Did I fuck it up? No, you beat the music. You beat the music. By a minute. Hell yeah. Nice. I got to ask, I got to

did you, I didn't watch the Mets Giants game until I looked at the line. I looked at the box score and saw Rogers line. Point one inning, seven hits, seven runs, seven earn runs, no walks, no strikeouts. And I was like, how's he allowed to stay out there for that long? And then I'd turn the game on. And it was a free for all.

He faced eight batters. Seven of them got hits. And I believe one of them, the other one was a fielder's choice. so I don't know what was going on and just off night Matt's had him figure it out I watched it but I didn't watch like the non-action pitches

so I didn't see how the takes or the that stuff on it I threw it out on Twitter and somebody said that there was so much soft contact that he was literally inches away from getting a double play ball every time he gave up a hit so it just felt like it just

he just couldn't get that lucky doubt that's what happened to Cobb in game one so he was actually pitching pretty decent because now Cobb has two starts in a row, Alex Cobb for the Giants, two starts in a row where he's given up 10 hits and six or more earned runs.

What happened to him was he had two outs. Basically, they were shifting chopper to what would be third. I think Longgo grabs it, but no play because he had to come in to grab it. Then the next guy, chopper swinging bun. So two infield singles, then Lindor

bloops one down the line and rough, it's a long run because he's shifting a little. But some fielders make it. He didn't make it. It falls right on the chalk for like a basis clearing triple, I think. And then, and then Alonzo takes first pitch curveball deep to complete it. And all the sudden, cops giving up five earned runs. But, but yeah, besides Alonzo's Homer, it was, it was like three outs. Right. Line buster. It's a line buster. That's one of those outings. Sucks. As far as the standings, let's start in the Ann L since we got some games.

there. Last time that we did the show, the Padres and the Dodgers were pretty much tied. Padres were a half game out. The Dodgers win two out of three. The Padres lose two out of three. So the Padres lose a game and a half in the standings. And the Giants don't really gain much. They don't gain anything. They lose a half game. And the Dodgers stay in first place. So that's kind of. That's a division right there. Are you sold on the Mets? Just to, I know I said that's a division, but are you sold on the Mets? I mean, what do you mean by sold?

Like in the postseason or? No, do you think that this team is going to continue to play the way they're playing and I don't think they're going to have, I hope, obviously, that someone in the East can put up a fight and I really hope it's the Braves, but I think that they've got something going on this year. And I know people don't like talking about the, the mojo shit, but I've watched them play a lot, and there's something different with that team this year.

They've got a confidence about them right now. Yeah, we had bleb on, too, and we were talking about the Mets last episode a little bit. And it's a lot of just, the personnel is better, obviously, and they're more locked in, and they're moving the line is what Mets fans have been saying. Now, they're not going to keep this up.

I mean, they had a 682 winning percentage in April. They went 15 and 7. They keep that up. They're historic, but I think they can play well enough, the rest like they can play 500 ball the rest of the season and they're probably in there for the division the way that the division's going right now yeah i mean i just saw the philly's coming they don't impress me um so it's i'm just hoping that that obviously the bravos

can turn around at some point yeah and then the the giants i don't dude i don't know what to make of them right now so we got to i i can't i cannot ever say that they're not going to do what they did last year because of what they did last year and with what they had. Yeah. So I can't ever doubt Gabe and that front office to do something crazy or turn it around somehow. Turn it around. It's not even that bad a start of the season. It's not like they're, no, they're five, yeah, they're 24 and 19.

But they're five and a half out of that division. And the real question is, are they going to get two wild cards in the west? the east and the central one of those is is only going to get one wild card one's going to get none it looks like obviously the east right now unless there's a big turnaround but dodgers aren't stopping they're good uh i keep getting like freddie's on a roll now too like yeah mooky's hottest can get yeah they sat mooky game three they sat belly they sat smith and they lose one nothing and they use like all those guys to pinch hit so but good for the next mats for doing that. The Padres are kind of, that Padres Brewer series, I don't know if you saw any

highlights. I didn't, I haven't seen anything. Dude, it is, the defense was insane. And that's what we asked of a Padre fans, like, what's going on there? Like, we're really good. And on both sides of the ball, I mean, both teams, like double plays. The pitching was really good. The Christmas is good. Padres starting pitching isn't as good as the Brewers as like statistics. Like, um, but they give you a game every time. I don't think any of their pitchers have a sub three year A or anything crazy. It could be wrong. That could be the division they're playing in too.

They're coming. I mean, I don't know who they've played exclusively this year, but have they been facing tougher opponents than? Maybe I love it. You look at their line, you look at the roster. Let me go get it up.

But like Darvish at the start of that, Snell's back now. You keep like, that's a decent starting rotation. and starting pitching at a premium right now. They have, they had one turn through. I wrote it down.

They had one turn through where they probably had the five they thought they might have with Musgrove, Clevenger, Snell, Darvish, Manea. Yeah. Naya. And then Cleves back on the aisle now. But Snells it out and Snell looked really nasty. He left two on and then Stammon came in and gave up a home run, the Tyrone Taylor.

So Snell's line ends up being five-ings pitch three and runs, but he was much nastier than that. Right. We haven't talked about McKenzie Gore either. So he's having. And Gore and Nick Martinez has been filling in. He got bumped and then he's right back and he had a good outing too. So, but yeah, the defense from Wong from Croninworth.

Yeah. Some outfield throws, plays at the plate, some picks. It was, it was pretty cool. So you got to see the contrast in two styles with, guess the Braves had a bad defensive game as well, but not normal for them. But the Phillies, I've watched the Phillies of the weekend. And it's just. So I was watching the condensed game.

So they have more than just like the highlights. I have a lot of the results. The throws and the bet like throw. And I watched the, I watched the brers and the Padres. And I was very impressed. Like this is a great brand of baseball. I flipped over the Braves Phillies. And yeah, in the first game, Acuna and someone let a ball drop.

Duval. Duval let a ball drop. and Contreras just completely played a ball wrong in left field, which allowed it to roll the wall. First game ever in left field, but yeah. I know, but that was the only on the brave side, I believe. It was just sloppier, though. Like, there wasn't misplays, but there just wasn't that much crispness.

And on Philly's side, oh, my God. Like, we knew the Phillies bullpen and defense were their Achilles heel, but it came out, and somehow they split the series. So it's not even that bad, but it came out to play large. I mean, they split the series because of Aranola. it's true, but you got Aaronola. But I mean, I mean, they let two balls drop. Yeah.

Real Moodo threw the ball, tried to get a runner stealing. How did that not, like it was head high. It's almost like it just either sailed on him or I don't know what happened. It was always like it was, you know how you get it snaking on the outfield grass sometimes? Yeah. It was like it snaked in the air. And they just both the shortstop and the second baseman and the center fielder. And the center fielder.

Let it go. And I'm like, someone's got to jump on that at some point. I believe the, the Phillies, like six of the seven relievers they used gave up runs. You can't out hit that. You might be able to out hit some stuff,

but not that. The confusing part for me was that they didn't use Canebel to come in and close that game. And they had to lead. And we scored two runs in the third game to come back and win. Because they, I guess, uh,

they have a different philosophy as far as Bill, bullpen usage over there. Did Kniebel throw two times in a row? Yeah, but it was two days before that. If you go look at his usage, it was, yeah, he'd had a day off before that day, and they weren't going to use him. I wonder if it's a 30 pitches thing. Because he threw 23 pitches, then nine pitches.

So he's got 30 pitches in two days. So I wonder if that's like, then you need two days off. I mean, Gerardi and the Yankees, they have those rules. So maybe Gerardy carried him over. But at some point, you're going to have to break your own rules in order to win a couple of ballgames. When does that happen? When does the desperation kick in? And when do you throw your own rules out?

That's why I don't like hard rule. Like, I don't mind you taking care of guys at the start of the year. But to have a hard number, like, oh, no, that's the number. How do you know? Ask me how I feel. I'm going to tell you, I'll be honest with you at this point in my career. If I feel good, I'll go. If I don't, I won't.

Ask me. Don't just tell me I'm not going to pitch. Yeah. I mean, I don't know, the Yankees live and die by these. It's kind of nuts. I guess it's an easier way to simplify it. No, it gives you a justification to the media. I think that's what it is.

You can talk about it and you can say, well, the decision was made for me because of these rules. And then there's so many relievers that do better when they pitch regularly. Sure. And if you're feeling great, I just said this to Rosie this morning. If you're feeling great, and every time that phone rings, you want to go in the game. You want the ball every single time. It doesn't matter if you've gone four in a row, three in a row. Obviously, if you feel like shit, you don't want to get in there.

But you need your off days. But give me the ball every time if I'm feeling great. If I'm on a roll, that stop me. You could recover. That was, this is going to sound so stupid. We did a blitzball battle for 10K. And then I had a pitch. I threw 100 pitches.

I had to pitch two days later. That's true, man. Exactly same thing. How the hell do these guys like, I mean, usually I guess not 100 pictures than days later, but I mean, I don't train for it. So that's a big difference. You don't? But I want to.

Yeah. You look good. You look like you've been working at. I think I lost a lot of, I lost 10 pounds recently. Straight stress. No, no diet or health. Sometimes that's the best way to do it, you know, whether it's stress or out or all, just whatever you got to do. Let's let's throw it out.

But yeah, I don't know how relievers like just fire their whole body up day after day. I know it's short usage, but still you got to do all the stretching and stuff to like get it going. Well, that's what you do. That's exactly, you figure it out, you find your role. It's easy when you know when you're going to be coming in. Once you've established yourself and you can get a routine, I've fourth inning, get out there on a phone roll or do whatever. Get on the bike. Get loose.

Get ready for the fifth, six, seventh and eighth. But yeah, it's, it's, it's not as hard as you think, especially once the adrenaline kicks in. adrenaline is in a crazy drug. It's true. I threw the hardest I did through it to Trev because I was mad at him. I wanted to get him out. All right. Matt's Giants, Brewers, Pods, Phillies, Braves.

I mean, on the brave side of the ball, what did you like? I liked where our starting pitching recovery has been. You know, there were some questions with Ian Anderson and Charlie Morton. They've been better the last couple of starts. our offense started to click a little bit. I don't know if this is a league-wide approach change because of the baseball's not flying like they were, but I feel like for the first three or four weeks,

the guys were just trying to launch like they had been. And now you can see guys legitimately changing their approach and trying to stay out the middle right side. And they're getting rewarded for that. We've got 38 hits and 32 singles or something like that over the weekend. So there's definitely a changing of, approach at plate across the league. Trent Grisham on the Padres laid down a safety squeeze.

I think he did it twice in like three-game stretch. And also that was the conversation we have with Blev, too, because I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying the bat to ball, beat the shift, lay down the bunt, baseball. And it might go away as the weather heats up and home runs come back. But I think the teams that made that shift earlier fared better. And maybe the Braves kind of waited,

too long. You know what we're not seeing? We're not seeing the surprise one-handed flip home runs at the moment too. If you hit it, you get like Freddy's ball last night, Goldschmidt's ball last night, you could hear it. It was like, ah, yeah, that's guys are getting rewarded for proper home run swings now, not the, the ass out, one-handed pop out to right field that we've had the last few years. So I'm enjoying that too. Yeah. Some of those, there's a, I like Devers a lot. It's just there's a Devers Apo home run from 2019. That is like seared in my brain of like, what the fuck is that?

Yeah. He just blocked the ball, basically. Yeah. Went out down the line. All right. Let's move on. Dodgers and Nationals kind of talked about that. I mean, the nationals are not a winning team.

There's a really fun Soto and Urius. I watched that at bat. I watched that at bat. That was so entertaining. I have like a lot of people talked about, but I wanted to do a video on it anyway. So I have it done. I need to record the voiceover.

But really, entertaining and really strategic. Right. And I don't think Soto ever looked good. No. I think all he was doing was surviving. He was trying to foul everything off. But there was,

Rias was throwing the whole arsenal at him. Drop down 95? Yeah. And he had him. That's how I felt watching. I was like, Urius has him and all he's doing is just like, like blocking bullets,

but he's got no counterpunch. He felt off balance on every pitch. Yeah. And that's what, that's what Soto does. though he fights until he did who you make that mistake but yeah he just never made a mistake but that last pitch that last curveball was was beautiful but uh dude two young superstars going going at it like that smiling through the at bat too like you can see the enjoyment that they're

having rather than they're being a fucking job like you can see that they're enjoying themselves playing baseball what's wrong with that nothing and speaking of small ball the gnats push the run across on urias with a walk uh bunn supposed to be like a second but they got the single out of it and then a single. And that's won the game one nothing. Right. Have you watched many extra inning games? Has there been a lot of any guys laying down bunts in the extra inning fake runner

on second thing? I haven't seen a lot of the games, but I'd imagine that given the way. I can't. I don't actually, I mean, I've seen a lot of extra in things like highlights and walkthroughs, but I'm, I feel like no. I feel like I haven't. Interesting. But last year that switched halfway through.

teams started doing it. The Yankees refused to do it for a long time. And then they realized, hey, we got to get that runner over. Yeah. The question, it's a sole strategy, right? Do you, if the other team scores a run, do you just bun across to try and score that run or do you try and drive in two? Or if they don't score a run at all, do you definitely bunt to make sure you score that run? Or do you give yourself three shots at the base hit? It's, yeah, if the away team scores, you have to bunt that guy to third. If you're down, if you're down one nothing and you're the home team,

I think you have to make sure you get the tie and bun back to be a rule. They used to be a rule. I don't know. You play for the tie on at home or play for the win on the road or something like that. Is that what they're saying. Isn't that a football rule? NFL says that too. I hope not because I've been saying it for years and I've ever played football.

No, I think it's definitely it's both. But what was it going to say? I forget. Anyway, I don't know about the extra anything. I feel like I haven't seen a lot of buntz, but in extra ratings, but I've seen a lot across the league. Just try 10 of the best stuff in the league?

Probably all rounds. I mean, unless people are going to try and pull out, like, just like numbers from this year, but I'd bet on him being over the next couple of seasons, you know? Yeah. I mean, he can beat you so many different ways on offense. he's got the most infield singles in MLB. I haven't checked, but when I did check,

he had the most infield singles in MLB. He had the most topped out sprint speed. Like they call him bursts, like utilizing his speed. He had the most, like by far. He's the second fastest guy in the league or first, him and Bobby Witt. But yeah,

he's a game changer. Yeah, we had that conversation. Look at him. He looks like Maddie Mass. Yeah. Yeah. Mattie Mass is probably a little better looking, I'll be honest. Tyler Anderson got eight shutout innings for the Dodgers,

which is they've still got some guy in the eye, guys in the I. I think he had a bad outing two starts ago, but for him to do that, it's the Nats again. The Nats. What's that? Are the Dodgers the new raise and just find everybody else's,

yeah, they're the raise with money. Yeah, that's true. That's what, uh, that's what Billy Bean said. he said well you know we used to be able to do this stuff and compete with the guys who had money but now the guys with money the Yankees and the Dodgers are starting to do this stuff too and they got money and he's like shut up.

Stuff trading all your players because you're mad at them. Speaking of I mean JDB I mean that's how it all started. His first trade was because he pissed off Billy B now he's in the papers again because he's an annoyance. Who's that? Donaldson. Okay. Oh man. Yeah. story was he he

Billy Bean offered him a contract he said no he turned it down bet on himself and then every time he had a big game he'd walk through the club house go price just went up Billy boy and the Billy Bean in like being called Billy boy so he tried it traded him for Brett Lowry is a bad trade and some other people JD goes on wins MVP days uh the cubs and the wretts these are two teams that are going nowhere because they split

yeah, I wish the Reds would have won. I mean, I wish the Cubs would have won, because the Reds are, if they're, are dead. They're impossible for them to turn this season around. They're just going to, like, have to have a moral victory, which I will cheer for. The Cubs kind of could, maybe, but I don't think so. Now the Cubs got to look at trading, like I said.

They're not going to catch the Brewers of the Cardinals. No, and I don't think they're going to get a wild card. But, I mean, if they, if they would have swept here, there would have been seven and a half games back or something like that, I don't know. I still don't have the faith. Like seven and a half games for the Cubs is different to seven half games for the Braves.

It's true. For the Reds, some fun news. Votto has a triple. Votto has a good game. Votto's starting to hit. Aristotis Aquino, they sent him back down because he's been struggling. He comes up and in his last couple games is hitting the shit out of the ball.

Had a two homer day. Had a double. I think he's got his numbers since his last six games. That could be a bright spot for the Reds because he was really fun when he first on the scene? He was unbelievable. Didn't hit like 18-100 runs in his first 20-something games or something crazy like that? Nuts.

They scored 20 runs. Andrewton Simmons pitched. I saw that. And another position player pitched later on. Too many. You saw a position player pitch in the Worcstops game last night in a seven-run game in the ninth inning. Yeah, I mean, it's too much. I think MLB has to change something.

I said that and people got, people were like, you hate fun. Like it's not fun anymore. That's thing. Right. And it's okay when it is fun and it's a blowout and it's one inning and the guys got to cover it to save your bullpen. I understand that. But when we've got guys pitching in a seven run game that is considered still close enough

to maybe make a comeback and then it changes, I said this this morning, and then it changes the way that the umpire calls pitches based on what if all of a sudden the socks come back and score eight runs in the bottom of the ninth and that umpire's called Xana Bogart's on a pitch that was seven inches outside just to get the game moving. that's when it gets frustrating for me. It's also not happening like in just the ninth inning. I think we might be wrong, but I feel like it's coming earlier.

And we said this, the pitchers that would come in back when this was rare would do what Rizzo was doing and throw like shitty breakers and pitches. It's literally BP. Yeah. Literally.

It's slow pitch stuff. And it's slowing the game down more, because they're, getting rocked. Right. Oh, I don't know. It used to be very fun. I don't, I still enjoy fun. I just don't think it's fun anymore. It was fun because it happened three times a year. Now it's happened three times a week. Yeah, it is. It's averaging like 2.4 a week. And I think this week just bumped it up because we had, we had like three, three. I didn't even know that stat, but that's how locked in I am right now. Yeah. I know because I went research because people were telling me,

it doesn't happen a lot. I'm like, it does. I've seen it too much. Yeah. Well, that's your NL. I mean, oh, standings-wise, the Mets, you're in the, your Brabos,

so do you, let's see, I'll ask you this. Mets are in first in the east, brewers are in first in the central, Dodgers are in first in the West. Yes. Out of those three,

how many do you, would you, would you bet on to win their division? As a, as a non-braves analyst, I'd say all three is a very good chance of completing it. But as a Braves person, I'd like to think that the Mets will lose out. But my heart says that.

My head says the Mets are looking pretty comfortable at the moment. And I think the Braves really have to turn around for them to make a run at them. But I don't see, I see maybe the Cardinals, if they keep twirling the magic that they've seen to have found with the old guys that they have running around, I think they could be a cool story. But I think it's going to be tough to overtake the Brewers. and the Dodgers, I think, are just going to, they might win 110 games. Yeah. I like the Padres are on them and they're playing good ball, but I would still bet on, I would bet on,

I guess like I would bet on three, all three of the teams to win, but then because baseball exists and I know what, how weird the sport is, I'd almost bet one of them doesn't. I wouldn't know which one. Like, I don't have, it's just because the, odds say something crazy what happened. I think the Padres played the Dodgers really well. I think the games between those two are going to be great,

but I think that the fact that the Dodgers play 141 other teams throughout the year means that they're just going to steamroll and keep winning. Probably. You know, the Mets have six games that they got to like bulk up here because they're at home against Philly and then the Nats. So in division games. And after that, they go on a, was 11, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 10 game West Coast trip where they play four against the Dodgers,

three against the Padres, and three against L.A. And then they come home to host the Brewers. So they have a 13-game stretch of really good baseball coming out, the Mets. And like I said, I think they're going, they're going to, they can be 500 rest away and ride it out. Yeah. So I just, they just got to survive that. They can't have like a, a horrible West Coast trip. That's a really good test.

And the way that I said it on the show the other night is that I don't need us to catch the Mets in the next month. I just wanted to be some separation between the two top teams, the Mets and the Bravos and the rest of that division. So we've got to take, he, like us, they need to take care of the Nats and the Marlins. We weren't able to, but we have to, that's the teams you have to beat to cause to create some separation between the two. I always just want to, and this is more of the second half the season, I want to stay within the amount of games we have left. So if the Yankees were four games back on the Red Sox, but they have two series left, six games left. I'm like, all right, well, at least there's a fighting chance.

So if you're the, if I'm the Braves, obviously they have, they have more than probably have 10 games left or something like that. We haven't, we haven't played the match yet. You guys, dude, the schedule for this season blows. Yeah, we haven't played the match yet. Who made it? Then I know, some algorithm. Give it back to that old couple.

Go back to the old couple. I watched that documentary. That was so good at it. Why did we change? The Yankees are playing the race for the first time right now, and they haven't played at Fenway yet. Right. Like the schedule is weird.

Well, what are you going to think next year when it's a balance schedule? It's going to look real weird. That is going to be weird. I like the balance schedule. Jake's been an advocate forever, but I do like playing four teams 18 times and getting really familiar.

I do think it's, I go back and forth because baseball is such, and this is a little of the side, baseball is such a regional game that you don't know everybody. And that is a problem in one aspect. But also, like you just said, you know the Braves and you know who the Braves play really well. Like it's, I know the ALE East really well.

But now it's going to be like, it's going to meet in the middle of like medium knowledge of everybody. instead of good knowledge of the four other teams in the division and medium and small knowledge of everyone else. You know what I mean? I think aside from that, it also allows for, it doesn't allow for a team like the twins

to just steamroll through a division every year, make the playoffs and get shit on every year. Like you've got to earn your way into the playoffs with a balanced schedule. Yeah, it'll be better in that regard for sure. All right, let's kick it to the AL. Let's go. It's my first ever recap, guys.

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Here we go, guys. The Guardians at the Astros. Astros take two of three. Game one, six one of the Guardians. McKenzie goes seven innings, one earn run. Garcia on the flip side, five innings, four runs to earn. Ramirez had four RBIs, including a two-run homer. That's shocker for him.

Game two, Astros. 7 3 in the victory. Valvese goes seven innings, three earned runs. Pleseck, 4.27 earnies. And Bregman with a go-ahead to run. Homer. Game three, two-to-one Astros. Javier versus Quintrell, we've got a pitching duel.

Javier goes 5.2 innings, shut out. Quantrell goes six innings of two innings and Brantley with a go-ahead, sack fly in the fifth inning. You move on to the Red Sox, White Sox. What a pitching duel we had here. Are you kidding. First game, Red Sox, 16 to 3rd.

They made Cease look like shies. Red Sox. Peretta, six innings, three earned runs. Cease, three innings pitch, seven earnies. The Red Sox scored all 16 runs in the first five innings, including six in the fifth. Trevor Story is in Fuego, Vasquez, four RBIs in each, and Martinez with four hits. Good for them. The Red Sox offense is scary.

Turn to game, too. Gialito jumps on the Hill and says, no, thanks. I'm taking care of you guys. Six innings, one earn run. Hill, still doing it. at 49. Congratulations. Five innings pitch, three runs, two earn. Tanner Hogg, three shutout innings for him. Jake Berger with a go-ahead three-run home run in the fifth inning. Game three. Red Sox again go off, 16 to seven. Warka goes 4.1-5-0 runs. Kikl gets rocked with two

innings, six innings. The Red Sox score six in the first two innings, including stories, three-run home run. He continues just a mash. But do go with four hits and three RBIs. That trade's going to end up being quite nice for the Red Sox. I'm going to tell you. Moving on to the Orioles and the Jankies. Boy, oh boy. Orioles take game one versus Cole. That must have been a dagger to your heart, Jimmy. But Lyles goes 6.2 innings, four runs, three earnies.

Cole, eight innings, five earn runs, seven hits, no walks, 11 punches. What a line. You can dive into that later. Jimmy's Urius, go ahead, home run in the sixth. Judge with two home runs. Bet on yourself, that's what happens, kids. Well done, Judgey. Seven, six, Yankees in game two.

Montgomery goes out and throws six innings. two earnies, Zimamimum 6.1, four earnies. Trevino, if you haven't seen this, you need to go back and watch his walk off. If you haven't got an emotional body or brain in your body, it's one of the best interviews you've ever seen as well. Go back and check it out, but the Yankees win 7-6. Game three, Yankees take it 2-0 on a shutout. C is with five-out innings in the first MLB start.

Wells, five innings, two. Ozzie Wells, by the way. Five innings, two-un runs, and Angela comes back with an RBI single, two and still second to force a bad throw and to score another run. You're welcome back to him. Tigers and twins. Oh, Lord. The twins, Archer versus Rodriguez.

Archer goes four innings, one Ernie, Elvin Rodriguez, five innings pitch, four in ones in his first career starts. Second game, Ursula with a walk-off single. Kepler with a grand slam in the first. Game two, twins, Gray versus Breske. The twins take this one as well. Goodness gracious, Gray goes seven shutout innings. Sunny Gray's back.

by the way, four hits, one walk, 10Ks, Breske goes four innings, two earnies. Michelle again with an RBI single in the second. Game three, the Tigers take it. Garcia versus Bundy, Garcia goes four innings, two earnings, Dylan Bundy, five point two innings, one run and Harold Castro, two home runs, and Elario go ahead, two run, run, and ten. Am I out of time?

Good gracious, Rangers versus Angels. I'm going to give you a real quick one here, okay, two games series, synagogue versus Dunning, Syngar goes eight innings, really nice, Dunning, six innings, five earnings, They lose that game two. Otto goes five innings, one-end run. Reed Deadman's after the no-hitter a couple of weeks ago. Six innings, five earnings.

Garber with a go-out-home run in the fourth. In Cahearn with Tullhorn with three hits and an home run. Last series I'm going to touch on is the Athletics versus the Mariners. The three games set. The Mariners take two out of three. Good luck to them. Hopefully they can come back and find some form. But Gonzalez in game one, five innings, five earnings,

Loeb, four point two innings, seven earnings. No more pitching doors than this one. Game two, Capillian. Caprillion, friend of the John Boy House, five innings, Kirby with five innings, four run runs. Elvis Andrews with a game tying home run in the sixth. Blackburn, five shutout innings in game three versus Robbie Ray. He won six innings, three, earnings, 10ks.

Seth Brown with a go-ahead home run in the fourth inning. That is your AL recap. Let's go jump back and let's dive in, Jimmy. Great job. It's a lot of reading. You know how much I hate reading. It's tough to do, yeah. It's not your native line.

either. It's not. I'm reading in different language. It's good. Let's see. I'll do some standings updates and then we'll see where we want to where we want to bounce in and dance around. The Yankees had a five game lead on the on the raise and after this have a five and a half game lead. That might include yesterday when they beat them. Yankees stay in first place, but they're going through terrible injuries right now in COVID IELs. The twins They stay in first place. They gain a game in the standings.

And White Sox and Guardians stay the same. And in the West, the Astros stay in first place. But the Angels get a game closer. The Angels are only a game and a half out. Texas is eight games behind. So you got, um, are you going on the Angels yet? I am. Yeah.

Me too. Uh, I'd like, uh, I like the pitching to, stay or present itself a little stronger. Like, I'm still not, like, locked on that. I think they're still trying to find ourselves, too. Like, they're trying to figure it out. They've got so many arms over there that they're trying to work out what's the best fit is. But their offense is...

Taylor Ward's been unbelievable. He's been Mike Trout. Is he on the IEL now, though? Did they lose him for a little bit? No. Okay. I thought maybe I saw that somewhere. He ran into the wall.

when you're trying to make that catch, right? Is that what you saw? Maybe. Jeff McNeil did that too. I didn't, we didn't mention that. Yeah. Well,

the Angels is quick because they played a two-game set and they split it with the Rangers. And we have a rule that if you play a two-game set and you split it, it doesn't matter and we don't talk about it. Fine. So good job by the Angels and Sindigard. Syndagard,

maybe you're a standout. Who knows? We'll see later on down the line. Athletics and Mariners. I think you said the Mariners one, but the athletics won the series. I did say that. Thank you for edited.

And the Mariners, this is, we almost have to kind of stop talking about them a little bit because the conversation is the same every time. It's just like, oh my God, you guys are struggling. The Mariners now, I think they've won no games in May. If I had to guess, it's somewhere between zero and seven games. what went wrong over there what's happened over there i haven't been able to i don't i don't understand how they've gone from such an exciting second half team last year have they lost a ton of guys i don't

get it i don't understand what happened they have like a 200 winning percentage in the month of may now uh they've won nine games in their last 30 they have tom murphy on the iL and mitch hanneger Um, okay. Not enough to warrant this. Like their rotation is Robbie Ray, Chris Flexion, Logan Gilbert, Marco Gonzalez. That's what they've wanted. And then their offense is Winker, France, Frazier, um,

Ollioregues, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, youani of Sauras, Crawford, Kyle Lewis. Like, like that's what they wanted. So, so, yeah, I, I don't know. We, I feel like we ask a lot. And, um, we wanted to be in on them and, and like have a lot of fun,

but they just continue to lose series after series after series. And like I think Suarez was getting hot. Taylor Tramwell, I feel like he's been hot lately, just seen his names and maybe just had some big hits. Everybody wanted to, like it was so young and exciting.

I just, I think the inexperience is maybe catching up a little bit. I wanted that Jesse Winker and Eugenio Suarez moved to, to really work. But me too. I mean, it might just be their bullpen looking at games because I mean, they've got.

Ty, France, J.P. Crawford, are you hitting of Suarez? Like, all having above average seasons according to OPS Plus now. I don't know. Just by looking at their out, they've got three guys that throw the same. They've got Sergio Romo that throws low three quarter. They got Penn Murphy that throws low three quarter.

They got Paul Seward that throws low three quarter. you've got three guys that are the same guys out and they bullpen. Oh, that's interesting. Say that again. Seagord, Romo and Penn Murphy all throw that low three quarter kind of same sort of arm action. They're all right-handed and they're all in the same bullpen. That's interesting.

You need different looks. That's what the race, you know, did. I think Romo got beat up pretty bad a couple days ago. Did he? Which is a bummer because we like him. Yeah. He's been doing it. for so long, man. He's just...

Jake's haircut, buddy. Jake's haircut, buddy, yeah, 39 years old. Paul Seward, like, he's closing for them right now? Okay, I was wrong on Roma. He's been good. He had one game against Boston where he gave up hits, and that's what I remember, but other than that, he's been good. What did Seawood figure out when he left the Mets, and now he's closing for the Mariners, or they just, they don't have anyone else?

I don't know, but he faced the Mets and got all fiery and yelling about it. I was a baseball player maybe it's not the bullpen because these guys stats are good too I don't know mariners fans let us know what what the hell's going on they can't win a series save their life we got to run ron smith uh let's go up the list here tigers and twins my old our old love or shella yankies fans fell in love with him pretty pretty deeply he's got five hits this series, walk off hit. People are tweeting at me. Very excited about that. Archer with a good start for the twins. I mean, for that what he's doing, for a inning, switch, one-run run, for coming back from injuries and all that.

I like the back end of that rotation. Of the twins. Of the twins. Rosie asked me during the week also, he's like, look, are we buying on the twins? And my initial thought was, I have to see them do something else besides win the division and for them for me to buy in, but I think whether the experience at the back end of that, that rotation that can add a little bit of, I don't know, structure, add a bit of consistency. That's been the problem with the Twinkies. It's just, I like Gray a lot, have always liked Gray a lot. I know you probably don't because of the time he had at the Yankees, but I think he's really good. No, I like, I like Sonny Gray.

I mean, it was tough and he kind of looked like a deer in the headlights at times, and they probably didn't have the greatest, pitching help around him as they had one of the worst systems and now they have one of the best. But because of that, really, that might have been like the glaring, shining hall was how did we trade for this guy and we weren't able to utilize his skills or help him? And they got rid of Rothschild, but not only did they get rid of the Rothschild. The Yankees fired every pitching coach in the system besides one in AAA, AA, single A, brought in a whole new director, brought in all new coaches. which is completely changed. And now they have the number one ERA, the last two years in the league, and all of their minor leaguers lead their league.

So, like, they just completely overall. So Sunny Gray kind of just came at the wrong time. Was it a shift, total shift in, like, the way that they were going to go about it from top to bottom? Like, this is the way we're going to go. We're going to have the same message from the Yankees all the way down to the 10th base. Yes, they wanted to make sure that every affiliate was teaching the same shit.

How is that not just, that should be, if you have a, pitching philosophy and you have a way that you want to attack hitters in the big leagues that should be the same message from that's 100% should happen if it doesn't happen in every club then maybe think about changing it. I mean I don't have to tell you

the more you look inside the way teams are and professional sports is organized the more you realize there's not a lot of organization. Yeah. Yeah. Like some things, some things as from as I went from like fan brain to kind of being able to get some inside information.

Something just shocked me. Like when I found out that players just have no contact with their teams all winter, I was like, what the fuck? Yeah. That's bizarre. Yeah. What the thing I found bizarre was when I first got here, there wasn't a big focus on diet.

And, you know, that's changed obviously a hell of a lot. But when I first got here, it was, it was, you fend for yourself. It's like if you want to, if you want to be good enough and work hard enough to stay, then you stay. We're not going to force you do anything you're not going to do. So right now it's very militant. It's like you got to. Nestor Cortez Jr.

Just told the story that in 2020 or 2021, he couldn't afford cleats. You didn't have like cleats. And Adidas or some company was sending Zach Britton cleats, but Britain was on the IL. So he was using those and he would, he stuffed them because they were the wrong size. And that's what he was pitching on the mound with. That's not unusual. I know.

And that's not unusual at all from everything here. And I'm like, I think as a kid or as anyone growing up, you're like, you're a major league or like get, get the guys on cleats. And it's like, doesn't happen.

It's weird. So that's the crazy thing too is that you have guys, there is such a, there's such a mix and a difference of, you can be a rookie that comes up and gets two starts in the big leagues. And you're playing alongside that's getting the guys making $45 million. Yeah. Think about that at paycheck time.

When you go every two weeks, you're open at your paycheck and yours says $11,000 and he says $1.75 million or whatever it ends up being. You're in the same house. You're in the same clubhouse. You're playing the same game. You're on the same team. And that's the difference. You can't afford to buy your own cleats. And he can afford to buy his own baseball team.

Yeah. It's wild, man. The Tigers, they win one. it takes extras. But good pitching all around. Good for Bundy. Bad for Jake. Yeah.

Let's see. The Yankees and the Orioles, that was a weird series. Break it down for me. How do you lose that first game? Cole. Well, they didn't have a,

the Yankees didn't have a good lineup because they lost a lot of people. So it was basically judge, put them on his back. It's two run homers to make it for nothing. You would have liked Stan Ariszo to, do something to add on, but the rest of the bottom of the line up at that point is just nothing.

And Cole gives up one inning. He gives up five earn runs. Which inning was it? The third. And ends up one and another, but same point. Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah, the one came later, right? Yeah.

At the very end, I think. Yeah. Cole's starting to bug me. So why? Because every interview when he has a bad game, he says, besides. this, I felt really good out there. And it's like, but that's the reason he's like, besides the third inning, you know, you know, I was pitching really good for really good besides the one inning.

It's like, yeah, but you lost the game in that inning. Or, or where they played the Blue Jays and Vladdy had three homers off him and he goes, you know, besides Vladdy, I felt really good. He's like, yeah, but Vladdy's the reason you just lost the game. Well, how would you rather him say? Would you rather him say, like, I know next time that I'm going to have to really lock in against Vladdy as opposed to maybe or maybe change the way I go, go at Vladdy or, I don't know.

I just can't say besides the bad stuff, everything was good. Because you all see that. You all know that's the reason why you lost. You don't need Cole to explain that. You want Cole to dive in and say, well, what was what was going through? You're heading that inning, man. Like, talk to us. Yeah.

Yeah. You know. You're not going to get that kind of insight. Besides my failures, I was successful. Yeah. What do you do? He doesn't. He went eight innings.

He's really good. He had four good starts before that. So whatever. It's just. and nitpicky and annoying. You just want him to go out there and win every time. Against the Orioles, I'd, I'd, I'd rather six innings pitch to run runs. But the Orioles, I'm going to give them some love.

They got Rushman that came up. He's been hitting. They, they're pesky, man. Odor's going on a little stretch for them right now. He can sting when he does go right. He'll be wrong for three weeks after, after a week of right. We witnessed that last year. But then Santander's a pest.

Mullins is a pest. Mount Castle, I think, is he on the I-O? I think he came back for the last game of the series, but he was a little bit. And with Adley coming up, the fans are excited. They got something to cheer about now. And they were saying, this is a new Orioles team. This is new.

And I'm happy for him. You know what sucks about that, those? Because me, as a pure, like, old, older kind of guy, I want to see old free agents getting paid. And, you know, it's hard for me. me to justify that way of thinking when you see someone like the Orioles come up and have some success based on what they've done the last couple of years and with the roster that they feel. You know what I mean?

Like they've had three walk-off wins last week, whatever it was. They're starting to feel good about themselves. They're playing decent baseball, which is all I care about. If a team's going out there and playing good quality baseball and it's fun, entertaining game to watch, then great. And it's hard for me to justify not paying veterans if that's what they can put out there. Yeah, it's still be nice to figure out a blend. I agree with it.

All right. the socks. You got the Red Sox and the White Sox, both coming off series wins. White Sox beat the Yankees. Red Sox crushed the Mariners and looking to keep it rolling. Jake and I were interested in this series because it was like one of these teams are going to walk away, still feeling like they're right in the ship. And that's the Red Sox. And they fucking crush season game one, 16 to three. Trevor's story continues to hit home runs. And big home runs. I think of his nine home runs, seven are with men on base. And, I think a couple handful three-run jobs. So one grand slam. So good job by story. Then game two, Gialudo shuts him out. And Jake Berger, who he got sent down by the White Sox and then called back up, has a three-run, go-ahead, home run for them.

And the Red Sox didn't pitch bad. Geo-leaders just, you know, when he's on, he's one of the tougher pitches. Yeah. And then the Red Sox game three, it was nine to seven in the seventh inning. It was a two-run game in the seventh inning. It was a two-run game in the seventh inning. It ends up being 16 to 7. And the Red Sox are the team that gets to walk away,

feeling like they're still riding the ship. And the White Sox go back to what the hell we gave up 16 runs twice? I know. And if you had have asked me a couple of weeks ago, how I thought the Trevor Story contract was going to play out, based on the way that he was swinging and looking, I thought, man, that won't be in trouble. Maybe it was the Colorado effect, maybe whatever.

You know, now I'm, you've got to be a happy, happy Red Sox fan. base based on what you've seen. And that I think their starting rotation can probably, their offense is going to bang, but I think that their starting rotation isn't as bad as what it looks. If Waka can be anything like what he can be, and if Hill can do what he did on the weekend, like that's all they want from him, as you said it.

I don't like the longevity of that rotation. Like I think they need to add some. If you go into a playoff series and you've got, you've already put a vet and Whitlock. Well, yeah. I guess I'm saying that I just feel like if they got a grind of a season, those guys might be done burnt by the time postseason comes around. Yeah.

Hills. Jamie Moyer. When's James Paxton is supposed to be back? When's Chris Sao's supposed to be back? Paxton is supposed to be back like I would, I would guess after, like, it's Tommy John, so end of August maybe. Yeah, Tommy John, like end of, April last year.

4.14, 21. Yeah. So that's, we're talking 16 months. It's a 12 to, is this first one? I don't know how guys do rehab now, but it used to be the 12 month mark was the, oh, he should be back now. I'm probably 13 or 14 months, but yeah, it's usually, if no setback, it can be August. Usually there's always a setback and it's September. From recent drops. And then sales got a stretch factor.

Yeah. So I don't know when he's going to be back. but the lineup should be fun and the Red Sox are hitting the shit of the ball right now. So they can carry. And then the Astros take two out of three from the Guardians. They lose the first game. McKenzie Tristan McKenzie, our guy gets them. Seven innings pitched, one earn run. Good for them.

And then they, but then the Astros win the next two because obviously. They're good. it sucks they are good I know it doesn't suck I like that the Astros are good because it's

it if I can be honest yeah I think the fact that the Astros are still good and those guys involved in that shit in 17 not taking any way

from what happened what they did but the fact that they are still good baseball players and a good baseball team that makes me feel better better probably makes them feel a little worse like we didn't need it

they probably didn't need it But that's not the point is you did it. Got a ring out of it. Yeah. Let's go to the IL. BBD's going to do the IL. Yes. Three series in the IL.

Bebers, what you got? Guys, three series in the IL. First, we're going to St. Louis where the Blue Jays faced the Cardinals and got the split. Cardinals walked off game one. Paul Goldsch made a Grand Slam in the series. Blue Jays starting pitchers kind of carried their bullpen. They survived the bullpen.

Cardinals was sort of the opposite. The starting pitcher struggled in the R.A. and the sixes. The relievers picked them up a little bit. Jansen hit two homers, Springer homered hit a triple. Alejandro Kirk, three hits, including a double. Like I said, Goldschmidt, walkoff, Grand Slam, got the Cardinals game one. Gosman threw six shut in game two. Hicks, not a good start.

Danny Jansen, this is where he had his two homers. Reyes is undergoing shoulder surgery that likely ends his season. Hicks, right, forearm strain. and he goes on the I.L. Carlson could return in the next week or two, and the Cardinals of Hope O'Neill can start a rehab assignment next week. Then going down to Tampa, Florida battle, Marlins went to the race, and the race swept them. They win the first one, four-nothing. Then win the second one, five, four.

The race starting pitchers had an ERA in the twos. The relievers were lights out. Marlins starters didn't have a good time, but the relievers did well. 8-36 shut out innings themselves. Ramirez three hits two homers. McClanahan through six shut in the first game. Lopez, seven innings, four runs. Keirmeier, Inside the Park leadoff home run.

That was the fun Twitter video I saw this week. In game two, Rasmussen, five innings three earned Cody Potete. Three innings five are not good. Ray's score five in the first, including Randy's two-run double, Harold Ramirez to run Homer, Jazz Chisham sat both games. So that's not fun. And then wrapping it up, we're going to Jake's snakes. Saddie's not here to see it because the D-Backs sweep.

Granky faced his old team. D-Backs won that game, 95. Davies threw 3.2. Granky also threw 3.2. A lot of symmetry. Marte hit a two run. Go-ahead, Homer, and the fourth. The teams combined hit five homers in the first inning of game one.

Merrifield, Bobbywood, Jr., Dozier, Smith, Walker, all homer. In game two, Zach Gallen, five innings, 5.1, inning. six earned easily not in my book five innings three earned luplo game tying three run homer smith go ahead two run homer in the six garrett nisbel placed on the iL for undisclosed reasons and that is what happened in the iL go down bd thank you wow shout out to whit merrifield's back by the way back uh blue jays and cardinals unfortunately play a two game set and split it so they're kind of on the we don't talk about that list but the goldie green Grand Slam is cool and Burrios giving them a good outing is cool.

I'm happy for them there. I have a question that this might get me held at. Oh, goodness. Who is Juan Yeppes? He's the greatest, is the Cardinals stud, right? Yeah, Jake and I were doing a little rookie deep dive on, on Wake and Jake earlier this week. And they have three rookies that are, like, killing it.

He's kind of been the best one. okay so he didn't play in april they called him up in may and he's been playing well right field dh left field dh left field right field first base first base okay yeah they're just out there they have him brenden donovan i feel like i'm missing another one that like they have multiple young rookies that are all playing different positions and all mashing that's gonna be like really fun to watch them good for them unfortunately we're not allowed to talk about the games. Not allowed.

I think the, I think the Cardinals are going to be okay. You think, can I ask you question? What do you think happened with the manager situation? Oh, I think he lost the clubhouse. Okay. I think he, I think,

I think from some stuff we've heard there's just like, lost the clubhouse. Okay. That's fair. Have you watched the new managers post game interviews at all? Have you talked to? I have not.

No, I've, I watched an in-game, actually, I tell you, I watched an in-game interview, and he held, he was brilliant. It creeps me out in post-skim interviews. Does he? I've only watched him after, like, fiery things. But it's a lot of a, you know, we had a. Like Mickey Cass? Great pitcher out there. A lot of dry mouth stuff.

Oh. Yeah. But yeah, I think he just lost the clubhouse and just was on, mode from the from the guys it's just a tough it's a veteran team i mean you got yaddy you got wano you got goldy now you got pool holes who the fuck's gonna listen to a manager yeah that's a good point and that's what i my initial thought was it had to have come from from yardy or wano just to say look this isn't working but i've not read anything to say or they've not come out and said anything and and from what i read that that they all text shilt when it happened and and so

I don't know. I don't know how it's how you go from manager the year to X-Nay. Yeah, Gerardi was one game away from the postseason. Yeah. Sometimes people just want change. Yeah. Because the next guy's going to tell you to do what you say. The Ray's sweep the Marlins, a little battle of Florida.

A lot of fans in attendance at this series guaranteed. That was an easy joke at, uh, the raise and marlins chis them out i apologize poteet three innings pitch five earn runs and rasmussen man i was excited i'm excited that the yankees are playing the raise right now because i got to learn about them but i mean you learn about the raise and then it all goes out the window two seconds later every year there's someone it's a whole new squad you got it's like not worth the energy imagine being an analyst for the raise it's like oh shit here we go again i got to learn a whole new team 25 guys let's go i mean they're basically silhouettes they don't like you can just put a

is just take the numbers and the names off their jerseys. There's dudes. Just take a deep dive into Kevin Cash and the front office every time you analyze the team. Man, yeah. I mean, Yarbrough, they bother me. And it's no, there's no secret. The race, I just, I'm not into what they're about. Is it because they've had their way with the Yankees over the last three years?

I'm sure that helps for sure. but that's not really, I like the rivalry of it all. I just don't like to use and abuse and lose guys. You know, I just, it works from a winning, it works. So that's why fans like it. Like, it's works. But in my head, it's, you know, I was a guy who made up a lot of games growing up. And now I do it again.

I make up games for the warehouse and shit. It's like once my brother, Luke, or I figured out like, I know how to just beat this. Then we'd be like, okay, well, this isn't entertaining or fun anymore. Let's readjust the format. But it's not like they win the World Series every year. What's that? It's not like they win the World Series every year.

Yes, they're competitive every year. But I just think from building a fan base or stars. From a player's perspective, though, if I'm a player and I get a chance to go to the raise and they turn me into Eversale Garcia, and I turn them to do an $80 million contract, then as a player, I'm excited if the raise want me. I want to go to the race because they found something and everybody else that goes there.

So take it up, take me. Sure, but what if you're the free agent trying to get paid and you go, okay, what teams out there are available? And you say, well, there's 29. Yeah, there's 29 others you can choose from. That's fine. They have their role. Yankees, Dodgers have their role.

Yeah. Well, the Yankees try to be the raise And that's what they finally stopped that But that was also was like stop it You can't be the rise with the tournament goal payroll No The raise sweep The Marlins, good for them

What is their like record now? They are 26 and 18 Which is really good Fucking Jesus Christ What I don't know how The Yankees are going to fall from from earth a little bit But that is unreal That they're 26 and 18

and five and a half games out. Damn. I don't realize the Yankees have 700 winning percentage still. Hey, you're finally playing some teams now, though, Jimmy. You're finally going to test yourself this week. One and O, Nestor Cortez. I know it's next week's episode, but shut them down.

It's nuts. The royals and the debacks. The debacks beat the royals. What's going on with your royals? They're not playing a good brand of baseball. They're not. They're just, I don't know what's going on over there.

They're firing hitting coaches. They're trying to get runs, but they can't stop giving up runs. So it's just not a way to try and put together a baseball team. But I am happy to see that Whitmerichford was back, as I said earlier. He was struggling for a while. Everyone was calling for him to take a day off. He said, no, I'm not. Now he's hitting 375, his last 10, something like that.

Bobby Whit Jr. is really exciting. I just think they're at that spot where it's like year one or two of the rebuild. And unfortunately, they're not going to be as competitive as I expected them to be. Do you think there's going to be trading Benintendi? I think that I'm sure, yeah, that they're going to get rid of some. I think it did. There was mention of Juan Soto being on the trade block the other day. So I think everybody, it's not like it used to be.

I don't think there's such a thing as an untouchable anymore. I would hope Juan Soto is untouchable. I mean, or for my opinion, Juan Soto gets dealt in the offseason when there's no, there's no, deadline. There's no limitations of teams available or teams in or teams out. It's just completely open and you can really say, okay, we got this from this team. What about this team? What about this team? Because he's not a rental. You know, if he was a rental like Mookie Betts, like Manny Machado, then it's going to happen. But there's no reason for them to rush a trade during the season when if they were smart, they can just wait, try an extension and like have full. But,

Do you not think that them putting that out there now this early allows that time to develop a deal between now and the trade deadline so that you can go out and make a to share a for half of the Atlanta Braves squad type deal that they made back in 2010? I don't know. I don't know why they'd put out there, but they kind of always done things weird. They mishandled a lot of situations. So like the Harper stuff was. Trey Turner and Trezzerza, like that that was they got, what they got back was cool. but I mean you'd get Soto for two years you two and a half years it'd be a fucking haul yeah talking about the best hitter in the game arguably on a shitty team with no

protection it's still still though Josh Bell's been good he's making 17 million in ARB too that's nuts that's crazy yeah damn good job by the D-backs. Jake would be excited. All right. Let's move on to the second half of the show. We're going to give that standout performance. Well, it's not really happy.

This goes by much quicker. Do you need to leave? No. You've got about eight more minutes of me before I got to jump in the shower. I'm going to call the baseball game. But I'm here for the eight minutes. Yeah, yeah. We'll do standout performances and awards.

And then you bounce of me and BPD will do slump watching and Fuego. Standout performances. Standout. I'm giving mind Jack Peterson. He goes four for six with three homers in that crazy Giants Mets game. Some of the homers, I think two ambush,

first pitch of the at bat. And then the last one was a up, was a inside fastball that he turned on. And not only that, after hitting, yeah, after hitting the three homers, he nets the go ahead, the game winning RBI on a ball up the middle. eight RBIs in the game. Easy standout performance for me.

Yeah. And Jack kind of just does it for me, man, because he's got not the body that you expect a pro athlete to have, but the swagger you expect Ronald O'Cunia to have. Yeah. But he's got it. Like a couple of those home runs, he just did like the get off me,

bad flip afterwards. Just like, geez. I got to experience, everything that comes with Jock last year, it's more than just Jock the player. There is an aura around him that he brings. I can't explain it. But the swings that he took,

he was talking to Barry Bonds before the game, and he goes out and hits three tanks, and he talks about how that got him locked in. And I'm like, he's just a different dude, and he just does it and he just rakes. I just, he doesn't give a shit about anybody's opinion of him. no he just does what he wants to do and he does it well it's it's pretty impressive there's a hell of a game yeah who are you going to for standout man there's so many that

i can choose from right here but it's hard for me this is going to sound like a homer but i'm going to go with danesby swanson because i watch what he was doing at the start of the year and i've seen him turn it around so far he's been four for five of the homer the other night but it's not just that for the whole week he's been gone nuts uh 10 for 17 with the home run two doubles four i I was slashing 58 average with it 824 on OPS. Is he playing unbelievable defense? What I was going to say? His defense has been good.

There was that three or four game period where the Braves infield looked like they'd never played infield before and something was going on. But since then they went on the road and they figured it out in Milwaukee. And then now they've just, they're playing really good. Good. Good for him. So he's better than Trey Turner? No.

Okay. All right. See how far the bias went. if I was on if I was on the Braves show I'm I'm pulling out the whiteboard and showing why he's better than Trey turn up but I can't do it right yeah DVD do you want to give out a standout real quick oh uh for me Aaron Nola sticks out kind of won that game by himself yeah yeah he did and he knows he can't use a defense so he struck out 10 he was go back and look at if you if you get a chance look at the 3D of where his strikeouts were.

This is the square, or this is the triangle, there was not one ball that wasn't touching the outer line of all that. He was so locked in location-wise. I've never seen him like that since 2000, probably 18. 2018 or 19, I remember saying, watching a couple of his starts and declaring him like one of my favorite pictures to watch. And then he kind of hasn't been there since then.

So, yeah, there's a good, if there are no, it's on. It's really fun to watch. Yeah, it really is. Is this fastball almost, has that Bieber effect where it kind of just shoots has a sound effect that comes with it. He throws two. He's got a sinker and a four seam. He throws the slider

and the change up off both of them. And it's like everything's the same. There's no, you can't tell any difference in his mechanics. He even does the glove twiggle at the same time. It's all and we've faced him so much that you would think that if anyone's going to get a hold of it, it's us. But that was like the

20th time he's faced us and he's shut it up our ass. Damn. All right. We're going to skip to awards. If you don't have one. That's fine. You can just bullshit one real quick. I'm giving out the, uh, the, uh, humans award. And it goes to two people. It goes to Trevino and Josh Hader. Oh, Trino's story is amazing. It's been everywhere. I hope you guys, I hope this isn't the first time you're hearing about it. And I'll do it briefly, but, uh, grew up a Yankees fan, like actually grew up a Yankees fan because his dad was Yankees fan has tweets from high school talking about like, let me wear my Yankees had a class. Like,

what the hell um 2011 his dad was a big yankees fan and most like most father-son combos his dad would take him to the field and say okay the Yankee stadium bottom of the ninth high game and and i think every yankee dad baseball dad you enter the team that you're a fan of um they were a yankee fans and and he so then he gets the walk off hit after having a really good game and nobody knows the little fun fact or heart wrencher fact that he shares in the post

game when he's crying. It was his dad's birthday whose dad passed away in 2013. And him looking up like right away I got chills right now and I've been crying every time I see the clip because he

gets the walk off and the first thing he does is he kind of double. And we met Trevino's a really good guy. He double points to the sky and starts saying poppy, but it's almost as if to say he should, like it was very evident they were celebrating together. Like he was saying like, like, we did it. We did it.

Like he was talking. He was, we did it. Like it wasn't him. It was him and his dad. Just so touching. And then he says his first walkoff came on Father's Day, which was a week after he had his baby. And that interview was heart wrenching.

And I just think it's amazing. for his dad to be remembered like that means he was a wonderful dad and it's sad they didn't get to spend more time together but i love the the humanity of that story and then i'm reading josh hayter's wife had some complications um and he stayed in milwaukee and didn't travel with the team to be with her and i think it's a good reminder to fans i hope there weren't any asshole fans, like, that's important. That is, that is worth more than a trip to San Diego for three games. So it's always good to be reminded that they're humans. And then any, any player that's got family on their mind first is, uh, extra points for me. I'm going to co-sign your

awards because I can't beat that. But I will add a little bit and I'll just say that it's important that as baseball players, we don't, we get three days off. If we have a, baby, if we have any kind of family, anything, emergency, it's usually you get three days to go and then you've got to be back with a team. So for him to, like, look, there's so much more things that are important than winning a baseball game. And fans need to realize that. And we're out there. We are obviously professionals. We do everything we can to try and do whatever we can. But at the same time, we're human beings. And that's why the Human Award is so important. We are just like you. Listen to me, talk. I am just like you. I'm just like you.

got a mortgage. I've got all the worries you guys have. Everyone of those guys has. Like, it's, we are human beings and don't forget that, please. Yeah. And I hope that Hayder and Mrs. Hayter, if that's her name, are doing well. And she's pregnant with their first child. So it's scary. Hey, that's like the scariest fucking thing, man. The worst. People, people, uh, you get pregnant. It's your first baby. And I haven't had a second baby yet, but people are like, you're excited. And it's like, no, I'm petrified of everything for Until every doctor's visit was scary. And everything's new.

And it's inside of your wife. It's like you can't see or feel or touch or appreciate what's happening inside there. You just got to base it on your feelings. And everything she feels that's different triggers something. You're just like, oh, it's stressful. Yeah. Yeah. Man.

Okay. Well, if you got to run. You got to run. BPD, did you have an award lined up? No, I mean, I would have shouted out Trevino if you didn't. All right. Shout out Trevino. Yeah.

Cool. You run, enjoy. Where can they listen to you tonight? I will be on ballet sports, south or southeast. I'm not sure which one. Next few games. Then I'm calling the Road Games,

Arizona, Colorado. Found of Fame is back next week. Don't miss out on that. I'm actually going to have a special guest on Monday. So, look forward to that. How's Kelsey doing? She's great.

She posted out a photo the other day. She got her stitches out. Wedding is obviously next weekend. So she's fired up about that. Amazing. That's good to you. Yeah, she's good here. All right.

Have a great show. I mean, baby, you'll take it home. Thanks, guys. Oh, that's a fun shot. Mm. I was doubled up on screen. Beautiful. Doubled up.

Hold on. Do some moving stuff around. Nothing wants to click right. Obviously. All right. How we doing? We're here. Want to slump watch real quick?

Slump watch it real quick. Should we call Trev just to just to read it in his face? He's probably doing Italy stuff. All right. Here we go. Womp, wow, wow,

swamp watch. I think we did really well again, getting guys hot, which is the whole idea of slump watch. Austin Riley, he was on slump watch because he had an ofer. He goes seven for 16 with a homer, a double,

2 RBI's a walk. That's a 438 average and a 471. on base. Hell. Yeah. Claps. Nationals lost to the Dodgers, but Josh Bell had his fun. He was on slump watch. He goes four for 11 with an RBI 364, 364, 364. How does this slugging is average and is on base? Is that right? I guess no walks all singles. It's got to be how to walks all singles. No walks all singles. No walks all singles. All right. He's off slump watch. That's bizarre. You're off. Yeah. Happy for him. He's having an awesome.

season and then like the slump that got him on slump watch. He's worried for him and the nationals. Vladdy Guerrero Jr. He went two for seven with a homer and three walks, meaning he had a 500 on base percentage and a 714 slugging. So claps for Vladdy and his two games against the Cardinals. But his teammate, Teasker, I think he'll stay on unless we replace him. He only went one for 10, not good.

Yeah. I think he sticks. around for now unless we want someone else. And Max Muncie went one for 11, but he also went on to the IL with a elbow injury. So not how you want to get off slump watch, but it is a way off if you're desperate to not be on there. It is a classic way off slump watch. All right.

We got, oh no, some names I like here. A lot of people who I didn't want to see get here. Twins, Byron Buxton. Twins go win two out of three, but Buxton. goes 0 for 13 and 4Ks. He'll be off this quickly. AJ Pollock against the Red Sox. He goes 0 for 12 with 3Ks,

a friend of the program, nemesis of Trev. Hopefully he turns it around. Josh Naylor. I mean, he's still coming back from COVID-I-L, so maybe, maybe he's getting his bearing straight. Who did the Guardians face? They faced the twin.

had the Astros. Astros. Astros, Astros. So, dude, the Astros got pitching. They didn't even have to face Verlander, but I think it's Framber. It was Javier. Gary Sanchez, 0 for eight with two walks. Don't like that.

Come on. You just had a big week. And Michael Brantley won for nine with an RBI. So those are our new slump watch. Oh, actually, we have too many on here. Did we have to pick someone to, uh, uh, I think we got Vlaught. Laddie hot for the Blue Jays, so we'll just take away to Oscar.

They don't need any more help from us. We already did you a favor. That's all. All right. Next up. Darnasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco.

Is this Dansby number real? He had that many hits and that bats and. Yeah, I think so. Four games and some of that. All right. Well, over the week, we had a bunch of players. with five hits that will usually put you in fuego. And then we have two with more than that because they played four games.

Jack Peterson, you heard about him already. Four homers. I talked about the three in the one game. He had four over the course of the week. Mookie bets five for eight. Also his height. Two homers, a double, six RBIs, two walks, hit by pitch, seven 27 on base.

Mets didn't play the Dodgers. and Nats, what are you doing? Jose Ramirez, 5 for 12 with two homers. Lindor, 5 for 13 with two homers. Dansby, you heard about him. 10 hits this week. A 10 hit week. That's nuts.

Elvis Andrews, 5 for 11, two homers. Good for him, man. So probably not a fun scene. Hasn't been a fun time for him. Jose Ibrahim was 0 for 20 at one point. Got going, got hot. five for nine against the Red Sox with a homer and three doubles. Jeff McNeil, did they put him on the IL?

He goes five for nine with a homer and two doubles, slid into the wall. And contusion on the knee, I believe. I don't know if you went on the I. I haven't, I don't see anything about being put on the IEL yet. Bryce Harper, nine for 19 with a homer, three doubles, a big go-ahead homer that should have won him the game. But then they let a ball just drop in center field. Chris, it's Taylor, four for, for 12.

12 with a homer, a triple, a double, three. So Chris Taylor hit for the cycle. No. Not bad. And that is in fuego. Oh, now, BPD, do we have the stimulator ready? Are we just stimulating just you and I? I think it's just us.

Wow. Nothing else to do, right? That's all. Let me see if I can bring it up. Stimulator. Yep, there it is. Is it filled out? Sure is.

Okay. Are you ready? I am. He's it going. In the American League wild card, you have the Twins versus the Blue Jays. This is the same three and six we had last week. Is this changed?

I guess it is changed. It's a lot similar to last Friday. Let's see. Twins Blue Jays wildcard. Burrios versus his old team. Blue Jays. Wow, Blue Jays beat him again two weeks in a row. the rays and the angels.

That was the same as last week as well. The rays. Angels won last week. The rays. Wow, that means the rays and the Yankees are facing off in the divisional series. I don't like that. Make it stop. Yankees have won the game.

I've seen them play against each other. One game this season and the Yankees have won it. So I guess that's fair. No bias at all. Astros and Blue Jays. Springer ball. Astros. Damn it.

The Astros and the Yankees and the CS again. Astros. And the Astros win. That would be devastating. Make it not happen. Padres and the Giants, they are the four and the five seed in the NL wild card. Giants. Wow.

Sorry, Padres. I didn't see that coming. What you got got. The Mets and the Cardinals face off in the wild card. As the Mets. are no longer the two-seat in the NL. Cardinals. Cardinals win that, and then it's divisional opponents in the DS.

You have the Cardinals versus the Brewers, the Dodgers versus the Giants, Cards, Brewers. Who's going to the championship series? Cardinals, whoa. Cardinals making a miraculous, not miraculous, but just a really nice run here as the six-seat. The Dodgers and the Giants face off. Who's going to be playing the Cardinals? Giants. Giants Cardinals.

That is a tale as old as time. Who's winning and going to the World Series? The Giants. Damn. Giants Astros World Series. Little orange for the people, a Halloween special, and who wins it? Giants win the Orange Off. Giants win the World Series.

That is your Friday Stimulator, Simulator. Hope you guys have a fantastic week. weekend. I'd love to tell you that Jake and Trevor are going to be back next Friday, but I have no idea. I think Trevor's vacation is like three months long, and I don't know Jake's schedule. But I'll be here. So we'll be BPD. That's true.